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REVIEW: NON-STOP (dir. Collet-Serra)
From my Guardian review:—
“Nervous flyer?” asks Julianne Moore after she notices Liam Neeson fiddling nervously before take off. “It never quiet goes way,” Neeson replies. You don’t know the half it it, lady. The last flight Neeson was on crash-landed in the Alaskan Tundra, where his fellow passengers were picked off, one by one, by a pack of ravenous grey wolves. The year before that, in Unknown, Neeson landed at Berlin Tagel Airport for a biotechnology summit only to have someone steal his wife, his identity and all respect for German traffic codes. And before that we had Taken, in which Neeson had his daughter kidnapped at Charles De Gaulle airport by Albanian slave traffickers. Neeson and foreigners don’t mix. Neeson and airports don’t mix. But Neeson and foreign airports is really asking for trouble. If Moore had any sense, she would have seen who was sat next to her, excused herself and caught the next flight. Such are the lessons of the Neeson action thriller, or Neesploitation film, as it is affectionately known. The affection is genuine enough. Every year, as everyone is booking their Oscar de La Renta gowns for the red carpet at the Oscars, the studio release a thriller in which Neeson has his daughter or wife stolen from him, thus forcing him to drive construction nails into men’s thighs and say things like “I’ll tear down the Eiffel tower if I have to!” For all their brutality, the films plug into and rely upon the essential gentleness of the Neeson persona — that soft protective burr. Only Neeson could deliver a line like, “In about five seconds I am going to start beating the shit out of you” as he did in The Grey and make it sound, not like a boast, or a threat, but merely a helpful piece of information, shared in the interests of a peaceful resolution for all concerned parties.
Still setting flight attendant hearts a flutter, but too decent to flirt with the too-young tootsie in the seat behind him, Neeson enjoys a nice, relaxed rapport with Moore, whose looser, Keatonesque side seems to come out when cast opposite noble hunks. Neeson plays Bill Marks, a retired air marshal with a drink problem and a picture of his daughter in his wallet. In case you haven’t heard: someone on the plane starts texting Neeson, threatening to kill a passenger every 20 minutes unless $150 million is deposited in a bank account. I’m a sucker for aircraft thrillers that try to observe the Aristotelian unities — a small if flawed group that includes Executive Decision, Passenger 57, Flight Plan, and Wes Craven’s half-brilliant Red Eye — although I’m less of a fan of these screenwriter-ex-machina villains, with their overly precise demands and insinuating insights into the hero’s private life. They’re really little more than Post-It notes from the screenwriter saying “Villain to Come…” The general rule seems to be that the amount of threat summoned in the first half of the movie is exactly equal to the ludicrousness of the explanation tying everything together in the second. The director, Jaume Collet-Serra, has improved on the pacing of his last collaboration with Neeson, 2011’s Unknown. He’s also assembled quite a cast: Lupita Nyong’o, in her first post-Oscar role, as a flight attendant with two or three lines to rattle off in a cockney accent; Corey Stoll as a NYPD officer also on the flight; and Downtown Abbey’s Michelle Dockery, whose elegantly dulcet voice threatens to mesmerize all within a 30-yard radius every time she opens her mouth. Collet-Serra shoots with a shallow depth of field, blurring everyone into shapes looming in Bill’s background, whether because of the Scotch he downed before the flight or his incipient paranoia is hard to tell.
For all the brushed-steel modernism of the film’s cinematography, the plot pays touching tribute to Miss Marple, and in particular to the old Agatha Christie trick of ushering the entire dramatis persona into the vicarage, before allowing the finger of suspicion to fall on each in turn. Substitute an aircraft at 40,000 feet for the vicarage and Liam Neeson for Angela Lansbury and you pretty much have Non-Stop. “I’m not a good father! I’m not a good man! But I want to save this plane!” declaims Neeson at one point, as the bodies start to pile up at his feet, and the tide of suspicion threatens to sweep him away. He’s asked to rough-house a few of the passengers and it looks a little unconvincing, to be honest — bouts of Segal-ish brutality that Neeson can't be done with fast enough. He’s big and bearish, but he’s never been a brute. He’s at his best striding up and down the aisles of the aircraft with that big, rolling gait of his, carving out great wads of air with his hands, barking orders, his face in Rodinish profile, his destiny, like Mitchum’s, enlivened by a nobility far greater than the film he finds himself in — the true sign of a b-movie king. Only once has the Neesploitation film touched greatness, in Joe Carnahan’s The Grey, a keening, white-knuckled scrap of a film about life and death in the Tundra that is on its way, I believe, to becoming a minor classic. Non-stop is the flimsiest of black box recorders, by contrast, that never threatens to make even intermittent sense, but it hangs together on the bulky shoulders of its star. Nothing I saw on TV this week was quite as civilized as the actor’s admission, on Sixty Minutes, that he was a “wee bit embarrassed” by the prospecting of beating people up at the age of 61. As if violence were something young men grow out of. Imagine.
What constitutes great screening acting?
From my Intelligent Life column:—
“My dear boy, “ replied Alfred Hitchcock after being pestered by Gregory Peck as to his character’s motivation in Spellbound, “I couldn’t care less what you're thinking. Just let you face drain of all expression.” Some 60 years later, are we any clearer on what, exactly, constitutes great screen acting? The Academy awards will be presented on March 2nd, to a set of Blanche du bois impressions, drunkalogues and drag acts nominees with gummed-on toupees, bloated bellies and false teeth. Screen acting has never been showier than it is right now. “‘Stunt’ performances which were once relatively rare are becoming a necessary audience hook,” wrote Raging Bull’s screenwriter Paul Schrader in a Facebook posting recently, “emaciated McConaughey, comb-over Bale, silent Redford…”He should know. It was De Niro’s performance in Raging Bull, for which the actor ate his way around Northern Italy to get his weight up from 145lbs to 215llbs, turning his body into a form of cinematic ‘event’ that had to be seen to be believed, that first showed the way for actors to hold their own in the age of special-effects spectacle. They would make quite literal spectacles of themselves—not so much acting as morphing. More than ever before, screen acting has become a series of spectacular coups de theatre— come see Nicole Kidman’s nose! Meryl Streep’s dementia! Tom Hanks’ weight loss! Christina Bale’s weigh gain!—even as some of us wonder what has happened to the magnificent ease that used to mark their progress across the screen.
In a famous experiment in the 1920s, the Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov cut between the blank expression of a Tsarist matinee idol and a series of shots showing plate of soup, a girl in a coffin, a woman on a divan, then showed it to an audience, all of whom praised the actor for his display of hunger, grief, sexual attraction, etc. Hitchcock had a version of this in Rear Window, when he cut from the same shot of James Stewart looking out his window at variously, a dog going pee-pee, a pianist, and a nubile girl exercising in her bedroom, his character turning into a peeping tom with one cut. The best screen actors have always known this — the enormous limbic power of a look, or gesture, as well as the filmmakers power to recontextualize it — and taken appropriate action. Ceding control of the scene to filmmaker, they seek gravitational influence within the frame. They become gestural minimalists, concentrating on the two areas eye-tracking experiments have revealed as the audience’s first ports of call: eyes and hands. Gary Cooper’s eyes were beautiful, but so were his hands, and he liked to keep them occupied—in one scene in Morocco (1930), he played with, variously, a burnt match, a child’s doll, a fan, a whiskey tumbler, and an apple, as if finding replacements for the one thing he would like to get his hands on, Marlene Dietrich, who stood framed in a doorway. From Cooper flow all the tricks in the modern scene-stealers handbook, including: chewing toothpicks (Ryan Gosling), constant snacking (Brad Pitt), speaking sotte voce (Kevin Spacey), refusing to look your co-stares in the eye (Al Pacino, who was doing this even before he played blind in Scent of a Woman, and after which he simply doubled down on the technique. He hasn't looked at anyone in decades). You may smile, but such tricks points to the importance, more than mere acting, of existing on screen—capturing the camera, holding the space, compelling and keeping the audience’s gaze.
REVIEW: THE WIND RISES (Miyazaki)
From my Guardian review;—
The Wind Rises, the new film from 72-year-old Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki, takes its title from a line in a Paul Valery poem (“The wind is rising! We must try to live!") and is inspired by the life of aeronautical engineer Jirô Horikoshi who designed Mitsubishi’s A6M Zero fighter. It’s probably the gentlest animated feature about an armaments designer you’ll ever see. “Poor countries want airplanes”, Jirô (Hideaki Anno) is told, as they watch oxen haul the latest prototype out onto the field for testing. Lacking the power of Western engines, Jirô and his fellow engineers must instead work with everything at his disposal — flush rivets, split flaps, retractable undercarriages, the lightest aluminium alloy — to reduce the drag on that aircraft and pluck it into the vast, blue yonder.
In that face-off between Western power and Eastern ingenuity you have both a portrait of pre-War Japan, its economy in the tank, desperate to pull itself into the 20th century, and a clue to what gives Miyazaki’s film its lyrical lift. In many respects, the animation traditions of America and Japan follow the course of their aeronautics industries. Whether it be Mickey losing control of his magic in The Sorceror’s Apprentice, young Dash learning to temper his speed in The Incredibles (“I'll only be the best by a tiny bit”) to the young sorceress of this year’s Disney hit Frozen, relishing the icy thrill of female empowerment, America’s animated features are, to a large extent, soft power tutorials — parables of the risk and responsibilities of great power. They put kids in the cockpit and teach them how to take their country for a spin. Mizyaki’s hero is instead marked by a more modest, even self-effacing gallantry. Too short-sighted to be a pilot, Jirô peers at the world through thick Harold Lloyd spectacles, watching planes carve great arcs against slowly moving cloudbanks. In his dreams, he talks a walk on their wings alongside his hero Italian aviator Giovanni Caproni (Mansai Nomura), who tells him "Airplanes are not for war or making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams waiting to be swallowed by the sky.” Miyazaki’s fascination with flight goes all the way back to 1984’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, whose heroine negotiates the post-apocalyptic jungle by glider; was most fully explored in 1992's Porco Rosso, about a flying ace who happens to be a pig, chasing air pirates in the Adriatic sea.
The Wind Rises certainly doesn't scrimp on its aeronautic minutiae— taking inspiration from a mackerel bone, Jiro’s designs for strut fittings spring to life from his table in demonstration of aerodynamic principle — but for Miyazaki, the wonkishness equally edges into another abiding obsessions: the animating power of nature herself. From it’s shots of blooming parasols, breeze-filled curtains, fluttering snowflakes and rustling bamboo grass, there is barely a frame of The Wind Rises that doesn't serve as a reminder why Miyazaki named his studio after a wind, the Ghibli, capable of reshaping whole desert landscapes at a single stroke. Sounds awfully lot like an animator to me. It even blew Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas into each other’s arms in The English Patient, if memory serves.
OSCAR FUTURES: BEST ACTOR
From this week's Guardian Oscar column:—
Mathew McConaughey hasn't had a “comeback” by the textbook definition of the term. He didn’t languish in movie jail like Mickey Rourke; he didn’t fall off the map for a decade like Dennis Hopper. Rather, like John Travolta, he sank in plain view — in the sunlit terrariums of rom-com-land, where, if anything, he seemed even to be enjoying himself. But the rescusitation of his critical fortunes has involved much the same course as Rourke’s: a scouring of the flesh, a purification of the body — “this old, broken down piece of meat” in Rourke’s delicious phrase from The Wrestler. Playing the stricken Ron Woodruff, in Dallas Buyer’s Club, McConnaughey is reptilian, feverish, emaciated, containing just the element of trompe o’oeile the academy has learned to consider ‘acting.’ They have decided to reward his role in Dallas Buyer’s Club but it could as easily have been for any of the roles that have marked out the McConnaughaissence, starting with 2011’s The Lincoln Lawyer, in which he dirtied up the attorney role with which he first made his name in 1996’s A Time to Kill. In Magic Mike, he deconstructed his own reputation as Cinema’s One Truly Objectified Male, whipping up the waves of female lust that buffeted the stage of the Xquisite like a conductor. Last year the fusillade of roles had become unignorable: Bernie, Killer Joe, Mud, Dallas Buyer’s Club, The Wolf of Wall Street, which he stole with a piece of improv designed to get him into character. People have won Oscars with far less. If McConaughey wins Best Actor on March 2n, as looks increasingly likely — with wins from the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, and Broadcast Film Critics Association now under his belt — it will be for one of the more protracted hot streaks in recent years.
INTERVIEW: GARY SHTEYNGART
From my Sunday Times profile:—
“A make-out scene with James Franco is, I mean, so important for a trailer these days” says Shteyngart, seigneurially, when I catch up with him at his apartment in the East Village, in the middle of a book tour that has already covered the East and West coasts, and next week heads for Canada, the UK, Australia. Books line one wall of his sparsely furnished, Scandinavian-style living room; next door, a dishwasher can be heard finishing its cycle. “You do things that are insane. I'm reviewing a nose trimmer for the New York Times. Anything you can do. It's a laser-guided one so I may lose half of my face.” Such ingenious outreach may speak to the perilous state of publishing in the goggled-eyed age of YouTube and Facebook. “The era of the big writer is over,” admits Shteyngart, “Roth is really the last one. And he stopped. So let's just bow out with dignity here. Or not. Stupid trailers. My fault.” But is also speaks to the semi-parodic gusto with which Shteyngart has thrown himself onto conquering what remains of it. A prodigious blurber and lit party hob-nobber, a teacher at Columbia who doesn’t think twice about calling on ex-students like Franco to help promote his books, Shteyngart is a ”publicist’s dream” in the words of his publicist, a literary showman and media entity whose persona — part Woody Allen nebbish, part Borat naïf, topped off with his amazing, elasticated Groucho eyebrows — has sometimes made him seem more a character sprung from the pages of his books —The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002), Absurdistan (2006), and Super Sad True Love Story (2010) — than their author, prompting one reviewer to ask: Can an author be too entertaining? “I don't know what happened to the idea that something can be illuminating and entertaining at the same time,” asks Shteyngart back, those eyebrows performing a pogo-dance of exasperation. “What happened to that?”
Preview of forthcoming attractions
The Beatles during a news conference before their first US concert, two days after their Ed Sullivan appearance — Time
REVIEW: THE MONUMENTS MEN
From my review for The Guardian:
When a movie as such as stiff as George Clooney’s The Monuments Men, it becomes an object of fascination in its own right— like your first glimpse of a dead body. It's stillness is mesmerizing... as if Clooney feared that any sudden noise or action would wake his performers up. It speaks to the energy levels of the film that when Balaban and Murray come across a frightened German youth with a gun, Murray resolves the stand-off by asking inviting all to sit on the grass and be quiet for a minute, and soon they are all puffing on a cigarette — a very Clooneyesque moment, you can’t help but feel, all conflict resolved in a blur of geniality. He must be the only director in America who to use Bill Murray as an emollient. This is his fifth film and it’s by now apparent that his great flaw as a director is what makes him interesting as a movie star: he disdains conflict as a means of generating drama. For Clooney, all conflict means stupidity and there’s no crime in his book worse than stupidity, no argument that can’t be settled agreeably between agreeable men over a brandy snifter. I wonder, though, if his brand of intelligence isn’t the greater liability in a director. The great directors — Huston, Ford, Hawks, Peckinpah — were ornery old dogs, barkers and borderline crazies, unbound by the need to be liked, howling at the moon to get their vision in place. Clooney puts movies to sleep with his reasonableness. I know Goodnight and Good Luck had its fans, but I can't now remember a single scene from that film, outside a generalized impression of men in darkened rooms, smoking, remonstrating and reasoning with one another — a vision of sotte voce cinema, void of unnecessary exposition, where drama means never having to raise your voice unnecessarily.
PROFILE: MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
From my profile for The Daily Telegraph:—
Matthew McConaughey is on his knees, begging me to take him back. “I am nothing!” he implores, his hands clasped, rocking back and forth on his heels. “My life is nothing without you! If you’ll take me back I can be something!.”
He is halfway through explaining the DNA of the romcom to me. We’ve already done Boy Meets Girl and Boy Loses Girl. We’ve touched on one peculiarity of the romcoms McConaughey appeared in in the 2000s, which is Boy Strips for Girl — a scenario that tested the ingenuity of screenwriters in film after film (shower scene, surf scene, a change of shirt after a sweaty commute, change of T-shirt after it is splashed by passing truck, job as a submariner). Now we’ve got to the Man Chases after Girl, generally by motorbike (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days) or moped (The Wedding Planner). We’re at the climax. The kisser. Crunch-time.
“The directors in those things always want the man to come crawling back on all fours,” McConaughey says. “‘I was nothing’, and so on and so forth... I was always like, what woman wants that guy? I’ve got to find a way to keep the balls on the guy. To walk back in with dignity and stand tall.” He leaps to his feet with one bound, and starts pacing. “I don’t mind going, ‘I’m sorry I screwed up.’ Say you want to give it another shot. I can do that. I can understand that. End it with a little bit of hope. But do we have to wrap it up with the guy completely emasculated going ‘Take me back!’ and we lived happily ever after and had eight kids. Who wants that guy?” He upturns his palms to the heavens.
Nobody, I murmur, spellbound. But this guy? The one in front of me? The 188lb of glorious, 46-year-old Texan, buff and tanned, who throws his whole body into stories, springing around the room, loosing long, cascading riffs peppered with sun-kissed mysticism (“keep on livin’”), self-development bumper stickers (“find your frequency”), and other assorted personal hustle-and-jive? This guy? This guy is on fire. People have been noticing, too. In the past few years McConaughey has been on an acting tear, cutting loose from the money roles for a series of down-and-dirty acting roles — as a scuzzball lawyer in The Lincoln Lawyer, a mangy drifter in Mud, a strip-club owner in Magic Mike, a psychopathic killer-for-hire in Killer Joe and now a trash-talking Aids activist in Dallas Buyers Club — that have reminded everyone why they made such a big deal of him in the first place. After his win at the Golden Globes, McConaughey is now the front runner to win the Oscar. “Le come-back de l’année” France’s TF1 News said, or as GQ recently termed it —the “McConnaissance.”
“The Mer-CON-nay-SONCE,” McConaughey says with a grin when I trip over the pronunciation, before slipping into the third person he sometimes uses to dramatise important points in his self development. “I’m surprising people. ‘Jeez, You’re really emerging McConaughey. I’m seeing you differently. Things you’re doing are sticking. You’re like wet shit,’ as Ali Farka Ture would say. The African blues man? I asked him once. ‘Why don’t you play in the US and Europe more?’ ‘Because there I would be dried shit. Neither me nor my scent would stick with me,’ he told me. ‘But here I am wet shit. Both me and my scent stick with me.’ Evidently I’ve got some wet shit going on.” The physicality is entirely fitting. McConaughey is a physical actor, a physical talker and comebacks are a physical business, as Mickey Rourke found out in The Wrestler — “this broken down piece of meat”, offering up the one thing an actor has left after everything has been stripped from him. The star having fallen, his body must be offered up in fresh sacrifice. Playing a strip club impresario in Magic Mike, McConaughey, dressed in leather chaps, savouring out the waves of female lust buffeting the stage like a violin virtuoso, stunningly deconstructed his reputation as a Shirtless Lust Object Number One — cinema’s one truly objectified male.
REVIEW: BYRON EASY
From my New York Times review:—
How disgusting the British find themselves! Let me rephrase that. If you were to go by the output of a certain strand of young, male British fiction writer, you could easily be forgiven for thinking the main activity of British life is being disgusted by the physical form of oneself and one’s fellows. Ian McEwan famously began a short story noting the peculiar smell that asparagus lends the urine (“it suggests sexual activity of some kind between exotic creatures…”). Martin Amis spent large parts of his early career detailing his character’s bleeding gums and cracked molars. Will Self’s books come so awash in bodily fluids, that throw any of them against a wall and they will likely stick. Male self-disgust, rooted in the moist tumult of adolescence, and extended into one’s twenties and thirties under cover of literary careers apeing the clinical imperturbality of Nabokov and Joyce, has almost bequethed us its own genre, which we might call, in the manner of those outraged letters to British broadsheets, “Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.” And now we have Byron Easy, the young hero of Jude Cook’s debut novel bearing his name, sandwiched between the “Hogarthian mob” of an intercity train bearing him from the “piss-filled” underpasses and “haggard” pigeons of “sewery, dogshitty London” (p44), towards his home-town in the North of England. Byron is a poet of the self-published and permanently wine-stained variety, his single claim to fame being a pamphlet of poems entitled Hours of Endlessness. In flight from a collapsed marriage, he busies himself with unforgiving inventory of his fellow passengers (those “hawkers, tutters, scratchers, groaners, verbal diarrhoics, carol-hummers, dribblers, tongue-lollers”) before zeroing in on a subject much closer to home: his ex-wife— his hatred of whom is to provide the engine of Cook’s 500-page comic novel with its furnace.
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allmediascotland...Your key to the media > Media Releases > National Collection Seeks Public Input to its Online Heritage Database
National Collection Seeks Public Input to its Online Heritage Database
By pagoda in · August 11, 2009 · No comments
A national online database that holds information on and images of more than 280,000 of Scotland’s buildings and built archaeology opens its files today (Tuesday, August 11) so that members of the public can add their own knowledge directly to its archives.
RCAHMS is the national collection of images and items about Scotland’s built heritage. The Edinburgh-based organisation maintains a searchable website allowing interested people quick access to archive materials about the built heritage throughout Scotland, ranging from ancient archaeological sites to the latest architectural ventures.
From today, its main web-based archive – Canmore – will become interactive for the first time. Members of the public can add detail to any of Canmore’s 280,000 places of interest and upload copies of their own site photos to share with other users. The innovative project has received Heritage Lottery funding to develop the system.
Contact: Barbara Fraser
Email: barbara.fraser@pagodapr.com
Website: http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk
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The earth's attack (Open)
Equine Lands :: RP Areas :: Sanatorio Herd Lands :: The Swamps
by RosePuppy on Tue Jul 08, 2014 4:16 am
(OPEN)A loud squeal echoes around the swamp as Smallfly struggled to stay up. She flailed and whinnied as she struggled to get out of the deep sticky mud. "Help!" She whinnied as she struggled to get out of the deep mud. She let out a squeal as the mud pulled her in deeper. She kicked and pulled with all her strength, yet nothing happened. She Felt something sharp under the mud stab her hoof, and let out another screech. She looked over where the her mother had submerged, and not come up. She was terrified and whinnied loudly. She didn't want the mud to eat her too! She sank slightly deeper and the mud climbed to just below her neck. She let out one last loud squeal at the top of her lungs before lying still and giving up hope of surviving.
Last edited by RosePuppy on Thu Jul 10, 2014 6:03 am; edited 3 times in total (Reason for editing : To make title open)
Re: The earth's attack (Open)
by Delian on Wed Jul 09, 2014 1:57 am
Please don't double post and no we care. Is this thread open for anyone or closed for just you and someone else?
by RosePuppy on Wed Jul 09, 2014 2:03 am
(Sorry ouch that hurts... I was hoping someone would stumble upon me but if the staff isn't too nice then I might reconsider having put this website in the moonrise shout box :/ I was hoping everyone? I just wanted to start up her life and after everything would be normal. I just couldn't come up with anything different...)
OH SORRY I THOUGHT YOU SAID NO WE DONT CARE LOL!!!
Sorry if I sounded rude, I had no extensions on being rude or off hand. I don't mind rping with you, I was only wondering if this thread is closed for only a few members uses. So say it was just for me and you, nobody can barge in unless they have permission for both of us, verus if its open anyone can post here. So im just asking if its open or closed.
( I also lost a bet to my friend to be mean and professional on every website, but its my fault I had a bet and also I misread what you said But you really seem like nice people And anyone can roleplay here! its what I was waiting a day for!)
A stallion walked around the swamps, careful to stay clear of the mud. The swamp were already spooky enough and with the crys of animals. At first the shrills He heard he just ignored, thinking it was an unlucky animal but the distress calls didn't stop, annoying the stallion. Letting out a loud neigh he galloped to the screams and shrills, halting when he seen the filly. "Stay as still as you can," Delian said softly before looking for a branch, finding one not far off did he push it under the young horse, "when you feel the mud loosen come to me as fast as you can," and with that he put a hoof on the other end of the make shift lever, pushing all his weight on it to free the filly.
Smallfly waited for a few seconds, and when she heard hoof steps she would have leaped for excitement. She watched as a stallion came into view and put a branch beneath her. After a few seconds she felt the mud loosen. She scrambled up and trudged through a bit of mud before dashing to the less muddy are a and jumping up on a nearby rock. "I can't let I-I-it get me!" She said as she shivered on the rock, "It'll eat me too!"
by Delian on Wed Jul 09, 2014 1:44 pm
The large stallion tilted his head in confusion, "wha—? What's gonna get you? Where's your dam? It's not safe being out here all alone." His voice was a deep raspy sound as he counted with his foot. Snorting as he tried to sort out what the young filly was yelling about.
by RosePuppy on Thu Jul 10, 2014 5:59 am
Smallfly's eyes were huge and she took deep gasping breaths before answering. "The earth," She answered as calmly as she could, " It swallowed mother up, and it was too busy chewing her to get me! It tried to swallow me but was full from eating mother. And I cant let it get me! I wont come down from this rock, or it'll eat me!" She said and stared, terrified down at the earth below. She was truly terrified and shaking, thinking the earth was going to eat her.
by Delian on Thu Jul 10, 2014 11:15 am
Delian shook his head but he looked back at her, his gaze calm and strong-- for the filly's sake. "Alight, just calm down. You should be fine, its not as deep where you are. See?" Walking over he entered the mud, testing it out to prove the filly wrong and show her it was safe to cross, it only came up to about his ankle. "You should be fine if it comed up to my ankles, hurry though cause were sitting ducks out here for others to snatch." Bodding his head as he rushed the young female. Every once in a while he picked up his feet to keep from sinking in deeper.[/color][/color]
by Nim on Thu Jul 10, 2014 4:02 pm
Nim was walking slowly through the thick mud sort of quickly, it was easy for her to walk through it due to her skinny legs. They were like knives just slicing through the mud. She almost ran towards the filly when she was it about to go under, then climb on a rock. She had noticed that Delian was there and she didnt mind, so she trotted up to them. She walked up towards the filly and nudged her a bit to get off of the rock. She didnt really like to get her pelt dirty, but didnt mind now. "Hey dont worry, if your about to go under ill nudge you up to help, itll be kind of like swimming" she grinned and then quickly turned to Delian flipping her hair back from her eyes.
by RosePuppy on Thu Jul 10, 2014 9:19 pm
Smallfly nodded, but still looked scared. She wondered who these horses were, and if they knew each other. "O-o-okay... But what about... M-m-mother?" She said as she stared to a spot where the mud was deep. There was a indent that was slowly filling with mud. She sadly stared at the indent and her eyes were big and sad.
by Delian on Fri Jul 11, 2014 3:00 pm
Delian tilted his head in curisoity towards Nim and the filly, he was never good with children... never had the patience for them. Hearing the filly cry about her mother caught his attenstion, he knew how that felt. Sighing he replied, "I'm sure you'll find her, if not then sucks for you." The black stallion neighed softly as he walked away but stopped. He couldn't just leave her, could he? Even if he did Nim would be sure that she came with. The memory's of how his father chased him off at a younge age came to mind like snakes; slippery and disturbing and hard to chase off. He would not act like his father! Letting out a low moan he called back, "little one your going to have to come with us, we'll find your mother but first come with me and Nim. Its going to be getting drak and its not safe for a foal to be out here all alone, let alone a full grown stallion. So chop chop!" Delian didn't look back but his voice did soften to a low comforting hum, trying to get Smallfly to follow before he started walking off agian.
by Nim on Fri Jul 11, 2014 4:44 pm
Nim stared at the filly, she wasnt so sure what to say at the filly's words or Delian's. Then as he walked away she gasped, but smiled as he turned back and spoke comforting words. Nim didnt say anything but nodded, she waited for the filly to get off of the rock, so she could quickly help her out of the mud. To give her confidence, she put her head under the foal's body, almost picking her up although she was quiet heavy. She wanted to hurry and get a clean swim, before it was anymore darker.
by RosePuppy on Sat Jul 12, 2014 1:39 am
Smallfly's eyes saddened at the stallion's first words. She got even more sad when the stallion began to walk away. She near toppled over when her stopped and said she could come with them. Using Nim's support she climbed down. Once she was down she said a small "Thank you." before trying to stumble off towards the stallions direction. She had to lift her legs very high in order to move through the sticky mud.
by Nim on Sat Jul 12, 2014 3:42 pm
Nim watched the foal carefully, and once they were close to getting out of the mud, she thought that the filly could handle her self. As she climbed onto the dry and clean land she stood there waiting for the others. "Would you like to get cleaned really quick?" she said pointing to a pond near by.
by Delian on Sat Jul 12, 2014 4:54 pm
Delian grumbled to himself as he stopped and turned around, his paitence ebbing away, "she can clean up in the ocean, its getting to dark and who knows whats in the pond." The male called behind him as he stomped his foot to hurry them up. He was alert and skittish as night came closer, this is were he crashed to mend his wounds after his fight with his brother. He didn't get a good look at the place but he was too tired to look around. When he was resting the feeling off being watched creeped him out and the water moved. Next he knew there was a large scaly object attacking him. Shivering he neighed for them to hurry up.
by RosePuppy on Sat Jul 12, 2014 8:15 pm
Smallfly Did want to get clean quick, but she agreed with the stallion, and wondered what might be stirring in the small pond. She shivered and stared at the pond with big eyes. She was expecting a monster to jump out any second. She hurried to the stallion's side and headed toward the ocean.
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» A Game of Truths and Dares [OPEN]
» What if everything perfect was just a lie ?(open)
» A clown or a killer? (open)
» Homecoming (Atlas, open, preferably a passive RP)
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Eleven Oaks Farms ASCS/URC Battle At The Groves Is Friday At Williams Grove
410 sprints fill card of open wheel excitement!
Mechanicsburg – Williams Grove Speedway will present the second running of the Eleven Oaks Farms Lucas Oil ASCS Sprints Battle At The Groves coming up this Friday, May 3 at 8 pm.
Featuring the national touring stars of the Lucas Oil ASCS 360 Sprints and the Eastern stars of the United Racing Club 360 Sprints, the Battle Of The Groves event at Williams Grove will pay out a total purse of nearly $20,000 for the ASCS/URC 360s 25-lap main event.
To be carried on MAV TV, the ASCS/URC race will pay a hefty $4,000 to win and $400 just to start.
The Lawrence Chevrolet 410 sprint cars are also on the program with heats and a feature event slated to pay $4,080 to win.
Gates open at 6 pm with adult general admission set at $25 and youth ages 13 – 20 admitted for just $10. Kids ages 12 and under are always admitted for FREE at Williams Grove.
It is expected that a few of the regular Williams Grove sprint car drivers will compete in both classes on the night including defending 410 sprint champion Lucas Wolfe as well as Ryan Smith in the Heffner No. 72.
Last year, a field of 48 ASCS/URC 360s entered the event.
Located in Newville, Eleven Oaks Farm raises Wagyu beef and Gloucestershire Old Spot hogs in an open pasture, low stress environment.
Offering the finest beef and pork on earth, learn more about Eleven Oaks Farm by visiting www.elevenoaksfarms.com.
Courtesy of Hoseheads.com, the first 200 kids ages 12 and under entering the speedway through the main grandstand admission gate will receive a FREE chocolate Easter bunny.
The postponed Hoseheads.com hoppers giveaway at the gate will begin when gates open at 6 pm however from 6:30 to 7, sprint car drivers Ryan Smith and Cory Haas will be on hand to help hand out the chocolate while also meeting fans
Coming up in just two weeks at Williams Grove Speedway, the oval will host the first invasion of the season by the World of Outlaws Sprint Cars Series.
H & N Landscaping will present the World of Outlaws in action on Friday and Saturday, May 17 and 18.
The 410 sprints will compete in an outlaws tune up race on May 10, sponsored by Brooks PowerSports.
Keep up to date on all the latest speedway news and information by visiting the oval’s official website located at www.williamsgrove.com or by following the track on Twitter and Facebook.
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Home Body Transformation Arjun Kapoor on his body transformation for 'Panipat' – Times of India
Arjun Kapoor on his body transformation for 'Panipat' – Times of India
Bollywood star Arjun Kapoor has lost oodles of kilos for his next film which is a period drama titled ‘Panipat‘. His body transformation has stunned everyone and fans. In a recent interview, the ‘Two Stated’ actor opened up about his body transformation and this is what he has to say.
The star reportedly said that the audiences are paying money to watch him on the silver screen, they expect him to look a certain way. The audience expects him to look the way he looked when he started out. ‘Panipat’ director Ashutosh Gowariker required him to look a certain way. The actor further added that he had health issues and he comes from a slightly obese childhood. He battles with them constantly and today he believes that he is back to feeling his best.
Talking about his look in the film, the actor revealed that he lost all the excess weight. In the film, he is bald and his director is happy with the way he is looking.
Apart from Arjun, the film also stars Kriti Sanon and Sanjay Dutt in pivotal roles. The film is slated to release on December 6, 2019.
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Top 10 Predictions for 2010
Jason Trent says The new year is only a couple weeks old, which gives us time to speculate on what we can look forward to. It's bound to be another great year for gamers, and I can't wait to see what twists and turns the industry will offer us. Some will be sure-shots while others will be nothing more than hopeful wishes. Discovering which ones fall into which category is where the fun is.
The PSP was never the overwhelming success that Sony had hoped. I have a sneaking suspicion that this year we'll see an Uncharted title announced for the system. It's really a no-brainer. Sony needs to move systems and there are few better ways to do this than by giving gamers something they already love.
Halo Reach will have no Natal support. Despite both Natal and Reach being released at similar times, I just don't see Bungie's final entry in the Halo series deviating too far from the already established formula. They're going to play it safe, which means not including what their fan base might see as a gimmick.
Portal 2 will be announced alongside Half Life 2: Episode Three, and will be released this October, three years after The Orange Box. The past two years have seen both Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. At this point, not even Valve can convince me that we need a third game in the series so soon.
Microsoft will introduce a rental service for Xbox Live in conjunction with a day-and-date release plan for all new Xbox 360 titles. Ideally, discounts would be offered on the full versions of titles that were previously rented so that you can try before you buy without ever having to leave your home. Not only would this help encourage purchases, but Microsoft would also see increased revenue that would have normally gone to other companies like Gamefly. It's a win-win.
Sony will release a teaser for the successor to the PSP. The major selling point of this new system will be how it interacts with the PlayStation network. We'll finally see friend lists, voice chat, and trophies available on the handheld. Titles will be download only, something that should help Sony better protect their content. This will also be the first hi-definition handheld available, with 720p resolution.
Gears of War 3 will be announced for a 2011 release with first details emerging at E3 this year. I expect there to be minor Natal support, though nothing drastic. It seems like chainsaw duels and Natal were made for one another. With this announcement we'll also see another incremental update to the Unreal Engine 3.
Twisted Metal will see the light of day this year exclusively on the PlayStation 3. The series will bring us another dark and moody chapter in the Twisted Metal universe. The best part? It will be here in time for Halloween.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 will arrive this fall but Zelda and Metroid: Other M will not be released this year. Nintendo has a huge consumer base, but generally speaking, they're not going to buy three hard core titles for the Wii during one holiday season. They'd do best to space these out a little bit. I expect Metroid: Other M to be released next February at the earliest, with Zelda following shortly after in Spring.
There will be no announcements of a new Xbox, Nintendo, or PlayStation this year. With the big three having hit their stride this generation, we're probably not going to see any new consoles be released for several more years. This has been a period of incremental upgrades, meaning that companies no longer need to develop new hardware in order to implement new ideas. Project Natal and the PlayStation Motion Controller tell us a lot about where we are in our current consoles' life cycles, and where we can expect gaming to take us in the near future.
We're going to have fun. In the end that's what gaming is all about right? No matter which console you prefer, or what genres of games you enjoy the most, you can be assured that you'll be taken care of. See you on the other side.
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The Last Generation :: The Last Generation Cantina :: Role-Playing Games Share
Name:: Jarrax Volk
Jarrax was covered in medium-length cream-white fur. It could change color slightly in order to correspond with the seasons on Savannah One, or his emotions. He had icy-blue eyes, with a canine-like head, medium-length muzzle, and pointy ears. A Yuuzhan Vong Commander gave him a slight, reddish scar over his left eye--courtesy of a duel on Yavin 13. On two legs, he stood at 6'6" (approx. 2 meters), with his tail adding another 3'5" (approx. 1 meter) onto that. He weighed 350 pounds. He had large front paws with opposable thumbs, like humans, and five razor sharp claws on each paw. His large back paws did not have opposable digits, though there were still five--and five claws as well. He had advanced balancing mechanisms, including a prehensile, lion-like, white-tufted tail, which enabled all the standard feline acrobatics, along with the ability to switch between locomotion on two or four legs. His tail possessed a sharp 5cm long spine, hidden by the tuft. Leonines, Jarrax included, had an extremely wide range of communication methods, from the usual vocal speech patterns, to intricate body language patterns, versatile canine/feline vocalizations, and some capacities for secondary languages. Jarrax also had a deep bass voice. He possessed fairly standard internal anatomy, though most organs were larger than human standard. His mane grew very slowly throughout his lifetime, becoming its fullest in old age. Jarrax had standard Leonine dentition. The maxilla had six incisors, two canines, eight premolars, and four molars. The mandible had six incisors, two canines, eight premolars, and six molars. The fourth upper premolars and first lower molars constituted the carnassial teeth, which were essential tools for shearing flesh. The long canine teeth were also important, in that they held and subdued prey. Jarrax's teeth--indeed ALL Leonine teeth--were self-sharpening, and were much harder than human teeth, therefore requiring sharpening only VERY slightly, and lasted for his entire lifetime. His jaw structure was very strong and resilient, enabling him to crush organic material--and some non-organic material--with a pressure of 5000 pounds per square inch. Jarrax's body structure was similar to that of a carnivorous predator: dense skeleton, heavily muscled, with resilient and flexible joints, extraordinarily sharp senses, and a highly refined nervous system. Jarrax's vision was very sharp--and he was able to see in three different modes. He had standard, night-vision, and thermal vision modes. His skeletal structure was extremely dense, partially accounting for his weight--and also preventing many broken bones. He was extremely well-muscled, allowing for powerful blows when fighting and subduing prey or an enemy, lithe and agile enough to evade or dodge many attacks, and also extremely fast--even running for medium distances on all fours at a natural top speed of 50 mph. He had a natural leaping and jumping ability, with the maximum vertical distance (from a slight running start) around 10 meters, or 33 feet. From a standing start, his horizontal leaping maximum was also about 10 meters. With a running start, this could be increased to 16 meters. His sense of smell was keen--able to discern individual scents even to 1 part in 100 million. Jarrax had a primal side to his nature, at very certain times becoming so strong as to cast what the Leonines called a Blood-Haze. This state of savagery greatly increased Jarrax's already formidable tolerance to injury, as well as increasing his strength. A Force-Technique Jarrax developed harnessed this Blood-Haze, but the Blood-Haze could also be artificially induced--with great potential for harm or death to Jarrax. Leonines had long lifespans--and Jarrax was no exception. Reaching maturity early in life, unless disease, accident, or foul play claimed them, Leonines lived to be extremely old--but their maximum age was never recorded.
Jarrax was born in 4 ABY on Savannah One, a planet located just off the Rimma Trade Route, near the Minos Cluster, in the Elrood sector. His early life was spent in a family group almost like a tribal unit--much like the Wookiee family unit. Since Savannah One was a planet with a wide range of climes and climates, all in close range with each other, Jarrax had many opportunities to explore, and hone his skills at hunting, running, climbing, stalking, swimming, and leaping. While training under a variety of Masters as an apprentice, Jarrax received devastating news: his twin brother had been brutally murdered at the waterfalls near his home. The murderer was never found, but by using his brother's memories, Jarrax retained a silhouette of the murderer--and wanted to find him ever since. Being a predator, Jarrax had a great love of the hunt. When hunting or fighting, he was fierce and unrelenting, often laughing or roaring challenges to his opponents. Outside of combat however, Jarrax was much more calm, and could be very quiet or very loud as the impulse struck him. He was known for his patience with others--and also his impatience with events. He was an advocate of the Living Force, and advocated maintaining awareness of the future, but not at the expense of the moment. Though highly courageous, charismatic and utterly loyal, Jarrax was a loner by nature, only having a few close friends, but cordial with most other beings. Groups other than his family or close friends made him feel strained and restricted, and he had to continually work on teamwork skills during his early years. Jarrax eventually came to the point where he could tolerate working in large groups--though they still occasionally made him impatient. He carried a heavy burden during his life because of the murder of his brother. Because of cultural traditions, Jarrax felt he should have been able to prevent the murder of his brother, but was off-world at the time. Jarrax was a master of surprise and stealth, often scaring those who were least expecting it. He also loved giving surprises--and took his Padawan on more than one surprise journey.
Subject: RPG ideas . . . . Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:55 pm
So, I was thinking: I've been wanting to start another RPG along the lines of the one I have at CTF, and I wanted some input.
One idea is to do a Star Wars: The Clone Wars RP, or possibly another era--like The Rise of the Empire or Rebellion.
Eventually, I'm planning on making an RP for every Star Wars era--the question is, which one comes first? I would prefer to do them in order--that way
Other ideas might include: X-Files, possibly something along the lines of Miami Vice (crime show), a military RP (special forces), or Spy RP (CIA/James Bond-esque).
Shout out if you'd like to participate--even if you're brand new to RPing!
If you reply, any suggestions, along with a few story types you would consider playing in, would be helpful!
"Remember, concentrate on the moment. Feel, don't think. Use your instincts."
"Victims run off and hide. Prey runs off and hides. But I'm not a victim. And I'm not prey. I am the ultimate predator."
http://sites.google.com/site/jarraxvolkswebpage/ My Fursona's Webpage!--See my CTF RP for more info!
Zealfire
Name:: Zeal Marie Meikle
Caramel colored skin, with pure white hair, brown eyes. Physically fit.
Zeal comes from the land of Tyria, growing up in the city that is now known as Old Ascalon, where was trained as an elementalist. This was before the Searing occured. All was peaceful for Zeal Marie until the Searing in which the Charr used magic against the beautiful city of Ascalon utterly destroying it. During this even Marie's, as she now goes by, parents were killed as well as all of her relatives. Maries was the only one of her family to escape the destruction of the city and make it out alive.
Subject: Re: RPG ideas . . . . Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:26 pm
I'll join. I do not really have any ideas at the moment though.
Location : the last place you looked
Name:: Selma Lundor
Selma has a lithe form though her arms and legs are quite muscular which can be seen in her choice of clothing. (Link in Equipment category) Selma has blonde hair about shoulder length which is usually pulled back in a ponytail while training. Her skin is fairly tanned from long days outside since she prefers to train out in the sun. There are a few freckles sprinkling her nose and they help set off jade green sunburst eyes. (Picture found on character profile page, just add freckles lol)
Selma Lundor was born to parents, Alia and Grant Lundor on the archipelagos of Kashyyyk. Her father is a political technology scientist who mainly deals with forms of weapons and how to improve them. From the time she was one, her father suspected she might be a Force Sensitive child and wrestled with the idea of alerting the Jedi Counsel. He finally let it leak to his coworker who convinced him it was the right thing for her. When she was two, Selma was taken from her family to the Temple to start her life as a Jedi. She excelled quite quickly and was fascinated by everything she learned. This fascination turned into a strong drive to learn more, yet she was being taught with the others and this frustrated her, their pace being slower than desired. So in her free time she would take to learning all she could on her own, pushing herself beyond what was required. At 10 she caught the eye of several potential Masters and the one who won out among them was a Leonine by the name of Jarrax Volk. Selma quickly bonded with him for when she was younger and had first caught sight of the white Leonine she was determined to be his Padawan. Her relationship with him is the strongest she knows of surrounding Padawans and their Masters. She would do anything for him, however she does have a rebellious streak and tends to get reprimanded a bit for her mouth. In her mind, he’s as cute as a teddy bear and she would love nothing more than to sit in his lap and hug him on her bad days. However, she refrains from telling him this but she figures he might know. Selma is very secretive and inquisitive and curious. By nature she wants to know everything and has been caught more than once eavesdropping on important conversations. If people want to know things they shouldn’t they can usually count on going to her for the information.
You know if you start one, I'll end up itching til I scratch
I'm up for almost anything if the storyline is intoxicating enough. I can also help come up with ideas/storylines if ya give me a couple of days
-COUGH-Star Wars Clone Wars Era!!!!!!!!!!!-COUGH-
*hands Jacob a cough drop* I have plenty. Trust me.
*raises hand* I do have a somewhat original idea... (meaning it has nothing to do with a previous show or something*
It's actually an idea I've done before but I could add twists to it or you could help perfect the actual plot...we'll talk later if you are interested.
Subject: Re: RPG ideas . . . . Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:01 pm
Name: Zeal Marie Meikle (goes by Marie)
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Home: Pre-Seering Ascalon, Tyria http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Pre-Searing
Class: Elementalist
Preferred Weapons: Deldrimor Fire Staff http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/File:Deldrimor_Staff.jpg
Character Background:
Marie comes from the land of Tyria, she grew up in the city that is now known as Old Ascalon, where she was trained to be an elementalist. This was before the Searing occured.
Marie's life was normal until the Searing occured in when the Charr used magic against the beautiful city of Ascalon utterly destroying it. During this, even Marie's, parents were killed leaving her abandoned. Marie was the only one of her family to escape the destruction of the city and make it out alive. All others except a few here and there made it out alive. The rest were imprisoned or killed immediately.
Marie vowed to pay back the Charr for what they had done to her beautiful city she once had known as a girl, and for taking away her parents. This is what fueled her throughout the Prophecies. Near the end of the Prophecies, she became one of the best elementalist in the known world. During that time she had learned that not all the Charr were but but many were corrupted. She had grown close to one Mini-Charr Shaman who she kept as a pet.
Marie is physically normal except for her exceptional beauty. Growing up as an Elementalist has left her with poor hand-to-hand fighting strength and speed. On the other side, she can outwit and out think any opponent as her intelligent is top of the notch having learned how to control the elements. Her energy likewise has became strong as an elementalist, to the point that she only wears lightweight armor. With her intelligence, her body is just as dangerous as her elemental skills.
Talents/ Abilities:
She is able to call down fire storms, meteor showers, and a meteor upon her enemies. Close combat she has, Lava Font, dealing fire damage to those around her; Ether Prodigy (Energy Regeneration), and the Phoenix, hits long range while a wall of flames protects her from being surrounded
Marie earned her Deldrimor Fire Staff after helping the Dwarven race in the Shiverpeak Mountains in the land of Tyria, Her armor she gained through her conquest of Prophecies. She wears the prestige armor of the Asurans. It shows off her body with an intimidating design, The armor is lightweight metal armor at most able to sustain blows from a dagger or smaller weapon but that is assuming the enemy can get close enough. Her superior salvage kit and lockpicks she picked up at the local merchant but not without a price of 2,000 gold. Her pair of sunglasses were specifically made for her and enhance her vision and concentration beyond the normal human levels. She picked up her Charr Shaman mini-pet along the way after having met in Lion's Arch.
I'd like to hear your idea, Crowned. I'm always open to suggestions :p
Subject: Re: RPG ideas . . . . Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:55 am
I pmed it to you ^_^
Subject: Re: RPG ideas . . . .
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Drawing on seldom-considered oral history (beyond folklore and myth) as well as conventional research and the corroborated work of others, anthropologist Mark Davis asserts that Mackandal had been educated by an 'important' family in the Congo. He says that Mackandal spoke, read and wrote Arabic fluently, and had a highly absorbent and clever mind. Davis says he also knew music, sculpture and painting, and that his broad knowledge of medicinal plants and herbs was widely sought after.
Davis credits Mackandal with having been first to cry freedom for the slaves (Although others preceded Mackandal, such as the [[maroon]] [[Padrejean]] about 80 years prior to the Mackandal Rebellion.), and with setting up such a solid phalanx of slaves who believed in his mad dream of freedom that even after his death the core of his revolution survived. It was that fundamental core that Toussaint reawakened and drove on to completion.
[Actually Mackandal was the first to declare slaves would overthrow the French and end slavery and I do not think he should be compared to Padrejean. Padrejean is only unique because we know something about him. His exploits were similar to many other escaped slaves and pale in comparison to Mackandal's accomplishments. Also, [[Boukman]], not [[Toussaint]], first gathered the Maroons to revolution in [[1791]]. See www.macandal.org for more.]
Most accounts state that Mackandal worked on the plantation until he lost his hand (or arm) in a sugar press accident. Davis believes it more likely that he fled after having been sentenced to 50 lashes with a knotted leather whip for having fallen in love with a house slave. This kind of whip inflicted such vicious damage that 50 lashes constituted a death sentence.
Davis goes on to say that both stories may have been fabricated. It would have been too humiliating to admit that a slave, particularly this one, had the wits to escape his far superior captors. Someone's head likely would have rolled. Writings at the time were dedicated to cementing the notion of slaves as barely human -- certainly not either accomplished or clever, for that would have undermined a key justification for slavery.
Davis goes on to say that both stories may have been fabricated.[Davis believes only the hand loss accident was fabricated.] It would have been too humiliating to admit that a slave, particularly this one, had the wits to escape his far superior captors. Someone's head likely would have rolled. Writings at the time were dedicated to cementing the notion of slaves as barely human -- certainly not either accomplished or clever, for that would have undermined a key justification for slavery.
Whatever the impetus, having gained the relative safety of St. Domingue's wild hills Mackandal prophesied that slaves ultimately would have their freedom and independence. To that end this strong, charismatic, natural leader recruited and organized his fellow marooons (who already had become effective plantation raiders in order to survive) into an effective fighting force uniquely suited to St. Domingue's tropical and mountainous terrain. To that he added ingeniously recruited plantation slaves. During these dangerous years he became legendary for repeatedly escaping capture.
Whatever the impetus, having gained the relative safety of St. Domingue's wild hills Mackandal prophesied that [[slaves]] ultimately would have their freedom and independence. To that end this strong, charismatic, natural leader recruited and organized his fellow marooons (who already had become effective plantation raiders in order to survive) into an effective fighting force uniquely suited to St. Domingue's tropical and mountainous terrain. To that he added ingeniously recruited plantation slaves. During these dangerous years he became legendary for repeatedly escaping capture.
After 12 years of meticulous planning and preparation, Mackandal very nearly pulled off a successful rebellion of the scope that [[Toussaint]] later accomplished. But as he prepared to carry out a mass poisoning of whites toward the end of [[1757]] that would have precipitated that coup, he was betrayed by a tortured female slave, and was captured. He was chained to the stake on [[20 January]] [[1758]] in [[Le Cap]]. (Mackandal Rebellion)
The most common written accounts (most of which are re-tellings based on the same sources) state that Mackandal escaped his first burning by wriggling free from bonds that had been inadequately secured over the stump of his arm. Most of those go on to say that he was re-captured, retied and consumed in a second burning.
The most common written accounts (most of which are re-tellings based on the same sources) state that Mackandal escaped his first burning by wriggling free from bonds that had been inadequately secured over the stump of his arm. Most of those go on to say that he was re-captured, retied and consumed in a second burning. [There are very few accounts but equally as many claimed slaves were convinced Mackandal escaped. And, since the French constantly burned [[slaves]] at the stake and Mackandal was so important, who actually believes the 'post was rotted,' he was fastened with 'ropes that burned off' or that the French soldiers 'tied him improperly'? See www.macandal.org]
Slave accounts (which more strongly reflect the Mackandal mystique) state that he escaped either the first burning only, or the first and the second, but in both cases generally depict his final flight as that of a fly or a mosquito. Before being captured, Mackandal had claimed to be immortal. Davis notes with interest the massive yellow fever epidemic that was brought by hordes of mosquitoes during [[Toussaint]]'s rebellion, helping to decimate the invading forces and make his rebellion successful.
* [[Padre Jean]] - Leader of a slave rebellion about seven decades prior to that of François Mackandal.
* [[Boukman]] - One of the leaders of the slave uprising at the start of the Haitian Revolution.
** [[Boukman Rebellion]] - The uprising after the meeting of [[Bois Caïman]].
** [[Boukman Rebellion]] - The uprising after the meeting of [[Bois Caïman]].<BR>
* [[Matt Wood Revolution and The Representation of History in The Kingdom of This World]]
* Mark Davis. "Macandal: The Greatest Unknown Story in History" (©1996, 1999, 2003). http://www.macandal.com (Note: Davis invariably spells his subject's name 'Macandal,' but Mackandal' is used here as it is throughout this site.<br/>
* Mark Davis. "Macandal: The Greatest Unknown Story in History" (©1996, 1999, 2003). [http://macandal.org/ www.macandal.org] (Note: Davis invariably spells his subject's name 'Macandal,' but Mackandal' is used here as it is throughout this site.<br/>
* Carpentier, Alejo (1989) ''The Kingdom of This World : A Novel''. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0374521972
* Wikipedia contributors (2005). Alejo Carpentier. ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.'' Retrieved 05:34, December 27, 2005 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alejo_Carpentier
* Wikipedia contributors (2005). Alejo Carpentier. ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.'' Retrieved 05:34, December 27, 2005 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alejo_Carpentier&oldid=31531603].
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* [http://www.makandal.org/ La Troupe Makandal] - Haitian dance and drumming in New York City, named after François Mackandal.
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Image from a Haitian coin honoring Mackandal.
François Mackandal (also Macandal or Makandal; Kreyòl: Franswa Makandal ) (died January 20, 1758, Le Cap, Saint-Domingue) a maroon slave, organized several rebellions in the North of Saint-Domingue.
François Mackandal has been the focus of a persistent legend of St. Domingue. Some stories have it that his soul escaped the flames in which he was burned at the stake, and that it still roams through Haiti.
Like thousands of others, Mackandal was brought to St. Domingue probably from West Africa. and possibly as a slave already at the age of 12. Sold to Lenormand plantation near Cap Français, he brought with him exceptional accomplishments and a remarkable intellect.
Davis credits Mackandal with having been first to cry freedom for the slaves (Although others preceded Mackandal, such as the maroon Padrejean about 80 years prior to the Mackandal Rebellion.), and with setting up such a solid phalanx of slaves who believed in his mad dream of freedom that even after his death the core of his revolution survived. It was that fundamental core that Toussaint reawakened and drove on to completion.
[Actually Mackandal was the first to declare slaves would overthrow the French and end slavery and I do not think he should be compared to Padrejean. Padrejean is only unique because we know something about him. His exploits were similar to many other escaped slaves and pale in comparison to Mackandal's accomplishments. Also, Boukman, not Toussaint, first gathered the Maroons to revolution in 1791. See www.macandal.org for more.]
After 12 years of meticulous planning and preparation, Mackandal very nearly pulled off a successful rebellion of the scope that Toussaint later accomplished. But as he prepared to carry out a mass poisoning of whites toward the end of 1757 that would have precipitated that coup, he was betrayed by a tortured female slave, and was captured. He was chained to the stake on 20 January 1758 in Le Cap. (Mackandal Rebellion)
The most common written accounts (most of which are re-tellings based on the same sources) state that Mackandal escaped his first burning by wriggling free from bonds that had been inadequately secured over the stump of his arm. Most of those go on to say that he was re-captured, retied and consumed in a second burning. [There are very few accounts but equally as many claimed slaves were convinced Mackandal escaped. And, since the French constantly burned slaves at the stake and Mackandal was so important, who actually believes the 'post was rotted,' he was fastened with 'ropes that burned off' or that the French soldiers 'tied him improperly'? See www.macandal.org]
Slave accounts (which more strongly reflect the Mackandal mystique) state that he escaped either the first burning only, or the first and the second, but in both cases generally depict his final flight as that of a fly or a mosquito. Before being captured, Mackandal had claimed to be immortal. Davis notes with interest the massive yellow fever epidemic that was brought by hordes of mosquitoes during Toussaint's rebellion, helping to decimate the invading forces and make his rebellion successful.
Mackandal is often mentioned as having been a houngan.
The Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier portrays Mackandal in his 1949 novel, The Kingdom of This World.
Padre Jean - Leader of a slave rebellion about seven decades prior to that of François Mackandal.
Boukman - One of the leaders of the slave uprising at the start of the Haitian Revolution.
Boukman Rebellion - The uprising after the meeting of Bois Caïman.
Matt Wood Revolution and The Representation of History in The Kingdom of This World
Mark Davis. "Macandal: The Greatest Unknown Story in History" (©1996, 1999, 2003). www.macandal.org (Note: Davis invariably spells his subject's name 'Macandal,' but Mackandal' is used here as it is throughout this site.
Carpentier, Alejo (1989) The Kingdom of This World : A Novel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0374521972
Wikipedia contributors (2005). Alejo Carpentier. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 05:34, December 27, 2005 [1].
La Troupe Makandal - Haitian dance and drumming in New York City, named after François Mackandal.
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France’s ‘Holy Secular Empire’ slurs Yellow Vests as anti-Semitic, bans anti-Zionism
8735 Views February 20, 2019 35 Comments Guest Analyses The Saker
Back in November 2008, Rahm Emmanuel, then president-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff and later the detested mayor of Chicago, famously told The Wall Street Journal, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. … This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not before.” A wave of “socialise the losses” right-wing capitalism followed; millions lost their homes, pensions, jobs, sanity, neighbourhood cohesion, etc.
France is using the anti-establishment crisis of the Yellow Vests in a way that Zionist-supporter Emmanuel certainly approves of: they are using it to criminalise anti-Zionism.
Backtracking from just a day earlier, President Emmanuel Macron threw French liberty under the bus and said that France will now define “anti-Zionism as a modern-day form of anti-Semitism”.
Well I guess I better totally rewrite this article! LOL, not a chance.
France had an atrocious 74% leap in anti-Jewish acts in 2018, which caused nationwide demonstrations against anti-Semitism on February 19.
More against anti-Jew acts… I could not be.
But the demonstrations were a clear manipulation of righteous anti-racism sentiment, because they were orchestrated right alongside an effort to slander the anti-government Yellow Vest movement as a basket of racist, anti-Jewish, hillbilly, intolerant, uncultured deplorables. Now we see they had a second goal, just as I had openly suggested.
Domestic things first: France’s Holy Secular Empire rallies to attack tolerance & democracy
Given that they are calling for the resignation of the president and his cadres, from the very beginning of the Yellow Vest movement the government has obviously done everything they could to portray the Yellow Vests as such… and also as radicals, rioters and rejects of society – anything but legitimate.
But the marches show that (what I refer to as) France’s “Holy Secular Empire” has sprung back into action. The Holy Secular Empire is characterised by pro-French jingoism, intolerance for those who are deemed not tolerant enough of the “correct” things (no matter how morally repugnant and intellectually incorrect said things may be), and a hypocritical subversion of France’s constitutionally mandated and culturally revered laïcité (political secularism) towards all things regarding race and religion only when certain cultural groups are targeted.
The apex of the Holy Secular Empire was the Je Suis Charlie marches in 2015, when fake-leftists worldwide wept for the right to draw a picture of Prophet Mohammad with his butt cheeks spread open and star covering his anus and also Mohammad directing a pornography movie. (Yes, those are among the cartoons they published.)
The arrival of the anti-austerity, anti-neoliberal, anti-EU, anti-Eurozone, anti-1% Yellow Vest movement has forced the HSE’s fake-leftist ideals back to the fore. The last week has seen a massive media and political blitz which aims to instrumentalise the fight against racism as a way to turn public opinion against the Yellow Vests, and eventually put a stop to their marches.
The slur campaign went into overdrive when the atrociously right-wing and pro-Zionist writer Alain Finkielkraut was filmed at the Yellow Vest demonstration on February 16th being insulted (being correctly labelled) with the phrase “dirty Zionist”. Finkielkraut is a former leftist who renounced his leftist ideals for reactionary ones, and such sellouts – those who can perhaps best critique the left because they understood it at one time – are always adored by the 1% and the Mainstream Media.
Firstly, what is Alain Finkielkraut doing at a Yellow Vest march? Of course they hate him – he was similarly booed and shooed away at the leftist, Occupy-inspired Nuit Debout protests in 2016. The French say “once does not make a custom”, but it seems as if every leftist movement can now count on Finkielkraut getting back in the spotlight by annoying them with his presence. Of course, just like in 2016, Finkielkraut wants people to believe in 2019 it’s just anti-Jew hatred, but he clearly refuses to accept that people legitimately resent and detest him for being one of the French’s 1%’s leading intellectual toadies.
I saw Finkielkraut being interviewed on right-wing BFM TV just after the incident: he was doing his usual rear end-kissing of the average Frenchman’s bygone culture. He was going on and on about how the Roman Catholic French Church is a natural ally with the Jews, begging for their support and fraternity… and never mentioning Islam as their third Abrahamic brother. That’s odd, considering that much of the Koran’s very first chapter calls for unity with Jews and Christians, declares that Islam does not discriminate against their apostles and embraces them, how the children of Israel are exalted above other nations, and on and on and on. I asked a Middle Eastern Christian colleague why Finkielkraut didn’t include Islam, considering these obvious facts?
“Ramin,” he said, “why do you think Alain Finkielkraut would commit career suicide?”
LOL, good point. But this is why people on the left hate Finkielkraut – he makes bad things worse by insisting that la belle France réactionnaire doesn’t have to change.
The Finkielkraut episode, combined with a couple recent typical pro-Nazi graffiti taggings, allowed the Mainstream Media to point the finger at the Yellow Vests. Ever obliging, and you cannot make this up: French Parliamentarians rushed to try and ban anti-Zionist speech!
Surprised – why? In 2014, during Israel’s latest war on Gaza, France became the first country to ban pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Foreign things second: Since when do French politicians care about the French?
Banning anti-Zionism is – without a doubt – truly dangerous for the safety of the French, ruinous for France’s international image, ruinous to France’s cultural values…but since when do French politicians care about France?
The Parliamentarians said the ban debate was on the grounds that “anti-Zionism” is the same as “anti-Semitism”.” For several days this falsity was relayed by every major news organisation with zero comment or a question. Cleary, the Holy Secular Empire is a mighty force, but not an enlightened one.
I am an anti-Zionist Jew
Such a conflation staggers the mind! “Zionism” is an imperialist project based on earthly political ideas – (the inherently racist idea that Jews need to be segregated into their own country); “Judaism” is a religion, based on faith. It has been truly sad to see what a poor job the average journalist, commentator, politician, editor and publisher did by conflating the two over the past week. This is why Yellow Vests hate us journalists, guys and gals.
One can be 100% anti-Zionist and 100% pro-Jew. Indeed, we all must be.
However, the reality is that – for fake-leftists and the Holy Secular Empire – one cannot be both pro-Jew and anti-Zionist… not even if you are a Jew.
Paris-based journalist George Kazolias emailed me this photo from the huge “Hipsters Against Anti-Jews” march at Place de la République in Paris on February 19. His sign reads, “I am Jewish and anti-Zionist”. Kazolias, who has decades of experience and whose integrity is unquestionable, told me that this intelligent young man was roughed up and forced to take his sign down.
That is the Holy Secular Empire at its finest: they claim to be anti-racist, but only when certain races are involved. “The Palestinians – not today, pal: you need to take a backseat to the Zionists right now. Frankly, let’s just ban anti-Zionism altogether.” They claim to be politically modern, and yet they support an imperialist project for which there is no doubt about who is in the wrong and who is in the right. They claim to be tolerant and demand that you be tolerant for their preferred groups, but they are willing to rough up a brave dissenter who dares to express a contrarian opinion (even when that dissenter is a member of the group being affected).
Surprised that France’s Holy Secular Empire is neither Holy (it is anti-Holy), nor Secular (it is incredibly partisan), but, like all Empires, based on illegitimate, anti-democratic force?
The surprise comes from the false, mainstream idea that France is what they say they are: a beacon of free speech, the world’s greatest adherents of the right to open debate on political issues, a fighter for truth, tolerance and other human rights… but it’s mostly for human rights which do very little to advance socioeconomic & political equality but which certainly allow the rich to express themselves unfettered in West European / Liberal Democratic / bourgeois systems.
Why the backtracking by Macron? I thought he was pro-Nazi? Let’s not forget that last November Macron was forced to call off his planned tribute to Vichy France leader and Nazi collaborator Marshall Petain – that makes him more responsible for the recent spike in anti-Jewish acts than anyone, no? People follow the lead of the leader, and he praised Nazi-era France.
From the beginning I openly said on social media that the timing of the marches made their legitimacy even more suspect: they were the night before the French President’s annual genuflecting before CRIF, the umbrella of Jewish groups which serves as France’s influential Jewish lobby. I felt bad for France’s Jews – the timing of these marches already seemed more like political manipulations which aimed to culminate in the criminalisation of anti-Zionism, but the timing helped perpetuate the idea that Jews are overly powerful among the French elite.
The annual genuflecting also shows that, while individual and anecdotal violence against Jews needs far steeper penalties in France, on the institutional level France’s Jews are not just well-represented but punching above their weight: there is no similar annual genuflecting by the French president at an French Muslim organisation, even though Muslims are 10 times the number of Jews in France. Each new French president even has the gall to create their own, preferred “new, improved, Franco-Muslim group”, which no Muslim takes remotely seriously but which the Mainstream Media takes as, LOL, legitimate.
Macron made his backtracking at the CRIF dinner. Ugh…bad for Jews, bad for France, bad for Palestinians, bad for those who oppose terrorism in France (i.e everyone) and on and on.
Global things third: we still have the Yellow Vests, at least. Also: I hate Zionism
Call the cops on me….
The reality is that mainstream journalists simply won’t stand up for the difference between Zionism and anti-Semitism – even if brave Jews like that one in the photo do – and even if such inaccuracies hurt the image of the everyday Jew.
But such is the effectiveness of Israeli hasbara, counter-information propaganda aimed at Western audiences, that even the word “Jew” cannot be broached. The Western concept that the word “Jew” is somehow a racial slur was hilariously lampooned by the US TV show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
And it affected this article, too: I thought the title should be, “France’s ‘Holy Secular Empire’ slurs Yellow Vests as anti-Jew, bans anti-Zionism” – and why not? It’s shorter, and I like to pretend that column inches still matter in digital media. It’s also more accurate: “Semitic” is a language – meaning the branch which includes Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic – yet it has been appropriated/given to the adherents of Judaism, regardless of national origin, for so long that the average person now associates “Semite” solely with Jews.
For example, I just had a fine English colleague proofread my upcoming book, Socialism’s Ignored Success Story: Iranian Islamic Socialism, and in one part I discussed out how the “non-Semitic Iranians” might have been predisposed to disagree with certain early Islamic leaders who pushed pro-Arab, and thus ethnically sectarian, policies. This intelligent journalist noted in red next to “the non-Semitic Iranians” the following: “?”. LOL, I changed it, because this is even more of a lost cause than my effort to use “Southwest Asian” instead of the Eurocentric “Middle East”. And I changed the headline because I thought that many half-hearted anti-racists would see “anti-Jew” and hysterically think, “I am too turned off to click on this link – the language is too harsh. The writer must be a nut.”
