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Art and Business Clash in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Review: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Few playwrights, black or white, would write a line so richly laden with poignancy as “Somewhere the moon has fallen through a window and broken into thirty pieces of silver” only to bury it in the silent text of his prologue. Just to ensure that such a line would be spoken out loud, Tennessee Williams would have temporarily deputized one of his characters as his mouthpiece so that this line would have a life in our ears.
Yet somehow, the “Somewhere” line dropped into the intro of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom perfectly describes the setting of August Wilson’s 1984 drama. Ma Rainey, her entourage, and her jazz quartet gather at a one o’clock rendezvous with Ma’s nervous manager, Irwin, and record studio boss Sturdyvant. While Irwin is careful not to rouse Ma’s mighty temperament and ego, Sturdyvant’s regard for Ma extends no further than to the pieces of silver her recordings can stream into his coffers.
So I can think of a personal as well as an artistic reason why Wilson elected to inter his telling line. A man who conceives of a ten-play series of plays that will chronicle the history of his people through every decade of the 20th century probably wouldn’t preserve, shepherd, and showcase a 30-pieces line like that with the same urgent care that we might. Or frankly, surveying the crew he assembles for this 1927 studio session, Wilson could have soberly concluded that none of these folk, black or white, had the discernment or eloquence to deliver such a lyrical line.
What comes out of Ma’s mouth is almost always salty, bitter, and infused with rage, while her nephew Sylvester, a stutterer, struggles to say anything at all – even as Ma, laying on more pressure, insists that he deliver the spoken intro to her “Black Bottom” recording. These are the two people who present the most daunting challenges for the whites in the recording studio.
But as the split layout of the Pease Auditorium stage faithfully discloses in Jennifer O‘Kelly’s shambling set design, this CPCC Theatre production of Ma Rainey is very much an upstairs-downstairs story. We spend as much time downstairs in the musicians’ rehearsal room – Cutler on trombone, Toledo on piano, Slow Drag on bass, and Levee on trumpet – and the latter half of the tragic denouement unfolds there.
Needless to say, there is as much tension downstairs between the musicians as there is between Ma, the truculent Sturdyvant, and the ever-appeasing Irvin. Cutler seems to run the show downstairs from a business standpoint, accountable for getting the band to show up on time, distributing the pay, and counting out the downbeats. Levee is the young buck with the big ideas, confident that his arrangements of Ma’s tunes will be preferred to her own, and planning to sign on independently with Sturdyvant so he can record his own songs with his own band.
Although the inevitability of a clash between Ma and Levee isn’t exactly trumpeted when we first meet them, it is deep-set into the structure of the script. Both Ma and Levee arrive significantly later to the gig than Sturdyvant or Cutler expect – though Ma’s arrival is later, louder, and more tumultuous. So the outcome of these prima donnas’ collision is also fairly predictable.
Since at least 1998, Corlis Hayes has been involved in several August Wilson plays around town, including The Piano Lesson, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, and Fences as both a player and a director. Although line problems cropped up occasionally in the rehearsal room, lengthening the production to a running time of nearly 2:20 plus intermission, Hayes directs with a sure feel for Ma Rainey’s moody, spasmodic pacing, and Tony Wright’s fight choreography aptly points up the climaxes.
Jonavan Adams first teamed up with Hayes in 2008, when I felt that The Piano Lesson should have been more forte. As Levee, there are welcome times when Adams goes fortissimo on us, particularly in his mighty monologues and crises. Yet there are still a few moments when we’re getting to know Levee that Hayes should whisking Adams downstage so that we can hear him better and other moments that Adams zips through unclearly. More forgivable toward the end are the moments when Levee is desperately talking to himself.
Clearly, this is a man who is haunted by his childhood and partially imprisoned by it – very emblematic of his people.
Pitted against Adams as Ma is Shar Marlin, who made her first splash on the local scene six years ago as the matriarch in George C. Wolfe’s “Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play” and hasn’t looked back. With both Bessie Smith and Zora Neale Hurston’s Blues Speak Woman in her rearview mirror, Marlin takes on another outsized personality with perfect aplomb. Called upon to sing Rainey’s signature blues, Marlin delivers ornery volume laced with gutsy growls. And believe me, the force of her first entrance is worth waiting for.
With trombonist Tyrone Jefferson tackling the roles of Cutler and this production’s musical director, the jazz behind Rainey – and behind the scenes downstairs – has a unique authenticity. When Cutler gives his oft-repeated “One… Two…You know what to do” cue, three musicians respond from somewhere offstage while he himself delivers the trombone fills. Jefferson, the arranger and musical director behind numerous recent productions, proves to be quite capable as an actor.
Gagan Hunter turns pianist Toledo into a slightly starchy back-porch philosopher, which seems about right, and soft-spoken Willie Stratford – who really needs to be brought downstage – brings an abundance of cool to Slow Drag. In real life, Ma Rainey was indeed the Mother of the Blues, and there was also a notable New Orleans bassist named Slow Drag Pavageau who got his nickname from his dancing prowess.
The white folk are both exploiters, but it’s Tom Scott as Sturdyvant who is far and away the more cruel and noxious. His presence is so toxic that we can easily forget the looming clash between Ma and Levee. Scott always seems to be close to boiling over when he considers Ma’s sense of majesty and entitlement. Hank West as Irvin is the conciliator, but just when he verges on becoming sympathetic, a thin steely mean streak appears in a very nuanced portrayal.
No such subtlety beclouds Carol J. McKIenith’s wantonness as Dussie Mae, Ma’s companion. But there’s an interesting combination of meekness and determination, pride and shame, in Danius Jones’s portrayal of the stuttering Sylvester that makes him unexpectedly rewarding.
In another burst of unheard poetry, Wilson quotes blues great Blind Lemon Jefferson in his epigraph. Because “they tore the railroad down,” sings Jefferson, “the Sunshine Special can’t run.” Confronting this catastrophe, Jefferson plans to “build me a railroad of my own.” Ma and Levee have the same yearnings deep in their bones, to break away and blaze their own musical trails. But it’s still 1927, the traditional tracks are still sturdy, and their people don’t own them.
April 16, 2017 TheatreCarol J. McKIenith, Corlis Hayes, Danius Jones, Gagan Hunter, Hank West, Jennifer O'Kelly, Jonavan Adams, Shar Marlin, Tom Scott, Tony Wright, Tyrone Jefferson, Willie Stratfordperryt77 Leave a comment
“Stupid F@#%ing Bird” Mashes Chekhov With Giddy Modernism
Review: Stupid F@#%ing Bird
If you’re looking for clear outspoken themes and messages onstage, there are better places to look than the aching comedies of Anton Chekhov. Among his contemporaries, Count Leo Tolstoy found the best works of Chekhov difficult to grasp yet full of insights into “the inner workings of the human soul.” Chekhov’s mix of clinical objectivity and soul-searching empathy would become touchstones of modern drama and modern acting technique.
So it’s no surprise that Aaron Posner’s adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull, irreverently retitled Stupid F@#%ing Bird, is so willfully modernistic. Conrad Arkadina, nee Konstantine Gavrolovich Trepleff in the original, doesn’t merely write the bad script we see performed early in Act 1. He’s also the author of this play that we’re watching and will pause to tell us about it from time to time. But that doesn’t mean his mom, film producer Emma Arkadina, or his Uncle Eugene – a dying doctor – won’t also address us and lay bare their ostensibly fictional souls.
We can almost go around the complete cast in this Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte production simply by cataloguing their unrequited loves. Mash, who is madly in love with Conrad, is desperately beloved by Dev. But Conrad burns for the beautiful Nina, who offers body and soul to the famous writer Trigorin, who is in a committed relationship with Emma – until he isn’t. Passion for other people or for art is the essence of futility among this crowd, often leading to self-loathing. Even Trigorin, slightly weary with his own fame, has restless longings that go unfulfilled.
If you already know The Seagull well, the idea of Conrad being our author is more than slightly absurd, for in the denouement, his spiraling depression begins with his ripping up all his manuscripts when he realizes he can never have Nina. Compounding the absurdity, Conrad frankly tells us of the catastrophe to come.
Assuming that you can find the Hadley Theater on the Queens University campus near Myers Park Traditional School, you’ll find that director Chip Decker – with his own fantastical set design and Hallie Gray’s lighting – has grasped the zany bittersweetness of this script remarkably well. The mixture of wholesomeness, naïveté, candor, and earnestness that Chester Shepherd brings to Conrad further ensures success. Somehow, in this blizzard of fiction and reality, where Conrad is both the playwright and his protagonist, Shepherd can come to his audience for advice and handle our spontaneous feedback.
He realizes that Nina, a rather bad actress who sustains a career, is not particularly worthy of his love. Hell, Mariana Bracciale as Nina is well aware of her shortcomings as an actress, with a slight Julia Louis-Dreyfus charm wrapped into her maddening flightiness. Scott A. Miller as Trigorin realizes Nina’s shallowness as well as anyone, his mind at odds with his loins in his struggle to decide what to do about her, yet he also grasps that his rascality is as much of his charm as his talent.
Emma suffers in her relationship with Trigorin and in her lack of aptitude for parenting Conrad, yet Becca Worthington is most disarming in her acknowledgement to us that she’s the meanie in this story, unlikely to redeem herself. Every one else lurks on the periphery, adding to the impression that our main characters are living in a teeming world. I was fairly smitten with the comedy of Carmen A. Lawrence as Mash, for she mopes so hopelessly – and needlessly, since the loving, patient, and wise Dev is crazy about her.
Peripheral or not, Jeremy DeCarlos as Dev combines with Lawrence to give their scenes a Midsummer Night’s Dream giddiness, for neither of them is among our gifted characters. Yet DeCarlos, more goofball here than I’ve ever seen him before, seems to have the knowledge that his waiting game – and his faith that Mash will come to her senses – will be rewarded. It’s a part of his calm wisdom, which occasionally reminds Conrad (and us) what an unbalanced, disturbingly normal hysteric he is.
April 16, 2017 TheatreBecca Worthington, Carmen A. Lawrence, Chester Shepherd, Chip Decker, Hallie Gray, Jeremy DeCarlos, Mariana Bracciale, Scott A. Millerperryt77 Leave a comment
Hope Prevails With Quatuor Ébène at Savannah
Ébène and Daniel Hope at Savanah Music Festival
Celebrated for their recordings of Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel, the Quatuor Ébène have shown themselves to be equally comfortable in repertoire by Haydn, Mozart, Bartók, the Mendelssohn siblings, Jobim, Piazzola, Sting, and Erroll Garner. The string quartet is currently touring the US with new infusions of Beethoven, culminating with an all-Beethoven program at Carnegie Hall on March 31 and a Beethoven-Debussy mix at the Kimmel Center six nights later.
Yet Savannah Music Festival artistic director Rob Gibson and violin colossus Daniel Hope, the festival’s associate artistic director for classical programming, could legitimately claim a coup for the Ébène’s return to Savannah, where they had played an all-French program in 2011. Wowed by their performance of the Ravel, Hope had prevailed upon the quartet to join him and pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips in Ernest Chausson’s Concert in D Major for Violin, Piano and String Quartet.
Prior to intermission, the program foreshadowed what New Yorkers will hear on Friday at Carnegie: the String Quartet in B-flat, Opus 18, No. 6, followed by the String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Opus 95, “Serioso.” Based on the performances we heard down in Savannah, New York concertgoers need only fear that what follows after intermission might be anticlimactic.
Having listened to the great recorded Beethoven traversals of the past by the Takács, Tokyo, Guarneri, Juilliard, Italiano, Alban Berg, and Budapest quartets, I still found the live performances by the Quatuor Ébène at Trinity United Methodist Church astonishing. Part of the wonder, no doubt, was the church’s acoustics, even friendlier to strings than to either vocal or keyboard performances – though I’ve never heard its gilded organ pipes in action.
More decisive were the ensemble’s creamy approach to the harmonized sections of the score, the conversational interplay of the musicians, and the sheer excellence of first violinist Pierre Colombet. Of the recent surveys I’ve listened to, only the Belcea Quartet comes close in their recording of the B-flat Quartet No. 6 to matching the relish that Ébène took in the harmonious ritardandos of the opening Allegro con brio movement, which usually sound like lulls between the fireworks. That same attention to detail was also evident within those fireworks as the quartet zestfully leapt upon the opening exposition, varying tempos and dynamics with restless precision.
What surprised me most, from musicians making their first forays into Beethoven’s quartets, was the liveliness of their interplay. Adrien Boisseau sounded buoyant when he peeped in on viola, and the dialogue between Colombet and cellist Raphaël Merlin was even richer, the first responses by the cello playful and the last answer delivered with abrupt, prankish ferocity. Colombet’s artistry was more exquisite in the ensuing Adagio, as he floated lyrically above the soft accompanying trio before gracefully landing with a couple of delicate pizzicato chords.
In the bubbly Scherzo, Colombet and second violinist Gabriel La Magadure drove the music, darting around unpredictably while the lower strings were restrained. Any worries that the Ébènes might not be up to the demands of heavier Beethoven were largely dispelled in the “Malinconia” section of the final movement. Slow, and darkly harmonized, Merlin’s cello was especially morose as the instrumental lines diverged, until Colombet ignited a quicker, folksier tempo.
While no one questions the position of Quartet No. 6 as the last of Beethoven’s early Opus 18 period, offering tantalizing hints of the more turbulent middle period ahead, the No. 11 “Serioso” seems to lie slightly on the cusp. Nearly all quartets group the F Minor Opus 95 with their Rasumovsky and “Harp” recordings from the middle period, but a few let it lead off their compilations of the Late Quartets.
With the onset of the opening Allegro con brio, the Quatuor Ébène emphatically let us know, in a stunning wave of collective turbulence, that their most intense ferocity and flame throwing still lay ahead. Not immediately, of course, for middle Beethoven is ever mercurial, and we’re never sure if he’s wickedly mischievous with his surprises or divinely deranged. The opening storm soon gives way to reflective unrest, enabling a second onrushing wave to be more ferocious – cycling back and forth to a quiescent close.
Quiet returned throughout mournful Allegretto, beginning with Merlin’s lachrymose intro on cello, transitioning to a fugal section launched by Boisseau’s viola, and growing exquisitely slow and eerie with Colombet softly ascending the treble. Now came the time for peak ferocity, a final fury somehow kept in reserve, as we moved without pausing into the signature Allegro assai vivace ma serioso movement.
Diabolically, the pause missing at the start of this movement gets transferred to the middle – more than once after comparative lulls. Even when I knew another sforzando was coming after the second pause, it came with a jolt. Lacking the same fury as the Serioso movement, the concluding Larghett0-Allegretto might have been sorely anticlimactic if it weren’t so melodious and joyful, the contagious tune handed to each of the musicians as part of the jocund farewell.
It isn’t the last we’ll be hearing of Beethoven’s music at the Savannah Music Festival this year. The special Ébène event came between two “Beethoven and Beyond” concerts fronted by violinists Hope and Benny Kim with pianists Crawford-Phillips and Sebastian Knauer, backed by a quartet festival regulars. Each of those concerts had a Beethoven piece paired with works by his musical contemporaries or descendants – before and after intermission. My deadline for this review strikes in the middle of another mammoth Beethoven event, Stewart Goodyear’s three-concert “Sonatathon,” presenting all 32 piano sonatas in a single morning, afternoon, and evening.
A kind of closure with Beethoven will happen this Saturday when the Dover Quartet follows the latest of Mozart’s “Prussian” quartets with two late Beethovens, No. 13 in B-flat and the Grosse Fuge. Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han add a charming coda next week when they perform the 12 Variations on Handel’s “See the Conqu’ring Hero” in the middle of a program that includes pieces by Bach, Shostakovich, and Rachmaninov.
Amid a 17-day festival that also embraces jazz, blues, bluegrass, country, pop, and world music, the aforementioned are barely half of the classical offerings. Tops among other headliners include pianists Jan Lisiecki and Knauer, violist Lawrence Power, and the Atlanta Symphony under the direction of Robert Spano, presenting an all-Rachmaninov program with Stephen Hough playing the Piano Concerto No. 1.
All of these will struggle to eclipse the éclat of Hope, Crawford-Phillips, and the Quatuor Ébène in Chausson’s Concert in D. After three harsh opening chords from Crawford-Phillips, the quartet’s entry was happily ominous, still restless when the piano part suddenly became rhapsodic. Hope soared above this conflict, and while the quartet – individually and collectively – continued to make telling contributions, it was Hope and Crawford-Phillips, playing off each other, who built to a climax of resounding joy, ecstatic joy, yearning joy, fulfilled joy, and purely sweet joy. That was merely the epic Décidé, Animé movement, with three more to come.
In the splendor that followed, the Quatuor Ébène ran the gamut from orchestral might to mute passivity. These extremes were crystalized in the final Très animé. After some galvanic fireworks from the keyboard, the sliding ensemble work with looping crescendos and decrescendos made me think that Chausson could have easily added a extra o to his title, for here his Concert seemed to have the fullness of a piano concerto. Moments later, the quartet wasn’t playing at all during an extended episode that was a fiery Hope/Crawford-Phillips violin sonata. None of the Quatuor members bothered to hide their frank awe of the violinist standing before them.
Joining in after this violin sonata eruption, the quartet played with a richness that made me wish to hear them taking on Dvořák’s quartets. Then a pizzicato shower as Hope and Crawford-Phillips crested to peak intensity again. No, there was one more detonation from the keyboard – and yet another before the final satisfying chords.
Thrilling was almost an adequate description of the first Chausson Concert that I heard at Spoleto Festival in 2002 and two others that followed, most notably with Chee-Yun and Anne-Marie McDermott in 2009. With Quatuor Ébène behind them, Hope and Crawford-Phillips set the bar even higher.
Last night at “Beethoven and Beyond, Part II,” Hope and Crawford-Phillips came perilously close to topping themselves – with Keith Robinson playing cello – in Shostakovich’s harrowing Piano Concerto No. 2. Prior to the concert, Gibson revealed that the festival’s 2018 slate had been set. He divulged only two tantalizing bookings: Pinchas Zukerman is on the guest list, and (after taking over the reins of leadership from Sir Roger Norrington) Daniel Hope is bringing the Zurich Chamber Orchestra to Savannah.
Everything I’ve heard at Savannah Music Festival this year has been encouraging, especially the music. That’s why I’m filing this review early and making sure I don’t miss a note of Goodyear’s “Sonatathon.”
Chat on April 16, 2017 ClassicalAdrien Boisseau, Atlanta Symphony, Benny Kim, Danirl Hope, David Finckel, Dover Quartet, Gabriel La Magadure, Jan Lisiecki, Keith Robinson, Lawrence Power, Pierre Colombet, Raphaël Merlin, Rob Gibson, Robert Spano, Sebastian Knauer, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Stephen Hough, Stewart Goodyear, Wu Hanperryt77
A New “Raisin” Is Set to Explode
Review: Raisin in the Sun
At a distance of 58 years, people who read Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and its familiar epigraph, “A Dream Deferred,” may get the idea that the playwright was exhuming a poem written by Langston Hughes back in his heyday during the Harlem Renaissance. Truth is, Hughes published this poem as part of his Montage of a Dream Deferred in 1951, a quarter of a century after his first book of poetry appeared.
When Hansberry seized upon it, “A Dream Deferred” could hardly have been anthologized more than a couple of times, let alone become an acknowledged part of America’s literary heritage. Hansberry’s script and the performances by Claudia McNeil and Sidney Poitier as Lena and Walter Lee Younger – in both the 1959 Broadway production and the 1961 Hollywood adaptation – were almost surely the bridge that carried Hughes’s poem across that gulf.
And was Raisin perhaps the key link between Langston’s “Dream” poem and a certain speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King?
The questions of how prescient or pivotal the works of Hughes and Hansberry were in anticipating or sparking the Civil Rights advances that followed are temptingly open to conjecture. What the current Theatre Charlotte production shows us to be indisputable is Hansberry’s intention to show us all of the possible answers Hughes offers to his poem’s opening question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” She clearly opts for the idea that the right answer to Hughes’s multiple choices is all of the above.
Yes, we see all that is festering and rotting within the Younger family in Walter Lee’s deteriorating relationships with his mom Lena and his wife Ruth. But thanks to Natasha T. Wall as Lena and Jermaine Gamble as Walter Lee, we see the most compelling and decisive turns that deferred dreams take. It’s Lena who is most sensitive when the dreams of her family, including her own, begin to dry up like that raisin, and it’s Walter Lee who personifies the explosions that can occur after a lifetime of being thwarted and disrespected.
In her Theatre Charlotte debut, director Kim Parati wisely scales down these two titans to less mythic, more human dimensions. With Wall, there’s also a subtle update: this matriarch isn’t crossing the stage to slap her daughter Beneatha when the spirited collegian implies that God no longer resides in the Younger household. But this Lena does take firm hold of her daughter and give her a firm shaking.
So okay, maybe Parati has discreetly tossed the sagging “like a heavy load” aspect of deferred dreams off the shoulders of the elder Youngers. The less-burdened Gamble becomes a less monumentally whiney Walter Lee than we usually see, more of a victim and less of a screw-up. I noted with surprise that this Walter Lee actually seems to have given some thought to his liquor store scheme. I find more in Gamble’s failure that makes me think that Walter Lee feels like he let his father down as much as his mother.
Of course, we never see dad, though set designer Tim Parati hangs a strategic photograph near the Younger front door that must be him. It’s the $10,000 from his life insurance that fuels the newborn hopes and storm clouds that besiege the Youngers in their undersized apartment, where Walter Lee’s son Travis conspicuously sleeps on the couch. If that merely seems cute, then there’s also the spectacle of the family racing out the front door to snare the bathroom that they share with their neighbors.
A real newborn threatens to make the living situation worse as the family waits for the big insurance check to come in the mail – Ruth is pregnant with a second child that she dreads telling Walter Lee about. There’s a dark conspiratorial tone to the way Hadassah McGill as Ruth talks about the prospect of abortion, reminding us of the prehistoric life-of-the-mother era before Roe v. Wade.
Now I can’t defend Hansberry from the charge that she neglects the “stink like rotten meat” line in Hughes’s poem. Yet Parati seems very keen on giving new emphasis to the most cryptic outcome of deferred dreams – if “crust and sugar over Like a syrupy sweet” is the bluesy, jazzy sublimation I think it is. When Beneatha puts her newfound African music on the phonograph and starts dancing in the African garb that her Nigerian beau Asagai has given her, the temperature is already pretty warm because costume designer Tiffany Eck has done her work in sparkling fashion.
More importantly, Silka Salih El Bey as Beneatha knows exactly how to shake what needs to be shook. Layer on Walter Lee staggering into the apartment after a daylong bender he’s been on since Mama’s rejection and Ruth’s news, and you have a virtual orgy. For Walter quickly imagines himself as one of the warriors that Beneatha’s folk dance is welcoming back to the village, joining his sister in her primitive dance – before exiting to puke. The joy and the warrior spirit merged here like I’d never seen it before.
El Bey is a stunning actress for her age (a senior at Northwest School of the Arts), but she gets plenty to play off of. Not only is there rawness and seething fury from Gamble – as a sibling, a son, and a husband – there is also charming equipoise and bemused detachment from Gerard Hazelton as Asagai, most pointedly when he chides Beneatha for her assimilationist dress and her straightened hair.
There’s a visible age difference between Hazelton and El Bey, so her eagerness to make herself over to his liking still plays credibly. But the takeaway between this Beneatha and Walter Lee doesn’t sustain itself so easily. When El Bey is backing down against Mama about God still residing in their home, there’s too much vivacity in her to think she’s crushed. And when Walter Lee so memorably comes into his manhood in the final scene, his assumption that Beneatha must get his permission before following Asagai back to Nigeria no longer seems to have the weight it had when Poitier laid down the law in 1961.
Among the many satisfactions of this Theatre Charlotte Raisin is its clear vision. Parati and her cast know what still holds strong, what parts can stand stronger emphasis, and where to mute some attitudes that would soon lapse after Hansberry’s time. There’s even a character we’ve never seen before, neighbor lady Mrs. Johnson (an intrusive, snoopy, and hint-dropping Eryn Victoria), who drops by and quickly overstays her welcome.
The scene, discarded from the show before it originally opened on Broadway, doesn’t add to the power of Hansberry’s script. But it ensures that this Raisin is like none you’ve ever seen before
April 16, 2017 TheatreGerard Hazelton, Hadassah McGill, Jermaine Gamble, Kim Parati, Natasha T. Wall, Silka Salih El Bey, Tiffany Eckperryt77 Leave a comment
Steinway Concert Injects Jazzy New Notes Into Aging NC Bach Fest
Review: NC Bach Festival
Now concluding its 38th season, the North Carolina Bach Festival has a big name and a rich history. But when its new artistic director, Dr. Roman Placzek, asked his Charlotte audience at the Steinway Piano Gallery whether anyone had ever heard of the festival before, he confidently expected no hands to be raised. That’s because the festival, previously staged exclusively in Raleigh, hasn’t run long or traveled far until this year’s edition. Consisting of one featured artist concert and a small youth concert, the NC Bach was barely larger than the BachFest at St. Alban’s Church in Davidson or Charlotte Symphony’s Bachtoberfest, neither of which sport statewide pretensions.
Placzek fixed that in 2017, for there had been two guest artist concerts in Raleigh after the February 26 youth concert, with each of these subsequent concerts spotlighting another award-winning young instrumentalist chosen by the Festival. Featured artists were Placzek and guitarist José Manuel Lezcano on March 4 after pianist William Wolfram had been featured the previous evening. Placzek and his cello, along with NC Bach Festival youth program director Elena Nezhdanova, proceeded with the most notable trailblazing, spreading the good news of the Bach Festival to the Steinway Gallery in Greensboro on March 5 and to the Steinway Gallery in Charlotte the following Saturday. Above the duo’s names in the program booklet, pianist John Salmon appeared. That began to make very good sense when Dr. Salmon took over most of the hosting chores.
The ensemble offered the same all-Bach program at both Steinway Galleries – but most of the offerings were boldly rearranged by Salmon. You don’t expect jazz to predominate at a Bach festival, and perhaps not at a Steinway gallery. Many of the hour-long concerts in Steinway Piano Gallery Live series have, in fact, featured jazz artists, and the mingling of jazz improvisation with works by Bach dates back to the Swingle Singers’ landmark Bach’s Greatest Hits album that won two Grammy Awards in 1963. If you’re tempted to check the Swingles out on Spotify, the Jazz Classical Crossings channel will stream more of the same. As for Salmon, he’s been jazzing up Bach for a few years, too. On the faculty at the UNC Greensboro’s School of Music since 1989, Salmon has published Jazz Up the Sinfonias, Jazz Up the Inventions, as well as a more varied Add on Bach. At the Steinway concerts, Salmon targeted the Sinfonias seven times and the Inventions five.
Whetting our appetites and barely hinting at the mayhem to follow, Salmon began with the Partita in B-flat, BWV 825. Contrapuntal lines in the opening Praeludium came through with admirable clarity, and Salmon had no problem at all dramatically quickening the pace of the Allemande and keeping tempo brisk in the Courante. We began to see what Salmon would be about in the elegant Sarabande where the pianist subtly modulated that halting tempo. But it was in the two Menuets and the concluding Gigue that Salmon’s playing became noticeably freer.
Tempo modulated more openly in the first Minuet and there was an interesting mix of freedom and rigidity in the second, but as he accelerated gleefully into the Gigue, there was an even more daring concept. In addition to the tempo modulations, Salmon overlaid a long decrescendo followed by an equally long crescendo, adding new drama. Next he played the Invention No. 1 in relatively traditional fashion, adding ornamentation that would probably not have scandalized 18th Century listeners. Only at the end did Salmon add an extra coda, finishing with a faintly bluesy chord – one that became bluesier after he confessed his crime to the audience and gave a brief demonstration.
Prelude No. 1 from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, wasn’t appreciably jazzier, but here Salmon added a bass-line for the cello that was a nice introduction to the warm tones that Placzek can coax from his instrument. Next came a before-and-after pairing of two arrangements that Salmon has done for Invention No. 8, both of them calling for two pianos. With the first No. 8, done for the second piano in a Baroque continuo style, Nezhdanova appeared totally relaxed and unchallenged, but the second arrangement was a radical change that noticeably increased her alertness and involvement.
Subtitled “Great Bach’s Afire,” Salmon swept from Baroque and past jazz, landing firmly in the rock-and-roll style of Jerry Lee Lewis, though I didn’t actually catch the melodic link between Jerry Lee’s “Great Balls of Fire” and this Bach standby. But goodness gracious, the Lewis fire was definitely in evidence, so much so that, as Salmon was clanking the keyboard at the end, I signaled to him that he needed to sweep the keys with his elbow. That’s what Lewis, nicknamed “The Killer” in his rowdiest heydays, would do at the keyboard before his signature finish, lifting a leg and pounding the last treble notes with his heel.
Invention No. 6, scored for all three players in the style of a Baroque trio, was more than a little anticlimactic after these fireworks, for Nezhdanova didn’t even need to raise her left hand to play her part. So the last Invention on the program, the same No. 6 turned into “There’s A Banjo in the House,” turned out to be the jazziest so far, with Salmon tossing off some pleasurable improvisation and the ensemble sounding more like a jazz trio than a bluegrass ensemble. Moving forward into Salmon’s Sinfonia arrangements, the music stayed jazzier with no more relatively ancient and tame variants preceding the arranger’s quirkily titled ones.
The Steinway Gallery was best acoustically when one of the pianists played and/or Placzek gushed forth his mellow sounds. The two dovetailed Steinways looked so perfect together that I needed to assure my wife that they were two separate pianos (even though I wasn’t absolutely sure). But while Salmon’s keyboard was further away from my front row seat to my right, his soundboard was closer. That made a difference when he and Nezhdanova played together.
With his jazz and rock proclivities, Salmon was already the more gregarious player, but the placement of the two pianos double-underlined the difference. Nezhdanova was fairly buried in the C-Major Sinfonia No. 1, renamed “A Rush of Happiness Is Here and Makes Me Want to Spread the Joy.” She had better chances to show her mettle in the introductory portions of the “Ray Brown, Come Lay It Down” reincarnation of Sinfonia No. 2 in C Minor, and in the “You Are So Nice” remake of Sinfonia No. 3 in D, where Salmon divided the melody line into call-and-response form.
The Nezhdanova-Placzek duo shone brightest in the final piece, Salmon’s charming transformation of Sinfonia 10 in G into “Scamper ‘Round and Make Some Sound.” Here the pianist and cellist were allowed to languish in their accustomed classical mode while playing the long introductory episode. In a sense, by giving his accompanists this space before he roared in with his improvisatory licks, Salmon was observing a longtime tradition in the jazz world. As often as not, the leader of a combo at a club date will allow every member of the band to solo during the final tune.
Yet the jazziest collaboration of this trio happened in the penultimate arrangement of Sinfonia No. 8 in F, newly minted as “Double Time Times Two.” Both the title and the arranger warned us that this would be fast, and it was. Even after the second concert with Salmon, NC Bach artistic director Placzek seemed to be marveling as much as we were, cooling down behind his cello – but for a different reason. “Every one of the notes I just played was what Bach wrote!” he told us. So he can return to Raleigh with another new idea. While Wolfram playing the complete Goldbergs and even Lezcano playing Fernando Sor’s Fantasie in D are what we should expect at a Bach Festival, it might not be amiss to look for fresh new ways our state’s annual Bach celebration could be more celebratory. More festive! With Salmon and Nezhdanova at his Steinway concerts, Placzek certainly hit the right notes.
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Hannah Barrett (MCC 2004 Painting Fellow), well known for her gender bending portraits, has created a site-specific series of six portraits for Boston’s Gibson House Museum. The Gibson House Museum is a Back Bay row house constructed in 1859, which opened as a museum in 1957, and features three generations of Gibson family possessions and original interiors.
Hannah’s work aims to create portraiture that deviates from the conventional male or female, and to explore the resulting pictorial and conceptual possibilities. Her current exhibition, Tales from the House of Gibson, was inspired by the Gibson House Museum’s founder Charles Hammond Gibson, Jr. The six portraits on display illuminate relationships among family members, objects, and places using Hannah’s signature collage style.
Barrett sums up her aims this way:“The Gibson House feels crammed with history, but it also has an atmosphere of eccentric imagination, which suggests all sorts of stories: a séance, a dinner party, a card game and so on. Through the characters and scenarios I tried to capture this feeling of imminent dramatic possibility.”
Gibson House Museum Executive Director Charles Swift says “The Gibson House is thrilled to have worked with Hannah on this project. House museums are often thought to be frozen in time, but her portraits breathe new life and energy to the museum’s collections, and provide us with a new way of looking at how history is created.”
Hannah’s work has been shown at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the DeCordova Museum, among other institutions, and she has had solo exhibitions at Howard Yezerski Gallery, Clifford Smith Gallery, and Green Street Gallery. She currently teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.
Tales from the House of Gibson
Exhibition dates: April 11, 2010 – December 31, 2010.
Opening reception: Sunday, April 11, 2 PM.
The Gibson House Museum, 137 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02116
Wed. – Sun. Tours at 1pm, 2pm & 3pm
Hannah Barrett is represented by Howard Yezerski Gallery, located in Boston’s South End at 450 Harrison Avenue. Go here to see more of Hannah’s work.
Image credit: Lady Travesty, 2009, oil on linen, 60″ x 36″, by Hannah Barrett
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Forced sterilizations and the Tuskegee syphilis study make this list
by Nadra Kareem Nittle
It’s long been said that good health is one’s most important asset, but racism in health care has made it difficult for people of color to take charge of their health.
Minority groups have not only been deprived of quality health care, they’ve also had their human rights violated in the name of medical research. Racism in medicine in the 20th century influenced health care professionals to partner with government officials to sterilize black, Puerto Rican and Native American women without their full consent and to conduct experiments on people of color involving syphilis and the birth control pill. Untold numbers of people died because of such research.
But even in the 21st century, racism continues to play a role in health care, with studies finding that doctors often harbor racial biases that influence their treatment of minority patients. This roundup outlines the wrongs that have been perpetuated because of medical racism while highlighting some of the racial progress that’s been made in medicine.
The Tuskegee and Guatemala Syphilis Studies
Since 1947, penicillin has widely been used to treat a range of diseases. In 1932, however, there was no cure for sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis. That year, medical researches launched a study in collaboration with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama called “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.”
Most of the test subjects were poor black sharecroppers who were compelled to do the study because they were promised free health care and other services. However when penicillin was widely used to treat syphilis, the researchers failed to offer this treatment to the Tuskegee test subjects. This led some of them to needlessly die, not to mention pass on their illness to their family members.
In Guatemala, the U.S. government paid for similar research to be conducted there on vulnerable people such mental patients and prison inmates. While the Tuskegee test subjects eventually received a settlement, no compensation has been awarded to the victims of the Guatemala Syphilis Study.
Women of Color and Compulsory Sterilization
During the same time period that medical researchers targeted communities of color for unethical syphilis studies, government agencies were also targeting women of color for sterilization. The state of North Carolina women had a eugenics program that aimed to stop poor people or the mentally ill from reproducing, but a disproportionate amount of the women ultimately targeted were black women.
In the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, the medical and government establishment targeted working class women for sterilization, in part, to lower the island’s unemployment. Puerto Rico eventually earned the dubious distinction of having the highest sterilization rate in the world. What’s more, some Puerto Rican women died after medical researchers tested early forms of the birth control pill on them.
In the 1970s, Native American women reported being sterilized at Indian Health Service hospitals after going in for routine medical procedures such as appendectomies. Minority women were heavily singled out for sterilizations because the largely white male medical establishment believed that lowering the birth rate in minority communities was in society’s best interest.
Medical Racism Today
Medical racism affects people of color in contemporary America in a variety of ways. Doctors unaware of their unconscious racial biases may treat patients of color differently, such as lecturing them, speaking more slowly to them and keeping them longer for visits.
Such behaviors lead minority patients to feel disrespected by medical providers and sometimes suspend care. In addition, some physicians fail to give patients of color the same range of treatment options as they offer to white patients. Medical experts such as Dr. John Hoberman say that medical racism won’t dissipate until medical schools teach doctors about the history of institutional racism and its legacy today.
Kaiser’s Landmark Poll on The Black Female Experience
Healthcare organizations have been accused of overlooking the experiences of people of color. In late 2011, however, Kaiser Family Foundation sought to examine the unique perspectives of black women by partnering with the Washington Post to survey more than 800 African American women.
The foundation examined black women’s attitudes on race, gender, marriage, health and more. One surprising finding of the study is that black women are more likely to have higher self-esteem than white women, even though they’re likely to be heavier and not fit society’s beauty norms.
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Five Strong Angels Give Wings to Danish Event Planning Platform
Laying the ground for rapid, global expansion, the team in Tame carefully selected their investors. Coming together in a unique constellation, all angels in the syndicate emphasize the others as an important factor for investing.
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Champagne bottles were cracked open and glasses clinked when Bootstrapping visited the small co-working space in Klerkegade in central Copenhagen. Not so much in the honor of us, but rather to celebrate that Tame, after two years of preparations, now finally is ready to launch with a bang. After landing five skilled business angels who altogether have fuelled the company by DKK 4.5 million, the global market now awaits – and the sooner the better.
Behind Tame is, among others, Jasenko Hadzic, who many may know as one of the developers of #CPHFTW. Here, by the help of Excel, post-it and various other aids, he arranged and held a large number of events.
And it was exactly his own need for a user friendly event management tool which became the starting point for Tame. The past two years the team has been working hard to develop the product which now, finally, is ready for up-scaling.
Whereas some may find two years to be a long time for a startup to keep low, Jasenko Hadzic tells the time has strategically been used to test the product, collect feedback from users, and to improve the tool. Now, however, with the help of investors, the company is more than ready to expand globally.
A well planned business model
The tool is oriented towards anyone in event planning, but especially large, established companies. The platform implements various tools and features spanning from task management, programme building and coordination of sponsors to content and contact management. In addition hereto, the site offers a ticket sales system, publication assistance, and help to build a web site for the event.
In other words, Tame offers an all-in-one tool. The core businesses model builds on the plan to make Tame a subscription service where it’s possible to also extract relevant data from the platform, making event planners able to optimize and streamline their work.
Currently, more than hundred organizations and companies in more than 70 countries apply Tame’s tools. And by the end of May, Tame hopes to have expanded further, in total reaching a 100 countries.
After two years in the quiet, Tame now gors global the sooner the better, and the journey is to be fuelled by the funding from five business angels.
On the basis of their individual competences and skills, the investors have been carefully selected by the four founders of Tame.
“We have had a very focused round of investing. The five who is now on board make a really good unit. They are experienced investors, they know Software as a Service-field, and they have previously built up successful international businesses,” tells Jasenko Hadzig, co-founder and CEO of Tame.
A significant group of angels
Anders Pollas is one of the selected investors. He is the former co-founder of Podio which was sold for more than DKK 260 million. On top of that, he is an experienced investor within Software as a Service (SaaS).
Same can be said about Gregers Kronborg, who, as a former partner of Northzone, also knows what large VC funds are on the lookout for.
The third, the Swedish serial entrepreneur and investor, Hampus Jakobsen, can pride himself of selling The Astonishin Tribe (TAT) to Blackberry for almost a billion DKK. Moreover, he has invested in more than 70 startups across the Nordics.
The three is joined by Jacob Wandt who sold his company E-conomic for more than DKK 760 million. He is moreover an experienced investor within SaaS.
Lastly, Tommy Andersen is – besides from being the new chairman of the government’s entrepreneur panel – Managing Partner in byFounders, an experienced business angel, and founder of Libratone, which Chinese investors acquired for an undisclosed three-digit million DKK amount.
Investor team just as important as the founder team
Previous experience aside, what possibilities do the investors see in the Danish startup?
”To me the opportunities are to be found in an opening in the market for planning tools, the platform’s capability for global up-scaling, and, not the least, the competences and relevance of the other investors,” Jacob Wandt states in a written reply on why he decided to invest in Tame.
I’m drawn in by the energy Jasenko and his team put into their work. They have the right attitude.
Also Gregers Kronborg highlights the opening in the market and the possibility for international expansion as his prime reasons for investing in Tame. Moreover, he believes in Jasenko Hadzic and his team.
“I’m drawn in by the energy Jasenko and his team put into their work. They have the right attitude. The fact that all investors entered simultaneously also matters, as it secures Tame the necessary capital for actually utilizing the resources,” says Gregers Kronborg on his considerations for investing.
“I had never taken it on all by myself. Jasenko have composed a good syndicate. I had probably also joined other investors, but this group is particularly good because they are all experienced. It increases the chances for success,” he adds.
Also Tommy Andersen from byFounders emphasizes the idea, the product, the founder, and the team as important reason for investing in Tame. And like the other investors, he sees the syndicate of experiences angels as a significant strength.
“By principle, I never invest alone. All angel investments are somewhat subject for change, and investors face several decisions. Maybe there is a need for more capital. In general, the investor team has several tasks. Just like a strong founder team is important, equally so is a strong investor team,” says Tommy Andersen.
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Obsession Board Game Review
Publisher: Kayenta Publishing
Designer: Dan Hallagan
Artist: Dan Hallagan
Players: 1 to 4
Play Time:30-90 Minutes
Reviewer : Scott Sexton
BGG Score: 9.0
Calvin Klien’s legal team is probably preparing the letter now
– A Obsession Board Game Review
I don’t think I’ve seen so many advertisements on BGG for a game since the Ortus Regni Kickstarter campaign of 2014. To be fair, that is exactly the reason that I found out about Obsession from Kayenta Games, so I guess the marketing push worked. Good on Kayenta Games I suppose, but who among us isn’t at least a little hesitant whenever they see a huge ad push on BGG? The lady doth protest to much, methinks?
If I’m going to be fair, I think it is worth mentioning that Obsession is the very definition of a passion project. Just take the time to read through designer Dan Hallagan’s many videos, BGG postings, and Kickstarter updates. I respect Dan’s enthusiasm for every detail of this project. Without looking at his ledger, I strongly suspect that this game has been funded in no small part with Dan’s own funds, and would be stunned if he was able to turn a profit off of the first print run. Aside from the sizable marketing campaign Dan has shelled out serious money on a solid rules video, component upgrades, and reprints for errata’ed components. There is no way the $36k he brought in on Kickstarter is enough. Dan’s desire to make this game meet and exceed his vision is admirable, something I appreciate as a consumer, and probably more then a little bit nuts. Without spoiling my review, I can without hesitation say that Dan Hallagan has made exactly the game he wanted to make and that isn’t something we see to often from most designers, much less hobbyist publishers on Kickstarter.
The second fear that anybody backing a first time designer/publisher has on Kickstarter (after “Will the project even be fulfilled?”) is, “Will the game be any good?” Obsession, frankly, is an oddly designed, but not unpleasant duck. Its kind of like a platypus that defecates garnets. I mean, its pretty cool, and you may be able to turn a small profit on resale, but wouldn’t you rather it just lay golden eggs or something more marketable, or at least something that doesn’t involve the business end of a digestive tract? The biggest design oddity in Obsession is a superbly wonky set up. The game requires that you pick a game length, and customize your variant rules, and that you carefully sort/seed/mix a bag of dozens of tiles, and that you draft player powers, and that you draft guests, and on and on and on. This is a game you are going to set up on your table before game night even begins. You aren’t going to want to pull this off the shelf and spend 30 minutes setting up your fully customized game while your friends are texting each other their thoughts on the latest Ariana Grande single. Oddly specific, I know. Sure, having a fully customizable gaming experience is a great problem to have, just be prepared for the price that such a luxury costs in set up time.
As a gaming experience, Obsession plays out as a hybridization of dozens of familiar game design ideas most of us recognize by now. You have a deck building / hand management system that is lifted directly from Rococo. You have an action selection / resource management system that feels like an inbred cousin to the worker placement mechanism. You have a weird spin on tableau building that Tom Lehman probably wrote up after spending a week in a sweat lodge. You have a shifting tile market that has shown up in almost every game made since 2006. By all rights, Obsession should be an unplayable mess. Haphazardly throwing together dozens of disparate design ideas is why we have games like Dinosaur Island, after all. Funny thing, Obsession is kind of like one of those weird Pangolin thing-ies (Google it). Its an animal that evolution should have killed off eons ago because its just so bad at staying alive. Unlike Dinosaur Island, the many different seemingly incompatible parts that make up Obsession, actually come together in a surprisingly coherent way. My biggest beef with Dinosaur Island is that the game always feels like I’m playing 4 or 5 mini-games back to back and it never really gets into a rhythm. Dinosaur Island lumbers along like a Pangolin tripping on sugar water while Obsession, glides along like Christopher Walken strutting to Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice“. Do yourself a favor and spend the next 4 minutes watching that video. I’ll be here when you get back.
Obsession just flows somehow, even though your every instinct says it shouldn’t. The iconography, the player boards, the generous player aids, it lets the game play flow as if you were demoing the game at the direction of the designer himself. The slick game flow is a credit to the designer’s loving attention to detail and commitment to his vision. Obsession creates a slick environment where you’ll be balancing hand management, resource management, and quite literally juggling your staff meeples so that they are available at exactly the right moment.
Oh, and before I forget myself, Obsession’s crowning achievement is just how good it feels to play. Each round offers the players the chance to host an event that results in the player getting more goodies. New fancy guests, money, more rooms to build, reputation points, and so on. I hate to repeat myself from my earlier reviews, but I love it when a game gives me rewards and feeds my lizard brain. While the choices and math in this game are extraordinarily tight, the pay off you get even on a sub par play feels damn good.
Anyone who has read my reviews before knows that I have a real soft spot in my heart for storytelling in games, and this is probably the most impressive accomplishment in Obsession. Dan has made no secret that he wanted Obsession to evoke the setting Downton Abbey with a hint of Jane Austen. Its a bold choice for sure, seeing as most games set in 19th Century England are concerned with either murder or industry. Sadly (or not) there is no murder or industrial grime to speak of but there is plenty of repressed sexual tension and passive aggressive gendered gamesmanship. This is after all a game all about manipulating a pair of wealthy orphans so that your children can get into their pantaloons. There is nothing creepy about that whatsoever.
The dedication to narrative extends even into the rules books. Obsession takes the two rule book approach from Fantasy Flight. You have a quick start rule book that does an excellent job of quickly getting you into the game, and then you have a 30 page glossary book that breaks down all the extra rules and terms. Best of all, roughly one third of the book is dedicated to the connections between the game’s design elements and the real world setting that inspired it. This comes out to about 10 pages of thorough fluff text, including an entire page story telling players about the back story of the orphans you are … ugh … not having impure thoughts about.
In all seriousness, every card has a unique flavor text that explains that given character’s abilities and their place in the world that is Obsession. In fact, you can lay out every character card on your table and build a complex web showing everyone’s role and relationship in Obsession’s complex social ecosystem. The story of Obsession is almost impossible to separate from the game itself. You can’t help but imagine all the sexy adventures the characters get up to while you send them off to appreciate exotic topiary. Why is my family’s son make so much money every time he meets up with the elderly dowager over tea? The setting, while at first blush may appear as parched as Col. Winthrop’s chapped pate, it is every bit as moist and lurid as, well … I’ll leave that up to you to find out!
While crunchy mid-weight euros aren’t especially known to encourage jovial banter, your game group would have to be pretty soulless not to give into the urge of using funny accents or the occasional lewd puns. If you have a game group capable of bringing the funny, there are good times to be had here.
First time Kickstarter publishers are well known and frankly expected to cut corners on the quality of their game components. This is not the case with Obsession. The components are at or above what you’d expect from the latest Game Salute … er … Starling Games title. The last thing you would want in a game about the wealthy elite of 19th century England is cheap cards and tiles. The loving attention to detail isn’t cheap and I appreciate Obsession as a final product.
For better or for worse, Obsession is very much a game founded in reality. The setting is quite heavily colored in its patriarchal and misogynistic setting. There are no people of color except for the occasional person of Scottish or Welsh decent. There is a very real undertone of sexual politics at play in Obsession. If I had to fault Obsession for anything it would be that the game does have a Jane Austen inspired cavalier attitude towards the fiercely oppressive historical setting. I think its fair to say that Obsession is a romanticized depiction of the wealthy elite in England, just try not to dwell on how these families became wealthy in the first place.
Quibbles aside, Obsession is an absolutely solid bit of game design that fully embraces its setting and narrative in a way you don’t see often outside of Arkham, Massachusetts. Obsession is a game that succeeds as a story telling device, which is surprising considering how euro-tastic the design of the game actually is. Obsession is an enjoyable refinement of design ideas and techniques that never feel derivative or really innovative, and that is enough to make it one of the best euro games of 2018. Get while the getting is good though, there is no telling how long a passion project will stay in print. Polish your shoes and have the Valet bring your carriage around. Those orphans aren’t going to seduce themselves … I hope.
Obsession Board Game Review : BGG rating 9.0
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Food and drinks are allowed everywhere in the library except where posted. The posted exceptions to this policy are the Special Collections and Archives Research spaces on the fifth floor, where food and drinks are limited to special events or occasions, and some other areas where signs will indicate that food and drinks are restricted. When bringing food and drinks into the library, patrons are encouraged to pick up after themselves and to use the appropriate trash and recycling receptacles.
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The Special Collections and Archives Research Center receives many requests for use of its facilities for events. In order to maintain normal operations and provide adequate access for researchers, SCARC can only accommodate a limited number of these requests. The full policy may be viewed at on their website.
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OSU Libraries and Press is pleased to make available conference rooms, general meeting rooms, and classroom space to the OSU community in support of academic success, intellectual freedom, and free speech. These rooms are exclusively for university activities and are available to university faculty, staff, and students to schedule, per Oregon Administrative Rules (576-005-0015). Representatives of SEIU Local 503/Sublocal 083 at OSU, the Coalition of Graduate Employees (AFT Local 6069), and United Academics of Oregon State University may schedule meetings between their organizations and their OSU members in the Willamette Rooms. The serving of alcohol in these spaces is limited to library and university administrative functions, with exceptions approved on a case-by-case basis by the University Librarian.
The primary purpose of the rotunda of the Valley Library is to provide a space for students to study. It is used for Library and Press functions and occasionally for university functions.
Every attempt is made to respect the primary purpose of the Rotunda – namely, being a study space for students – so that limits the number of functions hosted especially during mid-terms, dead week and finals.
Guidelines for the use of the Special Collections and Archives Research Center reading room can be found on their website.
Guidelines for the use of Undergrad Research and Writing Studio can be found on their website.
Private tutors are welcome to use space in the Learning Commons or elsewhere in The Valley Library building. Space in the University Research and Writing Studio, administered jointly by OSU Libraries and the Writing Center, is dedicated to tutoring sessions conducted solely by personnel employed by the Libraries or Writing Center, respectively.
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This policy is designed to ensure there is a variety of study space in the library with different levels of noise. Signage is prominently displayed at the entrance(s) to these areas. Library faculty and staff are responsible for enforcing this policy.
Quiet Areas
There are two designated quiet areas in the Valley Library: the fourth and fifth floors of the Rotunda. Floor maps designate these areas.
The following are enforced in quiet areas.
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To avoid scheduling problems, please read the information below before requesting a room.
Reservation Guidelines and Priorities
Classroom assignments will be determined by considering availability, technology requirements, class size and preference.
Reservations are on a first-come, first-served basis, following these guidelines:
The highest priority is given to library instruction and library presentations.
Each department/group is permitted to use the classrooms once per term. Exceptions may be made if availability allows; however, due to the popularity of the rooms, exceptions are generally not possible.
Student Multimedia Services (SMS) has priority for Willamette West.
Students who want to schedule a class presentation or thesis defense should contact SMS.
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Classroom scheduling is maintained by the Valley Library.
Note: Requests are filled based on availability and priority use guidelines. Please submit your request 1-2 weeks ahead of time. All rooms are only for university business.
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For your room request you will receive an e-mail confirmation or denial during normal business hours, Monday through Friday 8 a.m.-to 5 p.m. We try to respond within two business days to requests. Reservations are not complete until a confirmation notice has been sent.
All non-library reservations are tentative until one week prior to the event.
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If you need to cancel or reschedule, please call the Valley Library Information Desk at 541-737-7295 or send an email to the classroom Outlook account.
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The person who reserves the room is responsible for the equipment, furniture and physical space during the time that the room has been scheduled.
If you have not used the equipment before or need a refresher, please request an orientation on the reservation form.
Please do not use the classroom longer than your allotted time.
Rooms in the Valley Library may be reserved for university business only.
Willamette Seminar Rooms: The crank for opening and closing the wall partition is checked out with the key at the Learning Commons Information Desk. Please carefully follow the directions posted on the wall when you open and close the partition.
You must show a picture ID when you check out the room key from the Learning Commons Information Desk. You will be asked to initial the checkout sheet when you take the key and again when you return the key.
The person who signs for the key is responsible for its return. Please do not hand keys over to people who might be using the room immediately after you. It is a bit inconvenient, but the key needs to be checked in after each use.
Leaving the Classroom
Quit all programs and applications and log out, but please do NOT turn off or shut down the computers.
Turn off all projection equipment, microphones and lights.
Return all furniture to the original configuration.
Wipe off tables if food was served.
Close and lock all doors.
Report any technology problems when returning the key.
If a technician is required to perform special classroom setup, a $45/hour charge will be made (minimum one hour charge). If special software is needed, make sure to mentioned that when scheduling the room, and allow two weeks time for setup.
Research Rooms Policy
Research Rooms
Research rooms are available for a 90-day loan period to all faculty and to doctoral students who are within six months of taking their qualifying exam or if they have completed it.
Faculty can call, email, or request a room at the Circulation Desk, with no letter or authorization needed.
Doctoral students need to provide a letter on OSU letterhead (example) from their department advisor confirming their scheduled exam or completion to qualify for a research room. Bring the letter to the Circulation Desk or email it.
Once you have received an email that a research room is available, the key card may be picked up at the Circulation Desk. Each 90-day research room is equipped with a table, chair, shelves and a cork board. Wireless access is available in all rooms.
Rooms are in high demand, so renewal is based on availability.
The security of your belongings is not guaranteed, even in a locked room. The library is not responsible for personal belongings left in a research room.
For safety, electrical appliances are not allowed in the room.
Please check out all library materials that will be kept in the room.
Keep doors clear of any covering. Please don’t put anything on the wall that creates a hole or leaves residue. Damage charges will apply if necessary.
To ensure compliance with these policies, rooms will be inspected once a term. If violations are severe, you may be asked to give up the room.
Study Rooms and Reservations Policy
Students and staff: three-hour maximum, based on availability
Faculty and graduate students: six-hour maximum, based on availability
Advance reservations are limited to one per person per day, and may be made up to 28 days in advance.
Advance reservations are not required, but are strongly recommended.
Individuals may check out a key card for immediate use of a room at the Circulation Desk, if any rooms are available and have not been reserved by other patrons. Immediate use check-outs are not advance reservations; they do not count against the daily limit for advance reservations.
If the key card for a reserved room is not picked up within 15 minutes of the reservation’s start time, the reservation will be canceled and the room will be made available to patrons for immediate use check-outs.
Information about room reservations is confidential. Library staff will not share this information with anyone but the person who made the reservation.
Patrons who occupy a study room beyond their reserved time will incur late fees and will be asked to leave the room.
The library may ask any occupant to leave a study room if complaints are received.
Failure to leave a study room when requested by library staff, regardless of reason, may result in loss of the privilege to use study rooms, a referral to the Student Conduct office, or a referral to campus Public Safety.
The Valley Library has a limited number of rooms that serve a large OSU population. Between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and midnight, the Valley Library will extend a room’s check-out period (renew the room) only when availability allows it.
The safety of your belongings is not guaranteed even if you lock your room. Please keep valuable materials with you. Items left in rooms will be placed in the lost and found.
Be respectful of others – the rooms are not soundproof, so keep noise levels low. Please leave the room as clean or cleaner than you found it. Damage charges will be applied if necessary.
To comply with safety and ADA regulations, we can’t allow blocking or covering of windows or doors, or the use of small appliances, such as warming plates, heaters, coffee makers and similar items.
Rotunda Use Info
The primary purpose of the the Valley Library's Rotunda is to provide a space for students to study. It is used for OSU Libraries and Press functions and occasionally for university functions. The number of functions hosted in the Rotunda, especially during mid-terms and dead and finals weeks, are therefore limited.
If there are questions regarding the use of the Rotunda, contact the Executive Assistant to the University Librarian at 541-737-4633.
Library Quad Policy
Use of the library quad is governed by Oregon State University Standard 576-005, Time Manner, and Place Rules for Speech Activities. Please note that OSU Standard 576-005 does limit the size of tables, carts, booths and similar structures. Requests for use of the library quad must follow the policies outlined on the LaSells Stewart Center website. Permission to use the library quad can be granted by the Library Building Coordinator at 541-737-8914.
Courtyards Policy
So as to not impede access to or from the Valley Library, tables, chairs and tents are not permitted on the library courtyards. Individuals and groups may not impede access to the building or courtyards, per OSU Standard 576-005.
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Borrowing Policy
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“An edition of a book specifically intended for use of students who are enrolled in a course of study or preparing for an examination on a subject or in an academic discipline… sometimes published in conjunction with a workbook, lab manual, and/or teacher’s manual.”
— Joan M. Reitz, ODLIS – Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science, (11/19/07)
Like most academic libraries, OSU Libraries is not able to purchase textbooks. Library funds are limited, and thus, the Libraries’ priority is books and other materials that supplement and enhance coursework and research.
Since not all books required for a course are textbooks, and in some instances a textbook provides the only or best coverage of a subject, or is a significant or historical study of the subject, exceptions can be made.
Faculty members are encouraged to place a personal copy of a course textbook on reserve.
Computer Use Guidelines
OSU Libraries makes desktop and laptop computers available to students, faculty and staff with a valid ONID account to provide access to library collections and other information resources for the purpose of supporting and facilitating learning, research, and teaching. OSU Libraries also provides a limited number of computers that may be used by students, faculty, staff, and by guests without valid ONID accounts.
In accordance with the OSU Libraries’ policy regarding the issuance of library cards, all patrons under the age of 16 are required to have parental/guardian consent before using the computers located in OSU Libraries. Patrons under the age of 16 will be required to obtain a library card or a computer use card by submitting a completed application that includes the signature of a parent or guardian. Click here to read the complete policies on accounts.
Academic Emphasis
Priority use of OSU Libraries computers is for research and library resource access. Course-related work and university research have preference at all times. If the number of workstations is insufficient to meet demand, non-priority activities will be restricted. These include, but are not limited to, any of the following that are unrelated to coursework or research:
Game playing
Reading/sending personal email
Web surfing
Movie watching
Chat, instant messaging, social networking
When others are waiting to use a computer, sessions are limited to 60 minutes.
Misuse of Computers
Computers must be used in compliance with state and federal laws and with OSU's policy, "Acceptable Use of University Resources." Those who violate state or federal laws or the "Acceptable Use of Computing Resources" may be subject to criminal or disciplinary proceedings.
Databases, online journals, ebooks, and other electronic resources are made available by OSU Libraries to the OSU community. These products are licensed to be used in support of research and teaching at Oregon State University.
The licenses specify who can use the resources and how they may be used. The providers of these products may suspend access for the entire OSU community if the terms of the license are violated. Though each license is different, the following information applies to the majority of resources licensed at OSU.
Who may use the library resources?
The user community typically includes:
Students, faculty and staff currently affiliated with OSU and who also have a valid ONID (see “What is an ONID?” for more information)
“Walk-in” or “on-site” users of the library resources conducting their own personal research
Users may not:
Systematically or programmatically download content from electronic resources. This includes, but is not limited to:
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04/23/2019 Playoffs 2019
NBA Playoffs 2019: Brett Brown says Philadelphia 76ers must walk a 'very straight line' in Game 5 against the Brooklyn Nets
The 76ers have a chance to close out the Nets at home in Game 5, but they must keep their cool with both their opponents and the officials, says coach Brett Brown.
By Benyam Kidane
The Philadelphia 76ers are in control of their first-round series against the Brooklyn Nets with a 3-1 series lead heading home for a potential closeout, but head coach Brett Brown says his team must collectively keep their cool.
5 TAKEAWAYS: 76ers in control after chippy Game 4 win against Brooklyn Nets
"There's no secret how this game tomorrow will be played, given the complaints that have surfaced in regards to refereeing and what inevitably will be sort of the reaction to the game," Brown said, via ESPN's Dave McMenamin.
It's been a chippy series through the first four games, with tempers flaring in Game 4, which saw Jared Dudley and Jimmy Butler both ejected following a scuffle which spilled into the front row of the crowd.
Joel Embiid was assessed a Flagrant 1 for his foul on Nets big man Jarrett Allen which led to the altercation, his second of the series, which puts him two flagrant points (two more Flagrant-1 fouls or one Flagrant-2 foul) away from an automatic one-game suspension.
The most important thing about this dustup today, from a long term perspective, is that Joel Embiid now has two flagrant foul points in the playoffs. Remember: once a player reaches four in the playoffs, they get an automatic one-game suspension.
- Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) April 20, 2019
"I want to get ahead of that as the coach. Anticipate different things like that," Brown added. "Share stories with my team so we can just stay very linear, very straight line. Just play through noise, and that's what interests me the most in how to close out a series."
From the already fiery on-court intensity to the back-and-forth between Dudley and 76ers point guard Ben Simmons, Game 5 could well be decided by which team keeps their emotions in check and Brown is all too familiar with the potential for that to determine a playoff series.
"It's the discipline that we have to have," Brown continued. "I've told this group candidly, I sat on the bench in San Antonio (in 2007) when Robert Horry hip-checked [Steve] Nash into the stands and Amar'e [Stoudemire] and Boris [Diaw] walked onto the court. And we weren't beating them. I think they were winning the NBA championship.
"We remember Draymond [Green] stepping over LeBron [James]. And they're up 3-1 and they lost the series (in 2016). So it's not holding your breath. There are reminders that I owe my players as the coach to have them be adults, be big boys and navigate through this. It's not our fault at times we're 20 pounds heavier and three inches taller (like Embiid vs. Allen). And so, in the meantime, we just got to be smarter and that's my job."
Get your popcorn ready!
Game 5 takes place on Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
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RE-NJ: Condo builder debuts amenities at Jersey City project
By Joshua Burd
A developer has unveiled a set of club-style amenities at a condominium complex in downtown Jersey City, as it begins to market the final phase of the 429-unit property.
Liberty Harbor North LLC on Monday touted the new features at Gulls Cove, a development whose remaining homes start at $450,000. Located at 201 Marin Blvd., the complex includes brownstone-style duplex and triplex homes, all of which have access to the amenity spaces.
Those amenities include a fitness studio with Peloton bikes and a dedicated yoga studio, a club room with a bowling alley, shuffle board and screening area and a resident’s lounge, the firm said in a news release. The developer also touted a children’s playroom with modern toys and classic books, along with 24-hour concierge service.
“We’re thrilled to have added this substantial amenity offering to Gulls Cove which we believe creates a fun, socially-interactive atmosphere for our residents,” said Art Johnson, vice president of Liberty Harbor North LLC. “The amenities are an extension of the homes, and we’ve designed the spaces to encourage everything from quietly relaxing with a glass of wine to enjoying a spirited game of bowling or shuffleboard to rejuvenating the body and mind with a work-out.
“It’s the type of lifestyle experience today’s buyers are looking for.”
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Home National News Desk Simplifile Signs its 1800th County to E-recording Network, Platform Now Utilized by Over Half of all US Recording Jurisdictions
Simplifile Signs its 1800th County to E-recording Network, Platform Now Utilized by Over Half of all US Recording Jurisdictions
PROVO, Utah, Jul 20, 2018 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Simplifile, a leading provider of real estate document collaboration and recording technologies for lenders, settlement agents, and counties, today announced that Clallam County, Wash., is the 1800th jurisdiction to join Simplifile’s e-recording network. With this addition, more than 50 percent of recording jurisdictions nationwide are now using Simplifile’s e-recording platform to electronically exchange, process, and record real estate documents within minutes, making it the largest e-recording network in the nation.
“This is a tremendous milestone in Simplifile’s deep history of e-recording. When we first began down this path 18 years ago, our goal was simply to bring transparency and efficiency to the document recording process,” said Simplifile president, Paul Clifford. “Now, to have deployed our platform in more than half of the U.S. recording jurisdictions and to cover recording transaction for the vast majority of the population – it’s beyond anything we could have ever anticipated, and we’re deeply grateful to all our settlement and recording partners that have made this achievement possible.”
As the 1800th member of Simplifile’s e-recording network, Clallam County is among the latest recording jurisdictions to harness the benefits of e-recording within their day-to-day operations.
“Simplifile has been very helpful and supportive while we are just beginning. Their support staff has been awesome to work with, very friendly and helpful, and it is an honor and a pleasure to hold the distinction of being Simplifile’s 1800th e-recording county,” said Clallam County Recorder Tomi Elliott. “We had heard at a recording conference how easy e-recording was and that it cuts down on the amount of paperwork that passes through the office. We had been looking into getting started and thought we had to have the Treasurer’s Office on board for the excise stamps but found out we could e-record all other documents.”
“E-recording is a very quick and easy process for our customers, especially if a document needs correcting – no long waits while it is in transit using the mail,” Elliott added. “The fact that we don’t have to manually handle the paperwork and it gets returned right after it records benefits both us and our customers.”
In addition to Clallam County, nine other jurisdictions in the Western half of the U.S. have joined Simplifile’s e-recording network, including:
* Christian County, Ill.
* Macoupin County, Ill.
* Wells County, Ind.
* Grundy County, Mo.
* Billings County, N.D.
* Steele County, N.D.
* Haakon County, S.D.
* Oglala Lakota County, S.D.
* Lavaca County, Texas
To see a current list of all jurisdictions within the Simplifile e-recording network, visit https://simplifile.com/services/e-recording/e-recording-counties/.
About Simplifile:
Simplifile, the nation’s largest e-recording network, was founded in 2000 to connect settlement agents and county recorders via its e-recording service. Today Simplifile has broadened its services to include collaboration tools and post-closing visibility for mortgage lenders and settlement agents working together on real estate documents. Through Simplifile, users can securely record, share, and track documents, data, and fees with ease.
To learn more, visit https://simplifile.com/ or call 800.460.5657.
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Academic Archers is a community of BBC Radio4's The Archers fans with an academic interest in the show.
Academic Archers Fifth Annual Conference 2020:
Call for Papers out now!
All the info at the 2020 conference page.
Academic Archers is an experimental form of academic community which uses The Archers as a lens through which wider issues can be explored. As a community we share our knowledge of the programme, our research interests, and a lot of laughs, creating the academic field if you will, of Ambridgeology. In all that we do, are values are to be 'curious, generous and joyful'.
“We do this out of a love of the programme and of our subjects and the conference is intended to link the two to illuminate and explain life in Ambridge and use this to throw an interdisciplinary light on wider social issues too.”
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YouTube films from the 2018 2017 Academic Archers conference can be found here, and 2017 from this page; and podcasts with its contributors here, here and here.
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Academic Archers are people that have an academic interest in The Archers, whether they are at a university or not, whether they have any formal qualifications or not - the latter being our Research Fellows. We just ask that you have a passion for the programme and a wish to learn more and discuss the issues it rasies in some detail. We meet online and face to face at our annual conference.
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"There are so many years of listening to The Archers in our community, everyone is an academic of the programme, not just those with a degree or 'Dr' in front of their name. All that knowledge is shared in our community - along with a lot of laughs."
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If you want to submit an idea for a paper, have a question about Academic Archers, want to support our online community, or if you don't do social media and want to be added to our newsletter to be kept up to date with what we're doing, head to the contact page.
We are also on Facebook and Twitter, and follow #AcademicArchers.
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Seattle Waterfront (Alaskan Way) with the Aquarium at bottom (photo taken from the Great Wheel)
Volunteering at the Seattle Aquarium
In this age of digital distractions and social media time-sinks (or black holes, in my case) one of the tragic effects seems to be that volunteering is on the decline. Thinking about this as a community challenge, there lies responsibility in both the citizen to take interest and on organizations to embrace and encourage a vibrant volunteer community as a meaningful part of their operations. We should be more aware of these trends and do better to create volunteer opportunities that have impact and pays back with involvement that goes beyond providing free labor, but also deeper engagement with the community and appreciation for the subject matter.
Graphic by Nikelle Snader//Data from Bureau of Labor Statistics
Aside from the slight uptick during the Great Recession, it seems that the trend of declining volunteerism continues for the American population. It’s sad that the current rate is so low, that barely one in four people regularly participate in a volunteer activity. Part of this is our wealth-focused culture that perceives it as “unpaid labor”, or as tedious tasks not worthy of pay, or to be done in retirement looking for ‘something to do’. I got a few of these speaking with well-to-do friends living pseudo-competitive lives.
Volunteering is more than just free labor, it’s crucially valuable working philosophy that must be a part of any civic society, and is certainly fulfilling in its involvement with people and subject. When you are working for a cause dear to you and that cause doesn’t involve a paycheck, some other intrinsic motivation must be involved. For me, it’s usually an intellectual or experiential pursuit, one of passion and ‘purpose’ — the kind of thing one would do even without being paid for it. Along the way, you meet people who likewise are more genuinely aligned in those values, and you work together by participating and to furthering your community, by freely giving yourself to cause you believe in. I consider this a good use of my human capital, and a far better way to help further a cause than throwing in a few dollars.
Behavioral economist and Duke researcher Dan Arely spoke about some interesting findings from his studies into human behavior; in that there is more than one market for labor participation, particularly around the effect of money on motivation. In his study, he found that there exists a ‘monetary market’, and a ‘social market’ — the latter being the things we invest into because they’re personally important to us, rather than using a paid compensation as a proxy for our personal value. The findings were that even a tiny amount of compensation changes the nature of that worker-work relationship. The takeaway from this is that volunteer programs must understand this dynamic of motivation and work to meet the individuals’ and community’s intrinsic motivations to maintain an vibrant volunteer community.
In these polarized times, anything to build more civic cohesion is a win to me and volunteerism can be a great piece of that.
Volunteering at the Seattle Aquarium (2014-2015)
One of my favorite spots to start my volunteering day!
I recently had the opportunity to be an interpretive volunteer at the Seattle Aquarium. The aquarium had a well-established volunteer program provide the majority of working hands during any given business day. I don’t know exact figures, but I recall hearing numbers of around 75% (of people? physical labor hours?) involved in operations were some sort of volunteer. My involvement was about 200 hours between 2014-2015, or 4 hours a week on Saturday afternoons.
In absolute numbers, the community was huge, with over a thousand active volunteers at any given year, with a highly educated/science-capable staff that provided much of the structure for a mix of learning and service work to provide ‘interpretive services’ to the aquarium’s visitors. It’s pretty impressive how much operational responsibility rested on volunteers at any given time, particularly those interacting with the public. This is a non-trivial contribution of value on part of a generally educated and scientifically capable lay-community, “representing a donated value of over $2.3 million toward our mission: Inspiring Conservation of Our Marine Environment” (Seattle Aquarium: Volunteer).
A typical Saturday afternoon at the tidepools. The most hands on part of the aquarium, half was encouraging the kids to explore, while the other half was ensuring they don’t do something insane. *Rarely* were these the same children. Parents take note–raise your kids right!
The volunteers themselves were a fairly diverse group — a wide range of ages and academic backgrounds were represented, though the group skewed somewhat female and usually with some academic or professional orientation toward biological sciences. Generally, the average adult volunteer struck me as smart, conservation-minded, proactive learners, who loved the sciences and wanted to be involved in the community. There also was a high school volunteer program active during the summers–I would have loved to be involved in such a program in high school, though the typical cohort included some more of the “mom signed me up” variety.
The aquarium staff had developed an effective learning curriculum that allowed anyone, from a total novice to a amateur marine biologist, to still learn so much more about the local ecosystem and to share in the ongoing events and research. I met a lot of really awesome people through my two years there and always felt that near direct access to research and researchers was available (at least, to the clever aspirant).
Behind the scenes look at volunteer enrichment, a pre-day session reviewing happenings in marine science, stuff going on at the aquarium, and sharing ideas on how to better reach out to the public.
I loved the work on two fronts — the ability to personally involve myself on a subject of interest with staff and research, and to share it with others via peers (other volunteers) and via outreach the external community at-large. There’s so much to the incredible marine ecosystem that is Puget Sound and the Salish Sea, our little corner linked to the Pacific Ocean; from the salmon runs from the rivers to the 100+ resident orcas whales of Puget Sound, to be able to participate even remotely in the community was incredibly fulfilling.
To then be able to share with the greater public was a particularly unique experience, as I don’t often work and interact directly with people in that capacity (at least not in large numbers, hundreds / day). Paid or not, aquarium patrons certainly looked to volunteers as responsible individuals who could help them in their overall experience, and that’s what were were there for, though sometimes, it also included managing some unruly behavior, from both kids and their parents.
Not the preferred way of experiencing the tide pools…
Given that the Aquarium is right on the Seattle Waterfront, during the summer, it attracts huge crowds, sometimes entire school-fulls on field trips (learning mayhem?) and can become a challenge for staff and volunteers to manage, but in it all, the most fulfilling aspect for me of interpretive work was encouraging others in their curiosity and pushing them along in their willingness to learn.
Introducing… Cupcake! Our Giant Pacific Octopus!
Octopus feeding — always a busy time!
Captain Barnacles of the Octonauts, dropping in at the aquarium.
A photo posted by Alexander (@skyrien) on Jun 13, 2015 at 4:04pm PDT
Spotted lagoon jellies, some of the coolest jellyfish in the Pacific!
A video posted by Alexander (@skyrien) on Dec 13, 2014 at 11:37am PST
Volunteering at the aquarium never really felt like work; (though maybe because I was only putting in 4 hours / week); for the most part, my time there felt much more like play; as in, not a unpaid shift at a job, but a free backstage access pass to a place that I enjoy! Some of the work did become tedious; but I came to love particular aspects of my shifts at the aquarium; personally, playing with feeding kelp to sea urchins and exploring plankton tow findings under a microscope filled many fun hours for me. That I got to share it with my volunteer peers, staff, and the public others was a side bonus!
I lived in Seattle for seven years, it’s a shame I didn’t start investing my time into the awesome volunteering opportunities until the last two. And it doesn’t have to be at the aquarium; even for me, at the one year mark, I was debating moving onto Life Sciences volunteering or to another domain entirely. For me, the point though, is to develop that pillar of civic life; of freely contributing to my community with what services I can best provide.
On top of that, Puget Sound is one of the most spectacular marine environments available to us in the United States; having already loved Seattle, my experience at the aquarium taught me so many things about the region’s ecosystems; from the importance of water management, to salmon run protection (to get a sense of people that were present there, one girl I met was already an expert at salmon fishery management… and she was only 19!), and I got to actually meet people like me, with similar interests to build on.
So yes, totally fulfilling, both for one’s own experience of being able to freely give one’s time and abilities and also as as contribution to engage my community and participate in this act of civic citizenship. I highly encourage everyone to pursue volunteering as one of the pillars of involvement in civic society.
One of my favorite spots; at the rotating exhibit, with the microscope (for examining plankton tow findings)
Another super cute creature, this one would remind me of a rabbit as it hopped around on its fins
The glorious hooded nudibranch! I would have never have known these supercool creatures existed if I hadn’t volunteered here
Another one of my favorite aquarium spots, the “Dome”. Apparently there are still fish there from when it was built (the sturgeon probably). It’s certainly was a nice cozy place to chill (or search for eels, as I often did). No cell phone reception though.
We also got access to the behind-the-scenes workings of an aquarium, and had the opportunity to learn about the systems for maintaining the exhibits. I hadn’t really thought of the massive infrastructure needed for an aquarium, but it’s certainly far more than a few swimming pools
The Twelfth Man and Santa himself also are fans of the Aquarium
Feeding octopus is hard work… but rewarding! They’re freakishly intelligent animals!
My hair grew a lot during my time here…
Feeding time!
Beautiful views of Elliot Bay
Seastars – During my time here, Seastar Wasting Disease absolutely devastated the local population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_star_wasting_disease
I remember trying to tell if this guy had only one leg, or was standing with one tucked under its body. I still don’t recall…
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English Alum receives “Up and Comer Award” from Michigan Library Association
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What do libraries have to do with farmer’s markets? What is a “book bike?” And why was there a Nerf gun battle in the library last Friday night?
Dillon Geshel (English, ’13), Director of the Portage Lake District Library, can tell you, and his efforts to expand community outreach at the library have recently been recognized by his peers. Geshel has been selected for this year’s “Up and Comer Award” by the Michigan Library Association (MLA). This award is given each year to an early-career librarian who is “expanding the role of librarian by being forward-thinking and moving libraries into the future.”
“Winners of this award are energetic, efficient librarians who push the boundaries of originality and creativity and help to establish a library culture that sets high expectations, promotes learning, and creates understanding of the library as an integral part of the community,” said Rachel Ash, MLA communications and membership manager.
“Libraries have so much to offer their community beyond the books on their shelves, and I’m passionate about the non-traditional ways we’re able to meet community needs,” says Geshel. “This award really speaks to the Portage Lake District Library’s ability to do that work in a meaningful way.”
Geshel will accept the award in mid-October at the MLA annual conference in Novi, Michigan.
Joel Beatty and Stefka Hristova Co-author Book Chapter
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RTC graduate, Joel Beatty, and professor Stefka Hristova have co-authored a chapter in the book, Surveillance, Race, Culture, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Their chapter is titled “Articulating Race: Reading Skin Color as Taxonomy and as Numerical Data”. According to Dr. Hristova, the chapter “explores the transformation of race into biodata at the turn of the 20th century”. The book is edited by Susan Flynn, University of the Arts, London; and Antonia Mackay, Oxford Brookes University.
Anna K. Swartz, RTC Graduate, Publishes Article
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Anna K. Swartz, a graduate of Rhetoric, Theory and Culture, has published the article, The Missing Subject in Schizophrenia, for the Neuroethics Blog at Emory University.
Anna K. Swartz Publishes Book Review and Article
Anna K. Swartz, a graduate of Rhetoric, Theory and Culture, has a book review of “Phenomenology of Illness” published at Metapsychology Online Reviews.
In addition, Swartz published the article, “Are You Really Trans?”: The Problem with Trans Brain Science for the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics official blog.
Victoria Sage Receives Award from Michigan Transportation Asset Management Council
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Victoria Sage, technical writer in the Center for Technology & Training (CTT), is the recipient of the 2018 Carmine Palombo Individual Award from the Michigan Transportation Asset Management Council (TAMC). In addition to her duties as a technical writer at the CTT, Sage is editor of the Michigan Local Technical Assistance Program’s The Bridge newsletter.
In announcing the award, the TAMC notes “Vicki’s work in these roles has been a great service to the TAMC in that many of Vicki’s efforts advance the strategies of the TAMC Work Program through key training and educational initiatives for professionals at local transportation agencies. Vicki has also provided leadership and advocacy of asset management principles as well as communicating relevant programs of the TAMC and transportation agencies across Michigan in helping develop stories in The Bridge.”
One of the driving factors in Sage’s nomination for this award was her role in development of the TAMC Bridge Asset Management Workshop. Using innovative features of common desktop software, she transformed the TAMC training into a focused workshop to quickly and easily create a bridge asset management plan for students attending the training.
“Vicki had a vision to improve the creation of bridge asset management plans, and she developed an innovative way to use everyday tools to help the workshop attendees,” says TAMC Bridge Committee Chair Beckie Curtis. “This innovation has been a game changer in terms of what can be accomplished in the training workshops and making it even easier for people to have a document that they can then use to organize treatments in a way that is financially manageable.”
Transportation asset management is a process of managing public assets, such as roads and bridges, based on the long-range condition of the entire transportation system. TAMC, created in 2002 by the Michigan Legislature, promotes the concept that the transportation system is unified, rather than separated by jurisdictional ownership. Its mission is to recommend an asset management strategy to the State Transportation Commission and the Michigan Legislature for all of Michigan’s roads and bridges.
Anna K. Swartz Publishes in The American Journal of Bioethics
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Anna K. Swartz, a graduate of Rhetoric, Theory & Culture, has published “A Feminist Bioethics Approach to Diagnostic Uncertainty” in The American Journal of Bioethics.
Anna K. Swartz Participates as Invited Panelist
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Anna K. Swartz, a graduate of Rhetoric, Theory & Culture, participated as an invited panelist at the 2018 Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy and Ethics Spring Symposium: “Held Against My Will: Conversations About Involuntary Commitment and Forced Treatment” at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in Los Angeles, California on April 16.
Rebecca Miner, RTC PhD Graduate, Receives Award
Rebecca Miner, Rhetoric, Theory, and Culture PhD graduate, was awarded the 2018 New Faculty Achievement Award by the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Central Missouri. She is a tenure-track faculty member of the English and Philosophy Department.
HU Alum Nathaniel Gbessagee Named President of Grand Bassa Community College
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Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has appointed Michigan Tech alumnus Nathaniel Gbessagee ’12 as president of Grand Bassa Community College, three miles north of Buchanan on Liberia’s Atlantic coast.
Gbessagee received his PhD in rhetoric and technical communication from Michigan Tech in 2012. His dissertation research focused on improving risk communication about malaria in Liberia.
After completing his doctorate, Gbessagee returned to Liberia, where he accepted a faculty position in the Department of Arts and Sciences at Tubman University. In 2016, Gbessagee was appointed a senior aide to the chairman of Liberia’s National Elections Commission. His responsibilities as president of Grand Bassa Community College will begin in August.
Michigan Tech Alum in episodes of “This Is Us”
hrpowers
Alumni, Humanities, News, STC
Eric Michael Johnson, who graduated with a degree in Scientific and Technical Communication in 2012, was featured in an article in the Duluth News Tribune for earning a role as the drumming instructor in two episodes of the NBC drama “This Is Us” (Season 1, Episodes 13 and 14).
While at Michigan Tech, Johnson created a parody video of Al Yankovic’s “White and Nerdy” for a digital media course. In the article, Johnson recalls his time filming the video:
“It celebrates the geek, nerd culture at Michigan Tech. It is a celebration of that because I absolutely identify as a big sci-fi geek,” he said. Being in front and behind the camera in creating the video, he said “it was right around then that I really started to fall in love with the idea of filmmaking.”
NBC, This Is Us
CCM – News
CCM Faculty
Colloquium Series
English – News
STC Advisory Board
STC Portfolio Links
Dana Van Kooy at Yale University
Spring Celebration
Growing Up In East Germany
Van Kooy Selected to Receive Fulbright Award
Walker Arts and Humanities Center
1400 Townsend Dr
Houghton, MI 49931-1295
humanities@mtu.edu
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Topps unleashes massive autograph lineup for next Doctor Who release
March 12, 2016 June 13, 2016 BlowoutBuzzLeave a comment
When Topps‘ latest Doctor Who set arrives in May, it will include one of the biggest autograph lineups in the hobby for a single-franchise non-sports release and a number of first-time signers.
There will be 75 signers in all for 2016 Topps Doctor Who Timeless, including six past Doctors and stars who have made their marks elsewhere such as Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz). In all, there will be 40 first-time signers, according to the company.
“We are very proud of Timeless,” said brand manager Mark Von Ohlen. “We dedicated a lot of time and effort to make the kind of trading card set that Whovians everywhere will love. We have a huge list of autograph signers and a variety of costume pieces to collect. This is the set that any Doctor Who fan out there will want to collect.”
Autograph Collecting, Non-sports, TVAlex Kingston, Anthony Stewart Head, Arthur Darvill, Billie Piper, Colin Baker, David Tennant, Freeman Agyeman, Georgia Moffett, John Barrowman, Michelle Gomez, Nick Frost, Noel Clarke, Paul McGann, Peter Davison, Russell Tovey, Sylvester McCoy, Tom Baker
Topps teases 10 more autograph signers for upcoming Star Wars & Doctor Who trading card sets
February 26, 2016 February 27, 2016 BlowoutBuzz1 Comment
Topps has a pair of upcoming non-sports sets in the works — Star Wars: The Force Awakens Series 2 and Doctor Who Timeless — and the company has been busy teasing upcoming signers for both releases.
So far, there have been five names announced for both sets. For the Star Wars set, there will be former Alias and Heroes star Greg Grunberg, BB-8 operator Brian Herring, Harriet Walter, Jessica Henwick and David Acord.
Autograph Collecting, Movies, Non-sports, TV2016 Topps Doctor Who Timeless, 2016 Topps Star Wars: The Force Awakens Series 2, Alias, Arthur Darvill, Brian Herring, Camille Coduri, David Acord, Doctor Who Timeless, Georgia Moffett, Greg Grunberg, Harriet Walter, Heroes, Jessica Henwick, Michelle Gomez, Star Wars, Sylvester McCoy, The Force Awakens, Topps
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POLICE & COURTS
By Staff|Published Mon, Sep 24, 2012
Headlight fragment leads
to arrest of Basom driver
A Basom man is charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief for allegedly hitting eight mailboxes during a hit-and-run incident Aug. 25, state police said.
Justin W. Nanticoke, 24, was issued an appearance ticket for 7 p.m. Wednesday in Newstead Town Court, authorities said.
State police at Clarence said Sunday that a fragment of a headlight found near a mailbox damaged on Cedar Road in Newstead led them to Nanticoke. Mailboxes also were damaged on Carney and Scotland roads. Police said they got their break in the case when they discovered the fragment was from a car in an unrelated crash.
Aggravated DWI charge lodged in Portville stop
PORTVILLE – A Cattaraugus County man was arrested early Sunday on drunken driving charges after being spotted driving erratically on Creek Road in the Town of Portville, according to sheriff's deputies.
Kyle M. Lampack, 22, of Portville, was driving with a blood-alcohol content of more than twice the legal limit, Cattaraugus County deputies said. A person is considered drunk when his blood-alcohol content is 0.08 or higher.
Lampack's BAC was more than 0.18, and so he was charged with aggravated drunken driving, deputies said.
Lampack was pulled over by deputies at about 1:15 a.m. In addition to drunken driving, he was charged with obstructing governmental administration for struggling with deputies as they tried to take him into custody, according to sheriff's officials.
Man killed, woman hurt in shooting on East Side
One person died and another was injured in a shooting at about 2 a.m, Sunday in the 1200 block of Fillmore Avenue, police said.
A man was declared dead at the scene, and a woman taken to Erie County Medical Center with what were described as non-life threatening injuries.
The victims, whose identities were not released, were outside when they were shot, police said. Further information was unavailable.
Anyone with information is asked to call or text the department's confidential TIP-CALL line at 847-2255 or submit information via the "Report a Tip" function on the department's website, www.bpdny.org.
Jewelry, revolver stolen
from Royalton residence
ROYALTON – A burglar made off more than $3,000 worth of jewelry from an Ertman Road home while the residents were shopping Friday, Niagara County sheriff's deputies said.
Investigators believe the intruder entered the home through a basement door between 1:45 and 5:05 p.m. and stole the jewelry from a bedroom that was ransacked.
Also, a .22-caliber Ruger revolver was stolen from a locked gun cabinet, along with some ammunition and 40 $2 bills.
Assault charge filed
in attack with knife
A Perry Street woman is accused of stabbing a man Saturday evening with a three-inch pocket knife.
Patricia Dyer, 19, was charged with first-degree assault for allegedly stabbing Andrew Pilarski, of Kane Street, in the chest at about 7:15 p.m.
Pilarski was taken to Erie County Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition Sunday.
Dyer also was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and violating an order of protection.
Exchange of words ends up in a stabbing
A Riverside man told Buffalo police he was walking on Marion Street, not far from his Grote Street home, Saturday afternoon when a stranger with a thin beard bumped into him.
The two exchanged words, then the stranger stabbed the Riverside man in the left bicep with a knife, police said.
The victim was taken to Erie County Medical Center for treatment. The incident occurred sometime around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, the victim told police.
Casino hotel attack
probed by police in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A 15-year-old girl told police she was assaulted early Saturday during a party in the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel.
Police said the girl was attacked by a 20-year-old man who showed up at 4 a.m. and after she refused to leave with him. Police said the attacker forced her outside and hit her several times, then stole her cellphone. The girl refused treatment, police said.
Camera and cash stolen
in Lockport car break-in
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – An unlocked car was broken into in the driveway of a Jennifer Drive address recently, police said. Taken were digital camera and $4 in cash.
The loss was estimated at $142.
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How steelworker communities cope with restructuring
Dr Chris McLachlan
Dr Chris McLachlan is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC). Chris’s research explores the consequences of deindustrialisation and organisational restructuring for affected workers and communities, along with the associated industrial relations processes.
As British Steel in Scunthorpe fell into insolvency on 23 May 2019, the media cycle was dominated by the potential impact of plant closure on steelworkers and their local communities. The prospect of 5,000 job losses, with an additional 20,000 affected down the supply chain, is devastating news. The steel crisis in 2015-16 also represents a more recent memory for steelworkers and steel communities, where approximately 5,500 redundancies were announced including the closure of the Sahaviriya Steel Industriesplant in Teesside.
