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Pension to Premium Bonds
Yes, it does, doesn't it? Post here about financial issues, including pensions.
by Nosher007 » Fri 18 Mar 2016 05:52 GMT
How can I open an account in UK to save enough to buy Bonds when needed with my UK pension to save changing to AUD from GBP's and back again?
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Re: Pension to Premium Bonds
by Kay » Fri 18 Mar 2016 07:24 GMT
Hi and welcome to the forum.
Let's see if I've understood this - you live in Australia and want to open a UK bank account. Is that right? If so, you'll probably find it very difficult. Banks in the UK will normally expect you to be resident in the UK. There might be ways around it, but the anti money laundering laws these days make moving money around more difficult than it used to be.
Are you a British expat? If you are you could explore the possibility of opening an offshore account in sterling. However, if you are now an Australian, then the offshore option is unlikely to be open to you.
I'm not a banking expert but that's how I see it. Perhaps someone else here has better knowledge than I do. Good luck.
by Nosher007 » Sun 20 Mar 2016 01:51 GMT
Thank you for the info.I still have dual N/ity unless change has occurred by some chance,I left Norfolk for Tasmania in 72.My bro.in London has been the 'in between'up to now,but I don't know any details of the blockout.It probably won't stop the Laundering,the Biggy's will still be ok,it's the likes of us who are inconvenienced.what does 'if you are now an Australian mean?'
I still have my (out of date)British passport.Have they changed the likes of that?Thanks,Nosher.
by Kay » Mon 21 Mar 2016 11:18 GMT
I agree! These tough anti-laundering laws are a huge inconvenience to the average person and the big boys will always find ways around them. But that's the system we have to work within.
What I meant by asking if you're an Australian was just to establish if you'd emigrated some time ago, now have Australian nationality, and can no longer claim to be British. Since you have the dual nationality - and can still claim to be British - I expect it'll be slightly less difficult to open a British bank account.
We were overseas for a long time and found it extremely difficult to open a UK bank account until we were actually back on the ground with residential status and a UK address.
I hope someone else might join in with some advice because we faced similar problems of being British, living elsewhere, and not being able to open a UK bank account. I'm not saying it can't be done, only that we couldn't figure out how to do it.
Sorry that's not the answer you're looking for. It's only our experience. Maybe someone else will have something more encouraging.
by ruggie » Mon 21 Mar 2016 20:09 GMT
Does Oz allow you to hold an account in sterling as well as your AUD account? If so, get your UK pension paid into it in sterling and only transfer what you need into AUD. There must be several ways to hold a sterling account, but the real trouble will be that you can't get your pension payments split. Do they arrive in Oz in sterling, or are they already converted to AUD?
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by Nosher007 » Wed 23 Mar 2016 00:09 GMT
Thank's for the reply ruggie,that will be my next port of call.I haven't had any payment's made to oz,as they have stayed in uk with a brother.Now even he can't deal with the blockout!.Visor down and into battle.
by Dave » Sun 27 Mar 2016 08:20 GMT
Kay wrote: What I meant by asking if you're an Australian was just to establish if you'd emigrated some time ago, now have Australian nationality, and can no longer claim to be British.
If you're a British Citizen by birth, the only way you can lose your citizenship is by writing to the Home Secretary to renounce it. The UK allows multiple citizenship. Some countries don't, and may insist that you sign a declaration that you've renounced your British citizenship as a condition of obtaining their citizenship (or continuing to hold it, if you're entitled to it by birth). Under UK law such declarations to other governments don't affect your status as a British Citizen - you'll retain all your rights and obligations as far as HM Government's concerned (although under the law of your other country it may well be illegal to exercise them, eg by trying to enter that country on a British passport).
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by Nosher007 » Sat 2 Apr 2016 02:07 GMT
Thank's Dave,Here's the latest from ns&i Blackpool .
The only way now(!)to buy P/Bondsis from a UK bank account in your name,using a Debit card,or by completing an application form and sending it to our Glasgow office with a cheque again drawn on a UK bank account in your name.We cannot accept cheques or Electronic Transfers from banks outside the UK(!)
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by gozomark » Wed 25 May 2016 15:22 GMT
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NFHS Network Top-10 Plays 2013-14
Posted on August 4, 2014 by jcookson
Last summer we asked fans to vote on the top-10 CIAC NFHS Network moments from the past season. This year, we were feeling a bit less democratic and took the task upon ourselves to choose the top-10 plays, moments, highlights from an incredible season of CIAC NFHS Network action. It was a banner year for the Network’s CIAC coverage, with more than 140 postseason games and meets broadcast live. If you want to get in on the fun, consider joining the NFHS School Broadcast Program which helps schools make their own regular season and some tournament events available for broadcast. Now is also a great time to sign up for a season pass subscription for the upcoming season — it is the most cost-effective way to access all the content broadcast this season. With all that said, let’s take a look at the great moments from this past year.
Choosing the top-10 plays from the past year was no easy task with all those games to choose from, but here is what we have.
HONORABLE MENTION – COMEBACK FOR THE AGES
We start with the last basket from a game that arguably was one of the games of the year. Which hopefully tells you just how fierce the competition is to break into this top-10. Bridgeport Central looked done early in the second half of the class LL boys basketball final at Mohegan Sun. Fortunately for Connecticut high school basketball fans, that was hardly the case as the Hilltoppers roared back, setting up a thrilling final few minutes as the teams traded clutch baskets and the lead. Finally, Orhan Cecunjamin made the game’s decisive play, propelling Bridgeport Central to the title.
#10 – CROMWELL KEEPER SHINES
Lists like these are often dominated by offense, so why not start with some stellar defensive work. Cromwell’s Ryan Murphy was one of the stars of a great weekend of fall championship play, notching several spectacular saves to help preserve his team’s Class S state title. Favorite part of this highlight (other than the jaw-dropping save) is the reaction of the person on the sideline, who CANNOT BELIEVE the ball didn’t go in.
#9 – RHAM OUTLASTS FARMINGTON IN CLASSIC
Also from that fall championship RHAM and Farmington played an absolute classic in the class L girls volleyball final. RHAM needed several comebacks in the third set to even see the match reach a decisive fifth set, and then trailed again late in the final frame. The team then managed to score the final four points of the match, punctuated by a final point that saw a little bit of everything — a great dig, tough blocking at the net, and then finally a precision attack to seal the title.
#8 – DISTANCE RECORD-BREAKING DUAL
Track & field fans were heavily anticipating the girls 1,600 at the Indoor Open Championship. Throughout the winter several competitors had been raising the stakes and producing great times and memorable races. It turned out they were just getting started. Danae Rivers, Hannah DeBalsi and Claire Howlett battled throughout the race before Rivers made her move with two laps remaining and held off DeBalsi at the finish for the victory. The race featured all three runners besting the previous State Open record and five runners total (adding Sarah Mattison and Cate Allen) breaking five minutes in the race. As a little extra icing, the win helped Rivers’ Wilbur Cross team edge DeBalsi’s Staples squad for the team title. Something tells me these ladies might appear again in this list.
#7 – PICK-6 SEALS STATE CROWN
One more chance to recognize some defense. Thanks to some ugly winter weather the class LL football final between Southington and Fairfield Prep didn’t take place until nearly a week after it was scheduled. With the show the two teams put on, it was nearly worth the wait. The second half, in particular, featured numerous momentum swings and counter-punches, with Southington eventually coming up with more big plays, capped by this interception return which sealed its thrilling comeback win.
#6 – KICKERS SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH
We jump right back in with some football and one of the most dramatic moments of the postseason. By our count there were seven football postseason games decided by a single score or less, but the quarterfinal match-up between Daniel Hand and Darien was the one decided on the last play of the game with our NFHS Network cameras on hand. A full game of football came down to the right foot of Daly Hebert. It might have looked like a gimme, but as noted in the clip, there was a missed extra point earlier in this contest. This one…not so much.
#5-Tie – GAME WINNING GOALS GALORE
Maybe you have a way of determining which ice hockey overtime game-winning championship goal deserves to be ranked ahead of the other. As for me, I see no problem counting both these special goals as one moment if only to highlight the excitement that comes from a sudden-death goal in a packed hockey arena after three thrilling periods. So the fifth spot in our poll goes to Fairfield Prep’s Vincent D’Amore and Newtown’s Scott McLean with a pair of winning tallies.
#4 – CONVINCING CORNER
If those last two clips didn’t quench your thirst for sudden-death state-championship goals scored by players with sticks, how about Wilton finally finding a way through the Lauralton Hall defense to notch the only goal of the game with no time showing on the clock in overtime to win the class M state championship? Is that something you’d be interested in?
#3 – ROUTING THE RECORD BOOK
This highlight isn’t entirely about the finish, or the race context — though that certainly helps. It is about the team accomplishment. It’s not just that Greenwich edged out rival Fairfield Prep with a strong final leg to win the 400 yard freestyle relay. It’s not just that in doing so, the team shattered the state record it had set just days before at the class championship (the runner-up Jesuits also broke that record, it should be noted). It’s that in the history of boys high school swimming, the clip we present here features the third-fastest time in this event. EVER (according to the NFHS Record Book). Anytime we are talking about that sort of rarefied air, it’s going to earn a high spot on a list like this.
#2 – DISTANCE RECORD-BREAKING DUAL (THE REMATCH)
I told you we might be hearing from these ladies again. And really, the build-up and scenario was almost identical. And once again, Danae Rivers, Hannah DeBalsi and the other competitors put on a show. Just an unbelievable race. I think I’ve watched it at least 10 times, and each time I am convinced the other person is going to win. The number of times it seemed either DeBalsi or Rivers had made the decisive move, only to see the other battle back, is staggering. Tremendous competition.
#1 – WALK. OFF.
Our last two entries come from the spring season, suggesting perhaps a bit of recency bias in the voting. But it’s hard to argue with either one of these. The class LL softball final between Southington and Amity provided a little bit of everything (except much offense). The tension kept building, and building as Southington’s Kendra Friedt and Amity’s Katie Koshes continued to throw up zeroes and pile up strikeouts (37 in all). Finally, senior Rachel Dube provided a memorable ending to one of the most memorable games in CIAC softball tournament history.
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90-mile Straight
December 8, 2017 by Cruisers
Eyre H’way and Nullarbor Plain
1st – 8th December, 2017
The Nullarbor (Latin meaning no trees) Plain is a flat, almost treeless plain of limestone bedrock that stretches 1100km from west of Balladonia WA to Ceduna SA between the coast of the Great Australian Bight to the south and the Great Victoria Desert to the north. This limestone platform is the largest in the world, and the reason that trees don’t get much of a go here.
Edward John Eyre in 1841 was the first European to cross this arid country describing it thus, “a hideous anomaly, a blot on the face of Nature, the sort of place one gets into in bad dreams”. I guess he didn’t like it. It took him and his aboriginal guide, Wylie, 4 months to cross. We’ll cross it in one week on the Eyre Highway, which is going very, very slowly by today’s standards.
The 1660km Eyre Highway starts at Norseman in Western Australia and ends in Port Augusta in South Australia. From its construction in the 1870s it was just a hazardous trail until, with the threat of war in the Pacific, the government finally put some money into an east-west crossing and it became trafficable by 1942 though still little more than a dirt track. By the late 1960s the WA side was sealed and finally in 1976 the last SA section was sealed. It is described today as one of the World’s great road journeys.
The Eyre Highway, in red, stretches 1660km from Norseman to Port Augusta. It crosses the Nullarbor Plain from Balladonia (just east of Norseman where the road dips south) to Ceduna.
The road is in very good condition, two lanes with wide flat shoulders which were appreciated as the many road trains overtook us. Traffic was light, rarely seeing more than half a dozen vehicles an hour on the WA side, though it did pick up between Eucla and Ceduna.
There are literally dozens and dozens of free camping spots along the road. With the landscape being so flat, and vegetation sparse every rest area has tracks leading away from the road for free camping anywhere. The frequent rest areas variously have bins, picnic tables, some with toilets, a few have a dump point, but none have water! The roadhouses all have paid camping areas with power.
1st Dec (Happy birthday Olivia)
Our plan is to drive the Nullarbor slowly, enjoying the sights and experiences as we go. While the weather is pleasant here, Sth Aus and Victoria are being deluged so no great incentive to move quickly. And – big point- driving east in the mornings can be unpleasant with the sun directly through the windscreen.
With all this in mind we spent a few extra hours in Norseman. Driving up to Beacon Hill Lookout we passed several gold mines, none of which look to be operational, padlocks on the gates being a dead giveaway. There’s the most enormous quartzite tailings dump on the way up. I couldn’t find out much about the current mining operations, but it appears it closed in 2014, but is for sale and there’s hope it’ll reopen as an open cut mine (it’s currently an underground mine).
Norseman in the middle of the photo, the mine to the left and the huge quartzite tailings to the right, with the salt lakes fading into the horizon. Taken from the Beacon Lookout.
At Beacon Hill Lookout there’s quite good information boards describing the history of the area and a 1km walk around the hill to take in views over the town, the mine and the surrounding flat plains where you can see 50km to the horizon.
We filled our water tanks at the Information centre (for an obligatory ‘donation’), bought an extra 15L of drinking water from the IGA (no water available on Nullarbor), had a BBQ brunch in Norseman’s pleasant, grassy park and headed off on the Eyre Highway.
We passed the entrances to a few mines but other than that no agriculture, grazing or industry was seen. As we approached the large granite hills of Fraser Range we turned off to have a quick look at this historic working sheep station set amidst the world’s largest eucalyptus forest. Old vehicles, vintage farm equipment and a beautiful stone shearer’s shed looked interesting, but no sheep to be seen – they’re in some far distant paddock I guess.
We settled for the night at the free campsite at Newman Rocks. It’s well off the road, flat and enough trees to offer shade but not enough to worry about falling branches. Just us, no other campers tonight.
Our very peaceful campsite at Newman Rocks.
Saturday 2nd
We hung out at Newman Rocks for a while this morning, waiting for the sun to move a bit more to the west before we started our easterly drive. A walk around revealed an area of about 10 acres available to the camper. A large granite surface sloped gently downwards at the back of the campsite. In our elevated position you could see for miles over the flat saltbush-covered plain with a few salt lakes in the distance.
The rock at Newman Rocks, back behind our campsite. It’s rained recently so a few puddles around – note the salt lake in the distance.
Our first stop was the Balladonia Roadhouse, though not to buy fuel at $1.83/L. There’s a pretty good museum here with posters describing the human and natural history of the area, reports of some of the early journeys along this challenging road, for example the December 1926 Harley Davidson Motorcycle club trip and its 1980 re-enactment on vintage motorcycles, and the Redex Reliability Trials of the 1950s which was an around-Australia Rally testing the ability of various car makes. The Eyre Highway back in those days was extremely challenging.
But the highlight was Skylab! Skylab was the USA’s first and only space station which orbited earth for 6 years before it came crashing down in 1979, pieces landing near Balladonia.
In the museum at Balladonia. Newspaper articles about Skylab, some wreckage and a replica of a piece of Skylab and that landed not far from here.
We were living in Perth at the time and there was a lot of melodrama as the scientists tried to predict where it would crash – South Africa being their final prediction before it crashed here. I recall some budding entrepreneurs selling helmets! Jimmy Carter, the then President of the USA, phoned the Balladonia Roadhouse and apologised for the mess the space wreckage made.
Not far from Balladonia is the beginning of the 90 mile Straight, the longest straight stretch of road in Australia and amongst he longest in the World. Yeah it did get a bit achy in the shoulders, not moving your arms for so long.
We begin the 90-Mile Straight.
We’re on the Nullarbor Plain proper now – it’s flat and while there are some trees they’re not very big. The vegetation is mostly saltbush and bluebush.
Beware of wide loads too!
Tonight we’re camped at Baxter Rest Stop, a large, flat area off the road where the council has provided bins, toilets (smelly) and a dump point. There’re another 4 campers here with us.
Sunday 3rd
This morning we went for a walk around the campsite – tracks lead off in every direction over this flat countryside making it a huge camping area.
We continued our journey along the 90 Mile Straight stopping to see the blowhole at Caiguna. Thousands of blowholes and their associated shallow cave systems dot the limestone plain in this area in a 35km band about 75km inland. Blowholes are a result of weathering of the ground surface through to a cavity. The cave beneath the Caiguna Blowhole is between 0.5m – 1.5m (1.6 feet – 5 feet) though it probably connects to an extensive cave system of many small passages.
That’s it, down there! The Caiguna Blowhole.
Caves breathe out when the air pressure falls, and breathe in when the air pressure rises. The speed of air flow is dependent on the size of the cave entrance and the volume of air contained in the cave. This blowhole has had a measured wind speed of 72kph. It was breathing out when we were there, the cool air rushing out of it was certainly surprising.
Some of the caves beneath the Nullarbor have been mapped for several kilometres, and many of them contain large reservoirs of water that collectively form the artesian aquifer. This aquifer supplies the region’s bores and wells with fairly fresh water.
Further on we stopped at the Cocklebiddy Roadhouse and checked out the Eagles Nest 9th hole of the Nullarbor Links golf course. This 18-hole par 72 golf course spans 1,365 kilometres with one hole in each participating town or roadhouse along the Eyre Highway, from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia to Ceduna in South Australia.
The tee at the Eagles Nest hole.
Each hole includes a green and tee and somewhat rugged outback-style natural terrain fairway. To play the full course would be a unique experience – better still if I could play golf!
Moving on we’re now camped at Madura Pass Lookout, a free campsite similar to the others – large area with tracks meandering around small trees and campsites wherever you want. The Madura Pass however is quite a surprise in that we’re actually elevated on an escarpment – we haven’t experienced anything elevated for days. We’re overlooking the Roe Plain, a very flat, treeless, saltbush-covered plain that stretches to the ocean, way out on the horizon.
Sunset over Roe Plain from our campsite on the escarpment at Madura pass.
As the sun set through the trees the full moon rose over the plain – spectacular.
Anticipating a quiet night – we’re the only ones here.
This morning we drove down the escarpment to follow the road along the plain, with the escarpment cliffs to our left all the way. It’s not hard to imagine this as the seabed and the escarpment as the foreshore cliffs. We stopped briefly at Madura Roadhouse – fuel is still $1.82+/L and we’re still not buying it.
Madura Homestead has a very unusual history. Originally it was settled in 1876 as a pastoral homestead. However the owner, an ex-Army Officer, decided to breed quality polo and cavalry horses for the British Imperial Indian Army. At the time these fine stock horses were employed in various British campaigns on India’s rebellious Northwest Frontier. The horses were overlanded to Eucla for shipment to foreign ports.
Mundrabilla Roadhouse has fuel for $1.64 which is where we filled up, though still had a fair range left in the tank. Long-range fuel tanks are useful when it comes to being able to wait for less expensive fuel.
In several places along the Eyre Highway, as in other remote areas we’ve seen, the Royal Flying Doctor Service can use a section of the road as an emergency airstrip.
It wasn’t long before we climbed up the escarpment once more at Eucla Pass and drove on into Eucla. Eucla is famous for its telegraph Station. It was opened in 1877 and was the link between Western Australia and the rest of Australia. There was quite a large team of male telegraphists with a team from SA and another from WA who would pass messages across the table to each other to be sent on to the other State, all in Morse code. The building is now in ruins, covered in graffiti with sand dunes rapidly encroaching.
The ruins of the Eucla Telegraph Station. Note how the sand dune is encroaching on it – the doors are a bit low now to walk through.
Up at the Roadhouse is a small museum with some of the equipment they used, some tales of daily life and old photographs. It badly needs curating as it’s all fading, some of the stories already illegible.
It was a fine looking building back in its heyday.
Further on we crossed the WA/SA border. Wow, after 6 months and one week we’ve left WA. We sure have had a really good look around and caught up with so many friends – and we’ve only done half the state! Another big trip will be coming in from the north to experience the Kimberley’s and all the north has to offer.
Wow! We’re about to leave Western Australia. Hello South Australia.
We camped for the night at Lookout Number 4 – another flat, free area off the road, with views to the ocean. It’s a real treat to see the ocean again.
This is the beginning, or end, of the Bunda Cliffs. Taken from our Campsite.
With pleasantly cool weather still we decided we’d leave earlier today as there are quite a few Lookouts to pop in to. They were all fantastic though Lookout Number 1 had to be the pick of them showcasing the magnificent Bunda Cliffs that plunge 90 metres straight down into the Southern Ocean. The seas are calm today, the ocean looking innocuous, however the undercutting of the cliffs and the many signs imploring us to keep away from the unstable cliff edges tells a different story. The Bunda Cliffs, stretching for 200 unbroken kilometres, would be a desperate seafarer’s worst nightmare.
Looking toward the east, the Bunda Cliffs – they go a long way!
The treeless plain really kicked in around here. Prior to this there were scattered small trees/large shrubs, but now there’s only half-meter high saltbush and bluebush as far as the eye can see.
Is that a tree I spy on the Treeless Plain? Poor thing – it’s trying.
Head of Bight is a tourist attraction situated at the most northerly point of the Great Australian Bight, where the white sand dunes and beaches meet the beginning of the Bunda Cliffs. Boardwalks lead the visitor to perfect viewing spots for the vista, and, in season, a whale watching vantage point. Apparently! We wouldn’t know because it closes at 4pm, despite the fact that the sun was still very high in the sky. Daylight Saving strikes again. Annoyed!
We’re starting to see occasional signs of human habitation, agriculture as in post-harvest wheat, and sheep grazing.
Tonight we’re camped at yet another large, flat open area amongst the mulga scrub at Rushys Balcony, an unofficial campsite.
Dont get the wrong idea about all the Roadhouses I’ve mentioned so far. There is no surrounding town or even tiny settlement – just the roadhouse and the few people who staff it.
Not far down the road we came to the first settlement since Norseman: the little farming town of Penong – that’s ‘little town’ not ‘little farms’. Penong provides a hub for the local pastoralists and wheat farmers, who generally have huge properties. Water out here on the edge of the Nullarbor Plain is always a problem but they are luckily above the artesian basin, consequently the farmers sank bores and attached windmills to pump the water up. Penong became unofficially known as the ‘windmill town’.
Priscilla with the windmills.
As solar-powered pumps began replacing the windmills the locals decided they liked their title and so began a ‘windmill museum’. A great coup for them was finding and restoring the largest windmill in Australia which has a span of 35 feet.
The Comet windmill is functional. It’s attached to a bore and pumps water into the tank.
Next stop was a rest area to cook up all the vegetables I’ve got still – we’ll soon be crossing the quarantine border between WA and SA. A delicious butter chicken for us tonight, with more veggies than chicken!
At Ceduna the first stop was the Foodland supermarket to stock up on fruit and vegetables, amongst other things. The supermarket is very well stocked as you’d expect being either the last or first sizeable town at the edge of the Nullarbor. We also ‘happened upon’ the Oyster Shed where I just had to support the local industry. Yum! At the Information Centre we picked up a few brochures, then drove out to Pinky Point which is where the port is situated. Gypsum, salt, mineral sands and wheat are exported from this deep-sea port. A 4.3 metre mosaic-covered lighthouse here at the Point commemorates the lives of those lost at sea.
The beautiful mosaic lighthouse at Pinky Point near the port at Ceduna.
Ceduna is a corruption of the aboriginal word Chedoona, meaning place to sit down and rest, and it was now time for us to do just that, so we headed to Shelly Beach Caravan Park. Not that we rested for long – there’s a dune walk that led us along the dunes, onto the beach (which was covered in shells!) and back to the caravan park. Excellent CP by the way – great facilities and friendly staff. ($23.40/n unpowered)
Low tide at sunset on Shelley Beach, Ceduna
Today we cross the Eyre Peninsula, again, completing the loop of SA, NT and WA we began earlier this year. There’s not a lot to see between Ceduna and our free camp for tonight, back at the Kimba Lions Park. The wheat has been harvested leaving short, brown stubble through which we drove for several hours.
Very impressed with the silo art at Kimba. Just to give you perspective – on the left is a semi-trailer being filled with grain from the long pipes you see coming out of the silo.
At Kimba the big change since we were here last is the silo art – fantastic!
Friday 8th December
Kimba is a lovely friendly town. We had a coffee at Eileen’s Cafe and chatted for ages with a retired wheat farmer who has lived here for 80 years. Even he says the town is a good supportive town. Anyway we moved on, the wheat and grazing land giving way to many kilometres of saltbush before we completed the Eyre Highway at Port Augusta where we brunched at a grassy park beside the tip of Spencer Gulf. Traveling the Eyre Highway and crossing the Nullarbor Plain was a fascinating and varied adventure which we both enjoyed.
Tonight we’ve moved on to the tiny of town of Nelshaby where we’re camped in the free camp at Lawries Oval – a level, semi-grassed open area with views in one direction to the ranges and the opposite direction to Spencer Gulf.
Christmas decorations in the bush – well, maybe in the wheat fields.
Christmas tree in a country town – Kimba.
For more photos from our travels across the Eyre Highway and Nullarbor CLICK HERE.
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Mississauga Celebration Square has transformed the downtown into a vibrant, diverse neighbourhood with 30,000 residents within walking distance. In addition to our weekly events, celebrations and festivals, we offer the following amenities for you to enjoy.
May and June
July and August
Let's Splash! Who needs a pool when you've got a fountain full of friends. Grab your bathing suit and head to the Upper Square where you'll find the biggest interactive water feature in the city. Let the kids enjoy an afternoon of fun in the sun while you are only steps away from big screens and food trucks.
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Let's Relax! What better way to spend a day off, a lunch break, or a sunny afternoon than here at Celebration Square? Pop by the Market Trellis where you'll find food trucks serving up fresh food at a fast pace for an affordable price every day of the week.
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Monday - Saturday, 9am-5pm
From May to August, The Library invites you to borrow a book from The Reading Room, a designated space on the Square where you can unwind with a good story in the fresh, open air.
Mississauga Legends Row
Located within the colonnades of Celebration Square at the entrance to the Jubilee Garden is Mississauga's Legends Row, a permanent outdoor space celebrating the achievements and contributions of prominent figures in Mississauga. Every plaque on Legends Row recognizes an individual whose talents and accomplishments have deeply enriched our community. Visitors can explore, learn and be inspired by the Inductees and their contribution to creating a better Mississauga.
Mississauga Legends Row is an incorporated not-for-profit corporation. It is a citizen-driven, volunteer initiative operated by a group of like-minded community activists and leaders who take great pride in Mississauga's accomplishments.
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Let's Relax
What better way to spend a day off, a lunch break, or a sunny afternoon than here at Celebration Square? Pop by the Market Trellis where you'll find our food truck friends cooking up the freshest food at the quickest pace for an affordable price every day of the week.
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Who needs a pool when you've got a fountain full of friends. Grab your bathing suits and head to the Upper Square all summer long where you'll find the biggest splash pad in the city.
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Join us at Mississauga Celebration Square for a variety of FREE outdoor fitness classes that are suitable for all fitness levels and abilities! New this year, all Fresh Air Fitness classes will incorporate injury and/or accessibility modifications for everyone to join in the fun!
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Come spend an evening at Benares Historic House! Enjoy outdoor concerts every Friday June through August that celebrates local talent. Light refreshments are available for purchase at each concert. Bring your own sing-along voices, insect repellent and blankets or lawn chairs.
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Anyone who intrested in doing business with China should know that WeChat is the biggest name in Chinese social media. But the extent of WeChat’s dominance, and the way it has integrated itself into nearly every aspect of daily life in China, has significant implications for foreign companies doing business in China.
More than 95% of Internet users in China access the Internet via mobile devices at least part of the time. And of those mobile users, about 80% use WeChat. That is a stunning number, especially when you consider that WeChat is not just for sending messages and sharing news, pictures, and video; WeChat also offers online shopping, mobile payments for everything from groceries to Lunar New Year “red envelopes” (gifts of cash), and Uber-like vehicle for hire services. More than 300,000 retail stores have already integrated WeChat Payment into their point-of-sale systems.
Given the ubiquity of WeChat, numerous companies have opened up official WeChat accounts and regularly use them to share information about products and promotions. Companies do exactly the same thing on Facebook in the West, but because Chinese consumers can do so much more on WeChat, dispensing information via an official WeChat account is just the bare minimum. Chinese consumers have come to expect more.
A recent story about Starbucks becoming the first foreign company to become integrated into WeChat’s Wallet feature highlights the extent to which companies can benefit from WeChat. WeChat’s Wallet feature allows people to purchase Starbucks items and give them to their friends, all within WeChat. Given the love of social gifting in China – it’s how streaming celebrities earn money – I would expect this feature will increase Starbucks sales and it’s a great example of a foreign company adjusting its business strategy to take advantage of the idiosyncratic Chinese economy.
An official WeChat account can be opened by any company. But if you want Chinese consumers to be able to access that account – which is really the main reason to open an official WeChat account, the account must be formed by a legally formed Chinese entity.
Here comes the Million RMB question: do you really need to form a WFOE in China to sell your products? Of course not. There are a number of perfectly good reasons why companies might want to enter the Chinese market without forming a WFOE. But the more WeChat matters, and the more you want to control your company’s message to Chinese consumers, the more important it will be to have a China WFOE (or even a Joint Venture) to take advantage of all WeChat has to offer.
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29 March 2019 | Star Wars: X-Wing Second Edition
X-Wing™ Seasonal Play
Introducing a New Design for X-Wing™ 2019 Season One Open Play
#XWing
"We are making a difference, Sabine. And I promise: we won't always be fighting this battle alone."
–Hera Syndulla, Star Wars: Rebels
Now that the System Open Series and Hyperspace Trials are both in full swing, there's more than enough X-Wing™ tournament action to satisfy even the most competitive squadron leaders… So what about all of us who are just looking for a place to enjoy some fun, casual games?
Maybe you want to fly through a scenario you created in the squad builder's custom game mode, or maybe you just want to test a new squadron. Maybe you and your friends want to enjoy a "furball" match, each bringing a single ship outfitted to a set number of points. Or maybe you want to teach a newer player with some Quick Build cards. None of these options are tournament-based, so what does X-Wing Organized Play offer you?
The answer—now—is quite a lot.
Starting with the 2019 Season One Kit, X-Wing Seasonal Kits are designed for Open Play. What does that mean? It means you just need to do two things:
Show up at your favorite local game store.
Play X-Wing.
In return, you can earn some cool, extended-art cards that you can use to decorate your favorite squadrons.
Play More to Earn More
The new X-Wing Seasonal Kit design marks one of many steps Fantasy Flight Games is taking to restructure its Organized Play programs throughout 2019 (as noted in the article, "The Future of Organized Play"), and it aims to make our games more welcoming to newer and casual players even as it continues to offer veterans the chance to play for custom prizes.
Starting with 2019 Season One, each Seasonal Kit introduces materials to support three months of Open Play. There are two cards that you can earn per month, and you can earn two copies of each.
How can you earn these cards? All you have to do to is head to your favorite local game store, play some games, and have the store's representative record your participation on a tracking sheet.
Each time you play enough games to fill out one section of the group's check boxes, you earn the associated card, and it's important to note that you can do this at any rate—and by playing whatever type of game most appeals to you. Even your tournament games can count. The key points are simply that you must play those games in the store and have them recorded on the tracking sheet.
X-Wing lends itself perfectly to competitive play—but there's plenty of room to enjoy the game in more casual environments as well.
X-Wing Organized Play has historically focused on tournament play with little regard to the more casual players. And while we're giving just as much attention—more, in fact—to X-Wing tournament play as we ever have, we're excited to recognize everyone else as well.
You don't have to fly the galaxy's fiercest squadrons to enjoy a game of X-Wing. You don't have to compete in tournaments to make new friends and join the X-Wing community. And you don't have to shoot down your opponent's ships to claim some of the galaxy's coolest prizes. You just have to show up, and play.
Come join us for some games of X-Wing. Talk to your local retailer to find out when and how you can get started with Organized Play!
X-Wing Second Edition is a tactical game of ship-to-ship combat, challenging players to take control of powerful starfighters and face off against each other in fast-paced space combat. Featuring stunningly detailed and painted miniatures, X-Wing Second Edition recreates the most exciting space battles of the Star Wars saga. Select your crew, plan your maneuvers, and open fire!
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15 Jul 2019 Organized Play
2019 Grand Championships
Everything You Need to Know About the 2019 Grand Championships
12 Jul 2019 Star Wars: X-Wing Second Edition
Available Now — July 12
X-Wing Wave IV Is Now Available
A Larger World
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21 - Final Words About Psychonauts
Psychonauts should have been a graphic adventure game.
I don’t mean for that to sound like a pejorative because I really enjoyed a lot of the characters and the thought that went into designing the concepts that dictated the levels. The problem is that the gameplay was bad. The camera controls were off, jumping felt floaty, and the depth of objects relative to Raz was very hard to determine. Considering most of the game mechanics are based around the platforming genre that these problems infest, the game play was very annoying and difficult as tougher challenges were introduced.
On the other hand, the elegance and cerebral nature or the minds/levels that were represented in game show consistent strokes of genius. If I were telling Raz where to go via point and click puzzles and combining senseless items, I would have been much less frustrated about what was happening in the Meat Circus or in Waterloo World. I went into many of these concepts in depth during each update regarding the levels, but I would like to just touch on a few that were really important to me as I was playing.
Translating Crazy
Each level had something unique to say about the mental state of the owner and was executed very well in theory. One of my favorites was the Milkman Conspiracy. Even though I am not a paranoid schizophrenic, I would like to think that I understand a little bit about what it is like to experience an altered sense of reality. While depressed, I had a crushing sense that the world was abstract and that I could sense the meaning of things as a concept, but was unable to experience them in an interface with myself. This emptiness is the best way that I can describe the state because it does not “look” different from what you see every day, but the perception is vastly shifted to something malevolent. Everybody is out to make YOU angry and the world IS an evil place, even if something good happens to you. I liked how the Milkman Conspiracy addressed this by turning the concepts of a standard life and filling it with the reality of what a paranoid schizophrenic would suspect: cameras everywhere, danger, secret agents, and an entire conspiracy just to put you down. This was a great way of abstracting the feelings while maintaining a compelling setting with the twisting street and colorful scenery.
Another one of my favorite levels is Waterloo World, even though actually playing it is painful. The metaphor for dealing with mental illness and another personality is sublime: playing a game against yourself yet you are the same person. Constantly maneuvering around and avoiding certain situations that you know will lead to terrible outcomes and trying to avoid losing is an everyday battle that I used to deal with and others still suffer from. I know all too well how it feels to endure and how it usually ends up being a dead end of sitting in your house and avoiding everything; to prevent even playing the game so to speak. Tim Schafer, once again, has a lofty thought and concept that is hidden beneath terrible and tedious platforming.
What I think Overall
Psychonauts was fun to think about and explore, but it is not fun to play. There is nothing done here mechanically that is not done better in a more competent platformer. I know games like Jak & Dexter and Ratchet & Clank are supposed to be good so you can start there if you are looking for a similar gameplay experience. What Psychonauts does have going for it is the analytical part of the story and a concept that can only come from keen insight and imagination. The deftness with which Schafer is able to personify and abstract these complicated conditions and feelings is astounding. Unfortunately, this is not enough to make it stick around as an action platforming game. If the game were an adventure, I can see being able to dig into the world, appreciate it, and interject more humor than was possible in this form. Was this done because adventure games were dead at the time? Maybe. Was the game designed this way because consolers wouldn’t be into it otherwise? Probably.
The recent rebirth of adventure games such as the new Sam and Maxes, Monkey Islands, and the more recent Walking Deads is a really new thing and long overdue. If Psychonauts had come out today, I am almost positive that it would have taken that form and been much better experience and even more beloved. Having said that, I think it is OK, but will leave it in the “never touch this again” pile and just think about what the concept of the game meant to me. A comparatively complex narrative structure and lofty thoughts just do not work in this console port and it is a shame because there is a great game buried in the bits and pieces that comprise it.
I give the game three out of five dinguses for the design and effort, but the game play just drags it down completely. It is worth playing so grab it on a Steam, GoG, or Humble Bundle sale if you can.
[29 means Unreal.]
Well, the next game has been randomly chosen and it is Unreal Gold! I am excited about this because I love first person shooters and have played a good amount of Unreal Tournament in college. (Even though my real love was Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Enemy Territory) I think the Gold edition contains the original campaign as well as the expansion titled Return to Na Pali. I haven’t decided if I will complete both, but if the original goes quickly, I may just do it. I am hoping this one will be fast and furious as I consider myself to be pretty good at FPSs and able to power through pretty well. Keep a look out and I have a few other surprises I may toss in too. I just got recording working so I can track my progress through some of the more interesting levels and maybe provide a tour of what were revolutionary graphics and environments.
That’s about it for this update. Follow my Twitter account (@backlogkiller) for tweets while I am playing and feel free to read the other posts and respond to them if you have any thoughts. Also feel free to leave any Psychonauts postings because I feel like my comments are pretty caustic and am open to second opinions.
I have also updated the games list with a few new entries such as Legend of Grimrock and Quest for Glory 1-5 so check that out, too.
--Backlog Killer
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CMS at Mt Washington
Our Central Mass Striders team had a fine day at Mt Washington this weekend, winning the team category in the men's open, masters, and seniors.
Scott Mindel was the top CMS finisher taking 8th place in 1:10:22.
Age group highlights:
1 F40-44 Leslie O'Dell 1:32:08
1 M45-49 Todd Callaghan 1:16:33
1 M50-54 Erik Vandendries 1:14:11
3 M50-54 Steve Brightman 1:15:55
4 M50-54 Francis Brudett 1:17:21
1 M55-59 Dave Dunham 1:16:46 (age group record)
3 M55-59 Ernie Brake 1:23:19
4 M55-59 David Lapierre 1:24:52
Complete results: http://www.coolrunning.com/results/19/nh/Jun15_Northe_set1.shtml
MALE OPEN TEAM RESULTS
1. CENTRAL MASS STRIDERS
1:10:22 1:14:12 1:15:56 1:16:34 1:16:47 (1:17:22) (1:18:17) = 6:13:51
Scott Mindel, Erik Vandendries, Steve Brightman, Todd Callaghan, Dave
Dunham, Francis Burdett, Patrick Rich
2. SCRANTON RUNNING COMPANY = 6:15:38
MALE MASTERS TEAM RESULTS
Erik Vandendries, Steve Brightman, Todd Callaghan, Dave Dunham,
Francis Burdett, Patrick Rich, Ernest Brake
2. ONLY ONE WALL = 7:17:58
MALE SENIORS TEAM RESULTS
Erik Vandendries, Steve Brightman, Dave Dunham, Francis Burdett,
Ernest Brake, David Lapierre, Ed Sheldon
2. TEAM GLOUCESTER = 7:22:07
FEMALE OPEN TEAM RESULTS
1. WESTERN MASS DISTANCE PROJECT
1:16:49 1:23:33 1:30:47 (1:31:25) (1:33:39) (1:38:58) (1:39:32)
= 4:11:09
Kim Nedeau, Kelsey Allen, Apryl Sabadosa, Dawn Roberts, Amy Rusiecki,
Nancy E Cook, Liz Lierman
Leslie O'Dell, Alissa Zbikowski, Nicole Chauncey, Barbara McManus,
Kathleen Murphy, Kim Gordon, Jennifer Graves
FEMALE MASTERS TEAM RESULTS
Dawn Roberts, Nancy E Cook, Liz Lierman, Karen Encarnacion, Sarah
Dolven, Caroline Hanna, Karin George
1:32:13 1:48:11 1:53:01 (1:58:00) (2:15:51) (2:24:18) = 5:13:25
Leslie O'Dell, Alissa Zbikowski, Barbara McManus, Kathleen Murphy,
Jennifer Graves, Rachel Flaksman
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Massachusetts Senate Race : Scott Brown Surging in the Polls
Despite certain wishful proclamations of delusional leftists that his "campaign is over" and similar mentally-disjointed tangential attempts to tie him in to their anti-tea party derangement, Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown is actually surging ahead in the polls, with Democrat candidate Coakley's own polls showing a potential upset victory for Brown.
Poll shocker: Scott Brown surges ahead in Senate race [Boston Herald]
Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset that would reverberate all the way to the White House, a new poll shows.
Although Brown’s 4-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley is within the Suffolk University/7News survey’s margin of error, the underdog’s position at the top of the results stunned even pollster David Paleologos.
“It’s a Brown-out,” said Paleologos, director of Suffolk’s Political Research Center. “It’s a massive change in the political landscape.”
The poll shows Brown, a state senator from Wrentham, besting Coakley, the state’s attorney general, by 50 percent to 46 percent, the first major survey to show Brown in the lead. Unenrolled long-shot Joseph L. Kennedy, an information technology executive with no relation to the famous family, gets 3 percent of the vote. Only 1 percent of voters were undecided.
Yet even in the bluest state, it appears Kennedy’s quest for universal health care has fallen out of favor, with 51 percent of voters saying they oppose the “national near-universal health-care package” and 61 percent saying they believe the government cannot afford to pay for it.
The poll, conducted Monday through Wednesday, surveyed 500 registered likely voters who knew the date of Tuesday’s election. It shows Brown leading all regions of the state except Suffolk County.
“Either Brown’s momentum accelerates and his lead widens, or this becomes a wake-up call for Coakley to become the ‘Comeback Kid’ this weekend,” Paleologos said.
And with 99 percent having made up their minds, voters may be hard to persuade.
The poll surveyed a carefully partitioned electorate meant to match voter turnout: 39 percent Democrat, 15 percent Republican and 45 percent unenrolled.
Brown wins among men and is remarkably competitive among women - trailing Coakley’s 50 percent with 45 percent.
While Brown has 91 percent of registered Republicans locked up, an astonishing 17 percent of Democrats report they’re jumping ship for Brown as well - likely a product of Coakley’s laser-focus on hard-core Dems, potentially at the exclusion of other Democrats whom she needed to win over, Paleologos said.
For Coakley, Brown’s surge may be as ominous as the fact that her campaign’s peril is not fully recognized, with 64 percent of voters still believing she’ll win - a perception that threatens to keep her supporters home.
Brown’s popularity is solid. He enjoys a 57 percent favorability rating compared to just 19 percent unfavorable. Coakley’s favorability is 49 percent; her unfavorability, 41 percent.
No longer does Brown suffer from a name-recognition problem, with 95 percent of voters having heard of him statewide.
7News Political Editor Andy Hiller said, “Voters obviously think Brown is running a better campaign than Coakley. For months, it has been Coakley’s race to lose, and now in the last days that’s exactly what she may be doing.”
Let's face it, they may not have a firm hold on reality but reality sure is getting its hold on the Democrat national statists who have run amok this past year. It is increasingly looking like their megalomania and hubris have blown the whole deal for them with the majority of America's voters...even so far as the deep blue Taxachusetts....erstwhile Republican-proof (except for Romney).
Amazingly, this type of political and electoral damage is something Bush took YEARS to realize upon the Republican party. Now it looks like Democrat leftist statism on national parade has not only neutralized this damage but is rolling it back lickety-split (in less than a year, really).
Even better, this grotesque Democrat carnival of unbridled power lust, greed, corruption, arrogance and smarmy patronage is focusing and rallying counter-forces not just around opposition to the lefties' megalomania subsuming issues like health care "reform", but around the larger purposes of seriously limiting government power and bringing some semblance of fiscal sanity to (and citizen-based control over) DC's would-be masters of our universe.
Hard doses of such damaging reality and a growing tidal wave of real grass roots populist outrage, citizen organizing, and electoral defeats are making the hardcore partisan Obama leftists even more agitated, bizarre, and vicious than they were in their saccharine-sickening euphoric cult-like adoration of Barack Obama leading up to his coronation.
It has to be tough for these nasty lefties to watch the utter implosion of their self-deluding narrative that opposition to their grandiose statist fantasies is merely marginal. They are now watching all these 'marginal' forces taking out their elected viziers, one by one by one, if not at the very least forcing massive triage efforts, most revealingly through paid-off proxy thugs like the unions (SEIU, in particular, in Massachusetts).
Couldn't happen to a more deserving set of people.
The continued hardening (and increasing flailing) of their echo chamber / bubble ideology, as it comes apart at the seams before their very eyes, will likely see us visited with more and more delusion, deceit, and squealing and screaching of increasingly irrelevant and irrational rhetoric.
Their own new term "lefteabaggers" couldn't be more appropriate. Except that those using it against their ideological fellow travelers unwilling to defend Obama at all costs (no matter how much he mimics Bush's worst policies) appear most to fit their own definition of this vulgar slur.
As I watch all this carnage unfold, as reality and the human will to freedom conspire once again to halt the incessant march of leftist statism, I am reminded of the scene from Alien in which it is discovered that 'Ash' is an android after he goes violently berzerk, spewing milky ooze all over the entire room and everyone in it...
PHOTO : The American Left Wakes Up To Face Their Reality
Even if Scott Brown loses by a thin margin, such a result would be a serious harbinger of the ugly future in store for the messianic big government crowd...surely leading only to more berzerk spasticity from America's hind left quarters.
Enjoy your messy political doom, my lefty friends. You've earned it!
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New developments create anxieties and raise questions. First and foremost because it lacks information and experience. Frequently hearsay is the only source of information available. Nanoparticles are not the same kind of quantum leap as the first steam locomotives were, though. The following article will bring some light into the darkness around the small particles.
Nanoparticles aren't as new as it may seem. They even have a longer history than we would think of. Since human beings have inhabited the earth they have been exposed to small particles. Particularly aerosols i.e. particles floating in the air, have surrounded them since the year one. Examples are smoke and soot developing with camp or chimney fires, dust from the Sahara which has traveled over hundreds of kilometers, loess that fertilizes the fields with its minerals and also volcanic ashes which has soared into high air layers. Every friction of natural or synthetic solid bodies generates tiny visible bodies but also miniature particles that cannot be detected with the human eye. Among aerosols and dusts nanoparticles are omnipresent.
Nanoparticles are invisible since their diameter is smaller than the wavelength of the visible light which is about 400 to 800 nm with the unit "nm" as an abbreviation for "nanometers". Just to recall for comparison:
1 meter = 1 m
1 millimeter = 1 mm = 0,001 m = 10-3 m
1 micrometer = 1 µm = 0,000001 m = 10-6 m (diameter of human hair: 60-100 µm)
1 nanometer = 1 nm = 0,000000001 m = 10-9 m
1 Ångström = 0,1 nm = 0,0000000001 m = 10-10 m (average radius of atoms)
Titanium dioxide nanodispersion which is used in sun screens is almost colorless as its particle size is below 400 nm. That is why sunblockers with a high concentration of titanium dioxide are no longer as obtrusively whitish as they used to be.
So called colloid-disperse systems consist of liquids that contain particles between 1 and 500 nm. They excel by their specific optical features. If their particle size attains the visible area of the light the particles can become opalescent which means that they take on a milky to colored glimmer. In apparently clear dispersions like soap solutions frequently the Tyndall effect can be observed. In this case we look sideways at the scattered light of a light beam, generated by the particles. Real solutions will not scatter visible light. Visible sun rays from a hole in the clouds or at a clearing in the woods are based on the same optical effect. The intensity of dispersion is stronger with smaller wavelengths; that is why nanoparticular colloidal dispersions frequently seem bluish. Sometimes also the color of a substance changes: colloidal gold dispersions with a particle size below 100 nm are dark red for instance.
Multifarious applications
There is a wide range of nanoparticles in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical field:
Solid nanoparticles
Metal oxides: titanium dioxide nanoparticles are used as a mineral sun protection. In cancer therapy ferrous oxide nanoparticles are injected and then selectively transported into the tumor tissue. There they are heated with alternating magnetic fields and thus damage the tumor tissue.
Nano or microcapsules: consist of polymerisates, e.g. polypeptides with encapsulated pharmaceutical agents which then are slowly released (retard applications). In this case the small particle size generates a specifically large surface area which allows a controlled release of the active agents out of the polymer matrix.
Hydrocarbons and waxes ("Lipopearls®"): together with cosmetic active agents these organic additives are melted at high temperatures in aqueous dispersions, adjusted to the required particle size in a homogenization process and then cooled down. In this step solid nanoparticles will form which are also called SLN (solid lipid nanoparticles). They combine on the skin into a surface film from which the active agents then are released - similar to an occlusive system.
"Fluid"or "liquid" nanoparticles
Membrane containing nanoparticles: they are oil bodies with lipid soluble active agents that are surrounded by a phosphatidylcholine (PC) membrane. With reference to liposomes they are sometimes also called nanosomes (see below).
Chylomicrons are natural carrier systems for lipids in the lymphatic system of the body. Besides PC the external membranes also contain transport proteins.
Ceramides, phytosterols and fatty acids: in the nineties this type of compounds in membranes have become known as Nanoparts®.
Liposomes are the bilayer variant of nanoparticles. Their structure is derived from natural cells. In contrast to nanoparticles in the narrower sense they have an aqueous interior and are predestined to encapsulate water soluble cosmetic and pharmaceutical active agents. Niosomes are the synthetic relatives of liposomes which consist of natural PC.
Variable particle size
Besides the specific variety called liposomes which will not be considered in this context, cosmetics mostly uses solid nanoparticles in form of titanium dioxide and the PC containing fluid nanoparticles. Another however rarely used term for fluid nanoparticles is nanoemulsion. It has to be stated that phosphatidylcholine (PC) has very few in common with emulsifiers respectively emulsions though. As already mentioned above, PC as a natural substance of the body is responsible for the transport of lipids within the lymphatic system and the blood stream. PC is completely metabolized and provides the skin with two essential substances: linoleic acid and choline. The particle size of nanoparticles in aqueous dispersions is not consistent. As a rule, the average size is indicated which is calculated in a distribution curve with characteristic curve shape as shown in the following graphics:
While the minimum level of the particle size sets in rather abruptly, a clear cut trail is noticeable in direction to the larger particles. In cases where the trail attains the visible area of the light or in other words where a small section of the particles is larger than 400 nm, the aqueous dispersions appear opalescent to milky, depending on the concentration of the larger particles. Average value and particle distribution both depend on the composition of the oily interior. There is a dynamic balance in fluid nanoparticles which means that in cases where the mixture is forced into a smaller particle size during the manufacturing process, it slowly converges back to the characteristic balance of the mixture when stored for a longer period.
In the majority of cases the particle size of nanoparticles and liposomes is measured with the "photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS)". It is used for particles which move in accordance with the Brownian motion when suspended in liquids. This applies for particles with a diameter of 2-3 µm and smaller. The intensity of the movement is inversely proportional to the particle size or in other words, the smaller the particles the faster they move.
The intensity of the movement can be measured by analyzing the time dependence of the intensity fluctuations of the laser light diffused through the particles.
The average particle size of commercial cosmetic liposomes is between 25 to 200 nm with a standard deviation between 5 and 30 nm. The average particle size of fluid nanoparticles is between 70 and 200 nm. Stable nanoparticle dispersions must not sediment (form deposits). The physical stability is measured with a centrifuge (between 5,000 and 10,000 rotations per minute [rpm]). In contrast to regular emulsions no structures can be detected with the microscope. Structures only become visible with the help of an electron microscope. The diameter of the PC shell of fluid nanoparticles ranges between 2-3 nm.
The physiological side
Usually cosmetic nanoparticles are supplied as serum or active agent concentrates. These are aqueous nanoparticle dispersions containing additives to control the consistency, as e.g. xanthan and other compatible water soluble substances.
In contrast, the nanoparticles of fine and ultrafine particulate matter are freely available. Once blown up in the air they can be a safety hazard due to the fact that they may infiltrate into the alveoles of the lungs when breathing and then trigger the well-known effects of non degradable solid matters like asbestos, glass fiber, carbon dust and diesel exhaust particles. Such nanoparticles do not occur in the daily use of cosmetics. Even the pigments of cosmetic powders contain substantially larger particles (> 5 µm) and will be retained at the latest along the bronchial tubes and then eliminated, in case that blown up powder is breathed in ("coarse dust"). Also titanium dioxide which is used in powders as a whitening pigment is more coarse grained than the transparent alternative applied as UV filters in sun protection products.
Down to the present day there are no empirical findings that cosmetic nanoparticles like titanium dioxide or zinc oxide embedded in the matrix of sun protection creams may penetrate into the skin. This also applies for the diseased skin, as e.g. psoriasis. Non mineral solid nanoparticles based on solid hydrocarbons, waxes, including the additives used in the process are also blocked off by the horny layer. As already mentioned above they aggregate to form superficial films and then release their active agents into the skin. Hence they will act like emulsifier free creams with a high percentage of mineral oil components and waxes which however cannot be physiologically exploited.
Quite different are fluid nanoparticles and their hydrophilic relatives, the liposomes. They penetrate into the barrier layers of the horny layer where they dissolve immediately due to their specific composition. During this process a fluidization of the skin barrier layers takes place and the encapsulated active agents can pass through the skin barrier. The following figure gives a basic idea of the process in case of liposomes:
liposome approaches
the skin barrier layers
liposome fuses with
the skin barrier layer
liposome has dissolved and
released the active agents
PC in the shell of fluid nanoparticles occurs as monolayer and not as bilayer as in liposomes. It acts however in the same way. After its primary fusion with the barrier layers it penetrates into the deeper skin layers or is enzymatically and hydrolytically split into the physiological components like fatty acids, glycerin, phosphoric acid and choline. This is the reason why the barrier function of the skin is restored after a few hours.
A specific advantage of fluid nanoparticles consists in the fact that besides lipophilic active agents particularly fattening natural oils can be forced into a sensorially agreeable aqueous dispersion without adding synthetic and barrier disturbing emulsifiers and which easily penetrates into the skin.
Much ado about nothing?
With all the commotion about small particles it should always be kept in mind that the skin continuously is exposed to substances of the size of molecules. Depending on their size and polarity they more or less pass through the skin barrier or are completely retained. While cosmetic nanoparticles frequently occur in sizes of about 100 nm, small molecules occur in sizes less than 1nm. Atoms and ions with about 0.1 nm are even smaller. The ionically built and in water dissolved table salt is about in the same order. In this context however nobody would argue that table salt is dangerous. Hence the considerations that apply for molecules should also apply for nanoparticles.
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August 1, 2014 Editor Terex, Volvo
With a new name, new owner and a new commitment to customers, products and dealers, the new-look Terex Trucks remains committed to the long haul, says MD Paul Douglas.
The newly-named Terex Trucks is committed to its customers, products and dealers, claims the company’s longstanding managing director Paul Douglas in a confident statement of intent almost two months since its acquisition by Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE).
In his first public announcement since the company’s acquisition was completed on June 1st 2014 Douglas said that Terex Trucks would continue to operate as an independent business while at the same time drawing on the resources and expertise of its parent company.
“Our new ‘owned but independent’ status gives us the best of both worlds,” said Douglas. “We retain our lean and agile organisational structure, our entrepreneurial spirit, customer focus and speed of execution – but with the added benefits that being part of a global leader in the construction equipment industry brings with it.”
Douglas also used the occasion to make clear statements about the future of the company. “The Terex Trucks name will remain for the long term and we remain fully committed to our entire customer base and product range. That means both rigid and articulated haulers will play important roles in the company’s future, and we will continue to support the entire field population with parts and service. We are also committed to retaining our dealer partners, our existing production footprint and our skilled and committed workforce. With a clear leadership strategy within the construction and mining equipment segments, Volvo CE is proving to be the perfect partner for us. At Terex Trucks it’s business as usual – but with added muscle.”
Terex Trucks’ new owner is also satisfied with its purchase. Andrew Knight, VP Strategy and Business Development, had this to say about the post-acquisition situation. “Volvo CE has made no secret of its longstanding wish to offer customers a rigid hauler option. Terex Trucks products are well respected in the market and there is a large field population to support its parts business. Both rigids and articulated haulers provide a strong complement to Volvo CE’s product range, and since the deal closed we have had greater insight into the strengths of the business – reinforcing our view that Terex Trucks is a good strategic fit.
“Terex Trucks is a lean, agile and well-run organisation and Volvo CE will apply only a ‘light touch’ approach to its running,” continued Knight. “That said, we acquired this business with a very clear vision for the future with a strong desire to grow the business. As such we will be providing strong support in terms of resources and investment wherever it is required.”
“Becoming part of Volvo CE is also well timed in terms of market outlook,” concludes Douglas. “Although the mining sector – a big customer of Terex Trucks – is currently depressed, the benefits of our new investment and cooperation relationship with Volvo CE looks set to coincide with the cyclical upswing of the segment, further strengthening the acquisition rationale. Terex Trucks as part of Volvo CE provides a mutually beneficial best of both worlds for both companies – we are stronger together.”
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The FIM & ABC Communication Launch the World Enduro Open Cup!
For almost two years Bastien & Alain BLANCHARD (ABC Communication) have been working to make changes the Maxxis FIM EnduroGP World Championship in the hope to make it more accessible for privateer riders and to substantially increasing the number of participants.
Their latest project was validated in early Autumn by the FIM Enduro Commission aunder the leadership of its new director Mr John COLLINS and was accepted by the FIM General Assembly just few days ago: the Enduro Open World Cup is now a reality!
A completely separate series (in addition to the EnduroGP classes - E1, E2, E3, Junior and Youth 125cc) this Enduro Open World Cup will allow privateer or local ‘wildcard’ riders to turn up and ride alongside the stars of the discipline!
On the programme are three new open categories:
- 2-stroke (all capacities)
- Seniors (over 37 years old - any capacity)
In addition, a Team Trophy which will awarded to the best team who have put forward a minimum of 3 riders in this Enduro Open series!
This Enduro Open World Cup is:
- Open to everyone from the age of 16
- Held at all 7 Grand Prix of the 2019 World Championship season.
- Only the 8 best day results of each rider will be counted. It will therefore be possible to win one these three FIM World Cups without having participated in every round!
In response to the need to lower the costs of participation for these riders, the FIM also decided to create special licenses for these categories…
This new category will also be closely managed by Race Direction to take into account the technical abilities of the participants. Accordingly, the Open class will complete one lap fewer than the EnduroGP riders and some route deviations will be put in place for the more technical and difficult parts of the liaison as well as on some special tests.
Bastien BLANCHARD, CEO of ABC Communication, welcomed the decisions: "It was imperative to find a way to get more riders back into the Maxxis FIM EnduroGP World Championship. These three new FIM World Cups should allow many passionate privateer riders, who may not be able to finance a season of 7 or 8 GPs, to ride on the international stage. Enduro has always been about the riders and their dedication, and that is why the FIM waspleased to validate our new project, approving the addition of three new World Cups!"
John COLLINS, CEN Director: “The FIM is pleased to announce the introduction of the Enduro Open Class and its associated categories into the FIM Enduro World Championship. The aim is to encourage riders who for many reasons are not able to contest the series at the highest level, but would still like to experience a traditional Enduro World Championship Event, riding with the Champions, particularly when Events are in their own or countries within reasonable travel distance.”
The long-awaited opening of the FIM Enduro Open World Cup will take place from the German GP on March 23rd and 24th in Dahlen.
Don’t miss this new series, which will of course benefit from the excellent organisation of EnduroGP races as well as its extensive media coverage!
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2018 IIFA Awards Nominations, Winners, Tickets, Voting, Online, Full Show, Location, Telecast Date
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Hindi Films Awards well known as Bollywood Movie Awards are one of the popular awards shows in all over the world for Bollywood movie crazy peoples. There are numerous Bollywood Awards are celebrated all the years. In these movie awards show the IIFA awards stand for International Indian Film Academy Awards is the global film festival of the Bollywood movies. The IIFA Awards is the one of the most popular Bollywood movies award show which is held in every year in the numerous cities of around the globe. In this awards show awards are given the International Indian Film Academy to Bollywood film artistic and technical persons for accomplish brilliancy in their applicable fields.
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Mound formation and coarsening from a nonlinear instability in surface growth.
Chakrabarti, Buddhapriya and Dasgupta, Chandan (2004) Mound formation and coarsening from a nonlinear instability in surface growth. In: Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics), 69 (1).
Mound_formation_and_coarsening.pdf
We study spatially discretized versions of a class of one-dimensional, nonequilibrium, conserved growth equations for both nonconserved and conserved noise using numerical integration. An atomistic version of these growth equations is also studied using stochastic simulation. The models with nonconserved noise are found to exhibit mound formation and power-law coarsening with slope selection for a range of values of the model parameters. Unlike previously proposed models of mound formation, the Ehrlich-Schwoebel step-edge barrier, usually modeled as a linear instability in growth equations, is absent in our models. Mound formation in our models occurs due to a nonlinear instability in which the height (depth) of spontaneously generated pillars (grooves) increases rapidly if the initial height (depth) is sufficiently large. When this instability is controlled by the introduction of a nonlinear control function, the system exhibits a first-order dynamical phase transition from a rough self-affine phase to a mounded one as the value of the parameter that measures the effectiveness of control is decreased. We define an ‘‘order parameter’’ that may be used to distinguish between these two phases. In the mounded phase, the system exhibits power-law coarsening of the mounds in which a selected slope is retained at all times. The coarsening exponents for the spatially discretized continuum equation and the atomistic model are found to be different. An explanation of this difference is proposed and verified by simulations. In the spatially discretized growth equation with conserved noise, we find the curious result that the kinetically rough and mounded phases are both locally stable in a region of parameter space. In this region, the initial configuration of the system determines its steady-state behavior.
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Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
L.Kaini Mahemei
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Woman the Shopper. Man the Scientist. A Funny Sci-Fi Story
You can read it in the Nature magazine. It is about two extremely intelligent science guys sent out to buy girls' knickers/panties by the wife of one of them, and how these extremely intelligent gentlemen could not find those knickers anywhere, even though their wives easily could. Which means that the knickers are brought in from a parallel universes only women can access. But at least men can do abstract science!
The flavor of the story:
At this point I must digress, and mention, for those who are not aware, the profound differences in strategy between Men Going Shopping and Women Going Shopping. In any general shopping situation, men hunt: that is, they go into a complex environment with a few clear objectives, achieve those, and leave. Women, on the other hand, gather: such that any mission to buy just bread and milk could turn into an extended foraging expedition that also snares a to-die-for pair of discounted shoes; a useful new mop; three sorts of new cook-in sauces; and possibly a selection of frozen fish.
And the interesting thing is — and this is what sparked the discovery — that any male would be very hard pressed to say where she got some of these things, even if he accompanied her.
Verrry good! I like those clear objectives Men The Hunters have, how they enter a complex environment, catch their animal and return home. Now contrast this to the next part of the story:
So there we were, looking for knickers, and a rather wary woman asked if she could help, given that we looked lost and hopeless. Russell explained to her exactly what we were looking for, and her wariness seemed to become mild alarm, until we hastened to reassure her that this was in fact a commission for the mother of said child. She then said, with what seemed to be great satisfaction, “Oh, no; you'll never find those in here — you'll have to go down to [some remote location],” which we had no chance of achieving before they closed, so the whole mission was now a failure.
Mmm. Yes, I know all this falls under the Humorous Stories About Blundering Men. But really, where were those clear objectives and simple strategies?
Others have written about the hidden message in this story to women who would be scientists, so it might be more useful if I wrote about the role practice has here.
Like in practicing by finding where certain items are sold. That practice usually comes from having to do that shopping, over and over and over again. After a while one miraculously learns (from a parallel universe, most likely) that girls' knickers are not available at the fish counter of the local supermarket! Or that the local pharmacy/chemist does not sell snow tires for your car.
And after you learn about those snow tires, you might, while waiting for your car to be shod with them, also pick up some new windshield/windscreen wipers and this neat little snow-scraping appliance which also defrosts the keyholes of the car and serves as an extra flashlight/torch! All that comes from a parallel universe which you can only access through repeated practice and by being on the lookout for certain products.
I astonish myself! I am ruining a perfectly good funny-sci-fi story by pointing out that it's not really that funny if you are not like that smart science guy whose practice in shopping for children's clothing consists of mostly making evo-psycho explanations for why women seem innately better at it.
But it's worth ruining because of the real parallel universe lurking behind this story. In that universe, men are such blundering fools when it comes to shopping or finding their socks that it is really very cute! Besides, no man need ever get any better at those skills because they are innate blunderings, though nicely balanced out by men's scientific superiority.
Katha Pollitt on The Sandusky Case
And that brings us to the patriarchal aspect of the Penn State scandal. I know it’s predictable and boring, but come on, people! There really is a message here about masculine privilege: the deification of a powerful old man who can do no wrong, an all-male hierarchy protecting itself (hello, pedophile priests), a culture of entitlement and a truly astonishing lack of concern about sexual violence. This last is old news, unfortunately: sexual assaults by athletes are regularly covered up or lightly punished by administrations, even in high school, and society really doesn’t care all that much. A federal appeals court declared that a Texas cheerleader could be kicked off the squad (and made to contribute to the school’s legal costs) for refusing to cheer her rapist when he took the field—and he’d pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault too, so why was he even still playing? According to USA Today, an athlete accused of a sex crime has a very good chance of getting away with it. If Sandusky had abused little girls, let alone teenage or adult women, would he be in trouble today? Or would we say, like the neighbors of an 11-year-old gang-raped in Cleveland, Texas, that she was asking for it?
And she is quite right. The eleven-year-old in Cleveland, Texas, had her case initially written up in the New York Times as victim-blaming. She wore make-up, she dressed like an adult woman, she went out with the rapists. And where was her mother in all this? That the Times later wrote about the case from a different angle was because of all the criticism the initial write-up provoked.
Even more generally, victim-blaming has been almost totally absent in the Catholic Church cases. This is as it should be, of course. But the same should be applied to female children who have been raped or sexually abused and to their parents.
Today's Pepper-Spray Picture
The deed courtesy of the UC Davis campus police.
I haven't written much on the Occupy movement because others do it well and because I don't have anything to add to the general debate. Still, I see the movement as an attempt at democracy when democracy is no longer truly functioning in this country (or quite a few other countries).
Money and power have married each other, and the rest of us are offered only slates of candidates which money and power have pre-picked. Is it even possible to get elected to the US Congress if you don't belong to the very top of the one percent? And by the time you have fund-raised enough for your election campaign, whom do you owe your allegiance?
Blogging While Female
Sadie Doyle writes about Internet misogyny, a topic I also wrote about a while ago.
The topic Sadie covers is not for laughs but this is hilarious:
Last October, cartoonist Gabby Schulz published a comic about Internet sexism. Titled, in part, “How Every Single Discussion About Sexism And Woman-Type Stuff On The Internet Has Ever Happened,” it detailed a familiar cycle: Man says sexist thing, woman responds, men shout at woman, etc.
Within 24 hours, “men’s rights” blog The Spearhead fulfilled Schultz’s prophecy. Their post, titled “Feminist Cartoonist Bemoans Online Resistance, Claims She is Enslaved by Patriarchy When Men Disagree With Her,” sniffed that Schultz’s cartoon “supposedly depicts what happened when she called some guy sexist.” Predictably sexist comments followed: “I bet ole Gabby is soaking wet with all the attention shes getting tonight,” one Spearhead commenter opined. ”Shut the fuck up you stupid cunt,” wrote another. Yet another wrote, “I am not being sexist when I say I do think your point of view is lesbic: you seem to despise all men.” Schulz reports receiving death threats.
So far, so predictable. Except for one tiny detail: Gabby Schulz is a guy. His biography — easily accessible from the offending post — shows him with a full beard, and uses the pronoun “him.” The comic was based on a controversy surrounding cartoonist Kate Beaton. But many harassers had no inclination to fact-check: If someone named “Gabby” didn’t like sexism, that someone had to be a self-pitying girl.
Speaking of hilarious trolling, I get a big laugh from those trolls who tell me I obviously cannot think at all or who correct me in the field of my doctorate because they took an intro course once, and me being but a feeble-minded foaming c***t must be corrected. It really is funny.
Asshattery is not gender-linked, as such, but the patronizing and loud teachery tone without any actual listening is an odd perk we female bloggers get.
Here Under the Northern Star. A Musical Interlude.
This is a Finnish song which is supposed to be quite hard to sing. I think its sole aim in life is to present as many Finnish h-sounds as possible. But I have a soft spot for the sadness of it all.
A rough translation:
Here under the Northern Star
on the highest of hills
I look far into distance
you return to my dreams.
the sky fills with purple
it makes me a blanket
to shelter me.
And under the Northern Star
I come
I leave
and only in the sight of the Northern Star
I shed a tear for you.
a singer is full of sorrows
here the moon gibbous
is also melancholic
frost slides into the soul
and by killing all feeling
it rips the heart apart.
Repeat of 2.
Comfort the Afflicted And Afflict the Comfortable. The Media and the Sandusky Case.
The quote, attributed to Peter Dunne, is one way of defining the moral task of the press. That this task has been slowly drowning in the she-said-he-said-and-some-people-say ocean of pretend-neutrality has made me very sad and angry.
Hence my pleasure in finding that at least some in the press are doing their jobs on the Sandusky child abuse allegations. Otherwise I would not have learned of the conflict-of-interest problems of Leslie Dutchcot, the judge who granted Sandusky bail:
The judge who freed Jerry Sandusky on bail that was lower than prosecutors requested -- and said he didn't require an ankle monitor -- has not only volunteered for Sandusky's Second Mile charity but also reportedly benefited from a fundraiser organized by a Second Mile official.
Now she has been replaced as the judge in the Sandusky hearings by an out-of-county judge. The reason? This:
“Due to the unique circumstances surrounding this case, it was essential that every precaution be taken to ensure all legal proceedings occur without the appearance of bias on the part of the judicial system,” said Vereb.
“With this particular case, it would have been extremely difficult to find a judge without some connection to Penn State, The Second Mile or any alleged victims. Assigning the case to an out-of-county judge takes away any hint of bias or conflict of interest.”
Probably. But that quote reminds us that the comfortable lunch with the comfortable, fund-raise with the comfortable and in general move within a tight circle consisting of other quite-comfortable-thank-you folks. And this is the reason why the press cannot live inside that same circle.
The most recent installment of the Sandusky allegations has to do with the mysterious disappearing files at Second Mile, the charity which Sandusky appears to have used for grooming boys:
According to unnamed Times' sources, investigators served subpoenas on the Second Mile to learn the names of every child who dealt with the foundation. Members of the charity's board of directors learned recently that records from 2000 to 2003 were missing.
The charity has since located the records from one of those years, the newspaper reported, but the rest remain gone.
"It could be that they are just lost, but under the circumstances it is suspicious," a law enforcement official involved in the case told the Times.
I hope those files turn up. But whether they do or not, it is important to learn that they are currently missing.
It may be worth pointing out that the way I read "comfortable" and "afflicted" in that quotation is not necessarily based on material wealth but on societal power. Those who think that laws apply to only little people, those who buy their way out of problems which would send others to prison, those are the comfortable. If the press does not afflict them, who will?
Why Must We Do This? On How Male and Female Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Might Differ. May Trigger.
An article discussing male survivors of childhood sexual abuse covers much useful material and many opinions. Its relevance is obvious in view of the Sandunsky case.
But read this section of the piece:
Different experience for boys
Sexual abuse has a different impact on boys than on girls, and they deal with it differently because of socialization, experts say.
“Men aren’t supposed to be victims. Men are supposed to be strong,” said Jim Hopper, clinical instructor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. “A man says I’m not a real man, because I let someone do this to me. I should have been tougher. Even after years of therapy they say this.”
Girls who are abused by men are psychologically damaged, to be sure, experts say, but boys abused by men often come to question their sexual identity and orientation.
“If they were sexually abused by a man, there’s this whole stigma — does that mean I’m gay, or did he do it to me because I look gay?” says Hopper.
Another difference: Boys who are forced into sexual acts may have an erection — a physiological response which makes them all the more confused and ashamed of the encounter, Gartner says.
I am not an expert in this field, but is it not the case that female victims of rape or other sexual abuse can feel sexual arousal and even orgasm? I'm pretty sure that I have read about that and the way it can cause feelings of shame and confusion.
If that's the case, the last difference mentioned is not an actual difference.
What about the second-but-last difference? The article compares two different types of abuse. In one type, adult men abuse young girls. In the other type, adult men abuse young boys. That male victims of the latter type of abuse are more likely to question their sexual identity and orientation may not be because they are boys. It may be because their abuser was of the same sex.
To properly compare boys and girls here the abusers should all be of the same gender as the victims or all of a different gender than the victims.
Finally, the first difference mentioned in the article: How boys are not expected to be victims. When you turn that around you get to the conclusion that girls ARE expected to be victims. I understand what the expert means here and I agree that this is a problem in getting the survivors to come forward when they need help.
At the same time, that's the part where I asked myself why we must do this? Why can't all victims of sexual abuse be taken equally seriously? Why must an article tell us how it might be harder if you are not viewed as born weak and a potential victim anyway? There are better ways of framing the important information about the difficulties men may face when seeking help.
A Fascinating Interview
With the 84-year-old Seattle activist, Dorli Rainey, who got pepper-sprayed by the Seattle police. I like the idea of taking just one step out of one's comfort zone when it comes to activism.
What Is Pat Buchanan Good For?
Atrios gives him the World's Worst Person badge today, because of Pat's clever statements about the obvious link between same-sex marriage and the Sandunsky child abuse case.
I have written about Pat's views on us wimmin in the past. But Pat is an equal-opportunity-bigot, pretty much.
Hence the question in the title of this post. Why is a man like that always invited to political debates on television?
Here's my guess for the answer: The American mainstream media views acceptable political opinions along a half-line. It has an absolute starting point, the most extreme lefty opinions allowed on television, and those tend to be pretty milquetoast ones. No fire-breathing lefties on American television, never.
Indeed, this left end-point used to consist of what I call courteous conservatives. It has been pushed back a bit, but not by much.
The other end point, however, is always the most foaming-at-the-mouth wingnut bigot you can possibly unearth, always! That's why I call the system not a line but a half-line (probably not the real name for something like that), because the right end-point can be moved further and further out, so that it always allows for the extremest of the extremists!
I don't mind having Buchanan on television, not at all. What I DO mind is that we are not allowed to have his lefty equivalent on television.
This imbalance works out equally strongly when it comes to feminism, by the way. The anti-feminists always get invited to the shows, the so-called feminist side might consist of only the interviewing journalists who try to take a middle-of-the-road or he-says-she-says-but-some-people-believe stance.
All US mainstream debates are biased by the way the extreme opinions are picked, and the bias works in favor of the conservative and anti-feminist views.
Very Proud of Myself
I spent five hours yesterday driving in Boston. To explain why that makes me feel proud and a bigger-than-normal goddess may not be possible for those of you who have never driven in Boston. It is an experience.
I don't think there was a single casualty! No cars were harmed during the day! And I only collapsed after I got back to the Snakepit Inc.
P.S. I tried to find a video of Boston drivers but none on the YouTube can compete with reality.
The Free Market God in Action in Health Care: A Lesson
I have worn out my fingers typing about the problems of markets in health care. There is a very long list of conditions which cause problems for markets as the way one distributes products and services, and the health care qualifies for every single one of those conditions! Some of those we could change, some of them we cannot change. The great uncertainty about future needs and the very asymmetric information are among the ones we cannot change. As an example of the latter, think how it would be if your trip to the bakery would start with the baker determining if you really need bread or not. Can you see the bad incentives there?
This post is not about that but about the market power in health care and about the case of desperately-needed-treatment-and-market-power:
Here's another jaw-dropping price on a new drug. The scorpion antivenom Anascorp, approved in August, is sold in Arizona these days for $12,000-plus per vial, meaning one course of treatment could run as much as $62,000. Across the border in Mexico, where Instituto Bioclon makes Anascorp, the drug has been marketed for years at about $100 per vial, the Arizona Republic reports.
What's more, Rare Disease Therapeutics won U.S. approval for Anascorp based on a tiny study--just 15 patients--led by the University of Arizona. The company didn't develop the drug and doesn't manufacture it, but rather just markets it under license from Instituto Bioclon.
Read the whole quoted article to see how the price keeps multiplying up the delivery chain so that the final price is 120 times the Mexican price.
How to explain something like this? I think the American suppliers would use the rare-diseases argument which goes something like this: To find a cure for a rare disease probably requires as much expenditure and work as the finding of a cure for a common disease. But the market for the former is so tiny* that the only way to recoup those development costs is by charging enormous amounts for the treatment. Or to have someone subsidize those costs in the first place.
But this case does not qualify, because it was the Mexican Instituto Bioclon who invested in the treatment and who should get those development costs recouped, not the American distributor.
A better explanation has to do with the price elasticity of demand for something like anti-venom for scorpion stings. Suppose you had been stung by a scorpion. How much would you be willing to pay for that anti-venom? Depending on the outcome without the anti-venom, the answer might well be all you own, all you could borrow or all you could steal.
Economists call such products price-inelastic, and markets usually price them very high if competition doesn't stop that. But competition in health care is unlikely to stop that because of that arrangement which stops hospitals from the US from simply buying the drug directly from Mexico or probably from any other intermediary but the one which has that price tag of $12,000 per vial.
So why not create the kind of competition that would bring the price down? Here's the real snag for the free-market idolators: They don't want governments to interfere. But the competition will not be of the right kind without government supervision and interference.
Consider the idea of just letting everyone buy the anti-venom directly from the cheapest possible global source. Wouldn't that take care of the high price?
It would. But it would also bring in bad quality venom, the need to inspect factories in foreign countries and other problems which the markets themselves CANNOT solve.
* Markets may not be tiny in the sense of numbers of affected people. They may be tiny in the sense of people being able to pay. For instance, getting stung by scorpions is not a rare incident on a worldwide level. It's just an incident that is more likely to happen to those who don't have much money for health care or much access to it.
Link to the story via David Atkins at Digby.
Princess Nancy Pelosi
That's what Herman Cain called the House Democratic leader in the last-but-one Republican presidential debate. This and various other items made the Washington Post ask if Mr. Cain might have a "woman problem":
In a matter of a week, Herman Cain referred to the House Democratic leader as “Princess Nancy” Pelosi, said presidential rival Michele Bachmann would be “tutti-frutti” ice cream and shrugged off a joke about Anita Hill.
The Republican presidential candidate also has denied allegations that he sexually harassed several women and, through his lawyer, threatened to investigate anyone else who makes such a claim.
The "princess" reference was first discussed in the foreign press, by the way, what with all the other juicy stuff in that particular debate.
Now Gloria Cain, who is married to Herman, has come out to defend her husband:
“I know that’s not the person he is,” Gloria Cain said on Fox News Channel’s “On The Record.” ‘’He totally respects women.”
I guess I report, you decide. Mmm.
Meanwhile, in Iran
The mullahs are tightening the screws which keep women in the proper tiny boxes. As the Washington Post reported a few days ago:
The first snow of the season fell in Tehran this week, but female ski bums planning to carve fresh lines at one of the three resorts in the Alborz mountain range will be able to hit the slopes only if they are accompanied by a male guardian.
A police circular, reported Thursday on the pro-government Etedaal Web site, states that women and girls are no longer allowed to ski in the absence of a husband, father or brother.
The mandate of Iran’s morality police is currently being broadened by hard-liners attempting to roll back reforms enacted under former president Mohammad Khatami. The current government says the reforms led to a lack of observance of religious dress codes, among other things.
This is not a major thing in itself. But it struck me as metaphorically so apt: Women are not allowed to enjoy the sun, the silence and the speed of skiing and snow-boarding alone. They must be accompanied and guarded.
When I ski I have wings. I'm an eagle, flying alone in a white universe.
But the mullahs want women's wings cut.
Today's Echidne Thought: On What Made America Great
I got a book advertisement in my mailbag. It's about a right-wing book which tells us how it was the politically incorrect views of the Founding Fathers which made this country so great. I didn't ask for the book to be sent for review, which means that I cannot tell which politically incorrect ideas they like so much. It could be slavery or it could be women not having votes. But most likely it's Christianity as the real constitution of this country.
Anyway. This made me think about myth-making in general and how very blind we become when familiar myths are quickly shown on our interior computer screens. It's useful to stop when that happens and to ask what the facts might be.
And among those facts about what "made America great" are these: A giant landmass with many natural resources, great untouched farming land, natives who could be pushed aside, plentiful immigration of willing workers and the possibility of creating a gigantic market without national borders.
Political events mattered, too. But for some odd reason myths erase certain aspects of the past altogether, and even smart people may not notice that.
You can apply that pause-and-rewind-your-internal-video to other questions, too. Wars, for instance, and the very strong economic motives for most of them.
Looking For A Well-Paying Feminism-Related Job? Copy Katie Roiphe!
Does that sound like a joke to you, about getting well paid for something to do with feminism? Those jobs do exist though you have to be creative in finding them.
The thinking goes like this: If there is going to be a debate about whether women are full human beings or just handmaidens or Playmates, two sides are needed. But men might not be the best boxers on that Playmate side, because then they will come across as sexists. So that side needs women and they pay well. Or at least pay.
Hence the Caitlin Flanagans, Camilla Paglias and Charlotte Allens who get to write in all sorts of mainstream places about what is wrong with feminism and how the good old times were really very much better altogether. And women are rather silly creatures, are we not?
Katie Roiphe has the same shtick. You may not be familiar with her Seminal Work which was published a generation ago. Here is a summary from the review of the book by Katha Pollitt:
In "The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campus" (Little, Brown; $19.95) Katie Roiphe, a twenty-five-year-old Harvard alumna and graduate student of English at Princeton, argues that women's sexual freedom is being curtailed by a new set of hand-wringing fuddy-duddies: feminists. Anti-rape activists, she contends, have manipulated statistics to frighten college women with a nonexistent "epidemic" of rape, date rape, and sexual harassment, and have encouraged them to view "everyday experience"- sexist jokes, professional leers, men's straying hands and other body parts- as intolerable insults and assaults. "Stranger rape" (the intruder with a knife) is rare; true date rape (the frat boy with a fist) is even rarer.
As Roiphe sees it, most students who say they have been date raped are reinterpreting in the cold grey light of dawn the "bad sex" they were too passive to refuse and too enamored of victimhood to acknowledge as their own responsibility.
Katie is still at it. Her newest opinion piece for the New York Times, "In Favor of Dirty Jokes and Risqué Remarks," hooked to the Herman Cain incidents, argues that workplace sexual harassment is mostly just innocent jokes, that women are strong enough to take them and that work would be a really boring place if nobody could ping your bra strap while you go to the water cooler. Or rather:
Is the anodyne drone typing away in her silent cubicle free from the risk of comment on her clothes, the terror of a joke, the unsettlement of an unwanted or even a wanted sexual advance, truly our ideal? Should we aspire to the drab, cautious, civilized, quiet, comfortable workplace all of this language presumes and theorizes? At this late date, perhaps we should be worrying about different forms of hostility in our workplace.
No, of course not! That anodyne female drone should be out there pinging jockstraps and making jokes about the probable size of various male colleagues' penises! To spread the joy and humanity to everyone working in that place. Duh. Everybody can see that.
Except perhaps for our Katie. The fun thing about the world she would like to have back is that it makes no demands of equal treatment of men and women, and that for an unusual reason:
Women are strong enough to take everything the world throws at them. Therefore, there is no need for concerns such as date rape or sexual harassment. But then if we accept her premise, men must be too weak to be able to endure any kind of restraints on their behavior. Or the poor must be strong enough to take poverty and so on. You can go on with those examples, I'm sure.
My apologies for writing about all that. The central point about making money from feminism is to oppose it, to portray it as a humongous evil claw squeezing the whole society while also being totally wrong and marginalized and unattractive and utterly illogical, like swimming against the waterfall of nature and tradition.
Cheaper generic medications: Not coming to a pharmacy near you (by Skylanda)
The New York Times reported Friday on a move by Pfizer – the makers of the blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor – to manipulate the market to limit generic supplies to a number a major drug management agencies after Lipitor goes generic in the coming months:
“Pfizer has agreed to large discounts for benefit managers that block the use of generic versions of Lipitor, according to a letter from Catalyst Rx, a benefit manager for 18 million people in the United States. The letters have not previously been made public. A pharmacy group and an independent expert say the tactic will benefit Pfizer and benefit managers at the expense of employers and taxpayers, who may end up paying more than they should for the drug.” [emphasis mine]
Lipitor is said to be one of the most profitable drugs ever produced, generating over $100 billion in sales and forming a mainstay of Pfizer’s drug portfolio. And this is not necessary bad; Lipitor saves lives. It plays a role in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease, it can be the difference between rehabilitation after a heart attack or stroke and rapid recurrence leading to greater debility or death. It is not without problems, but overall, it is an important drug in the modern arsenal against chronic disease.
But there are a couple complications to this picture.
One is that in the world of the statin drug class to which Lipitor belongs, not everyone with high cholesterol needs Lipitor – or, more importantly, a medication as expensive as Lipitor. There are half a dozen other drugs in the same class, several of which went generic so long ago that they appear on the Walmart list of $4-per-month medications. The older generic statins are notably weaker; this isn’t a secret. But for your average middle-aged person walking around with high cholesterol – those who eat a little too much butter, exercise a little too little, or just drew the genetic short straw on the lipid metabolism front – the cheap medications will effectively get the cholesterol numbers to where they need to be (so too often will diet, exercise, and some other non-medicinal approaches, but let’s set those aside for a moment for the sake of argument). The truly more potent (and notably more effective, and notably more expensive) statins – that is, Lipitor and Crestor – can generally be reserved for people with true disease in whom there has been a failure to get to goal cholesterol levels with weaker medications: people with prior heart attacks and strokes, people with familial cholesterol running sky-high numbers for no good reason, people who have undergone surgery to actually remove cholesterol plaques from their arteries.
But that’s actually kind of a small market compared to the millions and millions of essentially healthy 50ish folks who could head off problems in the future with a little help from a statin friend – ie, those who will probably do fine on a generic drug. So why is Lipitor such a blockbuster when the number of people who need it relatively small?
That, of course, comes down to marketing. Pfizer has long advertised the potency of Lipitor – and wouldn’t you want the best for your heart? – failing to note that cost-per-cost, the best just isn’t necessary for many people. Samples given through doctor’s offices (which are invariably branded drugs, never generics) instill brand loyalty from the side of both the doctor and patient. Moreover, pharmaceutical companies skew or hide the true cost of these upper-echelon drugs by marketing schemes like copayment vouchers that reduce the cost to the insured consumer for branded drugs from higher cost (where they should be) to zero – encouraging patients to request more expensive drugs than are necessary because the up-front cost to themselves is so low.
But true market manipulation on the scale described – that is, using the clout of a major manufacturer to block the early sales of generics – is a dangerous and costly precedent. This process is enabled by the streamlining of drugs through “pharmacy benefit managers” such as Medco, which you might have encountered as one of the “mail-in” pharmacies that more and more insurance carriers are requiring patients to utilize. However, the unspoken secret of these “mail-in” pharmacies is that many of the discount brick-and-mortar pharmacy chains carry generic medications at a fraction of the price of the mail-in servicers – sometimes at prices less than a standard generic copay for an insured patient. Insured patients are made to feel that they are compelled to use these monopolizing benefits managers, when in fact consumers are only required to do so if they want their insurance carriers to pay; if a brick-and-mortar pharmacy charges less than their standard copay for a generic drug, there is actually no reason to go through insurance at all, but rather just pay cash and bypass these middlemen altogether – something the insurers and “pharmacy benefit managers” would prefer that consumers not know about as they pay higher prices for the mail-in services.
The net effect of this is that nations like the United States that allow unfettered market manipulation pay – you guessed – more for health care while achieving less health than countries that frown on this kind of shady tactics, for example by setting formularies that account for cost-effectiveness and allowing for planned deviations when medical necessity demands.
Am I blaming Pfizer for the all the ills of the American health care system? No. But when one hand of the health care reform effort is struggling with the untamed beast of cost control – and the other hand is paying overkill prices for drugs that outstrip medical necessity – one has to wonder where the balance will be struck between innovation and affordability.
In any case, open generic competition for Lipitor will take over in the next year, ending any debate about paying full price. But the success in consumers’ and regulators’ ability to block this kind of behavior will set a long-reaching precedent in pharmaceutical patent-holders willingness to try these kind of rank shenanigans again, the next time a blockbuster drug goes off-patent. And that is something we all have a stake in.