The mistake made by that young anti-Zionist Jew – who is my brother from another mother – is that he went to the wrong demonstration that night: he went to the fake-leftist / hipster / bobo (bourgeois bohémien) / politician photo-op / pro-Zionist / anti-Yellow Vest demonstration at Place de la République, when he should have been with me at Ménilmontant in the Arab part of town.
I covered that demonstration for PressTV. It was organised by the Union of French Jews for Peace, a wonderful group I have interviewed for years. Heck, some of the very best pro-Palestinian activists in France are Jewish! That is where this young man belonged. The protest was expressly against all racism and expressly against the attempt to slur the Yellow Vests as anti-Semitic.
We numbered about 700 people, with plenty of Yellow Vests, and we garnered far less media coverage (in French: At Ménilmontant, a demonstration of real anti-racists’ against anti-Semitism), but plenty of Israeli hasbara. The Times of Israel headline read, “At Ménilmontant a man yelled ‘Netanyahu licks the (rear end) of Hitler”. If this is how they treat those who are protesting against anti-Semitism, imagine how they treat Palestinians, LOL….
As usual, the people I interviewed there put it better than I could, even though that’s my job:
The Yellow Vests are not ethnic nor religious – they are social, political and fiscal. These are workers who work yet still can’t pay their bills at the end of the month, even though France is such a rich country. If there are anti-Jews in the Yellow Vests, well, 58% of the country supports the Yellow Vests, which equates to 39 million people: out of 39 million people you will find some jerks, and also some racists, but the slurring of the Yellow Vests as anti-Jew is only because the establishment and their toadies will do anything to stop the Yellow Vest movement… which will absolutely not stop.
It won’t stop because, as I wrote at the very beginning of the movement: there is simply no political pathway for the Yellow Vests’ political ideas to be implemented. Therefore, they have no choice but to continue because political demands aren’t whims, but are almost implacably formed over time – in this case, eight years of far-right economic austerity. Yellow Vests can only turn to other Yellow Vests.
At the big demonstration at Place de la République there were 20,000 people – this is a very rare instance of a demonstration in France not being obviously undercounted by authorities; many put the official numbers of the Saturday Yellow Vests at 1/3rd the official total.
But I wasn’t going to to République to celebrate the fake-leftist idea of anti-racism, even though most everyone else did. You had Catholic bishops there, even though they are supposed to not get involved in political demonstrations; you had Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy; you had plenty of attractive, young, hip people in the very heart of hipster Paris. What’s certain is that everyone was breaking their arms patting each other (and themselves) on the back for being so very progressive, tolerant, modern and leftist.
That made it really quite similar to the largest ever gatherings of the Holy Secular Empire: the 4-million person marches after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, which was at Place de la République too. I was there doing my usual dissident thing in very unwelcoming environment, LOL, and back then what all those fake-leftists hemmed and hawed about was the answer to this simple question: “How is drawing a cartoon of Prophet Mohammad bent over, with his butt cheeks spread, and a star over his anus, or a cartoon of Mohammad filming a porn movie not inflammatory / impolite/ dangerous / racist / Islamophobic / yelling “fire “in a crowded theater?” Fake-leftists still have no answer for that, of course, but they marched just the same and got teary over the sacred glories of French “liberty”.
Real leftists said, “Well, political science ain’t science, so like can attract like here: that stuff is dangerous and reactionary so I’m not surprised who they ran into….”
Another iteration of the media wing of the HSE was on the very day of the 2017 presidential election: French fake-leftist newspaper nonpareil Libération knowingly broke a law insisting on media neutrality just prior to elections by printing a cover which read, “Do what you want but vote Macron”.
This is way I imagined the paper’s budget meeting that day: the hysterical female journalists and the namby-pamby male journalist at Libé (or the namby-pamby female journalists and the hysterical male journalists – that’s fine by me) were sitting around their meeting room table and swearing before their atheistic god that they simply could not risk democracy taking place without fetters; their technocratic creed and noblesse oblige forced them – Gandhi-like – to flout the law in order to save the establishment from the far-right Marine Le Pen… even if that meant putting in the far-right (economically) Macron (who is also now a far-right imperialist, too). If history judged their efforts not the equal of Gandhi’s, Libération had but one choice: to formalise and protect a caste system, also like Gandhi.
The Yellow Vests do not believe that “Jews are secretly in charge” – what they oppose is the continuation of this caste culture, which allows high finance, careerist politicians and hipster Parisians to be the only ones writing public policy.
The Yellow Vests, I’m sure, are majority pro-Palestinian, but I’m even more sure that they view this banning of Zionism as a truly dangerous distraction which will not keep them from relying on food banks at the end of the month.
Those slurs won’t stick, but the Yellow Vests will – more marches are certain. Jews welcome… but only if they are Yellow Vest sympathisers – this is a class-based political movement, of course! Practitioners of identity politics will never be welcome.
As far as Macron… ugh. You have not failed to disappoint, and I openly expected you to be worse than Marine Le Pen, who is terrible. Macron proves, once again, that capitalism-imperialism is far worse than (and is the cause of) racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, sectarianism, etc.
LT on February 20, 2019 · at 5:53 pm EST/EDT
Recall that the accusation of antisemitism is:
“faux-outrage greased by hypocrisy and opportunism”
Article began:
“Back in November 2008, Rahm Emmanuel, then president-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff and later the detested mayor of Chicago, famously told The Wall Street Journal, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. … This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not before.”
The Wend on February 20, 2019 · at 8:03 pm EST/EDT
This is what Finkielkraut stated in 1991., regarding the war between the Serbs and the Croats :
“Serbia falsifies the past by saying that the Croats were all Nazis and the Serbs all resitence fighters, falsifies the present by saying that the Croats remain „a genocidal people“, and, in the shadow of this double falsification, cariies out the first racial war in Europe since Hitler. In a word: the Nazis of this story are trying to pass themsekves off as the Jews. Being a Jew, I thought it necessary to deny the Serbian conqurors the blessing of Jewish memory, and to prevent the drafting of the dead, whose guardian I feel myself to be, into the service of those who are perpetrating „ethnic cleansing“ today.”
https://tinyurl.com/y64a9qes , p.204 and 205.
Not only an islamophobe, but a serbophobe too.
Mulga Mumblebrain on February 21, 2019 · at 3:20 am EST/EDT
In 2005 Finkelkraut, speaking of the French football team, said, ‘People say that everyone admires the French team, because its, black, white, Arab. Actually these days the team is black, black, black, which makes it the laughing-stock of Europe’. Finkelkraut is simply a typical French, Zionazi, racist, as you would expect.
Serbian girl on February 21, 2019 · at 7:35 am EST/EDT
Thanks for that Wend. I have my very own “jewish memory”: The memory of how jews like him, BHL, Kouchner whipped up the media, while their US co-religionists Albright, Holbrooke, Rubin and Clark attacked and dismembered my country.
Finkielkraut is finally being exposed for the racist charlatan that he is. The only problem is in France, this incident / false flag/ will be used to justify legislation further restricting freedom of speech.
Verami on February 22, 2019 · at 2:53 am EST/EDT
And Joseph Lieberman, Eliot Engel, Susan Sontag, Christopher Hitchens, Tim Judah, Anne Leibovitz . .
Mulga Mumblebrain on February 22, 2019 · at 4:48 pm EST/EDT
Some of the vilest Rightist, neo-liberal capitalist, neo-conservative Imperial butcher/propagandists and all-round Imperial hate-mongers are Zionazi Jews. They are vastly over-represented among that vermin rabble, and most of the rest are Sabbat Goy stooges who (compulsorily)adore ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’. However, we must never forget that many Jews, in Israel and, more particularly, in the Diaspora, are not of this kind and many are opponents of Zionazi fascism and racism. They are, of course, given no coverage by the Zionazi-controlled Western fakestream media sewer, like the execrable Guardian, who push the implicit, and at times explicit, Zionazi propaganda line that all Jews are Likudniks who support Israel, and Jewish power elsewhere, unquestioningly. And they suffer abuse from the Zionazi fascists and racists as ‘self-hating Jews’. So I believe it is vital never to talk of ‘the Jews’, as if they are some great undifferentiated mass, and criticism of one or some is an expression of ‘mindless hatred’ of them all, the primary, foundational, lie of the loathsome ‘antisemitism’ industry. Such an attitude of ‘unthinking antipathy’ is, almost ironically (save that it is so familiar and unsurprising), actually true regarding the Zionazis, their villainous hatred of the Palestinians, Arabs, Moslems and anyone, Jew or goy alike, who refuses to bow down and grovel before their universal magnificence. One of the prime sources of the roiling hatred that is impelling humanity towards a global civil war or a neo-feudal ‘war of all against all’, as the tiny elite laugh into their Moet in their gilded fortresses, is simply the projection of Zionazi hatred, as raw and vicious as any such manifestation ever seen, onto the rest of humanity. The Palestinians and Israel’s neighbours are the primary and longest victims of this, the true ‘oldest hatred’, but, as the cancer spreads its metastases worldwide, more and more will become its victims, particularly in the Zionazis’ promotion of a religious war, a ‘Clash of Civilizations’, between Islam and the West, and another such ‘Clash’, between the West and China.
DannyO on February 20, 2019 · at 8:22 pm EST/EDT
You are delusional writing this – “The Yellow Vests do not believe that “Jews are secretly in charge” – what they oppose is the continuation of this caste culture, which allows high finance, careerist politicians and hipster Parisians to be the only ones writing public policy.”
Who do you think runs the banks and controls the money and pays the colour coded politicians and their gutter whore presstitutes? The only ones more guilty than the oligarchial zionist jews are the vassals goyim who take the blood money – this of course includes the working class jews who allow themselves to be used as fodder for the rich.
Being a jew only matters to the oligarchy when it serves their purpose to obfuscate their crimes and their total control of late stage capitalism. The saud pimps have done the same thing with islam – using religion as cover – not quite as smoothly as the western elites – but the sand princes do their best.
The French AIPAC, the CRF, controls French politics, hence the hatred and contempt for the Palestinians and the compulsory Jew worship. Hence the creation by the Jewish grandees of Micron and his fake political movement designed to enrich the rich and impoverish the rest. And hence the institution of the ‘Holocaust’ as the de facto State pseudo-religion, while all Israel’s millions of victims, all the other victims of the German Nazis, all the victims of French Imperialism, particularly the Algerians, and all the other victims of all the other genocides of history, are near totally ignored and their suffering treated with contempt. ONLY Jewish suffering counts, as ever.
jadez on February 20, 2019 · at 8:33 pm EST/EDT
lets not all jump to the conclusion that there really is a rise in antisemitism…..
http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-growing-anti-semitism-scam/#comment-3050164
Craig Murray at his blog demolishes this garbage about ‘74%’ or some other, always double-digit, increase in ‘antisemitic’ acts. He points out that this huge growth, year after year, would result in thousands and thousands of ‘antisemitic’ acts in the UK, yet last year only 20 (twenty) people, mostly neo-Nazis and the like, were prosecuted for real acts.And we all know, but the fakestream media presstitutes must forget and consign to the memory-hole, that many ‘antisemitic’ acts in the past have turned out to be self-inflicted false-flag provocations.
Murray doesn’t mention the fact that an ‘antisemitic’ act as asserted by a Zionazi could simply be answering a screeching Zionazi back, or, as the loathsome Micron has made official, supporting the Palestinians in their unending suffering under Zionazi barbarity. And the huge rise in Islamophic acts, much of it fomented and encouraged by the Zionazis in their open alliances with Western fascists and neo-Nazis (eg Anders Brievik) is now utterly unmentionable. Indeed the Zionazis and their Sabbat Goy stooges have the chutzpah to deny that Islamophobia even exists.
This won’t end well, because, in a repeat of history, the worst of the Jews do not know when to stop in their relentless efforts to control and humiliate the goyim who they detest. Soon enough not decrying the Palestinians as ‘savages’, ‘terrorists’, ‘animals’ etc, in Zionazi hate jargon, will be defined as ‘antisemitism’. You can bet on it, because their hatred, the very essence of their being, is limitless.
On Twitter, (which is where I get my news on GJs from) there was a video of shop owners over whose shop antisemitic graffiti appeared. The graffiti was attributed to the GJs, however the shop owners were adamant that the graffiti appeared on the friday night just BEFORE the GJ manifestation….
Andrea Iravanistien on February 20, 2019 · at 10:10 pm EST/EDT
This was a great article. We have the same double-speak propaganda in America, since the media is largely controlled by America’s Israel lobby, which also controls congress, and the tech companies.
The best that we can hope for, is that Ivanka Trump will wake up and realize that she can do much better than Jared Kushner, because Trump is also supporting this sheer lunacy!
Congress and Trump agreed with Netenyahu that it would be anti-Semetic not to allow Jews the right to self determination, and that it would be also anti-Semetic to allow Christians and Muslims the right to self-determination. Donald Jr. and the other Trump children are either going to have to convert to Judaism, or allow Jews to determine their fates. At least they have a Jewish sister who may be merciful.
An American or American institution can organize a boycott against any American and even every American company, but if they publicly support BDS, it is illegal in many states, and the Federal government will stop financially supporting universities and other institutions supporting the BDS movement, boycott apple pie, coca cola, mcdonalds, ford motors all you want, when it comes to Israel there is a 3 nos policy, no boycotts, no criticism of the Israeli government, and no support of Palsetinians, because they claim WRONGLY that those would be anti-Semetic actions of bigotry and racism, when Israel is without question, bar none, the most bigoted, racist, anti-humanitarian country on earth! Hitler would have been jealous!
evilempire on February 20, 2019 · at 10:34 pm EST/EDT
Capitalism-imperialism is anachronistic. It has evolved onto something much
more monstrous-Satanism-Iinquisitionism. Pathological hypocrisy, pathological
lying and deception, pathological perversion, all paving the way for the mass
murder of the innocent are not necessarily inherent to capitalism. They are the
inherent definition of satanism. There is a demonic occult power, a malignant
evil, an obscene perverse spirit unleashed and rampant on the world today.
It has no goal, no purpose other than evil, to deliver the souls of all humanity unto
perdition. The political and ruling classes all belong in padded cells. The Satanic
Inquisition of Perdition that owns and controls them belong in maximum security
prisons for the criminally insane.
Anonymous on February 21, 2019 · at 12:09 am EST/EDT
evilempire, yes, there is a spiritual battle going on, as good and evil compete for souls.
Alfred (Cairns) on February 20, 2019 · at 10:48 pm EST/EDT
The MSM by confounding the yellow vests with anti-Semitism are doing their sponsors a big disfavour. What they are saying is that 39 million French people are anti-Semites. When you accuse a majority of being criminals, the meaning of the work “criminal” must change.
As was always inevitable, the Zionazi elites have answered the growth of BDS, and the growing detestation of the fascist, racist, terrorist, apartheid regime, Israel, (including among very many Diaspora Jews)by tugging on their Western Sabbat Goy stooges’ leashes, and ordering them to outlaw ALL criticism of Israel, ALL criticism of the actions of any Jew, anywhere, and ALL moral and political support for the detested Palestinian untermenschen. And the morally and financially corrupt Sabbat Goyim ‘tremble and obey’. Next step-compulsory indoctrination in philosemitism and love of Zionazism, on pain of imprisonment, perhaps for twenty years as is envisaged in US anti-BDS legislation. And the Zionazi don’t just not care about the hatred that their vicious totalitarian actions will inevitably bring. They love it because hatred, as raw and vicious as possible, is the very existential fuel of their being.
Taras 77 on February 20, 2019 · at 11:08 pm EST/EDT
But of course, anti-semitism-it is only a matter of time for the zionists, it is the ultimate weapon! It is always available and it always works!
vot tak on February 21, 2019 · at 2:47 am EST/EDT
Looks like rothschild & co invested well in their macron monkey.
Dr. NG Maroudas on February 21, 2019 · at 7:30 am EST/EDT
“French fake-leftist newspaper nonpareil Libération”.
Ramin, you are too polite. It may have changed by now but in the runup to the anti-Muslim hate-fest you attended at the Place de la Republique — the biggest display of racial hatred since the Nuremberg rallies — I googled, Who owns Charlie Hebdo? and out popped la famille Rothschild. La creme de la creme du Capitalisme Sioniste had bought Liberation so that Rothschild could control Charlie Hebdo. If I remember correctly, this was in the _runup_ to Je Suis Charlie fete de la haine. Does the Rothschild crime family still own Fausse Gauche Liberation?
Martin on February 21, 2019 · at 2:02 pm EST/EDT
In 2002, I had the opportunity to join the protests against the World Economic Forum as a volunteer citizen journalist. The WEF is normally held on a mountain top in Davos, Switzerland, and all protesters are blocked at the bottom of the mountain. But, in 2002, the WEF was moved to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in NYC to show unity with Wall Street after the 9-11 attacks.
I had numerous memorable incidents during that trip, but this modern world always reminds me of one. A group of very Orthodox Jews held a press conference and gave interviews to express their views in opposition to the State of Israel. Their religious view was very simple. I probably won’t express it perfectly, but it was that the Word of God told them that it would be God that would restore the Jewish people to their holy land. Thus, it is wrong and against the will of God for mankind to be so presumptuous as to force their own return.
Thus, the notion that being Jewish does not equate to being Zionist was firmly anchored in my head.
I oppose any attempt to label any person, usually as a prelude to hating them which in turn usually precedes to robbing them or killing them, simply because of their race. Each person is an individual, and deserves to be judged on the content of their character. And that of course only if we ignore the religions that teach that we shouldn’t judge at all, but leave that to God. But disliking the policies of the government of the State of Israel is in no way an act of hating anyone based on their ethnicity, color of their skin, color of their eyes, shape of their nose, location of bumps on their skull, who their daddy was, or any other silly idea such as that. Opposing the government of the State of Israel is simply opposing the government of the State of Israel.
Its wrong to hate someone because they are Jewish. But being Jewish does not equate with being Zionist. That’s was quite clearly shown to me in NYC in 2002.
The antisemitism industry operates according to a number of unquestionable (in the West)doctrines. One, that the criticism of the actions of any Jew, anywhere, is indicative of a hatred of all Jews, everywhere. Two, that support for the Palestinians, in any form, is a manifestation of hatred of all Jews, everywhere. Three, that criticism of the Israeli Zionazi regime, and its record of barbarity, racism, terrorism and visceral hatred of International Law and the UN General Assembly and world opinion,is, in fact, simply hatred of the Jews. Inherent in these dogmata is the proposition that Jews are uniform in opinion, and that opinion is basically Zionazi Likudnik and Orthodox Judaic, and any dissenters are ‘self-hating Jews’. And the further, ludicrous but inevitable, dogma that Jews, uniquely, are incapable of committing crimes, even accidentally or by mistake, even as they murder Palestinian children, or torture them and their elders, or destroy tens of thousands of their homes, or destroy their olive trees or poison their flocks, or attack Israel’s neighbours or induce their Sabbat Goy stooges in the USA and the West to kill millions of those neighbours’ civilians. And this morally insane and repulsive pseudo-religion of Zionazi worship is now being imposed throughout the West, particularly in the USA and France, with criminal law and the threat of Draconian terms of imprisonment, and the total abolition of Freedom of Opinion, Thought and Action. But they’re worth it.
Anonymous on February 21, 2019 · at 3:27 pm EST/EDT
On the topic of being the wrong kind of Jew in NYC, American comedian, Gilda Radner came up last week. I re-watched “Gilda Live” from 1980 and was struck by how risky some of her material is from a 2018 perspective. (She performs this song bemoaning the FDA threatening to ban saccharine, because it’s shown “that men prefer skinny girls with cancer to healthy girls with bulging thighs.”) Everyone knows — she died of ovarian cancer. But on Wikipedia, it says she was given a sedative before a CT scan, went into a coma, never recovered, and died three days later. Which suggests, I don’t know, the possibility that she may have died of something else. I would have found that hard to believe in 1980, but today, I wonder!
Nussiminen on February 21, 2019 · at 2:27 pm EST/EDT
C’est évidemment logique — au point de vue sioniste — d’accuser les GJ d’antisemitisme. Comme l’a expliqué de façon remarquable notre cher BHL:
”Ces pauvres qui disent qu’ils le sont et qu’ils n’en peuvent plus de l’être, quelle beaufitude, quelle grossièreté, quel manque de manière!”
Pour mériter un tel mépris des ultra-sionistes, il faut bien être un mauvais antisémite, n’est-ce pas?
B.F. on February 21, 2019 · at 2:37 pm EST/EDT
France has been a happy hunting ground for the Rothschild’s since 1789, when they financed the French “revolution”. Macron, a Rothschild’s banker, is just continuing Rothschild’s policies. The chief curse of France is that unity is not a French characteristic, as proven by their history. Sweden, as a sovereign country, is probably finished. France is following in it’s tracks. It’s questionable if in the future it can possibly survive, or if it will see financial and ethnic conflicts which will destroy the country.
Kemosabe on February 21, 2019 · at 2:46 pm EST/EDT
Rothchilds backed both sides of several skirmishes. Supplying Mercenaries for the Brits. during the American Reveolution as well.
https://www.sott.net/article/407772-The-rotten-state-of-UK-democracy-and-the-8-defected-puppets
On the zioscam
Andrea iravanisteine on February 21, 2019 · at 8:21 pm EST/EDT
Should we amend the U.S. Constitution to state that in order to run for office in America :
“7A. A candidates list shall not participate in elections to the Congress and a person shall not be a candidate for election to the Congress if the goals or actions of the list or the actions of the person, expressly or by implication, include one of the following: (…) (1) negation of the existence of the United States of America as a Christian and democratic state; (…)”[11]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_and_democratic_state
That is how the Israeli Declaration of Independence is worded, with 3 changes, replacing United States of America with Israel, Congress for the Knesset, & Christian with Jewish.
The Gantz/Lapid Israeli Resilience Party appears to be nothing more than a game of linguistic and mental gymnastics.
Not exactly skilled in mathematics or geography is the only obvious conclusion that one can arrive at in the proclamation that any Jew has a right to return to Israel, and that Israel is the home of all Jews.
Sorry, but I have to add further evidence to the mathematically challenged allegation. Exhibit B. is the fractional reserve system of a ratio of 1/10 developed by the Jewish gold smiths.
Strange, or not so, that not a single word was said about, not a single expression of outrage at the vandalizing (smashed statues, knocked down tabernacles, scattered or destroyed the Eucharist, burnt altar cloths and torn down crosses, among other acts of desecration of religious items (drawing crosses on the wall with excrement) of 10 Catholic Churches since the beginning of February, neither by the ‘Abrahamic’ brothers, nor by the supposedly admirer of Nazi-era France, Macron, nor, of course, by the Holy Secular Empire.
First law of the Church of ‘Antisemitism’, Inc.- only Jewish suffering counts.
Ano on February 23, 2019 · at 8:03 pm EST/EDT
The attack on that cemetery was clearly made up, the timing is very “coincidental”.
We can’t be certain, but it is suspicious, particularly given numerous such false-flag attacks in the past. If deliberate, it is despicable, but one of Zionazism’s many Rightist ‘friends’ is, in my opinion, the prime suspect.
Biztosan Biztos on March 01, 2019 · at 7:21 am EST/EDT
The “crisis” initiated with Finkelkraut being “insulted” is not about making antizionism illegal. I mean: sure, they really want that, but there is more. Since the Sarkozy era, zionism became the relay to overcome questions about wealth sharing with a wide range of fabricated problems involving muslims. Sure, arab muslims have been instrumented to dismay social cohesion in France since the first immigration wave of the 60’s, but during Sarkozy’s presidential term the zionists were put on a highway for spreading hysteria.
Then something went wrong with the Yellow Jackets. They don’t care about muslims, bringing the fundamental debate about the rich against the poor back to the public space. The zionists are litterally panicking because it will become obvious that their services are no longer needed so they are resorting to the big gun of antisemitism, not caring how it could backfire but this is another story.
While being initially just a doctrine, zionism has turned to an integrated service for governements and the related wealthiest elite to gag or bamboozle political opponents. Services include low-intensity political noise, stupid debates for wasting everybody’s time and brainpower, and high-intensity events as terror attacks.
Offering such political service helped zionists to get a huge stake on medias. French medias now relay the most blatant zionist propaganda, with an impressive lack of fear of being ridiculous. During Sarkozy second campaign in 2007 they talked during one full month about slaughter of cattle according to Muslim rites. The only debate was: isn’t cutting still-alive animal’s throat too cruel? Employment, European Union, education, energy, all forgotten. Sarkozy did not get reelected, but people did not stop buying media, which can be seen as a zionist victory.
Sure, there is no formal proof that bad-mouthing muslims is zionist’s work. But given a serie of events or actions all pushing in the same direction, to which extent can they be unrelated? This is the same for terrorism. Since 9/11 every terrorist affair has been crippled with strange facts that make secret services or governement suspicious. My favourite one is the Charlie affair, with the strange suicide of one cop remaining completely unmentioned by national French medias. The total non-respect of official air defence procedures during 9/11 is another subject of amazement. When medias forget to mention obviously suspicious facts, this becomes even more suspicious! Especially when those attacks give a good reason for bombing some country that Israel considers hostile. No doubt that attack of Irak in 2003 could not have happened without 9/11-induced hysteria; for the Charlie affair it is less known that weeks later, French Parliament changed its mind, and decided to send forces to “fight terrorism” in Syria.
While zionists obviously take benefit of such attacks, does it necessarily mean they are part of them? At this point we must have a closer look at the ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia. The latter is a feudal monarchy with families of nomad brigands becoming the most wealthiest people in the world in less than a century. So they did what everybody would: they went nuts, pooing in solid gold toilets and killing demonstrators. What is the likeliness of such a regime of morons surviving more than a few months without foreign help? Zero. How can they openly finance fanatic islamism without the benediction of their supporters? Well this is how the same as asking: how can every perpetrator of terror attack be “well known by French (or UK, or US) secret services”? Of course those terror attacks give a good reason to vote “anti-terrorism” laws that can be used against political opponents.
If the idea of NATO countries supporting criminal activities through Saudi terrorism seems a bit far-fetched, think about the Islamic State. Even the zionist press does not trie to dissimulate the involvment of Saudi Arabia, while avoiding the question of what NATO could have done to prevent that. Furthermore, the Islamic State never took a blast against Israel, only killing Arabs, and destroying Arab cultural legacy. Yemen is another case of Saudi’s mass-murderings remaining unpunished.
With its world-class counter-insurrection industrie (the result of decades of experience in Palestine) and its geographical proximity, Israel is the most qualified to prevent a revolution dethroning the Saudi princes. While the ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia were kept secret and labelled “unthinkable” for years, they started to be public in 2018 (not mentioning intelligence or military aspects, though).
Another benefit for Israel is the “raise of antisemitic events” which is supposed to make french Jews migrate to Israel, which desperatly needs more Jews to populate the colonies. While most of those events are fabricated (like the non-event of Finkelkraut yelled at) they contribute to the hysterical climate helping to dissimulate other important political facts.
So at this point, using only well-known facts (which zionist and alternative media agree on) we have identified a set of events that make no sense, and usually receive no logical explaination. We have built a consistent one with Israel selling an integrated service social control based on muslim-bashing, ranging from everyday hysteria to spreading terrorism, financed by Saudi money.
Of course such a service has a huge cost for its “subscribers”. One is the price tag of attacks of Arab countries by NATO countries. Another one is the loss of markets for French industries. For example, some alternative media mentioned that Peugeot, the French car manufacturer, fired a third of his employees because of the “sanctions” targetting Iran.
At this point, Yellow Jackets created a kind of “service disruption” in zionism-fueled social control. In France there are a lot of rich families who are not ready to pay the financial and political price of zionist dominance if they get nothing in return. As anybody, zionist have only the power that is given to them. Their will to silence Yellow Jackets by calling them “antisemitic” could raise a disturbing question: “Why is debating about wealth sharing antisemitic?” Sadly, almost all non-zionist Jews do not dare to openly dismiss their support to their zionist comrades, who are not afraid to put the whole Jew community on a collision course with the rest of French people.
You nailed it with your observation, ‘Why is discussing wealth-sharing ‘antisemitic’?’ That is the very essence of ‘antisemitism’, the open, honest and non-moronic discussion of Jewish elite financial and other wealth and power under neo-liberal capitalism and US global hegemony. Anyone who dares raise those facts will be attacked as an ‘antisemite’, as Corbyn has been for his ‘Leftwing policies’, defined and denounced as ‘antisemitic’ by one careless and bladder-mouthed UK Jewish grandee as the hysteria got the better of him. As Milton Friedman hissed, ‘Capitalism is good for the Jews’, where he means ‘good for the Jewish elites’, not all Jews (Israel is the second most unequal state in the OECD, even among the Jews, after its obedient ‘friend’, the USA)and most certainly not good, but very bad indeed, for the goyim, save the well-behaved Sabbat Goy stooges.
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Three explosions target Shiite shrine in Kabul: Afghan official
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Hospital staff members carry a wounded victim on stretcher to emergency ward in Kabul, Thursday, March 21, 2019. (Reuters)
An Afghan police officer inspects vehicles at a checkpoint in Kabul. (Reuters)
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KABUL: Multiple explosions in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday killed six people and wounded 23 in an attack during celebrations to mark the Persian new year, government spokesmen said.
The attacks came on Nowruz, an ancient Persian festival to mark the start of spring that is widely celebrated in many parts of Afghanistan but has also faced opposition from some hard-line Islamists, who say it is un-Islamic.
There were conflicting reports about of the cause of the blasts near the Kart-e Sakhi shrine, in a heavily Shiite Muslim area in the west of Kabul.
An interior ministry spokesman said mortar bombs had been fired. The defense ministry said in a post on twitter that three rockets were fired at civilian homes and Nowruz gatherings.
The defense ministry said police had arrested the attacker and secured the area.
Topics: Afghanistan Kabul
One dead in rocket attack on political gathering in Kabul
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November 10th-Regional title unification at Light Middleweight!
There's quite a lot of title action this coming Friday with title fights in both Japan and the Philippines. Of those two shoes it's the Japanese card that looks the much better show.
The most significant bout on the card sees Japanese Light Middleweight champion Takeshi Inoue (11-0-1, 6) challenge OPBF champion Ratchasi Sithsaithong (9-3, 7), in a bout which will see the winner also claim the WBO Asia Pacific title. On paper it looks like a bout where Inoue should be favoured, and in all honesty if he wins he could be regarded as the Japanese break out fighter of the year, but Ratchasi is no mug. Coming into this Ratchasi has scored 3 wins in a row against Japanese fighters, including a 12th round TKO of Yutaka Oishi and an 11th round TKO of Jumbo Oda Nobunaga Shoten Petagine, who subsequently retired. Whilst Inoue has had a great year a win for Ratchasi would see him going 3-0 in Japan and have a very legitimate claim to being the best 154lb fighter in Asia.
Although the bout above is the biggest bout of the card it's technically not the main event. Instead that will be a Japanese Flyweight title bout between defending champion Masayuki Kuroda (27-7-3, 15) and the limited but entertaining Mako Matsuyama (8-12-2, 3). The bout will be Kuroda's first defense of the title he won earlier this year, when he beat Takuya Kogawa, to become a 2-weight Japanese champion. Matsuyama is best known for his 2014 FOTY contender against Rex Tso, though has some how gotten this title shot having won just once in his last 7 bouts. Kuroda should easily retain his title here if we're being honest, but this should be a fun fight all the same.
A third title bout will see former world champions collide, with Naoko Shibata (17-4-1, 6) and Etsuko Tada (16-3-2, 5) facing off for the WBO Asia Pacific female Minimumweight title. These two fought back in September 2012, with Tada defeating Shibata to retain the WBA female Minimumweight title. Since then both women have held IBF titles, with Tada holding one at 105lbs and Shibata at 108lbs. Since there first bout Tada has gone 5-3 whilst Shibata has gone 8-3-1 but both have been fighting at the top level and know that a win here will help them remain relevant, whilst a loss could end their career as a world class fighter.
The only bout of note from the under-card sees the big punching Kazuto Nakane (8-2, 8) take on former Kuroda opponent Yuta Matsuo (12-3-1, 6), in what could be an entertaining lower tier scrap. Nakane has fought at a lower level, but has show natural power and is the bigger man, whilst Maysuo is more tested man, having shared the ring with Kuroda, Ardin Diale and Ryuto Oho. This is arguably the most well matched bout on the card, despite no title being on the line.
Palawan, Philippines
There is also a show in the Philippines full of title bouts, though if we're being honest it's not the most attractive of shows, despite 4 “title bouts”.
The most interesting looking title bout will see the once beaten Carlo Caesar Penalosa (9-1, 3) take on Salatiel Amit (10-3-2, 7) for the WBC Asian Boxing Council Silver Super Flyweight title. Neither man is very well known, even in Filipino boxing circles, but Penalosa is notable not just for his famous surname but also the fact he's one of the few to stop tough journeyman Vincent Bautista. As for Amit he's best known for losing to notable opponents, suffering losses to Jade Bornea, Jonathan Taconing and Froilan Saludar, though should prove to be a very solid opponent for Penalosa here.
In an interim OPBF Featherweight title fight we'll see Venezuelan Omrri Bolivar (5-0, 3) take on Filipino Jelbirt Gomera (12-4, 6), in a bout that makes very little sense. The OPBF champion, Satoshi Shimizu, won the full title in October and he's not injured, Bolivar isn't from the OPBF region and Gomera has lost his last 3. For the OPBF to sanction this bout is a mystery and really beggars belief. The one positive is that Bolivar will find himself involved in more notable bouts going forward, after he beats Gomera, and we'd quite like a Bolivar Vs Shimizu bout in 2018.
One actual "full" OPBF title bout will see Yuko Henzan (5-6-3, 2) take on Kongsang Palum (2-3, 1) in a bout for the OPBF female Bantamweight title. It's fair to say that this isn't a very attractive bout given the limited records of both fighters, but given that both fighters are limited the bout at least be relatively competitive. Coming in Henzan has won her last 3, and is unbeaten in her last 4, but has faced limited foes in that run. As for Palum she has never scored a win over a fighter with a positive record.
In another female title bout we'll see former world title challenger Erika Hanawa (7-1, 2) take on Thai foe Sornsawan Sarakarngym (2-4, 1) for the OPBF interim Female Minimumweight title. Last time out we saw Hanawa lose to Japanese veteran Kayoko Ebata, in a bout that showed up Hanawa's limitations at that point, but it's hard to see anything but a win for her here. The Thai has been stopped in 3of her losses, including the aforementioned Ebata, and we wouldn't be shocked to see her being stopped again here.
In Australia we'll see a notable Filipino and a novice Indonesian.
The Filipino in action is the world class Randy Petalcorin (27-2-1, 20), who returns to Australia for his first bout in the country since his controversial loss to Omari Kimweri in 2016. The talented Filipino will be up against faltering Indonesian Oscar Raknafa (13-15, 5), who was once world ranked but has gone 2-12 in his last 14 bouts and is now essentially a record padder on the Asian scene.
In the other bout on the card we'll see Daniel Huculak (1-0, 1) take on Indonesian novice Mujiyono (0-1). It's hard to say much about these two, but Huculak won his debut with an opening round stoppage and it's clear that he will be favoured here.
May 13th-Muranaka faces Yafai on packed day!
West Midlands, United Kingdom
This coming Saturday is a pretty notable day for Asian fight fans, with the most notable bout coming in the UK as Englishman Khalid Yafai (21-0, 14) defends his WBA Super Flyweight title against Japanese challenger Suguru Muranaka (25-2-1, 8). The unbeaten champion won the title last year, when he outpointed Luis Concepcion, and will be making his first defense here. The champion will be strongly favoured here but Muranaka is unbeaten in over a decade and has beaten notable fighters like Takuya Kogawa, Masayuki Kuroda and Hiroyuki Hisataka. This could be a very exciting bout, despite the general view of it being a mismatch in favour of Yafai.
In Hong Kong we'll see DEF Boxing put on a show, featuring a number of talented fighters from across Asia, including a number of genuinely notable fighters.
The main will see OPBF female Super Bantamweight champion Ayumi Goto (6-0, 4) battle against Thai foe Sumanthar Baenkham (1-2), in what looks set to be a total mismatch. Goto won't be defending her title here but her appeal as a championship level draw has helped her get a major spot on this card, and seemingly help begin a working relationship between DEF boxing and Goto's promoter Watanabe.
Another Watanabe gym fighter on this card will be Mako Matsuyama (8-11-2, 3), who famously had a 2014 FOTY contender with DEF's star Rex Tso. The limited but fun to watch Matsuyama will be up against Filipino foe Crison Omayao (21-13-4, 7). On paper this has the potential to be something very, very fun. Neither guy is great but both are exciting and together they should make for a very fan friendly contest here.
Another notable name on this card is the teak tough Takuya Watanabe (31-7-1, 16), who is a former WBO Asia Pacific Super Featherweight champion. The tough Watanabe, best known for his bloody war with Jaesung Lee, will be fighting in Hong Kong for the second time and will be strongly favoured to beat Thai puncher Tabthong Tor Buamas (15-6, 12), in a bout scheduled for 8 rounds. Another bout where a Japanese fighter will be favoured against a Thai will feature the once beaten Sho Kimura (13-1-2, 6), who faces off with Suphakit Khampha (6-3, 3) in another bout scheduled for 8 rounds.
Australian Capital Territory, Australia
In Australia fight fans will see Felipe Ferreira (5-2, 2) take on Australian based Indonesian trial horse Aswin Cabuy (19-60-4, 7) in a bout for the New South Wales State Super Middleweight title. The 42 year old Cabuy is unlikely to pick up the win here but rarely does he just lie down and he could give Ferreira a good test here.
December 8th-Ken Shiro and Masuda look to defend titles! King Tug also in also!
This key show this weekend for Asian fight fans comes from the Korakuen Hall where we get two title bouts.
In the main event we'll see Japanese youngster Ken Shiro (8-0, 4) make his first defense of the OPBF Light Flyweight title as he takes on Filipino foe Lester Abutan (11-5-3, 5), and attempts to take another step towards a world title fight. The Japanese youngster, who has claimed the WBC Youth, Japanese and WBC Youth titles already in his career, will know that a loss will be a major set back in his climb towards a shot at a world title, but that a win will put further pressure on the divisional champions to face him. For Abutan the bout will be his Japanese debut, though he has performed well in his two bouts away from the Philippines and could be a genuine banana skin for Ken Shiro, if he's on form here.
The other title bout on this show will see Japanese Bantamweight champion Kentaro Masuda (25-7, 13) face first time challenger Satoshi Ozawa (13-6-1, 2). On paper this is a big step up for Ozawa however the 29 year old challenger is on a 4 fight winning streak, including 2 solid wins over Yoshihikp Matsuo, and has been making a mark at Super Bantamweight over the last 18 month or so. For Masuda the bout will be his second defense of his second reign and could open the doors to a potential rematch with Tatsuya Takahashi next year, if he wins here and Takahashi wins in January, which we would love to see!
A really fan friendly bout will see the once beaten Katsunori Nagamine (12-1, 8) face off with the limited but gutsy Mako Matsuyama (8-10-2, 3). Nagamine was in one of the most intensely fun fights of the year, his win over Kenya Yamashita back in February. Whilst Nagamine is certainly a fun and aggressive fighter it's fair to say that Matsuyama's 2014 bout with Rex Tso, an insane war in Macau, was a better bout and with these two getting it on we're expecting to see something very special.
Another under-card bout will see Jin Miura (8-1, 1) battle against Naoaki Kumagai (7-5, 4). The light hitting Miura does look like the favourite here but has struggled in a number of his wins and could well be given a really good test here by Kumagai, who is a very under-rated fighter. Although he has lost his last 3 Kumagai has mixed in good company and could be a banana skin for Miura.
As part of the under-card we'll also see the debut of Ryo Sagawa (0-0), who takes on Korean foe Ho Ya Kim (4-4, 2). Sagawa was a former amateur standout and is tipped for big things, kicking off his career in a 6 rounder here. Kim will be fighting in Japan for the second time, following a loss to Ryuya Kaji earlier this year, and may come into this with the belief of scoring a win on Japanese soil, though will have to put in a career best performance against Sagawa to even be competitive.
In California we'll see fast rising Mongolian Tugstsogt Nyambayar (6-0, 6) take on veteran fighter German Meraz (55-39-1, 32) in what looks like a step up for Nyambayar. Merez, a real veteran with more than 90 fights under his belt, is a proven tough guy who has only lost by stoppage 7 times in his long career. Nyambayar has never been extended beyond 4 rounds and this is, potentially, set to be his toughest and longest bout to date. If the Mongolian can blow away Meraz in quick fashion it could time to put him in with the divisional wolves, rather than continue to slowly develop the Mongolian monster.
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American Epiphany
Never underestimate the power of one good film.
American Epiphany is a decisive, coordinated plan to help our young people focus on our forefathers’ vision and show them through media, especially film, how Americans are achieving personal success through those values today.
As we move firmly into 2011, independent predictions increasingly support the vision of American Epiphany™ (AE). It is a vision to promote inspiring story writing and give it maximum exposure to multiple audiences through various media platforms as a key strategy to educating our young people on “American exceptionalism.”
A recent article “Ten Filmmaking Trends of 2011” by Filmmaking Central underscores the growing access to media tools that allow opportunities for Americans from all walks of life to create compelling stories and get them in front of audiences and help change our culture.
The trends are unmistakable: a burgeoning movement toward internet video and television, an increasing affordability of digital technology, and an ever-growing consumer market and its surging demand for local, quality content:
1. Online TV goes Mainstream
2011 marks a shift set into motion last year with streaming Netflix and improvements in Apple TV, followed in 2011 by Google TV and many numerous new online TV and movie outlets. Capturing eyeballs for the independent filmmaker has never seen such a potentially large development.
2. Mobile computing and pads hit their stride.
In conjunction with the advancements that have made online TV and streaming video possible, in 2011 4G phones go mainstream. Android and blackberry pads are coming and these along with Apple I-pads, Kindles and Nooks beefed up with internal capabilities and color brings video to millions for far less money and bulk than the typical laptop. Moreover, all these mobile devices are attached to consumers who are accustomed to paying for their content and services.
Unlike desktop applications where users are accustomed to free content mobile devices come with a greater readiness to pay. This combined with the similar pay for content model associated with Netflix and cable TV and the merging of computers, digital televisions and personal game systems bring the independent filmmaker viewers and access to capital at a time when the technological barriers to film making are the lowest that they have ever been. This does not mean that every Youtube aficionado becomes a superstar because there is always that simple barrier to entry, quality content.
3. Story telling is King
2011 also marks the continuation of another trend, a thirst for quality content. Independent filmmakers have always excelled in this realm. Ironically, in our increasingly fast paced digitized world filled with stimulus people are thirsty for good stories more than ever. This may be a need in bad economic times to escape into a cinematic experience or a realization that they are bored with the mindless bombardment of chatter.
4. Think, Go Local.
Groupon is adding approximately one million new members a month. Why? Creative, quirky writers are steering the Groupon ship and secondly Groupon has touched a broader nerve. In an increasingly digitized, connected world people are thirsty for distinctive, localized content. Again this a realm Independent Film has quietly inhabited for years. Localized and selected subjects are already popular. Think of Indie films. 2011 sees localized Independents blossoming. “Go Local” extends beyond produce.
AE’s plan is to provide residencies for emerging writers to allow them to create inspiring stories that are in such high demand today:
…Every organization and brand has a lot of personal stories to tell…The ones who tell them really well are the ones who end up winning online and in social media because people can build a personal connection to them. It all stems from the fact that people don’t really want relationships with brands, they want relationships with other people… Story telling is the un-tapped gold mine of marketing. ~~Rich Nadworny/Digalicious.com
American Epiphany is in essence a plan to market the wonders that are America and its Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution that have made it unique in world history. We envision an eventual center located in Virginia that provides access to high tech tools and training to develop stories in various media formats. Tools that will help level the playing field for independent and emerging writers and related creative talents to expedite quality film and video production.
At the same time, AE’s mission will also provide a trained workforce in several important areas of filmmaking and production—a valuable lure to bring filmmaking to Virginia. These hi-tech skills can also be used to market the state’s massive historical and natural resources which cannot be found anywhere else. (APM)
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ELEGANCE OF ENTROPY
New Works By Jim Miner
Musical Performance By Heat City
8pm 'till late
Runs Through April 1
1038 Larkin St, SF, CA
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening of ELEGANCE OF ENTROPY. Below are photographs & information about works displayed from the exhibition.
For all inquiries/acquisitions please contact: takashi@analogtattoo.com
In this virtually empty & inhospitable universe where anything that does live will, after a beautifully brutish moment in time break down & disappear, we have a unique opportunity to understand & appreciate the beauty of the world around us. Even in the chaos of an indifferent existence, beautiful things exist so they can be witnessed and interpreted by the viewer.
Jim Miner, an integral member of the Analog Tattoo Arts Kolectiv, has been a practicing tattooer for over seventeen years, the last ten of which has found him further integrating decorative & ornamental themes into his work, adding layer upon layer of beauty to tried & true designs. Jim is also an accomplished musician & his ability to combine musical & visual influences is immediately apparent to anyone familiar with his body of work.
Inspired by Baroque & Victorian decorative styles, nature, travel & music, Jim's works in watercolor & acrylic incorporate themes from the world of tattooing, attempting to elevate the visual & metaphorical imagery to another level of elegance. As Jim puts it "making things beautiful for no reason". A simple reflection of the world itself, before this cycle ends & moves on to another state.
In addition to Jim's original works, a selection of his limited edition prints will be available opening night. Heat City will also perform during the evening.
For all inquiries please contact: takashi@analogtattoo.com
photo by: Max Dolberg
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Sean’s Top 10 Anime of 2012
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by Sean
Holy cow a blog update from Reaf, and one from me, on the same day? What madness is this.
Anyway, I’ve been holding off on doing a proper “top ten” entry for a while. A bunch of shows I’ve been watching since Autumn are only now coming to a close, and its fairer to judge them now they’ve ended than in January when they’re only halfway done. So hit the jump to behold my top ten best anime series of 2012. Small disclaimer that there’s still a ton of stuff I’ve not watched, so if your favourite isn’t there, might well be I’ve not had the chance to watch it yet. You’ll also notice a lack of anything Anicom showed in their best of 2012 session. No idea why.
Poor Hibiki. Heading to her first live concert, she can only watch on powerless as the Noise, a weird alien race, assault the event. But fear not, the two singers of Zwei Wing can wield armour to fight bac-oh one of them just died.
So begins Symphogear. Through the power of song, girls wield the titular armour allowing them and only them to combat the Noise and save the world, who exist and are attacking for reasons never really explained much.
Let me put it this way, this show isn’t going to win awards for its storytelling or characters (only a few even really stuck in my mind as memorable, and one of those is the episode one casualty), but if you can switch off from that and let yourself enjoy the music and fights, it’s not too bad. Just remember to listen when the villan explains their reasoning for what they’re doing, its… unique, to say the least…
If you’ve actually heard of Ozma (or Ozuma), plus points for you. Written by Leiji Matsumoto, the guy who did amongst others, Space Battleship Yamamoto, Captain Harlock, and more recently Interstella 5555, this series seemed to fly under the radar in impressive style. Heck, if I’d not seen a random review of it by chance in Summer, I would’ve missed it too.
Set on a future Earth where events have led the planet to be covered in sand, a group of pirates is chasing the giant sand whale, Ozma, before they bump into the runaway girl Maya. Before you know it, they’re on the run, which involves some superb undersand combat (by which I mean actual tactics are involved, not just blast missiles everywhere and believe in yourself because that’ll get you through fine).
Combine that with a 90s esque style of character design and animation (they have noses, goddamn), and some interesting environmental themes in the background, and you’ve got yourself a pretty cool show, and at only 6 eps you could watch this all in hours. It doesn’t do a lot, but what it does is well thought out and superbly executed.
Ah, Kyoto Animation, the ultimate love them or hate them studio or modern animation. Responsible for a slew of popular shows including Lucky Star, Haruhi and K-On, these guys know how to make money by the barrel full. This story, like so many of theirs, revolves around a highschool club, whom… no, its not a harem show, don’t worry.
Anyway, the four of them, led by Houtarou, a man who’s philosophy in life is to always expend the least energy possible in anything he does, ends up getting dragged around by Chitanda to solve numerous weird mysteries from around the school, all to sate her curiosity.
That probably sounds bland, but the tangents they go on along with interesting characters and mysteries make for some intriguing resolutions, and KyoAni’s usual flare is always on display. Sadly, the series does seem to self-indulge a bit too much at times, especially with the two-pronged cultural festival arc which drags on and on, leaving little time for any meaningful conclusion at the end, giving the climax a disjointed feel. An enjoyable show, but one I wish that had done more with what it had.
KyoAni’s other 2012 show, this one was much more of a love it or hate it affair. I imagine a lot of it comes down to how well you can relate to the cast and their antics. I could, so loved this show. Others didn’t, and saw it as the usual KyoAni moeblob rubbish.
But to me, it was weirdly endearing. The adventures of the Dark Flame Master, the Tyrant’s Eye and company reminded me of some parts of my childhood, and watching their imaginary world collide with the real world made for some brilliant comedy in both the first half and the accompanying ONA series.
What I didn’t see coming was the relationship focused second half, and by that I mean there actually was a relationship, not the usual modern anime thing of implying it but never going anywhere with it. Sadly the ending was a little jarring, a forced resolution to what’d been a great show up to that point. If your inner child’s still alive and well, you’ll probably get a kick out of this, but if the thought of KyoAni is sickening, best to be avoided.
What do you get when you combine Tempest and Hamlet and make the result an anime series? This show right here. With people of the world metalising, our two male leads, brought together by the death of their close friend, team up with a mage stuck on an island to save the world from the Tree of Exodus, using the magic of the Tree of Genesis to help.
Weirdly enough, this show doesn’t then turn into a battle of the week shonen, instead utilising a great plot and storytelling combined with great characters, each with individual motivations, with an enthralling end result.
The only main problem is that to get this story across takes the show forever. You won’t notice it as you watch it, but when you look back you’ll wonder why it took so many episodes to essentially resolve one discussion. This gets worse in the second half where the pace eases up a lot, creating a lull where little actually happens until the final few episodes. Despite that though, it’s definitely worth a watch, whether you’re a fan of Shakespeare or not.
Into the top five, with shonen supershow Magi. I haven’t enjoyed a shonen this much since I saw Soul Eater. Nicking the setting and names of Arabian Nights, Magi follows the adventures of Magi Aladdin and slave Alibaba as they try to save the world from being thrown into chaos and conquered by the Kou Empire and other more sinister enemies.
The unique setting went someway to helping this stand out, but its the cast of characters that work wonders for this series. There’s not a simple dull, bland or boring person among them, and they rarely fall back on tropes either. Add in usually great animation (although with A-1 being so busy there’s the odd noticeable drop), and a good, if drawn out, plot, and by the end you’ll be wishing it was a long-running show instead of only 25 episodes.
How to describe Kyousogiga. Well, it’s certainly the weirdest show in this list, and the only non-TV one too. The best comparison I can think of is FLCL.
Except unlike that show, this story is more about the world than the characters. Over the 6 episodes (first was done in late 2011, then five more in the Autumn just gone), you get glimpses of the day-to-day lives of the people who inhabit said world, and the events that happen there. The total runtime of the thing is about an hour, and honestly… I’d struggle to describe it, it’s better to just watch.
What I can say, is that this thing radiates fun. The characters, the world, the stories, it’ll all leave you with an unexplainable goofy grin on your face, and a craving for more when it’s over. And I genuinely hope there is more to come in the future, as this world is just too intriguing to be left be. Please make it so Toei.
If I’d wrote this list a few months back, at the end of 2012, this’d be the show at numero uno. Revolving around the short, fat and bullied Haruyuki, one day he finds out he’s been beaten at in essence his favourite Second Life game, and from there is dragged into the accelerated world and a whole new lifestyle by school princess Kuroyukihime (not revealing her real name is something the show loves doing).
In this new world its survival of the fittest, as the players all have avatars based upon whatever trauma they’ve endured in life, as he helps his clan in the hopes of reaching Level 10 and meeting the creator of the Brain Burst application that runs Accel World.
I’ve probably made that sound like a generic shounen / mech combo, but this is so much more than that thanks to near flawless execution. Good writing, interesting characters (when was the last time you watched a show with a fat midget leading), and nice animation, this never really had a dull moment, and even caught you off guard from time to time with some great twists. Battles were fun to watch and not always quite as easy to second-guess as you might think, and the darker second half impacting their real world lives took this show to another level.
But as I said, that was my favourite then, three months ago. Then these two came along.
Set in a future where the emergence of psychic powers in some of the populace endangered and eradicated most of humanity, forcing the remainder to strictly control the powers called Cantus to ensure the survival of themselves as a species, Shinsekai Yori follows the lives of a pod of six schoolchildren as they mature, coming to grips with their powers, and the dark and unknown history of the world in which they live.
As they grow up (and that’s actual growing up, they go from 14 to 36 over the course of the show), they encounter queerats, tainted cats and other, more sinister species, including the elders who always seem to have weird agendas. fascinating to watch unfold, in part due to the superbly detailed and realised world and backstory, leagues above most other shows, this is simply epic from beginning to end. I won’t spoil what happens over the course of the show as that’d detract a fair bit from watching it unravel and theorising for yourself, so let me just end this by saying Shinsekai Yori now proudly sits in my top five anime of all time.
In any other year, this would easily have been the best by a mile. But this wasn’t any other year.
Ha, as if. Mocking SAO never gets old.
Okay, for real this time.
I recently learned this was written by the same guy who did Madoka and Fate/Zero. Which made me all the more surprised at just how much I loved this.
People who’ve watched Minority Report or Ghost in the Shell will be fairly familiar with the setting. A future Tokyo, cut off from the rest of the world, where the populace’s mentality and likelihood to commit crime can be monitored, allowing the police and companies to act before problems occur. The story mainly revolves around new to the job Detective Akane and her colleagues, including Enforcer Kounami, judged a latent criminal by the system but whom is allowed to be a hunting dog for the police in exchange for a life outside of prison.
Questioning whether you can, and whether its right, to perfectly pre-emptively judge criminals, and what happens to that system when it encounters people it can’t judge, such as the villain of the show, Makashima, this thrilled, shocked and awed from beginning to end. Superb characters, superb animation, superb plot, superb soundtrack, superb… everything.
One of the strongest recommendations you can give not just to anime but any media is when you’d recommend it to people who normally don’t care about them, and Psycho-Pass earned that distinction. A standout show in a strong year for anime, this deserves its place as Anime of the Year, in my eyes anyway.
Should mention in closing though that there’s still a ton of shows from 2012 that I need to watch. Stuff like Another, Lupin III, Kids on the Slope, Moyashimon Returns, Tsuritama, Space Bros and more besides, so who knows, maybe if I was to write this list in another year it’d be different again. That’s how it stands now though with 2012 a fading memory.
Next time, I’ll look at the best the recent Winter 2013 lineup had to offer.
(chosen by Laura)
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<< Edge of Evolution | First Something >>
by Brian 11. September 2010 23:31
The combination of ABC’s Nick Watt and master physicist Stephen Hawking the other night was about as disappointing as it gets within mainstream television news. I’ve witnessed a pattern on ABC going back to Peter Jennings. They appear to have an anti-religious and especially an anti-Christian agenda – perhaps fodder for a future post. We see evidence of this once again, just a few months after a similarly specious interview. As for Stephen Hawking's latest comments, I respectfully suggest he is looking to go out with a big bang of controversy or his mind is quickly approaching maximum entropy. Hawking has coauthored a soon-to-be-released book with Leonard Mlodinow called The Grand Design and makes some astonishing, if not outlandish statements – such as:
"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going…because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.”
Oh Really? What happened to the 2500 year-old metaphysical principle of ex nihilo nihil fit (from nothing, nothing comes) and what is this new theory conveniently called spontaneous creation? Did Hawking discover something recently to wipe away one of the surest and most fundamental axioms of ontology? Of course not! I heard nothing mentioned in Nick’s interview or any other news save for the dubious M-theory which has been around for years. Nick Watt even sums up his piece with Hawking by saying “It may take years, generations, centuries perhaps, for scientists to test Hawking’s theory that our world was created by physics alone.” That hardly sounds convincing. Hawking most likely; and other proponents commenting on this topic most certainly; offer nothing more than a thought experiment. Real nothingness remains impotent.
Hawking appears to be offering the metascientific idea of a First Law preceding the universe. But this is fraught with problems. First of all, scientists ought to reject ad hoc or prodigal explanations that cannot be verified – whether we speak of multiverses, mother-universes or Physics as a first-cause. Second, an ontologically-prior Law spontaneously generating a rich, complex and fine-tuned universe suitable for conscious life is so pregnant with telic implication one can only be disingenuous to offer the idea within a naturalistic framework. This may be why Hawking also throws out Einsteinian versions of God like Intelligence or Sagan’s Cosmos. If we just capitalize the first letter then all is well. It reminds me of scientists who recognize the mathematical difficulties of abiogenesis on Earth, so they push the problem further into space by suggesting life on Earth was seeded. Same deal here…heaven forbid the first-cause is God, so let’s suggest Physics instead. It used to be God or the Universe as the eternal Alpha. Now we know the universe began to exist, so Hawking leaves us with the choices of God or Physics - and he chooses Physics. Deconstructing what is really going on here...
Hawking, just prior to the release of his new book, joins the irreligious team at ABC to offer a few teasers from his forthcoming bestseller. Robin of ABC introduces Hawking as the physicist who “has been called the smartest man in the world.” Nick goes on to refer to Hawking as “our world’s most famous scientist,” obviously referring to ‘living’ scientist. Nick says, “Hawking has no need for God.” Hawking says, “God is unnecessary,” and “there was no hand of God” at the beginning. He goes on to say, “The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator. “ So, according to the master scientist, the universe began to exist for no other reason and by no other cause than…wait for it…wait for it…Physics! Nick smiles looking forward to a few beers with his infidels.org buddies and Hawking smiles because he's in the limelight and book sales are promising.
All joking aside, allow me to conclude with the facts all sides of the debate should be able to agree upon:
1. Nothing substantive has been offered as an explanation for Hawking’s new pronouncement. Yet ABC promotes spontaneous self-creation and the non-necessity of God as if it were the sort of thing smart physicists believe.
2. Even if Hawking does lay out a theory of everything where the universe creates itself out of nothing, it’s unlikely to be confirmed by science. More likely; what will be offered by Hawking, if anything, will be a metaphysical principle, and will need to be dealt with by philosophers of whom Hawking is hardly qualified.
3. The idea of simply capitalizing the first letter of physics, laws of nature, gravity, etc., offers no explanation whatsoever as to the first cause of the universe. Something more has to be offered and by Hawking’s own self-imposed standard for truth, a scientific explanation - one that is verifiable and falsifiable. Of course neither of which is likely considering we are talking about a 13.7 billion year old singularity.
Supporting links:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1308599/Stephen-Hawking-wrong-You-explain-universe-God.html
http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5887
Tags: Hawking, ABC news, Nick Watt, m-theory
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First solar sibling discovered
Friday, 9 May 2014 Stuart Gary
There's a 'small, but not zero' chance that some solar sibling stars could host planets that harbour life (Source: Logray-2008/iStockphoto)
Stellar diamond points to Sun's fate, Science Online, 07 May 2014
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Hello neighbour A star born from the same molecular cloud as our Sun has been identified for the first time.
The discovery, to be reported in the Astrophysical Journal, will provide new clues about how and where the Sun was born.
The star, called HD 162826, is located 110 light years away in the constellation Hercules, according to the study's lead author, Dr Ivan Ramirez of the University of Texas in Austin.
"This star is a little bit bigger than the Sun, it's a little bit warmer on the surface, and obviously is the same age, because it was born at the same time," says Ramirez.
The Sun and its siblings all formed through the collapse of the same molecular gas and dust cloud 4.6 billion years ago, resulting in a cluster of stars that have since drifted apart.
The solar sibling was identified from 30 candidate stars that were all travelling around the galaxy along a similar path to the Sun.
"We did hundreds of simulations to determine not just how the stars are moving today, but by turning the clock back in time and using gravity dynamics, to see how they were moving in the past," says Ramirez.
The authors identified 23 stars for further study to compare their chemical composition with that of the Sun.
"In total we [looked at] about 20 elements, but after element 10 I started to realise that this star was special," says Ramirez.
Ramirez believes there's a "small, but not zero" chance that some solar sibling stars could host planets that harbour life.
"We can say that this star doesn't have a big hot Jupiter type massive planet orbiting very close to it, because previous searches for planets around this star haven't found any. But small planets like Earth are difficult to detect."
Collisions early in the solar system's history knocked fragments off planets, which could have travelled between sibling stellar systems, and perhaps even may have been responsible for bringing primitive life to Earth.
"So it could be argued that solar siblings are key candidates in the search for extraterrestrial life," says Ramirez.
The researchers plan on looking for more solar siblings to understand how stars have mixed as they orbit around the galaxy.
"One of the most important mechanisms for galaxy evolution is radial mixing," says Ramirez.
"Stars are born a certain distance from the centre of the galaxy, but in time some go closer while others go farther away, and the amount of that spread is crucial for understanding how galaxies evolve."
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LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH announces tour with Melechesh!
LA-based black metal artists, LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH, are emerging for a North American tour this June. They will be supporting Melechesh alongside Vreid and Reign of Lies. The tour begins on June 16th in LA at The Joint and will wrap up on June 30th in Brooklyn, NY.
LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH's "caustic yet otherworldly approach" (Decibel Magazine) has earned the band high praise from fans and press worldwide with their most recent album,Baphometic Chaosium. The band also recently released their first ever music video. The video for Baphometic Chaosium and was directed by co-founder and lead vocalist, Autarch (aka the metal illustrator, Farron Loathing). The project, which also marks Autarch's directorial debut, is the result of a partnership between Farron Loathing and Mortichrome Films. It is described by its creator as "a psycho-dramatic interpretation of the Mass of Chaos and the invocation of Baphomet as performed by a collective of ritual performance artists." Watch the video now atmetalblade.com/lightningswordsofdeath.
Tour w/ Melechesh, Vreid, Reign of Lies
06/16 Los Angeles, CA The Joint
06/17 San Francisco, CA DNA Lounge
06/18 Portland, OR Hawthorne
06/19 Seattle, WA Studio Seven
06/21 Edmonton, AB Pawn Shop
06/22 Regina, SK The Exchange
06/23 Winnipeg, MB The Zoo
06/24 St. Paul, MN Station 4
06/25 Joliet, IL Mojoe's
06/27 Toronto, ON WreckRoom
06/28 Montreal, QC Foufounes Electriques
06/29 Keene, NH Railroad Tavern
06/30 Brooklyn, NY Europa
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07/03 Kansas City, MO Riot Room
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India Centre in Cardiff saw the opening of the latest BAPIO division. This was very well attended by a large number of general practitioners, consultants and junior doctors. The division was inaugurated by Mrs and Dr Mathur a senior GP and Mrs. and Dr Sastry OBE a consultant in care of elderly.The meeting started with Saraswati prayer sung by Uma Geetanath. Other VIPs included Dr.HemantBolusani, Dr Dhawen Kumar, consultant Geneticist and a senior BAPIO member. Dr.Ramesh Mehta, BAPIO president, Dr Mathur (Affectionately knows as YB) lauded the work being done by BAPIO and Dr.NaharSoni . Dr Sastry in his address expressed his delight at BAPIO coming to Wales. He assured the audience that he would lead the division with energy and commitment.
There was a discussion session when Dr Mehta answered questions on various topics. Dr.Sajayan, member of the BAPIO’s Grand Advisory Council, who also attended the Launch said, “The enthusiasm and excitement amongst the junior doctors in particular was infectious”. Drs Soni and Bolusani organised the launch in an excellent manner and was well appreciated by all.
Mr Salahuddin congratulated the organisation for its achievements and expressed his heartfelt thanks for the invitation. He praised the work done by doctors from Indian Subcontinent for the Health Service. He was pleased that BAPIO is promoting the peace process between India and Pakistan. He said he is very keen that the peace process gets stronger and is happy to extend any help required.
BAPIO CONFERENCE IN WALES
The BAPIO Welsh division is one of the most active divisions in UK. This was initially launched in 2004, and then revived in 2010 under the leadership of Mr.Keshav Singhal and Dr. Hasmukh Shah in 2010. Since then the division has gone from strength to strength and has held three highly successful annual conferences with attendances exceeding 200 each time.
The annual conference of 2012 was a oversubscribed. The First Minister of Wales Rt. Hon Carwyn Jones was the Chief Guest and Mr. David Sissling, the Director General of Health Services of Wales was the Keynote Speaker. Speaking at the Banquet, Mr. Jones congratulated the Indian doctors on their long service to the Welsh people and hoped that the Indian doctors will continue to succeed in their chosen field and chosen country and provide sterling service to the Welsh NHS.
Dr Ramesh Mehta, President of BAPIO also congratulated the organising committee for a superbly organised and very successful conference. He thanked the caterers and entertainers for a wonderful banquet and commented that the award for best division awarded to the welshdivison at the Birmingham conference was very well deserved as was obvious to all the delegates from the quality of scientific content and the banquet.
Mr.Keshav Singhal and Dr Hasmukh Shah laid out their vision for the Welsh division and mentioned that they would act as a lobby group for Indian doctors and provide mentoring and networking opportunities to their members, in addition to supporting doctors in difficulty. They would also work constructively with NHS Wales in bringing cost effectiveness and savings for the NHS.
Officials for Welsh Division:
Dr Keshav Singhal, Chair
Dr Hashmukh Shah, Secretary
Contact: wales@bapio.co.uk (for general enquiries and activities of the division)
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The Face of Suffrage was a photomosaic created by Helen Marshall a 65ft portrait floor graphic that was on public display at Grand Central Station, Birmingham . The artwork includes 3724 individual pictures uploaded online from the public. This was created to mark 100 years since women won the right to vote. In light of this it was a great honour to be able to present predominantly about Punjabi women from the Apna Heritage Archive at Birmingham Hippodrome arranged by GRAIN photo hub. It was also good to give representation about Punjabi Princess Sophia Duleep Singh who was the god daughter of Queen Victoria and more importantly the daughter of the last King of Punjab, Maharaja Duleep Singh. Sophia was was of the main protagonists of the Suffragette movement. The audience had never heard of her so I was honoured to give the privilege of sharing her part as suffragette and ‘ Votes for Women’ . Many Thanks to Nicola Shipley director at GRAIN who had given the opportunity to present at a full house in Birmingham along with good friend Geoff Broadway from the ‘Living Memory’ project, both our projects from the Black Country!
Anand Chhabra presents on suffragette Princess Sophia Duleep Singh at the Birmingham Hippodrome as part of GRAIN photo hub talks Jan 2019 regarding the artwork ‘The Face of Suffrage’ by Helen Marshall photo inset by © Maryam Wahid.
