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Peace Dinner Planning
Top-line menu:
Chicken Cacciatore: scale x 4 to approx. 16 lbs chicken.
Baked Fish with Capers and Olives: scale x 4 to 8 lb. fish.
Caponata: scale x 2, Leah to cook.
Roots, Shoots and Squash (Roasted Winter Vegetables): scale x 2, or maybe a bit more.
Horiatiki Salad: Greek chopped salad, scale x 3, omit anchovies.
Baby Spinach Salad with Dates & Almonds: scale x 2 (or 3).
Mast Va Khiar: Persian cucumber/yogurt salad, scale x 2.
Al's Rice and Beans
Appetizer array:
Tapenade: black olive dip, scale x 2 to 3-4 cups
Mhammara: red pepper/walnut dip flavored with pomegranate molasses, scale x 1.5 to 3-4 cups
Crostini di Fegatini: chicken liver pat�, served as dip, scale x 4 (2 lbs chicken livers)
Hummus: delegated to Janice
Butternut Squash & Tahini Spread: scale x 2.
Escalivada: scale x 2; I'd add a tomato.
Marinated Green Olives: scale x 2.
Marinated Black Olives: scale x 2.
Mutabbaq: cheese-filled pastry, scale x 2.
Mixed Fruit: delegated to Janice.
Vanilla Cream: scale x 3 (3 cups cream, 1 cup sour cream)
Finally, on Saturday, got my new computer build working, hooked up, and able to stream from Napster. I'm somewhat embarrassed to finally realize that the problem all along was a faulty monitor (a Samsung, like most of the other faulty equipment in the house right now -- my big complaint is a broken ice maker in the refrigerator, and by broken I mean that the plastic tray is badly cracked on both ends, such that the screw drive that moved the ice forward jams). The monitor actually displays internally generated messages fine, but doesn't display the signal coming in through the D-SUB connection. In fact, the manual says the monitor has a self-test feature, and when I tried that the self-test came out OK. But it took weeks for it to finally sink in that the monitor was the problem.
Went out on Black Saturday and picked up a new LG 24-inch monitor for about $140. The new computer works fine with it. The old computer works fine too, so now I have a spare. It had been 5-6 years since I built the old one, so one can argue that I was due for a new one, but I hate to have blundered into it like that. The new one has an 8-core AMD FX-8350 processor, ASUS motherboard and video card (not a fancy one, but has 2GB RAM), plus I have 32GB RAM and a 2TB hard drive, a DVD burner, and a parallel printer port board so I can still hook up to my old HP laser printer. Loaded Xubuntu 16.04 desktop on it, and I've had to load a couple dozen extra software packages so I have a LAMP web server, emacs, gimp, and a few extra applications that looked promising (including a CAD system, an alt-Adobe Illustrator, and a database program for recipes). That's all free software. Had to jump through some extra hoops to get non-free (but zero cost) Adobe Flash (needed by Napster) and gstreamer drivers for playing DVDs. Probably still need some further work, but it's basically functional now. Used a cheap old box, so it's not the most elegant thing in the shop, but should be a solid machine.
Only three Napster streams among the records listed below. I also played the new A Tribe Called Quest (given an A+ last week by Christgau) but didn't get into it enough to pass any sort of judgment. (Two-thirds sounds pretty good, but nothing sounds as great as that grade implies. And it's two discs, and I'm often slow getting into hip-hop records, so I figured it best to return later).l The three rated below only got a single play. Could be that a second play might nudge Common up a notch, but Bruno Mars was disappointing and Pink Martini clearly not their best work. Playing the latest Miles Davis bootleg as I write this, but at 3-CD it's going to take a while.
Besides, I needed to make a serious dent in the incoming jazz queue, which I did. The 2016 pending list is currently down to six albums: no one I've heard of (although I filed one under Ernest Dawkins, whose last three albums came in at A-, so I need to check that one out soon). Jazz Critics Poll ballot due next week, and Francis Davis is already getting anxious about that. I did a preliminary sort on my jazz list a couple weeks ago, but I still expect to fiddle with the order quite a bit (depending on time and whether I can find things, so possibly not before I have to turn a ballot in).
I'm afraid I have no sense whatsoever how that poll is going to go. I currently list 61 A- (or better) new jazz albums. The only one in my top-ten I'm reasonably sure will finish top-ten (probably top-three) is Henry Threadgill's Old Locks and Irregular Verbs. I suppose JD Allen (Americana) and David Murray (Perfection) are possibles; further down my list Steve Lehman, Sonny Rollins, Greg Ward, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, and Fred Hersch seem likely to get a few votes, but I'll be surprised if anything else cracks the top forty. (George Coleman maybe? Rich Halley? Jane Ira Bloom?)
Rather seems more likely that some of my HM records will poll well -- Michael Formanek, Mary Halvorson, Wadada Leo Smith, Tyshawn Sorey -- or records I listed lower -- Darcy James Argue, Kenny Barron, Vijay Iyer, Charles Lloyd -- not much else I've noticed other critics liking, but I'm sure I've missed some things. As for records I've heard of but haven't heard, I scanned through my checklist file and added 13 records to the "estimated to have a 2% chance of A-" list in the EOY Jazz file cited above (also added 19 to the EOY Non-Jazz file). I'll add more as I see some actual EOY lists.
Speaking of EOY lists, the first few have appeared (starting, as usual, in the UK with NME, Mojo, Uncut, and a few record store lists). I put a lot of work into tracking these things last year, and doubted that I would again, but the last few weeks have been so stressful to me that I thought it might be calming to waste some time on them this year. After eight (or so) lists this year looks like this. (Note that I'm already counting my grades, although I've only included those on other lists.) My initial guess was that Beyonc� would win going away, with Chance the Rapper in second, and then, well, I don't know -- AOTY has Nick Cave top-rated based on review averages (a B- as far as I'm concerned), followed by Bon Iver (*), Beyonce (?), Solange (**), Radiohead (B), Frank Ocean (?), Leonard Cohen (A-), A Tribe Called Quest (probably A-), Mitski (*), and Angel Olsen (***). But at least in the UK, David Bowie jumped into a clear lead, followed by Cave, Radiohead, Olsen, Thee Oh Sees, and Iggy Pop, with Beyonc� and Chance back in the 30-40 range.
However, the first American list to appear, from Consequence of Sound, is closer to what I expect: Beyonc�, Chance, Bowie, Ocean, Anohni, Cave, Olsen, Anderson .Paak, Bon Iver, Cohen, Mitski, A Tribe Called Quest (first list appearance for a late release), Radiohead, Blood Orange, Schoolboy Q, Wilco, Tim Hecker, Car Seat Headrest, Solange; plus some further down records that may do better: Kaytranada, Danny Brown, Savages, Kevin Gates, Young Thug, White Lung.
One list that's out that I haven't bothered with is Decibel's. Last year I faithfully tracked all the metal lists, but wound up listening to fewer than five albums, so that much doesn't seem to be worth the effort this year. I suppose that makes my tally a bit less objective, but I'd rather spend my time on things I consider worthy.
I made a mistake last week in listing Heroes Are Gang Leader's new album Flukum, so corrected that and repeated it this week. I liked their previous album this year (Highest Engines Near/Near Higher Engineers) a bit more, but both should be of interest if you're interested in jazz-rap fusion. The two A- records this week are from Ivo Perelman's six-volume set, only marginally better than the others because bass seems to fit in better than piano (or viola or guitar). Could be I downgraded the one with Shipp only because I expected more (it was the one volume I singled out to listen to in the car). Perelman finishes the year with 4 A-, 4 ***, 1 **, 2 * records.
PS: Monday's mail brought a nice package from NoBusiness in Lithuania, and a new Randy Weston 2-CD that officially drops on January 20 (so I can ignore it for a couple weeks). Also email from Steve Swell offering me a couple CDs, so they'll be coming soon. Also, that new Dawkins album is pretty good.
Aguank�: Latin Jazz Christmas in Havana (2016, Aguank�): [cd]: B
Eraldo Bernocchi/Prakash Sontakke: Invisible Strings (2016, RareNoise): [cdr]: B+(***)
Karl Blau: Introducing Karl Blau (2016, Raven Marching Band): [r]: B
Common: Black America Again (2016, Def Jam): [r]: B+(**)
The Delegation: Evergreen (Canceled World) (2014-15 [2016], ESP-Disk, 2CD): [cd]: B+(*)
The Fat Babies: Solid Gassuh (2016, Delmark): [cd]: B+(**)
Jari Haapalainen Trio: Fusion Machine (2016, Moserobie): [cd]: B+(*)
Stu Harrison: Volume I (2016, One Nightstand): [cd]: B+(**)
Heroes Are Gang Leaders: Flukum (2016, Flat Langston's Arkeyes): [cd]: B+(**)
Jerome Jennings: The Beast (2016, Iola): [cd]: B+(**)
MAST: Love and War_ (2016, Alpha Pup): [cdr]: B+(*)
Ivo Perelman/Karl Berger/Gerald Cleaver: The Art of the Improv Trio Volume 1 (2016, Leo): [cd]: B+(***)
Ivo Perelman/Mat Maneri/Whit Dickey: The Art of the Improv Trio Volume 2 (2016, Leo): [cd]: B+(***)
Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Gerald Cleaver: The Art of the Improv Trio Volume 3 (2015 [2016], Leo): [cd]: B+(**)
Ivo Perelman/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver: The Art of the Improv Trio Volume 4 (2016, Leo): [cd]: A-
Ivo Perelman/Joe Morris/Gerald Cleaver: The Art of the Improv Trio Volume 5 (2016, Leo): [cd]: B+(***)
Ivo Perelman/Joe Morris/Gerald Cleaver: The Art of the Improv Trio Volume 6 (2016, Leo): [cd]: A-
Pink Martini: Je Dis Oui (2016, Heinz): [r]: B+(*)
Bobby Previte: Mass (2016, RareNoise): [cdr]: B-
Rudy Royston Trio: RisEofOrion (2016, Greenleaf Music): [cd]: B+(***)
Enoch Smith Jr.: The Quest: Live at APC (2016, Misfitme Music): [cd]: C
Snaggle: The Long Slog (2016, Browntasaurus): [cd]: B-
Basak Yavuz: A Little Red Bug (2016, Things&): [cd]: B+(**)
Zarabande: El Toro (2016, AFlo): [cd]: B+(*)
Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington: The Stockholm Concert (1966 [1994], Jazz World): [cd]: B+(***)
I didn't really plan on posting a Roundup this week, but when I looked at Salon's politics section way too may red flags jumped out at me. I'm generally inclined to give Trump a little rope to hang himself, but I'm surprised by the speed with which he's set about the task. I realized that Trump was a guy who spent every waking moment conniving to make money (well, aside from the time spent plotting sexual conquests), and thought it unlikely that he'd change for a moment. But these pieces are mostly self-explanatory, so at least I don't have to annotate them.
Some scattered links this week on all things Trump:
Donald Trump's Caldron of Conflicts
Yoni Appelbaum: Donald Trump's Revival of 'Honest Graft'
Dan Bacher: Trump Appoints Big Oil Think Tank Director to Lead Interior Transition Team
Thor Benson: Donald Trump's surveillance state: All the tools to suppress dissent and kill free speech are already in place: Thanks to 9/11 and the permanent state of war.
Jamelle Bouie: Government by the Worst Men: Bannon, Flynn, Sessions -- but isn't that only the beginning?
Donald Brownstein: Donald Trump's Fragile Hold on America
Matthew Daly: Donald Trump's stock in Dakota Access oil pipeline company raises concern
Amy Davidson: The Real Concerns of the Trump Transition
Joe Emersberger: How the Rich Are Getting Richer: Interview with Dean Baker.
Garrett Epps: Donald Trump Has Broken the Constitution
Henry Farrell: Kissing the Ring: After considering Trump as Cosimo de Medici, a prediction:
If this is right, the key qualities of presidential politics over the next four years will be instability, frequent policy change, palace intrigues, and Trump looking to reign triumphant above it all, not particularly caring (a la Padgett and Ansell's Cosimo) about attaining specific goals, but instead looking to preserve his position at the center of an ever shifting spider web of political relations, no matter what consequences this has for the integrity of the web.
Dana Goldstein: How Trump Could Gut Public Education: First clue is his pick of fellow billionaire Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. Also note that Trump has some previous experience in the business of education.
William Hartung: Trump for the Defense
Joshua Holland: Struggling White Voters Who Helped Elect Trump Are Headed for Some Serious Pain
Paul Krugman: Infrastructure Build or Privatization Scam?
Gary Legum: Peak "crony captialism": Donald Trump indulging in corrupt favoritism isn't surprising -- but so much of it so soon?!
Simon Maloy: The Trump sleaze factor: Let the GOP own the new, expanded "culture of corruption" Trump promises
Josh Marshall: Must Reads on the Coming Privatization of Everything and The Historic Cash-In Continues. Marshall has also been on top of Paul Ryan's scheme to wreck Medicare -- for all the world it sounds like he's trying to replace the popular and effective program with something similar to but a bit shadier than Obamacare -- including this piece on the politics: Medicare for the Win.
Richard C Paddock, et al: Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President
Phil Plait: Trump's Plan to Eliminate NASA Climate Research Is Ill-Informed and Dangerous
Joy-Ann Reid: Already Happening: Media Normalization of Trumpism
Matthew Rozsa: This week in Donald Trump's conflicts of interest: What was the president-elect doing this week to possibly make himself rich?
David Swanson: Michael Flynn Should Remember Truths He Blurted Out Last Year: like criticizing Obama for his obsession with death-by-drone.
Jim Tankersley: Trump can't revive industry. But his voters might still get raises. Unfortunately, that depends on Trump sustaining growth rates comparable to Clinton in the 1990s, and assuming that the labor market hasn't deteriorated in the meantime -- I'm pretty doubtful on both counts. On the other hand, if Trump succeeds in deporting virtually all undocumented workers, that could tighten labor markets a bit (but probably not enough).
Jeremy Venook: Donald Trump's Conflicts of Interest: A Crib Sheet
Matthew Yglesias: Don't let Donald Trump's antics distract you from what's really important, following up on We have 100 days to stop Donald Trump from systemically corrupting our institutions.
Also a couple things not exactly on the incoming disaster, although not exactly unrelated either:
Jeff Madrick: How Much Did Alan Greenspan Really Know?
Charlie Savage/Eric Schmitt/Mark Mazzetti: Obama Expands War With Al Qaeda to Include Shabab in Somalia: Obama's been fighting a clandestine war in Somalia for some years now, but this step is particularly ominous, as it holds that a president can enter a new war without consent of Congress, simply by declaring that a previous (now 15-year-old) resolution applies. As I recall, Obama got his first taste for blood in Somalia: shortly after becoming president, he ordered US forces to kill Somali pirates to effect the release of a hostage. Many more "targeted assassinations" followed -- drones and "kill lists" and Navy SEALS and so forth -- but maybe he feels a special fondness (if that's the word) for Somalia.
John Weeks: By the numbers: Barack Obama's contribution to the decline of US democracy: Probably worth a deeper look, but the most immediately damning point is how inequality accelerated under Obama, even compared to Bush.
Michelle Goldberg: Democratic Politics Have to Be "Identity Politics": A fairly intelligent but unsettling dive into a debate Democrats seem to be having over "identity politics." I don't particularly agree with either the bases or conclusions here, and think both sides tend to talk past one another.
I don't have much to say about Fidel Castro. I've never held any romantic attachment for Cuba's communist regime, and I don't doubt that it has sometimes been repressive and that its planned economy could have been more dynamic. However, I can't begrudge their early expropriation of foreign (mostly American) assets, and must admit that they've built a literate, highly educated, and for the most part egalitarian society, while maintaining a vibrant culture, all despite cruel economic hardships imposed variously by America and Russia. It's worth remembering that Cuba was the last slaveholder society in the Americas, and the last of Spain's colonial outposts, and after the US seized it in America's 1898 imperialist expansion was only granted "independence" because it was thought easier to run it through local puppet strongmen -- a scandalous series that was only ended by Castro's revolution.
I've long thought that the vitriolic reaction of American politicos to Cuba's real independence and defiance reflected a deep-seated guilt (and embarrassment) about how badly we had mishandled our power there. But it manifested itself as sheer spite, ranging from the CIA's Bay of Pigs invasion and numerous assassination plots the CIA tried to mount against Castro to the long-running blockade -- all of which reinforced Castro's anti-Americanism and made him a hero for underdogs all around the world. Obama's recent normalization of US-Cuban relations finally gives us a chance to be less of an ogre -- although the reflexive instinct is still apparent in recent comments by Trump, Rubio, and others. Hopefully they'll blow this jingoistic thinking out of their systems.
Here are a few scattered comments on Castro from: Tariq Ali; Greg Grandin; Tony Karon (2008); also: Stephen Gibbs/Jonathan Watts: Havana in mourning: 'We Cubans are Fidelista even if we are not communist'; Kathy Gilsinan: How Did Fidel Castro Hold On to Cuba for So Long?.
One quote, from the Karon piece above:
There's been predictably little interesting discussion in the United States of Fidel Castro's retirement as Cuba's commandante en jefe, maximo etc. That's because in the U.S. political mainstream, Cuba policy has for a generation been grotesquely disfigured by a collective kow-towing -- yes, collective, it was that craven Mr. Clinton who signed into law the Draconian Helms-Burton act that made it infinitely more difficult for any U.S. president to actually lift the embargo, and the equally craven Mrs. Clinton appears to pandering to the same crowd -- to the Cuban-American Ahmed Chalabi figures of Miami, still fantasizing about a day when they'll regain their plantations and poor people of color will once again know their place. [ . . . ]
What fascinates me, however, is the guilty pleasure with which so many millions of people around the world revere Fidel Castro -- revere him, but wouldn't dream of emulating his approach to economics or governance. People, in other words, who would not be comfortable actually living in Castro's Cuba, much as they like the idea of him sticking it the arrogant yanqui, his physical and political survival a sure sign that Washington's awesome power has limits -- and can therefore be challenged.
Fielding a request for a possible Mediterranean-themed menu for this year's annual Peace Center dinner:
Appetizer course: What I see here is a platter served to each table (about 6-8 guests per table). We'll need to figure out a way to present this (the ideal solution would be a large lazy susan, but we'd need to replicate it 8-10 times; easier would be to use small disposable bowls, to be passed around within the table).
Tapenade (black olive puree) or Garum (same plus capers and anchovies)
Melitzanoslata (eggplant dip) or Escalivada (add peppers and tomato)
Hummus: chick peas and tahini
Butternut squash & tahini spread
Chopped liver (or crostini di fegatini): chicken liver
Spiced olives
Spiced feta cheese (or maybe use a mix of gorgonzola and goat cheese?)
Harissa: Tunisian hot sauce
Bread: toasted and/or plain pita, and/or crostini
Soups:
Harira: chicken stock, lentils, chickpeas, with beef or lamb
Minestrone: vegetable stock with small white beans, cabbage, onion, zucchini, potatoes, tomatoes (most of my recipes call for meat stock, some for pancetta and prosciutto); or could go with gazpacho (cold tomato-cucumber-onion soup) or some other vegetable soup (your sweet potato soup might fit here)
Salads:
Your "fresh greens" salad
Greek (horiatiki) salad: some recipes call for lettuce, but in Greece this is a chopped salad with feta cheese
Orange-onion-olive salad (Turkish)
Carrot salad (Moroccan)
Mast va khiar: Persian yogurt-cucumber-scallion-mint with sultanas and black walnuts
Main dishes and vegetables:
Maqluba ("upside down"): chicken, eggplant, cauliflower, tomato, rice
Baked fish with capers and olives, or baked fish with chermoula
Ratatouille or caponata: eggplant, zucchini, etc.
Pepperonata
Roasted sweet potatoes with dates (recipe calls for figs, but dates are better): with scallions, goat cheese, balsamic reduction
Roasted root vegetables: potatoes, carrots, turnips, rutabaga, parsnips, onion, leeks, winter squash
Mutabbaq: phyllo sheets around a goat cheese filling, drenched in syrup
Macedonia: macerated mixed fresh fruit
Egg custard gelato
I expected my computer problems would be solved by now, but seems like they've multiplied. I basically work on three computers. I built my main one close to a decade ago, then upgraded most of it four or so years ago: new motherboard, 8-core AMD cpu, 32GB RAM, kept the old mirrored hard drives. I write on it, and maintain master copies of a half-dozen websites. It's great, but I fell off the update track some while back, so it's still running Ubuntu 12.04, which includes one very annoying flaw: Firefox doesn't handle JavaScript very well, so I avoid it (NoScript helps) but even so it crashes a couple times a week. Ubuntu is now up to 16.04, and at some point I need to break down and do the upgrade(s).
Meanwhile, I've had a second, less powerful Ubuntu computer -- I bought the components there on a pretty limited budget (probably something like $500, maybe five years ago), and I've kept it up to date. I hooked up some Klipsch speakers to it, and used it for streaming music, downloading, and Facebook (one of those JavaScript monsters that kills my main computer). However, a couple months ago I started noticing loud clicks in the audio, and occasional freezes when I would look at DVDs. I tried replacing the power supply, which got rid of the clicks. But then something happened: the video went blank (a deep screensaver option), but wouldn't wake up. I could still log into the machine remotely, and I've been tracking down similar issues and possible fixes, but none have worked. Knowing the computer was old and weak, I decided to buy new components -- AMD 8-core FX cpu, motherboard, 32GB RAM, 2TB hard drive, a fairly cheap ATI Radeon video card. I figured I'd use the recently purchased power supply (a 650W Corsair) and an old box (which previously hosted my wife's computer; when I rebuilt I got her a new mini-tower box).
The old box had a 550W Thermaltake power supply which looked quite viable, so I decided to try an experiment: I swapped power supplies, then stuck my new video card into the old computer. I rebooted, and it came up with proper graphics. I finally was able to listen to a record on Napster (Erroll Garner, below, and got about half-way through the new Miles Davis bootleg before I went to bed). Anyhow, that seemed to work well enough I ordered yet another video card. Then next morning I got up and the video was blanked, and nothing I did made could wake it up. The blackout is so bad not even the BIOS splash screen appears. The monitor, however, displays diagnostic info (analog, digital, no cable). I just remotely did a software update, then reboot. Still no screen. Very frustrating, very perplexing.
Meanwhile, I've built the new computer, except for the new video card I expect to arrive tomorrow. Then I'll plug it in, do a fresh Xubuntu desktop install, and try to patch up the various things I need (emacs, mysql, apache, php, etc.). Should take the better part of a day, if all goes well. Not that anything's gone well in the last month or so. At some point all this frustration threatens to turn into depression.
So, all but one of this week's records were reviewed from CDs, so all are jazz. (I don't think I've bought a single CD all year.) At least I've drained about half of the queue that built up in September and October. Main thing left is six Ivo Perelman discs, giving him ten on the year. All are titled The Art of the Improv Trio then a volume number. First one is pretty good, and most likely they're all like that, so I'll be struggling with marginal distinctions for a couple days -- at least that beats the Xmas CDs, which I figure I'll suffer through sometime closer to the holiday.
I did finally flesh out my first pass at EOY lists: one for Jazz, and the other for Non-Jazz. The former is much larger (61 A-list, 120 HM, 385 other, so 566 total, 8-6-11=25 for reissues/compilations, vs. non-jazz: 41 A-list, 36 HM, 105 other, so 182 total, 11-9-6=26 for reissues/compilations). At this time last year the Jazz A-list was well ahead of the Non-Jazz, but eventually they evened out. That seems less likely this year, but is still possible. Assuming I get Napster up and running again, the ratio of Jazz/Non-Jazz further down the grade scale should reduce somewhat, but hard to see that ever balancing out. Reissues and compilations remain especially hard to get hold of.
No Thanksgiving plans. My wife never wants me to cook on that day, and all the usual friends and family have their own plans, so most likely we'll be home alone. Maybe I'll get some listening done.
Still scanning through the notebooks for stray record reviews. Up to December 2006, where I noticed that I had in fact made Thanksgiving dinner that year. Went Japanese that year:
pan-fried gyoza
salmon teriyaki
tiny roast potatoes
french-cut green beans with peanut sauce
grilled Japanese eggplant with spicy peanut sauce
agedashi (fried bean curd)
Also planned on sushi rice with grilled unagi (eel), but evidently didn't get that done until the next day. I hardly ever cook Japanese (except for the salmon, one of the easiest really good recipes I know), so this mostly seems unfamiliar (aside from the ringers: the eggplant is one of Barbara Tropp's Chinese fusion recipes, and the cake is my Mom's recipe, an old family standard -- in fact, one of the cakes I made for her funeral reception).
Sophie Agnel/Daunik Lazro: Marguerite D'Or P�le (2016, Fou): [cd]: B+(**)
Tom Collier: Impulsive Illuminations (2014-15 [2016], Origin): [cd]: B
Dim Lighting: Your Miniature Motion (2014 [2016], Off): [cdr]: B+(*)
David Friesen Circle 3 Trio: Triple Exposure (2015 [2016], Origin): [cd]: B+(*)
Clay Giberson: Pastures (2015 [2016], Origin): [cd]: B+(***)
Erik Jekabson: A Brand New Take (2015 [2016], OA2): [cd]: B+(*)
Walter Kemp 3oh!: Dark Continent (2015 [2016], Blujazz): [cd]: B+(*)
Frank Kimbrough: Solstice (2016, Pirouet): [cd]: B+(**)
Jerry Leake: Crafty Hands (2016, Rhombus Publishing): [cd]: B+(**)
Allen Lowe: In the Diaspora of the Diaspora: A Day in Brooklyn: At Ibeam (2015 [2016], Constant Sorrow, 2CD): [cd]: B+(***)
Allen Lowe: In the Diaspora of the Diaspora: Hell With an Ocean View (2016, Constant Sorrow): [cd]: A-
Thierry Maillard Trio: Ethnic Sounds (2016, Blujazz): [cd]: B-
Mamutrio [Lieven Cambr�/Piet Verbist/Jesse Dockx]: Primal Existence (2015 [2016], Origin): [cd]: B+(***)
Tom Marko: Inner Light (2016, Summit): [cd]: B
Melanie Marod: I'll Go Mad (2016, ITI): [cd]: B+(*)
John Moulder: Earthborn Tales of Soul and Spirit (2014-16, Origin): [cd]: B
Moutin Factory Quintet: Deep (2016, Blujazz): [cd]: B+(*)
Fredrik Nordstr�m: Gentle Fire/Restless Dreams (2016, Moserobie, 2CD): [cd]: A-
Phil Parisot: Lingo (2016, OA2): [cd]: B+(*)
Ken Schaphorst Big Band: How to Say Goodbye (2014 [2016], JCA): [cd]: B+(*)
Steve Slagle: Alto Manhattan (2016 [2017], Panorama): [cd]: B+(***)
Anna Webber's Simple Trio: Binary (2016, Skirl): [cd]: B+(***)
Scott Whitfield: New Jazz Standards (Volume 2) (2016, Summit): [cd]: B+(*)
Erroll Garner: Ready Take One (1967-71 [2016], Legacy): [r]: B+(*)
Dr. Mint: Voices in the Void (Orenda): January 21
Live Human: Scratch Bop (Cosmic)
Mast: Love and War (Alpha Pup): advance, October 7
Rudy Royston Trio: RisEofOrion (Greenleaf Music)
David Wise: Till They Lay Me Down (self-released): January 6
Basak Yavuz: A Little Red Bug (Things&Records): December 15
Election Roundup
First, a few summary points, many drawing on my previous post-election piece:
Hillary Clinton still has a popular vote margin over Donald Trump, one that currently stands at 1,322,095 votes, up nearly one million votes since I checked earlier, and up about 100,000 votes since I started this post. (I've seen a tweet that has Clinton's lead at 1.65 million votes.) Still, that's less than Clinton's margin in New York state alone (1,507,241), a mere 45% of her margin in California (2,904,526). In fact, California topped Hawaii as her best percentage state (61.78%; she won 90.4% in DC). By contrast, Trump's biggest popular win, in Texas, was 813,774, followed by Tennessee (651,073), Alabama (588,841), Kentucky (574,108), Missouri (530,864), Indiana (520,429). Trump topped 60% in 9 states (AL, AR, KY, NB, ND, OK, SD, WV, WY), but most were small.
Clinton lost three states that she was heavily favored in by very slim margins: Michigan (0.27%), Wisconsin (0.93%), and Pennsylvania (1.24%). Had she hung on to those three states she would have won the electoral college. It's easy to imagine various technical shifts in her campaign strategy that might have secured those states and won her the election, even without any substantive adjustments to her platform. She was not a hopeless candidate, but was a flawed and for many people uninspiring one, and was not well served by a staff and organization built to flatter her.
Voter turnout was down 1.2 points, to 53.7%. Trump was elected president with about 25% of the vote, and Clinton lost with just a hair more. As was widely reported, they were the two least approved candidates in history. Clinton maintained a polling lead throughout the campaign, but was never able to top 50%, her leads varying widely as Trump's numbers waxed and waned. Trump caught a break a week before the election when FBI Director James Comey re-opened Clinton's email troubles, and Trump avoided major blunders in his last week, so his win can be attributed to a lucky break.
The Democrats gained two Senate seats and seven House seats, so the party as a whole was not swept up in a Republican tide. More likely she was a drag on down-ticket Democrats. I believe that one of the biggest tactical errors was Clinton's failure to run against what Harry Truman once called "the do-nothing Congress" (Democrats lost control of Congress in 1946, but recovered in 1948 with Truman's come-from-behind campaign). Ultimately we'll see that most of the bad things that happen in the next four years will originate in the Republican Congress, and most of Trump's own disasters will be tied to his forming an extremist Republican administration. The election would have been very different if Clinton had run not on Obama's "successes" but by blaming Republicans for his shortcomings.
I think it's safe to say that Bernie Sanders would have been a more formidable candidate for the Democrats. What is certain is that we didn't have any of Clinton's sleazy vulnerabilities. Also that he was far enough removed from the Clinton-Obama mainstream he could have run as a credible change, and that he has shown the ability to rally large and enthusiastic crowds (which Trump did and Clinton did not). Maybe the Republicans could have come up with an effective set of slanders to undo him, but they wouldn't have had the benefits of 24 years of target practice against Clinton. Sanders' real vulnerability was that the Clinton-Obama Democrats would sandbag him (much as previous generations of Democrats did to Bryan and McGovern), but perhaps fear of Trump would have held them in check.
Whatever divisions were thought to exist in the Republican party have vanished. The only thing Republicans really care about is winning and ruling, and they really don't care how ugly it looks. And while their current margins are extremely thin, that didn't impose any scruples on Bush and Cheney in 2000 -- another time when the presidential victor lost the popular vote -- and Republicans have only become more vicious and unscrupulous since then. (Trump, for one, never had to feign compassion.)
One thing that we should bear in mind is that many disasters take a long time to fully reveal themselves. That Republican Congress elected in 1946 has had an especially long-lasting impact. George Brockway, for instance, cited a banking "reform" bill that they passed as the first chink in the deregulation that finally sunk the economy in 2008. More obvious was the Taft-Hartley Act, which made it significantly harder to form and maintain labor unions. After that act was passed, the CIO gave up on organizing unions in the South, which left American businesses with an alternative to union labor in the North. That, more than anything else, gradually ate away at the Rust Belt, leading to this year's Democratic debacle.
But then the Democrats haven't been passive observers to the destruction of their party's base. Harry Truman was so militantly opposed to worker strikes after WWII that he inadvertently validated the public opinion behind Taft-Hartley (a bill he vetoed, but his veto was overridden). And one can argue that the Clinton-sponsored NAFTA was the straw that broke the camel's back -- he's certainly the one who gets blamed, even though it was mostly Republicans who voted for the agreement.
On the other hand, the half-life of disasters certainly seems to be quickening, especially as public institutions become more and more corrupt, as wealth and income are distributed ever more inequally, as decades of bad choices slowly add up into harder ones. A lot of the links below concern the destruction of the middle class, especially in the Rust Belt, and raise the question of why even people who are still doing OK have become anxious about the economy. This can only remind me of a book published back in 1989, Barbara Ehrenreich's Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class. And really, she wasn't way ahead of the learning curve. She was merely more perceptive than most people were. Recent books, such as the six recommended in the list below, focus more on those who have fallen, and who can't get up. But fear came first, and Democrats would have been better served had they recognized that, instead of blundering on and pushing more and more people down and out.
Here are a mess of links I've collected, thinking they may be of some interest (more or less alphabetical by author).
Scott Alexander: You Are Still Crying Wolf: Title refers to a piece, Frank Bruni: Crying Wolf, Then Confronting Trump, which complains that Democratic denunciations of "honorable and decent men" like McCain and Romney have inoculated many Americans against even more strident warnings about Trump (he cites an essay by Jonah Greenberg, "How the Media's History of Smearing Republicans Now Helps Trump"). Alexander argues that Trump did better than Romney among blacks, Latinos and Asians, then concludes: "The only major racial group where he didn't get a gain or greater than 5% was white people." He then goes on to argue that Trump isn't nearly as racist (i.e., no more than "any other 70 year old white guy") as people think, and that white supremacists -- at least as represented by people like David Duke (who got 3% in his Louisiana Senate campaign) or groups like the KKK (national membership in the 3000-6000 range) are extremely marginal. I think he goes too far in making excuses for Trump, but it does raise the question: given that Republicans have spent forty-some years "dog-whistling" race-charged themes, isn't it possible that Democrats have become hyper-sensitive to that veiled rhetoric? (And conversely, isn't it possible that much of the Republican target audience have grown so accustomed to it they no longer pay it any mind?) On the other hand, Alexander does stress how bizarre he finds Trump:
16. But didn't Trump . . .
Whatever bizarre, divisive, ill-advised, and revolting thing you're about to mention, the answer is probably yes.
This is equally true on race-related and non-race-related issues. People ask "How could Trump believe the wacky conspiracy theory that Obama was born in Kenya, if he wasn't racist?" I don't know. How could Trump believe the wacky conspiracy theory that vaccines cause autism? How could Trump believe the wacky conspiracy theory that the Clintons killed Vince Foster? How could Trump believe the wacky conspiracy theory that Ted Cruz's father shot JFK?
Trump will apparently believe anything for any reason, especially about his political opponents. If Clinton had been black but Obama white, we'd be hearing that the Vince Foster conspiracy theory proves Trump's bigotry, and the birtherism was just harmless wackiness.
Likewise, how could Trump insult a Mexican judge just for being Mexican? I don't know. How could Trump insult a disabled reporter just for being disabled? How could Trump insult John McCain just for being a beloved war hero? Every single person who's opposed him, Trump has insulted in various offensive ways, including 140 separate incidents of him calling someone "dopey" or "dummy" on Twitter, and you expect him to hold his mouth just because the guy is a Mexican?
I don't think people appreciate how weird this guy is. His weird way of speaking. His catchphrases like "haters and losers!" or "Sad!" His tendency to avoid perfectly reasonable questions in favor of meandering tangents about Mar-a-Lago. The ability to bait him into saying basically anything just by telling him people who don't like him think he shouldn't.
Krishnadev Calamur: Donald Trump's CIA Pick Made His Name on the Benghazi Committee: That's Mike Pompeo, currently 4th district congressman from Canada, a district which includes Wichita and a half-dozen rural counties. Pompeo was first elected in 2010 when Todd Tiahrt ran for Senate (and lost to Jerry Moran). Tiahrt, who I had long regarded as the worst congressman in America, tried to take back his House seat in 2012, and lost to Pompeo -- at the time I characterized them as R(Boeing) and R(Koch), respectively. Indeed, the Wichita Eagle has an article today titled "Koch Industries, Pompeo's biggest backer, cheers his CIA nomination." In Congress, Pompeo has been a faithful defender of the Koch's brand of laissez-faire, but far more than that he's emerged as one of the House's most rabid neocons -- a fact that was recognized by Bill Kristol when he put Pompeo's name on his short list of vice presidential candidates. At this article points out, Pompeo's was one of the Benghazi Committee's most forceful foes of Hillary Clinton. Indeed, as CIA Director it wouldn't surprise me if he forgoes the Special Prosecutor and just "renders" her to a black site to be tortured until she confesses all. At least, nothing in that sentence violates his understanding of law or morality.
Martin Longman has more on Pompeo (as well as Flynn and Sessions) here: Trump Makes Three Catastrophic Picks. I do have a bone to pick with one line: "What unites [Pompeo] with Mike Flynn is his outrage about Obama's firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal for disloyalty." Uh, McChrystal was fired for incompetence. If you go back to the Rolling Stone article where all this dirty laundry was aired, you'll find that Flynn was even more outspoken in berating and belittling Obama, yet somehow Obama looked past that to nominate Flynn to be head of the DIA. Sure, that may rank as the worst appointment Obama ever made, but you can't say it was because he was thin-skinned about criticism.
Robert Christgau on the End of the World
David Dayen: Beware Donald Trump's Infrastructure Plan:
Does this sound familiar? It's the common justification for privatization, and it's been a disaster virtually everywhere it's been tried. First of all, this specifically ties infrastructure -- designed for the common good -- to a grab for profits. Private operators will only undertake projects if they promise a revenue stream. You may end up with another bridge in New York City or another road in Los Angeles, which can be monetized. But someplace that actually needs infrastructure investment is more dicey without user fees.
So the only way to entice private-sector actors into rebuilding Flint, Michigan's water system, for example, is to give them a cut of the profits in perpetuity. That's what Chicago did when it sold off 36,000 parking meters to a Wall Street-led investor group. Users now pay exorbitant fees to park in Chicago, and city government is helpless to alter the rates.
Elizabeth Drew: How It Happened: Some fairly dumb things here, including a metric comparing votes in counties that have Cracker Barrel vs. Whole Foods stores, and an assertion that the third party vote cost Clinton the election. Also includes this quote from J.D. Vance (author of Hillbilly Elegy):
"People who are drawn to Trump are drawn to him because he's a little outrageous, he's a little relatable, and fundamentally he is angry and spiteful and critical of the things that people feel anger and spite toward," Vance has said. "It's people who are perceived to be powerful. It's the Hillary Clintons of the world, the Barack Obamas of the world, the Wall Street executives of the world. There just isn't anyone out there who will talk about the system like it's completely rigged like Donald Trump does. It's certainly not something you're going to hear from Hillary Clinton."
Jason Easley: It Was a Union Contract, Not Trump, That Kept a Ford Plant From Leaving the US
Barbara Ehrenreich: Forget fear and loathing. The US election inspires projectile vomiting: Pre-election piece (sorry I didn't link to it earlier). Still, this works fairly well as a post-mortem:
[Trump's] supporters -- generally portrayed as laid-off blue-collar workers who, in the absence of unions, have devoted themselves to the cause of whiteness -- cheer on each of his macro-aggressions. To them, he is a giant middle finger in the face of the bipartisan political elite, and the crazier he acts, the more resounding this fuck-you gets. It doesn't matter that most of Trump's assertions can't stand up to fact-checking; ignorance has been enshrined by an entire alternative media, stretching from Fox News to Stormfront on the Nazi-leaning right.
On the liberal left, tragically, we do not have Bernie Sanders, who would have dispatched Trump's populist pretensions with a wrist flick. But no, representing the side of tolerance, good government and cosmopolitanism, we have the very epitome of Democratic party elitism, a woman who labeled half of Trump's supporters "deplorables," a politician who is so robotic that any efforts to analyze her motives risk the charge of anthropomorphism.
Liza Featherstone: Elite, White Feminism Gave Us Trump
Matt Feeney: The Book That Predicted Trump: The book touted here is Corey Robin's The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin (2012) -- I'm pretty sure those names are just historical bookends and not meant to imply a general vector of declining intelligence and coherence, as Robin's central thesis is that conservatism, whether you're talking about Burke or John Calhoun or Ronald Reagan or Trump is always pretty much the same thing, for the same reasons: to defend the privileged few against anything that might make us more equal.
Speaking of books, the New York Times recommends 6 Books to Help Understand Trump's Win:
George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (The New Press)
J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Harper)
Thomas Frank, Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company)
John B. Judis, The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics (Columbia Global Reports)
Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Viking)
I've only read one of these -- Thomas Frank's critique of Clinton's Democrats, a legacy which needs to be critically reviewed by anyone who wants to rebuild the Democratic Party -- but the common theme here is the economic and social stresses felt by the vanishing middle class of white people.
Kathleen Frydl: The Oxy Electorate:
The number of people who cast a ballot in the 2016 presidential race was greater than in 2012, even though, as a state, Ohio recorded a net loss in turnout from the previous election. This pattern holds for nearly all opioid-ravaged counties. And not just in Ohio -- in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan as well, all of them crucial to the presidential election's outcome. In 9 of the Ohio counties that Trump successfully turned from Democrat to Republican, six log overdose rates well above the national norm. All of the Pennsylvania counties that chose Obama in 2012 and Trump in 2016 have exceptionally high overdose rates, averaging 25 people per 100,000; in none of these counties did vote totals fall.
Kathleen Geier: Inequality Among Women Is Crucial to Understanding Hillary's Loss:
In these white working-class communities, it is the women who have experienced some of the worst hardships. You may have heard of that famous study that showed that showed an unprecedented decline in longevity among white Americans who lack college degrees. But most media reports missed a crucial point: As the statistician Andrew Gelman pointed out, "Since 2005, mortality rates have increased among women in this group but not men." And in addition to economic insecurity and rising mortality rates, working-class women have suffered from another indignity: invisibility. During the campaign, there was a blizzard of articles about the concerns of elite Republican women and white working-class men, but practically nothing about female members of the working class.
John Judis: Why Trump Won - and Clinton Lost - and What It Could Mean for the Country and the Parties: Quickie post-mortem, including some things that don't make much sense to me (like the anti-third term pendulum), but one thing I'm struck by is that immigration has different regional effects, and appears particularly threatening when used to break or undermine unions -- meatpackers in Iowa is a case in point. One conclusion I'd draw is that Democrats need to come up with better ways of talking about immigration, because the way this campaign played out they came off as reflexively pro, which raised legitimate questions of how much they cared about people who were born here. Theda Skocpol wrote a rejoinder which pokes a few holes without doing much to fill them in (partly because she feels the need to defend Clinton and to denigrate Sanders).
Mike Konczal: Preparing for the Worst: How Conservatives Will Govern in 2017:
Unlike 2009, the conservative policy agenda is designed to not require any Democratic votes. The idea that a conservative policy agenda would create a dysfunctional system is a feature, not a bug. And the hope that conflicting factions of the GOP will provide opportunities to break them apart are not likely to pan out. But there's some reason for hope, because their overreach and lack of preparedness will give us opportunities. [ . . . ]
They aren't ready with a replacement for Obamacare. They aren't ready for the heat of privatizing Medicare, or weakening Medicaid. There are constituencies for both, and town halls can be flooded and people organized. Those who desperately wanted a change towards economic security are going to be surprised that the factories aren't coming back and that they signed up for a libertarian kleptocracy instead. But we should also be clear on the challenges of their policy agenda, and that the cracks won't appear by themselves.
Konczal recommends a book (as do I): Thomas Frank's The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule (2009) -- no mention of Trump, but lots of things you're going to be seeing. And back on Sept. 21, Konczal wrote a piece that provides useful background here: Trump Is Actually Full of Policy.
Michael Kruse: What Trump Voters Want Now: Talking to blue collar Trump voters in Pennsylvania:
"Your government betrayed you, and I'm going to make it right," Trump told a boisterous crowd at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena less than three weeks before Election Day. "Your jobs will come back under a Trump administration," he said. "Your steel will come back," he said. "We're putting your miners back to work," he said.
The people here who voted for Trump want all that. They want him to loosen environmental regulations. They want their taxes to go down and their incomes to go up. They want to see fewer drugs on their streets and more control of the Mexican border. They want him to "run the country like a business." And they want this fast. So now comes the hard part for Trump -- turning rhetoric into results. Four years ago, the largely Democratic voters in Cambria County flipped on President Obama, disgusted that he had not made good on his promise of change. What's clear from a series of interviews with Trump supporters here is that they will turn on Trump, too, if he doesn't deliver. [ . . . ]
But beyond flared tempers in the immediate aftermath of this ugly election, said Rininger and Daloni, the larger point is that this isn't going to work. There's next to no way, they believe, that Trump can deliver on his promises.
"The infrastructure for the steel is all gone," Daloni said. "It just doesn't exist anymore in Johnstown. It did used to be a steel boomtown, but it was long before Obama was elected. It was decimated, really, before Bill Clinton was elected. The mills were going down in the '70s and '80s."
The Trump voters say they want change, but Daloni and Rininger say the change has happened already. And despite what Trump promised at the downtown arena a month ago, they believe there's a real chance that Trump's solutions could make things worse. Incomes won't go up -- they'll go down. "I make $32 an hour, with good benefits, and that's because I'm union," Rininger said. "I wouldn't even be f--king close to that if I wasn't union."
And jobs, they worry, won't come back -- they'll disappear faster. And before long, they said, the only work in Cambria County will be minimum-wage counter jobs at the familiar collection of ring-road fast food-joints. "The service industry, I'm afraid," Daloni said.
"If Trump starts trade wars," Rininger said, "you hurt us. You hurt our plant" -- which is owned by Swedes, with a CEO from India. And the steel the workers do still make, Rininger said, is sold to Brazil. It's sold around the world.
Charles Pierce comments: You Can Keep Studying White Working Class Voters, But We Know the Answers.
David Leonhardt: The Democrats' Real Turnout Problem: Cites a study by Douglas Rivers of five east-to-midwest swing states that switched from Obama to Trump (plus Minnesota, which was very close):
In counties where Trump won at least 70 percent of the vote, the number of votes cast rose 2.9 percent versus 2012. Trump's pugnacious message evidently stirred people who hadn't voted in the past. By comparison, in counties where Clinton won at least 70 percent, the vote count was 1.7 percent lower this year.
Eric Lichtblau: US Hate Crimes Surge 6%, Fueled by Attacks on Muslims: I wouldn't call 6% a surge, but it turns out that's a gross "hate crime" count. The real bottom line:
There were 257 reports of assaults, attacks on mosques and other hate crimes against Muslims last year, a jump of about 67 percent over 2014. It was the highest total since 2001, when more than 480 attacks occurred in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Ryan Lizza: Donald Trump's First, Alarming Week as President-Elect: Old history, now eclipsed by an even more disturbing second week (e.g., Michael Flynn, Mike Pompeo).
Amanda Marcotte: Voter suppression helped make Donald Trump president -- now he'll make it worse
Sophia A McClennen: Like a double dose of Dubya: Donald Trump's presidency will be like the George W. Bush disaster -- only worse
Michael Moore: 5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win: This piece dates from July 21, 2016, so it counts now as prophetic, but was meant more as a warning, from someone who grew up in an industrial Great Lakes state and has spent much of his career chronicling the hard times his people have suffered. Here's the first point:
I believe Trump is going to focus much of his attention on the four blue states in the rustbelt of the upper Great Lakes -- Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Four traditionally Democratic states -- but each of them have elected a Republican governor since 2010 (only Pennsylvania has now finally elected a Democrat). In the Michigan primary in March, more Michiganders came out to vote for the Republicans (1.32 million) that the Democrats (1.19 million). Trump is ahead of Hillary in the latest polls in Pennsylvania and tied with her in Ohio. Tied? How can the race be this close after everything Trump has said and done? Well maybe it's because he's said (correctly) that the Clintons' support of NAFTA helped to destroy the industrial states of the Upper Midwest. Trump is going to hammer Clinton on this and her support of TPP and other trade policies that have royally screwed the people of these four states. When Trump stood in the shadow of a Ford Motor factory during the Michigan primary, he threatened the corporation that if they did indeed go ahead with their planned closure of that factory and move it to Mexico, he would slap a 35% tariff on any Mexican-built cars shipped back to the United States. It was sweet, sweet music to the ears of the working class of Michigan, and when he tossed in his threat to Apple that he would force them to stop making their iPhones in China and build them here in America, well, hearts swooned and Trump walked away with a big victory that should have gone to the governor next-door, John Kasich. . . .
And this is where the math comes in. In 2012, Mitt Romney lost by 64 electoral votes. Add up the electoral votes cast by Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It's 64. All Trump needs to do to win is to carry, as he's expected to do, the swath of traditional red states from Idaho to Georgia (states that'll never vote for Hillary Clinton), and then he just needs these four rust belt states. He doesn't need Florida. He doesn't need Colorado or Virginia. Just Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. And that will put him over the top. This is how it will happen in November.
And that was exactly what happened -- had Clinton held the line in the three closest states (Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania; forget Ohio) she would have been elected. She is, of course, one of the other four points, but more interesting is what Moore calls "the Jesse Ventura Effect":
Finally, do not discount the electorate's ability to be mischievous or underestimate how any millions fancy themselves as closet anarchists once they draw the curtain and are all alone in the voting booth. It's one of the few places left in society where there are no security cameras, no listening devices, no spouses, no kids, no boss, no cops, there's not even a friggin' time limit. You can take as long as you need in there and no one can make you do anything. You can push the button and vote a straight party line, or you can write in Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. There are no rules. And because of that, and the anger that so many have toward a broken political system, millions are going to vote for Trump not because they agree with him, not because they like his bigotry or ego, but just because they can. Just because it will upset the apple cart and make mommy and daddy mad. And in the same way like when you're standing on the edge of Niagara Falls and your mind wonders for a moment what would that feel like to go over that thing, a lot of people are going to love being in the position of puppetmaster and plunking down for Trump just to see what that might look like.
Of course, the polls told them that Trump didn't have a chance, that someone sane would catch them when they jumped. Moore also wrote another pre-election piece called 5 Ways to Make Sure Trump Loses, which included this bit:
So many people have given up on our system and that's because the system has given up on them. They know it's all bullshit: politics, politicians, elections. The middle class in tatters, the American Dream a nightmare for the 47 million living in poverty. Get this straight: HALF of America is planning NOT to vote November 8th. Hillary's approval rating is at 36%. CNN said it last night: No one running for office with an approval rating of 36% has ever been elected president (Trump's is at 30%). Even in these newer polls, 60% still say that Hillary is "untrustworthy to be president." Disillusioned young people stop me every day to tell me they're not voting (or they're voting 3rd Party). This is a problem, folks. Stop ignoring it. You need to listen to them. Chastising them, shaming them, will not work. Acknowledging to them that they have a point, that Hillary Clinton is maybe not the best candidate, . . .
The rest of the paragraph doesn't make a lot of sense, and maybe acknowledging your candidate's flaws won't convince many people to overlook them, but one way to approach this would be to refocus the campaign on electing Democrats to Congress, both to help her and to keep her honest. And the easiest thing in the world should have been running against our current batch of Congressional Republicans. Of course, it didn't happen, perhaps because the Clintons rarely concern themselves with any but the first person.
Toni Morrison: Making America White Again: This is one of sixteen pieces the New Yorker commissioned as Aftermath: Sixteen Writers on Trump's America. See especially Jane Mayer on Trump and the Koch network. Also this from Jill Leopre:
The rupture in the American republic, the division of the American people whose outcome is the election of Donald Trump, cannot be attributed to Donald Trump. Nor can it be attributed to James Comey and the F.B.I. or to the white men who voted in very high numbers for Trump or to the majority of white women who did, too, unexpectedly, or to the African-American and Latino voters who did not give Hillary Clinton the edge they gave Barack Obama. It can't be attributed to the Republican Party's unwillingness to disavow Trump or to the Democratic Party's willingness to promote Clinton or to a media that has careened into a state of chaos. There are many reasons for our troubles. But the deepest reason is inequality: the forms of political, cultural, and economic polarization that have been widening, not narrowing, for decades. Inequality, like slavery, is a chain that binds at both ends. [ . . . ]
Many Americans, having lost faith in a government that has failed to address widening inequality, and in the policymakers and academics and journalists who have barely noticed it, see Trump as their deliverer. They cast their votes with purpose. A lot of Trump voters I met during this election season compared Trump to Lincoln: an emancipator. What Trump can and cannot deliver, by way of policy, remains to be seen; my own doubts are grave. Meanwhile, though, he has added weight to the burden that we, each of us, carry on our backs, the burden of old hatreds.
I agree that inequality infects everything, but would also have blamed war: it's impossible to spend fifteen years at war, even if it only rarely touches us personally (as has oddly been the case with this one), without it coarsening and brutalizing us, and that shows up in an increasingly bitter and violent campaign. Trump evinced by far the more popularly resonant stance, on the one hand disowning misguided conflicts like Bush's Iraq war yet on the other hand showing an unflinching will to inflict violence whenever threatened. Clinton, on the other hand, seemed to follow Obama in thinking that war can be compartmentalized and managed, something that can continue indefinitely without changing us. For more on this point, see: Tom Engelhardt: Through the Gates of Hell: How Empire Ushered in a Trump Presidency.
Charles P Pierce: I Am Sure of Nothing Now: Concludes with this quote from Hunter S. Thompson on the 1972 election, the first time I was as grossly disappointed by American voters as this time (not that there haven't been a couple more times sandwiched between):
This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it -- that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes . . . understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon. McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose . . . Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?
Sean T Posey: How Democrats lost the Rust Belt in 2016:
In 1964, 37 percent of Ohio workers belonged to a union; that number fell to 12 percent by 2016, and incomes for the working class tumbled in tandem. It's a similar story in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Republican policies are largely responsible, but Democrats have done little to address the precipitous decline of the working class.
When Hillary Clinton famously referred to half of Trump's supporters as a "basket of deplorables," it rang hollow for voters who had waited in vain for her to acknowledge their economic plight. Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan helped elect Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. However, for working families, the economic hangover of the post-industrial era never went away. Clinton's campaign failed to fully appreciate their pain.
A couple years into the "recovery" it was reported that 97% of the gains had been reaped by the 1%. Maybe that number has inched down a bit since then, but that translates as a windfall for the very rich and no recovery for most people.
John Quiggin: The dog that didn't bark: One of the most glaring results from the election is that virtually none of the Republicans who had been so critical of Trump early on failed to vote for him in the end. Perhaps that's because socially liberal, economically moderate, or libertarian Republicans have become urban myths -- even though Clinton wasted a lot of time courting them (she did seem to be doing better among the neocons, but it looks like they'll do quite nicely under Trump).
Sam Stein: The Clinton Campaign Was Undone by Its Own Neglect and a Touch of Arrogance, Staffers Say
Steven Waldman: Did the Decline of Labor Finally Kill the Democrats? Uh, yes.
Gary Younge: How Trump took middle America: Lead-in: "After a month in a midwestern town, the story of this election is clear -- when people feel the system is broken, they vote for whoever promises to smash it."
Steve Bannon: 'we'll govern for 50 years': A boast that only seems modest next to "Thousand Year Reich." From the cited interview (more of a profile piece than tete-a-tete):
When Bannon took over the campaign from Paul Manafort, there were many in the Trump circle who had resigned themselves to the inevitability of the candidate listening to no one. But here too was a Bannon insight: When the campaign seemed most in free fall or disarray, it was perhaps most on target. While Clinton was largely absent from the campaign trail and concentrating on courting her donors, Trump -- even after the leak of the grab-them-by-the-pussy audio -- was speaking to ever-growing crowds of 35,000 or 40,000. "He gets it; he gets it intuitively," says Bannon, perhaps still surprised he has found such an ideal vessel. "You have probably the greatest orator since William Jennings Bryan, coupled with an economic populist message and two political parties that are so owned by the donors that they don't speak to their audience. But he speaks in a non-political vernacular, he communicates with these people in a very visceral way. Nobody in the Democratic party listened to his speeches, so they had no idea he was delivering such a compelling and powerful economic message. He shows up 3.5 hours late in Michigan at 1 in the morning and has 35,000 people waiting in the cold. When they got [Clinton] off the donor circuit she went to Temple University and they drew 300 or 400 kids."
Oh, then there's this final quote: "I am Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors."
As I was putting this post together, I started reading Corey Robin's Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin (2011), and noted this quote (p. 59) on the asymmetry between left and right, on how hard change is for the former, and how easy reaction is for the latter:
Where the left's program of redistribution raises the questions of whether its beneficiaries are truly prepared to wield the powers they seek, the conservative prospect of restoration suffers from no such challenge. Unlike the reformer or the revolutionary, moreover, who faces the nearly impossible task of empowering the powerless -- that is, of turning people from what they are into what they are not -- the conservative merely asks his followers to do more of what they always have done (albeit, better and differently). As a result, his counterrevolution will not require the same disruption that the revolution has visited upon the country.
My main worry about the Sanders campaign wasn't that he might get slandered and lose his appeal, but that there wasn't a strong enough movement under him to deliver on his promises. And that mattered, of course, because his promises mattered. By contrast, all Trump voters had to do was to put their guy in power. After that, go back to work, and let their new right-thinking leader do what needs to be done. I've never had any inkling why they would trust him with that power, but then I don't think like they do: I learned early to question all authority, and found that when you give a greedy monster more power he only becomes greedier and more monstrous. But in a way, the great appeal of the right is that it offers simplistic solutions, wrapped in a little virus of paranoia which allows them to be used again and again, regardless of their repeated failures.
Golden Oldies (5)
A few more posts as I'm sifting through the old online notebook for a few stray record reviews, and finding a world that looks and sounds eerily familiar, marked by six years of corrupt Republican rule (following eight years of corrupt Clinton and twelve years of even more corrupt Reagan-Bush). This shows that ten years ago I was starting to doubt that some of the damage could ever be reversed. Clearly, eight years of Obama has had little effect -- one statistic is that 97% of the gains of the recovery have been captured by the top 1%, which implies that the overwhelming majority of Americans haven't seen anything vaguely resembling a recovery, no matter what the stock markets say -- and now we're poised for another plunge into disaster.
From February 1, 2006, when "the Liar in Chief gave his State of the Disunion speech":
Of course, not everything Bush has tried has worked out exactly according to plan. But it's hard to tell given that the real plans have always been secret, and that the administration and its pliant, co-opted media have consistently been able to put their spin over. Maybe Iraq was intended to be a cakewalk that would deliver us a steady source of cheap oil, but the worst case scenario -- that Iraqi oil falls off the market, constricting supplies and driving prices up -- works just as well for Bush, and better still for Exxon-Mobil. Maybe John ("no carrot") Bolton's non-proliferation diplomacy was intended to pacify Kim Jong Il, but a nuclear-armed North Korea is just the sort of threat that keeps Japan in line and helps sell anti-missile defense systems. Maybe Bush actually wanted to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden, but the latter's taunts are always good for a bump in the polls. Win-win scenarios like those encourage boldness by insulating Bush from the consequences of screwing up. If Herbert Hoover had been able to spin like Bush, America wouldn't have had that New Deal for the Republicans to try to repeal.
The fact is that most Americans are worse off than they were five years ago. Real wages are down. The real cost of living is up, with energy and health care, education and housing leading the way. Fewer people have jobs; those who do work longer hours for less benefits. Productivity is up, but all of the benefits have gone to management. More people live in poverty. Fewer have health insurance, so more skip non-emergency care. Many people have compensated for their declining incomes by borrowing more, so savings is down and debt is up. The federal budget has gone from a surplus to record deficits. Trade deficits have also hit new record levels. This has been temporarily covered by foreign funds, which own more and more of America's capital and debt. The portion of federal spending on such non-productive expenses as defense, security, and prisons has grown considerably, in turn starving social services and infrastructure investments. Where state and local governments have tried to compensate for loss of federal funds, their tax increases have often swallowed up the federal cuts. Meanwhile, safety nets have been reduced, not least under the guise of tort reform and bankruptcy reform. Environmental protections have been slashed, and the Super Fund clean-up system is defunct. Much of the federal government has been turned into a super-police agency, the Dept. of Homeland Security -- the domestic equivalent of the Dept. of Imperial Security (formerly the Dept. of Defense). The right to privacy (i.e., the right to be secure in one's home and person) has been attacked from every angle: through new laws like the USA PATRIOT Act, through blatantly extralegal acts like NSA spying, through Bush's packing of the courts with right-wing extremists. And on all fronts, whatever competency government once had has diminished as the civil service system has been turned into a major new system of political patronage.