Cross-posted from my recently relocated and relaunched blog, America, Love it or Heal It.
Posted by skylanda at 11/13/2011 03:17:00 PM
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Small populations of normal cells affect immunity in patients with XLP1
Human SH2D1A mutations resulting in X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome type 1 (XLP1) are associated with a unique susceptibility to the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which may lead to fatal infectious mononucleosis (FIM). Many studies have attempted to elucidate an appropriate treatment for XLP1 that does not involve hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT); clinical evidence supporting such treatments has been minimal, until now.
In a new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, an international research team led by experts from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) investigate the mechanism of mild disease presentation in a family with XLP1 that did not undergo HSCT, and found evidence of somatic reversion, or a return to normal expression levels, of SLAM-associated protein (SAP) in T cells.
Patients with XLP1 are susceptible to severe complications of EBV infections, such as FIM, which has a high mortality rate. This is attributed to poor activation and cytotoxicity of the CD8+ T cell. The only effective treatment for XLP1 has been HSCT. Unfortunately, HSCT has a high risk of treatment-related mortality and many side effects.
“We analyzed the clinical features of 40 Japanese patients with XLP1,” says Hirokazu Kanegane, corresponding author on the study. “We identified a family that did not experience FIM, although none of the members had undergone HSCT.”
In the study, whole-exome sequencing of patients in the family with mild disease revealed a known mutation, which reduced the expression of SAP in T cells in affected patients. This conflicted with the mild disease presentation.
“We performed more detailed analyses of T cells in the affected family, and found small populations of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells expressing functional SAP at normal levels,” says Akihiro Hoshino, lead author on the study. “Because this somatic reversion was present in multiple patients in the same family, it may be an inherited characteristic.”
Small populations of T cells with normal SAP expression could modify the severity of disease in these patients. The researchers speculated that gene therapy or adoptive cellular therapy—which affect fewer cells than HSCT, but are much less dangerous—could be effective for treating patients with XLP1.
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The politics of cruelty
Yet another terrific post from Charles Pierce, on the human cost of allowing the "negotiations" meme to prevail. These really are issues of life and death, and it is flat-out immoral to consign millions of people to profound suffering, pain and death unnecessarily. Reality defeated delusion on Nov. 6, and reality should not let delusion back into the tent for the sake of yesterday's Beltway decorum.
In fact, the Dems should take a page from Israel's book. They shouldn't negotiate until they have a real partner for peace. They should not sit down with terrorists, with America's Hamas. There's actual work to do, and John Boehner, Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Lindsey Graham and the rest of the Party of Lies have nothing to do with it. They're a distraction.
CDS is still CDS. Some crap never dies. Some crap doesn't even fade away.
Gaffe confirmed
In case there was any doubt about whether Mitt's infamous (and possibly fatal) "47 percent" video was just a pander and a lie, rather than a gaffe (i.e., a true statement of his feeling, however embarrassing), the latest results from the election are now in. Gaffe it was, and is. There were many varietals of sour grapes he could have chosen to serve. He picked Racist Scrooge.
Dig in - Updated
I had no particular feeling one way or another about the prospect of Susan Rice succeeding Hillary at State. But now I hope Obama names her, and I hope she gets confirmed on a party-line vote. He needs to stare these jerks down.
Update: As Bob has been saying, the facts are on Rice's side. This is an opportunity space, not a danger zone. Let the hearings happen. A full, open examination of reality will discredit McCain and Graham and the rest. Obama should give them all the rope they are willing to grab. That, in fact, is what I take his hot response at yesterday's presser to have been -- a macho dare, and a clever lure.
Why? Because what is most likely the case is that Benghazi was not just a diplomatic outpost but a staging HQ for US spooks. In other words, this was CIA spy stuff that got blown up. Why else, do we suppose, Mitt suddenly dropped the subject, after going at it hammer-and-tongs for weeks? Isn't it likely that he got a confidential briefing, in which it was made clear to him that pressing on this "issue" risked exposing our clandestine intelligence operations and operatives? So let Senator Senile and Senator Smarmy hammer away -- and let their party suffer the political consequences. Even if my speculation about the underlying facts of Benghazi is wrong, even if all that happens is that Susan Rice's actual statements on these news programs get played again and seen for what they are, this is a political winner.
Bad Memes, Bad Politics, Bad Policy - Updated
Still accepting rightwing memes, Robert Reich proposes a half-measure on the economy that cedes far too much ground.
Obviously, reviving the economy and lowering unemployment come first. They also come second, third and fourth. As Krugman has shown repeatedly, the deficit is not an urgent issue, in terms of actual economics. And as Reagan famously showed, it is never an urgent issue in terms of politics. Krugman has also shown how the GOP itself isn't serious about reducing the deficit, and never has been. It's pure theater for them. Well, we shouldn't go to that play.
Obama's frame from now on should be to redefine what it means to be "serious." That needs to be wrenched away from the faux VSPs, who have heretofore succeeded in equating it with fiscal austerity. Instead, seriousness should be equated with returning to reality, to data, to facts. Obama does have a mandate -- for a new, pragmatic governance based on facts. It is post-partisan, not bipartisan -- "post" in the sense that it doesn't organize itself around the opinions of partisans (or whoever is in the room), but around the evidence. This taps into the new Age of Nate Silver, of the Sandy-driven acceptance of climate change, of math education not just for our children, but for our politicians. The Democrats are now the party of reality, and the Republicans the party of fantasy. The election accomplished something really valuable in that respect, and it should not be pissed away.
Obama should paint the Republicans as the party of illusion and delusion. Central to those delusions are its memes -- like "entitlements," "job creators" and "fiscal cliff." These words should never be uttered or reinforced by our side. They should be relegated to the dustbin that contains "creation science" and its ilk.
Once again, Krugman lights the way: we bomb the cliff. The correct framing is to demonize "austerity" -- and calling it a "bomb" is a good way to do that.
Rhetorically, this should take the form of a polite but firm ignoring of the GOP. Obama should not treat this as a negotiation, but as work he is doing for the American people -- with the Republican House positioned as no more than an annoying obstacle. If that obstacle proves really persistent, no matter. Politically, the work here should never be framed as "compromise." The election was the arbiter between the two sides -- and one side won. That's over now. The facts are the facts, and the job of our government is to act on them. The American people have demanded that. If the House tries its extortionary bluff, Obama has to call them on it. They'll fold.
Update: Simpatico sentiments from the always piercing Charles Pierce, Esquire.
Hooray for Jonathan Chait
Yes, I know he's a fanboy who makes risible claims for the greatness of the Precious. But he has also been hammering the right ideas and debunking the bad memes, and bad memers. He is doing God's work -- including his latest analysis of the election's meaning. This will, I hope, be read carefully by the White House. This is why Obama won. With the possibility of actual legislation eliminated by the Grover Norquist government-drowners in the House, Obama finally yielded to reality and began speaking in progressive frames. This is why the Dems won close Senate races in surprising places like North Dakota (in addition to those rape-erendums), and in once-doubted places like Massachusetts. This is the path to continued electoral success. This is the key to legacy.
And from the other side of the moon... Updated
You really have to wonder what Noonan will do to explain herself the morning after. But maybe, if you can talk yourself into actually loving Romney, it's a sign that you'll never wake up.
Update: Well, we no longer have to wonder. What she does to explain herself the morning after is, Romney-Janus-like, simply assert she never said what she said. Reality evaporates. Monday's faux-poet of right wing hope becomes, handy-dandy, Wednesday's finger-wagging, I-told-you-so Cassandra-scold of the right wing's fundamental flaws.
And, of course, Noonan is not the only Martian in this head-exploding comedy. She is legion -- pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. We don't have enough microwaves - it's an Orville Redenbacker orgy.
The irony is beyond thick here -- its gravitational pull is growing into a self-absorbing (literal and conventional) black hole.
Update 2: Krugman on the deep magic of the GOP dissolution. If this party isn't fit to stand trial, it would be the height (or depth) of irresponsibility for our president to continue propping them up. Any talk of bipartisanship or reinforcement of the memes of "fiscal cliff" or "entitlement reform" is a betrayal of the American electorate.
Oh, snap
The uber poll nerd fights for facts:
"If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can’t acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public."
Nice to see the reality-based community standing up for itself.
Ah, yes. One had almost forgotten the smell of CDS in the morning. Thanks, Matt Bai, for trotting it out again. Our president didn't possibly blow the election on his own, with his epic-fail first debate meltdown. No, it was that ol' debbil Bubba again.
These people are beyond pathetic.
Hail Mary - Updated
Putting aside for the moment Obama's woeful, and perhaps psychologically revealing performance last night, what about Romney? What he did was, by any measure, extraordinary -- not in its effectiveness, per se, but in its daring.
First of all, he lied serially and with no apparent fear of being called on any of it. He demonstrated utter contempt for the voting public, treated everybody as "low-information voters" who would take his reinvention last night at face value. Whatever else you can say about it, it's not cautious. But even more, he totally pivoted, throwing his wingnut Tea Party base off the train, under the bus... pick your vehicular cliche. Apparently, he doesn't fear them, either. He may have figured that they'd be so happy seeing Obama get beat up that they'd cheer their guy regardless of what he said. Again, maybe that's smart (it's certainly what everybody expected him to Etch-a-Sketch to a long time ago)... but it's not for the faint of heart, not in this high-drama, high-stakes venue.
What, I ask myself, is one to make of this Hail Mary pass? Was it his plan all along? Fine, David Remnick doesn't think Obama was doing rope-a-dope last night... but has Romney been doing just that for the past six months? And if so, whom was he looking to deceive? Was it his base -- giving them as much time and evidence as possible to convince themselves that they could actually pull the lever for him? Was it the Obama campaign, leading them to get complacent? Was it the media, laying the groundwork for a dramatic, last-second reversal of fortune (always a sexy narrative)? Was it all of the above?
If it was a long-hatched plan, what that suggests is a certain level of desperation -- and an Errol Flynn derring-do response. It suggests that he and his campaign looked at something early on that convinced them they could only win this thing through a dramatic narrative that they would have to construct -- a la Witness for the Prosecution.
What might have convinced them of that? Maybe it comes from knowing their base. Maybe if you knew how crazy those folks really are, how ready they are to desert the GOP on Nov. 6, you'd come to the conclusion that you do have to pay maximum lip service to their deranged views and feelings.
Maybe it was the economic numbers. Maybe they looked at the general trajectories and decided that things just weren't going to be bad enough for the people to throw Obama out. Maybe they were waiting on what the EU would do, and when Mario Draghi took action, they concluded that that hurricane wouldn't hit our shores before the election.
Maybe it was a broader sense of the dissolution of the Republican Party. Maybe they knew that this asylum that tries to pass as a coalition simply cannot be held together for more than five minutes -- so you shouldn't really begin your campaign until the last second.
Whatever the reason, the bet was a bold one. And then the pass-launching quarterback was blessed with remarkable good luck -- an opponent who came into the ring not as Muhammed Ali, or even Joe Frazier, but as Bartleby the Scrivener.
Only thing is, there's still time on the clock. Our own quarterback may have lost interest in the game, but there's a sideline full of people who actually want to win. And together, they may be able to put together enough fourth-quarter drives -- you know, using the wildcat or short passes... or, at least, a stout enough defense -- to hold onto the lead and run out the clock.
You gotta hand it to Mitt, though. There really wasn't anything in his past that suggested this level of daring. Whatever else it tells you, it says that he really wants this thing. Which is more than you can say, it seems, for his opponent.
Update: When David Brooks is wrong -- and that is often -- he usually errs on the side of naivete. Tomorrow's column argues that the real Mitt has escaped from his Tea Party handlers to give forth a proud, full-throated roar of moderation. He says that the only option Obama has in response to this pivot is to perform one of his own -- to switch from the accusation of extremism to one of making flippy floppy.
Well, to paraphrase our late-awakening president, this David Brooks should talk to Monday's David Brooks. That one had, with unintentional truth-telling, revealed the obvious alternate strategy: You continue to accuse Romney of being a conservative ideologue -- and add that he's a liar.
That's what Obama did today. Will it stick? Remains to be seen. "Liar" is more aggressive than "flip-flopper," and Obama doesn't like to be aggressive, but the shoe does fit. It fits the guy who created the prototype for Obamacare, only to demonize it for a year and swear he'll repeal it on day one of his presidency (as if). It fits the guy who doesn't just change from the $5 Trillion Man to the Lone Ranger in a flash, but denies that he ever said the other thing in the first place (you know, the thing that's in the party platform, that the Republican House passed with nary a dissent, that Romney repeated over and over). And he did so with pathological insouciance. Yeah, liar can stick.
Indeed, one of the highest-risk bets of Romney's Hail Mary is that people will only pay attention to last night -- and, presumably, the next month -- and not the previous year. That they'll look at this only as an election between Moderate Competent Romney and Moderate Incompetent Obama, ignoring the party Romney represents. And that they'll believe that the Romney now playing the compassionate conservative in public is the real one, rather than the shockingly cynical, heartless plutocrat of the "47 percent" conversation in private. It might work, but as I say, it's definitely a high-risk bet. Especially given the existence of that video. Expect to see it a whole lot for the next month.
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How many scenarios...
... can dance on the head of a pin? I like Nate Silver, but this is absurd. Eight, count 'em, maps and this headline -- "New Polls Raise Chance of an Electoral Tie" -- for a rise from 0.3 percent to 0.6 percent? Really? Must be a slow news day in pollville.
So now, after a modest amount of decorous throat-clearing that "nothing is decided yet" -- data to the contrary -- and with predictable (and accurate) grumbling about what a truly terrible candidate Romney has proven to be (except, of course, compared to every single one of the alternatives)... and with the occasional detour into truly sophistic fantasy ("But in Bizarro America, where they don't hold 'elections,' his chances wouldn't be so damn good!")... the commentariat will start wrapping its head around the reality of a second Obama term..
The first shot out of the box is from Andrew Sullivan, in full fanboy ecstasy with a piece whose headline and thesis -- "President Obama: The Democrats' Ronald Reagan" -- are what an irony therapist might call overdetermined. Sullivan, the poet laureate of 11-dimensional chess (aka "Obama's long game") is an imaginarium architect of the first water, rearranging the universe around the infallibility of his love object (indeed, constructing a heavenly sphere in which the Father and Son are not just enthroned, but wed).
Inspired by that, let me offer a brief version -- to be elaborated at a later date, if events justify it and I have the energy -- of my own fantasized near future. It involves a president who perhaps has -- thanks in significant part to his opponents on the right (we on the left had little or no effect) -- been turned into an actual Democrat, an actual thinker and an actual leader.
If the past year has accomplished anything, it has clarified the reality of the political arena. I guess our elections, despite their vacuous and depressing theatricality, do that. Obama has been driven, against his natural instincts, to an actual ideological place -- and it has proven to be much more politically successful. Rhetorically, at least, he has moved left -- or, more precisely, has gelled into something comprehensible. George Lakoff must be gratified that he is, at long last, shaping the dialogue in ways that reflect a comprehensible progressive view. This view is proving effective -- he's winning, and thankfully, he's winning for approximately the right reasons. The country really is rejecting the three Rs -- Romney's plutocratic noblesse oblige, Ryan's Ayn Randian social darwinism, and the Republicans' Grover Norquistian economic mono-thesis-ism: Whatever the question, the answer is, "Cut taxes!" There can be no doubt that the majority view post-election 2012 -- the center of gravity, the Tea Party nothwithstanding -- will be that government has a vital role in society.
If a second Obama term were grounded in nothing more than that, it would be cheering. But I am allowing myself to fantasize that the wet clay of our Precious President might be being shaped into something even better than a Democrat. I am hoping he can become an actual thinker and leader -- which is to say, a systems thinker-and-leader (or, at least, a vessel capable of absorbing and enacting systems thought). Instead of an actor delivering empty paeans to bipartisanship and compromise -- instead of being guided by the narcissistic imperative of looking like the most reasonable person in the room -- perhaps he has been dragged, kicking and pausing, into the role of leader with an actual world view. Maybe he is arriving at a hard-won comprehension of the emerging planetary paradigm and of how America's political dynamics fit into that. Maybe we'll stop obsessing about debt-reduction through "grand bargains," and start lowering actual spending (on our way toward single payer), through, say, a lower Medicare eligibility age. Maybe we'll pump aid back to the states, so that all those laid-off teachers, police and fire fighters can resume pumping money back into the economy. Maybe we'll save Wall St. (and the rest of the economy) from itself, by imposing meaningful regulations that turn banking into a boring utility, and shift innovation to where it belongs in this coming era -- away from financial capital and toward production capital.
Okay, I said this was an exercise in fantasy. But I do, er, hope that he has, er, changed.
Since the Presidential race is now decided... - updated
Yes, I know. I'm giving it a kinehora -- and on Rosh Hashana, yet. So be it. Mitt was already a goner before Moochergate, and now he is unelectable. He has already written the scripts of the debates, and they were his one remaining predictable chance to change the trajectory. Now he's down to hoping for dei ex machina. And since the dysfunction of his campaign has itself become a robust meme, there is now the likelihood of an exponential shift: the meta taking each actual gaffe and lost opportunity to the next power, and so on. Stick a fork in it -- this one is done.
Which means that the Democratic Party, if it has a whit of sechel, should right now be redirecting resources into Senate and House races. As Nate Silver points out, the momentum in the Senate is already favorable to the Dems. It should not be allowed to backslide for lack of money. As for the House, I suspect retaking it is beyond the pale, but a large infusion of advertising across the country could perhaps win back 15-20 seats. I mean ads that do double duty nationally and locally: Show the increasingly toxic Romney and Ryan next to Candidate X, with the headline, "They want to take away your Medicare and give you Vouchercare." For good measure, include a clip from Romney's 47 Percent Dis-solution video.
L'shana tova.
Update: It would be nothing short of astonishing if this election turned into a Dem wave -- after Obama's failures on the economy, after the GOP wave in 2010. And yet, some signs are pointing that way. Witness Nate Silver's latest on the Senate. Money quote -- which would have seemed insane even a week ago:
...if the trend continues, the question may no longer be whether Republicans can win the Senate — but how vulnerable they are to losing the House.
Update 2: More grist. Maybe there's something in the methodology gap between cell-phone-and-live-interview polls and the others that doesn't just favor Dems, but also provides earlier indications of trajectory?
Update 3: Rats, ships, and all that.
Update 4: And the cupboard was bare.
It could be
Or, at least, here's what I'm permitting myself to hope this morning: That the choice of Paul Ryan will prove as disastrous in its way for the GOP as the choice of Sarah Palin -- more so, in fact, since the outcome of this election is far less certain than was 2008, post-Lehman.
It really is striking, and encouraging, that the MSM -- and even Fox -- have called out Ryan's Pants on Fire acceptance speech. Krugman's cries in the wilderness that he is not only deeply unserious but deeply phony seem less lonely today than they did before the convention. Perhaps marathongate will provide the second data point -- the establishment of a pattern -- necessary for a meme to drop anchor. Meanwhile, nobody is talking about Mitt's failed treacle, thanks to the birth of the Eastwooding meme. Thanks, Clint -- you really did make my day. All in all, these are wonderfully inept political mistakes, because they are so easily remembered. My guess is that there will be little or no convention bounce -- that Nate Silver's prediction will prove correct.
And now, if this piece in the Times is to be believed, there is considerable running-away from the Ryan Budget in Congressional races around the country. We know how it affected the special race in upstate NY a year ago. God willing, it'll do the same nationally in November.
I remain as jaundiced about Obama's failure as ever. But I also deeply fear a takeover by the right-wing radicals. I would definitely celebrate on election night if the Dems managed to reverse 2010.
Another of Obama's boys weighs in
Matt Taibbi is his usual badda-bing self in decimating Wall Street's reaction to Sandy Weill's foxhole conversion -- reserving his sharpest barbs for Steve Rattner's mendacious op-ed. What Matt doesn't point out, though, is that Rattner is one of "ours," a high-proflie advocate for the Precious. With financial geniuses like this, who needs GOPmageedon?
Flunking the orals
Mitt's Grand Tour of Fail just received its most devastating pan -- not from lightweights like Dowd, who drool over trivia, but on the deep merits, by one of his chosen scholarly sources, Jared Diamond.
Money quotes to start...
"Mitt Romney's latest controversial remark, about the role of culture in explaining why some countries are rich and powerful while others are poor and weak, has attracted much comment. I was especially interested in his remark because he misrepresented my views and, in contrasting them with another scholar’s arguments, oversimplified the issue."
... and to finish:
"Mitt Romney may become our next president. Will he continue to espouse one-factor explanations for multicausal problems, and fail to understand history and the modern world? If so, he will preside over a declining nation squandering its advantages of location and history."
Yes, I know what you'll say: Voters don't know or care what scholars say. But I have a feeling this one will matter, whether or not people remember who said what. I mean, this is the political equivalent of Woody Allen as Alvy Singer in Annie Hall pulling Marshal McLuhan out from behind the poster: "You know nothing of my work!... How you got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing."
Alvy, you have your wish. Life sometimes is like this.
Valuable and important... but
George Lakoff is a worthwhile thinker and presence -- and his latest discussion of the proper way to frame political discourse in America makes a valuable contribution. It would certainly be good if Democrats did what he suggests. It would indicate movement back toward being capable of political success and the capacity to turn that into a better world -- the capacity actually to govern.
However, his argument only goes so far. In the interest of reinforcing the long-term "brands" of these competitors, he tends to ignore the existing context -- the climate and zeitgeist within which these philosophical and moral struggles are playing out. I don't mean the issues du jour, much less the distractions and gaffe-mongering. I mean the broad trajectories.
Simply put, when things are heading south and people are unhappy -- are more fearful or angry than hopeful -- it's hard for an optimistic frame to resonate. And not surprisingly, nobody is offering one today. People keep chastising both Romney and Obama for not doing so -- but how could they? Nobody would hear it. What people are actually eager for is somebody to blame for how they feel. The Republicans have their candidate -- government. Obama and the feckless Dems have been reluctant to finger theirs -- the malefactors of great wealth, Wall St., the 1 percent.
It's not surprising that Lakoff is happier these days with Obama. Our president is, finally, articulating a Lakovian frame -- the idea of the public. But unless the Dems effectively finger the opponents of that idea -- the enemies of the public -- it won't do the work it needs to do.
Actually Wanting to Win
This blog was forged in the Mt. Doom of the '08 primaries, fueled by the misogyny and anti-Boomer, "post-partisan" fallacies of the still-crawling-toward-Bethlehem-to-be-reborn Democratic Party. For many people, that is now yesterday's news. Perhaps this includes Bill and Hillary themselves. I have more trouble getting past it -- though I definitely want Obama and the Dems to win this November. Even if I can't get progressivism, even if I can't have someone who would read Krugman and turn those analyses into legislation... when forced to choose between feckless -- or even corporatist -- "centrists" and a batshit wingnut road to hell, I'll choose the former. It really will matter to millions of people's lives.
Nonetheless.
It is a mordant irony to see the political and policy fratboy amateurs of the Cult of the Precious turn, once again, to a Clinton to bail them out. After demonizing them, slandering them, rejecting the wisdom and the smarts that they had brought to this floundering institution. Once again, a Clinton is carrying their water, after they have pissed all over his leg. Once again, they find themselves turning to actual leaders, who actually want to win, and know how to do so.
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Krugman again, on the mark again -- this time about the narcissistic dimension of our elites' insanity. I would just add that it's not only about wealth and privilege (pace F. Scott). It's about isolation (cue Jared Diamond).
My experience in corporate America has made it clear to me that the putative emotional-familial structure of hierarchical organizations (and by extension, societies) is, in fact, a willful collective delusion. We tell ourselves that our leaders are like parents and those they lead are like children -- but the emotional truth is precisely the opposite. Executives are emotional babies, in need of constant stroking and assurance that they are wise, powerful, beautiful, beloved. The workers of any organization play the role of the grown-up, reassuring and protecting them.
Why do we do this? Because we want there to be leaders (and, eventually, to be a god). We find a life in which there is no final authority -- a genuinely open uiniverse -- too frightening. We're acutely aware of our own limitations, and we long for a loving authority who will protect us from having to be adults. So we invent one, we invent more than one. We tell ourselves and them that they actually exist.
This collective fiction can be sustained when the overall system is more or less stable and broadly beneficial. But when it breaks down, when the power imbalances get too wide, and a correction is required, the emotional dishonesty is suddenly unavoidable. What we're hearing from these criminal infants on Wall St. is not just the deranged hypersensitivity of the bubble-ensconced rich brat (though the thought does occur that bubbles beget other bubbles). It's the desperate cris de coeur of the naked emperor, the dreamer of the universal dream of inadequacy who has suddenly been woken up. They have to blame that on somebody. Being awake is too scary.
Stop, now, what's that sound?
As someone once noted, paranoia strikes doofy -- this time in Nutlanta. Bike out of line, one of America's two major political parties come and take you away.
'Tis the time's plague, when the mad lead the bland.
Beyond shameless
John Yoo, the soft-spoken Dr. Strangelove of the imperial executive, the legal architect of the president's right to torture, has no bottom. Keep diving, and you'll never hit it. Even the Balrog eventually hit a floor.
Witness his remarkable op-ed in the Wall Street Journal denouncing John Roberts for, he claims, immeasurably strengthening the power of the Federal government. Yes, our government must be entirely free to spy on, detain, torture and kill us -- but god forbid it should seek to protect or help us.
This man is evil.
David Brooks performs a public service in tomorrow's column, "What Republicans Think." He tells us just that -- and it is clear how deranged, disconnected from actual facts, unconcerned about real suffering, locked inside bogus and disproved theories (though even calling them "theories" is far too kind) that thinking is. He claims Republicans are the big thinkers, aware of the historical inflection point at hand and ready to move into what lies on its other side, while Democrats are pettifogging tinkerers of the failed welfare state, apparatchiks of the status quo.
Except, of course, the version of history Brooks -- thank you very much -- accurately reports from the GOP cerebral cortex is a silly fantasy with no connection to what has actually happened, and without the first idea of what is driving the economy, society, technology and the trajectories of the future. When it suits their factitious debating purposes, they purport to celebrate global integration and technological transformation, but they don't have the first idea of how those forces actually intersect and what real potential for economic prosperity and societal progress (not to mention environmental sustainability) they hold. As Krugman has been saying all along, this mixture of hand-wringing, sober beard stroking and faux philosophizing is a pretext to help plutocrats continue the plutocracy. We're in Jared Diamond territory, with hermetically sealed elites fiddling while Rome burns.
Yes, we do need big thinking -- big, smart, fact-based thinking, accompanied by the guts to fight for a progressive future. We have lacked both for these past four years. But it is salutary to be reminded, from an unimpeachable source, what passes for thinking in the billionaires boys club.
Well, duh
Finally, a small bit of political intelligence from the Dems. Of course they're channeling Krugman -- Cassandra makes the evening news! Is it too late? We'll see.
Fascinating -- and frightening
Krugman points to a speech George Soros gave on Saturday which is remarkable for its clarity and breadth. His principles of fallibility and reflexivity constitute a true systems-thinking view of the history and likely breakup of the European Union. His notion of a "political bubble" interacting in complex ways -- generating what complex systems theory calls positive feedback loops -- with the financial bubble is particularly interesting. One candidate for nut graf is:
"While the European Union was being created, the leadership was in the forefront of further integration; but after the outbreak of the financial crisis the authorities became wedded to preserving the status quo. This has forced all those who consider the status quo unsustainable or intolerable into an anti-European posture. That is the political dynamic that makes the disintegration of the European Union just as self-reinforcing as its creation has been. That is the political bubble I was talking about."
Among the other fascinating and frightening points Soros makes is that the accelerating (not slowing) crisis is leading toward doubling-down on previous mistakes. Thus, instead of winding down the euro while preserving the EU -- the correct course -- the opposite seems likely to happen. And he believes the moment of truth is now upon us:
"In my judgment the authorities have a three months’ window during which they could still correct their mistakes and reverse the current trends. By the authorities I mean mainly the German government and the Bundesbank because in a crisis the creditors are in the driver’s seat and nothing can be done without German support."
It may be, in a historical sense, one of the comparatively less important aspects of this that it is happening in the midst of a U.S. election. If the dream of a post-national Europe goes gaflooey, its impact will be far deeper than the replacement of an inadequate Democratic president with an inadequate Republican president. However, Soros's plausible timetable certainly does put this Fall's election home stretch into perspective. After all, it was another Fall -- the Fall of Lehman -- in September 2008 that decided that contest.
What happens now depends on what happens
With two deeply flawed candidates -- political C players who have by now squandered whatever capacity they might once have possessed to affect events -- the outcome of the presidential race will depend on those events, most importantly in Europe. If the ECB and the Germans, in their infinite wisdom, allow the EU to plunge into depression, and if that, in turn, washes over our shores in noticeable ways, then Romney probably wins. If that doesn't happen, then Obama probably wins.
Romney's brand is now set. He is the plutocrat who only cares about rich people, and he only wants to get elected to serve their interests. There is nothing he can now do to shake this branding -- and he doesn't even have the sechel to try.
Obama's set, too. He cannot be a credible economic crusader for the middle class, because he cannot be a credible crusader. In the past I have lamented his failure to emulate FDR's "I welcome their hatred." What was I thinking? This man cannot become a believable emotional presence -- cannot deploy his feelings as a political force. He can utter populist-sounding words, but the chance for his feelings to be believed by most people on any subject has passed. It's not just that he has betrayed most of the principles and policies Democrats hold dear -- which he has -- but that he has disappeared as an actor, in both senses of the word. He has hidden in plain sight for his whole life, and now on the big stage for the past four years. We no longer credit him with caring enough about anything to fight for it. When he tries, it doesn't take.
So... now we wait.
Yet again
Yet again, Paul Krugman is a light in the darkness. One could raise a tribute to him every day, and it wouldn't be too often. He tells the truth about important things.
Gimme a break
Look, I yield to few in my conviction that Barack Obama lacks a center -- or, at least, lacks access to whatever center may be in there. But what's up with this ridiculous NY Times/CBS News poll? The findings themselves are entirely uninteresting -- what else could the outcome have been on this or any other controversial topic during a contentious campaign? The point was the question itself -- it's simply a meta-way of taking a shot at him. And it's the hypocrite calling the kettle black -- not only for the Times and CBS News, but for the poll's participants to criticize Obama for not having been a long-time supporter of gay rights. One can only assume some snark-monger decided this would be a good headline. Please.
Yes, one can only hope
As Krugman has continued to do for the past three years (more, if you count the 08 campaign), now Joe Nocera is making it clear what Obama should say -- saying it for him. Isn't that teleprompter enough?
This is scary, if accurate. Scary re Europe, and scary re the US. I hope that the hermetic seal around our president has not repaired itself, and that he will recognize the direness of his straits. Politically speaking, he must seize the initiative, must start going hard after the banks and tying Romney and the whole GOP to them in any ways he can. Ross Douhat groks this, for chrissake.
Of course, even then, a collapse of the Euro within months may doom his presidency. And then, Gaia help us.
Some tempest
Some teapot. I hope the S.E.C. is planning to ask: What did Jamie Dimon know, and when did he know it.
Jamie Dimon? Now, why is that name familiar?
And yes, the correct outcome is clear. So glad you helped steer us away from Hillary Clinton, Bob.
Romney's assignment, if he chooses to accept it - updated
Here's how Romney wins the presidency: He runs against Tim Geithner and the too-big-to-fail banks. He attacks Obama's socialism for the rich, while portraying himself and the rest of the vulture capitalists as playing by the high-risk, high-reward rules of true capitalism: "We at Bain were never too big to fail. If we made bad bets, we were subject to the swift judgment of the market -- which is exactly how capitalism is supposed to work. But President Obama, Secretary Geithner and this Administration stepped in and distorted the market -- making the government of the United States a crony capitalist of historic proportions. I said at the time that the bailouts were wrong -- and we see now how right that was. The corruption of moral hazard continues to this day -- witness the latest outrage from JP Morgan Chase. This isn't what capitalism, or America, are supposed to be about. It's time to restore a true free-market economy, and get America back to work."
As Confidence Men and Frontline's "Money, Power and Wall St." make clear -- and as Krugman, Reich, Stiglitz et al. have noted for years -- Obama aided and abetted the looting of Main St. by Wall St. Romney can have his cake and eat it by singling out the big banks, while continuing to collect contributions from the rest of corporate America. Obama is genuinely vulnerable on this issue, and Romney would get a twofer -- appealing both to the Tea Party and to independents appalled when Citibank, Goldman Sachs and their brethren were made whole.
Will he do it? Probably not. It probably requires more political imagination -- and more acting skill (i.e., the capacity to project convincing outrage) than he possesses. So my guess is he won't accept this mission-eminently-possible. But I wish he would. Even if Obama did win, a debate framed in this way would create a lot of pressure to address financial reform in a more serious way in his second term.
Update: If Obama, Axelrod, Plouffe et al. have an ounce of political sechel, they will seize the opening created by the shaming of Jamie Dimon and JP Morgan Chase. They will forget that they ever had a good word for Dimon and Blankfein; forget that they let Geithner slow-walk the break-up of Citi, as Suskind reveals; forget that they have sat idle while Dodd-Frank was being dismantled before our eyes. They will run hard against the banks, starting right now -- and cutting off Romney's potential winning play at the pass. They will whip the Senate to ensure that none of these eviscerations of Dodd-Frank make it into law. Obama will talk over and over again about the need for a strong Volker Rule, to accompany his Buffett Rule -- and put out the word through surrogates that Volker would become Treasury Secretary in his second administration.
It was obvious all along
The new op-ed by Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann in the Washington Post is getting a lot of attention, and it's obviously salutary. The GOP should be called out as batshit crazy, and the media should be called out for not reporting that as fact. To have this piece appear in the Post, the Broderist temple of bipartisan orthodoxy, is good.
But the thing is, as Bob Somerby has been saying for 15 years, and as Ornstein and Mann remind us here, this is not a new state of affairs. And it was political malpractice of historically disastrous proportions for the Democratic Party not to have understood and fought against this. I have just finished reading Ron Suskind's Confidence Men, and its judgment on Barack Obama is devastating. He was incapable of doing this job, and is not growing into it. Far from being a quick study, he is rigidly locked into his own severely limiting psychic needs. He is incapable of making a decision. There was never any real-world opportunity for bipartisan agreement with this GOP. The pursuit of it was entirely a function of Obama, not of reality.
And now, the best option we face is to re-elect this guy, because the alternative is madness. It's a deeply depressing state of affairs.
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This valuable post by Big Tent Democrat argues that the "inactivity" argument -- on which the wingnuts' challenge to the individual mandate rests -- is unprecedented (pun intended), unconstitutional and specious.
If this is correct -- and it seems so to me -- it drives home how extraordinary it is that the current Court seems bent on applying this bullshit to thwart the people's will. What does it say when a majority of our definitive legal body is made up of fools, ideologues and charlatans? And how remarkable is this chapter in our nation's history, when the basic underpinnings of the United States Constitution's separation of powers are dissolving before our eyes? People like Dahlia Lithwick have speculated that Roberts will not want his tenure to go down in legal history as a partisan travesty -- but that assumes the goal is to preserve the Court's power and credibility. Maybe Grover Norquist rules the judiciary, as well as the legislature. Maybe the driving motive all across the Beltway (and in state capitols throughout this great land) is to reduce all branches of government to the size (or to a condition of pathos and contempt) where we can (and want to) drown them in a bathtub.
Head exploding
Mine, that is. And I don't understand why others (like the Times editorial page, the lefty blogosphere -- and the paranoid wingnut blogosphere, for that matter) aren't.
I'm speaking of yesterday's jaw-dropping Supreme Court decision authorizing universal warrantless strip searches. Forget whatever happens with the healthcare decision -- this cements the Roberts court's place in judicial history. I already had as low an opinion of Scalia, Alito and Thomas as I thought it was possible to have -- but this reveals a new sub-basement. I honestly don't know how even they can look themselves in the mirror, much less Roberts himself. These people who purport to be hyper-alert, above all else, to intrusions by the state into our personal freedoms. And what can one conclude about Kennedy, except that he is actually around the bend, that his "interesting" ideas on liberty are infused now with even more fascinating speculations on the humours and phlogiston and personal messages conveyed on food packaging? Go ahead, read what he says in his majority opinion about why it's okay to strip search people for broken tail lights. A police state can't get more, ahem, interesting than that.
The crazy is abroad in the land. The Tea Party tinfoil hatties and dedicated misogynists are on the march, and the perception of that is empowering our faux "originalist" Supremes to throw off the shackles of their strictly constructed robes and let their freak flags fly.
Political malpractice
As Paul Krugman makes clear, yet again, citing a post by Greg Sargent, Obama's failure on the economy was as mistaken politically as it was on policy.
But, then, speaking of political malpractice, it seems this David Corn book from which Sargent grabs a damning passage is, in fact, a big wet kiss for the Big O. Given Corn's performance in the primaries, that's no surprise. Now, he seems to have been chosen as the apostle and chronicler of The One's mid-term conversion experience. Here's a taste from the Amazon blurb:
"Corn captures the dilemmas faced by a president assailed by disappointed progressives and defiantly obstructionist Republicans determined to see his defeat. Here is a chief executive trying to balance the cross-cutting demands of governance and politics while handling unending challenges at home and abroad. The book reveals a thoughtful leader with a cool head who is unafraid to take risks and make tough choices, a steely battler who successfully turned his enemies' obstinacy to his advantage. Obama has often frustrated supporters, but Corn shows how the president, who often puts pragmatism ahead of partisan demands, has craftily operated within a hostile conservative political climate, looking to win the long game, achieve progressive goals, and, ultimately, win reelection."
Oy. Eleven-dimensional chess is back in season.
This ain't no party
Because (note the double negative) it is one party, at least. The Republican War on Women, I mean. And Charles Pierce in Esquire nails it. This guy is good.
Silence of the Lim(baugh)? - Updated
Key parts of the wingnut echo chamber are starting to crumble. Rush. Rupert. Dare we dream that Roger will not be far behind?
Update: The sounds of silence.
The GOP's plunge into stark raving insanity is accelerating -- witness the departure of even its putative "moderates." Anybody who isn't mad as a hatter is booed offstage, and if you want to stay on that stage, you have to put on your best Ophelia 24/7. No knowing asides to the audience allowed.
Please, please, Dems -- wake up, seize this moment. Do not be content to get elected because "at least they're not crazy." Recognize that we now have one party rule -- because the other party is into misrule, unruliness. No more bullshit post-partisan posturing. No more self-flattering "reasonableness." Instead, do serious economic analysis and push for serious solutions to real problems. You're gonna get another shot at actual power -- the Republican Party is melting, melting. Don't blow this.
"This is Madness" - Updated
So says Diane Ravitch, describing the astonishing doubling-down on teaching to the test now underway in New York State and nationally. As she notes, the Obama Administration is directly culpable for this. Our President may say in SOTU that we shouldn't teach to the test -- but he is dramatically increasing that in practice.
And what of Gov. Cuomo, he of the gay-marriage halo effect? This way political irrelevance lies. "Taking on education" (aka embracing the agenda of today's conventional-wisdom education "reform") seems to be the policy crack of our age. No Child has now been Left Behind by everyone -- witness a hall of Arizona Republicans loudly booing Rick Santorum for having voted for it at this week's debate. Making it his signature issue doomed Bloomberg to "he wasn't Giuliani" in the history books (and prepared that great educational reformer Joel Klein to become Hack-in-Chief Rupert Murdoch's defense attorney). And my bet is that it will at least do serious damage to Cuomo's presidential hopes.
We need a smarter approach to educating our political leaders on education. They keep failing the test.
Update: It is encouraging that the Grey Lady seems to have woken up to the sham that is "education reform." Witness two devastating pieces by or about persuasively wonderful teachers (both in Brooklyn) whom the test-mad regime labels "bad": A Sunday op-ed by William Johnson and a commentary today by Michael Winerip. There was even a sort-of public retreat from "reform" funder-in-chief Bill Gates.
The money quote from the Winerip piece:
"If city officials were trying to demoralize and humiliate the workforce, they’ve done a terrific job. News organizations get an assist for publishing the scores, and former Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein deserves a special nod for enthusiastically supporting the release."
What Violet Said
Fighting a dumb war
Paul Krugman correctly reams Larry Summers for having given Obama exactly the wrong advice on the economy -- and having done so from the get-go, as revealed in Ryan Lizza's New Yorker article about the newly released White House memos.
The broader point about Obama, though, is one that Lizza characteristically raises and misses. As usual, he doesn’t deeply understand the meaning of his own facts – or even his own observations about those facts.
The thing he misses here is that there’s no such thing as “public opinion” in a holistic or monolithic sense. There are (a) widespread feelings (things are getting better or getting worse); and (b) strong feelings about particular topics (abortion is a woman’s right, it is murder). So, yes, there is general “distrust of government.” But there’s also at least equal distrust of business – and therefore a widespread desire for help against its predations. There’s an even more widespread desire for someone to lead, already. There are many widely held and mutually contradictory wishes and biases and feelings and beliefs.
The reason Obama flunked was his lack of any personal information about which of those actually mattered. He picked the wrong version of “the public’s beliefs” to follow. In fact, framing this whole thing in terms of “attitudes toward government” is, yet again, an example of accepting the right’s frames, rather than fighting your battles on your home field. Think "entitlement plans." Lizza, like most of the MSN, is stuck inside frames Obama himself promulgated, which speak more to the Precious's psychic needs than to the needs of the country -- or even the prospects for political success.
Objectively (vs. psychologically) speaking, Obama didn’t have to wind up hog-tied and flunko. He could have framed this whole thing as getting the American social compact back to health and getting Americans back to work – something Hillary would have understood and done in a heartbeat. FDR surely did. Despite Lizza's ruminations on the limits of presidential influence -- and despite actual presidents' own humility on the subject -- is there any credible argument that the public was already pressing for the New Deal before Roosevelt got into office? Can there be any doubt that FDR shaped a new frame, a new model of government itself? Or that he did so in a political environment every bit as polarized as this one?
Lizza does report some salutary observations and ideas -- e.g., that the polarization we've seen is asymmetrical. But then he doesn't follow through on their implications. Given that asymmetry, shouldn't any actual attempt to wind up in a space of actual policy efficacy have pushed harder against the GOP than the Dems?
The truth is that Obama lost these battles before they began, because he chose to fight (or, rather, to wave the white flag within) the wrong battles. To paraphrase someone, he shouldn't have been against all wars -- just dumb ones.
A pivot?
God may or may not play dice with the universe, but She is clearly watching out for Barack Obama. (Or, conversely, our president cut a really good deal with Beelzebub.) Whatever the agency for the way events are rolling out, he/she/it is making sure that O'll cross the finish line first a year hence. The whole thing feels like "The Truman Show" (before Jim Carrey's epiphany -- when everyone in town was scrambling to construct a nice world around him).
Consider his likely opposition, and the basket case GOP that is shooting itself in the forehead around him. If David Axelrod had gone to sleep and dreamed of a foil as perfect as Mitt Romney has turned out to be... and if he had then drifted into a reverie in which the entire phalanx of Romney's wingnut opponents would brand him indelibly as a hybrid of Freddy Kruger and Gordon Gekko... Axelrod wouldn't have dared to write it down when he woke up -- it's that outlandish.
I can't think of anything comparable in my lifetime of watching politics. When the Left turned on LBJ and by extension Hubert Humphrey, at least they were criticizing them for not being left enough. For Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry to use their dying campaigns to brand Romney as the Bain of the working class... it's as though Noam Chomsky had bought time on the Super Bowl to eviscerate Hillary Clinton as a raging socialist.
Of course, the hypocrisy is jaw-dropping. So much so that one is tempted to wonder whether "Newt Gingrich" and "Rick Perry" were planted as Manchurian candibots 60 years ago -- by, you know, the Trilateral Masons.
Anyway, whatever it says about them, I think the branding of Mitt will stick -- its sources are ideologically impeccable, and it lights up exactly Romney's Achilles heel. Romney, of course, is reinforcing this branding with his every excuse and clueless metaphor. He's George H.W. Bush at the checkout counter on steroids.
I watched "When Mitt Romney Came to Town" tonight, and I have to say, it feels to me as though this moment is a pivot, if not to the left, then at least away from the right. When Krugman and Brooks walk into that same room through different doors for the same edition of the paper, maybe something's up. And the irony of ironies is that its beneficiary will be the phantom Democrat now in the White House, the Luck Child of modern global politics.
One can only hope there's a Truman Show-style awakening on tap for this show's second season.
A national -- no, make that global -- resource
I'm talking about Paul Krugman. He is truly a remarkable thinker, teacher, writer. Tomorrow's column is just one among hundreds that actually teach something. He is to economics what Pauline Kael was to film criticism.
Since the Presidential race is now decided... - up...
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Castro Valley USD | BP 4119.11 Personnel
The Board of Education is committed to providing a safe work environment that is free of harassment and intimidation. The Board prohibits sexual harassment against district employees and retaliatory behavior or action against any person who complains, testifies, or otherwise participates in the complaint process established for the purpose of this policy.
Sexual harassment includes, but is not limited to, harassment that is based on the gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation of the victim.
This policy shall apply to all district employees and to other persons on district property or with some employment relationship with the district, such as interns, volunteers, contractors, and job applicants.
(cf. 0410 - Nondiscrimination in District Programs and Activities)
(cf. 4030 - Nondiscrimination in Employment)
Any district employee who engages or participates in sexual harassment or who aids, abets, incites, compels, or coerces another to commit sexual harassment in violation of this policy is subject to disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal.
(cf. 4117.7/4317.7 - Employment Status Reports)
(cf. 4118 - Dismissal/Suspension/Disciplinary Action)
The Superintendent or designee shall take all actions necessary to ensure the prevention, investigation, and correction of sexual harassment, including but not limited to:
1. Providing training to employees in accordance with law and administrative regulation
2. Publicizing and disseminating the district's sexual harassment policy to employees and others to whom the policy may apply
(cf. 4112.9/4212.9/4312.9 - Employee Notifications)
3. Ensuring prompt, thorough, and consistent investigation of complaints
4. Taking timely and appropriate corrective/remedial action(s), which may require interim separation of the complainant and the alleged harasser and subsequent monitoring of developments
Sexual Harassment Reports and Complaints
Any district employee who feels that they have been sexually harassed in the performance of their district responsibilities or who has knowledge of any incident of sexual harassment by or against another employee shall immediately report the incident to their direct supervisor, another supervisor, the district's coordinator for nondiscrimination, the Superintendent, or, if available, a complaint hotline or an ombudsman. A supervisor or administrator who receives a harassment complaint shall promptly notify the coordinator.
Complaints of sexual harassment shall be filed and investigated in accordance with the complaint procedure specified in AR 4030 - Nondiscrimination in Employment. An employee may bypass their supervisor in filing a complaint where the supervisor is the subject of the complaint.
All complaints and allegations of sexual harassment shall be kept confidential to the extent necessary to carry out the investigation or to take other subsequent necessary actions. (2 CCR 11023)
Legal Reference:
200-262.4 Prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex
GOVERNMENT CODE
12900-12996 Fair Employment and Housing Act, especially:
12940 Prohibited discrimination
12950 Sexual harassment; distribution of information
12950.1 Sexual harassment training
LABOR CODE
1101 Political activities of employees
1102.1 Discrimination: sexual orientation
CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 2
11009 Employment discrimination
11021 Retaliation
11023 Harassment and discrimination prevention and correction
11024 Sexual harassment training and education
11034 Terms, conditions, and privileges of employment
4900-4965 Nondiscrimination in elementary and secondary education programs receiving state financial assistance
UNITED STATES CODE, TITLE 20
1681-1688 Title IX prohibition against discrimination
2000e-2000e-17 Title VII, Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended
CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS, TITLE 34
106.1-106.9 Nondiscrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities
106.51-106.61 Nondiscrimination on the basis of sex in employment in education program or activities
Department of Health Services v. Superior Court of California, (2003) 31 Cal.4th 1026
Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, (1998) 118 S.Ct. 2275
Burlington Industries v. Ellreth, (1998) 118 S.Ct. 2257
Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School District, (1998) 118 S.Ct. 1989
Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Serv. Inc., (1998) 118 S.Ct. 998
Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson et al., (1986) 447 U.S. 57
Management Resources:
U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION PUBLICATIONS
Promising Practices for Preventing Harassment, November 2017
California Department of Fair Employment and Housing: http://www.dfeh.ca.gov
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: http://www.eeoc.gov
U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/index.html
Policy CASTRO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
adopted: May 23, 2018 Castro Valley, California
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A special feature was added to save high scores, something the original did not do. Players take control of Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Wolverine and the Hulk to hunt down the six Infinity Gems. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is not only a fictional legend, but a legend to gamers as well. It's not too difficult at first, but later levels can get pretty tough. The coolest qualities about Earthworm Jim were the levels and the bosses. . This side-scrolling extravaganza puts players in control of the main character, Simon, through eleven not-so-easy levels.
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Nintendo is taking throwback Thursday to a new level. This was the game that kids lied to their parents about to get. Age This Website does not target people below the age of 16. This arcade classic is a must have for any collection. Leading them are dastardly bosses, including Very Gnawty, Necky, Queen B. In between fighting enemies, players had to give Captain Novolin his insulin shots and keep track of his blood glucose levels.
Classic NES Series: Donkey Kong
A hallmark of the Donkey Kong franchise is barrels, which the Kongs use as weapons, vehicles, furniture, and lodging. And the goal of your quest isn't to save some damsel in distress, but to get your stolen bannanas back! The game had some silly large polygon faces. Players got to choose from eight different Mario Series characters, each with their own unique abilities and attributes. Players also traveled across two worlds in an epic journey no one, but Link could complete. A distinctive feature of this console was an improved graphics and sound effects, 16-bit and additional chips. Some, however, such as Gaming Age and Play Magazine, were a bit more critical of the game, rewarding it with a 4.
Rool, the Kremling horde impedes your progress. Depending on your social media setting, the social media network will have record of this and may display your name or identifier in relation to this action. Donkey Kong Country is the first Donkey Kong game that was not produced or directed by Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto, although he was still involved with the project. The game is split into different worlds, which are split into different levels. Game title Rating Downloads 4. Sneslive is the best place to play Super Nintendo games online. The puzzles, bosses, dungeons and gameplay are all their own pieces of fascination that make this game a timeless staple.
Play Classic Kong on SNES
What's more fun than a barrel of monkeys? They did not feel that the content in the game justified the price tag. The number of bosses kept you on your toes as each level ended with one. Advertisers We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. Mode 7 graphics rendered 2D backgrounds on an angle for a 3D effect. Sneslive is the best place to play Super Nintendo games online. The player must pass 48 levels while escorting Baby Mario to rescue his brother. Each time you beat a level on Super Mario World, you feel like a champ.
The game is still wildly popular, with the record holder, , holding a record of 1,253,800 points! This game set the bar for the limited 3D capabilities for the time, looking as close to 3D as it could get. Earthworm Jim combined the elements of side-scrolling and run and gun beautifully. It's a classic sidescroller akin to the Mario games, but with some added twists such as throwable barrels, hidden passageways, and a lot more. When I bought this game in 1988, I assumed that Donkey Kong had all four of the arcade version screens. Sylvester Stallone is glorious in 16-bit.
Donkey Kong for NES
Although they sold out like Hot Cakes, Nintendo plans to sell more. As one of the most famous Super Smash Bros. Those who played Mario games before shouldn't have any problem with this one. We are the retro gamers like you and our project is dedicated to all retro game lovers… Now you can play , and , ,, and games with our online emulator. The game looked as if it could have appeared on the N64 with its rare, almost 3D-rendered appearance and feel. The game was released in in all territories. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, Advertisers, as third-party vendors, use cookies to collect usage and demographic data in order to serve ads on our site.
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The end of production of the console in the United States happened in 1999, and in Japan its release has been extended until 2003 by virtue of its constant demand among the customers. Donkey Kong is joined by Diddy Kong: these two primates differ significantly. It introduced a refreshing kart-racing style of power up nabbing, kart bashing, and mushroom boosting qualities. Sneslive is the best place to play Super Nintendo games online. I do not know why Donkey Kong 3 with Stanley the Bugman was neglected here.
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The only way that Stanley can prevent Cranky from dropping is by spraying him from underneath with the bugspray. Play Donkey Kong Country online! Rool Kremkoins to open up the routes to the Lost World, while every level has a hidden Hero Coin to collect. With the available inventory screen and Automap features, Metroid was definitely before its time. This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 10, 2018. Sneslive is the best place to play Super Nintendo games online.
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Biography information for Karen Bradley
Northern Ireland Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment she has made of the economic effect of the suspension of the Northern Ireland Executive on (a) Northern Ireland and (b) the UK.
South Northamptonshire
<p>The Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly have not been suspended.</p><p>They are however not functioning in the ways set out in the 1998 Belfast Agreement.</p><p>This Government has taken the necessary action to ensure good governance and stable public finances in Northern Ireland, which of course is an integral part of the United Kingdom.</p>
Karen Bradley
Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
Borders: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions she has had with the Irish Government on preventing the implementation of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
<p>I have regular discussions with the Irish Government concerning the UK's exit from the EU.</p>
Politics and Government: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps she has taken to ensure that Northern Ireland has good governance in the absence of a devolved Administration.
Andrew Rosindell
<p>Since the previous round of talks finished in 2018, this Government has focused on taking steps to ensure good governance can continue in Northern Ireland. This has included the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Act 2018 that provides the Northern Ireland Civil Service the certainty and clarity they need to continue to deliver public services in the absence of Ministers. The Government remains of the view, however, that the best guarantee of good governance is the restoration of the Belfast Agreement institutions and is focused on seeking agreement between the parties as part of the current talks process.</p>
Biography information for Andrew Rosindell
Northern Ireland Assembly: Members
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a future reduction in the salaries of the Members of the Legislative Assembly since the Assembly has not functioned since January 2017; and if she will make a statement.
Lady Hermon
<p>Restoring devolved government in Northern Ireland at the earliest opportunity remains my top priority. However in the event of the continued delay in the formation of an Executive I have been clear that I will consider the case for further reductions to the salaries of the Members of the Legislative Assembly.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
Biography information for Lady Hermon
Northern Ireland Office: Brexit
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what further steps her Department plans to take to prepare for the UK leaving the EU on 31 October 2019 without a withdrawal agreement.
<p>We remain focused on ensuring our smooth and orderly withdrawal from the EU with a deal as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>As a responsible Government we have been preparing to minimise any disruption in the event of no deal for over two years.</p><p> </p><p>In light of the agreed extension to the EU Exit date, Departments are making sensible decisions about the timing and pace at which some of this work is progressing. We continue to prepare for all Brexit scenarios.</p>
Northern Ireland Assembly: Elections
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether she retains the power to call Assembly elections in the event that devolved government is not restored before the expiry of the timeframe set out in the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Act 2018; and if she will make a statement.
<p>Under the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Act 2018, I retain a discretionary power to propose a date for an Assembly election at any time. The Act also removes the duty to propose a date, which would arise again after the period for Executive formation. The Assembly is also able to call for an election.</p>
European Parliament: Elections
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate she has made of the number of EU citizens resident in Northern Ireland who were unable to exercise their franchise in the recent European parliamentary elections as a result of the late distribution by the Northern Ireland Electoral Office of an additional EU form; and if she will make a statement.
<p>The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) issued 34,040 letters advising EU citizens resident in Northern Ireland of the requirement in law to complete an additional form if they wished to vote in the European Parliamentary elections in May 2019 in Northern Ireland. This letter made clear the deadline for return of the forms. The form was also made available on the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland website.</p><p>9,020 electors responded. Unfortunately 1,204 electors replied after the deadline and were advised their application had been received too late to enable to them to vote.</p>
Sovereignty: Northern Ireland
What recent assessment she has made of the benefits to Northern Ireland of being part of the UK.
Aberdeen South
Ross Thomson
<p>This Government has made clear on many occasions that we will never be neutral in expressing our support for the Union.</p><p>Northern Ireland benefits hugely from the Union and my steadfast belief is that Northern Ireland’s future is best served within a stronger United Kingdom.</p>
Biography information for Ross Thomson
David T. C. Davies
Biography information for David T. C. Davies
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013: Northern Ireland
Whether she has plans to extend the provisions of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 to Northern Ireland.
East Worthing and Shoreham
Tim Loughton
<p>As I have said on many occasions, I voted in support of same sex marriage in England and Wales and I hope that this can be extended to Northern Ireland in the future.</p><p> </p><p>However, marriage is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and an issue I want a restored Executive to resolve.</p>
Biography information for Tim Loughton
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Yemen: Politics and Government
What recent discussions he has had with international agencies on the security situation in Yemen.
Cardiff West
<p>The security situation in Yemen is of great concern. Working with partners and agencies, we are monitoring developments and doing all we can to end the conflict. The UK has played a leading role in diplomatic efforts and will continue to do so. My Right Honourable Friend the Foreign Secretary visited Yemen in March. He also hosted a ministerial Quad meeting last month to discuss implementation of the Hodeidah agreement and next steps in the political process. I welcome reports over the weekend that the Houthis have begun their withdrawal from Hodeidah. I look forward to receiving independent verification from the UN and hearing the assessment of the UN Special Envoy during his briefing to the Security Council.</p><p> </p>
Biography information for Kevin Brennan
Yemen: Peace Negotiations
What diplomatic steps he is taking to support a peace process in Yemen.
Faversham and Mid Kent
Helen Whately
<p>The security situation in Yemen is of great concern. Working with partners and agencies, we are monitoring developments and doing all we can to end the conflict. The UK has played a leading role in diplomatic efforts and will continue to do so. My Right Honourable Friend the Foreign Secretary visited Yemen in March. He also hosted a ministerial Quad meeting last month to discuss implementation of the Hodeidah agreement and next steps in the political process. I welcome reports over the weekend that the Houthis have begun their withdrawal from Hodeidah.I look forward to receiving independent verification from the UN and hearing the assessment of the UN Special Envoy during his briefing to the Security Council.</p><p> </p>
Biography information for Helen Whately
NHS: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the NHS is able to (a) recruit and (b) retain the workforce required in South London after the UK leaves the EU.
Camberwell and Peckham
Ms Harriet Harman
<p>We have been clear that we want all EU nationals, including those working in the NHS and the care sector, to stay in the UK after we leave the EU.</p><p><br>In December 2018, the Government set out its proposals in “The UK’s future Skills-based Immigration System” White Paper. The White Paper proposals include a new route for skilled workers which will be open to anyone at RQF level 3 and above, irrespective of where they are applying from. This route will not be capped allowing all of those who meet our requirements to come to the UK and we intend to abolish the existing Resident Labour Market Test for highly skilled roles.</p><p><br>The White Paper also includes, as a transitional measure, a temporary workers route which will be open to anyone from qualifying countries, wishing to fill positions at any skill level, for up to 12 months. We do not intend to impose a cap on the number of people wishing to use the route.</p><p><br>The Government is undertaking an extensive programme of engagement with a wide range of stakeholders across the UK, over the course of this year, including with the private, public and voluntary sector and local government, as well as industry representatives and individual businesses before taking final policy decisions on the future system.</p>
Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman
Cannabis: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the process will be for patients that are refused a prescription for medical cannabis oil by their second opinion; and will he make a statement.
Sir Mike Penning
<p>It is right that these decisions are clinically led. As for any other medical treatment, if two clinicians are of the opinion that, on balance, it is not in the best interest of the patient to prescribe a cannabis-based product, then it will not be prescribed.</p>
Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
Plastics: Waste
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the amount of plastic waste which will be produced per annum in the event that avoidable plastic waste is reduced to zero by 2050 in accordance with the Government's strategic ambition.
Cardiff Central
Jo Stevens
<p>This is a devolved matter and the information provided therefore relates to England only.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has committed to eliminating all avoidable plastic waste throughout the lifetime of the 25 Year Environment Plan. Our working definition of ‘avoidable plastic waste’ is plastic waste that is technically, economically, and environmentally feasible to reuse or recycle, or, where this does not apply, it is (technically, economically, and environmentally) feasible to replace with alternatives that are reusable or recyclable. It is our intention that there will not be any avoidable plastic waste by 2050.</p><p> </p><p>We will be publishing an evaluation plan and indicator framework for the Resources and Waste Strategy later this year. This will set out further details on how we intend to monitor progress to reduce avoidable waste. This will be a living document where we will publish updates as we develop our methodologies to better capture the data and as new evidence comes to light, particularly with the indicator framework. We are confident that we have set out an ambitious programme of reform which will ensure that we meet our strategic goals.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
Suffolk Coastal
Dr Thérèse Coffey
Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
Biography information for Jo Stevens
Business Premises: Change of Use
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has estimated the (a) number and (b) proportion of homes created under permitted development rights enabling change of use from offices to housing which do not meet national standards on floor space; and if he will make a statement.
<p>New homes in England, whether granted permission on an application or through a permitted development right, are required to meet Building Regulations.</p><p>We announced in Written Ministerial Statement HCWS1408 on 13 March 2019, our intention to review permitted development rights for conversion of buildings to residential use in respect of the quality standard of homes delivered.</p><p> </p>
North West Hampshire
Kit Malthouse
Biography information for Kit Malthouse
Pupil Referral Units: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to improve the quality of education in pupil referral units.
<p>The Government is taking forward a programme of reform to alternative provision (AP), including pupil referral units, and set out its vision for reform in the March 2018 document: 'Creating opportunity for all: our vision for alternative provision'. Since then the Government has made significant progress by launching a £4 million AP Innovation Fund, which is developing best practice and delivering projects to improve outcomes for pupils in AP, by publishing two research reports into AP with examples of good practice for providers and commissioners, and by opening 6 AP free schools and approving two more.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the Timpson Review of school exclusion, the Government committed to setting out plans to go further to improve outcomes for children in AP, including how to support alternative providers to attract and develop high-quality staff through a new AP workforce programme, and how it will help commissioners and providers to identify and recognise good practice.</p>
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
Biography information for Nick Gibb
Children: Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to provide additional funding for early support for children with mental health problems.
Swansea West
Geraint Davies
<p>The Department for Education is working closely with NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care to support schools and colleges to provide support for children and young people with emerging mental health issues and secure specialist treatment where it is needed.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan published in January 2019 announced that by 2023/24 an extra 345,000 children and young people in England aged 0-25 will receive mental health support via NHS funded mental health services and new Mental Health Support Teams. Mental health services will continue to receive a growing share of the NHS budget, with funding to grow by at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24. Spending on children and young people’s mental health services will grow faster than adult services, and faster than other NHS spending. As set out in the 'Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision' green paper, the new support teams will work with groups of schools and colleges to provide swift access to support for children and young people with emerging and mild and moderate needs and support referrals to more specialist treatment.</p><p>The Department for Education is providing up to £95 million between 2019/20 and 2023/24 to support the delivery of the green paper proposals, including the costs of a significant training programme for senior mental health leads, to help schools and colleges to put in place whole school approaches to supporting pupil mental health.</p>
Biography information for Geraint Davies
Joseph McCann
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on what date did his officials inform him that Joseph McCann had been released in error.
<p>Joseph McCann has now been charged with a number of serious sexual offences committed on or after 21 April 2019. At the time he was being supervised by the National Probation Service (NPS) on licence, as part of the sentence of imprisonment for public protection which he had received In 2008. The NPS will now review how Mr McCann was managed in the community, in accordance with the Probation Serious Further Offence (SFO) Review Procedures, in order to identify whether there were any deficiencies in practice which must be addressed by means of a formal action plan.</p><p> </p><p>We are looking into the circumstances surrounding his release.He was released on 15 February 2019, in accordance with the sentence of the Court on 25 January 2018, having served half the three-year determinate sentence for burglary which the Court imposed, less time he had already spent on remand.</p>
South Swindon
Robert Buckland
Biography information for Robert Buckland
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that transport infrastructure improvements are made in areas with a high number of new-build homes.
<p>The Government has invested £1.2bn through the Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) to support housing and further announcements through this £5.5bn fund are expected later this year. A significant number of HIF bids include transport infrastructure. The Government is also investing in transport supporting new homes through the Transforming Cities Fund, Major Road Network, and projects in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc.</p><p>The Government is further promoting integrated housing and transport planning, for example through the revised National Planning Policy Framework.</p><p> </p>
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Take the EA Airport Special bus (4 euros) and get of at “Torre del Oro”. Cross the San Telmo bridge (the closest bridge to the tower) and turn right onto “Calle Betis”. Turn left on the second street going onto “Calle Troya”. Once you get there, take the third right onto “Calle Rodrigo de Triana”. The Hostel can be found about 300 meters from this point on, at number 69.
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From the bus station of Plaza de Armas on:
By foot: 15 minutes. Get on “Calle Arjona” (continuation of “Calle Torneo”) and keep walking straight on for about 400 meters; cross the Isabel II bridge (Triana Bridge). (Attention, the Triana Bridge is NOT the white bridge close to the station, it is the iron looking one with unmistakable rings in its structure). Cross the square and walk on “Calle San Jacinto” until it ends up in “Calle Rodrigo de Triana” (third street on the left from the plaza on). Keep going straight on until you reach number 69, which is the hostels number.
From the Bus Station of Prado San Sebastian on:
By foot: Walk on “calle San Fernando” towards the river. Cross the “Plaza Puerta de Jerez” and then cross the San Telmo bridge. Once you have crossed the bridge, turn right onto “Calle Betis”.(the street parallel to the river).Take the second street on the left to “Calle Troya” and then take the third right onto “calle Rodrigo de Triana”. The Hostel can be found 300 meters from there on, at number 69.
METRO: Take the train towards the station “Prado de San Sebastian” (on “Avenida de Carlos V”, next to the “Jardines del Prado”, next to the “los Juzgados”) (1.65 euros) until “Plaza de Cuba”. Therefrom, cross the “calle República Argentina” and continue for about 40 meters towards the river. Take the “calle Pages del Corre” at your left hand side and turn to your right in the “Calle Troya” after 200 metres. Once you’re there, take the first street to your left. That is “Rodrigo de Triana”; the hostel is 300 metres further, at number 69.
From the station de Santa Justa on:
By foot + metro: walk through “avenida Kansas City”, which will soon change into “calle Luis Morales”, until the intersection with “calle Eduardo Dato” (15 minutes). Here is the metro station “Nervión” (ticket: 1.65 euros). Take the metro towards “Ciudad Expo” and get of at “Plaza de Cuba”. Herefrom, cross the “Calle República Argentina” and walk for more or less 40 meters towards the river. Take the “calle Pages del Corro” on your left, and turn to your right after 200 metres in the “calle Troya”. Once you’re here, take the first street to your left (Rodrigo de Triana). You’ll arrive at the hostel after about 300 metres, at number 69.
Taxi: more or less €8.
BUS: EA Airport Special bus.
Take the EA Airport Special bus towards “Torneo-Plaza de Armas” (the bus stop is situated at the Av. Kansas City, to the left of the main exit of the train station) (ticket: €4). Get of at “Passeo Colón/Torre del Oro” (after more or less 20 minutes). Once you’re there, cross the San Telmo Bridge (the one that’s the closest to the tower), and turn right onto “calle Betis” (parallel to the river). Turn left on the second street going onto “calle Troya. Once you get there, take the third right onto “calle Rodrigo de Triana”. The Hostel is about 300 meters from this point on, at number 69.
From the train station Cercanias San Bernardo on:
The trains that arrive from Granada and Cadíz stop at the station of San Bernardo before arriving at their last stop at “Santa Justa”. If you get of at this stop, you can take the metro at the stop in front of the station. Take the metro towards “Ciudad expo” and get of at “Plaza de Cuba”. Herefrom, cross the “calle República Argentina” and walk on for about 40 metres towards the river. Turn to your left in the “calle Pages del Corro” and after more or less 200 metres, go to your left onto “calle Troya”. Herefrom, the first street on your left is “Rodrigo de Triana”, in which you’ll find the hostel after about 300 metres at number 69..
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The castle of Alanya Castle of Alanya is the only Seljuksque castle has been preserved to this day. In 1225, instead of the Roman ruins, a new fortress was erected by the Seljuks Sultan Alaaddin Keykubat. 83 towers and 140 bollards and consists of inner and outer sections of the castle as well as the whole castle is surrounded by three walls. Yorgi Church, Suleiman the Magnificent Mosque, Akşabe Sultan’s Grave, the Seljuk Baths, the Aras, Bedesten, Sitti Zeynep Grave, Sultan Alaaddin Palace, large and small cisterns, castle, a lighthouse and a dungeon is a historical treasure.
Red tower of carved stones on the top and bottom of the name of the Red Tower was built in 1226. Also today, because of the east facade of the tower sits 2m.lik between the position of the Westfassade, there is a difference in altitude today. Five-storey tower is octagonal. The ground floor of the center up, there is a section on the fifth floor ascending. This section also serves as a water tower tower case which is the backbone. The ground floor serves as an ethnographic museum.
Leartis-Learti (Mahmutlar ruins): Big ruin or the large church, also the large and small coastal towns was founded in this place on the hill slopes. 22 km from the district. Of churches in the city, baths, cisterns, residential buildings, a small stadium and theater, pillars and temples.
Syedra ruins The city Syedra BC 3rd century. Also today is located on a hill, which forms the border Kargac and Seki village. The section known on the hill as the center of the city and the town Syedra inscription in the area is understood to mean the Roman ruins. The falls of the monumental city gate are still intact. On both sides of Kolonnadenstraße, there are historical structures and mosaics produced for different purposes. There are three pools in the city probably used as water storage.
Lotape (Aytap) Harbor City: Aytap in Alanya, 30 km. East. Center of this Roman city the today’s road Mediterranean coast runs. King Antiachus Iotape of the town woman is known to give this name. The city of 50-100 m. There is a port in size. Shaped peninsula on a high hillside seen quite deserted although the castle is quite difficult to forget all the fatigue of beauty. Iotape old streets of the city, bath, a church, a necropolis and acropolis of the ancient city stand still the best are around. A bedroom, covered tomb chamber in ancient ruins are in the city.
Shipyard Seljuk: Built in 1228, the shipyard is 56.5 meters. Length, 44 m. Deep and 5 eyes. Shipyards facing dangers from the south, two-storey, with two bedrooms are reinforced by a tower.
Süleymaniye (Kale) Mosque from the 16th century mosque that reflects Ottoman architectural features. It is known to have been built on a Selçuk temple. The wooden doors and windows are the most beautiful examples of Ottoman carvings.
Emir Mosque Bedrud She: Today Andızl name of the mosque known as mosque took the tree right next to the coral. In 1227 built of hewn stones built next to the mosque of Emir Bedrud has space to take very high minarets. One of the most beautiful examples of the art of the pulpit of carving.
Aksebe Sultan Mosque Sultan Akşabe the first commander of the Castle of Alanya. Masjid was built in 1230 by himself. West there is a minaret that has the unique architecture.
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Alara Han: Alanya and Manavgat Brook forms the border to the sea 9 km. It was built to the north. Alanya, or 35 km. Alara caravanserai is built in 1232 by Sultan Alaaddin Keykubat on an area of 2000 m² and is made entirely of hewn stones. Guard house, fountain to protect the entire property, even today is still worth seeing is an artifact of the mosque and bath.
Sarapsa Caravanserai: Alanya – Antalya 15 km from Asphalt. On an area of about 850 m² in the upper part of the way, since Sultan Alaaddin Keykubat son II of Kaykhusraw 1236 – it was built between the years 1246.
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The Cy Twombly ceiling at the Louvre. Photo by Clifford Pugh
A liquid gold glass and metal canopy covers The new Department of Islamic Art in the museum's Visconti courtyard. Photo by Clifford Pugh
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An ambitious reorganization plan over the past 16 years has laid out the treasures in 10 rooms in chronological order. The galleries of Roman art are currently being reorganized in a project that is funded in part by proceeds from the Liaison au Louvre events.
Amid the Greek treasures in the Salle des Bronzes is a Mediterranean blue ceiling, with spheres and white insets inscribed with the names of classic Hellenic sculptors. The soothing 3,750-square-foot ceiling serves as a tranquil sky over the more than 1,000 works of art made from bronze and other precious metal.
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Cardiac side population cells have a potential to migrate and differentiate into cardiomyocytes in vitro and in vivo
Tomomi Oyama, Toshio Nagai, Hiroshi Wada, Atsuhiko Thomas Naito, Katsuhisa Matsuura, Koji Iwanaga, Toshinao Takahashi, Motohiro Goto, Yoko Mikami, Noritaka Yasuda, Hiroshi Akazawa, Akiyoshi Uezumi, Shin'ichi Takeda, Issei Komuro
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1Department of Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chuo-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
Toshio Nagai
Hiroshi Wada
Atsuhiko Thomas Naito
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2Division for Therapies against Intractable Diseases, Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University, Kutsukake-cho, Toyoake, Aichi 470-1192, Japan
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3Department of Molecular Therapy, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Tokyo 187-8502, Japan
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DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200603014 | Published January 29, 2007
Side population (SP) cells, which can be identified by their ability to exclude Hoechst 33342 dye, are one of the candidates for somatic stem cells. Although bone marrow SP cells are known to be long-term repopulating hematopoietic stem cells, there is little information about the characteristics of cardiac SP cells (CSPs). When cultured CSPs from neonatal rat hearts were treated with oxytocin or trichostatin A, some CSPs expressed cardiac-specific genes and proteins and showed spontaneous beating. When green fluorescent protein–positive CSPs were intravenously infused into adult rats, many more (∼12-fold) CSPs were migrated and homed in injured heart than in normal heart. CSPs in injured heart differentiated into cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, or smooth muscle cells (4.4%, 6.7%, and 29% of total CSP-derived cells, respectively). These results suggest that CSPs are intrinsic cardiac stem cells and involved in the regeneration of diseased hearts.
Cardiomyocytes are thought to terminally differentiate and withdraw from the cell cycle after birth. Therefore, cardiac injury causes permanent myocardial loss and results in cardiac dysfunction (Colucci, 1997; Towbin and Bowles, 2002). However, three research groups, including ours, have recently reported the isolation of cardiac stemlike cells based on the two distinct cell surface antigens, such as stem cell antigen 1 (Sca-1; Oh et al., 2003; Matsuura et al., 2004) and c-kit (Beltrami et al., 2003). More recently, islet-1–positive cells have been reported to be a distinct population of cardiac progenitors in the postnatal heart, although the most of them do not contribute to the formation of the left ventricle and their existence in the adult heart is still unclear (Cai et al., 2003; Laugwitz et al., 2005). When these primitive cells were cultured under appropriate conditions, the cells expressed cardiac proteins (Oh et al., 2003; Beltrami et al., 2003; Matsuura et al., 2004) and exhibited spontaneous beating (Matsuura et al., 2004). When transplanted into injured hearts, the cells differentiated into cardiomyocytes (Oh et al., 2003; Beltrami et al., 2003) and cardiac function was improved (Beltrami et al., 2003). Although it is still unclear whether these primitive cells fit the precise definition of stem cells, e.g., self-renewal capacity and reconstitutive capability of the total organ, these findings suggest that the heart has intrinsic stemlike cells, which may participate in its regeneration.
Side population (SP) cells are first identified as mouse hematopoietic stem cells with long-term multilineage reconstitution abilities based on their unique ability to efflux the DNA-binding dye Hoechst 33342 (Goodell et al., 1996, 1997). SP cells exist in a variety of organs, such as bone marrow, skeletal muscle, liver, brain, lung, skin, and heart (Asakura and Rudnicki, 2002; Montanaro et al., 2003). Zhou et al. (2001) reported that the ATP-binding cassette transporter, ABCG2 (also known as breast cancer resistance protein 1 [Bcrp1]), is a molecular determinant of this SP phenotype in hematopoietic stem cells. In mouse lung and rat liver, the SP phenotype has been reported to be largely determined by the expression of ABCG2 (Shimano et al., 2003; Summer et al., 2003). Among the tissue-derived SP cells, bone marrow and skeletal muscle SP cells have been well investigated. Bone marrow SP cells were first identified as a primitive population of hematopoietic stem cells (Goodell et al., 1996). The bone marrow–derived SP cells show long-term multilineage reconstitution in lethally irradiated recipients and form hematopoietic colonies in vitro (Goodell et al., 1996, 1997; Asakura and Rudnicki, 2002). Jackson et al. (2001) have reported that bone marrow SP cells also differentiate into endothelial cells and cardiomyocytes in ischemic hearts. Gussoni et al. (1999) reported that transplantation of skeletal muscle SP cells into the irradiated mdx mouse results in the reconstitution of the hematopoietic compartment of the transplanted recipients and regeneration of donor-derived, dystrophin-positive muscle in the affected muscle. Skeletal muscle SP cells have the in vitro hematopoietic activity, and differentiate into skeletal myocytes when cocultured with satellite cell–derived myoblasts (Asakura et al., 2002). These results suggest that SP cells have features of somatic stem cells, and that cardiac SP cells (CSPs) may be a promising candidate for cardiac stem/progenitor cells.
CSPs from postnatal hearts have been reported to differentiate into cardiomyocytes when cocultured with cardiomyocytes (Hierlihy et al., 2002; Martin et al., 2004; Pfister et al., 2005). However, factors that induce differentiation of CSPs into cardiomyocytes have not been identified. Several growth or humoral factors have been reported to possess the ability to induce the differentiation of primitive cells into cardiomyocytes. During the development, bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) and fibroblast growth factors promote cardiogenesis in chick (Sugi and Lough, 1995; Schultheiss et al., 1997). Both canonical and noncanonical Wnts play an important role in the cardiac differentiation (Eisenberg et al., 1997; Pandur et al., 2002; Naito et al., 2003). Oxytocin (OT) and dynorphin B induce differentiation of embryonic stem cells and P19 embryonal carcinoma cells into cardiomyocytes (Ventura and Maioli, 2000; Paquin et al., 2002; Ventura et al., 2003). Besides growth or humoral factors, chemical compounds such as DMSO and 5′-azacytidine have been reported to promote the cardiomyocyte differentiation of embryonic or somatic stem cells (Makino et al., 1999; Xu et al., 2002). These findings suggest that both extracellular signals and epigenetic modification are capable of turning the fate of stem cells to cardiomyocytes. Recently, Linke et al. (2005) have reported that c-kit–, MDR-1–, or Sca-1–positive cardiac stem cells migrate and proliferate in response to hepatocyte growth factor and insulin-like growth factor-1, respectively. However, it is still elusive whether CSPs, by responding to the ischemia-induced factors, move to the injured area of the heart and differentiate into cardiomyocytes.
We first report that CSPs from postnatal rat hearts differentiate into cardiomyocytes both in vitro and in vivo. Both OT and trichostatin A (TSA) induced postnatal CSPs to differentiate into beating cardiomyocytes. After intravenous transplantation of CSPs into normal adult rats, CSPs migrated and homed in the interstitial space of myocardium. When CSPs were intravenously transplanted into the cryoinjured heart, the number of CSPs was significantly larger in the border area than in the remote or infarct area after transplantation. Furthermore, CSPs differentiated into cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, or smooth muscle cells in the border area. These findings suggest that CSPs are resident cardiac stem cells, which can migrate and regenerate myocardium in response to the ischemia-induced factors.
Character of SP cells from postnatal hearts
Fluorescent sorting analysis revealed that there were two populations of cells in fetal, neonatal, and adult rat hearts referred to the SP and the main population (MP) cells in bone marrow (Fig. 1 A). When the cells were incubated with 50 μM verapamil, which is an inhibitor of multidrug resistance (MDR) and MDR-like proteins, there was no SP, suggesting that rat hearts contain SP cells. The proportion of CSP in the total cardiac-derived cells was ∼4.0%, ∼2.0%, and 1.2% in fetal, neonatal, and adult hearts, respectively. In neonatal CSPs, ∼14% of the cells expressed CD45, ∼59% expressed CD29, and ∼8% expressed CD31 (Fig. 1 B, a–c). The percentage of CD31-positive cells was 13.1 ± 4.0% under the fluorescent microscope (Fig. 1 B, d and e). To examine whether CSPs were in a noncycling quiescent state, cardiac cells were stained with both Hoechst 33342 and Pyronin Y (PY). The percentage of cells in PY-negative G0 stage was significantly higher in CSPs (74.3 ± 1.4%) than in cardiac MP cells (CMP; 34.0 ± 2.6%; Fig. 2 A, a). A comparable result was obtained from the bone marrow SP and MP cells (PY-negative G0 stage of bone marrow SP, 79.8 ± 3.1%; bone marrow MP, 41.7 ± 5.4%; Fig. 2 A, b). This suggests that CSPs represent a quiescent stem cell population in the heart.
Isolation of CSPs from rat hearts at the various developmental stages and characterization of CSPs from neonatal rat hearts. (A) Flow cytometric analysis revealed that ∼4% of SP cells exist in a cell suspension after isolation from fetal rat hearts, ∼2% from neonatal rat hearts, and ∼1.2% from adult rat hearts. There was no SP cell fraction after the treatment with verapamil. (B) Cell surface marker antigen analysis of CSPs. In CSPs, ∼14% of the cells expressed CD45 (a), ∼59% expressed CD29 (b) and ∼8% expressed CD31 (c). Immunofluorescent images revealed that the percentage of CD31+ CSPs (d, red) in the total cells (e, blue) is almost identical with the result of flow cytometry.
Quiescence of CSPs and Bcrp1 mRNA and protein expression in CSPs. (A) Quiescence properties of CSPs. Neonatal rat heart cells and adult mouse bone marrow cells were subdivided into SP and MP cells, respectively, and the incorporation of PY was analyzed (a). The data shown represent the mean ± the SD (*, P < 0.0001; **, P < 0.0005). Hoechst and PY staining emission pattern of CMP (c), CSPs (d), bone marrow MP (e), and bone marrow SP (f) were shown. (B) Expression of Bcrp1 mRNA in sorted SP cells and MP cells. Adult mouse bone marrow SP and MP cells were used as positive and negative controls. NR, neonatal rat; AM, adult mouse; BM, bone marrow; M, molecular weight marker (100 bp ladder). (C) Bcrp1 protein expression in SP cells and MP cells. Confocal images revealed expression of Bcrp1 on the surface of the cardiac SP cells (a, in red), as well as bone marrow SP cells (c, in red) but not on cardiac (b) and bone marrow (d) MP cells. Nuclei were stained with TOPRO-3 and shown in blue. Bars, 5 μm.
We next examined whether cardiac SP cells express Bcrp1, the molecular determinant of the SP phenotype. RT-PCR analysis showed that the Bcrp1 gene was expressed in freshly isolated SP cells from neonatal rat hearts, as well as in those from mouse bone marrow, but not in MP cells of hearts and of bone marrow (Fig. 2 B). Immunostaining with anti-Bcrp1 antibody revealed that Bcrp1 protein was detected on the cell surface of CSP, as well as bone marrow SP cells, but not in the MP cells (Fig. 2 C).
Localization of CSP in the heart
In neonatal rat hearts, most Bcrp1-positive cells (∼95.4%) were CD31 (Fig. 3 A, a [coronary artery] and b [capillary]), but there were some CD31-negative/Bcrp1-positive cells (Fig. 3 A, c, arrowheads). Most of the CD31-negative/Bcrp1-positive cells (94.3 ± 9.8%) existed in the perivascular area (Fig. 3 A, c–e, arrowheads). There were also a few CD31-negative/Bcrp1-positive cells in the interstitial space (5.6% ± 9.8%; Fig. 3 A, f–i, arrowheads) between cardiomyocytes, which were stained with sarcomeric α-actinin (SA; Fig. 3 A, h, arrows) and distant from CD31-positive vessels (Fig. 3 A, f, arrows). There were no significant differences in the percentage of CD31-negative/Bcrp1-positive cells per total Bcrp1-positive cells among apex, mid, and base of left ventricles (Fig. 3 B, a), and also among chambers (i.e., atrium, left, and right ventricles; Fig. 3 B, b). It has been reported that N-cadherin, CD29, and β1 integrin mediate the adhesion of stem cells to specialized mesenchymal cells and extracellular matrix in the niche environment (Zhang et al., 2003; Wilson et al., 2004). Bcrp1-positive cells in the interstitial space coexpressed CD29 and N-cadherin around the surface of the cells (Fig. 4, a and b, arrowheads). At the junction of Bcrp1-positive cells and the neighboring cell, abundant coexpression of CD29 and N-cadherin was observed (Fig. 4, c and d, arrowheads). The perivascular Bcrp1-positive cells, which were localized adjacent to the smooth muscle cell actin (SMA)–positive cells, coexpressed CD29 (Fig. 4, e–g, arrowheads). These findings suggest that Bcrp1-positive cardiac stem or progenitor cells were localized in the specialized area of the myocardium, which may be similar to the stem cell niche in other organs, such as hematopoietic and gonad systems (Gonzalez-Reyes, 2003; Zhang et al., 2003; Wilson et al., 2004).
Distribution of CSPs in neonatal rat hearts. (A) The expression of Bcrp1 and CD31 in the neonatal rat hearts. Bcrp1 expression was detected in the endothelium of arteriole and capillary, which coexpressed CD31 (a–c; red, Bcrp1; green, CD31; blue, nucleus). A CD31-negative/Bcrp1-positive cell was observed (c, arrowhead). Typical examples of perivascular CSPs (arrowhead in d and e; Bcrp1 in red, CD31 in green and nucleus in blue, e; a phase-contrast image was overlaid on d) and an interstitial nonperivascular CSP (f–i, arrowhead; red, Bcrp1; blue, nucleus). Arrows indicate CD31 in f and SA in h. Bars, 10 μm. (B) Quantitative analysis of the distribution of CSPs. Total 713 Bcrp1-positive cells in the sections from three neonatal rat hearts were evaluated. (a and b) Percentage of CD31-negative/Bcrp1-positive cells/total Bcrp1-positive cells in the different portions in left ventricles (a) and the different chambers (b). A section of left ventricle was divided into three equal lesions (base, mid, and apex), along with a long axis. The data shown represent the mean ± the SD.
Expression of CD29 and N-cadherin in CSPs. Interstitial Bcrp1-positive cells coexpressed CD29 (a and c, arrowhead; red, Bcrp1; green, CD29; blue, nuclei; yellow, coexpression of CD29 and Bcrp1). Coexpression of Bcrp1, CD29, and N-cadherin was shown in l b and the inlet as white, yellow, or light blue color, which was dependent on the degree of the expression of three distinct cell surface proteins. Spatial orientation of coexpression of CD29 and N-cadherin was shown in d, in which CD29 was colored in red, N-cadherin in green, and nuclei in blue; phase-contrast image was overlaid. An arrowhead in d indicates the identical Bcrp1-positive cell indicated in c. Perivascular Bcrp1-positive cells (arrowheads in e and f; red, Bcrp1; blue, SMA; and green, nuclei; phase-contrast image was overlaid on f) coexpressed CD29 (g, arrowhead; red, Bcrp1; green, CD29; and blue, SMA; yellow, coexpression of Bcrp1 and CD29). Bars, 10 μm
CSPs differentiate into cardiomyocytes in vitro
Isolated CSPs attached to the gelatin-coated dishes by 24 h with medium containing FBS. To induce differentiation into cardiomyocytes, we cultured CSPs with various growth factors, such as BMP2, BMP4, and OT, or on the feeder layers of the mesenchymal cells. Only treatment with OT was able to induce CSP into beating cardiomyocytes. After 2 d of treatment with OT, CSPs started to show various cell shapes (Fig. 5 A, a). 10 d after treatment, the attached cells started to proliferate, and elongated spindle-shaped cells became predominant (Fig. 5 A, b). 3 wk after treatment, some clusters of beating cells were recognized among flattened cells (Fig. 5 A, c and Video 1, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200603014/DC1). Next, we examined whether methylation inhibitors or histone deacetylase inhibitors induced cardiac differentiation of CSPs. The treatment with TSA, but not with 5-azacytidine, induced CSPs into beating cardiomyocytes. The morphology of the CSPs treated with TSA was similar to that of CSPs treated with OT, although proliferation of the elongated spindle-shaped cells was less observed in the treatment with TSA compared with OT at ∼10 d (Fig. 5 A, d and e). 3 wk after the treatment, some clusters of beating cells were recognized among flattened cells (Fig. 5 A, f, and Video 2). There were no differences between OT- and TSA-induced cardiomyocytes in regard to the percentage of beating cells (OT, 0.27 ± 0.2%; TSA, 0.50 ± 0.21%; Fig. 5 B, c, shaded bar) and the percentage of SA-positive cells (OT, 3.8 ± 3.8%; TSA, 5.5 ± 3.9%; Fig. 5 B, c, open bar). Low magnification immunofluorescent images of SA and nuclear DNA of OT- and TSA-induced cardiomyocytes are shown in Fig. 5 B (a [OT] and b [TSA]). Fine striation was observed in OT- and TSA-induced cardiomyocytes (Fig. S2 A, a–d). Nontreated SP cells never exhibited spindle-shaped morphology or beating, and MP cells treated with OT or TSA detached from culture dishes within 1 wk.