Anand Chhabra secured a British Council grant to visit India (in partnership with Creative Black Country & University of Wolverhampton and Tasveer Arts in India) as an artist to research the family album, conduct workshops and present on Punjabi migration to the City in Wolverhampton 1960-1989. Anand is still processing the amazing time he had for three weeks in November around various cities being impacted by the some of the arts and culture scene. In India he planned and visited (Bangalore, Mumbai, Jaipur, Pushkar, Chandigarh, Amritsar, and New Delhi). In his experience this journey turned out far better than he could imagine! Through much favour from institutions and organisations in the above cities he was able to fully conduct what he had planned to do and more. Anand discovered how India is not only developing at a very impressive pace but also with the arts and culture scene through its arts organisations, museums and galleries but more importantly the depth of the directors, artists and curators he met along the way, some really amazing talented individuals. Its a long post largely with visuals on most of the highlights of the journey (copyright Anand Chhabra & Punjab Lalit Kala Akademie) on a few highlights from his visit in November 2018 (blog in reverse order of cities visited)
NEW DELHI- Students at Sri Aurobindo Centre for the arts spend time absorbing each others family albums from c1990s. Anand Chhabra conducted a workshop and presentation session about the archive with the first year students who come from all over India for over 3 and half hours.
NEW DELHI- With first year students at Sri Aurobindo centre with first year students. Students come from all over India to study here in groups to discuss the similarities and differences of AH archive and their own family albums.
NEW DELHI - The students brought sa good number of their own family albums to the workshops and it proved to be an ‘at last !’ moment for me because finding groups to work researching family albums was the only very elusive part of my planned trip.. This is because like anywhere else everybody’s on the mobile phones all the time with not a great deal of value placed on the family album!
PUNJAB, AMRITSAR - Two rising stars Hardeep and Sandeep with holding one of the 10x8 glass plates contained within handmade boxes they have collected over 6 years in with a focus in Sikh History in Punjab. This had to be one of the main highlights of journey as its an incredible collection and professionally and lovingly archived.
PUNJAB, AMRITSAR - An original 10x8 glass plate, one of over 1000 in Hardeep and Sandeep’s collection.
PUNJAB, AMRITSAR - Wonderful to browse through emotive images of family from c1920s Punjab. Hardeep and Sandeep collected many many prints as well as glass plates!
PUNJAB AMRITSAR - Presentation made on Punjabi migration at the Indian Academy of fine Arts in Amritsar. This was arranged by Diwan Manna from the Punjab Lalit Kala Akadmie, Chandigarh, Punjab. Special thanks to them.
PUNJAB AMRITSAR - The presentation at the Indian Academy of Fine Arts reached the local media in Amritsar and in other parts of North India.
CHANDIGARH, PUNJAB - The truly great, amazing and very talented Diwan Manna an internationally recognised artist in his own right and President of the Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi- Diwan opens preceding for and behalf of a presentation on Punjabi Migration to Wolverhampton at the Akademi. Anand and he have become fantastic friends. Picture background courtesy of the DASS family Inkerman Street, Wolverhampton c1961.
CHANDIGARH, PUNJAB - Anand Chhabra begins the presentation on Punjabi migration and starts with his own family’s journey from India to Wolverhampton.
CHANDIGARH, PUNJAB - Anand presents the research on Punjabi migration to Punjabi’s and the event is televised across Punjab and internationally via Sikh and Punjabi channels.
CHANDIGARH PUNJAB - A very engaging audience asks very interesting and intelligent questions on migration, collecting images in the digital age, religious and ethnic identities and representation.
CHANDIGARH PUNJAB - Anand Chhabra interviewed by journalist PARUL and televised around India and international and friends have reported seeing this in their homes in Wolverhampton!
PUNJAB, INDIA - News about the archive reached the media and was represented across various media in India c/o Diwan Manna (president of the Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi. This was a full page in the broadsheet Indian Express after interview with Anand Chhabra in India and the filmed interview by Parul has been broadcast by Punjabi channels internationally including the UK!
JAIPUR- In Jaipur Anand received an invited to research the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum archive by director Yunus Kahmani and was wonderfully surprised to be able see the world class gallery which houses the collection curated by Giles Tillotson.
JAIPUR - Anand Chhabra viewing a wedding family album (with nice pink gloves!) of the Maharaja and also with figures such a Lord Mountbatten and Maharani Gayatri Devi including in the albums.
JAIPUR - Amazing collection of double exposures from the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh’s collection. The charming ladies pictured here is one of the many of his concubine’s.
JAIPUR - Now encased in vitrine cases at the Museum and Gallery the albums kept hidden away are available for many to see just like the Apna heritage Archive!
PUSHKAR- Lukas Birk picture here with a photograph from the Apna Heritage Archive. Working very ethically in South East Asia helping communities with photography projects and archive exhibitions. Very inspiriting time talking with his young man.
PUSHKAR - A web page from Lukas Birk’s website about his box camera project in Afghanistan. Box camera’s were made by hand before becoming a source of income for photographers.
MUMBAI - Marketing poster for the presentation of Punjabi migration to Wolverhampton c1960-80s to be presented at the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumba, Mumbai’s greatest and oldest museum (formerly the Victoria and Albert Museum). Mumbai also formerly known as Bombay is a hotspot for arts and culture in India and the home of the Bollywood Industry.
MUMBAI - Ruta Wahgmare and Himanshu Kadam were the super bright curators at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum I took a quick snap while they were together. Wonderful to meet Indian curators something of a rarity in the UK. Very thankful to them to invite me as a speaker, as well as the welcome and the hospitality I received from them.
MUMBAI- Interior of the Dr Bhau Daji Lad (formerly the Victoria and Albert Museum) where a great and engaging audience came to hear Anand talk about about the displaced community of Punjabi’s journey to Wolverhampton. The Dr Bhau Daji Lad museum in Mumbai won a World UNESCO award for heritage and conservation for restoration of the building. Literally no stone was left unturned in ensuring that the building was restored to its former glory. Very honoured to have presented here.
MUMBAI - Great to have such an engaging crowd stop over to receive hospitality ask questions and browse the physical collection of images from the Apna Heritage Archive.
MUMBAI - The indomitable Anusha Yada pictured here as I spent an amazing time with her and her ‘Indian Memory Project’, she has an amazing collection that really brings out the stories in the photos. She inspired Anand’s own collection and gave some amazing thoughts about what else it could be going forward!
Mumbai - Hamilton Studios in Bombay one of the oldest and well established photographic studios in Mumbai founded in 1928 by Sir Victor Sassoon, Anand due to a very tight schedule in India just decided to turn up and fortunately it was open!
Mumbai - Another indomitable lady Ajita Madhavji whose father photographed notable people of India from Maharajas to Generals and Politicians like Ambedkar. Anand was very fortunate to meet with her as she was not entirely well and yet she spoke of her journey with her fathers studio as accidental yet destined to love and embrace it. Pictured here with her chosen image of the Golden Temple, Amritsar from the Apna Heritage Archive.
Mumbai - ‘Head Shots’ taken over the years at the Hamilton Studios and presented at the welcome desk. There as many as 900,000 negatives stored and waiting to be archived by the studio! Apna Heritage Archive had 2000 images but its a good start…..ok not as good but better than no images!
BANGALORE - Two brothers who run the EGK Studios in Bangalore the oldest photographic studios in Bangalore I was put in touch with them via Patrick Anderson. This studio will also be handed down to the next generation who are grappling with the challenging age of digital and social media. These guys (above) know photography technically and the printing processes far greater and in detail than I ever will it was a great joy to hear from them. They handed me a gift a book they published on Bollywood greats made by photographers
BANGALORE - When I enquired about viewing their archive and family images I was saddened to learn it had all but disappeared due to flood 15 years ago. They did show me the above docket which I was pleased to see and it had some negatives so I asked if they had a light box to view them……
BANGALORE - …….the lightbox appeared and even though they had a few negatives I was excited to see what they revealed…..
BANGALORE - the images reveal the faces of men, women and children…..fantastic images……. but having no narrative to go with them I was very saddened that the information on who, where, when and why was missing.
BANGALORE - Suresh (right) from Shanti Rd arts centre helps gather a few artists at the centre to help conduct a workshop.
BANGALORE - Suresh Jayram conducts an interview about ‘the family album’ for twitter. Fantastic to hear from a guy who knows the value of archiving and arts to an amazing high standard. Please check for @anand4560 on twitter for a
BANGALORE - Meeting with partners Tasveer Arts at their very plush offices in India. Amazing and eclectic collection of art and photography with regular sales across to collectors and galleries around the world pictured here original works from Dayanita Singh, Marc Riboud and Andy Warhol to name just a few!
BANGALORE - The wonderful Sunando Chakraborty Anand’s contact for this partnership visit with Tasveer Arts who enabled the visit to India. Sunando was very enthusiastically and knowledgeably showing me the various book productions for photographers that they were undertaking at their offices in Bangalore.
BANGALORE - My initial visit was try and engage with partners in the visit the British Council which I did in the cities I visited had found them very welcoming and engaging an fascinated by the projected. They also supported and visited at the speaking engagements that Anand undertook in India.
It’s been great with building a good working relationship with the team at Historic England since our exhibition and the archive has been represented very well via their ‘Another England website’ here: https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/another-england/your-stories/apna-heritage-archive/. And so I was extremely delighted and surprised to see the archive selection curated and exhibited in London at this week’s private view in London recognising & celebrating 100 years of Black & Asian history. It’s always hard to trust others with your own archive and its representation I was impressed that the team at Historic England and NOW gallery have really done the people of Wolverhampton proud here. It was great to be involved in a project that housed some amazing collections representing Black & Asian History from Magnum Photos, Getty Images, Autograph and Masterji. Not only this but great to know that the archive itself was handled by Black & Asian curators via Kaia Charles and Ruth Lie (co-curated by Anand Chhabra).
We are excited to announce a second exhibition for the Apna Heritage Archive this year in London (co-curated by Anand Chhabra. The work has been very well represented by the fantastic team at Historic England this year. This exhibition is a curation of their Another England project called ‘Human Stories’. The work is contemporary narratives in Black and Asian Heritage in England. We are so thankful to the team at Historic England who have done a lot to represent our archive which they love! the exhibition runs from 10 October - November 11th 2018 and is free to the public! So its now on at NOW gallery. More details here at the Historic England website! https://historicengland.org.uk/get-involved/visit/exhibitions/human-stories-another-england/ - Anand Chhabra
It was great pleasure this month to be invited to internationally renowned artists The Singh Twins's Symposium at Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Anand was asked to respond to their 'Slaves of Fashion' exhibition & specifically their new works which were created by the Singh Twins. It was great to reflect and therefore talk through the similar theme of Migration, History, Empire, Punjabis, Colonialism in the work of the Apna Heritage Archive. Thanks to Wolverhampton Uni and Creative Black Country for their involvement in bringing these amazing artists to this City of Sanctuary for Punjabis! Such a pleasure and honour to be here!!
BCVA director Anand Chhabra with artists Amrit and Rabindra 'The Singh Twins' @ W-ton Gallery.
Amrit and Rabindra 'The Singh Twins' present their "The Slaves of Fashion' exhibition, W-ton Art Gallery.
We were recently asked to photograph at Black Country Touring's 'Back in 10' production which were very wonderfully dramatised utilising the Black Country Living Museum as its backdrop. They brought to us the reality of life of 1930's Black Country in all its guises using fine actors, dancers, musicians, poets, script and the like. What really impressed us was the representation of Indians who were at the centre of the production. Black Country Touring has modelled its own path utilising diverse leadership and granting opportunity for Indian artists. Encouraging to see.
Sonia Sabri dance performance for 'Back in 10'on the set at Black Country Living Museum.
W-ton University graduate John Rogers on the set of 'Back in 10' at Gripton's Radio Stores.
Actress Rochi Rampal dramatises hardships in 1930's Black Country at Gregory's store, Black Country Living Museum.
Producer Bobby Tiwana from Black country Touring on the set of 'Back in 10'.
Sabrina Nabi entertaining audiences on the set of Gripton's Radio Store at Black Country Living Museum.
Anand Chhabra has been invited to speak about the Apna Heritage Archive at the Family Ties Network event on June 8th. This one-day research seminar will explore the overlaps between personal and cultural interrogation of transnational identities through familial representations. This is their first event in the West-Midlands, hosted in association with the VAR Research Centre for Art and Cultural Memory, at Coventry University. We aim to host an exciting event that looks at transnational family from different conceptual perspectives. The FTN have invited three artist/researchers to talk about their practice in the context of Transnational Family, alongside FTN co-ordinator Lizzie Thynne. Special thanks go out to Caroline Molloy for the invitation along with Rosy Martin further bookings and info about FTN here :- https://familytiesnetwork.wordpress.com/events/
Anand Chhabra will be presenting AH archive followed by Q/A at FTN Event on June 8th 2018.
Really thankful to the Photo Collections Network for interviewing Anand Chhabra and featuring the Apna Heritage Archive on their website. Its great for this project with significant Punjabi history in Wolverhampton and Britain to get this kind of representation. I love the way they are able to link captions and images of the archive on the home page. These then link straight to our website to give further details of the images. Indeed look out for the the PCN as they have great pedigree with very experienced people no doubt they will be key players regarding the future of archives, digital and heritage amongst other things! There is a small membership fee to join as well as opportunities to get involved. Well worth it! Special thanks to Maura McKee and Paul Hermann for helping setting this up! https://www.photocollections.org.uk
Featured on the Home Page of the Photo Collections Network for May/June 2018
An interview about the Apna Heritage Archive is featured on the members blog.
At the exhibition we had a visitors feedback booklet and I have been overwhelmed reading about the wonderful comments children and adults have been writing about the exhibition and how they have been impacted by it. Largely 99% have been positive from two lots of visitors book at the exhibition. Its just the kind of feedback we wished for from Punjabis and the wider community.
Positive vibes written by some of the visitors to the exhibition Jan 13 - March 18th 2018
It was great to have Harr-Joht, Olivia and Tamsin from Historic England past us a visit at the archive space during our exhibition. They felt that the Apna heritage Archive should have representation on the 'Another England' website to profile important stories for 100 years of Black and Asian History in England. Its great for the archive to be profiled on this great project! - Anand Chhabra
You can find out more here: http://anotherengland.co.uk/your-stories/
Apna Heritage Archive profiled on 'Another England' its about 100 years of Black & Asain history
Apna Heritage Exhibition impact on Punjabi's in the City.
Its quite hard to quantify and evaluate exactly what the impact for the Apna heritage Archive exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery has had on Punjabi's in the City . A community that is not known for engaging with the arts let alone walking in to the gallery to see it. The photos are just a few I personally accumulated by the visits I took to the gallery. When one of our volunteers turns up to temple in Wolverhampton and as a steward opens the door and one person after the other from all age ranges congratulates him for his fathers photographs being projected at the exhibition. Or when I walked in the first few days of the exhibition and saw a couple and after I was there an hour a gallery steward pointed out to them that I was involved in its creation, she immediately ran put to me and said there is a picture of my brother that I never know existed and yet he had passed away over 20 years and thanked me for preserving their heritage. Or others said it was akin to a religious experience looking at the large scale projections. It may never been known but indeed at least two things have happened as a result of this exhibition is that word of mouth has gone out to many Punjabis in the City meaning it was something to see. Also as an ethnic based organisation we have been given the opportunity to prove our competency in curating and putting this project together thanks to all our partners. - Anand Chhabra
A few of the regions VIP's in our 70's Selfie Studio during the exhibition.
Great to have hosted so many of the regions talented people the heads of various organisations and institutions who wanted to come and view the exhibition for themselves. I personally had great conversations and very encouraging input from all people that came to visit and so have put up a few images here they include (better viewing on an iPad!) top left to top right and bottom left to right :- Glenis (Black Country Living Museum) Harr-Joht,Olivia and Tamsin (Historic England) Peta (Digital and Media Officer ACE) Tarla and Rochelle (Masterji fame and MA student) Andrew Jackson (International Photographer) Caroline Molloy (Senior Lecturer Photography Coventry Uni & me!) Sam Ivin ( Photographer infamous series on migration Lingering Ghosts) Dr Mahoney and Natalie ( Learning Regions Wolves Uni) Emma Chetcuti (Multistory) Richard Lewis (Senior Archivist Dudley Archives) Mohammed Ali (Artist & Knights of the Raj fame) - Anand Chhabra
A few of the regions VIP and connected to heritage and photography visit the AH Exhibtion
Apna Heritage Archive Exhibition extended until 18th March!
Its quite hard to articulate the impact that this exhibition has had on the Panjabi community in Wolverhampton. It was only after the first few days visiting the exhibition space after the mad rush and energy in creating and realising it that curiosity drove us to wander in every day for the first week (indeed the whole time the exhibition was on for in my case just to see what the public thought!). There are so many stories but a few pictures here about what I personally as Chair of the organisation experienced at any time I went in. The community have been so thankful about the exhibition in terms of preserving there heritage for future generations to pick upon these themes. Pictures of family held by other members of the community for decades were realise for the first time with tears. Word of mouth about the exhibition spread as its was very well curated and in a beautiful exhibition space at the gallery. Our volunteers witnessed many thankful and praiseworthy comments about the exhibition from all sections and ages from young to old lauding the exhibition and congratulating our volunteers for their work regarding the archive. Indeed primary & secondary schools colleges and university depts all visited with their students across the City and beyond. This lead to an extension of the exhibition for a further two weeks at Wolverhampton Art Gallery to whom we are very thankful! - Anand Chhabra
Visitors from the Panjabi community at various times visit the exhibtion at W-ton Art Gallery
The Apna Heritage Archive Exhibition reviewed!
There has been good impact regionally regarding the exhibition after the launch of the Apna Heritage Archive exhibition in January. Interesting from our region reviews have appeared in New Art West Midlands & Arts Foundry in the Black country. Reviews were written by the writer in residence at Birmingham University Louise Palfreyman. Caroline Molloy a noted writer and senior lecturer in photography at Coventry University and Su Fahy Principal Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts at Wolverhampton University have also written very positively about its content and curation after interviewing Anand Chhabra Chair at BCVA and visiting the exhibition. This is positive for our organisation as an ethnically based organisation as what has been written in these reviews proves our competency in creating projects and presenting them at a high level, its all about telling the stories that have yet been untold in our region. Thanks to these brilliant ladies for their effort in giving the exhibition a have wider reach about Panjabi heritage in Wolverhampton to our region - Anand Chhabra
To see more of what has been written about the Apna heritage Archive exhibtion please go here:- http://newartwestmidlands.co.uk/editorial/the-apna-heritage-archive-reviewed-by-caroline-molloy/
https://blackcountryartsfoundry.wordpress.com/reviews/
The Apna Heritage Archive Exhibition acclaimed!
Fantastic to see what others in the region who know a thing or two about art, curation and exhibitions! The Apna Heritage Archive exhibition continues has started on good footing and here are few words about what others are saying about the exhibtion. One of them includes the extension of the exhibtion from the original end date 4th March to 18th March due to popularity of the exhibition! - Anand Chhabra
Apna Heritage Archive Exhibition positive comments via twitter
A fantastic celebratory launch event, 25th Jan at Wolverhampton Art Gallery !
The opening of the Apna Heritage Archive launch event on 25th January 2018 at Wolverhampton Art Gallery was a moment for me personally to savour and I believe will Iive long in the memory. So pleased that so many Punjabis which comprised of many of the participants and volunteers turned out to celebrate the launch of this inaugural archive in the City's main art gallery of Wolverhampton. It was cold outside but blazing hot inside with excitement, joy and gratitude from Punjabis from all backgrounds faiths and ages! There were so many others from arts based institutions up and down the country as well as regionally that came out to support. It was a rollercoaster ride setting this up in December but very thankful to the technicians at Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Exhibitions Manger Tess Radcliffe of making sure it was alright on the night and it was! We had 5 speakers from our partners including the Heritage Lottery Fund and a very articulated speech about the archive and exhibitions importance from our main speaker and confidant the brilliant Bobby Tiwana! Thankful to all who helped make this a night to remember! - Anand Chhabra
Launch Event at Wolverhampton Art Gallery was packed out as community came to celebrate
Wolverhampton Magazine, double page feature in March 2018 edition/ Exhibition Launch Event
The Apna Heritage Archive exhibition opens at Wolverhampton Art Gallery
The Apna Heritage Archive Exhibition opened on the 13th January 2018 and extended until 18th March 2018. The award winning archive archive is a new resource led by Black Country Visual Arts. The project has developed a photographic archive of 2000 historic images of Punjabi migration to Wolverhampton covering three decades from 1960 to 1989. New portraits taken provide a present day record. Documents and other materials collated provide a context to this unique social history.
You are invited to visit the gallery to see part of this amazing collection that documents the Punjabi communities life in Wolverhampton over 3 decades. From arrival in the 60's to weddings, births, working and social life!
The exhibition is on from 13th January to 7th March 2018 at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Lichfield Street W-ton, see www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk for further information and opening times.
Back in the ARA magazine December 2017.
One of the highlights of 2017 was the award we received for the Best New Archive 2017 at the Community Archives and Heritage Awards (CAHG Awards) at University of Central London. The work we did was highlighted by the Chair of CAHG Sue Hampson in the December issue of the ARA (Archives Records Association) magazine. She wrote across three pages about the impact of the dedicated archive space in the most densely populated area for Punjabis in Wolverhampton! Thanks Sue! - Anand Chhabra
Apna Heritage Archive appears in the December 2017 issue of the ARA Magazine
Passing on learning about archiving to volunteers
The fantastic senior archivist at Dudley Archives Richard Lewis taught some of our volunteers the value of archiving at the end of November. Richard showed us how documents, photographs should be handled and ephemera looked after and kept, what temperature they should be kept at and how to display our items and keep them from damage. These along with the many legalities around copyright and community archives were a few of the wonderful ways in which we learned so much from this experienced professional. Everyone left enthused about archiving and keeping a record of history! It was a great day at our dedicated archive space at the Guru Tegh Bahdur Gurdwara. We are very fortunate to have this space archive space in the most densely populated area for Punjabis in the City of Wolverhampton. Thank you Richard Lewis! - Anand Chhabra
Our volunteers at Apna Heritage receive teaching on archiving by Richard Lewis
Richard Lewis in full swing teaching volunteers about how to secure photos and ephemera for the future.
Volunteers engage with Richard about archiving information and ask questions.
We reached our target of 2000 archived images.........Phew!
The photograph pictured here is our 2000th image and represents us achieving our target for the Apna Heritage Archive. We are still continuing to collect images. This has been a real effort nothing short of blood sweat and tears, it's not been easy at making sure that we met this target especially thinking 6 months ago we reached our 1000th archived image. Special thanks to all families and individuals who have seen the value allowing us to scan their personal photographs and keep their history documented for future generations....hats off to them! Special thanks to all individuals who contributed in the last 2 years. Couldn't have done this without a real community effort. For us its been a privilege making new friends along the way! - Anand Chhabra
Faqir Singh leaves home for the ceremony of his wedding, Dartmouth Street, West Bromwich, 1965.
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Discussion in 'Automotive' started by the cup, Jan 5, 2008.
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Flyin Ryan Member
#76 Flyin Ryan, May 12, 2008
This is awesome. The Sarahthon.
If you don't know, popular Indycar driver Sarah Fisher and her family got all their money together to field a car at Indy, plus two later races at Kentucky and Chicagoland. They get to Indy, and the once-solid sponsorship deal now is not so solid. After popular demand from her fans, Fisher's team setup a donation site and she's randomly receiving $100 checks from fans at the Speedway.
http://www.1070thefan.com/kravitzandeddie/sarahthon.aspx
Sarah's primary sponsor has renegged on the promise to deliver the check, and her brand-new, family-run team is in need to make it through the month of May, and beyond.
If you can help out financially, make your check out to Sarah Fisher Racing and send it to:
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We also invite you to call her sponsors to let them know your thoughts:
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For more information on how you can help, visit SarahFisher.com.
http://media.1070thefan.com/podcasts/080512_fisher.mp3
Make sure to listen to the end of it.
(here's Kanaan as well: http://media.1070thefan.com/podcasts/080512_kanaan.mp3 )
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#78 YankHibee, May 20, 2008
Anyone headed up to Indy?
Pack87Man BigSoccer Supporter
#79 Pack87Man, May 20, 2008
YankHibee said: ↑
Don't I wish. This is going to be amazing, with everyone in one series finally. Maybe this is the year they break the Andretti curse.
I really expect next year to be a bigger deal, but there is certainly a buzz right now. It's nice to have the Race back the way it should be.
Pack87Man said: ↑
Marco's going down!
(The only Andretti I've ever liked was John.)
Anyway, here's my handicapping.
Kanaan, Dixon, Wheldon, Castroneves
"Not Longshots, but not Favorites Either":
Briscoe, Patrick, M. Andretti, Scheckter
"If All the Cards Fall Right, We're Arie Luyendyk in 1990 or Scott Goodyear in 1992":
Meira, Mutoh, Carpenter, Rahal, Wilson, Hunter-Reay, Rice, Hamilton, Manning, Servia, Power, Bell
The "Decent Drivers Stuck in Cars that aren't Good Enough":
J. Andretti, B. Lazier, Junqueira
"Maybe We Can Finish if We're Lucky":
Fisher, Roth, Duno, Viso, Moraes, Camara, Bernoldi, Foyt IV, Simmons, Lloyd
I really wanted to go this year, but my schedule next week kinda made it unworkable. I'll be at Richmond in a month's time.
Sticking Fisher, Foyt, and Lloyd down in the bottom category? Why on earth would you do that?
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#83 Bonnie Lass, May 22, 2008
I think they forgot about Duno's category: Why the ******** are they even on the track?
Sorry. Not a fan.
Cause they can't win, even if everything went right in their favor in my opinion.
It's a case of not having the team (Fisher-who I think would be ecstatic if she finished), the nerves (Foyt-who has had a terrible month), or experience (Lloyd-in his first race this year). I think they're all good drivers in their own right, but they and their cars are not capable of winning. And I couldn't in good conscience put them in the category of Lazier, Junqueira, and John Andretti. Lloyd's looking like he will become a good driver, but he's not at that level yet.
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#85 UnitedGal, May 23, 2008
Indy is one of my favorite events and Im so excited!!
We have had only one podium and that was in the 70's
To be fair we havent had a decent chance to win it in a loooooooooong time, with the speed he has shown durring pratice and qualifying I would guess Ryan would more than a chance!
GO U GOOD THING!!!!
UnitedGal said: ↑
Sorry, that didn't work out too well.
Briscoe really needs to get on his game. 19th in points in a Top 8 car isn't good enough.
Flyin Ryan said: ↑
Briscoe really needs to have a good stretch on the short oval run coming up. Milwaukee, Iowa, and Richmond right together, broken by Texas. That's some serious oval running.
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#88 the cup, Jun 8, 2008
Well, before the year began I was a Champ Car fan through and through. I had watched IRL races just to compare the two and to keep up on how the competetion was doing. I thought though after the "buy-out" I would give the new IndyCar a chance by watching their races with a clear mind and giving them a fair shake. Afterall, this was a new series and the future of open-wheel racing in America.
I have to say though that so far I am not impressed. There have been some fun moments, Rahal winning in St. Pete, Briscoe winning in Milwaukee after taking Patrick out in the Indy pits, and Servia coming back from a lap down in Milwaukee to finish in the top 10. But over-all the IndyCar series has failed to impress me. I guess it just boils down to too much oval racing of which I am not that much of a fan. I can take a few but so far that is all we have had except for St. Pete. I know more road and street circuits are on the way but by that time I think I'm going to be sick and done with the new series.
However, there is a glimmer of hope. Champ Car had their fire sale the other day auctioning off some remaining assets. Lo and behold, there appears to be someone out there buying up Champ Cars and with plans to use them in a new series starting in 2010. He has 20 chasis now and has plans in the works for a new engine package.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/racing/more/06/04/bc.car.champcarauction.ap/index.html
Not too much is known at this point other than there are plans being made out there. This could keep guys like me, guys that seem lost at the moment, hanging in there with hopes for the future.
Until then I will stomach as much as the IndyCar series I can.
#89 Pack87Man, Jun 8, 2008
the cup said: ↑
How can you dislike oval racing? There's passing, and far more excitement than can be generated by a street race. I sincerely hope the IndyCar series maintains the majority oval schedule that they have put together.
#90 Flyin Ryan, Jun 24, 2008
There was Long Beach too for you.
If I had a dollar for every future plan in racing that was never heard from again, I'd be as rich as Bill Gates.
As far as I'm concerned, you have two choices for American racing if you're a road racing fan.
1.) Indycar with a mixed oval/road course/street course schedule
2.) Sportscars
That's it. The late CART model of an American road racing-only open-wheel series with almost entirely foreign drivers very clearly failed twice due to lack of money and lack of interest (where the interest subsequently driving the money; if there's fans, sponsors will be there to sell their product to the fans; also interest as far as car owners that wanted to field a car). And whoever is buying up all those cars does not have Kevin Kalkhoven money or Gerry Forsythe money. They subsidized the whole thing just as Tony George subsidized the IRL. But even someone like Kalkhoven who made a fortune in optics and lasers said, "I've lost enough money. It's not getting better. I'm out."
One of the bad things about Indycars currently is you have two entirely different fanbases: one that idolizes Formula One and another that idolizes the old USAC Indycars. One fanset thinks the great American racing hero for Indycars is Mario Andretti, the other fanset thinks the great American racing hero for Indycars is A.J. Foyt. Me? I just like racing, but there are not many people like me.
From Curt Cavin of the Indianapolis Star on his radio show Trackside, here's his take on next year's schedule. They think 18-22 races, but 20 most likely:
Rock Solid (14): Kansas, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Texas, Iowa, Kentucky, Edmonton, Surfers Paradise, Chicagoland, Belle Isle, Mid Ohio, St. Petersburg, Long Beach, Toronto
"He's heard at least one warning flag" (6): Homestead, Motegi, Richmond, Watkins Glen, Sonoma, Nashville
He thinks Sonoma is solid, the two that concern him the most on that list are Homestead and Nashville; Honda may not be requiring a race in Motegi anymore; Firestone is not requiring the IRL to race at Nashville but can still qualify on its own merits.
In the Hunt for a Date (7): Cleveland, Elkhart Lake, Barber, Houston, Mexico City, New Hampshire, Portland
Longshots (4): Las Vegas (either oval or street course), Laguna Seca, Phoenix, Michigan (with Phoenix and Michigan being more "wish list" longer-term)
Biggest question is where to open the season considering you can't open at the start of March at some place cold.
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#92 PsychedelicCeltic, Jun 24, 2008
Vegas would be a good season opener. The track used by Champ Car last year was very good and attendance was good (though it was free outside the grandstands).
Between Sonoma and Laguna Seca two races doesn't make sense but it's a shame it will go to the ISC track because Seca is so much better as a circuit.
IRL would be nuts to get rid of Cleveland, and they should keep Elkhart Lake because it's such a good circuit. As well the rock solid list only features Mid-Ohio as a permanent road circuit, so IRL needs more permanent road circuits. Glen, Sonoma, Elkhart Lake and Mexico City would be my choices.
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#93 DSC05, Jun 24, 2008
PsychedelicCeltic said: ↑
Think of how many races are in that area right now though, that would be two in Wisconsin, two in Ohio, one in Michigan (and that's not including Illinois and Indiana, heck Toronto's only five hours from me and I think Kentucky is only about 5 and half hours).
Shame they can't ditch Belle Isle now that they have better looking street courses and go back to MIS. This will be the first year I won't attend an IRL race since 2002 (I'll head over to Belle Isle for the ALMS race and IRL qualifying).
Supposedly, Mexico City needs significant improvements in track safety, and that is what is making it likely it won't be on the schedule.
I love Cleveland. It's a fun race. The problem there is it's serving the exact same market as Mid Ohio.
#95 Pack87Man, Jun 25, 2008
According to ESPN, SMI is offering a five track deal to the IRL, including Infineon, Kentucky, Texas, and more importantly Las Vegas and New Hampshire (both ovals). That would be a big, big deal.
DSC05 said: ↑
That's like criticizing NASCAR for having too many races in the South though.
The Mid-West is IndyCar's stomping grounds, and they shouldn't be getting rid of successful events. Mid-Ohio and Cleveland have coexisted successfully for 20 years, why change that now? The last thing IndyCar needs to do is stray from first principles and extend themselves into markets and events that haven't been proven successful.
That would be okay if fans were going to the races, how many people showed up at the Milwaukee Mile? I loved Michigan, but 40,000 (and probably over estimating) there is pathetic and probably the reason why they aren't going back. Belle Isle's crowd was decent last year, but nothing to write home about. Maybe Champ Car had it right and road courses are the way to go for bringing in fans.
I would expect crowds to go up with the unification. If IndyCar has lost the Midwest for good it has no future no matter what.
#99 the cup, Jul 6, 2008
I'm sorry but after today's performance IndyCar needs to get rid of it's women drivers.
#100 Flyin Ryan, Jul 6, 2008
Since when did Scott Dixon and E.J. Viso get ovaries?
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Opinion | Aug 04 2018
Deontay Wilder should be defending against Dillian Whyte
In his Snips & Snipes column Eric Armit considers the situation of Deontay Wilder and much more
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A while ago it seemed that Deontay Wilder had only one fight to look at and that was with Anthony Joshua. That fight could have been made but Wilder had an inflated idea of his worth seeming to think that Joshua also had only one option. When Joshua’s team got tired of the back-and-forward mixture of unrealistic offers and social media trumpeting they moved on to Alex Povetkin. Not a great fight but sellable and let’s face it where Joshua is at this time any fight of his is going to be a big event for big money. Now the offers seem to be coming out of the woodwork for Wilder. The WBC has said it would not stand in the way of a return with Luis Ortiz. The elderly Cuban almost put Wilder away in their fight so some grounds for it. Tyson Fury has pitched in saying talks are underway for him to fight Wilder. Again sellable but we won’t know what Fury has by fighting guys such as Francesco Pianeta. The big German-based Italian lost in March to an eleven fight novice. One judge had it 96-94 and one had it 99-91 but they all had his opponent 22-year-old Petar Milas winning. However, for a second fight after thirty-one months out of action, the 6’5” southpaw is a reasonable choice but by no means a measure as to whether Fury will be ready for Wilder by the end of this year. The only name that never appears on Wilder’s dance card is the WBC No 1 Dillian Whyte. In his excellent fight against Joseph Parker Whyte showed his strengths and his weaknesses but he is the man that Wilder should be fighting and the WBC should be making it happen. Since winning the title Wilder has defended against Eric Molina, Johann Duhaupas, Artur Szpilka, Chris Arreola, Gerald Washington, Bermane Stiverne (of which the WBC should be ashamed) and Ortiz and if Wilder dodges Whyte the WBC title will be on its way to being a side show. I happen to think Wilder would beat Whyte but I would like the chance to find out if I am right.
Just when you think the WBA has hit rock bottom you find they are still digging. They are now reported to have recognised a fight between Trevor Bryan and BJ Flores as an eliminator for the No 1 spot in their heavyweight ratings. Currently Bryan is No 4 and Flores No 5 which is a disgraceful manipulation of their ratings but nothing unusual there. Bryan first entered the WBA top 15 in February 2016. To climb from No 15 to No 4 he has beaten Galen Brown (44-33-1) in July 2016, Sandy Soto (2-20) in April 2017 and Francois Russell (2-24) in December 2017. Flores lost to Tony Bellew for the WBC cruiser title in October 2016 being floored four times and stopped in three rounds. Flores made his first appearance in the WBA heavyweight ratings for February 2017 (published 17 March) for beating Jeremy Bates (26-18-1) but that victory won Flores the WBA-NABA title and you get rated for that even if you beat your grandmother. In the 18 months since that win he has fought once stopping Nick Guivas (13-6-2) but by January this year he had climbed to No 6 and now he is No 5. So 15 to 5 for beating Bates and Guivas. Not too surprising that Don King’s fingers are in this pie. It is impossible to take the WBA serious; in fact it is hard not to be disgusted by them. If Bryan and Flores is not ridiculous enough they have 46-year-old drugs cheat Guillermo Jones at No 10 heavyweight when his only fight in two years is a split decision win over Ytalo Perea (10-2-2) and after losing a court case when they tried to screw Fres Oquendo they are forced to have Oquendo in their ratings-he is No 2 –even though he has not had a fight for four years. Hold the press! He is scheduled to challenge Manuel Charr for the secondary title on 29 September.
So the final of the World Boxing Super Series super-middleweight tournament between George Groves and Callum Smith will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on September 28. Smith kicked off the tournament with a win over Erik Skoglund on September 16 2017 so the tournament will have dragged on for over a year. It is a great pity but the delay due to the injury to Groves has taken some of the shine of the final. It is a great fight but it would have been ideal if it had happened soon after both won their semi-final now it will be a cold start to the build-up. It is also a pity that such a huge fight between two British fighters is taking place in Saudi Arabia. It is all about money so presumably someone has put a lot of money into the pot to get the fight to Jeddah when common sense said it should have been held in the UK.
Interested in money? Well Mikey Garcia collected $1 million for beating Robert Easter who received $500,000. Both were world champions holding well respected titles but the purses reflect the respective profiles and entertainment value.
At the other end of the scale Hekkie Budler vacated the IBF light-flyweight title rather than fight Felix Alvarado for a pitiful purse. Reportedly there was only one bid for the fight with a purse of $25,000. Budler would have picked up 75% so less than $19,000. Garcia was being paid more than $83,000 per round! Alvarado will now face Filipino Randy Petalcorin for the vacant title.
The purses for Jaime Munguia and Liam Smith were reported as $200,000 for Munguia and $75,000 for Smith and in the WBO super featherweight fight on the same card Alberto Machado’s take was $100,000 and Rafael Mensah’s $35,000.
Can’t get too excited over Rob Brant challenging Ryota Murata for the secondary WBA middleweight title. Brant was outclassed by Juergen Braehmer in the WBSS tournament. In fairness it was at super-middle so he might do better at his normal weight. It seems that Brant was promised a shot at Murata when he stood aside to allow Murata a direct return against Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam after the Japanese fighter lost a disputed decision to N’Jikam for the vacant title.The fight is out for purse offers due August 13 with a minimum bid of $200,000 set. It will be Murata’s second defence of the secondary title.
Going back to the super-middleweights Jose Uzcategui will put his IBF title on the line against unbeaten Caleb Plant in Minneapolis on August 24. Uzcategui was upgraded from interim champion to full champion when James De Gale vacated the crown. The No 1 position in the IBF ratings is vacant. Plant can’t fill that spot because he has not beaten a rated fight – but he can get to No 2 without beating a rated fighter!
It is a pity to hear that Sergio Martinez is contemplating a return to boxing. It appears that in doing fight scenes for a movie, “Maravilla” got the itch again. Hopefully he will get talked out of it. Sergio is now 43 and has been out of the ring since losing to Miguel Cotto in June 2014. Please don’t Sergio.
Some exciting fights scheduled for September 8. In Inglewood the super flyweights are at it again with Donnie Nietes defending his WBO super fly title against fellow Filipino Aston Palicte, Juan Francisco Estrada taking on Felipe Orucuta and the un-retired Kazuto Ioka vs. McWilliams Arroyo. On the other coast in Brooklyn Danny Garcia and Shawn Porter fight for the vacant WBC welterweight title and over in Birmingham Amir Khan will face Sammy Vargas. Khan should win but he can’t afford any banana skins at this stage of his career. Best fight in Birmingham could be the British middleweight title fight between Jason Welborn and Tommy Langford.
Roman Gonzalez will make his return to the ring on the undercard of the Gennady Golovkin vs. Saul Alvarez fight in Las Vegas on September 15. It seems incredible that at the start of 2017 Gonzalez was right up there at the top pound-for-pound lists and two fights later he is seen as a shot fighter. He will face Moises Fuentes in Las Vegas and a loss to the former WBO minimumweight champion might spell the end of his career. No opponent named yet but Jaime Munguia is pencilled in for a defence of his WBO super-welter title on the Las Vegas card as a taster for a fight with the winner of Golovkin vs. Alvarez and the presence of Gary “ Spike” O’Sullivan on the show might signal an alternative route for Golovkin or Alvarez.
Looks like Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr will return to action September 7 in Los Angeles against Sergio Mora. It will be Chavez’s first fight since losing to Saul Alvarez in May last year. Mora returned to action in April with a win over Alfredo Angulo. It has been suggested the fight will be at a catchweight of 171lbs but Mora, although described now as a super-middleweight, was only 162 ½ lbs against Angulo and Chavez 164lbs against Alvarez so they should both be comfortable at 171lbs.
Nice gesture in that money from the Rodney Berman and Jeff Ellis “Reach for the Stars” show in Kempton Park South Africa on August 10 will go to the Reach for a Dream charity that works with children with life threatening illnesses. The show will also honour outstanding South African journalist and ring historian Ron Jackson. The main event on the show will see unbeaten 7-0 Rowan Campbell face Renson Hobyani 8-2 for the vacant South African super middleweight title. At all levels boxing does great work for charities but that doesn’t make for headlines so it is very under appreciated.
Plenty of action surrounding already scheduled and still to be scheduled European title fights. Purse offer for Vincent Legrand’s defence against Andrew Selby are due August 9, James Tennyson’s defence of the super-featherweight title will be held either September 21 in Belfast or September 22 in London, Kerman Lejarraga’s welterweight defence against Frankie Gavin will be in Bilbao on November 17. Unbeaten Pole Kamil Szeremeta 17-0 is to defend the middleweight title against Spaniard Ruben Diaz 25-1-2. No date or venue for that yet. Both super-middleweight champion Robin Krasniqi and heavyweight champion Agit Kabayel have voluntary defences in Leipzig on October 27 and then face mandatory defences against Juergen Braehmer and Swede Otto Wallin respectively.
Still on Europe it is planned to have an Italian Boxing Hall of Fame set up in Romagna by October and there are plenty of candidates in both Italian born fighters and in fighters with Italian antecedents. Let’s hope it does get up and running.
We keep hearing that men can’t multi task. Rubbish, during the third round of the fight on Friday between Luis Lebron and Milner Marcano in Barranquilla, Colombia, Marcano slipped on some water that had somehow found its way to the centre of the ring and he went down. The referee stopped the fight and looked around to see who was going to deal with the problem. The answer came in the form of a towel thrown at him from one side of the ring and a broom from the other so he did the job himself.
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Atheism, PERSONAL, RELIGION, SKEPTICISM, SOCIAL and NEWS
Mmm, smells like scorched earth!
November 27, 2011 CelticBear
So, there’s a bit of drama going on in atheist circles dubbed “gelatogate.” The Angry Astronomer has a decent, and not very angry, explanation of the deal on his blog; but in brief, here’s the deal:
Christian local businessman pops over to the annual free “Skepticon” conference to see what’s going on. Thinking, understandably so, that it might be all about skepticism on UFOs and ghosts and whatnot (which it somewhat is), he’s treated to a few minutes of Sam Singleton’s parody act of a holy-roller revivalist sermon, not promoting gettin’ saved, but parodying religion and promoting skeptical atheism — and the crowd participating in the parody by, not yelling “amen!,” but rather “goddam!”
So, said Christian businessman runs over to his neighboring gelato and smoothie business and posts a sign reading:
“Skepticon is not welcomed to my Christian business,”
where it remains for anywhere between 10 minutes (he says) and two hours (others say), possibly violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The near immediate result? Atheists with access to the Intertubes (purt near ev’rybody), went apoplectic and completely decimated his online rankings on such social media services as Urbanspoon, Yelp, and Google reviews. I mean, decimated. (Although, will taking a store’s ranking down to 1 star, or 5%, or whatever on one of these, really harm a business? Especially in a town that’s not very social media savvy? Meh, doubt it. But it’s still something that would make a struggling businessperson’s stomach turn to water.)
So, he posted an notpology on his Web page: a very thinly veiled “please lay off, m’kay?!” apology. After that made the rounds of critical mockery, he posted an extensive and reasonably sincere-sounding apology over on Reddit, where his infamy across the world was begat. Some atheism/skepticism bigwigs and muckymucks accepted the apology. Others did not. Boy-howdy, did they not. And this is where my opinions on the matter begin….
As this drama played out, plot twist by plot twist, my own views changed somewhat with each new development.
Posted the sign: I freaked-the-flip out.
I learned he posted it after watching some undeniably inflammatory and reverse-offensive Sam Singleton: I nodded my head sagely and with tee-pee’ed fingers murmuring, “Indeed. Quite understandable, wot!”
The notpology: “OMG hes such a lyingjerk!!1!”
The full apology: “Ah, good show, old bean!”
JT Eberhard’s non-acceptance: “Yeah! Totally! We ride!… whoa… wait a second… Really?”
See, JT Eberhard’s a quickly-growing muckymuck of atheism in his own right. He’s the driving force for the first three years of Skepticon and is a very vocal opponent, and mockerizer, of religion. And nearly all the time I agree with nearly everything he posts (although, I find his frequent use of profanity completely unnecessary and juvanile… but whatchya gonna do). Yet, I’ve decided that in this late stage of this already getting old issue, his approach (the first “non-acceptance” post linked above, and his ironically-titled follow-up: “We Have No Choice But To Invade Gelato Mio” is wrong and likely do to far more harm than good. (But FSM help the person who tries to suggest JT might be wrong about something, unless you already happen to be in his inner-circle of friends. You take your metaphorical life in your hands. But, here goes….)
There is a time and a place and a need for bulldog firebrands. And, in JT’s day job, I rather think his style of take-no-prisoners scorched-earth approach is necessary! As he’s “a campus organizer and high school specialist with the Secular Student Alliance,” I believe he has to work on a daily basis dealing with some absolutely terrible bigotry from people in positions of unquestioned authority toward kids who have little to no defense against the religious intolerance they face. He has to defend students’ rights, legal and ethical, to express their beliefs and even form legally-allowed student clubs and associations which are constantly under attack from school administrators. Atheist students, especially those still in the closet and in much need of vocal and voracious support, need people like JT and his “give no quarter” single-mindedness. And I celebrate him for it!
But, there’s also a need, and a time and a place, for choosing one’s battles, deciding when discretion is the better part of valor, and allowing the “enemy” to slink away with a noggin-bump, instead of nuking them from orbit and then salting the earth for good measure. Yes yes, I know, JT’s actual demands are:
“Tell me bigotry is unacceptable. Tell me offense is not the same as breathing life into prejudice. Tell me that punishing somebody for disagreeing with you or thinking your beliefs are silly is immoral. And tell me you will make a donation that will actually help make the world a better place rather than inviting us to patronize your business for an insignificant discount.”
…and they’re not unreasonable demands, really. (Well, there’s valid debate over whether demanding a struggling small business owner [who is likely in great debt and probably not even paying himself a wage — if the average situation of small business owners is applicable in this guy’s case] make a large personal donation is unreasonable or not. Although, I can see how that 10% discount the guy’s offering might be seen as patronizing and a cynical ploy to simply help his business.)
But it’s not just the demands themselves as much as it’s the inflammatory approach and words JT uses. The demeanor, the tone, the insults, the mockery he uses, feels to me less like a noble battle, and more like curb-stomping the local bully after getting a lucky break and jumping him when his back was turned. And while in the battlefield of protecting students from bigoted school boards and principals and teachers, for the sake of establishing proper laws and rules and making sure they’re enforced, one does not concede the battle until the other side gives unconditional surrender. But in the battlefield of public opinion, media, the general public, that approach does the atheist “movement” far more harm than any possible good.
In the minds of the general public, they see a situation where a local businessman does something, and are shown by the outraged minority that the something was discriminatory and bigoted, we now have the upper hand. We now are seen by many people as having rights and that there is discrimination that goes on, and the general public (including liberal Christians), now have the seed planted in their head that discrimination’s not cool and we’ll call them on it. They themselves may not disagree with the bigotry, but at least they may be thinking about the repercussions of it and may even be questioning the bigotry itself as something they never really thought about before. It’s not a big win, but it’s progress.
Then, the guy apologizes, and the atheist community at-large generally, and publicly, accepts it. What happens? The general public and the liberal Christians have their preconceptions of the angry, religion-hating atheist challenged! We’re shown as reasonable, ethical, diplomatic, and perhaps even calmer and more sane than your average holier-than-thou religious leader and spokesperson who appears on FOX News. Now they’re more willing to listen to what we have to say, to consider our positions, to truly rethink their bigotry and not just the outward acts of discrimination. Now they’re willing to concede issues and work with us in other issues.
But then, what happens when prominent atheist spokespersons demand heads on spikes? (Metaphorically.) The walls redouble in size, the shields go to maximum, and the us-versus-them mentality is reinforced. The general public and the liberal Christian (which, really, by and large, are greatly overlapping Venn Diagram circles), believe their preconceptions are well-founded and continue to ignore our valid complaints and criticisms.
If we let this one bigoted business owner go, probably not having had a real change of heart but just a show of one, what do we really lose? If we accept his sincere-sounding apology and let him off with tail tucked between his legs and a stern “Okay, off with you — but we’ll be watching,” is that really so terrible if it means we gain great PR and the willing and open ear of millions of other people? So he’s not beaten into submission — but will anything we do really, possibly, change his “heart”? Do we seriously think that we can possibly convince this guy he was truly wrong by continuing to berate and insult and bash him and demand things of him? Will that make him, and many like him, watching this, see the light? Have a true conversion?
No, it will not. No amount of continued battle against him will truly change him or others, and will only harden them all to us. But diplomacy, some forgiveness, leniency, will not only be more productive to our cause in the long run and on a wider scale, but may actually do more good in setting this guy on a path to the real and sincere atonement that is currently being demanded at the point of a verbal spear.
*blog post image taken from this lifehacker post: “Venting Frustration Will Only Make Your Anger Worse.”
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Good Will Hiding: Ben Affleck and other LOSERs UPDATE
This may well be the grittiest Lego Batman movie ever.
Due to Ben Affleck’s activity off screen and his seemingly good-natured personality, I was willing to overlook his part in Daredevil movie, and in Gigli, and in Paycheck, and Pearl Harbor, and Jersey Girl, and He’s Just Not Into You, and Boiler Room…and possibly Batman v Superman: Lawsuit of Justice. He is quite active in his hometown and abroad, founding or supporting progressive causes, from A-T awareness to community-based support in Central Africa. Sadly, though, I must revoke all passes for Mr. Affleck, as it seems he is a coward. "Man without Fear", my ass.
It came out that Ben Affleck sought censor the part of the PBS show Finding Your Roots that indicated that he had a slave owning ancestor. This did not have to be a big deal. One’s family history is solely his business, and deserves some modicum of privacy. However, once you go on a show whose sole purpose is to investigate celebrities’ histories and broadcast the results on air for the world to see, you relinquish that modicum. White celebrities have been on Finding Your Roots and found out that their ancestors owned slaves, and they dealt with that dark spot (no pun intended) in their history. Hell, Don Cheadle found out some of his ancestors owned slaves! If you are American, and none of your great-great-grandparents came through Ellis Island, there is probably a 50/50 chance one of your ancestors owned slaves or was involved. I already know that I came from a long line of bastards. I didn’t get this light-skinned through some recessive gene in a line of pure light-skinned Angolans. Someone in my lineage is the bastard child of someone who owned him. It happened. We know it. Stop denying it.
This is not the big deal, so it is disappointing that Mr. Affleck sought to hide this information from the broadcast, as if he was sweeping it under a rug so that no one would know. This would not have tarnished his image. It would have tarnished his image if after learning of his people-owning skeletons, he responded with, “WHOO! Wicked pissah! I’m gonna call every darkie ‘Toby’ from now on and high-five Paula Deen!” THAT would have been a good reason to push the producers of the show to omit that segment.
Ben Affleck’s actions speak to a point of contention I have with a number of white liberals and the wielding of their inherent privilege, even though they rail against it privilege. Some like to say all of the left things: they will say they’re pro-choice, pro-marriage equality, pro-equal pay, pro-minimum wage hike, etc. Maybe they’ll throw some money at a colour run that donates money to a charity that helps gay lumberjack couples adopt straight poodles. Perhaps they’ll vote…every four years. Maybe they will stand up and FIGHT for everyone’s rights in front of their local town hall…Facebook page.
The second anyone wants to delve into WHY such causes are necessary, though, they clam up. They repeat the mantra that slavery is over, so we need to look beyond it, or claim that the women’s equality battle is over since the Lilly Ledbetter Act was signed, or they will overuse the phrase “trigger warning” the second that a conversation gets too deep. Mr. Affleck is just richer than the rest of us, so he can throw a little bit more money at that lumberjack colour run than most people. If you are going to call yourself a progressive person, then you need to look back at from whence we came, or else you have no direction in which to progress.
It’s possible that Mr. Affleck’s push to censor was a knee-jerk reaction at the horror of his past. Sadly, the producers accommodated him. That act right there is an example of him exerting rich and white privilege to suppress something he didn’t like. Looking at his philanthropy resume, one would think he would be railing against that type of execution of power. He needs to own what happened in his past; his past involved some people owning other people. I don’t believe in the whole “sins of the father” idea. I highly doubt that Ben Affleck is bad person because of a great-great-grandfather’s bad ideas. Mr. Affleck is probably not a bad person at all. He is, however, a wimp for not following through with a show whose purpose is to possibly show some ugly bits of history. I feel like there should be a term for people who are like this, who claim all the liberal things, but don’t want to get too deep about it. When conservatives are accused of betraying deeper principles of their convictions, they’re called RINO (Republican In Name Only) or “rational human being”. Perhaps we should do the same for liberals who do this. Perhaps “Fiberal”, or “Liberal Only So Everyone Respects” (LOSER).
That looks nice. Ben Affleck is a LOSER.
And he’d better not do to Batman what he did to Daredevil. THAT would be something he should suppress.
UPDATE: Ben Affleck wrote on his Facebook page that he was sorry for trying to hide his ancestors' slave-holding past. Perhaps I deemed him a LOSER too soon. This whole situation is a microcosm for the battle we as humans must make when we express pride for our status and culture, but must also acknowledge that where we are now may have been at the cost of the blood of others earlier. Hopefully there will be a lesson learned from this mess. Ben Affleck is learning that now, with the rest of us.
But he still hasn't apologized for Daredevil, so he's still on one more shit list.
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Deputy Mayor Diaries: Nominations for the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service
Yesterday, 27 March 2015, I attended the Berkshire College of Agriculture for a ceremony to present two British Empire Medals and twelve certificates celebrating nominations to the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service which is the MBE for voluntary groups.
Mr James Puxley, Lord Lieutenant of the Royal County of Berkshire, arranged the ceremony and two Reading groups where awarded. They were East Reading Horticultural Therapy & Community Based Training Ltd - known as the Ridgeline Trust and Parenting Special Children.
It was a wonderful event and I thoroughly enjoyed chatting to Reading's two recipients and I sincerely hope they are selected to receive the award.
Parenting Special Children receiving their certificate
The Ridgeline Trust receiving their certificate from the Lord Lieutenant of the Royal County of Berkshire
The 12 certificates. Also nominated were Alzheimers Dementia Support, Bracknell Foodbank, Children 1st West Berkshire, Early Adopt-a-Street Initiative, Jealott's Hill Community Landshare, Link Visiting Scheme, Open Kitchen, Slough Special Voices. The Herschel Park Volunteers and West Berkshire Cruse Bereavement Care
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Labels: Deputy Mayor, Deputy Mayor Diaries, Lord Lieutenant, Parenting Special Children, Queens Award for Voluntary Service, Ridgeline Trust
Deputy Mayor Diaries: Oxfam and the Henley Business School Certificate Presentation
As Alumna of the Year for the University of Reading I do try and attend as many events at the University as I can. This engagement was on Tuesday 24 March.
Students of the Henley Business School, led by Dr Daniel Gozman, had been working with local Oxfam shops. They had been using the skills they are learning to see if Oxfam could or should improve these three areas:
Customer loyalty: should there be a customer loyalty scheme? How would it work? How would customers be rewarded?
E-commerce: How can the stores improve listing on the Oxfam web store? What equipment would be needed? How much space would be required and how should items be selected?
Crowd funding: How is this done? How can prizes be gathered? What types of events should ther be?
The three groups of students made presentations to Oxfam, Jim Odell from Kemp Little Consulting, Jannah Patchay and independent consultant and Alex Furneaux from Capgemini. They were then asked questions about their proposals before the studies were handed over to Oxfam.
You can read more about the event here:
Deputy Mayor of Reading recognises student achievements at Oxfam Projects presentation event
I think these types of 'town and gown' collaborations should be encouraged and students given the opportunity to help local charity and community groups.
Labels: Deputy Mayor, Deputy Mayor Diaries, Henley Business School, Oxfam, students, University of Reading
Deputy Mayor Diaries: West Forest Sinfonia
This is a tricky one to write about. First I shall give you the facts. The West Forest Sinfonia give concerts of professional quality with musicians drawn from across Berkshire. Today's conductor was Philip Ellis and we had a wonderful piano performance from the very talented Georgina Sutton. It was held in the Geat Hall of the University of Reading which was a stunning setting.
The pieces played were:
Beethoven - Egmont Overture
Mozart - Piano concerto K in D Minor
Faure - Pelleas et Melisande
Schubert - Symphony No.5
The reason it's tricky to write about is because music means different things to everybody. I found the concert enchanting. I have enjoyed classical music since I was little, being introduced to it through the famous ballets and Fantasia. I have expanded my collection over the years but I don't find myself listening to it very much.
I love classical music but I find it very distracting so having it on in the background usually ends in me stopping doing whatever it was I was trying to do. I love the rhythm and the 'rules' and find my brain connects to the music. I find it very relaxing and I imagine the ballet moves that could accompany the piece I am listening to. This meant this concert was very enjoyable.
The conductor and musicians were also fascinating to watch. I can't recommend attending a live concert enough. It really is a very different experience to listening to a CD.
Sadly my relaxed mood didn't last long because when I got home the boys had turned the front room into a pig sty!
Labels: Beethoven, classical music, Deputy Mayor, Deputy Mayor Diaries, Faure, Mozart, Schubert, University of Reading, West Forest Sinfonia
Deputy Mayor Diaries: Ugadi Celebrations
Happy Ugadi! Today is the new year for a few parts of central and southern India and I was invited along to join in the celebrations.
One of the things I love about Reading is the sheer number of different cultures we have. It's adds to the richness of life in the town. Today I had the chance to meet members of the Telugu Association of Reading and Around (TARA) and I received a very warm welcome.
I was treated to some very tasty food, excellent singing and dancing and great company. While I was there Mr Srinivasa Alluri was given a special recognition award for his work with Manavata and 3H - Healthy (food leads to), Happy (people and a more) & Harmonious (community).
TARA runs a lot of events throughout the year to educate children about their Telugu heritage which is rich in art, music, dance, language, poetry and family. I do hope they are part of the Year of Culture in 2016.
A big thank you to everyone who made me feel so welcome and the organisers of this wonderful event.
Labels: dance, Deputy Mayor, Deputy Mayor Diaries, family, music, new year, southern India, TARA, Telugu Association of Reading and around, Ugadi
Deputy Mayor Diaries: Reading Primary School's Music Festival
What a truly wonderful evening tonight was. 400 children from 17 Reading schools took part in a celebration of music and dance. It was the 70th anniversary of the Reading Primary School's Music Festival (RPSMF) and the event was called 'Thank you for the music'.
It was a joy from beginning to end. The voices of 400 children made a wonderful sound and it was great to see the songs signed by some children from The Avenue too. There were also dances and solos performed by some very talented children. We were also treated to a performance of 'Let it go' by Anne Fairbrother.
The following poem was written by Mya Darji who also read it out this evening:
A celebration of music
The celebration of music has evolved over many years,
It all started with the Medieval cheers.
This century brought us Rock 'n' Roll and Elvis,
Girls dropped to his knees watching his pelvis.
The beatles gave us a 60's vibe,
And the Bee gees kept disco Staying Alive.
In the 80's Pet Shop Boys about West End Girls,
And Prince wanted to shower them with diamonds and Pearls.
The 90's brought us Brit Pop.
With the Spice Girls, Blur and Take That,
But in the Noughties, Robbie sadly left and they went splat.
And in the Teenies, we saw their revival,
But that shows sharing good music
Is a fight for survival.
The schools who took part were: Caversham Park, Caversham Primary, Churchend, Emmer Green, E.P. Collier, Garland Junior, Hemdean House, Katesgrove, Manor, Meadow Park, Moorlands, Oxford Road, Park Lane, Redlands, St Annes, The Avenue and The Hil.
I was sad to hear this may have been the last of these events due to the difficulty getting volunteers. I sincerely hope they can keep going and make it to their century!
Labels: celebration, dancing, Deputy Mayor, Deputy Mayor Diaries, Reading Primary School's Music Festival, Reading schools, singing
Deputy Mayor Diaries: Alternative Queen of Reading
This was the second event I attended on Friday 6 March. I was delighted to be asked to judge the Alternative Queen of Reading. I saw myself as a Darcey rather than a Craig although as one point I was nearly booed - whoops!
The Alternative queen is a celebration of all things female. Today is International Women's Day which is another day to celebrate all women have achieved but also to focus on the work we still have to do to achieve fairness and equality for women all around the globe.
There were six acts.
Penelope Porchette who shared her confessions of a serial dieter 'Under tall not overweight'.
Gog who was very funny and shared a song about the British habit of queuing - unless you're in a pub.
Nichole shared a poem about her life then a song called In The Garden which were both very moving.
Cassie Magnolia sang and danced about.
Alex Reindorp was the lady of the house.
Miss Pearl La Peach did a very glittery (and brave) burlesque act.
You can read more about them here. The winnner was Gog and the runner up Cassie Magnolia.
It was a wonderful evening with many ukuleles and much laughter and fun all compered by Baroness Maria Von Hackemann.
Photo thanks to Richard McKenzie
Labels: burlesque, celebration, comedy, dance, Deputy Mayor, Deputy Mayor Diaries, International Women's Day, music, poerty, song, The Alternative Queen of Reading
Deputy Mayor Diaries: Women's World Day of Prayer
On Friday 6 March I attended two very different events to celebrate women. The first was the Women's World Day of Prayer at Abbey Baptist Church. This was an event that was taking place across the world and this year the service had been written by Christian women of the Bahamas and the theme was:
Jesus said to them: what have I done to you?
It was an very interesting service. I am not a Christian but it gave me food for thought and many of the lessons were universal.
The women of the Bahamas had highlighted six concerns they had for the islands and during the service each was addressed and a wish given. They were:
Poverty - Blessed
Domestic Violence - Blameless
Migrants - Accepted
Teenage Mothers - Included
HIV & Aids - Never Alone
Breast Cancer - Cured
We were also asked to write down a word or phrase demonstrating how we could express radical love. This is what I wrote because truly listening is very different to hearing:
It was a multi denominational, global event which made the day even more special.
Labels: Christianity, Deputy Mayor, Deputy Mayor Diaries, The Bahamas, Women's world day of prayer
Deputy Mayor Diaries: Theatretrain - Perform It! Playathon
What an lovely way to spend a Sunday evening! On Sunday 1 March I was invited to watch Theatretrain Reading's Perform It! Playathon. It was an intriguing title and I was really looking forward to it.
I have a bit of a performing arts background and took ballet classes well into my late 20's. I was also a ballet teacher until I had my eldest son. I remember too well the nerves and excitement when waiting to go on stage. The heat of the stage lighting and, in my case, the mild terror that accompanied a performance.
The young people who performed last Sunday hid this all very well. I was treated to some wonderful performances. There was singing, drama and dance but this wasn't any ordinary performance, it took place as a live director show with instructions being received over the sound system from an unseen director. The performers had to listen carefully and react to the instruction being given - very impressive!
There were many songs I recognised from popular musicals like Chicago, Les Miserable and Little Shop of Horrors, all sung very well. The young people and staff involved should all be very proud of their performance. They even managed to pursuede me to get my jazz hands out.
Labels: dance, Deputy Mayor, Deputy Mayor Diaries, drama, perform it, performing arts, playathon, singing, Theatretrain, youth
Deputy Mayor Diaries: Visit from Rudi Delvai - President of World Fair Trade Organisation
If you didn't know, we are half way through Fair Trade Fortnight and Reading, which is a Fair Trade Town, was proud to welcome Rudi Delvai, president of the World Fair Trade Organsiation (WFTO). I was invited to attend a talk by Mr Dulvai about how Fair Trade organisations are certified.
I have always been interested in Fair Trade and its effect on the people it helps. It was a very interesting talk where we were told how organisations are certified and how the WFTO ensure they continue to trade fairly once they have entered the scheme.
There was also time for quetions at the end. I was interested to hear the Scouting movement are very keen to educate their youngsters on Fair Trade and, by using the pester power of children, get parents to consider switching to Fair Trade products. I have first hand experience on this when last year my eldest bounced out of Beavers and insisted I buy Fair Trade bananas from that point onwards. Luckily I was able to show him we already to. Pester power - it works!
There are still lots of events still to take place and you can find out all about them here.
Reading also has a Fair Trade group and their website is here.
One of the audience members made a very good point about paying that bit extra for Fairtrade (although you can find products in places like Lidl and Aldi). You would usually give 50p or a £1 here and there to charity so why not buy Fair Trade and provide a worker somewhere in the word with a decent wage.
Rudi Delvai, me and David Sutton
Labels: Deputy Mayor, Deputy Mayor Diaries, Fair Trade, Fairtrade fortnight, Rudi Delvai, WFTO, World Fair Trade Organisation
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Sea Dogs Fall Again
(Trenton, NJ) - Austin Jackson hit a game-tying three-run home run off Clay Buchholz in the sixth inning and P.J. Pilittere hit a tie-breaking two-out RBI single in the eighth inning, lifting the Trenton Thunder to a 4-3 win over the Portland Sea Dogs in Game 2 of the Eastern League Northern Division Championship Series.
Portland threatened in the ninth inning after Jorge Jimenez singled and Ryan Khoury walked with one out. However, Jose Valdez induced Zach Daeges to hit into a game-ending double play.
Portland had base runners in seven innings and multiple base runners in six of those stanzas, but were 5-for-17 with runners on base, including just 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position.
Mickey Hall laced a two-out, two-run double to snap a scoreless tie for the Sea Dogs in the fourth inning, and Daeges added a run-scoring single in the fifth inning.
Buchholz fanned nine of the first 18 batters he faced, including one in each of the first five innings. He allowed only two singles and a walk in the first five frames and struck out the side in the fifth. However, in the sixth inning, Reegie Corona and Ramiro Pena started the frame with singles before Jackson's blast on a 2-2 pitch. Jackson, who hit safely in 14 of the last 15 games he played against Portland in the regular season, failed to get a sacrifice bunt down before launching a curveball over all three levels of signage in left field.
Buchholz finished with six innings of three-run, six-hit ball, walking one and striking out nine. Richie Lentz followed with a perfect seventh inning.
But in the eighth inning, Trenton scored the go-ahead run with a two-out uprising. Dave Gassner replaced Lentz and retired the first two batters before walking Chris Malec and allowing a single to Colin Curtis. T.J. Large entered the game, and Pilittere ripped the first pitch into right field for his third hit of the game to plate the go-ahead run.
Portland snapped a scoreless tie off Jeff Marquez in the fourth inning with a two-out rally. Marquez walked Josh Reddick and Iggy Suarez to set up Hall, who smacked a two-run double over the head of right fielder Edwar Gonzalez.
In the fifth, Jorge Jimenez drilled a double to start the frame. One out later, Daeges singled to right for his third hit of the game to give the Sea Dogs a three-run cushion.
