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ManKind Project Men on CBS Sunday Morning – Developing Healthy Friendships
by branger | Mar 27, 2017 | Press, Recent News
This clip from CBS Sunday Morning – “Friendship: Close ties that enhance, extend life” – features men from the ManKind Project South Central area talking about the connections that they experience being part of the ManKind Project. Willie Baronet, Scott Prentis, Ron Nevelow, and John Groll were interviewed for the section on what it means to have powerful and supportive friendships.
CBS Sunday took an interest in the ManKind Project because of an article that featured one of the men in the segment, Ron Nevelow, who is a therapist in Dallas. Read the article here.
If you are ready to build your friendships with men, and improve every aspect of your life, you’re invited to find a men’s group near you. Email us.
Here’s an excerpt from the segment:
But things are different just outside of Dallas, where Scott Prentice, John Groll, Ron Nevelow and Willie Baronet may do the usual guy things, like “trash-talking.”
“It means making fun of his abilities, ’cause he can’t play basketball,” said Willie. “John can’t play poker. Scott can’t out-fish me, those sorts of things.”
“I’ve got pictures to prove otherwise, that’s all I can say,” Scott retorted.
You get the point, especially when they join other friends for a game of whirlyball — kind of a mash-up of lacrosse and basketball, played in bumper cars.
But they say that the friendship they’ve developed over more than 15 years is far different than the stereotypical friendship most people think of between a bunch of sports-loving, poker-playing guys.
“I’ve never found a group that’s so understood me, accepted me, loved me, and honored me as this group does,” said Scott.
“We are willing to share deeply with each other what our fears are, what’s not working well, and I think most men yearn for that connection, but don’t feel comfortable going after it,” said Willie.
“You’re all married, or in relationships; what do the women in your lives think about these friendships?” asked Braver.
“I guarantee you, without these guys, I wouldn’t be married,” said Scott. “I had, you know, a fear of commitment. They helped me walk through what it was that was keeping me from being able to have a wife.”
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Fashion Food, Lifestyle, News 22/05/2014 11/05/2014
Fashion Food at The Ledbury – LONDON
by Manuel Perrotta
Discreet, welcoming but quietly outstanding – the same epithets can be used to describe chef Brett Graham, his food and The Ledbury itself. The restaurant, tucked away in a corner of west London’s fashionable Notting Hill neighbourhood, still retains a loyal local (if distinctly well-heeled) following, with long-time regulars sitting harmoniously alongside the increasing number of international visitors.
The Australian-born chef-patron, who opened The Ledbury with seasoned restaurateur Nigel Platts-Martin in 2005 may now be fêted across the gastro world, but he still puts in punishing hours in the cramped basement kitchen. The team works tirelessly to source the UK’s best ingredients from a huge network of small-scale suppliers, with an emphasis on game, intriguing vegetables and obscure herbs and roots.
The Ledbury LONDON
Graham’s culinary approach is broadly Modern French, but with diverse accents gleaned from Britain and the Pacific Rim. His senior kitchen team has also been boosted by the recent arrival of former Fat Duck creative head Jocky Petrie, who is collaborating with Graham and senior sous chef Greg Austin to push the menu forward even further. That said, don’t expect a theatrical or lengthy tasting menu here; The Ledbury is the sort of restaurant you can return to time and again.
The dining room is bright and uncomplicated, service is exacting but highly personable, with staff helping to create an atmosphere that is always relaxed. The Ledbury may now be rated among the top 10 in the world, but Graham will not allow that to change the vibe at one of the UK’s most beloved establishments.
http://www.theledbury.com
127 Ledbury Road, Notting Hill, London, W11 2AQ, UK
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Unions disappointed at new charter schools
Two new charter schools have been approved for Maori students in Rotorua and Taupo to the dismay of teacher unions.
The Rotorua school, Te Rangihakahaka Centre for Science and Technology, will combine a science and technology focus with a Kaupapa Maori philosophy for 200 children in school years 1 to 10. It will be run by Te Taumata o Ngati Whakaue Iho-Ake Trust of the local Ngati Whakaue iwi.
The Taupo school, Blue Light Senior Boys High School, will be a boarding school for 90 Year 11-13 boys. It will be run by Blue Light Ventures which runs youth activities out of police stations. Albany Junior High School principal Mike Jackson will be the founding principal of the new school.
PPTA regional chair, Alex Le Long says teachers are disappointed to hear the new schools have been approved.
“Opening charter schools is not going to raise the achievement of our children. It’s not going to close any gaps. It’s not going to level any playing fields. The only thing charter schools do successfully is reward mediocrity by using scarce education money to prop up private owners,” says Le Long.
“The evidence shows that innovative education happens best when we work together, and that’s already happening right across Rotorua, Taupo and beyond. The last thing we need is a corporate model of education being imposed on us by an out-of-touch under-secretary in Wellington.”
Laures Park, NZEI Te Riu Roa Matua Takawaenga said it was cynical to couch charter schools as some sort of educational solution for Māori.
“I have no doubt that the people in the organisations behind these charter schools have nothing but the best intentions for the welfare and future of their tamariki,” she said. “But the fact is, more than 85 percent of Māori tamariki go to mainstream public schools. It's a cop out for the Government to present charter schools as a solution for Māori, while failing to adequately resource the schools that the vast majority of Māori attend.”
The two new schools will be the 11th and 12th partnership schools in New Zealand. There were 13 applications in the current funding round, with the fifth funding round already under way.
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Club History - Part 7 - 2010-11 Season
The club and fans were hopeful of a good campaign as a result of reaching the play-offs last season. However, by Christmas that hope had long since disappeared.
Over the course of summer 2010, Aaron Brown (to Leyton Orient), Scott Donnelly (Swansea City), Kirk Hudson (Brentford), Andy Sandell (Wycombe Wanderers), Louie Soares (Southend United) and Dave Winfield (Wycombe Wanderers [£25000]) all turn down contract offers and left the EBB Stadium.
In addition to those departures, Chris Blackburn (later joined Wrexham), Lewis Chalmers (Macclesfield Town), John Grant (Barrow), Dean Howell (Crawley Town), Mikhael Jaimez-Ruiz (Yaracuyanos [Venezuela]) and Ömer Riza (Histon) were all released by boss Kevin Dillon.
Clayton Fortune (from Weston-Super-Mare), Luke Guttridge (Northampton Town), Darren Jones (Hereford United), Ross Kitteridge (Basingstoke Town), Glen Little (Sheffield United), Jermaine McGlashan (Ashford Town [Middx]), Aaron Morris (Cardiff City), Manny Panther (York City), Jack Randall (Crystal Palace), Wade Small (Chesterfield), ex-loanee Damian Spencer (Kettering Town) and Jamie Vincent (Walsall) all join on free transfers.
Accrington Stanley 0 Shots 0.
Shots 0 Watford 3 (Carling Cup first round).
Shots 1 Southend United 0. Marvin Morgan scores his 100th career goal.
Shrewsbury Town 1 Shots 1.
Shots 1 Stevenage 1. Glen Little made his 300th Football League appearance. Marvin Morgan missed a penalty.
Shots 2 Oxford United 0 (Johnstone’s Paint Trophy first round).
Jamie Young wins “Player of the Month”.
Marlon Jackson rejoins on loan from Bristol City.
Shots 1 Northampton Town 1. Last minute equaliser by Ben Harding.
Port Vale 1 Shots 0.
Shots 0 Wycombe Wanderers 0. Gary Waddock’s first return to the EBB Stadium along with Scott Davies, Andy Sandell and Dave Winfield.
Stockport County 2 Shots 2. Shots led 2-0 with 17 minutes left.
Torquay United 0 Shots 1. Goal in 86th minute by Marvin Morgan.
Darren Jones wins “Player of the Month”.
Shots 0 Cheltenham Town 2. First home league defeat of the season.
Bristol Rovers 1 Shots 0 (Johnstone’s Paint Trophy second round). Goal came in 90th minute. Luke Guttridge missed a penalty (Shots have missed both penalties this season).
Oxford United 0 Shots 1. Jamie Vincent sent off just before half time. 25-yarder from Marvin Morgan just before the hour.
Shots 2 Morecambe 1. Another wonderful 25-yarder by Marvin Morgan. This was the Shots’ first home league win in five attempts.
Marlon Jackson extends loan for a second month.
Crewe Alexandra 3 Shots 1. Anthony Charles made his 200th appearance for the club. Anthony Straker scored on his 150th appearance for the club.
Damian Spencer sustains a posterior cruciate ligament injury in training.
Shots 1 Bury 3. Darren Jones and Marvin Morgan sent off. Kevin Dillon sent to the stands. Jamie Young saved a penalty on his 100th career appearance.
Ben Herd wins “Player of the Month”.
Hereford United 2 Shots 2. Jermaine McGlashan scores his first-ever Football League goal. Wade Small scores his first Shots goal four minutes from time. Luke Guttridge made his 300th Football League appearance in this game.
Brentford 1 Shots 1 (FA Cup first round). Wade Small scores for the second consecutive game. Darren Jones makes his 300th career appearance.
Macclesfield Town 2 Shots 0.
Shots 1 Brentford 0 (FA Cup first round replay). Wade Small scores early winner to take his tally to three in four.
Shots 0 Chesterfield 2. Marvin Morgan made his 100th appearance for club, whilst Anthony Straker made his 150th Shots start. Five league games without victory.
Burton Albion 1 Shots 2. Wade Small scored twice to bring his tally for the month to five goals in six games. First win in six games.
Dover Athletic 2 Shots 0 (FA Cup second round). Knocked out by a team two divisions below us. This was the first time since being to promoted to the Football League that Aldershot Town had been beaten by a non-league side in the FA Cup. It was also the first time the club had been beaten by a lower league side in the competition. This game also contributed to Dover later receiving the “ESPN Cup Run of the Year” award.
Glen Little and Wade Small jointly win “Player of the Month”.
Home match against Bradford City postponed due to combination of frozen pitch and snow.
Rotherham United 1 Shots 0. Wade Small missed a penalty. Jamie Vincent sent off late on for second time this season.
Home match against Lincoln City postponed due to health and safety concerns pertaining to icy condition of terraces, walkways and surrounding areas.
Speculation linking Danny Hylton with a move to AFC Wimbledon, Marvin Morgan with moves to AFC Bournemouth and Crawley Town. Manny Panther also linked with latter club.
Boxing Day match against Gillingham postponed due to frozen pitch at the EBB Stadium.
Match at Morecambe postponed due to a frozen pitch.
Barnet 1 Shots 2. First half goals from Ben Harding and Wade Small secure New Year’s Day win.
Shots 1 Hereford United 2. First game at EBB Stadium since November 20th. Fans called for Kevin Dillon to be sacked during and after loss to bottom-placed side. The supporters also jeered Marvin Morgan, which led to him making offensive comments towards them on the social networking site Twitter. As a consequence, Morgan was fined two weeks wages and ordered to stay away from the club. He was also placed on the transfer list and, shortly after, joined League 1 side Dagenham and Redbridge on loan until the end of the season.
Striker Liam Henderson joins on loan from Watford for the remainder of the season.
Shots 1 Oxford United 2. Fans again called for Kevin Dillon to be sacked. This result also set a new club record for consecutive home league defeats (4).
The fans got their wish two days later (on January 10th) when, along with assistant Gary Owers, Kevin Dillon was dismissed. The Shots’ home record under Kevin was a primary reason for his departure as, during his reign, just 10 victories were attained in 33 league games (of which just two came in 2010-11, with the last one being in mid-October) and his overall record being just a dozen wins from 39 games in all competitions.
Dean Holdsworth leaves his position as manager of Blue Square Premier side Newport County to become boss at the EBB Stadium (on January 12th). He brings with him Matt Bishop, his assistant from Newport.
Midfielder Peter Vincenti joins on a free transfer from Stevenage.
Bury 1 Shots 1. Luke Guttridge scored for the third successive league game as the Shots give new boss Dean Holdsworth a point from his first game in charge.
Striker Tim Sills returns to Aldershot Town having had his Stevenage contract cancelled by mutual consent.
Shots 1 Bradford City 0. This was the Shots’ first home league win since October 16th.
Wesley Ngo Baheng released and joined Hereford United shortly after.
Liam Henderson has his loan terminated and returns to Watford.
Defender Simon Grand joins on loan from Fleetwood Town until the end of the season.
Shots 3 Crewe Alexandra 2. Shots come from behind twice and win thanks to a 20-yard free kick by Luke Guttridge in the fifth minute of injury time. This was the first time that the Shots had scored more than two goals this season.
Midfielder Alex Rodman joins from Tamworth.
Glen Little leaves by mutual consent.
Damian Spencer joins Eastbourne Borough on a one-month loan to aid his recovery from the posterior cruciate ligament injury that he sustained in training three months ago.
Gillingham 2 Shots 1. Alex Rodman scores a late long-range debut goal after coming on as a second half substitute. First defeat under Dean Holdsworth.
Anthony Straker joins ex-Shots boss Gary Waddock at Wycombe Wanderers on a
month-long loan on final day of transfer window.
Luke Guttridge won the December/January “Player of the Month”.
Shots 1 Barnet 1. Match abandoned at half time due to fog.
Jack Randall joins Didcot Town on a month’s loan.
Chesterfield 2 Shots 2. Tim Sills opens his second-time-around scoring account, by netting the first equaliser. Alex Rodman missed a penalty (Shots have missed all four penalties that they have been awarded this season), but Anthony Charles scored from the subsequent scramble. This game also saw the return to action of referee’s assistant Sian Massey, after a two-week sabbatical that had been imposed by the Professional Game Match Officials Board. The reason for the PGMOB’s action was in order to take her out of the glare of media attention after she was the innocent victim of sexist remarks that had been made by Sky Sports broadcasters Andy Burton, Andy Gray and Richard Keys. Those remarks led to Burton being suspended, Gray being dismissed and Keys resigning.
Morecambe 1 Shots 1. Alex Rodman scored another goal, again from the bench.
Former Shots keeper Mikhael Jaimez-Ruiz rejoins from Venezuelan side Yaracuyanos on a non-contract basis.
Shots 0 Macclesfield Town 0.
Shots 2 Lincoln City 2. Anthony Charles opened the scoring with a penalty: the first time in five attempts that the Shots have scored from such an award this season. This result equalled the club record for consecutive league draws (4).
Sierra Leonean international winger Albert Jarrett signs on one-month loan from Lincoln City.
Northampton Town 1 Shots 1. This result set a new club record for consecutive league draws (5). Jamie Young made his 100th Football League appearance.
Young striker Reece Connolly joins Conference South side Dorchester Town on a
one-month loan.
Youngsters Jermaine McGlashan (two years), Danny Hylton and Aaron Morris (both one year) sign contract extensions.
Shots 1 Port Vale 2. Anthony Charles missed a penalty (Shots have now missed five out of six penalties this season). First home defeat under Dean Holdsworth.
Young striker Luke Medley joins on a one-month loan from Mansfield Town.
Alex Rodman won the February “Player of the Month”.
Shots 1 Gillingham 1.
Wycombe Wanderers 2 Shots 2. John Halls scored the Shots’ second goal - not only was it his first goal for the club, but it was also his first goal since September 2007, when he netted for Reading against Liverpool in a League Cup third round tie.
Shots 1 Torquay United 0. Second half goal from Luke Guttridge gives the Shots their first win in ten games.
Cheltenham Town 1 Shots 2. Goals from Anthony Charles and Peter Vincenti give the Shots their first away victory in five games.
Shots 1 Stockport County 0. An injury time goal from substitute Damian Spencer, who had not played for the Shots since late October due to injury, secured all three points.
Left back Jamie Vincent released.
Shots 1 Barnet 0.
Shots 1 Accrington Stanley 1. Darren Jones scored his first goal for the club.
Luke Guttridge won the March “Player of the Month”.
Dean Holdsworth won the “npower League 2 Manager of the Month”.
Southend United 0 Shots 0.
Shots 3 Shrewsbury Town 0. Two goals (one from the penalty spot) by Danny Hylton either side of Ben Herd’s first goal for the club. In fact, that was Herd’s first goal since October 2006 and came against his former employers.
Stevenage 2 Shots 2. Alex Rodman scored two glorious long-range goals to claim a share of the points in an ill-tempered encounter.
Shots 1 Burton Albion 2. Damian Spencer scored the 50th goal of his career. This result ended a 10-match unbeaten run for the Shots.
Bradford City 2 Shots 1. A last-minute own goal by Anthony Charles denies the Shots victory and subjects Dean Holdsworth’s men to back-to-back defeats for the first time under his tenure.
Scholars Doug Bergqvist, Henrik Breimyr and Adam Mekki all sign two-year pro contracts.
Shots 2 Rotherham United 2. Despite leading through goals from Anthony Charles and Peter Vincenti inside the opening 11 minutes, the Shots’ final home game ended
all-square. This was the Shots’ 19th draw of the season, which is both a club record and seen as many as the main reason that the play-offs were not reached.
Luke Guttridge voted supporters’ “Player of the Year”.
Ben Herd voted “Players’ Player of the Year” for the second successive season.
Lincoln City 0 Shots 3. A penalty from Danny Hylton plus a brace from Luke Guttridge complemented by one of the away performances of the season condemns Lincoln to relegation out of the Football League. Teenage centre half Doug Bergqvist makes his senior debut as a late substitute in the Shots’ biggest away victory of the season.
The Shots finish their League 2 campaign in 14th place.
Clayton Fortune, Ben Harding, Mikhael Jaimez-Ruiz, Marvin Morgan, Jack Randall, Tim Sills and Wade Small are released.
Andy Sandell, who moved to Wycombe Wanderers
Dave Winfiled joined ex-boss Gary Waddock at Wycombe Wanderers
Lewis Chalmers was allowed to leave the EBB Stadium
Fan favourite John Grant moved on
Pacy winger Jermaine McGlashan brings excitement to the Shots fans
Gary Waddock's Wycombe Wanderers come to the EBB Stadium
Jamie Young saves a penalty v Bury on his 100th career appearance
The snow and freezing conditions caused several postponements
Head Groundsman Andy Nunn - superb pitch!
Marvin Morgan
Deano and Bish arrive!
Tim Sills came home
Luke Guttridge's superb last-minute goal secured the points v Crewe
Alex Rodman soon adapted to playing in the Football League
The fog wins!
The spotlight was on assistant referee Sian Massey at Chesterfield
Danny scores twice v Shrewsbury Town
Ben Herd scores his first goal for the Shots against former club Shrewsbury Town
New pros Henrik Breimyr (left), Doug Bergqvist (centre) and Adam Mekki (right) with boss Dean Holdsworth
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Back In the Day - The Boxing Day Match
In this article we look back at the origins of the Annual Match v OPMs and the close relationship between the two clubs. In the early part of the century Argaum were used to travelling on Boxing Day including visits to the likes of Exeter Reserves and Teignmouth. However, our story takes us back over 85 years to the season 1926-27, when seven Argaum players left the club to form the new OPMs side including one George Wakeham, later to become President of both Plymouth Albion and Devon RFU.
Published in Featured Articles
Argaum Retain Boxing Day Trophy
OPMs 30 Argaum 35
Plymouth Argaum retained the Bob Harris Memorial Trophy with a victory in a highly entertaining match at Plymouth College today.
Published in Senior Match Reports
Boxing Day Match(es) 1960
From the archives was found this match programme from the 1960 Boxing Day Match against usual opponents OPMs but what is quite remarkable is that it was one of 4 matches taking place that day at Bickleigh Down.
Pete Duff's Testimonial Match
Plymouth Argaum entertain OPM's on Boxing Day in the annual meeting between the two clubs.
This year, the fixture coincides with Argaum Stalwart, Pete Duff's testimonial game. After playing local Rugby for 23 years, all of them for Argaum, Pete(54) has decided to hang-up his boots and at the request of his long-suffering wife Bev, get an operation ton straighten his infamously crooked nose.
Pete was brought to Argaum by a work colleague, Paddy Gillespie during the 81/82 season and initially started as a Hooker, before switching to number nine, alledgely for an easier time. Over the years, Pete has fulfilled various roles for the club, including becoming Club Captain.
I'm sure that everyone would agree that Plymouth Argaum is as much Pete Duff as Pete Duff is Plymouth Argaum. Argaum look forward to seeing him continue his support for the club. He has firmly been cemented in it's history.
Argaum are hoping to welcome plenty of old faces back to Bickliegh Down, as well as a sprinkling of new talent for an occasion richly deserved.
The bar will be open to host a good, old-fashioned Argaum knees-up, so it would be great to see everyone there.
Kick-off is at 12 o'clock, meet in the clubhouse at 11am.
Published in Press Reports
Boxing Day: Club XV v OPM XV
Plymouth Argaum XV v OPM XV
Boxing Day 2003
The Annual Boxing Day Match was once again a success in terms of attendance after a couple of dissapointing seasons.
Plymouth Argaum 3 OPMs 0
Roborough. Plymouth Argaum won their Boxing Day game against O.P.M.s by a solitary try to nil. Play was hard and robust, but movement generally lacked polish. W. Hitchins heeling well, the virile home forwards controlled the first half, and ten minutes from the interval Douglas, at stand-off. received and crossed over after a 30- yard run. In mid-field the visitors' backs looked dangerous, with Beamish prominent at centre, but their attacks petered out against an alert defence. Argaum came near to increasing their lead when Douglas went just wide with a drop kick. Ball and Mutton, the respective full-backs, were in excellent form, and Blackburn stood out in the winners' pack.
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In the Trenches With a Threenager
March 14, 2016 ashley glass
What in the blue blazin' does everyone mean when they say "The terrible two's are the hardest!"?! Two, with both of my kids, was magical. I remember Pierson was beginning to verbalize his needs and wants so expressively, he began vocalizing his deep love for Mimi and Pa Pa and Uncle Nate in Michigan. He was friendly, sweet, obedient and our biggest challenge was trying to convince him that pooping on the potty didn't need to be terrifying. And here is Reese, a full time 'mommy' with her baby dolls, enthusiastic, hilarious and also SO obedient. Pierson wasn't yet trying to boss his little sis around when he was two, he wasn't overly whiney, his temper tantrums were just so so--life just wasn't all that hard.
Enter three and a half.
When toys became boring. Nothing kept his attention. We told him no, and life as he knew it was over. Reese wasn't allowed to stare at him the 'wrong' way. He wanted to be alone, yet he didn't know how to be. He would go from mid- happy conversation to flat-out sobbing, hysterically. Giant tears flowed from his big brown doe eyes multiple times a day. Food became yucky. How dare us serve him Mac n' Cheese, his once favorite dish! Ice water instead of sprite? Oh no we DIDN'T!
Life. It just got hard. The trenches were deep and I wasn't sure that I would be able to climb my way out. Who was this kid? Where did my sweet baby boy GO? Was this going to be our life from now on? Were we going to permanently have a whiney, argumentative, moody child? There were too many days I got home from teaching (mind you, where I re-direct, repeat myself, and teach other children how to love and be respectful ALL day long), that I just felt like crying myself.
One in particular stands out to me: I asked him and Reese to please sit on the couch on opposite ends and wait for me to look for the paint supplies he had been crying for. They had been trying to kill each other the moment I walked in the door, fighting for my undivided attention, wanting snack and after snack, and my heart was so tired after a strenuous day in the classroom. Neither child would obey me and finally, the last straw broke. I had sprinted to the basement to frantically find the paint things we hadn't used in months--
Reese! Don't DO that!!!!
Pitter patter, pitter patter...
Blood curdling SCREAM
"What?!?" I sprinted back UP the stairs. "Manny SCRATCHED me!" he wailed.
"Well if you hadn't gotten OFF the couch and angrily sprinted past Manny, he wouldn't have swatted at you!!" I angrily replied.
I could feel my blood beginning to boil. I was livid that Pierson disobediently got off the couch to tattle on his sister. I was mad at our moody cat for swatting at my son. I was so defeated that every day was becoming a battle for me to simply just survive. My toddler was winning and I, I was failing.
"GO to time-out." I said. But it wasn't to them; I was the one needing it. I sat myself in the yellow time-out chair and as tears started to roll down my face I counted to ten, like I instruct them to do. Slowly, I got up from the chair and walked into the living room, where both children were sitting on opposite ends of the couch. I sat between them and asked for forgiveness as I had lost my temper. I said a quick prayer out loud and asked for more strength, to give us joy this afternoon and to please help me learn how to deal with this new stage of life.
The ditch remained deep for quite some time. My husband suggested I take Pierson on a date, just the two of us, because I needed to learn how to love him again. It wasn't that I didn't adore my child, but wait... it kind of was. I didn't know who he was, what I was missing, how to help him be consistently happy again. I could feel my confidence slipping, I began to doubt my ability to Mother this three-year old.
And then one day, a couple of months later, the sun broke through. The cobwebs were cleaned from my eyes, the haze of dust I was squinting through completely cleared. My once happy and carefree boy was himself. His laughter was contagious, his smile more beautiful. The tears lessened and I started to hear a lot of: "Okay, Mom," and "Sure, Mom," and "I love you, Mom." Medicine to my soul, a warm cup of tea to my icy heart. His voice was rich with a newfound maturity, and I recognized the kid that I had birthed three years prior.
There was no magic pill, no innovative toy that he fell in love with, no specific discipline--he just snapped out of it. I prayed for patience, daily (okay, hourly). I had to work extra hard to come down to his level and speak rationally and loving, all the while firmly. I was the one he was looking to when his emotions were hay-wired, I couldn't be emotionally unstable too. One night recently, my husband and I talked about the drastic changes Pierson had gone through and he said, "We have to remember when Reese turns three, this was just a phase."
Just a phase. Have you noticed how every sleep regression, every food avoidance, every thing we as moms tend to deem tragic--is all temporary? For almost two months I didn't really think I could climb myself out of the hole of frustration I had fallen into. But my son helped remind me that though the three-isms are really stinken hard, this too is quite a magical age. At the end of the day, Pierson was still Pierson. Whatever season and phase he enters, I know the HEART of this young boy will stay consistently loving.
Being in the trenches with a threenager is sometimes beyond trying, but hang on tight because I promise that ALL of you will climb to the top bigger, stronger and more loving then ever.
In motherhood, self-inspiration Tags motherhood, life, momlife, three, threenager, pierson
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ATA Announces Staff Enhancements : Alexander Thompson Arnold CPAs Hires Business Development Director and Promotes Accounting Staff
ALEXANDER THOMPSON ARNOLD CPAs ANNOUNCES STAFF ENHANCEMENTS
To celebrate growth and improve efficiency, Alexander Thompson Arnold CPAs has announced some staff enhancements. Gil Fletcher has joined ATA as its new Director of Business Development. He will work in the Jackson office. A UT Martin graduate, Gil has retired twice: from a 33 year career in the banking industry and from a 3 year career as the Executive Director of the Humboldt Chamber. Utilizing his business experience, his efforts will compliment the firm’s relationship-focused marketing efforts to develop new business opportunities. He is married to ATA Principal Judy Fletcher. Several team members have also received promotions for their hard work and dedication. They include:
Melanie Berry, CPA and Julie Travis, CPA have been promoted to Senior Manager,
Gabrielle Lorbiecki, CPA and Shelley Swearingen, CPA have been promoted to Manager; and
Chloe Humphrey is now a Senior Accountant.
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China, Australia hold first strategic dialogue
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (R) shakes hands with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Canberra, Australia, on Feb. 5, 2008. (Xinhua/Jiang Yaping)
CANBERRA, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his Australian counterpart Stephen Smith started their first round of bilateral strategic dialogue here on Tuesday and reached a broad consensus on various issues.
The two ministers agreed that the establishment of such annual strategic dialogue was in line with the needs of the progressive development of the bilateral ties, was following the current trend of peace, development and cooperation in the world, and marked the new stage of bilateral ties.
During the dialogue, the two sides reached agreement on five issues concerning the bilateral relations. The first was to strengthen high level exchange and enhance mutual trust in politics; second was to expand mutual interest and deepen bilateral cooperation; the third was to expand peoples' contacts and increase friendly exchange in cultural and educational sectors; the fourth was to strengthen dialogue and communication, care about the sensitive issues of both sides; and the fifth was to strengthen regional cooperation to mutually promote regional peace and stability.
The strategic dialogue system between China and Australia was set up by the leaders of both countries in last September when Chinese President Hu Jintao paid an official visit to Australia. The dialogue provides a platform for both countries to strengthen dialogue and communication over bilateral ties as well as important regional and international issues.
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith (R) shakes hands with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Canberra, Australia, on Feb. 5, 2008. (Xinhua/Jiang Yaping)
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Rogers Hornsby Federation Semifinal - Game 3
Kingston at Metropolis
Pos AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB HBP SB E
Bryce Harper OF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0
Christian Yelich OF 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Travis Shaw (B1) DH 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Anthony Rendon 3B 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
Tyler White 2B 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A.J. Pollock (B2) OF 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ryan O'Hearn 1B 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wilson Ramos C 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Adalberto Mondesi SS 4 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0
Slot IP K H BB ER S
Mike Minor P3 4.7 4 6 3 3 0 L (0-1)
Bullpen* 4.3 2 4 3 4 0
IP Short = 3.6
Billy McKinney (B2) OF 4 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
Ian Desmond 1B 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
J.D. Martinez OF 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nolan Arenado 3B 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salvador Perez C 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
J.T. Realmuto DH 4 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Addison Russell (B5) SS 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Derek Dietrich 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
26 2 10 1 0 1 4 6 0 0 0
Carlos Rodon P3 7.0 1 7 3 4 0
Bullpen 2.0 3 2 0 2 5 W (1-0)
Raw Scores
Team Batting Score Pitching Score Superior Pitching Home Team Total
Kingston 4.1975 7.58016 0 0 4.28375
Metropolis 4.78333 4.37 0 0.33 6.51175
BWB Score Formula - Final score is a combination of your batting score and your opponent's pitching score.
Component Batting Scores
Team RR ATB HR Score
Kingston 1.12 6.275 0.5
Metropolis 1.2 7.36667 0.5
Component Pitching Scores
Team Starter ER BP * BI K Score Sv Score HBB Score Err Score
Kingston 3 4.4709 0.64074 0 0.75 0
Metropolis 4 2 0.38 1.25 0 0
Hitters scored using MLB Game 152
Starting pitching performance pulled from the closest start to MLB Game 152 (within 7 games)
Bullpen scored using MLB Games 147 through 152
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Resistance is a standard-issue WWII soap, complete with a marooned American pilot (Bill Paxton), a dishy French-accented farm wife (Julia Ormond) and despicable, but immaculately dressed, Nazis.
The film shows a bit of promise in the early going, as a plucky, courageous kid named Jean (Antoine Van Lierde) helps the injured Paxton elude capture and delivers him via wheelbarrow to Ormond’s cottage, which has one of those secret rooms behind the closet that come in so handy at times like these.
There, Ormond sensuously cleans Paxton’s wounds and rapidly nurtures him back to All-American Boy gee whiz health. Apparently, Paxton’s injuries weren’t really that serious. Despite being the only survivor of a horrific plane crash, all he really needed was a few days rest and a damp cloth. This is the first warning sign of dangerous plot-holes ahead and those fissures only get wider and goofier as the film progresses. One scene in particular is a howler: Paxton staggers down from his attic redoubt, barely able to walk, but within a few minutes he is dancing the jitterbug with Ormond who, despite crushing agrarian poverty, has an impressive collection of hot jazz records.
Meanwhile, Ormond’s husband is away with the guys on a Resistance outing; blowing up bridges and railroads and maybe a little fishing. In his absence, she and Paxton decide that it would be a fine idea to start taking baths together. Yes, “Resistance” gets pretty mushy before we’re through, and yes you can see it all coming a mile away. But it’s not long before the realties of war, and disgruntled husbands, cause this burgeoning romance to come tumbling down.
A few shocking moments are attempted as we reach the conclusion, but they all fail, and the Germans, despite their nifty uniforms, seem as pathetically clueless as the ones on “Hogan’s Heroes”. Worst of all, the great Sandrine Bonnaire is nonsensically wasted in a dinky little role. But that’s fitting. With Resistance, nonsense is par for the course.
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Daybreak (BYM055)
The Ganjas
As the main characters of alternative rock for about 2 decades in Chile and with 7 albums released (3 with BYM) we bring a new reissue from The Ganjas, one of the most mature records of his career, or the one that at least traces its early development in its entirety.
Daybreak shows the band at a moment of creative acuity that incorporates both sonic urgency and compositional and authorial resolution, an identity that will be maintained until their most recent albums. These songs don't require repeated listening to foster appreciation, they affect immediately, and relentlessly. A flawless blend of acoustic that turn into fuzz guitar work and backbeat rhythms that create the aural equivalent of fog.
If you have seen the band live, or if not yet done so, you will find the songs on this album as a fundamental part of their repertoire.
«Sonic Redemption»3:33
«Smokin' Louise»4:14
«Riot Dub»4:59
«Raise»5:18
«Frio ni calor»5:25
«New Groove»5:48
«Out from Heaven»6:28
«7th Day»4:01
«Daybreak»7:04
«Exile»4:25
«Somethin' Down»6:14
«Chillan»8:37
«Shutdown»2:08
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News » Nicole Kidman loved playing Queen Atlanna in the Aquaman movie
Movies News / Jon Galt
Published: June 1 2017 18:36
Nicole Kidman loved playing Queen Atlanna in the Aquaman movie
The DCEU are bringing us an Aquaman movie next year
Actress Nicole Kidman plays Queen Atlanna in the movie
Nicole says she was delighted to be in the film
After struggling to get their act together in recent years, it seems that the DC Extended Universe might finally be moving in the right direction, if the recent reviews about the Wonder Woman movie are anything to go by. With that in mind, the DC movie that we have been most excited about seeing, is the Aquaman movie, as they are going to have to do something special with the film, especially for those underwater scenes.
Australian actress Nicole Kidman takes on the role of Queen Atlanna in the Aquaman movie, and the actress has been talking about what drew her to the role. Nicole says that her friendship with director James Wan was one of the key points to her accepting the role, and that she has loved every minute of being involved in the project ever since.
Kidman was recently chatting to Deadline about the Aquaman movie, when she told them, "Well, James Wan is Australian, and he's a friend of mine. I think he's going to make an amazing movie. We've always circled each other, so when he came to me, I was like, 'James, I'll do anything for you.' When he said 'female warrior from the sea' who wears mother of pearl, I went, 'Yes. Female warrior from the sea. Me like."
Former Game of Thrones actor Jason Momoa takes on the lead role of Arthur Curry aka Aquaman in the DC movie, which is expected to hit the big screen on December 21, 2018 in both the US and the UK.
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May 8, 2015, Worldwide Tax Daily
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Excerpt taken from the article " Observers Split on Odds of U.S. Caterpillar Criminal Tax Inquiry" by Amy S. Elliott for Worldwide Tax Daily.
Scott D. Michel of Caplin & Drysdale Chtd. said that over the last decade or so, the IRS has relaxed what had historically been a strict prohibition against parallel criminal and civil investigations. Internal Revenue Manual 9.5.1 now permits parallel proceedings when they can be done in a way "to maximize civil enforcement without imperiling the criminal prosecution," and in particular to ensure that civil statutes of limitations aren't allowed to expire during a criminal investigation.
"Priority tends to go to the criminal side," Michel said, adding that IRS revenue agents "are not going to do anything that messes up the criminal case."
Michel said that a so-called Klein conspiracy charge -- conspiracy to defraud the IRS, named after the case United States v. Klein, 247 F.2d 908, 916 (2d Cir. 1957) -- is "a common type of charge in a criminal tax investigation."
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Catherine wuthering heights. Emily Brontë at 200: Is ‘Wuthering Heights’ a Love Story? 2019-03-01
Catherine wuthering heights Rating: 8,3/10 1777 reviews
Wuthering Heights Summary: Literature Guides
We are never able to judge any character too harshly because we know this. Analysis Brontë's novel is full of innocent children who are abandoned into cold and unfriendly homes: Heathcliff as an orphan in Liverpool; Hindley sent away to college; Heathcliff and Cathy after Earnshaw's death; Hareton and Linton at Wuthering Heights, and Cathy Linton at her father's death. GradeSaver, 16 October 2012 Web. Teachers Both Cathy and Catherine are fortunate to be blessed with an education. Ellen noticed the change, and enclosed both locks of hair together. Unfortunately, she never resolves the true feelings she has for Heathcliff in her heart.