The key idea here is not just that the Republicans are crooks (cf. Jack Abramoff) or scoundrels (cf. Scooter Libby) or both (cf. Tom DeLay): it's that they're building a political machine to perpetuate their control, a brutally efficient Tamany Hall that straddles the entire globe. It's a spectacular vision, but it's already -- long before such new space weapons as the Rods from God come on-line -- showing signs of overreach. The Iraq war may be good for Exxon-Mobil, maybe even for Halliburton, but it's been rough on the US Army, stretched now to the breaking point. And the longer a few thousand insurgents in Iraq are able to tie the US down, the more defiant others become. The Muslim world is still mostly tied down in crony dictatorships, but when democratization comes they won't be so easy to push around. For an example of how this works, cf. Latin America, where anti-US politicos have won every election recently. Moreover, Bush's domestic programs weaken the US economy in nearly every way, making any number of economic disasters possible, on top of the long term rot caused by the right's political attacks on science and education, the closing of opportunities, and the increasing tolerance of graft.
That was written a couple years before the predicted economic disaster got out of hand.
From February 15, 2006, when Dick Cheney went hunting:
The sea change in the media coverage of Dick Cheney's little hunting accident just proves that what goes around comes around. Cheney was the guy who insisted on going full bore ahead on the Republicans' agenda after they squeaked through the tainted 2000 presidential election. His cynical exploitation of ill-gotten power was unprecedented in its scope and depravity. (Not only had Bush taken office under a cloud, compare what he said during the campaign to what they did afterwards to get a glimpse of how disengenuous they were before power corrupted them further. And just as secrets and lies got them into office, secrets and lies followed them everywhere.) Although Cheney hasn't exactly gotten a free ride for all he's done, he's gotten a lot of slack -- the media's customary deference to the powerful, who are often (and this is important) the ones who feed them the spin they report as news. I'm tempted to suggest that the real reason they've turned on Cheney so hard is that he denied them the scoop, but at least part of their bite comes from resentment at having been lied to over and over. The media has a bad case of "kiss up, kick down" (to borrow a phrase used to describe John Bolton), so now that Cheney has gotten himself into a pickle, they can finally show their love.
On March 3, 2006, I wrote a comment about a quote from Robert D. Kaplan, an American journalist who served in the IDF and went on to be a major neocon cheerleader in books about Afghanistan, the Balkans, and The Arabists. I read a lot of his work after 9/11, but had largely given up on him by the time I wrote this:
One thing to remember about Kaplan is that he's consistently argued that democracy is not a viable goal for US (or any imperial) foreign policy. His prescription for Iraq was that the US install an authoritarian regime -- possibly another Baathist, another Saddam but on a tighter leash. Allawi would have suited Kaplan fine had it worked, but by the time the US brought Allawi in it was already too late. The US lost the re-use Saddam's systems of control -- the "decapitation" option -- when Bremer dissolved the Iraq army, or you can go further back to the decision to short-staff the invasion force. This meant that the US depended on the Kurds and Shiites to stabilize Iraq after the invasion, and the price of their participation was de-Baathification. Bush also tied his shoelaces together with his liberation/democracy spiel -- while the US actually did very little very slowly to promote democracy (the two-thirds rule is an especially clever poison pill) the idea is still a dangling sword over the head of the occupation.
Kaplan's books are very readable and quite useful, except when he starts "thinking". Even then his "pragmatism" is rigorous and consistent -- to the point that he insists that imperialism needs a "pagan ethos". His big problem is that his ideals and preferred practices are rooted in some other century. That strikes me as a fatal debilitation in a "pragmatist."
On the other hand, recent news does make the rather sobering case that bad as Saddam was, removing him has led to worse. One thing we need to give some serious consideration to is how it might be possible to ameliorate conditions under Saddam-like dictators without plunging entire countries into the hell of war. As far as I can tell, since 1991 all the US ever did viz. Iraq, and for purely domestic political reasons of the basest sort, was try to make conditions there worse.
By the way, has anyone noticed that in Saddam's show trial, he's being charged with ordering fewer executions than Bush signed off on while governor of Texas?
On May 12, 2006, I wrote a post around quotes about Berlusconi and Nixon that seemed to fit the election results so well I went ahead and posted them here.
On June 22, 2006, I wrote a post called "Clintonistas for Armageddon" -- it's one of those things you forget about because it led to nothing, but it was about an op-ed written by two Clinton war guys, William Perry (Clinton's Secretary of Defense) and Ashton Carter (a Clinton under-secretary, who later became Obama's Secretary of Defense). They were upset about North Korea testing one of its missiles, and urged Bush to pre-emptively fire cruise missiles at the site. While North Korea's missiles (and most likely a couple fission bombs) were works-in-progress, this overlooked that North Korea has thousands of pieces of heavy artillery capable of raining destruction on Seoul. That's not a very smart deterrent to test. I spent some time researching North Korea at that point. Today I'm more struck by the Clinton connection. I led off the post with this line:
One reason we're always stuck in a hopeless, hapless mess in foreign policy is that the people the Democrats hire to staff those positions are for all intents and purposes the same pinheaded warrior wannabes as the ones the Republicans hire.
On June 23, 2006, I wrote a post based on an Eagle article reporting that sociologists are finding that Americans have fewer and fewer close friends (the average dropped from 3 in 1985 to 2). I quoted the piece, then added:
This trend has been going on all my life. It's easy to think back to the '50s and '60s when people actually worried about this -- you don't hear much about alienation any more, but it was so much on the mind that existentialism was invented to salve it. The arch trends all date back to the '50s: the move to the suburbs, the envelopment of passive entertainment, the time demands of careerism. More recent is the notion of Quality Time, another time encroachment that has come about as parenting has been shaped by the career ethic. Another factor is fear: the threat of nuclear destruction dates back to the '50s, but everyday fear of your neighbors has built up slowly over time. (The current obsession with tracking "sex offenders" is a good example.) But then fear may also be a consequence of having fewer friends: as you lose the knack of making friends the rest of the world becomes unapproachable.
The consequences of this for politics are almost too obvious to point out. The more isolated and self-contained people's lives are, the less appreciation people have for others not like them. Passive intake of news and information leaves you vulnerable to manipulation -- especially the sort of manipulation that's become the stock and trade of the new right in America. Most of this nonsense would fall apart at the first dissent, but if you avoid anyone who might think differently, you can wind up convincing yourself of any fool thing.
On July 8 I wrote an untitled piece, a bit of autobiography trying to explain why I write this shit. Interesting to read it a decade later, because sometimes I forget.
I've written a lot on Israel ever since 2001 but haven't quoted much in this series. However, in July 2006 Israel opened a brutal assault on Lebanon, an event Condoleezza Rice memorably dubbed "the birthpangs of a new Middle East." On July 25, I wrote:
The irony in all this is that the neocons got snookered worse than anyone in thinking of Israel as the model the American military should aspire to. The fact is that Israel hasn't had anything resembling a clean military victory since 1967. The War of Attrition with Egypt was exactly that. 1973 was a draw perceived as a psychological defeat. Lebanon was a bloody, pointless mess from the very start, dragged out to 18 years only to give Hezbollah training. The counter-intifadas were like trying to fight roaches by pummelling them with garbage.
To be fair, America hasn't done any better, unless you're still excited by Grenada. Korea was a draw. Vietnam was a flat-out loss. The Cuba invasion never got off the beach. Panama was good for one kidnapping then a hasty retreat. Kuwait left Iraq as an open sore, then you know what happened when they opened that one up again. Afghanistan is a slow burn. The War on Terrorism has left its Most Wanteds at large. The War on Drugs hasn't made a dent. The War on Poverty was quietly abandoned, at least until Bush revised the semantics. The last winner we had was WWII, and that was won by manufacturing, logistics and engineering -- as Billmon points out, not by the will to fight, which the Germans and Russians were far more effective at mustering.
The neocons, both American and Israeli, don't understand a lot of things, but at the top of their list is that, while we like everyone else will fight for our homes, we don't really want to go somewhere else and fight to take or crush someone else's homes, especially when they're willing to fight back, and we might get killed or maimed. The only way the US can staff its military is by promising folks that their tours will be virtually riskless -- which thanks to the neocons is getting tougher and tougher, and it shows. Israel still has universal military draft -- well, nearly universal, except for the Arabs they don't trust and the ultra orthodox who get a pass -- but even they are so used to riskless conflict that the real thing is shocking. The fact is, very few people these days want anything to do with war. The destruction is extraordinary and mutual, the chances of gain are negligible. Why do these war mongers even exist?
Finally (for now, anyway), on September 13, 2006 -- two years before "The Great Recession" became official -- I called this post "The Great Decline":
Yesterday I mentioned a long list of problems the Bush administration has at best ignored, more commonly exacerbated, and in some cases flat out caused. I didn't bother with the tiresome task of enumerating, but Billmon has come up with a reasonable summary, occasioned by the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 atrocity:
You can learn a lot about a country in five years.
What I've learned (from 9/11, the corporate scandals, the fiasco in Iraq, Katrina, the Cheney Administration's insane economic and environmental policies and the relentless dumbing down of the corporate media -- plus the repeated electoral triumphs of the Rovian brand of "reality management") is that the United States is moving down the curve of imperial decay at an amazingly rapid clip. If anything, the speed of our descent appears to be accelerating.
The physical symptoms -- a lost war, a derelict city, a Potemkin memorial hastily erected in a vacant lot [the still-empty hole where the WTC used to be] -- aren't nearly as alarming as the moral and intellectual paralysis that seems to have taken hold of the system. The old feedback mechanisms are broken or in deep disrepair, leaving America with an opposition party that doesn't know how (or what) to oppose, a military run by uniformed yes men, intelligence czars who couldn't find their way through a garden gate with a GPS locator, TV networks that don't even pretend to cover the news unless there's a missing white woman or a suspected child rapist involved, and talk radio hosts who think nuking Mecca is the solution to all our problems in the Middle East. We've got think tanks that can't think, security agencies that can't secure and accounting firms that can't count (except when their clients ask them to make 2+2=5). Our churches are either annexes to shopping malls, halfway homes for pederasts, or GOP precinct headquarters in disguise. Our economy is based on asset bubbles, defense contracts and an open-ended line of credit from the People's Bank of China, and we still can't push the poverty rate down or the median wage up.
I could happily go on, but I imagine you get my point. It's hard to think of a major American institution, tradition or cultural value that has not, at some point over the past five years, been shown to be a) totally out of touch, b) criminally negligent, c) hopelessly corrupt, d) insanely hypocritical or e) all of the above.
The next line is: "It's getting hard to see how these trends can be reversed." Then Billmon starts comparing the US to the Soviet Union in the '80s. He recommends a book by David Satter: Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union. I have some other reading planned on the post-fall depression. The thing I find most interesting about Russia isn't the stupidity of the (especially late) Communist years -- it's the absolute collapse of living standards following the fall. We're so used to the idea of progress that we have trouble seeing decline even when the facts are hard to read otherwise. This collapse hit Russia so the hard life expectancy metrics declined. A quarter or more of Russia's GDP vanished. There are other examples scattered around the world, especially war-induced losses like in Iraq, and war-inducing ones in parts of Africa.
In some measures living standards in the US have been declining since roughly 1970. This has been masked by technological progress, by debt accumulation, by scapegoating, and by political delusion. Take medicine, for instance: science and technology have advanced, but insurance and delivery of basic health care has in some cases actually regressed, such that US life expectancy has finally begun to decline, especially compared to other wealthy nations. But the new stuff gets the press and sets the perception. Only when you need it do you find out you can't get it, or it doesn't really work, or something else goes wrong.
Immigration is another source of cover-up. Undocumenteds provide low skill labor that compensates for demotivating our own unskilled labor. There's a lot of scapegoating over that, but more important is legal immigration, which is needed to compensate for our failures to educate and develop knowledge workers -- everyone from school teachers to computer programmers to doctors. Immigration stimulates the economy, but it also levels the world. It's not necessarily a problem per se, but what it covers up is.
Beyond the obvious declines, there's a steady build up of risk and liability, as well as plain old depreciation. I've been reading complaints about not putting enough money into infrastructure for decades now. It's like, if you have a house with termites, it may look fine for years, especially if you don't look very close. Then one day a gust of wind, or just gravity, will bring it down. That's basically what happened to the Alaska pipeline. That's what happened to the New Orleans levees. Katrina wasn't the big storm everyone had so feared, but it was big enough anyway, because we didn't realize how vulnerable we had become.
That sort of rot has been accumulating for a long time -- George Brockway dated a lot of recent economic problems to the Republicans' first attempts to dismantle the New Deal when they took over Congress in the 1946 elections. Laws they passed like Taft-Hartley had little immediate effect, but over time undermined labor unions and working wages and the very principle of equal opportunity. Banking laws, as well as later deregulations, have had similar long-term effects. The long-term dip in growth rates occurred during the Vietnam War, which had many other corrosive effects -- especially as the politicos have dug themselves ever deeper in duplicity and cover-ups.
By now they have to keep denying, they have to keep runing from the truth. Acknowledgment is failure, and as long as they keep from failing they can pretend they're succeeding, which is what keeps the whole scam going. But sometimes failure strikes too suddenly and/or unshakeably to spin. The last five years have shown us some examples like that.
First pass on EOY lists. The breakdown for Jazz is: 59 A-list, 116 HM, 370 other (545 total); for Jazz Reissues/Comps: 8 A-list, 6 HM, 10 other (21). The breakdown for Non-Jazz is: 41 A-list, 36 HM, 104 other (181 total); for Non-Jazz Reissues/Comps: 10 A-list, 9 HM, 6 other (25). The jazz/non-jazz split is 75.06% for new records, 48.97% for reissues/compilations.
For comparison, in last year's lists, the Jazz breakdown is: 81 A-list, 147 HM, 448 other (676 total); for Jazz Reissues/Comps: 11 A-list, 11 HM, 15 other (37). The breakdown for Non-Jazz is: 83 A-list, 87 HM, 280 other (450 total); for Non-Jazz Reissues/Comps: 13 A-list, 12 HM, 23 other (48). The jazz/non-jazz split was 60.03% for new records, 43.52% for reissues/compilations.
Compared to last year, we currently have the following shares: New Jazz: 72.83%, 78.91%, 82.58% (80.62% total); Jazz Reissues/Compilations: 72.72%, 54.54%, 66.66% (56.75% total); New Non-Jazz: 49.39%, 41.37%, 37.14% (40.22% total); Non-Jazz Reissues/Compilations: 76.92%, 75.00%, 26.08% (52.08% total).
Music: Current count 27338 [27329] rated (+9), 395 [394] unrated (+1).
I spent Tuesday evening following the election results on a pair of computers -- my main writing (work) computer and a Chromebook I use for travel. I mostly used two websites: I followed 538's 2016 Election Night "live coverage and results," and I used the New York Times' Presidential Election Results page, which was the first one I found that gave me a map with red/blue states I could scroll over to see that state's vote totals. My first hint that anything was amiss was early in the evening when I saw that Trump was winning Indiana and Kentucky with 60-61% -- like everyone else, I expected those states to go to Trump, but those margins struck me as a bit on the high side. Still, at that point 538's monitor was still showing Clinton with a 75% chance of winning, and even when her chances started slipping it wasn't very obvious to me what was happening. I thought the Republicans were projected to hold the House way too early, and the Democrats' chances of taking over the Senate collapsed pretty early in the evening, as Indiana and Florida were called quite early. However, by the time I went to bed (about 4AM CST) I was shocked and rather sick.
I remained in a daze for several days (or maybe I'm still in one). I finally sat down and wrote up my analysis on Friday, then sat on it a day, edited some, and finally posted it on Sunday. I figure I'll follow up with a "Roundup" post some time this week (not necessarily waiting until my usual Sunday column -- a practice I'm thinking of discontinuing, unsure as I am of how much "reality" I can stand anymore). You might consider prodding me with questions and/or helping by pointing out particularly interesting links (I've grown rather weary of my usual sources).
Music should be a salve in times like this, but my first reaction was to favor silence -- there seemed to be too much noise, too much stimulus, from an Umwelt that suddenly seemed alien, hostile, and more than a little deranged. Since the election I've watched no conventional television news, nor have I returned to the late-night shows we followed regularly during the campaign. I still get stuff from the web, but aside from the numbers I used in Sunday's list, I haven't gone looking for much -- least of all opinions. Nor have I in any way been tempted to go out and protest -- I gather there have been anti-Trump protests, but have no idea how common they are. More generally, I don't see much point in getting worked up over what bad thing Trump and the Republicans might do (e.g., Ryan Plans to Phase Out Medicare in 2017). There will be plenty of opportunity in the future when we'll have tangible threats to try to stop, so you might as well save your energy for that, or prepare quietly out of sight (better to appear genuinely shocked than blanketly obstructionist).
When I did finally play some music, it was Leonard Cohen's Live in London. Partly I wanted to only hear real good stuff, partly I didn't want to be critical, and partly I had thought of "Democracy Is Coming to the USA" during a fairly optimistic Tuesday afternoon. I didn't know at the time that he had died (although I played it a couple more time after the news broke). After Cohen, I started playing some old jazz I liked, especially Coleman Hawkins. I mostly relied on my travel cases before I started picking things I hadn't heard in years from a nearby shelf. That's where I found the Sonny Criss set below: I had noticed it when looking for ungraded records in the database, so with it I finally returned to grading.
Only late in the week did I give the new jazz queue a chance. The Terrel Stafford looked old-fashioned, and turned out to be a good deal better than his Lee Morgan tribute (not coincidentally because it sounds more like prime Morgan). Rodrigo Amado's album came in the mail during the week, and jumped the queue. I wasn't sure I wanted to hear anything avant -- I had been considering Allen Lowe's latest when the cataclysm disoriented me -- but I have him down for four previous A- records, so he seemed like a pretty good prospect.
Still, only nine records rated this past week. Again, everything here comes from CDs. The computer I normally stream music on is unusable (well, it still prints, and I haven't tried workarounds like setting up an X-server or moving the speakers to a machine that still works, so I guess I haven't been trying very hard). I should remedy that some time this week: I've ordered new parts, so I'm pretty much building a whole new computer. The new one should actually be slightly more powerful than my work machine, so that opens up some possibilities for rebalancing my work.
I'll get to more new jazz next week -- I've gone through five records today since I started work on this post (none very good) -- and when I get the new machine running I should be able to check out some promising things on Napster or elsewhere. Still would be a good idea to drain the new jazz queue, as the Jazz Critics Poll deadline is December 4 -- well before anything else I'm likely to be invited for. (If you're a critic who hasn't gotten an invite and should, let me know and I'll pass you on to Francis Davis -- or you can contact him directly.)
I had rather hoped I'd get my Jazz and Non-Jazz working EOY lists set up by the time I posted this, but it now looks like all you're going to get if you follow the links is stubs. Also, at this point I have to stress that order is very preliminary. I'll get them fleshed out later this week, and will be updating them through the end of the year (and maybe next year as well -- as I've done so far for the 2015 Jazz and Non-Jazz lists).
I should point out that Robert Christgau has a piece on Leonard Cohen: Our Man, the Sophisticate. Christgau also tweeted a recommendation for another Noisey piece on Cohen: Rajeev Balasubramanyam: An American State of Grace: Darkness and Light in Leonard Cohen's Political Imagination. Most likely there are many other worthy pieces on Cohen: e.g., see Richard Gehr, Rob Sheffield, Adam Sweeting.
Comparatively little has been written about another music death last week: Leon Russell. For a few years in the 1970s I thought he was one of the greats (especially his eponymous debut album, plus his work on Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen), and with Hank Wilson's Back it looked like he could be a credible country singer. A couple of really awful albums followed (Stop All That Jazz and Will o' the Wisp) and I quickly lost interest, so I can't say much about his last forty years. I reckon I could say he was the Mac Rebennack of Tulsa, but Tulsa doesn't give a brilliant pianist and outrageous singer much to work with. Still, something else to mourn in one helluva awful week.
Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio: Desire & Freedom (2016, Not Two): [cd]: A-
Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra: Basically Baker Vol. 2: The Big Band Music of David Baker (2016, Patois, 2CD): [cd]: B+(*)
Earth Tongues: Ohio (2015 [2016], Neither/Nor, 2CD): [cd]: B
Jason Hainsworth: Third Ward Stories (2015 [2016], Origin): [cd]: B+(***)
Ingrid Laubrock: Serpentines (2016, Intakt): [cd]: B+(*)
Jasmine Lovell-Smith's Towering Poppies: Yellow Red Blue (2015 [2016], Paint Box): [cd]: B+(**)
Felix Peikli & Joe Doubleday: It's Showtime! (2016, self-released): [cdr]: B+(*)
Carol Robbins: Taylor Street (2016 [2017], Jazzcats): [cd]: B+(*)
Terell Stafford: Forgive and Forget (2016, Herb Harris Music): [cd]: A-
Andrew Van Tassel: It's Where You Are (2016, Tone Rogue): [cd]: B+(*)
Sonny Criss: The Complete Imperial Sessions (1956 [2000], Blue Note, 2CD): [cd]: A-
Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio: Desire & Freedom (Not Two)
Jari Haapalainen Trio: Fusion Machine (Moserobie)
Fredrik Nordstr�m: Restless Dreams (Moserobie)
Ivo Perelman/Karl Berger/Gerald Cleaver: The Art of the Improv Trio Volume 1 (Leo)
Ivo Perelman/Mat Maneri/Whit Dickey: The Art of the Improv Trio Volume 2 (Leo)
Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Gerald Cleaver: The Art of the Improv Trio Volume 3 (Leo)
Ivo Perelman/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver: The Art of the Improv Trio Volume 4 (Leo)
Ivo Perelman/Joe Morris/Gerald Cleaver: The Art of the Improv Trio Volume 5 (Leo)
Enoch Smith Jr.: The Quest: Live at APC (Misfitme Music)
Zarabande: El Toro (AFlo)
Democracy's Debacle
I suppose I should write something about last week's election. I've been sick to my stomach all week, feeling chronic maladies that make me wonder how many of the ill consequences I will actually hang on to experience. Admittedly, this reasoned forbiding was made more personal by the death and funeral of a friend and the sufferings of another. It probably didn't help that I've spent so much of my time re-reading old notebooks and blog posts going back to 2001, where I offer a strongly worded and reasoned accounting of the ongoing disaster Billmon liked to refer to as the Cheney Administration. (I haven't gotten up to the Obama era yet -- itself a lengthy chronicle of growing dismay, especially at the mental illness that so many Republicans have fallen into, but also at the haplessness of Democrats, especially Obama.)
Since 2001, I've written some five million words in the notebook. The majority of them have been on music, and I've occasionally mentioned movies, television, books, and more personal matters, but at least one million of those words have been addressed to clearly political topics (especially war). A few people do appreciate what I've had to say, but I've never managed to attract any attention beyond old friends and folks who initially tuned in for music reviews. So when confronted with results like last week's, I can't help but feel that I've wasted fifteen years of my life. I've never been, nor ever will be, a political activist, let alone a nuts and bolts political strategist. I'm starting to feel like I should hang it up, focus on other projects, and let others carry on.
Still, I guess I do have a few things to say. I haven't read many of the post-mortems, least of all the efforts of the usual suspects to shift blame (but for some examples, see Annie Karni: Clinton aides blame loss on everything but themselves). Rather, I did what I usually do, and looked at some numbers. (I mostly got these from Wikipedia and Google, perhaps not the most authoritative sources, but likely to be close to accurate.) First, they show that there was no groundswell of support for Trump. He got 817 thousand votes less than Romney did in 2012 (while losing by 5 million votes), and he only got 168 thousand more votes than McCain in 2008 (while losing by 9.5 million votes). In total votes, the Republican share has been effectively flat over the last three presidential elections. If the voter base has grown (which would be expected given that the population has grown), you could even argue that the Republican share has been declining. They didn't win this time because they gained ground. They merely lost less than Clinton did: she finished with 5.4 million fewer votes than Obama got in 2012, and even so was only done in by a quirk in where those votes were distributed, a bias rigged into the electoral system.
You might wonder about the effect third parties had, but it was negligible. After polling close to 9% for most of the season, Gary Johnson collapsed at the end, receiving 3.22% of the vote. Jill Stein suffered a comparable collapse, dropping from 3% peak polls to less than 1% (0.96%). Both of those candidates ran in 2008, and both did better this time (Johnson was up 2.23%, Stein 0.60%), but their 2.83% increase was a tiny fraction of the increased unfavorable ratings of this year's major party candidates. If Clinton could have magically counted all of Stein's votes, her plurality would have been larger -- as it was, Clinton received 439 thousand more votes nationwide than Trump did -- but even a 1.3% popular vote margin wouldn't have been enough to flip the electoral college in her favor (she would have picked up Michigan and Wisconsin, but not Pennsylvania -- Stein got 48,912 votes in Pennsylvania, but Trump led Clinton by 67,636). At most Stein accounts for one-sixth of Clinton's deficit.
In the end, it's hard to see anyone other than Clinton to blame for that 5.5 million vote drop off. Indeed, one can argue that her deficit was even larger against reasonable expectations. Economic indicators have generally been favorable, and Obama was enjoying his highest approval numbers in a many years. Moreover, Trump was a glaringly deficient, utterly ridiculous opponent: Clinton's poll numbers surged after each of three debates when viewers could see them side-by-side, even more so after the party conventions. She appeared to have the more unified party behind her. And she had more money than Trump (although Trump had pulled ahead of her in "dark money" and benefited from millions the Kochs and others plowed into down-ballot races). So you have to ask: why didn't enough people come out and vote for her?
In some cases they did: she ran ahead of her polls in Nevada, where the "get out the vote" campaign was focused on Latinos (and Democrats feared losing a critical Senate seat). But I have to wonder if she had any effective "ground game" at all in states where polls showed her leading, especially the states that ultimately sunk her: Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Could be that Democrats were over-confident there, or just lackadaisical: how many people there didn't vote because they assumed their votes weren't needed? (And how many were turned away by nasty voter suppression laws?) As I understand it, Clinton didn't appear in Wisconsin after the primary. And while she did campaign in Pennsylvania, the big push there was to win over suburban Republicans, not to fortify the party base.
On the other hand, the Koch network seems to have put most of their money into down-ticket races, notably in defending endangered Senate seats in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Florida -- all successfully, coincidentally tilting those states for Trump. (Also Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, and Ohio, where Trump was expected to win -- Clinton didn't even contest Indiana or Missouri, although both states should be competitive. The Democrats did win three close Senate races, all in states Clinton won: Illinois, Nevada, and New Hampshire.)
All along, I basically felt that if Clinton could run a "get out the vote" operation comparable to Obama's in 2008-12, she would win handily. If any lesson has become a commonplace over the last 10-20 years, it's that you win elections by motivating your base and getting them out to vote. The bottom line is that Trump did that, and despite her advantages Clinton did not do an adequate job. What was unusual this year was that the primary motivator was fear and loathing of the other side, and that in turn led voters to excuse a lot of deficiencies in their own candidate. Of the two, Clinton's failure is far more spectacular, and far more damning, than Trump's success.
For starters, Clinton had a lot more to work with than Trump did. No major party candidate had ever had anything like the disapproval ratings of Trump. Moreover, he could be attacked on numerous fronts, starting with the gross dysfunctionality of his party's agenda and their obstruction against any constructive attempts to solve proven problems (e.g., health care, finance regulation, climate change). I think it was a tactical error on Clinton's part to focus instead on personal issues -- a tactic that Trump made irresistibly easy, but doing so exposed her own personality faults to greater scrutiny, and she could go overboard, especially with that "nuclear codes" thing which also reminded voters that the notoriously hawkish and anti-Russian Clinton could just as easily get them blown up. (From Karni's article above: "They explained that internal polling from May showed that attacking Trump on the issue of temperament was a more effective message." Internal? From May?)
Just before the election, Trump rolled out an ad that was quickly dismissed as anti-semitic: the problem was that aside from Clinton, all the "bad" people in the ad were Jewish (although they weren't identified as such); and since what made them "bad" was that they "control the levers of power in Washington," favor "global special interests," and "put money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations," that evokes the old anti-semitic trope of a secretive global Jewish cabal pulling strings all around the world. On the other hand, the thrust of the ad was plainly true (as far as it went): for several decades now, Washington has molded public policy to benefit special interests, especially large financial organizations, and Hillary Clinton was very much a cog in this process. I hadn't heard about the ad when I first saw it, so I was focusing on the explicit message, and for a while I thought it would have made a terrific Jill Stein spot. Then Trump came on, and of course it's ridiculous to think that he'll change any of this -- if ever there was a guy angling to get his share of the graft, it's Trump -- but his final pitch turned out to be prophetic: he proclaimed the election the last chance Americans had to stop Crooked Hillary, and that was one simple, concrete task they could carry out. And so, just enough people voted for Trump (and just not quite enough voted for Clinton) to make that much happen. After one of the most annoying and frustrating campaign seasons in American history, at least some people emerged feeling they had accomplished something. (On the other hand, had Clinton won, most Democrats would merely have been relieved, feeling they had dodged a deadly bullet, but aware that the next four years would be sheer struggle.)
The one clear result from this election is that Clinton is done. Having lost one nomination to Obama, having nearly lost another to Sanders, and now having blown a huge lead against Trump, she is a three-time loser, and at her age there's no way she's going to bounce back. And that's not only good riddance, it's a reprieve -- a chance for the Democratic Party to regroup and rebuild free of the dead weight of the Clinton legacy. Back in 1992 Bill Clinton came to Washington thinking he would show the Democrats a way to win in the post-Reagan oligarchy. All they had to do was to prove to the corporate masters that Democrats would be better for business than the Republicans were. As governor of Arkansas, Clinton had pioneered that formula, helping boost local outfits like Walmart and Tyson grew to become international giants. In Washington, one of the first things he did was to push NAFTA through -- over the protests of labor unions, but pointedly to subdue those unions, to weaken them and thereby proove his loyalty to his business friends. Even though Clinton managed to get reelected in 1996, his strategy could hardly be called a success: he cost the Democrats Congress in 1994, and all of his subsequent legislative accomplishments were compromises that Republicans agreed to because they understood that they only served to undercut the Democratic Party's base.
That was followed by eight years of Bush, which started with budget-busting tax cuts and ended with a complete financial meltdown and the worst depression since the 1930s -- conditions which, along with a similar loss of Congress in 2010, conspired to keep Obama from doing virtually anything significant to help his voters out. (His donors, of course, made out like bandits.) With Obama we effectively got eight more years of Clintonism, most obviously through a raft of Clinton-linked appointments, notably his hawkish secretary of state. What's happened in the 24 years since Clinton came to Washington is that inequality has blown up to unprecedented (nearly unimaginable) levels, we've been plagued by near-permanent war, and the Republicans have somehow convinced most Americans that government-by-Democrats can never work to their benefit. And they've een able to do that largely because Democrats like Hillary Clinton have played along. Her long history of complicity and collusion in all of this is the root of her problems, and it's why roughly a third of the country despises her so much they're willing to risk a fool like Donald Trump as president. (And in a country where 40% of the people have been turned off and never bother to vote, that's all it takes.)
I still find it almost impossible to imagine Trump as president, but I'm even more disturbed by what happened in the Congressional elections. The Republican Congress since 2010 has been nothing short of a public embarrassment. Most Republicans have been inveterate obstructionists, with nearly all adhering to extreme (and dysfunctional) ideological positions. The Democrats should have made Congress the central issue this election, much as Harry Truman won the 1948 election by campaigning against a Republican "do nothing" Congress. And if most Americans had clearly understood that message, they surely would have flipped both the House and Senate to the Democrats. But none of that happened. Sure, Democrats made modest gain: two Senate seats and seven House seats, but that left the Republicans in control of both chambers, with fat chance that Trump use the presidential veto will to tamper down their insanity (as Obama, at least, could do).
The only upside is that presumably Congressional Republicans won't feel compelled to wreck their own president's administration. They'll let him do that himself, although I full well expect them to contribute. The Republicans have been playing a weird game where they never get blamed for their obstruction or inaction. That's been going on since 1994, minus a respite when Bush was president. In effect, they've extorted the American people into giving them complete power this time -- recall that Republicans were promising to hound Clinton even if she won the election, and had vowed never to confirm any of her judicial nominees. A Trump presidency spares us that kind of discord (although he could still order prosecutors to go after Clinton -- something that would smack of petty vindictiveness, not that that's beneath him).
What the Democrats have long needed to do was to rebuild a real, effective party that squarely defends and promotes the interests of the majority of their voters. They haven't done this because the Clintons (and Obama) have been so remarkably successful at raising money from well-heeled donors, notably in finance and high-tech. The Republicans have a long head start building their party from the ground up, recruiting compliant apparatchiki to run for precinct and entry-level offices, giving them a coherent ready-built program and talking points, and promoting those who toe the line most effectively. This has resulted in Republican domination of state and local offices, and their gerrymandering has given the Republicans an edge in the House (even when Democrats get more votes). They have organizations like ALEC crafting pet legislation, plus think tanks and their extraordinary media network.
The Democrats have nothing like this, not least because they don't have a coherent program. They merely promise not to be as awful as Republicans, without even fully explaining why that might be, or what it might entail. If there's a silver lining in this election, it's that the DNC will abandon its "cult of personality" that only supports the person at the top (Clinton or Obama) and start to work toward rebuilding the party from the bottom up, formulating a coherent challenge to Republican right-wing dominance. This election debacle will cost us dearly: most obviously, the era when the courts would use constitutional rights to protect us from oppressive government will come to a quick end.
How bad it might all get is hard to forecast. Trump started his campaign by occasionally straying from conservative orthodoxy, but wound up pledging allegiance to nearly every wretched idea the Republican Party has embraced. As president, the main question will be whether he succumbs to ideologues like Mike Pence and/or Paul Ryan, or whether he resists and takes a less self-destructive course. (He has, for instance, already backtracked on Obamacare.) Same for foreign policy: does he provoke more war, or back away from destructive confrontations? I don't expect in any way that he'll become "Putin's puppet" but there are several areas where a closer relationship with Russia could reduce world tensions. On the other hand, no prospective Trump underling fills me with more dread than Michael Flynn -- I find him far more worrying than Trump's notorious "temperament."
Beyond that I don't really care to speculate. Like Reagan and Bush, his fetish for "free enterprise" and contempt for government will foster unimaginable corruption. Meanwhile, the usual Republican nostrums will fail, often catastrophically. We in Kansas have gotten more than a taste of how bad Republican fantasies can turn out. Now it's your turn. This isn't the first time I've been so sorely disappointed by the American people -- the Nixon landslide in 1972 and the Reagan landslide in 1984, both in spite of overwhelming evidence of malfeasance and sociopathy, were especially terrible, although Bush's narrow win in 2004 was even more painful. But we've grown up in a nation that's been warped by perpetual war with the world, a nation that has come to celebrate inequality and inequity, that has grown vicious and surly even while thinking itself beyond reproach. Trump has finally given America a face as ugly as the reputation we've garnered over decades. It still feels like a bad dream, but some day we must wake up and face ourselves. Hopefully that will be sobering.
My brother and his wife visited this week, and I fixed dinner for them, my sister, and her son on Friday. Menu was Greek, but cut way back from the Birthday Dinner: baked shrimp with feta, lamb/eggplant pastitsio, horiatiki salad, mast va khiar (my Iranian cucumber-yogurt salad). I made New York cheesecake for dessert, which was the meal's undoing. It tasted off, probably because the oven was dirty and I was greeted with a puff of black smoke when I pulled it out. Worse, I put it back into the same oven to set the sour cream topping. I scrubbed the oven down before baking the pastitsio and shrimp, so they weren't affected. The cheesecake actually looked fine, but as Ruhlman keeps insisting, cooks need to taste what they're doing.
They were in town to attend Tony Jenkins' funeral. Steve spoke at the funeral. Gave a nice, somewhat rambling recount of the sixty years we had known Tony. He knew him much better, having lived here all but the last ten years, whereas I lived on the east coast 25 years, so only occasionally saw Tony on visits until we moved here. Fairly large crowd at the funeral. Last couple I had been to were nonagenarians who had outlived most of their friends, so those turnouts had seemed low.
Might as well start with two letters from the Wichita Eagle, published on Friday (November 11). First expresses a reaction I've heard from several people:
The day after the 2016 election I felt the way I felt the day after Sept. 11, 2001: shocked, helpless and terrified. The haters just struck a cataclysmic blow against our country, but this time the haters were our own people. God help us all.
My reaction to 9/11 contained the same emotions, but even at the time I recognized the event as a self-inflicted wound -- the sort of blowback you get when you do the sort of things the US had been doing in the Middle East for decades. And I wouldn't have said the attack was "cataclysmic": watching the event from nearby Brooklyn, I saw it as finite, isolated in time and space. Had we simply treated it as a natural disaster, mourned and rebuilt, we'd be over it by now. But that's not the sort of people we are. We're vain and ignorant, traits that allowed us to be marshalled by a politically opportunistic Fearless Leader into a senseless war of spite and vengeance which multipled the original crime a hundred (maybe by the time we're done a thousand) fold.
The haters who gave us Donald Trump as our new Fearless Leader weren't born that way. They learned their hatred from growing up and living in a near-constant state of war.
Second letter:
The election affirms the free enterprise system vs. socialism.
Here are a couple items from the Eagle's Opinion Line:
Government health care, as with anything federally funded, magically gives the almighty government the power to dictate the terms. They dictate, and you comply, or no federal moola. Obamacare was never about anyone's health; it was always about control.
But here a person with actual health problems begs to differ:
I'm a type 1 diabetic, and my wife is a heart patient. Prior to the Affordable Care Act, no insurer would consider us for health insurance. To all the people who elected the con artist who plans to repeal my insurance: thanks for murdering me. My blood is on your hands.
Election Notes
TPM's "election scoreboards" still (2:42 am) reads: "Clinton 48.8%, Trump 43.5% Spread +5.3%" above the headline "Trump Wins in Stunner."
FiveThirtyEight's final "Chance of winning" was 71.4% for Clinton, including Clinton win chances in Wisconsin (83.5%), Michigan (78.9%), Pennsylvania (77.0%), North Carolina (55.5%), and Florida (55.1%) -- all went for Trump. (Michigan currently less than 15,000 votes; New Hampshire, with its 69.8% chance, is currently 1,500 for Clinton.)
Popular vote is currently 1.3% for Clinton (later figures dropped this to 0.3%, Clinton still ahead: 439,902 votes).
I actually clicked "like" on Kathleen Geier's tweet: "Good fucking riddance to the Clintons & may they never darken the door of American political life again. How did they manage to blow this?"
Robert Christgau tweeted: "As per NYT at this moment, Jill Stein drew more votes than Trump's margin of victory in Wisconsin."
I responded: "When are Clinton's supporters (or Gore's way back in 2000) going to take responsibility for their own candidate's shortcomings?"
Geier retweeted Alec MacGillis, who pointed out: "Hillary Clinton gave 80 paid speeches in 2013-14, for a total of $18 million. Hillary Clinton did not visit Wisconsin once since April."
I knocked off two tweets:
When Clinton came to Washington in 1992, he showed Democrats how to win in the age of oligarchy, by serving the rich more, his voters less.
That strategy barely worked for him then, and has haunted the Democratic Party ever since, leading to this ultimate rebuke.
Turnout in 2012: 54.9% (down 3.3% from 2008). Obama got 65,915,795 votes, Romney 60,933,504. In 2016, Donald Trump got 60,116,240 votes (-817,256 from Romney). Clinton got 60,556,142 (-5,359,114 from Obama). Wikipedia pegs turnout as 56.9%, up 2.0% from 2012, but I don't see how that adds up. Gary Johnson got 4,058,500 votes (3.22%), Jill Stein 1,213,103 (0.96%), Evan McMullin 448,339 (0.36%), Darrell Castle 172,500 (0.14%).
McCain got 59,948,323 votes in 2008, so only 167,917 less than Trump this year, yet lost by 9,550,193 votes (7.28%). Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney (the Green Party candidate) had 900,831 votes combined (0.68%) that year, more than Stein in 2012 but less (-0.32%) than Stein this year.
Stein's 2012 vote was 469,628 (0.36%), so she's up 0.60%, where Clinton is down 3.63% from Obama, so one can argue that Stein captured 1 out of 6 of the missing Obama voters. Johnson was up 2.23%, so arguably he took more votes away. By the way, Obama's drop from 2008 to 2012 was almost totally explained by lower turnout.
As of Sept. 30, Clinton had raised $460M, Trump $224M. As of October 14, Trump had an edge in outside groups, $214M to $171M.
Trump's margin of victory in Michigan currently 13,107 (0.27%); in Wisconsin 27,506 (0.93%); in Pennsylvania 73,224 (1.24%). Clinton won New Hampshire by 2,687 (0.37%).
While looking for jazz reviews tonight, I ran across a post I had written on May 12, 2006 -- that's ten-and-a-half years ago -- titled "Mobsters in Suits." At the moment it appears as though the 2016 election is ending in the ugliest way ever: with the Democratic Party nominee winning a clear plurality of the popular (democratic) vote, but the Anti-Democratic Party capturing the quintessentially Republican Electoral College, and thereby electing yet another minority president -- a rich guy with media savvy but no political experience, traits that early in the primaries reminded me of his fellow billionaire and kindred spirit, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. I might as well just quote it here, and leave it to you to figure out the relevance:
If Berlusconi initially entered politics to save his television and financial empire and to defend himself against criminal prosecution, then his political career can only be judged a complete success. But he has achieved much more than that: he almost single-handedly derailed the national corruption investigation known as Operation Clean Hands. He greatly weakened the war against the Mafia. He made it possible for politicians to openly mix public affairs with their private interests, and created a politically slanted television that in many ways anticipated developments in the United States and elsewhere.
It is difficult to exaggerate the degree of popular support for the investigations of public corruption that took place in 1994 when Berlusconi first "entered the playing field." The magistrates who conducted the investigations were highly trusted; and Antonio Di Pietro, the most prominent of the prosecutors, was literally the most popular person in the country -- far more so than Berlusconi himself. Similarly, between 1992 and 1995, prosecutors in Sicily and elsewhere accomplished the semingly impssible by arresting thousands of mafiosi, including the boss of bosses, and helped bring the murder rate in a country of nearly 60 million people down by 50 percent. The Mafia seemed on the verge of defeat. The entry into politics of a billionaire who owned TV stations and the country's leading soccer team and whose company was already under investigation changed the atmosphere; it had the immediate effect of making criminal justice a political issue: any further effort to prosecute Berlusconi or his associates would automatically be seen as a political attack.
The piece concluded with some quotes and comments on Stephen Colbert's White House Correspondents Dinner keynote, which you can look up. As for the relevance of Berlusconi, here's what Kathleen Geier tweeted tonight:
This is an awful night, but keep it in perspective: the relevant comparison to Trump is not Hitler, but Berlusconi. Which is bad enough.
My only additional comment at this time is that while ten years ago I thought America was relatively immune to the sort of criminality that Berlusconi practiced in Italy, it is less so now. How much less remains to be seen, but we have witnessed and suffered through eight years of relentless obstruction and sabotage against Obama's presidency, with essentially no efforts to -- indeed no conception of -- constructively address the nation's myriad problems. And now it seems like the voters have handed two branches of government over to a party hell bent on destruction.
Actual rated count is probably 19 records -- at least that's how many are listed below. Counts for previous weeks are 15-9-19, so I'm in some kind of protracted rut. When I originally computed this week's count I came up with 18, but noticed that was less than I had listed, so I knew that I had failed to record some grade in the database. So I wound up listing all of the unrated records, and compared them to several other sources, and found a couple dozen records I hadn't counted correctly.
Almost everything below was listened to on actual CDs -- I see three exceptions, two from Napster and one from Bandcamp. Reason there is that the computer I use for streaming effectively died last Monday/Tuesday, so I haven't been able to do any of that almost all week. (It's also kept me off Facebook.) The computer isn't actually dead. I can remotely log into it, but either the screen is permanently locked or the display circuitry is dead. I replaced the power supply in that computer a couple weeks ago, and it did seem to resolve a clicking/popping problem in the audio. Also could be that a software "upgrade" triggered the problem -- screen lockouts are not unreported, although the fixes I've seen haven't solved the problem.
My current plan is to order new guts and rebuild the computer, pretty much from scratch (salvaging my new power supply and old hard drive, and re-using an old tower case, but not much else). I've started to shop for components, and have had a tough time settling on anything beyond an AMD FX-8350 AM3+ eight-core processor (for some reason Intel doesn't offer anything cost/performance-competitive). Anyhow, that CPU and comparable components might persuade me to consolidate my writing work on the new listening machine, at which point I can finally upgrade software on my "main" machine. Upgrade the network too. Important things I've been procrastinating on for way too long.
Second time in last three weeks I have no A- (or better) records to report. BassDrumBone was my big hope, and I have both discs three spins, finding much to like but not enough to get excited about. The Richie Cole album is really lovely, Eric Hofbauer strikes a fine balance for Ives-in-jazz, and Nat Birchall adds another worthy chapter to the St. John Coltrane gospel. So, some good records here -- just none cracking the 97 A-list albums already on my 2016 list. I figure I'll format this list into best-of-year format sometime in the next two weeks -- EOY lists traditionally start appearing around Thanksgiving, and it turns out I never ever froze last year's lists (split for jazz and non-jazz).
Also heard that NPR will once again support Francis Davis's Jazz Critics Poll, so I'll help out some there.
Making slow progress collecting jazz reviews. I haven't made any changes to the 21st Century book -- everything I'm scraping up is going into a scratch file for future processing -- but I have continued to add directly to the 20th Century non-book, which recently inched over the 300-page mark. I'm still thinking that what I've written there is far patchier than is needed for a real record guide, but it's getting to where I may have to take it seriously. I have, by the way, continued to use the high grade scale (A- = 9, B = 5) as I've been updating, as opposed to the low scale (A- = 8, B = 4) I used in the first pass at the Jazz CG data. When I get back to the latter, I'm pretty sure I'll switch to the high scale. Pretty much everyone I consulted preferred the low scale, but I haven't made any meaningful distinctions between A+ and A in decades, and it doesn't seem either fair or reasonable to downgrade everything else because I want to insist on some concept of perfection.
I don't expect to get much work done this coming week. For one thing, I'm sad to report that one of my oldest friends, Tony Jenkins, has died. He was 60, has struggled with liver cancer over the past year. He grew up next door, and wound up owning that house -- he was living there when we moved to Wichita in 1999, although he also had another house about a mile northeast, that he and his wife bought when they married. It was one of those tiny houses built for aircraft workers during WWII, and he transformed it into something special, tearing the roof off and building a second story with a master bedroom and bath that spanned the whole house. I spent a lot of time with him while he was doing that, trying to be helpful (but wasn't really), and he inspired much of the work I've done on our own house ever since. Haven't seen him much in the last few years, so his illness really came as shock and regret.
He is survived by his wife Kathy and a rather large dog -- when they got married nearly four decades ago they told us they were going to practice with dogs, and they stuck to that story. Tony once told me he had been surrounded with death all his life, which struck me as excessively morose. But his brother Bobby, who was a couple years older than me (so about eight years older than Tony), was killed in Vietnam -- more than any single thing his senseless death turned me against that atrocious war. He also had a much older brother, Wayne, who died in a car crash before he turned sixty, but I don't think they were close. (I barely knew Wayne, mostly by reputation as a legendary local athlete who turned down a chance to play pro baseball to pursue a lucrative business career.) I don't know when Tony's parents died, but they've been long gone -- certainly before Tony got through his 20s, though probably not while he was still in his teens.
He was a tremendous talker, the sort of guy you might be tempted to wind up a bit just to see where he takes it. He had low expectations in school -- I once prepared a very nice poetry notebook for him (not at all like the blasphemous one I prepped for my brother, the one that got him kicked out of school), and Tony declined to use it because he figured no one would believe it to be his own work. You could call that integrity -- he certainly had that. He worked in construction, doing siding for a while, then mostly ironwork for cement. Hard work, took a toll. But what he did learn, he could be downright perfectionist about. Early on I probably looked down on him as not very smart, but eventually I came to admire him, to respect his very real talents, and to appreciate his steady friendship. He was unique. He is missed, his absence an unfillable void.
Amendola vs. Blades: Greatest Hits (2015 [2016], Sazi): [cd]: B+(**)
BassDrumBone: The Long Road (2013-16 [2016], Auricle, 2CD): [cd]: B+(***)
Martin Bejerano: Trio Miami (2016, Figgland): [cd]: B+(*)
Nat Birchall: Creation (2016, Sound Soul & Spirit): [bc]: B+(***)
Boi Akih: Liquid Songs (2016, TryTone): [cd]: B+(*)
Christiane Bopp/Jean-Luc Petit: L'�corce et la Salive (2015 [2016], Fou): [cd]: B+(*)
Oguz Buyukberber and Simon Nabatov: Wobbly Strata (2014 [2016], TryTone): [cd]: B+(**)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree (2016, Bad Seed): [r]: B-
Richie Cole: Plays Ballads & Love Songs (2015 [2016], Mark Perna Music): [cd]: B+(***)
Andrew Downing: Otterville (2016, self-released): [cd]: B
Rebecca DuMaine and the Dave Miller Trio With Friends: Happy Madness (2016, Summit): [cd]: B-
Clare Fischer Latin Jazz Big Band: �Intenso! (2016, Clavo): [cd]: B+(**)
Eric Hofbauer Quintet: Prehistoric Jazz - Volume 3: Three Places in New England (2016, Creative Nation Music): [cd]: B+(***)
Roger Ingram: Skylark (2015, One Too Tree): [r]: B
Nate Lepine Quartet: Vortices (2016, Eyes & Ears): [cd]: B+(*)
Delfeayo Marsalis presents the Uptown Jazz Orchestra: Make America Great Again! (2016, Troubadour Jass): [cd]: B+(**)
Matt Mayhall: Tropes (2015 [2016], Skirl): [cd]: B+(*)
Adam Schneit Band: Light Shines In (2016, Fresh Sound New Talent): [cdr]: B+(**)
Soul Basement feat. Jay Nemor: What We Leave Behind (2016, ITI): [cd]: B+(*)
Amendola vs. Blades: Greatest Hits (Sazi)
Tom Collier: Impulsive Illuminations (Origin)
David Friesen Circle 3 Trio: Triple Exposure (Origin): November 18
Clay Giberson: Pastures (Origin): November 18
Stu Harrison: Volume I (One Nightstand): November 18
Heroes Are Gang Leaders: Flukum (Flat Langston's Arkeyes)
Erik Jekabson: A Brand New Take (OA2): November 18
Jerome Jennings: The Beast (Iola): November 18
Nate Lepine Quartet: Vortices (Eyes & Ears)
Mamutrio [Lieven Cambr�/Piet Verbist/Jesse Dockx]: Primal Existence (Origin): November 18
Melanie Marod: I'll Go Mad (ITI)
Matt Mayhall: Tropes (Skirl)
Phil Parisot: Lingo (OA2): November 18
Adam Schneit Band: Light Shines In (Fresh Sound New Talent) *
Steve Slagle: Alto Manhattan (Panorama): January 6
I was sorely tempted to write nothing more about the election until it's all over. I doubt I'll write much below, but when I start out I never know. Part of this is just plain disgust at how the last couple weeks have played out. Part is that I've been sick, and that hasn't helped my mood one bit. A big part of the disgust is simply that Hillary Clinton seems to have blown a huge lead: FiveThirtyEight gave her an 88.1% chance of victory on October 17, 81.5% as late as October 28. Today that's down to 64.5%. In terms of states that posits her as losing six states she was previously leading in: Arizona (her odds there are now down to only 25.8%), Iowa (27.1%), Ohio (32.9%), Florida (47.4%), Nevada (48.0%), and North Carolina (48.4%). That's still based on a 2.8% popular vote margin. Some polls are closer than that, with at least one showing Trump ahead. TPM had a narrower spread yesterday (2.4%) but a larger one today (3.9%, despite Clinton dropping to 45.9% of the vote).
Throughout most of the election, the median state (as far as the electoral college is concerned) has been New Hampshire: if Clinton wins New Hampshire and every other state she's been polling better in, she gets 272 electoral votes and wins the election. She's still given a 61.2% chance in New Hampshire. Trump could win the election by capturing New Hampshire, unless he loses a larger state he holds a slim lead in (Nevada, North Carolina, and Florida are all very close, and early voting looks especially good for Clinton in Nevada). On the other hand, Trump could lose New Hampshire and still win if he pulls an upset in Colorado (where he's currently givens a 26.9% chance) or Pennsylvania (25.9%).
At this stage, the presidential race has been reduced to these nine "battleground" states. Kansas (97.5% R) isn't one of them. In fact, I don't think I've seen a single street sign for either Trump or Clinton. I did see two Trump advertisements last week, and thought they hit an effective note: it is, after all, easy to tag Clinton as the candidate of the status quo, without suggesting how attractive more status quo would be compared to Trumpian change. I haven't seen any Clinton ads, but am haunted by at least one of her soundbytes, where she warns us of the danger of entrusting "America's nuclear codes" to someone as "thin-skinned and impulsive" as Trump. That's probably as carefully phrased as could be, but it mostly reminded me that she is decidedly hawkish, someone who believes strongly in flaunting America's military power, and someone who views the presidency as almost a secondary role to being Commander-in-Chief. Isn't it odd that the numerous "checks and balances" that limit what a president can do aren't sufficient to keep a mad person from blowing up the world? I've said all along that the surest way Clinton could lose would be to remind us of her appetite for war, and she's found an inadvertent way of doing that. I figure that must be part of her blown lead, even though the emails and her linkage to Anthony Weiner (perhaps the most universally reviled man in America right now) have gotten more attention.
By the way, as I was preparing this, FBI Director Comey says agency won't recommend charges over Clinton email, admitting, in his usual backhanded way, that his previous letter about re-opening the Clinton email investigation -- the event that precipitated Clinton's polling losses -- had come to nothing. Too bad we can't inspect the internal FBI emails discussing why he exposed this baseless innuendo in the first place. The FBI has a terrible legacy of politically-minded "investigations" but they've rarely set their sights on someone as mainstream as Hillary Clinton. Once again they've embarrassed themselves.
More I could write about here, but let's wind up this intro with Seth Meyers' "closer look" at the Major Clinton and Trump scandals:
That's a problem for a lot of Americans: They just don't love the two choices. Do you pick someone who's under federal investigation for using a private email server?
Or do you pick someone who called Mexicans rapists, claimed the president was born in Kenya, proposed banning an entire religion from entering the US, mocked a disabled reporter, said John McCain wasn't a war hero because he was captured, attacked the parents of a fallen soldier, bragged about committing sexual assault, was accused by 12 women of committing sexual assault, said some of those women weren't attractive for him to sexually assault, said more countries should get nukes, said that he would force the military to commit war crimes, said a judge was biased because his parents were Mexicans, said women should be punished for having abortions, incited violence at his rallies, called global warming a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese, called for his opponent to be jailed, declared bankruptcy six times, bragged about not paying income taxes, stiffed his contractors and employees, lost a billion dollars in one year, scammed customers at his fake university, bought a six-foot-tall painting of himself with money from his fake foundation, has a trial for fraud coming up in November, insulted an opponent's looks, insulted an opponent's wife's looks, and bragged about grabbing women by the pussy?
How do you choose?
Problem here is that Meyers is still reducing the election to a choice between two celebrity personalities, as opposed to the real differences between the parties and interests they represent. Not that there are no real issues buried in the Trump litany, nor that some of the personal traits (like his seething contempt for women and non-whites, and for that matter workers) don't portend policy dangers, but one thing this campaign has spared (or cheated) us was an opportunity to debate and vote on two radically different political visions. Imagine how much different this election might be if the choice was Bernie Sanders vs. Ted Cruz? One might learn something there, and emerge from the election with a mandate and a direction. But with Clinton vs. Trump we're stuck with muddled results -- both candidates are widely viewed as crooked, greedy, deceitful, treacherous, untrustworthy, pompous, arrogant, and full of ungrounded bluster -- their few differences attributable to irreconcilable identity allegiances. And even if Clinton wins, her margin isn't going to be nearly large enough to win Congress as well and to force a rethinking of those divisions. Republicans running for Congress have pledged to block her every appointment, to stalemate government and disable her administration from day one. Trump has already convinced most of his supporters that the only way he can lose is if the system is rigged against them.
It's fair to say that America is more divided now than at any election since 1860, which precipitated the Civil War. In terms of ideas and policies, those divisions have been growing since the Goldwater and Reagan campaigns, with conservatives demanding ever more complete domination of government and business, making the state a tool of the rich while eliminating any countervailing support government might provide for working people. Of course, conservatives rarely argue their agenda coherently -- they prefer to describe clear-cutting as their "healthy forests" initiative -- because they're aware that they'd lose. What Trump adds here is an unprecedented degree of paranoia, and a demagogic style that insists on degrading and dehumanizing his opponent and all of her supporters, and that's what's made him so vile and dangerous.
Some scattered (election) links this week:
Nate Silver: Election Update: The Campaign Is Almost Over, and Here's Where We Stand
Spencer Ackerman: 'The FBI is Trumpland': anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaks, sources say:
This atmosphere raises major questions about how Comey and the bureau he is slated to run for the next seven years can work with Clinton should she win the White House.
The currently serving FBI agent said Clinton is "the antichrist personified to a large swath of FBI personnel," and that "the reason why they're leaking is they're pro-Trump."
The agent called the bureau "Trumplandia," with some colleagues openly discussing voting for a GOP nominee who has garnered unprecedented condemnation from the party's national security wing and who has pledged to jail Clinton if elected.
David Atkins: Trump Would Be a Radical Policy Disaster:
This dyspeptic election is finally coming to an end in just a few days amid ugliness the likes of which has not been seen in modern American history. This nastiness has focused on the personal and the irrelevant, from the ridiculous non-scandal of Clinton's emails to the revolting but ultimately superficial fact that Donald Trump apparently carried on an affair for years that we're only just learning about.
Follow the article if you want the affair link. Read everything else. Still, he missed the policy proposal that bothers me most: one that would make it easier for rich guys like Trump to sue anyone and everyone who said anything negative about them.
Jonathan Blitzer: A Scholar of Fascism Sees a Lot That's Familiar With Trump:
[Ruth] Ben-Ghiat has been broadening her studies ever since the primaries, and is now considering a book-length examination of strongmen, from Mussolini to Trump, with stops in Franco's Spain, Erdogan's Turkey, and Qaddafi's Libya. In the speech of Mussolini, Putin, Trump, and also Berlusconi, Ben-Ghiat notes a pattern: they are at once transparent about their intentions and masters of innuendo. "Trump trails off. He uses ellipses and coded language. He lets his listeners fill in what they want." When Trump seemed to suggest that gun owners should deal with Hillary Clinton themselves, or when he talked about needing to "watch" certain communities out to steal the vote on Election Day, his statements were more powerful for their ambiguity. "It's all about letting listeners convince and mislead themselves," she said.