Differentiation of CSPs into beating cardiomyocytes. (A) Phase-contrast images of CSPs after treatment with OT (a–c) and TSA (d–f). 2 d after treatment with OT and TSA, CSPs slowly attached to the culture dishes (a, OT; d, TSA), proliferated rapidly after 10 d (b, OT; e, TSA), and started beating after 21 d (c, OT; f, TSA). Movies of beating CSP-derived cardiomyocytes are presented in Videos 1 and 2. (B) Quantitative analysis of the percentage of beating and SA-positive cells in CSPs treated with OT and TSA After counting the number of beating cells, the cells were immunostained with SA and Hoechst dye (a OT, b TSA). The percentage of beating and SA-positive cells in total nuclei was shown in c. The data shown represents the mean ± the SD of four to seven samples from three independent experiments. (C) Expression of cardiac protein mRNA in CSPs treated with OT or TSA. Total RNA obtained from the neonatal rat heart was used as positive controls (lane H). Loading of equal amounts of RNA was confirmed by expression of the GAPDH gene. P, pretreatment; V, vehicles; OTA, OT receptor antagonist; M, molecular weight marker (100-bp ladder). (D) Expression of cardiac proteins in CSPs after treatment with OT (a–c) or TSA (d–f). a and b, GATA4 (red); b, d, and e, SA (green); b, c, e, and f ANF (red); c and f, cTnT (green); a MLC-2v, (green). Nuclei were stained with TOPRO-3 (blue). Videos 1 and 2 are available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200603014/DC1. Bars: (B) 20 μm; (D) 10 μm.
Next, we examined the gene expression of cardiac transcription factors and contractile proteins in CSPs by RT-PCR. Before treatment with OT or TSA, none of these cardiac genes were expressed (Fig. 5 C, P). Three weeks after treatment with OT or TSA, cardiac transcription factors, including Nkx2.5, GATA4, and myocyte-enhancer factor 2C (MEF-2C), and contractile proteins, such as β–myosin heavy chain and myosin light chain 2v (MLC-2v), were expressed (Fig. 5 C, OT and TSA). Treatment with 100 nM OT antagonist (OTA; [d(CH2)5-1,Tyr(Me)-2,Thr-4,Orn-8,Tyr-NH2-9] vasotocin) completely inhibited OT-induced expression of cardiac genes (Fig. 5 C, OT+OTA), indicating that OT induced cardiomyocyte differentiation through authentic OT receptors. Cardiac gene expression was not observed in cells cultured with vehicle (Fig. 5 C, V).
To examine the expression of cardiac proteins, the CSPs treated with OT or TSA were stained with specific antibodies against cardiac proteins. The cells treated with OT or TSA expressed GATA4 (Fig. 5 D, a and d), atrial natriuretic factor (ANF; Fig. 5 D, b, c, e, and f), cardiac troponin T (cTnT; Fig. 5 D, c and f), MLC2v (Fig. 5 D, a), and SA (Fig. 5 D, b, d, and e). Notably, staining of each contractile protein showed a fine striated pattern, suggesting that treatments with OT or TSA induced differentiation of CSPs into mature cardiomyocytes.
Cardiac SP cells can differentiate into osteocytes and adipocytes
It has been reported that SP cells from skeletal muscle and bone marrow differentiate into various types of cells, such as adipocytes, endothelial cells, and skeletal muscle and cardiac myocytes (Asakura et al., 2002; Iijima et al., 2003; Tamaki et al., 2003). To determine whether CSPs from the heart have multipotency of differentiation, we examined whether these cells could differentiate into cells other than cardiomyocytes. When CSPs were cultured with osteogenic inducers, including β-glycerophosphate, dexamethasone, and ascorbic acid-2 phosphate, some SP cells stained positive with alkaline phosphatase, which is one of the early markers of osteocytes (Fig. S1 A, a, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200603014/DC1). RT-PCR analysis revealed that expression of alkaline phosphatase gene was induced in cardiac SP cells after treatment with osteogenic inducers (Fig. S1 A, b, lane O). On the other hand, cardiac SP cells treated with OT or TSA did not express alkaline phosphatase (Fig. S1 A, b, lanes OT and T). When cardiac SP cells were cultured in adipogenic induction with MDI-I mixture for 20 d, some SP cells showed cytoplasmic accumulation of oil droplets stained with Oil Red O, indicating that CSPs differentiated into adipocytes (Fig. S1 A, c).
CSPs migrate and home into the injured heart
When GFP+ CSPs were transplanted into the normal rat via the tail vein, GFP+ CSPs were distributed over the various organs, such as lung (Fig. 6 A, a), spleen (Fig. 6 A, b), liver (Fig. 6 A, c and d), skeletal muscle (Fig. 6 A, e and f), bone marrow (Fig. 6 A, g and h), and heart (Fig. 6 A, i–l). In the lung and spleen, there were less GFP+ cells at 12 wk than at 1 wk after transplantation (12 wk/1 wk ratio; 0.19 for lung and 0.67 for spleen; Fig. 6 B). On the contrary, in the liver, skeletal muscle, and heart, more GFP+ cells existed at 12 wk than at 1 wk after transplantation (12 wk/1 wk ratio; 1.63 for liver, 2.0 for skeletal muscle, and 3.0 for heart; Fig. 6 B). 4 wk after transplantation, some GFP+ CSPs in the liver expressed albumin (Fig. 6 A, c and d). In skeletal muscle, GFP+ CSPs had multiple nuclei and expressed desmin (Fig. 6 A, e and f). However, there were no GFP+ CSPs positive for CD45 in the bone marrow (Fig. 6 A, g and h). GFP+ CSPs in the heart expressed CD29 (Fig. 6 A, i and j) and were localized in the interstitial space of myocardium, which was delineated by collagen type IV (Fig. 6 A, k and l). In the normal heart, transplanted GFP+ CSPs did not express cTnT (not depicted).
Tissue distribution of CSPs after intravenous transplantation. (A) CSPs distributed and resided in various organs 4 wk after intravenous infusion. GFP+ CSPs (green) in lung (a), spleen (b), liver (c and d), skeletal muscle (e and f), bone marrow (g and h), and heart (i–l). Arrowhead in c and d, GFP+ CSPs positive for albumin (red). Arrowheads in e and f, myotube-like GFP+ CSPs positive for desmin (red). Arrowheads in g and h, GFP+ CSPs negative for CD45 (red). CD29 and collagen type IV were represented in red in j and l. Nuclei were stained with TOPRO-3 (blue). Bars, 10 μm. (B) Fold increase of the number of GFP+ CSPs in the organs through 1 to 12 wk. The relative number of GFP+ CSP-derived cells in every organ at 1 wk is 1.0.
Next, we examined whether myocardial injury facilitates migration and homing of transplanted GFP+ CSP- and CMP-derived cells into the heart. 4 wk after transplantation of CMP, there were very few GFP+ CMPs in both normal and injured hearts (Fig. 7 A, a and b). In CSP-transplanted rat hearts, there were a few GFP+ CSPs, even in the normal myocardium (Fig. 7 A, c, arrowheads), whereas many GFP+ CSPs existed in the injured heart (Fig. 7 A, d, arrowheads). Many more GFP+ CSPs existed in the cryoinjured heart (15.0 ± 6.2 per 104 cells; n = 3) in comparison with the normal heart (1.3 ± 1.0 per 104 cells; n = 3; Fig. 7 A) 4 wk after transplantation. There was no substantial difference in the number of GFP+ CMPs between normal (0.3 ± 0.6 per 104 cells; n = 3) and cryoinjured heart (0.7 ± 0.6 per 104 cells; n = 3; Fig. 7 A). GFP+ CSPs were more abundant in the border zone of injured hearts (12.5 ± 2.5% of total cells) than in the normal (4.8 ± 1.4%) or injured (5.2 ± 1.7%) area (Fig. 7 B). Some GFP+ CSPs in the border and injured area expressed cTnT (Fig. 8 A, a–d), vimentin (Fig. 8 A, e–h), von Willebrand factor (vWF; Fig. 8 A, i–l), and calponin (Fig. 8 A, m–p). The percentage of cTnT-positive GFP+ cells in the total GFP+ cells was 4.4%, vimentin-positive GFP+ cells 33%, vWF-positive GFP+ cells 6.7%, and calponin-positive GFP+ cells 29% (Fig. 8 B). The SA-actinin–positive GFP+ cells (8.6%; n = 56) showed fine striated sarcomere structure. The majority of SA-positive CSPs were small cells without organized sarcomere structure (Fig. S2 B, a, arrowheads), suggesting that these cells remain in the stage of immature cardiomyocytes or cardiac precursor cells. There were some well-differentiated cardiomyocytes (Fig. S2 B, b, c, and d, arrowheads). Among the SA-positive GFP+ cells we examined, only a few small cells contained multi-nuclei without striation (Fig. S2 B, e and f, arrowheads). Small cell size and premature structure of this multinucleated cell suggest that the cell of multinuclei comes from mitosis rather than cell fusion. CSPs in the normal area of the injured heart did not express any of the aforementioned markers. These findings suggest that the injured myocardium recruits circulating CSPs, but not CMP, to the heart and stimulates the migration of CSPs toward the injured area. Furthermore, some environmental cues from the injured heart induce the differentiation of CSPs into cardiomyocytes, fibroblasts, endothelial cells, and smooth muscle cells.
Homing ability of intravenously transplanted CSPs in cryoinjured heart. (A) CSPs exclusively migrate and home into injured heart. Normal CMP, CMP transplanted into normal heart; injured CMP, CMP transplanted into cryoinjured heart; normal CSPs, CSPs transplanted into normal heart; injured CSPs, CSPs transplanted into cryoinjured heart. The data shown represents the mean ± the SD. *, P < 0.05. (bottom) Confocal images stained with cTnT (red), GFP (green), and TOPRO-3 (blue) were presented as a (normal CMP), b (injured CMP), c (normal CSPs), and d (injured CSPs). Arrowheads indicate GFP+ CMPs or CSPs. Bars, 10 μm. (B) Distribution of CSPs in the cryoinjured heart. The number of GFP+ CSPs in the normal, border, and infarct area was counted and represented as the percentage of GFP+ CSPs per total cells in the section. The data shown represent the mean ± the SEM. *, P < 0.05.
Multilineage differentiation of CSPs. (A) CSPs in the border area of the injured heart differentiate into various types of cells. GFP+ CSP-derived cells (b, f, j, n; green) expressed cTnT (a, red), vimentin (e, red), vWF (i, red), calponin (m, red). Nuclei were stained with TO-PRO-3 (blue). Merged images were represented in the right row. Bars, 10 μm. (B) Quantitative analysis of the frequency of expression of cell lineage marker proteins. The data were represented as the percentage of the expression of cTnT, vimentin, vWF, or calponin-positive cells per total GFP+ cells per section.
The novelty of our findings can be summarized as follows. First, we showed that a single factor, OT or TSA, can induce differentiation of CSPs into beating cardiomyocytes, which is quite different from the findings of previous studies (Hierlihy et al., 2002; Martin et al., 2004; Pfister et al., 2005; Tomita et al., 2005). Previous studies used coculture method to induce differentiation. Because OT is a physiological hormone, our findings may lead to identification of the intrinsic signals for cardiomyocyte differentiation. Second, we showed the precise location and distribution of CSPs in the heart. We distinguished CSPs from endothelial cells by immunohistochemical methods and clearly demonstrated the specific location of CSPs. Third, we demonstrated the expression of CD29 and N-cadherin on the cell surface of CSPs, suggesting that CSPs may be regulated in the niche in the heart. Fourth, we first demonstrated a sequential event of migration and homing of CSPs in the injured heart. There was no report concerning the in vivo dynamics of CSPs, and our findings suggest that the injured heart secrets some factors that recruit CSPs. Finally, we showed that transplanted CSPs followed the various steps of cardiomyogenesis, such as cardiac precursors and immature and mature cardiomyocytes. In addition, we showed that CSPs differentiate into multiple cell lineages other than cardiomyocytes, including fibroblasts, endothelial cells, and smooth muscle cells.
Two groups have reported expression of cardiac proteins in CSPs when cocultured with primary cardiomyocytes (Hierlihy et al., 2002) or with CMP (Martin et al., 2004). Because both groups did not examine the contractile ability of SP-derived cells, it has remained unclear whether CSPs differentiate into mature cardiomyocytes. In addition, by the coculture method, it is difficult to distinguish if cardiomyocyte differentiation is accomplished by transdifferentiation or fusion. Recently, Pfister et al. (2005) that CD31-negative CSPs also differentiate into functionally beating cardiomyocytes by coculture with adult rat cardiomyocytes. In this study, we first demonstrated that CSPs could differentiate into mature cardiomyocytes, which showed not only cardiac gene expression but also sarcomere formation and spontaneous beating, by single reagents such as OT and TSA.
There were more CSPs in the rat heart of the early developmental stage. Fetal rat CSPs account for ∼4% of total isolated cells, 2% of neonatal rat CSPs, and 1.2% of adult rat CSPs. Our result of the developmental change of the CSP fraction is similar to the previously reported one in mouse hearts (Tomita et al., 2005). The percentage of CSPs from adult mouse was ∼0.24% in our experiments (unpublished data). The percentage varied from 0.02% to 2% in previous reports (Hierlihy et al., 2002; Oh et al., 2003; Martin et al., 2004; Tomita et al., 2005). Although there may be a difference in the percentage of CSPs among the species, the cell surface markers of isolated CSPs were variable among the reports. Pfister et al. (2005) and Tomita et al. (2005) reported that a large portion of isolated CSPs from adult mouse are CD31 positive. In this study, CD31-positive cells were only 7.6% in isolated CSPs from neonatal rats. Our immunohistochemical analysis indicated that most Bcrp1-positive cells in the heart are CD31-positive endothelial cells. The reason for these variations may be attributed to distinct isolation techniques and to the fact that most endothelial cells were lost during the step of cell isolation discussed in this study. Considering the conclusion of Pfister et al. (2005) that CD31-negative CSPs represent a distinct cardiac progenitor cell population, our CSPs isolated from neonatal rats are a condensed population of cardiac progenitors.
The ability to induce CSPs into the mature cardiomyocytes is comparable between OT and TSA (Fig. 5 B). There were only a few studies showing quantitative analysis of the frequency of monocultured CSP-derived cardiomyocytes. Pfister et al. (2005) reported that ∼10% of CD31−/Sca-1+/CSP expressed disorganized α-actinin and troponin I, but they did not show the characteristic sarcomeric organization and spontaneous beating, suggesting immature cardiomyocytes. Tomita et al. (2005) have reported that when CSP-derived cardiosphere was dissociated and cultured, 0.28% of the total cells differentiated into cardiomyocytes, which were positive for α-actinin and sarcomeric myosin (Tomita et al., 2005). In this study, ∼5% of CSPs differentiated into cardiomyocytes with fine sarcomere structures and spontaneous beating (Fig. S2 A, a–f). Therefore, both OT and TSA possess more powerful cardiogenic activity against CSPs than the previously reported methods.
OT, a hypothalamic neuropeptide, induces uterine contraction and milk ejection. In recent years, however, functional OT receptors have been found in various organs, such as kidney, ovary, testis, thymus, heart, vascular endothelium, osteoclasts, myoblasts, pancreatic islet cells, adipocytes, and several types of cancer cells (Gimpl and Fahrenholz, 2001). OT receptors and OT biosynthesis are detected in atria and ventricles of the rat heart, and OT is thought to be involved in ANF release from cardiomyocytes (Gutkowska et al., 1997; Jankowski et al., 1998). CSPs are a heterogenous population of the cells, including cardiac stem/progenitor cells, endothelial progenitor cells, and other unknown cells. When CSPs are treated with OT or TSA, mesenchymal-like cells were observed near cardiomyocytes. Presently, we do not have the evidence to indicate that OT receptors are expressed in cardiac stem/progenitor cells, but not in other cells. It has recently been reported that elevated OT and OT receptor protein levels in growing fetal hearts and OT receptor immunostaining were predominantly detected in cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells (Jankowski et al., 2004). These observations suggest that OT acts on cardiomyogenesis, but it remains to be determined whether OT has direct effects on cardiac stem cells.
We have recently reported that OT induces differentiation of adult cardiac Sca-1 cells into mature cardiomyocytes (Matsuura et al., 2004). Because of the lack of Sca-1 in rats and the unavailability of decent antibodies against rat c-kit, we could not determine the relationship between CSPs and other cardiac stem cells populations, such as Sca-1+ or c-kit+ cells. The expression of cardiac transcription factors was absent in freshly isolated CSPs. We performed semiquantitative RT-PCR, showing the expression levels of Nkx-2.5 in CSPs were negligible (Fig. S1C, a and b). Therefore, CSPs may be more primitive stem or progenitor cells in comparison with cardiac Sca-1+ cells, in which faint but substantial expressions of cardiac transcription factors were observed. Our findings suggest that the OT-mediated signaling may play a pivotal role in the differentiation of various cardiac stem cells into cardiomyocytes.
Histone deacetylases (HDAC) catalyze the deacetylation from conserved lysine residues in the N-terminal tails of histones (Hassig and Schreiber, 1997). Silencing of genes has been shown to be accomplished by histone deacetylation, and inhibition of HDAC reverses the silencing effect. HDAC are critically involved in cell cycle regulation, cell proliferation, cancer development, and cell differentiation (Marks et al., 2003; Legube and Trouche, 2003). Recently, HDAC inhibitors such as TSA, valproic acid, and butyric acid have been reported to modulate cell type–specific gene expression. The lymphoid lineage-determining factor Ikaros is repressed under the circumstances with hypoacetylation of core histones at promoter sites, and this repression is relieved by TSA (Koipally et al., 1999). Hsieh et al. (2004) reported that valproic acid induces neural differentiation of adult hippocampal neural progenitors through the induction of neuroD. In this study, TSA induced de novo expressions of Nkx2.5, GATA4, and MEF2C, suggesting that acetylation of chromatin activates specific master genes, products of which promote the expression of a series of cardiac transcription factors. It remains to be determined what genes are activated and involved in cardiomyocyte differentiation by the treatment of TSA.
SP cells are thought to be a population of quiescent stem cells, which reside in the niche of the organs and contribute to life-long maintenance or repair of the tissue (Asakura and Rudnicki, 2002; Montanaro et al., 2003). Quiescence of CSPs was confirmed by PY staining. Stem cell niches play a pivotal role in controlling the self-renewal and differentiation of stem cells (for review see Moore and Lemischka, 2006). Niches consist of stem cells, niche stromal cells, and extracellular matrix, and the interaction between stem cells and the cellular microenvironments through adhesion molecules is important, as are paracrine factors. Bcrp1-positive cells in the heart coexpressed CD29 and N-cadherin on their cell surface and were located in the interstitial space and perivascular area. Although the niche stroma cells for cardiac Bcrp1-positive cells were not specified in this study, the fact that most Bcrp1-positive cells existed in the perivascular area suggests that pericytes or adventitial mesenchymal cells may be a component of the stem cell niches. During the preparation of this manuscript, Urbanek et al. (2006) reported that c-kit–positive cardiac stem cells and lineage-committed cells are clustered together, forming their niches in adult mouse heart. In their paper, α4β1 integrin–mediated adhesion to laminin and fibronectin, as well as E- and N-cadherin–mediated cell–cell communications are supposed to be the fundamental structure of the cardiac stem cell niches. Some groups have reported that the frequency of cardiac stem cell clusters, including MDR1-positive cells, is inversely related to the hemodynamic load sustained by the anatomical regions of the heart; they accumulate in the atria and apex and are less numerous at the base and mid portion of the left ventricle (Leri et al., 2005). However, the frequency of CD31-negative/Bcrp1-positive cells in neonatal hearts did not show significant difference in the anatomical regions in this study. The reason for this discordant result may be that the left ventricle of neonatal hearts is under less hemodynamic load than that of adult hearts.
Intravenously transplanted CSPs were trapped in the lung and spleen, but redistributed in heart, liver, and skeletal muscle. CSPs in the heart were localized in the basal membrane between the myocardium and expressed CD29 on their cell surface, suggesting that CSPs penetrate the fenestrated endothelium, migrate into the basal lamina, and reside along with cardiomyocytes. Although some CSPs in liver and skeletal muscle expressed tissue-specific proteins such as albumin and desmin, respectively, transplanted CSPs in the normal heart did not express cardiac contractile proteins. It has been reported that transplanted bone marrow cells fuse with hepatocytes and skeletal muscle and regenerate the tissues (Camargo et al., 2003; Corbel et al., 2003; Vassilopoulos et al., 2003; Wang et al., 2003). Therefore, highly fusogenic hepatocytes and myotubes may fuse with transplanted CSPs and express differentiated marker proteins, whereas CSPs homing to the heart may not fuse with cardiomyocytes, and thus maintain stem or progenitor status.
Tissue damage, such as total body irradiation or chemotherapy, leads to secretion of chemokines and cytokines and facilitates hematopoietic stem cell migration and repopulation (Lapidot et al., 2005). Torrente et al. (2003) reported that skeletal muscle–derived stem cells home and migrate to the perivascular space of a damaged muscle of mdx mice after intravenous transplantation, and that the molecules involved in this process are L-selectin and mucosal addressin cell adhesion molecule-1. CSPs distributed in lung, spleen, liver, and skeletal muscle, but did not home specifically to the normal heart tissue. However, CSPs infused into rats with cryoinjured hearts homed in the heart, suggesting that the factors inducing migration and homing of stem cells may be released from injured heart. Further studies are necessary to understand the molecular mechanisms of differentiation, expansion, and migration of cardiac stem cells.
Cell preparation and reagents
Neonatal Wistar rats and wild-type mice (C57BL/6) were purchased from Takasugi Experimental Animal Supply Co. LTD. Neonatal and adult GFP transgenic rats were purchased from Japan SLC, Inc. (Ito et al., 2001). All protocols were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Chiba University. Cardiomyocytes of neonatal rats were prepared as previously described (Komuro et al., 1990). Rabbit anti–mouse Bcrp1 antibody was provided by S. Takeda (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan; Uezumi et al., 2006). Other antibodies used in these studies are listed in Table I. Other reagents that are not specified were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich.
Primary antibodies used
Isolation of CSPs and Pyronin Y staining
Cardiac cells were resuspended at the density of 1.0 × 106 cells/ml in PBS with 3% FBS. The cells were incubated in 1 μg/ml Hoechst 33342 dye for 60 min at 37°C in the dark, with or without 50 μM verapamil. After the incubation, cells were analyzed for Hoechst 33342 dye efflux by EPICS ALTRA flow cytometric analysis (Beckman Coulter). Before analysis, 2 μg/ml of propidium iodide was added to distinguish live cells from dead cells. Hoechst 33342 dye was excited at 350 nm using UV laser. Fluorescent emission was detected through 450-nm BP (Hoechst blue) and 675-nm LP (Hoechst red) filters, respectively. Propidium iodide in cells was excited at 488 nm, and fluorescence emission was detected through a 610-nm BP filter. For cell surface marker analysis, the cells were incubated with phycoerythrin (PE)-conjugated anti-CD45 antibody, PE-conjugated anti-CD31 antibody, or FITC-conjugated anti-CD29 antibody for 10 min on ice and washed with PBS supplemented with 3% FBS. The procedures for mouse bone marrow SP cells and PY staining were previously described (Goodell et al., 1996; Arai et al., 2004).
CSPs were cultured on gelatin-coated dishes with Iscove's Modified Dulbecco's Medium supplemented with 10% FBS. 24 h after seeding, the cells were treated with 10 pg/ml TSA or 100 nM of OT (both Sigma-Aldrich) for 72 h.
CSP transplantation of cryoinjured heart model
Male Wistar rats were anesthetized with 50 mg/kg ketamine i.p. and xylidine (10 mg/kg, i.p.) and a 6-mm aluminum rod, which was cooled to −190°C by immersion in liquid nitrogen, applied to the left ventricular free wall to produce cryoinjury, after the tail vein injection of 3 × 105 CSPs or CMPs derived from neonatal GFP transgenic into syngenic wild-type adult rats (CSP transplantation, n = 3; CMP transplantation, n = 3). As control groups, normal rats, which were subjected to the injection of 3 × 105 of CSPs (n = 3) or CMP (n = 3) were prepared. 4 wk after injection, rats were killed and lung, spleen, liver, skeletal muscle, and heart were fixed according to the periodate-lysine-paraformaldehyde fixative methods and snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen.
Immunocytochemistry and histochemistry
Cells were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde and preblocked with PBS containing 2% donkey serum, 2% BSA, and 0.2% NP-40 for 30 min. Primary antibodies in PBS containing 2% donkey serum, 2% BSA, and 0.1% NP-40 were applied overnight at 4°C. FITC-, Cy3-, or Cy5-conjugated secondary antibodies were applied to visualize expression of specific proteins. Nuclear staining was performed with TOPRO-3 (Invitrogen). To detect expression of Bcrp1, fresh isolated cells were fixed in methanol/ethanol (1:1) for 1 min, and the cells were incubated with rabbit anti–mouse Bcrp1 antibodies for 2 h at room temperature. After washing three times with PBS containing 2% donkey serum, the secondary antibody was added for 1 h.
6-μm cryostat sections of fresh-frozen or fixed rat heart were prepared. Fresh-frozen sections were fixed with 1% formaldehyde for 15 min at room temperature. Blocking and staining procedures were performed according to the protocol described in the previous paragraph. Confocal images were acquired at room temperature using a microscope (Radiance 2000; Bio-Rad Laboratories) with Plan Apo 60×/1.40 NA oil immersion objective (Nikon) and Laser Sharp 2000 confocal software (Bio-Rad Laboratories). For Fig. 1 B (d and e), Fig. 5 B (a and b), Fig. S1 A (a and c), and Fig. S3 A (a–f), Axioscop 2 Plus (Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc.) with Plan-NEOFLUAR 100×/1.30 NA oil immersion and 40×/0.75 NA objectives (Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc.).
RNA extraction and RT-PCR analysis
SP cells were isolated from cardiac cells using EPICS ALTRA flow cytometric sorting. Total RNA was obtained from SP cells, TSA-treated SP cells, and the neonatal rat heart by RNA-Bee reagent (TEL-TEST). RT-PCR was performed using 0.1 mg of total RNA. For semiquantitative analysis, reverse transcribed products were pooled and fivefold serial dilutions were used for PCR. PCR was performed in a reaction volume of 20 μl with 200 nM deoxynucleoside triphosphates, 500 nM each of sense and antisense primers, and 2.5 U/100 μl Taq polymerase (Roche). Every PCR condition was confirmed to be within the linear range and within semiquantitative range for these specific genes and primer pairs. The primers used in this study and the PCR conditions are described in Table II. To confirm that the obtained bands were not derived from contaminated genomic DNA, a negative experiment was done for each sample without reverse transcriptase before PCR. Amplified samples were electrophoresed on 2% agarose gels and stained with ethidium bromide. For semiquantitative RT-PCR analysis, PCR was performed on undiluted cDNA and on fivefold serial dilutions of cDNA, and the intensity of the ethidium bromide–stained bands was quantified using the Image program (Wayne Rasband, National Institutes of Health). Diluted pools showing the same intensity for β-actin were used for further PCR and quantification of Nkx-2.5 gene expression.
PCR primers and PCR conditions
Differentiation cultures for osteocytes and adipocytes
The protocol for osteocyte- and adipocyte-induction was previously described (Matsuura et al., 2004). Alkaline phosphatase staining (leukocyte alkaline phosphatase assay kit) was used to examine the differentiation of osteocytes. For detection of accumulated oil droplets, Oil Red O staining was performed followed by nuclear hematoxylin counterstaining.
The significance of differences among mean values was determined by t test. P values were corrected for multiple comparisons by the Bonferoni correction. The accepted level of significance was P < 0.05.
Online supplemental material
Fig. S1 shows the osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation of CSPs. Fig. S2 shows the fine sarcomeric patterns of OT- and TSA-induced CSP-derived cardiomyocytes. Live images of beating cells were taken with an inverted microscope (Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc.) equipped with chilled charge-coupled device camera (Hamamatsu) using I-O DATA Videorecorder software. Online supplemental material is available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200603014/DC1.
The authors thank A. Furuyama for the excellent technical assistance. This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Developmental Scientific Research, and Scientific Research on Priority Areas from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture, and by Health and Labour Sciences Research Grants.
T. Oyama, H. Wada, and T. Nagai contributed equally to this paper.
Abbreviations used in this paper: ANF, atrial natriuretic factor; BMP, bone morphogenetic protein; Brcp, breast cancer resistance protein; CMP, cardiac MP cell; CSP, cardiac SP cell; cTnT, cardiac troponin T; HDAC, histone deacetylases; MDR, multidrug resistance; MEF, myocyte-enhancer factor; MLC, myosin light chain; MP, main population; OT, oxytocin; OTA, OT antagonist; PE, phycoerythrin; PY, Pyronin Y; SA, sarcomeric α-actinin; Sca-1, stem cell antigen 1; SMA, smooth muscle cell actin; SP, side population; TSA, trichostatin A; vWF, von Willebrand factor.
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Russia: the counter-intelligence state
Stephen Blank
The West continually fails to comprehend Putin’s Russia and its mentality.
Vladimir Putin in an interview with US television network NBC this month (Photo: Kremlin.ru)
Published 15 Mar 2018 16:15 1 Comments
Upon receiving confirmation that the UK had formally accused Moscow of poisoning Sergei Skripal, the former spy, as well as his daughter and 21 others, then US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said it was almost beyond comprehension that a state would act this way.
Unfortunately, this statement reflected a continuing Western inability to comprehend Putin’s Russia and its mentality.
Such acts have long characterised the behaviour of Russia’s security services, and will continue to do so as long as they retain their current status and power. First, Vladimir Putin’s family comes from the “organs”, as he himself has implied. His grandfather was Lenin’s and Stalin’s cook for several years in the 1920s, and he has been imbued with their ethic for all of his life.
That ethic merits careful scrutiny. Since its inception as a state, Russia has always had secret services and often, as under Ivan the Terrible and arguably today under Putin, the services constituted a state within the state. Loyalty to the Tsar or president and the state was not merely a legal or hierarchical submission to rulers. Instead, for the secret services, as for much of the Russian elite since the origins of Russian statehood, the state and state power have been invested with mystical, even sacred qualities.
Not by coincidence, Russian Tsars and Soviet rulers presided over a caesaropapist structure in which the leader was also the head of the church, be it Russian Orthodoxy or Leninism. For the secret police under the latter Tsars, just as under the latter Soviet rulers, the ethos quickly grew that they alone truly upheld the state and its interests.
Despite the wholly self-serving nature of this outlook, it appears to penetrate the elite today – and not only Putin – even as they steal billions to move offshore. This cult of the state and of the heroic security services resolutely warding off never-ending attacks from devious and treacherous foreigners is deeply imbued with the equally sacred idea of Russia as a great power.
Under the circumstances, it is not difficult to believe that the state must be organised to prevent any manifestation of subversion or penetration by the enemy, whose efforts are constant and ubiquitous.
Hence the need for a state structure that is actually a giant counter-intelligence structure in permanent operation. Stalinism functioned this way, as did East Germany where Putin served, and Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet Union. Intelligence in these states not only meant acquisition of information but also unremitting efforts to penetrate domestic society, subvert foreign governments, and repress any shadow of dissent.
It is not surprising that these intelligence services imbued their members with a strong and enduring esprit de corps. This combines with a hatred of betrayal and “traitors”, as well as a traditional vindictiveness and even sadism towards enemies, seen recurrently in these organisations from Ivan the Terrible through to Stalin. These facts and the sources to study them are readily available to experts on Russia, or to anyone who cares to find them.
It is then a measure of the dereliction of our intelligence services and governments that they have not grasped the nature of the Russian state or the challenge it presents. The absence of an ability to comprehend this radically different Russian cognitive universe helps indicate why for Tillerson and many others the poisoning of Skripal – which makes excellent sense to the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and Putin – is incomprehensible. It also explains why they are still looking for motives, even after the British Government formally accused Moscow of this action.
Moscow has a ready-made motive to hand at all times – not only to persecute traitors but also to demonstrate it can act as a great power abroad, with impunity. Russia is simultaneously demonstrating its enemies’ weakness and Putin’s resolution and fortitude.
As I’ve observed previously, this action is only one of a series of ongoing aggressive Russian probes of the West. Expelling diplomats is not a sufficient answer to the fact that Moscow is a sponsor and conductor of terrorism, and has just waged a chemical warfare attack on foreign nationals without any provocation whatsoever.
Moreover, to judge from its responses to the British accusations, Russia’s typical answers are only more threats and implausible denials. Implicit in this is the message that not only did they do it, but they are ready to do it again because no one is strong enough to stop them.
Is this really the impression we want to leave behind in Moscow, or impart to its counterintelligence state?
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MCP On The Moove
NOISES OFF (2014) - The Company in order of appearance.
Dotty - Barbara Vesty
Barbara joined Mad Cow for their production of The Producers in 2011, having seen their production of Move Over Mrs Markham she knew this was the company she wanted to be a part of, so auditioned and got in. She comes from a performance background and after directing and producing for many years thought it might be nice to get front of stage again. “My thanks to Alex and Lisa for giving me that chance”. Barbara thinks it is a great Company to be part of, with such a wide age difference within the group and all sorts of talent, “whatever you have got the Cows will use it!” For Barbara being part of Mad Cow Productions is a joy and a privilege. She enjoys the fact it is a totally voluntary group where everyone pitches in, “we all work hard because we love what we do”. This is Barbara’s seventh show with the Cows, and her dream role, such a lot to get her teeth into. Thanks, as always, to her ever supportive husband David who built our revolve.
CRAZY FOR YOU - The Company
Theo Millward - Bobby Child
Having joined MCP in 2012 in search of a challenge and a new way to relax, it is safe to say Theo is thoroughly hooked. Crazy For You is his fourth MCP production, and he plays the quirkey and loveable Bobby Child. Outside of rehearsals, Theo is Operations Director of STA, an organisation that is no stranger to the talents of Mad Cow as Alex has completed a few days training for the sales team.
Theo would like to mention his good friend Andy Kidd, who heroically endured hour after hour of audition practice whilst on holiday.
Georgie Wright - Polly Baker
Georgie is currently studying for her A-Levels at Shrewsbury Sixth Form College which she sees as a stepping stone to University or Drama School. She is rapidly learning the tools of what she hopes will be a long and happy career in musical Theatre. This is Georgie's third show with MCP and her first leading role. She feels incredibly lucky to have had the opportunity to work with such talented and enthusiastic people and learning more with The Herd than she could ever have imagined. She has enjoyed every step of the way and hopes you do too.
LEND ME A TENOR - The Company
Ryan Brown - Max
Ryan shocked his workmates when he told them he had joined Mad Cow, they didn’t think he was “the type” (Whatever that is!). Ryan is now on his second production, having stepped onstage for the first time since he left college in “Kiss Me, Kate”, and is thrilled to be getting to grips with a big role, he says “I applied to Mad Cow because they have a reputation for good honest hard work, and that is right, they challenge you at every turn”.
With the support of his wife, Heidi, and three little girls Ryan hopes to perform for years!
In The Club - The Cast
Philip Wardrobe - Keith Clements
This is Keiths first leading role!
With roots in Manchester and a Mechanical Engineering degree from Salford University his engineering career eventually brought him to Shropshire before leaving private industry completely and becoming a self-employed plumber. (All enquiries welcome – he doesn’t act for a living you know!) Hardly the background of a typical thespian, but nevertheless, he was first coaxed kicking and screaming onto a stage almost 30 years ago and has tried to avoid it ever since! Thanks to his singing voice, the vast majority of roles have been in musicals, including the Nazi pigeon fancier, Franz Liebkind in the recent Mad Cow production of “The Producers”. This is the first time he’s been entrusted with a leading role however and by the middle of the second act you’ll probably understand why! Only joking…… he’s trying, bless him. Very trying
Kiss Me Kate - The Company
Lilli Vanessi - Jemma Game
This is Jemma's first production with "The Cows" and she tells us she couldn't feel more at home! She is delighted to be playing Lilli Vanessi but says that "It came as a shock to me as I was such a new member in a very enthusiastic Herd!" It was also a pleasant surprise to find out that she had been cast opposite James. " I am extremely excited to be on stage again and feel very privileged to be playing opposite James, my real life "other half"".
Living in Shrewsbury all her life, Jemma started performing as a very small child with Game Productions, before as an adult, gaining her National Diploma and HND in Musical Theatre. She has been part of many local stage productions. Currently, Jemma is working and saving hard and hopes one day to make it to the BIG Stage!
Frederick Graham - James Pinches
James pockets his blue blanket (The Producers), drops his cane (The Drowsy Chaperone) and dons his muscles and adoring smile for his third production with MCP.
Whilst musicals are James's forte, he has also performed in plays, films and radio plays, including several Shakespeares. So he promises that you will be able to understand the Shakespeare in this show!
He was shocked but delighted to hear that he had won his first romantic lead, however after playing "over the top", "camp" or "helpless" characters, the butch, strong - minded Frederick Graham proved to be quite a challenge!
But with the advantage of his leading lady, being his real life leading lady, James has thoroughly enjoyed the process and cannot wait for the opening night!
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Not Now Darling - The Cast
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Chasing the Long Tail of New Media
Certain Songs #940: Liz Phair – “Uncle Alvarez”
July 23, 2017 by Jim Connelly
Album: whitechocolatespaceegg
After failing to catch lightning in a bottle a second time with 1994’s good-not-great Whip-Smart, Liz Phair changed direction completely with 1998’s transitory whitechocolatespaceegg, which abandoned the low-fi sound of her first two records for a more slick, Scott Litt-produced approach.
This sounds like I’m winding up towards an insult, but actually, quite the opposite. I really liked whitechocolatespaceegg. It was the closest thing to traditional singer-songwriter album she’s ever produced, but retained some of the musical weirdness that marked her first two albums. The lyrical themes expanded beyond love and sex, and she was writing about characters and situations that clearly weren’t autobiographical.
Like “Uncle Alvarez,” which slowly drifts upon a bed of acoustic guitars and percussion occasionally augmented by what might even be a drum machine, where Liz invents an entire backstory for a portrait hanging in a hallway.
He’s not really part-Cherokee Indian
He didn’t fight in the Civil War
He’s just Eugene Isaac Alvarez
We feel sorry for the wall
But, of course, the thing about “Uncle Alvarez” is an absolutely lovely and completely indelible chorus that anchors the song.
Oh, oh, oh imaginary accomplishments
Hey, hey, hey you visionary guy
You might even shake the hands of presidents
You’re gonna make ’em sorry when you die
What I liked about “Uncle Alvarez” and other story/character songs like “What Makes You Happy” and “Big Tall Man” was how she was able to take the same level of detail and specificity that made something like “Divorce Song” so powerful and apply it to other situations.
To me, that signaled growth, and would lead into a long, fruitful career where she’d put out a record of smart, well-observed, and slightly weird songs every few years until she’d built up an amazing catalog.
And while that didn’t happen — she instead set her sights for pop stardom with, ahem, mixed results — I’m still holding out hope that she can recover if not the magic then the craft someday. Maybe the album she recently recorded with Ryan Adams will be the one.
“Uncle Alvarez”
Every Certain Song Ever
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Previously on Medialoper
Certain Songs #1560: Pink Floyd – “Time”
Certain Songs #1559: Pink Floyd – “Echoes”
Certain Songs #1558: Pink Floyd – “The Nile Song”
Certain Songs #1557: Pink Floyd – “Lucifer Sam”
Certain Songs #1556: Pink Floyd – “See Emily Play”
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Council law: Lagos Assembly plans stiffer penalty for erring council officials
By Lanre Adesanya
Indications are pointing to the fact that upon conduct of the long drawn council election in Lagos State, would be council administrators; councillors and council chairmen will now have upgraded tenure like what obtains in the state and federal tiers of government.
This is made more evident with the recent amendment proposal to the Local Government administration law by the state’s legislature, which entails tenure extension of a four years term instead of the substantive three years term and a more stringent and punitive measure advocated for erring council officials.
The Lagos State House of Assembly in the proposed amendments which was sponsored by the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, move for addendum in sections 27 (1), 24 (a) and 12 (1).
The Chairman House Committee on Local Government, Kazeem Alimi in a motion to kick start the affirmation of the proposed amendments, explained that the tenures of council chairmen and councilors would be adjusted to be in line with other representatives at the state level.
According to him, the proposed amendment would also take charge of the power of the state Assembly to enforce removal or suspension of any erring council chairman upon the receipt of a petition from the concerned councillors.
Alimi further disclosed that the law would make categorical statement that any chairman who had served for two terms would not be eligible to contest any election as the head of local council administration.
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The Majority Leader, Sanai Agunbiade in his own contribution on the issue noted that the Nigeria constitution gives state Assembly the power to create local government, adding that for such creation to be effective the House should also have the power to sanction any chairman if found wanting.
Hon. Adefunmilayo Tejuoso chairman house committee on Judiciary,Petitions and LASIEC,noted that after the creation of councils, it is crucial for us to monitor the activities of the council bosses, saying “failure to carry out proper investigation and pass resolution that must be obeyed, will be counter-productive.”
However, the Deputy Majority Leader, Wahab Jimoh cautioned his colleagues over proposed section that empowers the House to remove or suspend defaulting council chairman.
Jimoh argued that the House should not hamstrung the councilors, adding the legislative arm at the third tier of government is also paramount.
The Speaker however allayed their fears that there was a dire need to accord the resolution of the House a bite of relevance with respect its being enforceable. There no provisions in the law that whittles or strips the councilors powers in the proposed amendments.
“We had passed resolutions for the outright removal of two or three erring council chairmen in the past but the Governor resistance halted it. With this new amendment, we as a House, can go ahead with the removal.”
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Property on 12% Assured Rentals- Know your risks
The Risk of Assured Rentals
Sanjeev Menon
Obtaining loans for their commercial and residential projects has never been an easy task for smaller developers. And now, as a fallout of the ‘bribes-for-loans’ scam and the subsequent tightening of lending norms for financial institutions, these players could find it increasingly difficult to finance their plans. Developers are also of the opinion that getting a lender to finance a project in an upcoming destination, such as Manesar or Dharuhera around NCR, becomes a difficult affair compared with loans for projects in Gurgaon or Noida. With the supply of money thinning, developers have adopted a new strategy to increase their liquidity position.
Over the past couple of years developers have begun advertising their projects offering ‘assured returns’ on an investor’s property investment. For example, a developer advertises an assured rental scheme in a commercial project in which investors can pick up 1,000 sq ft at Rs 5,000 a sq ft. On this, the developer assures the buyer a guaranteed rental of Rs 30 a sq ft for a period of five years, after which the buyer can take possession of his investment if he chooses to. For the investor, it appears to be a good bet, with an assured Rs 30,000 coming into his pocket every month. But, everything has a flip side.
When an assured return is offered on a property that is under construction, a formal agreement between the buyer and the seller is undertaken, under which the seller promises to give the buyer an assured sum each month till the property is ready and possession is formally handed over. Assured property returns are promised for already built properties as well, wherein the seller finds a tenant and assures a fixed rental income to the buyer. Importantly, in such situations, it is important that the investor and the developer have to mutually agree to an assured amount, which is decided as a percentage of the total worth of the property. This percentage normally varies between 9 per cent and 13 per cent. Although, it looks like a lucrative proposition, buyers who take the bait of assured returns should invest with their eyes open.
GET THE AMOUNT RIGHT
Developers calculate the assured rental amount based on several factors including scale of the project, location, viability and appreciation potential. However, it is important that both the investor and the developer finalise a rental rate before signing on the dotted line.
Says Anuj Puri, chairman and country head of global real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle India, “To a great extent, rental yields are a function of location and project specifications. As such, it is possible to arrive at a ballpark rental yield based on such parameters, always assuming that prevalent market characteristics continue to prevail. However, much also depends on what kind of tenant a residential project or occupier of a commercial project in a given a location tends to attract, the supply available or scheduled to come in at the location, the nature of that supply in terms of typology and configuration, prevailing and emerging market dynamics – and, of course, the property owner’s ability to negotiate for the expected rent.”
Many developers also tend to keep the leasing rights with themselves even after the project is completed and continue to pay the buyer the agreed rental as the property price has appreciated. The developer may be able to make extra money by charging the tenant the prevailing rental rate and pass on only the agreed upon rental to the investor. Once the investor takes possession of the property, he might find it difficult to retain existing tenants, or finding new tenants.
FINANCIAL JUGGLERY
From the developer’s perspective, the assured rental scheme is just a means of securing funds for their projects. However, they point out that it is in the best interest of both parties. Real estate player Paras Buildtech had offered a similar scheme on part of its commercial project Paras Downtown Center in Zirakpur, Punjab. “It made sense then to partly finance the project through this scheme. It is difficult to get financial institution to lend money for projects in locations that are new. Hence, developers take up various models to finance their projects. It’s a sort of financial real estate jugglery,” says Harmit Chawla, vice president (sales and marketing) at Paras Buildtech.
For a project of say 2 lakh sq ft, a developer may offer 50,000 sq ft on the assured rental scheme. At Rs 2,000 per sq ft, this would ensure ready cash of Rs 10 crore for the project, provided the entire space set aside for this scheme is offloaded, Chawla explains. Meanwhile, the developer manages to secure loans from lenders which are added to the Rs 10 crore. The rest of the Rs 1.5 lakh sq ft are offloaded into the market at prevailing rates through the routine down payment and construction-linked modes. In this way, a developer is available to fully-finance his project.
CALCULATE YOUR RISK
Developers adopt this method of attracting investors when they require ready cash. The assured rental scheme is only available to those able to make the entire amount, sometimes 90 per cent, of the investment as a down payment. While there are few who have the capacity to make an upfront down payment of Rs 50 lakh, others have the option of taking a loan. Analysts feel that these offers are more lucrative for commercial property investments as developers normally find it easier leasing office space to corporate. A risk an investor needs to take is that of the tenant that the developer chooses. In most contracts of such a nature, the buyer is clearly instructed that the tenant will be chosen only by the developer if assured rentals are promised. Also, contracts state that in case the investor does not accept the tenant identified by the developer, the seller’s commitment to guarantee a rental amount will end. Investors should also try and insist on an exit clause in their agreements. Once an investor puts his money into a project expecting assured rentals, with no exit clause, developers will not refund the money should the investor want out. Investment bankers point out that there are equally profitable schemes available in the banking sector. “Investing in a fixed deposit scheme at best market rates of 7.5 per cent with tenure of just under five years would yield good returns. An investment of Rs 50 lakh in such a scheme would yield a pre-tax monthly return of over Rs 31,000. The amount after tax would be determined based on which tax bracket the investor falls under,” says Siddharth Choudhari, an official of a multi-national lender.So, finally it comes down to the risk the investor is willing to take. Know the developer, research on the location and its potential for appreciation and scrutinise the contract. With so many variables, it would appear incorrect for developers to promise assured rentals, but the onus is on the investor to take the final call. “With such variables at play, it is not credible for any kind of marketing outreach to offer guarantees on rental income. Investors should be guided purely their own factual knowledge, or by the informed advice of a property consultant. While real estate does have certain predictable dynamics, there is always an element of investment risk involved. The level of risk can be reduced, though not entirely eliminated, by factual research,” says JLL’s Puri. sanjeev.menon@expressindia.com
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A tiny walking bio-bot (video) that is powered my muscles, whose backbone is made of hydrogel, is harnessed using an electrical impulse to propel the small bot forward. Modeled off of a muscle-tendon-bone system found in mammals, researcher Caroline Cvetkovic at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne says that this is relevant because it allows for the bio bot to mimic the way natural systems use energy to produce force and motion. When the muscle cells contract with applied electrical stimulation, this produces a forward motion.
Two tiny posts, which act as the feet of the bio-bot, also anchor a small piece of muscle tissue, which is stretched between them. Contractions induced into the muscle by an electrical field allow the bio-bot to “walk,” at a speed which can be varied by changing the frequency of the electric current. The higher the frequency of the electric field, the faster the muscle’s contractions, which allows to bio-bot to walk faster.
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Construction of new buildings started
Time series: Construction_1_3_en.xls
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BUILDINGS STARTED IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2019 BY DISTRICTS
Administrative buildings
Gross building area - sq. m
Total 871 4 481 625 846 17 30 743 644 573 305
Blagoevgrad 35 137 17 542 .. .. 38 15 001
Burgas 107 613 98 326 .. .. 50 92 745
Varna 119 531 96 508 - - 22 37 200
Veliko Tarnovo 18 125 15 556 .. .. 19 11 627
Vidin - - - - - - -
Vratsa .. .. .. - - 8 4 306
Gabrovo 4 4 1 223 - - 4 1 828
Dobrich 24 39 5 041 - - 19 12 727
Kardzhali 27 311 40 802 .. .. 8 4 162
Kyustendil 5 6 512 - - 5 547
Lovech 10 10 1 668 .. .. 20 7 720
Montana .. .. .. - - 8 8 919
Pazardzhik 29 85 14 836 - - 35 25 662
Pernik 18 73 9 036 .. .. 10 2 300
Pleven 7 66 6 134 - - 17 12 501
Plovdiv 153 449 56 000 .. .. 101 126 428
Razgrad 14 25 3 236 - - 20 12 667
Ruse 9 30 5 278 - - 24 9 558
Silistra 8 8 1 020 - - 18 5 313
Sliven 14 22 3 080 - - 20 10 225
Smolyan .. .. .. - - 10 424
Sofia 54 73 13 870 .. .. 27 42 455
Sofia (stolitsa) 110 1 495 179 988 3 20 829 23 54 858
Stara Zagora 70 303 41 506 3 1 296 53 36 949
Targovishte 4 4 668 - - 5 6 014
Haskovo 14 29 4 828 - - 49 20 657
Shumen 8 25 4 039 .. .. 19 5 420
Yambol 5 8 1 696 - - 12 5 092
Note: ".." Confidential data
BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BUILDINGS STARTED - Construction of new buildings started
"Short-term Business Statistics and Statistics of Transport" Department
Stanka Dimitrova
State expert
Data for started construction of new buildings provide information about building construction started by type of buildings - residential buildings and their dwellings, administrative buildings and other buildings and their gross building area. Statistical information about started of building construction is a prognostic short-term indicator for the future development on the construction business in the country.
Classification of Types of Construction (CC)
The statistical survey covers all municipal authorities.
Indicators are harmonized according to the requirements of Regulation 1165/98 on EC concerning short-term statistics.
The numbers of started new buildings are classified according to the Classification of Types of Construction (CC).
Building is a roofed construction site which can be used separately, and it is built for permanent purposes. Buildings are subdivided into residential and non-residential buildings.
Residential buildings are buildings in which at least half of the useful floor area is used for permanent residential habitation.
The residential buildings are subdivided into:
one-dwelling buildings - houses, villas, bungalows for living by one household;
two-and more dwelling buildings - buildings such as flat blocks, apartment houses, detached houses, semi-detached or terraced houses with two and more dwellings and they have a common entrance;
residences for communities - residences and service residences for the elderly, students, children and other social groups, e.g. retirement homes, works' hostels, hostels for the homeless, etc.(exclude-hotels).
Dwelling - is one or more rooms for living and service floor area in a building with solid structure for own use. The dwelling must have an exit to a generally accessible part (stairs, yard or straight on the street).
Non-residential buildings are buildings which are mainly used or intended for use for non-residential purpose.
The non-residential buildings are subdivided into:
office buildings - buildings used as places for business and administrative purpose, e.g. banks, post offices, government department offices, conference and congress centers, law courts, parliament buildings;
other non-residential buildings - all other buildings not mentioned in the previous definition used for industrial, wholesale and retail trade, traffic and communication, public entertainment, agriculture, education purposes, hospitals, hotels and others.
Gross building area - a sum of all floors areas in external dimensions (including functional areas and covered thoroughfares for ancillary use).
Municipal authorities
The survey is exhaustive and statistical population covers all municipal authorities, which are issued documents for started construction of new buildings.
National level: Data are aggregate and published total and by districts.
From 2010 to the latest quarter of the reference year.
Number, square meter.
National Legal basis: The Law on Statistics(Article 20) states that all persons that manage or present legal persons, are obligated to provide the National Statistical Institute and the Bodies of Statistics with reliable data when filling-in forms and questionnaires on surveys included in the National Statistical Programme, for which mandatory participation is provided.
The survey is included into the National Statistical Programme and it is compulsory for enterprises which are included in the sample of survey. The Law on Statistics includes provisions relating to fines, which can be imposed for refusal, non-response and delay. They are laid down in specific Chapter 9 “Administrative and liability provisions” in Article 52.
Methodology of indicators is consistent with:
· COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1165/98 of 19 May 1998 concerning short-term statistics;
· REGULATION (EC) No 1158/2005 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics;
· COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1503/2006 implementing and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards definitions of variables, list of variables and frequency of data compilation.
· Law on Statistics - Saved of statistical confidentiality is in accordance with the privacy of individual data specified in the Statistics Act, which are in accordance with EU legislation. In Chapter VI "Data Confidentiality and secrecy" are regulated confidentiality of individual statistical data, use them only for statistical purposes and obligations of the statistical authorities to ensure protection and preventions of individual data. In Chapter IX "Administrative Penalty Provisions" shows provisions non-compliance with the requirements;
Article 25 of the Law of Statistics defines the criteria by which can not be distributed or published statistical information. Statistical information which aggregates data about less than three statistical units or about a population in which the relative share of the value of a surveyed parameter of a single unit exceeds 85 percent of the value of such parameter for all units in the population.
Confidential data, accordance with the Law of Statistics not publish. In order not to identify individual data using the method of suppression or aggregation of information disclosed.
The date for publication of statistical information is given in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute, which is available on NSI website. The data of started construction of new buildings by type and their gross building area are published 30 -31 days after the reference quarter.
The data are published on the NSI website, section Business statistics - Short-term Business Statistics - Other quareterly data in accordance with the Law on Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice respecting the professional independence and aimed at objectivity, transparency and equal treatment of all consumers.
Data and press release about issued permits and started construction of new buildings publish every quarter - 30 -31 days after the reference quarter.
The data are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Short-term Business Statistics - Other qyarterly data: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/4495 The data for preceding years are available in the Information System for online requests for statistical information - INFOSTAT - https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/module.jsf?x_2=99
On request, according to the rules on data protection
· Eurostat Methodology of short-term business statistics. Interpretation and guidelines: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/short_term_business_statistics/documents/KS-BG-06-001-EN.pdf
· Methodology "Construction of new buildings started": http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/ConstructionMethod_1_3_en.pdf
The legal framework which regulates the production of data from Short-term business statistics states that statistical data compiled within the EU system must be of satisfactory quality and produced data are comparable between Member States. Verification of data is done through the process of conducting a statistical survey - from respondents, from experts in the regional statistical offices and from national experts in NSI. Identified inaccuracies and errors are removed timely and provide comparable data of good quality.
The quality of the short-term indicators is measured by each Member State in accordance with the general criteria. Calculation of the indicators is carried out in accordance with EU regulations on short-term business statistics.
State governing bodies, associations, businesses, media and other users.
No information.
Provide statistical data on started construction of new buildings on the required level of detail.
There is a maximum accuracy and reliability of the data started construction of new buildings. Common errors are errors in the measurement data, the respondent misunderstanding what information is required or incomplete performance.
Most measurement errors are detected and corrected by arithmetic and logical controls embedded in Information System "Short-term business statistics" (On-line information system for collection, verification and processing of data from short-term business statistics). The system performs mandatory and planned control and warning in case there are errors, it displays a warning dialog inconsistencies found. The system does not allow the completion of the report until all outstanding correct mandatory controls.
The survey is exhaustive.
Actions for non-responders include: informing and sending reminders, when no-responding company may follows a phone call and / or direct contact to collect the data. The responding rate is average approximately 100%.
Information about starting construction of new buildings is published 30- 31 days after the end of reference quarter.
All data rows, tables and press releases are prepared, and submitted for publication within the deadlines specified in the calendar for publication of data.
Data started construction of new buildings are representative for the whole country, by districts and by municipalities.
Available time series of data started construction of new buildings - from 2010.
Data started construction of new buildings are compared from the variables of issued building permits from previous quarter.
Observation is exhaustive, the data are final, and are in accordance with EU regulations on Short-term business statistics.
No information on the relationship between cost of production of statistics data and user satisfaction. The purpose to reduce response burden is created on-line information system "Short-term business statistics" (IS STS).
The information is aggregated from the data in Questionnaire for issued and started construction of new buildings. Source of data is construction documents issued from technical services of the municipal authorities.
For the convenience of respondents and getting better and timely information is created on-line information system Short-term business statistics (IS STS) input data for started construction for new buildings. The system controls are set to ensure the accuracy of the information. Possibility remains that the respondent submits monthly report and a paper in the relevant regional statistical office (RSO). Delay on the part of businesses IS STS send reminders. Experts from RSOs phone calls to provide timely information or clarification of the data.
Validation data starts from the filling of reports by respondents. Control of the data can be accessed from the regional statistical offices and from the National Statistical Institute. An information system "Short-term business statistics" significantly contributes to the validation of the data submitted by set arithmetic and logical controls. Subsequent analysis of the experts, a phone call for additional clarification of data and elimination inconsistencies, minimize errors in the raw data and ensure accuracy of outputs at national level.
Data started construction of new buildings are made by municipal authorities on the paper and send to RSOs or online through an information system "Short-term business statistics". After validating the data by RSOs and after the deadline for entering, experts of NSI made a final control, and aggregate output for total of country and by districts.
Download in SDMX 2.1 file format: BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BUILDINGS STARTED - Construction of new buildings started
Metadata Structure Definition in SDMX 2.1: ESMS_MSD+BNSI+2.0+SDMX.2.1.xml
Building Permits Issued and Construction of New Buildings Started in the First Quarter of 2019
Friday, 3 May 2019 - 11:00
In the first quarter of 2019, the municipal authorities issued building permits for construction of 1 247 residential buildings with 7 832 dwellings, of 28 administrative buildings/offices and 1 149 other buildings. The construction of 871 residential buildings with 4 481 dwellings, of 17 administrative buildings/offices and 644 other buildings was started.
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Building Permits Issued and Construction of New Buildings Started in the Fourth Quarter of 2018
Monday, 4 February 2019 - 11:00
In the fourth quarter of 2018, the municipal authorities issued building permits for construction of 1 477 residential buildings with 11 682 dwellings, of 33 administrative buildings/offices and 1 319 other buildings. The construction of 935 residential buildings with 5 881 dwellings, of 11 administrative buildings/offices and 624 other buildings was started.
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Building Permits Issued and Construction of New Buildings Started in the Third Quarter of 2018
Friday, 2 November 2018 - 11:00
In the third quarter of 2018, the municipal authorities issued building permits for construction of 1 659 residential buildings with 9 419 dwellings, of 37 administrative buildings/offices and 1 207 other buildings. The construction of 1 038 residential buildings with 5 921 dwellings, of 29 administrative buildings/offices and 638 other buildings was started.
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Building Permits Issued and Construction of New Buildings Started in the Second Quarter of 2018
Thursday, 2 August 2018 - 11:00
In the second quarter of 2018, the municipal authorities issued building permits for construction of 1 476 residential buildings with 8 178 dwellings, of 32 administrative buildings/offices and 1 274 other buildings. The construction of 1 128 residential buildings with 6 195 dwellings, of 25 administrative buildings/offices and 724 other buildings was started.
RazrStr2018q2_en_KAC74VM.pdf
Thursday, 3 May 2018 - 11:00
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Friday, 2 February 2018 - 11:00
In the fourth quarter of 2017, the municipal authorities issued building permits for construction of 1 296 residential buildings with 7 327 dwellings, of 30 administrative buildings/offices and 1 130 other buildings. The construction of 779 residential buildings with 4 215 dwellings, of 16 administrative buildings/offices and 570 other buildings was started.
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Thursday, 2 November 2017 - 11:00
In the third quarter of 2017, the municipal authorities issued building permits for construction of 1 526 residential buildings with 7 135 dwellings, of 28 administrative buildings/offices and 1 221 other buildings. The construction of 982 residential buildings with 3 409 dwellings, of 27 administrative buildings/offices and 692 other buildings was started.
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Wednesday, 2 August 2017 - 11:00
In the second quarter of 2017, the municipal authorities issued building permits for construction of 1 647 residential buildings with 5 815 dwellings, of 40 administrative buildings/offices and 1 968 other buildings. The construction of 1 281 residential buildings with 3 842 dwellings, of 25 administrative buildings/offices and 1 277 other buildings was started.
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Wednesday, 3 May 2017 - 11:00
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Thursday, 2 February 2017 - 11:00
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Business Register
R&D, Innovations and Information Society
Short-term Business Statistics
Other Monthly and Quarterly Data
Number of Employed Persons
Turnover indices in Section G ‘Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles’ - (at constant prices)
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New Portal album, Vexvoid
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:05 am Post subject:
ADB wrote:
In my humble opinion Swarth is there strongest album, so I'm very much looking forward to this
I agree - I'm definitely looking forward to this even if the artwork is a trifle.... odd (for them)
GiantCogs
Location: Buenos Aires
Seepia and Outre had an immediate impact on me. Swarth still hasn't grabbed me, but I don't think i have given it enough serious listens yet. It's not the type of record you can listen to while reading and get much out of it. I need to do some driving listens. That's always when I have the clearest head listening to music. Too bad vinyls don't play in the car.
blodhemn9
I own all 3 previous full lengths, and still cannot decide if I like this band or not.
al_infierno wrote:
Imagine being shot to death by someone who unironically listens to power metalcore.
S_Slaughter
I agree 'Seepia' is my favourite as well, it's the one that I have listened to the most overall.
Seance Records
www.seancerecords.com
Blarted at Birth
yeahhhhhhhhh buddy
Outre is a great album but really is quite anemic sounding compared to the other two...it has a great sinister ambiance though. I do tend to go for the more immediately vicious other albums first. I still haven't got a copy of The Sweyy ep!!
Didn't notice this before..
Good news. Artwork does seem..somehow muted and weirdly..not that odd, which is weird for them,hah, but I'm sure they will deliver madness.
Outre has the more of an evil fucked up ambience, and Swarth is a mixture of Seepia's manic madness mixed with Outre.
Anyway, I like all three records. Eldritch terror for the ancient ones...
Chimère Noire
Location: in the shadow of the horns
sample here:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14675-curtain/
Horror Graphics
http://industriechimerenoire.blogspot.com/
Dark Noise
http://betelumineuse.bandcamp.com/
Gruwel
Location: West Coast, Netherlands
Chimère Noire wrote:
Was going to post that. Sounds good but not as sickening as some of their previous stuff.
Sounds like Portal.
Sounds OKAY
Pitchfork wrote:
Portal twist time and again from death metal build to black metal blur to noise rock distortion
No, it's death metal.
That's the number one thing I hate about these hipster 'zines. Nothing can be good unless it's a combination of different genres, because that's what "true art" is. What a load of fucking bollocks.
GiantCogs wrote:
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LazerBeast
Demoniarch
Hipster anything trying to intellectualize something that is just art and loud and chaos is retarded anyways. They are a band of chaos and audio noise, death and black metal are not supposed to be dissected and intellectualized into some stupid essay format, in fact it's music that should not even be shared at all, just passed from one trusted hand to another and remain unknown to all that feel that need to try and figure it all out like they are on Oprah Winfrey.
samsquanch
Whilst not ever wanting to actually agree with any of the tripe written by Pitchfork, the 'noise rock' tag whilst a bit of a stretch could be applicable if you were to lump someone like Glenn Branca in that genre. There have been moments when seeing Portal live that Mr Branca has been called to mind when the guitars tend to 'chime' together.
The start of this new track sounds a bit more Impetuous Ritual from the riffs.
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The Miserable Annals of the Earth
Laugh while you can, monkey boy
Captain America Lives Again!
...and various other assorted sundries.
The pic is from my birthday, the big 48, nearly a month ago. Time flies during the holidays around here. The shield was a gift from my eldest daughter, Super Drama Teen, who, being twenty years old now, should probably just be called Super Drama Daughter or some such.
I got other cool stuff -- a nifty Silver Age JLA and Flash t-shirts from Nate, the two FF movies from Super Adorable Kid, some magic cards and an awesome Silver Surfer glass from Super Dependable Teen, a copy of a very useful and avidly sought after, long out of print, roleplaying resource book from SuperWife, and... hrm... probably a few other things I can't remember. But the shield, which Super Drama Daughter found on vacation in Gatlinsburg and hid out for me for months, was the highlight.
I have such great kids.
Last summer, I started up another blogspot page, all about this pulp hero RPG scenario I came up with set in the fabulous 1930s. Check it out, if you've a mind to.
In other random bits of geek blather, I've been watching the first season of THE VENTURE BROTHERS on DVD over the last couple of mornings before I leave for work. Remember THE TICK cartoon? Remember how unbelievably hilariously hysterically bust-a-gut nearly laugh yourself into an aneurysm it was, pretty much constantly, in every single episode?
Well, if you're looking for another pulp hero parody/pastiche cartoon series that is consistently about half as funny as THE TICK, and that occasionally gets up to being nearly 2/3s as funny as THE TICK, then this is your show.
That may seem like damning with faint praise, but I can't think of anything else on that's even half as funny as THE TICK used to be, so, whatever. THE VENTURE BROTHERS is cool, mind you, and I'm enjoying it. It's just, kind of, THE TICK-lite.
Continuing the random, I think it's time. Time for Joss Whedon to just admit it. However much he hates it, he needs to stop running away from it, stop living in denial, and just embrace it: the only thing he can do right is BUFFY. (DR. HORRIBLE was cool, but it's not going to work as an open ended series.) He needs to stop wasting years and years and years that we and Eliza Dushku and Anthony Stewart Head are never going to get back, buckle down, gear up, and do a goddam FAITH series.
And if he'd honestly rather die than re immerse himself in the BUFFY verse, well, I'll write the fucker. I'm easily as fat as Whedon. And I have the same kind of whiny voice he does. Plus, I have a cool Captain America shield. What more could anyone ask for?
Posted by Doc Nebula at December 17, 2009 2 comments: Links to this post
I just threw up a little in my mouth
From my Inbox:
From Sgt Herman Hansley
Camp MXP-512 Third Infantry Division
UnitT.I.D.U,
Abul Uruj, Baghdad, Iraq.
I am Herman R Hansley, a native of Iraq. I am a
Military Contractor with the America troop currently
serving in the third infantry division Unit in Iraq.
I am currently on duty break. My partner Darren D.
Braswell, 36, of Riverdale, Ga., died Jan. 7th near
TalAfar, Iraq, when the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter
in which he was a Passenger crashed. Braswell worked
For the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, before
his death We secretly moved some abandoned cash in
a mansion belonging to the former president,
Saddam Hussein and the total cash is
US$20,200,000.00 Twenty Million two hundred thousand Dollars.
As I write this letter to you, these boxes are in
Security Company as I secretly moved it out of Baghdad
to safe place.
Sir I seek your consent to help me move this money to
your country location.
You do not have to be afraid of anything as no one else
knows about this and everything is safe. I would be
pleased and grateful to you if you could assist me
and my late partner Darren D. Braswel in receiving
this boxes for us on your behalf as I will be heading
back soon to camp in Iraq to join my colleagues.
Of course, I shall compensate you with an attractive
percent of the total funds for your role/efforts.
We have limited time now as you know that our
evacuation agreement is been negotiated by the USA
and IRAQI government, kindly get back to me
Moving the funds out of the security company is not
going to be much of a problem as arrangements are
being made towards that. All I want from you is your trust,
Please get back to me with your full name
Preferable without delay and let's negotiate terms.
Your response will determine our subsequent correspondence.
You can read more on this website for more information and
explanations:
Yours in Service.
Herman R Hansley
For years I've been getting these things... I suspect we all have. And like most of us, I've pretty much ignored them. I mean, if all these people actually were the relatives of deceased African ministers who had stashed millions in a numbered account, the number of deceased African ministers would start to rival the population of Brooklyn. It all seemed very... unlikely. And silly. And sad.
But this... this just makes me mad as hell.
I would like it very much if the United Nations, or Interpol, or some similar entity, would catch these people and put them in jail for a very long time.
Barring that, maybe we could track these pricks down and 'extraordinary rendition' their asses to Gitmo for a few dozen Presidential terms...
Posted by Doc Nebula at November 30, 2009 No comments: Links to this post
A novel approach
Just a reminder: all this sf/fantasy goodness is now available in electronic format at Amazon's Kindle store.
WARREN'S WORLD
It's 1983 in New Sparta, NY, and Warren Dawson is beloved by everyone... his friends, his family, even random strangers on the street. Everybody loves Warren and wants to make him happy. The TVs only show his favorite programs, the radios only play his favorite songs, the movie theaters always have his favorite movies. And, naturally, all the women are beautiful, and all of them love Warren unreservedly and uninhibitedly...
When Warren's best friend Jimmy starts to notice just how strange the reality he and all his friends inhabit truly is, he becomes a threat to the odd, timelost Utopia that Warren has so carefully constructed around them all.
Which sets the stage for a final, epic battle between Warren Dawson and his closest friends. Utilizing powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, Jimmy and his buddies must go to war with a man who would be God, to settle the final fate of the entire human race...
and every living inhabitant of WARREN'S WORLD.
THE FEAR MASTERS
In the late 21st Century, the Global Union has mostly united mankind and brought lasting peace to the surface of the Earth... until the dead start rising from their graves to attack the living. Across the globe, panic and terror cause chaos to erupt, civilization to crumble,
and humanity itself to totter on the very brink of extinction.
Only three members of the Global Union's top secret Science Sector have any inkling of what is actually going on. Now they must undertake a perilous journey into the airless depths of outer space and beyond the borders of death itself in a last ditch attempt to save humanity from the evil alien Fear Masters that seek our utter, final destruction.
Can two tough as nails secret agents and a beautiful, brilliant super-scientist 'git 'er done'? For the answer, check out THE FEAR MASTERS, by D.A. Madigan.
TIME WATCH
When Jim, a thirty something bachelor geek with no life outside the pages of his favorite SF books, comes across a wrist watch that allows him to travel in time, he immediately sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream by traveling through time to assemble the greatest collection of
mint condition Silver Age superhero comics in human history.
But in the future, the secret agency known as Time Watch isn't pleased that one of their devices has fallen into the hands of an outsider, and they are ready, willing, able, and eager to do whatever it takes, up to and including killing Jim, to get their watch back.
As Jim flees from his pursuers across time and space, he quickly realizes that he may well be the human race's only hope for avoiding extinction at the hands of the insidious alien intelligence that is pulling Time Watch's strings from behind the scenes. They want humanity, ALL of humanity, dead... and Jim is now the only living human being who knows the truth.
Armed only with his wits, his time watch, and the aid of a beautiful female personal computer from the 22nd Century, Jim must avoid his pursuers and somehow thwart the genocidal agenda of an ancient, immortal, unearthly collective mind that seeks to bring all human
history to a most final termination.
ZAP FORCE: ROYAL BLOOD
Welcome to Sparta City, circa 1995, where seven super-powered teenagers fight for their lives and their freedom against covert cabals of ancient, evil immortals who yearn to outfit them all with high tech alien mind control slave collars - or low tech earthly bodybags, whichever works.
Yes, here in Sparta City, it's the neurotically networked 90s as they never really were, a time and a place when centuries old evildoers scheme, conspire, machinate and manipulate, while teenage superheroes leap, flip in midair, hurl lightning bolts, cast illusions, punch, kick, fly at supersonic speeds, kick ass, take names, and generally blow stuff up real good.
Seven stalwart students at Sparta University, inadvertently given unique and insane ultrapowers by an exotic on-campus psychology experiment gone horribly awry, and now avidly sought after as super-powered slaves by every other secret super society on the planet -
GALLANT, team leader, who at the age of 19 is both selfless and cynical, and whose super-agility and inhumanly unerring aim make him an all but unbeatable hand to hand combatant and absolutely deadly with anything he can throw, especially the hard energy discs and explosive energy globes his alien tech gauntlets generate;
TESLA GIRL, an 18 year old French Canadian hottie who can turn heads with her high voltage beauty and whose electrically supercharged metabolism can generate lightning bolts powerful enough to melt a combat tank into molten slag;
STRAIGHTLACE, the 18 year old diminutive blonde babe with the attitude of a pit bull who can fly faster than a speeding Sidewinder and smash through solid concrete without taking a scratch;
RAMPART, 19 year old African-American star athlete and honor student who can leap tall buildings in a single bound while carrying a Cadillac Seville over his shoulder;
LOBE-O, wheelchair bound 16 year old supergenius with an advanced college placement whose telepathic powers can trace a fleeting thoughtwave through a million muddled mundane minds;
GLAMOUR, a husky Innuit plain Jane psych major whose psychically projected mental illusions seem real enough to leave lipstick marks on a frat boy's cheek, or boot shaped bruises on a bad guy's ass;
WARPER, the 19 year old star college quarterback who can open teleportals with his mind, when he's not charming phone numbers out of any nearby cuties with his All American good looks;
MAINFRAME, the ageless, bodiless former maintenance man who now only exists as a self aware electronic impulse haunting any machine or set of circuitry he cares to inhabit at any given time;
Together they are ZAP FORCE, reluctant heroes fighting to protect an innocent and ignorant global populace, or at least, their own damn selves, from enslavement or death at the hands of the ancient evil immortals who secretly run the world:
BARON SAMEDI, centuries old blustering boss-man of the voodoo-themed Clan Loa, whose sheer raw strength can crumble solid concrete and whose brutal will to dominate will not be denied by uppity interfering newcomers like those no good Zap Force punks;
THE BARONESS, Baron Samedi's crafty, malevolent and utterly ageless wife and co-Monarch, whose vast mental prowess can (and does) enslave entire populations, including, of course, her own entirely unsuspecting husband;
THE OLD ONE, an inhumanly brilliant schemer born before written history began, who remembers the angels, gods and devils of ancient Sumeria and Babylonia as his contemporaries, peers, and more often than not, siblings, and whose own Royal Clan, the Eldest, is the most respected, hated, and feared of any in existence on Earth today.
STEPHEN SANTERIOS of Clan Loa, psychic assassin and master of the incomprehensibly advanced technology left behind on Earth by the long gone alien H'nnr
Put it all together and what do you got? ZAP FORCE!!
Of all of those, THE FEAR MASTERS is so far my top seller... in the last three months, I've sold 7 copies of it to discerning and apparently satisfied customers (at least, they didn't ask Amazon for a refund). This is so far a break out month for me; from May 1 through today, I've sold 10 copies, total, of my work. In 60 days or so, I'll get $34.80 direct deposited to my bank account. I may buy my wife flowers. Or, you know, just my kids some groceries.
Anyway. To the above tally, I'm happy to say I've formatted and added the following:
ENDGAME : When Webster Madison awakens at the far end of the universe in the super powered fantasy body he'd always wished he had, he was thrilled... until he learned that the price for his power would be his participation in a deadly alien game that could cost him not only his new avatar-form, but also his sanity, or even his life.
Now Webster and thirty other transformed roleplaying gamers from Earth find themselves enmeshed as living chess pieces in a contest whose rules they cannot comprehend, and where every move can result in sudden, horrible, grisly death, while the alien overlords responsible for their transformations test their new champions, often to destruction.
Those transformed human champions who survive these trials will be sent on a mysterious mission even more hazardous than the game itself, with an enormous reward waiting at the end for those who finally win through. Or so they are all told... but Webster suspects that in a world where no one is what they appear to be, nothing they have been told is the truth, either... and if he cannot somehow determine actuality from illusion in this dangerous labyrinth of perilous power, neither Webster nor any of his fellow super powered pawns will make it through the ENDGAME...
EARTHQUEST : When Webster Madison, Hired Gun is dumped at the other end of the galaxy from Earth by treacherous aliens, he must fight his way back home across the hostile stars. Hijacking a ship full of slaves, he successfully leads the human cargo in rebellion against the crew and embarks on a career as an interstellar buccaneer and liberator of the oppressed.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, Sam Curtis is using his newly found superpowers to reshape the world in his own twisted image. Should Webster somehow manage to set foot once more on his native planet, he will find himself walking into a deadly trap elaborately planned and set by his deadliest foe...
Posted by Doc Nebula at October 05, 2009 2 comments: Links to this post
Man vs. Swine
So, the plague has infested Castle Anthrax.
It started last Friday. Super Adorable Kid was finishing up a week's stretch at her biodad's, and he called to tell us she was spiking a fever. When she got back to us Saturday morning, her fever was around 101, and over the next 24 hours, it went as high as 103.9, never quite breaking the magic '104' mark we had set to ourselves as the point at which we'd take her to the emergency room.
It was an eerie Saturday night. I'd worked until, I think, 7:30 in the evening, and upon getting home, I got to watch what SuperWife had been describing to me all day (on my breaks, I always call home) - Super Adorable Kid flushed from fever, every square inch of her skin radiating heat like a sun lamp, shivering and complaining bitterly of the cold and begging for a blanket, which of course SuperWife wouldn't give her, due to the high fever.
We tried kid's ibuprofen and cool showers, and could not get that fever down. By ten o'clock the next morning, we were near panic. My mom was due for a visit starting tomorrow; we were worried even at that point that we might have to wave her off, and anyway, she's a nurse, so we called her to consult over the phone, and she advised us to get Super Adorable Kid to a doctor immediately, as it sounded to her like the swine flu.
So we called our doctor, and it turns out they have an after hours acute care facility just for kids, and thought she sounded bad enough that she should come in immediately. So we took her over there, and after waiting for an hour and a half in a lobby full of coughing kids, and another 45 minutes in a small consultation room, a doctor we didn't know came in, swabbed her throat, advised us it was probably just the flu but he wasn't sure if it was swine flu, came back in ten minutes later to tell us she was negative for strep, and sent us home, with instructions to keep doing what we were doing.
While we were there, a nurse took her temperature, and it was 99.6... the lowest we'd seen in 48 hours. But the digital thermometer she used had a little plastic roller that you run along the forehead, whereas ours is a digital that you insert the contact point into the ear, so I'm still not sure their thermometer got a good reading of her core temp.
So we got her home and took her temp with our thermometer and it was back up to 102.
That was last Sunday. Sunday is the one day a week I always have off; you can imagine, it wasn't a very restful day of rest for me.
Along about Tuesday, Super Wife started showing symptoms. Now, Super Wife has had bronchitis before, and anytime she gets anything remotely like a chest cold or the flu, it goes straight into her lungs and turns into bronchitis. The last time she got sick was a month and a half ago and although she got a Z pack, and it seemed to get her most of the way back, she never quite got to a point where she wasn't coughing if she laughed too much or breathed too hard. So she started heading downhill fast, fast enough that I didn't have to exert anything like the amount of pressure I normally do to get her to go to the doctor's. (She's quick on the trigger to send me or any of the girls to the doctor if we get a sniffle, but she will not go herself. She's the last person in the family she ever wants to spend any money on. It drives me insane.)
So she was home sick from work Wednesday and went to the doctor's office Thursday and came home with an inhaler of medicine and a double Z-pack, and she seems to be improving, but she's still weak and wheezy, and given that the people who seem to be dying from this thing are doing it because it gets into their lungs, I'm pretty worried about her.
Also on Thursday, our pediatrician called us back and advised that they were pretty sure Super Adorable Kid had swine flu. Yay.
Thursday I also started to cough, just a little bit, at work. I work for a call center (no matter how assiduously I try to avoid call center work, I always seem to end up being sucked back into it; it's like I can get away from hell for a little while, but eventually I always end up back there) so I was hoping it was just allergies combined with having to talk to idiots all day, but Friday, which was my day off, I started to spike a fever and feel pretty crappy.
I would have loved to have stayed home on Saturday, when I was scheduled to work 11 to 8, and any sane employer would have encouraged me to do so rather than bring swine flu into their workplace, but if anyone has ever called my current employer sane, they need to take it back. At the call center where I work, employees earn no sick time until they have worked there a year. You get no PDO (paid days off) until you've been there six months. If you get two full attendance occurrences within a year, you get fired, and there are no exceptions made for any reason, and I'm not kidding.
Different types of things trigger different levels of 'occurrence'. If you're between one minute and two hours late, or you punch out between one minute and two hours early, it is an infraction, and technically you need 10 infractions to add up to an occurrence... but there is a sliding scale. In your first 12 months, any one infractions actually equals 6 infractions. In your second year, that goes down to like 4, I think. In your third year, it drops to 2, and when you've been there four years, your attendance infractions actually count as one for one.
Now, missing a day of work unexcused, for any reason at all, is a full occurrence, so you can only miss 1 day of work in your first year... the second day, you are fired. No exceptions. It doesn't matter why you missed work, your supervisor cannot excuse your absence, it is zero tolerance.
So, if you come in late or leave early twice, you have eighteen infractions. Miss a day of work, and you have 10. Get up to two full occurrences, and you're gone.
If this sounds very confusing to you, well, it is. I believe that it is deliberately made very confusing so that at the uppermost levels of management, somebody somewhere can be a little bit subjective about it if they want to... in fact, I know they can, because a month or so ago, when we had bad flooding in downtown River City, about half the call center couldn't make it to work, and management decided that that particular day would not count as an occurrence. (You didn't get paid for it, but it didn't count against you.)
I understand the policy. At any other job I've ever had -- and having temped since 1985, I've had over a hundred, I'm sure - where they have sane attendance policies, people will generally, at least once or twice a year, call in sick when they're not sick. Maybe you've got a sick kid, or maybe you've got to go to an appointment, or maybe it's a nice day out and you need a mental health day, or, whatever... if you work for an enlightened employer, you call up and say "I've got a sick kid, I can't come in today", and if your employer is a dick, you call up, put on your sick voice, and say "I've been throwing up and I can't get off the toilet, I'm gonna try to make it in tomorrow". And nobody fucks with you.
They may not like it; they may very well suspect, when they hear the 'sick voice', that you're faking it to get out of work, mostly because they've done the same damn thing themselves; everybody has, one time or another, unless you have the kind of employer who will let you call in for any reason besides sickness.
My current employer has decided they're not having any of that. But how do you eliminate fake sick days? Well, you eliminate ALL excuses to call in for work; you enact a policy whereby, if an employee misses any work at all, they're fired. No excuses. No exceptions. Show up for work on time when you're scheduled and work your whole shift, or don't show up at all, ever.
The analytical part of me also wonders just how much this deranged policy has to do with the fact that I only have this job because my employer had to get permission from the Federal government to do a pretty big merger last year, and the Federal government stipulated that if they were going to do that, they had to agree to bring about 2000 jobs that they had previously offshored back to America. Given how hard it is to actually stay employed by this employer, what with the policy I am describing, and several others I have not, I'm wondering if they aren't positioning themselves to go to the Feds in another year or so and say "We've tried to staff these jobs with Americans, and Americans are no good... they won't show up for work, and we can't keep the positions filled. We need to offshore these jobs again." This little bit of paranoia is especially born out by what a supervisor at my call center once told me - any month where they only have 51% turnover in staff is considered a good month. But they don't often have good months.
So, yes, I do understand the policy, but it's either malevolent or insane. The elimination of people calling in sick when they're not sick is, on one level, a laudable goal, and call centers do need to be pretty strict about attendance and punctuality. But this is my fifth call center, and it's the first place I've ever worked where, no matter how sick I actually am, I absolutely do not dare to call in sick if I think I have the strength to crawl to the bus stop.
So, even knowing that I almost certainly have the swine flu, I went into work on Saturday. I was pretty miserable, with my fever spiking up and down all day, but I took a lot of medicine in with me and I'm not bronchial like Super Wife is, so I got through it. Most of the people I spoke with, however, opined that I should really be at home, a sentiment I heartily agreed with.
Today I'm doing okay. I've been stuffed up, but taking a handful of pills every 12 hours or so... ibuprofen for fever, Mucinex for the cough and congestion, sudafeds for the runny nose. I had no fever all last night, but woke up with it back up to 101.7... took some ibuprofen and a shower, and got it back down. Now I have no fever again, or didn't last time I checked it. I just feel kind of punk.
After a restless night, I switched over to sleeping in my 9 year old's room (she was back at her biodad's for her weekend visit earlier today). Her bed is the futon I used to sleep on (my mom and stepdad bought it to put in the guest room when I had to stay with them for a while back in '97, and when they moved out of that house, they gave the futon to me, and I've had it ever since, and slept in it until I moved here in 2004, when I turned it over to Super Adorable Kid). I mostly did it so SuperWife could have the bed in the back room and watch TV; she wasn't tired and I was. I wound up sleeping until 2:30 in the afternoon, which seems to have done me a world of good.
Super Adorable Kid had been scheduled to go camping at Red River Gorge for a family reunion this weekend, and SuperWife had been scrapping with the ex all week long, trying to get him to see that even if Super Adorable Kid weren't feverish on Saturday, she might still be contagious and she shouldn't be sleeping on the ground in 40 degree weather. He finally, grudgingly, saw reason on Friday and agreed not to go to the Gorge; it was only when SuperWife called his sister and told her that Super Adorable Kid probably had swine flu and the sister called him and gave him an earful that he came around. It's unfortunate that things are this way, but the kind of relationship he has created with us, if SuperWife or I say "stop", he immediately says "go". He honestly thinks that everything is about him, and if SuperWife or I are expressing concerns about our mutual daughter's health, well, that's just a blind, what we're REALLY trying to do is mess up his camping trip, and he has to dig his heels in just to spite us.
So, anyway, she didn't go camping, and she seems to have been fever free all weekend, which is something. Now she's got a rash and is scratching her head and neck a lot, and she's still coughing too much, but I think she's getting through the flu, at the very least. Which is a huge relief.
This thing isn't hitting me anywhere near as hard as it's hitting SuperWife. I can hear her coughing her head off from down the hall in the bedroom, and it's really stressing me out. I have to go back to work tomorrow, and risk spreading this thing to any number of other people who, I'm sure, if they could take a vote, would much rather I stayed home... but I can't lose this job. There is nothing else out there for me; I keep looking. I'm amazed that in the middle of a recession bordering on a depression, I managed to find work at all. I've called our personnel department twice to ask if they are planning to make any exceptions to the attendance policy for swine flu, and both times the person on the other end of the phone has said, basically, "Uh...." followed by a long silence.
Of course, whoever I get on the phone isn't authorized to make an exception for any reason, that has to come from the very top. And I know that. And I also know that if someone were to decide, okay, we'll let people with swine flu stay home and recover, well, anyone who wants to call in sick will say they've got swine flu, which is exactly the sort of thing that this completely fucking demented and utterly irresponsible attendance policy is intended to prevent.
But the end result is going to be, the entire call center is going to end up down with the swine flu.
Anyway, that's my ongoing battle with swine flu. I strongly suggest that if you haven't already gotten it, you wash your hands every twenty minutes, carry antibacterial spray with you everywhere you go, and avoid the infected like lepers.
SuperWife is coughing again, so I'm going to wrap this up.