Comparing Catherine & Cathy in Wuthering Heights
I get levers and mattocks to demolish the two houses, and train myself to be capable of working like Hercules, and when everything is ready and in my power, I find the will to lift a slate off either roof has vanished! My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and, if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the Universe would turn to a mighty stranger. Late in the novel, Cathy sees this, and tells Heathcliff that her revenge on him, no matter how miserable he makes her, is to know that he, Heathcliff, is more miserable. Hindly became the owner of Thrushcross Grange and married Frances and became preoccupied with his beloved wife. Analysis We have moved from the violent and discordant world of adulthood back to harmonious childhood. After the marriage Catherine seems happy and content with her new life.
Wuthering Heights Symbolism: An Analysis of Symbolism in Wuthering Heights
Earnshaw, Heathcliff falls into an intense, unbreakable love with Mr. Although it possesses characteristics of a diverse range of literature, inconsistencies undermine many standard categorizations. That morning, Isabella left, never to return to the moors again. Romanticism portrays through Heathcliff passion for Catherine. Linton Heathcliff's son is displaced twice after his mother's death, being removed first to Thrushcross Grange and then to Wuthering Heights. Does Catherine fall, in yielding to the comforts and security of Thrushcross Grange? It is often described as a great love story—the greatest of all time, to a 2007 British poll; sometimes, it is also unfairly consigned to the forbidden-romance genre in which young women are irresistibly drawn to dark and dangerous bad boys.
Catherine Earnshaw
While Cathy and Heathcliff watched Edgar and Isabella Linton through the window, Cathy let out a laugh that alerted the dogs at the estate. Linton was surprised to hear he had a father, since Isabella had never spoken of Heathcliff. As Heathcliff listens, she tells Nelly that she has accepted Edgar's proposal of marriage, yet isn't sure she should have. Both have the desire to experience more than their childhood homes have to offer, but eventually find that home is where they want to be. Summary In a drunken rage, Hindley accidentally drops Hareton over the banister, but luckily, Heathcliff is present and catches the baby.
A powerful, fierce, and often cruel man, Heathcliff acquires a fortune and uses his extraordinary powers of will to acquire both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, the estate of Edgar Linton. The concept that almost every reader of Wuthering Heights focuses on is the passion-love of Catherine and Heathcliff, often to the exclusion of every other theme—this despite the fact that other kinds of love are presented and that Catherine dies half way through the novel. Hindly constantly abused Heathcliff and beat him and left him bruised, which he would constantly be punished for by his father. She sees Heathcliff as a romantic figure, like a character in a novel. Her father kept her within the park of the Grange, but she dreamed of going to see some cliffs, Penistone Craggs, which were located not too far away on the moor. But her only novel has secured her place in the canon. Feeling rejected after Catherine decided to not marry him, he grows into an obsessed creature.
Catherine and Heathcliff's Passion in Wuthering Heights by...
Description Catherine is the daughter of the well-off but not wealthy Earnshaw family and younger sister of Hindley. Are Cathy and Hareton the new and improved Catherine and Heathcliff—the free-spirited couple that got it right—or a pale and dull copy? Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. Their calling is to be the other; and that calling, mad and destructive as it sometimes seems, is religious. However, she is also motivated by impulses that prompt her to violate social conventions—to love Heathcliff, throw temper tantrums, and run around on the moor. During this time, Emily Brontë challenged the morality of European customs in her revolutionary novel, Wuthering Heights. Edgar's ultimatum that Catherine must make a final choice between him or Heathcliff restricts Catherine's identity by forcing her to reject an essential part of her nature; with loving selfishness Edgar confines his daughter Cathy to the boundaries of Thrushcross Grange. Read an Edgar Linton - Well-bred but rather spoiled as a boy, Edgar Linton grows into a tender, constant, but cowardly man.
Ellen was not fooled, and told him that Cahterine had died peacefully, like a girl falling asleep. The abandoned church at Gimmerton is decaying; the minister stops visiting Wuthering Heights because of Hindley's degeneracy. Her ghost haunts Heathcliff up to his mysterious death, and an iconic scene sees Lockwood, the first narrator in the book, visited in eerie, Gothic fashion by her ghost as a little girl, lost on the moors. A superstitious Nellie refuses to let Catherine tell her dreams; repeatedly Nellie does not understand what Catherine is talking about or refuses to accept what Catherine is saying, notably after Catherine locks herself in her room. Wrapped in the self-centeredness of childhood, Heathcliff claims Hindley's horse and uses Mr. This post is part of the series: Wuthering Heights Study Guide.
Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights: Description & Character Analysis
In an awkward set of visits to the Grange, Heathcliff begins to exact his revenge, seducing in order to gain control of Thrushcross Grange at Edgar's death, and trapping her in an abusive and terrifying marriage. Lockwood falls sick shortly after and is tended to by the housekeeper Nelly Dean. However, Catherine is dark, while Cathy is pale and blonde. She believes it is something she wants for herself, but after less than a year of marriage, Catherine begins to find Thruschcross Grange stifling. This visit allows Cathy to turn into a lady quite unlike the rude, wild, childish girl she has been with Heathcliff, and allows her to form intimate relationships with Edgar and Isabella Linton, the two children residing at the Grange, although her and Heathcliff's initial impression of them was contemptuous.
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Glab, Jason David was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9496 Portmarnock CT, PEYTON, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 337079.
Glab, Jesse Scott was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1890 Argentine ST APT A 302, GEORGETOWN, Clear Creek County, CO. His voter ID number is 600383341.
Glab, Joseph Charles was born in 1996 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1424 Pine ST, CANON CITY, Fremont County, CO. His voter ID number is 600944295.
Glab, Mary Frances was born in 1942 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2825 Ute ST, CANON CITY, Fremont County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3647120.
Glab, Nathan Anthony was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1424 Pine ST, CANON CITY, Fremont County, CO. His voter ID number is 601884073.
Glab, Nicole Anne was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9496 Portmarnock CT, PEYTON, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 336607.
Glab, Sara Lynn was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 720 Melany LN APT 3, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600224375.
Glab, Scott Michael was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1890 Argentine ST APT A302, GEORGETOWN, Clear Creek County, CO. His voter ID number is 600356266.
Glab, Terence Paul was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9905 Harris ST, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601090246.
Glabach, Joan Marie was born in 1943 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 37076 Soaring Eagle CIR, SEVERANCE, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1598434.
Glabach, John Henry was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9143 W Quarto AVE, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4103941.
Glabach, Raymond Howard was born in 1942 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 37076 Soaring Eagle CIR, SEVERANCE, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 1599791.
Glabach, Sasha Tiffany was born in 1974 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9143 W Quarto AVE, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4103940.
Glabe, Brian James was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1897 Redbank DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 6982554.
Glabe, David H was born in 1948 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4642 Hyland Greens PL, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 7040992.
Glabe, Regina Nannette was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4642 Hyland Greens PL, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7013204.
Glab-Epstein, Derek Anthony Jr was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3807 Half Turn RD APT 222, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600999066.
Glabman, Callahan Lee was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5037 Rainbow Harbour CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601952300.
Glabman, James S was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7124 E Warren DR, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2757064.
Glace, Jennifer Elizabeth was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2910 N Iola ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601173901.
Glach, Andrew Luke was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 990 W Caliente DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 600994487.
Glach, Brian E was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6230 Montarbor DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 964257.
Glach, Camellia Ann was born in 1996 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2 Portmarnock PL, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601874786.
Glach, Denise Erin was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6230 Montarbor DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 146911.
Glach, Edward R was born in 1943 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 30 Loyola LN, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 3087155.
Glach, Joshua David was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 990 W Caliente DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 601054105.
Glach, Lorraine Marie was born in 1965 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 990 W Caliente DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3092810.
Glach, Mary Ann was born in 1943 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 30 Loyola LN, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3087156.
Glach, Michael Scott was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1261 20 1/2 LN, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 601537796.
Glach, Randall Joseph was born in 1964 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 990 W Caliente DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 200349514.
Glach, Richard Allen was born in 1948 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 318 E Mesa AVE, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 600586712.
Glachman, Garren Murray was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3641 Paseo Del Prado APT 3, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601669995.
Glacken, Bryce Garrett was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 750 Legend Oak DR, FOUNTAIN, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601031546.
Glacken, David Bradley was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4550 Cherry Creek South DR # 1107, GLENDALE, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601554670.
Glacken, Gary Layne was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 750 Legend Oak DR, FOUNTAIN, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 493340.
Glacken, Harvest Amber was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2317 W 14Th ST, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600071934.
Glacken, Patricia Christine was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 750 Legend Oak DR, FOUNTAIN, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 493337.
Glacken, Ryan was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 750 Legend Oak DR, FOUNTAIN, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601314178.
Glackin, Cory A was born in 1975 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 342 Stone Creek DR, AVON, Eagle County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6689002.
Glackin, Douglas Patrick was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2900 E 16Th AVE APT 340, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 7041894.
Glackin, Henry Eugene was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9715 W Chatfield AVE # D, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601081993.
Glackin, Kelley Corin was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9715 W Chatfield AVE # D, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600084031.
Glackin, Patrick John was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 340 Straight Creek DR UNIT 203, DILLON, Summit County, CO. His voter ID number is 601846962.
Glackin, Sean Neil was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 342 Stone Creek DR, AVON, Eagle County, CO. His voter ID number is 6686875.
Glackman, Craig T was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5235 Picket DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 180050.
Glackman, Joanna Lyn was born in 1972 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5235 Picket DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 180048.
Glackman, Ryan Douglas was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5235 Picket DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601341428.
Glad, Bonnie Jean was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1136 Wabash ST # 9, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 166964.
Glad, Byron Kendall was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 30171/2 Gunnison AVE, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 2346451.
Glad, Calum Alfred was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 135 E Concord DR, FRUITA, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 600077323.
Glad, Guy E was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4745 Little London DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 166978.
Glad, Jenna Raye was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1165 N Grant ST APT 107, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600548575.
Glad, Kathy Ann was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 430 31 RD, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2372134.
Glad, Kendall D was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 430 31 RD, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 2366509.
Glad, Laura Joel was born in 1935 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 430 31 RD, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2346733.
Glad, Lauren Danielle was born in 1979 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2935 S Gilpin ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600781801.
Glad, Mayona Lynn was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 269 Honeysuckle CIR, FRUITA, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600334265.
Glad, Michael Ray Dean was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 39 Cheyenne ST, BYERS, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 6387331.
Glad, Min Jung was born in 1974 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4385 Pebble Ridge CIR # 201, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601284689.
Glad, Norma was born in 1929 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 121 Dartmouth TRL # 213, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1414225.
Glad, Paul Anthony Jr was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5405 Backglen DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601274876.
Glad, Robert A was born in 1931 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 430 31 RD, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 2346734.
Glad, Robert Clinton was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7025 Ingalls CT, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600852026.
Glad, Tanner Vincent was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 16960 Carlson DR # 533, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600778785.
Glad, Terry Lee was born in 1943 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9B Windbridge LN, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 4738089.
Gladbach, Alise Caroline was born in 1999 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1711 Paseo Del Tesoro, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601132821.
Gladbach, Amanda Joy was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 728 Bristlecone DR, RIDGWAY, Ouray County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601821270.
Gladbach, David Vincent was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 728 Bristlecone DR, RIDGWAY, Ouray County, CO. His voter ID number is 601849741.
Gladbach, John K was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1919 S Dexter ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2804029.
Gladbach, Linda was born in 1996 and registered to vote, giving the address as 2026 Carlee DR # 23, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Gladbach voter ID number is 601846241.
Gladbach, Nona Rae was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1711 Paseo Del Tesoro, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3083605.
Gladback, Julie Lynn was born in 1966 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11841 E 117Th PL, HENDERSON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7022184.
Gladczenko, Tadeusz was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8141 W Eastman PL # 13 203, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600984482.
Gladd, Preston Alexander was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 788 Guymard RD, FAIRPLAY, Park County, CO. His voter ID number is 601899310.
Gladden, Amanda Jo was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 310 E Maplewood ST, WALSH, Baca County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600324725.
Gladden, Amanda Kay was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 19782 W 59Th AVE, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600677418.
Gladden, Annisa Grace was born in 1974 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 991 E Desert Cove DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600774189.
Gladden, Benjamin Patrick was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 213 Spruce ST, TRINIDAD, Las Animas County, CO. His voter ID number is 3841965.
Gladden, Benson Greer was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2734 County Road 135, HESPERUS, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 4935177.
Gladden, Brittany Lee was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1065 Seventh ST, SANFORD, Conejos County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601051000.
Gladden, Brok Cyler was born in 1998 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5220 Kanawha LN, EVANS, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 601100106.
Gladden, Charles Don was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5220 Kanawha LN, EVANS, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 2342371.
Gladden, Charles Wheeler was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 457 S Nathrop DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 600774178.
Gladden, Charles Wynn was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5220 Kanawha LN, EVANS, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 2342370.
Gladden, Cynthia A was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 12258 E Lasalle PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 686929.
Gladden, Daniel Gene was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5557 Dunraven LN, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 2884302.
Gladden, Daniel Robert was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8989 W 14Th AVE # 211, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4933356.
Gladden, Delbert Ray was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 630 Sundance CIR, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 4930247.
Gladden, Donald Gene was born in 1953 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12258 E Lasalle PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 687722.
Gladden, Doris E was born in 1943 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 310 N Limit ST APT 234, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 297672.
Gladden, Erica Lee was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2734 County Road 135, HESPERUS, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200201837.
Gladden, Fena Mae was born in 1928 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 450 Prospector AVE UNIT B16, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200132666.
Gladden, Gregory James was born in 1983 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 122 Robb RD, HESPERUS, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 4922885.
Gladden, Joan was born in 1964 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1995 Owens CT, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3966806.
Gladden, Joan Dara was born in 1954 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 630 Sundance CIR, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4930248.
Gladden, Joan Valli was born in 1941 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1701 Lake Sherwood DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1446848.
Gladden, John Harbor was born in 1943 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 30288 Eagles Ridge, BUENA VISTA, Chaffee County, CO. His voter ID number is 600000043.
Gladden, John Lee was born in 1946 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 405 S Baggett RD, CALHAN, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 329145.
Gladden, John Thomas was born in 1941 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1701 Lake Sherwood DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1449186.
Gladden, Jonathan Dennis was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2048 N Trenton ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600881739.
Gladden, Julie Ritchie was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 8335 E Fairmount DR UNIT 2-103, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2956118.
Gladden, Kaleb was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12258 E Lasalle PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600581622.
Gladden, Katelyn Annalise was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 12515 E Tennessee CIR # F, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600637762.
Gladden, Kathi Jolene was born in 1973 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4867 Feathers WAY, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601806800.
Gladden, Kevin Noel was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6120 Lee ST, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601168660.
Gladden, Ladenna Inez was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2734 County Road 135, HESPERUS, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4935176.
Gladden, Lara M was born in 1968 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2506 7Th AVE, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 515129.
Gladden, Laurel Elizabeth was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 630 Sundance CIR, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4912105.
Gladden, Linda Rae was born in 1951 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 67486 Sunshine RD, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3582938.
Gladden, Margaret Ann was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 213 Spruce ST, TRINIDAD, Las Animas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3839502.
Gladden, Marilyn Elizabeth was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4663 S Monaco ST APT 103, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600928777.
Gladden, Matthew Shane was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2734 County Road 135, HESPERUS, La Plata County, CO. His voter ID number is 4910722.
Gladden, Meagan Annie was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1400 Colebrook CT, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601388727.
Gladden, Melanie Kate was born in 1973 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 18704 E Linvale PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5926107.
Gladden, Nadia Ilayah was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3550 S Kendall ST UNIT 10-203, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600890532.
Gladden, Nancy Ann was born in 1963 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5220 Kanawha LN, EVANS, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2347382.
Gladden, Nicole Michele was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1269 N Madison ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600400765.
Gladden, Olin Swaim Ii was born in 1980 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 19782 W 59Th AVE, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600640168.
Gladden, Patrick Eugene was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 213 Spruce ST, TRINIDAD, Las Animas County, CO. His voter ID number is 3838830.
Gladden, Phyllis Denise was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2753 Hearthwood LN, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 461532.
Gladden, Raymond Wheeler was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1065 Seventh ST, SANFORD, Conejos County, CO. His voter ID number is 601051002.
Gladden, Rion Jacob was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 37351 County Rd 26.6, TRINIDAD, Las Animas County, CO. His voter ID number is 601887635.
Gladden, Roberta Jean was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6430 Sonny Blue DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600024656.
Gladden, Sadie was born in 1942 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1326 Margo LN, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 294189.
Gladden, Scott Allen was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4867 Feathers WAY, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601677094.
Gladden, Sean Aaron was born in 1996 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4867 Feathers WAY, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601636678.
Gladden, Stephanie Chu was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5557 Dunraven LN, GOLDEN, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600100144.
Gladden, Tangy D was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4365 Conquista DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 318294.
Gladden, William Joseph was born in 1955 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 456 Raccoon DR, PAGOSA SPRINGS, Archuleta County, CO. His voter ID number is 4292079.
Gladden, Zachary Alexander was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 991 E Desert Cove DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 601259218.
Gladding, Bryce Taylor was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2733 Vega DR, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. His voter ID number is 601861664.
Gladding, Donald Lee was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6412 S Taft WAY, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 200159385.
Gladding, James Francis was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 301 6Th ST, HUGO, Lincoln County, CO. His voter ID number is 317588.
Gladding, Kimberly Keirsten was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1522 Conestoga CIR, STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Routt County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601611931.
Gladding, Lorena Diane was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2733 Vega DR, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5369102.
Gladding, Michael Howard was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2733 Vega DR, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. His voter ID number is 5369101.
Gladding, Michael James was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 11353 Humboldt ST, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 7054848.
Gladding, Steven Matthew was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10626 W 7Th AVE # 204, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 601861921.
Glade, Alex Lea was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 95 Quartz WAY, LYONS, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8055129.
Glade, Bonnie Jean was born in 1979 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6812 Ridge Valley CT, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6396841.
Glade, Bonnie Pearl was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4380 S Monaco ST UNIT 5117, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 602013757.
Glade, Brian J was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9375 Rangeview LN, LITTLETON, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5828203.
Glade, Christopher Patrick was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9510 Pendleton DR, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 4208885.
Glade, Christopher Serge was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10 Bozeman TRL, ELIZABETH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600214844.
Glade, Cody Ethan was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6312 W Ithaca PL, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 4041567.
Glade, David M was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 111 Wood LN, MORRISON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4156273.
Glade, Eiko Colleen was born in 1942 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9370 Meredith CT, LONE TREE, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4152990.
Glade, Eric Steven was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 14082 Kuehster RD, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 5646954.
Glade, Gregory Dean was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3884 S Elm ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2578405.
Glade, James Roy was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1605 Sagrimore CIR, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8055134.
Glade, Jennifer Ellen was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9510 Pendleton DR, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4085882.
Glade, Kathleen Mae was born in 1933 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2545 S Cody WAY, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3999108.
Glade, Kenneth Andrew was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1605 Sagrimore CIR, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 200257943.
Glade, Kenneth John was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 263 N 10Th AVE, BRIGHTON, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 8055138.
Glade, Larry J was born in 1953 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1071 Nevadaville RD, CENTRAL CITY, Gilpin County, CO. His voter ID number is 600161774.
Glade, Leah Ann was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 11484 King CT, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600630985.
Glade, Leigh Dawn was born in 1972 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3884 S Elm ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2663749.
Glade, Leo L was born in 1953 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1605 Sagrimore CIR, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8055140.
Glade, Marcus Patrick was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9852 W Athens LN, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600666310.
Glade, Marilyn was born in 1933 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2850 Classic DR # 1202, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3959457.
Glade, Mary Elizabeth was born in 1982 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 246 S Sherman ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 880534.
Glade, Michael James was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9852 W Athens LN, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4135298.
Glade, Michael Joseph was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4485 W Lakeridge RD, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2453014.
Glade, Michael Marcus was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 111 Wood LN, MORRISON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600639357.
Glade, Moon Ho Toko was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 229 Park ST, LYONS, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 600361332.
Glade, Rachel Catherine was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3055 Aurora AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600952810.
Glade, Robin Carew was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1047 N Pearl ST APT 5, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2533688.
Glade, Ryan Bradley was born in 2000 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3884 S Elm ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601520755.
Glade, Sandra Mae was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2545 S Cody WAY, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3999516.
Glade, Sara Kathleen was born in 1986 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6312 W Ithaca PL, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4239294.
Glade, William John Jr was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 947 E 115Th AVE, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 7162149.
Glade, William Maurice was born in 1939 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9370 Meredith CT, LONE TREE, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 600188472.
Gladeau, Craig A was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4441 N Stuart ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 2426862.
Gladem, Carolyn Waechter was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 12102 Blackwell WAY, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5855574.
Gladem, Daniel James was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3631 N Pontiac ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 6333545.
Gladem, David Gary was born in 1958 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9148 Murphy Gulch RD, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4130079.
Gladem, James Duane was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12102 Blackwell WAY, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5813902.
Gladem, Jennifer Lynne was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9148 Murphy Gulch RD, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4273313.
Gladem, Kristi Britten was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2505 Allison ST, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200161428.
Gladem, Torri Cassidy was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 411 E Geneseo ST, LAFAYETTE, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600514206.
Gladem-Burr, Sara Kelley was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5582 Pennsylvania AVE, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4273284.
Gladen, Danna H was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6677 Ingalls CT, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4073799.
Gladen, Jennie was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 449 W Fourth ST, SILVERTHORNE, Summit County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7188984.
Gladen, William David was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10228 W 52Nd PL # 306, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 200085582.
Glader, Andrew Alan was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6175 S Oak WAY, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4102968.
Glader, Ashley Marie was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6175 S Oak WAY, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6406983.
Glader, Brandan was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6308 W Fair DR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600414040.
Glader, Christine Wengler was born in 1974 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7216 Middleham PL, CASTLE PINES, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5651946.
Glader, Delphi M was born in 1933 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7100 Canosa CT, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6830587.
Glader, Douglas James was born in 1943 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10329 Longwood WAY, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 200100358.
Glader, James Frederic was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7318 Silver Moon LN, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 2451946.
Glader, Jane Valerie was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 7318 Silver Moon LN, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1476680.
Glader, Jeffery A was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6308 W Fair DR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4102623.
Glader, Jessica Maria was born in 1986 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9253 Waters Edge DR, FOUNTAIN, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601808967.
Glader, Jonathan David was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6308 W Fair DR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600135383.
Glader, Joseph John was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1801 W 92Nd AVE # 395, FEDERAL HGTS, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 4285384.
Glader, Linda M was born in 1968 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 750 Hill AVE, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200252936.
Glader, Lon J was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 13380 E 7Th AVE, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 662414.
Glader, Maia Beth was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6308 W Fair DR, LITTLETON, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4101941.
Glader, Pamela Cummins was born in 1945 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10329 Longwood WAY, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200100352.
Glader, Peter Edwin was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9253 Waters Edge DR, FOUNTAIN, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601190361.
Glader, Royce James was born in 1950 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7318 Silver Moon LN, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1477977.
Glader, Sarah Elizabeth was born in 1990 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9071 E Mississippi AVE APT 30F, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200199403.
Glader, Scott Robert was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7216 Middleham PL, CASTLE PINES, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 5908426.
Glades, Gary Karl was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 934 St Andrews LN, LOUISVILLE, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8055145.
Glades, Judith Hofer was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 934 St Andrews LN, LOUISVILLE, Boulder County, CO. Her voter ID number is 8055146.
Glade-Yaussy, Dana J was born in 1961 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1337 W 111Th AVE, NORTHGLENN, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6875823.
Gladfeller, Matt R was born in 1986 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6865 Xavier CIR UNIT 4, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601453970.
Gladfelter, Alan Raymond was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 15645 Holbein DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600884533.
Gladfelter, Anne was born in 1962 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 12545 W 86Th AVE, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4181243.
Gladfelter, Austin David was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 41929 Hwy 6 # A103, AVON, Eagle County, CO. His voter ID number is 602002153.
Gladfelter, Cierra Noelle was born in 1999 and registered to vote, giving the address as 15645 Holbein DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Gladfelter voter ID number is 601479634.
Gladfelter, Cynthia L was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 15645 Holbein DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 89002.
Gladfelter, David K was born in 1974 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1384 Mc Intosh AVE, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. His voter ID number is 1550098.
Gladfelter, David Maynard was born in 1959 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12545 W 86Th AVE, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 4180728.
Gladfelter, Elizabeth Roland was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 225 E Brookside ST # 12, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200327681.
Gladfelter, Jacob Paul was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12155 W 58Th PL # 110E, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600830329.
Gladfelter, Jason R was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2225 Lewis ST, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 2794408.
Gladfelter, Jennifer Anne was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1384 Mc Intosh AVE, BROOMFIELD, Broomfield County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1551815.
Gladfelter, Jimbo F was born in 1971 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3316 Virginia AVE, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 178004.
Gladfelter, Joshua James was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1164 S Acoma ST APT 196, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600543381.
Gladfelter, Michael was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 17195 Carlson DR # 412, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. His voter ID number is 925593.
Gladfelter, Millard Lee was born in 1939 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 271 Easy DR, ARBOLES, Archuleta County, CO. His voter ID number is 4754509.
Gladfelter, Nicolette M was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 17195 Carlson DR # 412, PARKER, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601244718.
Gladfelter, Richard L was born in 1937 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3316 Virginia AVE, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 178422.
Gladfelter, Robert Lee was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7575 E 29Th PL APT 5007, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601785453.
Gladfelter, Samuel Todd was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 107 Springbeauty DR, SILVERTHORNE, Summit County, CO. His voter ID number is 601821127.
Gladfelter, Sandra S was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 271 Easy DR, ARBOLES, Archuleta County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4755289.
Gladfelter, Sean Alan was born in 1975 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1119 N Weber ST APT 1, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 422791.
Gladfelter, Tristan Alan was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 15645 Holbein DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601052094.
Gladgo, Amanda Lynn was born in 1994 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1827 Somerville DR, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600604609.
Gladgo, David Lugene was born in 1957 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1832 Valley View LN, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1416513.
Gladgo, Debra Kay was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1832 Valley View LN, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 1421195.
Gladhart, Julian Cole was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2510 Taft DR UNIT 219, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 601597014.
Gladhill, Dwayne Anthony was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4565 Bays Water DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 600136834.
Gladhill, Hailey Dawn was born in 2000 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 22363 E Nassau PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601752504.
Gladhill, Triston Charles was born in 1997 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 22363 E Nassau PL, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601625729.
Gladieux, David Michael was born in 1976 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1101 County Rd 53, GRANBY, Grand County, CO. His voter ID number is 601501797.
Gladieux, Jed A was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1154 Escape Route, BOULDER, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8055262.
Gladieux, Kelsey Frances was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1900 Little Raven ST APT 217, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601947605.
Gladieux, Sarah D was born in 1983 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1101 County Rd 53, GRANBY, Grand County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601501802.
Gladieux, Tiffany Kari was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3133 Bittern ST, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601643101.
Gladin, Greg Scott was born in 1954 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 705 Lima ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600761437.
Gladin, Kenneth Glen was born in 1970 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4029 North DR, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 3034914.
Gladin, Kylee Marchane was born in 2000 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6167 Leon Young DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601552127.
Gladin, Lena Noreen was born in 1974 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4225 Dawnlite DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 375142.
Gladin, Mark Quentin was born in 1973 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4225 Dawnlite DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 373754.
Gladin, Matthew Edward was born in 1991 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4225 Dawnlite DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601000095.
Gladin, Mia Elizabeth was born in 2000 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4225 Dawnlite DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601745152.
Gladin, Quentin Riley was born in 1996 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 100 Rose DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601140139.
Gladin, Scott Douglas was born in 1949 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 33 Vista LN, WOODLAND PARK, Teller County, CO. His voter ID number is 3810574.
Gladin, Susan E was born in 1950 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4029 North DR, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3054343.
Gladin, Terry Q was born in 1940 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5215 Redondo CIR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 177528.
Gladin Lopez, Jovani Jesus was born in 1991 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 15730 E Alameda PKWY # 303, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601363059.
Gladis, Catherine E was born in 1926 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1422 W 29Th ST # 216, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600487067.
Gladis, David Matthew was born in 1984 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 31 Denver WAY, LONGMONT, Boulder County, CO. His voter ID number is 8055263.
Gladis, David W was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2040 Overland DR, JOHNSTOWN, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 6312237.
Gladis, Shari June was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2040 Overland DR, JOHNSTOWN, Weld County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6312233.
Gladish, Heather Jean Elizabeth was born in 1976 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 12543 W Alameda DR, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600930679.
Gladish, James Daniel was born in 1951 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 801 Obsidian DR, FLORISSANT, Teller County, CO. His voter ID number is 600377327.
Gladish, Julia Jean was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3450 S Acoma ST # 311, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 719973.
Gladish, Yvonne C was born in 1944 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2796 S Halifax ST, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 715854.
Gladison, Beena K was born in 1968 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 18139 E 44Th AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601956174.
Gladison, Benson Kaithamangalam was born in 1996 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 18139 E 44Th AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601150119.
Gladison, Godwin K was born in 1994 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 18139 E 44Th AVE, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601223881.
Gladitsch, Amanda D was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3620 S Timberline RD # 104, FORT COLLINS, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200030341.
Gladitsch, Charles Thomas was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2545 Depew ST, EDGEWATER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600303805.
Gladitsch, Elizabeth Ann was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 208 Crazy Horse PT, EDWARDS, Eagle County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6695677.
Gladitsch, Joshua was born in 1982 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1346 S Carson WAY, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 945156.
Gladitsch, Melinda Sonquist was born in 1956 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10 Pinto DR, EDWARDS, Eagle County, CO. Her voter ID number is 6685462.
Gladitsch, Thomas Charles was born in 1952 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 10 Pinto DR, EDWARDS, Eagle County, CO. His voter ID number is 6691321.
Gladkih, Deniss was born in 1977 and registered to vote, giving the address as 12515 E Wesley AVE, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Gladkih voter ID number is 601824207.
Gladkikh, Denis was born in 1985 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 490 N Olive ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601977724.
Gladkina, Anastasia was born in 1995 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9667 Red Oakes DR, HIGHLANDS RANCH, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600992043.
Gladkov, Daniil Yurievich was born in 1990 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 9503 W 89Th CIR, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600986199.
Gladkova, Nadezhda Alexandrovna was born in 1972 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2740 Eliot CIR APT 34, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 7110207.
Gladkova, Vera Y was born in 1939 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5330 Allison ST # 403, ARVADA, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600300280.
Gladkovitser, Lyudmila Kontantino was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3630 W 103Rd AVE, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601795309.
Gladkovitser, Mark Moishevich was born in 1947 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3630 W 103Rd AVE, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 601795310.
Gladkovitser, Yevgeniy Markovich was born in 1967 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3630 W 103Rd AVE, WESTMINSTER, Adams County, CO. His voter ID number is 4150180.
Gladkowski, Jenny Ann was born in 1978 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 18151 E Oxford DR, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601745043.
Gladman, Carol Dalene was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1544 S Salida CT, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600258230.
Gladman, Gregory Foster was born in 1965 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1544 S Salida CT, AURORA, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 2550644.
Gladman, John Philip was born in 1962 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1316 Kinnikinnic CT, ESTES PARK, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600347700.
Gladman, Sharon Lynn was born in 1958 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1316 Kinnikinnic CT, ESTES PARK, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3734228.
Gladman Smiley, Gwendolyn Marie was born in 1969 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1180 N Jersey ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2694874.
Gladmon, Kristina Valeri was born in 1988 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5523 S Quatar ST, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601106878.
Gladmon, Robert Marion was born in 1987 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5523 S Quatar ST, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601136346.
Gladney, Amy Eileen was born in 1984 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1300 Cody AVE, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3020689.
Gladney, Benjamin Elliott was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 6407 S Hudson ST, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601753858.
Gladney, Boone Jackson was born in 1995 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8097 Firethorn DR, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 600995198.
Gladney, Bridger Roy was born in 1992 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 8097 Firethorn DR, LOVELAND, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 601545964.
Gladney, Carl H was born in 1960 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 3340 S Pearl ST # 208, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 2394979.
Gladney, Carlos Wayne was born in 1972 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4305 Conquista DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 601051553.
Gladney, Chantell Nakita was born in 1991 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4032 Westmeadow DR APT 102, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601566659.
Gladney, Christine Louise was born in 1971 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 219 Brentwood DR, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3017912.
Gladney, Colleen Kay was born in 1957 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 67766 Osprey LN, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4741877.
Gladney, Cristen Monet was born in 1991 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6407 S Hudson ST, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601721926.
Gladney, Elizabeth Ann was born in 1967 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 470 Westwood LN, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3095857.
Gladney, Ernest Scott was born in 1948 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 67766 Osprey LN, MONTROSE, Montrose County, CO. His voter ID number is 4741440.
Gladney, James was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 2635 N Gaylord ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 601873782.
Gladney, Jessica Joanne was born in 1981 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5360 Sevenoaks DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 262181.
Gladney, Jodeci Shakeyla was born in 1992 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 3373 S Alcott ST # 6, SHERIDAN, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601963912.
Gladney, Joel Dennis was born in 1961 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 507 La Vista RD, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 3058099.
Gladney, John Harvey Iv was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5360 Sevenoaks DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 262087.
Gladney, John Russell was born in 1956 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 377 S Meriweather DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 3074155.
Gladney, Joshua Thomas was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5360 Sevenoaks DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 262309.
Gladney, Julie Ann was born in 1955 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6407 S Hudson ST, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600967890.
Gladney, Karen Annelle was born in 1973 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10176 Park Meadows DR # 2407, LONE TREE, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5641455.
Gladney, Karen Lee was born in 1944 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 205 La Vista RD, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3088515.
Gladney, Kerry D was born in 1941 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 205 La Vista RD, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 3090203.
Gladney, Kersten Ellis was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 21460 E Aberdeen DR, CENTENNIAL, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 600130614.
Gladney, Keva Lenea was born in 1993 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4055 N Albion ST APT 420, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600940391.
Gladney, Lee Wolven was born in 1969 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 470 Westwood LN, PUEBLO, Pueblo County, CO. His voter ID number is 3058187.
Gladney, Lynnette Denise was born in 1970 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4305 Conquista DR, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. Her voter ID number is 322961.
Gladney, Mary Ann was born in 1949 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9876 Firestone CIR, LONE TREE, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5701264.
Gladney, Mary E was born in 1953 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 4354 N Flanders ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2794262.
Gladney, Megan Elaine was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 377 S Meriweather DR, PUEBLO WEST, Pueblo County, CO. Her voter ID number is 3099166.
Gladney, Sandra Lynn was born in 1959 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 10513 Pierson CIR, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4190207.
Gladney, Scott was born in 1979 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7240 W Custer AVE # 209, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600898167.
Gladney, Trevor Dereck was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 569 S Forest ST # 7, GLENDALE, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 601756356.
Gladney, William Tillman was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 7820 Inverness BLVD # 204, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. His voter ID number is 5678021.
Gladnick, Jeffrey Christopher was born in 1981 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 5060 N Yosemite CT, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 600358669.
Gladnick, Julia Ann was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 5060 N Yosemite CT, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600358648.
Glados, Jennifer Ann was born in 1985 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 6631 W 111Th PL, WESTMINSTER, Jefferson County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600503444.
Gladshteyn, Vladimir was born in 1937 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 4333 S Syracuse ST APT 505, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 200050319.
Gladsjo, Alexandra Marie was born in 1998 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2318 E 96Th WAY, THORNTON, Adams County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601169647.
Gladsjo, Jeffrey Martin was born in 1963 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1095 Western DR # 198C, COLO SPRINGS, El Paso County, CO. His voter ID number is 4214040.
Gladson, Angelina C was born in 1931 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2610 Delwood AVE, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4925282.
Gladson, Candice Pearl was born in 1947 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 174 Apricot WAY, CASTLE ROCK, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5909179.
Gladson, Davina Lynn was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1075 Kerr RD, ESTES PARK, Larimer County, CO. Her voter ID number is 600390502.
Gladson, Emma Rae was born in 1989 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 95 N Emerson ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 200013241.
Gladson, Erica Mccrae was born in 1980 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 9959 E Peakview AVE # N102, ENGLEWOOD, Arapahoe County, CO. Her voter ID number is 601211399.