Marquez kept it scoreless early, stifling Portland rallies in the first and third frames. Jimenez and Daeges singled in the first, but Marquez got Aaron Bates on a flyout and fanned Lars Anderson. In the third frame, Ryan Khoury and Daeges hit consecutive two-out singles, but Bates flew out with runners on the corners to end the inning.
Humberto Sanchez worked around a one-out double in a scoreless sixth inning. Michael Gardner walked two in the seventh inning, but Wilkins Arias came on to get Lars Anderson to pop up to end the inning.
Arias tossed a perfect eighth but left with one out in the ninth after allowing a one-out single to Jimenez. Jose Valdez relieved and walked Khoury before getting the twin killing from Daeges to end the game.
NOTES: Portland is facing Trenton in the Northern Division Championship Series for the fourth straight season, but lost a Game 2 for the first time to the Thunder - the Sea Dogs won at home in 2005 and at Waterfront Park in 2006 and 2007... Argenis Diaz was a late scratch, taken out of the lineup a half-hour prior to first pitch. Suarez moved to shortstop from second base and Khoury was inserted into the lineup in the #2 hole... The start was the first post-season start for Buchholz since September 6, 2006, when he fanned 10 in six innings in a 3-1 win for the Wilmington Blue Rocks over the Frederick Keys in the Carolina League playoffs... Former Sea Dog Devern Hansack tossed six no-hit innings for Triple-A Pawtucket in its playoff series Game 2 with Scranton-Wilkes Barre - Jon Switzer lost the no-hitter with one out in the seventh inning in relief but Pawtucket beat Scranton 3-1 to tie their series at one game a piece... The series will shift to Portland Friday night at 7 - Ryne Lawson (1-1, 4.06) goes for the Sea Dogs against Jason Jones (13-7, 3.33), who was second in the Eastern League in wins and 7th in ERA in the regular season. Tickets remain for the contest and are available on seadogs.com or at the Sea Dogs Ticket Office at 879-9500
Courtesy Mike Antonellis
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Millville approves 2018 budget with $230,000 cushion
Selbyville is trying to finish building a drinking-water plant. South Bethany needs to micro-surface its roads. The Indian River School District can’t afford to hire enough teachers.
In Millville, the biggest 2018-fiscal-year budget...
Friday, May 12, 2017 - 9:58am
Millville to get its own holiday lights, GMB to build park
Millville Town Manager Debbie Botchie sighed and said, quietly, “It’s been 12 long years.”
Botchie finally got her Christmas wish — of more than a decade — on Tuesday, May 9, when the Millville Town Council approved a contract for the...
Disciples to tell their tale in ‘Living Last Supper’
Coastal Point • Tyler Valliant: Jesus Christ’s disciples tell their stories in the ‘Living Last Supper’ performance at Millville U.M. Church. This year’s actors include, from left, Tom Maly, Chuck Erbe, Rich Spina, George Townsend, Bob Heird,...
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 10:33am
Art and religion come to life in the “Living Last Supper,” the story of Jesus Christ’s disciples, which will be presented April 12 and 13 by Millville United Methodist Church.
The one-hour performance begins with Jesus revealing that one...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 9:42am
Lord’s Landscaping looks ahead to 40th year
Coastal Point • Shaun M. Lambert : The Lord’s Landscaping team has been serving the community for nearly 40 years, and continuesIn 1972, after graduating from college and moving to Sussex County, Bill Lord was not planning to open a landscaping...
Aquacare set to celebrate 10th anniversary
Coastal Point photos • Tyler Valliant: Aquacare physical therapist Lauren Nuttle demonstrates her skills on fellow employee Deanine Barclay.After 10 years in its Millville location, the staff at Aquacare Physical Therapy continues to expand its “...
Thursday, March 30, 2017 - 10:44am
Officer-involved shooting shakes Ocean View
Coastal Point • Submitted by Ocean View Police Department: The vehicle being driven on Saturday, March 18, by Ocean View Police Officer First Class Nicholas Harrington was badly damaged during the incident. Harrington received treatment for...
Millville swears in council members, plans some zoning
The Millville Town Council swore in returning Council Members Robert Gordon and Susan Brewer and newcomer Peter Michel on March 14.
Outgoing councilman Steve Small commended Michel, telling the others, “You will enjoy him. … He suffers...
Millville’s Michel steps from HOA to town council
Peter MichelThe Millville Town Council will get a new face this spring, with the addition of Peter Michel.
He’ll take the seat currently held by Steve Small, also a resident of Bishop’s Landing, who was appointed in March of 2016 but opted...
Thursday, March 2, 2017 - 9:25am
Millville calls for town council candidates
Election season is gearing up in the area’s small towns, and the Millville Town Council has three seats up for election on March 4.
Interested candidates must register with Town Hall by Friday, Feb. 3, at 4:30 p.m. They must submit proof...
Thursday, January 26, 2017 - 9:25am
Millville council votes to increase state police coverage
Although summer is the busy season for the area, it appears that local crime increased this past autumn. As a result, police coverage will also increase in Millville. The town council voted this week to hire Delaware State Police troopers for up...
Moving slowly, Dove Landing gets an extension in Millville
A long-planned housing development in Millville may take even longer to get constructed, after the Millville Town Council this week voted unanimously to deny developers a third extension of the Town’s approvals for the Dove Landing project.
Thursday, December 22, 2016 - 9:41am
Millville tightens MBTS traffic requirements as manager leaves
With their management company heading out the door, Millville Town Center, LLC, got permission to continue building in Millville by the Sea.
After requiring a revamped traffic plan, Millville Town Council approved final site plan for Phase...
Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 10:20am
Dump your docs: Millville shred event helps prevent fraud
Got old paperwork gathering dust? In Millville, County Bank is hosting a paper-shredding event, open to the public on Friday, Oct. 14, from noon to 3 p.m. People can bring up to three banker-size boxes worth of papers (a standard-size financial...
Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 11:26am
Millville residents chomping at the bit for playground
Coastal Point • Laura Walter: Playground, walking trail and... timed obstacle course? Millville has grand plans for its future playground at Dukes Drive.Citizens are so excited about the prospect of a new Millville playground that they protested...
Millville buildings go up and down, construction on schedule
A pirate ship may be coming to Millville. That’s the theme of playground equipment that Town staff are considering for the new town park.
Millville’s two biggest projects are proceeding according to plan, as a police and municipal building...
Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 8:06am
Millville’s Botchie named state’s Town Manager of the Year
For perhaps the first time, Debbie Botchie was speechless at a Millville Town Council meeting. But she had just been named Delaware’s Town Manager of the Year for 2016.
That’s a high honor among the 57 municipalities and three counties...
Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 10:06am
Hudson sworn in as new Millsboro town manager
Special to the Coastal Point • Submitted Sheldon P. Hudson has assumed town manager duties in Millsboro.For the first time in more than 23 years, the Town of Millsboro will have a new chief administrative officer, as the Millsboro town council...
Millville wants lower speed limit near park
Millville contains a road that is 0.3 miles long, bends sharply in an L-shaped curve and has a new playground coming that will soon attract pedestrians, cyclists and more cars.
And, inexplicably, tiny Dukes Drive has an un-posted speed...
Millville, Millsboro Food Lion stores purchased by Weis
Four Food Lion supermarkets in Sussex County, including one in Millville and one in Millsboro, have been purchased by Pennsylvania-based Weis Markets.
The grocery chain has purchased 38 Food Lion stores in in Maryland, Delaware and...
Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 11:39am
Millville Mini Storage approved for significant expansion
Millville Mini Storage has gotten the green light for three new storage buildings at 35101 Atlantic Avenue (Route 26).
The Millville Town Council approved the final site plans at their June 12 meeting.
The three new buildings will...
Friday, July 15, 2016 - 7:20am
Millville firefighters, EMTs gather to learn about ACEs
Researchers have known for some time that children who experience abuse and neglect will continue to be negatively affected — even as adults. On the evening of Wednesday, July 6, members of the Millville Fire Department and the Millville EMT...
Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 8:04am
Bond reduction raises issues of building quality in Millville
It was a simple enough vote: The Millville Town Council agrees that enough roadway has been completed in Bishop’s Landing that it can release some bond money back to the developer.
But the two-minute vote on June 28 followed an hour of...
Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 11:05am
Watermen, public: Bay not ready for full-scale aquaculture
It’s up for the Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control (DNREC) to decide, but many stakeholders have said that conversation needs to continue before aquaculture begins full-time in Little Assawoman Bay.
Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 1:53pm
Ground broken on new Millville police partnership building
Coastal Point • Shaun M. Lambert: Dignitaries gathered on Friday, June 10, to break ground on Millville’s future police building.Golden shovels glowed with sunshine at the groundbreaking for Millville’s future police building last Friday, as the...
Keep a leash on it: Millville passes dog-control ordinance
Millville has a new leash law for dogs, starting immediately, after the town council unanimously approved Ordinance 17-03 at their May 24 workshop.
“It’s minor. It’s just for dogs being on a leash,” said Councilman Steve Maneri.
Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 10:50am
Beach towns short on sand but ready for summer
It’s here! The unofficial start of the summer season at the Delaware shore has arrived with Memorial Day weekend, and it’s a time of transition for the area, as the relatively quiet second season of spring sprouts into the hustle and bustle that...
Faden brings analytical skills to Millville Town Council
Valerie Faden is a Pennsylvania attorney who’s used to talking through big problems. She’s made a career from mediation, and she’s bringing that know-how to her first term on the Millville Town Council.
Faden joined the council after an...
Night work to begin on Route 113 and 26 road projects
To accommodate the holiday traffic, major road projects in the area have been put on hold from Thursday, May 26, to Monday, May 30. After that, lane closures will be prohibited on Route 26 and Route 113 during peak daytime hours.
Inspection alleges nearly $200,000 stolen from MVFC
A former treasurer for the Millville Volunteer Fire Company (MVFC) is the focus of an inspection report conducted by the State of Delaware Office of Auditor of Accounts (AOA).
“Our inspection revealed $190,433.61 in personal transactions...
Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 12:34pm
Lord Baltimore sees no injuries in minor electrical fire
Coastal Point • Laura Walter: Firefighters load unused hose onto a Bethany Beach Volunteer Fire Company truck after a small fire at Lord Baltimore Elementary School on Friday, May 6.A recent school fire only resulted a few hours of lost...
Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 11:38am
Millville Town Council approves new special-events fee
For-profit vendors will now pay a fee for displaying their wares in the Town of Millville.
On May 10, the Millville Town Council approved a $25 event license, per vendor, per day. This is Millville’s first peddler license of this kind, for...
BREAKING NEWS: Suspect in alleged MVFC embezzlement charged
Delaware State Police have arrested a 36-year-old Dagsboro man after an audit of a local fire company’s accounts reveal he allegedly stole more than $190,000 in funds.
Justin K. Oakley turned himself into detectives Tuesday, May 10, after...
Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 5:11am
BREAKING NEWS: State inspection reveals close to $200,000 allegedly embezzled from MVFC
A fiscal inspection report released by the State of Delaware Office of Auditor of Accounts (AOA) on Tuesday, May 10, reported that $190,433.61 was allegedly embezzled from the Millville Volunteer Fire Company (MVFC) by their former treasurer...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 - 8:39am
Millville council considers sign update and peddler fees
The Millville Town Council discussed a little of everything during two April meetings, with topics ranging from food trucks to cell phone towers.
Food trucks and other vendors don’t currently have a permitting system in town. On April 26,...
Friday, April 29, 2016 - 9:29am
MVFC members receive Phoenix Awards for life-saving measures
Coastal Point • Submitted: Among the Millville VFC members recognized for their life-saving efforts were: Stephen Gilbert, Dillon Baker, John Watson, Brian McConlogue, Aaron Driscoll, Marissa Carmello, Robert Richardson, Madeline McGrath and Doug...
BART promises show to remember with ‘An Affair to Forget’
Coastal Point • R. Chris Clark: The cast of ‘An Affair to Forget’ is all laughs during rehearsals on Thursday, April 7. The show is set to premiere at the Dickens Parlour Theatre in Millville on Thursday, April 21.You’ve seen them at Thanksgiving...
Princesses, Pirates & Pancakes
Cinderalla, Snow White, Elsa, Anna, Tinkerbell and a boatload of pirates! Millville United Methodist Church and the Millville Town Hall played host to the Get Well Gabby Foundation’s fundraiser, “Princesses, Pirates and Pancakes,” on Saturday,...
Local towns win park/playground grants from DNREC
Local park projects are getting their day in the sun after the Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control (DNREC) announced its 2015 grant awards. Across the state, DNREC’s Outdoor Recreation, Parks & Trails Program...
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 11:05am
‘Beer to Drink Music To’
Coastal Point • R. Chris Clark: ‘Rock and Roll Over’ by KISS spins on ‘Vintage &amp; Vinyl Night’ at the Dogfish Head Bewery in Milton.The countdown to Record Store Day is on.
While the national event will see more than 400...
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 8:08am
Community pulls together for Kramer
Two organizations are holding fundraisers next weekend to help the family of Trevor Kramer, a local teen who died last month, with medical and funeral expenses.
The After-School Club of Hearts in Millville will sponsor a Quarter Auction on...
Mentalist duo to appear at Dickens Parlour Theatre
Jeff and Tessa Evason are coming to Millville later this month to entertain with a demonstration of the “paranormal,” representatives of Dickens Parlour Theatre announced this week.
“Since 1983, the Evasons, who are based in Toronto and...
Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 9:11am
Millville looks at signage — including political signs
The Millville Town Council’s workshop meeting on Tuesday, March 22, could be called a “sign” of the times.
A major topic of discussion was the council’s proposed amendments to its sign regulations — particularly referring to political...
Fire companies to hold live-fire drill on Saturday 3/19
The Roxana Volunteer Fire Company announced that they are hosting a live-fire drill on Saturday, March 19, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the now-vacant Twin Cedars Apartments, located at 36112 Zion Church Road near Frankford.
Friday, March 18, 2016 - 11:48am
Millville United Methodist invites community to Last Supper
Special to the Coastal Point • Anne Martel: Cast members get into character as part of a dress rehearsal for a dramatization of the Last Supper, to be performed at Millville United Methodist Church on Wednesday and Thursday, March 23 and 24.As...
Thursday, March 17, 2016 - 12:15pm
Steven Small appointed to seat on Millville Town Council
After hosting a public forum in February, the Millville Town Council decided on March 9 to appoint Steven Small to fill a one-year vacancy on the council.
On Feb. 23, the Town held a public forum to learn more about the candidates — Tony...
‘A Musical Celebration’ to run at Dickens this Friday and Saturday
The band is getting back together. And they’re headed to Millville.
For the third consecutive year, the Bethany Area Repertory Theatre (BART) will present Eileen Stamnas and Jim Gibney live at the Dickens Parlour Theatre. The career...
Millville By the Sea is planning its next neighborhood
Millville By the Sea is planning to open 103 lots in its next development phase, and the Millville Planning & Zoning Committee met March 1 to review a preliminary site plan submitted by Millville Town Center LLC for MBTS’s next subdivision,...
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 12:25pm
Millville candidates get their say at public forum
Three candidates have offered their services to fill a one-year vacancy on the Millville Town Council.
Before extending an invitation to any of them, the council hosted a Feb. 23 public forum, to learn more about those candidates — Tony...
Friday, February 26, 2016 - 8:14am
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Here's Why Cancelling Battlestar Galactica Was a Horrible Decision!
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Re: Here's Why Cancelling Battlestar Galactica Was a Horrible Decision!
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An interesting view though I think he overstressed the "franchise" potential which never mattered a bit to ABC (since they didn't make money off the merchandise or anything lie that). What he left out was how ABC's decision-making was largely influenced by it's #1 status at the time and it's misguided belief it could get the same numbers on the cheap by putting "Mork And Mindy" in the timeslot which ended up having a domino effect on ABC's ratings across the board that caused it lose forever the "Still the One" status it prided itself on.
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Ever so often, I have wondered what it would have been like if Battlestar had remained a series of tele-films. Instead of the one season we hold so dear, we would have had a few 2-3 hour movies, such as Saga of a Star World, The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, War of the Gods, and the Living Legend (mostly as they were or perhaps expanded). What would that have looked like to have about 3 multi-hour movies over a typical broadcasting season? Would we have had 2-3 years of Battlestar with good ratings eventually spawning a movie franchise, or would it have eventually dried up?
It's hard to say. One thing I will note is that by the late 70s, the age of the "occasional movie" series was on the way out. Universal and NBC had been successful with them for much of the 70s with the rotating "NBC Mystery Movie" series for the first half of the decade but those shows were finally gone in 78. Would an audience have come back to watch a new Galactica movie two-three months after the previous one? The quality of the writing I'm sure would have been better but its not a guarantee the numbers would have been sustained.
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H.R. McMaster
Trump rarely conducts business as usual
CATHERINE LUCEYZeke Miller Jun. 08, 2018 | 12:07 AM
He hectored Mexico’s leader over border wall funding.
Follow-up will be key in the wake of strikes on Syria
Frederic C. Hof Apr. 17, 2018 | 12:12 AM
The attacks on Syrian targets are not aimed at ending the regime of President Bashar Assad, even though the United States called on that regime and its leader...
Assad may have tested Trump’s chemical weapons red line
If the reported Assad regime attack on civilians in a suburb of Damascus is as it appears to be – a chemical assault with something much stronger than...
Trump’s homeland security adviser Bossert quits job at White House
U.S. President Donald Trump’s homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert, has resigned, the president’s spokeswoman said Tuesday, in the latest departure from the...
Trump’s unconventional methods are worth a try in China
Fareed Zakaria Apr. 11, 2018 | 12:11 AM
Ever since the departure of top advisers Gary Cohn and H.R. McMaster, it does seem as if the Trump White House has gotten more chaotic, if that were possible....
'Tired of being told no,' Trump freezes out chief of staff
When President Donald Trump made a congratulatory phone call to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, White House chief of staff John Kelly wasn't on the line.
Is outgoing McMaster the toughest man on Russia?
Ashish Kumar Sen Apr. 06, 2018 | 12:08 AM
U.S. President Donald J. Trump assured the leaders of the Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – at a White House meeting on April 3 that no one has...
Trump tells advisers he wants U.S. out of Syria -senior officials
President Donald Trump is telling advisers he wants an early exit of U.S. troops from Syria, two senior administration officials said Friday, a stance that...
At odds with Bolton on North Korea, Mattis appears isolated
Robert Burns Mar. 28, 2018 | 12:08 AM
Of all the issues that divide U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and President Donald Trump’s incoming national security adviser, John Bolton, one stands out:...
Can Mike Pompeo save U.S. foreign policy?
Ana Palacio Mar. 28, 2018 | 12:08 AM
Rex Tillerson’s tenure as U.S. Secretary of State was one of the shortest, most turbulent and most ineffectual in the history of that illustrious post.
Koreas to hold talks next week to set up summit
The rival Koreas agreed to hold high-level talks next week to prepare for an April summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President...
Bolton may herald further rightward policy shift
Jill ColvinZeke Miller Mar. 24, 2018 | 12:04 AM
John Bolton, U.S. President Donald Trump’s incoming national security adviser – and his third to date – is a divisive foreign policy figure who was an...
Trump to boost exports of lethal drones
Mike StoneMatt Spetalnick Mar. 21, 2018 | 12:08 AM
President Donald Trump will soon make it easier to export some types of lethal U.S.-made drones to potentially dozens more allies and partners, according to...
Trump has decided to oust McMaster: WP
U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to replace his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, but the move is not expected to be made immediately, the...
White House seeks to allay staff concerns over potential shakeup
Mar. 16, 2018 | 09:46 PM
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly assured aides to President Donald Trump Friday that no immediate personnel changes are coming as he sought to tamp down...
Cabinet chaos: Trump’s team battles scandal, irrelevance
Jonathan Lemire Mar. 15, 2018 | 12:05 AM
One Cabinet member was grilled by Congress about alleged misuse of taxpayer funds for private flights.
Turnover, probes set Trump team adrift
Julie PaceZeke Miller and Jonathan Lemire Mar. 03, 2018 | 12:11 AM
Rattled by two weeks of muddled messages, departures and spitting matches between the president and his own top officials, Donald Trump is facing a shrinking...
Trump vents over Russia probe, rails against FBI
Feb. 19, 2018 | 12:11 AM
Venting his fury over the Russia investigation, U.S. President Donald Trump Sunday asserted that the Obama administration bears some blame for the election...
US tells anti-Daesh coalition to 'keep eyes on prize'
The Trump administration, increasingly concerned that the 74-strong coalition it cobbled together to destroy the Islamic State group is losing sight of the...
McMaster talks strategic partnerships in Turkey
U.S. national security adviser H.R. McMaster held talks Sunday in Istanbul with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman, a presidential source...
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Harden hits new heights as Rockets soar over Timberwolves
Houston Rockets' James Harden, right, and Minnesota Timberwolves' Taj Gibson chase a loose ball during the first half of Game 4 in an NBA basketball first-round playoff series Monday, April 23, 2018, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on April 25, 2018, on page 13.
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Target Center
James Harden scored 36 points as the Houston Rockets moved to the brink of a Western Conference first round playoff series victory with a 119-100 rout of the Minnesota Timberwolves Monday. Harden underscored his status as front-runner for the NBA's Most Valuable Player award after leading a stunning third quarter performance that saw the Rockets explode for an astonishing 50 points.
That devastating burst of scoring – a franchise record – included 22 points from Harden as the Rockets transformed what had been a one-point contest at halftime into a comfortable victory.
Point guard Chris Paul weighed in with 25 points – including 15 in the lopsided third quarter – while Eric Gordon had 18 and Trevor Ariza 15 .
George led the scoring for Oklahoma City with 32 points while Westbrook had 23 points and 14 rebounds.
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Roger Guenveur Smith – Frederick Douglass Now
Mar 3, 2019 , 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Schroeder Hall
Open To General Public
Tickets Start at $25
tickets@sonoma.edu
Roger Guenveur Smith presents his internationally acclaimed solo performance, Frederick Douglass Now, a work the Los Angeles Times calls “a personal benchmark for this remarkable artist.” Smith delivers a monologue that mixes Douglass' 19th-century editorials, speeches, and letters with his own original writing. Standing in front of an American flag and using poetry, music, and rap, Smith riffs on not only slavery but modern-day racism, blurring the lines between history and right now.
Jewish Music Series: Sharon Goldman
All the way from New York!
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Jewish Music Series: Rebbe Soul
Deeply emotional and rooted in the ancient songs of Judaism, the music of RebbeSoul brings a modern vibe that re-imagines the music of our ancestors.
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Jewish Music Series: Cantor Roslyn Barak
Roslyn Barak was born and raised in New York and attended the High School of Music and Art and the Manhattan School of Music.
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What Is Executive Functioning?
By Matthew Coppins
Executive Functioning sounds like a phrase that you might hear around a boardroom table. However, it relates to something much more important – the human brain and more specifically, the brain’s ability to maintain focus and attention.
If you think of your brain as a tightly run organization, executive function can be likened to the boss. It’s in charge and responsible for setting goals, planning tasks and basically just getting things done!
Signs that all is not right with the brain’s executive function, may include difficulties around maintaining attention, prioritizing tasks, and switching focus from one task to another. People with executive function challenges can also be perceived as rigid or stubborn, all of which combines to affect work performance and personal relationships.
Having problems with executive function is not necessarily a specific learning difficulty on its own. Rather, it is a broader term to describe challenges within a group of cognitive abilities important to learning. The 3 elements of executive functioning are:
Working Memory
Cognitive Flexibility (also called flexible thinking)
Inhibitory Control (including self-control)
Testing for executive functioning issues requires comprehensive evaluation that looks for underlying learning difficulties. This type of evaluation can be done by a professional who is trained to administer the tests and interpret the results. Specific tests look at a wide range of skills including:
Inhibitory control
Organization and planning
Concept formation
Set shifting (the ability to shift from one task to another)
Word and idea generation
ADD and ADHD are by and large a problem of executive function. The symptoms of a person with ADHD for instance, typically include impulsivity, difficulty paying attention, poor working memory, trouble managing emotions and difficulty shifting focus from one task to another.
People with specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia can often have weak executive function skills. When these learning difficulties are compounded the challenges of learning can become even more complex.
Anxiety and depression are also common in people suffering executive function issues. This could be attributed to the ongoing negative impacts of high stress and lower self-esteem resulting from learning challenges.
Brain imaging studies have been used to identify how executive function issues appear in the brain. Research shows that in people who struggle with these skills, the frontal areas of the brain responsible for executive function are slower to develop. This is also evident in other learning difficulties such as dyslexia.
There is also a genetic component associated with executive function issues. Like many other neuro and physiological ailments, people with executive function issues can often trace back to a family member that may have had similar difficulties.
The standard solutions to improve the lives of those struggling with executive functioning typically involve several strategies in unison. Medication is widely prescribed for attention issues but can have side effects that do little to improve overall well-being. Education workers, coaches and healthcare providers can provide strategies to navigate social situations, improve organizational skills and behavior management (1).
Cognitive training interventions, read brain training, has been used since the late 1970’s to address the root cause of executive function difficulty. Strengthening weaker cognitive functions can be a challenging long term process. However, improvements can be dramatic and the effects permanent (2).
The Understood Team (2019) Understanding Executive Functioning Issues. Retrieved from https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/executive-functioning-issues/understanding-executive-functioning-issues#item3
Doidge, Norman. (2010). The brain that changes itself : stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science. Carlton North, Vic. :Scribe Publications. http://www.normandoidge.com/?page_id=1259
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Book Review: The Shadow Throne
How would you feel if you suddenly got up and find out you are back in time? How would you feel all the movies you have in bollywood are time-themed? That's how I feel when I see the literature available today. How wonderful is tha to a history lover! Aroon Raman brings out a hot thriller that matches Ek Tha Tiger and probably Jab Thak Hai Jaan and a couple of other romantic crime thrillers. Ok minus the romance but then this is a men's movie with a woman cracking the case.
Chandra is a journo who is recovering from the death of his wife to cancer. He is entangled by Hassan, mostly willingly falls for a scoop of a story. He has to know more for himself than the the news article that would come from the plot. What starts with a murder of a flat-skulled giant thrown from the top of Qutub minar ends up in a chase from the caves of Afghanistan to the Pak- India border. What happens in between is like any other old thriller, only here we have a nuclear disaster to avert. But am surprised that I could finish a 300+ page book in two days flat.
Let's analyze the characters a bit without giving away the suspense of the book. Chandra is a unwilling crime seeker with a penchant for mysteries and a freelancer. His wife's friend Meenu plays an excellent teacher or professor who could come up with a choice solution to a riddle Tom Hanks could only dream of solving because she is a history professor! But I love the concept of RAW and ISI working together to solve the sovereignty of two states. Chandra exhibits a rare love for History and travel and is taken on a roller-coaster tide to unveil a nerve wringing thriller and as always he is cool as a cucumber because he is taking notes in his brain all the time.
Hassan, on the other hand, is a double agent trying to figure out what it right to do! Let us put it this way till you read the book. Hassan is trained and is mechanical when he is executing what his bosses want him to be doing and even otherwise. What we come to know is a multifaceted character with a single mean goal. Hassan also plays a good Salman Khan in the book and ends up mashed, tattered and tortured. What else can you get through when you have nothing to lose!
The other characters in the movie are the agents who play smart and cool. What I liked about them is that the book refers to them by names and designations that needn't be remembered as they have helped execute a plot so supreme that they are not significant in the story. What is measured as an outcome is a prophesy that makes the whole attention go on with a could of million lives at stake. Aroon takes it to his best of skills here when he brings the massive villain with a cult following and how he is remarkably versatile with the ways of the world and psychologically plays with everyone.
As I always believe, the greater the villain, the better the plot and the chance for the hero's redemption. I also love the fact that there are no artificial love scenes in the book and is very practically written. Aroon deserves a pat on his shoulder for what he has come up with but there are point which could improve the story. For example how can someone finish off so many things and slip out to Afghanistan so easily from India? A touch of Uncle Sam's troops and an agenda to include them would have helped. A slice of brotherhood in India and Tibet or China would have helped too.
What I would have done to end it in a perfect note would be to have an attempt on Hassan's life and a letter in Chandra's home stating that the Shadow throne still is on and you better watch out! I feel the book ended... how do I put it... too easily.
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Full name Joseph Charles Buttler
Born September 8, 1990, Taunton, Somerset
Major teams England, Comilla Victorians, England Lions, England Under-19s, Lancashire, Melbourne Renegades, Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals, Somerset, Somerset 2nd XI, Sydney Thunder
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Tests 31 54 6 1722 106 35.87 2876 59.87 1 14 204 18 68 0
ODIs 142 117 23 3843 150 40.88 3207 119.83 9 20 321 125 171 31
T20Is 66 58 11 1260 73* 26.80 912 138.15 0 7 102 53 23 4
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Test debut England v India at Southampton, Jul 27-31, 2014 scorecard
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England have had many players down the ages who have gained world acclaim, but Jos Buttler is arguably their first global Twenty20 superstar. Buttler has helped bring England's limited-overs batting into the 21st century, his impact on the one-day and T20 sides extraordinary. In an 18-month period from mid-2014, he scored what at the time were England's three fastest one-day hundreds - thrilling innings against Sri Lanka at Lord's, New Zealand at Edgbaston and, topping the list, a 46-ball onslaught against Pakistan in Dubai. He has also shone at the IPL, whilst also reigniting his Test career after a surprise recall by new national selector Ed Smith.
Softly-spoken and unassuming, with supple hands and a great eye, Buttler kills opposing attacks with kindness, with a graceful flip shot for six over long-on and the occasional resort to a nerveless ramp shot over the wicketkeeper among his most eye-catching shots in an inventive repertoire. Like his captain, Eoin Morgan, his unflustered response to even the most daunting run chase is one of his greatest assets, his steely resolve hidden beneath a benign exterior. Such was his impact for Mumbai Indians in his first appearance in IPL in 2016, capable of mayhem late in the innings, that for a young cricket follower in India with only Twenty20 in their heart, it was possible to imagine that England had rarely, if ever, produced a player of such star quality.
Buttler was in the crowd at Taunton as a young spectator during the 1999 World Cup when India's Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid thrashed what was then the highest partnership in ODI cricket. He was hooked. Somerset gained special permission from the ECB to add him to their Academy at 12, two years early, and he came to prominence as a 19-year-old in the 2010 season for Somerset, especially in the one-day arena where his clear-minded and quick-footed aggressive batting helped him to 440 CB40 runs at 55.00. He made his first-class debut against Lancashire at Taunton in 2009 and became a regular in the County Championship from May 2010 - playing a part in Somerset's title challenge that season. He combined in particularly potent fashion with Kieron Pollard in Somerset's run to Twenty20 Finals Day in both 2010 and 2011, and impressed in the 2011 CB40 final, making 86 from 72 balls in Somerset's defeat to Surrey.
He made his international debut in late 2011 and became a fixture of England's T20 side. A first ODI appearance came against Pakistan in the UAE during the winter, though he had to wait almost a year for his second cap, this time as wicketkeeper. When Ashley Giles took over as limited-overs coach one of his first key decision was to ditch Craig Kieswetter for Buttler on a tour of India. With Kieswetter still preferred as Somerset's gloveman, it was that rivalry that caused Buttler to leave his beloved West Country and switch to Lancashire for the 2014 season. Lancashire saw him for 10 Championship matches, but it was soon apparent he would be making only fleeting visits in the future.
England looked to him for impetus and increasingly he delivered, striking 99 against West Indies at North Sound and kicking off the 2014 ODI summer with a first hundred against Sri Lanka at Lord's as he led a failed run chase virtually single-handed. When Matt Prior became stricken by Achilles trouble - what proved to be a career-ending injury - the selectors gambled by throwing Buttler into the Test team. He scored five half-centuries in his first eight Tests, including 85 on debut against India at the Ageas Bowl, but his form faltered and he lost the gloves to Jonny Bairstow on England's tour of the UAE in 2015-16, during a period where his keeping started to make necessary improvements but his batting slip away.
There were no such doubts about his place in the white-ball teams. His seniority was recognised when he was named Morgan's vice-captain for the 2015 World Cup and, although that tournament was an unhappy one for England, Buttler was a key member of the side that reached the final of the World T20 a year later. His dynamic batting was emblematic of England's one-day reinvention under Morgan, though he also began to demonstrate increased range to his game - when he led England to an extraordinary one-wicket win over Australia at Old Trafford in 2018, his unbeaten 110 from 122 balls was by far the slowest hundred of his career.
Amid increasing demand on the T20 circuit, which included spells in the Bangladesh Premier League and Australia's Big Bash, Buttler's Test star seemed to be waning. He was briefly recalled in India in 2016-17 but then spent more than a year on the fringes, and was even overlooked as Bairstow's back-up during the following winter's Ashes tour. However, his stellar form for Rajashtan Royals in the 2018 IPL - he equalled the league record for consecutive fifties - prompted Smith to pick up the phone. Impressive contributions against Pakistan followed, and then, at long last, a maiden Test hundred, recorded in defeat to India at Trent Bridge. Suddenly, Buttler was integral in all three formats once again.
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MUNICH, Germany -- Jurgen Klopp has insisted Liverpool's Champions League focus will not be diverted by "pundits from Manchester United" after rejecting claims by Gary Neville that the club's Premier League title prospects would be boosted by a European exit at the hands of Bayern Munich.
Liverpool, currently one point behind Premier League leaders Manchester City, face Bayern in the Allianz Arena in a round of 16 second-leg tie knowing that a score draw will be enough to secure a place in the quarterfinals following last month's 0-0 draw at Anfield.
But with City still aiming to add the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup to the Carabao Cup they won last month -- teeing up the prospect of an unprecedented quadruple -- former United captain Neville said last week that being eliminated by Bayern would help Liverpool's title bid.
Speaking on the Gary Neville Podcast, he said: "I'm going to say it: go out against Bayern Munich. That sounds like madness.
"Of course, you'd never play to lose a game, but it will be in Liverpool's favour if they have a clean run as they can get everyone fresh."
Yet speaking at his pre-match press conference in Munich on Tuesday, when asked whether progression would give Liverpool greater momentum, rather than drain their resources, Klopp was quick to dismiss the comments of pundits attached to United, Liverpool's great rivals.
"I don't think any other manager in the world other than the Liverpool manager would be asked this question when they are playing a Champions League game," Klopp said. "The pundits come from Manchester United and start this thing!
"That is how it is. You also ask us in the FA Cup or Carabao Cup if it is better that we don't win.
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"We won't see it like this. In the cups, we wanted to go through and we didn't, but we want to win this game.
"The whole world is watching tomorrow night, but we want to be focused on this game. Even if it harms us [by winning], we could not change it.
"I just wish the guys who write these questions find a way in real life to make it possible and not just in the studio. It would help.
"If we win this game, it could build momentum. If we win tomorrow and play good football, it could change the world. If not, on Thursday it is over and we concentrate on Fulham."
Klopp admitted that Liverpool's task is straightforward against Bayern, saying: "we have [to] defend tomorrow and score ... from where we score, I don't care."
Despite the prospect of reaching the last eight, however, the focus on Liverpool remains firmly fixed on the title race due to the club's inability to win the English title since 1990.
But Klopp insists he and his team are not feeling the pressure of expectancy in Liverpool as they attempt to end their 29-year wait.
"The pressure and titles -- if you come to England, people ask the same question and answers," Klopp said. "But we don't see that pressure.
"We want to be champions, of course. We are not stupid. We don't have pressure or feel pressure, the atmosphere is great in the club.
"If people say I have to achieve success, I am happy with that. People know where we started from and where we are at.
"We feel well, we are young team and we can develop further and see where it leads us to."
Klopp, meanwhile, voiced his surprise that Bayern trio Mats Hummels, Thomas Muller and Jerome Boateng will no longer play for Germany following the decision of national coach Joachim Low to end their international careers last week.
All three were key figures in Germany's 2014 World Cup triumph and Klopp admits he cannot understand the finality of Low's decision.
"Having a break from the national team now, they will feel more power [by playing fewer games]," Klopp said
"I am a coach myself and I think Jogi Low has the 100 percent right not to pick them because he has other players at his disposal.
"I don't know if he can say 'I won't pick you ever again,' but I don't know how it works with the national team.
"At a club, you can say that a player will leave in the summer. I can say who leaves, but with a national team, I don't know how it can be so determined and you can say never again.
"I understand the need to look at new generations, but we will see what is delivered in the end. That's how coaches are measured."
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+ ====== Adwoa Aboah ======
+ Adwoa Aboah is a British model that has appeared in ad campaigns for H&M, appeared in editorials and has also been on the runway.
+ * Born: 18th May 1992
+ * Nationality: British
+ * Waist: 24.5”
+ * Bust: 32”
+ * Hips: 35.5”
+ * Eye Color: Brown
+ Adwoa Aboah is signed with Storm Model Management London, Ford Models Paris and The Lions New York.
+ In 2009 Adwoa Aboah appeared in an editorial for i-D Magazine.
+ In 2010 she appeared in an ad campaign for H&M.
+ In 2011 she walked the runway for Topshop spring show and she was in an editorial for Wonderland Magazine.
+ In 2012 she appeared in editorials for Arena Homme + and British Vogue and she was on the cover of Volt Magazine.
+ In 2013 she appeared in an ad campaign for Dominic Jeans, she appeared in editorials for W Magazine, Modern Weekly China, Love Magazine, Vogue USA and Russh and she walked the spring show for Simone Rocha.
+ In 2014 she walked the fall shows for Sibling, Fashion East and Simone Rocha, she was on the cover of Lurve Magazine, she appeared in editorials for Man About Town, Lurve Magazine, i-D Magazine, Love Magazine, Teen Vogue and W Magazine and she was in ad campaigns for Aldo Shoes and Call It Spring.
+ In 2015 Adwoa Aboah was in an editorial for Out of Order Magazine.
+ She has also been in ad campaigns for Henry Holland Eyewear, Stella McCartney for Adidas, Nike and United Colors of Benetton.
+ * [[http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/Adwoa_Aboah/]]
+ * [[http://models.com/models/adwoa-aboah]]
+ * [[http://www.city-data.com/forum/fashion-beauty/|Discuss Adwoa Aboah on our popular forum]]
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Fashion Wiki » Brian Shimansky
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+ ====== Brian Shimansky ======
+ Brian Shimansky is an American male model as well as photographer and wood worker.
+ * Nationality: American
+ * Waist: 32”
+ * Chest: 40”
+ * Eye Color: Blue
+ Brian Shimansky is signed with Priscilla’s Model Management Sydney, DT Model Management Los Angeles, Core Artist Management Hamburg, Scoop Models Copenhagen, Traffic Models Barcelona, Established Models London, d’management group Milan, Success Models Paris and Soul Artist Management New York.
+ In 2008 Brian Shimansky appeared in an editorial for the December issue of L’Officiel Hommes that was called Bedtime Stories.
+ In 2009 he appeared in an editorial for the spring issue of Hercules Magazine that was called Live Flesh. He appeared in an editorial for the May issue of V Man that was called The Main street Card Shop. He appeared in an editorial for the September issue of Glamour Germany that was called Let’s Talk About Sex. He appeared in an editorial for the September issue of Contributing Editor that was called The Night is Young. He appeared in an editorial for the fall issue of Geil Magazine that was called Models by Greg Vaughan. He appeared in an editorial for the fall issue of Struck Magazine that was called Brian Shimansky by Dakila. He was in the spring ad campaign for D&G and he was in the fall ad campaign or Saks Fifth Avenue.
+ In 2010 he was in the spring ad campaign for Blanco. He was in the fall ad campaigns for Moncler and Gaudi. He appeared in an editorial for the January issue of The Ones 2 Watch: New Wave that was called The Rest. He appeared in an editorial for the spring issue of Portrait that was called Brian for Sport and Street. He appeared in an editorial for the spring issue of 7th Man Magazine that was called Zing!. He appeared in an editorial for the soring issue of Dansk that was called Bog Hunk O’Chunk. He appeared in an editorial for the fall issue of Slurp Magazine and he appeared in an editorial for the fall issue of Hercules Magazine that was called Menage a Trois.
+ In 2011 he appeared in an editorial for the spring issue of Arena Homme that was called Anatomy of a Murder. He appeared in an editorial for the April issue of GQ Magazine that was called The Boating Sweater. He appeared in an editorial for the September issue of W Magazine that was called One for the Ages. He appeared in an editorial for the fall issue of Candy Magazine that was called for Transsex & The City. He appeared in an editorial in October that was called the Evening News for Conde Nast Menswear Magazine. He appeared in an editorial for the October issue of Contributing Editor that was called Soul Asylum and he was on the cover of the spring issue of Arena Homme.
+ In 2012 he was in ad campaigns for Versace Eros Fragrance and Macy’s. He appeared in an editorial for the February issue of Flaunt that was called Brian and Chad by Ruvan Wijesooriya. He appeared in an editorial for the spring issue of Flaunt that was called Joseph Altuzarra. He appeared in an editorial for the spring issue of Uomo Collezioni that was called Dynamic Blue by Davide Spano. He appeared in an editorial for the April issue of Out Magazine that was called Miami Heat. He appeared in an editorial for the August issue of Flaunt that was called Friends Romans and Countrymen. He walked the Backstage at Number Lab by Gregory Vaughan and he walked the spring shows for Michael Bastian and Nautica.
+ In 2013 he walked the spring shows for Philipp Plain and Nautica. He was on the spring cover of Apollo Magazine. He appeared in an editorial for the March issue of August Man Malaysia that was called The Urban Gentleman. He appeared in an editorial for the spring issue of Hercules Magazine that was called One by One. He appeared in an editorial for the April issue of Dress To Kill Magazine that was called Sport Chic. He appeared in an editorial in April that was called XEX Magazine Men’s edition. He appeared in an editorial for the June issue of S Moda for El Pais that was called A La Conquista del Verano. He appeared in an editorial for the September issue of Schon Magazine that was called Made to Pleasure. He appeared in an editorial for the fall issue of Dsection Magazine that was called Glittering Crowds and Shimmering Clouds in Canyons of Steel. He appeared in an editorial for the October issue of Dsection Magazine that was called Winter Coats. He appeared in an editorial for the October issue of DA MAN Magazine that was called Bringing Sexy Back and he was in the spring ad campaign for Versace Eros Fragrance.
+ In 2014 he was in the spring ad campaign for Versace Jeans. He appeared in the spring ad campaign for Versace Eros Fragrance. He appeared in an editorial for the February issue of Interview magazine that was called American Hustle. He appeared in an editorial for the April issue of L’Officiel Hommes Singapore that was called Paradise. He appeared in an editorial for the May issue of Apollo Magazine that was called On Set. He appeared in an editorial in July that was called banned Story. He appeared in an editorial for the fall issue of L’Officiel Hommes Singapore that was called La Bare. he was on the spring cover of L’Officiel Hommes Singapore. He walked the Jeffery Fashion Cares. He walked the Life Ball Vienna Show. He walked the amfAR New York Gala show and he walked the Alexander Wang x H&M show.
+ In 2015 Brian Shimansky walked the fall presentations shows for Gents and Stephen F. He walked the Jeffrey Fashion Cares. He walked the spring show for Thorsun. He appeared in an editorial for the January issue of Egoiste that was called Credit Crunch. He appeared in an editorial for the March issue of Vogue Mexico that was called La Ley del Deseo. He appeared in an editorial in March that was called Leistungs Trager by Uves Borgwardt for Best Fashion magazine. He appeared in an editorial for the spring issue of Hercules Magazine that was called Impressive Encounter. He was in an ad campaign for Versace Eros Pour Femme Fragrance and he was in an ad campaign for Barneys.
+ * [[http://models.com/models/brian-shimansky]]
+ * [[http://ftape.com/model/?portfolio=brian-shimansky]]
+ * [[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/fashion/mens-style/brian-shimansky-model-and-woodworker.html]]
+ * [[http://www.city-data.com/forum/fashion-beauty/|Discuss Brian Shimansky on our popular forum]]
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You are here: records > 2010s > season-2014 > reports > 1st-xi > poloc-30-august
Greenock's batting lets them down again
Poloc vs Greenock 1st XI
WDCU CSL First Division
Greenock 1st XI 73 M Nofal 5 for 12, I Malik 3 for 26
Poloc 74 for 1 M Nofal 33*
Greenock’s dismal 2014 season came to an end on Saturday when they subsided in the most abject way to a 9-wicket defeat to Poloc at Shawholm. This defeat in many ways summed up just what has gone wrong with Greenock’s cricket this season when once again their batting collapsed to a miserable 73 all out.
Greenock’s skipper, Shailesh Prabhu, lost the toss and was, not unsurprisingly, given the wet weather of the previous 24 hours, asked to bat by his opposite number. Prabhu and his opening partner, Neil Flack, actually made a reasonable start against the bowling of overseas player, Pierce Fletcher and the promising Scottish Under-15 player, Ihtisham Malik. Midway through the 6th over, Greenock were sitting comfortably at 25 for 0. By the end of that over, the score had changed to 27 for 2 and the momentum of the game had totally changed.
Skipper Prabhu was the first to go, caught by Shah for 11 off the bowling of Malik. Two balls later and after a couple of wides, Dwight Thomas was once again dismissed LBW and without scoring. Without doubt, Thomas’ season has been disappointing and the runs that were expected from him have rarely materialised.
Poloc now introduced their overseas amateur, Malcolm Nofal, into the attack and he proceeded to rip through the Greenock batting. A number of small partnerships developed but never came to anything and on three occasions, two wickets fell at the same total.
Neil Flack was third to go, caught by Millen off Malik’s batting for 14, a score which was to prove the highest of the innings. Harry Briggs (3) and Jonathan Hempsey (8) both fell at 47, the former bowled by Fletcher and the latter LBW to Nofal. Chris Hempsey was bowled by Nofal for 3 and when Batters (6) and Ware (10) fell at 67, it was clear that there was to be no comeback by the lower order.
Nofal claimed the last two wickets, both LBW, of McDougall and MacNab, to finish with the flattering figures of 5 for 12 in just 5.2 overs. Malik was the other major wicket-taker with 3 for 26 and the Greenock innings was all over for 73 in just 23.2 overs.
Tea was not taken between innings and the Poloc reply started ten minutes later. Greenock claimed an early success when opener Anjum Aslam, after hitting two boundaries, hit the last ball of Tom Batters’ first over to Greg McDougall who claimed the catch.
That was as good as it got for Greenock. Nofal came to the crease and quickly exerted his domination over the bowlers. The match was all over after just 12.3 overs when Poloc reached their target of 74. Nofal was undefeated on 33 and Shah on 11 and Tom Batters was the lone successful Greenock bowler with 1 for 32.
A desperately disappointing day in what is without question one of the poorest seasons in Greenock’s long history. The statistics tell the full story.
Just one league win out of 11 completed games left the team firmly rooted at the foot of the table. On 6 occasions in these games, the batting failed to even reach three figures. Overall they scored 1418 runs for the loss of 105 wickets whilst their opponents totalled 2277 runs for the loss of 74 wickets. These figures demonstrate quite clearly the gap between Greenock and the opposition.
Only 4 players scored more than 100 runs in the league season – Neil Flack was the most successful with 292, and Dwight Thomas (147), Shailesh Prabhu (141) and Greg McDougall (108) were the others who reached this minor landmark. On the bowling front, only Tom Batters with 20 wickets and Neil Flack with 12 were in double figures for victims.
Next season, the Western Union leagues will be comprised of 10 teams, as opposed to the 8 of this season. Greenock will again be in the First Division and the goal has to be to avoid relegation from that division to the next level of Western Union cricket. Even the most optimistic of supporters will realise that this will not be straightforward, if the team play as they have done this year.
During the winter months, the club has to take stock of where it is and come up with a plan to turn around the position. Otherwise, it faces a long and slow drop down the divisions. There is young talent in the club. Neil Flack has done really well this season for the club and at the international level, and this was topped by being appointed as captain of the Scottish Under-17 team against Ireland. Harry Briggs and Louis Ware have been features in the 1st XI all season and while both have struggled to impose themselves, the experience ought to stand them in good stead for future seasons.
The team has rarely been able to field a settled side during the season and this has not helped. The impact of this was all too often felt by the Glenpark XI who had great difficulty at times in fielding a side. This was exemplified on Saturday when they faced the Shawholm XI. The latter scored a scarcely believable 402 for 7 in their 50 overs, with Armour scoring 173. In reply, the Glenpark XI were dismissed for 86. But the real point was that the team that was fielded was a mixture of the very old and the very young and was no match for a more experienced Poloc outfit who with this result won the Reserve League.
There will be no easy fix for Greenock. But a club that has known many years of success in its 151 years of existence knows that it has to work hard to bounce back and that work has to start now.
Thanks are expressed to the Club’s sponsor, Cleaning Supplies 4U, and to all the supporters who have faithfully followed the club during this most difficult of seasons.
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You are here: records > 2010s > season-2016 > news-archive > preview-25th-june-26th-june
Greenock look to maintain promotion challenge against Hillhead
Greenock approach the mid-point in the 2016 league season in a very strong position following the Club's best form in recent seasons. Six wins from the seven matches which have been completed have put the Glenpark side in second top spot, just one percent behind leaders Poloc.
A total of eighteen matches are possible from the full league programme during the season, but poor weather will usually knock out a number of these. To date this season, thanks to the recent good weather, especially at weekends, only one match has had to be cancelled.
This Saturday Greenock welcome newly promoted Hillhead to Glenpark. The Glasgow side struggled with their form from the opening Saturday of the league season and recorded six defeats from their first six matches played to lie bottom of the WDCU Division One. Last weekend, the Hughenden side put on their best performance of the season and defeated Renfrew to gain their first league win of 2016.
Set a total of 154 runs to win, Hillhead scored the runs with just five wickets down and with two overs to spare. The win hoisted the Hughenden side off bottom spot as Weirs, who also have a poor record in the league, lost heavily to third placed Irvine.
WDCU CSL First Division Table (at 18th June)
NVT Poloc
West of Scotland
Stirling County
Queensberry St Michael's
Glasgow Accies
On the face of it, Hillhead should present Greenock with a comfortable win, but cricket regularly throws up unexpected results and the Glenpark side need to ensure that there is no 'banana skin' associated with this fixture.
In three of their matches, Hillhead have batted very poorly and failed to score a challenging total, but in the other four, quite good totals have been racked up, albeit that only one win has been achieved. Keetan Patel has been their most consistent run scorer but has only scored one fifty in the seven games. Highest scorer is Paul Bartlett with 89 scored against Irvine two weeks ago.
The Hillhead bowling attack has not ripped through any opponents, but the veteran and man of many clubs, Imran Adrees, is one player to watch as he has come into a good vein of form in the last couple of weeks with 4 wickets for 19 runs against Irvine and 4 wickets for 20 runs last week against Renfrew.
Greenock will field the same side which won easily last Saturday in Dumfries against St Michael's at the Kingholm ground alongside the River Nith. Neil Flack, with a career best 8 wickets for 22 runs, will no doubt once again feature prominently. Noted mostly for his batting as an opener, Flack will look to score well on Saturday at Glenpark, but with confidence sky high after ripping through St Michael's, it would not be a surprise if he once again bagged several wickets against Hillhead.
With what may be a fairly brittle batting line-up, Saturday's visitors, Hillhead, may find difficulty with the pace of Declan White. White has been a consistently good performer with the ball for Greenock and has already bagged one five wicket haul. Others who could share the bowling for Greenock include Jonathan Hempsey, Phil McIntosh, Louis Ware, Greg McDougall.
Greenock have either been asked to field first when they have lost the toss or have shown a preference to bat second in almost all of their league matches to date and it has paid off very well. The team has chased down runs well and shown a confidence in their batting line-up which has been missing for some time.
Damon Rootes has been in fine form and no matter the total set by opponents, he has batted extremely well, gaining a league best 81 runs against West of Scotland two weeks ago and also a century against Stirling County in the Scottish Cup at New Williamfield. Others too have contributed significant runs most weeks. Chris Hempsey with 29 against West of Scotland two weeks ago and 26 not out last week against St Michael's has formed good partnerships with Rootes.
Greenock should keep up their winning momentum against Hillhead on Saturday and, with league leaders Poloc travelling down the Ayrshire coast to play Irvine, a win for Greenock will keep the Glenparkers' promotion aspirations well on target.
The team for the match, which will start at the later time of 1pm, is the same as has played and won on the previous two Saturdays.
This match is kindly sponsored by Blair & Bryden (Solicitors)
The Glenpark XI, bounced back from their defeat at the hands of Partick when they easily defeated Kingholm last Saturday by 9 wickets and they will look to record another win when they take on Hughenden in Glasgow to consolidate their mid-table position. So far this season, there have been some pleasing performances by the younger members of the team, notably from William Goan and Jamie Nowell which bodes well for the club's future. This match will start at 12 noon.
On Sunday, the 1st XI >turn their attention to the Scottish Cup and a Quarter Final tie at Glenpark against top Edinburgh side, Carlton. This match will provide a real test for the young Greenock side as Carlton sit in third place in the Eastern Premier Division and are clearly a team with plenty of strength. Ex- Greenock player, Fraser Watts is still going strong for Carlton and his wicket will be a prized one for Greenock. The team for this match, which will start at 12 noon, shows two changes from Saturday's selection with Harry Briggs and Chirag Pandher replacing the unavailable Sehmat Pandher and Shailesh Prabhu.
The Hillend XI were due to play Poloc Academy on Sunday at Glenpark but the Scottish Cup match takes priority and this means another blank weekend for the Hillenders.
Greenock Cricket Club is sponsored this season by Cleaning Supplies 4U.
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Tag Archives | MTA
7 Bryant Park: Hines Gets Approval to Name Green Trophy Tower
By Stephen Del Percio on February 23, 2012 in 7 Bryant Park, Bryant Park, LEED-NC, Manhattan, New York City
Hines has secured 7 Bryant Park as the name and formal address for its 28-story boutique trophy tower, which will be designed by Pei Cobb Freed and seek an unspecified level of LEED certification from USGBC.
Friday Reading: Slate’s Green Crowdsourcing Experiment Winds Up; Manhattan’s Secret Subway Tunnels
By David Roth on April 16, 2010 in Infrastructure, Manhattan, New York City
The weekend’s more or less here, although weather-wise it’s strictly Tuesday. This means it’s time to read some interesting — if only tangentially gbNYC-relevant — stuff. What, you were going to work?
Community Calls on the MTA to Require Sustainable Development at the West Side Rail Yards
By Meredith Taylor on January 8, 2008 in Hudson Yards, LEED-ND, Manhattan, New York City, Zoning
The Hudson Yards Community Advisory Committee has released a response to the West Side Rail Yards proposals in a letter to the MTA that calls for green building practices across the Hudson Yards project.
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Legacy media beginning to see through Obama’s appeal?
October 9, 2012 by B. Daniel Blatt
Yesterday, Glenn Reynolds linked a post that I first read on my iPhone, then read again after I had returned to LA (when a reader e-mailed me the piece as it fit in nicely with a conversation we were having.
That piece is Stacy McCain’s reflection on Chris Cilizza’s piece asking whether Obama is overrated as a candidate where the Washington Post reporter duly notes that “Four years ago, that question would have been unimaginable.” “That the question ‘would have been unimaginable’ in 2008”, Stacy offers
. . . is likely a result of Cillizza having his head inside the liberal media echo chamber where never was heard a discouraging word about Obama. Democrats were pumped up and eager for action after eight years of Bush, and having a completely untested candidate allowed them to project onto Obama whatever they wished to see there. If you bought into that hype (as Cillizza evidently did), then it was easy to imagine Obama the Light-Bringer riding to glory astride a flying unicorn, eating Magic Peace Flakes for breakfast and farting rainbows all day long.
Read the whole thing. It is fascinating to see so many folks in the legacy media saying what conservatives have been saying at least since Obama started racking up victories in Democratic primaries and cauci in 2008. Our reader Kurt shared with me this image that Dr. Sanity posted on February 14, 2008:
Filed Under: 2012 Presidential Election, Obama Hopenchange, Obama Worship & Indoctrination
October 9, 2012 at 5:45 am - October 9, 2012
You cannot resonate with people slave to their emotions. All they can understand is BUSHITLER!!1!!11 and oooohhbama DREAMY!!111!!!ELEVENTY
It is worse than talking to a Bieber 11 year old fan. With the latter at least you know that in another 2 years she will be infatuated with another celebrity and potentially after 10-20 years with none, I cannot say the same of the obamabots. I believe they will require massive dose of therapy to try to cope with the loss.
Was anybody successful ‘resonating’ (using the term loosely) with levi? I am not talking about actual facts, people like him probably believes that the ambassador in Benghazi must have done something wrong to deserve his fate, but simply pointing out that obama never wrote anything during his tenure as a ‘professor’, that his ghost writer wrote in his bio that his grandmother was a typical white person. When someone denies pure evidence how can you ‘resonate’?
During a debate, the tenets of logic must be shared. Not the case with leftists. There is no other cult comparable to the 0bama cult. Not even Camelot Kennedy comes close. Hell at this point not even Kim Sung Il comes close. At least those people are FORCED to be cultists. Our local leftists do that sadly out of free will.
I personally made the conscious decision to avoid spending time with leftists. They just do not resonate with my worldview (or resonate at all).
Richard R says
Susan said, “I personally made the conscious decision to avoid spending time with leftists.”
On behalf of leftists everywhere I offer you our heartfelt THANK YOU!
heliotrope says
October 9, 2012 at 10:06 am - October 9, 2012
Andrew Sullivan at the Beast intones:
Romney was and is a shameless liar and opportunist….
That is the problem with leftists. They can only name call. They fix their anger on their enemy and they get their bile roiling and they will not allow the divide to narrow, nor step away from the demagoguery.
Susan said @ #1:
During a debate, the tenets of logic must be shared. Not the case with leftists. There is no other cult comparable to the 0bama cult.
And now, Axelrod is running around saying that Obama was totally overwhelmed by the endless pile of lies that Romney heaped one upon another during the debate.
And what were the lies? Why anything that diverges from the Obama narrative, of course. There is but one “truth” and that is whatever comes out of Obama’s mouth.
Again, Susan nails it by pointing out that Obamism and leftism is a cult. It is statism, fascism, communism, the Dear Leader, “Forward with Hope and Change and What’s Happening Now” all wrapped up in one endless swoon. Leftists and cultists have an extra gene that tells them what “feels” right. They consider it to be a superior, extra rational gene. Sort of an elite common sense ability that forces them to sneer at the poor suckers who “just don’t get it.” That is why leftist and cultists are the luckiest people in the world. They have each other and it is always them against the sheeple who must be herded.
Susan said:
To which Richard R replied:
I take Susan’s point. What is the use of trying to interact with a person who is given over to Obama the Light-Bringer riding to glory astride a flying unicorn, eating Magic Peace Flakes for breakfast and farting rainbows all day long, while declaring that Romney was and is a shameless liar and opportunist?
Leftists are happily and deeply delusional. They like themselves and really dislike those who are not one of them. There is no diversity beyond the limits which define the leftist world. That is what it means to be delusional.
Peter Hughes says
Here’s the problem in a nutshell, girls – SnObama believes his own fawning press.
As Rob pointed out – the Emperor has no clothes.
Peter H.
North Dallas Thirty says
Comment by heliotrope — October 9, 2012 @ 10:06 am – October 9, 2012
I can’t imagine what it is like to live in the world of Richard Rush, where not only is anyone who disagrees with you wrong, but is in fact a drooling idiot, a complete homophobe, a person who is just waiting for the opportunity to get into political power so that s/he can order you to be rounded up, put in cattle cars, and shipped to the death camps.
This really is the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives are conservatives because they acknowledge that, even though they may not have made a decision, it could certainly be the right one, even if they disagree with it. Liberals, on the other hand, will accept no decision that they did not make and/or with which they disagree.
The funny part is how Richard Rush and his fellow bigots make fun of Christians and Jews (but not Muslims, natch) by pointing out God’s alleged foibles…..but then turn purple and shriek “homophobe” and “racist” when you point out the very ACTUAL failures of their god Obama.
Bruce (GayPatriot) says
“Inside the media echo chamber” loosely translates to “up Obama’s rectum.”
Bastiat Fan says
Damnit, Bruce @6—you beat me to it!
October 9, 2012 at 12:02 pm - October 9, 2012
I have just finished Ann Coulter’s new ballistic missile, Mugged, and it is a fantastic read.
Warning: you will continually feel the effects of the slime as she reports the game of leftist demagoguery as the play the race card without any discernible provocation.
It is, to build on Bruce’s observation, a trip up the fecal shoot of the common leftists to examine their polyps of technique which they try to pass off as thinking.
Out of general curiosity, has Richard R ever posted a salient comment? Or, is it always just about him?
Shoot, chute, whatever. I kinda like shoot as it calls up the imagery of what is being fired. But, chute is what the feeble mind did not write, but should have. I am so disgusted with myself that I will refrain from beating my wife for 24 hours.
Susan – you nailed it. I’ve also made the decision as you did not to interact with a lot of my leftist friends during election time. They can’t be reasonable about the fundamentals, they just think this guy is the Messiah and can do no wrong. I have other liberal friends who can debate the issues without name calling and overtalking, but man, they are few and far between.
alanstorm says
October 9, 2012 at 1:42 pm - October 9, 2012
Bruce, the amazing part is that not only have so many people accomplished this feat, but they’ve managed to push far enough to maintain a firm liplock on his ass…or other part.
The mind boggles…
The_Livewire says
I prefer to relax with my leftest friends, remaining bemused and letting their rhetorical flourishes doom them.
I’ve said before, here and elsewhere, that I’m a ‘here and no farther’ kind of guy. (i.e. for the issue of SSM, I’ll stand with my gay friends for domestic partnerships, ala ‘Fred’ but oppose changing the definition of ‘marriage’) So when my liberal friends (and their friends) use broad flourishes, I’ll calmly hang them with their own rope.
“See! [religious person X] said [stupid statement Y], that’s the problem with you religious types!”
“Wow, may I borrow your broad brush there to equate you with noted athiests Hitler, Mao, and Stalin? Thank you.”
“You shouldn’t oppose Same Sex Marriage! People should be able to act on their genetic attraction!”
“Why X, I didn’t know you supported child molestation. After all, paedophelia has a genetic component and you just said people should be able to act on their genetic attraction. I’m shocked.”
Live by the broad statement, die by the broad statement.
TnnsNe1 says
In 2008, I asked a liberal friend why she was voting for Obama. Her response, “He speaks to me.”
She became unemployed in the beginning of 2009. She is currently vastly underemployed. I asked her again why she is voting for Obama. Her response, “He speaks to me.”
Ted B. (Charging Rhino) says
“He speaks to me.”
Co-dependency is a wonderful-thing.
George Orwell was right….
Rattlesnake says
In 2008, during the presidential campaign, I was a Canadian high school student in Grade 11, and I saw through the hype surrounding Obama. I didn’t pay nearly as much attention to politics then as I do now (I still payed attention, though). I can remember thinking that Obama’s campaign lacked substance and that he was popular like a celebrity might be, not like someone who is trying to be given the most powerful position in the world (that is, his appeal was based on nothing more than a “celebrity factor” and had nothing to do with substance).
Not only did I think that, but it couldn’t have been more obvious to me. So what is the excuse of all the people, particularly the supposed “pundits,” who fell for Obama’s “snake oil”?
Ad Noctum says
October 10, 2012 at 5:12 am - October 10, 2012
The Fascist Media have one agenda; to preserve and promote Socialism. Obama was just the latest face of the movement and now that he is faltering, it’s only a matter of time before they throw HIM under the bus. To them the ideology is what’s important.
AF_Vet says
See through it? They helped create it, and then hyped it up!
October 10, 2012 at 11:53 am - October 10, 2012
#17 – Of course, Vet. After all, he’s “Barack the Magic Negro,” according to a black writer for the LA Times.
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KUUL-A.D.E Announces his Debut EP, SIMPLICITY
Compton, CA – January 25th, 2018 – KUUL A.D.E has done it. He is the man the hip-hop was waiting for, and his debut EP, SIMPLICITY, brims with rapid fire delivery and enticing visuals that have made him a hit act in mainstream circles and across Los Angeles. His next single, IF I COULD CREATE A WOMAN, is also lined up for release on February 23, 2018.
KUUL A.D.E (or KuulAde) arose from Compton, CA, to shake up the rather dull scene of hip-hop, and his energy is now reverberating in the music circles and especially among the youthful audience. His most recent single remix, BEDROOM, featured several popular acts, GLASSES MALONE, SUGA FREE, BIG 2DA BOY, and DP.
“Buckle up and prepare yourself for the ride of your life, musically speaking, and get ready to have a taste of the one and only KUUL-A.D.E. It’s a flavor you sure will enjoy,” says KUUL-A.D.E.
KUUL-A.D.E has been performing and recording music for several years, quickly gaining the favor of strip clubs and underground spots, and then proceeding to the hip-hop scene across the country. His aim is to bring back real hip-hop that everyone can relate to. KuulAde has recorded with artists such as DJ Quick and Suga Free, Kokane Glasses, Malone, Big 2DA Boy and more. Among his influences, he counts Duran Otis, Alvino Willis, Ice Cube, DJ’Quik and Suga Free.
The single BEDROOM featuring DP hit the strip club scene, and is now a mainstream favorite, filling the dance floors across California. In the past, KUUL-A.D.E has worked with several poplar names in the industry, and has affiliation with big names such as Warren G, Daz, and Snoop Dogg.
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Outcry over Saudi funding plan for La Scala
March 06 2019 15:09:41
MILAN- Agence France-Presse
A proposal to use 15 million euros in Saudi Arabian government funds for Milan's La Scala opera house came under fire on March 5 because of anger over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The October killing of the Washington Post contributor in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul sparked international outrage. Riyadh denies any involvement and says the killing was carried out by rogue agents.
In an interview in La Repubblica newspaper, La Scala director Alexander Pereira confirmed the historic theatre has negotiated a financing deal with the Saudi culture ministry.
Pereira said the proposal was for a partnership of at least five years to raise three million euros a year.
He said talks with Saudi officials were suggested by people close to regional Lombardy region president Attilio Fontana, a member of Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini's nationalist League party.
In December, at the start of the new La Scala season, Italian Culture Minister Alberto Bonisoli met with his Saudi counterpart, Prince Badr bin Abdullah.
The Saudi minister might join the prestigious opera house's board, according to widespread Italian media reports.
The talks came under fire from opposition leaders.
"The idea that the Saudis will come into La Scala is a slap in the face for Milan over human rights," said Antonio Panzeri, a European lawmaker from the main opposition Democratic Party.
Forza Italia party lawmaker Maurizio Gasparri said the government has a duty to defend the "history and identity of La Scala.”
La Scala, Khashoggi, saudi prince
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Text contribution by Dylan Huw (Wales) / November 4, 2018 by Israel Aloni
It’s like group therapy almost
On the margins of language, movement and creation
I have no verbs probably to describe what the hell just happened
Lee Brummer, dancer, Wednesday 12.09.18
On my first day observing the early stages of the ICoDaCo process in Cardiff’s Chapter arts centre, it is Lee’s turn to propose a group exercise. She would like to probe the meaning of transformation (the project’s “guide word”) more deeply – to question and deepen her collaborators’ assumptions about what it fundamentally means to transform, to be transformed, or to experience transformation.