The news from Scunthorpe is, however, just another chapter in a long history of decline in the UK steel industry. Historic and contemporary experiences of decline, and wider processes of deindustrialisation, have become a normal feature of the steelworker identity. Our research highlights the ways in which steelworkers have internalised the impact of restructuring. We view internalisation as the process by which an external activity or event is experienced by an individual and subsequently becomes an internal, normal aspect of their behaviour. Through a case study of restructuring at a UK steel plant, we identify how collective memories of industrial restructuring are passed through the steelworker occupational community and become an internalised feature of steelworker identity. This then acts as a coping strategy for steelworkers responding to workplace change. Our findings are important in understanding how workers draw upon different support mechanisms in order to cope with the often negative effects of industrial restructuring.
Steelworker occupational communities typically act as a mechanism for shared values, norms, practices and attitudes among workers. These are often defined by shared experiences of:
manual or arduous labour
solidarity between colleagues
traditions of trade unionism and knowledge of a technical skill or profession.
Another important factor in understanding steelworker occupational communities is the interplay between industry and geography. Steelworks are typically the dominant employer in a local region, bolstering the sense of community as experiences of working life permeate both work and non-work spheres. Steelworkers, and by extension those in the local community, have a strong material and emotional attachment to the steelworks. Although a distinction is typically drawn between the experiences of ‘blue collar’ (a person who performs manual labour) and ‘white collar’ (a person who holds a clerical role) workers, our research revealed a common bond between different types of workers during times of restructuring. That is, different types of workers had access to the steelworker occupational community and the collective memories that formed it. Such a bond between workers depicted a ‘community of fate’ where a sense of collectivism emerged through the recognition of a common ‘danger’, such as with the onset of restructuring.
Our analysis highlighted three key experiences that show how the internalisation of restructuring within the steelworker identity occurred:
1. The UK steel industry has witnessed an historical employment decline
Restructuring has been a constant feature of the UK steel industry since the 1980s. Restructuring has typically been justified by managers as the natural response to precarious economic climates caused by deindustrialisation and globalisation. The historical precedence of restructuring in the UK steel industry has led to mass reduction in employment in this industry. Workers recognised and accepted the influence of deindustrialisation and globalisation in causing repeated restructuring. Workers’ immediate experiences of redundancy were not isolated incidents, but part of a set of historical restructuring processes experienced by the wider occupational community. Because restructuring and industrial decline was so prevalent in the UK steel industry, workers could draw upon such previous experiences to help make sense of their own redundancy.
Source of data: Office for National Statistics, The British steel industry since the 1970s, December 2015. The breaks represent slight discontinuities caused by changes in survey methods. Graph redrawn from House of Commons report: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmselect/cmbis/546/546.pdf
2. The role of the trade unions within the occupational community
Trade unions had historically cooperated with management when bargaining over restructuring, aiming to avoid compulsory redundancies through internal redeployment and generous voluntary redundancy packages. Due to the solidarity and positive relationship between union officials and steelworkers, there was a shared empathy around the experience of restructuring. Unions are also perceived as the safeguards of workers’ interests against managerial prerogative. Workers observed the way unions appeared to accept the inevitability of restructuring and did not resist redundancies by cooperating with management through historical bargaining processes. The way unions responded to restructuring further normalised the experience within the occupational community.
3. A mixture of personal and shared experiences amongst the workforce
For many, the frequent episodes of restructuring meant workers often had direct, prior experience of its impact. Those who had been through restructuring previously, and were redeployed internally, had developed a familiarity with its effects and used those experiences to help them cope with their immediate redundancy situation. Because of this, workers developed a sense of resilience in coping with restructuring. Despite restructuring being a personal experience, individual accounts were also reinforced by experiences of other workers in the wider occupational community. Workers often recounted stories from friends, family and colleagues, pointing to the importance of shared experiences of restructuring. Shared experiences of restructuring were passed throughout the occupational community, allowing workers to draw upon them as a collective resource to cope with their own redundancy situation. The close-knit community was evident in both work and non-work spheres too, as the industrial and geographical dynamics of the steelworks meant experiences of restructuring permeated the local region. For instance, interactions at social events outside the workplace provided an opportunity for experiences of restructuring to be discussed and understood, reflecting the solidarity of the occupational community.
A range of workplace memories contributed to the internalising of restructuring amongst steelworkers. The occupational community acts as a mechanism through which experiences of restructuring are transmitted throughout the workforce. The recollection of past experiences granted workers with a collective memory of workplace change, which was able to be mobilised in the present. An important finding from our research was also the ‘community of fate’ that emerged around restructuring involving different types of workers, as common bond was evident between both blue and white collar workers when faced with restructuring. This suggests that occupational communities may also emerge around the historical resources and experiences of industrial change, such as with industrial restructuring. These findings are important in understanding how workers draw upon different support mechanisms in order to cope with the often negative effects of industrial restructuring.
In addition, our research points to the need for further work on the effects of deindustrialisation not only for the UK steel industry but also in traditional manufacturing communities affected by such processes. In particular, our ongoing research into the UK steel industry aims to illuminate how experiences of restructuring, and the memory of industrial change, should not be consigned to history but endure in the present day.
If you would like to get in touch regarding any of these blog entries, or are interested in contributing to the blog, please contact:
Email: research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and may not reflect the views of Leeds University business school or the University of Leeds.
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News Centre Update | Chief Superintendent Recruitment
CBE Home News Centre Update | Chief Superintendent Recruitment
Update | Chief Superintendent Recruitment
Following the announcement of Chief Superintendent David Stevenson’s retirement, the Board of Trustees contracted a recruitment firm, Optimum Talent, to support their nation-wide search for a new Chief Superintendent. This search is ongoing and the Board of Trustees has begun to interview candidates.
The Board of Trustees has asked David Stevenson to continue to support the organization as Chief Superintendent until the transition is complete.
The Board is working towards having a new Chief Superintendent in place by the next school year. We recognize that the successful candidate may need time to make the transition to the CBE. We will continue to keep staff and our community informed as we move through the hiring process.
The Board extends their gratitude to David Stevenson for his support during this period of transition.
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Nonlinear Control Systems Group
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BIALYSTOK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
45A, Wiejska Street, 15-351 Bialystok, Poland
Bialystok University of Technology (BUT) is a public institution of higher education subordinate to the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education. Located in Bialystok BUT is the largest technical university in the north-eastern region of Poland. BUT is a modern, dynamically developing institution with 65-year-old experience in educating scientists and technologists.
Partnerid: Prof. Zbigniew Bartosiewicz | Prof. Ewa Pawłuszewicz | Dr. Małgorzata Wyrwas
SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY IN BRATISLAVA
Vazovova 5, 812 43 Bratislava 1, Slovakia
Slovak University of Technology (STU) in Bratislava is a modern educational and scientific institution. STU is research oriented university. During its existence, the university significantly contributed to development of scientific knowledge, enrichment and utilisation of scientific knowledge for the benefit of mankind. The university pursues research in all the areas in which university education is provided.
Partner: Dr. Miroslav Hálas
LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES
DU NUMÉRIQUE DE NANTES : LS2N
located in Nantes on 5 geographical sites, France
The laboratory of digital sciences of Nantes (LS2N) was created in January 2017 by grouping IRCCyN and LINA to bring together Nantes’ research expertise in computer science and cybernetics to develop digital sciences, inclusive of other disciplines and taking account of the social challenges involved.
The complexity of the research objects studied there forces to adopt a global systemic approach in which computer concerns, automatic control, signal and image processing are interwoven in order to answer the questions asked by open, interactive, communicating and ubiquitous systems. The laboratory wants to be an actor in innovation that values these objects with partners in its environment.
Partner: Dr. Claude H. Moog
FAR EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
Suhanova st. 8, Vladivostok, Russia
Situated in the picturesque Ajax Bay of Russky Island (near Vladivostok), the campus of Far Eastern Federal University is a unique project that has no equivalent in Russia. The main goal is to create perfect conditions for learning, scientific research and creative development.
Partnerid: Prof. Alexey N. Zhirabok | Dr. Alexey Ye. Shumsky
CINVESTAV
Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, Delegación Gustavo A. Madero, México D.F. Código Postal 07360, Mexico
In Cinvestav (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional) carried out research in different areas of science and technology which improve the living standards and promote the development of the country.
Partner: Dr. Eduardo Aranda Bricaire
Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
Article 7 of the Fundamental Law of Education states that "as academic centers, universities will, in addition to cultivating sophisticated learning and specialist knowledge, be engaged in a profound search for truth and the development of new insight, and will contribute to the development of society by making the results of their endeavors widely available". According to the Fundamental Law, the primary mission of universities is the cultivation of human resources through the "dissemination of knowledge".
Partner: Dr. Yu Kawano
SUPELÉC
3 rue Joliot Curie, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France
The automatic control research at Supélec (École supérieure d'électricité) involves 33 teacher-researchers (including 16 accredited to supervise research), 55 PhD and postdoctoral students. The activity of the three teams covers much of the thematic fields. However, four research themes emerge as strong points: “Robust control”, “'Non-linear Control”, “Predictive control” and “Modeling and control of hybrid systems”. Convex optimizations and control of hybrid or non-linear uncertain systems under constraints and subject to disturbances are at the heart of the research problem. A particular attention is devoted to the robustness towards the uncertainties of embedded non linear systems.
Partner: Dr. A. Quadrat
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Cripley Island Orchard
Cripley Island Orchard is a heritage orchard and communal area on the north-west corner of the Site, accessed across a bridge behind the Association shed. All members are welcome to use it, but the fruit is only to be picked and shared on designated Working Party days.
Here is the original 2008 leaflet describing the proposal for the development of Cripley Island Orchard. Wendy Skinner Smith worked to have the land added to our lease and organised National Lottery Local Food funding, which Alison Campbell then managed. In 2009 and 2010, Wendy and John Sivell managed the development of the orchard. Wendy continues to oversee the orchard with commitee help.
In 2016 many of the trees were found to need stabilising as the tumps had eroded. A programme of maintenance was developed and begun by Rodney Smith, who was co-opted to the Committee. The tumps were re-grassed to stabilise them and the covers are gradually being replaced, stakes redone and strimmer guards added to the tree guards. Rodney reports to the Committee.
Castle Mill Orchard
In 2014 Oxford University donated the trees for our Castle Mill Orchard area, in recognition of the disturbance caused by the Castle Mill development. The orchard was planted by the University’s Parks Team. Our members continue to manage the island with coppicing, pollarding and pruning. Fruit is picked and shared on designated Working Party days.
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My Favorite Moments from 2018 US Juniors Championship (Part I)
On September 14, 2018 By Tatev AbrahamyanIn Games and Puzzles
For the second year in a row, I was invited to do commentary for the US Junior and Girls Championships. The tournament has become a staple in the US tournament calendar, especially since it is now being held at the Saint Louis Chess Club and offers quite a nice prize fund along with an invitation to the US and US Women’s Championship to the winners. I really enjoy the tournament because there is less pressure on the commentators unlike in the GCT events, the games are fun and exciting and it’s interesting to watch the young talents in action. It was also fun to see them interacting between the rounds and after the tournament; so many of them are good friends outside of chess! It is also encouraging to see so many young girls around 2300-2400 FIDE, especially for the future of our Olympiad team. The junior section was extremely strong and featured 5 GMs. This list doesn’t include Jefferey Xiong, Sam Sevian and Kayden Troff, all of whom declined their invitations. Can you imagine a national junior tournament that has 8 Grandmasters?! By now I’m sure the readers are aware that Awonder Liang defended his title, thus qualifying to the 2019 US Championship.
This year the commentary team was just me and Robert Hess with no third person on the smart board. Robert really insists on not using the engine which is quite refreshing but also challenging. I noticed that I could remember the games better and figuring out the positions on our own was also a great learning experience for me. Of course, it also resulted in mistakes and mishaps which were later pointed out by YouTube viewers.
For example, in this game between Ruifeng Li and Annie Wang we reached the following position in our analysis:
In this position we were trying to figure out what to do after 19…Bc6 we tried 20. Qd2 but after Bc7 the queen cannot move away from the d file with check. Of course, simple 20. Qc4+ Kh8 21. Qe6 does the trick!
Later on in the same game, we couldn’t figure out a win by Annie in the following position:
The game ended in couple of moves after: 33… Qxe3 34. R5xe3 Rdd1 0-1
I really love the fact that Annie accepted the wildcard to play in the Junior section. Although her result wasn’t spectacular, how often does a player around her rating get the opportunity to play in a tournament with 5 GMs? There is a lot of pressure in playing in these fancy events with live coverage and everyone watching, but at the end of the day it’s just another round robin event for her that I think will tremendously help her growth.
Awonder may have won the tournament but it wasn’t a smooth sailing for the young champ. Trouble came in round 5 in his game against Mika Brattain:
16. Nfxg5!? interesting sacrifice hxg5 17. h6 Bh8 18. Rh5?! (18. h7+ Kf8 (
18… Kg7 19. Nf6 Nd7 20. Qh3 Kf8 21. Qa3+ Re7 22. Rh5 the game is over after
White takes on g5) 19. Qa3+ Qe7 this line was pointed out by Robert and is
completely winning for White. Black can’t move any of his pieces) 18… Bxe4
19. Qxe4 Nd7 20. Rd3? (20. Bd3 time to finish the development. White can
play for the long term initiative) 20… f5! Awonder shows great resilience
21. exf6 Nxf6 22. Rxg5+ Kf8 23. Rf3 Ke7 brave! The king is completely safe now – great defense and nerves by Awonder! All is well that ends well.
I can’t talk about this event without mentioning one particular player. Alex Bian may not be a household name yet, but the young man had the tournament of his life. He qualified to Junior closed by winning the US Jr. Open and proved that he belonged in the tournament even though he was the lowest rated player. He started the tournament by defeating two GMs and finished with a respectable score of 5/9, gaining 50 FIDE points. Alex will be attending UC Berkeley in the fall and won’t have much time for chess, so this tournament was sort of his one last hurrah.
One of my absolute favorite games of the event is the one between John Burke and Alex Bian. I would suggest to anyone reading this to go take a look at that game and analyze before reading my notes.
22. h3 {preparing g4} Qh8! Robert loved this move. Can you blame him? 23.
g4 Kg8 24. Be2 Nc5 25. Kg2 a4 26. b4 Nb3 27. Rd1 Bb2 very brave decision to ignore White’s play and collect pawns on the queen side 28. gxh5 Bxa3 29. hxg6 Bxb4 30. f4 very creative play by both players. White is ignoring the a-pawn and is activating his bishop Bc5 31. Bg4 a3 (31… fxg6 32. Be6+ Kg7 computer suggestion that looks scary but Black can start bringing his rooks to the king side) 32. Rxb3 (32. Qa2 White can also put an end to all this}) 32…a2 33. gxf7+
33…Kf8?? fatal mistake leaving the pawn on f7. The finish is
beautiful (33… Kxf7 34. Bxc5 bxc5 35. Rxb8 Rxb8 36. Qe1 Qb2+ 37. Kh1 Kf8
according to the engine this is 0.00 but who plays chess like this?) 34. Be6
Qg7+ 35. Kh2 a1=Q 36. Rxa1 Qxa1 37. Bxc5 Ra2 38. Rg3 1-0
I have last track of how many times I have shown Alex’s last round win over Praveen Balakrishnan to my students. It is a great example of how to attack with opposite color bishops.
In this position Robert and I were trying to figure out how to launch an
attack for White. The straight forward way doesn’t quite work. 15. Rdg1 Qf3
the queen has to go here to cover f6 (15… Qh3?? 16. Rxg7+ Kxg7 17. Rg1+
Kh8 18. Qg5 threatening mate both on g7 and f6) 16. Qh6 (16. Rxg7+?? Kxg7 17. Rg1+ Kh8 18. Qh6 and there is nothing after the simple Rg8) 16… Bg4 17. Qg5 Rfd8 18. Bc3 h6 very annoying resource! Again, the engine spits this line out but can someone find this over the board? 19. Qxg4? Rd1+ winning the queen
15. Bc5! upon looking deeper into the position it becomes
clear that the bishop on d4 is misplaced. Where would the bishop like to go?
To f6, of course. 15… e3 Praveen collapses immediately. The point of this
move is to play Rfd8, but Rfe8 was necessary to guard the e7 square 16. Qxe3
Rfd8 17. Rdg1 Qd5 Black is looking for counterplay 18. Rxg7+ Kh8 (18… Kxg7
leads to mate 19. Qg5+ Kh8 20. Qf6+ Kg8 21. Rg1+) 19. Rhg1 Bf5 20. Qh6 Qxe5 21. Be7! the bishop is untouchable Rd6 22. Rg8+ 1-0
Although I praised Alex, I have to feature another one of his losses to none other than the winner. Black misplayed in the critical moment, and his opponent was unforgiving.
13… Be6 Black has snatched a central pawn and plays a normal looking
developing move 14. Be3! taking advantage of the fact that the d4 bishop
cannot move due to the misplaced queen on a6. Now Black has a big decision to
make. Take a pause and think about how to proceed here Bxc4 (14… Bxe3
is impossible 15. Nxd6+winning the queen) (14… O-O 15. Bxd4 cxd4 16. Qxd4 Black has to accept a worse position) 15. Bxd4 O-O Black hangs on to the material but his king is so weak 16. Bf6 Bxf1 another opposite color bishop position 17. Qd2?! surprisingly, this is an inaccuracy! (17. Qc1! is the more precise continuation d5 18. Bxe7 Rfe8 19. exd5 {and unlike in the game, there is no annoying Qd3 harassing the white queen}) 17… d5 18. Bxe7 Rfe8 19. Bxc5 Bd3 (19… Qd3 is a better defensive try but the endgame doesn’t look good for Black. White can also keep the attack going with Qh6) 20. exd5 Qc4 21. d6 Bf5 (21… Qxc5 22. Qxd3 the d6 pawn is deadly) 22. Bd4 Qd5 23. Qf4 forcing Black’s hand as g4 followed by Qf6 is a threat Re4 24. Rxe4 Qxe4 25. Qxe4 Bxe4 26. Bf6 Bc6 27. Rc1 1-0
Instructive endgame alert! The game between Annie Wang and Alex Bian was a crazy affair, but before reading my notes take a pause and figure out why Annie’s 70.Ke1? loses
70. Ke1? up until now Annie defended meticulously, but got careless with
this move Kb6 Black misses his opportunity (70… Rxb5 unlike in the game,
White is now a temp behind 71. Bxb5 the pawn ending is lost but the problem
is the bishop has nowhere to go (71. Bf3 Rb3 72. Kf2 Rxf3+ same problem as
before 73. Kxf3 Kd4) (71. Be8 Rb8 72. Bf7 Rb7 73. Ba2 Kd4) 71… Kxb5 72. Kf2
Kc5 73. Ke3 Kc4 74. Ke2 Kc3 75. Ke3 h5 {the reserve tempo is key} 76. Ke2 Kc2
77. Ke3 Kd1) 71. Kf1 Rxb5 again, I would suggest pausing here and trying to
figure out a way for White to make a draw. I don’t want to give it away, so check out the rest of the game here.
Let’s end Part I with another Annie game. Advait Patel got a great position against her with the White pieces, but allowed the position to get unnecessarily wild.
42… Rf8 Annie finds the only defensive move. Now White has to be accurate
43. Qe2 Qf6 threatening Qh4 44. Qxe4 going down a forced line Qf2+ 45. Kh1 Qxg3 46. Qxe6+ Rf7 47. Rc8+ Kh7 (47… Nf8 $4 48. Rxf8+) 48. Qxf7 Qh3+ 49. Kg1 Qxc8 50. Bb2 a practical try for White. Black should have a perpetual but the mate threat and the d6 pawn give White some chances Qg4+ 51. Kf2 Nf4? this natural looking move fails! Robert and I also only analyzed this move as it makes so much sense: Black brings another piece close to the king and defends g7 (51… Qh4+ 52. Ke3 Qe1+ 53. Kd3 Qd1+ White either has to part ways with the d6 pawn or allow a perpetual. The king can’t escape 54. Ke4 simply loses the bishop Qe2+ 55. Kd5 Qc4# White can even get checkmated if he tries too hard) 52. d7 Qg2+ 53. Ke3 Nd5+ 54. Kd3 now the knight actually gets in the way and the black queen isn’t positioned properly Qg3+ 55. Kc2 Qg2+ 56. Kb1 Qe4+ 57. Ka2 Qc4+ 58. Ka1 1-0 You can also replay the ending here.
Check back in for part 2 of the article where I’ll talk about my favorite moments from the Girls Championship!
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One thought on “My Favorite Moments from 2018 US Juniors Championship (Part I)”
Jason Braun
Excellent article! Looking forward to Part 2. I’ve listened to Robert Hess commentate a few times, including live at the US Championships, and I’m always amazed how fast he can look at a new position and immediately see multiple possibilities for both colors.
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Yee Ton Look – McKeesport, PA Petition
January 27, 2019 Affidavit, Letters of recommendation, Petition, photoAda Page, Adolph Schmidt, B & O Railroad, B. B. Cousin, Charles A. Tawney, Charles Tory, Charles William Kahl, Chief of Police, E. R. Donahue, Edward Huber, Edwin Sales, Erwin Meyer, Eugene Rodgers, F. B. Satterthwait, F. L. White, F. W. Steckey, First National Bank, Fred Steckel, George W. Hartman, Harry T. Watson, Henry A. Clante, Homer C. Stewart, I. Wallis, J. B. Shale, J. E. Inghram, J. W. Campbell, James E. White, John N. Orth, Joseph A. J. Kelley, Joseph A. Skelley, Joseph R. Sean, McKeesport, Mrs. Mary E. Inghram, National Hotel, Pennsylvania, Port Townsend, R. T. Carothers, R. W. Ekin, S. B. Page, S. J. Hutchison, V. F. Geyer, W. L. Laughlin, Washington, West End Presbyterian Church, William B. Fell, Yee Hang, Yee Mow, Yee Ton Lock, Yee Ton LookTrish Hackett Nicola
“Affidavit photo of Yee Ton Lock,” 1898, Chinese Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, Yee Ton Lock case file, Seattle RS Box 78, file# RS 14450.
In August 1898 Yee Hang applied to U.S. Immigration to have his thirteen-year old son, Yee Ton Lock (Look), join him in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Yee Ton Lock arrived in Port Townsend, Washington on 16 August. His uncle Yee Mow, a business owner on Water Street, filed his petition. Several people in McKeesport wrote letters of recommendation saying they were personally acquainted with Yee Hang and he was a good citizen. The Collector of Customs in Port Townsend received letters from Joseph A. Skelley, alderman and ex-officio Justice of the Peace; Homer C. Stewart, cashier of the First National Bank; Joseph R. Sean, Chief of Police; and Fred Steckel, business owner.
In an affidavit Yee Hang declared that he was a native of China and had been a resident of McKeesport for twenty-five years. He wanted to bring his son to the U.S. so he could receive an education in English and business.
The following people signed a petition with the hope of convincing Immigration authorities that because Yee Hang was such a good citizen his son should be allowed to come to McKeesport to receive an education:
S. J. Hutchison, ticket agent, B & O Railroad; J. E. Inghram, chief rate clerk; Mrs. Mary E. Inghram, S. S. teacher; R. T. Carothers, mayor, McKeesport; Homer C. Stewart, cashier, First National Bank; Charles A. Tawney, teller, First National Bank; Joseph A. J. Kelley, Justice of Peace; V. F. Geyer, retail merchant; Ada Page, Sabbath School teacher; Eugene Rodgers, grocer; S. B. Page, grocer; R. W. Ekin, secretary, Water Dept; Edwin Sales, superintendent, Water Dept; Henry A. Clante; F. B. Satterthwait, watchmaker; Adolph Schmidt, druggist; Charles William Kahl, drug clerk; J. W. Campbell, insurance agent; W. L. Laughlin, National Hotel; B. B. Cousin, real estate dealer; Edward Huber, clothier; F. W. Steckey, merchant; George W. Hartman, hardware ; William B. Fell, assistant postmaster; Erwin Meyer, postmaster; F. L. White, physician; James E. White, druggist; I. Wallis, accountant; Harry T. Watson, accountant; J. B. Shale, Surveyors Office; John N. Orth, florist; E. R. Donahue, pastor, West End Presbyterian Church; and Charles Tory, deputy surveyor.
“Petition for Yee Hang,” 1898, Chinese Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, Yee Ton Lock case file, Seattle RS Box 78, file# RS 14450.
The cover sheet of Yee Ton Lock’s file says, “His father keeps a laundry in McKeesport and claims to have been born in U.S. No proof produced. Refused in the absence necessary proof.
Rejected 8 August 1898. By HVB”
There is no further information in the file to tell exactly when Yee Ton Lock was deported.
Infant Todd Clyde Fung & his mother, Lynette Behney Fung, arrive at Port of Seattle in 1939
July 2, 2018 passport, PhotographsAmerican Consulate General, Ancestry.com, California, Canton, Caucasian, China, Chinese Arrival Case Files Index, cholera, Dr. H. K. Chung, Dr. P. J. Todd, Immigration Inspector Roy C. Matterson, inoculated, Kwok-ying Fung, Lynette Behney Fung, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Behney, NARA-SF Case file 39436/17-14, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, S.S. President Coolidge, S.S. Princess Marguerite, Sam Hui Castle Peak, Section 1993 of CEA, smallpox, Todd Clinic, Todd Clyde Fung, Tranquility House, vaccinatedTrish Hackett Nicola
Todd Clyde Fung, age 17 months, arrived at the Port of Seattle aboard the S. S. Princess Marguerite on 19 October 1939 with his mother, Lynette Behney Fung. His father, Kwok-ying Fung was residing at Tranquility House, Sam Hui Castle Peak, China. His mother was 29 years old, a Caucasian, and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Behney of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Baby Fung was delivered by Dr. P. J. Todd at the Todd Clinic in Canton, China and subsequently was named Todd. His birth was reported to the American Consulate General at Canton by his father.
An undated photo of Lynette Behney Fung is included in the file.
“Lynette Behney Fung photo” ca.1939, Chinese Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, Todd Clyde Fung case file, Seattle Box 798, 7030/12523.
Written statements by Dr. H. K. Chung state that Mrs. Fung and her son were vaccinated against smallpox and inoculated against cholera before leaving China.
Immigration Inspector Roy C. Matterson alerted the Fungs of the following stipulation:
“Sec. 1993, Rev. Statutes of the U. S. as amended by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 24 May 1934,” Chinese Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, Todd Clyde Fung case file, Seattle Box 798, 7030/12523.
Lynette Behney Fung’s passport says that she was five feet tall, had red hair and grey eyes. She was born in Philadelphia, PA on 24 July 1909.
“Lynette Behney Fung & Fung Todd Clyde’s passport photos,” 1939, Chinese Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, Todd Clyde Fung case file, Seattle Box 798, 7030/12523.
Fung Todd Clyde’s 1939 passport photo
Todd Clyde Fung and his mother were admitted to the U.S. shortly after their arrival.
[Researched by Lily Eng, CEA files volunteer, National Archives at Seattle.]
[An entry on the California, Chinese Arrival Case Files Index, 1884-1940 online database on Ancestry.com shows Kwok Ying Fung [Todd’s father], age 34, returned to the U.S. arriving in CA [probably San Francisco] on 18 August 1939 on S.S. President Coolidge. His NARA-SF Case file is #39436/17-14.]
Benjamin James – 1923 Certificate of Identity sold on EBay
June 11, 2018 Birth Certificate, Certificate of Identity, Form 431, photoAlice James, Amy Chin, Ancestry, Annie James, Arthur James, Atlantic City, Benjamin James, California, China, Chu Chuck, Chu Gee Cim [Gim], Chung Suey Ping, EBay, Harry James, importers and Exporters, Joe and Tillie James, Joseph James, Lillie James (Mrs. Lee), Ling Yung village, Mamie James (Mrs. Bing), Margaret James, New Jersey, New York City, Paterson, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Seattle, ship manifest, Sou Ying James, Sun Ning, Tillie James, U.S. Consular application, Washman Co.Trish Hackett Nicola
[Amy Chin brought this to my attention in a few weeks ago. The Certificate of Identity for Benjamin James was being offered for sale on Ebay. She did a quick Ancestry search and found a ship manifest and a U.S. Consular application. Mr. James’ record showed that he was born in Philadelphia. His Certificate of Identity was issued in Seattle so she thought there may be a file at Seattle NARA on him. The indexes for San Bruno and NY show they both have files on him. Amy searched the Social Security Death Index and found a Benjamin James who died July 1969. NARA-NY has files on Benjamin and siblings Harry, Lillie and Arthur. In 1911 Benjamin and at least 2 other siblings returned to China for 10+ years.]
[Amy asked if I could check the Seattle files to see if we could connect a descendant to Benjamin James so they could obtain the Certificate of Identity from Ebay. Unfortunately the certificate sold quickly, before I had a chance to make this blog entry on Benjamin James’ file. ]
“Benjamin James, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1898 birth certificate,” 1908, Chinese Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, Benjamin James file, Seattle Box 109, 734/2-1.”
Benjamin James was born 6 July 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Joe and Tillie James. His birth certificate was presented to immigration in 1911 as proof of his U.S. citizenship before the family left for China.
Instead of inte rviewing each of the children individually only Benjamin’s parents were interviewed before they left the U.S. in 1911. Joseph James’ Chinese name was Chu Gee Cim [Gim] and his married named was Chu Chuck. He was born in Ling Yung village, Sun Ning, China about 1852 and came to the U.S. through San Francisco in 1868. He stayed there about eleven years working as a merchant and sometimes a laborer then went to New York City until 1880. He lived in Atlantic City, New Jersey; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; New York, New York; and Paterson, New Jersey. He was in Atlantic City in 1894 when he registered as required by the Chinese Exclusion Act and obtained his merchant’s papers. He married Chung Suey Ping, (English married name: Tillie James). She was born in California. They had three sons and five living daughters and a daughter, Sou Ying, who died at age four. Their children, all born in the United States, were Lillie James (Mrs. Lee), Mamie James (Mrs. Bing), Harry James, Annie James, Margaret James, Benjamin James, Alice James, and Arthur James. In 1911 the older children stayed in the U.S. and Joseph and Tillie took Harry, Benjamin, Alice and Arthur to China so they could attend school there.
“Benjamin James, form 430 M143 photos,” 1911 & 1923, Chinese Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, Benjamin James file, Seattle Box 109, 734/2-1.
In 1923 Benjamin James informed Immigration that he would be returning to the U.S. via Seattle in the near future. He gave the immigration officer three photos for his certificate of identity and asked that the certificate be sent to him in San Francisco. In January 1924, writing on stationery from Washman Co., importers and Exporters at 259 Fifth Avenue in New York City, he requested that the certificate be sent to the Washman address. His Certificate of Identity #49650 was forwarded to him there.
[There is no more information in the file.]
May Sophie Lee – Physician from Philadelphia
March 19, 2018 Affidavit, Birth Certificate, passport, PhotographsCanton City, Chee Fung, Chong Woh Company, First Baptist Church, Florence B. Scott, Frederic Poole, John Agnew School, John Paul Lee 李進普, Katharine A. Lacy, Lee Soon Wah, Lee Toy 李才, May Sophie Lee 李美, medical school, Neida S. Gilman, Pennsylvania, Peter Hackett, Philadelphia, physician, San Francisco, Shanghai, SS Siberia, Thomas W. Cunningham, white residents, William GallagherTrish Hackett Nicola
“May Sophie Lee, Form M143 photo” 1924, Chinese Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, May Sophie Lee case file, Seattle Box 178, 2850/6-2.May Sophie Lee 李美(Chinese name Lee Soon Wah) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 18 May 1898. Her parents were Lee Toy 李才and Chee Fung. She had a younger brother named John Paul Lee 李進普, born on 9 May 1900.
In October 1908 May Sophie Lee, age ten, her mother and brother were preparing to leave the United States on the SS Siberia through San Francisco for a trip to China. The Immigration inspector examined May Sophie’s passport no. 64231, two affidavits with photos and a certified copy of her birth certificate. The birth certificate states that she is white.
May Sophie Lee’s passport
1908 Affidavit with photos of Lee Toy and May Sophie Lee
May Sephie Lee’s 1898 birth certificate
Mr. and Mrs. Lee’s marriage certificate was examined, authenticated and returned to the Lees. Seven white residents from Philadelphia swore in an affidavit that they were not Chinese; they were well acquainted with Lee Toy, a merchant at Chong Woh Company; May Sophie Lee was his lawful daughter, and that she was born in Philadelphia. The signers of the affidavit were:
Signatures on Affidavit
Peter Hackett, 50 So. 4th Street
Frederic Poole, Chinese Mission, 918 Race St.
William Gallagher, 1231 Arch Street
Thomas W. Cunningham, 2112 Cherry Street
Katharine A. Lacy, Principal John Agnus School
Florence B. Scott, First Baptist Church, 17th & Samson St.
Neida S. Gilman, teacher in John Agnus School
While in China May Sophie attended school until she was 21 then attended medical school in Canton City and received a medical degree. She practiced as a physician in Shanghai for over a year before returning to the U.S.
May Sophie Lee was admitted to the United States at the Port of Seattle on 15 December 1924 as a returning citizen. She was 27 years old and was on her way to the Chung Wah & Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with plans to continue her medical career.
[There is no further information in the file.]
Ng Chuen Yong of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania
January 15, 2018 Birth Registration, Form 430, Medical Card, photoBureau of the Census, California, China, Dr. Theodore B. Appel, Ellwood City Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Hoy Ping District, Jit Sang, Lee Lon, Ng Chuck Sang, Ng Chuen Moy, Ng Chuen Yong, Ng Jack Sang, Ng Ong Jen, Nom Yung, Paris Inn Restaurant, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Princess Marguerite, San Francisco, 吳春容Trish Hackett Nicola
Ng Chuen Yong (吳春容) was twelve years old in July 1939. She passed a medical examination in Hong Kong before boarding the Princess Marguerite for her return trip to the United States.
“Medical Card for Ng Chuen Yong,” 1939, Chinese Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, Ng Chuen Yong case file, Seattle Box 792, 7030/12239.
Nl [Normal] Chinese Girl, inoculated against Cholera. Signed V. N. Atienza
Ten years earlier she and her mother, two brothers, Ng Chuck Sang and Ng Jack Sang, and sister, Ng Chuen Moy had left from the port of Seattle to return to their home village of Nom Yung in Hoy Ping District, China. There were only two houses in the village and they were next door to her mother’s parents. Her mother and brother, Jit [Jack] Sang traveled back to the United States about 1931; her brother Chuck Sang returned around 1937. Her sister stayed in China and was going to school in Hong Kong.
“Ng Chuen Yong, Form 430 Photo” 1929, Chinese Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, Ng Chuen Yong case file, Seattle Box 792, 7030/12239.
Ng Chuen Yong’s mother, Lee Lon, was born in China and was admitted to the U.S. at the port of San Francisco, California in 1923 as the daughter of a merchant. Her husband, Ng Ong Jen, was born in San Francisco. They were married in July 1924 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a waiter there at the Paris Inn Restaurant. Their children were all born in Pennsylvania. The United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census issued a “Notification of Birth Registration” for Ng Chuen Yong saying she was born on 31 August 1927 at Ellwood City, Pa. The document was signed by Dr. Theodore B. Appel, Harrisburg, Pa.
“Notification of Birth Registration” 1927, Chinese Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, Ng Chuen Yong case file, Seattle Box 792, 7030/12239.
Ng Chuen Yong was admitted in 1939.
William Jue Poy, M.D., surgeon at David Gregg Hospital, Hackett Medical Center, Canton, China
April 3, 2017 Interview, photo, reference sheet, WitnessesAlice Jue Poy, Andrew Y. Wu, Berkeley, California, Canton China, Chicago, Choy Lain, Clarence Poy, David Gregg Hospital, Dorothy Poy, Dr. Loh Shau Wan, Dr. Martha Hackett, Edward A.K. Hackett, France A. Holt, Frances Poy, Hackett Medical Center, Helen Poy Wu, Henry Poy, Jue Poy, Jue So King, Jue So Ling, Jue Soo Kuen, McKee Radio Company, medical license, mining engineer, Northwestern University, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Portland, Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, Russia, San Francisco, University of Washington, Vancouver B. C., William Jue Poy M.D., William S. HoltTrish Hackett Nicola
“Photo of William Jue Poy,” 1932, Chinese Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, William Jue Poy (Jue Soo Kuen) case file, Portland, Box 99, 5017/872.
William Jue Poy, Chinese name Jue Soo Kuen, was born at 365 E. 12th Street, Portland, Oregon on 22 May 1904. His parents were Jue Poy and Choy Lain. William Poy attended local schools in Portland, University of Washington in Seattle and Northwestern University in Chicago; did his internship and residency and was an assistant surgeon before getting his medical license in Pennsylvania about 1932. He had two brothers and four sisters, all born in Portland. In 1932 his brother Clarence was in Russia working as a consulting mining engineer for the Russian government; and his brother Henry was in Berkeley, California working with McKee Radio Company. His sisters Frances, Alice and Dorothy were unmarried. His sister Helen was married to Andrew Y. Wu and they were living in San Francisco.
In 1932 William was applying to go to China to work as a professor of Anatomy, Associate Surgery in the Hackett Medical School in Canton, China. The school was established under the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions and he had a five year contract. His application witnesses were his mother and Mrs. William S. (France A.) Holt. Choy Lain, William’s mother, was born in San Francisco about 1884 and had never been to China. Her husband, William’s father, died about three years previously. Mrs. Holt testified that she had known William Poy since he was a baby and that William’s father was the first Elder in their church. Mr. Holt married William’s parents.
In August 1937 William applied to leave the U.S. so he could accompany Dr. Loh Shau Wan to Vancouver, B.C. Dr. Wan had original planned to stay in the United States for six months but was returning early because of war conditions in China.
The Reference Sheet in William’s file lists three of his siblings: Jue So Ling (Clarence Poy), file 5017/452; Helen Poy Wu, file 5006/397; and Jue So King (Alice Jue Poy), file 5017/760 There is no more information about Dr. William Poy in his file after 1937.
[I am always curious when I come across my maiden name, Hackett, when I am doing research. Although I am not related to the founder of Hackett Medical College, here is a link to a very lengthy biography on Edward A.K. Hackett (1851-1916) that I found on FindAGrave.com.]
[Edward A. K. Hackett established the Hackett Medical College at Canton, China, and put his eldest daughter, Dr. Martha Hackett, in charge.]1,
1. Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 31 Mar 2017), memorial # 57707137, Edward A.K. Hackett (1851-1916), created by “JC”; citing Linderwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Allen Co.,IN.
Jung John – Merchant – did not perform manual labor…
September 19, 2016 Form 431, photo400 Chestnut Street, 909 Race Street, Chong Wah Company, Dr. George C. Taggart, Far East Restaurant, Jung John, Lee Ho, Mok Shee, Pennsylvania, Peter Hackett, Philadelphia, Vandegrift & CompanyTrish Hackett Nicola
“Jung John, Form 421 photo,” 1922, Chinese Exclusion Act case files, RG 85, National Archives-Seattle, Jung John file, Seattle, Box 1327, Case 39555/2-3.
Jung John, a returning merchant, arrived in the port of Seattle on 31 January 1922. He was accompanied by his wife, Mok Shee. They were on their way to their home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their witnesses were Lee Ho, Dr. George C. Taggart and Peter Hackett. [Peter Hackett – no relation but fun to see in the files.]
Jung John was a salesman at the Chong Wah Company in Philadelphia. He was admitted as the son of a merchant. His father had worked at Chong Wah Company and when he died in 1916 he left his share in the company to his son. The average annual sales for the company were $50,000 to $60,000. They sold Chinese groceries, drugs, fancy goods and chinaware. For $87 a month they rented most of the building at 909 Race Street. They subleased out the second floor to Far East Restaurant and the third floor was used for sleeping quarters. There were twenty members in the firm.
Before leaving the U.S.in 1921, Jung John swore that for at least one year proceeding the date of his application he had not performed any manual labor other than was necessary in the conduct of the business. He was going back to China to visit his mother and get married.
Lee Ho, age 29, was the manager of Chong Wah Company. He and Jung John both came from Hok San district in China.
George C. Taggart, age 52, physician and druggist at the northeast corner of 9th & Race Streets and knew most of the Chinese in the area.
For the last 26 years, Peter Hackett, age 46, was a custom house broker with Vandegrift & Company at 400 Chestnut Street. He had seen Jung John at the funeral of his father and knew them both through Chong Wah Company. Jung John impressed Mr. Hackett as a clean-living young man of good habits.
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At Carol Woods: Bennett Quartet in Late Schubert, Early Beethoven
Chapel Hill -- ( Wed., May. 8, 2019 )
Carol Woods Retirement Center: Bennett Quartet
Free and open to the public. -- Auditorium, Carol Woods Retirement Community , 919-918-3372 , http://www.carolwoods.org -- 7:30 PM
By William Thomas Walker
May 8, 2019 - Chapel Hill, NC:
The month of May is packed with chamber music goodies at the Carol Woods Retirement Community. Its assembly hall is an ideal venue for intimate musical performances that attracts local music lovers as well as the community's cultured residents. The Bennett Quartet gave an impressive concert May 2018 and returned, with a 50% change of personnel, for an imaginative program of late Schubert and early Beethoven. The performers included violinists Erin Zehngut and Robert Anemone and violist Samuel Gold. All three are members of the North Carolina Symphony and the violinists take the lead chair in turn. Cellist Kirsten Jermé is assistant director of the Lamar Stringfield Music Camp in Raleigh and is on the faculty of the NC Chamber Music Institute and the Chapel Hill Chamber Music Workshop.
The concert opened with String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D.804 ("Rosamunde”) (1824), by Franz Schubert (1797-1828). This, the first of the composer’s three mature quartets, was followed by No. 14 in D minor (“Death and the Maiden”) and the great No. 15 in G. No. 13 was the only one of the composer’s quartets to have been performed complete during his lifetime. Its nickname comes from the melody in the second movement which was drawn from the Entr’acte No. 3 incidental music from the short-lived play Rosamunde, Princess of Cypress. Its four movements are Allegro ma non troppo, Andante, Menuetto: Allegro-Trio, and Allegro moderato.
Despite changes of two players, the Bennett Quartet played with very good, carefully crafted ensemble and intonation. Anemone led the Schubert with a sweet tone as he spun the melodic themes. Each of the players produced fine tone while blending especially well with their colleagues. Phrasing and dynamics were stylish and well chosen. The melancholy of the first movement was beautifully expressed while never understating the dramatic interruptions. Their weaving of the permutations of the famous Rosamunde theme was delightful. Jermé’s dark, rich sound was a vivid opener to the Ländler-like third movement. They players gave full vent to the jaunty high spirits of the finale.
The concert ended with Quartet No. 3 in D (1799) from the set of six early quartets in Opus 18 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). The set is not in the order of composition; No. 3 is believed to be his first completed quartet. It mixes established Classical models with his personal approach. Its four movements are Allegro, Andante con moto, Allegro, and Presto.
Violinist Zehngut led this performance with a mellifluous tone to which the opening movement gave plenty of exposure. The players made the most of the contrast between lyrical passages interrupted by brusque, dramatic episodes. The second movement opened with Anemone’s mellow violin and featured delicate dialogs between instruments, some lovely trills, and full, throbbing lower strings. The tempo and mood of the third movement was well chosen and featured some lovely individual instrumental touches as well as fine pizzicatos. The players brought plenty of verve and high spirits to the Presto finale.
The Bennett Quartet, despite personnel changes, again impressed with their interpretive and technical mastery that reflected preparation far beyond any ad hoc group of players. I look forward to their next foray.
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FEATURES: Technical Support & Help Guides – Red Alert Terrain Editor – Basic Tricks and Tips
I. TERRAIN EDITOR BASICS
1. Map Size and Terrain Type
You may choose from four different sizes when creating a multi-player map: 64 x 64, 96 x 96, 126 x 64, and 64 x 126. These sizes are expressed in cells. A cell is the smallest unit of measurement used for map creation and is a square region large enough to fit one vehicle. When you start the program, the terrain editor defaults to a 96 x 96 map.
To change the map size, click the Options tab at the top of the screen to get to the Game Options menu. From there, select Modify Map Info. Both map size and terrain type (snow or temperate) can then be selected. When
changing the size of an existing map to a smaller size, be aware that the edges may be clipped. The terrain editor ensures that the center of the current map will be centered in the new size you pick.
2. Laying Down Territory
The main editing screen is broken down into two sections: the Side Bar andthe Edit Field. The Edit Field displays the map as the players would see it in the game. This is also the canvas on which you place the terrain tiles to build your map. When you start the program, the terrain is clear and flat.
To add features, move the button over one of the basic land tile buttons (Land, Ore, Gem or Water) or the terrain tile displayed in the Tile View Panel. Once the mouse cursor is over the desired tile, click the left mouse button to pick up the tile and place it on the “brush”. The mouse cursor will turn into a paint brush to denote you are now in paint mode. Then, move the brush over the Edit Field and click the left mouse button again to place the tile.
Until you click the right mouse button or select another tile, the selected tile will stay on the brush. Each time you click the left mouse button, you will place down a tile. This allows you to put down several tiles in short order. If you hold the left mouse button down and move the cursor around, you can effectively paint with the tile. Note that tiles that are larger than 1×1 will smear if painted this way.
3. Different Type of Terrain
In addition to the four basic land tiles, there are additional terrain tiles which have been grouped into six types: Shore, River, Road, Ridges, Trees, and Debris. Left-clicking on one of these terrain selection buttons will bring up that type of tile in the Tile View Panel (you can alternatively use the PgUp and PgDn keys to move between them). Clicking on the scroll buttons (or pressing the left or right arrow key) will allow you to scroll through all the various tiles of this type.
The Sizing Grid, displayed in the Tile View Panel, shows the exact dimensions of the currently selected tile. This represents how many cells the tile will take up and in what type of configuration. The four basic land tiles (Land, Ore, Gems and Water) each take up one cell of grid space.
4. The Page View Screen
Clicking on the Page View button (located on the bottom of the edit menu; second button from the right) activates Page View mode and brings up a full screen version of the Tile View panel. Using this mode, you can choose from multiple tiles on the screen at once. This is very convenient when you are searching for a tile and having difficulty finding it. Clicking on the scroll buttons allows you to move through the different pages of tiles, and selecting one of the terrain type buttons will switch to that type of terrain. Once you have located the tile you are looking for, simply left click on it. This will close the Page View screen and put you in paint mode with the tile you selected.
5. Erasing Tiles
The terrain editor doesn’t really have an erase command. To “erase” tiles, you really need to overwrite them with other tiles. You can do this with the paint mode or using the Select and Fill Mode described below.
6. Passable Terrain
A Passable Filter button has been included to help you determine which cells are passable and which ones aren’t. Due to the irregular shape of some of the tiles, sometimes it’s hard to see whether a clear path exists between them. Clicking on the Passable Filter button will highlight in red any cells which are impassable to ground based units. It is generally advisable to make openings in ridges at least two cells wide. Otherwise, you may find that traffic backs up while units try to maneuver their way through them.
7. Flags
Flags are used to mark the different starting locations for the players when the map is played. Only one of each color flag can be placed. (If you place a flag when one of that color already exists, the old flag will be moved to the new location.) There are eight different color flags, each signifying one of the eight starting positions on the map.
It is important to place all eight flags on the map. If there are not eight starting locations on the map, Red Alert will pick random locations for the missing ones. Players are then randomly distributed among the eight locations. Note that flag colors are used to signify different starting locations, but do not indicate which player will be placed at that location.
8. Money Counter
The money counter, at the top of the screen, keeps track of how much money in Ore and Gems has been placed on the map. It will increase as more Ore and Gems are placed down, and decrease if they are erased. Use this to balance the economics of your map.
II. NAVIGATING IN THE EDITOR
1. Radar View
The radar view displays the map at a smaller scale allowing you to see more of it. The zoom box (the red cornered box) shows which part of the map is currently displayed in the Edit Field.
When the mouse cursor moves over the Radar View, the mouse changes to a white box to signify that clicking will change the position you are viewing in the Edit View. Clicking the left mouse button will center the field on the area contained within the white box. Clicking on the right mouse button zooms the radar image in and out.
2. Selecting and Filling Areas
To select an area, first make sure that you are not in paint mode. If you are in “brush” mode, right click to cancel it. Once you are not in “brush” mode, click and hold the left mouse button and “drag” the mouse cursor to encompass the area you want selected. Selected areas are highlighted in a yellow box. To “unselect” the area, click the right mouse button outside the selected region. Right clicking inside the selected region will bring
up the Edit Menu (see below).
When an area is selected, clicking on any of the four basic tile buttons will fill that area with the selected type of tile. This is extremely useful for erasing large portions of the map and quickly laying down Ore, Gems, and Water.
3. The Edit Menu
Right clicking within the selected region will bring up the Edit Menu. The Edit Menu supports four commands: Copy, Paste, Paste Clip and Unselect.
Selecting the Copy button will copy the selected area to the clipboard. This area may then be pasted down with the Paste or Paste Clip commands.
Paste places the area in the clipboard (put there with the Copy command) in the selected area. If the selected area is not as large as the area you copied, it will be pasted outside the boundaries of the selected area. The upper left corner is the common anchoring point between the selected area and the area to be pasted.
Paste Clip
Paste Clip works similarly to the Paste command, except that if the selected area is smaller than the area you copied, it will be clipped to fit within the selected area. For example, if a 3×3 area is copied and you attempt to Paste Clip into a 1×1 area, only the upper left corner of the 3×3 area will be pasted.
Unselect
Unselect is an alternative method to unselect the selected region. This is provided in case you accidentally right clicked within the selected region, when you meant to click outside it.
III. EDITOR OPTIONS
Click the Options tab at the top of the screen to get to the Options Screen. From here your maps can be loaded, saved and deleted. In addition, you can select New Map or Modify Map Info.
New Map
Selecting the New Map command will bring up a pop-up dialog which allows you to choose the size and terrain set you want the new map to use. If you have unsaved changes, you will be warned before you are allowed to create a new map.
Load, Save and Delete Map
These commands work very similarly to the Load, Save and Delete commands used within Red Alert. File names may be up to forty characters in length.
Modify Map Info
Selecting the Modify Map Info button allows you to change the size and terrain type of the map you are currently editing. Changing the terrain type does not affect the map data, it only changes its appearance. When changing the size of an existing map to a smaller size, be aware that the edges will be clipped. The terrain editor ensures that the center of the current map will be centered in the new size you pick.
IV. TIPS FOR MAP CREATION
1. Have a theme in mind when you start your map
Is this going to be a water-heavy map? Land-only? What do you want the players to be doing most of the time? Defending? Scouting? Naval combat? Deciding on the theme of the map that you want to create helps a lot in defining its terrain and the placement of players and ore. Always go into a map with an idea in mind, otherwise your map will lose focus, and you won’t get what you intended – although sometimes that can be the best thing to happen to your map! Many cool maps have arisen from trying something unusual that you didn’t intend in the first place.
2. Always try and leave space for units to move freely.
Bottlenecks are fine, but try and keep your narrowest areas at least 4 or 5 cells wide. Otherwise, large amounts of units won’t be able to get through certain locations, causing them to try and find another way to the target, which usually takes them somewhere you don’t want them to go. Use the Passable/Blocked tab to see where you’ve got bottlenecks and make sure they’re wide enough to accommodate the forces that will be moving through them.
3. Conflict is what it’s all about.
Start the player with a small patch of ore near them, then make them put their ore trucks at risk by moving larger ore patches further and furtherfrom their bases. Remember, one goal is to force the players into conflict over money, and if all the nearby ore is in one place, you can be sure there will be a fight for control of it.
4. Bridges are cool, but don’t rely on them.
Since any bridge can be destroyed, when designing the map make sure that you consider all bridges to be destroyed and thus unusable the minute that the game begins. This way, you won’t rely on them for access to other islands or areas of the map. Be sure there’s always another way to get around, unless the theme of the map intentionally calls for blocked off areas.
5. Use Skirmish as a test-bed.
The AI in skirmish builds rapidly and uses a lot of units. Play against the computer on your map several times, and look for places that you or the computer gets slowed down. Sometimes these slow-downs can be remedied by widening passes, removing trees, or changing the starting flag position.
6. Balance the map.
The coolest maps are those that are balanced, but not symmetrical. The more natural and different each part of the terrain is, the more interesting the map is to play on. Also, consider the placement of the players when making the map. If the player has multiple ways into their base and not a lot of natural defense, give them a bit more money to get started with. If the player is in a position that is easily defensible, make them go farther (thus putting themselves more at risk) for ore and gems.
7. Don’t fill the map with ore.
Unless you’re purposely trying to make a map that’s just all ore, don’t overdo the placement and amount of ore. Remember, you want the game to eventually end! When the money runs out, the only thing left to do is fight with whatever you’ve got left. Limiting money is a good way to bring a game to closure. Use gems to your advantage too. Since they’re worth twice as much, but don’t grow or spread, you can make little treasure areas for players to fight over. Usually, a player will take the risk to go after gems as opposed to ore, simply because they want more money faster.
8. Don’t overuse trees.
Trees can add a lot of character to a map, but don’t clump too many of them together or you could see a performance hit when playing the game. Instead, use cliffs, rocks, and other tiles that block the cell. A basic rule to follow is that if you notice the editor slowing down when you scroll over a densely forested section of the map, you’re going to see the game suffer the same way.
9. Keep the abilities of the sides in mind when creating.
Since you know where the players are going to start, you can get a good idea how each side will use the space you provide them to build on. Try to provide multiple strategies for a certain location that the player can use to defend and attack with. For example, even a small water area by a starting location can provide enough room to allow the Allies to build cruisers to use for defense of their base. Even if they’re land- locked, this allows players more opportunities for strategy.
10. Always have another way in.
Although it’s tactically ideal to have a location with only one way in or out, design flaws into the terrain that allows players multiple ways into each other’s bases. This makes everyone spread their defenses around their weak points, thus allowing more room for sneak attacks and assaults. It also adds a bit more uncertainty to where to place defenses and critical structures – the enemy could attack from any number of directions!
11. Use shore pieces to advantage.
On water-heavy maps, use shore pieces to your advantage – they are the only places that transports can be loaded and unloaded. Keep this in mind when you’re making a map that is primarily islands – players will have to land in certain areas, thus you can design the terrain and place players accordingly.
12. Never block off areas completely.
If you’re making a map of just islands, then you don’t need to worry about this, but if the map is primarily land-based, be sure you leave areas for units to get around natural hazards. Never seal a player into an area that forces them to use one certain tactic to get out of what they’re now trapped in.
13. Be an artist
Although this is more for cosmetic sake, make your cliff lines, shore lines, and rivers actually match up. Pay attention to the shadow lines on the ridge pieces and don’t use a piece that isn’t intended to be used there. When using shore pieces, sometimes switching to cliff line and back again can solve spacing problems that may arise from starting a shoreline from two different ends at the same time. The amount of time you spend making the map look as cool as it plays does come across to other players. It shows an understanding and dedication to making the map as cool as you possibly could.
14. Refine, refine, refine!
Chances are, the first time you’re done with a map, it won’t be perfect. Play with elements of it (ore placement, cliff lines, starting points, etc.) until you get something that will work better. The more time you spend with a map, the more ways for improvement you’ll see for it.
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But even from an in-universe perspective, the X-men's job is to protect and train mutants, and to fight threats to all of humanity...
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Posted By oldnightcrawler - 3 years ago
Preview: CAPTAIN MARVEL #1
@cyanidepie said:
No female superhero would ever run around in a one-piece bathing suit and thigh-high boots.
That's just weird men drawing their fetish.
I'm inclined to agree.
The new Ms.Marvel's costume is a great update (keeping the most iconic elements of her Carol's classic look, but still looking like clothes a person would wear), and Carol's new costume looks more like a Captain than any other version of Captain Marvel.
Preview: ALL NEW ALL DIFFERENT AVENGERS #3
@waezi2 said:
@mattydavehalpeo: There has been teenagers on the Avengers before, like Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. It's sort of a tradition for the Earth's Mightiest to allow young heroes to rove their worth.
Exactly! thank you!
-and all 3 of these newer characters already have more experience than QS and SW did when they joined.
First Look: X-MEN: WORST X-MAN EVER #1
@liveforever said:
@g_man: Ugh, that's a good one. Those are some dumb powers.
if dumb powers made you the worst X-man, Cyclops would be the worst.
Worse than Goldballs or Maggot at least.
This is the most interested I've been in an Avengers book in a while.. If this is the main book, it's the most I've been interested in the main series in a really long time.
Preview: EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN #3
I'm not a big Ramos fan, but this book does look pretty great.
Edited By oldnightcrawler - 3 years ago
@mark_stephen said:
Well in the case of Carol and Jen they were planned knock offs to keep the copywrite names, and in Carol's a way for Marvel to try and establish a solo female character.
I liked both of them when they were introduced and up until cw with Carol and Jen's collapse against Tony just before and after WWH. Now I plan on selling all my Carol titles on eBay.
With War Machine he wasn't Iron Man
and Spiderman 2099 was a completely different universe, just as the Barry Allan Flash was in a different time and world from the original flash.
I'm afraid I don't know Spectrum so I can't say.
1. well, they were both characters Marvel tried out as solo heroes over the years, but my point is that they both have identities based on pre-existing character names, like Bat Girl, yet we still think of them as classic characters in their own right.
2. you mean you don't like her anymore?
3. My point with War Machine was that he was Iron Man; he was the second Iron Man after Stark (he was the Iron Man in the original Secret Wars, actually), but since even most of the Avengers didn't know Iron man's identity, only the reader knew it was a new guy in the suit. It was only after being Iron Man that he became War Machine.
4. again, different universe in-story doesn't change that those are all characters who got their identities from pre-existing popular characters. Also, since this book is set in the All-new, All-different MU -which is supposed to be a new universe, why doesn't that same logic apply to these characters?
5. Spectrum was, like a lot of great characters, originally called Captain Marvel. She had her own series in the 80's and joined the Avengers the same issue as She-hulk, thus making the team an all-star lineup with new characters (who are now classics in their own right), pretty much just like this team.
@oldnightcrawler said:
Minor or no, Kamala still has more superhero experience than Stark and Pym combined had when they formed the team. And she's no younger than Spider-man or the X-men were when they started out, which means she's probably the same age as Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were when they joined.
True, but by the time Tony became Iron Man he was an adult and had run a world wide corporation for years and Hank was also an adult. And there just weren't that many super villains around to practice on.
So does that make Kamala's experience less somehow?
@ramior said:
That doesn't seem stupid, that seems really smart.
;) you just don't want to see it.
Well I think you not really smart either, because use a popular thing on a laready popular thing just spoil it.
But use a popular thing to make a less know thing be popular that is clever.
Like using an established character's name on a totally new character? I totally agree :)
True about the guy who said it, but that brings to question why he'd say it anyway. It's possible the author is painting with a broad brush, saying that Sam will have a problem with people who don't think he's Cap both in and out of the comics. I don't have anything against Sam's character, but the sudden borrowing/copying of so many names and powers bothers me. The heroic journey of a character should not be based or moulded on the heroic journey of another character, especially when I believe most of this marketing and not story driven. It wasn't the authors choice to make Carol Captain Marvel, it was the editors choice. The basic message from marvel here in my opinion is as long as you have the name you have the hero. A character doesn't have to build a reputation or earn an identity, one comes pre-package and market tested for the character. Think of the Monkeys as opposed to the Beatles. The Monkeys were a good act and I enjoyed them but they didn't take the Beatles name when the Beatles broke up and they were never in the Beatles league (as they themselves admitted). (I'm not sure which band broke up first, just using that as an example). With Sam -or anyone being Cap- we get the message that all you really need is the name and the shield, that heroism isn't special to a specific person, just a specific costume.
I see what your saying, but since I know that -in this case- Sam and Kamala are actually cool characters in their own right, what they are called is, like you say, just how they're marketed; to me that doesn't make them less as characters, it just means Marvel wants more people to know about them, and since I like those characters, I don't see how that's bad.
It's not any different than when DC made up Barry Allen or Hal Jordan and gave them established characters names, or Johny Storm for that matter; I mean, I like Ant-Man (Lang) and She-Hulk and Carol Danvers and War Machine and Spectrum and Spider-Man 2099 and ..you get the point. lots of great characters have used other characters names. To me it's just not a big deal if the character themselves is interesting. And in the case of Falcon, he proved to me that he was interesting decades before he became Cap', so.. meh?
I just honestly don't think it's a stupid decision.
Is a stupid decision, you just don't want see it.
Plus like Mark Stephen say your example are false since they are the first super heroes appear since WWII and back then they have no team or orginastion for new super heroes.
Having a such young character with no supervision directly to the top team when is place should be in a team like the new warrior or young avengers is stupid, she in this team because she the only character who popularity toward a larger audience then comics fan but instead of use is popularity toward a less know team, marvle decide to intrege her toward the famous, and milkit, team of the present team.
This is simply idiotic.
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Trinity College Professor of Language and Culture Studies Thomas S. Harrington Shares Expertise on Catalonia in News Broadcasts Around the World
Hartford, Connecticut, December 4, 2017 – This semester, Trinity College Professor of Language and Culture Studies Thomas S. Harrington—a noted scholar on the culture and politics of the Catalonian Autonomous Community of Spain—has appeared on local, national, and international news broadcasts to speak about Catalonia’s recent vote for independence and its ongoing confrontation with the Spanish central government.
“This is a nationalist movement about peace, persistence, and inclusion,” Harrington said. “What I think is fascinating, and something I’d like to transmit to students and the public, is the almost David vs. Goliath persistence of this culture. They are, in effect, saying to the world: ‘What we have is very special to us and we want to preserve it, but that preserving it does not mean, as it does in so many other nationalist movements, restricting the influx of outsiders to the country or recurring to supremacist schemas of identity.’ To me that is an amazing story.”
Trinity College Professor of Language and Culture Studies Thomas S. Harrington
As the Catalan independence process has moved forward, Harrington has been addressing not only classrooms full of students, but also people around the world who want to learn more about what has led up to the current confrontation. He has provided commentary for news outlets including Russia Today, China Global Television Network, and Connecticut Public Radio, and has written many articles and blog posts designed to provide more historical and cultural context for those seeking to understand the October 1 vote on independence and all that has followed in its wake.
“In the latter part of September, when the situation came to a head, I became more active. My goal was to shed light on historical issues and details that are not often mentioned in the mainstream press,” Harrington said. “Many reporters, working in good faith, simply do not have the historical or linguistic background needed to understand the Catalan issue in an in-depth manner. Most people in big American and European media—at best—speak some Spanish; very few speak and read Catalan or have reported before on a daily basis from inside Catalonia,” he said.
While some believe that this is an unimportant detail, Harrington said that he believes it is absolutely essential to gaining a more solid understanding of this situation and many others like it. “There is no such thing as unbiased media; everything comes from a point of view. Language and historical context, or what we might call our cultural ‘point of entry,’ affect our perceptions of a given reality in significant ways,” Harrington said. “While we cannot necessarily undo the slants that we and other bring to our analyses of social and political events, we can seek to become aware of their possible effects on our perceptions of ‘reality.’”
Harrington believes that current impasse has its roots in Spanish Constitution of 1978, which was forged only three years after the death of Francisco Franco amidst looming threats of renewed military intervention in the civic life of the country. “It was very much a compromise document designed to bring a still fractious country into the community of democratic nations,” Harrington said. “As such, it was seen by most of those signing on to it, and especially those embracing in Catalonia, as being subject to adjustment in the not too distant future. This was the understanding that everyone had until the beginning of the 21st century when the party now in governance, the PP, then headed by Jose Maria Aznar, turned around and said this constitution was sacred and could not be changed and that, therefore, the Catalans could never look forward to any incremental increase of their political power within the Spanish state.” Harrington suggests that it was the articulation of this “hard” upper limit on Catalan political, cultural, and economic aspirations, subsequently ratified in 2010 by a PP-dominated Constitutional Tribunal, which many saw as corrupt, that has led to the current situation.
Harrington’s interest in the problems of nations within states began with his college studies of the borderlands between Poland and Russia. When he began his doctoral work in Hispanic studies, he transferred his interest in the phenomenon to the Iberian Peninsula. In the course of his career, he has lived and or studied in all of the major culture-nations of that geographical and cultural entity, earning his master’s degree in Madrid, teaching for two years in Galicia, studying in Lisbon, spending numerous summers in the Basque Country, and exploring the breadth and depth of Catalonia.
Harrington teaches courses in 20th and 21st century Spanish cultural history, literature, and film. He is a two-time Fulbright Senior Research Scholar (Barcelona, Spain and Montevideo, Uruguay). He has published two books, co-written a documentary film, and written several refereed publications.
Harrington is the founder and one of three faculty advisors of the Trinity in Barcelona study away program, which offers students the opportunity to spend a semester, summer, or full academic year in the city of Barcelona, Spain. Open to all levels of Spanish language, Trinity in Barcelona is a “hybrid” study abroad program in which students enroll in a combination of Trinity-taught and local university courses as they experience both the Spanish and Catalan cultures.
Written by Dana Martin ’18
category: In the News
tags: Catalonia, Language and Culture Studies, Thomas S. Harrington
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High Population Considered Necessary but not Sufficient for Poverty
A lot of water has passed under the bridge since my last blog entry. “Where in the world,” some asked, “is Atanu and why is he not writing stuff anymore?” For better or for worse, I am back from a brief round-the-world trip. Among the exotic far off places of the world, I was in Helsinki, Paris, London, Boston MA, New York NY, the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Seoul Korea. I flew Air France (which I call ‘Air Chance’), Delta (don’t ever make the mistake of flying Delta), and Korean Air. Met lots of interesting people and heard lots of great stories. One of these days I will write about them. But for now, it is back to the usual business.
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Author Atanu DeyPosted on August 30, 2004 Categories Economics, Population10 Comments on High Population Considered Necessary but not Sufficient for Poverty
On Localization of Linux
An interesting press release was forwarded to the India-Gii mailing list this morning by Venky. He wrote:
IndLinux.org has launched a Hindi Interface for GNOME, the GUI for the GNU/Linux operating system. We request users to download the software from http://www.indlinux.org and give us their comments and feedback. Those interested in volunteering are requested to go through the web site–we need volunteers with technical skills as well as volunteers with skills in translating from English to Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada and other languages.
I responded saying that it was a commendable effort. I had a look at the screen shots. I suppose that it is a work in progress and therefore the screen shots show a hybrid of Roman and Devnagri fonts.
Also, upon reading the press release I thought that the operating system was being localized by changing the language from English to Hindi. Upon viewing the screen shots, I realised that I was mistaken. It appeared to me that Devanagari is being used for transliteration of English words (mainly technical words) and held together in a sentence with Hindi syntax and structure. For instance, one information pop-up says:
“is folder ki sabhi executable files script menu mein dikhai degi. menu say koi file chunnay pur vuh chalnay lageygi…”
It feels as if our dear departed Rajiv Gandhi is speaking directly to us
“is country ki development kay liye, humay bahut effort laganey ki necessity hai”.
Hey, that’s a thought. Since Indians love to name every bloody thing after their idiotic leaders (Rajiv Gandhi this, and Indira Gandhi that, and Jawaharlal Nehru the other), perhaps this IndLinux should be named “RajivLinux.” And if and when a Hindi language OS (as opposed to a Devnagri font OS) comes about, it should be called “DesiLinux” or some such thing.
Seriously though, it is a great beginning and I hope this effort is successful in lowering some of the many barriers to entry to the world of IT for some Indian non-English speakers.
To which Rishab responded with
perhaps you would like to suggest a “truly hindi” alternative to this sentence? i don’t know if there is an extensive usable vocabulary among hindi-speaking computer users that has hindi alternatives for most technical words. after all, there’s no point inventing words of the kanth-langot variety.
I am neither a linguist nor do I play one on the usenet/internet/web. So I cannot suggest a ‘truly Hindi’ alternative to English technical words. But that does not mean that no one has the expertise to do so. Indian languages — Hindi included — have rich vocabularies and I am sure a rich mine of roots from which one can derive all the specific words that one needs to describe concepts that are new. What we have to do is to intelligently use the roots to create appropriate equivalents now.
It is important that we don’t repeat the idiocy of kanth-langotisms. That is a braindead attempt at translation of specific words into descriptive phrases. Such as translating the word steam-engine into the Hindi equivalent of the phrase humongous iron machine that runs on iron roads while puffing clouds of vapor and making loud clanking noise as it pulls wagons behind it.
There are alternatives to wholesale importing of English words on the one hand, and the silly unimaginative direct translations of descriptions into hindi on the other. For instance table tennis in Hindi should not be table kay upar, batti kay neechey, lay thaka thak, dey thaka thak. It could be a word that is constructed from some Sanskrit root (probably) or could be an entirely new word that enriches the language and is invented out of the blue but has some resemblance to the existing set of words in the language. Import the concept but localize it to fit into the existing scene, so to say.
Hebrew is an entirely reconstructed language and it not only serves the Israelis well, it creates a sense of belonging and ownership among them.
The time is now when we can have a discussion about what to do regarding this issue. The vast majority of Indians have little or no access to computers. We don’t have the burden of a legacy of the sort that is represented in the qwerty keyboard. We can, after due deliberation, decide to go one way or the other. It will be too late to change once about 100 million users with Hindi as their mother tongue come on board.
I cannot agree more with Mahesh when he wrote in the ensuing discussion that:
“I think there is a need to comment, to praise and condemn, to discuss and decide, to change opinions if we can. That’s why we’re here. Because we have this medium. And regardless of whether we can actually change things or not, we HAVE to try.”
The question of whether we can burden people with new words or not is not really relevant. If the made up Hindi word for ‘file’ is ‘limi’, then to a person who is learning the concept of a file, it does not matter whether the concept is called file or limi. It is too late to change the qwerty keyboard now. But it is not too late in the life cycle of the Hindi or other Indian language OS to discuss what should be done regarding technical words.
To which Venky wrote back to say
The challenge for us with localization is–How far do we go with keeping the language pure? If we take this to the extreme, we should call the computer “sanghanak” but even Hindi speaking people would wonder what a “sanghanak” is. At the same time, the example that Atanu pulled out from one of the Indlinux Hindi dialog box veers to the other extreme!
Always willing to help, I dug up an old piece that I had first seen in 1997 on the usenet. So here it is — for the record.
Windows Commands in Hindi version shoonya bindu shoonya ek (0.01).
Phile = File
Kholo = Open
Bandh Karo = Close
Naya = New
Khatara = Old
Bachao = Save
Aise Bachao = Save as
Paise Bachao = Save money
Bhaago = Run
Chaapo = Print
Dekh Ke Chaapo = Print Preview
Paise Deke Chokri Dekho = Pay Per View
Phirsay = Edit
Kaapi = Copy
Kaato = Cut
Kato = Stupid Houseguest
Chipkao = Paste
Payshul Chipkao = Paste Special
Goli Maaro = Delete
Nazaara = View
Bakwaas Nazaara = View From My Apartment
Hatyaar = Tools
Hatyaar Khamba = Toolbar
Uh Buh Kuh Duh Thik Thak = Spell Check
Isko Kya Kehte Hain = Thesaurus
Khuli Chaadar = Spreadsheet
Iska Bhi Naam Nahin Aaata = Database
Futaas Ki Goli Kha = Exit
{Reposted from April 2003}
Author Atanu DeyPosted on August 17, 2004 Categories Alternative Viewpoint3 Comments on On Localization of Linux
Numbers 5
The Business Standard of 12th Jan 2004 carries an item on page 3 with the heading 33 million more Indians in poor list in 2001-02. The percentage of people below the poverty line is estimated to be around 25. That is, India has about 250 million people who are so unimaginably poor that they can’t cross the poverty line that is set way below what can be considered necessary for a human existence. For all the progress India is supposedly making, we have increased the absolute numbers of the abjectly poor by 33,000,000 in that one year alone.
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Author Atanu DeyPosted on August 2, 2004 Categories Population4 Comments on Numbers 5
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EAGLE COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)– Two people who admitted to causing the massive Lake Christine Fire in July 2018 were sentenced on Monday. A judge sentenced both Allison Marcus and Richard Miller to 45 days in jail, 1,500 hours of community service, $100,000 of restitution each and five years of probation.
Marcus and Miller pleaded guilty to setting fire to woods or prairie, a misdemeanor, last month. Both originally faced 4th degree arson charges. Those charges were dismissed.
Allison Marcus and Richard Miller (credit: CBS)
Prosecutors say Marcus fired a tracer round at the Basalt State Wildlife Area Shooting Range. There were stage two fire restrictions in effect at the time.
Three homes were destroyed, hundreds of people were forced to evacuate for weeks, but no one was hurt.
Numbers provided by the district attorney’s office detail the damage. The fire started nearly a year ago, on July 3, 2018, and burned more than 12,000 acres for nearly a month and a half. The total cost of damage and first responder efforts is estimated at $25 million.
(credit: U.S. Forest Service)
Court officials say Marcus and Miller would have to work eight hours every week for nearly four years to complete their community service.
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The motor bridge module
The motor bridge module As a slave module, the ESX-MBC has a CAN bus interface. The CAN bus is used as a physical bus system for communication between the control unit and the ESX-MBC motor bridge modules using 29 bit-identifiers and provides transmissions speeds of up to 1 Mbit/s. As a superordinate protocol, SAE J1939, which is often used in commercial vehicles, is used here for the exchange of diagnostics and control data. The SAE J1939 protocol implemented by STW on the ESX-MBC supports both standardized and proprietary Parameter Group Numbers (PGN) and Suspected Parameter Numbers (SPN). It is processed on the 32-bit controller STM32F205 of the ESX-MBC. This controller has 128 kByte SRAM and 1 Mbyte flash memory, and therefore provides space for further functions which have been implemented by STW. The ESX-MBC receives commands from the ESX control unit for the adjustment of the four PWM half bridges which form the central function of the motor bridge module. The four PWM half bridges, with PWM frequencies of up to 20 kHz, are assigned in two groups and can be combined to create two full bridges. Each half bridge has a 10 A output and electric motors or actuators up to approx. 200 Watt can be controlled. The outputs are short-circuit proof and capable of diagnostics, so that their status can be reported via the CAN bus to the ESX control unit. 2 half bridges and a 4A digital output respectively are connected to a power supply path, which can be switched off via an additional solid state safety relay. In each power supply path, current and voltage measurement is provided and an overload / overvoltage detection is included. As an ESX-MBC also executes different tasks at different positions of the chopper, the module has an identification input. Through connection with resistors of different sizes, the software allocates the module its own “Source” address. Based on the source address the ESX control unit recognzies the task of the module and provides according instructions. Furthermore, the ESX-MBC has a 200 mA digital output which is also short-circuit proof and capable of diagnostics. In a range of 5 V to 12 V, a fixed voltage output adjustable via software supplies the sensors. Four multifunction inputs can be freely configured via commands as digital, speed, voltage or current inputs. Finally, a temperature measurement is available for the controller and the complete ESX-MBC. These functions of the ESX-MBC module are also addressable via the J1939 protocol. The great strength of this module lies in the combination of intelligence and switching large currents. The possibility of flexibly using the ESX-MBC for different functions with the same hard- and software design, and continuously communicating status permits a high level of freedom in the system design and simplifies logistics. The module complies with the standards of the agricultural machine, construction machine and the automotive industries, which include especially shock and vibration resistance. The ESX-MBC provides sealing against water and dust according to IP67, is designed for a temperature range from -40 °C to +85 °C and has a connector suitable for mobile applications, ensuring uncomplicated installation. The ESX-MBC extends the number of I/Os available, realising savings through less cabling for sensors and actuators. For example, the motor bridge is used in order to fulfill the specifications of the individual federal states regarding differing axle loads for road networks: The forage harvesters BiG X 480 and 580 can also be designed as 3-axle vehicles. In operation in the field, the third axle is not required and is hydraulically lifted. The control of the valves is also managed via the ESX-MBC. Furthermore, the ESX-MBC is used for the regulation of clockwise and anti-clockwise rotation of the electric motors. These ensure the perfect adjustment of the shear blade of the cutter drum, which leads to high-quality chopping lengths and cutting quality of the crop. Thanks to the decentralized design using the ESX-MBC, further options are also realizable, for example additional hydraulic functions or the control of the silage additive systems. DRIVE TECHNOLOGY 02 Chopping drum with shear blade 03 Maize conditioner Motor bridges as part of a complete solution / functions of the central control unit The ESX-MBC is only one part of a far larger control system and this module is not the only new development. A new, higher performance central computer was also required for the extended requirements of the newly developed forage harvesters,. The vehicles execute complex tasks such as collection of the crops and processing and transfer to a loading vehicle. For this purpose, up to 20 control units execute work in the systems. The KMC 200, which has been developed in a cooperation between Krone and STW, takes over the coordination of almost all of these control units. The concept idea in 2010 led to the project start with strict planning for the first prototypes, which were to be used and tested during the corn harvest 2011. Besides the technical demands on performance capability and interfaces, particular attention was placed on robustness, reliability 40 MDA Technologies 1/2016
About STW GmbH Sensor-Technik Wiedemann GmbH, an internationally active company provides services and products in utilization of new technical possiblities in Automation, e-mobility and networking. The company develops and produces a wide range of products in control and automation systems, measurement technology, telematics and machine connectivity and electrification of drive lines and auxilliary drives. The company is based in Kaufbeuren, Germany and has annual turnover of € 50 million and employs 440 people. and scalability. As specialists for solutions for mobile machines, STW had already established the ESX-3XL on the market. During discussions held between specialists of both companies, it was quickly determined that the ESX-3XL already provided an ideal hardware platform which could be adapted to the exact requirements of Krone by means of just a few modifications. Amongst other things, these adaptations regarded the interfaces for NAMUR sensors and two 10A half bridge outputs. Additionally, an outward and return line to all sensors and actuators is now provided. Thanks to its concept, which already provides a memory protection mechanism, and thanks to its design, development process and corresponding documentation and tests, the control unit ESX-3XL was already certified acc. SIL2 (IEC61508) and PLd (ISO 13849). As this project concerns a safety-relevant application, this represented an extremely valuable prerequisite for the tractor, agricultural and forestry machine standard ISO 25119. The high-standard quality and production guidelines at STW were also regarded as positive. Mr. Horstmann, Electronics Manager at Krone, was also convinced by the overall impression made by STW during a visit: “It was particularly important for Krone to find a company in STW which, besides high technical competence, was also partnership orientated and thought and acted long-term. STW knows our market and has been successfully active here for over 30 years, and therefore we decided on STW as our development and production partner for the new control unit KMC 200 and the associated motor bridge modules”. After Krone had decided on collaboration with STW in 2010, four companies subsequently worked under the leadership of Krone on the realization of this project. Besides the adaptation of the hardware, the adaptation of the BIOS for the 32-bit TriCore controller on the ESX control unit also fell to STW, which then eventually received the name KMC 200. In order to meet the performance and real-time requirements, the programming was executed in the language “C++”. At Krone, up to ten developers were ultimately involved in this project. Besides Krone and STW, partners included HighTec as provider of the certified operating system PXROS, and Brunel GmbH as development service provider. Close collaboration was essential in order to be able to correctly integrate the many control unit functions. “Today, we control chopper machines, grinding devices, feed units, attachments, ejection sections, corn conditioners and silage additive systems using the KMC – to name but a few! Meter readings are also recorded, and fill levels and filters monitored”, explains Mr. Horstmann. An important component of the development process is also the test cycle, in which firstly the individual software modules, which represent the different functions, are tested. Subsequently, a test of the application on the control units is conducted in an automated hardware and software integration test. Finally, a system test on the complete software is carried out on a machine. This is accompanied by the EMC trials in the test laboratory and the trials on test machines in real field applications. After the prototype phase and deployment during the corn harvest 2011, it was possible to complete the development of the KMC 200 prior to the Agritechnica 2013. Here the first presentation and series launch of the BiG X 480 and Big X 580 took place, in which, besides the KMC 200, also up to four ESX-MBC motor bridge modules are employed. Markus Müller, Project Manager at STW, was responsible for both developments from the outset: “At STW, we especially value the excellent cooperation with the Krone team. This helped enormously in the process during which two products of this complexity were brought into series use in a relatively short period.” The first milestone This development is not yet complete, as long-term utilization is planned in further machines, but the first large milestone has been achieved. As a result of the concept which includes the distribution of tasks in the system architecture, re-usability of the components at hardware and software level is achieved. The use of the KMC 200 as a central control unit and the ESX-MBC motor bridge modules as dedicated and yet flexible slave modules, have already proven to be successful developments. Less than two years after the series launch of the BiG X forage harvester, STW received the Supplier Award from Krone as best supplier in the Electronics category. Lead photo: Bernard Krone GmbH, Photographs 1-3 STW GmbH www.sensor-technik.de\en www.gruppe.krone.de/english Istanbul, Turkey Come and visit us at our booth Hall 10, Booth B-108
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The sons of the sword, or, The watchers from the Rhine / by Richard R. Montgomery
The Iron Spirit, or, The mystery of the Plains
Red Privateer, or, The first to float the stars and stripes
The phantom fireman, or, The mystery of Mark Howland's life
Young Karl Kruger, or, The richest boy in the Transvaal
The dark sons of Ireland, or, Plotting under the Shannon water
The houseboat boys, or, Stirring adventures in the Northwest
The young deserters, or, The mystery of Ramsey Island
The boyhood days of "Pawnee Bill", or, From the schoolroom to the frontier
Larry of the Lantern, or, The smugglers of the Irish coast
Dick, "I will," or, The plucky fight of a boy orphan
The boy in red, or, The czar's masked messenger
A coral prison, or, The two boy hermits of the Indian Ocean
The block house boys, or, The young pioneers of the Great Lakes
The boy privateer captain, or, Lost on a nameless sea
The boy messenger of Russia, or, The Czar's secret despatch bearer / by Allan Arnold
Nameless Nat, or, A millionaire in rags
Paddling on the Amazon, or, Three boy canoeists in South America
Columbia, or, The young firemen of Glendale
Phil, the boy fireman, or, Through flames to victory
Young Jack Harkaway fighting the pirates of the Red Sea
Tick Tack, the messenger boy, or, Sharp work for a million
actor's son
Southern boy in New York, or, Bound to make his money
Bob the waif, a story of life in New York
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DOWASCO reports on water projects
Original script by Tarnia Green, GIS - Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 at 12:13 PM
The Government of Dominica in conjunction with the Dominica Water and Sewerage Company (DOWASCO) is reporting considerable progress on a number of water projects across the country.
DOWASCO’s Public relations Officer, Edward Registe told the Government Information Service (GIS) that one such project is the $1.5-million Grand Fond Water upgrade project.
“We have quite a few projects that are either recently completed or ongoing. We have the Grand Fond water upgrade project. That project is costing us just over $1.5 million. It’s basically completed, funded by the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF),” he said.
Registe reported that the Grand Fond water project included the construction of a 60,000 imperial gallon storage tank and adjoining pipe works.
“We also had the construction of a new intake because residents of that community for some time were complaining about the inefficiency of the system. They have had regular interruption in their water supply and declining water quality,” Registe noted.
Registe added that a second phase of the project which involves the replacement of the distribution lines is expected to commence shortly.
The Bense water supply project is another project which the DOWASCO official has confirmed is nearing completion.
“That project is costing is just over $3.5-million. Again, residents of Bense , Anse Soldat have been complaining about the inefficiency of the system. With the old intake, residents were challenged by low inflow of water. We had to identify a new location for a new intake and that we did along the Hampstead River, which is about two miles into the forest,” he noted.
Registe explained extensive work had to be done on that project.
“We had to have at least 10 river crossings, which means we had to build little bridges across the river to get to the location of the new intake. Five of those have already been completed,” he revealed.
Registe said the water company DOWASCO is hoping to complete the construction of the five other bridges and construct the new intake by March 30th, 2014.
Meanwhile in the community of Vieille Case, Registe said work is ongoing to significantly improve the supply of water to that community.
The DOWASCO official confirmed that the foundation work for a 30,000 gallon storage tank at Pie has begun. He said a separate storage tank will also be built in Cotor.
Registe said two independent contractors have been employed on that project.
A total of $1-million has been invested by Government in the Vielle Case Water upgrade project.
$1.6M water supply project to be commissioned at Campbell
DOWASCO conducting improvements in water supply
Improved water supply for Roseau, environs coming
West Coast Water Supply Project at advanced stage
DOWASCO working on multi-million dollar projects
paul Griffith's
Can anyone tell me and show all pipe work near Dukesville site in Dublanc and who to talk to as well .
Stop dumping garbage in the ravins and you will have 365 clean rivers to enjoy!
Bense resident
DOWASCO we waiting!!!!!!!!! we wondering how long again before completion.
Mr. Registe, the Grandbay water system is in dire need of a better filtration system. Any little rain there is dirt/mud down your pipes. Same used to happen in Roseau and the filtration was upgraded, you need to have some fight in you for your community’s health, Ed.
Be patient my people after i give you all free toilet you all will get the water.
Bense
We have been suffering for many, many years with this water issue, the water project commenced almost two years now, couldn’t DOWASCO have done one project at a time? If this had been done our project would surely would have been completed by now. We are waiting to see how much longer this project will take for completion.
Feeling it
What hurts most, the people are scared to talk just because of bribery. Materials for road and water project are also used for individuals homes. While working on the project but concrete trucks carrying materials from the same project to people left ,right and centre.
Ambas
For the past three years if I have pipe water at my home for a half day, I consider myself fortunate. The water system is under construction for 3 years now. The contractor placed conduit pipes for pvc and those pipes have been changed four times, yet we have no water.
Our people so hypocrite because they receiving money in paper bag, from de nurse their mouth shut.
Some get appointment as Principal and teachers and nurses and permanent secretary their mouth shut.
New vehicle buying every 6 months, father and mother walking on air, hotel house build but we in ambas doh have water, toilet without water how will it flush.
skerro
it is going on THREE years now the ambas-penville water project is ongoing. the pipes have been placed and removed over four times. What a mess
Investigation required
When will the high levels of calibishie like Crete coco and Lima Ridge see an improvement to their water supply we hardly get water at night and during the day no water. What happen to the water from the irrigation project ? Why can’t that water be connected to our system?
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colours of the king
Mar. 16, 2013, 6:22 a.m. GMT
merry christmas to all peace and goodwill to all men,
Dic. 24, 2012, 8:35 p.m. GMT
Murderers! How can you give a toss about what music played when? These people in the name of entertainment and humour led to the suicide of a decent woman and caused two kids to loose their Mum. Funny, funny, funny. Who cares about the music. You need to question them about their morals.
Dic. 7, 2012, 10:53 p.m. GMT
This radio station murdered a mother of two and a valued member of society as nurse. I look forward to seeing how they respond. A joke that leads to the death of a human being?? Really funny I am sure we are all laughing. What are you going to do for the orphaned kids??
stream today's jazz
cant play stream
Sept. 21, 2012, 9:14 a.m. GMT
What music was played on the 21st of August 2012 at 8:40am. It was called something like Spiritu selenium suite by david hull/hall. It was orchestrated for marimba, strings and 2 female voices.
Ago. 21, 2012, 11:23 a.m. GMT
What music was played on Classic Fm today July 15th at 3.30pm with the Tasmanian Orchestra Piano Concerto no 2 by (?)Calebrumer
Jul. 15, 2012, 9:06 p.m. GMT
Carolyn Wilson
I have loved 2MBSFM for well over 20 years and . Have never changed my opinion! My favourite programmes were "Colours of the King" and "Evensong" with dear Anne Ramsay, which has now become "Hosanna."
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Posts by F R O G L E A P
Twistedtail Receives Her Nine Lives
F R O G L E A P
✦ ✧ ✦ The next cat to step forward was a brown and white tom, his pelt glittering with faintest glow of starlight. Unlike most of those gathered, Frogleap was not from RiverClan, though in the last moons of his life head had found himself frequenting the clan more often due to his liaisons with Bluefrost, and confrontation with Rootlegs. It was fair to say the last moons of his life had not been the easiest or the happiest, and though is death had been slow and painful, he had found a peace in StarClan that had eluded him for almost a year.
As Mistpaw stepped away, Frogleap came forward to give his life. Stopping in front of the soon to be new leader, his blue eyes studied her carefully. Frogleap had never spoken to Twistedtail when he had been alive, but he could recall her from past gatherings. She had always seemed like a sensible she-cat, willing to do what was necessary to protect her clan. There was no doubt in the tom's mind that she would make a fine leader.