Posted by Doc Nebula at October 04, 2009 No comments: Links to this post
George R.R. Martin is not my bitch
Daniel Keys Moran's latest comment threads point me to this driveling idiocy, which, given the source, surprises me not at all with either of those two qualities. In that comment thread, I respond thusly:
As for entitlement issues, and Neil Gaiman:
It's interesting that Gaiman opens that essay complaining because American Airlines won't provide him with what he considers to be a necessary tool to facilitate his writing while on one of their flights, at a price he thinks is reasonable. American Airlines provides him with a service (getting him from point A to point B within an acceptable time frame) for a price he's willing to pay. Gaiman seems to feel there's a contract between him and AA, that they will also, for the price of his ticket, facilitate his word processing while he's in their care, just like, apparently, all the other airlines he normally flies with do. But, as he points out later on in an entirely different context, the contract doesn't exist. His sense that they should give him this thing that he wants cheaply, that is not part of the service they render, is, er, hm, what should we call it... oh, yeah... an 'entitlement issue'.
Then he goes on to say this, in re: the astonishingly lazy George R.R. Martin:
You're complaining about George doing other things than writing the books you want to read as if your buying the first book in the series was a contract with him: that you would pay over your ten dollars, and George for his part would spend every waking hour until the series was done, writing the rest of the books for you.
No such contract existed. You were paying your ten dollars for the book you were reading, and I assume that you enjoyed it because you want to know what happens next.
Yeah. We want to know what happens next. And the author isn't telling us. Know what he's doing instead? He's taking the money we've paid him to tell us this story and he's spending it doing pretty much every other thing in the world except what we're paying him to do, which is, finish the story.
There is a contract. When you pay your money to the storyteller in the marketplace, the contract is, he tells you a story. Now, I'm willing to accept that when I toss a shekel in his upturned turban, maybe I won't LIKE the story, but unless the motherfucker dies before he chokes out the ending, at the very least, I believe that the implicit contract betwixt him and me that came into existence when he said "I'll tell you a story for a shekel, my good man" and I said, "Very well, here is your shekel, prate onward, o scribe", encompasses him telling me the ENTIRE story. Not just half or two thirds of it, at which point, he'll decide it's much much more important for him to watch a Giants' game, or go off to some storyteller's convention where people will kiss his ass for a week or so, or head back into his hotel, where he can sign a lot of merchandising and film contracts regarding the half or 2/3s of a story I've paid him to tell me and that he hasn't finished yet.
I'm not paying for a book, I'm paying for a STORY. He hasn't finished the story yet. And sure, if it's a long story he's entitled to breaks and meal time and some rest & recreation, but when I keep coming back to the marketplace looking for him to pick up where he left off and he's still over by the fountain under an awning watching the Punch & Judy show while good looking matched Swedish twins put butter on his toes, and it's pretty obvious that the operators of the Punch and Judy show and the good looking Swedish twins are both being sponsored by my shekel, I'm going to start feeling a little bit put upon, a little bit aggravated, a little bit as if someone is failing to live up to their end of the unstated contract.
But there is a contract, and the contract is this: You start a story, you finish it, and if you're having trouble finishing it, you at least show that you're making an effort to do so, that your contract with me is a priority for you, that it matters, that it's important.
You want to break that story down into increments and charge me for each increment, that's fine, but I want to see that you're making progress. I want to see good faith. And if I don't, I'm going to scream my head off about it, and why? Because that's really all I can do. If the storyteller is indeed so feckless and faithless that, while continuing to take my shekels through all his merchandising contracts and such, he still puts every other thing in his life ahead of continuing to tell me the story I'm paying for, well, there's not much I can do, except scream my head off, which I'm going to do.
This is one of those things where you're either a paying audience member or a story teller. If you're one, you simply have no sympathy for the POV of the other. I can understand this, vaguely; there are only six people in the world who have read my first novel UNIVERSAL MAINTENANCE, but I regularly hear from all six of them, wondering when I'm going to write the sequel. And I tell them all the same thing: when someone wants to pay me a realistic amount of money to set aside a year or so of my finite lifespan to turn out that sequel, I'll write it. Which I think is fair.
George R.R. Martin has been fairly compensated for not only the entire projected SONG OF ICE AND FIRE series, but, most likely, at this point, for every single other thing he's ever written in his life, and, most likely, he's been compensated at a pretty high rate for every football game he's ever going to watch again before he dies, too.... all of it, out of the coin that has been generated by A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE... a story that he has, as yet, to finish. The contract is for the story, not the increments of the story. If he can't finish it, he can at least keep working on it. He can show us it's a priority for him.
Or he can start issuing refund checks.
And if he can't do that, or he chooses not to do that, then, at the very least, while he's living in the million dollar home the Ice and Fire fans bought for him, watching football on the big screen high density TV the Ice and Fire fans bought for him, jetting to various exotic foreign lands using tickets that his Ice and Fire fans bought for him, and staying at hotels that his Ice and Fire fans are paying for, and going to cons to receive the adulation of his Ice and Fire fans, when we ask him "say, George, when's the next Ice and Fire book coming out", he could not whine and shriek and stamp his feet and wave his arms and cry like a giant fucking grey haired baby and call all of us names because, you know, we've given him millions of dollars for this story and he doesn't even want to bother pretending he's actually working on finishing it.
There is a contract. There is. I'm sorry if other authors of serial fiction out there take all this personally and find it all very inconvenient, but there is. And it's not for the book, it's for the story. You start a story, you need to at least make a pretty game attempt at finishing it. George R.R. Martin not only wants to cop out on his contract, but he also demands universal respect, admiration, and adulation from his fans while he takes our money with one hand and flips us off with the other.
Beyond all that, let me say this: Nobody, not one single Ice and Fire fan, has ever assumed that George R.R. Martin is our bitch. That's a straw man, and an egregiously dishonest, ludicrously stupid one, at that. We just think George R.R. Martin undertook to tell us a story, and he's fucking off, on our dime. And it pisses us off.
Or at least, it pisses me off.
Here endeth the lesson.
It's not exactly succinct, and given that nobody reads this blog any more, it's not going to inspire any fawning sycophant to record a catchy little You Tube ditty, but, still, I think it's much more cogent than the entirely self serving nonsense it refutes.
Posted by Doc Nebula at September 01, 2009 No comments: Links to this post
The Random
Random nonsense as it occurs to me:
* My new job sucks. I could go on and on and on, as I once did about previous jobs on previous blogs, and it would be hilarious and all the people who aren't reading this blog would find it hilarious if they read this blog, but then one of those people who aren't reading this blog would mention it to someone I work with and I'd get fired and my wife would kick my ass. So all you get is 'my new job sucks', and 'you' are me, anyway, because nobody else is reading this blog, so 'you' already know all this stuff, anyway.
* Tip of the oscillation overthruster to that master of fuck a doodle doo John Rogers for tipping me to the phrase shipping, which I still can't believe I never heard of until a few minutes ago. In addition to being an asshole, I'm apparently an ignorant wipe, too. WhatEV.
* The guy over at Perfectly Cromulent Blog isn't getting any comments these days, either. This makes me feel simultaneously sad and comforted, reinforcing once again the long standing realization that I am, indeed, a dick.
* So far, out of all my e-novels at the Kindle site, my runaway best seller is Time Watch. Now, mind you, I like Time Watch fine, but why it should outsell everything else I've got up there for an order of magnitude I could not possibly tell you... except that so far, it's the only book that anyone else has ever linked to from anything like a popular blog. Which is probably all the difference there is.
* And at that, when I say it's a runaway bestseller, I mean, over the last six months, it's sold about 20 copies. Which is about ten times what any other title I've got up there has sold over the same period.
* My new job REALLY sucks.
* And so do nearly all Republicans/conservatives, from what I can see.
Posted by Doc Nebula at August 13, 2009 1 comment: Links to this post
Please Help If You Can
Back in September of 1979, I was wandering aimlessly on the third evening since my family had helped move me into the dorms at Syracuse University. I heard music coming from the quad, and drifted over. A band with a female lead singer was playing AMAZING rock and roll, so I sat down at the periphery and listened. I caught the name of the singer after a few more songs, and a week later, bought her self named debut album at a local campus record store.
Along with the first two albums by The Cars, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' DAMN THE TORPEDOES, Blue Oyster Cult's SECRET TREATIES and AGENTS OF FORTUNE, and Carole King's TAPESTRY, that self titled debut album, CAROLYNE MAS, became a vital and permanent part of the musical backdrop of my adulthood. I've always thought it was a great pity that Carolyne Mas never caught on; she had a fantastic voice, was a wonderful guitar player, and a terrific songwriter. A few years later I managed to find her third album and snatched that up, too. It wasn't as good as the first, but it still had a lot of really solid tunes on it.
Fast forward to last summer -- I came across an article online about Carolyne Mas, about how she'd never quite made it in rock and roll and was currently, in her early 50s, running a shelter for abandoned animals in Florida. I put up a blog entry lamenting the unfairness of a world in which hack non creative types become incredibly successful while genuinely talented artists languish as unknowns.
Fast forward again to a few weeks ago, when that blog entry got its first comment... from Carolyne Mas. She thanked me for the entry, said she loved my writing style, and suggested I help her write her biography.
That began an email correspondence, the latest installment of which is below (in response to a note I sent on Monday, asking if she was doing okay, as I knew from a phone call on Friday she was heading into a rough weekend):
"We're not okay...I have been desperately trying to raise money. I have no money for cat food, dog food, and now people food. No matter how many times I post my plea on FB or MySpace...we are all on the verge of starvation. I am trying to make sure my mother and my son have something to eat. There is a place that gives free meals on Sundays, so we will be able to eat then, all of us, if we can get the gas to get there. I am worried about the cats and dogs, too.
I have sent this letter to all the production and publishing big shots I have known, who are all wealthy, with no response. When you are poor, no one wants anything to do with you. It's a sick world, especially the entertainment business...if you cannot serve them in some way, you are invisible.
Here is a link to my letter...
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/note.php?note_id=90734634069&id=637561082&ref=mf]http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/note.php?note_id=90734634069&id=637561082&ref=mf
Hope I can hang on long enough for you to finish this...
Love, Carolyne"
This is not a joke or a hoax. This is a real person who is really at the end of her rope and has no idea where else she is going to turn, or how she's going to eat, or feed her husband, or the hundreds of abandoned animals in her care, past this Sunday, assuming they manage to get to a food bank and the food bank actually has any food.
I don't know this woman at all well, but I believe her to be one of the genuinely good people in this world, as well as an enormously talented performing artist, and while there is little to nothing I can do for her, or my family can do for her, at this distance and given our own financial situation, still, I can reach out on the Internet, and I am doing so.
If you check out this link and scroll down a little, you will find a lot of information about Carolyne's life and career and current undertakings and desperate situation, and you will also find a PayPal link. I'm sure Carolyne will be deeply grateful for any contributions whatsoever that may come in. As will I, for whatever that may be worth.
Posted by Doc Nebula at July 24, 2009 No comments: Links to this post
These are a few of my least favorite things...
...a bunch of blog posts in a row with no comments.
It's tough to stay motivated.
It's just a jump to the left
Okay. So, I started a new job on Monday, and I could do a whole blog about what I've learned regarding this job in the last four days, but the economics of our day to day family life demand that I not get fired, so I will abstain. Suffice to say, it's a call center, and when I complete my classroom training in another three weeks, I'll be taking calls from disgruntled and stupid customers at horrifying hours of the day and night. You can review my old blog entries made while working in other call centers for anything further you might need; nothing is different about this job, except in the ways that this job is worse than those I've held previously.
I'm pretty much over LouisvilleRPG.net, and I'll tell you why.
The latest thing was, I had set up this scenario to run for my Monday night gaming group using the SAVAGE WORLDS RPG system. SAVAGE WORLDS is extremely simple minded and unrealistic and I'm not crazy about how several of its essential mechanisms work, but the system's slogan is "Fast, Furious, Fun!" and that, at least, is accurate. I would never use the system for any kind of serious campaign, but for different, more shallow adventures, it's pretty workable. So I came up with this scenario and I was really psyched to run it, as it's set in 1938 and features larger than life pulp hero/villain archetypes, which is a subgenre I've loved since I was a kid reading DOC SAVAGE paperbacks at my babysitter's house. I was really looking forward to it, it was going to be a lot of fun.
But those hopes began to die when I started my new job.
See, I'd known that after six weeks of training, I'd have to bid on a shift and chances are that, having no seniority, I'd end up with one nobody else wanted, meaning, I'd be working nights. My Monday night gaming group ran on, well, Monday nights, so it seemed pretty certain that once six weeks went by, I'd no longer be able to game with those guys, but that was okay, as the scenario I'd come up with was designed to run maybe four sessions at most. So all was cool. Yes, it seemed likely that after training was over, I'd have to drop out of the Monday night group indefinitely, but at least I'd go out with a bang.
Now, the path to getting my new job was long and arduous and required several phone conversations/interviews with various HR people and supervisors, as well as a drug screen and a background check, over the course of several months. During these contacts, I was told repeatedly by several different people that for training, we'd be working Monday through Friday, 8 to 5. After training, we'd have to bid on shifts and most likely would start out working at night, as very few people want to work at night and that's what we'd get stuck with... a very familiar dynamic to me from past call centers. But for the first six weeks, Monday through Friday, 8 to 5.
Which worked well with our Monday game group, as it met from 6 to 10. Four hours isn't much to run an RPG in, and I wouldn't have wanted to try running any kind of RPG for much less than four hours a session, but getting out of work at 5 would leave me ample time to make a 6 o'clock start time.
So I thought, anyway.
But Nate's going on vacation next week, so that was one Monday we weren't going to have. Which was no problem, as my scenario was only supposed to run 4 sessions, and I still had 5 weeks available for sessions before training concluded and I had to quit the group. So it was still going to be cool and I was still totally psyched.
But then, one of the other guys (he doesn't like his real name used on the internet, on the sight he goes by Cruel Despot, so I'll call him CD) announced he'd be out for a week in there, too... not the same week Nate was going to be out, but a different one.
So that dropped my six weeks of availability down to 4. But I could still do it, no problem. Gonna be fun, totally psyched...
So then Nate found out on a Thursday that the following Monday (last Monday, the 29th of June) he was going to have to go out of town for work and wouldn't be around. Fuck. Okay. At first I figured we just weren't going to get to play that week, which sucked, and I was sad and disappointed. But then, everyone in the group -- CD, another guy named Chris, and Nate -- agreed to do it on Wednesday night instead. Okay. Going to be cool, totally psyched...
Then at work, first day, right out of the box, we were informed that our fifth and sixth weeks of training we'd be working 2 pm to 11 pm, instead of 8 to 5. Which meant suddenly I'd have to quit the Monday group two weeks earlier than I'd thought. So I started sending emails on my break again, and that dialogue went something like this:
ME: I only have four weeks until I start working evenings. Two weeks of those we can't play. Suggestions?
CD: Run it anyway as a one shot, or for two sessions. I want to play.
NATE: Hell to the yeah.
CHRIS: Whatever, dudes.
So... okay. I could cut back, I could streamline, I could cram. I could run the scenario for one or two sessions. I could make that work. And I was incredibly psyched to run. Even comopressed, it was going to be SO much fun. I just love Golden Age pulp.
So there were two other guys who were kinda sorta thinking of joining the Monday night group, which as I have noted, met from 6 to 10 on Mondays. I'd been hoping they'd both play in the scenario, as 5 player characters would be better than 3. One of them, whom I knew only by his board sig, ElSanto, had sent me a few emails full of excellent ideas for Golden Age type pulp heroic player characters. So I was really hoping he'd be able to play on Wednesday.
Another, a guy named Conner, I hadn't heard a word from. But after the run had to be pushed from Monday to Wednesday, I heard from ElSanto... he was sorry, but the only night he could make it was Monday. Goddamit. Okay, that was disappointing.
Then I heard from the other guy. He wasn't really interested in the 1930s or 'the whole pulp thing', as he put it. So he wasn't going to play, either. Bummer. Oh, well. Anybody who doesn't like Golden Age Pulp is a waste of space and organized protoplasm, anyway, so... whatever.
But I still had three players for Wednesday, and was totally psyched. It was going to be SO cool. I was really looking forward to it.
So then at the end of our first day, after I'd made all these adjustments and absorbed all of these changes, our trainer mentioned that she was changing training hours from 8 to 5 to 9 to 6.
That dialogue went like this:
TRAINER: Did they tell all of you you'd be working from 8 to 5 for the first four weeks of training?
CLASS: Yes. Over and over again.
TRAINER: I'm going to change that just a little, to 9 to 6. I really think it will help you to get a little later start in the morning. You'll be more awake.
ME: You fucking bitch. I will kill you, I will skin you, I will suck the marrow from your bones, tan your filthy hide and make it into taut, supple drumheads that I may beat out the rhythms of my rage with the long and weighty lengths of your femurs, which will feel so very right and comfortable in my vengeful hands.
Or at least, that's how it went in my mind.
(Should the human race become telepathic, I will find it impossible to remain employed.)
So, I sent emails out again. Did people still want to try to run this thing, if I couldn't be there until 6:30, quarter of 7? I hated losing any time at all from such a narrow, finite window. But I only had two potential sessions left to run this thing where a reasonably sized group could get there, and I really wanted to run it, despite what seemed to be an absolute determination on the part of God to do everything short of hitting the Earth with a planet killing meteor to stop me doing so.
That went like this:
ME: Uh, so, my hours just got changed and I'm working until 6 and I probably can't get there until like 6:30, quarter of 7. I hate that. Do people still want to play?
CD: I'm cool.
NATE: Totally.
CHRIS: Uh... I forgot to tell you guys but like two months ago I promised my girlfriend I'd do something with her and her family on Wednesday and she just reminded me so, uh, too bad, so sad.
Okay, I didn't really say it, or even type it, that time, either, but I badly, badly wanted to.
It was especially exasperating, as I'd gone to great efforts to attend a couple of RPG sessions that Chris had GMed, the previous week. But... whatever, dude. Skin you later.
At this point, I just gave up, because it seems obvious that if I persist in this folly, God is going to send a plague of boils or a voracious and unstoppable onslaught of hideous mutated giant boll weevils or some such shit to keep me from ever running this scenario.
Which makes me sad. And frustrated.
Just to add further general aggravation to the situation, it appears that apparently by some bizarre alchemy, this complete collapse of my planned scenario has transmuted itself into the complete collapse of the Monday night gaming group. Those two guys who were going to join the group? They decided to start their own Monday night group instead. Chris and CD? They've joined the new Monday night group, abandoning our previous one.
It's like, I get a job where I'll have to work evenings, and everything falls apart all around me.
I had no idea I was such an essential person.
Anyway. By itself that wouldn't have been enough to sour me on the RPG site, but, well, it's been coming for awhile, and this is just that fabled final straw. Beyond all the crap I've already reported above and in previous entries, well, I'm just tired of the idiocy and, more importantly, the hypocrisy, that is redolent on the site. What do I mean? Well... listen, O Prince, as I weave for you the tales:
A while back, I happened to casually mention in a thread on the site a particular incident that had occurred in my RPG back in the 90s, in Syracuse. I thought it was funny, and that others would find it amusing. As nearly always happens, I vastly overestimated the intelligence, maturity, open mindedness, and wisdom of my fellow gamers, especially those at LouisvilleRPG.net. But let me tell you this anecdote as I told it to them:
The group of player characters in my game at the time had broken into a wizard's lair and stolen several valuable items. One of the most valuable they couldn't sell in Ona Tengu (the area where they were) because it was powered by a kind of magic that was very illegal there (necromancy) and they would have been executed if anyone had suspected they had such a thing.
So they had booked passage on a ship to a less lawful realm, but it didn't leave until the next morning. They were pretty sure the local underworld was aware they had the item, and would try to kill them and get it. So they rented an inn room, and took turns sitting up on watch in the hallway outside the inn room door. (In a previous scenario, a different group of characters played by the same guys had been in a similar situation, and they'd stood watch inside the inn room, and an assassin had snuck up to the door and pumped the room full of toxic gas through the keyhole. So this time, they posted their guard outside the door, to preclude that.)
So I was going to have the local crimelord send an attractive bimbo to try and lure the PC guarding the door away.
Naturally, the players were going to be suspicious of any kind of approach... players generally know when an encounter or occurrence is random or planned, based on what kind of dice the GM has them roll. So they were suspicious of anything that happened, especially if they hadn't rolled a random encounter. (Some GMs roll such things behind their DM screen, specifically so that players won't have this kind of information, but I make rolls like this where people can see them, so they know I'm not cheating. It's just how I DM.)
Now, what the players were doing in this instance is called metagaming... playing your character with knowledge that only the player has, usually based on a game mechanic the character has no idea exists... and I have rules to deal with it. There are skills in my RPG that allow characters to Persuade each other to do things, even if the player of those characters knows better and does not want their character to do those things.
So I was going to have a cute dancer or tavern servant or something go down the hall and make a Sex Appeal roll on whoever was standing guard. The player would be pretty sure it was a trick, given the lack of a random encounter roll... they'd be fairly certain this was an event planned by the GM, and therefore, part of some scheme... but if the non player character succeeded at the skill roll vs the player character's Willpower, then it wouldn't matter what the player suspected... the PC would be successfully seduced and removed from position.
At the last second, it occurred to me that in my RPG setting, there is no homosexuality taboo and nearly everyone is bisexual... so it could just as easily be a male cute young thang as a female assigned to the seduction/distraction task. Certainly, it would never occur to the local crimelord that he needed to specifically send a woman to do the job. So I told the player whose character was on guard (his name was Chris) to roll a d6. He said "What do I want?" and I said, "Well, knowing you, probably an odd number". He rolled a 4. So the cute young thang set to seduce the big burly male mercenary was, indeed, male.
In my RPG setting, this wouldn't make any difference, which was why I did it... to underscore that the world my players were gaming in was not our world, but an entirely different reality, and their player characters, having been raised in that world, would have somewhat different values, morals, and taboos than the players themselves did.
So this is how that went:
ME: So you see this incredibly sexy inn servant coming up the stairs... you saw this same NPC serving drinks in the bar downstairs when you came in. Long reddish blonde hair, silky soft, beautifully applied make up, young,soft skin the color of coffee with cream, big brown eyes... you smell just a hint of a very pleasant, musky perfume mingled with a very sexy natural body scent as this sexy thing sways past you in the hall, carrying a tray of drinks to one of the rooms further down. You get a wink and a smile as you watch the NPC go by with the tray. A few minutes later, this same server comes back out and walks back down the hall, and pauses a few yards away from you and says "Gods, I hate this shift. What are you still doing up?"
CHRIS: Uh... I ignore her.
ME: Ignore beauty such as this? Roll 2d6 and add 2.
CHRIS: Goddamit... okay. Erg. 9.
KENNY: Dude, you are totally into her.
ME: In character, I don't think your character would just ignore her.
CHRIS: I want a Willpower roll.
ME: Okay... roll. (rolls dice) I have a 19 total.
CHRIS: I can beat that... (rolls dice) Fuck. A 12. Okay, I'll say "Well, I'm keeping watch and I need to concentrate so I'll talk to you later."
ME: Okay. You see a disappointed pout come to the NPC's lovely features. "Look," that lovely voice says, dropping to a whisper, "it's dead downstairs; the barkeep won't notice if I don't come back for a little while. This room across the way is empty... wanna slip into it with me for a quickie?"
KENNY: Dude, don't do it!
NATE: She's going to make a Sex Appeal roll and I'll bet she's got this huge rating.
SCOTT: It's a good thing it's not my watch or I'd already be there. She wouldn't even have to roll on me.
KENNY: Dude, you're a horn dog.
NATE: You'd get us all killed.
CHRIS: I tell her I can't, really, but I'm flattered.
ME: Well, your character knows he SHOULD say that, but I'm not sure he actually can. Roll and add to your Willpower.
CHRIS: Goddamit. (rolls dice) A 23.
ME: (rolls dice) Yeah, but I have a real good rating... 29. Your character totally wants to go.
CHRIS: Goddamit, goddamit! I know this is a total set up from the Kinship!
ME: Your character goes off with the good looking young waiter, and I'm sure has a great time...
NATE: Wait. 'Waiter'?
SCOTT: It's a guy?
ME: Well, I've told you guys before, there is no homosexuality taboo on the River, so your characters wouldn't care. It's not our world.
CHRIS: What the fuck...? It's a GUY?
ME: It wouldn't make any difference to your character, Chris...
KENNY: Dude! It's a DUDE! You're totally going to bone a DUDE! Your character is a fag!
SCOTT: {coughs into hand} Homo!
NATE AND KENNY: (playing air guitar) Lolaaaaa... Lo Lo Lo Lo Lolaaaaaa... Lo lo lo lo lo Lolaaaaaa...
CHRIS: (yelling) That is so totally stupid my character is not gay I would totally never play a gay character I would never even let a guy get close to me that is so fucking bogus I AM TOTALLY NOT QUEER THAT IS SO UNFAIR YOU CAN'T DO THAT...
So I told this story on the site. I mean, it's fifteen years later, right? People are more enlightened now. Everyone would see how funny the whole thing was.
Or so I, entirely erroneously, presumed.
You would have thought I'd confessed to killing someone's kid.
IDIOT 1: You can't make people be gay. That's crazy. Players should have total control of their characters, especially something as important as whether they're gay or not.
ME: It.. okay, in my rpg setting, the kind of homosexuality taboo we take for granted in our world does not exist. People can be attracted to other people regardless of gender. I'm not 'making' anyone be gay, it's simply that my culture does not place enormous social pressure on all its members from birth to only behave in a heterosexual manner.
IDIOT 2: You are totally overestimating the impact of culture on sexuality. People are born straight or gay. And all my characters were born totally straight. Totally.
ME: Look, in most RPGs, characters are pagan, right? You don't get a choice in that. The background culture worships many gods, so, so do your characters. You don't feel offended or outraged that your character is going to worship some weird made up deity from a Monster Manual because that's what people do in the world where he grew up.
IDIOT 3: That's not the same, being gay or straight is totally different from that, and all my characters are straight. The world they are born in has nothing to do with it.
IDIOT 4: Also, you can't just make somebody's character do something they don't want to. Even if it was a girl trying to lure me away, I should get to decide if I go or not.
ME: So, if some good looking NPC makes a Sex Appeal roll on you, and you fail a Willpower check, there should be no consequences?
IDIOT 5: The player decides what his character does. Unless you're using a mind control spell or something. Sure she might be hot but my character might think about the good of the mission and how the party needs him and decide not to go with her. Or maybe my character is married or just isn't in the mood to have sex right then. It's up to me, not you.
IDIOT 2: Also, my character isn't gay. I would never sleep with a man under any circumstances and neither would any of my characters.
ME: So, the player always controls the character, even if the behavior is out of character?
IDIOT 1: It isn't out of character. My character might decide to go with the chick, but he might not. It depends. I'd play my character in character. But only I get to decide what that is.
IDIOT 3: And he would never under any circumstances be gay. That's final.
This "how dare I make anyone be GAY" thing is, in my opinion, beneath contempt... it's nothing but homophobia, which was made pretty clear in the succeeding posts in the thread. The more the members of this particular posse protested that they had nothing against gay guys, it's just that THEY weren't gay, and weren't interested in roleplaying gay characters, and none of their characters should ever be gay, or would ever be gay, under any circumstances, the clearer it became that these were some deeply homophobic motherfuckers, at least some of which were probably repressing their own particular impulses and fantasies to an entirely unhealthy extent. And I have no time for that idiocy, any more than I had time for the one player who rolled up a member of a dark skinned race in my game and didn't want to play him, because he just wasn't comfortable if his PC wasn't a white guy, like him.
So all that soured me on the site, too. But the last straw was an incident that occurred just last week.
As background, let me take you back to the height of the Doc Nebula Flame Wars. This was a period when most of the site was up in arms at me, because I do not like Dungeons and Dragons, I think it's an incredibly stupid fucking game system, and I also think that adults who play Dungeons and Dragons instead of using any of a hundred or more better game systems, or making up their own, are kind of retarded, or, at the very least, have no idea what roleplaying actually is, and are apparently unwilling to learn. And I'd said so, repeatedly, on the site.
Now, this is a site devoted to roleplaying games, and one where supposedly, freedom of expression is cherished and championed. However, apparently one of the big unwritten taboos of the site was and remains, Thou Shalt Not Talk Shit About D&D Because We Worship It Beyond All Sense or Reason. D&D is a childish system, a simple minded system, an unrealistic system, a brainless, dumbass, fucked up and retarded system, and this is inarguable to anyone who has ever roleplayed using it and who has more than four functional brain cells. Everybody I knew who was serious about roleplaying started out with one of the various D&D versions, eventually (usually quickly) became disgusted with its limitations, and moved on to more sophisticated systems allowing greater depth and breadth of roleplaying.
And, in point of fact, many of the people on the site made similarly disparaging remarks about D&D, although they still played it. And many site members also insulted each other with great regularity. However, apparently, my derisive comments regarding D&D, and those who played it irregardless of its obvious limitations and built in stupidities, were intolerable. And so, the flame wars raged.
So at one point, I posted an essay on what freedom of speech meant, and how it was necessary for people of maturity and good will to take responsibility for their own responses, when something that was not intended to insult them wound up offending them gravely. I truly believe that we generally choose to be offended by something, although often we are not consciously aware of it, and if we spend all of our time reacting with umbrage and outrage to everything that offends us, we are not being particularly adult. Freedom of speech doesn't work well in an environment where people scream like four years olds every time somebody says something that conflicts with one of their precious provincial biases or dearly held preconceptions.
I posted that essay in a sub forum where I had moderator privileges, and warned people in advance that while I was looking forward to a spirited debate as regards the ideas in the essay, I would, as moderator of the forum, delete any posts that were simply abusive and/or pejorative.
The first response I got was "DOC STOP BEING SUCH A FUCKING DOUCHE!!!!" And, as I had said I would, I deleted it.
And oh my God. You would have thought I'd bombed downtown Louisville with flaming grandmothers, or something. I could barely keep up with deleting all the abusive, insulting, infuriated tirades of personal invective. I deleted and deleted and deleted. Every once in a while someone would post something pertinent to the actual discussion, and I'd leave that up and respond to it, but those posts were about 1/10th of the flood of hysterical abuse that came pouring in. And most of the abuse was no longer about my hateful intolerant insults in regard to D&D and those who played it, or even what a jackass I was to post essays on freedom of speech and how mature adults should behave in response to it. No, now I was horrible, appalling, and a megalomaniac because I DARED to delete people's posts. I should be stripped of my privileges as moderator in my own sub forum. I should be thrown off the site. I should have a rebar shoved up my ass. It was an outrage.
Well, all that was months ago, but it served to convey to me that apparently, on the site, it is considered to be an absolutely unforgivable offense for a moderator in a forum to delete anyone else's posts, for any reason whatsoever, period, the end.
So, last week, a site member who was posting in another site member's sub forum hit 1000 posts, which is quite a milestone on the site. And he mentioned it in his post. And was clearly pleased at the accomplishment.
So the next day, the member with moderator powers in the sub forum, who has a long standing personality war going on with the first guy, went in and deleted half a dozen of the first guy's posts, to drop him back below 1000. And then he changed the visible signature paragraph on all HIS posts, to make it clear he'd done it just to be a dick.
So the first guy started a thread in which he described what had happened and replaced all the posts that had been taken down. And I read this, and I could not believe what a complete asswipe the other guy had been, and I also could not believe that the rest of the site, which had come after me so hard and furious when I'd deleted posts by other members for what was a very good reason, was going to just sit there and let the dumbass get away with deleting another member's posts for a completely childish and spiteful reason.
So I went in and posted something about what an amazing jackass he was.
And the sky fell in on me.
I'm not kidding. Here's how that went:
IDIOT 1: You fucking hypocrite. You did the exact same thing deleting other people's posts and now you're getting in someone else's face for it? You are scum.
ME: Uh... I deleted posts that were personally abusive and insulting, after advising people that I would. He deleted posts just to be a dick. That's not the same thing.
IDIOT 2: Shut the fuck up, you're stupid.
ME: I... hold on. Even if it is the same thing, when I did it you people crucified me for it, and now, none of you are saying a word to him about it...
IDIOT 3: It was just a joke. Those two have a history. You should just stay out of it. You're such an asshole.
ME: Okay, wait. So when I delete other people's posts for a good reason, I'm scum, and everyone screams at me, but when some other guy does it for a joke, just to be an ass, that's okay?
IDIOT 4: Shut the fuck up.
IDIOT 5: Somebody wake me up when he stops crying like a little bitch.
IDIOT 6: I can't believe you're trying to start a flame war over this. Delete your thread or I'll delete it for you.
ME: ...what...?
IDIOTS: Shut the fuck up.
I want to say I don't understand, but of course I understand. The guy who deleted the other guy's posts, just to be an ass? He plays D&D, albeit with about a thousand house rules loaded on top, and frequently brags about how much he loves D&D and would never play with another rules system. So apparently, as long as he loves D&D and says so frequently in public, he can do no wrong.
Me, on the other hand... my input to the site is only just barely suffered by most other members as long as I never express any kind of negative opinion regarding Dungeons and Dragons. My constant suppression of my opinions regarding that particular gaming system, and the retarded morons who game with it, is the price of my continued sufferance on the site.
So, I'm pretty much over LouisvilleRPG.net.
But if you love Dungeons and Dragons, it is definitely the place for you.
Go to it. Bear its children.
I'll be over here, scheming to make all your characters gay.
If an eye offend thee
So over the past week or so I've learned a lot more than I ever really wanted to know about how the human eye functions.
It's like this -- your eye is basically a big sack of vitreous jelly. Inside this sack are various things like the cornea, the pupil, the lens, the iris, the conjuctiva, and many other really funny sounding words. Most of these things take in light and then beam it onto the retina, which is not, as I had thought, the center of your eye, but is, in fact, this lining at the back of your eye that essentially acts like film in a camera... the light image that is taken in and focused by all the other whatnot gets beamed onto this film at the back of your eye, where the image is then passed on through your optic nerve to the cells of your brain that interpret this data.
Now, when you're young, your vitreous jelly is, in fact, jelly, and that works really well. But as you get older, and especially if you are very nearsighted, your vitreous jelly becomes less solid and more of a fluid. And this doesn't work so well, because when it's a fluid, it doesn't press so firmly against the retina, and in fact, it kind of falls away from the retina. And when this happens, all sorts of little fuck things that were always suspended in the vitreous jelly, but which were held firmly there by the vitreous jelly and which didn't move around, start to float around.
So you start seeing flashing lights and a lot of great big hairy floaters, pretty much all the time, or, at least, half to a third of the time, and this gets very fucking annoying and makes it hard to see and you think "Jesus fucking Christ I'm going blind". Which is terrifying to any member of our species that has enjoyed functional vision for 47 years, but is especially terrifying to me, among whose greatest joys in life are reading and writing, which I will no longer be able to do if I'm suddenly fucking Matt goddam Murdock without the goddam radar sense.
Anyway, last Tuesday I started seeing flashing lights and a lot of great big hairy floaters and these phenomena persisted until they were very nearly driving me batshit and I did some internet research and found a lot of interesting phrases like retinal detachment and macular degeneration and "You too can be just like Stevie Wonder without the musical talent or dreadlocks" and so we scheduled me an eye exam. And as soon as we scheduled me an eye exam the fucking floaters and flashing lights went away so I canceled it and said "Hurray!" And then the floaters came back like gangbusters so I scheduled me another eye exam and went to that yesterday.
The eye doctor who examined me was a bona fide sonofabitch. His bedside manor was, er, brisk and robust, to say the least. When my head was not where he wanted it to be in the apparatus that holds your head where the doctor wants it to be, he would grab me by the face and move my head until it was where he wanted it to be. His fiendish assistants put nasty stinging shit in my eyes that dilated the fuck out of them, and then the doctor beamed gigantic laser photon particle rays into my dilated eyes which caused me the closest thing to pain I have ever experienced without actually experiencing pain. And he did this for hours. And when I did not look exactly where he needed me to look at any given time he would snap "No, no, down to the RIGHT" and when I finally got it correct (it was hard, due to the photonic particle death ray shit), he sneered "That's better, little learning curve there". Which made my wife kind of gasp at his rudeness.
But then he said "Well, you're fine, there are no retinal tears or detachments, this is just the sort of thing that occurs to people at your age, especially very nearsighted people. It will happen to your left eye at some point, too." So that was kind of a... relief? Although I wanted to ask him if his first name was puh-Rick. But I didn't.
Then he said "However, you're at risk for a retinal tear for the next three weeks, so I'd like to see you again at that time for another exam". Then he led us back out to the front where another of his evil assistants put more stingie shit in my eyes to undilate them (it didn't work, I was pretty much blind the rest of the day) and then yet another evil assistant charged us $140, as I am unemployed and have no insurance.
Then we left, and I made an appointment with the Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic, which is much, much less expensive and has a sliding scale for unemployed people with no insurance, for my follow up. Which I should have done before I went to Dr. puh-Rick, but I tried and they couldn't get me in for a couple of weeks.
So, anyway, I'm kind of relieved that I'm not going blind at the moment, but, on the other hand, this whole "your vitreous jelly turns into snot and collapses inside your eye when you're approaching 50" thing seems like a design flaw. I'd like to sue someone, please.
Posted by Doc Nebula at May 20, 2009 No comments: Links to this post
Lack of expertise
Over at Kung Fu Monkey, John Rogers asked people to submit their Odd Areas of Expertise, positing first that you needed at least 10,000 hours of practice in a field to qualify as an 'expert' at anything. Here's my response:
::sigh:: My odd area of expertise is Game Mastering. Sad. Hit me with the Geek Bricks now.
I GMed my first game sometime in... call it early 1980. That was college, and I was the one in my clique that would always DM, so figure I ran 30 sessions a year for the next 3 years, 10 hours a session, which is a pretty good approximation, as we often gamed all weekend back then. So that's 900 hours... throw in another 100 hours for KILLQUEST, a game that the Late, Great Jeff Webb and I invented where you had identical maps in each of 3 pizza boxes and two players running teams of 5 superheroes denoted by numbered push pins on each map. You needed a GM to keep track of all the different heroes' movements on the master map, and I did that a lot, too, because no one else wanted to. Plus, GMing individual 'conflicts', when, like, Kurt would run Wolverine and Andy would run Batman and they'd fight each other.
So, up through 1982, call it 1000 hours.
Right around there people started graduating and moving out, but there was still a core group to game with. So drop it back to 20 sessions for '83. That's 200 hours GMing... maybe more, if you factor in a few hours every week prep work, but, still, call it 200 hours. Then around 1984 The Eisner Award Winning Comics Writer (who hadn't won any Eisner Awards yet) returned to Syracuse from New York with his first regular assignment, and also, with the CHAMPIONS superhero RPG system. So we started running CHAMPIONS... 4 DMs, alternating, whenever we could. Call that 20 more sessions a year. So another 200 hours. And now we're up to 1985, when I DMed hardly anything... maybe 30 hours total the whole year, as people were moving around and the old crowd was pretty well broken up.
But around then I started gaming fantasy stuff, not superhero, with an entirely different group. In 1985 I came back from Basic Training and created my own fantasy game, ran the first session in July. Changed that around a little bit, started running it regularly in January 1986. I've run that game, and, occasionally, a few other random things, for at least ten sessions a year every year since, about half the time much more than that (like, 48 sessions a year). Run length has shortened as I've grown older gracelessly. Call it 35 sessions a year, 8 hours a session, TWENTY THREE FUCKING YEARS... Jesus. 6,440 hours. Conservatively.
Add in the 1400 hours I had in superhero RPGs and you get... 7,880 hours.
However, for, what, 10 years of that elapsed time, at least, I played probably 2 or 3 hours in someone else's game for every 1 hour I GMed my own scenarios, and I studied how they GMed for... I dunno... call it half that time. So figure at least another... I dunno, call it 5,000 hours GM training/apprenticing.
So that's 12,880 hours GMing roleplaying games.
Now. I've written 7 novels and a memoir of my time in Basic Training, call it 100 hours for each, with seems fair. That's 800 hours. I've written... fuck, I don't know... 40 LONG articles on Silver Age superhero comics, gaming, TV shows and movies, and other geek crap, and probably 50 short stories/novellas. Approximate 3 hours each, that's 270 hours. I've blogged a LOT since, oh, 2000, and posted a lot of comments on other people's blogs. Written a fuck of a lot of email. Say 10 hours a week every week since 2000, that's 4,680 more hours pounding the keyboard, trying to put words into some kind of reasonably elegant and occasionally witty order for someone else to read and understand. That's 5,750 hours right there. Plus all the plots and scripts I did in college understudying the Future Eisner Award Winning Comics Writer, and have done since on spec or just for fun. That's... fuck. Got to be another 10,000 hours writing excellent entertaining funny ass bullshit I can get five different sources to 'publish' if I don't want them to pay me, and can't get anyone with the power to cut a check to even take off a slush pile and glance at.
All this, and a lot of the time in there, I've held down full time jobs. Not voluntarily, mind you. And the last four years, I've pretty much been a full time husband and stepfather to three daughters. And that last is a 24/7 deal, so, that's 34,944 hours being a husband and stepdad.
Huh. So I'm an expert Game Master, an expert writer (of crap no one will pay me for), and a Master Class spouse/parent... and yet, while I do feel reasonably expert at throwing a game scenario together and running it, or sitting down and pounding out a story in nearly any format not intended for adaptation into moving pictures, I'm still a rank goddam amateur at husbanding and stepfathering.
So which of these things is more demanding?
Or maybe I just suck.
"It's not STAR TREK"
I saw the movie with an avowed Trek fanatic. When the lights went up, I asked her what she thought. Her response was that it was good, but it “wasn’t Trek.” Not having paid much attention to the Roddenberryverse since “TNG,” I didn’t have much of a response. But then as I left the theater I thought: “Not Trek? The movie has gaping plotholes, a skirt-chasing Kirk, time travel, and a bullshit pseudo-scientific resolution to a life-threatening situation...who are you kidding? It’s totally fucking Trek!"
Thus spaketh Pete Vonder Haar, in his review of the recent STAR TREK movie.
I haven't seen the movie, so I can't speak in any way to its actual content. Nonetheless, I will say a couple of things:
'Avowed Trek fanatics' are not good people to go to movies with. Or spend any kind of time with. They're not as bad as avowed Warren Ellis fanatics, but neither are suicide bombers. For whatever that's worth.
And, I'm pretty sure Pete is missing the point here.
The definition of STAR TREK is not, unfortunately, anything to do with sensible story structure, a sexually predatory Kirk, moronic time travel, or insanely egregious abuses of anything and everything remotely resembling science in the name of plot convenience. Now, it's true, if one were to do a STAR TREK movie or TV show that didn't have these things, the average Trek fan would be enraged, baffled, and perplexed all at once, but, still, it's possible, if only in the most extremely theoretical sense, to do a STAR TREK dealio that makes coherent sense and that doesn't scoff at all accepted laws of physics. It's so unlikely as to qualify for Dr. Manhattan's 'thermodynamic miracle' tag, but, still, it's possible. You could do a good SF movie and it could be STAR TREK.
But you'd need William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk.
Unfortunately, when Pete's movie date said it 'wasn't TREK', whether she was aware of it or not, that's what she meant. This is the first time we've seen anyone try to make anything called STAR TREK that had a character in it named James T. Kirk who wasn't portrayed by William Shatner. And like it or not, this is the crux of the issue of the movie's acceptability as 'real' STAR TREK: will fans accept a non-Shatner Kirk... or won't they?
Obviously, it's going to depend on the age of the fan, and how much of the 'real' STAR TREK they've actually seen, and/or enjoyed. But it's important to note that this movie was not made for Classic Trek fans, nor was it made BY Classic Trek fans. This movie was made by young punks who don't give a shit about STAR TREK for other young punks who don't give a shit about STAR TREK.
So the answer to the 'is this real STAR TREK' question will largely depend on what marketing demographic you fall into. If you're a geezer, like me, and you have very fond memories of watching the original STAR TREK when it was actually broadcast, and you still get a nostalgic tingle when you catch the occasional old ep on G4, and you loved WRATH OF KHAN and pretty much hated every STAR TREK movie since WRATH because they all sucked, but you went to see them anyway, right up until they started making STAR TREK JR movies instead of actual STAR TREK movies, well, this will never be 'real' STAR TREK for you.
But nobody on corporate Earth gives a shit about you; you are, like me, not in a desirable target demo. And as far as everyone who makes any kind of decisions about entertainment gives a shit, nobody gives a shit. We can go fuck ourselves.
So this movie will never be STAR TREK to those of us who actually know what STAR TREK is, but it will become STAR TREK to all the young dickweeds who have no idea what STAR TREK actually is. And that would aggravate me, but, well, long ago, STAR TREK became 'science fiction' to everybody in my generation, and succeeding generations, that did not know what 'science fiction' actually was, and that was REALLY aggravating, so I have no aggravation left for this nonsense.
But let's be clear: William Shatner is James T. Kirk. Nobody else can do it. If you want to reboot the franchise in an alternate universe where you can do all new stories and completely ignore everything that is established as real, actual STAR TREK, well, do it with a new goddam Captain.
Bitches.
Posted by Doc Nebula at May 14, 2009 1 comment: Links to this post
More reasons to beat the living shit out of Brian Michael Bendis
Apparently, the Wasp is dead.
I'm so much happier when I don't know these things.
The Return of the Late Great Jeff Webb
Just a brief note to say that I spent most of the morning reloading much of Jeff's artwork onto two separate Blogspot sites. As blogger seems much more tolerant of 'adult' material than Angelfire was, I'm hoping this time the stuff will stay where I fucking put it.
Anyway, if you love fine fantasy art, you must check out No Costumes Required, where you'll find the majority of Jeff's superheroine good girl art, and The Fantasy Worlds of Jeff Webb, reprinting that art book of Jeff's more fantastic art that I did for an Australian publisher, who disappeared on me the minute I got it finished. But you get to see it free! You lucky, lucky person, you.
It's all definitely Not Safe For Work, though. So be advised.
So, this will make X happy, anyway --
Give me a minute to lay this out. This is tough for me.
It‘s not admitting to error that I find difficult. I don’t have any trouble with that. I’m not invested in maintaining some façade of personal perfection; I make mistakes and it really doesn’t bother me to admit to it. I’m far from perfect… as everyone who’s paid any attention to my behavior on this site already knows.
I’ve been both incorrect, and ethically wrong, in some or much that I’ve done, and I’ve caused a lot of bad feeling here. I regret that, and that’s a sincere declaration of contrition and remorse. Not so much for the consequences it’s had for me, but because I genuinely don’t enjoy confrontation or hurt feelings. Regardless of how it may seem when you look at my track record with these things, I really don’t like causing these kinds of emotional explosions that spread so much ill will so far, so fast.
These kinds of conflagrations do seem to follow me around the Internet. For what it’s worth, there are general reasons for that, and then, specific reasons for each specific instance.
In general: I’m a strange guy. I don’t fit in anywhere all that well, not really. Just as one example, while I consider myself a progressive liberal, many of my political and social opinions put me at odds with most others who identify themselves that way. I don’t mean to go into details on that here, but trust me when I say, when I get into it on things like affirmative action, or gun control, or legalized abortion, or any number of other hot button political/social issues, many if not most others who identify themselves as ‘liberal’ look at me with horror.
I try not to have knee jerk opinions. I try to think things through. I don’t think quickly, but I try to make up for that by thinking both deeply and broadly, by doing some research, by listening to a lot of different people, before I synthesize all of this, think about it some more, and then finally formulate how I feel or think on any particular subject.
Because of this, I’ve learned that whenever I voice an opinion anywhere, it will nearly always be a controversial opinion. Long ago, I tried very hard to be extremely diplomatic when I voiced such opinions. I employed circumlocutions and verbal finesse. I went to great lengths to express myself in the mildest possible terms, mortaring every statement with delicate euphemism and subtly artful understatement, if not outright vacillation. I was at great pains to find ways to state what I felt about a subject in such a way that I could not possibly offend anyone.
It was an enormous amount of effort, and it had the following results:
(a) Many, many people had no clue what I was trying to say, and
(b) there was always somebody who got offended anyway.
After this happened again and again and again, I, perhaps, overreacted. I shrugged and said what the hell. I decided diplomacy was not my bag. I decided it would be better to be clear, to be straightforward, to try my best to communicate my points and views as saliently, as openly, as simply, and as bluntly as I could. I decided that, given that I couldn’t seem to avoid offending people with a controversial, non mainstream opinion anyway, I might as well stop presuming other people couldn’t handle my truths, and start presuming that honesty really would be the best policy.
The results of this have been a mixture of success and failure. Success, in that nobody ever seems to have any great difficulty figuring out exactly where I stand on any subject I voice a view regarding. Failure, in that I now offend a great many more people.
But, again, I’m going to offend people anyway, because my opinions are rarely opinions people seem to want to hear, regardless of where I go. That being the case, my choices seem to be that I can either (a) shut the hell up about what I think on subjects when those subjects are being discussed, or (b) I can lie to make other people happy. Circumlocution and diplomacy don’t keep people from being offended, and they don’t make people happy. They simply make people more confused.
You know what makes people happy? Agreeing with them. On every subject they bring up. At all times, and under all circumstances. They will love you forever for this. Anyone will. It is nearly impossible to dislike someone who feels exactly the same way as we do about every subject that is important to us. Or at least, who presents a persuasive and convincing charade of doing so.
But I never agree with anyone about everything, and I rarely agree with any group of people about anything.
As a general rule, if you’re out on the Internet talking to people, you aren’t inclined to shut up about your views. And as a matter of personal ethics, I’m not inclined to lie about mine.
That’s how, in general, I’ve reached the point I’m at now, as regards how I communicate with others, especially on the Internet.
In specific, on this site (and I’m not trying to excuse or justify my behavior, I understand and accept my own part in recent events, and as I’ve said, I regret those events -- I’m just explaining, for what it’s worth to those who take the time to read all this):
Here’s how I remember things. And this may be wrong, and if someone with more emotional fortitude than me wants to prospect back through old threads to try and confirm or deny this, have at it, but I can’t handle that kind of stress right now. Anyway, what I remember happening is something like this:
I came on the site looking for players for my home brew campaign. I posted a lot of stuff about the campaign, mostly having to do with the setting, which, for what it’s worth, I’m very proud of, as it’s entirely original… which is to say, it isn’t based on any other game setting I’m aware of. There are bits and pieces I’ve stolen from some of my favorite novels and movies over the years, sanded the serial numbers off, and repurposed to my game setting, but still, pretty much the entire setting, and it is a very detailed setting, has come out of my head.
I heard from several site members saying things like “Sounds really interesting. I read those articles you linked to about your GMing style too and that sounds good. I’m very interested.”
And hope would soar in my heart that I had actually found someone who would genuinely enhance the gaming experience for myself, my wife, my daughter, and my buddy Nate. I would get all excited. I would actually dare to dream.
And then: “Are you running 3.5 or 4.0?”
I’d say “I don’t play D&D; I’m using my own original system.”
Please understand, I have been largely unaware until I came to this site that over the past 20 years or so, Dungeons and Dragons has come to so completely and utterly dominate the fantasy roleplaying scene. When I was younger, there was another pattern entirely. I hesitate to describe it for fear of offending people again, but, well, let’s just say, when I came to the campaign that I picked up the precursor of the system I use from, my fellow gamers there were all people who had started with D&D years before, and who had wanted to play in a different style of campaign, and who, not finding that kind of campaign commercially available, had made up their own, along with their own rules systems that allowed them to do the kind of roleplaying that D&D really wasn’t set up to facilitate.
In other words, I came out of a context and continuum of gamers who did not view Dungeons and Dragons as the only acceptable sword and sorcery system; who, in fact, felt that Dungeons and Dragons was much too limited for the kind of roleplaying they wanted to do. And I was not prepared for… well… the kind of response I immediately got from people who had told me they really liked what they’d read about my campaign and my DMing style, when I indicated I did not use D&D, which was:
They’d say “Oh. Not interested.”
And that was the end of it. Even if we’d already set up a meet. The instant they found out I wasn't running D&D, they were done. None of them were willing to try out anything new and/or different, none of them, despite liking the setting and what they‘d read about my GMing style, were willing to give me, my campaign setting, my rules system, or my other players, a shot. These were site members who had ardently advertised on the site about how much they wanted to get into an RPG… but… if it wasn’t D&D -- they were flatly not interested.
To be as fair as I can be, I didn't know D&D was a prerequisite, but by the same token, most of the members of this site have no reason to believe they need to specify, when they advertise they are looking for a game, that they are only interested in D&D if the setting is sword and sorcery. They take it for granted, and that's perfectly reasonable. I simply didn't know.
And I didn’t react well to that. In fact, I reacted poorly to that, and I'm aware of it. And again, I’m not trying to make excuses. This is simply where I was coming from. I was extremely disappointed, and somewhat insulted, and rather offended.
So, I got snarky about D&D, and by extension, about the D&D players whom I had just had such disappointing interactions with. It was never my intention that my snarkiness be taken as a general statement about everyone who played D&D, but, well, I was pissed.
So that’s specifically where all that came from. I was disappointed and angry and upset and I let it show. And that's a deep regret for me.
That, in and of itself, didn’t have to lead to volcanic insult exchanges, though. The flame apocalypse happened because of a second, compound aspect of my personality -- I dislike being disrespected when I don’t feel the disrespect is merited. (Most people feel similarly in this regard, but, still, I am genuinely strange this way; I cannot stand having people praise me, either, if I don’t feel the praise is deserved. Asskissers bother me as much or more than ad hominem attackers.) And I enjoy writing, and I love crafting insults.
The way those two combine is, if I feel someone has launched an unmerited and unprovoked personal attack on me (a flame, in other words) I will do my best to return the favor to that person ten fold. I genuinely feel that when most people flame, there is little artistry in it, little actual wit… it’s usually the same old tired sexual aspersions, genitalia references, and strings of profanity one can see on any unmoderated message board anywhere on the Internet, or hear, for that matter, in the back of any public or private school bus inhabited by kids older than 9 any where in America. I enjoy attempting to elevate the insult to an actual art form. I don’t start out going for the jugular, but I feel that if someone steps up to me and aims a kick at my crotch, well, they are licensing my response… and I enjoy accepting their invitation.
In fact, I must confess that I've lately been moved to admiration for a site member I never liked very much before this, when I read something he'd said just recently that seems to justify the flame in all its glory: [i]"In this medium, flame wars and vitriolic commentary are the only fire and acid with which to properly slay a troll. They will come back from everything else. "[/i] When I read that, I felt a genuine bond with the site member that wrote it. I cannot tell you how heartfelt and fervent my agreement with that sentiment is. If I could get a good Latin translation of those two sentences, I would carve them over my mantle. Seriously.
Unfortunately, we’ve all seen where that attitude, however wise or cogent or sapient it may seem to me to be, has led recently on this site. And however much those words resonate with me, still, I regret my part in the recent flame wars, and I sincerely apologize for my contributions to them.
One significant reason that things have gotten this far -- much farther than on other sites -- is that Sysop says he values freedom of speech, and he doesn’t just talk the talk, he walks the walk. The behavior that has been manifest in the flame wars that have erupted all around my presence on this site over the past four months would be enough to get me banned forty or fifty times on any other hobby site I’ve ever been to. Sysop doesn’t want to do that. I respect that. The result of that has been that I’ve been able to be the catalyst of much more prolonged hostilities here than on any other site I’ve been to… but also, that I’ve had the opportunity to really think, for probably the first time, about the consequences on a community of (a) being extremely blunt in voicing my always non-mainstream and generally provocative, controversial opinions, and (b) in reveling in opportunities to return flames tendered towards me ten or a hundred fold back on their originators.
So I’m rethinking my approach once again, and I have this site, and Sysop particularly, to thank for that. Also, specifically, I have to thank Caesar Agumbus and DefJeff, for their sage counsel through PM and in threads, that has helped me work through all this in my head. As I say, I do not think fast. But I try to think both deeply and widely. And I try to listen to others, when I have the opportunity.
So I've come to a point where I have this to offer: my sincere apologies for the truly excessive amount of conflict I've caused on this site in the past four months, and my genuine willingness to undertake to try to be more aware, and more considerate, of the various hot buttons and tender spots of various site members in the future, all in an attempt to maintain a greater level of civility in future exchanges between me and other site members.
Obviously, much is going to depend on the reception this particular apology receives, and in point of fact that's so obvious I don't think it needs any further elaboration. Presuming that, as a result of this apology, there are further interactions between me and other site members who are not immediately involved in game sessions with me, then I'd like to make the following respectful observations and/or requests:
As I will be trying earnestly to avoid provoking further hostilities or reigniting past ones, I'd like to pray forbearance from other site members. If I offend you, and you feel there is even the remotest chance that I did it inadvertently, please let me know in as civil a fashion as you can, and give me a chance to work things out with you. Either a PM or a "WTF, Doc?" in the thread will be fine. But though I'm going to try hard, I have to say, if I write something that I don't feel is aimed at any one in particular, but which is just me saying what I think about something, and I get a truckload of obscene personal abuse back, it's going to make it much more difficult for me to stay civil.
To this I will add, I am very proud of all my stepdaughters. They are all smart and strong and they take zero shit and that's because they all take after their mother in these regards and it is the constant wonderment and delight of my life that all four of these amazing, unique and incredible women have allowed me to share their lives. My middle stepdaughter has come to this site looking to make friends and increase her roleplaying experience, and she can certainly take care of herself, and I have no problem with her making friends with anyone she chooses to. She's got a good head on her shoulders and is a very good judge of people and whatever she wants to do with her life and her time is okay by me, because she has to date demonstrated an extremely unusual level of maturity and wisdom in those choices she has made. Based on what we have seen of her intelligence and decision making abilities, my wife and I trust her judgment implicitly.
That's not to say we don't worry about her, because that would be impossible, and I'm sure those of you who are parents know exactly what I mean.
Still, barring absolutely dire circumstances, I'm going to let her take care of her business herself, and I'm not going to get in the middle of anything unless she specifically asks me to... and she won't. But anyone who cares at all about maintaining any kind of friendly or even civil interaction with me on this site should remain aware at all times that, just as everyone else has their buttons and/or sensitive spots, my children are one of mine.
If I annoy you or displease you, if you wish to maintain a grudge against me, if you don't think you can ever be friends with me, or even for the sake of politeness and the general well being of the community attempt a facade of civility towards me, okay. I doubtless earned your opprobrium and I'll wear it.
But I'd ask you to leave my daughter out of it. If you're mad at me, be mad at me. Don't snap at her. Don't put her in the middle of it.
I hope that's understandable to, and understood by, everyone.
To summarize: I've fucked up, I know it, I'm sorry, and I'll try to do better moving forward. I hope we can all play better together in the future.
In terms of pouring oil on troubled waters, this has worked very well... while responses came slowly at first, eventually a few of those I'd been feuding with allowed as to how gracious I was, and once it began, as always happens with our essentially herd dwelling race, the effect snowballed. Now I'm, if not exactly popular on the site, then, at least, reasonably well respected.
A few of those who dislike me most were very grudging in their acceptance of this apology, hedging their bets with "well, okay, as long as he behaves" type nonsense. But once a lot of other people, especially a few tribal elders, had accepted, they really had no choice; either they publicly manned up or they looked like utter tools. (Either was fine with me.)
Which was the point of the exercise. It's psychological jui jitsu. With one stroke, I turned everything upside down. When you're the guy who has offended everyone at the party and you just go sit in a corner and sulk because they're all such assholes, it doesn't matter if you're right. Everyone else at the party feels very righteous in their indignation as regards your behavior. (Especially if you're right about them all being assholes.)
But when you come back with your hand held out spouting a sincere seeming apology, they often don't know what to do. It befuddles them. It sure isn't anything that THEY'D ever do.
But it puts the onus on them. Where before I would have had difficulty meeting many of these people in real life and staying pleasant, now I can walk into any group any of them play in with my head held high. Some of them I'm sure still don't like me at all, but now they're required to either be hypocritical or look like jackasses. Either way works for me... although, to be honest, the hypocrisies that civility always requires are a big reason I don't mix much in real life.
Now, mind you, the wild card here was my stepdaughter. If she hadn't been on the site, and if certain of my jackass attackers hadn't been so willing to hold a grudge against her as well as me, I'd never have apologized. I would have made a career out of trolling those motherfuckers until either they left the site in tears or the site administrator broke his own rule by throwing me off it. I would have flamed them down to the bedrock; as Heinlein has noted, some jerks you simply have to insult until they apologize. But with someone else in the mix whose feelings are important to me, I had to take a different approach.
I don't regret it; everyone is happier now, and the apology, for what it is, is sincere... I certainly acknowledge that I played a big part in all the trouble. But here's what tact is... not saying all the shit that's really important, because all the important shit is what really offends people. And the problem with that apology is that it's a tacit agreement between me and them that (a) I will no longer point out the hypocrisy of imposing one standard of behavior on a stranger while not requiring yourself or your friends to adhere to that same standard, and (b) I will no longer express my opinion that D&D is a fucking retarded system and anyone who has been gaming for longer than five years and who claims to be a roleplayer and who is still rolling up half-gnoll ranger/wizard/ninjas who will spend their entire imaginary lives killing imaginary orcs and goblins with an imaginary sword in an imaginary underground dungeon has something badly, badly deficient in their essential character matrix. At least, if that's the only kind of game they're comfortable playing, they do.
This is a basic truth. It offends many of the people on the site, surely. Yet one of the people who plays in my regular RPG session also plays in another D&D session, mostly because he's pretty young and has a lot of free time. He admits my game is much, much better with far better roleplaying and a much more believable setting and rules system, but he has buddies at the other session. Still, he's described all the other guys at the session, and apparently he's the youngest by a decade, the only one there who weighs less than 300 lbs, and other than one of the guys who is married, he's pretty sure he's the only one there who has ever actually had sex with another human being who was conscious at the time and not being paid for their services.
And this is hardly an atypical description of an adult group of 'roleplayers' who play D&D.
Once upon a time, D&D was what you started out with if you wanted to roleplay. It was, in Nate's wonderful term, 'training wheels'. If you roleplayed and you liked it, you would invariably and naturally begin to find the inherent shallownesses and limitations of the D&D rules system and two dimensional backdrops frustrating, and look around for something else to play. And if you couldn't find another system you liked available at your local game shop, you'd make up your own that suited you better, and which didn't require your Lawful Good character to kill every Chaotic or Lawful Evil entity they ran into... or die trying.
To me, when I walk into a geek shop and there are a bunch of 30 year old guys sitting at a table playing D&D, I can't help but feel a vague contempt. It's probably a character flaw; who am I to be judgmental? I roleplay too. But to me, D&D is the roleplaying equivalent of Chutes & Ladders, while my game system and campaign setting are, I don't know, Civilization, or at the very least, Risk. You walk into a public place and see a bunch of obvious adults spinning the little arrow and getting all excited because they hit a ladder, or screeching in rage because they landed on a slide... to me, that's pretty much the same thing as watching a bunch of adults rolling d20s so their 17th level Paladin can do 12 hit points of damage to a beholder, while the thief is picking the lock on a door down the hall, and the cleric is standing by to throw a Cure Light Wounds when necessary. It's just childish. It ain't real roleplaying. And the people I know who get into their late 20s and early 30s and D&D is still the only RPG they want to play? It may be tactless to say it, but anybody that looks at these guys knows there is something badly wrong with them.
However, these are truths that I may no longer articulate, else I shall be exiled once again.
Now it will turn out that out of the three people who still read this blog, two of them love D&D and never play anything else. And I will be in deep fucking doo doo again.
Posted by Doc Nebula at May 05, 2009 3 comments: Links to this post
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Does a team need a nine? This is the grating question which does not need to be repeated in the context of Spanish football. The emergence and popularization of the false nine has forced us to reconsider our perception of football as a whole. For some in Spain, the loss of a centre forward is only slight in their overall conceptualization of team building, forgetting that the former is as tactically natural a role as there is, a role which has infinite design and influence on the game. Well, with the sale of Gonzalo Higuain, the fans of Real Madrid are left to ponder this question.
Of course, Ancelotti may not play with a false nine, at least not with anyone the people qualify as such. Despite frequently operating there for Mourinho, and having more qualities necessary than many who operate in this role, Benzema has never been seen as a false nine. Beyond that, there are two salient questions. Are Benzema, Morata and Jese good enough to fill the role of playing alongside Cristiano Ronaldo? Secondly, can it be any other player in the squad?
The obvious answer to the latter question is Cristiano Ronaldo. His qualities are that of any great centre forward; pace, power, strength, a poacher’s instinct and a relentless mentality, would allow him to be without doubt, the best nine in the world. This would not make him a better player than he currently is, but would add clarity to his role as primary scorer on the pitch and erase the structural difficulties of having a winger who takes 500 shots a season. However, the point is that he does not want to be a nine. From his eagerness to change and rid himself of the number off his back, to him telling Carlos Quieroz as much at the South African World Cup when Hugo Almeida was subbed off for Danny, to his public reiteration of this point every time Mourinho classified this as his best position.
If one of the best players in the world does not want to play a certain position, no intelligent tactician will try to force himself into that role, particularly if that player is as temperamental as Cristiano. Similarly, we know Ancelotti was not able to convince Pato of the reverse, or more likely did not care to force any player into a role in which they cannot conceptualize themselves. Not that Pato is Cristiano, obviously. However, the point still stands, Ronaldo is not an option.
However an intermediate design, acceptable to Ronaldo, may exist. He could play alongside another forward, one who is not necessarily “central”. They would both enjoy space and mobility as a result of the other’s presence, making them difficult to mark for the compact central defences Ronaldo looks to avoid at all costs. Beyond the three candidates available, there is no candidate capable of performing this function. Really, this would be the only option if the supposed desire to sign Gareth Bale is completed. It is the only way to find meaning in the recruitment of the Welshman.
Bale would offer a mobile forward option, who stretches defences and who can produce spectacular moments of his own. He is also a Carlo player, skilled and direct with a powerful shot. He can be used in a wing aligned version of the role Kaka played for Ancelotti’s Milan. It’s similarly easy to see incongruences in this plan.Without a real centre forward, defences will not be stretched vertically, but rather laterally, meaning that filling central spaces with midfielders will be perfectly viable tactically for those wishing to negate the effect of the two wingers. However, with this move far from being cemented, it is more important to discuss the other options.
So the discussion shifts to Benzema, Morata and Jese. The latter two I see no point in discussing. Jese is a similar player to Bale and in my opinion, his presence makes the chase of Bale inconceivable. However, that is a discussion for another day. Morata is good enough to be a backup forward for many teams, for Madrid, it is still left to be decided. Neither is important or a point of contention, if another forward is bought, Benzema will leave and the role of reserve will fall to these two regardless.
So we arrive at the Frenchman. He should be one of the best players in the world. However, over the four years he has been at Madrid, he has demonstrated that level for only one and a half, and these moments of genius have been equally complimented by moments of absolute futility. When he is on form, Madrid is completely fluid, with his creative ability he is able to play provider for Cristiano, and with his forward mobility he is able to shake defences, linking midfield and attack without distorting the offensive flow. Even in his most deplorable state he remains a player of immense talent, vision and touch, which carries an intrinsic selflessness and intelligence for the game unmatched by another forward in football. However, his time at Madrid seems to have eroded his desire to be the great player he so clearly should be. Rather, he now operates merely as a satellite of Ronaldo, never operating out of his own volition. From that stems a clear inertia in his play, which holds back both himself and the team.
If we judge only by the past, it’s unlikely Benzema will maintain the level of play necessary in a permanent fixture role. Though, Carletto knows the situation better. He probably recognizes Benzema’s talent and the patterns which characterize his peaks and troughs. If so desired, give him the sense of continuity and the touches of the ball which promote his rhythm and activity, which endow him with the confidence necessary to be successful. It would be a great achievement.
The impossibility of convincing Cristiano to be the nine, the aversion to risking everything to Benzema leaves Madrid with two options. They can sign Bale and have him form a strike partnership with Ronaldo or they could sign a nine. Nothing seems decided, this is the least clear aspect of the new Real Madrid, and what they choose will impact them for years to come.
This article was a guest piece by Josh Ragbir.
@Joshragbir
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Portugal, the Jews and Israel - a difficult relationship
“Von dem Christeliche / Streyt, kürtzlich geschehe / jm. M.CCCCC.vj Jar zu Lissbona / ein haubt stat in Portigal zwischen en christen und newen chri / sten oder juden , von wegen des gecreutzigisten got.” - German contemporary engraving depicting the 1506 massacre in Lisbon.
1506 – A massacre
In April 1506, Lisbon was the scene of a spate of horrific religious acts of violence which left over one thousand ‘New Christians’ - converted Jews - dead. The violence erupted in a Dominican convent chapel where a worshipper saw golden stars emanating from a wooden crucifix, and when two days later a ‘New Christian’ questioned the miracle. He was beaten, dragged out of the chapel and killed on the spot. The same fate awaited his brother who tried to rescue him. Mobs, led by Domincan priests, went on a three-day killing spree. Men, women and children were murdered and burnt at the stake, babies skulls were smashed against walls. When all the Jews were dead, those who were thought to look Jewish were chased.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Portuguese inquisition incarcerated, robbed, tormented, tortured, and burnt at the stake thousands of converted Jews on charges of heresy. The tentacles of suspicion reached everywhere. The country was obsessed by the idea of ‘purity of blood’: Jewish blood was held to be ‘infected’ and ‘members of the Nation’ were guilty of corrupting society and Christianity.
Commenting in 1882 on the 16th century massacre, Portuguese historian Oliveira Martins argued that Jews had been persecuted in such a cowardly manner because they were pariahs with no king or land and that nobody would dare treat Moors the same way for fear of retaliation by their rulers. Oliveira Martins was right. Jews needed a country of their own. 500 hundred years later, they were still stateless and dependent on the goodwill of Christians: six million were murdered – one million of which were children.
1975 – Zionism equated with racism
Oblivious of the past, Portugal was the only Western European country to vote in 1975 in favour of the infamous United Nations Resolution 3379 (revoked in 1991) which equated Zionism – the self-determination of the Jewish people - with racism. It is ironic that such malevolence came after the holocaust and in the aftermath of the revolution which enabled the Portuguese people to shed four decades of a harsh dictatorial regime. Having regained freedom and dignity, the progressive regime in place riding on the anti-Zionist tide turned against Jews and their democratic State.
In 1989, in a gesture which brought him respect and gratitude, Socialist President Mário Soares made a public apology for the past persecution of Jews. He spoke for people who had been dead for many years. But no apology was offered on behalf of those who were still alive and who 14 years earlier had equated Zionism with racism.
2004 - Arafat died a hero and a martyr
Then, on Yasser Arafat’s death in 2004, President Mário Soares wrote an embarrassing article extolling the virtues of Arafat who he found moderate, bright, subtle and pleasant. He declared that Arafat had died as “a hero and a martyr”, and accused Israel of practising large-scale terrorism: “His opponents and enemies accuse him of being a terrorist. Israeli leader and former Prime Minister Menahem Begin also stands accused of having been a terrorist during the English [sic] occupation(1). Let’s not forget that the State of Israel practises terrorism on a large scale.” But the most astonishing revelation was that, as a Latin, he and his team had found in Palestinian Arafat, who they met in Beirut in 1982, a kindred spirit: “The conversation lasted over three hours. Arafat, almost always gave double meaning replies to our questions so that the Soviet general, who was silent, would not understand. Curiously, this type of conversation unnerved my Nordic comrades. Whereas we, Latins, understood perfectly well the message that Arafat wanted to convey. And it was simple: he wanted to negotiate peace with Israel and was ready to make important concessions.” What seems to have totally escaped Dr. Soares was that Arafat was famous for his double meaning, or rather multi-meaning, talk, which so many like him were only too willing to take at face value.
(1) In the article Mário Soares bizarrely refers to ‘a Jewish warship’ (‘um navio de guerra judeu’).
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"Certainly, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Barrett have a lot of name recognition among supporters of the president, and I think that ultimately, when people like them are nominated, you'll see a lot of folks line up", he said.
Rabhan and others cited a case, Garza v. Hagan, in which Kavanaugh opposed a detained undocumented immigrant minor's right to obtain an abortion.
Remember: This is precisely what McConnell flagged for Trump as a potential problem with Kavanaugh's nomination: Never that he wasn't qualified, but that his extensive time in government service, and the documents that come with it, cannot only lead to possible surprises and also give Democrats grounds - legitimate or not - to delay consideration of the nomination.
Kavanaugh's nomination has already sparked controversy among Democrats - Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer promised Monday evening to fight the nomination "with everything I have" during the nomination process. The GOP leader warned against engaging in "cheap political fear-mongering".
In the days and weeks ahead, these are the senators to watch, as they meet with Kavanaugh, review his past opinions and pepper him with questions to determine what kind of justice he might be.
But Democrats in the Senate and liberals in the outside groups have called for a higher standard, saying such commitments can no longer be trusted given Trump's judicial selection process. Democrats plan to pressure two moderate Senate Republicans, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of ME, to oppose the nomination. Supreme Court, even before he arrived on Capitol Hill. The two have supported access to abortion services.
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HomeSportsFall SportsPritzker Ladies takes down Rowe-Clark in a easy game
Pritzker Ladies takes down Rowe-Clark in a easy game
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By Alex Bahena ’19
The ladies Varsity Volleyball team dismantled Rowe-Clark on Sept. 24 at ITW’s gymnasium. Fellow parents and family were in attendance to support the lady jaguars in their game.
The girls had a pretty decent season picking up victories and a few losses along the way, but they are still playing their hearts out. The game against Rowe-Clark was not really a challenge for the girls since the game ended so quickly. According to junior Betzy Alamo, “we do like a little bit of challenge but it was a good practice also for the other school to see what they’re up against.” This game also gave praise to the team for playing a fun game. They won two consecutive sets with the scores being 25-4 and 25-10 respectfully. Both sets saw the girls putting up multiple points, but Rowe-Clark was still determined to score. Even though they had a bad first set, they did not give up and scored more in the next set. It still was not enough to take down the ladies.
As the season has progressed, the ladies have gotten used to their new coaches and have adjusted to the new plays and formations that coaches Santiago Valentin, Volleyball Coach, and Chris Biddix, Algebra 2 and Geometry teacher, have made them play.
Alamo hopes to continue to improve their ability on the court both independently and as a squad as a whole for the remainder of the season. As for Coach Valentin, he enjoys the improvement the girls are making. When asked about his year coaching the team, he said, “The girls are learning. It’s a new offense 5-1 and they’re picking it up and they’re playing good,” but not everything is perfect Valentin states that the ladies can improve their speed with the ball.
According to Coach Valentin, Volleyball isn’t as popular of a sport in the Chicago area, so it is not given the same amount of recognition as the bigger sports. Valentin stated, sports suchlike “baseball, basketball, and football.” Valentin wishes to elevate the amount of recognition of the sport so there can be competition around the city.
The current goal for the coach is to get the ladies to the championship game, so go on and support your ladies in their upcoming games. As they love when they have the support of family and friends.
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In April 1775, it took each Minuteman fifteen seconds to load, aim, and fire a single musket at the advancing British Redcoats in Lexington, Mass. In December, 2012, at a primary school in Newtown, Conn., Adam Lanza was able to fire off dozens of rounds with an assault-type weapon in a mere sixty seconds.
Gun technology has evolved a great deal since the Colonial era. So too has America's gun culture. With an estimated 300 million firearms in circulation, many argue that the nation is inundated with weapons and fear the human toll they've taken is too high. Over 30,000 people die each year from a gun-related injury. At the same time, guns are enjoyed by tens of thousands of Americans for sport, and many more rely on them for self-defense.
Artist Don Troiani. Courtesy Jonathan Silvers, Saybrook Productions.
After Newtown: Guns in America is an unprecedented exploration of America's enduring relationship with firearms. From the first European settlements in the New World to frontier justice; from 19th Century immigrant riots to gangland violence in the Roaring Twenties; from the Civil War to Civil Rights, guns have been at center of our national narrative for four hundred years. Americans have relied on guns to sustain communities, challenge authority, and keep the peace. Efforts to curtail their distribution and ownership have triggered epic political battles. On one side, the cry for gun control gets louder with each mass shooting. And on the other, Charlton Heston's 2000 rallying cry, "From my cold, dead hands," still resonates across the land.
Featuring the personal reflections of Bill Cosby, Frank Serpico, and NRA President David Keene, among other experts and advocates, this unique documentary will examine the evolution of guns in America, their frequent link to violence, and the clash of cultures that reflect competing visions of our national identity.
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OCN ANNOUNCES THE 2017 PRIORITIES FOR A HEALTHY OREGON
In Uncategorized by April Christenson February 6, 2017
The Oregon Conservation Network – a coalition of environmental advocates from across Oregon coordinated by the Oregon League of Conservation Voters – has announced their 2017 Priorities for a Healthy Oregon.
“OCN strategically developed these priorities over the past year, and we are proud to have legislators working alongside us to protect our special places and our health,” said Paige Spence, Oregon Conservation Network Director. “The priorities reflect our dedication to protecting our climate, air, water, wildlife, and economy that make Oregon so wonderful and unique.”
At the top of the list of priorities is combatting climate change through championing legislation that would improve our climate and our economy by accounting for the true cost of carbon, dramatically reducing pollution and creating clean energy jobs.
OCN will also work to retire Oregon’s dirtiest diesel by using Volkswagen settlement funds and other mechanisms to reduce air pollution from older diesel engines, including vehicles and equipment.
The coalition has been working for years now to ensure a positive solution for the Elliott State Forest and that work will continue this session. OCN urges the State Land Board and the legislature work together to stop this sacred place from being sold to a timber company.
OCN members are working to protect Oregon’s rivers by ending destructive suction dredge mining that is sucking the life out of Oregon’s rivers by harming critical spawning grounds for salmon, killing young fish and fish eggs, and mobilizing legacy mercury.
This legislative session OCN is also supporting a transportation package that works for all Oregonians. Gas and diesel are making our air unbreathable and worsening climate change. To meet the needs of Oregonians today and in the future, we must invest in a safe and modern transportation system that offers affordable, healthy options for everyone in every community.
And finally, OCN will be supporting the state’s budget – facing a $1.8 billion deficit – by working with the Governor’s office, agency staff, and the legislature to advocate for stable funding for natural resource agencies and programs.
As session advances, OCN will share other bills of support or concern via a weekly Hotlist that goes to legislators and the press. The coalition also works to identify bills that would particularly harm the environment, the worst of which become Major Threats to a Healthy Oregon.
More information on the Priorities and on the Oregon Conservation Network can be found at www.forahealthyoregon.org.
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Stephen Harper is the current Prime Minister of Canada and party leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
early background
Harper was born and raised in Toronto before finding employment in the oil and gas industry and moving to Alberta. He attended the University of Calgary, receiving a Masters degree in economics, and lectured at the university. Harper became involved in politics in the mid-80s, but became disillusioned with the government of Brian Mulroney? and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. He was especially critical of the PC Party's fiscal policy.
He was recommended to Preston Manning, founder of the Reform Party of Canada?, by one of Harper's professors. Manning was impressed by the young man, and Harper was invited to participate in the founding of the party. At age 28, he gave an important speech at Reform's founding convention in Winnipeg, and is credited with creating the Reform Party's platform for the Canadian federal election, 1993.
In the Canadian federal election, 1988?, Harper had run for a House of Commons seat in Calgary, but lost by a wide margin to the Progressive Conservative candidate. He fared better in the 1993 election, in which he won the Calgary_West FED? for the Reform Party. Harper arrived in Parliament with a large group of new MPs. Harper quickly became one of the core members of the Reform Party parliamentary delegation.
Harper disagreed with party leader Preston Manning's approach that would give the Reform Party an increasingly populist, as opposed to conservative, bent. Harper also held that Reform could serve as a right-wing? force along the model of the left-wing? New Democratic Party, having a major effect on policy even if it won relatively few seats. A strategy later also employed by the Green Party of Canada.
Harper left his seat before the Canadian federal election, 1997 to serve as vice-president, then as president, of the National Citizens Coalition? (NCC), a lobby group? which has waged campaigns against public healthcare and immigration. With the NCC, Harper launched an ultimately unsuccessful legal battle against federal election finance? reform. He left the post in 2002. An opportunity however had emerged:
firewall around Alberta
After its poor showing in the Canadian federal election, 2000, the Canadian Alliance, Reform's successor under Stockwell Day?, a disappointed Harper joined with other western conservative figures in co-authoring a letter which became known as the firewall letter?. The letter called on Alberta to take control over health care, opt out of the Canada Pension Plan as Quebec had, and replace the RCMP? with a provincial police force as Quebec and Ontario had."
Alliance versus Kyoto
Harper took leadership of the Canadian Alliance. At this time he renewed his political relationships with promoters of the Tar Sands in Alberta, engaging in propaganda efforts such as referring to the Kyoto Protocol as a "socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations". Harper revealed himself as a climate change denier? through this and many other comments.
the new Conservatives
Despite their vast policy differences, Harper steered the Alliance towards merger with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, which was achieved in late 2003 thanks to PC leader Peter MacKay and the urging of Belinda Stronach, who challenged Harper for leadership of the new Conservative Party of Canada. David Orchard was a notable dissident, having received a written promise from MacKay not to merge with Harper.
A few months after Harper won the leadership, new Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin called the Canadian federal election, 2004. Martin ran heavy attack ad?s emphasizing Harper's extreme policies from the past. Interestingly, anti-Kyoto rhetoric and climate change denier? status was not yet as hot a political issue, and was omitted from these ads.
Harper however benefitted greatly from the Sponsorship Scandal, a resurgence by the Bloc Quebecois, a rise in New Democratic Party of Canada fortunes under Jack Layton, and the emergence of the Green Party of Canada, all of which tended to cut strongly into the Liberal's vote.
Harper won 99 seats and became Leader of the Opposition?. The weakened Liberal minority of the 39th Parliament? was under constant pressure right from its throne speech?. Maneuvering to pass the Canadian federal budget, 2005 took months, during which Harper lost Belinda Stronach to the Liberals, ending the crisis and demoralizing his party badly. A weakened Paul Martin however was compelled to promise the next election for spring 2006. See Canadian federal confidence crisis, 2005 for more details.
In November 2005 Martin rejected a deal with the NDP to keep his government alive, and all parties united under Harper's temporary leadership to make the House fall. The Canadian federal election, 2006 was on.
Almost immediately, the climate change issue was on the public agenda due to the Montreal Declaration in early December and the United States? joining talks on successor to the Kyoto Accord. This was easily the highest visibility event in international diplomacy at the time. Harper strongly opposed Kyoto and several times repeated that a Conservative government would turn its back on the Kyoto accord and set its own "Made in Canada" targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Not one notable Canadian environmental advocate spoke in favour of this approach, probably because the unity behind one scheme, and an international GHG trade? scheme, was central to achieving a post-Kyoto agreement including India?, China, Brazil? and others.
Claiming that the accord’s targets cannot be met either internationally or within Canada, Harper cited Canada's woeful record on climate change since the agreement was signed in 1997 by Jean Chretien. He was adamant:
“The Kyoto accord will not succeed at achieving its objectives and this government — the Canadian government — cannot achieve its objectives,” Mr. Harper said.
Kyoto is and was the only international effort on any aspect of climate change prevention. However, in early January 2006, non-signatory nations like Australia?, China and the United States? met in a meeting of coal?-producing countries in Australia, forming at least one alternative global group for Harper to join. This Asia-Pacific Group was largely seen as a coal lobby and climate change denier? front. Its solidarity was damaged somewhat when John Howard? and George W. Bush and (last of all) Harper himself had to admit climate change was a scientific consensus.
oil industry ties
Harper's background in the petrochemical industry?, and refusal to disclose contributors to his leadership campaigns, raised suspicions that this industry had a hand in both his rise and the policies he espouses.
The Conservative policy declaration, the first official policy document of the newly merged party, of March 2005 doesn’t mention climate change, greenhouse gas? or CO2 emission?s even once. It disavows Kyoto without a word about any alternatives. This is actually a much more extreme position than the Bush Administration which has actually bragged about its performance in reducing greenhouse gas, relative to Kyoto countries.
other controversies
Harper also took controversial stances in support of weapons in space?, against same-sex marriage, and for a tax cut for parents to replace a daycare? program - though he later promised to create some spaces.
However, Harper took centrist positions on ACOA, aboriginal rights and watched the centre shift in his direction on gun crime?, with even NDP Leader? Jack Layton favouring mandatory sentence?s, to the open surprise of Gilles Duceppe? in a TV debate.
Those trying to compare 2006 Canadian federal party platforms noted a marked difference from 2004, with Harper seeking to placate very specific groups seen as weak and sympathetically regarded by the public, while retaining the overall pro-business pro-tax-cut stance of his party. Sometimes called the Red Tory? path.
Political Compass Rating
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breakthrough in Quebec
In January polls showed that Harper's Conservatives had surpassed the Liberal Party of Canada in Quebec?. A surprise endorsement from Mario Dumont? of the ADQ?, a scandal surrounding Ralph Goodale, and the extremely clumsy handling of the release of some Liberal attack ads, 2006 prompting condemnations from some LPC candidates, assisted Harper. As of 2006-01-15?, polls showed the momentum very clearly with Harper, and some polls showed Liberal votes bleeding away to the New Democratic Party of Canada especially in Ontario and even the Green Party of Canada especially in BC. Harper was positioned for a federal minority government? though a federal majority government? seemed impossible at the time.
Harper was sworn into office in January 2006 and made some controversial choices for cabinet Minister, including David Emerson (a formal liberal cabinet Minister under Paul Martin) and appointed a senator to cabinet for the public works portfolio.
By the end of 2006, Harper had been forced into a major retreat on climate issues, appointing John Baird? as his new Minister of the Environment?. The NDP was angling for an end to dirty subsidy? to the oilcos particularly involved in the Tar Sands. California? under its governor? Arnold Schwarzenegger? had passed laws forbidding high-GHG fuels for any purpose including power generation. Harper invited him to Ottawa but was clearly in damage control mode on this and related issues. Gary Lund?, Minister of Natural Resources?, announced a revived program to insulate home?s, but was thin on green building innovations. Baird and Harper were confining most public comments to the fact that GHG had risen under Paul Martin's government, neglecting to mention that almost all of the rise was due to Tar Sands emissions, from ridings entirely represented by Harper and his closest Conservative allies.
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Failure to iterate
For context, read Ben Einstein's very smart post, "The Real Reason Why Quirky Failed."
Quirky had two classes of customer.
As Ben describes, Quirky sold pieces of hardware to one class of customer. I was one of them - I bought a few of their products (and generally disliked them) a few years back. And as Ben accurately noted, those products were often poorly supported and maintained. Which sucked for those customers.
But Quirky also sold a second product, in the form of product execution services & royalties. The customers of this product were people with ideas, and those customers "paid" Quirky by giving them the right to develop, manufacture, and distribute those ideas.
I believe that Quirky's key failing was that that second product never got market fit. In other words: As a person with an idea for a hardware product, it just never made sense to give up the rights to that idea in exchange for product execution services & royalties.
I bring a few pieces of supporting evidence for this claim:
First, anecdotally: While Quirky was in business, I had a few (passable) ideas for products that I didn't have the bandwidth to execute - and I didn't give them to Quirky. And when I had a pretty good idea for a product, I didn't even consider Quirky as an option - opting instead for Kickstarter, which provided me with *much* more value in return.
Second: As evidenced by the fact that Quirky halved their royalty structure in early 2015, we know that they struggled to figure out how the economics of that product really worked.
Third, compare the paths of Quirky and Kickstarter. Both of their business models necessarily requires people to have ideas, and to give up some part of those ideas in exchange for help getting them off the ground. But while top tier Kickstarter creators (see Pebble, 99 Percent Invisible, countless others) have in many cases made their second and third campaigns *way* bigger than their first, Quirky creators never had that kind of follow-on success - or never attempted it in the first place.