Amy Davidson: Bernie Sanders's Hard Fight for Hillary Clinton: Seems like the Obamas and Joe Biden get all the media notice, but did you know?
The truth is that Bernie Sanders is very, very angry -- at Donald Trump. He is angry enough to have spent weeks traveling on behalf of Hillary Clinton, speaking for her in union halls and arenas, to students and activists. When he talks, he is entirely Bernie -- "We are going to fight for that democracy; we are not going to become an oligarchy" -- and he hints strongly that he has done some negotiating with her before getting on the stage, and will continue to do so after, as he hopes, she is elected. When praising her positions, he often says "Secretary Clinton has told me" or "Secretary Clinton has promised," as though he knows that it might not work, with the sort of swing audiences he is dispatched to persuade (students, working-class voters), simply to declare that taking these stands is in her nature. But he knows what he wants: for her to win. [ . . . ]
"There are many, many differences between Secretary Clinton and Mr. Trump," Sanders told the crowd. "But there is one that is very, very profound. Are you ready for a very radical thought right now? I don't want anyone to faint! I think we have some paramedics here" -- "paramedics here" is, it turns out, an excellent phrase for demonstrating a Brooklyn accent -- "but I do want to make this announcement. Are you ready for it?" The crowd indicated that it was. "All right. Madam Secretary, you correct me if I'm wrong here; I don't want to misspeak for you -- Secretary Clinton believes in science!" [ . . . ]
A few hours later, Sanders was off on his own to Iowa. Trump is ahead in that state, in the latest average of polls, by about two and a half points. Sanders had three events scheduled for Friday -- Cedar Falls, Iowa City, Davenport. On Saturday, there would be more.
Kerry Eleveld: Latino electorate both on track for historic turnout and routinely undercounted in polls: One tidbit: in 2010, polls showed Republican Sharon Angle leading Harry Reid by 3-5 points, but Reid wound up winning 50.3-44.5%, largely due to a huge 90-10 Latino vote split.
Ron Fournier: Hillary Has No One to Blame but Herself: Concerns itself with trivial pursuits like that email server. For insight into the deeper Clinton problem, see: Matt Stoller: How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul. Or Thomas Frank's latest book, Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? -- although I don't recommend reading the latter until Wednesday (either way).
Charles Franklin: Party Loyalty and Defection, Trump v Clinton: Chart tracking polls so both parties with identically high (86.8%) support for their candidates, after Republicans had trailed all year. Defection rates similarly low, although Democrats (6.8%) more so than Republicans (5.2%), the margin growing lately. Billmon's conclusion: "The November non-surprise. The zombies came home."
Neil Irwin: A New Movement in Liberal Economics That Could Shape Hillary Clinton's Agenda: The concept is "labor market monopsony," which has to do with how monopoly businesses are not only able to charge rents (fix prices), they're able to use their power to depress labor markets (wages). Ways to ameliorate this problem include higher (and more comprehensive) minimum wages and stronger antitrust action (something Democrats have not been good at, while Republicans have abandoned any pretense of enforcement).
Ann Jones: Nasty Women:
In his own telling, he, not the women he's demeaned or assaulted, is the abused one and he's taking it for us, for America. It's quite a self-portrait when you think about it and should make us appreciate all the more those women who stepped before the cameras, reported his sexual assaults, and left themselves open to further abuse from Trump and his supporters. They have done something rare and brave. [ . . . ]
On the dark side, you never know what a sore loser and his loyal, bullying, misogynist followers might do. Say, for example, followers of the type who show up outside Hillary rallies with banners reading "Trump that Bitch!"
Paul Krugman: Conservative Intellectuals: Follow the Money:
We're supposed to think back nostalgically to the era when serious conservative intellectuals like Irving Kristol tried to understand the world, rather than treating everything as a political exercise in which ideas were just there to help their team win.
But it was never like that. Don't take my word for it; take the word of Irving Kristol himself, in his book Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea. Kristol explained his embrace of supply-side economics in the 1970s: "I was not certain of its economic merits but quickly saw its political possibilities." This justified a "cavalier attitude toward the budget deficit and other monetary or financial problems," because "political effectiveness was the priority, not the accounting deficiencies of government."
In short, never mind whether it's right, as long as it's politically useful. When David [Brooks] complains that "conservative opinion-meisters began to value politics over everything else," he's describing something that happened well before Reagan.
Paul Lewis/Tom Silverstone: Trump rally protester: I was beaten for a 'Republicans against Trump' sign
Martin Longman: Chris Christie Convicted By Proxy in Federal Court: Would be a bigger story if Trump had picked Christie as his running mate, but still . . . for anyone who wants to talk about locking people up, we can start with "two of Chris Christie's 'loyal lieutenants' who were taken down by Section 666 of Title 18 of the United States Code," who now "each theoretically face 20 years in prison (although nothing close to that will be imposed)."
Caitlin MacNeal: With the End in Sight, Trump Goes All In on Criminalizing Hillary Clinton
John Nichols: Republicans Won't Stop Talking About Impeaching Clinton: Specifically, Sen. Ron Johnson, likely to be defeated in his reelection bid in Wisconsin. But that's only one example.
Amir Oren: Comey's Revenge: The Real Reason the FBI Intervened in the Campaign:
The large spoke [Comey] put into the Hillary Clinton's wheels of victory won't be enough to stop her but could well reduce her coattails enough to keep the Democrats from regaining control of Congress, leaving Washington paralyzed by the warring branches of government. His motive was a personal grudge that Comey has held against Bill Clinton for a decade and a half, along with fresh residue from the investigation he closed this summer against Hillary.
Oren dates that grudge from Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich and Pinchas Green, financiers who "fled the country as they were about to be indicted for tax evasion and doing business with Iran during the hostage crisis," but who found advocates in Israel's government. But Oren also points out that Comey is a Republican, a deputy attorney general under Bush, but he supported Obama's nomination of Eric Holder as attorney general, and was himself nominated by Obama to be FBI director.
Also: Yochi Dreazen: The anti-Clinton insurgency at the FBI, explained.
Daniel Politi: Key to Trump's More Disciplined Campaign? He No Longer Controls His Twitter Account:
Although Trump may be keeping some of his thoughts away from the public spotlight, the Times also paints a scary picture of a candidate who is obsessed with getting revenge from those he feels have wronged him. "Offline, Mr. Trump still privately muses about all of the ways he will punish his enemies after Election Day, including a threat to fund a 'super PAC' with vengeance as its core mission," notes the Times.
The Times piece: Inside Donald Trump's Last Stand: An Anxious Nominee Seeks Assurance.
John Quiggin: Trump voters are (mostly) Romney voters: Who in turn were mostly Bush voters:
Trump is getting overwhelming support from self-described Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, and almost none from Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents. The same was true for Romney four years ago, and for Bush before him. [ . . . ]
This makes nonsense of much of the discussion of Trump voters as the dispossessed, protesting against globalisation, predatory capitalism and the destruction of American manufacturing. Conversely, it turns out that the discussion of Romney's "dog whistle" appeals to racism was misconceived. Replacing the dog whistle with a bullhorn has turned out to be no problem for the great majority of those who voted for Romney. [ . . . ]
Corey [Robin] here at CT and elsewhere has probably been the most consistent exponent of the view that Trump is a traditional Republican, in the line of Goldwater and Reagan. I broadly agree, though I'd put more stress on new developments over the past 20 years or so. Trump's complete disregard for truth, norms of decency and so on, is an extrapolation of a process that's been going on for quite a while, at the popular level with Fox News, birtherism and so on and in the Republican intellectual apparatus with climate denial, zombie economics and attacks on "political correctness."
The links are to pieces in Jacobin by Corey Robin. They're both worthwhile, but an even better title is Robin's The Conservative Movement Has No Decency. This piece, of course, is mostly about Joseph Welch's 1954 rebuke of Joe McCarthy, but ties in to Trump's denunciation of Khizr Khan after his speech at the Democratic Convention. Still, Trump's outburst wasn't isolated or even uniquely his own. Robin offers many other examples without ever mentioning the abuse conservatives have heaped on Hillary Clinton -- a subject for whole books, likely to sprawl into multiple volumes if she wins.
Robin titled his latest thoughts on the election Viva Las Vegas! In it he includes a Brecht quote from 1942:
. . . to present Hitler as particularly incompetent, as an aberration, a perversion, humbug, a pecuilar pathological case, while setting up other bourgeois politicians as models, models of something he has failed to attain, seems to me no way to combat Hitler.
Joe Romm: Trump just proposed ending all federal clean energy development
Alexis Sottile: The Trump Effect: How Hateful Rhetoric Is Affecting America's Children: Solar, wind, efficiency, batteries, clean cars, and climate science, too.
Matt Taibbi: The Fury and Failure of Donald Trump:
The best argument for a Clinton presidency is that she's virtually guaranteed to be a capable steward of the status quo, at a time of relative stability and safety. There are criticisms to make of Hillary Clinton, but the grid isn't going to collapse while she's in office, something no one can say with even mild confidence about Donald Trump.
But nearly two-thirds of the population was unhappy with the direction of the country entering the general-election season, and nothing has been more associated with the political inside than the Clinton name. [ . . . ]
The "scandal" of the Wiki papers, if you can call it that, is that it captured how at ease Clinton was talking to bankers and industrialists about the options for the organization of a global society. Even in transcript form, it's hard not to realize that the people in these rooms are all stakeholders in this vast historical transformation.
Left out of the discussion over the years have been people like Trump's voters, who coincidentally took the first hit along the way in the form of lowered middle-class wages and benefits. They were also never told that things they cared about, like their national identity as Americans, were to have diluted meaning in the more borderless future.
This is why the "basket of deplorables" comment rankled so badly. It's not like it was anywhere near as demeaning or vicious as any of 10,000 Trump insults. But it spoke to a factual disconnnect.
Matthew Yglesias: The real Clinton email scandal is that a bullshit story has dominated the campaign
Matthew Yglesias: Melania's illegal immigration problem reminds us what Trump's campaign has always been about: OK, now we have proof that she entered the country to work illegally. American nativists should be up in arms: isn't a big part of their spiel how we shouldn't offer amnesty to people who don't follow the rules? Yet if they're so devoted to deep American roots, why are they backing a guy who has only one native-born American ancestor? Unless it matters what kind of immigrants we're talking about?
Indeed, going back to when the Nixon administration sued Trump for discriminating against black and Latino tenants, Trump's long record of racism isn't really disputable.
So there's really nothing so surprising about the Melania story. Trump doesn't like immigrants who change the American cultural and ethnic mix in a way he finds threatening and neither do his fans. Europeans like Melania (or before her, Ivana) are fine. I get it, David Duke gets it, the frog meme people get it, everyone gets it.
But it does raise the question of why mainstream press coverage has spent so much time pretending not to get it. Why have we been treated to so many lectures about the "populist appeal" of a man running on regressive tax cuts and financial deregulation and the "economic anxiety" of his fans?
PS: Just shook up by a 5.3 earthquake centered 3 miles west of Cushing, Oklahoma. Fairly sharp for about 15 second here, unsettled for another 20-30 seconds, but I doubt we suffered any damage. On the other hand, Cushing bills itself as the "pipeline capital" of America, so they have a lot of dangerously fragile infrastructure real close to the epicenter. Happened at 7:44:25 local time.
Music computer on the fritz: seems to have permanently locked display out, which makes it pretty damn useless. Time to upgrade? Components:
CPU: AMD FX-0350 Eight-Core Socket AM3+ w/Wraith Cooler: $164.99
Motherboard: ASUS 970 Pro Gaming/Aura AM3+ AMD 970 + SB950 ATX (4xDDR3 2133(OC)/1866, 2xPCI 2.0x16, 2xPCI 2.0x1, 2xPCI, 6xSATA 6Gb/s, 1xPS/2, 2xUSB 3.1[Type-A, Red], 8xUSB 2.0, S/PDIF, 8 channel audio, no video): $109.99+2.99
RAM: G.SKILL Ares Series 32GB (4x8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM 1866 (PC3 14900) Model F3-1866C10Q-32GAB: $191.99
Video Card: ASUS Radeon HD 6450 HD6450-SL-2GD3-L 2GB PCI Express 2.1x16: $54.99
Hard Drive: Seagate BarraCuda ST2000DM006 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5-inch bare: $69.99
DVD Burner: ASUS 24X Black SATA Model DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS: $19.99
Parallel Port: SYBA PCI-Express 1-Port Parallel/Printer Card RoHS SD-PEX10005: $15.99
Total: $642.93 + $5.81 shipping - $0.02 = $648.74.
Some other components I considered:
AMD FX-8300 Eight-Core Socket AM3+ (Passmark 7605): $114.99
AMD FX-8370 Eight-Core Socket AM3+ (Passmark 8912): $189.99+$1.99
AMD FX-9370 Eight-Core (Passmark 9489): $189.99
AMD FX-9590 Eight-Core Socket AM3+ (Passmark 10232): $229.99+1.99
AM3+ Motherboard:
ASUS MSA78L-M/USB3 uATX AMD 760G (ATI Radeon 3000): $54.99
ASUS MSA78L-M Plus/USB3 uATX AMD 760G (ATI Radeon 3000): $65.72
ASUS M5A97 PLUS AM3+ AMD 970/SB950 ATX (4xDDR3[2133/1866], 6xSATA 6Gbs, 1xPCIe2.0x16[blue], 2xPCIe2.0x1, 3xPCI, 2xPS2, 1xLAN, 8xUSB2.0, 3xAudio): $70.99
ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970/SB950 ATX: $74.99
ASUS M5A99X EVO ATX R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990X + SB950 ATX (DDR3 2133/1866 32GB, 2xPCIe2.0x16[x16,x4], 2xPCIe2.0x1, 1 PCI, 6xSATA 6Gbs, 1xPS2, 2xUSB 3.0, 8xUSB 2.0, 2xeSATA, S/PDIF, 6 Audio, no video): $124.99+3.99
Gigabyte GA-990FX-Gaming AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA USB 3.1(2x) USB 3.0(2x) ATX (6xUSB 2.0, 1PS/2, S/PDIF, 5xAudio, 4xDDR3 [2000/1866], 3xPCIx16, 3xPCIx1): $109.99+2.99
MSI Gaming 970 ATX AMD 970: $79.99
Video Cards:
ASUS Radeon HD 6450 DirectX 11 EAH6450 1GB 64-Bit PCI Express 2.1 HDCP: $42.99; 2GB $54.99
ASUS Radeon R7 240 DirectX 11.2 R7240-2GD3-L 2GB PCI Express 3.0 HDCP: $73.99
(what about Radeon RX 460, RX 480, HD 7950?)
Parallel Printer Port:
SYBA PCI-Express 1-Port Parallel/Printer Card RoHS SD-PEX10005: $15.99
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PM Modi said Yoga brings new energy in the body
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PM Modi addressed the public before doing Yoga in the Uttar Pradesh's capital Lucknow on International Yoga Day. While addressing the importance of yoga, PM Modi said that Yoga Day is being celebrated in the country and the world today and Yoga has a feature of keeping your mind stable. Yoga teaches us the art of living. PM said that there was something new to see in Lucknow. PM said that the people of Lucknow showed how mat can also be used apart from with Yoga. The PM said that even after having heavy rains, people remained here to do yoga. PM Modi further said that the United Nations had approved International Yoga Day in a short time, in the last 3 years many Yoga institutes have been created all over the world. Whereas the demand for teachers of yoga has also started to grow, Yoga has emerged as a profession. New job market is getting ready in the world. PM Modi said that people used to do yoga in their own way, but now its scientific method has also come out. Last year UNESCO recognized India's yoga as a significant part of human culture. Explaining the importance of salt on the Yoga Day, the PM said that when we first do yoga, we know about the vital organs of our body. Modi said that in the starting of doing Yoga, it brings new energy to the organs. Sometimes people ask me about yoga, so I say that salt is the cheapest but if there is no salt in the food then the taste of food gets spoiled and it also has an effect on the body as well. He said that like life does not go without salt, the same significance of Yoga should be there in life.
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Woodeaton
Woodeaton CP/AP
Parish-level Unit
Woodeaton CP/AP — Current theme: Population
These simple graphs compare Woodeaton with national trends:
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)
Population Density (Persons per Acre)
We let you look at total population in two ways.
Firstly, population density: which areas had the most people? Density is calculated as the number of people per hectare, and we have measured areas from a modern digital map of the local authorities rather than relying on the doubtful acreages given in historical reports. Secondly, growth rates: where was population rising fastest, or declining? We also look at the ratio of men to women.
This theme also covers people's ages. From 1851 onwards, the census has provided very detailed statistics of age structure, giving numbers of males and of females in each 5-year age band. However, we simplify this here to three broad age groups: Children (0-14), Working Age (15-64) and the Elderly (over 65).
Over the last 150 years, our population has clearly aged. However, mortality decline in the late 19th century was mainly due to the reduction of very high infant mortality rates: the presence or absence of large number of infants dying before their first birthday had little effect on overall age structures. During the twentieth century, declining fertility and improved life expectancy in later life significantly changed age structures.
We hold these detailed statistics for Woodeaton, which we graph and tabulate here:
Area (acres) 1831 to 1961 Area (acres) (1)
Males and Females 1801 to 1961 Sex (2)
Population Change 1811 to 1961 Population Change (2)
Total number of males aged 20 and over 1831 1831 Occupational Categories Total (1)
Total Population 1801 to 1961 Total Population (4)
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Ad hominem tu quoque, Hasty Generalization, inconsistency, Jonah Goldberg
I won’t forget to place roses on your grave
2/5/2011 Scott Aikin 5 Comments
Tu Quoque arguments, it seems to me, have a statute of limitations on when the first of the two inconsistent acts can be relevantly inconsistent with the second. (See my long article in Informal Logic for the full story) For example, someone may express appropriate surprise at the fact that the altarboy later became an atheist when he was a grownup, but that's not inconsistency in the relevant sense for an accusation of hypocrisy. The two acts need to be close enough in time for them to be relevant to each other. And so it's usual when someone runs an argument from inconsistency, she will say something like:
Person S says we should not do X, but then she turns right around and does X.
The important thing is that S turns right around and does it. If she did X years ago, perhaps S has learned her lesson. Or she's changed her mind. Or maybe the facts regarding X have changed. X may be the best option, nowadays. The lesson: with charges of hypocrisy, time's relevant.
With that in mind, let's look at Jonah Goldberg's commentary on the (albeit grudging) praise of Ronald Reagan's presidency from liberals. This is part of a trend he sees. Barry Goldwater, after being demonized by LBJ, was later portrayed as an "avuncular and sage grandfather type." William F. Buckley, too, went from being called a Nazi to later being an actual defender of liberalism. Reagan, now:
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth, the Gipper is enjoying yet another status upgrade among liberals. Barack Obama took a Reagan biography with him on his vacation. A slew of liberals and mainstream journalists (but I repeat myself) complimented Obama’s State of the Union address as “Reaganesque.” Time magazine recently featured the cover story “Why Obama (Hearts) Reagan.” Meanwhile, the usual suspects are rewriting the same columns about how Reagan was a pragmatist who couldn’t run for president today because he was too nice, too reasonable, too (shudder) liberal for today’s Republican party.
Trouble is, while Reagan was alive, liberals didn't have too high an opinion of him:
[My] favorite comes from Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London, which in 1982 held a vote for the most hated people of all time. The winners: Hitler, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Dracula.
Now, first, note that these are cases where we're looking at things said in 1982 and 2011. Almost thirty years difference. Second, note that these inconsistencies are ones distributed over a group, Liberals, not individual people. Regardless, it's almost as though Goldberg isn't paying attention to the subtext of these retrospectives: that despite the fact that liberals disagreed with these conservatives, liberals could nevertheless see their virtues as people in retrospect. And one of the reasons why those virtues are worth mentioning now is that current conservatives so clearly fail to have them. I take it back. Goldberg gets that part:
[S]o much of the effort to build up conservatives of the past is little more than a feint to tear down the conservatives of the present.
But, for some reason, he thinks instead this is a point he's scoring on liberals by showing how they're inconsistent. Again, in cases where time's changed the variables, sometimes what you've inveighed against earlier becomes the best choice. Ask any liberal: would you take Reagan or Buckley over Palin or Goldberg for a decent conversation about government and political norms? You know the answer. Goldberg thinks this means that liberals think that the only good conservative is a dead conservative. He's missed the point. The point, instead, is sadly that all the good conservatives are dead.
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2/5/2011 at 12:42 pm
You can also look at some of the negative comments that "liberals" directed at Reagan and see that they imply positive values alongside the negative. Take, for example, Michael Moore's description of Reagan as a "spokesmodel President" – it conveys that Moore disagreed with Reagan and doesn't think he was so much advancing his own agenda as opposed to one of powerful interests that helped win him the presidency, but at the same time it acknowledges that Reagan had tremendous stage presence and ability to persuade the public.
By the same token, if Moore were to describe an Obama speech as Reaganesque that would not be a compliment for either man, save for the competence of the presentation. Goldberg should be able to comprehend that – Clinton was a very popular President who Goldberg likely despises. Were Goldberg to describe a speech as "Clintonesque" would that be because he has come around and recognized Clinton's virtues?
Ugh. Now, by association, I am reminded that we're talking about Jonah, son of Lucianne, and of her role in the ugliest parts of the Tripp-Lewinsky scandal. How do I sandblast that out of my mind….
Jem says:
I'm not one of those liberals willing to offer any compliments for the conservatives of yore — especially Reagan the Shill.
I do kind of like Eisenhower. And Buckley really was erudite and well-spoken, even when threatening to punch interlocutors in the face.
aikin says:
Hey Jem. Love the reference to Buckley threatening people with the fist. Gore Vidal got that rise out of him, but I think the famous one was with Chomsky, right? That said, I think Buckley's still the more virtuous intellect than Goldberg, ad baculums and all.
John Casey says:
Speaking of Reagan. Here are five myths about Reagan (via Will Bunch):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2011/02/04/ST2011020403674.html?hpid=topnews
You'd never know.
And then there's this item from yesterday:
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/mike-stark-punks-limbaugh
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T.J. Burgin
The Official Site for T.J. Burgin
Sorry for the Apocalypse
Half-Blind
Abel’s Legacy
Spoilers….
Searching for Stardust
The First Tail
The Second Tail
The Last Tail
Pipeline Projects
Lucie checked her phone for the fortieth time, cursing under her breath when she saw the picture of her childhood dog that was her lock screen. The two little girls with their arms wrapped around the large dog’s neck were her and her cousin, Nancy. The two girls looked so similar they were usually mistaken for twins in strange company. Both had cheery bright smiles and the same pale locks of hair that always got tangled in their eye lashes. She sighed and put her phone back in the pocket of her apron.
“What’s wrong Goose?” Lucie’s father asked, his jovial smile as fixed as ever on his open face. Lucie rubbed her clean hands on her apron and adjusted the tie around her waist.
“I’m waiting for Nancy to tell me if she’s on for this weekend or not.” Lucie looked down, slightly embarrassed that she couldn’t even organise a hang out with a single friend – who also happened to be a family member – a week in advance.
“I can call Uncle Richard if you like?” He offered, his smile still in place.
“No it’s fine, I’ll try and call her later.” Lucie shrugged and pushed her phone deeper into the pocket. She moved away from her father and back toward her canvas, carefully stepping around her assortments of piled paint tins on the drop sheet under her feet and
“Do you think weather will hold up?” She asked, maintaining polite conversation while her eyes wandered over the two-foot-square canvas on her easel. It was black, the whole thing had been painted in a smooth and oily darkness that seemed to hint at colour but never quite entertain it. The grey glow from outside was a nice counterpoint to her work and glanced outside into the blustery fields. She wondered if it might snow.
“The weather app on my phone says it will.” He responded noncommittally, his tone depressed and without hope.
“Not that it really has any power to judge weather, the other day it said it would be sunny.”
“Well let’s hope it’s wrong again.” Lucie forced her words to be light and playful. She collected her brushes from their jars and sorted them, looking for the heavy one with the thick bristles and solid handle that she liked to use for the texturing process. She found it and started to add, on top of the still tacky undercoat, thick globules of paint. The mix she used was almost congealed in texture, it formed peaks and valleys with little effort and she carefully covered her canvas in it, dragging some of the undercoat up through it to add to the texture of the piece. Despite the fact she knew she had an audience, she continued to paint, carefully building layers and standing at different angles to try and work out where the work was going. Once she’s used most of her patented goop-paint she resealed the jar and rinsed the brush, leaving the canvas to dry and stripping off her protective outer garments. Once paint free and with considerably cleaner hands she padded to the kitchen and filled the kettle, absentmindedly clicking the switch backwards and forwards instead of just leaving it to boil.
“Leave it alone Goose.” Her father said, sounding tired all of a sudden.
“Just switch it on and let it do its thing. I’m going to go lie down, could you bring me a cup of tea when it’s done?” He didn’t wait for an answer, his heavy boots trailing wet muck and heavy footfalls all the way down the corridor as he went to the bedroom he had just moved into.
“Sure thing.” Murmured Lucie, leaving the kettle to boil and lifting herself onto one of the barstools at the brunch bar. She watched the steam start to slowly coil out of the kettle’s spout and her phone buzzed. She lifted it screen up and saw a text from her best friend, Glenn. She sighed, not bothering to read it. She had hoped there would be a message from Nancy. The phone buzzed again and Lucie flipped it over on the bench, keeping one eye on the kettle as it sung it’s impending release. Glenn had corrected something he’d written by accident in the previous text. She sighed and unlocked her phone to respond. Yes, I’m still on for tonight, just waiting to hear back from my cousin regarding tomorrow. She hit send and almost put her phone face down again, but another text came through. This time from her mother. Lucie paused, trying to decide whether or not she wanted to respond. She didn’t even know if she wanted to read it or not. She figured she would read it until the kettle finished boiling; if the kettle boiled before she finished or before she had a chance to respond, then tough titties. She opened the message and read, trying to keep in mind her mother was a lying bitch who was probably cuddled up in bed with one of three or four lovers while her new boyfriend was at work. It was just the kind of person she was.
I need you to call me Lucie, it’s about your uncle, I know your dad won’t pick up the phone, please call. Lucie thought about responding and the kettle boiled. She laughed and put her phone down, moving around the kitchen to make two cups of tea without a care in the world. If anything was wrong with her uncle, her dad would be the first to know. He usually got terrible back pains when something was wrong; and even if it wasn’t like that, Richard was his brother. She finished brewing the tea and carefully added the obligatory negligible dash of milk and half a spoon of sugar to her father’s cup. She took the cup into him and stood at the end of his bed, watching him sleep. Smiling ruefully she put the cup down on his bedside table and shook his shoulder, cooing under her breath to try and wake him up. His eyes slowly opened and he smiled up at her.
“Hey Goose; what’s up?”
“Your tea is ready dad.” She whispered, pointing at the steaming mug on the table.
“Thank you.” He said, his voice hushed.
“Why do you look like that?” He reached up and poked her cheek until she smiled and her dimple appeared.
“Like what dad?” She asked, pushing his hand away and standing up.
“Like your mum did whenever something was bothering her.” Lucie scoffed quietly. She looked nothing like her mother. They didn’t even have similar eyes.
“I look nothing like mum.” She said quietly.
“Though, speaking of mum, I got a text from her. Apparently there’s something wrong with Uncle Richard.”
“Why would she know anything about Richard?” Lucie stepped back, avoiding the fine mist of tea and spittle that flew in her direction as her father sat up.
“He’s my fucking brother!” Lucie took a couple of deep breaths and tried to settle her heart, which beat like a hummingbird against the walls of her chest.
“I don’t know dad. I’ll call her and find out. I’m sorry, I’ll get more information.” Lucie ran from the room without waiting for an answer, pressing herself against the cool fridge door once she was in the kitchen, hoping the cold surface would jerk her back to reality. Instead, images of her father’s angry eyes flashed in front of her and her vision began to dim. She squeezed her eyes shut and held her breath, slowly her breathing and focussing on the dopey grin Glenn gave her everytime she reminded him to do something. That brought her back to reality and now that the world was once more cold and bright and full of colour, Lucie went to her phone and speed dialled her mother.
“Hey chipmunk, what’s happening?” Lucie’s mother’s voice was loud and obnoxious over the phone; her phone manner had been shaped by years of secretarial work and role playing.
“Mum, what’s wrong with Richard?” Lucie didn’t have time for the banter that would make her mother happy. She just wanted the information that would mean she could report to her father that it was a typo and everything was fine.
“Oh dear Lucie, I don’t know. How about you call the number I’m about to send you? It’s the number they told me to call only I have no interest in dealing with your bastard of a uncle.” Her voice turned poisonous, her words like thorns.
“Sounds great mum.” Lucie hung up, sagging against the benchtop. She used to be mummy’s little girl. She used to run to the front of the house to meet her mother after a long day of work, despite how many times she was told running near the road was dangerous. Now her mother could barely talk to her. She waited for the text to come through and when it did it was just the phone number, no explanation as to who it would connect to. Lucie tossed up whether or not to follow through and call the number or just tell her father everything was fine. A small niggle in the back of her brain reminded her that however slim the chance, there might actually be something wrong with Richard and maybe, because dad had changed his number, the authorities had called mum instead. She held her fingertip against the number until the phone gave her a list of options and she hit call.
“Hello, District PD, how can I help you?” A little chill ran down Lucie’s spine and she licked her lips with her suddenly dry tongue, composing herself as best she could.
“Afternoon, um, this is Lucie Caller?”
“Miss Caller, can I ask what you’re enquiring about today?” The polite voice answered, a civil but bored tone capped with a tiny smile.
“My mother received a message asking her to call this number, but she and my father are split up, she asked me to call because it’s regarding my uncle?” Lucie didn’t know how to explain the whole situation. She didn’t even know if the whole situation needed explaining.
“It’s about my uncle, I think, Richard Caller, but that was all my mum would say.”
“Richard Caller, ah , yes.” The line clicked and the heavy silence of holding floated through the handset. Lucie tried to stay calm.
“Hello?” The single word followed another click. Lucie remained mute, not sure who she was talking to.
“Hello? This is Detective Linda White. Who is this please?” Lucie breathed out in a gust.
“Lucie Caller.” She said, trying to speak calmly. Her words came out a little too fast, tripping over each other.
“Ah, Lucie, yes. Thank you for calling back. Your mother said you would.” The detective sounded relieved.
“I have some bad news, are you in a position to receive that right now?”
“Position?” Lucie asked doubtfully.
“Are you sitting down?”
“Yes.” Lucie replied, sitting herself on the low chaise lounge in the entrance way usually reserved for coats and scarves to be bundled in heaps.
“Good, now I have some bad news, as I said earlier. I would rather do this in person but it’s been a very long week and I’ve had to make a lot of these calls.” Lucie hummed apologetically, not sure why the detective was eliciting sympathy when she was the one receiving bad news.
“I am afraid I have to inform you that Richard and Nancy Caller died in a tragic potential homicide about two weeks ago.” The detective’s voice was loaded with regret. Lucie understood the words and their implication but she felt numb. Bad news was something she’d heard a lot of since she and her father had moved out of the family home.
“Thank you for letting me know.” She said softly, tears thick behind her eyes but as yet remaining put.
“I will alert my father.”
“Could you possibly make a time to come and give a formal identification? All for procedure?”
“Of course.” Lucie said, her voice hoarser but just as quiet as before.
“I will call back on this number to arrange it.”
“Thank you Miss Caller.” Detective White hung up and Lucie put her phone down on the lounge like it was made of glass. She watched the screen with the picture of her, the dog and cousin Nancy on it fade to black and the first of many sobs ripped through her, tearing her diaphragm and stretching her vocal cords on the way out.
Marcus stood in the snack food aisle at the shopping centre, staring at a party-sized bag of pretzels in one hand and a party-sized bag of corn chips in the other. He simply couldn’t decide. He knew he needed to make a decision but he didn’t know what the group would like more. He knew some of the participants would laugh if they knew he couldn’t do this by himself but he decided to call a friend, just in case. He dialled her number and the phone rung for over a minute before going to voicemail.
“Hey, it’s Lucie Goose, you’ve got thirty seconds to tell me why I should call you back, or I won’t!” The beep sounded less than half a second afterwards and Marcus tried to rattle off a message as quickly as possible.
“Hey Lucie, it’s Marcus, pretzels or corn chips Goose? Call me.” He hung up and sighed. She might be driving and he didn’t know how long it would take her to get back to him. He shifted his weight form foot to foot and risked a second call. This time they picked up on the first ring.
“Hey, Glenn here. What’s up?” The cheery voice sounded forced. Marcus chuckled.
“Glenn, it’s Marcus, I need some help.”
“Sorry Marcus, I think you’ve got the wrong number, I don’t know anyone named Marcus.” For a second Marcus believed him, then noticed the sly upward inflection at the end of the statement.
“No worries then, I guess I’ll have to leave the snack decisions up to the new girl then.” Marcus teased.
“Oh Marcus, man, sorry about that, little brain blip if you know what I mean. What’s the conundrum?” Glenn’s tone became genuinely happy.
“Pretzels or corn chips?” Marcus quizzed.
“Pretzels. Come on, what kind of dumb question is that?” Glenn hung up before Marcus could answer. The guy was a nutcase but most of it was show. He was very changeable by nature and it was always entertaining talking to him. A text buzzed through his phone and looked down;
BTW my lil’ bro is coming tonight, hope that’s cool
It wasn’t a question. Marcus didn’t get much of a choice when it came to Glenn’s brother. Ryan was a smart kid, not afflicted like his brother, and Marcus knew he wrote comic books about everyone who attended the meetings. He didn’t feel there was any harm though; the kid was creative and a badass artist.
Marcus put the corn chips back on the shelf and grabbed two more bags of pretzels; he then added some jelly snakes and marshmallows to his basket for the sweet toothed members of the group and grabbed a bottle of milk for the tea and coffee table. He went to the register, waited patiently in line between a pair of gossiping oriental women that seemed to give little to no thought to the fact that between them was a tall man who now knew an uncomfortable amount about the sex life of a third party, someone named Yvonne.
He didn’t feel comfortable again until he was in the carpark and even then it was touch and go. He felt like furtive glances were coming at him from all angles today.
“Excuse me?” Marcus ignored the quiet words initially, focussed on juggling the bag of meeting supplies and trying to find his keys in the sixteen available pockets in his clothing.
“Sorry, I don’t want to be rude, but I need to ask you something.” The voice dropped an octave and became more serious. Marcus finally found his keys – back in the first pocket he’d checked – and looked up from the boot of his car, straight into the face of a willowy young woman with worried eyes and a tense smile.
“How can I help you?” Marcus let his southern-gentleman-drawl carry.
“I was wondering if you could, uh, well, answer some, um, questions.” She seemed much less sure of herself now that he was actually looking at her with his sharp but doey eyes.
“Fire away.” Marcus smiled and placed his bag into the plastic tub secured with straps in his mammoth boot. He’d installed it after the third bottle of milk had been thrown about by his violent driving and subsequently exploded, leaving a stinky and difficult to clean mess in its wake.
“I understand you work with people who need help.” Marcus could not have thought up a less specific topic sentence. He looked over an imaginary pair of glasses at her and raised one eyebrow slowly. She blushed but continued.
“Support I mean, not really help, they need support.” Marcus knew what she was talking about but played dumb, tension growing in his shoulders.
“I would like to join the group.” Her request rushed out of her like a cat let out of a bag and Marcus considered what she was asking.
“You want to join.” He felt like he was missing something. He didn’t have the right to invite anyone in, vouch for anyone, or kick anyone out. He happened to be a friend of two of the members and had consequently been voted in as moderator.
“Anyone who’d heard anything about any group knows that anyone looking for support needs to be vouched for by an existing member.” He stated, not wanting to give too much away. The group had never really been exposed in any way but he lived in constant fear of something happening to that end. These people were vulnerable in a very special way.
“But I don’t know anyone else.” She spoke desperately, like she was clinging to this as a last hope. He felt a pang in his chest but pushed it aside. He had sworn he would not interfere and he would keep that promise. The people in the group were tightly knit and they were all his friends. He would not jeopardize that.
“I don’t know you.” He stated, finality dripping off of every word.
“And I am not in a position to bend the rules. I am sorry.” He turned away, cringing at her tiny intake of breath. He knew it would turn into a sob. He knew it would. He climbed into his car and rested his head against the top of his chair, the weight of what he had just done sliding around his neck like a noose. He didn’t want to regret that decision. He deliberately did not look in his mirrors, instead starting his engine and using his car to call Lucie again. Her voicemail filled the car and he banged his head softly on the rim of the steering wheel as he left her a message.
“Lucie, it’s Marcus, look, I need your advice, before the meeting. Please call me.” He hung up before her phone could inform him his time was up. He peeked out of the rear vision mirror and saw the woman walking away into the distance, towards the the nearby playground. He reversed and drove in the opposite direction, deliberately taking the long way home to avoid seeing her moping. He drove at five kilometres under the speed limit the entire way, letting people fly past him, waving obscene gestures at him through their windows. He was waiting for a light to turn green when Lucie’s name popped up on the touch screen display in the centre console. He answered.
“Lucie, hey.”
“Hey Marcus.” The normally perky voice was a little bit raspy today.
“I just got accosted in the carpark while buying snacks – by the way, I chose pretzels. Glenn helped.”
“Good man.” Marcus wasn’t sure whether Lucie was referring to him or Glenn. He decided to skip over that and the roughness of her voice and focus on his question.
“This woman said she needed support; she wants to join the group.” Lucie’s interest seemed piqued.
“She said that?”
“Yes. She said she wanted to join.”
“But she doesn’t seem to know the rules.” Lucie said it like she was stating the most obvious thing in the world. Maybe to her and other members of her community she was.
“I told her I couldn’t vouch for her, even if I knew her, which I don’t, but I feel like her not knowing the rules isn’t a good reason to assume she doesn’t need support.” Marcus was a reasonable man by nature and he knew that the young woman at the other end of the line was reasonable too. But being reasonable and protecting one’s own did not always go hand in hand.
“We might talk about it at the meeting.” Lucie sounded like she was making a massive concession just be suggesting they might discuss the event.
“And we can work something out from there, but if she’s not going to come through the accepted channels then we need to work out where everyone stands on that. Some of us have a lot to lose.” Marcus knew she wasn’t referring to herself. She was a societal nobody. The people who had things to lose were friends of hers though and she was going to fight for them.
“Sounds fair. I’ll see you tonight then.”
“Yes, tonight.” Lucie hung up, leaving Marcus sitting in his driveway wondering how he got there. He switched the car off and got out, gathering his groceries from the boot and taking them inside. The house was cold and dark, profoundly empty.
Ryan was pumped. He bounced in the seat next to his brother, his entire being quivering with anticipation.
“I can’t believe Marcus said yes!” He had expressed this sentiment nearly thirty three times in the last half an hour and he didn’t care that his brother was obviously getting tired of hearing it.
“I didn’t give him a choice buddy.” Glenn said, his voice even.
“It’s not like he’s really in charge anyway.” Ryan didn’t care about the technicalities. He bounced, his grin hurting his cheeks and his back teeth clenching against the muscular ache his cheeks emanated into the rest of his head.
“Do you think I’ll be allowed to sketch again?” Ryan wanted so badly to sketch each and every member of his elder brother’s support group. He had been working on superhero outfits for all of them and he thought the other members would think they were totally rad. He especially liked the design he’d thought up for his brother’s platonic best friend and the woman he’d had a crush on since he was ten year old, Lucie. He wanted her to really love the suit he’d drawn for her. He’d put hours of work into it.
“I don’t know, you’ll have to ask when we get there.” Glenn was barely paying attention, focussed on the road ahead. They pulled off the main road and up a slightly thinner country lane with no markings. Then they took another left and another left and finally Glenn applied the brakes and slid to a graceful stop outside Lucie’s home. The young woman emerged immediately from the side door and began to jog toward the car. Ryan climbed out and held his door open, inviting her to sit in the front passenger seat. She smiled distractedly and climbed in, thanking him under her breath. Ryan closed the door behind her and climbed into the back seat, from which he had a vantage point to stare at the curve of her neck and shoulder without her observation. Glenn gave him a sharp look through the rearview mirror but Ryan ignored it.
“Lucie, what’s wrong?” They were once again on the main road before Glenn spoke, and his question made Ryan lean forward. His older brother was right, there was something wrong.
“Uncle Richard died.” Lucie looked down at her hands, seemingly counting her long fingers.
“So did Nancy.” her voice cracked and Ryan watched jealously as his brother reached out and, without taking his eyes off the road, took a hold of her hands, squeezing them tightly.
“How the hell could that happen?” Glenn asked, his voice quiet, juxtaposed with his angry words.
“I’m not sure, dad and I have to head into the city and talk to some police or something about it. Dad is in shock.” Glenn squeezed her hands again, his knuckles briefly turning white, and Ryan bit back the urge to offer that she come into the back seat where he could give her a hug. She’d made it clear in the past that it would be a few years before he was old enough for her to take seriously as a romantic partner. He was totally okay with that.
“Is there anything we can do?” Ryan asked, cutting over the top of the start of whatever Glenn was about to say.
“Thank you Ryan.” Lucie smiled over her shoulder at him. He smiled back, a warm glow in his chest for being able to elicit a smile despite the obviously trying circumstances of the deaths of family members. He didn’t know who Richard and Nancy were but he assumed they were close family. A little flame of jealousy ignited in his chest when he realised that his brother knew who they were and he didn’t.
“I think everything is under control for now. Have you done any more cartoons for the group?” Lucie always insisted calling his drawings ‘cartoons’. He hated the diminutization of what were in reality very good and well thought out comic books that he had actually managed to sell a few copies of.
“I have a few new chapters to show off; you’re the star of one of them.” He smiled and she giggled like a schoolgirl.
“You’re incorrigible Ryan.” She said, flooding his entire body with a warm glow.
“Don’t get too excited Lucie.” Glenn warned mockingly.
“I’m pretty sure I’ve seen the sketches and I think it’s borderline porn.” Glenn threw a cold look at Ryan through the rearview mirror and Ryan straightened his spine and stuck his tongue out. Glenn might have a crush on Lucie but Lucie and Glenn had been friends for too long; Glenn didn’t have a hope.
“Oh, well I’m sure even porn can be done tastefully.” Lucie responded, her voice light and humorous.
“Don’t bet on it.” Glenn muttered, his shoulders tensing when Ryan laughed to himself. Ryan enjoyed winding his brother up but Lucie was about the only topic that could get Glenn’s temper running hot. He was understandably protective of his lovely friend. Ryan would be protective, was protective, but he wanted more and Glenn knew it.
Ryan watched the suburbs slowly turn into twisted alleys and streets, and finally Glenn’s car parked on the side street closest to the old youth centre in which Marcus held his meetings. Ryan jumped out to help Lucie but she was already out, the door shut behind her, and Glenn on her arm, leading her chivalrously toward the decrepit looking double doors of the front entrance. Ryan hurried to catch up but sat right behind them as Glenn opened the big doors with one hand, guiding Lucie through the gap with his elbow. Ryan followed them into the dark hallway, passing the closed ticket counter with the metal bars rolled down over it and the row of bins waiting for someone to care enough to put them back into the rooms that no one used anymore. Marcus had done a good job of keeping the place in such a state that it wouldn’t be condemned but also, no one would want to go in. Together the trio walked the dark hallways, turning left and right haphazardly, until they were met with an open door. There was a very faint glow coming from inside, so faint that if Ryan looked directly at it he couldn’t see it. Only his peripheral vision was capable to detecting it. Glenn went first, grasping Lucie’s hand so he could lead her down the narrow staircase. Ryan followed. He wished Lucie would extend her hand back to him, as if asking for support, so they could be a chain of protection. But she seemed perfectly comfortable just holding on to Glenn’s tough and calloused hand. The light got brighter and finally, when the stairs disappeared and they had descended to the basement, they pushed through a thick black curtain and arrived in the warmly lit boiler room. Marcus, standing an inch taller than Glenn and several inches narrower across the shoulders, greeted their little party with a wave.
“Lucie, Ryan, Glenn. Good to see you again. Ryan, do you have some show and tell for the group tonight?” He sounded hopeful. Ryan grinned cockily.
“I do indeed.” He patted his jacket, inside of which nestled his trusty sketch pad.
“And they will blow you away, I’ve designed outfits for everyone.”
“Super cool.” Marcus exclaimed goofily. Glenn sniggered under his breath and Lucie lightly punched his arm.
“Nice to see you again Ryan.” Ryan and turned around. He could have picked that voice out from any crowd; Lisa was a beautiful beautiful lady but she had the voice of a strep infected bear. She was also the youngest member of the group, three months younger that Ryan and built like a woman in her twenties, she was voluptuous and had incredibly hearing. Ryan had always found her voice a massive turn-off though.
“You too Lisa.” Ryan responded politely, backing a little closer to Lucie in the hopes she would turn around and engage Lisa in conversation. He could hear Lucie speaking quietly with Marcus in the background, their tones earnest and personal, and then lisa approached and began to try and strike up conversation.
“Do you have more sketches to show me today?” She arched an eyebrow and finished the question with a little giggle. It sounded like a cat being strangled. Ryan smiled tightly.
“I’ve got sketches with me, yeah.”
“Can I get a sneak sneak peek?” Lisa came even closer, coy and playful. Ryan tried to tune out the sound of her voice and imagine a voice more akin to that of a Disney princess. It didn’t work.
“Come on Ryan, I’d love to see what you’ve been working on.” She was chiding, pleading, her tone changing as she tried every emotional button she knew he had. When she stood so close to him that he could feel the rate of her breathing through the light contact of her bust on his arm he felt like he would faint.
“In a minute; I want to show everyone.” He said hurriedly, breathing hard and backing up so far he actually ran into Glenn.
“Watch it,” Glenn rebuked, pushing him back again without turning around.
“Stop playing silly buggers, the meeting is starting soon. How about you go take a seat?” Ryan nodded gratefully and ducked between Lisa and his brother, finding a seat between two group members and nestling himself in their shadows.
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GRONK ACTS A FOOL YET AGAIN
For the second year in a row, Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski has made post super bowl headlines for the wrong reasons. Last year it was a post-super bowl drunken dance that was caught on video just hours after the Patriots loss to the New York Giants. This year, the all-seeing eyes of TMZ once again caught the all pro tight end making news for the wrong reasons. Gronk was seen at a Las Vegas club dancing on a stage with some friends. Gronkowski would channel his inner Jake "The Snake" Roberts and DDT one of his friends on the stage. While applying the DDT, a move that can break a person’s neck if given the wrong way, Gronkowski fell right onto his injured arm, the broken arm which kept Gronk off of the field and may have cost the Patriots a birth in the big game.
Rob Gronkowski may be the best tight end in football. However, moments like this must have the Patriots front office in disbelief. As much as Gronk is a force on the field healthy, off the field moments like this have raised growing concerns in the maturity of this young playmaker. New England has invested a plethora of money into Gronkowski to lock in thier great tight end. The Patriots do not want their return on investment to be millions of hits on TMZ. Gronks health has to be a growing issue as well. For the last two years he was not in good health in the biggest of games, which has resulted in the Patriots winning zero super bowls. The window for this Patriots team is growing smaller, and if Gronk keeps making headlines for the wrong reasons the window
may slam shut in front of our eyes.
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Welsh Icons News > Community > Top Harpist Swaps Albert Hall for Wrexham Care Home
Posted on February 1, 2019 by Contrib78
Top Harpist Swaps Albert Hall for Wrexham Care Home
One of the UK’s most talented young harpists treated care home residents to a virtuoso performance.
Pendine Park Summerhill Wrexham; Culture step project with harpist Elfair Grug . Pictured is harpist Elfair Grug. Picture Mandy Jones
Elfair Grug, 29, swapped the prestigious Albert Hall in London for Pendine Park’s Bryn Bella Care Home in Wrexham where she put on an hour-long concert.
Her repertoire included classical music, some Irish, Scottish and Welsh folk tunes and some pop songs from the likes of Elton John and the Beatles as well as numbers from musicals such as the Sound of Music.
The concert came about as the result of a partnership between the Pendine Arts and Community Trust and Arts and Business Cymru who provided additional funding via their Culture Step programme and the music teaching centre, Canolfan Gerdd William Mathias in Caernarfon.
It was the first in a series of 15 concerts at Pendine Park’s care homes in Wrexham and Caernarfon and at other venues in the community.
The project will culminate with a concert by former Royal Harpist Catrin Finch at Pendine’s Bryn Seiont Newydd centre of excellence for dementia care on April 18, ahead of her performance at the 2019 Wales Harp Festival concert at Galeri in Caernarfon.
Elfair, who hails from Mynytho, in Gwynedd, is a former pupil of the renowned harpist, Elinor Bennett, at the William Mathias Music Centre at Galeri, Caernarfon, and went on to study at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
She was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for a number of years playing in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall.
And in 2008 she was one of 60 harpists who played at the Royal Opera House when Prince Charles celebrated his 60th birthday.
Elfair went on to spend two years living in Bangkok in Thailand where she worked as a harp teacher and harpist in residence at the Tamnak Prathom Harp Centre which is supported by the Thai Royal Family and is twinned with the William Mathias Music Centre in Caernarfon.
She said: “I always enjoy performing in care homes – it’s intimate and so rewarding. I work freelance as a harpist and perform with full orchestra’s or chamber groups but the reaction you get as musician from many care home residents is amazing.
“There has been lots of physical stimulation today and eye contact and it was nice to see how residents reacted to different pieces of music. I have played some classical and folk pieces alongside songs by Elton John and the Beatles.”
Bryn Bella resident Tracey Wilde, 57, enjoyed the concert as she had herself trained to play the harp as a teenager.
Tracey, who has had a stroke, said: “I really wanted to learn to play the harp as a teenager and had lessons.
“It’s really hard and I wasn’t as talented as Elfair but I did enjoy learning to play it a little. I never got to the stage of taking exams or anything like that.”
She added: “I really enjoyed the concert and in particular Hey Jude by the Beatles, that always been a favourite anyway.”
The concert also brought back fond memories for Mike Blakeley, 59, a resident at the Penybryn Care Home.
He said: “I really enjoy harp music. I had a girlfriend when I was about 15 who played the harp really well and listening to the concert brought back some really good memories.
“I really enjoyed the Elton John song she played. I remember ‘Your Song’ when it was in the charts. I love it.”
Bryn Bella Care Home residents Julie Barnwell and Christine Jones both enjoyed the concert.
Julie said: “I love it especially The Sound of Music, which was the best tune.
“I like live music and it’s brilliant they come in and play for us as we can’t really get to concerts.”
Christine Jones added: “The whole concert was very relaxing and just lovely to listen to. I loved it and hope we can have a harpist come back and perform again.”
Pendine Park’s musician-in-residence, Nia Davies Williams, said: “It’s an important part of the Pendine Park ethos that we use the arts to enrich the lives of people across the generations. Our enrichment programme involves art in all its forms including music, poetry, storytelling and painting.
“The arts are embedded in all our staff training programmes to ensure that enrichment is a part of daily life for everybody here and this project will enable Canolfan Gerdd William Mathias and Pendine Park to build on their relationship following Pendine’s sponsorship of the 2018 Wales International Harp Festival.
“Students will also have the opportunity to attend some of the concert sessions to have a taste of music in community settings and be mentored by Elfair.”
She added: “It’s a wonderful project and we know from past experience how much residents enjoy these concert events. It’s only been possible to put the project together thanks to the Arts and Business Cymru Culture Step Funding.”
To find out more about Arts and Business Cymru please visit www.aandbcymru.org.uk
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ALSO buys IoT platform provider
With the acquisition of the IoT platform specialist AllThingsTalk, ALSO continues to expand its technological expertise and its IoT (Internet of Things) offering. The company’s platform facilitates the acquisition, aggregation, visualisation and evaluation of machine and sensor data. This enables vendors, network providers, ISVs, system integrators and resellers to offer tailor-made solutions for their IoT projects to companies in various industrial sectors
EMMEN, SWITZERLAND / ACCESSWIRE / June 27, 2019 / The use of IoT platforms for the implementation of Industry 4.0 projects has a key role to play in ensuring the future competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises, says Gustavo Möller-Hergt, CEO of ALSO Holding AG (SIX: ALSN). With the acquisition of AllThingsTalk, we will further expand our expertise as a solution provider in this important field and help our partners make their customers IoT-ready and monetize their products and services more effectively. We are thus addressing a fast-growing market that will reach a revenue volume of EUR 180 billion in Europe by 2023.
AllThingsTalk’s IoT platform is a solution that can be used for various scenarios and tasks in the IoT environment. It enables the provision, management and control of devices, applications and services as well as the use of analysis and security tools. Among other things, the platform offers an environment for agile rapid prototyping, for the roll-out of connected products and for visualization tools.
By including the platform in its portfolio, ALSO is strengthening its IoT Business Unit, founded in 2016, and offering its current and future partners a comprehensive ecosystem – from value-added distributors to sensor manufacturers, telecommunications and software providers to service resellers – as well as a promising option to integrate their products and services into individual IoT platform solutions and market them more comprehensively.
A further step in the coming months is the integration of the AllThingsTalk IoT platform into the ALSO Cloud Marketplace. That will enable resellers to offer consumption-based subscription and billing models for different products, services and benefits alike. «With our successful ALSO Cloud platform, Ludium’s virtualization platform and AllThingsTalk’s new IoT platform, ALSO is becoming a powerful technology provider», notes Gustavo Möller-Hergt on the development of his company.
Direct link to media release: https://www2.also.com/press/20190627en.pdf
Contact person ALSO Holding AG:
Ketchum Pleon GmbH
Manuela Rost-Hein
E-Mail: also.press@ketchumpleon.com
ALSO Holding AG (ALSN.SW) (Emmen/Switzerland) brings providers and buyers of the ICT industry together. ALSO offer more than 550 vendors of hardware, software and IT-services access to over 100 000 buyers, who can call a broad spectrum of other customized services in the logistics, finance, and IT services sectors, as well as traditional distribution services. From the development of complex IT landscapes, the provision and maintenance of hardware and software, right through to the return, reconditioning and remarketing of IT hardware, ALSO offers all services as a one-stop shop. ALSO is represented in 18 European countries and generates total net sales of approximately 9.2 billion euros with around 4 000 employees in the fiscal year 2018. The majority shareholder of ALSO Holding AG is the Droege Group, Düsseldorf, Germany. Further information is available at https://also.com
Droege Group
Droege Group (founded in 1988) is an independent advisory and investment company under full family ownership. The company acts as a specialist for tailor-made transformation programs aiming to enhance corporate value. Droege Group combines its corporate family-run structure and capital strength into a family-equity business model. The group carries out direct investments with its own equity in corporate spin-offs and medium-sized companies in “special situations”. With the guiding principle “execution – following the rules of art”, the group is a pioneer in execution-oriented corporate development. Droege Group follows a focused investment strategy based on current megatrends (knowledge, connectivity, prevention, demography, specialization, future work, shopping 4.0). Enthusiasm for quality, innovation and speed determines the company’s actions. In recent years Droege Group has successfully positioned itself in domestic and international markets and operates in 30 countries. More information: https://www.droege-group.com
This press release contains forward-looking statements which are based on current assumptions and forecasts of the ALSO management. Known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors could lead to material differences between the forward-looking statements made here and the actual development, in particular the results, financial situation, and performance of our Group. The Group accepts no responsibility for updating these forward-looking statements or adapting them to future events or developments.
Document: http://n.eqs.com/c/fncls.ssp?u=ELLAFDGRIL
SOURCE: ALSO Holding AG
https://www.accesswire.com/550101/ALSO-buys-IoT-platform-provider
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DTP 1.10 Schedule and Rampdown Policy
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This document defines a schedule and set of ramp-down policies for DTP 1.10 (Juno). The goal is to ensure that DTP stability and completeness converges on the 1.10 release dates, while allowing mechanisms for changes as necessary.
DTP is on the Juno release train as a +1 project. These dates are based on the Juno Simultaneous Release Plan
1.10M1 - August 15, 2011 (publicly available 8/19/11)
1.10M2 - September 26, 2011 (publicly available 10/30/11)
1.10M3 - November 7, 2011 (publicly available 11/11/11)
1.10M4 - December 12, 2011 (publicly available 12/16/11)
1.10M5 - January 30, 2012 (publicly available 2/3/12)
1.10M6 - March 19, 2012 (publicly available 3/23/12)
1.10M7 - May 7, 2012 (publicly available 5/11/12)
1.10RC1 - May 21, 2012 (publicly available 5/25/12)
1.10RC2 - May 28, 2012 (publicly available 6/1/12)
1.10RC3 - June 4, 2012 (publicly available 6/8/12)
1.10RC4 - June 11, 2012 (publicly available 6/15/12)
1.10 Release - June 27, 2011
Builds Reminder
Nightly builds take place from Monday to Thursday. Integration builds takes place on Friday.
During a test phase, there are no builds. We take the build before the test phase and test it. If we run across extreme issues, we will re-spin and retest.
During the test/fix phase for the RCs, we will do regular daily builds. Once we are in the test/fix phase, where PMC approvals are needed, we will not build nightly, but will build as needed (RC1 and beyond).
On Push days, we will take the Monday Shanghai build (which is our Sunday at 2pm PST) and if it's good, we will push it to the update site that Monday evening (SH Tuesday a.m.). If things are not good, we will fix the issues and re-spin the build, taking the re-spun build and pushing it to the update site.
DTP builds will take place at 5am (Shanghai time).
In general, builds occur Mon - Fri at 2pm Shanghai time, which is equivalent to Sun - Thu 2pm PST.
DTP committers should refrain from updating map files for +/- 30 minutes around the start of the build, to avoid version inconsistencies in the map file set.
See the Build Transition page for additional details about regular DTP builds
Integration Builds
Starting with RC1, the latest available DTP integration build (done each Friday, as noted above) will be tested for promotion. If no substantial defects are found, then the build will be promoted.
Testing & Fix Pass
A period of intensive testing, including bug fixes based on the approval policies described below. Nightly builds will be produced during this period as necessary to make bug fixes available to the DTP community.
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Home Articles Latest News Man Asked Her For A Naked Selfie But What She Did Will Make You ROFL
Man Asked Her For A Naked Selfie But What She Did Will Make You ROFL
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Most of the jerks stay online these days and we can say there is no scarcity for such type of jerks in this world.One such jerk demanded this lady to send her nude photos. She might have scolded or abused him but she decided to use him for her entertainment.
The lady whose twitter handle is @jwzayn got a message, “I want to see you without all that necessary clothing on.”
She replied, “OK hang on a sec.”
However, she didn’t send a nude selfie but instead sent a screen shot of loading screen:
The guy waited for few moments and then requested her to send again as it was not downloading.
And he again got a loading screen; the guy didn’t understand that a prank was being played on him. In fact, he felt that there was some problem in his phone and he should buy a new one.
This is what he wrote, “I think I need to buy a new phone.”
The smart lady shared her messages with the guy on Twitter and wrote, “I’ve been sending him a picture of the loading sign and he still hasnt realised lmao.”
This tweet has been retweeted 6000 times and favourited around 7000 times.
Netizens are praising her; one called her “absolute genius” and further said “I am inspired” and then there was one who said, “You win the internet today, ma’am.”
Man Asked Her For A Naked Selfie But What She Did Will Make You ROFL Reviewed by Unknown on 9:33 AM Rating: 5
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by Eric Alan | 6th October 2014 · 7:32 am
Jazz Rendezvous – A Blog Supreme by Eric Alan – MONDAY 6th October 2014
May be tempting fate, but it’s a gorgeous day in the Mother City of Cape Town today and gonna be a hot one, summer it seems to have finally arrived. There is no City better than Cape Town in the world, no matter the weather but summer it just something special.