The task she sets is simple. Each of the dancers is to sit alone – it ends up being for around an hour – and write about a transformation they have personally experienced, which they then read aloud to the group. They can approach their text, and indeed the idea of “transformation,” in any which way they choose.
I know words better than I know dance; I feel safer, somehow, listening and responding to language. As I observe the dancers writing – sat in separate corners of the room, deep in the strain and internal chaos of personal reflection – I realise this safeness has a more profound dimension than I might have initially assumed. What I am observing is artists at work; producing something (in this case, writing; usually dance) out of the raw material of memory and imagination. Does the specific medium of an artist’s response to a topic, an idea or a memory truly matter that much? A (dance) artist at work is an artist at work. This becomes a central theme of the day.
Transcultural collaboration in movement, with the goal of creating a group dance piece, which is the premise of ICoDaCo, nonetheless becomes something very different once you reduce (if only briefly) that collaboration to a language-, speech- or writing-based kind. Its intercultural nature is a central part of ICoDaCo’s fabric, but the pleasures or difficulties which we usually project onto intercultural communication are largely absent in a movement-based practice; different languages, accents, worldviews, backgrounds, approaches are elided when a group’s collaboration is so purely physical. Lee’s task foregrounds these elements to the group’s collaborative relationship, introducing the issue of language to the group dynamic.
The individual transformations explored by each of the performers in their responses to Lee’s task range from the banal to the immensely poignant. Joseph reads bilingually, in his native Cantonese and in English, withholding the specifics of his transformation to the rest of us in the room, who do not speak Cantonese. Thus, we only hear about the impact this mysterious seismic event had on him. Eddie’s – also delivered bilingually – is a two-pronged narrative, about a boy in Eddie’s school who replied to a teacher asking what he wants to be when he grows up with “I want to be a horse,” and evokes the story of the martyred Welsh Benedictine monk, Saint John Roberts. Vasi recalls the first time he witnessed contemporary dance – a piece entitled Group Therapy – and invites us, his listeners, to dream with him, imagining ourselves travelling through time like the figures in Chris Marker’s La jetée. Veronica addresses a rehearsal in which she and a collaborator appeared to switch bodies, a transcendentally intimate experience. “Language,” she says, “seems to poor to describe it.” Finally, Lee opens up with two comparably intimate experiences, exploring what it means to belong to someone in the most primal sense.
After everyone has recited their transformation, one of the dancers verbalises what we are all thinking: this exercise, it’s like group therapy almost.
Do we think transformations as necessarily having a before and after? Or are ‘transformative’ events usually more suspended in time? This becomes the defining conundrum of the day, around which all others necessarily revolve. I keep returning to how Joseph kept self-correcting as he read his transformation. Remembering is fluid, and so are writing and reciting. How do we express the act of reflecting, that fluidity, in movement? What rituals, and which details, might make very personal reflections into something collective?
The next step in Lee’s exercise is a more challenging one. The dancers are to recite isolated lines from their transformative texts at random, all at the same time, creating a collective rhythm in which their narratives collide and complement each other. They gradually begin to seem to tune into one another.
“We call it group therapy.”
“Dwishe bod yn geffyl” – I want to be a horse.
“Why does this keep happening to me?”
“It just felt right.”
“I was standing stage right.”
“Forgetting is definitely not an option.”
“What a waste of life.”
These phrases, birthed in different languages and from very different contexts, begin to assume the character of a large abstract narrative, an obscure sound essay on the many different voices of transformation, a choose-your-own-adventure story, perhaps.
Someone interrupts the vocal collage to ask: Is transformation always poetic? What does (or how would) non-poetic transformation look and feel like? Nobody has the answer.
After my first day with ICoDaCo, snippets of speech from the group voice exercise ring around my head like a stream of nonsense consciousness:
“From outside, there is one noticeable transformation.”
“Sai’n cofio beth wedes i.” – I can’t remember what it was I said.
“I tried to find respect.”
I was struck then – and the sensation lingered – by how easily these alternately profound and life-altering and disturbing recollections were rendered sort of banal through endless repetition, the phrases weaved among one another in so many ways as to make their meanings, well, meaningless.
The transformations the collaborators addressed were all very different, but some pertinent themes appeared in all of them. The voice-collage exercise, in particular, appeared to emphasise the strange continuities in these very different narratives. Almost all the dancers’ transformations addressed an element of being lost – and most of them contained an element of transformation in the sense of wanting to be someone else. Someone uses the phrase “different losts,” a method of making sense of the chaotic disorientation to which Lee’s task gave way.
What better phrase to describe the challenge, the awkwardness, the joy, of trying to evoke transformation in collective movement – or of the act of collaboration itself. We are always in the process of navigating the “different losts” which dictate our lives and creative outputs. Through the kind of collaboration which ICoDaCo enacts, we tread paths that, if they might not show us ways of being less lost, might at least guide us in making those different losts into something beautiful; perhaps, even, something transformative.
Dylan Huw
iCoDaCo 2018, Dance, Wales, Collaboration, Text November 04, 2018
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GANA’s Decorative Division forms Education Committee
The Glass Association of North America’s Decorative Division formed an Education Committee during Friday’s sessions of Glass Week, Feb. 13-17, at the Rio All Suites Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. “The idea is to create a new committee to address creating all educational products for the Decorative Division, products such as AIA presentations as a immediate need and possible future projects such as educational seminars for creating and installing decorative glass products,” said Kris Vockler, division chair, and vice president, operations, ICD High Performance Coatings, Vancouver, Wash. The target date for the first American Institute of Architects presentation would be AIA’s 2009 conference, May 15-17, in Boston. “I think it’s a worthy goal,” said Brad Austin, senior vice president sales and marketing, Viracon, Owatonna, Minn., and president of GANA, Topeka, Kan. The Technical Committee of the division formed a task group that will gather information about Leadership in Energy and Environment Design opportunities for decorative glass. During the marketing committee report, Cathie Saroka, marketing director, Goldray Industries, Calgary, Alberta, said an online survey about decorative glass had generated 58 responses. A decision was made to shorten the survey by taking away boxes for written comments. “We’re trying to get a sense of what they are looking for and what we can do as a division to help sell more products,” Vockler said Saturday at the GANA membership breakfast. Saroka said the survey has shown that people want to use decorative glass, “but they don’t have the technical knowledge to use it.” The committee suggested more technical information be made available on the GANA Web site at www.glasswebsite.com.Share this article:
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Legendary Actor James Garner Dead at 86
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Lipstick!
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I bet it's the top half.
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As Canadian as possible under the circumstances
"What's traitors, precious?" -- President Gollum
Ava Gardner also claimed Native blood - Tuscarora. That is why she was so hot.
"To be [black] in this country and to be relativity conscious is to be in a rage almost all of the time." ~ James Baldwin
HWBL
Originally Posted by Squidge
For some reason, the multiple quote thing is not working for me, but yeah, I had a crush on him too. Still a very good looking man!
There is some contention as to those claims, but I think it's just his maternal great grandmother, or great great grandmother, not both sides.
Nope, it's both sides. Grandpa Presley was kind of a racist which is why Vernon and Gladys eloped, aside from Vernon being under age. Jesse Dunan was openly against (then) "Indians". After Elvis had earned some fame, somebody researched the roots of both sides of the family tree and found out, much to JD's shame, he had Cherokee roots, too. He then tried to backtrack, but he was about as good in backtracking things he said and done as Trump is.
Warren Beatty: actor, director, writer, producer.
***** celeb
exiled and ostrich sized
Originally Posted by greysfang
I was just wondering how he managed to die again but I see he's just native American .
Yeah, when I first saw the thread I was like oh nooooes not another celeb death, ummm oh yeah that's right. So instead of "dead yet?" it's confirmed "still dead". Ok then, carry on.
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These people don't give a fuck about YOU or us. It's a message board, for Christ's sake. ~ mrs.v ~
~"Fuck off! Aim higher! Get a life! Get away from me!" ~the lovely and talented Miss Julia Roberts~
Beyond Caring, then hang a left.
There is some contention as to those claims, but I think it's just his maternal great grandmother, or great great grandmother, not both sides. Burt Reynolds is said to be half. John Philips of the The Mamas and Papas was half, and Charles Bronson is half Inuit.
So would I, though we're the ONLY race who has to prove who we are, like pedigreed dogs or cats, or race horses. Blood quantum was originally established as a means of genocide, to breed us out. If you've ever seen "Rabbit Proof Fence", it was the same thing. Children stolen from their families to teach them to 'be white'. Marry and procreate white, make the aboriginals disappear. Thousands of children died in boarding schools (called residential schools in Canada), and mass graves are still being found behind old schools. The last boarding school closed in the 1990s. Not 1890s, 1990s. The genocide IS still ongoing. But, this doesn't have anything to do with James "Hunka hunka" Garner...LOL
All my life, we were told we were descended from Matoaka (her real name), and the paperwork seemed legit, until I started looking at dates. Her granddaughter married a Bolling, but it was not the same one as in our family. So now I know definitively, we are NOT. And that line is, amazingly, easy to trace. She only had two children, one died as an infant, most likely the one John Smith's men impregnated her with when she was repeatedly raped. Yeah, no Disney film here. They arrived when she was about NINE, and like Columbus, would raped women and very young girls. She was pretty much traded into marriage to John Rolfe to 'keep peace' (of course, that did not work), and he took her to England, where she was rechristened "Rebecca" and shown around like a specimen to prove 'the savage can be tamed'. She ran into Smith at a party, and, having heard his 'story' (one of 3 versions he told, of 'prominent' women falling MADLY in love with him and saving him from their murderous fathers...), she turned her back on him, and fled the party. She was trying to return home with her son, when she died on the ship of a lung ailment. TB, pneumonia, etc, they do not know. She is buried in a London churchyard, no marker, as they were wooden markers, and a fire destroyed them all.
This also effectively erases our family ties to President Woodrow Wilson, who is said to be of that same line (perhaps she wasn't, either!)
WW was Irish/Cumbrian/Glaswegian. I think you probably mean his third wife....
Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia, on December 28, 1856, at 18–24 North Coalter Street (now the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library), of Scots-Irish descent.[10] He was the third of four children of Joseph Ruggles Wilson (1822–1903) and Jessie Janet Woodrow (1826–1888).[11] Wilson's paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), in 1807. His mother was born in Carlisle, Cumberland, England, the daughter of Rev. Dr. Thomas Woodrow from Paisley, Scotland, and Marion Williamson from Glasgow.
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Originally Posted by Trixie
As is Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
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If anyone has questions as to Native issues, blood quantum, etc, etc, feel free to PM me, since most of has nothing to do with Mr. Garner. If I don't have an answer, I know people who do...LOL. I'll get back to you as soon as possible, but I'm having a really bad pain day, and think I need to hit the sheets. Thanks!
SHELLEE
What is one who knows about blood quantum called?
See, Whores, we are good for something. Love, Florida
#fingersinthebootyassbitch
Originally Posted by witchcurlgirl
You're right, all references seem to have disappeared.
NativeCelebs.com has a fine list, but, it also lists the fakes, even by tribe (or incomplete affiliations). (Jay Tavare is NOT, he is Persian, and a vicious abuser of women)
Robbie Robertson of The Band, Mohawk on his mom's side, raised on his mother's reserve in Canada. It's a reserve in Canada, reservation in the US)
As for James Garner...when Indian Country Today writes up your obit...you know they're fer reelz.
'Maverick,' 'Rockford Files' Star James Garner, Cherokee, Dies at 86 - ICTMN.com
I wanna watch the Rockford Files now. Wonder if they're on Youtube? Or....?
mostroop
I wanna watch the Rockford Files now. Wonder if they're on Youtube?
If you have METV you can watch episodes every morning.
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Inside Michigan Politics is your clearinghouse for public polling in Michigan. No need to search endlessly for the numbers you need. We’ve got them right here.
Want to how the 2018 gubernatorial and U.S. senatorial races are already shaping up? Look no further. We also have every poll in the 2016 presidential race in Michigan, as well as Gov. Rick Snyder’s ratings.
The 2018 Race for Michigan Governor:
Polling Group
Mitchell Research Sept. 21-24, 2017 GOP PRIMARY: Bill Schuette, 52%; Brian Calley, 13%
Marketing Resource Group (MRG) Sept. 13-18, 2017 GOP PRIMARY: Bill Schuette, 33%; Brian Calley, 13%; Pat Colbeck, 3%; Jim Hines, 3%
DEM PRIMARY: Gretchen Whitmer, 27%; Bill Cobbs, 8%; Abdul El-Sayed, 4%; Shri Thanedar, 3%
EPIC-MRA Aug. 27-Sept. 1, 2017 Bill Schuette (R) tied with Gretchen Whitmer (D), 37%; Schuette over Geoffrey Fieger (D), 43%-33%.
Target Insyght July 25-27, 2017 GOP PRIMARY: Bill Schuette, 42%; Brian Calley, 14%; Pat Colbeck, 4%; Jim Hines, 1%
DEM PRIMARY: Geoffrey Fieger, 26%; Gretchen Whitmer, 24%; Abdul El-Sayed, 9%
Mitchell Research May 31, 2017 GOP PRIMARY: Candice Miller, 21%; Bill Schuette, 18%; Brian Calley, 14%; Jim Hines, 1%
Marketing Resource Group (MRG) May 8-11, 2017 GOP PRIMARY: Bill Schuette, 32%; Brian Calley, 11%; Jim Hines, 7%
Inside Michigan Politics/Target Insyght Feb. 2-4, 2016 GOP PRIMARY: Bill Schuette, 21%; Candice Miller; 20%; Brian Calley, 11%; Arlan Meekhof, 3%
DEM PRIMARY: Mike Duggan, 20%; Gretchen Whitmer, 16%; Dan Kildee, 12%; Mark Hackel, 9%
Vanguard Public Affairs/Denno Research Aug. 4-8, 2015 Bill Schuette (R) over Gretchen Whitmer (D), 38%-30%; Schuette (R) over Dan Kildee (D), 38%-30%; Schuette (R) tied with Mark Hackel (D), 35%-35%
The 2018 U.S. Senate Race:
Mitchell Research/Rosetta Stone Oct. 1, 2017 Debbie Stabenow (D) over Kid Rock (R), 46%-38%
Marketing Resource Group (MRG) Sept. 13-18, 2017 Debbie Stabenow (D) over Kid Rock (R), 52%-34%
Target Insyght July 25-27, 2017 Debbie Stabenow (D) over Kid Rock (R), 50%-42%
The 2016 Race for President:
Mitchell Research Nov. 3 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 50-45%
Public Policy Polling Nov. 3-4 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 50-44%
EPIC-MRA Nov. 1-3 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 42-38%
Mitchell Research Oct. 31 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 51-45%
Emerson College Oct. 25-26 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 50-43%
EPIC-MRA Oct. 22-25 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 41-34%
MRG Oct. 16-19 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 46-38%
Detroit News/Glengariff Group Oct. 10-11 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 47-33%
EPIC-MRA Oct. 1-3 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 43-32%
Detroit News/Glengariff Group Sept. 27-28 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 46-39%
Mitchell Research Sept. 27 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 49-44%
Target Insyght/MIRS/GCSI Sept.18-24 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 46-44%
UPI/CVOTER Sept. 12-25 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 50-46%
Ipsos/Reuters Sept. 2-22 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 43-42%
EPIC-MRA Sept. 10-13 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 42-38%
Mitchell Research Sept. 6-7 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 47-42%
Emerson Aug. 25-28 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 45-40%
Suffolk Aug. 22-24 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 44-37%
Mitchell Research Aug. 9-10 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 49-39%
Washington Post/Survey Monkey Aug. 9-Sept.1 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 46-44%
Detroit Free Press/EPIC-MRA July 30-Aug. 4 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 46-36%
Detroit News/Glengariff Group July 30-Aug. 1 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 41-32%
CBS/YouGov July 13-15 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 42-39%
Mitchell Research July 5-11 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 40-34%
Greenberg Quinlan Rosner June 11-20 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 50-39%
Detroit News/Glengariff Group May 24-25 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 43-39%; Bernie Sanders (D) over Trump (R), 52-33%
Survey USA March 23-24 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 49-38%
Detroit Free Press/EPIC-MRA March 19-22 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 47-37%
NBC/Marist March 1-3 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 52%-39%; Clinton (D) over Ted Cruz (R), 44%-39%; Bernie Sanders (D) over Trump (R), 48%-41%; Sanders (D) over Cruz (R), 54%-36%
Marketing Resource Group (MRG) Feb. 22-27 Hillary Clinton (D) over Donald Trump (R), 44%-39%; Clinton (D) over Ted Cruz (R), 44%-39%; Marco Rubio (R) over Clinton (D), 43%-41%
EPIC-MRA/ Detroit Free Press/WXYZ-TV Jan. 23-26 Clinton (D) over Trump (R), 43%-41%
Mitchell Research/WJBK-TV Jan. 25 Trump (R) over Clinton (D), 47%-43%
Denno Research Nov. 3-5, 2015 Carson (R) over Clinton (D), 38%-36%; Clinton (D) over Trump (R), 42%-34%
EPIC-MRA/ Detroit Free Press/WXYZ-TV Oct. 25-31, 2015 Carson (R) over Clinton (D), 46%-40%; Carson (R) over Bernie Sanders (D), 45%-36%; Clinton (D) over Trump (R) 46%-38%; Sanders (D) over Trump, 48%-36%
Mitchell Research/WJBK-TV Sept. 18, 2015 Rubio (R) over Clinton (D), 43%-40%; Clinton (D) and Trump (R), Tie, 42%; Clinton (D) over Bush (R), 42%-37%
Marketing Resource Group (MRG) Sept. 9-14, 2015 Bush (R) over Clinton (D), 40%-39%; Carly Fiorina (R) over Clinton (D), 40%-39%; Clinton (D) over Trump (R), 43%-40%
EPIC-MRA/Freep/ WXYZ-TV Aug.18-22, 2015 Bush (R) over Clinton (D), 45%-40%; Clinton (D) over Trump (R), 44%-42%
Vanguard Public Affairs/Denno Research Aug. 4-8, 2015 Clinton (D) over Trump (R), 43%-32
Public Policy Polling (PPP) June 25-18, 2015 Clinton (D) over Bush (R), 47%-38%; Clinton (D) over Carson (R), 49%-41%; Clinton (D) over Chris Christie (R), 44%-38%; Clinton (D) over Cruz (R), 49%-39%; Clinton (D) over Fiorina (R), 46%-38%; Clinton (D) over Mike Huckabee (R), 47%-42%; Clinton (D) over Paul (R), 45%-42%; Clinton (D) over Rubio (R), 46%-44%; Clinton (D) over Trump (R), 49%-39%; Clinton (D) over Walker (R), 46%-42%
Walker (R) over Lincoln Chafee (D), 36%-31%; Walker (R) over Martin O’Malley (D), 37%-32%; Walker (R) over Sanders (D), 39%-35%; Walker (R) over Jim Webb (D), 38%-31%
Glengariff Group/Detroit News June 9-11, 2015 Clinton (D) over Bush (R), 46%-37%; Clinton (D) over Rubio (R), 42%-39%; Clinton (D) over Rand Paul (R), 44%-41%
Gov. Rick Snyder's Ratings:
Detroit News/Glengariff Group Sept. 27-28 Favorables/Unfavorables: 35% Positive; 52% Negative. Job Approval: 42% Positive; 52% Negative.
EPIC-MRA Sept.10-13 Favorables/Unfavorables: 40% Positive; 51% Negative. Job Approval: 32% Positive; 66% Negative.
Morning Consult May-September Job Approval: 33% Positive; 61% Negative.
Detroit Free Press/EPIC-MRA July 30-Aug. 4 Favorables/Unfavorables: 38% Positive; 49% Negative. Job Approval: 32% Positive; 66% Negative.
Detroit News/Glengariff Group July 30-Aug. 1 Favorables/Unfavorables: 31% Positive; 51% Negative. Job Approval: 40% Positive; 54% Negative.
Detroit News/Glengariff Group May 24-26 Favorables/Unfavorables: 40% Positive; 50% Negative.
Morning Consult January-May Job Approval: 32% Positive; 63% Negative.
Marketing Resource Group (MRG) Feb. 22-27 Favorables/Unfavorables Overall: 34% Favorable; 54% Unfavorable. GOP: 64%/23%. Independents: 34%/54%. Democrats: 12%/80%.
IPPSR State of the State Jan. 25-March 26 Job Approval: 25% Positive, 44% Negative
EPIC-MRA/Detroit Free Press Jan. 23-26 Favorables/Unfavorables: 45% Positive; 44% Negative. Job Approval: 39% Positive; 58% Negative. Handling the Flint Water Crisis: 21% Positive; 69% Negative. Should Resign: 69% No; 21% Yes.
Detroit News/Glengariff Group June 9-11, 2015 Favorables/Unfavorables: 55% Positive; 39% Negative.
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Is killing Taliban a good idea?
by: Dr. Ali Wardak
Intensified military activity has failed, argue John Braithwaiteand Ali Wardak. It's time for a ceasefire
TEN years ago, a conference in the German city of Bonn agreed on a roadmap - the Bonn agreement - for the creation of a post-Taliban administration in Afghanistan. Taliban were excluded from participation and subsequent Afghan governments were strongly dominated by Taliban's former foes. Ten years later, Taliban were once again absent at this week's second Bonn conference, which was boycotted by Pakistan in protest against an American air strike inside Pakistan that killed twenty-four Pakistani soldiers. All the main speakers emphasised the need for peacemaking with the Taliban.
The reality is that the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable. Yet many people in the West still believe that killing Taliban fighters keeps up military pressure that might eventually lead to a negotiated outcome. For their own reasons, the Taliban also see military pressure as sound strategy. Both sides are probably wrong. The escalated military contest is likely to be as unwinnable as the war.
The side that reaches this conclusion first and declares a temporary ceasefire - a ceasefire that becomes permanent if the other side reciprocates - will have a considerable advantage. Not only would it be good strategy for the United States or the Taliban to make the first move, it would also be smart for Pakistan to change course and advocate such a move, regardless of who moves first.
Despair grows in Afghanistan. Obama's surge increased the killing and capture of Taliban, but killings by the Taliban have surged even more steeply. The 2011 fighting season is the worst the war has seen, especially for civilians. Meanwhile, the government of Afghanistan enjoys less legitimacy than ever and is edging towards becoming a narco-state. Opium production is expected to rise further in 2012 to supply more than 90 per cent of the world's illicit trade.
It is hard to be sure whether President Hamid Karzai's administration is sincere in its statements supporting a genuine reconciliation with the Taliban leadership. What is clear is that many around the president and in the Afghanistan High Peace Council want to sabotage reconciliation. They want to hold onto the benefits that flow into their corrupt pockets from the war economy, lucrative contracts, foreign aid and the drug trade. They fear they might lose their positions in a power-sharing deal with the Taliban, whether that deal gives the Taliban some ministries in Kabul or a degree of autonomy in certain regions.
The first-mover advantage
So there is little hope that the Afghan government will be bold enough to initiate a unilateral ceasefire. The Taliban has a stronger interest in surprising the West by being the first mover, and President Obama is also capable of making a genuinely decisive peace gesture. Polls indicate that a large majority of ordinary Afghans support a peace deal in which the Taliban share power but do not dominate. And because so many reconciliation conversations are occurring within Afghan civil society, some influential Afghans, within and outside cabinet, might swing behind reconciliation if Obama or the Taliban made a bold first move. They might do this out of fear that a political opponent in their heartland could steal their political base by stigmatising them as spoilers.
Because the Taliban were seen as a better prospect than the reign of insecurity that went before them, they were welcomed by much of the populace in 1996. Then, in 2001, most of the country welcomed the United States. Now, although people in some parts of the country view the insurgents sympathetically, both the Taliban and the United States are resented by ordinary Afghans. Transcending this 'pox on both your houses' mentality would advantage the first mover to a ceasefire. If the ceasefire were enforced and reduced the killing of innocents, that advantage would be strong, even if it were not reciprocated by the enemy. Continued suicide bombings in the face of a NATO ceasefire would undercut the Taliban's claim of being on the side of the people. If western forces kept fighting in the face of a Taliban ceasefire, they would be even more unpopular with their war-weary electorates.
The bigger advantage for the first mover would come for another reason, and would be greater if a ceasefire were reciprocated. The draining of blood and treasure from both sides would be stemmed. While Western deaths have been low compared to most wars, the US side has slowly realised that the mounting toll of wounded is a fiscal burden that will continue for decades. Even in the short term, the war continues to cost the US taxpayer $10 billion a month.
Is military pressure working?
More fundamentally still, the value of the escalation in killing is doubtful. Its impact falls on Taliban fighters in Afghanistan rather than on Taliban leaders in safe havens in Pakistan. Our research in Afghanistan this year suggests that while those leaders do feel military pressure, it comes from Pakistan rather than NATO. As one leader put it, 'ISI [Pakistan Inter-services Intelligence] say either you fight or you'll end up in Guantanamo Bay' (and 'we'll get credit from the Americans' for handing you over).
A number of the Afghans who are leading reconciliation efforts told us that senior Taliban who have agreed to return from Pakistan to make peace have been killed after ISI called in US drone or missile attacks in retaliation for the talks. A number of the key Taliban leaders who were to enter peace talks in 2010 - including Mullah Omar's deputy and operations chief, Mullah Birader - were arrested or killed by ISI. Perversely, US military pressure is being harnessed by supporters of the Taliban within ISI to make sure the real decisionmakers behind the insurgency stay focused on killing Americans.
The paradox is that US taxpayers are funding both sides. American military aid flows to Pakistan, some of it flows on to ISI, and some of those funds reach the Taliban. The Americans hire private security contractors to protect convoys of trucks moving military supplies from Pakistan into Afghanistan; the contractors bribe insurgency leaders along the route not to attack the trucks. Western aid pays other contractors to upgrade the roads on which the trucks wind through the mountains; these contractors pay the Taliban who control these areas kickbacks (often as much as 20 per cent) on the road contracts. These are just some of the ways the US national debt funds insurgents to sustain the killing of Americans.
What about mid-level pressure?
Even if Pakistan puts more military pressure on Taliban leaders to keep fighting, surely it still helps to maintain pressure on mid-level Taliban? This, too, is doubtful. Mid-level Taliban wiped out by NATO raids are being replaced by younger Talibs who have been more thoroughly indoctrinated in religious schools in Pakistan and more radicalised by a decade of war and drone attacks. A military source told us the average age of mid-level Taliban commanders is now twenty-four; a decade ago it was thirty-five (men who would be forty-five if alive today).
The original Taliban commanders fight for their valley and their supporters. They are more open to a new peace that will address their supporters' grievances, guarantee a respectable place for them in society, and secure their valley. The new commanders fight for the radical ideology they share with fanatical factions inside and outside ISI, which launder funds from radical circles in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and in the west.
As the older commanders are replaced, Taliban leaders are progressively losing control of their own insurgency. They understand that a peace deal will mean that they must renounce al Qaeda and agree to the education of girls. They are probably ready to make these concessions. Yet NATO military pressure increases the grip of radical elements of ISI over the insurgency, making these concessions more difficult.
If the Taliban wait too long, though, they could lose the chance. Their top objective, a NATO pullout, is under way and is likely to be almost complete by 2014. It will be harder for the Taliban to justify jihad against what they call foreign occupation forces after 2014.
How can it make sense for Pakistan to show leadership by backing a ceasefire initiated by either side? The key challenge that Pakistan's leaders face is the need to outflank the radical factions of ISI and their military before they drag their country into an even deeper mess. Regardless of who launches talks, Pakistan can offer to wrap a new envelope of security around those Taliban leaders and their families it knows to be living in Pakistan. It can gather them up and take them safely to Kabul for peace talks where they can be better protected from ISI spoilers. This could be coordinated with the United Nations so that, once they are in Kabul, Taliban leaders are not harassed by Afghan intelligence and security institutions dominated by former foes of the Taliban.
It is insurgency, insecurity and American air attacks inside Pakistan that sustain Islamist militarism in Pakistan politics. By taking away regional terrorism, insurgencies and American drones, moderate Pakistan leaders might strengthen their defences against military coups and the risk of nuclear adventurism, might make their country more secure from the predations of the Pakistan Taliban, and could build peaceful trade relationships with an India they can never defeat. At the same time, Pakistan's concerns about India's influence in Afghanistan must be addressed transparently.
Pressuring foot soldiers?
If there is no benefit for the West in killing mid-level Taliban, does military pressure on low-level Taliban help? Not much. Low-level Taliban are more often captured than killed in night raids. If they are prosecuted for terrorism, Afghan judges are reluctant to imprison them for long. If they are unlucky enough to get a long sentence, they can bribe their way out - or they can join a reconciliation program as 'good Taliban' and collect reintegration payments funded by the West.
And as soon as they are threatened by Taliban commanders, ISI agents, or indeed spoiling Afghan intelligence agents, they often agree to rejoin the insurgency. The threat sometimes comes in the form of a text message that advises them either to kill a certain local police commander or be killed themselves. There have also been recent cases of 'reconciled' Taliban participating in the killing of UN personnel.
When low-level Taliban are killed in night raids, the blood feud aspects of Pashtun culture - 'If you kill me, my brother will kill you' - becomes a further complication. In many night raids, innocents are also killed; at the very least, deeply held Afghan customs are violated when troops invade homes. The evidence is that most fallen insurgents have their place on the front line taken by fresh younger relatives. In the districts where the insurgency is strongest, a surge in the killing of Taliban has generally been displaced to areas that were considered safe before the surge. There are, however, some areas in which the insurgency has always been weaker where night raids seem to have dampened violence.
In the province of Takhar in May this year we saw another way that killing operatives can be counterproductive. An Uzbek Mullah and two women were killed in a NATO night raid. Leaders of the Uzbek community alleged they were targeted by the Tajik governor and the police commander of Takhar on the basis of false rumours that they were involved in terrorism. These rumours were allegedly passed to NATO intelligence because the Mullah was a critic of Tajik domination of Takhar province. (It has become a tactic of criminals across Afghanistan to tighten their grip on local power by planting 'intelligence' suggesting that their political adversaries support terrorism.) Another rumour alleged that NATO troops raped the two innocent women before they killed them. Although this was almost certainly false, whoever set off the rumour was effective in building anti-NATO sentiment among the Uzbek majority of Takhar province.
Local NATO commanders sought to explain that the women had not been raped and that the troops intended only to arrest them because of evidence that they were sewing belts for suicide bombers. A crowd of Uzbek demonstrators persisted in the belief that the women were innocent and had been raped, taking the view that even if they were guilty their alleged crime did not justify execution without trial. Over two days the demonstration swelled, culminating in a massed attack on a German military base during which Molotov cocktails were thrown. Neither the Afghan police nor the young German soldiers defending the base had training in riot control; both forces panicked and fired on the crowd with live rounds, killing at least twelve and wounding possibly seventy-five on 28 May 2011.
Security in the province deteriorated sharply after this incident. It was driven not by the Taliban but by Uzbek anger at the minority Tajik leaders of the province, who had excluded Uzbeks from political power, and particularly at the allegation that the governor and the police leadership spread false rumours against the victims of the night raid. A bomb was detonated at a summit on the demonstration called by the governor, killing General Daud, the police commander for the northern region of Afghanistan, the local police chief, another policeman and two German soldiers; the governor and General Markus Kneip, the NATO northern commander, were injured. Then, at the funeral of General Daud on 10 June, a suicide bomber killed the mourning police.
How many successful night raids must NATO conduct to create sufficient productive 'military pressure' to counterbalance one such counterproductive raid? A very large number, we assume, which suggests that the benefits of military pressure on foot soldiers is just as doubtful as the pressure on mid- and high-level insurgents.
Building lost confidence
President Obama could respond to these doubts by seizing the initiative and declaring a temporary unilateral ceasefire that would end if insurgents did not reciprocate. That may be the way to counter a confidence-sapping history of torture, retribution and land grabs directed against Taliban who have sought peace since 2001. A ceasefire could be the serious gesture that convinces Taliban leaders that the West is genuinely interested in peace.
If reciprocated, a ceasefire might work because the leaderships of the US, Pakistan and the Taliban all have an interest in a break in the conflict. All are reluctant to stand up to their militaries and militias. Western generals argue that peace gestures will be seen as a sign of weakness, but the other side does not need to resort to psychological readings of the strengths or weaknesses of the United States. Its 'strength' is reflected in the fact that it is presently killing and capturing more Taliban than ever - one thousand so far this year compared to 306 in 2009 - and its 'weakness' in the fact that it will hand over the fight to Afghan security forces, regardless of what the enemy does, by 2014. On the other side, the Taliban's insurgency is killing more than ever, a fact it can use to counter suggestions by its hawks that the Americans would see a Taliban-led ceasefire as a sign of weakness.
A big question on the Taliban side is whether its leadership has the ability to lead the fragmented insurgency into a peace. Perhaps a qualified yes is the answer, but a yes that becomes more qualified with each passing month.
If a militarily dominant leader - in this case, Mullah Omar - is tired enough of fighting to join a peace, weaker fighting fragments may be even more tired. Less tired is the Haqqani network, which comes second in significance within the insurgency. It is neither totally independent of the Taliban leadership nor totally controlled by al Qaeda. It is more influenced by al Qaeda, more militant than Mullah Omar, but still part of the Taliban. If enough of the smaller groups join the bandwagon, an intermediate group like the Haqqani network with a taste for more blood may worry that its grassroots will desert it if it does not make the best of the situation. Hezbe Islami - third among Afghan insurgent groups - has already been in direct talks with the Afghan government. It is more likely to join a peace deal.
Now is time to suspend bounties on the heads of insurgency leaders as a temporary confidence-building step. This would help Taliban leaders to engage their more militant colleagues on why a peace could be a bandwagon they must join. It is time to give radical Islamic scholars space to risk brave religious advocacy of a ceasefire.
Iran must also be convinced not to fund insurgents by assurances that Afghanistan's future strategic relationships with residual US bases will not threaten it. At the same time, if negotiations fail, the United States must be prepared to secure the objective it shares with Iran of preventing Afghanistan from ever again falling to a regime under the sway of al Qaeda.
Russia, another recent funder of Afghan warlords, shares that bottom line. It too needs to be convinced that Afghanistan's future strategic relationships with the United States will not be a threat to its interests in the region; it may require post-2014 NATO bases or UN peacekeepers to ensure that al Qaeda does not infiltrate Afghanistan again. Russia and Iran are losing thousands of young people every year to Afghan heroin; concrete steps to curb that trade might convince them to consolidate a peace rather than sabotage it.
Lasting peace requires a regional solution supported by the West. Such a regional solution could draw China and Afghanistan's northern neighbours to further consolidate investment in Afghanistan. This may pave the way for Hilary Clinton's New Silk Road vision of Afghanistan as a peaceful node of regional trade and commerce.
Unilateral ceasefire from either side might jump-start confidence building and regional negotiations in support of a peace led by Afghan fighters and grassroots civil society. The reward for the first mover could be accolades and legitimacy across war-weary Afghanistan - but only if it started a political transformation that dealt with the causes of insurgency, such as state tyranny, political exclusion, corruption, embezzlement from development programs and police who prefer stealing from ordinary people to catching thieves.
Regional rivals might then decide not to endanger their economic interests in a newly peaceful Afghanistan. And even international radical factions and regional intelligence extremists might find it harder to manipulate young Afghans and find new clients for trading in the blood of innocent men and women.
This essay is based on recent fieldwork carried out in Afghanistan for Peacebuilding Compared, a study of what works in peacebuilding across fifty armed conflicts, funded by the Australian Research Council. John Braithwaite is from the Australian National University; Ali Wardak is from the University of Glamorgan and has lived for much of his life in Afghanistan.
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“Be careful how you're driving. ” – The Tramp, “City Lights, ” Charlie Chaplin Productions, 1931
Years ago, I had a good acquaintance who wrote about all of the latest technology and kept folks abreast of what’s hot, what’s not.
There’s nothing unusual about that but he had a penchant for dressing in 1940’s clothes – suits, shirts, shoes and yes, he drove an old car. You know, with a brake, clutch and gear shift. He also wrote and performed in plays about the era.
The last I heard, he was living in Hilo, Hi, off-the-grid with solar power, water well, you name it.
I thought about him the other evening as I carefully put one of my 78 rpm records on the turntable to enjoy some unwind time.
Yes, I also have a reel-to-reel tape player but very rarely use it.
And yes, I have my aging smartphone in my pocket just in case someone needs to get ahold of me right away … There’s only so much retreat from advanced technology I can handle.
Sweet Sounds – Listening to streaming music is good white noise when you’re working or just want to cut out the world around you; but if you really want to immerse yourself in beautiful audio, nothing beats the plain old vinyl record that continues to attract musicians and audiophiles.
The great thing is even my son likes the records. He thinks Count Basie, Dave Brubeck and the records of other musicians we have played great music. That’s a pretty good endorsement coming from someone who creates electronic music.
Cassettes, CDs and MP3 storage all but put an end to vinyl records.
It’s so bad that today there are probably only 5-6 record pressing plants in the world and all of them punch out records on equipment that’s older than my dad because no one makes the systems anymore. In fact, most have spare systems they scavenge parts from or hand tool the parts.
Vinyl music has enjoyed resurgence over the past couple of years but sales certainly aren’t going to get back to “the good old’ days.”
Not Overwhelming But – When industry analysts say record sales are soaring, you have to keep the starting point in mind. Like the equipment to produce them, they almost disappeared but have enjoyed modest sales increases in recent years.
Nielsen reported that that last year, more than 9.2M vinyls were sold in the U.S. -- a whopping increase of 52 percent over the previous year.
In Europe, more than 10M records were pressed.
David Bowie (before his death), Pink Floyd, Arctic Monkeys, Led Zeppelin and a growing list of rock musicians and groups have all made special releases of their songs and albums on vinyl.
Official Charts Chief Executive, Martin Talbot said, “Releasing music on vinyl appeals to a growing number of artists, who see it as a ‘badge of honour’ that symbolises the very essence of the Rock ‘n Roll culture.”
While the numbers are nowhere near the records of 20 years ago and undoubtedly never will be, it does illustrate that as rapidly as we move technology forward, stuff just never really dies.
Remember when the iPad was going to kill the Kindle? Amazon just kept moving along and introduced yet another one a few months back and there were predictions that the Kindle/iPad/electronic books would kill books.
Still, last year, more than 600M books were printed and roughly 55M newspapers are delivered to homes every day.
Zip discs, CDs, DVDs and USB sticks were all going to mark the demise of the 3.5-in floppy (and each other in turn) yet today, more than 50M floppies are sold every year. Don’t ask me who bought them; I haven’t touched one since I swapped a whopping 20MB Microscience HD for the floppy in my DG (Data General) -1.
While today’s filmmakers really like the quality, performance and economy of digital cameras/workflows, there are still some industry luminaries like Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan who swear only celluloid can deliver the depth and beauty of a film.
Editing – There certainly wasn’t anything glamorous about editing films back in the celluloid days; and you have to admit, audio and video production/post production people can certainly add great excitement, interest and overall feel with today’s digital video storytelling tools.
That’s probably why Kodak launched their “Analog Renaissance” when they reintroduced their Super 8 cine camera.
I don’t think the teams at Sony or Blackmagic will follow just because Kodak is trying to revive a format they abandoned more than three decades ago.
Most of the Indie filmmakers I know wouldn’t give up their new rugged, compact and inexpensive digital cameras. And who can blame them?
People like Leslie Chilcott ( CodeGirl) and Cirina Catania ( The Kionte Storey Journey) capture superb 4K content onto sleek OWC Envoy Pro EX SSDs that they can process, tweak and enhance with their post production workflow systems and reliably store it on 32TB SoftwareRAID storage solutions.
The old approach to movie-making may have been magical when the project was done, but production was slow and tedious.
Organizations like SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers), AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and the U.S. Library of Congress have worked diligently to preserve yesteryear’s film and digital work.
There are also places like Hollywood Vaults in Los Angeles that carefully protect and preserve the personal photo, audio and film works of such greats as Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, John Wayne and hundreds of other stars and producers of the golden era.
Unfortunately, the treasures are locked away and can’t be seen unless you have a special invitation from one of the relatives … or the facility owner.
Still, there are filmmakers and film collectors around the country who invest a lot of time and talent to preserve the history of film for future generations.
Preserving Yesteryear – Sue Lawson (r) and Antonia (Toni) G. Carey log hundreds of hours of film and video interviews for their documentary on the history of filmmaking in the Midwest.
For example, Sue Lawson of ChicagoEdit, teamed up with Nick Palazzo and Antonia (Toni) G. Carey, of TONICK Productions, to preserve the history of film in the Midwest.
They devoted months reviewing hundreds of hours of interviews, archival footage and rare films
Their goal was to protect the living art of film in an hour-long documentary. They also wanted to preserve the original content which could never be reproduced if it was lost, deleted or the film deteriorated.
Lawson recalled that some of the stories were humorous while others were serious.
When the project is completed and the film is released, the three hope to be able to make it available to film schools across the country to help students and anyone interested in the world behind movies to understand the living art of film.
Visiting Technology’s Past
We’re lucky here in Silicon Valley because the industry came together long ago to preserve our rapidly changing technology at the Computer History Museum.
It’s a great way to see how fast we’ve advanced in such a relatively short period of time.
But for folks who want to visit and own their own piece of the past, nothing beats the non-descript building that houses Weird Stuff.
Nostalgia Row - Silicon Valley’s Weird Stuff store is an excellent place to find that piece of technology you simply want or have-to-have. The retail outlet is packed with yesterday’s sure things as well as the equipment that now defunct start-ups had to sell off for pennies on the dollar when they went bankrupt.
Weird Stuff is probably the best place to visit to see the companies (and products) that were launched with a lot of bravado and tons of money only to flame out.
The building teems with hundreds of laptops and desktops; C.P.U.s, orphaned cubicle partitions, tons of chips, whiteboards, cables for just about anything, products young and old and probably more than a few vacuum tubes.
It’s a reflection of the Silicon Valley ecosystem where dreams go to die.
Weird Stuff is a testament to how quickly new tech ideas and products come that aren’t designed with the idea they will last as long as my turntable or even my daughter’s three-year-old Mac notebook that has been upgraded twice with memory and storage add-ins from her favorite online solutions provider.
There are some technologies that die a fateful death and never return.
But there are others that are dressed up in new skins with new bells and whistles added with the idea (hope) that you’ll see the added benefits and discard yesterdays stuff for the newer, better stuff.
Sure, the new iPhone may look sexier than that iPhone 3 you have in your desk drawer, but does it make better calls, deliver text messages faster, grab your emails or let you get to your favorite website any better?
Last year, the U.S. auto industry reported record sales and now they’re pushing all the new self-driving, self-parking, self-serving technologies; but is all that going to make a difference?
The average car on the road is still 10 years old. It’s paid for, gets you from point A to point B (and back) and a regular mechanic can work on it for you.
Recent Edmunds and Nielsen reports found the connected generations were less interested in having a car than their parents. They’d rather focus on minor things like home loan payments/rent, healthcare, food, utilities, taxes, family vacations and dinner out now and then.
Does the new integrated audio system give me better sound or what I need to relax and withdraw?
Some “old technology” just can’t be replaced by advanced digital manipulation.
When the record is finished and the book has been read, I’ll be ready to attack the next day knowing The Tramp was right, “ Tomorrow the birds will sing.”
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Landscaper's tools stolen from trailer; video captures thieves in the act
Flight school owner-instructor killed, student hurt in Hayward helicopter crash
Two young heart transplant survivors meet, form 'exclusive club' they never asked to join
By Maureen Naylor
PLEASANTON, Calif. (KTVU) - Two Pleasanton girls are part of what they call an "exclusive club," but they never chose to join.
In many ways, Ziyan Liu is a typical 11-year old. But the 6th grader at Thomas S. Hart Middle school in Pleasanton was born with a congenital heart condition and had a heart transplant last July.
"I couldn't run. I couldn't do like hard activities or I'd get tired," said Liu. "I felt alone and different."
But it turns out she wasn't alone.
A school nurse with the Pleasanton Unified School District knew about another girl who when she was a Pleasanton middle school student also had a heart transplant at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
And that nurse made what turned out to be a heart-felt connection.
"Before meeting Ziyan, I was the only pediatric heart transplant recipient in all of Tri-Valley," said Megan Mehta.
Mehta was born healthy but when she was 8 years old, found out her heart was bigger and weaker than it was supposed to be.
The Amador Valley High School freshman ultimately had a heart transplant two years ago.
"It was insane. You don't think there would be another person like you but there is," said Mehta.
"I was surprised and happy because there was somebody like me that's close and we can talk," said Liu.
After months of talking on the phone, the two had never met in person until Thursday, appropriately at Hart Middle School.
The two discussed matching scars and recovery stories and Megan shared why she wanted to help.
"Because someone did that for me," said Mehta. "It just makes me feel good being able to help someone in the situation I was."
Ziyan is now running and learning to swim and wants to help others just like Megan helped her.
They know no matter what lies ahead, they'll have someone who knows what it's like to walk in the other's shoes.
A Hayward helicopter crash victim who was killed has been identified as Wayne Prodger, 62, of Sunnyvale, according to officials.
Prodger was the owner of Vertical CFI Helicopters Flight School.
47-acre grass fire in San Jose quickly contained, mobile home and cottage burned
A mobile home and a small cottage were burned to the ground. No firefighters or civilians were injured, but officials said a small pet dog perished in the cottage fire.
The fire started at about 11 a.m. off Aborn Road in the Evergreen neighborhood.
Netflix edits scene in 13 Reasons Why where character takes her life
Man robs woman at gunpoint in Novato, police investigating
Attorney for ‘Rideshare Rapist' seeks to suppress DNA evidence
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The power of marks: Frankie goes after Hollys name
How failure to address issues of ownership of the band's name stored up trouble for Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Confidentiality clauses - beware!
The Information Commissioner's decision in the VisitScotland case requires very careful drafting of confidentiality provisions in public sector contracts if they are to work
Into the fast lane
President's message: a busy first month in office has seen a whole series of events, from the ceremonial to important engagements on behalf of the profession
All change please...!
The bigger training firms would like to see the Society's education and training review lead to enhanced skills training, and a UK-wide partnership approach
Benchmark for practice
Legal firms and in-house employers alike can benefit from the new data, just published, arising from the Society's equality and diversity survey
Old, new, borrowed and blue
First of two articles on this year's Finance Act, which while not on the scale of some introduced by Gordon Brown, contains much that solicitors should be aware of
The Oracle has spoken
Commentary on the recent European Court ruling that the "so far as is reasonably practicable" test in UK health and safety law does not infringe the EU directive
High road, low road
Some contrasts in the approaches of Scots and English law to property claims by cohabitants, in the light of a recent English House of Lords appeal
Point of contact
Survey of views on whether a courtroom is the right place to determine the care arrangements for a child whose parents are disputing residence and contact
Stuck in a rut?
Some experiences of, and advice from, solicitors who decided they needed a change of practice area and are glad they took the plunge
Counsel's fees - a reply
A reply to the open letter from the Dean of Faculty (Journal, June 2007) on the Scheme for Counsel's fees
Two Scots lawyers honoured
David Stewart and Hilary Patrick receive awards in Queen's Birthday Honours List
Fraud: no hiding place
Overview of the Update conference "The Many Faces of Fraud"
A chance to shine
Accredited specialists in incapacity law and mental health law chart the growth of these practice areas and explain what is needed to become accredited
CDD is the new ID
Second article on the Draft Money Laundering Regulations 2007 explains what will be required to carry out "customer due diligence"
Embrace change: Brymer
Report of Professor Stewart Brymer's address to new solicitors at the Admissions Ceremony held in June
Obtaining digital evidence that will stand up in court requires basic rules to be meticulously observed
Professional negligence: Pre-Action Protocol
Terms of the Voluntary Pre-Action Protocol in Scotland for Professional Negligence Claims, which applies to claims intimated after 1 July 2007
Not just a fancy name
Unlike in England, planning for business continuity management is not yet compulsory for solicitors' practices in Scotland - but it is strongly encouraged
More on "enough is enough"
Latest civil cases, including dismissal following delay; discharge of diet; caution for expenses; res judicata; summary applications; appeal; antisocial behaviour orders
Are you up to the Act?
Every solicitor with licensed trade clients needs to decide whether to tackle the complexities of the new regime
Saving energy - and effort
Are the Scottish Executive's proposals to relax controls on householder developments radical enough to deliver its goals?
Takeover goals
The unique procedural challenges posed by the Iberdrola/ScottishPower takeover, overcome through constructive engagement with the Commercial Court
Expensive consequences
A case has already arisen, since the Trident Fashions decision recently discussed, of administrators seeking a winding up to avoid further liability for business rates
Reports relating to Michael Alan Grant McNiven; William Meechan
Reviews of the sites of the Registers of Scotland and the other UK and Irish land registries
Review of International Private Law in Scotland (Crawford and Carruthers)
Time (to prepare) please!
Some advice on the key points of the 2005 Licensing (Scotland) Act, the first applications under which will have to be made within a matter of months
ARTL - now and then?
How automated registration of title will affect the steps of the typical conveyancing transaction - generally in a straightforward way
by Lindsay Foulis
Power to dismiss
The question of “enough is enough” has been considered further in detail in the recent Inner House decision Tonner v Reiach and Hall [2007] CSIH 48. This was an appeal from a decision of Lady Smith. She had refused an application to dispose of an action which the pursuer had taken no steps over a considerable period to prosecute.
In a very full decision the court considered the issues arising. The first was whether the Court of Session had an inherent power to determine a pending action comparable to the English procedure of striking out through want of prosecution. Their Lordships noted that courts had the indispensable power to do whatever was necessary to discharge the whole of their responsibilities. Comparing the relative brevity of the Court of Session Act 1988 with the length of the rules of court, they concluded that the Act could not be the sole measure of the court’s procedural powers. They had no doubt that the court had an inherent power to regulate procedure. The real issue was whether, if proceedings were raised competently within the appropriate period in terms of the Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973, a court had power to dispose of the action after a lapse of time in the interests of justice.
Their Lordships noted that the fact that an action was raised within a prescriptive period did not, by itself, prevent the sustaining of a plea of mora. They saw no reason why the circumstances founding a plea of mora only related to the period prior to an action being raised. Further, the trend in prescription legislation was to reduce the periods. The fact that parliament had not enacted any provision dealing with delay post-commencement of action might have been because parliament assumed such a power existed. Further, the court considered it must have power to bring an action to an end if satisfied that a point had been reached at which justice could no longer be done.
The court then considered whether it was necessary for the power to be crystallised in a rule of court. The circumstances in which the power could be exercised were not equivalent to abuse of process, i.e. disobedience of a peremptory order or conduct amounting to an abuse of the process of the court. Their Lordships considered it unnecessary for the power to be so crystallised. First, the court drafted rules of court and was not bound by any decision of the Rules Council. Further, the rules of court were not all-inclusive. Much of the law relating to practice was not contained in the rules. If the court felt that it was just to end an action in circumstances, it was illogical for it to be unable to do so because the rules were silent. Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights required courts to have the power to conclude litigation within a reasonable time. The rules of court did not prescribe comprehensively the nature of orders the court could pronounce.
Turning to the criteria for such an order to be made, their Lordships observed that whilst actions were still largely party-driven in Scotland, parties did not have an unqualified right, once an action was raised, to proceed in as leisurely a manner as they thought fit. Insurance against old claims was increasingly more complex and expensive, and the advent of electronic communication and archiving carried dangers of accidental disposal of information. The longer litigation was in dependence, the greater the danger of the claim becoming stale. This often increased the length and complexity of litigation. There were many examples of a court refusing late developments in litigation, for instance amendment. It was irrelevant that there might be no remedy against a pursuer’s advisers, and that the defender might also have let the action lie undisturbed. The onus of prosecuting an action by its very nature fell on the pursuer. The appropriateness of the exercise of the power was largely a question of fact and circumstance, but it was a draconian power. This required the court to be clear as to the reasons for its exercise in a particular case. However, there would inevitably require to be inordinate and inexcusable delay, taking account of the delay as a whole. The later an action was raised, the more severe a view might be taken. As an aside, the decisions in the criminal context on article 6 might be worth consideration at least as of illustrative value.
The court had then to consider the consequences of such a delay. In addition to delay, there had to be an added element of unfairness specific to the particular factual context. That context would include the procedural context, for example how much further procedure was required to bring the action to a conclusion. Their Lordships considered that the application to end the proceedings should be by minute, and if successful the action should be dismissed.
Discharge of diets
As a postscript to the observations about litigation being largely party-driven, I refer to the observations in McDonald-Grant v Sutherland and Co [2007] CSIH 54 following the discharge of an Inner House appeal at a late stage. The allocation of a diet to parties necessarily resulted in other parties in other actions being deprived of the opportunity to be heard on that date. This applies to all diets and should be borne in mind by parties. Even a joint motion to discharge a diet may not be granted by the court. The grant or refusal of such a motion is at the discretion of the court. One of the factors to be taken into account is the matter which troubled their Lordships. If some of the issues considered by Lord Gill’s civil courts review are specialist judges and allocation of a case to a judge at a certain stage, then it seems to me that for such a system to work, litigation will require to be far more judge-driven as opposed to party-driven. This surely means the discharge of diets assigned will be more difficult. To do otherwise will not be realistic from a resource point of view.
Caution for expenses
In Albyn Realisations (Festival Cars) Ltd v Levenfleet Ltd [2007] CSOH 106, Lord Brodie reiterated the principles governing caution for expenses. The grant of such a motion was discretionary, dictated by the interests of justice. An order for caution could be made against a company at common law as well as in terms of s 726(2) of the Companies Act 1985. Only in special circumstances would a defender be ordered to find caution; these might include an inability to meet previous expenses awards, a history of prior misconduct in the litigation, and the strengths or otherwise of the defence. Whilst in this case there were considerable strengths in the pursuers’ position – in particular the defences did not coherently disclose why decree should not be granted in favour of the pursuers – these matters were more appropriately debated in a motion for summary decree. The motion was refused.
Res judicata
In Taylor v Yorkshire Building Society 2007 GWD 19-334 Sheriff Principal Dunlop overturned the sustaining of a plea of res judicata in an action for recovery of bank charges when a previous action had determined the position regarding later charges on the same account. The deduction of charges constituted a succession of wrongful acts each actionable, albeit the basis of action in each case was the same. The sheriff principal also questioned whether such actions were better remitted to the ordinary cause, as extended pleadings might well be of assistance.
Summary applications
The importance of instituting proceedings by the appropriate procedure is emphasised in Hakeem v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Hamilton Sheriff Court, 1 May 2007. An action for suspension and interdict was raised as an ordinary action as opposed to a summary application. Whilst it was competent to transfer an action from one roll to the other, Sheriff Principal Lockhart agreed that for this power to be exercised, there had to be no prejudice suffered by the other party. Further, the nature of the claim and the remedy sought had to be made clear to that party. The error required to be formal as opposed to substantial. Finally, the procedural rule contravened required to be directory as opposed to mandatory.
In the present action the sheriff principal concluded that three of these four tests were not met. If raised as a summary application, caution would have been ordered. This had been avoided by the action being raised as an ordinary action. The procedure would have been speedier and less expensive. The pursuer had failed to take steps to remedy the problem despite it being highlighted in a rule 22 note. The sheriff principal further considered the application was incompetently raised as an ordinary action notwithstanding a crave for interdict. This crave was clearly ancillary to the crave for suspension.
In B v Sister Bernard Mary Murray [2007] CSIH 39 the Inner House looked at the effect of RCS, rule 38.8(1) which has its sheriff court equivalent in s 29 of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907. The fact that a subsequent appeal had the effect of reviewing all previous interlocutors did not automatically mean that such prior interlocutors could be successfully challenged as a result of the later appeal. If a party had proceeded, or knowingly allowed the other party to proceed, on the basis that the interlocutor was not challenged, the court might not countenance a subsequent challenge.
Antisocial behaviour orders
In Highland Council v Dewar, Inverness Sheriff Court, 13 June 2007, Sheriff Pyle considered aspects of an antisocial behaviour order which was sought, in particular the terms of s 4(6) and (7) of the Antisocial Behaviour etc (Scotland) 2004 which deals with consideration of the prohibitions sought as necessary for protecting persons from further antisocial behaviour. Sheriff Pyle, by reference to dicta in R (McCann) v Manchester Crown Court [2003] 1 AC 787, noted that the purpose of such an order was not punishment but prevention of further behaviour. If the prohibitions sought went further than affecting acts which were in any event illegal and restricted a person’s liberty, Sheriff Pyle considered it was necessary to aver why such wider restrictions were required.
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Acceleration Kigali-Style
A street sign in Kigali. January 2014. All images courtesy Darja Djordjevic.
I. Mind the Speed
In Kigali, folks don't really read the street signs. To be fair, they have only existed since the summer of 2012, when in one fell swoop the Kigali City Council assigned new names to the more than 2,600 roads, avenues, and boulevards comprising Kigali's lymphatic system. Prior to 2012, there were very few named streets in Kigali: most of those were in the downtown neighborhood known as Centre ville, and all bore French names. The new system relinquishes the symbolic, victorious, patriotic street names of post-independence Africa, like Avenue de la Paix, Rue de la Justice, or Boulevard Mandela. Rather, they follow an efficient numbering system, all starting with an abbreviation designating one of Kigali's three districts (Nyarugenge, Gasabo, and Kicukiro). KN 324 for example, is a street in Nyarugenge District, while KK 109 is in Kicukiro District. In January 2014, I found myself back on one of Kigali's ubiquitous moto taxis, ignoring my ever-growing collection of moto accident stories in favor of cheap speed. I gave the driver the number of the street sign I had memorized-just steps from where I was staying. He shook his head-enveloped in the trademark sturdy kelly green helmet, with a registration number painted on it in yellow-and affirmed the nonsense of this locational reference. I gave him the neighborhood name and said I'd guide him, and to the gas his foot went. Everyone I spoke with-taxi and moto drivers, residents, local merchants-told me decisively that Kigalois (residents of Kigali) had not yet learned the signs and did not yet refer to them. Indeed, I soon found that, for those of us discovering parts of the city for the first time or slowly assimilating to the sometimes indistinguishable, steep, rocky, burnt burgundy unpaved roads, navigating the city still entails a prepositional dance with your driver: iburyo, ibumoso, hepfo ya, hariya (right, left, down there, over there)!
It is not just the French street names that have disappeared, but French itself has been abandoned in favor of English. However, many Kigalois are not very comfortable speaking English. Of course they will greet a white woman in English and exchange pleasantries-graciously and patiently they will also let her practice her Kinyarwanda. But she may quickly discover that her interlocutor is in fact much more fluent in French. The clinicians and civil servants I work with in my research are also overwhelmingly Francophone, but in the process of improving their English. Rwanda changed the official language of instruction from French to English in 2008-a swift change, first implemented in primary schools, and then in higher education. Media and scholarly analyses explained the change as one motivated by the government's desire to reposition Rwanda as a member of the East African Community, which is comprised mostly of English-speaking countries, such as Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya. Economic and business priorities aside, some highlighted the symbolic value of the linguistic policy shift as a rebuff to the former colonial power and involvement of Belgium and France, respectively. Of course, many Kigali neighborhoods, from Centre ville to Nyabugogo to Nyamirambo, still boast cobblers, hair salons, boutiques, office/school supply stores, pharmacies, clinics, hospitals, and NGO offices bearing signage in French, whether or not alongside Kinyarwanda or English.
"Acceleration defines Kigali in its achievements and triumphs, in its fissures and gaps."
Centre ville. January 2014.
I consider numerical street signs and English as instantiations of a broader process in Kigali, that of acceleration. Acceleration defines Kigali in its achievements and triumphs, in its fissures and gaps. It seems that the order of the day defines experience in such a way that Kigalois are constantly "getting up to speed" or "catching up" to changes long after they have been decisively implemented by a state that has an explicit commitment to accelerated development and leadership. There is a lag. Certainly, capitalist flows and processes have taken hold in Kigali as in many other African cities. However, here I am not invoking the Marxist idea of accelerationism, which states that to engender radical change, the dominant capitalist system should be augmented, and its growth accelerated, in order to catalyze the full realization of its self-destructive propensities. Rather, I mean acceleration akin to its definition in physics: the derivative of residents' actual velocity comes to define a broader teleological project. This means that acceleration encompasses a recalibration of the actual speed of citizens in their everyday interactions, struggles, and routines. People are literally being pushed along, but they are not necessarily adapting. Rwanda's national strategies are not simply about development, they also coalesce into a teleological project. The process is a kind of intensified upgrading of society, an attempt to bypass the West and its central telos, wherein a society must progress through necessary and sequential stages of development in order to become modern. Beneath Rwanda's new teleological model, we might identify a desire to confirm the proposition that "in the history of the present, the global south is running ahead of the global north, a hyperbolic prefiguration of its future-in-the-making" (Comaroff and Comaroff 2012, 19). There are high stakes involved in this process-acceleration as a teleological project is meant to enable an entire generation to overcome a recent past of extreme violence and ethnic divisionism, as well as the trauma and scars that endure from it. In accelerated urban and national developments-such as the naming or renaming of all city streets, the rapid classroom conversion to English, or the introduction of a cell phone service headquarters that is open 24/7-we see evidence of a nation-state's attempt to outpace the "post-traumatic" period, to achieve development characterized by particular notions of efficiency and advanced technology in order to make up for lost time.
"People are literally being pushed along, but they are not necessarily adapting."
Kigali City Tower. January 2014
This is a think piece about how in Rwanda, acceleration is about rewriting the temporal requirements that we typically associate with the teleology of modernity. Here, Rosalind Morris's (2008) work on speculation and value creation amongst young South Africans facing the overwhelming catastrophe of the AIDS epidemic is especially useful. Puzzled by the exaggerated AIDS prevalence statistics that youth offer in a mining town in Merafong municipality, just south of Johannesburg, she uses an analysis of burial societies and insurance schemes to illuminate the "emerging dialectic between panic and rush (rush and panic) as it takes hold in the changing landscape of epidemic South Africa" (201). For Morris, the "rush" is one against time and fate, involving a panicked avoidance. In Rwanda, the "rush" is not against time and fate, it is a disposal of old time, catching up a nation in a "slow" Africa-it is a teleological race. Time is being expanded so that more events and changes can be fit into its units. The Rwandan "rush" is the effect of a projective developmental strategy that throws itself into the future with little calculation of the time needed for citizens to learn new ways and adapt, or of intermediate stages of resource and knowledge accumulation that might be necessary. These are dealt with ex post facto, after a change or national project has been initiated. This type of rush can be seen as a product of the panic engendered by the mass trauma of time, bodies, and generations lost to the genocide. This teleological race produces disjunctures, such as a capital city in which no one uses the street signs and many struggle with English.
II. Accelerating in the City
How is acceleration to be seen and felt in Kigali? Here I will consider the central downtown neighborhood of Centre ville, touring its high rise office and retail buildings which are all near the Place de la Constitution, identifiable by its well-paved (like most of Centre ville) round about. Today, that Place is called KN 1 Round About, and the spokes that radiate from it have names like KN 4 Avenue and KN 2 Street-streets that previously had names like Avenue de la Justice. So the new street signs have also carried re-christenings for the phoenix city, ones that affirm a process of rationalization and efficiency within an accelerationist teleology by converting French names into abbreviations and numbers. A shift from the qualitative to the quantitative. There is Centenery House, owned by Cartas Rwanda, the organization of Rwanda's Catholic bishops who initiated construction in 2000 for the 100th anniversary of Rwanda's evangelization. Testament to the old and new temporalities of improvement, the building stands on the site of Cartas Rwanda's former offices and was financed by the Catholic Church as well as a 1.5 million USD loan from Rwandan commercial bank Cogebank, which has a branch in the building. It's rusty red with neatly spaced horizontal panels of windows on each story, and a curved facade of windows jutting out at one end.
Centenery House rents out office and commercial space-the income it generates finances the charity work of their group Caritas Rwanda-and some of its clients include Ethiopian Airlines, Flash FM radio, and Simba Supermarket, which is co-owned by a Rwandan and an Eritrean. Simba is one of Rwanda's largest supermarkets, boasting a butcher, bakery, furniture and electronics, beauty and household supplies, and a restaurant café with indoor and outdoor seating. The café is full of Kigalois on lunch break, discussing business deals or mulling over their next university exam-when making plans to meet at Centenery House they say kuri Simba (at Simba). There is the occasional white tourist boasting predictable signs such as an enormous backpack or dreadlocks-perhaps they represent an ironic anachronism as seeming hippies in 2014 Kigali-as well as the occasional expat professional.
Across the street from Centenery House is UTC (Union Trade Center), a white concrete mall featuring the smaller Nakumatt: a 24-hour Kenyan supermarket with an inventory similar to Simba, only the store feels more like an African Walmart in terms of lighting, size, and quantity. UTC also contains the 24-hour MTN store (a major cell phone provider in Rwanda), clothing boutiques, restaurants, Access Bank, souvenir kiosks selling African-made wares and accessories, and a Bourbon Coffee shop. The 24-hour Nakumatt speaks further to the expansion of time itself that characterizes Rwanda's teleological project of acceleration, and of the prioritization of quantity, though I am not claiming that quality is being sacrificed everywhere.
Then there is Kigali City Tower, built by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) for $200 million USD, but without any publically declared owner. Of course, this points to Africa's position in a new era of globalization. Along with the predictable banks and stores including an ever-larger second Nakumatt supermarket, a Mr. Price, and a Bata shoe store, where the shoes are affordable for a middle class Kigalois (I bought a pair of comfortable city sneakers for the equivalent of $5 USD) and made both regionally and across the globe. On the third floor of the Tower one finds Century Cinema, which opened in March 2013. General Manager Charles Gasigwa told a reporter that the theatre's machines are similar to those used in the US, and that the 5D screen is the first in all of Africa (Asiimwe 2013). 5D? Yes, you didn't misread that. The theatre offers 2D, 3D, and 5D movies-the ticket price increases proportionately to the dimensional order you desire (3000-5000 RWF or $4.42-7.36 USD at the current exchange rate). The 5D movie experience involves a 3D screen, a chair in motion, and surround sound. There is a scaling up of experience itself-Kigalois can accelerate through orders of complexity. Thus, the teleological race marks not only linguistic and infrastructure changes, but also leisure within Kigali's developing consumption culture.