I believe that this - exchanging ideas for execution and royalties - was Quirky's primary product. They were, to be sure, very proud of that fact: Kaufman repeatedly said things like "The mission of what we do is to make invention accessible to people all around the world." Nothing about the best coffee maker, or air conditioner, or flashlight: Quirky's primary product was invention services, and they would live or die based on the extent to which they convinced people to give them good ideas. But they failed to iterate on this product, and it never attained product-market-fit. And so no matter how successful their [insert consumer product here] was, that disconnect would ultimately have killed them regardless.
Tags quirky, biz, kickstarter
Added on September 2, 2015 by Spencer Wright.
I've been thinking of the things I want to focus on in metal additive manufacturing, and came up with these two goals:
Reduce the time & effort that independent designers spend developing & validating metal AM parts.
Reduce the time & effort that service providers spend getting their shops capable of reliably making their customers' parts at a profit.
The reason I *don't* mention OEMs here is because I assume that if 1. and 2. are achieved, then the OEMs will be just fine, as they'll have a healthy supply of both engineering talent and manufacturing capabilities available to them. That's not to say that I don't want to help OEMs too, but in my opinion you can have a bigger long term impact (and help save yourself from the client-driven feature creep common in industrial solutions) if you keep small shops' needs in mind.
I have some initial thoughts on how I'd begin to address these, but I'm still in the process of developing them. If anyone has ideas, I'd love to chat about them - drop me a line!
Tags pathing, 3dprinting, biz
Misled
From a good piece on time and cost estimation in software engineering, emphasis mine:
All software development effort estimation, even when using formal estimation models, requires expert judgment. But although expert judgment can be very accurate, it’s also easily misled. Perhaps the strongest misleading happens when those responsible for the effort estimates, before or during the estimation work, are made aware of the budget, client expectations, time available, or other values that can act as so-called estimation anchors. Without noticing it, those people will tend to produce effort estimates that are too close to the anchors. Knowing that the client expects a low price or a low number of work - hours, for example, is likely to contribute to an underestimation of effort. Expert judgment can also be misled when an estimation request includes loaded words, such as, “How much will this small and simple project cost?”
In spite of much research on how to recover from being misled and how to neutralize estimation biases, no reliable methods have so far been found. The main consequence is that those in charge of effort estimation should try hard not to be exposed to misleading or irrelevant information - for example, by removing misleading and irrelevant information from requirements documentations.
I'm always shocked when a supplier asks me for a target price on a part I've asked them to bid. Customer-driven price anchors are really dangerous; I avoid them at all costs.
Tags quotes, biz
Tony Hsieh
Added on May 3, 2014 by Spencer Wright.
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, from a talk given to the Long Now Foundation:
A company's culture and a company's brand are really just two sides of the same coin. The brand is just a lagging indicator of the culture. And with social media, and everyone being hyper connected, that brand is actually [lagging] less and less. So for example, if you ask a random person off the street "what do you think of the airline industry," you'll probably get back responses about bad customer service or apathetic employees and so on. And like it or not, that is the brand of the industry, even though no airline obviously set out for that to be their brand.
Tags quotes, biz, pathing
Arbitrary and meaningless
Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena, talking with First Round Review about developing a high quality product:
We tend to see a lot of deadlines as arbitrary and meaningless. At their worst, they compromise design quality and burn people out so much that they stop having good, creative ideas. Sprinting is not our core differentiator.
Ahh, product life :)
But seriously: Remember that not all successful companies sprint. Develop products how you want to, and reflect on whether it's going well.
Accountability is a Team Concept
Added on April 25, 2014 by Spencer Wright.
From a piece in Fast Company about the (DoD-funded) Software Engineering Institute:
Importantly, the group avoids blaming people for errors. The process assumes blame - and it's the process that is analyzed to discover why and how an error got through. At the same time, accountability is a team concept: no one person is ever solely responsible for writing or inspecting code. "You don't get punished for making errors," says Marjorie Seiter, a senior member of the technical staff. "If I make a mistake, and others reviewed my work, then I'm not alone. I'm not being blamed for this."
It's my belief that organizations run best when accountability - for both failures and successes - is shared widely. At SEI, where NASA flight software is developed, big failures can be catastrophic. In order to ensure the overall project success, all individual output is reviewed at multiple stages of development; if errors are overlooked, responsibility falls to the team – not to any individual in the process.
A game played by robots
Ben Thompson, writing about Dropbox:
Business is not a game played by robots; it’s about real people building products that they believe in
"Quick, Big Wins."
According to his LinkedIn page, Piet Morgan began working on Hammerhead in September 2012. Hammerhead went on to raise $190K on Dragon in October of 2013. Immediately afterwards, they entered the R/GA+Techstars accelerator, where they received a $20K stipend + (I'm guessing here - it's a safe bet) an additional $100K convertible note.
Hammerhead matriculated from R/GA in March, and today TomorrowLab announced that they've been hired by Hammerhead to "get to market by September 2014."
They also have Brad Feld and Scott Miller as advisors - two consummate hardware startup experts.
Things take time. Developing products is hard. Sure: money, guidance, and a space to work in help. But product development is still time consuming, and quick, big wins don't come easily.
As a cyclist, I must say that I'm not particularly interested in Hammerhead; it's just not my style. But I saw their pitch in person at a meetup a few months back, and I must say that it was very good. Piet seems really smart, and the team appears to be down-to-earth and rather personable. We've got friends in common, and from everything I know about their team it seems like they're kicking ass.
But launching things is hard, and quick, big wins are elusive. Remember this, and don't trick yourself into thinking you're above it.
Tags biz, kahneman
Looking sideways
Added on March 23, 2014 by Spencer Wright.
Nobel Laureate and longtime bell Labs researcher Arno Penzias, in an excerpt from his book "Harmony." The focus here is organizational change at Bell Labs, presumably in the 1990s. Emphasis is mine.
The change didn't take place overnight, but over time our behavior has changed radically. Today about half our researchers work full-time in partnership with colleagues from other parts of AT&T. Similar changes have taken place in management as well. While most research managers have kept their titles and the trappings of office, their jobs have undergone 90-degree turns. Instead of looking up and down, so to speak, they now spend most of their time looking sideways.
For example, each research director now works with one of AT&T's business units, making sure that its needs get attention. The directors also make sure that Bell's researchers have access to potential customers for their work. These directors work not just for the sake of the people in their own organizations but rather for the research operation as a whole. With organizational roles now more clearly defined on the basis of function rather than scientific discipline, management's primary attention has shifted to external interactions.
Recasting first-level management roles has proved the most challenging undertaking. Experienced researchers themselves, managers had worked hard to ensure the best possible research in their departments. But "best" as they defined it. In one particular case, this meant producing the world's most powerful laser diode--a record-breaking experiment. It won the "best paper" award at a major professional conference. While certainly not unworthy, this internally generated pursuit of excellence paid insufficient attention to the priorities of potential customers. While colleagues in our Lightwave Business Unit sought more powerful lasers, they might have preferred to trade some of that device's performance for compatibility with their existing fabrication methods.
Ben Horowitz, in an old blog post titled "Why We Prefer Founding CEOs." Emphasis mine.
The music business has been continuously disrupted and revolutionized by the underlying technology since the outset. In fact, it’s still widely referred to as the “record industry,” because the entire business was created by the invention of the vinyl record. For the first few decades of the industry, songs were never longer than 3 minutes due to a technological limitation (the record would skip if the grooves were too thin). The album itself is a construct that originated with the total number of songs one could fit on a 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute (RPM) vinyl record. In the 80s, the invention of the CD completely revitalized the industry and led to (literally) record-breaking sales.
Despite this dynamic history, modern record company executives badly missed the most sweeping technical innovation—the Internet. How was that possible? By the time the Internet arrived, all of the original founders of the record companies had been bought out, retired, or died. The new, professional CEOs were unwilling to let go of the most basic assumptions driving the cost structure of their businesses. Specifically, they wouldn’t give up their stranglehold on distribution and the value they placed on owning the recording.
They were proficient at running the current business, but lacked both the courage and the moral authority to jeopardize the old business model by embracing the new technology. The transition would have been far easier if these executives running the companies had invented the old models. The founders of the music industry likely would have ditched old assumptions, because they would have been nuts to do continue believing an assumption that no longer makes sense.
Conversely, Netflix, run by cofounder Reed Hastings, provides an excellent counter-example. Faced with a similar transition (from distribution of the physical recording to electronic distribution of the bits), Netflix let go of its old assumption that customers wanted DVDs mailed to them, invested in innovation and produced a series of brilliant new offerings (streaming video to Xbox 360, Sony Playstation 3, Tivo, Wii, connected DVD players, and a host of devices) that are enabling them to transition smoothly. Hastings wasn’t married to the old distribution model precisely because he invented it.
A quick thought: Angle of Organizational Repose
Added on March 5, 2014 by Spencer Wright.
Thinking about the [citation needed] trend of traditionally hierarchical organizations going flat. Remembering how much I like the term "angle of repose."
Think there's something here.
It seems likely that there is some angle of repose for hierarchy in an organization. I hesitate, though, to suggest (literally or figuratively) that highly hierarchical organizations can't support themselves/will tend to collapse under their own weight. That seems a bit too on-the-nose, and anyway the analogy gets really complicated really quickly. There are too many factors to consider in an organization's structure, and each must be considered against an arbitrarily large set of organizational purposes & principles.
Still, it's a fun comparison to consider.
Tags biz, pathing
Hugh Fiennes
Added on February 20, 2014 by Spencer Wright.
Electric Imp CEO Hugo Fiennes, paraphrased:
Root cause every. Single. Problem.
When you ship 200 units and you get two back, it's just two units. But when you ship 200,000, that's 2000 back, and when you ship 200 million... you do the math.
Failures scale. You *need* to understand them.
Being Copied
Added on February 8, 2014 by Spencer Wright.
Bunnie Huang, responding to a question about IP theft in Chinese contract manufacturing. The question is at about 22:30, here.
I'm different than a lot of people - I'm a big fan of open hardware, so before I get to that point with the factory I'll publish my schematics and everything online anyways. Feel free to copy me. Right? And the good news is that your idea was good. You were copied. None of my ideas are ever copied, so obviously they're not very good.
Added on January 27, 2014 by Spencer Wright.
Tags photos, biz, pathing
Should I sell this?
Was at NYCVelo today and saw some of the Swrve selvedge aprons, which retail at $100... And I'm like, "mine is *way* better!"
This is like 2010. I had been wanting a nice apron for a while, and worked with a local seamstress to make this one. I sourced all the fabric & straps and made all the leather and copper fittings (I literally had to bend and braze custom copper rings for this); she sewed the apron body together.
Is this worth my time & effort to resurrect? Kickstart it, sell a handful? Or is it just a crafty thing I designed back when I was young and full of energy?
If you've got feelings one way or the other (read: if you'd buy one) then speak up!
Required info: *
How do you feel that I'm wearing a tie in this photo?
It's kinda pretentious.
Ties are okay.
Tags biz, photos
Markets that don't exist
Marc Andreessen, from an old (now archived) blog post titled "The only thing that matters."
Hopefully a great team also gets you a great market -- but I can also name you lots of examples of great teams that executed brilliantly against terrible markets and failed. Markets that don't exist don't care how smart you are.
Rack Ends -> Indiegogo
The time has come: My rack ends are on Indiegogo.
This project has been in a weird filler state for a while, but I finally sat down and worked out my pricing structure and launched the campaign last night - and I'm excited to get it off the ground! In the interest of clarity, I'm disclosing a lot of information here about the development process and my pricing/cost structure.
After receiving a number of quotes from around the world, I decided to go with a supplier who I have a good professional relationship with: Mattson-Witt Precision of Barrington IL. In 2011 and 2012, I sourced many thousands of dollars of parts from them, and the results were excellent. I have clear lines of communication with the director of operations and consider them a partner in this project. Incidentally, they were *not* the cheapest bid I received - their quote fell somewhere in the middle of the pack - but their delivery timetable was good and I can trust that they'll stick to their word.
When I first resurrected this project, I posted a bit of background on the design here and shared it with the framebuilding community. I received a bit of interest and some informal preorders, and based my RFQ quantities around an extrapolation of that data. I wanted the retail price of the parts to be similar to other similar parts on the market, and also wanted to offer quantities that made sense to my customers.
The price from the machine shop is $5.07 apiece at a quantity of 150 (I had tentative preorders of about 90). The retail price structure is as follows:
$8.50@2 = 68% markup = $6.89 net income
$8@4 = 58% = $11.76
$7.50@8 = 48% = $19.47
$7.32@16 = 45% = $36.10
$5.85@64 = 15.5% = $50.29
If I sell just 150 parts, my net income tops out at $516.75 and tapers down from there - precipitously, if I get a few large orders. My hope is that I can sell more that 150 parts and increase my order quantity accordingly. At quantities of 500, I expect my wholesale price to be closer to $4 each, which obviously means more money in my pocket. My best case scenario is that I pre-sell enough parts to justify folding my profits into a larger order, which I can then sell to new or repeat customers down the line. I hope to determine the order quantity by early-mid February (a few weeks before the campaign ends) and be able to place my order so that it's delivered right after my funding date. That way I can be ahead of schedule on shipping and ensure that none of my customers are put out by delays.
A note about shipping and handling: I was a little unclear on how to deal with this, and decided in the end to apply a $5 flat S&H fee to all orders. I suspect that I'll be in the black on small orders, but on larger quantities that'll probably change quickly. I'm not investing in any fancy packaging - I'll probably do a small ziploc bag from McMaster + a small plain envelope - so all I need to recoup is the actual shipping charges and my time counting and bagging the parts and getting them to the carrier (likely USPS).
I'll be updating this project as I near my funding goals. If anyone has *any* questions about the design, how the parts are used, or the cost structures I've listed here, please comment below - and thanks for your support!
NOTE: For anyone who's curious, you can see a fully dimensioned drawing of the parts here!
Tags BK1008, biz, essays
Chris Dixon, in an old post on his blog titled "The next big thing will start out looking like a toy." Emphasis mine.
Social software is an interesting special case where the strongest forces of improvement are users’ actions. As Clay Shirky explains in his latest book, Wikipedia is literally a process – every day it is edited by spammers, vandals, wackos etc., yet every day the good guys make it better at a faster rate. If you had gone back to 2001 and analyzed Wikipedia as a static product it would have looked very much like a toy. The reason Wikipedia works so brilliantly are subtle design features that sculpt the torrent of user edits such that they yield a net improvement over time. Since users’ needs for encyclopedic information remains relatively steady, as long as Wikipedia got steadily better, it would eventually meet and surpass user needs.
Hardware needs this too, and more and more it's possible.
Tags biz, quotes
Marc Hedlund
Marc Hedlund, in an excellent post mortem on his blog titled "Why Wesabe Lost to Mint." Emphasis mine.
You’ll hear a lot about why company A won and company B lost in any market, and in my experience, a lot of the theories thrown about – even or especially by the participants – are utter crap. A domain name doesn’t win you a market; launching second or fifth or tenth doesn’t lose you a market. You can’t blame your competitors or your board or the lack of or excess of investment. Focus on what really matters: making users happy with your product as quickly as you can, and helping them as much as you can after that. If you do those better than anyone else out there you’ll win.
The Public Radio v1.1
Today Zach and I completed v1.1 of The Public Radio.
I'll write more about our hacknight in the next few days, but for now I wanted to give a brief description of the project - for any latecomers, you know :)
The Public Radio is a collaboration between myself and Zach Dunham. It is an ongoing project; we are planning a full launch this spring.
The Public Radio is an FM radio which is not tuneable by the user. Instead, it is purchased pre-tuned to your station of choice - whether that be your local NPR affiliate (Zach prefers 93.9 WNYC) or your favorite pop station (I prefer HOT97). Once you receive your Public Radio, it's set to your station only, and that can only be changed by sending the unit in to us.* The radio only has one knob; it controls power and volume only.
If you use FM radio to discover new content - if your Scan/Seek controls are in heavy use - then The Public Radio may not be for you. But if you discover new content as we do - mostly online - but still want to maintain the personal, emotional connection that you've built with your favorite local station - then The Public Radio is a convenient and appropriately understated way of doing that. Its design fits in anywhere, and its portability makes it easy to use in areas of your house where you don't have easy access to iTunes or Spotify.
The Public Radio is currently available for beta testers; if you're interested, send a note and we'll put you on our list :)
Radio station of choice
Comments, love letters, etc :)
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The latest ‘On Song’ column from the Carmarthen Journal and Llanelli Star
Robert Lloyd PR, Media and Marketing Consultancy Blog posts The latest ‘On Song’ column from the Carmarthen Journal and Llanelli Star
It’s a very busy time for the young choristers from the Llanelli-based Hywel Girls’ Choir and Hywel Boy Singers – and the singing group Angelicus Celtis.
Fresh from a performance in Manchester Cathedral, they are set to bring their own style of Christmas Sparkle to West Wales.
They are staging ‘The Magic of Christmas’ at 7pm this Saturday, December 8, at St Catherine’s Church, Gorseinon.
And the following week (Saturday, December 15) they will be staging ‘Christmas Fantasia’ at Llanelli’s Ffwrnes Theatre (curtain up at 7pm).
The Gorseinon evening is billed as a chance to embrace the miracle of Christmas, portrayed through massed voices, congregational singing, music and narration, with the international broadcast and performance voices of the Hywel Girls’ Choir and Hywel Boy Singers and the acclaimed voices of the Angelicus Celtis.
The evening will also feature the Llanelli Choral Society, organist Huw Tregelles Williams OBE, percussionist Gareth Hamlin and narrator Jeremy Hywel.
The setting will be very festive inside the beautiful candlelit St. Catherine’s Church in Gorseinon.
Highlights of the evening will include great Christmas favourites such as the Hallelujah Chorus, Pie Jesu, O Holy Night, Star of Bethlehem, Ceremony of Carols, Away in a Manger, Silent Night, Benedictus, Gabriel’s Message, Carol of the Bells, Hark The Herald Angels Sing and O Come All Ye Faithful.
Tickets are £7 and available from 01792 893631, 07795 236807, church members or online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/themagicofchristmas
Doors open at St Catherine’s Church at 6.15pm.
The evening will be in aid of Church funds and initiatives.
The Christmas Fantasia at Ffwrnes Theatre on December 15 will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Hywel Girls’ Choir and Hywel Boy Singers.
The Hywel Girls’ Choir and Hywel Boy Singers will be joined by Angelicus Celtis, stars of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent, the symphonic sounds of the British Sinfonietta Orchestra, organist Huw Tregelles Williams OBE, pianist Jane Jewell, percussionist Gareth Hamlin and narrator Jeremy Hywel.
Festive highlights will include magical moments from The Nutcracker, The Hallelujah Chorus, Pie Jesu, O Holy Night, Star of Bethlehem, Ceremony of Carols, Away in a Manger, Silent Night, Benedictus, Gabriel’s Message, Carol of the Bells, Hark The Herald Angels Sing, O Come All Ye Faithful, Sleigh Ride and Troika.
Tickets are £20 and are available from 07795 236807.
Doors open 6.15pm.
This Saturday also sees the Llanelli Chamber Orchestra performing their annual Christmas Concert.
It’s at Glenalla Civic Hall, Llanelli, on Saturday (December 8) at 7.30pm.
The concert will feature music by Suppé, Beethoven, Mozart and Lehar.
Tickets cost £5 and are available at the door, or by phoning 01554 772594.
Also taking place this weekend (Saturday, December 8) will be the annual Christmas concert staged by Burry Port Town Band.
The venue is the Memorial Hall in Burry Port, 7pm start.
The concert will also feature Burry Port Junior Band, Father Christmas and special guests.
Congratulations are also due to the band for winning the 2018 First Section Welsh League Championship title and the Ruby Protheroe Memorial Trophy at the SEWBBA Cardiff Contest.
Last week, the band also performed with distinction at Côr Meibion Llanelli’s annual concert staged at Ffwrnes Theatre, Llanelli.
December will also see a special evening of Christmas music at The Miners’ Theatre in Ammanford.
Seasonal music and light-hearted fun are guaranteed at the December 15 concert in the cosy and intimate surroundings of The Miners’ Theatre.
The evening will be conducted and introduced by Welsh TV and radio personality Alwyn Humphreys.
The evening is billed as ‘Christmas By Candlelight’ and will feature the Chamber Orchestra of Wales.
Meanwhile, there’s a special concert coming up in December to raise funds for Burry Port Lifeboat Station.
The concert will feature acclaimed soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, Gary Griffiths and Osian Wyn Bowen.
It is being held at St Mary’s Church, Burry Port, on Saturday, December 22 (7pm).
Tickets for the Burry Port concert are £15 and are available from Cadno Travel or from the following phone numbers – 07795415411 and 07900893150.
Tenor Osian Wyn Bowen is a Burry Port boy, so the concert will have special meaning for him – and baritone Gary Griffiths.
Currently Osian is an undergraduate student, studying under the tutelage of renowned Tenor, Adrian Thompson at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff.
Osian has already performed in concert with Sir Bryn Terfel, soprano Rebecca Evans and tenors Aled Hall and Rhys Meirion.
Venues include the RWCMD Dora Stoutzker Hall, St. David’s Hall, The Principality Stadium, Wales Millennium Centre, Llandaff Cathedral, Venue Cymru, The O2 Arena, The Queen’s Theatre, London, Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and the Milford Haven Music Festival.
He has worked with some of Wales and the world’s best coaches and accompanists including, Jeff Howard, Simon Lepper, Joseph Middleton, Kathryn Harries and Dr. Laura Osgood Brown.
Choral performances and concerts include ‘Gloria – Vivaldi’, ‘Beethoven’s 9th Symphony’, ‘Mozart’s Requiem’, and ‘Stabat Mater – Szymanowski’.
Osian is also a popular soloist for various concerts and oratorios under the baton of Edward Rhys Harry the most recent being Saint Sëan Christmas Oratorio, Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes De Confessore.
Television appearances include S4C’s ‘Heno’,‘Les Mis – Y Daith’, Cyngerdd y 10 Tenor, Noson Lawen and BBC’s Songs of Praise.
Recent highlights include performing as part of trio in a live broadcast on BBC1 to mark the Passchendaele Centenary at Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium. The tribute to Welsh poet Hedd Wyn was performed in the presence of members Royal Family and European Ministers.
Other highlights include playing the lead role of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables as part of the Urdd’s National Theatre company’s 10 Year Anniversary production at the WMC, Cardiff.
In addition to his busy schedule, Osian is a patron of the charity Welsh Hearts and is an active volunteer crew member of Burry Port Lifeboat Station.
During the course of his short singing career, he already has a number of awards to his name – 2017 and 2018 – Minnie Morgan Scholarship Recipient; 2018 – Douglas Rees Young Opera Singer of the Year – Finalist; 2018 – Geraint Morris Memorial Award – Winner.
In other concert news, here are a few of the events coming up in the next few weeks –
Ammanford and District Choral Society, conductor Mrs Indeg Thomas, are celebrating Christmas at Christian Temple Chapel Hall in Ammanford on Sunday, December 9, at 7pm. Soloist Huw-Ynyr Evans, presenter Mr Edwin Williams and accompanists Mrs Gloria Lloyd and Miss Catrin Edwards. Admission £5.
Llandybie Male Voice Choir and Dinefwr Choir are presenting an evening of Carols and Readings on Friday, December 14 (7pm) at Llandybie Parish Church. Entry is Free, but a collection will be made at the end. By the way, Llandybie Male Voice Choir are in need of a Musical Director. Anyone who can help is asked to email Howard Beynon – howsonk@btinternet.com
On Saturday December 15 Cor Merched Tybie will be holding their Christmas concert at Llandybie Rugby Club from 7pm.
Llandyfaelog-based Côr Meibion Dyffryn Tywi are looking forward to their Christmas events. They include – Tuesday 11th December, Glanmorfa Care Home, Kidwelly, 6.30pm. Thursday 13 December, Towy Castle, 6.30pm. Tuesday 18th December, Red Lion, Llandyfaelog, 7pm. Thursday 20th December, Gwernllwyn Care Home, 6.30pm.
Crwbin Silver Band Christmas Concert will be at Pontyberem Hall on Friday, December 14 (7pm). The concert will also feature Ysgol Maes y Gwendraeth choir and wind band. Tickets are £8 (children £5) and will be available at the door or from band members.
The West End At Christmas will be at The Lyric Theatre in Carmarthen on December 18.
The Kidwelly Festival Ladies Choir will be performing at a Grand Christmas Concert and Vintage Fashion Show at Carmarthen Museum, Abergwili, on December 15 (6pm). Tickets are £10 adults and £5 children.
Robert Lloyd works as a media consultant – www.rlloydpr.co.uk
If you have any news about the choral scene in Llanelli, the please contact him on 07777 683637 or email rlloydpr@btinternet.com
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Spacecraft telemetry, command and tracking is carried out primarily by the ESA ground station in Villafranca, Spain, with support from NASA's Deep Space Network. In the critical early stages between launch and final orbit insertion, additional ground stations in Kourou (French Guiana), Perth (Australia) and Kiruna (Sweden) were used.
The ESA Ground Stations and Communications Network (ESTRACK) performs the telemetry, command and tracking operations in the S-band radio frequencies via the Villafranca ground station. Wide band data acquisition is also possible via the NASA Deep Space Network ground stations in California, Spain and Australia.
The Villafranca ground station
ESA's Villafranca del Castillo Satellite Tracking Station (VILSPA), which is located in Villanueva de la Caqada (some 28 km northwest of Madrid), is the prime Telemetry, Tracking and Command (TT&C) station for Cluster.
The antenna used is an S-band, 15 metre dish (VIL-1) which was formerly used for the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) mission from 1976 to 1996 and for the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) mission from 1996 to 1998. VIL-1 was refurbished and upgraded to meet the requirements of the Cluster mission, using many parts from the Odenwald antenna in Germany, which was originally to be used for the first Cluster spacecraft.
Since IUE and ISO were slow-moving satellites, the antenna servo speed and tracking receiver response were not considered to be of major importance. However, the Cluster satellites have highly elliptical orbits and require high velocity tracking, so the modifications to the VIL-1 antenna included replacement of the old servo and tracking systems.
The Cluster antenna at Villafranca
Cluster antenna at Villafranca during upgrading
Most of the ground-satellite communications during the Cluster mission are handled by the 15 metre diameter VIL-1 antenna at Villafranca in Spain.
A major upgrade of the antenna started on 19 November 1998 with the arrival at Villafranca of 26 boxes, transported by truck from Odenwald (Germany). They contained antenna dish panels, cable twister, feed horn, servo gearboxes and electronic equipment weighing more than 23 tonnes.
The Antenna Equipment Room (AER) cabin and the subreflector arrived by a special 3.2 metre wide transport. Special permission for this transfer was required from authorities of Germany, France and Spain. During the entire journey, which lasted more than two weeks, the cabin heating and dehydrator systems had to be powered up to avoid condensation on the equipment and waveguides.
The VIL-1 upgrade featured replacement of the following:
the dish panels (60 panels divided in 5 sectors, located in 3 rings)
the subreflector
the feedhorn and mirror
the gearboxes (modified in order to increase the antenna velocity to 3 degrees per second)
the cable twister
the AER cabin and related equipment
the dehydrator system
In April 1999, ground station telemetry, telecommand, ranging and communications equipment arrived from the ex-Odenwald antenna. The VIL-1 upgrade activities were completed in autumn 1999 and supported the ground system validation prior to launch.
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Larkin's shootout goal gives Red Wings 3-2 win over Canucks
NHL Headlines
Suspended D Voynov signs with KHL team
Devils hope to convince Hall to stay
Hurricanes add F Dzingel on 2-year deal
Flyers president Holmgren steps down
Sabres, Larsson agree to $1.55M deal
Blues acquire F Joshua from Maple Leafs
Habs re-sign Armia, Lehkonen for 2 years
Stars C Dickinson gets 2 year, $3M deal
Pens C Cullen retires after 21 seasons
Canucks sign F Ferland to 4-year deal
(AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
DETROIT (AP) Down by two in the second period and still looking for their first goal of the night, the Detroit Red Wings simply kept competing.
That perseverance paid off with a 3-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks when Dylan Larkin scored the only goal in a shootout Tuesday.
"I think it's just going out there and working hard - and working hard for 60 minutes," said goaltender Jimmy Howard, who made 40 saves. "Realizing that this game has a lot of ups and downs throughout the whole game and if you just continue to stick to it and continue to keep working for 60 minutes, some nights you're going to get the bounces."
Justin Abdelkader and Gustav Nyquist scored in regulation for the Red Wings, who have won four of five. Howard denied Elias Pettersson, Nikolay Goldobin and Bo Horvat in the tiebreaker after stopping Horvat on a breakaway 20 seconds into overtime.
"I think part of (being) resilient is guys stepping up and making plays at big moments," Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said. "And for a goaltender, it's just making a whole bunch of saves and I thought Howie was a big difference that way."
Pettersson and defenseman Ben Hutton scored for Vancouver, which had won three straight. Jacob Markstrom made 28 saves.
"Overall I thought we controlled the game. To let it slip kind of hurts," Hutton said.
Nyquist tied the game at 2 just 1:37 into the third period. His shot went off Markstrom's pad and in off the leg of Canucks defenseman Troy Stecher for his second goal.
Abdelkader's power-play goal got Detroit on the board with 6:15 left in the second. He put in a loose puck from the slot for his third of the season.
Hutton's third goal with 8:39 remaining in the middle period gave the Canucks a 2-0 advantage. Hutton beat Howard with a screened wrist shot from the left point.
The Red Wings challenged that the play was offside going into the zone, but the goal was upheld.
Detroit had an apparent goal by Martin Frk reversed on a challenge by Vancouver at 5:36 of the second. Frk took a long pass at the Canucks blue line for a breakaway and beat Markstrom with a slap shot from the right circle. But the Canucks challenged that the play was offside and replays showed Frk was in the Vancouver zone before the puck, and the call was reversed.
Pettersson gave Vancouver a 1-0 lead with 6:21 left in the first period on a slap shot from the top of the left circle off the rush. The rookie center already has 10 goals.
NOTES: Vancouver RW Brock Boeser missed the game with a groin injury. He was replaced in the lineup by LW Brendan Leipsic. ... Detroit recalled C Christoffer Ehn from Grand Rapids of the American Hockey League. Ehn had an assist in nine games with the Red Wings earlier this season. ... The Red Wings were without D Jonathan Ericsson (undisclosed), forward Andreas Athanasiou (leg), C Frans Nielsen (concussion) and forward Thomas Vanek (lower body) due to injuries.
Canucks: At the Boston Bruins on Thursday.
Red Wings: Host the New York Rangers on Friday.
More AP NHL: https://www.apnews.com/NHL and https://www.twitter.com/AP-Sports
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Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Recurring Lesson
Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate "quiz" questions that their peers will answer.
A Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for "The Tell-Tale Heart"
What's that sound? Students participate in a Directed ListeningThinking Activity (DLTA) using "The Tell-Tale Heart," make predictions, and respond in the form of an acrostic poem or comic strip.
Aim for the Heart: Using Haiku to Identify Theme
Using haiku, students focus on themes in literature and demonstrate their understanding of an author's message. Writing haiku to accompany an analytical paper hones analytical skills and fosters creative expression.
Alliteration in Headline Poems
Students will be introduced to the term alliteration and create a headline poem consisting of 25 words that contain at least three examples of alliteration.
Analyzing Advice as an Introduction to Shakespeare
Popular culture provides an introduction to Shakespeare's poetic devices in this lesson, which asks students to explore an excerpt from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Animate that Haiku!
Following the traditional form of the haiku, students publish their own haikus using Animoto, an online web tool to produce slideshows that blend text and music.
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Appreciating Audiobooks
In this episode, you'll hear about what goes on behind the scenes in audiobook production. You'll also hear samples from an array of distinguished audio titles including YA classics as well as newer works of contemporary realistic fiction, dystopian fiction, historical fiction, and novels written in verse.
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Salvini: ‘Soros Wants to Fill Italy and Europe with Migrants Because He Likes Slaves’
July 9, 2018 admin Big Brother News, Crime & Coverups, Globalist Watch, Latest News, news, News On The Edge, News Updates, Opinion, Politics, Somicom Syndicated Content, World News 0
by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart:
Italy’s deputy prime minister and minister of the interior Matteo Salvini has infuriated billionaire plutocrat George Soros, claiming the financier wants to flood Europe with migrant “slaves”.
The Lega (League) leader, who has surged in popularity since coming to office as head of one half of Italy’s new populist coalition government, made the comments in an interview on the In Onda television programme.
Salvini accused the convicted insider trader of financing the so-called civil society NGOs which have been racing the Libyan Coast Guard to pick up illegal migrants from smuggler boats a few miles off the North African coast, in order to ferry them to distant European ports.
“Soros wants to fill Italy and Europe with migrants,” Salvini told La7 TV viewers, adding that he “would like Italy [to become] a giant refugee camp because he likes slaves”.
The populist later shared the comments on his social media, so they could be seen by an even wider audience.
Italian Newspaper Claims ‘Global Elite’ Working to Transform Europe Through Mass Migration https://t.co/5ZQ2hHtemJ
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 6, 2018
Open Society Foundations, Soros’s flagship NGO into which he recently poured 18 billion dollars, has now issued a furious denial, demanding Salvini stop “repeating these and similar false statements about Mr Soros”.
Salvini has challenged the financier and his foundation before, claiming the NGO and its partners have made it their business to promote uncontrolled immigration, liberalisation of drug use, and social policies which undermine the family and promote alternative lifestyles and gender identities.
“So no more families with a Mum and Dad. Isn’t it way better to have an ‘open society’ with six dads, three mums, 18 great-grandparents, and six cousins, who also change gender according to the mood of the day? … And sometimes they smoke pot together!” he quipped sarcastically.
“This is the project they want to leave to our children. Why? Because then you no longer have a man or a woman — you have a number, an item, with no rights, no history, no thought, no nationality, no identity… They are very well organised enemies, and they are very rich,” he warned.
“But we’ll prevail. Because history tells us that when peoples wake up and realise that they are in danger, they react.”
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Oct 24 The Truth About Scary Movies
Lorenzo Brogi-Skoskiewicz
Halloween season is starting to roll around again. Everyone knows we are in for the season of brisk weather, oversized candy bags, skimpy costumes, and scary movies. There is just one problem: scary movies are just not good anymore.
Think about how many recent “horror movies” you have seen and enjoyed. Now think about how many of those films you could seriously say “you know what… that was a really good movie,” like the way you would describe the latest Christopher Nolan or David Fincher project. Unless you are a Cinephile, the answer is probably less than five. This is a terrible percentage considering that around 612 horror movies are made each year in the United States alone. You might be expecting me to point the finger at film directors for this “drop” in quality; but I honestly think directors have gotten better. We are the ones to blame, because we as an audience expect horror movies to be bad even before we start watching them.
In other words, scary movies are a joke. Just think about all the endless Vines and YouTube videos all over the internet that parody horror movies, or even satire movies like Scary Movie that ridicule the genre. Or even how we watch slasher films with our friends late at night because the idiocy of some of the characters makes us laugh. I mean sure, anyone can still be horror-stricken by an old fashioned jump scare now and then, but most scary movies nowadays lack any real surprise. They are mostly just the same formulaic plot regurgitated with different actors and settings. We as an audience can predict what is going to happen from the get-go to the finale, mostly because we have learned all the clichés.
These clichés are not necessarily bad by any means; in fact, you will be hard pressed to find a film genre that does not have its own clichés (looking at you, Superhero movies). Yet Horror tropes have morphed into a different class of their own. Just think about how ridiculous some of them are; the black man or the “dumb blondes” always die first. Cars never start when they need to. The characters (always six of them, for some reason) split up to make it easier for the killer to pick them off. There is always classic mirror scare where a person looks into a bathroom mirror only to see a ghost or some other creature staring back at them (and do not forget the accented music cue to go with it); Killers who are basically un-killable until the protagonist discovers their own kryptonite. And of course, the most famous of all, characters that inevitably fall over nothing while being chased (maybe over the movie’s plot holes?) end up being killed.
Now I am not by any means saying there are not any good scary movies, that is not true at all, I mean just a few months ago the movie “Don’t Breathe” came out and got an 87% on Rotten Tomatoes. All my friends who saw it said how good it was. We should come to expect that level of quality in most horror films and not be surprised when we catch it the 1 out of 10 times it actually happens. Horror has always been one of the most important genres in the history of film. Just think about classics like Psycho, Jaws, Dracula, The Shining, The Exorcist, The Thing, etc. Sure some of those movies seem campy and silly to us now, but back then they totally scared the crap out of everybody, and you know why? Because they brought something different to the table, every time. Those movies brought the audience’s deepest and darkest fears to life on the big screen, and for some reason there is almost nothing that intrigues us more than the monsters we fear, and that intrigue beckons us to watch these scary films.
Instead of trying to dig in a little deeper past the clichés in attempts to surprise us, horror movies nowadays try to play to the nostalgia factor and scare us again by re-using whatever worked in the past, which is why we get remakes of movies like Carrie and The Blair Witch Project. But that is only making it worse for the genre as a whole. For every low quality Blair Witch Project remake, the less we expect to see in future movies, driving both audiences and talented directors towards other genres. Sure, the studios are partly to blame for not attempting to surprise us anymore, but again, they do the same thing with other movie genres. If studios keep pushing out Superhero movies at this pace, then we are also eventually going to lose the “wow” factor we currently have about them, and audience excitement for them will wane and eventually the genre will fall behind. Actually I think this already slowly happening and no amount of Marvel or DC fanboys can make up for that.
I believe there is a way to convince movie studios to put more effort into their horror movies and simultaneously increase our expectations about them. It is a pretty simple plan: Just stop going to see bad horror movies at the theatre. Shoddy horror film franchises make a surprisingly enormous amount of money. Sinister 2 made 53 million on a budget of only 10 (13% on Rotten Tomatoes), the Lazarus Effect made 38 million on a 3 million budget (14%), and Annabelle made 257 million worldwide on only 6.5 million (29%); That is an extremely high return on investment for film studios.
It seems as if making bad, low-effort horror movies is a surefire return for them. Studios need to wake up and stop making bad movies, and audiences need to stop rewarding them for their failures. It is pretty easy to tell even based off trailers whether a movie will actually be bad, and if a movie seems bad, then just stay as far from it as possible; go see something else instead, or go do that English paper you were putting off. Once horror movies start bombing at the box office, studios will be forced to adapt, make better quality ones, and surprise audiences for once, which will recreate interest in what is now a dying genre. Horror movies are an extremely important category in film history and should not be left to rot and made fun of, so guys, let’s please try and make horror movies great again.
If you want a scary flick to watch this Halloween, I recommend you check out these 5 horror movies:
1.) The Witch (2015).
Directed by Robert Eggers in his debut. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, and Kate Dickie. (91% Rotten Tomatoes)
This fantastic movie takes place in 17th Century New England and puts a thought-provoking spin on the story of the witch trials, delving deeper into a family’s descent into religious hysteria and madness. It combines accurate historical detail with beautiful imagery and makes you more afraid of the things off the screen than on them.
2.) The Babadook (2014).
Directed by Jennifer Kent. Starring Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman. (98%)
A movie about a monster haunting a family that actually ends up being a heartfelt and genuine story. The movie does not rely on any gore or even a real monster to frighten you, but instead scares the living daylights out of you with traditional horror that builds up inside your mind.
3.) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014).
Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. Starring Sheila Vand. (95%)
A Persian-Iranian horror film (do not worry, subtitles will not hurt you) that takes place in an Iranian ghost town and depicts the doing of a lonely female vampire. The movie acts as both a horror film and a heartfelt vampire romance that touches on feminist themes and makes you afraid to walk alone across campus at night.
4.) Green Room (2016).
Directed by Jeremy Saulnier. Starring Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, and Sir Patrick Stewart. (91%)
A gory and relentless film that follows a struggling punk band who find themselves on the run from neo-Nazi skinheads after being in the wrong place at the wrong time and witnessing a murder. The movie is a roller-coaster thriller that combines great acting with an intelligent plot and pays homage to classic punk bands of the 70’s.
5.) It Follows (2015).
Directed by David Robert Mitchell. Starring Maika Monroe and Keir Gilchrist. (97%)
Following a sexual encounter, a girl is followed by a supernatural entity that continuously inhabits the bodies of people around her. A movie that brings a famous urban legend onto the big screen and throughout the story creates this feeling of dread that makes the audience extremely uncomfortable and paranoid. The sensation keeps growing and growing until all hell breaks loose. It is a smart and creative flick that is, above all, absolutely terrifying.
#Horror, #HorrorMovies, #5MoviestoWatch, #Scary
Oct 25 Day off
Oct 23 Xiaoshuo Hou Joins the Skidmore Faculty
Feb 6 Phantom Thread: A Masterpiece Weaving Together Love and Art
Mar 6 Great Movies from 2017 You Might've Missed
Nov 7 Great Movies of 2018 You Might Have Missed
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The Cornish Coast Murder and The Lake District Murder by John Bude
Reviewed by Harriet Devine
‘That’s just where I must part company with you, Inspector’, said the Vicar with a gentle smile. ‘I’m rather a voracious reader of mystery stories, and it’s always struck me that the detective in fiction is inclined to underrate the value of intuition’. (The Cornish Coast Murder).
You could be forgiven for not having heard of John Bude. Although he published about thirty crime novels between 1935 and his death in 1957, none of them has been in print for many decades. Now, thanks to British Library Crime Classics, his first two – The Cornish Coast Murder and The Lake District Murder – are newly available, complete with very attractive 1930s travel posters on the covers and new introductions by the prize-winning British crime writer Martin Edwards.
This is golden age crime, then, contemporary with the best of Christie, Sayers, Allingham and the rest. But if these two of Bude’s are anything to go by, his novels might be the very gentlest of the bunch. True, someone gets killed in each novel — a disagreeable old man in the first one, an apparently harmless young garage owner in the second — but the facts of the murder are lightly sketched in, and the real interest of the novel is the process of reasoning which leads to the uncovering of the identity of the perpetrator. So, in both instances, we are treated to a lot of silent thinking, whether by The Reverend Dodd in Cornwall or by Inspector Meredith in the Lakes. Silent thinking accompanied by expeditons with measuring tape, string, and sticks, that is. For both the Vicar and the Inspector are intensely practical men, who realise that motive and opportunity are no good without an understanding of means. It is certainly delightful to witness the elderly Vicar climbing about on the cliff top with his home-made measuring devices, or to find Meredith commissioning a large wooden box with muslin stretched over the top, which he will be dropping into the small waterfall in a nearby beck.
Intuition, as the Vicar says, plays a large part in the detection process here. Young Ruth Tregarthan is the obvious suspect in Cornwall, but despite all the evidence pointing in her direction, the Rev Dodd cannot believe she is guilty. In the Lakes, meanwhile, Meredith is not satisfied with the intial verdict of suicide, and soon works out that not only has Clayton been murdered, but that this is more or less incidental to some very shady doings involving petrol stations, delivery trucks, and underground passageways. While in neither case is the final denouement exactly an astonishing revelation, that’s hardly the point here. It’s watching these thoughtful men gradually arriving at a satisfactory conclusion that’s the real interest here.
Back at Greystoke Road, Meredith crept in between the sheets, without waking his wife, and lay thinking. He had got it at last! He knew now what Ormby-Wright was up to! He had, so to speak, walked through a pitch-black tunnel and emerged into blinding sunlight. Now the whole case, like a smiling stretch of countryside, lay spread out before him.
These are two really charming novels. Both published in 1935 — a busy year for Bude, evidently — they provide the most wonderful picture of a long-gone way of life, which it is sometimes hard to believe is still just about within living memory. For one thing, the finances are a bit of an eye-opener:
Higgins’ share in the garage profits was £2 a week. Ten shillings went to Mrs Swinley for her services, which left Higgins with thirty-five shillings. Out of this he had to pay his food, clothing, personal expenses, and share the general running expenses of the cottage.
Then there’s the way that Meredith rides around the countryside on a motorbike, with or without a sidecar attached, and always makes sure he gets home in time for his high tea. Meetings with the Chief Constable invariably begin with an invitation to the (needless to say, all male) team to ‘put on’ their pipes — get them out and light them, that is. As for women, they are barely visible in the Lake District Murder – there’s a telling moment when Meredith visits one of his informants, and the man makes ‘a sign for his wife to retire to the kitchen’. I couldn’t help trying to picture just what kind of sign that might have been.
Another great joy of these two novels is the fact that Bude has set them in what must be the two most beautiful places in England, but then chosen to de-emphasise their most obviously beautiful aspects. In Cornwall, the setting is a fairly unremarkable cliff-top house above a fairly unremarkable beach, though the Vicar does take great pleasure in the beauty of the view, where
A few silver, yellow clouds of incredible brightness stretched along the dark rim of the seaward horizon, splintered with a few misty rays of the setting sun.
And the Lakeland where Meredith lives and works is not the famous tourist destinations of Windermere, Ambleside and Grasmere, but the relatively unglamorous and sparsely inhabited area near the West coast, where ordinary people live ordinary lives. Indeed, it’s that very ordinariness that sets Bude’s novels apart from those of his better-known contemporaries, with their aristocratic detectives and country house settings. Well done to the British Library for bringing them to light.
Harriet Devine is one of the editors of Shiny New Books
John Bude, The Cornish Coast Murder (British Library, London, 2014).
John Bude, The Lake District Murder (British Library, London, 2014). 978 0 7123 5716 6, 288 pp., paperback. 978 0 7123 5715 9, 288 pp., paperback.
6 thoughts on “The Cornish Coast Murder and The Lake District Murder by John Bude”
Elizabeth Tierney says:
Great review about two books that I already own, thanks to Kindle. Looking forward to reading your future reviews!!
Harriet says:
Thanks, Elizabeth. Watch out for the next issue in which I will be reviewing two more Brilliant British Library classic crime reprints!
Carol S says:
I read the second knowing the Lake District well and so was attracted to possible visions of that landscape. Vaguely only, and while its’ plot was fairly ingenious I found the novel dull. The characters didn’t engage me, police procedure while detailed and I’m sure accurate was mundane. It was a quick read. I won’t be reading another. I’ll stick to Rebus/Rankin I think.
Martin Edwards says:
I’m delighted that you like what the British Library are doing. I think it’s really worthwhile, which is why I’ve been delighted to work with them. There was much more to the Golden Age than Christie and Sayers, great as those writers are, and whilst I certainly do not claim that all Golden Age books read well today, far too many of them have been overlooked for decades. Thanks to the British Library among others, the tide is finally turning.
Yes indeed Martin. I read about your own discoveries with great interest and hope some of these might pop up at the BL one day!
curtis evans says:
John Bude was similar to the “Humdrum” school of British Golden Age detective novelists (so called for their focus on puzzle), about whom I write in “Masters of the Humdrum Mystery.” John Rhode/Miles Burton, Freeman Wills Crofts, J. J Connignton, E. R. Punshon, G.D.H and Margaret Cole, R.A.J Walling, all have been stated to have belonged to this school.
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How I Met Your Mother, "Duel Citizenship": Take off, eh!
Quick spoilers for tonight's "How I Met Your Mother" coming up just as soon as I bar the door handles with my hockey stick...
"I'm a Canadian. I was born there. My family's there. It's who I am." -Robin
"Yeah, I know. And it's provided us with a lot of laughs." -Barney
While Robin's Canadian heritage has, indeed, provided us with a lot of laughs, to my amazement I found the biggest laughs of "Duel Citizenship" came in the Ted/Marshall subplot. Between the running gag about Tantrum! cola, the belated reaction to the bad pizza ("It's like a hot ball of lead!") and Ted's complete despair at becoming a third wheel on what was supposed to be a dude's adventure (complete with an audiobook featuring the honey-dipped vocal stylings of Mr. Kenny Rogers), it was stoopid and silly, but very, very funny. And, like most of the better "HIMYM" storylines, it got at the core tension between people in different phases of romantic life. Ted thinks Marshall's being a selfish jerk who's ruined the trip, and vice versa, and they both have a point. (Though, as a married guy, I think Ted has the better point. Springing Lily on Ted at the last minute was a massive Road Trip Foul.)
And I don't mean to slight the Robin/Barney storyline, which had the usual physical mayhem we've come to associate with any full-on Canadian incident for Ms. Scherbatzky, plus a visit to Tim Horton's. And for once, a Canadian subplot turned into an excuse for the writers to crack jokes about America, particularly during the Foxworthy/Varney argument, when a delighted Barney proclaimed, "Not only are you wrong, but you are belligerently sticking to your guns and insulting me in the process. Robin Scherbatzky, you are an American!"
Maybe not the deepest episode they've done, but it was plenty funny, and after the debacle that was Joe Girardi's over-managing in Yanks-Angels game 3, I needed some good laughs, and I got 'em.
Labels: How I Met Your Mother, How I Met Your Mother (Season 5)
I'm fully nitpicking here, but as someone who has actually driven from Connecticut to Chicago a couple times, I can't see how it could possibly take 22 hours to drive there straight through.
The Tim Hortons was pretty accurate, but a lot of the Canadian jokes were weak. The monopoly money joke has been done before and done better. I guess the problem is that the show is written for Americans, who for the most part know very little about Canada, and so there are only so many jokes you can make about "eh", hockey, cold weather and being polite.
It might have been funnier if Barney went to Toronto and didn't notice a difference between Canadians and Americans, which would have freaked him out.
It could be that I wasn't fully invested (i was cooking dinner while i was watching), but it seemed like the weakest episode of the season to me. And I'm not sure why--all the parts were there, and I enjoyed the plots of both stories, but it wasn't laugh-out-loud funny. Which...maybe it doesn't have to be, as long as the story works. And while I thought the story worked, i just didn't laugh as much as i had hoped i would. Ah, well!
As a Canadian (who actually lives in Vancouver, so I enjoy the Canucks jerseys) I was happy to see some good US jokes for a change. The monopoly money joke HAS been made too many times but I laughed when Barney made fun of the $5 for having hockey players on it. And now every time I look at a Canadian coin I'm going to see Elton John (who is actually married to a Canadian).
This is stupid nitpicking and I'm probably wrong but I thought it was virtually impossible to be both a Canadian and American citizen.
Hannah Lee said...
I enjoyed this episode more than last week's; there were enough laughs in both plots to make it a winner. The Canadian humor was kind of simplistic, but since the commentary was coming mostly from Barney, that didn't bother me. Plus, I liked the idea of Robin having a bit of an identity crisis, like she's taking stock of who she is: her career has gone in a different direction than she expected, her personal life is going in a different direction than she expected, it makes sense.
Springing Lily on Ted at the last minute was a massive Road Trip Foul
During all those scenes, I couldn't help thinking about Long Way Down, Evan McGregor and Charley Boorman's reality road trip followup to Long Way Round; basically 2 best friends (and their trusty cameraman Claudio) on motorcycles driving across continents. The first series is the Best. Road.Trip. Ever. In the second series, Ewan decides that he wants his wife (who's never ridden a motorcycle) to come along with them for part of the trip. Very sweet (like Marshall and Lily), but also so not in the spirit of guys' road trip. Things wound up alright IIRC, but there was some tension, similar to the tension between Ted and Marshall.
Billiam said...
I was a bit let down. The road-trip storyline felt a bit sitcommy and predictable, and the episode just didn't make me laugh very much.
Though I did laugh at the hockey stick in the door handles.
Joe Girardi's over-managing in Yanks-Angels game 3
Aceves? I mean, as an Angel fan, thank you Girardi, but what was that all about?
Sorry, I don't usually even watch HIMYM, but I came on here to see if you had anything to say about the game. I'll just go elsewhere now...
When Ted threw the keys on the floor while Marshall was wearing a robe, I laughed out loud for about a minute. Hilarious.
Phil Freeman said...
This episode made me laugh harder than this show's done in several weeks. Tantrum! in particular made me laugh a whole lot, because I could sort of relate, having once drunk a two-liter bottle of Jolt Cola in order to drive into the city and watch G.G. Allin take the stage at 2 A.M. at a tiny, now-defunct bar/club in Manhattan.
Nitpicking aside, I do think that's fairly accurate anon 10:35. I live in Michigan and know a lot of Canadian transplants who don't vote here because they'd have to give up Canadian citizenship to do so.
One of my Canadian friends even got his girlfriend to work the 2008 election because he wanted to support Obama, but couldn't legally work the election without forfeiting Canadian citizenship.
This show on the whole can't be considered better than "pretty good" but I'm pretty happy I've watched it in full because of the continuity gags, which aren't always made obvious, but are sometimes really funny: I cracked up when I realized that flashback Ted and Marshall were singing that Proclaimers song because back then, they were still driving the Fiero which had the tape stuck in it.
Pale Writer said...
As the self-conscious Chicagoan than I am, I enjoy any plot in which characters would go out of their way to come here.
Also, the address for the pizza place is in the middle of a bridge.
My problem is Lily. I'm single but I can't imagine trying to horn in on my partner's guy weekend. Nor would I expect him to horn in on girls night out. That made it kind of an eh episode for me... Big Bang was, too... so kind of an eh night.
That said I did enjoy dumb college road trip as a thing. We did that.
I really loved NPH's delighted reactions to Ted/Marshall's Tantrum-mania. He was so entertained!
I found myself really angry at Lily in this episode. I mean, I get the whole married-people thing, but really? You know you're coming along on a recreation of an epic insane road trip and you do NOTHING to go along with the traditions? That was just horrible. I know that Robin would have been shooting back Tantrum like mother's milk if she'd been the third-wheel.
I mean, Ted usually annoys me, but I was 100% on his side tonight.
So if HIMYM isn't showing up on my DVR for later and MNF is scheduled to air during its time, does that mean that they pushed it off for the week for us west coasters? If so, lame. We all know NPH is way better than any Chargers/Broncos game that could ever happen!
Yesenia said...
I have a problem with Lily being portrayed as an impediment to Marshall and Ted's relationship, when Lily and Ted have always seemed to be as much friends as Marshall and Ted are. It just felt like Ted was acting like his bro brought along some chick he didnt know, when Lily is supposed to be his friend too.
I understand he wanted guy time with Marshall, but I feel like he should have been able to tell Lily that. And also that Lily, as his friend, would have understood that.
Antid Oto said...
I didn't understand why anyone would drive from Connecticut to Chicago for pizza under any circumstances. New Haven has great pizza. And wasn't Ted a snob in college?
To Anon: My cousins have dual American-Canadian citizenship, because their mother is American and their father is Canadian. No idea how Robin's planning on getting it, but it is possible.
And as an East Coaster who's moved to Chicago -- yeah, it's 24 hours from New York to Chicago on train. The way College!Ted/Marshall drove, it shouldn't have taken them more than fifteen.
I could nitpick further, but really, the 500 miles callback was enough to make me laugh. Also, I really enjoyed Barney's and Robin's relationship here -- just like their friendship, except Barney keeps suggesting sex. So not much different at all.
Sophietje said...
That pizza wasn't nearly deep enough.... Now, Giordano's was reason enough for me and my friends to drive 4-6 hours to Chicago one a month. Would have totally been willing to 22 hours as well!
And now that I live in Buffalo, NY, I stop at Timmy Ho's every morning. Barney wasn't exaggerating: Tim Horton's double-double is the best coffee anyplace.
Matter-Eater Lad said...
I realize Marshall was at fault as much or more than Lily was with his Road Trip Foul, but, damn, Lily is starting to approach Stella levels of unpleasantness lately.
Alden said...
As a Canadian (and, currently, a Torontonian), I absolutely loved the Canada subplot and the Canada/US jokes. :D Also, Robin was Robin! First time she's really peeked her head out this season, and that makes me really happy. Generally very happy with the episode, even if compared to S1/2 it feels waaaay more sitcom-ised (the colours and the laugh track particularly) this season.
@Phil Freeman: Indeed, as a sometime-energy drink enthusiast who remembers Jolt!, the Tantrum story made me smile in fond memory.
R.A. Porter said...
@Antid Oto: I couldn't agree with you more about New Haven pizza. The only justification for the preference for Chicago-style would be if either Ted or Marshall had taken a lot of trips to Chicago as kids. Otherwise, the fight would be between Sal's and Pepe's.
As for the dual citizenship...Robin couldn't do that. America requires people to forsake allegiance to other countries in order to naturalize. Not all countries do that, which is why many people *are* dual American-Canadian citizens. They start out as Americans and then become Canadian.
Overall I thought the episode was fine, but it was a funny A-story and a funny B-story that had none of the complexity or playfulness with time of the better episodes. If the writers had found a way to intertwine the episodes, that might have elevated it.
To Rachel and other west-coasters HIMYM should record around 2am tonight.
Canada has long recognized dual citizenship, especially that of the United States. I think the US has only acknowledged the existence of a second citizenship fairly recently, but Canadians who applied for US citizenship have never had to give up the Canadian one, since we have been allies for a very long time. (Except for the War of 1812 part, but then again Canada wasn't officially a country at that time).
Many Hollywood types born in Canada but who have acquired American citizenship, have kept their Canadian citizenship, e.g. Jim Carrey, Martin Short
Pamela Jaye said...
I thought you weren't blogging this week. (but happy (if) that's not true.
I've never been clear on whether the blog is work or not work or some grey area in between. (and if it is work, did work tell you to start it, if not, did they freak out. everyone has a blog these days, but I don't think they did when you started this. so, curious)
Nice ep. I watched it while waiting for the stupid baseball to get out of the way of my watching House. A couple of nice people on Twitter @'ed me when the game was over, and I adjusted the end time on the DVR (it was too late to start a new recording. Twhirl has a bit of a lag to it)
I really missed their old road trips. I'm one of those who would want to sleep in a motel but only stops to use the bathroom - we can eat while we're moving. In fact, it's part of the fun. Like singing in the car. Who wants to listen to a book?
I did like Lily's zoning off into massage land though.
And I do understand the "we" thing (although it would have been nice if my (ex)husband had understood it too.)
Recently we drove from FL to Boston in two days... with *1* person driving.
Were those flashbacks or did they get a new copy of that 500 miles song? oh never mind. flashbacks. yeah, that was fun.
I'm not taking Lily on any road trips. And I'm female. (alas, only my male friends take road trips, and they always have to sleep outdoors)
Pale Writer - Love that the address is in the middle of a bridge.
Dave Sandell said...
I guess I assumed they meant 22 hours round-trip, which seemed quite short for a round-trip, but more plausible than 22 each way.
And if you like Chicago-style pizza, it's worth the drive. I don't know anything about New Haven pizza, but it's just not the same type of pizza. It's like when people compare New York style pizza to Chicago. New York might have better pizza, but it's like comparing italian food to Argentian food. It has some stuff in common, but it's not the same type of food.
And for the record, Pequods is the best in the city, followed by Art of Pizza, though I prefer their thin crust. Giordanos is fine, but next time you're here, at least get your Lou Malnati's on. That's the best chain-pizza in the city, hands down.
Argentian should have been Argentinian. It's late.
Wow, I was just at the Tim Horton's around the corner from the Hockey Hall of Fame last week.
LoopyChew said...
Trying to debate whether the callback was awesome because of the 500 Miles cameo, or if that just threw into further relief the Jerky and TANTRUM! vs. "No Food and Drink in the car" rule that Marshall used to have. I guess I could wank it as them being too buzzed on TANTRUM! to care about it anymore.
Anything involving Robin and Canada is awesome, and that includes using them as a way to mock the American lifestyle.
Show's still not Season Two-level awesome yet, but it's picking back up.
citizens said...
Let's see if I can cut through some of the clutter on the dual citizenship thing, since I am one.
You can absolutely hold dual citizenship. In fact, I know some people who have more than 2 citizenships.
I was born and raised in Canada, but later naturalized in the U.S. You technically sign something that says you are giving up all other citizenships, but the other country that you hold citizenship with has to consider that a renunciation for it to count. I know Canada and many other countries don't, hence the dual citizenships.
The U.S. used to make you go further, but now looks the other way for some friendly countries (like Canada).
The most unrealistic part was actually the process. You don't just decide on a whim and go take a test. You have to be a permanent resident for a certain number of years, then apply. The application process takes well over a year, and involves way more than just a simple test.
J.J. said...
I wonder if they always intended to have Marshall's tape player stuck on that particular song, or if they ended up settling on it once they checked out what it would cost to play various other songs from the early '90s.
My only gripe with this show is that wouldn't have Lilly been around for at least one or two of the previous road trips? If she didn't go on them back in the day, why would she suddenly want to go on them now as a married person?
Surely she's heard the stories about the trips, as Marshal tells her everything.
Plus, they need to pick a personality for Lilly. Either she's the awesome party chick that stuffs large bills in stripper's g-strings, or the stick in the mud that brings puppy books to a road trip.
I know people can be complex, a mix, blah, blah, blah, but Lilly seems to have multiple personalities this season.
Someone mentioned it before and I agree - Not in the same league yet but this one reminded me a little of season 2 - in tone and style.
I'm not from Ny or Chicago and the road trip thing threw me too- even I knew it was way too long for one way and awfully short for round trip. Even on Tantrum I doubt that old car could do 85-90 the whole way. This is why it's always a bad idea to give actual times (or distances, or salaries, or prices etc etc ) it just takes the viewer out of the moment.
I may have just been in a poor mood since Girardi cannot manage his way out of a paper bag. Why do you give up the DH when Guzman is still on the roster and a better OF than Hairston?
Guzman catches the double that ended it.
Micromanaging the bullpen was going to cost them eventually. Better now than later I suppose.
Grrrrrrr
Anyway, it was all very sitcom-y. I don't for one second believe that Lilly would have booked a romantic bed and breakfast as their hotel if she knew Ted was going to be there.
I did not like how the Robin story line went from "I am going to be deported NOOO!!!" to "Oh, wait, I'll just get dual citizenship and everything will be fine" so fast.
Also, isn't Marshall supposed to be some hot shot lawyer? He couldn't get Robin out of some bar fight charges?
Ted and Marshall are both midwesterners so I can understand how they would confuse casserole and pizza. It is a common thing in that part of the country.
Not a terrible episode, but definitely not my favourite. Lily on top of the car as the end bit ruined that storyline for me. On a bright note, just wanted to say I love the new Freaks and Geeks "Where Are They Now" blog logo, Alan.
Based on Google Maps, it's about 13.75 hours to Chicago, at an average speed of just under 65 MPH. Crank that up to a TANTRUM! fueled 80 MPH and you're there in just over 11 hours. Or it's possible that Ted and Marshall turned what's normally a 13 hour drive into a 22 hour drive by getting lost without realizing it and travelling much longer than necessary hyped up on Tantrum.
I liked this episode but wasn't all that impressed by it, because the different plot threads didn't come together in the end to relate somehow. In this episode the Ted/Marshall/Lily plot and the Barney/Robin plot didn't have much of anything to do with each other.
Daniel Thorpe said...
Thanks Alan,
For the picture of Cobie Smulders bar-fighting with a chair in a Canucks jersey. She is now my ultimate Canadian Woman.
And the Canadian material may not have been sharply observed, but at least it wasn't outright wrong - except for the shot of Robin and her buddies singing Oh Canada in the Hoser Hut. Outside of the Atlantic provinces we're not a musical race, and the national anthem is the last thing a bunch of Canadian expats would sing (or know the words to). Some maritime folk song would be much more likely: either sentimental (Farewell to Nova Scotia) or loser/patriotic (Barrett's Privateers)
RE: Lily
She did come off as an annoying stick in the mud, but that's why you have to remember that everything we see on the show is through the filter of Future Ted, the unreliable narrator. In his mind, at that moment, she was a complete impedment to his fun, and thus she is made out to be the worst road trip mate ever.
Just as Marshall didn't actually tear a phone book in half while wacked out on Tantrum!, I'm sure Lily didn't actually pee every five minutes or listen to a book on tape about puppies narrated by Kenny Rogers. These are exagerrations that support Ted's memory.
I was really enjoying Barney and Robin's couplehood in this episode. It was a hoot. The whole Canadian thing was excellent.
Speaking as a permanent third wheel, I felt for Ted and was actually sympathetic to him for a change. Ouch!
I will second the "pick a personality for Lily" thing. I have a hard time believing she'd insist on the puppy book rather than chugging Tantrum and singing myself. I also thought, "Here's plenty of ammo for the Lily-haters in this episode," because it really didn't serve her well at all. I don't like it when Lily or Robin are made into Typical Girlfriends, i.e. No Fun and Make You Do Relationshippy Things Rather Than Bro Stuff. I guess those are the moments that make it clear that two guys run this show.
cpennylane said...
I was just happy that they didn't take the cliche that Robin was getting deported so she had to get married right that second. However, I am afraid they might be setting up a greencard marriage to Barney.
I hope not. I also don't think that you can get duel citizenship, unless you are a Canadian who is born in the US.
@ andythesaint
If we see everything on the show through Ted-goggles, then why does he always come off looking like a douche?
I just don't think this is true. Otherwise, how would we be watching anything that doesn't involve Ted?
I'd have to rewatch to be sure, but didn't this episode feature zero Saget voiceover? Has there ever been a previous episode that didn't feature any?
say_andy said...
@mrsb
Someone else has argued (I believe here, but it could have been elsewhere on the interwebs) that unreliable narrator Ted IS why current Ted comes off as a douche. We often see the flaws of our old selves, and possibly even exagerrate them for comedic effect when telling old war stories. It's along the lines of "can you believe we dressed like that back then? Do you remember how much we cared about silly things?"
It's true that the show can use this too much as a crutch/excuse for presenting things that we don't like/things that don't work/things that contradict previous things, and it's their job to not overdue this perspective to the point where the audience is turned off. But in this particular instance, I'd argue that Lily is annoying because Ted is remembering being annoyed at her. The test will be if after this episode, with the seeming resolution between Ted and Marshal, if Lily continues to be annoying.
Toby O'B said...
The mouse hepped up on Tantrum exploding... so wrong and so funny. There I admit it. I have a sick sense of humor.
I don't have much problem with Lily's supposed dual personalities.
This goes back to the episode where Ted/Barney went clubbing while Marshall/Lily stayed in to host a wine tasting back in season 1 or 2.
I mean they've established that Lily thinks they should be transitioning to a more adult/sophisticated form of fun now that they're not kids anymore.
I'm trying to avoid spoilers, so I only skimmed the comments. I didn't see it was mentioned, though: why isn't this episode online yet? Isn't it usually up by this time?
She's a Canucks fan, but it's considered weird that she doesn't know/watch a Leafs vs Oilers game? (Granted if you lived in Toronto you'd know when they were playing, fan or foe. Still, most people do not memorize the entire NHL schedule.)
I do not believe for one second that Robin only just then found out about dual citizenship. She lived in Vancouver and hangs out in NYC with Canadian expats. Many of them don't want dual citizenship, but it's a very well known possibility, and it's silly to imagine that someone well-educated who is living in the US would assume it doesn't exist. (I don't care that the process was all wrong, because no one watches sitcoms for insight into immigration wait times.)
Molly Q said...
We definitely need another catchy phrase for the extraneous person, since everyone (even Alan!) says "third wheel" instead of "fifth wheel." A third wheel is, in most cases, important to a vehicle (imagine a car without wheel #3), while a fifth is, obviously, just hanging there with nothing to do. I know the confusion comes because the fifth wheel is often the third person in a group, but it's still wrong.
Maybe we can start calling it the "Ted"? Man, I felt like a Ted last night when those two started going on and on about their vacation.
Mark B said...
Outside of the Atlantic provinces we're not a musical race, and the national anthem is the last thing a bunch of Canadian expats would sing (or know the words to). Some maritime folk song would be much more likely: either sentimental (Farewell to Nova Scotia) or loser/patriotic (Barrett's Privateers)
Maybe so, but "O Canada" is something the American audience would easily recognize. Sometimes accuracy gets sacrificed for the sake of the joke.
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In Photos With: Chromeo
Photography Louise Tse
The Montreal-based electro-funk duo, Chromeo, was born through a shared love of vintage drum machines and gleamingly plastic synth tones. Developing a sound reminiscent of ‘80s funk and radio RnB, David One and Pee Thug, the geniuses behind this unexpected duo, take influence from Prince and Zapp.
Paying homage to some of the greatest dancefloor pop around, Chromeo’s sound has grown increasingly refined as the years have gone on. Now on their fifth studio album Head Over Heels, we caught some exclusive snaps of the duo before their London show, we chatted their hiatus from music and their desert island album.
You were over in London last week, how was your Printworks show?
We loved it. The space was somewhat unusual, but the sound is truly amazing in there. We’ve played so many of the more traditional concert venues in London – like Roundhouse and Shepherd’s Bush Empire – we wanted to try a different experience this time around. The crowd was beautiful too!
Talking of the crowd, is there a noticeable difference between the crowds over in the UK compared to the States?
Hard to tell because even within the States there’s a bunch of differences. But our UK crowd is always very loud, very engaged and very musically in tune: they respond to every single nuance. What we’ve always loved about playing out there is that there’s very much a funk, boogie and disco culture that’s still alive. You can hear Patrice Rushen on the radio every day! So our music can exist in that reality as well as in the electronic space.
And how would you best describe your live shows?
Dance parties, sing alongs. Lots of lights. It’s entertainment. Pee and I are there to make you happy. We’re at your service. Although we’re currently working on a live band version of the Chromeo show, which will be a different concept entirely.
You recently released your latest album, Head Over Heels, how has that been? And can you explain a bit about the concept behind the album?
After 3 albums, which were very much done in isolation, with 2014’s White Women LP we slowly started to open ourselves to collaborations. On Head Over Heels, we pushed that to the max. That’s what we wanted to try out this time around: set up a studio in Burbank and invite other writers, other producers, our favorite session musicians from the 80s and our favorite vocalists from today. We also wanted to see how far we could polish an album…it was almost a Steely Dan fantasy, you know? All the songs have a clear intention and concept. All the hooks feel muscular. What really surprises us is how well the songs go over when we play live.
But, we’re already thinking about the next project…we’re going to have some new music out next year. And now that we’ve gotten all this collaborating out of us, we sort of want to get back to our isolation bubble again, haha! We’re also producing a few projects for other artists.
And can you explain the iconography of the album artwork for Head Over Heels?
Well the idea was to take the iconography that we introduced with Fancy Footwork and flip it on its head, er, heels, rather. Instead of using women’s body parts, using our own legs. Reclaiming that symbol and taking responsibility for it. It’s something Pee wanted to do for a long time actually. Our last album was named after Helmut Newton’s first book – obviously he’s a huge influence on our visual language. This one actually recalls a photo of Helmut with shaved legs and pumps, sitting down. He did it first.
This album was the first release in 4 years, how it been to release such a large body of work after this hiatus?
It was a relief because Head Over Heels was very much laboured over – we had all the time in the world in our own studio and definitely put in insane hours paying attention to minute sonic details. We had to get that out of us. But now we’re like “ok no more waiting 4 years between albums anymore.”
A lot has changed in music across the four years since you released White Women, how do you think your music fits in to the scene now?
It’s hard to tell! Not even sure what scene anymore. We first started when groups like The Rapture and Bloc Party were popping. We became popular alongside Justice and MSTRKRFT. We blossomed alongside the likes of Cut Copy and Flume. More recently, we played festival slots before Flume and Disclosure. It keeps evolving. At this point, we just focus on carving our own path. We were never big on fitting in anyway.
I’m interested to know how you guys found your particular sound? And how you think it has evolved since you released your first album?
Basically, when we were teens, we discovered funk music through hip-hop. By figuring out all the samples in the song. And we fell in love with it. Later, we got into 80s funk because it combined the pop elements I loved with the synth drum machine experimental elements that spoke to Pee. And almost nobody was referencing it. It wasn’t considered cool. People thought New Order was cool, but not Rick James. So we started Chromeo.
We mixed the 80s synth influence with modern electronic sounds and a very personal, quirky lyrical sensibility…something to anchor 80s influenced electro funk in a post-Seinfeld world. A way to make it totally true to us. Album after album, we just tried to keep polishing our craft because keep in mind that at first, we had no idea what we were doing. Needy Girl was the first time I sang into a microphone. 5 albums later, here we are.
And finally, you’re on a desert island, what’s one album you’d have to have with you?
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By posting their first sightings of Barn Swallow, White Stork, Common Cuckoo, Common Swift, Sand Martin and European Bee-eater on the www.springalive.net website, children from Europe, Central Asia and Africa create a real-time map of the incredible journeys these birds take every year.
Spring Alive brings together children, their teachers and families to record their first sightings of five easily-recognised migratory birds: Barn Swallow, White Stork, Common Cuckoo, Common Swift, European Bee-eater and Sand Martin.
By posting their records on the Spring Alive website, they help create a real-time map of the gradual arrival of spring.
Each year, spring begins with a few scattered early sightings in warm countries, which are displayed as patches of pale orange on the Spring Alive map.
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The Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) has kicked-off with fireworks and festivities, marking the 10th anniversary of the country’s leading First Nations festival that showcases the arts and culture of Australia’s first peoples.
Deputy Premier Jackie Trad said the Palaszczuk Government – through the Backing Indigenous Arts initiative – had been a proud supporter of the event since its inception and was investing more than $800,000 this year to ensure its continuing success.
“Over the past decade, CIAF has attracted more than 280,000 visitors, welcomed 1800 First Nations artists and contributed more than $22 million to the Queensland economy,” Ms Trad said.
“t has also been a launchpad for artists to sell their work, with more than $6.8 million being generated in sales by local and international buyers including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Canada and the Harvard University Art Museum.
“The theme of this year’s fair My Yarn Now will provide a platform to more than 600 Indigenous visual and performing artists to share their lived experiences.”
Minister for the Arts Leeanne Enoch said the expanded, five-day CIAF program provided an opportunity for local, interstate and international guests to explore Queensland’s rich artistic legacy.
“CIAF has played a key role in the Palaszczuk Government’s commitment to providing arts and culture experiences that are unique to Queensland,” Minister Enoch said.
“Australia is home to the longest continuous living cultures in the world, and CIAF helps showcase this.
“Over the next few days, visitors will be immersed in art and cultural experiences that tell important stories and will help nurture a greater understanding of the First Nations peoples, place and culture.
“CIAF has significantly evolved over these past 10 years – from starting out as Australia’s first arts market featuring works of Queensland First Nations peoples, to now include a comprehensive program of performing arts and cultural experiences.”
Highlights of the 2019 program include the feature exhibition Queen’s Land – Blak Portraiture at the Cairns Art Gallery, the CIAF fashion performance Buwal-barra…Messenger. Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow. and Thancoupie Tribute – A Legacy of Cultural Power, a retrospective at Tank Arts Centre honouring the life and work of CIAF founding Patron Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher AO.
CIAF Artistic Director, Janina Harding, said guests could also look forward to Cultural Heights – A Legacy of Traditional Language and Song – a celebration of the Indigenous languages of Far North Queensland, staged to coincide with the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages.
“Cultural Heights audiences will be captivated by the exceptional talent of the Bama, Mer Ira Watai and Kulkalgal choirs and those lucky to have a ticket, will witness a show that has never ever been performed elsewhere in the world before,” Ms Harding said.
“We’ll have around 80 singers and musicians sharing the Cairns Performing Arts Centre (CPAC) stage in all their colour, movement and soaring sounds of brilliance."
The Cairns Indigenous Art Fair runs from 10 to 14 July 2019, with free and ticketed events held at venues throughout Cairns.
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2. The Gold — Manchester Orchestra and Phoebe Bridgers
3. Guiding Light — Mumford & Sons
4. Crack-up (choral version) — Fleet Foxes
5. Sunflower — Post Malone & Swae Lee
6. Everyone Wants to Rule the World — Trevor Horn
7. Everybody Needs You — Laura Veirs
8. House Wren — Owl City
9. TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME — The 1975
10. Solo (with Demi Lovato) — Clean Bandit
1. Roma
2. The Death of Stalin
3. Widows
4. Juliet Naked
6. A Star is Born
8. The Favourite
9. You Were Never Really Here
10. Crazy Rich Asians
May favorite movies of 2018 so far
1 The Death of Stalin A2. You Were Never Really Here 3. Incredibles 2 A-4. McQueen5. A Quiet Place B+6. Loveless B+7. Whitney B+
9. Mission Impossible: Fallout B+
10. Hereditary B+
“Despite the artificial nature of the film it still speaks with uncommon poignancy to the exile condition” writes Noah Isenberg in ‘We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legends and Afterlife of Hollywood Most Beloved Movie, (Faber, $25), a devoted history of the film and its after-life in countries like Hungary and West Germany, where uncut version of it circulated like samizdat. Nearly all of the 75 actors and actresses in the film were immigrants hailing from more than 34 different nations. Bogart was the lone American; you also had Bergman (Sweden), Claude Rains and Sydney Greenstreet (England), Paul Heinreid (Austria), Conrad Veidt (Germany) and Peter Lorre, originally from Slovakia by way of London who said they changed countries “oftener than our shoes”. Hungarian S Z Sakall who played the head-waiter lost three three sisters to the concentration camps. Director Michael Curtiz, himself a Hungarian jew, personally cast them all, incorporating some of their stories into the movie: the trading of jewellery for exit visas, the presence of pickpockets. There were so many German jews playing the very Nazis they had fled that German was frequently spoken on set, which was known as the International House. When the time came for the scene in which defiantly sings La Marseillaise, one character actor noticed everyone was crying. “I suddenly realized they were all real refugees.”
It’s customary to regard the release of the film on November 26, 1942, less than three weeks after Patton’s forces landed in French North Africa, prompting Churchill, Roosevelt, and de Gaulle to issue the Casablanca Declaration, as the one of the greatest publicity coups ever to befall a film — ”General Eisenhower has merely serve then well as an advance agent” remarked The New Yorker. The the original play on which it was based, Everyone Goes to Sam’s, by jewish teacher and playwright Murray Burnett, was a piece of opportune reportage. In the summer of 1938, Burnett and his wife took a tour of Europe as it geared up for war. They found Vienna rife with anti-Semitism and, on the road to Monte Carlo, a smoky nightclub with a black pianist working old standards to audience of refugees and military officials of every nationality — “a great contrast to the tragedy and tears,” wrote Murray. The film’s timely dramatization of Bogart’s change of heart, “at first wary and independent, then changing incrementally until it headed in the opposite direction” in the words of Bogie’s most recent biographer Stefan Kanfer, would prove definitional for America: a big block of national myth as hefty as its founding. Another cafe serves as creative nexus-point in Alan K. Rode’s doorstepping new biography of director Michael Curtiz: Cafe New York in Bupabest, a rowdy 24-hour bohemian hang-out not far from the Danube where the young film director Mihály Kertész mixed with artists and card players, film writers, fakers and physicists — “everyone knew everyone” in the words of film historian Lazslo Kriston, “they all screwed the same chorus girls and got drunk together and worked and argued”. As a child Kertész slept four in a room with his brothers and as a teenage acrobat, developed great physical agility. When snapped up by Warner Brothers for one of his silents in the summer of 1926, he spent ten days living at a Los Angeles county jail to learn about the criminal justice system in time for his first assignment, a thriller called The Third Degree. “When I finish I know more about jail system and American Criminals than the technicolor director they pay big dough to tell me about such things,” he said in his pigeon English, “a source of joy for all of us” said David Niven during the shooting of The Charge of the Light Brigade. A sign hung on the door of Curtiz’s soundstages read: “Curtiz spoken here.”