"Welcome to StarClan, Twistedtail," He mewed, dipping his head in greeting. "Unlike most of the cats here I was not from RiverClan, instead hailing from WindClan. I will spare you the details of my life, but I am pleased to see you standing here, I always thought you'd make a fine leader one day." Frogleap would cough before continuing. "I am giving you the life of hope. Use it wisely in guiding your clan," Frogleap said, giving her a small nod. "Remember that no matter how hard things seem, never lose your hope that things will get better."
The tabby tom would step forward, pressing his nose against Twistedtail, a sad look in his eyes as he did so. When he had done his duty, he simply bowed his head once more, and slipped back into the ranks of StarClan cats.
LADY STARDUST (sorrelfire's lives)
✦ ✧ ✦ After Rainyskies stepped away, a second cat came forward, this time a tom. The brown and white tom's pelt glittered with faintest glow of star, his blue eyes were lively once more, and he generally looked in better shape than he had for the final moons of his life. He stopped in front of Sorrelfire, his blue gaze fixing on her warmly, looking at her with a look of admiration. "My name is Frogleap," he whispered in greeting. "I was born and spent most of my life in WindClan. I had a wonderful life there, with family and friends who adored me, and I showed promise as a good warrior. Sadly, things changed when I was kidnapped by twolegs," Frogleap's eyes closed for a moment as he recalled that time. "It was a horrid time, and honestly some of my darkest days. The only thing that kept me going was the hope that I would see my family again. And when the time came, that hope carried me home, and reunited me with much of what I was lost. When I left my clan some moons later, it was hope that kept me from being consumed by my own dark thoughts." He paused and a thoughtful expression passed over his face. "You are to be leader soon, and with that comes a sense of uncertainty of the future in an ever-changing world. You must have hope that no matter how things seem, everything will be alright in the end."
Frogleap then stepped forward and touched his nose gently against Sorrelfire's head. Although the touch had been gentle, the sensation that would wash over Sorrelfire would not be the most pleasant. She would feel his pain and grief, a strange unexplainable sensation, that seemed to gnaw away in the back of your mind. She would feel the fatigue flood her body. Not the sort from lack of sleep or illness, but something that came from an overwhelming urge to give up, from a lack of motivation. And when the pain seemed at it's worst, it would fade away, her body flooding with warmth, happiness, and hope.
"With this life, I give you the life of hope. Use it wisely in guiding your clan," He said, giving her a small nod. "Remember that even in the darkest time, when things seem at their worst, never lose hope."
And with that, the brown tabby bowed his head, and stepped back, taking his place back among the cats of StarClan.
Long Time Coming Frogleap
✦ ✧ ✦ The blunt words hit Frogleap hard, and he was forced to look away for a moment. "I could ask you the same thing, Rootlegs," He said quietly. "We're closer to WindClan territory are we not? Seems strange for you to be out this far."
At the other's comment about Frostfall, he shifted uncomfortably. Frostfall. The she-cat who claimed to love him. Who when learning of the half-clan kits he had fathered during his time coming back to WindClan, had sought the comfort of another and had his kits. Perhaps Frogleap would not have been so mad and so broken by the news had she not stung him along for so long. It had been too much for him with his already fragile mental state, and then his tragic fling with Bluefrost had only worsened his mental state. "Why would I?" Frogleap asked with a neutral tone. "She lied to me. Those aren't my kits!"
✦ ✧ ✦ Frogleap had been wondering between the territories for a couple of weeks now. After Bluefrost's death, he had been unable to cope, and his already weak mental state had broken further by this. He had felt awful leaving, if only for the sake of his kits, but he had finally found some semblance of peace again now. His dreams were still dark and troublesome, but he was more at peace now.
Despite his desire to leave, Frogleap had not truly wondered very far from WindClan's territory, and on some days if the wind was strong enough, he was able to smell the faint scent of home. He had been hunting for some prey in the area, when the sudden shout of Rootlegs made him jump, and scared off the rabbit he had been stalking. Cursing quietly to himself, he padded toward the direction of the voice, not quite recognising it as Rootlegs's shout. As he stepped forward and blue optics fell on the younger tom, he blinked in surprise, his tense stance softening. "Rootlegs?"
and now the end is near // [open-ish, leaving]
✦ ✧ ✦ This moment had been building for Frogleap. He was leaving WindClan.
The brown tabby tom had not felt happy for a long time, the discovery that Frostfall's kits weren't really his, and then watching the mother of his kits die in front of him, had all lead to deteriorating mental state. Though in truth, he hadn't been the same cat he once was for a long time, not after his kidnap. Frogleap had tried to find some happiness again with the new kits, but when he looked at them, all he could think of was Bluefrost dying on the border, her blood staining his pelt, their kits crying out for a mother they needed but would never know. That moment had plagued his thoughts for days now, haunting him in his dreams. He had kept this bottled up for the most, feeling that he had no-one to really speak with this about, unlike Morningfrost. There was Wolfheart perhaps, but he didn't really know her well enough to vent his frustrations.
All the cats he could have once turned to, who he had loved, had either died or disappeared.
And perhaps he would be better off disappearing too...
Frogleap waited till night fall to leave, lying awake in his nest for hours until he was certain none of his clanmates were awake. He felt a pang in his chest at the thought of leaving his children all alone, but he had truly come to feel they would be better off without him. His kits with Bluefrost would have Morningfrost as well, and he would probably make a far better father to them than Frogleap would. Mothkit and Flamingokit wouldn't really have no-one else, maybe Frostfall if she could find it in her heart to care for them, or hopefully his clanmates would step up to care for them. He left camp quietly, careful to not be seen or heard, never looking back.
By the time his clanmates began to stir he was long gone, his scent leading to the border with RiverClan, but then simply fading away, as though the tabby tom had simply vanished.
// so here it is froggy's leaving post. it is up to you whether your character believes him to be dead or not...I will say his fate is rather ambiguous for now ;). I've loved rping him with you guys but his time has come to an end for now.
summer’s light and winter’s demise | p, bluefrost’s kitting and death
✦ ✧ ✦ At Rootlegs' request, Frogleap got to work in attempting to swab some of her blood. He didn't know if it would do much good, and worried that he was too clumsy and doing more harm than good.
It was not long after he returned that the first of the kits was born, a small black tom. Frogleap looked at the kit lovingly for a long moment, before Rootlegs stepped in and moved him closer to Cowspots to be carefully monitored. The birth of this one kit seemed to be tiring enough for Bluefrost, he feared if she would even live to see all of her kits be born. A few minutes after the small tom had been born, he was followed in quick succession by three other kittens, another tom and two she-kits, the youngest of which was moved over to Frogleap, as another wave of contractions hit Bluefrost. He looked down at the small kit as this was going on, licking her backwards to help her breathe. As he was doing this, the fifth and final kitten was born, a little grey she-kit, who looked remarkably like Bluefrost.
What happened next, would haunt Frogleap's memory for many moons to come. After naming the youngest kit Ashkit, Bluefrost had slumped against the ground once more. Her gaze had shifted to the firstborn, but before she could say his name, her sentence was cut short by a cough and her sputtering up blood. The queen's eyes closed for one last time and her body went still. She was dead. Frogleap's blue orbs went wide, staring at her lifeless body with a look of deep sorrow. He had not known Bluefrost very well or for even that long, but he had enjoyed her company. It seemed unfair that her life had been cut short in this way, at this moment. She had deserved to live longer, to see her kits grow up happy and healthy.
"His name will be Duskkit," Frogleap blurted out, looking at the firstborn tom. It seemed fitting given the time of day. Frogleap looked down at the young she-kit at his feet, her mewed pitifully for a mother she would never know. He did not care if Morningfrost or any of the other cats had objections over him naming these two kits. They were potentially his after all, he had every right to have a say in their naming. Besides, he had missed out on the naming of his elder son, who had been born in ThunderClan, he did not want to miss the opportunity for a second time. "And she will be Dawnkit," He added, gesturing to the small black and white she-kit. "After my sister."
// hope it's okay I had him name Duskkit as well! I figured it made sense since he is technically Frog's kit haha
✦ ✧ ✦ Eyes widen slightly when Morningfrost appears, followed by two other WindClan warriors who he recognizes as Ivynose and Cowspots. Blue eyes meet Morningfrost's, though he looks at him pleadingly, instead of the cool indifference he usually would. Help me. Help her. his eyes seem to silently ask.
Unsurprisingly, it does not take long for the smell of blood to draw attention from the RiverClan side. The first to appear is a she-cat, who rushes over to Bluefrost's side, and she is soon followed by a thick furred tom and....Rootlegs. Their eyes met for a moment, and Frogleap felt a wave of emotions wash over him. This was the real father of Frostfall's kits, the kits he had loved and been raising as his own. A part of him wanted to confront the younger tom, but this was not the place to instigating a spat between the two.
He lingered back a little whilst Rootlegs got to work tending to Bluefrost. He instructed the she-cat to keep her awake and for Morningfrost to keep pressure on some of her wounds. "I'll get some moss," Frogleap announced quietly, eyeing Rootlegs as he spoke, unsure whether the tom was purposefully ignoring his presence. With a small nod, he bounded back over to WindClan's side of the border, disappearing to retrieve some moss for him.
He gone for several minutes, eventually returning with as much moss as he could carry between his jaw, droplets of water trailing behind him. Frogleap set the moss down beside Bluefrost's body for Rootlegs to use and moved to the side, offering words of comfort, trying to keep her awake like Ashfolly was.
life is death | bringing the angst kittens back
✦ ✧ ✦ The memory of this night would linger in Frogleap's mind for moons to come, he was sure of it. He followed silently behind the small group that had formed at the border during Bluefrost's kitting, the small black and white kitten that he had named Dawnkit clutched between his jaw.
He felt numb. Hollow. The only sound he could really focus on was the muted crying of the three kittens they carried with them, crying out for the mother they needed, but would never know. It pains him to think back on Bluefrost, who had died mere moments after bringing these kits (and their RiverClan siblings) into this world. That she would never see them grow and live their lives, her life cruelly cut short. He had no doubt that the injuries she had sustained prior to him coming across her body had contributed greatly to her death. Whoever had done that to her was a monster. To inflict such harm on a queen like that you just had to be.
He follows Morningfrost and Cowspots into the nursery once they reach camp, giving the Dawnkit carried to a queen to be cared for alongside her littermates. He watched her for a long moment before walking back outside. Frogleap joins the group again, albeit sat a small distance away from them. He is not surprised to see Jasperstar come over and ask questions. The four of them returning, bloodied and with three newborn kits, was bound to raise suspicions. Still, Frogleap said nothing, he merely curled his tail round his paws, and lowered his head, getting lost in the memory of what had happened that night.
✦ ✧ ✦ Frogleap had not planned on walking the border that night. It was pure coincidence - or maybe not - that he had suffered another bad dream, and in order to shake the nightmare from his mind had gone for a walk out of camp. The cool air always seemed to relax him, and that night, seemed to do it's usual trick of dispelling his bad thoughts. That was until the tang of blood hit him.
Against all of his better judgement, he followed the scent of blood. As she drew nearer to the body of Bluefrost, he could now detect the scent of RiverClan as well. It was faint, masked by the scent of blood, but her would know that odour anywhere.
He soon came across the body of Bluefrost, and at the sight of her, cut up and bleeding, clearly in extreme agony, he froze. Blue orbs fixed on her body, paralyzed with shock and fear at the state of her, watching as her body heaved with the effort of contractions. What kind of a monster would do this to a pregnant queen?
It was that thought that seemed to spur him forward. "Bluefrost!" He called out her name as he came towards her. Being this close to her he could see the wounds on her body, and it pained him to imagine what agony she must have been going through at that moment, caught in the throes of labour and perhaps fatally wounded. "I don't know who did this to you...but I'll try and help as best as I can. Try and focus on your breathing for me, okay? I know it hurts but we need to bring these kits into this world."
whispers in the wind // [p, wolfheart]
✦ ✧ ✦ Frogleap paused a moment before responding. He had only just come back from a patrol, did he really want to go out again so soon? It was only whilst he was deep in thought that he noted the look in her eyes, a look that seemed to imply this would be more than a simple walk. "Of course," he responded lightly. "Lead on and I'll follow."
✦ ✧ ✦ "No I'm fine," Frogleap said simply. It was a lie of course. Even in Frogleap would not admit it himself, there could be no denying that his behaviour had shifted in recent days. He was quieter, keeping to himself where possible, and was irritated by the slightest of things.
"I just thought I'd say hello and see how you were getting on," he explained, "I haven't spoken to you since before you were made a warrior."
✦ ✧ ✦ The growing doubts about Frostfall's kits' parentage had reached a head in recent days. The seed of doubt had always been there in the back of his mind since they were born, but it had only grown worse in recent weeks. Perhaps for other members for the clan it was more obvious but Frogleap had vehemently tried to ignore, to push his doubts back down, even though the truth was so blaringly obvious.
That afternoon, after finishing a patrol, Frogleap headed over to Wolfheart. He hadn't spoken to the young she-cat since she had become a warrior. "Hello, Wolfheart," he said, dipping his head in greeting. "How are you?"
{WolfHeart} I thought Wolf could bring up her suspicions in their conversation rather than jumping straight in. Hope that's okay! :)
he said, she said // [private, confrontation]
✦ ✧ ✦ Frogleap nodded and turned to head out of camp, gesturing for Frostfall to follow him. He lead them a little ways out of camp, finding a concealed glen just off the moors where they could speak. He let her settle down before triggering a conversation with her.
"We need to talk about the kits," he said bluntly, blue eyes meeting hers. "I've had some suspicions for a while, and they've only grown when Wolfheart expressed some of those same concerns. I want you to be honest with me Frostfall. I need to hear the truth."
I kindly scatter // [p, bluefrost]
✦ ✧ ✦ Frogleap caught her glance in his direction. They both had their own issues to deal with, and whilst both had clearly sought solace outside of the clan, both seemed to enjoy the added company from this unconventional meeting.
"Ten moons..." He repeated quietly, more so to himself than in response to her, "I can scarce remember what I was like at that age." A small chuckle passed his lips, as they image of a much younger Frogleap - or as he was then, Frogpaw - came to mind. He had been so full of hope then, ready to take on the world. Funny how quickly things changed in that regard. "I have kits as well," Frogleap and told her. "My eldest was adopted, but I love her as though she were my own. Like you, I had a half-clan litter a few moons back. Only one of those kits live with me in WindClan, the rest live with their other father in ThunderClan."
✦ ✧ ✦ Perhaps inspired by his own transparency with her, Bluefrost revealed some of her own past to him. Frogleap listened to what she had to say, feeling a pang of sympathy for what she had gone through. "I'm sorry you had to experience all of that," Frogleap told her with a genuine tone. "I can't imagine it was easy for you. I'm presuming this is the reason you needed to get away?"
They walked a little further in silence before he turned to ask her a question. "You mentioned you had kits," he began, shifting to a lighter topic of conversation for the moment. "How old are they?"
✦ ✧ ✦ Frogleap nodded in approval as Bluefrost agreed to walk with him. She may have been a RiverClanner, but from what she had said to him, he got the impression they were in a similar boat. Besides, he appreciated having the company of someone who didn't really know him.
"Hmm, that's a long story," Frogleap muttered in response, the tone of his voice suggesting that whatever had lead to him being out here was not a pleasant topic. "Let's just say, that I've been raising another tom's kits unknowingly, and let's leave it at that shall we."
✦ ✧ ✦ A bitter laugh passed the tom's lips. He wasn't laughing at her, rather laughing at the similarity of their situations. "It seems we are the same in that regard," He said once he had finished laughing, After Frostfall's reveal he desperately needed to get away from his home. The news, though partially expected, had still come as a heavy blow, and hurt him deeply.
He looked around momentarily, as though scanning the area before his eyes fell on her form once more. "Since we're both out here alone, would you care to join me for a walk?" He paused for a moment, realizing that she may not have been comfortable walking with a WindClan tom. "I promise I don't bite."
November 2018 Gathering!
✦ ✧ ✦ Frogleap noted the quiver of nervousness almost immediately, and his eyes snapped to the younger tom beside her. A relative perhaps? It was hard to tell, but they certainly seemed familiar with each other.
"I'm fine, thank you," he responded a little briskly. "Like you I've been better, but there's not much I can do about that at the moment." Frogleap laughed bitterly, before his eyes moved to Nettlepaw for a moment. "I think I'll leave you two alone now, It was nice to see you again, Bluefrost."
✦ ✧ ✦ "I can tell," He commented bluntly, his nose wrinkling slightly. "No offense, but you reek of RiverClan."
He tilted his head at her for a moment, looking at her with a curious expression. She seemed a long way from home for a RiverClanner. He wondered if she had any ulterior motives for being here, or if, like he, she just needed the peace and quiet away from clan life. "May I ask what you're doing here?"
✦ ✧ ✦ As he went searching for the source of the sound it seemed he too had caught the attention of another. He jumped instinctively when Bluefrost's voice rang out. He cautiously padded out towards her, standing away from her, blue eyes settling on her form. He could not claim to recognise her, but the unmistakable sent of RiverClan lingered in the air.
"My name is Frogleap," he responded calmly, not wanting to come off as threatening to the she-cat. "Who are you?"
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Pop Culture Pet Peeve: Underwater kisses really aren't that romantic
By Samantha Highfill
Everett Collection
Movies and television make a lot of things look really romantic. When I was young and impressionable, pop culture taught me that kissing in the rain was about 100 times better than kissing in any other weather, and that you didn’t properly ride a Ferris wheel unless you were making out with somebody during it. Additional lessons included the appeal of the “up-against-a-wall” kiss and the shirt rip, all of which I enjoy watching and don’t have an issue with. However, there is one “romantic” gesture I’d like to address: The underwater kiss is not nearly as great as it is portrayed to be.
Let’s start with a realistic take on this: Underwater kisses can make for a good picture, but not much else. As a teen, I constantly made my boyfriend test out these pop culture theories with me. (I was a great girlfriend.) On my birthday, I remember making him run outside with me to see if kissing in the rain was really better than kissing on a perfectly dry day. And considering I don’t remember the outcome of that, I’m going to say it wasn’t the greatest moment of my life. However, I do remember how my pool kiss turned out. Honestly guys, when both parties are submerged in water (or have been recently), lips are really slippery, and the result is just not sexy. I’m sorry to crush your dreams.
But even if I let go of the reality of it all, I don’t particularly enjoy watching underwater kisses on-screen. Sure, a part of me finds them super romantic, but let’s look more closely at the swimming aspect of things. Nobody looks graceful underwater. Nobody. And watching two people try to maneuver in a zero-gravity situation in order to get to a position where they’re close enough to kiss? It’s not exactly hot. It would be like watching two astronauts try to float together to kiss (which actually sounds hilarious, and I’d watch that movie).
And once the lips finally do make contact, I’m less focused on romance and more focused on the fact that nobody in that scenario is breathing. Call me old-fashioned, but I like for everyone in a romantic situation to be inhaling and exhaling at a healthy pace. This, of course, brings up the “breath of air” underwater kiss, much like what happened in Splash or in this week’s episode of Star-Crossed. But that variation makes me even more uncomfortable. If someone is giving you air because they’re a mermaid or an alien and can breathe underwater, great. As I previously mentioned, I’m all about breathing. But if that moment of someone saving your life then turns into some sort of pseudo-romantic awkward kissing scenario? Eh, that makes me uncomfortable.
Now, I know that people have their favorite adorable underwater moments. There’s the cute pool kiss in Whip It or Leonardo DiCaprio’s underwater moment in Romeo and Juliet, and I fully admit that some of them make me smile. But, let’s not play them up as some big romantic thing. In addition to the awkward flailing and the slippery lips and the lack of breathing, there’s also the fact that, in order to see the other person and get over to them, you have to open your eyes, which often hurts under water. So tell me where the romance is guys, because I’m not seeing it (probably because my eyes are stinging from salt water or chlorine).
Finally, particularly pertaining to Star-Crossed, there is an element of cheesiness that I sometimes enjoy, but that sometimes rubs me the wrong way, with the underwater kiss. In Star-Crossed‘s case, I was a little upset that this underwater exchanging of air served as Roman and Emery’s first kiss. I know that they actually kissed once they got out of the water, but still, the first time their lips touched was underwater, and don’t tell me he was giving her air. I watched Baywatch, and I know she wasn’t holding her mouth properly for him to do that. They were making out, and all I could think was, “Please don’t inhale any of that gross lake water.”
So as someone who loves a good on-screen kiss (probably too much), I just don’t get the hype behind the underwater kiss. But if you want to keep enjoying it, that’s your right. My advice? Don’t ever try it in real life.
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Proboscis Monkeys
Rhinoceros Hornbill
Conservation status: NEAR THREATENED
Common Name: Rhinoceros hornbill
Scientific Name: Buceros rhinoceros
Diet: fruits
Length: 80 -90 cm
Weight: 2,040 – 2,960 g
The Rhinoceros hornbill is a large, arboreal species of forest hornbill that can be found in lowland and montane, tropical and subtropical climates and in mountain rainforests up to 1,400 meters in Borneo, Sumatra, Java, the Malay Peninsula, Singapore, and southern Thailand. It is also the state bird of the Malaysian state of Sarawak and the country’s National Bird.
This hornbill is covered with a black plumage and has white legs and feather tails with a black band running through the middle. It also has a massive bill and casque that are both orange-red. The eyes of the male are red with black rims, and white with red rims in the female.
Some Dayak people, the native people of Borneo, believe that this hornbill is the chief of worldly birds, and its statue is used to welcome Sengalang Burong, the god of the augural birds.
However, the rhinoceros hornbill faces a number of threats, including loss of its rainforest habitat, as well as hunting for its meat, and its skull and feathers. Without further protection, it is likely that this species would also become endangered.
Kemp, A C (2001). “Family Bucocerotidae (Hornbills)”. In Josep, del Hoyo; Andrew, Elliott; Sargatal, Jordi. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 6, Mousebirds to Hornbills. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. pp. 436–487. ISBN 84-87334-30-X.
“Finding Hope For The Rainforests Of Malaysia”. Huffpost, 2017, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-cristian-samper/finding-hope-for-the-rain_b_7424182.html.
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Cultural and Educational Panel
The Cultural and Educational Panel (Irish: An Rolla Saíochta agus Oideachais) is one of five vocational panels which together elect 43 of the 60 members of Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas (the legislature of Ireland). The Cultural and Educational Panel elects five senators, at least two of whom must come from the Oireachtas members' nominees and another three must come from the nominating bodies' nominees.
SenatorsEdit
Senators for the Cultural and Educational Panel
Key to parties
FF = Fianna Fáil
FG = Fine Gael
Lab = Labour Party
SF = Sinn Féin
Ind = Independent
(Party)
2nd 1938 Patrick Doyle
(FG) Seán O'Donovan
(FF) Séamus Ó hEocha
(Ind) Gearóid O'Sullivan
(FG) James Parkinson
(FG)
3rd 1938 James Crosbie
(FG) Thomas Delany
(Ind)
1941 Thomas J. O'Connell
(Lab)
4th 1943 Donal O'Sullivan
5th 1944 Patrick J. O'Reilly
(Ind) Louis O'Dea
(FF)
6th 1948 Michael Hayes
(FG) Frank Loughman
(FF) Liam Ó Buachalla
(FF) Thomas J. O'Connell
(Lab) Cecil Lavery
7th 1951 James B. Lynch
(FF) Patrick F. O'Reilly
8th 1954 James Crosbie
(FG) Eamonn Kissane
(Lab) Michael ffrench-O'Carroll
(FG) Anthony Barry
(FG) John O'Donovan
10th 1961 Timothy McAuliffe
(Lab) John J. Nash
11th 1965 Ben O'Quigley
(FG) Michael O'Kennedy
12th 1969 John Kelly
(FG) Kit Ahern
(FF) Michael Yeats
(FF) Michael O'Higgins
13th 1973 Mary Walsh
(FG) Timothy McAuliffe
(Lab) Billy Fox
1975 Roddy Connolly
1976 Vincent McHugh
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14th 1977 Patrick Cooney
(FG) Richard Conroy
(FF) Flor Crowley
(FF) David Molony
15th 1981 Patsy Lawlor
(FG) Mary O'Rourke
(FF) Joe Walsh
(FF) Maurice Manning
16th 1982 Joachim Loughrey
(FG) Séamus de Brún
(FF) Madeleine Taylor
17th 1983 Michael Smith
(FF) Helena McAuliffe-Ennis
(Lab) Brian Fleming
18th 1987 Sean Byrne
(FF) Paschal Mooney
(FF) Tony McKenna
19th 1989 Joe O'Reilly
(FG) Éamon Ó Cuív
20th 1993 Madeleine Taylor-Quinn
(FG) Ann Ormonde
(FF) Mary Kelly
21st 1997 Labhrás Ó Murchú
22nd 2002 Brian Hayes
(FG) Noel Coonan
23rd 2007 Liam Twomey
(FG) Cecilia Keaveney
(FF) Alex White
24th 2011 Michael Mullins
(FG) Thomas Byrne
(FF) Deirdre Clune
(FG) John Gilroy
2014 Gerard Craughwell
25th 2016 Kieran O'Donnell
(FG) Lorraine Clifford-Lee
(FF) Fintan Warfield
(SF) Keith Swanick
(FF) Gabrielle McFadden
Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns.
^ Resigned on 31 July 1947 due to ill-health
^ Died on 9 July 1939
^ Elected to Seanad at a by-election on 22 January 1941, to replace Thomas Delany
^ Appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court on 21 April 1950
^ Died on 12 March 1954
^ Died on 29 May 1969
^ Died on 18 August 1976
^ Assassinated on 12 March 1974
^ Elected to Seanad at a by-election 23 April 1975, replacing Billy Fox
^ Elected to Seanad at a by-election on 25 October 1976, replacing Mary Walsh
^ Joined the Progressive Democrats in 1986
^ Resigned the Fianna Fáil whip on 7 July 2010, rejoining on 23 November 2010
^ Elected to the European Parliament in May 2014
^ Elected in a by-election on 10 October 2014, replacing Deirdre Clune
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Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI)
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann
Conradh na Gaeilge
Council of the Bar of Ireland
Dental Council of Ireland
Drama League of Ireland
Education and Training Boards Ireland
Gael Linn
Gaeloideachas
Genealogical Society of Ireland
Institute of Community Health Nursing
Institute of Guidance Counsellors
Irish Countrywomen's Association
Irish Dental Association
Irish Federation of University Teachers
Irish Georgian Society
Irish National Teachers' Organisation
Law Society of Ireland
Library Association of Ireland
Local Authority Medical Specialists
National Youth Council of Ireland
Old Dublin Society (Cumann le Seandacht Átha Cliath)
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
Royal Irish Academy
Royal Irish Academy of Music
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Teachers' Union of Ireland
Theatre Forum
Údarás na Gaeltachta
Veterinary Council (Comhairle na d'Tréidlia)
Visual Artists Ireland
Writers' Guild of Ireland
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Tag: alte münze
art, Berlin, events, Germany, history, Life in Berlin, Museum, music, things to do
Nineties Berlin at the Alte Münze
December 18, 2018 December 18, 2018 notesfromberlin
“Berlin ist vorbei,” says Andreas Jeromin, a former Berlin squatter. It’s a phrase we hear often. Berlin is over. The coolest, most creative time the city had ever experienced, just after the fall of the wall in the 1990s, is long gone. But the current exhibition at the Alte Münze attempts to revisit the era with Nineties Berlin.
The Alte Münze seems like a good choice for such an undertaking. The former mint factory now serves as a blank canvas that is regularly repurposed for different events and exhibitions, much like the morphing and the repurposing of old and abandoned spaces that took place in 1990s Berlin. The space lends itself to immersive audio-visual experiences, whether its being used for a Boiler Room event or the wonderful Monet to Kandinsky art show that was on earlier in the year, and the first room of Nineties Berlin is no different.
A moving collage of old photos and video footage of pianists playing on heaps of rubble, love parade ravers and artists occupying old buildings float by, giving us a feel of the political energy, creative freedom and hedonism of nineties Berlin. A jagged passageway in the centre of the room is lined with old black and white stills of the city. But to find out more about them, you have to log in to the website and use the ‘interactive bot’, which takes you out of the experience by making you look at your phone and seems like a case of using technology for technology’s sake. Why not just put some text beneath every photo?
The next room consists of videos of contemporary witnesses talking about Berlin in the nineties, including the former squatter mentioned above. I found this room a little disappointing: Of the 14 people featured, only two were women, and the majority were involved in the music scene. What about the rest of the people living in Berlin in the 90s? Surely there was more to the era than the Love Parade?
The creators of the exhibition might have had the same thought, because the forth room was a breath of fresh air. No, cold air. Literally. It was a freezing room, which consisted of a brutal and effective memorial to the people who had been shot down before the wall came crashing down at the end of the 80s. However, you couldn’t spend much time contemplating these lingering political and human effects of the wall because the cold temperature moved you swiftly on to the last room, which, again, focussed on club culture before spitting you out into the gift shop.
The gift shop felt like an extension of the exhibition. Poppy and expensive, it commercialised the image of 1990s Berlin without really moving beyond the surface. Everything felt like a simulation of simulacra, making me wonder if, indeed, Berlin really is over.
Nineties Berlin is currently on at the Alte Münze, Molkenmarkt 2, 10179 Berlin.
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Children’s hub for the ages
Casey councillor Susan Serey, deputy mayor Rosalie Crestani, Dandenong MP Gabrille Williams and Chalcot Lodge mother Sivanka Kulatunga with her daughter Chenaya. 195026_01 Picture: ROB CAREW
A new-look Chalcot Lodge Childrens Centre in Endeavour Hills has moved with the times, expanding into a community hub for groups of all ages.
The $782,000 upgrade includes a new multi-purpose community room, a flexible consulting room, a community kitchen, outdoor play area and an upgraded kindergarten.
The 40-year-old building’s furnishings, fittings, equipment, facade, front landscaping and signage also get a makeover.
It will host programs such as playgroups, exercise classes and a meeting point for a wide range of social and cultural groups in Endeavour Hills.
The opening was launched by Casey Four Oaks Ward councillor Rosalie Crestani and Dandenong MP Gabrielle Williams.
“Places like these are vital anchors, which help grow greater community connectedness and reduce social isolation,” Cr Crestani said.
In the past 12 months, the number of babies born in Casey rose by 5 per cent – from 4959 to 5202.
Dandenong MP Gabrielle Williams said with 90 babies born in Casey a week, there was a clear need for better maternal-and-child-health facilities.
“This Children’s Centre will be a major asset for young families in our area.”
Casey mayor Amanda Stapledon said the redevelopment was an example of the community’s changing needs.
“By providing a dedicated community space for a diverse range of community and user groups, residents now have a place to meet, participate, socialise and connect for years to come,” Cr Stapledon said.
Local Government Minister Adem Somyurek said the Growing Suburbs Fund supported “our growing community”, investing $25 million into projects in Casey.
The project was jointly funded by City of Casey ($407,000) and the State Government ($350,000).
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Home | News & Articles | THE DAY OF AASHURA (10TH MUHARRAM) & HISTORICAL EVENTS
THE DAY OF AASHURA (10TH MUHARRAM) & HISTORICAL EVENTS
Although the month of Muharram is a sacred month as a whole, the 10th of Muharram is the most sacred among all its days. The day is named ‘Aashurah’. It is one of the most important and blessed days of Allah Ta’ala in the Islamic calendar. This day has been accepted as having deep significance. Evidence of its significance has been clearly found in authentic traditions.
There are many Prophetic events of great historical importance and also events that happened after the Beloved and Final Messenger of Allah(peace be upon him) had left this world, such as the Battle of Karbala, that have taken place on this day.
The importance of the month of Muharram has been mentioned in the Qur’aan in Surah Taubah verse 36. This day of Aashura derives its importance from Prophetic Traditions. In the Ahadeeth (sayings of Rasulullah sallallaho alaihe wassallam) the following have been mentioned:
The Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu-Alayhi-Wasallam) has exhorted and encouraged his Ummah to fast on this day. He said:
“This fast is a compensation for the (minor) sins of the past year.” (Hadith:Muslim)
The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), when migrated to Madinah, found that the Jews of Madinah used to fast on the 10th day of Muharram. They said that it was the day on which the Prophet Musa (Moses), alayhis salam, and his followers crossed the Red Sea miraculously and the Pharaoh was drowned in its waters. On hearing this from the Jews, the Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, said, “We are more closely related to Musa, alayhi salam, than you,” …and directed the Muslims to fast on the day of ‘Ashura’. ( Hadith-Abu Dawood)
“Observe the fast of Aashura and oppose the Jews. Fast a day before it or a day after.” (Hadith:Baihaqi)
Hence, it is important to either fast on the ninth and the tenth or the tenth and the eleventh of Muharram. To fast only on the day of Aashora is Makrooh(undesirable).
BEING GENEROUS
One should be generous on one’s family and dependants and spend more on them than what is normally spent.
Rasulullah (Sallallahu-Alayhi-Wasallam) said: “One who generously spends on his family on the day of Aashora, Allah will increase (his provision) for the whole year.” (Hadith:Baihaqi)
There is no doubt on the blessedness of the The Day of Aashura. Many historical events of deep significance have also been recorded on this day. Hazrat Musa (as) and his people, the Bani Israel, were saved from the Egyptian Pharaoh by the miracle of the parting of the sea on the day of Ashura. It was for this reason that the Jews used to fast on this day.
The Tragic battle of Karbala was also fought on this day. This event has many important lessons for the Ummah (Muslim Nation) especially at this point in time when the Ummah is being maliciously targeted and persecuted just because of their attachment and love for Islam- The Religion of Truth.
By Abdurrahmaan Umar
Close to the end of his life Ameer Muawiyyah bin Abu Sufyaan (RA-Radiallahu Anhu – May Allah be pleased with him) decided to appoint his son Yazid as Khalifa of the Muslims, this was an unprecedented act in the history of Islam. No ruler had prior to this appointed his son or family as successor. Several of the Sahaba (RA) were dissatisfied with this deviation from the standard established by The Messenger of Allah (Sallalahu Alaihi wasallam) and his righteous guided Khalufa.
Of the Sahaba (RA) present at that time Abdullah bin Umar, Abdullah bin Abbas and Abdur Rahmaan bin Abu Bakr (RA) opted to accept the reign of Yazid to avoid further bloodshed in the Muslim Ummah. They did not want to see the repeat of conflicts of Siffin and Jamal, which cost many Muslim lives and threw the Ummah into turmoil. Abdullah bin Zubair (RA) took refuge in Makkah and he remained the ruler of Hijaaz (Makkah, Medina and surrounding areas) for a further ten years.
The other objector to Yazid becoming the Khalifa was Husain (RA) the youngest son of Hazrat Ali (RA) and Hazrat Fatima (RA). Based on his understanding of the tenets of Islam he understood this to be a deviation from the path of his grandfather, Rasulallah (Sallalahu Alaihi wasallam). Husain (RA) escaped from Medina to Makkah when the pressures of the governor, Waleed bin Utba, intensified his efforts to compel Husain (RA) to accept Yazid as the Khalifa of the Muslim Ummah.
While in Makkah, he began receiving letters of support from Kufa – encouraging him to come to Kufa where he will find many supporters who will help him oppose Yazid. When the number of letters of support exceeded 10’000, Husain (RA) considered going to Kufa, despite the objections of the other Sahaba (RA). He sent his cousin, Muslim bin Aqeel to investigate the situation. Abdulla bin Abbas and Abdulla bin Umar (RA) tried in vain to dissuade Husain (RA) from leaving the sanctuary of Makkah and going to Kufa. Realising that he would not heed their advice, they tried to convince him to leave his family in Makkah and make the journey with a few of his companions. But Husain (RA) had committed himself to opposing this deviation from the Path of Islam; and was prepared to sacrifice his life and the lives of his family to ensure that the Sunnah (Path of Nabi Sallalahu Alaihi wasallam) is not altered. Shariah had established the rules for Mashwera (Mutual consultation) and had abolished any remnants of monarchy.
When the cousin of Hazrat Husain (RA), Muslim bin Aqeel arrived in Kufa he found tremendous support for Husain. Nearly 15’000 supporters gathered to pray with him demonstrating their backing of Husain (RA). Encouraged by this situation, Muslim bin Aqeel wrote back saying the situation was favourable and that Husain (RA) should come to Kufa. But the situation quickly deteriorated when the new governor of Kufa, Ubayd-Allah bin Ziyad took power and began persecuting the supporters of Husain eventually killing Muslim bin Aqeel on 9 Dhul-Haijjah 60AH (680 AD) without any resistance from the people of Kufa.
Husain (RA) departed for the 1100km long journey on the 8th Dhul-Hijjah to avoid any conflict in the holy city during Hajj. En-route he heard of the murder of his cousin, Muslim bin Aqeel and of his supporters deserting his cause, but decided to continue to Kufa saying these famous words:
“… The death is a certainty for mankind, just like the trace of necklace on the neck of young girls. And I am enamored of my ancestors like eagerness of Yaqoob to Yusuf (AS)… Everyone, who is going to devote his blood for our sake and is prepared to meet Allah, must depart with us…” (Lohouf, By Sayyid ibn Tawoos, Tradition No.72)
Two days outside of Kufa Husain’s group were stopped by the vanguard of Yazid’s army – Hurr bin Riyahi, who refused him to continue his journey to Kufa. Husain requested to return to Medina, but that too, was denied. Forced by the army of Hurr, Husain (RA) and his supporters camped in the barren, dry area of Karbala on the 2nd Muharram. The governor of Kufa, Ubayd-Allah bin Ziyad ordered Umar bin Sa’ad to lead the army of 5’000 strong against Husain with instructions to initiate the battle on the 6th of Muharram. With further instructions to prevent Husain from access to water despite the close proximity of the mighty Euphrates river.
On the afternoon of the 9th the army of ibn Sa’ad began advancing to attack – Husain (RA) requested them to delay for one day. That night he spent in prayer and devotion; at Fajr he gathered his men and informed them that they faced certain death and if anyone wished to leave they were free to do so. All his supporters, 32 horsemen and 40 foot-soldiers, emphatically opted to stay by his side. Hearing Husain’s emotional call to defend the family of Nabi (Sallalahu Alaihi wasallam), Hurr Al- Riyahi, the commander of one of the enemy battalions left the ranks of Yazid’s army and joined the small group of Husain.
Fearing that more people may defect to Husain Umar bin Sa’ad, commander of the army started the battle by firing an arrow saying: “Give evidence before the governor that I was the first thrower.” The army attacked with ferocity but were repulsed by the courage of Husain bin Ali (RA) followers. Despite being charged at by infantrymen these brave soldiers of Allah Ta’ala stood their ground and defended the family of Nabi (Sallalahu Alaihi wasallam).
Husain’s (RA) followers came to bid farewell to him as they plunged into the battle, sacrificing their lives in defense of the grandson of the Master, Rasulallah (Sallalahu Alaihi wasallam). Abbas bin Ali (RA) the half-brother of Husain (RA) could not tolerate the suffering of the women and children who had been without water for several days. Penetrating the enemy forces he reached the river and began filling water skins. Laden with water skins and hopelessly outnumbered he made his way back to the camp. The enemy surrounded him determined not to let this brave warrior of Islam succeed in getting water to the camp. Before he died, Abbas called out to his brother Husain (RA) asking forgiveness that he could not bring the water.
As the day drew to a close, only Husain (RA) remained from the men. Few of the enemy dared attack him, some out of the dread of attacking the grandson of Nabi (Sallalahu Alaihi wasallam) others from the fear of his ferocity. Umar bin Sa’ad, commander of Yazid’s forces ordered his men to murder the noble grandson – most were reluctant then Shimr ibn Dhiljawshan advanced to slit the throat of Husain (RA). He severed the head of this noble leader of Islam and placed it on a spear. History will always mark this day – 10th of Muharram 60AH (680AD) as the day the noble grandson of the Master Muhammad (Sallalahu Alaihi wasallam) gave his life in defense of the established Path of Islam. He would tolerate no deviation from the Shariah (Islamic legal code) or Sunnah. Leaving this world at the age of 57 he became the leader of the youth of Jannah (Paradise).
Umar bin Sa’ad ordered his men to gather all the women and children, and to set fire to the tents. The next morning the captives from the family of Nabi (Sallalahu Alaihi wasallam) were marched to Kufa and then to Damascus. In the court of Yazid bin Muawiyyah the heads were displayed and the prisoners were paraded. Zaynab bint Ali (RA) fearlessly condemned Yazid for his actions and eulogised Hazrat Husain (RA).
This is a mere recording of events from authentic Sunni sources. Allah is the Best Judge. Allah Ta’ala makes it clear:
“That was a people that hath passed away. They shall reap the fruit of what they did, and ye of what ye do! Of their merits there is no question in your case”(Qur’an-Surah Baqarah 2:141 and 2:134)
But it leaves us with the profound question: How much are we willing to sacrifice in the defense of Deen, Truth and the laws of Islam. If each of us were willing to make the sacrifice of Hazrat Husain (RA) then there would be no deviation from the True Path. The call is not only to give up our lives in preserving our religion, but to give up our desires in fulfilling the Orders of Allah Ta’ala.
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North Bethesda is located in Montgomery County, Maryland in the United States. This area borders the city of Rockville, Maryland and is closely connected with the city. North Bethesda’s boundaries are not officially defined; however it is recognized by the United States Census Bureau as a Census-designated Place.
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There are a number of condominiums in North Bethesda and significantly more than in Potomac, Bethesda and Gaithersburg. Newer North Bethesda condominium communities include White Flint Station, Midtown, The Gallery, The Sterling, and 10101.
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Help!!! Conservatives are using the First Amendment to promote their biases!!!!
We are running low on exclamation points here at the Stately Manor and Office Depot is back-ordered. If you can spare a cupful, neighbor, stop on by. We’ll leave the light on and feed the attack dog.
Your perspicacious Squire has marked up today’s Sunday New York Times (07-01-18) with underlined, yellow-highlighted, and ALL-CAPS comments followed by a string of exclamation points!!!! and at least one profanity!!!! (Soon to be a collector’s edition.)
Right on Page One, upper right corner is a tendentious headline, which itself is rendered in ALL CAPS!!!!
HOW FREE SPEECH WAS WEAPONIZED BY CONSERVATIVES
RIGHT TURN FOR JUSTICES
First Amendment Cited to Reduce Regulation and Protect Bias
Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot!
“Weaponized”? Point-blank accusation that nefarious conservatives are using this constitutional protection to “protect bias.” Whose bias? (The New York Times’s bias?) Just as deplorable, “to reduce regulation.” Must have … more regulation! Government regulation of who may speak, when they may speak, and what they may say.
Who regulates? Government regulates. Yes, at the behest of the majority. May we remind the Times that the Bill of Rights protects the rights of individuals, not of the government? That it protects the rights of the minority? That those rights cannot be abridged by the majority? (Now we’re running out of question marks.)
Otherwise our democracy would devolve into two wolves and a sheep voting on what to eat for dinner. The headline on the Page 24 jump is even worse:
How the First Amendment Became a Cudgel Wielded by Conservatives
A “cudgel.” Great Middle English word. Beat it with a stick. “Cudgel” implies victims. Our liberal-progressive-socialist acquaintances feed off victims like Popeye on spinach.
You want a cudgel? How about the government’s John Doe II speech raids on private homes? Complete with battering rams.
A ‘more just’ society without free speech
Happily, there is some journalism sprinkled within the article itself. Reporter Adam Liptak quotes free-speech advocate Floyd Abrams, who notes that “Now the progressive community is, at the least, skeptical and sometimes distraught at the level of First Amendment protection …”
But this is what the social justice warriors do. When they can’t win an argument, they try to drown out that argument. Speak up for police in Madison schools, get shouted down. What is distressing is the number of law school professors the NY Times quotes who are opposed to free political speech.
“It’s a mistake to think of free speech as an effective means to accomplish a more just society,” says a law prof at Georgtown U. That’s straight up Vladimir Lenin.
To the contrary, free speech reinforces and amplifies injustice, Catharine A. MacKinnon, a law professor at the University of Michigan. “Once a defense of the powerless, the First Amendment over the last hundred years has mainly become a weapon of the powerful.”
Because the wrong people are speaking.
“We’re going to need a little muscle here” to shut down speech on U of Missouri campus
Our cudgel — if we may be allowed a politically incorrect thought — should be trained on Elena Kagan. It was that liberal Justice who used the term “weaponizing” in her dissent from Janus v. AFSCME. The court’s conservatives (presumably including swing justice Anthony Kennedy):
… had found a dangerous tool, “turning the First Amendment into a sword.”
The United States, she said, should brace itself. “Speech is everywhere — a part of every human activity (employment, health care, securities trading, you name it),” she wrote. “For that reason, almost all economic and regulatory policy affects or touches speech. So the majority’s road runs long. And at every stop are black-robed rulers overriding citizens’ choices.”
No, not “black-robed rulers” but guardians of America’s founding documents, protectors of individual rights. Those “citizens’ choices” being over-ridden are laws enacted by the majority that force the minority to parrot state-approved orthodoxy.
Such as forcing a pro-life pregnancy center to advocate for abortion. (The Becerra case, decided 6-26-18). Forcing a Christian baker to create a bespoke work of edible art against his conscience. (Masterpiece Cakeshop). Forcing a state employee to pay for state legislation with which he disagrees. (Janus.)
The right to dissent, Justice Kagan. Something you better get used to.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: The shame is that our news media, most of it, actively supports the abrogation of individual free speech. (See their complicity in the government’s John Doe II speech raids on private homes. Now THERE was a cudgel!) As long as they enjoy a generous carve-out. Imagine the State of Wisconsin ordering The Capital Times to publish both sides of an issue!
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64 Responses to Help!!! Conservatives are using the First Amendment to promote their biases!!!!
Gary L. Kriewald says:
The good news is that the far left is in a suicidal death spiral; the better news is if they manage to keep spiraling until November, they’ll drag a lot of run-of-the-mill liberals down with them. Attacks on the First Amendment as merely a tool–sword or cudgel, take your pick) to reinforce the white patriarchy are totally in keeping with the far left’s Leninist ideology. However, thinking of the FA as a weapon isn’t such a bad metaphor; after all, the weapon is merely an instrument–it doesn’t wield itself. If I wield my weapon more skillfully than my opponent (say, in an argument), it means I know the moves (e.g., rhetorical strategies) better and have practiced them more diligently than my opponent. The weapon is available to all–what makes it effective or ineffective is how it’s used. Of course this gets the lefties all red-faced and sputtering because it implies that “marginalized” people have the same access to the protections of the FA as the rest of us. They’d much rather use their own weapons: all-consuming rage at anyone who doesn’t swallow their toxic ideology whole; personal threats, harassment, & intimidation of anyone they perceive as the “enemy”; inflammatory accusations and innuendos designed to erode basic freedoms (which they can count on being faithfully replicated in the MSM)
Cornelius Gotchberg says:
Suicidal death spiral indeed.
Then WH Chief Of Staff Rahm Emanuel at the 2009 WH Correspondents Dinner:
“When you think about the 1st Amendment, you think It’s highly overrated.”
Many a truth is spoken in jest.
The Gotch
Portlandia Antifa Pussy Tries To Get Tough…Gets Shot Of Reality Instead.
Cannon Fodder!
Patrick M. O'Loughlin says:
“Why are you so angry and racist?”
“Uhmm, I’m neither. He tried to hit me with a baton and he wasn’t very good at it. Not good at all, in fact. And if you attack me, I’ll knock you out too. Any questions?”
richard lesiak says:
Livin’ life in the bike lane eh crotch.
Sarah Smith says:
@Richard Lesiak – What’s the matter pussy?! Can’t take the truth delivered with a huge dose of in your face sarcasm?
You are just another baby boomer…insecure about living in the shadow of their parent’s truly being The Greatest Generation. Another dirty free-love hippy who is staring at the abyss of their life and realized they wasted all of it soulless hatred, greed and envy. Instead of changing, it’s easier to castigate others who hold up a mirror.
Enjoy the void, Rich….and pay your bills, deadbeat.
@Sarah Smith;
Tell us how youse really feel.
And don’t expect too much out of @richard lesiak, he’s asked little of life and life’s met his price.
Do I owe you money?
As one of my favorite people, Maxine Waters, once said; “better shoot straight bitch.”
@richard lesiak;
“As one of my favorite people, Maxine Waters”
Well THAT makes perfect sense, you have a core similarity: you’s are both VERY low I.Q. women!
Hey sarah. Can you restate that without sounding like you are “…staring at the abyss of their life and realized (you) wasted all of it (sic) soulless hatred, greed and envy. Instead of changing, it’s easier to castigate others who hold up a mirror.” I love it when the angry one do what they fulminate against. It is like arguing with yourself.
Cheers, babe.
AnonyBob says:
I doubt “Sarah” is really a female. They aren’t usually that numbskull aggressive nor do they call anyone pussy.
Big sigh…….This seems to be the popular anti-intellectual flavor du jour. Someone above mentioned Rahm saying something against free speech in 2009. I don’t remember that, but if I read it, I probably would have shaken my head and moved on, confident that it was an aberration from an aberration. But, it seems that over the last few months, I keep hearing about repealing the first, how it is anti-democratic(??) and now a cudgel. I am astonished that the whole silliness has some legs now.
I guest that is what happens when people get their political philosophy from bumper stickers in places like Madison and Manhattan. Another big sigh……
“I am astonished that the whole silliness has some legs now.” Really? The far left, for reasons best known to themselves, have decided that it’s time to show their true colors, so we see them running as avowed socialists, attacking free speech, urging their followers to insult, harass, and intimidate anyone they deem unworthy (i.e., anyone who dares voice ideas contrary to their own), calling for the abolition of ICE, etc., etc. Most of them are Dems who are so assured of being elected and/or re-elected that they can say anything with impunity. (Exhibit A: Marc Pocan, the self-styled enfant terrible and card-carrying member of the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ “community” who knows exactly how to titillate his base: upper-middle class white Madison liberals who think they;re being oh-so-daring by electing some little toad who knows how to feed their insatiable appetite for this sort of hollow grandstanding.) And all of this lunacy is, of course, breathless reported by the MSM. Look at how gaga they went after a “woman of color” and proud socialist unseated an Establishment Democrat. Their latest crusade seems to be to anoint a new “hero” of the left every few days. No wonder this “whole silliness” has legs. Unfortunately, those legs will be knocked out from under them when the mid-terms roll around.
yup really. I never thought we would get to the day where trashing freedom of speech would be a common talking point from people exercising freedom of speech. The illogic seemed to painfully obvious, I even thought that liberals would see it. I gave the benefit of the doubt.
Carmine Giannattasio says:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
David Blaska says:
Thanks. That should last me until next Sunday’s NY Times.
@David Blaska – You are truly a Charles Krauthammer Lite! I mean that in the most positive sense possible.
and Bozo lite comes to mind reading your comment.
dad29 says:
MacKinnon?? Her ‘expertise’ is far removed from 1A. May as well find a trust-law prof.
madisonexpat says:
The gods of irony are in the ascendant. The NYT who admitted they traded their credibilty for anti President Trump partisanship now have Free Speech backwards.
There is nothing complex in these two syllables.
NYT can dish it out but……
Here is the Left’s free speech:
‘Antifa will tell you if you’re a Nazi. Then punch you.
GAB will tell you how and when to campaign and with whom.
IRS will tell you if you can petition your government.
The FBI will oust a president it does not like.
If you’re not woke you’re a racist so shut up.
Jordan Peterson is my hero.
The FBI? You mean the same FBI that blew up Clinton’s campaign? The same bastards who just stopped a terrorist in Cleveland? That’s the same FBI that hates trump? That one?
No. The one that forgave Hillary the $149M payoff for Uranium One.
No. The one that passed on prosecuting her for 22 felony violations of highly classified documents because “security is hard for girls.”
No. The one with 13 angry democrats investigating the president without bias?
That FBI.
Trey Gowdy for AG.
Congrats to OBRADOR. Mexico finally elected a left-wing president. Won the popular vote by a landslide. And he ain’t payin’ for any fr@##in’ wall either.
Tom Paine says:
Socialist victory in Mexico………. OMG…….now millions will leave the US for the new UTOPIA, South of our Border (?) Be certain to alert the press. Send John Nichols, too. He should be giddy-drunk that his utopian vision will soon materialize as another lesson to us all —> The superiority of communism.
However, I am more inclined to think the flow of illegals from the US to Mexico will remain a phantom trickle.
“Phantom trickle” Isn’t that what the Blue Wave has become?
Or you in your bathroom.
“Congrats to OBRADOR.”
Can’t speak from any personal experience, but it sure must be comforting not being burdened by anything resembling a rational thought.
We’ll start congratulating Mexico when she starts taking care of her poor instead of exporting them to the U. S. ILLEGALLY as future democrat voters.
Its new Lefty Gubmint? Mark my words, pretty soon we’ll be calling her Venezuela Pequeña.
Even the great blond dope sent congrats to the guy. Not in office 24 hours and your already rwnj machine is cranked up. “Can’t speak from any personal experience”. That’s one of the first truthful things you have ever said.
“Venezuela Pequena” Catchy! It might even become a cocktail like “Cuba Libre.”
Walker and his trade missions to Mexico are in for a tough time. Trump’s “easy to win trade war” doesn’t sit well with this new president. Tariffs on Wisconsin corn, soybeans cheese are going to hurt old scooters plans for wooing farmers.
I’m sure our distinguished host would not condone gambling of any sort on his illustrious blogge, but how about taking bets on how long it will take the Madison City Council and/or the Dane County Board to pass a resolution in favor of abolishing ICE? (Frankly, I’m surprised they haven’t already convened an emergency session to do just that.)
Fred Milverstedt says:
I’ve said this before (one-track mind) but I wish Lesiak would just go away.
I never cease to wonder about ‘trolls’, as the word goes; that is, why would anyone with a real life (or something relative) spend as much time as this guy verbally fencing with folks who don’t think anything like he does?
Last time I mentioned it, he said he was here to provide a counter to the “right-wing echo chamber” in Madison, I replied, that consists of Blaska and Vicki McKenna. These are real threats to the People’s Republic. Keep snapping at their heels, Richard, you’re doing a fine service for the left.
Will do. Thanks
Lighten up, Fred.
poor richard is our Wile E. Coyote.
Richie is a sado-troll who thrives on attention even if degrading. After his wife left him he was and is desperate for any affirmation of his existence. So we here on the Blaska blog tolerate his trolling comments realizing that our responsive pummeling feeds his enormous guilt, ergo we are providing a service.
He needs this now but hopefully not forever, depending on the skill level of his therapist.
Batty, you’ve really turned into a jerk with these personal insults/slams. Try arguing the merits, if you’re able.
Coward bob,
I respond to trolls like you and Richie with the disrespect you deserve.
I guess you’re admitting you’re not able, then.
Freddy, pay attention. You’re new around here. Blaska likes the give and take (or at least claims to). This isn’t supposed to be an echo chamber, much as you righties love ‘em. Richard isn’t the only one here to poke you guys in the eye. I just haven’t had the time lately to join in on setting y’all straight, as all y’all (there’s some West Texan dialect for ya) so desperately need.
Dear US citizens, the new president of Mexico proclaims every Mexican has a right to ignore US law and migrate illegally.
pobrecito ricardo agrees. He is a Democrat and his party wants to abolish ICE.
Raise your hand if you want to vote like pobrecito ricardo.
How do you view that letter signed by 19 immigration officers who want the agency split up because ICE is making their jobs impossible. They are trying to fight crime and the border security tactics are getting in their way to access info.that they need.
Mark Pocan raises his hand. Blue Wave Baldwin is still gobbling her answer to CNN.
Very well. Now I understand. The reference is apt.
Let’s see …gop has the WH, senate, congress and the supreme court. Yet they can’t get anything passed. They hold the majority across the board and can’t re name a post office without tripping over their own feet. It’s time to re-write the Roadrunner…..MEEP MEEP CRASH.
Rinopublicans retiring. Supreme Court getting three? young Constitutionalists Trumps all.
Meep meep indeed.
Shhhhh, now watch. Wanna see him fetch a stick?
Merkel Reverses Long-Held Stance on Migrants in Bid to Save Her Government. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/world/europe/angela-merkel-migration-coalition.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=67244503&pgtype=Homepage
Five reporters shot and killed. Maryland asked the trump administration for permission to lower their flags. DENIED. How are you all going to spin this? Why is the paper getting threats of more violence? Oh yeah; the media is the enemy of the country as drumpf has said.
Sprocket says:
A press that pursues a partisan agenda and cannot be trusted to present facts in a clear and unbiased manner is the enemy of any democratic state. With your disingenuous attempt to conflate the actions of a psycho who had a long history of animosity towards the newspaper and the words of the president, you should consider a career in journalism.
take another look at that first sentence then add fox news and you got it .
I wonder how long it will be before Justin Trudeau, Canadian PM and part-time underwear model, finds himself in a similar predicament. So a few months ago a million unvetted “migrants” (proper term: illegal aliens) flooded into Germany and the left went gaga over Merkel’s “generous” and “humane” approach to immigration. Her government’s purposeful turning of a blind eye to crimes committed by these people (including many instances of sexual harassment and rape) wasn’t enough to disguise the disaster of her policies. Now she’s paying the price–part of which is the precipitous rise of right-wing parties (real Nazis!) in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, and other European countries. Merkle’s “You’re all welcome here” approach is exactly what Dems in this country are advocating.
Coward bob says: “Batty, you’ve really turned into a jerk with these personal insults/slams. Try arguing the merits, if you’re able.”
When trolls do not proffer anything of merit they are besmirched which is in keeping with the universal rhythm.
Get used to it troll boy.
You’re sounding as lucid as The Retch.
Squeaks? That you?
“universal rhythm”??? what the hell is that?
“ ‘universal rhythm’??? what the hell is that?”
A form of birth control soggy, feebly flaccid Beta Lefties should use so’s they don’t reproduce more ovine ungulates.
Hiya ABob. Get moved? Canada? Illinois?
Seemingly OB is still chasing Stormy Daniels while clutching his dollar bill.
the real question of why Cohen was chasing her with 130,000 dollar bills. Looks like the “fixer” is becoming the “flipper”.
Ah jeez, Stormy Daniels again. Now OB won’t be seen for another week.
old baldy says:
Aw, nice to see you missed me, splat. But I have been TDY and wasn’t able to chime in. But things have really deteriorated at the Manor since gotch and zoltar the stupid showed up. So I have better things to do than try to talk sense to their ilk. Or you, for that matter. But I’ll join the fray when needed, as needed.
I urge all the fine Americans who visit this site to read “Fighting Words: When far-right provocateurs descend on campus, how should a university respond?” in the latest (July 2nd) issue of The New Yorker. Unfortunately, the NYer has become as rabidly anti-Trump as CNN, but at least you can count on quality writing no matter what the point-of-view..This article is overall pretty “fair and balanced” (to borrow a phrase) although it does tend to characterize conservative speakers like Milo Yiannopoulo as “provocateurs” whereas if he were a left-winger he’d be anointed with the left’s greatest honorific: “transgressive.” And it endorses a redefinition of free speech that takes into account how certain topics might cause emotional harm (including PTSD, naturally) to minorities, the same bogus rationale that gave us “hate crimes.”
baldo wrote:
“But things have really deteriorated at the Manor since gotch and zoltar the stupid showed up.”
Way off dude. baby richie and taunting bob are the real culprits. Newcomers Gotch and Zoltar counter punch major smack downs upon these two yahoos in a highly effective creative fashion. Amazingly they lap it up and come back for more.
Shift your focus to cause instead of effect and you will understand.
And that’s a wrap!
In your dreams, Batty!
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‘Political Events in Liberia Have the Propensity to Shatter Country’s Fragile Peace’- Liberian Delegation to ECOWAS Parliament Warns
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By Lennart Dodoo Last updated May 14, 2019
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Liberian delegation to the ECOWAS Parliament was warned that the ongoing political events in Liberia have the propensity to derail the country’s already fragile peace.
The parliamentary delegation’s statements were contained in its report at the ECOWAS Parliament’s 2019 First Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament currently taking place in Abuja, Nigeria.
In the report, the delegation made reference to the planned June 7 protest that is being organized by the self-styled group, ‘Council of Patriots.’
Excerpt of the report: “Recent political events unfolding in the country have the propensity to further shatter Liberia’ already fragile peace if steps are not taking to arrest the situation. Case in point is a planned demonstration slated for June 7, 2019 by a group named and styled “Council of Patriots” under the theme “SAVE THE STATE” and some members of the opposition block particularly the four (4) major opposition political parties named and styled; Collaborating Political Party (CPP).”
“The four leading opposition parties have endorsed the protest. However, the President has called for dialogue and has invited the leaders of the Council of Patriots to a meeting on tomorrow, 14th May which is National Unification Day and is observed as a national holiday.”
The delegation highlighted that as a result of the planned demonstration, war of words has erupted in Liberia; something which prompted the United States Government to express dismay over the comments from various sides of Liberia’s political divide, making specific reference to the divisive Congau-Native politics.
“Two members of the legislature and the Deputy Information Minister were name in the US Government statement. His Excellency President George M. Weah has suspended the Deputy Information Minister whilst the Legislature is yet to take actions on the two members of the legislature,” the group noted.
The delegation members include Rep. Edwin M. snowe (head of delegation), Senator Prince Yormie Johnson (Nimba county) Rep. Haja Fata Siryon (Bomi District #3) Senator Steven J. H. Zargo (Lofa County) and Rep. Clarence Massaquoi (Lofa District #3).
Every year member states of ECOWAS are required to submit to the ECOWAS Parliament a Country report on key areas including the political and security and refugee situations in the region.
Besides minor instances of security breaches involving criminal activities, the delegation noted that the country faces no imminent threat or danger.
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“The National Security apparatus continues to demonstrate gallantry over the state of affairs in providing security for its citizens and foreigners as well. Also, besides sporadic reports of illegal encroachment by illicit farmers, hunters and miners from Ghana, Burkina Faso and Cote D’Ivoire, no serious incidence of influx of refugees has been reported during this reporting period, which is clear evidence that the Mano River Basin is intact,” the delegation outlined in the report.
“Recent political events unfolding in the country have the propensity to further shatter Liberia’ already fragile peace if steps are not taking to arrest the situation. Case in point is a planned demonstration slated for June 7, 2019 by a group named and styled “Council of Patriots” under the theme “SAVE THE STATE” and some members of the opposition block particularly the four (4) major opposition political parties named and styled; Collaborating Political Party (CPP).” – Liberia Country Report to ECOWAS Parliament
According to the lawmakers, the only refugee situation that is currently looming in Liberia relates to those Sierra Leoneans who came to the country during the early days of the Liberian civil war in 1991.
They quoted a spokesman of the refugees who alleged in a recent radio interview that the Liberia Immigration Services (LIS) has shown insensitivity to the plight of Sierra Leonean refugees.
The spokesperson alleged that despite been cleared by the UNHCR to go to a third country, they are denied by the Liberia Immigration Service (LIS).
He furthered that despite pronouncements by the past government that Sierra Leonean refugees can be granted citizen status, little has been done to regularize their status, while they continue to be harassed by Liberian security personnel.
The report also highlighted the “Missing Sixteen Billion Liberian Dollars and the 25 Million Mop Up” shenanigans and noted that President Weah has since implemented the recommendations contained in the Presidential Investigative Team (PIT) and Kroll reports by commissioning the General Auditing Commission (GAC) to conduct a forensic audit of the mop up exercise and promised that anyone who will be linked to any misapplication of the twenty five million, be it members of his government or not, will face the full weight of the law.
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII Review
Posted on September 12, 2016 September 12, 2016 by Keith Addison — Leave a comment
Categories: Features, Latest, Reviews
Tags: History, KOEI TECMO GAMES, Strategy
The very first thing I want to make clear about this title is that it is not for everyone. If you don’t have previous knowledge of the Three Kingdoms period, or if you are not a big fan of strategy games then this is sadly not going to be the game to pull you into them. That being said I personally found this to be an entertaining and interesting game that I can see being a time sink for me way into the future.
I have been a huge fan of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms story for many, many years now and I love just about everything I can get my hands on that deals with the time period and the tales of the heroes and villains of that era. Imagine how excited I was when I discovered that Koei Tecmo was bringing a version to Playstation 4 for the franchise’s 30th anniversary and I was finally going to get the opportunity to step into the period and live a fantasy life from 700 (yes I did say 700) of characters that the game has available.
The story is immensely rich and detailed and is one that is well known in Asia but might not be as familiar to everyone else. It focuses on the Han dynasty and the struggle to overthrow the corrupt court to establish a new regime. The main instigators in the story; Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Jian (later his son Sun Qian) establish three kingdoms of their own causing there to be a period of constant battles and wars. Each of the kingdoms has a huge cast of characters available to the player which can offer a great deal of enjoyment to someone who loves the history of the period.
The game has two different main modes available to play which are slightly different depending on the experience of the player. Hero Mode tells the story of the Three Kingdoms via short battles and events that occur throughout the history of the Three Kingdoms. This offers a tutorial type gameplay to ease the new player into the action gradually so they can get used to the style of game properly. The other mode is Main mode which gives a set of scenarios for the player to choose and then play to try and unify the land under one banner,
The gameplay itself is menu based and offers a good amount of options to develop culture, commerce and farming. Each of the cities under your control needs to have a steady mix of all of these things to be successful and micro-managing the three options is the key to resource management for the military aspect of the game. Once you have built up a decent set of resources you can then invest them in military by hiring new officers, training new troops or by patrolling the territories you control to increase loyalty in your military. It is through these options and sub-menus with their various actions that the game can become overwhelming very quickly. The highly experienced strategy game player will relish the sheer volume of controls they have at their disposal, however, a newcomer to the genre may find that there is too much to think about even just to make a single decision. This is why the Hero mode is a stroke of genius because it has been developed to expertly take the newbie through the gameplay step by step in a very friendly and welcoming manner. It takes the gamer by the hand and introduces all of the game mechanics in a gradual process and playing through the timeline in this way puts into context the various events that occur throughout the span of the Three Kingdoms era.
The main focus of both modes falls primarily in the relationship mechanic between the various different characters within your kingdom. You will find yourself walking a fine line between allocating missions, throwing banquets and numerous other options to garner the best relationship you can with your chosen targets. If you manage to pull it off successfully you can even cause opposition forces to defect in the middle of a battle, turning the tide for you to force a win.
This may sound boring and tedious but surprisingly the mechanics are sound and the debates between characters play out more like a one on one battle of wit and intellect.
When it comes to the battlefield the gameplay becomes very simplistic and after a while gets a little monotonous to experience. The amount of units you are allocated in battle depends on your character’s rank. Very little is left for you to control apart from which formation you wish your units to use and when to buff your army which sadly leaves me wanting just a little bit more to get the enthusiasm for the battles going.
There were some performance issues when I played it with movement between cities sometimes dropping fps and stuttering slightly. This was also evident in the battles where the number of units and number of arrows seemingly affecting performance. However, these things didn’t detract from the overall experience too much because the battles weren’t often the focus of my gameplay. My play style was more about the political skulduggery and manipulation of the other leaders.
Ultimately Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII is a decent console version of the game with a great level of detail into the lore and characters of the period. The political and management side of the game is incredibly detailed and allows fantastic customisation by the player. The Hero mode is where the game truly shines in my opinion with a friendly yet comprehensive explanation of the systems used in the game being introduced gradually over time allowing new players to the strategy genre to play without being too overwhelmed with the intricacies.
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Hearts of Iron IV Review
Posted on June 7, 2016 June 10, 2016 by Liam Dodd — 1 Comment
Tags: Grand Strategy, Historical, Paradox Development Studios, Paradox Interactive, Strategy, War Games
Hearts of Iron IV is the fourth instalment of Paradox Interactive’s grand strategy game focusing on the Second World War. The game focuses on either the preamble to the war, the political tensions and struggles that were going on at the time, or the opening days of the conflict.
Allowing you to play through the game as one of the many world powers at the time. The range is impressive, with the obvious players like Britain’s Neville Chamberlain, the German Reich’s Adolf Hitler, to Mao Zedong in the PRC and Emperor Shōwa of Imperial Japan.
With each nation having different conflicts, alliances, internal and external tensions, plus national beliefs and focus, they provide an interesting variety to the way the game can play itself out. You are also given the choice as playing as other nations, which while having a more generic series of mechanics (that overlaps between the nations considerably more) they are involved in many different, and often more localised conflicts. They are both easier and more difficult to play out. Without an empire, and the conflicts that either border or ravage those nations, you can focus more precisely on managing everything within your state’s boundaries.
For those coming from similar games from Paradox Interactive – such as earlier editions or Europa Universalis, the gameplay will feel familiar. Industry and development are controlled by factories (designated military or civilian) that produce the required vehicles or munitions for your war effort. Diverting resources to in-demand items is very simple and this screen makes it very clear what is needed and how long it will take to produce them. War is controlled by building armies from divisions of soldiers, and then drawing front lines and directing offensive drives.
For those coming into this game fresh to the genre, it will all appear utterly overwhelming if you just try and dive straight in. It is possible to do so, but it is likely you will find yourself stuck at points, or operating in an extremely inefficient manner. When you understand what the options and illustrations on the map mean, managing everything is very easy. When you don’t know what they mean you can intuit an incorrect understanding and wander into a fight you are never going to win. This is especially important to consider if you are coming from other strategies games like Civilisation V, for which management of troops and resources is substantially simpler than here.
The game encourages you to follow through national behaviours that occurred in the 1930’s and 40’s, but you can choose to ignore these for either personal or mechanical benefits. If you want to become the leader of the Conservative Party and install a communist front bench, you are free to do so. The focus is still very much based in the history of the time. As the game opens civil wars break out, the German Reich begins its expansionary approach, and you have to respond to them, mostly within the realms of what is expected of your leader. But as the game goes on, and conflicts and events are resolved differently to how the timeline begins to divulge, and you can begin to feel like you are truly in control of the destiny of your country.
Hearts of Iron IV is a game that seems to gain mechanical depth with each playthrough. Every time you try a new nation, approach, or personal objective you find new opportunities that are built into the mechanics of the game. The game is hard to explain in words because it is so mechanically dense (and the guide that Paradox provided me was only 26 pages long), but for those who enjoy grand strategy games there is a vast world to get sunk into, and if you enjoy the history of WWII as well then this is a game that would be unfortunate to miss. It is not the easiest game, and it can feel very opaque at times, but Hearts of Iron IV is a wonderful entry in the grand strategy genre.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada Review
Posted on May 5, 2016 by Gary Cook — Leave a comment
Tags: Focus Home Interactive, RTS, Strategy, Tindalos Interactive, warhammer
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is a real-time strategy game based on the classic tabletop game from Games Workshop, no not the 40k one with the tanks, troops and multiple video game adaptions (Dawn of War, Dawn of War 2, and the bazillion expansion packs… ok maybe not that many but you get the idea).
No Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is based on the tabletop game in which space battles raged out across kitchen tables across the land until its discontinuation in 2013. Set around the Gothic sector of the Warhammer 40k universe which saw the Chaos Warmaster, Abaddon the Despoiler, invade the sector and unleash merry hell, and the Imperium’s attempt to restore order.
The big difference between this and the other strategy games based in the 40k universe is that instead of focusing on the Space Marine chapters (The Ultramarine’s, Blood Angels, Dark Angels etc.) the main focus of the single player campaign is on the Imperial Navy, the tech support/back up for the Space Marines (it’s been roughly 15 years since I last played 40k so things may have changed in the meantime, but this is how I viewed them back then).
The single player campaign focuses on Captain Spire, who in the beginning is ordered to check out why an orbital array (a fancy name for a space station) has suddenly gone quiet, upon arrival he discovers that the traitorous forces of Chaos have taken control, and have turned the stations defense platform on them shortly before a rather imposing chaos fleet is seen arriving. Left with no other option but to flee and report his findings to fleet command. Of course being the Warhammer 40k universe there is a suspicion that Captain Spire just turned tail and ran at the first sign of trouble… Fleet command are not ones for simply believing anything reported to them and consequently have Captain Spire put on trial with an Inquisitor.. A process that looks uncomfortably painful. After the story has been verified under intense pain and torture.. Quite why they couldn’t just look at the security footage and go “oh yes… Chaos” is beyond me, as surely in the 41st millennium, there must be at least one video camera installed on a ship.
Promoted to Admiral and given the task of protecting Imperial worlds from rebellion, and both alien and Chaos invasions, this is where you take over properly.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is a real-time strategy game, developed by Tindalos Interactive and published by Focus Home Interactive.
After you have played through the initial tutorial mission and informed Fleet Command about the incoming invasion,you are presented with the map screen. From here you can select the next mission or visit Port Maw Station.
At Port Maw, you can view the ships available to take into your next mission, and use the Renown you have amassed during your accomplished missions so far, to purchase new ships, new slots and pay for upgrades to your existing fleet.
Renown is gathered by successfully completing mission objectives, you will also gain a small amount of Renown if you fail a mission, though obviously accomplishing the missions gets you much, much more than failing.
As long as you have the Renown you can customise your ships as you see fit, Upgrade your Engines for more speed and manoeuvrability, your Generators for improved shields, the Deck for sensors and special abilities, The Hull for increased armour and defense turrets and of course Weaponry for increased range and damage.
As well as ship upgrades there are special skills to buy and crew upgrades to choose.
The Commissar attempts to keep insubordination under control, as occasionally if your ship crews decide they have had enough they will try and warp the ship out of the mission.
On the Gothic sector map, you can see the available missions, the threat level of the sector, the turn number, and how many world properties are still available. For each world property still owned you will gain bonuses, some will earn you discount with the various Crew leaders whilst upgrading, some will earn more experience for your captains after missions, and some affect repair costs in between missions.
Selecting the next mission available gives you a brief overview of the mission ahead before taking you to the fleet selection screen, from here you can see the amount of ships available, and the fleet point value assigned to each one. Each mission will have its own Fleet point total and like the tabletop game you are limited to that point total when selecting your forces. Your forces range from the small quick Escort ships, all the way up to the hulking great Battleships.. essentially giant floating monasteries of death…
After you have worked out which ships you are taking in, hit the ready button and watch a small cut-scene of your fleet slowly approaching the battlefield.
Being a space real-time strategy game you may expect that your ships will be ducking and weaving around asteroids and under minefields… this is not the case, despite being set in space, famous for being… well ‘spacey’ – for all intents and purpose that sprawling mass of stars and planets you see all around you may as well be solid earth. Think along the lines of the older Command & Conquer games and you get the idea, click where you want your ships to move to and watch as they approach in a straight line.
Placed around the maps are various hazards that you will need to avoid, or use for a strategic advantage, minefields will tear your ships to shreds in seconds, and asteroid belts will slowly sap your armour as you make your way through them. You do have the ability to make quick turns by ordering the engines to perform high energy turns, the giant starship equivalent to handbrake turns which when performed right look breathtaking… of course if your me and manage to essentially handbrake turn INTO the minefield you can watch in awe as your freshly bought cruiser disintegrates faster than wet toilet tissue…
Battlefleet’s combat boils down to who can keep the most guns firing the longest, certain weapons can only be fired from the sides of the ships, and torpedoes can only be launched from the front, so you are left with the options of trying to chase the enemy from behind or attempt to stay alongside them and hope your shields and armour outlast theirs. And while the ships armed with torpedoes have the opportunity to inflict heavy, heavy damage, the torpedo’s themselves have no guidance system so you will have to try and line up the shots yourself, this is made a little bit easier with the Tactical Cogitator system, hitting space bar will greatly slow down time to give you a few extra seconds to plan/wild guess where the enemy will be when you think the torpedoes will hit.
If you fail a mission, it is not an instant game over, nor a “replay mission” situation, the game carries on and your loss affects the moral of the sector, whereas if you succeed in a mission you can normally carry on to the next story based mission with no interference… but if you fail the chances of pirate attacks or chaos incursions increase slightly. Any ships lost in combat or the void are unavailable for a few turns until they are repaired, rearmed and re-crewed.
Your main enemy in the game are the forces of Chaos, but they are not the only force you will have to contend with in defending the Imperium, Ork pirate raiding parties, and Eldar Corsairs turn up to cause you trouble at various points.
When you have had your fill of the single player campaign, you can set up some skirmish games against the AI or jump into multiplayer.
The multiplayer is a fun experience, instead of just the Imperial Navy you can choose from the four armies featured in the game each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
Imperial Navy, Whose fleet feature’s heavy forward armor, powerful weaponry and the most choice of ships armed with torpedoes, but are also slowest and are bad at long range combat.
Chaos Fleet, While the Chaos forces suffer from low damage, a lack of torpedo’s and hardly any heavy armor, they are the best at long range combat, have many launch bays for attack squadrons and bombers, and have high top speeds.
Orks, the football hooligans of space bring in some of the most resilient ships ever created, forever up for a fight they also have the strongest assault skills, and have the bonus of being the most customisable ships in the game.. on the downside they are the most disobedient, the least manoeuvrable and have the worst accuracy and range…
Eldar Corsairs, they have the fastest and most manoeuvrable ships, the best fighters and bombers and the most obedient captains.. But before you start thinking that these are the greatest fleet in the game, be warned that they are very vulnerable to boarding actions, the majority of the weapons are on the front of their ships and they have the weakest armour.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is a great game, and the difficulty should prove challenging to even the most hardcore strategy gamer. There are only a few bits that could do with improvement, it would be nice if the camera pulled back a little bit more to give a better view of the battles, and more notification when your special skills were available to use, or if the ability to actually make groups worked (no matter how hard I tried.. ctrl +1-0 has not worked for me). But these are minor complaints.
Looks beautiful
A solid strategy game
Decent story
Some may find it difficult
Could have done with more races
Score: 8 out of 10
Last Days of Old Earth Preview
Posted on April 25, 2016 by Sean Carr — Leave a comment
Tags: Auroch Digital, Slitherine, Strategy, Turn Based
Last Day’s of Old Earth puts you in command of the Skywatcher clan on a cold and desolate Earth in the distant future. You command your people to wage vast battles against other indigenous clans to make yours the most powerful.
I went into Last Day’s of Old Earth with certain expectations after scanning through the Steam page – this was going to be a Civilisation clone with a different art style and I would be bored to tears within minutes because, in all honesty, nothing compares to the Civilization series for me. Then the game shocked me and in no way attempted to simply be another clone. It drew reverence from the games I love and built solid ideas on top of them.
With a hex-based overworld, you’ll command armies across a randomly generated map to battle other players moving along the same grid. You build outposts and harvest resources which increase your supply reach. Supply is a key mechanic in the game and you’re forced to stay within your own territory at all times or be hampered with movement and combat penalties. This is made far easier than it sounds with armies and hero characters all being able to build wherever you feel is necessary so never truly felt like the hindrance I initially thought it to be.
Then things get a little bit different. Your armies are made up of units you generate by drawing cards from a deck and then consuming resources to put them into play. You’ll draw hero characters, resource and combat buffs as well as a whole host of units to play with. This deck mechanic seemed slightly daunting at first, giving you the ability to get in and tinker with a deck building mode helped throughout my experience as I was able to tweak the deck I took into combat for my exact play style. The hero characters add bonus’ and buffs if they are in command of your army and as the only named characters in the game I found some fond attachment to some who followed me throughout my skirmishes.
Combat doesn’t take place on the main hex-grid as an automatic process. You are put into a combat scenario with your units and directly command them to victory. Dice rolls determine attack and defence and even who attacks first at the start of each turn. Combat is very dice heavy throughout the game which can seem unfair and become an incredible annoyance. I could take a far superior force into battle and be nearly wiped out because the dice hadn’t rolled the way I’d like. There is a system in place to help with this – your hero characters are given a ‘Fate bonus’ which allows you to change the dice roll, but this is limited and feels almost unnecessary because of the lack of benefit it has.
Currently only a handful of modes exist in the build available and players will spend the majority of their time in skirmish or multiplayer. Both these modes are incredibly solid, however doesn’t offer a great deal of variety right now for people looking for something a little more fleshed out.
At its most reductive, Last Days of Old Earth brings together successful elements from other franchises and puts them into a single product – the overworld is a hex-based Civilization game, the combat feels like Heroes of Might & Magic and the deck building elements has shades of a Hearthstone clone. Each core element of the game is so solid it’s easy to look past these comparisons. The mechanics of these previous franchises are simplified and streamlined in such a way I found it much easier to pick up and play than a new player would to other games of this type. The game chooses a singular focus in its expansion through combat and espionage rather than culture and population management and this in turn streamlined the entire gameplay loop. Last Days of Old Earth feels more like a board game akin to Risk than it does a pure video game with its dice roles and differing styles amalgamated into a single product.
Although currently content is a little lacking the promises made at the start of Early Access are already coming to fruition only a few weeks in and I can see Last Days of Old Earth growing into a solid entry into the pantheon of turn-based strategy titles.
Naval Action Preview (The Naval MMO).
Posted on April 8, 2016 April 8, 2016 by Glenn Docherty — Leave a comment
Tags: Battles, Game-Labs, MMO, Pirates, Simulation, Strategy
Naval Action is an early access title with grand ambitions for the MMO scene. In some ways Naval Action is aiming to be the age of sail game to beat, featuring a huge historically re-created map of the Caribbean, authentic ships and realistic naval combat. Upon booting up the game you’ll be asked to choose a Nation to represent (Great Britain in my case) and you’ll be given a starter ship (a basic Cutter). The nation you choose determines where on the enormous map you begin and then you’re pretty much left to your own devices. As is often the case with Early Access there is no tutorial, and by design Naval Action features very little hand-holding, but more on that later.
Eager to find out what the open-world sandbox nature of the game was like, I hit the ‘sail’ button as soon as I’d located it on the entirely placeholder but functional menu system. I took a moment to admire my little boat bobbing on the water then set sail and sped off in search of a battle. After sailing around for a while I engaged in combat with a random NPC and after much hammering of keys and baffled grunts of frustration I got my tiny little stern handed to me. I returned to port with my tail between my legs. It was clear I would need to do some research. With the help of some informative YouTubers, I returned to the game with some understanding of how I might succeed as an 18th Century naval captain. Although not an absolute sim, Naval Action does opt for the realistic approach: cannon ballistics, the pitching and rolling of the sea, and most importantly wind are all important factors to consider when sparring with other ships.
Fortunately, Naval Action goes some way to helping you avoid fights you can’t possibly win, but when you do get into battle you are transported to a separate instance where you and up to 50 others can duke it out across the waves. From my experience, these instances are entirely clear of obstacles and land (even if you start a fight near the coast) so there’s no danger of running yourself or your opponent aground. You can also escape from a fight if you have the speed to pull away from your attacker, it will be interesting to see how these mechanics will translate to a drawn out chase or when hunting in groups. In most cases, however, battles are a tense balance of ammunition, crew and sail management, all while trying to manoeuvre to keep the wind in your sails and your target within reach. This is also where I suspect Naval Action will divide the crowd: battles are long. You should expect most 1 Vs 1 battles to last up to half an hour or more. Just as it was in days of yore, cannons are notoriously inaccurate, stick a dozen or more on a boat on the ocean and they become even more inaccurate. Thankfully there are plenty of firing options, it takes some practice, but you’ll soon be skipping iron balls across the water and into the exposed side of the bad guys.
Clearly, the most amount of polish has gone into these moments of combat; the sails and pennants flutter in the wind, while movement feels weighty and cannon fire leaves a dense cloud of smoke wafting across the deck. As you circle your prey, you can chip away at their hull armour to encourage leaks or employ grapeshot in an attempt to reduce their crew numbers, or use chain shot to shred their sails to reduce their speed. You can set your crew to prioritise sailing or gunning or set them to plug leaks and repair damage. You can even perform boarding actions if you can get close enough although, weirdly, boarding is played out by selecting actions in a turn-based mini game.
Naval Action is an MMO, meaning lots of people can play it at once, and I sincerely hope they eventually do because it can feel a little sparsely populated at times. Of course, the main goal is to form large fleets and go on the rampage. You can also take control of ports, smuggle contraband, craft items, build ships or simply trade goods between ports. I’ve read, in a few places, that Naval Action is comparable to Eve Online. There is some truth to this comparison but the biggest caveat that sets Eve apart from other multiplayer games is its single server structure. Naval Action currently requires you to choose from four servers and any progress you make does not carry over. If however, this game does eventually migrate onto a single server, then it will open up a myriad of possibilities. Players would be able to form power blocs of controlled and contested territory, a player-driven economy would develop as a result thus making crafting and trade much more meaningful.
As an early access game, there are a few quibbles, navigation is all but left up to you, this is by design but it’s a design decision that doesn’t produce any gameplay, and getting lost isn’t much fun. The lack of any land mass appearing in battle instances is a minor disappointment; I think it would provide even more tactical options. And Naval Action is no slouch in the resources department, you’ll need a fairly beefy PC to pump the water up to max settings – pun not intended. None of these quibbles are deal breakers, if you’re playing Naval Action it’s because you like ship porn. And Naval Action is like the holy grail of ship porn. It’s deliriously beautiful to look at. Each screen is like Patrick O’Brian book cover (look it up, kids). It’s a real pleasure to look at. It’s a good job too, because you’ll need to commit a lot of time to advance to the next ship with more guns, sails and crew. And while it’s still early days for the game there are plenty of mechanics to learn and skills to master, it’s not a game that’s intended to pass a few hours on a rainy weekend if this is your niche you’ll be here for months, if not years to come. Better batten down the hatches, a storm’s a-coming.
-Realistic 18th Century naval combat
-Beautiful environment
-Ships!
-Challenging mechanics
-Resource intensive
-Needs more players!
Breach and Clear : DEADline Early Access PC
Posted on February 17, 2015 by Jonathon Preece — Leave a comment
Tags: Devolver Digital, Strategy
At the time of previewing this game, I managed to play two builds. Post patch being significantly better to play for a newbie to the game. This may lead to some inconsistency when you look into this game yourselves, and you should look, as this game is worth the £11 or that it’s currently on sale for.
Breach and Clear : DEADline is the second game with the Breach and Clear name attached to it. Devolver is the publisher attached to it, and the icing on the cake being Gun and Mighty Rabbit. I haven’t had the privilege to play the first game – although it is on my list for the next Steam sale – so the only thing I can compare it to is if the first two Jagged Alliance games had a baby with XCOM. The gameplay is fairly simple. Build a team of soldiers – made up of several classes – and complete the missions given by WoW style quest givers on an isometric map.
Players are treated to a great little prequel mission, where the game gives you a very good tutorial on how the mechanics work, skills and how to control the camera. As you play out the first mission it becomes apparent that a lot of care and attention has gone into the character models and their behaviour as a unit of soldiers. Manually aiming your rifle (of whoever you have selected) causes your team mates to aim down sights and move slowly, move into cover and your squad try to assume low profiles alongside and start covering fire lanes like real soldiers would. Upon contact with an enemy one of two things happens, your team open fire, or the game pauses all of the action meaning you have triggered an event.
Enemies in this game are made up of zombies, humans and zombie-monsters – AKA the Tank from Left for Dead. These enemies also seem eerily well modelled, headshots will trigger massive damage, knee and leg shots cause them to fall to the ground and drag themselves along the floor, leaving a blood trail as they go. The concussive nature of the weapons fired at enemies will also cause staggering to varying degrees, a shotgun and sniper rifle will knock a target off its feet completely.
Back to triggering an event, this is where the game moves from the standard fare to the sublime. All action pauses, allowing you to make tactical decisions based on the equipment and skills your team have to hand. This could be enabling a huge burst-fire to suppress an incoming horde, using your scout to highlight enemies from a pack and ensure they take additional damage for the next few seconds, and throwing smoke, flash and explosive grenades for evasion and group damage. This mode can be jumped into and back into real time with just a single button push (just like Dragon Age), when used in combination with the extensive cover system, can make for some excellent set piece fights for survival.
For an Early Access game, it does have some bugs still left. I encountered building internals not loading correctly, Soldiers acting in perfect synchronicity until you give them a second command, resulting in one member stood still whilst zombies ate his face off. The skill tree system is good, but it felt as if my guys were levelling up after every small encounter and the skills seemed VERY cheap for the effects they gave. Loot is earned from scattered crates which when opened vomit up the loot Diablo style – this led to loot becoming stuck in scenery or disappearing completely.
Those superficial slights aside – which the Devs know about *high five* – This game plays really well. The studio is looking at adding dungeon encounters, an online mode (squeal!) and a greater amount of enemy types and weapons loadouts. A personal wish of mine would be to make the skill trees a little deeper and specific, and make the corresponding skill point cost a little more expensive.
Keep your eyes open for this one. It’s going to be a cult classic.
Civilization: Beyond Earth Review
Posted on November 17, 2014 November 18, 2014 by Sean Carr — Leave a comment
Tags: 2K Games, Firaxis, Strategy, Turn Based Strategy
Civilization: Beyond Earth picks up from where its predecessors left off, by combining the excitement of planetary exploration from Alpha Centauri, with the solid hex-based gameplay from Civilization 5. C:BE has found a wonderful niche in the market that will feel new to experienced Civilization leaders, but also offer some streamlined mechanics for those fresh to the series.