The broadcast/streaming schedule for today looks like this:
10:00 – 13:00 Jazz Rendezvous Compiled program
13:00 – 14:00 The Latin Perspective Presented by Tony Vasquez from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
14:00 – 16:00 Take Five and Then Some Compiled program
16:00 – 18:00 Jazz Around The World Presented by Wolfgang König from Berlin, Germany
18-00 – 02:00 Re- Broadcast Programming Sundays Programs
02-00 – 10:00 Re- Broadcast Programming Saturdays Programs
Do you enjoy all styles and genres of Jazz, Blues, Latin or World Jazz? If so how would you like to become a volunteer contributor or presenter on All Jazz Radio? If you reside outside the environs of Cape Town one would need to have facilities to record your program and If living in Cape Town the shows would be presented live from our studio. It’s easy, please send us a list of 20 artists you’d include in a show on All Jazz Radio. We would need you to also include your Full Names, ID/Passport Number, where in the global village you reside, email address, Skype handle and contactable Viber, Mobile and landline contact numbers.
Like the All Jazz Radio Facebook page, Follow us in the Twitterephere at @AllJazzRadioSA and Join our All Jazz Radio Facebook Group best of all it’s easy to listen to us online all day, everyday. Listen on any of your favourite devices, take us with you on your travels through the day.
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Twinsmusic Enterprises Presents The 5th Edition Of Italian Jazz Day
On October 13th, thousands of people will be gathered in New York for a special day in music by celebrating Italy’s prolific Jazz musicians. Coinciding with Columbus Day, the Italian Jazz Day commemorates Italy’s finest musicians as they get to preform in five venues in New York including Measure Lounge, Arturo’s, Les Peascadeux, The cutting Room, and Showman’s.
With more than 35, 000 people slated to attend The Columbus Day Parade in New York, it will surely be a spectacle to attend the concerts being held around the city with some of Jazz music’s best musicians. Some of the invitees include pianist Mario Nappi and bassist Corrado Cirillo, who both won the Maastricht Jazz Competition in 2013. Another notable musician is Alessio Busanca, a deft pianist who won at the Orsara Summer Camp of 2014. The list couldn’t be complete without the presence of world renowned saxophone player from Abruzzo, Venanzio Venditti, whose lengthy career has strengthen Jazz music in Italy and across the globe.
In addition to playing in New York, a special concert will be held at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. Lead by critically-acclaimed pianist Antonio Ciacca, there will be also be performances by Rachel Z, Simona, Premazzi, Simona De Rosa, Gabrielle Stravelli, Pat O ‘Leary, Steve Ash, Lucio Ferrara, Scott Robinson, Jerry Weldon and many others.
These are must see shows for a Jazz experience quite unlike any other, so make sure you check the calendar below to attend the shows!
October 8-10 Measure – Langham Place, NYC
Rachel Z
Rachel Z Trio
October 11 Measure – Langham Place, NYC
Rachel Z trio featuring Lucio Ferrara
Simona Premazzi solo piano
Simona Premazzi trio
October 13 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Antonio Ciacca trio plays the Italian American Song Book.
October 14th & 15th Measure – Langham Place, NYC
Pat O’Leary with Scott Robinson feat. Mario Nappi
October 16th Arturo’s, NYC
Pat O’Leary feat. Mario Nappi
October 16th Cutting Room, NYC
Antonio Ciacca Quintet with Simona De Rosa
Lucio Ferrara trio feat. Corrado Cirillo
October 17 & 23 Measure – Langham Place, NYC
Steve Ash Trio feat. Corrado Cirillo
October 18, 20 & 22 Measure – Langham Place, NY
ANTONIO CIACCA
ANTONIO CIACCA trio & guests
MARCO di GENNARO – solo piano
October 19 -Le Pescadeux
Gabrielle Stravelli featuring Mario Nappi
Jerry Weldon trio feat. Alessio Busanca
October 22 -Showman’s, NYC
Jerry Weldon
October 24 – 25 Measure – Langham Place, NYC
Venanzio Venditti quartet featuring Mike Karn and Jerome Jennings
Alberto Pibiri -solo piano
The month of October is Pasta Month and today is Noodle Day
What is the difference between Pasta and Noodles you ask? There are two basic forms of pasta – macaroni and noodles. Macaroni products are made from semolina and water. Noodles are made from Durum flour (a more finely ground form of semolina), water and, by Federal regulation, egg solids. So, without the egg solids, a pasta product can’t be identified as a noodle.
The Klutz in the Kitchen has searched for the best noodle recipe, which will be posted on his page on our website later today, what has he found you ask? Well its Singapore-style Noodles that’s what, it’s a recipe by Phillippa Cheifitz and looks delightful, it simple and very quick prepare, tasty Asian flavours to start the week off. Buon Appetite and have fun in the kitchen.
Rwanda: Kayayi Produces Fine Music From Poor Neighbourhood
By Moses Opobo
As a resident producer at Celebrity Music Studios in Gatsata, Jean-Blaise Kayayi’s typical day revolves around nurturing dreams of up-and-coming musicians. This however, comes with its own share of challenges, he told Moses Opobo.
Do you have a business name just like the artistes you produce?
Yes I do. As a producer, people know me as Jimmy Pro.
When and how did you start Celebrity Music Studio?
We opened it in 2008, in Gatsata, on Gatuna Road.
My uncle, Theoneste Rutayisire bought the studio equipment for me. He is a very experienced musician and I’m actually in studio working on his latest album. He does traditional music. Interestingly, he is not a music producer and up to now, he only sticks to singing.
Why a studio then?
He told me whenever he went to studios he was disappointed either by poor production or bad treatment. One day, he said enough is enough and started looking for information on how he could start a studio of his own. What gave him encouragement was when someone told him that he needed just a computer and software to start a basic studio.
How did you end up a producer?
Just like my uncle, I also liked singing and I’ve actually been singing before I switched to production. Like him, I also faced the problem of poor treatment in the studios that I visited, in that in some studios an upcoming artiste is treated like a child.
When my uncle bought a computer he called me and asked me to help him set up a studio. I went and saw the computer and software, but I knew nothing about music production!
I taught myself by memorizing what I had seen other producers do, and by watching some tutorials on YouTube.
By 2008, I had started doing some productions, but they were of low quality because I was still learning the basics and I did not have the right equipment and software. However, I learnt very fast because I loved it. I wanted something that would help me make my own music.
In production, everyday is an opportunity to learn something new. At Celebrity Music Studio, our mission statement is to help the young talent who do not have money to produce their music.
That is why we decided to build the studio in Gatsata, which is a poor neighbourhood. For such artistes, we try to find ways of helping them; we can record their music at a reduced price, or for those that are very talented, we give them a contract and sign them up.
Who are some of the artistes you’re working with?
Eric Mucyo, Engeneer Kibuza, Umutare Gabi, G-Battallion Crew, Lucky Joe, and Jeff Ataba, to mention but a few.
Any challenges?
The media prefers to focus attention on the big stars -musicians, while they ignore producers who work from behind the scenes to make stars. This makes it difficult for us to prove our abilities.
On the part of musicians, most young artistes face opposition from home regarding their choice of career, so they try to do it in secrecy. Parents have to understand that music is a serious business and a calling.
What’s your production style?
The first advice I give to all artistes who work with me is to not ask for auto-tune in their music, because it only ends in studio. No one can play auto-tune on stage. Auto-tune is not good for musicians because it’s not real. In music you’ve to be real and normal. You have to sing live on stage, in your natural voice.
Uganda: Joe, Norman Brown Bring the House Down
By Felix Eupal
For the seventh year running, the kept its consistency. It was back at the Kampala Serena hotel last Friday. Felix Eupal breaks down how it went on.
Saxophonist Michael Kitanda
Saxophonist Michael Kitanda has really had Kampala feeding out of his palm this year, and he was still the man that was chosen to curtain-rise. Together with guitarist Charmant Mashanga, they really warmed up the crowd.
Tizer band:
Assembled by Lao Tizer, these guys, who have travelled and played at various festivals, had many wondering what they had to offer, but they proved why they are sought after.
The band served an eclectic mix with spurred comparisons of a modern twist to the 70s and early 80s heyday fusion. Band leader Loa Tizer provided a soft bed of keyboard melodies on which Cameroonian born Andre Manga just ‘killed’ everyone with his bass guitar possibilities.
Norman Brown
Norman Brown:
You don’t get nominated for the Grammy in the best guitar category more than five times when you are not a top shot. Brown took the full house to a jazz safari with his guitar.
He had his music director Gail Johnson backing him up on the keyboard. And boy, he was a wonder! For moments he played, the crowd just shook their heads to the sounds. He usually does covers but this time decided to stay to his own songs.
That’s The Way Love Goes got the crowd on its feet. Surely, they needed more as they screamed for him to stay on stage.
Thomas Joe:
He was the reason why the tickets sold out despite being here for the second time. He walked on stage in a black tux to the cheers of mostly the ladies. It was 11:15pm and the party had just started. He opened with Stutter, Don’t Wanna Be A Player, and Ride With You before pausing to thank the fans and share his excitement.
The ladies couldn’t stop screaming as he did If I Was Your Man. He then took us back in time with Paint Your Picture before belting out hit after hit. He turned the heat up by moving into the crowd while doing a rendition of Night Nurse followed by On And On, Love Scene, and All The Things. He closed it with I Wanna Know – as the crowd was beaming with joy.
Glitches:
No show goes flawlessly. At times the sound got messed with lots of feedback. Then there was that moment when Club beer’s Shem Semambo struggled to get on the stage because Joe was taking Nile Gold while performing. Security tried to hold him back, but it was like he was possessed. Semambo please, next time save us; this is was not Unplugged!
Then, to my surprise, Joe wasn’t live. Yes, he tried to disguise by having a half band, but much of the work was done by the DJ. And that time when we had to wait for over 40 minutes as they set up for Joe wasn’t cool at all.
Usually Nile Gold has had a habit of first treating its guests to a cocktail before the event. However, that wasn’t the case this time round. Guests were receiving beer and water coupons, but what shocked everyone was that the bar was closed just after it was opened.
That is not what you expect when you part with Shs 180,000 for ordinary and Shs 300,000 for VIP.
Meanwhile, at the entrance, everyone had to get a wrist band. However, those who arrived late (at about 9:30pm) found they were over and had to wait for over 30 minutes as the organizers secured more wrist bands.
Mad Hatter Day
Celebrate Mad Hatter Day! The Mad Hatter is a famous character in Lewis Caroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Today is all about embracing his absurdity.
In 1986, a group of computer technicians in Boulder, Colorado celebrated the first Mad Hatter Day. They designated the holiday as a day of silliness and year after year it has grown in popularity. Mad Hatter Day is celebrated each year on October 6 because the Mad Hatter wears a top hat labeled “In this style 10/6” in the book’s illustrations. It is also six months from April Fools’ Day, the first silly holiday of the year.
Today, recognize the reality that is nonsense and the silliness that is sane. Grab a top hat and celebrate a very merry Mad Hatter Day!
October 6, 2014 is also World Habitat Day & National Noodle Day
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month & Chili Month & Dessert Month & Pasta Month & Roller Skating Month & Adopt-a-Shelter-Dog Month
This week is National Walk Your Dog Week & World Space Week & Fire Prevention Week
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Western powers kowtow to Iran
UAE Businessman
IRAN’s treasury is overflowing. President Hassan Rouhani, touring European capitals on a shopping spree, is being treated like royalty. Italy was so keen not to offend the sensitivities of their guest that white panels were placed around ancient statues in a museum and was rewarded for its hospitality with deals totalling over $18bn. France’s government welcomed Rouhani promising a new beginning in relations prior to the mutual signing of 20 lucrative agreements worth billions.
They say money talks. This time it is shouting loud, trumping Europe’s so-called values and the interests of the continent’s tried and true friends. Forgotten is Iran’s shocking human rights record along with its terrorist proxies, aggression towards Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states; concerns regarding Tehran’s partnership with the Syrian butcher conveniently shelved. Ignored are the Ayatollah Khamenei’s ongoing chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”. Glossed over are its repression of the Iranian people and its relegation of minorities, such as the Ahwazi Arabs, to third class citizen status.
It was left to ordinary citizens who went to the streets of Paris and Rome as well as children in the bombed-out Syrian city of Aleppo to vent their disgust at Rouhani’s grand European tour. “Ask Iran to stop killing us in our country” read the children’s posters. But Italy and France had more important priorities. This was not the moment for finger-wagging in their view when the Iranian President was poised to sign on a whole host of dollar illuminated dotted lines.
It is as if we have woken up to find ourselves in a parallel universe where everything we hold dear has been reversed. Iran signed up to abandoning a nuclear weapons program it had binned in 2009 according to the nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA), and is promptly welcomed into the international’s community’s fold like a long lost favourite son flush with a bonanza of up to $100bn and the opening of doors to oil, gas and trade deals.
As if the sight of European heads of state bowing and scraping clutching begging bowls to gain the favour of a representative of a country considered an enemy state a mere few months ago is not humiliating enough, the once mighty United States is accepting Iranian insults and slaps with a virtual ‘Thank you, Sir!”
First we hear that Iran detained ten US naval personnel whose vessel “accidentally” strayed into Iranian waters. They were made to kneel with their hands behind their heads on the deck of their own ship before being paraded on Iranian State TV to offer apologies. Quite a propaganda coup for Iranian authorities and the hordes of anti-Western hardliners! And even as Iran was milking their captives’ humiliation for all its worth, the White House assured Americans thus: “We do not see this as hostile intent. They have been well treated.”
And now we read the headline “Iran warns US warship to leave waters near the Strait of Hormuz” followed by a report beginning, “Iran navy warned a US warship on Wednesday to leave waters in the sea off Oman near an area where the Islamic Republic was performing military drills.” The US vessel beat a hasty retreat even though it was in international waters and was later accused by Iran’s fleet commander of spying on Iran’s activities.
The question now for Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, which have been assured by President Barack Obama that their security is paramount, is how can the US cooperate with us against Iranian plots when its own navy appears to be running scared and its Commander-in-Chief hails the new détente and makes excuses for Iran’s shameful behaviours?
How much abuse is the most powerful country with the strongest military on earth willing to swallow and why is Obama doing his utmost to keep the ayatollahs sweet? It is hard to believe that the US that has always flexed its muscles to save a single American citizen is now making prisoner swap deals with their kidnappers to release seven dual nationals.
A top Iranian commander disclosed that an amount of $1.7bn was paid in exchange for their freedom. The State Department issued a statement to the effect the amount was paid in relation to a pre-1979 case related to a sale of military equipment plus $1.3bn in negotiated interest. That is a pretext to cover America’s long-held policy of not paying rogue states or terrorists to avoid encouraging further abductions. When the payment was purportedly due in the 1970s, only a simpleton would neglect to ask ‘Why now?’
It is little wonder Rouhani’s smile is wide these days when billions are pouring in courtesy of the Obama administration that initiated the sanctions-lifting and the unfreezing of Iranian assets, a hefty portion of which will no doubt be spent on bolstering Iran’s military capability and that of militias and spies on Arab lands.
Iran’s policies towards the West and its meddling in the affairs of Arab states remain unchanged. Its leaders’ rhetoric may have softened temporarily because they are desperate to revitalize their country’s aviation industry with new airplanes and spare parts, not to mention securing buyers for its oil and other commodities. They must be chuckling seeing the haste with which major European states are racing to re-open their embassies in Tehran while showering the Iranians with praise and invitations to arrive on state visits.
Let us face it, Iran the global midget has gained the upper hand merely because it has agreed to more intrusive IAEA monitoring for a ten-year period and has put a percentage of its centrifuges to bed. Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have robbed the American people of their pride. They have greatly diminished the international status of their great nation that not so long ago inspired respect and instilled fear in the hearts of its enemies.
Obama has been widely accused of leading from behind on foreign policy. Not so today! He is the one who is being led and if GCC member states fail to recognise how the Obama administration is wittingly or unwittingly altering the regional order, I am afraid we may be being led to the slaughter.
It seems an age ago since the Muslim world was excited hearing Obama’s promises made during a visit to Cairo University in 2009. He called for a new beginning between the United States and Muslims. He pledged to give Iraq to the Iraqis whereas it is a de facto province of Iran. He pledged to pursue a Palestinian state with patience and dedication, which has now been scrubbed off his ‘to-do’ list. He later stepped back from rescuing the Syrian people but he was instrumental in toppling Muammar Gaddafi before abandoning that country to armed militias and terrorists. Adding insult to injury, he is complicit in furthering Iran’s territorial and ideological ambitions.
I can only respectfully ask GCC heads of state to take a long hard look at the big picture and take decisions accordingly. If America continues to bend to Tehran’s diktats perhaps it is time to re-evaluate our relationship with Washington. A friend who plays both sides is no friend at all.
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Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 06:00 HKT/SGT
Source: Dusit Central Park
Dusit and CPN officially unveil 'Dusit Central Park' at the heart of Bangkok's CBD
A world-class mixed-use development creating a new city landmark
BANGKOK, Apr 2, 2019 - (ACN Newswire) - Dusit Thani PCL, one of Thailand's foremost hotel and property development companies with 70 years of expertise, and Central Pattana PCL (CPN), Thailand's largest and most diversified property developer with 40 years of expertise, have officially revealed the creation of their historic collaboration to create a new city landmark, and transform a major Silom-Rama4 intersection into the prime core of the CBD (Super Core CBD), linking 4 key areas of Bangkok with a one-of-a-kind, mixed-use project called 'Dusit Central Park'. Developed under the concept of 'Here for Bangkok', the project creates a new way to live the metropolis life, and brings Bangkok to another level as one of the world's best cities. The project is expected to be completed in 2024.
Worth a total of 36.7 billion baht and covering 440,000 sq.m of prime real estate on the corner of Silom and Rama IV roads, the ambitious project is set to feature luxury residences, a state-of-the-art office tower, a high-end shopping complex with a large rooftop park, and a distinctive reimagining of Dusit Thani Bangkok hotel, Dusit's iconic flagship property, which served as a symbol of gracious Thai hospitality for 50 years.
Under the concept of 'Here for Bangkok', the project reflects four key pillars: 1) Here for Heritage & Innovation, where cultural legacy is put into practice, 2) Here for Unrivalled Connectivity, highlighting Dusit Central Park as the one-of-a-kind mixed-use project in Bangkok that connects all important infrastructure, 3) Here for a Lush Quality of Life, where people will get close to nature at Lumpini Park, aka the Lungs of Bangkok, as well as city vibrancy all day all night, and 4) Here for Meaningful Experiences, where new experiences of modern living reconnects with local communities and green space through a unique project where old meets new. To make Dusit Central Park a true real-estate masterpiece, Thailand's leading architectural firm, known globally for its passion in incorporating Thainess into its works, is assigned to oversee all design elements, with a world-renowned architectural consultant to help with the creation.
"We aim to deliver a one-of-a-kind mixed-use project that blends heritage and innovation, connects all important infrastructure and transportation, embraces a green concept reflecting our prime position opposite Lumpini Park, and delivers enduring value for all our stakeholders," said Ms. Suphajee Suthumpun, Group Chief Executive, Dusit Thani. "By blending the best of Thai design and hospitality with international standards of service, we will create a new city landmark that reflects our past, embraces our present, and anticipates the future. By doing so, we will continue the legacy of Dusit Thani Bangkok, following the same principles Thanpuying Chanut Piyaoui had when she founded the hotel - to be bold and do great things, to create things that never existed before, and to always have a positive impact.
"We look forward to working with CPN to doing just that under our promise, Here for Bangkok, while revolutionising the way people shop, dine, work, live and stay in this area. Regarding our most distinctive value, our project will enhance convenience for commuters by linking directly with the Bangkok BTS (Skytrain) systems and MRT (Mass Rapid Transit underground), at Silom and Sala Daeng stations, respectively."
Ms. Wallaya Chirathivat, Deputy CEO of Central Pattana (CPN), said, "Under the concept of Here for Bangkok, this project is not just a mixed-use space but a new creation that will transform this area into the prime core of the CBD (Super Core CBD). Ultimately, Dusit Central Park will connect four Bangkok neighbourhoods in four directions - namely Ratchaprasong (north), Charoenkrung (south), Sukhumvit (east), and Yaowarat (west) - thereby creating a new junction where old meets new, and financial meets commercial. This seamless connection responds to both business and lifestyle needs. Dusit Central Park will be perfectly positioned to help bring Bangkok to a whole new level and set the standard for mixed-use projects in the city, as it locates next to Bangkok's major park, Lumpini Park, just like the iconic properties found adjacent to parks in New York and London."
Dusit Central Park is expected to open in three phases. The First Phase will be the Dusit Thani Bangkok hotel. Designed to preserve the rich architectural and artistic heritage of the original hotel, the new 39-storey, 250-key Dusit Thani Bangkok will feature a modern-yet-familiar design that incorporates significant elements from the original hotel. A grand ballroom overlooking Lumpini Park will be a highlight, as will a multi-level rooftop bar and lounge. Alongside Dusit's unique brand of gracious hospitality, the property will offer the latest in high tech and high touch service.
The Second Phase will be the Central Park Offices, whose 90,000 sq.m are set to be recognized as a Professional Hub that will provide the ultimate in technology for city workers where connectivity is the priority, suitable for innovative start-ups and large companies, and Central Park Shopping Complex. Designed to connect all elements, the luxury shopping complex is set to give retail experiences of the future that will create world-class 'New Urbanized Lifestyle' that has never seen before. The shopping mall will feature iconic international and local brands, with over 80,000 sq.m to meet the needs of various lifestyles. Also topped with Rooftop Park, the shopping complex will provide an expansive outdoor leafy retreat for people to unwind. These two elements will be completed in 2023.
The Final Phase of the project will be the residences. Set over 69 storeys, this 389-key tower will be divided into two distinctive sections - Dusit Residences and Dusit Parkside - each managed by Dusit International in line with its unique brand of Thai-inspired gracious hospitality. Dusit Residences will comprise 159 luxurious, spacious units on the uppermost floors of the building, offering panoramic views of Lumpini Park. It is designed to provide a luxury standard of living for Bangkok-based executives or travelling executives who regularly visit Thailand, as well as middle- to large-sized families seeking maximum comfort and convenience.
Dusit Parkside, meanwhile, will comprise 230 contemporary-styled units, also offering views of Lumpini Park, and is aimed at small-sized families as well as city workers seeking a stylish home in the heart of the capital. Units for both Dusit Parkside and Dusit Residences will be available for long-term rent or leasehold. Booking will open soon.
Further information about Dusit Central Park is available at www.dusitcentralpark.com, www.facebook.com/dusitcentralpark and Instagram @dusitcentralpark. Further details about Dusit Residences and Dusit Parkside, please visit www.dusitresidences.com or call +66-2-233-5889.
Hashtags: #DusitCentralPark #DCP #HereforBangkok
Dusit Central Park is a project created by Vimarn Suriya Company Ltd, a joint venture between Dusit Thani PLC and Central Pattana PLC, comprising a hotel, residence, shopping complex and office tower.
Contact VERVE Public Relations:
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MMA CHRISTMAS WISHES
–Kenny Rice
Never has the MMA world had a more productive, news making, intriguing and simply fun year as 2011. With that, it is difficult to find the right gift or even the perfect stocking stuffer for so many, but just as you make those final runs at the mall gauntlet, we must persevere. There are still important things to wrap up to have ready under the MMA tree for this coming Sunday morning.
Here is the Christmas wishes I send to all.
Georges St. Pierre— A speedy recovery from major knee surgery. The Welterweight champ is expected out of action until late in 2012. He only had one title defense this season against Jake Shields in April, but that seems so long ago. As one of the marquee names in the sport, he can’t afford lengthy absences between fights; He’s too good and has too many fans, and everyone hates to see one of the best in the history of the sport have a career cut short by injuries.
Jon Jones— What to give the talented youngster who appears to have it all already? Four wins this year, the UFC Light Heavyweight championship he took from Mauricio Rua and two impressive title defenses. For Jones only more of the same, and if any fighter deserves to cut back in 2012, it would be him. Although at the height of popularity and money making time off would be doubtful. The fighter of 2011 could be holding on to that distinction for several years to come.
Anderson Silva— To find an opponent worthy enough to keep his interest for at least a round. Okay it’s easier written than done. He might be the best MMA fighter ever, with the longest UFC winning streak at 14, the most successful title defenses at 9. But the Middleweight King has only gone past the second round four times in his last 15 fights. Two of those were of his own choosing, clownish antics against Thales Leites in UFC 99 and against Demian Maia in UFC 112, embarrassingly taunting for five rounds. Granted those fiascos almost hurt Silva when he faced a very real threat in Chael Sonnen in UFC 117 when it took a miracle finish submission with just over a minute remaining in the final round to keep his belt. Is there somebody who can seriously challenge him again? I think he would like to find out as well.
Alistair Overeem— Clean tests to once and for all put the focus on the Octagon as he at last makes his UFC debut. There, fans can at last see if it was his record against some Dream and Strikeforce opponents that was really pumped up.
Brock Lesnar— As he makes his comeback from illness once again to take on Overeem, wishes for a much more improved striking game to go along with his already awesome ground power.
Dan Henderson— For that Fountain of Youth he obviously has tucked away in his backyard to continue to flow deep. His UFC return victory over Rua was not even close to textbook, but the heart and will were straight out of Hollywood. When most of his peer group from Pride days are contemplating or have retired, Hendo just goes on, thankfully.
Gilbert Melendez— A Lightweight unification title fight with the UFC’s best Frankie Edgar. The Strikeforce poster boy has grown into a man with so much talent that only Edgar appears able to challenge and 2012 would be the perfect time for the UFC to welcome him into the mix.
Frankie Edgar— A giant bow on his amazing trilogy with Gray Maynard. He is a terrific, gutsy champion whose meteoric rise over the past two years shows no sign of burnout. I believe he would welcome the shot at Melendez.
Dominick Cruz— An appearance on “Dancing With The Stars.” The first UFC Bantamweight champ had two successful title defenses in ’11 and continues to exhibit some of the most amazing foot work, though not always conventional, in all of MMA.
Christiane “Cyborg” Santos— What to wish for the greatest female fighter ever? Competition before she gets bored. Ronda Rousey has done a fine job lobbying for her shot, and in time it would be realistic, but in the foreseeable future perhaps Cyborg drops from 145 to 135 to take on the other Stikeforce champ Meisha Tate. Can Tate beat her? I don’t know, but at least it would be a unifying bout in the female division and create some interest, which is lacking because Santos has been so dominate with everyone else.
Tito Ortiz— A solid win to retire on. As one of the true legendary fighters who helped establish the UFC, and who saved his place in the organization this year with a must win, he deserves not to go quietly into that not always good night of the sport in 2012.
Chael Sonnen— A dose of humility. Not that his antics aren’t enjoyable at times, but here’s wishing he bears down against the tough Mark Munoz or all that smack talk for his rematch with Silva will smack him back as hard as he gave.
Rashad Evans— A title shot against Jones. Is there anyone who doesn’t want to see if the former champ can challenge the almost unbeatable king of the moment?
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson— Another good movie role. Not that he’s finished in the cage, but he sure was entertaining as “B.A.” in the underrated “A Team” flick.
Randy Couture & Chuck Liddell— Long careers outside the Octagon. They were the faces of the UFC for a decade, and key in bringing mainstream interest to the sport. Here’s hoping their acting careers continue to flourish.
Carlos Condit— More classy returns. He handled the debacle of not getting to fight GSP with such aplomb he is the case study for the next fighter who doesn’t get justice. Now he gets Nick Diaz for an interim belt, well deserved for a man who is a role model.
Nick Diaz— For more people to get to know him. He’s bright, deep and compelling. The dark side he often shows publicly belies a hard working, studious side of nutrition and life approach to being such a threat every time he enters the cage.
Urijah Faber— A fun coaching experience, which should be second nature. After all Faber is the Alpha of his NoCal group already and the upcoming season of TUF will showcase his ability to teach. Plus he gets Faber-Cruz III out of the deal.
Every Fighter Failing Drug Tests— ‘fess up, clean you conscious then your body. What goes into you during preparation for a fight is ultimately your responsibility.
Fedor Emelianko— A return to the U.S. against a quality opponent. Be it heavyweight or light heavy (which might suit him best) it would be good for an American audience to see one of the best at one time try and show why he is referred to as The Last Emperor, after anything but royal showings during his last fights in the States.
Jens Pulver, Don Frye & a few more— A career in judging. The sport could use notables with knowledge scoring these fights. The current judges would appreciate their expertise. And it’s tough to watch such once viable guys struggling to stay in the game.
New York vs. MMA— Real dialogue in 2012. Enough with the rhetoric of too violent, etc. there is more to it than that in keeping the fastest growing sport out of the capitol of entertainment. It should be frank, no holds barred about the real reason for the hold up.
Bas Rutten-– Everything he wants and to always party on. The best analyst in the sport and the most loved by fans and media. Bigger things are ahead in 2012 as a co-star in the next Kevin James movie. He will dazzle you with his acting chops just as he did for so many years in the ring.
To all the Inside MMA Viewers–happiness, health and prosperity. Thank you for another great year.
And to all a good night. Merry Christmas.
Don’t miss Kenny Rice along with Bas Rutten for The Bazzie Awards celebrating the best in MMA in 2012, this Monday Dec. 26th at 8 PM ET.
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Rajasthan's Suman Rao Crowned Miss India 2019 Suman is currently pursuing a Charted Accountancy course from New Delhi along with B.Com.
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Rajasthan's Suman Rao Crowned Miss India 2019
Rajasthan's Suman Rao Crowned Miss India 2019Hot Buzz
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Suman Rao, a resident of Rajsamand, Rajasthan, has been crowned Miss India 2019. Last year's winner Anukreethy Vas from Tamil Nadu crowned her successor, Suman.
The ceremony was held at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium in Mumbai on June 15.
The 20-year-old model was born on November 23, 1999. Suman also holds the title of Miss India Rajasthan 2019 and Miss Rampwalk award during Miss India 2019 competition. Besides, the stunning model is all geared up to represent India in the sought after Miss World 2019 that is going to happen in Pattaya, Bangkok in the month of December 2019.
Suman, who was born in Rajasthan was brought up in Mumbai. She is currently pursuing a Charted Accountancy course from New Delhi along with B.Com.
The model has time and again declared her love for dance as her passion and is also learning the classical dance form, Kathak. However, she considers modeling as her biggest passion.
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Suman, during a pageant, as well spoke about how strongly she feels about stereotypes and gender inequality that we come across in the world.
Talking about the community she comes from, in the same pageant she said, "I come from a community where gender inequality and other stereotypes are still into existence, so when I saw two primary choices in front of me, to either accept the conditions those were in existence or to take the responsibility for changing the same, I chose the latter one."
Telangana's Sanjana Vij was adjudged as Miss India Runner Up 2019.
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The evening witnessed bewitching performances by Vicky Kaushal, Katrina Kaif, Mouni Roy, and Nora Fatehi.
The show was hosted by Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar and actor-anchor Manish Paul along with Miss World 2017 Manushi Chhillar.
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2014 African Family Induction Ceremony Slated For April 12
African Focus Inc. (AFI) is presenting the 11th Annual African Goodwill Recognition Awards & Induction ceremony on April 12, 20-14 at the Radisson Hotel LAX, in Los Angeles, CA.
According to Grace Neequaye, chair of the Executive Management Committee for AFI, "Our 11th year celebration promises to continue with our tradition of good company, celebrating each other and a lot of dancing. This year marks the beginning of a new decade of celebrations and we are delighted to kick it off by recognizing more honorees that have been a part of what we do for the last 10 years. Some of our honorees this year are familiar faces who have worked hard in the background, helping African Focus as well as other organizations in the community. We have a few other surprises in store so be sure to be there for a fulfilling night of family celebrations and achievements."
AFI's Lifetime Achievement Honoree this year is Barbara Morrison. Other honorees include Patricia Cochee, Dawn Sutherland, Mohammed Yahaya, Barbara Goldberg, Dr. Joseph A. Bailey II, George C. Fraser, Lara Okunubi, and Justina Mutale, among others. Each individual has been a part of a cause of breaking barriers, providing financial support and empowering members of our community to the betterment of their lives and that of their families.
"We extend our heartfelt appreciation to all the honorees and hope to continue to partner with them as they persist in their philanthropic and selfless endeavors," said Neequaye.. "In addition to our Goodwill Awards, we will reunite several families and create an opportunity for dialogue between Continental Africans and Africans in the Diaspora. The African Family Induction ceremony has been a medium through which Africans separated by slavery have come together in solidarity and in celebration of our common heritage.
"Among the cultural highlights will be blessings from two Kings from Nigeria: His Royal Highness Igwe Sylvester Ozoekwem, Traditional Ruler of Umumba Ndiuno Kingdom of Enugu State, and His Royal Highness Igwe Ezebuilo Ozobu OFR, Traditional Ruler of Umuagba Owa, Ezea-gu, Enugu State and Chief Judge Emeritus of Enugu State. We are very grateful for the opportunity to have the ceremony officiated by kings from Africa."
Countries represented in this year's African Family Induction ceremony are Nigeria, Senegal, Zambia, Ghana, Cameroon and Uganda welcoming about 29 inductees.
For more information call AFI at (310) 766-7300, email them at goodwillawards@gmail.com, or visit www.africanfocus.org.
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Stemma di Ferdinando Mendes (1621) - Palazzo del Capitano
Ferdinando di Giorgio of Mr. Ferdinando Mendes was Captain in Bagno di Romagna from 22 June 1620 to 21 June 1621. At the end of the mandate he affixed his coat of arms on the facade of the Palazzo del Capitano: an oval limestone shield supported by a mask and surmounted by a gate helmet; within the frame and scrolls a dragon accompanied on top by a mountain of six peaks. The coat of arms of the Mendes, for the various facings of the façade, is placed erroneously above the sandstone plaque of Captain Antonio Luperelli (1747-1750), while its headstone is placed under the Capponi's coat of arms, and reads: "FERDINANDUS GEORGII / [DOMI] NI FERDINANDO ME [N] DES / CAP [ITANEUS] ET COMISS [ARIUS] BALNEI / MDCXX ET DCXXI ".
The emblem is on the facade of Palazzo del Capitano, in via Fiorentina, in the center of the village.
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Israel Apartheid & Palestinian Oppression In: 1917 / Journal of the International Bolshevik Tendency. — 2011. — Version: 2011-10-06. — Visited: 2019-07-16 — URL: http://www.bolshevik.org/1917/no33/ibt_1917_33_06_que_faire.html
1917 Subject Index
1917 Issue Index
1917 – No.33 (2011) – Contents
Israel Apartheid & Palestinian Oppression
On ‘Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions’
Mass Revolt in Egypt
Class Struggle in France
LTF & the General Strike
Capitalist Austerity & Ireland's Election
Anti-Imperialism & the WSM: Irish Anarchists & the Defense of Neocolonies
‘Defiance of unjust laws’: Class Struggle Trade Unionism & Critical Support
Defend North Korea!
ICL's Mea Culpa on Haiti
Comrade Bill Savery
IG Ignores ILWU Port Shutdown
Killer Cops & Democrats: Racist Injustice & the Murder of Oscar Grant
Mobilizing for Mumia
Down With the G-20!
For Proletarian Politics
The following is a translation of the conclusion of “No to Class Collaboration—Down with the Attack on Pensions!,” an article originally published in 1917, édition française, No.5, September 2010.
Millions of workers see the obvious necessity of beating back the government’s attack on pensions. Many understand that even this modest task is being actively sabotaged by the trade-union bureaucrats with the more or less open support of their political counterparts in the reformist workers’ parties, including the NPA and other sizable “far left” organizations. The labor bureaucracy is not even pretending to mobilize their ranks for mass struggle to force the withdrawal of the bill. If the workers are to make any effort to offer serious resistance, they must begin by challenging bureaucratic control of the struggle. An important step would be to elect strike committees by workers in workplace general assemblies. Coordinated at the local, regional and national levels, strike committees could provide a vehicle through which class-struggle militants could effectively challenge the sabotage of the bureaucrats.
The attack on pensions is the spearhead of a generalized assault on working-class living standards that deserves a generalized response—a general strike. The immediate objective around which to mobilize mass support is obviously the necessity to hand Sarkozy a stinging defeat over the pension reform. Revolutionaries must seek to intervene in such a struggle with a program addressing other essential issues faced by working people—including the urgent need to fight unemployment through shorter hours at no loss in pay and a massive program of public works.
A revolutionary nucleus within the unions that was prepared to initiate a vigorous response to the bosses’ attacks would inevitably win support from the most militant sectors of the working class and thereby dramatically change the entire political equation. If Thibault and company are able to retain control of the mobilizations, the capitalists will rest easy. The consequences of any further retreats are likely to be particularly serious in this period, as the global capitalist order teeters on the brink of a massive meltdown: more layoffs, soaring unemployment and the disintegration of important sectors of the proletariat.
A fighting leadership for the working class can only be forged through a political struggle to break with the class collaborationism and reformism pushed by the trade-union bureaucracy and the parties of the “left” and “far left.” Just as capitalist attacks on the working class flow from the logic of profit maximization, the objective interests of working people can only be satisfied by uprooting the entire system of wage slavery and collectivizing the means of production. This fundamental truth is denied by various left currents on the grounds that incremental steps and petty reforms are the most “practical” means of developing “anti-capitalist” consciousness. More than a century ago Rosa Luxemburg refuted such notions:
“…people who pronounce themselves in favour of the method of legislative reform in place of and in contradistinction to the conquest of political power and social revolution, do not really choose a more tranquil, calmer and slower road to the same goal, but a different goal. Instead of taking a stand for the establishment of a new society they take a stand for surface modification of the old society. If we follow the political conceptions of revisionism, we arrive at the same conclusion that is reached when we follow the economic theories of revisionism. Our program becomes not the realisation of socialism, but the reform of capitalism: not the suppression of the system of wage labour but the diminution of exploitation, that is, the suppression of the abuses of capitalism instead of the suppression of capitalism itself.”
—Reform or Revolution?
The revival of an authentically revolutionary pole within the working class requires the crystallization of a cadre of militants capable of breaking once and for all with the illusion that the interests of working people can be advanced by an alliance with one or another wing of the bourgeoisie. The International Bolshevik Tendency seeks collaborators in the effort to create the nucleus of an authentically Trotskyist organization committed to fighting inside and outside the unions for a revolutionary, class-struggle program based on a recognition of the necessity to expropriate the bourgeoisie and uproot the entire system of production for profit by shattering the capitalist state apparatus and replacing it with institutions of proletarian power.
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Category archive: Emmanuel Todd
A new book (which will be available in English) by Emmanuel Todd
Emmanuel Todd has written another book, and it has been translated into English. And, it is a book by Emmanuel Todd that I have been awaiting for a long time. The title alone is the clue. “From the Stone Age …”. What that tells me is that there is at least a good chance that Todd will tell me something of how he thinks those distinct family structures of his, the ones that explain ideology and are among the causes of progress got established in the first place.
£30 is a lot to be paying for a book, and usually I wait for Amazon to do its thing and bring the price of such books down to a tenner. But this time, I don’t think I’ll be wanting to wait like this. I want this one as soon as I can get my hands and eyes on it. On May 3rd, in other words.
Anglosphere | Emmanuel Todd | History | USA
Emmanuel Todd talking in English (about how the Euro is doomed)
About every other day Google sends me news of Emmanuel Todd, news in French. Sometimes it is news of him talking on video, in French. I can just about order a croissant in a French shop, but that’s as far as my French goes.
So, imagine my delight on learning about this video, of Emmanuel Todd talking … in English!
What he is saying is that the different family systems of Europe mean that the different nations of Europe are politically incompatible, and accordingly that the Euro is doomed. Worth a watch, if that kind of thing interests you. In particular, the way that the Euro is putting Germany in charge of France is not at all what the French elite had in mind, and this means that sooner or later the French will have to dump the Euro. But first, their elite has to explain why it made this hideous blunder in the first place. Because dumping the Euro would mean admitting they should never have done it in the first place.
Tim Evans recently gave a talk to the End of the World Club (silly name, great talks) about politics, David Cameron’s politics in particular. He said that Cameron has no problem with Britain leaving the EU, while he remains Prime Minister. Sure enough, about two days later, an email from Tim arrives, complete with the link, saying: And so it starts ...
Moments intéressant.
Democracy | Emmanuel Todd | Europe | France | History | Language | Politics | Video
Tuesday May 20 2014
Bennett and Lotus on how Emmanuel Todd’s family provoked his Grand Theory of Everything
Regulars here, or for that matter there, will know that I have for many years now been at enthusiastic fan of the French historian and social scientist Emmanuel Todd. In recent years, this enthusiasm has at last started to become a bit more widespread.
Two of the world’s most important Todd-enthusiasts are now James C. Bennett and Michael J. Lotus. Quite a while ago now, they sent me an email flagging up a piece they had contributed to Hungarian Review, which contains some interesting biography about Todd, and about how his own particular family history contributed towards making him into the historian of the world that he later became.
Todd developed this grand theory, about how literacy triggers particular sorts of political upheavals in particular places, depending on Family Structure, and then when the political dust has settled fuels economic development, But what got Todd thinking about all this?
According to Bennett and Lotus, the starting point was: How Come The French Communists Are Doing So Badly And Never Seem To Do Any Better No Matter What They Try?
He was the product of an extended family of French Communist Party activists and journalists, and grew up hearing his father and relatives arguing around the kitchen table. Anglo-Americans had tended to regard the French Communist Party of that era as formidable, successful, and continually on the verge of seizing power. From the inside, Todd grew up hearing his family lament the eternal failure and futility of the Party. (He left the orthodox Communist movement quite early, and in fact was one of the first scholars to predict, in 1976, the coming collapse of the Soviet system.) For some reason, the Party was well established in certain regions, and completely without support in most others. The Socialists were dominant in others, and it was noticed that the same social classes would tend to support either Socialists or Communists, depending on the region, but never split between the two, and when they failed to support the one, would not switch to the other, preferring alternative parties. In other parts of France, neither party had a foothold, and the same social classes that supported either Socialists or Communists in their stronghold regions supported entirely different, and not particularly Marxist, parties. The reason for this split was constantly debated in Todd’s family circle, but no possible explanation seemed to hold water. It was a great mystery.
Once Todd began studies at Cambridge, and encountered what we are calling the Continuity School, he began developing a social analysis that perfectly predicted the voting patterns that had been such a mystery in his family’s kitchen debates. France is far from homogenous, and in fact is a patchwork of quite different cultures and family systems. When Todd saw the distribution of the various family systems of France, as established by inheritance rules and customs, he saw at once that both the Communist and Socialist electoral strongholds corresponded to the areas dominated by two distinct family systems. Where other systems prevailed, neither the Communists nor the Socialists could gain any real foothold.
You can see how Todd was perfectly primed to generalise the principle from France, and then England, to the entire world.
In the course of my Todd readings and meanderings, I probably was told (perhaps by Todd himself in his book about French politics (which I have long possessed (and which I see you can now get second hand for £2.81 (in English)))) that Todd had been raised by baffled and frustrated Communists. But I had not really taken it in.
Anglosphere | Books | Emmanuel Todd | Europe | Family | France | History | USA
Thursday October 10 2013
Otherwise blogging (and a Burgess Park butterfly)
I am at the moment struggling to complete a long piece for Samizdata, about America 3.0 and Emmanuel Todd, and so forth and so on, so as of now, all other bloggings are off. I hope that saying this here will get me finishing this, but fear it may delay things even longer, because that is what often happens when I make promises of this sort. I generally prefer to promise nothing.
Meanwhile, here is a photo of a butterfly, taken by me in Burgess Park, in May of this year:
I took that photo on the same day that I took this photo. Alas, the Butterfly also had to twisted anti-clockwise.
Read more about the strange history of this butterfly here. Apparently that building is now a boxing club. Muhammed Ali - Mr “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” - would surely approve.
Design | Emmanuel Todd | History | How the mind works | London | My photographs | Signs and notices | Sport
Craig Willy on Emmanuel Todd
Incoming from Craig Willy, of whom I did not know until now:
Hello Brian,
I see you’ve written a great deal on Emmanuel Todd. I have just written a summary of his big history book, L’invention de l’Europe. I thought you might find it interesting.
I also see you have the impression he mainly criticizes the U.S. for being a “hollowed out,” financialized “fake” economy. In fact he is incredibly critical of the eurozone, for that very reason, which he argues is responsible for the hollowing out, dysfunction and financialism of the French and peripheral European economies.
All the best, and feel free to share if you write anything new on Todd. My Twitter.
In response to my email thanking him for the above email, and asking if he has written anything else about Todd, Willy writes:
I discuss him a fair bit on my Twitter feed as he offends many with his criticism of Germany and euroskepticism. Otherwise I just wrote this short piece on Todd and the euro from a while back.
This I have now read. Very interesting, and I think very right. Interesting parallel between the Euro and the Algerian War.
Things appear to be really motoring on the Todd-stuff-in-English front. At last.
Anglosphere | Current events | Economics | Emmanuel Todd | Europe | France | History | Politics | Religion | Social Media | Society | USA
Sunday June 16 2013
Emmanuel Todd links
This is a short posting, just to make a note of some links that I have acquired, to things about Emmanuel Todd. Microsoft is in the habit of shutting down my computer without warning, and I don’t want to have to go hunting for them again.
Here is a review of a new book about America called America 3.0 (which I already have on order from Amazon), by James Bennett and Michael Lotus. This book includes some of Todd’s ideas about family structure by way of explaining why the America of the near future will be particularly well suited to the free-wheeling individualism of the next few years of economic history.
In this review, T Greer says:
I was delighted to find that much of this analysis rests of the work of the French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd. I came across Mr. Todd’s work a few months ago, and concluded immediately that he is the most under-rated “big idea” thinker in the field of world history.
Greer also makes use of this map, which first appeared in this New York Times article:
Slowly, very slowly, Emmanuel Todd is starting to be noticed in the English speaking world.
Anglosphere | Books | Emmanuel Todd | Europe | History | Links | Society | USA
Monday November 28 2011
America 3.0
This blogging stuff really works. I blog here about Emmanuel Todd, and a blink of an eye (i.e. about a couple of years or more) later, these two American guys are writing a book about America, concerning which they say things like this:
America 3.0 gives readers the real historical foundations of our liberty, free enterprise, and family life. Based on a new understanding our of our past, and on little known modern scholarship, America 3.0 offers long-term strategies to restore and strengthen American liberty, prosperity and security in the years ahead.
America 3.0 shows that our country was founded as a decentralized federation of communities, dominated by landowner-farmers, and based on a unique type of Anglo-American nuclear family. . . .
The two American guys in question are Jim Bennett (of Anglosphere fame) and Michael Lotus, who are also Chicago Boyz. Others are talking about this also.
And that “little known modern scholarship” is, among other things, the work of Emmanuel Todd. If you look at the (quite short) “Essential Readings” list to the right at America 3.0 you will see, among other links, these:
Emmanuel Todd (1)
America 3.0 will be on my Essential Reading list just as soon as I can get my hands on a copy.
Anglosphere | Bloggers and blogging | Books | Emmanuel Todd | History | Society | USA
Emmanuel Todd’s latest book - in English
Actually it’s by Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd. And it’s not that new; it was first published (in French) in 2007. But it has just been made available in English. And it is exactly the Todd book that, for several years now, I have most been wanting to read. It is entitled A Convergence of Civilizations: The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World.
If it is as interesting as I hope it is, this book could finally enable Todd to make his long overdue breakthrough into the English speaking world.
And it is, as Instapundit is always saying, in the post.
In all my previous Todd googlings, I had never before come across this stuff about Todd, although I am almost certain that it has been there all along. Will read this tomorrow, or failing that, Real Soon. (And ooh look: at the top left, under where it says “NEW!!!”, there is me, and three of my Todd postings.)
Books | Emmanuel Todd | History | Language | Middle East and Islam | Religion | Society
Monday January 03 2011
Emmanuel Todd quoted and Instalanched
A few months back I discovered that there were other Emmanuel Todd fans out there besides me, notably Lexington Green of Chicago Boyz, and James C. Bennett. Emails were exchanged, and I met up with Bennett in London. Very helpful.
Here is a big moment in what I hope may prove to be the long overdue rise and rise of Emmanuel Todd in the English speaking world. Todd is quoted here by Lexington Green, and then linked to from here. Yes indeed, Instapundit. Okay, this is because what Todd is quoted saying happens to chime in with what Instapundit wants to be saying, but … whatever. That’s how Instalaunches work.
The Todd quote:
A double movement will assure the advancement of human history. The developing world is heading toward democracy — pushed by the movement toward full literacy that tends to create culturally more homogeneous societies. As for the industrialized world, it is being encroached on to varying degrees by a tendency toward oligarchy — a phenomenon that has emerged with the development of educational stratification that has divided societies into layers of “higher,” “lower,” and various kinds of “middle” classes.
However, we must not exaggerate the antidemocratic effects of this unegalitarian educational stratification. Developed countries, even if they become more oligarchical, remain literate countries and will have to deal with the contradictions and conflicts that could arise between a democratically leaning literate mass and university-driven stratification that favors oligarchical elites.
Says LG:
Todd’s book, despite its flaws, is full of good insights. This passage was prescient. The Tea Party (“a democratically leaning literate mass”) and it’s opponents, the “Ruling Class” described by Angelo Codevilla, ("oligarchical elites") are well-delineated by Todd, several years before other people were focused on this phenomenon.
This may cause a little flurry of Toddery in my part of the www. Not all of it will be favourable, to put it mildly, because the book quoted is fiercely anti-American, and totally wrong-headed about economics. Todd is one of those people who insists on dividing economic activity into “real” and “unreal” categories, solid and speculative, honest and delusional. Todd’s problem is that he imagines that the making of things that hurt your foot when you drop them is inherently less risky than, say, operating as a financial advisor or a hedge fund manager. But both are risky. It is possible to make too many things. Similar illusions were entertained in the past about how agriculture was real, while mere thing-making was unreal.
Todd believes that the US economy is being “hollowed out”, with delusional activity crowding out “real” activity.
The problem is that Todd is not completely wrong. Economic dodginess was indeed stalking the USA in 2002. But the explanation for the processes that actually did occur and are occurring, which are easily confused with what Todd said back in 2002 was happening, and which will hence make him all the more certain that his wrongness is right, is not that manufacturing is real and financial services unreal, but that for Austrian economics reasons (Todd appears to have no idea whatever about Austrian economics), all dodgy and speculative activities, most emphatically including dodgy manufacturing ventures, have been encouraged by bad financial policies. Todd also seems to imagine that only the USA has been guilty of such follies. If only.
Such are some of the flaws in this book that LG refers to.
But none of that impinges on Todd’s fundamental achievements as a social scientist, which I have long thought ought to resonate in my part of the www. This should help.
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Wednesday October 06 2010
Defeating Islam (2): Conversion to Christianity will trump higher birth rates in Islamic countries
Just to say where I come from, in case strangers are passing by (welcome, by the way): I’m an atheist, for most of the usual atheist reasons, and an atheist who prefers Christianity to Islam, for most of the usual human reasons.
Were a time traveller/historian from the future to reveal to me that Islam had indeed been defeated (setting aside for the time being just what “defeated” might mean), I would expect him/her to add, at some point in our (I hope) quite prolonged discussions, that Christianity had played a big part in this excellent outcome.
Religion seems to me to be a part of human nature, which is not to say that all humans seem to need it like we all need air, food or drink. It’s just that a lot of us seem to. As an atheist I am resigned to this. All the arguments that convince me of the non-existence of God are not so much wrong, to a religionist, as beside the point. The point being that they really need their religion, and that’s the truth that matters to them, not people like me explaining the factual implausibility of spaghetti monsters or orbiting teapots (two favourite atheist inventions).
So the question for many is simply: which religion shall it be? And just now, it seems, although I don’t know the numbers, that when it comes to people converting from one religion to another, the big story in the world in recent decades is of people converting from Islam to Christianity, particularly (so I am told) in Africa, but even more particularly in the rich societies of Europe and the USA. See, for instance, this posting, which I dug up on the www, and in particular the comments, where “Kepha” says:
My guess is that the time is not far off when the number of conversions from Islam in the West will be so large that it will be noticed; and the most that the jihadis will be able to do is splutter with helpless rage ...
But, say other commenters in the same thread, Muslims are more than replacing themselves, by having a higher birthrate.
Many things could be said about this. I will confine myself to one (or maybe it’s two followed by a deduction), which is that whereas the flow of Muslims out of Islam and into Christianity can be expected to continue pretty much indefinitely, very possibly becoming a stampede once converts to Christianity are able to be more public about the process, the current high birthrates of many Muslim countries can be expected, in due course, to moderate. All modernising countries experience a big bulge in their birthrates, but this never lasts, or such is my understanding.
If the above is right, that’s very good news for Christianity and very bad news for Islam. And people like me, who would merely like to see Islam defeated, can just relax and be patient and let history take its course.
Okay, pessimistic cup-half-empty commenters, off you go. Tell me this is all wishful thinking.
If you feel like it. These Islam postings here are really just me thinking aloud. If others join in fine, but if not, fine too.
Africa | Atheism | Emmanuel Todd | History | Middle East and Islam | Religion
Thursday April 05 2007
Emmanuel Todd (5): A CrozierVision podcast
And speaking of Todd (see below), I really was speaking of Todd last Monday night, into Patrick Crozier‘s portable computer. Our conversation (click here to hear it) lasted just under half an hour. Like Patrick I felt, immediately after our conversation had ended, that it bordered on the shambolic, but it was his thing, so I said, if you think it’s okay, okay. Listening to it today, I find that I agree with Patrick. It is okay. Yes, I faff and fluff and fudge, but as I explain, what attracts me to Todd’s grand theorising is precisely its simplicity. In essence the story he tells is very straightforward. Anthropology is ideological destiny. Literacy sparks the ideological explosion and then, when the rubble has settled and the blood has dried, it is economic development. (Also fertility control.) However, the ramifications of this story are almost unimaginably complex. As, presumably, if I can find such, is any academic debate about the story’s truth or falsehood (of combination of the two). So, don’t blame me for not talking very fluently about the fine detail. If I could link to some exhaustive scholarly reaction to Todd, I would be mightily relieved. But, on the internet, I have found only tantalising rumours, and cold trails.
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Emmanuel Todd (4): From ideology to economic progress
This is, as stated above, my fourth Emmanuel Todd blog posting here, the previous three being here, here and here, or get all my Emmanuel Todd postings by choosing the Emmanuel Todd category here, bottom left.
L’Enfance du Monde: Structure Familiale et Développement by Emmanuel Todd was first published in 1984, and first published in English in 1987, as The Causes of Progress: Culture, Authority and Change. Here is the Foreword (pp. xiii-xiv of my hardback edition of the English translation by Richard Boulind):
The present book is one step on the way towards a new interpretation of historical change. It emphasizes the influence of stable anthropological factors within the modernization process itself. Although self-contained, it is none the less the logical sequel to The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structures and Social Systems (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985).
The anthropological analysis of social systems singles out family structure as the decisive explanatory variable - that is to say, the elementary relationships of parents with children, brothers with sisters, husbands with wives. But anthropology is here no more than a tool. It makes it possible to settle some basic problems, for which the social sciences of the present day are finding it hard to offer any solutions at all. The question posed in The Explanation of Ideology concerned the spread of modern ideologies across the globe. I set out to explain why communism has come to dominate certain regions, liberalism others, and social democracy yet others; likewise to explain the predominance, elsewhere, of the Catholic Right, or of ideologies that from the European point of view are unclassifiable, such as Muslim fundamentalism, Buddhist socialism or the Indian caste system. In The Explanation of Ideology the analysis of relationships between parents and their children - authoritarian or liberal - and of relationships between brothers - egalitarian or inegalitarian - led to a typology of family types which geographically coincided fairly closely with the mapped distribution of adherence to the great ideologies. The purpose of this second book is to analyse development, here not considered as a purely economic, short-term phenomenon, but as a very long-term cultural and anthropological movement stretching over centuries rather than decades. Its most important aspect is not so much industrial growth as the rise in literacy, the increase in the proportion of people able to read and write from 0 to 99 per cent.
Here, as in the realm of political science, no explanation has so far proved acceptable. One can readily describe - with a wealth of statistical detail - the development of certain countries, first cultural then economic: endogenous development so far as north-western Europe is concerned, exogenous development first in the case of southern Europe, then in part of the Third World. But no reasonable hypothesis has been proposed and tested that can explain such differences - apart from those magnificent tautologies that pronounce that growth results from rates of investment having risen above a certain percentage of the gross national product. Of course that is true. But why have they done so there and not somewhere else? Or at that particular date, rather than at some other?
The method adopted here is simple; as in any scientific undertaking, the objective is to explain the maximum number of facts by the minimum number of hypotheses. The complexity of observed phenomena should be reduced to the simplicity of a few underlying laws. In the case of relations between family structures and ideologies, an extreme degree of simplification proved to be attainable, since the political typology fitted strictly within an anthropological one, each existing ideology being produced by a different family type. In the case of development, each family system may be considered as having a specific potential - cultural rather than political, this time – ranking either as ‘very high’, ‘high’, ‘medium’ or ‘low’. But the geographical diffusion of culture puts shading into the model, and sets up areas of development that extend beyond the limits of certain anthropological areas dominated by specific family types.
Though complementary with one another, the typologies put forward in The Causes of Progress and in The Explanation of Ideology are none the less distinct: within the family system the elements responsible for ideological alignment, on the one hand, and cultural development, on the other, differ somewhat. One element the two typologies do have in common is the style of authority typical of the parent-child relationship, which simultaneously affects both realms: ideology and culture. Other elements are different, though linked by structural relationships. The concept of the equality or inequality of brothers is fundamental to the analysis of ideologies. But the husband-wife relationship, exhibiting as it does a greater or a lesser degree of feminism, is essential to the analysis of development. A synoptic table given in the conclusion (p. 180) indicates the exact matching of the categories employed in the two books.
Economics | Emmanuel Todd | History | Society
Emmanuel Todd (3): Quotes from the Introduction to The Explanation of Ideology
I have already done two postings about the French historian and anthropologist Emmanuel Todd. In the first, I sketched out Todd’s Explanation of Ideology, as described in his book of that name (in its English translation). In the second posting, I simply listed the eight families into which Todd classifies the world’s people, together with the countries in which each family type prevails.
I now want to quote Todd himself. Below are a couple of chunks from the introduction, entitled “democracy and anthropology”, to The Explanation of Ideology, translated into English by David Garrioch.
First, the first few pages of that introduction (pp. 1-6 in my 1985 Blackwell hardback edition):
No theory has so far succeeded in explaining the distribution of political ideologies, systems and forces on our planet. No one knows why certain regions of the world are dominated by liberal doctrines, others by social democracy or Catholicism, by Islam or by the Indian caste system, and others again by concepts which defy classification or description, like Buddhist socialism.
No one knows why communism has triumphed after a revolutionary struggle in Russia, China and Yugoslavia, in Vietnam and Cuba. No one knows why in other places it has failed - sometimes honourably, for in certain countries it plays an important although not dominant role in political life. In France, Italy, Finland and Portugal, in Chile before the coup in 1974, in the Sudan before the elimination of the communists by the army in 1971, and in certain Indian states such as West Bengal or Kerala, communism has a stable electoral position and traditionally enjoys the interest and support of many intellectuals.