About the only upside of being bawled out by Curtis on set was that you frequently never understood him. “It would inaccurate to say that everyone on Curtiz’s set loathed him” writes Rode at one point, with damning fair-mindedness, the portrait of the director that emerges of a cruel and mercurial autocrat, a kind of Hungarian Otto Preminger, who drove his cast and crew to breaking point — The Charge of the Light Brigade killed at least three horses, the flood sequence in Noah’s Ark drew 38 ambulances. “He can be a real son of a bitch to the bit players” noted Bogart who threatened to walk from the set of Casablanca at one point unless the director “shut up.” Curtiz was no Schindler. Casablanca was the result of alchemy by acrimony, with the Epstein Brothers supplying its snappier dialogue (“I am shocked, shocked, to learn that gambling is going on in here”), its politics coming courtesy of Howard Koch, its love story and ending fleshed out by Casey Robinson, with ad libs from the actors (“Here’s looking at you kid”) while they stood waiting for the day’s pages to be handed over.“Casablanca is best described as cinematic magic that occurred accidentally on purpose,” writes Kode in pointed rebuke of film critic Andrew Sarris, for whom the film was merely the “happiest of happy accidents” and Curtiz “the most divisive exception to auteur theory”. Auteur Theory’s point-man in America, Sarris could no more countenance the idea that it might be the theory rather than Curtiz who is at fault, placing him in the “Lightly Likeable” category, than the old communist apparatchiks could conclude that it was communism that was at fault rather than the people. Curtis was a “cinematic genius” said screenwriter Robert Buckner who could “make a picture when he didn’t know what it was about.” How can you proclaim your boy an artist, his every work bearing his imprint as breath animates the body, when he is responsible for films as wildly different as the tough-knuckled Angels with Dirty Faces, the sweeping Charge of the Light Brigade, the effervescent The Adventures of Robin Hood, the svelte Mildred Pierce, and the most dearly beloved film of all time, Casablanca. Oh and White Christmas.'" — from my review for the New Statesman
REVIEW: A Quiet Place (dir. Krasinski)
'Legendary sound-man Walter Murch, who gave us those glorious quadrophonic helicopters in Apocalypse Now, likes to say that it wasn’t until the coming of sound that the movies discovered silence. What he meant was that you only really miss something when its gone — and it’s solid gone, as Balloo the bear used to say, in John Kasinski’s new thriller A Quiet Place. Kasinski also acts in the movie, playing a bearded father, opposite wife Emily Blunt, whom we first see treading barefoot around a disused supermarket, scavenging for prescription drugs for their older boy (Noah Jupe). They move with extreme care, on tip toes, using sign language to communicate. Why the caution? We find out when their youngest (Cade Woodward) makes the mistake of playing with a battery-powered toy space shuttle. Giant skittering mantis-like bugs who detect their prey by sound scythe into view and tear the boy to shreds. Make a squeak and you’re toast. When I first caught wind of this idea in trailers, I let out a small squeal of excitement and then, in spirit of the movie, quickly bit my fist. It comes so deliriously close to the hush with which thrillers are themselves received by an audience — all of us perched on our seats, ears and eyes peeled, not daring to make a sound. Movies make too much ruckus these days. The best thrills are always silent. Think of the silent heist in Rififi, or the silencer shoot-out in John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13, or the way the Coens tipped us off to the presence of Javier Bardem’s murderer in the corridor with the sound of a lightbulb being gently unscrewed in No Country For Old Men. If I had to guess I would say Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ idea owes something to that scene in Jurassic Park, where the short-sighted T Rexes come so close to the children their snorts ruffle their hair — a lovely idea, never fully explored but here given its full due.' — from my Sunday Times review
REVIEW: UNSANE (dir. Soderbergh)
'The film’s premise is slipped on as gently as a straitjacket. Sawyer’s struggles to free herself ("This is all a terrible mistake!") only serve to tighten it even more. One night turns into one week. Allowed one phone call, she calls the cops, but her muttering about they’ll arrive any minute to free her render her indistinguishable from all the other nuts on her ward: a trashy, tampon-throwing Southerner (June Temple) who wears her hair in corn rows and promises to cut Sawyer up at night, or a opioid-addicted fellow patient Nate (Jay Pharoah) who whispers about the institute’s shady business model, designed to milk patients' insurance until it runs dry. “They got beds, you got insurance,” he says. We’ve been down this road before, in Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and Soderbergh’s own Side Effects, his Rooney Mara thriller of 2013 which had similarly pointed things to say about the Kafkaesque world of the short-term incarceration industry. This is the slighter film, no question — a quick-and-dirty psychothriller shot entirely on the iPhone 7 Plus, which foreshortens perspective, amplifies empty space and drills into Sawyer’s skewed, strung-out head-space — but it is as sharp as a splinter. It gets under your skin, thanks to its spidery cinematography and Foy’s performance, with its alternating gusts of fury and fragility. Foy doesn’t shy from making Sawyer abrasive, even a little bit of a bitch. And yet she remains eminently sane. Hence the title. How would an entirely rational actor act if everyone around them conspired to treat them as if they were a lunatic? Wouldn’t it drive them — you know, a little nuts?' — from my Sunday Times review
REVIEW: Ready Player One (dir. Spielberg)
'The movie, like the book, is a curious mixture of sugar rush and pop-culture study session: you’re not sure whether you should be enjoying it or supplying footnotes. Take the opening race through a virtual New York, with Wade s in wing-doored DeLorean from Back to the Future —customized with KITT from Knight Rider— going up against, among others, Stephen King’s killer car Christine, the Batmobile and the A-Team van while a T Rex and King Kong take lunges at them down the cross streets. Your basic rush hour traffic. Wade wins by taking the entire track backwards, which not only summaries the the movie’s whole retro ethos but wins him the admiration of Artemis. (Olivia Cooke), a svelte anime hottie with punk-red hair, although as his buddy Aech (Lena Waithe), says “She could be a 300 guy living his his moms basement in Detroit. Think about it.” Sure, but don’t think about it too much. As someone says “reality is a bummer” and when Wade’s aunt goes up in smoke nobody bats an eye. This is Spielberg in audience gigolo mode, pleasuring his fanboy base with one climax after another to a jukebox of hits from Van Halen, New Order and Tears for Fears. That fluttering you can hear is the sound is a million nerd hearts making their way up to heaven. The book’s page-long encomium to masturbation is gone, although the suspicion remains that if the global population of OASIS users would have their collective goggles blown off it anyone asked someone on a date. At a nightclub, Parzival and Artemis boogie on down to ‘Staying Alive’ by the Bee Gees on a zero-gravity dance floor, only for Wade to have his heartfelt declaration of love gatecrashed by an invading fleet of thugs sent by Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn), head of Innovative Online Industries, a company that wants to turn Oasis into a advertiser’s paddock. Everyone wants to rule the world. But a kiss? That knocks the world off its axis.' — from my Sunday Times review
REVIEW: You Were Never Really Here
'What follows is not really a thriller, any more than a Francis Bacon painted society portraits. Adapted from Jonathan Ames book, it does to Liam Neeson revenge-flicks roughly what Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver did to the Death Wish movies: it breaks the genre up and boils it down to a lean 85 minutes, driven by a central performance by Phoenix as bruised and bloody and tender as sirloin. If the test of great acting is to make it physically impossible to imagine the actor in any other role than the one you were watching, then Phoenix here nuzzles up to the greats. He acts with his entire body, the way the silent movie actors used to, starting with his shoulders, hunched like a grave-digger’s, and moving down a white, pudgy paunch, lacerated with scars and slack with self-neglect, as if the harm he doles out to others is just overflow from the harm he dishes out to himself. Some actors make you worry for what they will do to others. Dangling himself idly from a train platform, Phoenix makes you worried for what he will do to himself. Sometimes suicidal is more dangerous that homicidal. The performance is, in other words, everything Ryan Gosling thought his was in Drive and wasn’t. The violence, when it comes, is almost a relief from from the twitchy flashbacks— images of asphyxiation from to Joe’s childhood, and his experience in the Gulf war — that assail him like panic attacks. Ramsay’s powers of obliquity come into their during Joe’s one-man invasion of a brothel, shot and edited using only grey security cam footage showing Joe’s path: a door opens on one floor, a hammer blurs in the corridor of another, a body crumples in a third and so on, all to the sound of Rosie & the Originals ‘Angel Baby’ on the soundtrack, interrupted with every cut. What Ramsay seems to understand as perhaps no filmmaker has since John Boorman in Point Break, is that what makes violence violent is not physics it’s internal thermodynamics: the damage done to souls not bodies. It’s a film about damage.'— from my Sunday Times review
REVIEW: A Fantastic Woman (dir. Lelio)
'In another filmmaker’s hands —Almodovar, say — Marina might have been a tower of righteous, high-heeled indignation, delivering one stinging retort after another. Lelio’s has loosed such a force of nature before, in his 2013 breakthrough film, Gloria, about a divorced 28-year-old on the single circuit, determined not to go gently into the good night. Here, he takes the opposite tack, with mixed results. We don’t see Marina’s grief for a long while. Instead, she takes out her anger on a small punching bag that hangs by the door of her apartment and numbly walks the streets of Santiago, seeing Orlando everywhere. It is a fiercely internalized performance — the anti Almodovar — Vega’s expression hovering between quiet dignity, sublimated anger and a look of steely defiance that is, in turn, further provocation to the outside world. There is a thread of masochism here — Marina’s refusal to explain or defend herself edging into something more belligerent and self-martyring. When bruises on Orlando’s body draw the attention of a detective (Amparo Noguera) who specializes in sex offenses, Marina skips appointments and obfuscates, and thus has to endure a humiliating physical examination. “How should I treat him?” whispers the medical orderly as if she were not standing right there. This is awful but it was avoidable: the detective was initially sympathetic. You may lose count of the number of scenes in which Marina is taunted, insulted, threatened, roughed up, or labelled a monster, with Vega rising above it all, a wronged saint, impassive and long-suffering. The conception of her character is at times only a trifle more nuanced than that punching ball.' — from my Sunday Times review
REVIEW: I, Tonya (dir. Gillespie)
'The casting of Robbie is not the only debt the film owes Scorsese. Directed with winking brio by Gillespie, who made Lars and the Real Girl, and told in mockumentary form, featuring multiple unreliable narrators, a cast of gotta-love-em white trash sociopaths, and a script that would bring a blush to the cheek of a sailor, the film is essentially Goodfellas on ice. And if that sounds like fun, it is, for most of the time. The script, by Steve Rogers, performs a balletic reversal of audience sympathies around the issue of class. In a sport dominated by lissom, long-limbed pixie-figures whose smiles seemed stuck in a fifties time-warp, Harding was the ugly duckling, picked on by the press as “white trash” and “old Thunder Thighs”: a hardscrabble, rough-edged scrapper with garish blue eye-shadow and home made costumes who stubbed out cigarettes on the blade of her skates, strutted out onto the ice and nailed perfect arabesques to an accompaniment of ZZ Top, hurling expletives at any judges who docked her marks for deportment. What’s not to love: a world-class female sociopath to root for the same way we did De Niro’s wise-guys in all those Scorsese films. Robbie is slimmer and prettier than the stocky Harding — she’s a swan playing a duckling — but she digs in and gets something of her fierce survival instincts. A street fighter raised in trailer home in Portland, Oregon, by her viper of a mother LaVona (Allison Janney), Harding is pushed onto the ice aged three, while mom sits on the sidelines, sucking down whiskey and swearing like a tevedore. “You skate like a graceless bull dyke!” LaVona screams, and later, at competitive events, slips twenties to spectators to do the screaming for her, to sharpen her daughter’s edge. It’s a phenomenal turn by Janney, an exultant, extended riff on her chain-smoking pageant mom in Drop Dead Gorgeous, without vanity, redeeming virtue or apology, and horribly funny. The bluntness of La Vona’s cruelty jolts you into shocked laughter, despite yourself. Refusing to give her daughter a bathroom break, forcing her to pee herself, LaVona barks, “skate wet!” — from my Sunday Times review
REVIEW: Loveless (dir. Zvyagintsev)
'It’s a forbidding but commanding film, ostensibly a missing-child procedural that plumes like ink in water into a corrosive critique on the beautiful monster that is Putin’s Russia, strange land of religious orthodoxy, tech companies, jaded bureaucracies, selfies and bikini waxes. “The stats are on your side” one lugubrious detective says to Boris, ceding responsibility for the search to a resourceful volunteer group, led by a coordinator (Alexey Fateev) who is the closest the movie has to a moral centre. Traditionally in a film like this, the search would bring the parents closer together, but as the orange-vested team combs the neighbourhood putting up flyers, the title instead expands panoramically to include a whole society in which cruelties are passed around, from mother to child, from husband to wife, alike. From Russia Without Love. Shoot the same thing east of the Volga — in Luxembourg, say, or Croydon — and all you have is a movie about a bad marriage with selfies. Zvyagintsev has pulled off something similar before. In 2014, he electrified Cannes with his 2014 film, Leviathan, a family drama that grew into a Hobbesian portrait of the boozy, corrupt provincial life. The new movie is even more pitiless, if that were possible, but also more beautiful, shot with pristine dismay by director of photography Mikhail Krichman, who photographs the characters through car windshields and tower block windows in which the Russian winter is always reflected, and creeps like a prowler through tower blocks, frozen forests, and, best of all, a ruined complex with crumbling conference rooms, movie theater, and basketball court that looks as if it has been rotting there since the days of Tarkovsky’s Stalker. If, as the camera pushes through those decrepit corridors, you find yourself pulling back in your seat, Zvyagintsev has you exactly where he wants you: your fears for the worst just out-paced by your desire for the truth... He isn’t the only thing that’s missing, we surmise by the end of the movie — an extended shot of Zhenya running on a treadmill, the word “Russia” printed on her sweatshirt. Is she trying to avoid the TV reports of the war in the Ukraine? Outrun some inner restlessness? Or follow in the footsteps of her son? Maybe he had the best idea, all along.' —from my Sunday Times review
REVIEW: Phantom Thread (dir. Anderson)
'The film a distant cousin of this fervid Gothic romances — including Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca, Suspicion, Sleeping with the Enemy, and, yes, Fifty Shades of Grey — in which women first submit to and then break free of the clutches of an over-controlling svengali figure. Like Scorsese, Anderson loves those old melodramas to the point of limbic entrancement without wishing to abide by their rules or deliver on their narrative satisfactions. We get a ghost of that dead mother, a lush Franz Waxman inspired piano score, while Lesley Manville’s Cyril evokes the forbidding shade of Mrs Danvers in Rebecca, hovering in the wings of her brother’s meticulous routine. “Are you sent here to ruin my evening? And possibly my entire life?” explodes Reynolds at one point, after Alma has prepared his asparagus with butter rather than oil and salt the way he likes it. She further tells him she loves him. He acts as if ambushed. It’s a film, in short, about emotional fascism — someone whose very identity is threatened by the presence of another and whose idea of a relationship requires the complete subjugation of that person’s will. Phantom Thread is about right: In what Day Lewis has said will be his last performance, he summons the ghosts of performances past, marrying the epicene manners of his aesthete Cecil in Room with a View, the adamantine psychic furnace of a Bill the Butcher, while Anderson skips merrily at his side, in secret, mischievous league with his leading man, just as he was with with Day Lewis’s oilman in There Will Be Blood. Paul Dano’s preacher barely registered. The same with Joaquin Phoenix’s sottish sailor in The Master, drawn into queasy Stockholm-Syndromish thrall to Hoffman’s cult leader, like a mongoose hypnotized by a cobra. Anderson seems to love these great, terrible, iron-willed men — they are the stuff of masterpiece cinema — but is so far incapable of creating an antagonist of sufficient stature to challenge or oppose them. His films are versions of Citizen Kane in which Kane wins. Krieps probably comes closest of anyone to redressing this imbalance. She’s a terrific find: calm and imperturbable, with a both pretty and plain depending on the light. “If you want to have a staring contest with me, you will lose,” she tells Reynolds, with an eagle eye for his weakness: when sick, he is as open and tender as she could wish. From this springs the film’s major third-act twist, both perverse and more than a little preposterous — it wouldn’t have seemed out of place in a 30-minute episode of Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected and joins Anderson’s growing collection of bizarro endings, like the raining frogs at the end of Magnolia or the rant about milkshakes that capped There Will Be Blood. His films don’t develop so much as circle, intensify and then suddenly derail, like someone crashing a bike into a ditch. I’m not sure Anderson believes in plot or character development per se. “There is an air of quiet death in this house,” Reynolds says, and the film is as expert, airless and monomaniacal as he is: the Max De Winter story as told by Max De Winter. Free spirits need not apply.' — from my Sunday Times review
On my iPod: January 2018
1. Motion in Field – Tom Rogerson & Brian Eno
2. Release Me — Inara George
3. Kaleidoscope — Nils Frahm
4. Heartworms — The Shins
5. Fireworks — First Aid Kit
6. House of Woodock — Jonny Greenwood
7. 875 Dollars — De Lux
8. Say You love Me (remastered) — Fleetwood Mac
9. Afterglow — Jose Gonzalez (with the Bride Lites)
10. The Presses Roll — John Williams
Review: NOTHING by Hanif Kureishi
'The idea of a celibate Hanif Kureishi hero tormented by the very urges he once indulged is an excellent one — think Phillip Roth in a chastity belt. Given the current cultural and political climate, in fact, that idea may have even more than usual appeal. The more or less unfettered license that male writers have enjoyed when it comes to holding up every stain in the bed-sheet as a palimpsest of their smarting, solipsistic souls may be time for an overhaul. Sexual jealousy has produced many a major and minor classic, from Saul Bellow’s Herzog to Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square and Julian Barnes’s Before She Met Me, but the trick of these books lies in the skill with which the writer evokes, through the heat haze of their protagonist’s obsession, the bobbing horizon line of reality, however fleetingly glimpsed. There must be more to Lolita than just Humbert Humbert’s lust. Here, Kureishi runs into trouble. There’s really nobody in the book besides Waldo, the other characters existing mostly to ferry congratulatory bouqets to his much-garlanded imagination. “Waldo you’ve got the filthiest imagination of anyone I’ve met,” says Zee, who nevertheless supplies him with sordid stories of Eddie’s past involving sodomy and rape. “Your mind is like a roaring wind tunnel,” admonishes his movie actress friend Anita (“not a woman a man can look at for long without wanting to put his penis in her mouth”) but she too brings him further reports of Eddies affairs, pecadilloes, and “orgies with in his school uniform with important people.” But what a stroke of luck! The world is exactly as florid as the fantasist first imagined it to be. The book is a little like one of those fake knots that, once pulled, turn out to be just a piece of string. Even paranoiacs can be plotted against, of course, but there’s a word for the kind of writing in which too neat a sense of reality is made to line up with loamy sexual fantasy: pornography. I suspect Kureishi knows this. That pre-emptive shrug of a title almost defies us to take his book seriously. “As a reader I’m done with literature,” declares Waldo as he asks Anita to read him one of his favorite detective stories again, “I only want fun.” But fun for a writer and fun for a reader are different things and while it may have been fun for Kureishi to write of Zee, “when I could still rim her little hole, or halo, as I call it, and push inside, she’d almost slice the tip of my tongue off” it is rather more arduous work for the reader to square that with the devoted nurse they had been picturing a few pages previously: one minute a Florence Nightingale, the next a lithe vixen who slaps Waldo and attempts to smother him with a pillow. The behavior that might have driven her to such an act is carefully elided, if not hard to imagine. For all his self-obsession, Waldo shows little instinct towards the kind of degree-zero self-appraisal to which Bellow subjected Moses Herzog: “To his country, an indifferent citizen. To his brothers and sisters, affectionate but remote. With his friends, an egotist. With love, lazy. With brightness dull. With power passive. With his own soul evasive. Satisfied with his own severity, positively enjoying the hardness and factual rigor of his judgment, he lay on his sofa....” That final sentence is a killer, with Bellow dinging him for the complacency and self-congratulation of even accurate self-knowledge can breed. Ouch. Compared to that, Kureishi is still on the beginner’s slopes, practicing his snow-plough. Whether you enjoy it is very much down to how much of a jolt you can get from his epigrams, most of them loitering in the 25-watt range: “the libido, like Elvis and jealousy, never dies”; “a saint is only someone who has been under-researched”; “boring people are always popular. They never do anything unexpected.” All of which have the requisite cynical snarl but collapse at the gentlest inquiry. “The imagination is the most dangerous place on earth,” asserts Waldo, but Kureishi has supplied him with the safest possible paddock in which to roam: a world carefully Waldoized, confirming his every suspicion and offering his steamy imaginings the least possible pushback. Where’s the danger in that?' - from my New York Times review
Review: THE POST (dir. Spielberg)
'The story opens in 1966 in the jungles of Vietnam, where government analyst Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys) hears the secretary of defense, Robert McNamara (Bruce Greenwood), complaining that the war is being lost, only to watch him turn around and say the exact opposite at an airport press conference upon their return to Washington. Sickened by the disparity, Ellsberg takes it upon himself to secretly copy the top-secret 47-volume, 7,000-page Department of Defense study of the war which U.S. leaders admitted was lost from the get-go. After the spookiest of photocopying scenes, with shadows cast by the moving bar walking up the ceiling and walls, the papers arrive on the desk of the Post’s rakish editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) in nothing more ceremonious than a shoe-box — a detail of surpassing Spielbergian ordinariness. When it comes to presenting us with the extraordinary, historical or otherwise, Spielberg likes his paperwork. It brings out the Rockwell in him. Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. both took their names from snippets of officialese. Schindler’s List took its theme not from the the horrors of the Holocaust but its bureaucracy. Private Ryan is plucked from the battlefield by a bit of sharp-eyed admin. Liz Hannah’s script has it’s share of bromides defending truth, justice and the American way, but by framing the story as a business story, Spielberg keeps any high-mindedness at heel. With its busy rhythms and urgent camerawork, The Post moves like a thriller, or a domino cascade, each image impelling on the next in irresistible sequence until the larger pattern is revealed — from pay-phones with dangling receivers to pounding type writers and the sight of journalists shouting excitedly with one another in Bradlee’s living room, while his daughter makes a killing on lemonade. “My God, the fun,” Hanks remarks at one point and it is fun: Spielberg has finally found a way to make his civics-class movies as enjoyable as his adventures used to be. His shot-making is as industrious as a humming-bird these days, but one shot, in particular, is inspired. Nixon has issued a court order blocking publication. The Supreme Court, and possibly prison, awaits. Half a dozen advisors are on conference call awaiting Graham’s decision, and as she gathers herself, the camera prowls the ceiling like a circling hawk, or a cloud of thoughts demanding release. Finally, a decision comes. “Let’s publish,” she says out of nowhere, almost as surprised by herself as everyone else is — as if such a momentous decision could only sneak up on her, a last-minute jumping of the tracks designed to outwit Kay’s ingrained habit of second-guessing herself. That this champion of the free press should be wearing a milky-white evening wear caftan only reinforces your sense that, with impeccable timing, Spielberg has made his first explicitly feminist film. It’s also the closest Streep will probably ever come to making a superhero movie. She modulates her performance beautifully. First seen walking into roomfuls of men where she is surrounded by dark suits, Kay hmms and haws, is spoken over, or for. But gradually, Streep lends her strength, locating the steel behind her feathery voice, as Kay realises that she’s not just the caretaker of her late husband’s company. It’s her company now. The suits scatter. The caftan wins.' — from my Sunday Times review
Review: DARKEST HOUR (dir. Wright)
'Here he comes, padding around in his dressing gown, cheeks plump, jowls low, cigar stub jutting like an anti-aircraft gun, barking rewrites to his secretary in between mouthfuls of scotch. Gary Oldman’s Churchill looks heavy — wadded in his fat suit and prosthetics — but he feels light, a sprightly soul, quick on his feet, quoting Macbeth and Hamlet — “an actor, in love with the sound of his own voice” in the words of one parliamentary foe. Nobody enjoyed playing Churchill like Churchill, it is implied. So we get a performance within a performance, two for the price of one, Oldman playing Churchill playing himself — and such fun is had by all that you could almost forget there’s a war on. One of the revelations, in fact, of both Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour and the book on which it was based, by Anthony McCarten, is how close Britain came, in spring of 1940, to negotiating for peace, even after Hitler had swept through mainland Europe. Newly installed as prime minister, Churchill is distrusted by most of his war cabinet, including Chamberlain and Lord Halifax (Stephen Dillane), who pressure him constantly to petition for peace. King George VI (Ben Mendelsohn) finds Churchill’s belligerence “scary.” The French finds his talk of victory at any cost “delusional.” Churchill himself wears these arrows almost as badges of honor, happily copping to “wildness in the blood”. If ever a historical moment called for a little wildness, argues the film, it was the spring of 1940, when delusion and courage looked a lot alike. Maybe the country needed a little crazy. Centered on the five weeks between Churchill taking office as prime minister on May 9th until the evacuation of Dunkirk in June 4th, the film covers Churchill’s seemingly solo effort to shore up support in his government and rally the British people for the coming conflict. How did he do it? “He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle,” in the film’s climactic line. Anthony McCarten’s script is essentially a run-through of the big speeches, starting with his battle anthem offering “blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” Wright intercuts Oldman’s delivery with a conveyor-belt breakdown of the speech’s genesis, as it is typed up by secretary (Lily James), revised in the bath, with last-minute amendments scribbled en route to the commons, where Wright slings his camera underneath the type-writer to see the keys as they hit, then hoists it up high in the rafters, looping and swooping, as if trying to match Oldman for rhetorical bluster. Blood, toil, sweat, tears and a lot of fancy camera angles. Oldman wins, with a bespoke version of his distinctive voodoo. The sight of Churchill scarfing down eggs, bacon and whiskey for breakfast is, in its own way, as rock n roll as the sight of Johnny Rotten windmilling his bass in Sid And Nancy, or count Dracula licking bloody razors in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Oldman likes his appetites, the stranger the better. Coming to the film from more expansive literary adaptations like Atonement, Pride and Prejudice, and Anna Karenina, Wright directs as as if hellbent on refuting the“nice performance, shame about the film” criticism usually thrown at biopics. We get slow motion, swish pans, extreme close-ups, elaborate tracking shots, spiraling booms, and endless aerial shots, the camera yo-yoing up and down through the clouds following the course of the bombs as they fall. His performance is almost as busy as Oldman’s — the directorial equivalent of selfie — and it robs the film of gravity, quite literally, or any sense of impending threat.' — from my Sunday Times review https://www.thetimes.co.uk/?sunday
Review: THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (dir. McDonagh)
'In Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Frances McDormand plays Mildred Hayes, a grieving mother who has rented three billboards attacking the local police chief Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) for what she sees as his inaction in her daughter’s case. “Raped while dying”; “And still no arrests?”; “How come, Chief Willoughby?” Such is the starting point for Martin McDonagh’s pitch-black revenger’s comedy — imagine Dirty Harry as written by Samuel Beckett and you’re close. The playwright-turned-director of In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths McDonagh a gift for gallows humor that catches in your throat. The police chief turns out to be a sturdy, decent man played by Woody Harrelson who also happens to be dying of cancer. Might she rethink the billboards? “They wouldn’t be so effective after you croak, right?” she replies. McDormand says she based the performance on John Wayne and it shows. Dressed in overalls and bandana, her face stony with grief, her eyes narrow with accusation, Mildred marches into scenes with such freedom from giving a rat’s ass — she kicks one of her son’s female classmates in the groin and even firebombs the police station — the effect is thrilling. Not just any avenging mother, she turns Mildred into the avenging mother, a figure risen from the angry, disenfranchised, Trump-voting, rural unconscious (though the film’s politics skew left). “How’s it all going in the nigger-torturing business, Dixon?” Mildred asks the police’s departments in-house racist, Dixon (Sam Rockwell), a dim-witted screw-up who lives with his mother and jives listening to Abba’s “Chiquitita” on his walkman — a blissful turn from Rockwell, who duly corrects her “That’s the person-of-color-torturing business these days.” McDonaugh can seemingly write this stuff by the yard: zesty, profane dialogue between prickly, quarrelsome characters bound in mutual exasperation, nipping and biting like ferrets in a bag. Scene by scene, the movie snarls with viperish life, although there are one too many clever-clever jokes about the characters’ sub-literacy — Wilde is quoted,“hard of hearing” mistaken for “hard of reading” and so on. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri may be McDonagh’s most satisfying film to date, but the London-born playwright’s bard-of-the-Ozarks ventriloquism isn’t exact, and his construction hasn’t shed all traces of the stage. The violence escalates and explodes, leaving the town in flames, but he chooses to end with a shaggy-dog shrug rather than a note of catharsis or release. A better sense of landscape might have helped: here, you barely notice it. But McDormand’s Mildred is one for the ages. She doesn’t want catharsis or release. She’s still out there still, putting up billboards, putting fear into the wicked.' — from my Sunday Times review
Review: ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD (dir. Ridley Scott)
'The black joke that unfurls at the centre of this film — part thriller, part morality tale — is that the boy would probably better off with his kidnappers. The boy’s father is long out of the picture, lost in an opium cloud in Marrakesh. Only the mother Gail Harris (Michelle Williams), seems to care, and it is her resolve that powers the story. Long bruised by any entanglements with her estranged husband’s family, she alone seems to know what to expect. The greed of the kidnappers seems almost quaint when set besides that of her father-in-law. The toughest negotiations of the film will be not with them, but with him. “I like things,” says Getty, surrounded by old-world treasures and gilt-framed masterworks in the crepuscular gloom of his estate. “They never let me down. There is a purity to beautiful things that I’ve never been able to find in another human being.” Critics have been saying the same thing about Ridley Scott movies for decades. A chilly Midas, shoring up Vermeers and Ming vases against his ruin, Getty is the perfect embodiment of a figure Scott has long been fascinated with, from Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner, sat atop his ziggurat collecting owls and chess pieces to Hannibal Lecter poring over his Dante manuscripts at the Palazzo Capponi in Hannibal. Scott, too, likes his objets, sometime more so than his people — not for nothing are the most memorable characters in his work androids and replicants — which is why this film is such a sleek fit for him. In Getty he’s found his Corleone — his shadow self. Who knows what Spacey did with the role — probably telegraph his villainy to the audience with a wink, like he always does — but Plummer brings an avuncular twinkle and sly wit to this reptile: eyes narrowed to crafty slits, crafty and cold-blooded, his Getty is almost provocatively unsentimental, like a rascally relative prodding the world for its reaction. You half expect Harrison Ford to arrive in his hover car and subject him to a Voight-Kampff empathy test to see if he’s fully human. Instead we have Michelle Williams — acting’s answer to the Voight Kampff. Williams is extraordinary in this picture, alternately fierce and fragile as she pushes her way through the paparazzi, focussed like a laser on getting her son back, suppressing all her rage and panic beneath brittle Kennnedyesque diction, but unable to stifle gallows humor at the absurdity of the situation: begging the richest man in the world to spare a penny for his own grandson, she doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Neither do you. Williams’ mordant, heartsore performances roots the entire film. ' — from my Sunday Times review
Review: THE LAST JEDI (dir. Johnson)
'At the close of Star Wars The Force Awakens, J J Abrams giddy, good-humored reboot of Lucas’s original saga, one could be forgiven some trepidation as the narrative reins were handed over from Harrison’s Ford’s Han Solo — always the saga’s most charismatic character with with his lop-sided grin and grumbling asides — to Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker, it’s most chipper and anodyne, the closest the galaxy had to a Walton. The first bit of good news relayed by Star Wars: The Last Jedi is that Luke has had the stuffing knocked out of him. Grizzled and grey-bearded, he has turned his back on the Jedi and is now holed up on his island hideaway like Ben Kenobi in the first film, at first refusing to train Rey (Daisy Ridley) in her fight against the evil First Order. “It’s time for the Jedi to end,” he says, one of many calls to forget the past in a film in which everyone seems hell-bent on disinterring their legacy and cutting loose from their legend. There are more flashbacks in this movie than all the others combined. Rey still doesn’t know who her parents are, while Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), the Sith warrior with the inferiority complex, is grappling with his own recent ventures into parricide. “Let the past die,” he implores her. “The Sith, the rebels, let it all die.” Fat chance. Soon Luke is training Rey in the way of The Force, which are much as they always were — granting powers of telekinesis, mind control and a sudden, intense interest in natural fabrics — but now with one important new feature, allowing Rey to establish direct long-distance mind-to-mind communication with Kylo Ren. Think of it as the Force’s answer to texting. Soon they are at it like teenagers. “I feel the conflict in you,” insists Rey, like Jane Eyre before her, thinking she can turn the bad boy good. “You’ll turn. I’ll help you.” The light sabres are not the only thing giving off extra heat these days. With his long gaunt features and Byronic mien, Adam Driver has now grown into the closest the series has to a Mr Rochester: mad, bad and dangerous to know. The subtitle of this movie ought to have been Inter-Galactic Bad Boys and the Women Who Love Them. I only wish Johnson had pushed if further. There’s one great scene where they briefly join forces and slay a roomful of Snoke’s lieutenants that is just crying out for a climactic, blood-drenched kiss. How Johnson fluffed that opportunity I will never know.' — from my Sunday Times review
Review: MOLLY'S GAME (dir. Sorkin)
'Chastain is in her element. Dressed in low-cut designer dresses, cleavage on full display, but refusing all the propositions that come her way, she saunters around her high-end gambling den, elusive and unattainable, hand-picking the guests, recruiting fresh meat to throw to sharks like “Player X”, a movie star who lives for the kill: “I don’t like playing poker , I like destroying lives.” That he is played by Michael Cera allows for some some sly subversion of Cera’s pencil-necked beta-male image. In real life it was Tobey Maguire — further accompanied by Leonardo Di Caprio, Ben Affleck and, on occasion, Matt Damon — but Sorkin, like Bloom herself, has mastered the art of cloaking names with a seductive flutter. We hear talk of Saudi Princes and hedge-fund billionaires, find out good players can lose to bad ones if they don’t yet know how bad they are, one pro (Bill Camp) losing everything in the course of a game lasting three days. “Go home,” Molly tells him. I’m not sure we ever figure her out. In his debut as director, Sorkin shows a slight inability to let his performances breathe or deepen. Betrayed a second time, Molly says in voiceover, “depression and anger gave way to blinding rage at my powerlessness over the unfair whims of men” the narration stealing what it should be an actress’s job to show. As with many of her roles, Chastain burns with a cool blue flame, a player who refuses to be played or drawn into the compromise of intimacy, the closest we get to an intimate relationship her strained relationship with her psychotherapist father (Kevin Costner) who turns up in a climactic scene full of gimcrack Freudianism — “I’m going to give you some answers” he says — that nevertheless pulls off a little magic. Sorkin can pull rabbits out of hats, but it’s interesting to compare Chastain’s diamond-cut integrity with the more pliable populism of someone like, say, Julia Roberts. Chastain may not want to be that kind of star, although if you’re looking for the reason audiences may not have yet fully embraced her, here it is. Like Dietrich before her, she seduces the camera, but refuses to be seduced by it, breaking the age-old compact that connects a performer’s sexuality and the screen. It’s fascinating stand-off. I can’t wait to find out how it turns out.' — from my Sunday Times review
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Students express themselves in painting course
By The Ranger on October 14, 2016 News
Law enforcement sophomore David Vargas uses water colors to paint Frida Kahlo, a historical hispanic female artist, during this colleges first Painting With a Twist, instructed by Angela McGuire Oct. 5, in the craft room of Loftin. Hispanic Heritage Month continues with a Mexican-American Studies history research presentation at 11 a.m. Oct. 10 on the fourth floor of Moody. Photo by Brandon A. Edwards
Over 20 students participated in a free painting course offered by the Student Life organization
By Estefania Flores
Painting with a Hispanic Twist, an event for Hispanic Heritage Month, Wednesday gave students a chance to display their creativity.
The event was sponsored by the office of student life in the craft room in Loftin Student Center.
“We originally prepared for a maximum of 20 students, but 21 students showed up the day of the event,” Carrie Hernandez, senior success specialist, said. “I felt extremely satisfied to know that students were engaged with the events that student life has to offer.”
Angela McGuire, a professional artist from Inspire Institute, instructed the event and taught students how to paint Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter known for her self-portraits.
McGuire preferred to let students create their own artwork without pre-sketching on canvases.
Students painted with acrylics.
“It was amazing,” Hernandez said. “There was one particular student who drew polka dots around her artwork, which I found fascinating. You really got to see all the different personalities and the creativity in each student.”
Students were able to take their paintings home.
In the future, with more time and preparation, Hernandez plans to continue working with McGuire in other events.
Hernandez would like to arrange painting classes for other campuswide celebrations, including Black History Month, Women’s History Month and Employee Development Day for staff and faculty.
“I plan to add music and food to the next event, all coinciding with the theme of the month,” she said. “For Black History Month, I would love to add jazz music. For next year’s Hispanic Heritage Month, I would like to add Mexican music and tacos because who doesn’t love tacos.”
For more information, call Hernandez 210-486-0125.
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Interview with Buried Sleeper
Today on Sludgelord I am interviewing Bryce and Harry from ace band Buried Sleeper. The excellent Sludge/Doom/Stoner Metal Band from Glasgow, Scotland who released their outstanding debut album – Colosseum earlier this year.
It has won rave reviews within the Sludge/Stoner Metal scene. And I rated it very highly as well.
Well the guys have kindly agreed to an interview with me.
Q1 – For People not in the know – Can you tell them how the band came about, When you formed etc...
Harry: We've been togther in other musical forms for years. We all met at college, brought together by a love of music and a similar approach to creativity.
Bryce: We've actually existed in one form or another since late 2004 but it was only in February of this year that we officially became Buried Sleeper. We all met at college and have spent the last eight years together honing the sound that we have now. Originally we were a more traditional-sounding metal band but as our tastes developed we slowed down to the snail-pace that we have today.
Q2 – How would yourselves describe your sound.
Harry: Differently to many reviewers! I'm always fascinated by how people hear music, everyone has a different word for things. I'd call us progressive doom, if pushed to pick words.
Bryce: I hate comparing bands to other bands so I'll just use the genres we tend to emulate: primarily stoner and doom metal, with a bit of progressive rock and ambient thrown in for good measure.
Q3 – Which bands influence you on your music.
Harry: The obvious ones: Sabbath, Sleep, YOB. And also you'd be surprised by the amount of stuff we each listen to that isn't metal. We're not nearly as cool as we'd like to be.
Bryce: When we started out we didn't really have many bands in common except for Black Sabbath and Clutch, but the more we exchange music with each other the more we've found a common ground. So at the moment our biggest inspirations are along the lines of YOB, Om, Sabbath, Sunn O))).
Q4 – How has your music been received by fans and critics. Has it all been positive.
Harry: Nothing as subjective as music gets a totally positive response. In fact I'd be a little worried if everything I heard was good. That said, from the people whose opinion we value, yes, we've had lots of good things. And I have yet to hear anything that's been blind dislike either.
Bryce: So far most of the reviews have been positive, though a few reviewers have questioned the production - mainly due to them not understanding the sound we were going for.
Q5 – Is Buried Sleeper a Full Time Project or do you have normal jobs to do as well to support the band.
Harry: I wouldn't say any of us was entirely normal! But we do have day jobs to do, sadly.
Bryce: All of us work other jobs and some of us have other bands as well.
Q6 – How do you cope with families, full time jobs and being part of a great band. It must be a struggle at times.
Harry: It's all priorities. I try very hard to find work that fits around bands. It can be hard, and we do have to skip the odd bit of work! But it's worth it.
Bryce: So long as evenings are kept free for rehearsals and gigs it isn't too much of a problem.
Q7 – Are you families an friends supportive of your band and music.
Harry: Of course! The first thing I get asked is generally about the band. Those of my friends who pay attention know it's a massively important thing to me.
Bryce: I can't speak for the others but my parents love the album and regularly listen to it in the car!
Q8 – What is the song-writing process like in the band. Is it a whole band collective or individuals that write the music.
Harry: Definitely a collective. Most of our songs start in a very embryonic fashion, and they get taken, moulded and shaped in the practice room by all of us.
Bryce: Usually someone will come to a rehearsal with a riff and then we all work on it from there. Tommy and Harry are the riffmeisters; I tend to rework song structures and focus on vocal melodies than write guitar parts.
Q9 – Was Colosseum a difficult album to write and record for. As its a very superb multi-layered album with amazing riffs to match. Especially Pale Blue Dot. That song still amazes me every time I listen to it.
Harry: Writing isn't difficult for us. What we've tried much harder to do recently is make sure that we discard anything we're not 110% happy with. Quality control is the thing. Recording can be more of a challenge, because we do it all ourselves, but it's fun. We wouldn't do it if it wasn't!
Bryce: That's nice of you to say so! We really value comments and criticism of any kind. Some of the songs for the album were written as long ago as 2007 so the initial writing wasn't too difficult. Recording is a challenge as we did it all ourselves at Dom's house and we all live in different places, so it's a logistical nightmare. The recording took over a year to do because we were rarely in the same place at the same time. Tommy produced the album and is a stickler for perfection so spent a long time on getting the right tones etcetera. But it was definitely worth it!
Q10 – You released your debut album on AE35 Unit Records. Is this your own label. If it is I applaud you for releasing this album yourself. Was that a hard decision to do to release everything yourself.
Harry: Last question first; not at all. We love being involved even with the dirty work. Sometimes things can be a pain in the neck, but in our experience involving third parties tends to add to the discomfort! The label is ours, and I'm not owning up to know what the MASSIVELY geeky name refers to. Not guilty!
Bryce: This is our own label that we made for the release of the album. It wasn't a difficult decision to make - it was a decision made out of necessity!
Q11 – How did the album artwork came about. As it's a stunning piece of work that fits the mood of the album brilliantly.
Harry: Isn't it just? Bloody brilliant stuff, done by a guy we ran into at gigs over a few years and kinda got to know. He came to see us a few times and knowing what his work looked like, we knew he'd be a good choice but he outstripped our wildest dreams!
Bryce: Our friend Richard Kearnie did it - we approached him about it and gave him a rough idea of what we were looking for and he delivered. His style is very distinctive.
Q12 – What is the gig scene like in your home town. Do you get a chance to do a lot of local shows or do you have to travel further away from home to get your music across.
Harry: We don't do as many shows as we'd like. Having said that, trying to find shows where we play with bands who are like us, rather than just generic 'metal' nights is what we try and do now.
Bryce: We're based in Glasgow, Scotland, although only one of us lives there. The music scene in Scotland is pretty bad as people aren't willing to go out to see live music unless it's a big name. There's not much of a future for us here so we're looking to travel afar.
Q13 – Have you toured with any famous bands and have you got any interesting stories from your tours?
Harry: Not yet, not yet. We have done one tour, with a good band who we knew, but it was only Scotland wide. A UK tour is the next plan.
Bryce: We don't so much tour as gig sporadically! We're planning a UK tour in March/April 2012 though.
Q14 – What are the most and least rewarding aspects of participating with the band.
Harry: The most? Having been with these guys for years, we have our own language. Practices are just so much easier when all we have to do is say one made up word! Least rewarding is the carrying gear. That's how you know you've 'made it': Someone else carries the damn amps!
Bryce: We're all best friends and have a rapport that means we can second guess what each other is thinking on stage and in the studio. It's gratifying to get to that stage in any professional relationship. The least rewarding is, I suppose, being such a niche band that we're unlikely to cause much of a stir in our home country. We're positive about taking our music elsewhere though.
Q15 – What is your view of bands and blogs giving away music for free. Lot of bands and people have different perspectives.
Harry: Depends on the way it is done. Just spamming free downloads is wrong, it's stealing and I can't stand it. But blogs that introduce you to new music, with reviews and the ways to buy, and not showed off all over the place is much better.
Bryce: The way I see it is as long as our music is getting out there, I don't mind if people pay for it or get it for free. Everyone who hears us is a potential fan and could end up coming to see us at a concert, or, if they're feeling generous enough, pay for the album. They also have the potential to tell their friends and so music is spread.
Q16 – Finally what are the future plans for the band.
Harry: The tour? And to keep it up until our hands drop off! Seriously though, it's still so much fun, and until it isn't anymore I can see us doing anything other than just playing music.
Bryce: As I mentioned earlier we're hoping to tour the UK early next year and we've also written a lot of new material for a new album. It'll be a while before we're ready to record though!
Well Guys. Thanks For Your Time. All the best for the future. Hope to catch you on your future tour. Best of luck from all of us at Sludgelord.
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12 Reasons Millennial Women Should Thank Their Moms & Grandmas
Maressa Brown | Mar 23, 2017 Politics & Views
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Eva-Katalin/iStockWhether you're wearing jeans at work right now or your partner is putting the LO down to sleep, a millennial woman's day is marked by a variety of freedoms that our moms and grandmas lacked. And yet, we rarely take a step back to consider how an ordinary task, like picking up birth control pills, was a luxury for women who came before us. Or to appreciate just how much time and energy previous generations put in to make life a bit easier and more equal for all of us.
Of course, there's still work to be done. From the way Kellyanne Conway talks about being a working mom to the prevalence of sexual assault and the push to defund Planned Parenthood, you probably can't help but think of this viral photo.
Quite possibly the coolest protest sign ever. Stand by #Poland's women in their fight against medieval abortion ban proposal #CzarnyProtest pic.twitter.com/XmaXp6lt3l
— Lydia Gall (@LydsG) October 4, 2016
And yes, many of our freedoms are related to aspects of women's lives that are still challenging (like fighting for paid maternity leave and the threat to affordable and equal access to health care) -- but we can definitely thank former generations for many hard-won battles, even as we're rallying to protect them.
Here are 12 of those freedoms that millennial women shouldn't take for granted, according to grandmas, moms, and even older sisters who lived, worked, loved, and fought the good fights. Now, of course, we have to keep on fighting.
You don't have to wear hose.
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"I worked for a company in the late '70s/early '80s where I wore a sundress and sandals and was told that wasn't allowed -- and I had to wear hose! I had psoriasis and could not stand the feel of hose on my dry skin. I quit on the spot!" -- Tina K., 57
You're encouraged to go to college.
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"Unfortunately, back in my day, as a woman, I found that unless you were born into a family who already [were] teachers, lawyers, etc., you were not encouraged to aspire to anything much higher than a sales clerk, telephone operator, or secretary. College was for boys -- after all, you were going to get married! I worked in the telephone company as a representative. As reps, we often helped train the men who would become our managers, since a woman could be a supervisor, but only men could be managers!" -- Patricia Y., 81
You're not limited to an administrative role.
"I remember that at one point I had to pretend I couldn't type so I wouldn't be shuttled into the secretary role." -- Cary W., 57
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You can fight blatant sexual harassment.
"In 1984, I was 19 and working for a lighting company during college. My boss told me that if I didn't sleep with him, I would get fired. A) He was about 20 years older than me, B) I had a boyfriend, and C) gross. I complained about the situation to his boss, who then told me that if I didn't sleep with him instead, I would get fired. I left the company even though I needed the money badly." -- Kristin S., 52
You have an easier time supporting yourself.
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"When we got out of college, the economy was in the crapper. But because we didn't have access to computers in our homes, it was harder to create side hustles to augment our incomes. Instead of designing products for Etsy shops or blogging, we had to go out into the world and get temp jobs filing in office parks or waiting tables. Millennials can literally create their own jobs instead of having to do time in the mind-numbing, soul-draining jobs we had to do!" -- Vivian M., 49
You have access to birth control & choice -- for now.
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"My husband had to sign a permission slip for my doctor in order for me to get a prescription for the 'new' birth control pills. The most important change was Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose. If you were unmarried, your two choices were a 'home for unwed mothers' and all the shame that went with it, or a coat hanger in a back alley. Wealthier women were able to get an abortion by a doctor -- for the right price." -- Patricia M., 71
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You can report sexist behavior to HR.
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"In 1984, I had a boss who told the other team members -- who were all men -- that I was pretty smart ... for a girl. When we'd go out to lunch, the guys would ogle the women we'd pass and make comments on their bodies. They didn't think anything of this behavior, and when I told them it made me uncomfortable, they didn't stop. It was not something you could report them to HR for either." -- Marie H., 59
You can wear pants!
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"I went to a top 25 law school in the 1990s. During on-campus interviews our second year, it was freezing cold. I was the very first woman in our law school to wear pants to said interviews and was chastised for it. When I graduated, I had to wear a skirt suit to court, regardless of weather. I still won't show up in court without tights or pantyhose. Don't take being able to wear pants for granted, girls. Just don't." -- Lara S., 46
You can play -- and compete in -- sports.
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"I was a bit of a tomboy and loved sports, even though I was small for my age. My grandparents gave me a red plastic bat and ball for my sixth birthday. In fifth grade (in 1967–68), I successfully petitioned the principal to have a basketball team for the girls (the boys had one; why couldn't we?!). I 'drafted' my older sister's 18-year-old boyfriend to be our coach. We weren't actually able to have a team that would play other schools' teams, because they didn't exist, but we at least got to build our skills, get some exercise, and play against each other. The boys thought it was ridiculous that we would want to play basketball. We were supposed to be cheerleaders, not athletes! But we had fun anyway." -- Beth P., 59
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Your relationships are partnerships.
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"I came of age during the '60s and early '70s. What a time of rapid change. As a college freshman, I had a curfew and had to wear a skirt to dinner and the library. By the time I was a senior, there were co-ed dorms, no curfews, and women were burning their bras!
"I started college expecting to get married and 'be taken care of' as a wife and mother. Instead, I had a wonderful job for 41 years teaching children. I still became a wife and mother, but no one had to 'take care of me.' We took care of each other! Women became individuals -- not appendages!" -- Sherry Z., 68
You have more say over who you marry.
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"In 1971, I became pregnant, and like most other girls at that time, I knew my only option was to marry the boy. We were only 19, and poor, and I was working full-time. When I was seven months along, I was fired by my boss -- after two years of solid good work -- because 'it didn't look right to have a pregnant girl on the store floor.'" -- Joy I., 65
You're not forced to do (or not do) certain tasks on the job.
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"In the '70s and '80s, men were bosses, and women were secretaries. Well, I was a director, but my boss said I couldn't have a typewriter 'because executives don't type,' so I was forced to dictate or handwrite my documents, give it to my secretary (who typed it), then proofread it, make changes, etc. Well, I finally explained to him what a waste of time this was and I got a typewriter!" -- Helen S., 64
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Beyond a Baptist Preacher Predator and His Gang
Review in the Times Literary Supplement
Suffering and the Children
by Patrick Lindsay Bowles
Times Literary Supplement, April 16, 2010
"The current crisis for the Catholic Church over decades of child sexual abuse has further obscured a similar but less reported story. One of Time magazine’s 'Top Ten Underreported Stories of 2008' was the refusal by America’s largest Protestant church, the Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), to create a database of those among its 101,000 clergymen who have been convicted or credibly accused of sexually abusing children. That refusal is one of the practices that make the 44,000 churches of the SBC, says Christa Brown, “a perfect paradise for predators”. The shocking evidence, expertly marshalled by Ms Brown, a successful appellate lawyer in Austin, in this riveting account of her own victimization, suggests that in the case of the SBC the distinction between predator and clergyman is all too often diaphanous.
In powerful descriptions of her abuse and its aftermath of madness, tainted relationships and loss of faith (years later, writes Brown, 'I would sometimes go out alone on moonless nights and scream into the ocean . . . . I didn’t have a clue why I was screaming'), the author demonstrates how her own descent into hell corresponds to a typical scenario for Southern Baptist victims. Under the guise of counselling a child, she says, a pastor rapes her, quoting scripture all the while, but insists that she is the guilty party and enlists his church and the SBC to successfully cover up his crime. Three decades after the incidents, Brown was finally able to put a name to what had happened to her; having become a mother made it urgent to her to file a complaint. Although the SBC claimed to have no record of her aggressor, he was serving in a well-known church when Brown located him in 2004. On January 18, 2006, her former church produced a letter acknowledging the facts of the case, for which Brown agreed to suspend legal proceedings.
The SBC gives two reasons for its refusal to maintain a list of predators: 1) Each of the churches belonging to the SBC is autonomous, so it is powerless to intervene. 2) We can, they claim, simply check to see if our ministers have criminal records. Rebuttals: 1) While the SBC has yet to sever ties with any of the thousands of its churches in which paedophiles are or have been known to occupy the pulpit, its Nashville headquarters keeps very close tabs on what is going on and where. On June 23, 2009, the SBC “disfellowshipped” the Broadway Baptist church of Fort Worth, Texas, because it has one openly gay member. 2) Over 90 per cent of sex offenders have no criminal record.
Data from American insurance companies suggests that Protestant clergy lead Catholics in the sexual abuse of children, with the SBC the worst offender. A combination of suprajudicial procedures (e.g. victims, who are warned not to contact police, may not address the SBC with complaints, which must come to it from the church, in other words, from the pastor or person who committed the crime about which the complaint is being made); hillbilly pilpulism (the SBC’s resident quack “expert” distinguishes between sexual predators, who are first degree felons facing potential life sentences in prison if caught, and who simply, says he, don’t exist in the Baptist clergy, and mere “wanderers”); and systematic persecution of victims who complain means that most of the SBC’s predatory activities remain unprosecuted. The former President of the SBC, Paige Patterson, whose hobbies include “hunting dangerous game” (his website shows him kneeling behind the much-dreaded zebra) shocked other faith group leaders, including Catholics, when he referred to Brown and other victims of confessed rapists as 'evil-doers' and 'just as reprehensible as sex criminals'.
The SBC’s lawyers place their faith in the statute of limitations, which requires that complaints be made by the age of twenty-eight (average age of childhood sex abuse victims: twelve; that of the complainants: forty-two), in the fact that fewer than 10 per cent of clergy sex abuse cases are ever reported, and in the high suicide rate of victims. Alone among faith groups, the tax-exempt SBC, with $10 billion in assets, offers no counselling to victims, yet provides free counselling to clergymen who have been caught raping children.
Both Brown’s story and the data she has gathered on other victims of the SBC in This Little Light and on her website (stopbaptistpredators.org) and blog (stopbaptistpredators.blogspot.com) suggest that legal reform is urgently needed. When the statute of limitations for victims of sexual abuse disappears, as it inevitably will, the resulting class action will probably spell the end of the SBC.
The SBC has refused to keep a list of its criminal clergymen; Brown has kindly begun to keep one for them, pro bono. They have clearly bullied the wrong woman, and in so doing have awakened both a whistleblower of historic proportions and a writer."
http://www.stopbaptistpredators.org/documents/TLSreview.pdf
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23 June – 28 July
At Bikini Bottom
The Island Club presents At Bikini Bottom, an exhibition stemming from a parallel chronology of the imaginary undersea world of Bikini Bottom and the series of nuclear tests that the U.S. began in Bikini Atoll in 1946. The exhibition includes a collection of animation drawings, production cels and backgrounds made for the first season of the series SpongeBob SquarePants (1999-2000), before the creative team of Steven Hillenburg began working with digital animation. Along with this material, photographic documentation of the nuclear tests conducted at the Marshall Islands will also be on view.
1942: Mr. Eugene Harold Krabs and Sheldon J. Plankton are born on 30 November.
1946: Operation Crossroads, a series of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the U.S. commences at Bikini Atoll. The native population is relocated. These tests, observed by the press and a selected audience, mark the first time the public is informed of nuclear testing before it occurs.
1946-1951: Mr. Krabs and Plankton decide to go into business together. Alternate universe Mr Plankton Universe, where the lives of Plankton and Mr. Krabs are switched, is created.
1946: The second Crossroads test, Baker, takes place on 25 July with the detonation of a bomb known as Helen of Bikini. Helen is detonated twenty seven metres underwater and causes extensive contamination.
1950: One day in June, Mr. Krabs and Plankton are on the beach, building a sandcastle. When a bully comes to destroy it, he is flung into the air by a secret mechanism hidden in the sand by Mr. Krabs and Plankton.
1950s: Following an endless military service, Mr. Krabs falls into a deep depression and acquires the Rusty Krab, a bankrupt retirement home he later turns into the restaurant Krusty Krab.
1958: Twenty-three detonations have been executed by the U.S. since 1946.
1961: SpongeBob creator, Stephen Hillenburg, is born on 21 August.
1972: A small number of islanders return to Bikini Atoll.
1975: The islanders who have returned to Bikini Atoll find that it is unfit for habitation and for the first time begin legal proceedings against the U.S., demanding a radiological study of the northern Marshalls.
1986: The Marshall Islands attain independence under the Compact of Free Association following almost four decades under U.S. administration. In the same year, SpongeBob is born on 14 July.
1987: SpongeBob creates a perfect burger for the first time.
1989: Hillenburg creates The Intertidal Zone, a comic book featuring an early version of SpongeBob.
1990: SpongeBob receives Gary as a pet, and Patrick as a friend.
1999: SpongeBob pilot episode titled Help Wanted is aired on 1 Μay.
2004: SpongeBob is arrested for not having invited the police to his party.
2005: Music video We Are Family by the We Are Family Foundation (WAAF) aiming to teach children about multiculturalism, and featuring SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick among other cartoon characters, is attacked by a Christian conservative group in the US for advocating homosexuality.
2011: A new species of fungus discovered in Malaysia is named Spongiforma Squarepantsii.
2012: With episode 173(a), aka Squiditis, SpongeBob SquarePants becomes the longest-running Nickelodeon series.
2014: Krusty Krab inspired restaurant Salta Burger opens in Ramallah on 24 July.
2016: Columbia University research finds that all of the Marshall Islands that have been involved in nuclear tests executed by the U.S. are now habitable, except for Bikini Atoll.
2017: Researchers at Stanford University discover blooming populations of marine life in the Bikini Atoll crater.
2018: A tweet from a fake SpongeBob Twitter account announces that SpongeBob SquarePants will come to an end on 1 March.
Text by Andry Panayiotou and Denise Araouzou
Exhibition organised by Denise Araouzou
Works courtesy of a private collection
Archival material courtesy of the U.S. Army Photographic Signal Corps
Photos: © Mirka K. / The Island Club
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The Good Lobby Awards
EUROPEAN PARTIES UNDER SCRUTINY
Professors Alberto Alemanno and Laurent Pech ask the EP to verify ACRE’s continuing compliance with EU Values
London/Paris, 20 September 2018 – On 18 September 2018, the Council of the EU held a second formal hearing under Article 7(1) TEU on the rule of law in Poland. In the continuing absence of any meaningful answers by the Polish government to the multiple and serious concerns identified in the Commission’s reasoned proposal under Article 7(1) TEU and previously identified in the Commission’s four Rule of Law Recommendations (the first of which was adopted on 27 July 2016), the Council has agreed to “return to this issue”.
The attached letter by Professors Alberto Alemanno and Laurent Pech was sent earlier today to the European Parliament. In their letter, Professors Alemanno and Pech call on the European Parliament to request from the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations that it verifies the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe’s continuing compliance with values on which the Union is founded (Article 2 TEU).
For Professors Alberto Alemanno and Laurent Pech, there is ample evidence that the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE) has failed to comply with the conditions for registration laid down in the EU Regulation on the statute and funding of European political parties, since at least the activation of the so-called “pre-Article 7 procedure” by the European Commission on 13 January 2016.
This is why they call on the European Parliament to ask the Authority to immediately request from the so-called committee of independent eminent persons an opinion on a possible “manifest and serious breach of the values on which the EU is founded” by the ACRE in light of its persistent failure to take any meaningful action or adopt any sanction against Poland’s “Law and Justice” Party (PiS), Poland’s ruling party and a member of the ACRE. It would then for the Authority to subsequently verify, on the basis of opinion of the committee of independent eminent persons, whether the ACRE should be deregistered as a European political party.
Background: The Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations has the power to check whether a European political party or foundation is observing the basic European values laid down in Article 2 TEU, as set out by the Regulation on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations. It can then deregister a European Political Party with the effect of limiting its political operation and denying access to funding.
Legislative reference: Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations
Please find the letter addressed to the Authority here:
AA LP Request to EP for ACRE Verification version
(Click on the preview to download the pdf file)
Alberto Alemanno alemanno@hec.fr
Laurent Pech L.Pech@mdx.ac.uk
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International China forcibly harvesting organs from religions detainees killing many: Report
China forcibly harvesting organs from religions detainees killing many: Report
The China Tribunal is an independent Tribunal into forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China
Picture Credit: Youtube grab of members of the China Tribunal at a media conference in 2018
Kazi Mahmood
InternationalWorld
By Veronica Cordoba
A new independent panel report lifts the lid on a horrifying fact that it says is happening in China. The report says China is forcibly taking organs from its prison population, from which many prisoners have died.
The report says the Tribunal arrived at these damning conclusions after examining organ donation accounts and noticing that the figures just don’t add up. It says in China it patients do not have to wait too long for an organ transplant, which is also a business to attract tourists.
These are the findings of the independent China Tribunal, a group which is made up of leading human rights investigators and prosecutors, including Sir Geoffrey Nice QC. It released its findings on June 17.
This represents the first ever “robust” analysis of the evidence of China’s organ harvesting and encompasses testimony from witnesses, investigators, forensics experts and human rights investigative analyses, the report says.
Contrary to other countries, organ donor waiting times are short and the reason is the authorities has set up a plan to harvest organs from prisoners.
The report says in the US and the UK patients may wait several months or even years but patients in China can expect to wait only a matter of weeks.
Part of the programme is to transform China’s organ transplant as a tourist spot, “where people needing organ transplants will pay huge sums to receive an organ. China has never adequately explained where it is getting these organs from.”
The alleged victims include those practicing the spiritual meditative practice known as Falun Gong in addition to Uyghur Muslims, some Tibetan Buddhists and House Church Christians.
“The conclusion shows that very many people (detainees) have died indescribably hideous deaths for no reason, that more may suffer in similar ways and that all of us live on a planet where extreme wickedness may be found in the power of those, for the time being, running a country with one of the oldest civilisations known to modern man,” Sir Geoffrey Nice QC says.
“There is no evidence of the practice having been stopped and the tribunal is satisfied that it is continuing.”
A variety of evidence points to systematic falsification and manipulation of official organ transplant datasets and the misclassification of donors in China. It also notes that China’s population are given cash incentives to volunteer their organs, something that is, at best, ethically fraught, says the report.
In 2014, China said that it would no longer be using organs from executed prisoners within its organ donor pool and has repeatedly dismissed claims that it is still using prisoner organs in this way. However, as the China Tribunal notes, the evidence suggests that China has continued this practice and may use its crackdown on religious groups to fuel that supply, the Care2 portal says.
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What Are Asphalts? What Are They Used For?
Asphalt, which is one of the entities in the various forms of bitumen, happens to be a very substantial mineral substance that varies from being in the hues of dull darker to dark. This substance which is also known as the mineral pitch has characteristics of maintaining it a form under different climates and remains to exit in solid form. All these pointers make asphalts one to the oldest substances that still go on to be used and guess where the roots and traces go up to, 6000 BC!Say what!? Yes, you saw that rights it’s not an autocorrect mistake but a real six thousand year evidence string that makes it’s important even more evident.
Asphalt from Zafa Asphalt Pty Ltd is used in making firm surfaces which have the capability to work on as roads and pavements along with runways for airports. This substance is also used in the roll roofing along with the asphalt shingles that majorly and usually comprise of saturated felt and asphalt mixture. The modern form of the asphalts uses petroleum as the raw form of material along with the crude oils all along the substance.
A lot of pavements are made out of asphalts as one of the major and important components due to its popularity and common nature. The mixes made are of two types and includes hot mix and cold mix asphalts wherein the former one is used for light to average medium roads or those roads which are less populated and would expect fewer people and vehicles around whereas the cold type is used to be made out with cut back asphalts. The hot mixtures are simply the net results of heating and removing the asphalts before mixing it with moisture, which is required to give it that just the perfect consistency for working out. Link here https://www.zafaasphalt.com/asphalt-services/industrial-asphalting/ provide a great of asphalt driveways need that will suit your road.
The quality of the cement from the asphalt companies usually is affected by what sort of petroleum crude oil was the parent source of his formation and hence it is bound to have different characteristics and points than every other new batch, every quality can also be changed by changing the methods for refining it.It’s a very important and crucial thing to know that, the three-pointers that require you to have asphalts, and includes the temperature, which is involved along with fluidity, purity and the safety concerns.
It is always good to know the side effects of any substance and so is the case with asphalts wherein you must be aware of how the hydrocarbons which are formed in the production when left uncared and unchecked leads to fumes with a distinguishable odor lead pollute the air quality.
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Board index ‹ Auxiliary Materials ‹ Fiction
Roughing It, by Mark Twain
A few delicious tidbits in here, to which we will add as the hours, days, weeks, months and years go by.
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CHAPTER LIX.
For a time I wrote literary screeds for the Golden Era. C. H. Webb had established a very excellent literary weekly called the Californian, but high merit was no guaranty of success; it languished, and he sold out to three printers, and Bret Harte became editor at $20 a week, and I was employed to contribute an article a week at $12. But the journal still languished, and the printers sold out to Captain Ogden, a rich man and a pleasant gentleman who chose to amuse himself with such an expensive luxury without much caring about the cost of it. When he grew tired of the novelty, he re-sold to the printers, the paper presently died a peaceful death, and I was out of work again. I would not mention these things but for the fact that they so aptly illustrate the ups and downs that characterize life on the Pacific coast. A man could hardly stumble into such a variety of queer vicissitudes in any other country.
For two months my sole occupation was avoiding acquaintances; for during that time I did not earn a penny, or buy an article of any kind, or pay my board. I became a very adept at “slinking.” I slunk from back street to back street, I slunk away from approaching faces that looked familiar, I slunk to my meals, ate them humbly and with a mute apology for every mouthful I robbed my generous landlady of, and at midnight, after wanderings that were but slinkings away from cheerfulness and light, I slunk to my bed. I felt meaner, and lowlier and more despicable than the worms. During all this time I had but one piece of money—a silver ten cent piece—and I held to it and would not spend it on any account, lest the consciousness coming strong upon me that I was entirely penniless, might suggest suicide. I had pawned every thing but the clothes I had on; so I clung to my dime desperately, till it was smooth with handling.
However, I am forgetting. I did have one other occupation beside that of “slinking.” It was the entertaining of a collector (and being entertained by him,) who had in his hands the Virginia banker’s bill for forty-six dollars which I had loaned my schoolmate, the “Prodigal.” This man used to call regularly once a week and dun me, and sometimes oftener. He did it from sheer force of habit, for he knew he could get nothing. He would get out his bill, calculate the interest for me, at five per cent a month, and show me clearly that there was no attempt at fraud in it and no mistakes; and then plead, and argue and dun with all his might for any sum—any little trifle—even a dollar—even half a dollar, on account. Then his duty was accomplished and his conscience free. He immediately dropped the subject there always; got out a couple of cigars and divided, put his feet in the window, and then we would have a long, luxurious talk about everything and everybody, and he would furnish me a world of curious dunning adventures out of the ample store in his memory. By and by he would clap his hat on his head, shake hands and say briskly:
“Well, business is business—can’t stay with you always!”—and was off in a second.
The idea of pining for a dun! And yet I used to long for him to come, and would get as uneasy as any mother if the day went by without his visit, when I was expecting him. But he never collected that bill, at last nor any part of it. I lived to pay it to the banker myself.
Misery loves company. Now and then at night, in out-of-the way, dimly lighted places, I found myself happening on another child of misfortune. He looked so seedy and forlorn, so homeless and friendless and forsaken, that I yearned toward him as a brother. I wanted to claim kinship with him and go about and enjoy our wretchedness together. The drawing toward each other must have been mutual; at any rate we got to falling together oftener, though still seemingly by accident; and although we did not speak or evince any recognition, I think the dull anxiety passed out of both of us when we saw each other, and then for several hours we would idle along contentedly, wide apart, and glancing furtively in at home lights and fireside gatherings, out of the night shadows, and very much enjoying our dumb companionship.
Finally we spoke, and were inseparable after that. For our woes were identical, almost. He had been a reporter too, and lost his berth, and this was his experience, as nearly as I can recollect it. After losing his berth he had gone down, down, down, with never a halt: from a boarding house on Russian Hill to a boarding house in Kearney street; from thence to Dupont; from thence to a low sailor den; and from thence to lodgings in goods boxes and empty hogsheads near the wharves. Then; for a while, he had gained a meagre living by sewing up bursted sacks of grain on the piers; when that failed he had found food here and there as chance threw it in his way. He had ceased to show his face in daylight, now, for a reporter knows everybody, rich and poor, high and low, and cannot well avoid familiar faces in the broad light of day.
This mendicant Blucher—I call him that for convenience—was a splendid creature. He was full of hope, pluck and philosophy; he was well read and a man of cultivated taste; he had a bright wit and was a master of satire; his kindliness and his generous spirit made him royal in my eyes and changed his curb-stone seat to a throne and his damaged hat to a crown.
He had an adventure, once, which sticks fast in my memory as the most pleasantly grotesque that ever touched my sympathies. He had been without a penny for two months. He had shirked about obscure streets, among friendly dim lights, till the thing had become second nature to him. But at last he was driven abroad in daylight. The cause was sufficient; he had not tasted food for forty-eight hours, and he could not endure the misery of his hunger in idle hiding. He came along a back street, glowering at the loaves in bake-shop windows, and feeling that he could trade his life away for a morsel to eat. The sight of the bread doubled his hunger; but it was good to look at it, any how, and imagine what one might do if one only had it.
Presently, in the middle of the street he saw a shining spot—looked again—did not, and could not, believe his eyes—turned away, to try them, then looked again. It was a verity—no vain, hunger-inspired delusion—it was a silver dime!
He snatched it—gloated over it; doubted it—bit it—found it genuine—choked his heart down, and smothered a halleluiah. Then he looked around—saw that nobody was looking at him—threw the dime down where it was before—walked away a few steps, and approached again, pretending he did not know it was there, so that he could re-enjoy the luxury of finding it. He walked around it, viewing it from different points; then sauntered about with his hands in his pockets, looking up at the signs and now and then glancing at it and feeling the old thrill again. Finally he took it up, and went away, fondling it in his pocket. He idled through unfrequented streets, stopping in doorways and corners to take it out and look at it. By and by he went home to his lodgings—an empty queens-ware hogshead,—and employed himself till night trying to make up his mind what to buy with it. But it was hard to do. To get the most for it was the idea. He knew that at the Miner’s Restaurant he could get a plate of beans and a piece of bread for ten cents; or a fish- ball and some few trifles, but they gave “no bread with one fish-ball” there. At French Pete’s he could get a veal cutlet, plain, and some radishes and bread, for ten cents; or a cup of coffee—a pint at least—and a slice of bread; but the slice was not thick enough by the eighth of an inch, and sometimes they were still more criminal than that in the cutting of it. At seven o’clock his hunger was wolfish; and still his mind was not made up. He turned out and went up Merchant street, still ciphering; and chewing a bit of stick, as is the way of starving men.
He passed before the lights of Martin’s restaurant, the most aristocratic in the city, and stopped. It was a place where he had often dined, in better days, and Martin knew him well. Standing aside, just out of the range of the light, he worshiped the quails and steaks in the show window, and imagined that may be the fairy times were not gone yet and some prince in disguise would come along presently and tell him to go in there and take whatever he wanted. He chewed his stick with a hungry interest as he warmed to his subject. Just at this juncture he was conscious of some one at his side, sure enough; and then a finger touched his arm. He looked up, over his shoulder, and saw an apparition—a very allegory of Hunger! It was a man six feet high, gaunt, unshaven, hung with rags; with a haggard face and sunken cheeks, and eyes that pleaded piteously. This phantom said:
“Come with me—please.”
He locked his arm in Blucher’s and walked up the street to where the passengers were few and the light not strong, and then facing about, put out his hands in a beseeching way, and said:
“Friend—stranger—look at me! Life is easy to you—you go about, placid and content, as I did once, in my day—you have been in there, and eaten your sumptuous supper, and picked your teeth, and hummed your tune, and thought your pleasant thoughts, and said to yourself it is a good world—but you’ve never suffered! You don’t know what trouble is—you don’t know what misery is—nor hunger! Look at me! Stranger have pity on a poor friendless, homeless dog! As God is my judge, I have not tasted food for eight and forty hours!—look in my eyes and see if I lie! Give me the least trifle in the world to keep me from starving—anything—twenty-five cents! Do it, stranger—do it, please. It will be nothing to you, but life to me. Do it, and I will go down on my knees and lick the dust before you! I will kiss your footprints—I will worship the very ground you walk on! Only twenty-five cents! I am famishing—perishing—starving by inches! For God’s sake don’t desert me!”
Blucher was bewildered—and touched, too—stirred to the depths. He reflected. Thought again. Then an idea struck him, and he said:
He took the outcast’s arm, walked him down to Martin’s restaurant, seated him at a marble table, placed the bill of fare before him, and said:
“Order what you want, friend. Charge it to me, Mr. Martin.”
“All right, Mr. Blucher,” said Martin.
Then Blucher stepped back and leaned against the counter and watched the man stow away cargo after cargo of buckwheat cakes at seventy-five cents a plate; cup after cup of coffee, and porter house steaks worth two dollars apiece; and when six dollars and a half’s worth of destruction had been accomplished, and the stranger’s hunger appeased, Blucher went down to French Pete’s, bought a veal cutlet plain, a slice of bread, and three radishes, with his dime, and set to and feasted like a king!
Take the episode all around, it was as odd as any that can be culled from the myriad curiosities of Californian life, perhaps.
CHAPTER LX.
By and by, an old friend of mine, a miner, came down from one of the decayed mining camps of Tuolumne, California, and I went back with him. We lived in a small cabin on a verdant hillside, and there were not five other cabins in view over the wide expanse of hill and forest. Yet a flourishing city of two or three thousand population had occupied this grassy dead solitude during the flush times of twelve or fifteen years before, and where our cabin stood had once been the heart of the teeming hive, the centre of the city. When the mines gave out the town fell into decay, and in a few years wholly disappeared—streets, dwellings, shops, everything—and left no sign. The grassy slopes were as green and smooth and desolate of life as if they had never been disturbed. The mere handful of miners still remaining, had seen the town spring up spread, grow and flourish in its pride; and they had seen it sicken and die, and pass away like a dream. With it their hopes had died, and their zest of life. They had long ago resigned themselves to their exile, and ceased to correspond with their distant friends or turn longing eyes toward their early homes. They had accepted banishment, forgotten the world and been forgotten of the world. They were far from telegraphs and railroads, and they stood, as it were, in a living grave, dead to the events that stirred the globe’s great populations, dead to the common interests of men, isolated and outcast from brotherhood with their kind. It was the most singular, and almost the most touching and melancholy exile that fancy can imagine.—One of my associates in this locality, for two or three months, was a man who had had a university education; but now for eighteen years he had decayed there by inches, a bearded, rough- clad, clay-stained miner, and at times, among his sighings and soliloquizings, he unconsciously interjected vaguely remembered Latin and Greek sentences—dead and musty tongues, meet vehicles for the thoughts of one whose dreams were all of the past, whose life was a failure; a tired man, burdened with the present, and indifferent to the future; a man without ties, hopes, interests, waiting for rest and the end.
In that one little corner of California is found a species of mining which is seldom or never mentioned in print. It is called “pocket mining” and I am not aware that any of it is done outside of that little corner. The gold is not evenly distributed through the surface dirt, as in ordinary placer mines, but is collected in little spots, and they are very wide apart and exceedingly hard to find, but when you do find one you reap a rich and sudden harvest. There are not now more than twenty pocket miners in that entire little region. I think I know every one of them personally. I have known one of them to hunt patiently about the hill-sides every day for eight months without finding gold enough to make a snuff-box—his grocery bill running up relentlessly all the time—and then find a pocket and take out of it two thousand dollars in two dips of his shovel. I have known him to take out three thousand dollars in two hours, and go and pay up every cent of his indebtedness, then enter on a dazzling spree that finished the last of his treasure before the night was gone. And the next day he bought his groceries on credit as usual, and shouldered his pan and shovel and went off to the hills hunting pockets again happy and content. This is the most fascinating of all the different kinds of mining, and furnishes a very handsome percentage of victims to the lunatic asylum.
Pocket hunting is an ingenious process. You take a spadeful of earth from the hill-side and put it in a large tin pan and dissolve and wash it gradually away till nothing is left but a teaspoonful of fine sediment. Whatever gold was in that earth has remained, because, being the heaviest, it has sought the bottom. Among the sediment you will find half a dozen yellow particles no larger than pin-heads. You are delighted. You move off to one side and wash another pan. If you find gold again, you move to one side further, and wash a third pan. If you find no gold this time, you are delighted again, because you know you are on the right scent.
You lay an imaginary plan, shaped like a fan, with its handle up the hill—for just where the end of the handle is, you argue that the rich deposit lies hidden, whose vagrant grains of gold have escaped and been washed down the hill, spreading farther and farther apart as they wandered. And so you proceed up the hill, washing the earth and narrowing your lines every time the absence of gold in the pan shows that you are outside the spread of the fan; and at last, twenty yards up the hill your lines have converged to a point—a single foot from that point you cannot find any gold. Your breath comes short and quick, you are feverish with excitement; the dinner-bell may ring its clapper off, you pay no attention; friends may die, weddings transpire, houses burn down, they are nothing to you; you sweat and dig and delve with a frantic interest—and all at once you strike it! Up comes a spadeful of earth and quartz that is all lovely with soiled lumps and leaves and sprays of gold. Sometimes that one spadeful is all—$500. Sometimes the nest contains $10,000, and it takes you three or four days to get it all out. The pocket-miners tell of one nest that yielded $60,000 and two men exhausted it in two weeks, and then sold the ground for $10,000 to a party who never got $300 out of it afterward.
The hogs are good pocket hunters. All the summer they root around the bushes, and turn up a thousand little piles of dirt, and then the miners long for the rains; for the rains beat upon these little piles and wash them down and expose the gold, possibly right over a pocket. Two pockets were found in this way by the same man in one day. One had $5,000 in it and the other $8,000. That man could appreciate it, for he hadn’t had a cent for about a year.
In Tuolumne lived two miners who used to go to the neighboring village in the afternoon and return every night with household supplies. Part of the distance they traversed a trail, and nearly always sat down to rest on a great boulder that lay beside the path. In the course of thirteen years they had worn that boulder tolerably smooth, sitting on it. By and by two vagrant Mexicans came along and occupied the seat. They began to amuse themselves by chipping off flakes from the boulder with a sledge- hammer. They examined one of these flakes and found it rich with gold. That boulder paid them $800 afterward. But the aggravating circumstance was that these “Greasers” knew that there must be more gold where that boulder came from, and so they went panning up the hill and found what was probably the richest pocket that region has yet produced. It took three months to exhaust it, and it yielded $120,000. The two American miners who used to sit on the boulder are poor yet, and they take turn about in getting up early in the morning to curse those Mexicans—and when it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.
I have dwelt at some length upon this matter of pocket mining because it is a subject that is seldom referred to in print, and therefore I judged that it would have for the reader that interest which naturally attaches to novelty.
CHAPTER LXI.
One of my comrades there—another of those victims of eighteen years of unrequited toil and blighted hopes—was one of the gentlest spirits that ever bore its patient cross in a weary exile: grave and simple Dick Baker, pocket-miner of Dead-House Gulch.—He was forty-six, gray as a rat, earnest, thoughtful, slenderly educated, slouchily dressed and clay- soiled, but his heart was finer metal than any gold his shovel ever brought to light—than any, indeed, that ever was mined or minted.
Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something). And he always spoke of the strange sagacity of that cat with the air of a man who believed in his secret heart that there was something human about it—may be even supernatural.
I heard him talking about this animal once. He said:
“Gentlemen, I used to have a cat here, by the name of Tom Quartz, which you’d a took an interest in I reckon—most any body would. I had him here eight year—and he was the remarkablest cat I ever see. He was a large gray one of the Tom specie, an’ he had more hard, natchral sense than any man in this camp—’n’ a power of dignity—he wouldn’t let the Gov’ner of Californy be familiar with him. He never ketched a rat in his life—’peared to be above it. He never cared for nothing but mining. He knowed more about mining, that cat did, than any man I ever, ever see. You couldn’t tell him noth’n ’bout placer diggin’s—’n’ as for pocket mining, why he was just born for it.
“He would dig out after me an’ Jim when we went over the hills prospect’n’, and he would trot along behind us for as much as five mile, if we went so fur. An’ he had the best judgment about mining ground—why you never see anything like it. When we went to work, he’d scatter a glance around, ’n’ if he didn’t think much of the indications, he would give a look as much as to say, ‘Well, I’ll have to get you to excuse me,’ ’n’ without another word he’d hyste his nose into the air ’n’ shove for home. But if the ground suited him, he would lay low ’n’ keep dark till the first pan was washed, ’n’ then he would sidle up ’n’ take a look, an’ if there was about six or seven grains of gold he was satisfied—he didn’t want no better prospect ’n’ that—’n’ then he would lay down on our coats and snore like a steamboat till we’d struck the pocket, an’ then get up ’n’ superintend. He was nearly lightnin’ on superintending.
“Well, bye an’ bye, up comes this yer quartz excitement. Every body was into it—every body was pick’n’ ’n’ blast’n’ instead of shovelin’ dirt on the hill side—every body was put’n’ down a shaft instead of scrapin’ the surface. Noth’n’ would do Jim, but we must tackle the ledges, too, ’n’ so we did. We commenced put’n’ down a shaft, ’n’ Tom Quartz he begin to wonder what in the Dickens it was all about. He hadn’t ever seen any mining like that before, ’n’ he was all upset, as you may say—he couldn’t come to a right understanding of it no way—it was too many for him. He was down on it, too, you bet you—he was down on it powerful—’n’ always appeared to consider it the cussedest foolishness out. But that cat, you know, was always agin new fangled arrangements—somehow he never could abide’em. You know how it is with old habits. But by an’ by Tom Quartz begin to git sort of reconciled a little, though he never could altogether understand that eternal sinkin’ of a shaft an’ never pannin’ out any thing. At last he got to comin’ down in the shaft, hisself, to try to cipher it out. An’ when he’d git the blues, ’n’ feel kind o’scruffy, ’n’ aggravated ’n’ disgusted—knowin’ as he did, that the bills was runnin’ up all the time an’ we warn’t makin’ a cent—he would curl up on a gunny sack in the corner an’ go to sleep. Well, one day when the shaft was down about eight foot, the rock got so hard that we had to put in a blast—the first blast’n’ we’d ever done since Tom Quartz was born. An’ then we lit the fuse ’n’ clumb out ’n’ got off ’bout fifty yards—’n’ forgot ’n’ left Tom Quartz sound asleep on the gunny sack.
“In ’bout a minute we seen a puff of smoke bust up out of the hole, ’n’ then everything let go with an awful crash, ’n’ about four million ton of rocks ’n’ dirt ’n’ smoke ’n; splinters shot up ’bout a mile an’ a half into the air, an’ by George, right in the dead centre of it was old Tom Quartz a goin’ end over end, an’ a snortin’ an’ a sneez’n’, an’ a clawin’ an’ a reachin’ for things like all possessed. But it warn’t no use, you know, it warn’t no use. An’ that was the last we see of him for about two minutes ’n’ a half, an’ then all of a sudden it begin to rain rocks and rubbage, an’ directly he come down ker-whop about ten foot off f’m where we stood Well, I reckon he was p’raps the orneriest lookin’ beast you ever see. One ear was sot back on his neck, ’n’ his tail was stove up, ’n’ his eye-winkers was swinged off, ’n’ he was all blacked up with powder an’ smoke, an’ all sloppy with mud ’n’ slush f’m one end to the other.
“Well sir, it warn’t no use to try to apologize—we couldn’t say a word. He took a sort of a disgusted look at hisself, ’n’ then he looked at us—an’ it was just exactly the same as if he had said—’Gents, may be you think it’s smart to take advantage of a cat that ’ain’t had no experience of quartz minin’, but I think different’—an’ then he turned on his heel ’n’ marched off home without ever saying another word.
“That was jest his style. An’ may be you won’t believe it, but after that you never see a cat so prejudiced agin quartz mining as what he was. An’ by an’ bye when he did get to goin’ down in the shaft agin, you’d ’a been astonished at his sagacity. The minute we’d tetch off a blast ’n’ the fuse’d begin to sizzle, he’d give a look as much as to say: ’Well, I’ll have to git you to excuse me,’ an’ it was surpris’n’ the way he’d shin out of that hole ’n’ go f’r a tree. Sagacity? It ain’t no name for it. ’Twas inspiration!”
I said, “Well, Mr. Baker, his prejudice against quartz-mining was remarkable, considering how he came by it. Couldn’t you ever cure him of it?”
“Cure him! No! When Tom Quartz was sot once, he was always sot—and you might a blowed him up as much as three million times ’n’ you’d never a broken him of his cussed prejudice agin quartz mining.”
The affection and the pride that lit up Baker’s face when he delivered this tribute to the firmness of his humble friend of other days, will always be a vivid memory with me.
At the end of two months we had never “struck” a pocket. We had panned up and down the hillsides till they looked plowed like a field; we could have put in a crop of grain, then, but there would have been no way to get it to market. We got many good “prospects,” but when the gold gave out in the pan and we dug down, hoping and longing, we found only emptiness—the pocket that should have been there was as barren as our own.—At last we shouldered our pans and shovels and struck out over the hills to try new localities. We prospected around Angel’s Camp, in Calaveras county, during three weeks, but had no success. Then we wandered on foot among the mountains, sleeping under the trees at night, for the weather was mild, but still we remained as centless as the last rose of summer. That is a poor joke, but it is in pathetic harmony with the circumstances, since we were so poor ourselves. In accordance with the custom of the country, our door had always stood open and our board welcome to tramping miners—they drifted along nearly every day, dumped their paust shovels by the threshold and took “pot luck” with us—and now on our own tramp we never found cold hospitality.
Our wanderings were wide and in many directions; and now I could give the reader a vivid description of the Big Trees and the marvels of the Yo Semite—but what has this reader done to me that I should persecute him? I will deliver him into the hands of less conscientious tourists and take his blessing. Let me be charitable, though I fail in all virtues else.
Note: Some of the phrases in the above are mining technicalities, purely, and may be a little obscure to the general reader. In “placer diggings” the gold is scattered all through the surface dirt; in “pocket” diggings it is concentrated in one little spot; in “quartz” the gold is in a solid, continuous vein of rock, enclosed between distinct walls of some other kind of stone—and this is the most laborious and expensive of all the different kinds of mining. “Prospecting” is hunting for a “placer”; “indications” are signs of its presence; “panning out” refers to the washing process by which the grains of gold are separated from the dirt; a “prospect” is what one finds in the first panful of dirt—and its value determines whether it is a good or a bad prospect, and whether it is worth while to tarry there or seek further.
CHAPTER LXII.
After a three months’ absence, I found myself in San Francisco again, without a cent. When my credit was about exhausted, (for I had become too mean and lazy, now, to work on a morning paper, and there were no vacancies on the evening journals,) I was created San Francisco correspondent of the Enterprise, and at the end of five months I was out of debt, but my interest in my work was gone; for my correspondence being a daily one, without rest or respite, I got unspeakably tired of it. I wanted another change. The vagabond instinct was strong upon me. Fortune favored and I got a new berth and a delightful one. It was to go down to the Sandwich Islands and write some letters for the Sacramento Union, an excellent journal and liberal with employees.
We sailed in the propeller Ajax, in the middle of winter. The almanac called it winter, distinctly enough, but the weather was a compromise between spring and summer. Six days out of port, it became summer altogether. We had some thirty passengers; among them a cheerful soul by the name of Williams, and three sea-worn old whaleship captains going down to join their vessels. These latter played euchre in the smoking room day and night, drank astonishing quantities of raw whisky without being in the least affected by it, and were the happiest people I think I ever saw. And then there was “the old Admiral—” a retired whaleman. He was a roaring, terrific combination of wind and lightning and thunder, and earnest, whole-souled profanity. But nevertheless he was tender- hearted as a girl. He was a raving, deafening, devastating typhoon, laying waste the cowering seas but with an unvexed refuge in the centre where all comers were safe and at rest. Nobody could know the “Admiral” without liking him; and in a sudden and dire emergency I think no friend of his would know which to choose—to be cursed by him or prayed for by a less efficient person.
His Title of “Admiral” was more strictly “official” than any ever worn by a naval officer before or since, perhaps—for it was the voluntary offering of a whole nation, and came direct from the people themselves without any intermediate red tape—the people of the Sandwich Islands. It was a title that came to him freighted with affection, and honor, and appreciation of his unpretending merit. And in testimony of the genuineness of the title it was publicly ordained that an exclusive flag should be devised for him and used solely to welcome his coming and wave him God-speed in his going. From that time forth, whenever his ship was signaled in the offing, or he catted his anchor and stood out to sea, that ensign streamed from the royal halliards on the parliament house and the nation lifted their hats to it with spontaneous accord.
Yet he had never fired a gun or fought a battle in his life. When I knew him on board the Ajax, he was seventy-two years old and had plowed the salt water sixty-one of them. For sixteen years he had gone in and out of the harbor of Honolulu in command of a whaleship, and for sixteen more had been captain of a San Francisco and Sandwich Island passenger packet and had never had an accident or lost a vessel. The simple natives knew him for a friend who never failed them, and regarded him as children regard a father. It was a dangerous thing to oppress them when the roaring Admiral was around.
Two years before I knew the Admiral, he had retired from the sea on a competence, and had sworn a colossal nine-jointed oath that he would “never go within smelling distance of the salt water again as long as he lived.” And he had conscientiously kept it. That is to say, he considered he had kept it, and it would have been more than dangerous to suggest to him, even in the gentlest way, that making eleven long sea voyages, as a passenger, during the two years that had transpired since he “retired,” was only keeping the general spirit of it and not the strict letter.
The Admiral knew only one narrow line of conduct to pursue in any and all cases where there was a fight, and that was to shoulder his way straight in without an inquiry as to the rights or the merits of it, and take the part of the weaker side.—And this was the reason why he was always sure to be present at the trial of any universally execrated criminal to oppress and intimidate the jury with a vindictive pantomime of what he would do to them if he ever caught them out of the box. And this was why harried cats and outlawed dogs that knew him confidently took sanctuary under his chair in time of trouble. In the beginning he was the most frantic and bloodthirsty Union man that drew breath in the shadow of the Flag; but the instant the Southerners began to go down before the sweep of the Northern armies, he ran up the Confederate colors and from that time till the end was a rampant and inexorable secessionist.
He hated intemperance with a more uncompromising animosity than any individual I have ever met, of either sex; and he was never tired of storming against it and beseeching friends and strangers alike to be wary and drink with moderation. And yet if any creature had been guileless enough to intimate that his absorbing nine gallons of “straight” whiskey during our voyage was any fraction short of rigid or inflexible abstemiousness, in that self-same moment the old man would have spun him to the uttermost parts of the earth in the whirlwind of his wrath. Mind, I am not saying his whisky ever affected his head or his legs, for it did not, in even the slightest degree. He was a capacious container, but he did not hold enough for that. He took a level tumblerful of whisky every morning before he put his clothes on—“to sweeten his bilgewater,” he said.—He took another after he got the most of his clothes on, “to settle his mind and give him his bearings.” He then shaved, and put on a clean shirt; after which he recited the Lord’s Prayer in a fervent, thundering bass that shook the ship to her kelson and suspended all conversation in the main cabin. Then, at this stage, being invariably “by the head,” or “by the stern,” or “listed to port or starboard,” he took one more to “put him on an even keel so that he would mind his hellum and not miss stays and go about, every time he came up in the wind.”—And now, his state-room door swung open and the sun of his benignant face beamed redly out upon men and women and children, and he roared his “Shipmets a’hoy!” in a way that was calculated to wake the dead and precipitate the final resurrection; and forth he strode, a picture to look at and a presence to enforce attention. Stalwart and portly; not a gray hair; broadbrimmed slouch hat; semi-sailor toggery of blue navy flannel—roomy and ample; a stately expanse of shirt-front and a liberal amount of black silk neck-cloth tied with a sailor knot; large chain and imposing seals impending from his fob; awe-inspiring feet, and “a hand like the hand of Providence,” as his whaling brethren expressed it; wrist-bands and sleeves pushed back half way to the elbow, out of respect for the warm weather, and exposing hairy arms, gaudy with red and blue anchors, ships, and goddesses of liberty tattooed in India ink. But these details were only secondary matters—his face was the lodestone that chained the eye. It was a sultry disk, glowing determinedly out through a weather beaten mask of mahogany, and studded with warts, seamed with scars, “blazed” all over with unfailing fresh slips of the razor; and with cheery eyes, under shaggy brows, contemplating the world from over the back of a gnarled crag of a nose that loomed vast and lonely out of the undulating immensity that spread away from its foundations. At his heels frisked the darling of his bachelor estate, his terrier “Fan,” a creature no larger than a squirrel. The main part of his daily life was occupied in looking after “Fan,” in a motherly way, and doctoring her for a hundred ailments which existed only in his imagination.
The Admiral seldom read newspapers; and when he did he never believed anything they said. He read nothing, and believed in nothing, but “The Old Guard,” a secession periodical published in New York. He carried a dozen copies of it with him, always, and referred to them for all required information. If it was not there, he supplied it himself, out of a bountiful fancy, inventing history, names, dates, and every thing else necessary to make his point good in an argument. Consequently he was a formidable antagonist in a dispute. Whenever he swung clear of the record and began to create history, the enemy was helpless and had to surrender. Indeed, the enemy could not keep from betraying some little spark of indignation at his manufactured history—and when it came to indignation, that was the Admiral’s very “best hold.” He was always ready for a political argument, and if nobody started one he would do it himself. With his third retort his temper would begin to rise, and within five minutes he would be blowing a gale, and within fifteen his smoking-room audience would be utterly stormed away and the old man left solitary and alone, banging the table with his fist, kicking the chairs, and roaring a hurricane of profanity. It got so, after a while, that whenever the Admiral approached, with politics in his eye, the passengers would drop out with quiet accord, afraid to meet him; and he would camp on a deserted field.
But he found his match at last, and before a full company. At one time or another, everybody had entered the lists against him and been routed, except the quiet passenger Williams. He had never been able to get an expression of opinion out of him on politics. But now, just as the Admiral drew near the door and the company were about to slip out, Williams said:
“Admiral, are you certain about that circumstance concerning the clergymen you mentioned the other day?”—referring to a piece of the Admiral’s manufactured history.
Every one was amazed at the man’s rashness. The idea of deliberately inviting annihilation was a thing incomprehensible. The retreat came to a halt; then everybody sat down again wondering, to await the upshot of it. The Admiral himself was as surprised as any one. He paused in the door, with his red handkerchief half raised to his sweating face, and contemplated the daring reptile in the corner.
“Certain of it? Am I certain of it? Do you think I’ve been lying about it? What do you take me for? Anybody that don’t know that circumstance, don’t know anything; a child ought to know it. Read up your history! Read it up——-, and don’t come asking a man if he’s certain about a bit of ABC stuff that the very southern niggers know all about.”
Here the Admiral’s fires began to wax hot, the atmosphere thickened, the coming earthquake rumbled, he began to thunder and lighten. Within three minutes his volcano was in full irruption and he was discharging flames and ashes of indignation, belching black volumes of foul history aloft, and vomiting red-hot torrents of profanity from his crater. Meantime Williams sat silent, and apparently deeply and earnestly interested in what the old man was saying. By and by, when the lull came, he said in the most deferential way, and with the gratified air of a man who has had a mystery cleared up which had been puzzling him uncomfortably:
“Now I understand it. I always thought I knew that piece of history well enough, but was still afraid to trust it, because there was not that convincing particularity about it that one likes to have in history; but when you mentioned every name, the other day, and every date, and every little circumstance, in their just order and sequence, I said to myself, this sounds something like—this is history—this is putting it in a shape that gives a man confidence; and I said to myself afterward, I will just ask the Admiral if he is perfectly certain about the details, and if he is I will come out and thank him for clearing this matter up for me. And that is what I want to do now—for until you set that matter right it was nothing but just a confusion in my mind, without head or tail to it.”