At first glance it’s easy to think 2K Games have simply slapped a new lick of paint on their existing game, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. The Barbarians from Civilization 5 are now replaced by indigenous aliens and, rather than a simple early game annoyance that you have to manage for the first third of the game, the new aliens take on the role of a complete new faction and interweave with the very fabric of the core game. This isn’t a faction that you’ll engage in diplomatic relations with or trade for resources, but make up a part of the living, breathing world that you’ve landed yourself on. The sheer size of the alien forces that surround you will make you want to live in harmony with your new extra-terrestrial friends while you build up your civilization around you. But like any good science fiction story, these pesky aliens stand in the way of your progress and need to be slaughtered swiftly so you can develop ahead of the other factions that are growing around you.
Your faction of choice will provide bonus’ which will give you minor boosts that are most beneficial through the beginning of your leadership. However, once your civilization is up and running you’re going to be focusing on using the new affinity system – to develop the culture of your people and decide how you wish to approach new life on this fresh planet. Do you want to integrate alien life into your DNA, or perhaps preserve the way of life you enjoyed on Earth? Your three options – Supremacy, Harmony and Purity – provide completely different options as to how you will approach your playthrough and offer signature units as well as differing victory conditions. Two of these offer polar opposites to each other, while one sits firmly in the middle should you wish to test a little of everything. Purity is the idea of purging aliens from this new world, keeping your bloodlines pure, and making it on your own, while Harmony embraces alien life and allows you to use the alien forces to your advantage. Supremacy takes the least extreme route offered and presents bonuses to maintenance costs for the victor who chooses the peaceful path. The new depth offered through these options goes beyond simply wanting to play as a faction because they get something cool in the late game and actually increases the different playing options three-fold, to allow you to play multiple factions in multiple directions and have a different outcome and experience each time.
The new tech tree offers a chance for players to plan out exactly where they want their faction to go, and rather than having a Wiki document open to ensure you’re making the right choices early on in the game, you’re presented with the entire tech tree up front to allow you full control over your destiny. This spread of each new technology you may want is a powerful weapon in controlling your development and building the civilization and type of playthrough you want.
Beyond Earth offers quests to complete throughout your playthrough, which result in you often trying something slightly different, or challenging your perception of what you are trying to do. These small side quests, while completely optional, provide bonuses that can come in handy in the late game pinch. As each faction pushes for victory and, in some cases, begins to direct you a little about what you could be doing whilst your city is amassing forces to attack your opponent, or you’re patiently waiting for that wonder to be built. In some ways the quest system feels like a powerful tool to offer buffs and advice that many will welcome during the long hours they will spend in front of the game.
The thematic differences that an alien culture provide in Civilization: Beyond Earth ensures this feels more than a simple re-skin of the hex-grid perfection that was Civilization 5. The tweaks to the technology systems and the new affinity system makes the game feel new while still feeling familiar and welcoming to new players. While Beyond Earth isn’t rewriting the core mechanics of the franchise, it is bringing enough to the party to justify itself as a full release and is an epic journey into the unknown that players old and new need to play.
Emergency 5. PC Release Very Soon
Posted on November 5, 2014 November 5, 2014 by Lee Rand — Leave a comment
Categories: Features, Latest, News
Tags: Deep Silver, Fire Fighter Sim, Men With Big Hoses, Strategy
In EMERGENCY 5, the player is directing challenging rescue mission on three vast and detailed maps. For this, the player can use and improve a hug pool of vehicles and action forces and has to ensure that everyone is at the right place at the right time. It’s all about the right strategy to stop the chaos. In co-op mode, up to 4 players can team up to solve special multiplayer events. With the improved editor, players can edit and create their own content and share it with the big fan community.
· Hundreds of hours playing time with challenging large scale operations. Constantly re-arranging missions and catastrophes create new and surprising situations.
· 3 detailed maps of Berlin, Hamburg and Munich which are designed after their real-life models. The Deluxe version features a fourth map with the city of Cologne.
· More than 20 ground and air vehicles of police, fire, rescue and technical action forces are ready for their assignment.
· In Multiplayer mode, up to 4 players can join their forces on free-play maps with special multiplayer events.
· A newly developed engine delivers the best EMERGENCY graphics of all time. No technology was taken over from the predecessors.
· With its completely remolded control system, EMERGENCY 5 is intuitive and comfortably for all players. Interactive tutorials ensure that even new players find their way quickly.
· In the powerful editor, up to 2 players can create their own maps and even work together on the same project.
Frugal Gaming Review – Ancient Space
Posted on October 22, 2014 by Chris Purdy — Leave a comment
Tags: CreativeForge Games, Paradox Interactive, RTS, Space, Strategy
Ancient Space is real time strategy game based in; you’ve guessed it, Space! It’s been a good while since we’ve had chance to experience this genre in this setting and as a card holding, badge wearing Sci-Fi nerd I was rather looking forward to getting my hands on this game and seeing how it stood up to the much cherished 15 year old classic.
The first thing that stuck me is that despite the games wallet friendly £14.99 price, the developers certainly haven’t skimped when it comes to the presentation. Both the graphics and sound design are brilliant. Ships themselves are nicely detailed and the vast depths of space you will fight over are simply gorgeous to look at. Add to that a strong cast of voice actors, with some well know names for Sci-Fi fans, some rather decent music and it’s a very well presented package, that at first glance belies its price.
Kicking off the campaign with a basic tutorial is a good start. A few missions in and it soon became apparent why the tutorial was so basic, there is a distinct lack of depth to the strategy elements. Ship A kicks ass against Ship B, but is vulnerable to Ship C. Ship B knocks the stuffing out of Ship C but can’t stand up to Ship A. Ship C batters the crap out of Ship A, but is outmatched against Ship B. That is as deep as it gets. It’s a real shame that at its core it’s so simplistic. Get your head around which ship to use in which situation and you’re a grand master, all you then need to worry about is the constant herding of your forces. And boy can that be a bit of a pain.
Your forces seem to lack any form of intelligence or initiative. They will happily blast away at ships their weapons have no effect whatsoever on, often ignoring targets that they could actually damage. Even in the first few missions is becomes a real chore to constantly monitor what all of your forces are doing or not doing, as is often the case. I guess some people might like this whole level of micromanagement that’s needed to get anywhere but it was really just a complete turn off for me.
The story did manage to catch my attention to start off with but it soon ends up going hand in hand with the tedium of combat. Despite the great cast doing their utmost to make you interested in the story, the lack of stand-out narrative moments in missions leaves the story with the one task of linking mission to mission. A real shame considering the talent brought into voice some of the characters.
Whilst I’ve not been blown away by Ancient Space and I’ve yet to find the need to complete the campaign, I do think I’ll be going back to it at some point. There are no specific bad elements in this game, but there are a few things that just leave me completely indifferent. As nice as it looks and sounds, it was never going to be enough to carry the game alone. The lack of any multiplayer is also a big disappointment, as an armchair army General, there is nothing better than being able to get one over on your friends, and the more simple nature of combat that’s offered in Ancient Space would have been rather more suited to multiplayer that it is for a single player campaign.
The developers and publishers have pulled off a master-stroke by releasing Ancient Space before the much anticipated Homeworld Remastered even has a release date. For people like me who can’t wait for that, this game has provided a pleasant distraction, even if in all honestly it highlights more what a 15 year old game did right than Ancient Space itself accomplishes. Not bad by any means but one for fans of the genre or other Homeworld junkies needing a quick fix.
Reviewing a game can be a tricky thing. Whilst a game should be judged on its own merits, our opinions are formed by what we have already experienced. Case in point with Ancient Space, and a somewhat popular classic called Homeworld. Reviewing the new game without some comparisons to the old is an all but impossible task, and I can’t help but think I’d have enjoyed Ancient Space rather a bit more if I hadn’t loved Homeworld quite so much.
Developed by Creative Forge Games
Published by Paradox Interactive
Ancient Space is currently available on Steam and can be found HERE
Frugal Gaming Preview – Habitat
Tags: 4gency, early access, Sandbox, Space Sim, Strategy
As a teenager, the underneath of my bed was a black hole of my own creation. Discarded cereal bowls and cups of tea, dirty tissues, old magazines and the obligatory missing odd socks all ended up in the darkness. Turns out the 4gency’s vision of the future is pretty similar, just set in space rather than under a Ikea divan.
Habitat is a physics based sandbox building survival strategy game; bit of a mouthful, but at least it’s clearly its own genre. Having developed a couple of mobile titles, the developer is stepping up a gear with this game. Following on from the successful Kickstarter project, Habitat is now planned for release on PC, MAC, Linux and Xbox One.
Happy Tat
Starting with a small habitat, your mission is to grow and expand this last refuge of mankind by making good use of the things that you find, the things that the everyday folk have left behind, just obviously set in space, rather than Wimbledon Common. It’s a nice idea and having been hands on the with Early Access build that’s currently available on Steam, it does seem to be coming along rather nicely.
Nowhere near feature complete; at the time of writing Habitat offers you a brief tutorial and the sandbox survival building mode. Starting off with the basic Habitat module, you are free to use what ever trash you find floating around to expand and upgrade your life-raft. Everything has a use, from old booster rockets, Soviet era tanks, to flame breathing militarised dinosaur heads, yes really. The nature of the games physics engine affects everything. Want to move your tub along to explore the vast reaches of space? Then just attach a couple of rockets: One on each side of your habitat, both facing the same direction will happily boost you on your way. Fire just the left rocket and your turn right, fire just the right and you will turn left. It’s simple yet clever stuff.
Those same rockets could also be used as weapons, detach them from the Habitat and fire them up, they will streak off like, well, a rocket. Attach some heavier ordnance and you’ve got yourself a decent weapon system. Other junk might increase your power output, or simply extend your habitat offering more points to tether more even more junk onto. Its a nice unique system and messing around with various configurations can be fun just by itself for a time.
Wombling Free
Early access is all about solving problems and involving the community in development, obviously for the cynics out there it can also provide a vital stream of income to support continued development. 4gency are certainly seem to be making the most of their chosen path of development. The guys and girls are extremely active of the Steam Forums and constantly asking for feedback both on the game itself and the current Development Roadmap. Its great to see a clear and well laid out plan, I would love to see this as a minimum requirement for Early Access games launched on Steam in the future, so hats of to 4gency for being so open with the community.
I have enjoyed playing Habitat so far, but it’s not without its issues. The current control method, especially for the camera controls, just seems so unnatural and convoluted. It can feel like a real chore using WASD to move the camera, I’m hoping that this will be sorted as the game develops. I’m so used to just using a mouse in games like this and it would definitely benefit from having keyboard controls being optional, rather than mandatory. Whilst I’m sure the controls will be fine tuned before release, my other issue might well remain. At the moment you can only build and expand your habitat on a horizontal plane. Not being able to build vertically really seems like a missed opportunity and would have added a bit more depth to construction.
Despite some minor issues I’m looking forward to the release of Habitat, especially on Xbox One. It really does seems like the sort of game that for me would be suited to playing with a controller rather than mouse and keyboard, perhaps this is the route of my issues with the current control system. Whilst I haven’t got a clue what form the planned single player campaign will take, I’m hoping it will give some legs to the fabulous mechanics the developers have implemented. It’s still got a while to go until it’s full release but its certainly a promising start and I’m looking forward to playing some more of Habitat as features are added.
Habitat is planned for release on PC, MAc, Linux and Xbox One.
Early Access is available via Steam and can be found HERE
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Civil Rights Lovefest
by Telconi » Mon May 20, 2019 1:28 am
The Free Joy State wrote:
Telconi wrote:
But those laws only effect those who knowingly transmit the disease. Anti-Vaxxer folks aren't doing that AFAIK.
If they knowingly don't have their child vaccinated -- despite their child being medically fit for vaccination -- and their child gets ill with the disease they didn't vaccinate for, and they then take their ill child outside (to the park, to school, to one of the disease parties that anti-vaxxers still hold), that would be knowing transmission to unknowing parties.
But that wasn't the comparison I was making. It was more about the individual -- the person with an STI, the parent who doesn't wish to be vaccinated -- may have medical autonomy (different rules should apply with children, who precedent shows have a right to be protected from their parents' decisions), but there is also legal precedent for them having a duty to protect other people from things that may cause them medical harm.
Only if they knew they had a serious infectious disease.
There's a legal precedent that you must protect people from acts that *will* cause medical harm, for certain.
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by Duhon » Mon May 20, 2019 1:31 am
The Free Joy State wrote: There is an interesting comparison there.
People cannot be forcibly treated (and I would be concerned about compelled treatment of competent adults, due to the issues that presents with body autonomy), however they can be prosecuted in some places if they intentionally transmit an STI.
I stress I am not actually in favour of criminal prosecution and removal of children from non-vaccinating parents (though I am in favour of supervision orders to compel parents to vaccinate, if there's no medical reason -- for serious diseases like measles and polio), and I would prefer for such an approach to be augmented by greater public education to tackle misinformation so that, over time, such measures hardly needs to be used.
But the presence of laws that allow people to be prosecuted for deliberately transmitting an STI does suggest that it would not be out of order for anti-vaccination parents to be encouraged to consider the wider good (of children too young to be vaccinated, the pregnant, the immunocompromised, the elderly).
For a certain value of "unknowingly transmitting" -- that is, they made themselves ignorant, yet demand freedom of movement for themselves, whether they be vectors or not.
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by The Free Joy State » Mon May 20, 2019 1:33 am
The Free Joy State wrote: If they knowingly don't have their child vaccinated -- despite their child being medically fit for vaccination -- and their child gets ill with the disease they didn't vaccinate for, and they then take their ill child outside (to the park, to school, to one of the disease parties that anti-vaxxers still hold), that would be knowing transmission to unknowing parties.
Measles, mumps, polio, etc. are known to be serious diseases with potentially deadly effects.
Children can be protected from Jehovah's Witness parents who don't wish to let them have a blood transfusion. It makes sense to protect children from parents who won't let them be vaccinated against diseases that can cause encephalitis and death.
An STI isn't certain to kill; but it is certain to be unpleasant, highly infectious and (with some exceptions) largely avoidable with correct care. Measles isn't certain to kill; but it will be unpleasant, highly infectious and (with some exceptions) largely avoidable with correct care. They seem comparable enough to me.
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Duhon wrote:
Clearly fines don't work on people who've set themselves on infecting as many as possible.
Come now, you're lying. That is not their goal and you know it. It's really pathetic how it's not enough for some of the people in this thread to be right about vaccinations, they have to be downright hateful and shitty. Newsflash: opposing anti-vaxxers doesn't mean you have to lie about them or talk about putting them in Gulag or any of the other bullshit that comes up in these threads.
If they are ready to pay fines to resume the semblance of normal lives despite their potential as vectors, then fines aren't enough of a deterrent. Quarantining them (or "putting them in Gulag" as you put) won't work either, after you reach a certain number of people, for what I hope are obvious reasons.
Chernoslavia wrote:
... what insane logic is this? "Vaccines don't prevent infection in every case, therefore ditch vaccines and YOLO like before"?
Bear in mind that, in the case of measles, "before" meant a disease so common someone once quipped that catching it was as inevitable as death and taxes. You're saying a few deaths for the sake of bodily autonomy... is acceptable.
Nice strawman.
You're the one denying the effectiveness of vaccines, Chern, or am I wrong in reading your very words?
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by The Greater Ohio Valley » Mon May 20, 2019 2:53 am
The Greater Ohio Valley wrote: I sense that you’d very likely change your tune really quick if there was another Spanish flu-level pandemic that killed hundreds of millions of people and the governments of the world mandated vaccination programs to stop it.
Why would you rather die along with hundreds of millions of others and allow the further spread of the pandemic instead of getting the vaccine that would prevent you and billions of others from dying and stop the spread of the pandemic?
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by Highever » Mon May 20, 2019 2:55 am
The Greater Ohio Valley wrote:
Why would you rather die along with hundreds of millions of others instead of getting the vaccine that would prevent from dying?
Even hundreds of millions is probably a lowball number if something of the scale of the 1918 pandemic were to occur in the modern day.
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Highever wrote:
The Greater Ohio Valley wrote: Why would you rather die along with hundreds of millions of others instead of getting the vaccine that would prevent from dying?
I’m just throwing an estimate out there based on the 3-5% killed during 1918-19. I’m a bit dubious that an IRL disease could steamroll humanity more than that unless it’s some sort Plague Inc. level specifically evolved super disease.
Highever wrote: Even hundreds of millions is probably a lowball number if something of the scale of the 1918 pandemic were to occur in the modern day.
It has more to do with how interconnected the world is now and the ease of travel there is. It would spread far quicker than it did then and far more would be infected in a shorter span of time, especially in urban areas of South Korea, China, or India.
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by Greater vakolicci haven » Mon May 20, 2019 3:22 am
With me, it's a lack of concern for whether I live or die, and my belief that a massive global-level tragedy is necessary for the continued survival of the human race.
Greater vakolicci haven wrote:
The Greater Ohio Valley wrote: Why would you rather die along with hundreds of millions of others and allow the further spread of the pandemic instead of getting the vaccine that would prevent you and billions of others from dying and stop the spread of the pandemic?
You may have a death wish, but billions don't. Don't pass it on to us.
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by Thermodolia » Mon May 20, 2019 6:17 am
Thermodolia wrote: Actually it does. As it puts you at higher risk of catching a deadly disease
No it’s not a fallacy. You are pretty much an anti-vaxxer. You use the same language, terminology, and you refuse to believe that being unvaccinated is harmful.
You’re just mad I called you out on your bullshit
The FBI and CIA thanks you. Don’t worry I’m sure ADX Florence has something to entertain you
What? You think that only you can make outlandish claims? Have you seen what I’ve advocated?
1. No it doesn't, being infected and coming into contact with others does.
Which vaccines help prevent. How hard is this?
2. It is very much a fallacy. Or does this mean I can accuse all leftists of being Communists just because they make the same talking points for healthcare and other things?
Communists are leftists though. A leftist is one on the far left. And no it’s not the same because you are literally questioning vaccines.
''Ur just mad bro!'' Geez could you get anymore desperate?
Well you are.
3. Lol is the big bad socialist guy gonna report me to the popos now? Gee, I'm sooo scared! Yeah, pick a number and get in line.
What, you think that socialists don’t like authority like the police?
4. What outlandish claims have I made? I'm not the one thinking they can point guns at people's heads and force them to get vaccinated.
That vaccines don’t work for one, that unvaccinated people don’t cause harm, and that there’s nothing wrong with being anti-vaxx.
I’m not saying that I’d point a gun at people’s head. You said that. I said that those who refuse mandatory vaccination orders will be sent to jail.
My comment is in response to your call for an uprising against the government due to mandatory vaccinations
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I don’t give a fuck about what they feel
Cool, just don't bitch and call them terrorists when you meet armed resistance.
See this is what I mean by outlandish claims. And if you want a war I’ll give you one. The full might of the state vs a terrorist group. I wonder who will win.
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by The Greater Ohio Valley » Mon May 20, 2019 7:36 pm
Greater vakolicci haven wrote: With me, it's a lack of concern for whether I live or die, and my belief that a massive global-level tragedy is necessary for the continued survival of the human race.
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When did the anti-vax movement become the Thanos initiative?
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by Gormwood » Mon May 20, 2019 8:58 pm
Anti-vaxxers target communities battling measles
MONSEY, N.Y. — In a suburban shopping center an hour north of New York City, hundreds of mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered in a sex-partitioned ballroom to hear leaders of the national anti-vaccine movement.
Sustained applause greeted Del Bigtree, a former television-producer-turned-activist who often wears a yellow star , similar to those required of Jews in Nazi Germany, to show solidarity with parents ordered to keep unvaccinated children at home.
Bigtree described the purported dangers of childhood vaccines in phrases that also conjured the Nazis.
“They have turned our children into the largest human experiment in history — all of history,” he said.
The turnout last week in this suburb hard hit by measles helps explain why New York has become ground zero in one of this country’s largest and longest-lasting measles outbreaks in nearly 30 years. Even in a religious community grappling with more than 700 cases in Rockland County and New York City since last fall — among them, children on oxygen in intensive-care units — anxious and confused parents said they came because they are afraid of vaccines and seeking guidance about what to do.
Ethan, a 36-year-old father of six from Queens who declined to give his last name, said he attended the event out of “a genuine concern” for his family, driven by his wife’s research into vaccines. She had read “a lot of literature” and watched Bigtree’s film, which accuses the government of covering up a purported link between the measles vaccine and autism — a tie repeatedly disproved by studies around the world involving hundreds of thousands of children.
As a result, Ethan said, measles frightened him far less than what Bigtree and others described as the toxic substances in vaccines.
“I love doctors,” Ethan said, but they have “blind obedience” to the vaccine schedule. “God gave us a wonderful, beautiful body that heals itself.”
State and national health officials say groups such as Bigtree’s are directly responsible for the measles outbreaks that struck Orthodox communities here and in New York City this year. Through an aggressive social media campaign, pamphleteering and traveling road shows that pop up in receptive and often insular communities, officials say, the anti-vaccine movement has produced pockets of unvaccinated children where the highly contagious and sometimes deadly disease can catch fire.
The groups’ claims are flatly contradicted by science, but their rhetoric has sent vaccination rates plummeting across the country, including among Eastern European immigrants outside Portland, Ore., the Somali community in Minnesota and ultra-Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, and here in Rockland County — all groups that have experienced recent outbreaks.
“This is a national movement of people who are nothing but charlatans, conspiracy theorists and people . . . spreading misinformation,” said Rockland County Executive Ed Day. “The type of propaganda they spread is a danger to the health and safety of children within our community and around the world.”
In many ways, vaccines are a victim of their own success. Years ago, people were intimately familiar with the suffering caused by diseases such as polio, whooping cough and measles. Today, they’ve been virtually eliminated — along with the memory of their terrible effects.
As a result, generations of parents have grown up “more likely to be scared of the vaccine than the disease,” said Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “It’s very easy to appeal to those fears.”
The modern anti-vaccine movement began about 40 years ago in response to legitimate concerns about the side effects of a pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine. But it has metastasized into something far darker in the echo chamber of Facebook chat rooms, WhatsApp and YouTube — especially against a backdrop of rising suspicion of elites, including drugmakers, doctors and public health officials.
Anti-vaccine activists have a rhetorical advantage: They speak with absolute certainty about frightening cases of so-called vaccine injuries based on changes parents say they observe in their children after getting shots.
Scientists and researchers, by contrast, rarely speak in absolutes. They say vaccines save countless lives, but like all medicines, have side effects — albeit rare ones. And they sometimes challenge what parents think they have seen with their own eyes by explaining that health problems such as autism often become apparent around the same time children are receiving multiple shots — even though there is no causal connection.
A reaction spurs a movement
The modern anti-vaccine movement began in 1980 with a heartbreak that propelled a Virginia mother into activism.
Several hours after her eldest son — then 2½ — got his fourth shot to prevent diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus, Barbara Loe Fisher said she found him staring straight ahead as if he couldn’t see her. “When I called out his name, his eyelids fluttered, his eyes rolled back in his head, and his head fell to his shoulder,” she recalled.
Fisher has written on her website that her son suffered a convulsion, collapse and brain inflammation and grew up with multiple learning disabilities. After seeing a television special on possible dangers of the DPT vaccine, Fisher suspected a link to the vaccine.
At the time, the pertussis component of the vaccine was made with many more proteins than other childhood vaccines, and had a significant risk of side effects, including fever and in some cases, seizures. (The problem was corrected in newer versions of the vaccine.)
Fisher became a national advocate, warning parents about possible risks and working with Congress to craft legislation creating a vaccine compensation program and an improved vaccine monitoring system — one of several safety systems still in use.
Today, the National Vaccine Information Center in Sterling, Va., which she founded, is considered one of the most effective lobbyists for parental choice, combating efforts in New York and other states to make it harder for parents to opt out of vaccinating their children.
“We don’t tell people what to do,” Fisher said in a recent interview. “We support informed voluntary medical decisions that people make. We do not tell people to vaccinate or not to vaccinate.”
A discredited study's impact
In 1998, the Lancet, a respected British medical journal, published a paper that would cause the anti-vaccine movement to explode. The paper, by gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield and other authors, claimed to have found a link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) and autism in eight children.
The paper was later found to be fraudulent. Wakefield’s fellow authors issued a retraction. So did the Lancet after an investigation by British medical authorities. Wakefield was stripped of his medical license after a panel concluded that he had financial and ethical conflicts of interest and had acted “dishonestly and irresponsibly.”
But the damage was done. MMR vaccination rates plunged in Britain, Ireland, the United States and other countries at a time of rising concern about autism diagnoses.
To many parents, Wakefield’s thesis seemed believable because symptoms of autism first appear when children are about 12 months old — the same age they receive their first MMR vaccine, said Alison Singer, a New York City mother with a severely autistic daughter.
“Up until Wakefield, no one had really put the two together,” said Singer, who now heads the Autism Science Foundation, which supports research into the condition’s causes.
Twenty-one studies since that Lancet study have found no relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism. The latest and largest, from Denmark, involved 657,461 Danish children born between 1999 and 2010.
In the intervening years, researchers have implicated genetic and environmental factors in autism, such as older fathers and infections during pregnancy. Scientists now believe that more than 100 genes affect an individual’s risk for autism, said Josh Gordon, director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
“About 15 to 20 percent of people with diagnoses of autism can now be told by their doctors why they have it,” Gordon said.
Despite all the subsequent research, Wakefield’s discredited ideas have become firmly entrenched in anti-vaccine mythology.
“Once you put a scary thought in someone’s head, it’s very hard to get it out,” Singer said.
The notion that vaccines are implicated in autism and a host of other medical conditions is now championed by an increasingly organized anti-vaccine movement that includes at least a dozen national organizations and hundreds of Facebook groups, many of them private. Many cast themselves as promoting individual and parental rights and fighting government overreach — a cause that resonates with individuals across the political spectrum.
High-profile leaders such as Bigtree, founder of Informed Consent Action Network in Austin, and environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, crisscross the country railing against vaccine dangers and advocating for parental choice.
Bigtree, the son of a minister, is a charismatic speaker who draws large crowds at wellness conferences and state legislative hearings. A former daytime television producer for “The Doctors,” he said he became a vaccine safety advocate after hearing from so many aggrieved parents after partnering with Wakefield on a movie about Wakefield’s theories.
“The moment we began expanding the vaccination program, our health has been declining in our children,” Bigtree said recently on a weekly live show he distributes on Facebook and YouTube. For his HighWire show, he has about 140,000 Facebook followers and 44,000 YouTube subscribers.
Kennedy’s interest in vaccines grew out of his advocacy work on environmental pollutants. He accuses drugmakers of colluding with the health establishment to cover up vaccines’ alleged role in rising rates of a gamut of chronic diseases and even teen suicide — claims rejected by the American Academy of Pediatrics and virtually every leading health and science organization in the world.
In January 2017, Kennedy stunned the medical establishment by announcing that then-President-elect Trump had asked him to lead a commission looking at vaccines and autism — a subject Trump had mentioned repeatedly on the campaign trail.
But the White House never went forward with the commission. And last month, when U.S. measles cases reached a record high, Trump urged parents to “get the shots” for their children.
In an extraordinary public rebuke this month, three members of Kennedy’s family — including his brother, a former congressman, and his sister, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland — accused Kennedy of being “part of a misinformation campaign that’s having heartbreaking — and deadly — consequences.”
“We love Bobby. . . . We stand behind him in his ongoing fight to protect our environment,” they wrote. “However, on vaccines he is wrong.”
'One-way propaganda'
Most Americans continue to support immunizations, as evidenced by high national vaccination rates, but there are worrisome trends: The percentage of children younger than 2 who haven’t received any vaccinations, for instance, has quadrupled since 2001, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
And in more than a dozen hot spots across the country, including the Seattle and Portland areas, which have had measles outbreaks, immunization rates have plunged as an increasing number of parents receive nonmedical exemptions to avoid having to give their children the shots, according to a study last year.
The link between places with low vaccination rates and measles outbreaks is clear: In some of Williamsburg’s yeshivas, for instance, up to 22 percent of children did not receive the MMR vaccine for religious reasons during the 2017-2018 school year, according to New York state data.
Anti-vaccine activists encourage that trend by arguing that the vaccine is potentially more dangerous than the disease.
At the Monsey forum, Rabbi Hillel Handler called resistance to measles shots a brave act. The virus, which once killed several hundred Americans every year, “is not a serious disease,” he said, asserting that those who battle it in childhood grow up stronger.
Public health officials are trying to fight back. They note that children who have recovered from measles are more susceptible to infections and are at risk for serious complications.
In the Brooklyn neighborhoods at the heart of the New York City outbreak, nurse practitioner Blima Marcus holds regular meetings with small groups of ultra-Orthodox women in their homes, spending hours answering their questions. As a member of the same Orthodox community, Marcus says it is easier for her to gain their trust.
Often, she said, the women are surprised by the scientific studies she brings that disprove links between the measles vaccine and autism. Afterward, some tell her they feel they’ve been “really misled.”
“These are insular women who are trying to do the best for their children,” Marcus said. “At the end of the day, I feel the majority of people who don’t vaccinate are the victims of a one-way propaganda machine.”
Anti-vaxxers gathering at the site of a measles outbreak. It's like scavengers flying over the dying.
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by Duhon » Mon May 20, 2019 9:33 pm
Duhon wrote: Arrest them. They might actually bring with them disease vectors, inanimate and otherwise. These malevolently stupid fuckwits.
by Hurtful Thoughts » Mon May 20, 2019 10:29 pm
Gormwood wrote: Anti-vaxxers target communities battling measles
In an extraordinary public rebuke this month, three members of Kennedy’s family — including his brother, a former congressman, and his sister, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland — accused Kennedy of being “part of a misinformation ­campaign that’s having heartbreaking — and deadly — consequences.”
Ahem:
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Hurtful Thoughts wrote: ... wth?
Therm... no...
Anti-vaccination support groups and social events... they're a thing... and it totally undermines herd-immunity by creating a herd with 0% vaccinations and then spreading it around to other communities like some form of sapient weaponized biological terrorist cell.
Which is why cattle-brokers are forced to kill their entire herd when that happens.
Anti-vaxxer group and social events?
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by Thermodolia » Thu May 23, 2019 3:31 pm
Those with Measles could be banned from flying in five US states
Personally I think we need a national ban and a restriction on people coming into the US with Measles like we did with Ebola
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by DARGLED » Thu May 23, 2019 3:55 pm
Get yourself and your children vaccinated or be quarantined permanently. That is how it should be. You do not have the right to endanger the lives of others.
EDIT: Andrew Wakefield should be executed for having started this antivax madness.
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by Farnhamia » Thu May 23, 2019 4:17 pm
DARGLED wrote: Get yourself and your children vaccinated or be quarantined permanently. That is how it should be. You do not have the right to endanger the lives of others.
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by Aclion » Thu May 23, 2019 4:19 pm
Thermodolia wrote: Those with Measles could be banned from flying in five US states
No, we can't stop people spreading pandemics. It's racist... or something.
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Well, if they're on the no-fly list... does this mean we gotta confiscate their guns, too?
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by Chernoslavia » Thu May 23, 2019 7:32 pm
1. Never said they did.
2. And so are liberals. Just because some fucking British guy somewhere has far-left ideals that doesn't just make liberals over here right wing. And I haven't questioned vaccines, I've questioned Duhon's false claim that it will guarantee to prevent measles and I haven't used that as an argument against being vaccinated.
3. Good, at least you don't pretend to be in support of individual freedom like other socialists do.
4. Then good thing I never said vaccines don't work, or anything about being anti-vax. And no being unvaccinated alone doesn't put anyone in danger.
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6.5-inch iPhone X, 6.1-inch LCD iPhone in the works for late 2018 launch
Posted: November 13, 2017 4:33PM
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Apple is said to have three new iPhone models in the pipeline for a late 2018 launch, two of which will be the company's biggest handsets ever, crossing the six-inch threshold with new edge-to-edge OLED and traditional LCD models.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities issued a note to investors on Monday, a copy of which was obtained by AppleInsider, revealing that Apple has a 6.5-inch OLED iPhone on tap for launch in the second half of 2018. This handset would presumably serve as a sort of "iPhone X Plus," taking the general size of a Plus-sized iPhone and adding an edge-to-edge OLED display.
But Apple is also working on a new LCD model with a large 6.1-inch display, according to Kuo. He believes that this model will be targeted toward the low-end and mid-range smartphone markets.
This new model will "differ significantly" from the OLED models, boasting a lower-resolution display to achieve a price point between $650 and $750. But it's likely that this model will feature Face ID and advanced cameras to replace Touch ID, according to Kuo.
He also believes that Apple will greatly reduce the bezels on this LCD model, thanks to the elimination of Touch ID.
These two handsets will be flanked by a next-generation iPhone X, he said, featuring the same 5.8-inch edge-to-edge OLED display as the recently released model. With three new handsets apparently in the works for late 2018, the analyst predicts that Apple will see a "super-cycle" of sales, aided by the fact that the company's supply chain will be better suited to handle manufacturing of the new technologies introduced in the iPhone X.
Word of a 6.5-inch iPhone arriving next year first surfaced back in September. Around the same time, Kuo himself reported that all iPhones set to launch in fall of 2018 will ditch Touch ID for Face ID, allowing a swift removal of the physical home button.
At present, the iPhone 8 boasts a 4.7-inch screen, the iPhone 8 Plus is 5.5 inches, and the OLED iPhone X has a 5.8-inch screen.
somethingsometh Posts: 11member
Way to bury the source. Mr 50% accuracy at it again.
nhughes Posts: 750editor
somethingsometh said:
And by "bury the source" you mean put his name in the second sentence of the story?
wigby Posts: 690member
Would you prefer his name in the headlines?
"He believes that this model will be targeted toward the low-end and mid-range smartphone markets."
I don't think Kuo understands the price points in the mid and low end smartphone markets. Even before Apple shifted the high end smartphone market to +$1000, $650 and $750 were not mid or lower priced smartphones.
jvmb Posts: 59member
It it looks like watches are replacing phones, phones are replacing regular iPads, and pro iPads are replacing MacBooks.
Since I wear jeans and I don’t carry a hand bag, I hope they will keep making iPhone 5 sized phones. With an end to end display like the iPhone X, that would make the screen big enough. I guess I’ll have to get used to wearing watches though.
anothermacguy Posts: 4member
Wish they would do a smaller 5" screen version, not a fan of these huge phones. Form factor somewhere between SE and 8 would be so nice.
king editor the grate Posts: 484member
jvmb said:
I guess I’ll have to get used to wearing watches though.
It's a mad, mad, mad world.
melgross Posts: 31,727member
Even if there will be three, something of which I’m not so sure of, the mock-ups shown at the top of the article are off. What was done was mostly to enlarge the current X. That’s a big mistake, because the “notch” at the top is bigger as well. That’s highly unlikely. The notch should be the same size no matter what the size of the phone, giving more screen at the sides and more screen below, because the depth of the notch will also be the same depth.
right now, the notch takes 2% of the screen area, in a larger phone, that will be even less, making it less noticeable. So I would ignore those mock-ups.
nhughes said:
I think he would have preferred the title be
Delusion: 6.5-inch iPhone X, 6.1-inch LCD iPhone in the works for late 2018 launch
moonwatcher Posts: 17member
They should call the new ones iPhone 11 and reference ‘Spinal Tap’:
“Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.”
Yup 11
imergingenious Posts: 250member
There is no way the TFT LCD will not have a chin (as represented in the mock-up). It can be cut for the notch, but it can't be bent around itself to hide the display controller at the bottom.
maestro64 Posts: 4,596member
Everyone says he is always off, let see the stats. Give the list of his predictions and which ones he got right and which one which were wrong, I think if you did the tally he would be better than 50% accurate.
edited November 2017
I think Ming has sources in Samsung he always has better details about the displays than anything else.
fotoformat Posts: 288member
I feel your pain... I have a 5S and recently bought the Apple Watch 3 (non-LTE) which I now refer to far more often than the iPhone in my jeans pocket.
Being a stock photographer I always carry a camera... and having a 'wearable' which tells me everything from messages to health, plus calls without a phone in my pocket, is certainly what I hope for in a few years time.
GeorgeBMac Posts: 4,662member
Nope! I'm not buying it:
That limits the new phones to forcing people to choose between either a high-end X upgrade or a large screen. To many people like the 6, 7 & 8 sized phones to force them up into ultra-premium to get one.
Plus, it's time for an SE update. THAT should be more interesting than anything else -- there are so many ways to go there -- particularly if/when Apple propagates FaceId throughout its line up.
Another interesting thing to watch is what happens to the iPad Mini. For many uses its the perfect size. But, like the SE, its internals are getting further and further out of date.
GeorgeBMac said:
SE update is expected next spring. It won't have an edge-to-edge display — it will be a budget model.
I thought the math came out to 6.7" for an iPhone X Plus that is the same number of points wide as the iPhone 8 Plus.
edit: According to my own calculations converting to a 1:2.17 aspect ratio while keeping the width the same as the Plus comes out to 6.45". That also looks like a resolution of 1620 × 3510 if I multiply everything by 1.5. However, it appears that the iPhone X isn't exactly the same width the 4.7" iPhones—it looks like it might 0.13" wider, which would throw off my size calculations.
boltsfan17 Posts: 2,161member
I definitely would love to have an iPhone the size of the Plus model but all display like the iPhone X.
tmay Posts: 3,799member
A 6.5 inch X would have the intended effect of gobbling up even more of Samsung's OLED production. Hard to imagine companies building out any proper OLED products without the benchmark OLED that Samsung provides to itself and Apple.
LukeCage Posts: 162member
boltsfan17 said:
I thought this was the exact reason apple would make a 6.5 inch screen, or greater, to replace the plus models
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Posted: June 10, 2017 5:20PM
After less than a year on the market, the 13-inch MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar has been upgraded with Intel's Kaby Lake processor -- and a lower price. Are the changes (and downgrade, in one notable case) to get the price down enough to get you to buy one?
Just as the 2016 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar straddles the line between the 12-inch MacBook and the 2016 15-inch MacBook Pro, the so-called MacBook Pro without Touch Bar -- sometimes called the "Escape" -- sits squarely between the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the Touch Bar, and the MacBook.
The significant change between the 2016 13-inch MacBook Pro without Touch Bar, and the 2017 reiteration is the addition of Kaby Lake -- and we'll get to that in a bit.
As with the late 2016 MacBook Pro, the 2017 MacBook Pro line is a continuation of the design language introduced with the 12-inch MacBook. Dimensionally, the two models are identical, at 0.59 inches tall. Previous 13-inch MacBook Pro models came in at 0.71 inches tall, while the 12-inch MacBook is 0.52 inches at its tallest point.
The new model is still 11.97 inches wide and 8.36 inches deep, smaller than the 2015 model's 12.35 inches by 8.62 inches.
The all-metal hinge that trumps the previous plastic hinge in older Retina MacBook Pros is stil here, as is the revamped keyboard with the second-generation butterfly mechanism keys.
Contrary to rumors saying that the lit Apple on the back of the display's case would return, the Apple logo remains embossed on the case.
Models compared
We previously tested a 13-inch MacBook Pro equipped with a 2-gigahertz Intel Core i5 Skylake CPU, Intel Iris Graphics 540 integrated graphics chip, 8 gigabytes of 1866MHz LPDDR3 RAM and 256 gigabytes of PCIe-based SSD storage. The baseline configuration came in at $1,499.
The tested model comes in at $1,299. For the money, purchasers get a 2.3 GHz dual-core i5 processor from the Kaby Lake family, 8 GB of RAM now running at 2133 MHz, and integrated Intel Iris Plus 640 Graphics.
Given all that, the new $1,299 model appears to be similar in comparison to the older model. However, the SSD storage has been shrunk to 128GB, probably to hit the lower price point. This is a problem, given that the OS and accompanying applications take about 30GB of that space.
Our original machine rated a decent single-core score of 3,691 points and 7,148 points on the latest version of Geekbench 4, outperforming the 2015 13-inch MacBook Pro with higher-clocked fifth-generation Intel CPUs.
Comparing the machines in GeekBench 4, the new Macbook is 21 percent faster in single core tasks, and 30 percent faster in multi-core.
We weren't expecting this. Tock to tock processor updates don't generally give this kind of performance boost, but the boost is delivered through an increase in RAM speed, the architecture upgrade, and a 300Mhz base clock speed increase.
The double digit CPU gains don't translate over to graphics processing, where we found a modest improvement of 5 percent from 2016 to 2017. Given the flash storage decrease to 128GB, the write speeds are slower there too -- but this is to be expected as parallelism decreases with fewer chips.
Overall, a 20 or 30 percent benchmark increase doesn't mean that the job you're doing is going to get done that much faster -- but the speed increase is noticeable.
Best of times, worst of times -- the butterfly keyboard and Trackpad
The butterfly keyboard on the MacBook Pro has taken heat from some users, as evidenced by continuing complaints regarding the key travel. The 2017 MacBook Pro refresh continues to include the "tuned dome switch" part that feels more "clicky" and responsive than the first-generation iteration.
Simply, you like this or you don't. If you didn't like it in the 2015 MacBook, or the 2016 line of MacBook Pros, you still won't like it here.
The relatively enormous Force Touch trackpad is the same size as before, and equally as polarizing as the keyboard. Clearly designed to accommodate macOS gestures, the enlarged size has drawn complaints about palm rejection. Again, this is either a benefit to the machine, or a detriment, and that choice is down to the user.
Display and speakers are unchanged
The 13.3-inch LED-backlit display features the same 2,560-by-1,600 pixel native resolution and IPS technology as last year's 13-inch Pro.
Apple's speakers on the 2016 MacBook Pro line were under-emphasized, in our opinion. Early complaints about Boot Camp blowing out the drivers were rectified by a software patch, and they easily remain the best Mac portable speakers we have heard in over 20 years of assessment, and near the top of the heap for all laptops we've ever looked at.
Apple promises 10 hours of battery life -- but they always promise that. We consistently hit that number while surfing the web and performing menial background tasks, perhaps a bit more consistently than we did while actually using the family over the last seven months daily.
More processor intensive applications like Photoshop and Premiere will chew through a MacBook Pro's battery in only a few hours. Kaby Lake promises more efficiency, and we'll have to continue to examine this as time goes on to see if there's any notable difference between the 2017 and 2016 models.
Thunderbolt 3 steals the show
We're not going to hammer on Thunderbolt 3 in this review. If you read AppleInsider even casually, you know that when the mandatory "dongle hell" period expires in about a year from now with wider expansion of the ecosystem, the speed of Thunderbolt 3 and the flexibility of USB-C will win the day.
If you feel like you need a lot of adapters to migrate to a new machine, buy a dock instead. If you have a Thunderbolt 2 dock, that will work too, as the Apple Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3 adapter will connect the older dock to the new gear -- it just won't carry power back to the laptop.
Probably, don't sell your 2016
If you've got a 2016 13-inch MacBook Pro without TouchBar, there's really no need to jump ship, sell the old gear, and go all-in on the new gear.
There are, however, a small group of users who need the portability of the 13-inch Macbook Pro over the 15-inch, but also demand maximum power for productivity. If that's you, the impressive performance increase of Kaby Lake might be enticing enough to upgrade.
But, Apple cut a big corner in the device's on-board storage to reduce the price to $1,299 -- and we feel that it shouldn't have. If you own the 2016, you have at least 256GB of storage. We feel that the 128GB is a big step backwards for those considering the 2017 who already own a 2016.
If you have pre-2016 machine, and are ready to make the jump to USB-C, the value proposition in an upgraded 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar is even better than it was. Just spring for extra storage when you buy.
AppleInsider gives the 2017 13-inch MacBook Pro without Touch Bar the same score we gave the original model. It gets a half-point added for what Kaby Lake brings to the table, but a half point off for the storage reduction. But, if you've got a 2016, the differential may not be worth selling your old gear and starting again.
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ljm828312 Posts: 26member
June 10, 2017 6:08PM
It's a year newer, what do you expect?
elijahg Posts: 943member
ljm828312 said:
You expect to keep the same at least, or increase the available SSD space. Reducing it is really stingy, like they reduced the iMac Fusion drives from 128GB SSD to 24. That'll be Cook's beancounter approach shining through.
slurpy Posts: 5,154member
elijahg said:
You have absolutely no clue if Tim is the one that specifically pushed or encouraged this- in all probability he didn't, and it was the marketing team to decided to create more differentiation this way. I'm sure he has better things to do than dictate how much storage and memory goes into each model. But hey, don't let that spoil that comfortable little narrative that you've created for yourself. I also like that people seem to have a selective memory- Steve Jobs wasn't exactly generous with components either, and I see no evidence that Cook is any worse. I guess SJ was also a "bean-counter".
wood1208 Posts: 1,968member
It definitely nice Apple kept starting price of 13" non-touch at $1299. That $1299 for 13" macbook pro is a magical sweet spot number, Don't know why ? Hidden wish of potential new/upgrade buyers was 256GB SSD standard(and OK not discounted to students). May be next time. Other point is to provide the same number of USB ports on all Macbooks Pro. Reasons are first not having 'those'(HDMI,Ethernet,etc) ports and when customer start upgrading processor/RAM/SSD to non-touch $1299 Macbook Pro than it reaches around $2000. Would you expect $2000 laptop with 3-4 USB-C ports ? Doesn't cost much to add 1-2 extra ports.
edited June 2017
randominternetperson Posts: 2,019member
wood1208 said:
What? I don't really understand what you're saying, but it sounds like you may be suggesting it should have 6 USB-C ports? That's just bizarre.
xzu Posts: 139member
I have the 2016 13" Mac Pro without the touch bar, and it is unexpectedly slow. The new model looks to be a much better balance of components. I am glad Apple refreshed the line with current processors and better graphics. It's still a dongle fest, but carrying an extra bag just for adapters is part of being a mac user... "I have an adapter for that!"
randominternetperson said:
Either I was not clear or you misread. Simple. Non touch strip Macbook Pro should have the same 4 USB-C ports as rest.I am not in-sane to suggest more than 4 ports on Macbook pros.
tonglaji Posts: 12member
The non-touchbar 2016 13" had a removable/upgradeable hard drive. Can someone confirm if the 2017 model is the same? If so, the standard 128GB drive is a plus when you upgrade with a third part drive.
talkingheadguy Posts: 17member
AppleInsider said:
This comment is unfair and misleading. Apple did reduce the price of the base unit by reducing the storage of that machine, but it retains the 256GB model at the same $1499 price as last year and with significantly higher specs. Apple didn't cut any corners. They offered a lower-priced option while keeping the rest of the structure intact. This is a non-issue.
slurpy said:
It's not like Apple has hundreds of different major devices, there's the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AppleTV and Mac. Pretty sure a CEO of a large company would have at least some input to them, especially since they're only updated at most yearly. It's pretty well known Cook is a bean-counter.
Steve wasn't generous no, but remember during Steve's tenure the prices of Macs fell and were really quite reasonable. They've steadily risen under Cook. There's no sub-£1000 Macbook anymore for example, and no sub £1000 iMac. There's premium, then there's overpriced. iMacs still come with hard disks, and the base model isn't even a Fusion Drive. The top 27" iMac is £2250 and has a hard disk. What the hell.
StrangeDays Posts: 7,943member
It's pretty well known Cook is a bean-counter.
nubus Posts: 53member
It is 7 months and the reason is Apple not being in sync with Intel. As a result the MBP Late-2016 shipped with old components.
Most PC vendors started delivering Kaby Lake laptops within 2 weeks of Apple shipping the MBP Skylake.
Even this minor update is late on arrival and it is a disappointment to all that expected the price hike of MBP16 to be moderated. Instead we got a Pro laptop with 128 GB storage. The review is refreshingly honest regarding the keyboard and touchpad.
In general Apple is having a problem with shipping on time. iMac Pro is a terrible excuse for not having a Pro desktop (would Jobs place 2 cooling fans in front of a user?). The launch of HomePod at least 6 months before it ships seems like a 100% me-too FUD attack on Amazon/Google. Last year Apple missed seasonal sales for AirPods and now they plan on doing it again for most of the world. And don't even ask about the LG not-so-UltraFine monitor. What exactly is going on in Cupertino?
InspiredCode Posts: 12member
It probably has more to do with offloading documents to iCloud working well and trying to hit a price point for cost sensitive markets like education. Since higher capacities are still around, this just gives you more options.
williamlondon Posts: 725member
What I love are the comments begrudging a capitalist company making profit. The comments from certain (negative nellies I like to call them) are actually criticisms that Apple isn't more socialist or communist in its product offerings, and that when they make product strategy and product pricing decisions (a very complex discipline), there are people who criticise Apple for those decisions as if Apple does business in a non-capitalist world.
The reality is that Apple has obviously hit on a spot (product feature/pricing) that gets people to release more cash for certain features they want. That's product strategy and product pricing in capitalism done perfectly and I applaud their success in this area - they are simply excellent at it.
If you don't like it, you can choose (again, capitalism provides plenty of competition) another company and their offerings, but to bemoan a company's decisions for doing something very, very, very right is just ludicrous and makes you seem petty and petulant, or perhaps it's just caused by a bad case of sour grapes.
My suggestion is either to preface your criticisms with, "I am not a capitalist and believe Apple should act in accordance with *my* beliefs," or alternatively one might choose to say nothing and stop the incessant internet complaining. It's that simple.
Actually Tim Cook would have signed off on the hardware configurations of all important products. There would be a series of product development demos and a brief explaining why that was the recommended configuration and he would have approved it. You could argue he was too preoccupied with other stuff and did not pay enough attention to the company's bead and butter, but to say he is not ultimately responsible for initiatives like a poverty pack MBP at still premium prices is dubious credit indeed.
It's why he is paid the big bucks.
Notsofast Posts: 386member
"Stingy?" That's simply silly, although I can understand that you were mislead into thinking that by the silly analysis by the staff who wrote this. Apple reduced the price by $200 for those who didn't need the 256GB SSD, and preferred the option of the cost savings with higher specs elsewhere! If you think you need the 256GB SSD, Apple has it for the exact same price as before PLUS all the nice upgrades. This is borderline "fake news," and sooner or later people are going to have to wake up and realize their credibility is on the line when writing articles; thus they need to be scrupulous to the facts, not some narrative.
Mike Wuerthele Posts: 4,628administrator
Notsofast said:
I get the feeling you didn't even read the review, or just skimmed it. There's no narrative being peddled, here. Or, maybe you and I read different reviews.
Plus, if a review has no opinions in it, then it becomes PR regurgitation.
What "facts" got missed? Is the flash storage in fact not half of what it was in the 2016 entry? Did Apple not peddle this as the replacement to the $1499 model in the keynote, making a big deal about the price cut?
FTA: "Given all that, the new $1,299 model appears to be similar in comparison to the older model. However, the SSD storage has been shrunk to 128GB, probably to hit the lower price point. This is a problem, given that the OS and accompanying applications take about 30GB of that space."
"But, Apple cut a big corner in the device's on-board storage to reduce the price to $1,299 -- and we feel that it shouldn't have. If you own the 2016, you have at least 256GB of storage. We feel that the 128GB is a big step backwards for those considering the 2017 who already own a 2016."
Where, exactly is your beef?
mikethemartian Posts: 341member
I think Jobs on the other hand would have cared about those little details that Cook doesn't have time to deal with.
macxpress Posts: 4,895member
mikethemartian said:
Little details such as what?
automaticftp1 Posts: 14member
June 11, 2017 1:00AM
Same keyboard and trackpad? Not interested.
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Wake up daybreak, everyone's watching you rip off YOUR OWN fan base. i have bought so many alpha games and not one of them have been taken down and made unusable, that means the incredibly small teams of devs working on indie alpha games i've bought are more professional than that. They stated it was taken down due to population but that population was loyal to the game (and might i add much higher than some other games i own that are still very much functioning), loyal and waiting to be shown some love back from daybreak after they were abandoned almost immediately when the game split for its more popular half H1Z1 BR or whatever its called now after a million name changes only to be literally lied to and figuratively stabbed in the back. With all of daybreaks lies or "promises unfulfilled" big updates that never came and were never answered for, content promised not delivered. map promised, delivered then immediately abandoned and last but not least withholding updates and game news under the pretense of the game being sold and possibly revamped by a new company only to shut it down completely. They still even sold cosmetics up until the last minute before the announcement. this sounds an awful lot like a group of liars and con artists more than a group of game developers. The reputation of daybreak was shaky at best before the h1z1 fiasco now as it stands if nothing is done it will be forever tarnished as it would at the moment very much deserve to be.
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So we all have known it has been hard for WP8 to take any bit of ios and android market share, so where does it leave webOS when we have 5 other operating systems entering the market.
Sailfish OS
and now Ubuntu mobile os
4 of which have to find oems for hardware
dignitary
Well, FirefoxOS already has an OEM, so that's only 3. Firefox OS evolves from Boot to Gecko, telecoms and OEMs pledge support | Geek Pick | Geek.com
The only question mark left, to me, would be Sailfish and there's a high probability they'll be producing their own phones at the beginning: Jolla Phones Will Soon Be Available In Finland, Preview Of Phone Running Sailfish | Muktware
Much of this is already old news, guys. Like, half a year in some cases. Google is your friend.
Ubuntu probably won't have any problems, either, given their openness and opportunity for an OEM to truly offer a desktop and smartphone experience in a single device (and unlike the "Webtop" Motorola offered that was entirely problematic to use). I would expect an OEM or two to come on board by Q3 '13. Furthermore, developing for Ubuntu means an opportunity to cover desktop and mobile in one single application...and with the heavy hitters in development beginning to move to Ubuntu/Linux (it helps that Steam is coming to that platform) you can bet it's going to put up a fight: Operator and OEM partners | Ubuntu for phones | Ubuntu
Ubuntu (and many other Linux distributions) is also the ultimate in open source. Bar none. Linux set the gold standard shaping the modern open source movement, so you just don't get much more open than an actual Linux distribution as your smartphone OS. You'll see Ubuntu for Smartphones loaded on anything and everything webOS can, and plenty more than that. In far less time.
webOS is the only one of these OSes with zero plans for retail presence and zero revealed strategy to get there at present. Nobody will take it seriously until it does, nor will developers flock to it.
Will some of these eventually die? Probably. It's a crowded field, sure, but one has to assume the chances for webOS are simply not looking very good right now given the well-capitalized options (other than Sailfish) that are coming into the marketplace to take on the big guns with widespread name recognition, long-term user familiarity, a compelling and unique angle, and strong rapport from those that have used other products of theirs.
webOS to the world looks like a nice attempt that had some good ideas "at the time" worthy of incorporating into other, more successful OSes. Why? It failed not only once to gain traction after the Pre/Pre+/Pixi/Pixi+ build quality issues, but also the failure of the Pre 2 on the market (i.e., it went nowhere; failed launch), and then the Pre 3/Veer/Touchpad fiasco not even a year later along with Palm and HP's corporate antics and burning of bridges at every possible corner.
Well, and currently near-zero commercial developer support outside of a half-dozen folks here on this forum. Nobody (except the folks here) says, "I want to develop for webOS."
Ubuntu alone brings in decades worth of applications of every variety right off the bat and a massive existing user and developer communities, while Firefox OS (with their "WebAPI") allows any website to potentially function as if it's an app on your cellphone. webOS can claim neither of these innovations; these are completely unique to the extent in which Ubuntu and Mozilla are employing them.
For all the people that talked up and drew parallels to Ubuntu when Open webOS was announced, it's ironic that the same OS they held up as a shining example of the sort of underground popularity they wanted for webOS may now completely bite them in the **** because Ubuntu wants to be at the forefront of popularity in the mobile landscape.
In short, webOS can't sit there spinning on its thumb with Open webOS being the exact same thing as legacy webOS only on an improved foundation, relying on the same tired cards and gestures that didn't exactly drive success the first through third times around while everyone else shows off new features that are getting people's serious attention. webOS has to seriously up its game to something much, much more than it is into a mobile OS that brings something brand new to the table again just like it did when it was announced at CES 2009.
The only problem here is Open webOS hasn't shown anything of the sort and, despite the fact that I root for them to get their **** together and publicly demonstrate that they are, I can't say I have much hope that they will. Again.
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01/03/2013, 04:02 AM #3
I'm looking forward to Ubuntu phone for sure. Next to webOS, it's the best looking hmi out there (sailfish's swipes seem contrived).
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Rnp
Well, when the IPhone was launched, many told that was not space... when the Android was launched, many told that was not space...
In the end: if there is a good work, there is space.
The market is dinamic, and this is one of the good things in Capitalism.
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hux
pretty much to the point, dignitary. webOS would need to have a white knight coming for rescue, but I can't see a bit of that on the horizon actually. biggest problem here is hp does not know what to do with it, and at this status, it's rather falling behind than pushing futurewards.
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I currently have CM10 installed on my TouchPad. Before that it was CM7 and CM9. I also have an Android phone. I would much rather use webOS and do so for 90% of my computing. I haven't met anyone yet who truly likes Android after using it for a while. Even my grown son and teenage daughter are tired of it, as am I. We use it because it is installed on all of the new phones we (I) buy. I have met some pretty satisfied iPhone users. However, most of them don't even know how to use their phone, let alone know what OS it runs. I've had to show people simple things like connecting their phone to WiFi or setting up email. My mother-in-law has had an iPhone 4 since it came out and never even registered for an iTunes/App Store account. I didn't even know that was possible. Is there room for another OS? Yes, there is even room to revise webOS (people like a good comeback story). At this point in time most people don't care what OS their phone runs as long as it looks good (hardware wise), works well, and has the apps and features they need.
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DanPLC
Originally Posted by k4ever
I haven't met anyone yet who truly likes Android after using it for a while.
Hi, nice to meet you. I truly enjoy using my Android devices (which both run Ice Cream Sandwich).
But back to the topic of this thread, I was just thinking about this question after hearing about the Ubuntu announcement. Personally, I think Open webOS has no chance. It has essentially the same user experience from 3 years ago. I don't see any forward momentum being made in regards to improving the webOS experience. Plus Open webOS has minimal developer support, no published business roadmap, and way too much competition out there in the mobile space.
Frankly I don't see any new mobile platform really making it unless they come out with something really spectacular. Ubuntu and Sailfish had some interesting UI concepts, but both platforms (from the videos I've seen) are not truly awesome and have flaws. Nothing short of truly awesome is going to have any chance of luring developers away from the big 2 (iOS and Android). Windows Phone has the best chance of succeeding from all the other competitors, but I would wager it won't gain the market share of the other 2. Most people I know have no interest in it, if they even know about it.
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Originally Posted by hux
they have already done something with it, called it gram and kicking it to the curb to fend for its'self, but im still grateful they released it as open source no matter how incompenent ive seen their actions to date.
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howemi01
Consider the amount of money Microsoft has spent trying to get its foot in the door of the mobile OS game. Other than along the fringes, the landscape is set for at least the near future in the marketplace. webOS, Ubuntu and all the others will only scrabble for percentage points of the total share unless a game-changing factor is introduced.
Mmacholda
Originally Posted by Mize
I agree with you. I love Ubuntu and it is my primary OS for my PC. I also use the TouchPad. Next to webOS Ubuntu is the next best thing. Super fast and stable and what a beautiful desktop. Not to mention thousands of free apps and no viruses to worry about.
We should embrace Ubuntu. After all, Ubuntu allowed us to do the first port of webOS
Herrie
Open webOS DOES have it's advantages over Android also because it hasn't been adopted yet by any player as far as we know. Developmemt can go quickly (updating to QT5/WebKit 2), open standards, newer kernel. Trying to use as much open source as possible. It DOES offer possibilities but there are still a large number of hurdles to take... If now only manufacturers would release PROPER open source drivers and source code instead of binary blobs we could see a lot more devices getting Open webOS. Currently this seems to be the limiting factor because most manufacturers only release binary blobs which are compatible with Android ICS, JB etc but are still far behind with regards to kernel (3.0 v.s. 3.3+) for Open webOS
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Give me some webOS devices and I gonna give you an space in market.
Port is funny, but is only for enthusiast user...
Alright! I have met one. We should do lunch :-)
sledge007
From what I recall in my Pre- days, before I switched to GMail(from Hotmail), there was a certain amount of screwing around I had to do in order to get my email to sync properly. There were several other things that I couldn't figure out for the longest time, and as a result, I found PreCentral.net. There was a lot of patching, a lot of themeing, overclocking to learn, learning how to doctor. There was about a solid month of pocket dials and on and on and on. Blown speakers galore, keys not working properly etc, etc.
I'm sure a lot of people have had similar experiences, and still others that have had a flawless Chuck Norris launch day Pre-. (All I'm getting at here, is every OS, no matter which one, has a learning curve...and to say webOS is easier to learn.....I can assure you my first few months were quite aggravating and I'm surprised I never threw my phone and wrecked it...but I also knew the cost of replacement...so I held my temper )
I have also done the CM7/CM9/CM10 routine on my TouchPad, and that was my first real experience with Android, aside from once in awhile I would fix something for my gf's Incredible, but I didn't really play around with it too much. I found Android to be clunky for lack of a better word, on my TouchPad...and in all honesty wasn't very keen on using it there.
Having had my SGS3 since August, it took some time to learn, re-learn, re-program myself in using the OS, but I get along fine on it now. It doesn't have the same flow, but now that I'm more used to it, I can move around pretty quickly....and it's just like anything you try new that's "difficult".....it's easier to learn how to do something if you want to do it....as opposed to being forced to do it.
I like using this phone, a lot. A camera that opens up in two seconds and you can take a picture right now. A browser that I've yet to come across a page that hasn't been able to render...(chessboard anyone?). Instant (if you want), or soon as you hit WiFi, syncs all your photos. SwiftKey makes a virtual keyboard a breeze, especially on a phone.Instagram, WordsWithFriends, Push-to-Talk Apps cross-compatible Android/iOS. If I want to look at my pictures on my HDTV, I set up DNLA sharing with my PS3 and away I go. I don't really play games a lot on it, but I am considering buying a HDMI dongle so I can hook it up to my TV, and use one of my PS3 controllers. Netflix is there, meh. Almost forgot to mention the new Music Player Remix....another solid hit from Dan.
Now going back to CM10 on my TouchPad has been quite a bit easier having the SGS3 experience, and doesn't feel as clunky anymore. I used to be in the mindset of "I can get by with what I have" "I don't need those apps" but it's certainly a lot more entertaining having the options.
As for "Play store is filled with junk and fart apps" "Play store is too big, I can't find anything I like", if you take 1% of the Play store, it equals about the entirety of the webOS App Catalog, and while there's a good percentage of good apps, there's also a good percentage of garbage as well.
So now you've met two
-- had a co-worker that never had an iTunes account with his iPhone 4s for the first two months, so that's not uncommon apparently.
Don't get me wrong, I really like webOS, but not only does it have a lot of ground to cover in the catch up game, but in it's current "adrift in an endless ocean", it really doesn't look to promising. Maybe there will be some breakthrough, game-changer and maybe there won't, but I'm not sitting on the sidelines looking in on the game anymore.
Bottom line, if it works for you, and you don't mind the workarounds, then enjoy it!
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rnld
WebOS had it's launch and now is so far behind, barring some miracle, it's done.
MDsmartphone
Originally Posted by rnld
This is very true.
It shouldn't have happened.
It really shouldn't have.
But bad bad bad management and killer decisions did palm and hp in. And now they are lingering to no point. Looking for somewhere to put open webOS. Finding no takers. This is very sad. As much work as I and this entire community have put into webOS and making our devices special, it's just really sad to see everything gone to dust. There is no enthusiasm for a device or particular version of android because all android users have different devices. Many people with iphone know what they are doing but there are at least as many if not more that have NO CLUE what their phone has the potential to do other than taken pics, text, surf, and download apps. There are too few windows phone users and again diversity of devices to get a unified community. No guys, what we once had here in webOS land.... No matter the frustrations, hardware and software issues, endless defending of the platform and our flawed devices from trolls, home brewing and theming and over clocking, oh my. This was the place to come. Where everyone shared their problems, found their fix. Heck it was like the bar in "cheers" where everyone knew your (user) name.
Now it's dead.
Shame on palm, HP, and everyone else who let it happen.
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I don't think the market is too full, but I do think there can only be maybe 3, 4 at the very most, successful platforms. I wonder though if any other OS can establish a great degree of success until one of the two big players starts to fade for some reason. I definitely don't think all of these new players will last more than a year or so (not saying none of them will, but they will not all make it that far). It is really disappointing what has happened to Palm. I don't know how many other corporations have done this, but EAS support for all Palm devices is being yanked soon at the one I work for.
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Having had my SGS3 since August, it took some time to learn, re-learn, re-program myself in using the OS, but I get along fine on it now. It doesn't have the same flow, but now that I'm more used to it, I can move around pretty quickly....and it's just like anything you try new that's "difficult".....it's easier to learn how to do something if you [I]want to do it....as opposed to being [I]forced to do it.
Now going back to CM10 on my TouchPad has been quite a bit easier having the SGS3 experience, and doesn't feel as clunky anymore. I used to be in the mindset of "I can get by with what I have" "I don't [I]need those apps" but it's certainly a lot more entertaining having the options.
The apps on Android are what makes it worthwhile for me. The interface is too clunky. When I want to browse the internet, read the news (via USA Today or Zite), read a book or a magazine, or even play a game, I turn to webOS on the TouchPad because it is just easier to use and looks better. I was just reading a story about the song "Billie Jean" turning 30 years old on my TouchPad with my daughter. I switched to another story I was following in another browser window while she wasn't looking. She asked me what happened and I swiped back to the original story (I have Luna CE installed). She thought that was cool and started playing with the swipes.
Don't get me wrong. I don't hate Android or iOS. I just think webOS is designed better. I have a bunch of patches installed on webOS that took 1/16th of the time to install than CM7/9/10. Plus I didn't have to buy any of them like some of the things I had to buy to make Android behave better or get some of webOS' functionality (Rotation Lock, SwiftKey, etc).
That being said, I replaced my Pre with an EVO 3D, then a Motorola Photon. I bought my daughter an EVO 3D. I bought my mother-in-law a 7 inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 for Christmas. My wife has the last Pre in our house and I just ordered her a Samsung Galaxy S3 to replace it. It will get here tomorrow afternoon, formally ended the saga of webOS phones in my household. My wife says she will hate to see her Pre go but what are we going to do when HP doesn't have the stomach to support it's user base anymore? My family is drenched in Android and I paid for all of these devices along with a ton of apps so please don't label me an Android hater.
Even after all we have been through I still see a future for webOS because the interface is second to none. No one has copied it yet and lots of folks want it to be copied. It has a more natural feel than Android or iOS. BTW, I just watched a review comparing the Nexus 7 to the iPad Mini. The reviewer mentioned that most of the apps for Android still are not optimized for a tablet while the apps for the iPad are making for a better user experience. I mentioned that several times here about Android (CM7/9/10) vs webOS on the TouchPad.
Jump to 2:58
Developers don't seem to care about optimizing their apps for the bigger screened Android tablets, even after Google unified the tablet and phone OS. This is making it harder to take Android on the tablet seriously and leaving an opening for webOS if HP could get their heads out of their behinds and support it.
That's on the tablet side. On the phone side, people don't seem to be to wedded to one OS or device. My wife went from a Motorola RAZR to a Palm Pre to a Blackberry back to the Pre and now to the Galaxy S3 without batting an eyelash. My Son has had two different dumb phones, an Android phone, a Blackberry, two more Android phones and now he is using his mom's old Blackberry. Also without batting an eyelash. I had a dozen dumb phones, a Sidekick, a Windows Mobile Phone (with Android .06 installed also), the Pre, an EVO 3D, and a Motorola Photon. I really only miss the Pre because of webOS. My daughter is new to smartphones and has only had an iPhone, followed by two Android phones (EVO 3D is current). I have friends and other family members who have had similar experiences. None seemed to care about the last phone or the OS. I think we could have a dozen phone OSes and users won't care as long as their phone did what they needed it to do. The only folks who would cry foul are developers. HP could easily step back in if they made new webOS phones on sexier up to date hardware. Heck if they made a new sexy webOS phone in red, half of the females in my family (led by my wife) would buy one (or force me to buy one).
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Remy X
Originally Posted by Grabber5.0
I don't think the market is too full, but I do think there can only be maybe 3, 4 at the very most, successful platforms. I wonder though if any other OS can establish a great degree of success until one of the two big players starts to fade for some reason. I definitely don't think all of these new players will last more than a year or so (not saying none of them will, but they will not all make it that far) [...]
I tend to agree that there's a limiting factor, but i'd put the number at 5...
I think of all of the current players at this moment in time, only Apple has "natural" market success... Google and Microsoft have poured untold millions into their respective platforms, to get them off the ground...
Android being developed as an antidote to Apple, it didn't and still doesn't have a 100% intuitive/together feel (and to some degree this also applies to ecosystem management), like generic medication vs name brand... or a "store brand" product... also suffering from some fragmentation... All in all, it's like Google, manufacturers and Verizon have banded together to offer an acceptable alternative to the iPhone, after the fact... but neither is terribly in love with the other, they are just together out of necessity... and this is kind of their weak link IMHO, and all other weaknesses of Android arise out of this one...
Apple can and does drop the ball every once in a while, the most "shining" example being Apple Maps with its melting freeways and "ghost cities". Also, in some ways it no longer tries to out-do the competition, instead relying on "being Apple" as a marketing point. They have a small chance of fading enough to let someone else get a small foothold.
Everyone else is not yet established, so they are quite a bit more susceptible to the market forces, except FirefoxOS, which is almost guaranteed success, as a fresh and welcome alternative to Android.
Windows appeals mostly to enterprise and perhaps to some casual users, with its direct competition being the latest BB offering.
I think the last category, (besides the established "kings" and enterprise) is "hacker favorite", with Debian-based Maemo->Meego->Sailfish and Ubuntu Mobile...
Of all these, webOS falls squarely between the Apple and the "hacker favorite", a somewhat unusual position, good, but also complicating things, "proprietary" but open source, with no real corporate support... maintained by Homebrew but "owned" by HP....
Everyone is digging their heels into the ground, trying to gain even a marginal advantage, while webOS is in freefall, not even trying to compete until there's a modicum of stability. If they write us off completely, and then we come back with a bang, we still get a shot at being in the "hacker favorite" category and luring independent buyers as well as former fans....
Now, I have 8 Android devices, more than 400 apps...
... and I continue using my Pre� as default. Simple & practical.
The SIII and GNote 2 are good to watch movies because the display is good, but the Android... sorry... still missing something (a lot)...
I gonna continue punch in the same key: need devices, need spread in all world... because the webOS is good enough to market.
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What One Southern California Beach Looked Like This Morning
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Yes, that photo above is real. But no, that's not snow on a Los Angeles beach.
The picture comes from Allen Schaben, a photographer for the L.A. Times. Schaben incorrectly identified the white stuff on the beach as "snow," sending Twitter into a brief frenzy about whether it had snowed in Huntington Beach, a city just south of Los Angeles.
In reality, that white stuff is hail. But it's still quite a sight.
It's easy to see why some people were confusing the hail for snow. As you can see in the photo below, retweeted by the Weather Channel, people were even making snowmen (or hailmen?) with the recent influx of icy precipitation.
But Mr. Hailman won't be enjoying the beach much longer. Southern California saw lows in the mid-40s this weekend but Huntington Beach should return to a high of 70 by Wednesday.
Images via Allan Schaben on Twitter; The Weather Channel
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Given their expectations at the start of this season, the Mets might have expected to ship off three or four players to the All-Star Game in Washington, D.C., while the rest traveled home, enjoyed a few days of rest and reported back to work fresh for a second-half pennant push.
Such imaginings have been dead for weeks. The reality is that the Mets, who dropped a 6-1 game to the Nationals on Sunday to close out their first half, have fewer wins than any team in the National League. Some of those who traveled home are bound to be traded in the coming weeks, as the club decides which of them can be a part of their next winning team.
“We have to come out and play the game in a better way,” manager Mickey Callaway said of the Mets’ second half, which begins Friday against the Yankees.
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London lamp posts to plug EV charging gaps
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Transport for London has awarded contracts to some of the UK’s largest charging point manufacturers to roll out 1,150 charging points across the boroughs by the end of 2020, helping households without off-street parking to move to plug-in vehicles.
Char.gy is one of four manufacturers with a contract to utilise power supplies from lamp posts.
The Go Ultra Low Cities Scheme (GULCS) Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Procurement Framework provides £3.7m to help bolster the availability of charging points across Greater London. The framework is hosted by TfL, the Greater London Authoroty and London Councils, and is funded by the Office for Low Emission Vehicles.
There are two contracts available to suppliers. BP’s Chargemaster PLC, Dutch company Allego, Swarco (eVolt) and Bollore Group subsidiary BluepointLondon have contracts to install units with a dedicated power supply.
Four companies – British startup Char.gy, Siemens (in partnership with Ubitricity), solar power specialist Joju, and Swarco – also have contracts to install points using a ‘shared power supply’, such as utilising a lamp post, which reduces the cost of deployment and disruption for residents.
Siemens and Ubitricity said they will use new technology, which features a mobile electricity meter in the cable to identify the charging point, turn on the power, and submit a reading to the host for billing, aimed at simplifying the process for residents. Drivers can also access them via a mobile site when using a standard charging cable. The company said installing a charging point on a lamp post takes around an hour.
Chris Beadsworth, director of Siemens Energy Management, said: “Our aim is that charging your car should be as simple as charging your phone. Working together with our partners we make a cleaner more modern energy network a reality whilst delivering benefits for UK consumers without compromise.”
Knut Hechtfischer, founder of ubitricity, said: “A significant proportion of residents park their vehicles on-street, to make the change over to electric they need to be ensured of convenient, reliable and affordable charging, the same benefits that those with off-street parking enjoy.
Char.gy, which now has units live in Marlow, enables residents to request for charging points to be installed hear their properties. The units are activated via a smartphone browser with the option of pay-as-you-go or subscription-based tariffs, and are managed via a web portal.
Richard Stobart, CEO of Char.gy, explained: “Char.gy is the first UK public lamppost charge point provider to support ad-hoc electric vehicle charging using power from existing lampposts. Our easy-to-install charging units provide a cost-effective EV charging infrastructure for councils using 700,000 lampposts across the capital. As well as being financially advantageous to the councils, our charging service is also reasonably priced for their residents.”
Ben Plowden, TfL’s director of strategy and network development, said: “The framework we’ve created for suppliers will make it easier for boroughs to improve Londoners’ access to electric charging points. This will make London’s transport greener and improve its air quality. These boroughs are at the forefront of electrifying London, and it is by working together that we can clean up the capital’s toxic air.”
Cllr Julian Bell, chair of the London Councils’ transport and environment committee, added: “We each recognise the importance of improving air quality for Londoners and London Councils are leading the way in rolling out electric vehicle infrastructure across London by taking innovative new technology, such as using the power from lighting columns to charge vehicles, and scaling it up to provide safe charging solutions more accessible for Londoners.
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Nick Chasteen 10-6-0
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Glory Record 2-1-0 (1 KO) Wins-Losses-Draws (KOs)
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SLpM 7.11 Strikes Landed per Minute
SApM 8.78 Strikes Absorbed per Minute
Striking Differential -1.67 Difference between SLpM and SApM
Striking Accuracy 55.17% Proportion of Strikes Landed
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Nick Chasteen and his three siblings - two brothers and a sister - were literally born in the game. Their father John Earley is a second-degree black belt in Kempo Karate and was also a kickboxer and Muay Thai fighter in his day.
John and his wife, Teresa Chasteen, raised a family of fighters. Nick ended up with his mother's last name on his birth certificate, and his parents never got around to changing it before he established a reputation as a fighter.
Nick’s brother Damian fights professionally and their older sister also earned a state kickboxing championship.
"When we were old enough, he'd drag us to the gym," Nick says. "He'd get us on our bikes. We'd ride through all the bad neighborhoods in Phoenix getting chased by pit bulls. All just to get to go work out."
Nick, like his siblings, started his martial-arts career in karate. When he turned 9, he was ready for kickboxing. By the time he was 12, he had a record of 12 wins and one loss in that sport.
Their reputation as a family of fighters made life easier at home and at school, Nick says.
"We never got physical with each other," he says. "You're so beat-up from the gym that you don't have time to fist-fight at home. And we never had problems at school because everyone knew my older sister. She hit like a dude."
Desiree was a state kickboxing champion at 16. Eventually, Nick's older siblings moved away from combat sports, and even he and his brother, Damien, took a break. After seven years of nonstop training in martial arts, it was time for something different.
The boys spent the next six years being teenagers, excelling at football and baseball in high school.
"We took time off to be kids," Nick says, adding that he would have pursued baseball further had he not fallen in love with Muay Thai.
When Nick and Damien were 19 and 18, they decided it was time to revisit martial arts. Nick soon earned many amateur U.S. Muay Thai Association titles- Intercontinental, Arizona State Light Welterweight and Regional Welterweight among them - before turning professional and quickly being signed to GLORY.
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Other causes include serious work related factors such as: fatigue, depression (stress from the workplace leading to self-harm), long shift work, environmental stressors and busy work pace.
Injuries from Medical Equipment
Medical equipment can cause injury if the equipment is faulty or if the operator is not adequately trained, or negligent in its operation. Injuries can occur from circumstances such as electrocution, equipment falling or rolling over a health care worker, Body parts being caught in moving parts of machinery, etc.
Injuries and disease from equipment such as MRI or X-Ray equipment can also happen if proper procedures are not followed by the operator or the patient. When a person is exposed to harmful rays without protection, a number of serious conditions such as cancer can arise.
Ambulance drivers and other health care staff that operate vehicles are at risk of being in motor vehicle accidents that can cause injuries such as musculoskeletal injuries, fractures or even death. The nature of having to quickly arrive at a scene and back to the hospital greatly increases the chances of human error and the requirement for very specialized training. Fatigue in this situation can be a deadly issue when it affects a health care worker’s ability to remain alert on the job.
Yet the most risk comes from other drivers on the road and unfortunately, this is a situation that no operator has control over. Sometimes, other drivers are not paying attention and fail to yield to ambulances or other emergency vehicles.
Fatigue & Sleep Disorders
Healthcare workers, especially those working in busy hospitals, may commonly develop sleep disorders and fatigue symptoms. The demands of the health sector require constant alert, training and high pressure requirements. When fatigue affects a worker’s diligence and judgment it can increase the risk of injury and human error. These issues not only increase the risk of accident and injury, but they also affect a worker’s ability to enjoy their normal life with their friends and family in both social and private settings. Stress and anxiety are common issues that arise in healthcare workers dealing with the lives of hundreds of patients on a regular basis.
A Legal Perspective
Many healthcare workers are unsure of what to do if they feel that their workplace is responsible for their injury. Most of the time, they may be unaware of the duty of care that employers must adhere to in order to protect their employees.
If an employer is negligent in their responsibility to provide reasonable safety standards to protect their workers, they open themselves up to civil liability.
Another legal issue that arises in the healthcare profession is whether a worker will be able to claim WorkCover benefits.
In order for your injury to be accepted for compensation under WorkCover, your injury must fit the definition in the legislation as “a personal injury arising out of, or in the course of, employment if the employment is a significant contributing factor to the injury.”
Being denied for WorkCover benefits can be a difficult situation for many people financially and it may also prolong the time that a healthcare worker may return to their healthcare occupation.
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Just Another Saturday Night Linkdump
* CFP: Medical Humanities and the Fantastic. CFP: Edited Collection, Fan Studies: Methods, Ethics, Research. CFP: Reclaiming the Tomboy: Posthumanism, Gender Representation, and Intersectionality. CFP: Special Issue on Indigenous and Sovereign Games. CFP: The Age of the Pulps: The SF magazine, 1926–1960. CFP: Productive Futures: The Political Economy of Science Fiction, Bloomsbury, London, 12-14 September 2019.
* Awesome #altac job watch: Humanities Editor at Minnesota Press.
* The second half of the Women’s Studies issue on Octavia E. Butler, featuring my article of Parable of the Trickster, is now officially out. Check it out!
* Find out when someone started crying during Endgame, and you’ll find out who they’ve lost. (Really, though, it doesn’t make any sense.) “Avengers: Endgame” is not just the culmination of the 22-movie Marvel Cinematic Universe. It also represents the decisive defeat of “cinema” by “content.” In Praise of Poorly Built Worlds. The Avengers are the heroes of ‘Endgame,’ but Disney was the villain all along. But this time, we’re talking about a tragedy beyond what could possibly be commemorated through memorial sites. It would land somewhere closer to mass suicide and total infrastructural collapse–and where Endgame is concerned, there are no tragedies, there is only Marvel. Eco-Villains: Thanos and the Night King. To put it bluntly, and in Deleuze’s terms, superhero films are action films for people who no longer believe in action, for whom the capacity to act has been overtaken by the spectacle. It’s probably the best version of what an Avengers movie can be. And even that turns out to be silly, sloppily written, and to require massive amount of suspension of disbelief. Is it really too much to hope that Marvel stops debasing its characters and stories with events that can never live up to the MCU’s individual pieces? Interview With A Local Man Returning After Thanos’ Snap.
* MCU continuity enters its “fuck you, that’s why” period.
* An analysis of both side’s tactics in the Battle of Winterfell, from a military strategist. A counterpoint.
* Hate to agree with Ross Douthat, but it really does seem to be the case that hype aside Martin is just warmed-over Tolkien, but worse in every particular. Bonus Twitter thread goodness on GoT and colonialism.
* America is a horror: on Jordan Peele’s Us.
* Vox celebrates the great James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon).
* Keeping company with my Audible app over lunch, I’ve come to see it as the buddy our tech overlords have granted me in the isolation that they help to impose. I feel this way about podcasts.
* Report Realism: Tentative Notes on Contemporary Kenyan Writing.
Genres that strain realism—the gothic and neo-gothic, fantasy, science fiction, horror, romance, and so on—are conspicuously absent in Kenyan writing, even as they are incredibly well represented in Kenyan book consumption. We are not writing what we are reading; even the very popular Christian-themed fiction about fighting demonic forces, which is really a variation of the horror novel, remains relatively sparse in terms of what we write or, perhaps more accurately, what we choose to make public of our writing. The believable and the realistic are bounded by NGO narratives and perspectives. And too many writers believe that the only writing worth anything is the believable and the realistic: to be a “committed” writer requires adhering to report realism.
Report realism believes in the power of “truth,” whether contemporary or historical, with a faith that borders on fundamentalism. In report realism, the truth will set us free. Report realism confirms objective NGO reports and affirms what Kenyans feel to be the truth of a particular condition. In report realism, for instance, the Kenyan prostitute is always a morally degraded figure looking for a way out to a respectable moral life. This realism is celebrated and supported by the NGO organizations who fund writing competitions and publish winning entries devoted to describing the real Kenya and by mainstream publishers who have the conservative mission of producing appropriately moral literature.
* ‘It drives writers mad’: why are authors still sniffy about sci-fi?
* The saddest story ever told, beating Hemingway out by one word: Esports Part-Time Online Instructor.
* Yes, you will get a job with that arts degree. With that history degree, too!
* Storm Clouds Over Tulsa: Inside the academic destruction of a proud private university.
* 6 Majors Were Spared the Ax at Stevens Point. But the Damage Might Be Done.
* Students and (not) doing the reading.
* How to Be a Better Online Teacher.
* Getting a Game Studies PhD: A Guide for Aspiring Video Game Scholars. Game Boys: The “gamer” identity undermines the radical potential of play.
* Sexual harassment is pervasive in US physics programmes.
* The Disciplines Where No Black People Earn Ph.D.s. Being a Black Academic in America.
* ‘It’s an Aristocracy’: What the Admissions-Bribery Scandal Has Exposed About Class on Campus.
* Swarthmore Fraternities Disband.
* Marquette faculty, students and community members rally for unionization. Unionization effort at Marquette leaves organizers, administration in a stalemate.
* The University Is a Ticking Time Bomb. A Moral Stain on the Profession.
* “Student loan debt is crushing millions of families. That’s why I’m calling for something truly transformational: Universal free college and the cancellation of debt for more than 95% of Americans with student loan debt.”
* Anxiety ‘epidemic’ brewing on college campuses, researchers find.
* Stanford keeps Stanford University Press alive… for one year.
I take *Stanford* claiming to have a “tight budget” not as a sign that a crisis is rippling through even the highest echelons of academia, but rather that “tight budgets” are manufactured crises that serve particular actors https://t.co/PReB8mkQkQ
— Jeffrey Moro (@jeffreymoro) April 27, 2019
A primary agenda of all university administrations is universal penetration of the notion that the ultrarich get to decide what is true and what is good, as well as what may not be said at all.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 4, 2019
* Charles Koch gave $25m to our university. Has it become a rightwing mouthpiece? George Mason University’s Donor Problem and the Fight for Transparency.
* Grad Students at Private Colleges Were Cleared to Unionize 3 Years Ago. Here’s What’s Changed.
* How America’s College-Closure Crisis Leaves Families Devastated.
* Meanwhile every teacher in the country is constantly confronted with the possibility that they’ll be asked to die for their students.
* All Literature Is Climate Change Literature. The Green New Deal Costs Less Than Doing Nothing. Ecuador Amazon tribe win first victory against oil companies. ‘Death by a thousand cuts’: vast expanse of rainforest lost in 2018. Vietnam just observed its highest temperature ever recorded: 110 degrees, in April. ‘Decades of denial’: major report finds New Zealand’s environment is in serious trouble. Alaska’s in The Middle of a Record-Breaking Spring Melt, And It’s Killing People. The Folly of Returning to Paradise, California. Policy tweaks won’t do it, we need to throw the kitchen sink at this with a total rethink of our relationship to ownership, work and capital. Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse. “You did not act in time.” We Asked the 2020 Democrats About Climate Change (Yes, All of Them). Here Are Their Ideas. The Billionaire’s Guide to Hacking the Planet. What if air conditioners could save the planet? The collapse of the industrial economy is, in all likelihood, the only remaining way to prevent the mass destruction of life on Earth. ‘The Time To Act Is Now,’ Says Yellowing Climate Change Report Sitting In University Archive. A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet. Between the Devil and the Green New Deal. Five years. And here comes eco-fascism.
A picture of LA if all the world's ice caps melt away. pic.twitter.com/dNKFD70JNu
— Scott Carney (@sgcarney) April 25, 2019
* Down and Out in the Gig Economy: Journalism’s dependence on part-time freelancers has been bad for the industry—not to mention writers like me.
But for most of us, freelance journalism is a monetized hobby, separate from whatever real income one earns. The ideal relationship for a freelance journalist to their work becomes a kind of excited amateurism. They should hope for professional success and acceptance but always keep a backup plan or three in mind. They will likely not be welcomed past the gates of full-time employment. By year five or six, they might be rebranding themselves as “editorial consultants” or “content strategists,” realizing that any genuine fiscal opportunity lies in shepherding corporate content to life.
* ‘Two-Tiered Caste System’: The World of White-Collar Contracting in Silicon Valley. The Future of Unions Is White-Collar. We Just Remembered How to Strike.
* These five charts show how bad the student loan debt situation is.
* “I am a woman and I am fast.” The ongoing harassment of Caster Semenya is simply incredible.
* Ten years later, police lies about Oscar Grant come to light. And elsewhere on the police beat: We found 85,000 cops who’ve been investigated for misconduct. Now you can read their records. New York City’s DAs Keep Secret Lists Of Cops With Questionable Credibility. Virginia police sergeant fired after being linked to white supremacy.
* Border Patrol Holds Hundreds of Migrants in Growing Tent City Away From Prying Eyes. Emails Show Trump Administration Had No Plan to Track and Reunite Separated Families. Militia in New Mexico Detains Asylum Seekers at Gunpoint.
* TSA Agents Say They’re Not Discriminating Against Black Women, But Their Body Scanners Might Be.
* Against prison.
* France Debates How to Rebuild Notre-Dame, Weighing History and Modernity. An art historian explains the tough decisions in rebuilding Notre Dame. How Digital Scans of Notre Dame Can Help Architects Rebuild the Burned Cathedral. The billionaires’ donations will turn Notre Dame into a monument to hypocrisy.
* Researchers Made 3,900-Pound Boulders They Can Move by Hand, Giving More Insights Into Ancient Engineering.
* Mental health minute: Researchers say there’s a simple way to reduce suicides: Increase the minimum wage. The challenge of going off psychiatric drugs. The kids are not all right.
* The Rise of Useless Health Insurance. High-Deductible Health Policies Linked To Delayed Diagnosis And Treatment. American Prescription Drug Prices Are Out of Control. One Man’s Furious Quest to Get to the Bottom of It.
* Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they’re talking about, study suggests.
* Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population.