Gladson, Grant Harrison was born in 1993 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 12203 W 2Nd PL # 2-301, LAKEWOOD, Jefferson County, CO. His voter ID number is 600358316.
Gladson, Griffin L was born in 1989 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 236 S Rosemary ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. His voter ID number is 200087812.
Gladson, Gwinavere Ryley was born in 1987 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 236 S Rosemary ST, DENVER, Denver County, CO. Her voter ID number is 2955911.
Gladson, Michele Gerette was born in 1960 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 2610 Delwood AVE, DURANGO, La Plata County, CO. Her voter ID number is 4938371.
Gladson, Ross Alan was born in 1968 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1210 28Th AVE APT 1B, GREELEY, Weld County, CO. His voter ID number is 601628303.
Gladson, Troy Allen was born in 1977 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 1075 Kerr RD, ESTES PARK, Larimer County, CO. His voter ID number is 1567436.
Gladson Harbaugh, Kate Ann was born in 1977 and she registered to vote, giving her address as 1110 Cochetopa DR, LARKSPUR, Douglas County, CO. Her voter ID number is 5845085.
Gladstone, Alan Benjamin was born in 1988 and he registered to vote, giving his address as 935 N 12Th ST UNIT 12, GRAND JUNCTION, Mesa County, CO. His voter ID number is 601972885.
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Verlasso to sponsor IntraFish Women in Seafood Leadership Summit
The salmon producer was inspired by last year's event to help close the gender gap in seafood industry leadership.
by IntraFish Media
February 16th, 2018 12:15 GMT Updated February 16th, 2018 13:33 GMT
United States-based Verlasso and IntraFish Media announced Thursday that the salmon producer will serve as silver sponsor of IntraFish's Women in Seafood Leadership Summit, to be held March 8 in Bergen, Norway, in conjunction with the North Atlantic Seafood Forum conference.
Seafood's sexiest
After the massive success of last year's Seattle event, the Bergen summit will, once again, bring some of the industry's most prominent and promising female executives together to discuss the burning issue of how to make the seafood industry's leadership more diverse.
"Verlasso knows all to well the difficulty of the global gender gap at all levels," said Jennifer Bushman, of Route to Market, who is working as a strategic development consultant for Verlasso. "We know that there are a huge range of skills, ideas and perspectives that are lost when women and girls are not represented.
"For those of us engaged each and every day in the fish and seafood industry the gap seems even broader," she said. "Full inclusion seems to be a far away goal and the scarcity is especially stark in our leadership.
"It is through conferences such as this that raise awareness and empower a collective body to seek change each and every day," Bushmann added.
Kathy Liz, marketing manager for Verlasso, said attending last year's conference gave her motivation to "learn and understand the work climate and representation of women on our farms. On our last visit to Chile we met with our female farmers and discussed areas needed to support them best."
High-profile scholar invited
Verlasso said it is proud to sponsor the conference and to invite Alice Musabende, a Gates Scholar from Cambridge University, and former journalist who worked with Canada's major news organizations as well as at the House of Parliament.
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Musabende was born and raised in Rwanda. When she was 14 years old her family was killed during the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis of 1994. She is currently completing a Master’s in International Development Studies from Dalhousie University and has previously worked as an international development worker in Rwanda.
At Cambridge, as a Gates Scholar, she is researching further the dynamics of peacebuilding in the context of post-conflict countries in the Great Lakes of Africa, by investigating ways through which international organizations navigate the normative crosscurrents that come with peacebuilding.
Musabende sees the impact of women’s integration into the fish and seafood system on the planet and how it is paramount to peace building. The role that fish and seafood plays in that balance and how women must work together in an effort to lead the world into great care for humanity.
"Verlasso is extremely honored and pleased to support IntraFish and the entire roster of speakers and attendees as they create impact at every level through this conference," the company said.
Gallery: Inside the IntraFish Women in Seafood Leadership Summit
IntraFish first launched the Women in Seafood initiative with a series of interviews with key female leaders in 2015 to a resounding response to push the issue further up the industry's agenda.
In response, IntraFish held the first Women in Seafood Leadership Summit in Seattle last year.
The event was an overwhelming success, with charismatic speakers from Whole Foods, Trident, Icicle Seafoods, Love the Wild, Seafish, ASMI and Regal Springs making for a high-energy evening inspiring change and renewed drive in the industry.
This year's event promises to be just as inspiring, with speakers from Trident, Grieg Seafood, Regal Springs Europe, the Norwegian Seafood Council, Cargill Aqua Nutrition, Salmon Group and Kefalonia Fisheries topping the line-up.
A full schedule of the evening will be released soon.
Executives are encouraged to request a seat at the event by visiting www.intrafishevents.com/womeninseafood.
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There's a Mansion on Long Island's Gold Coast That's Modeled on Versailles
It is absolutely breathtaking.
By Sam Dangremond
Douglas Elliman
Among the stately old estates on the , there's one that doesn't quite fit in. "Maison des Jardins Maison des Jardins" was constructed over the past several years, but the 22,000-square-foot, 17th century-style manor was modeled on the Château de Versailles and the Château de Vaux le Vicomte in France. Scroll down for a look inside.
Raphael Yakoby, an Israeli-born entrepreneur, is the man behind the home.
Yakoby, who created Hpnotiq and Nuvo liqueurs, had planned to move in with his family but instead decided to , Newsday reported.
The house sits on eight acres in Old Brookville.
The front door is a replica of the one at Versailles.
The staircase's cast-iron and gold-leaf banister, meanwhile, was .
The asking price is now $60 million.
And that .
The home was designed by architects Michael J. Wallin and Douglas R. Schneider.
It took about four years to complete.
It comes with eight bedrooms.
Along with eight bathrooms.
And five half-baths.
"For the owner, there was no question as to what style this estate would be," press materials state.
The roof includes a cupola.
The property previously sold in 2010 for $3.25 million, according to public records cited by Newsday.
The lower-level has 13-foot ceilings.
It has a movie theater, a wine cellar, a billiard room, and a fitness center.
Here's the kitchen.
For $60 million, it could be yours.
Sam Dangremond Contributing Digital Editor Sam Dangremond is a Contributing Digital Editor at Town & Country.
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Fear as a Barrier: Why Immigrant Victims of Violence Can’t Access the Justice They Deserve
By Sara Ainsworth
In recognition of Asian Pacific American Heritage month, Legal Voice has teamed up with the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence to highlight the impact of anti-immigrant policies on immigrant survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
The Northwest states are home to more than a million immigrants, many of whom are Asian American and Pacific Islander. Advocates from API communities – a diverse group facing diverse disparities – have led the way in promoting state and federal policies to make it safer for immigrant survivors of abuse to report the abuse against them and seek the protection of the courts.
But new federal anti-immigration policies – including raids, increased arrests, and targeting immigrants with no criminal history – threaten to undo decades of work to help survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault go to the police for help when they are in danger.
A nationwide survey of legal programs and domestic violence agencies, published last month, found that fears of reporting to the police were up a shocking 78% among immigrant survivors of domestic violence. Today NPR reported on this survey in a story about Latino immigrants in Texas fearing deportation if they reported crimes. As the NPR story noted, these fears are particularly harmful to victims of gender-based violence; in Houston, for example, sexual assault reporting by Latina immigrants is down 43% from last year. In a related report, a Denver prosecutor described having to drop four domestic violence prosecutions after the travel ban was signed in January – all four victims were immigrants who feared they would be taken by immigration authorities at the courthouse if they testified against their abusers.
Punishing immigrant victims for coming forward means violent abusers can continue to threaten, harm, and intimidate their victims. It creates a two-tiered system of justice, where only some of our communities are protected.
How you can help:
Call your city council members, wherever you are, and demand that law enforcement and other public officials not inquire about immigration status.
Here's a script: "Victims of violence should not have to fear being deported or separated from their families when seeking help and justice. But countless immigrant survivors are living in fear of just that. When local police collaborate with immigration enforcement, victims are discouraged from seeking safety and cooperating with the criminal legal system. Please pass policies barring local officials from inquiring about victims and witnesses’ immigration status.”
Contact Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and demand that they stay away from courthouses
Support the organizations that are moving this critical work forward:
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
API Chaya
Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence
OneAmerica
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Sex in the City--Modern Culture Uncovered
Blosser finds a gem in an article by Stephen LaTulippe. It's long-ish so I'll give you the good parts. When and if Blogger returns to normal, I'll provide the link.
The article began with LaTulippe describing his first impression of seeing the HBO TV show, Sex and the City, how he found it simultaneously brilliant and horrifying. To give the Devil his due, he says, the script, acting, cinematography are amazing, and the comedy truly hilarious.
"But brilliance of production aside, Sex and the City has a number of profound socio-political nuances that dovetail with an issue I’ve been kicking around for quite some time; namely, that the Western world is experiencing the final stages of a cultural struggle between two radically different versions of social organization (which I call "organic culture" and "post-modernism"). This struggle is the single dominant issue of our age, and it defines a variety of conflicts both within Western civilization and between it and other civilizations, stretching from the relentless expansion of our government to our misbegotten "war on terror."
"Sex and the City represents the post-modern paradigm. The thirty-something single women living in New York City live a life that is, says LaTulippe, while all too common today, perhaps unprecedented in human history, particularly for women. They are completely uprooted and homogenized, with no discernable family connections. They have no religious convictions. They wander around Manhattan, eating in chic restaurants, maxing-out their credit cards in fashionable boutiques, and engaging in a bewildering variety of casual sexual relationships. Their lives are more like those of animals than anything fully human, dominated by impulses and sensations rather than intellect and spirit, indulgence rather than purpose. They have no reverence for the past and no regard for the future, living only in the present. Even more disturbingly, says LaTulippe, their lifestyle has a "spooky passivity" to it, "a sense of slavery" to their vices: "If someone takes them to a swanky Thai restaurant, they’ll eat. If someone hands them a martini, they’ll drink. If a handsome guy appears, they’ll copulate." This, in effect, is the sum total of their lives, illustrating the fact that post-modernism isn't really a culture, but an anti-culture, or a parasite upon what remains of a past culture in the absence of any present culture.
Post-modernism, in LaTulippe's view, suffers from three major flaws: (1) ethical relativism, (2) auto-genocide, and (3) the death of the sacred. LaTulippe developes his analysis at these points more extensively in a political direction than I am able to give space to here, but here are a few highlights.
(1) Ethical relativism. Here LaTulippe looks at foreign policy and domestic policy, focusing, in particular, on the financial scandals that have come to light in connection with the latter. These have as their common root, he suggests, "the amoral quest for the unearned, which is perhaps the final common denominator of our entire political system." Post-modernism, he says, is locked into a "dysfunctional synergy with statism," in which each feeds the other, and they are sucking all of us down with them.
2) Auto-genocide. "Post-modern culture treats children as an expensive and peculiar hobby, something like a curious fashion statement. Children are, after all, expensive, messy, and they interfere with an active dating life. And if children are seen as a mere fashion accessory or an emotional indulgence, then one will do just as well as two (and much better than three or four)," writes LaTulippe. This attitude is reflected in the precipitously falling birthrates of those countries that suffered erstwhile panic attacks from fear of "population explosions."
3. The Death of the Sacred. Post-modernism is this-worldly, recognizing nothing beyond the immediate, concrete world. It has no higher aspirations. It offers no spiritual sustenance. "If a man has food stamps, a welfare check, and a place in a government housing project, it believes he has everything he could possibly need or want. (Actually, that is true only as far as the commoners are concerned. For the post-modern elites, they require exotic ethnic cuisine, cheap immigrant household labor, and a custom Maybach...but this is a difference in degree, not kind.)" Whatever one's income level, however, the shift in frames of reference is that from the Sistine Chapel and Bach's requiem mass to the vulgar creations of contemporary cultural nihilism
This is epigrammatically contained in the remark by Russell Kirk.
Overall, these are insightful observations.
And nothing to be pleased about, either.
Posted by Dad29 at 3:44 PM
Aryan Cooter said...
Your critique/condemnation of postmodernism is articulate and succinct. I used to wonder how it is that "the others" (like on the LOST t.v. program) could be so different than me, but more importantly, why I could be "an other" to your subgroup.
In perusing other items on your blog I would guess that you are conventional, traditional, conformist, ethnocentric, absolutistic and mythic in orientation to a "power god".
I am less conventional, traditional or conformist, although I am a psychological professional who has shiney shoes, coordinated dress, married, monogomous, etc.
I strive to be more world-centric than ethno- and I am not a Christian. I practice Buddhism, have no delusion that anything I may have learned on my spiritual journey is of value to anyone else, and certainly acknowledge and honor the beliefs of anyone who engages with a teacher or a group that is called to a higher relationship with self and others.
If you interested in a response to your postmodernism piece I will check back by the page and read your response.
Actually, the critique is from Mr. LaTulieppe via Blosser's blog.
But I think his remarks are spot on.
Your assessment of my thinking patterns is about right, although I'd quibble with 'conventional'--in the sense that my endorsement of LaTulieppe's views is simply NOT 'conventinal.' Further, I only wear the shoes-and-ensemble stuff when I absolutely HAVE to--rarely in my office.
I'd also quibble with the term "power god." There is only one God for us Roman Catholics, but yes, He is quite powerful. The term we use is 'omnipotent.'
My only quibble with the article itself is its declaration that we are actually IN a 'postmodern' world. I disagree because it's clear that there have always been two worldviews (as Kirk affirms.) Calling one of them 'postmodern' is handy, but not entirely accurate--your spiritual journey has likely affirmed that, as well.
Fidei Defensor said...
I have seen this show a few times, and I too found it to be (unintentionally) a harsh critique of the post-modern world. It is sad how many girls my age love this show though and think those women are living a wonderful life.
St. Jimbob of the Apokalypse said...
Wow, he really nailed it. Now, what do we do about it? Just not watching it doesn't seem enough, as that strategy is more like turning a blind eye to evil.
FD brings up a good point, leading to another, about the danger of caricature. We can make something look over-the-top silly, but people need to be smart to catch the critique. Otherwise, people delight in the humor of it, and end up perpetuating, or even furthering, the sad state originally mocked.
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Our First Look at the Newly Restored Miracleman!
December 10, 2013 by Aaron Einhorn
I wrote about it when they originally announced it, so you shouldn’t be surprised to know that I am terribly excited about Marvel’s reprinting of Miracleman. And now Marvel has given us a look at the first few pages of the comic.
See, not only has this comic been out of print forever, but as great as the comic was, I was never thrilled with the final art. The colors were… just off somehow.
This looks as good as my memories of the original comic are (which are better than the actuality).
The full press release from Marvel follows, but if this doesn’t have you excited for the release of this comic come January, I don’t know what will.
The Wait is Over! Your First Look at the Remastered Miracleman #1!
The series that changed comics forever finally returns in 2014, and Marvel is proud to present your first look at the remastered MIRACLEMAN #1! Long out-of-print, these timeless, groundbreaking stories injected a new sophistication into the super hero genre still felt today.
“When these stories were originally colored, the artists were never consulted – and it shows” said Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso. “The coloring methods used at the time really hurt the finished product. But through close collaboration with all the artists, we’re proud to now present these stories in a manner that matches their creative vision.”
Working in closely with the original series artists, Miracleman has been remastered using the original artwork in every instance possible – and the most advanced restoration methods available applied to ensure the most authentic reading experience based on the artists’ original visions for the series.
“You’ve never really seen Miracleman, until you’ve seen this Miracleman,” said legendary Miracleman artist Garry Leach.“I’m positive this will rapidly be recognized as the all-time, definitive, Miracleman series. It’s simply looking that ridiculously sharp!”
In addition to material originally published in Warrior Magazine, Miracleman #1 also includes character designs, pencil sketches, original art, an article chronicling the history of Marvelman/Miracleman, an interview with Miracleman creator Mick Anglo, as well as a Mick Anglo’s first Marvelman stories. Don’t miss your opportunity to experience the most popular comic few have ever read when Miracleman #1 makes it’s long overdue return to comic shops this January!
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Marvel to (Finally) Publish Miracleman!
October 14, 2013 by Aaron Einhorn
Several years ago at San Diego Comic Con, Marvel announced that they had obtained the rights to Marvelman/Miracleman.
For those not in the know, Marvelman began as a way for Warrior Magazine to continue making Captain Marvel stories after the licensing agreement with Fawcett Comics went kaput. A quick reskin of the character, change “Shazam” into “Kimota,” and voila, all new hero.
But what went from being a Captain Marvel rip-off became a whole new thing in the hands of Alan Moore and company, and then later on, Neil Gaiman.
(This is a horrid oversimplification. Read the full details here.)
I was in the crowd in 2009 when Marvel made that announcement, and I went nuts over it. I had been loaned a copy of the individual issues for Miracleman and loved the story. So, I was eager to see what Marvel would do with the character. After all, used properly, Marvelman could be a powerhouse and an icon on par with Superman. And he even had Marvel’s name in his title.
Of course, the licensing rights to Miracleman are a mess. And so, we got a few reprints of the original Mick Anglo stories, and then… nothing. For years. And most people assumed that the rights would be a part of Marvel/Disney’s portfolio and nothing would happen.
Then during Age of Ultron, it seemed like we would see Marvelman appear at the series’ conclusion. Instead, we got Angela, who Neil Gaiman still owned after creating her for Todd McFarlane’s Spawn. Nothing against Angela as a character, but her inclusion was somewhat anti-climactic to many. In a world without Hellspawn, her existence is confusing at best. It’s not that she can’t be retrofit to work in Marvel Comics, but is she needed?
(For the record? I am reading Guardians of the Galaxy, and I enjoy Angela’s presence there just fine. But I wanted to see Miracleman, dang it.)
Well, now, at least according to what was revealed at NYCC 2013, it seems like Miracleman is finally set to return.
According to a release put out today by Marvel, starting in January, we will see the Warrior/Eclipse comics series of Miracleman reprinted, and just as importantly, we will then see the series finished.
Because the sad truth is that Miracleman #25 was never printed. It was written, it was illustrated and it was ready to go, but it was never seen. And now, if all is to be believed, that final issue will also be printed and available.
Of course, I find it very interesting and curious that Alan Moore’s name is never listed in the press release. Hopefully that just means that Moore’s name can’t be used to promote it, and not that something weird is happening with his writing.
I’m thrilled, personally. I loved reading Miracleman, and am eager to own the issues myself. You can check out the full press release below, following a gallery of some of the covers that will be printed with the reprints.
Miracleman #1 Quesada Cover
Miracleman #1 Buckingham Variant
Miracleman #1 Cassady Variant
Miracleman #1 Yu Variant
Miracleman #1 Young Variant
Miracleman #2 Davis Variant
Miracleman #2 McKone Variant
Miracleman #2 Perkins Variant
MIRACLEMAN RETURNS! MARVEL TO PUBLISH GROUND-BREAKING ORIGINAL SERIES AND NEW STORIES BY NEIL GAIMAN!
“[Miracleman’s] heights are highs Watchmen cannot touch. It’s that good. It’s that important.” –Sequart.org
It was the series that changed comics forever. With the utterance of one word, Michael Moran transformed from the ordinary into the extraordinary – and Miracleman was born!
Long out of print, Marvel Comics is pleased to announce that the earth-shattering stories that injected new levels of sophistication into the super hero genre will finally see the light of day once again! Starting this January, Marvel will begin publishing the legendary run of Miraclemanby the original creators that began in Warrior Magazine and continued under now defunct publisher Eclipse Comics!
Fans lucky enough to have read these trailblazing stories when they were originally produced have often referred to this legendary run on Miracleman as “the lost Watchmen,” and Marvel is proud to finally bring these incredible comics to an audience that has clamored for them.
“The wait is over,” says Editor In Chief Axel Alonso. “Marvel will finally be bringing these timeless, ground-breaking stories to a whole new generation of reader.”
“We’ve been working with the Miracleman artists to obtain original artwork or photostats in every instance possible, and then applying the same painstaking restoration methods and rigorous quality standards that are utilized on the Marvel Masterworks line. The Marvel Special Projects team have even been developing some new techniques specifically for this project. These Miraclemanissues will receive the most advanced restoration possible to ensure the most authentic reading experience,” says SVP of Marvel Publishing David Gabriel. “The art is crisp, clear, and looks as good – if not better than the day it was published! Also, the stories are being completely relettered to meet today’s standards.”
Making these stories available to an entirely new generation is one thing – but following the original groundbreaking run, the epic more than 30 years in the making will reach its cataclysmic conclusion! You heard correctly – Marvel will also be publishing all-new Miraclemanstories from legendary creators Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham! Long left unfinished, Gaiman and Buckingham’s famous storyline will ultimately see the light of day!
“The tragedy of Miracleman was that we published two issues, wrote three and a half – and then it all stopped,” Gaiman said, in an interview with Marvel.com. “And Miracleman #25has been sitting in the darkness – nobody has seen it. It was drawn, it was written, it was lettered over 20 years ago.”
“I love the idea that I will get to finish this story,” added Gaiman.
“That Neil and Bucky can finally finish the story they started, is a great relief to still-gasping fans — myself among them,” says Alonso.
Re-presented in serialized form, each issue of Miracleman features additional content including new art, interviews with the creators as well as new covers from some of the industry’s most legendary artists! Look for Miracleman #1 in print and digital this January!
Filed Under: News Tagged With: Marvelman, Miracleman, Neil Gaiman
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Pee brings the world together
Now, you're going to think that I'm totally making this story up and that it's untrue. Well, it's from MSNBC, so you can make your own conclusions there. Anyway, here's the first sentence from the story, "Pee from more than 4,000 volunteers shows that people from different nations often have spectacularly different metabolisms."
And, off we go! Ok, so, I'm trying to visualize the newspaper ad that had to go out on this one: "Seeking pee from people worldwide for research study." And, they got 4,000 people to participate? Fascinating. What did they find? Well, different people from different nations had different metabolites in their urine (no kidding).
"For instance, Chinese and Japanese people are almost identical genetically, which isn't surprising, since they diverged culturally only a few thousand years ago — but they are very different metabolically," said researcher Jeremy Nicholson, a biological chemist at Imperial College London.
"We know there's a huge difference in the diseases that different nations risk — broadly speaking, the Japanese tend to die of strokes, the Chinese of heart attacks — and we see those differences reflected in their urine," he added. "Of course they're different in terms of lifestyle — the Japanese tend to eat more fish than the Chinese as a whole do — but their gut bacteria are also very distinct as well."
Now, why is this important? According to the article, the substances found may help shed light on things like diabetes, vascular diseases, obesity, and even cancer. Sure, that's great. But, I'd hate to be the poor freshman college student asked to do all the grassroots work on this paper. Is getting a published research paper worth it to work with all this urine? I guess so. Wonder what the follow-up research will hold?
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Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–1917)
History and Science
This documentary, in the form of a satellite map, enables you to follow Ernest Shackleton on his troubled 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Unlike most maps, this map enables you to digitally experience the expedition and zoom in close on each location while you read various content online.
With this map you can zoom in on the actual locations were they survived on moving ice floes and an uninhabited island after their ship was crushed in ice and sank; and see where they traveled 800 miles across the stormy South Ocean in a life-boat.
Please note: When using the aerial base map, the ship symbols along the coast in the lower right-hand corner appear to be on land; even though they are at their correct coordinate locations. However, if you switch to use the ocean floor base map you will see that the ship is actually 20 miles or more off the coast. Thus what appears to be land is actually drifting ice that has surrounded the ship. This block of ice locks the ship in place and moves the ship to other locations as it continues to drift, until the ice becomes so inflexible that it crushes the ship’s hull, forcing the crew to abandon ship.
The locations and coordinates were obtained from the following sources:
• Project Guttenberg’s eBook South! The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917, by Sir Ernest Shackleton
• Wikipedia’s page on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
• Wikipedia’s page on Ernest Shackleton
Ernest Shackleton explorer 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition interactive map map 3D map educational self-learning individual learning
http://climateviewer.org/layers/MRM/Explorers/Interactive-Map-of-Shackletons-Trans-Antarctic-Expedition-of-1914%E2%80%931917.geojson
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Map: Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–1917) by George Stiller and Jim Lee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on a work at climateviewer.org/. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at climateviewer.com/terms.
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Wooden Cities performs University at Buffalo composers!
We’re looking forward to the upcoming concert by Buffalo-based new music collective Wooden Cities, on Friday, December 14th, at 8:00 p.m., at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, where they will offer a program filled exclusively with University at Buffalo composers. According to their mission statement, Wooden Cities “is both an ensemble and a collective of performers and composers seeking to help increase the performance and awareness of contemporary music in the Western New York area through unique, educational presentations.”
Wooden Cities
photo by Megan Metté
Wooden Cities was founded in July of 2011 by artistic director and UB alumn Brendan Fitzgerald, and originally “served as a vehicle for director Brendan Fitzgerald to present John Zorn's game piece Cobra. Since that time the group has grown to include over a dozen performers and is constantly seeking new works by new composers while continuing to present works by some of the essential, yet underrepresented composers of the 20th Century.”
Friday night’s concert will feature 10 musicians, almost all of them veterans of the UB composition or performance programs:
Brendan Fitzgerald, conductor/artistic director/drumset
Lana Stafford, flutes
Christopher Culp, clarinets
Nathan Heidelberger, horn/piano
Evan Courtin, violin
TJ Borden, violoncello
Katie Weissman, electric 'cello
Michael McNeill, piano
Zane Merritt, guitars
Ethan Hayden, vocals
Four pieces by UB graduate composers will lead the program: Jacob Gotlib’s Year without Summer (Daumenkino) (2011), Ethan Hayden’s Monte (2012), Nathan Heidelberger’s Halve Time (quartet after Zeno) (2012) and Zane Merritt’s 7 Broken Points (2012). An excerpt from the program notes offers some useful insight into the compositional framework behind Heidelberger’s Halve Time (quartet after Zeno), “Zeno, an ancient Greek philosopher, posed the paradox that one can never fully travel some fixed distance, since one must first travel half of that distance, and then half of the remaining distance, and so on, ad infinitum, with smaller and smaller remaining distances always getting segmented into smaller and smaller halves. Halve Time applies Zeno's logic to the durations of its five movements. The first movement is approximately a minute and a half long, and it lays out all the musical ideas contained within the work. The subsequent movements explore what happens to those ideas when they are forced into smaller and smaller containers.”
The concert will also feature works by UB undergraduate composers studying composition with composer and teacher Jacob Gotlib: Ashley Barnes, Chien-Han Hsao, Robert Naranjo, Vincent Parlato, West Richter, and Kevin Westerman.
Wooden Cities will be active this all winter long, and will give another concert on the following Friday, December 21, at the St. Joseph University Parish, when they will perform Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1941), in playful recognition of the last day of the Mayan calendar.
You can peruse performances and recordings of Wooden Cities on their soundcloud, where you can hear them perform Book, the doctoral dissertation by UB alumn composer Will Redman.
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202
Wooden Cities Fall Concert I
$10 General
$7 Members/Students/Seniors
$12 For a Whole Family
$15 For Both This Concert AND 12/21/12 Concert at St. Joseph's University Parish, University Heights
Link to this post here.
Posted by University at Buffalo at 9:02 PM
Labels: Brendan Fitzgerald, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, University at Buffalo composers, Wooden Cities
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The Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music
For fifty years, the Music Department at the University at Buffalo has maintained and nurtured a commitment to creative and performing artists at the forefront of contemporary music. The Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music, founded and directed by composer David Felder in 2006, is built on this legacy, featuring the internationally renowned “June in Buffalo” festival, the Slee Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra concert series, and the Guest Artist Series of performances, lecture presentations, and workshops. The Center for 21st Century Music is dedicated to the creation and production of new work upholding the highest artistic standards of excellence while simultaneously fostering a complementary atmosphere of creative investigation.
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Measuring MDSC
by Kelsey Kaustinen | Email the author
ITUS Corporation
Serametrix
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Revisiting old data with new tools can often shed light on facts that had previously been inaccessible, or further confirm previous conclusions, and such is the case for ITUS Corporation and Serametrix. The former announced this week that the companies had completed a study in prostate cancer that re-analyzed data from a collaboration between Serametrix and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center using ITUS' Cchek technology.
Dr. Amit Kumar, ITUS chairman and CEO, stated, "This is the first time Cchek has been used on samples provided by a third party in a blinded manner, and the results were exceptional. Additionally, this is the largest study of a single type of cancer that we have completed to date. The samples were collected at MSK from patients with biopsy-verified metastatic prostate cancer. These, together with samples from healthy donors, were analyzed by Serametrix to identify a unique sub-type of MDSCs using proprietary technology. A subset of the data was then sent to ITUS for training of our Neural Network, followed by analysis of the remaining samples in a blinded manner."
The company's Cchek platform consists of a series of non-invasive blood tests for early detection of solid tumor-based cancers based on the body's immunological response to the presence of malignancies. According to ITUS, the platform offers new options in the markets of screening, confirmatory testing (especially given Cchek's low rate of false positives), treatment monitoring and recurrence monitoring, though the initial focus will be on its confirmatory abilities. A day before the announcement with Serametrix, ITUS shared news that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had issued its second patent to protect the cancer detection technology that forms the backbone of Cchek.
As ITUS explains on its website, “Myloid cells are a certain type of immune cell which emanate from stem cells in the bone marrow and travel to the site of the tumor. Cancer cells impede the normal development of these myeloid cells and subvert their usual function. Once corrupted by the cancer, these cells engage in immune-suppressive activities and become known as Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells (MDSCs).”
“MDSCs are the subject of ongoing cutting-edge research and have been targeted by the newest immunotherapy drugs,” the company adds. “ITUS has identified certain sub-classes of MDSCs as being diagnostic in nature and has developed proprietary protocols for detecting the cells in the blood of cancer patients.”
Serametrix echoes the importance of this cell subtype, reporting on its website that “MDSCs inhibit T-cell proliferation and permit continued tumor growth. Their abundance is associated with poor prognoses, and elevated levels of MDSCs can render cancer patients less able to derive clinical benefit from immunotherapies. In one study of 26 patients receiving immunotherapy, it was found that patients with relatively low levels of MDSCs at baseline were more likely to respond well to immunotherapy. Furthermore, it was observed that non-responders not only had elevated MDSC at baseline but more frequently had an upward trend during immunotherapy treatment.” Serametrix offers MDSC testing in cancer patients, a test that is part of its icScore, an immune monitoring tool developed to give patients answers as to what immunotherapy options they might respond to. The test received CLIA approval in September 2016. Serametrix licensed the assay, which was developed at the Ludwig Center at MSK, in 2013.
In Serametrix's previous work with MSKCC, it analyzed samples from metastatic prostate cancer patients and normal healthy patients using the MSKCC proprietary assay and algorithm to measure the presence of MDSCs. In this most recent work, Serametrix and ITUS performed a blinded re-analysis of the data using Cchek and saw 92-percent sensitivity and 92-percent specificity when analyzing 121 prostate cancer samples and 125 healthy donor samples. Following the initial analysis, the platform was trained on the samples of 85 prostate cancer samples and 88 healthy donor samples. ITUS received an additional 73 blinded samples, and the retrained Cchek platform was able to identify 33 of 36 prostate cancer samples and 34 of 37 healthy donor samples.
"The results that Serametrix and ITUS were able to obtain are compelling, as it suggests real potential to distinguish tumor-bearing individuals from healthy donors,” commented Dr. Karen Autio, Medical Oncologist and member of the Genitourinary Service and the Melanoma and Immunotherapy Service at MSK. “We also look forward to further studies that will evaluate the prospects for this technology in predicting which patients are most likely to benefit from immuno-oncology therapies, as well as shed light on why prostate cancer has historically been more challenging to treat with immunotherapy in contrast to tumors such as melanoma."
In the future, ITUS will be investigating—together with Serametrix—if Cchek has any utility in determining which patients might and might not respond to immunotherapies. Henry Hepburne-Scott, vice president of Business Development at Serametrix, added in a press release that “Validating the discriminating ability of Cchek using patient samples with localized prostate cancer as compared to normal volunteers will be an important next step.”
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[Letter from Edmund Quincy to Francis Jackson]
Letter from Edmund Quincy to Francis Jackson regarding expenses and articles [for The Liberator].
List of 108 names to petition for use of Faneuil Hall
Signed petition of 108 names for the use of Feneuil Hall [Boston, Massachusetts] in January 1839 for a gathering [probably for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society].
Copy of a correspondence between Edmund Jackson & Hon. Robt. C. Winthrop in 1840
Manuscript copy of a correspondence between Edmund Jackson and Hon. Robert C. Winthorp, in which Jackson asks for Winthorp's position on slavery before his election to United States Congress. Includes Winthorp's response dated November 2, 1840, in which he replies that he "cannot regard it as desirable or expedient to attempt any alteration of the Constitution in relation to slavery."
Document of 4 sheets listing ca. 470 names from Rhode Island, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey, and Maine who attended business meetings at the Concert Hall, 406 Broadway, Boston.
[Two resolutions condemning the "system of slavery"]
Two unsigned and undated resolutions on one page [from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] condemning the "system of slavery."
Petition to Gov. to fill the office of Agt. For Col'd Seamen
Petition [from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] to Massachusetts Governor Marcus Morton to appoint Amos B. Merrill to act as an agent for "colored seamen" in the ports of Charleston [South Carolina] and New Orleans [Louisiana].
List titled "October 1857," listing Harriet C. Capen, Robert Briggs, Thomas C. Wales, Stimpson & Whiting, James W. Bates, Russell, Hennesey & Phelps, Willis & Co., Witherbee [Wetherbee] Bro., J. P. Polion Dubuc, Joel Brett, Jos. [Joseph] Russell, Jonathan, Cottle, David Kimball, Thomas E. Lillie, Duncan Cameron, Holmes Holden & Catler. Mrs. Phelan, Albany Block [residential building] and ca. 50 others.
Mayor & Aldermen, Fanueil Hall, Refused
Letter to the Mayor [Samuel Atkins Eliot] and Aldermen of Boston [Massachusetts] from Francis Jackson and 11 other committee members [of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] arguing a recent denial for permission to use Faneuil Hall for a meeting about slave trade in the District of Columbia.
The Lawyers Remonstrance for Judge Loring
Undated 13-page list of ca. 1,200 names [probably asking for the removal of Judge Edward G. Loring from office].
History of Mass. Anti Slav Society
Two-page unsigned and undated manuscript history of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, organized by meeting. Includes names of organizers, dates of meetings, and summary.
Knapp & The Liberator
Undated letter from Francis Jackson, Edmund Quincy, and William Bassett to the editor of the Boston Transcript [Lynde Walter] reagrding an advertisement taken out by The Liberator's editor [Isaac] Knapp.
[Letter to Francis Jackson]
Letter from [illegible] to Francis Jackson to notify of operating funds drawn from him on behalf of The Liberator.
S. E. Sewall's Draft of a Petition
Undated draft of a petition by S. E. Sewall to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives to condemn the imprisonment of African American sailors when docked in particular United States ports.
List titled "April 1847," including Richard Hildreth, Harriet C. Capen, J. & E. Bales, G. C. Leach, Paul Morrill, Edward Rohan, J. K. Blasdell, Artemas White, Willis & Co., Ellis G. Loring, Wetherbee Brothers, Joel Brett, Thacher Beal, Hiram Davis, Jacob Berkmaer, Charles N. Chandler, Sundry tenants [of] 45 Congress St. and ca. 65 others.
[Form letter soliciting donations for Captain Drayton]
Form letter from Francis Jackson and others requesting donations for the financial support of Captain [Daniel] Drayton while visiting in Boston.
[Draft of circular letter from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society]
Draft of letter from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society to S. E. Sewall regarding gathering signatures for petitions oppsoing the Texas Constitution's endorsement of slavery.
Contribution of the Churches in Mass for Fugitive Slaves
List of donations [to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] from ca. 110 people belonging to various churches. Divided into columns labeled Orthodox, Baptists, Methodist, and Unitarian. Some of the names included in the list are: James Trask Woodbury, G. Buckingham Wilcox, Giles Pease; E. A. (Edward Ainsley) Stockman, Abijah Stowell, Benjamin Whitmore, Luther Sheldon, Asaph Meriam, C. T. Tucker, and Charles Manning Bowers.
List titled "December 1846," including John Hanson, J. K. Blaisdell, Tenants [of] 45 Congress St, Sylvester Phelps, Earl W. Johnson, Olive Hanson, James Bullard, Benjamin Jones, Hugh McCabe, Nelson Smith, Patrick Rogers, William A. Howard and ca. 25 others.