Nobody ever saw the Admiral look so mollified before, and so pleased. Nobody had ever received his bogus history as gospel before; its genuineness had always been called in question either by words or looks; but here was a man that not only swallowed it all down, but was grateful for the dose. He was taken a back; he hardly knew what to say; even his profanity failed him. Now, Williams continued, modestly and earnestly:
“But Admiral, in saying that this was the first stone thrown, and that this precipitated the war, you have overlooked a circumstance which you are perfectly familiar with, but which has escaped your memory. Now I grant you that what you have stated is correct in every detail—to wit: that on the 16th of October, 1860, two Massachusetts clergymen, named Waite and Granger, went in disguise to the house of John Moody, in Rockport, at dead of night, and dragged forth two southern women and their two little children, and after tarring and feathering them conveyed them to Boston and burned them alive in the State House square; and I also grant your proposition that this deed is what led to the secession of South Carolina on the 20th of December following. Very well.” [Here the company were pleasantly surprised to hear Williams proceed to come back at the Admiral with his own invincible weapon—clean, pure, manufactured history, without a word of truth in it.] “Very well, I say. But Admiral, why overlook the Willis and Morgan case in South Carolina? You are too well informed a man not to know all about that circumstance. Your arguments and your conversations have shown you to be intimately conversant with every detail of this national quarrel. You develop matters of history every day that show plainly that you are no smatterer in it, content to nibble about the surface, but a man who has searched the depths and possessed yourself of everything that has a bearing upon the great question. Therefore, let me just recall to your mind that Willis and Morgan case—though I see by your face that the whole thing is already passing through your memory at this moment. On the 12th of August, 1860, two months before the Waite and Granger affair, two South Carolina clergymen, named John H. Morgan and Winthrop L. Willis, one a Methodist and the other an Old School Baptist, disguised themselves, and went at midnight to the house of a planter named Thompson—Archibald F. Thompson, Vice President under Thomas Jefferson,—and took thence, at midnight, his widowed aunt, (a Northern woman,) and her adopted child, an orphan—named Mortimer Highie, afflicted with epilepsy and suffering at the time from white swelling on one of his legs, and compelled to walk on crutches in consequence; and the two ministers, in spite of the pleadings of the victims, dragged them to the bush, tarred and feathered them, and afterward burned them at the stake in the city of Charleston. You remember perfectly well what a stir it made; you remember perfectly well that even the Charleston Courier stigmatized the act as being unpleasant, of questionable propriety, and scarcely justifiable, and likewise that it would not be matter of surprise if retaliation ensued. And you remember also, that this thing was the cause of the Massachusetts outrage. Who, indeed, were the two Massachusetts ministers? and who were the two Southern women they burned? I do not need to remind you, Admiral, with your intimate knowledge of history, that Waite was the nephew of the woman burned in Charleston; that Granger was her cousin in the second degree, and that the woman they burned in Boston was the wife of John H. Morgan, and the still loved but divorced wife of Winthrop L. Willis. Now, Admiral, it is only fair that you should acknowledge that the first provocation came from the Southern preachers and that the Northern ones were justified in retaliating. In your arguments you never yet have shown the least disposition to withhold a just verdict or be in anywise unfair, when authoritative history condemned your position, and therefore I have no hesitation in asking you to take the original blame from the Massachusetts ministers, in this matter, and transfer it to the South Carolina clergymen where it justly belongs.”
The Admiral was conquered. This sweet spoken creature who swallowed his fraudulent history as if it were the bread of life; basked in his furious blasphemy as if it were generous sunshine; found only calm, even-handed justice in his rampart partisanship; and flooded him with invented history so sugarcoated with flattery and deference that there was no rejecting it, was “too many” for him. He stammered some awkward, profane sentences about the——-Willis and Morgan business having escaped his memory, but that he “remembered it now,” and then, under pretence of giving Fan some medicine for an imaginary cough, drew out of the battle and went away, a vanquished man. Then cheers and laughter went up, and Williams, the ship’s benefactor was a hero. The news went about the vessel, champagne was ordered, and enthusiastic reception instituted in the smoking room, and everybody flocked thither to shake hands with the conqueror. The wheelman said afterward, that the Admiral stood up behind the pilot house and “ripped and cursed all to himself” till he loosened the smokestack guys and becalmed the mainsail.
The Admiral’s power was broken. After that, if he began argument, somebody would bring Williams, and the old man would grow weak and begin to quiet down at once. And as soon as he was done, Williams in his dulcet, insinuating way, would invent some history (referring for proof, to the old man’s own excellent memory and to copies of “The Old Guard” known not to be in his possession) that would turn the tables completely and leave the Admiral all abroad and helpless. By and by he came to so dread Williams and his gilded tongue that he would stop talking when he saw him approach, and finally ceased to mention politics altogether, and from that time forward there was entire peace and serenity in the ship.
CHAPTER LXIII.
On a certain bright morning the Islands hove in sight, lying low on the lonely sea, and everybody climbed to the upper deck to look. After two thousand miles of watery solitude the vision was a welcome one. As we approached, the imposing promontory of Diamond Head rose up out of the ocean its rugged front softened by the hazy distance, and presently the details of the land began to make themselves manifest: first the line of beach; then the plumed coacoanut trees of the tropics; then cabins of the natives; then the white town of Honolulu, said to contain between twelve and fifteen thousand inhabitants spread over a dead level; with streets from twenty to thirty feet wide, solid and level as a floor, most of them straight as a line and few as crooked as a corkscrew.
The further I traveled through the town the better I liked it. Every step revealed a new contrast—disclosed something I was unaccustomed to. In place of the grand mud-colored brown fronts of San Francisco, I saw dwellings built of straw, adobies, and cream-colored pebble-and-shell- conglomerated coral, cut into oblong blocks and laid in cement; also a great number of neat white cottages, with green window-shutters; in place of front yards like billiard-tables with iron fences around them, I saw these homes surrounded by ample yards, thickly clad with green grass, and shaded by tall trees, through whose dense foliage the sun could scarcely penetrate; in place of the customary geranium, calla lily, etc., languishing in dust and general debility, I saw luxurious banks and thickets of flowers, fresh as a meadow after a rain, and glowing with the richest dyes; in place of the dingy horrors of San Francisco’s pleasure grove, the “Willows,” I saw huge-bodied, wide-spreading forest trees, with strange names and stranger appearance—trees that cast a shadow like a thunder-cloud, and were able to stand alone without being tied to green poles; in place of gold fish, wiggling around in glass globes, assuming countless shades and degrees of distortion through the magnifying and diminishing qualities of their transparent prison houses, I saw cats—Tom-cats, Mary Ann cats, long-tailed cats, bob-tailed cats, blind cats, one-eyed cats, wall-eyed cats, cross-eyed cats, gray cats, black cats, white cats, yellow cats, striped cats, spotted cats, tame cats, wild cats, singed cats, individual cats, groups of cats, platoons of cats, companies of cats, regiments of cats, armies of cats, multitudes of cats, millions of cats, and all of them sleek, fat, lazy and sound asleep. I looked on a multitude of people, some white, in white coats, vests, pantaloons, even white cloth shoes, made snowy with chalk duly laid on every morning; but the majority of the people were almost as dark as negroes—women with comely features, fine black eyes, rounded forms, inclining to the voluptuous, clad in a single bright red or white garment that fell free and unconfined from shoulder to heel, long black hair falling loose, gypsy hats, encircled with wreaths of natural flowers of a brilliant carmine tint; plenty of dark men in various costumes, and some with nothing on but a battered stove-pipe hat tilted on the nose, and a very scant breech-clout;—certain smoke-dried children were clothed in nothing but sunshine—a very neat fitting and picturesque apparel indeed.
In place of roughs and rowdies staring and blackguarding on the corners, I saw long-haired, saddle-colored Sandwich Island maidens sitting on the ground in the shade of corner houses, gazing indolently at whatever or whoever happened along; instead of wretched cobble-stone pavements, I walked on a firm foundation of coral, built up from the bottom of the sea by the absurd but persevering insect of that name, with a light layer of lava and cinders overlying the coral, belched up out of fathomless perdition long ago through the seared and blackened crater that stands dead and harmless in the distance now; instead of cramped and crowded street-cars, I met dusky native women sweeping by, free as the wind, on fleet horses and astride, with gaudy riding-sashes, streaming like banners behind them; instead of the combined stenches of Chinadom and Brannan street slaughter-houses, I breathed the balmy fragrance of jessamine, oleander, and the Pride of India; in place of the hurry and bustle and noisy confusion of San Francisco, I moved in the midst of a Summer calm as tranquil as dawn in the Garden of Eden; in place of the Golden City’s skirting sand hills and the placid bay, I saw on the one side a frame-work of tall, precipitous mountains close at hand, clad in refreshing green, and cleft by deep, cool, chasm-like valleys—and in front the grand sweep of the ocean; a brilliant, transparent green near the shore, bound and bordered by a long white line of foamy spray dashing against the reef, and further out the dead blue water of the deep sea, flecked with “white caps,” and in the far horizon a single, lonely sail—a mere accent-mark to emphasize a slumberous calm and a solitude that were without sound or limit. When the sun sunk down—the one intruder from other realms and persistent in suggestions of them—it was tranced luxury to sit in the perfumed air and forget that there was any world but these enchanted islands.
It was such ecstacy to dream, and dream—till you got a bite. A scorpion bite. Then the first duty was to get up out of the grass and kill the scorpion; and the next to bathe the bitten place with alcohol or brandy; and the next to resolve to keep out of the grass in future. Then came an adjournment to the bed-chamber and the pastime of writing up the day’s journal with one hand and the destruction of mosquitoes with the other—a whole community of them at a slap. Then, observing an enemy approaching,—a hairy tarantula on stilts—why not set the spittoon on him? It is done, and the projecting ends of his paws give a luminous idea of the magnitude of his reach. Then to bed and become a promenade for a centipede with forty-two legs on a side and every foot hot enough to burn a hole through a raw-hide. More soaking with alcohol, and a resolution to examine the bed before entering it, in future. Then wait, and suffer, till all the mosquitoes in the neighborhood have crawled in under the bar, then slip out quickly, shut them in and sleep peacefully on the floor till morning. Meantime it is comforting to curse the tropics in occasional wakeful intervals.
We had an abundance of fruit in Honolulu, of course. Oranges, pine- apples, bananas, strawberries, lemons, limes, mangoes, guavas, melons, and a rare and curious luxury called the chirimoya, which is deliciousness itself. Then there is the tamarind. I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours.
They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a “wire edge” that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said “no, it will come off when the enamel does”—which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds—but they only eat them once.
CHAPTER LXIV.
In my diary of our third day in Honolulu, I find this:
I am probably the most sensitive man in Hawaii to-night—especially about sitting down in the presence of my betters. I have ridden fifteen or twenty miles on horse-back since 5 P.M. and to tell the honest truth, I have a delicacy about sitting down at all.
An excursion to Diamond Head and the King’s Coacoanut Grove was planned to-day—time, 4:30 P.M.—the party to consist of half a dozen gentlemen and three ladies. They all started at the appointed hour except myself. I was at the Government prison, (with Captain Fish and another whaleship- skipper, Captain Phillips,) and got so interested in its examination that I did not notice how quickly the time was passing. Somebody remarked that it was twenty minutes past five o’clock, and that woke me up. It was a fortunate circumstance that Captain Phillips was along with his “turn out,” as he calls a top-buggy that Captain Cook brought here in 1778, and a horse that was here when Captain Cook came. Captain Phillips takes a just pride in his driving and in the speed of his horse, and to his passion for displaying them I owe it that we were only sixteen minutes coming from the prison to the American Hotel—a distance which has been estimated to be over half a mile. But it took some fearful driving. The Captain’s whip came down fast, and the blows started so much dust out of the horse’s hide that during the last half of the journey we rode through an impenetrable fog, and ran by a pocket compass in the hands of Captain Fish, a whaler of twenty-six years experience, who sat there through the perilous voyage as self-possessed as if he had been on the euchre-deck of his own ship, and calmly said, “Port your helm—port,” from time to time, and “Hold her a little free—steady—so—so,” and “Luff—hard down to starboard!” and never once lost his presence of mind or betrayed the least anxiety by voice or manner. When we came to anchor at last, and Captain Phillips looked at his watch and said, “Sixteen minutes—I told you it was in her! that’s over three miles an hour!” I could see he felt entitled to a compliment, and so I said I had never seen lightning go like that horse. And I never had.
The landlord of the American said the party had been gone nearly an hour, but that he could give me my choice of several horses that could overtake them. I said, never mind—I preferred a safe horse to a fast one—I would like to have an excessively gentle horse—a horse with no spirit whatever—a lame one, if he had such a thing. Inside of five minutes I was mounted, and perfectly satisfied with my outfit. I had no time to label him “This is a horse,” and so if the public took him for a sheep I cannot help it. I was satisfied, and that was the main thing. I could see that he had as many fine points as any man’s horse, and so I hung my hat on one of them, behind the saddle, and swabbed the perspiration from my face and started. I named him after this island, “Oahu” (pronounced O-waw-hee). The first gate he came to he started in; I had neither whip nor spur, and so I simply argued the case with him. He resisted argument, but ultimately yielded to insult and abuse. He backed out of that gate and steered for another one on the other side of the street. I triumphed by my former process. Within the next six hundred yards he crossed the street fourteen times and attempted thirteen gates, and in the meantime the tropical sun was beating down and threatening to cave the top of my head in, and I was literally dripping with perspiration. He abandoned the gate business after that and went along peaceably enough, but absorbed in meditation. I noticed this latter circumstance, and it soon began to fill me with apprehension. I said to my self, this creature is planning some new outrage, some fresh deviltry or other—no horse ever thought over a subject so profoundly as this one is doing just for nothing. The more this thing preyed upon my mind the more uneasy I became, until the suspense became almost unbearable and I dismounted to see if there was anything wild in his eye—for I had heard that the eye of this noblest of our domestic animals is very expressive.
I cannot describe what a load of anxiety was lifted from my mind when I found that he was only asleep. I woke him up and started him into a faster walk, and then the villainy of his nature came out again. He tried to climb over a stone wall, five or six feet high. I saw that I must apply force to this horse, and that I might as well begin first as last. I plucked a stout switch from a tamarind tree, and the moment he saw it, he surrendered. He broke into a convulsive sort of a canter, which had three short steps in it and one long one, and reminded me alternately of the clattering shake of the great earthquake, and the sweeping plunging of the Ajax in a storm.
And now there can be no fitter occasion than the present to pronounce a left-handed blessing upon the man who invented the American saddle. There is no seat to speak of about it—one might as well sit in a shovel- -and the stirrups are nothing but an ornamental nuisance. If I were to write down here all the abuse I expended on those stirrups, it would make a large book, even without pictures. Sometimes I got one foot so far through, that the stirrup partook of the nature of an anklet; sometimes both feet were through, and I was handcuffed by the legs; and sometimes my feet got clear out and left the stirrups wildly dangling about my shins. Even when I was in proper position and carefully balanced upon the balls of my feet, there was no comfort in it, on account of my nervous dread that they were going to slip one way or the other in a moment. But the subject is too exasperating to write about.
A mile and a half from town, I came to a grove of tall cocoanut trees, with clean, branchless stems reaching straight up sixty or seventy feet and topped with a spray of green foliage sheltering clusters of cocoa- nuts—not more picturesque than a forest of collossal ragged parasols, with bunches of magnified grapes under them, would be.
I once heard a gouty northern invalid say that a cocoanut tree might be poetical, possibly it was; but it looked like a feather-duster struck by lightning. I think that describes it better than a picture—and yet, without any question, there is something fascinating about a cocoa-nut tree—and graceful, too.
About a dozen cottages, some frame and the others of native grass, nestled sleepily in the shade here and there. The grass cabins are of a grayish color, are shaped much like our own cottages, only with higher and steeper roofs usually, and are made of some kind of weed strongly bound together in bundles. The roofs are very thick, and so are the walls; the latter have square holes in them for windows. At a little distance these cabins have a furry appearance, as if they might be made of bear skins. They are very cool and pleasant inside. The King’s flag was flying from the roof of one of the cottages, and His Majesty was probably within. He owns the whole concern thereabouts, and passes his time there frequently, on sultry days “laying off.” The spot is called “The King’s Grove.”
Near by is an interesting ruin—the meagre remains of an ancient heathen temple—a place where human sacrifices were offered up in those old bygone days when the simple child of nature, yielding momentarily to sin when sorely tempted, acknowledged his error when calm reflection had shown it him, and came forward with noble frankness and offered up his grandmother as an atoning sacrifice—in those old days when the luckless sinner could keep on cleansing his conscience and achieving periodical happiness as long as his relations held out; long, long before the missionaries braved a thousand privations to come and make them permanently miserable by telling them how beautiful and how blissful a place heaven is, and how nearly impossible it is to get there; and showed the poor native how dreary a place perdition is and what unnecessarily liberal facilities there are for going to it; showed him how, in his ignorance he had gone and fooled away all his kinfolks to no purpose; showed him what rapture it is to work all day long for fifty cents to buy food for next day with, as compared with fishing for pastime and lolling in the shade through eternal Summer, and eating of the bounty that nobody labored to provide but Nature. How sad it is to think of the multitudes who have gone to their graves in this beautiful island and never knew there was a hell!
This ancient temple was built of rough blocks of lava, and was simply a roofless inclosure a hundred and thirty feet long and seventy wide—nothing but naked walls, very thick, but not much higher than a man’s head. They will last for ages no doubt, if left unmolested. Its three altars and other sacred appurtenances have crumbled and passed away years ago. It is said that in the old times thousands of human beings were slaughtered here, in the presence of naked and howling savages. If these mute stones could speak, what tales they could tell, what pictures they could describe, of fettered victims writhing under the knife; of massed forms straining forward out of the gloom, with ferocious faces lit up by the sacrificial fires; of the background of ghostly trees; of the dark pyramid of Diamond Head standing sentinel over the uncanny scene, and the peaceful moon looking down upon it through rifts in the cloud-rack!
When Kamehameha (pronounced Ka-may-ha-may-ah) the Great—who was a sort of a Napoleon in military genius and uniform success—invaded this island of Oahu three quarters of a century ago, and exterminated the army sent to oppose him, and took full and final possession of the country, he searched out the dead body of the King of Oahu, and those of the principal chiefs, and impaled their heads on the walls of this temple.
Those were savage times when this old slaughter-house was in its prime. The King and the chiefs ruled the common herd with a rod of iron; made them gather all the provisions the masters needed; build all the houses and temples; stand all the expenses, of whatever kind; take kicks and cuffs for thanks; drag out lives well flavored with misery, and then suffer death for trifling offences or yield up their lives on the sacrificial altars to purchase favors from the gods for their hard rulers. The missionaries have clothed them, educated them, broken up the tyrannous authority of their chiefs, and given them freedom and the right to enjoy whatever their hands and brains produce with equal laws for all, and punishment for all alike who transgress them. The contrast is so strong—the benefit conferred upon this people by the missionaries is so prominent, so palpable and so unquestionable, that the frankest compliment I can pay them, and the best, is simply to point to the condition of the Sandwich Islanders of Captain Cook’s time, and their condition to-day.
Their work speaks for itself.
CHAPTER LXV.
By and by, after a rugged climb, we halted on the summit of a hill which commanded a far-reaching view. The moon rose and flooded mountain and valley and ocean with a mellow radiance, and out of the shadows of the foliage the distant lights of Honolulu glinted like an encampment of fireflies. The air was heavy with the fragrance of flowers. The halt was brief.—Gayly laughing and talking, the party galloped on, and I clung to the pommel and cantered after. Presently we came to a place where no grass grew—a wide expanse of deep sand. They said it was an old battle ground. All around everywhere, not three feet apart, the bleached bones of men gleamed white in the moonlight. We picked up a lot of them for mementoes. I got quite a number of arm bones and leg bones—of great chiefs, may be, who had fought savagely in that fearful battle in the old days, when blood flowed like wine where we now stood—and wore the choicest of them out on Oahu afterward, trying to make him go. All sorts of bones could be found except skulls; but a citizen said, irreverently, that there had been an unusual number of “skull-hunters” there lately—a species of sportsmen I had never heard of before.
Nothing whatever is known about this place—its story is a secret that will never be revealed. The oldest natives make no pretense of being possessed of its history. They say these bones were here when they were children. They were here when their grandfathers were children—but how they came here, they can only conjecture. Many people believe this spot to be an ancient battle-ground, and it is usual to call it so; and they believe that these skeletons have lain for ages just where their proprietors fell in the great fight. Other people believe that Kamehameha I. fought his first battle here. On this point, I have heard a story, which may have been taken from one of the numerous books which have been written concerning these islands—I do not know where the narrator got it. He said that when Kamehameha (who was at first merely a subordinate chief on the island of Hawaii), landed here, he brought a large army with him, and encamped at Waikiki. The Oahuans marched against him, and so confident were they of success that they readily acceded to a demand of their priests that they should draw a line where these bones now lie, and take an oath that, if forced to retreat at all, they would never retreat beyond this boundary. The priests told them that death and everlasting punishment would overtake any who violated the oath, and the march was resumed. Kamehameha drove them back step by step; the priests fought in the front rank and exhorted them both by voice and inspiriting example to remember their oath—to die, if need be, but never cross the fatal line. The struggle was manfully maintained, but at last the chief priest fell, pierced to the heart with a spear, and the unlucky omen fell like a blight upon the brave souls at his back; with a triumphant shout the invaders pressed forward—the line was crossed—the offended gods deserted the despairing army, and, accepting the doom their perjury had brought upon them, they broke and fled over the plain where Honolulu stands now—up the beautiful Nuuanu Valley—paused a moment, hemmed in by precipitous mountains on either hand and the frightful precipice of the Pari in front, and then were driven over—a sheer plunge of six hundred feet!
The story is pretty enough, but Mr. Jarves’ excellent history says the Oahuans were intrenched in Nuuanu Valley; that Kamehameha ousted them, routed them, pursued them up the valley and drove them over the precipice. He makes no mention of our bone-yard at all in his book.
Impressed by the profound silence and repose that rested over the beautiful landscape, and being, as usual, in the rear, I gave voice to my thoughts. I said:
“What a picture is here slumbering in the solemn glory of the moon! How strong the rugged outlines of the dead volcano stand out against the clear sky! What a snowy fringe marks the bursting of the surf over the long, curved reef! How calmly the dim city sleeps yonder in the plain! How soft the shadows lie upon the stately mountains that border the dream-haunted Mauoa Valley! What a grand pyramid of billowy clouds towers above the storied Pari! How the grim warriors of the past seem flocking in ghostly squadrons to their ancient battlefield again—how the wails of the dying well up from the—”
At this point the horse called Oahu sat down in the sand. Sat down to listen, I suppose. Never mind what he heard, I stopped apostrophising and convinced him that I was not a man to allow contempt of Court on the part of a horse. I broke the back-bone of a Chief over his rump and set out to join the cavalcade again.
Very considerably fagged out we arrived in town at 9 o’clock at night, myself in the lead—for when my horse finally came to understand that he was homeward bound and hadn’t far to go, he turned his attention strictly to business.
This is a good time to drop in a paragraph of information. There is no regular livery stable in Honolulu, or, indeed, in any part of the Kingdom of Hawaii; therefore unless you are acquainted with wealthy residents (who all have good horses), you must hire animals of the wretchedest description from the Kanakas. (i.e. natives.) Any horse you hire, even though it be from a white man, is not often of much account, because it will be brought in for you from some ranch, and has necessarily been leading a hard life. If the Kanakas who have been caring for him (inveterate riders they are) have not ridden him half to death every day themselves, you can depend upon it they have been doing the same thing by proxy, by clandestinely hiring him out. At least, so I am informed. The result is, that no horse has a chance to eat, drink, rest, recuperate, or look well or feel well, and so strangers go about the Islands mounted as I was to-day.
In hiring a horse from a Kanaka, you must have all your eyes about you, because you can rest satisfied that you are dealing with a shrewd unprincipled rascal. You may leave your door open and your trunk unlocked as long as you please, and he will not meddle with your property; he has no important vices and no inclination to commit robbery on a large scale; but if he can get ahead of you in the horse business, he will take a genuine delight in doing it. This traits is characteristic of horse jockeys, the world over, is it not? He will overcharge you if he can; he will hire you a fine-looking horse at night (anybody’s—may be the King’s, if the royal steed be in convenient view), and bring you the mate to my Oahu in the morning, and contend that it is the same animal. If you make trouble, he will get out by saying it was not himself who made the bargain with you, but his brother, “who went out in the country this morning.” They have always got a “brother” to shift the responsibility upon. A victim said to one of these fellows one day:
“But I know I hired the horse of you, because I noticed that scar on your cheek.”
The reply was not bad: “Oh, yes—yes—my brother all same—we twins!”
A friend of mine, J. Smith, hired a horse yesterday, the Kanaka warranting him to be in excellent condition.
Smith had a saddle and blanket of his own, and he ordered the Kanaka to put these on the horse. The Kanaka protested that he was perfectly willing to trust the gentleman with the saddle that was already on the animal, but Smith refused to use it. The change was made; then Smith noticed that the Kanaka had only changed the saddles, and had left the original blanket on the horse; he said he forgot to change the blankets, and so, to cut the bother short, Smith mounted and rode away. The horse went lame a mile from town, and afterward got to cutting up some extraordinary capers. Smith got down and took off the saddle, but the blanket stuck fast to the horse—glued to a procession of raw places. The Kanaka’s mysterious conduct stood explained.
Another friend of mine bought a pretty good horse from a native, a day or two ago, after a tolerably thorough examination of the animal. He discovered today that the horse was as blind as a bat, in one eye. He meant to have examined that eye, and came home with a general notion that he had done it; but he remembers now that every time he made the attempt his attention was called to something else by his victimizer.
One more instance, and then I will pass to something else. I am informed that when a certain Mr. L., a visiting stranger, was here, he bought a pair of very respectable-looking match horses from a native. They were in a little stable with a partition through the middle of it—one horse in each apartment. Mr. L. examined one of them critically through a window (the Kanaka’s “brother” having gone to the country with the key), and then went around the house and examined the other through a window on the other side. He said it was the neatest match he had ever seen, and paid for the horses on the spot. Whereupon the Kanaka departed to join his brother in the country. The fellow had shamefully swindled L. There was only one “match” horse, and he had examined his starboard side through one window and his port side through another! I decline to believe this story, but I give it because it is worth something as a fanciful illustration of a fixed fact—namely, that the Kanaka horse- jockey is fertile in invention and elastic in conscience.
You can buy a pretty good horse for forty or fifty dollars, and a good enough horse for all practical purposes for two dollars and a half. I estimate “Oahu” to be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty-five cents. A good deal better animal than he is was sold here day before yesterday for a dollar and seventy-five cents, and sold again to-day for two dollars and twenty-five cents; Williams bought a handsome and lively little pony yesterday for ten dollars; and about the best common horse on the island (and he is a really good one) sold yesterday, with Mexican saddle and bridle, for seventy dollars—a horse which is well and widely known, and greatly respected for his speed, good disposition and everlasting bottom.
You give your horse a little grain once a day; it comes from San Francisco, and is worth about two cents a pound; and you give him as much hay as he wants; it is cut and brought to the market by natives, and is not very good it is baled into long, round bundles, about the size of a large man; one of them is stuck by the middle on each end of a six foot pole, and the Kanaka shoulders the pole and walks about the streets between the upright bales in search of customers. These hay bales, thus carried, have a general resemblance to a colossal capital ’H.’
The hay-bundles cost twenty-five cents apiece, and one will last a horse about a day. You can get a horse for a song, a week’s hay for another song, and you can turn your animal loose among the luxuriant grass in your neighbor’s broad front yard without a song at all—you do it at midnight, and stable the beast again before morning. You have been at no expense thus far, but when you come to buy a saddle and bridle they will cost you from twenty to thirty-five dollars. You can hire a horse, saddle and bridle at from seven to ten dollars a week, and the owner will take care of them at his own expense.
It is time to close this day’s record—bed time. As I prepare for sleep, a rich voice rises out of the still night, and, far as this ocean rock is toward the ends of the earth, I recognize a familiar home air. But the words seem somewhat out of joint:
“Waikiki lantoni oe Kaa hooly hooly wawhoo.”
Translated, that means “When we were marching through Georgia.”
CHAPTER LXVI.
Passing through the market place we saw that feature of Honolulu under its most favorable auspices—that is, in the full glory of Saturday afternoon, which is a festive day with the natives. The native girls by twos and threes and parties of a dozen, and sometimes in whole platoons and companies, went cantering up and down the neighboring streets astride of fleet but homely horses, and with their gaudy riding habits streaming like banners behind them. Such a troop of free and easy riders, in their natural home, the saddle, makes a gay and graceful spectacle. The riding habit I speak of is simply a long, broad scarf, like a tavern table cloth brilliantly colored, wrapped around the loins once, then apparently passed between the limbs and each end thrown backward over the same, and floating and flapping behind on both sides beyond the horse’s tail like a couple of fancy flags; then, slipping the stirrup-irons between her toes, the girl throws her chest forward, sits up like a Major General and goes sweeping by like the wind.
The girls put on all the finery they can on Saturday afternoon—fine black silk robes; flowing red ones that nearly put your eyes out; others as white as snow; still others that discount the rainbow; and they wear their hair in nets, and trim their jaunty hats with fresh flowers, and encircle their dusky throats with home-made necklaces of the brilliant vermillion-tinted blossom of the ohia; and they fill the markets and the adjacent street with their bright presences, and smell like a rag factory on fire with their offensive cocoanut oil.
Occasionally you see a heathen from the sunny isles away down in the South Seas, with his face and neck tatooed till he looks like the customary mendicant from Washoe who has been blown up in a mine. Some are tattooed a dead blue color down to the upper lip—masked, as it were—leaving the natural light yellow skin of Micronesia unstained from thence down; some with broad marks drawn down from hair to neck, on both sides of the face, and a strip of the original yellow skin, two inches wide, down the center—a gridiron with a spoke broken out; and some with the entire face discolored with the popular mortification tint, relieved only by one or two thin, wavy threads of natural yellow running across the face from ear to ear, and eyes twinkling out of this darkness, from under shadowing hat-brims, like stars in the dark of the moon.
Moving among the stirring crowds, you come to the poi merchants, squatting in the shade on their hams, in true native fashion, and surrounded by purchasers. (The Sandwich Islanders always squat on their hams, and who knows but they may be the old original “ham sandwiches?” The thought is pregnant with interest.) The poi looks like common flour paste, and is kept in large bowls formed of a species of gourd, and capable of holding from one to three or four gallons. Poi is the chief article of food among the natives, and is prepared from the taro plant.
The taro root looks like a thick, or, if you please, a corpulent sweet potato, in shape, but is of a light purple color when boiled. When boiled it answers as a passable substitute for bread. The buck Kanakas bake it under ground, then mash it up well with a heavy lava pestle, mix water with it until it becomes a paste, set it aside and let if ferment, and then it is poi—and an unseductive mixture it is, almost tasteless before it ferments and too sour for a luxury afterward. But nothing is more nutritious. When solely used, however, it produces acrid humors, a fact which sufficiently accounts for the humorous character of the Kanakas. I think there must be as much of a knack in handling poi as there is in eating with chopsticks. The forefinger is thrust into the mess and stirred quickly round several times and drawn as quickly out, thickly coated, just as it it were poulticed; the head is thrown back, the finger inserted in the mouth and the delicacy stripped off and swallowed—the eye closing gently, meanwhile, in a languid sort of ecstasy. Many a different finger goes into the same bowl and many a different kind of dirt and shade and quality of flavor is added to the virtues of its contents.
Around a small shanty was collected a crowd of natives buying the awa root. It is said that but for the use of this root the destruction of the people in former times by certain imported diseases would have been far greater than it was, and by others it is said that this is merely a fancy. All agree that poi will rejuvenate a man who is used up and his vitality almost annihilated by hard drinking, and that in some kinds of diseases it will restore health after all medicines have failed; but all are not willing to allow to the awa the virtues claimed for it. The natives manufacture an intoxicating drink from it which is fearful in its effects when persistently indulged in. It covers the body with dry, white scales, inflames the eyes, and causes premature decripitude. Although the man before whose establishment we stopped has to pay a Government license of eight hundred dollars a year for the exclusive right to sell awa root, it is said that he makes a small fortune every twelve-month; while saloon keepers, who pay a thousand dollars a year for the privilege of retailing whiskey, etc., only make a bare living.
We found the fish market crowded; for the native is very fond of fish, and eats the article raw and alive! Let us change the subject.
In old times here Saturday was a grand gala day indeed. All the native population of the town forsook their labors, and those of the surrounding country journeyed to the city. Then the white folks had to stay indoors, for every street was so packed with charging cavaliers and cavalieresses that it was next to impossible to thread one’s way through the cavalcades without getting crippled.
At night they feasted and the girls danced the lascivious hula hula—a dance that is said to exhibit the very perfection of educated notion of limb and arm, hand, head and body, and the exactest uniformity of movement and accuracy of “time.” It was performed by a circle of girls with no raiment on them to speak of, who went through an infinite variety of motions and figures without prompting, and yet so true was their “time,” and in such perfect concert did they move that when they were placed in a straight line, hands, arms, bodies, limbs and heads waved, swayed, gesticulated, bowed, stooped, whirled, squirmed, twisted and undulated as if they were part and parcel of a single individual; and it was difficult to believe they were not moved in a body by some exquisite piece of mechanism.
Of late years, however, Saturday has lost most of its quondam gala features. This weekly stampede of the natives interfered too much with labor and the interests of the white folks, and by sticking in a law here, and preaching a sermon there, and by various other means, they gradually broke it up. The demoralizing hula hula was forbidden to be performed, save at night, with closed doors, in presence of few spectators, and only by permission duly procured from the authorities and the payment of ten dollars for the same. There are few girls now-a-days able to dance this ancient national dance in the highest perfection of the art.
The missionaries have christianized and educated all the natives. They all belong to the Church, and there is not one of them, above the age of eight years, but can read and write with facility in the native tongue. It is the most universally educated race of people outside of China. They have any quantity of books, printed in the Kanaka language, and all the natives are fond of reading. They are inveterate church-goers—nothing can keep them away. All this ameliorating cultivation has at last built up in the native women a profound respect for chastity—in other people. Perhaps that is enough to say on that head. The national sin will die out when the race does, but perhaps not earlier.—But doubtless this purifying is not far off, when we reflect that contact with civilization and the whites has reduced the native population from four hundred thousand (Captain Cook’s estimate,) to fifty-five thousand in something over eighty years!
Society is a queer medley in this notable missionary, whaling and governmental centre. If you get into conversation with a stranger and experience that natural desire to know what sort of ground you are treading on by finding out what manner of man your stranger is, strike out boldly and address him as “Captain.” Watch him narrowly, and if you see by his countenance that you are on the wrong tack, ask him where he preaches. It is a safe bet that he is either a missionary or captain of a whaler. I am now personally acquainted with seventy-two captains and ninety-six missionaries. The captains and ministers form one-half of the population; the third fourth is composed of common Kanakas and mercantile foreigners and their families, and the final fourth is made up of high officers of the Hawaiian Government. And there are just about cats enough for three apiece all around.
A solemn stranger met me in the suburbs the other day, and said:
“Good morning, your reverence. Preach in the stone church yonder, no doubt?”
“No, I don’t. I’m not a preacher.”
“Really, I beg your pardon, Captain. I trust you had a good season. How much oil”—
“Oil? What do you take me for? I’m not a whaler.”
“Oh, I beg a thousand pardons, your Excellency.
“Major General in the household troops, no doubt? Minister of the Interior, likely? Secretary of war? First Gentleman of the Bed-chamber? Commissioner of the Royal”—
“Stuff! I’m no official. I’m not connected in any way with the Government.”
“Bless my life! Then, who the mischief are you? what the mischief are you? and how the mischief did you get here, and where in thunder did you come from?”
“I’m only a private personage—an unassuming stranger—lately arrived from America.”
“No? Not a missionary! Not a whaler! not a member of his Majesty’s Government! not even Secretary of the Navy! Ah, Heaven! it is too blissful to be true; alas, I do but dream. And yet that noble, honest countenance—those oblique, ingenuous eyes—that massive head, incapable of—of—anything; your hand; give me your hand, bright waif. Excuse these tears. For sixteen weary years I have yearned for a moment like this, and”—
Here his feelings were too much for him, and he swooned away. I pitied this poor creature from the bottom of my heart. I was deeply moved. I shed a few tears on him and kissed him for his mother. I then took what small change he had and “shoved”.
CHAPTER LXVII.
I still quote from my journal:
I found the national Legislature to consist of half a dozen white men and some thirty or forty natives. It was a dark assemblage. The nobles and Ministers (about a dozen of them altogether) occupied the extreme left of the hall, with David Kalakaua (the King’s Chamberlain) and Prince William at the head. The President of the Assembly, His Royal Highness M. Kekuanaoa, [Kekuanaoa is not of the blood royal. He derives his princely rank from his wife, who was a daughter of Kamehameha the Great. Under other monarchies the male line takes precedence of the female in tracing genealogies, but here the opposite is the case—the female line takes precedence. Their reason for this is exceedingly sensible, and I recommend it to the aristocracy of Europe: They say it is easy to know who a man’s mother was, but, etc., etc.] and the Vice President (the latter a white man,) sat in the pulpit, if I may so term it. The President is the King’s father. He is an erect, strongly built, massive featured, white-haired, tawny old gentleman of eighty years of age or thereabouts. He was simply but well dressed, in a blue cloth coat and white vest, and white pantaloons, without spot, dust or blemish upon them. He bears himself with a calm, stately dignity, and is a man of noble presence. He was a young man and a distinguished warrior under that terrific fighter, Kamehameha I., more than half a century ago. A knowledge of his career suggested some such thought as this: “This man, naked as the day he was born, and war-club and spear in hand, has charged at the head of a horde of savages against other hordes of savages more than a generation and a half ago, and reveled in slaughter and carnage; has worshipped wooden images on his devout knees; has seen hundreds of his race offered up in heathen temples as sacrifices to wooden idols, at a time when no missionary’s foot had ever pressed this soil, and he had never heard of the white man’s God; has believed his enemy could secretly pray him to death; has seen the day, in his childhood, when it was a crime punishable by death for a man to eat with his wife, or for a plebeian to let his shadow fall upon the King—and now look at him; an educated Christian; neatly and handsomely dressed; a high-minded, elegant gentleman; a traveler, in some degree, and one who has been the honored guest of royalty in Europe; a man practiced in holding the reins of an enlightened government, and well versed in the politics of his country and in general, practical information. Look at him, sitting there presiding over the deliberations of a legislative body, among whom are white men—a grave, dignified, statesmanlike personage, and as seemingly natural and fitted to the place as if he had been born in it and had never been out of it in his life time. How the experiences of this old man’s eventful life shame the cheap inventions of romance!”
The christianizing of the natives has hardly even weakened some of their barbarian superstitions, much less destroyed them. I have just referred to one of these. It is still a popular belief that if your enemy can get hold of any article belonging to you he can get down on his knees over it and pray you to death. Therefore many a native gives up and dies merely because he imagines that some enemy is putting him through a course of damaging prayer. This praying an individual to death seems absurd enough at a first glance, but then when we call to mind some of the pulpit efforts of certain of our own ministers the thing looks plausible.
In former times, among the Islanders, not only a plurality of wives was customary, but a plurality of husbands likewise. Some native women of noble rank had as many as six husbands. A woman thus supplied did not reside with all her husbands at once, but lived several months with each in turn. An understood sign hung at her door during these months. When the sign was taken down, it meant “NEXT.”
In those days woman was rigidly taught to “know her place.” Her place was to do all the work, take all the cuffs, provide all the food, and content herself with what was left after her lord had finished his dinner. She was not only forbidden, by ancient law, and under penalty of death, to eat with her husband or enter a canoe, but was debarred, under the same penalty, from eating bananas, pine-apples, oranges and other choice fruits at any time or in any place. She had to confine herself pretty strictly to “poi” and hard work. These poor ignorant heathen seem to have had a sort of groping idea of what came of woman eating fruit in the garden of Eden, and they did not choose to take any more chances. But the missionaries broke up this satisfactory arrangement of things. They liberated woman and made her the equal of man.
The natives had a romantic fashion of burying some of their children alive when the family became larger than necessary. The missionaries interfered in this matter too, and stopped it.
To this day the natives are able to lie down and die whenever they want to, whether there is anything the matter with them or not. If a Kanaka takes a notion to die, that is the end of him; nobody can persuade him to hold on; all the doctors in the world could not save him.
A luxury which they enjoy more than anything else, is a large funeral. If a person wants to get rid of a troublesome native, it is only necessary to promise him a fine funeral and name the hour and he will be on hand to the minute—at least his remains will.
All the natives are Christians, now, but many of them still desert to the Great Shark God for temporary succor in time of trouble. An irruption of the great volcano of Kilauea, or an earthquake, always brings a deal of latent loyalty to the Great Shark God to the surface. It is common report that the King, educated, cultivated and refined Christian gentleman as he undoubtedly is, still turns to the idols of his fathers for help when disaster threatens. A planter caught a shark, and one of his christianized natives testified his emancipation from the thrall of ancient superstition by assisting to dissect the shark after a fashion forbidden by his abandoned creed. But remorse shortly began to torture him. He grew moody and sought solitude; brooded over his sin, refused food, and finally said he must die and ought to die, for he had sinned against the Great Shark God and could never know peace any more. He was proof against persuasion and ridicule, and in the course of a day or two took to his bed and died, although he showed no symptom of disease. His young daughter followed his lead and suffered a like fate within the week. Superstition is ingrained in the native blood and bone and it is only natural that it should crop out in time of distress. Wherever one goes in the Islands, he will find small piles of stones by the wayside, covered with leafy offerings, placed there by the natives to appease evil spirits or honor local deities belonging to the mythology of former days.
In the rural districts of any of the Islands, the traveler hourly comes upon parties of dusky maidens bathing in the streams or in the sea without any clothing on and exhibiting no very intemperate zeal in the matter of hiding their nakedness. When the missionaries first took up their residence in Honolulu, the native women would pay their families frequent friendly visits, day by day, not even clothed with a blush. It was found a hard matter to convince them that this was rather indelicate. Finally the missionaries provided them with long, loose calico robes, and that ended the difficulty—for the women would troop through the town, stark naked, with their robes folded under their arms, march to the missionary houses and then proceed to dress!—
The natives soon manifested a strong proclivity for clothing, but it was shortly apparent that they only wanted it for grandeur. The missionaries imported a quantity of hats, bonnets, and other male and female wearing apparel, instituted a general distribution, and begged the people not to come to church naked, next Sunday, as usual. And they did not; but the national spirit of unselfishness led them to divide up with neighbors who were not at the distribution, and next Sabbath the poor preachers could hardly keep countenance before their vast congregations. In the midst of the reading of a hymn a brown, stately dame would sweep up the aisle with a world of airs, with nothing in the world on but a “stovepipe” hat and a pair of cheap gloves; another dame would follow, tricked out in a man’s shirt, and nothing else; another one would enter with a flourish, with simply the sleeves of a bright calico dress tied around her waist and the rest of the garment dragging behind like a peacock’s tail off duty; a stately “buck” Kanaka would stalk in with a woman’s bonnet on, wrong side before—only this, and nothing more; after him would stride his fellow, with the legs of a pair of pantaloons tied around his neck, the rest of his person untrammeled; in his rear would come another gentleman simply gotten up in a fiery neck-tie and a striped vest.
The poor creatures were beaming with complacency and wholly unconscious of any absurdity in their appearance. They gazed at each other with happy admiration, and it was plain to see that the young girls were taking note of what each other had on, as naturally as if they had always lived in a land of Bibles and knew what churches were made for; here was the evidence of a dawning civilization. The spectacle which the congregation presented was so extraordinary and withal so moving, that the missionaries found it difficult to keep to the text and go on with the services; and by and by when the simple children of the sun began a general swapping of garments in open meeting and produced some irresistibly grotesque effects in the course of re-dressing, there was nothing for it but to cut the thing short with the benediction and dismiss the fantastic assemblage.
In our country, children play “keep house;” and in the same high-sounding but miniature way the grown folk here, with the poor little material of slender territory and meagre population, play “empire.” There is his royal Majesty the King, with a New York detective’s income of thirty or thirty-five thousand dollars a year from the “royal civil list” and the “royal domain.” He lives in a two-story frame “palace.”
And there is the “royal family”—the customary hive of royal brothers, sisters, cousins and other noble drones and vagrants usual to monarchy,—all with a spoon in the national pap-dish, and all bearing such titles as his or her Royal Highness the Prince or Princess So-and-so. Few of them can carry their royal splendors far enough to ride in carriages, however; they sport the economical Kanaka horse or “hoof it” with the plebeians.
Then there is his Excellency the “royal Chamberlain”—a sinecure, for his majesty dresses himself with his own hands, except when he is ruralizing at Waikiki and then he requires no dressing.
Next we have his Excellency the Commander-in-chief of the Household Troops, whose forces consist of about the number of soldiers usually placed under a corporal in other lands.
Next comes the royal Steward and the Grand Equerry in Waiting—high dignitaries with modest salaries and little to do.
Then we have his Excellency the First Gentleman of the Bed-chamber—an office as easy as it is magnificent.
Next we come to his Excellency the Prime Minister, a renegade American from New Hampshire, all jaw, vanity, bombast and ignorance, a lawyer of “shyster” calibre, a fraud by nature, a humble worshipper of the sceptre above him, a reptile never tired of sneering at the land of his birth or glorifying the ten-acre kingdom that has adopted him—salary, $4,000 a year, vast consequence, and no perquisites.
Then we have his Excellency the Imperial Minister of Finance, who handles a million dollars of public money a year, sends in his annual “budget” with great ceremony, talks prodigiously of “finance,” suggests imposing schemes for paying off the “national debt” (of $150,000,) and does it all for $4,000 a year and unimaginable glory.
Next we have his Excellency the Minister of War, who holds sway over the royal armies—they consist of two hundred and thirty uniformed Kanakas, mostly Brigadier Generals, and if the country ever gets into trouble with a foreign power we shall probably hear from them. I knew an American whose copper-plate visiting card bore this impressive legend: “Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Infantry.” To say that he was proud of this distinction is stating it but tamely. The Minister of War has also in his charge some venerable swivels on Punch-Bowl Hill wherewith royal salutes are fired when foreign vessels of war enter the port.
Next comes his Excellency the Minister of the Navy—a nabob who rules the “royal fleet,” (a steam-tug and a sixty-ton schooner.)
And next comes his Grace the Lord Bishop of Honolulu, the chief dignitary of the “Established Church”—for when the American Presbyterian missionaries had completed the reduction of the nation to a compact condition of Christianity, native royalty stepped in and erected the grand dignity of an “Established (Episcopal) Church” over it, and imported a cheap ready-made Bishop from England to take charge. The chagrin of the missionaries has never been comprehensively expressed, to this day, profanity not being admissible.
Next comes his Excellency the Minister of Public Instruction.
Next, their Excellencies the Governors of Oahu, Hawaii, etc., and after them a string of High Sheriffs and other small fry too numerous for computation.
Then there are their Excellencies the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French; her British Majesty’s Minister; the Minister Resident, of the United States; and some six or eight representatives of other foreign nations, all with sounding titles, imposing dignity and prodigious but economical state.
Imagine all this grandeur in a play-house “kingdom” whose population falls absolutely short of sixty thousand souls!
The people are so accustomed to nine-jointed titles and colossal magnates that a foreign prince makes very little more stir in Honolulu than a Western Congressman does in New York.
And let it be borne in mind that there is a strictly defined “court costume” of so “stunning” a nature that it would make the clown in a circus look tame and commonplace by comparison; and each Hawaiian official dignitary has a gorgeous vari-colored, gold-laced uniform peculiar to his office—no two of them are alike, and it is hard to tell which one is the “loudest.” The King had a “drawing-room” at stated intervals, like other monarchs, and when these varied uniforms congregate there—weak-eyed people have to contemplate the spectacle through smoked glass. Is there not a gratifying contrast between this latter-day exhibition and the one the ancestors of some of these magnates afforded the missionaries the Sunday after the old-time distribution of clothing? Behold what religion and civilization have wrought!
CHAPTER LXVIII.
While I was in Honolulu I witnessed the ceremonious funeral of the King’s sister, her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria. According to the royal custom, the remains had lain in state at the palace thirty days, watched day and night by a guard of honor. And during all that time a great multitude of natives from the several islands had kept the palace grounds well crowded and had made the place a pandemonium every night with their howlings and wailings, beating of tom-toms and dancing of the (at other times) forbidden “hula-hula” by half-clad maidens to the music of songs of questionable decency chanted in honor of the deceased. The printed programme of the funeral procession interested me at the time; and after what I have just said of Hawaiian grandiloquence in the matter of “playing empire,” I am persuaded that a perusal of it may interest the reader:
After reading the long list of dignitaries, etc., and remembering the sparseness of the population, one is almost inclined to wonder where the material for that portion of the procession devoted to “Hawaiian Population Generally” is going to be procured:
Undertaker. Royal School. Kawaiahao School. Roman Catholic School. Maemae School. Honolulu Fire Department. Mechanics’ Benefit Union. Attending Physicians. Knonohikis (Superintendents) of the Crown Lands, Konohikis of the Private Lands of His Majesty Konohikis of the Private Lands of Her late Royal Highness. Governor of Oahu and Staff. Hulumanu (Military Company). Household Troops. The Prince of Hawaii’s Own (Military Company). The King’s household servants. Servants of Her late Royal Highness. Protestant Clergy. The Clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. His Lordship Louis Maigret, The Right Rev. Bishop of Arathea, Vicar- Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands. The Clergy of the Hawaiian Reformed Catholic Church. His Lordship the Right Rev. Bishop of Honolulu. Her Majesty Queen Emma’s Carriage. His Majesty’s Staff. Carriage of Her late Royal Highness. Carriage of Her Majesty the Queen Dowager. The King’s Chancellor. Cabinet Ministers. His Excellency the Minister Resident of the United States. H. B. M’s Commissioner. H. B. M’s Acting Commissioner. Judges of Supreme Court. Privy Councillors. Members of Legislative Assembly. Consular Corps. Circuit Judges. Clerks of Government Departments. Members of the Bar. Collector General, Custom-house Officers and Officers of the Customs. Marshal and Sheriffs of the different Islands. King’s Yeomanry. Foreign Residents. Ahahui Kaahumanu. Hawaiian Population Generally. Hawaiian Cavalry. Police Force.
I resume my journal at the point where the procession arrived at the royal mausoleum:
As the procession filed through the gate, the military deployed handsomely to the right and left and formed an avenue through which the long column of mourners passed to the tomb. The coffin was borne through the door of the mausoleum, followed by the King and his chiefs, the great officers of the kingdom, foreign Consuls, Embassadors and distinguished guests (Burlingame and General Van Valkenburgh). Several of the kahilis were then fastened to a framework in front of the tomb, there to remain until they decay and fall to pieces, or, forestalling this, until another scion of royalty dies. At this point of the proceedings the multitude set up such a heart-broken wailing as I hope never to hear again.
The soldiers fired three volleys of musketry—the wailing being previously silenced to permit of the guns being heard. His Highness Prince William, in a showy military uniform (the “true prince,” this—scion of the house over-thrown by the present dynasty—he was formerly betrothed to the Princess but was not allowed to marry her), stood guard and paced back and forth within the door. The privileged few who followed the coffin into the mausoleum remained sometime, but the King soon came out and stood in the door and near one side of it. A stranger could have guessed his rank (although he was so simply and unpretentiously dressed) by the profound deference paid him by all persons in his vicinity; by seeing his high officers receive his quiet orders and suggestions with bowed and uncovered heads; and by observing how careful those persons who came out of the mausoleum were to avoid “crowding” him (although there was room enough in the doorway for a wagon to pass, for that matter); how respectfully they edged out sideways, scraping their backs against the wall and always presenting a front view of their persons to his Majesty, and never putting their hats on until they were well out of the royal presence.
He was dressed entirely in black—dress-coat and silk hat—and looked rather democratic in the midst of the showy uniforms about him. On his breast he wore a large gold star, which was half hidden by the lapel of his coat. He remained at the door a half hour, and occasionally gave an order to the men who were erecting the kahilis [Ranks of long-handled mops made of gaudy feathers—sacred to royalty. They are stuck in the ground around the tomb and left there.] before the tomb. He had the good taste to make one of them substitute black crape for the ordinary hempen rope he was about to tie one of them to the frame-work with. Finally he entered his carriage and drove away, and the populace shortly began to drop into his wake. While he was in view there was but one man who attracted more attention than himself, and that was Harris (the Yankee Prime Minister). This feeble personage had crape enough around his hat to express the grief of an entire nation, and as usual he neglected no opportunity of making himself conspicuous and exciting the admiration of the simple Kanakas. Oh! noble ambition of this modern Richelieu!
It is interesting to contrast the funeral ceremonies of the Princess Victoria with those of her noted ancestor Kamehameha the Conqueror, who died fifty years ago—in 1819, the year before the first missionaries came.
“On the 8th of May, 1819, at the age of sixty-six, he died, as he had lived, in the faith of his country. It was his misfortune not to have come in contact with men who could have rightly influenced his religious aspirations. Judged by his advantages and compared with the most eminent of his countrymen he may be justly styled not only great, but good. To this day his memory warms the heart and elevates the national feelings of Hawaiians. They are proud of their old warrior King; they love his name; his deeds form their historical age; and an enthusiasm everywhere prevails, shared even by foreigners who knew his worth, that constitutes the firmest pillar of the throne of his dynasty.
“In lieu of human victims (the custom of that age), a sacrifice of three hundred dogs attended his obsequies—no mean holocaust when their national value and the estimation in which they were held are considered. The bones of Kamehameha, after being kept for a while, were so carefully concealed that all knowledge of their final resting place is now lost. There was a proverb current among the common people that the bones of a cruel King could not be hid; they made fish-hooks and arrows of them, upon which, in using them, they vented their abhorrence of his memory in bitter execrations.”
The account of the circumstances of his death, as written by the native historians, is full of minute detail, but there is scarcely a line of it which does not mention or illustrate some by-gone custom of the country. In this respect it is the most comprehensive document I have yet met with. I will quote it entire:
“When Kamehameha was dangerously sick, and the priests were unable to cure him, they said: ‘Be of good courage and build a house for the god’ (his own private god or idol), that thou mayest recover.’ The chiefs corroborated this advice of the priests, and a place of worship was prepared for Kukailimoku, and consecrated in the evening. They proposed also to the King, with a view to prolong his life, that human victims should be sacrificed to his deity; upon which the greater part of the people absconded through fear of death, and concealed themselves in hiding places till the tabu [Tabu (pronounced tah-boo,) means prohibition (we have borrowed it,) or sacred. The tabu was sometimes permanent, sometimes temporary; and the person or thing placed under tabu was for the time being sacred to the purpose for which it was set apart. In the above case the victims selected under the tabu would be sacred to the sacrifice] in which destruction impended, was past. It is doubtful whether Kamehameha approved of the plan of the chiefs and priests to sacrifice men, as he was known to say, ‘The men are sacred for the King;’ meaning that they were for the service of his successor. This information was derived from Liholiho, his son.
“After this, his sickness increased to such a degree that he had not strength to turn himself in his bed. When another season, consecrated for worship at the new temple (heiau) arrived, he said to his son, Liholiho, ‘Go thou and make supplication to thy god; I am not able to go, and will offer my prayers at home.’ When his devotions to his feathered god, Kukailimoku, were concluded, a certain religiously disposed individual, who had a bird god, suggested to the King that through its influence his sickness might be removed. The name of this god was Pua; its body was made of a bird, now eaten by the Hawaiians, and called in their language alae. Kamehameha was willing that a trial should be made, and two houses were constructed to facilitate the experiment; but while dwelling in them he became so very weak as not to receive food. After lying there three days, his wives, children and chiefs, perceiving that he was very low, returned him to his own house. In the evening he was carried to the eating house, where he took a little food in his mouth which he did not swallow; also a cup of water. The chiefs requested him to give them his counsel; but he made no reply, and was carried back to the dwelling house; but when near midnight—ten o’clock, perhaps—he was carried again to the place to eat; but, as before, he merely tasted of what was presented to him. Then Kaikioewa addressed him thus: ‘Here we all are, your younger brethren, your son Liholiho and your foreigner; impart to us your dying charge, that Liholiho and Kaahumanu may hear.’ Then Kamehameha inquired, ‘What do you say?’ Kaikioewa repeated, ‘Your counsels for us.’
“He then said, ‘Move on in my good way and—.’ He could proceed no further. The foreigner, Mr. Young, embraced and kissed him. Hoapili also embraced him, whispering something in his ear, after which he was taken back to the house. About twelve he was carried once more to the house for eating, into which his head entered, while his body was in the dwelling house immediately adjoining. It should be remarked that this frequent carrying of a sick chief from one house to another resulted from the tabu system, then in force. There were at that time six houses (huts) connected with an establishment—one was for worship, one for the men to eat in, an eating house for the women, a house to sleep in, a house in which to manufacture kapa (native cloth) and one where, at certain intervals, the women might dwell in seclusion.
“The sick was once more taken to his house, when he expired; this was at two o’clock, a circumstance from which Leleiohoku derived his name. As he breathed his last, Kalaimoku came to the eating house to order those in it to go out. There were two aged persons thus directed to depart; one went, the other remained on account of love to the King, by whom he had formerly been kindly sustained. The children also were sent away. Then Kalaimoku came to the house, and the chiefs had a consultation. One of them spoke thus: ‘This is my thought—we will eat him raw. [This sounds suspicious, in view of the fact that all Sandwich Island historians, white and black, protest that cannibalism never existed in the islands. However, since they only proposed to “eat him raw” we “won’t count that”. But it would certainly have been cannibalism if they had cooked him.—M. T.] Kaahumanu (one of the dead King’s widows) replied, ‘Perhaps his body is not at our disposal; that is more properly with his successor. Our part in him—his breath—has departed; his remains will be disposed of by Liholiho.’
“After this conversation the body was taken into the consecrated house for the performance of the proper rites by the priest and the new King. The name of this ceremony is uko; and when the sacred hog was baked the priest offered it to the dead body, and it became a god, the King at the same time repeating the customary prayers.
“Then the priest, addressing himself to the King and chiefs, said: ‘I will now make known to you the rules to be observed respecting persons to be sacrificed on the burial of this body. If you obtain one man before the corpse is removed, one will be sufficient; but after it leaves this house four will be required. If delayed until we carry the corpse to the grave there must be ten; but after it is deposited in the grave there must be fifteen. To-morrow morning there will be a tabu, and, if the sacrifice be delayed until that time, forty men must die.’
“Then the high priest, Hewahewa, inquired of the chiefs, ‘Where shall be the residence of King Liholiho?’ They replied, ‘Where, indeed? You, of all men, ought to know.’ Then the priest observed, ‘There are two suitable places; one is Kau, the other is Kohala.’ The chiefs preferred the latter, as it was more thickly inhabited. The priest added, ‘These are proper places for the King’s residence; but he must not remain in Kona, for it is polluted.’ This was agreed to. It was now break of day. As he was being carried to the place of burial the people perceived that their King was dead, and they wailed. When the corpse was removed from the house to the tomb, a distance of one chain, the procession was met by a certain man who was ardently attached to the deceased. He leaped upon the chiefs who were carrying the King’s body; he desired to die with him on account of his love. The chiefs drove him away. He persisted in making numerous attempts, which were unavailing. Kalaimoka also had it in his heart to die with him, but was prevented by Hookio.
“The morning following Kamehameha’s death, Liholiho and his train departed for Kohala, according to the suggestions of the priest, to avoid the defilement occasioned by the dead. At this time if a chief died the land was polluted, and the heirs sought a residence in another part of the country until the corpse was dissected and the bones tied in a bundle, which being done, the season of defilement terminated. If the deceased were not a chief, the house only was defiled which became pure again on the burial of the body. Such were the laws on this subject.
“On the morning on which Liholiho sailed in his canoe for Kohala, the chiefs and people mourned after their manner on occasion of a chief’s death, conducting themselves like madmen and like beasts. Their conduct was such as to forbid description; The priests, also, put into action the sorcery apparatus, that the person who had prayed the King to death might die; for it was not believed that Kamehameha’s departure was the effect either of sickness or old age. When the sorcerers set up by their fire-places sticks with a strip of kapa flying at the top, the chief Keeaumoku, Kaahumaun’s brother, came in a state of intoxication and broke the flag-staff of the sorcerers, from which it was inferred that Kaahumanu and her friends had been instrumental in the King’s death. On this account they were subjected to abuse.”
You have the contrast, now, and a strange one it is. This great Queen, Kaahumanu, who was “subjected to abuse” during the frightful orgies that followed the King’s death, in accordance with ancient custom, afterward became a devout Christian and a steadfast and powerful friend of the missionaries.
Dogs were, and still are, reared and fattened for food, by the natives—hence the reference to their value in one of the above paragraphs.
Forty years ago it was the custom in the Islands to suspend all law for a certain number of days after the death of a royal personage; and then a saturnalia ensued which one may picture to himself after a fashion, but not in the full horror of the reality. The people shaved their heads, knocked out a tooth or two, plucked out an eye sometimes, cut, bruised, mutilated or burned their flesh, got drunk, burned each other’s huts, maimed or murdered one another according to the caprice of the moment, and both sexes gave themselves up to brutal and unbridled licentiousness.
And after it all, came a torpor from which the nation slowly emerged bewildered and dazed, as if from a hideous half-remembered nightmare. They were not the salt of the earth, those “gentle children of the sun.”
The natives still keep up an old custom of theirs which cannot be comforting to an invalid. When they think a sick friend is going to die, a couple of dozen neighbors surround his hut and keep up a deafening wailing night and day till he either dies or gets well. No doubt this arrangement has helped many a subject to a shroud before his appointed time.
They surround a hut and wail in the same heart-broken way when its occupant returns from a journey. This is their dismal idea of a welcome. A very little of it would go a great way with most of us.
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Suzanne is a competitive CrossFit athlete. In the 2013 CrossFit Games Open she placed 43rd in the world in her division (Masters Women 40-44). In 2014, she finished 33rd in the world in the CrossFit Games Masters Regional Qualifiers, and placed 43rd in 2015. Her greatest sense of pride is derived from her love and passion for coaching, and sharing her knowledge and experience with her athletes.
Nataliya Olifer
CrossFit Level 1, AED
Nataliya has been passionate about CrossFit since 2013. Her work ethic is one of a kind in and out of the gym. The word "quit" is not part of her vocabulary. Nataliya loves inspiring others to be the best they can be. She is extremely honored to now be part of the AMRAP team and be able to give back to the CrossFit community.
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By BigPartnership in · February 16, 2011 · No comments
To celebrate the launch of its first new website, Bauer Media Scotland is running an exclusive competition for commercial and trade partners.
Open to all businesses and agencies, the competition offers entrants the opportunity to win £10,000 of commercial advertising on www.clyde1.com. Full details on how to enter are available at www.clyde1.com/10k-giveaway.
Clyde 1 is the first of Bauer Media Scotland’s seven radio stations to launch its newly-designed website, which will deliver more local content functionality andopportunities for audiences across Glasgow and the west.
The introduction of a consistent website design across all stations will provide national clients with one joined-up platform that can deliver scale and access to over 1.4million music fans online every month.
The roll-out will continue across the other six stations shortly.
Up to 1.75m listeners tune in to Bauer stations in Scotland each week and the new sites are built with a stronger focus around editorial content and scalable opportunities for commercial partners.
Additional features such as full page takeovers and a focus on video have been built in to deliver new creative options and audience reach. One of the biggest benefits to advertisers is a simplified sales process across all sites to make buying across the Bauer Radio portfolio easier.
Graham Bryce, Managing Director – Bauer Radio Scotland, said: “To mark the official launch of the new-look Clyde 1 website, we wanted to present our commercial and trade partners with a unique and exciting prize opportunity tailored especially for them.
“The new Clyde 1 website will provide a fantastic platform from which our partners will be able to reach out and interact with audiences across Glasgow and the west of Scotland.
“Online audiences are vital to Bauer Media’s continued growth and our new sites will allow us to take another major step in connecting audiences with compelling and bespoke content that reflects our on air brands.
“Across the board, the new websites also ensure flexibility for our commercial partners who can now work with us by station, region, or across the entire Bauer Media radio portfolio easily.”
Radio Clyde is part of Bauer Media which reaches 13.2 million listeners every week across the UK. Bauer Media is part of the Bauer Publishing Group following acquisition from Emap on 29 January 2008. It is home to a growing network of no.1 commercial radio stations in all major markets in the UK and the no.1 commercial broadcaster in national digital radio.
Bauer Publishing Group is the largest privately owned publisher in Europe. Founded in Hamburg in 1875 by Johann Bauer and currently headed by Heinz Bauer, the group is in its fourth generation of family ownership. The Group has more than 200 magazines in 14 countries worldwide, as well as TV, Radio, Press, Printing, Mobile and Web interests across Europe.
Kay McCarthy at the BIG Partnership on 0141 333 9585/07736 774338 or email kay.mccarthy@bigpartnership.co.uk
Susanne Grant at the BIG Partnership on 0141 333 9585 / 07824 388 472 or email susanne.grant@bigpartnership.co.uk
Contact: Nicola Macnaughton
Email: nicola.macnaughton@bigpartnership.co.uk
Website: http://www.bigpartnership.co.uk
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RAINS HALT MAY 3 WILLIAMS GROVE ASCS/URC BATTLE AT THE GROVES
5/3/19 - Holding out hope that the forecast would change, Williams Grove Speedway and ASCS officials held out on making a decision regarding the May 3 racing program until after 3 pm Friday afternoon, at which time the joint decision to pull the plug on the ASCS/URC Battle At The Groves event was made.
With the area forecast predicting heavy storms and the chance for rain at over 70% beginning at 6 pm through the midnight hour along with a severe thunderstorm watch being issued for surrounding counties, officials made the call in an effort to prevent any undue hardship on teams and fans that may have traveled to the show only to face rain upon arriving.
Numerous teams contacted the oval expressing unease over a decision to race in the face of the seeming imminent evening rains.
Thus, Williams Grove Speedway now shifts its focus to next Friday, May 10 when Brooks PowerSports will present a World of Outlaws Tune Up event at 8 pm featuring the 410 sprints and the 358 sprint cars.
Gates will open at 6 pm.
The 410 sprints will be tuning up for the following weekend’s invasion by the traveling NOS Energy Drink World of Outlaws Sprint Cars Series. The 358 sprints will be making their season debut.
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African Ancestry
SENKEL, Hubert
Submitted by: wolbriks@swbell.net (Hannah Wolbrueck) – July 2, 2000
Hubert Senkel
Hubert Senkel, 40 of Taylor, died Sunday as the result of an automobile accident. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, near Pflugerville. Services for Mr. Senkel were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Condra Memorial Chapel.
Officiating was Rev. David Bulgerin and Rev. E. Herber. Senkel is survived by his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Herman Senkel of Taylor; a daughter, Miss Rebecca Senkel of Leesville, LA; two sons, Ronald Wayne Senkel and Kenneth Ray Senkel, both of Leesville, LA; and a sister, Mrs. Joe B. Srnensky of Taylor.
Pallbearers were Clarence Senkel, Jr., Fred Grisham, Larry Mucha, Jessie Tommlinson, Edgar Stevens, and Gilbert Senkel.
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Educators welcome former student as instructor
Veteran teachers Annette Jones, left, and Kristin Lamond, center, both taught Jeremy Kirby, right, in elementary school a dozen years ago. Kirby is a new fifth-grade science teacher at Jones Elementary School.
Posted Sunday, August 19, 2018 4:42 pm
dwilson@wilsontimes.com | 252-265-7818
Jeremy Kirby, a new fifth-grade science teacher at Jones Elementary School, knows the impact teachers can have on their students.
Kirby points to the influence two teachers had on him as a student at Vinson-Bynum Elementary School a dozen years ago.
Both educators, Kristin Lamond and Annette Jones, are still teaching and now have classrooms at Jones Elementary School.
What is unusual is that Kirby has a classroom right down the hall from the educators who shaped his character all those years ago.
“I had Ms. Jones in fourth grade and Ms. Lamond in fifth grade,” Kirby said last week as he joined other Wilson County Schools teachers in their first week at work preparing for the 2018-19 school year.
“I think back in the fifth grade, I had no aspiration to be a teacher, but somewhere along the way, whatever they poured into me, it stuck,” Kirby said. “The saying is, ‘Kids don’t remember what you teach them, but they do remember how you make them feel.’ And I remember feeling awesome in both of their two classes, so now I am here today. I think it’s just very interesting how things work out.”
Lamond just came by Kirby’s class with his fifth-grade yearbook and her grade book from that year.
“He was mostly As in math and science for fifth grade. There was only one B,” Lamond said.
Lamond called Kirby a “fabulous” student.
“He was very attentive,” Lamond said. “He was always a helper. He was quiet and reserved. I never had to call his mama.”
Jones also gave Kirby high marks.
“He always worked really hard and was just a very diligent student,” Jones said.
The teachers said Kirby typified what makes a good student, being attentive, working hard, completing assignments, participating in group work and being dedicated with his head on straight.
Kirby said it just goes to show you that his years of hard work came to fruition.
“You know, they would tell us, ‘It will pay off one day, and you will find what you want to do’ and all that stuff when you are in the grade. When you are doing the work, you don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel,” Kirby said.
“If you have awesome teachers, then you can just stay positive if that is your character.”
Kirby said he will be referring to Lamond and Jones in class.
“I am going to use them as examples when I talk to my students about the goals that I want to set for myself when working with them. I want to have longevity in the career and learn from other mentors, as I am sure they did, “Kirby said. “Now I have my previous teachers to learn from as well, so that’s really cool.”
Lamond is also a fifth-grade science teacher. Jones now teaches first-graders.
Some of Kirby’s students may have had Jones as a teacher already.
“You can tell them that you guys had the same teacher,” Lamond said. “They will think that’s neat.”
Lamond said she told Kirby and his classmates what she was teaching them was “real world” that they were going to use someday.
Kirby is a perfect example of that. Now he can say the same thing to his students.
Lamond told Kirby that he could now tell his own students, “If you become a fifth-grade science teacher, you get to use what I taught you. That’s awesome.”
Kirby, a native of Wilson, is a 2014 graduate of Hunt High School who earned a degree in elementary education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro this spring. Kirby received a Peewee and Myrtle Owens Scholarship when he graduated from Hunt. As a requirement of the scholarship, recipients must return to Wilson to teach after graduation.
Fifth grade, Kirby said, is a really important time for students.
“Socially, they are trying to figure out themselves,” Kirby said. “Psychologically, they are entering into the stage where many of their impressions of themselves and others and the world around them become set in stone. That’s just the chemical breakdown in our brains between 10 to 13. Whatever impressions they learn, they usually carry them on through life. If I can somehow inspire at least one student to consider some type of field dealing with science, whether it be a pharmacist, archaeologist or as simple as being a science teacher, I have opened up that possibility for a student who disregarded this subject as being important in their lives.”
Kirby said he is eager for the year to begin.
“I am excited just to meet new people, see new faces, and I hope to build long lasting relationships with my students,” Kirby said. “I have two teachers who I had in fourth and fifth grade, and they work here now with me. So it will be amazing to see who I am going to be able to engage with one day.”
School starts next week on Monday for Wilson County Schools, and open houses will be held this week.
Teachers started back two weeks prior to the first day of school this year, which is one week earlier than in other years.
“Instead of sprinkling in teacher workdays throughout the first semester, we are front loading them before students come back,” said Amber Lynch, public relations director for Wilson County Schools. “This will enable us to give exams prior to winter break.”
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Overview: When the Ultron program becomes sentient, the Avengers are forced to question their purpose in the world. 2015; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures; Rated PG-13; 141 minutes.
(Before we get started let me note: This is a SPOILER FREE review. Nothing will be spoiled here for Age of Ultron. That comes in the spoiler heavy review this Friday.)
The Age of Miracles: For all the moving parts in Avengers: Age of Ultron, it’s a miracle Joss Whedon even wrote and directed something so functional. Beyond the moments we find ourselves whooping and hollering when Hulk smashes something, there are tender character intricacies woven into this behemoth tapestry Marvel has constructed for itself. This isn’t the “Hell yeah!” feeling you get when you come out of the first Avengers. It’s a more character focused piece with each action sequence complimenting characters in different manners. If the Battle of New York is the Avenger’s Death Star, Ultron is their Dagobah/Cloud City. Our heroes now have to wonder if they can stand together when they’re fighting anything more powerful than arms dealers and Hydra agents. This is the real test, and they might fail.
Avengers Assembled: As reigning king of all things geeky, Whedon has fancied himself as a master of witty banter that extends from the emotional core the characters find themselves in. Age of Ultron never forgets to bring the fun. The party scene that has been shown everywhere is a perfect example of why audiences love Marvel movies so much. We come for action but we love watching these characters just talk to each other. Drinking games, flirtations, and more are on full blast. It’s one of the only moments of downtime in the entire feature before the Age is upon them.
Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man all have plenty to do, but they’re mostly pushed to the side (not as bad as it sounds) to make way for Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye to have their time in the limelight. That’s not to say the big 3 have nothing to do. I just found their emotional undercurrents less standout as in the previous movie. Tony Stark’s Phase 2 arc comes to a close that makes sense given the events of all his movies. Thor goes off on a spiritual journey that is essentially a trailer for future Marvel movies but is suitable enough to the tapestry of this movie. Captain America is now the bonafide leader of the Avengers and gets a fight that homages the truck scene in Raiders.
Boy, does Hawkeye have a significantly better role in this movie. As a huge Hawkeye fan from the comics, I was ecstatic at his role in the team. He’s just a guy with a bow and arrow among gods, metal men, and monsters. As the other Avengers question their modern purposes, Hawkeye remains self-assured in his worth. Sometimes the best heroes are the everymen – who happen to be able to fight armies of robots with a bow and arrow, so not that normal. I walked away from Age of Ultron thinking Hawkeye was the MVP and the heart of the team (possibly the movie). It’s actually Hawkeye who gets a majority of time with a duo of newcomers, the twins.
Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are, simply put, awesome additions to the MCU. The Eastern-European accents weren’t too distracting and worked well enough from the young actors. Aaron-Taylor Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen get their own big moments in different ways, each actor bringing a believability to their own pain brought upon by the Avengers. This version of Quicksilver actually has an arc beyond being a cool set piece and Scarlet Witch is what we all hoped Jean Grey would be in the X-Men movies. I grew quite fond of the twins but another duo really grabbed my attention.
This time around, Natasha Romanoff and Bruce Banner are more than coworkers; there’s a budding romance at play. It makes perfect sense to pair the characters who suffer the most tragedy together. It’s classic Whedon (think Buffy and Angel). Black Widow’s past haunts her to where she’s had self-doubts about being a hero. Bruce Banner will forever be tormented by the Hulk leaning over him. They’ve both done terrible things but they’re striving to be better and do good. It’s a surprisingly heartwarming Beauty & the Beast style romance that ties into the thematic grasp of the movie. Where do these Avengers belong? Maybe if they belong nowhere, they can at least have each other? Or are they just monsters.
The Messy Avengers: Whether we’re spending time with characters exploring new emotional outlets or hinting at future Marvel movies, everything works in Age of Ultron. The ideas in the movie aren’t mere lip service or faulty in their delivery. Sometimes they just don’t work in unison with the material surrounding it, but everything still functions properly. It’s just messy.
In the first Avengers, we didn’t want to stop spending time with these characters, wherein Age of Ultron could have used more time to let the characters breathe. Empire Strikes Back has the benefit of only following a few character stories. Age of Ultron follows about 10 characters. It’s stuffed with goodness and at times may feel too tight around the waist. Stories have obviously been trimmed down from a behemoth triple hour runtime (helloooo deleted scenes) but it’s never choppy.
The first Avengers has a choppy first act, settling into an entertaining second, with the third punctuating with the glorious assembly of heroes coming together for the first time. Age of Ultron undercuts that by ending with the original heroes in very different places, logistically and emotionally. It’s unsatisfying but finely tuned to the story being told. Age of Ultron finds itself in the grander space of being a middle piece to a trilogy of Avengers stories and to an entire universe. It’s less about the assembly and more about keeping everyone assembled.
You’ll find yourself feeling familiar plot beats on occasion, but the context is different now. Age of Ultron is a bigger movie with better characters and thematic meat to chew on at the expense of plot cohesion. Everything is understandable at the least. Motivations are clearly defined and action is clear with a sense of purpose and weight. We know the Avengers will win. The stakes come from what they’re fighting for and how their experiences shape them. That’s where Ultron comes in.
Ultron Unlimited: In this iteration, Ultron is a byproduct of Tony Stark’s never-ending tinkering to try and save the world. His fears are brought to the forefront and through some assistance of another Avenger, he gave birth to Ultron, a peace-keeping security force meant to be a suit of armor around the world. Ultron realizes the Avengers may be doing more harm than good, so he resigns himself to exterminating the Avengers and causing the extinction of humanity.
Ultron is more than just a robot. There is anger in his robotic mind. His designs (there are multiple) aren’t too busy like a Transformer and not too sleek. It’s a mix of haphazard and calculated, with red eyes erupting from his robotic skull. He suffers and wants to save us from ourselves. His motivations could have used some time to sink in, but we get enough of an introduction to understand them. At times he wants to be a real boy (the Pinocchio song wasn’t just for the trailer) to prove he’s better than us.
The most fascinating thing about Ultron to me is less that he’s a physical threat (he is) but he can cause havoc between each team member individually to cause them torment. The finale still contains some dazzling visuals (Comic. Book. Heaven) but it comes down to proving whether or not Ultron is truly right about the Avengers, and by extension, humanity.
James Spader’s motion capture and voice work for Ultron has fascinating choices behind it. Ultron has a nonchalant menacing rhythm behind his words. He’s tired of humanity and hurt that we can’t understand why he’s going about trying to destroy us. The way Ultron carries himself has an aura of pompousness, supporting the idea of this artificial intelligence thinks too highly of himself with extravagant hand gestures and stoic stances.
The biggest surprise to audiences will be how funny Ultron can be. He’s quite grim but he loves a chuckle. Whedon is able to establish how badly Ultron wants to be better than us and has him go through differing emotions. Most often, however, he’ll just settle on anger. And that’s the scariest thing about him.
Final Thoughts: All the complaints about superhero movies being similar to each other, sticking to a status quo, Age of Ultron and the titular character seems like an answer to all of these presumptions. Our heroes take beatings, they fight, there are massive destruction sequences, and unfinished plot machinations that are only there to establish future properties. (See you in Infinity Wars!) And yet, Age of Ultron is still a worthy competitor for best Marvel movie.
The works of Whedon are never entirely perfect in their execution (except for Dr. Horrible). The brilliance comes from his attempts at pushing the material and testing characters in ways that makes them tick. His final product may have been trimmed down from a colossal 3+ hour package, but by the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron, I felt I had just experienced a true historical era for the Avengers. His awkward strut to home wasn’t perfect, but Whedon knocked it out of the park.
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Diego is a movie reviewer by day, binge-watcher by night. Defender of the current influx of superhero movies. Waffle, movie, and TV fanatic. For best results, eat waffles when reading reviews.
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The Vikings Are Coming to Chicago Open Air!
Chicago Open Air is throwing a special pop-up party TODAY at the brand-new location of Kuma’s Corner (852 W. Fulton Market), where the official Chicago Open Air Burger will be available for one day only. It features a 10-ounce beef patty with raspberry jalapeno jam, cheddar cheese, applewood smoked bacon, crispy potato strings, deep-fried chorizo and cream cheese–stuffed breaded jalapeno. No service fee tickets for Chicago Open Air will be available for purchase here and at the other Chicago-area Kuma’s Corners locations until the weekend of the festival.
Chicago Open Air has also announced additional onsite experiences, as well as an official kickoff dinner, that will be a part of the second annual festival. The festival will be held July 14, 15 and 16 at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, IL, just outside Chicago.
The Chicago Open Air music lineup leads off with a rare U.S. festival appearance from rock legends KISS (headlining Friday) as well as one of the first solo performances from Ozzy Osbourne (headlining Sunday) since the final Black Sabbath tour, where he will reunite with guitarist Zakk Wylde after a decade apart. Rock heavyweights Korn will headline Saturday. Overall, the three-day music, craft beer and Gourmet Man Food festival will feature over 40 music performances, also including Rob Zombie, Slayer, Godsmack, Megadeth, Stone Sour, Seether, Anthrax, Lamb of God, Meshuggah, Amon Amarth and many more on the Main Stage and the BlackCraft Stage. SiriusXM’s Jose Mangin returns to host the weekend and introduce acts. General Admission and VIP tickets are on sale now at www.ChicagoOpenAir.com and at all Chicago-area Kuma’s Corner locations.
In addition to music, a number of special events, onsite attractions and festival partners make Chicago Open Air a must-attend destination. Here is a preliminary list of what attendees can expect.
Chicago Open Air Kickoff Dinner: Danny Wimmer Presents will be throwing the official Chicago Open Air Kickoff Dinner, held at Kuma’s Corner (2900 W. Belmont) on Thursday, July 13 at 7 p.m. For $50, attendees will be treated to burgers, appetizers and beer, and will have the chance to hang out with host Jose Mangin, from SiriusXM’s Liquid Metal. A limited quantity of only 100 tickets will be available at www.ChicagoOpenAir.com.
Gourmet Man Food: Festival attendees can savor a variety of local and regional cuisine throughout the weekend including selections from Bruges Brothers, Chicago Doghouse, Crème of the Crop, Dia De Los Tamales, Dinky’s Donuts, Kuma’s Corner, Pizano’s (Chicago deep dish), and Yum Dum. Additional Gourmet Man Food vendors will include: Aporkalypse Now, Porkchop, Ben’s Burrito Bowl, Cheeze Louise, Cravin’ Cajun, Master of Patties, Pie Baby (wood-fired pizza), The Big Cheesy and The Cheesies Truck.
Headbangers Bier Hall: Presented by Decibel Magazine, this unique metal themed dive bar is returning to Chicago Open Air. Headbangers Bier Hall will feature national and regional craft beers and artist inspired beverages including: Goose Island (Chicago – 312 Urban Wheat Ale, Four Star Pils), Half Acre Beer Company (Chicago – Daisy Cutter Pale Ale, Vallejo IPA, Pony Pilsner), Iron Maiden’s Trooper Beer,Lagunitas (Petaluma, CA – IPA, A Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’), Motörhead Wine, Revolution Brewing (Chicago – Fist City, Rev Pils), Surly(Minneapolis – Surly Hell Lager, Surly Furious IPA), Two Brothers Brewing (Chicago – Sidekick Extra Pale Ale, Dog Days Dortmunder Style Lager), and more to be announced. Look for unique experiences throughout the weekend.
Monster Energy: Stop by the Monster viewing deck to refuel and meet some of your favorite Chicago Open Air artists! Monster Energy will bekeeping fans fueled up and ready to rock by offering free sampling on their Monster Energy viewing deck. Enjoy Monster Energy drinks from one of the best seats in the house. Make sure to check back throughout the festival for a schedule of Monster Energy’s interactive artist experiences. Most companies spend their money on ad agencies, TV commercials, radio spots and billboards to tell you how good their products are. At Monster Energy, we chose none of the above. Instead we support the scene, our bands, our athletes and our fans. We back athletes so they can make a career out of their passion. We promote concert tours, so our favorite bands can visit your hometown. We celebrate with our fans and riders by throwing parties and making the coolest events we can think of a reality.
Website: www.monsterenergy.com/us/en/music
Facebook: www.facebook.com/monsterenergy
Instagram: www.instagram.com/monsterenergy/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/monsterenergy
#monsterenergy #monstermusic
Jack Daniel’s: “Taste of Tennessee” invites visitors to come out and tour the nation’s oldest registered distillery from outside the Jack Daniel’s Hollow. Visitors get to see (and smell) whiskey dripping slowly through charcoal and the new oak barrels used in maturing Tennessee’s finest whiskey. The Experience is open to all fans, 21 years old and up, for tours free of charge. Stop by the Jack Daniel’s Experience for interactive engagements throughout the weekend.
Website: www.jackdaniels.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/jackdaniels
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jackdaniels_us/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackDaniels_US
#jackdaniels #drinkresponsibly #rebelresponsibly
Revolution Brewing: Illinois' largest craft brewery is brewed right in the heart of Chicago. Started as a brewpub in Logan Square in 2010, Revolution added to its growth with the 2012 opening of its production facility in the Avondale neighborhood, just a short distance from the brewpub. Revolution offers dozens of different beer styles to craft beer fans through stores, its brewpub, and its taproom located at the brewery. Revolution focuses on brewing the highest quality beer as displayed in its popular brews such as Anti-Hero IPA and Fist City, a Chicago pale ale. Rev Brew has tripled its brewing capacity over the past year and sells its beer in seven states including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Wisconsin.
The Music Experience: The Music Experience features all things a musician needs to ROCK OUT! The interactive exhibit features your chance to test out your inner Rock Star with guitars, basses, amps, drums, keyboards and electronic gear that are used by today’s most popular bands. After laying your hands on the hottest equipment available, you will walk away feeling like a rock star! Find a full list of exhibitors coming soon.
Website: http://themusicexperience.com/about/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheMusicExp/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/tmexp/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/themusicxp
Ellefson Coffee House: The premier roasts from Megadeth’s David Ellefson will be available onsite at Chicago Open Air exclusively at this special fan meetup spot. Ellefson opened his first coffeeshop in his hometown of Jackson, Minnesota in February 2017 and offers various blends including Roast in Peace, Kenya Thrash, She Wolf and Urban Legend. Fans might even see the bassist-turned-barista serving them coffee!
https://ellefsoncoffeeco.com/
Caduceus Wine Garden: This wine garden will highlight Caduceus Cellars and Merkin Vineyards, owned by Arizona resident Maynard James Keenan, co-founder of international recording acts TOOL, A Perfect Circle, and PUSCIFER. Having already dove headfirst into this venture, Maynard found out from a distant relative that wine making is in his blood. His Great Grandfather, "Spirito" Marzo, had vineyards and made wine in Venaus, Italy, just North of Turino in Piemonte.
https://caduceus.org/
Heavy Tiki: The dark side of Tiki is through the totems where savages and beasts enjoy Scorpion Bowls and Zombie cocktails—all in the name of tropical leisure. The Tiki Gods are looking for a good time and they have come to Chicago Open Air to find it! At the Heavy Tiki Bar, fans will find an oasis filled with killer cocktails, shade, and a live broadcast from the one and only Mancow, the legendary radio personality from Chicago’s WLUP.
Kuma’s Corner: Kuma’s Corner will be returning to serve their signature metal themed burgers.
https://kumascorner.com
Metal Hammer: The premier metal magazine is turning 30 years old in 2017 and will be celebrating all weekend long at Chicago Open Air. Stay tuned to Metal Hammer’s website and social media pages for more details.
Website: http://teamrock.com/metal-hammer
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metalhammer/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metalhammeruk/
Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/metalhammeruk/
BlackCraft: We are proud to announce The BlackCraft Stage as the second stage at Chicago Open Air. Beez from “That's Not Metal” will also be interviewing artists backstage for BlackCraft all weekend. Set times and performing artists will be announced at the end of June. During Chicago Open Air, make sure to visit the BlackCraft apparel shop next to the stage. It’s the only place to purchase BlackCraft merchandise over the weekend.
https://www.blackcraftcult.com/
FYE: FYE is the ONLY place to score your favorite Chicago Open Air artists’ latest CDs and Vinyl at the festival and even get a chance to get them signed! Participating labels include Roadrunner, Century Media, Another Century, Nuclear Blast, SharpTone Records, Spinefarm and Razor & Tie Records. We will be hosting artist signings all weekend long – follow us on Facebook and Instagram for the latest signing schedules and special pop-up performances.
Website: www.fye.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/FYE
Instagram: www.instagram.com/officialfye/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/officialfye
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Leafy Seadragon: Facts, Characteristics, Habitat and More
Leafy Seadragon Facts
Scientific Classification of Leafy Seadragon: Phycodurus eques
Kingdom of Leafy Seadragon: Animalia
Phylum of Leafy Seadragon: Chordata
Class of Leafy Seadragon: Actinopterygii
Order of Leafy Seadragon: Syngnathiformes
Family of Leafy Seadragon: Syngnathidae
Genus of Leafy Seadragon: Phycodurus
Species of Leafy Seadragon: P.eques
Leafy Seadragon
These species belong to the originally to the Sygnathidae family. Their name resembles the leafy structures that are present profusely over their body. They are also referred to as the Glauerts seadragon. They are also regarded as the member of Phycodurus genus. One can spot these species in the coastal areas of the South Western parts of Australlia.