* A new Gallup poll says that America is home to some of the most stressed people in the world, reporting extraordinary levels of anger and anxiety that could be cause for concern, say doctors.
* Workers Should Be in Charge.
* I Work With Suicidal Farmers. It’s Becoming Too Much to Bear.
* On crunch time in the games industry.
* Instagram Memers Are Unionizing.
* How Dungeons & Dragons somehow became more popular than ever.
#DnD is a roleplaying game that let's you live out such fantasies as:
– Having money
– Making close friends as an adult
– Traveling the world without crippling debt
– Being able to change the world
– Getting better at something with practice
– Getting 8 hours of sleep each night
— Draconick (@DraconickGaming) April 20, 2019
* Fantastic Autistic: Neurodiversity, Estrangement and Playing with the Weird.
* Re-reading the Map of Middle-earth: Fan Cartography’s Engagement with Tolkien’s Legendarium.
* Why Won’t Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too.
* Believe them when they say they want to kill us.
* Children of the Children of Columbine.
* My parents didn’t tell me they skipped my vaccines. Then I got sick.
* How a mall dies, Milwaukee edition.
* The hunt for rocket boosters in Russia’s far north.
* Job-hunting will only get worse.
* Of course I believe in hell. I vote for Democrats.
Well, our compromised Department of Justice has given its report to a comically impotent Congress, which has already announced its intent to do nothing with the information — looks like it’s time to use our apartheid voting system to VOTE THEM OUT
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) April 18, 2019
Cory Booker: let’s defeat Trump with love power
Pete Buttigieg: a revenue-neutral tax credit for presidents who resign before their term is up
Beto O’Rourke: you know, I haven’t considered the issue
Joe Biden: Donald is a great businessman and a great dad
I swear to God every liberal politician and media figure in the country is waiting for the teacher to come back in the room and tell them they were a good little boy.
* Biden biden biden biden
* The gamification of fascism.
* Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, fandom, and anti-fandom.
* My feckless Googling had reaped a monstrous reality that I knew was going to haunt me for the rest of my life. I asked myself: Is there something righteous in facing reality, or would it have been better to stay ignorant? A surfeit of ugly knowledge is a feature of our age, a result of the internet carrying to our doorstep, like a tomcat with a dead rat, all manner of brutal information. How many others have flippantly Googled an old friend and discovered something ghastly? This was not knowledge as power; it was knowledge as sorrow.
* “Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats.”
* The oldest known tree in Wisconsin.
* A Video Game Developed To Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Seems To Be Working.
* Decolonizing Oregon Trail.
* How “Liberal” Late-Night Talk Shows Became A Comedy Sinkhole.
* Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden. Women suffer needless pain because almost everything is designed for men. What Good Dads Get Away With.
* When Measles Arrives: Breaking Down the Anatomy of Containment.
* Despite being legally required to conduct audits since the early 90s and holding a staggering 2.2 trillion in assets, the Pentagon held its first-ever audit this week — which it, unsurprisingly, spectacularly failed.
* I have so little faith in the holders of the Star Trek IP I can’t greet any of this news with pleasure. Even the realization that Discovery is (finally) going to do something truly original in its third season just fills me with dread. And I don’t know how to feel about this at all: Star Trek: Picard Series May Not Reunite TNG Cast. Star Trek: Discovery’s Depiction of Captain Pike’s Disability is a Betrayal of Roddenberry’s Utopian Vision. My mini-tweetstorm on the subject.
* Sundown on Deadwood: David Milch, battling Alzheimer’s, finally finishes his TV Western.
* Professional obligation watch, god help me.
* Jeopardy Wasn’t Designed for a Contestant Like James Holzhauer.
* Tolkien estate disavows forthcoming film starring Nicholas Hoult.
* John Lennon’s 15 year old report card.
* Colonizing Condiments: A (Very) Short History of Ketchup.
* Women my age weren’t called ‘autistic’ growing up. We were awkward or ‘rude.’ And we missed out on services.
* “We are not interested in the reason for why the people are killed,” he wrote. “But if she is your wife or some family member, we can do it in your city as well.”
* The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence.
* Obituary corner: Gene Wolfe Was the Proust of Science Fiction. Before the Labyrinthine Lore of ‘Dark Souls,’ There Was Gene Wolfe.
* Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color. If only more people had paid attention.
* Medicine is magical and magical is art / The boy in the bubble / And the baby with the baboon heart.
* Scientists Restore Some Function In The Brains Of Dead Pigs.
* The Great Pornwall of Britain Goes Up July 15.
* The United States of Conspiracy: An Interview with Anna Merlan.
* ok ok I’ll bite what’s coal
* what piece of cosmo sex advice most haunts your waking hours
* If you want a vision of the future: Netflix ‘buys 50 literary projects in last year.’
* It was in autumn that the happy face arrived. Death of a Salesman. No mathematics, no science can ever predict the human soul. Where do you want to eat tonight?
* 2019 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest.
* And only mass surveillance can save us now! Rough news day for Oxford if you ask me.
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* There’s a kind of “deleted scene” from my book out in the new issue of Women’s Studies: “Eden, Just Not Ours Yet: On Parable of the Trickster and Utopia.” It’s in the second half of a special double-issue devoted to Butler, edited by Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey.
* I’ll be presenting a little bit of my research at the conference this weekend held by Marquette’s Center for the Advancement of the Humanities. Check it out!
* Thanks to everyone who helped me run ideas for my theory class next semester. Here’s what I went with.
* I really liked The Wandering Earth and I think you should see it in a theater — but if you must see it on Netflix I understand. The Chinese Sci-Fi Epic The Wandering Earth Could Be a Glimpse at the Future of the Blockbuster. And while we’re talking: How Chinese novelists are reimagining science fiction.
* CFP: Special Issue: “Surveilling the Body: Ableism and Anglophone Literature.”
* CFP: Science Fiction and Religion.
* CFP: Contemporary American Science Fiction Film: The Bush, Obama and Trump Years.
* CFP: Global Utopian Film and TV in the Age of Dystopia (a special issue of Science Fiction Film and Television).
* Deadline getting close for SFRA 2019 in Hawai’i.
* Marcus Center announces 2019 dates for ‘Hamilton’ in Milwaukee.
* eSports at Marquette and beyond: The booming popularity of esports has started a vociferous debate over whether the NCAA or another entity will regulate the industry for colleges and universities.
* ‘Now Comes the Hard Part’: 20-Day Strike at Wright State Has Ended.
* Lowbrow Culture and Guilty Pleasures? The Performance and Harm of Academic Elitism.
* Multiple UNC Honor System members, including the Graduate and Professional Court’s chairperson and attorney general, will testify at a public hearing Tuesday as graduate student activist Maya Little appeals sanctions brought against her last year.
* It is worse, much worse, than you think. It is absolutely time to panic about climate change. More David Wallace-Wells via MetaFilter. A new simulation finds that global warming could cause stratocumulus clouds to disappear in as little as a century, which would add 8°C (14°F) of extra warming. We broke down what climate change will do, region by region. This map shows you what your city will feel like in 2080 and boy, are we in for a treat. Want to know what your city will feel like in 2080? Look 500 miles south. Use these tools to help visualize the horror of rising sea levels. The Story Behind the Green New Deal’s Meteoric Rise. 7 Reasons Democrats Won’t Pass a Green New Deal. Democrats are climate deniers. This is an emergency, damn it. Climate signs. Polar bears. Who is the Subject of Climate Change? Insurers Worry a Financial Crisis May Come From Climate Risks. Why the White Earth Band of Ojibwe Legally Recognized Wild Rice’s Rights. Massive restoration of world’s forests would cancel out a decade of CO2 emissions, analysis suggests. When Islamophobia, inequality, and climate change collide, well, this is How It Can Happen Here. ‘Moment of reckoning’: US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports. And this January was actually one of the warmest on record, polar vortex and all. But don’t worry, they’ve got this.
This is a genuinely incredible video of a senator scolding frightened children who are begging her for a chance to live, like it’s their fault for disturbing her. https://t.co/JyEs9UPxTt
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) February 22, 2019
This entire generation of ostensibly liberal leaders has failed in every conceivable way by every conceivable metric, their entire careers, and their final act on the global stage is this endless petulant temper tantrum that anyone has dared to notice.
I don’t want to hear any Democratic politician say anything to children but “I’m sorry, and I will never stop fighting to make up for what we’ve done.”
The year is 2020. Democrats have won control of the White House and Congress. A new President declares a National Emergency on climate change and guns. Their bold plan: an exciting new web site where businesses and private persons can decide which tax-deferred advantage plan they
— Patrick Blanchfield (@PatBlanchfield) February 14, 2019
Decline in global population, past decade.
Butterflies: 53%
Beetles: 49%
Bees: 46%
Dragonflies: 37%
Flies: 25%
(Biological Conservation)
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) February 12, 2019
* How sci-fi could help solve climate change.
* For nearly two decades at the Grand Canyon, tourists, employees, and children on tours passed by three paint buckets stored in the National Park’s museum collection building, unaware that they were being exposed to radiation.
* Chimpanzees ‘talk’ just like humans. It’s time to realise how similar we are. Rethinking animal cognition. Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High.
* When you don’t try to solve a problem, it doesn’t get solved.
* In the mid-1970s, Jon Armond was traumatized by something he saw on Sesame Street. It was a cartoon about a little girl who encounters creatures formed by the cracks on her bedroom wall—including a horrifying, screaming face who called himself “The Crack Master.”
* “Eskimos Have Fifty Words for Snow” is an amazing phrase, because every word in it is wrong. But reversing it—announcing proudly that they don’t—only replicates that wrongness; you can’t say no to a bad question and be right.
* A deep dive into stadium bathrooms.
* In this exclusive investigative report from Montreal, Maisonneuve exposes the bid-rigging, violence and sabotage at the heart of an unlikely racket: snow removal.
* All the Bad Things About Uber and Lyft In One Simple List.
* What happens when a school district votes to arm teachers? A Rust Belt educator takes us through the grim realities of training to kill one of his own students. Teachers with Guns.
* Have you ever wondered what goes on in those school shooter trainings your child’s teacher is required to undergo? Vital, must read thread on the nightmare factory that schools have become.
In the debrief for that one I realized: my colleagues think they’re being taught how to survive.
They don’t know this technique is intended to slow down our deaths, to give law enforcement more time to respond
— Dr. Lisa Gilbert (@gilbertlisak) February 14, 2019
* Rethinking suicide.
* A new history reveals that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable—and brutal—as it was for men.
* The Rise of the Mega-University.
* U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166 Billion. Here’s Why So Many Americans Feel Cheated By Their Student Loans. What’s changed about grad school in fifteen years.
* Nearly half of Duke University’s female undergraduates say they have been sexually assaulted since enrolling at the university, a sharp increase from the proportion in 2016, according to a report released on Thursday.
* This neuroscientist is fighting sexual harassment in science—but her own job is in peril.
* What is it like to go from a tenured professorship to an hourly wage driving buses? This piece tries to make sense of an unusual transition. An update from Steven Salaita.
* Sean Guynes reviews Aimee Bahng’s Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times.
* The Bizarre Planets That Could Be Humanity’s New Homes. What would human civilization look like on a tidally locked world?
* Remember Mars One, that company we all knew was a scam but still kinda hoped was real because of how much we liked the movie The Martian? Yeah, it went bankrupt.
* Report Shows ICE Almost Never Punishes Contractors Housing Detainees No Matter How Many Violations They Rack Up.
* 11-Year-Old Arrested After Refusing to Stand for Pledge of Allegiance.
* Some Thoughts on EJ Levy.
* Two years in, some people are still expecting one of his scandals to bring him down. I know better. Being Raised by Two Narcissists Taught Me How to Deal with Trump.
* Elizabeth Warren wants to ban the US from using nuclear weapons first. You’re half right!
* Financial Windfalls: 15 Stories of the Money That Changed Everything.
* Build your own wealth tax: try your hand at taxing the superrich.
* Income inequality is likely worse than before the Great Depression.
* A living wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep aid. A diet. A stress reliever. It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy. It prevents premature death. It shields children from neglect.
* Nice work if you can get it.
* When the field gets big, the primaries get weird.
* Hard pass, no thanks.
* The Internet is a nightmare from which I am struggling to awake: The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America. A pediatrician exposes suicide tips for children hidden in videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids. YouTube Kids is just a horror show. The dodgy, vulnerable fame of YouTube’s child ASMR stars. Disney, Fortnite pull YouTube ads amidst concern over a “soft-core pedophile ring” operating in its comments. Apple and Google accused of helping ‘enforce gender apartheid’ by hosting Saudi government app that tracks women and stops them leaving the country. Classroom Technology Is Indoctrinating Students Into A Culture Of Surveillance.
* The past isn’t over, it isn’t even past.
* We need a far more profound conception of white supremacy and how the mainstream press has always been complicit in its maintenance.
* The United States Is a Progressive Nation With a Democracy Problem.
* State Universities Are Being Resegregated.
* Do Racial Epithets Have Any Place in the Classroom? A Professor’s Suspension Fuels That Debate.
* A self-proclaimed white nationalist planned a mass terrorist attack, the government says.
* How neoliberalism normalizes hostility.
* How the United States reinvented empire.
* The future is a place where it doesn’t snow anymore, but “snow days” is the term we use for roving service outages caused by striking teachers.
* Pack the court. John Roberts is not your friend.
* Forget Strong Female Characters! We Need Complicated Female Characters Who Screw Up (A Lot).
* The love life of May Parker.
* ‘It’s eating the world’: Inside the Knicks’ and David Fizdale’s battle with ‘Fortnite.’
* Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History.
* The One Choice You Weren’t Given In Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
Veale followed the GDPR right of access process to submit his request, and Netflix eventually returned that viewing data through an encrypted email. Veale then posted the results of his request to Twitter for all of us to peruse. The bottom line is that Netflix is recording and storing the choices people make when they watch the episode.
* Is Email Making Professors Stupid? I promise it’s not helping.
* Second, someone get this film made.
* Meet me tonight in Atlantic City.
* No, you can’t win.
* Guys, Star Trek is CANCELLED.
R2-D2’s career is also a century long legacy of failure and catastrophe, culminating in catatonic depression, while C-3PO’s nihilism allows him to attach himself to the ruling class of any political order he encounters.
The analogy is flawless. https://t.co/27TCF5QXV0
* Harvard got so rich it’s even going after Mr. Bartley’s Burger Cottage. Shameful.
* Psychology. Douchey robot bosses. Psyops. Political capital. A Brief History of Life Online. Rapunzel.
* And be warned, traveler: Tetris 99 is extremely very good.
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— matthew miles goodrich (@mmilesgoodrich) February 23, 2019
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Saturday Night Links!
* Writing Advice to My Students That Would Also Have Been Good Sex Advice for My High School Boyfriends.
* CFP: The Handmaid’s Tale: Gender, Genre Adaptation – a one-day symposium. Race and The Handmaid’s Tale. Margaret Atwood Annotates Season 1 of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’
* A Dangerous Business: Being a Female Professor.
* Two Americas: Those Who Leave Home, and Those Who Stay.
* A Brief History of Violence Against Members of Congress. The start of a disturbing new chapter.
* But now we have legislation that will change the lives of millions, and they haven’t even summoned the usual suspects to explain what a great idea it is. If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, Republicans have decided that even that’s too much; they’re going to try to pass legislation that takes from the poor and gives to the rich without even trying to offer a justification. More at Vox.
* American Health Care Tragedies Are Taking Over Crowdfunding.
* The Senate health care bill is expected to allow states to relax the Affordable Care Act rules only on benefits, not on pricing as the House bill does. But that change could impact people far beyond those states, according to anew analysis by the liberal Center for American Progress — because it could lead to a return of annual and lifetime benefit limits, and not just in the states with the waivers. Don’t stop working those phones.
* Trump buckles on the Dreamers. But: Border Patrol Arrests Immigrants Seeking Medical Care During Desert Heat Wave. Trump’s move to deport Iraqi Christians stirs outcry. ICE nabs teenager hours before his senior prom, days before his graduation ceremony.
* Trump is likely to get much, much worse. Here are a few big things to watch for. A Very, Very Dangerous Situation. The WaPo Obstruction Blockbuster and the World of Hurt To Come. Robert Mueller chooses his investigatory dream team. Here we go.
* Donald Trump’s Cabinet members, ranked by their over-the-top praise of Trump.
* Now That’s What I Call #TheResistance.
* It’s very slowly happening here.
* That’s part of a far broader story: Republicans have a coherent and awful vision, while Democrats have a better but confused vision. Republicans want to cut taxes all the time; Democrats want to sometimes cut some taxes and certainly aren’t committed to raising taxes on principle. Republicans want to ban all abortions; many Democrats favor certain restrictions on abortion, depending. The ur-Democratic legislation is Obamacare, which undoubtedly improved the status quo but which is a tangled mishmash of public and private and which does not offer anything like a simple and coherent policy like “Medicare for all.” Republicans are the party of small government; Democrats are the party of jury-rigged quasi-entitlements via convoluted tax credits. Is it any wonder conservatives win so often? An evil but directly and unapologetically stated policy platform beats a better but cowardly and convoluted one any day, politically.
In both the UK & the US right now, only the left can defend its position on most issues without outright lying and/or intolerable vagueness.
— Benjamin Kunkel (@kunktation) June 14, 2017
* If social compacts without any leeway for idiosyncrasy or dissent tend toward dictatorship, untrammeled individualism tends toward nihilism. The once-again great America Trump envisages is a fusion of the worst of both, and you can’t say our movies didn’t predict him. Wherever America’s right stuff now elusively resides, its wrong stuff in right-stuff disguise is on display for all the world to see—at multiplexes everywhere, not just on Fox News.
* This is fine.
* This though I’m not crazy about: Brain-Eating Parasites Thrive As Global Warming Heats Up U.S. Lakes.
* “People who claim we’re in the sixth mass extinction don’t understand enough about mass extinctions to understand the logical flaw in their argument,” he said. “To a certain extent they’re claiming it as a way of frightening people into action, when in fact, if it’s actually true we’re in a sixth mass extinction, then there’s no point in conservation biology.” But that doesn’t mean we can’t still get there if we all just chip in.
* Number of people serving life in US prisons is surging, new report says.
* US credit card debt to surpass $1 trillion this year, report says.
* A scholar of the Ku Kux Klan explains how the KKK used the same trolling tactics as the alt-right.
* Five officials will face manslaughter charges for Flint water crisis. PA supreme court: was illegal to steal elderly woman’s home because her son sold $140 of weed. Revealed: reality of life working in an Ivanka Trump clothing factory.
* Robot puts all of humanity to shame by achieving perfect score in Ms. Pac-Man.
* This New Museum Imagines a World Where Capitalism Is Dead.
* If there is no real economic recovery forthcoming—and there is not—and if the university cannot be restored without one, do any possibilities remain? They do. We would have to imagine a world that did not peg public funds to private profits. Our current understanding of “public” presupposes a thoroughgoing privatization of the world that shortly preceded the appearance of the modern university. There is no going back. But if there is to be something ahead, an emancipation of learning, it will not be discovered in the hearts and minds of administrators and legislators persuaded to see the error of their ways, but in a transformation of the society beyond the edges of campus. Who Can Save the University?
* For graduate students fighting to unionize, time is running out.
* Salvage on Corbyn.
* Today’s horrific fire in London’s Grenfell Tower is a symbol of a deeply unequal United Kingdom.
* Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize Winner.
* Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cars R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
* Ok, I’ll try this: 1 like = 1 unusual condition for killing the big baddy at the end of your book/movie/game.
* Why is TV awash in afterlives, hells, and purgatories?
* There’s just one story, and we tell it over and over.
* Witchcraft and dueling are now legal in Canada.
* Meet the First Woman to Draw Wonder Woman: “I Never Ever Gave Her Breasts That Were Bigger Than Her Head.”
* Abolish Netflix.
* Abolish the trucking industry.
* Why It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s.
* Estimated Number of Injuries and Reported Deaths Associated with Inflatable Amusements, 2003-2013.
* Retconning Guardians.
* Duck Tales, woo ooh.
* Bruce Springsteen is headed to Broadway.
* I’m sorry, I don’t think I understand the objection.
* Presenting the best of Hello from the Magic Tavern.
* Salo University is a friendly cloud space for thinking about Kurt Vonnegut and why his writing matters today.
* What real words are actually valid CSS HEX colors?
* Alarm clock dropped inside wall still going off daily after 13 years.
* Why Bill Cosby Walked Free.
* Why It’s Impossible to Indict a Cop.
* “Rakka” is the first sci-fi short film by Oats Studios, directed by Neill Blomkamp (District 9 and Chappie), featuring the aftermath of an alien invasion that has enslaved millions of humans. The free 22-minute film, which features the amazing Sigourney Weaver, is available to stream for free on Steam, YouTube and the Oats Studios website.
* And guys, it’s official: I’m a bestseller.
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Midday Monday Links!
* ICYMI from earlier this morning: SFFTV is once again looking for reviewers of DVDs and TV series. And of course I posted about a million links yesterday too.
* Scandal as performance of Julius Caesar depicts sitting president.
* Senate Intelligence Committee Post-Show Discussion of Hamlet.
* Binghampton mayoral candidate pulls out of race citing death threats.
* It’s terrible when actors read reviews and pitch their performance to the critics.
* Attorneys general for the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland say they will sue President Trump on Monday, alleging that he has violated anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution by accepting millions in payments and benefits from foreign governments since moving into the White House.
* The Spy Who Funded Me: Revisiting the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
* The physics of bullets vs. Wonder Woman’s bracelets. Given what is depicted in the film we must be dealing with some sort of magnetic attraction as well, and possibly a forcefield. #teachthecontroversy
* Mysteries of the war on terror: A neo-Nazi with explosives and a framed photo of Timothy McVeigh is not a threat, judge rules.
* 51 stars? Puerto Rico overwhelmingly votes for statehood.
* The Long, Lonely Road of Chelsea Manning.
* Obamacare is probably dead. Here’s what will probably happen.
* Nevada, with little fanfare or notice, is inching toward a massive health insurance expansion — one that would give the state’s 2.8 million residents access to a public health insurance option.
* Seen in this light, the tax cut is not simply a billionaire giveaway. It is part of an evangelical campaign for the restoration of a conditional, paternal philanthropy that runs contrary to the principle of unqualified access to health care that is represented by the ACA’s inclusion of people with “pre-existing conditions” in the insurance markets it regulated. Unqualified access means spreading the cost and risks of ill health and therefore sharing the benefits of maintaining good health. For those evangelicals who view health and disease through the lens of a moral economy, spreading the costs of health care is tantamount to facilitating moral hazard, or encouraging sinful behavior and usurping God’s judgment.
* Questions James Comey Should Be Asked About the FBI While He’s Under Oath.
* 41-year-old adoptee deported after 37 years in the U.S.
* All The Wrong People Are Asking All The Wrong Questions About Fidget Spinners.
* The glorious release of iOS 11 will restart human history, transform the Arctic into a tropical paradise, turn the seas to lemonade.
* The case for prescription heroin.
* It was Hulu actually.
* And from the archives! The Periodic Table of Nonsense.
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All Your Weekend Links
the desire to get some writing done vs. my ongoing commitment to hedonism
— kelly link (@haszombiesinit) August 16, 2016
* Waywiser Press has two new MP3s of Jaimee reading from her first book, How to Avoid Speaking: “Derrida Eats a Dorito” and “On Beauty.”
* New SF from Cixin Liu: “The Weight of Memories.”
* Duke Lit is hiring. And Georgetown has a cluster hire in African American studies.
* Automatically preordered: Kim Stanley Robinson’s next novel, New York 2140. China Miéville’s October: A History of the Russian Revolution. The Miéville- and Le-Guin-fronted new edition of More’s Utopia. Box Brown’s graphic history of Tetris.
* I love this Oulipoesque writing game from Steve Shaviro, on writing like a pundit.
Every sentence must be a cliche.
There must be no logical or narrative connection among the sentences. Each one must be a complete non sequitur.
* Supporting Transgender Students in the Classroom.
* Reevaluating Teaching Evaluations.
* Can grad students unionize? Academia awaits major labor board ruling.
* Univision buys Gawker for $135m, shuts Gawker itself down.
Hi I'm Peter Thiel. As a Libertarian, my main focus is on using the machinery of the state to crush entrepreneurs and free expression.
— Jon Schwarz (@tinyrevolution) May 25, 2016
* Conservatively, counting just the biggest chunks of staff time that went into it, the prison story cost roughly $350,000. The banner ads that appeared on the article brought in $5,000, give or take. Had we been really in your face with ads, we could have doubled or tripled that figure—but it would have been a pain for you, and still only a drop in the bucket for us.
* Relatedly: Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons. Some immediate effects.
Most prisons aren't private.
Most private prisons aren't federal.
Most fed private prisons are run by DHS.
New memo affects 13 prisons.
— Dara Lind (@DLind) August 18, 2016
* The new Star Trek distribution model in a global context.
* 15 Technologies That Were Supposed to Change Education Forever.
* Foundation 124 is out, with a special focus on More’s Utopia.
* I feel this now about a lot of things I read: Why Scott Snyder Doesn’t Write Damian Wayne Much.
they largely do now). And 2 – I love reading Damian, some of my favorite stories are Damian ones, but I have trouble writing him for
— Scott Snyder (@Ssnyder1835) August 16, 2016
personal reasons. You put yourself into the books when you write, your fears, etc., and my son is about Damian's age, and him getting hurt
or fighting people beside me – it's just something I have trouble with. It's too upsetting to me and it throws my Batman writing off.
* Unfortunately, Landis — the director who co-wrote and executive produced Clue — and the studios were completely wrong about there being any box office appeal for a film with three endings. As Lynn explained, “The audience decided they didn’t know which ending to go to, so they didn’t go at all.”
* Meanwhile, from the death of culture.
* It was the deadliest massacre of disabled people since World War II. How do we honor the victims if we don’t even know their names? Remembering the Sagamihara 19.
* Joseph Goebbels’ 105-year-old secretary: ‘No one believes me now, but I knew nothing.’
* Something unexpected I learned recently: the practice of giving presidential candidates classified intelligence briefings began in the 1950s with President Truman, who didn’t want his successors coming into office without knowing crucial information (the way he hadn’t known about the Manhattan Project).
* Donald Trump is assembling gathering the Legion of Doom. (The ubiquitous Twitter joke was calling it “the hospice stage.”) Trumpism: first as tragedy, then as farce. The Presidential Debates Will Almost Definitely Exclude Third Parties. Finding Someone Who Can Imitate Donald Trump. Battleground Texas? The short, unhappy life of the Naked Trump statue. #TrumpExplainsMoviePlots.
Biff—great guy, good friend of mine—they ruin his life! Doc and Marty—total losers. Can't win without time machine. #TrumpExplainsMoviePlots
— Alex Gookin (@_AlexGookin) August 18, 2016
Son disrespects great, VERY successful father. True loser. Kissed his sister. #TrumpExplainsMoviePlots pic.twitter.com/X9KcNeyc7r
— Katethulhu (@katethulhu) August 18, 2016
* The GOP’s Chances Of Holding The Senate Are Following Trump Downhill.
* A digital exhibit from the Milwaukee Public Library on the history of race and class in Milwaukee. Milwaukee by the numbers.
* Frodo’s trip to Mordor as a Google Map. Via Boing Boing.
* Aetna to pull out of the Obamacare markets, apparently for revenge. EpiPen Price Hike Has Parents of Kids With Allergies Scrambling Ahead of School Year.
* Diagnoses of 9/11-linked cancers have tripled in less than 3 years.
* Why gifted kindergarten is 70 percent white. How schools that obsess about standardized tests ruin them as measures of success.
* “Clickbait”-esque titles work for academic papers too.
* Why aren’t there more women in Congress?
* What crime is the robbing of a neighborhood, compared to policing it?
* These Researchers Are Using Reddit to Teach a Supercomputer to Talk. In a panic, they try to pull the plug…
* The Original Plan for Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four Sounds Completely Amazing.
In addition to Annihilus and the Negative Zone, we had Doctor Doom declaring war against the civilized world, the Mole Man unleashing a 60 foot genetically-engineered monster in downtown Manhattan, a commando raid on the Baxter Foundation, a Saving Private Ryan-style finale pitting our heroes against an army of Doombots in war-torn Latveria, and a post-credit teaser featuring Galactus and the Silver Surfer destroying an entire planet. We had monsters and aliens and Fantasticars and a cute spherical H.E.R.B.I.E. robot that was basically BB-8 two years before BB-8 ever existed. And if you think all of that sounds great…well, yeah, we did, too. The problem was, it would have also been massively, MASSIVELY expensive.
By coincidence, we watched the actual Trank Fantastic Four tonight and I was utterly shocked to see that there was almost a decent movie lurking in there somewhere.
* Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom To Be Murdered.
* The spectacle of mixed gender racing unravels fascistic models of sex/gender difference and sex/gender purity. Every woman runner competes with the lie that men are faster than women. That fiction can only be maintained by ensuring that men and women never run with each other — when men and women run with each other, they scale down each other’s understanding of their differences. The Life and Murder of Stella Walsh, Intersex Olympic Champion. Capturing Semenya.
* The Forgotten Tale of How America Converted Its 1980 Olympic Village Into a Prison.
* That time NASA accidentally sold a piece of irreplaceable Apollo history for less than $1,000.
* Nothing gold can stay: The Heidelberg Project is coming down.
* Allow me to recommend the Julia Louis-Dreyfus portion of this episode of the Katie Couric Podcast, where she talks Veep, Hillary Clinton, and Trump. The Al Franken episode is pretty good too.
* This episode of Criminal, on the founder of The Leaky Cauldron’s experience of being cyber-stalked for eight years, is also a really fascinating listen.
* I’m sad about this, but it’s probably time: Walking Dead Creator Robert Kirkman Announces End of Long-Running Superhero Comic Invincible.
* “Distance from center of diagram measures explanatory generality, comprehensive power, & potential banality”
"Distance from center of diagram measures explanatory generality, comprehensive power, & potential banality"—McGurl pic.twitter.com/xCcDohbHiH
— Scott Selisker (@sselisker) August 17, 2016
* Perhaps, once at a summer barbecue, when both were still alive, Maude grabbed Marge’s hand under the table and held tight.
* Meritocracy and system dysfunction. Meritocracy and system dysfunction and free tuition at public colleges.
* One of the biggest crime waves in America isn’t what you think it is: wage theft.
* The race of the police officer doesn’t matter. The race of the mayorimplementing the policy doesn’t matter. What matters is who enjoys a “right to the city” — and who gets thrown up against a wall and patted down.
* New Museum Connects History of Slavery to Mass Incarceration.
* Elsewhere at Jacobin: Jacobin vs. Scientology.
* google sugar high truth
* Scenes From the Terrifying, Already Forgotten JFK Airport Shooting That Wasn’t.
* Stranger Things, Parallel Universes, and the State of String Theory. And an interesting proposition from Chuck Rybak: Is the ubiquity of cell phones driving the nostalgia craze in film and TV?
* Please don’t mess this up: Marvel And Hulu Announce Runaways TV Series.
* Or this one either: Adam West, Burt Ward, Julie Newmar return for animated Batman movie.
* What killed The Nightly Show?
* When Nixon almost implemented universal basic income.
* Understanding the Harambe meme. Understanding the bees are dying at an alarming rate meme.
* A list of 150+ SF Writers of Asian Descent.
* Terraforming Mars without Nukes.
* Gins often said that the reason she and Arakawa made art and architecture was to “construct optimism.” Their whole philosophy began there, in the desire to embrace being alive and to shift their focus away from the certainty of death. Gins made the choice to believe that art, and her work, were strong enough to do that. It was her version of faith, and her work made that faith solid, physical. Her life, like all our lives, was often filled with sadness and difficulty. There were periods of depression, anxiety, sick parents, financial problems, her husband’s illness and death. Through it all, she insisted not just on continuing to live, but on living forever. Trying to build a world where fewer people suffered made her own suffering bearable. A year and a half after Arakawa’s death, Gins recalled in a letter to a friend her struggle to move forward. “Despite my shattered state,” she wrote, “in spite of the gaping hole that had been punched into my optimism, I asserted that nothing is of more interest than to be alive.”
* J.K. Rowling announces new Harry Potter short story collections.
* Stop me if you’ve heard this one: In the 136 years scientists have been tracking global temperatures, there has never been a warmer month than this July, according a new NASA report.
* Arctic Cruises for the Wealthy Could Fuel a Climate Change ‘Feedback Loop’.
* RIP John McLaughlin, who I watched with my father every week for a decade. Bye-bye.
* Dune, as it was always meant to be experienced.
* Feet of clay: Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland vs. the unions.
* Exercise we can believe in: Watching horror films burns nearly 200 calories a time.
* And physicists may have discovered a fifth fundamental force of nature. This is the one that gives people superpowers, I know it.
Kyle MacLachlan just brilliantly retold the plot of Dune in emoji for a fan on Twitter: https://t.co/mG2oyHR4dS pic.twitter.com/67JrTsdLcn
— Slate (@Slate) August 17, 2016
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Weekend Links Absolutely Positively Guaranteed to Help You Find Love This Valentine’s Day
* Was this a luxury? Sure. But it was also the steppingstone to a more aware, thoughtful existence. College was the quarry where I found it.
* Move over, Wisconsin, North Carolina wants in: Tea Party Legislature Targets University of North Carolina In Major Assault On Higher Learning.
* Walker aide: UW System cuts are flexible, complaints unwarranted. Oh, okay.
* The Art of the Deal, or the Man Who Would Be King: University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross.
* The UW: Update from the Struggle.
* How is it anything more than laughable that an otherwise reasonable person could believe that this shooting had more to do with a parking space than skin color and religion? How could it be that there is not only silence but active efforts to complicate and explain away something as utterly predictable as white man plays God? Any single instance of white supremacy, whether it is this shooting or the maintenance of de facto segregation in my city, is over-determined. There are dozens of “just so” arguments that stand ready to supplant a direct identification of racial violence at work. White supremacy itself is a coward who hides behind historic contingencies.
* Inside Edition Used The Chapel Hill Homicides To Set Up A Segment On How To Find Parking At The Mall.
* The study, published this week in Science Advances, is based on hand-curated data about placements of 19,000 tenure-line faculty members in history, business and computer science at 461 North American institutions with doctoral programs. Using a computer-aided, network-style analysis, the authors determined that just 25 percent of those institutions produced 71 to 86 percent of tenure-line professors, depending on discipline. Here’s a link to the full article, which has a definition of “merit” (as/against “prestige”) I can’t make heads or tails of.
* Being Yanis Varoufakis.
* The grievously neglected American poet Winfield Townley Scott, who had once loved Lovecraft’s work and written beautifully about it, eventually came to feel that Lovecraft’s fiction was “finicky,” “childish,” and “antagonistic to reality.” But its very childishness and hatred of reality are central to it. If, as Thornton Wilder once claimed, no true adult is ever really shocked, that being “shocked” is always a pose, then Lovecraft never achieved adult status. But he held on tightly to the truths of adolescence: that the universe does not wish us well; that love is not to be found anywhere; and resurrection, if it ever truly occurs, would be a catastrophe.
* If you aren’t reading Jason Shiga’s Demon, you really should start; chapter 11 just went out to subscribers and it’s great.
* The social network’s ideal model is for ads to make up about one in 20 tweets that the average user sees — the same level that Facebook strives for. “We’re well below that now,” he said. I’m sure if you keep up what you’re doing you’ll get there faster than you think.
* Also on the comics beat: The few that have been able to reach him believe him to be a deity – one who turned the scorched desert into a lush oasis. They say he can bend matter, space, and even time to his will. Earth is about to meet a new god. And he’s a communist.
* Universities are struggling to determine when intoxicated sex becomes sexual assault.
* An undergraduate student was found responsible for sexually assaulting Camila Quarta, CC ’16, in April 2013. Since then, 481 undergraduate students have taken courses in which he has served as a teaching assistant. I have mixed feelings about the desire to use employment as a proxy for justice, but preventing this sort of thing from happening does seem to me to fall well within the requirements of Title IX.
* At LARoB, the deeply unpleasant task of historicizing incest.
* To Restore Academic Integrity in Sports, Hold Head Coaches Accountable. “Restore.” You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means…
* Shocked, shocked to find out admissions are being manipulated at a university.
* I’m Brianna Wu, And I’m Risking My Life Standing Up To Gamergate.
* When Girls of Color Are Policed Out of School.
* MetaFilter post on the Coup in Yemen.
* Why Jon Stewart Was Bad for the Liberals Who Loved Him. I’ve come around to the inevitable conclusion that this is all just a very clever viral marketing campaign for Hot Tub Time Machine 2.
* Do humans need air to live? Look, I’m not a scientist.
* Tricknology is the word she used to describe how the AHA got its way. Hightower and her neighbors wanted to see an end to the stigma associated with living in public housing. They wanted the projects to become as they once were: stable family neighborhoods where “you didn’t know you were poor.” But the AHA had other plans. It had chosen to view public housing as unfixable.
* Good Magazine has your guide to the legendary Saved by the Bell Hooks Tumblr.
* Hey, gadgets: stop snitchin’.
* The Weird Specifics Of Marvel And Sony’s Secret Spider-Man Deal.
* The FBI is targeting tar-sands activists.
* By Age 40, Your Income Is Probably as Good as It’s Going to Get. I’ve had a lot of interesting conversations on Twitter and Facebook in the last few days about the extent to which this applies to (a) academics in general (b) tenure-track academics (c) tenure-track academics in the humanities (d) tenure-track academics in the humanities today as opposed to a generation ago. But I’ve resolved to go ahead and be completely depressed by this fact simply in the interest of precaution and due diligence.
* Uber and Airbnb monetize the desperation of people in the post-crisis economy while sounding generous—and evoke a fantasy of community in an atomized population.
* South Carolina Inmate Receives 37 Years In Solitary Confinement For Updating Facebook.
“If a South Carolina inmate caused a riot, took three hostages, murdered them, stole their clothes, and then escaped, he could still wind up with fewer Level 1 offenses than an inmate who updated Facebook every day for two weeks,” the EFF said in its report.
*Chief backs up officer who shot at suspect, failed to report incident.
The police officer was wearing a body camera during the incident but it was not turned on.
Oh, what terrible luck!
* NYPD Beat the Shit Out of a Brooklyn Street Vendor, Then Lied About It.
* Mother Has Miscarriage After Cop Beats Her Because He Didn’t ‘Appreciate Her Tone.’
* The Imprisoner’s Dilemma.
* Silicon Valley as cult.
* Casting some bodies as inherently rational and others as incapable of true speech makes those with bodies most at risk for harm unable to protest.
* The arc of history is long, but: Putin Banned From ‘Mighty Taco’ Restaurant.
* Also the arc of history is long, etc., Little League Team Stripped of Title.
* Arc of history etc. etc. Montana GOP Legislator Wants to Ban Yoga Pants.
* Oh, I give up: Internet Neo-Nazis Are Trying to Build a White Supremacist Utopia in Namibia.
* All-time classic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereals, Hitler edition.
* An oral history of that scene on last week’s The Americans. Standard rules apply, do not click, pretend it never happened.
* The Lincoln Memorial could have been a pyramid. See all the forgotten proposals. Wash that “good Vox” taste out of your mouth with this “bad Vox” chaser: The best hope for federal prison reform: a bill that could disproportionately help white prisoners.
* Amazing Photo Of An Intoxicated Gorilla About To Punch A Photographer. Exactly what it says on the tin.
* Hulu thoughtfully removes any obligation you may have felt to care about its upcoming 11/23/63 adaptation.
* Somber news this Valentine’s Day.
* And the premiere for the improbably effective Better Call Saul is up on YouTube, if you missed it and want to hop aboard the think piece train before it leaves the station.
Tagged with 11/22/63, academia, academic jobs, actually existing media bias, admissions, Africa, Airbnb, alcohol, always historicize, amateurism, America, animals, austerity, Austin, Avengers, bell hooks, Better Call Saul, binge drinking, Breaking Bad, Brianna Wu, Brooklyn, capitalism, Chapel Hill, class struggle, college, college sports, Columbia, comics, coups, Cthulhu, cultural preservation, Daily Show, Demon, desperate, digital economy, digitality, embodiment, English majors, evolution, FBI, Gamergate, gorillas, Greece, guns, H.P. Lovecraft, historicize everything, Hitler, Hot Tub Time Machine 2, How the University Works, Hulu, if you want a vision of the future, incest, Islamophobia, Jason Shiga, Jessica Williams, JFK, Jon Stewart, kids today, Lincoln Memorial, Little League, male privilege, Marvel, memorials, miscarriage, money, Montana, monuments, murder, Namibia, Nazis, neocolonialism, neoliberalism, North Carolina, NYPD, photography, police brutality, police state, police violence, politics, prestige economy, prison, prison-industrial complex, privatize everything, public housing, Putin, pyramids, race, racism, rape, rape culture, Ray Cross, Republicans, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Saved by the Bell, school-to-prison pipeline, science, Scott Walker, sex, sharing economy, social media, Sony, South Carolina, Spider-Man, Stephen King, stop snitchin', tacos, tar sands, Tea Party, teeth, television, tenure, the adolescent fear that justice does not exist, the adolescent passion for justice, The Americans, the arc of history is long but it bends towards justice, The Avengers, the dark side of the digital, the humanities, the Left, time travel, Title IX, Tumblr, Twitter, Uber, University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, Vince Gilligan, war on education, white people, white privilege, white supremacy, Wisconsin, Yanis Varoufakis, Yemen, yoga pants, you keep using that word
Tuesday Links!
* UT President just comes out and says it: tenure is over.
Rather than debate these issues as an all-or-nothing matter, we should implement our system in a way that looks to the purposes tenure serves. In fact, we already do that. American higher education, including UT, has been using an increasing share of non-tenured faculty. In this sense, American higher education has been de-tenuring itself, that is, unleveraging itself, for the last 20 years. My point here is that we need to do this in a purposeful way that is aligned with our large-scale teaching and research goals in ever more detailed ways. We need to use tenure when it is most needed: where competition is the keenest and where research is more central to the enterprise. It is less necessary where those two features aren’t present. Again, my point here is not that I have the answer. My point is that we can’t shy away from an issue even as sacred as how we use tenure. We need to lead the way by implementing everything we do in light of the purposes we claim it promotes.
* Meanwhile: There’s still no STEM shortage.
* For-Profit Colleges as Factories of Debt.
* Isn’t everybody equal now? Can’t women be obnoxious too? Wesleyan Rules That Fraternities Must Accept Women.
* The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel tries to make sense of Wisconsin’s ever-changing voter ID rules.
* I’ve simply never understood how “divestment” was supposed to work as a tactic against climate change. The only thing that threatens to shake this conviction is the fact that Slate agrees.
* Better march harder: Worldwide Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reached Record Levels In 2013.
* Yes we can! U.S. Ramping Up Major Renewal in Nuclear Arms.
* Elsewhere in Obama doing a heckuva job: The US just started bombing Syria.
* Police shoot teenage special-needs girl within 20 seconds of arriving to ‘help.’
* What Reparations in America Could Look Like.
* I taught in one of the many social-service organizations known in the nonprofit industrial complex as “re-entry.” Re-entry’s primary goal is to induct people back into the workforce once they are released from prison or are mired in the bureaucracy of one of the state’s “community supervision” programs, which include jails, probation, parole, or ATIs (alternatives to incarceration). In practical terms, re-entry provides “services,” broadly construed, to economically disenfranchised people who are targeted by the police and as a result are under some form of surveillance by the carceral network.
* Inside Higher Ed debates whether and how you can try to address male pathologies in the classroom without reentering maleness pedagogically.
* Glengarry, Bob Ross.
* What it’s like to have a stroke at 33.
* On this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver takes a look at the Miss America pageant and asks, “How the f*ck is this still happening?”
* 11/23/63 is coming to Hulu as a series. I feel like I run a link that says this at least three times a year.
* The past isn’t done with us: A Brazilian man whose parents were African slaves could be the oldest living person ever documented after receiving a birth cerficate showing he turned 126 last week, it was reported on Tuesday.
* The past isn’t done with us, part two: Star Trek 3 might reunite William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.
* I’ve had dreams like this: Camera falls from a plane and lands in a pig farm.
* Somebody’s stealing my bit: There’s a new university course focusing on the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
* And they say America is a country no longer capable of achieving great things: Rhode Island Man Manages to Get Four DUIs in 30 Hours.
Tagged with 11/23/63, academia, alcohol, America, Austin, Barack Obama, beauty pagents, Bob Ross, carbon, class struggle, climate change, comics, divestment, Don't mention the war, dreams, ecology, employment, fear of flying, fear of heights, film, for-profit schools, fraternities, Glengarry Glen Ross, guns, How the University Works, Hulu, ISIS, J.J. Abrams, jobs, John Oliver, longevity, male privilege, male studies, maleness, Marvel, Milwaukee, Miss America, neoliberalism, nonprofit-industrial complex, nuclear weapons, our brains work in interesting ways, pigs, police brutality, police violence, politics, prison-educational complex, prison-industrial complex, race, racism, reparations, Rhode Island, Star Trek, STEM, Stephen King, strokes, student debt, Syria, television, tenure, the past isn't over it isn't even past, time travel, University of Texas, voter ID, Wesleyan, Wisconsin
* ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens. The power of #YesAllWomen. Media monsters gotta monster.
* Alternate Visions: Some Musings on Diversity in SF.
* Game Theory Is Really Counterintuitive.
* American jails have become the new mental asylums – and you’re paying the bill.
* “It was pretty much slave labor,” she says, “but there was nothing I could do about that. I needed stamps to write to my child. I needed hygiene products.” Modern-Day Slavery in America’s Prison Workforce.
* Scenes from the school reform scam in Newark.
In fact, not a cent of Zuckerberg’s money has gone toward hiring counselors, social workers or nurses. Meanwhile, “there have been DRAMATIC cuts to wraparound services,” wrote Mike Maillaro, Newark Teachers Union’s director of communication and research, in an e-mail. Last year, every attendance counselor in the district was eliminated.
Hawthorne Avenue reports losing eight support staff members since 2011, including a guidance counselor and two instructional coaches. The school has neither a music teacher nor a librarian.
Zuckerberg’s money would instead “create systemic education reform in Newark.” In 2011, it was reported that a full third of the foundation’s cash had found the pockets of consultants. As Dale Russakoff recently reported in a lengthy New Yorker article, that total now sits at about $20 million.
Though a smattering of grants have benefitted local causes—after-school yoga ($31,000), book drives ($1.2 million), new district schools ($2.1 million) and sundry others—over 40 percent of the money granted to organizations has left the state. Outside talent and recruitment agencies, for instance, raked in over $4 million to align district staffing with Anderson’s politics.
* In New Orleans, major school district closes traditional public schools for good.
* Chris Christie can’t afford to pay public teacher pensions… but still hands education megacorp $82m in subsidies.
* Black legislators in North Carolina are blasting a provision in the State Senate’s budget bill that they say is an attempt to force the closure of Elizabeth City State University, a historically black institution, WRAL News reported.
* The Intractability of Op-Ed Habits.
* Is College Worth It? Clearly, New Data Say. Even Middle-Class Students Have Poor Odds of Graduating From College. 2 Years On, Two-Thirds of This Graduating Class Aren’t Financially Self-Sufficient. How to end the college class war.
* Making Olin’s problems worse, the school’s only subject, engineering, is very expensive to teach. Unlike other schools with a broader array of programs, Olin cannot subsidize engineering students by charging their classmates the same tuition for cheaper majors such as English and sociology. At many schools — although they may not know it — liberal arts majors are in effect helping to underwrite the high cost of science and technical education.
* All This: Mad Men and the Persistence of the Old Regime. As good as it gets: Mad Men and neoliberalism. Mad Men‘s Robert Morse on Dancing Into the Sunset. Mad Men’s Trudy Campbell is a KGB Spy. The Matt Weiner Interview. As fun as this show is, it’s about some pretty grimy shit.
* In an attempt to emphasize heterosexuality, fear or hatred of homosexuals and misogynist language developed. The bro, in short, is a culture-wide defense mechanism against the gay.
* Back to the top of the order: Let’s Debunk Scientific Racism, Again.
* Most Doctors Would Refuse Their Own Aggressive End-Of-life Treatments.
* Judge Orders Antitrust Suit Against NCAA to Go to Trial Next Month.
* BREAKING: The rule of law is a joke.
* Government files reveal official campaign of spying against Occupy Wall Street.
* Nobody Wants To Host The 2022 Olympics.
* So the Chamber is telling us that we can achieve major reductions in greenhouse gases at a cost of 0.2 percent of GDP. A Pushback on Green Power. What Will Climate Change Deniers Say…?
* The religious right, who liked to call themselves the “moral majority” at the time, actually organized around fighting to protect Christian schools from being desegregated. It wasn’t Roe v. Wadethat woke the sleeping dragon of the evangelical vote. It was Green v. Kennedy, a 1970 decision stripping tax-exempt status from “segregation academies”—private Christian schools that were set up in response to Brown v. Board of Education, where the practice of barring black students continued.
* Report of the Task Force on Doctoral Study in Modern Language and Literature (2014). Just clap your hands if you believe in job training!
* It doesn’t get better: Sorry, nerds: Fraternity brothers have more fulfilling lives later on.
* Incoming Title IX Mess: Duke Student Sues For Diploma After He’s Expelled for Sexual Assault.
* RIP, Maya Angelou.
* Angus Johnston’s Content Warnings.
* Two great tastes! NCAA Teams Up With Defense Dept. on $30-Million Concussion Study.
* Cruel optimism watch: Hulu In Talks To Pick Up New Season Of Community.
* This made me very sad.
* And nothing good will happen anymore: Alfonso Cuarón says he won’t be directing Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Tagged with academia, academic jobs, actually existing media bias, Alfonso Cuarón, Angus Johnston, antitrust law, austerity, bros, celebrity culture, charter schools, Christian right, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, class struggle, climate change, college sports, community, concussions, Dan Harmon, denialism, Department of Defense, desegregation, diversity, Duke, ecology, Elizabeth City State University, Emma Watson, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, feminism, film, fraternities, game theory, green energy, grift, guns, happiness, Harry Potter, historically black colleges, homophobia, How the University Works, Hulu, Mad Men, malicious bullshitting, mass shootings, Maya Angelou, medicine, mental health, military-industrial complex, misogyny, MLA, Moral Majority, mortality, NCAA, neoliberalism, New Jersey, New Orleans, Newark, North Carolina, Occupy Wall Street, Olympics, pedagogy, politics, prison-industrial complex, prisons, rape, rape culture, rule of law, scams, school reform, science fiction, scientific racism, shock doctrine, slave labor, slavery, student loans, Supreme Court, surveillance society, surveillance state, teaching, television, the courts, the law, Title IX, trigger warnings, war on education, Who is going to pay the salary of the English department?
Saturday Night Links
* The Los Angeles Times profiles Nalo Hopkinson.
* Science Fiction Comes Alive as Researchers Grow Organs in Lab.
* North Dakota Becomes First State To Ban All Abortions By Defining Life At Conception.
* Prosecutors at his latest trial detailed how Sapina and those working with him spent at least $2.7 million in bribes to players, referees, and league officials. They gave evidence in Sapina’s trial of 43 fixed matches and say the total number the group rigged is more than 300. The ring sometimes scheduled professional games themselves—paying for the visiting team’s travel and accommodations—just so they could manipulate the outcome. They went so far as to buy their own team so they could order it to lose. The case has been called the biggest sports-fixing bust in European history.
* 20 Embarrassingly Bad Book Covers for Classic Novels.
* Hulu announces every episode of every series of Star Trek is free, until April.
* Watch the Prequel to Doctor Who’s “The Bells of Saint John.”
* Classic Ducktales Video Game Gets HD Do-Over With Voice Acting From The Cartoon’s Cast. Sold!
Tagged with abortion, book covers, books, Doctor Who, Duck Tales, gambling, games, Hulu, literature, match-fixing, medicine, Nalo Hopkinson, North Dakota, politics, science fiction, science is magic, soccer, Star Trek
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Stepping Up to the Plate?
By Greg Morin from kNOw Liberty link Aug 16, 2016
Slow internet. No words invoke greater apoplexy in modern man than these. Oconee County, being largely rural, has suffered through its share of less than ideal Internet connectivity over the last decade. So it is little wonder that county officials recently engaged representatives of Corning Optical Communications to discuss the possibility of wiring the entire county for fiber optic Internet access. As a resident myself, nothing would please me more. However, as an ethically consistent human being, I cannot opt to ignore a little thing like theft even when that theft might benefit me personally.
Inroads to high speed Internet have been slow not because of capriciousness but rather due to simple economics. Investments are made only if the prospect of a meaningful return is sufficient to compensate for the risk involved. What would you say if someone asked you to invest your retirement savings into a project that might yield a payback of less than 1% after 75 years? If you’re unwilling to make such a poor investment, then who can blame the telecoms for reaching the same conclusion. Capital intensive projects like running underground cables for miles and miles only to serve a handful of customers just don’t make economic sense unless those customers are willing to pay hundreds of dollars a month. And since nobody is willing to pay that, it doesn’t happen. Local governments don’t help either as various right-of-way statutes heap unnecessary costs on the process (see OCGA §46-5-1(a) and 48-5-423).
In the meeting, according to the Oconee Enterprise, Administrative Officer Jeff Benko observed that, “…in areas where the private sector has not stepped up to the plate, there’s an opportunity for the government to intervene.” In other words, where my parents have not stepped up to the plate by buying me a Ferrari, there’s an opportunity for my bank-robbing uncle to buy one on my behalf. “Stepping up to the plate” is the economic equivalent of providing something at a false cost because no one is wiling to pay its true cost.
This project was estimated to run about $1400/home served. If everyone voluntarily wrote a $1400 check that would be grand. It would be true democracy, marketplace democracy, in action. Consumers vote their preference every time they open their wallet. But we live with a political democracy as well, so as long as 51 out of 100 people want something, then it’s perfectly acceptable to reach into their neighbor’s wallet and take what is needed. Some might suggest paying for it with bonds is ethically sound as someone is voluntarily lending money to the county. But that logic is specious insofar as the bond must eventually be repaid and the only way to do so is with taxes and as we all know, taxes are theft. Indeed bonds are even more cowardly as they shift the repayment burden onto future taxpayers who have no voice in what is decided today.
Repeat after me: just because it is something I want, that does not make it is ok to use political means to force others to provide it for me.
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Harris DA's drug-policy change will improve equity, jail crowding
Pretty big news out of Houston today on the drug-policy front. Harris County DA Pat Lykos announced a change in her office's charging policy on low-level drug offenses that will put Houston in line with other Texas jurisdictions, but has the police union seething ("DA's crack pipe policy stirs storm," Dec. 9):
Starting next year, the Harris County District Attorney's Office no longer will file state jail felony charges against suspects found with only a trace — less than a hundreth of a gram — of illegal drugs, District Attorney Pat Lykos said Tuesday.
Instead, people found with crack pipes with nothing more than residue inside or other drug paraphernalia, would face a ticket for a class C misdemeanor, which carries a maximum fine of $500.
Not surprisingly, the pending change was hailed by defense lawyers, but criticized by police officers.
“It ties the hands of the officers who are making crack pipe cases against burglars and thieves,” said Gary Blankinship, president of the Houston Police Officers' Union. “A crack pipe is not used for anything but smoking crack by a crack head. Crack heads, by and large, are also thieves and burglars. They're out there committing crimes.” ...
Blankinship said the district attorney's office is trying to restrict the volume of cases rather than deal with them.
“When they get to a certain caseload, we're supposed to stop?” he asked. “Stop arresting people who are violating the law? How much sense does that make?”
Lykos said there were several reasons to change the policy, including the inability of defense experts to re-test drug residue that is destroyed when it is analyzed. To be tested twice, there has to be more than a hundredth of a gram, she said. ...
Lykos said the move “gives us more of an ability to focus on the violent offenses and the complex offenses. When you have finite resources, you have to make decisions, and this decision is a plus all around.”
I know one group who will be particularly pleased by this welcome news: Judge Michael McSpadden and other Harris County criminal district judges who've been agitating to reduce the less-than-a-gram caseload in felony courts. “Sixteen of us feel that it’s just unfair to be convicted for a residue amount and be labeled a felon, which changes your whole life,” McSpadden told the Houston Chronicle earlier this year. This policy will contribute concretely to that goal.
Indeed, Harris County accounts for such a large proportion of less-than-a-gram cases in Texas, this decision could even help out the state in the medium-term with managing state-jail population growth.
Really, despite the police union's opposition, this is a no-brainer: Even Murray Newman thinks it's a good idea and he can't agree with Pat Lykos on the weather.
Kudos to Lykos for pulling the trigger on a decision that's an easy call from a policy perspective but a potential political headache, especially with the union. Given scarce resources, though, it makes little sense to waste crime-lab personnel and felony-court dockets on these penny-ante cases - particularly since Harris is the only big county to charge paraphernalia that way. This decision was long overdue. Other jurisdictions do fine actually using Texas' Class C paraphernalia statute; so will they.
Just to have said so: If the DA wanted to further reduce the jail population, she could direct her office to stop seeking jail time as a probation "condition" on the first offense in these less-than-a-gram cases - a reactionary policy instituted by per predecessor. Harris is the only county in Texas to routinely send first-offense probationers to county jail for up to six months for less-than-a-gram drug possession (including the paraphernalia cases which will now be handled as misdemeanors). The Legislature in 2005 directed judges to give these cases probation on the first offense, however Harris County from the beginning took the defiant stance of routinely jailing them instead. As of November 1, according to data reported (pdf) to the Commission on Jail Standards, Harris County had 1,181 convicted state-jail felons housed in the county jail; as of that same date (pdf), Harris had 1,212 inmates housed out of county.
So those two changes on less-than-a-gram cases combined would actually go most of the way toward ending Harris' reliance on out-of-county contract beds in the relatively near future. That's why I consider the issue of jail overcrowding in Harris County more a question of political will than demographic necessity: Pat Lykos demonstrated leadership in this decision and she deserves credit for it.
UPDATE: Already backtracking? Under pressure from Houston PD, Lykos now says she'll reevaluate the new policy in six months.
Labels: County jails, District Attorneys, drug policy, Harris County, Probation
I'm glad I don't live in Harris County.....the DA just figured out how to make judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and crack heads happy....hmmmm, criminal justice??
Odds are you're already there, amigo. In case you didn't catch it, Harris County is an outlier. Assuming you're a Texan and live in an urban county, they just changed their policy to make it like the one in YOURS. Most places don't send paraphernalia to the crime lab to get a possession charge - they're too backed up with more serious cases.
Completley absurd! So much for criminal justice in Texas. Like the case is made, those individuals that use crack are responsible for other crimes as well.
Crime in America is getting ready to explode to unprecedented highs. In the end, liberals will see that the cost of criminals on the street, is ultimately greater than the cost of incarceration.
"Crime in America is getting ready to explode"
Maybe you're right. From other Texas jurisdictions' experience with exactly this same policy, though, your dire predictions seem off base.
Your assumptions are foolish at best! These new policy changes can have nothing but a negative impact on criminal justice.
Crime will go up; however, arrests will go down. In a liberals twisted mind, this is considered a success.
Another Grits liberalness victory. The price will be paid by storeowners bothered by crackheads, victims of burglary and the occasional car jacking. Idiot.
Uh, this was a Republican DA in Texas' most conservative large county. Is she now a "Grits liberal," too? Or Judge McSpadden, for heaven's sake? You fantasize that my influence is much greater than it is.
As opposed to reflexive naysayers who spout glib, content-free barbs instead of offering constructive suggestions - always, one notices, wrapped in the coward's comfort of anonymity - the DA actually gets paid to make the tough calls about departmental priorities. In the scheme of things this was a wise one.
What offenders would you divert from the jail instead? Or do you want your taxes raised to pay for Sheriff Garcia's quarter-billion dollar bond issue, and still have to ship prisoners out of state?
If police officers are so concerned about stopping addicts from potentially committing property crimes in order to support their drug addiction habit then why aren’t they advocating for drug treatment and community based treatment programs?
Simple, because those treatment programs DO NOT work! Treatment is only successful when the person receiving treatment initiates treatment. That is why there are so many probation revocations for failed treatment. Court ordered counseling is a waste of time.
Once again, it is a liberal mindsight that everybody wants to change for the better!
I would much rather have my taxes raised to take a criminal off the street, than have my taxes raised to feed someone that doesn't want to work!
Mark Bennett said...
I had a bunch of visits from an HPD officers' forum to my post six days ago breaking this news; none of them commented, but I don't as a rule allow comments from people who are afraid to take personal responsibility for their opinions.
I pray that no one you care about struggles with addiction. How does locking up an addict (a sick person)
cure him or her? It doesn't, in fact, doing so makes the person worse. It's a public health issue that impacts public safety. Other states are saving lives and millions of dollars by treating people instead of locking them up and hoping they will come out and stay away from drugs.
Minneapolis DUI lawer said...
I agree that treatment is only effective when the person wants to get help, but everyone deserves a chance.
Many of the people that post on this blog represent departments or agencies around the state. Please don't confuse our anonymous post as being cowardly. As a supervisor at a probation department, I would hate for my opinions to reflect on the department as a whole.
In fact, there has been a director from a state agency that has scolded officers for posting on this particular blog.
Yes, they have scared the tyc people from even commenting about all the problems.
Not to mention the fact that the judges have been asking for this too. I guess Harris County judges are now Grits Liberals.
Pat Lykos has always been tough on crime, and she has also always had a mind of her own. As long as there is a war on drugs there will be lots of crime, you can’t have the largest black market in history operating free from crime; it just doesn’t work that way.
What is a bit confusing is if 16 District Court Judges are in possible agreement with this decision, then why are they so eager to drug test pre-trial defendants who have not been found guilty of anything yet?
The argument that where there’s smoke there is fire is as equally present with a crack pipe as it is with a drug test, so why waste huge chunks of tax dollars drug testing so that the same defendant that was just released can be placed back in jail?
If the argument is that a felony conviction changes the lives of people, try putting requirements on people that take them away from their jobs while they sit for hours and hours waiting to be tested, or lose their jobs altogether because they have been placed in jail for a week or a month without the possibility of being released over a drug test.
They are under prosecution already, what exactly is the drug test supposed to be promoting, proper court room sobriety? With this policy it is ok to ask the person administering the drug test to hold your crack pipe while you get tested without any real penalty, but if you take a hit then give them the pipe you’re off to jail.
11:28, the pre-trial drug tests are a method of coercing pleas and moving the docket. If a defendant's bond is forfeited for a dirty UA and that defendant can't make the doubled bond, almost all of them will take the plea offer, especially if its deferred, so they can get out of jail that same day and try to keep their jobs and their lives rather than sit in jail for months awaiting trial.
6:56, in Mark Bennett land, anyone who doesn't conform to his lofty standards must either be unintelligent, uneducated, a coward, or some combination thereof. From his lofty philosophical perch, he fails to grasp that not everyone has the freedom to pontificate publicaly, but you really can't expect someone who went to Rice to bother with such plebeian trivia as having to answer to an employer.
Gosh I don’t think I was advocating Bennett Bashing, it’s his blog and I think if he chooses to be selective in the views he wishes his readers and fellow bloggers to be subjected to then he should be allowed to manipulate his blog in anyway he chooses.
Oh, never mind, I see now you were addressing his statement directly.
So referring then back to mine; surely you are not trying to suggest that you may have some type of employment within the Harris County Criminal Justice System and are making inflammatory statements behind the cover of anonymity.
6:56, etc., re anonymity: I respect that public employees may feel the need to comment anonymously. That's the main reason I still allow it.
However, privileges come with responsibility: All who comment anonymously have a special obligation to remain credible and avoid "glib, content-free barbs" (e.g., @2:01) and personal or ad hominem attacks - at least, if they want me to take them seriously. Otherwise, they're just trolling and hiding behind anonymity like a mother's skirt to engage in name calling and to make provocative statements they'd be afraid or embarrassed to sign their name to. That's cowardice - I don't care if you do wear a gun and a badge at your day job.
That said, this string hasn't been nearly as bad on that score as some (though the troll who does't know "liberalness" isn't a word is a regular offender), but in my mind anonymous commenters, even if I allow them, always start with two strikes and must prove themselves through reason and sound argument or I dismiss them.
If folks want to comment anonymously and visit here regularly, I'd suggest you adopt a pseudonym to differentiate yourself from the trolls and whiners.
One of the problems with drug-related crime is that there's hardly anyone alive who remembers when such a thing didn't exist.
Because there's hardly anyone alive who was an adult at the time before drugs were criminalized.
Whole generations have come and gone who've never known that prior to their criminalization, presently illegal drugs were in fact legal and therefor cheap, and an addict could get their fix without engaging in criminal behavior.
Criminalizing the production, possession and sale of banned drugs made the development of the crime necessary to afford the (now, hyper-inflated) cost of an illegal substance inevitable.
So, given that, you have to ask: who benefits from keeping some drugs illegal? Obviously, the dealers of them, but also the very people who complain so loudly about having their hands tied in fighting those dealers.
Two sides of the same coin, joined together at the edge by drug prohibition. And we're in such bad shape financially in this country that we can't afford to mint that coin anymore. Which is in no small part why the laws are changing. Because we just can't afford to lock up those who really need to be behind bars when we're spending way too much incarcerating people (as a Texas lawmaker put it) some folks are just 'mad at'.
A government job, with a regular paycheck and benefits, has some costs, no doubt. One of those costs is some practical limits on speech. This is nothing new.
So I wondered to myself, "before the internet, how did people like 2:01 express their opinions publicly while protecting their jobs?"
Then I realized:
http://bit.ly/6d9hQx
Oops...you spoke too soon, Grits. According to today's Chronicle Lycos is having second thoughts about this ill-advised policy change.
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Is the problem disability or second language
Listening Comprehension Understanding speech. Dyspraxia A severe difficulty in performing drawing, writing, buttoning, and other tasks requiring fine motor skill, or in sequencing the necessary movements.
Language and Learning Disabilities. The spectrum of LBLD ranges from students who experience minor interferences that may be addressed in class to students who need specialized, individualized attention throughout the school day in order to develop fluent language skills.
It addresses the recommendations for preservice candidates which include the need to study a This has tended to produce a system in which an authoritarian, over-active service provider prescribes and acts for a passive client.
With practice and good instruction, students become automatic at word recognition, that is, retrieving words from memory, and are able to focus attention on constructing meaning from the text, rather than decoding.
For more information, go to IDEA Others may be very skilled readers of a foreign language and yet be virtually unable to converse in more than the most rudimentary phrases poorly pronounced. For example, in the U. Direct Instruction An instructional approach to academic subjects that emphasizes the use of carefully sequenced steps that include demonstration, modeling, guided practice, and independent application.
However, many of these do not have permanent or severe disabilities. Common symptoms across forms of dementia include memory loss, difficulty in performing complex tasks, communication difficulties, personality changes and paranoia, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The goals of the program are for both groups to become biliterate, succeed academically, and develop cross-cultural understanding. Cerebral palsy refers to a number of neurological disorders that appear in infancy or early childhood and permanently affect body movement and muscle coordination, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
If preference is unknown, specify the condition, e. When referring to a cochlear implant, avoid describing it as a corrective device or one that would restore a deaf person to mainstream society. Individuals with movement impairments may have difficulty with programs which require a response in a specified period of time, especially if it is short.
People living with speech and hearing disabilities are capable of expressing themselves in writing, through sign language and in other ways.
The path of the LD student facing a foreign language requirement is made even rougher by the fact that many schools lack personnel who are versed in the problems of foreign language difficulties for learning disabled students.
Their instruction is based on a special curriculum that typically involves little or no use of the native language, focuses on language as opposed to content and is usually taught during specific school periods. Mother Tongue This term variably means a the language learned from the mother, b the first language learned, c the native language of an area or country, d the stronger or dominant language at any time of life, e the language used most by a person, f the language toward which the person has the more positive attitude and affection Baker, Many people with chronic illnesses do not call themselves disabled.Cognitive/Language Impairments ** Background This category contains a wide range of impairments including impairments of thinking, memory, language, learning and perception.
Causes include birth defects, head injuries, stroke, diseases and aging-related conditions. Foreign language study is an increasingly prominent part of education everywhere.
For the student unencumbered by a learning disability, foreign language study is indeed an enriching and rewarding experience. For the learning disabled student, however, it can be an unbelievably stressful and humiliating experience, the opposite of what is intended.
The article offers information on how teachers will distinguish between learning disabilities and second language acquisition process and how to handle the problem. Scribd es red social de lectura y publicación más importante del mundo.
The problem is that if the child experiences any deficits in the foundational language areas such as listening and speaking, he will most certainly experience difficulties in the more complex areas of language which is reading and writing.
33 Responses to “Is there a ‘disability’ for learning foreign languages?”. elisabetta February 9th, The whole dealing of the matter has wrong theoretical basis.
First it ignores the linguistic literature on the subject of the years fifities through eighties dealing with the interpretation of language “problems”. not disabilities in native, second and foreign language.
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Old Lifeboat House, 1906 –2014.
This was the lifeboat house in its heroic age, a century ago. The picture tells the story. The launch of the lifeboat was a momentous spectacle. Everyone came to watch, ladies in summer dresses, young men in flannels and knickerbockers, barefoot urchins, sturdy men in cork lifejackets. You can imagine the buzz of conversation and the clunk of the wheels on a fine Sunday morning. Fewer would have turned up to watch a launch in a howling gale with rain slanting in from the east and waves thundering on the Grey Mare Rock. Those were times of fear, when people strained their gaze seaward, dreading to learn what toll the sea might claim.
The burly man with the beard, made burlier by his lifejacket, was Reverend Shegog, rector of Holmpatrick, a man who saw practical service to his community as an integral part of his vocation. My father, a child boarding with the nuns, looked askance at Reverend Shegog, because he was one of our separated brethren. In later years he admitted that the rector was indeed a mighty man, almost a giant in a child’s eyes. He would be pleased to see this image nowadays in bars and restaurants around the town. He would no doubt, raise a glass in honour of Reverend Shegog and indeed of the entire crew. Appropriate for a clergyman to become part of an icon.
I became aware of the Lifeboat House sometime in the late forties. There was no lifeboat in it. I think there was turf stored there. It was a place of refuge in sudden summer showers, perhaps during a band recital in the newly developed park on the site of the ruined Coastguard station. One day there was a man painting murals. He painted freehand, covering the interior with Disney characters, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, the Seven Dwarfs, Snow White, Hollywood glamour and sparkling colour all over the walls. I was entranced. Not since Michelangelo put a few coats of paint on the Sistine Chapel, had anyone so totally transformed a plain barn of a building. Then came an ice cream counter with all the delights that a child’s heart could wish for. There were slot machines that disgorged endless streams of money, but only big people were allowed to use them. Our parents did not approve of slot machines, despite the wealth that flowed from them. There was pinball, with real pins and real steelers, not the etiolated shadow of pinball that children play on electronic devices nowadays. Table football was played by young men with all the fervour and cheering associated with the real thing. Most wonderful of all was the jukebox, a marvel of automation and flowing chameleon lights. It was the most colour that I had ever seen. (You may remember the forties. It rained a lot.) It was a Wurlitzer. I thought that that meant it contained all the music in the Wurld. My spelling needed attention. For a mere twelve-sided thrippenny bit you could command Doris Day, Jo Stafford or George Clooney’s auntie to pour out her feelings in song, the desires and longings of a generation yet to be labelled ‘teenagers.’ There was a song about a doggie in the window and a robin walkin’ to Missouri, but the less said about them the better. Woof woof. Sorry about that.
The juke box, like all glamorous things, came from America. The music was practically all American, except for Ruby Murray and Bing Crosbie, who was Irish by popular acclaim.. They sang about other things besides mawkish love. I preferred the cowboy songs: Tex Ritter and High Noon, Slim Whitman whining about tumbleweeds and just about everything else; some other cowboy with a fear of being fenced in: let me wander over yonder, til I see the mountains rise. Guy Mitchell belted out a cautionary tale about a pawn shop on a corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a very foolish man indeed. There was a recitation about shifting, whispering sands, a dead miner and the crafty Navajo. It was different. Tennessee Ernie Ford sang manly songs about fightin’ and trouble and diggin’ coal. One fist is iron; the other one’s steel. If the right one don’t getcha, then the left one will. Walk softly around Tennessee Ernie. I wanted to grow up and be tough like that but I didn’t want to have to listen to Nat King Cole groaning about falling in love and broken hearts. That stage came much later, but by then it was the whimpering Everly Brothers and their ilk. On balance, I preferred the ice cream. Let the big people pay for the music.
At that time, the top twenty hits were calculated on the sales of sheet music, not records. Sheet music! Then the market discovered the buying power of teenagers. A succession of men with sufficient gravitas to ensure good behaviour, Charlie Grimes, Felix Murray and the ever cheerful Johnnie Murray, saw generation after generation of youngsters hang around the Pier Shop, as the building was renamed. It is important that young people have some place to hang around, some place to laugh, to strut on occasions, to talk and argue and learn a measure of tolerance, to gradually grow up. It is important also to be able to get in out of the rain and maybe offer a glass of orange juice to a girl you have feared to talk to, all summer long. Shaken, not stirred. The poet Yeats, was inspired to write his most famous poem, by a similar orange juice fountain, in a café on the Edgware Road. It was one of those glass containers with plastic oranges bobbing about. It made the sound of a trickling stream. I will arise and go now and go to Innisfree/ and a small cabin build there of clay and wattles made. I was surprised that so lofty a mortal as Yeats would frequent a café. I was not surprised that a local wag applied for planning permission to Sligo County Council, for a small cabin of clay and wattles made, on an island in Lough Gill. He was refused. Anyway, Lough Gill has the most voracious midges this side of The Amazon rain forest. nevertheless Yeats caught in his poem, the longings of the human heart, for home and love and peace and of course, beans and honey, just as the Pier Shop/ Lifeboat House for a time, held our dreams and longings.
Indomitable it stands against time and change. My children taught me how to play Western Gun and Pacman in there, the first, and my last, video games. Co-ordination of hand and eye and razor sharp reflexes. I lost. It is now a welcoming restaurant. We filled it recently with our children and grandchildren to celebrate our fiftieth wedding anniversary. They filled it with talk and laughter and agreeable noise. I know that Mickey Mouse and his friends are still there behind the wainscotting, a task for some future archaeologist to uncover and wonder at, as I did. I looked around at a building filled with love. It was better than Bill Haley. Better than Elvis, Lonnie Donegan, Hank Williams and Harry Belafonte. Better even than the great Fats Domino. Better than any juke box filled with endless music. Our parents would have approved. Even Reverend Shegog would have approved, to see the Lifeboat House so full of life..
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Home News Buzzing News Top HBCU Homecomings 2016
Cast your vote today! Poll ends November 30, 2016
At a historically black college and university (HBCU), few moments top the experiences gained during homecoming festivities. Not only is this celebratory period a time to gather in the name of school spirit, black pride, and fellowship.. it is a time for undergraduate and graduate students to fall deeper in love with their campus, a time for proud alumni to reunite, a time for prospective students to get a taste of life on campus, and it is a time where the entire African American community is encouraged to convene for a great day of fun. Homecoming events typically feature big name artists — though they do not have to have a celebrity to be a phenomenal experience. In addition to a concert, HBCU homecomings typically feature a fashion show, greek-letter organization step show, scholarship or alumni banquet, the football game, and of course — tons of parties.
From campus to campus, homecomings are revered but it is that time of year where we ask you… which HBCU has the best homecoming? Population has nothing to do with it. Neither do celebrities. It is about the experience in its entirety. The band. The students. The alumni. The football game. The HBCU pride in the air..
In past years, nearly 100,000 votes were collected where Alabama State University was named number one in 2015 and North Carolina A&T State University came out supreme in 2014‘s poll. Check out 2016 below.
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This video sums up this years Top HBCU Homecoming with 19% percent of the vote!
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nib marks one year of customer-focused chatbot
December 6, 2018 Latest News
The insurer has marked one year of its online platform designed to help its customers as the first point of resolution and by directing them to the right information.
nib said the chatbot has handled more than 21,500 member interactions, with a 70 per cent success rate, saving 535 hours of consultant handling time since its launch late last year.
The chatbot performs tasks like sorting calls, responding with information relevant to a customer's query, and where necessary connecting them quickly with a live chat consultant.
"With the help of digital technology, artificial intelligence, and cloud technology, we've enhanced our service capability, while still maintaining our high level of member service in a rapidly changing and complex environment," said nib chief information officer Brendan Mills.
"In just 12 months, nibby has also been expanded to support nib’s Group operations including our international students and workers' businesses with plans to roll out to our New Zealand operations soon. And as the chatbot continues to advance we will continue to see rapid development to further enhance our member service capability," added Mr Mills.
The chatbot is built on Amazon Lex. It is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning (ML) service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text.
Amazon Lex enables nibby to capture intentions and missed utterances. It continuously taps into this knowledge to further improve and better understand variations of member enquiries.
"nib has taken an agile approach, using AWS Machine Learning to solve the business challenge of improving their customers' experience. Only one year into their journey with ML, nib is already proving that the AWS Cloud can not only help them remediate technical debt, but is the ideal platform for genuine, customer-focused innovation," said AWS managing director Australia and New Zealand, Paul Migliorini.
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07.08.2019 / 2:00 PM
How marketplace health coverage keeps activist Saifa going
Sean “Saifa” Wall is an Atlanta-based intersex justice activist. He is currently enrolled in a health plan with Ambetter through the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplace (also called healthcare.gov).
As an activist, Saifa’s income is generated exclusively through contractual work, which means that his employers do not provide health benefits. He talks to people about issues that affect the intersex community. He also serves as a public health researcher that consults with racial justice and domestic violence organizations.
Saifa enrolled in coverage in 2016 with the help of a GHF health insurance navigator after being uninsured for over two years. (He was also able to purchase dental coverage.) Saifa pays a premium of $63 per month after a $500 tax credit helped to lower his costs. His coverage allows him access to hormone therapy and behavioral health services, among other essential health benefits. He loves his medical provider and receives high quality treatment as an intersex person who is hormone dependent.
Saifa was recently diagnosed with osteopenia, which means his bones aren’t as dense as they need to be to prevent breaks and other injuries. Saifa will need comprehensive medical care as he works to build bone mass; much or all of that care will be covered by the comprehensive insurance plan he purchased through the ACA.
Like Saifa, 450,000 Georgians rely on the ACA marketplace to access comprehensive, affordable health coverage. Many more Georgians are eligible for marketplace coverage but remain uninsured for a variety of reasons.
Georgia’s new law, called the Patients First Act or SB 106, may bring changes to private health insurance in the state but Georgia leaders have not yet spelled out what changes they plan to seek. An effective way to use their new flexibility would be to maintain the protections and financial help that Georgia consumers enjoy while building a “reinsurance program” to bring down premiums for everyone. (This approach has been successfully tried in seven other states.) If premiums fall or remain steady, this could attract more Georgians to the marketplace and get more people covered.
When Saifa was asked what he would tell legislators about having health coverage, he replied: “As an intersex activist, I believe health care is a human right.” While this belief isn’t yet reflected in Georgia’s state health laws, the ACA allows consumers like Saifa to take advantage of comprehensive, affordable coverage options and protections from discrimination in the health system, among many other advances.
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GHF welcomes Health Education & Advocacy intern
Georgians for a Healthy Future regularly hosts graduate students who work with GHF staff to support the organization’s current projects and issue advocacy campaigns. The students learn about critical consumer health issues and develop skills that they can use to become effective health advocates throughout their careers.
Tyla Adams joins Georgians for a Healthy Future this summer as the Health Education & Advocacy Intern. In this role, she is responsible for supporting the Georgia Voices for Medicaid project by assessing the learning needs of community members, health advocates, people living with disabilities and those existing at the intersections of these identities, updating the curriculum accordingly, and creating any needed learning aids. She will also assist with community outreach efforts that aim to help consumers access health services, inform them on the current state of Medicaid expansion and any other relevant health policy issues.
While attending East Carolina University, Tyla studied abroad in New Zealand and Australia where she realized her passion for health education and access to quality health care. She graduated with her bachelor’s degree in public health studies and a minor in human development and family science. She is currently in her second year studying behavioral sciences and health education in the Master of Public Health program at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
After graduation, Tyla hopes to work to decrease generational disparities due to controllable risk factors (like nutrition and access to quality health care) and to foster health equity in black communities. Her public health interests include maternal and child health, adolescent health, the social determinants of health and minority women’s health.
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Competitive award from Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta allows GHF to thrive
In late 2018, Georgians for a Healthy Future was awarded a General Operating Support grant from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. The Foundation works to connect the passions of philanthropists with the purposes of nonprofits. Awards were given through a highly competitive process and we are excited about this partnership as we continue to work to ensure quality, affordable health care for all Georgians.
GHF was one of twenty-nine nonprofits to have received this highly competitive General Operating support grant from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. Seven nonprofits, including GHF, were awarded grants to support well-being and “ensure a healthy region where all residents have access to quality health care and nutritious food.”
With the support of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, GHF continues to offer Georgians the tools and information they need to become effective health advocates for themselves and their communities, inject the consumer perspective into health care stories in the media, and convene partner groups in coalition to strengthen our collective ability to advocate for the needs of Georgians across the state. We are ecstatic to have been among the select organizations who share our vision and drive to improve the lives of the people of Georgia. We look forward to continuing our work as the voice for Georgia health care consumers with the support of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta.
Read the Foundation’s December 2018 press release.
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Sine Die
The 2019 Georgia legislative session is over but we are not finished!
Yesterday was Sine Die at the Georgia General Assembly – the last day of the 2019 legislative session. This year’s session saw the approval of several bills that will surely impact consumers’ health and finances in positive ways if approved by the Governor. Efforts to address step therapy so patients have access to needed therapies and housing so that families can be assured of safe, healthy places to live have been multi-year efforts by consumer and family advocates. These bills now move to the Governor’s desk for his consideration and signature.
The impact of other bills is less certain. SB 106 may bring sweeping changes to Georgia’s health care landscape but the details have yet to be laid out. The passage of legislation is only the first step in a health reform process in which your voice and advocacy will be needed. (Learn more about the next steps and what to expect in our latest blog post and in the section below.)
Check out our summary of the more notable health bills of the 2019 session below and a full list of health care-related legislation at GHF’s legislative tracker.
Governor Kemp signs Patients First Act into law but its impacts on Georgians still uncertain
SB 106, the Patients First Act, moved quickly through the Georgia General Assembly this session and was signed into law by Governor Kemp last week. As we have reported, the bill allows the state to pursue an 1115 waiver to make changes to Georgia’s Medicaid program that may include expanding coverage to more poor adults and a 1332 state innovation waiver to make changes to private insurance in the state.
Now that the bill is signed, what’s next? You are critical to ensuring that the waivers created from SB 106 lead Georgia to the healthy future that we all want. Your advocacy, stories, and input are necessary. Read our new blog so you know what to expect and how you can help ensure all Georgians have meaningful, affordable health coverage.
Step therapy legislation approved
HB 63, sponsored by Rep. Sharon Cooper, will require health insurance plans to establish step therapy protocols and outline a process for health care providers to request exceptions. Step therapy is a requirement by some insurers that patients try a series of lower-cost treatments before the insurer will cover the higher-cost treatment prescribed by a patient’s physician. The bill received final approval by the House on Tuesday
Call Governor Kemp at 404-656-1776 and ask that he sign HB 63.
Surprise billing legislation fails to cross the finish line
Surprise billing legislation faced familiar roadblocks this year when provider groups and insurers could not come to agreement about payments for out-of-network care. There were late efforts to revive some or all of HB 84 and SB 56 but neither succeeded. (Both bills are covered in detail in our Februrary 11th legislative update.) We are grateful to Chairman Richard Smith and Chairman Hufstetler for their work on this important issue and hope to find a resolution for consumers in the next legislative session.
Healthy housing legislation passes
GHF, as part of the Healthy Housing Georgia coalition, supported HB 346. This bill will prohibit retaliation by a landlord against a tenant for complaining to Code Enforcement about unsafe or unhealthy housing conditions like the presence of mold, radon, rodents, insect infestations, or lead. If the Governor signs the bill into law, Georgia will join the ranks of forty-one other states that have already implemented similar legislation to protect tenants against retaliatory evictions. (For more details on the legislation, see our March 5th legislative update.)
Call Governor Kemp at 404-656-1776 and ask that he sign HB 346.
Sine Die Recap
HB 30: Amended FY 2019 Budget | SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
HB 30 makes adjustments to the state budget for the current fiscal year which runs through June 30, 2019. The “little budget” has passed both chambers of the General Assembly and been signed by the Governor. The amended budget went into effect on Tuesday, March 12th.
HB 31: FY 2020 Budget | PASSED
HB 31 is the budget document for the coming state fiscal year which will run from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020. The budget includes several new investments in behavioral health and mostly maintains funding for other health care programs and priorities. For more information on the health care highlights in the proposed FY 2020 budget, read the Community Health and Behavioral Health budget overviews from the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute.
HB 37: Expand Medicaid Now Act | DID NOT PASS
HB 37, sponsored by Rep. Bob Trammell, expands Medicaid in Georgia as envisioned by the Affordable Care Act by increasing Medicaid eligibility for adults up to 138% of the federal poverty guidelines (FPL). This is equivalent to $17,236 annually for an individual and $29,435 for a family of three.
HB 158: Improve Medicaid patient access to effective HIV treatment | DID NOT PASS*
HB 158, sponsored by Rep. Deborah Silcox, requires that Medicaid recipients have the same access to antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV and AIDS as to those included in the formulary established for the Georgia AIDS Drug Assistance Program. This change would allow for increased continuity of care for people living with HIV/AIDS in Georgia. *Although HB 158 did not get a Senate vote, it received favorable comments in the Senate Health Committee, after passing the House unanimously. In recognition of the broad support of this effort, Georgia’s Medicaid agency has committed to the bill sponsor to implement the intent of the legislation.
HB 217: Needle exchange | PASSED
HB 217, sponsored by Rep. Houston Gaines, decriminalizes the act of working or volunteering for a syringe services program, a step towards legalizing the programs. Distributing clean hypodermic syringes and needles to people who use injection drugs (e.g. heroin) helps to prevent the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C, and does not increase the likelihood that people will newly take up injections drug use.
HB 290: PrEP pilot program | PASSED
HB 290, sponsored by Rep. Sharon Cooper, would establish a pilot program to provide preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drug assistance or services to persons at risk of being infected with HIV. PrEP is a medication taken by people who are HIV-negative to reduce their risk for infection. The pilot program would provide PrEP to people in counties identified by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention as at risk of HIV outbreaks due to a high rate of opioid use and participants would receive regular HIV testing and related support services.
HB 83: Recess legislation | PASSED
HB 83, sponsored by Representative Demetrius Douglas, would require a daily 30-minute recess for all students in grades K-5 unless they have already had a physical education class or structured activity time in the day. This bill now sits in the Senate Rules committee and awaits a vote on the Senate floor. To learn more about the impact of recess on children’s physical and mental health, read this fact sheet from Voices for Georgia’s Children.
HB 321: Medicaid financing program | PASSED
HB 321, sponsored by Rep. Jodi Lott, would extend the sunset provision of the hospital provider fee for five years. The hospital payment program, which draws down additional federal funding, provides almost $1 billion annually to the state’s Medicaid budget. More information about HB 321 is available here.
HB 514: Georgia Mental Health Reform and Innovation Commission | PASSED
HB 514, sponsored by Rep. Kevin Tanner, would create the Georgia Mental Health Reform and Innovation Commission which would work to analyze and offer improvements to the state’s mental health system and run through at least June 30, 2020. Within the Commission, several subcommittees would be established to include Children and Adolescent Mental Health; Involuntary Commitment; Hospital and Short-Term Care Facilities; Mental Health Courts and Corrections; and Workforce and System Development.
SB 16: Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Act | PASSED
SB 16, sponsored by Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick, would allow Georgia to enter the “Interstate Medical Licensure Compact” which allows health care providers to more easily obtain licenses to practice in multiple states. It also provides Georgia’s Medical Board with easier access to investigative and disciplinary information about providers from other states, an important protective measure for Georgia patients.
HB 233: Pharmacy Anti-Steering and Transparency Act | PASSED
HB 233, sponsored by Rep. David Knight, would prohibit pharmacies from sharing patient data for commercial purposes and prohibit pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from steering patients to PBM-owned pharmacies. It also requires such pharmacies to file an annual disclosure statement of its affiliates. Pharmacy benefit managers are companies that manage the prescription drug benefit of your health plan.
SB 195: Prescription Drug Benefits Freedom of Information and Consumer Protection Act | DID NOT PASS
SB 195, sponsored by Senator Chuck Hufstetler, this bill would make it easier for consumers to know what prescription medications are covered by their health insurance plan and better understand the likely costs by requiring health insurers to conspicuously post on their website information about their drug formulary in a current and searchable format. A drug formulary is the list of prescription medicines that your health insurer agrees to pay for or partially pay for. SB 195 would also standardize and speed up the process for consumers and providers to request prior authorization for necessary prescription drugs.