Phelps resolution
Resolution supporting the anti-slavery movement.
The Role of Infamy
Unsigned and undated two-page manuscript regarding the return of Anthony Burns to slavery, and the wrongful circumstances of his arrest and trial.
The Problem of the Free Negroes. A few thoughts upon the proposed solution of it.
Unsigned and undated six-page memoranda in support of slave colonization to Liberia.
List of names titled "May 1846."
A. S. Petition for the rights of the Col'd Citizen
Petition letter [from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] asking the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to protest in United States Supreme Court against the wrongful imprisonment of "colored citizens" employed on trade ships arriving at the ports of slaveholding states.
[Letter from the friends of William Lloyd Garrison]
Unsigned manuscript letter from "the friends of William Lloyd Garrison," soliciting donations with which they hope to buy him a home. Names trustees Ellis Gray Loring, Francis Jackson and Samuel Philbrick.
Invitation to National Convention 1839
Printed invitation from Francis Jackson and William Lloyd Garrison to represent the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at the National Convention of Abolitionists in Albany, N.Y.
[Letter to the Editor of thePost arguing for the abolishment of slavery]
Unsigned and undated draft of a note addressed "to the Ed. Of the [] Post" arguing for the abolishment of slavery.
[Notification for appointment to attend the 6th Anniversary of the American A. S. Society]
Letter from Francis Jackson and William Lloyd Garrison, with no addressee, notifying of appointment to serve as a delegate for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at the 6th Anniversary celebration of the American Anti-Slavery Society in New York on May 7, 1839.
Copy of Signers to Anti-Slavery Petition 1836
Copy of a petition signed by William Ellery Channing, Carleton William, and ca. 500 others.
Bradburns Petition
Unsigned and undated petition to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives to condemn the imprisonment of African American sailors when docked in particular United States ports.
Old debts paid
List of "old debts paid" [probably costs for the abolitionist publication The Liberator].
List titled "April 1850," listing Richard Hildreth, Harriet C. Capen, Robert Briggs, Thomas C. Wales, Stimpson & Whiting, James Bales, James Bates, James Hennessey, Willis & Co., Witherbee [Wetherbee] Bro., Joel Brett, Smith & Swift; James L. Giles, Lawrence McArdle, David Kimball and ca. 50 others.
[Letter from Ellis Gray Loring to Mr. Jackson of Boston]
Letter from Ellis Gray Loring to Francis Jackson regarding concerns of being charged with libel for an article published [in The Liberator].
[Letter from Edmund Quincy to J. Otis Williams]
Letter from Edmund Quincy to J. [] Williams, a librarian for the Public Library in Dedham [Massachusetts], in response to his request for volumes of literature produced by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.
[Resolutions in arguing for the abolishment of slavery]
Six pages of unsinged and undated drafts of resolutions in arguing for the abolishment of slavery.
[Letter from Ellis Gray Loring to Andrew Robeson]
Four-page letter from Ellis Gray Loring to Andrew Robeson soliciting donations to operate the anti-slavery publication The Liberator, under the management of Francis Jackson, Samuel Philbrick, Edmund Quincy, William Bassett, and Loring.
Treasurer's report for 1845 sumbitted by Francis Jackson to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.
List of names titled "April 1857." On back, list of names titled "Albany Block Receipts."
List of donors [probably to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] for October 1847. The list of donors includes Richard Hildreth, Harriet Capen, Robert Briggs, William Denton, Stimpson & Whiting, Edward Hennessey, Paul Morrill, J. K. Blaisdell, Artemas White, Willis & Co., Wetherbee Bros., Charles N. Chandler, David Kimball, Sylvester Phelps, Heman S. Doane, Otis Brewer, John Kuhn, Healy & Spaulding, Thomas Whittemore, Boyd & Beard, George L. Thayer, Tisdale, Hewens & Co., A. B. Vose, William Underwood, Nancy Ann Milliken and others.
[Letter from Francis Jackson, et al]
Two-page letter from Francis Jackson, Samuel Philbrick, Ellis Gray Loring, William Bassett, and Edmund Quincy of Boston, [Massachusetts] to an unnamed addressee soliciting funds for the operation of The Liberator, an explaining a new subscription service.
[Letter from John T. Sargent to Justice Winsor, Esq., Supt. Public Library &c.]
Letter to the Superintended of the Public Library from John Sargent in response to a request for published materials from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, New England Anti-Slavery Society, and the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Liberator 1838
Four-page agreement between William Lloyd Garrison, Francis Jackson, Isaac Knapp, Edmund Quincy, and William Bassett [of Boston, Massachusetts] for the financial and physcial operation of The Liberator. Followed by additional agreement dated December 22, 1838.
Donations in aid of the Liberator in 1840 - for types
List of ca. 20 donors to The Liberator in 1840, including amounts of donations.
List of names titled "February 1846."
List of donors [probably to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] for October 1846, including Richard Hildreth, Robert Briggs, Thomas C. Wales, Stimpson & Whiting, Ellis Gray Loring, Wells, Wetherbee & Co. [Wetherbee Bros.], Charles N.Chandler, Sundry Tenants [of] 43, Heman S. Doane, Thomas Whittemore, Boyd & Beard, Henry Rice, George L. Thayer, A. B. Vose, Mrs. Cutter, Otis Brewer and others.
[Letter from Lawrence Abott to Francis Jackson, et al]
Two-page response letter from Abott Lawrence to Francis Jackson, Charles T. Hildreth, Thomas B. Sewall, and Ellis Gray Loring of Boston [Massachusetts] regarding his political position on slavery in the United States Congress.
Miss Martineau's Martyr age
Undated editorial letter addressed to "the editor of the Courier" regarding Miss [Harriet] Martineau's Martyr Age [in the United States], vindicating her support of the abolitionist movement. Signed "Xenius."
American Anti-Slavery Society (16) + -
Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803-1858 (15) + -
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 (12) + -
Capen, Harriet C. (9) + -
Wetherbee Bros. (9) + -
Willis & Co. (9) + -
Kimball, David T. (8) + -
Knapp, Isaac, 1804-1843 (8) + -
Stimpson & Whiting (8) + -
Brett, Joel (7) + -
Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865 (7) + -
Wales, Thomas C. (7) + -
Bates, James W. (6) + -
Blaisdell, J. K. (6) + -
Chandler, Charles N. (6) + -
Slavery--Law and legislation--Washington (D.C.) (11) + -
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[PR] Global’s Summer Lineup Stays Cool With A Red Hot Slate Of Series
Thread: [PR] Global’s Summer Lineup Stays Cool With A Red Hot Slate Of Series
In what looks to be the final acquisition for Global's summer schedule, they have picked up the NBC reality/comedy series Better Late Than Never which will premiere following the Olympics on Tuesday, August 23 at 10:00pm for a 4-week run.
Another NBC reality series, Running Wild with Bear Grylls looks to have been dropped by Global for its third season.
NBC comedy Superstore has a special new episode scheduled to air during the Olympics on Friday, August 21 at 10:30pm. So far, no confirmation if Global will do the same - either Global is looking for a timeslot to air it or will add it the very last minute.
Still with NBC, The Night Shift will wrap up its third and latest season at 13 episodes on Wednesday, August 31. Global has been playing catch-up and will complete the show's run on Monday, September 12.
Finally, You, Me & the Apocalypse (10 weeks) will conclude on Wednesday, August 31 and CBS drama American Gothic will wrap up with a two-hour finale on Wednesday, September 7 at 9:00pm.
Note for Montreal area : tonight and next thursday, WCAX (CBS Burlington) has New England NFL pre-season games. This affects tonight's Big Brother which is time-shifted to 1:37am, TBBT & LiP reruns right after. Also, expect Videotron to screwup simsubs for ET, TBBT and/or BB.
P.S. @ lostjon : maybe you meant Friday Aug 19 in your message above ;)
Last edited by InMontreal; 08-13-2016 at 08:59 AM.
Global will have the special Olympics episode of Superstore available to watch first online on Friday, August 19. Presumably, it will be broadcast at a later date before the season premiere on Thursday, September 22.
http://www.globaltv.com/superstore/schedule/
The Superstore new Olympics episode will air tonight Aug 19th on NBC (10:30pm ET) ... Global will have it available for online streaming tomorrow Aug 20.
So, NBC gets the Gold medal, Piracy sources will probably get the Silver, and Global gets the Bronze medal.
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Important: Act to Amend the Citizenship Act
NorRimWalker
Hi Community.
Note the procedure leading to obtaining Canadian citizenship has been changed.
An "Act to amend the Citizenship Act..." was adopted by both House of Commons and Senate and got the Royal Assent on June 19,2014.
At a first glance, the rules now are that a citizenship applicant i)must physically spend 4 years of consecutive 6 in Canada (183 days as minimum during each of these 4 years), ii)must present a proof of filing a tax return in Canada in respect of 4 taxation years within the said 6 years, iii)must pass a language test and a citizenship test unless s/he is 65 or more years old. Above that, an applicant should "intend, if granted citizenship, to continue to reside in Canada" which sounds a bit unclear.
My feeling is that potential applicants should discuss these amendments with their lawyers and/or follow comments in mass media.
For the text of this new Act (known also as Bill-C24)see: http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/hoc/Bills/412/Government/C-24/C-24_3/C-24_3.PDF
Hello Alex,
Thank you for posting this information and update here.
We will all try to keep informed and share any information as it comes with everyone.
ahed
I think i have a question that it is in the mind of a lots of people, How does this new amendment will affect my citizenship application, i am going to apply for citizenship by the end of 2014 !
Depends when the Act is enacted. If it is enacted after you apply no problem, if before you apply, you must meet the criteria of the new Act.
kozin58
http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&DocId=6684615&File=4&Col=1
At the above link it reads
"An Act to amend the Citizenship Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
ASSENTED TO
BILL C-24"
Does this mean the Act is enacted and has come into force?
No, only a couple of sections dealing with "lost citizens" have been enacted.
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Queensland DRUG REHABILITATION (COURT DIVERSION) ACT 2000
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Elizabeth Hunt
1 Queensland DRUG REHABILITATION (COURT DIVERSION) ACT 2000 Act No. 3 of 2000
3 Queensland DRUG REHABILITATION (COURT DIVERSION) ACT 2000 Section TABLE OF PROVISIONS PART 1 PRELIMINARY Page 1 Short title Commencement Objects of this Act Relationship with Penalties and Sentences Act PART 2 DEFINITIONS AND IMPORTANT TERMS 5 Definitions Who is an eligible person What is a disqualifying offence What is a relevant offence PART 3 PILOT PROGRAM COURTS AND PILOT PROGRAM MAGISTRATES 9 Pilot program courts Pilot program magistrates Functions, additional jurisdiction and powers of pilot program magistrates Other functions of pilot program magistrates PART 4 REFERRAL FOR ASSESSMENT 13 Application of pt Referral to be decided as soon as practicable Deciding whether to refer for assessment Referral for assessment
4 2 PART 5 INTENSIVE DRUG REHABILITATION ORDERS Division 1 Preliminary 17 Application of pt Division 2 Making an order 18 Pilot program magistrate may make order only if conviction recorded Making of order Contents of order Delaying suspension of sentence General requirements of order Additional requirements of order Contents and requirements of rehabilitation program Explaining orders Offender to agree to making or amending of order Copy of order to offender Multiple offences Division 3 Not making an order 29 Dealing with offenders if no intensive drug rehabilitation order made Division 4 Rewards and sanctions 30 Application for reward or sanction Rewards Sanctions Division 5 Amending orders and terminating rehabilitation programs 33 Amending intensive drug rehabilitation orders Terminating rehabilitation programs Process for application to amend intensive drug rehabilitation order or terminate rehabilitation program Final sentence to be decided on completion or termination of rehabilitation program Division 6 General 37 Immunity from prosecution Random drug testing Disclosing compliance or failure to comply with rehabilitation program.. 26
5 3 40 Arrest warrants Warrants of commitment When no appeal PART 6 GENERAL 43 Regulation-making power Approved forms Review of Act by Minister Report on Act s operation by pilot program magistrate Expiry of Act SCHEDULE DICTIONARY
7 Queensland Act 2000 Act No. 3 of 2000 An Act to establish a pilot court diversion program to provide intensive drug rehabilitation for drug dependant offenders [Assented to 8 March 2000]
8 s 1 6 s 3 The Parliament of Queensland enacts PART 1 PRELIMINARY Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Act Commencement 2. This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation. Objects of this Act 3.(1) The objects of this Act are to reduce (d) the level of drug dependency in the community; and the level of criminal activity associated with drug dependency; and health risks to the community associated with drug dependency; and pressure on resources in the court and prison systems. (2) The objects are to be achieved by establishing a pilot court diversion program (d) to identify drug dependant persons who are suitable to receive intensive drug rehabilitation; and to improve their ability to function as law abiding citizens; and to improve their employability; and to improve their health.
9 s 4 7 s 6 Relationship with Penalties and Sentences Act (1) A pilot program magistrate must have regard to the principles stated in the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 9;1 and may exercise the powers and make the orders a magistrate may exercise or make under that Act. (2) Subsection (1) applies unless a contrary intention appears. PART 2 DEFINITIONS AND IMPORTANT TERMS Definitions 5. The dictionary in the schedule defines particular words used in this Act. Who is an eligible person 6.(1) A person appearing before a pilot program court charged with an offence is an eligible person if (d) the person is not a person who must be dealt with as a child under the Juvenile Justice Act 1992; and the person is drug dependent and that dependency contributed to the person committing the offence; and it is likely the person would, if convicted of the offence, be sentenced to imprisonment; and the person satisfies any other criteria prescribed under a regulation. (2) The person is not an eligible person if the person is serving a term of imprisonment, other than under 1 Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 9 (Sentencing guidelines)
10 s 7 8 s 7 the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 112;2 or a charge against the person for a disqualifying offence is pending in a court. (3) Without limiting subsection (1)(d), the regulation may require that the person be someone who resides within a stated locality. What is a disqualifying offence 7.(1) A disqualifying offence is an offence of a sexual nature; or an indictable offence3 involving violence against another person, other than an offence charged under any of the following provisions of the Criminal Code section 335 section 340, but only if the offence is the assault of another with intent to resist or prevent the lawful arrest or detention of the person or of any other person section (2) For section 6(2), a reference in subsection (1) to a provision of the Criminal Code includes a reference to a corresponding provision of a law of another State or the Commonwealth. (3) For subsection (1), an offence of a sexual nature does not include an offence by a prostitute in providing prostitution, or in offering or accepting an offer to provide prostitution. 2 Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 112 (Making of order) deals with the making of intensive correction orders. 3 Acts Interpretation Act 1954, section 36, provides indictable offence includes an act or omission committed outside Queensland that would be an indictable offence if it were committed in Queensland. 4 Criminal Code, section 335 (Common assault) or 340 (Serious assaults)
11 s 8 9 s 11 What is a relevant offence 8.(1) Each of the following is a relevant offence (d) a simple offence; an indictable offence that may be dealt with summarily; a prescribed drug offence; another offence prescribed under a regulation that is punishable by imprisonment for a term of not more than 7 years. (2) A relevant offence does not include a disqualifying offence. PART 3 PILOT PROGRAM COURTS AND PILOT PROGRAM MAGISTRATES Pilot program courts 9.(1) The Governor in Council, by regulation, may declare 1 or more Magistrates Courts to be pilot program courts. (2) A court is a pilot program court under subsection (1) whether or not it is constituted by a pilot program magistrate. (3) However, a power of a pilot program magistrate may be exercised only in a pilot program court. Pilot program magistrates 10.(1) The Chief Stipendiary Magistrate must allocate the functions of a pilot program magistrate to 1 or more magistrates. (2) Nothing in this Act prevents a pilot program magistrate exercising the jurisdiction of a Magistrates Court at any time. Functions, additional jurisdiction and powers of pilot program magistrates 11.(1) A pilot program magistrate has the functions given by this Act.
12 s s 13 (2) For the performance of a pilot program magistrate s functions, a pilot program magistrate has jurisdiction to deal with a person appearing before the magistrate charged with a prescribed drug offence. (3) A pilot program magistrate has power to do all things necessary or convenient to be done for the performance of the magistrate s functions. (4) A pilot program magistrate must conduct proceedings under this Act quickly and in a way that avoids unnecessary technicalities and facilitates the fair and practical conduct of the proceedings. (5) In a proceeding under this Act, the pilot program magistrate is not bound by the rules of evidence, but may inform himself or herself in any way the magistrate considers appropriate. Other functions of pilot program magistrates 12.(1) This Act does not affect the application of the Stipendiary Magistrates Act 1991 to a pilot program magistrate. (2) For example, a pilot program magistrate, in addition to exercising functions as a pilot program magistrate, must exercise other functions as a magistrate as directed by the Chief Stipendiary Magistrate; and comply with reasonable directions given, or requirements made, by the Chief Stipendiary Magistrate. PART 4 REFERRAL FOR ASSESSMENT Application of pt This part applies if a person charged with a relevant offence appears before a magistrate in a pilot program court; and there is evidence the person is drug dependant.
13 s s 16 Referral to be decided as soon as practicable 14.(1) The powers conferred on a magistrate under this part must be exercised as soon as practicable after the person first comes before the pilot program court for a relevant offence. (2) Despite subsection (1), the powers may be exercised at any time before the court sentences the person or commits the person for trial or sentence for the offence. Deciding whether to refer for assessment 15.(1) The magistrate must decide whether the person appears to be an eligible person. (2) If the person appears to be an eligible person, the magistrate may decide to refer the person for assessment if satisfied the person has pleaded guilty to the offence or has indicated that he or she intends to plead guilty to the offence; and the person is willing to be assessed for suitability for rehabilitation and to appear before a pilot program magistrate to be dealt with for the offence. Referral for assessment 16.(1) If the magistrate decides to refer the person for assessment, the magistrate may adjourn the proceedings and remand the person in custody to appear before a pilot program magistrate; or release the person on bail to appear before a pilot program magistrate. (2) If the magistrate adjourns the proceedings, the magistrate must require the corrective services chief executive to prepare and submit to a pilot program magistrate, within the time allowed by the magistrate, a report under the Corrective Services Act 1988, section 2015 that contains 5 Corrective Services Act 1988, section 201 (Chief executive to cause reports to be prepared)
14 s s 17 an assessment of the person s suitability for rehabilitation; and if the person is suitable, a proposed rehabilitation program. (3) If the magistrate releases the person on bail, the grant of bail must be made subject to the condition that, for the purpose of preparing the report, the person reports to a stated community correctional office within a stated time; and reports to other persons at the times and places directed by a community correctional officer. (4) If the magistrate remands the person in custody, the corrective services chief executive must ensure the person appears before a pilot program magistrate to be dealt with for the offence. PART 5 INTENSIVE DRUG REHABILITATION ORDERS Division 1 Preliminary Application of pt 5 17.(1) This part applies if a person charged with a relevant offence (the offender ) appears before a pilot program magistrate on proceedings adjourned under part 4; or if expressly provided in relation to a provision of this part, on other proceedings. (2) In deciding whether to make an order under this part, it does not matter whether the offence was committed before or after the commencement of this Act.
15 s s 19 Division 2 Making an order Pilot program magistrate may make order only if conviction recorded 18.(1) A pilot program magistrate may make an intensive drug rehabilitation order for the offender for a relevant offence only if the magistrate records a conviction. (2) Subsection (1) also applies if the proceedings for the offence are before the magistrate other than on adjournment under part 4. Making of order 19. A pilot program magistrate may make an order ( intensive drug rehabilitation order ) for the offender for an offence if satisfied (d) (e) the offence is a relevant offence; and the offender is an eligible person; and the offender has pleaded guilty to the offence; and the magistrate would, apart from this Act, sentence the offender to a term of imprisonment; and the offence is (i) (ii) a prescribed drug offence, or an offence against the Drugs Misuse Act 1986 that may be prosecuted summarily, for which the offender may be adequately punished with imprisonment of not more than 2 years; or another offence for which the offender may be adequately punished with imprisonment of not more than 3 years; and (f) (g) (h) the offender is not suffering from any mental condition that could prevent the offender s active participation in a rehabilitation program; and the facilities to supervise and control the offender s participation in a rehabilitation program are available for allocation to the offender under guidelines prescribed under a regulation; and it would be otherwise appropriate for an intensive drug rehabilitation order to be made, having regard to all relevant
16 s s 21 matters including, for example (i) (ii) the report mentioned in section 16(2);6 and whether a charge for an offence that can not be dealt with under this Act (other than a disqualifying offence7) is pending in a court against the offender, and if so, the nature and seriousness of the offence and when the charge is likely to be dealt with. Contents of order 20. If the pilot program magistrate decides to make an intensive drug rehabilitation order for the offender, the order must contain an order (i) (ii) sentencing the offender to serve a term of imprisonment (the initial sentence ); and suspending the whole of the term of imprisonment under this Act; and the requirements of the order; and a rehabilitation program decided by the pilot program magistrate for the offender. Delaying suspension of sentence 21. If the pilot program magistrate is satisfied sufficient grounds exist, the magistrate may direct that the commencement of the suspension of the sentence be delayed for not more than 14 days; and order that the offender be detained in custody in a prison until the earlier of the following days (i) the day the general manager of the prison is given a release authority in the approved form signed by the clerk of the 6 Section 16 (Referral for assessment) 7 For the effect of a disqualifying offence, see section 6(2).
17 s s 23 court of a pilot program court; (ii) the day the 14 day period ends. Example The pilot program magistrate is satisfied the offender requires detoxification but suitable facilities for detoxification are not immediately available. General requirements of order 22. The intensive drug rehabilitation order must contain requirements that the offender (d) (e) must not commit an offence, in or outside Queensland, during the period of the order; and must notify an authorised corrective services officer of every change of the offender s place of residence or employment within 2 business days after the change happens; and must not leave or stay out of Queensland without an authorised corrective services officer s permission; and must comply with every reasonable direction of an authorised corrective services officer, including a direction to appear before a pilot program magistrate at a stated time and place; and must attend before a pilot program magistrate at the times and places stated in the order. Additional requirements of order 23.(1) The intensive drug rehabilitation order may also contain requirements that the offender make restitution, or pay compensation; and satisfactorily perform community service of up to 120 hours for the period stated in the order, as and when directed by an authorised corrective services officer; and do another thing that a pilot program magistrate considers may help the offender s rehabilitation. (2) A requirement to make restitution may be made for property
18 s s 24 in relation to which an offence was committed; or taken in the course of, or in connection with, the commission of the offence. (3) A requirement to pay compensation may be made to a person for any loss or destruction of, damage caused to, or unlawful interference with, property (i) (ii) in relation to which an offence was committed; or in the course of, or in connection with, the commission of the offence; and for personal injury suffered by a person, whether or not the person is the victim against whom an offence was committed, because of the commission of the offence. (4) The Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, part 3, division 4, does not apply to restitution or compensation under an intensive drug rehabilitation order. (5) The Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, part 5, division 2 and 3, does not apply to community service under an intensive drug rehabilitation order. (6) A requirement under subsection (1) is not a sentence within the meaning of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 4. Contents and requirements of rehabilitation program 24.(1) The intensive drug rehabilitation order must, as far as practicable, state the details of the rehabilitation program the offender must undertake, including, for example, that the offender must (d) report to, or receive visits from, an authorised corrective services officer; or report for drug testing to an authorised corrective services officer; or attend vocational education and employment courses; or submit to medical, psychiatric or psychological treatment. (2) As part of the medical, psychiatric or psychological treatment, the offender may be required to remain at a place, and for a time, stated in the
19 s s 25 program. (3) The offender s rehabilitation program must also state that a pilot program magistrate may, at any time, commit the offender to a prison for up to 7 days at a time if, in the magistrate s opinion, the committal is necessary to facilitate detoxification of the offender; or assessment of the offender s participation in the program. (4) However, the offender must not be committed to a prison for detoxification unless the pilot program magistrate is satisfied no other suitable facilities are immediately available. Explaining orders 25.(1) Before making an intensive drug rehabilitation order, the pilot program magistrate must ensure the following matters are explained to the offender that the intensive drug rehabilitation order has 3 parts (i) (ii) the sentence of imprisonment and the suspension of the sentence; and the requirements of the order; and (iii) the rehabilitation program; (d) the purpose and effect of the order; what may happen if the offender does not comply with the order; that, subject to divisions 4 and 5, the requirements of the order or the rehabilitation program may be amended or a rehabilitation program terminated on a pilot program magistrate s own initiative or on application by (i) the offender; or (ii) an authorised corrective services officer; or (iii) the commissioner of the police service; or (iv) the director of public prosecutions. (2) If the offender is charged with a prescribed drug offence, the
20 s s 28 magistrate must also explain the offender would normally be dealt with in the Supreme Court for the offence; and the magistrate is dealing with the offender on the condition the offender successfully complete the rehabilitation program; and if the offender does not successfully complete the rehabilitation program, the offender will be dealt with in the Supreme Court for the offence. (3) The explanation must be made in language, or in a way, likely to be readily understood by the offender. Offender to agree to making or amending of order 26.(1) The pilot program magistrate may make an intensive drug rehabilitation order for the offender only if the offender agrees to the order being made and agrees to comply with it. (2) The pilot program magistrate may amend the requirements of an intensive drug rehabilitation order or a rehabilitation program only if the offender agrees to the order being amended and agrees to comply with it. Copy of order to offender 27.(1) The clerk of the court of the pilot program court must give the offender a copy of the intensive drug rehabilitation order. (2) The offender must acknowledge receipt of the copy in writing. (3) Until subsections (1) and (2) are complied with, the offender must remain in the custody of a police officer. Multiple offences 28.(1) Under section 19,8 the pilot program magistrate ( magistrate ) may make more than 1 intensive drug rehabilitation order ( order ) for the offender for more than 1 offence. 8 Section 19 (Making of order)
21 s s 31 (2) If the magistrate makes an order for the offender in proceedings adjourned before the magistrate under part 4, the magistrate may also make an order under section 19 for the offender in relation to another relevant offence even though proceedings for the other offence are before the magistrate other than on adjournment under part 4. (3) However, in no case may the magistrate make more than 1 order for the offender for more than 1 offence if the total period of imprisonment for which the offender would be sentenced under section 20(i)9 would be more than 3 years. (4) The orders may be included in a single form of order that specifies each offence for which an intensive drug rehabilitation order is made. Division 3 Not making an order Dealing with offenders if no intensive drug rehabilitation order made 29. If the pilot program magistrate decides not to make an intensive drug rehabilitation order for the offender, the magistrate must exercise the jurisdiction of a Magistrates Court and deal with the offender according to law. Division 4 Rewards and sanctions Application for reward or sanction 30. A reward or sanction under this division may be given or imposed on the application of an authorised corrective services officer or the offender or on the pilot program magistrate s own initiative. Rewards 31.(1) A pilot program magistrate may give the following kinds of rewards to the offender if the magistrate is satisfied on the balance of probabilities the offender is satisfactorily complying with the offender s 9 Section 20 (Contents of order)
22 s s 32 intensive drug rehabilitation order (d) (e) stated privileges; a decrease in the amount of any monetary penalty payable, but not yet paid, by the offender under section 32; a decrease in the frequency of drug testing of the offender; a decrease in the level of supervision of the offender by a pilot program magistrate or someone else; a change in (i) (ii) the nature of the vocational education and employment courses the offender attends; or the nature of medical, psychiatric or psychological treatment the offender is undergoing; (f) (g) a decrease in the frequency with which the offender must attend the courses or treatment; a decrease in the amount of community service the offender must perform under the order. (2) The magistrate may, if necessary, amend the requirements of the offender s intensive drug rehabilitation order or the offender s rehabilitation program to give the reward. Sanctions 32.(1) A pilot program magistrate may impose the following kinds of sanctions on the offender if the magistrate is satisfied on the balance of probabilities the offender is not satisfactorily complying with the offender s intensive drug rehabilitation order (d) the withdrawal of stated privileges; the imposition of a monetary penalty payable to the clerk of the court of a pilot program court; an increase in the frequency of drug testing of the offender; an increase in the level of supervision of the offender by a pilot program magistrate or someone else;
23 s s 33 (e) a change in (i) the nature of the vocational education and employment courses the offender attends; or (ii) the nature of medical, psychiatric or psychological treatment the offender is undergoing; (f) (g) (h) an increase in the frequency with which the offender must attend the courses or treatment; the imposition of a term of imprisonment for up to 14 days for each failure to comply with the order; an increase in the amount of community service the offender must perform, but not so as to increase the total number of hours to be performed under this section and under the order to more than 120 hours. (2) The magistrate may, if necessary, amend the requirements of the offender s intensive drug rehabilitation order or the offender s rehabilitation program to give the sanction. (3) A monetary penalty imposed under subsection (1) is not a penalty within the meaning of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 4. (4) A term of imprisonment imposed under subsection (1)(g) is not a sentence within the meaning of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 4.10 Division 5 Amending orders and terminating rehabilitation programs Amending intensive drug rehabilitation orders 33.(1) A pilot program magistrate may, on application under this division or on the magistrate s own initiative, amend the requirements of an intensive drug rehabilitation order or a rehabilitation program. (2) If the magistrate amends the order, the magistrate must give reasons. 10 Penalties and Sentences Act 1992, section 4 (Definitions)
24 s s 34 (3) This section is subject to section 26(2).11 Terminating rehabilitation programs 34.(1) A pilot program magistrate may, on application under this division or on the magistrate s own initiative, terminate a rehabilitation program decided for the offender if the offender asks the magistrate to terminate the rehabilitation program; or if the magistrate proposes to amend the order (i) (ii) the offender does not agree to the order being amended; or the offender does not agree to comply with the amended order; or (d) (e) the offender does not attend before a pilot program magistrate as required under the offender s intensive drug rehabilitation order or otherwise; or the offender has otherwise failed to comply with the intensive drug rehabilitation order; or the magistrate is satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, the offender s further participation in the rehabilitation program would serve no useful purpose. (2) If the magistrate terminates the rehabilitation program, the magistrate must give reasons. (3) If the offence in relation to which the intensive drug rehabilitation order for the offender was made is a prescribed drug offence, the magistrate must revoke the conviction recorded for the offence; and vacate the intensive drug rehabilitation order; and under the Justices Act 1886, section 113,12 commit the offender to the Supreme Court for sentence. 11 Section 26 (Offender to agree to making or amending of order) 12 Justices Act 1886, section 113 (Procedure of defendant pleads guilty)
25 s s 35 Process for application to amend intensive drug rehabilitation order or terminate rehabilitation program 35.(1) An application under section 33 or 34 may be made by any of the following persons (d) the offender; an authorised corrective services officer; the commissioner of the police service; the director of public prosecutions. (2) The application may be made if the offender is before a pilot program magistrate without notice; or if the offender is not before a pilot program magistrate after giving notice in the approved form and as required under subsection (3), (4), (5) or (6). (3) If an application is made by the offender, notice must be given by the court to the corrective services chief executive and the prosecutor. (4) If an application is made by an authorised corrective services officer, notice must be given to the court, the offender and the prosecutor. (5) If an application is made by the commissioner of the police service, notice must be given to the court, the offender and the corrective services chief executive. (6) If an application is made by the director of public prosecutions, notice must be given to the court, the offender and the corrective services chief executive. (7) Notice under subsection (3), (4), (5) or (6) must be given to the person at least the day before the application is to be heard before the magistrate. (8) In this section prosecuting authority means the commissioner of the police service or the director of public prosecutions. prosecutor means the prosecuting authority that appeared before the court when the intensive drug rehabilitation order was made.
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Transmitting the Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Use and Management of Special Funds for Promoting the Development of Service Outsourcing Industry
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Notice of the General Office of Shanghai Municipal People's Government on Transmitting the Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Use and Management of Special Funds for Promoting the Development of Service Outsourcing Industry Formulated by the Municipal Commerce Commission and Two Other Departments
(November 23, 2012) SMPG GO G [2012] No. 66
Attention: all District and County People's Governments, and all relevant Commissions, Offices and Bureaus (Administrations) of the Municipal People's Government:
The Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Use and Management of Special Funds for Promoting the Development of Service Outsourcing Industry formulated by the Municipal Commerce Commission, the Municipal Development & Reform Commission, and the Municipal Finance Bureau have been approved by the Municipal People's Government. We hereby transmit them to you and request you to implement them conscientiously.
Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Use and Management of Special Funds for Promoting the Development of Service Outsourcing Industry
Article 1 (Purposes and Basis)
With a view to normalizing the use and management of special funds for promoting the development of service outsourcing industry in this Municipality, improving the efficiency of fund use, and further giving play to the guiding role of public finance, these Procedures are formulated in accordance with relevant notices of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Commerce on improving the management of development supporting funds for undertaking international service outsourcing business, the Notice of Shanghai Municipal People's Government on Printing and Distributing the Opinions on This Municipality's Implementation of the Reply of the General Office of the State Council on Encouraging the Service Outsourcing Industry to Accelerate Its Development (SMPG [2010] No. 56), and the Notice of Shanghai Municipal People's Government on Printing and Distributing the Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Use and Management of Guide Funds for Service Industry Development (SMPG G [2009] No. 24).
Article 2 (Sources of Funds)
The special funds for promoting the development of service outsourcing industry of Shanghai Municipality (hereinafter referred to as "special funds for service outsourcing") shall be arranged in the municipal guide funds for service industry development, earmarked for the development of service outsourcing industry in this Municipality. And all the districts/county shall be encouraged to, arrange auxiliary funds to support the development of service outsourcing industry according to the actual circumstances and requirements of the SMPG G [2009] No. 24 .
Article 3 (Qualification for Applicants)
1. Enterprises/units applying for special funds for service outsourcing shall meet the following conditions:
(1) registered in this Municipality, with independent corporate qualifications, and business premises in Shanghai;
(2) engaged in IT services outsourcing, business process outsourcing, knowledge process outsourcing and other relevant services outsourcing;
(3) logged in the "management and statistics system for service outsourcing business (http://fwwbqy.fwmys.mofcom.gov.cn/)", and registered information and reported daily statistical data therein;
(4) the annual revenue from service outsourcing business undertaken by the enterprise/unit in the previous year shall not be less than USD 500,000, of which not less than 50% comes from the service outsourcing business provided to the end customers abroad;
(5) employees with a junior college degree or above account for not less than 70% of the total number of employees;
2. Training institutions applying for special funds for service outsourcing shall meet the following conditions:
(1) having the qualifications for service outsourcing talent training;
(2) having the place, facilities, professional teaching materials and faculty that meet conditions;
(3) having experience in providing customized training for enterprises/units undertaking service outsourcing;
(4) having a sound financial system and qualified financial management personnel; and
(5) the training program applied for thereby in principle is that of non-profit training.
Article 4 (Scope of Use)
Special funds for service outsourcing are mainly used in the key fields and links in service outsourcing development of this Municipality, to promote healthy and rapid development of the service outsourcing industry of this Municipality and give full support to offshore, high-end and headquarters-based service outsourcing development. They are specifically used in the following aspects:
1. Supporting service outsourcing talent training.
(1) Encouraging service outsourcing enterprises/units to carry out talent training.
For enterprises/units in this Municipality that have received the State's corresponding annual special funds supporting their service outsourcing talent training, based on the supported funds given by the State, and in accordance with the number of supported talents for training approved by the State, for each newly-hired employee with a college (including junior college) degree or above, engaged in service outsourcing work and signed a labor contract for not less than 1 year, a fixed training subsidy of not more than 2,000 yuan per person shall be given to these enterprises/units. For the above enterprises/units listed as key service outsourcing enterprises (units) in this Municipality, a fixed training subsidy of not more than 2,500 yuan per person shall be given to these enterprises/units.
Where the employed person terminates the contract ahead of the contract term and, within one year of the term stipulated in the original contract, signs a new labor contract with another service outsourcing enterprise or the original enterprise/unit, the said enterprise/unit shall not be given anew the fixed training subsidy.
(2) Encouraging training institutions to undertake service outsourcing talent training.
For service outsourcing training institutions in this Municipality that have received the State's special funds supporting their service outsourcing talent training, based on the supported fund given by the State, and in accordance with the number of supported talents for training approved by the State, for each talent with a college (including junior college) degree or above trained thereby, who has passed the examination of service outsourcing professional knowledge and skill training and has signed a labor contract for not less than one year with a service outsourcing enterprise/unit, a fixed training subsidy of not more than 200 yuan per trainee shall be given to these training institutions.