I also spent a solid hour at T2000's two-story Chinese supermarket-more like a Chinese Target-on middle levels of 2000 House, a pavilion-style commercial high rise (built and owned by a Chinese firm) just down the hill from a gas station which faces Kigali City Tower. In the market one finds German hair dye, Tuscan and French wine, Kenyan cookies, and Rwanda's local brands, and then there is the gargantuan quantity of shoes, bedding, furniture, toiletries, fake plants, dishware, clothing and school supplies all made in China. Certain imports aside, across categories T2000 is certainly cheaper than Nakumatt and Simba. The affordability of certain items there might be beneficial to poor Kigalois families, the many young people who are unemployed, or recent migrants from rural areas (most of Rwanda)-I was struck that I could buy a toothbrush for 500 RWF (about 75 US cents). I spent a memorable evening with my favorite Rwandan doctors and their American collaborators at the open-air Bamboo Bar and Restaurant on the top (5th) floor-one can enjoy striking sunset views of Kigali in every direction. The plethora of Chinese goods to be consumed at T2000-like numerical street names, 24-hour service, and English-affirms a process of rationalization and efficiency within the teleological project of acceleration. The direction of this process is inevitable, and surges on, but not without certain losses. I was struck by the comments of many Kigalois friends, of different ages, professions, histories, and strata within the "middle class." They were all concerned about good quality. "Now we can buy many more things and cheaply, but be sure that they'll fall apart quickly," said one. "Our options haven't really diversified because now we just have a lot more Chinese junk," said another. These remarks evidence a critique by Kigalois-a disappointment about sacrificed quality in the name of quantity and range. In the quest for accelerated development towards affordable goods for consumption, the element of quality has been skipped over, but the locals have not yet accepted this. Perhaps they see Chinese speed as counter-productive; if you drive too fast in order to get up to speed, your wheels may fall off. The street slang for the building is "T2000 nshyashya," which means "new T2000." It turns out that in the 1980s and perhaps even earlier, the same Chinese merchants occupied an old, small building in another part of town before moving to their new tower in 2012.
Our last stop in Centre ville is Grand Pension Plaza, or in Kigalois lingo, Simba 2. Financed and owned by the Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB), built by the Belgian firm Thomas & Piron, and true to its nickname, it is home to the larger Simba supermarket (with clothing and more furniture, etc.), shops, banks, and the like. A few local newspapers have featured stories on the low occupancy rate of the plaza and RSSB's broader real estate investments. Perhaps this is evidence that these investments have accelerated beyond the actual economic capacity of the average Kigalois entrepreneur. Most interestingly, a large, detailed model based on the Kigali City Master Plan lives in an enormous glass case in the lobby of Grand Pension Plaza. It displays how planners envision Kigali in 2040. I found it ironic and disturbing that the glass case is already shattered in a few places. There are buttons that were intended to allow the viewer to illuminate different parts of the model city, but the circuits need repairing-there is no light. The city is white and stainless; but enveloped in the broken, dusty grey cloud of its armor, it stands like a defeated knight. Who chose to vandalize the model and why? A detailed plan for 2040 speaks once again to the local idiom of acceleration, but how to explain the shattered glass in a building replete with security guards?
III. Kigali, Capital of Modernity
First published in 2007, the Kigali Conceptual Master Plan has since been updated in the 2013 Kigali City Master Plan Report. The plan was designed by US firm Oz Architects and Singaporean firm Surbana. It is striking and ambitious-it proposes transforming slum areas into ecological theme parks and commercial districts, building new housing developments, enabling further growth of the tourism industry with amenities like 900-room hotels, and turning Kigali into the Singapore of Central and East Africa, imagined as a critical regional hub for technology and financial services undergirded by a mostly informational economy. The Rwandan government has initiated slum clearances and land expropriations in preparation for implementation of the plan, which has already drawn criticism from foreign donors and the UK Department for International Development for not actually incorporating the poor and being unsustainable (Goodfellow 2013b). The Kigali City Master Plan is fundamentally linked to Rwanda's aspirations to become a middle-income country by 2020, as stated in the Rwanda Vision 2020 plan, with the requisite capital city to accompany such status. Problems aside, the plan instantiates the idea that Rwanda can abandon the central telos of development science and Western modernity, wherein a society progresses through necessary, sequential and well-defined phases of de-agrarianization, industrialization and economic growth before becoming a society based on an informational economy and widespread technological capacity. Aided by considerable foreign direct investment, and transnational planning, the post-traumatic nation can accelerate to build an informational, high-tech society, and a middle-income country.
A review of recent literature on Kigali reveals a concerted engagement with the consequences of Rwanda's accelerationist telos. As one example, Tom Goodfellow, a scholar of urban and development studies in Rwanda and Uganda, is one of the few who have thought about the reasons behind the striking silence of Kigali's majority of poor citizens and the absence of civic conflict (see Beall et al. 2013) that marks the city despite policies and structural developments that gradually marginalize them. In a comparative paper that considers urban politics in Rwanda and Uganda, he uses a heuristic dichotomy between "noise" and "silence" to capture the differential extent to which violent protest constitutes a regular type of state-society interaction in a given context. He argues the following:
In Kampala the regular mobilisation of urban informal groups into protests and riots has institutionalised a politics of noise, which has become rather self-reinforcing and serves certain functions for both political elites and ordinary city dwellers, even though this functionality may not have been created by design. In Kigali, by contrast, there is a marked absence of protest, and in part, this can be linked to the way city dwellers mobilise (and are mobilised) into orderly, structured community activities and self-policing: relatively silent forms of engagement which are institutionalised in the sense that they form "stable, valued and recurring patterns of behaviour" (Huntington, 1968, p. 12). (Goodfellow 2013a, 437)
This contrast forces us to consider motivation-why is it that Kigali's citizens are never moved to protest despite developments such as expropriation of land for the Kigali City Master Plan? While he paints a rather straightforward portrait of how in Kampala, the city and the state learned a certain politics in the current moment, he gives a rather more complex account of the "politics of silence" in Kigali that takes into account political learning but also how recent history and experience play into this learning of social behavior. He acknowledges the pervasive impact of Rwanda's top-down authoritarian government and the dearth of formal mechanisms for urban residents (such as market vendors) to express complaints, but goes on to make multiple assertions: a) avoidance of protest has become a social norm; b) most citizens assume that it's counter-productive to confront the government directly; c) while some Rwandans have likely internalized certain aspects of the authoritarian government's agenda for orderly, secure urbanization, both they and those who maintain internal resistance have regularly behaved in a way that "perpetuate[s] norms of relatively silent compliance" (447); d) strict social hierarchy and respect for authority have marked Rwandan culture for centuries; and e) silence is probably deeply valued owing to desires for social reproduction, stability, and self-protection. Goodfellow insists that since Rwanda yet lacks the technology and infrastructure for a modern "police state," powerful social norms serve as self-reinforcing mechanisms in sustaining a politics of silence. However, another way of reading Goodfellow's data is to conclude that Rwandans have internalized an ideology of acceleration to such an extent that they assume the rush of sudden changes but skip the stage or moment of urban protest and dissent that we associate with many histories, whether those of European, American, or postcolonial African cities. There is a link between silence and speed. The realization of a developmental telos based on acceleration hinges on a certain amount of silence-the silence that allows for school programs, street signs, and commercial ventures to be implemented relatively quickly. Abandoning French for English is also about silencing, at least for a while; a Francophone past and all its baggage is symbolically cast away, while many struggle to speak in a new tongue.
In his consideration of the Kigali City Master Plan, Goodfellow (2013b) reiterates the idea that Rwandans avoid protest out of desire for the wellness and stability of a still very fragile nation, but his message is a cautionary and pessimistic one: silence is not conducive to inclusive urban transformation, Rwanda yet needs to establish avenues for political contestation, and "the illusion of a conflict-free city, so appealing after the bloodbaths of the past, surely cannot last forever." In another paper, Goodfellow and Smith (2013) contend that the Rwandan Patriotic Front's consolidation of political control both nationally and locally, in tandem with a developmental agenda focused on attracting investment and integrating the population into the social and economic transformation of Kigali has changed urban security in ways that exceed expectations for post-conflict cities. Again, the authors caution that the chosen political mode for overcoming Rwanda's catastrophic past carries its owns limitations, and state that "the question remains as to whether Kigali really is a ‘model' of development broadly conceived, rather than just a model of order" (3198). This interrogation offers us a moment to turn towards rural Rwanda, which is the majority of the country, in terms of physical space and citizens.
IV. The Country and the City, Again
With the respect to the development of rural Rwanda, the Belgian development economist An Ansoms has produced a number of insightful analyses of Rwanda's agricultural sector reform and the vision expressed by its rural policies. Ansoms (2009) is concerned with the Rwandan elite's ambitions for a wide-ranging re-engineering of rural society, which she defines as threefold: The conversion of the agricultural sector into a professionalized motor for economic growth, centered on competitive and commercial farm units; the artificial upgrading of rural life via insertion of "modern" techniques and strategies into local realities while hiding poverty and inequality, and the transformation of Rwanda into a target-driven society at all levels. She reminds us that rural development policies are intimately intertwined with the position of elites and their relationship(s) with the peasantry, and should not be viewed as simply technical issues. In fact, her analysis exposes a powerful dichotomy between the rural and the urban, or the country and the city (pace Raymond Williams), at work in Rwanda's accelerationist teleological project. The poor are seen as slow, stuck in another time zone-they too need to catch up, they need to be caught up to speed and upgraded like Kigalois, and in a uniquely fast way. Ansoms openly criticizes the "very top-down developmentalist agenda" expressed by the "social engineering ambitions of the Rwandan government officials" (308). She laments a lack of opportunity for grassroots participation or for bottom-up feedback, the absence of a clear public vision of alternatives for Rwandans leaving agriculture following land holding consolidation, and the yet untapped though ample productive potential of small-scale farmers. Ultimately, she condemns the Rwandan elite for its seeming lack of political will to orient rural policies directly towards the rural poor, cautioning us to understand Rwanda's vision of accelerated rural development as one that leaves behind the majority of Rwandans: poor small-scale farmers.
More recently, Ansoms and Rostagno (2012) have analyzed the progress of Rwanda's Vision 2020 program, which the government incarnated in a document finalized in July 2000. Vision 2020 encompasses the government's broad development aims to be achieved by 2020, structured by six "pillars": (1) good governance and a capable state; (2) human resource development and a knowledge-based economy; (3) a private sector-led economy; (4) infrastructure development; (5) productive and market-oriented agriculture; and (6) regional and international economic integration (GOR 2000). Ansoms and Rostagno acknowledge that Rwanda is on track to meet the Millennium Development Goals in the fields of education and health care, and that the political leadership has been praised for its quality of technocratic governance and proactive approach to creating an appealing business atmosphere. However, they insist that "some indicators remain problematic" (427). They characterize Rwanda's current development strategy as one of maximum growth at any cost, and denounce it as counterproductive to the aim of achieving the greatest possible poverty reduction given that its ultimate outcome is to concentrate strong economic growth in the hands of a small elite with limited trickle-down potential. The accelerationist teleological project crystallizes once again in an economic agenda of maximum growth at any cost. As Ansoms and Rostagno suggest, rapid-fire development may generate sacrificial costs.
They list many such costs: Land dispossession, evictions in Kigali, a lack of democratic freedom, little space for dissent and debate in civil society, a seeming lack of correlation between private capital injection into the Rwandan economy and poverty reduction/job creation, growing centralization of power despite the purported goal of decentralization in Vision 2020, the questionable quality of education given the sudden adoption of English as a classroom language, and so forth. Ultimately, Ansoms and Rostagno propose that Rwanda investigate and pursue a broad-based inclusive growth model drawing on existing strengths and the principle of capacity building among rural small-scale farmers, with investment in both smallholder, labor-intensive agriculture and investment in artisanal training centers and small-scale industries existing in the informal economy. They emphasize that a more inclusive, pro-poor model of growth is essential for poverty reduction and to avoid radicalization while fostering long-term stability and peace in Rwanda.
While Ansoms and Rostagno are vehemently critical of Rwanda's actual success in achieving the development agenda laid out in Vision 2020, other scholars have highlighted how the document crystallizes a shared imaginary of change and temporal power amongst Rwanda's political leaders and civil servants. In their characterization of Rwanda as a developmental patrimonial state, Booth and Golooba-Mutebi (2012) argue that "contrary to what happens with equivalent documents in most countries of the region, [the Rwanda Vision 2020 document] is a real point of reference for ministers and civil servants. The assumption underlying the vision is that if economic and social progress occurs fast enough, a new generation will emerge who are capable of fully assuming their national identity as Rwandans rather than privileging what divided them in the past" (391, emphasis added). Their empirical conclusion lends support to the notion that in Rwanda, there is a certain fetishization of acceleration amongst the nation's leadership-if development and change can accelerate to their realization "fast enough," an entire generation can overcome the trauma of Rwanda's past of ethnic divisionism and genocide, assuming a new identity as unified Rwandans. The authors go on to assert, "Many critics of the regime see this as naïve and argue that reconciliation needs to be attended to in a more direct fashion. But in so doing they also confirm that this is indeed the vision that drives policy" (391).
Finally, other scholars have foregrounded the Rwandan state's direct surveillance of public discourse and how various formal institutions constrain Rwandan citizenship (Straus and Waldorf 2011). Andrea Purdeková (2011) has argued that a deep-seated belief that the state has "so many eyes" perpetuates the silence of Rwandan citizens. However, our analysis of such crucial issues cannot be reduced to the power of entrenched authoritarian government, particularly in a post-disaster, post-traumatic, recently reborn city.
Time as a cultural production and experience has always been a major object of anthropological inquiry. What is more, from the colonial period onwards, Africa was cast as a place of slow tempos against which the West could define its modern history of fast achievements. Rwanda's present teleological project is an endeavor whose eventual success is meant to debunk that age-old narrative. The accelerationist teleology applied to and experienced in Kigali is meant to enable an entire generation to overcome a recent past of extreme violence and ethnic divisionism, in spite of all the scars that endure. In a moment where cultural change and social stability are framed around getting up to speed, Rwandan society is grasping for the possibility of outpacing the post-traumatic period, of leaving it behind in the dust. To live in Kigali is to be pushed along, to be reminded each day that one must catch up, upgrade, hurry up. It is a quotidian condition that does not spare people a certain sense of loss-loss of quality (whether of goods or of education); a lack of meticulous care; a certain silencing. And yet, in the wake of so many ruptures, this teleological breach may seem worth the sacrifice.
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Ansoms, An, and Donatella Rostagno. 2012. "Rwanda's Vision 2020 Halfway through: What the Eye Does Not See." Review of African Political Economy 39 (133): 427-50.
Asiimwe, Peninah. 2013. "State-of-the-Art Cinema Opens in Kigali." The Rwanda Focus, March 10.
Beall, Jo, Tom Goodfellow, and Dennis Rodgers. 2013. "Cities and Conflict in Fragile States in the Developing World." Urban Studies 50 (15): 3065-83.
Booth, David, and Frederick Golooba-Mutebi. 2012. "Developmental Patrimonialism? The Case of Rwanda." African Affairs 111 (444): 379-403.
City of Kigali. 2013. "Kigali City Master Plan Report: Detailed District Physical Plans for Kicukiro & Gasabo, Kigali, Rwanda.
Comaroff, Jean, and John Comaroff. 2012. Theory from the South, Or, How Euro-America Is Evolving toward Africa. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
Goodfellow, Tom. 2013. "The Institutionalisation of ‘Noise' and ‘Silence' in Urban Politics: Riots and Compliance in Uganda and Rwanda." Oxford Development Studies 41 (4): 436-54.
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Government of Rwanda. 2000. "Rwanda Vision 2020." Kigali: Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.
Morris, Rosalind C. 2008. "Rush/Panic/Rush: Speculations on the Value of Life and Death in South Africa's Age of AIDS." Public Culture 20 (2): 199-231.
Purdeková, Andrea. 2011. "‘Even If I Am Not Here, There Are so Many Eyes': Surveillance and State Reach in Rwanda." The Journal of Modern African Studies 49 (3): 475-97.
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Private Museum Founders, Art Collectors and Experts Gather in Basel for the First Edition of the “Private Museum Conference” on June 15, 2017
Inaugurating on June 15, 2017, and initiated by E.A.T.’s Cristina Bechtler and Katharina De Vaivre and Larry’s List’s Christoph Noe, the Private Museum Conference (PMC) welcomed 50 private museum founders and museum directors, art collectors and experts from around the world to examine the dynamics and possibilities of privately founded contemporary art museums. The conference was initiated with the underlying idea to create a platform for best practice exchange between the founders and institutions across regions and discuss latest developments in the industry. The focus of the first conference was given on the topic of architecture.
Guests included art collectors Dr. Uli Sigg, Manuel Salvisberg, Serge Tiroche, and Thomas Bechtler, private museum owners Ramin Salsali, Christian Utz, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, as well as Van Gogh Museum’s Marjie van der Pas, and Sjarel Ex, director of the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.
The second conference will be held in March 2018 in Hong Kong, coinciding with Art Basel Hong Kong.
Key points of the 30-minute talks:
Combining Art, Architecture and Design: The Case of the Sifang Art Museum
Lu Xun, Founder
Sifang Art Museum
Sifang Art Museum is part of a architectural park, located in the mountains outside the city of Nanjing
The site hosts over 20 building by acclaimed architects and artists incl. Irata Isozaki, Liu Jiakun and Gary Chang, Wang Shu and Ettore Sottsass
The site was developed with individual operation possibilities of each building
The art museum itself is designed by Steven Holl
In addition to the commissioned architecture, Lu Xun also commissioned art projects e.g. by Xu Zhen as well as design projects.
For the visitors (up to 750 per weekend), art is only one reason to visit Sifang: Many guests also come to enjoy the nature and countryside
Further information via: www.sifangartmuseum.org/en/
Bridging Generations
Patricia Kamp
Representative Museum Frieder Burda & Artistic Director Salon Berlin
Museum Frieder Burda
Baden-Baden & Berlin, Germany
Patricia Kamp has been preparing for her role over the last decade by accompanying her step-father Frieder Burda around the world to fairs and art events.
Her main mission is to make the heritage accessible for new generation.
Communication between generations is essential
The reason to open the Salon in Berlin developed out of the idea to be closer to the vibrant German and international art scene and to connect to the next generation
Communication via social media is one of the key components to lead the museum into the 21st century
Further information via: www.museum-frieder-burda.de
The Pre Fab Museum
Robbie Antonio
CEO of Revolution Precrafted
The company brings together world-renown architects, brands and designers and brands: Revolution Precrafted unites over 40 of the world’s preeminent architects, artists, and designers to create a series of prefabricated, livable spaces
Following the livable spaces, the company also launches Prefab Museums with the idea to have a own private museum ready in 5 weeks rather in 5 years
The Prefab Museums are artworks itself: Each comes in a limited edition of 10 pieces
The underlying principle is a modular approach that allow the museum’s owner to expand over time but adding further modules
The Prefab modules offer multimedia rooms, galleries, storage facilities etc.
The museums are designed by renown architects incl. Jean Nouvel, Christian de Portzamparc, and Philip Johnson, Ai Weiwei and Alan Ritchie Architects
Further information via: revolutionprecrafted.com/robbie-antonio/
Wonderwalls – The Architecture of the Bischofberger Collection
Nina Baier-Bischofberger & Florian Baier
Baier Bischofberger Architects
The site comprises 10 buildings
It combines living space, gallery space, display halls and storage facilities hosting the collecting of Bruno Bischofberger, the father / father-in-law of Nina Baier-Bischofberger & Florian Baier
A number of buildings have been already existing so the project has been rather a “redressing” of the structures
One major mission was to create different rooms, atmospheres and light conditions to keep flexibility for different set-up
The storage aspect is crucial with the furniture collecting itself comprising nearly 20,000 pieces
Currently, the site is not yet called a museum as it is only privately accessible. However, the infrastructure is in place to turn it into a public museum with visiting hours at a given point in time
Further information via: www.baierbischofberger.ch
The Birth of a Private Museum
Désiré Feuerle
The Feuerle Collection
The Feuerle Collection is located in a converted WWII bunker in Berlin’s city center
The collection comprises Chinese Imperial Art ranging from Han to the Qing dynasties, 7th–13th century Khmer sculptures in stone, bronze, and wood, and of course, contemporary works
Before finding the right venue in Berlin, he was checking a number of cities incl. Barcelona, Venice, Bangkok
Berlin was a suitable choice due to the right building and also the roughness oft he city that juxtaposes with the collecting itself
John Pawson was the selected architect to convey the bunker into the museum. The choice for him was also because of his understanding to keep the beauty of the existing building
The founder sees the museum visit foremost as an experience for all senses with the building and the works in the center of attention. Captions of works are consciously set aside
Further information via: www.thefeuerlecollection.org
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First Lady says GBV involves all
09 Apr 2014 07:00am
WINDHOEK, 09 APR (NAMPA) First Lady Penehupifo Pohamba says the tragic results of urban dislocation, unemployment, alcohol and other societal pressures must be jointly addressed with other contributing factors of gender-based violence (GBV).
Pohamba said at the launch of a strategic plan for the HANO Youth Foundation in the capital on Tuesday that these are national issues.
All stakeholders, from individuals, the family unit, traditional authorities, churches and the business community, civil society as well as government should thus be involved.
We should particularly be willing and ready to be part of the solution to murders and killings because we are all affected directly and indirectly.
Our dignity, our pride and integrity as a peaceful, democratic and multi-racial society is at stake, and must be restored, she stressed.
Established on 22 May 2010, the HANO Youth Foundation emerged from the names of its founders Steve Handura and Nocky Kaapehi. It is registered as a welfare organization with the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS), and the Ministry of Youth, National Service, Sport and Culture as a youth organization.
Pohamba said her office and HANO had a bit of time to reflect on this issue, and have decided to team up with other stakeholders and development partners.
I want to see, hear and read messages on the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) television, all radio stations and the print media about the various interventions which are being taken to alter the undesired behaviour of violence, she added.
The First Lady also appealed to Parliamentarians to pass laws which will provide for stiffer sentences to perpetrators violating the rights of people to life, which should include laws prohibiting the misuse and abuse of alcohol, drugs and other harmful substances.
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Artists in the Community
Maui Arts & Cultural Center's Artists in the Community program redefines the relationship of artist to audience, and embodies The MACC’s enduring belief in the ability of the arts to build community. Through a multitude of free events throughout the year, The MACC brings performing artists into local schools, senior centers and social service agencies, reaching out to people throughout Maui County in the places where they live, go to school, or gather to socialize — including Hāna, Lāna‘i and Moloka‘i. Through shared personal experiences with performers from around the world, Maui Nui residents experience the transformative power of the arts. In return, our visiting artists feel the strength of aloha from our community. These engagement activities provide shared benefits: the ‘aha’ moments that occur not only enrich the community, but are also insightful for the participating artists ... and therein lies the potential for great exchange, sharing and growth.
THE NUMBERS: 3,733 people were served throughout Maui County, with 35 events in the MACC's Artists in Community program 2017-18 ... taking place in community centers, social agencies, and schools.
Michael Sakamoto
Taught a master dance class in Omori Studio at MACC
Visited a class at the University of Hawaii - Maui College ("Music in World Cultures") where Michael discussed his dance theatre piece "Soil," which was performed in Castle Theater on October 25
Conducted a community talk-back session post-performance in Castle Theater
Visited Ola Mau Farms with his three international dancers for a cross-cultural experience "with the Soil" as they planted keiki 'ulu trees and harvested fruits and vegetables for their stage performance
Morgan Thorson, choreographer from Minnesota
Engaged in a rountable discussion on dance at MACC
Conducted dance workshops at: Seabury Hall, Alexander Academy of Performing Arts, and Maui Academy of Performing Arts (MAPA)
“I loved Morgan’s outlook and the students loved her vibe. Her reasoning behind Dance was very interesting and creative. Her ideas were fun and different. She pushed the dancers to keep it simple and they were free to really connect with each other." - Kathleen Schulz, MAPA dance director
Morgan Thorson and Collaborators will present the company's dance performance entitled "Public Love" on Wednesday, March 20, 2019 in the Castle Theater. This program was co-commissioned by the MACC and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Kelly Boy DeLima
Lāna'i High & Elementary School
Lāna'i Senior Center
Lāna'i Youth Center
"Our students LOVED the assembly with him. Kelly Boy was so relatable and connected with our students. His sharing of music and life story inspired many of our students to play music that moves their heart." -Kerri Glickstein, Lāna'i music teacher
Mahalo to Lāna'i Community Benefit Fund of the Hawai'i Community Foundation for support that made this visit possible
Brother Noland
Hale Makua in Kahului
Lokelani Intermediate School
Boys & Girls Club of Maui- Central Clubhouse
As reported by Matthew Thayer, in a spotlight in The Maui News:
“We are all born artists,” Noland told the keiki. “Everything has to do with being artistic. If you are passionate about what you do, you’re going to do all right.” He said it was his 40th year in the business. “I’m still sharing. I’m still playing music. I’m still making people happy, helping people heal.”
Desmond Richardson of COMPLEXIONS
Master class for all ages in Omori Studio, MACC
JAKE SHIMABUKURO
March 17, 2018 WATCH A VIDEO OF THE DAY
In a full day of visits prior to his concert in the Castle Theater that same night, we brought Jake Shimabukuro to these places:
- Roselani Place, an assisted-living community, where he serenaded the seniors during their lunch.
- Aloha House (provides outpatient and residential treatment to individuals with addictions and comprehensive, family-centered behavioral health interventions).
- Participants onsite with P.O.I. Program: Positive Outreach Intervention (assists juveniles who are learning about the consequences of negative choices) and the KALO Program (culturally-based curriculum to assist families with communication and parenting skills, building self-esteem, and making healthy choices) Both programs facilitated by Maui Police Department.
MAI POINA: THE ANNEXATION DEBATES
Building on the stage production covering "The Overthrow," presented last year in McCoy Studio Theater and in our AIC program l, the cast of Mai Poina travelled to Kamehameha School-Maui to present the historical drama along with a discussion session with Hawaiian scholars. "Mai Poina: The Annexation Debates" is a reenactment of the arguments that raged during 1898 about the annexation of Hawai'i by the United State, with the aim to make history relevant to a diverse audience and illustrate the impact then and now.
Henry Kapono & Friends
Redeaux! Henry Kapono and his friends/bandmates Alx Kawakami, Blayne Asing, and Johnny Valentine visited Kalama Intermediate School, Aloha House, Hale Mahaolu Elua/Akahi senior center, and Ke Hale A Ke Ola Resource Center in Wailuku.
ANANYA DANCE THEATRE
Based in Minneapolis and specializing in the Odissi dance form of India, the celebrated Ananya Dance Company conducted a Master Class for dancers in the Omori Studio.
They also visited UH-Maui College where they participated in a discussion with Associate Professor Kahele Dukelow and a group of students about feminism and the different challenges, and success stories of our community; and traded cross-cultural dance moves with Halau Kamaluokaleihulu.
An in-depth vocal workshop in the McCoy Studio Theater ...attended by anyone who wanted to strech their vocal chords! (pun intended)
FAUSTWORK MASK THEATRE
Rob Faust took his collection of characters ( composed of just masks and body language) to Kamehameha School for a workshop with theater arts students.
Shank's Mare: Kahului, Hana, Lana'i, Moloka'i
Our Artists in the Community program in September featured an astounding number of residency activities with 5th-generation Japanese puppet master Koryu Nishikawa V and Hawai'i-born puppet artist Tom Lee. Their production, Shank's Mare (in the Castle Theater Sept 29) is only the top of the glacier of activities: over 1,800 children and adults in Maui County benefitted through three free community performances in Hana, Moloka'i and Lana'i and presentations by the cast in schools in those locations, as well as a special show for schoolchildren in Castle Theater at MACC. Nishikawa and Lee also presented lecture-demonstrations in libraries statewide - including Kahului, Moloka'i and Lana'i - sponsored by the Performing Arts Presenters of Hawai'i, of which MACC is a member.
Above: Puppetry at Kahului Library, Tom Lee and Koryu Nishikawa in Molokai Library. Below: a school assembly on Lana'i
Moses Goods in Community: Lana'i and Moloka'i
The evening of June 22, Maui Arts and Cultural Center in partnership with Lana‘i Culture & Heritage Center hosted a free community performance by Moses Goods (Maui-born actor, writer and storyteller) at Lana'i school: presentation of traditional Hawaiian storytelling, and performing arts.
Earlier in the day, Moses had met with a group of Lanai'i students, joined by 25 students from Pa‘ia Youth Center on Maui. He dirst told his own story: how he got involved in theater while in high school, which sparked an interest that has become his passion and profession. Students asked questions about theater/acting, and how Native Hawaiian traditions were researched. Moses shared that if Native Hawaiians do not engage in telling their stories, others will; it is important to learn your traditions and to tell your own stories of your community. He then took the students on a journey through time, from Kaunolu and Kane‘apua, Lana‘i to Kahiki (the ancestral home land of the gods and people of Hawai‘i), by telling the Lana‘i-based story of Kane‘apua, then told the story of Kamapua‘a’s journey to Kahiki, and his battles with Ku‘ilioloa and Lonoka‘eho, and finally, the story of Hamumu, the Hawaiian whale rider. (see more photos HERE Lanai CHC)
Moses Goods also enacted a similar program on Moloka'i: educational presentation and a free community performance.
CLICK HERE to see a breakdown of the events, with the numbers 2016-17
HENRY KAPONO - SONGS OF C&K
Whenever we get a chance to take our performing artists out and around Maui - WE DO IT! Sometimes it's for one session, and other times it's more - like last Thursday, it was FOUR sessions. All day long. All in. All around Maui.
Henry Kapono and his friends/bandmates Alx Kawakami, Blayne Asing, and Johnny Valentine visited Maui High Band and Choir students in Kahului; Aloha House - Substance Abuse Services in Makawao; Lokelani Intermediate School in Kihei; and Ke Hale A Ke Ola - Homeless Resource Center in Wailuku.
Dancers from Alvin Ailey's renowned dance campanies taught a master class here in the Omori studios ... and conducted a Q&A with audience members after their performance ... and appeared for an aftershow meet & greet with a couple dozen young Mauians associated with the Queen Liliuokalani Trust.
APARNA RAMASWAMY / RAGAMALA DANCE COMPANY
Taught a class in Omori Studio on the classical Indian dance form, Bharatanatyam.
SEAN DORSEY DANCE
Their master class in the Omori Studio was for "Terrified beginners"!
Members of the Sean Dorsey Dance company also conducted a community talk night with members of the Maui AIDS Society.
ROSIE HERRERA DANCE THEATRE
Master Class with Rosie Herrera, choreographer extraordinaire, in the Omori dance studio. Rosie guided the improvisations of the group in exercises that challenged the dancers to access their emotional states and delve into their deeper physicality. Nicole Humphrey, a dancer (and MACC's Donor Events Coordinator) attended the workshop and had this reaction to the class: “Rosie was so real. Her vulnerability, unapologetic and complete commitment to self was captivating and inspirational. As a dancer, Rosie helped call me back to the present- to dance in an earthy and genuine way- and to dance and move in the best way possible: “like no one is watching”. Thank you MACC for bringing this creative master of dance to Maui!”
The evening before, Rosie taught a workshop at MAPA (Maui Academy of Performing Arts) with intermediate to advanced level dancers (and even a couple of instructors!) “Audiences connect to people who have experiences and take risks in their performances,” as she told the young performers.
Horn Clinic with five horn players from the Los Angeles-based band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy with King Kekaulike High School Jazz Band student musicians. Glen Marhevka (trumpet), Andy Rowley, saxophone), Karl Hunter (clarinet & saxophone), Alex Henderson (trombone), and Tony Bonsera (trumpet) visited the Upcountry high school to share pointers on musicianship, horn-playing, and being part of a performing team. The musicians sampled some of the various types of jazz music, listened to a few pieces by the King K students and gave the students a few tips ... and then everybody jumped in and jammed on a tune together! Many of the kids came to the perfromce in the Castle Theater the next night, and hooted & hollered for their new best friends and fellow horn players!
King Kekaulike High School band instructor Casey Nagata had this to say: "The horn clinic was an amazing experience for my students and we're extremely grateful to Art and the MACC for giving us this opportunity. Being able to go to Tuesday's concert for free really made the students feel special and helped solidify and give context to what they had learned on Monday. At this age and with all the other electives, sports, video games, and activities competing for their free time, it's really important for young musicians to see and hear real live professional musicians to keep them inspired and excited about music. On top of that, it's great to have pros who want to outreach to the schools. Once my band could tell that BBVD was genuinely interested in them, they lost their nervousness and started having fun."
PAKA'A LANAKILA!
A thousand Maui school children packed the house for a School Show of the Hawaiian language story "Paka'a Lanakila" ( Paka'a the Winner), narrated by B.K. Cabigon accompanied by the Wind Quintet of Chamber Music Hawai'i, in an original composition by Jon Magnussen. This performance was a collaboration of cultures: a quintet of wind instruments gave a musical translation of an ancient Hawaiian tale from Kaua'i, while a narrator told the story in Hawaiian, and an English translation was projected so that all the audience might enjoy the 'olelo.
From the staff: "There really is nothing like hearing the Castle Theater full of all those excited young voices as they get ready for the lights to dim and the show to go on!"
HAUNTED HAWAIIIAN NIGHTS
October 27- 28, 2016
Hawaiian storyteller Lopaka Kapanui gave a performance of spooky stories for about 25 'tweens' at the Boys & Girls Club in Makawao, and visited Hale Mahaolu Elua where he told stories to about 75 kupuna. (Some of the eldsters came special from Hana and Kula to see his performance - and they had a great time!) What a way to get ready for Halloween weekend on the island: chicken-skin!
MAI POINA: THE OVERTHROW
A theatrical production brought to life by the Hawai‘i Pono‘ī Coalition, telling of the tumultuous last four days of the Hawaiian monarchy from the perspective of native Hawaiians and other citizens of the kingdom. Followed by an open discussion with Hawaiian scholars, to inform and inspire. The cast from O'ahu performed this dramatic work to a full house of students in the McCoy Studio Theater - approximately 300 young people who had come to the MACC for this school show. Immediately after, the cast traveled to Kamehameha School Maui to perform for all students in the high school and eighth grade, approximately 560 students. Nyla Fujii-Babb, who plays the role of Queen Lili`uokalani in Mai Poina: The Overthrow, was full of emotion for the impact of these performances, as she felt so strongly that they were reaching the audience for whom this presentation was most intended - the youth of Hawai`i.
Previous program highlights:
Henry Kapono, Brother Noland and John Cruz ... WATCH THE ROUGH RIDERS VIDEO: "A Day of Aloha"
Al Jarreau with students from Baldwin High School Performing Arts Program
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The inflatable wind turbine
Altaeros Energies, a wind energy company formed out of MIT, has been able to generate high altitude power from a prototype of its floating wind turbine in a test in Maine.
The 10-metre wide, helium-filled inflatable turbine, called the Airborne Wind Turbine (AWT), was sent up into the sky more than 100 metres above ground, where stronger winds can be found. The prototype was also used to lift the top-selling Southwest Skystream turbine, which was able to produce more than twice the power at high altitude that was generated at conventional tower height.
Altaeros aims to harness the stronger winds found more than 300 metres in the air with the use of helium-filled inflatable devices that can be quickly installed or taken down. In the short term, Altaeros wants to provide an alternative to diesel generators, but in the long term it wants to scale up the technology to reduce costs in the offshore wind market.
Ben Glass, the inventor of the AWT and Altaeros Chief Executive Officer, said: "For decades, wind turbines have required cranes and huge towers to lift a few hundred feet off the ground where winds can be slow and gusty. We are excited to demonstrate that modern inflatable materials can lift wind turbines into more powerful winds almost everywhere -- with a platform that is cost competitive and easy to setup from a shipping container."
Altaeros says that the AWT can ascend to altitudes where winds are more consistent and more than five times stronger than those reached by tower-mounted turbines. The lifting technology has been adapted from aerostats -- blimp-like structures that lift heavy communications and radar equipment and can withstand hurricane-level winds.
Co-founder Adam Rein told Wired.co.uk that the biggest challenge for the company was to design a wind turbine that could meet the needs of all potential customers. He said: "A high altitude wind turbine could have many applications, including oil and gas sites, military bases, developing world villages, or disaster relief. Some users care most about low cost, while others care about easy transport and setup, quiet operations, or lower bird impact."
Source: wired.co.ukAdded: 30 March 2012
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Model: Range Rover
Engine: 4.4 litre V8
Maximum Power: 295 hp (225 kW) @ 5500 rpm
Maximum Torque: 313 lb-ft (425 Nm) @ 4000 rpm
Transmission: Six-speed automatic
Drivetrain: Four-wheel drive
Land Rover Press Release
Enhancements to the Range Rover for 2008 add a series of further luxury touches and practical new features, including four-zone air conditioning. The improvements are expected to help maintain the strong market performance of the Range Rover, with sales in the first four months of 2008 already 19% up worldwide over last year.
“That increase is largely due to the huge popularity of the acclaimed TDV8 diesel that we introduced to the Range Rover line-up last year,” says Phil Popham, Land Rover’s managing director. “The engine’s great combination of performance and fuel economy has not only powered overall Range Rover sales, but also shifted our diesel/petrol mix, especially in Europe. Most Range Rover customers who would previously have bought a V8 petrol now choose a TDV8 instead, which offers petrol-like refinement but with 32% better fuel economy.”
The list of changes for 2008 is headed by the introduction of four-zone air conditioning, which enables rear seat passengers to control their individual heating and ventilation. This is neatly complemented with ‘climate control’ windscreen and side glass which is now available in conjunction with automatic rain and headlight sensing. The special glass cuts infrared heat transmission into the vehicle, reducing heat build up when the vehicle is parked in the sun, for example, so allowing the air conditioning to function faster and more effectively on drive away.
A redesigned rear seat armrest provides extra stowage space (including a dedicated location for the optional rear seat entertainment remote control) and there is additional leather trim on the heating and ventilation unit and centre console. There are now a total of seven real wood veneers to choose from, all sourced from sustainable forests, and additional wood veneer elements have been applied to the rear of the centre console. A matching wooden gear knob has also been introduced on some models.
The attention to detail extends to new tread-plates and revised graphics on the touch-screen and instruments. A new interior colour becomes available, called Storm, as well as two new exterior colours, Alaska White and Lucerne Green, and a fresh set of “designers’ choices” for recommended interior and exterior combinations. There is also a new, highly polished 20″ alloy wheel design.
“We are keeping the Range Rover offering fresh with regular changes: some are major, like the TDV8 engine last year – which, incidentally, will now be badged on the back of the vehicle – while others are about the detail, such as those coming in for 2008,” says Phil Popham. “And this approach seems to have continuing appeal for our customers, as we’re on track for one of our best ever sales years with the Range Rover.”
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John Dean says he's 'honored' to be on Trump's 'enemies list'
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Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean is "honored" to be on President Donald Trump's "enemies list," he said Monday, just hours after he negatively compared Trump to former President Richard Nixon in testimony before Congress.
"Well, I'm honored to be on his enemies list. I was able to make Nixon's at the end and so I'm pleased that I'm on Trump's given my feelings about the threat he is to this country," Dean told CNN's Anderson Cooper on "Anderson Cooper 360."
Earlier Monday, Dean, a CNN contributor, testified before the House Judiciary Committee during a hearing on lessons from special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian election interference. In his testimony, the former Nixon administration official compared Trump to his former boss, telling the panel that Trump's actions before and during the Russia probe were similar to those taken by Nixon during the Watergate investigation.
Dean played a vital role in the Watergate investigation when he testified before a Senate select committee in June 1973 about Nixon's involvement, which eventually toppled his presidency. Nixon's "enemies list" consisted of politicians, journalists and entertainers who Nixon felt had wronged him.
It's unclear if Trump maintains a similar document, though he and his aides have reportedly listed political opponents and even members of his administration for insufficient loyalty.
Shortly before Dean delivered his congressional testimony Monday, Trump derided the former official, calling him a "loser" and pointing out that Dean served prison time for his involvement in the Watergate scandal.
Happy 61st birthday, IHOP. Here's how the chain still rakes in billions
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Innovation, Technology
Uber Transportation at the Touch of an App
By Amanda Lewan on March 29th, 2013 / Comments
Uber provides a very simple solution for our widespread metropolitan Detroit: a car to pick you up at the touch of your mobile app.
With locations across the United States, Detroit marks the company’s 29th city. There are talks of possibly coming to Ann Arbor too.
Uber does what most technology startups should do: provide a simple technology for the user along with transparent and reliable customer service. When you pull up your app and request a car the driver responds with his name, his customer service ratings, and his time for arrival. It’s easy, reliable, and the car is a very smooth black car that’s ideal for any date or night out on the town.
The company also offers different ways to charge for their service. If the car travels less than 11 miles per hour they charge for time. If you’re going over 11 miles per hour then you’re charged for distance. Don’t worry about cash, you can pay inside the app with your credit card.
I spoke with Michael White from the Uber Detroit team about their company coming to Detroit, and how Uber fits in with the city.
Why Bring Uber to Detroit?
“I think Detroit has a great opportunity for Uber. Because of the history of Detroit we have communities spread out. You have a growing downtown and communities like Royal Oak, Ferndale, and Birmingham around the city,” said Michael. “We can help connect the different cities around Detroit by providing a quality, on-demand solution.”
Michael mentioned that Uber holds special promotions such as ice cream truck delivery during the summer, mariachi bands on demand for Cinco De May, and flower delivery for Valentine’s Day. With Detroit, they promise to keep their promotions local to the community, supporting small businesses in the area.
“There’s a great community of professionals trying to make Detroit a better community. I think we fit really well into that,” said Michael. “We provide our partners, small businesses that have one to five cars, the opportunity to grow their business in Detroit.”
Michael told us the community has been very welcoming and receptive to their arrival, and he’s excited for Uber to be a part of the rebirth of Detroit.
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Give Uber a warm Michigan welcome by following them on Twitter and try out their service next time your in Metro Detroit.
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#478 Large Etched Quartz Crystal with Inclusions of Pink Montmorillonite**
From the White Queen Mine, Pala District, San Diego
County, CA. Measures 16 x 7 inches. Dawsons
to the Herb and Mary Walters Collection.
Purchased 1959.**
#448 Orthoclase var. Adularia**
Fine twin xls on matrix. From Griessertal, Canton Uri, Switzerland. Old Minerals Unlimited label. Scott John Williams was born August 6, 1924, in San Francisco, the son of Cecil and Elsa Warnecke Williams. Scott attended the University of California at Berkeley, and in April of 1948, together with his friend David B. Grigsby, founded "Minerals Unlimited" at 2006 Durant Avenue in Berkeley (13-year-old Si Frazier, later a well-known mineral dealer in his own right, was their first part-time employee). Williams operated the company for six years before selling his interest in it to Ralph Merrill in March of 1954.**
#447 Cerrusite on Galena**
From Tsumeb, Namibia. 3 1/2" across.**
#444 Vanadinite
6" x 4". Mibladen, Morocco .*-
# 442 Cerrusite**
5 cm x 3 cm. From Tsumeb, Namibia.*-
The Hugh Proctor Collection
These pieces are part of a collection I purchased from the estate of Hugh Proctor of San Diego. There are a lot of treasures that I have kept off the sales floor of my store. There are lots of pieces purchased from some very fine Southern California dealers from the 1950's into the 1970's. Many have the old tags some had just strips of paper. One item that has been very helpful was a journal that had numbers that went with the specimens. Feel free to call my store with any questions about this collection. Pat
These seven specimens come with Scott Williams Label
Scott John Williams was born August 6, 1924, in San Francisco, the son of Cecil
and Elsa Warnecke Williams. Scott attended the University of California at
Berkeley, and in April of 1948, together with his friend David B. Grigsby,
founded "Minerals Unlimited" at 2006 Durant Avenue in Berkeley (13-year-old Si
Frazier, later a well-known mineral dealer in his own right, was their first
part-time employee). Williams operated the company for six years before selling
his interest in it to Ralph Merrill in March of 1954; Grigsby was hired by
Ultra-Violet Products, and also sold his share to Merrill.Scott then moved to
Arizona where he eventually received his bachelor's degree in mineralogy and his
master's degree in geography and geology at Arizona State University in 1965.
While there he opened a new mineral business called the "Scott Williams Mineral
Company" (in Phoenix from April, 1954 until December, 1954; in Scottsdale from
1955 to 1963). In early 1964 he and David New announced (in their February 1964
ad in The Mineralogist) the reorganization of the Scott Williams
Mineral Company as "Southwest Scientific" in Scottsdale, with Williams
continuing as "president" and consulting mineralogist.
# 440 Stilbite**
From Wassons Bluff, Parrsboro, Cumberland Co. Nova Scotia. 4 cm x 5 cm.*-
#441 Marcasite with Sphalerite**
4.5 cm. x 3.5 cm. From Baxter Springs, Cherokee co., Kansas.*-
# 437 Chabazite var. Acadialite with Heulandite**
4.5 cm x 6 cm. From Wassons Bluff, Cumberland co., Nova Scotia. The Chabazite from Wasson's is quite distinct, being orange and with odd curved zoning between opaque and more gemmy regions. The associated heulandite from Wasson's is typically quite lustrous (even when the chabs are etched) and again is distinct from Five Islands. The little calcite is also the usual Wasson's habit.Good, large chabazites are very difficult to find and collect.*-
# 436 Celestite with Sulpher**
5 cm x 3 cm. Floristella Mine, Near Girgenti, Sicily.**
# 434 Smithsonite in Coronadoite (rare)**
4 cm x 2.5 cm. Broken Hill, NSW, Australia.*-
These four specimens come with label from Mojave Desert Gem and Mineral Shop
Shaws Mojave Desert Gem and Mineral Shop. Earl W. Shaw was born in Bourbon, Douglas County, Illinois in November 1893, the son of Mary F. and Joseph P. Shaw, a farmer. He married Ida Webb (1886-1963) in 1924. By 1930 he and Ida had moved to Eden, California, where he worked as a woodcutter, while she worked as a stenographer for an attorney.In the late 1930s they moved to
Yermo, California where they opened the Mojave Desert Gem and Mineral Shop on Highway 91, 10 or 11 miles east of Barstow, California (and 1 or 2 miles west of Yermo). The famous color-blind field collector and dealer Ed McDole used to sell them specimens, including very choice Butte specimens. Ed was the only person they would allow to smoke in their shop.Earl and his wife appear on the California Voter Registration rolls from 1940 to 1962. They appear to have put the business and their 2-acre shop property up for sale in January 1942, via an ad in Desert Magazine.
These seven specimens come with Label from Russel Filer's
.The style of label indicates it came to market
betwen 1949-1957. Russell Filer was born July 25, 1921 in American Falls, Idaho.
His family moved to California when he was six, eventually settling in the town
of Redlands where his father worked as a civil engineer for the Metropolitan
Water District.In junior high school Russell joined an informal science group
involved in mineral collecting; they took field trips to the Mesa Grande
district, the Crestmore quarry, and other localities, and Russell's mineral
collection began to grow. In 1933 he had his first mineral labels printed,
reading "Russell Filer, 328 Myrtle St., Redlands, California."In 1937 Russell's
parents built a motel on old Highway 99 west of Redlands, and because his father
was interested in minerals, too, they constructed a separate building to serve
as a rock shop. They had labels printed reading "J.C. Filer & Son, Rt. 1,
Box 382, Loma Linda, California. Midway between Redlands and Colton, Highway
99-70." Later they changed the address to read "1344 Highway 99, San Bernardino,
Calif."
# 430 Franklinite in Calcite**
4 cm x 4 cm. Franklin, New Jersey.*-
# 429 Witherite (twinned) w/ Fluorite**
5.5 cm x 4.5 cm. Rosiclare, Hardin Co., Illinois.*-
# 428 Pyrrhotite, Siderite and Ludlamite**
Stari Trig Lead Zinc Mine, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
4.5 cm x 3 cm.*-
Specimens listed in the Journal
The next pieces listed are ones that had minimal labeling but are listed in the journal book that came with the collection. It listed mineral and location, and most had white out and a number put on it that related to the numbered line in the journal.I believe most of these were puchased 60's
#422 Brochantite**
3 cm x 6 cm. From Tiger Mine, AZ.**
# 424 Atacamite**
*5 cm x 3 cm. From Raventhorpe, Western Australia. Old Plummers label. Royal Ogden "Roy" Plummer was born in Missouri on December 31,1905, the son of Marjorie Farthing and Harry Lee Plummer, an electrical engineer for Western Union. Beginning in 1946, Roy (and his wife Winnifred Line, born 1911 and still alive at the age of 96, living in El Cajon, California) were the proprietors of Plummer's Minerals, advertising "choice crystallized specimens for advanced collectors." He sold worldwide minerals, and especially San Diego County pegmatite minerals, but also carried lapidary rough.Beginning in 1957 Plumm er sold small, carefully selected, styrofoam-mounted crystals and crystal groups measuring a half-inch square--what we would call small thumbnails today, but he called them "miniatures."Roy would often purchase specimens wholesale from other local dealers such as George Burnam (q.v.) and Russell Filer (q.v.), and also from local collectors such as Bob Winstead. The label would indicate 1952 - 1961 as purchase period.*-
#420 Danburite w/ Chalcopyrite**
4 cm x 3 cm. From Charcus, San Louis Potosi, Mexico.**
#419 Calcite**
10" x 7 1/2". Large cabinet piece. From Fritzington, Cumberland, England.*-
#416 Martite**
7 cm x 4 cm. From Twin Peaks, Utah.**
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World War I - Over
The first place to receive the news that The Great War ( WWI) had ended was the Minot Daily News. It was about 2:00 am Minot time. The editor received a message at his residence that the Armistice had been signed by Germany. By the time the whistles started to blow in the early morning hours, the Minot Daily News had thousands of “Extra’s” on the streets. The city went wild with delirium. One man tied a rope to a cowbell and ran through the streets. Make shift floats and parades were quickly assembled to celebrate the news. The City Auditor at the time, Hagenstein, and a group of patriots gave speeches, many interspersed with the song, “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s all here.” Many businesses closed as well as the Minot City offices. All had signs out stating. “Closed today to bury the Kaiser”.
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Ccoc-Hua School Kitchen
CCOC-HUA, SCHOOL KITCHEN
Mission: Turn a primate cooking area into a formal kitchen.
About an hour drive from Curahuasi, at an altitude of 10,200 feet, there is a village called Ccoc-Hua (pronounced Hoh-Wa). It has a population of about 1,500 villagers, and an average family income of about $800 per year.
Their only school is located in the middle of the village, and similar to most village schools in this area, it lacks many things. However, what caught our attention most during a school tour was their extreme primitive cooking area, with no walls, no tables, no running water, or anything else except large rocks for the cooking fire. And with the lack of a clean service, we also noted that it made for a very unhygienic place for serving food to children.
Fortunately with the help of one Lake Jackson, Texas family, we were able to do something special. Thanks to the Macias´ family (Antonio, Jennifer, Gloria, Rico and John), our project sponsors and volunteers, we were able to design and build the school a new complete kitchen using an unused classroom. In just a few days, we built them: an advance wooden stove, which lets smoke out via two smoke stacks (no more smoke in the cook´s and children eyes or lungs); a large sink with running water; a concrete table with a ceramic tile counter top; a dedicated firewood stand; we gave them two additional tables and a metal shelf for organizational purposes; and 75 plates, cups, and spoons for the children to use. Interestingly, we didn´t give them forks and knifes because most of the children at the village have never even held or used them.
With the help of the Macias' family, the project was a huge success and tremendous aid to the school and students! We had parents from all around come to thank us personally. Overall the project took 5 days and cost $1,125 to complete, and helps all 198 students at the school.
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Our mission is simple. We improve the lives of deprived children by helping them get access to basic needs. Together with donors & volunteers, we design and build projects that transform daily life for as many children as possible. Our motto: "If you can't help 100 children, help one!"
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A few of my favourite things 3
|In News and MP3s, That Was The Month, Featured
Apart from the daily delete of Abercrombie & Fitch promoting spam comments I’ve not touched this blog for a month. So its about time for another of those roundup “music Ive been loving” posts. This one seems to feature returning favourites, rather than brand spanking new finds.
DENIS JONES
Its been a long wait since Denis’s 2007 debut “Humdrum Virtue” beguiled all who listened with its beat boxing, loops, and fragmented vocals that brought to mind Jon Martyn mixed with Badly Drawn Boy. To put the proverbial cherry on top the CD came in limited edition industrial plastic sheeting packaging with a selection of cloth samples! Standout track “Beginning” remains a thing of beauty.
Denis Jones – “Beginning” (MP3)
[audio:http://www.musiclikedirt.com/wp-content/MP3/few/Beginning.mp3]
Now the 2nd LP “Red + Yellow =” is available for pre-order and Denis continues his love of industrial plastic with early orders coming in a rather fetching limited edition yellow sleeve. The album features contributions from Manchester’s finest including Luke Flowers (Cinematic Orchestra), Paddy Steer (Homelife) and Aidan Smith, but for the most part, it features Denis himself on guitar, piano, organ, percussion, vocals, beat-boxing and electronics.
Lead single “Clap Hands” (Video) pilfers its lyrics from the 1965 Shirley Ellis hit “Clapping Song” (which itself borrowed from an old nursery rhyme). Musically its a world away from Shirley (Youtube) with a huge squelching synth throb, Jones’ vocal clicks and a generally dark tone, its fantastic but there’ll be no skipping to this version. Have a listen to the album in the fancy widget thing to the right.
Piccadilly Records have an exclusive Denis Jones designed red plastic sleeved 10″ of “Clap Hands”, including a Graham Massey remix.
DENIS JONES – Facebook / Website / Buy
Jones’s will be performing as part of a Humble Soul showcase at the swanky Kings Place in Kings Cross. Organised by Arctic Circle who put on the fantastic Bubbly Blue & Green festival earlier in the year. To mark the event they’ve released a compilation of artists who’ll be appearing at the “festival”.
It’s a brave artist who takes on Morrissey but Nancy Elizabeth covers the closing track from The Smith’ Hatful Of Hollow, making it her own with a slight lyrical tweak. Denis Jones tries his hand at the blues of John Mayall.
RIRA
RiRa has been at the forefront of Ireland’s Hip-Hop scene since forming the Scary Eire collective back in the 80’s. In the 90’s he worked with Sinead O’Conner, On-U sound, and released one of the all time great hip-hop anthems in the shape of “25 O’clock (In the morning)” (YouTube).
For me its the equivalent of “Jump Around” or “Ante Up“, with its irresistible chorus of “No pausing, no stalling, keep it going till 25 o’clock in the morning“. Never one to adopt an American accent as many of his Uk contempories did, Rira runs rhymes like “a fucking culchy mulla from tulla“. I’m not entirely sure what it means but christ its catchy.
I would say he’s now back, but I’m not sure he ever actually went away, just off my radar. “Demo Straights : Unreleased & Underplayed“ is out on his own MaddAxxe imprint and is pretty much as it sounds, a compilation of rare stuff, remasters, remixes, and demo’s.
“The Future Is Comin’ Back To Haunt Ya” is available as a free download (below) and is released just in time for the pope’s visit to Ireland in September.
“Keep on at them ‘til the Vatican confess what they did
How they labelled us as sinners while they’re messin’ with kids”
RI-RA – Facebook / Twitter / Bandcamp
FLYING LOTUS VS. MIGUEL ATWOOD FERGUSON
Flying Lotus must be the most universally adored artist in the media right now, and for once the music fully justifies it. However Miguel Atwood Ferguson takes his “Do the Astral Plane” track into an entirely new direction with this beautiful strings version..
Miguel Atwood Ferguson – Facebook / Myspace
THE SHADOW ORCHESTRA
Thanks go to Kat Arney for the gentle kick to remind me that The Shadow Orchestra are back with a new EP, “Remaker“. It doesnt seem like February 2007 since they first came to this blogs attention as support for Daedelus at The Luminaire.
The Shadow Orchestra started out as a vehicle for producer/DJ/Cellist, Chris Bangs (presumably not the one who started the Acid Jazz label).
The band have now evolved away from their laptop beginnings to the point where the Orchestra in the title could almost be literal. Chris is now backed by Kat Arney (pictured) on harp, Dave Oliver on drums, Nick Siddall on guitar and Mary Erskine on Vocals.
“Sweet As A Nut” was one of my favourites from the first LP and its been given an epic makeover for the new EP. If this isn’t the soundtrack to many a sports montage over the coming months I’ll be surprised.
The addition of vocalist Mary Erskine moves the Shadow Orchestra more into Zero 7’s territory, and at first I wasn’t really keen on the new found slickness. “Time & Distance” is based on “Creaking & Bowing” from their first release, and its a stand out here. Its a joy to hear the subtle sounds of the harp on a song, and that complimented by Bang’s Cello provide the perfect backdrop for Erskine’s gentle vocal.
The EP is available on a Pay what you like price so you’re free to pay something or nothing depending on whether you want to encourage the band to keep recording.
On their blog there’s news of a brand new top secret track they’ve just recorded to tie in with an equally under wraps gig on the 8th of October: Keep an eye out on their website for more news.
Shadow Orchestra – Facebook / Website / Twitter / Bandcamp
BADLY DRAWN BOY
Damon Gough recently said his only dream was to become a successful sound engineer, and his solo stardom was something of an accident. Apart from recording the soundtrack to Caroline Aherne’s charming “Fattest Man In Britain” (Video) Gough has been absent after taking the critical mauling of his last LP to heart.
Now he’s back with the first of a trilogy of albums “It’s What I’m Thinking: Part One, Photographing Snowflakes” due in October. He’s also made a demo of album track “In Safe Hands” available as a taster of what’s in store.
Badly Drawn Boy – Facebook / Website / Twitter
Badly Drawn Boy – “In Safe Hands (Demo)” (MP3)
[audio:http://www.musiclikedirt.com/wp-content/MP3/few/insafeHandsLivedelay.mp3]
CEE-LO
Finally the mighty Cee-Lo Green is back with a tune insanely catchy enough to recreate the ubiquity of his most famous track “Crazy“. Its dedicated to all ex’s out there, and “Fuck You” will no doubt drive us all insane before long but for now its divine. This is the kind of track to spawn countless remakes and responses, and already 50Cent has tagged on his own freestyle version (available for free download from his website)
“I guess he’s an X-Box, and I’m more Atari”
Cee-Lo – Website / Twitter
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Shadow Orchestra featured on Music Like Dirt
[…] Back in the mists of time, the Music Like Dirt blog covered our gig at the Luminaire, supporting the amazing Daedelus. And now they’ve covered us again, giving us a lovely writeup about the new Remaker EP. […]
Thanks for the lovely writeup. Also, I’m loving that CeeLo track so much right now 🙂
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David Patneaude
Award-Winning Young-Adult Fiction Author
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Eyam’s ‘pastor, to this human-flock no more
Shall the long flight of future days restore!’
The Tapestry in Eyam Museum recalling the brave and sacrificial story of the plague in 1665/1666
Last week, as I was preparing my sermon for the Day of Pentecost [24 May 2015] in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, I found my mind wandering between Elam in remote Persia in Apostolic Days to Ilam in the Staffordshire Peaks and my wanderings there in my late teens in the early 1970s.
But in a conversation yesterday, someone confused picturesque Ilam (pronounced Eye-Lamb) in Staffordshire with the “plague village” of Eyam (pronounced Eem, to rhyme with seem), about 40 km further north in the Derbyshire Peaks.
I visited Eyam later in the 1970s while I was attending peace conferences at Swanwick and went on tours that also brought me to neighbouring places like Bakewell, Buxton, Chatsworth, Chesterfield and Matlock.
Years later, Eyam still tells a memorable tale from the 17th century of self-sacrifice and bravery that remains an outstanding and unique story of redemptive self-sacrifice. It is a story that I am often reminded of in Lichfield when I hear the stiry of Anna Seward and her poetry.
Eyam is a village in the Derbyshire Dales and in the Peak District. The village is noted for an outbreak of the plague in 1665, when the villagers chose to isolate themselves rather than let the infection spread.
Eyam was founded and named by Anglo-Saxons, although before that the Romans had mined lead in the area. Today, Eyam depends on the tourism and its reputation as “the plague village.”
Eyam was also badly affected by the Great Plague of 1665, although the plague is usually associated with London. The sacrifices made by the villages of Eyam is said to l have saved many places throughout the Midlands and northern England.
The Plague Cottage in Eyam (Photograph: Mickie Collins/Wikipedia)
At the time of the plague, Eyam had a population of about 350. The most important person in the village was the Rector, the Revd William Mompesson (1639-1709), who moved to Eyam with his wife Catherine and their children in 1664.
In the summer of 1665, the village tailor received a flea-infested bundle of cloth from his supplier in London. This parcel contained the fleas that caused the plague. Within a week, the tailor’s assistant, George Vicars, had died from the plague. More began dying in the household soon after; by the end of September, five more villagers had died; 23 died in October.
As the plague spread, the villagers turned to their rector and his predecessor, the Revd Thomas Stanley. When some villagers wanted to flee to Sheffield, Mompesson feared they would bring the plague with them and persuaded them to cut themselves off from the outside would.
From May 1666, precautious measures were introduced to slow the spread of the plague. Families buried their own dead and church services were moved to the natural amphitheatre at Cucklett Delph, allowing villagers to separate themselves and reduce the risk of infection.
The villagers voluntarily quarantined themselves although this would mean certain death for many of them. The village was supplied with food by people living outside who left supplies at the “plague stones” marking the boundary that separated Eyam from the outside world.
The villages left money in a water trough filled with vinegar to sterilise the coins. In this way, the people of Eyam were not left to starve to death, and the people who supplied the village with food did not come into contact with the plague.
Eyam continued to suffer from the plague throughout 1666. William Mompesson had to bury his own family in the churchyard. When his wife died in August 1666, he decided to hold her services outdoors to reduce the chances of people catching the disease.
By November 1666, the plague had come to an end. In all, 260 out of 350 villagers had died in Eyam. But their selfless sacrifice saved many thousands of lives in the north of England.
Mompesson survived. He wrote at the end of the ordeal: “Now, blessed be God, all our fears are over for none have died of the plague since the eleventh of October and the pest-houses have long been empty.”
The plague ran its course over 14 months but when it came to an end it had killed most of the villagers. The parish records provide the names of 273 people who were victims. Only 83 villages survived out of a population of over 350.
Those who survived did so randomly and there is no explanation for their survival. Many people of the survivors had close contact with those who died yet never caught the disease. Elizabeth Hancock buried six children and her husband within eight days, but was never infected herself. The village gravedigger Marshall Howe survived even though he handled many infected bodies.
Every Plague Sunday a wreath is laid on Catherine Mompesson’s grave in the churchyard. Plague Sunday has been marked in Eyam since the bicentenary of the plague in 1866. It now takes place in Cucklett Delph on the last Sunday in August, at the same time as Wakes Week and the Well Dressing ceremonies.
Eyam Hall, built shortly after the plague (Photograph: Dave Pape/Wikipedia)
The Jacobean-style Eyam Hall was built by the Wright family in 1671, soon after the plague, and local mining helped Eyam to recover in population and to prosper economically. Today, many of the village houses and cottages are marked with plaques listing the names and ages of residents who died as victims of the plague, and the story of the plague village is told in Eyam Museum.
There is a plague window in the parish church. But Eyam and its church and churchyard are much older than the plague. The name of Eyam comes from Old English and first appears in the Domesday Book as Aium. The name probably means a cultivated island in the moors, although it may also refer to Eyam’s location between two brooks.
A Mercian-style Anglo-Saxon cross in the churchyard in Eyam dates back to the eighth century, and is covered in complex carvings. Saint Lawrence’s Church dates from the 14th century, but a Saxon font and Norman window are evidence of an earlier church on the site.
Some of the Rectors of Eyam had colourful stories. The Revd Sherland Adams was an ardent royalist, and was removed from office by the parliamentarians, although he returned again briefly in 1664 after the Caroline Restoration and the resignation of Adams.
The tithe from the lead mines was paid to the rectors, who received one penny for every dish of ore and 2¼d for every load of hillock-stuff. When a new rich vein was discovered in the 18th century, Eyam became a rich living.
Canon Thomas Seward (1708–1790) was Rector of Eyam for half a century from 1740 until his death in 1790, and his daughter, the poet Anna Seward, who was born in Eyam in 1747. While he was still Rector of Eyam, he moved with his family 90 km south to the Bishop’s Palace in Cathedral Close in Lichfield in 1754, and became Prebendary of Pipa Parva in Lichfield Cathedral.
Akthough she was born in Eyam, Anna Seward became known as the “Swan of Lichfield.” She returned from Lichfield to Eyam in 1788 and her poem ‘Eyam’ is filled with nostalgia for her birthplace, tearfully recalling the story of the plague:
For one short week I leave, with anxious heart,
Source of my filial cares, the Full of Days,
Lur’d by the promise of Harmonic Art
To breathe her Handel’s soul-exalting lays.
Pensive I trace the Derwent’s amber wave,
Foaming through umbrag’d banks, or view it lave
The soft, romantic vallies, high o’er-peer’d
By hills and rocks, in savage grandeur rear’d.
Not two short miles from thee, can I refrain
Thy haunts, my native Eyam, long unseen? –
Thou and thy lov’d inhabitants, again
Shall meet my transient gaze. – Thy rocky screen,
Thy airy cliffs I mount; and seek thy shade,
Thy roofs, that brow the steep, romantic glade;
But, while on me the eyes of Friendship glow,
Swell my pain’d sighs, my tears spontaneous flow.
In scenes paternal, not beheld through years,
Nor view’d, till now, but by a Father’s side,
Well might the tender, tributary tears,
From keen regrets of duteous fondness glide!
Its pastor, to this human-flock no more
Distant he droops, – and that once gladdening eye
Now languid gleams, ’en when his friends are nigh.
Through this known walk, where weedy gravel lies,
Rough, and unsightly; – by the long, coarse grass
Of the once smooth, and vivid green, with sighs
To the deserted Rectory I pass; –
Stray through the darken’d chambers’ naked bound,
Where childhood’s earliest, liveliest bliss I found;
How chang’d, since erst, the lightsome walls beneath,
The social joys did their warm comforts breathe!
Ere yet I go, who may return no more,
That sacred pile, ’mid yonder shadowy trees,
Let me revisit! – Ancient, massy door,
Thou gratest hoarse! – my vital spirits freeze,
Passing the vacant pulpit, to the space
Where humble rails the decent altar grace,
And where my infant sister’s ashes sleep,
Whose loss I left the childish sport to weep.
The gloves, suspended by the garland’s side,
White as its snowy flowers, with ribbons tied; –
Dear Village, long these wreaths funereal spread,
Simple memorials of thy early dead!
But O! thou bland, and silent pulpit! – thou,
That with a Father’s precepts, just, and bland,
Did’st win my ear, as reason’s strength’ning glow
Show’d their full value, now thou seem’st to stand
Before my sad, suffus’d, and trembling gaze,
The dreariest relic of departed days.
Of eloquence paternal, nervous, clear,
Dim Apparition thou – and bitter is my tear!
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NBHS OBA - Newcastle Boys' High School Old Boys' Association
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To be Held in the Staff Room of the Newcastle East Public School.
Thursday, 27th June 2019, at 5:00 p.m.
You are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Old Boys Association at the time, date and place shown above.
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2019 ANNUAL DINNER
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Held at the Newcastle Town Hall
Saturday 10th August
This is the 33rd Annual Dinner since our inception in 1987.
The Guest Speaker this year will be Jeff Hogg who has had a long and distinguished career in legal fields after completing his schooling in 1969.
A VERY BRIEF HISTORY of the EVOLUTION of the SCHOOLS
and the DEMISE of NBHS and NGHS
Charles Smith
Before 1906, young Novocastrians had to catch the train daily to Maitland, the only State high school in the Hunter.
From 6 June 1906, however, senior students, both male and female, were able to attend Newcastle High School (NHS), at the top of Tyrrell Street.