In some areas of the world communism has made a brief but conspicuous appearance. In Indonesia it once seemed set for a brilliant future but evaporated after a military take-over and a brutal massacre. In Cambodia, a near neighbour in global terms, its performance was still more striking, rapidly developing to such murderous intensity that it destroyed itself within a very few years. One suspects, however, that these last two examples, spectacular in their power and instability, are not representative of conventional types of communism.
Elsewhere we find that Marxist-Leninist organization, while not entirely absent, is very weak and of almost no political importance: for example, in Japan, Sweden, Germany, Spain and Greece. Throughout much of the world the conquering and would-be universal ideology of the twentieth century has no real influence and is represented only by tiny fringe groups. Communism, which in Russia and China has produced Titans, in the Arab world has given birth to no more than a few martyrs and in the English-speaking world to a number of eccentrics. In most of Latin America - if we exclude Cuba and Chile – in Africa, Thailand, Burma and the Philippines, Marxist-Leninist influence is insignificant.
The history of communism is similar to that of other universal creeds: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam. It has proved rapidly successful in certain societies with which it has a mysterious affinity, only to be stopped after this initial expansion by barriers which remain invisible.
The failure of political science
A simple enumeration, worthy of lonesco, of the regions and countries where communism is strong illustrates the failure of a political science at present largely dominated by utilitarian and materialist ideas. Liberals and Marxists alike now agree on the importance of economic factors in history: the public or private nature of the means of production and exchange, the level of industrial development, the efficiency of agriculture, the numerical importance of different socio-professional groups. But could one hope to find any economic characteristic which was shared by all the regions where Marxism-Leninism is strong: by Finland and Kerala, Vietnam and Cuba, Tuscany and the Chilean province or Arauco, Limousin and West Bengal, Serbia and southern Portugal, or even for that matter by Russia and China before their revolutions?
On the eve of 1917, Russia was overwhelmingly rural but had sufficient agricultural surplus and enough mineral resources to finance rapid industrial growth. China in the first half of the twentieth century was even more strongly rural, but would have had the greatest difficulty in producing any agricultural surplus at all. Even in good years she could hardly feed her population. So sparse was her industrial development that even the most hard-line Marxist would not dare to accord responsibility for the 1949 Revolution to the proletariat of the Celestial Empire. From a Marxist point of view, the China of 1949 differed from the Russia of 1917 in one vital respect: the peasants had a much clearer idea of private property than did their Russian counterparts, among whom a sort of agrarian communism, the periodical redistribution of land according to family size, was widely practised. But this difference does not really help explain these events because it invalidates the most convincing of the ‘economic’ interpretations of communism: that which portrays it as a more modern industrial version of a traditional agricultural system.
For we find Russia and China, entirely different countries, from an economic point of view, plunging with similar enthusiasm into the same political adventure only thirty years apart and with surprisingly similar results. They shared, to begin with, a single characteristic - their rural economy - which explains nothing: in 1848 when Marx called on the workers of the world to break their chains, 95 per cent of the inhabitants of the world were peasants. Ireland, Sweden, Greece, Japan, Thailand, Turkey, Mexico, all nations where communism was to remain weak, were no more developed industrially than Russia or China. The one major exception was Britain, whose working class was to remain impermeable to communist ideology for 200 years.
Theories of class struggle explain nothing. Some working classes are attracted by Marxism-Leninism and others are not. The same applies to the rural population which in some countries is open to communism, in others not. Even normally conservative bourgeois intellectuals in many countries betray the most elementary rules of class warfare and allow themselves to be seduced by Bolshevism.
Social democracy, Islam, Hinduism, and the rest
As the most crucial ideology of the twentieth century, communism has been widely studied. Traditional political science, although unable to explain its appearance in a particular country, has nevertheless managed to give a good description of it, one which also serves to define, negatively but with equal precision, its economic and political antithesis and its world-wide enemy, Anglo-Saxon liberalism. The characteristics of communism are therefore absence of elementary political, religious and economic freedoms; egalitarian subjection of the individual to the state; and a single permanent ruling party. The features of liberalism, on the other hand, are seen to be free exercise of political, economic and religious rights by the individual; abhorrence of the state, which is perceived as an administrative necessity but also as a threat; and rapid changes of the party in power as a result of the workings of an electoral system.
Anything beyond these two poles is heresy. Yet the nations which subscribe to one or other of these ideologies, to liberalism or to communism, account for only 40 per cent of the world’s population. The remaining 60 per cent have not received nearly the same attention from political scientists, and are considered conceptually irrelevant. Their ideologies and political systems are at best treated as imperfect forms, somewhere in between communism and liberalism according to the degree of economic, religious or political authoritarianism. At worst, they appear to social scientists as legal or religious monstrosities, aberrations of the human imagination that cannot be registered on the scale dictated by European political conventions whose linear structure is like a thermometer, capable of measuring only hot or cold, the degree of liberty or of totalitarianism.
Putting together all these misfits, all the ideologies which are neither ‘communist’ nor ‘liberal’, gives another of those comical lists which political science is capable of producing: social democracy, libertarian socialism, Christian democracy, Latin-American, Thai or Indonesian military regimes, the Buddhist socialism of Burma or of Sri Lanka, Japanese parliamentarianism, technically perfect but with the sole flaw of never changing its ruling party, Islamic fundamentalism and socialism, Ethiopian militarist Marxism, and the Indian regime which combines parliamentary and caste systems and whose 700 million subjects have in one swoop been disqualified by ‘modern’ political science.
Social science has found a justification for refusing to fit these exotic systems and ways of thinking into its conceptual framework: is it reasonable to hope to understand them when the principal mystery, that of the liberal/communist conflict, has yet to be resolved? But this argument is easily refuted: it is precisely because of the refusal to look on all political forms – whether European or not - as normal and theoretically significant that communism has never been fully understood, and nor, as a direct result, has its liberal ‘antithesis’.
Furthermore, if we move from a politico-economic definition of ideological systems to a religious one, the opposite of communism is no longer liberalism but the whole group of doctrines which proclaim the existence of a spiritual realm. For communism alone declares that God does not exist and is prepared to impose this belief on humanity. Here the liberal, pluralist systems, tolerant or agnostic on religious questions, are out of the picture. They cannot provide a conceptual framework for the increasingly violent conflict between communism and Islam in Afghanistan, or between communism and the Catholic church in Poland.
Is it, then, too much to allow that the range of political and religious ideologies spread around the world does not divide into two camps, but forms a system with many poles, and that all these poles - communist, liberal, Catholic, social democratic, Hindu, Islamic, Buddhist - are equally normal, legitimate and worthy of analysis?
A satisfactory explanation of communism must also provide the key to other world-wide ideologies. The situation is precisely that which is encountered in the natural sciences: one cannot partly understand the principle of the attractive force of matter, that of the circulation of the blood or of the classification of the elements in chemistry. To take the whole world as the field of study, therefore, is simply to apply to social science the minimum of intellectual rigour which the natural sciences take for granted. Any hypothesis must take all the forms observed into account.
And now here is the conclusion of this same introduction (pp. 16-18):
General methodology
The oppositions ideology/anthropology and social relations/human relations are particularly useful outside Europe when attempting to trace the origins of religious ideological systems. They are indispensable if one is accurately to describe ideologies which are based on ideas about family ties.
The Indian caste system is a family ideology which places each individual in an abstract and impersonal social network, the caste (or to be more precise the sub-caste), which is defined by ties of descent outside which he or she cannot marry. But the sub-caste is composed largely of people who do not know each other and who live in different places. Beneath this intellectual edifice can be seen a particular family structure, a model of interpersonal relations which produces the concept of and the need for social segregation. These two levels - social and human, ideological and familial - must be clearly distinguished if the caste system is to be placed with any precision among the various political and religious ideologies - communism, Islam, social democracy, the various forms of Christianity - which likewise define social relations between people who do not know each other directly.
A universal hypothesis is possible: the ideological system is everywhere the intellectual embodiment of family structure, a transposition into social relations of the fundamental values which govern elementary human relations: liberty or equality, and their opposites, are examples. One ideological category and only one, corresponds to each family type.
Ignoring all the accepted procedures of present-day social science and at the risk of being branded a positivist, I am going to test this theory and prove it in the same way as in any exact science: by exhaustively comparing the hypothesis and the evidence, that is by a complete examination of the familial and ideological systems experienced by the settled human groups which make up at least 95 per cent of the population of the planet. Testing the theory involves two steps.
First, a general typology of family structure must be devised. It must be both logically exhaustive, starting from first principles and setting out all the possible family structures; and empirically exhaustive, that is to say taking into account and describing all the family forms which are actually observable on the surface of the planet.
Second, it must be shown that to each family form described there corresponds one and only one ideological system and that this ideological system is not to be found in areas of the world which are dominated by other family forms (in mathematical terms one would speak of a bijective relationship between family types and political types).
A further requirement is that secondary variations in family structure within each anthropological type must correspond to secondary variations in the political or religious forms within the corresponding ideological type.
And then, to his own complete satisfaction at least, Todd proceeds to prove all that.
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Emmanuel Todd (2): The eight family systems
This, the second of my Emmanuel Todd postings here, will confine itself to itemising the eight family system classifications that appear at the start of most of the chapters of The Explanation of Ideology. Each clutch of information lists the distinguishing features of each family system, and the places where each system prevails.
If this posting seems strange, see my previous posting, Emmanuel Todd (1): Anthropology explains ideology, for some clarification.
So here are those family systems. I will here add only that “exogamous” means marrying outside your family and “endogamous” means marrying within your family.
Characteristics of the exogamous community family:
1. equality between brothers defined by rules of inheritance;
2. cohabitation of married sons and their parents;
3. however, no marriage between the children of two brothers.
Principal regions concerned: Russia, Yugoslavia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland, Albania, central Italy, China, Vietnam, Cuba, north India.
Characteristics of the authoritarian family:
1. inequality of brothers laid down by inheritance rules, transfer of an unbroken patrimony to one of the sons;
2. cohabitation of the married heir with this parents;
3. little or no marriage between the children of two brothers.
Principal regions and peoples concerned: Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Bohemia, Scotland, Ireland, peripheral regions of France, northern Spain, northern Portugal, Japan, Korea, Jews, Romany gypsies.
Characteristics of the egalitarian nuclear family:
1. equality of brothers laid down by inheritance
rules;
2. no cohabitation of married children with their parents;
3. no marriage between the children of brothers.
Principal regions: northern France, northern Italy, central and southern Spain, central Portugal, Greece, Romania, Poland, Latin America, Ethiopia.
Characteristics of the absolute nuclear family:
1. no precise inheritance rules, frequent use of wills;
Principal regions: Anglo-Saxon world, Holland, Denmark.
Characteristics of the endogamous community family:
1. equality between brothers established by inheritance rules;
2. cohabitation of married sons with their parents;
3. frequent marriage between the children of brothers.
Principal regions: Arab world, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan.
Characteristics of the asymmetrical community family:
1. equality between brothers laid down by inheritance rules;
3. prohibition on marriages between the children of brothers, but a preference for marriages between the children of brothers and sisters.
Principal region: southern India.
Characteristics of the anomic family:
1. uncertainty about equality between brothers: inheritance rules egalitarian in theory but flexible in practice;
2. cohabitation of married children with their parents rejected in theory but accepted in practice;
3. consanguine marriage possible and sometimes frequent.
Principal regions: Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Madagascar, South-American Indian cultures.
Characteristics of African systems:
1. instability of the household;
2. polygyny.
Concerning the “African system” Todd starts his (very short) chapter thus:
Given the present state of anthropological knowledge no exhaustive, detailed analysis of the interaction between the family structures and political systems in Africa is possible.
But hasn’t Africa been overrun by anthropologists in recent decades? Yes. However:
Paradoxically, the Dark Continent, an area of fundamental importance in anthropological research, remains very poorly documented from the point of view of family structure.
That vagueness aside, I find the above list very impressive. Do I need to note the correspondence between, e.g., the list for the exogamous community family and communism, just as a for instance? In later postings, I will spell out in more detail why Todd’s body of work so excited me when I first encountered it in the 1980s. I will offer (more) guesses as to why it has been neglected.
Once I have accumulated a decent number of Emmanuel Todd postings here to link back to, I will start beating the Emmanuel Todd drum in more public places, until such time as an Emmanuel Todd blog-buzz gets seriously buzzing. (That’s three “Emmanuel Todds” in one short paragraph, and now four. Should I start calling him “ET”?)
A very quiet buzzing can already be detected. See item 2 here.
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Emmanuel Todd (1): Anthropology explains ideology
What causes the different peoples of the world to think and feel so differently about such things as religion and politics? Despite inventions like the telephone, high speed modern transport by rail and air, and now the latest such miracle in the form of the internet, people in different parts of the world still seem defiantly different from one another. And their differences, instead of being ironed out by modern communications technology, are instead made all the more visible and scandalous to all who concern themselves about such things. Why?
Why, historically, do political and religious ideologies often start by spreading with the speed and completeness of a medieval plague? But why do they then, with equal suddenness, mysteriously cease their expansions?
Why do the world’s different peoples, in addition to quarrelling with one another, seem so very varied in their responses to the opportunities and agonies of economic development? What is economic development?
I now believe that the best clutch of answers to these questions (and to many other related questions both historical and contemporary) has been supplied by the French historian and anthropologist Emmanuel Todd, who was born in 1951.
I have not read all of Todd’s books, because my French is not good enough. But I have read, and I own in treasured English translations, the two that appear to be the most important. These are: La Troisième Planète: Structures Familiales et Systèmes Idéologiques, published in 1983, published in English, in 1985, as The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structures and Social Systems; and L’Enfance du Monde: Structure Familiale et Développement, published in 1984, published in English in 1987, as The Causes of Progress: Culture, Authority and Change.
The first of these books is probably the most striking one, and in this posting, I will concentrate on - in the amazingly confident title which Todd or someone chose for the English edition of La Troisième Planète - the explanation of ideology. The explanation.
I will now attempt an approximate summary of Todd’s explanation of ideology.
The peoples of the world are different in their ideological orientations because they have different “family structures”. The world’s different ideologies and ideological tendencies (communism, Islam, social democracy, Anglo-Saxon liberalism, the Indian caste system, and so on) are projections onto the public stage of ideas first learned within the family.
In the family one acquires beliefs about such things as the nature of and proper scope of parental authority, the appropriate degree of equality or lack of it in the relations between men and women, and between older brothers and younger brothers, the proper way to get married and have children in one’s turn, the appropriate relationship between one’s family and other families, and so on.
These ideas are handed down from generation to generation, and do not change from one century to the next, or even from one millennium to the next. Family structure, for Emmanuel Todd, is the independent variable. It causes other things. It is not itself caused. It simply is.
“Family structure” does not mean the particular circumstances of particular families. Family structure is the belief set that all those raised in a particular anthropological setting hold in common about the proper nature of family life. Some particular parents divorce or die young while others do not. Some have many children while others have few or none. Some children marry, earlier or later, and have children of their own, others not, and so on. Todd does not trace any connections from the particular family history of an individual or of a group of individuals to their subsequent behaviour and attitudes. It is what members of the same anthropological group all agree to be the proper nature of the family, and of the various privileges and obligations associated with it, that matters. He is concerned with the ideal family, so to speak.
In different family systems, the same events will be experienced differently, with a different degree of shame or triumph, or even absolutely differently. Divorce happens, but is usually (not always) experienced as a problem. A married sister may, or may not, retain links with her original family. Cousins or nieces may be encouraged to marry cousins or uncles, or fiercely forbidden to. Incest may be taboo (or not). Brothers may be equal, or unequal. Fathers may control their grown-up sons until death do them part, or not. Mothers may be powerful matriarchs, or little more than girls. And so on. All of this varies from place to place in the world, and it is these local agreements and global disagreements that Todd is concerned with.
What triggers history’s great eruptions of ideological and religious enthusiasm is mass literacy. When a majority of the young men can read and write for the first time, that is to say at a time when a majority of their fathers could not, then there is always an ideological upsurge. Hence the German Reformation, the English Revolution, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, Islamic fundamentalism, the Tamil Tigers, and so on and so on and so on. Each of these eruptions into ideological modernity takes its particular and quite distinct form from the family structure that dominates in the place where it happens.
Rising literacy is easy to see coming. Anthropology is easily studied. Therefore both the timing and the nature of such ideological eruptions can be easily predicted. Todd has an impressive record of such successful predictions. (I recall Todd’s very confident announcement that Nicaragua would not turn communist, at a time when it was widely predicted that it was about to.)
So much, for now, for the explanation of ideology.
In The Causes of Progress Todd turns to other less explosive and destructive but equally important effects of mass literacy. Mass literacy, in a very basic sense, is economic development. When a population becomes literate, it gets rich. Not immediately, because it takes time to get rich, and it especially takes time to get rich if the ideological eruptions triggered earlier by mass literacy are particularly destructive.
Mass literacy among women also has profound effects upon fertility, which tends to oscillate wildly during the modernisation process. Fertility first surges, then plummets.
Further Emmanuel Todd postings here will, I hope and intend, go into more detail. In my next posting, for instance, I intend to itemise all the world’s various family structures, and which ideologies they correspond to.
I also hope to speculate about and in due course (this is a blog after all) to find out about why Todd’s theories have had so little impact in the English speaking world, despite appearing to have extreme relevance to many contemporary debates and concerns, about such things as Islamic terrorism. Is it because they are simply wrong? I don’t now think so, but I do think that Todd is often wrong (at the very least extremely contentious) about many matters incidental to his most important ideas, which has surely not helped.
Worse, from the point of view of anyone else who is interested in ideological matters being willing to spread his ideas, Todd appears to reduce all ideologists to mere sock puppets for their inner anthropologically programmed urges.
But that is all to come. For now, that will have to suffice.
My Emmanuel Todd blogging journey has now begun.
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Tenn. defunds UT diversity office, establishes Office of Conformity
3 years ago in Education
After the Tennessee General Assembly passed a bill to defund the University of Tennessee’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion, it announced that in its place, it would establish an “Office of Conformity.”
“One of the most important developments of industrial manufacturing is interchangeable parts, which made mass production possible,” said Adam Whitener, the new director of the Office of Conformity. “If we humans were to become more like interchangeable parts, then the world would become a lot more efficient, and efficiency is always a good thing, right?”
“You are not a special snowflake,” said Whitener. “That’s our slogan, actually.”
“We encourage conformity among students and citizens to make things easier, from speaking the same language to wearing the same clothes,” said Whitener. “People are overwhelmed with choices nowadays, anyway. Just look at the toothpaste aisle at a store. We don’t need 65 different types of toothpaste.”
“We are all Tennesseans. We are all Vols. Orange lives matter,” said Whitener.
The bill also affects the UT Pride Center, which may have to consider making some changes to its operation and also its name.
“Pride is one of the seven deadly sins,” said Whitener. “If we have a Pride Center, then what’s next, a Gluttony Center?”
Another result of the bill is that UTK’s event Sex Week, funded using student fees and private contributions, may have to change its name to “Matrimonial Intercourse in the Missionary Position Week.”
“Let’s just keep it simple: one ding-a-ling, one hoo-ha, and one position,” said Whitener.
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By Qu Yunxu, Liu Xiaojing, and Han Wei, Caixin staff reporters. This article was first published by Caixin.
New regulations and a blockbuster merger between the industry’s largest players are reshaping the business landscape for China’s car-hailing app companies.
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Oversight and Subsidies
The government’s new car-hailing industry rule book, which the Ministry of Transport will enforce, gives local governments the power to control car-hailing businesses within their jurisdictions according to local conditions. A government may, for example, set a quota for vehicles working for online car-hailing platforms.
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Strategic Moves
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With the merger complete, Didi is preparing for a public listing on a U.S. stock market in 2018, Caixin learned. Company documents for investors predict Didi will post a U.S.$540 million profit this year. The merged company controls more than 90 percent of orders handled in China’s car-hailing market, according to business data provider Research in China.
Last year, Research in China said, Didi handled 72 percent of all car-hailing rider orders while Uber China handled 18 percent.
As of June, Didi said its 15 million drivers provided 14 million rides a day for 300 million online platform-registered riders. Pre-merger Uber China, meanwhile, said it provided 40 million rides every week.
Rumors about a possible deal to combine Didi and Uber China started circulating in early 2015, shortly after Didi emerged from a tie-up between Tencent Holdings-backed Didi Dache and Alibaba Group-invested Kuaidi Dache.
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Huge Playstation 4 Updated Titled “Yukimura” Rolls out With Style
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What time is it kids? What time is it! It’s firmware upgrade TIME! Woo Hoo! On a bit more of a serious note, Sony have been adding a lot to the PS4, ironing out bugs and bringing content that has never saw a console before. Deemed software update version 2.50. or if you’re fancy (PUT THAT PINKY UP!) codenamed “Yukimura” for the Playstation Network. Yukimura adds further accessibility, ...
Dustin Spencer March 26, 2015 No Comments
Sony Gives Compensation for Holiday PSN Outages
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Anyone that tried to play any of their PlayStation consoles online over Christmas Day and Boxing Day might have experienced that they couldn’t log in, rendering all online games and online required services (such as Foxtel Play) completely useless. Sony is feeling a bit generous after the holiday break and has decided to offer some compensation for those affected. First up, anyone that held...
Nathan Farrugia January 2, 2015 No Comments
PS TV and a New Direction for Sony
News Playstation 4 2014 Events PS Vita Technology Ramblings Sony
The end of the year is fast approaching and Sony has released a fancy new gizmo to add the console market called a Playstation TV (PS TV) at a press event attended by yours truly. Not a full-fledged console in its own right, but more akin to a set-top box which can work in conjunction with a full Playstation 4 to stream content among other things. At its most basic, the PS TV would allow a user to...
Mateja Simovic November 9, 2014 No Comments
Winter and Foxtel Play is Coming to the PS3
As I’m sure most people know, the fourth season of the ever popular Game of Thrones series will be premiering on Monday the 7th of this month on Showcase (or on Sunday the 6th for any of our Yankee readers). Our review for the previous season can be found here. Once more will millions tune in to see the intrigue and plotting unfold in the mythical land of Westeros, where undead white walkers...
Mateja Simovic April 3, 2014 No Comments
New PlayStation Plus Commercial is Awesome
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Sony have become known lately for their extravagant live-action commercials. Now they have once again broke the mold with a blockbuster live-action PlayStation Plus commercial that simply goes beyond the call of duty or advertising. The commercial is filmed entirely in live-action and features a player as he travels between a number of different game worlds, much like you would with the free games...
Luke Halliday February 18, 2014 No Comments
New PlayStation App for the PS4 Detailed
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After whispers and speculation all the way through this year, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. has finally made an announcement on the features and release date of the ‘PlayStation App’. The new app for mobiles is coming soon for all the gamers who are geared to play the anticipated PS4 and it is by far on a whole new level compared to their current official app. Designed to enhance the experience...
Amelia Craigie October 29, 2013 No Comments
Ethan: Meteor Hunter Celebrates Release Date Announcement with New Trailer
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As promised, Seaven Studio will be releasing Ethan: Meteor Hunter this October for Windows PC and PlayStation 3. PC gamers will be able to purchase the game for $9.90 at multiple retailers including the official Ethan: Meteor Hunter website and Good Old Games. Those who pre-purchased the “Early Adopter” and “Supporter Edition” versions of the game will receive their copies ...
Jamie Laike Tsui October 15, 2013 No Comments
Ethan: Meteor Hunter Begins Pre-Orders
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Seaven Studio may have missed their original summer release date, but the team is hard at work to ensure an October release. They are so comfortable with the October release date that they announced the start of Windows PC pre-orders for Ethan: Meteor Hunter. Pre-orders come in four tiers, the $9.90 Classic Edition that contains a digital copy of the game for Linux, Mac, and Windows; the $1...
Jamie Laike Tsui October 2, 2013 No Comments
PS4 – Playstation Plus Trailer
Sony has given the world a little taste of what is in store for Playstation Plus members on the PS4, the membership service that was created in order to bring gamers and games together, and prepare the PS4 for a huge launch. Playstation Plus is a subscription service that supplies the user with access to a generous amount of free games to download off of the Playstation Network, a collection of ga...
Trestan Hatcher August 31, 2013 No Comments
Where is my Heart? Coming to PC in September
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From the developer Die Gute Fabrik comes the brilliant puzzle/platformer, Where is my Heart? It was released on the PlayStation Network November 8th, 2011, and after two years the game is finally making it to the PC universe. Copenhagen Game Collective has yet to announce a specific date, but they have said September of 2013. ‘Where is my Heart?’ will be also coming to OS X and Linux. The game pla...
Muramasa Rebirth Coming to Europe
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Aksys Games has announced that their critically acclaimed hit in both the US and Japan, Muramasa Rebirth is to set sail to Europe for the PS Vita, via the PSN. Play this action-packed RPG that takes you on an epic journey through ancient Japan as you battle the forces that try to stop you from possessing the fabled demon blades! Journey east as the fugitive ninja Kisuke, searching for the legendar...
Kane Bugeja August 23, 2013 No Comments
E3 2012: PS Plus Receives 12 Free Games In June
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During Sony’s E3 media conference, it was announced that Playstation Plus subscribes will be receiving 12 free titles starting from tomorrow and throughout June. Some of these titles include Infamous 2, LittleBigPlanet 2, Virtua Fighter 5 Saints Row 2, Just Cause 2 and Choplifter HD, with the others yet to be revealed. Playstation Plus is Sony’s premium online servies offering free tit...
Joshua Spudic June 5, 2012 No Comments
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Delmar Pizza: "The only problem with this pizza is that I could eat a third slice." -My Dad
November 12, 2013 Slice Harvester
Last week I was in Oakland hanging out with a baby. Nate, my best friend from high school, and his awesome partner, Meredith, had a kid. Nate called me up all awkward like, "listen you know I don't believe in God and stuff but will you like, be my kid's godparent? Like, I want you in charge of the intellectual and ethical growth of my daughter." So I said yes, of course, because I'm a narcissist. So last week I went to Oakland to hang out with her for the first time and begin her lifelong misandry training.
Here are some things I did for her intellectual and ethical development:
Introduced her to Jimmy Shotwell.
Played her Shock Troops like 40 times.
Took her to that cave at the Sutro Baths.
(I promise I will actually review a piece of pizza eventually but please bear with me here.)
The day we brought her to the baths was the five year anniversary of my friend Jamie dying and that's why I had to wake up at 6am and bring a baby to the ocean. We were heading home, Nate was driving home and I was sitting in the the back with the Cave Baby and I was thinking about Jamie and I was thinking about my life these past five years, and Slice Harvester and New York City and the Bay Area, and I was thinking about my friend Sweet Tooth and how I love him and miss him and I hoped I would see him. And it was EARLY. Cause we woke up at 6 to take the baby to the beach, so it was like 9 or something.
ANYWAY: we were going to go eat at this diner in the Sunset that Matt Birdflu told me about but then Matt didn't text me back about where it was and then Nate took us to this different diner called Eddy's on Divisidero that was cheap and had really bland grits but was otherwise wonderful. And I was sitting there talking to Nate and playing with the baby and then I felt a hand on my shoulder and it was Tooth! He had decided to wake up early and go into the city to get a new ID at the DMV and happened to walk by the diner! And he hung out for a few minutes and we talked and I stopped freaking out and then I decided I didn't need to write about Jamie this year even though he's all I'd been thinking about for two weeks.
BUT THEN my mom's cousin Johnny died and I was at his funeral last night and I was wearing Jamie's shoes again, because they're my only nice shoes so I wear them to every funeral which I guess is pretty morbid or maybe it's respectful? I don't even know anymore. One of cousin Johnny's friends from the airforce gave a eulogy for him that was like, "Looks like we got ourselves another reason to hate Joe Girardi. Cause the Yanks blew it this year and now Johnny's dead."
He also talked a lot about music and how if you looked at his ipod 90% of the songs on there were by bands that Johnny had introduced him to. And I thought about my dad standing in front of the casket at his best friend Eddie's funeral last year and saying that Eddie introduced him to so much music. And I thought about my dad's other best friend Tonse, who died a few years ago and how the last time I'd seen him was in Seattle at the Squid and Ink and he told me that when he left Queens and went to Berkley his first job was giving guitar lessons to a 13 year old Bruce Loose! And how that made me feel this intense intergenerational connection to punk--more than my mom seeing the Clash and the Specials while she was pregnant with me, more than my uncles lying about selling Joey Ramone bags of oregano in high school. My dad's best friend growing up gave Bruce Loose guitar lessons and they had remained friends into adulthood.
And then of course I thought about Jamie and I thought about an email I had written explaining some of it to someone (because the thing is that the longer he's been dead the more I remember and the more I think and the more meaning there is):
"He played in a band called Bent Outta Shape (among MANY other bands) who, I think for a lot of folks involved with being Punk in Their Twenties in the early-2000s, are synonymous with New York City and with Brooklyn in particular. They toured constantly, they all lived in a house on Bartlett Street and had shows in their living room all the time. Their touring and those shows connected those of us from New York who weren't traveling with the rest of the country. I knew people in Chattanooga and San Francisco, Milwaukee and Tokyo, before I had ever really left New York because of Jamie touring all the time and bringing back friends. He put in the work for a lot of us. And his music was beautiful and desperate and you could tell he was hurting and he knew you were hurting too but he made you feel like maybe we were all fuckups but we could find some beauty in this terrible world."
So there's that. I promised myself I wouldn't write about this but what kind of promise is that anyway? Clearly this email I'm quoting proves that I already HAD written about it.
In New York City having a big family can seem like being on an ongoing tour of outer borough funeral homes. Last night's stop was Sheepshead Bay. My family can really pack a memorial service. I don't mean that the place was full of family members, I mean that anytime someone related to me is headlining the funeral hella people come out and hang. When my uncle Mark died last year there were people spilling out into the streets. Last night too. There was tons of people. I don't know what that says, but nothing bad.
Anyway, like half the people at the place were talking about pizza. Specifically, they were talking about this place Delmar Pizza on Sheepshead Bay Blvd. Everyone agreed that the slice was excellent except for one lady who I'd never met who said "I don't like the sauce" very authoritatively.
My family always eats after funerals. After we buried my grandfather last summer we went to the same diner in Long Island that we went to after we buried my grandmother over a decade prior. The Death Diner. After uncle Mark's memorial we went to the Georgia diner on Queens Blvd. My girlfriend's grandmother just passed away and immediately after the service we got cheeseburgers and onion rings from the Red Robin across the street. Mortality makes people hungry.
So last night when we were leaving my parents and I decided to stop for a slice at Delmar, the place everyone at the funeral had been talking about. I know you're thinking, "is he really gonna follow up all this stuff about death and family with a pizza review?" And the answer is yes. Yes I am.
I got two slices right away because they smelled so good. My parents each got one. While I was still applying my red pepper flakes my dad took his first bite. I heard it crunch and then he said, "I'm getting another one." He turned to my mom, "You want another one?"
She was eating and said it was good, but she would only have one slice. I just ate while they had this conversation, because this pizza WAS good. Perfect crunch. Absolutely impeccable ratios. The cheese was decent quality but not too fancy. There was ample grease. This is good pizza.
There WAS something slightly off about the sauce, though I couldn't tell you what it was. Ma Harvester says it didn't taste enough like tomatoes. I'm a little off my game so I'll defer to her judgment.
As my dad finished his slice he started to get up and order our next round. Ma was eating the crust of her slice, I was halfway through my second. My mom shouted "GET ME ONE TOO" across the restaurant as my dad got to the counter. I looked at the two of them and screamed "GEH MEH A PEPPAHWONIE" which my dad knew meant "get me a pepperoni" because he's been listening to me talk with a mouthful of food my whole life.
The pepperoni slice was insane. SO MANY pepperonis and they were all shriveled up and well done and everything else was so perfect and "ohmyfuckinggod please let this moment last forever" with every bite.
Here's my mom and dad posing with their pizza. I took some action shots but I kept catching my dad's tongue out and my mom apparently bugs her eyes out like Quasimodo when she bites good pizza so I won't post any of those. I guess my thought process in sharing this picture is that I spend a lot of time on here talking about stuff that sucks and remembering dead people that I care about and that's all important but there's also stuff that rules and living people that I care about! I am really lucky that I have two kind, smart, Good Guys for parents who didn't fuck me up too much. Thank you mom and dad. Please click that link. It's like, my favorite thing on the whole internet. And please eat at Delmar because it's really good.
Delmar Pizzeria
1668 Sheepshead Bay Blvd (btw Voorhies & Jerome)
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Save the Date! The Dailey Memorial Library Summer Craft Fair and Annual Book Sale will be held on Saturday, August 3rd from 10:00 until 3:00 on the Derby Green. Also included this year will be a Timber Framed Gazebo Raising on the south side of the library. Food and live music will be included in this fun-filled day.
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Books on the Lawn begins on Tuesday, June 18th at 10:30 on the grass behind the library. This 6-week program for children aged 0 to 6 years meets every Tuesday and includes stories, songs, lawn games, and painting crafts. A free lunch is available for the children.
The Summer Reading Program for children aged 6 to 12 is in full swing. Programs are on Thursdays at 1:00 p.m. through July 25th. This year’s theme is “A Universe of Stories” focusing upon astronomy and all space-related topics.
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Croatia working extra to prep for England
The team and the country are riding a wave of adrenaline but at some point, that wave could crash. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on July 09, 2018, on page 15.
Zlatko Dalic
Danijel Subasic
There's no way Croatia are going to have any juice left in the tank for England in the World Cup semifinals, right?
What kind of recovery Croatia can muster over the next three days may ultimately determine if they have a chance of taking out England and reaching the World Cup final for the first time when the sides meet in the semifinals in Moscow Wednesday night.
Yes, Croatia may have one of the best individual players in the tournament with what Luka Modric has done in matching the deepest run ever by the country.
A number of other Croatia players were receiving massages and stretching of their legs before extra time and before the shootout.
Numerous Croatia players said arriving in Sochi immediately after the round of 16 win over Denmark was a major benefit, but now are facing a rapid recovery.
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Ex-ambassadors to China grilled over corruption
Dian Kuswandini, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 12/23/2008 10:59 AM | National
Two former Indonesian ambassadors to China facing questioning for the first time over the alleged embezzlement of immigration fees have vowed to return the stolen money, prosecutors said Monday.
Assistant attorney general for special crimes Marwan Effendy said despite their pledge, investigations would continue into Rear Adm. (ret) Anak Agung Kustia and his predecessor Lt. Gen. (ret) Kuntara, who served as ambassadors from 2000 to 2002 and from 2002 to 2004, respectively.
"Their lawyers told prosecutors both (Kuntara and Kustia) would return the money. However, the criminal charges leveled at them will not be dropped and the investigation will continue," Marwan said after the questioning session.
Marwan said the judges would consider the two suspects' decision to reimburse the money as mitigating evidence that could help reduce their prison terms.
Kuntara and Kustia arrived for questioning at the Attorney General's Office after being named suspects in a case linked to corrupt activities which occurred between May 2000 and October 2004. The scandal centers on immigration fees charged to applicants for visa documents, passports and special travel documents.
A decree on immigration fees issued by the Indonesian ambassador to China on Sept. 24, 1999, stipulated a revised procedure for channeling the money and stated applicants must pay 55 yuan for a passport.
Instead of transferring the money to state coffers as non-tax revenue, the suspects pocketed around 10.3 million yuan and US$9,600 from the additional fees, Marwan said. "In our investigation, we discovered the money had been channeled to several individuals for personal purposes, such as serving the embassy's guests," Marwan said.
The funds distributed to embassy guests were for accommodation and entertainment costs in addition to spending money.
Among the guests were officials from Indonesia, Marwan said, and the AGO vowed to track them down and demand they return the money.
The AGO is still waiting for the completion of an audit by the State Financial Development Comptroller (BPKP) to determine the exact state losses in the case.
"We suspect they have personally taken around Rp 10 billion," he said.
Both Kuntara, a former Army Strategic Reserve Command (Kostrad) chief, and Kustia, a former State Intelligence Agency official, were tightlipped after the questioning.
Kuntara's lawyer Peter Silalahi dismissed the AGO's claim that his client would return the money.
"I haven't heard about that. (The questioning) hasn't gotten that far yet," Peter said, adding his client faced 27 questions.
Peter denied his client had ever embezzled money from the embassy.
"My client informed me the money had all gone to state coffers as non-tax revenue... none went to his pocket," he said.
Kustia's lawyer Panhar Makawi also refused to comment following the interrogation where his client faced 32 questions.
Prosecutors did not detain the two suspects, citing their cooperation as a reason for bail.
The scandal is the third to implicate the Indonesian diplomatic corps.
The Corruption Court sentenced former Indonesian envoy to Malaysia A. Hadi Wayarabi and his successor Rusdihardjo to two years' imprisonment each for doubling immigration fees early this year. Last week, the same court sentenced former envoy to Singapore M. Slamet Hidayat to three years in jail for embezzling budget funds for the renovation of the embassy's office building and adjoining housing complex.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/12/23/exambassadors-china-grilled-over-corruption.html
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Thousands of American retail stores closing in the United States
By Jeannie Stokowski-Bisanti Mar 12, 2014 in Business
Retail experts are projecting that the pace of store closings will accelerate over the course of the next decade. Just last week American retail chain Radio Shack announced that it was going to close more than 1,000 stores.
The American chain Staples also announced that it was going to close 225 stores.
Same-store sales at Office Depot have declined for 13 quarters in a row and J.C. Penney has recently announced plans to close 33 more stores. During the second quarter of 2013 alone, J.C. Penney lost $586 million.
Sears has closed about 300 stores since 2010, and CNN reported that Sears is “expected to shutter another 500 Sears and Kmart locations soon.” Sales numbers have declined at Sears for 27 quarters in a row.
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It is being projected that Aéropostale will close about 175 stores over the next couple of years and Macy’s has announced that it is going to be closing five stores and eliminating 2,500 jobs.
The Children’s Place has announced that it will be closing down 125 of its “weakest” stores by 2016 and Best Buy recently closed about 50 stores up in Canada. Video rental chain Blockbuster has completely shut down all of their stores.
A Midwest home appliance chain known as “American TV” is going to be shutting down all 11 stores.
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Endings and Beginnings
Enda Wyley
Patrick Deeley’s poems highlight mankind’s wilful destruction of the natural world, and yet he is also able to see the lark, hatching a clutch of scribble-marked eggs, in the rusted exhaust of an old tractor in a sawmill.
Putting Flesh on the Archive
Keith Payne
In a world of interminable newsfeeds and yet also of historical amnesia, there is perhaps no more defiant an act than remembering. Rachael Hegarty’s thirty-three ballads give each of the victims of the Monaghan and Dublin bombings of 1974 a poem where they can live again.
Out of the Frying Pan
Tony Flynn
Kevin grows up in a harsh world. His father died when he was just four, and he can see his brother being dragged into a life of crime, yet for all this, he has a grounding in empathy that protects him. He may be in a hot spot, but he will not in the end succumb to the fire.
Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado
There are – at least – two sides to everything. Jan Carson’s new novel skilfully blends magic realism, absurdism and surrealism to explore the complexities of Northern Ireland’s ‘post-conflict’ society, and how this hyphenated existence holds the past and present in dangerous tension.
Sipping from the Honey-Pot
Fergus O’Ferrall
Oliver Goldsmith was ‘an enlightened anti-imperialist’ grappling with the emerging modernity of the industrial and agricultural revolutions. His ethical universalism did not preclude cultural diversity or respect for diverse cultures existing on their own terms.
Prologue to Forgetting
Sarah O’Brien
The willingness to dream, to give herself over to a flood of memories is ultimately what distinguishes the inevitably innocent memoir of Nora O’Connor, who left Ireland in 1907, from Ian Maleney’s masterfully doubtful essays. For at the base of Maleney’s anxiety is a mistrust of memory.
Deadly Precision
A particular feature of Rita Ann Higgins’s new collection is the use of juxtaposition: essays appear side-by-side with poems tackling their subject from a different angle. It is fascinating to see this process, with the background which informs a poem laid out in prose form.
More than a Small Glow
Neil McCarthy
Moya Roddy presents us with poetry that is straight out of the ordinary, a refreshing reminder that not every poem needs to be an epic, complicated, deep analogy of something or another; the kind that make open mics up and down the country the stuff of nightmares.
Susan McKeever
A group of youngsters from Derry is interested in the same things that many youngsters elsewhere are interested in – sex and drugs and rock ’n’ roll. But this is 1981, Bobby Sands is getting closer to death and to the normal trio of pleasures is added another experience, war.
Pinning Down the Protean
Philip O’Leary
Alan Titley is probably the most important writer in Irish since Ó Cadhain. It is a daunting challenge to anatomise a writer as various, versatile and sometimes difficult as Titley, but Máirtín Coilféir suggests that one valuable path into understanding his writing might be through the lens of ethics.
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Update on Pharmacologic Retinal Vascular Toxicity
Author(s): Stephen G. Schwartz, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, 3880 Tamiami Trail North, Naples, FL, 34103, USA. Andrzej Grzybowski, Weronika Wasinska-Borowiec, Harry W. Flynn, William F. Mieler.
Several medications are associated with retinal vascular toxicity. These include intraocular aminoglycosides, oral contraceptives, interferon alpha, several other agents, and talc, which occurs as a vehicle in some oral medications that may be abused intravenously. As a group, these entities represent a small but clinically relevant category of retinal toxicity from medications. Some of the manifestations (e.g., retinal vascular occlusion) are nonspecific, but others are more specific, including clinically visible talc emboli in retinal vessels. Toxicity may be asymptomatic or may cause irreversible visual loss. By maintaining a high index of suspicion, the correct diagnosis can usually be made.
Keywords: Retinal vascular toxicity, aminoglycosides, talc, oral contraceptives, interferon alpha.
Title:Update on Pharmacologic Retinal Vascular Toxicity
Author(s):Stephen G. Schwartz, Andrzej Grzybowski, Weronika Wasinska-Borowiec, Harry W. Flynn and William F. Mieler
Affiliation:Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, 3880 Tamiami Trail North, Naples, FL, 34103, USA.
Keywords:Retinal vascular toxicity, aminoglycosides, talc, oral contraceptives, interferon alpha.
Abstract:Several medications are associated with retinal vascular toxicity. These include intraocular aminoglycosides, oral contraceptives, interferon alpha, several other agents, and talc, which occurs as a vehicle in some oral medications that may be abused intravenously. As a group, these entities represent a small but clinically relevant category of retinal toxicity from medications. Some of the manifestations (e.g., retinal vascular occlusion) are nonspecific, but others are more specific, including clinically visible talc emboli in retinal vessels. Toxicity may be asymptomatic or may cause irreversible visual loss. By maintaining a high index of suspicion, the correct diagnosis can usually be made.
Stephen G. Schwartz, Andrzej Grzybowski, Weronika Wasinska-Borowiec, Harry W. Flynn and William F. Mieler, “Update on Pharmacologic Retinal Vascular Toxicity”, Current Pharmaceutical Design (2015) 21: 4694. https://doi.org/10.2174/1381612821666150909101621
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The Slumber Party Massacre 1982, 77 min.
Amy Holden Jones • Starring: Michele Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella
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Maid to Order 1987, 93 min.
Amy Holden Jones • Starring: Ally Sheedy, Michael Ontkean, Dick Shawn
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The Rich Man's Wife 1996, 94 min.
Amy Holden Jones • Starring: Halle Berry, Peter Greene, Clive Owen
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Tokyo Ghoul live action Movie been announced:
posted by DisneyPrince88
It's just been announced there's gonna be a live action movie.
My reaction was....I KNEW IT!!!!
Ever since I read the manga I fell in love with the series and I couldn't wait any longer to read the next one then the next one then the next one.
Then came the anime...absolutely loved Season 1 but season 2 I was a bit upset how rushed it was....but I hope Season 3 will be just as good as the manga (Tokyo Ghoul:re)
Now the movie...some fans are being negative and some fans are positive about it, but if Tokyo Ghoul is officially coming to the big screen I just hope it will be good
Tokyo Ghoul fan for life ✌🏼️
READ THE MANGA.
posted by Nalu-love
YES AND A THOUSAND YES!!!! READ THE MANGA.
OMG, I cannot emphasize enough how GOOD Tokyo Ghoul manga is. Don’t pick up where the anime left off. Read from the very very beginning to get the full experience. The anime condensed like 70+ chapters of the manga and a lot of stuff were lost along the way. You have to read it from the very very very beginning or you will miss out on a shitload of things. Also, keep an eye out for the little details that Ishida-sensei throws here and there. Like manga panel parallels, hidden tarot card numbers, lots and lots of symbolism and foreshadowing.
The manga ended with ch 143. GO READ IT NOW. And good luck. You’re going to need it! *evil laugh in the distance*
~maria~
TOKYO GHOUL WEEK! (October 6-12, 2014)
Greetings Tokyo Ghoul fans! We will be hosting Tokyo Ghoul Week on October 6-12,2014. It has been a difficult week for the Tokyo Ghoul fandom with the ending of the manga and the anime. We thought the fandom needs a bit of cheering up and what better way to do that than to have a week dedicated to our beloved Tokyo Ghoul. This week is for YOU to show your love for Tokyo Ghoul through your own creations, including (but not limited to!) gifs, graphics, picspams, fanarts, fanfics, cosplays, fanvids, meta, and more!
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Tokyo Ghoul is one of the more hyped up anime this season for a number of reasons. Mainly because it was, as I have heard, a very popular manga. The premise itself is easy to follow. The world is inhabited by two types of people: regular people and ghouls who eat people as a source of food. The main character, Kaneki Ken, after almost being killed by a ghoul is turned into a half ghoul-half human hybrid. By this time, I, who has not read the manga, assumed the show would explore the morality of and question the prejudice between the two groups...
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The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States: together with his state papers
530 The Life, Public Services, and
time. In Western Virginia, General Averill had made quite a successful raid upon the railroads. In the Shenandoah Valley, where General Hunter had taken command in place of General Sigel, our forces won a brilliant victory at Piedmont over the rebels under Generals Jones and Imboden, the former of whom was killed. Hunter captured one thousand five hundred prisoners and three guns ; and, forming a junction with Crook and Averill, pushed on towards Lynchburg, which however he was unable to reach. An unsuccessful attack was made by General Butler's forces upon Petersburg on the 10th of June.
On the 12th of June, General Grant, having become convinced that nothing could be gained by a direct attack upon General Lee, followed up his plan of aiming to strike Lee's southern communications by leaving his front and again marching by the left to the James river, which he crossed upon a pontoon bridge below City Point, and immediately moved forward to the attack upon Petersburg. Again, however, General Lee, having the inside lines to move upon, was a few hours in advance of our troops, and, while several forts were taken on the outer lines of defences, with thirteen cannon and some prisoners, in which the colored troops especially distinguished themselves, the inner lines were found to be too strong, and our army settled itself down to the siege of Petersburg.
General Sherman's movement upon Atlanta was made at the same time as that of the Army of the Potomac. His army was superior in numbers to that which was opposed to it, but the rocky heights which were held by General Johnston were so strong that General Sherman did not waste its strength*by attacking them in front, but by a series of masterly flank movements he compelled the rebel army to retreat successively from Buzzard's Roost, from Dalton, and from Resaca, at which latter place there were, however, two days of heavy fighting on the 14th and 15th of May, resulting in the capture of both guns and prisoners by our troops, the retreat of Johnston across
Title The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States: together with his state papers
Creator Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869
Subject [LCSH] Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Biography
United States--Politics and government--1861-1865
Contributors Carpenter, F. B. (Francis Bicknell), 1830-1900
Transcript 530 The Life, Public Services, and time. In Western Virginia, General Averill had made quite a successful raid upon the railroads. In the Shenandoah Valley, where General Hunter had taken command in place of General Sigel, our forces won a brilliant victory at Piedmont over the rebels under Generals Jones and Imboden, the former of whom was killed. Hunter captured one thousand five hundred prisoners and three guns ; and, forming a junction with Crook and Averill, pushed on towards Lynchburg, which however he was unable to reach. An unsuccessful attack was made by General Butler's forces upon Petersburg on the 10th of June. On the 12th of June, General Grant, having become convinced that nothing could be gained by a direct attack upon General Lee, followed up his plan of aiming to strike Lee's southern communications by leaving his front and again marching by the left to the James river, which he crossed upon a pontoon bridge below City Point, and immediately moved forward to the attack upon Petersburg. Again, however, General Lee, having the inside lines to move upon, was a few hours in advance of our troops, and, while several forts were taken on the outer lines of defences, with thirteen cannon and some prisoners, in which the colored troops especially distinguished themselves, the inner lines were found to be too strong, and our army settled itself down to the siege of Petersburg. General Sherman's movement upon Atlanta was made at the same time as that of the Army of the Potomac. His army was superior in numbers to that which was opposed to it, but the rocky heights which were held by General Johnston were so strong that General Sherman did not waste its strength*by attacking them in front, but by a series of masterly flank movements he compelled the rebel army to retreat successively from Buzzard's Roost, from Dalton, and from Resaca, at which latter place there were, however, two days of heavy fighting on the 14th and 15th of May, resulting in the capture of both guns and prisoners by our troops, the retreat of Johnston across
The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth...
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Photo Lincoln entering Richmond
Photo Early Home
Photo Springfield Home
Photo Independence Hall
Photo Lincoln Family
Photo Inauguration
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Letter Page 88-89
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Photo Death of Abraham Lincoln
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President Obama Says He Loved Spock In Moving Tribute To Leonard Nimoy
DATE: Feb 28, 2015 | BY: Brent McKnight | Category: Sci-Fi
We lost one of the all time greats yesterday, as Leonard Nimoy passed away at the age of 83. Since this news hit, there has been an outpouring of mourning and memorials remembering the man, his work, and his legacy. Costars like William Shatner and George Takei have shared moving tributes, as have countless others in the entertainment industry and beyond. Whether we knew him personally or not, he certainly had a lasting impact on many of our lives. If his influence was ever in doubt, the President of the United States even wrote a fond farewell for our Vulcan friend. And regardless of how you feel about Barack Obama politically, you have to admit that’s pretty damn cool.
Obama has long garnered comparisons to Nimoy’s iconic Star Trek character, Spock, so it only seems fitting that he would have something to say. He wrote:
Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future.
I loved Spock.
In 2007, I had the chance to meet Leonard in person. It was only logical to greet him with the Vulcan salute, the universal sign for “Live long and prosper.” And after 83 years on this planet – and on his visits to many others – it’s clear Leonard Nimoy did just that. Michelle and I join his family, friends, and countless fans who miss him so dearly today.
Nimoy’s health has been failing for a while. Late last week he was rushed to the hospital with severe chest pains from the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that ultimately took his life. But he never stopped being the passionate, poetic man that many of us came to recognize him as outside of his acting roles. His final tweet from earlier this week is poignant and moving:
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
— Leonard Nimoy (@TheRealNimoy) February 23, 2015
We argue about movies and politics and what color a dress is and damn near everything else we can pick a side about. As a species, we agree on almost nothing. But somehow we’re all well aware of just how awesome Leonard Nimoy is, and on its own, that fact is enough to illustrate just how unique and special he is.
Orcus says:
When the President give props, you know you did good. Rest well sir
The fact that Nimoy won the respect of a President says volumes about Nimoy, regardless of ones political affiliation. Using that as an excuse to bring hate to a tribute for Nimoy is in poor taste, take that elsewhere
Farnsworth says:
bringing a do nothing but crap on America president into a discussion to honor Nimoy is in poor taste, you can take that elsewhere too.
How you feel about the President is your own affair. Doesn’t change the fact that it happened and that tribute was the focus of the article. Bottom line, it’s about Nimoy. Deal with it.
I didn’t bring Obozo into this.
You didn’t bring any respect for Nimoy either.
Good day sir
yep….and while I cant here, I have been posting my favorite Spock moments on other more “open” sites. So I’ve been doing my due diligence to honor Mr. Nimoy
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Each year, the top forty incoming communication majors are granted access into High Point University’s Media Fellows Program. This program provides students with an immersive, holistic understanding of media production and practices, with an emphasis on technical proficiency, aesthetics, storytelling, persuasion and critical thinking. The fellows are closely mentored by faculty members with professional and academic media backgrounds. They partake in real-world projects in a client/agency model, work together to develop and oversee unique research projects, travel domestically and internationally to examine trends in the media industry and receive extra training in professional development.
They will graduate with a polished portfolio, resume and interviewing skills needed to launch a career in the communication industry of their choice.
Media Fellows will receive a $3,000 scholarship renewable annually based on academic performance and continued participation in the program. This is in addition to any Presidential
or High Point Scholarship. Fellows
must meet GPA and professionalism requirements to be awarded continuation of their fellowship into the next academic year.
To be considered for membership into the Media Fellows Program, you must first submit your High Point University undergraduate admissions application. The Media Fellows Program application is available to students who plan to major in Media Production and Entrepreneurship, Game and Interactive Media Design, Journalism, Popular Culture and Media Production, Sport Communication and Strategic Communication.
If you would like to be considered for HPU’s Media Fellows Program, please complete your application through Slideroom by February 1 for priority applicants, and by March 1 for all others.
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Will you cut the show business line? Our majors used to be focused on tv/film production, but now they’re expanded to PR, games and more!
There’s no business like show business, and when it comes to preparing for a career in Hollywood, New York or London, there’s no place like High Point University.
Last year, a group of students gained a career-defining experience as part of HPU’s exclusive Media Fellows Program. During the annual trip, students gained insights through access to private panels and tours of Google, YouTube, Hulu and Headquarters Post.
This one-of-a-kind trip proved invaluable in getting students’ “feet in the door” – the HPU Media Fellows became the very first group of students to ever be allowed into the Television Critics Association’s (TCA’s) NBC University Press Tour, where they were invited to sit in while executive producers and stars from all different networks pitched their new and returning shows to the TCA, spotlighting FX’s 2018 Fall line-up. HPU Media Fellows also worked together to script, film and edit a documentary about a surfer, and included traveling to the Vans US Open to interview professional surfers. For our upcoming trip to Los Angeles, students are planning a fundraising event for a nonprofit organization. We are also planning to visit news, games, public relations/marketing agencies, and event management companies in our Los Angeles and Atlanta trips.
The Four-Year Program
Fellows live together in a living/learning community
Fellows take four courses together as a cohort
Attend workshops and presentations by media industry professionals
Enjoy two excursions to explore local and regional production facilities and meet media professionals
Participate in HPU’s Research Rookies
Attend a ROPES course day event
Be assigned a peer mentor
Work together on a real-world project in a client/agency model
Attend special seminars taught by media professionals and academics
Present their individual research or creative projects in a showcase
Travel to a U.S. major city (e.g., Los Angeles) to explore the media environment and connect with media professionals
Declare a specialization in either fiction, nonfiction, persuasive or experiential media. Have their work evaluated by a board of media industry professionals and professors
Peer mentor first-year fellows
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Attend special seminars taught by media professionals and academics about professional development
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Joe Michaels, director of NBC’s “TODAY” show for 22 years, recently joined the faculty of the HPU Nido R. Qubein School of Communication. Michaels is a eight-time Emmy award-winning director and a two-time Director’s Guild of America Honoree. He began his career in television as an associate director and director for NBC Sports. Millions of fans watch his work on other Emmy winning telecasts including The World Series, The Super Bowl, Wimbledon Tennis, Olympics, NBC Game of the Week, Orange Bowl, Hula Bowl and NBC SportsWorld.
“I am excited to be a part of the HPU family. It has always been a dream of mine to help to develop world-class leaders in the media space. The opportunity to work with such a diverse group of students and professionals makes this challenge a perfect fit. In my own career, I have always reached out for total excellence, and High Point University is an institution devoted to being extraordinary.”
For more information on the Media Fellows program, please contact Professor Kristina Bell at kbell@highpoint.edu
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Alliance says marketing campaign will promote Bamberg County
By DIONNE GLEATON T&D Staff Writer
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BAMBERG – The vice president of marketing at Southern Carolina Alliance updated Bamberg County Council on how it has begun a new internal marketing campaign to help promote the county.
Bamberg's Rockland Industries expanding product line, offering jobs
"We talked at the last monthly meeting about the internal marketing and branding campaign that we were starting for Bamberg County in partnership with the state Department of Commerce," Kay Maxwell said July 1. "We have begun that process. In fact, we had our first focus group meeting, which is called a map meeting, by Alison South Consultants, and that was to get some input from citizens across the county,” Kay Maxwell said.
“They had a very good group that met in the first meeting. I think they covered all sectors within the county. .... We got some good ideas. I've been in contact with that group almost daily. They're working now on that internal marketing campaign, and they've begun crafting some information for us,” she said.
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As part of that campaign, Maxwell said a promotional piece is being a done on the growth at Freudenberg, formerly Tobul Industries. Stories are also being done on Blackwater Barrels LLC, talking with Black Water President Greg Pierce about his unique business as a Bourbon barrel maker in the county.
“And then they're doing a story on the new emergency room center. So be looking for those videos ... on social media. And they're also creating a special news channel for us to help share Bamberg County news. So we're looking forward to that. Even with all the internal marketing that's going on, we're continuing to work with projects,” Maxwell said.
Maxwell said the county’s news will be distributed through a variety of ideas.
Bamberg County taxes to drop; $25M spending plan goes forward
“So we're looking at ways, whether it's through social media, creating our own news channel, creating other types of printed media as well that we could get news out. And we're looking at trying to help develop a vision among our citizens to better market ourselves," she said.
Maxwell also shared information on federally designated Opportunity Zones. The SCA is a regional development group serving seven counties, including Bamberg. Those counties contain areas designated as federal Opportunity Zones, which are able to give tax incentives to encourage long-term, private investment in low-income communities.
“We're now accessing the Opportunity Zones in all of our seven counties and looking at the best areas of Bamberg County and how they would best be utilized, and then trying to help work with this group to identify Opportunity Fund investors that would utilize this tax credit and invest in our community, whether it be in manufacturing operations, housing or other types of community development funding,” Maxwell said.
She also announced the departure of former SouthernCarolina Alliance Senior Project Manager Darrell P. Booker, who has taken a new position closer to his home in Columbia. She said the county would be covered by her and other SCA staff members, including SCA Development Director John Fleming, until someone else is hired.
In the area of business development, council gave second reading approval to an ordinance authorizing a fee-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement between the county and Project Pegasus, along with special source revenue credits. The project could bring 132 jobs and $2.1 million in capital investment to the county.
In other matters, Denmark Mayor Dr. Gerald Wright requested on behalf of the city, ownership of the 40-year-old water tank between Bamberg and Denmark in order to receive grants to improve its water system.
The county currently owns the tower.
The system received an unsatisfactory rating from the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control. The water quality was rated satisfactory.
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“That tank gives us assurance that we have adequate pressure for a major portion of our distribution system. The other tanks are on the opposite of the water distribution area. There are not many customers in that area. We would benefit from that tank. And we have good reason to believe we can secure funding to upgrade that tank. It does need repair and upgrade.
"It will be easier for the City of Denmark to secure funding with ownership than it would be if we are using it, and I suspect easier to get funding than the county getting it because the county doesn't operate the system. So that is my primary purpose for being here,” Wright said.
He added, “We have currently a project being implemented. I won't give any specific numbers, but we've had a project going for a number of years. And so it's continuous progress in upgrading, expanding and changing the water system. I'm not sure of what promises have been made, but we were unaware that there were any specific requests from the city that have not been addressed. But we do ask that you consider the tank."