HB 186: Certificate of Need Reform | PASSED
HB 186, sponsored by Rep. Ron Stephens, will create a new category for general cancer hospitals as part of an agreement with Cancer Treatment Centers of America that would allow more Georgia patients to be seen. This bill will also limit who can object to a provider’s Certificate of Need application for expanding hospital services. The change would limit objections to only come from health care facilities that provide similar services and are located within a thirty-five mile radius.
HB 197: Establishment of Strategic Integrated Data System | PASSED
HB 197, sponsored by Rep. Katie Dempsey, will establish the Strategic Integrated Data System through the Office of Planning and Budget. The data system would capture de-identified information about the physical and mental health and social services beign provided to Georgians across the state. The goal of the system is to provide a central source of date about state services that can be used by state agencies, lawmakers, and researchers to make programs more effective and cost-efficient.
HB 323: Regulation and licensure of pharmacy benefits managers | PASSED
HB 323, sponsored by Rep. David Knight, will provide a good first step in drug transparency from pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs.) PBMs will have to report how much they receive in rebates from pharmaceutical manufacturers to the Department of Insurance and how much of those savings are being passed on to customers, although the information are not required to be reported to the legislature or the public.
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04.03.2019 / 12:01 PM
Governor signs Patients First Act: What’s next?
Last week Georgia’s Governor signed SB 106, legislation that allows the state to pursue an 1115 waiver to make changes to Georgia’s Medicaid program that could include expanding coverage up to more poor adults and a 1332 state innovation waiver to make changes to private insurance in the state. (We have covered the bill extensively in our weekly legislative emails and blog, and at CoverGA.org.) The Governor’s signature is only the beginning of a process that could bring sizable changes to Georgia’s health care landscape.
Now that the bill has been signed, what are the next steps?
The waivers that will result from SB 106 are only the vehicles to a possible future where all Georgians have access to affordable, quality health care, but they don’t provide a road map or the gas to get us there.
Your advocacy and input are necessary to provide the power and directions to that future.
For every 1115 and 1332 waiver that the state wants to pursue, Georgia’s policymakers must seek input from the public. There are required state and federal public comment periods for each waiver proposal and those are your opportunities to directly weigh in! Because waivers allow states to “waive” some consumer protections and provisions of federal law, it is essential that you speak up to let Georgia know how its ideas may impact you and your family.
Georgia’s timeline for crafting its waivers is still unclear (and likely still developing) but there is a specific process the state must follow. Here is what to expect from the 1115 waiver process and how you can help to shape what it looks like along the way.
Georgia’s 1115 waiver process. Note: the 1332 waiver process runs through the Department of Insurance, rather than Community Health
While GHF will engage with Georgia’s decision makers to advocate for consumer-centered, evidence-based waiver proposals, there is a limit to what we can do without you. It is your stories, advocacy, and comments that will guide Georgia to the healthy future we all want.
In the above graphic there are ways that you can help us at every turn. In the time periods represented by white circles, you can share your health care and coverage stories with us and our Cover Georgia partners. We want to hear from you if you are uninsured and in the coverage gap, if you have an individual or family health plan through the ACA Marketplace, if you are covered by Medicaid, and any other story you think will help us understand how to best represent your interests.
The public comment periods (yellow circles) are your time to take direct action. You can directly impact Georgia’s health care reform proposals by telling the state how their ideas may impact you and your family. (Don’t worry! We’ll make it easy for you to understand the proposed waivers and will provide clear instructions so that submitting comments is easy!)
In states like Kentucky and Arkansas, thousands of comments from people just like you have fended off onerous waiver ideas that would have kept people from enrolling or staying covered. In Tennessee and Alabama, almost 14,000 individuals across both states said that their states’ proposed ideas would damage their ability to live physically, mentally, and financially healthy lives. You can do the same.
Expect at least four public comment periods (two for an 1115 waiver and two for a 1332 waiver) and plan to submit comments every time. As we head into the next phase of our work to ensure all Georgians have access to meaningful, affordable health insurance, we are counting on you!
Stay tuned and stay active!
Share your health insurance story with us now. Your experience will inform our advocacy ahead of the public comment periods.
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Read up on health care waivers with these resources:
1115 fact sheet
Bill analysis: SB 106 aims to improve access to health care but falls short
Senate Bill 106: Medicaid Waivers Could Reshape Georgia’s Health Care System & State Budget
Legislative Update: Patients First Act, healthy housing, HIV treatment and prevention bills move forward
Legislative Update: Week 10
Risky health care waiver bill passed by House committee
Last Wednesday, the House Special Committee on Access to Quality Health Care held a hearing on SB 106, the Patients First Act. GHF’s Executive Director, Laura Colbert and several Cover Georgia coalition members testified and emphasized the need for changes in the bill. Read Laura’s full testimony here.
As we have previously reported, the legislation allows for an 1115 waiver to extend Medicaid coverage to some adults making up to 100% of the federal poverty level ($12,100 annually for an individual). GHF and its partners requested that the income cap be lifted to 138% FPL so that it would cover more Georgians at a lower cost to the state. As currently written, the bill would leave out thousands of Georgians who earn just above the poverty line and who would be covered under a traditional Medicaid expansion or a broader 1115 waiver. SB 106 also allows the state to make potentially dramatic changes to private health insurance in Georgia through 1332 waivers with little accountability. The bill now sits in the House Rules committee and is expected to receive a vote on the House floor sometime next week.
There is still time for the House to make changes to SB 106 so that it covers more people and costs less. Read more about SB 106 CoverGA.org and then contact your state representative to let them know that we need to amend this bill to cover every eligible Georgian!
Behavioral health commission passes in both chambers
Georgia Mental Health Reform and Innovation Commission passed by Senate
The Senate passed an amended version of HB 514 on Thursday. This bill, sponsored by Rep. Kevin Tanner, would create the Georgia Mental Health Reform and Innovation Commission which would work to analyze and offer improvements to the state’s mental health system. Changes to the bill in the Senate included additions to the make-up of the Commission so that it includes a professional who specializes in substance abuse and addiction, and a representative of a community service board to serve as a nonvoting member of the 23-member panel. The bill will now return to the House to receive an “Agree” on the changes made in the Senate and will then go to the Governor’s desk to be signed.
HIV prevention & treatment bills move forward in the Senate
Two HIV-related bills move forward in Senate committee
Two significant pieces of HIV-related legislation passed the Senate Health and Human Services committee last week. HB 217, which would decriminalize the act of working or volunteering for a syringe services program and HB 290, which would would establish a pilot program to provide preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drug assistance or services to persons at risk of being infected with HIV will now go to the Senate Rules Committee to await a vote by the full Senate. A third bill, HB 158 would improve Medicaid coverage but has not yet been taken up by the Senate HHS committee. Georgia currently leads the U.S. in the rate of new HIV cases diagnosed each year and all three bills would contribute to the slowing of the epidemic by preventing new infections and improving care for people currently living with the condition. (For more details on all three pieces of legislation, see our February 26th legislative update).
What happened last week
Recess legislation passes in Senate committee
The Senate Education and Youth committee voted to pass HB 83 last Thursday. This bill would require a daily 30-minute recess for all students in grades K-5 unless they have already had a physical education class or structured activity time in the day. This bill now sits in the Senate Rules committee and awaits a vote on the Senate floor. To learn more about the impact of recess on children’s physical and mental health, read this fact sheet from Voices for Georgia’s Children.
Healthy housing legislation makes progress in Senate
Georgians for a Healthy Future is a member of the Healthy Housing Georgia coalition because evidence shows the strong and direct influence housing has on a person’s health. The coalition supports HB 346 which passed with amendments by the Senate Judiciary committee last week. This bill would prohibit retaliation by a landlord against a tenant for complaining to Code Enforcement about unsafe or unhealthy housing conditions like the presence of mold, radon, rodents, insect infestations, or lead. Georgia is the only state in the country that does not protect tenants against unsafe and uninhabitable housing conditions with a “warranty of habitability.” The Senate Rules committee will now decide when the legislation may receive a vote on the Senate floor. (For more details on the legislation, see our March 5th legislative update.)
GHF will be monitoring legislative activity on a number of critical consumer health care topics. Along with our weekly legislative updates and timely analysis of bills, we have the tools you need to stay in touch with health policy under the Gold Dome.
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GHF testifies on Patients First Act (SB 106)
GHF’s Executive Director Laura Colbert provided testimony to the House Special Committee on Access to Quality Health Care on SB 106 and the risks this legislation poses for consumers as it is currently written.
Testimony of Laura Colbert, GHF’s Executive Director
“Thank you Chairman Smith and members of the committee. My name is Laura Colbert and I am the ED of GHF. We represent health care consumers across Georgia and work to build a future in which all Georgians have the quality, affordable health coverage and care they need to live healthy lives and contribute to the health of their communities.
First, we want to thank Governor Kemp, Senator Tillery and Representative Lott for your work on this bill. We are excited that this very important conversation is moving forward. We appreciate your open door and on-going dialogue with us on this issue.
Like my colleagues before me, GHF agrees with the goals of this bill and we are pleased by the prospect of meaningful coverage for 240,000 Georgians who live below the poverty line. We are to balance that with our consternation that 200,000 uninsured Georgians who make just more than the poverty line may remain uncovered by this bill as it’s written.
Georgians with insurance coverage are healthier, better able to work and go to school, have less medical debt and better credit scores, and have healthier families, among other benefits. While Georgians below the poverty line are sure to reap these benefits after gaining coverage, those just above it likely will not if SB 106 is not amended to specifically include them.
Based on other states’ coverage expansions and the affordability information provided to you by Ms. Haynes at Georgia Watch, it is clear that many near-poor constituents are likely to face significant cost-related barriers to health care, even with the ACA’s financial assistance. While Georgians in this income range can afford more than those below the poverty line, it is unrealistic to expect them to pay as much as 20% of a person’s $14,000 yearly wage or a family of four’s $30,000 salary for health care. An investment that large for families barely making ends meet effectively keeps them locked out of the health care system, only experiencing the benefits of coverage in emergency situations. The financial protection and access to care provided by Medicaid can better serve as the stepping stones for these families to climb into Georgia’s middle class.
Georgia is at the table now, and we have the opportunity to get this right for all Georgians on the first try.
That is why we recommend that this committee amend the bill to expand eligibility to 133% FPL and cover more Georgians for fewer state dollars. Georgia is at the table now, and we have the opportunity to get this right for all Georgians on the first try. Or consider removing the percentage provision altogether so that the bill is silent on the exact income limit, providing flexibility to the state to negotiate the waiver specifics that work best for Georgians and Georgia’s budget, particularly in the likely event that CMS is unable to provide an enhanced match rate for a partial expansion.
I also want to briefly turn to the second part of the bill concerning Section 1332 State Innovation waivers. A 1332 waiver to establish a reinsurance program would help thousands of Georgians by reducing insurance premiums and attracting more insurers to the marketplace. GHF stands in support of such efforts. However, the legislation as currently written is so broad that it leaves the door open to many more changes, some of which could destabilize Georgia’s marketplace and jeopardize access to care for Georgians covered by individual or small-group health insurance.
We recommend that this committee consider narrowing the scope of an allowable 1332 waiver by specifying that the state is authorized to establish a reinsurance program or, if other proposals may be considered, lay out criteria that any innovation waiver must meet. Georgians for a Healthy Future has laid out four criteria that we believe are critical to ensuring that any 1332 waiver benefits consumers without putting vulnerable groups at risk.
We appreciate your consideration of our suggestions and hope that we can act as a resource for the state as it drafts these waivers. Thank you very much for your time and your efforts on behalf of all of the health care consumers in your districts.”
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Legislative Update: Behavioral health, recess, and prescription drugs
Legislative Update: Week 9
Flawed legislation is likely to receive hearing this week
The Georgia House Special Committee on Access to Quality Health Care has scheduled a hearing on SB 106, for this Wednesday, March 20th at 2:00pm. As we have previously reported, the legislation allows for an 1115 waiver to extend Medicaid coverage to some adults making up to 100% of the federal poverty level ($12,100 annually for an individual). This “partial expansion” would leave out thousands of Georgians who earn just above the poverty line and would be covered under alternate plans, including traditional Medicaid expansion or a broader 1115 waiver. Additionally, the bill allows Governor Kemp to make potentially seismic changes to private health insurance in Georgia through 1332 waivers with little accountability.
We need your help to tell the committee that this legislation remains flawed and risky and could leave thousands of Georgians without health care coverage for years to come.
Ask your representatives to fix this flawed bill by increasing Medicaid eligibility up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. Read more about SB 106 CoverGa.org and then contact your state representative to let them know that we need to amend this bill to cover every eligible Georgian!
Attend the hearing!
Want to attend the hearing in person? Here’s the information you need:
House Special Committee on Access to Quality Health Care
Georgia State Capitol
Wednesday March 20, 2019
2:00 pm in room 341 CAP
You can also stream the hearing online here. If attending in person, make sure to bring photo ID for security. And make sure to contact your state representative today!
Prescription drug transparency bill at risk
Accuracy and transparency for prescription drug benefits
SB 195, the Prescription Drug Benefits Freedom of Information and Consumer Protection Act, sponsored by Senator Chuck Hufstetler made it through Crossover Day and was referred to the House Insurance committee. This bill would make it easier for consumers to know what prescription medications are covered by their health insurance plan and better understand the likely costs by requiring health insurers to conspicuously post on their website information about their drug formulary in a current and searchable format. A drug formulary is the list of prescription medicines that your health insurer agrees to pay for or partially pay for. SB 195 would also standardize and speed up the process for consumers and providers to request prior authorization for necessary prescription drugs. The House Insurance Committee held a hearing on SB 195 last week but the bill has not yet received a vote.
Call Insurance Committee Chairman Richard Smith at (404)-656-6831 and ask him to bring SB 195 up for a vote.
Physical activity important for children’s mental health
Recess legislation scheduled to be heard in Senate committee this week
HB 83, sponsored by Representative Demetrius Douglas, was passed by the House on Crossover Day and was referred to the Senate Education and Youth committee. This bill would require a daily 30-minute recess for all students in grades K-5 unless they have already had a physical education class or structured activity time in the day. This bill is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Education and Youth committee on March 18th. To learn more about the impact of recess on children’s physical and mental health, read this fact sheet from Voices for Georgia’s Children.
Georgia Mental Health Reform and Innovation Commission passed by Senate committee
Last Wednesday the Senate Health and Human Services committee voted to pass HB 514. This bill, sponsored by Rep. Kevin Tanner, would create the Georgia Mental Health Reform and Innovation Commission through at least June 30, 2023. The Commission would work to analyze and offer improvements to the state’s mental health system. The Commission would be made up of a 23 member paneland several subcommittees would be established to include: Children and Adolescent Mental Health; Involuntary Commitment; Hospital and Short-Term Care Facilities; Mental Health Courts and Corrections; and Workforce and System Development. The bill now sits in the Senate Rules Committee, awaiting a vote on the Senate floor.
Surprise billing legislation stalls
After being passed by the Senate, SB 56 was referred to the House Insurance Committee. The bill which aims to improve transparency and disallow surprise billing in emergency situations was heard during a subcommittee meeting last week but no vote was taken. According to the subcommittee chair, it is unlikely to receive a vote before the end of legislative session. (For more details on the legislation, see our February 11th legislative update.)
Georgia Senate continues work on state budget
After finishing work on the “little budget”, the Senate held hearings last week on Georgia’s FY2020 budget. HB 31 is the budget document for the coming state fiscal year which will run from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020. It includes several new investments in behavioral health and mostly maintains funding for other health care programs and priorities. Requests from state agency leaders to the Senate included:
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD)
$500,000 to add 550 supported housing beds in Fulton County
Department of Community Health (DCH)
$500,000 for FQHC start-up grants in Screven and Chatham counties
$1.9 million for 139 new primary care residency slots.
$500,000 for Center of Excellence on Maternal Mortality at Morehouse School of Medicine
Department of Public Health (DPH)
$2.4 million to include four new disorders to newborn screenings
$1 million for maternal mental health screening and referral in rural and undeserved areas
$500,000 for feminine hygiene products in schools and health departments
For more information on the health care highlights in the proposed FY 2020 budget, read the Community Health and Behavioral Health budget overviews from the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute.
Legislative Update: Crossover edition
Crossover Day brings legislative action late into the night
Last Thursday was the 28th day of the Georgia legislative session, which is also referred to as Crossover Day. Crossover Day is the final day for a bill to cross from its chamber of origin to the opposite chamber to remain viable for this legislative session. This week’s legislative update provides a rundown of consumer health legislation: which bills made it through and which did not. You can see a list of all the bills we’re tracking here. (Note: After a flurry of activity last week, we are still working to update our legislative tracker with the current status of each bill. So while many of the bills are updated, it is best to find the bill you are interested in and click through to find the full information on the bill’s statis on legis.ga.gov.
Surprise billing legislation moves forward
SB 56, sponsored by Senator Chuck Hufstetler, received approval by the full Senate on Wednesday and may be considered by the House Insurance Committee in the coming weeks. The legislation aims to improve transparency for consumers who may be subject to a surprise out-of-network bill. This bill would disallow surprise billing in emergency situations but does not prohibit surprise billing in non-emergency situations like when a physician uses an out-of-network laboratory for diagnostic tests. This bill now sits in the House Insurance committee. (For more details on the legislation, see our February 11th legislative update.)
Legislation to fully expand coverage stalls; Patients First Act advances
HB 37, the Expand Medicaid Now Act, and SB 36 sponsored by Representative Bob Trammell and Senator Steve Henson respectively, did not receive hearings and did not cross over last week. Each bill was written to expand Medicaid in Georgia as envisioned by the Affordable Care Act.
Meanwhile SB 106, the Patients First Act, has moved quickly through the Senate in the weeks before Crossover Day. The legislation, as written, would allow the Department of Community Health to request an 1115 waiver to extend Medicaid coverage to adults making up to 100% of the federal poverty level (FPL) ($12,490 annually for an individual). This “partial expansion” would leave out thousands of new-poor Georgians who are meant to be similarly covered according to federal health law and will likely cost the state more to cover fewer people. Additionally, the bill allows the Governor to make potentially tremendous changes to private health insurance in Georgia through 1332 waivers with little accountability. The bill will now awaits a hearing from the House’s Special Committee on Access to Quality Healthcare.
Healthy housing legislation moves to Senate committee
Georgians for a Healthy Future is a member of the Healthy Housing Georgia coalition because evidence shows the strong and firect influence housing has on a person’s health. The coalition supports HB 346, which would prohibit retaliation by a landlord against a tenant for complaining to Code Enforcement about unsafe or unhealthy housing conditions like the presence of mold, radon, rodents, insect infestations, or lead. Georgia is the only state in the country that does not protect tenants against unsafe and uninhabitable housing conditions with a “warranty of habitability.” This bill now sits in the Senate Judiciary committee. (For more details on the legislation, see our March 5th legislative update.)
Crossover day recap
HB 30: Amended FY 2019 Budget | CROSSED OVER
HB 30 makes adjustments to the state budget for the current fiscal year which runs through June 30, 2019. The “little budget” has passed both chambers of the General Assembly and been signed by the Governor. The amended budget went into effect on Saturday, March 9th.
HB 31: FY 2020 Budget | CROSSED OVER
HB 31 is the budget document for the coming state fiscal year which will run from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020. The budget includes several new investments in behavioral health and mostly maintains funding for other health care programs and priorities. The Senate will continue to hold hearings on the “big budget” this week. For more information on the health care highlights in the proposed FY 2020 budget, read the Community Health and Behavioral Health budget overviews from the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute.
HB 37: Expand Medicaid Now Act | DID NOT CROSS OVER
HB 63: Step therapy legislation: CROSSED OVER
HB 63, sponsored by Rep. Sharon Cooper, would require health insurance plans to establish step therapy protocols and outline a process for health care providers to request exceptions. Step therapy is a requirement by some insurers that patients try a series of lower-cost treatments before the insurer will cover the higher-cost treatment prescribed by a patient’s physician.
HB 84: Provider network transparency | DID NOT CROSS OVER
HB 84, sponsored by Rep. Richard Smith, increases transparency related to possible surprise medical bills. The legislation requires that information on billing and the providers that a consumer may encounter during a course of care must be provided to the consumer at their request. In circumstances where a consumer receives a surprise bill, HB 84 also allows for arbitration between the consumer and the health care provider, the specifics of which would be determined by Georgia’s Department of Insurance.
HB 158: Improve Medicaid patient access to effective HIV treatment | CROSSED OVER
HB 158, sponsored by Rep. Deborah Silcox, requires that Medicaid recipients have the same access to antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV and AIDS as to those included in the formulary established for the Georgia AIDS Drug Assistance Program. This change would allow for increased continuity of care for people living with HIV/AIDS in Georgia.
HB 198: Eliminate certificate of need requirements | DID NOT CROSS OVER
HB 198, sponsored by Rep. Matt Hatchett, would change the certificate of need process that is used to regulate health care facilities. The bill also included requirements for increasing transparency of hospital financial information and an increase in the rural hospital tax credit from $60 million to $100 million.
HB 217: Needle exchange program | CROSSED OVER
HB 290: PrEP pilot program | CROSSED OVER
HB 321: Medicaid financing program | CROSSED OVER
HB 514: Georgia Mental Health Reform and Innovation Commission | CROSSED OVER
HB 514, sponsored by Rep. Kevin Tanner, would create the Georgia Mental Health Reform and Innovation Commission through at least June 30, 2020. Within the Commission, several subcommittees would be established to include Children and Adolescent Mental Health; Involuntary Commitment; Hospital and Short-Term Care Facilities; Mental Health Courts and Corrections; and Workforce and System Development.
SB 16: Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Act | CROSSED OVER
SB 16, sponsored by Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick, would allow Georgia to enter the “Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Act” which allows health care providers to more easily obtain licenses to practice in multiple states. It also provides Georgia’s Medical Board with easier access to investigative and disciplinary information about providers from other states, an important protective measure for Georgia patients.
SB 74: Eliminate certificate of need requirements | DID NOT CROSS OVER
SB 74, sponsored by Senator Matt Brass, would eliminate certificate of need requirements for all health care facilities except certain long-term care facilities and services. This bill is the Senate companion piece to HB 198. Both bills aim to change the current certificate of need structure which regulates hospitals in Georgia.
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Legislative Update: SB 106 moves to House, Housing is health
Patients First Act moves to the House
After a long debate on Tuesday, the Senate passed SB 106 with no changes. Titled the Patients First Act, the legislation permits Georgia’s Governor to pursue two health care waivers that could make significant changes to health coverage for Georgia consumers. The bill will now be sent to the House’s Special Committee on Access to Quality Healthcare for its consideration. A hearing on the bill is expected shortly after this Thursday’s Crossover Day (the last day a bill can move from one chamber to the other).
The legislation, as written, would leave behind thousands of uninsured, near-poor Georgians and will likely cost the state more to cover fewer people. Additionally, the bill opens the door to potentially immense and detrimental changes to private health insurance in Georgia. A new analysis of the bill is available on our blog, along with other tools and resources to help you understand the potential impact of this legislation.
Housing is health
Healthy housing legislation passed by House subcommittee
On Friday, the House Judiciary Committee passed HB 346, legislation that would prohibit retaliation by a landlord against a tenant for complaining to Code Enforcement about unsafe or unhealthy housing conditions like the presence of mold, radon, rodents, insect infestations, or lead. Housing is a dynamic social determinant of health that can support or undermine the health of children, seniors, and families. Georgia is the only state in the country that does not protect tenants against unsafe and uninhabitable housing conditions with a “warranty of habitability.”
Late into the night on Tuesday, a subcommittee heard powerful testimony from advocates and supporters, including that of long-time GHF Board member Dr. Harry Heiman. The subcommittee approved the bill on Thursday and the full House Judiciary Committee passed it the following day. HB 346 will now go to the House Rules committee to await a vote on the House floor ahead of Thursday’s Crossover Day.
House completes work on budget bills
House passes FY2020 budget
Last week, the House passed HB 31, the FY 2020 budget (also called the “big budget”). The record $27.5 billion budget includes an additional $27.4 million for the PeachCare for Kids program to offset a change in how the federal and state governments share costs for the program. It also contains an increase of $78.7 million for the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD). The additional funds will, in part, fund an increase of $10.2 million for behavioral health crisis beds, $2.5 million for supported housing, and 125 new slots for NOW and COMP waivers (a type of Medicaid) to reduce the current waiting list.
House passes HIV prevention & treatment bills
Three HIV-related bills move to the Senate
A package of HIV-related legislation passed the House last week. Georgia currently leads the U.S. in the rate of new HIV cases diagnosed each year and each of the three bills (HB 158, HB 217, HB 290) attempts to slow the epidemic by preventing new infections and improving care for people currently living with the condition. HB 158 has already received a hearing in the Senate Health & Human Services Committee, where HB 217 will also be heard. HB 290 has not yet been referred to a Senate committee. (For more details on all three pieces of legislation, see our February 26th legislative update).
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A propensity matched analysis of robotic, minimally invasive, and conventional mitral valve surgery
Robert B Hawkins1,
J Hunter Mehaffey1,
Matthew G Mullen1,
Wiley L Nifong2,
W Randolph Chitwood1,
Marc R Katz3,
Mohammed A Quader4,
Andy C Kiser2,
Alan M Speir5,
Gorav Ailawadi1
on behalf of the Investigators for the Virginia Cardiac Services Quality Initiative
1 Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
2 Division of Cardiac Surgery, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
3 Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
4 Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
5 INOVA Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, Virginia, USA
Correspondence to Dr Robert B Hawkins, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA; rbh6x{at}virginia.edu
Objectives Institutional studies suggest robotic mitral surgery may be associated with superior outcomes. The objective of this study was to compare the outcomes of robotic, minimally invasive (mini), and conventional mitral surgery.
Methods A total of 2300 patients undergoing non-emergent isolated mitral valve operations from 2011 to 2016 were extracted from a regional Society of Thoracic Surgeons database. Patients were stratified by approach: robotic (n=372), mini (n=576) and conventional sternotomy (n=1352). To account for preoperative differences, robotic cases were propensity score matched (1:1) to both conventional and mini approaches.
Results The robotic cases were well matched to the conventional (n=314) and mini (n=295) cases with no significant baseline differences. Rates of mitral repair were high in the robotic and mini cohorts (91%), but significantly lower with conventional (76%, P<0.0001) despite similar rates of degenerative disease. All procedural times were longest in the robotic cohort, including operative time (224 vs 168 min conventional, 222 vs 180 min mini; all P<0.0001). The robotic approach had comparable outcomes to the conventional approach except there were fewer discharges to a facility (7% vs 15%, P=0.001) and 1 less day in the hospital (P<0.0001). However, compared with the mini approach, the robotic approach had more transfusions (15% vs 5%, P<0.0001), higher atrial fibrillation rates (26% vs 18%, P=0.01), and 1 day longer average hospital stay (P=0.02).
Conclusion Despite longer procedural times, robotic and mini patients had similar complication rates with higher repair rates and shorter length of stay metrics compared with conventional surgery. However, the robotic approach was associated with higher atrial fibrillation rates, more transfusions and longer postoperative stays compared with minimally invasive approach.
valve disease surgery
mitral regurgitation
Contributors All authors have provided substantial contributions to this project including conception, design, data acquisition, analysis or interpretation. Additionally all authors have either drafted parts of the manuscript or provided critical revisions and provided final approval for publication.
Funding This work was supported in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (T32HL007849).
Disclaimer The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
Competing interests GA is a consultant for Abbott, Edwards, Medtronic, and Cephea. AS is a consultant on the Medtronic Cardiac Surgery Advisory Board.
Data sharing statement The Virginia Cardiac Services Quality Initiative maintains a regional database containing clinical data collected for the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) adult cardiac database and financial data. Business associate agreements are in place between VCSQI, members and the database vendor (ARMUS Corporation, San Mateo, CA, USA).
Correction notice Since this editorial was first published online, the author Matthew Mullen’s middle initial has changed from M to G.
Presented at Presented at the 64th Annual Meeting for Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, November 8-11, 2017, San Antonio, Texas.
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Inflammation markers and risk of developing hypertension: a meta-analysis of cohort studies
Aortic and vascular disease
Ahmad Jayedi1,
Kazem Rahimi2,3,
Leonelo E Bautista4,
Milad Nazarzadeh2,5,
Mahdieh Sadat Zargar6,
Sakineh Shab-Bidar7
1 Food (salt) Safety Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran
2 George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
3 Deep Medicine, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
4 Department of Population Health, School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin, USA
5 Collaboration Center of Meta-Analysis Research, Torbat Heydariyeh University of Medical Sciences, Torbat Heydariyeh, Iran
6 Nursing Care Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran
7 Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Correspondence to Dr Sakineh Shab-Bidar, Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14155/6117, Iran; s_shabbidar{at}tums.ac.ir
Objective To systematically assess the association of circulating inflammation markers with the future risk of hypertension.
Methods We did a systematic literature search of PubMed and Scopus, from database inception to July 10, 2018. Prospective and retrospective cohort studies evaluating the association of circulating C reactive protein (CRP), high-sensitive CRP (hs-CRP), interleukin 6 (IL-6) and IL-1β to the risk of developing hypertension in the general population were included. The relative risks (RRs) for the top versus bottom tertiles of circulating biomarkers were calculated using a fixed-effects/random-effects model. A potential non-linear dose-response association was tested.
Results Fourteen prospective cohort studies, two retrospective cohort studies and five nested case-control studies involving 142 640 participants and 20 676 cases were identified. The RR for the third versus first tertiles of circulating CRP was 1.23 (95% CI 1.11 to 1.35; I2=59%, n=12). The association remained unchanged after adjustment for body mass index. The RRs for other biomarkers were as follows: hs-CRP (RR 1.20, 95% CI 1.02 to 1.37; I2=74%, n=7), IL-6 (RR 1.51, 95% CI 1.30 to 1.71; I2=0%, n=5), and IL-1β (RR 1.22, 95% CI 0.92 to 1.51; I2=0%, n=3). A non-linear dose-response meta-analysis demonstrated that the risk of hypertension increased linearly with increasing circulating inflammation markers, even within the low-risk and intermediate-risk categories.
Conclusions Higher levels of circulating CRP, hs-CRP and IL-6, but not IL-1β, were associated with the risk of developing hypertension. The association persisted in subgroups of studies defined by major sources of heterogeneity.
inflammatory markers
Contributors AJ designed the research, screened articles, extracted and analysed data, and wrote the paper; MSZ screened articles, extracted data and wrote the paper; KR, LEB and MN critically revised the manuscript and contributed to the interpretation of the results; SS-B wrote paper, revised the manuscript, and had primary responsibility for the final content.
Should inflammatory pathways be targeted for the prevention and treatment of hypertension?
Setor K Kunutsor Jari A Laukkanen
Heart 2019; 105 665-667 Published Online First: 30 Jan 2019. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2018-314625
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Children with leukemia and water issues in Tyendinaga
Category: Social Issues & Criminal Justice
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Tyendinaga Mohawk First Nations, Ontario (ICC)
The Tyendinaga Mohawk police have been asked to investigate whether the band council has been criminally negligent in its handling of the on-going water crisis where children have recently been diagnosed with cancer and developed body sores.
Tension has been building on the First Nation in Ontario, as residents have been demanding to know why three children have been diagnosed with leukemia.
At a community meeting November 21st, residents learned the type of leukemia the children have isn’t caused by drinking water.
But regardless of what experts have to say, some parents believe there is a link between the environment, the body sores and case of leukemia.
A landfill on Tine-dinaga was closed in 2004 and permanently capped in 2007. But it’s still a concern to parents. The site sits 600 metres from the Mohawk School and is on what is called fractured limestone bedrock without any sort of protection to stop its contaminants from leaching into the surrounding environment including sources of water.
Water problems in Tine-dinaga date back to 1970s and has been an on-going problem with over half the wells on the reserve having undrinkable water.
Residents who are on a well system have been on a boil advisory for years. The band council say they have lobbied Aboriginal Affairs for money to build a water treatment plant but it’s not clear whether any money is on the way. For the on-going story checkout APTN.ca
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Logic of Ignorance
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Why Russian oil companies are not responsive to environmental concerns
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Senior management of Russian oil companies lack environmental awareness and refuse to invest in environmental safety, according to Sofia Villo, who has examined the operations of Russia's major oil producer from an ecological perspective.
Responses Kept Confidential
According to studies conducted in the U.S., Canada, Norway and the U.K.,* oil companies' lack of environmental consciousness in developed economies often reflects selfish, profit-maximising attitudes.
In Russia, by contrast, ignorance rather than selfishness seems to be the problem, which tends to be systemic rather than specific to certain CEOs. Villo's review of a leading Russian oil company's practices reveals educational, financial and political factors behind their lack of environmental consciousness.
The name of the company has been kept confidential to protect the respondents' privacy.
Oil Company X is part of the XT group of companies and is working on Project Z to develop the Alfa Oil Field in Russia. Due to significant environmental risks, Project Z, which started back in the 1990s, has repeatedly come under criticism from environmental groups. However, the government perceives this large-scale project to be strategically important.
Villo's study is based on:
112 documented sources such as press releases issued by the company and its environmental critics, reports, corporate logbooks, surveys, interviews, etc.; and
15 in-depth interviews with the company’s decision-makers on Project Z’s environmental safety and with external environmental safety experts working with the company.
Pains Faced by 'Green Men'
Lacking environmental awareness, CEOs are reluctant to invest in environmental safety, according to interviews with company representatives (senior managers and environmental safety experts).
A tendency to underestimate the importance of sustainable practices is the key obstacle to better environmental practices in the Alfa Oil Field. Company personnel are not trained in sustainable practices, the environmental monitoring zone is poorly defined, and industrial waste is not sorted.
‘As one example, waste is supposed to be sorted, which means that any waste generated on the platform must be dumped into separate containers. But who needs it? Who would be willing to spend time doing this job and why? They just dump it in one heap for disposal’ (manager of the oil platform operating company).
This lack of awareness often leads to negative attitudes and opposition towards environmental safety experts.
‘It's hard work. Throughout my career, I've faced enormous resistance from CEOs. You have to explain to them why things need to be done in a certain way and why they are legally required to spend money on this’ (environmental safety expert with the oil platform operating company).
Experts insisting on sustainable practices are generally perceived as 'green men' with obscure agendas. According to study respondents, such attitudes are very different in foreign companies.
‘There's no need to explain [to Western companies] time and again what ecology is about. But here [In the Russian oil company X], you have to explain why the platform needs two doctors, not just one. Perhaps for them I sound like a Greenpeace activist, an idealist with shining eyes’ (environmental safety expert with the oil platform operator).
Education Failure
According to environmental safety experts, this type of resistance stems from ignorance, which, in turn, results from the Russian education system's failure to address sustainable development issues.
‘Generally, ecology is perceived as a narrow discipline which is irrelevant to CEO performance. Before 1993, I used to be a CEO in a company operating in the Russian North, and I never heard the word “ecology” spoken there. The only type of environmental work we needed to do was to re-cultivate the lands damaged by the drilling. We were required to hand them over to reindeer-breeding farms with the drilling units and other equipment removed, the ground levelled off and re-soiled, and perhaps grass re-seeded... That was all we were supposed to do, nothing more’ (manager of the oil platform operating company).
When the boss lacks environmental literacy, you can hardly expect them to be willing to educate their subordinates.
‘Our management has not been helpful at all. We had planned to educate the staff about environmental issues so they would understand what needs to be done and why. But it did not work out...’ (environmental safety expert with the oil platform operator).
Supervision Fails to Create Motivation
The Alfa Field development project has benefited from government support, including tax incentives. While they ensured the operator's profitability, these incentives failed to motivate Company X to protect the local ecology as they were granted without any environmental compliance requirements.
Likewise, the government’s environmental supervision did little to create this motivation. The study author describes ‘two mechanisms whereby Russia's current political system perpetuates corporate ignorance in environmental matters’, namely:
A complex hierarchy of supervising authorities (e.g. an oil spill response plan requires coordination with the local office of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the seaport administration, representative offices of several federal authorities, and the Ministry of Natural Resources marine inspectorates).
The supervising authorities' inclination to abuse their power.
In particular, the respondents mentioned the difficulties they faced in trying to find mutual understanding with the Environmental inspectorate (Gosecologoekspertiza), the body responsible for reviewing every project in terms of the effect on the environment before the projects are allowed to proceed.
‘Experts who sit there have very little awareness of how the industry operates. Instead, they have more to do with foundations and institutions protecting the earth, the atmosphere, the Atlantic walrus..., dandelions, little bunnies and squirrels, you name it. But we still need to engage with these people. What they write in their environmental impact assessment reports is not about environmental compliance which is required by law but about something they would wish to happen in the first, second and third places, and please tie a bow on top!’ (manager of the oil platform operating company).
The respondents also pointed out companies' reluctance to engage with one another as a specifically Russian feature. Such uncooperativeness may also stem from the system of state supervision which is arranged vertically and does not encourage horizontal links. It is no accident that Project Z did not implement any of the measures which would have required engaging with competition.
‘Company X’s senior managers rejected all environmental safety measures which involved interaction with competitor companies. Neither internal nor external environmental safety experts were able to get certain measures implemented, such as oil transportation from the platform to the shore through a pipeline, building a joint oil spill response system with the Russian oil company M or coordination of environmental monitoring efforts between Company X and other oil companies operating in the region’.
Why Russian Oil Companies Ignore Environmental Safety
Poor management culture (senior managers lacking environmental awareness).
Educational system failure (environmental education not being part of senior management training).
Financial system (fiscal incentives are not dependent on compliance with environmental standards).
Political system (government interference with environmental safety decision-making and inadequate goal-setting by environmental authorities).
* United States [Shrivastava 1995; Perrow 2009; Crilly, Sloan 2012], Canada [Boiral, Baron, Gunnlaugson 2014], Norway [Hart 2013], England [Crilly, Sloan 2012].
STUDY AUTHOR:
Sofia Villo, Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg
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2 of 7 excuses why Ireland can’t copy cycling in the Netherlands
November 15, 2016 Cian Ginty Comment & Analysis, Dutch cycling series 2
COMMENT & ANALYSIS: The Netherlands is just over 1,000km from Ireland. So, why does Ireland’s attempts at cycle routes continue to fall desperately short compared to a country so close to us? Myths around our differences don’t explain the full story, but they hamper progress. In this mini-series — one published each day this week — we explore seven of the main myths:
2. “It rains too much in Ireland to cycle”
Copenhagen and Amsterdam both have slightly more ‘wet days’ than Dublin (as per the chart above scraped from data on BBC.co.uk a few years ago). As IrishCycle.com has long highlighted on our Myths: Weather page, Amsterdam and Dublin have comparable rain fall, while Copenhagen has extreme cold weather and snow in the winter.
That page also links to a study, Weather and Cycling in Dublin : Perceptions and Reality (PDF), which shows that the actual probability of getting wet while cycling in Dublin is low.
But since anecdotal evidence is often more persuasive in matters of myths, this is my anecdotal evidence: It rained the last three times I’ve visited the Netherlands in the last few years. On a visit to the Netherlands last year, it rained so much in Utrecht my camera suffered (temporary) damage from dampness and the next day in Eindhoven it rained so much that my shoes were water damaged (not temporary).
In Eindhoven, we visited the Hovenring — the city’s floating cycling roundabout — and the weather was so poor this was the best photo I could take:
The Eindhoven rain was said to be unusually bad weather, but the main point is that it rains in the Netherlands at comparable levels to Ireland. Yes, the west of Ireland (that’s where IrishCycle.com HQ is located!) gets more rain than Dublin, but, if the amount of rain was the main issue, Dublin would have more cycling than Amsterdam.
Drivers can be less predictable and more aggressive in the rain. Maybe it’s the rain-related congestion or maybe it’s some type of primordial reaction, but, in Irish cities, rain seem to make drivers go bonkers. On the other hand, while cycling in the rain in the Netherlands, you mostly only have to worry about the rain. Segregating cycling from main roads makes such a huge difference.
In the right conditions, people adapt to smaller problems such as rain. Traditional rain gear, things like waterproof rain skirts and even umbrellas can be used to keep you a bit drier if rain kicks up:
Wind is also stated as an issue in Ireland but we’re not the country where the wind gets so bad enough of the time to justify “walk with your bicycle signs” in some locations. That’s the Netherlands:
Barbara Connolly November 15, 2016 at 9:10 am
Remember the Hovenring well, rain so heavy I couldn’t see through my glasses! Great analysis and you make a great case for a change of approach here
Citizen Wolf November 16, 2016 at 3:10 pm
And it gets fricking cold in NL too. One of the years I lived there, the canals and lakes in Utrecht were frozen solid for 6 weeks straight.
clara694 on The Irish Times and air pollution: A dirty old newspaper protecting car use in Dublin City Centre
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Before going into corporate communications, I worked as a reporter for daily newspapers in North Carolina and weekly business journals in Florida. I interacted with mayors and homeless folks, minor celebrities and murderers, hugely successful business people and shamed embezzlers. My diverse beats included City Hall, education, crime, travel, music and banking. I also found time to freelance for the Detroit Free Press, Bloomberg Business News, Orlando Sentinel and others. Below are several of my newspaper pieces (more appear in my self-published collection, A Decade on Deadline.) To view a selection of my articles published by American City Business Journals, go here.
Visiting the South Side, I Found My Blues Heaven
Orlando Sentinel - August 2, 2009
Chicago is one of the world's great cities, a destination offering enriching experiences for all ages and interests. I've traveled there a few times over the years and can never soak up enough of the place. During my most recent trip I indulged in a perfectly prepared filet at Gibsons Steakhouse, browsed the stacks of used books at Powell's, visited the Jazz Record Mart, strolled Grant Park and drank a few at the subterranean Billy Goat Tavern.
My most memorable experience took place when I jumped on a city bus along North Michigan Avenue and rode patiently to the heart of the South Side. I hopped off and ambled a couple of blocks to the old Chess Records building at 2120 S. Michigan Ave., pictured on the left and now home to the Blues Heaven Foundation. I handed over the modest entry fee to take a guided tour of the old recording studio and soon learned I was the only guest for that particular session.
A few of the nicest folks spent almost two hours with me, showing me the rooms where Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf and Chuck Berry (and later the Rolling Stones and Yardbirds) committed their musical magic to tape. It was one of the most hospitable welcomes I've ever received. They even sat me down with a bowl of popcorn to watch a short historical video about Chess. To top it off, Willie Dixon's gracious daughter greeted me, handed me her business card and wished me well.
I caught the bus back to my hotel on the Miracle Mile, floating in an almost dreamlike state after spending such a blissful afternoon in blues paradise.
Wishing for No Speed Limits
Jacksonville Business Journal - June 23, 1995
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Everything else in my life will surely be disappointing now — I’ve driven a Lamborghini Diablo.
I never expected the guys at Automobili Lamborghini USA Inc. to actually let me get behind the wheel. When I visited the company’s Deerwood Park headquarters last November, the offer wasn’t made. Perhaps they were in a good mood this week.
“Just let me know when you want to drive,” said the company’s service manager, Dana Fisher, after about 10 minutes of him driving the two of us through the quiet, curvy roads near the Lamborghini building. “Cool,” I said. “Anytime’s fine with me.”
He stopped the car, we swapped seats and suddenly I was in control of a $241,000 Italian‑made sports car capable of zooming from zero to 60 mph in 4 seconds and reaching a top speed of 202 mph. Awesome.
Pressing the gas pedal ever so slightly, the V12, 492‑horsepower engine shifted from a purr to a roar. It felt like a rocket ready to whisk us off the earth. Of course the roads near Deerwood Park aren’t suited to excessive speeding — nor am I able to handle the expense of another speeding ticket — so I stayed below 60 mph. At least I think I did. I wasn’t paying much attention to the speedometer. I do know that I never got beyond third gear (the car has five).
The car’s exotic looks certainly attract plenty of attention from onlookers and passing motorists. But the real thrill of driving the Lamborghini Diablo lies almost exclusively in its ability to accelerate rapidly. It’s all about power and speed.
“Driving that car is probably the equivalent of being in a fighter plane taking off the deck of a carrier,” said Howard Walker, the United States editor of Car magazine, which is based in London. “It’s phenomenal acceleration. It’s just this tremendous responsiveness.”
The downside of driving a Lamborghini is the way you keep thinking about it long after the experience is over. It makes you want one badly, craving for a repeat performance. It’s addictive, and it’s a drug unavailable to those without whopping bank accounts.
Thousands View 'Lady Godiva' Tax Protest
High Point Enterprise - May 1992
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — They came to see the naked lady.
Thousands gathered yesterday along downtown sidewalks here to witness a '90s version of Lady Godiva ride nude on horseback in protest of higher taxes. The unidentified 20-year-old woman who portrayed Lady Godiva was not really naked — she wore a flesh-colored bodysuit and a long blond wig. But the event was a real attention getter.
Most spectators simply watched while others said they were here for the purpose of the parade: to take a stand against an increase in city property taxes. According to English folklore, a naked Lady Godiva paraded horseback through Coventry, England, to protest high taxes in the 11th century. And her novel approach succeeded, persuading rulers to back off their plan. Will this modern day re-enactment work?
“I have my doubts,” said Jim Hartman, a city resident who watched the proceedings. “They (the city) are going to do what they want.”
Joe King, an acclaimed Winston-Salem artist and colorful character, organized yesterday’s ride with the backing of a volunteer group he called “Concerned Citizens Against Higher Taxes.” City officials recently said the tax rate would need to go up — possibly 41 percent — to balance the city’s budget. “I want people to become well acquainted with what the city is doing with taxes, and I would like to see some alternatives to raising taxes,” said King, a white bearded man of 77.
Spectators stood on sidewalks and peered from office windows to catch a glimpse of the Lady and her escorts decked out in medieval attire. A crowd of photographers and reporters pursued the parade down Fourth, Liberty, Fifth and Summit streets. “I’m out here to look, like everyone else,” said Michelle Lowe, who with her co-worker, Beth Hege, used lunch hour to watch the spectacle.
Although the news media has focused on 41 percent as the proposed increase in property taxes, that figure is not an accurate portrayal of what the city is considering, says Chris Gorelick, a city budget analyst. She said the city’s current rate of 53 cents on every $100 valuation may see an increase of only 18 percent. A final proposal goes to the city’s Board of Alderman May 21.
Did the event live up to expectations? “I think it went very well,” King said after the parade. “Don’t tell anybody, but I got a big kick out of it.”
The artist, who has painted portraits for Queen Elizabeth II and former President Richard Nixon, would not tell reporters the name of the attractive young woman who played the part of Lady Godiva. “She wishes to remain anonymous,” he said.
Traders Twist and Turn with the Dow
Orlando Business Journal - November 3, 1997
ORLANDO, Fla. — Stockbroker Robert Janssen stands up, kicks his chair away from his desk and begins pacing frantically in circles. "I've got 15,000 people screaming at me," he barks into the phone. "Everybody here is swamped right now."
He hangs up, peers into his computer screen and curses explosively. Something obviously is awry, but there's no time to fret: His phone is ringing again. "Empire, Robert speaking."
It's 10:12 a.m. on Oct. 28 — the morning after the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 554 points, or 7.2 percent, forcing the New York Stock Exchange to close early in the wake of a global stock sell-off. Janssen and his co-workers at Empire Financial Group Inc. in Longwood, an Orlando suburb, are embroiled in another frenetic day and have watched the Dow slide steadily downward since trading opened at 9:30 a.m. And the "sell" orders keep rolling in.
"I'm usually not in here," says Empire President Kevin Gagne, who has joined his underlings in the firm's cramped broker room and is pressing a phone to one ear.
"You must be here to lead your troops to battle," quips Janssen.
Indeed, Empire's brokers are in combat mode, unsure of what twists and turns the stock market will take today and unable to answer the overflow of calls pouring in from the firm's retail customers. The scene is similar just down the hall, in the trading room of sister firm Advantage Trading Group Inc., a "third-market" trading operation
that deals exclusively with institutional investors.
"What the ----?" yells an Advantage trader, throwing up his hands. "It's crazy right now, just crazy." Suddenly, at 10:20 a.m., after a dizzying first hour of trading, the Dow abruptly shifts direction. "This is insane," says another Advantage trader. "The market's going back up."
Standing behind the row of stressed-out traders is Richard Goble, president of Advantage and co-owner — with Gagne — of the two sister companies. He says today has been the most hectic day he's ever witnessed at Empire/Advantage, the largest locally owned brokerage/trading business in Central Florida.
"Things get exciting in here usually, but today is a first," Goble says. But while the brokers and traders around him strike a frenzied pace, Goble is philosophical. Such market volatility is predictable, he says, because the Dow has risen to unprecedented heights in recent months. He blames jittery investors for much of the stock market's
downward spiral. "Some people are selling their entire portfolios," Goble says. "That's just idiotic. You can't panic."
Says Goble of his emotionally exhausted traders, some of whom earn six figures while still in their 20s: "They come to me all the time and say, 'I love my job.' Then two months later, they burn out and quit." It's not because the hours are long. Each day, traders arrive shortly before 9 a.m. to prepare for the market's opening, and they usually leave at 5 p.m. or shortly thereafter. But while they're working, they're really working.
"They barely have enough time to go to the bathroom," says office manager Shawna Price, whose duties include fetching breakfast and lunch for the traders so they can eat at their desks.
At particularly busy moments, frantic traders yell orders at each other and throw note pads and other office supplies. "When they get stressed-out, you'll hear them call each other scum-sucking pigs and the like," Goble says. "But I just tell them not to take anything personally."
By noon, the buyers are back in the market. The Dow is up more than 117 points after falling nearly 190 points earlier in the day — and relief shows on the faces of the traders at Empire/Advantage. In the afternoon, the Dow continues to venture further into positive territory. In fact, the Dow chalks up its biggest point gain in history and volume tops 1 billion shares as Wall Street quickly recovers from the financial turmoil in Asia that sent the market
spinning just 24 hours ago to its worst-ever point loss.
"The (market) is going to go up and it's going to go down," Goble says. "You just have to hang in there sometimes."
On this day in stock market history, the Dow closes up 337.17 points, or 4.7 percent, at 7,498.32, beating the record 257.36-point gain set on September 2 this year.
King Petty Rules Randleman
High Point Enterprise - October 27, 1992
RANDLEMAN, N.C. — This normally quiet mill town of about 3,000 inhabitants became the bustling center of the NASCAR universe yesterday. Thousands of racing fans descended on Main Street to experience the 4th annual NASCAR Days Fall Festival.
The star of the show was, of course, King Richard Petty, who lives just down the road in Level Cross and who is the undisputed granddaddy of stock car racing.
In appreciation of Petty’s monumental career and his generous contributions to Randolph County, the Randleman Chamber of Commerce unveiled a statue of the perpetually grinning racer near the corner of Main and Naomi streets. The brownish clay sculpture, by Seagrove artist Ad Vanderstaak, drew cheers from those gathered for the unveiling ceremony.
“This is something different here, man,” Petty said, sauntering around the statue, checking his likeness from different angles. The 5-foot figure, not including its base, is quite a bit shorter than the man it honors.
Ken Faucette of Randleman stood with a group of friends in the parkng lot of North State Telephone Co., which donated the land for the statue. He called the monument “a shot in the arm” for his hometown. “I think it will be a real asset for the community,” Faucette said as a cool fall breeze whistled through the trees.
David Caughron, the chamber’s executive director, estimated the crowd’s size at 100,000. Although Main Street was teeming with locals and visitors of all ages, it seemed hard to believe 100,000 people could fit along Randleman’s modest main drag.
The local chamber sponsors the NASCAR Days Fall Festival, a Southern fried shindig that lets fans revel among a variety of booths and displays featuring posters, T-shirts and other assorted racing regalia. The event also includes live bluegrass bands, food vendors, crafts, rides like the “Mini Himalaya” and appearances by famous NASCAR drivers. The festival drew an attendance of about 65,000 last year, and coordinators of the event believe Petty’s Fan Appreciation Tour this year may be a reason for the larger turnout yesterday.
Which is good for Jamie Coble, 16, who was selling fudge to raise money for a trip to Washington, D.C., that she and some classmates from Eastern Randolph High School hope to take soon. It would be hard to quantify what Petty has done for Randleman, Randolph County and the entire Piedmont Triad, Coble said. “He’s really contributed right much,” she said.
Randleman police officer Ken Dawkins strolled through the crowd, making sure things didn’t become unruly. “We’ve been very fortunate,” Dawkins said. “This has been a good operation.”
Upstart Brewery Taps New Markets
Orlando Business Journal - May 24, 1999
MELBOURNE, Fla. — By all appearances, happy hour is just around the corner for Indian River Brewing Co. The 2-year-old beer maker expects to turn profitable this summer, thanks to a spate of contract-brewing agreements, new products and an aggressive marketing push.
“Then maybe I can start drawing a salary,” quips Bruce Holt, the laid-back president of Indian River.
The Melbourne company makes so-called “hand-crafted” beers, also known as micro-brews. It started with two varieties, Amberjack (red) and Shoal Draft (pale ale), and recently introduced two others, Pirate’s Brew (light lager) and Festival Lager (a keg-only product).
The rich-tasting brews appeal to what the industry calls the “beer aficionado movement,” which apparently is growing in popularity. Sales of such specialty beers jumped more than 20 percent between 1996 and 1997 (the most recent statistics) while the overall alcoholic beverage market remained essentially flat, according to U.S. Beverage, a Connecticut-based alcohol sales and marketing company. “We’ve seen an explosive demand for high-quality, non-mainstream beverages as the American palate grows more sophisticated,” says Joe Fisch, president and CEO of U.S. Beverage.
Since its inception in 1997, Indian River has concentrated mainly on perfecting its products and developing an effective distribution network. Holt says it’s been a difficult undertaking — and he’s still hesitant to predict financial success. “This is my fourth start-up company,” says the northern California native. “Anytime you start a business from the ground up, it’s a risk.”
But at the moment, Indian River seems to be making that crucial transition from fledgling enterprise to successful small business. The company already has built its customer base to nearly 300 accounts (beverage stores, grocery stores, restaurants and bars) in Florida, North Carolina, Wisconsin and New Jersey. And Holt expects to add another 100-plus accounts in the largely untapped Orlando market by the end of 1999.
Aside from introducing new beers of its own, Indian River has landed two potentially lucrative contract-brewing agreements with other beer makers. The company began brewing Hardhat beer for American Brewing Co. of West Palm Beach last October and started brewing a beer called 11 Ball this month for Fresh Beer Co. of Fort Lauderdale.
On top of that, Indian River recently inked a contract to package alcoholic “hard cider” products for Kelly’s Irish Cider, a large beverage company based in Ireland.
The goal, according to Holt, is to produce great-tasting brews and build Indian River into a highly profitable venture for its 55 investors. “We’d like to have an exit point for our shareholders in the next five years,” he says, explaining that Indian River could go public with its stock or sell out to a larger beverage company. “But we aren’t there yet.” Last year, the company generated about $500,000 in sales. Holt expects sales to rise 50 percent to $750,000 in 1999.
On this balmy Monday morning, Holt is overseeing the filming of an Indian River television commercial in his well-manicured Melbourne Beach neighborhood. He has arranged for a voluptuous blond model from Miami to serve Indian River beer to several of his friends, who are pretending to be tired and thirsty after doing yard work. A cameraman captures the action for a spot that will appear on Time Warner cable channels in Brevard County. “We want to create more product identity,” Holt says.
Across the causeway in downtown Melbourne, Indian River Brewmaster Jack Owen is hard at work at the company’s 11,000-square-foot brewery, pouring buckets of hops and barley into monstrous, steaming fermenters.
Owen, the developer of Indian River’s unique brews and one of the company’s three full-time employees, takes great care to include just the right amount of ingredients.
“Everything needs to be perfect,” Owen says.
Bring On The Beatles
High Point Enterprise - December 31, 1992
HIGH POINT, N.C. — One of the great things about playing music is that you can strike it up just about anywhere at any time. It’s not like a painting or a book — works of art that are created and then left untouched by the creator.
Music is composed and recorded, like other forms of art, but music can be performed live again and again. Which brings me to recent criticism of the three surviving Beatles, who may perform together soon for the first time since the pivotal quartet stopped playing 22 years ago. Some people, including the editorial board of The Philadelphia Inquirer, believe the reunion of Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr would be a mistake, something that would tarnish the history of the band.
They argue their position well. “As we hear them on Revolver or see them in A Hard Day’s Night, the Beatles are, like fine works of art, perfection that shouldn’t be messed with,” says an Inquirer editorial published this week.
Granted, making changes to original, master tapes of the band’s songs would be disgraceful. That part of the Beatles is complete. But Paul, George and Ringo still live and breathe and — as individuals — play music. And their art, which follows them wherever they go, must be released. That’s just the way musicians are. It’s tragic that John Lennon, the articulately deep Beatle who was assassinated in 1980, can’t be with the remaining three. But he certainly would approve of his buddies doing something as simple and important as expressing themselves.
McCartney recently disclosed plans for the surviving moptops to come together for “the definitive Beatles documentary.” Yes, Paul said, “there is a chance that we actually might do a little bit of music for it.” That’s great. Sure they won’t sound like they did more than two decades ago, but they can still play, and we’re lucky to have them.
“Although individual members may have each gone on to make beautiful music, the Beatles retired as a group at their collective peak,” the Inquirer editorial grumbled. “Let it be.”
Well, maybe the band did quit at the right time, but it must be stressed that music doesn’t necessarily “peak.” It’s always there, lurking in the musician’s brain, ready to leap forward and brighten the day. Great visual artists like Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O’Keeffe didn’t take their paint brushes to already finished pieces, so the Beatles shouldn’t revisit their craft, critics contend.
Well, wake up. Music is different than the visual arts. It can be played and played again, and should be. The listening public has much to gain by seeing the remaining Beatles together, and even more by hearing the monumental sound they can make.
Big Sur Stuns California Visitors
High Point Enterprise – December 15, 1991
BIG SUR, Calif. — The nearly 80 miles of mountainous coastline known as Big Sur amazes travelers with stunning views of the Pacific Ocean. About 3 million motorists and campers come through here every year along California Highway 1, soaking up what has been called the most beautiful drive in the world.
But before heading out here, there are a few things the modern tourist should understand. There are no frilly shops. No rollicking nightclubs. No movie theaters. There aren’t even any stoplights.
Big Sur gained its reputation as a slow‑paced, soul‑enriching refuge through its natural majesty, not its social scene. In fact, with fewer than 1,300 full-time residents, this community at the edge of America appears at times to be deserted.
The snaky, two‑lane Highway 1 hugs the coastal hillside, dropping almost to ocean level then soaring hundreds of feet above it. Even in clear weather conditions, driving requires attentive maneuvering. Some travel guides warn tourists with a fear of heights to avoid this route. But for those who need to renew their relationship with nature, Big Sur provides the perfect location and any effort to get there is rewarded generously.
There are things to do besides peer from the overlooks that dot the rugged coastline. For instance, a visit to the Henry Miller Memorial Library might interest fans of the author’s work as well as those curious about local history. Miller was one of the most famous writers to call Big Sur home, settling here in 1944. Others moved into the area to live permanently or seek temporary solitude, including Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, both of whom played integral roles in the Beat Generation literary movement.
Kerouac’s 1962 novel, “Big Sur,” chronicled his brief stay in a cabin high above the booming Pacific. The central, autobiographical character escapes from the harassment of fame in the city to get some peace and quiet. Images of spiritual awakening on the California coast, however, suddenly become themes of loneliness and despair. But the author didn’t leave Big Sur without offering some telling descriptions of the inspirational landscape.
“Big elbows of rock rising everywhere, sea caves within them, seas plollocking all around inside them crashing out ... Yet you turn and see the pleasant woods winding upcreek like a picture in Vermont,” Kerouac wrote.
Conservation has been uppermost in the minds of environmentalists and the few residents of Big Sur, and for the most part, they have succeeded in turning away developers. In many respects, the region remains primitive and wild. On one side of Highway 1, the Pacific relentlessly pounds the dramatic cliffs. On the other side lies the green Santa Lucia mountain range. Hidden in the hills are scattered cottages that, by ordinance, must be constructed so they cannot be seen from the road. Although there are designated paths to the beach at several points along the coast, many of the rocky coves are inaccessible.
The settlement of Big Sur (it is not a town) is generally considered the stretch of Highway 1 between Carmel and San Simeon, where the monstrous, stunning Hearst Castle attracts hordes of sightseers. Los Angeles lies about 200 miles to the south, San Francisco about 130 miles to the north.
The limited accommodations at Big Sur include the luxurious Ventana Inn, an oceanfront ranch in the mountains favored by celebrities, whose daily room rates range from about $150 to $700. The Big Sur Lodge, located in Pfeiffer‑Big Sur State Park, offers rates of between $70 and $110 for a two‑person cabin. The best bets for campers are the Ventana Inn’s 40‑acre camp site, the Big Sur Campground & Cabins and the designated camping areas in the state park.
There are several small grocery stores and motels along the coastline of Big Sur, but don’t come here expecting the things you left back in the city.
Jazzman’s Example Influences Today’s Rockers
High Point Enterprise – February 23, 1992
HIGH POINT, N.C. — I discovered the music of the late jazz saxophonist John Coltrane several years ago through what seemed like unlikely sources: rock guitarists.
By reading issues of Guitar Player and Guitar World magazines religiously, I learned everything I wanted to know about Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen and a zillion other lesser‑known masters of the electric guitar. Whenever influences were mentioned, a wide range of obvious names popped up. Muddy Waters. Willie Dixon. The Beatles. The Who. The Clash. Every now and then, though, some guitarist would cite Coltrane as having inspired his playing style. It made me wonder, “An old horn player influencing a rocker?”
After picking up some Coltrane recordings, I spent a great deal of time listening to what repeatedly had been called a revolutionary sound. At first, I was discouraged. I had bought one of his later albums, which contained the song “Ascension,” a free‑form tapestry of sonic dissonance. There was something to it, I just knew, but I wasn't sure exactly what. Then, I reached into Coltrane’s earlier catalog, including recordings he made with trumpeter Miles Davis. Coltrane’s tone was smoother and more graceful. His hyperactive execution was there, but it was more accessible because it was cloaked in a standard jazz format.
As a guitarist seeking new ways to approach my instrument, I was forced to ask serious questions after hearing his expressive saxophone. What was he trying to get across? Why was he willing to lose a potentially larger audience of listeners to break new ground? How dare he play with such ferocity? Suddenly the complicated, aggressive style of Coltrane’s later playing made sense to me. This was a man who believed he had no choice but to play the saxophone like every breath he blew would be his last. He got inside every note.
I finally figured out why the former High Point resident, who died in 1967 after changing jazz forever, has been so respected by rock musicians. Rock music is based on urgency and unrestrained passion. At least the best rock music is. I’m not talking about radio‑oriented popular music. I’m referring to that broad range of rock from Hendrix, Cream and Led Zeppelin to the Sex Pistols, the Replacements and Nirvana. These bands with an edge, a burning delivery, are not to be taken rationally. Music is based on a mathematical theory, but once that foundation is laid, the rest is feeling.
With his uninhibited, sometimes raw sound, Coltrane could have been a rocker. But his format was jazz, and he stuck with it. Perhaps Hendrix and Coltrane can be compared most easily. I believe they are more alike than any other two musicians. I hear the same phrases in their playing, the same vibrato, the same inflection. Both were possessed by what all serious musicians hope to be possessed by: an otherworldly muse that gives them the ability to laugh and cry and live and die through their instruments.
Though their presentation was often rough, Hendrix and Coltrane were effective at reaching into the listener’s soul and shaking it up. These soundsmiths had something important to say, and the only way to release it was through their respective musical tools. Coincidentally, Coltrane and Hendrix will be recognized next week with Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.
They’re both gone now, having died before they reached old age. But Hendrix’s explosive string‑bending and Coltrane’s dizzying bursts of tonal energy still spin around in my head.
Wondrous, Humbling Yosemite
High Point Enterprise – November 24, 1991
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Some stretches of highway leading here seem surprisingly lonely, with only an occasional Winnebago or Volkswagen bus cruising amid spectacular mountains and lakes.
But the closer you get to Yosemite, the more signs of civilization you stumble across. And by the time you drive from the entrance of the park to the Yosemite Valley floor, there are so many tourists it’s hard to believe you’re in such a natural wonderland.
Many travelers might be appalled with the crowds, which are heavier in the spring and summer. But they would only be cheating themselves if they chose to avoid Yosemite because of its popularity. It’s clear why the visitors are here. This 1,200‑square‑mile park is irresistible, beautiful, completely mesmerizing. At the same time, these cheap words hardly begin to describe the national treasure.
Mammoth granite domes reach toward the heavens, soaring over sparkling waterways and towering sequoias, redwoods and Ponderosa pines. Waterfalls plunge in a splendid display of otherworldly power, crashing into granite at the base of sheer, dramatic cliffs.
Yosemite became a national park in 1890, largely through the efforts of naturalist John Muir, who convinced President Theodore Roosevelt to accompany him on a journey through this breathtaking region that crowns the Sierra Nevada.
Most of the 3 million tourists who come here annually begin their visit in Yosemite Valley, a seven‑mile‑long, one‑mile‑wide swath. The valley contains the most famous and obvious wonders of the park: the 3,604-foot‑tall El Capitan granite mountain face, Half Dome, Bridalveil Falls, the Merced River and Cathedral Rocks. The cliffs here have been very popular among mountain climbers, some of whom have been killed or crippled by falls from the monstrous sides of the rocks.
Millions of years ago the entire Yosemite region was covered by a vast sea that spread deep into California. Sediment from the sea and from subsequent glaciers and glacial lakes formed the flat floor of the valley. Over time, plants grew in the valley and later, grasses and trees.
Despite the encroachment of visitors and automobiles in Yosemite Valley, it remains an awesome sight. There might be a tour bus zooming down the road 100 feet from your campsite, but also not far away are deer roaming free. The valley has survived, displaying a sensual blend of open meadows, wildflowers, woodlands and wildlife consisting of deer, black bear and more than 200 species of birds.
Though the valley takes up only seven of the park’s 1,200 square miles, it offers several campgrounds, lodges, shops and restaurants. In the entire park, there are 900 miles of trails to cover by horse, mule or foot only, many leading north to areas covered in snow seven months of the year. There are 360 miles of road to traverse by car, and bus tours are offered at reasonable prices.
A humbling feeling grips you as you peer at the majesty of Yosemite, probably as it possessed photographer Ansel Adams, who captured the essence of the park in his well‑known black‑and‑white pictures. Your body weakens as your eyes absorb the magnificence of the glacier‑carved valley and its smooth, giant rock formations.
If you’ve never had a spiritual awakening, this would be a good place to start.
In San Francisco, the Beat Goes On
SAN FRANCISCO — This place rocks and rolls with a graceful intensity, even in the absence of earthquakes. As one of America’s most famous and favorite travel destinations, San Francisco offers more than enough fun for anybody.
Attractions include an ethnically diverse selection of restaurants, some of the most magnificent hotels in the world, dozens of art galleries, the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars and seemingly endless rows of restored, Victorian homes in a rainbow of colors.
When a visitor scratches beneath the surface of this city’s outward charm, however, he discovers the myriad characteristics that make it a truly remarkable cultural mecca. A late‑night stroll through the Italian‑flavored North Beach neighborhood could be the best way to experience what it’s all about. The scent of rich cappuccino floats from side-street cafes. Delicatessens brim with fresh garlic bread, pasta, vegetables and meats. Yuppies, contemporary hippies and tourists fill brew pubs and dark, hole‑in‑the‑wall hangouts.
City Lights Bookstore, at the heart of North Beach, brings out the artsy crowd for which the district has long been known. Writers, musicians and painters have been descending on these streets, amid the rolling hills of downtown San Francisco, since before the district was considered the crossroads of the Beat Generation. The bohemian “Beats” attempted to unnerve the establishment while exploring uncharted ideas and levels of consciousness. The movement, which lasted from the mid 1950s to the early 1960s, was led by such innovative authors as Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Besides the book store and the enchanting Vesuvio Cafe, both of which endured the death of the “Beats” and continue to thrive largely because of their nostalgic charm, very little is left of those days.
Across the road from both establishments, Tosca Cafe beckons a sophisticated bunch of assorted movie luminaries, artists, professionals and out‑of‑towners eager to star gaze. Actors Sam Shepard and Robin Williams are among some of the famous ones who have hung out at Tosca regularly. On a recent visit, my brother Matt and I spotted at least one notable movie star, Keanu Reeves of “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” fame.
Nearby are plenty of topless bars and jazz clubs, one of which attracted our attention into the wee hours one summer morning. A jazz trio was working out to a small, attentive crowd at Pearl’s Jazz when members of a foreign jazz combo walked in to check out some authentic American music. Within minutes, the Siberian Jazz Express, in town for a string of gigs in Oakland across the Bay, took the stage and performed some fiercely inspired tunes, transcending national borders.
Granted, there’s so much this vibrant city has to offer that no reporter could mention it all. Chinatown, Haight‑Ashbury, Union Street, Fisherman’s Wharf and virtually every other district prove that San Francisco remains one of the most charming and diverse cities in the world.
If you come here, stay a while. There’s plenty to see and do and taste and hear.
For These Guys, It’s Quality Not Quantity
ESP Magazine – September 9, 1992
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Serious guitar players are sensitive to every nuance of their instruments, and if something’s not quite right, they’ll gladly do whatever it takes to fix it. A little too much bow in the neck. An incessant buzzing of strings on the frets. An instrument that won’t tune up properly. Any of that can drive a player batty in no time.
That’s why many finicky guitarists plunk down good money, sometimes extravagant amounts of money, to find the perfect machine, the one that will satisfy their every tonal desire.
“Come to me and you can get what you want,” says Bob Rigaud, who’s been repairing, designing and building a variety of stringed instruments since 1978. “We build them from the ground up, so what you want is what the guitar’s gonna be.”
Rigaud makes about four guitars a year, primarily acoustic guitars, at his String Works shop in Greensboro. They range in price from a modest several hundred dollars to $2,000. It all depends on what types of wood and parts are used, he says.
Several others in the Triad design and build precision, custom guitars. There are guys like Rigaud, and Denny Lash of Winston‑Salem, who builds about six instruments a month, and there are others who aim much higher in terms of numbers. Ken Hoover, president of Zion Guitar Technology, and Keith Roscoe each say they make up to 50 electric guitars a month. Of the Triad’s “luthiers,” or guitar makers, Hoover and Roscoe are probably the most well known outside of the state.
Though all of Hoover’s Zion guitars are of the same shape, they come in a plethora of configurations. Guitarists can choose from a variety of high‑end hardware, controls, tuning pegs, fingerboards and pickups. Price range: $1,195 to $2,495.
“I catch anything that’s not quite right,” Hoover says of his meticulous approach to checking each instrument before it’s shipped to a retailer. A customer rarely returns a guitar to Hoover due to a mechanical problem or even a small inconsistency in the instrument “because we’re so careful,” he says. Zion instruments are available at selected dealers around the world. The company’s Greensboro shop, where technicians carefully assemble all of the essential pieces, doesn’t operate as a retail outlet.
Musicians who reach for the mass‑produced, big‑name guitars in most stores basically have to settle for whatever they get, the local guitar makers say. Some of them are fine instruments, others are lemons.
“You just go in and accept what they have decided is the best,” says Hoover, who once turned down a designing job with Fender guitars, a market heavy. “We’re sticking to our guns here. I do what I like to do. I’m not a cog in the big machine.” But these guys don’t really compete with the market leaders. “We’re not scaring Gibson or Fender out of their socks,” Hoover admits.
Many players never stray from their love for the classics: the Gibson Les Paul, the Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster, the Martin acoustic. In fact, the most influential guitarists in rock, jazz and other forms of popular music have created their art with the enduring, distinctive designs of the major companies. But musicians know that for every perfect or near‑perfect Gibson or Fender, there are at least a few that prove unsatisfactory. The more economically able players have the resources to track down the rare birds — generally Gibson and Fender models dating back to the 1950s and ‘60s — and fork over the necessary dough. Vintage guitars demand even more money than most fine custom instruments.
Zion has created guitars for some noteworthy popular musicians and groups, including Chicago, Alabama, Billy Joel, Kansas and L.A. Guns. The company doesn’t, however, offer the instruments for free to these musicians in exchange for high‑profile endorsements. “We don’t do that for economic reasons and for philosophical reasons,” Hoover says. “I’d rather treat everybody the same. If these guys get something for free, then it doesn’t mean much to them. We’d rather it be more of a heartfelt situation.”
Zion and Roscoe Guitars ship instruments all over the world. Their ads have appeared in major guitar publications, and their customer bases grow slowly but consistently.
“It’s not an off‑the‑shelf kind of thing,” Roscoe says of his creations, many of which bear the striking, lush paint jobs of artist Eddie Meeks. “It’s completely engineered.” Roscoe’s been selling, repairing, designing and building electric guitars in Greensboro for years.
In Winston‑Salem, Denny Lash wears several hats at S.I.R. Technology, repairing instruments, troubleshooting electronic musical gadgetry and making custom guitars. Lash, a former guitarist for Ike and Tina Turner, engineers and creates top‑notch, precision guitars and basses.
“People come in and say this is what they want their guitar to look like,” Lash says, pretending to scribble a design on a scrap of paper. With his custom instruments, which range from $800 to about $3,000, “I’m trying to give you exactly what you want,” he says. Versions of his JCX series, a line of guitars designed by Jeff Cook of Alabama and constructed by Lash, occupy spots in the homes of a few celebrities who aren’t even musicians: President Bush, William Shatner and Richard Petty, to name a few.
Lash takes his sweet time making guitars. And during the eight years he’s been building them, he’s picked up some significant insights. “You get people’s opinion on what they like and what they don’t like,” he says. For instance, he says, players’ hands are of different shapes and sizes, which can determine how the strings on a custom instrument should be spaced. Every little detail counts.
“When you start cutting corners, you start cutting quality,” Lash says.
Love of their chosen instrument is the common thread linking the souls of these “luthiers.” Most of these guys have played for many years and have had ample time to lose interest in playing, yet they still savor sitting down alone with their guitars and digging into the wood and wire.
“Playing music is a good outlet,” says Lash, smiling atop a stool in his tidy shop off Stratford Road in Winston‑Salem.
In Greensboro, Hoover’s thinking in the same mode. “Music is truly the universal language,” he muses, sifting through a thick stack of letters from foreign musicians requesting information about Zion guitars.
Having a Big Time in the Windy City
High Point Enterprise – April 12, 1992
CHICAGO — Nearly everything here has been constructed on a grand scale.
Monstrous O’Hare International Airport, one of three airports in the vicinity and the busiest one in the world, astonishes many first‑time visitors. The multi‑lane freeways stemming from the airport hum with seemingly endless streams of motorists in a hurry to get somewhere in the nation’s third-largest city.
Downtown, aging neo‑Gothic buildings share city blocks with sparkling, contemporary skyscrapers. The 110‑story Sears Tower on South Wacker Drive stands taller than any other building in the world, watching majestically over the coast of Lake Michigan.
The John G. Shedd Aquarium on South Lake Shore Drive sports the world’s largest collection of aquatic life, and Shedd’s mammoth 170,000-square‑foot Oceanarium gives people a chance to view some of the Earth’s largest creatures — whales.
But the big sound of Chicago’s world‑famous blues music — still very much alive — manifests itself in some of the smallest, darkest, most unpretentious nightclubs. Perhaps the most authentic, gut‑wrenching blues goes down these days at B.L.U.E.S. and Kingston Mines, two intimate, smoky joints on North Halsted Street. A loyal local following can be found hunkered down nightly at tables near the stage, although many a blues connoisseur from out of town has been directed to these bars.
Another night spot worth checking out is Wise Fools Pub, where one snowy night last month Eddy Clearwater and his band set the place on fire with a strong dose of spirited, inner‑city blues. Clearwater, well over 6 feet tall and donning a black leather fringe jacket, contorted his face wildly as he dug his beefy fingers into the fretboard of his guitar. The polished back‑up band, in contrast to Clearwater’s raw musical demeanor, injected funky rhythms into otherwise traditional blues pieces. The players managed to throw their hearts and souls into songs they probably repeat nightly on the local club circuit.
Chicago is the mecca of “urban” blues, which is what “primitive” blues became when the genre’s players migrated here — beginning in the 1920s — from Mississippi, Louisiana and other parts of the South. In the process of moving to the big, gritty city, many of the musicians traded their acoustic guitars for electric ones and turned up the volume. Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, B.B. King and Howlin’ Wolf were among the most well‑known blues crooners to call Chicago home and develop a sound revered by musicians and listeners worldwide. The atmosphere here continues to produce new generations of blues musicians.
Certainly blues isn’t the only attraction in Chicago, a midwestern metropolis of more than 3.5 million inhabitants. Well‑to‑do consumers will love the Magnificent Mile, a stretch of North Michigan Avenue that rivals Rodeo Drive in Hollywood as the center of the shopping universe.
The Art Institute of Chicago features a splendid collection of French Impressionist paintings, pleasing all who love the warm, elegant brush strokes of Monet and Matisse. The Institute lies at the northern end of Grant Park, a 304‑acre strip that separates the city’s edge from Lake Michigan. Buckingham Fountain, a 280‑foot‑wide structure with jets of water reaching 135 feet into the air, is the focal point of the park. It’s the fountain shown during the opening sequence of the Fox television network’s “Married with Children.”
A casual walk through Grant Park last month burned away visions of a fast‑paced industrial city, offering breathtaking views of Chicago’s solemn skyline from underneath peaceful, snow‑covered trees. Much of the newly fallen, 8‑inch‑deep snow throughout the park hadn’t been trampled.
Visitors to Chicago could easily spend days at the Shedd Aquarium, where fresh‑water and salt‑water aquatic life — nearly 8,000 fish, whales, dolphins, sharks, sea otters, harbor seals and others — splish and splash in all their colorful glory. Construction of the aquarium was completed in 1929, three years after John G. Shedd died. Shedd, chairman of the Marshall Field department store chain, left behind $3 million to build the lakefront facility.
The aquarium’s $43 million Oceanarium opened to the public early last year and brings visitors virtually eye‑to‑eye with the beautiful and diverse creatures of the sea. A fellow who works as an animal care specialist at Shedd gave this reporter a behind‑the-scenes look at what goes into making the aquarium one of the hottest tickets in town.
Chicagoans and tourists alike flock to Lincoln Park, north of the central downtown district, to jog, skate and bike. Nearby, Lincoln Park Zoo has some wonderful animal environments in a blend of historic and contemporary designs. The Great Ape House and the Lovler Lion House are among the highlights, and the zoo is known for its marvelous children’s programs.
Of course, to get a commanding perspective of this city, a visitor should head to the Sears Tower and take the one‑minute elevator ride to the Skydeck atop the building’s 110th floor. From there, the view is at least 10 miles in each direction, as long as the weather is clear.
And while you’re in town, try some authentic deep‑dish Chicago pizza. Instead of pepperoni, mushrooms, green peppers, onions and your other favorite ingredients on the top, they’re packed inside layers of cheese and covered with tomato sauce, creating an inch-thick pie.
It’s delectable stuff, especially when digested in anticipation of a night on the town, a cold beer or two and, you guessed it, some blistering Chicago blues.
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Hurricane Matthew: The roof was torn off, the walls collapsed
After Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti last Tuesday, Handicap International has been mobilising its teams in the field, supported by its emergency specialists who arrived on Friday. A large part of the country has been devastated and thousands of homes destroyed. The United Nations estimates that more than 2.1 million people have been affected, of whom 1.4 million immediate assistance.
Destroyed houses in south Haiti after Hurricane Matthew. | © P. Thieler / Handicap International
Josie and Moise, who both live in the south of Haiti, which was severely hit by the disaster, told us about their experiences.
"We lost all of our cattle"
"I live in Ravine, Charles, in the commune of Jérémie (one of the cities worst hit by the hurricane)," explains Josie Pierre, 22. "Everyone around here has lost everything. The house where I used to live with my mother and two nephews has been destroyed. The corrugated roof was torn off and the walls collapsed.
"My uncle’s house and my cousin’s house were both destroyed by the hurricane. As far as I know, all of the houses around here were destroyed in the hurricane. Only four homes are still standing."
For these families, who were already living in extreme poverty, the next few months are going to be very hard.
"We lost all of our cattle," says Josie. "All of our cows, pigs, goats and poultry. I don’t know how we are going to survive now that we have nothing left. I’ve never experienced a disaster like this."
Faced with utter devastation and isolation - the telephone network is down - people who live along the Charles river have started to organise themselves. "We are trying to recover the corrugated sheets and debris from houses to build shelters where we can spend the night."
"We’re having to drink the river water because it’s cleaner than the well water"
Moise Clarel, 77, is facing the same problems in the commune of Port-Salut. Only the generosity of a close acquaintance with a concrete house saved him from spending the night outdoors after his own home was swept away by the hurricane.
"A strong wind was blowing here from 6 o’clock on Monday night. My house collapsed in the middle of the following night after the corrugated roof was torn off and water rushed into the house," Moise recalls.
"I wanted to take refuge with one of my sons but his house was destroyed too. When day broke, I realised that all of the houses in the area had been flattened.”
"We’re eating the fruit we managed to save but in a few days we won’t have anything else to eat. And our cattle have been wiped out by the hurricane. Today we’re having to drink the river water because it’s cleaner than the well water."
An emergency team arrived in Port-au-Prince on Friday morning to provide backup support to Handicap International’s teams already working in Haiti. Our priorities are to facilitate the transport of aid to the most vulnerable people, and to provide rehabilitation care to injured people and psychosocial support to people suffering from trauma.
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Lady Audley’s Secret and the PRB
Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) by Elizabeth Braddon, is a pot-boiler that was fantastically popular among the Victorians. (Thanks to that savage reading guy for pointing me to yet another good read.) The book falls within the genre of “sensation novels,” dealing with explosive forbidden topics, e.g. incest (see A. S. Bayatt’s novella Morpho Eugenia, or its great film adaptation, Angels and Insects, for a modern take on this.), madness, murder, adultery, and the like. I’m not giving much away by saying that Lady Audley’s secret involves madness and murder, sort of…
There’s nothing too surprising or shocking in the plot for a modern reader, except perhaps how anti-climactic the unmasking of Lady Audley turns out to be: After she is confronted with her crimes, the novel carries on with a lengthy dénouement involving yet more not-too-surprising plot twists. It was all by way of good fun, nevertheless!
It’s interesting to compare the novel to Wuthering Heights published about fifteen years before: that could be seen as a sensation novel of a sort, if you accept the Heathcliff-Catherine incest Freudian interpretation. All the tempestuousness of Lady Audley would barely muss the hair of the demonic and haunted inhabitants of Wuthering Heights!
Lady Audley is a nice example of the Pre-Raphaelite femme fatale. Here is a passage from the novel that makes that explicit:
If Mr. Holman Hunt could have peeped into the pretty boudoir, I think the picture would have been photographed upon his brain to be reproduced by-and-by upon a bishop’s half-length for the glorification of the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood [PRB]. My lady in that half-recumbent attitude, with her elbow resting on one knee, and her perfect chin supported by her hand, the rich folds of drapery falling away in long undulating lines from the exquisite outline of her figure, and the luminous, rose-colored firelight enveloping her in a soft haze, only broken by the golden glitter of her yellow hair—beautiful in herself, but made bewilderingly beautiful by the gorgeous surroundings which adorn the shrine of her loveliness. Drinking-cups of gold and ivory, chiseled by Benvenuto Cellini; cabinets of buhl and porcelain, bearing the cipher of Austrian Marie-Antoinette, amid devices of rosebuds and true-lovers’ knots, birds and butterflies, cupidons and shepherdesses, goddesses, courtiers, cottagers, and milkmaids; statuettes of Parian marble and biscuit china; gilded baskets of hothouse flowers; fantastical caskets of Indian filigree-work; fragile tea-cups of turquoise china, adorned by medallion miniatures of Louis the Great and Louis the Well-beloved, Louise de la Valliere, Athenais de Montespan, and Marie Jeanne Gomard de Vaubernier: cabinet pictures and gilded mirrors, shimmering satin and diaphanous lace; all that gold can buy or art devise had been gathered together for the beautification of this quiet chamber in which my lady sat listening to the mourning of the shrill March wind, and the flapping of the ivy leaves against the casements, and looking into the red chasms in the burning coals.
Note the reference to PRB photo-realism, and the emphasis on how female allure is enhanced by the material abundance of the interior. This is materialist kitsch-decadence at its finest, or worst, depending on your taste and morals.
Lady A feels cursed by her physical beauty because it gave her the means to work her will upon the world, giving rein to the “taint of madness” in her blood, inherited from her mother. But she makes good use of it, turning it into a powerful witchcraft with which she bedazzles and ensnares her male (always rich, or so she thinks!) prey. She has a horror of ordinary, pedestrian life, without the richness of ornament to confirm and reflect her splendid female charms. Exiled to a posh maison de santé (bourgeois euphemism for madhouse) at the end, she shrivels up and dies without an audience with energy for her to feed upon.
Just a note on the authoress – she seems to have been a sympathizer with the South in the Civil War. So much of the British elite was – that’s where they got their cheap cotton to keep their mills humming.
Let us hope that when Northern Yankeedom has decimated and been decimated, blustering Jonathan may fling himself upon his Southern brother’s breast, forgiving and forgiven.
Keeping the UK from intervening to help the South was a major diplomatic initiative of the Lincoln administration.
Here’s a gallery of PRB images of women, including a few by William Holman Hunt.
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Making theBIGshift on sustainability
By Nikki Mandow, 17 Jun 2014
When, a couple of years ago, Unilever measured the environmental footprint of its products, it was shocked to find less than 5% related directly to its own operations. The other 95% of the pollution and waste Unilever caused came from its suppliers and customers.
Bugger. When you are the third-largest consumer goods company in the world, selling everything from shampoo to stock cubes, icecream to brylcreem in 190 different countries, making a difference to that 95% is a bit of a problem.
As the company’s sustainable business VP Karen Hamilton put it: “These were big challenges; challenges far too complex for one business or one government.”
Enter sustainability innovation forum #theBIGshift, which started (with Unilever as a founder member) in the UK a couple of years ago and launches here as Project NZ: #theBIGshift, at the Sustainable Business Network’s 2014 conference, in September.
The BIGshift network involves companies, governments and NGOs working together to transform key systems – transport, or food production, for example.
Sustainable Business Network CEO Rachel Brown says individual organisations can’t find environmental solutions on their own.
“It’s not about reducing your waste by 20%. It’s about bringing people together, looking at the blockages in the system that stop innovation occurring, and finding a solution.”
Take the issue of what to do with the four million or so waste tyres New Zealand produces each year. Until now they have been largely landfilled, with individual tyre companies struggling to find an alternative. But recently, the tyre industry, councils, transport engineers and others got together to find a more sustainable end product. The result was an idea to integrate shredded tyres into road surfaces.
Brown hopes the conference will be a chance for more companies to get together to make projects like this work.
“We already know about existing opportunities and solutions, but the challenge is making them a reality,” Brown says. “It’s about turning these pioneering practices into a tipping point and introducing speed and scale.”
She hopes #theBIGshift will bring together 10-20 companies and organisations in each of four areas seen as critical for system innovation in New Zealand: smart transport; food; social value; and the circular economy.
“It will be a chance for all the key players to hear what’s been happening here and overseas, share what has been learnt, look at where the opportunities are and set out to bust the problems.”
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Home / Articles / News / News / Lovelace murder trial heats up
Thursday, March 9, 2017 12:09 am
Lovelace murder trial heats up
Trial midway through second week
By Alex Camp
As a former Adams County assistant state’s attorney and center for the University of Illinois football team, Curtis Lovelace is accustomed to playing offense.
Now, he’s playing defense as prosecutors attempt to convict Lovelace of murder in the 2006 death of his wife, who was found dead in bed on Valentine’s Day.
It’s proven a tough case for prosecutors. A trial last year ended in a hung jury, with jurors reportedly evenly split over whether Lovelace killed his wife, Cory. Prosecutors say it was suffocation. The defense says she died from heavy drinking exacerbated by bulimia. Proceedings were moved to Springfield due to extensive pretrial publicity in the Quincy area.
Why would a community stalwart such as Lovelace, a former Quincy School Board member who’s enshrined in the Quincy High School Hall of Fame, murder anyone? The answer isn’t obvious, as prosecutor David Robinson acknowledged during opening statements on March 1, when he said that the prosecution isn’t required to prove motive. Look at the evidence, Robinson told jurors. And some of it is circumstantial. For instance, why did Lovelace call his boss before summoning paramedics when he discovered the body?