2. Guiding service outsourcing enterprises/units to obtain international certifications.
Give support to the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), Capability Maturity Model (CMM), People Capability Maturity Model (PCMM), Information Security Management (ISO27001/BS7799), IT Service Management（ISO20000), Service Provider Environment Security (SAS70), Quality Management Standard (ISO9001), Laboratory Management Standard (ISO17025/JISQ17025)，Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC), Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Customer Operations Performance Center (COPC), Society for Worldwide Inter-bank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), Business Continuity Management Standard (BS25999), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCIDSS) certifications obtained by service outsourcing enterprises/units in this Municipality that have not received the State's special funds supporting their service outsourcing. Each enterprise/unit may apply for up to three certification items per year. The subsidy for each item shall not be more than 30% of the actual cost of the certification and the maximum subsidy shall not be more than 300,000 yuan.
3. Encouraging service outsourcing enterprises/units to develop international market.
For service outsourcing enterprises/units in this Municipality attending international service outsourcing exhibitions approved by the Municipal Commerce Commission, the Municipal Development & Reform Commission and the Municipal Finance Bureau, a subsidy of not more than 50% of the actual costs of registration and participation shall be given to the said enterprises/units. Each enterprise/unit may apply for up to three items per year. The maximum subsidy for each item shall not be more than 100,000 yuan.
4. Encouraging the establishment of service outsourcing training and probation bases.
For service outsourcing enterprises/units which have signed internship agreements for not less than two years with relevant universities or colleges and accepted over 20 service outsourcing trainees every year, a subsidy of 1,500 yuan per person shall be given to the enterprise/unit for accepting each on-campus student (with a junior college degree and an internship over 3 months).
5. Encouraging the development of headquarters-based service outsourcing enterprises/units in Shanghai.
For headquarters-based service outsourcing enterprises/units established after 2008 with a total asset of not less than one billion yuan, a registered capital of not less than 50 million yuan, and not less than three domestic and overseas branches, a lump sum subsidy of not more than one million yuan shall be given to each for its opening expense.
6. Encouraging service outsourcing enterprises/units to establish branches overseas to explore emerging markets.
Encourage service outsourcing enterprises (units) to undertake offshore outsourcing business actively. For enterprises/units that established offices or branches overseas in the previous year, a lump sum subsidy of 100,000 yuan (not exceeding 50% of the first phase of total investment in the office or 50% of the registered capital of the branch) for each such office or branch shall be given to the said enterprises/units as opening expense. The subsidy to each enterprise/unit shall be up to 300,000 yuan.
7. Promoting the construction of public service platforms for service outsourcing.
Give support to the construction of public service platforms for service outsourcing (including technology, information, training, research, intellectual property rights protection and statistics public service platforms) in this Municipality according to relevant provisions in the Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Use and Management of Guide Funds for Service Industry Development. Give support to cover some expenses of equipment purchase and software development needed in the construction of public service platforms for service outsourcing approved by the Municipal People's Government.
8. The financial support for the above-mentioned Item 1 to Item 4, and Item 6 shall be borne by the municipal special funds for service outsourcing and the financial support for Item 5 shall be borne by both the municipal special funds for service outsourcing and the district/county public finance, with each undertaking 50% of the cost.
Article 5 (Application, and Examination and Approval Procedures)
1. Fund application. Enterprises/units applying for special funds for service outsourcing shall file an application to the local district/county commerce department according to relevant provisions of the State and this Municipality. All district/county commerce departments shall earnestly examine the application materials and submit them to the Municipal Commerce Commission according to relevant provisions of the State and this Municipality.
No application shall be filed anew and no support of the special funds for service outsourcing shall be enjoyed by applicants whose application contents have been subsidized or supported by other municipal financial funds. All applicants shall be responsible for the authenticity and legality of their application materials.
2. Fund examination and approval. Upon making preliminary examination and collection of the application materials, the Municipal Commerce Commission may, according to the actual situation, entrust intermediary institutions to make professional assessment thereof. The result of preliminary examination shall be submitted to the Reviewing Group of Shanghai Municipality for Special Funds for Promoting Service Outsourcing Development formed by the Municipal Commerce Commission, the Municipal Development & Reform Commission and the Municipal Finance Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "Reviewing Group") to make review and give reviewing opinions.
Article 6 (Fund Appropriation)
The Municipal Commerce Commission shall apply to the Municipal Finance Bureau for fund appropriation based on the reviewing opinions. Upon examination and approval, the Municipal Finance Bureau shall appropriate the special funds to relevant enterprises/units according to relevant provisions on the State Treasury's centralized payment.
Article 7 (Submissions for Application)
1. The following basic materials shall be submitted for applying for the support of special fund for service outsourcing:
(1) a catalogue of application materials for Shanghai special funds for service outsourcing;
(2) a copy of the original enterprise/unit business license and the organization code certificate;
(3) the corporate commitments by the enterprise/unit on no illegal acts in import and export business management, financial management, taxation management, foreign exchange management or customs management in the recent two years and no false behavior in the application process;
(4) an itemization form of relevant fees and expenses; and
(5) the deposit bank account of the applicant enterprise/unit.
For the enterprises/units and training institutions in this Municipality that have received the support of the State's special fund for service outsourcing, no materials need to be provided anew to apply for the support of service outsourcing talent training by the special funds for service outsourcing.
2. The special materials to be submitted for applying for the support of the special fund for service outsourcing are respectively:
(1) The following materials shall be submitted by the enterprise/unit to apply for the support of international certification for service outsourcing:
A. an application form for the fund support of Shanghai service outsourcing industry certification;
B. a copy of industry qualification certificate of service outsourcing enterprise/unit;
C. a copy of payment voucher for industry qualification certificate of service outsourcing enterprise/unit; and
D. a copy of the contract/agreement signed between the service outsourcing enterprise/unit and an industry certification assessment consultant company.
2. The following materials shall be submitted to apply for fund support of developing international service outsourcing market:
A. an application form for fund support of Shanghai developing international service outsourcing market; and
B. copies of vouchers of admission ticket, exhibition booth fee, exhibition installation fee, registration fee and such other fees for international service outsourcing exhibitions.
(3) The following materials shall be submitted to apply for fund support of service outsourcing talent training and probation bases:
A. an application form for fund support of Shanghai service outsourcing talent probations;
B. copies of cooperation agreements for not less than two years on accepting trainees signed with universities or colleges in this Municipality; and
C. copies of trainees' ID cards, student cards, or of tripartite employment agreements or school certificates and probation appraisals (including probation period, probation contents, etc.) of the previous year.
(4) The following materials shall be submitted to apply for support of headquarters-based service outsourcing enterprises/units:
A. an application form for fund support of Shanghai headquarters-based service outsourcing enterprises/units;
B. a copy of business licenses with three domestic and overseas branches; and
C. the financial audit report and footnotes of the previous year.
(5) The following materials shall be submitted to apply for support of service outsourcing enterprises/units;
A. an application form for fund support of the establishment of overseas branches of Shanghai service outsourcing enterprises/units;
B. copies of approval certificate by the commerce department for the establishment of overseas offices or branches of enterprise/unit and of business license of such offices or branches;
C. business summaries of overseas offices or branches of enterprise/unit for the previous year; and
D. other materials required for submission.
(6) To apply for support of the construction of public service platform of service outsourcing, the materials to be submitted shall meet the requirements of the Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Use and Management of Guide Funds for Service Industry Development.
(7) All district/county commerce departments shall submit the following materials:
A. a Shanghai district/county catalogue of examination and approval of application materials for service outsourcing;
B. a Shanghai district/county itemization form for fund support of headquarters-based service outsourcing enterprises/units;
C. a Shanghai district/county itemization form of the deposit bank accounts of the enterprises/units applying for special fund support; and
D. application materials of enterprises/units approved by district/county commerce departments.
3. A paper document (which needs to be bound) shall be provided for every application material.
Article 8 (Supervision on Use)
The Municipal Commerce Commission shall, jointly with the Municipal Development & Reform Commission and the Municipal Finance Bureau, according to relevant provisions, implement the certified public accountant auditing system for the municipal special funds, conduct supervision and inspection on the use of special funds and project implementation for service outsourcing. The auditing expenses shall be covered in relevant special funds.
The special funds for service outsourcing must be used exclusively for their specified purposes, and the enterprises/units using the funds shall strictly observe the State's relevant laws, rules and regulations, and financial and accounting system, and shall be strictly prohibited from swindling, withholding or diverting such funds for other uses.
In case of violating relevant provisions of these Procedures by an enterprise or a unit, the Municipal Finance Bureau shall recover the funds in full, cancel its qualification for application in subsequent years; in a serious case or in violation of the State's laws, relevant personnel or enterprise/unit shall be prosecuted for liability according to law.
Article 9 (Effective Date)
These Procedures shall be effective as of the date of printing and distribution until December 31, 2015.
The Trial Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Use and Management of Special Funds for Promoting the Development of Service Outsourcing Industry (SMPG G [2009] No. 49) formulated by the Municipal Commerce Commission, the Municipal Development & Reform Commission and the Municipal Finance Bureau and transmitted by the General Office of the Municipal People's Government shall be repealed simultaneously.
The Municipal Commerce Commission shall, jointly with the Municipal Development & Reform Commission and the Municipal Finance Bureau, be responsible for the interpretation of these Procedures.
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Events and admission
Gjert Falch Heiberg's Museum
Svein Vold's Museum
Opening hours and fee
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM
The Heiberg Collections – Sogn Folk Museum is named after its founder, Gert Falch Heiberg (1871-1944). He was a landowner at Amla in Kaupanger as well as an ardent collector. Around 1900 he started to collect rural antiques from Sogn and farm implements from all over Norway.
This collection proved to be the start of a life’s work of collections and a folk museum in Sogn.
This took place at the same time as Hans Aall founded the Norwegian Folk Museum at Bygdøy near Oslo and Anders Sandvig founded the Sandvig Collections at Maihaugen in Lillehammer.
We can safely say that these three men are the pioneers in developing the open-air museums in Norway. This occurred at a time when the winds of modernization swept across the Norwegian countryside. Old farm implements were discarded and replaced with new and more efficient ones. Traditional building styles, communications and social conditions were changing.
The years around the dissolution of the union with Sweden were marked by a strong sense of nationalism and an increasing self-assertion of rural culture. All this paved the way for the establishment of folk museums in Norway.
Heiberg’s museum started as a private collection, but as early as in 1909 he transferred it all to the newly established Historical Association for Sogn.
His collection then consisted of 3000 objects, one house and a runic stone. G.F. Heiberg built his museum in a beautiful location on his farm at Amla, and he was in charge of the museum until his death in 1944.
He raised a special museum building in 1905, and in 1934 he erected an even bigger building for the Sogne boats and his collection of farm implements.
Between 1903 and 1945 17 houses of various sizes from villages in Sogn were moved to the museum park.
When Heiberg died, close to 20 000 objects were catalogued in his own elegant handwriting.
Emneord engelsk:
the heiberg collection
Museum ticets
Norwegian Travel Museum
What our visitors says
Open air-museum
The Melheim house
The Leitehouse from 1960's
Stella house
The Vik vicarage
The Henjasand cluster of houses
The old house from Kvitevoll
The Helgheim house
The Haugen house
The mid-Sogn farmyard
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Dated: July 24, 1778., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
At a General Assembly of the governor and Company of the English colony of Connecticut.
Continues: whereupon it is resolved, by this assembly, that the sum of one hundred pounds be paid out of the public treasury, of this colony, to the person or persons that shall erect proper works and fats, for the making and manufacturing common salt ..., Offering bounties for the manufacture of salt. Signed: A true copy of record, examined by George Wyllys, sec'ry., Ascribed, by Evans, to the press of Timothy Green of New London; but more likely printed at Hartford. Not in Johnson, H.A. New London., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
At a General Assembly of the governor and Company of the colony of Connecticut.
Signed: A true copy of record, examined by George Wyllys, sec'ry., Ascribed, by Evans, to the press of Timothy Green of New London; but more likely printed at Hartford. Not in Johnson, H.A. New London., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
At a General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, by special order of His Excellency the governor, on the 13th day, of August A.D. 1777.
Resolves for sending two battalions of militia to the Continental Army., Signed: A true copy of record, examin'd, by George Wyllys, sec'ry., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
At a General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, 1781.
Signed: A true copy of record, examined, by George Wyllys, secretary., Ascribed to the press of T. Green of New London by Bristol, but not listed in H.A. Johnson's Checklist of New London imprints., N-YHS copy: manuscript correction in the text; signed in manuscript: "Leonard Chester, Sub. S.[?]"; fabric lining.
At a General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Connecticut, in New-England, in America.
Signed: A true copy of record, examined by George Wyllys, sec'ry., N-YHS copy inscribed on p.[2]: act of the state of Connecticut, 8th May, 1777; fabric lining.
At a General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Connecticut.
Concerning the filling of quotas for the Continental Army., Signed: A true copy of record, examined by George Wyllys, sec'ry., The New-York Historical Society copy bears the ms. note: Resolved by this Assembly., Place of publication suggested by Bristol., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
Instructions for recruiting six battalions of troops in Connecticut., Signed: A true copy of record, examined, by George Wyllys, secretary., Place of publication suggested by Bristol., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
Also appointing Chauncey Whittelsey as a purchasing cloathier for the state., Signed: A true copy of record, examin'd, by George Wyllys, sec'ry., Printed area measures 29.4 x 22.7 cm., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
At a General Assembly of the governor and company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on thesecond [sic] Thursday of May, 1781.
Signed: A true copy of record, examin'd by George Wyllys, secretary., Imprint supplied by Evans., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
At a general assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, (by adjournment and special order of the governor) on the 6th day of January, A.D. 1780.
Signed: A true copy of record, examined by George Wyllys, secretary., N-YHS copy imperfect: torn, with some loss of text; fabric lining.
At a meeting of the governor and Council of Safety, holden at Hartford, on the 19th day of June A.D. 1781.
Signed: Extract from the minutes, test, Benjamin Payne, clerk., N-YHS copy: inscription and manuscript annotations on verso; fabric lining.
At an adjourned town meeting, holden at Norwich, in Connecticut, on the 29th day of March, 1779.
"To the freemen, and other inhabitants of the state of Connecticut. Gentlemen, We, the freemen and other inhabitants of the town of Norwich, beg leave to ask your attention to the present mode of taxation in this state, at a time which, above all others, calls for equal justice in apportioning the burden of public taxes. We also beg your attention to another mode which we shall by and by propose ...", "A true copy of record, examined by Benjamin Huntington, Jun. town clerk. the above forwarded to the Selectmen of the town of [blank] by order of the town, Samuel Tracy, Zabdiel Rogers, Thomas Hyde, Jun. Samuel Lovett, Nehemiah Waterman, jun. Selectmen"., N-YHS copy damaged along creases, with slight loss of text; ink stains; fabric lining.
Boston, September 26, 1777.
Account of the engagement at Stillwater, N.Y., Printed area measures 32.2 x 11.5 cm., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
By Commodore Sir George Collier, commander in chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in North-America; and Major-General William Tryon.
Encouraging the inhabitants of Connecticut to end their persistent, "ruinous and ill-judged resistance," and warning those not resuming allegiance to the King not to expect continued leniency., Signed: George Collier, Wm. Tryon., Place and date of publication supplied by Alden., Text in two columns., Royal arms at head of title., N-YHS copy dated in manuscript at head of title "4 June [sic] 1779"; inscriptions on verso: "5 inhabitants", "To The honorable Continental Congress to be forwarded with all Expedit[...] Possible", and "Proclamation of General Tryon & Commoder Sir George Collier, dated 4th july 1779"; fabric lining.
By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq; governor of the state of Connecticut, in America. A proclamation.
Concerning the granting of free pardons to deserters from the British forces, following their voluntary appearance before a justice and taking of an oath of allegiance to the state of Connecticut., Resolution includes text of oath of allegiance to the state of Connecticut., Signed: Jonathan Trumbull., Incorrectly ascribed to the New London press of Timothy Green by Evans., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire ... A proclamation.
Signed: Jonth. Trumbull., Printed area measures 31.4 x 18.5 cm., Not in Evans or Bristol., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor and commander in chief in and over the state of Connecticut. A proclamation.
Reaffirming Connecticut's claim to the Western Reserve., Signed: Jonth. Trumbull., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
By His Excellency Thomas Jefferson, Esq; governour of the Commonwealth of Virginia: A proclamation.
Denies the legality of pledges made by American citizens to the British authorities promising not to aid or assist the Revolutionary forces and requires Loyalist objectors to remove themselves to territories under British rule., Signed: Thomas Jefferson., Place of publication supplied by Bristol., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
By His Excellency William Livingston, Esquire ... proclamation.
Charging all justices of the peace to carry out the prescribed punishments against British sympathizers and charging the commanding officers of the New Jersey Militia to from "depredation and violence" and prevent the plundering of civilians., Signed: By His Excellency's command, Cha. Pettit, secretary. Wil. Livingston. God save the people., Imprint supplied by Evans., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, captain-general, and commander in chief of the state of Connecticut, in America. A proclamation.
Signed: Jonth. Trumbull., N-YHS copy inscribed on verso; fabric lining.
By the Honorable Major-General Putnam, commander of the forces of the United American States, at and near the White-Plains. A proclamation.
Offering pardons to those who had deserted from the American army or joined the enemy forces and who return to duty by January 1, 1778., Signed: Israel Putnam., Imprint supplied from Vail, R.W.G. A patriotic pair of peripatetic printers, 1951, p. 404., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
By the United States in Congress assembled, April 7, 1781.
Thirteen numbered regulations governing privateers and privateering., Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary., Imprint from Evans., Line endings differ from those given by the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 21, p. 1199-1200.
By the United States in Congress assembled. A proclamation.
Includes the text of the treaty., Text in four columns., N-YHS copy: ink stains; fabric lining.
Includes the full text of the treaty, concluded Apr. 3, 1783., Signed: Done in Congress at Princeton, this twenty-fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, and of our sovereignty and independence the eighth. Elias Boudinot, president. Charles Thomson, secretary., Not Evans 18245., Text in four columns., Text-block: 645 x 313 mm., Watermark: Strasburg lily. Countermark: "IV". Centermark: elaborate script "R".
By the United States of America in Congress assembled.
Signed: Elias Boudinot, president. Charles Thomson, secretary., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
By the United States of America, in Congress assembled, March 22d, 1783.
Amending a resolution of Oct. 21, 1780, and giving five years of full pay instead of half-pay for life to retiring army officers., Signed at end: Charles Thomson, sec., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
Carrier's address to the generous subscribers of the Independent journal.
A carriers' address for the "Independent journal, or, The general advertiser", published in New York from 1783 to 1788., Poem in 34 lines; first line: Time posting on with full career., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
Catalogus recentium, in Collegio-Yalensi, MDCCLXXXI.
Imprint supplied by Evans., Text in two columns., N-YHS copy: closely trimmed; fabric lining.
Colony of Massachusett's-Bay, 1776.
The so-called "test oath" as prescribed by an act passed by the Massachusetts General Court on May 1, 1776., Imprint supplied by Evans., Printed area measures 15.4 x 14.5 cm. Lower half of sheet is blank for subscribers' names., N-YHS copy inscribed in manuscript: Wm. Reed [and 13 others]
Committee room, June 10, 1779.
Concerns plans to discourage the devaluation of currency by lowering the prices of goods and produce in Pennsylvania., Followed on verso by an act permitting local officials to seize private stores of grain from owners who are to be reimbursed at rates established by state committee., Signed: Signed by order of the committee, William Henry, chairman., Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in Philadelphia by Evans., N-YHS copy inscribed on p.[2]: Pennsylvania committee; fabric lining.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In Senate, February 26, 1781.
"In the House of Representatives, February 26, 1781. Read and concurred ...", Ascribed to the press of Benjamin Edes and Sons in Boston by Evans.
Copies of two bills presented and read in the House of Commons, on the 19th of February last.
"No. I. Copy of a bill for declaring the intentions of the Parliament of Great Britain, concerning the exercise of the right of imposing taxes within His Majesty's colonies, provinces and plantations in North-America.", "No. II. Copy of a bill to enable His Majesty to appoint commissioners, with sufficient powers to treat, consult, and agree upon the means of quieting the disorders now subsisting in certain of the colonies, plantations, and provinces of North-America.", Date of publication from Evans., Text in two columns, separated by horizontal and vertical type ornament rules. Third horizontal ornament inverted., Watermark: [vryheyt] PPM. Cf. Gravell, T.L. Amer. watermarks 536., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
Council-Chamber, Philadelphia, [blank] 1781.
Signed: Joseph Reed, president., The New-York Historical Society copy is dated in manuscript: July 14th., N-YHS copy dated in manuscript "July 14th" 1781; addressed to Lt. John Weidman and inscribed at foot and in left margin; fabric lining.
Covention [sic] at Concord, Sept. 22, 1779 for stating the prices of sundry articles.
"... Resolved, at our opinion, that no article of merchandize or country produce, be sold after the first day of October next, at a higher price than the following, viz. ... Done in convention at Concord by unanimous consent, the 23d day of September, A.D. 1779.", Signed: John Langdon, president, attest, E. Thompson, secretary., Imprint supplied by Evans., Text in two columns., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
Cruel murder; or A Mournful poem.
Text within mourning border; verse in two columns divided by type ornament rule., N-YHS copy imperfect: damaged along creases, with slight loss of text; fabric lining.
Extract of a letter from General Gates, dated camp at Saratoga, October 18, 1777.
The thirteen articles of convention are followed by: Extract of a letter from General Gates to Gen. Vaughan, dated Albany, October 20, 1777, concerning the British army's burning of Kingston, N.Y.; and a copy of the recommendation "to set apart Thursday, the 18th day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise," dated "In Congress, Nov. 1, 1777.", Imprint from colophon., Text in two columns., N-YHS copy inscribed: Convention of Saratoga [...?] to Gen. Vaughan; ink marks; mounted on paper sheet.
Extraordinary intelligencer.
Giving report of the Battle of Yorktown., "In the press, and speedily will be published ... an elegant edition of Dr. Watts's Psalms and hymns ..."--foot of sheet, preceding imprint.
Few lines composed on the Dark Day, of May 19, 1780.
Verse in twenty-two numbered stanzas; first line: Let us adore, and bow before, the sovereign Lord of might., The darkness which extended over much of New England was presumably the result of smoke and ashes from a forest fire, trapped in the atmosphere by excessive moisture. Cf. Bumgardner, G.B. American broadsides, 1971, no. 57., Text in two columns; printed area measures 29.5 x 15.2 cm. With printers' ornaments separating title from text and at the foot of the second column. In the present edition, the title appears in two lines, the second beginning with the word "of.", N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
From the Bristol gazette of October 10, 1782.
The resignation speech of the mayor of Bristol, England., Evans entry omits "of October 10, 1782" from title, and erroneously identifies Cruger as the mayor of New York. Shipton & Mooney erroneously identify the author as John Cruger, mayor of New York 1756-1765., Imprint from Evans., Watermarks: Britannia., N-YHS copy 2 inscribed: "Walton Livingston Oakley from his dear Grandmama Matilda C. Cruger Oakley".
Gen. Washington.
Ballad, in twelve stanzas; first line: Vain Britons boast no longer, with proud indignity., First line: Vain Britons boast no longer, with your proud indignity., This song appears, with title, "War and Washington; A song composed at the beginning of the American Revolution," in Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell. Miscellaneous poems ..., Portsmouth, N.H., 1801, p. 52-53., N-YHS copy: fabric lining, mounted on paper backing.
Head quarters, Peeks-kill, general orders for the army under the command of Brigadier General M'Dougall.
Followed by: Instructions for soldiers in the service of the United States, concerning the means of preserving health. Of cleanliness., Imprint supplied by Bristol., N-YHS copy inscribed on verso: "XXV".
His Majesty's most gracious speech to both houses of Parliament, on Friday October 27, 1775.
Concerning the rebellion in America., Imprint date from Bristol., Printed also in the New-York gazette, Jan. 8, 1776., Text in three columns.
I [blank] being made a prisoner of war, by the Army of the Thirteen United Colonies in North-America, do promise and engage, on my word and honour, and on the faith of a gentleman, to depart from hence to [blank] in the province of [blank] being the place
Dated: A.D. 1776., N-YHS copy: mounted on paper.
In Committee of Safety, for the state of New-York. Fish-Kills, Oct. 9, 1776.
Signed: Extract from the minutes. Robert Benson, sec'ry., Imprint supplied from Vail, R.W.G. A patriotic pair of peripatetic printers (in Essays honoring Lawrence C. Wroth, Portland, Me., 1951), p. 395., N-YHS copy: manuscript correction in the text; inscribed on verso: "9th Oct. 1776, Resolution of Committee of Safety No. 3"; fabric lining.
In Congress, 27th May, 1778.
Resolutions of the Continental Congress passed May 27-June 2, 1778., Signed: Extracts from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
In Congress, April 1, 1777.
Signed: Extract from the minutes. Published by order of Congress, Charles Thomson, secretary., Includes also resolutions dated April 2, 9, and 10, all concerned with the payment of the army., N-YHS copy: fabric lining., Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
In Congress, April 14, 1777.
At end: By order of Congress, John Hancock, president., Printed area measures 28.1 x 14.9 cm., N-YHS copy imperfect: damaged along creases, with slight loss of text; fabric lining.
Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary., N-YHS copy inscribed on verso: "Gen. Gates"; in another hand, "Resolve of Congress, dated 14th April, 1779"; fabric lining.
In Congress, April 14th, 1778.
Signed: Extract from the minutes. Charles Thomson, secretary., Followed by a resolution of the Continental Congress dated Apr. 16, 1778, concerning the commissary general of purchases., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
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Erin Dickson, born in South Shields, England, and Jeffrey Sarmiento, born in Chicago, are two artists based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Both are known for their use of glass and share a fascination with cultural and emotional connections to architecture and explore their experience of space from individual perspectives.
Dickson graduated from the Architectural Association in London, and completed her PhD combining architectural phenomenology, technology and glass at the University of Sunderland, in 2015. Sarmiento received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, in 2000, and PhD from The University of Sunderland, in 2011. Dickson was studio assistant to Sarmiento at the University of Sunderland (2010-2014). In his works, Sarmiento integrates glass with graphics, including words, images, artifacts and urban landscapes, to uncover hidden narratives. Dickson combines phenomenology with architecture and digital technology to create sculpture, installation, and performance that considers the emotional and sensorial qualities of spaces. In Emotional Leak (2011) they produced the physical manifestation of a slowly leaking roof. Inspired by water and realized in glass, the resulting form is a black monolithic sculpture, resembling a digital gothic architectural model. Dickson and Sarmiento have individually and collectively exhibited worldwide including, Saatchi Gallery (2013), London; Fondazione Berengo (2015), Venice; and Bullseye Gallery (2016), Portland. Sarmiento won a Fulbright scholarship to Denmark (2003-2004); a Research Councils UK Academic Fellowship at the University of Sunderland (2006-2011); and was honored with a mid-career retrospective at the National Glass Centre (2013), Sunderland. Dickson was awarded an inaugural Technology Advancing Glass grant from the Glass Art Society (2014).
Emotional Leak, 2014
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Showing posts with label Reading Around the World. Show all posts
Immigration & refugee stories: hearing children's stories (ages 9-14)
Throughout the United States, we are feeling the rippling effects of family separation policies by immigration officials. How do we explain these painful experiences to children? How do we hear and honor children's stories?
My father's family was torn apart by World War II, and I have always found refugee stories powerful. They let me connect to my own family's history, and help me extend my grandmother's experiences to those of children in my classroom. Here are a few books that I would recommend to children ages 9 to 14. For younger readers, seek out Front Desk and Stormy Shores. Older readers will appreciate the suspense and understand the terrifying situations in The Only Road and Refugee.
Front Desk, by Kelly Yang (Scholastic, 2018): Mia's family has recently immigrated from China, and finding a steady job has been really tough for her parents. When an opportunity to manage a motel comes their way, they leap at it. Mia's excited that she can help out, managing the front desk while her parents clean the rooms. Kelly Yang bases this story on her own experience, immigrating from China to Los Angeles. She weaves humor and compassion into her story, while frankly addressing poverty, bullying and the importance of family.
The Only Road, by Alexandra Diaz (Simon & Schuster, 2016): Twelve-year-old Jaime flees his home in Guatemala after a local drug gang kills his cousin Miguel. Jaime and Angela, Miguel's sister, travel north alone, navigating the treacherous journey by bus, train and foot. This gripping novel not only shows the violence and abuse Jaime and Angela survive, but also how painful family separation is for children.
Alexandra Diaz has been honored with the Pura Belpre Author Honor Award, the Américas Award and was a finalist for the International Latino Book Award. I'm excited that The Crossroads, the sequel to The Only Road, will be published in September.
Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees, by Mary Beth Leatherdale (Annick Press, 2017): This powerful nonfiction book combines brief memoirs, clear information and dynamic collage illustrations, making this an engaging introduction to immigration experiences of children during 20th and 21st centuries. Each chapter focuses on a child fleeing war, oppression and conflict in Nazi Germany, Vietnam, Cuba, Afghanistan, and Africa’s Ivory Coast.
Refugee, by Alan Gratz (Scholastic, 2017): Gratz alternates the stories of three children from different periods of time, each of whom are fleeing their homes in search of refuge. Josef is escaping persecution from Nazis in Germany during World War II. Isabel and her family are fleeing Cuba in 1994, escaping the riots and unrest under Castro's rule. And Mahmoud's family flees Syria in 2015 after their home was bombed. These parallel stories are engrossing and compelling. The structure keeps the suspense high, and helps readers see how each character must cope with extreme stress, separation and loss. Gratz uses historical fiction at its best to help readers understand global issues in a way that inspires hope and empathy.
If you're looking for more stories like these, check out my Goodreads shelf: Immigration. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 12-14, ages 8-12, historical fiction, nonfiction, Reading Around the World
The Banana-Leaf Ball: How Play Can Change the World, by Katie Smith Milway (ages 7-10)
Like our animal cousins, young children practice all sorts of skills through play. This powerful picture book takes readers to a refugee camp in Tanzania, where we see how playing soccer helps kids move through their trauma to connect with one another. This is a story that will lead to important discussions about refugees and also about the power of play in everyone's lives.
The Banana-Leaf Ball: How Play Can Change the World
by Katie Smith Milway
illustrated by Shane W. Evans
Kids Can Press, 2017
Young Deo had to flee from his hillside farm when the war came, losing his family in the chaos of that dark night. He traveled for weeks alone, finally making it to a refugee camp in northwest Tanzania.
"one dark night his family was forced to flee their hillside farm"
Deo begins to rebuild his life, but he keeps to himself. He makes a soccer ball from dried banana leaves like his father did, but a bully called Remy and his friends steal it. Remy's gang steals food, pencils, toys from other children.
"But when food becomes scarce or water runs dry, flights break out. Some boys form gangs to get more food by stealing from others, even though on one has much."
When a coach invites Deo to play soccer, he wants to join in--soccer was one of his favorite activities at home. The coach assigns Deo and Remy to the same team. Through their play, they begin to forget about their anger and laugh together.
This is an important, hopeful book to read together with children, whether as a family or in a classroom. A picture book, especially one that is both hard-hitting and hopeful like this, can provide a perfect starting point for talking about social justice issues of refugees. It not only can create a sense of empathy, young readers from many places will relate to the power of play.
Definitely share the author's note and backmatter with children. You'll meet the inspiration for Deo: Benjamin Nzobonakira who survived fleeing civil war in Burundi and lived as a refugee in Congo, Rwanda and Tanzania. Information about the refugee crisis, games that build trust and inclusion, and the Right to Play, a play-based nonprofit organization focused on tolerance and peace.
The review copy was kindly sent by the publishers, Kids Can Press. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 8-12, picture books, Reading Around the World
Are You An Echo? Discovering the beauty of Japanese poet Misuzu Kaneko (ages 7-12)
Empathy -- it's a vital quality to develop for all of us. How do we reach outside of ourselves to imagine being in someone else's shoes? How do we take someone else's perspective? Misuzu Kaneko's beautiful poetry is a shining example of how poetry can help us stop for a moment and think about the world from a different point of view.
Are You an Echo? The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko
Poetry by Misuzu Kaneko
Narrative by David Jacobson
Translation and editorial contributions by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
Illustrations by Toshikado Hajiri
Chin Music Press, 2016
This striking collaboration shares the story of how Misuzu Kaneko's poetry came to be discovered long after her death; moreover, it brings her poems to an English-speaking audience for the first time. In 1966, a young Japanese poet discovered a poem that struck him with its empathy and simplicity, yet he could find no other poems by this author -- who was she? Did she write other poems?
-- by Misuzu Kaneko
At sunrise, glorious sunrise
it’s a big catch!
A big catch of sardines!
On the beach, it’s like a festival
but in the sea, they will hold funerals
for the tens of thousands dead.
Linger for a moment on this poem, and ask young readers to think about this poet's message. Why would the fish hold funerals? How does this shift readers' thinking?
Although Setsuo Yazaki began searching in 1966, it wasn't until 1982 that the curious poet uncovered more of Misuzu's poetry. Her brother still had her diaries, which contained the only copies of her poems that still remained. Finally, Setsuo began to discover more about Misuzu's life.
Born in 1903, Misuzu lived in a small fishing village in western Japan where her mother managed a bookstore. "To Misuzu, everything was alive, and had its own feelings." Her wonder and curiosity encourages young readers to think about the natural world with fresh perspective. By interspersing Misuzu's poems with the story of her life, the authors help young readers focus on the poet's work as well as her life.
"Snow on top
must feel chilly,
the cold moonlight piercing it."
After a short, unhappy marriage, Misuzu took her own life at age 26 in 1930. Jacobson conveys her suicide sensitively and straightforwardly. I especially appreciate how this lets young readers feel empathy for Misuzu without sensationalizing her tragedy.
The second half of this picture book shares fifteen more of Misuzu's poems translated into English, along with their original Japanese versions. Children will enjoy lingering over poems; teachers will want to use them as mentor texts for children as they explore writing their own poetry.
My own grandmother used to encourage me to think about different subjects in school as "mental gymnastics," helping me stretch and work my mind in new ways. I wonder if Misuzu's poetry might help us be more limber, more nimble in our emotional interactions with the world. Isn't that what empathy is at its root?
Many thanks to Betsy Bird for first bringing this unique picture book to my attention. Illustrations © Toshikado Hajiri, narrative © David Jacobson, and translations © Sally Ito & Michiko Tsuboi, shared with permission from the publisher. The review copy was kindly sent by the publishers, Chin Music Press. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 5-8, ages 8-12, history, nonfiction, poetry, Reading Around the World
Celebrating Arab American Heritage: three favorite bilingual picture books (ages 5-9)
"Ms. Scheuer, do you have a book written in Arabic?" -- Ghalla, 4th grade
In our school district, Arabic is the third most common language spoken at home. I strive to share books with students that reflect their culture and heritage. April is National Arab American Heritage Month and we celebrate this in our library by sharing books that reflect many experiences from the Arab world. These three bilingual picture books are especially beautiful and moving.
In Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad, by James Rumford, Ali lives in modern Baghdad, loves playing soccer and dancing to loud music. Most of all, he loves the way it feels to practice calligraphy: "writing the letters of my language ... gliding and sweeping, leaping, dancing to the silent music in my head." This moving story tells of how Ali is inspired by the master calligrapher Yakut, who found solace practicing his art during times of war.
Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family's Journey, by Margriet Ruurs and Nizar Ali Badr, will amaze young readers with its artwork, constructed entirely by arranging stones but its story is what will stay in their hearts. Ruurs and Badr work seamlessly together to tell the story of a young girl whose family must flee Syria. When the bombs started falling too close to her home, Rama and her family join "the river of strangers in search of a place,/ to be free, to live and laugh, to love again." As the Kirkus Review says,
"Each illustration is masterful, with Badr's placement of stones as careful as brush strokes, creating figures positioned to tell the whole story without the benefit of facial expressions: dancing, cradling, working; burdened, in danger, at peace."
Time to Pray, by Maha Addasi, captures the experience of a young girl traveling from her suburban American home to visit her grandmother. On her first night, Yasmin is awakened by the muezzin at the nearby mosque calling the faithful to prayer. She is too tired to get up, but she watcher her grandmother prepare for prayer. This gentle story shows the bond that grows between Yasmin and her grandmother, and the special place that prayer and rituals have bringing them together.