Council Vice Chairperson Sharon Hammond asked Wright how long it would take the city to make the tower a part of its infrastructure.
“We're in the process of developing a grant proposal. And it would change from being a tank that we're using that belongs to the county to a tank that the city owns, thereby making it possible to get grants. ... It would serve the purpose it's serving now. There would be no expanded use necessarily. It would simply make it possible to get it repaired with hopefully grant money rather than direct cost to the city or the county,” Wright said.
Of Wright’s request, Council Chairman Trent Kinard said, “We'll take that under advisement and (Bamberg County Administrator) Mr. (Joey) Preston will get back with you.”
Prior to Wright’s request, council heard from Denmark resident Deanna Berry, a member of Denmark Citizens for Safe Water, who requested a “copy of either the proposal or the contract because the last time you said you offered the tower to the City of Denmark, but they refused to accept the offer.”
“I’d like to know so that we can take back to the citizens what was in that provision to cause the City of Denmark to no longer want that tower, or to reject whatever the proposal was. It’s important that we get that information so we can progress and move forward with the water crisis that we have in Denmark,” she said, noting that the group wants to work alongside the city to fix the water infrastructure.
Wright said, “The distribution system in in good shape. ... There’s not a water crisis in Denmark. We just recently released the annual report on the water quality and copies are available to as many of you as you wish.”
In other reports, Preston said the county was getting new voting equipment to be delivered toward the end of July.
“It creates a little bite of a problem for us because we still have the old equipment, and we have a limited storage area. ... And we’ve got Homeland Security requirements now on the protection and security of all this equipment. So it’s gonna probably require some expense from the county to get a secure site,” Preston said.
Also during the meeting, county residents commented on their various concerns, including Miriam Beard, who suggested that the council come up with a “citizen liaison group.”
“You have citizens from each one of your districts that could speak to you, especially about the needs of the community. ... I see Bamberg County as a place that needs to updates its systems, its policies to meet the growing needs of a modern society,” said Beard, who also asked what the $60,000 increase in this year’s budget would go to.
Preston said, “As we talked about in the last meeting, it goes to help pay for the increases in the state insurance and retirement. And we cut the budget by over two-hundred-something thousand dollars. We still have to pay for that.”
Brad Hudson asked if he would be able to get a copy of the administrator’s contract.
Preston said, “As soon as it’s signed, yes.”
Hudson said, “As soon as it’s signed? So it hasn’t been signed, it’s just been voted on?”
Kinard said, “That is correct.”
The contract was approved 5-2 by council following an executive session during a special called meeting on June 27.
At the time, Councilman Joe Guess Jr. said, “I move we vote to approve the employment contract for a county administrator, specifically a contract to employ Joey Preston and to confer upon our chairman the authority of the majority of council to enter the same.”
Councilmen Kinard, Guess, Evert Comer Jr., Larry Haynes and the Rev. Isaiah Odom voted to approve the contract. Council Vice-Chairperson Sharon Hammond and Councilman Clint Carter voted against it.
Contact the writer: dgleaton@timesanddemocrat.com or 803-533-5534. Follow "Good News with Gleaton" on Twitter at @DionneTandD
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Ballia is a City in Ballia District in the State of Uttar Pradesh in india.
Geography of Ballia
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Shekhar Singh said on Aug 22,2015 About belthara_road Ballia District
I am student.my Pond is not Avilaval water. Please probables soll me.
Vinod Pandey said on Oct 29,2014 About bairia Ballia District
THE road that links to the nh 19 is in very poor condition. no one cares.THE poor does not get any facility like old age pension from the government.
THE road that links to the nh 19 is in very poor condition. no one cares.
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IndiaWest BengalKolkata District
Kolkata is a district in West Bengal State of India. It has a total of 0 Blocks in this district. The district has an total area of 185 sq km. There are 1 towns and 0 villages in this district.
Kolkata Population
As per census Kolkata District has a population of 4,496,694 in 2011 out of which 2,356,766 are male and 2,139,928 are female. Population of Kolkata District in 2019 is 4,788,843(estimates as per aadhar uidai.gov.in feb 2019 data). Literate people are 3,588,137 out of 1,926,915 are male and 1,661,222 are female. People living in Kolkata District depend on multiple skills, total workers are 1,795,740 out of which men are 1,412,466 and women are 383,274. Total 7,413 Cultivators are depended on agriculture farming out of 4,702 are cultivated by men and 2,711 are women. 8,903 people works in agricultural land as labor, men are 6,767 and 2,136 are women. Kolkata District sex ratio is 908 females per 1000 of males.
Kolkata District District Rural and Urban Population
The district has an total area of 185 sq km., 185.00 sq km is urban and 0.00 sq km is rural.
Kolkata , or Calcutta , is the capital of West Bengal State. As per census 2011 the city had 4.5 million( 45 Lakhs) of residents, its third most populus city in india after delhi and mumbai.
Kolkata Demographics
Languages are Bengali
The Kolkata average altitude (elevation) 9.1 m above sealevel.
Total Area of Kolkata : 185 sq km
Municipality : Kolkata Municipal Corporation,
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport is the international airport located in Jessore Rd, Dum Dum. Kolkata Airport distance is 17 km from the city center.
Address: Jessore Rd, Dum Dum, Kolkata, West Bengal 700052
Enquiry: 033 2511 8036
Kolkata Railway Station
Howrah Railway station is one of the oldest railway station in india started in 1854, currently running with 26 tracks. Sealdah Railway Station is the second old station started in 1862 with currently 20 tracks. Newest Kolkata Railway Station also called Chitpur Station started in 2006 with 5 platforms in Kolkata City.
The Nearest Airport to Kolkata is Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport.The Collectorate office for this district is Office Of The First Land Acquisition Collector, Kolkata, and other popular district head offices are District Inspector Of Schools. S.E, Kolkata, East Calcutta District Sports Council, Central Record Room High Court of Calcutta and District Courts of West Bengal, East Calcutta District Sports Council, District Registrar's Office, Howrah District Court, District Legal Services Authority, ALIPORE DISTRICT COURT (CIVIL), District Civil and Sessions Court, District and Sessions Judge, Howrah, District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Unit-2 Kolkata, Lions District 322B1 Blood Bank (Den), Howrah District Mountaineers and Trekkers Association, Office Of The District Magistrate, Howrah District Hospital, Howrah District Library, The nearby Fire service for this district is Calcutta Fire Brigade. The District Library is State Central Library.The Head Post office for this district is in India Post. and the Railway Station is Belgachia Metro Station (station).
Kolkata Population Statistics(2011)
Kolkata District Nearest Airport:
Jessore Rd, Dum Dum, Kolkata, West Bengal 700052, India
Kolkata District Fire Station:
Calcutta Fire Brigade
Central Ave, Calcutta University, College Square, Kolkata, West Bengal 700073, India
Kolkata District Libraries:
State Central Library
1/17, C. I. T. Scheme, VIIM, VIP Road, Ultadanga, Kolkata, West Bengal 700054, India
Presidency Library
15, Bankim Chatterjee St, College Square, Kolkata, West Bengal 700073, India
State Archives Of West Bengal
6, Bhawani Dutta Ln, Calcutta University, Kolkata, West Bengal 700007, India
36, Vidyasagar Street, Machuabazar, Kolkata, West Bengal 700009, India
Kolkata District Head POST OFFICE:
Sooterkin Street, Kolkata, West Bengal 700072, India
Kolkata District Railway Zone:
Belgachia Metro Station
Khudiram Bose Rd, Belgachia, Kolkata, West Bengal 700037, India
Belgachia, Kolkata, West Bengal 700037, India
Shyambazar Metro Gate No 4
Bhupendra Bose Ave, Shyam Bazar, Kolkata, West Bengal 700004, India
Kolkata District Collectorate Office:
Office Of The First Land Acquisition Collector, Kolkata
5, Bankshall St, Fairley Place, BBD Bagh, Kolkata, West Bengal 700001, India
Collector Stamp Revenue Kolkate
11, N S Road, N S Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700001, India
Kolkata District Offices:
District Inspector Of Schools. S.E, Kolkata
a, 27, Bosepukur Rd, Kata Pukur, Kasba, Kolkata, West Bengal 700039, India
East Calcutta District Sports Council
125, Hem Chandra Naskar Rd, Narkeldanga, Phool Bagan, Kankurgachi, Kolkata, West Bengal 700010, India
Central Record Room High Court of Calcutta and District Courts of West Bengal
Shop No. 4, Nimak Mahal Road, B.N.R, Kolkata Port Trust Quarters, Garden Reach, Kolkata, West Bengal 700043, India
CIT Rd, Kankurgachi, Kolkata, West Bengal 700054, India
District Registrar's Office
Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700027, India
Howrah District Court
4/1, M. G. Road, Howrah, West Bengal 711101, India
District Legal Services Authority
City Civil Court Building, 8th floor, 2 and 3, Kiran Sankar Roy Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700001, India
ALIPORE DISTRICT COURT (CIVIL)
18, Judges Ct Rd, Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700027, India
District Civil and Sessions Court
Judges Ct Rd, Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700027, India
District and Sessions Judge, Howrah
4/1, M.G. Road, Howrah, West Bengal 711101, India
District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Unit-2 Kolkata
7th floor, 8, Lindsay Street, New Market Area, Dharmatala, Taltala, Kolkata, West Bengal 700087, India
Lions District 322B1 Blood Bank (Den)
B-126, Metropolitan Co-Operative Housing Society Limited, Tangra, Kolkata, West Bengal 700105, India
Howrah District Mountaineers and Trekkers Association
Dumurjala Sports Complex,Belepole, Drainage Canal Rd, Belepole, Chakra Beriya, Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal 711104, India
Office Of The District Magistrate
Thackeray Road, Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700027, India
Howrah District Hospital
Biplabi haren ghosh sarani, Howrah, West Bengal 711101, India
Howrah District Library
5/4 M.G.Road, Howrah, West Bengal 711101, India
Kolkata District Blocks Map
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Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy
Edited by Peter Y Paik and Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Hardback $80.00
From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives. They observe that many views of ethics, citizenship, and governance are based on a conception of debts owed by one individual to others; that artistic and literary creativity involves the artist’s dialogue with the works of the past; and that the specter of catastrophic climate change has underscored the debt those living in the present owe to future generations.
Peter Y. Paik is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is author of From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe and editor (with Marcus Bullock) of Aftermaths: Exile, Migration, and Diaspora Reconsidered.
Merry Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her books include The Renaissance and Reformation: A History in Documents, The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds, and Religious Transformations in the Early Modern World: A Brief Study with Documents.
“From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives.”
“Philosophically broad and deep at the same time. . . . [I]t's high time we rethought what we mean when we talk about debt. This is for the simple reason that the warm fuzzy ignorance enforced by neoliberalism has contributed very significantly to the current ecological emergency, while on the other hand monetarism is now eating the societies that spawned it, a classic case of autoimmunity. That the editors think these two facts together is really, really good. . . . [T]he most enjoyable collection of essays I've read in a while.”
— Timothy Morton, University of California, Davis, author of The Ecological Thought and Ecology without Nature
“A very timely volume, exploring the focal issue of our times through a variety of approaches, including philosophical, political, anthropological and literary. . . . By linking economics and the environment, the volume is a serious attempt to reformulate the significant narrative of our times and its historical emergence, leaving behind so many other issues that were purely a matter of intellectual fashion: this volume tells us of the predicament we have to get to grips with.”
— Philip Goodchild, University of Nottingham, author of Theology of Money and Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety
“This edited collection adds a welcome range of new perspectives on what has become a central issue for contemporary debate. One strength of the collection is the way in which it draws together research from a very diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds, meaning that even a reader who considers themselves to be an expert in this topic within a particular disciplinary field is likely to find something that provokes new questions and insights.”
— Anthropological Notebooks
Introduction Peter Y. Paik
1. Debt Richard D. Wolff
2. "I Consider It Un-American Not to Have a Mortgage": Immigrant Homeownership in Chicago Elaine Lewinnek
3. Demonizing Debt, Naturalizing Finance Mary Poovey
4. On Debt Michael Allen Gillespie
5. The Growth Imperative: Prosperity or Poverty Joel Magnuson
6. Democracy’s Debt: Capitalism and Cultural Revolution Stephen L. Gardner
7. Is Debt the New Karma? Why America Finally Fell Apart Morris Berman
8. Measures of Time: Exploring Debt, Imagination, and Real Nature Julianne Lutz Warren
9. The Time of Living Dead Species: Extinction Debt and Futurity in Madagascar Genese Marie Sodikoff
10. Unintended Consequences and the Epistemology of Fraud in Dickens and Hayek Eleanor Courtemanche
11. The Resurrection of an Economic God: Keynes Becomes Postmodern Michael Tratner
12. China and the United States: The Bonds of Debt Donald D. Hester
13. Debt’s Moral Kennan Ferguson
14. Debt, Theft, Permaculture: Justice and Ecological Scale Gerry Canavan
Victorian Investments
The State of Sovereignty
The Question of Gender
The Anthropology of Extinction
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JENA BAND OF
CHOCTAW INDIANS
Inter-Tribal Council
Tribal Attorney
Jena Choctaw Pines Casino Gaming Commission
Document Resource
THPO Officer THPO Secretary
Alina Shively Johnna Fisher
What is a THPO Officer?
THPO stands for Tribal Historic Preservation Officer.
THPO’s are officially designated by a federally-recognized Indian Tribe’s government to direct a program approved by the National Park Service.
Their plans have emphasized the importance of the oral tradition and language, as well as, consulting Tribal elders and spiritual leaders with special knowledge of the Tribe’s traditions. They also have given emphasis to the importance of protecting “traditional cultural properties” (TCPs).
Duties of the THPO:
THPO’s work diligently to ensure that Federal agencies comply with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and other federal laws established for the protection of environmental and cultural resources that may be impacted by Federal undertakings.
THPO’s also work closely with State and local agencies, within the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians’ Area of Interest, through Section 106 Compliance/Review and Government to Government Consultation.
THPO’s provide technical assistance that is essential to Native language conservation and revitalization. Our department has classes twice a week via skype with Nicholas Charleston, a teacher at the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
THPO’s work with Tribal elders conducting oral history interviews, for preservation purposes, of stories and events from the past.
THPO’s work with local, state, and federal law enforcement to stop and prosecute looters of archaeological sites through the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA).
THPO’s work to repatriate human remains, funerary items, sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony held by federal agencies or museums, or that were intentionally excavated or inadvertently discovered on federal or tribal lands through the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
THPO’s locate and document sites of cultural and spiritual significance to the Tribe to ensure their perpetuity and protection.
THPO’s are the repositories for archaeological records and historical documents. We are working to preserve priceless records, pictures and other information pertaining to our Tribal History.
THPO’s also work with Tribal Youth to preserve their culture, through programs, classes, camps, and activities.
Traditional Choctaw Crafters- Past & Present
Bead work
George Allen
Jerry Don Jackson
Ricky Jackson
Hide tanning
Anderson Lewis
Clyde Jackson
Chipper Fisher
Bill Fisher
China berry necklace
Mary Jackson Jones
Christy Lewis Murphy
Rose Fisher Greer
Hope Jones
Ribbon dresses/shirts
Dorothy Sue Lewis Franklin
Darlene Lewis
Lillie Berryman Williamson
Rachel Jackson Stevens
Click below to view our cultural slideshow.
Powwow in the Pines
Join us for our annual Powwow in the Pines!! Follow the link below for details!!
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Chahta Anumpa (Choctaw Language)
Choctaw Language Classes
Nicholas Charleston, a Choctaw Language Teacher at Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, meets with several tribal families via skype two nights a week. Nicholas works with each level of training, from the newer students to the more advanced. We may work very hard in the classes, but Nicholas makes it so that you enjoy what you are learning. Mr. Clyde Jackson would join us as one of the last fluent speakers of the original Jena Band of Choctaw dialect. These classes are being done with the hope that the Choctaw Language will continue on and be passed down to the next generation.
Mr. Clyde Jackson 01/02/47-03/18/15
Mr. Clyde was one of the few remaining fluent, Native speakers of the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians. He would join us during most of our classes. He, along with Nicholas, made our classes enjoyable. The students loved and appreciated interacting with him during the class. It was a big help to have him with us to help us learn the Jena dialect, as it varies slightly from the Oklahoma and Mississippi dialects in some instances. Everyone looked up to him, not only as an elder, but as a distinguished leader of the Tribe. Mr. Clyde passed away on March 18, 2015. Mr. Clyde will be greatly missed not only by our Chahta class, but also by all of the Tribal members and their families. Chi pisa la chine (I’ll see you later), Mr. Clyde!
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These weekender students study such things as beginning, intermediate and advance dance, theatre skills, songs of Victorian times, wig making, theatrical makeup, the essentials of the Cockney vernacular or for those non commoners, gentry elocution, and for others, it is extensive cramming on “dressing down for the true scum look.” All this required study enables these thespian scholars, volunteers all, to perform on-the-street/and stage of the immediately upcoming 35th Annual Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party — which takes place on five weekends beginning on November 23 and ending at 7 p.m., the evening of December 22.
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Emeralds in the Blue-The Andaman Islands
A little over a year ago, it was the site of a devastating tsunami. Lately, it was voted one of the top ten destinations in Asia. The Andaman Islands are back on the tourist map, and how!
As my plane circles overhead, I get the first glimpse of these enchanting islands. They look like carelessly strewn emeralds in the azure sea.
A wall of humidity hits me as I step off the plane. I can smell the sea, even from the distance. As I settle into the quaint beachfront cottage of my resort, I can already feel the magic of the islands. I spend my first afternoon lazing on Corbyn's Cove, a wide curve of silver beach. The wet sand feels like liquid silk under my toes, as I walk across the shallows with the waves tickling my feet. This is the stuff that dream holidays are made of: palm leaves dancing in the breeze, pristine white sands, and the sound of the waves crashing on the cliffs nearby. Ah, bliss!
The launch speeds over the clear waters and I shiver in anticipation. I am on my way to see a ghost island, a deserted relic of the British Raj. The Andamans were established as a British penal colony in 1789 by Lieutenant Archibald Blair, who also lent Port Blair his name. The name Andaman, however, comes from the Malay Handuman, better known as Hanuman, the monkey god of Hindu mythology.
The boat soon docks on Ross Island. I can hear the water lapping the tranquil shore. The undulating land is dotted with ruins, which are overgrown with the roots of banyan trees. In some places, the bricks have fallen off, but the roots retain the shape. There are deer grazing peacefully nearby. The only human inhabitant seems to be a shriveled old man in a one-room museum, run by the Indian Navy. I wander through history.
Ross Island was once called the Paris of the East. The British developed this place as a private island exclusively for themselves. The remnants of this rich past can be seen in the neatly labeled ruins: the club, swimming pool, Officer's Mess, bakery and the Chief Commissioner's residence with its huge gardens and grand ballrooms. Especially poignant are the ruins of the church high up on the hillock. The altar, the pews, and the cross are all intact but roofless. I close my eyes and see the priest give his Sunday sermon. It seems for a moment I could touch them all. It's a strangely touching morning.
Storm clouds loom over the horizon. I zoom on a hired bike over the hilly road that leads from my resort at Corbyn's Cove to Port Blair, 4 � miles away. The scenery is awesome—softly rolling slopes dotted with palms on one side of the road, and steep cliffs with the endless ocean on the other. I enter the iron gates of Cellular Jail, better known as Kala Paani. Is there is a heavy brooding in the air, or is my imagination playing games with me?
This Indian Bastille stands as a mute witness to the inhuman tortures meted out to the freedom fighters. It acquired the name, Cellular, from its 698 cells. The jail was designed with a watch tower in the center with seven wings radiating from the tower. The only route to and from the wings was through that watch tower. Consequently, no prisoner ever escaped from Kaala Pani. Daily work routines for the prisoners included the crushing of thirty pounds of coconut and mustard for oil. Punishment for failing to do these impossible tasks was harsh. This building is now a national memorial. I go back at night for the son et lumiere.
The morning sun rises from the sea, setting the dark waters aflame. I'm going for snorkeling to Jolly Buoy Island. I get my picnic hamper packed, take hurried instructions from the hotel reception, and am on my way. I have to find my way to Wandoor, a small village 18 miles from Port Blair, where the Mahatma Gandhi Marine Park is situated. Nothing quite beats the heady feel of biking through unknown country roads, the wind whistling through my hair and the winter sun warm on my back. A wrong turn somewhere, confused directions from locals, and I finally make it to the Marine Park in time for the 10 a.m. launch. I'm soon speeding on the open sea, crossing islands with twisted mangroves.
As we approach Jolly Buoy, I step down into a glass bottomed boat. The fishes and corals are simply amazing—such exotic colors and shapes! I spend the next two hours in perfect bliss, exploring the warm blue waters. Some scarlet tipped corals have an interesting burglar alarm: touch them and they pop shut. I swim with shoals of fishes, tiger striped yellow-blacks, intense reds and blues. This is the world as God made it—pure, peaceful and happy. I wander on the virgin sands and collect some shells and pieces of driftwood. I make new friends, two fighter pilots based in Port Blair. They guide me to the best spots for snorkeling and regale me with Air Force stories on the way back. By evening, I'm back to my cottage—sun burnt, tired, but happy. Oh, so happy! It is a day I'll remember all my life.
The next day I decide to shop at Aberdeen Bazaar, the main market. There is nothing much for a serious shopper, but I pick up some beautiful oval mirrors edged with hundreds of tiny shells. Other local produce includes cinnamon sticks with a distinctive flavor grown at the government farm at Sippighat.
These undulating islands are covered with dense forests, which abound in tropical flowers and birds. At 365 meters, Mount Harriet is the highest peak in South Andamans. It was the summer headquarters of the Chief Commissioner during the British rule. If you're a nature lover, you can go for great treks here.
I take a boat to Viper Island, inside the Port Blair harbor. It was named after the ship Viper in which Lieutenant Archibald Blair came to establish a penal colony. The vessel met with an accident and had to be abandoned near the island. The first prison was set up here. Sher Khan, the Pathan who killed Lord Mayo, was hanged to death here. The eerie ruins of the jail and the gallows still stand.
Havelock Island, 36 miles away from Port Blair, has the best beach in the country, perhaps in Asia. Beach No. 7, or Radhanagar Beach, is a long curved sweep of sugar white sand, lapped by turquoise waters. I take an air-conditioned speedboat from Phoenix Bay jetty, which takes just two hours. The coral reefs abound with exotic life. There are some lovely cottages on the beach, with all modern amenities. The seafood is fresh and very, very cheap! In contrast, vegetables are more expensive, as they have to be flown in from the mainland. So I find myself paying less for a sumptuous plate of prawns, than for an aloo gobi!
Cinque Island, 16 miles from Port Blair, is perfect for scuba diving, snorkeling and camping. It comprises two islands joined by an isthmus, which is a narrow strip of silvery sand that gets inundated at high tide.
Barren Island has the unique distinction of being India's only active volcano. It has a big crater, which rises abruptly from the sea, about half a kilometer inland. The smoking crater is an awesome sight, but you cannot leave the ship to step onto the island.
Chidiya Tapu, 20 miles from Port Blair, is a tiny fishing village with lovely beaches and mangroves. It is a bird-watcher's delight, and one can spot many rare species there. The locals tell me I must go there for the sunset.
As the plane circles these bewitching islands on its flight back to Kolkata, I look down with a heavy heart, feeling reluctant to leave. And I promise myself, maybe next year?
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FACT FILE.
TOUCHING BASE.
By Air: Daily flights from Kolkata and Chennai by Alliance Air/ Indian Airlines, Air Deccan, and Jet. Fares vary, e.g. from Kolkata on Air Deccan on Feb 1 $44 (1974 INR), from Kolkata on Alliance to $279 (12510 INR) per head. See www.airdeccan.net and http://tourism.andaman.nic.in/traveltips.htm
By Ship: Regular passenger ships go from Kolkata and Chennai, approximately once a week. Fares range from $29 (1310 INR) to $131 (5880 INR) per head, depending on your choice of cabin. See http://tourism.andaman.nic.in/traveltips.htm
For details and booking contact:
‘Shipping Corporation of India Ltd.'
Kolkata: 91-33-22482354, 22488013.
Chennai: 91- 44-25231401, 25231218.
PLACES TO STAY.
All these hotels offer great views of the sea.
?Peerless Beach Resort, Corbyn's Cove: 233461-64.
?Sinclairs Bayview: 233159, 232937
?Hornbill Nest Resort: 246042, 244449.
?Water sports: Andaman Water Sports Complex for water-skiing, wind surfing, speed boats, etc.
?Scuba diving and Snorkeling: Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, Wandoor.
?Trekking: Mt. Harriet.
?Museums: Anthropological Museum, Fisheries Museum, Samudrika (Naval Marine Museum), Zoological Survey of India Museum, Forest Museum.
GENERAL INFORMATION.
Location: Bay of Bengal.
Capital: Port Blair.
Altitude: Varies from sea level to 732 meters
Languages: Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu.
Airport: Port Blair.
Temperature: 23 degrees C. to 30 degrees C.
Best Season: October to April. December and January are the peak seasons.
Clothing: Summer cottons.
ISD code: +91-3192.
Contact: The Andaman and Nicobar Tourist Office,
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Official GDT: Pens vs Yotes 11/07/17
by Puck-Lurker on Tue Nov 07, 2017 5:26 pm
Coach Sullivan
Justin Schultz
Olli Määttä
Conor Sheary
Ruhwedel quietly bringing consistency to blue line
https://www.nhl.com/penguins/news/ruhwe ... -292685906
While the Penguins picked up just three points on their season-long five-game road swing through western Canada, one of the positives taken from the trip was the impact Chad Ruhwedel has had on keeping a battered blue line afloat.
Since Oct. 24, a span of seven games, Ruhwedel has averaged 19 minutes of ice time per game - fourth highest among Penguins defenseman. After starting the year as the team's seventh defenseman, Ruhwedel got an opportunity to enter the lineup due to injuries and has since been quietly consistent.
"It means a lot, their trust in me," Ruhwedel said. "The more you play, the better you'll get every week, and you can just get into the game a little easier. Having some more minutes is nice, and I just have to stay with it."
Thrusted into the lineup after Ian Cole's injury from a blocked shot, the San Diego, Calif. native has seen an increased workload with Matt Hunwick and Justin Schultz both sidelined with concussions. He's handled it well, and a lot of that coincides with his fit within the Penguins system.
"He's played really well for us," head coach Mike Sullivan reflected. "He's a guy that you know exactly what you're going to get, night in and night out from him. He's really increased his intensity level since he's been playing with us. He's played a real solid two-way game."
While Hunwick and Schultz are both on the verge of returning, as they are cleared for contact and practiced with regular jerseys on Monday, Ruhwedel's play has provided a case to leave him in the lineup.
While the Penguins have had a lethal power play this season, as their 28.8-percent conversion rate is tied for second in the league, they have struggled to score at even strength throughout the first five weeks of the season. Ruhwedel, playing primarily all his minutes 5-on-5, has been arguably the Penguins' strongest defenseman at even strength.
The UMass-Lowell product has provided a smooth game, highlighted by his skating ability and on-ice awareness.
"The thing we really like about Chad is his mobility," Sullivan said. "He can get back to pucks quickly, he helps us get out of our end zone. He's defending hard, he has a good stick, and he's coachable. He's done really a good job for us, he quietly goes about his business and plays an important role for this team."
One of his biggest assets is his quick decision-making with the puck. This was showcased brilliantly on Oct. 12 against Tampa Bay, when Ruhwedel corralled a rebound in the defensive zone, and rather than just clearing the puck, took a few strides before launching a full-ice pass to Conor Sheary. He snuck behind the Lightning defense and buried the goal on a quick counter-attack play.
"He's a solid player, he's very dependable," defenseman Brian Dumoulin said. "I know what he's going to do with the puck, and that's a good thing to have in a partner, the predictability. He's a good skater, has a good shot, and he can work well with anyone."
The 5'11", 192-pound blueliner's steady defensive game is what led to the Penguins pursuing him last off season after three years in the Buffalo Sabres organization, mostly spent with their American Hockey League affiliate, the Rochester Americans.
Ruhwedel initially started the 2016-17 season with Wilkes-Barre, but a strong start and banged-up blueline led to him playing in 34 NHL contests with Pittsburgh, scoring two goals, picking up eight assists, and finishing a plus-9.
It earned him a Stanley Cup ring and a two-year, one-way NHL contract this most recent offseason, and the next big step is becoming a constant presence in the lineup, even when everyone is healthy.
"I just need to play my game, keep doing what I'm doing," Ruhwedel said. "Do more with the opportunities that I'm getting, and just try to make the most of it."
3 things: Schultz, Hunwick cleared for contact
https://www.nhl.com/penguins/news/3-things-schultz-hunwick-cleared-for-contact/c-292680430
1. Schultz returns to full practice
Defenseman Justin Schultz skated with his teammates on Monday for the first time since sustaining a concussion. He's been cleared for full contact and was wearing a regular yellow jersey.
"It feels unreal to be back with the team," Schultz said after practice. "It was not fun being here while everyone was on the road. It still sucks being stuck here. So it was awesome coming to the rink this morning. I was excited and it feels great."
Schultz was injured 5:51 into the first period of the Penguins' 2-1 overtime win over Edmonton on Oct. 24 after taking an elbow up high from Oilers forward Drake Caggiula. The team placed Schultz on injured reserve the following day, and he did not travel to western Canada for the Penguins' season-long, five-game road swing.
Schultz, a native of Kelowna, British Columbia, was disappointed to miss that trip back home to see family and friends he only gets to see once a year during the season.
"I had a lot of family that were planning to go to the games, especially in Vancouver," he said. "It was tough to stay back here and not be able to go, but you can't cheat a concussion."
Another punch to the gut was that his girlfriend and their dog had made plans to head back home to western Canada for the week, so they still ended up going, leaving Schultz back in Pittsburgh by himself.
"I did a lot of walking around," he said before adding with a laugh, "It was the most bored I've ever been for a week. But the boys are back and it's good."
He stayed busy by skating with his injured teammates who also remained back in Pittsburgh, with skills coach Ty Hennes running their solo sessions. Schultz resumed skating on Oct. 27, the day the team left for Minnesota, and has been skating ever since. He didn't put a timetable on his return, saying they'll see how he feels Tuesday and go from there.
"I felt good out there today," he said. "So we'll see how the body responds and how I feel tomorrow morning."
2. Hunwick cleared for contact
Defenseman Matt Hunwick joined the team in western Canada a few days into the trip and joined them for morning skate ahead of their 3-2 victory over Edmonton on Nov. 1.
He said he'll talk to the coaches after Tuesday's morning skate before the Penguins host Arizona and they'll go from there in terms of whether he'll be ready to rejoin the lineup.
"I've been skating for a while now," Hunwick said. "I've been out for almost three weeks, have probably skated for two weeks. Today was my first real practice, so just try to get up to speed a little bit. Conditioning won't be an issue."
Hunwick has missed the last 10 games since realizing something was wrong and getting diagnosed with a concussion. He's not quite sure when the injury first happened, but it manifested in a practice.
"I think maybe I already had something going on and it just triggered it," Hunwick said. "From that point, had a headache and it was pretty clear that it probably happened in practice. I've had a couple before that you know exactly when it happens, but not with this one."
Head coach Mike Sullivan said whenever Schultz and Hunwick are ready to play, they'll be immediately inserted into the lineup despite both missing a decent amount of time.
"They were full contact today. They both had good days," Sullivan said. "We'll see how they react and then obviously we'll have to make decisions tomorrow morning. It's really positive the signs that they showed today."
3. Practice info
Zach Trotman was the only expected player missing from practice. The Penguins used the following workflow…
Sheary-Crosby-Hornqvist
Guentzel-Malkin-Kessel
Hagelin-Sheahan-Rust
Kuhnhackl-McKegg-Reaves/Archibald
Maatta-Letang
Dumoulin-Ruhwedel
Corrado-Cole
Hunwick-Schultz
Note from Puck-Lurker:
Coach Sullivan: “Justin will be a game time decision. Hunwick is not going to play.”
Puck-Lurker
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Re: Official GDT: Pens vs Yotes 11/07/17
by DelPen on Tue Nov 07, 2017 6:34 pm
Really need Schultz back in the lineup, looks like tonight will be the night.
DelPen
Location: Lake Wylie, SC
Schultz returns to the line up.
Pens are the free game tonight on NHL TV.
Raanta stinks, this would be a good game for Sid to remember he’s awesome.
Guentzel looking good so far with Geno. Kid is going to the net which helped Schultz score.
by Crashguy66 on Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:12 pm
Crashguy66
by stonewizard51 on Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:16 pm
Sneaky goal. Loved it.
stonewizard51
I like being up by 2. It's so much nicer than being down by 2.
by Owchar76 on Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:21 pm
DelPen wrote: Guentzel looking good so far with Geno. Kid is going to the net which helped Schultz score.
Who knew giving Geno wingers might actually work?
Owchar76
by Southern Fan on Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:26 pm
Letang standing in front Murray not near the puck or taking a skater. Is that a valid strategy ?
Just get flashbacks to Orpick and Scudeti when I see that
Southern Fan
Southern Fan wrote: Letang standing in front Murray not near the puck or taking a skater. Is that a valid strategy ?
But if he had the puck he'd just turn it over.
Seeing the same and wincing.
by BurghThing on Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:32 pm
stonewizard51 wrote:
Like he did there?
BurghThing
Location: All You Can Eat Crow Tavern
And more wincing.
If only Shari could lift the puck.
Reeves needs to dance with Rinaldi before the night is out
Hörnqvist is a warrior!
BurghThing wrote:
by Faubert5 on Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:40 pm
How does Zac Renaldo still have a job in the NHL?
Faubert5
Location: Formerly known as NashvilleCat - don't want any association with the Predators.
by IC Light on Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:46 pm
Maybe I missed it in another GDT, but what is with Mears saying ‘Shari’ for Sheery? Makes me yell at the TV. Lol
IC Light
Location: In the shadow of the Winged Wheel
IC Light wrote: Maybe I missed it in another GDT, but what is with Mears saying ‘Shari’ for Sheery? Makes me yell at the TV. Lol
Sheary apparently said they were pronouncing it wrong. Will get used to it soon enough
Share-y finally came out recently and told us we've all been saying it wrong.
Doesn't really Määttä though
Puck-Lurker wrote:
Doesn't really Määttä though :lol:
You guys are always a wealth of knowledge!
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World War Two - Japanese-American Service
''They, Too, Have Fought and Died'' (Maptalk, 1945)
"You're damn right those Nisei boys have a place in the American heart, now and forever. And I say soldiers ought to form a pickaxe club to protect the Japanese-Americans who fought the war with us. Any time we see a barfly commando picking on those kids or discriminating against them, we ought to bang them over the head with a pickaxe. I'm willing to be a charter member".
General Joseph W. Stillwell
Read the letters of American soldiers and Marines who recognized
the injustice that was done to the Japanese-Americans...
''Loyal Japanese Fight for the U.S.A.'' (Click Magazine, 1943)
This photo essay from CLICK MAGAZINE consists of six black and white images illustrating the Nisei officers and GIs toiling under the merciless sun at Camp Shelby, Mississippi prior to being shipped out for combat duty in Italy. The accompanying paragraph sums up quite nicely their devotion to the United States, declaring that for these Japanese-Americans, "democracy outweighs blood ties", yet says not a word about the internment camps.
CLICK HERE to read about the beautiful "Blonde Battalions" who spied for the Nazis...
Praise for the Nesei Regiment (Yank Magazine, 1945)
A member of the 34th Infantry Division wrote to the editors of YANK to let all members of the Army know how much respect he had for the Nisei soldiers in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
Nesei Homecoming (Yank, 1945)
Who knows, perhaps the author of Bad Day at Black Rock , Howard Breslin, had read this striking bit of fiction from YANK MAGAZINE and felt such a deep sense of social injustice that it inspired him to write his novel about anti-Isei mob violence. Either way, this very moving, two column piece is a fictional account about the pathetic homecoming experienced by a member of the Nesei packed 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
It was written by YANK MAGAZINE's Len Zinberg (1911-1968; a.k.a. Ed Lacy, a.k.a. Steve April); by that time, Zinberg was already an experienced writer with impressive credits and the magazine was lucky to have him. His writings at YANK helped to open the door at THE NEW YORKER, where much of his work was to be seen following the end of hostilities.
The Japanese-Americans of the OSS (Script, 1946)
When we think of the selfless acts performed by the Nisei during World War II we are often inclined to remember only the 442 Regimental Combat Team - that is why it is important to read this essay, that recalled many of the Japanese-Americans who served so selflessly in the O.S.S. behind enemy lines in the Burma-China theater as well as those who toiled on behalf of the Southeast Asia Translation and Interrogation Center.
Private Yori Wada, United States Army (Script Magazine, 1942)
The attached article was written by a twenty-five year-old Japanese-American Army private named Yori Wada (1917 - 1997). Wada had joined the army some months prior to the Pearl Harbor attack and with all the good fellowship and optimism typical of youth, he explained with some enthusiasm, about how much he enjoyed army life and all the friends he had made within his unit. While the article makes no reference to the unfortunate lot of his family back home, Wada wrote that his future in the army as of April, 1942 was unclear; all he wanted was a fair shot to defend his country, and he didn't think that he'd get it.
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Dartmoor: A rummage around Canonteign Down
Shuttamoor Rock
Looking at the Ordnance Survey map, Tim had spotted a potential undocumented tor, above Canonteign Falls; a marked area of exposed rock. When he showed me it, I too was keen to check it out, so we came up with a route to explore the Canonteign Down area in addition to revisiting Hyner Rocks.
We met up at a car park near Tottiford Reservoir, taking the road to Shuttimoor Farm. As we progressed along the lane I noticed a large outcrop in the field to our right, as we descended to the farm. It surprised us, given it was obvious and neither had seen mention of it. From the other side of the valley, just behind the farm, we managed to get a good view of it.
Spying a new outcrop near Shuttamoor Farm.
Zoom shot of Shuttamoor Rock
Sitting on private land, we held out little hope of reaching it but we'd look a little later from a different position. We dubbed it "Shuttamoor Rock" as it sits above a disused Iron mine and the farm of the same name. Its Grid Reference is SX 8217 8274.
Buoyed by this find, we continued up the lane, to the entrance of the plantation on Barton Down. Immediately, we could see this woodland was popular with mountain bikers, their numerous steep trails aiding our descent of the valley side into a section called "Fleetwood Plantation".
Upon reaching the grid reference of the supposed exposed rock (SX 8298 8253), we were disappointed.
Sometimes we are left disappointed.
Above a main track there was evidence of some quarrying, but this was covered in vegetation so was not recent. The exposed mass below was not to be seen. We went further down to investigate and did find a layer of rock that had been lost to brambles and buried for many years. Its inclusion on the map was now purely historical.
Small quarry near the grid ref.
We consoled ourselves with the discovery of Shuttamoor and crossed the brook to climb up into Birch Cleave Wood, escorted by an inquisitive robin.
Getting up the valley side was hampered by the brambles, but we spotted some level ground higher, thought to be a track but was actually a leat.
Leat in Birch Cleave Wood
This leat was flowing well, obviously still in use. Later research revealed that this once took water to the silver mines of the Canonteign Estate, but once the mines shut, it was rerouted for the creation of The Lady Exmouth Falls.
Leat in Birchwood Cleave Wood
We took some time finding a way over the watercourse, mainly due to the terrain on the other side. Eventually, after an abandoned traverse of a waterlogged track, found our way out of the woods to the heathland above. We turned west, to the edge of the Open Access land, to see if we could get close to Shuttamoor Rock.
Our way was stopped by barbed wire. As we tried to penetrate some of the gorse and brambles along its course, we were also put off by the arrival of two collie dogs, barking and snarling aggressively. Not wanting to engage in the intricacies of trespassing law, we took their advice and moved away.
Instead, we found the walls of Shuttamoor Mine, hoping for a chance to get closer to the tor, but the area is closed off to the public despite the Open Access shading on the map. We heeded the danger signs and stuck to the perimeter, following the wall as far as we could to a point where we could see Shuttamoor Rock.
Shuttamoor Rock from Open Access Land
It was now time to make our way back to the cars, but with a side trip to Hyner Rocks. Even with the lack of foliage, this is still a tricky set of outcrops to photograph, but the view from the top is inspiring and in the sunshine the warmth was most welcome.
Hyner Rocks
A quick root around to satisfy us that we hadn't left further gems to be found, we turned and made for Beadon Lane. A mixed walk today; an obvious disappointment, but a good new discovery, albeit frustratingly out of reach.
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TJ Martin
About TJ Martin
TJ Martin brings to the table a unique first in the music world. He got there by being influenced from groups like Question Mark and The Mysterians, to The Lovin' Spoonful, Suzanne Vega, the Atlanta Rhythm Section, Enya and many others.
When he first began the project, his intention was to improve the quality of music that was being used for the equestrian sport of dressage musical freestyles which is now an official Olympic level competition. His main focus was to eliminate the unnecessary and distracting sounds of bad editing, and the splicing together of various songs which creates a ride that has no theme. To do this, original music had to be written to match the choreography for each particular ride. He then set out to compose a piece of music for each of the varying levels of freestyles, and have riders perform them. The result was award winning freestyles and the world's first CD of "Music for Dressage".
This is an album of powerful, acoustic, instrumental music in an adult contemporary, new age/smooth jazz style. Because of the easy listening sound, the music has since found its way to evenings with candlelight, glasses of merlot and your imagination. The album contains just over 40 minutes of music with 7 songs and a bonus track. People worldwide have been enjoying these mesmerizing sounds. Internet sales of this album continue to grow on a daily basis, in over 70 countries on 6 continents.
If you love horses and music, you will love this album! Now an official Olympic equestrian event, dressage musical freestyles have become crowd favorites around the world. Here is the first album ever produced to honor this great sport. Music for Dressage - The Judge at 'E' by TJ Martin is the best gift idea for any occasion for your favorite horse lover. Now you can safely download the digital version of the entire CD, or one song at a time. And of course you can still buy the actual CD in a jewel case! - - - - Click Here to Order - and hear full length samples!
Question Mark and The Mysterians, The Lovin' Spoonful, Suzanne Vega, The Atlanta Rhythm Section, Enya and many others.
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TJ Martin BIO
By tjmartin, 2007-04-19
<span style="font-family: Arial"><font size="3"><strong> <font face="times" size="6"><em>Proven World-Wide Appeal</em></font> </strong></font></span><span style="font-family: Arial"><font size="3"><p><font face="times new roman,times" size="4">TJ Martin brings to the table a unique first in the music world. He got there by being influenced from groups like ? and The Mysterians, to The Lovin' Spoonful, Suzanne Vega, the Atlanta Rhythm Section, Enya and many others. </font></p><p><font face="times new roman,times" size="4">After hearing one of his songs on the local college radio station, a lady contacted him and asked if he would be interested in writing music for her horses. She was referring to the equestrian sport of dressage (rhymes with massage), where they perform freestyles set to music, known as musical kurs. This is now also an official Olympic level competition. When he first began the project, his intention was to improve the quality of music that was being used for the sport. His main focus was to eliminate the unnecessary and distracting sounds of bad editing, and the splicing together of various songs which creates a ride that has no theme. To do this, original music had to be written to match the choreography for each particular ride. He then set out to compose a piece of music for each of the varying levels of freestyles, and have riders perform them. The result was award winning freestyles and the world's first CD of "Music for Dressage". </font></p><p><font face="times new roman,times" size="4">This is an album of powerful, acoustic, instrumental music in an adult contemporary, new age/smooth jazz style. Because of the easy listening sound, the music has since found its way to evenings with candlelight, glasses of merlot and your imagination. The album contains just over 40 minutes of music with 7 songs and a bonus track. People worldwide have been enjoying these mesmerizing sounds. Internet sales of this album continue to grow on a daily basis, in over 50 countries on 6 continents. </font></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial"><a href="http://www.musicfordressage.com/"><font face="verdana,geneva" size="5"><em>www.MusicForDressage.com</em></font></a></span></p></font></span>
<div align="center"><p><font face="times" size="6"><em><strong>New Age Equestrian</strong></em></font> </p></div><font face="times new roman,times"><font size="4">TRAVERSE CITY, MI March 21, 2007 -- Whatever the genre--classical, rock, blues, country -- one thing all music has in common is the audience: human beings. TJ Martin's new CD is a bit different. 'The Judge at E' is not only for people, but for horses. It is music for dressage (rhymes with massage). Martin was a devotee of the sport which has been called equine ballet for the movements demanded of horse and rider. But one thing always bothered him: the clumsy segues between the pieces of music that were adapted for the event. "I thought I could eliminate that by having original music", he said. So that's what he set out to do. With a 15 piece ensemble including saxophone, flute, trumpet, keyboards, percussion and his guitar, he composed seven pieces of music. Not only were they meant for dressage, the pieces were composed specifically for individual riders and their mounts, though for the most part they could be adapted for others. "The recording session was done very differently. TJ sat in front of a video (of the horse and rider performing) playing his guitar", said John Knight, owner of Full Circle Recording Studio where the project was recorded.<strong> </strong></font></font><font face="times new roman,times"><font size="4">The pieces on 'The Judge at E' run between five-and-a-half and six minutes, with the exception of a catchy 2-minute, 40 second tune called "Samson's Prelude". The music embraces many genres: there is gentle romanticism, sprightly folk, jazzy interludes, even some quasi-flamenco. It holds together surprisingly well as an instrumental, acoustic new age/pop disc. </font></font><font face="times new roman,times" size="4">"Chilled out and floating!!" </font><p align="center"><font face="times new roman,times" size="4"><strong>"Nice mood" </strong></font></p><p align="center"><font face="times new roman,times" size="4"><strong>"Solid performing" </strong></font></p><p align="center"><font face="times new roman,times" size="4"><strong>"Quite beautiful" </strong></font></p><p align="center"><strong><font face="times new roman,times" size="4">"Delicious!"</font> </strong></p>
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Gist Gossip Drama As Pastor Storms Mortuary To Resurrect His Dead Wife
Drama As Pastor Storms Mortuary To Resurrect His Dead Wife
by Naijabazegist on November 16, 2018 in Gist, Gossip
A pastor caused a stir at the Gakwegori Funeral Home in Kenya when he stormed the mortuary to resurrect his dead wife.
Pastor Robinson Karumba of Eagle Wings Prophetic Ministries, arrived at the mortuary with his members in the early hours of Wednesday, demanding the body of his wife released to him,The deceased, Ms. Polly Rosa Ng’ endo who died following an undisclosed illness on Sunday, was released to his husband, who then took her into a secluded room, laid her naked body on a table and applied anointing oil.
Sources say after the pastor applied anointing oil on his late wife, he and his members started singing praise songs accompanied with a guitar and keyboard.
According to the pastor, who brought along clothes and shoes for his wife, he was following the teachings of Jesus which, he claimed, directed the believers would be raised from the dead after four days. ‘We believe she is not dead, but merely resting.
She is a believer like me and has preached in many places and with prominent preachers. I had to do what I have always preached. Jesus was called to Lazarus home after he had died for four days.’ he said. Explaining while he brought along musical instruments to the Mortuary, he said:
‘Even Daughter said my mother will come back on Wednesday and that is why I came today. We are playing guitar and other instruments because she was a musician.’
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The preacher also said people are preparing for her burial scheduled for Saturday, but if she resurrects before then, he will stage up a thanksgiving ceremony instead.
‘Back at home, people have been preparing for the burial. If she resurrects, Saturday would be a thanksgiving ceremony. We will be marking her resurrection,’ he said.
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By Naijabazegist at November 16, 2018
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Rubber Made from Chewed Gum Could Replace Plastic
From: http://www.treehugger.com/
by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California
Image via The Gumdrop Bin
It's not news that chewing gum is the scourge of city sidewalks. Nor that it takes a lot of money and energy to clear gum off walkways, shortening the lifespan of the surfaces at the same time. Designer Anna Bullus read the statistics of the gum problem in London -- that the government spends £150 million annually to clean up gum, over 30,000 pieces of which end up stuck to Oxford street alone each day -- and she decided there must be a better way to deal with the problem. So, she headed to the laboratory and came up with a way to transform chewed gum into a useful rubber that can be made into anything from toys to boots. But she's starting out by making chewed gum into discrete but identifiable waste bins for used gum.
The Gumdrop Bin by Anna Bullus is potentially a perfect solution to the problem of chewed gum. She cites that over 3.5 billion pieces of gum are discarded every year, too many of which end up on sidewalks, but by posting small repositories like the Gumdrop, they can be collected and transformed into something new.
The Guardian writes that Bullus "spent eight months working in a lab, trying to turn old gum into a new material...From getting it to make a foam, Bullus was able to make a used-gum pellet; then, adding ingredients (these remain secret), she extracted a polymer that she calls BRGP (Bullus Recycled Gum Polymer). This is the substance she uses to make the pink bubble bins now dotted around Orpington College, where they're being trialled as gum-specific litter bins. When the bins are full, both bin and innards are recycled into new BRGP, which in turn become more bins and possibly other products, too."
There are a few inherent problems, such as keeping the Gumdrop bins empty of anything except gum, when and who collects the gum from the bins, and getting people to use them instead of spitting out their gum wherever they feel like. Getting people to notice, and understand what the pink orbs are for is a big part of the challenge. But if it becomes a useful service, then it could save cities millions in clean up efforts, and save citizens hours of cleaning shoes.
Speaking of shoes, that's exactly what Bullus hopes to make out of chewed-gum-turned-rubber: "The amazing thing is you can use it for any plastic product," says Bullus. "I'd love to do some Wellington boots, for example. Gum boots, in fact."
Chewed gum as a substitute for plastics, at least on a small scale? We'll take it.
So far the repositories are popping up around London and even in a Six Flags in New Jersey. We'll watch and see if, and how, the idea takes off.
Labels: Design and Architecture, Plastics, polymers, recycling, Trash Cans
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Nina Weiss, BFA, Tyler School of Art; University of Wisconsin-Madison, K-12 Art certification; additional studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Art Student League of New York. Instructor at Columbia College Chicago and Nina Weiss/Art Endeavors Studio. Nina taught at the School of the Art Institute for eighteen year & teaches workshops throughout the US and in Europe, where she conducts her Europeon Landscape Workshops. Her art work is held in private and corporate collections such as United Airlines and McDonalds. Her work is represented by Groshek Art Gallery, (Chicago); Editions Limited Gallery (Indianapolis, IN); Button-Petter Gallery (Saugatuck, MI); Islesford Island Gallery (Islesford, ME) and ArtProv Gallery (Providence; RI). Her landscape paintings and drawings can be seen in two major motion pictures: Just Visiting (John Hughes) and Ice Harvest (Harold Ramis). Solo & Group shows include Mary Bell Gallery; Kohnline Museum of Art; River Road Museum of Contemporary Art; New York Art Expo, Atlantic Gallery NYC; Highland Park Art Center and more. Artist Residencies include Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, and Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park. Instructional videos include Prismacolor and Craftsy.com www.ninaweiss.com, artendeavors.org
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David Wagner On Short-List To Replace Benitez At Newcastle
2:13pm Saturday, February 9th, 2019
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The Times are reporting that David Wagner and Brendan Rodgers are said to be on Newcastle’s short-list to replace Rafa Benitez should he leave the club when his contract runs out at the end of June.
Wagner did wonders for Huddersfield in getting them promoted in the 2016-2017 season and they kept in the Premier League last season.
And if Rafa does leave he would be our choice as the man to come in.
It helps Newcastle’s cause that Huddersfield Town rather surprisingly fired him in January with the Terriers second bottom of the league table.
But whether he would want to work under Mike Ashley at Newcastle is a good question.
Former Huddersfield Town manager David Wagner
The Newcastle hierarchy are reported to have been impressed by the Huddersfield side that beat Newcastle 2-1 at the start of the Championship season, back in 2016.
He is a very good manager who was the right-hand man of Jurgen Klopp at Borussia Dortmund and he plays attacking football when he can.
We are not big fans of Brendan Rodgers who has been managing at Celtic north of the border since 2016.
Rodgers is 46 and Wagner is 47 so they are both quite young managers.
We expect Mike Ashley to try to keep Rafa Benitez at Newcastle but they will have to replace him if he does leave this summer.
It looks like Rodgers followed by Wagner are the top choices – at the moment.
And we don’t have much confidence in Ashley at all – and he could really screw things up even further by succeeding in keeping Rafa on board.
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Id look at gasperini of atalanta or simone inzaghi of lazio. Guus hiddink if available. Paulo sousa.
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As long as mike Ashley is owner it doesn’t matter who the manager is
JP...from The Rock
Jesus just wept.
magscar
thanks usually watch Celtic Connections when its on BBC4. Fan of Loudon as well so will look out for it. Really liked Graham Nash’s first solo album and the Nash Crosby one.
The only club in the world that wants rid of a manager due to him showing some ambition and wanting what’s best for the club
You think anyone is ever going to do any better with MA mugging them off ?
The journo in the Times that has written about
Wagner is Matt Hughes – the low hanging fruit
whose last story about NUFC was the load of cock
that Denis Wise was back at SJP !!!!!!
Chancel My MBembaship
Any potential manager is obviously going to know about Ashley’s lies when it comes to funding a team and providing money in general. Wagner might bite because of the size of a club like ours, whereas Rodgers would probably be a bit more cautious about accepting Ashley’s controlling of the purse strings.
Let’s hope we don’t find out either way and Rafa is here to stay for a few more years at least 🙂
JP – is he weeping because he dropped Pogba from his fantasy football team?
Someone should buy Miggy a beanie
Chancel- what!?? Lol I have Pogba on the bench in my Fantasy Football team when I meant to play him. Was gutted about that but as Aubameyang ain’t playing Pogba will take his place in the team, so happy days.
The question here is… how the hell did you know that!? Haha what a coincidence.
Celtic Connections seems to be channelled via the BBCs internet delivery – it hasn’t been on BBC 4 this year. There’s only two episodes available so far and you’ll need to search the BBC iPlayer – not BBC 4 look-back. I get the impression there’s more to be had via the Beeb’s internet channels as the Grauniad reviewed one featuring Ally Baine, Gerry Douglass et al I can’t find that on my TV. I haven’t looked but there may be more on BBC Scotland TV.
Bambams
I give you ….Neil Warnock !
Ash likes Warnock and he doesn’t ‘make waves’…..
Ron Knee
Alias Colin W*nker.
So, Ashley likes Wagner coz they were impressed with the way Huddersfield played in the Championship in 2016? Ffs, unbelievable.
There’s no way Rafa’ll stay unless there’s a major reduction in his expectations – Ashley won’t want to be seen as giving in to Rafa and Rafa won’t want to accept what Ashley’s offering – money to spend on transfers on Ashley’s terms.
Sadly, the damage is done and there’s no going back but any manager that comes in under Ashley needs to have realistic expectations and expect to be lied to and undermined in Ashley’s quest for Prem survival.
What would be considered good results for us today? With many teams below us playing eachother. Draws perhaps?
how many managers off that list you put up would actually even turn up for the interview, never mind take the job, every manager on that list has ambition why would they even consider a club with none !!!!!!
They can appoint who the hell they like. If Rafa leaves because Ashley has made a joke of backing him, I’m done with NUFC. Rafa is one of the few saving graces about the club. He has carried himself with dignity and worked hard on the training ground and in the community. His crime is wanting this club to be better and challenge. If he turns his back, so do I.
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Missabe Logos
Submitted by MRHS on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 11:47
D&IR Indianhead logo, used from 1910 to 1920's. Application to equipment is uncertain, but likely applied as white on black on locomotives, white on brown on freight cars, and black on yellow on reefers and cabooses. Not known to have been applied to passenger equipment. Passenger cars of all three companies were lettered in gold on Pullman green, text only.
D&IR Octagon logo, used from 1920's to the merger in 1937. Applied as white on locomotive tenders, cabs, and dark painted freight cars. Applied in black to reefers. Unknown if applied to cabooses. Not applied to passenger equipment.
DM&N Round logo, used from 1910 to the merger in 1937. Color applications same as D&IR as above, except known to be applied in black to cabooses.
DM&IR Safety First logo, used from 1937 to present. In the steam and early diesel era, applied as white on black on steam locomotives, white on brown on freight cars, and black on yellow on reefers and cabooses. Not known to have been applied to passenger equipment except the RDC1 Budd car as black on silver. In later diesel era, applied in white to some brown ore cars, in yellow on any maroon background, and in maroon on any yellow background.
DM&IR Banner logo, version 1, used from 1941 to the end of steam (1962). Applied in silver in large size to Yellowstone tenders, and in white in smaller size to 0-10-2 Union-type tenders. The above is from a photo of a Yellowstone tender.
DM&IR Banner logo, version 2, used from 1953 to 1965. Applied in black to the yellow stripe on EMD SW-9 switch engines. Very similar to the Yellowstone, but lacking the round herald in the enter.
DM&IR 3-color logo, used from 1953 to present. Applied as a Scotchlite decal to diesel locomotives, cabooses, MOW passenger equipment, some freight equipment and over-the-road vehicles (trucks and vans). Also applied to the ends of the RDC1 Budd car.
DM&IR Arrowhead logo, used from 1972 to present. Applied as a Scotchlite decal in yellow to diesel locomotives, MOW and OTR vehicles. Also applied to some steel bay window cabooses in maroon with yellow text, and to 3-bay ACF covered hoppers in maroon with yellow text. Currently being applied to OTR vehicles in yellow with maroon lettering, and to side dump cars in black on white background.
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Forty-one Victorian lives would have been saved last year by this one safety measure
Forty-one people died on Victoria’s roads last year because they were in a car that did not have electronic stability control.
The braking technology, which has been mandatory in new cars in Victoria for six years, has been compared to seatbelts and drink-driving laws for its role in saving lives.
Electronic stability control could have saved 41 lives in Victoria last year. Photo: Sitthixay Ditthavong
Victoria suffered a horror year on the roads in 2016, with 291 people killed, the highest number of lives lost in a decade.
New research has revealed a staggering 14 per cent of those deaths can be attributed to the absence of electronic stability control (ESC).
The average age of a car in Victoria is 10 years, with most cars built well before 2011 when the safety feature became mandatory.
Last year just 31 per cent of registered cars in Victoria hadthe technology, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Victoria’s Transport Accident Commission, Sweden’s Transport Administration and the Monash University Accident Research Centre combined to analyse the circumstances of all 291 fatalities on the road last year.
Their research, which was based on Victoria Police crash data, is the first time a study of its kind has been done in Australia.
Itfoundthat 140 of last year’s291 deaths occurred after a vehicle veered out of itslane, and that 41 of those 140 deaths –29 per cent –could have been prevented if the vehicle had electronic stability control.
Ten of those 41 deaths were from head-on crashes and 31 were from vehicles running off the road.
The research suggests an enormous cut could be made to the state’s road toll if more people drovea car with ESC technology, particularly on country roads.
Thirty of the 41 preventable deaths occurred on rural roads, which consistently have a higher death toll than Melbourne roads, and where veering out of the lane is the cause of 85 per cent of fatal crashes, according to TAC data.
ESC technology senses when a driver is losing control and a vehicleis beginning to skid sideways, and automatically applies the brakes to individual wheels to put the car back on its intended path.
Monash University crash investigator David Logan said although the stability control doesnot prevent everycrash or save every life, the study indicated it plays a huge role in reducing road trauma.
“ESC has the ability to prevent about a third of those run-off road crashes,” Dr Logan said.