The failure of Dr. Jessica Bowman, who conducted the initial autopsy, to determine a cause of death is a hurdle for Lovelace’s accusers. Bowman is best known in Springfield for shortcomings so serious that Sangamon County State’s Attorney John Milhiser in 2011 said that he would not call her as a witness in murder trials, even though she had conducted autopsies for former coroner Susan Boone, who was pressured to resign as confidence in her office plummeted, in part due to questionable work by Bowman, who is on the witness list in the Lovelace trial. In one case, Bowman concluded that a Springfield toddler died of previously undiagnosed cancer. But the investigation was reopened by the state, and the man who was caring for the child when tragedy struck was charged with murder and ultimately received a 20-year sentence for aggravated battery of a child.
Prosecutors have put two forensic pathologists on the stand to buttress their case. Both told the jury that Cory Lovelace was suffocated, likely with a pillow, and both refuted Curtis Lovelace’s contention that he saw his wife alive on Feb. 14, 2006. Dr. Jane Turner told the jury that abrasions on Cory Lovelace’s face supported her conclusion that she was a homicide victim and did not succumb, as the defense asserts, to liver disease. Turner based her conclusions in part on the condition of the body, but also on a statement from the defendant, who told a detective that he’d seen his wife alive shortly before she was found dead. When defense attorney Jon Loevy mentioned liver disease as a cause of death during cross examination, the doctor flatly refuted the possibility.
“There is no sufficient evidence to support that opinion,” Turner testified. “If she died from a fatty liver, then there should have been no misrepresentation by the husband in how he saw her before she died.”
The jury has also heard from neighbors and friends who say that the Lovelace marriage was on the rocks, with frequent arguments that could be heard outside their home.
“He would tell me that she would lock him out of the house, that they would fight and he would sleep in the car, it was that kind of thing,” Amy Herkert, a family friend, stated. Catherine Meckes, who lived near the Lovelace home, testified that she was outside when she heard an argument the night before Cory Lovelace was found dead.
Erika Gomez-Steinkamp, Lovelace’s second wife, told the jury that Lovelace physically abused her near the end of their marriage and that he once called her Cory during a drunken argument. Gomez-Steinkamp, who did not testify at the first trial, also said that Lovelace once tried to grab her throat.
“I’m telling you what I went through so he doesn’t do this to other women,” Gomez-Steinkamp told the jury on Monday.
Contact Alex Camp at intern@illinoistimes.com.
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Statistically, I’m the least attractive person in the dating scene. Alongside black women, the Asian-American male is considered the most ugly and undesirable person in the room.
Take it from Steve Harvey, who won’t eat what he can’t pronounce:
“‘Excuse me, do you like Asian men?’ No thank you. I don’t even like Chinese food. It don’t stay with you no time. I don’t eat what I can’t pronounce.’”
Eddie Huang, creator of the groundbreaking Asian-American sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, responded to Steve Harvey in The New York Times:
“[Every] Asian-American man knows what the dominant culture has to say about us. We count good, we bow well, we are technologically proficient, we’re naturally subordinate, our male anatomy is the size of a thumb drive and we could never in a thousand millenniums be a threat to steal your girl.”
Asian-American men, like me, know the score. That is, we don’t count at all.
Hollywood won’t bank on me. Think: When was the last time you saw an Asian male kiss a non-Asian female in a movie or TV show? Or when was the last time an Asian-American male was the desired person in a romantic comedy? And more specifically, when where they not Kung Fu practitioners or computer geniuses? I can only think of two examples: Steven Yeun as Glenn from The Walking Dead and John Cho as Harold from Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. So it takes either a zombie apocalypse or the munchies to see a fully breathing Asian male lead, or a Photoshop campaign #StarringJohnCho for an Asian protagonist with actual thoughts in his head.
It’s so rare to see a three-dimensional Asian male character, with actual hopes and dreams, that Steven Yeun remarks in GQ Magazine:
GQ Magazine: When you look back on your long tenure on The Walking Dead, what makes you proudest?
Steven Yeun: Honestly, the privilege that I had to play an Asian-American character that didn’t have to apologize at all for being Asian, or even acknowledge that he was Asian. Obviously, you’re going to address it. It’s real. It’s a thing. I am Asian, and Glenn is Asian. But I was very honored to be able to play somebody that showed multiple sides, and showed depth, and showed a way to relate to everyone. It was quite an honor, in that regard. This didn’t exist when I was a kid. I didn’t get to see Glenn. I didn’t get to see a fully formed Asian-American person on my television, where you could say, “That dude just belongs here.” Kids, growing up now, can see this show and see a face that they recognize. And go, “Oh my god. That’s my face too.”
Growing up, I never had that, either. I can’t help but think of this scene from the biopic, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, in which Bruce Lee watches the controversial Asian stereotype played by Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s to a theater filled with derisive laughter. This moment with Bruce Lee is most likely fictional, but the weight of it is not lost on us:
This was a powerful moment for me as a kid, because I grew up with the same sort of mocking laughter, whether it was watching Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom with my white neighbors, or being assailed by the Bruce Lee wail in the local grocery store. I knew they were laughing at me, and not with.
“But hey wait!”—I’m told, with fervent knowing, “I know some Asian guys who are hot!” and I’m pointed to an infamous Buzzfeed list that shows “the hottest Asian men who will prove you wrong about Asian men,” with zero irony. Yes, I’ve seen the list. And yes, they’re like I expected: hard-rock glistening abs that are impossible for the working Asian dad, with classically European, chiseled faces and surgically-lifted eyes. More than that, it plays into the same creepy objectification of Asians as sexual play-toys.
Perhaps even worse than the portrayal of Asian men is how they’re not. More often, an acting role becomes “whitewashed” to suit a global audience, or an Anglo-American is the audience-avatar as a safety net for box office returns (remember, the last samurai in The Last Samurai was white).
I know this is a shrill, ill-discussed subject with all kinds of variables, but from the prosthetic slanted eyes in Cloud Atlas to race-bleaching in Ghost in the Shell to the the “Yellow Peril” demonizing of Asian males as evil ninjas and drug dealers in Daredevil and Iron Fist, Asian-Americans—especially males, as females can still literally serve as co-stars—are vastly both mis- and under-represented. We’re used for a footnote joke at the Academy Awards (the same year that there was a campaign called #OscarsSoWhite), an overly loud insane person in raunchy comedies like The Hangover or Saving Silverman, or a “funny foreigners” punchline in the falsely interpreted romantic comedy, 500 Days of Summer.
One of the obvious reasons that Asian-Americans are sidelined in the mainstream is because there’s no money in it. It’s that simple. Freddie Wong, in his parody video of Ghost in the Shell casting Scarlett Johansson, says it best:
“Because, as a studio executive, the immorality of whitewashing a beloved work of Japanese culture is outweighed by my fear that audiences won’t want to watch a movie starring an Asian woman. And I don’t have the balls to take that risk. Besides, whatever political outrage this decision evokes doesn’t materially effect how much money I make.”
In other words, we’re stuck in a Catch-22. There can be no roles for an Asian-American unless it guarantees a profit, but since we’re not portrayed regularly in most media, there’s never a chance for Asian-American leads to draw a profit in the first place. I get the bottom line here, and I’m not so oblivious to consider that investors are all idealistic innovators. The creative risk is too daring. From an executive’s point of view, I can almost painfully understand.
So besides whitewashing an entirely Asian property, the next best thing is to throw in a scrap of representation by using the whole stereotype. Make the Asian guy the smartest or the martial artist, and there’s your token diversity. It’s why major Hollywood blockbusters have now made shoehorned references to China: because they’re a huge source of box office revenue, and a pandering shout-out to China, no matter how forced or unoriginal, will mean more ticket sales. (It’s even going the other way, with Chinese movies like The Great Wall casting a white role to get more sales in America.)
Yet these roles have little nuance and only serve to further someone else’s plot. I’m the Manic Pixie Dream Girl and the Magical Negro, rolled into a non-threatening sidekick or the meditative Zen master. I will never be the action star or the romantic lead. God forbid that an Asian-American male would ever win against a non-Asian.
In some cases, Asians have capitalized on their own mockery by making fun of themselves in minstrel-like deprecation. I was surprised to find that the first winner of Last Comic Standing was a Vietnamese-American named Dat Phan, until I saw his routine, which went for the lowest hanging fruit possible. If you can’t beat the laughter, why not become the jester? Even other Asians want in on their own sabotage.
Representation for the Asian-American only seems to happens when it aims for the least common denominator. The cheapest move, of course, is to completely hijack the “exotic quaintness” of Asian culture without going “fully Asian.” Our culture is pillaged to boost a pseudo-masculinity. It’s easy: throw in Chinese tattoos or an Asian-type mysticism, and the non-Asian character instantly gains credibility. You can make up an Asian-sounding name, like “David Wong,” actual name Jason Pargin, a white author at Cracked.com, or Michael Derrick Hudson, a white poet who uses the pen name “Yi-Fen Chou,” and watch the doors open. All the benefits, none of the fuss. Use my name without the actual struggle.
Of course, Asian-Americans are accused of allowing such undercover racism in the mainstream because we’re silent, passive, and obedient. We’re easy targets. We don’t typically march or cause disruption. We’re not socially involved. It’s why a huge clothing company like Abercrombie & Fitch can make shirts with Asian stereotypes like “Two Wongs Can Make It White.” It’s why Stephen Colbert (whom I love, by the way), can get away with non-apologies when he cracks yet another Asian joke. It’s why Ryo Oyamada, a 24 year old Japanese college student, can get run over by a police car in New York, and the officer goes free and no one chants in the streets.
If you replaced the race with any other, the response would be louder, with solidarity on every side. Asian? No one cares. Literally and statistically, no one cares. Worst of all, it appears that Asians don’t care, either. It’s always a surprise when we speak up. You can drag an Asian-American off an airplane, and the most noise you’ll hear from other Asians is that they just don’t want to be seen as noisy and displeasing.
The thing is, there are no shortage of Asian-American men who are physically and intellectually desirable, who could portray themselves as fully living beings with compelling stories and relatable conflicts. Is it possible that the mainstream, for all its talk about diversity, is afraid of encountering a man who is both Asian-American and attractive? Is it simply intolerable to witness an Asian-American switch lanes between the sidekick and the star? Has the Asian-American male been permanently imprinted as comic relief or Karate expert? Is it too culturally explosive to pair an Asian-American male with a non-Asian female? Can we really handle an Asian alpha male who gets the girl at the end? (Much less a non-Asian female lead get an Asian guy at the end?)
I have to admit that some of this is on us. No, I don’t mean that we brought it on ourselves. I would never, ever perpetuate blaming the victim. I mean that we can still fight against the pervasive, seemingly impermeable walls around the identity of the Asian male, by reaching and demanding for more challenging roles in every sphere of media. The shift in perception of the Asian-American male coincides with a shift in self-perception.
Is it also possible to take a creative risk without guarantees? I know today’s market is less likely to pave new ground, with its risk-averse eye on sequels and reboots and recycling the same tale, but I wonder how we can tell new tales without resorting to the cheapest, easiest cliches, without exploiting Asian culture for “mystical credibility” but celebrating its uniqueness with a thoughtful exploration of both its treasures and its trials.
I’ll leave you with a quote from Lewis Tan, the half-Asian-American actor who was rejected for the role of Iron Fist. In a recent interview, he says:
“I’ve turned down a couple roles. My agents will tell you when I first signed with them, I turned down the first three or four things that came up. I’ve just turned down roles that were super-stereotypically Asian that I didn’t feel represented me and I didn’t want to do. Not to necessarily say they’re bad roles, but it just wasn’t me. I’m not going to do this dorky Asian accent and just play someone in the background. That’s not why I’m here to act. I’m here to represent and to make stories that I believe in and to achieve new things in the industry.”
— J.S. Park
Published by JS Park
J.S. Park is a hospital chaplain, sixth degree black belt, suicide survivor, ex-atheist, recovered porn addict, Korean-American, and loves Jesus. J.S. has a B.A. in Psychology from USF and a Master's from SEBTS. He is currently a chaplain at both a hospital and a nonprofit homeless charity. He lives with his wife and dog in sunny Florida. View all posts by JS Park
Posted on April 25, 2017 August 15, 2017 by JS ParkPosted in Christianity, Church, Culture, Current Events, Faith, Film, Life, Literature, Ministry, Movies, Music, News, Philosophy, Psychology, Relationships, Religion, TheologyTagged appropriation, Asian-American, Bobby Lee, China, Donnie Yen, Gedde Watanabe, Ghost in the Shell, Iron Fist, Kim Jong Un, North Korea, Orientalism, POC, racism, Randall Park, representation, social commentary, Steve Harvey, Steven Yeun, tokenism, whitewashing.
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Yonni's Wacky Workshop says:
❤ this post!
JEN SMITH says:
“When was the last time you saw an Asian male kiss a non-Asian female in a movie or TV show? ”
Spoiler alert:
My first thought is of the end of the movie “The Replacement Killers.” I wanted the two characters, John Lee & Met Coburn, to kiss soo badly. They seemed to have such chemistry. But that doesn’t answer your question.
The last time I recall an actual romantic relationship like you describe was in the series “Rising Son.” (early 199 0s, I think). Russel Wong’s character had a long-term relationship with a fellow musician who was Caucasian (Keri Russell, I think). Of course, they were both extraordinarily gorgeous. Anyway, they did more than kiss on screen (**fans self**). It was a good series, IMO, about two Chinese immigrants (brothers) trying to find a life and love, and overcome the contention in their relationship to each other.
The first Asian-American performer who I recall noticing was George Takei as Sulu on classic Star Trek. I can’t forgot his performance in “The Naked Time.”
I hope things change. Soon. And I’m sorry that you’re between cultures. God bless you, brother.
**Meg Coburn not “Met”** autocorrect was incorrect again.
Perhaps this article I read a while back would be of interest to you.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disturbing-history-behind-steve-harveys-asian-men-jokes-963735
JS Park says:
Thank you, Jen. George Takei was fantastic as Sulu. I also wish Russell Wong had become more of a star, I really thought he could’ve been an A-lister, but maybe the world wasn’t ready for that.
Interestingly enough, of all the romantic Disney animated films produced, the only one that hasn’t featured a kiss between the “prince” and “princess” characters is Mulan. But again, I guess American audiences weren’t ready for two Asians kissing in a Disney film (though the premise of the film itself is far more progressive than the expected outcome of two co-leads kissing).
I’m sure there are examples to counter the whole kissing thing (as many have pointed out through my inbox), but they’re definitely the exception. I guess the main point being: there’s a de-sexualization of Asian-American men, for whatever reason, and I highly doubt that’s going to change any time soon. While I don’t think simply adding sexualization will fix the void of Asian-American depth in Hollywood, I guess the overarching hope is that Asians are more “normalized” as real people who have emotional interests.
David Wong says:
I read through and it was an informative article. Being Asian myself I can definitely see the transparent issues of stereotyping in American media and entertainment. However, this is not some new phenomenon that only happens here. Every culture/civilization has a homogenous majority and that’s what will drive financial decisions which will ultimately effect creativity of the work if it is meant for commercial consumption.
China, South Korea, Japan, India, etc…. makes it explicitly hard to impossible to be cast in a role if you are not with the ethnic or caste majority. If you are an immigrant/foreigner or appear as an ethnic minority you will also be typecasted as no more than a “token” persona. In most cases audience just cannot relate or overcome the race hurdle unless the role is clever or the actor is exceptional, which lets face it… is incredibly rare in commercial blockbusters or “hit” tv shows.
So enough about the problems, trials and tribulations. Let’s talk about the progress to a solution too see more representation. It was mentioned briefly that the China is the second largest entertainment consumers in the world. That says something loudly to media and entertainment executives around the world. Hell, even creatives are salivating over the opportunity to receive foreign capital to fund their projects beyond the typical monopoly of Hollywood studios.
Money talks… African Americans make up only 13% of the population yet they are near equally represented to whites in lead roles. Further, they dominate the American music industry in terms of talent and production. This is emergence of black media and entertainment is not only due to Protesting about inequality and misrepresentation in the industry but by investment in this market. Production companies funded by African Americans and other like minded investors to create African American media and entertainment companies. Building a niche market to produce content suitable for their audiences which eventually bleeds into the mainstream and becomes mainstream.
The rise of China as an economic superpower has granted an opportunity for east Asian media and entertainment to extend out and have a hand in what mainstream Hollywood creates commercially for not only Chinese audiences but also for American audiences. It’s a two way street or a double edged sword when you invite these partnerships. Through sheer economic force, American media will have to reflect on its portrayal of Asian stereotypes and typecasting if they want to not just Appeal to foreign audiences but accept Financing from their government.. (all media companies in china are state run, they just don’t say it out loud).
I think morality and ethics need to be ignored here. It’s money that runs the world. What we see and how we are told to feel and react is driven by economics not social justice.
idiot849 says:
Indian actors look like Pakistanis. They’re literally 85% majority Punjabi male and females.
That fat asian girl looks like a man.
Oh, and by the way, you are extremely attractive! Do not ever think differently. 💋👍
JENNIFER SMITH says:
I second that Yonni. Not to make him uncomfortable. Just sayin’.
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Lindsay M Davis says:
Thank you Lindsay! Anything you felt that spoke to you?
I’ve been concerned with lack of proper representation concerning people of color, so hearing your own words and story of how that has affected you personally was really great 🙂 Basically, thanks for sharing your story and the stories of others dealing with this!
Thanks for this, J.S.
This is really interesting and very sad. I guess I would never have even thought about it (yes, I know. my white girl is showing.) But it’s definitely a stereotype that needs to be kicked in the butt, hard. Honestly, I think Asian guys are very cute! I hope that the dialogue about this issue grows and that we see a change happen as other stereotypes in Hollywood, that self-proclaimed bastion of diversity, begin to shift. Frankly, I think race issues should be placed way ahead of gender issues. Like, really? Is there not enough sex in movies to please people?! I’m glad you posted this because it’s real food for thought and something that definitely isn’t really being talked about. Also for the record, I think like 90% of white male actors are incredible unattractive, if not just downright ugly. Not sure what that’s worth, but… yeah. In my little corner of the world, the Asian exchange students are pretty much guaranteed to be cuter and have better style than the white guys. At least IMHO.
Thank you, Nina! I have to add that I think the problem might be less about “attractiveness,” since there are certainly no shortage of attractive Asian-American men. Rather the problem is in a deficit of stories about Asian-American men, whether they be classically “handsome” or not. If that Asian-American male is good-looking, that would just be the bonus! And I was given some good examples on my Facebook, which show some changing trends: https://www.facebook.com/pastorjspark/posts/1367471250034209
What about the small dick?
It probably makes you feel better about your own small dick consider that’s the only thing you can think of – dicks. I wonder how many dicks go through your head of every guy you see.
Robes says:
Bravo breaux on the post. I’m a whitey…and my wife is Japanese…so I’m cool and understanding (just kidding) Nah…profit and mediocrity….low-hanging fruit as you put it. Even classic Hollywood Movies that all sorts of fools (even one’s I mostly respect) are pantheonized….when they are tripe. There is not really that much difference between Casablanca and Air Bud 7 when it really comes down to it. Air Bud 7 has slightly better special effects. Casablanca does a bit better with mood…the black and white and all.
Very well-written and your voice will not be widely heard…because it deserves to be heard. And right above my comment..you got some chucklehead fixating on small penises. Soon there will be some cyborg male enhancement procedure that only rich people can afford….they will all have mega penises. This will be your future Allie. Fuck the Jetsons…happy robots and floating cars zipping about….no, Allie….your future will be slavering over websites with rich people cybercocks. They’ll conduct metrics analysis….on appropriate and appealing vascularity….using a team of MIT, Stanford and Caltech, etc. grads…per the stereotype…many possibly Asian. You will be provided access to these websites during your many work breaks at a job in the fake economy….they will do away with cubicles because they want you to feel less lumpenprole….it increases your productivity as a consumer if you harbor delusions that you are just as sexy….or better yet…have the potential to become just as sexy as the people in the cyborg genital-enhancement gossip sites. panem et circenses…motherfucker.
So I digress somewhat…but I did want to attempt to provide an answer to Allie. In a roundabout way, Comrade Allie….. I certainly hope I answered your question about small dick.
But yeah….I dig your blog bro. I’m still seeking ways to use the technology They so Merrily Give Us….against them. and yeah…there is a They. Not a cabal of fat, chuckling white men in a board room caressing globes carved from lapis lazuli…necessarily….but….
Thank you very much for the insightful and heart-felt piece. Very robust stuff.
Valor,
Robes:
Thanks for sharing. You have some interesting thoughts.
I think men, with some exceptions, place more significance on the penis than women do. I think many men equally place undue significance on women’s breasts. It’s my subjective opinion, so I don’t have any psychological or social data to back it up. Having grown up ultra-skinny, “flat-chested”, and brunette I experienced a lot of rejection from males. They made it quite clear that I just didn’t “have it.” Ah, well.
Incidentally Mr. Park…my apologies for the vulgarity. I consider myself a Christian..but I do tend to use a lot of profanity. It is not always the most effective means to communicate….but as far as the clinical anatomical stuff…I don’t consider that profane….just sad & clinical. But in any event….I don’t wish to really antagonize anybody with harsh language that does have purity of spirit. I was recently reminded that Omar in The Wire…did not use profanity. And if any recentish character was the epitome of a modern Jesus chasing the money-changers out of the temple…it is Omar.
Valor and Fellowship,
Smoke a blunt and live life. Like wtf is this shit bro.
Jenn C. says:
Let’s be real. Asian phenotypes have never been attractive on men to people of all ethnic backgrounds, including their own. As an Asian woman, I largely prefer the looks of white men who have naturally broader shoulders, more interesting hair colors and textures, more eye color and shape varieties, bulkier musculature, etc… I’m not saying that Asian men are ugly, as some are very good looking, but those who look good generally do so due to their Caucasian-like features. Your typical shorter, lankier male, with small slit-eyes or unmanly doe-eyes, is hardly masculine and does not project that look of confidence that women look for. We want to date and mate with a man who can protect his family, not another soft feminine person who looks like they’ll cower away with its tail between their legs at the first signs of danger.
I know I will be thrown pitchforks and all for what I just said, but this is a very uncomfortable truth that nobody seems to admit. Most just try to avoid their seemingly “white worship” by saying things like “love is love”, or “I don’t want to feel like I’m dating my brother”, but the truth is that Asian men just don’t look like men. And it’s too bad for them, but the reality is that there is very little they can do.
Edmond Sanganyado says:
Thank you for your honesty Jenn C. Have you considered that your preference of white features might be coming from decades of mental colonization? Dominant cultures tend to set themselves as standards of normality and even beauty. For that reason, Africans in some countries like Jamaica and Nigeria now bleach their skin. I don’t blame them, commercials on TV and magazines portray light skin as standards of beauty.
In my country, women with big sizes used to be the standard of beauty. There’s even a proverb about light skinned women; mukadzi mutsvuku akasaroya anoba – a light skinned women, if she’s not a witch then she’s a thief. With colonization and media, light skinned women are now the standard of beauty.
You might want to ask yourself why you really prefer white men; is it because they’re really more handsome than Asian men or it’s because you want to be white or you have been taught at an early age white men are the standard of beauty? Again, I understand beauty is a preference, there’s no standard for preference. And I can’t say your preference is wrong. However, our preferences are a reflection of our worldviews and should prompt a serious introspection.
So what if it is? Survival of the fittest is not only in the animal kingdom. White men have a more attractive “mating ritual” and have more physically appealing features overall, so it’s natural that women of all ethnic backgrounds are more attracted to Caucasian-looking men. Now I might be just talking about myself, but this is a statistically measurable fact. Keep in mind that proverbs are just words written by people who can’t genetically compete, so they channel their anger/jealousy into words.
There is a reason why certain ethnic groups have more dominant cultures than others. As superficial as it may sound, being objectively attractive plays a huge role in establishing its dominance. Therefore White men are factually more attractive than Asian men. Likewise, Asian women are one of the most desired demographic in the world because we embody what men look for the most in a mate. As much as there’s very little Asian men can do to make themselves a more objectively attractive demographic, there’s also very little Asian women can do do make us an objectively less attractive demographic. It goes both ways.
JENN C says:
LMFAO! Literally, all of your cuntspew boils down to “I’m a typical whore for whatever demographic happens to be the dominant force in the society I belong to”.
There’s literally nothing beyond that, in spite of your hilarious attempts to bring kindergarten musings on evolutionary biology into the framework.
What is this? Trying to be me? You can always try…
If being attracted to a dominant force of society makes me a whore, then I guess a sizable quantity of Asian women are also whores. But at what point will you start to realize that, maybe the problem is not us, but you? If there was only a small quantity of Asian women who refuse to date Asian men, then the problem will lie in their preferences. But the fact is, most Asian women (and even some Asian men) look up to white men as a standard of attractiveness, be it in appearance or in status. And when all effort to push against the trends fail, it’s perhaps time to accept the state of things that cannot change. Asian men unfortunately have more unattractive features compared to men of other racial makeup.
Jenn You’re the biggest dumbass I’ve seen yet, the phenotype thing you brought up definitely made some sense but going on about how asian women are so great…..yeah i dont think so, you’re all hella ugly too. But the thing is men, specifically white men, tend to not care how butt ugly you guys are. So you actually have a chance outside your race fortunately for you. Women on the other hand are much pickier when going for men, plus i remember hearing about how WMAF married couples don’t do to well either. And you guys do go after white men because you’re pathetic really. I mean you single out that race to go after because you wish you could be white yourselfs, essentially selfhating whores. Now that’s the fact. You can like white features but at the end of the day you’re generally just selfhating whores. Asian women are disgusting on the outside and inside but it takes a white man who gives no shits to deal with that. Have a good life
Moron just the some go go bar hookers from Thailand and the Philippines would go for some fat disgusting white male. Every other ethnic group has proven that the males marry out more than their females.
According to statistics from every white nation
Arab males marry out more than Arab females
Bangladeshi males marry out more than Bangladeshi females
Turkish males marry out more than Turkish females
Indian males marry out more than Indian females
Persian males marry out more than Persian females
Pakistani males marry out more than Pakistani females
Algerian males marry out more than Algerian females
African males marry out more than African females.
Literally just some desperate women from the far east and that too the desperate far east people since I’ve seen the East Asian women who are not from a background of prostitution stick with their own men generally. Also Mongoloid people from what I’ve seen have this attitude to follow orders from a government a lot more. They do anything to please the state. Now if the state is the Chinese government, then they please them for some reason and if its America, then its white males since they have this foolish idea to follow the crowd for some reason.
Doug Franklin says:
There is literally no chance that you’re an Asian women. You’re retarded ranting screams of your typical lonely white male who visits Stormfront on a daily basis in order to convince himself that his worthless life has meaning. lol
First of all, what is Stormfront? And second of all, I’m not the one who’s unable to find a mate. So whatever you say, yes my life may be easier simply because I was born Asian and female. Call it the way you want it, but I won’t apologize for being born this way. If you were born into an advantaged society (like into royalty or wealth), you’d exploit your privileges as well so don’t think for a second that you’re any different. You’re just upset that I’m speaking the minds of countless other Asian women who have to hide behind a veil of political correctness just to avoid hurting your feelings. We don’t belong to Asian men, so we’ll date, sleep with, and marry who the hell we want.
Hahaha this guy isn’t an Asian girl, he is some white fat loser, also its proven from facts and crowd photos that 80% white guys are obese and unfit.
Hahaha 85% of white males are obese and have disgusting faces. The best looking guys in the world in my opinion are mediteranean, brazilian, and some of those northwest looking guys from India that have those bollywood looks for example Hritik Roshan, other than that, there is really nothing special about white features. Also Asians aren’t bad looking people on average you’re a lot more fit and age better. You just don’t have confidence for some reason.
Jermaine says:
Please do not preface with your comment with African American women that was actually a punk move and comment. If you are speaking on Asian issues speak on that because as an African American I understand the forces that are at play in this country and the constant battle, hostilities, and jealousy that are targeted at black women. Black people cant have dark skin but others literally die to get dark skin through tanning. Blacks have a natural tan. My beautiful black sistas cannot be curvy, but others are spending thousands of dollars to get butt, lip injections for what they naturally have. So when you say statistically, please check your source and your messenger. If it is a white women source or male, please miss me with that. I think both print media and Hollywood has shown it is not a shortage of beautiful black women. In addition, the most successful interracial couple is the black female and white male combo, check the stats.
The reason African American women are targeted is that they are one of the most educated, outspoken groups in the U.S. (that includes my mom whom is a general practioner (MD) and two sisters (one an engineer and the other a nurse). Blacks are not the “model minority” because we will speak up both the educated and uneducated, lol. When they say Asian guys are unattractive then that is what they are saying. However, when it comes to African American women, same old propaganda dating back to when that “great white man” could not help himself for wanting to dip in the chocolate pond which is why you have all these light-skinned people and that white wife could not stand that black woman for her husband indiscretions.
So, I did not care for your “along with African American women” because as an African American MALE married to an AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE who is not fat, ugly, nor uneducated your comment was unwarranted. I can almost guarantee you if my wife had written this article and it was dealing with black females, she would not have even thought to mention an Asian male or anything else.
I have no respect for any group of people that puts another human being on a pedestal due the melanin or lack of in their skin. I have also observed Asian women with white men, and it is sad because white men do not give them the same respect that they would a white or black woman for that matter because SOME (not all) of these Asian women are worshipping them, the same as with Asian men, a white women could be the biggest whore and her own man not want her but an Asian man will kiss her dirty undies that is why so many white women will take a foreign man when their own men will not accept them. Those women eventually show their true color and play these guys and treat them like dirt. There is one such couple in my neighborhood; Asian guy working like a dog and the Mrs. is flirting with every Harry, Bill, and Larry on the block. I have dated my share of white women and to some extent can speak on this because most were ones I met in the club or in college and gave the appearance of being wholesome but was quite the opposite. Not saying ALL, but I dated a good number and that was the case. Asians allow themselves to be treated like dirt. Food for thought: Anyone you can walk on, you will always embrace as being OKAY!
It is really sad that is why I stay away from some foreigns because their behavior is sickening until they face the same racism that they would like to participate in but at the end of the day, “the white man” reminds them you are not white. It is funny because a man is just a man. If you do not have a history in this country, you fail to realize that fact because some other countries are so poor that they buy-in into whatever propaganda is pushed.
It is so sad when other cultures come to this country with their ignorance. Same God created me, created everyone else. It is because I recognize my greatness that they like to vilify me but at the same time envious of everything I am and represent. Before you respond, please take a class on American History, the Civil Rights Movement, and the African diaspora before you come to me with some nonsense, like you understand race relations in this country because if your folks were not here building this country from the ground up, you can stay mute. I do not totally agree with Steve Harvey, but African American women are not checking for Asian guys nor are some white women. I had to toss my hat on the table on this one because I love my beautiful wife, and I am tired of stats. published by white people attacking intelligent, strong, beautiful black women that happen to my mom, sisters, coworkers, etc.
Thanks for your thoughts. Besides the fact that I disagree with nearly everything you said in regards to Asian-Americans, in regards to your first point: for the stat about African-American women, I was citing the very same statistics that claimed Asian-American males as the least attractive demographic (you can check the hyperlink in the same sentence). I wasn’t just singling out African-American women or pulling such trivia out of left field, which would be offensive and rather racist of me. Of course, you may take it up with the algorithm of the statistics itself; I believe that if they are true, they reveal how awful the westernized culture really is. This statistic points to a larger problem with American culture: the ridiculous and unfair bias against minorities in terms of “conventional attraction.” I happen to think the bias against Asian-American men and African-American women is both real and unacceptable. On that it seems we agree. Whether we agree or not though, I appreciate the discussion you offered.
Wow, jenn c what candor, and the dude who was upset at the stats re: black – African American women, nothing of what you said did I comprehend, though I did try. I’m the villain here per se but I doubt that i would appeal to jenn c. Though I’m white the tall, broad shouldered, full blond mane, and other desirables are not part of my repertoire. Just blue eyes but my incredibly attractive black(she prefers that over African American) wife likes those & she even puts up with my baldness and lack of manly musculature, yep I’m scrawny. Now regarding my wife the first time I saw her the world literally stopped, she was and is the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen, dark skin that sparkles in sunlight, broad nose, thick lips, and hair not like mine ( the little I have), and to this day since 2010 and at 48 she still takes my breath away every time I see her. So I am part of a growing minority who does not believe black women are on the bottom of that list! And given some time I’m sure that list will be irrelevant for others too.
Macro Man Jr. says:
You could’ve been a little less crass there, my man. I’m black, too, but I see nothing here from this writer that warranted condemnation. Maybe some more explanation, for understanding purposes. But, so far, he’s kept a reasonable tone of dialogue going.
At least JS Park is SPEAKING about something regarding these type of issues. Many people don’t even do THIS much. If something’s not perfect, just point it out. I feel you went a bit far in insulting Asian guys. I’m also not sure it’s true that white women are preferring or fleeing over to Asian men, as much as you may think.
Also, I’ll just say, your comment about how many Asian men “will kiss her[white women’s] dirty undies is a bit much. Especially since you can easily find some black men who do the same–every seen the Kardashians and Jenners? Mandingo, Inc.
Anyways, we can talk about nuances and share differences in opinion and views, without approaching a “taking a swipe” zone. I feel that human relationships overall would improve if only more people know how to communicate better.
Oy, forgive my typos, folks. It’s late and I’m sleepy.
Random guy says:
Hello there. I am biracial myself (black and white), I married an asian woman and have two sons. I find myself being worried lately on how my sons will look like when they grow up and how difficult will be for them in the dating scene. I’m having nightmares where I cry to them asking for forgiveness for chosing their mother, she is pretty and have a great body, because of this I sometime wish they were girls cause everyone knows AF have it easier but both of them are boys #*@^. I can only hope that taking them with me to the gym and teaching them how to dress properly will save them for a future dating life failure
Aggro says:
Hilarious that in every topic on asian males, inevitably an asian female will crawl out of the woodwork & try to highjack the thread with her “Here’s 10 reasons why i love white guys!”
Seen this with every forum, or comment section everywhere
What do these self hating idiots do all day other than trawl the internet posting comments on topics (asian men) that she already despises?!
It’s like, they (obviously) don’t want Asian men or anything to do with them – but they also don’t want women of OTHER races to do the same, as well.
It’s like they piss on the inside AND the outside warning off other races of females. LOL
Sad actually, self hating, mentally sick fuck ups
PS the last laugh is at Asian women.
Sons from WM + AF will on average look far more asian looking than sons from AM + WF.
Because biologically, the gens from poverty, garbage genetics of asian females will contribute more (have greater weighting) than genes from the (white) male
So doesn’t matter how big, tall or how white the guy is. LOL
Son will mostly have physical traits taken after his asian mom:
– flat, pancake face, Asian skull,
– neotenous, harrmless looking (not good look for men)
– ugly, recessed midface, no angularity
– weak
– narrow frame, small boned
– short
– unathletic
Sucks to be you (and your sons).
Just google “Nicholas cage son”.LOL
His son is 1/2 white (with Korean mom). But looks 100% East Asian. LOL
Will also be a mental fuckup with psychological problems
(like Eliot Rodger & other serial killers/shooters. LOL
(at best will be a useless, worthless waste of space that no girl wants, neither Asian or white)
As further evidence, the first character that popped into my mind when I first started reading was Dong Nguyen from Kimmy Schmidt. Because he is an Asian-American male who kisses a white female. But, of course, the whole show is just one big stereotype after another (which makes me laugh – uh oh) so I don’t really think he counts. So then I thought of Minho, also played by Ki Hong Lee in Maze Runner. He doesn’t get to kiss a girl, but he is does get to be Asian-American and awesome without ever having to have an accent. He was also my favorite character, so of course he came to mind.
Anyway, I don’t really think I’m adding anything to the discussion here. Just wanted to say thank you for sharing your perspective and your experience, especially as it can be a very painful one. I could never ever in 100 million years know what it’s like to be an Asian-American man, because I am not an Asian-American man, but now I can understand just a bit more how my actions, biases, comments, and media consumption affect the experience of Asian-American men.
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Theres no point of this article because I don’t know why Asian americans are trying to sound like victims .You Asians don’t go through racism the way black people do. And to jenn.c who said Asian women are pretty,that is a big lie .You guys all look the same ,like the way your men do. And .I think you guys should just be content with your karate master role cause that role fits you guys, it will be weird seeing an African American as a karate master ,just the same way it will be weird for you guys in romantic Hollywood scenes cause of the unattractiveness of your people .
J. says:
So much is wrong with this comment filled with racial prejudices. Ugly.
Anonymous, pompous, and ignorant. Not a good look for you, guy. I’d hope you live with personal sense of shame in life about your deplorable character, but you probably don’t.
Haha says:
I didn’t read the article thoroughly and here’s why:
Asians playing victims in America sounds like a real joke to me. America is a white prevalent country and you’ve been all benefiting from it. And isn’t that why you or your ancestors moved to that country in the first place? Yeah, sure, America is a land of immigrants yada yada yada. And native Americans are like, Asians?! So make Asians a face of a blockbuster movie and make Asians movie stars!!!! Haha. Are you kidding me?
Black people were segregated and couldn’t even take a same train with white people. Black people fought to death against white people, and still some of white people are mocking black people, for, say, their slavery history, which is not a joking matter at all. Compared to that, Asian people pretty much have comfortable life in America. Tangible discrimination was everywhere but not like that.. This article only amplifies Asian stereotype. Yeah, take an initiative to be on a media is like a real struggle. Hey, are enough black people on Hollywood movies as a leading role? How about fat women? I mean there are some movements to make plus size models a mainstream, but do you actually believe it’ll work?
So it looks like this: no fundamental human rights are violated but greedy Asians want more. Because now they can afford it. Give us fame and give us pride by “making us appear on American movie”. Ironic, isn’t it? Because somehow, more Asians on American movie will make hunger disappear and third world countries less poor and more developed. AIDS will be cured and all criminals will be wiped out and earth will get a grip, once again. Sounds wonderful, isn’t it?
Don’t make me involved in this thing. I’d like to go after for real cause. There are still, thousands of people who are suffering from indignity and unfair treatment.
I can see the points you’re trying to make, and I appreciate some of the intent behind it, but your delivery could be better.
I don’t think this writer merits any condemnation. He’s carrying a dialogue in a rational manner.
And even if the problems touched on here aren’t all quite on the same level or tendency as for other minorities–even if that’s truly the case–one can STILL talk about those problems.
I would agree with his main point, such as how “unattractive” Asian males are commonly viewed as and generally aren’t preferred as faces in the media.
I would just prefer his set of problems than my own (as African-American, as America’s most feared guy in the room). But Asian-Americans have problems, too.
“It’s why Ryo Oyamada, a 24 year old Japanese college student, can get run over by a police car in New York, and the officer goes free and no one chants in the streets.”
Did Asian-Americans RAISE a fuss? Because other minorities like African-Americans will RAISE a fuss about these issues, giving no rest until their voices are heard–or, at least, noticed.
It’s why most modern Civil Rights got modeled after the African-American civil rights movement.
I agree, that this is incredibly sad that a young man got killed and saw no justice or outcry, but I don’t remember their being a publicized major outcry among the Asian community from it, either.
The “chants in the streets” today are simply because it’s taken other minorities like African-Americans over FIVE centuries to even get THIS far. One can point to, say, Obama’s success as becoming President, but then one can also point to how Trump was half of America’s immediate strong response as the anti-thesis to all things perceived “Obama.”
If I wanted, I could point to how, during the 1960s, while African-Americans were looking for civil rights, Asian-Americans (while, still discriminated again) were already gaining status as “model minority.” Not something that many Asian-Americans appreciate, but then again, being the highest-paid group of Americans (all while other minorities continue to fight for financial progress) isn’t helping.
The “invisible” nature of Asian-American society certainly isn’t right, but I could think of worse social issues to face than being positively stereotyped as smart, rich, and almost “white.” I’m not saying it’s right. It’s not. But I can certainly think of worse fates in this world.
At least Asian society is generally “second-place” socially and financially to white people’s “first place,” while African-Americans and Hispanic Americans still fight for better opportunities, and while 18 of the 20 poorest nations on Earth are Africa (thanks to colonialism breaking its back).
In the end, though, I wish all minorities could live as freely as white society does–who, at large, don’t even understand what it’s like to be NOT white in this world. It’s not easy being treated as “under” someone, for centuries.
I hope this comment doesn’t duplicate–the first time I submitted it, I didn’t see it appear immediately.
I just saw this trailer and thought of this blog you wrote J.S.
The wording under James Shigetta’s intro (at about 96 seconds) is so wrong. Makes him sound like a predator and not American. (If you mentioned this in your post, sorry for the repetition, though it has been a while since I read it).
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0052713/videoplayer/vi1052687129?ref_=m_tt_ov_vi
Fred Rogers says:
Let’s have some make believe about musical instruments and hoes.
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2004, Dave's World, Events / Festivals, Issue 39 (Nov/Dec), Kite Columns, KL Archive, Reports
Issue 39: Dave’s World
Posted on December 1, 2004 December 8, 2014 by David Gomberg
Fifteen years ago, on my first trip to Japan, Susan and I were privileged to participate briefly in the annual Hammamatsu Kite Festival. For over 400 years, neighborhoods have gathered in May to challenge each other with large, rectangular fighting kites. The teams are supported by flags, cheerleaders, marching bands and assorted hangers-on as they march though the streets to the kite fields and then begin to fill the sky with color. Trumpets, drums, whistles, and the hypnotic chanting of the participants pounds the kite rhythm into your head. It is not a festival — it is a kite frenzy.
I’ve just returned from a weekend in Hammamatsu. It wasn’t the full-blown celebration which is traditionally held in May. But it was still one heck of a party. Over 1200 fliers were registered. That’s more then four times the number at an average AKA convention! Amazing!!
Our small team gathered in Tokyo as guests of the Japan Kite Association. The group included Peter Lynn and Jenny Cook of New Zealand, Meg Albers of Buffalo NY, and Lutz Tresocks of Germany who had been asked to bring the Mega Ray.
I arrived in Japan at four, reached my hotel at six, and by six-thirty, had taxied over to Taimeken Restaurant for a tasteful reception of JKA officers and international guests.
Taimeken is owned by JKA President Masaaki Modegi and the top floor holds the renowned Japan Kite Museum. As the party continued, I snuck away to the deserted museum to catch my breath and savor the new displays. The museum is like a kite shrine, and private time there is a special experience.
The “Bullet Train” left Tokyo Station early the next morning. We enjoyed a brief visit to the Hammamatsu Kite Museum, inspected the kite fields, checked into our hotel, and then headed for the formal welcome party.
A welcome party in Japan includes speeches, the traditional cracking of the sake cask, toasts, entertainment, and a meal. The informal part includes catching up with friends, struggling to speak or understand Japanese, and dealing with the throngs who constantly top off your beer glass and then encourage you to empty it again with them.
Just when you think the party has peaked, the flags arrive, the trumpets sound, and hundreds of happy kiters begin to march around the room. The local president, the JKA president, and yes, the visiting AKA president are hoisted onto shoulders and carried through the isles.
Japanese festivals are a model of Japanese efficiency. They start early with speeches, you fly, and then it all ends with a flourish and everyone goes home. The whole thing takes about six hours. I actually think we spend more time drinking the night before!
Our first project was to get the Mega Ray off the ground. The kite arrived packed in five big compression bags and needed to be assembled. Fortunately, there were plenty of volunteers to help with the lifting and sorting.
The traditional Hamamatsu kites are square with a long extended bamboo spine. The spine is useful for stabilizing the kite during a launch, and also for dropping down on opponents during an engagement. It is also good for skewering inattentive civilians who make the mistake of wandering onto the field…
Kites are delivered in trucks, with each team receiving several pieces of different sizes for different conditions. The teams also use elaborate reels for their heavy flying line. All of the line is produced centrally and distributed to teams so they all compete with the same materials.
With JKA members in attendance from throughout the country, the local kites were relegated to one end of the field. The MegaRay dominated the far end and a stunning variety of traditional kites filled the center. Each part of Japan has their own indigenous design, varying in size, framing, and shape.
Winds were light most of the day which made for less-than-perfect flying condition. But that also allowed more time for touring the club pavilions, visiting friends, and viewing the kites up close.
Sunday night we gathered with festival organizers for a private Japanese meal and an exchange of gifts and gratitude. Then early Monday, we were off again by train to Tokyo and a transfer to Narita Airport. The flight home was a mere nine hours.
We’re now hard at work preparing catalogs for January and competing work on the new GKPI warehouse. Our next scheduled outing is Susie’s Surprise Birthday Trip in early December. Woohoo! No baggage!
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06:34 - May 14, 2019 - Peter Klopp
Translation of Mother’s Poem for our Wedding
So many followers of my blog had asked me for a translation of my mother’s wedding poem that I decided to get to work. The poem is quite poetic and uses my wife’s nickname Biene (Bee) as a metaphor for her flight from Germany to Canada in 1966. There was no way to preserve the rhyme and rhythm of this wonderful poem. The translation therefore can only give a crude impression, but at least you will know what this poem is all about.
My Mother’s Wedding Poem loosely translated into English
It whispers here, it mutters there.
It happened to my youngest son.
He wanted to study in Canada
to get himself a really good job.
The exams taken in quick succession
did not bother and confuse him at all.
Also what comes now is not a lie.
Something buzzing came flying to him.
A little bee (Biene) tender and excited,
of a very special kind was she,
flew from the Rhine on and on,
totally joyful and spontaneous,
sometimes high and sometimes low,
almost singed her wings, oh no.
From Montreal to Calgary,
tireless like never before,
the little creature totally exhausted
landed at Peter’s basement door.
Peter showing respect for any kind of life
did not leave the insect unattended.
He took care of the Little Bee,
stroking her wings so tenderly.
Indeed with so much tender-loving care
she turned into a princess without delay.
A young maiden well known to me,
he took her quickly to the marriage office.
On the 21st of May you will be a couple.
That is clear to the people in ‘Born, Germany.
Not too long ago Peter as scout lived in tent.
And now Biene flew to him in a great hurry.
Here are the greetings to all the siblings
from all the uncles and all the aunts.
That all may go well wishes your mother
from the bottom of her heart.
Photo by Karol Wiśniewski on Pexels.com
Categories: Canada, German language contributions, Germany, The P. and G. Klopp Story, Writing Tags: Erika Klopp, Gertrud Klopp, Peter Klopp, translation of Mother's Poem, Wedding Poem 1966
07:51 - October 14, 2018 - Peter Klopp
The Peter and Gertrud Klopp Story – Chapter XVIII
On my Moped to Father in Michelbach
It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
My Father in front of Erna’s House in Michelbach near Schotten
It had been more than five years, since I had seen Father. He had left one day looking for work at friends and relatives. Considering his poor health and age, he was faced with the dilemma of having to return to Wesel, where he would be dependent on Aunt Mieze’s financial support or else be content with the odd casual work, which barely supported his livelihood. Furthermore considering his intensive pride as a former successful agricultural administrator and the pain he must have suffered from the dismal failure of his farming venture in Southern Germany, I can understand his anguish and feelings of having become utterly worthless in his own eyes and in the eyes of his family. Pride and failure have never been good bedfellows in a man’s heart, and Father was no exception. As for me, I missed his presence a lot, but I was too timid to ask as to when he would come back and did not know what was going on behind the scenes. Much later I found out that with Uncle Günther’s support Mother had initiated divorce proceedings. On the basis of the law that required common residence and conjugal relations Mother was able to get a divorce in exchange for waiving any rights to financial support from Father. So to make this sad and depressing story short, Father after the divorce joined and not long afterwards married Erna Krämer, an old acquaintance from the Warthegau days, who lived in her rustic and cozy home in the village of Michelbach at the foot of Mount Vogelsberg north of Frankfurt.
Picturesque Schotten – Photo Credit: wikipedia.org
The last summer holidays before graduation were only a few weeks away. It was also to be the last year Mother and Aunt Mieze would reside in Wesel. Uncle Günther and Aunt Lucie had invited them to live with them in Watzenborn-Steinberg (now Pohlheim), where all four would share the rent of a brand-new house that had been built by a teacher as a retirement home in the distant future. Naturally there was a lot of joyful excitement among the three Kegler siblings having been raised together at the parsonage in Grünewald and now having the chance of living once more under one roof. There was just one problem. How would I fit into the grand plan of bringing the family members together? A transfer to a high school in another province with different graduation requirements was out of the question. The solution was an obvious one. I had to stay behind and continue my studies later on in the fall, while they would move to the land of the Hessians. The decision to finish my secondary education in Wesel proved to become one of the great milestones and turning points of my life.
Twenty-year Old Peter
But for now at the beginning of the six-week break from school I had other things on my mind. I had to think of visiting Father. One of my old scout buddies sold me his moped for DM 50.00, a true bargain at the equivalent of ten monthly allowances. It had a peppy engine and in spite of being quite old was in excellent shape. The best part was that I did not need a driver’s license. Having always envied Klaus for his scooter, I now had my very own motorized transportation with which I could travel to Michelbach to see Father and his new wife Erna.
Philosophical Discussions with my Father
At a maximum speed of 50 km/h it took me all day to reach the scenic hill country around Mount Vogelsberg. Father and Erna gave me a warm welcome alleviating immediately all fear that Father might have turned into a stranger. I had departed from Wesel with these somber feelings, which had been building up due in part to our long separation, but also due to Mother’s bitter and regretful remarks that she had sometimes made about the divorce. So it was a great relief to be greeted so cordially and be welcomed as son and friend into their cozy old farmhouse. Here then I was going to spend the next six weeks, would become reacquainted with a rural environment slightly reminiscent of Rohrdorf, would get to know Father more closely through our philosophical and historical discussions, would begin to like his wife, would be introduced to her friends and relatives in the village, would taste her hearty meals albeit a little too rich in fat, in short I was here to relax and feel completely at home in an atmosphere of genuine friendliness and camaraderie.
Joy at my Father’s Home
Right from the beginning of my visit Erna and I got along very well. Her cheerful and lively disposition did not allow me to lose myself in gloomy moods, as I was occasionally prone to do, especially during prolonged periods of idleness and aimlessness. I could even see, even though I was reluctant to admit it, that Erna was the right person for Father. She was the sunshine that had brought lightness and contentment to his sunset years. From her radiated a contagious joyous spirit that created the in-peace-with-the-world atmosphere so conducive to Father’s healing process from a torturous past, from which he only now began to recover. I definitely do not remember him as a man broken in body and spirit, as my distant cousin Eberhard Klopp described him in his book of the Klopp Family History.
Town of Schotten – Photo Credit: vogelsbergtourist.de
Erna also had a moped of the same make and the same 49 cc class as mine, on which she would travel down the steep hill into the town of Schotten to buy the few things she needed for the small household in Michelbach. When there is company, one always seems to find the time to show off the beauty surrounding one’s home turf. Without visitors one tends to delay and leave such outings for another day. Erna was no exception. Now she was eager to travel with me to the nearby-forested hills, up the scenic Nature Park around Mount Vogelsberg, down winding country roads into the lush verdant valleys neatly tucked in between minor mountain ranges. There was no better form of transportation than our two mopeds. With a lunch pack clamped to the rear luggage rack we were ready to dart off into the wonderful Hessian landscape. Father a little overweight for these light machines gladly stayed behind looking after a few chores still to be done on this mini-farm with just a few goats to feed and milk,. Just as we were revving up the engines, Father came to the road to congenially shout over the noise, “Have a good trip!” At the end of my vacations thanks to our weekly excursions into the hill country, I had acquired a solid geographical knowledge of the region. As I was internally preparing myself to leave the Rhineland for good after my graduation, I had already created a new base to drop in as son and stepson, a place I could truly call home.
Landscape of Vogelsberg Hill Country – Photo Credit: vogelsbergtourist.de
In the long summer evenings after supper we three would sit in the living room leisurely sipping homemade apple cider. We would talk until it was time to go to bed. More accurately speaking it was Erna, who did most of the talking. She truly had the gift of the gab. With the unerring memory for minutest details spiced up with colourful expressions and peppered with the melodious dialect of her village she was the born storyteller. I will never forget how she described the chaotic scene of the German Reichstag of the roaring twenties. She and her friends were sitting in the same living room forty years earlier and acted out the ugly political debates they had heard over the radio. And they did this with such exuberance, with so much mock yelling and screaming that the poor cats terrified by the brouhaha created by the inflammatory speeches sought refuge under the sofa and added to the parliamentary cacophony with much hissing and growling.
Amazing Rock Formations near the Top – Photo Credit: myheimat.de
Is it Love?
Within the scope of the family history I would go too far if I included Erna’s side of the family except the ones that I came into contact with. There was the Langlitz family, Walter, Frieda (Friedchen) and their two daughters Helga and Anita. Walter had become a successful contractor who ran a prosperous business with his impressive array of trucks,
Church of Michelbach now part of Schotten – Photo Credit: wikipedia.org
caterpillars, backhoes and other heavy machinery that he had acquired to assist in the government sponsored land reform program. In contrast to the northern provinces of Germany, where the eldest son inherits the farm, inheritance laws in the south required equal division of the fields among all the children of the deceased farmer. Thus, over time emerged a chaotic patchwork of tiny fields often less than one ha in size, which made farming more and more inefficient and unproductive. So Walter profited from the reallocation of land by owning the right equipment at the right time. The two daughters, Helga and Anita, age 12 and age 10, whose exact degree of relationship to Erna I do not recall, often showed up to play board games, such as chess and checkers with the newcomer in Father’s home.
Peter Basking in the Sun – Summer 1962
Erna was also anxious to have me meet her 16 year-old niece Roswitha, who lived a few houses down the street with her widowed mother. Even though I did not recognize it at the beginning, it was clearly a matchmaking effort supported by Father. In collusion with her sister-in-law, Erna invited her niece over for coffee and cake to make sure we would see each other as often as possible. Roswitha in terms of the standards I had set for what a girl should look like fell well within the range of acceptability. However, inner qualities, such as interests in activities that one could do together, readiness to share and exchange thoughts and feelings, to support them and if necessary even to oppose them, such qualities, which began to gain more and more in importance for me, were severely lacking. In a way my encounter with her helped me set the bar a few notches higher, which further limited the number of choices for my future mate. I vaguely felt for the first time that only love could help jump the hurdle. But what is love? I could not tell, because I had not experienced it yet. So what Erna had hoped for, did not happen. We were friends, who did things together for a while. We walked down the steep hill down to the town and district swimming pool in Schotten and on Saturday evenings we went dancing in the nearby villages. The music was not exactly rock ‘n’ roll, but we could dance to it, whenever a fast beat would permit. The performance of the band improved with each refill of the giant beer mugs during the frequent breaks. Thanks to the loud music there was no opportunity to talk, and there would not have been much to talk about. On our long walk home in the moonlight I explained to her how the stars would move like the sun following the rotation of the earth. For everything I said during my scientific dissertation she approvingly giggled. Only once did she protest to express her utter disbelief, when I insisted that the moon shining so brightly now onto the forests and meadows would also show its pale face during daytime.
My brother Adolf relaxing at the Schotten Swimming Pool
With my first visit to see Father after such along gap inconceivable in the light of today’s custody laws that require visiting rights at regular intervals, I accomplished much more than just reconnecting with him. The ice had been broken. Other family members now were eager to come in a spirit of reconciliation that was shared even by Mother albeit somewhat reluctantly. Near the end of my holidays my brother Adolf dropped in for a visit. He had returned from Canada to Germany on a temporary basis to learn a trade in an apprenticeship program at the Honeywell Company at Hanau. There he eventually acquired a journeyman ticket as a trained machinist that would – so he was hoping – land him a good paying job upon his return to Canada. Adolf endowed with a witty sense of humor and an extroverted personality was the life of the party no matter where he went. In formal or informal gatherings, in suit or in jeans, with academics or with factory workers, he was the born entertainer who made people cheer up when they were depressed, got things rolling when they appeared to be stuck. Everybody liked him. He had many friends and few enemies. There was just one problem with this gregarious likeable brother of mine. He seemed to be shy, yes even afraid of unmarried women, who might take too much of a liking to him, pursue him with the full force of passion and lock him up in the golden cage called marriage. When we received an invitation to a social evening by Roswitha’s mother, Adolf felt safe, because his youngest brother was with him. On the surface it looked like we were the suitors, Roswitha being courted by two promising young men. In reality in a strange reversal of the customary roles it was the other way around. As we gathered in the living room, Frau K. served us wine, crackers and cheese, spent a few perfunctory minutes in conversation with us and discretely withdrew with a few cheerful words meaning that we now were on our own. I found the situation very odd and to some extent embarrassing, because I had expected her to stay. It was Adolf who saved the day or more accurately the evening with his social skills that helped to get the ball rolling. He asked Roswitha about school, hobbies, her likes and dislikes, the weather, and all the other trivia that he was so apt in using as a social lubricant. To her replies often accompanied by the aforementioned giggles he added humorous comments that made us laugh and feel at ease. Eventually even I emerged out of my taciturn shell and presented to everyone’s amusement a few jokes and riddles. Around eleven o’clock Adolf ironically remarked that it was time for us ‘boys’ to go home. We politely said good night and cheerfully departed to have another drink of a more potent kind at our Father’s place.
Happy End to a most Enjoyable Visit
Then my sister Erika dropped in for a brief visit. When she heard that I had been going out dancing with Roswitha, she mockingly and contemptuously commented on her in Father’s presence, “Ho! Ho! Peasant duffer! (Bauerntrampel in German)” By now I had become quite accustomed to the unpredictable outpourings of her sharp tongue. Her caustic and biting remarks at Mother’s place in Wesel had been edged forever into my memory. However, Father was livid. Having respected all his life the hard honest work of the farmers from whom we receive our daily bread, he was deeply insulted by that derogatory remark. He gave her a severe dressing-down for displaying unjustified disdain for such an honourable class of people. Never since my early childhood days, when he had read me the riot act for stealing eggs from Mother’s henhouse, had I seen Father so angry. If I did not know the meaning of holy wrath, I knew it now.
Erna Klopp with her neighbor’s baby in her loving arms
Erna’s house was at least half a century old and the electrical wiring was outdated and no longer in compliance with the latest electrical code. It required that all circuits be properly grounded. It made me feel good that I was not just there to enjoy a relaxing summer visit but also had the opportunity to make myself useful. Father had bought the three-prong wire, and I installed it and connected it to the junction boxes, outlets and switches. When I showed reluctance to take the twenty marks Father wanted to give me as pay for my work, he lectured me somewhat like this, “Listen, Peter, if someone offers you money, not dishonest money mind you, but money earned for work you did, do not hesitate to accept it. For you not only cheat yourself out of the reward that is rightfully yours, but you also insult the generosity of the giver.” To such a powerful argument I had nothing to reply and took the twenty marks.
Together with Helga and Anita in Michelbach
At times when Father’s back pains were hurting too much, he stayed in bed for most of the day. Adolf and I were sitting at his bedside to keep him company. Then Father and I would often talk about the great empires of the past and the lessons one might learn from the causes of their decline. I really warmed up to this topic as I had recently taken a keen interest in the history of the Roman Empire. We came to the conclusion that if one allows foreign religious and ethnic elements to penetrate the cultural core of the nation, it will sooner or later lose its identity, its values and strength and will eventually have to face first decline and then total collapse. Germany according to Father has not learned her lessons and was headed in the same direction. He pointed to the record player on the night table remarking, “The record is turning, the needle appears to be progressing even though it is running in circles, but in the end it will be starting all over again symbolizing the eternal recurrent of the same in world history.” Adolf feeling a little left out in this highfalutin talk said he would buy himself a couple of history books to study up on the things he had missed in school.
Reading and Relaxing – Summer of 1962
Categories: Autobiography, Book, Photography, The P. and G. Klopp Story, Writing Tags: Adolf Klopp, Erika Klopp, Erna Klopp, Michelbach, My father Ernst Klopp, Peter Klopp, Vogelsberg
Chapter 27 of the Peter and Gertrud Klopp Story – Part VII
Picturesque Quebec City – May 1965
Now we were at liberty to visit Quebec City. Adolf, who as Canadian citizen did not have to go through the immigration procedure, joined us to explore the only walled city in all of North America. We took a taxi to the city centre. We traveled past wooden houses painted in bright, sometimes garish-looking colors offering a bewildering sight for the new immigrants from the Old Country. When my sister and I noticed the ugly power poles often leaning at a precarious angle in the back alleys with wires seemingly helter-skelter stretching out in all directions, we broke out in irreverent fits of laughter. Adolf was quite annoyed, as we had touched a sensitive nerve. After all it was his home country that we were insulting with our disrespectful conduct.
City Hall Quebec City
We got out of the taxi at the statue of Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer, founder and first governor of Quebec. There Adolf and I decided to separate from Erika and her companion Beate, as they were more interested in shopping. We two brothers, however, wanted to have a good look at the ramparts and fortifications of this historically rich city. So we took a tour of the classical 17th century defense systems with its mighty walls, which unfortunately in the end did not prevent the British redcoats from taking over all the French colonial possessions in North America.
Samuel Champlain – French Explorer and First Governor of Quebec
When hunger pangs reminded us that it was time to have lunch, we dropped in at one of the many restaurants catering to the tourists that were flocking to Quebec City by the tens of thousands every year. We ordered steaks, large enough to fill out the entire plate and at $2.00 a bargain even at the then current dismal German Canadian currency exchange rate of four marks to one dollar. I had trouble communicating with the waiter with my Parisian school French. So I could not figure out, why they could not serve us any beer, which would have complemented nicely the fabulous meat dish. To quench our thirst, it felt odd that we had to move on in search of a beer parlor. To call it a pub would have definitely been a misnomer. The place was filled with dense cigarette smoke wafting above oversized round tables, the jabbering of hundreds of people echoing from the bare walls gave more the impression of a large waiting hall at a German railroad station than that of a cozy inn, like the one where Biene and I had spent a romantic afternoon on Mount Vogelsberg. These beer parlors had been built based on the mistaken belief that their grotesque ugliness would deter people from gathering and drinking beer. Great was my amazement to watch the clients order half a dozen glasses of beer all at once, not caring about their drink getting stale. Some even sprinkled salt on their brew or ate heavily salted peanuts to increase their thirst for more. Adolf was quite used to this custom, which seemed to me a relic of the past. It was a bit of a culture shock to me and I was happy when we returned to the Ryndam, where we enjoyed the sumptuous farewell dinner that the cooks had prepared for us, truly a culinary experience par excellence.
Cannons and Fortifications – My Brother Adolf on the Left
There were many last times on this floating hotel and entertainment centre that had safely carried us across the Atlantic, the last dinner with our table companions, the last game of chess with a Yugoslav doctor, the last card game of Mau Mau, the last visit to the bar, the last time I climbed up to my upper bunk, a last glance from above on Biene’s portrait on the cabin’s tiny desk, the last time the little room bell tinkled and called us for the last breakfast on board of the Ryndam. My heart filled with a sense of nostalgia and bittersweet feelings of regret. I had to leave this wonderful ship with her dedicated staff behind. I felt sad that I had not been able to share all these memorable experiences of the eight days on board with Biene.
Categories: Autobiography, Book, Canada, Photography, The P. and G. Klopp Story, Writing Tags: Adolf Klopp, culure shock, Erika Klopp, first impressions of Canada, Peter Klopp, Quebec City, Samuel de Champlain
07:00 - June 25, 2016 - Peter Klopp
Chapter 22 of the P. and G. Klopp Story – Part I
From Darkness into Light
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
Beautiful Feldafing at Lake Starnberg – Photo Credit: bergfex.com
Soon after my return to Maxhof, Gauke and I received the order to report to the commanding officer. I wondered what could be so important that we would be sent away from our very first driving lesson in the New Year. The young clerk in uniform behind the massive office counter told us that the captain was expecting us in his office. With a heavy heart we entered. After the perfunctory military salute the captain asked us to take a seat. I had the ominous feeling that we might have unknowingly broken some rules resulting in a disciplinary issue that the sergeant at the driving school could not handle himself. Without giving any explanation the officer informed us that we would be transferred back to our unit in Koblenz as of April 1st. We were stunned. But when the officer asked us whether we had any questions, Gauke inquired, “Why are we being sent back, if the purpose of the transfer was to have us trained as certified truck drivers?”
Villa Waldberta Feldafing – Photo Credit: wikipedia.org
The officer was a little taken aback, as soldiers are only allowed to ask questions, but not to question orders. But he must have realized that in this case we were entitled to know. For he said, “Soldiers that were transferred to my unit were supposed to be already fully trained as truck drivers. That was my request. Instead THEY send you! Dismissed!” From the furious tone of his voice, with which he pronounced ‘they’, it seemed to me that he was not angry at us, but at the system that cheated him out of two valuable truck drivers. Because of this ridiculous transfer I had not only lost out on the officer’s training program, but now I would also be deprived of the golden opportunity of getting my driver’s license. But what bothered my sense of justice the most was that we had been lied to, that the promise to provide driving lessons in January had been broken. In a violent outburst of angry words I released my frustration in a ten-page letter to Mother, which she acknowledged in a postcard expressing her hope that I had been able to calm down. In her motherly wisdom she had also destroyed the letter because of its incriminating content that she did not want anyone else to read.
Portrait of my mother – Erika Klopp
Gauke and I had a good talk over a mug of beer in one of the local pubs and discussed what our next move should be to address the unfairness of our transfers. I suggested grieving the matter at the next higher authority. Gauke agreed and encouraged me to write the letter of complaint, since with all my novel-writing I should have the better writing skills. Then we ordered another beer to drink to what sounded to us as a good decision. Within less than a week our grievance to the major in charge of the signal corps was in the mail.
Categories: Autobiography, Book, Bundeswehr, Germany, Photography, The P. and G. Klopp Story, Writing Tags: Erika Klopp, Feldafing, Gauke, Maxhof, Peter Klopp
Chapter 21 of the P. and G. Klopp Story – Part II
To my dear blogging friends: Please note there will be only two posts next week. The one on Tuesday will continue with Anke Schubert’s submission in German: Eine ergreifende Liebesgeschichte, and the one on Thursday will be the next episode of the P.and G. Klopp Story. Canada is celebrating Victoria Day with one extra holiday for the month of May.
Discussion with a Friend on the Nature of Love
Mother had just returned from a visit to Gerry, daughter-in-law Martha and her one-year old grandson Wayne in Medicine Hat, Alberta. It so happened that I was on a ten-days leave and spent a relaxing vacation with her and Aunt Mieze, Aunt Lucie and Uncle Günther at their wonderful house in Watzenborn-Steinberg (Pohlheim). Mother talked a lot about her exciting trip to Canada. The proud grandmother had traveled with Gerry’s family over the Rocky Mountains all the way to beautiful British Columbia. Gerry described the countryside with its lush valleys, wild rushing streams, spectacular scenery and mild climate as God’s country. True to a long family tradition in the Kegler branch of the family, Mother wrote a report of her experiences of her journey to the land of the beavers.
Mother Erika Klopp with Gerry on her visit to Canada
Biene’s school holidays were approaching. In 1962 her family had spent their vacation on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. Now they were planning to spend a couple of weeks at Lake Ammer in Bavaria. Even though I felt my love for Biene was getting stronger with every passing week, I did not openly declare it to her, because I erroneously assumed that she would already know. When she once asked me if I had ever been in love, I missed the golden opportunity to reveal what was on my heart. Instead I used a ride on my brand-new bicycle as a metaphor to describe in the most abstruse way the chaotic state of my inner being. I described how I got lost in the woods. I did not know which way to choose to get out. I dug deep into my psyche, too deep for comfort. Not yet realizing that the good and the evil lie close together within each and every human being, I criticized the world for failing to give me directions. Blind as a bat to my own flaws and weaknesses, I declared the entire world with its political systems, the church, and the army rotten and corrupt. These pathetic meanderings of my mind did very little to express my true feelings for her and would have been better left unsaid.
Peter on his brand new bicycle
For the remaining three or four days I went on a bicycle tour with Dieter, my new army buddy. We traveled first up the River Moselle, then climbed up into the Eifel Mountains and stopped at a beautiful campsite named Pomerania, which reminded me of my grandparents’ lost home province in the east. At nightfall we sat in front of our tent looking at the rising moon in a cloudless sky. The day before I had bought a bottle of Moselle wine, a Riesling well-known for its distinguished qualities due to the grapes, which incredibly ripen more fully during extended periods of autumnal fog in the river valley. Gazing at the crescent of the rising moon I remarked, “If me girl-friend in Velbert also looked at the moon this very minute, our eyes would be fixed on the same heavenly object and in some esoteric way we would be connected with one another.”
Famous Moselle Valley with Germany’s finest Vineyards
Dieter chortled a few times, before he retorted, “But my friend, don’t be an idiot. That is not the same as being physically present. When I kiss my beloved Heidi, I know real love, love that you cannot even fathom with your strange romantic ideas in your head.” And that was the beginning of a long discussion on the nature of love. When we had savored the last drop of the wine and were ready to crawl into the tent, we had moved away from our opposite points of view and found some middle ground. We agreed that in order for a relationship to be meaningful both the physical and spiritual dimensions would have to be present. We learned something important from each other. As for me, I resolved to arrange a rendezvous with Biene at the first opportunity that would offer itself in the near future. But you never know to start with, how things turn out in the end.
Categories: Autobiography, Book, Bundeswehr, Canada, Germany, Photography, The P. and G. Klopp Story, Writing Tags: bicycle tour with a friend, Dieter, discussion on love, Erika Klopp, Moselle region, Mother, Peter Klopp, what is love?
20:58 - April 1, 2016 - Peter Klopp
Basic Military Training
The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country.
George S. Patton Jr.
The train wound its way through the picturesque Lahn valley to my destination in Koblenz, where I was to receive my basic army training. I had celebrated my 21st birthday in the new home that Mother, Aunt Mieze, Uncle Günther, Aunt Lucie were renting in Watzenborn-Steinberg. After the traditional coffee and cake party we played several rounds of our favorite card game ‘Doppelkopf’ in the evening.
Chief of the Kegler Clan, Mother, Aunt Lucie, and Aunt Mieze- Pohlheim 1963
Aunt Mieze was not fond of playing cards, so I had become a valuable game partner now and for all future occasions when I came for a visit. My aunt would rather sit a good distance apart from the noisy bunch in an easy chair and read a book. Often she would fall asleep in spite of the racket we made around the card table. Then the book she was reading would slip out her hands and fall on the wooden floor with a loud thud. Mother suggested to her to go to bed. However, she rather wanted to have the feeling of being part of the family than to give in to nature’s urgent call to sleep. Now on my way to the barracks I had the train compartment all to myself and while passing by ancient castles on the hillsides above the lazily meandering river below I had time to contemplate about the military service that I was about to render to my country. I was now of age, had the right to vote, could do things on my own, I was free, and yet, as I was approaching the city of Koblenz, I felt that I was not. I had simply traded one set of responsibilities for another. And I wondered whether that would always be that way.
German Corner (Deutsches Eck) Koblenz – Photo Credit: wikipedia.org
In the early afternoon of April 1st I walked through the barracks gate carrying my suitcase with the few personal belongings we were allowed to bring during the training period. After I identified myself to the guards on duty as one of the new recruits, I proceeded to the building, where I was told I would find further instructions on the bulletin board located on the ground floor. There were about a dozen buildings all in the nondescript shape of rectangular boxes placed around a huge yard that served as the ‘playground’ for the military practice and drill sessions. The entire area was almost devoid of people. The previous generation of soldiers had been successfully ‘calved’ and been transferred for further training to the three major technical companies of the Signal Corps located in the city. Expecting the place to be brimming with activity where there was none gave me an eerie feeling as if I had erred perhaps on the start-up date or worse had fallen victim to a nasty April Fool’s trick. When I looked through the names list of some 120 men, I found it somewhat reassuring that Klopp was indeed on the roster. I even had a rank, which I shared with the other newcomers. From now on until I had advanced to the rank of a private, I would be Fu Peter Klopp, Fu not standing for a four-letter word, but rather more appropriately for ‘Funker’ (radio operator). I was assigned to Room 203, which meant Room 3 on the second floor in the three-story building. The extremely wide staircase surprised me and I wondered about the waste of space until I discovered that there was a method to the madness of the architect’s design of the overly generous width of the staircase and of the hallways. How else during an alarm could 120 soldiers rush out of the building in the required three minutes?
Peter as Civil Servant in Uniform 1963
I was the first to enter Room 203. Although later on I had sometimes regrets about my eagerness to report for duty, my early arrival had the advantage that I could pick and choose the best location for my bed and closet. The room was definitely not set up for comfort. In the middle of the austere room stood a long table, around which 15 chairs were placed. Five bunks with three beds each were pushed against the walls. Each soldier would have for his personal belongings, army clothes and equipment a lockable wooden closet. The placement of these lockers was such that they formed a partial visual barrier between some of the bunks, thus granting a modicum of privacy. I chose the bottom bed of the bunk nearest to the left window and the closest locker for easy access. I was happy about my choice. The window would provide fresh air and the bottom bed would to some modest degree protect me from the disgusting bodily fumes permeating the entire room, especially after the soldiers returned from the local pubs, where low quality beer was being served.
Crest: Fifth Tank Division – German NATO Forces in Koblenz
I opened up the closet and stowed away my clothes, toiletry items, Mommsen’s ‘History of Rome’ and a few other books, which I intended to read during the weekends, during which we were not allowed to leave the barracks. There was plenty of room left. The empty shelves were waiting to be filled with army garb from the quartermaster on the very next day. When my belongings were neatly put away in the closet, I locked it securely with a padlock. It was considered just as great a crime to tempt your fellow soldier with an unlocked closet, as it was to steal from it. I put a pocketbook on the pillow of my spartan bed as a sign that I had claimed it as my own. Then I went outside and enjoyed sitting on the retaining wall of large circular pond in the late afternoon sun watching as the other recruits came trickling in at first, then eventually swelling to a human flood, as the deadline of the arrival time was rapidly approaching. Today we were still civilians. Tomorrow we would be soldiers wearing uniforms (derived from Latin ‘una forma’, meaning one form, one shape), individuals still on the inside, but a gray mass of young men pressed into the same mold of dress code, rules, military routines and activities. With the total uniformity of regulated daily life came the assault on our individuality with its profound effect on character and soul. Life in the army became the crucible, in which our character was put to the test, and for me, even though very painful at times, the process brought about refinement, which prepared me well for the many challenges further down the road in my personal life.
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College Student Says He Mistook Mom for Intruder After Beating Her to Death
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A 21-year-old college student who had returned home for spring break was arrested after allegedly beating his 53-year-old mother to death using a baseball bat because he believed she was an intruder and he was defending himself.
Kane County Prosecutors on Monday charged Thomas Summerwill, 21, with two counts of second degree murder for the beating death of his mother, Mary Summerwill. A judge set a $300,000 bond for the University of Wisconsin-Madison student.
Prosecutors say on the morning of March 24, Summerwill was woken by someone in his room who he believed was an intruder. The college student grabbed a souvenir baseball bat hanging over his bed, and struck the 'intruder' multiple times in the head, apparently not realizing it was his mother. Thomas and his father called 911 that morning shortly after the attack. His mother Mary was transported to a local hospital where she later died from her injuries. The coroner's office determined that she had most likely died from injuries sustained from a baseball bat attack.
Prosecutors say that because they believe Summerwill was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the incident, his belief there was an intruder in his room was "not reasonable."
Liam Dixon, Summerwill's defense attorney, told the Chicago Tribune that his client has the full support of his family members and classified the incident as a "horrible accident."
"It was a freak accident and a tragic, horrible story all the way around," Dixon said.
Summerwill, who has no criminal history, just completed his junior year of college after graduating from St. Charles North High School. The 21-year-old is due back in court on May 23.
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Paul's Live from New York
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Crispy crust, so thin it sags under wisps of spinach and crumples under pepperoni and jalapeño, taunting you, daring you -- the fork? Or the greasy lap?
That's Paul's Live from New York pizza, at least as dished up in Eureka, and it is among the most beloved pizza in Humboldt. Perhaps it's the best pizza in all of Humboldt, but there's a hint of ambiguity here, because three similarly named pizza heavens are owned by two different people.
That means, poor reader, that to be absolutely certain you've eaten Humboldt's best pizza, you're going to have to try all three. All have similar menus and sell whole pizzas or vast, gooey individual slices.
So take Cole Porter's advice, and experiment! There's Live from New York in Arcata, Paul's Live from New York in McKinleyville and Paul's Live from New York in Eureka.
If you wake up late enough you can do this in a day -- one slice for breakfast, one for lunch and one for dinner.
The Breakdown: Live From New York 32.3%, Big Pete’s Pizza 15.6%, Smugs 11.3%, Big Louie’s Pizza 6.9%, Babe’s Pizza 4.7%. Category popularity: Third.
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Works of the World’s Best Painting Artists Will Be Presented at Astana Art Show
This summer, the capital of Kazakhstan will become the epicenter of a unique and multifaceted modern art. During the period from June 2 to August 10, ASTANA ART SHOW-2019 grand exhibition will be held at the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation, as well as at Independence Palace. The event will bring together under its auspices about 40 artists: stars of the world contemporary art from 15 countries. The exhibition was organized by Nur-Sultan Akimat jointly with the TSE Art Destination Contemporary Art Gallery. The expositions will be presented not only in the exhibition halls: several art objects will adorn the urban space of Nur-Sultan.
“Upon the completion of ASTANA ART SHOW, the artists will present their works to the city and these works of modern art: installations, street art objects and drawings on the facades of buildings, will become the heritage of the festival and will adorn the space”, – said the Deputy Head of Nur-Sultan Department of Culture and Sports, Narima Mukhambetalina, making her speech at a press conference held today in the capital.
In his turn, the head and curator of the project, the world-famous French artist Jérome Sans called ASTANA ART SHOW a limitless and open platform for a dialogue between art people.
The “First Contact” youth exhibition and “Racing the Galaxy” international exhibition will be held as a part of the contemporary art festival.
The “First Contact” youth exhibition is starting on June 2 and will run until August 10. The exhibition will feature the works of 22 young Kazakhstani artists who, during a month, as a part of the art residence, attend various lectures and workshops of famous Kazakhstani and foreign artists and create their works in various genres: painting, sound installations, holograms, virtual reality, street art and much more. The curator of the youth exhibition is Anvar Musrepov.
“Racing the Galaxy” international exhibition will feature works of eminent Kazakhstani and foreign artists, such as Michelangelo Pistoletto (Italy), Leandro Erlich (Argentina), Joel Andrianomearisoa (Madagascar): mentalKLINIK (Turkey), Askhat Akhmedyarov (Kazakhstan) and other. The curators of the project are the founder of ARTIOS and TSE Art Destination, Dina Baitasova, and the world famous French curator and international art director, Jérome Sans. Jérome Sans is the co-founder of the famous Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and in the past headed Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing.
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Alabama fan Robert Bowers dies in hospital after Bar Fight after LSU Game | Bleacher Report
November 7, 2018 Sports 1 Views Robert Bowers, an Alabama Crimson Tide fan, died Tuesday as a result of injury he suffered during a fight in a bar in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, WBRZ Jeremy Krail reported on Wednesday. According to Krail, the police have arrested two people for crimes against death for their roles in the alleged assault. Bowers celebrated Alabama's 29-0 victory over the LSU tigers last Saturday, and one of Bower's families " believes [s] the attack was motivated by Bowers fandom," Krail reported. However, Ponchatoula Police told Michael Vinsanau of WDSU that the match was not about the LSU-Alabama game. Bowers daughter Alexandria told Times-Picayune s Robert Rhoden ] She was at the bar with her father, her boyfriend and her cousin to watch the game . She and her boyfriend left before the alleged assault occurred, but she later heard details of what happened. " All she wanted to do is be kind and buy people's drinks," said Alexandria Bowers about her cousin. " Some boyfriend did not like it. It escalated from there." And man beat Bowers. He and an accomplice " continued to beat him while he was on the ground," according to Bower's daughter. Source link
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Robert Bowers, an Alabama Crimson Tide fan, died Tuesday as a result of injury he suffered during a fight in a bar in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, WBRZ Jeremy Krail reported on Wednesday.
According to Krail, the police have arrested two people for crimes against death for their roles in the alleged assault.
Bowers celebrated Alabama’s 29-0 victory over the LSU tigers last Saturday, and one of Bower’s families ” believes [s] the attack was motivated by Bowers fandom,” Krail reported.
However, Ponchatoula Police told Michael Vinsanau of WDSU that the match was not about the LSU-Alabama game.
Bowers daughter Alexandria told Times-Picayune s Robert Rhoden ] She was at the bar with her father, her boyfriend and her cousin to watch the game . She and her boyfriend left before the alleged assault occurred, but she later heard details of what happened.
” All she wanted to do is be kind and buy people’s drinks,” said Alexandria Bowers about her cousin. ” Some boyfriend did not like it. It escalated from there.”
And man beat Bowers. He and an accomplice ” continued to beat him while he was on the ground,” according to Bower’s daughter.
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The Sub-Gatsby Phantasmagoria by Anthony Scaramucci's Book Party
"I dreamed the American dream," wrote Anthony Scaramucci in his memoir, "Trump, Blue-Collar President", a work of Trump Hagiography, which also tells about Mooch's rise from the Long Island to Goldman Sachs to eleven funny days, the White House Communication Department, before being bled to propose a New Yorker reporter that Steve Bannon was metaphorically "trying to suck [his] his own cock." No hard feelings about the firing, but. Trump is a "genius", insists Scaramucci in his book. Watching him on television is "like watching Joe DiMaggio play for the Schreiber High Schools baseball team." (The diamond serves as one of many Moochian touchstones, as well as F. Scott Fitzgerald, "one of my early favorite writers.") For Scaramucci, the president incarnates Jay Gatsby, surrounded by glittering wealth yet adapted to the forgotten fighting of the past, back when The catskill mountain was longer than the Himalayas and "primitive versions of the vampire bat, a distant ancestor of Steve Bannon, I think" hung "up and down the caves." If all this sounds grandiose, bad. "Have you ever met a successful person who did not have an ego?" Scaramucci, a man once characterized as "the human performance of a double-parked BMW", writes. "When you combine enough self-sufficient self-esteem, and you add my personality, as some have been categorized as" wacky ", produced is a supercharged sales engine that can drive you nuts or charm you, or both," he explains. On Monday evening, in the evening of the release of the book, SkyBridge…
“I dreamed the American dream,” wrote Anthony Scaramucci in his memoir, “Trump, Blue-Collar President”, a work of Trump Hagiography, which also tells about Mooch’s rise from the Long Island to Goldman Sachs to eleven funny days, the White House Communication Department, before being bled to propose a New Yorker reporter that Steve Bannon was metaphorically “trying to suck [his] his own cock.” No hard feelings about the firing, but. Trump is a “genius”, insists Scaramucci in his book. Watching him on television is “like watching Joe DiMaggio play for the Schreiber High Schools baseball team.” (The diamond serves as one of many Moochian touchstones, as well as F. Scott Fitzgerald, “one of my early favorite writers.”) For Scaramucci, the president incarnates Jay Gatsby, surrounded by glittering wealth yet adapted to the forgotten fighting of the past, back when The catskill mountain was longer than the Himalayas and “primitive versions of the vampire bat, a distant ancestor of Steve Bannon, I think” hung “up and down the caves.” If all this sounds grandiose, bad. “Have you ever met a successful person who did not have an ego?” Scaramucci, a man once characterized as “the human performance of a double-parked BMW”, writes. “When you combine enough self-sufficient self-esteem, and you add my personality, as some have been categorized as” wacky “, produced is a supercharged sales engine that can drive you nuts or charm you, or both,” he explains.
On Monday evening, in the evening of the release of the book, SkyBridge Capital, Scaramucci’s investment company, a group of celebrities gathered to drink wine and nibble on hanger steak served from huge shiny buffet dishes at the Hunt & Fish Club, the Middle Chest House once described by New York Post as the place “Where Beauties Trawl for Sugar Daddies.” The room has a power-lunch atmosphere, even at 7 pm (It is understood that “power lunch” vibe is achieved by importing a dusk, a luxury afternoon in the middle of the day.) Plastic lights hang up and down from the ceiling and emits a soft glow in a room filled with Brooks Brothers costumes, millenium pink ribbon and crisp, grinning faces. The women wear floating “out of town” hair and coat dresses. And then standing on the backside, next to a bar ornament with red and white roses. Young people stand in front of a screen next to the leaning tower of “Trump, Blue-Collar President”, pointing to the books and then to themselves and then to their drinks and then on the chandeliers. In addition to wine and spirits, the bar offers a special cocktail called When Life Gives You Lemons. “Trump, Blue-Collar President” strives to be a comeback story, with Scaramucci in the role of Rocky “when the music starts to swell and Balboa rises from the carpet … when Apollo Creed begins to worry.”
Everyone here seems to work in economics. “Do you work in economics?” I’m starting to ask. I’m talking to a guy from Long Island, one of the best friends in Scaramucci’s cousin Augie. He and Augie have just launched an adventure company together. Augie’s friend seems to be tickled by the banker-fancy decor. Even though he had not read Tony’s book yet, he wanted to show up for the neighbor who did well, the “character” he admits is “fun to talk with, very colorful.” I ask how he knows the president. “No comment,” he says, glittering. Then he looks worried: “Maybe I should not be here.”
The energy in the room connects and condenses. Mooch has landed and a cloud of admirers drops with their unsigned copies and their iPhones. A woman drives her date towards the epicenter with an exasperated elevator: “He’s your friend. Support him!” I approach the cum of designer watches and Dolce & Gabbana. “Are you friends with Tony?” I ask a blonde woman, her striking eyes hooded in indigo shadow. Her partner bars: “She is the beauty group for the whole family!” For a moment, I think he says “mortician”. On a wardrobe table someone has put a blue collar with Scaramucci name known over it. I’m talking to Chris Windle, Operation Manager at Allied / All-City, a tool and pipeline service company. He has a bejeweled crucifix on a gold chain and chats with his friend George Sigelakis, who revolutionizes the firewater. Sigelakis, a former firefighter, has designed an extra durable, tamper-resistant hydrant that resists both rust and corrosion. We look at pictures on his phone. Windle says he likes to talk to people who do not agree with him. The important thing, he says, is that we can talk to each other. I think of the firefight’s aptitude as a metaphor to dousing our inflamed national discourse. I also think of the “Trump, Blue-Collar President” section, where Scaramucci dares that Trump can be uniquely adapted to bridge political divisions because he does not care about anything but himself.
At about eight, the three-tier cake-topped with a meringue Resolute desk, a Maringue Donald Trump and a Rictus Marion Mooch-disappears and returns as pale slices banded with cannoli cream. It tastes weak of the pumpkin. “Do you taste the pumpkin?” Do I ask a financial brother. “No,” he says, leaving. I sit down with Curtis Ellis, a Republican operator who first met Scaramucci on the Trump campaign and is now working for America First Policies, a Trump-supporting super-PAC. He tells me that the president is playing well. When Trump is reflected in 2020, the regime of fineness will end. “It will be the night of the long knives”, Elli’s prophecy.
For now it is the night of swinging plastic light. I should have left half an hour since, but the servers take out chocolate cake cakes and a woman’s voice plays from the speakers like the ghost of one hundred forgotten Americans. Here is a Gatsby dream: a frying pan, white tablecloths, white party sweaters, sparkling cufflinks bought with Goldman Sach’s salary. The Long Islanders share the phantasmic Manhattanites with their hands. The Meringue president has a white collar.
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Bad News Bruce - Posted on 29 April 2013
Jenny Weston and Menelik/PoorNewsNetwork
By Jenny Weston and Menelik/PoorNewsNetwork
“Urban Renewal” is massive displacement and not relocation for residents who are in the extremely low and very low income categories of this community,” Menelik starts out, to the many people joined together in a circle for Poor Magazine’s monthly Newsroom event.
“Urban Renewal” is another name for gentrification- Developers trying to maximize their profit, while leaving countless low-income San Francisco residents homeless due to unaffordability. Commercial businesses gain hundreds of millions of dollars in profit from retail space. Meanwhile, these spaces that should be providing affordable housing for low-income San Francisco residents.
Menelik, a lifelong resident to the rapidly gentrifying community of Bayview Hunters Point in San Francisco, works fiercely to hold the city and developers accountable for irresponsible actions that result in lack of affordable housing. Menelik and other community members created a “Watch Dog Group” to hold developers, low-income unit property managers and the city and county of San Francisco accountable for their actions.
Through extensive research of San Francisco legislations, Menelik and many others know that there is money available for low-income housing in San Francisco.
Senate Bill 2113- a special legislation enacted in 2001, authored by then senator John Burton “authorizes San Francisco to receive tax increments and incurring indebtedness to replace the destroyed affordable housing in San Francisco.”