Twenty eight enrolled on that day, with Charles Rattray (‘Caesar’) Smith as Headmaster and Mr T Roberts and Miss Louisa Cole as staff.
NHS was the first selective, co-educational, school in Newcastle.
Agnes Brewster
On 4 February 1930, with NHS overcrowded, the girls moved into the all new Newcastle Girls' High School (NGHS) at Hamilton, under Headmistress Agnes Brewster and the ‘School On The Hill’ became Newcastle Boys’ High School (NBHS).
By 1932, NBHS was seriously overcrowded, with 700 boys and another 120 in the Annexe at Newcastle Teachers College.
Charles Chrismas
In 1934 the boys were finally able to move in to the new NBHS at Waratah, under Headmaster Charles ("Daddy") Chrismas.
The ‘School On The Hill’ then became Newcastle Junior High School.
Waratah High School
In 1978, the last NBHS student completed year 12 and the name of the school was changed to Waratah High School.
Newcastle High School "Re-Born"
Newcastle High School was ‘reborn’ in 1976, with the amalgamation of the campuses of Hunter Girls High and Newcastle Girls High Schools, as a co-educational, comprehensive, non-selective high school, under Principal Bob Donaldson, and retaining the classic colours, shield and motto.
A SUMMARY of the FORMATION, AIMS and ACHIEVEMENTS of the OBA and ESU
Associations For Past Students - The Boys
The first ‘ex-pupils’ union’ was formed in 1909, when the enrolment in that year was 131. Audrey Armitage writes ‘With the aim of building up a noble tradition of scholarship at Newcastle High, Smith (Headmaster Charles Rattray ‘Caesar’ Smith) formed in 1909 an ex-pupils union whose objects were to maintain the connection of ex-students with their school and the friendships they had formed while at school, and to promote the mutual improvement of members.
The ex-pupils union formed by Smith found that its annual dinner was a social highlight, but this group appears to have disbanded some time after Mr Smith left.
Issues of the Novocastrian in subsequent years saw many heartfelt articles on the need to (re) form the Ex-Students Union. It appears that the main difficulty was that all tertiary education, in those days, whether Teachers’ College or University, had to be taken in Sydney meaning that most former students were no longer in town..
In 1921 it was again decided to form an Ex-Pupils Union. It was decided that the subscription, which was fixed at 5s a year, should include current copies of the school paper, the “Novocastrian,” which the editor promised to feature news concerning ex-pupils. The constitution was made as simply as possible, and office-bearers elected.
A badge was adopted, of diamond-shaped enamel, in the school colours, with a shield in the centre bearing the letters O.N. (Old Novocastrians). The upper left and the lower right edges of the diamond carried the school motto, “Remis Velisque.” It is not known if the badge ever went beyond the design stage.
It is not known if there were any other attempts at the formation of an ex-students’ association, until the formation of an Old Boys’ Union on 1 June 1954, as reported in the Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate of 3 June. A Committee was formed with Alwyn Hannaford, School Captain in 1946, elected President. The annual subscription was set at 10/- and a dinner proposed for July. A box of OBU ties, from this group, is now in the Old Boys’ Caesar Smith collection in the Newcastle Museum. It is not known when or why this OBU failed.
On 9 December 1986, in a phone call between Old Boys Dale Kemp and Dick Sanders, it was decided to form the NBHSOBA. It was felt, since the School no longer existed, and all previous ‘Old Boys’ associations had not been sustained, that it was important that the traditions of the school should be carried forward and not forgotten. Also, a single annual dinner, for all years, would be more efficient and effective in meeting that aim, than the current organising of ad hoc reunions.
The Steering Committee of ten met at the Newcastle Police Centre on 7 January 1987. The OBA was launched at the Police & Citizens' Boys' Club on 20 March 1987, where the inaugural committee was elected by the 93 former students and teachers present. Four Sub-committees were agreed on (Membership, Functions, Education, Historical) together with their members and Chairmen. The goals of the Association were agreed on, becoming the basis for the Constitution. Trevor Dunn, School Captain in 1955 was elected as the inaugural President.
Associations For Past Students - The Girls
from Audrey Armitage’s book.
In June 1944 Miss Marjorie (‘Madge’) Henson, Headmistress 1943-1944, was made patron of the newly-formed Ex-Students’ Union – a mark of their appreciation of her.
There is no mention of a prior ESU in Audrey Armitage’s book ‘Newcastle High School – The First 75 Years’, so it is assumed that 1944 marked the formation of the first NGHSESU.
Dorothy Payn was the NGHS Headmistress 1952-1953. It was at her suggestion that the NGHS ESU was re-activated in 1952, when she was made Patron. The ESU has functioned continuously since.
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Following quickly after Hudson's Job Island is the sequel to last year’s Deca Sports imaginatively titled Deca Sports 2 (Sports Island 2 in Europe). The follow up is instantly recognisable and extremely similar to the original game with the same visual style but with ten new sports to play. If you haven't heard much of the first game, essentially Deca Sports 2 is another..
Among the new sports on offer in Sports Island 2 (Deca Sports 2 in the US) are Mogul Skiing, Tennis, Speed Skating, Dodgeball, Petanque, Ice Hockey, Darts, Synchronized Swimming, Road Racing and Kendo, and can either be played as solo events, or within a highly-competitive League System which is new to the series.
Sports Island 2 also allows users to create an in-game avatar for use within the game and play alongside friends or CPU-controlled colleagues. Once the avatars are created, they can be used within the game's Open mode where up to four people can compete in variations of CPU and human users, while a Tournament option lets four human and four CPU players battle it out in an ongoing competition.
As with its predecessor, Sports Island 2 places the emphasis on fun and competition, with each event demanding skill and timing from the player. The subtle control systems allow for the skill of events such as Petanque and the pace and skill of Ice Hockey to be faithfully recreated, and ensure that the well-chosen events offer a wide range of sporting challenges.
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My recent Power in Place (PiP) travels through Oklahoma spanned from Valentine’s Day to Presidents’ Day (extremely fitting since PiP was conceived from my passion for political parity). In 5 days with much driving in-between, I was able to photograph and interview 9 female politicians and 4 nominees.
I was moved by the overall support, and respect they all shared for one another, regardless of party affiliation.
Booking the various electeds, I sent invites to a diverse group of female politicians. I was aiming for a range of age, race, party, and geographic settings. Not only was my vision fully realized by the Oklahoma women I featured, but I was moved by the overall support, and respect they all shared for one another, regardless of party affiliation. Often, the legislators would ask who signed onto the project and when I recalled the list, they would recount virtues rather than cast aspersions on character. To me, this is a hallmark of what makes women in politics so necessary. We are not weaker, or less scrupulous– –rather we are (on the whole) apt to appeal to civility over disparagement. During this polarizing time, I see the potential of women in politics as a beacon of hope pointing to a more measured dialog at the governing table.
Power in Place enjoys spotlighting “firsts”––women electeds achieving historical milestones ––like Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, the first woman of color from Massachusetts to go to Washington.
Here are the PiP Firsts this month:
Cherokee Nation Councilwoman Mary Shaw
PHOTOGRAPHED by the stream that runs into the lake near her home in Broken Arrow, OK
FIRST shoot of 2019 and my first Cherokee Nation woman featured.
SHOOT HIGHTLIGHT was learning from Mary that she taught Chief Wilma Mankiller (the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1985) how to use a cell phone.
Cherokee Nation Councilwoman Janees Taylor
PHOTOGRAPHED at the Saline Courthouse by the Spring House, Locust Grove, OK
FIRST participant to bring along 10 other women (now that’s devotion) to her shoot wearing the most brilliant traditional Native American dresses.
SHOOT HIGHTLIGHT was being surrounded by the swirl of colors from women of the Pocahontas Club and feeling the love and support the women share for each other.
Tulsa City Councilwoman Crista Patrick
PHOTOGRAPHED at Tulsa State University
FIRST whimsical portrait in a theater costume department, where a rainbow of clothing options hung above us & they doubled as a lively backdrop to match Crista’s personality.
SHOOT HIGHTLIGHT was when Crista and her nominee, Stasha, told each other why they appreciate the other during the interview. Their relationship is clearly built on trust, respect and mutual gratitude. So beautiful to witness this amongst women of different generations.
State Representative Carol Bush
PHOTOGRAPHED at the cycling trail head of the Gathering Place in Tulsa, OK
Not my first shoot that incorporates bicycles into the office holder’s place of special meaning but my FIRST attempt to capture the spirit of will, dedication and strength of Rep Bush, who started an all-female cycling club, which has grown over the years to 200+ riders.
SHOOT HIGHTLIGHT was witnessing the friendship that Carol engenders. Two cycling girlfriends showed up to lend a hand (and their bikes) on a damp, cold and dreary afternoon. They were more than accommodating and happy to help, even though their fingers were frozen to the bone throughout the shoot.
Norman, OK Mayor Lynne Miller
Photo: Steve Sisney
PHOTOGRAPHED at the Bizzell Memorial Library at Oklahoma University
FIRST shoot conducted entirely in whispers. The Mayor chose the library’s Great Reading Room as her setting. It’s one of those traditional “old school” elegant study halls where any minor sound reverberates tenfold. So I had to be extra quiet directing Lynne while photographing her.
SHOOT HIGHTLIGHT was the admiration I felt for Lynne for entering public service after retiring from teaching. She is able to serve her community with wisdom and experience.
State Represent Ajay Pittman & (Mom) State Senator Anastasia Pittman
PHOTOGRAPHED at the Oklahoma State Capital Building
FIRST mother & daughter elected duo for Power in Place. What a treat!!! Often legacy politics is a father-to-son hand down, but these two courageous souls bucked the national trend.
SHOOT HIGHTLIGHT was realizing that these two women are not only mother/daughter, but they are each other’s best friend, to the point where they would finish each other’s sentences. What made me chuckle the most was how physically they were in sync. Without any prompting from me, they would cross arms at the same time. In addition, when they first walked into the building, I mistook Anastasia for Ajay.
Oklahoma State Representative Nicole Miller
PHOTOGRAPHED at her home in Edmond, OK
Even though Rep Miller was the 2nd person on our Oklahoma roster with the last name “Miller,” she earned her individual distinction of being PiP’s FIRST female office holder to pull off a flawless mid-air split. She requested to be photographed with her son (who also inherited Nicole’s athletic prowess). So I suggested they jump around on their backyard trampoline.
The shoot was also, PiP’s sweatiest portrait session due to all the physical exertion. I had Nicole and her son repeat many of their airborne poses, so I could get the framing just right. Bar none, the SHOOT HIGHTLIGHT was beholding the joy that Nicole’s son brings to her.
Oklahoma County Commissioner Carrie Blumert
PHOTOGRAPHED on the steps of Oklahoma County Courthouse
It wasn’t the first time I’ve shot in front of a courthouse, but it was the FIRST shoot on which an elected official brought along her sister to personify their shared passion for criminal justice reform. As children, Carrie and her sister experienced first-hand the whims of a system that punishes those with metal health and substances abuse issues. Luckily their family received the support they needed, but they’ve seen too many people fall through the cracks.
SHOOT HIGHTLIGHT was being in the presence of a newly elected woman public office holder, who is absolutely energized by the possibilities of her new role as a public servant. Carrie’s positive disposition and dedication to the job makes one believe in the possibilities of government to change lives for the better through dedicated advocacy.
Oklahoma City Councilwoman Nikki Nice
PHOTOGRAPHED at her alma mater, Northeast Academy in Oklahoma City
Not only is Rep Nice genuinely nice, she is an ardent champion for her community. Her ward has always been her home, and, as a young woman, her high school was the center of her world. Nikki is the FIRST in her family to attend Northeast Academy, a school whose court-mandated integration in the 70s led to a racially diverse student body. As her mom always suspected, Nikki flourished magnificently at Northeast, even though initially she didn’t want attend a magnet school.
SHOOT HIGHTLIGHT was getting to know a humble, genuinely honorable soul. She does not put on any pretenses and her radiant smile makes one feel at ease. I also enjoyed hearing about her days as a radio personality before she ran for office.
Izzy Barry interviewing Commissioner Carrie Blumert, CK Morris interviewing Representative Nicole Miller, Stasha Cole interviewing Councilwoman Crista Patrick and Emily King interviewing Representative Carol Bush
When I left Oklahoma, I couldn’t believe my good fortune. Not only was I impressed by the women office holders, I was also inspired by the amazing young female nominees. So a big shout-out to PiP’s Women on the Rise, who not only assisted me during the portrait shoots but who also posed insightful interview questions to their nominators. It is these young female students that will help bridge us toward a more equitable society. So THANK YOU-- Izzy Barry, CK Morris, Stasha Cole, and Emily King--you are the BEST!!!!
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1st Time Candidate Series
Regina Bateson: Candidate for California's Congressional 4th District
Photo: Katrina Hajagos
I was talking to one of my former high school teachers trying to get him to run. He flipped it around and said you should actually run. You got the local roots, you got the national and international experience . . . But I said no.
I thought it was outrageous because her whole question was about being valued in society and being respected and all he did was disrespect her . . . That’s what pushed me over the edge, I went home and made my very first website. I used a tool called “CROWDPAC,” which makes it easier for normal people to start running for office, without having the infrastructure, consultants . . .
I hope they remember ordinary people stood up and were able to make a difference… Something that motivated me to run for Congress is the fact that I have three kids. I know in the future they’re going to look back and say- what did you do?
There was an article recently about women who ran for the House of Delegates in Virginia, particularly looking at women with young children who ran there, so I read it with great interest. I was a little disappointed to see that …
Web link Regina shared to continue the conversation: www.crowdpac.com
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Living History with Washington State Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos
Before my interview with Washington State Representative Sharon Tomiko Santos, I admit I wasn’t completely knowledgeable about the tragic history of the Japanese incarceration camps. I knew the incarceration was a great stain upon America. As a nation, we denied 120,000 people of Japanese heritage (the majority of them were citizens) their constitutional rights of due process and equal protection. Naively, I thought everything was neatly sorted out: reparations were made, the government officially apologized and the Supreme Court must have ruled it unconstitutional to incarcerate Japanese Americans without due process. However, as I dug deeper, I found that the story is far more complicated, especially the Supreme Court component.
Washington State Representative Sharon Tomiko Santos at her place of special meaning–Keiro Nursing Home, Seattle.
With the headlines of the legality of a Muslim registry and the Japanese internment camps cited as a precedent by Carl Higbie, a Trump surrogate during his presidential election campaign, I decided to reexamine Representative Santos’s interview in 2015, when she posed for her Power in Place portrait. Her maternal family (mother and grandparents) had been forcefully relocated to an incarceration camp in 1942. As a child, Representative Santos grew up with the sense that a great injustice had been committed against her community. Sorting through her interview, I started to realize that this incredible woman was a witness to the post-incarceration rebuilding and healing of her community and the legal battles to follow. As she put it: “History unfolded and I happened to be there, like the Tom Hank’s movie Forrest Gump, where he's getting to be a witness throughout history. I was a Japanese American female Forrest Gump, in this case."
History unfolded and I happened to be there, like the Tom Hank’s movie Forrest Gump, where he’s getting to be a witness throughout history. I was a Japanese American female Forrest Gump, in this case.
A group of Japanese-Americans arrive at the Manzanar incarceration camp carrying their belongings in 1942.
As much as her parents shielded Sharon Tomiko from the family’s economic and psychological repercussions of incarceration, she grew up feeling the continued discrimination toward Seattle’s Japanese-Americans. “People in the community were very angry about being mistreated, not heard, effectively patted on the head and told to go away.” Combined with early civic engagement and a personal call to action, Sharon Tomiko was part of a larger community discussion "about how do we get a place at the table.” It first began as a fight for redress—obtaining an official governmental acknowledgment that a great injustice was perpetrated upon her fellow Japanese Americans by incarcerating them during World War II. "Seattle achieved renown for having organized the very first Day of Remembrance in the country. As a high school student, I was able to galvanize my fellow students to help organize and volunteer at the event. We were, collectively, as the organizing committee, very surprised at the overwhelming response we received from the greater Seattle area. We thought we would be lucky to have ten/twenty cars show up, but a caravan stretched several miles long from Seattle to Puyallup, which was the first assembly center where they assembled all the Japanese Americans,” for mass detention.
Later on in college, as a student of history and specifically governmental and constitutional history, Sharon Tomiko's senior project focused upon the coram nobis case of Gordan Hirabayashi.
Gordan Hirabayashi was one of only three Americans to defy the U.S. government's incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
"Since Gordon Hirabayashi is a Seattle person, his coram nobis case actually took place right downtown, in our federal courthouse. So as a college student, I was able to watch history unfold.”
Gordon Hirabayashi’s initial case was heard by the US Supreme Court in 1943. He had openly defied Roosevelt’s imposed wartime curfew upon Japanese Americans. His resistance challenged the very premise of the executive order of exclusion, as well as deportation and incarceration. At the time, the Supreme Court’s decision focused around a narrow legal interpretation of the necessity of allowing curfew policies if our national security is threatened during wartime.
In 1982, newly unearthed documents suggested that US government officials did indeed hide evidence that demonstrated there was no true military reason for Roosevelt’s exclusion order. Thereby, Japanese Americans were denied due process under US law when they were forcefully deported to camps.
US Supreme Court never had the opportunity to rule on the constitutionality of the policy of Japanese American incarceration. Thus, technically, the wartime exclusion order still stands today.
Using a writ of coram nobis (a legal order allowing for a correction in judgment of court cases when new information surfaces that proves key evidence was concealed during the initial court proceedings), Hirabayashi’s case was reopened by US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. In 1984, his conviction was subsequently overturned. As a result, his case never made it back to the US Supreme Court, thus the high court never had the opportunity to rule on the constitutionality of the policy of Japanese American incarceration. Thus, technically, the wartime exclusion order still stands today.
President Reagan signing the 1988 Civil Liberties Act.
Sharon Tomiko and her people’s fight for redress wasn’t in vain. To compensate the victims who suffered gross injustice and hardship caused by wartime incarceration, Congress passed the Civil Liberties Act in 1988 when she was in graduate school. It was a formal presidential apology to every surviving US citizen or legal resident immigrant of Japanese ancestry incarcerated during World War II. The Act also provided a provision for a public education fund to prevent a future recurrence of forced incarceration and the loss of one’s inalienable rights. Two governmental agencies were established to implement reparations payments to eligible individuals.
Representative Sharon Tomiko Santos never forgot the lessons of her community’s trials and tribulations. To this day, she remains a vocal advocate for her legislative district’s diverse population. In particular, she holds special regard for the elderly—“the immigrant Japanese pioneers who, with nothing more than just hopes, came to the United States, like so many other immigrants and found that there was opportunity here. But because of rampant racism and discrimination, the dreams for opportunities were really not theirs to be able to reach and achieve. These elderly pioneers managed to still work very hard on behalf of their children’s opportunity. Their resilience, the lessons that they imparted to their children, and ultimately to their grandchildren, is why I've been able to succeed, and become a voice for those who are under-represented. Most importantly, I try to serve as a reminder to my colleagues about the deep meaning of the Constitution and our obligation, not just by words, but by real actions to continue to hold its relevance for future generations.”
Click here to listen to clips of Rep. Santos's PiP interview
Thank you, Representative Sharon Tomiko Santos, for imparting your family’s historic and personal narrative to Power in Place. Your story isn’t a relic of the past. It is as relevant as it was in 1942 and 1988. I’m reminded to stay vigilant and never assume that civil liberties are unassailable or guaranteed by our courts and government. The suppressed history of transgression against freedom must always be unearthed and understood as a warning for future generations who believe in true democracy.
For further study & understanding the history of the Japanese American community and their World War II experiences, Rep. Santos highly recommends Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project www.densho.org
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PiP guest blogger
Proud and Honored
By: Aishwarya Cozby , Mayor Barb Miranda’s PiP’s Youth Nominee
"I want to nominate you." These are powerful words; words that hold a humongous responsibility. Whether it’s for a student government or a city council position, you are asked to be a part of something important in your life and the lives of the people around you. It’s a big decision to make: to accept the responsibility they are asking and make them proud. So, when Mayor Barb Miranda pulled me outside at Sunnyside (where I work part-time) and spoke those five words to me, a million things raced through my mind. But the thought that will continue to stay with me is She thought of me. She asked me. It will be a moment I will forever cherish.
As I drove home after our conversation, I became extremely nervous. This is an important privilege. A chance to make a difference. Questions and doubts ran through my mind. What if I am not the right person to ask? What if I say the wrong thing or present myself differently than what others know? It wasn't until I met Katrina Hajagos at the interview and photo shoot that I began to worry less. Katrina soothed my doubts and fears. She made it simple by taking things slow and one step at a time.
The photoshoot was beautiful. She asked me to pose on an island of sand at Gustavus Beach that was slowly being washed away by the incoming tide. I felt vulnerable, exposed, excited, and empowered all at once. All while trying to follow Katrina’s directions, the ocean was taking the island away. By the end, we were surrounded by water; we had to cross shin deep in water to shore. But Katrina captured the moment perfectly: the sunlight on my skin, the strong mountain view behind me, and the power of the ocean all in one shot. We were in the right place and the right time.
Click HERE to view Aishwarya’s official Power in Place portrait
After drying out at Katrina’s cabin, we began the interview. I have never been more nervous. My hands were sweaty and shaky, my heart was pounding against my chest, and my brain was overloading of the different questions she was going to ask. The questions opened new doors for me to have a better understanding of myself and my role as a young female. The interview was a moving moment for me. But my interview wasn’t close to the highlight of this experience.
I have known Barb Miranda for over ten years. She started out as my neighbor, but soon transformed into a person I admire and care for deeply. Barb is a driven, nurturing, and powerful woman. A strong woman that inspires me! I had no doubt when I learned she was being interviewed as an influential woman figure in our community. I was proud. Knowing that I was coming from a community with strong females from every corner makes me extremely honored to call this place my home. And being a part of Barb’s interview and photoshoot showcased the change she will make.
Throughout Barb’s interview, I listened to her talk about her past, how she came to Gustavus, why she built Sunnyside Market and Deli, our town’s health-food store, and why she ran for mayor. I had the privilege of learning all the steps and decisions she made that has shaped the leader Barb is today. It was an inspiring moment. One that brought me closer to Barb. A moment that made my respect for her grow. Watching her shine as she talks about her beliefs and her goals made me want to conquer the mountains. She made me beyond excited for where my life is going and the changes I will make. She gave me the confidence to start out strong and never stop fighting. I had a moment to think about what types of leadership roles I want to pursue and take, in college and in life. And as we both move on with our lives, we will always have this moment to share and look back on.
My Power in Place interview with Mayor Barb Miranda
Power in Place is an inspirational organization. Its goal is to share the unique stories of females in politics of small towns to large cities. By sharing these stories, it gives not only the future generations of powerful women but the current generations role models. Power in Place provides hope. It creates opportunity. It will spark change. And I am incredibly honored to be a part of the change.
Photo By: Kim Heacox
Aishwarya Cozby was born in Mumbai, India on April 1, 1999. At the age of two, she was adopted by a loving family. Aishwarya has grown up in Gustavus, Alaska, a remote town in Southeast Alaska that is only assessable by boat or plane, for sixteen years. Her favorite things to do is participate in sports, explore surrounding scenery, and spend time with family and friends. Now, Aishwarya is working towards a BSN at the University of Alaska in Anchorage. Her life goal is to become a traveling nurse, all while fighting for the rights of all people, no matter their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion.
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About PSI
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Bridging Research and Policy Through Outcome Evaluation
October 2007 to June 2008
PSI researchers:
Ben Shaw
Background, summary and aims
The main objective of this Defra funded research project is to pilot the use of outcome evaluation as a means of better linking research and policy in the cross-cutting areas of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) and sustainable waste and resources management (SWRM) and across Defra more broadly. The project is focusing on two Defra research programmes:
· Waste and Resources Research Programme
· Sustainable Consumption and Production Evidence Base
The work is intended to go beyond evaluation of individual research projects and the quality of their outputs and examine how research outputs are (or aren’t) translated into policy outcomes and how the impact of research on policy can be improved.
The work is being carried out by a consortium led by Technopolis Ltd, with partners GHK Consulting, Policy Studies Institute and King’s College London (Centre for Evidence and Policy).
There are two main elements to the project:
A literature review
The literature review - Assessing the impact of research on policy: A review of the literature for a project on bridging research and policy through outcome evaluation - was conducted by the Centre for Evidence and Policy at King’s College London and Policy Studies Institute and was submitted to Defra in February 2008. Its aim was to explore and examine methods for evaluating the impact of research on policy outcomes that might be appropriate to the research programmes under consideration. The literature review was designed to ensure that the development of the evaluation framework was informed by the best available evidence.
An evaluation
The evaluation will be completed by May 2008 and the findings reported to Defra with recommendations for an ongoing programme of monitoring and evaluation for the two research programmes.
Importance of Research
Understanding the relationship between research and policy outcomes is a vital, and often overlooked, element of policy-making. Traditionally evaluations of research projects or programmes have been process-driven focusing on delivery of individual project or programme outputs. Increasing emphasis is now being placed on the contribution of programmes to the achievement of organisational goals (i.e. desired outcomes). Outcome or impact evaluations, as opposed to output evaluation, could prove a useful vehicle for heightening engagement among policy-makers with research programmes and exploring the contribution of knowledge derived from research programmes to the achievement of organisational goals. It could also help to ensure a better alignment between policy and research teams objectives.
Related publications / project outputs
Assessing the impact of research on policy: A review of the literature for a project on bridging research and policy through outcome evaluation
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Software Updates for January 8th Happy Ending to my AppleCare Experience
New Apple products from MWSF 2007
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This morning during his keynote speech at Macworld San Francisco 2007, Steve announced two new products:
The Apple TV (formerly known as the “iTV”) is a streaming media server (based around an x86 processor) that connects to your television. Featuring HDMI and component video outputs as well as USB2, 10/100 Ethernet, and 802.11b/g/n wireless connectivity, the Apple TV can stream audio or video content from a Macintosh system or directly from the Internet to your television and display it in 720p high definition. It uses the normal Apple Remote and features a 40G internal hard drive that allows syncing of media from iTunes. Available in February, the Apple TV is priced at $299.
The iPhone is a combination wide-screen iPod, mobile phone, and internet communications device, all in one product. The user interface consists of a full touchscreen that uses a “multi-touch” interface that is controlled with finger presses and movements. The iPhone has a 3.5″ 160-pixel-per-inch full color display, runs OS X as its operating system, and has GPRS+EDGE, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity. For software applications, Safari is available (with full functionality of things like Google Maps) as well as software “widgets” for things like weather and stock quotes. Developer information is not available yet. Not detailed in the keynote was a two-megapixel camera. The iPhone is expected to be on sale through Cingular (as an exclusive partner in the US) in June 2007 and should retail for $499 for the 4G version and $599 for the 8G.
Not announced at the keynote (but here’s the press release) is the new Airport Extreme, now in the Mac Mini/AppleTV form factor (a flat square) and featuring 802.11n speeds (for use with the Apple TV). Buried under Apple’s 802.11n information page is a note that recent Intel-based Macintosh systems support 802.11n after a software enabler is loaded:
* iMac with Intel Core 2 Duo (except 17-inch, 1.83GHz iMac)
* MacBook with Intel Core 2 Duo
* MacBook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo
* Mac Pro with AirPort Extreme card option
It looks like owners of first-gen Intel Mac systems (like me, with a Core Duo iMac and MacBook) are out of luck for the higher speeds unless Apple releases an upgraded Airport+Bluetooth module for these machines.
Last but not least, “Apple Computer, Inc.” is no more – the company is renaming itself to “Apple, Inc.” now that they’ve branched out into non-computer products such as media center systems and mobile phones.
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June 7, 2019 News Tweet
The New York Times answers to Madonna: She is a bit inarticulate
The New York Times does not understand why Madonna is upset with the profile they wrote earlier this week. They said…
Wait… what’s Madonna mad about?
For those of us who’ve grown up with Madonna always near us — in addition to Janet Jackson and maybe David Byrne, there are very few consistently present pop stars alive for Gen Xers — it feels unlikely we could learn something new about her.
But in the magazine this week, looking at Madonna at 60, I did learn some things. She’s grown ever more remote and has always been a bit inarticulate, even as she stays in the popular imagination and in the rotation of playlists. It’s interesting to hear fresh perspectives about the through line that AIDS has played in her life, and about what the limits of ambition are.
(Surprise, though, and a spoiler — Madonna absolutely despises this profile, viciously and graphically described on her Instagram, though I’m unclear on why. It’s often awful to be written about! It’s a very normal reaction, and I think it’s amplified for people who are very regimented and used to being in control of their lives.)
Madonna trashed the New York Times article yesterday and posted the following on social media…
To say that I was disappointed in the article would be an understatement- It seems. You cant fix society And its endless need to diminish, Disparage or degrade that which they know is good. Especially string independent women. The journalist who wrote this article spent days and hours and months with me and was invited into a world which many people dont get to see, but chose to focus on trivial and superficial matters such as the ethnicity of my stand in or the fabric of my curtains and never ending comments about my age which would never have been mentioned had I been a MAN! Women have a really hard time being the champions of other women even if. they are posing as intellectual feminists.
Im sorry i spent 5 minutes with her. It makes me feel raped. And yes I’m allowed to use that analogy having been raped at the age of 19. Further proof that the N.Y.T. Is one of the founding fathers of the Patriarchy. And I say—-DEATH TO THE PATRIARCHY woven deep into the fabric of Society. I will never stop fighting to eradicate it.
Madonna reveals official video for new song “Dark Ballet”
Listen to Madonna’s new song “Dark Ballet”
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Pinch-hit double leads Rebels past Medford
Nearly a third of the way through the season, the Rhinelander Post 7 American Legion baseball team continues to get contributions from unlikely sources. On Friday night it was a key hit from a player who didn't play in the spring and a strong outing from someone who hadn't pitched in 3 1/2 weeks.
Teagan Guckenberg came off the bench to hit the go-ahead two-run double and Bryce Schickert went 6 1/3 innings in his first start of the summer as the Rebels fended off Medford 5-3 in a Great Northern Legion Conference game at Stafford Field.
Trailing 2-1 at the time and with the bases loaded in the fourth following singles by Liam Stevens and Walker Hartman, and a walk by Schickert, Rebels manager Dan Huhnstock went to the bench to bring in Guckenberg. The senior-to-be, who did not play this spring for the Hodags, came up big with a line shot to the gap in left center off Medford ace Cade Alexander to give Rhinelander a lead it would not relinquish.
Guckenberg came up again with the bases loaded in the fifth and drew an RBI walk to give Rhinelander a little extra breathing room.
"He really stepped up big for us," Huhnstock said. "He comes in with bases loaded and hits one in the gap, drives in a couple runs. What a way to earn some more playing time. He gets up with guys on base two times and is able to come through."
That was enough run support for Schickert, who was pitching for the first time since a relief outing in 3-0 loss at Medford in the WIAA playoffs back on May 28. The lefty worked around some trouble in the third and struck out six in a 94-pitch effort.
"He threw a whale of a game, but that's what we expect out of Bryce," Huhnstock said. "Bryce is a real gamer and an excellent pitcher. Whenever he takes toes the rubber, we expect good things to happen."
Schickert was looking to go the distance, but ran into trouble in the seventh as he walked Bryant Konieczny and Zach Haynes, and then allowed a single to Cade Alexander to load the bases with one out. That's when Huhnstock went to the bullpen and brought in another surprise contributor.
Brad Comer, back again after it appeared he was gone for the summer pursuing other baseball efforts, recorded the final two outs to earn the save. Comer threw a wild pitch that allowed Konieczny to score and moved the tying run to second, but he got John McMurry to foul out and then struck out Spike Alexander to end the game.
"Brad's been there, done that many times. Just like with Bryce, we expect good things when he toes the rubber," Huhnstock said.
Rhinelander jumped on Cade Alexander early, collecting a pair of hits in the opening frame. Stevens drove in Martin Hoger on a sacrifice fly to give Rhinelander a 1-0 lead.
Medford responded to take the lead in the third. Four of the team's seven hits came in that frame, including three straight by Konieczny, Haynes and Cade Alexander to lead off the inning. Spike Alexander delivered an RBI fielder's choice and Nick Retterath hit a two-out single to right to put Medford up 2-1.
"We were two very evenly-matched ball clubs through the high school season and through Legion," Huhnstock said. "It just proves out we're two pretty evenly-matched ball clubs, strong on pitching. It means every out really counts."
Following Guckenberg's big hit in the fourth, the Rebels plated two insurance runs in the fifth. Comer doubled and came around on a single by Randolph before Alexander left the mound after walking three straight batters to lead the bases with two out. Guckenberg drew a five-pitch walk off McMurry to give the Rebels a three-run lead.
Though not quite as explosive as the team's previous two outings when it racked up a combined 30 runs on 36 hits in wins over Clintonville and Northwoods, the Rebels collected seven hits on the night from seven different players.
"We had them spread out, got a couple of key sac bunts to get runners in scoring position. It worked out very well for us," Huhnstock said.
The Rebels (5-4, 3-0 GNLC) were back in action Monday against Tomahawk in a non-conference contest and will host Mosinee in a doubleheader starting at 5 p.m. Wednesday at Stafford Field.
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Spike in Demand for International Driving Permit; Students, Overseas Visitors Jump on Trend Around 3,000 driving licence holders had applied for the International Driving Permit in the last four years.
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Spike in Demand for International Driving Permit; Students, Overseas Visitors Jump on Trend
Spike in Demand for International Driving Permit; Students, Overseas Visitors Jump on TrendHot Buzz
India, in recent years, has witnessed a high rise in demand for International Driving Permits (IDPs), which allows the permit holder to drive a private vehicle in any country or jurisdiction which recognizes IDP.
The high demand for IDPs is the result of technicalities involved in getting an international driving license for an Indian national who dream Driving a private vehicle in a foreign country. An overwhelming number of Indians going abroad depend on taxis and other services to move around owing to a dearth of driving permit.
According to the Motor Vehicles Department (MVD), demand for IDP has witnessed a spike, especially in the last five years.
While earlier, celebrities and businessmen were its main takers, students and overseas travelers have now started queuing up before the Regional Transport Officer concerned, the issuing authority for IDP.
Around 3,000 driving license holders had applied for the International Driving Permit in the last four years, MVD data show.
“Yes, the IDP is now a big hit among license holders embarking on visits abroad. After celebrities and businessmen earlier, IDP’s takers now include students and tourists as well. On average, we get nearly 100 applications each month for the IDP and the demand seems to be going up all the time,” Jojy P Jose, Kerala’s Ernakulam RTO was quoted saying by the New India Express.
“Under the Ernakulam RTO itself, 685 license holders applied for IDP in 2016. It was 670 in 2017 and 795 in 2018. This year (up to June 30) the department has already issued 552 IDPs,” he said.
The demand for IDP soared after the Centre inked a pact with the Gulf countries. “Earlier the IDP was not recognized in West Asia. But the IDPs got legal validity in the Gulf region following the agreement signed between India and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Since there are several thousand Malayalees visiting the GCC countries, demand for IDPs increased. Moreover, some countries are giving extra preference to the IDP holders while issuing their respective license. This too contributed to the soaring demand,” B J Antony, former Ernakulam RTO was quoted by New India Express.
How to Get an IDP?
To get an IDP, which has a one-year validity, an application on Form 4A should be submitted to the RTO concerned along with driving license, three passport-size photographs, two passport copies, visa and air ticket and the receipt for payment of Rs 1,200 fees, which includes a service charge of Rs 200.
“If we have an IDP there is no need to spend a fortune on taxi services in foreign countries. We can use motorcycle and cars, available at cheap rates in foreign countries if we have IDP,” said Aluva-based fitness trainer Raphael Nirmal Gilbert, who used IDP while on a visit to the Indonesian island of Bali in June.
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It certifies you to drive in a foreign country as certain countries will not allow you to rent a car unless you have the IDP.
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On the heels of his acclaimed 2015 album, "If I’ve Only One Time Askin’", currently nominated for a Juno Award (Canadian Grammy) for Adult Alternative Album of the Year, prolific and chameleonic Canadian artist Daniel Romano will release his daring and prismatic new record, "Mosey", May 27 on New West Records. Not adherent to genres, fads or tradition, the 12-track album turns convention on its head and refuses to be confined to narrow classification.
Opening track “Valerie Leon” premiered yesterday on The Line Of Best Fit who declared it “a galloping heart-melter with '60s dust, brassy accents and big swooning strings, honky tonk keys and snarling psych riffs - Romano glues together a bunch of musical tidbits and creates one of the most epic, ambitious rock'n'roll tracks of 2016.” The video, which pairs the song with colorful footage of 1950’s pin- up girls, including Bettie Page, is simultaneously premiering at Brooklyn Vegan, see below. In May, Romano will head to Europe for an extensive two-month tour that will take him all throughout. Fresh - announced today - tourdates include Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Find the whole tourlist at the bottom of this message.
"Mosey" was self-produced and recorded in mono by Romano at his studio, The Navy, in Fenwick, Ontario, Canada throughout 2015. Aside from the piano, strings and horns that course through the album, he plays every instrument including guitar, bass, drums, organ and percussion and also arranged the orchestration himself. The vocal performances vary immensely song to song, as if they were a fettered collection of enemies. “He had all the songs in his head. He set up the drums, we mic’d them and then I rolled the tape,” reveals engineer Kenneth Roy Meehan. “He played through the entire first pass of the record, which included something like 20 songs, without any music to reference in basically the amount of time it would take to listen to it. I’ve never seen anything like it.” Whereas on his previous record, "If I’ve Only One Time Askin’", which was influenced by the countrypolitan sound of the ‘60s, and garnered rave reviews from NPR Fresh Air, Rolling Stone, Mojo, Uncut, Boston Globe, Exclaim!, Romano’s fifth album, "Mosey", takes inspiration from such trailblazers as Lee Hazlewood, Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman and Ennio Morricone, and throws them in a sonic blender to produce a thrilling and wide-ranging album that mixes together ‘60s French and British pop music, psychedelic blues, Spaghetti western, ‘70s funk, honky-tonk heartache, country-soul, barroom piano confessionals and rollicking rock n’ roll. An album in the truest sense, Romano threads the songs together with wildly eclectic outros which creates a cinematic feel and reinforces that although many of these sounds are from the past this is a record that is very much a product of the modern era.
TOURDATES:
26-MAY: Newcastle (UK) @ The Cluny 2*
27-MAY: Glasgow (UK) @ The Classic Grand*
28-MAY: Aberdeen (UK) @ The Tunnels*
29-MAY: York (UK) @ The Crescent*
30-MAY: Oxford (UK) @ The Bullingdon*
31-MAY: London (UK) @ The Lexington*
01-JUNE: Antwerpen (BE) @ De Roma*
02-JUNE: Gent (BE) @ Dok*
03-JUNE: Groningen (NL) @ Oosterpoort*
04-JUNE: Utrecht (NL) @ TivoliVredenburg*
05-JUNE: Amsterdam (NL) @ Paradiso*
06-JUNE: Nijmegen (NL) @ Doornroosje*
07-JUNE: Mannheim (DE) @ Kulturbrücken* NEW!
09-JUNE: Berlin (DE) @ Privatclub* NEW!
10-JUNE: Flensburg (DE) @ Volksbad* NEW!
11-JUNE: Oberhausen (DE) @ Static Roots Festival NEW!
14-JUNE: Paris (FR) @ Divan du Monde* NEW!
17-JUNE: Vitoria (ESP) @ Azkena Rock Festival
19-JUN: St. Etienne (FR) @ Thunderbird Lounge NEW!
26-JUN: Hamburg (DE) @ Sound Yard NEW!
27-JUN: Randers (DK) @ Memphis Mansion NEW!
28-JUN: Gothenburg (SWE) @ Pustverik NEW!
29-JUN: Mariehamn (SWE) @ Dino's Bar & Grill NEW!
02-JUL: Stockholm (SWE) @ Lasse I Parken NEW!
03-JUL: Orebro (SWE) @ Kulturhuskällaren NEW!
06-JUL: Karlstad (SWE) @ Nojesfabriken NEW!
07-JUL: Borlage (SWE) @ Peace & Love Festival NEW!
08-JUL: Malmo (SWE) @ Pildammsteatern/Sommarscen NEW!
09-JUL: Oslo (NO) @ Vulcan Arena NEW!
10-JUL: Kristiansand (NO) @ Cafe Generalen NEW!
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QR codes play central role in Toyota road safety campaign
05/22/2013 05/21/2013 Julie Campbell
The auto manufacturer is running a massive print campaign in Peru to help to inform drivers.
Toyota has launched a massive campaign in Peru that has been carefully crafted to appeal to the many smartphone using drivers in that country, through the use of QR codes that they can scan using any free reader app.
The campaign is meant to help to encourage safer driving through the sharing of important information.
With the QR codes in the Toyota road safety campaign, drivers can become more aware of the specific dangers that are posed by the use of a smartphone while driving. This campaign is cleverly designed to use the smartphone as a part of the education process because it speaks specifically to the users of the devices.
The QR codes are a central part of both the campaign and the awareness of the danger from the device used to scan them.
The print campaign was made up of images of obstacles in the middle of a road with QR codes displayed on them. When those barcodes were scanned, it allows the user to download a fascinating augmented reality app.
The name of the application was the QR Road App. By running the app, the user can watch the obstacle disappear from the picture on the page, and it is replaced by the message “When you use your smartphone, you can’t really see what’s on the road.”
The QR codes application had already been downloaded more than 120,000 times at the time of the writing of this article. This ranks it among the twenty apps that have been the most successful in the history of Peru. This is precisely the type of use of the barcodes that mobile marketers have been trying to encourage for years, as there has been considerable controversy as to whether or not the technology is worthwhile and effective.
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This archive holds all posts form March 2, 2009.
Racist Joking is No Joke: Watermelon Imagery and President Obama
March 2, 2009 • Joe • African Americans, politics, popular culture, racism, white racial frame
Back in early January, I wondered aloud if President Obama would be mocked with watermelon and chicken imagery, stuff from very old white racial framing. Well, we need not wonder any more. A quick google check of the Internet today came up with 850,000 hits on “Watermelon” and “Obama.” Many are about Mayor Grose of Los Alamitos, California, who recently sent out an email showing the White House front lawn planted with watermelons and captioned, “No Easter egg hunt this year.” The Chicago Sun Times shows it thus:
According to MSNBC
Grose has apologized and said he wasn’t aware of the racial stereotype that blacks like watermelon.
That is very hard to believe. Yet he did get the political message, and apparently will step down as head of the five-seat council.
During the 2008 election there were many mocking references to Senator Obama that made use of the watermelon imagery. The New York Times, for example, quoted one white worker in the South as mocking Obama thus: “He’s going to tear up the rose bushes and plant a watermelon patch. I just don’t think we’ll ever have a black president.”
The watermelon imagery doubtless goes back into at least the early 19th century, in connection with the southern rural reality in which most black Americans lived. Whites put this mocking imagery into the white racial frame of that era. In an article on racism and popular culture, sociologists Danielle Dirks and Jennifer Mueller have commented on how old and pervasive this “watermeloning” of black Americans has been in white popular culture:
Postcards depicting black Americans in various states of childishness and need have provided some of the most interesting snapshots of white thinking and imagination of the time. As if it were an aesthetic rule, adults and children could not be depicted in any print media without being coupled with watermelons.
They interpret this mocking thus:
Although the sale of real black human beings ended in 1865 with the official demise of the state-supported US slavery system, the consumption of blackness through popular culture ideas, images, and material goods marked an easy, if figurative, transition in the Postbellum South. From blackfaced caricatures found on postcards, children’s toys, and household items to Nineteenth century minstrelsy, these examples provide only a smattering of the racist iconography and ideology found throughout Western culture. As such, images of coons, pickaninnies, mammies, bucks, and Uncle Toms were born, to live out lives distorting the image of black Americans for centuries to come.
What’s with this extensive type of white-racist “joking” about President Obama and other Americans of color any way? Leslie Picca and I explore this in our work on Two Faced Racism. Let me summarize our arguments there:
One reason why white-racist joking is so prevalent is that it allows whites to minimize and downplay the significance of racist performances by themselves and/or others. Racist ideas, images, and gestures are exchanged and perpetuated while simultaneously they can be dismissed, if necessary, as not meant to be taken seriously. Under the guise of “just kidding,” white instigators and protagonists toss racist comments around with few or no apparent consequences for themselves or their immediate listeners. Indeed, much blatantly racist joking slips under the radar of whites’ active consciousness, or at least that is what many claim. A dissenting person who interrupts racist joking often has to answer questions such as: “What’s the matter with you?” “It’s only a joke.” “It isn’t doing anyone any harm.” “Don’t you have a sense of humor?” Instead of the joke teller being held accountable, the challenger often must defend her or his intervention.
Sigmund Freud did a serious analysis of racial joking as hiding aggressive feelings and thoughts. In his view, such jokes allow individual joke tellers to break societal taboos and thereby gain pleasure from expressing normally repressed feelings and views. In a civilized society, particular individuals use racist jokes to siphon off subconscious aggressive feelings that cannot otherwise be released.
However, this Freudian analysis misses the broader sociological reality that much conventional racist joking by whites involves an already shared framing of society and thus actually builds white group solidarity. Certainly, racist joking can operate to test the waters of a racial topic, but most racist joking and smiling performances and commentaries imbed or reinforce group views and solidify existing networks. Racial joking often adds fuel to the fire of aggression against its racialized targets–—for the joking individual and his (or, less often, her) group. Interactive racist joking often relieves tensions in a social setting and unites a group. Even in an apparently light-hearted joking context, the racialized “fun” of whites usually reveals hostile and deliberately hurtful sentiments that are typically part of a larger white white-racist framing. By making racist jokes and by insisting that they are only jokes, whites promote their acceptability, persistence, and harmful impact.
Ironically, this story of a white mayor who says he does not know about this racist stereotype of black Americans and watermelons was reported by MSNBC on the same day it reported the story about the 50 percent increase over the last few years in neo-Nazi’s and Klan-type groups.
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Useful facts about Milton Keynes:
Milton Keynes, sometimes abbreviated MK, is a town in Buckinghamshire, about 45 miles (72 km) north-west of London. It is the administrative centre of the Borough of Milton Keynes. It was formally designated as a new town on 23 January 1967, with the design brief to become a 'city' in scale. At designation, its 89 km2 (34 sq mi) area incorporated the existing towns of Bletchley, Wolverton and Stony Stratford along with another fifteen villages and farmland in between. It took its name from the existing village of Milton Keynes, a few miles east of the planned centre.
In the 1960s, the British government decided that a further generation of new towns in the south-east of England was needed to relieve housing congestion in London. Since the 1950s, overspill housing for several London boroughs had been constructed in Bletchley. Further studies in the 1960s identified north Buckinghamshire as a possible site for a large new town, a new city,encompassing the existing towns of Bletchley, Stony Stratford and Wolverton. The New Town (informally, "New City") was to be the biggest yet, with a target population of 250,000, in a 'designated area' of 21,850 acres. The name "Milton Keynes" was taken from the existing village of Milton Keynes on the site.
The area that was to become Milton Keynes encompassed a landscape that has a rich historic legacy. The area to be developed was largely farmland and undeveloped villages, but with evidence of permanent settlement dating back to the Bronze Age. Before construction began, every area was subject to detailed archaeological investigation: doing so has provided a unique insight into the history of a large sample of the landscape of south-central England.
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In the Name of Christ
At the end of Holy Communion and many other services the minister says:
“Let us go forth in peace”
What, exactly, does it mean when we reply, “In the name of Christ”and say “Amen”to that?
Some years ago, while on holiday abroad, I went to a party where a member was with his boss and his behaviour was as it should be, but on that occasion, even though he was representing his country, he behaved like a fool. The rest of us Brits were ashamed to own him. We felt he gave us all a very bad name. If we take our Christian discipleship seriously I believe we do go forth in His name, as His representatives, whenever, wherever and in whatever situation we find ourselves.
We are not just Ambassadors for Christ as we go to church, visit the sick or help at church functions and charity events. We are always His representatives.
When we’e tired and family or friends make demands on us; when it’ pouring with rain and the dog needs a walk; at work dealing with incalcitrant bosses, employees or customers; when charity collectors shake their tins and jangle frazzled nerves; when the phone rings half way through our favourite TV programme; when someone behind us takes the last space in the car park; all the time and in every situation we must do everything as His representative.
This is an invitation to visit the website and look at the Bulletin for the
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We have a weekly Sunday Club, which meets during the 11:00 service,
in the main church hall. The sessions are quite varied and activities
could include: Bible stories told in creative ways, dressing up, acting out,
puppets, building with Lego, games, dancing to CD, playing percussion
instruments and there is always at least one craft activity….. more
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St. Anne's Youth
We meet on Tuesday evening from
7.30pm until 9pm,
in St. Anne's Church Hall. Cost is £1.
Our age range is from 15 – 20 years. We play games such as table tennis and snooker, do crafts. hold quizzes, watch films and enjoy theme evenings.
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It takes a basic 20mm strap, so you can quite much pick anything from the analogue watch globe to pander out your smartwatch.There are drawbacks for a technology point of view. It used older Qualcomm technology so battery life is bogged down around a solitary day's use and also we did discover some performance issues. Yet if you're looking for design first and also tech 2nd-- and also there is definitely nothing incorrect with that said-- the Skagen Falster 2 is well worth your time.
Fossil Group might be holding the umbrella over a lot of style homes producing smartwatches, yet that doesn't imply it's not contending in the field itself. As well as with its fourth-generation smartwatches, it's produced possibly one of the most attractive smartwatch on the marketplace, from a style perspective.Sharing some similarities with the older Michael Kors Access Sofie (our previous ideal fashion watch choice ), the Fossil Q Venture HR intends to stick out, and also fans of an extra elegant watch will most likely discover it a much better fit than those that such as to maintain their wrist wear understated.Fossil is still keeping screen resolution and also other specs under covers, yet we do know this generation(which consists of the males's Fossil Q Explorist HR)is one of the most feature-packed we've seen from the company.
Building on the layout improvements of the third-gen gadgets, which saw the level tyre removed as well as a slimmer kind factor, the Q Endeavor Human Resources now likewise harbours some serious tech under the bezel.There's now a heart price screen, as the name suggests, for tracking beats throughout the day and during workout, a GENERAL PRACTITIONERS check to stay on par with your workouts, and an NFC chip to make it possible for Google Pay. Include in that the capacity to take this underwater up
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There's your choice of stainless steel and also leather straps, and also it's likewise readily available in a somewhat extra expensive Ceramic model.On the functions front, the Path brings built-in GENERAL PRACTITIONERS, a heart rate monitor, a swimproof layout as well as Google Pay to allow contactless settlements.
It's maybe not best suited to choose a kept up, however if you appreciate touching into Google's fitness tracking features, it more than does the job.Google's Use OS of training course runs the software application program so you're likewise obtaining alert assistance, Google Aide, the capacity to transfer music to your watch and also customisable watch faces.
There's customized Michael Kors see faces there also to far better praise that stylish watch body.Battery life is the Use OS smartwatch norm, so you can anticipate to get you with a day and also perhaps a little extra. Bottom line, you'll require to charge it every day.If you're not planning to get perspiring with it and also you're looking for a
seriously attractive smartwatch, the Path definitely fits the bill.Luxury smartwatches are a point as well as some of them are actually extremely great. It began with Tag Heuer's smartwatches then the similarity Louis Vuitton signed up with the linked party too. Now Montblanc desires in.Features such as heart rate displays, as well as variety of
other sensors have actually made their method into the smartwatches, permitting them to really transform the wearable experience right into something much better, and functional at the exact same time.Since the marketplace at this moment is loaded with smartwatches of all sorts, we took it on ourselves to have a look at the finest smartwatches you can acquire, yet initially, we are mosting likely to be looking at several of the important details regarding the smartwatches.Its very first smartwatch was underwhelming yet, in its 2nd coming, the Top 2 is a watch that supplies on layout as well as on features.
Montblanc has actually designed its second generation watch on its 1858 collection offering sleek initial watch encounters, a high grade construction and a top notch 1.2-inch, 390 x 390 resolution touchscreen display.Google's Wear OS runs the program, but Montblanc handles to leave its mark with additional apps and those watch encounters we mentioned to assist things really feel even more special.
It's currently packed with more hardware features consisting of built-in GENERAL PRACTITIONERS, a heart price display and a completely water-proof style to add any kind of added layer of durability.This is additionally among the initial Use OS smartwatches to operate on Qualcomm's new smartwatch tech that uses performance improvements throughout
the board consisting of battery life. You're not going to get a week from it, however it should make it through the day and also perhaps a little extra.The brand-new fitness features might not be perfect, yet it behaves for the informal health club goer
. When you're not sweating it out, it'll rest there looking beautiful.The bulk of smartwatches in our list have been full-screen tools, but
the Withings Steel HR approaches things a little in a different way-- yet is still a powerful connected watch in a package that evaluates just 49g. The analogue screen shows the time on the major dial (with a month of battery life )as well as development towards your action objective on the second dial-- but there's so a lot a lot more taking place than this.The Withings Steel HR has a 24/7 heart price monitor that will keep tabs on VO2 Max and it will certainly pair with a mobile phone to track exterior exercises by means of GPS, although the tech isn't constructed right into the watch itself. It's additionally swimproof to 50m as well as isn't also shoddy in
the pool either, tracking laps and sizes What's even more, Withings Wellness Companion app is one of the very best available for keeping tabs on all your assorted health and wellness data.The remainder of the smartwatch field is largely comprised of variants of Put on OS devices that run Google's actual smartwatch system.
The issue with most of these devices is they feel at the very least a generation(or more)behind where Apple and Samsung are at with wearables. They have fewer attributes, even worse battery life, and frequently thick, clumsy designs. Based on our experience, the Use OS enjoys that fare the ideal are ones made by Fossil as well as its stable of brands (such as Skagen), which are offered in a range of styles as well as sizes.It's no slouch as a linked watch either, as well as will alert you to alerts on your mobile phone utilizing vibrations and also the tiny OLED display build into the bezel.
This is capable of using rather crude as well as fast signals, but
can reveal you when a message/call/calendar alerts are coming with utilizing quick icons.It's a stripped back smartwatch experience yet one that's loaded into a trendy, small and also comfy hybrid that does not make as numerous compromises as you would certainly think.Huawei is still selecting its Watch 2, however in 2018 returned to the table
with something entirely different. The Huawei Watch GT loads a huge collection of functions yet on top of a custom-made operating system-- those are words we usually utter with a big amount of uneasiness, yet the Watch GT provides 2 weeks of battery life, which is a compelling sell.And it does not cut corners on tech. Huawei has packed in a 1.39-inch, 454 x 454 AMOLED screen. Which is amongst the very best we've had fun with, pleasantly pairing up with the vibrancy as well as intensity found on the Galaxy Watch and also Apple Watch Collection 4. Lite OS might take away several of the deeper aspects previously discovered in Huawei smartwatches, it's still an excellent task tracker with heart rate monitoring as well as sleep tracking.Sports tracking on the basic
is good, but there is one complaint we do have: data can not be shown to third-party applications. Every one of your information can only live inside of Huawei's friend Health and wellness app. We also discovered the heart rate data to delay means behind established sports tracking rivals.Huawei makes big guarantees in the battery division: as much as 2 weeks with typical usage, a complete day of GPS monitoring and also up to a month with features like always-on display screen as well as GENERAL PRACTITIONER switched off. And it supplies. Even with continuous heart rate tracking transformed on, we've only had to bill the Watch GT once during our 3 weeks of use.There's now new Huawei Watch GT Energetic as well as Elegant versions that offers a less sporty look but includes all of the same features including a new Triathlon monitoring mode. For those seeking Pebble-esque long life, however agree to discard the glitz and also appeal of a totally created operating system and also all the apps and glamour-- the Huawei Watch GT is an interesting selection. And also with its fourth-generation smartwatches, it's produced probably the most eye-catching smartwatch on the market, from a fashion perspective.Sharing some resemblances with the older Michael Kors Access Sofie (our previous ideal style watch pick ), the Fossil Q Endeavor HR desires to stand out, as well as fans of a more elegant watch will most likely find it a better fit than those that such as to maintain their wrist wear understated.Fossil is still maintaining display resolution as well as other specifications under covers, yet we do recognize this generation(which consists of the guys's Fossil Q Explorist Human Resources)is the most feature-packed we've seen from the company. There's personalized Michael Kors see faces there as well to far better praise that trendy watch body.Battery life is the Use OS smartwatch standard, so you can anticipate to obtain you through a day as well as possibly a little additional. Now Montblanc wants in.Features such as heart rate monitors, as well as wide variety of
other sensing units have actually made their way right into the smartwatches, enabling them to really transform the wearable experience into something much better, as well as flexible at the very same time.Since the market at this factor is filled up with smartwatches of all kinds, we took it on ourselves to take a look at the finest smartwatches you can acquire, however initially, we are going to be looking at some of the essential information regarding the smartwatches.Its very first smartwatch was underwhelming yet, in its second coming, the Top 2 is a watch that provides on design and on features.Montblanc has modelled its 2nd generation watch on its 1858 collection offering sleek original watch faces, a high grade building as well as a leading notch 1.2-inch, 390 x 390 resolution touchscreen display.Google's Wear OS runs the program, yet Montblanc takes care of to leave its mark with extra apps as well as those watch faces we pointed out to assist points feel even more distinct. Which is amongst the finest we have actually played with, pleasantly matching up with the vibrancy as well as intensity located on the Galaxy Watch and Apple Watch Collection 4. Also with continual heart rate tracking turned on, we have actually just had to charge the Watch GT when during our three weeks of use.There's now brand-new Huawei Watch GT Active and Classy editions that uses a much less stylish look yet comes with all of the exact same functions including a new Triathlon monitoring mode.
Having a miniature computer strapped around your wrist is no more a wishful thinking. The Apple Watch and other alternatives from preferred makers, like Fitbit, Samsung, LG, and also Fossil, have actually been gunning to craft the finest smartwatch. Currently a couple of years elder, the smartwatch market provides even more than ever before, whether you're after a specific design, iOS as well as Android phone compatibility, or simply a lot of features.Smartwatches are in discourteous
wellness yet when it comes to the very best smartwatch in 2019, it's certainly the Apple Watch Series 4. It comes at a cost, and also there are so lots of top smartwatches at less expensive prices and also with just as great health and fitness features.Whether you're looking for an excellent smartwatch for health and fitness tracking, running or a simply taking calls and notifications-- there are lots of excellent alternatives for every budget plan. What's more, smartwatches are obtaining a lot more elegant too.Today's finest smartwatch bargains f you've obtained an Android phone, the Apple Watch will not function at all, and
the very best choice below is Samsung
's Galaxy Watch. The Galaxy Watch does work with both apples iphone and also Android gadgets, but it's best with an Android phone, and specifically, one made by Samsung.The Galaxy Watch has most all of the functions you would certainly expect on a modern smartwatch: GPS, touchscreen, multi-day battery life, voice control, mobile payments, and also heart rate surveillance. It has a round face that's simple to check out indoors and also out, and also has an extremely beneficial always-on mode that makes it very easy to see the moment at a glance.We're roughly 4 years into the Great Modern Smartwatch Experiment, which indicates we have actually discovered what smartwatches can be great for
(health and fitness tracking, notifications )as well as what they are absolutely not excellent for(changing your smart device completely). If you remain in the market for a smartwatch, whether that's since you have actually never ever owned one previously and also are interested concerning them or you're looking to update your older-generation version, you can anticipate today's smartwatches to last a little longer in between costs, be a little faster to complete things, as well as probably do a number of new tricks you weren't expecting.But the most effective smartwatch is still significantly a slave to a smartphone, as well as even if you pay out for an LTE-connected design and also pay a service strategy charge for it, it's not going
to release you totally. Therefore, we don't think LTE smartwatches are an excellent buy for lots of people-- it's far easier and more affordable to simply keep your phone with you and also use your watch as a kind of push-button control for the phone in your pocket or bag.Which smartwatch you select is going to be based totally on what phone you have, so our picks are damaged down into the very best choice for apple iphone individuals and also the finest one for Android owners.The Apple Watch Series 4 is as near to smartwatch perfection as we've seen to day-- it's a functional and powerful wearable that can supply a big variety of attributes. While those searching for a simple smartwatch might find the Collection 4's significant range of health and fitness, wellness and also linked features to be excessive, it's able to change in between physical fitness tracker, sporting activities view as well as severe wellness tool at will, making it a serious crowd pleaser.Apple's most current Enjoy addition gives us one of the most significant design adjustment because the initial, bringing brand-new 40mm as well as 44mm sizes (in comparison to 38mm and also 42mm). That indicates even more area to reveal off all the current software application features introduced in watchOS 5. It has all the same core physical fitness and sporting activities monitoring as the Collection 3, including integrated GENERAL PRACTITIONERS
for monitoring of outside workouts and also a swimproof design. Fitness monitoring analysis might lag Fitbit, yet Apple's unique objectives-- symbolized by the closing of Move, Stand and Calorie rings-- is still an effective motivator. Nevertheless, there's still no native rest tracking
below, but this can be done via a third event app.The heading attributes are the brand-new ECG display that unlocks the capability for serious heart health and wellness tracking. It's been FDA removed, so the function can be utilized to detect heart rhythm irregularities. It's currently offered outside of the United States with Apple adding 19 even more countries that can sign in on their heart health and wellness from the new Watch. You likewise don't have to do that by hand, and also the Apple Watch continuously checks for low
and raised heart rates, as well as AFib. There's also a new fall detection mode that can allow individuals accessibility Siri to get in touch with emergency solutions or an emergency situation contact.If you are seeking an excellent smartwatch that does not cost a lot of cash, the S928 Sports Watch may be a great choice. It is among the most affordable smartwatch on my list, and while I am generally determined when it comes to examining such products, it fascinated me to the core.The watch is made instead simply, and also rather of having an elegant screen or high resolution, it utilizes a straightforward, single screen. Truthfully, I do not mind that whatsoever, smartwatches are all about being simplistic in my viewpoint, and also the S928 Sports Watch does a wonderful work at that.Where it does not have a screen, the S928 Sports Watch comprises by supplying a few of the very best attributes that you can want in a smartwatch. In order to make things less complicated for the visitor, I am listing down the functions below.Heart Rate Monitor: The watch features a heart price screen that has the ability to give real time heart price updates.GPS: The S928 Sports Watch also feature an integrated in 3D accelerometer +gyroscope3D, permitting the customers to be able to track every action they make throughout their workout regime.Outdoor Information: The watch is also efficient in maintaining a record of the exterior data, implying that you get actual time updates on just how the weather is outside. Allowing you to be able to prepare your exercise carefully.These are a few of the fundamental or advanced attributes that are in the watch. While they might not look enough, it is necessary to recognize that these features work throughout the entire community of the
watch, allowing these sensors to take complete control of the situation.The smartwatch can be controlled through an application that is readily available on both iphone and also Android. Honestly, the application is as fundamental as it can obtain, as well as can use a little bit
a lot more gloss. There are a couple of more points that I did not comprehend concerning the watch; you can not change the moment format to 12 hours if you desire to.In enhancement to that, the watch itself only supports English as a language, while the application itself has 12 languages in overall. This inconsistency can be a problem for individuals who don't have English as their key language, and also despite the fact that 12 languages behave to have, they are just enough.The good idea right here is that the application is being frequently updated by the developer, so I can think that additional
languages will certainly be included at some time in the future. Very same goes for the watch as the firmware can be updated when released.All in all, the S928 is a suitable smartwatch for Android, it is economical, works as it is expected to, and also does not included unneeded functions that can drain the battery. I would certainly state that this smartwatch comes with the bare fundamentals, as well as absolutely has a market among the giants.Sure, the lack of innovative attributes, as well as languages is disconcerting, but you also require to take rate right into consideration when you are evaluating a product.Although smartwatches have actually existed for a long, lengthy time, their foray into the mainstream is just recent. With companies like Samsung, Apple, Asus, Huawei, as well as numerous others are burning the midnight oil to boost the watches, and also really make the experience a great deal better.Amidst all this, there lies the consumer state of mind that still thinks that the typical, analog watches are way, way better as they are crafted with excellent precision, in addition to excellence. This has resulted in numerous debates just how smartwatches should not exist, or are thought about scourge of the wrist watch concept.Still, for individuals who actually like their watches present all the necessary details that comes
to their phone, all tied right into one environment actually think about smartwatches to be extremely beneficial, and also complying with that into the market, the smartwatch industry now is producing a different entity for itself.The Series 4 comes loading LTE once more so you can take it out sans iPhone and still make/receive telephone calls, get texts as well as all other notifications you would certainly on your phone. A new speaker also makes Siri chats and call audio louder as well as clearer.Battery life is
the primary complaint still, and for all the renovations, Apple can still just offer 24-48 hours-- which for several simply isn't great enough.The Fitbit Versa is the company's 2nd smartwatch and, together with an adjustment in layout direction, it's most importantly available at a much more cost effective price than the Apple Watch-- it can commonly be gotten for around$179.99. And don't neglect-Fitbit has revealed the Versa Lite Edition(a lot more on that below)which clocks in at $159. The Fitbit Versa can be found in a host of different finishes and with a large collection of bands to blend the look. As well as many thanks to the runaway success of the smartwatch, there's a dynamic market of bands to select from.The Versa offers every one of the exact same fitness and sports tracking features you would certainly anticipate from the Fitbit ecosystem, though the huge omission below is the lack of GPS. If you intend to track rides and also runs, you'll need to take your smart device with you, and the watch can piggyback your phone's data.
For numerous this will not be an enormous issue, yet as serious runners it's a degree of problem we like to avoid.Fitbit OS 2.0 brings a new-look UI that offers much more understandings right into your day-to-day information and fast reply support for Android phone individuals(iphone assistance coming at a later day). You can still download and install applications as well as a lot of watch encounters, pay from your wrist using Fitbit Pay, as well as take advantage of Fitbit Coach. Meanwhile the brand-new females's wellness tracking has actually also been introduced for the first time, which is additionally readily available for the
Ionic, too.But it's battery life that actually has the power to compel customers, along with the attractive cost. You can obtain five days on a solitary charge, which indicates less inconvenience on weekend breaks away, and also less complex rest tracking.Fitbit had such excellent success with the very first
Versa that it chose to make a cheaper variation that removes out some of the smartwatch features.The Lite is almost identical to the initial Versa in appearances, conserve for currently just a solitary physical button on guard body, which indicates you'll be depending a lot more on the touchscreen screen to browse the Versa Lite. In our experience, we really did not miss out on the 2nd switch as well much.In terms of the feature that are shed, you do not obtain an integrated music player or swim tracking (it's still water resistant though). You do obtain an optical heart rate screen and all the conventional health and fitness monitoring as well as sporting activities tracking functions along with app-based attributes like females's health monitoring. There's likewise no more Wi-Fi, with Fitbit introducing a brand-new as well as simpler means to upgrade your smartwatch through step-by-step history downloads.Sports as well as fitness monitoring performance is not that various from what we found on the first Versa.
Rest monitoring is still a standout attribute, while the heart rate display still often tends to falter for high intensity exercises. As a core smartwatch experience it's respectable, but it still does not have in comparison to its closest rivals.