All review copies came from our school library collection. I want to send special thanks to our PTA and my colleague Zoe Williams for help selecting and developing our collection of books that honor the experience of Arab Americans. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 5-8, Emerson, picture books, Reading Around the World
Expect Resistance: We Welcome All Immigrants (booklist for ages 5-10)
I find myself swimming in a sea of anger, concern and doubt--reading the news about Trump's abuse of executive privilege, banning refugees, Muslims and more from entering the country. I am heartened by the response from around the nation, and feel compelled to add my voice. My teens marched in the Women's Marches, and my daughter's sign sums up my feelings:
"RESPECT EXISTENCE
EXPECT RESISTANCE"
"Respect existence or expect resistance." I'm so proud of my daughter for demanding to be heard, focusing on the positive, staking her claim. Respect, reflect, resist. This is not the time to sit idly by.
Our actions as parents, teachers, and friends matter. I believe deep in my heart that books can change lives, that stories bring awareness and empathy, that feeling heard leads to wanting to listen. I am proud to work for a school district that protects all students' rights to attend public school, and has a board policy protecting undocumented students.
Here are some books I recommend sharing, that help readers understanding the experience of children who had to migrate for their safety and well-being. This is a mix of picture books and novels; some are better for younger children (ages 5-8) while others are suited for older children (ages 9-10).
Drita, My Homegirl, by Jenny Lombard -- this short novel brings readers into the life of a young girl trying to make new friends after she flees from her war-torn home in Kosovo
Enchanted Air, by Margarita Engle -- memoir told in verse, about a growing up with a family torn in two when the US broke relations with Cuba during the Cold War
From North to South, by Rene Colato Lainez -- a moving picture book about a young boy's trip to visit his mother, after she is sent back to Mexico because she did not have the proper immigration papers
Home of the Brave, by Katherine Applegate -- a spare, moving novel in verse about Kek, a young Somali refugee, as he tries to adjust to his new life in Minnesota
The Journey, by Francesca Sanna -- a picture book that captures the current refugee crisis, as it shows a young child's escape from a war-torn home by boat, based on a compilation of immigrant interviews
Mama's Nightingale, by Edwidge Danticat -- important, poignant picture book of a young girl's grief and coping when she is separated from her mother who has been taken to an immigration detention center
Migrant: The Journey of a Mexican Worker, by Jose Manuel Mateo -- powerful picture book for older readers, telling the story of a boy who immigrates to the United States. One long illustration folds out, reminiscent of ancient Mexican codices.
My Two Blankets, by Irene Kobald -- sweet picture book sharing the experience of a young girl immigrating to a new land, struggling to make sense of the language and make friends in a new place
The Only Road, by Alexandra Diaz -- a middle grade novel, following two cousins who flee gang-infested Guatemala, crossing Mexico by foot, bus, and train before finally reaching the United States
The Red Pencil, by Andrea Davis Pinkney -- a powerful novel in verse about a Sudanese girl who must flee her home when it is attacked during the Sudanese Civil War
Thank you for sharing and standing strong. We must use our voices to say that all are welcome. We will not stand for rules that discriminate immigration policies based on religion or race. We will not separate families. We will protect our students. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 5-8, ages 8-12, picture books, read-alouds, Reading Around the World, realistic fiction
Sharing Christmas traditions: Nutcracker, Santa and more (ages 4-9)
If you celebrate Christmas, are there special books that you read each year? Our family reads The Night Before Christmas every year, snuggling in bed together--and yes, our teens still clamber in our bed to share this tradition. Three new picture books make a delightful way to share Christmas traditions.
illustrated by Niroot Puttapipat
adapted by Kate Davies
Your local library / Amazon
The original Nutcracker story and the ballet that developed from it are skillfully retold in this picture book, but it's the illustrations that will draw readers back to it again and again. Puttapipat sets black cut-paper silhouette figures against jewel-toned scenes, creating a sense the formal ballet and the intimate, magical story. The longer text makes this more suited for older children.
"They traveled by swan over gold-flecked oceans and silver-edged cities. Clara held her breath, her eyes wide. As she gazed at the twinkling lights far below, snowflakes pirouetted past."
The climax, as Clara and her prince enter the Sugar Plum Fairy's castle, reveals itself as the majestic ball unfolds in a double-page pop-up construction. For a fuller look at this beautiful book, read the review at What to Read to Your Kids. Head over to Fuse 8 to see a terrific range of Nutcracker stories.
The Christmas Boot
by Lisa Wheeler
illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
Dial / Penguin Random House, 2016
Elderly Hannah Greyweather sets out one winter day to collect firewood, when she discovers a solitary boot in the snow. When she tries it on, the boot immediately changes shape to fit her foot--it's the first sign that magic has touched this boot. "'Such a magnificent find,' she said to the left boot. 'Who could have lost such a treasure as you?'" The next morning, the boot's mate appears by her bed and Hannah goes out to do her chores, her feet wonderfully warm.
"Her arms were nearly full when, just past the spruce grove, she spotted something. In the snow, deepest black upon purest white, lay a boot."
As the days progress, Hannah discovers more gifts magically appear. Young readers will gasp and smile with knowing pleasure when a visitor knocks on Hannah's door, wearing "a red hat, a red suit...and one black boot." Although the text never names this visitor as Santa Claus, young readers will enjoy seeing how he works his magic--asking Hannah whether there's anything he can give her. Jerry Pinkney's watercolor illustrations bring warmth, gentle humor and holiday spirit to this touching story.
Walk This World at Christmastime
by Debbie Powell
Big Picture Press / Candlewick, 2016
"In France, place a Yule log in the fire,
and burn it to bring good luck."
Readers take a tour of the world and see Christmas celebrations from fireworks, Las Posadas and piñatas in Mexico, Bolivia and Brazil to Yule logs, hidden toys in candied cakes and Three Kings Day in Spain, France, Italy and Greece. Each detailed double-page spread focuses on countries in a region with overlapping traditions. Readers are invited to lift little flaps, numbered in the tradition of an advent calendar, to reveal images and small facts.
The tour starts in America, travels south to Central and South America, and then travels to Africa, Europe and the Middle East. The tour ends with Asia and then Australia, New Zealand and Samoa. The final spread shows a world map, asking young readers to trace their journey. I especially love how this creates a worldview that is not just centered on European traditions.
Illustrations © Niroot Puttapipat, 2016; © Jerry Pinkney, 2016; and © Debbie Powell, 2016. The review copies were kindly sent by the publishers for review. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 2 - 4, ages 5-8, holidays, picture books, Reading Around the World
What Elephants Know, by Eric Dinerstein -- an adventure, a call to action, a window to our world (ages 9-12)
Fourth & fifth grade students across Berkeley are telling me that What Elephants Know is the best book they've read all year. They feel like they're right alongside Nandu as he rides his elephant Devi Kali into the jungle of Nepal. Kids are responding to this as an adventure story, a call to action and a window to a different part of our world.
What Elephants Know
by Eric Dinerstein
Disney-Hyperion, 2016
Audiobook narrated by Kirby Heyborne
Recorded Books, 2016
Nandu dreams of becoming a mahout, or elephant trainer. Orphaned as a baby, Nandu has been raised by Subba-sahib, the head of the king's elephant stable in the southernmost part of Nepal. As the story opens, King Birenda comes to their stable for his yearly tiger hunt. Nandu joins the hunt determined to make his father proud; but when he realizes that the king will shoot a mother tiger with young cubs, Nandu interferes.
Perhaps because his royal hunt was ruined, the king decides to shut down the elephant stables. And so Subba-sahib sends Nandu away to boarding school to better prepare for the changing future. Nandu is devastated without the support of home, especially his elephant Devi Kali and his best friend Rita. This is even harder as he faces taunting and discrimination from other students.
Readers are drawn into this world, identifying with Nandu as he struggles to save the elephant stables and home he loves. Dinerstein, the former chief scientist for the World Wildlife Fund, lived near the national parks of Bardia and Chitwan in Nepal for many years studying tiger populations. He brings an intimate knowledge of this region to this story. Yet the story does not come across as didactic or informational; Dinerstein successfully keeps the focus on Nandu's coming of age and discovery of his own power.
My students relate to Nandu's experiences of prejudice and his determination to help animals, both threatened wild species and an ill-treated elephant. Baba, a Buddhist holy man, helps give Nandu perspective:
"A question I sometimes ask myself: ‘When to act on what you see and when to accept what you see around you? I do not know the answer to this question. What I do know, Nandu, is that you had the courage to act.’" (p. 175)
My students and I did not have any prior knowledge about this area, and so I prepared this short slideshow to help show them where the story takes place. I hope you like it.
I especially love the audiobook for What Elephants Know. As Audiofile Magazine writes in their review:
Narrator Kirby Heyborne immerses himself in the character of Nandu...(His) earnest voice and brisk pace deposit listeners into the midst of each episode. He exudes Nandu's respect for Subba-sahib and the elephants. When needed, he punches out Nandu's thoughts--be it indignation at schoolyard bullies, warning cries to a tigress, or enthusiasm over mutual interests with his teacher.
Nandu's story has stayed with me, drawing me to learn more about this part of the world. As I wrote to several friends when I recommended this book, I wish I could buy a copy for every fourth & fifth grade classroom. Please seek out this special book.
Many thanks to Eric Dinerstein for helping me make sure the images accurately portrayed Nandu's world. And special thanks to my reading friend Armin Arethna for sharing her love of this book. The review copy was kindly sent by the publisher, Disney-Hyperion. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 8-12, audiobooks, mock Newbery, Reading Around the World, realistic fiction
Salsa: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem, by Jorge Argueta & Duncan Tonatiuh (ages 5-8)
I'm so happy to share Salsa, a delightful poem and picture book which is the latest in Jorge Argueta's cooking poems. Argueta and Duncan Tonatiuh bring together music, dancing and food to celebrate salsa as a brother and sister work together to make for their family. Please join me later this week on Wednesday for an interview with Argueta.
Salsa: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem
by Jorge Argueta
illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh
Groundwood Books, 2015
Argueta connects kids' enjoyment of salsa today to the cultural traditions of ancient Aztec, Mayan, and Nahua peoples in Central America. As we begin the story, we meet the molcajete, a type of stone bowl that ancient peoples made from volcanic rock and used to grind tomatoes, corn, chilies, vegetables and spices.
Please note, as you look at these samples, how the Spanish text comes before the English text. I especially appreciate the message this sends, showing the importance of Spanish language in conveying this poem.
My mother tells me
molcajetes were
our ancestors'
blenders.
Just like their ancestors, the brother and sister sing and dance as they make their salsa. I love how Argueta brings the ingredients to life, describing each one as part of the "salsa orchestra". He conveys the joy of cooking, and shows how each ingredient brings the salsa its own sound and feeling.
"I am ready with four tomatoes.
They are bongos and kettledrums.
My onion is a maraca.
Cloves of garlic are trumpets,
and the cilantro is the orchestra conductor
with his shaggy, green hair."
Duncan Tonatiuh uses his signature style to illustrate in ancient Mixtec style. Faces are shown in profile, with big, swiveling heads and oversized hands. Borders, reminiscent of those used in the ancient codices, show the ingredients and the musical instruments.
For the music to be really spicy,
it's important to use chilies.
My family loves hot peppers.
The extended musical metaphor is well played throughout, adding texture, humor and description to the cooking process. A true delight to share at home, at school, anywhere.
Illustrations copyright ©2015 Duncan Tonatiuh, used with permission of the publisher, Groundwood Books. The review copy came from our school library. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 5-8, picture books, poetry, Reading Around the World
Tiger Boy, by Mitali Perkins -- a fantastic read-aloud (ages 8-11)
As parents, we want our children to enjoy reading, so that they want to read more. The single most important thing you can do to help ensure this? Read aloud. Find stories that you can share together. Find books that linger with you, that make you both wonder about the world.
Tiger Boy, by Mitali Perkins, is perfect for a family read-aloud--the 4th graders at Malcolm X School in Berkeley are giving it huge thumbs up and I heartily agree. If you have an animal-lover, or you're looking for a book set in India or Bangladesh, or you're looking for a book with a courageous kid who stands up for what's right -- definitely seek out Tiger Boy.
Tiger Boy
Charlesbridge, 2015
When a tiger cub escapes from a reserve in the Sundarbans, a delta region straddling the India-Bengladesh border, many of the residents on a nearby island try to find it. Some are worried that its mother will set out looking for it, possibly hurting or killing people in the process. Others have been hired by a wealthy man to capture it for trade on the black market.
Neel is determined to help with the search--protecting the tiger cub is as important to him and he isn't afraid to stand up to greedy Gupta or his hired men. Neel's parents want him to focus on his studies and prepare for his exams. While Neel loves learning and languages, he finds math frustrating and confusing. And how can he concentrate knowing that the tiger cub needs his help?
Mitali Perkins draws in readers, as they feel how much Neel wants to use his special knowledge of his island to help find the tiger. As the CCBC review so clearly puts it,
"The sense of urgency that propels Neel and Rupa’s hunt for the cub creates the perfect amount of tension in an engaging story wonderfully grounded in Neel’s point of view and his experiences in his family and community. Their effort to save the cub helps Neel understand how furthering his education is one means of helping protect the place he lives."
I especially love how Perkins balances the relationship between Neel and his sister Rupta. Perkins both respects the traditional role that women have in this Bengali village, but she also shows Rupta playing an active role.
I have found that my students are not picking this up on their own, even when I recommend it. That's why I think it would make a terrific read-aloud. Parents (or teachers) can encourage kids to give something a try that might be different from the usual books they read. It would make a great book to read this summer or in the fall--see if it leads kids to wanting to learn more about protecting the tigers in the Sunderbans.
Illustrations ©2015 by Jamie Hogan; used with permission from the publisher. The review copy was kindly sent by the publisher, Charlesbridge. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 8-12, read-alouds, Reading Around the World, realistic fiction
The Soda Bottle School: Creative problem solving led by kids & teachers (ages 7-10)
Our 3rd grade teachers are also focusing on persuasive writing this month, and they are asking kids to identify problems and suggest solutions. The challenge for kids is to explain how their solutions will work and persuade others that it's a good idea. We read The Soda Bottle School as an example of how kids and teachers in one community identified an important problem and led the way with a creative solution -- and the kids loved it.
The Soda Bottle School
by Seño Laura Kutner and Suzanne Slade
illustrated by Aileen Darragh
Tillbury House, 2014
The town of Granados has a problem: they don't have enough room in their school to teach all the kids. But they have another problem, too, that kids can relate to: there is too much trash all around their community. One day, teacher Seño Laura notices that a soda bottle is the same width as the beam of an unfinished school building. She has a crazy idea: what if they used empty soda bottles to create walls for a school? It could take care of two problems at once!
The whole community pulled together to support the teachers and children, gathering thousands of empty plastic bottles and stuffing them with trash to create “eco-ladrillos” (bricks). These bricks were stacked between the framing for the building, held in place by chicken wire fencing. A thin layer of concrete was slapped on top as a final layer.
Slade and Kutner draw young readers right into the story, helping them relate to the protagonist, young Fernando. My students especially liked the photographs and authors note included at the end of the story. I just found this news clip that would be another great way to share this story.
My students were interested and inspired to think of problems they would want to solve around our school. I especially liked this example because Kutner and Slade emphasize the importance of teamwork and thinking outside the box.
The review copy came from our school library collection. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 5-8, ages 8-12, Emerson, nonfiction, Reading Around the World, science
Novels in Verse: my top ten + two more to read (ages 9-12)
Novels in verse have particular power speaking to kids. Some really like the way that there are fewer words on the page. It can make reading them feel less overwhelming. Others like how much they can "read between the lines", letting their imaginations fill in the gaps. Others love the way these poets play with language.
Today, I'd like to share my personal top ten favorites (in alphabetical order). I adore sharing these with students. But know that there are many others that my kids love. At the end, I'll share two books on my "to be read" (TBR) pile.
I have loved talking with my students about this book, how they can relate to Jackie's experiences, how they can see themselves in the book, how they can feel some of her own journey even if their experiences are different. Winner of the 2015 Coretta Scott King Award, the 2014 National Book Award, and the 2015 Newbery Honor.
The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander
You can read this incredible novel as a basketball story, as a family drama, or as a novel written with a modern ear using rhythms and rhymes infused with music and motion. It speaks to kids in all sorts of different ways. Winner of the 2015 Newbery Award, and the 2015 Coretta Scott King Honor.
Heartbeat, by Sharon Creech
In flowing free verse, Annie describes her love of running, the changes in her best friend Max, the birth of her baby brother and her grandfather's growing confusion and dementia. Annie's world feels as if it's unraveling with all this change. As she runs for the pure pleasure of running, thoughts and questions race through her mind.
Love That Dog, by Sharon Creech
Oh, how I love this book. We start with Jack, who's dreading writing his own poems, forced to keep a poetry journal for his teacher. But as we get to know Jack and as he gets to know different poems, we start to see a fuller picture of a boy, his dog and his feelings. Check out this terrific reader's theater through TeachingBooks, starring Sharon Creech, Walter Dead Myers, Avi and Sarah Weeks.
The Red Pencil, by Andrea Davis Pinkney
I was fascinated when I asked Andrea Davis Pinkney about why she chose to write this story in verse. She explained how she wanted to tell a story for elementary students about the Sudanese conflict, and she felt that a novel in verse would allow them more space. She was able to keep some of the more difficult scenes quite spare, so that students could infer the tragedies rather than be faced with the brutalities that her character experienced. My students continue recommending this to each other, talking about what a powerful story it is.
Rhyme Schemer, by K.A. Holt
Kids are attracted to Kevin's attitude and sass, but it's his journey that stays with them. Kevin is bullied by his older brother at home, but he then turns to bullying classmates at school. By taking pages torn from library books, he makes funny but oh-so-cruel found poems and tapes them up at school. When another student discovers Kevin's journal, he turns the tables and Kevin must find a way to make peace with his victim-turned-aggressor. This is a great choice for 5th and 6th graders who might have liked Love That Dog when they were younger.
Serafina's Promise, by Ann E. Burg
Our students were immediately drawn to Serafina and could connect with her situation, even though it was so different from their own. Serafina dreams of becoming a doctor, but she knows that she must go to school to reach her dream. This is no easy feat in modern rural Haiti. How can she do this when her mother needs her help at home, especially with a new baby on the way? Ann E. Burg writes in free verse poetry, conveying Serafina's struggles in sparse, effective language.
The Way a Door Closes, by Hope Anita Smith
This slim book reads almost like a short play in three acts. In the first 12 poems, CJ describes how he feels warm and content as part of his close-knit family. But then, everything changes as his father loses his job and then abruptly leaves home. In the 13th poem, when his dad leaves, CJ describes how it felt: "The door closed with a / click. / I felt all the air leave the room / and we were vacuum-sealed inside. / - I can tell a lot by / the way a door closes." This is a powerful book that takes readers on CJ's roller-coaster emotional journey.
Words With Wings, by Nikki Grimes
As a friend of mine wrote, this is a "peek into the mind of a daydreamer" and a wonderful teacher who encourages her in just the right way. Her teacher recognizes that Gabby is coping with her parents separation, and that daydreams are a way she escapes. He helps channel her imagination, encouraging her to let her daydreams come to life in her writing. This is a wonderful, uplifting story of a young girl finding her own voice, staying true to herself.
Zorgamazoo, by Robert Paul Weston
I loved the inventive poetry, the rhythm and rhyme, the creative fantasy. Best way to it: Dr. Seuss meets Lemony Snicket, with a healthy dose of Roald Dahl throughout. The story is fantasy, macabre, silly, and truly great fun to read aloud. The illustrations and book design add a tremendous amount to the story. Absolutely terrific wordplay, combined with a plot that keeps kids racing along with it.
My own "to be read" pile: 2 new novels in verse:
Blue Birds, by Caroline Starr Rose
Historical fiction, showing the friendship between a Native American girl and an English girl who's traveled with her parents in 1587 to Virginia. From the publisher's description: "Amid the strife, Alis meets and befriends Kimi, a Roanoke girl about her age. Though the two don’t even speak the same language, these girls form a special bond as close as sisters, willing to risk everything for the other. Finally, Alis must make an impossible choice when her family resolves to leave the island and bloodshed behind."
Red Butterfly, by A.L. Sonnichsen
Friends are including this in their favorites of 2015: a beautiful story, beautifully told. From the publisher description: "Kara never met her birth mother. Abandoned as an infant, she was taken in by an elderly American woman living in China. Now eleven, Kara spends most of her time in their apartment, wondering why she and Mama cannot leave the city of Tianjin and go live with Daddy in Montana. Mama tells Kara to be content with what she has … but what if Kara secretly wants more?"
I just love it when a character's thoughts and moods meld with mine in my mind, growing and becoming part of me. Novels in verse - usually written in free form poetry - have a particular way of doing this, where the narrator's voice almost flows into me.
Labels: ages 8-12, friendship, funny books, nonfiction, poetry, Reading Around the World
Investigating about explorers: a range of resources (ages 8-12)
Do you have fond memories of reading your history textbooks? Probably not. So how can we make history more interesting for our children?
We want our children to envision what it would have been like to live long ago, to make the messy decisions that people had to make, to struggle and wrestle with life, warts and all. And yet we also need to convey basic information about historical periods and figures. How do we balance the facts with the engaging material?
As a case in point, I've been helping 5th grade students gather information about famous explorers from different eras. They're investigating Marco Polo, James Cook, Hernando Cortes, Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride and many others. Their teachers want them to practice note-taking skills. What resources will help them the most?
World Book Encyclopedia: building background knowledge
"How are we supposed to choose which explorer to do our report on if we don't know anything about them?"
Students need to begin their research process by learning some basic facts about their subject. This should be pretty easy for the children to read, since they need to focus on building a clear framework in their minds. I would suggest just reading at this point, not taking notes. We start with World Book Kids, the junior version of the World Book Encyclopedia.
Web Path Express: guided Internet research
"I call this Google for 5th graders."
We have recently added WebPath Express to our Follett Destiny library catalog. This service guides students in their Internet searches, helping them go directly to accurate, age-appropriate sites. Students are able to find reliable resources quickly, without having to filter out commercial or college-level sites.
by Chris Oxlade
Kingfisher Readers, level 5
Kingfisher, 2014
Students will like the clear sentences and frequent illustrations in this brief introduction to nearly twenty explorers from ancient to modern times. Each explorer's major achievements and struggles are covered in a two-page spread, so the pace moves quickly. Sentences are relatively short, and drawings keep interest high.
"Marco Polo was born in Venice, in Italy. In 1271, when he was just 17 years old, he set off for China with his father and his uncle. They took gifts for Kublai Khan, the powerful ruler of China in the 1200s CE."
This type of book will help students develop a "research report" tone to their own writing. It is factual and straight forward. But it does not have much depth, it does not really prompt students to connect to what they're reading or to ask questions.
Lives of the Explorers:
Discoveries, Disasters (and What the Neighbors Thought)
by Kathleen Krull and Kathryn Hewitt
Krull engages readers with dynamic writing, as she introduces them to the lives of twenty ancient and modern explorers. While this is more difficult to read, it is also much more interesting. She begins the chapter on Mathew Henson, African American explorer of the North Pole in the early 1900s, this way:
"Matthew Henson and Robert Peary shared many an unappetizing meal in the frozen land around the North Pole. But in the United States they wouldn't have even been allowed to eat together, as restaurants were segregated into 'black' and 'white' sections."
In just three pages, Krull helps readers get a sense of the challenges Henson faced and his remarkable achievements. She incorporates quotes from Henson to give a sense of his perspective. Teachers and librarians should note, however, that she does not indicate the sources for her material, but just provides sources for further reading.
How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea and Air
by Stewart Ross
illustrated by Stephen Biesty
*my full review here*
Stewart Ross and Stephen Biesty absolutely captivate me each time I read a section of Into the Unknown. Biesty's intricate illustrations draw me right into each scene, helping me imagine what it would be like to be part of an expedition. Students love the fold-out illustrations and the cut-aways that show you the inside of ships. Ross's descriptions include enough detail to engross me without overwhelming me. They have a strong narrative flow, conveying the dramatic pull of these stories but also helping young readers start forming their own questions and conclusions.
The review copy of Explorers came from our public library. The review copy of Lives of the Explorers was kindly sent by the publishers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The review copy of Into the Unknown was kindly sent by the publishers, Candlewick. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 8-12, Common Core IRL, Emerson, nonfiction, Reading Around the World
Wangari Maathai, planting trees in Kenya (ages 6-12)
Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her work helping women throughout Africa planting trees to improve the environment and their quality of life. As we celebrate Women's History Month, I make sure to introduce students to women from throughout the world who have worked hard to improve their communities.
Planting a Path of Peace
by Jen Cullerton Johnson
illustrations by Sonia Lynn Sadler
Lee and Low, 2010
Although it was unusual for girls to receive formal education in rural Kenya, Wangari’s parents agreed to send her to school. Wangari’s determination and hard work continued as she went first to high school in the city, and then to university in the United States to study biology.
Wangari returned to Kenya to teach and inspire women scientists, but became concerned when she saw the environmental damage that was occurring throughout the country. Maathai established the Green Belt Movement, bringing about environmental and economic change in Kenya by helping local women plant over thirty million trees.
I would also share this video clip, from the PBS/Independent Lens documentary Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
International Women's Day, March 8th, is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday. Are you celebrating International Women's Day with your children?
The review copy came from our school library. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books (at no cost to you!). Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 5-8, ages 8-12, nonfiction, picture books, Reading Around the World, Women's History Month
Barefoot World Atlas updates: new packs added! (ages 5-10)
I've raved before about Barefoot World Atlas -- the spinning globe that brings a traditional atlas into a new realm for young kids. Well, Touch Press has wowed me again, with five fantastic extension packs. If you haven't tried out this app, please take a look!
Barefoot World Atlas
app developed by
TouchPress and Barefoot Books
available at iTunes App Store
Young children have a difficult time envisioning the large extent of our world. It's so hard to see how the separate parts relate to the whole. This app lets kids physically spin the globe, zooming in and out, and then learning a specific region. It's tactile and visual -- and kids love it!
The original app presented a select amount of information that Nick Crane's original book contained -- at times, it seemed a bit limited to me. Now they've added five extension packs that enable kids to explore their different interests on a global level. Each is available as an in-app purchase. Normally, I really dislike this approach, but it seems to be very appropriate here. Families purchase the basic app for about $5, and then they can choose a specific area to purchase for an additional $1.99.
Extension packs for Barefoot World Atlas
Extension Packs
available now:
Cut & Create
Dinosaur Planet
Wacky & Wonderful
I want to highlight three strengths of these packs:
The format (choosing which pack to explore) helps focus a child, providing more content without overwhelming them. Less is more, especially when it comes to visually arranging information.
The content is truly multinational, covering all the continents. I especially loved the art extension pack, which includes items ranging from a Mayan pottery vessel to a central Africa Bronze plaque to an early 20th century Russian painting.
The Great Cities pack includes several pictures for each location, adding more information without cluttering the interface. These photos lead to great conversations and "ah ha!" moments for kids!
Take a look a this short video from Touch Press demonstrating the World Art pack:
The review copy of this app came from our school library collection, thanks to a generous grant by the Berkeley Public School Fund. I so appreciate their support, as we look for new and exciting ways to engage our students. Please support your local schools fund!
Labels: ages 5-8, ages 8-12, book apps, nonfiction, Reading Around the World
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Mitali Perkins' newest YA novel, Forward Me Back To You, pulled me in with characters navigating their way through trauma and secrets. It is a book that wrestles with many heavy topics, yet the story shines with sweet moments and fully developed characters.
Forward Me Back to You
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan, 2019
The core of the story takes place in Kolkata, India as three teens travel to spend the summer helping an organization supporting survivors of human trafficking. And yet each of them realize that their personal stories, their backstories, impact the way they walk through the world.
As the story opens, Katina King struggles to recover from a sexual assault at school by a popular boy. Although Kat fought him off using her training in martial arts, the school authorities don't believe her. In order to help her heal and move forward, her mother sends her to Boston to finish the semester with a family friend, Grandma Vee.
I so appreciate the way Perkins brings readers into Kat's point of view. Right from the beginning, she introduces the way Kat sees people classified into types -- canines, felines and birds -- based on the way they act, react and treat others.
"Katina King classifies herself as a mountain lion.
She might have become a tame cat in a safer world. But when she was eleven, her body changed so fast it turned her into prey. Nothing she could do to stop luring canine eyes, so she’d put on a feral mask since then to prowl the hills of Oakland.
Fangs, claws, snarl.
They should have kept wolves away, but they didn’t."
In Boston, Kat meets Robin (Ravi) Thornton, who's struggling with his own past. Adopted from an orphanage in India, Robin numbs himself to his own pain by keeping the world at a distance. When his church group leader suggests a summer service trip to Kolkata, Robin decides to take the opportunity, in part to see if he can locate his "first mother." Once they are in India, Robin asks to be called Ravi, his original name.
The second half of the novel takes place in Kolkata, as Ravi, Kat and Gracie, Ravi's long-time best friend, work to support survivors of human trafficking. Kat and Gracie work in a shelter, while Ravi helps with data entry and trains with a local policeman. Perkins shows the complicated aspects of volunteer-tourism, and yet she also shows clear love for the city of Kolkata and the value of connecting across cultures.
Perkins excels at weaving together characters. Main characters and secondary characters have full backstories that create multidimensional, relatable people. The characters of Bontu, Miss Shireen, Kavita and Grandma Vee will stay with me. Perkins explores heavy, important issues of identity, trauma, international adoption and human trafficking, yet the characters' journeys and growth remain central.
I especially think teens will be drawn to the way Kat and Ravi move through their pain. They both find it hard to share their stories, and both more naturally retreat within themselves; yet it is through sharing, feeling and connecting that they are able to move forward. I absolutely agree with the way Barbara Moon describes this novel:
"This search for identity and recovery is a sweeping saga that explores the serious problem of international human trafficking. Gripping storytelling, eye-opening adventure in a faraway city, Forward Me Back to You packs an emotional gut punch that lingers long after the final page. A story not to be missed."
The review copy was kindly sent by the publishers, Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 12-14, ages 12+, best new book, realistic fiction, young adult
Ten outstanding audiobooks (ages 4-18)
Is your family taking a long drive this winter? Consider listening to an audiobook together, letting it take you on an adventure, laugh together or learn about something new. You'll notice that I'm including three memoirs here -- I especially find listening to some tell their story on audio particularly inspiring.
Try downloading e-audiobooks through your public library for free; check if your library uses OverDrive, Axis 360 or Hoopla Digital.
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah: Comedian Trevor Noah narrates his memoir, sharing his harsh experiences growing up in South Africa in the final years of apartheid and the chaotic aftermath as the son of a white Dutch father and a black Xhosa mother. Listeners get to hear Noah tell these stories in his South African accented English and several other South African languages. He is engaging, funny and relatable, while also delivering thoughtful and perceptive social criticism about race, gender and class. (ages 13 and up)
Dominic, by William Steig, narrated by Peter Thomas: As Dominic leaves home in search of adventure, young listeners will be captivated by this delightful hero’s journey. Dominic bumbles his way through his journey with curiosity, goodwill and a solid sense of right and wrong as he makes friends, helps others in need and battles the Doomsday Gang. (ages 6-9)
Dory Fantasmagory, by Abby Hanlon, narrated by Suzy Jackson: Dory (called Rascal by her family) wants to play with her big brother and sister, but they complain that she's a pest. Narrator Suzy Jackson captures Dory's 6-year-old voice, with a full range of enthusiasm and emotions. Families will recognize themselves in Dory's attention-getting strategies, her mom's exasperation or her siblings' bickering. A joyful, funny celebration of imagination and resilience. (ages 4-9)
Track series: Ghost, Patina, Sunny & Lu, by Jason Reynolds, narrated by Guy Lockhart, Heather Alicia Simms: Ghost is an all-time favorite, and I've loved the audiobooks for the rest of this series. Guy Lockhart captures the emotions and voice of each different character, with energy and enthusiasm. I especially appreciate how he balances the humor with the darker moments in each book. I've just started listening to Lu, and his swagger and confidence is perfect. Heather Simms captures Patina's many different moods, moving from sassy to tender with ease. All together, these are outstanding audiobooks--"for real for real", as Lu says. (ages 9-14)
I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope, by Chessy Prout: As a freshman at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire, Chessy Prout was sexually assaulted by an upperclassman. In her raw and honest memoir, Prout shares her experience of assault and the subsequent journey with the tumultuous trial, media attention and search for healing and change. As I read this, I was particularly angered by the way the school resisted Chessy's search for justice and struck by how the legal system does not help our young people find the resolution they need. A powerful memoir. (ages 13-18)
Like Vanessa, by Tami Charles, narrated by Channie Waites: Eighth grader Vanessa Martin dreams of winning her school’s beauty contest, despite feeling too fat, too dark and too shy. Her spirits soar with Vanessa Williams’ historic win as the first black Miss America. But the journey is hard -- will her talented singing shine? Or will her doubts weigh her down? Channie Waites’ narration brings Vanessa’s worries, laughter and grace to life, and her voice sparkles with magnetic charm. (ages 10-14)
The Poet X, by Elizabeth Acevedo: Elizabeth Acevedo shines narrating her debut novel, using her talents as an award-winning slam poet to bring passion and life to Xiomara’s story. A first-generation Dominican-American, Xiomara struggles balancing her mother’s strict Catholicism with her own desire to find her place in the world. Writing poetry helps Xio come into her own, channelling her feelings, worries and questions. Acevedo’s poetry is beautifully crafted and the audiobook brings the passion and pacing of the rhythmic free-verse poems to life. (ages 14-18)
Proud: Living My American Dream, by Ibtihaj Muhammad: U.S. Olympic fencing medalist, Ibtihaj Muhammad shares her inspiring memoir, showing how faith, hard work and determination helped her reach her goals. She frankly talks about the many obstacles she faced, yet she comes across as both humble and realistic. She conveys the excitement of winning, and the frustrations and self-doubt she faced. Even though I know nothing about fencing, I couldn't put this down. Ibtihaj is a true American hero. (ages 10-16)
Refugee, by Alan Gratz: Gratz alternates the stories of three children from different periods of time, each of whom are fleeing their homes in search of refuge. Josef is escaping persecution from Nazis in Germany during World War II. Isabel and her family are fleeing Cuba in 1994, escaping the riots and unrest under Castro's rule. And Mahmoud's family flees Syria in 2015 after their home was bombed. These parallel stories are engrossing and compelling. The structure keeps the suspense high, and helps readers see how each character must cope with extreme stress, separation and loss. Gratz uses historical fiction at its best to help readers understand global issues in a way that inspires hope and empathy. (ages 10-16)
The War That Saved My Life, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, narrated by Jayne Entwistle: My students have particularly loved this audiobook and its sequel, The War I Finally Won, finding the story of Ada inspiring as she realizes how she's able to overcome many odds stacked against her. As the story opens, ten-year-old Ada has a clubfoot and is kept locked in her family's one bedroom apartment in London, during World War II. Ada practices making herself walk, so she and her younger brother, can escape and join a train of children being evacuated to the countryside. Jayne Entwistle's narration brings Ada's complexities to life, with her layers of distrust and strength, courage and doubt. (ages 9-12)
Labels: ages 12-14, ages 12+, ages 5-8, ages 8-12, audiobooks, best new book, historical fiction, nonfiction, realistic fiction, young adult
Ten top books for speaking your truth (ages 7-18)
As I continue to celebrate 10 years of blogging, I want to turn to books that encourage us to speak our truths. While books can't change the world, they can help give us the courage to stay true to our beliefs, to do the right thing in difficult situations. These stories focus on young people courageously speaking up for themselves in the face of difficulties.