This legislation has been passed to guarantee that the affordable housing units that have been torn down for “redevelopment” must be replaced.
The California Department of Housing and Community Development certified in 2003 that the agency destroyed 6,709 affordable housing units prior to 1977 in San Francisco, but as of today, only 900 units has been replaced over the past 10 years. This leaves approximately 5,800 affordable housing units to be replaced.
Menelik has countless reports on how people with wealth in this city has broken and continue to break laws. Yet, poor people of color are the ones criminalized for being poor, arrested for sitting outside for “violating” racist laws such as the sit/lie law.
“This is happening all over the city in SF-Mission Bay, Bay View Hunters Point, all over CA, all over the nation. Everything is being privatized” Menelik explains.
Privatization is not a new concept. In fact, it has been used as a systematic way to oppress low-income people of color, particularly the black community.
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, a world-renowned black psychiatrist states:
“This is a wake-up call for black people in this community and in the nation.
For 500 years in this part of the world, black people have experienced one form or another of racism- white supremacy. This is not anything new. This has been our consistent history.”
The Watch Dog committee has been formed to challenge the displacement of low income and people of color from their communities. As readers, what can we do? As people who are pushed out of our own homes or have friends and family who are displaced or even as people who may be benefiting from gentrification right now.
Menelik answered, “We need support for these issues. It needs to be in the public eye because most ordinary people are not aware of the laws. If not, the city is in the pocket of the developers.”
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3rd December – Match Reports
December 5, 2017 Ian Stephenson
Old Boys United 6-2 AFC Lincoln Green
Old Boys defeated Lincoln Green 6-2 at Fen Road but the score line doesn’t justify the heart and passion that the 9 men of Lincoln Green showed on Sunday having only been able to muster 9 players. Those players gave the hosts a run for their money. Jack Hobson gave Old Boys an early lead but 10 minutes later Old Boys found themselves trailing to Lincoln Green before James Waby got his first goal of the season after poking the ball home in a goalmouth scramble. Jack Hobson got his second from the spot giving the home team the lead again
In the second half Old Boys managed to put to good use their 2 man numerical advantage and it was Jack Hobson who completed his hat trick making the score line 4-2. Tony Sewell thought he had made it 5 only to be disappointed as his effort was ruled offside, Jack Thompson must have thought that Christmas had come early when he scored after going on a very long run without a goal and it was that man Jack Hobson again who made the final score 6-2 in favour of the Old Boys.
Plough Sturton 2-1 Heighington FC
An entertaining Division Two clash was settled ultimately in favour of the home side, although it was anything but a straight forward win. The game started with the visitors’ pinned in their own half, unable to play their way out of trouble on an unyielding and bobbly pitch. Although the hosts were enjoying the majority of the possession they were unable to carve out any clear cut chances. Gradually the visitors grew into the game and had a great chance to open the scoring when Jack Shotbolt broke through Plough’s backline and unselfishly squared the ball to Liam Welsh who somehow managed to completely fluff his lines from 12 yards.
With 5 minutes it was Welsh who was threatening again, this time racing clear onto a fantastic through ball. As the keeper advanced out to narrow the angle he lifted the ball over him only to see it crash back off the crossbar. Heighington could now smell blood but as is often the way in football were hit with a sucker punch just before half time. Good work down Plough Sturton’s right flank saw a ball fizzed into the area which hit Heighington’s veteran centre back Tony Blee and deflected agonisingly into his own net.
Plough then doubled their advantage early in the second half, heading home from a corner. Finding themselves 2-0 down the visitors threw caution to the wind and started to really attack the home side. With around 15 minutes to go they halved the deficit, top scorer Greg Brown turning on the edge of the box and finishing accurately from 18 yards.
Switching to 4-4-2 formation Heighington spent the remainder of the game hunting for the elusive 2nd goal which would have given them a share of the points but ultimately they were to leave pointless.
Waddington United 1-0 Coningsby FC
Waddington’s game against Coningsby was a credit to Sunday League football with a closely fought sporting match that was decided by a touch of class by Craig Mitchell.
After a tight first half with few chances, the second half was more open, with both keepers being much busier. Waddington grew in confidence as the half progressed and began to create the better openings, managing to get the ball in the net on 75 minutes through Rikki Peterson but his effort was correctly ruled out for offside.
Waddington hit the woodwork and shortly after forced the Coningsby keeper to make a great stop from a Jason Brothwell header. Despite Waddington having the majority of play Coningsby had their own chance to take the lead on the break but even though they managed to evade the efforts of keeper Dave Kirkbright Ryan Pell was on hand to clear the goal bound effort up field.
The only goal of the game came on 84 minutes and it started with Will Brothwell pressing his opposite number and playing in Mitchell. Advancing up the pitch he played a delightful one-two with Max Heath before producing a sublime finish to the keeper’s right into the bottom corner of the net. Although they earned all three points what was more important and pleasing for Waddington was keeping a clean sheet, having conceded 16 goals in their previous three games.
Railway Inn United 1-6 Queen Athletic
Queen Athletic were playing their first league game in some time against Railway Inn United. Sadly Railway could only muster 10 players for the game but all credit to them for going ahead and playing regardless.
Within the first 10 minutes Queen Athletic were ahead thanks to the assist machine that is Liam Grainger who got himself on the score sheet. Queen continued to pile on the pressure with a hat trick from their top goal scorer Chris Moulds, who continued his rich vein of form this Season. With the consistency that he is producing he must have the opportunity to be amongst the leading scorers in the division at the end of the Season should his form continue.
After the half time break Queen seemed to ease off allowing Railway to come back into the game. Out of the blue Paul Marklew added to the score line alongside a further goal from the ever impressive Chris Moulds. Railway did pull a goal back but by then it was too little too late.
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Men’s basketball survives another late Seton Hall surge
Brendan Ploen, Wire Sports Reporter|January 11, 2017
Luke Fischer scored 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds in Marquette's victory against Seton Hall.
Photo by Brian Georgeson
For the second time in a week and a half, Marquette blew a lead against Seton Hall in the final minute and all of the signs pointed to yet another disappointing finish. However, thanks to timely free throw shooting and clutch defense down the stretch, Marquette scraped by in overtime to eek out an 89-86 win on Wednesday night at the Bradley Center. With the win, Marquette is now back to .500 in conference play at 2-2 and 11-5 overall.
Marquette appeared to be heading to victory with 40.7 seconds left as it was up seven. However, Khadeen Carrington scored seven straight points, including a fadeaway jump shot with just 2.7 seconds remaining to force overtime.
In the extra period, it was Matt Heldt, who did not play in the second half, helped the Golden Eagles secure a victory. Heldt finished with just one point, but grabbed four rebounds and drew a charge, as well as played key defense on Angel Delgado. Marquette head coach Steve Wojciechowski praised Heldt and the rest of Marquette for their grittiness in overtime.
“We showed great toughness,” Wojciechowski said. “After losing a lead and going to overtime, it would have been very easy for our group not to be able to bounce back because obviously it was deflating. Certainly the memory of Newark is fresh in our guys’ minds. So I was really concerned before overtime started in that huddle, that our guys were not where they may have needed to be, mentally. And I was wrong.”
The Golden Eagles started off the game hot, and at one point, went on a 15-0 run, only to be answered later in the half by Seton Hall’s own 15-0 run. Haanif Cheatham started strong, scoring seven of his 17 points in the first half. That ended a low-scoring stretch of games, and was far different than the two teams’ last matchup, when Cheatham did not register a single point. Marquette led 35-30 at the break, shooting 15 for 27 for 55.6 percent from the field, while Seton Hall only shot 30 percent heading into the half.
In the second half, the Golden Eagles fed center and sleeping giant Luke Fischer, who woke from his first half struggles to score 10 second half points, grab seven rebounds and record one block and and an assist. The dynamic duo of Cheatham and Howard were also vital, with the duo scoring 10 and 11, respectively, in the second half.
Marquette’s control of the game slipped away as Seton Hall continued to pound the ball down low and grab offense rebounds. The Pirates’ sheer size and rebounding ability kept them in the game and ultimately forced overtime. The Golden Eagles were out rebounded 25-18 in the second frame, and Seton Hall had 11 offensive rebounds, including five during in one possession. Thanks to forward Angel Delgado (14 points), and guards Khadeen Carrington (22), and Desi Rodriquez (30), the Pirates kept it close.
With 2:16 remaining and Marquette up seven, Katin Reinhardt had a wide open shot and missed. The Pirates came down the other end and Carrington drew the foul which started the Pirates rally. Reinhardt and Cheatham, the team’s two best free throw shooters, both missed the front end of a one-and-one, ultimately helped Seton Hall mount their comeback. With 2.7 seconds left, Carrington hit a jumper that forced overtime.
However, Reinhardt and Marquette did not panic. Down the stretch, Marquette went 7 for 8 from the charity stripe, including a 4 for 4 stretch from Reinhardt.
“I dream about this every night,” Reinhardt said. “Growing up and dreaming about knocking down free throws down the stretch to seal the deal, I am very confident in the way that I shoot free throws and I didn’t have any doubt that I was going to make them.”
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Spanish DJ and club music producer Sak Noel (Isaac Mahmood Noell) founded Moguda, an entertainment company and production house that branched into organizing parties and an annual music festival. In June 2011, Noel released the playful house single "Loca People," featuring a spoken vocal from Esthera Sarita, as well as an accompanying video that he directed. The song topped several dance and pop charts in countries such as Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, and Spain. That September, it was issued in the U.K., where it promptly topped the pop chart. Noel continued to issue singles, including "I Am the Law," "No Boyfriend," and the Salvi collaboration "Trumpets" (featuring Sean Paul), through 2016. The latter, originally released on Noel's Barnaton label and subsequently licensed in the U.S. by Diplo's Mad Decent, was his easily his biggest hit since his breakthrough single. ~ Andy Kellman
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Left Foot Forward Social Justice
How rotten audits are enriching accountancy firms and their partners
Prem Sikka
12 July, 2019 (4 days ago)
Why do we keep rubber stamping failure?
Here is a question: how would you feel if you learnt that surgeons routinely botched 25%-50% of say, surgical operations, or aircraft maintenance works were deficient?
There would be a public outcry. Surgeons and airlines would be inundated with lawsuits and put out of business.
The same situation has persisted in the auditing industry for years – but with little action.
A rotten sector
The latest evidence comes from the audit quality inspection reports published by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the UK’s accounting and auditing regulator. The FRC’s sample showed that 25% of the audits carried out by Britain’s seven largest audit firms failed to meet even the light-touch standards of the UK. At Grant Thornton, the firm that audited Patisserie Valerie and failed to report frauds, nearly 50% of the sample audits were found to be deficient.
Only 65% of the FTSE350 audits carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) were found to be of acceptable standard. The firm audited BHS, where its audit partner spent just two hours on the job to conclude that it was a suitable enterprise. Last month, PwC was fined £4.55 million over botched audits at Redcentric plc.
At KPMG, the firm that audited Carillion, 80% of the audits were found to be an acceptable standard. Earlier this year, the firm was fined £6m for botched audits of Equity Syndicate Management Limited.
75% of the FTSE350 audits performed by Deloitte were considered to be satisfactory compared to 79% the year before. Earlier this month, the firm was fined £6.5m for audit failures at Serco Geografix Limited.
And 78% of the audits performed by Ernst & Young, the firm that rubber-stamped London Capital & Finance, were considered to require no more than limited improvements, compared with 67% in 2017/18. That still makes 22% deficient. In 2017, the firm was fined £1.8m for audit failures at Tech Data Limited.
This state of affairs has existed for years. Puny sanctions have made no difference. Personal liability could force the firm partners to rethink, but it is almost impossible for injured stakeholders to sue audit firms for negligence, as in general they owe a duty of care to the company only. Meanwhile, fees keep rolling-in and partners in large firms are raking up £700k-£800k a year.
The rot is global
Earlier this month, US regulator fined KPMG $50m for altering past audit work, after receiving stolen information about audit inspections of the firm that would be conducted by the regulator. The aim was to improve the firm’s audit quality ratings by preventing inspectors for discovering deficiencies.
The regulator found that twenty-eight KPMG audit professionals, including some senior partners, cheated on internal training exams by improperly sharing answers and manipulating test results. A number of former KPMG personnel have been charged with theft and may receive prison sentences.
Big accounting firms continue to be promoted by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. To attract foreign investment, India has been obliged to open its audit market to big western firms. In 2018, following failure to report $1.7bn fraud at Satyam Computer Services, India banned PriceWaterhouse from auditing any listed company for a period of two years.
The collapse of the IL&FS Financial Services Limited (IFIN) is one of the biggest financial scandals to rock India. The company was audited by Deloitte from 2008/09 to 2017/18, and by a KPMG affiliate, BSR & Associates, from 2017/18. The revelations of mammoth frauds focused attention on auditors.
The Indian government is now seeking to ban both firms from doing audits of listed companies for a period of five years. Its court filing alleges that the firms “deliberately” failed to report fraudulent activities at IFIN and that “the fraud committed at IFIN is nothing short of organised crime, actively aided and abetted by the statutory auditors”. Both auditors have denied wrongdoing, saying their audits were conducted in full compliance with professional standards and regulations in India.
Patronage of the state
The big firms rely upon the patronage of western governments to shield them from the consequences of alleged wrongdoing.
The US is trying to save auditors’ bacon in India, with the US ambassador informed the Indian government that “any move to ban Deloitte and other big auditing firms would disrupt businesses and investment inflows into the country” as foreign investors make their decision to invest globally on the advice and guidance from the Big Four networks.
Other countries are however levying large fines and imposing bans on failed audit firms. There is little effective action in the UK. Despite audit failures at banks leading to the 2007-08 crash, BHS, Carillion and elsewhere, no meaningful reforms have been introduced.
In December 2018, the Competition and Markets Authority proposed modest reforms of the audit industry. I and my colleagues also submitted a report to the Shadow Chancellor on much needed reforms. The big firms are furiously lobbying against reforms and the government’s response is further consultation with the audit industry.
The Financial Reporting Council says that its aim is to ensure that 90% of the audits meet acceptable standards i.e. accept an audit failure rate of 10%.
I’m sure you’d be relieved at surgeons only routinely botching 10% of operations…
Prem Sikka is a Professor of Accounting at University of Sheffield, and Emeritus Professor of Accounting at University of Essex. He is a Contributing Editor for Left Foot Forward and tweets here.
4 Responses to “How rotten audits are enriching accountancy firms and their partners”
Tom Sacold
July 12, 2019 (4 days ago)
No incoming Labour Government could do anything about auditing standards.
Our accounting standards are set by the EU in Directive 2013/34/EU
The EU does not accounting standards. They formulated by the IASB and adopted by the EU. However, convergence is elusive and there are considerable differences between IFRSs and local GAAPs – see this link for some some evidence https://accounting-app.pwcplus.de/article/215204/?download=215480&file=similarities_and_differences_ifrs_german_gaap.pdf . There is nothing to prevent any future government from setting accounting standards.
The auditing standards are set by the EU Commission (all too often content to adopt IFAC works) and there is nothing to prevent any future government from introducing legislation to change or clarify auditing standards, especially those relating to auditor duties. The law (form of a standard) already varies on who can conduct an audit (e.g. France requires joint audits for large companies), auditor independence, liability, etc.
Accounting and auditing practices shape the distribution income, wealth, wages, dividends, taxes and risk-sharing, and private organisations (IASB, IFAC) do not have a democratic mandate or public accountability to affect that. Only a democratically elected parliament has that mandate to (re)distribute and should therefore set the rules.
Surely the Government can set rules to break up these massive firms and increase competition?
Does the GT result seriously undermine the desire of the politicians to promote the challenger firms to increase choice in the market
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Why Even Simple Jokes Are Tough to Translate
Posted on July 28, 2017 by Clyde Mandelin ‧ 45 Comments
A reader named Bethany sent in a question about Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story that’s actually a great example of how difficult it can be to translate simple jokes if the jokes have to fit the logic of a scene:
Midbus gives two lines of dialogue containing the name of a classic Mario enemy (the first being the Koopa Troopa, and the second being Dry Bones). The Goombas, in confusion, summon the relevant enemy.
This is quite possibly the only joke in Bowser’s Inside Story that feels forced and odd, but after reading a lot of your site, I have the hunch that the joke was much smoother in the Japanese game.
For reference, here’s the first line Midbus says about Bowser after Bowser shows up to ruin the fun. The intended joke is that saying the name “Koopa” out loud caused a Koopa Troopa to mistakenly show up:
After this, Midbus says another line to Bowser and uses the phrase “dry bone”. Saying this out loud causes a Dry Bones enemy to mistakenly appear too:
These jokes do feel a bit forced, so the question is: what were these lines like in the original Japanese?
Japanese Koopa Troopa Joke
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Japanese Version (basic translation) English Version
Showing up here nonchalantly… You got some guts, Koopa!! He crawls up like a Koopa. Such is Bowser’s courage.
First, it’s probably important to note that while we call him “Bowser” in English, that appears to be more of a localized name that dates back to the original Super Mario Bros. game, where he was called “Bowser, King of the Koopa”. In Japan, he’s known almost exclusively as “Koopa”, however. Normally this name difference rarely matters, but in this line we see “Koopa” being used different ways in each language.
Anyway, in Japanese, Midbus uses the common phrase “noko noko”. This is often used as an adverb for when someone does something nonchalantly, carelessly, or brazenly – I often see it translated as “to waltz right in and do something”. “Noko Noko” also happens to be the name of the standard turtle enemy in the Super Mario Bros. series, which makes sense given that they nonchalantly walk back and forth waiting to get stomped on. So, by using the phrase “noko noko” when talking about Bowser showing up, one of the standard turtle enemies mistakenly thinks its name was called.
The Japanese joke works really well and flows naturally. But because we call the Noko Noko enemies “Koopa Troopas” in English, making the same joke work in translation becomes extremely tough. When jokes are especially difficult to translate they often feel forced, which is what happened here. In fact, it looks like the localizers decided to forego most of the joke by inserting the name “Koopa” directly into the line. Off the top of my head I can’t think of much beyond trying to force the word “koopa” with something like “…flew the coop– Uhh…” which probably isn’t much better.
Japanese Dry Bones Joke
Koopa! Next time for sure, I’m gonna kechon-kechon you and keron-keron you and karon-karon you! Bowser! Next time, I punch your thigh bone, your eye bone, and your dry bone!
In this Japanese line, Midbus is threatening Bowser and explaining the kind of stuff he’s going to do to Bowser by using unusual phrases that are vaguely threatening. “Kechon-kechon” refers to beating someone in a fight or argument, “keron-keron” appears to be a much vaguer threat, and “karon-karon” is most likely a new word entirely. The point of the line was to reach the “karon-karon” part, though, because “Karon” is the Japanese name for the Dry Bones enemy in the Super Mario Bros. series. This is what causes the Dry Bones monster to mistakenly think its name had been called.
These sorts of weirdly phrased threats are common in Japanese entertainment, and they’re almost always a challenge to translate directly. In this case, the threat also contains a joke, so it makes even more sense that the English line wound up significantly different. Although the English joke feels a little forced, it doesn’t seem much more forced than the original joke, and both seem to be in line with Midbus’ unusual character. Plus it sounds like Midbus is a minion of Fawful, who’s famous for saying crazy things too:
It’s hard to explain language jokes in simple terms, but hopefully this helps clarify the original Japanese jokes of this scene and helps answer Bethany’s question. Translating jokes in general can be a real challenge, and this is a good example of how it gets even tougher when the jokes are constrained by events and reactions in a scene. If the Koopa Troopa and Dry Bones characters weren’t part of the scene, it’d be simple enough to insert more generic jokes into the translation, but since they’re a part of the comedy of the entire scene the joke text HAS to fit the situation.
Anyway, sometimes you can spend an entire day on a single joke and still not reach anything as clever as the original. So I have no doubt that the localizers struggled and worked hard to come up with English phrases that would fit the events of this scene too. Unfortunately I can’t think of anything much better at the moment, but I’d love to hear what alternatives you might have, so share your suggestions in the comments!
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Phantom Dusclops'92 July 28, 2017 at 2:39 pm
Hello! I’m from Italy, and after reading this article I was trying to remember how the lines were in Italian, but luckily there was an Italian walkthrough on Youtube, so I could get the lines. Here they are:
“Bowser ha coraggio… per essere grosso stupido Koopa!”
(“Bowser got courage… for a big, dumb Koopa!”)
“Bowser! Io distrugge: stacca guscio tartaruga, rompe osso.”
(“Bowser! Me destroy you: detach turtle shell, break bone.”)
(Explanation on this one: The Italian name of Dry Bones is “Tartosso”, a portmenteau of “Tartaruga” and “Osso”, meaning respectively “Turtle” and “Bone”. So basically both the two Goombas and the passerby Dry Bones think he said “Tartosso”. A bit forced, I know. Also, Midbus speakes in a cavemen/Dinobot-like way in Italian, instead of the “weird Engrish stuff” they went in English – and on the same road, Fawful instead speaks in a normal way, albeit still saying weird crap in the meanwhile – I remember that the “Mustard of Doom” speech in the first game was replaced with something like “You are the cheese on Cackletta’s macaroni plan and this battle will be the cherry on top of the cheesecake”)
game4brains July 28, 2017 at 3:17 pm
What I find interesting about this is that it’s commonly believed that the English versions of the previous two M&L games were developed first, based on how said versions lack certain really useful features from versions in other languages and how those other versions have slight difficulty/cosmetic tweaks (which are somewhat reminiscent of proofreading). If that happens to be the case for Bowser’s Inside Story (and, by extension, Dream Team and Paper Jam), then given how this article seems to indicate the Japanese script having been the first one written, I kinda wonder if any similar translation issues popped up with the other M&L games and how they were developed, seeing as how it would be odd for a game to be programmed for English audiences first but start off with a Japanese script.
Nitro Indigo July 29, 2017 at 2:22 am
Sonic games are written in English first.
neo August 2, 2017 at 1:02 pm
Depends in the game. It is mostly true about Colors and Generations.
BronzeHeart92 August 8, 2017 at 8:24 am
Yup, Mario and Luigi 1 and 2 had their Japanese releases later apparently.
Ultima Spark October 1, 2017 at 5:41 pm
AlphaDream is a Japanese developer. Interestingly, the final builds for the US/EU versions of ML:SS (GBA) are dated October 4, 2003 and the JP build October 16, 2003…it seems they did some last minute touch-ups for the JP version, but that still left a full month before actual release in all regions (mid-to-late November). I wonder what happened.
https://tcrf.net/Mario_%26_Luigi:_Superstar_Saga#Build_Dates
Morgil July 28, 2017 at 3:20 pm
I frequently listen to the One Piece Podcast, which has the official translator for the manga on almost every week. This article reminded me of a bunch of his stories on how he tries to translate some of the odd jokes that pop up in that series and of the creative solutions he comes up with.
Bethany July 28, 2017 at 7:24 pm
Ah, thanks for the translation. I had a vague idea that ‘nokonoko’ would work out, but it’s interesting to see how they fit Karon in- and all things considered, that’s not too bad.
And yep, I’m fairly sure it being a visual joke was what strained it.
Tariq Lacy July 28, 2017 at 7:39 pm
”That oversized Koopa walks in here like he owns the place!”
”You’ll be sorry when we hang you out to dry, bonehead!”
Bartolo Polkakitty July 28, 2017 at 8:45 pm
I haven’t played this game, but both of these lines seem like they really could work better!
When I saw the Italian versions of the lines that Phantom Dusclops posted above, I realized what I think the problem is with the first line in English, which is that the translators overcorrected something. In the English localizations for the series, it’s established that the name Bowser is used instead of クッパ, so the translators probably got used to replacing the name 「クッパ」 with “Bowser” whenever it appeared, and replacing 「ノコノコ」 with “Koopa”. However, Bowser is still established as being part of the species that the name “Koopa” refers to in English, so it would still make sense to refer to him as something like “that oversized Koopa” or “that big, dumb Koopa”, and then have some random Koopa assume Midbus was talking to him.
With the second line, though, the Italian version, in order to work, seems to require both that Midbus speaks in caveman speak and that the localized version of Dry Bones’ name is entirely made up of words that can be interpreted as body parts. Neither of those is the case in English (and the latter was established as not being the case long before this game was made,) so it would probably be better to use a different approach, like your “bonehead” line.
Tak August 2, 2017 at 12:29 pm
That’s the best version of the scene I’ve ever read!
Let July 29, 2017 at 12:57 am
“Off the top of my head I can’t think of much beyond trying to force the word “koopa” with something like “…flew the coop– Uhh…” which probably isn’t much better.”
This actually would have worked in the old Super Mario Bros cartoon since the kept him as Koopa in that and “Koopa flew the coop!” was a common phrase they used to exclaim he got away after his schemes got foiled. Funny how the cartoon is reviled, but it kept his original Japanese name of Koopa (though they changed Peach to Toadstool as a reversal) where such a joke would have fit perfectly.
So Midbus’s blabbering of kechon-kechon and so on is like saying, “I’m going to strangle him, mangle him and just plain gangle him!” or something less coherent like, “I’m going to frazzle, razzle, smazzle and dazzle that sucker!”
Karon huh? Looks like the Japanese named Dry Bones after Charon the ferryman from Greek myth.
Jistuce July 29, 2017 at 1:51 am
The cartoon(I assume you mean either 3 or World, both of which I watched religiously) didn’t really “keep him as” Koopa. That was what EVERYONE called him.
I never heard him called anything other than “King Koopa” until Mario 64 came out with a fairly aggressive attempt to institute some name changes.
Incidentally, I still call him King Koopa. And I will never refer to the princess as a fruit, because her friggin’ name is Princess Toadstool. Get off my lawn, darn whippersnappers, etc.
(In seriousness, you can probably tell a lot about someone’s age by the names they use for Mario royalty. I was four when the Nintendo launched in America, so it was a cultural touchstone for most of my childhood.)
Lupus753 July 30, 2017 at 11:06 am
There were three cartoons: The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario World. Also, every English game and manual referred to King Koopa as “Bowser”.
Jistuce July 30, 2017 at 6:18 pm
Oh, right, the Super Show segments. I tend to forget those, since it was all about Zelda on fridays.
And I’m aware what the manuals said. They are the only place I know of that Bowser was ever used before Mario 64. Everyone called him King Koopa.
Nitro Indigo August 14, 2017 at 5:21 am
In Super Mario World, they edited a sprite that said “KOOPA” to “BOWSER”.
Yeah, and in the intro to the game, it says “Looks like Bowser is at it again!” It’s said throughout the game too but I remember that as the first time I’ve heard him referred to Bowser in a game. So it wasn’t just the manuals.
Notice how Lupus753 said “every English GAME and manual”. The games before Mario 64 called him Bowser too (just from the top of my head, Super Mario World and Super Mario RPG, but probably others too). The only sources that called him Koopa outside of Japan (which no one here knew about back then) were the cartoons and live-action movie.
Just because everyone you know called him Koopa doesn’t mean “everyone” did. I know people close to your age who called him Bowser. I’m a little younger than that but I also called him Koopa as IIRC, the NES games didn’t refer to him by name outside of manuals, and I watched the cartoons before I played Super Mario World.
Envy July 31, 2017 at 5:20 am
Actually, there is a point in the The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon where he refers to himself as “King Bowser Koopa” in the episode where they steal a convict from the real world and he introduces himself to him, I believe.
LBD "Nytetrayn" July 31, 2017 at 10:48 am
Yep. While he was always Bowser in the games here, he was King Koopa in all three cartoons, but they’d slip “Bowser” in on occasion in the latter two, usually alongside his surname. One time in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Mario called him “Bowser Koopa.” By using the full name but leaving off his title, I wonder if Mario was supposed to be particularly disrespectful or patronizing there.
Envy August 1, 2017 at 6:16 pm
Oh yeah, that’s right. Huh, interesting.
Wamtu July 29, 2017 at 8:13 am
I haven’t played the game, but I thought of a substitute joke if you were to change it entirely, though it consists of a little black humor.
Perhaps have the koopa just coming to interrupt, as he and some of the other minions are trying to get something working (maybe a weapon or just some appliance in the castle). Impatient, Midbus gives them some generic advice on how to get it working (kick it, turn it off and on, jiggle the plug, something like that), and the troopa leaves. Later, the dry bones comes up and tells him that it didn’t go well, implying this is the same minion. Midbus just tells him to go away because he’s busy.
I just got the idea when that specific combination of enemies appear in that particular order, and reading what the joke was, it seemed like one of those instances where you needed a completely new joke, because the original just doesn’t work in English.
I want to not laugh. But this is just too damn funny…
Oh my god that is genius lmfao.
You’d think Nintendo would’ve gone with just that!
Razor Ramon July 29, 2017 at 11:30 pm
R.I.P alt text?
Clyde Mandelin July 29, 2017 at 11:59 pm
Yeah, I’ve been doing a lot less alt text this year as it sometimes turns into a big chore that slows things down. I still do it occasionally when there’s extra time though.
Dominator_101 July 31, 2017 at 6:10 am
One does not noko noko into Mordor.
Also, does the Japanese name of the game really have 3 exclamation points at the end? Did they all have that? Did the first have one, second two, and third three?
Clyde Mandelin July 31, 2017 at 9:36 am
According to Japanese Wikipedia the third one is the only one to have exclamation points.
Dominator_101 July 31, 2017 at 10:43 am
Huh, that’s weird…Guess they were just REALLY excited for the third one.
Bethany August 1, 2017 at 1:52 am
Well, it is the best one…
This reminds me of a Pokemon pun that wouldn’t translate well.
Misty: I think I see another bug! Gross!
Ash: Maybe it’s a… COWterpie!
In the original Japanese, it played like so:
Misty: Bug, bug, bug, bug! (mushi)
Ash: …Cow? (ushi)
Such translation efforts like this one I refer as “Cowterpies”, where they try to preserve the pun, but fall flat. I think I like Tariq Lacy’s renderings the best.
There’s a pun in an episode of Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 involving the Japanese words for “worm” and “armour” sounding similar. A fansub changed the pun to “farmer”, but the English dub said “wormy-er” for some reason.
Phantom Dusclops'92 October 1, 2017 at 1:51 pm
I can’t help but remember how the Italian dub failed to keep any kind of pun on that scene.
Misty: I hate all these bugs!
Ash: What about a cow-sized one?
And say that “Cowterpie” could be translated in Italian as “Muccaterpie”…
You should definitely compare Mario and Luigi games more. It’s like a goldmine for translation comparisons if you ask me.
linkdude20002001 August 20, 2017 at 1:38 am
I would have gave him an accent so that ‘trooper’ can come out as sounding like ‘troopa’, and I would have changed the baddies that come on screen.
“Oy. Betcha think you’re a real trooper, huh, mate?” *A Koopa Troopa shows up*
“I’ll be sending you packing with a boo-hoo-hoo and your tail between your legs” *A Boo shows up*
Rick August 30, 2017 at 8:35 am
The dialogue is fine; they just needed to make it so Midbus is *shouting* the parts relevant to the enemies that show up.
“He crawls like a KOOPA!! Such is Bowser’s courage!”
“You rang?”
“Bowser! Next time I punch your thigh bone, your eye bone, YOUR DRY BONE!”
“Ummm…Did you call….”
Something among those lines would simultaneously emphasize his disdain and make more sense for the enemies’ arrival, me thinks.
A nonymouse September 7, 2017 at 6:51 pm
This is probably completely wrong but could けろんけろん be insinuating 蹴る, to kick and かろんかろん come from 軽んずる / 軽んじる, to belittle (despise, look down on).
Those would fit from a quick search on jisho.org but as I can’t speak japanese it’s probably not that simple.
Plus jisho doesn’t really give you a good grasp of words – just single words in english rather than any explanations. In fact I find that for a lot of online dictionaries like leo.org for german is awful and wordreference.com for spanish. Single word definitions really aren’t good enough.
Surely there have to be useful foreign language english dictionaries online somewhere? My old school paper german english dictionary is far better than anything online and yet it is extremely basic and limited but at least it gives example meanings of the word rather than just a few random single word suggestions where you have no idea which one is correct (i’m looking at you leo).
Zach September 7, 2017 at 8:37 pm
Hmm so this explains why the shell weapon in Mario RPG is called a nok nok shell. I always wondered about that.
HylianFox September 26, 2017 at 12:13 pm
also, the exploding turtle enemies in Super Mario land are called ‘Noko Bomb’ or something similar
On a similar note, in Japan Chain Chomps are called “Wan-wan” which is the sound of a dog barking.
This is why the Chain Chomp in Link’s Awakening is called “Bow Wow”
AeonicB October 3, 2017 at 3:01 am
If it were me, I’d translate that joke as:
“That Bowser is a real Trooper!”
“But he makes me so mad, I’d love to pick his bones!”
Sure, it still sounds awkward AF, but it’s a little more subtle now.
Carboamin February 27, 2018 at 1:26 pm
In the French version, the joke is lost : Midbus says something like “Bowser must be planning something fishy” and “Bowser ! I’m gonna show you what I’m made of !” Because there aren’t words close of Koopa and Skelerex (French for Dry Bones), the two Goombas calls themselves the Koopa and Dry Bones. But strangely enough, the two Goombas THINK (they use the bubble used for thinking) their name. When I played the game, I thought they were using telepathy or something. So it’s really weird
Mr_elementle March 9, 2018 at 1:58 am
What? i think the first joke is translated better in french, for the first one midbuss says «Bowser! Il manque pas de culot, il doit préparer un coup pas net…» (Tr: Bowser! He’s got a lot of nerve, he better prepare a cheap shot).
The joke works because un coup pas net (lit: a not clean shot/punch) is pronounced like un koopa net, so they hear midbuss as saying bowser better prepare a clean koopa so the koopa thinks they’re talking about him.
i typed this and realized someone else in the comments already explained it, so yeah just look at Travis’s explination
Travis March 6, 2018 at 5:24 pm
I found this kinda interesting, because while the Canadian French version (the version I played) drops the joke completely, the European French version carries the joke over almost perfectly!
In the European version, the first line goes “Bowser! Il manque pas de culot. Il doit préparer un coup pas net…”, where “coup pas” is what’s mistaken for “Koopa” (the line loosely translates to “Bowser! He’s got some nerve. He must be preparing some sort of attack…”, but still kinda sounds nonsensical, as it should).
The second line goes “Bowser! Tu vas voir c’que l’air explosif de Métaboss te réserve!”, where “c’que l’air ex…” is what’s mistaken for “Skelerex”, Dry Bones’ French name (the line loosely translates to “Bowser! You’ll soon see this explody-looking thing that Midbus has in store for you!”).
(There’s also this French let’s play video where the guy reads out the lines, so the “sounding-out” is more obvious: https://youtu.be/rCZzga1su6g?t=18m56s)
But the Canadian version seems to mostly be translated from the US English script, so the joke was lost there, too. The lines go like this: “Toi ramper comme un Koopa. Ça être le courage de Bowser?” (loosely translates to “You crawl like a Koopa. Is this Bowser’s courage?”) and “Bowser! Prochaine fois, moi frapper avec un poing ton paquet d’os!” (loosely translates to “Bowser! Next time, me hit your bone-sack body with my fist!”; it’s also odd since the only real Dry Bone reference is the “sack of bones” part).
I always found it interesting how something that, at first, seems completely out of place could make total sense in another version of the same game, even in the same language in this case.
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What’s the Deal with That Creepy Sonic CD Secret?
Posted on September 23, 2013 by Clyde Mandelin ‧ 61 Comments
A reader recently asked a question that has some ties to the Sonic the Hedgehog series:
I’ve been curious about this mystery message you can find in Sonic CD.
Now, from my understanding, this is apparently either a pun on the similar sound between Madjin and majin (魔神) or because “Madjin” is a nickname for Masato Nishimura. Is this just some clever pun?
This question actually goes kind of deep unless you already know Japanese, so this will be a bit long.
The Secret Screen
For the uninitiated, the deal is this: there’s a secret sound test in Sonic CD , and if you select the proper combination of stuff in that sound test, a spooky screen pops up with some Japanese text.
First, for clarification, here’s how to access this spooky screen to begin with:
At the title screen, press Down, Down, Down, Left, Right, A. This will take you to the secret sound test screen.
On the sound screen test, select FM No. 46, PCM No. 12, and DA No. 25.
Press Start, and the game will switch to a new screen. Here, some Japanese text appears and some creepy music and sounds play:
So, what does this text say? Here’s a look at the text side-by-side with a translation:
Japanese Text English Translation
たのしさ∞
セガ・エンタープライゼス
まぢん 画 Infinite Fun
Sega Enterprises
Image by Majin
Romanization Woes
The bottom text seems to be what’s causing a lot of confusion. This confusion is a result of different romanization methods – which is the same reason for the Yoshi/Yossy confusion that we looked at a while back.
Basically, the name まぢん is pronounced “mah-jeen”. As such, this would usually be written as “Majin” in English using the romanization method that most Japanese-to-English translators and students use. But other romanization methods might spell it as “madin” or “madzin” or “mazin”. In all cases, though, it’s still pronounced “mah-jeen” regardless of spelling.
What makes the problem a little weirder is that ぢ is rarely ever used in Japanese; instead, じ is normally used. It has the same pronunciation – using ぢ instead of じ in this case is just a stylistic choice. But sometimes they get romanized differently too, so it just adds more confusion to the fire. Regardless of all this, though, it’s still pronounced “mah-jeen”.
This “majin” word is normally written in kanji as 魔神 or 魔人 and generally refers to a powerful supernatural being with human-like or god-like qualities. There’s no singular translation into English; you’ll see everything from demon to devil to genie to djinn to warlock to magus. So if you see rumors say that this message is supposedly from the devil or something like that, this might be why.
Majin’s Identity
The truth in this particular case is that “majin” is simply an alternate way to read Masato (真人) Nishimura’s given name. And apparently this was his nickname since he was a kid – I guess the easiest way to explain it is that it’s like how I would sometimes call my friend Sean “Seen” instead of “Shawn” as a kid.
In any case, Masato Nishimura hid this child nickname in other games too, including Shenmue !
He revealed all this info in an old Japanese interview here. He says he added his nickname to stuff because he wanted it to stand out… and given gamers’ reaction to this secret Sonic screen, I’d say he succeeded at that!
The real question, though, was if this Majin name on the Sonic CD screen was a pun or if it was just because it was Masato Nishimura’s nickname. The answer is… that it was because it was his nickname… but he got the nickname as a kid because it was a goofy way to read his name. So it’s sort of both. And because of this and the romanization issues and everything else, it just got lots of fans confused.
Summary: This secret message isn’t from the Devil. Masato Nishimura has a childhood nickname that’s based on some wordplay with his name and a term for a supernatural being. He snuck that nickname into a few games – including Sonic CD – and it confounded players for a while.
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How the Dr. Robotnik & Eggman Confusion Works in Japanese Sonic Generations
Changing the name "Eggman" to "Robotnik" back in the 90s left the door open for this future surprise.
The infamous "All Your Base" game is jam-packed with secret Japanese endings. What do they say?
Stuffgamer1 September 23, 2013 at 6:42 pm
I think the confusion would have been lessened if the audio/visual cues weren’t inherently creepy. The question still remains why he chose that to accompany such an innocent little message.
Mato September 23, 2013 at 6:55 pm
Yeah, it does fit pretty well with the supernatural vibe the name has, but then again maybe that’s exactly why he chose to make it creepy in the first place.
Nora September 23, 2013 at 6:57 pm
Yeah…I’m kind of regretting watching that clip so close to bedtime. :shiver:
skyrunner14 September 23, 2013 at 7:02 pm
I don’t get it. Why is it so scary? It seems silly anyone would be scared by this.
Creepy, not scary. Have you ever played Yume Nikki? Same kind of thing.
Unplugged Comic June 15, 2017 at 2:26 pm
Sorry if this is four years late, but the Japanese boss music is wayyy less creepy, and the screen was probably with that in mind. Take a look at this: https://youtu.be/LOnK4olyWj0?t=42s
The image is still creepy though. 😛
C January 23, 2019 at 1:28 pm
If you listen to the original Japanese game’s music for this screen you can tell it was clearly intended as a joke.
David September 23, 2013 at 6:56 pm
For the unenlightened, that “creepy” music is the boss theme in the PAL/Japanese soundtrack.
Even with the weird moaning/laughing sounds? If so, wow 😯
Woop, my mistake. This is the US boss theme. Forgive me, it’s been a LONG time since I last played either version…
EnnuiKing September 23, 2013 at 8:06 pm
For some reason, the US got an atmospheric soundtrack while Japan/Europe had an upbeat sountrack reminiscent of Shibuya-kei; either it’s done to accomodate the different opening track, or it’s just an example of US Kirby boxart syndrome. The only tracks that weren’t changed were the “Past” versions of the songs, which I’m guessing is because those are PCM audio as opposed to Redbook and thus would be more difficult to change.
You’d better not run out of lives if you’re playing the US version: http://youtu.be/YM8qx-HdY5c
I thought it was legal issues, or something of the sort…
Captain Jistuce September 24, 2013 at 5:42 am
Interestingly, when the game was new, I thought the past tracks were different for artistic purposes. They had a musical style reminiscent of the cartridge-based Sonic games, so the past versions of the Sonic CD stages sounded like, well, like Sonic’s past. I actually thought it was a pretty cool touch.
I had no idea the US soundtrack was different and that the rest of the world got screwed out of Sonic Boom.
Naw, legal issues is why they don’t use the japanese songs in modern Japanese/European Sonic CD releases(opting instead for lyricless versions).
The changed US soundtrack is simply because they felt it would go over better that way in the US.
Name October 4, 2013 at 7:10 pm
Nah, this is the boss music in the Japanese and European versions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTXR0T5mJ68
Not nearly as creepy.
Ameer January 29, 2017 at 10:25 am
david the music is from usa music
I’m sure that Sonic CD screen was creepier than it was meant to be for American audiences considering the Japanese/European boss music is hip-hop influenced. Some people also translate that text as “Sega gives you infinite pleasure”, which is creepy regardless of what music is playing in the background.
ILDC September 23, 2013 at 8:01 pm
Does the Japanese/European version really use different music?
Tet September 23, 2013 at 9:24 pm
It does. The most recent re-release however allows you to switch between soundtracks.
OmniM September 23, 2013 at 7:13 pm
I got a question for you, Mato. Since you are dealing with Japanese kanji in localized games (your Monado and Street Fighter articles) I got another game series to add to the list: the .hack//G.U. games. I know you are busy so I make this short- I’ve been playing the Volume 1//Rebirth and noticed a lot of Japanese writing throughout my playthrough. I’ve seen it in the “Background pictures”, on the screen when you do a special attack, and on a character’s back. I only want you to do the first game and it’s alright if you don’t translate them all. Anyway, thank you.
I don’t have any of the games anymore, and I definitely don’t have time to play through them, so if you can get screenshots of any ones in particular that you wanna know about I can post a thing about ’em sometime.
Alright, sure. I’ll try to get some interesting screen shots during this week.
BusterTheFox September 23, 2013 at 9:18 pm
On a slightly related note, I wonder who thought up the name “Creepypasta” anyway… It’s so random.
Jay September 23, 2013 at 9:56 pm
it’s a play on on “copypasta” which means exactly what it sounds like, something that is copied and pasted.
But paste and pasta don’t sound alike. Copypasta sounds like someone spilled their spaghetti in a Xerox machine(which is an image I choose to conjure every time I see the term).
Scias The Wanderer September 24, 2013 at 2:24 pm
They don’t sound alike, but they’re *spelled* alike. It’s easy to see how you could get someone going ‘delicious copy pasta’ in response to someone copypasting something, and then it catches on from there.
Benjy September 23, 2013 at 11:47 pm
Only the Mega CD version of all the European releases use the Japanese soundtrack. the Windows 95 and the GameCube/PS2 releases use the American version of the soundtrack even in Europe…which annoyed me because the original Japanese soundtrack just seems like it fits with the game better. It certainly fits with itself better because at least the themes for the Past match the Present and Future themes… (for whatever technical reason, Past themes are the same song in every version, which Present, Good Future and Bad Future was changed to entirely different music for America).
Though nowadays all is well in the world, because the “new” version of Sonic CD for iOS, XLA, PC etc. (the ‘Christian Whitehead’ version) has the option to select between the two soundtracks, which pleases everybody. 😀
*with
*XBLA
darn typoes
Lilfut September 25, 2013 at 8:13 am
The Past music is the same because it runs off the Genesis soundchip instead of CD audio. Redoing the rest of the soundtrack was a matter of swapping out some MP3 files, redoing the Past themes would have required messing with the sound engine.
BusterTheFox September 23, 2013 at 11:53 pm
By the way, I just tried this on the Sonic Gems Collection version of the game (The GameCube disc). It’s very interesting; the FM NO. option doesn’t exist in this one, but by setting the other two to the correct options, I was still transported straight to this screen. I wonder if it would work even if FM NO. wasn’t set to 46?
OKeijiDragon September 27, 2013 at 2:37 am
The version of Sonic CD you played in Gems Collection was actually a lousy port of the equally lousy PC port of the Sega CD game. The PC port didn’t use any FM sounds and instead used .WAV-like rips for the sound effects. Oh, and it released with the USA soundtrack worldwide even in Japan. =P
Benjy September 24, 2013 at 12:08 am
@^ In the original Mega CD version, you do indeed need to set all three numbers for the secret messages to appear.
Cavery210 September 24, 2013 at 4:30 pm
There was a Dragon Ball villain called Majin Buu. In the VIZ manga release, the Majin part of Buu’s name was changed to Djinn. That made Buu a genie instead of a demon.
Actually, that screen also exists as copy-protection. If the ROM is badly dumped (basically by the methods available for pirates when the game came out), the game boots directly to that screen, it was just added as a Sound Test cheat in addition because why the hell not let regular players see it. Don’t know if that changes the interpretation at all, but hey.
Also, obligatory request: I’ve been playing some NES games I’m familiar with in the original Japanese to help learn the language (I’m taking my JAP 101 class), but for whatever reason Hitler no Fukkatsu Top Secret (Bionic Commando) uses kanji in its dialogue! Any idea why this relatively plotless NES action-platformer uses kanji? (If you would provide translations of the kanji included for my own purposes that would be nice, since there can’t be that /many/, that would be nice, but I understand if that’s impractical.)
Ah shit, my brain fucked up during that last sentence and now I look like a moron. Didn’t mean to say “that would be nice” twice!
Zindkeeper September 25, 2013 at 12:02 pm
Score man, thanks for explaining this! My friend will be stoked when he reads this. = D
Dan Scannell September 25, 2013 at 3:41 pm
I hope my son, Sean, doesn’t have to deal with being called “Seen” 😉
Some other differences between Sonic CD versions:
In the Gems collection (and only this version), water in Tidal Tempest zone is completely clear and does not change the colour of things seen underwater.
In the Christian Whitehead version. you can select between the weird spindash this game used or the proper spindash common to the other Mega Drive games.
Also in this version, the level select was changed to actually function properly. In the original, you would be sent back to the title screen any time the game would normally have to load a new map (either by changing time zone or by clearing an act). In the Christian Whitehead version, level select will work as it does in other Sonics.
Also they added Tails as a playable character, complete with his flying ability and new sprites to match this game’s unique animations (such as spinning upwards from springs rather than bouncing while facing straight upwards). Though Tails cannot earn achievements.
Hmm. What else? There’s a new secret sound test image in this version, showing off a small portion of an unused desert zone with the initials “C.W.”
Oscar Gutierrez February 22, 2014 at 12:34 pm
I did alittle research myself and apparently the text from the hidden message says “Fun is Infinite, Sega Enterprises; Majin. But I translated myself and it came up to be “Happiness ∞
Sega enterprises, Ltd.
Hustle’s paintings”
I might be wrong but if I am then feel free to respond back.
DaVince February 24, 2014 at 6:04 pm
Mato’s translation seems accurate to me. たのしさ can be read as “happiness”, but does have a focus on the “having fun” kind of happiness, which is why that was translated the way it was.
As for “hustle”… Uh, where’d you get that from? I can’t relate “majin” to that in any way, myself… Well, the interview Mato linked to made it abundantly clear it’ supposed to be just “Majin” (no further translation needed), anyway, as it’s a nickname.
Anna May 7, 2014 at 3:11 pm
Hi I was wondering if this hidden message shows up on the mobile phone version (windows phone,Xbox. Right now I have the demo of Sonic Cd on my phone but I don’t think the sound test settings appears on the demo and maybe if I purchase the full version for my phone I could get the sound settings opened. But before I make any purchases I would just like to know if i could get that setting or not for mobile.
Please reply! Thank you.
Clyde Mandelin May 7, 2014 at 5:55 pm
Sadly I don’t have the mobile version, but I do know that on the Steam version you have to unlock the sound test by playing the game, you can’t just input a secret code.
Marco Vuano May 7, 2014 at 5:45 pm
Now I don’t know anything about Japanese, but I found this post by Mazin (まぢん referring to this picture that apparently (using google translate, so take with a grain of salt) talks about a birthday date (and 25/12/46 could be very well a birthday date!). Could you please translate it so to further clarify this aspect:
https://twitter.com/search?q=cd%20%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A2%E3%82%93%20from%3AMazin__%20include%3Aretweets&src=typd
It’s the post on the 21st of May 2011
That’s actually what it is, apparently.
(Someone sends Mazin a tweet)
“Someone is doing an LP of Sonic CD on Nico Nico Douga and showed off all sorts of secret content. Like the Mazin picture and stuff lol”
(Mazin replies)
“Oh, right, that one that appears when you input the birth date into the secret sound test.”
So he doesn’t say it’s his birthday outright but I assume it’s his.
Thanks a lot! I too wonder whose birthday is this…
December 25, 1946. That must have been an interesting time to be born in on Christmas day.
Sean V. June 3, 2014 at 2:03 pm
I hate you so much. Say sorry to your friend.
Clyde Mandelin June 3, 2014 at 2:19 pm
I haven’t seen him in 25 years, I dunno how!
marvin martian October 8, 2014 at 5:01 am
Lol creepy sonic cd fun is infinity sega interprises
marvin martian October 17, 2014 at 4:43 am
Deep voiced laughing in the song
It is an evil laugh
asdasd g October 28, 2014 at 4:53 pm
HAHAHA please, do you think we are kids?.. c’mon, We know the satanic sects, they are actually pretty normal and common in the media, entertainment etc… Sonic satanic, why not?— the only succesful product of sega was Sonic, we know that
A-wel Cruiz April 23, 2015 at 11:11 pm
There was another hidden image in Sonic CD (and was much more pleasant to look at, btw) with Japanese text.
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/019/0/d/sonic_cd_hidden_picture_2_by_elias1986-d37kdkd.jpg
I’ve always wondered what that text says.
Pete September 17, 2015 at 3:04 pm
Obviously “Mato”, a PR person from funimation,sega etc. would say that its the producer and NOT Majin. Ye I bet the producer put that creepy music and creepy sonic AND the OHM chanting just for the LULZ.
Jenson January 24, 2016 at 10:44 am
The Sonics on the background are sopposed to be sonic with Marios face
James Price July 21, 2017 at 9:35 pm
Rly? it looks worse than Jason with no hockey-mask .
And the laugh is intended to be creepy . It’s in both versions … not a mistake ….
Mileskf June 25, 2017 at 3:56 pm
Speaking of Sonic CD… it would be really interesting to see what Japanese Sonic fans think of the changed soundtrack in the US version of the game.
I think there’s more to the picture..
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Category Archives: Alternative Media
Alex Jones: Conspiracy Crank or Captain America?
Paranoia is just another word for ignorance
-Hunter S. Thompson
Let me get this out of the way right out of the gate, I am personally very ambivalent towards the work of talk radio firebrand and documentary filmmaker Alex Jones. I have followed his work on and off for a good number of years now and am still not completely sure of what drives him, who backs him and what his true motivations are. His radio show and films are a mixture of contradictory ideas that while highly informative too often rely on standard Bircher style anti-United Nations conspiracies, illegal alien (translation: Mexican) bashing diatribes, global warming denial and wild-assed tirades against fluoride in water, chem.-trails in the sky and pseudo-religious hogwash not to mention the tolerance of idiotic Birther nonsense. Jones also was one of the earliest promoters of the Obama ‘Joker’ minstrel show poster which he of course denies as being racist despite it’s obvious intention to resonate with a certain black-hating, southern-fried, white-power element. Too bad, because there is much great information mixed in as well, a borderline anarchist view of a society that truly deserves rebelling against and spot on attacks on the loss of civil liberties that were it not for the inclusion of the aforementioned dubious material would surely garner the Austin, TX flamethrower one hell of a lot of crossover appeal. While I am but an armchair quarterback when it comes to these things, I consider much of the work of Alex Jones to be cutting-edge and brilliant but just as much to be counter-productive. I admit that Jones is first and foremost one hell of a showman, his rants are volcanic and put other hosts to shame. While pigs like Rush Limbaugh and stone-greedy charlatans like Glenn Beck fill their diatribes with standard Republican party establishment tripe, dog whistle terms, cynical glorification of the system that made them into millionaires, dumb it down for the easily duped cretins and wrap it all up in a big star, spangled package of pure unadulterated horseshit, Jones dares to be intellectual in a country that is increasingly hostile to thinkers. Not that I would compare Alex Jones to the less than dynamic duo frontmen for the cult of angry white dittohead dopes, he is far too anti-establishment in his denunciations of the rapidly closing iron fist that is the American police state, neocons, the dumbing-down of society, endless war and other things that are held so dear by the sanctioned propaganda mouthpieces for the establishment.
Alex Jones is now becoming more prominent thanks to not only the hosting of the now infamous interview with America’s public enemy number one Charlie Sheen but also in appearing in the snakepit that is the popular women’s talk show The View that has an audience of millions. During the appearance, much to the chagrin of has-been Whoopi Goldberg, never-will be Elizabeth Hasselbeck and the queen herself Barbara Walters (who looked like she was about to have an aneurysm) Jones was wonderfully off subject. He defended Sheen but continued to plug his website www.infowars.com and interject relevant comments about the police state, George W. Bush’s by proxy murder of millions in his illegal wars, WTC7 and the TSA goons whose state-sanctioned sexual molestation is a brilliant example of just how far America has fallen. Jones also was featured in a recent Rolling Stone piece by Alexander Zaitchik entitled The Most Paranoid Man in America which despite the typical corporate media smear tactics, straw men and innuendo wasn’t nearly as vicious as the normally expected knee-capping of one who dares to ask the forbidden questions. Jones himself commented on the article during a fairly recent show and while not praising the piece didn’t condemn it either. Of course the article resorts to the standard mockery and denunciation of crazy “conspiracy crank” ideas but so it goes in a nation of sheep where the truth is a horrifying thing that is deserving of shunning and were we living in either a more primitive or advanced society Jones would have his tongue cut out by the high priests of the temple.
Jones can preach it though, like an apocalyptic prophet with doomsday rolling in, the day of reckoning for the sins of elite, the moneychangers and the war pimps for which we all will be bathed in the blood tide for, if not for our own moral shortcomings but for our collective failure to stop any of it. Launching into darkly funny rants invoking pop culture, history, political theory, scientific terminology, fire, brimstone and extrapolation his style isn’t for everyone, especially not for the squeamish or politically correct. The problem with Jones is that he does want to tie it all together into one gigantic global conspiracy and that makes him susceptible to being less logical and more biased in building the case to support his own research and conclusions. That is why the globalists, right-wing bogeymen like the deep-pocketed George Soros and the even more reviled Al Gore are such key pieces in the puzzle that Jones is assembling, their purported involvement in the use of the carbon taxes to enslave humanity conveniently ignores real scientific evidence of global warming in favor of a Koch Brothers friendly plan to keep their energy businesses running in full profit mode. Jones, while he doesn’t overtly use the Bircher’s grand global Communist conspiracy terminology directly often parrots the language, features far too many Council For National Policy (CNP) friendly guests and lays off serious criticism of big Texas oil and energy, the latter possibly being the prudent thing to do if based in Austin and within easy reach of the Texas mafia.
Not that there isn’t a massive global conspiracy…it’s just not a monolithic entity and is far more attributed to the ongoing evolution of capitalism into the final, cannibalistic and authoritarian manifestation where a global cabal of ultra-wealthy elitists will back the fascist corporate takeover of the entire planet – that is if they don’t destroy it first. Capitalism, not communism or socialism as the Birchers have long and loudly insisted is the most dangerous system in human history as is evident in 2011 as the world reaps the whirlwind of rigged markets, neo-liberal destruction of entire countries and the resultant unrest, genocidal and unstoppable financial speculation including in commodities such as oil and food that will combine to starve more people than Mao, Stalin and every other dictator in history combined. Goldman Sachs will bring down plagues of misery, famine, pestilence and suffering all in the name of global finance capitalism. In what has to be one of the grossest obscenities in contemporary history (and they are legion) the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Japan, a deadly trifecta of earthquakes, tsunami and now nuclear meltdown are in the American corporate media secondary to how the mass displacement, death and looming radiation poisoning of tens of thousands of innocent people will affect the fucking stock markets. To his credit Jones has been covering the Japan disaster extensively as of late and dare I say comes across as very left-wing in his criticism of the dangers of nuclear power.
Where the Birchers and others on the intellectual (versus the delusional neocon) spectrum of the right get it wrong is that they misinterpret the work of the influential historian Carroll Quigley , especially in the seminal Tragedy and Hope. In the book, his masterpiece Quigley writes of the behind the scenes power elite behind the curtain influence of ’round table’ groups that gather in secret and exert their influence over the publicly visible elements of the state. The Birchers and Cleon Skoussen, who is an idol of Glenn Beck (who pimps Skoussen’s manifesto The Five Thousand Year Leap) get it wrong with Quigley in interpreting the work as referring to global communism and socialism as the New World Order when in fact the groups that Quigley wrote about were primarily agents of global finance capital, the same global bankers that Jones so often condemns. Quigley himself disputed the interpretation of Tragedy and Hope by Skoussen who incidentally was an early member of the Council For National Policy. The problem with these types of analyses is that they too often focus on the influence of the old Eastern establishment, transnational types, particularly the Rockefellers, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission but at the same time pay no mind to the influential role of the powerful interests that rose out of the western states and the sunbelt, primarily big energy and defense, the new money. While I agree with them to some extent about the dangers of the rising police state bent on human enslavement through debt, global government (although corporate is conveniently omitted) and in the case of the Rockefellers and the other big wheels, the creation of a system of control that as Jones and others extrapolate to include embedded microchips (this is coming folks) and a taste for eugenics (Hitler got his ideas from the American elite) and ultimately a massive culling that will lead to the depopulation of the planet. What I take issue with is the idea that the threat from the “globalists” pales in comparison to that posed by their U.S. counterparts, particularly emanating out of the Council For National Policy and the predominant influence of powerful Evangelical Christians who have slowly and largely off the radar hijacked the American political system and to a good extent elements of the military. Not a good thing when a cancerous anti-Muslim/Islam bent is eating the country from within as a cancer, when bankrupting wars of imperial conquest are ongoing in Muslim countries and the crusader mentality is encouraged. The war of civilizations plays directly into the ideology of tens of millions of American Evangelicals hellbent on seeing the apocalypse in their lifetime so that they can be Raptured up to sit at the foot of God’s throne while the rest of us eat each other. This is very scary stuff and whenever any of it seeps out as to the religious motivations behind the wars the messenger must instantly be discredited, note the brutal pillorying of Seymour Hersh over a recent speech when he spoke of JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command), the Knights of Malta and the deeply entrenched Christian crusader mentality in the military. But Jones doesn’t go there which is one very serious problem that I have with him, he is not covering the BIG picture only selective elements, all of which are compatible with the Council For National Policy agenda.
Zaitchik’s Rolling Stone piece references the influence of the John Birch Society on a young Alex Jones:
Home life was intellectual, but not overtly political. “My parents were careful not to give me political views almost as an experiment to see what I’d turn into,” he says. “The closest thing to a childhood political training was some neighbors who were members of the John Birch Society. They’d come over for dinner and I’d be exposed to those ideas, starting at around age two.”
The most enduring influence, though, was a 1971 bestseller he found on his father’s bookshelf: None Dare Call It Conspiracy. Authored by Gary Allen, a spokesman for the John Birch Society, the book provided the cornerstone for New World Order conspiracies. According to None Dare, the federal income tax is nothing but a plot by a cabal of megarich “insiders” who work to suck the middle class dry and transfer its wealth to the Ford and Rockefeller foundations. As a teenager, Jones read the book twice. “It’s still the easiest-to-read primer to the New World Order,” he says.
Hey, it’s not that the Birchers are bad people; they are for the most part loudly pro-American patriots, they just have a different view on many things but to ignore the fact that despite their more outrageous histrionics there is much common ground on a good many issues of great importance. I have myself on several occasions worked jointly with the organization on issues of agreement and unlike say MoveOn.org or other political action groups, I always get a return letter from my so-called Congressional representatives when using the JBS activism tools. Like all organizations, they continue to evolve but their focus on communism as the ultimate menace was and is wrong and is reflective of the formation of the JBS during the Cold War era when paranoia first became a virtue in America although of life as it is post 9/11 . For the record though, the JBS in it’s current incarnation is far more outspoken and progressive on civil liberties issues than either the Bush or Obama administrations. It is just that they are misguided and far too overly concerned with the external threats than those that are internal and have overwhelmed the traditional, reality-based conservatism of the past.
As for civil liberties this is where Alex Jones is the most effective, in attacking the vile transformation of what used to be the land of the free and the home of the brave into some bastardized version of Oceania, Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany called The Homeland.There is no more of a passionate and ardent defender of American civil liberties on air than Alex Jones, and truthfully that sucks because it is due to problematic and uncompromising stances on such issues as illegal immigration abortion (Jones is against it), failing to denounce the Tea Party movement after it had obviously been infiltrated and compromised by Neocon Republicans, Koch Brothers style global warming denial and a certain dark xenophobia relating to Mexicans (he accused Grindhouse spin-off flick Machete director Robert Rodriguez of fomenting a race war) he would have such crossover appeal that he would become a very dangerous man to the oligarchy. The one thing that this pathetically impotent, broken down and busted out lemming colony desperately needs (absent a functional political system) is a libertarian – progressive-green alliance that could find enough common ground to pose a serious and highly motivated threat to the current corrupt system. Jones, a libertarian who is a huge supporter of the former insurgent Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, a man whose anti-interventionist, pro-civil liberties, anti-torture, anti-Federal Reserve and pro-America views make him anathema to the Neocon controlled GOP has gained much clout with thinking progressives for his principled stance on what ails America. Paul recently joined with the hated bogeyman of establishment Democrats, Ralph Nader in an alliance against the corporate warfare state so there is potential. Were Jones to reign in his tirades in order to appeal to a wider audience and using his skills as a showman and filmmaker he would be formidable indeed.
The Rolling Stone piece is actually about as fair a bit of writing about a guy with the controversial nature of Alex Jones is going to get in a major American publication. Certainly not a cowardly knee-capping, the article portrays Jones’ family life as being very normal, he “dotes” on his wife and children, “cracks jokes with his young staff” and is according to the author “shockingly sincere” in everything that he says. And the article makes it a point to emphasize that Jones has no tolerance for racism (Obama Joker posters and unruly Meskins [sic] aside) and is against the sort of anti-Semitism that is exemplified in many of the more extreme elements of the far-right. With any attacks on the Neocons and their insatiable bloodlust for global hegemony often resulting in knee-jerk and libelous accusations of anti-Semitism from the normal William Kristol, Israel Lobby and Alan Dershowitz influenced winged-monkeys it is important that one be wary of being accused as being nothing more than a ‘Jew hater’. Zaitchik’s piece makes a point of mentioning that Jones’ wife is of Jewish descent and I have on occasion when listening to his show often heard him respond to callers (more than a few so over the top that they are likely some of those paid actors who read scripts on radio shows) denouncing Jews in a harsh manner, this is good currency to have considering the highly coordinated activist presence of movement conservatives. And as for the ultra-slick, multi-millionaire, fish-belly white faux populist spokesman for the corrupted beyond redemption Tea Party that is Glenn Beck, a followup bit on how Beck has stolen from Jones, changed the message to one of partisan politics and deception and helped to build a proto-fascist army of American brownshirts who with the help of the vast right-wing conspiracy network of think tanks, front groups and local bunds of haters that can be bussed in to any hotspots, like they were to Madison, Wisconsin during the rebellion against Governor Scott Walker.
Zaitchik (and likely the editors) does make more than a few of the standard tricks and tactics used to discredit those who dare to ask the forbidden questions as wingnut ‘tin foil hatters’. For instance the sly references to the diseased little monster Jared Loughner, Loughner is said to have been a fan of the 9/11 Truth film Loose Change, as if that sort of guilt by association with a film that dares to examine the American Reichstag Fire hasn’t been now viewed by tens of millions of people who don’t go on kill crazy rampages. Jones is mocked for daring to question the official story and to ponder whether the Arizona shootings were in fact a “government mind control operation”. There is of course no reference to the longtime involvement of the CIA and military in mind control experiments such as MKULTRA, the obsession with trying to create ‘Manchurian Candidate’ style assassins (reference the work of a Colonel Thomas Narut found in the out of print Operation Mind Control by Walter Bowart), there is one hell of a lot of money that is spent on mind control and Jones understands that, even if the sheeple don’t. Also the article seems to state that Jones’ belief in FEMA camps, total government tracking and fusion centers is absurd. Of course there is no mention is given to the ACLU’s report on the fusion centers that are hidden in plain sight just about everywhere now, Oliver North’s REX 84, Continuity of Government or the existence of these bizarre sort of detention facilities in America. This stuff is real and people had better get it though whatever may remain of their television lobotomized brains that they are there for a reason, and it’s not going to be a good reason. Of course such facilities must be downplayed, the blockbuster episode of TruTv’s hit show Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura dealing with the fusion centers, detention camps and police state (which Jones contributed to) was yanked off of the air and flushed down the memory hole by the an oligarchy hellbent on concealing the truth for as long as possible while the police state or as Jones refers to it, “the global, Stasi,Borg state” can be fully completed.
Zaitchik also writes:
To Jones, what matters most is the “continuity of agenda at the top. When I called Clinton a Wall Street puppet, they called me a right-wing extremist. When I said the same about George W. Bush, they called me an anti-war communist. Now that I’m against Obama for the same reasons, mainline conservatives embrace me. When I attack the next right-wing ‘savior,’ they’re gonna call me a communist again.”
On the spiritual cancer of modern capitalism, Jones sounds more like Ralph Nader than a Fox Business channel libertarian. “Madison Avenue makes us addicts of consumerism, using glass wampum to steal our capacity to direct our own lives,” Jones says. “The globalists are smart and tell us sin is fun, sin is a red-devil cheerleader. No — sin is cheating other people, it’s sending troops to die in illegal wars, it’s keeping people dumb so you can control, exploit and kill them.”
While in recent years Alex Jones has disproportionally focused his energy on attacking Obama, who has now proven that he really isn’t the second coming of anything other than the Bushreich, only a smoother, better packaged version of it (as I write this the teflon-coated bullshit salesman is preening and prepping for his very own war on Libya) – he was critical of Bush as well. While some of his newest films The Obama Deception and The Fall of the Republic are denounced by the pathetic excuse for the left as sinister propaganda it would be a nice bit of context were an earlier Jones film also be referenced. In 9/11: The Road to Tyranny there is an extended segment on the Bush Family Nazi history, bizarre ceremonies at Bohemian Grove , an annual gathering for the elite located in the northern California forest and covered the Nuremberg style rally in 2004 New York City that was the Republican Party convention. So Jones does denounce the entire rotten system despite the earlier mentioned policy omissions, he also regularly ridicules the idiotic notion that Osama bin Laden and al-CIAda have become convenient bogeymen to be dragged out to justify every Draconian assault on civil liberties and war crime committed by the empire. It was Alex Jones who correctly called the 9/11 ‘terrorist’ attacks before they took place and on July 25th, 2001 and according to Zaitchik “became the only radio host in America to begin his September 11th broadcast with a tirade against the U.S. government”, now that’s chutzpah!
The Rolling Stone piece describes an incident from Jones’s youth when he realized that corrupt local police were involved in drug dealing which made a serious impression on him and would influence his life’s work:
It was in high school that Jones discovered a corrupt, Blue Velvet underbelly to his town. At weekend parties, he watched as off-duty cops dealt pot, Ecstasy and cocaine to his friends. “A truck would appear, sometimes with a guy still in uniform inside,” Jones recalls. “Then, on Monday, they’d have D.A.R.E. and drug-test us for football.” Jones, a young varsity lineman, did not appreciate the irony. “I was like, ‘You want to drug-test me, when I know you’re selling the stuff?’ I called them the mafia to their face. At the time, I didn’t know anything about CIA drug-dealing.”
Things came to a head during Jones’ sophomore year, when he was pulled over while driving without a license, a six-pack of beer under the passenger seat. Jones told the cop he was corrupt and had no right to enforce laws. “They brought me to jail,” Jones says. “Afterward, one of the cops told me to wise up, or they’d frame me and send me away.” The following week, his father was so spooked that he sold his dental practice and moved the family to Austin. A few months later, Rockwall County’s sheriff was indicted on organized-crime charges.
As one who regularly researches “conspiracies” and other manifestations of the deep state it is very easy to become cynical once exposed to the established patterns of gross amorality, cloak and dagger operations and raw corruption as is embodied in the global elite but especially in the ruling oligarchy here in the U.S.A. That being said, once one really gets it about the way that things truly work, has been exposured to the darkest aspects of all of the dirty little secrets of how elements of the U.S. government operate, the sordid alliances with mobsters, drug dealers, dictators and stone crazy maniacs it takes a certain type to not openly reject it all as lunacy, that is how successful that the indoctrination is. It is just way too much of a mindfuck for the average American to understand such grotesque perversions of the white-picket fence illusions of virtue and decency. America is always the good guy, a God kissed land of greatness, opportunity and righteousness, the global cop and the blessed spreader of that great myth that is democracy for that is the narrative that they have been weaned upon since their earliest days of cognition. When the curtain is pulled back exposing the horrors of imperialist exploitation, big financial cartel monetary chicanery, arms and drugs trafficking to fund off the books black operations, the destabilization of legitimate foreign governments, assassinations, death squads, CIA mind control experiments, false flag terror attacks, propaganda, mind controlled assassins, ginned up wars for profit, institutional corruption and a myriad of other gross transgressions by the powerful against the powerless is truly understood. When one realizes that conspiracies are the normal way of doing business then the indoctrination is broken and the mind freed from it’s red, white and blue chains. Not everyone can do it, it takes courage, an understanding that one will be forever shunned by those stills staring at the shadows on the wall of the cave and the fortitude to not give a damn. That is one hell of a big rock to roll in a society where critical thinking is discourage, conformity is demanded and those who dare to not fall in line will become pariahs. You see, once one gets a true glimpse behind the façade of our Potemkin Village on the primrose path to perdition then it is virtually impossible to look at anything the same way ever again. That is way too much for a people mesmerized by falsehoods spewed from the pocket media on their big screen electronic crackpipes that feed them the steady methadone of celebrity, reality tv, nonsensical millionaire worship, desensitizing faux murders on ultra-violent cop worshipping epics, lurid sex, war glorification, meaningless sports contests, potty humor that infantilizes the mind and other rot that has replaced reality in 2011. Simply put, there are alternate realities in post 9/11 America, only one of which is real and that one is Jones’ “global Stasi Borg state”
In my own opinion, Jones comes across as a true patriot albeit one who should lay off the caffeine and take a more methodical and reasonable approach. Rather than try to tie it up in one big long-term global plot by ruthlessly efficient, eugenics obsessed elite that spans centuries and is in the final stages of their “Endgame” he should focus with laser precision on all that has gone so horribly wrong in America and has flipped the country fascist and about three moves shy of being branded, yoked and sold to the man. I really prefer to look at how author Peter Dale Scott describes it in his foreword the 2008 update of his book The War Conspiracy:
“Thus I looked at these repeated-rule breakings together under the rubric “war conspiracy,” a clumsy term which in retrospect could have been improved on. At the time I made it clear that I was not pointing to some single group of guilty plotters, but to a “syndrome” of sustained collusion and deceit. I likened the process to a “floating crap game”, in which the players (and dealers) change, but not the motive of gain. This analogy in retrospect seems absurdly linear. I had stumbled, almost by accident, on a far more pervasive process of subversion of public order. Today I talk instead of a dominant mindset, one found in various power centers: the military, intelligence agencies, the media, and even universities.
No doubt my analogy of a floating crap game could be characterized as an example of what Richard Hofstadter called “the conspiratorial mentally or ‘paranoid’ style – for which important events in public life are best understood as the product of hidden, malevolent forces in history. But what shall we say of those people, usually in privileged stations of the Establishment, for whom “conspiracy theory”, as Murray Rothbard once observed, is “quite beyond the pale of correct thinking and permissible discourse?” Is their preference for non-conspiratorial explanations not really a psychological tendency? “Lone-nutism,” the Establishment’s answer to “conspiracism” in the case of the Kennedy assassination, can be carried to spectacular lengths, as when Allen Dulles in the Warren Commission applied it to the simultaneous shootings accompanying the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
The obvious failing of comprehensive conspiracy theories which invoke a single “invisible government” is their tendency to attribute a wide spectrum of unrelated events to a single controller or group. Just consider the list of controllers that various authors have suggested: the Pinay Circle, the Safari Club, the Round Table, the Bilderberts, the Knights of Malta, the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Jesuits, Skull and Bones, the Freemasons, the Council on Foreign Relations, Wall Street, the Trilateral Commission, the American Security Council, the Mafia, to name only some. One ingenious writer has claimed that a Jesuit Freemason member of the Round Table inspired the Bilderberger meetings, where in turn David Rockefeller “broached the idea of a Trilateral Commission.” But even such a synoptic hypothesis will not begin to cover the disparate evidence of plural hidden forces at work.
What all the aforementioned groups have in common is some degree of connection to what I call the global overworld – that fraction of the few hundred superrich (whose combined wealth is estimated by U.N. sources to nearly equal the annual income of the poorer half of the world’s population), and their representatives who also use wealth to exert political influence.
In the end it all comes down to money and power, when in doubt always refer to the Golden Rule which is that those who have the gold make the rules. As the system itself which is unsustainable deteriorates by the minute, the dollar being devalued by a cabal of genocidal fanatics led by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and uncontrollable commodities speculation that is driving a wave of global insurrection it is imperative for those who are able to see it for what it is can come together. It may already be too late to salvage anything, but there is a certain intrinsic value in the dignity of the fight against that which is unjust. Make no mistake, the FEMA camps and police state that Alex Jones rails about are real and they will soon be occupied by those who dare to question the raw fascism of the new American century. No matter how flawed that his message may be at times there is no question that Jones is influential, has a dedicated following and is the antidote to the whores and charlatans like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck who work for big money in order to distract, divide and hijack the revolution. It is going to take a unified effort to fight that which is coming, thanks to the internet and those who use it to expose the great lies there are millions who already awake and somewhere in the back of the minds of those who are not there is a gnawing feeling that things have gone horribly wrong, the right message with crossover appeal could be the spark that ignites the powder keg that the oligarchy is sitting upon but time is running out.
Alex Jones is many things to many people, a veritable Rorschach test, but truly what he remains is an enigma.
by Ed Encho
Posted in Alex Jones, Alex Jones Show, Alternative Media, Council For National Policy, FEMA Camps, Infowars, New World Order, Phony War On Terror, Ron Paul, Tea Party, The Most Paranoid Man in America
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Disney Recalls Forky Doll, Which Is Now Technically Trash
Here is a story so poetic in its irony it deserves to be put down in a handsome leather-bound book and placed on a shelf alongside the great works of Whitman and Yeats. To those great names we now add another legend: Forky.
Oh, poor Forky. Granted unwanted sentience by an unthinking toddler, he becomes the latest toy in Bonnie’s menagerie in Toy Story 4. Forky, as she names him, wants nothing to do with any of that. He wants to die, to return to the warm, comforting embrace of the eternal void that is a life being trash. He repeatedly tries to return to the garbage — to essentially commit self-forkicide — before Woody, Buzz, and the rest of the Toy Story gang help him to see his self-worth, and appreciate the life of a toy.
In our world, things are not working out quite that way for at least one Forky. Disney has recalled an 11-inch plush Forky doll because of a “manufacturing defect” that, according to the press release, “could potentially pose a choking hazard to children under 3.”
Anyone who purchased one of these Forkys can get a full refund by visiting a Disney store or theme park. (You can also call 866-537-7649 or email personal.shoppers@shopDisney.com.) If you purchased one of these, particularly for a small child, please do that.
For everyone else: Let us acknowledge the accidental magic of this moment. In Toy Story 4, a depressed, recycled plastic utensil learns how to be a toy and stops wanting to be trash. In our world, a toy fashioned into the likeness of that utensil is now being ordered to the trash heap because of a manufacturing defect. Why, it’s a plot so rich in potential tragedy — THINK OF THE THOUSANDS OF DOOMED FORKYS — it deserves to be the plot of its own Toy Story, with Woody trying to rescue a recalled Buzz from a dark fate in the abyss. (There actually was a version of Toy Story 3 with this exact concept.)
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R. vs. Z.H. - Port Coquitlam Youth Court
Charge: Assault Causing Bodily Harm.
Issue: Whether, given the history between our client and the complainant, it was reasonable for our client apply the level of force he used.
Result: Mr. Johnson was able to persuade Crown to not approve any criminal charge but, rather, to resolve the matter through Restorative Justice. No criminal record.
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R. vs. D.I. - Vancouver Provincial Court
Charges: Dangerous Driving Causing Bodily Harm; Driving Without Due Care and Attention.
Issue: Whether it was appropriate for Crown to charge our client under the Criminal Code or the Motor Vehicle Act in regard to an accident where our client's vehicle struck a cyclist from behind, causing serious injury.
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R. vs. L.B. - North Vancouver Provincial Court
Result: Mr. Johnson was able to persuade the Crown to proceed summarily on the lesser offence of Fraud Under $5000, and after hearing Mr. Johnson's submission, the court granted our client an absolute discharge. No criminal record.
R. vs. R.G. - Vancouver Provincial Court
Charge: Assault.
Issue: Whether there was substantial likelihood of a conviction in this “road rage” assault case.
Result: Mr. Johnson provided information to the Crown that suggested our client was acting in self defence. No charge approved. No criminal record.
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R. vs. R.R. - Vancouver Provincial Court
Charge: Theft Over $5000.
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R. vs. F.M. - North Vancouver Provincial Court
Issue: Given the rehabilitative steps our client had taken, whether a jail sentence was appropriate in this case.
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Category: Anarchy
Chaos, monkees, Politics
What would a year end blog post be with out a moving tribute to the people we lost… Well a lot of people died this year. And although I kinda loathe the fact that we cry over celebrity deaths when people who are kind and good die without recognition every single day. There has been one celebrity death this year that has moved the entire Monkee Kingdom; Continue reading 13.0.0.0.0
Anarchy, Chaos, Life, monkees, Politics
#Occupydeeznuts; Let’s play Master and Servant
I see all the news is filled with these #Occupiers, people standing up and crying out against the socio-economic injustices that have always existed in this country and the world. I would love to be in the middle of it all. I would love to raise my fist and help topple the corrupt empire that I have railed against since I was a teenager. Yet, I feel like it is all in vain. I have been a part of many protest actions in my time. I was at A16 in Washington DC (despite being on Federal Probation in North Carolina at the time); I was tear-gassed and chased by cops. Running along-side a drunken Uncle Sam who said he was also on Federal Probation in Virginia and not supposed to leave the state either. I was in New York in 2002 protesting against the Iraq War when the police came through on horseback hitting anything that moved with black jacks; I dove on top of a teenage girl I had never met before to shield her from the officer’s baton. I took several cracks to my back that actually felt good because my back is shit after spending eight months in a federal prison for thinking I was an anarchist terrorist when I was 19. Believe me if anyone should be out there crowing about the end of this bullshit society it should be me. Continue reading #Occupydeeznuts; Let’s play Master and Servant
Thee Royal Monkee Armada Reader!: We’re still all Goonies
Thee Royal Monkee Armada Reader!: We’re still all Goonies. Continue reading Thee Royal Monkee Armada Reader!: We’re still all Goonies
Death Comes In Three’s-Bet on it!
They say celebrity deaths come in three’s! First it was Gary Coleman, then Dennis Hopper, now Rue McClanahan! Dixie Carter also passed recently as well as Art Linkletter. and lets not forget Ronnie James Dio! Continue reading Death Comes In Three’s-Bet on it!
Anarchy, Apocalypse, Apocalypse Watch, Chaos, Obama, Politics
Signs of the Apocalypse #1080
While talking heads on the left and right point fingers and try to use this disaster as way to rally up their base and score political points the truth is this is something that affects us all Republicans, Democrats, (bat-Shit-crazy) Tea Baggers, Libertarians, and Anarchist. The ramifications of what is going on and the ineptitude of both BP and the Federal Government to control this will inevitably threaten all life on the planet. As species begin to disappear and the ripple effect is felt up the entire food chain generations from now our children’s grandchildren will find themselves either starving to death or completely dependent on genetically altered farm foods raised in laboratories. Continue reading Signs of the Apocalypse #1080
Chaos, God, monkey's, Politics, Religion, Religion
Get Yourself a Funky-Monkey-God!
The other day the so-called leader of those hapless idiots known as The Tea Party, Mark Williams called the Islamic God a “Monkey God”! Upset over the fact that there are plans to build a mosque near their beloved Ground Zero, the right-wing nut job (who is a frequent guest on CNN) let loose a rambling dumb-ass diatribe on his blog? Again when did rednecks get so computer savvy? This further illustrates the ignorance (not to mention intolerance) of this group. Allah ( the Muslim diety) is not a Monkey-God! He’s not even close, he’s closer to the mythical Judeo-Christian God Yahweh, they each branch out from the fabled tribes of Abraham. This idiotic religious squabbling seems never ending. It would be a much better world if all of these douche bags got their collective heads out of the sand. Stop putting so much emphasis on a pathetic desert religion that has lost all meaning thousands of years ago. There is a Monkey-God out there that is far more worthy of your respect and devotion. Continue reading Get Yourself a Funky-Monkey-God!
The Grand-Father of Chaos
Neither truly recognized as an artist or occultist, Austin Osman Spare was more than just both; he was the grand-father of modern Chaos and Sigil Magick. Despite having received various publications around the turn of the century, he remained virtually unnoticed until the late 1960s. Born in 1886, the son of a London police officer little is known about AOS’s childhood. After he attended the Royal College of Art, Spare found his vocation as an artist and illustrator; he was celebrated as an up-and-coming young artist. Continue reading The Grand-Father of Chaos
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WHO recognises 'compulsive sexual behaviour' as mental disorder
The World Health Organization has recognised "compulsive sexual behaviour" as a mental disorder, but said Saturday it remained unclear if it was an addiction on a par with gambling or drug abuse.
The contentious term "sex addiction" has been around for decades but experts disagree over whether the condition exists.
In the latest update of its catalogue of diseases and injuries around the world, the WHO takes a step towards legitimising the concept, by acknowledging "compulsive sexual behaviour disorder", or CSBD, as a mental illness.
But the UN health body stops short of lumping the condition together with addictive behaviours like substance abuse or gambling, insisting more research is needed before describing the disorder as an addiction.
"Conservatively speaking, we don't feel that the evidence is there yet... that the process is equivalent to the process with alcohol or heroin," WHO expert Geoffrey Reed told AFP Saturday.
In the update of its International Classification of Diseases (ICD), published last month, WHO said CSBD was "characterised by persistent failure to control intense, repetitive sexual impulses or urges... that cause marked distress or impairment".
But it said the scientific debate was still ongoing as to "whether or not the compulsive sexual behaviour disorder constitutes the manifestation of a behavioural addiction".
Reed said it was important that the ICD register, which is widely used as a benchmark for diagnosis and health insurers, includes a concise definition of compulsive sexual behaviour disorder to ensure those affected can get help.
"There is a population of people who feel out of control with regards to their own sexual behaviour and who suffer because of that," he said pointing out that their sexual behaviour sometimes had "very severe consequences."
"This is a genuine clinical population of people who have a legitimate health condition and who can be provided services in a legitimate way," he said.
It remains unclear how many people suffer from the disorder, but Reed said the ICD listing would likely prompt more research into the condition and its prevalence, as well as into determining the most effective treatments.
"Maybe eventually we will say, yeah, it is an addiction, but that is just not where we are at this point," Reed said.
But even without the addiction label, he said he believed the new categorisation would be "reassuring", since it lets people know they have "a genuine condition" and can seek treatment.
No excuse for rape
Claims of "sex addiction" have increasingly been in the headlines in step with the #MeToo movement, which has seen people around the world coming forward with allegations sexual mistreatment.
The uprising has led to the downfall of powerful men across industries, including disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who has reportedly spent months in treatment for sex addiction.
Reed said he did not believe there was reason to worry that the new CSBD listing could be used by people like Weinstein to excuse alleged criminal behaviours.
"It doesn't excuse sexual abuse or raping someone ... any more than being an alcoholic excuses you from driving a car when you are drunk. You have still made a decision to act," he said.
While it did not recognise sex addiction in the first update of its ICD catalogue since the 1990s, WHO did for the first time recognise video gaming as an addiction, listing it alongside addictions to gambling and drugs like cocaine.
The document, which member states will be asked to approve during the World Health Assembly in Geneva next May, will take effect from January 1, 2022 if it is adopted.
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Reading 2.1 — The Ignorant Schoolmaster (Jacques Rancière)
Matt Strohmeyer
How did Larry Page or Sergey Brin achieve a genius-level capability to integrate data-mining and ad-based search engine software to create Google? How was Napoleon able to, in a moment, see the key terrain on a battlefield and consistently dominate his adversaries? How did Ralph Lauren rise from relative poverty to become a genius designer worth over $7 Billion?
Typically, we would chalk these remarkable situations up to uncommon genius — the combination of luck and genetic disposition for incredible intelligence. What if, however, these situations have nothing to do with traditional definitions of “genius.” What if intelligence was actually equal among most people? What if the bum on the street in reality had just as much intelligence as Bill Gates? What if, underneath all sorts of social structures and biases, there existed an equality of intelligence? You would probably respond that such a notion is ridiculous. Clearly, some people are smarter than others — some are destined for greatness based on their God-given intellectual capabilities and other are destined for blue-collar work. What if all your assumptions were turned on their heads and you saw that almost all people are of equal intelligence but, importantly, all people also have very different wills.
What if humans are a will served by an intelligence rather than the common belief that we are an intelligence served by a will? What if almost everyone has the capacity to do great things if only they were freed from the stultifying constraints of a belief in a hierarchical intellectual order?
These questions are at the crux of Jacques Rancière’s argument — an argument that he provides via a biographical sketch of a 19th century French schoolmaster. This real-life subject, Joseph Jacotot, knew no Flemish yet found himself able to teach French to Flemish-speaking students. This remarkable outcome resulted from Jacotot’s discovery that one need only identify a common ground between teacher and student (such as a familiar book available in both languages) and then let the self-motivated students loose to discover for themselves. This pedagogical technique of self-discovery rather than didactic instruction Jacotot referred to as emancipation and juxtaposed it to the traditional hierarchical method of superior teacher-inferior student as stultification. The foundational belief that Jacatot came to recognize was that any student, when removed from the constraints of the “you will now learn this” teaching method, proved to be of equal intelligence with any other student and the teacher — the difference was in the will of the student to explore the topic for themselves.
These well-crafted assumptions of the intellectual equality of all provide the basis for a greater discussion on equality as a starting point that is at the core of much post-modernist thought. Whether we agree with their assertion or not, the potential for these ideas to challenge our biases is profound. If Rancière is right, then “anyone can learn anything,” and we must simply be willing to recognize the stultifying effects of some of our social structure and pedagogical styles to emancipate our capacity for genius.
Studies in pursuit of strategic genius
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NAACP Youth Summer Jam, Friends & Family Day
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The NAACP Culpeper Branch #7058, also representing Madison and Rappahannock Counties, will host its 2019 Youth Summer Jam, Friends & Family Day on Saturday, June 29, from noon to 3 pm at Yowell Meadow Park in Culpeper. The annual celebration will include a cookout, musical entertainment, games, prizes, and information on joining the NAACP.
Special guests include Greg Stroman, Jr., cornerback for the Washington Redskins. Prior to playing as a rookie for the Redskins in 2018, Stroman played for Virginia Tech, where he was a first-team All ACC player and graduated with a degree in Consumer Studies.
The Culpeper County Sheriff’s Department Honor Guard will perform a Presentation of Colors and the National Anthem. The Sheriff’s Department will also create IDs for children at the event. People and Community Together (PACT) will have information available on a new tutoring program beginning in August.
The event is free and open to all NAACP members and their friends and families.
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