Pictures of Leafy Seadragon
We present some beautiful pictures of leafy seadragons:
Some Interesting Facts about Leafy Seadragon
Here is a glimpse of some of the interesting facts about these species:
These species can also be called as leafies
They are found in marine regions of Southern Australia.
They have the ability to withstand the wild environment and adapt well with the art of pretending.
These species do not contain any kind of belly. They usually eat frequently in order to prevent fasting.
These species have no predators.
Distribution of Leakfy Seadragon
The Leafy Seadragon can be found in the Southern and Western coast of Australia.
Characteristics of Leafy Seadragon
Size of Leafy Seadragon: The size of these species varies from 24 – 34 cm. As compared to other seahorses they are much larger in size.
Fins of Leafy Seadragon: One can see leaf like fins present spread over their body. From the neck comes out the pectoral fins while there is an isolate dorsal fin situated on the back portion.
Color of Leafy Seadragon: The color of these species varies from brown to yellowish green. One would see the color changes due to change in location or diet.
Eyes of Leafy Seadragon: The eyes are situated on the upper portion of the protruding snout.
Spines of Leafy Seadragon: Numerous spines are present on the body of these species which are mainly used for protection.
Behavior of Leafy Seadragon
The movement of these species is very swift and they always disguise for survival.
These species usually move easily among the aquatic plants.
These species are not matched with other species. However, they endeavor to match with pipe fishes and other seahorses.
By nature these species are solitary.
Food Habits of Leafy Seadragon
The Leafy Seadragon generally uses its long snout and small mouth to get hold of the victim. These generally like to have mysid shrimps, zooplanktons, panaied shrimps, larval fish, amphibians and sea lice in their diet.
Habitats of Leafy Seadragon
These species like to dwell on meadows, rocky reef, seagrass, seaweed and sand patches primarily in Australia.
Movement of Leafy Seadragon
These species actually move with the help of the pectoral, dorsal fins .The external skin is very fixed and is less mobile, and flexible. These species can stay in one place for long duration. These species are known to move very fast and sometimes even at a speed of 150 km per hour.
Predators of Leafy Seadragon
The main predators of the juvenile sea horses are giant crustaceans, fishes and anemones. The older ones do not really have any enemies.
Adaptations of Leafy Seadragon
We take a tour of the adaptive features of these species:
These species use the protrusions for disguising themselves.
The fins of these species are transparent and make them look like seaweeds when they move from one side to another.
These seadragons can also bring a change in color of eggs to match with the environment. In addition to this, they comprise of some spines on their bodies used primarily to fortify themselves.
They have eyes that move without bindings. However, this feature helps them to look at different directions simultaneously.
Mating Season of Leafy Seadragon
The mating season of these species ranges between August to March.
Reproduction of Leafy Seadragon
These species become sexually matured at the age of 28 months.
It is unique to note that the males bear the babies in the womb. While breeding the female counterparts generally gives 250 pink colored offspring. Then she keeps them on the tail of the male counterpart. The eggs are found clinging to the brood patches which has blood tissues.
In each of the tissues, single egg is present that is provided with oxygen. These species produce two clutters of eggs out of which only 5 % exists. Just after few weeks, the color of the eggs gets purple or orange. The whole procedure takes 24 – 48 hours. After this, male counterparts start to produce the offspring.
Life Cycle of Leafy Seadragon
The juvenile ones are only 20 cms long. As soon as their born, they become free from the bindings. The younger ones feed on zooplanktons until they are grown enough to have mysid shrimps. The juvenile ones are very fragile and have a body color that is unique as well.
Petting of Leafy Seadragon
While petting leafy seadragon, one needs to be extremely careful in handling of the sea horses. These species are very fragile; therefore, it is difficult to retrieve and keep them away from their wild environment. One should make sure to maintain a proper water pressure and a good supply of food. Crustacean diet should make them happy. These species like to stay isolated hence it is better to keep them away from other species.
Life Span of Leafy Seadragon
The original life span is not yet known. However, these species are believed to live for about two years in their natural environment.
Conservation Status of Leafy Seadragon
According to the reports of IUCN they are listed in the category of near endangered.
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AIA/ALA Library Awards 2011
BNIM - AIA Firm of the Year
Comparing Fukushima and Chernobyl
by Kevin Matthews
Our goal with this article is to support an accurate, technically grounded, and broadly comprehensible comparison of the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear disasters, to facilitate realistic understanding of these serious accidents by the technically savvy ArchitectureWeek A/E/C readership.
Why This Comparison?
The BBC says, "most experts agree the two nuclear incidents are very different." [1]
The government of Japan says, "Although Level 7 is the highest level of INES rating, it is estimated that the amount of discharged radioactive materials to the environment in the current stage is approximately 10 percent of the Chernobyl accident." [2]
Reuters says, "But for all their criticism of how Tokyo Electric Power Co and Japan's government are handling the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, experts agree with them on one point: Fukushima is not another Chernobyl." [3]
Nature says, "Understandably, the press has made quite a big deal out of the new rating, but the reality is that Fukushima is a very different accident than Chernobyl." [4]
The World on PRI says, "So—Fukushima like Chernobyl? Fukushima NOT like Chernobyl? I still believe the comparison is inappropriate no matter how the numbers do or don't stack up... But it's clearer than ever this week that that's a losing rhetorical battle, even as it's also clear that the comparisons are more meaningless than ever." [5]
ArchitectureWeek says, "Fukushima is another Chernobyl."
Of course every accident will have different particulars. But a straightforward marshaling of the facts shows that the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear disasters are remarkably similar.
Several of the points mentioned to differentiate the two accidents are fundamentally misleading, including exaggerations of the differences in reactor containment levels, fires, and explosions.
Comparisons of total releases of radioactive material are also misleading, since about half the release from Chernobyl was in the form of biologically inactive noble gases. The atmospheric releases of radioactive isotopes of high biological concern is much more similar between the two accidents — with Fukushima releases still ongoing!
And, in addition to large ongoing atmospheric releases of radioactive material, the Fukushima accident is generating what a Woods Hole marine geochemist calls "the biggest man-made release ever of radioactive material into the oceans."
While suffering horribly from earthquake and tsunami, despite a relatively high level of preparedness, during the nuclear disaster Japan has benefitted greatly from one primary mitigating factor. For most of the last month, winds have blown primarily offshore, taking a large portion of the released radioactive material away from populated areas. Thank goodness for that.
In the U.S., however, we should now get past pretending a meltdown at Diablo Canyon or Indian Point would necessarily meet such a favorable condition.
It's past time for industry and major media alike to face the music, and grasp the fact that a Chernobyl-level disaster is not just an aberration of the Soviet system. It not only can happen in a technologically-advanced wealthy democracy — it has happened.
The life safety responsibility of design professionals demands accurate disaster assessments. The political process around industrial risks and benefits does as well.
Summary Table Comparing the Chernobyl and Fukushima Nuclear Disasters
See detailed tables posted at the Archiplanet wiki for line-by-line references and ongoing updates.
Accident Initiation
Loss of electric power due to system failure while testing electric power backup, followed by power surge and loss of control
Loss of electric power and other damage due to earthquake and tsunami, followed by extended loss of cooling and loss of conrol
Severity Rating
Level 7 on the INES scale - major accident
Core Damage
Partial meltdown, with suspected nuclear recursion, in one reactor
Partial meltdown in three reactors, plus damage and fires of fuel rods in storage pools
Containment Breach
Reactor vessel and reactor building breached
Radioactive Material Released to Atmosphere
1.9 EBq total of high-concern isotopes
(1.8 EBq of short half-life I-131)
0.6 EBq total of high-concern isotopes in first 3-4 weeks, with releases likely to continue for many more weeks
More than half of the total radiation released in the Chernobyl accident was in the form of noble gases, which have very low uptake in biological systems
Radioactive Material Released to Ocean
At least 10,000 metric tons (2,000,000 gallons) of contaminated water and ongoing
Evacuation Radius
20 km - 45 km
People Evacuated
Over 85,000, and expanding
See also Chernobyl by the Sea - ArchitectureWeek, 2011.0323 >>>
Aerial view of the collapsed Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 3 enclosure building, seen on April 11, 2011.
Photo: Courtesy TEPCO
Aerial view of the collapsed Chernobyl Reactor 4 (center) and its damaged turbine building (lower left), seen shortly after the infamous April 26, 1986, meltdown.
Video footage from the crane of a concrete pump being used to pump emergency cooling water at Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 4, on March 24, 2011, shows close-up views of containment building damage.
Video: Courtesy Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)
Another fire was detected on April 12, 2011, at Reactor 4's discharge canal sampling building, located around the ocean-side discharge canal at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Fukushima I) in Okuma, Japan.
Photo: Courtesy Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)
A re-purposed concrete pump sprays cooling water into Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 4 on March 22, 2011.
Photo: Courtesy TEPCO Extra Large Image
A contemporary view of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, with a concrete "sarcophagus" enclosing Reactor 4.
Photo: Courtesy International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Extra Large Image
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Politics Police move Melaye to public hospital
Police move Melaye to public hospital
Senator Dino Melaye has been moved from the Police Clinic in Area 1, Garki in Abuja to one of the government’s medical facilities.
He has been under custody under a 14 day detention warrant obtained from the FCT High court by the police on 9 January.
Police confirmed that the senator who has spent some days in police hospital was on Friday moved to government hospital.
The full statement issued by Mr. Jimoh Moshood, Force PRO is hereunder reproduced.
“Senator Dino Melaye under investigation and currently in Police custody on a fourteen (14) day remand warrant obtained from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on 9th January, 2019, for the offence of criminal conspiracy and attempted culpable homicide, committed on 19th July, 2018, when Senator Dino Melaye and his armed thugs attacked Police personnel, shot and wounded SGT Danjuma Saliu on stop and search duty along Aiyetoro Gbede, Mopa Road in Kogi State, has been taken to another Government hospital for further medical attention.
2. Senator Dino Melaye was taken for medical attention at the Police Clinic, Abuja, after he surrendered himself for arrest on 4th January, 2019. The Police medical team at the Police Hospital, Abuja certified that Senator Dino Melaye is well and healthy to stand trial after treating him. However, due to the complaint from Senator Dino Melaye that he is not well, the Police Investigation Team has taken him this afternoon to another government hospital, DSS Medical Facility in Abuja for further medical attention.
3. The Police Investigation Team obtained a Fourteen (14) day Remand Warrant from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on 9th January, 2019, to keep Senator Dino Melaye in Police Custody for investigation into the case of criminal conspiracy and attempted culpable homicide against him till 23rd January, 2019.
4. It is incorrect as reported in some sections of the media that Senator Dino Melaye was moved by masked armed policemen to an undisclosed location and that his where about is unknown.
5. The Police Officer, Sgt. Danjuma Saliu, is yet to recover from the gunshot injury he sustained during the attack and still under intensive medical care in the hospital.
6. Senator Dino Melaye will be prosecuted along with other suspects on completion of investigation.
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Sep NOV Jan
Holiday Coverfolk: All Saints Day
(Saints in Song, from Augustine to Theresa)
Coming A Terrible Storm:
Storms As Metaphors, Covered In Folk
‘Tube Tuesday: Soundcloud, Bandcamp, & Youtube covers
from Ted Leo, Gibson Bull, Lotte Kestner, Laura Gibson & more!
Chris Thile covers:
Josh Ritter, Jack White, Pavement, Wilco, Bach, Bob Dylan, U2 & more!
My Father’s Shoes: Second Generation Folk
(a call to arms to support healthy inner-city families)
Covered In Folk: Radiohead
(with 50 covers to celebrate Thom Yorke’s 44th birthday!)
Mumford & Sons Cover:
Springsteen, Townes, Simon & Garfunkel, Alt-J, The Beatles & more!
New Artists, Old Songs, Vol. XXV: from Katy Perry to tradfolk
with Jan Bell, Rebecca Jordan, Brianna Lea Pruett, Ben Howard, Gibson Bull, and Cahalen & Eli
Tributes and Cover Compilations, 2012:
Part 4: full-album folk coverage of Springsteen & The Replacements
Tributes and Cover Compilations, Fall 2012
Part 3: multigenre & multi-artist tributes
Brianna Lea Pruett
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West
Emily Elbert
Gibson Bull
Jan Bell
Punch Brothers
Rebecca Jordan
The Replacements
Category: Wailin’ Jennys
Canadian Girl Groups:
The Be Good Tanyas, The Wailin’ Jennys, and The Good Lovelies
September 22nd, 2010 — 10:20 pm
I have a thing for sweet harmony of any type, but not all harmonies are created equal – or should be. And though there are many factors which can affect how voices blend – from range to accent, from tone to purity of voice – gender pairing has much to do with the fundamental possibilities which can emerge from singing together.
More often than not, strong male/female duos and mixed-gender groups produce a study in contrast, leaning heavily on the contrast between their vocal range and tone – see the newest work from Isobel Campbel and Mark Lanegan, or go way back to Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, to hear what I mean, or look at the delicate intertwined harmonies of Gillian Welch and high tenor David Rawlings as a counterexample. Similarly, it takes few examples to explore male groupings: unless we’re talking about sibling and siblingesque groups like The Everly Brothers or The Beach Boys, from CSNY and The Eagles to Simon and Garfunkel and The Brilliant Inventions, the goal here is to meld disparity into beauty, and when it works, it really works.
Female singers, on the other hand, generally produce a tighter sort of sound. The American trio Red Molly, for example, who we’ve featured often on these pages, come across with beautiful chords; meanwhile, duos such as the Watson Twins or First Aid Kit soar together up and down their respective approaches to melodic folkpop.
But despite its relatively sparse population, I find that a number of my favorite all-girl folk groups come from Canada, a.k.a. America’s Hat. Maybe there’s something in the water; maybe there’s something about those long winter nights far from the equator that brings the ladies together for practice to make perfect. Regardless: we’ve featured duo Dala plenty in the past few months, thanks to their appearance at this summer’s Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, but here’s a triplet of strong tripartite partnerships from North of the border which have been tickling my fancy lately.
I discovered Juno-award winning trio The Good Lovelies quite recently, through their appearance on fellow Canadian girlgroup Dala’s live 2010 tour-de-force Girls From The North Country; seeking them out via the usual channels revealed a charming but small collection of CDs chock full of delight, and I’d recommend any and all to anyone. Their acoustic-driven songs have a retro girl group flavor in places, tending towards the smiling sweetness of the Andrews Sisters, while other tracks echo the forthright heart and heartiness of the Dixie Chicks at their best, but even beyond their penchant for bells and guitar-based instrumentation, there’s something eminently down-to-earth and delicate about them that rings folk to me.
The Good Lovelies: Clementine (trad.)
(from Oh My!, 2007)
The Good Lovelies: The Chipmunk Song (orig. Alvin and the Chipmunks)
(from Under The Mistletoe, 2009)
Dala w/ The Good Lovelies and O Susannah: The Weight (orig. The Band)
(from Girls From The North Country, 2010)
The Be Good Tanyas have been on my radar since their inception, thanks to local radio station WRSI, which played their debut Blue Horse to death when it first hit the scene in 2000. Two albums later, with nothing new on the shelves since 2006, member Franzey Ford has just emerged with a strong debut solo disc, while long-gone founding trio member Jolie Holland continues to tour to support her own haunting catalog … but hiatus or not, the three sparse, old-timey, blues-and-americana-tinged albums the Vancouver trio produced so far remain high on my eternal playlist, and for good reason.
The Be Good Tanyas: Oh Susanna (trad.)
(from Blue Horse, 2000)
The Be Good Tanyas: In My Time Of Dying (orig. Bob Dylan)
The Be Good Tanyas: Waiting Around To Die (orig. Townes Van Zandt)
(from Chinatown, 2003)
The Be Good Tanyas: Midnight Moonlight (orig. Old and In The Way)
(live from KEXP, unknown date)
The Be Good Tanyas: When Doves Cry (orig. Prince)
(from Hello Love, 2006)
Longstanding folk mainstays The Wailin’ Jennys hail from “Canada’s heartland”, and it shows: theirs are campfire harmonies, rich and fluid, sweet but with a hint of breath and smoke that are well worth celebrating. Their newest release, 2009′s Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House, is a stunning collection, with strong covers and originals from a trio already long overdue for prominent placement in the pantheon of great modern folk acts after just a handful of albums. I’ve posted their gentle, gorgeous cover of Neil Young’s Barefoot Floors several times, most recently atop our recent Covered In Kidfolk feature on lullabies, but any chance to prove that they’re not just a one-trick pony is welcome, indeed.
The Wailin’ Jennys: Old Man (orig. Neil Young)
The Wailin’ Jennys: Take It Down (orig. John Hiatt)
(from 40 Days, 2004)
The Wailin’ Jennys: Longtime Traveler (trad.)
(from Firecracker, 2006)
The Wailin’ Jennys: Trick Rider (orig. Gord Downie)
(from Down At The Sea Hotel, 2007)
The Wailin’ Jennys: Deeper Well (orig. David Olney / arr. Emmylou Harris)
(from Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House, 2009)
1,445 comments » | Be Good Tanyas, Good Lovelies, Wailin' Jennys
Birthday Coverfolk: Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation
(Rufus Wainwright, Andrew Bird, and other musicians born in 1973)
January 14th, 2009 — 12:17 am
I was born January 14, 1973, on the cusp of the disco age, and amidst the last true gasps of the sixties. Though my father’s music was primarily blues and folk — the authentic, soulful stuff which I would return to in my own adulthood — for me, growing up in the eighties meant a childhood exposure to late Bee Gees and the early Michael Jackson, followed by a middle school passion for Howard Jones synthpop and Depeche Mode electronica; later, in my adolescence, I would turn to the growing anti-grunge movement like a dork to water, with a minor in early hip hop.
Which is to say: like so many of us, I spent my formative years rejecting the past of my parents, instead looking outward to the larger culture for my musical self. And, because what was out there was the shifting, constantly prototypical product of a culture in high transition, so has my own musical path from there to here been broad and diverse.
My path is not so unique, surely. Inasmuch as we are all a product of our own time and experience, from our secret vices to our public tastes, much of our adult habits of listening can be traced to that which we lived through, and which of it we tried on for size. Music defines so much of who we are, the comfort and contentment which comes from finding our own sound is surely as much a recognition of the self, as played out in the folkways of the world. And if anything explains the itch towards coversong, it is perhaps the desire to own both the external culture and the household stereo, and in doing so, collapse the distance between the authentic prodigal self and the cultural reality that we watched for cues as we grew.
Because musicians are people too, it is unsurprising to find that the vast majority of popular musicians who were born in the same year as myself tend towards the sounds of our mutual adolescence, both in cover choices and in genre of play. A quick perusal of the list of notable musicians born in 1973 reveals an overwhelming preponderance of rap production from the likes of Nas, Pharrell, and Mos Def, and that curious post-grunge, neo-anthem rock that characterizes Creed, Slipknot, and Incubus, all of which have one or more members turning 36 this year.
But every generation has its diversity, and here at Cover Lay Down we appreciate folked up covers of rap and rock as much as we celebrate those performers who, like myself, have settled their selves towards a more intimate sense of self in song. Today, then, in honor of my birthday, we present songs recaptured by people just my age — a set of coverfolk of and from my “lost generation” contemporaries, mining their own experience for tribute, recapturing other histories in song from the lips and hands of their influences. Enjoy.
I’m especially pleased to find indie darling and concert whistler Andrew Bird (b. July 11) on my contemporaries list, as I’ve been looking for an excuse to do the research ever since I fell in love with his more genre-bending post-americana work via the blogworld. Bird has plenty of folkcred — he was an instructor at the Old Town School of Folk Music — and he plays like a man with a keen sense of folk history even as he pushes the boundaries of what it means to use the fiddle as a solo performer.
I shared Andrew Bird’s cover of tradsong Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin’ Bed (aka Trimmed and Burning) in the midst of Dylan covers week over at Star Maker Machine a few months back; the links are dead there, but the text is worth the visit. Here, he shows his true roots with a few more haunting takes on songs deeply rooted in the folk canon.
Andrew Bird: How You Gonna Keep ‘em Down On The Farm (Lewis/Young)
Andrew Bird: I Shall Not Be Moved (trad.)
Andrew Bird w/ Nora O’Conner: Oh, Sister (orig. Bob Dylan)
We featured Rufus Wainwright (b. July 22) here at Cover Lay Down over a year ago in our first Folk Family Friday, an ambitious attempt to consider the musical output of the entire Wainwright/McGarrigle clan. I remain ambivalent about Rufus as a performer, not least because his torch songs can get too sappy for my taste. But his more subtle work stands out as worthy of our generation, especially when tempered by strong collaboration, and his acoustic cover choices are generally well-suited for his languid, slippery vocal style and reedy tenor. Here’s three duets; the work with his sister martha on their father’s song is a lovely conceit, and anything with Teddy Thompson is always wonderful, but I’m especially fond of the co-bill Neil Young cover with Chris Stills, off the popular KCRW studio sessions compilation Sounds Eclectic: The Covers Project.
Rufus Wainwright and Teddy Thompson: King of the Road (orig. Roger Miller)
Rufus and Martha Wainwright: One Man Guy (orig. Loudon Wainwright III)
Rufus Wainwright and Chris Stills: Harvest (orig. Neil Young)
Not all performers trend solo, of course. Though both Annabelle Chvostek (b. October 5) and, to a lesser extent, drummer Caroline Corr (b. March 17) have worked on their own, these lovely ladies of folk are much better known for their work with female-voiced folkgroups The Wailin’ Jennys and The Corrs, respectively. The Irish folk rock which The Coors have made their own isn’t as much my cup of tea as the acoustic singer-songwriter trio harmonies of The Wailin’ Jennys (or, for that matter, the recent solo disk from alto Chvostek, which is spare and lovely), but from the Celtic dancepop mix of Fleetwood Mac cover Dreams to the crooning lullaby that transforms Neil Young’s Barefoot Floors, these are all worth the listen, as song and coversong.
The Corrs: Dreams (Tee’s Radio remix) (orig. Fleetwood Mac)
The Corrs: Little Wing (orig. Jimi Hendrix)
The Wailin’ Jennys: Barefoot Floors (orig. Neil Young)
The Wailin’ Jennys: Long Time Traveler (trad.)
Finally, Grey DeLisle (b. August 24) is generally known as a voice actress more than a songstress; if you’re into that sort of thing, you’ve heard her on such animated programs as Kim Possible, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, and Harvey Birdman. But DeLisle’s 2005 Sugar Hill release Iron Flowers is a masterpiece of otherwise-originals that kicks off in style with a delicate autoharp and slide take on Queen anthem Bohemian Rhapsody – I just couldn’t let it go overlooked.
Grey DeLisle: Bohemian Rhapsody (orig. Queen)
Cover Lay Down posts new covercontent and folkfaves every Wednesday, Sunday, and the occasional otherday. Coming soon: New coverfolk from some up and coming inbox artists, including a few discoveries from this weekend’s Boston Celtic Music Festival…plus a very special look at several well-respected songbooks — stripped down, unplugged, and all folked up.
1,228 comments » | Andrew Bird, Rufus Wainwright, The Corrs, Wailin' Jennys
Covered in Folk: Neil Young (Of Tribute Albums and Female Indiefolk)
March 2nd, 2008 — 11:00 am
I have a love/hate relationship with Neil Young. While I’ve always loved his early work, both solo and with CSNY, as my ears and his voice age, I find it harder to listen to that infamous whine for more than a few minutes at a time. But ever since I wore a used copy of his incredible, confessional album Harvest down to the groove one mopey adolescent summer, I have had nothing but admiration for Neil Young’s ability to pen poetic yet straightforward songs which give voice to the plight of the powerless and the disaffected in modern American culture.
Young gets his share of covers, though next to Dylan, Paul Simon, and Bruce Springfield, the prolific folk-rocker’s songbook is hardly what we could call well-represented. And given his lyrical bent, it’s unsurprising to find that most of the best covers have emerged from the indie and folk worlds, where musicians and audiences generally share both Young’s socio-political dissatisfaction and his fluid fondness for making music in both acoustic and electric forms. It’s not like my life has been a series of Neil Young-related disappointments.
However, where it’s easy to find strong tribute albums of Springfield or Dylan, as albums, the few Neil Young tributes I’ve encountered have been less than memorable. Last year’s Uncut (UK) magazine freebie Like A Hurricane had some excellent folk artists on the roster, but all but three of those songs had been previously released, and back issues are hard to come by. Other, older tributes, like late eighties alt-rock release The Bridge, had a few good cuts, but with a few exceptions (Sonic Youth, The Pixies), The Bridge is generally considered a set of tepid work from some otherwise incredible artists.
Which makes Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Cover Neil Young for Charity a long-overdue splash of vibrant life in an ocean of mediocrity. This new two-disc set features well-crafted Neil Young covers lovingly recorded by women who, like the previously featured Mary Lou Lord, live and play at the intersection of folk and alternative rock. The songs run the gamut from acoustic folkpop to indiefolk to electrified alternative, and unlike most multi-artist tribute albums, they fit together smoothly, making for a great and well-balanced listen from cover to cover. This is the tribute album Neil Young has deserved for most of his long and prolific career.
The proof is in the posting: I had originally planned to post this entry earlier, but the nice folks at American Laundromat let me take my pick of the collection, and I spent the first week trying to winnow down a two-CD set of great tracks to something manageable. Even after skimming off amazing songs like Luff’s great grungy Tell Me Why, Eurotrash’s alt-pop title cut, and Veruca Salt’s post-punk Burned — all of which, while amazing examples of indiegirl altrock in their own right, fall outside even a liberal interpretation of folk — I had to make some hard choices in selecting which songs to share.
You’ll have to buy the album for Lori McKenna’s countryfolk version of The Needle and the Damage Done, a dreamy rock anthem from Kristen Hirsh, a balanced, edgy cover of Heart of Gold from Tanya Donelly, the sweet indiefolk harmonies of the Watson Twins and Elk City, and more. But ultimately, I think I’ve selected a short set of streams which represent the breadth and excellence that is Cinnamon Girl.
No downloads here, folks, though I’ve dropped a few in the bonus section below. But don’t skip ahead. Press play below to hear Jill Sobule’s banjo-tinged folkrock, Kate York’s breathy alt-country jam on Comes A Time, the fragile Aimee Mann-like voice-and-piano folkpop of Amilia K Spicer, and my favorite track of many, Dala’s subtle, sultry cover of A Man Need a Maid.
Kate York, Comes A Time
Jill Sobule w/ John Doe, Down By The River
Dala, A Man Needs A Maid
Note: song has a long fade-in…
Amilia K Spicer, Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Told you so. Now head over to American Laundromat to pick up your copy of Cinnamon Girl today. All proceeds go to Casting for Recovery, which provides fly fishing retreats for breast cancer survivors.
While you’re there, take a look around. American Laundromat is an excellent label which specializes in pretty much all the things I like: tribute albums, the music and culture of the late eighties, and some of the best indie voices in the business. If nothing else, take a few minutes to listen to “American Laundromat radio”, where you can hear Lori McKenna’s cover of Peter Gabriel’s classic In Your Eyes, among other tracks from their great and growing stable of tribute albums.
Today’s bonus coversongs offer up some more Neil Young tributes from the acoustic singer-songwriter branch of the femfolk world:
Carrie Rodriguez‘s slow southernfolk Cortez The Killer
A more etherial Cortez The Killer from Marissa Nadler
Kidfolk fave Elizabeth Mitchell does a sweet Little Wing
Breathy Emily Haines does a great pianofolk Expecting To Fly
The Indigo Girls rock out live to Down By The River
Ubiquitous, clear-voiced Emmylou Harris covers Wrecking Ball
Folktrio The Wailin’ Jennys bring their sweet harmonies to Old Man…
…and to slow mandolin-and-bass lullaby Barefoot Floors
Still need more Neil Young coversongs? Cover Me’s cover-by-cover reconstruction of Neil Young’s On The Beach includes some great cuts from across the musical spectrum, including Jeff Tweedy and The Be Good Tanyas. Act quick, because the links are due to go down in the next week or two.
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The Real Reason We Call It Chicken Booyah in Wisconsin
October 17, 2013 by Ashley Steinbrinck 97 Comments
Chicken Booyah – that hearty concoction of scrumptious broth, tender veggies and shredded chicken has been a Wisconsin favorite for more than a century.
But have you ever wondered how booyah got its name? Where the recipe came from? Or why it’s such a popular dish, especially in Northeast Wisconsin?
I started looking into it, and discovered an interesting story about how a simple mistake played a big part in this tasty tradition.
I soon learned that I’m definitely not the only person to ever try and uncover the story of how booyah came to be! A librarian in the genealogy department at the Brown County Library got a little annoyed when I told her I was on a mission to find the origin of Chicken booyah.
She snappily said, “Do you know how many people a month call to tell me their relatives are the ones who created the original booyah recipe?”
Knowing that it’s such a big deal to so many people only got me more excited to solve this mystery! The truth is – it really would be impossible to find the first booyah recipe. That would be like finding the original pot of chili. It seems there are as many “original” booyah recipes on the web as there are people claiming their family invented it.
I learned that people have been trying to figure out where this soup came from for years!
But there is one story that sticks out, and it has a direct connection to Green Bay and the longstanding tradition of serving booyah at big events like fundraisers and church picnics…
Booyah & the Finger Road School Teacher
Lester’s cast iron booyah kettle
My initial research started where it does for a lot of people – Wikipedia. The entry on booyah mentioned a Press Gazette article that may explain why we’ve been calling it booyah for all these years.
The story goes like this…
In 1906, a man named Andrew Rentmeester took over as the teacher at the Finger Road School in Green Bay. When he got to the school, there were no books for the kids – so he decided to organize a fundraiser to raise some money for much needed school supplies.
He went around town collecting chickens from the school children’s families. Then he went to the Green Bay Gazette to put an ad in the paper in hopes of raising some publicity for the fundraiser. When the reporter asked him what they’d be serving at the event, Andrew told him “bouillon,” which is the french word meaning “to boil” or “soup”.
When the reporter asked him how to spell it, Andrew said “B-O-O-Y-A-H.” It probably seems a little strange that a teacher wouldn’t know how to spell bouillon correctly. He had a valid reason though – as I found out later.
But, it was printed that way in the paper and the soup was called “booyah” at every fundraiser after that, including the annual fundraiser Andrew started at Holy Martyrs of Gorcum church the following year.
How I Met Lester Rentmeester
As my search for the source of booyah continued, I came across an article on the blog, Mona Faye’s Kitchen, which claimed that “Great Gramma Meyers’ version is the authentic Booyah.”
In the comments section, a man named Dan Rentmeester mentioned his grandfather, Andrew Rentmeester’s booyah recipe. He called himself “the grandson of the Father of Booyah.” This piqued my interest!
I was able to find Dan Rentmeester in the White Pages (after calling the wrong Dan Rentmeester first). He told me that the person I really needed to talk to was his 94 year-old uncle, Lester – who is the son of the schoolteacher Andrew Rentmeester.
In fact, Dan said he was just over at ol’ Uncle Lester’s house for Chicken Booyah a few days before I called!
Lester Rentmeester is well-known among local history buffs. He and his wife Jeanne wrote a book called The Flemish in Wisconsin.
In most of the articles I’ve read, Booyah has a Belgian background. Supposedly the Flemish or Walloon immigrants (both from different parts of Belgium) brought this style of stew-like soup to us when they settled in America.
Dan gave me Lester’s phone number, and I called to ask if I could stop over for a visit. Lester told me his home is the second oldest house in the state of Wisconsin, and it also contains a small museum full of photos and artifacts with a local connection.
Angeline Champeau Rioux House of 1826 – 2nd oldest House in Wisconsin
Lester’s home was built in 1826 by his wife’s great grandfather and fur-trader, Joseph Roy, the same man who built the oldest house, Tank Cottage that now sits at Heritage Hill. Lester’s famous Wisconsin home is known as the Angeline Champeau Rioux House and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
I got to Lester’s house hoping to get the full history of Chicken Booyah. But he was all set to give me a tour of his historic home and the Angeline Champeau Rioux House Museum. I got to hear stories of everything from the history of Duck Creek, to the rock quarries and the Menominee Indians who once inhabited the area.
Les joked that he was giving me the $2 tour, but I hope he wasn’t serious – I did see a little jar for donations inside the museum! Oops. I do know the Belgians are supposed to be pretty frugal!
Lester is such a sweet man. He didn’t sit down once the entire hour I was there – even when I did! He kept telling me how he loved the name Ashley. That it reminded him of Gone with the Wind.
Lester Rentmeester – B-17 pilot over Europe in World War II
I found out Lester had earned his B.S., M.B.A., M.P.A, and D.P.A. degrees. He’s had a 31-year Air Force career, including 30 combat missions as a B-17 pilot over Europe in World War II, and was chiefly involved in research and development programs.
Lester taught graduate courses after he got out of the military, he has written eight books (7 with his wife, Jeanne) and dozens of articles in journals like American Heritage. He was even a painter when he lived in Germany.
This man has credentials! He’s big into local history and very proud of his Flemish heritage. He told me, “I’m Royal Flemish and you don’t see that much anymore.”
As far as booyah goes, he confirmed the whole story about his father, Andrew, the schoolteacher. I asked Lester why he thought his dad wouldn’t know how to spell bullion correctly. He told me his dad was a lumberjack before he became a teacher at age 21. He also didn’t speak or read French. He was a very smart man though. He taught all nine of his own kids – including Lester.
Andrew’s mother, Mary (Watermolen) Rentmeester, actually came from Belgium and she spoke French. It was also his mother’s soup recipe that was used for the Finger Road school fundraiser.
I even got to see Lester’s cast iron kettle he had in his backyard! (Pictured Above)
And – can you guess what he was having for dinner that afternoon?
Yep – leftover Chicken Booyah from the weekend before. I should of asked him for a taste! Ha.
The Chicken Booyah Recipe
From what I read about Belgian soup, it was more of a clear broth with celery, onion, salt and pepper.
The Belgians were very frugal and this soup was a great way to feed their large families for a small cost.
According to Lester, Mary Ann Defnet is the leading genealogist in Green Bay who is respected for her research on the Belgian-Walloon culture. In a letter to a professor at UWGB on the topic of Chicken Booyah she wrote –
“From the Walloon point of view, the original “Booyah” was bouillon– a broth made from boiling a chicken with onion and celery, salt and pepper. The chicken was taken from the pot when sufficiently cooked and used as the main course of the meal, and the broth served in individual bowls.
An additional bowl of rice was put on the table with each person adding what he wanted, if any, to the broth. This was related to me by a woman of Belgian descent, born in Kewaunee County in 1895, who lived to be 95 years old. As a young person, she had never seen the style of “booyah” as we know it today. With the Belgians’ penchant for frugalness, nothing was wasted.
Bits of leftover vegetables gradually were added to the chicken broth– and later, the chicken, too – to make a more flavorful soup, almost a one-dish meal.
Yes, there are as many booyah recipes as there are cooks. Some even add caned pork and beans, canned tomatoes, and canned tomato juice, in the hopes of improving the flavor. Those things certainly wouldn’t have been available to the “old” Belgian settlers.”
So – when it comes to the recipe, I’m not sure we’ll ever find the one that started it all.
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But as for the name “booyah”, I do think a simple misspelled word is what helped it turn into a cultural phenomenon! I believe in the Finger Road Schoolteacher story. I think it makes a lot of sense for how it got its name and the reason it’s traditionally served at many fundraisers and church events.
Either way, let’s just be glad we’ve got super tasty soup to enjoy as well as a fun Wisconsin tradition… thanks to our great blend of family backgrounds and cultures!
If you’re interested in the recipes by the Rentmeesters, here they are!
Chicken Booyah Recipe from The Flemish in Wisconsin
Boil (covered) until tender four pounds of chicken and one cup of diced beef with salt.
Skim off the scum.
Add one half cup of pork and cook.
Dice one bunch of carrots, four stalks of celery, one-and-one half quarts of potatoes, one-half medium cabbage and three large onions.
Add two-thirds package of split peas and cook until tender.
Add one can of tomatoes, one can of pork and beans and one can of tomato juice.
Cook about one hour.
Add one-fourth pound of butter and the juice of one lemon.
Makes about 11 quarts.
Dan Rentmeester’s Recipe (Grandson of the ‘Father of Booyah’)
He even uses an ox tail to flavor the broth!
20 Gallon Booyah Recipe
Put 10 gallons of water into Booyah kettle
Start a fire until the water boils
Add 30 Lbs. chicken (5 or 6 stewing chickens
Add 5 Lbs. beef cut up
Add ox tail or soup bone
Add 2 heads of cabbage cut up
Add 6 Lbs. yellow onions cut up
Add 1 small package of split peas
Add 2 – 16OZ cans northern beans
Add 1 large can of tomato juice
Boil and simmer for 2 hours until chicken is tender
Take chicken, been, ox tail and soup bone out and de-bone chicken (take meat off of the soup bone)
Add 10 Lbs. carrots cut up
Add 6 bunches of celery cut up
Simmer 45 minutes until carrots are tender
Add 30-35 Lbs. potatoes cut up
Add de-boned chicken and beef back into the kettle
Simmer until potatoes are done
Add 4 – 16OZ cans of peas
Add 1 cups salt and 4 tablespoons pepper
Add lemon juice to taste
Do you have a good booyah recipe or an argument for why your family created the original? Let’s hear it!
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Filed Under: People, Uniquely Wisconsin Tagged With: Belgian, Booyah, Chicken Booyah, recipe, soup, stew
Kathy Cutforth says:
In Kentucky they have something similar called Burgoo which may also have okra and butter beans in it, and it tends to be thickened more like stew. Can be cooked for days until it is all mush.
Sounds great, Kathy! I wanna try some Burgoo! ; )
Tom Theoharis says:
This soup or stew is definitely from the French Belgians, it’s taken from the French cassoulet, a long simmered stew of beans, veggies and an assortment of sausage, beef and duck.
Wendy Schrank says:
When I was first married we lived in Denmark, WI & we’d see signs for chicken booyah at most local taverns/restaurants & never once tasted it. Now I want to try making it, as I think I missed something special in our Wisconsin history. Loved the article!
Thanks so much Wendy! Let us know if you do make it…I would love to know how you like it! And you should make a visit to Denmark for some booyah at the tavern too! 😉
Dave Larsen says:
Wendy,,you just missed the big booyah cook off…Last weekend of October…Let me know when you are coming back to Denmark,,I’ll find you some booyah or have someone make a batch…..Dave Larsen…..
Amy S. says:
Mr. Rentmeester’s booyah story sounds a bit like the old “Stone Soup” children’s book. I love hearing true stories of real people who lived frugally with a simple lifestyle. What a great time of year to cook up a pot of booyah or stone soup! M-mmmm…
Thank you for reading the article! Living frugally with a simple lifestyle is the best way to go! Making a crock pot of chicken soup ourselves today ; )
Debra Cavil says:
LOVE chicken booyah and make it often. My mother being both kinds of Belgiun made it often for her large family of 10 children. Ours is a very frugal recipe indeed. A simple recipe of chicken, cabbage, celery, onion,carrots, potatoes, and peas.
maryft says:
Do you have a recipe. I would love to try making it.
Monette says:
I’m sure it can. People make big batches and then freeze them in serving size containers. Someone else asked about a recipe. It’s simple but people make their own variations. You need to stew a chicken,cook it whole overnight, bones and all (not guts). You reserve the broth, of course, as the booyah base, and you add beef bone, potatoes, onions, carrots, peas – all fresh – if you’re adding frozen, you might wait until a couple hours before serving. Some people add tomatoes and cabbage – ugh! Not Hannon booyah. I’ve never made it myself, but I know what goes in it. And you salt and pepper to taste. You can add a little hot seasoning if you like. But Hannon’s is the first, and basic recipe.
Jeanne Rossini Weir says:
Thank you so much, I appreciate the information!
Susan Delfosse says:
Les is my Great Uncle. He often has family gatherings at his house. My six year old son loves just sitting by Uncle Les and listening to stories of family and adventure. This past year they sat near the apple orchard eating booyah just chatting away. I dont know what they said but, I am sure it left an impression on Lyrics heart forever.
That’s cool, Susan! What a great uncle to have too. I’m sure he taught your son things he’ll never forget ; ) Thanks for stopping by!
PIerre Menard says:
shocked about the librarian story! :). Ask her if U are related to Adele Brice and she gets funny too; :).
Karen Bushy says:
Dan Rentmeester’s recipe minus the beans! NO corn or beans, green or otherwise! got my recipe from my Belgian/German grandparents who lived in GB!
Monette Bebow-Reinhard says:
You must have talked to Mary Jane Herber – she called me that night to ask how long ago my great-grandfather was making it. He made booyah in 1895, and my mother introduced it to St. John the Baptist picnics by the early 1950s. Booyah is Walloon Belgian for soup. I told Mary Jane that if anyone can claim to have made it earlier, Alex Hannon would give up the crown. Sorry, this story is NOT the oldest.
Thanks for the info, Monette.
We weren’t really trying to say the Andrew Rentmeester story was the oldest. As noted in the article, and as you mentioned the soup itself came here with Belgian immigrants. What this story looks at is why we call it “Booyah,” which is what the Finger Road Booyah fundraiser story explains.
We fully realize that chicken booyah/bouillon was being made before the 1906 date mentioned in the article.
Remember, bouillon is the French word for broth. Walloons do not have their own language. Walloons speak French. So I believe you are mistaken when you say “Booyah is Walloon Belgian for soup.” Our story suggests that booyah is the “Wisconsinized” word for bouillon.
David Baeckelandt says:
Hi Kasey, Sorry but the Walloons do have their own dialects (mostly Picardian dialects). It is French-like but a Parisian would not understand. Just as the Flemish have dialects that a person from A,sterdam would not understand.
BTW, the Flemish have their own version of this stew. We call it hutseput and it is almost identical in terms of the general recipe except for the chicken (at least in our family).
But all that aside, fantastic article with great color and detail. Loved it!
Amy Allcox says:
My husbands family is from DePere. I hadn’t heard of Booyah prior to us dating. I’m gathering history for my kids. Are you willing to share your grandfather’s story and reciepe? Thanks!!
bebowreinhard says:
Absolutely! When my great-grandpa Alex Hannon was a boy, in 1895, he and some other boys stole a chicken. They decided to make a soup out of it, and gathered all the vegetables they could find in the garden. And for added flavor they threw in some dark rabbit meat. Alex made it for the family ever since then, calling it “booyah,” which is Belgian for soup. So it’s chicken, he eventually used a beef bone instead of rabbit or squirrel, and corn, peas, – actually, my mother knows how to make it. I just know it did not have tomatoes or noodles or rice. I can’t remember, but I don’t think there’s potato, either. I could have her supply the recipe. She probably has a better version of the story, too. Email me at moberein@yahoo.com and I’ll get it for you. I just remember Mary Jane scoffing at me, saying you can never prove the source of a soup. And I said, hey, if you find someone who claimed to make it before he did, let me know. I know that booyah only became big around here after my mother introduced it at St. John’s.
Yes, it had potatoes, green beans, peas, onion, and maybe corn. You have to add corn last though, don’t let that cook too long. And make sure all the vegetables are fresh.
Nancy Bickel Quarters (Vlies) says:
I love this story! My mother was Flemish Belgian from the Casco area, My Dad is German, from Seymour. They both loved booyah, so I was never sure where the recipe came from. But, we are Catholic & have gone to all of the Catholic church picnics for booyah every summer most of my life. I make my own booyah now & l love it!
Thank you Nancy! Glad to hear you take the time to make your OWN Booyah now.. This will be an everlasting tradition in WI thanks to people like you ; )
Alice says:
I wonder how much of the chicken is put in the pot to boil. I was told that someone eatting a bowl of Booyah at a church picnic found the chicken’s eye ball. I’m hoping he was joking.
Ewwww! A chicken’s eye ball… Who knows, maybe it was the best pot of Booyah ever! Haha
Great article!!! I met Mr. Rentmeester many years ago when I shared some family history for his book he was writing. Very interesting man! My husband and I are from Door County and made our first big batch (8 gallons) of chicken booyah in an outdoor kettle this fall! Love this story!
So this IS the same Lee Rentmeester who mis-located the Arndt sawmill history! I knew the name was familiar. I’m the one who got Arndt’s REAL sawmill on the National Historic Register. Small world!
Sorry, this is Lester, eh? Brother of Lee? I know a lot of families have a lot of different booyah recipes. I am looking for someone who can claim to have made it before my great-grandpa. It would be cool to find out Alex Hannon was the first. His recipe is simply chicken and beef (or squirrel or rabbit), corn, peas (not split), carrots, potatoes – no rice, noodles, tomatoes. People of course have been adding to it since, but if you make it with chicken and beef bone, that’s his original.
Joanne Babic says:
I also have a family story regarding Booyah and it comes from the Green Bay area. My grandfather’s Uncle made a chicken soup that he sold at the Brown County Fairgrounds on Saturdays. The family name was Boyer. In Fre3nch it is pronounced Boy-A. In Brown County it is pronounced Boo-yah. His chicken soup came to be called Chicken Booyah after his name.
I forgot to mention that he had been a lumberjack cook and made the soup in the lumber camps.
Do you have a date, Joanne? My great-grandfather made it when he was 15, back in 1895. We’re looking for someone who can date it back farther than that. Chicken soup is not the same as chicken booyah – it has to be made with beef stock. Big difference. Alex Hannon also made it with squirrel and rabbit when he didn’t have beef. Makes a distinctive flavor.
I wrote an article about it for a family news letter around 20 years ago. I will have to look and see if I can find it. My grandfather was born in 1869 and it was his uncle. My grandfather, his brothers and some of his uncles and cousins worked in the lumber camps in Northern Wisconsin.
What a great story. You must stop at The Bar on Lime Kiln for another Great Bowl Of Booyah!!!. We serve it all the time.
Thanks, Laura! I will have to stop by The Bar for some Booyah ; ) – I did write about The Bar’s gluten-free options in the Top 9 Gluten Free Restaurants in GB article too – you should check it out!
Patrick Rowland says:
on dec 8th i will be making it and serving it for free at our brewery in chilton last year 45 gallons were gone in 5 hours ……..stop in and try some
oooooh! That’s awesome, Patrick! Why for free?
Love the article and some of the follow up comments. Can do without some of the snarky ones though. You know who you are!
Aww, thanks Tim! I appreciate your support and I’m glad you liked the article!
John O'Connor says:
This is very interesting and I met Lester while I was fire chief of the Village of Howard or the old people would call it Duck Creek. He is a very nice man and very intelligent. I also like the name Ashley, in fact I had a young female firefighter named Ashley, she wasn’t very big but she could handle herself. anyway, I like your article.
You’re sweet, John. Thank you for reading – I’m glad you enjoyed it! And Howard’s fire chief? That’s awesome! I’m glad you got to meet Lester.
How much liquid do you add to the soup?
Hi Ron, I do have a couple of recipes listed at the bottom of the post by the Rentmeester Family. In the 20 gallon recipe, they call for 10 gallons of water to be added to Booyah kettle. Hope that helps!
Bob Rentmeester Jr. says:
Thanks for sharing the article. I am also a Booyah maker and my last name is Rentmeester. I had heard the story before but never to the depth that it was reported. Now I am curious to know if Dan or Lester are part of my family tree. My late grandfather’s name is Isadore (Frip) Rentmeester and I am his Grandson Bob Jr. I make my Booyah from a 30 gallon cast kettle heated with fire and made with my own chickens I raise.
I had a grandma named Angeline Champeau. I wonder if my grandmother once lived in that house. I always thought they lived in the Bay Settlement area.
Lynn (Vanden Avond) Wiegand says:
Thanks for the interesting history of Booyah. My father Earl Vanden Avond made Booyah at home in Preble for many years. I remember going to the Finger Road Church picnic and the VFW picnic as a child and enjoying delicious warm bowls of Booyah. Oxtail was the ingredient my Dad loved to use. He was a butcher, so he always added a lot of chicken, oxtail and beef to get a deep rich flavor. I think I need to make a pot right now. Yum!
Kathy {Vanden Avond} Bobo says:
My grandma worked in the booyah shack many years and grandpa was 1 of the beer tent guards at Finger road church! I’m Jim and Adeline’s granddaughter, my father was Rock! Very small world! Went back to the picnic years after they were gone and found out someone decided to add barley to it!!! Ugh…………….
Wonderful article. I grew up in Milwaukee and never heard about Booyah. Think I’ll have make some.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing!! The second version sounds very much like what I hear my great uncle Bob Baye used to make for parish picnics in Green Bay. I’ve been waiting to try the recipe until it got cold, so I think I’ll have my chance soon 🙂 Love learning more about our Belgian roots here in GB!
Michael Mandich says:
Walloons actually do have their own language, called Walon. It is a Romance language that certainly began as a dialect of what we now call French, but is distinct enough that a French-speaker would have great difficulty understanding it.
Thanks for a great article!
Interesting – thanks Michael. Looked in to it a little further and you are right. A wikipedia article even mentions it was spoken in NE Wisconsin. Now we have to find someone who speaks Walon and find out if Booyah is a real word from that dialect or if it was actually created here – as the story goes.
Jeanalynn Horkman says:
My husband’s great grandpa was making Booyah for sixty years with a cast iron kettle. Guess what!? His relatives came to WI from Belgium with the Rentmeesters and my husband’s father, grandfather, etc all went to Finger Rd School and Holy Martyrs. That explains why our recipe is almost that same recipe. We don’t add the pork or the pork and beans and sometimes we opt for green beans instead of peas. AWESOME article! Thanks!
Virginia Saxe says:
Great article. Good work. Thanks for sharing all this information. I’m half Belgian and half German, so have been exposed to so many foods from that area.
Sherry (Delanois) Raduenz says:
I loved the article also! My mother was from Belgium with a Walloon/Flemish heritage, however, she did not make booyah; only your typical chicken soup.
MIke Roberts says:
Thank you, Ashley for a beautiful story / history! God Bless Wisconsin!
And thank you for taking time to read my story, Mike! ; )
Remember as a child eating this wonderful soup at all family reunions. I seem to remember there was turtle added as well. Yummy. My mouth is watering.
A turtle, really!? It just keeps getting better ; ) – Thanks for your comment, Vicki!
Jill Bielinski says:
yes, some people made turtle booyah! When I was growing up our neighbors did it that way…never tried it, couldn’t even begin to think about eating turtle!!
Hannon had a story about adding his great-niece’s turtle to the soup! Didn’t know anyone else did it.
Grew up on Booyah, Dad made it out side over a wood fire, now my brothers make it (Adapted to propane)…still LOVE IT!!!!
Neva @ Retire for the Fun of it says:
Great article that covered so much about Booyah and our Finger Road heritage. It was rare that we enjoyed the booyah with beef. We grew up eating chicken booyah, perhaps it was cheaper to make. Loved the funny comment about the chicken eye balls. Now as a grandmom, I get to tell about my family German/Belgium heritage and eating Chicken Feet Soup. How’s that for frugal.
Thank you so much, Neva! I think the beef was just used for flavoring the soup, but there weren’t actually chunks of beef in there? Chicken feet soup – HA! Thanks for reading and commenting ; )
JoAnn Piontek says:
My recipe is from my father in law, Jake Piontek, who lived out in Bay Settlement, it is like Dan’s but we do not put cabbage or tomato juice or lemon juice. We start at 6:00 AM and it is done usually by 1:00 PM and our party starts. Jake always smoked a cigar and at the bottom of my recipe I Say “Maybe a few ashes helped his taste so good” but our is always the talk of the area. We do our ox tail the day before and de-bone them and keep the broth they cook in. We winter in Florida and we are anxious to make it for the people down here.
JoAnn Piontek
Linda Van says:
I want a smaller version of it to serve like maybe a dozen or 2. Make it 2, I can freeze the rest. I own a bar near Seymour WI. They make it all the time around here but I’m scared to ask how for fear they will laugh at me. EVERYONE knows how to make Booyah!
Jef Brkl says:
Booyah was brought to wisconsin by a man with the surname Boyea (a big name up north). This name is now pronounced [Boy – YAY], but the old world pronunciation is [BOO – yah]. And now you know…
But every family that makes Booyah claims their story is the true origin story, so….
That was my great-great uncle that I wrote about in my post above! He made it in the lumber camps he worked in and after he retired he would make a big batch of it every week and take it to the Brown County Fairgrounds and sell it by the bowl. I can’t remember his first name right now – I want to say it was James – but his last name is Boyea and many of the Boyea’s in Depere still pronounce it Boo-yah! At the time he was alive the surname was spelled Boyer, like the actor Charles Boyer. The spelling changed through the whole family around 1920.
You missed the real reason it was called Booyah ( or boullion) and not called chicken soup. It’s because there are more fresh veggies in it and not as much chicken (mostly boullion) and not as many noodles as you would find in chicken soup. Also, you will never find an original, true recipe for Booyah. That is because the mix of veggies changed as the summer progressed. For example, the original Booyah cooks put lots of peas in the mix during June and lots of corn in it in August. (I don’t know how to spell boullion, either…)
Hudson's Mom says:
I will never forget eating booya at picnics on Grandma’s lawn out near Pulaski. We sat on long handmade rag rugs under her shady willow tree. Booyah was the first course….then came the brats, fresh corn, cukes, strawberries, and melon. She would have turned 100 on July 2nd. I will never forget her….and the memories she created for us.
I’m 100% Belgian. When I was growing up, my grandmother would speak some Belgian to me ( I still know a couple words). When talking about Booyah though, she’d always correct me for pronouncing it wrong. She’d say “it’s booyahn, with an ‘n’!” Maybe this is why. Lol. I did always find it odd, when I got older, that it’s pronounced the same as bouillon, even though there’s no “n” in booyah.
Kay Dither says:
I grew up eating booyah at the church picnics in Green Bay. I remember corn being in the mix. I know it was rich, but I don’t recall the beef aspect or the cabbage…. but who really knew? By the time you got to it, it was melded together and so yummy. Brings back great memories of grandma and grandpa. Thanks for the story.
Lisa Roth Pochmara says:
I grew up in Sauk Prairie, and I’ve never heard of chicken booyah until now! I’d love to try it.. 🙂
Ann Jewel says:
Hello my name is Ann,I have been making this dish called. Creo booabay for many yrs now passed by my grandma but it is so much alike yet so different we use crab legs,shrimp ,chicken boiled 1st than added later , sausage, potatoes boiled added later, whole corn boiled added later, broccoli, carrots and its not a soup while the other food is boiling.. in a large pan u have your crab legs, shrimps and sausage cooking in oven when the chicken is almost done you will add them all together in the pan to steam cook in the oven season with creo seasons and other things (sorry I can’t say) cook together until chicken if fully done serve around rice.. mmmmm good … I found this page because I was telling someone about my booabay and they told me about this one lol wow… Thank you
That sounds really good – and I bet it actually is a lot different than chicken booyah. Booyah is delicious – but it is basically a hearty chicken soup that’s often made outside in a big kettle. But your dish sounds amazing to me – kind of like a funky jambalaya or something.
Loved this article!
I have always joked that the rules for Booyah are as follows: 1. It has to have the bones 2. It has to be cooked in what looks like a garbage can with a fire underneath 3. It has to be stirred with a boat oar 4. It has to be made in the yard (preferably God’s yard) and 5. The vegetables need to be cut by no less than 20 lovely, older ladies, giggling and gossiping as they work. If that’s not the case, it’s just chicken soup. (Before you all jump down my throat…remember it’s a joke!)
I would definitely agree with the bouillon story of how it got it’s name. If you ever listen to the a Cajun say bouillon, you’d swear they were saying booyah. In Walloon, as in French, the “n” is not pronounced (only c. r. f, and l are pronounced) at the end of a word.
Also, for what it’s worth, I agree with Mary Jane Herber, it is futile to even try to figure out the first family of Booyah in Green Bay!
You’re probably right, it is futile. But it’s still fun to hear the stories!
Thanks for stopping by and we loved the booyah joke!
Tumbleweed Books says:
Thank you for your wonderful article. My mother, Lucille Jauquet, was one of Andrew Rentmeester’s students. Her stories of home were liberally sprinkled with references to her teacher, the Watermelons and Finger road. Also, the photo of Lester Rentmeester’s home looks strikingly similar to the house we grew up in, in Pennsylvania. Finally, the original way of eating booyah by the Walloons is exactly how I do it (and I never knew why!).
Dave Defnet says:
I’ve made booyah several times in the past. I was given a couple different recipes and have heard many different comments over the years about what goes into it.
Boyah is like chili in that everyone makes it with their own personal preferences. I’ve always said that I’ve had many different kinds of chili and “they are all good”. I can say the same about booyah.
From all the comments I have heard over the years, I believe early boooyah basically is chicken soup made with a tough old stewing chicken that is not much good for baking or frying but great for soup because the meat won’t shread apart. Whatever vegetables available at the time of cooking were added in. That’s why there are so many variations. I was told that oxtail was added because “what else were you gonna do with it”. Anything and everything could end up in boooyah. So there isn’t any one “original” recipe and no one can claim to be the first one to make it here. But it is interesting to read about how it got to be a fixture at Northeast Wisconsin outdoor fundraisers and especially church picnics. I believe the Rentmeester story is true. I always wondered why we eat boiling soup on hot summer Sundays with sweat running down our faces.
There is a way to prove where it started and my mother is going to try. It’ll be called “the Booyah Challenge.” Hope you’re all up for it!
If this happens – please tell WhooNEW about it. 🙂 We’d love to write about a Booyah Challenge!
I’m surprised, too, Jud that it hasn’t spread beyond that area. No one here in Madison I asked knows about it either. I will do that, Kasey – we’re hoping to get it in the Voyageur or Our Wisconsin.
Jud Ehle says:
We always had to go to the Greenleaf wi picnic for Booyah! It was the greatest! They also had it at the Morrison wi picnic. My Mom made it all the time. I love it! I now make it myself, and my daughter and her family love it too! No beans, that would spoil it for me. Chicken, oxtail, onion, celery, cabbage, carrots, potatoes and peas! Yummy – you can skip the oxtail and it will not be much different . I came from the Fox Valley where it is so popular. Now I live in Central Wisconsin, and no one knows what it is! Until I tell them……
And give a sample!
Mary Beno says:
I was introduced to Chicken Booyah by my husband, who is of almost 100% Belgian ancestry. His parents were both from Green Bay WI. My mother-in-law, Anne always used to make it, and share. I love it! She used to mention eating it at the many church picnics in the Green Bay area when she was growing up. Hers recipe includes chicken peas carrots corn celery and I think potatoes, but best of all there were always large amounts of chicken gizzards. I grew up eating fried chicken gizzards, which I love, but they are by far the best in chicken booyah because they become somewhat tenderized during the long cooking process. Love, Love, Love Chicken Booyah.
By the way, I believe Mary Ann Defnet is a cousin of my late father-in-law Delbert (Del) Beno.
Bob and Linda Henry says:
An excellent following and much information. Thanks to all. There is an annual Booyah festival in Cadott, Wi. every year around this time. Theirs was just this weekend and for next year please follow the Cadott Chamber of Commerce’s website for 2016 dates.
Jay Molzahn says:
I too grew up going to church picnics in the 70’s. I have fond memories of Booyah, game booths, beer tents, and roasted corn. I’m pretty sure we went to the church on Finger road too but it was so long ago. 40 some odd years later and 2000 miles away, I find myself wanting to make this for all my siblings who have those fond memories as well. I have scoured the internet and have found several recipes but I have no idea which one to chose. Unfortunately our family recipe went with my parents when they passed away 15 years ago and none of my living relatives seem to have it either. There are so many varieties out there….I know our Booyah was not red, so no tomatoes or tomato juice and I’m pretty sure there were no rutabagas or cabbage in it and definitely no peas or green beans. I don’t even remember if there was corn in it. I will have to do my best guess as to which recipe to choose. At any rate, I’m pretty excited…Will be making it this Saturday!
Does anyone know if Booyah can be made ahead of time then frozen for use at a later date?
Absolutely, Jeanne. I would not overcook the veggies, though. And freeze in smaller containers not as one big batch.
By the way, everyone, Booyah is going to be featured on a cable TV show in October, called State Plate, hosted by Taylor Hicks. We filmed it in June in Green Bay. I’ll let you know when i know the date.
gail hirn says:
Making booyah this weekend with my daughter in honor of my Belgian mom’s birthday. She passed away in December. I miss her terribly. She was born and raised in Green Bay and was a great fan of Belgian food.
What kind of booyah do you make, Gail? The original with beef, chicken, potatoes and vegetables, or do you add cabbage and tomatoes. Be sure to watch State Plate on October 21st – new cable series with Taylor Hicks. That’s the date he’ll feature Wisconsin, his premier episode!
The chicken booya we had up in the U.P. Of Michigan was made with chicken as the only meat, and potatoes, carrots, onions. The essential flavoring spice was allspice. And a can of beer. Booya was always accompanied by Finnish eye bread with lots of butter. And more beer since it was usually made when swimming/camping.
“rye” not “eye”
MLodel says:
I lived in the U.P. for 18 years and travel it 18+ years. Never heard of booyah until I move to Green Bay, WI.
R. Thiry says:
Very enjoyable read, tanx!
“Chicken Boyoo” was mentioned around 1858 as being served up at the “first Kermiss” in Wisconsin, so we’re getting pretty close to “booyah”.
Corn can turn sour after a while so it is typically avoided in most booyah recipes, I happen to like it in mine though, along with lots of garlic. Feel free to make it whatever way you like; there are few “booyah snobs” running around out there & nobody will yell at you (unless you’re cooking for the Kermiss.) 😉
The stainless steel tubs in some of the old wringer washing machines happen to fit perfectly into a 55 gallon drum, making a good booyah cooker.
I’m sure there’s no end to booyah type recipes. You can look at my booyah article at http://www.grimmsetc.com to see a number of variations. However, the tradition in the Green Bay area started as a Walloon Belgian recipe and included the skin and bones of the chicken in the soup. This, I’ve come to learn, is very healthy for you! And this is the recipe that my family claims my great-grandfather Alex Hannon invented in the Champion area. I enjoyed reading the Michigan “beer booyah” too!
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February 28, 2018 by Bailey Perkins
LGBTQ+ Club, DMACC Democrats host panel discussion
The LGBTQ+ and DMACC Democrats Club panel : Back: Reyma McCoy McDeid, Austin Frerick, Rep. Liz Bennett, Jerson Valenzuela, Bailey Perkins.
Front: Arissa Jensen
On February 14, the LGBTQ+ Club partnered with the DMACC Democrats, a new club on campus, to host a panel on activism and representation of the community in politics.
Students, professors, civilians, and politicians alike, gathered in the Building 6 auditorium for the panel.
The panel was moderated by Bailey Perkins,the author of this article and president of the LGBTQ+ club. Sitting on the panel was Reyma McCoy McDeid, running for Iowa House District 38, Austin Frerick, running for U.S. Congress in Iowa’s 3rd district, Liz Bennett, Iowa House Representative from Iowa’s 65th district, Jerson Valenzuela, DMACC student studying Graphic Design, and Arissa Jensen, studying information services at DMACC.
DMACC student Valenzuela spoke specifically about race and intersectionality within the LGBTQ+ community.
“I never thought I’d ever be discussing LGBTQ+ issues alongside local political figures. Especially in front of an audience. It felt great to make everyone’s day that much gayer,” said panelist Valenzuela.
Julie Simanski,co-advisor for the DMACC Democrats,says she appreciated the combination of local politicians as well as students of the LGBTQ+ community, presenting their viewpoints about the issues the community faces in elections and in the state.
The issues facing the LGBTQ+ community may have seemed to dissipate after the 2015 Supreme Court Decision striking down bans against same sex marriage- but their struggle continues on.
Iowa House Candidate McCoy McDeid explains why she got involved in politics in the first place, “Watching a lot of the oppression that occurs in this country that is doled out to people of color, people who are members of the LGBTQA+ community, people who are religious minorities and people with disabilities and other communities, I think by time I hit my mid-20’s I was a pretty angry person and I was one of those people that said, ‘you know politics has nothing to do with me. Nobody in politics looks anything like me, nobody in politics talks the way that I do, there’s really no hope for diverse people in this country.’ […] I’ve got to do what I can to make this country better so I had to face a lot of anger that I had. With regards to my perceptions of how diverse Americans are treated.”
“The panel was a great step forward in representation on Ankeny DMACC campus for the LGBTQ+ community”, said Olivia Habinck, president of the DMACC Democrats. “I really look forward to getting to work with the LGBTQ+ club and any other club looking to boost political awareness on campus.”
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Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences>Staff>Prof Jorge Erusalimsky
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Job Title: Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Room No: D2.11a
Telephone No:+ 44 (0) 29 2041 6853
Email Address: jderusalimsky@cardiffmet.ac.uk
Born in Argentina, Jorge graduated in 1983 with a PhD in Biochemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Following postdoctoral work with Nobel Laureate Cesar Milstein at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, he held his first independent academic research position at King's College Medical School in London, where he pioneered work on megakaryocyte biology. In 1996 he joined University College London (UCL) as a Senior Lecturer in Medicine and was promoted to Reader in 2003. At UCL he initiated research on the cell and molecular biology of ageing. In 2006 Jorge was appointed to the Chair of Biomedical Sciences at Cardiff Metropolitan University. In Cardiff Jorge continues to develop research at the interphase between biology and medicine, with a focus on ageing and vascular diseases.
Jorge is a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and serves on the Editorial Boards of Gerontology and Mechanisms of Aging and Disease. He has held many research grants from charities, industry and the public sector, and is currently a partner of the European Commission-funded FRAILOMIC consortium which is dedicated to discovering biomarkers of frailty.
Jorge teaches 3rd year undergraduate students for the BSc degree in Biomedical Sciences
Modules he is involved with are:
APS6022 - Research Project
APS6021 - Translational Research
Jorge leads the Cellular Senescence and Pathophysiology Group. His research is recognised for demonstrating the occurrence of vascular cell senescence in artery walls and for discovering the origin of senescence-associated β-galactosidase, a commonly used biomarker of cellular senescence. Jorge was also one of the first in the UK to use blood stem-cells to produce megakaryocytes in a test tube.
At Cardiff Met Jorge has also been involved in many research-related enabling and managerial activities, including;
Acting as the Cardiff School of Health Sciences Associate Dean of Research and as Chair of the Cardiff School of Health Sciences Ethics Committee (2014-2015)
Serving as a member of Cardiff Metropolitan University Intellectual Property Panel (2009-present)
Designing and launching the new Cardiff School of Health Sciences Biomedical Research Laboratories (2007-2009)
Jorge has published over 75 peer reviewed articles. View a full list of publications.
A selection of key publications from the last ten years is shown below:
Butcher L., Ahluwalia M., Örd T., Johnston J., Morris R.H., Kiss-Toth E., Örd T. and Erusalimsky J.D. (2017) Evidence for a role of TRIB3 in the regulation of megakaryocytopoiesis. Sci. Rep. 7, 6684 (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-07096-w)
Steptoe A., Hamer M., Lin J., Blackburn E. and Erusalimsky J.D. (2017) The longitudinal relationship between cortisol responses to mental stress and leukocyte telomere attrition. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab.102, 962-969.
Erusalimsky J.D., Grillari J., Grune T., Jansen-Duerr P. Lippi G., Sinclair A.J., Tegner J., Vina J., Durrance-Bagale A., Minambres R., Viegas M., Rodriguez-Manas L. (2015) In search of 'omics'-based biomarkers to predict the risk of frailty and its consequences in older individuals: The FRAILOMIC initiative Gerontology 62, 182-190
Ahluwalia M., Butcher L., Donovan H., Killick-Cole C., Jones P. M. and Erusalimsky J. D. (2015) The gene expression signature of anagrelide provides and insight into its mechanism of action and uncovers new regulators of megakaryopoiesis J. Thromb. Haemost 13, 1103-1112
Villalobos L.A., Uryga A., Romacho T., Leivas A., Sánchez-Ferrer C.F., Erusalimsky J.D. and Peiró C. (2014) Visfatin/Nampt induces telomere damage and senescence in human endothelial cells Int. J. Cardiol. 175, 573-575.
Zalli A., Carvalho L., Lin J., Hamer M., Erusalimsky J.D., Blackburn E.H. and Steptoe A. (2014) Shorter telomeres with high telomerase activity are associated with raised allostatic load and impoverished psychosocial resources Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111, 4519-4524.
Cardus A., Uryga A., Walters G. and Erusalimsky J.D. (2013) SIRT6 protects human endothelial cells from DNA damage, telomere dysfunction and senescence. Cardiovasc. Res. 97, 571-579.
Brydon L., Lin J., Butcher L., Hamer M., Erusalimsky J.D., Blackburn E.H. and Steptoe A. (2012) Hostility and cellular aging in men from the Whitehall II cohort. Biol. Psychiatry 71, 767-773.
Steptoe A., Hamer M., Butcher L., Lin J., Brydon L., Kivimaki M., Marmot M., Blackburn E. and Erusalimsky J.D. (2011) Educational attainment but not current socioeconomic status is associated with leukocyte telomere length. Brain Behav. Immun. 25, 1292-1298.
Ahluwalia M., Donovan H., Singh N., Butcher L. and Erusalimsky J.D. (2010) Anagrelide represses GATA-1 and FOG-1 expression without interfering with thrombopoietin receptor signal transduction. J. Thromb. Haemost. 8, 2252-2261.
Debacq-Chainiaux F., Erusalimsky J.D., Campisi J. and Toussaint O. (2009) Methods to detect senescence-associated beta-galactosidase (SA-bGAL) activity, a biomarker of senescent cells in culture and in vivo. Nature Protoc. 4, 1798-1806.
Erusalimsky J.D. (2009) Vascular endothelial senescence: From mechanisms to pathophysiology. J. Appl. Physiol. 106, 326-332.
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Honorary Professor, University College London, London, UK (2006-2015)
Visiting Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain (2011-2013)
Visiting Professor, Department of Immunology IDEHU, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2012)
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
Member of the British Society for Cardiovascular Research
Member of the British Society for Research on Ageing
Founding Member of the Association of Argentine Professionals in the UK (APARU), joint coordinator for the areas of Science and Technology between 2003 and 2006
Expert Reviewing Panels and Advisory Committees
Austrian Science Fund (2003-07), BBSRC (UK), British Cardiac Society, British Heart Foundation, European Society of Cardiology, Inserm (France), International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Medical Research Council (UK), Wellcome Trust (UK), Netherlands Cardiovascular Research Initiative (CVON)
Advisory Committee for International Programmes of Scientific and Technological Cooperation, Argentine Ministry for Science, Technology and Productive Innovation (2011-2013)
Ramon y Cajal Fellowship Committee, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (2016)
Editorial Board of Scientific Journals
NPG Aging and Mechanisms of Disease
European Commission FP7-funded partnerships
The FRAILOMIC Initiative (2012-2017)
WhyWeAge (2009-2011)
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Cellular Senescence and Pathophysiology Research Group
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Puyi still receiving pledges of loyalty from former officials during Spring Festival
From the archives (Beijing Daily, Jan. 30, 1925)
According to a source from Dongjiaominxiang, Puyi is now living in the Japanese legation, but the Imperial family members and former Qing officials still feel obligated to wish him a happy Chinese New Year. So on that day about 200 people went to the Japanese legation. In the beginning Puyi was reluctant, but after discussion he allowed them to come in group by group. They still followed the old protocol: kneel down and kowtow.
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Neo-Nazi Group Claiming They Have Rights To Harass Jews Shut Down By US District Judge
Rory Hurst
The Daily Stormer is hard to define. In one sense, it is a news website, in that it contains articles written about things that are happening in the world, but almost nothing published there is factually true so using the word “news” seems wrong. Essentially, it is a hub of hate-fuelling, violence-inciting white supremacist propaganda, run by a bunch of skinhead neo-Nazis.
The leader of said skinheads is a deplorable man called Andrew Anglin, who recently found himself on the receiving end of a lawsuit. He has been taken to court for alleged harassment; since 2016, The Daily Stormer has been publishing a series of articles directly attacking a Jewish real estate agent called Tanya Gersh.
Accused of coordinating a “terror campaign” against Ms. Gersh, Anglin’s legal team must have had a tough time coming up with a defense. In the end, they cooked up an absolute blinder: “Yeah, but, free speech.”
That’s right. This overtly racist neo-Nazi tried to defend carrying out a targeted campaign of hateful propaganda against an individual because of her religion by saying he was allowed to do it under the First Amendment.
Shockingly, that didn’t fly in court. Dana L. Christensen, who is the chief judge for the United States District Court in Missoula, Montana, issued a brutal ruling in which he totally destroyed the Nazis’ defense. He pointed out the very important fact that Ms. Gersh is a private individual, not a public figure, so Anglin doesn’t have the right to harass her.
He also noted, crucially, that Anglin was not just innocently doing journalism, but that he was in fact directly inciting his readers and followers to harass her as part of a personal campaign. Which is clearly not in the First Amendment.
The entire basis for the harassment project is insane anyway. The starting point was when Gersh of Whitefish, Montana had some interactions with Sherry Spencer, mother of white nationalist leader Richard Spencer. Some people were apparently planning an anti-racist protest in the town of Whitefish so Ms. Spencer decided she’d like to sell her house there, so she got in touch with Gersh.
Then, an unrelated video emerged showing Mr. Spencer going on an anti-Semitic rant and shouting “Hail Trump! Hail our people!” That was what inspired Anglin’s horrific but pathetic campaign against Gersh.
To any normal human being with a mere ounce of rationality and common sense, this makes zero sense. There is no logic whatsoever to Anglin’s actions here; they are fuelled by emotion driven by outrageous prejudice and hate. Too right that the judge came down on him so hard.
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Blasphemy - Sightings (Martin Marty)
I will admit that I'm a bit old-fashioned. When it comes to things religious, while I'm okay with a bit of irreverence, I'm not sure I like it when things get uncivil and indecorous. Then there's blasphemy. Accusations of blasphemy often lead to violence or persecution. So when does irreverence become blasphemy? That's a good question, and one that Martin Marty takes up in this piece for Sightings. I invite you to read and respond. While freedom of speech is vital, when do we push things too far. I'm with Marty that we need a bit of "awe" in at times awful world!
By MARTIN E. MARTY JAN. 11, 2016
Gathering held in Brussels in solidarity for the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo, Jan. 7, 2015.
Credit: Valentina Calà / flickr
Those [of us] who are expected to monitor religious trends have reason to find talk of blasphemy a complex challenge to commentators and responsible citizens.
Islam is an international supplier of reasons for pondering and arguing themes associated with blasphemy. Most terrorism by factions in or at the edges of the Islamic world(s) is usually occasioned by fanatics who act in defense of Allah against heretics, the religious “other,” and “infidels” who are seen or claimed to be blasphemers.
Is it time to rethink blasphemy?
The dictionary can be succinct: blasphemy is radical irreverence or disrespect shown to that which is sacred, holy—especially when deity is involved. But the borderline between hard-core blasphemy and mere irreverence is blurry, and often seen by “the eyes of the beholder.”
This week’s New Yorker prompted reflection on the borderline. Was it crossed or only tip-toed-toward in Simon Rich’s piece, “Day of Judgment” (January 8), illustrated by a Jesus-looking figure gesturing past a score of microphones to an unseen audience.
Irreverent to the core, yes: but was it blasphemous? The star of the article is named “the Messiah,” a proper name in Judaism and Christianity alike.
Regulars on the scene know that there have been and are “false Messiahs” in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. They can be found by the dozens, of course, in Wikipedia. But Simon Rich’s “Messiah” is a befuddled “real” Messiah who confuses Al Sharpton with Al Roker, and can’t keep apart the biographies of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
This Messiah came from heaven to announce and effect “salvation” and other good things, but the crowd goes silent and embarrassed cherubs pull him back to heaven. The piece was well-aimed satire but was it blasphemous? Did the New Yorker get any critical letters?
Wasn’t the Vatican doing its job by protesting a violently demeaning and profane “God” on the cover of the notorious Charlie Hebdo? Was Saudi Arabia’s censorious government weirdly out of line by banning the naming of boys “Benjamin” by Saudi parents, no doubt because it has been corrupted by “Benyamin,” as in Netanyahu? Etc. Etc.
We confess to having sometimes enjoyed borderline blasphemies on late-night television and in other media. Taking on sacred cows can in some ways be good for “the sacred” and, for that matter, for figurative “cows.” In another column we might speak of the values of “sacred irreverence” in a culture where Culture War partisans are too sure of what is blasphemous.
And yet. . .and yet?
In today’s column let’s at least entertain the idea that the New Yorker and satirical magazines like Charlie Hebdo, if and when they cross the line with profane depictions of the Deity—as conceived by devout, ethical people in the great faith communities—help breed cynicism, relativism, or pseudo-tolerance to the point that being in awe of the “Sacred Other” is forgotten.
What if reverence toward God and standards of respectful human communication are irretrievably lost? And what if awe and reverence are lost at a time when some sense of the Holy in the religions, toward nature and in human interactions, merits retrieval?
Here’s to “awe” in an often aw-ful civilization.
Rich, Simon. “Day of Judgment.” New Yorker, January 11, 2016, Shouts & Murmurs.
Scammel, Rosie. “Vatican newspaper denounces ‘blasphemous’ Charlie Hebdo cover.”Religion News Service, January 6, 2016, Cover.
Harris, Elise. “Vatican paper blasts Charlie Hebdo cover as ‘insulting’ to all faiths.”Catholic News Agency, January 7, 2016, Vatican.
Wemple, Erik. “AP removes images of God-as-terrorist Charlie Hebdo cover.”Washington Post, January 7, 2016, Opinion.
Wemple, Erik. “After finding out that Charlie Hebdo cover satirizes God, MSNBC censors it.” Washington Post, January 7, 2016, Opinion.
Saul, Heather. “Is your name now ‘banned’ in Saudi Arabia?” Independent, March 14, 2014, Middle East.
Image: A gathering in Brussels held in solidarity for the attack in Paris on Charlie Hebdo, Jan. 7, 2015. Pictured is Charb (Stéphane Charbonnier), cartoonist, columnist, and editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo, who was killed during the attack. Credit: Valentina Calà / flickr creative commons.
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Author, Martin E. Marty, is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His biography, publications, and contact information can be found at www.memarty.com.
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Reader's Diary #1160- Konami Kanata, translated by Ed Chavez: Chi's Sweet Home, Vol. 1
A few times while reading Kanata's Chi's Sweet Home I had to remind myself that I picked this from the junior graphic novel section at the library. I was not the intended the audience. So whenever I rolled my eyes over the kitten who thought in overly-cutesy misspellings (e.g., scarewy instead of scary) I quickly moved on, accepting that younger audiences may not find it as annoying.
But it wasn't all simply tolerated, the book does have it's genuine warm and funny moments. It's a story of a kitten rescued by a famiwy... er, family... who live in a "No Pets Allowed" apartment. Quickly they grow attached and the kitten grows to accept her new surroundings.
The best thing about Chi, for cat lovers, is how well Kanata captures the kitten experience. Curious, playful, skittish, Kanata also gets inside Chi's head at times, helping to clarify just why the heck she's acting the way she is. (And when it comes to cats, that's no small task!) It's not as fantastical as Ashley Spires' Binky the Space Cat, but the realism still held my attention.
The artwork is okay, if not an overly detailed work of manga, nicely coloured with watercolours. In some regards it would be a good starter manga for younger readers, adhering to many common comics and manga tactics (e.g., showing a sequence of panels featuring objects around the room to imply a passage of time) and therefore could help build one's comic literacy. It has been flipped for North American audiences, however, so some might feel it's not introducing them to the true form. On the other hand, it would also make it less of an adjustment for many.
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Nicola Mansfield said...
Interestingly enough, while the North American audience is aimed at kids, the intended Japanese audience is men 30s/40s (as opposed to boys)! This is classified as seinen manga. Japanese men must really go for cats! My 14 yob has read this series for years and we are looking forward to the last volume coming out in June.
Thursday, 28 May, 2015
Nicola: Seinen manga? Yeah, that's... odd.
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History of Pashtuns
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Desecration of dead bodies of Pashtun Ghazis by the British
Burning the body of a Ghazi assassin outside the Peshawar Gate, Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Second Anglo-Afghan War, illustration from the magazine The Graphic , volume XIX, no 480, February 8, 1879
1899: Death warrant of Sher Dil, issued at Peshawar by a judge of the British establishment. Its not clear what crime was Sher Dil executed for. However, Summary Execution and then burning of the dead body with lime was the punishment for killing any British. They would bury the ashes of the dead in the jail premises and the family of the dead would be refused to bid final farewell in any way.
Here in the photos, the death certificate and an additional note confirming burning of the dead body of Sher Dil.
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"This morning punishment by hanging was meted out to a Ghazi at Apozai. It appears that, having said his prayers, he got ready to murder the first man of any importance that passed, who in this case chanced to be Lieutenant Godfrey, the Assistant Political Agent, on his way to Europe on sick leave under cavalry escort. The fanatic fired at two sowars successively, each time missing, and then, when the kahars who were carrying the doolie in which lay the officer dropped it and bolted, he first shot at and then dashed with his sword at Godfrey, but was fortunately shot in the hip and disabled in time. When captured, he said he had been oppressed by the malik of his village, and he looked very ill and broken down. Before the drop fell, he shouted to the Pathan onlookers to pray for him. I may mention, also, that the native who shot the coolie within five hundred yards of the Bengal Cavalry lines on the 9th was also a Ghazi. He, too, was duly captured, and hanged almost on the spot of the murder, a little before 9 o'clock on October 21, in presence of three or four hundred people. In both cases the bodies were burned." [With the Zhob Field Force, 1890 - Page 112]
From The Graphic 1897,
"The corpses of the enemy are always burnt as an additional terror to the living. At Malakand one of their most important chieftains was found dead within three yards of our trenches, and some twenty others not far from him who had been shot in attempt to recover his body out of the hands of the infidel. He was dragged by the feet by a common sweeper, and burnt in full view of the enemy in heights, which had a most depressing effect on them". [The Graphic, November 20, Vol-56, p-667]
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About Cecil
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Why Your Online Agency Will Likely Never Get You A Positive ROI. How a Drunk Google Employee Let Us in on the Secret to Paid Search Success…
Posted by Glen Spencer | No Tags | Analytics · Blog · Facebook Marketing · Google AdWords Pay Per Click Marketing · Online Marketing | No Comments on Why Your Online Agency Will Likely Never Get You A Positive ROI. How a Drunk Google Employee Let Us in on the Secret to Paid Search Success…
If you’re not seeing a positive return on investment with your online marketing campaigns, you likely never will because your ad agency hasn’t been hanging around enough drunk Google employees.
Remember that scene from the Academy Award-Winning 2000 film Erin Brockovich, when the creepy guy who Erin thinks is trying to pick her up turns out to be a former PG&E employee just trying to share some inside information—information that turns out to be critical evidence for her case against PG&E? Well, twelve years ago in 2004, while at a party in Aspen, I met a guy who ended up laying the foundation for our success at SmartClick.
He wasn’t creepy in any traditional sense, but he was incredibly drunk—like wasted kind of drunk—and when he found out I worked in marketing, he started spinning tales from his work doing online marketing for political campaigns that year.
In between anecdotal conspiracy theories (including how Republican PACs were apparently funding paid search campaigns in support of Democratic primary candidate John Kerry to ensure a “patsy” won the nomination to go up against George W. Bush in the general election), my new friend mentioned something interesting. He said that, because of the unusually strong results he’d been getting with Google’s AdWords product with a very unusual set up, he’d recently been hired by Google to help them understand the strategy behind what he was doing.
Revolutionizing Paid Search with One Keyword Per Ad Group
In a drunken stupor at 4:00 a.m., after a night of hard partying, my new friend began to relate an account setup strategy that was so interesting and innovative that we literally stayed up all night talking about it. He began to relate how the core of his strategy was to set up ad campaigns with ad groups containing just a single keyword. (An ad group allows the user to set up a campaign that shows specific ads to a specific set of keywords.) Setting up an ad group with just one keyword was literally mind-blowing, as this was something that Google had never considered up to that point.
Why was going after just one keyword, with one specific ad for that keyword, so mind blowing? At the time, a typical AdWords campaign might have 10,000 keywords in it, which meant manually setting up 10,000 ad groups one by one—an impossible and insane task—unless you had very specialized expertise in AdWords Editor, which was at the time a brand new tool. AdWords Editor allowed users to build an AdWords campaign in a spreadsheet and upload it to AdWords. Before my conversation with my new friend, what I hadn’t realized was that we could use this tool to build and upload sophisticated campaigns with thousands of keywords, each with their own ad group.
An ad is better when it is more relevant to a consumer because, all other things being equal, it will receive a higher quality score (the score of relevance and ad effectiveness that each keyword phrase in a campaign receives). A keyword with a quality score of 1 may literally have to bid ten times what a keyword with a quality score of 10 would have to; as a keyword’s ad relevance goes up, cost/click goes down, and so cost/conversion goes down. This can mean the difference between paying $100 to convert a sale of $100, to paying just $5 to convert that same customer.
This strategy was so intuitive that we decided to implement this strategy at the adventure travel company I was running at the time, and it worked incredibly well, driving millions in incremental revenue. Suitably vetted, this setup later became the foundation of all our paid search work at SmartClick as well. Shifting all new clients’ paid search accounts from an unsophisticated set up to a one keyword per ad group set up has literally made our clients millions.
Over the years, SmartClick has taken over hundreds of client AdWords accounts that were managed by other agencies or in-house teams. Not a single one of them has had anything close to this granular set up recommended by that drunk Google employee. When we make this big shift in setup to the more advanced format early on in the client relationship, we almost always see significant success with a client.
Granularity in Campaign Setup also Works for Other Online Ad Media
My conversation with the drunk Google employee, which caused us to do a more granular one-keyword per ad group strategy, affected our work far beyond paid search. We realized that with other ad media, a similar, more granular approach could really pay off. In fact, that’s a key theme in what we do at SmartClick—we use a wildly more sophisticated set up than most other agencies would have the patience for.
With Facebook advertising, for example, we’ve been able to perfect the process of bulk uploading ads in Facebook Power Editor to create dozens of different ad test cells for client campaigns each month. We can test different combinations of photo assets, ad copy, and targeting, and find the ideal combinations through rigorous monthly testing. We’ve found that we could only do such a sophisticated set up with the bulk uploading capabilities provided by Facebook Power Editor. That’s a key reason why we’re able drive significant results for clients with Facebook advertising, and why now 75% of SmartClick’s Ad Spend for clients is now on Facebook.
So a simple conversation with a drunk Google employee in Aspen led to our setting up Google campaigns in far more sophisticated ways than we otherwise would have, driving millions in incremental revenue for our clients. This strategy has been one of the key reasons why SmartClick continues to double in revenue each year, without doing any business development. In addition, applying this sophisticated set up on other media platforms like Facebook directly led to even more success.
What’s the lesson here? Perhaps it’s that finding incredibly important information of lasting quality often comes through forming relationships with people in the real world—not by reading a bunch of blog posts. By being open to meeting people and learning from them (and in this case, by giving a drunk person the benefit of the doubt), I learned critical information I would not have ever learned on my own, information that literally made our agency make real impact, stand out from the crowd, and grow beyond my wildest dreams.
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Balafas says migrant numbers on islands will drop
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Deputy Migration Minister Yiannis Balafas has reiterated the government’s commitment to reduce the number of migrants and refugees on the Greek islands from 17,000 to 10,000 by the end of September.
In an interview with the Efimerida ton Syntakton newspaper published on Saturday, Balafas said refugees and migrants will be transferred to the Greek mainland, which is already under pressure from crossings over the Evros land border.
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