Particularly in the application division. If you like watch encounters however, you're well served here.Thankfully you still get the same four-day plus battery life, which can certainly extend to five days depending upon usage. That's still far better than what Apple and Google's Wear OS watches can muster up ideal now.If you suched as the Versa, however choose to invest a little less, the Versa Lite Edition is fitting alternative. The swim tracking is a disappointing noninclusion more so than the music gamer, yet if you can live without monitoring your swimming pool sessions it's still a terrific smartwatch to take into consideration at a terrific price.The Samsung Galaxy Watch is the successor to the Equipment S3 and is still one of the most effective watches around. Suitable with Android and iphone, it currently is available in both 42mm and 46mm models.Samsung footsteps between smartwatch and physical fitness tracker, additionally loading in a heart price sensing unit alongside the GENERAL PRACTITIONER and its much-improved Samsung Health software application. There's also the alternative of LTE, if you want an untethered connection, with a standalone audio speaker for taking phone calls on the watch. It's currently waterproof as well, adding swim monitoring skills that are on the same level with the Watch Series 4. The Galaxy Watch operates on Samsung's Tizen OS 4.0 and really feels like a better choice to Google's Put on OS today. You still obtain that turning bezel and one of the most effective screens you can find on a smartwatch. Nevertheless, the application selection
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actual time-keeping device.But besides that, there's really little to complain regarding with the Apple Watch Series 4, and it's quickly the most effective option for iPhone users.Of training course, we're noting the Forerunner here as a smartwatch, as well as Garmin has actually added good smarts. Health and fitness tracking is amazing as well as Garmin Attach is a good community for wellness information from steps and For that reason, we don't believe LTE smartwatches are a good buy for the majority of individuals-- it's much less complicated and cheaper to just keep your phone with you and use your watch as a type of remote control for the phone in your pocket or bag.Which smartwatch you choose is going to be based totally on what phone you own, so our picks are broken down into the ideal option for apple iphone users and also the ideal one for Android owners.The Apple Watch Collection 4 is as close to smartwatch excellence as we've seen to date-- it's a powerful as well as versatile wearable that can supply a huge variety of features. Truthfully, I do not mind that at all, smartwatches are all concerning being simplistic in my point of view, and the S928 Sports Watch does an excellent task at that.Where it lacks a screen, the S928 Sports Watch makes up by supplying some of the ideal features that you can desire in a smartwatch. In order to make points simpler for the visitor, I am listing down the functions below.Heart Price Display: The watch comes with a heart rate monitor that is able to give real time heart price updates.GPS: The S928 Sports Watch likewise come with a constructed in 3D accelerometer +gyroscope3D, permitting the individuals to be able to track every step they make throughout their workout regime.Outdoor Data: The watch is likewise capable of keeping a record of the outdoor data, meaning that you get actual time updates on exactly how the climate problem is outside. The Galaxy Watch does function with both iPhones and also Android gadgets, however it's finest with an Android phone, and also particularly, one made by Samsung.The Galaxy Watch has most all of the functions you would certainly expect on a contemporary smartwatch: GENERAL PRACTITIONERS, touchscreen, multi-day battery life, voice control, mobile payments, and heart rate surveillance. For that factor, we do not assume LTE smartwatches are a great buy for many individuals-- it's far less complicated as well as more affordable to just maintain your phone with you as well as utilize your watch as a type of remote control for the phone in your pocket or bag.Which smartwatch you select is going to be based totally on what phone you have, so our choices are damaged down right into the ideal alternative for apple iphone customers as well as the ideal one for Android owners.The Apple Watch Series 4 is as close to smartwatch excellence as we have actually seen to date-- it's a powerful and also versatile wearable that can supply a big array of attributes. While those looking for a straightforward smartwatch may find the Series 4's huge selection of health and fitness, wellness as well as connected functions to be excessive, it's able to change between physical fitness tracker, sporting activities see as well as severe health tool at will, making it a severe group pleaser.Apple's latest View addition gives us the most remarkable design change given that the initial, bringing new 40mm and also 44mm sizes (in contrast to 38mm as well as 42mm). Truthfully, I do not mind that at all, smartwatches are all regarding being simplistic in my point of view, and the S928 Sports Watch does an excellent job at that.Where it does not have a display, the S928 Sports Watch makes up by supplying some of the ideal functions that you can want in a smartwatch. In order to make points less complicated for the reader, I am listing down the functions below.Heart Rate Screen: The watch comes with a heart rate monitor that is able to give actual time heart price updates.GPS: The S928 Sports Watch likewise come with a developed in 3D accelerometer +gyroscope3D, allowing the individuals to be able to track every relocation they make throughout their exercise regime.Outdoor Information: The watch is also qualified of maintaining a document of the exterior information, meaning that you get real time updates on how the weather problem is outdoors. Download Fitbit App For Windows 10 Without Store
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Brooklyn 'Broken Angel' - DBI, Developers, and Folk Architecture
Check out this interesting story via NPR
"Self-Taught Architect Behind Brooklyn's 'Broken Angel' Faces Eviction" by JOel Rose
It's a prime example of those charming projects that engage the public, that make us stop and think about the creative possibilities in architecture...and that make us wonder why we have building codes.
Image 1 - Photo by builder/designer Chris Wood
Teddy Cruz's Lecture at CCA, "I believe in zoning; I am against stupid zoning."
Image 1 - Estudio Teddy Cruz, Neighborhood Urbanism: The Informal as a Tool to Transform Policy, 2008.
Ila Berman, the director of CCA’s Architecture Department, opens Teddy Cruz’s lecture by asking if “architects [can] be designers of political processes and re-imagine invisible powers...?” The answer is yes. The example is Teddy Cruz.
Teddy Cruz practices in the San Diego-Tijuana border, and his work reflects and is inspired by the intelligence, creativity, and resourcefulness of everyday people along the border. Teddy Cruz speaks ephatically about everything: from the connection pins to an existing factory metal frame that his team is adapting, to the skate park that a myriad of skaters organized at the unincorporated site underneath a highway, to the Korean project that his team undertook as a case study to prevent the demolition of an entire neighborhood, to the border tour that he led from the US to Mexico through a massive concrete drain that destroys Tijuana River wetlands and dumps garbage on the Mexican side of the border.
At a philosophical scale, Teddy’s work focuses on urban projects that engage what he calls the Public Imagination. Some of his big questions are: “Can we imagine infrastructure differently?” The answer is yes and parts of the solution involves electing the right political leadership and “radicalizing the local.” Is it possible to consider the number of “social exchanges” as a factor in density calculations? The answer is yes, but moreso, it’s necessary to plan and build successful projects. How do we challenge exclusionary politics and economics of growth that ignore complete swaths of the polulation [especially poor people]? The answer is that we confront privatization that is camouflaged as public, and we propose inclusionary models of development.
If you aren’t mildly confused or simply overwhelmed by the task at hand, then maybe you haven’t payed attention. On the confusion part, it’s possible to wonder if Teddy is totally out of touch, because everyone knows that any poor person prefers to live in a McMansion rather than a shantytown. On the overwhelmed part, the task at hand is MASSIVE. Is Teddy too ambitious? It’s, as my architect friend put it, “like reimagining everything possible.” To answer the confusion part, Teddy is not out of touch and his ideas are not high-phalutant theories. His response is “well, when will that poor person get the McMansion?” Until those fictional keys are turned over for the fictional McMansion, this process of inclusionary design seems more practical. To answer the overwhelming part, once you get past the theory, Teddy Cruz is actually full of practical advice.
I’ve created a short list of this advice. It is completely plausible to compile other lists if you sat at the SFNOMA reception, or the CCA lecture, or one of the many lectures that Teddy gives around the world. However, these four points stand clear as pillars of practicality:
“Artifacts Mediate the debate.” The models, visual studies, and other deliverables that constitute an architect’s work matter immensely. This work helps visualize the issues, creates concrete proposals that stakeholders can reference, and advances imaginary projects into reality.
Bundle small projects into larger projects. In an SFNOMA reception that preceded the lecture, Teddy walked us through an exercise of bundling projects. He began work on small projects, noticed the social adjacencies relevant to all projects, and bundled the small pieces into a larger project. In essense, this is the structure for co-operatives. The practical part is that the bundled project provides more financial stability to the smaller stakeholders. The architect therefore addresses a larger audience while solving the problem for the smaller stakeholder.
Take the necessary detours. Always have the end-goal in mind. However, you should devote the necessary time and effort to these detours to gain a stronger footing to address the bigger problem.
Ask for the returns. When we become involved in civic projects, it’s important to ask that factories, corporations and similarly large stakeholders who stand to profit greatly return something to the public. This very week, the stock market reached a record high. With all these gains, it’s an auspicius time to ask for the returns. Returns for the Public Imagination. To reference a previous phrase, it’s important that these returns not be camouflaged as public good when they are principally private profit.
I acknowledge that even if Teddy’s ideas can be listed in ‘practical lists’, the work that Teddy Cruz undertakes is indeed ambitous. But perhaps the bigger issue is that the work elsewhere may simply not be ambitious enough. I’m sure that we can all agree that for architects of this generation, and for the public today, it is of much more benefit to ascribe to piles of ambition than to rubbles of irrelevant work.
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Image 2 - SFNOMA reception with Teddy Cruz - March 4, 2013
SFNOMA executive board members caught on camera!
SFNOMA president Tiana Robinson and treasurer Rommel Taylor bumped into Deborah McKoy and her Rhs Health Academy Y-Plan class at Oakland Farmer's Market today. Ms. McKoy along with Rhs Health Academy instructor Jose Irizarry and several Y-Plan mentors were taking the students to visiting various sites in Oakland and San Francisco to study good urban design solutions to inspire the work they are doing in Richmond. We were asked to briefly speak to the students about architecture and urban design. We can't wait to see what great ideas the students come up with to revitalize Richmond. Below is a video clip Mr. Irizarry posted on Facebook.
NOMA participates in White House Workshop on STEM Minority Inclusion
On Monday, February 11, 2013, the Obama Administration held a White House Workshop on STEM
Minority Inclusion, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. NOMA and
twenty-five representatives from STEM professional societies that focus on
increasing participation of underrepresented minorities were invited to attend.
Among the groups attending were American Assn of Blacks in Energy (AABE), Black
Data Processing Associates, MAES: Latinos in Science & Engineering, National
Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists & Chemical
Engineers (NOBCChE), National Society of Black Engineers-Alumni Extension
(NSBE), National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP), National Technical Assn
(NTA), and Society for Advancement of Chicanos & Native Americans in
Science (SACNAS), Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), National
Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), American Indian Science
& Engineering Society (AISES), The National GEM Consortium, National Assn of
Black Geoscientists, Institute for Broadening Participation, National Society of
Hispanic Physicists, Hispanic Heritage Foundation, Hispanic Youth Institute
(part of Hispanic College fund), Excelencia in Education, Asian Pacific Islander
American Assn of Colleges & Universities, National Congress of American
Indians, Great Minds in STEM, and the National Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Assn.
Dr. John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy opened the meeting with
remarks about the desire of the Obama Administration to make inroads to better
equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy and create classes
focused on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) studies.
The three-hour long session included discussions regarding Leadership
and Policy Opportunities, K-12 Education, Out-of-classroom science experiences
for youth, STEM jobs of the future, Increasing federal employment opportunities
for minority STEM professionals, media campaigns, and entrepreneurship &
innovation. Kathy Dixon AIA, NOMA, the current NOMA President, attended the
workshop on behalf of the organization. The group is expected to move forward
on ideas developed during the Workshop. Ideally, the next steps will involve
implementation strategies.
Outside observers included representatives from the White House HBCU initiative, White
House Initiative on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders, White House
Initiative on Historically Black Colleges & Universities, Bureau of Indian
Education, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the
Department of Education.
Scholarship Opportunity USC Ross Program-$5,000
Ross Minority Program in Real Estate
The ICSC Foundation and Gap Inc. are providing a $5000
scholarship to one applicant admitted to the Summer 2013 Session of the USC Ross
Program who is interested in working in the field of retail real estate sector,
and who furthers the interests of underrepresented groups in the real estate
In addition, the recipient of the award will be required
to participate as a paid intern in the Gap Inc. Corporate Offices in San
Francisco, CA starting July 1, 2013 for 10 weeks. During this time, the intern
will rotate through three functional areas; construction, operations and real
If you are interested in the Retail Development industry
then this is the opportunity for you. You must complete an online application
for admission to the Ross Program and complete a scholarship application as
indicated on the website, plus meet some additional requirements as requested by
ICSC/Gap Inc. Upon our review and admission to the program, your application
will be forwarded to the ICSC/Gap Inc. individuals for review and award
consideration.
The deadline for these applications is April 1, 2013!
Contact me for additional details.
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Rod Stewart's Big Railway Break
This is where Rod Stewart's drunken singing got him known.
Location: Twickenham Station, Rugby Road, TW1 1DZ
Description: A young crooner called Rod Stewart got his lucky break at nineteen years old when he was invited to join Long John Baldry's Hoochie Coochie Men. They were on the brink of finishing the R&B All Stars just before their leader, Cyril Davies, died.
Long John Baldry had seen Rod playing harp for the Dimensions at Ken Colyer's club in London's Oxford Street, found Rod drunk and singing on Twickenham railway station and it was there that he asked him to join his new band.
During the following journey to Waterloo station Long John explained that he was thinking of breaking up the All Stars and forming a new band.
By the time they got to Waterloo, Rod took the tube back to Highgate telling himself that this might be the sort of break he'd been waiting for. It was a couple of days later he heard the unexpected news that Cyril Davies was dead.
Baldry kept his promise and contacted Rod with an offer of work and just weeks later he was on stage in his first professional band.
Long John went solo eventually and Rod soon had his big hit Maggie May propelling him to stardom.
Tagged in this Tour: Rod Stewart & Faces Tour
Themes: Music Train
Credits: http://www.themodgeneration.co.uk/
Olympic Studios», 4.2km
The Tower House», 6.4km
The English Elvis arrived here», 8.1km
Scene of Verve's Urban Hymns», 2.8km
Marc Bolan's Last Home», 3.2km
Toe Rag Studios», 14.km
Musical Hotel with Pedigree», 1.5km
Upper Cut Club's Purple Haze», 16.km
Sex Pistols Squat», 9.8km
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A New Era of Computing
Filed under: Software Development — Jan @ 10:31
With the limited release of the EditPad Pro 6 beta, JGsoft has entered a new era of computing. Previously, all our products were designed for computers with a single processing core (CPU). Almost all present Windows applications and utilities fall into this category, because multi-processor systems used to be very expensive. Putting multiple CPUs into a single computer only made–and still makes–sense for high-end workstations and servers.
The new PC I got a few months ago has a Pentium 820 CPU. I got this system because it was the cheapest dual-core system locally available at the time. In fact, the Pentium 820 was cheaper than Intel’s fastest single-core Pentiums.
Soon, run-of-the-mill computers and even notebooks will come equipped with multi-core CPUs. Intel has announced quad-core server CPUs for 2006, and quad-core mainstream CPUs for 2007. If Moore’s law continues to hold true–the number of transistors that can be put cost-effectively into a single CPU doubles every 18 months–we’ll likely see the number of CPU cores increase further in the future.
The significance of this is not that we’ll have faster computers. In fact, when running the applications I have, my 2.8 GHz Pentium 820 isn’t much faster than the 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 I bought three years ago. The reason is that applications designed with a single active thread in mind don’t take advantage of the extra CPU core.
I’ve made a screen recording of EditPad Pro 5 opening a huge file. The example is somewhat artificial, since few people put a million lines of source code into a single file. But it makes the situation easier to observe in the Windows Task Manager. As you’ll see in the movie, EditPad Pro 5 “goes stupid” the whole time while it scans the file for line breaks and applies syntax coloring. All the while, CPU usage is pegged at 50%. Both cores share the load, but it’s only 50% since there’s only one active thread. The other running threads–the Windows Task Manager and other OS threads–don’t use any measurable amount of CPU time. But they do cause EditPad Pro’s thread to be switched between the cores.
The significance of affordable multi-core systems is that consumers will become increasingly intolerant of applications that “go stupid”. Particularly when that application isn’t using 100% CPU time. An application can always use one CPU core for foreground GUI handling, while lengthy operations run in the background.
EditPad Pro 6 will use up to 4 threads. The main thread handles all GUI and editing tasks, while 3 background threads take care of finding line breaks and word wrapping, applying syntax coloring, and building the file navigation tree.
Even this modest amount of threading makes a dramatic difference. As you can see in the recording of EditPad Pro 6 opening a huge file. The file appears instantly, complete with syntax coloring. The only time you’d have to wait is when you want to jump to the end of the file and EditPad Pro 6 hasn’t finished scanning for line breaks yet. If syntax coloring isn’t done yet, the end of the file is simply displayed without. (Since Pascal supports multi-line comments, the whole file has to be colored.) The movie clearly shows that the line break scanning and syntax coloring threads each tie up one CPU core. The foreground thread doesn’t use much CPU, since I’m simply scrolling through the file.
Making your application multi-threaded isn’t enough. My first attempt at separating line break scanning into its own thread worked wonderfully on a single core CPU. But on a dual core system, CPU usage was still pegged at 50% while scrolling and line break scanning at the same time. The reason is that while my benchmark app had two threads, they weren’t running simultaneously.
Whenever the foreground thread had to repaint the screen, it would block the line scanning thread completely. Doing that is fine on a single core computer, but kills performance on a multi core system. The final solution uses critical sections to only block either thread for the smallest amount of time when line break information is updated.
In the end, what matters is percieved speed. How many seconds of CPU time your app clocks up in the task manager doesn’t matter. How many seconds your customers spend waiting for your software is what it’s all about. The ideal is obviously not to make them wait at all.
In EditPad Pro 5, performance of the syntax coloring mechanism was vital. If it was slow, users would spend time waiting for it. Therefore, EditPad Pro 5 came with a lot of built-in coloring schemes for various popular file formats and programming languages. I coded these schemes directly into the Delphi source code, so they’d run as fast as possible. By contrast, user-contributed schemes used a system based on regular expressions, which precluded many of the assumptions and optimizations the built-in schemes could make. It also made it impossible for users to customize the built-in schemes other than choosing the color palette.
In EditPad Pro 6, syntax coloring performance is irrelevant, as long as it’s reasonable. If a scheme is too complex or a file too large for the syntax coloring to keep up, it’ll simply temporarily disappear until it’s done. As a result, all syntax coloring schemes included with EditPad Pro 6 now use the regex-based custom scheme system, making them flexible and easy to customize. Though EditPad Pro 6 needs significantly more CPU time for syntax coloring, it feels much faster since you don’t have to wait for it, and it’s still fast enough to keep up while you’re scrolling. Only quickly hitting Ctrl+End on a large file or using a rediculously complicated scheme (some user love ‘em) might make it disappear for a while.
When benchmarking your application, think about human time rather than CPU time, and parallellize those tasks that users shouldn’t have to wait for.
This is excellent. One of the reasons I moved to a commercial text editor instead of the free Notepad2 was because of the poor large file performance of the Scintilla colorization engine.
It’s too bad you chose the dual-core P4 over the Athlon 64, though. The A64 has a far better dual core architecture and is substantially faster, particularly for software developers..
Also, I appreciate the incremental search in EditPad Pro 6 very much!
Comment by Jeff Atwood — Tuesday, 1 November 2005 @ 16:07
As I said, I got the cheapest dual core CPU available locally (Bangkok) at the time. Borland Delphi compiles extremely fast, so I have little need for a bleeding edge CPU.
I’m glad you like the new search facility in EditPad Pro 6.
Comment by Jan Goyvaerts — Tuesday, 1 November 2005 @ 22:14
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Editors’ Picks: 17 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week “Wendell Gladstone: Lover’s Lair” at Kravets/Wehby Gallery Most recently exhibiting at Art Los Angeles Contemporary with Shulamit Nazarian this past February, Wendell Gladstone is back in New York for another solo show with Kravets/Wehby Gallery. Gladstone’s Art Deco-meets-Jolly Rancher paintings are […]
Trenton Doyle Hancock featured in Questions of Practice
Visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock has been collecting white dolls for two decades. In 2018, he presented his collection alongside black dolls from the Philadelphia Doll Museum and a new set of his own creation, in the show Moundverse Infants at Temple Contemporary. Hancock says that, as a medium, dolls can provoke surprising feelings of nostalgia and humanity, […]
Wendy White featured in Vanguard Seattle
…After buying a Sesay piece, you have money left over! Why not pick up one of Wendy White’s brand-new denim paintings from Shulamit Nazarian. I fell in love with Wendy White in 2016 when I saw the piece We Go High at Expo Chicago. The New York-based artist has had SO MUCH PRESS and attention since then. The denim series […]
Mark McKnight wins 2019 Aperture Portfolio Prize
Mark McKnight is a modern-day modernist. His black-and-white photographs of skin and sand, brick and tar, with their rich tones and sparkling light, are redolent of twentieth-century masterworks, those pictures by men like Edward Weston who cast the world in silver-gelatin. Weston once said the camera should be used for recording the “quintessence of the thing […]
Trenton Doyle Hancock reviewed in The Boston Globe
NORTH ADAMS — In the beginning, there was Torpedo Boy — bright-eyed, world-saving, briefs clinging tightly to a banana-yellow unitard. Torpedo Boy knew there was good in the world, and there was bad, and he would do everything in his considerable — if somewhat ambiguous — power to ensure that good came out on top. […]
Trenton Doyle Hancock featured in AFAR
10 Exciting Art Exhibitions in the United States to See This Spring With impressive shows featuring glasswork and surrealist art, these are American museums worth traveling to in 2019. Innovative contemporary glasswork, paintings that show art’s influence on environmental awareness, and exhibitions that highlight unsung women artists are some of the spring highlights happening at […]
Trenton Doyle Hancock featured in Hyperallergic
NORTH ADAMS, Mass — For nearly 20 years Trenton Doyle Hancock has been exploring “Mounds” as an organizational and a metaphysical system. Through paintings, comics, sculptures, and gathered objects like board games and collectible toys, he has built an elaborate mythology around his sentient Mounds and their “Moundverse.” The Mounds have followed Hancock since he […]
Naudline Pierre featured in i-D Magazine
Naudline Pierre’s fantastical paintings serve as a window into another world — one populated by angels and demons, gallivanting in neon pink and gold. Pierre’s father is minister of a church in Miami’s Little Haiti, and the world Pierre creates is informed by her early experiences with the more colorful aspects of the church — […]
“Close to Home” Featured in Wallpaper*
The common denominator among photographers Erica Deeman, Mark McKnight, Eva O’Leary and Larry Sultan is a deep engagement with social and political structures that draws on their personal histories. Brown by Deeman is a moving yet direct look at black male portraiture. McKnight, meanwhile, creates a dialogue between queer bodily forms and scenes of architecture, urban spaces […]
Trenton Doyle Hancock Reviewed in Artforum
To get acquainted with Trenton Doyle Hancock’s work – or, better yet, his world – is to become versant in an origin story that the artist first conceived of when he was in the fourth grade. As a precocious ten year-old, Hancock drew Me Turning into Torpedoboy, 1984, a prescient sketch of his morally indifferent […]
Wendy White Reviewed in Art in America
For the past year or so I’ve become increasingly aware of a kind of provisionality within the practice of painting. I first noticed it pervading the canvases of Raoul De Keyser, Albert Oehlen, Christopher Wool, Mary Heilmann and Michael Krebber, artists who have long made works that look casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished or self-cancelling. In […]
Naudline Pierre interviewed by the Coastal Post
Naudline Pierre’s large-scale figurative painting encapsulates nebulous worlds where Spirit is revered and connection, touch, and belonging reign. I was introduced to Pierre’s work in 2017 at an exhibition called Landing organized by the curatorial collective Life Lessons in NYC. The exhibition was held in a former convent in Manhattan and may have been the […]
Naudline Pierre featured in Vice
Naudline Pierre featured on Artnet
The 29-year-old artist Naudline Pierre grew up in a spiritual world, surrounded by the biblical parables woven by her father, an ordained minister who immigrated to the United States from Haiti and now runs a church in Miami’s Little Haiti. Pierre taps that same spirituality in her paintings, but shifts it away from Christianity toward […]
Naudline Pierre and Fay Ray featured in the New York Times
Also appearing in the Presents section, the Los Angeles gallerist Shulamit Nazarian has brought the witchy, psychedelic paintings of Naudline Pierre and suspended sculptures of Fay Ray. Ms. Pierre, who lives in Brooklyn, draws from religious-art sources, as well as mythology and spiritualism to make paintings in which the human bodies are blue or purple […]
Trenton Doyle Hancock Featured in CARLA
In a self-portrait titled Becoming the Toy Maker (all works 2018), we see a haunting rendition of a prodigal son being anointed bya colorless hand. While the religious symbolism is pronounced, the piece— included in Trenton Doyle Hancock’s solo show at Shulamit Nazarian—also operates as latent commen- tary on creating art and the existential questions […]
Trenton Doyle Hancock featured in Art and Cake
For over twenty-years, Trenton Doyle Hancock has been developing a set of characters to inhabit a fictional world that he presents in his paintings and sculptures, immersive installations, as well as in comic book-style graphics and drawings. In his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Hancock introduces audiences to this evolving and ongoing narrative through […]
Trenton Doyle Hancock featured in Cultured
On February 14, Cultured and Artadia celebrated Trenton Doyle Hancock with an intimate brunch at Shulamit Nazarian Gallery followed by a private viewing of the artist’s first solo exhibition in LA. The event was the perfect kick-off for an exciting weekend at the inaugural Frieze LA, as well as a last chance to see Hancock’s show at […]
Trenton Doyle Hancock reviewed in Art Forum Critics Pick
Trenton Doyle Hancock’s first solo exhibition in LA, “An Ingénue’s Hues and How to Use Cutty Black Shoes,” is an engrossing primer on the artist’s extraordinary fictive universe. Displayed in the gallery’s front hallway is a set of intricate ink drawings that compose a graphic novel, which begins with the artist at his drafting table. […]
Trenton Doyle Hancock reviewed in the Los Angeles Times
The Moundverse is a world that sprang from Trenton Doyle Hancock’s imagination when he was kid. It’s a fantastic reality that has been expanding for more than 25 years, its characters and creatures doing what mythological figures have done for centuries: behaving in ways that mortal souls study so that we might learn how to […]
Trenton Doyle Hancock reviewed in Visual Art Source
“An Ingenue’s Hues and How to Use Cutty Black Shoes” — it’s a title that is impossible to improve upon as a review opener. That title is nearly manifested in “TorpedoBoy and Screws Wearing some Cutty Black Shoes,” a densely graphic painting affixed with colored lids from various consumer goods (laundry detergent, and is that […]
“An Ingenue’s Hues and How To Wear Cutty Black Shoes” reviewed in LA Weekly
An Ingenue’s Hues and How to Use Cutty Black Shoes is the title of painter Trenton Doyle Hancock’s new exhibition at Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, but the phrase’s dark whimsy and prosaic flourish set the tone for the entire experience. Visually, Hancock engineers a rough-edged mashup of graphics, comics and illustration styles with a juicy abstract expressionist […]
Amir H. Fallah on the Seeing Is Believing Podcast
Amir and I discuss how issues of identity manifest in his painting and daily life, his family’s immigration into the United States from Iran, as well as running a successful studio and surviving as an artist.
Trenton Doyle Hancock featured in LA Weekly
“An Ingenue’s Hues and How to Use Cutty Black Shoes” is the title of painter Trenton Doyle Hancock’s new exhibition, but the phrase’s dark whimsy and prosaic flourish set the tone for the entire experience. Visually, Hancock engineers a rough-edged mashup of graphics, comics and illustration styles with a juicy abstract expressionist aesthetic. This he […]
Trenton Doyle Hancock featured in ArtDaily
In addition to the narrative tradition of his religious upbringing, Hancock immersed himself in graphic novels, comics, and Greek mythology; at the age of ten, he began creating characters as articulations of his experience as a Black youth in small-town Paris, Texas. In The Moundverse, Hancock has developed an extensive cast: altruistic Mounds, destructive Vegans, […]
Entering the world of Trenton Doyle Hancock is like slipping down a rabbit hole built around the artist’s fantastical and idiosyncratic cosmology. His mixed-media paintings chronicle The Moundverse, an alternate reality that he has been exploring for the past 25 years. Merging vibrant, cartoon imagery with abstraction, these canvases are both deeply personal, and thoughtfully […]
Trenton Doyle Hancock featured in Wall Street International
Wendell Gladstone featured in Hyperallergic
Conspicuous consumption, gendered power dynamics, and the relationship between the elites and the masses all danced together (sometimes literally) in the psychologically charged paintings of Wendell Gladstone’s first solo exhibition at Shulamit Nazarian. From his vivid color palette to his painstakingly detailed application, the works delighted on both formal and intellectual levels. Like all honest depictions […]
Naudline Pierre featured in Creative Boom
In February 2019, London’s Stephen Friedman Gallery will bring together a group exhibition of international female artists who are currently shaping the language of figuration: Heidi Hahn, Donna Huddleston, Becky Kolsrud, Naudline Pierre, Mathilde Rosier and Antonia Showering. The works in the exhibition explore how each artist taps into the ethereal realms of fantasy, dreams […]
Reuven Israel featured in Art News
Today’s show: “Reuven Israel: In Four Acts” is on view at Shulamit Nazarian in Los Angeles through Thursday, December 20. The solo exhibition, the Brooklyn-based artist’s second with the gallery, presents a series of new work.
Reuven Israel featured in LA Weekly
Part Jenga, part Transformers, and pretty funny in a post-structuralist art theory kind of way, Reuven Israel’s new exhibition of modular sculptures for wall and floor at Shulamit Nazarian presents itself, as the title indicates, in segments. In Four Acts is composed of singular works that arrive flat but soon rearrange themselves into a potentially […]
Amir H. Fallah featured in Create! Magazine
Shulamit Nazarian gallery’s booth was an absolute showstopper. I still remember spotting this work from across the fair and making my way over to get a better look at these incredible paintings. I spent so much time looking at these vivid works by Amir H. Fallah, who Shulamit Nazarian represents, and could not believe the […]
Fay Ray featured in Document
Shulamit Nazarian presented the work of Fay Ray, who linked together biographical symbols from her heritage; her grandparents were migrant workers, so corn was one of the symbols that formed staid, monochromatic silver sculptures.
Summer Wheat featured in Art in America
Using extruders, piping bags, and palette knives, Summer Wheat pushes acrylic paint through framed pieces of aluminum mesh, producing stippled images on the other side that appear to be tapestries. It is only once you bring your eyes close that the materials reveal themselves. Wheat’s technique, which she began developing four years ago (prior to […]
Alison O’Daniel featured in the Channels
Hearing is a spectrum, with people who experience the full range of sound, people who can experience some sounds but not others and people who can’t experience sound at all. Artist Alison O’Daniel explores this spectrum in her art, using film with captions and sign language to encourage self-reflection about the way one experiences sound. […]
Summer Wheat “Catch and Release” reviewed in Riot Material
Considering the disheartening, divisive nature of our current political reality, the mind often drifts, yearning for some feminist utopia teeming with independent, iron-willed women. This mythical matriarchy is precisely the type of society Oklahoma-born, Brooklyn-based figurative painter Summer Wheat presents in her delightful current Shulamit Nazarian exhibition, Catch and Release.
Summer Wheat “Catch and Release” Review in Contemporary Art Review LA
There is something beautiful about the myth of prehistoric matriarchal societies—they feed the hope that, maybe one day, we could return to a woman-centered space if it did once exist. But this myth is exactly that: a fantasy, with little anthropological corroboration unearthed over the years to support the theory. And, certainly, Summer Wheat’s vibrantly […]
Summer Wheat featured in Los Angeles Review of Books
For her solo exhibition at Shulamit Nazarian, titled Catch and Release, Summer Wheat continues her exploration of a tradition in which women were the original hunters, technologists, and artists and its many variations.
Naudline Pierre interviewed by Gallery Gurls
In conversation with Naudline Pierre, a young, Brooklyn-based, oil painter combining color, passion, religion, sensuality, in a phenomenal manner on the canvas.
Amir H. Fallah interviewed by VoyageLA
Art & Life with Amir H. Fallah
Genevieve Gaignard featured in Vanity Fair interview with Tina Knowles
In conversation with curator Kimberly Drew, Beyoncé and Solange’s mother discusses her collecting journey, from a $500 painting to high-end auctions.
Alison O’Daniel Interview with Anne Ellegood featured in BOMB Magazine
Working with sound, but not always the ear.
Genevieve Gaignard “Counterfeit Currency” reviewed on Artnet
In “Genevieve Gaignard: Counterfeit Currency” at FLAG Art Foundation, the artist creates unexpected characters that defy racial stereotypes.
Alison O’Daniel featured in The Los Angeles Times “Datebook”
Datebook: A new performance festival, art about sound and a museum’s Friday night party.
Genevieve Gaignard featured in The New Yorker
An artist’s costumed alter egos cross racial lines.
Genevieve Gaignard public lecture on “Real Worlds: Brassaï, Arbus, Goldin” at MOCA
Genevieve Gaignard’s work mixes elements of self-portraiture, collage, and sculpture to present nuanced issues surrounding race, beauty, and cultural identity. Gaignard’s staged photographs create a platform for what she calls “persona-play-performances” within these spaces. The performances enacted within her photographic works are a combination of autobiography and allegory. Responding to the photographs on view in Real […]
“From Pangs to Pangolins” reviewed in Whitewall Magazine
Named in part due to the misinterpretation of “growing pains” vs. “growing pangs,” this group exhibition creates a running commentary on the theme of adolescence and play.
“From Pangs to Pangolins” reviewed in Art and Cake
It should come as no surprise that Shulamit Nazarian’s group exhibition, From Pangs to Pangolins, is a comic and wry look at the world; these are the same qualities most often associated with curator Trenton Doyle Hancock’s own imaginative work. The Houston native’s affinity for cartoonish narratives is apparent in almost every selection, from those artists […]
Trenton Doyle Hancock’s “Moundverse Infants” reviewed in Hyperallergic
An exhibition of historic and futuristic dolls that points to the power of creating new mythologies.
Fay Ray featured in Art Roundup in Woven Tale Press
This spring, a slew of the city’s most illustrious art galleries and museums dove into several of life’s heavier issues, including racial and sexual tensions, national identity, social justice, and misogyny. Both long-established luminaries and up-and-coming talent investigated these weighty topics through a variety of traditional and avant-garde mediums, such as painting, sculpture, collage photography, […]
Wendell Gladstone featured in Gallery Magazine
Wendell Gladstone’s “Fever Pitch” surveys a fantasy-fueled dreamscape in which men, women and children, of all shapes, sizes and stripes, melt and mutate, drawing visitors into a hallucinatory stew that is both intoxicating and scary, its attractions spiked with anxiety and all the more fascinating for its contradictory high-jinx.
Naudline Pierre featured in New York Magazine
Seven female artists weigh in on men painting women, and women doing it for themselves.
“From Pangs to Pangolins” featured in the LA Times
At Shulamit Nazarian, the exhibition “From Pangs to Pangolins” rearranges the way we think about things — in spades. Organized by Houston artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, the eye-opening parade of paintings, sculptures, drawings, collages and a video combines works by three well-known artists who have made their careers in Los Angeles with five up-and-coming artists […]
Summer Wheat Featured in Artforum
The experience of viewing Summer Wheat’s paintings and sculptures for the first time produces an inordinate number of pleasurable surprises. From afar, her large-scale wall pieces playfully fluctuate between being tapestries and paintings; yet upon closer inspection, they are indeed both. Wheat works by pushing thick, claylike paint through sheets of mesh. The resulting textures […]
Genevieve Gaignard featured in Artnet News
A highlight of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s recent show “Fictions,” Genevieve Gaignard exploits her mixed-race background in works that upend expectations about beauty, race, and class. In her first New York solo show. For the occasion, the Los Angeles-based artist created new self-portraits and collages addressing the malleability of personal identity, which is all […]
Genevieve Gaignard featured in Artsy
Contrapposto could fool viewers into thinking that a hunk of marble or a stretch of canvas was a living, breathing human being—and this sense of effortless naturalism captivated the Greeks. Once you know the pose, you’ll spot it everywhere, from Renaissance masterpieces like Michelangelo’s David to the contemporary photographer Genevieve Gaignard’s Compton Contrapposto (2016).
Fay Ray featured in CARLA
Fay Ray’s wit is always in my kitchen. The poster from her 2014 solo show Modeling Clay at Samuel Freeman hangs in the corner: a model shaping mounds of weird, gray clay against her perfectly smooth body. It’s a literal play on acts of objectification and creation, but seductive and light. Ray’s I Am the […]
Summer Wheat Featured in The Art Newspaper
In this show—split between the gallery and Edlin’s booth at Frieze New York (4-7 May)—the artist Summer Wheat takes inspiration from the role of the gamekeeper since Medieval times. She adds a feminist twist with paintings of women hunting, while nodding to the goddesses and symbols of ancient Greece. Wheat has developed a technique in […]
Amir H. Fallah featured in The Art Newspaper
Fallah, who is based in Los Angeles, has a solo show called How Far We’ve Come at the Denny Gallery in New York (11 May-17 June) that features the audio work What It Means To Be American, made up of clips of first-hand immigration stories. “Even though I’ve never made work that was political, since […]
Fay Ray featured in Artillery
The wondrous Egg Arch and Pearl Portal(2018) combines elements of all three categories of her practice, in an elaborately rephotographed collage, printed on cut aluminum, that stands as a queenly Rosicrucian-esque apparition promising physical and energetic transportation to another, more feminine dimension.
Fay Ray featured in Artscene
Fay Ray’s exhibition “I am the House” ranges from complex dye- sublimation prints on aluminum, to simple design elements in multi-media sculptures. In uenced by thediverse examples of John Baldessari and Kara Walker, her prints are photo montages of recurring themes.
Fay Ray featured in Riot Material
Teeming with traditionally feminine objects and symbols, including eggs, diamonds, chalices, flowers, feathers, and seashells, Los Angeles-based multimedia artist Fay Ray’s current Shulamit Nazarian exhibition, I AM THE HOUSE, investigates issues of bodily objectification and the meaning of womanhood. The surrealism-inspired photo collages, dye-sublimation prints, and suspended sculptures seen here reveal the female form to be […]
Fay Ray featured in the LA Times
“Egg Arch and Pearl Portal” is the most arresting of the photo pieces. Scaled to human height and shaped like a passageway, the aluminum-mounted print beckons us inward, to a space at once cosmic and commercial, primal and performative.
Fay Ray featured in Art Forum Critic’s Pick
Toying with luster, shadow, and patina, the artist’s work resembles the mysterious realm evoked by luxury-goods advertising, relying so heavily on sparkle. Under this magical spotlight, even her corncobs resemble crystals. In Ray’s cosmos, detritus takes on a celestial essence.
Summer Wheat featured in Bomb Magazine
Wheat’s large-scale works are dense and dynamic narrations depicting mostly women and revealing a wealth of historical influences—from Ancient Egyptian murals to Native American textiles to genre painting and modernism. One of her signature works, Strawberry Sun, a six-by-twelve-foot Guernica-like composition from 2016, brings together deities and laborers, cartoon elements and fertility symbols, in a […]
Genevieve Gaignard featured in Tafmag
Née dans le Massachusetts d’un père noir et d’une mère blanche, Genevieve Gaignard a ensuite fait ses études à l’école d’art de la prestigieuse université de Yale. Elle est photographe, mais réalise aussi des collages et des installations autour d’objets vintages. Ses photographies la font toujours figurer au premier plan. À travers ses postures et ses […]
Genevieve Gaignard featured in Blouin Art Info
Praz-Delavallade Paris is hosting “Hidden Fences,” the first solo exhibition in France of American artist Genevieve Gaignard. She is well known for work exploring cultural identity as a self-proclaimed mixed-race woman. She had received her B.F.A. in photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, exploring racial dynamics through her creativity. During her Master of Fine […]
Genevieve Gaignard featured on Paris Art
L’œuvre de Genevieve Gaignard est profondément marquée par son histoire personnelle : née d’une mère blanche et d’un père noir, l’artiste américaine a grandi dans une petite ville industrielle du Massachusetts, partagée entre deux cultures et tenaillée par un fort sentiment d’invisibilité, comme si sa famille n’était pas assez blanche pour être blanche ni assez noire […]
Genevieve Gaignard featured in Artnews
“Genevieve Gaignard: Hidden Fences” is on view at Praz-Delavallade in Paris through Saturday, April 28. The solo exhibition, the artist’s first in France, presents recent work that “blends humor, persona, and popular culture to reveal the ways in which the mixing contrasting realities can feel much like displacement. Gaignard positions her own female body as […]
Genevieve Gaignard featured in Slash/ Paris
Depuis près de quatre ans, Genevieve Gaignard, formée à la photographie dans la prestigieuse université de Yale (entre autres), se met en scène dans des compositions hautes en couleurs où burlesque et gravité s’entremêlent pour déjouer les stéréotypes et attendus sociaux. Elle-même fille d’un couple « mixte » au cœur d’une Californie marquée par les tensions « raciales », […]
Genevieve Gaignard featured in Télérama
Genevieve Gaignard est métisse. Elle a grandi dans le Massachusetts. Son travail photographique est collectionné par les grands musées américains. C’est sa première exposition en France. On y découvre Genevieve travestie en bourgeoise, banlieusarde ou drag-queen, prenant la pose dans un décor choisi avec soin. Une Cindy Sherman de plus, me direz-vous ? Pour une part oui, […]
Theodore Boyer featured in the Observer
But they’re not showing just any old work, they’re showing their old work—the art they made as children, lovingly preserved or perhaps rediscovered after languishing in boxes by their very own proud parents. Flying in the face of the idea that their geniuses are one in a million, these artists are putting their early scribbles […]
Amir H. Fallah and Genevieve Gaignard featured in the East Bay Express
Amir H. Fallah’s paintings combine the portraits of Western tradition with decorative elements of Iranian and Islamic art.“I was excited about the idea of bringing in these notes because her work is more about the hybridity of style and playing with formal elements than it is about the explicit use of the figure,” said L’Heureux. […]
Genevieve Gaignard featured in Art Forum
But interiors, too, proved to be important sites for narrative. Genevieve Gaignard’s intricate installation demarcated by a wallpapered corner of the gallery contained five works, including Hammons’ Little Helper, Reclaiming My Time, and Nevertheless, She Persisted, all 2017. Each of these three pieces includes a hand-painted mammy figurine. In the first, the doll is perched […]
Cammie Staros featured in Art Observed
At the center of the week’s proceedings is the massive Armory Show, spread across Piers 92 and 94 on Manhattan’s West Side. Regarded as one of the premiere events of Manhattan’s annual arts calendar, the Armory Show draws on the city’s tradition as a center of modern arts practice, dating all the way back to […]
Cammie Staros featured on Art Facts
Presents is a platform for galleries no more than ten years old. This year, 26 galleries will showcase recent work through solo and dual-artist presentations. Highlights include Athi-Patra Ruga at WHATIFTHEWORLD; André Butzer at NINO MIER GALLERY; at Parafin, new works by Justin Mortimer; at Vigo, selected works by Derrick Adams from his Future People […]
“By the Lights of Their Eyes” featured in Whitewall
“By the Lights of Their Eyes” is a group exhibition featuring work by six artists. Employing themes of fantasy, mysticism, science fiction, and horror, Juno Calypso, Katie Dorame, Sara Issakharian, Naudline Pierre, Roni Shneior, and Ilona Szwarc collectively draw from personal experience to create a fictional story that examines social and political issues.
Cammie Staros at Armory featured in Galerie
Working in ceramic, wood, and steel, Staros—who was born in Nashville and now lives in Los Angeles—updates classical Greco-Roman sculpture with a contemporary spin and precisely au courant humor. Among the selection of her works available at Shulamit Nazari (Los Angeles), some can be had for as little as $3,500. Her most complex and largest […]
Genevieve Gaignard Interview in Pelican Bomb
Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp” featured over 70 artists, but the work of Los Angeles-based Genevieve Gaignard has lingered in my mind. Gaignard uses self-portraiture and installation to examine the intersections of race, gender, and class and confront visitors’ stereotypes and assumptions. For Prospect.4, she wholly transformed two rooms tucked behind the […]
Elham Rokni featured in Artforum
Iranian artist Elham Rokni confronts a subject that has been increasingly sidelined in the mainstream media of late, namely, the displacement of peoples due to war and conflict. After interviewing refugees from Eritrea and Sudan seeking asylum in Israel, the artist made mixed-media works on paper, a book, and a video recounting their folktales and […]
Michael Stamm featured in Art Forum
Stamm is a painter of exceptional skill and finesse who has the preternatural ability to synthesize the lessons of Alex Katz, George Tooker, Domenico Gnoli, and two Walters—Sickert and Gay—into exquisitely wrought pictures that feel simultaneously out of time and of the moment. Everyday items are suffused with a deep magic: Jewels, buttons, and various […]
Michael Stamm featured in the Village Voice
The majority of the paintings in Stamm’s first show at DC Moore Gallery depict the highly stylized, well-dressed torso of a therapist draped in elaborate jewelry (which, according to the press release, tacitly refers to Stamm’s own therapy sessions). The cropped perspective of these roughly two-and-a-half-foot-high canvases—basically, the distance from neckline to waist—implies a patient’s […]
Wendell Gladstone’s ‘Fever Pitch’ reviewed in Juxtapoz
If you’re in the Los Angeles area in the next few days, it’s well worth a trip to Shulamit Nazarian to see this one in person. Another marvelous installment in the midst of a run of superb programming, Wendell Gladstone’s first solo show at the gallery is a brilliant effort. His content is synthesized in […]
“All Hands on Deck” with Cammie Staros and Roni Shneior featured in ArtForum
In her 1994 book The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity, the late art historian Linda Nochlin analogized representations of the disintegrated figure to tumultuous moments in the modern period’s political and metaphysical flux. While she linked some examples to the era’s chaotic break from antique notions of unification and permanence, […]
Amir H. Fallah’s ‘A Stranger In Your Home’ reviewed by Fabrik
It is logical that the paintings of Los Angeles artist Amir H. Fallah contravene logic. They are surprisingly harmonious composites of numerous unrelated, even contradictory, parts. While his paintings involve complex layering and the deliberately distorted treatment of light—suggesting three-dimensional space—the subjects are flat. Whereas Fallah was academically trained, with an MFA in painting from […]
Genevieve Gaignard featured in WBUR
The exhibit, on view until March 25, features the work of 13 artists and designers who explore the myriad ways in which clothing can be used to question, express and construct gender and identity. The artists and their concerns range radically in tone, interest and media, from Susan Metrican, who creates muscular works with cloth […]
Wendell Gladstone’s “Fever Pitch” reviewed in Art and Cake
Wendell Gladstone’s first exhibition at Shulamit Nazarian represents a amalgam of gorgeously rendered surreal mindscapes that defy traditional understanding. Reminiscent of Charles Garabedian’s ominous and psychologically charged imagery, Gladstone’s work engages the viewer in a deeply sensuous, albeit dangerous psychological terrain where anything goes.
Alison O’Daniel featured in the New York Times
At its best, punk rock relies on an admixture of velocity, attitude and volume — which is exactly what made last night’s Deaf Club event a smash success. The show, held at the Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Queens, a former door factory turned interdisciplinary arts space, was curated by the Los Angeles-based artist Alison O’Daniel […]
Genevieve Gaignard selected as Art Gorgeous’ “Female Artist Who Has Made 2017 “Her” Year”
Far and away, the winning nominee for “Female Artist Who Made 2017 Her Year” was Genevieve Gaignard. Her artistic selfies, staged with incredible outfits in the context of American culture, let us feel her alter egos. Whether she poses in a swimsuit at “Muscle Beach” or quietly waits, loaded with groceries and watermelons, in front of a wedding shop. Thanks for […]
Wendell Gladstone’s “Fever Pitch” featured in Whitewall
This Wendell Gladstone’s first exhibition at Shulamit Nazarian. The Los Angeles–based artist creates paintings that pull from a range of sources—from 20th-century European advertising to pulp cover art. His energetic works in bright candy colors feature distorted figures and forms charged with psychological subtext.
Wendell Gladstone’s “Fever Pitch” reviewed in Artscene
Wendell Gladstone’s paintings are collectively entitled “Fever Pitch.” These layered quasi-narratives emphasize bright, acidy colors in which male and female figures happily dance and frolic, coming together in inventive ways while simultaneously remaining separate.
Michael Stamm featured in Art in America
Painter Michael Stamm applies thin glazes in multiple layers to create tightly composed surfaces with an almost overwrought quality. When I visited Stamm in his Brooklyn studio, he told me that these layers create an “emotional patina” that heightens the work’s psychological charge. The first painting I saw was B12 (2017), in which an androgynous […]
Carmen Argote featured in Hyperallergic
Born in Mexico but raised in Los Angeles, Carmen Argote explores her boundary-traversing identity in her sculptural installations and architectural interventions. As part of the REDCAT-organized PST: LA/LA performance festival, Argote will be staging a motorcycle performance in Griffith Park, beginning her 18th Street Arts Center residency that will culminate in a road trip.
Wendell Gladstone’s “Fever Pitch” featured in Black Book
While the paintings of Wendell Gladstone’s “Fever Pitch” at Shulamit Nazarian in Los Angeles are figurative in form, the ambiguity of the narratives they propose leans more in the direction of the abstract. In turns sensual, desirous and anxious the dreamy scenes they depict are too ambiguous to be read as a direct sociopolitical critique, […]
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3 Simplistic Things: March 2016
By Matthew Stewart4/04/2016 02:37:00 PM2016, Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice, Daredevil, March, Screen RoomNo comments
As we enter the 2nd quarter of the year, there is no shortage of news that intrigues, bewilders, outrages, or brings people together, well, I lied about the last part, nothing rips people apart more than news about comic books movies and TV shows.
1. The Return of "Daredevil" on Netflix
After the success of Season One and the revelation of "Jessica Jones" the expectations were sky high for the return of Hell's Kitchen's favorite lawyer/masked vigilante on Netflix. While some of the reviews have been mixed with a strong start to the season and a lacklaster ending, but the addition of Elektra and The Punisher to the cast for Season Two upped the stakes and made many fanboys very happy, unless your name is Frank Miller, and in that case you don't like many things.
2. Screen Room will destroy us all
If you're like me, you're going to go to the theater no matter what when there is a huge film release, but if you're like some other people you don't 1) like leaving he house for anything or 2) you have kids and in that case, well, yeah, you have kids.....
With Screen Room being proposed, by the "incomparable" Sean Parker of Napster fame, the idea has some directors seeing the Apocalypse for the film industry, while others are behind this. I think, if you have the will to pay for a $150 setup, and want to pay $50 bucks for every first-run film for a 48 hour rental, hey that's cool. I'll keep going to the movies on Tuesday for $6 ticket, and $5 popcorn.
3. The BvS Divide
This has been a fun one to follow. Fans love it, critics hate it. Rotten Tomatoes sink it, IMDB cheer for it. Where does Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" fall for you. Justin was okay with it, DJ was ambivalent on it, and I was well, MEH on it. Oh what fun!
Catch you guys news month...kthnxbye
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The Trump Phenomenon
Started By drdredel, Mar 12 2016 05:00 PM
#41 D. C. Sessions
I don't have to pretend to be an adult any more
LocationCentral New Mexico
Practical Girl, on 13 March 2016 - 05:57 PM, said:
Religion appears to be at the heart, but I disagree with those who think it was the "major" thing.
No, it never was. The Pulpit and the Stump -- the two pillars that have kept the "poor white trash" working diligently for their "betters" [1] for centuries. With the third leg being supported, at all times, by the foot on the neck of the others.
[1] and against their own interests.
The way a lot of catastrophes happen is that X doesn't occur because there are safeguards in place, therefore people assume X isn't a worry and they remove the safeguards. Then X happens.
— Nate Silver
"Robots aren't the problem. Capitalism is." -- Last words of Stephen Hawking.
These days, "libertarian" is just a euphemism for a Nazi who's afraid to commit.
"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." -- Heather Heyer
"I'd rather have my child, but by golly, if I gotta give her up, we're gonna make it count." -- Her mother
"Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events." -- some RINO
Banty, on 13 March 2016 - 06:17 PM, said:
Well, does that actually rise to incitement to riot - as in *that* statement/*that* riot in a prosecutable sense? I'm not talking generalities.
Broad enough incitement -- license to kill, I'll make it good -- would be perfect cover for gang "muscle." I'm pretty sure that there have been ways worked out to keep "will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?" from being a safe question to ask when surrounded by your enforcers. Likewise, telling a cheering mob that what protesters need is to be "roughed up, or worse" and the Boss would "fix it" with the Law -- well, we'll see.
#43 cmk
Chief Cook and Bottle Washer
LocationBennington, VT, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Known Universe
Has Trump started blaming all this on the Black Panthers yet? If not, he will soon.
Charles M. Kozierok - Administrator, TalkRadioSucks.com
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools." -- Herbert Spencer
"Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position." -- Bill Maher
"Our new Government['s] foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition." -- Alexander Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy
#44 nuser
Born in 1938 , march , Valby , Copenhagen , but not claiming expertise
In political matters, but rather a small understanding of ,in particular ,anti
Semitism and in my case an everlasting disdain for the German people.
Trump is no Hitler but being a buffoon he will run his course. Cruz is a
different matter following up on Republican obstructionism and racism
which has been going on for well over seven years he just may be within striking distance.
#45 HockeyDon
Mind blown...
LocationNew Britain, CT
Trump, throw pebbles? I think we all know better than to think he would be satisfied with just throwing pebbles.
Well, fuck.
How can I be expected to distinguish BS from reality when so much of my reality is utter BS?!
"There seems to be a lot of people dying of ignorance while living in the information age." my sister-in-law.
HockeyDon, on 14 March 2016 - 05:54 AM, said:
Yeah, he'd probably throw the whole Flintstone clan. And the Rubbles too.
#47 Rue Bella
Emerging from a state of cryogenic denial
And the Rubbles too.
He does like his Putin.
What is wrong with these people? ~ PG
No longer politically correct
Well, we knew this would happen. No official connection to The Donald, but ...
D. C. Sessions, on 14 March 2016 - 01:32 PM, said:
From the piece: "Within hours, the account reportedly had over 500 followers, and members were already asking for 'uniform suggestions.'"
Sounds more like Wrestle Mania and all their fake drama than a political gathering.
Krugman weighs in on The Trump Phenomenon (NYT paywall):
Let’s dispel with this fiction that the Trump phenomenon represents some kind of unpredictable intrusion into the normal course of Republican politics. On the contrary, the G.O.P. has spent decades encouraging and exploiting the very rage that is now carrying Mr. Trump to the nomination. That rage was bound to spin out of the establishment’s control sooner or later.
Donald Trump is not an accident.
His party had it coming.
#51 Banty
LocationUpstate New York
So, in the commie-libtard state of North Carolina they did look at the possibility of charging The Donald with incitement to riot. They decided not to (why this is "debunked"), but I think it's a heads-up for his campaign. That charge is a possibility, and a county sheriff in a rebel state is one who asked the same question I did.
http://www.thedailyb...iting-riot.html
"It can happen here. It is happening here. No election has been more important in my lifetime." - Andrew Sullivan, 7/21/2016
It did happen here. - Banty 11/9/2016
I saw a photo of some Trump supporters sporting armbands!
#53 Rich T Bikkies
Trainee Basil Fawlty. Practising Victor Meldrew
LocationBirmingham, UK
Please note my bolding in the above; as an ill-informed British person I don't understand.
North Carolina = Confederate state = racist uncivilised headbanger Dixieland state? Like Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana? Please explain.
Reality is a hallucination caused by alcohol deprivation.
Only Satan can rebuke sin. The righteous don't know enough.
God is not dead. He was merely voted out of office.
You can do anything with anybody if you just save them the trouble of thinking.
Rich T Bikkies, on 14 March 2016 - 05:22 PM, said:
No, it means that North Carolina cannot be dismissed as a crunch-granola coastal state.
Confederate? Absolutely. Some parts are civilized, though, unlike Mississippi.
The Old Confederacy consisted of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
Some have since become more civilized than others, while others have done their best to keep the 20th Century from intruding (Louisiana) or even evicting it completely (Mississippi.) Texas solved the problem by creating its own alternative 20th Century where the South won the War and mostly lives there now.
J-CA, on 14 March 2016 - 02:35 PM, said:
Photoshopped?
#57 MSheridan
Human, for lack of options
LocationSacramento, CA
SOUTH Carolina has probably the best claim of any state to being the birthplace of the Confederacy and a lot of people there still see that as something to be proud of. Its politics and politicians are often repellent and creepy. North Carolina is a whole 'nother animal. Like every other state in the Old South, it's got more than its share of racists, but it's not as endemic and the state does have some liberal enclaves.
#58 golden_valley
LocationNorthern California
Having spent about 5 weeks in Winston-Salem NC this last summer and fall, I can say that WS is not a liberal enclave. It strikes me that the only possible liberal enclave there is Chapel Hill and maybe Raleigh. The stuff I was hearing in terms of removing statues and memorials to Confederate generals in the aftermath of the shooting last summer makes me think the South Shall Rise Again types are ascendent. The state house is filled with right wingers.
#59 Bact PhD
Frustrated, Thoughtful Independent
MSheridan, on 14 March 2016 - 07:26 PM, said:
North Carolina is a whole 'nother animal. Like every other state in the Old South, it's got more than its share of racists, but it's not as endemic and the state does have some liberal enclaves.
NC is most definitely a "mixed bag" when it comes to its politics. Daughter Dear sees all of these at her small college campus [1] NE of Charlotte. The mountains, the attitude is "leave us the hell ALONE!", and definitely SoCon -- AND the Confederate Battle Flag waves PROUD. Central, near Charlotte (home of the HQ of Bank of America and of NASCAR), Bankers' Paradise, NASCAR stop, and really SoCon. As GV pointed out, Raleigh/Durham (Research Triangle, and home of SAS), the Biotechies and other tech-type entrepreneurs hold sway and trend liberal. Outer Banks, a mixture of developers wanting to profit off the land and the hippie remnants/new-wave eco-tourism promoters who want to preserve it, so trend liberal on environmental issues. It's been pretty red in recent state-level elections, much to my liberal friends' consternation.
GV, funny thing, one of my old grad-school compatriots has settled in the W-S area & is hard-core liberal. His flirtation with local politics was brief.
[1] A couple of her college compatriots were silent protesters at the recent NC Trump rally and got an eyeful.
Edited by Bact PhD, 14 March 2016 - 08:50 PM.
Politics these days is show business. Elections are Dancing with the Stars with consequences. ~Rue Bella
(About fame) Living for likes, shares and follows is a form of validation. The question is whether it is also the source of our self esteem. If it is, we’re screwed. And, culturally, it seems as if it’s become more and more our shared value. ... Meringue is no longer a sweet and pretty topping but the body itself. ~Charles Perez
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816. ME 14:384, via LFC, 12/1/2016
Competent people go in one of a few directions. But incompetence is infinite. ~David Brooks, NY Times
Interesting on this question of incitement to riot:
http://www.pbs.org/w...otected-speech/
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Electra at the Old Vic | Hugely disappointing
November 22, 2014 sofiagk 2 Comments
I love the Old Vic. Let me get that out of the way now. I’ve watched an earth shattering Hedda Gabler there, the tender Winslow Boy and a very strong Sweet Bird of Youth (even if Kim Catrall’s wig was a bit eyebrow raising). Kevin Spacey as the Artistic Director has performed miracles there.
Sadly, Electra is not one of them. This was the single most disappointing play I have ever watched in London and I don’t feel I am exaggerating when I say that effectively its a crime against Sophocles and ancient Greek tragedy.
I assume you know the story, if not, here is the handy Wikipedia entry.
The only good thing about Electra is the set. Honestly, the transformation of the Old Vic into an approximation of an ancient Greek theatre, with the set in the middle and the seats all around it is brilliant.
The text is precise. Frank McGuinness does an excellent job in adapting a difficult play. He creates sentences that show the chasm between Sophocles’s characters, showing through words, each person’s identity. Electra goes on and on, Clytemnestra twists the story, Chrysothemis tries desperately to comply.
That’s where the good stuff ends. From the moment Kristin Scott Thomas sets her bare feet on the stage to the ridiculous altering of the ending (spoilers below) the experience left me bemused, disappointed and enraged in equal measures.
I read on Susannah Clapp’s review that
Scott Thomas has for some time preferred working in the theatre and is fed up with film parts that require her to “fuss about with tea cups”.
Well then, put me in an empire line dress and call me Miss Dashwood, cause that’s exactly what Scott Thomas does. I half expected her to bring out a cup of tea, seeing how her Electra is basically a comical madwoman, with her lines delivered with a subversive sense of irony, better suited to Goshford Park than an ancient Greek Tragedy.
Scott Thomas and Ian Rickson (the director) seem to have sat down over tea and scones and went though the following thought process: Who the hell mourns after so many years? Oh no, we can’t have that (stiff upper lip and all that), she is clearly unhinged, let’s make this abundantly clear. Slap some humorous delivery in there dear Christine cause all this pain is a bit too much for a night out in the theatre dontcha know!
Even lines that should evoke a terrible sense of loss are delivered in such a way that that audience actually laughs. “I will turn to dust waiting for Orestes”, Electra says, and Scott Thomas delivers it like the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey. It’s funny when it should be tragic.
Even when it is time for Electra to convince Chrysothemis, her much more compliant sister, that they have to do the deed themselves, the line “no, don’t move away” is delivered in such a way that it’s ridiculous. The audience laughs when we should be shocked.
Even when Electra finally realises that Orestes, her long lost brother, is standing before her the audience cannot stop the giggles. There is a powerful moment there, with Electra holding him and smelling him, a scene that should be powerful and evocative. But it’s hilarious the way it’s done!
Don’t even get me started on the ending, when Electra, for some reason only known to the director and probably the cast, embraces her mother’s dead body, a shocking departure from the original play. There is no redemption in Sophocles, there is no pity nor doubt in Electra’s mind. This is about justice – a terrible and cold justice that Electra feels is finally hers. No way is she going back to embrace her adulteress mother.
And this is the whole point. Yes, Electra is not well balanced. Electra has moved beyond the world of daily compromises. Where Chrysothemis accepts that they are now sinking and others are rising, Electra’s fury and sense of justice keep her going. Is this right? Is she mad? These are not questions that should be answered by portraying Electra as the mad woman of the village, spoon feeding us an ethical position instead of letting us think for ourselves. The fundamental struggles of the play – what is justice, what is truth, what is the right way to honour’s one’s parents and house, what is the honest way to live one’s life and where there is no more space for compromise, how a sense of higher justice can destroy a person – are dragged through the mud.
Electra is a noble heroine (that’s in the bloody definition of tragedy by Aristotle, if anyone involved in this play bothered to read it), not a comically unhinged idiot. An ancient Greek tragedy is a journey that should take us through to katharsis, a cleansing of the emotions. There was no cleansing at the end of Electra at the Old Vic because I didn’t identify with that Electra. Her pain was foreign, her madness funny. And because of that, there was no point to the murders.
The whole thing, I am very sad to say, was a crying shame.
Disclosure: Saw Electra at the Old Vic on 21 November 2014 with my friend Hero and we paid for our tickets in full. No prior discussion with the theatre took place.
www.oldvictheatre.com/whats-on/2014/electra/
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2 thoughts on “Electra at the Old Vic | Hugely disappointing”
Konstantinos Angelopoulos says:
I could not agree more. Saw it on 13 December. The only thing is that I actually did like the ending, the embrace I mean.
sofiagk says:
It’s been almost a month and the whole thing still irks me.
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Ground Transportation Construction on the 45-billion-baht expressway is 30% complete, with opening expected in 2021.
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The Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge currently connects capital Vientiane with Thailand’s northeastern province of Nong Khai. Photo Credit: panida wijitpanya/Getty Images
The project is 30% complete, and is expected to be open in 2021, according to Pheng, Bangkok Post reported.
The Laotian government has unveiled a plan to build an expressway and three motorways stretching more than 1,700km that will link the country with China and Vietnam.
Construction on the expressway has already begun, and will run 113.5km northwards from the capital to the tourist town of Vang Vieng.
The government will need at least 283-billion-baht (US$9.2 billion) to complete the project, according to Pheng Douangngeun, chief of the Lao Department of Roads.
The 45-billion-baht expressway is part of a larger project linking Vientiane with southern China. Officials are also looking to add a 450-km motorway from Vang Vieng to Boten, a border town on the opposite side of the Chinese town of Mohan.
An additional 80 billion baht will be required, he said.
The new expressways will not only make a trip to China faster, but it will also ease travel from Thailand.
Currently, Vientiane and the northeastern province of Nong Khai are linked via the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge over the Mekong River. Once completed, the expressway will link motorists from the Lao capital to Vang Vieng.
There are also plans to build another two motorways to facilitate both domestic and international transport.
Officials are conducting a feasibility study on a capital-to-capital motorway, which stretches 700km from Vientiane to Hanoi.
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Turbo Smoke'n Wildfire CDX JH CCA CGC (Josie)
5/10/2002-12/31/2010
Josie was out of our Buffy and Bouncer Litter. She stood out early on because of her intuitiveness, alertness, assertiveness, and intelligence. When she was a small pup if someone was around she would watch them as if she was studying them to see what they were doing. Her dark eyes would follow them around the room and she would cock her head from side to side as if to be trying to figure out what was going on. It was clear to us that she was an intelligent dog. She sealed the deal when she repeatedly learned to escape from the pen, emerging into the living room, when the other pups watched in awe.
As Josie grew her personality stayed that way and we started referring to her as the “problem solver”. No problem was too small for Josie. She was very dominant and head strong. If she wanted something she wouldn’t give up until she got it; whether it was learning how to open the gate to let her and the other dogs into the pond to swim or chasing squirrels in the yard until she won. She was always the leader and the other dogs would just stand back and let her lead. She was also bigger than our average Turbo girls and the other girls and Diesel were her followers while we always let her mom, Buffy, think she was the Queen.
Josie really enjoyed the hunt process so much that she would try to convince us to let her out in the middle of the night so she could hunt. She would sit at the window mostly all night watching looking outside for something to move. She was most persistent when it came to her wanting a treat or to be petted. She almost seemed human-like with her ability to communicate what she wanted.
Josie had a junior hunter title and was working on our first senior title ever, but she ended up getting injured in a hunt test getting a thorn in her leg embedded in her leg and needed surgery to remove it. Josie fell behind on the training while recovering and her girl, HayLee, started leading us further into our hunt testing abilities. Josie then became a momma’s girl.
As our crew grew in numbers, Josie was the mentor and inventor of behaviors and traditions that she established that are still followed by our entire current crew whether they knew Josie or not. At this point, Sharlie, who mentored with her grandma, Josie, carries on these traditions with our younger dogs. So often we see Josie in all our dogs.
Josie was a beautiful dog and loyal companion. She was protective of her loved ones, whether it was her puppy, Haylee, or her human family. She passed away on New Year’s Eve 2010. We have always said she was one of a kind and there will never be another one like her.
more pictures to be posted at a later date
Josie at home
Four Generations of Turbo Girls
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