Anger Is a Gift, by Mark Oshiro: Black teen Moss struggles with panic attacks and anxiety, a result of his father's death from police brutality six years earlier in Oakland, CA. When school administrators bring armed police in for random locker searches and install metal detectors, Moss and his friends organize a protest. I especially appreciated how Oshiro balances Moss's personal journey and the way his community comes together to protest the authoritarian administration. A powerful book, with an authentic local setting, for fans of The Hate U Give. (ages 14-18)
Front Desk, by Kelly Yang: Mia's family has recently immigrated from China, and finding a steady job has been really tough for her parents. When an opportunity to manage a motel comes their way, they leap at it. Mia's excited that she can help out, managing the front desk while her parents clean the rooms. Kelly Yang bases this story on her own experience, immigrating from China to Los Angeles. She weaves humor and compassion into her story, speaking from her personal experience to frankly address poverty, bullying and the importance of family. (ages 8-12)
Ghost Boys, by Jewell Parker Rhodes: After being killed by a white police officer, a 12 year old black boy returns as a ghost to process what has happened and how it is affecting his family. The ghost of Emmett Till, a black boy murdered in 1955, and other "ghost boys" who have been murdered, help Jerome understand the larger historical context. The chapters jump back and forth in time, weaving together the social and political framework to help young readers grapple with the impact of police violence on communities of color. (ages 10-15)
#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women, by Lisa Charleyboy: This anthology shares the voices, art, poetry, and insight of modern Native women about their life experiences--the good and the bad, the joyous and the painful--creating a powerful message of the importance of speaking the truth and being visible in a culture that it so often dismissive or manipulative. I especially appreciate the wide diversity of Native women that is represented here. Brilliant and moving collection. (ages 12-18)
The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang: Prince Sebastian feels comfortable identifying both male and female, often wearing dresses and going out as his alter ego, Lady Crystallia. When he hires Frances, a young seamstress, to make him a wardrobe of boldly beautiful, dazzling dresses, Frances hesitates at first, but they soon discover a shared passion for fashion. Incorporating the feel of classic fairytales, Wang creates a story that revolves around friendship, following your dreams and speaking your truth. (ages 10-15)
The Poet X, by Elizabeth Acevedo: A first-generation Dominican-American, fifteen-year-old Xiomara struggles balancing her mother’s strict Catholicism with her own desire to find her place in the world. Writing poetry helps Xio come into her own, channelling her feelings, worries and questions in her journal, as she explores her blossoming romance with Aman, her science partner. As Xio starts figuring out how she can stand up for what she believes, she discovers the power of her voice through the poetry club at school. This powerful coming-of-age story poignantly speaks to teens finding their voice. (ages 13-18)
Stella Diaz Has Something to Say, by Angela Dominguez: Stella is shy, self-conscious about her accent and the way she jumbles Spanish and English when she can't find the right word. As third grade starts, she's also worried about being in a different class from her best friend Jenny. I especially appreciate how Stella's Mexican-American family supports her and cheers her on as she discovers her courage and voice. (ages 7-10)
Swing, by Kwame Alexander: Noah, Walt and Sam (Samantha) have been best friends since elementary school, but ever since they got to high school, Noah hasn't been able to figure out how to tell Sam that he really likes her. No matter how much Walt (aka Swing) encourages him to take a chance, Noah struggles to express his feelings for Sam. Inspired by love letters he finds in a thrift store, Noah finally starts to put his feelings onto paper using both art and poetry. While I related to Noah, I was utterly charmed by Swing's humor and optimism. Readers will want to talk when they reach the end--be there for them, as they find their voice about the larger issues impacting our society. (ages 13-18)
The Witch Boy, by Molly Ostertag: This graphic novel will appeal to readers with its magical setting and strong protagonist. In Aster's village, there are very clear expectations: girls will learn witchcraft and spells, while boys will learn to become shapeshifters. Yet Aster yearns to learn the spells that his sister is perfecting, and is not interested in the other boy's aggressive play. When several boys go missing, Aster tries to use his developing magical abilities to solve the mystery. I especially appreciated the way Aster questions society's gender expectations and stays true to himself. A delightful graphic novel -- I'm looking forward to reading the sequel, The Hidden Witch, which has just come out. (ages 8-12)
Labels: ages 12-14, ages 12+, ages 8-12, best new book, graphic novels, nonfiction, realistic fiction, young adult
Ten winning sports books for kids (ages 5-14)
Whether you play sports with your kids or love watching games together, you’ll have fun sharing these books. You'll find a balance of nonfiction and fiction and a wide range of sports. One thing I'm noticing is that I haven't read as many novels with girls playing sports -- clearly, that's a goal for 2019!
Baseball: Then to Wow! by the editors of Sports Illustrated Kids: Whether it’s looking at changes in equipment or comparing playing styles then and now, this high-interest book provides opportunities for fans to analyze different aspects of the game. Great layout, photographs and illustrations engage kids and help them see the progression of the game over the past 150 years. (ages 7-12)
Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery, by Sandra Neil Wallace, illustrated by Bryan Collier: Although his athletic skills brought Ernie Barnes success as a professional football player, his true passion was art. He would quickly sketch scenes as he sat on the bench between plays. Barnes pursued his dreams, eventually becoming the official artist for the American Football League. (ages 6-10)
Girl Running: Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon, by Annette Bay Pimentel, illustrated by Micha Archer: In 1966, Bobbi Gibb became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, even though the authorities would not recognize her efforts. Despite the authorities’ rejection, she decides to run alongside the registered racers, determined to prove that the rules were wrong. An inspiring picture book biography of defying the odds. (ages 5-9)
Rising Above: How 11 Athletes Overcame Challenges in Their Youth to Become Stars, by Gregory Zuckerman with Elijah Zuckerman and Gabriel Zuckerman: Names like Lebron James, Steph Curry, Tim Howard, & Dwyane Wade will pull in young readers. Strong, accessible writing and inspiring stories will keep them reading. Look for the second in this series, focusing on inspiring women in sports. (ages 10-14)
Fiction for young players
Pedro’s Big Goal, by Fran Manushkin, illustrated by Tammie Lyon (Picture Window / Capstone; ages 5-8; $4.95; 32 pp.). First grader Pedro LOVES playing soccer with his friends and dreams of playing goalie. Will he make it as his team’s goalie, or is he too small? Beginning readers will enjoy this fun, accessible series -- perfect for 1st and 2nd graders. (ages 5-8)
The San Francisco Splash, by David A. Kelley, illustrated by Mark Meyers: The Ballpark Mysteries series is great for emerging readers who need short chapter books, and this local story does not disappoint. Cousins Kate and Mike love it when Kate’s sports-reporter mom brings them to a game, and here they start in kayaks out in McCovey Cove trying to catch fly balls. (ages 6-10)
Middle grade & young adult fiction
After the Shot Drops, by Randy Ribay: When high school basketball star "Bunny" Thompson transfers to wealthy private school, where he is one of a handful of black students. Bunny struggles to keep true to himself, stay close to his neighborhood friends, and make new friends at school. Meanwhile, his best friend Nasir struggles with feeling left behind and figuring out what to do when his cousin starts getting into trouble. The conflicts escalate, on the court and off, with an explosive climax. Hand this to fans of The Hate U Give and Ghost. (ages 13-18)
Ghost (Track #1), by Jason Reynolds: BOOM! Third time reading this and it still pulls me straight through each time. A 5th grader told me: "I loved how you feel like you're Ghost. You get mad at someone, then forgive them. It feels like your emotions are building up until Ghost takes the shoes. Then they break when his coach brings him back to the store." Catch others in this stand-out series: Patina & Sunny. (ages 9-14)
Rebound, by Kwame Alexander: My students clamored to read Kwame Alexander’s The Crossover, and this prequel is outstanding, with Chuck Bell--Josh & Jordan’s father--taking center stage. Kwame creates a great cast of characters in Rebound, with Charlie's family and close friends. I especially love that two of his close friends are girls. CJ is brainy, sassy and sweet. Roxie can play ball better than most of the boys. Full of humor, heart and poetry slam in comics (!!), this novel in verse is really about how we can hold onto hope even though we feel storm-beaten and shattered. (ages 9-14)
Labels: ages 12-14, ages 12+, ages 5-8, ages 8-12, best new book, friendship, nonfiction, realistic fiction, young adult
Tackling Issues: an interview with Katherine Applegate & Jen Petro-Roy (ages 8-14)
Katherine Applegate is one of my students’ favorite authors. Her books include Home of the Brave and wishtree, both of which center around the experience of young immigrants. Jen Petro-Roy is a vital new voice for young readers. Her debut novel P.S. I Miss You has garnered national attention for centering on young same-sex love. I’m excited to welcome them as we explore how fiction engages kids as they think about difficult subjects.
This conversation came out of our panel together at the Bay Area Book Festival last spring. I am so lucky to know these talented, thoughtful women.
Mary Ann: Katherine, You’ve written for many age levels, from very young children to adults, yet it seems that your sweet spot is middle grade. What draws you to this age group?
Katherine: You’re right that middle grade readers are my favorite audience. Typically that’s defined as children 8 to 12 years of age. Children this age are beginning to think about the wider world. They start asking Big Questions (to the delight and frustration of the adults in their lives): What does fairness mean? Why is there cruelty in the world? What defines who I am? Why did Joey get the biggest meatball?
I just wrote an introduction to an essay collection by the beloved children’s writer, Natalie Babbitt (Barking with the Big Dogs: On Writing and Reading Books for Children, coming out on November 20, 2018). Babbitt is perhaps best known for her remarkable novel for middle grade readers, Tuck Everlasting, which Anne Tyler called “one of the best books ever written -- for any age.”
And what is Tuck about, this little book for children? Immortality. Why we have to die. What matters most in our short and magical lives. All those things we try not to think about . . . and absolutely must think about.
And it’s a book for kids.
That’s why I love writing for middle grade readers.
Mary Ann: You're so right -- kids are really beginning to wrestle with big issues. Jen, what has been your experience?
Jen: In my job as a librarian, I found that kids often sought out books about tough topics. They want to read about kids going through struggles--with homelessness, with difficult family situations, with friend troubles, with illness, and more--because they are often going through the same struggles themselves.
When I'm reading, it’s reassuring to see that I’m not the only one going through a specific situation...and it’s even more reassuring to see that characters can find their way through, triumph, and thrive. For kids, this is an even more necessary process, because they don’t have as much life experience. They need to see that representation on the page and they truly want to. It makes them feel so much less alone...and isn’t that one of the aims of literature?
Katherine: I love your point about literature helping us feel less, alone, Jen. That’s probably the greatest gift books can give us. That, and helping us make sense of a world that doesn’t always make sense. (That’s particularly true lately.)
Mary Ann: Jen, can you tell us a little bit about the issues Evie has to wrestle with in P.S. I Miss You?
Jen: After being raised in a very Catholic family, Evie starts to question the beliefs of her parents after her older sister gets pregnant and Evie herself gets her first crush on a girl. Teen pregnancy, religion, and sexuality are definitely three “tough issues” and many have questioned why I raised them in a middle-grade novel. For me, though, this was exactly the place to raise it, because middle school is the time when kids start to question the world, who they are, and how they were raised. It’s so important that these kids can see themselves now, and don’t have to wait until they’re teens or even adults to see themselves represented in literature. At the same time, though, I love hearing about teenagers and adults reading P.S. I Miss You. I think it helps different age groups in different ways.
Mary Ann: Have you heard from young readers about the tough issues you bring up in your books? How have they reacted? What do they find powerful?
Jen: Hearing from and interacting with readers is my absolute favorite part of this job. I’ve heard from a bunch so far about how wonderful it is to see representation of different sexualities in books for their age group. After one of my school visits, I had a girl come up to me and share that she’s a queer middle schooler with a brother about to go off to college, and she really related to Evie, who writes letters to her older sister Cilla. I am so proud to be able to help people feel a little bit less alone.
Mary Ann: Katherine, with wishtree you tackle tough issues around immigration and racism, and yet you do this in a way that 3nd graders can relate to. Do you keep the age of your audience in mind while you write?
Katherine: I do, very much so. (Although I know many writers for children who say the age of the audience doesn’t figure into their writing.) School visits have helped me a lot in this regard. I see the innocence and the honesty in younger readers, and I try to write what they need to hear. If it works for other ages, great.
Mary Ann: One of my students, Clara, told me that books “give kids an idea of how the world can be and how we can change it.” Katherine, while Endling is clearly fantasy, what are you hoping that readers think about while they read it?
Katherine: Endling is a fantasy about the last individual in a doglike species. Here in the real world, we’re in the midst of what is often referred to as the Sixth Extinction, a huge loss of species that seems to be almost entirely the result of human behavior. I wanted to touch on that, but in a way that I hope is accessible to younger readers.
Mary Ann: What do you think parents or teachers are afraid of when they push back against “heavy” or “mature” books for kids?
Jen: As a parent myself, I can understand the impulse to shield kids from tough issues. The world is scary, and it’s even more frightening to think of innocence being shattered. I wish the world was perfect for my daughters, and I wish they could believe it was so. So when parents push back, I think a lot of that impulse comes from fear or the desire to avoid discomfort. It’s hard to imagine explaining things like school shootings or death to children, so it can be easier to avoid the topic entirely. And for issues that parents or teachers don’t believe in, it may be “easier” to ban books or topics entirely. Out of sight, out of mind, after all. The problem there is that issues never remain out of sight. And when kids don’t know the realities of the world, those realities will be that much harder to deal with in the future. They won’t learn tolerance or acceptance, either.
Katherine: This is why librarians were invented. To get books into the hands of the children who most need them.
Mary Ann: Many of my students are drawn to realistic fiction that deals with tough issues. Why do you think this is? How do stories help us?
Katherine: When you’re in the middle of figuring out your place in the world, it helps to have a map. Books are like GPS for our hearts. They help us navigate the hard stuff.
I’ve had OCD since I was a kid. A book like OCDaniel (by Wesley King) would have changed my life.
I have a trans daughter who’s 21. I wish Alex Gino’s George had been around for her when she needed it.
I know too many young girls on their way to eating disorders. I’d love to get Jen’s upcoming novel, Good Enough, into all their hands.
Jen: Stories help us feel like we’re not alone in the world, that we’re not the only one dealing with certain issues. Readers can think, “Hey, if that character can get through such a difficult situation, maybe I can, too.” Simply seeing that books like this exist can make readers feel a sense of belonging, too. If readers see LGBTQ books in libraries or classrooms or are handed a book by their parents, they will know that those authority figures are safe and accepting. That they can go to them if they need to talk. Books can help facilitate a community of love and acceptance, and I love that about them.
Mary Ann: Jen, can you tell us a little about your upcoming books? With Katherine raving about them, I can't wait to know more!
Jen: Absolutely! I have two more books coming out in next year, both out on February 19th. Good Enough is another middle-grade fiction, about a 12-year-old named Riley who has been hospitalized for anorexia nervosa and is struggling to recover amidst parents who don’t understand, a fellow patient who is trying to sabotage Riley, and a gymnastic star sister. I’m so proud of this book, as it was inspired by my own struggle and recovery from anorexia, and there’s not much out there in this area for young readers that is both hopeful and non-triggering. Macmillan/Feiwel & Friends will also be simultaneously releasing You Are Enough, which is a non-fiction guide to eating disorder recovery, body image, and self-esteem for middle-schoolers and teens. Advanced copies of both are starting to make their way in the world!
Katherine: As an early reader, I can offer this spoiler alert: Good Enough is amazing. It belongs in every library.
Mary Ann: I wonder if you can end with any advice for parents about reading.
Jen: Reading is anything your kids want it to be. As a former librarian, I’m familiar with parents steering their children away from books they don’t think are “real literature.” They don’t want their kids to read graphic novels or those easy chapter books with mermaids and puppy dogs on the covers. But any kinds of books are good. Kids thrive when they are reading the books they want, whether it’s a book filled with fart jokes or War and Peace. Let them follow their interests. Let them love the written word.
Katherine: Couldn’t agree with Jen more. Reading is supposed to be fun, people!
I was a reluctant reader myself, and it took me a long time to find my “perfect” book. For me, it was Charlotte's Web. But for your child, it may be a graphic novel. Or non-fiction. Or a picture book. Or a chapter book. Or poetry. Or song lyrics.
It’s all about words. It doesn’t matter how they’re packaged. It only matters how much they’re loved.
Thank you both so much for your time and all of the care and love you pour into your stories. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 12-14, ages 8-12, interview, realistic fiction
Tight, by Torrey Maldonado -- real boys, navigating emotionally complex decisions (ages 8-14)
I've been thinking a lot about how we show our boys different ways to handle emotions, so that we are breaking the expectations of acting tough and macho. In Tight, by Torrey Maldonado, Bryan must navigate making friends, controlling his temper and choosing the right path. Hand this to young readers who loved Jason Reynolds' Ghost, who want a book that feels real, and a character that is believable and emotionally honest.
by Torrey Maldonado
Nancy Paulsen / Penguin, 2018
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I wonder what kids will think about the cover of Tight. Which train is Bryan going to get on? Is he struggling with a decision? Is he in a tight place? How do you feel if you're tight? What other meanings does it have? Whenever I'm showing a student a book, we spend some time wondering about the cover and thinking about its meanings.
Bryan, an Afro-Puerto Rican sixth grader, lives in the projects in Brooklyn and generally keeps to himself, heading to his mom's office after school to do his homework, read comics or draw. His mom likes it that way, wary that he might fall in with a bad crowd. So Bryan is surprised when she encourages him to get close with Mike, a slightly older boy in their neighborhood who seems like a good kid.
Soon Mike and Bryan become close friends, but Bryan realizes that Mike isn’t as good as Ma and others think. Bryan can't stand the way his dad and sister tease him for being "soft," and he likes some of the ways that Mike encourages him to break the rules, throwing rocks at cars from rooftops and skipping school.
Bryan realizes that he's following Mike into more and more dangerous situations, and his honest, internal dialog shows how difficult it is to dothe right thing. When Mike asks Bryan to tell Little Kevin how great train surfing is (holding onto the outside of the train as it speeds through the tunnels), Bryan follows along even though he has misgivings:
"I start doing that, and the whole time I wonder why I don't just say what I really feel. Now it's like I'm two people. On the outside I'm promoting train-surfing so hard. On the inside, I'm like, Why am I being Mike's hype-man with this?"
Torrey Maldonado skillfully creates a believable, real character facing his vulnerabilities, figuring out what it means to be a friend and how to make the right decisions. I especially appreciate the way that Bryan and Mike bond over superhero comic books and television shows. Bryan's voice is authentic, filled with slang that rings true. This is not a simple morality tale, but rather one that peels back the complex, contradictory currents that make these decisions difficult.
Torrey Maldonado crafts such an authentic voice because it's coming from his own experience. He's a middle school teacher who "still teaches in the Brooklyn neighborhood where he was born and raised" and uses his students’ & his experiences to shape his stories and characters.
I highly recommend Tight for a wide age range. Although this is clearly a middle-grade novel, I think that many 13 and 14 year olds will be drawn to the emotional complexities and authentic voice that Maldonado creates. The review copy was kindly sent by the publisher, Nancy Paulsen / Penguin Random House. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 12-14, ages 8-12, best new book, friendship, realistic fiction
Heretics Anonymous, by Katie Henry -- teen angst, student activism and personal reflections (ages 13-16)
As a teen, I bristled against rigid authority and strict policies--I wanted to understand why rules were made, and insisted that they were fair. As a teen, I would have fit right into Heretics Anonymous, the secret club at St. Clare's in Katie Henry's debut novel. Henry weaves together a story full of teen angst and student activism as she presents a multifaceted look at religion in a Catholic prep school.
by Katie Henry
Katherine Tegen / HarperCollins, 2018
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Michael resents moving once again, having to start a new school a month and a half into his junior year of high school just because his dad has a new job. Now he finds himself struggling to fit in at St. Clare's Preparatory School, even though he doesn't believe in any kind of God. How is he going to make friends here, with "a bunch of mindless Catholic sheep people"?
Fortunately, Michael soon meets a group of St. Clare's students who question the school's rigid policies and dogma: Lucy, a feminist Colombian-American who's a devout Catholic determined to reform the church; gay, Jewish Avi; Eden, a self-described pagan; and Max, a Korean-American Unitarian. At their secret club meetings of Heretics Anonymous, they share their grievances about St. Clare's.
We believe in one fundamental truth:
That all people, regardless of what they worship, who they love, and what they think,
Have a right to exist, and a right to be heard.
(from the Heretics Anonymous Creed)
Michael urges his new friends to do something to change St. Clare's, to go public to make it better for everyone. In a series of hilarious episodes, they take on the school administration, first by annotating the school's outdated sex-ed DVD to make it more accurate, informative and entertaining. Then they create an alternative newspaper to challenge the dress code. But Michael's family tensions impact his judgement and he rashly carries his mission to change the school too far.
I especially appreciate how Katy Henry develops her characters' friendship and respect for each other, even though they are all so different. Through their relationships, they begin to reflect on their own beliefs and accept each other. And in doing so, Henry invites her readers to do the same.
Personally, I identify more with Michael's world view, but I found myself appreciating Lucy's perspective the most. She's a fierce feminist, and she's also a committed Catholic--and both sides fit together in her well-rounded character. Religion can bring comfort, faith and support to people, and Michael sees this in Lucy. But religion has also been used throughout history to enforce social norms and uphold the existing power structures. Above all, I appreciate how Henry asks readers to separate these two strands and think about what they value.
Full discloser: Katie Henry writes in her acknowledgements about her childhood church, Newman Hall-Holy Spirit Parish in Berkeley, California. This was also my childhood church (although in different decades). She tells Kirkus how this liberal Catholic upbringing was so different from what she discovered when she went to college. While this novel stems from Henry's attempt to create a space for kids to think about the complexities and nuances of religion, she keeps it grounded in humor and everyday relationships.
Hand this to teens who want a heartwarming story with characters who question the rules and fight to make the world better for all of us. I purchased the review copy for my school library. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
After the Shot Drops, by Randy Ribay: authentic, relatable & fast-paced -- a great combination for teen readers (ages 12-16)
When high school basketball star Bunny Thompson transfers to a private school to play ball, his best friend Nasir feels betrayed and left behind. In this powerful dual-narrative, readers hear from both boys as they struggle to repair their friendship. Randy Ribay creates relatable characters, authentically capturing the teens’ voices and struggles. Hand this to teens who loved Kwame Alexander’s Crossover and Jason Reynold’s Ghost.
After the Shot Drops
by Randy Ribay
HMH, 2018
During the summer after freshman year, Bunny Thompson transfers from Whitman High, his neighborhood public school, to St. Sebastian’s, a private school in the suburbs. It’s a difficult transition—he misses his friends, struggles to fit in, and knows his old friends don’t understand.
“Pride in Whitman High’s basketball team runs real deep around our way, so a lot of people didn’t like that one bit. My main man, Nasir, straight up stopped talking to me.”
Nasir feels left behind and betrayed. Bunny was so focused on himself that he didn’t even tell Nasir about his decision to leave Whitman. Nasir hangs with his cousin Wallace, and is concerned when Wallace tells him he’s about to get evicted from his apartment because they’re behind on rent. Wallace fuels Nasir’s anger at Bunny:
“Wallace lets out a sarcastic laugh. ‘He ain’t your friend. He up and left you to go play ball with some rich-ass white boys. He doesn’t care about you. Bunny Thompson’s looking out for Bunny Thompson. That’s it, Nas.”
Wallace’s anger and resentment build, and he turns to betting against Bunny in order to make rent money. Readers will relate to Nasir’s difficult decision whether to support his cousin’s reckless behavior and how to walk away.
Race and economics play an explicit part of this story, although in a nuanced way. Whitman is a primarily Black community in Philadelphia, and Bunny’s parents work long hours to make ends meet. Nasir’s family is Filipino and Black, providing an alternative to the reductive black/white tropes of urban life. I appreciate how supportive both Nasir and Bunny's families are.
Teens will appreciate the fast pace of this story and the tense climax as Wallace pulls a gun on Bunny. I also appreciated the layered themes of friendship, identity and loyalty. Plus, I’ve got to give a big shout-out for Keyona, Bunny’s girlfriend. She’s a great character, who’s never afraid to set Bunny straight.
For more about After the Shot Drops, check out Rand Ribay's 5 Questions over at the Horn Book. Randy Ribay now teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read in The Horn Book about his experience teaching in Philadelphia, and why school libraries are so important.
The review copy came from my local library. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Labels: ages 12-14, ages 12+, realistic fiction, young adult
#SummerReading for 7th & 8th graders
Carve out time from your busy summer schedules for reading. Talk with your teens about their interests AND the importance of reading. The best way is to give them choice and power, and to make reading a priority.
Middle school is a time of great variety -- some kids want to reread their favorites from earlier years, and others are eager to try edgy YA. Go with their interests, and encourage them to keep finding books that make them want to read.
#SummerReading: 7th & 8th grade
click for full 2018 summer reading lists
Exciting Adventure & Fantasy
Aru Shah and the End of Time, by Roshani Chokshi
Miles Morales Spider-Man, by Jason Reynolds
Peak, by Roland Smith
Skulduggery Pleasant, by Derek Landy
Warcross, by Marie Lu
Powerful Nonfiction & Memoirs
The 57 Bus, by Dashka Slater
Because I Was a Girl, edited by Melissa de la Cruz
Boots on the Ground, by Elizabeth Partridge
Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral & Getting It Done, by Andrea Gonzales & Sophie Houser
How Dare the Sun Rise, by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
All the Feels: Modern Teen Romance
Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell
I'll Give You the Sun, by Jandy Nelson
Just One Day, by Gayle Forman
Solo, by Kwame Alexander
When Dimple Met Rishi, by Sandhya Menon
Graphic Novels We Love!
Amulet series, by Kazu Kibuishi
Nimona, by Noelle Stevenson
The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang
Pashmina, by Nidhi Chanani
Sunny Side Up, by Jennifer L. Holm
Stories that Touch Your Heart
Like Vanessa, by Tami Charles
Piecing Me Together, by Renee Watson
Refugee, by Alan Gratz
Rogue, by Lyn Miller-Lachman
Social Justice Reads
Ball Don't Lie, by Matt de la Pena
Dear Martin, by Nic Stone
Ghost Boys, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
CLICK HERE for all of the 2018 summer reading lists.
Labels: ages 12-14, ages 12+, fantasy, friendship, graphic novels, nonfiction, realistic fiction, summer reading
#SummerReading 2018 for 5th and 6th graders
Kids know that practice is important in developing any skill; our job as parents is making our expectations clear AND creating a positive environment to encourage practice. You'll have much more success persuading your kids to read if they are able to choose what to read.
Validate their reading choices, engaging them to think and talk about what they read. Prod them a little to try something new--I often like to talk about it in terms of having a varied reading diet. Here are some of my favorite books to hook 5th and 6th graders.
#SummerReading: 5th & 6th
The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelley Barnhill
The Jumbies, by Tracey Baptiste
The Wonderling, by Mira Bartok
Funny Girl, edited by Betsy Bird
Hamster Princess, by Ursula Vernon
Pickle, by Kim Baker
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, by Tom Angleberger
The Terrible Two, by Mac Barnett
Echo, by Pam Munoz Ryan
The Inquisitor's Tale, by Adam Gidwitz
The Night Diary, by Veera Hiranandani
The War I Finally Won, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Real Friends, by Shannon Hale
The Witch Boy, by Molly Ostertag
Amal Unbound, by Aisha Saeed
Rebound, by Kwame Alexander
Fascinating Nonfiction
Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon, by Steve Sheinkin
I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai
Marley Dias Gets It Done, by Marley Dias
Labels: ages 8-12, fantasy, funny books, graphic novels, historical fiction, nonfiction, realistic fiction, summer reading
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Wide Awake (song)
Katy Perry Wide Awake Mp3 Song
Countless others have said the same. Select Gold in the Certification field. Australian Recording Industry Association.
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America's Best Dance Crew. Perry returns to her dressing room, now wearing another outfit, this time recognized as the peppermint dress from her California Dreams Tour. Now that she had gotten what she wanted she realized that it wasn't all the exciting. This is the eighth and final single from the Teenage Dream era. Federation of the Italian Music Industry.
Perry and the girl find a heart-shaped exit, and the two girls high-five. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. She also noted that major life changes were a factor in the lyrics. She is falling from cloud nine, A. It's a shame though that Katy is still enslaved.
Bieber beats Cheryl to No. Family Tree Caylee Hammack. She knocked him out and woke up to know today she had to love herself first and complete herself first. Perry sees a strawberry, picks it off and eats it, and the walls close in on her.
The music video was directed by Tony T. The first few highest voted interpretations are correct.
She wishes she knew then what she knew now, because she wouldn't dive it. Recording Industry Association of New Zealand.
She proceeds to explore a crepuscular labyrinth with a lantern, in which the maze symbolizes the twists and confusions in her life. All lyrics provided for educational purposes only. That poison strawberry plays an important role as well before she is incapable in a wheel chair. The first was the actual interpretation.
Email me when new interpretations are posted for Wide Awake. Wide awake is about narcissistic abuse. What does Wide Awake mean? Also notice that the song is shown in private, and that the song is surrounded by her career, or her life. Songwriters don't forget what they've written.
Perry took the lyrics straight out of her own journal when writing the song. The Complete Confection were revealed. The Complete Confection inlay cover. Bonnie McKee, co-writer of the song, said that fans can expect a departure from Perry's previous music.
Beer Can't Fix Thomas Rhett. Luckily her innocent self pushes through and she goes on. Not everything or everyone are as they seem. She opens her fist, revealing a butterfly that flies away from her and sparkles as it leaves. When will you ever see the truth and stop believing fables and wives tales.
That's why the music video brings the song into light. As they walk into a hall of mirrors to a colossal mirror in the end, Perry is now wearing a cream-colored dress with a leafy chestpiece.
This song in particular is a dose of reality. He praised the song's composition, provided by Dr. Part of Me as part of her deal with Pepsi. Magical waves exude from her which send the guards flying and cure Perry. Discography Videography Awards and nominations Songs Live performances.
Perry is now wearing a white greek dress covered with strings of pink and yellow flowers and green leaves and has a pink, blue, and orange butterfly in her hair. How long will you be blind and enjoy being that way? There are a load of possibilities on what message Perry's trying to send. She's waking up and turning to God. She was in the dark before, because she didn't know all that it entailed.
The track is allegedly about Russell Brand. Whatever it was, it had to do with her inner self. But she had more lot of pop. Submit Your Interpretation.
Features the song along with a version of the single cover without the bottom text. The doors open to reveal a garden. Recording Industry Association of America. British Phonographic Industry. Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana.
Even in the making of the video, Katy Perry frequently mentions that there a lot of symbolisms in the music video, that you'd just have to catch them. In Katy's case, it's her divorce from Russell Brand she's talking about. And another interesting thing is the two that's guarding the two Katy's from exiting to the light of the video. The prince is a liar, and Perry can see that now. When Perry reaches the giant mirror, she sees paparazzi taking pictures, popcap games trying to capture her fall.
The music video was met with acclaim from most critics, with a number of them deeming it the best video to date from Perry. If you don't get it, just rewatch the video until then.
Perry returns to her dressing room and opens her fist, revealing a butterfly. It's kind of like coming down from a high.
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Harrow United Deaf Club moved to new venue at St John Ambulance Hall, North Harrow
Posted by Asif Iqbal | February 8, 2016 | News | No Comments
Harrow United Deaf Club opened its door on Saturday 6th February 2016, at a new venue – St John Ambulance Hall, North Harrow. It is a wonderful spacious venue and conveniently located in the heart of North Harrow, off Pinner Road with easier access to shops and transport. Our previous venues included Stanmore, Harrow & Wealdstone and now at North Harrow, we hope to build up more links with Harrow Communities and foster more partnership-working with local organisations and groups. We are also pleased to work closely with St. John Ambulance to reach out more deaf people.
Asif Iqbal MBE, President of HUDC opened the event; explained: “It was good for host our first event of 2016 at a new venue. The turnout was good with a theme of Valentine where everyone wore red! We recognised the importance of communicating the changes to our community and have an exciting programme coming up for this year. Do look at our website www.hudc.org.uk for further updates.”
Harrow United Deaf Club is also pleased to receive a message of support from Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills and a President of the Board of Trade.
Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP said: “I am proud to offer my support to Harrow United Deaf Club. The inclusive community it provides to many who might otherwise feel isolated is a huge encouragement and force for good. I wish the Club every success as it brings together more people from all backgrounds and raises awareness of what can be achieved when we work together”.
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Home > Editorial > In Paris, jasmine is scented with handcuffs…
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ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE: À Paris, le jasmin a l’odeur des menottes…
by Marie Barbier
In Paris, jasmine is scented with handcuffs…
Translated Wednesday 4 May 2011, by Rebecca Watson and reviewed by Henry Crapo
Tens of Tunisian migrants freshly arrived in Paris were arrested and held in custody on Wednesday. In the Parisian square where they were sleeping, some denounced police violence.
“The police: in the evening, in the morning, all the time!” On Wednesday, in the square at Porte de la Villette where several hundred Tunisians had found refuge since their arrival in Paris, tempers were still aroused after the numerous arrests of the last few hours.
During the night of Tuesday and Wednesday, sixty people, the majority of which Tunisians recently arrived in France, were placed in custody in Paris and in Seine-Saint-Denis. The police operation, which took place in the 10th, 19th and 20th arrondissements of Paris, had “the goal of establishing a diagnostic of [their] situation”, as the prefecture of Paris police dared explain.
“Then [on Thursday] morning, two plain-clothed police officers came to tell us that they were going to take our fingerprints,” fulminated Chaibi Maher, a forty-year-old Tunisian who arrived in the capital a month ago.
The sixty people arrested and placed in custody were still at the commissariat at Pantin on Wednesday. They are the subject of judiciary proceedings for “the infraction of laws of residency” and a judge was to have decided upon possible expulsions on Monday 26/4.
“There are two scenarios,” explains Me Samia Maktouf, who is defending several of the Tunisians. “Those who have a temporary Italian passport will certainly be sent back to Italy. Those without any papers will be placed in a detention centre. As the Tunisian consulate is not able to issue travel documents, they will certainly be released.”
While visiting them in custody, the lawyer was bombarded with witness accounts of police violence. One Tunisian, who was sleeping in the park, assures that he had been woken up at dawn by being hit with a club. Another, with the appearance of a juvenile, and claiming to be 15 years old, explains that French police had stopped him the week before. He mimes an arm lock and a grimace of pain to explain his arrest. “And all that at cost to the taxpayer,” sighs the lawyer. “For the same price, we could have put them up in a three-star hotel!”
For some weeks several hundred Tunisians are living in vulnerable situations on the edges of Paris. Some affirmed on Wednesday that they had not eaten for several days.
CITY HALL UNBLOCKS FUNDS
Faced with “the indifference of the State”, to whom the responsibility of receiving the refugees nevertheless falls, the socialist mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë has decided to unblock an initial fund of 100,000 euros dedicated to emergency measures. The city estimates there to be 200 Tunisian migrants who currently find themselves in Paris “in a very vulnerable state”. The capital has put the associations France, Land of Asylum [1] and Emmaüs [2] to put in place support systems as well as health and social care, but also to provide access to hotel accommodation. The city has also reinforced its support for the associations that for several days have been supplying food aid. Bertrand Delanoë, himself born in Tunis, has expressed his “emotion” and “indignation” and has invited “the French authorities to respond with humanity and dignity to the expectations that thousands of Tunisians have of our country”.
[1] France terre d’asile
[2] A social aid society founded by l’Abbé Pierre
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Backing the Gurkhas then stabbing them in the back
On my blog yesterday I praised the Labour MPs who rebelled against the government on the Gurkhas. A number of Labour MPs also openly abstained. Those abstaining were still standing out against the government. They did it knowing they could contribute to the defeat of the government, though it doesn't quite have the pulling power of a vote against Brown and his festering government.
That brings me to the Labour MPs who backed the Gurkhas in an early day motion that attacked the government for aiming to kickthe Gurkhas out of Britain. It also called for the rules to be rewritten to allow them to stay. It is reasonable to think that any Labour MP signing this motion would either vote against the government or at least abstain. No Labour MP calling on the government to scrap its rules to kick out the Gurkhas could possibly vote against a motion in Parliament calling for precisely that, could they? No one could be that two faced and hypcritical, could they? No one could be that eager to please two completely opposing sides by opting for both diametrically opposite points of view at the same time? Or could they? Could a Labour MP really sink to that level of complete and utter hypocrisy? Read on to find out.
Yes, you guessed it. At least one Labour MP was on hypocrite heat, drooling about how dreadful was his government and demanding a rethink on the Gurkhas by putting his signature to a pro-Gurkha early day motion only for him the very next day to vote the opposite and back the government's policy of booting most Gurkhas out of Britain.
David Anderson, Labour MP for Blaydon, hang your head in shame.
I don't know if there are other Labour MPs who have wallowed in the trough of hypocrisy like Mr Anderson. I didn't check. But if there are, they deserve the hard time that people should rightly give them.