“It doesn’t work all the time … you might still be seriously injured but you’re likely to be less seriously injured and you might turn a fatality into a serious injury.”
Samantha Cockfield, the TAC’s road safety director, said the study proved that a shift to newer, safer cars iscrucial in reducing the road toll.
“We know people will continue to make mistakes on our roads and that is why the cars we drive and the safety features in them are so important,” Ms Cockfield said.
“Features like ESC intervene at that critical moment and can turn a potentially fatal mistake into a bit of a fright for the people inside the car.”
The TAC has set a long-term goal of zero road deaths and Ms Cockfield said that through technology, society would ultimately reachthat goal.
“ESC is just one feature and it could have saved 41 lives –other technologies are emerging like automaticemergency braking that have even greater potentialin saving lives,” she said.
“This is why one day we will get to a point where no onewill be killed on our roads.”
The RACV’s manager of vehicle engineering, Michael Case, said electronic stability control was one of the most profound advances in vehicle safety in recent decades.
“Everyone in road safety is looking for a silver bullet, that’s what seatbelts were, and drink-driving regulations,” Mr Case said. “I would put ESC up there.”
So far, there is no way to retrofit older cars with this technology.
He said there was a misconceptionthat large, high-priced cars were safest but new small cars with highsafety ratingscould be bought for as little as $13,000.
The Andrews government has set a target to reduce the state’s road toll to 200 or fewer lives lostby 2020.
So far 116 people have died on Victoria’s roads this year.
In January, while noting a sharp rise in Australia’s road toll, the Turnbull government’s Federal Transport Minister Darren Chester urged parents to “spend a little bit more” if buying their child’s first car, and purchase one with modern safety features.
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Stories from Friday, June 20, 2014
Bobby J. Battles (Obituary ~ 06/20/14)
Mr. Bobby J. Battles, 82 of Steele, Mo., died Thursday, June 19, 2014, at NEA Baptist in Jonesboro.
David D. Aleshire (Obituary ~ 06/20/14)
Mr. David D. Aleshire, 69, of Blytheville, died Thursday, June 19, 2014, at NEA Baptist in Jonesboro.
Ground broken for prayer garden (Local News ~ 06/20/14)
A ground-breaking ceremony for the Blytheville Prayer Garden was held Thursday, and the theme of the ceremony was the song "A Glorious Unfolding" by performer Steven Curtis Chapman.
Main Street Blytheville ready to hire director (Local News ~ 06/20/14)
After nearly four months without a full-time executive director, Main Street Blytheville is now looking to fill the position, thanks to a renewed commitment for funding from the city of Blytheville's Finance Committee.
Finally hot enough to get on the river (Column ~ 06/20/14)
Last summer was cool and rainy and I only got out on the river or three or four times. For one thing, we usually rent the place out four or five weekends a year, and that limits our access (but helps the cash flow a good bit).
BBSB Roundup: Dever Electric wins Rookie League tourney (Community Sports ~ 06/20/14)
Dever Electric claimed the Rookie League Tournament championship Thursday night, beating Heritage Square, 8-3 and 14-6. In the 8-3 win, Dever scored three runs in the second and three in the third to take five-run lead that it wouldn't relinquish. Leading Dever at the plate were Hyden Jackson, Connor Whitehead, Jayden Dever, Xander Buckner and Raul Rodriguez...
Jones leads Hardy Sales and Service Casons past Twin Rivers (Community Sports ~ 06/20/14)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Brady Jones jumpstarted the Hardy Sales and Service Casons with a two-run homer in the first inning, and the Blytheville team defeated Twin Rivers 5-2 at Charleston Wooden Bat Tournament, Thursday, in Senior American Legion action...
Gospel stage show set for Saturday at Ritz (Local News ~ 06/20/14)
"If My People ...," a gospel stage play written, directed and produced by Michelle R. Sims will be performed at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Ritz Civic Center.
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Thanks to our amazing supporters, New Melbourne Browncoats have formed a wonderful community of Joss Whedon fans across Victoria and Australia and raised thousands of dollars for charity. As a non-profit, we rely on the kindness of strangers to help us meet our goals of providing a social scene for Browncoats and raising much needed funds for charity. The generous folks below have supported us in a vast number of ways, including donating collectables (which we use to raise money for charity through auctions, raffles and community building), providing gratis or discounted goods and services, and donating equipment and supplies.
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Gifts for the Geek are a local comic book store with a national following. Visit their Geelong store or find them at conventions and online. You’ll get friendly service and great advice on all things comics.
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Elle Babin-Sather is a graphic artist from Canada, who creates wonderful pop culture prints. Her retro Firefly in Technicolor is a must have for all Browncoats.
Olivia Desianti is a Perth based graphic artist. Her popular designs celebrating pop culture favourites are available online and at conventions across Australia.
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Costumes.com.au is one of Australia’s largest online retailers of costumes, accessories and party supplies. Located in Melbourne, they have shipped over 100,000 costume orders to Australia and New Zealand. Costumes are all genuine licensed product, and they stock a great range of TV and movie, Anime, Sci-fi and superhero characters costumes and accessories.
Tank Creates uses new technology such as 3D printing and laser cutting along side more traditional methods such as resin casting, hand folding paper and sewing to create a range of amazing jewellery, accessories and art inspired by pop culture.
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49% Think Economy is Unfair to Hard Workers
Rasmussen Employment Index Matches Six-Year High
68% Say Rewarding Hard Work More Important Than Income Equality
45% Think U.S. Economy Is Fair, Improvement from May
35% Think U.S. Economy Fair to Middle Class
Obama's Positives on Deficit Reduction, Economic Fairness Are Down
49% Think It's Very Fair for Successful Businessmen to Get Rich
Americans have long indicated that they think small business owners are the hardest workers, but they're closely divided now over whether the U.S. economy is fair to these hard workers.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters think the U.S. economy is at least somewhat fair to small business owners, but that includes just 10% who believe it’s Very Fair. Forty-seven percent (47%), though, believe the economy is not fair to small businesses, with 16% who say it’s Not At All Fair. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on June 4-5, 2013 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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Woman Is Refused A Morning After Pill By Pharmacist 'For Personal Reasons'
Ciara Sheppard in Life
A woman was told she couldn't get emergency contraception because it went against the beliefs of the only pharmacist working that day.
Mum Siani visited LloydsPharmacy at Sainsbury's on Lewes Road, Brighton, to get the morning after pill when the pharmacist on duty refused to give it to her due to "personal reasons".
Siani, 41, had preordered the contraception online, paid in advance, and had headed to the store to pick it up on Sunday.
"I rang up from my car before going in to check that it was ready and the woman who answered told me that she will not dispense this type of product for 'personal reasons'," she told Metro.co.uk.
She added: "Honestly, it was the world's largest eye roll. I can handle this, I'm not embarrassed. I'm old and stroppy enough to make a fuss, but what if I was a teenager?"
Credit: Unsplash
Siani was then offered the alternative of returning the next day, or travelling the 10 miles to her next nearest branch in Newhaven.
"I don't really think that is offering any real alternative," she told the paper. "I don't think it's remotely acceptable that LloydsPharmacy created a situation where they discriminate against women by having the only branch in the city that is open on a Sunday staffed by a lone pharmacist who will not dispense women's services."
Siani added: "And I don't think it's acceptable that they will sell a service that their staff refuse to deliver after accepting payment."
Credit: Unsplash/Tbel Abuseridze
The staff member's refusal was technically allowed as part of the GPhC guidelines, that LloydsPharamacy adhere to, which "allow pharmacists to refuse to dispense medication that goes against their personal beliefs" as long as "there is adequate alternative care available for the patient".
In a statement to Pretty52, LloydsPharamacy apologised for the incident, adding: "As part of our own guidance, we encourage our pharmacists to use their professional judgement, but they must always put the patient first. In this case, the pharmacist was a locum pharmacist, not a full time employee. However, we will be communicating to our colleagues to remind them of this guidance.
"If a pharmacist refuses to dispense a particular product, they should contact the local NHS Patient Advisory Team so that an alternate pharmacy can be found as a matter of urgency. On this occasion we contacted the customer with details of another local pharmacy where the product would be made available."
Credit: Pexels
Siani added: "I'm a mum in my 40s, I have very little shame left, but there will be girls having the same experience who have nothing like the resources I do. You expect that sort of nonsense in America, but not here.
"I just can't believe that we don't have a system in place to protect women's access, or that big companies think it's fine to let women be discriminated against just so they can have one person on staff instead of two."
Siani added: "A friend told me about spending all day going from one pharmacy to another and being told no when she was a teenager. It's absolutely horrifying to me.
"We live in a civilised country with one of the best and most efficient health care systems in the world, but women can be discriminated against for basic health care needs because a big company like LloydsPharmacy won't make reasonable accommodation to ensure that where staff are unwilling to dispense medicine, women's access to that medicine is protected."
LloydsPharmacy said it will be investigating the incident further.
Featured Image Credit: Pexels
Topics: Life, Life News, Real Life
Ciara Sheppard
Ciara is a freelance journalist working for Pretty 52. After graduating from the University of Sussex, Ciara worked as a writer at GLAMOUR Magazine and later as the Assistant Editor of Yahoo Style UK.
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Issue #141, December 2007
December 2007 issue of Prospect Magazine (#141)
Aboriginal surprise
Nicolas Rothwell / December 22, 2007
In June, the Australian government tore up 30 years of social and welfare policy towards...
Do we need a literary canon?
Richard Jenkyns / December 22, 2007
Jonathan Sacks is right that we need a common culture, but wrong to think it should be...
Cooler cities
Matthew Lockwood / December 22, 2007
The world's cities are responsible for 80 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, but are...
Taking sport seriously
David Goldblatt / December 22, 2007
Sport has never been more important, but its meaning and appeal are still not taken...
Is global finance out of control?
Robert Wade / December 22, 2007
Have global deregulation and the ascendancy of finance been good or bad for the world...
The Silicon Valley of China
Rob Gifford / December 22, 2007
On my 3,000-mile journey east to west along China's Route 312, I stumble across the giant...
Robert Skidelsky / December 22, 2007
The theorist of "creative destruction," one of the greatest economists of the 20th...
Rowan Moore / December 22, 2007
At the start of Britain's most ambitious housebuilding programme for a generation,...
New thinking on nukes
Ian Kearns / December 22, 2007
Cold warriors like Henry Kissinger are now pushing for a nuclear weapons-free world....
The bias against boys
Charlotte Leslie / December 22, 2007
The feminisation of society is partly to blame for the problem of boys doing badly at...
Marxist populism
Andrew Moravcsik / December 22, 2007
Perry Anderson, Britain's most respected Marxist intellectual, has embraced Eurosceptic...
The genre divide
Tom Chatfield / December 22, 2007
Despite the latest efforts of John Banville, the gulf between genre and literary fiction...
Pakistan's military tycoons
Kamila Shamsie / December 22, 2007
The Pakistani military clings to power partly in order to safeguard its vast economic...
David Goodhart / December 22, 2007
To m any Prospect readers, the idea that sport is not taken seriously in modern Britain...
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A painful confession 2nd November 2007 In his painfully raw "Confessions" (November) on...
News and curiosities
Translation wars We seem to be getting used to the idea of truncating literary classics:...
Will's words
William Skidelsky / December 22, 2007
My f avourite moment in the Coen brothers' comedy The Big Lebowski comes when Jesus...
Grayling's question
AC Grayling / December 22, 2007
What is the status in philosophy of the concept of political correctness? Some of the...
Enigmas and puzzles
Ian Stewart / December 22, 2007
"Is that chocolate? It has a funny shape," said Twindledum. "It's a new kind of chocolate...
In fact
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The advanced liberal
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Ground truths
James Lovelock / December 22, 2007
This is a timely book about earth science which considers both orthodoxy and Gaia theory....
Broadcasting the arts
David Herman / December 22, 2007
John Wyver's superb book charts the rise and fall of arts broadcasting in Britain....
Private view
Ben Lewis / December 22, 2007
The Hayward Gallery's show proves that figurative painting never really died. These...
Mark Cousins / December 22, 2007
Like David Cronenberg's other films, Eastern Promises is about the form of evil, not its...
Martin Kettle / December 22, 2007
Much of our national musical life takes place in church—yet most music critics...
Smallscreen
Christopher Hird / December 22, 2007
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Rachel Oswald
February 06, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Rachel Oswald
CQ Roll Call foreign policy reporter Rachel Oswald discusses her summer 2015 Pulitzer Center-supported reporting trip to Moscow where she focused on how the breakdown in U.S.-Russia strategic relations was impacting nuclear security, arms control, and nonproliferation. In her interviews with retired Russian military officers, former Duma members, and scientists, she was repeatedly told that the potential for a nuclear misunderstanding during a moment of crisis had not been this high since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The breakdown in relations has negatively affected the two countries’ ability to cooperate in securing vulnerable Soviet-era nuclear materials and has harmed prospects for current and future arms control treaties.
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Rachel Oswald is Congressional Quarterly's foreign policy reporter, where she has worked since 2014, covering the intersection of Congress and foreign affairs. Prior to that, she spent five...
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support Red Fang
author AP date 16/01/12 venue Store Vega, Copenhagen, DEN
Looking at the gig calendar for Denmark this year, it will be impossible for me to attend all the awesome concerts taking place without making significant sacrifices in my work, studies and bank balance. Tonight's highly anticipated concert, however, was never open for discussion: Mastodon were coming to Denmark, and I would be there regardless of the circumstances. Although the news that The Dillinger Escape Plan would be supporting the goliath on the UK dates only left me with a slightly bitter taste in my mouth, there was nothing that could conceivably pollute the high expectations I had for this concert.
Red Fang consolidate what we already know to be true of the Danish metal scene: most people here tend only to like death, black, thrash and sludge metal, while everything else is regarded as "emo". As such, it is perhaps unsurprising that Red Fang receive a fantastic welcome, much more so than they did last summer supporting The Ocean at the tiny Templet venue in Lyngby. That performance left me a little cold for its lack of memorabilia, but tonight the band performs with rejuvenated energy and, above all, conviction. Red Fang show both professionalism and humility as they pound through a good 45 minutes of quality sludge with punk, psychedelic and progressive undertones often embellishing the mix. This adds brilliant texture to their music, and helps set them apart in a genre that's becoming increasingly populated by similar sounding bands. In fact, Red Fang are indisputably at their best when they break into a droning, acidic jam or parts that sound unmistakably similar to tonight's headliners. During these parts the band is also at its most energetic, with plenty of headbanging, instrument swinging and impassioned expressions elevating the band's live character above so many of their peers. The crowd is thoroughly entertained, and despite my initial skepticism, I couldn't imagine a better warm-up band for Mastodon.
During their rise to one of the biggest and most popular metal bands of the generation, Mastodon have always taken great pride in challenging conventions, both musically and characteristically. Tonight is no exception: the band pounds through 23 brilliant songs without so much as uttering a word or pausing for a breath. Not many bands can get away with such arrogance, but when executed with an ironic glee, it is surprisingly intriguing, and helps veil the band in mystery. It is partly this air mystery that separates Mastodon from the general mass, and makes songs like "Black Tongue", "Sleeping Giant" and "Crack the Skye" stand out as even more unique.
When Mastodon told the media that their newest album, "The Hunter", was written specifically with concerts in mind, there was some concern that the band might have sold out of their odd intrigue to cater to a wider audience, and while this is certainly true of songs like "Curl of the Burl" and "All the Heavy Lifting", hearing the eight songs selected from it for this tour live gives the band's claims rock hard credibility. They sound absolutely phenomenal live, with particularly "Curl of the Burl" and "Spectrelight" providing some of the standout moments of tonight's performance alongside live staples like "Crystal Skull", "I am Ahab", "Colony of Birchmen", "Aqua Dementia", "March of the Fire Ants" and "Iron Tusk". There isn't a whole lot of physical response from the crowd aside from widespread headbanging, horns and screams of approval, but even so a universal understanding that Mastodon is truly - both live and on album - one of the most influential and inventive metal bands of our time reigns inside the venue.
It resonates from Brent Hinds' and Troy Sanders' sly face expressions and baffling vocal performances; from Brann Dailor's extraordinary drumming skill and unconventional style; and from the band's unbelievable tightness and energy as a unit. No wonder the audience descends into madness come the modern classic "Blood and Thunder": witnessing the power of this song live is an experience beyond description. Sadly that experience falters somewhat upon the band's decision to conclude the set with the worst song off the new album, "Creature Lives", which sees the band invite the members of Red Fang on stage for a massive sing-song in fashion that seems a bit too mainstream for a band like Mastodon. Nonetheless, it is impossible to point a finger at mistakes, deficiencies or discrepancies in the band's performance tonight; with an almost unnatural ease, Mastodon set the standard for concerts to come this year.
01. Dry Bone Valley
02. Black Tongue
03. Crystal Skull
04. I am Ahab
05. Capillarian Crest
06. Colony of Birchmen
07. Megalodon
08. Thickening
09. Blasteroid
10. Sleeping Giant
11. Ghost of Karelia
12. All the Heavy Lifting
13. Spectrelight
14. Curl of the Burl
15. Bedazzled Fingernails
16. Circle of Cysquatch
17. Aqua Dementia
18. Crack the Skye
19. Where Strides the Behemoth
20. Iron Tusk
21. March of the Fire Ants
22. Blood and Thunder
23. Creature Lives
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Pale Misery – Black Candles And Gutter Scum Album Review
Released by: Pale Misery
Released on: May 31st, 2019.
Purchase From Band Camp
This self-released six track EP from Louisiana’s Pale Misery was recorded over two weeks mostly in the band’s home studio (except for the drums, which were recorded in a wood shop!) but it doesn’t matter. A bigger studio production probably would not have resulted in a better recording than this, the band’s first recorded offering. Those who appreciate the whole ‘blackened thrash’ will probably appreciate this crust-punk infused hybrid. The band started out as a duo with only bassist Thorn Letulle and drummer Garret Cantu handling the chores, but sometime later they added guitarist Jacob Neu and filled out their sound.
Devoured opens with a weird Twin Peaks tribute but after that odd spoken word intro just blasts right into your face, the bands mix of crust punk, black metal and thrash laid bare right from the start. Here, over the course of five-minutes, the three piece blasts through an inherently nasty track, laying guttural vocals down overtop of some tight but doomy playing. It’s fast, by heavy, a little sloppy but in all the right ways, more loose than anything else. It’s an impressive way to open the record.
Live Fast And Die carries on the trend laid down by the opener, but it’s doomier, not as fast. Still, those vocals are harsh and dirty, frightening even, delivered with a demonic intensity that goes a long way towards making this three-and-a-half-minute rager one that sticks in your head whether you want it to or not. It ends with a Sabbath-worship session played out with unnervingly droney intensity.
The third track, No Choice, is a three-minute blast, the most hardcore punk inspired track on the album without sounding like anything close to traditional hardcore punk. There’s a definite black metal vein running through this one, as the band channels the tightness of hardcore with the… blackness of black metal to create something unholy but, quite honestly, catch as fuck.
The Only Cure is a three-minute all-out assault, it’s intense right from the opening riff but it never lets up, it just pummels you with insanely fast, tight playing, heavy riffs, killer drums and more demonic, howling vocals. It’s horrifying and wonderful all at the same time.
Quiet opens with a strange sample that continues for just under two-minutes, the band laying down some mellow vibes behind it. This segues into Hope Is A Mistake, the four-and-a-half-minute closer that absolutely crushes. This track features the band at their heaviest and doomiest, just bulldozing anything that gets front of them, crust-punk/blackened vocals overtop of a heavy, sludgy, Iommi-esque parade of riffs. It’s as impressive as it is weighty, plowing you down and completely distraught as the track fades to an ominous close while a weird drone-ish noise fades up and kills the track and the album.
This is a very strong debut. There are times where the drums could have been a bit strong but otherwise, the quality of the recording is solid and the playing and the songwriting very intense. It’s a gloomy, doomy and dark selection of material but this three piece does it well, and it would not be unrealistic to expect great things from this trio in the future.
Tags : album, album reviews, black candles and gutter scum album review, black metal, blackened thrash, crust punk, garret cantu, jacob neu, pale misery, thorn letulle
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Have you been the victim of sexual battery at work? Many woman and even men are the victims of sexual harassment at work. However, sometime the sexual harassment turns into physical touching. All forms of sexual harassment including unwanted physical touching is illegal in California. However, when an employee touches another employee the unwanted touching may violate California law under Sexual Battery Civil Code 1708.5. A California employee commits sexual battery when they intend to touch an intimate part of another employee. The intimate parts of the other employee include sexual organ, anus, groin, or buttocks of any person, or the breast of a female.
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Edge of Sanity - Kur - Nu - Gi - A
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PICTURE DISC REISSUE OF EDGE OF SANITYS FIRST PROPER DEMO ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 1990
Edge of Sanity's first proper demo KUR-NU-GI-A was recorded and released in 1990. It sold well beyond any expectations and gave the band a good reputation in the growing Metal underground. After the release of the demo the band signed to Black Mark and within a year the band had their debut album 'Nothing But Death remains' released.
Singer/Producer Dan Swano had this to say about the release:
"I always felt we grew up a bit too fast, We got caught up in the growing Death Metal scene and tuned down the guitars and bought the 'right' distortion pedals and tried to be the new Entombed. This demo showcases the original sound of Edge of Sanity. During this period we still listened to a lot of progressive and challenging metal of all kinds and I still believe the songs have their true version on this demo. I transferred the original 4 track cassette masters, using state of the art digital technology, and remixed them and finally gave them the sound I dreamt of giving them 21 years ago. The dream of finally having this classic recording released on 12" picture disc has come true. While digging in the vaults, I found a lot more interesting stuff, so expect more 'post mortem' release from Edge of Sanity".
1. Decepted by the Cross 3.38
2. Maze of Existence 4.40
3. Beyond the Unknown 3.41
4. The Day of Maturity 3.32
5. Immortal Souls 3.43
6. Serenade for the Dead 0.52
Label: Black Mark | Item Code: Various | Country: Sweden | Year: 2012 | Genre: Death Metal
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Jose Rizal Tenth Anniversary Screening: A Look Back
Jed Chua 12/24/2008 12:21:00 PM
It was the 20th of December and sad to say, instead of going with the throngs and throngs of people to buy Christmas gifts for our individual families, both of us (Vit and Jed) were going to faraway Antipolo to go to the Tenth Anniversary Screening of Jose Rizal. Both of us were giddy at best as this was a first for us and for our blog. This is a look back on what transpired that Saturday afternoon.
The road we took was Ortigas Extension and was it heavy with traffic. It was almost 2PM and we were still in the Pasig Area. Luckily for us though, traffic soon became less and less heavy and we felt that provincial feeling as buildings turned into trees into mountains (by the way, thanks to the Manong Jeepney driver who showed us the way to MDAFI. As soon as we arrived in MDAFI, we felt that homey feeling. Was this a school or a house? We were surprised on how small it was yet we were amazed on how close the students and faculty were to each other. We soon met up with the MDAFI alumni and RJ Torres of K2IA (who was the one who invited us in the first place so thanks as well!). Fortunately for us, even though we were late, the film event did not start on time. We even had time to buy chocolate crinkles outside the subdivision MDAFI was in. As soon as we came back from that crinkles experience, we met up with our newfound friend, Mighty of Penstalker.
Soon, the filming was about to start and Marilou Diaz-Abaya spoke about the hardships of making Rizal and how the fledging Philippine Cinema from ten years back has now turned into nothing. Each of the cast members spoke as well like Jaime Fabregas and of course, Cesar Montano who starred as Rizal himself. After filming (which was around three hours), we had a simple dinner and then the 8 independent films were shown and finally an FGD (Focused Group Discussion) was done to digest the on goings the whole day.
The whole event took around 9-10 hours to cap off and was it tiring yet very rewarding. What did we learn? Well first, we learned and realized how sad the state of the local film industry has become. Ten years ago, 200-300 films were being put out. Ten years after, we are even lucky to reach a tenth of that amount a year. Second, we also saw how Filipinos can truly match up with Hollywood and international films. Jose Rizal was still astounding to say the least. You won't believe this is a ten year old film. It even beats out the best that came out locally this year and this is not only the cinematography and the writing but the whole shebang like effects and props. Filipinos can truly break the mediocrity box if they try hard and be willing to shell out something. Jose Rizal should be a testament to what local films can become and should become. Unfortunately, instead of going forward we took a lot of steps back. Finally, we learned to hope. Looking at the 8 indie films was something else. You won't believe how the quality and the stories were shown even with the constraints they had on time, effects and money. As Direk Marilou said to us, the key to movies is not the equipment or the budget but to who is doing the film. Truly a great director and a great mentor.
Labels Cesar Montano, Jose Rizal, Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute, MDAFI, press event
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Is there an Over-Supply Of Private Residential Units?
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Page 1 (Supply Pipe Line)
Taking reference from this chart, there will be a shortage of completed units in Year 2020 as only 3958 new units will be completed.
Page 2 - 4 (Research By JLL)
A research by JLL group,
This is to summarise that for there will not have a great impact on the concern of over-supply in Singapore for the next few years to come.
From 2018 till 2022, the average new units available between these 4 years is 11,568 units..
Average yearly take up will be 11,406 units for the past 10 years.
When compare against the past 10 year's take up rate and the projected next 5 year's new unit available, it does not show any over supply of units in Singapore.
Page 5 - 6 (Singapore WhitePaper)
The green charting is the estimated projection proposal from the Government on the population growth. The estimated projection figure when compared to the actual figure, did not differ much in 2017.
The expected population growth for 2019 is 62,000, and take it that each household has an estimate 3.5 pax, in 2019, there will need to have 17,700 new units available.
If we refer this figure of 17,700 units needed with the chart in Page 1, Singapore will actually facing a shortage of units.
This scenario may also bring the price up for resale units, due to the shortage of new completed units.
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Sushil Kumar wins gold at Commonwealth Wrestling
New Delhi: Double Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar made a glorious return to the international arena by clinching a gold medal at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championships in Johannesburg, South Africa today.
Returning to international wrestling after more than three years, Sushil defeated New Zealand's Akash Khullar via a pinfall in the final of the 74kg freestyle category to clinch the yellow metal.
It was his first medal in international wrestling since his gold medal in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
It was double celebration for India as other wrestler in same category, Parveen Rana also won a bronze medal.
Sushil returned to competitive wrestling in November at the Senior Nationals in Indore where he won a gold medal amid controversy after getting three walkovers from his fellow wrestlers.
Incidentally, it was Rana who gave him a walkover in the title clash in Indore, but the duo wrestled this time and Sushil came out on top with a 5-4 victory margin.
In his first bout, Sushil defeated Johannes Petrus Botha of South Africa 8-0 followed by the win over Rana.
Sushil also beat Jasmit Singh Phulka of Canada by fall en route his gold medal.
Soon after the victory, Sushil, who won bronze in 2008 Beijing Olympics and then followed it up with a silver in 2012 London Games, dedicated the win to his motherland and coach.
"It's a very proud and emotional moment for me as I have returned to the mat on international level after a gap of 3years. I want to dedicate this Gold medal won in #Commonwealthwrestlingchampionship at #SouthAfrica to my guru and to my Nation. JaiHind," an emotional Sushil tweeted after his win.
Soon after winning the Nationals, Sushil resigned as a National Observer for wrestling after Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore stated that active sportspersons will not be considered for the position.
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Terms of Reference of the Finance and Staffing Committee
To consist of at least 6 governors, one of whom will act as chair.
The current membership is:
Mr Peter Simpson
Mr Paul Brighouse
Mrs Sarah Rubin
Mrs Jodie McNally
Mr Stephen Ravenscroft
Ms Christine Deacon
Mr Chris Leech
To be appointed by the committee
The governing body can remove the chair at any time.
4 governors
Meetings will be held at least once each term.
The chair can convene extra committee meetings if required but must give at least 7 days clear notice.
To be circulated to all governors one week before the meeting by the chair of the committee. Accompanying papers to be circulated to members of the committee only.
Minutes/ confidential minutes
To be circulated to all members as soon as possible after the date of the meeting, or with the agenda papers for the next full governing body meeting. Minutes to include a brief summary of items discussed, decisions made and/or a record of any proposals/recommendations for the governing body to consider, and clear reasons for decisions taken.
Confidential items related to pay, or individuals, are only to be circulated to members of the committee who are not paid members of staff.
Membership, terms of reference and working procedures to be reviewed annually at the autumn Term governing body meeting.
Finance Function
To ensure that the Schools Financial Value Standard (SFVS) criteria are met at all times and that procedures are in place to ensure this.
To advise and make recommendations on all financial matters.
To ensure that a three year financial plan and or projections, for the school, are in place and to review the plans on an annual basis.
To review and recommend to the governing body the financial delegation policy for approval.
To implement, and monitor, the scheme for financial delegation for the school.
To ensure that all Department for Education and local authority financial regulations are followed and adhered to.
To set the school budget and monitor its implementation and management on a termly basis.
To approve and monitor capital expenditure.
To review and approve any service level agreements and contracts entered into by the school and monitor the service provided.
To monitor the expenditure of specific designated funds.
To receive and approve the audited accounts for the school including the school fund.
To liaise on a regular basis with the staffing committee, with regards to staffing structures, and staff appointments.
To review all financial audit reports for the school and ensure all recommendations are implemented
within the required timescales.
To provide reliable information and make appropriate recommendations and decisions to enable the governing body to comply with required financial regulations.
To ensure that appropriate financial procedures are in place for all other school held funds, including annual audit of the accounts, and the school fund.
Pay Function
To hold an annual meeting (excluding any paid staff but including the HT) to review changes in the pay and conditions arrangements for staff, including the HT’s proposals for teachers’ pay (increments), and where required, the results of consultations with staff and their union representatives.
To hear an informal appeal (as the ‘decision maker’) appeals against teachers’ pay awards as outlined in the school’s pay policy.
To receive recommendations from the HTs Performance Management Review Panel when considering the HTs pay (paid staff of the school and the HT should withdraw for this item).
To consider (following the withdrawal of the HT and other paid members of the school staff from the meeting), the payment of the head teacher for the forthcoming year. Human resources are to be consulted regarding any proposals for changes in the ISR.
To ensure that proper liaison takes place with the city council in respect of the pay function and that procedures are in place for all necessary documentation to be supplied to the council for payroll purposes.
To be circulated only to governors on the committee for ordinary meetings and in accordance with any required timescales within any Human Resources procedure being used, so they are received at least 7 days before the meeting. Accompanying papers for any appointment/hearing also only to be circulated to members of the committee who attend a specific appointment/hearing.
Minutes to be circulated to all committee members for ordinary meetings but for any appointments/hearings only to those members who have served on the committee at that appointment/hearing, and distributed in accordance with the required timescales, within the procedure being used.
Any reports to governors who were not present at a hearing, including the full governing body, to only include a brief summary of the main issues, if appropriate, and a record of any decisions made, and/or proposals/recommendations for the governing body to consider, if appropriate, and that are also not confidential.
Arrangements for any meeting that is a hearing will be made by the school/person appointed as clerk to the hearing. All other
meetings to be arranged by the chair of the committee with the clerk to the committee circulating the agenda and papers to all committee members.
Membership and terms of reference to be reviewed annually at the autumn term governing body meeting.
The Strategic Director for Children’s Services, or his/her representative, have the right to attend any hearing, offer advice prior to, and at any hearing, as appropriate, and subject to any service level agreement that is in place.
The remit of the Staffing Committee will be to deal with any appointments of staff as delegated to it by the governing body, to deal with issues related to staff capability, grievance, disciplinary matters including dismissals (dismissals only where the circumstances apply where the HT cannot make the decision to dismiss). The HT may attend and offer advice at all relevant proceedings.
Specifically, the terms of reference of the Staffing Committee are:
The Staffing Functions
To review, agree and implement the procedures for the recruitment, selection and appointment of teaching and support staff, including those on the leadership pay spine.
The full governing body will seek the appropriate advice and support (this may be from the school Human Resources Adviser, and School Improvement Officer or External Consultant) for the appointment of a HT and Deputy HT.
To review and approve all policies relating to staffing matters as required.
To ensure that procedures are in place for managing staffing issues, through adoption of local authority model policies and to ensure that all staff are made aware of these, including policies for capability, attendance management, disciplinary issues, grievances and redundancies.
To determine the school staffing requirements and establish the annual and longer term salary budgets and other costs relating to staffing matters e.g. training, in accordance with the budgets available.
To approve, monitor and review the school’s performance management policies and procedures and the implementation of the policies. To ensure these policies comply with local and national requirements and that they relate to the school improvement/development processes and the continued professional development of school staff.
Monitor the operation and outcomes of performance management arrangements for all staff every year.
To ensure that opportunities and resources are available for continued
professional development for all staff, and are implemented with reference to the
School Improvement/Development Plan.
To review the staffing structure whenever a vacancy occurs, and at least annually, in relation to the School Improvement/Development Plan.
To review job descriptions and person specifications as appropriate.
To review all staffing related procedures, and adopt/recommend them for
adoption, and to ensure that staff are informed of them.
To contribute to the School Improvement/Development Plan where appropriate.
Staffing powers in exceptional circumstances*
The committee would only in exceptional circumstances make the appointments to posts outside the leadership group for the school. The HT would make the appointments to posts outside the leadership group in normal circumstances and the governing body can nominate a representative to be on appointment panels for these appointments should they feel it appropriate.
The committee would, only in exceptional circumstances make the initial decision to dismiss. The HT has delegated responsibility to make initial dismissal decisions, unless particular circumstances apply whereby the head is unwilling or unable to perform these functions (e.g. they have been directly involved leading up to the dismissal), or there are serious concerns about the performance of the HT.
Associated Documents:
Local and National Conditions of Service regulations and policies.
All relevant employment legislation and directives (including equalities and discrimination legislation).
Safer Recruitment legislation and guidance.
Performance Management guidance 2012
This list is not exhaustive.
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Arun Vijay Wiki, Hight, Weight, Age, Family, Movies and More
Arun Vijay Wiki, Hight, Weight, Age, Family, Movies and More:- Arun Vijay is an Indian Actor, Playback Singer, and a Stunt coordinator. He was born on 19 November 1975. Arun is known for his work on If You Know Me (2015), Thadayara Thakka (2012) and Pandavar Bhoomi (2001). He is also a stunt coordinator in most of his films. He is the only son of veteran film actor Vijayakumar and has been active in Tamil film industry since 1995. Arun Vijay has his license to the skydive from the United States Parachute Association. Arun Vijay had the desire towards acting since childhood.
About of Arun Vijay Family and Study
Father – Vijayakumar(Actor)
Mother – Muthukkannu
Stepmother – Manjula Vijayakumar
Brother – N/A
Sisters – Kavitha, Vanitha, Sridevi, Preetha
He studied at Don Bosco Matriculation Primary School, Egmore. After completing his schooling, he has joined Loyola college for his higher studies. Arun Vijay’s stepmother is also an actress Manjula Vijayakumar, who played the lead roles in more than 100 films in the 1970s, while his half-sisters Vanitha, Preetha, and Sridevi have also appeared in several films.
Some Facts About of Arun Vijay
Arun Vijay becomes born into a film family because of the exceptional son of actor Vijayakumar and first partner Muthukannu.
He is the simplest son of veteran film actor Vijayakumar and has been energetic in the Tamil movie enterprise because of the truth that 1995.
The nineteen seventies, at the equal time as her sister Vanitha, Preetha and Sridevi have seemed in numerous movies.
To advantage his purpose of turning into an actor, Arun’s father encouraged him to participate in commands for extracurricular sports activities sports including dancing, swimming, skating and horseback riding.
He studied on the don Bosco matriculation number one school, Egmore, after finishing his education, Arun joined Loyola college for his better studies.
Arun had said that he had released this organization to find out and offer an opportunity to formidable and gifted more youthful people.
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John Reynolds asked Knights Over Europe Producer Mathew 'JP4' Herman and the Aspect Simulations development team questions about the highly anticipated WWI flight sim now in progress. The team sent along five exclusive new screenshots that show the development progress. This is the first in a series of updates we will be featuring as KOE progresses. Click on the images below to see full screen versions.
Q: What's the nature of the main campaign? Is it dynamic or are the missions linear? And will there be a career builder or storyline in the campaign? And which years will be covered by the campaign?
A: One of our fundamental goals is to offer a game thats historically authentic with outstanding re-playability. The campaign will be fully dynamic with a focus on the players career as an aviator (i.e., kills, medals, promotions, transfers to hot squadrons, fame and glory, etc.) Just as in the real war, the ground battles will be a canvass upon which the missions will unfold. In other words, the ground war will create the impetus for squadron movements and the rationale for mission objectives. It will also serve as a reflection of how well you, your squadron and your side are doing, depending on the mode of play. There will be two modes of campaign play:
In Historic Mode, the campaign will depict the major events of WWI as they unfolded. Battles will occur when and where they did and the Germans are destined to loose, with the war ending on November 11, 1918. Despite strict adherence to the major historical events, the missions will still be dynamically generated and the localized success or failure of you and your squadron will still be dynamically represented. Remember, too, that the focus of campaign play is on you and your career, so your goal will be score kills, win medals, get promotions and transfers to hot squadrons, and gain international fame and glory. The outcome of the war is secondary. The most famous ace of WWI was Manfred Von Richthofen, and people dont care that his side lost the war.
In Authentic Mode, however, the campaign will deviate from strict historical events, but still in a plausible and authentic manner. Major battles may occur at other times and locations, and the outcome of the war will be unknown. The most important aspect is that your activities will influence the outcome of the war. No, you, as a single pilot, cant directly or overtly determine the outcome of the war that would be stupid and certainly not historically plausible but your successes and failures will set a general tone for your side. In other words, a good player can fly for the Germans and actually have a chance to see the Central Powers defeat the Triple Entente. Were even toying with the idea of allowing the Americans, on occasion, to enter the war on the side of Germany (Mexican intrigue notwithstanding). Just remember, Authentic Mode will be an option, so those who prefer strict history will be happy, but those who like what if scenarios will also be thrilled.
Q: Will Knights Over Europe ship with a mission editor? Will there be an option for players to create their own squadron logos and skins? Will there be a recorder for mission playback?
A: KOE will definitely ship with a mission editor, with all the features youd expect, like flight plan editing, asset assignment, etc. There wont be built-in support for creating your own squadrons (that would conflict with historical accuracy) but skins are another matter. Regardless, the user community always finds a way, so Im sure people will be creating their own squadrons, if they want.
As for a mission recorder, Im glad you referred to it that way. Older pilots may recall that the original Red Baron had a VCR that recorded everything and let you play it back, even jumping in at any point. That was a nice feature, but only practical in a game that had a handful of planes, flying around in a small area, with little else going on. RBII did not have a VCR because the scope and complexity of its world was too complex. KOE will be even more complex, but were still planning on having ways to review missions and, more important, to tie missions together in the campaign. This will be done in ways that are historically accurate.
This doesnt mean were opposed to adding features that people expect, but dont really add to the authenticity of the experience. However, the campaign and missions will be extremely dynamic in KOE and have that one more time quality about them. Thus, we expect people to spend far less time reviewing old glories in favor of getting up there and creating new ones.
Q: Will there be multiplayer options for Internet and LAN? If so, will there be a co-op option? What's the maximum # of players supported in multiplayer?
A: KOE will ship with multiplayer support for both LAN and Internet play. We arent ready to reveal the specifics yet, however we can confirm one key feature that many fans have already picked up on from our screen shots the ability to hot seat into crew positions during a flight. This feature will be operable in both single and multiplayer games.
Q: How large will the dogfights be (i.e., number of planes in the air)? Will there be any historic battles on the ground? If so, will players be able to bomb targets or strafe infantry in trenches?
A: The size of dogfights will largely be a factor of how many planes are operating in a given area. Since the Western Front was a densely packed area, we expect some dogfights to become quite large, especially later in the war, just as they really did.
As mentioned earlier the game will be historically authentic, this will be reflected in both the action on the ground war and aircraft ordinance. As a result, there will be plenty of action for players who prefer the air-to-ground role.
Q: Have the number of planes being modeled fixed yet? If so, how many different aircraft can players fly in the game? How much work/research is being done to model individual flight characteristics of the different planes?
A: We cant divulge all the specific airplanes, just yet, but players can expect to fly planes in KOE, which heretofore have only been seen as computer controlled targets in other WWI simulations.
Faithfully recreating the flight characteristics of each plane has been one of our fundamental goals for the project. We take our hats off to the way our flight model accomplishes this. It starts with fundamental data that has little ambiguity like: weight, physical dimensions, airfoil, etc. That data is then processed by the flight model using very sophisticated aerodynamic and physics formulae. This allows each aircrafts characteristics to fall out naturally without forcing each to conform to sometimes-contradictory performance plots. This also means that aerodynamic fidelity extends beyond the normal flight envelope and into departure realms.
The net result is that each aircraft ends up with its own authentic personality, very accurately modeled. The Camel is a nimble, borderline unstable fighter while the Albatros is a steady weapons platform. To make sure we have everything correct we compare our results to actual pilot accounts whenever possible. Obviously, the approach is far more complicated than we can describe in a paragraph, but the effect is truly amazing.
Q: How advanced does Aspect Simulations feel the graphics engine will be compared to other modern sims? Does it support any advanced features? What APIs does the game support? How much detail will be present on the terrain for low flyers?
A: Our graphics engine is based on the recently released DirectX9 API and we feel it is quite competitive with other current sims. We have implemented many advanced features and take full advantage of current technologies such as vertex shaders, pixel shaders and more. The aircraft of "Knights Over Europe" spent much of their time at relatively low altitudes and we have designed our terrain engine with this in mind.
Q: Has Aspect secured a publisher for Knights Over Europe? And, last, when is the game currently expected to ship?
A: We are pleased to announce that we have secured a publisher for Knights Over Europe. A press release announcing the relationship will be made in the near future. We originally projected a late Q2 release but our publisher has already scheduled KOE for a Q4 2004 release. Very nice! Aside from the seasonal advantage, the extra time will allow us to include additional features and polish KOE to a much more glossy finish.
Thanks again team for taking the time for these questions. We definitely look forward to learning more about Knights Over Europe as the group progesses with the sim's development.
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Moody's affirms UAE's Aa2 rating; outlook stable
SINGAPORE, March 26, 2019
Moody's Investors Service has today (March 26) affirmed the long-term issuer rating of the Government of the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) at Aa2.The outlook remains stable.
The rating affirmation is supported by the following key rating factors:
1. Moody's assumption of unconditional support from Abu Dhabi (Aa2 stable) to the federal government.
2. Strong credit fundamentals including very high fiscal strength, with a broadly balanced budget and negligible or very low federal government debt, high wealth levels and robust institutions.
The stable outlook indicates that the risks to the ratings are broadly balanced supported by the stable outlook on the Abu Dhabi sovereign rating, upside potential from continuing diversification efforts, and constrained by lingering government-related entity contingent liabilities and geopolitical tensions.
The UAE's long-term and short-term foreign-currency bond and deposit ceilings remain unchanged at Aa2 and Prime-1, respectively. The UAE's long-term local-currency bond and deposit ceilings also remain unchanged at Aa2.
Ratings rationale
Unconditional continued support from Abu Dhabi
The affirmation of the Aa2 rating incorporates Moody's view that the government of Abu Dhabi, the wealthiest of the seven Emirates that comprise the UAE, stands fully behind the federal government of the UAE.
This view is supported by strong institutional linkages and the Abu Dhabi government's substantial and continued financial contribution to the federal budget.
The federal budget derives over a quarter of its revenues in the form of grants from Abu Dhabi. The Emirate's strong financial position, which Moody's expects to be maintained, will support the federal government's revenues. Moody's forecasts Abu Dhabi's government budget to be in deficit but close to balance in 2019 and 2020, after transfers to the federal government, before moving into surplus in 2021 and 2022 as oil production increases sharply on the back of planned upstream investments.
Moody's projects no or very low federal government debt in the foreseeable future and very high fiscal strength for the UAE, even as new debt issuance powers have recently been bestowed to the federal government.
The federal government retains 30 per cent of the revenue raised from VAT, introduced in January 2018. Moreover, established revenue sources are also likely to remain robust. Royalties and dividends from the telecommunications sector will continue to benefit from the providers' privileged position in the domestic UAE market.
Although government fee revenues are unlikely to increase significantly given the recent commitment to freeze fee increases as part of recent efforts to support economic activity in the private sector, current sources of revenue will broadly balance expenditure, if oil prices remain around their current levels in line with Moody's assumption.
The UAE's rating continues to be supported by very high wealth levels
GDP per capita of around $68,646 in 2017 on a PPP-adjusted basis provides significant shock absorption capacity to the economy. Although real GDP growth has slowed since the oil price shock, Moody's forecasts real GDP growth to average 3.2 per cent over 2019 and 2020, which will maintain very high income levels. Domestically, growth in the private sector should benefit from the economic reforms taken at federal and emirate level as well as higher fiscal spending under Abu Dhabi's three year stimulus package. Externally, a gradual easing of fiscal restraint in Saudi Arabia (A1 stable) should also be supportive of non-oil goods and services exports. However, a more robust acceleration in growth will be constrained by oil prices staying around their current levels.
The UAE's rating is also supported by robust institutions. The UAE's current position in the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) marks a significant improvement from 2010, reflecting improvements in competitiveness underpinned by business environment reforms such as the new foreign direct investment law and recent changes to the visa framework to create long-term visas for investors as well as key specialist professionals and exceptional students.
Stronger regulation and tightened underwriting practices introduced after the 2008 financial crisis have helped to lower the risks to the banking system from the real estate sector. However, the availability and timely publication of macroeconomic and fiscal data, particularly at the Emirates level, falls short of other Aa-rated governments, potentially hampering policy effectiveness.
Moody's affirms Abu Dhabi's Aa2 rating
Moody’s has also affirmed the long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings of the Government of Abu Dhabi at Aa2. The outlook remains stable.
Moody's has affirmed the short-term issuer rating at P-1, and the long-term and short-term MTN programme ratings at (P) Aa2 and (P) P-1, respectively.
Moody’s says that the affirmation of Abu Dhabi's Aa2 ratings is supported by its expectations that the sovereign's fiscal strength will remain very high, with very low government debt and vast sovereign assets. Prospects for a medium-term increase in economic activity and revenue from the hydrocarbon sectors and reforms aimed at developing the non-oil sector also support the ratings.
The stable outlook indicates that the risks are broadly balanced, supported by current oil prices and upside potential from continuing diversification efforts, and constrained by lingering government-related entity contingent liabilities and geopolitical tensions.– TradeArabia News Service
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Halls of Montezuma (Marine's Hymn)
From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli
We will fight our country's battles, on the land as on the sea
First to fight for right and freedom, and to keep our honor clean
We are proud to claim the title of United States Marines
Our flag's unfurled to every breeze from dawn to setting sun
We have fought in every clime and place where we could take a gun
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You will find us always on the job, the United States Marines
Here's a health to you and to our corps, which we are proud to
In many a strife we've fought for life, and never lost our nerve
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July 21, 2012: Emails possibly relating to Huma Abedin are later redacted for information that could disclose investigative techniques and endanger lives.
Eric Boswell, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, sends an email to Joseph MacManus, executive assistant to Clinton, and Patrick Kennedy, under secretary of state for management, with the subject heading: “Threat.” All of the several lines of text in the email are later redacted. There are several classification codes justifying the redaction, including one for information that would “disclose investigative techniques” and one for information that would “endanger life or physical safety of any individual.”
Executive Assistant Joseph MacManus (Credit: Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters)
MacManus then forwards the email to Clinton with the subject heading: “Re: Huma.” Huma Abedin is Clinton’s deputy chief of staff. (US Department of State, 12/31/2015)
A couple of days earlier, five Republican Congresspeople accused Abedin of having family members tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, so this threat might somehow relate to that. (The accusations are widely dismissed in the mainstream media.) (CBS News, 7/19/2012)
On the same day, there is another email chain started by State Department diplomatic security official David Gallagher. It might be related, but all the substantial content is redacted, including the subject headings. All of Gallagher’s comments in two emails are redacted for the same above-mentioned reasons of disclosing investigative techniques and endangering lives. A comment in the chain from Abedin and CCed to Clinton is also later redacted for threatening to disclose investigative techniques. (US Department of State, 12/31/2015)
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D23 Unveils PBS documentary American Experience: Walt Disney
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When a person says Walt Disney, a lot of images spring to mind: Disneyland and Disney World, classic animated features, and Main Street USA. But who was the real man behind the mouse ears?
His vision launched a thousand movies into the film industry. Can anyone imagine not knowing the cinematic beauty of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Cinderella, or even Sleeping Beauty? Imagine no Bambi, Thumper, or Flower decorating bedrooms for decades. Or no pictures of 1950s boys in raccoon skin hats.
Western and American experiences in consumerism are deeply tied to Walt Disney’s perfectionism. And at the bi-annual D23 expo, The Disney Company revealed a PBS documentary that’s about to hit the small screen.
American Experience: Walt Disney sets out to examine what drove the businessman to such heights, according to the official fan club. After all, Saturday night movies around the television set began when Walt’s company and ABC teamed up. Without Disneyland, ABC may not have reached the same amount of success. In fact, the companies’ history goes back forty years before merging.
Why did Disney run to ABC for exclusive rights on the beginning of Disneyland and the suburban dream of visiting the most magical place on earth? Mutual benefit seemed to help the show go on, especially when Disney was over budget and out-of-time in getting Disneyland up and running.
Produced by Don Hahn, the two-part, four-hour documentary will tell what people experienced as the entertainment juggernaut launched. Featured in the documentary, the producer feels objectivity is absolutely mandatory when looking at what made Disney tick.
“It’s a journalistic exercise, a third-person look at this man’s life.” American Experience interviews those who worked with the creator. All the way back to Snow White and as current as his death in the 1960s.
Hahn was joined by Walt Disney producer and director Sarah Colt, Walt Disney Archives Director Becky Cline, and Disney biographer Neal Gabler at the Stage 28 presentation. Premiering September 14-15, the documentary looks to be less Saving Mr. Banks and more critical of what the true experience was really like.
Colt discusses the “long process” of creating Disney’s first hit, calling it “a really fun experience.” Noting how the artists “remember the long hours and the excitement of the project and the craziness of getting it all done on time.” Even reticent illustrators connect with American Experience, to show the real impact of Walt Disney—including legendary Marty Sklar.
Film will feature never before seen footage from Art Babbitt’s personal 16 mm collection #waltdisneypbs #D23Expo
— MousePlanet at D23 (@MPatD23Expo) August 16, 2015
Remarkably, the film will feature rare looks inside the Disney vault. Anyone who remembers the Iron Man 2 scene where Howard Stark is speaking to Tony on camera will see the similarities of Walt Disney’s own paternalistic appeal to audiences. Even as darker demons urged the leader forward at times.
Speaking to PBS, Executive Producer Mark Samuels explained why the film is so important. “Walt Disney is an entrepreneurial and cultural icon. No single figure shaped American popular culture in the 20th century more than he.”
When Disney died in 1966, 240 million people saw a Disney movie, 100 million tuned into a television program, 80 million bought merchandise, and close to seven million visited Disneyland. Seems Samuels is right about the amount of cultural influence.
Look at how big the company’s grown; devouring and assimilating products like the Muppets, Marvel, and Star Wars.
Our #WaltDisneyPBS panel with the legendary Richard Sherman. Watch the doc Sep. 14 & 15 on @PBS! #D23Expo pic.twitter.com/Z8JdRACNQi
— American Experience (@AmExperiencePBS) August 16, 2015
Disney runs the world entertainment industry. But will the documentary talk about the negatives, not just the positives?
PBS seems to think so. They’re banking on the critics tuning in as much as the fans. After all, this is the same man who called his employees “communists” after striking from unreasonable requests. Relentless drive created one of the most historic brands, but cost people a lot of sanity and patience, too.
Colt describes Disney in less abrasive terms, citing “an extremely complex man” based on his own experiences. “Beginning with his childhood, which was dark in many ways. He seemed to alternate between darkness and a certain kind of lightness.”
Gambler delves even deeper on how to create an international brand that doesn’t seem to stop innovating customer experiences. “What did this guy understand about the human psyche?”
PBS aims to answer the question in an honest, deep look into the life of the man behind the mouse on September 14 and 15 in American Experience: Walt Disney.
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Giants spoil no-hitter, win with walk-off shot
Rookie Ross Stripling, who had never pitched above Double-A, was removed after throwing 7 1/3 no-hit innings in his Major League debut for the Dodgers on Friday night, and all he had to show for it was a no-decision as Brandon Crawford homered off Joe Blanton leading off the bottom of the 10th for a 3-2 Giants win.
Stripling was lifted by manager Dave Roberts after walking Angel Pagan with his 100th pitch and replaced by Chris Hatcher to a chorus of boos from the sellout crowd at AT&T Park. The most pitches Stripling had made since 2014 Tommy John surgery was 93 last year.
"It was the right decision," Stripling said.
• Tiring Stripling agrees with exiting no-hitter
The first batter Hatcher faced, Trevor Brown, homered on a 3-1 fastball to tie the game. Before the inning was over, Roberts was ejected by plate umpire Jeff Kellogg for arguing balls and strikes.
"I've got to make a better pitch there," said Hatcher.
The only player in MLB history to throw a no-hitter in his debut is Bumpus Jones, who did it for Cincinnati on Oct. 15, 1892.
• Roberts: Pulling Stripling an easy call
On a rainy and cool night, Stripling validated the club's decision to make him the fifth starter after injuries sidelined Hyun-Jin Ryu, Brandon Beachy and Mike Bolsinger. Stripling won the job in late spring competition with Zach Lee and Carlos Frias.
The 26-year-old Stripling was backed by four hit-robbing defensive plays.
Meanwhile, the Dodgers offense strung together two-strike hits in a two-run fifth inning off Giants starter Matt Cain. Joc Pederson, after falling behind 0-2, doubled and was singled home by A.J. Ellis. With two outs, Chase Utley and Corey Seager singled on 1-2 pitches, Seager's driving in Ellis.
The Giants managed to win a game in which they collected just two hits. Both, obviously, were essential as well as surprising. Brown's homer was the first of his big league career and just his eighth in five professional seasons. Crawford victimized Blanton despite hitting only .167 (2-for-12) off the right-hander entering Friday.
"I know I haven't hit him well in the past," Crawford said. "He's mixed on me and gotten me off-balance. I haven't had a whole lot of solid contact against him, so I just wanted to be aggressive and try to put a good swing on it."
• Brown's first homer a curtain-call moment
Crawford, who received his Silver Slugger Award in a pregame ceremony for being the National League's top offensive shortstop last year, wasn't fully certain that he had connected solidly enough off Blanton. But after homering 21 times in 2015, Crawford had some clue that he hit Blanton's 1-0 pitch well enough, despite stroking an opposite-field drive to left.
"I thought I had a pretty good shot," Crawford said. "If that one wasn't going out, then I'm not hitting an 'oppo' this year. I knew I hit it well."
MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
Cain can: Giants starter Matt Cain performed capably, yielding two runs and six hits in six innings.
"It's something I want to ride into the rest of the season," Cain said.
One of his lapses in the fifth inning, when he yielded both of Los Angeles' runs, occurred against the bottom of the order. Ellis, batting .111 and hitting eighth, broke a scoreless tie by lining a one-out single to score Pederson, who led off the inning with a double.
• Cain turns in encouraging season debut
Web gems: To keep Stripling's no-hitter intact, the Dodgers were running around on defense like crazy. Outfielders Yasiel Puig and Joc Pederson made diving catches and Scott Van Slyke made a long running one. Stripling helped himself by fielding Crawford's bunt, with first baseman Adrian Gonzalez picking the one-hopper flawlessly.
Unsung heroes: San Francisco's bullpen delivered another stingy effort as five relievers combined to allow three hits and walk one batter in four innings. Rookie left-hander Josh Osich endured the most adventurous outing, loading the bases in the eighth inning after retiring the first two hitters. Osich ended the threat by retiring Pederson on a grounder to first base.
Baez rebounds: Dodgers reliever Pedro Baez, who served up a grand slam to Hunter Pence on Thursday, struck out Pence on Friday night, one of two strikeouts Baez had in a perfect ninth inning.
"I'm really proud of him, excited for the future and for what he can be as a Major League pitcher and excited to catch him going forward. On the flip side, devastated for the way this one turned out." -- Ellis on Stripling's debut
Dodgers: Clayton Kershaw resumes his friendly rivalry with Madison Bumgarner on Saturday in a 1:05 p.m. PT game. Kershaw, coming off seven scoreless innings in San Diego on Opening Day, is 16-7 with a 1.54 ERA in 30 career starts against the Giants and 9-3 with a 1.16 ERA in 14 starts at AT&T Park.
Giants: San Francisco's offense has yet to find consistency, scoring 12 runs in a game twice and mustering eight in the other three. The Giants likely will struggle to regain their equilibrium in Saturday's 1:05 p.m. PT contest against Kershaw, who has thrived against them throughout his career.
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Ross Lyon fears Nat Fyfe could leave Fremantle Dockers if club has no plan
Nat Fyfe is working hard towards a 2017 return for Fremantle. Photo: FacebookFremantle coach Ross Lyon has warned fans that he believes superstar Nat Fyfe could leave the club if it does not convince him it has a plan for future success.
Speaking on Fox Footy's On the Couch on Monday night, Lyon said he knows the 2015 Brownlow Medallist loves the club but he craves success like any other AFL player.
"He is really exerting his leadership and energy around the club," Lyon said of the 24-year-old.
"How he spoke when he won the Brownlow, he loves the Fremantle Football Club, but in saying that he wants to build success."
Lyon acknowledged the importance of including all personnel and supporters in building towards a premiership.
"You've got to bring everyone along for the journey like when the Hawks did it — board members, fans, members and your best players and leaders because they've got to buy into the plan," Lyon said.
"If Nathan believes in that plan coming his way, he'll be here, I've got no doubt.
"If he doesn't believe in the plan, and we don't bring him along, he'd be a chance to leave."
Fyfe's season ended in round five with a leg fracture - one of a number of disasters that hit Fremantle this year as they plummeted out of premiership contention with 10 straight losses from the season opener.
After that loss to Carlton, Lyon said the club had to re-stump, re-wire and re-plumb, with chief executive Steve Rosich last weekend outlining a plan for the Dockers to recruit heavily through the next three to four national drafts as they rebuild their playing list.
"We could load up and attract free agents and uncontracted players, but if that failed then you'd be in a real hole," Lyon said.
"We want to take care of the present and the future at the same time.
"We don't want to sell the farm, either ... we would still like to play finals next year.
"We think it's possible - anything's possible."
Fremantle (3-11) will miss the finals this season for the first time since Lyon took over as coach at the end of 2011. But the former St Kilda mentor, who boasts a 63 per cent winning ratio at the Dockers, believes the club can contend in 2017 with a healthier list.
The club can expect key players Fyfe, Aaron Sandilands (ribs), Michael Johnson (knee/hamstring), Harley Bennell (calf) and Alex Pearce (leg) to return next year, though Pavlich, 34, is certain to retire at the end of this season.
Lyon said Pavlich planned to play the rest of the season before retiring, despite suggestions he should be given an early send-off game.
The Dockers legend will play against Melbourne in Darwin on Saturday night but managed throughout the rest of the season and unlikely to make the trip to Gold Coast in round 18.
Meanwhile Fyfe told Channel Seven on Monday night he won't know until next season whether the decision to take the whole year off to allow his fractured leg to heal properly was the right one.
Fyfe's fractured left fibula was the same bone injured in last year's preliminary final loss against Hawthorn.
He had surgery to have another plate inserted in the days after the injury. There was a possibility that Fyfe could play again this season with the plate still in his leg but it was decided he would get the plate removed and sit out the remainder of the year.
Fremantle's likely next captain said he feels fit enough to play now but he will have the plate removed in a couple of weeks and said time would tell if the right decision was made.
"We won't know until next year, but a year off this year will hopefully give me some longevity in my career and have me ready to really attack next year and return to my best footy, which I've got every intention of doing," Fyfe said.
"I'm fit and strong and if I wasn't getting the plates removed I'd be playing footy by now.
"But the way we've gone, in a couple of weeks I'll have the surgery, have the plates taken out and start again on my rebuild for 2017."
Fyfe has been in Fremantle's coaching box and around the team on match days in recent weeks helping the club's young midfield group.
He is part of the Dockers leadership group and said the mentoring role had kept him engaged during his time out with injury.
"It just reminds me and invigorates me and lets me know how powerful my influence can be," Fyfe said.
"I've had great mentors and leaders throughout my footy journey and I feel I've got an important leadership role to keep engaged, keep giving back to these young guys because we've got some genuine stars coming through. It's my job to nurture them to the top."
Teammate Lachie Neale said last week that Fyfe had been a critical sounding board for him this year and the two-time AFL Players' Association MVP provided a unique perspective for the players.
"He's been great.. he comes in at half-time and at the breaks and speaks to the midfielders," Neale said.
"He's been great for me and Connor Blakely has been speaking to him at the breaks as well.
"He just gives us more of a player's perspective, instead of hearing from the coaches all of the time.
"He sees the game a bit differently to what Marc Webb (Freo Dockers midfield coach) might, or what Ross (Lyon) might.
"It's been fantastic for him to come in and give us some tips and give us some areas to grow and also some positive affirmations as well throughout the game."
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Brisbane radio ratings: Ash, Kip and Luttsy claim breakfast
Breakfast hosts Ash, Kip and Luttsy have helped Nova to its first overall ratings win this year. Photo: Supplied 612 ABC's Spencer Howson.
Nova's Ash, Kip and Luttsy have received an audience resurgence and toppled ABC's Spencer Howson from the top of the breakfast radio pile.
The Nova team saw an audience growth of 2.2 points while Howson shed almost the same amount, dropping back to second.
97.3's Robin, Terry and Bob also saw a massive chunk of their listeners switch off, dropping 2.6 points.
Overall Nova breakfast has a 13.5 point audience share, nearly a full point ahead of Howson and more than two points ahead of 97.3.
Nova was also the only locally produced show that saw major gains at breakfast with every other station either losing share or holding relatively steady.
With Nova making its way to the top the current breakfast leaderboard looks like this: Nova's Ash, Kip and Luttsy - 13.5ABC's Spencer Howson - 12.897.3's Robin, Terry and Bob - 11.4Hit105's Abby, Stav and Osher Gunsberg - 9.4Triple M's Ed and Marto - 9.1
The breakfast gain also helped Nova win the overall ratings for the first time this year.
The station's audience share Monday to Sunday between 5am and midnight is an impressive 14.3 points, well clear of 97.3, which had won overall in every survey this year, on 11.6 points.
The fourth survey of the year saw gains for Nova in every key timeslot except weekends where, they lost a 0.8 point audience share.
Nova's networked evening shows - Smallzy's Surgery and Late Nights with Jason Smith, saw a massive increase of 4.9 points.
The good news for Nova was bad news for 97.3 with the ARN station shedding big numbers in every key timeslot while Austereo's decision to have Osher Gunsberg phone the show in from Sydney, which helped them gain audience at the start of the year, seems to be another failed experiment from the struggling station.
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Brisbane CBD ‘one-punch’ accused breaks down in court
Paramedics treat Mark English, allegedly coward punched on Ann Street in the Brisbane CBD. Photo: Jorge Branco Lawyer Brendan Beavon leaves Brisbane Magistrates Court after his client Morgan Alexander Isles-English appeared, charged with punching his father in Brisbane's CBD. Photo: Jorge Branco
A man charged with an alleged one-punch attack on his father, who is now fighting for life in hospital, has broken down in emotional scenes in a Brisbane court.
"I love you Mum," Morgan Alexander Isles-English, 25, yelled out as his case went before a magistrate on Tuesday morning.
"I love you too," she mouthed back.
The Teneriffe man, dressed in a prison-issue tracksuit, paced back and forth and bumped his head against the glass in the dock as his lawyer, Brendan Beavon, asked for the case to be adjourned.
Mr Isles-English held his head in his hands and sobbed loudly as he faced court on one charge of grievous bodily harm over the alleged attack in the Brisbane CBD on Monday.
His father, named as Mark English but referred to in court documents as Mark Bradley McGrice, was in an induced coma in the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital after being scheduled for surgery overnight.
The Gold Coast man was walking along Ann Street opposite Central train station with his partner, Varri Telfer, about 4pm Monday, when his son spotted them and allegedly attacked.
Ms Telfer said the men hadn't seen each other for four years.
Police said the 25-year-old Teneriffe man had a "brief verbal exchange" with the couple before punching his dad in the mouth.
The Gold Coast man fell backwards and was knocked out when his head hit the concrete.
His partner and passersby administered first aid until paramedics arrived, when he remained lying face down on the path for minutes as they assessed his injuries.
Shortly after the incident, she said Mr English was breathing but hadn't spoken.
Mr Isles-English's lawyer and his supporter both declined to comment as they left court.
The accused did not apply for bail and the matter was adjourned until August 15 for a mention.
Five held over brutal Newport bashing that fractured young man’s skull
Police are investigating a brutal attack in Newport. Mason Street, Newport, near the scene of the alleged assault. Photo: Google Maps
Five men have been arrested over a brutal attack in Melbourne's west that left a teenager in hospital with a fractured skull.
The victim's mother, Michelle McIver, said her son and two friends were walking down Mason Street in Newport about 1am on Sunday when they were "hunted down" by the men in a car.
Ms McIver said the offenders demanded one of the boys hand over his phone, wallet, jacket and shoes while a sharp object, believed to be a knife, was held to his throat.
She said her son, who had nothing of value on him, was set upon and bashed with some kind of metal bar.
"These animals did not leave one bruise or mark on any part of my son's body [other than his head]," she posted on Facebook on Monday.
"They went at his head from behind with what his friends believe to have been some sort of metal bar [or] baseball bat and then when he was semiconscious with their boots to his face."
Ms McIver said her son suffered a fractured skull, eight broken teeth and a swollen eye.
He remains in hospital after undergoing surgery and has no memory of the attack, she said.
The Williamstown woman said the attack was "so brutal you may have seen my son's pool of blood left on the pavement" in the street where he was bashed.
She appealed for anyone with information to contact Altona North Police Station.
In a statement, police said the victims were allegedly chased into Laurie Street and assaulted.
The five men were arrested on Tuesday morning in High Street, Reservoir after calls to police about a suspect car at a service station.
The men are helping with inquiries, the police statement said.
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Parents ‘fearful’ of killer canines
A SHAKEN Wagga resident has blasted irresponsible animal owners after two poorly restrained dogs escaped their property and went on a "petkilling spree" last week.
Council rangers issued the owners of two escapee American Mastiff dogs with a number of infringements, but locals who felt the brunt of their "frenzied roaming" have demanded acity-widecrackdown.
Mount Austin's Rachel Pettit broke her silence to The Daily Advertiser after the loose dogs massacred two of her neighbour's pets.
She stressed the urgency for council, and even police, to punish owners who fail to properly contain their animals.
“My neighbour saw her little dog get slaughtered–she looked out the back door and saw a bloodied big black and white dog standing on top of hers,” she said.
“They also managed to kill my other neighbour’s cat, which I found yesterday in my backyard.
"When I saw the dead cat I thought to myself, ‘that could have been one of my children’.My two-year-old loves to jump around and I hate to think what could have happened if he was out there playing.”
The cat was killed during the attack andwhile the small dog survived the immediate onslaught, itlater had to be euthanised.
Ms Pettit said she had the terriblejob of wrapping the cat in a towel and giving it to her neighbours to bury.
Break-in victim Blake Cullen, whose guard dogdefended his property from burglars two months ago, said it was important thedogs weren’tpunished simply for being aggressive.
“People are quick to throw the blame but if we punish dogs for being defensive, you’ll see more and more homes get robbed,” he said.
“My property was saved by my dog.You have to blame the owners, it’s their job to keep them restricted.”
Wagga City Council confirmed the “alleged dog attack”had taken place last week and said investigations are “still ongoing”.
“Dog attacks are best prevented when a dog is secured in a yard or restrained on a leash when in a public place,” a spokesperson said.
“These are both responsibilities of the dog owner and outlined in the Companion Animals Act.”
If a dog is found roaming, owners face a fine of $220.Fordog attacks, owners can be fined $550or have the matter referred to court.
Residents can report roaming animals by phoning council’s 24-hour call centre on1300 292 442.
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Me Too SeriesJoanna Valente January 30, 2018 MW Murphy, me too, poetry
MW Murphy: #MeToo Series
there in the grass
almost burnt cigarette nub tight between thin fingers
she sits in the back seat of the cruiser…
yellowing grasses still flattened by his taking of her
and a braided elastic torn from her ponytail
hangs lopsided on a tall stem of orleander plant…
shaking her hair she feels a few pieces of dry weeds
matted there with the mud
her throat still aches from muscled gripping fingers
she will never be able to wear a high collar
or choker necklace
MW Murphy is a poet and novelist. She is the author of the novel Second Daughter, which was selected by NPR’s Faith Middleton as a “shelf-tracker” book of the month, and was also a featured book at R J Julia Booksellers. MW was selected for publication in the “Open Weave” poetry anthology published by Curbstone Press / Northwestern University, which also awarded her first place in its Poet Laureate Division. She has a short piece of fiction in the anthology Gathered Light published by Three O’ Clock Press in May 2013. MW also has poems in the international poetry anthology series “The Art of Being Human - Volume 13, Volume 14, and Volume 15”, all of which were published in 2015, and a short story in the anthology A Shadow Map published in 2017. MW is currently nearing completion of her urban sci/fi fantasy novel The Girl in the Bookstore which takes place mostly in Manhattan’s East Village.
Me Too SeriesJoanna Valente November 06, 2017 Danielle Perry, me too, poetry
Danielle Perry: #MeToo Series
Danielle Perry graduated with a degree in English Lit and Religious Studies from Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. She now lives in Portland, OR, but will always be an East Coaster at heart. Her work has been published in The Toast, FLAPPERHOUSE, and Potluck Magazine, among others. Her chapbook Phases (2015) was published by Sad Spell Press. She spends probably too much time on Twitter (@jekyllian).
Me Too SeriesJoanna Valente December 27, 2017 Jamie Agnello, poetry, me too
Jamie Agnello: #MeToo Series
Jamie Agnello, "who is a human, not a puppet...(NY Times)" is a theater artist, writer, and puppeteer based in Brooklyn. She is a staff member/performer/collaborator with Trusty Sidekick Theater Company, a teaching artist with The New Victory Theater, and a florist with Stems Brooklyn. MFA Poetry & MFA Theater from Sarah Lawrence College. www.jamieagnello.com
Me Too SeriesJoanna Valente January 03, 2018 Stephen Furlong, me too, poetry
Stephen Furlong: #MeToo Series
Stephen Furlong is a recent graduate of Southeast Missouri State University located on the Mississippi. His poems, reviews, and interviews have recently appeared in Big Muddy, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Pine Hills Review, among others. He also had a poem in A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault published by Civil Coping Mechanisms and edited by Joanna C. Valente.
Me Too SeriesJoanna Valente January 12, 2018 Lois Roma-Deeley, me too, poetry
Lois Roma-Deeley: #MeToo Series
Lois Roma-Deeley's poetry collection, The Short List of Certainties, won the Jacopone da Todi Book Prize (Franciscan University Press, 2017). She is the author of three previous collections of poetry: Rules of Hunger, northSight and High Notes—a Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist. Roma-Deeley’s poems are featured in numerous literary journals and anthologies, nationally and internationally, such as Spillway, North Dakota Quarterly, Villanelles (Pocket Poet Series), Rabbit and many more. Currently she serves as Associate Editor of Presence. www.loisroma-deeley.com/
Me Too SeriesJoanna Valente February 05, 2018 Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, me too, poetry
Lynne DeSilva-Johnson: #MeToo Series
Lynne DeSilva-Johnson (she/her/they/them) is a nonbinary queer interdisciplinary creator, cultural scholar, and educator. Lynne is the founder of The Operating System, a radical open source arts organization and small press, and serves as visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute. Recent publication credits include Wave Composition, The Conversant, The Philadelphia Supplement, Gorgon Poetics, POSTblank, Vintage Magazine, Live Mag, Coldfront, the Brooklyn Poets Anthology, Resist Much/Obey Little: Poems for The Resistance, and “In Memory of Feasible Grace,” part of the Panthalassa Pamphlet series, among others. Her performances and work have appeared widely, including recent features or projects at Artists Space, Bowery Arts and Science, The NYC Poetry Festival, Parkside Lounge, Carmine Street Metrics, Eyebeam, LaMaMa, Triangle Quarterly, Undercurrent Projects, Mellow Pages, The New York Public Library, Launchpad BK, Dixon Place, Poets Settlement, SOHO20 Gallery and many more. They are always still beginning.
When It Comes to Sexual Abuse, We Actually Need to Be Inclusive & Talk About 'Bad Sex'
EssayJoanna Valente January 30, 2018 essay, sexual assault, me too, lgbtq
Dimitri Reyes: I Told the Brother Gracias
Special FeatureJoanna Valente January 29, 2018 Dimitri Reyes, poetry, special feature
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Nearly a century of European tradition goes into BLANCO sinks, faucets and accessories. This dedication to excellence ensures that everything we create balances form and function, beauty and durability and, of course, our customers' needs and desires.
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As the #1 faucet brand in North America, Moen offers a diverse selection of thoughtfully designed kitchen and bath faucets, showerheads, accessories, bath safety products and kitchen sinks for residential and commercial applications each delivering the best possible combination of meaningful innovation, useful features, and lasting value.
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At TOTO, we’ve always been inspired by a desire to improve everyone’s quality of life. Through almost a century rich with innovation, TOTO has changed the perception of what a bathroom can be — and how it can be used.
Our founder, Kazuchika Okura, had a vision more than one hundred years ago in 1912, before the concept of public sewage systems was widespread in Japan. After seeing more advanced systems overseas, he was moved to establish a ceramic sanitary ware laboratory to develop healthier and cleaner living spaces.
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Aquatic is world-leading manufacturer of luxury hydrotherapy systems, everyday bathtubs and showers, and accessible bathing solutions. But we are more than the products we sell.
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Elkay is an American-owned and operated company. For more than 90 years, Elkay has been an innovative manufacturer of stainless steel sinks for residential and commercial use. Today, Elkay Plumbing Products delivers world class sinks, faucets,foodservice products, water coolers, drinking fountains and award winning rapid bottle filling stations. Also, Elkay Wood Products is among the largest cabinetmakers in the U.S. with leading brands such as Medallion™ Cabinetry, Schuler™ Cabinetryand InnerMost™ Cabinets.
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Smuin's "Dance Series 02"
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500 Castro St
Mountain View , CA 94041
A series of stunning pieces make their way to the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts to challenge and enlighten the Bay Area. With Smuin, ballet choreographer extraordinaire Helen Pickett's sensual and powerful "Oasis" is set to an original score by Emmy award-winning "House of Cards" composer Jeff Beal. Inspired by the simplicity of nature, Pickett offers challenge and exploration to both dancers and audiences alike, igniting the stage with passionate energy. Choreographer-in-Residence Amy Seiwert's visually stunning "Falling Up" offers an in-depth look at strength and trust between partners. Set to a lush piano score by Johannes Brahms, Seiwert's signature sculptural movement and intimate partnering enhance the energy of contemporary ballet, resulting in a delicate creation. Last but not least, master dance maker Val Caniparoli returns to Smuin to create a world premiere to conclude the 24th season.
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American Society of Hematology: Imatinib (Gleevec) and Dasatinib (Sprycel) in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Presenter: Neil Shah, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, California
The prognosis is poor for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) who are receiving imatinib (Gleevec, STI-571, Novartis) when their disease progresses to accelerated phase or blast-phase CML. In the START-R trial of CML, which compared imatinib doses, increased to 800 mg, against switching to dasatinib (Sprycel, Bristol-Myers Squibb), progression-free survival was greater for those receiving the newer drug, dasatinib.
Data from the International Randomized Study of Inter-feron versus STI-571 (IRIS) trial showed that about 31% of chronic-phase CML patients discontinued imatinib therapy within 4.5 years. About 50% of patients with chronic-phase CML stopped responding to treatment, or they progressed to accelerated-phase or blast-phase CML after 42 months. In addition, 15% of these patients who did not achieve a major cytogenetic response after 12 months of imatinib therapy had a significantly increased risk of disease progression. Although escalating the imatinib dose to 800 mg can be effective in patients with progressive disease, intolerance to the product and only brief periods of response are common.
In Dr. Shah’s international, open-label, phase 2 trial, 150 chronic-phase CML patients with disease resistant to imatinib at doses of 400 to 600 mg were randomly assigned to receive, in a 2:1 fashion, dasatinib 70 mg twice daily or imatinib 800 mg. The median average daily doses were dasatinib 103 mg and imatinib 796 mg.
A higher percentage of dasatinib-treated patients achieved and maintained a major cytogenetic response, compared with the imatinib-treated patients. At three months, 36% of the dasatinib group had a major cytogenetic response, which increased to 53% at 15 months. With the high dose of imatinib, 29% of the patients had a major cytogenetic response at three months, compared with 33% at 15 months.
Major molecular remission was reported in 16% of the dasatinib patients, in contrast to 4% of the high-dose imatinib group. The median duration of response with dasatinib was 13.7 months; with imatinib, it was 3.1 months.
Complete cytogenetic responses (CCRs) with dasatinib occurred most often in patients who had previously experienced a CCR with imatinib therapy. Whereas CML in 10 of 49 patients progressed in the imatinib group, disease in six of 101 patients progressed in the dasatinib group (P< 0.0001).
Although non-hematological side effects were similar between the patient groups, grade 3 and 4 cytopenias were more common in the dasatinib group. Neutropenia was reported in 59% of patients receiving dasatinib and in 39% receiving imatinib; thrombocytopenia was reported in 55% of the dasatinib patients and in 14% of the imatinib patients. Grade 3-4 plural effusion and pulmonary edema were observed only in the dasatinib group, at low rates.
“The overall benefit-risk assessment favors dasatinib relative to imatinib 800 mg in this patient population,” Dr. Shah concluded.
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Home Monica New Music: Monica Feat Missy Elliott – Code Red
New Music: Monica Feat Missy Elliott – Code Red
On December 18th Monica will drop her long awaited new album “Code Red,” while on tour to support her latest project the ATL born singer dropped the title track which features Missy Elliott and her daughter Laiyah. Along with her Lil Wayne assisted single “Just Right For Me” Monica’s new album will also include appearances from Timbaland and Akon. Check out the new song below.
1. “Code Red” feat. Missy Elliott & Laiyah
2. “Just Right for Me” feat. Lil Wayne
3. “Love Just Ain’t Enough” feat. Timbaland
4. “Call My Name”
5. “I Know”
6. “All Men Lie” feat. Timbaland
7. “Deep”
8. “Hustler’s Ambition” feat. Akon
9. “Alone in Your Heart”
10. “Suga”
11. “Ocean of Tears”
12. “Saints & Sinners”
13. “I Miss Music”
14. “Anchor”
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Macroinitiators for Chain Polymerization, Y. Yagci and M. K. Mishra Macromolecular Design : Concept and Practice (Ed. M. K. Mishra) Chapter 6, Polymer Frontiers International . Inc. , NY , 1994
Macroinitiators in Multi-Mode Polymerization, Y. Yagci and M. K. Mishra Macromolecular Design : Concept and Practice (Ed. M. K. Mishra) Chapter 10, Polymer Frontiers International . Inc. , NY , 1994
An Introduction to Macroinimer , Macroiniter and Macroinifer, M. K. Mishra and Y. Yagci Macromolecular Design : Concept and Practice (Ed. M. K. Mishra) Chapter 14, Polymer Frontiers International. Inc. , NY, 1994
Synthesis of Block Copolymers by Changing Polymerization Mechanism, Y. Yagci and M. K. MishraThe Encyclopedia of Polymeric Materials (Ed. J.C.Salamon), CRC Press, 1996
Synthesis of Block Copolymers by Macroinitiators, M. K. Mishra and Y. Yagci The Encyclopedia of Polymeric Materials (Ed.J.C.Salamone), CRC Press, 1996
Azo - Initiators as Transformation Agents in Block Copolymer Synthesis, Y. Yagci, I. Reetz Handbook of Engineering Polymeric Materials, (Ed. N. P.Cheremisinoff) Marcel & Dekker, Inc., New York, 1997, pp.735-753
New Aspects on the Modification of Triglyseride Oils, F.S. Guner, A.T. Erciyes, O.S. Kabasakal and Y. Yagci, in Recent Research Developments in Oil Chemistry, Volume 2, Ed: S.G. Pandalai, Transworld Research Network, 31-51, 1998
Photoinitiated Cationic Polymerization, Y.Yagci Cationic Polymerization and Related Processes, NATO ASI Series, J.E.Puskas, Ed., Vol 359, 235, 1999
Recent Aspects in the Sensitized Decomposition of Cationic Photoinitiators, Y. Yagci, G. Hizal Trends in Photochemistry Photobiology: Photosensitive System for Photopolymerization Reactions, Ed.J.P. Fouassier, Research Trends, Trivandrum, 2000
Synthesis of Block Copolymers by Combination of Different Polymerization Routes, Y.Yagci Advanced Functional Molecules and Polymers (4 Volumes), Ed.H.S. Nalwa, Gordon Breach Science Publisher, 2001, Amsterdam,Volume 1, Chapter 4
Synthesis of Block Copolymers via Macroinitiator/Macroiniferter, M.H. Acar, P. Demircioglu, M. Kucukoner, A. Gulkanat, S. Seyren, G. Hizal, Y. Yagci Macromolecular Synthesis, (A. E. Acar, Ed.; L. J. Mathias Ed. in-chief), Elecronic Publish. Ser. eMedix, Inc. Mississipi, 2004, Vol.13, pp.91-105
Telechelic Polymers, Y.Yagci, O.Nuyken, V.Graubner Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology,3rd Ed., Ed. J.I.Kroschwitz, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York,, New York, vol.12, 57130, 2005
One Component Thioxanthone Based Type II Photoinitiators, N. Arsu, M. Aydin, Y. Yagci, S. Jockusch, N. J. Turro, Photochemistry and UV Curing : new trends (Ed J.P. Fouassier) Photochemistry and Photobiology Research Signpost., Trivandrum, 2006, Ch. 3, pp 17-29
Addition-Fragmentation Type Reactions in Photoinitiated Cationic Polymerization, D. Colak, S.Y urteri, B. Kiskan, Y. Yagci, Photochemistry and UV Curing : new trends (Ed J.P. Fouassier) Photochemistry and Photobiology Research Signpost., Trivandrum, 2006, Ch. 16, pp 175-185
Wavelength Tunability in Photoinitiated Cationic Polymerization, B. Aydogan, B. Gacal, A. Yildirim, N. Yonet, Y. Yuksel, Y. Yagci, Photochemistry and UV Curing : new trends (Ed J.P. Fouassier) Photochemistry and Photobiology Research Signpost., Trivandrum, 2006, Ch.17, pp 187-201
Photoinduced Synthesis of Block Copolymers, A. E. Muftuoglu, M. A. Tasdelen, Y. Yagci, Photochemistry and UV Curing : new trends (Ed J.P. Fouassier) Photochemistry and Photobiology Research Signpost., Trivandrum, 2006, Ch. 29, pp.343-353
Segmented Copolymers by Mechanistic Transformations, M. A. Tasdelen, Y. Yagci, Macromolecular Engineering: Precise Synthesis, Materials Properties, Applications (Ed: K. Matyjaszeswki, Y. Gnaonou, L. Liebler) Wiley-VCH , Menhaim, 2007, Vol:1 Ch:9 , 541-604
New Polymers with Optoelectronic Properties by Combination of ATRP, ROP and Coupling Processes, D. G. Colak, I. Cianga, S. Yurteri, Y. Yagci, New Smart Materials via Metal Mediated Macromolecular Engineering (Eds E. Khosravi, Y. Yagci, Y. Savelyev) NATO Science for Peace and Security Series-A: Chemistry and Biology, Springer, 2009, Ch. 4, pp.49-73
Light Induced Processes for the Synthesis of Polymers with Complex Structures, Y. Y. Durmaz, M. A. Tasdelen, B. Aydogan, M. U. Kahveci, Y. Yagci, New Smart Materials via Metal Mediated Macromolecular Engineering (Eds E. Khosravi, Y. Yagci, Y. Savelyev) NATO Science for Peace and Security Series-A: Chemistry and Biology, Springer, 2009, Ch. 22, pp.329-341
The Use of Atom Transfer Radical Coupling Reactions for the Synthesis of Various Macromolecular Structures, Y. Y. Durmaz, B. Aydogan, I. Cianga, Y. Yagci, Controled/Living Radical Polymerization: Progress in ATRP (Ed K. Matyjaszewski) American Chemical Society, Washington DC, 2009, Ch. 12, pp. 171-187.
The Fundamentals, Y. Yagci, M. K. Mishra, Handbook of Vinyl Polymers: Radical Polymerization, Process, and Technology (Eds M. K. Mishra and Y. Yagci) CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2009, Ch. 1, pp. 3-6.
Chemistry and Kinetic Model of Radical Vinyl Polymerization, Y. Yagci, M. K. Mishra, Handbook of Vinyl Polymers: Radical Polymerization, Process, and Technology (Eds M. K. Mishra and Y. Yagci) CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2009, Ch. 2, pp. 7-12.
Special Characteristics of Radical Vinyl Polymerization, Y. Yagci, M. K. Mishra, Handbook of Vinyl Polymers: Radical Polymerization, Process, and Technology (Eds M. K. Mishra and Y. Yagci) CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2009, Ch. 3, pp. 13-23.
Initiation of Vinyl Polymerization by Organic Molecules and Nonmetal Initiators, I. Reetz, Y. Yagci, M. K. Mishra, Handbook of Vinyl Polymers: Radical Polymerization, Process, and Technology (Eds M. K. Mishra and Y. Yagci) CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2009, Ch. 4, pp. 27-48.
Chemical Initiation by Metals or Metal-Containing Compounds, Y. Yagci, I. Reetz, M. K. Mishra, Handbook of Vinyl Polymers: Radical Polymerization, Process, and Technology (Eds M. K. Mishra and Y. Yagci) CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2009, Ch. 5, pp. 49-76.
Suspension Polymerization Redox Initiators, M. K. Mishra, N. G. Gaylord, Y. Yagci, Handbook of Vinyl Polymers: Radical Polymerization, Process, and Technology (Eds M. K. Mishra and Y. Yagci) CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2009, Ch. 6, pp. 77-130.
Vinyl Polymerization Initiated by High-Energy Radiation, I. Reetz, Y. Yagci, M. K. Mishra, Handbook of Vinyl Polymers: Radical Polymerization, Process, and Technology (Eds M. K. Mishra and Y. Yagci) CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2009, Ch. 7, pp. 131-140.
Photoinitiated Radical Vinyl Polymerization, N. Arsu, I. Reetz, Y. Yagci, M. K. Mishra, Handbook of Vinyl Polymers: Radical Polymerization, Process, and Technology (Eds M. K. Mishra and Y. Yagci) CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2009, Ch. 8, pp. 141-204.
Functionalization of Polymers, Y. Yagci, M. K. Mishra, Handbook of Vinyl Polymers: Radical Polymerization, Process, and Technology (Eds M. K. Mishra and Y. Yagci) CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2009, Ch. 9, pp. 205-230.
Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization, U. Tunca, G. Hizal, M. H. Acar, M. A. Tasdelen, Y. Yagci, M. K. Mishra, Handbook of Vinyl Polymers: Radical Polymerization, Process, and Technology (Eds M. K. Mishra and Y. Yagci) CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2009, Ch. 10, pp. 231-306.
Block And Graft Copolymers, A. E. Muftuoglu, M. A. Tasdelen, Y. Yagci, M. K. Mishra, Handbook of Vinyl Polymers: Radical Polymerization, Process, and Technology (Eds M. K. Mishra and Y. Yagci) CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2009, Ch. 11, pp. 307-344.
Data and Structures, Y. Yagci, M. K. Mishra, Handbook of Vinyl Polymers: Radical Polymerization, Process, and Technology (Eds M. K. Mishra and Y. Yagci) CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2009, Ch. 21, pp. 719-746.
Photoinitiated Cationic Polymerization: Reactivity and Mechanistic Aspects, M.U. Kahveci, A. G. Yilmaz, Y. Yagci, Photochemistry and Photophysics of Polymer Materials, Process, and Technology (Ed. N. S. Allen) John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New Jersey, 2010, Ch. 11, pp. 421-478.
N-Alkoxy pyridinium salt photoinitiators: Photoinduced polymerization activity and synthetic applications, Y.Y. Durmaz, G. Yilmaz, M.A. Tasdelen, B. Aydogan, B. Koz, Y. Yagci, Basics and Applications of Photopolymerization Reactions, Vol. 1 (Eds. J.P. Fouassier and X. Allonas) Research Signpost., Kerala, 2010, Ch. 2, pp. 7-21.
Application of benzodioxinone photochemistry in polymer synthesis and UV curing, M.A. Tasdelen, V. Kumbaraci, N. Talinli, Y. Yagci, Basics and Applications of Photopolymerization Reactions, Vol. 1 (Eds. J.P. Fouassier and X. Allonas) Research Signpost., Kerala, 2010, Ch. 7, pp. 75-87.
Side- and End-Chain Benzoxazine Functional Polymers, B. Kiskan, Y. Yagci, Handbook of Benzoxazine Resins (Eds. H. Ishida and T. Agag) Elsevier B.V., Oxford, 2011, Ch. 16, pp. 319-329.
Light-Induced Reactions of Benzoxazines and Derivatives, M.A. Tasdelen, B. Kiskan, B. Gacal, F. Kasapoglu, L. Cianga, Y. Yagci, Handbook of Benzoxazine Resins (Eds. H. Ishida and T. Agag) Elsevier B.V., Oxford, 2011, Ch. 9, pp. 183-191.
Block Copolymers by Multi-Mode Polymerizations, M.A. Tasdelen, Y. Yagci, Synthesis of Polymers: New Structures and Methods (Eds. D.A. Schlüter, C. Hawker, and J. Sakamoto) Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co., Weinheim, 2012, Ch. 11, pp. 315-349.
Well-Defined Block Copolymers, M.U. Kahveci, Y. Yagci, A. Avgeropoulos, C. Tsitsilianis, Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference, Vol. 6 (Eds. K. Matyjaszewski and M. Möller) Elsevier B.V., Oxford, 2012, Ch. 13, pp. 455-509.
New Methods for the Preparation of Metal and Clay Thermoset Nanocomposites, KD. Demir, M Kukut, MA. Tasdelen, Y. Yagci. Thermoset Nanocomposites, (Ed: V. Mittal), John Wiley & Sons, 2013, Ch. 8, pp. 165-188.
Controlled/living Radical Polymerization in the presence of Iniferters, M.A. Tasdelen, Y. Yagci, Fundamentals of Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization, (Eds: N. V. Tsarevsky, B. S. Sumerlin), Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013, Ch. 4, pp 78-111.
Possibilities for Photoinduced Radical Polymerization, M.A. TAsdelen, M. Ciftci, M.Uygun, Y.Yagci, Progress in Controlled Radical Polymerization: Mechanism and Techniques (Eds. K. Matyjaszewski, B.S. Sumerlin and NV Tsarevsky), ACS Washington DC, 2013, Ch. 5, pp. 59-73
Visible Light-Induced Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization for Macromolecular Syntheses, Y. Yagci, M. A. Tasdelen, B. Kiskan, M. Ciftci, S. Dadashi-Silab, O.S. Taskin, G. Yilmaz, Controlled Radical Polymerization, Vol. 1: Machanisms (Eds. K. Matyjaszewski, B.S. Sumerlin, NV Tsarevsky and J. Chiefari), ACS Washington DC, 2015, Vol. 187, 145.
Polybenzoxazines, M. Arslan, B. Kiskan, Y. Yagci, Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, 2015, New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Polybenzoxazines as Self-Healing Materials, B. Kiskan, M. Arslan, O.S. Taskin, Y. Yagci, Advanced and Emerging Polybenzoxazine Science and Technology, 2017, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Ch. 47.
Thiol-Benzoxazine Chemistry for Macromolecular Modifications, B. Kiskan, A. Musa, E. Semerci, Y. Yagci, Advanced and Emerging Polybenzoxazine Science and Technology, 2017, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Ch. 13
Benzoxazine Resins as Smart Materials and Future Perspectives, B. Kiskan, Y. Yagci, Thermosets: Structure, Properties and Applications (Ed. Q. Guo) 2018, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Ch. 17.
Photoinduced Metal Free Strategies for Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization, G. Yilmaz, C. Kutahya, A. Allushi, C. Aydogan, S. Aykac, Y. Yagci, Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization: Mechanisms and Synthetic Methodologies, 2018, ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, Ch 11.
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E-mail: yusuf@itu.edu.tr
Prof. Yusuf Yagci
Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of Chemistry, Maslak, 34469, Turkey
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How To Be A Wally
I'm not sure when the term came about, but in the early-to-mid 1980s it was decidedly "in" to call somebody who was behaving in a thick witted manner, a "wally". So popular was this gentle term of insult, that it became the subject of a book, How To Be A Wally, by Paul Manning, published in 1983.
The How To Be A Wally back cover synopsis:
You have just become a bit of a wally SIMPLY BY PICKING UP THIS BOOK!
Now see if you can take it a stage further. Buy it. Then buy a copy for a friend.
And you can both find out
in the comfort of your own home! Yes, with the help of easy, step-by-step diagrams, you can learn to:
Stand outside DER showrooms in the rain watching 'Game For A Laugh'
Feed prawn-cocktail flavour crisps to the lions in safari parks
Get the best out of your Colonel Bogey car horn
Destroy a Spanish football stadium
plus much more besides!
The complete, no holds-barred guide to the wally lifestyle - AT A PRICE YOU CAN AFFORD!
An ad which appeared in the TV Times and several other publications in 1983.
Sunday People TV critic Nina Myskow was happy to announce a "Wally Of The Week" each and every week. The honour conferred above dates from 22/8/1982.
Marilyn wins the sought after "Wally Of The Year" title in the Sun, December 23 1983. Lucky bloke! Runners-up include Boy George, Terry Wogan and Max Bygraves.
Posted by Drew at Monday, June 11, 2012
Labels: 1983 - books, Marilyn, Wallys
The '80s Actual blog is designed to be an antidote to all those television shows and on-line articles of recent years which examine pop culture - and frequently get it hopelessly wrong!
If you sat watching the BBC's "I Love The 1970s" and exclaimed over items being shown "I could swear that was 1968!" or "Wasn't that 1981?" chances are you were right.
If you look at certain '70s fan sites and think a lot of the material written about is actually from the '80s, you are almost certainly correct.
If on-line encyclopedia articles which state that pop culture of 1983 is really 1977, or similar, have you wishing for reality, then '80s Actual is for you.
There is a huge drive in the media and on-line to negate the 1980s, to attribute that decade's innovations and fond memories to other decades, and basically to present it as a completely vapid ten years, not worthy of examination.
I'm not sure why. Perhaps it's just comforting to have a decade people can scapegoat and declare "HORRIBLE"?
This blog is based on actual memories, media footage (thank you, YouTube!) and snippets of newspaper and magazine articles from the 1980s. If you read it here, I think you can rest assured it's accurate, though I can take no responsibility for the newspaper reports from the decade!
The '80s Actual blog examines the decade's news stories - from the emergence of Lady Diana Spencer into the public eye in 1980, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Was it simply "The Greed Decade" as many like to claim? I think not - the '80s saw the emergence of yuppies, but also Red Wedge, the Greenham Common Peace Women, and increasing concern for the environment. It may be convenient to scapegoat the '80s as the cause of all known ills, but the reality of the decade was far different - absolute bedlam, as Right fought Left, idealism fought corporate ambition. The election of Ronald Reagan as American President in 1980, and his second victory in 1984, had a far more decisive effect on the international political landscape than the three successive general election victories of UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979, 1983 and 1987.
Fashion came fast and furious - deelyboppers, ra ra skirts with lycra leggings, Swatch watches, pixie boots, jelly shoes, shoulder pads, blonde highlights, hair gel, hair mousse, men in pink, goths, shell suits, New Romantics, donkey jackets, leg warmers...
Musically, the 1980s saw the beginnings of House Music, the exciting and still evolving world of synths taking centre stage, the evolvement of Rap music into the fully-fledged Hip Hop scene, Band Aid and Live Aid, great Indie, startling Acid House, and Raves...
At the amusement arcades, Space Invaders ran rampant and we first met Pac-Man...
And there was so much more! The decade truly had something for everyone - and provided a welcome escape for a while from the long-running and boring saga of flared trousers as fashion, begun back in the 1960s!
It was a brilliant decade for telly - bringing us such wonders as A Very Peculiar Practice, Inspector Morse, Spitting Image, Hot Metal, The BeiderbeckeTrilogy and Edge of Darkness.
The 1980s also saw the creation of The Simpsons, Twin Peaks, and other wonderful (often groundbreaking) American TV shows like Kate & Allie, Cheers, The Golden Girls, Married... With Children, The Cosby Show, Roseanne, and Hill Street Blues.
The '80s gave us some wonderful UK TV ads. Remember Ted Moult advertising double glazing at the Tan Hall Inn with "Fit The Best - Everest"? Remember the Weetabix gang? Remember the Scotch video tape skeleton ("Re-record, not fade away"?). Remember the romantic yuppie couple in the coffee ads? And what about "Lotta Bottle"?
In fact, the '80s totally transformed our telly viewing, bringing us Channel 4 and Sky TV.
The '80s were a fascinating time for science and technology! Video recorders became widespread, the Sony Walkman arrived, the first hand-held mobile phones hit the streets (expensive analogue bricks!), the ZX Spectrum, Game Boy and the World Wide Web (Thanks, Sir Tim Berners-Lee!) were invented, the first computer mouse eeked its way into our homes and Sir Alec Jeffreys accidentally discovered DNA fingerprinting. It's all here!
There are also also '80s Actual sister blogs taking us back to the '70s and '60s - The Real 1970s and Spacehopper.
The view of the 1980s presented here is from an English perspective - much of the original '80s material used is from England, but I hope this blog will prove useful and enjoyable to people in the other nations of the UK and much further afield.
'80s Actual - Remembering The Arcade Games
'80s Actual - Remembering...
The fashion...
The technology...
The toys...
The political scene...
'80s Genius...
Coronation Street 1989: "Mind Out, You're Treading...
1988 - Wicked! Gel 'N' Mousse, Designer Stubble, R...
The New £1 Coin - And Other 1980s Brass In Pocket ...
Dallas: Pam's Dream And The Shower Scene
Dr Who In The 1980s: Unsettled Times For A Time Lo...
The 1980s House - Part 2
More 1980s Fashions: Girls Wearing Braces...
POST BAG: From Shutter Shades (AKA Venetian Blinde...
Garfield, Garfield Everywhere...
The BMX Craze...
Personal Computer World Magazine, November 1982......
Oxo: "Remember Preston?"
Agadoo doo doo...
Shake Me - It's The SnuggleBumms...
Wincey Willis
Technology 1988!
Computers 1982
Buster Bloodvessel And Bad Manners
The Riddlers
Edwina Currie - Or Should That Be "Eggwina"?!
BBC Cashes In On EastEnders...
Fresh Cream Cakes. Naughty. But Nice...
"Hole In The Wall" - 1980s Slang For Cash Dispense...
1980: Splodgenessabounds - "Two Pints Of Lager And...
Albion Market Episode 102
The fads...
The news...
TV greats...
20th Century Ads - From 1900 to 1999, the Century in newspaper and magazine ads
Coronation Street - Back On The Street - The Street As It Was From The 1960s To The 1980s...
Dan's Raleigh Burner Resource - Dan's the man for Raleigh Burner info, chat and pics
Hey You - Number 73 - tribute to the famous 1980s kids' TV series
It's Only Fiction - But...
Man Hating Abounds
Passe Partout Tape Picture Framing
Random Radio Jottings
Sons and Daughters Website - all you want to know about the 1980s Aussie saga
SpaceHopper - 1960s fads, fun and news revisited - including the space hopper!
The Beckindale Bugle - Emmerdale Farm In The 1980s
The Real 1970s - taking the lid off the decade which was sandwiched between the 60s and the 80s
Why I Don't Love The 1970s - Is the 70s revival based on fact or fiction?
Remember, "More Is More"...
Click on "Older Posts" label above for LOTS more '80s Actual...
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Obsession at Croswell Opera House a fascinating musical premier (Review, kind of) November 8, 2011
Posted by ronannarbor in Entertainment, musical theater, Musicals, Theatre.
Tags: Adrian, Betsy Lackey, Croswell Opera House, Frankenstein, MI, Michael Lackey, Obsession the musical
First, let me say right off the bat, it’s hard to review a workshop of a new show, even if it is fully staged. Because that is exactly what the production of OBSESSION, the musical (loosely based on Frankenstein) was this past weekend at the Croswell Opera House.
Fully staged and realized, the production was a fascinating look at a new musical in progress — originally written as a symphony and presented in Adrian, and now adapted as a stage musical, Betsy and Michael Lackey’s lyrical and tuneful musical takes risks not often seen at the local level. And how fortunate that Croswell Opera House was willing to take that risk to help develop this show.
I am not going to comment too much on the production itself, because if I did, I would end up in a long diatribe about how poorly directed it was, but how lovely it all looked and sounded. Let future directors find the humor and nuance in the script and score, and better manage the stage action.
What I will comment on are the tremendous performances, and the very strong musical score. Top to bottom the cast was top-notch and demonstrated excellent vocal technique. Michael Lackey (Henry/Monster); Eric Parker (Victor); Katy Kujala (Elizabeth); and Mackenzie Dryer (Justine) sang strong, confident roles. Deeply rooted in opera, the score demands a tremendous amount from the cast, and this group of performers delivered.
The score is particularly tuneful and sometimes outright stunning: “What I’d Give” has a lyrical line that ranks with the best Broadway-type pop ballads, but the entire score is lovely to listen to. The lyrics are clever and have a subtle sense of humor (not captured well in this production). The Croswell sound system made it difficult to understand some of the lyrics, particularly in the choral numbers. The show leans more toward the style of “Jekyll and Hyde” than more serious poperettas.
Is the show ready for prime time? No. Is it well on its way, yes. I would love to see the show again, after some tweeks have been made. My own thoughts as to improvements:
– There is too much music; scene changes occur rapidly (seconds) but musical rifts run for minutes with no action on stage. Some of this could be covered with better direction, but there is still too much of it. Standardize scene change music so that it cuts off once the scene has been changed, not continue just for the sake of continuing.
-The Entr’Acte is too long. Pull the main theme, add a countermelody, and roar to a quick finish. Two mintues is great. 5 minutes is too long.
-Eliminate the narration by the lead (Victor). Either incorporate it into the choral numbers, or eliminate it completely. With the exception of one or two short moments where action can be identified otherwise, the narration is superfluous and repetitive.
-Pay attention to the choral action: too many maids and butlers on stage just to sing choral backup is never a good idea. Put the chorus into the orchestra pit and let them sing backup. Find a better way to incorporate your ensemble onstage without just putting them on, and pulling them off. Its getting there –but its not there.
Overall, this was a fascinating and very well performed production that hopefully will lead to the necessary tweaks and future productions. I’d love to listen to this score over and over again, it’s sumptuous. But listening to versus seeing a show are two different things. It needs work, but it shows beyond tremendous potential — it deserves to be fixed and developed. Congrats to all involved — and keep working at this piece: there is really good here. It just needs some TLC.
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Aerospace STEM
Posts filed under A-STEM
AIR GROUP ONE, COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: “RUBBER-ON-THE-ROAD” AT SDSA HIGH TECH FAIR
Air Group One, CAF A-STEM participated at the SDSA High Tech Fair October 21-22, 2014, Bing Crosby Hall at Del Mar Fairgrounds. The goal was to show grade 6-12 students the value and diversity of aerospace professions related to Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) disciplines. In addition to Aerospace/Engineering there were sections for Robotics, Biotech. Clean Tech, Health Tech, Conservation, ICT, with their own front-runner groups.
Organizers San Diego Science Alliance (SDSA) report the count for Tues. night is 1,000 parents and students, and 3,200 for Wednesday grades 6-12 student bus loads from all over the County. No, of course we were not able to address them all, but we were ALWAYS busy with an audience. And at least 90% passed and admired the AG-1 booth in the Aerospace/Engineering section.
The AG-1 booth was continuously fully active with 3 simultaneous activities: Flight Simulator Operations, A-STEM-Engineering Powerpoints and discussions, and Aerospace Manufacturing Materials. We displayed a Kitfox airplane generously loaned by the San Diego Air & Space Museum. Many manufactured examples of hi-tech materials were loaned by our major supporter GKN Aerospace Chem-Tronics, Inc., El Cajon. Other tier one corporations represented in our immediate area were Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, General Atomics, NARF North Island, United Technology Aerospace Systems, Solar Turbines, SPAWARS, Geocon, and Cubic Corp.
This was a “rubber-on-the-road” outreach to the youth of our community. Although there is a promotional/advertising aspect, the real purpose was to execute a stated AG-1 mission to help with the need for more STEM high-tech U.S. college graduates in the near future. Our program is always in need of qualified volunteers. Contact us at www.ag1caf.org/education
Posted on October 22, 2014 by Christopher Van Stelle and filed under A-STEM, Aerospace STEM, Education, Air Group One and tagged Air Group One A-STEM Aerospace STEM Education High Tech High.
ECEDC Welcome at the Air Group One - Aviation Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (A-STEM) program.
The program is organized and executed by Air Group One, based at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, CA, and is a synergistic effort by many in the aviation community. Volunteers from many different aviation environments have organized for the sake of our nation's youth, in San Diego County.
Sat. Feb. 8 9:00 am to 2:00 pm San Diego Air & Space Museum Annex at Gillespie Field
Aviation Day consists of scheduled sequential topics every 50 minutes. Subjects will include Power Plants, Aerodynamics, Helicopters, Aviation Materials, Space-age topics, Robotics and Aviation Careers. Students will be divided into escorted smaller groups that rotate through several learning stations with experienced aviation instructors and technicians. Students will be in direct contact with real aircraft and equipment, with the assistance of qualified pilots/instructors.
INSTRUCTORS on Feb. 8:
Terry Brennan. General Aviation pilot, Curator of the San Diego Air & Space Museum.
Howard Young. Retired USN Flight Test pilot, Aeronautical Engineer, college educator.
Swede Gamble. Former Naval Aviator, former FAA Inspector, general Aviation pilot, flight instructor.
Kathy Wagschal. Aerospace Engineer, NAVAIR F/A-18 In-Service Support.
Darrel Cook. General Aviation , qualified formation pilot, flight instructor, master aircraft mechanic.
Sonya McMullen. Adjunct Assistant Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, General Aviation pilot, former USAF with National Security Agency.
Rick Worthen. General Aviation pilot and flight instructor, former FAA representative.
Jim McGarvie. Former Naval Aviator, retired airline captain, Wing Leader of Air Group One / CAF
Howard Merritt. General Aviation pilot, engineer and master aircraft mechanic.
Joel Perez. Aerospace Engineer, Pratt & Whitney AeroPower.
Dragan Radoicic. Engineer. AltitudeCAM LLC aerial cinematography and photography, RC multi rotor aircrafts.
Posted on February 8, 2014 by Christopher Van Stelle and filed under A-STEM, Aerospace STEM, Air Group One, Education and tagged Air Group One Aerospace STEM A-STEM Education San Diego Air & Space Museum ECEDC.
Spirit of '45 National Day of Remembrance
World War II ended on August 14, 1945 marking the culminating moment of the greatest national effort in our history. We are free to be thankful and remember what it was like to be American on that date when pride was at its highest point. This is the 68th Anniversary of that event.
We celebrated this event at the Veterans Museum on Sunday, August 11th, 2013, THE SPIRIT OF '45 DAY, the annual National Day of Remembrance. Americans in thousands of locations across the country will observe this historic moment by paying tribute to -- and carry-on -- the legacy of World War II Americans.
The public was welcomed to attend and celebrate the victory brought about by sacrifices made by the Veterans of World War II and their families.
Talk one-on-one with WWII Veterans, Hometown Heroes, and Rosie Riveters, and representatives of Allies to learn what it was like to be a proud American on the day when they learned the War was over, we won and began to rebuild lives at home and abroad.
http://www.veteranmuseum.org/index.html
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Veterans-Museum-and-Memorial-Center-Official-Fan-Page/217462098306377
Posted on August 13, 2013 by Christopher Van Stelle and filed under A-STEM, Aerospace STEM, Air Group One, Education, Spirit of '45 and tagged Air Group One Aerospace STEM A-STEM San Diego Air & Space Museum Education Spirit of '45.
Air Group One's A-STEM Progress Reports
Our Air Group One A-STEM program and the SDSU AFROTC pilots program together have qualified the Group to participate in a new flight sim training system initially designed for USAF Initial Flight Screening (IFS) and USN Flight Training, all developed by Flack Maguire, president of Virtual Flight Academy (VFA). It has been in work for several years.
On Monday August 5th and Wednesday August 7th several of our Group visited Kearny High School, near Montgomery Field, for an introduction to several examples of the new system. They were able to "fly" each of 3 stations. Later in those days, these experienced pilots actually provided flight sim instruction for a group of teens USN Sea Cadets and Jr. ROTC during their summer program. But this instruction was based on a Cessna 172 vice a military trainer. Though there was practically no preparation time, the instructors did a very impressive job with the kids. The staff was extremely happy and appreciative of the volunteer effort made by Air Group One.
Making up the group were Dwight Wait, Rick Worthen, Abraham Talerman, Tom Valenzia, Rich Kenney, and myself. Rick, Dwight, and Abraham did the actual instructor work.
VFA and Air Group One are working on securing a funded flight sim station for use at Gillespie Field, perhaps in the Building 9 classroom space offered by GKN Aerospace, Inc. Chemtronics (right across the street from Air Group One). The plan is to make it available for AFROTC flight-bound students. During other times it would be available for our own A-STEM projects. That plan is under construction by the team members mentioned above.
Posted on August 8, 2013 by Christopher Van Stelle and filed under A-STEM, Aerospace STEM, Air Group One, Education and tagged Air Group One Aerospace STEM San Diego Air & Space Museum A-STEM Education.
Air Group One participation with the San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering
Air Group One's A-STEM Programs Air Group One participation with the San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering. March 20th at Gillespie Field, El Cajon, CA at AG-1 hangar and SDASM Annex.
Posted on March 20, 2013 by Christopher Van Stelle and filed under A-STEM, Aerospace STEM, Air Group One, Education and tagged Air Group One Aerospace STEM A-STEM Education.
EDUCATION OFFICER & WEBMASTER
Ricardo Brand
A-STEM Email List →
Our Mission Statement - "To Commemorate, Educate, and Motivate"
Through education, perpetuate in the hearts of all Americans, the aviation heritage, honor, and spirit of those who participated in the defense of our nation. By actively utilizing aviation, motivate community youth to stay in school, become knowledgeable citizens, and pursue careers in STEM disciplines.
To present aviation topics in a hands-on environment to Middle School and High School age students so as to help motivate them toward study of the sciences; namely science, technology, engineering, mathematics, possibly leading to adult careers in American industry.
SUB-OBJECTIVES:
1. Emphasize importance of the scientist, problem-solver, researcher, engineer, designer, manufacturer, etc. as applied to aviation topics, using related examples in a hands-on environment.
2. Emphasize importance of scientific subjects: engineering, mathematics, chemistry, biology, energy dynamics, aerology, and management, etc.
3. Emphasize completion of High School and College, and the importance of determination, study, and persistence.
If you are interested in joining or supporting A-STEM or any of Air Group One's educational programs, please contact us using the form below.
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Quasi sure exponential stabilization of nonlinear systems via intermittent $ G $-Brownian motion
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doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2019059
$ L^\sigma $-measure criteria for boundedness in a quasilinear parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel system with supercritical sensitivity
Mengyao Ding 1,, and Xiangdong Zhao 2,
School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
School of Mathematical Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China
* Corresponding author: Mengyao Ding
Received March 2018 Revised October 2018 Published April 2019
Fund Project: The first author is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11571020, 11671021)
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This paper studies the parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel system with supercritical sensitivity: $u_{t}=\nabla\cdot(\phi (u) \nabla u)-\nabla \cdot(\varphi(u)\nabla v)$, $v_{t}=\Delta v -v+u$, subject to homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions in a bounded and smooth domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ $(n\ge2)$, the diffusivity fulfills $\phi(u)\ge a_0(u+1)^{\gamma}$ with $\gamma\ge0$ and $a_0>0$, while the chemotactic sensitivity satisfies $0\le \varphi(u)\le b_0u(u+1)^{\alpha+\gamma-1}$ with $\alpha>\frac{2}{n}$ and $b_0>0$. It is proved that the problem possesses a globally bounded solution for $\frac{4}{n+2}<\alpha<2$, whenever $\|u_0\|_{L^{\frac{n\alpha}{2}}(\Omega)}$ and $\|\nabla v_0\|_{L^{\frac{n\alpha+2\gamma}{2-\alpha}}(\Omega)}$ is sufficiently small. Similarly, the above conclusion still holds for $\alpha>2$ provided that $\|u_{0}\|_{L^{n\alpha-n}(\Omega)}$ and $\|\nabla v_0\|_{L^{\infty}(\Omega)}$ are small enough.
Keywords: Keller-Segel system, nonlinear diffusion, supercritical sensitivity, small initial data, boundedness.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35K55, 35B35; Secondary: 92C17.
Citation: Mengyao Ding, Xiangdong Zhao. $ L^\sigma $-measure criteria for boundedness in a quasilinear parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel system with supercritical sensitivity. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2019059
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truck strike
Kerela
Lorry owners stir likely to cause Rs 1,500 cr revenue loss
other states like Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka will stop.We.PTI | March 30, 2017, 21:47 IST
Chennai: The indefinite strike by lorry owners, which began today, is likely to hit business to the tune of nearly Rs 1,500 crore in the state, office-bearers of Tamil Nadu Lorry Owners Federation said.
The Federation representatives said the stir would continue as discussions with the government pressing for various demands had failed.
"As of now the strike is on. We expect the loss of revenue to be around Rs 1,500 crore as lorries stayed off roads," Federation president Kumaraswamy said here.
He was talking to reporters at the Secretariat after holding discussions with State Transport Minister M R Vijayabhaskar.
"The strike is on in Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Puducherry," he said.
"We have several demands and the major one is withdrawal of VAT announced recently by the Tamil Nadu government," he said.
Also read: 5 lakh trucks go off roads in Telangana, Andhra
In Erode and Namakkal districts, home for several lorry owners, transporting goods and other essential services to neighbouring states, nearly 5,000 lorries did not operate due to the strike.
Referring to the strike, Koyambedu Vegetable Market Vendors Association vice-president, Chandran said supply of vegetables was likely to be affected by nearly 50 per cent.
"Small trucks which bring vegetables from nearby locations may operate. But we fear that lorries coming from other states like Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka will stop. We expect that nearly 50 per cent of supply may get affected due to the strike," he told .
The drop in supply could see price of vegetables go up, owing to the increase in demand, he said.
Tags : Industry, truck strike, trucks, tamil nadu, Kerela, Andhra Pradesh
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Aktive – Auckland Sport & Recreation first sporting organisation to receive Cultural Intelligence Tick
Published on Friday 1 March, 2019
Aktive – Auckland Sport & Recreation (Aktive) is proud to announce that it has been awarded the CQ (Cultural Intelligence) Tick from the Superdiversity Institute – the first sport and recreation organisation to receive the acknowledgement.
To receive the CQ Tick, organisations undertake the CQ Tick Programme to measure the existing level of cultural intelligence and capability of staff and management so that gaps and strengths can be identified, addressed and built on to increase CQ.
Dr Sarah Sandley, Chief Executive, Aktive says the organisation greatly valued the assessment and support around understanding and developing its cultural capability.
“We are delighted to receive the CQ Tick from the Superdiversity Institute and excited to be the first sport and recreation organisation to do so,” says Dr Sandley. “We undertook this process to measure our existing level of cultural intelligence and cultural capability to identify where there are opportunities to further build our understanding and expertise in this important area.
“Aktive is committed to diversity and inclusion and the findings establish a valuable benchmark for us. This helps us attract, retain and grow our team to better reflect the increasingly diverse community of Tāmaki Makaurau which we represent and work with.”
Key findings from the CQ Survey indicate that Aktive is already superdiverse with 25% of respondents identifying as Māori and more than 25% respondents born outside of New Zealand. The organisation is represented by a range of ages and 14 different ethnicities with team members speaking six languages fluently.
Mai Chen, Chair, Superdiversity Institute highlights the value of these findings.
“The benefit of Aktive’s CQ Tick journey is that its diversity transformation can take place from the inside out by celebrating and empowering its existing team members to bring their whole selves to work. This helps the retention of staff, builds the organisation’s diverse culture and improves the service provided to the end customers who are increasingly superdiverse. This is critical given the organisation is committed to being reflective of the community it serves – the rapidly growing superdiverse city of Auckland.”
Ms Chen adds: “Aktive’s response rate to the survey was encouraging; the highest we have experienced to date. It is also great to see that it is the first sport and recreation organisation to receive the CQ Tick. We look forward to helping other enterprises in this sector assess their cultural capability. Sports organisation need to engage with the growing superdiverse population to get players, coaches, funders and fans.”
Aktive has a number of existing diversity policies and activities in place, including the Aktive Māori Advisory Group which contributes to the organisation’s strategic focus; the regional scaling of the increasingly popular ActivAsian that encourages growing participation in the Asian community; and HERA – Everyday Goddess, focused on engaging 10-18 year old girls in sport and recreation.
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22nd May, 2019
Aktive releases results of inaugural Organised Sport Survey
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Watch New Trailer For Disney's Live-Action 'Dumbo' Movie
Tim Burton takes the flying elephant to new heights
© Paul Brewster | Dreamstime.com
The classic Disney tale, Dumbo, is getting the live-action treatment and a new trailer was just released.
Related: Look Who's Back: Watch the Trailer for 'Toy Story 4'
Director Tim Burton is giving us his take on the flying elephant, who originally debuted in a 1941 animated film.
The new version finds a circus owner (Danny DeVito) enlisting a former star (Colin Farrell) and his children to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock – until everyone finds out he can fly. Michael Keaton also stars.
Dumbo is due in theaters on March 29, 2019.
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Elle King Returns To ‘The Late Show’ With “Shame”
The lead single from her sophomore album gets its TV debut
5 Things You Need To Know About Elle King
Find out who she was singing for when she went into a frenzy of debating whether the experience was terrifying or awesome in our exclusive interview.
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