Labour - losing on the moral low ground
To go for a vote and lose on the moral high ground is one thing. To press for a vote and lose on the moral low ground is unforgivable. Well done to the Labour Gurkha rebels. Shame on the rest of Labour.
The video - Nick Clegg leads rally welcoming Gurkha Commons vote
Just back from Parliament where I filmed Nick Clegg's speech to the Gurkhas after the historic Commons vote. Here's the video.
Labour oversteps the boundary (again)
The other day I brought you news of an impromptu redrawing of the boundaries of constituencies in Gateshead when Labour MP for Blaydon Dave Anderson MP announced that the Queen Elizabeth Hospital was somehow in his constituency (it's actually some distance from it!)
Now I can bring you another story of Labour not knowing where the boundary is. Chopwell and Rowlands Gill ward in Gateshead is in the west of the borough, bordering Derwentside. It is currently undergoing a byelection. And where does Labour deliver their byelection leaflets? In Derwentside, over the border not just from the ward but from Gateshead Council!
It gives a new meaning to all those Labour soundbites that they were "delivering for Britain." Keep it up guys!
Where is the rain when you need it? For the past month, ever since we fitted water butts on the allotment, we have had next to no rain. The result is we have had to bring water over from the house, some of it recycled grey water, but the rest from the mains. Pouring water suitable to drink ourselves all over the ground is a bad use of a resource and is unsustainable environmentally. So collecting rain water is a sensible option when you need large quantities of it to pour all over your plants. No rain falling is a bit of a pain so whilst wishing for rain may be a bit of a minority interest, the fact it did rain on Saturday was met with a significant degree of relief by us!
Talking of the allotment, I was canvassed by one of the candidates for the Blaydon Lib Dem selection, whilst down on the allotment yesterday afternoon. He phoned when he found we were not at home. Since it was just a 2 minute walk, I invited him down. I am keenly waiting for the other 4 candidates to knock on the gate of the allotment as well!
Saturday was spent at the Northern Region conference where the guest speaker was Party President Ros Scott. She and husband Mark had endured National Express to get to the North East. I was there mainly to do photos. I will post up a few soon.
I am now on the train to London. Someone recently posted a comment asking me if I ever have anything positive to say about National Express. These things are of course all relative so here is my relatively positive comment about National Express: what a joy - National Express has not cancelled my train. How jolly good of them!
Anyway, wake me up when we get to Kings Cross. And if I don't fall asleep (unlikely) I have a book on keeping chickens to read.
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The Monday Morning Blog: between a Northern Rock and a hard place
I was rather struck by the lead story in the Journal this morning. It was about Northern Rock. There is a suggestion doing the rounds that the government will sell it off by the end of the year, possibly to Sandander or Virgin. The explanation was that the sale may be needed as the government's finances are in such a dire state.
Whilst I don't think the possibility of a sale can be ruled out, I think the chances are rather distant. Northern Rock is still a loss maker and still owes the government quite a few billion quid. The current state of the markets means that financial shares are not fetching a great deal. Any sale will generate few returns and make only a marginal impression on government debt. The situation may be different in a few years' time. Financial shares hopefully will have recovered and privatising the bank will make sense at that point.
What strikes me as interesting is that Newcastle Central MP Jim Cousins was quoted in the Journal as wanting assurances the sale will not go ahead. Mr Cousins, however, was one of the leading critics of the Lib Dems for proposing nationalisation of the Rock back in 2007. The Labour party in the North East back then where unanimous in their belief that a government buy-out of the bank would lead to the end of civilisation and the death of all first born. Now they are concerned that the same outcome will occur if the bank is sold off. It's a funny old world.
Mind you, a sale to another company has to be resisted. If there is one thing we should learn from the recent banking crisis it is that the banks as individual organisations are too large, remote and, given the chance, irresponsible. Merging more of them just perpetuates the problem. It's one of the main reasons why Lloyds should not have been able to take over Halifax. Northern Rock is downsizing, hence the ability to pay off over half the company's debt to the Bank of England. When it is in fit shape to return to the private sector, it will be smaller but leaner. And it should be independent and free standing.
Hollinside Manor
My latest local news video for constituents, this one is about the repair work to Hollinside medieval, fortified manor house which is on English Heritage's At Risk list.
Labour need a war - after all, it worked for Thatcher
Gordon Brown, sitting in the Downing St bunker, contemplating the reception to his budget and attempting to generate a new image for his party as New, Old, Retro Labour, needs to look around to find the winning ticket for the next general election. As things stand at the moment, the prognostications are not looking good.
He needs something that will unite the country, drive the bad economic news out of the headlines and get the nation backing him. He needs a war! After all, it worked for Thatcher back in the early 80s. Down in the polls, recession biting and unemployment rising, the Argentinians gave her a hand up by invading a colony few people in the UK could place on a map. Since Brown is a bit of a Maggie fan, having had her round for tea at Downing St (whilst making sure the press were there to cover it), perhaps he could follow her example and have a war.
So, as luck would have it, Britain and the Argentinians are currently having a bit of a spat about where the boundary lies in the South Atlantic between Argentina and the Falklands. It's all about fishing rights and oil.
Brown would, no doubt, argue that a war would be a great boost to the economy (look at the 1930s!) The Conservatives could be painted as a "do nothing" party on the war. In typical new Labour style, they could have targets for shooting down enemy planes and capturing Argie soldiers. The war could be blamed on irresponsible bankers who lent rival fishing fleets unsustainable sums of capital to build new fishing fleets. And ministers could introduce a scrappage scheme for old British warships. They could argue the war will be over by Christmas and 2010 will see a year of strong growth in international relations.
Meanwhile Derek Draper could be drafted in to compile a dossier on the Argentinians with lots of unfounded smears on their leading fishing vessels (they can launch a fleet of trawlers in 45 minutes - and other stuff like that!)
Without a war, there ain't much left for Labour to give them hope of winning a general election. That's not to say they won't win, and it's certainly not saying the Conservatives will win. They do, after all, have to gain 130 seats and even with an 18% opinion poll lead, they are still a year away from the election and they still keep screwing up on the ground - two council byelection losses today for example, one to Lib Dems, one to Labour.
Mind you, last time Labour took the country to war, it was a disaster. So perhaps not such a good precedent after all!
National Express complaints rise by 22%
I couldn't let this go by without a comment. The Newcastle Journal recently carried an article informing readers that complaints about National Express "have soared", making it the 2nd most complained about train company in the country. (They were beaten by Virgin West Coast.) A spokesman for National Excess blamed "operational issues" - in other words they couldn't "operate" a Hornby trainset, never mind real trains.
It is however interesting to note that the term "complaint" is used in this context. I asked for a "complaints" form a couple of weeks ago when Nat Excess cancelled my train yet again (operational issues of course) and was given a "comments and compliments" form.
The Journal article quoted Dave Clelland, the Labour MP for Tyne Bridge. I did actually agree with what he said but he was an odd choice. Mr Clelland much prefers to fly to London. His sky high expenses bill shows that to be the case.
Anyway, as luck would have it, I am now on a National Excess train heading home to the North East. Because of a completely unnecessary strike on the Victoria Line (something to do with the way train doors open) I ended up going on a long detour around the tube. So when I got to Kings Cross, there was no time to get a sandwich. So a few minutes ago, I headed down to the train's buffet car and discovered they are out of everything except lager, tea and crisps. I decided not to have the lager. So, hungry as I am, I've had to phone home to ask David to make me some sandwiches which I can have when I get home, which won't be til about 2.30am. Oh joy.
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Did the earth move for you today?
Do you remember the Labour attack on the Lib Dems before the general election, claiming we had "uncosted" spending plans, and our "figures didn't add up"? Vince Cable was slammed for wanting to spend a few hundred thousand pounds on bee research, one of the "100 uncosted spending commitments" Labour dribbled and drooled about. The end of the world was predicted if such sums were spent. Now the same Labour party casually announces that they have put us one hundred thousand million zillion pounds in debt. Oh, and the end of the world must be near as well as they have also agreed to funding bee research.
Can anyone take these people seriously again?
The announcement of £175 billion of debt this year was earth shattering. This is of earthquake proportions.
City Status for Gateshead
I was in the sandwich shop near Smith Square in Westminster when I got the call from the Journal a couple of hours ago. They wanted my views on Gateshead applying for city status. A great idea, I replied. Go for it. As a Gateshead lad, born and bred, wouldn't it be great to be on Gateshead City Council?
By the way, do you realise how difficult it is to do a media interview at the same time as ordering a sandwich? If I am quoted tomorrow, and the words, "Yes, I'll have onions with city status" appear, we will know that the two conversations got mixed up!
Now, back in the office and I am being buried under the weight of budget details. I need a mug of tea to revive me!
MP oversteps the boundary
I stumbled across this oral question from Labour MP Dave Anderson in the House of Commons to Health Secretary Alan Johnson on 24th March:
"Will the Secretary of State look into the situation where Newcastle hospitals have withdrawn from the joint partnership on laundry services with the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Gateshead in my constituency?"
The question was a reasonable one to ask. Newcastle have decided to ship their laundry 200 miles down the road to put it through the washing machine. From an environmental perspective, it doesn't make sense. The explanation to the reason for sending dirty linen such as distance probably lies with simple costs.
That however, is not the reason I raise this. I just thought I would point out to Mr Anderson that the Queen Elizabeth Hospital is not is his constituency. It is, infact, a modest distance to the boundary!
So, just to be helpful, I'm thinking of pointing out Mr Anderson's need for geography lessons in future copies of Focus!
Perhaps Mr Anderson was launching an invasion to save the poor people of Gateshead East from being represented by Labour MP Sharon Hodgson (though she has been dumped by the Gateshead Labour Party as candidate for the next general election). She altruism does you proud Dave!
I spent surprisingly little time on the allotment over the weekend. A couple of hours weeding on Saturday and a visit to check all was well on Sunday. Looks as though we are heading for bumper rhubarb, onion and garlic crops. And everything planted in the new greenhouse is coming along in leaps and bounds. Otherwise, nothing new planted (but there's plenty coming up).
It was however something of a history weekend (history, not historic!) I did some research on various old buildings in the Whickham area. And yesterday, I had lunch with a couple of historian friends of mine in Tynemouth, Norman McCord and Frank Manders, hopefully getting them interested in some of the work I am preparing. Meanwhile, I filmed more of a video I am working on.
I am now on the train to London. It will be a short visit. I come back home on Wednesday for full council on Thursday.
The Monday morning blog: when predictions go wrong
I guess we have all been there: made a prediction that turns out to be we'll off the mark. For example, back in September 2007 I predicted there would be an autumn election as there was no way the government would allow all that speculation to grow and they wouldn't be stupid enough to allow all the hype to run riot. I rather underestimated Labour's stupidity!
So the talk in the media this morning is of how far from reality were the Chancellor's predictions last November for the economy. Clearly the predictions suggesting boom times ahead are going to have to be revised by the Treasury. What gets me however is that last November, no one believed the predictions other than ministers. I remember listening to them in sheer disbelief. People without even a basic grounding in economics knew they were rubbish. Presumably the Chancellor will have to correct them on budget day on Wednesday. They will probably blame the "international situation."
Meanwhile, I will have to revise my analysis of the polls which I posted on this blog last week and which was written originally for Parliamentary Campaigner. The polls over the weekend have been dire for Labour and the smears issue seems to have damaged them, at least temporarily, far more than I expected. Interestingly, though the Tories have a strong opinion poll lead, their vote share has not improved from earlier this month. Their lead is based much more on Labour weakness than their own strength.
Whether or not this Labour weakness is carried over into the general election, which will presumably be in May next year, will only be known once that contest is held. Predictions for the outcome, however, need to be taken with a strong dose of caution. After all, we don't want to do a Darling.
It's a miracle: National Express doesn't cancel my train
Whenever I book the 7.40am Newcastle train to London on a Monday morning, I always turn up at the station with a sense of trepidation. Will the service be cancelled? It often is. Today, I am pleased to report that the departure board indicates a minor miracle. The train is not only not cancelled but is alleged to be on time. Wow!
Jacqui Smith's carbon footprint on MPs' expenses
The Sunday Times lists some of Jacqui Smith's expenses for housing her husband. We all know about the cost of the Smith family porn viewing habits (what they do in their own home is their own business - except when the taxpayer has to pick up the tab). What is included in the list however is a patio heater.
So at a time of rising fuel poverty when hundreds of thousands of people, especially the elderly, cannot afford to heat their homes, those very same people are having their taxes spent on heating the great outdoors on the patio of the Smith family. Not only are these heaters absolutely appalling for the environment, morally and socially it is absolutely wrong that such an item could be claimed as an expense.
All that glistens isn't Gould
Before the Labour selection for Erith and Thamesmead was abandoned yesterday, I did look at the allegations against Georgia Gould and thought they were a bit thin. Basically, it looked like the whinging of people who thought their favoured local son should be given a nice cushie job which is about to be whisked away from underneath them by a better organised individual who has a well run campaign team behind her. The allegations of nepotism seem a bit far fetched. She has not been imposed on the constituency as a shortlist of one person. She has to run the gauntlet of a selection process in which the members vote to choose their new candidate. My suggestion to the other candidates would be (had the whole selection process not been halted) get out and engage the members.
But that sort of thing doesn't enter the mindset of so many in the Labour party. Engaging with people is not a priority. I have seen too many examples of Labour being fundamentally hostile to engagement with people once they are elected. It's simply not part of their culture. So when someone comes along and disturbs their cosy quiet life and attempts to take from a favoured son (or daughter) an elected position they believe is theirs by right (whether that be an opposition candidate or an outsider within their own local ranks) they don't know how to react.
Labour has, of course, since self-destructed in Erith. Trust Labour to screw up. It seems they have a remarkable willingness to drag all their squabbles and infighting into the open. Were Labour to lose the next general election, they will be free to let all their internal tensions rip. And if you think there is plenty of blood on the walls now, just wait til they enter the killing fields after defeat.
As for Georgia Gould, she is probably feeling rather sore at the moment. Today could have been the first day of her election campaign. Instead, it is just another day of bloodletting..
I suppose this is why Brown was elected unopposed
I assumed back in 2007 that Brown was returned unopposed because he was seen as the clear front runner and indeed a dead cert to get the Labour leadership. Why alienate the guy who was virtually certain to be PM? Recent events given an indication as to how he was able to achieve such a position.
It seems that the machine Brown built up around him whilst at the Treasury was what helped him to bludgeon his way to the top unopposed. Anyone who stood out as a potential rival was simply bumped off in the middle of the night by a briefing with the press. Instead of inspiring respect and admiration, he propagated fear and in some cases loathing.
The same machine followed him into Downing St, becoming a loyal Prime Ministerial Praetorian Guard or a Brownite secret political police with files and information on everyone, free to fill those same files with any innuendo, misrepresentation and unfounded rumour they could get their hands on. And when the time was right, the contents of those files, whether true or false, could be released to destroy opponents.
Brown didn't have to know about what was happening. He didn't need to. All he needed was a system that got rid of turbulent opponents. And whilst the medieval practice of hacking difficult archbishops to death may not find favour now, the hacking to death of others' political careers is what the Brown machine excels at.
There is a certain degree of rough and tumble in politics. What someone says and does in public office is fair game. The Brown cabal not only over stepped the mark however, they pole vaulted across it. Brown may try to blame out of control individuals - and I have seen the damage out of control individuals in the Labour party can do locally to their own party - but he created the machine and he must carry responsibility for it.
Derek Draper - always a Labour ticking timebomb waiting to go off - and Damien McBribe may well have been cast out into the wilderness by Labour but there is nothing to suggest the machine itself has been dismantled. Brown's inner sanctum may well be an old machine that pumps out lots of poisonous emissions, but he does not look set yet to introduce a scrappage scheme for it.
Email newsletter just done
I suspect my email account at the Lib Dems nearly burnt a hole in the Cowley St server tonight. Firstly, my Gateshead colleague and regional Euro agent Frank Hindle wanted me to send a message out to everyone on my North East Democrat list. Then I sent out eFocus, my email newsletter to constituents which had additions only minutes before I hit the send button. So a four figure number of people who got emails from me this evening. Next week brings the North East Democrat (publication hopefully on Tuesday) and more eFocuses. What did we do before email?
No BNP candidate in Chopwell and Rowlands Gill
I have just received notification of who isn't standing in the Chopwell and Rowlands Gill By-election, the ward next to mine in Gateshead. And the BNP are not standing. I know we are. I know Labour are (they are defending what is one of their afest seats in the area). Not sure about the Conservatives though I guess they will fly the flag. The BNP didn't stand here last year but they did in a previous contest. I guess they think western Gateshead is rather barren territory for them.
The byelection is on 14th May. It's all hands on deck now. With nominations closing today, I can blog a bit more about the contest. I have personally delivered 1000 leaflets in the ward over the past month or so. It tends to be done on Sunday afternoons when I enjoy a walk around Rowlands Gill watching the red kites swooping above me.
Meanwhile, my spies tell me that Labour aim to be out and about in Chopwell on Saturday morning.
New facilities for councillors?
I was sent a survey yesterday by officers in the Civic Centre asking my opinion on facilities and accommodation for councillors in Gateshead Civic Centre. Was I satisfied with what we had? Were improvements needed?
Now is hardly the time to be considering investing in better accommodation for councillors. This should be at the bottom of the list of priorities. I wrote back:
Given the current financial circumstances, the demands on council resources and rising unemployment in the borough, I feel it would be very inappropriate at this stage to refurbish members' accommodation.
I'll keep you posted on whether or not my views have any impact.
Polls and by-elections analysis March - April
I wrote the following article for Parliamentary Campaigner but thoguht it useful to post it here as well. The analysis covers polls and council by-elections from 1st March to 9th April.
If Labour had hoped for a G20 'bounce', all they got was one very short lived blip. On 4th April YouGov put them at 34%, with a Conservative lead of 7%. Two days later, Labour were back down to 30%.
The range of shares of the vote from 1st March to 6th April are as follows:
Conservatives: 40-44% - but 7 out of the 11 polls put them on 41-42%
Labour: 28-34% - but 7 out of the 11 polls put them on 30-31%
Liberal Democrats: 14-20% - but 8 out of the 11 polls put them on 17-19%
In effect the polls have been steady for six weeks. Blips have happened but they were small. This means that the Conservatives, who need a 10% lead in the popular vote to win a majority, are only scraping along at the lower end of what they need to win. When the general election comes, that lead, enjoyed whilst Labour are suffering from the recession and a strong dose of midterm blues, is not large enough to give them the cushion they need to be assured of victory.
The Conservatives cannot afford any slip up in the General Election. They need to gain over 130 seats so with such a huge challenge, failure to capture any individual seat on their target list will make it all the more difficult to win with a majority.
Council by-elections
The Conservatives' performance in recent Council by-elections has not reflected their opinion poll performance. Whilst patchy, it nevertheless makes uncomfortable reading for David Cameron's party.
They were 4th in Manchester, Redcar and Cleveland and Dundee and 5th in St Helens.
In a seat in Camden they held til 2006, the Lib Dems saw their majority rise from a handful of votes to a 3 figure sum.
In Calderdale, they held on to the seat but their share droped from over half to just over a third.
They lost 3 seats: to Labour in Redditch and North Warwickshire and to the Lib Dems in Broadland (where the Lib Dem share increased by 50.4%)
In the 30 by-elections fought by the Conservatives from the start of March up to Easter, their vote went down in 20 (9 of them by over 10%)
In conclusion, whilst the polls are showing a Conservative lead, they are only at the fringes of the comfort zone. When faced with voting Conservative in real elections however, the Conservative performance fails to hold on to the gains made in local election votes that have come their way since the 2005 general election.
Marley Hill's missing banner
Sunniside History Society have been in touch with me to ask for my help in tracking down a missing Victorian miners' banner. Marley Hill is a small, former pit village just up the road from Sunniside where I live. As well as being the location of Dad's allotment (!), it was also the last, non coastal deep mine in the region, closing in 1984. It was also the last pit in the region to use pit ponies, and once the pit closed, the ponies went into retirement.
Members of the history society are concerned that the banner, which has enormous historical value to the former miners of the area and to the local community, has gone missing from the NUM Headquarters in Durham. Enquiries have so far failed to locate it.
If you know of its whereabouts or any information that could help us locate it, please get in touch with me on cllr.jwallace@gateshead.gov.uk.
Wandering around the sewage works
No, not a video about Downing St as someone suggested to me on Facebook the other day! This is me with my historian's hat on, wandering around the derelict sewage works that up to 60 years ago served one of the villages near to where I live. The plant is long forgotten but I rediscovered it again 3 weeks ago. I returned over Easter to filmed and photograph it.
Weekend round up: planting potatoes and investigating sewage works
Four days at home. Bliss! The time seemed to be split between the allotment, making videos, trying out new wild foods recipes and visiting local places of historical interest.
So, I am now the proud owner of 4 furrows of potatoes on the allotment. In total that's 20 metres of spuds growing. Following the disaster of our crop last year, this time we meticulously planned what we were doing. So hopefully, this year we will have potatoes galore.
Local historical sites of interest visited were the Tanfield Railway, the world's oldest steam railway, which happens to be within walking distance of my house. And yesterday, we walked down to some woodland near our village where, a couple of weeks ago, I discovered a large set of foundations. A bit of research and I discovered the building was the sewage works built by Chester le Street Rural District Council in the early twentieth century. Maps suggested the site was out of use by the early 1950s. Since I had come across no references to the site in any histories of the area, David and I decided to explore the site a bit further and took cameras and video with us.
A weekend wouldn't go but without my coming up with new recipes for wild foods. I produced two. The first was a wild leaf salad consisting of dandelion, wild parsley, bramble shoots and hawthorn leaves, with a dressing made of raspberry vinegar. Very nice! The second was a wild garlic loaf. That's in my bag now, heading to London, along with two fillets of smoked salmon. I was give a food smoking kit for Christmas and we tested it out last night on a couple of piece of cheap salmon. The results are encouraging.
No weekend can go by without a Focus delivery. I did two patches.
And finally, back to food. We did a full check on the contents of the freezer. Quite why we have frozen tarragon, best before 1999, is a point we can't answer. I made a note of all the contents, though the really old stuff we decided to put out for the birds or put in the compost bin. Now I have to plot a series of meals to get the food used up. After all, we'll need the space soon for our first crops (and the ice cream we are planning to make).
The Monday morning blog on Tuesday - time for a Tory apology now
The Tories are demanding an apology from Gordon Brown over the Damian McBride affair. They are owed one but don't wait by the phone. As we all know, neither Brown nor Labour do apologies. I'm still waiting for an apology from Labour 17 years after they ran a pretty vile campaign against me in Hexham in the 1992 general election.
Yet there is something missing from all this. The Tories themselves owe the Lib Dems an apology. For years their candidate in Watford conducted a campaign of criminal damage and smears against Lib Dems in the constituency. The candidate ended up being found guilty after a long running police investigation and a major court case. The candidate has since gone but there has not been a word of regret or apology from the Tories. Watford was, at the time, a target seat for the Tories. The chances are that the criminal behaviour of their former candidate has sealed the Tories' fate of coming 3rd in Watford.
So, David Cameron, despite repeated requests for an apology, nothing is forthcoming. It would appear that, like Gordon, you don't do apologies.
What I was doing yesterday - the Tanfield Steam Railway
I went to the world's oldest steam railway, the Tanfield Railway, which also happens to be on the edge of my village of Sunniside in Gateshead yesterday. It was like a giant trainset for boys who haven't grown up! Great fun. Enjoy the video.
The Emily Thornberry television car crash
I have just watched Labour MP Emilly Thornberry being inverviewed about the Damian McBride affair on News 24. It was a car crash of a performance, claiming she couldn't care less about whether or not this civil servant Labour hack should be able to stay in his job. And she even tried to blame the whole mess on right wiing bloggers who, she claims, are much more keen on running smear campaigns against their opponents. Hardly makes it okay, does it?
Whilst I don't expect attempts at running smear campaigns to be an institutional decision within Labour, the fact that someone so senior and close to the centre of power has been caught red handed highlights the depths of despair to which Labour have sunk as they see their hopes of winning a general election outright slipping from their grasp. What it suggest is that the next election will not necessarily be a clean campaign.
What possessed me to get this train?
I guess the answer to my own question is the availability of tickets. Normally I try to avoid getting the 10pm train out of Kings Cross to Newcastle. I have been quite successful at avoiding it for the past year or so. But not tonight. I guess there has been a rush of people to get tickets on the earlier trains due to the bank holiday tomorrow. The additional drawback with this service is that we all have to change at York. Literally, everyone on the train, including the crew, transfers across the plaform at York station, and then waits of the other train for about 25 minutes until it is scheduled to leave. For this frustrating activity, I am not going to blame National Express. GNER used to do the same thing.
I am not expecting to get home until about 2.30am. I have a weekend of allotment gardening and video making but tomorrow morning I am having a lie in!
Early spring on the allotment
Just in case anyone is interested, here's the latest video about what I get up to on my allotment!
Red faces as Labour councillors forget words to Red Flag
Thursday 26th March saw the final meeting of Blyth Valley District Council. The decision to consign the authority to the history books had been controversial, but nevertheless, as the ruling Labour group gathered to rule for one last time, the tones of "Red Flag" started to pour from the lips of the "socialist" brethren.
Alas, this last act of defiance against the new Lib Dem run Northumberland Council (or was it against their own government? - both are viewed as the enemy by the departing brothers and sisters) turned out to be a bit of a disaster as so few of them knew the words!
Apparently many of the red hot socialists had to fill in their gaps in their knowledge of the lyrics by singing "la la la". No one had thought to download the words to this Socialist singalong favourite from the internet.
I guess they won’t be keeping the Red Flay flying there anymore.
2nd video with 100,000 viewings
Thought I'd post this video I filmed on the London Eye to celebrate its becoming my second on YouTube to reach 100,000 viewings. My top video, "Inside a former secret Soviet submarine base", is on 109,000 but London Eye is closing fast.
Quite what possessed me to get the 7am train this morning to London is beyond me, but at least National Express has been kind enough to avoid cancelling the service. Whether or not they cancel the 7.40am, their favourite candidate for the chop, is something I don't know.
Anyway, seeds was the theme for my weekend. We must have planted thousands on the allotment. Peas, beans, chard, parsnips, courgettes, carrots, leeks, you name it, we probably planted it! And three videos made as well, about the allotment and wild food foraging and cooking.
Screw up of the weekend was to forget to go to the Saltwell Park Fair, despite its being in my diary. But at least I got my weekend allocation of focus newsletters delivered.
Anyway, we have just passed York. Next stop is Kings Cross. Wake me up when we arrive.
The Monday Morning Blog: General Election Predictions
I haven't seen any polls over the weekend so I don't know if Brown has had a G20 bounce. My feeling is that, whilst it no doubt helps to restore some degree of success to Brown's image, the gathering itself was largely irrelevant to the day-to-day concerns of the majority of ordinary people. That is not to detract from what the conference achieved. Oiling the jammed up wheels of international trade will ultimately benefit all of us.
The resulting spring in the heals of Brown won't tempt him to go for an election this year. Whilst these may be famous last words, Brown knows that recovery and a feeling that the economy has turned a corner and things are improving are what Labour needs to stand any chance of winning an election. With the Chancellor already claiming that there will be no recovery this year, Labour's window of opportunity is now just a very narrow slit in an imposing wall.
So come the next election, what are the possible outcomes? Polls currently suggest a Conservative victory with a comfortable majority. Polls mid term however tend to do just that: show a lead for the opposition. I am not convinced however that the Conservatives have what it takes to win a majority next time round. To scrape in with a minimal majority, they need to gain 130 seats. That means there is virtually no room for any individal constituency cock ups. Every single seat on their hit list has to be won. The evidence suggests that that is going to be extremely difficult to achieve.
And look again at what the polls are showing. Look at the Conservative share of the vote. It is, with a small number of exceptions, in the low 40s. That compares poorly with the Labour performance under Blair in opposition in the 1990s (and Kinnock's Labour Party often had much higher ratings in 1991, only to lose the election a year later). The reality is that whilst Labour are unpopular, the Conservatives have not yet reached the critical mass of public support that will be strong enough to propel them into government in one leap. There is no public burning appetite for them like there was for Labour when Blair led them through the final years of the Major government.
Whilst it is fair to say that Cameron has successfully decontaminated the Conservative brand, there is as yet a failure to present an alternative vision other than "We are not Labour." That is not enough to ensure a groundswell of support sufficient to win an election.
As for Labour, the difference between winning comfortably, and losing a reasonably large number of seats is quite narrow. Labour's grip on power is precarious. Their share of the vote at the last election was 36%, the same as they got in 1979 when they lost the election badly to Thatcher. In 2005 Labour were saved by a voting system that looked on them favourably but which can equally give them an absolute pasting and keep them out of power, which it did in the 80s and early 90s.
Labour has three significant systemic weaknesses at the moment: their national organisation is in a mess with massive debts; their constituency organisation is shot to bits; their great selling point - that they are strong on the economy, abolished boom and bust and delivered prosperity - has gone up in smoke. All three of these are needed if they are to win a general election outright.
So predictions on the outcome, whenever the election is called? Sorry, no can do! The next election is probably going to be the most unpredictable for decades. What is predictable though is that the real battles will be fought out in individual constituencies, far more so than across the airwaves. And that could see seats going in all directions.
My advice however is that no one in politics should rely on their opponets to deliver election success for them. That is your job to do that for yourself.
What's coming up this weekend
I am now on the train heading back to the North East. The weekend will be the usual mix of allotment, Focuses, campaigning and video making plus a hush hush meeting about which I ain't going to tell you anything. We also have to make a visit to B&Q. I don't know what for, I simply got the message from David that we need to go to buy something for the allotment.
Anyway, I need to shoot some video about our drive to self-sufficiency. Surprisingly, my videos about this are getting a healthy number of viewings on YouTube. There seems to be an 'appetite' for them! I never would have guessed so many people would be interested in how to make nettle tea or build a greenhouse! I also need to do some research for some history videos I'm planning though whether or not I'll fit that in is questionable.
I also need to make a start with Parliamentary Campaigner. Publication date is this Thursday so I'd better get a move on.
The Brown G-string and the smile on his face
The G20 circus has now left town and Gordon has enjoyed himself. I hadn't seen him smile like that since he announced the abolition of the 10p rate and thought he'd got away with it. Pity for him that he has to stop hanging around with his fereign buddies and return to work with all those Labour ministers and MPs who have grown to despair of him.
Trade credits and the decision of the creditor nations such as China to pump a trillion dollars into the IMF is a significant step. No doubt Brown will claim it was all down to him. Perhaps he had some hand in the outcome, or perhaps it was going to happen anyway as world leaders could see the dire consequences of not oiling the wheels of international trade.
Action on tax havens was also welcome and on this, Sarkozy can probably claim more credit than Brown. After all, the latter has, since 1997, been the protector of offshore tax havens. Only recently has be realised he's been seen hanging around with the wrong kids on the financial block and has turned on them to create the impression he's been against them all along.
It appeared yesterday that Brown had pulled a rabbit out of the hat with the agreement. As is always the case with Brown however, wait for the headlines and euphoria to die down and then look again at the rabbit. Too often in the past, the white rabbit pulled out of the hat is little more than the victim of a spin doctoral roadkill which is already reeking and rotting. We shall need to see what the G20 agreement details are before we should make our final judgement.
It could be that Emperor Gordon is posing in his new clothes and until the euphoria has passed, no one can bring themselves to tell him all he is wearing to cover his embarrassment is his G-string.
The barriers go up at National Express
No, they haven't seen me leading the Charge of the Light Brigade. It's much worse than that! Work is taking place at Kings Cross which looks as though it is to set up ticket barriers. So not only do we have the privilege of having our trains cancelled by National Express, we can add to that the privilege of being delayed at the station as hundreds of people, complete with bags galore, attempt to squeeze through the barriers. It will be chaos. So, are you up to the National Express steeplechase gold cup challenge? Get ready to enjoy the spectacle! As for those of us who will be competing on this obstacle course, have pity on us.
I did of course expect this work to be carried out. Last year National Express announced they were seeking planning permission to install barriers at Newcastle Central. I found out as The Journal phoned me for a comment. Writing blog posts about this bus turned train operator certainly helps to get me noticed, even if it hasn't led to the end of my train service being cancelled.
Gain from Labour in Redcar and Cleveland
News has reached me of a gain from Labour in the Dormanstown byelection in Redcar and Cleveland yesterday. And yet again, the Conservatives trail in 4th place behind the BNP.
The result is:
Ken Lucas (Lib Dem) - 809
Marion Fairley (Lab)- 667
Lynn Payne (BNP) - 305
Barry Hughes-Mundy (Con) - 125
Labour have had quite a bad time of late in Redcar and Cleveland. looks as though things there for them are not getting any better.
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FA: Students selected for Serendipity Barefoot School of Art Competition 2017
By Rajarshi Dutta
A Group of 8 thesis semester students from Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University have participated in Serendipity Barefoot School of Art competition and got shortlisted for exhibiting their work in the Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa(December 15th – 22nd). A total of 15 proposals will be exhibited in the festival along with their proposal.
About competition:
The intent of the project is to create new centres of learning for crafts and a space where this legacy can be taken forth through instruction and hands on experience. What is expected of the design is a statement on the very idea of teaching crafts. To conceptualize a space for learning which addresses the need for design intervention is a learning space.
Facebook link for the festival –
https://www.facebook.com/serendipityartsfestival/
The name of the students as per the photo attached (left to right):
Vedanti Agarwal
Nishita Parmar
Krishna Parikh
Manuni Patel
Aman Amin
Prashik Chaudhari
Monik Shah
Kishan Shah
The jurors for the competition are Aniket Bhagwat, Dr. Annapurna Garimella, Judy Frater and Shruti Narayan who shortlisted their entry.
As a group, they have recently started a new firm under the name – Compartment S4. It is an architectural collaborative by a group of designers who have come together to combine their individual ideologies in a pool of ideas which can enhance architecture further.
Follow on the Facebook page link –
https://www.facebook.com/Compartment-S4-1359558187472135/
Reposted from: http://cept.ac.in/faculty-of-architecture/news/fa-students-selected-for-serendipity-barefoot-school-of-art-competition-2017
Serendipity Barefoot School of Craft: Made in Goa
Serendipity Barefoot School of Craft: Made in Goa is an architectural competition. The selection of 15 submissions for development into architectural models will be displayed at Serendipity Art Festival 2017, with the selected submission being developed into a school of craft in 2018. Submission for this newly launched open architectural competition seek to raise awareness about the importance of our continued and collective engagement with local environments, skills, materials and crafts pedagogy
Discipline Curator: Dr. Annapurna Gerimella
Design & Research in collaboration: Mozaic (Dean D’Cruz)
Date: 15th – 22nd December 2017
About Dr. Annapurna Gerimella:
Dr. Annapurna Garimella is a designer and an art historian who focuses on the art and architecture of India and is based in Bangalore, India. She heads Jackfruit, a research and design organization, with a specialized portfolio of design and curatorial projects for artists, museums, government and private organizations and non-profits. Jackfruit’s most recent project is Vernacular, in the Contemporary for Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi. She is also founder of Art, Resources and Teaching Trust, a not-for-profit organization that gathers resources and promotes research and teaching in art and architectural history, archaeology, crafts, design, and other related disciplines in academic and non-academic fora. She was the former Research Editor and Advisory Board Member for Marg Publications and is currently on the board of the S N School of Art and Communication, University of Hyderabad. She has written several essays on contemporary art and edited and contributed to two volumes, Shaping the Indian Modern on the work of Mulk Raj Anand and along with Bhanu Padamsee, Akbar Padamsee: Work in Language. Her most recent book is about a collaboration between a Rajasthani miniature painter and expatriate American photographer and is titled The Artful Life of R. Vijay (Serindia, 2016)
“MUTABLE”: THE CHANGING NATURE OF CERAMIC AND CLAY ART IN INDIA
I love experiences that challenge me, make me think and occasionally shake me up a bit — not too much, mind you, just a little. Be it a book, travel, a music performance, food… the memories that have stayed with me are the ones that offered something extra by way of perception. The exhibition on “Mutable: Ceramic and Clay Art in India since 1947“ at the Piramal Museum of Art in Mumbai was one such experience. Curated by Sindhura D.M. and Annapurna Garimella, Mutable showcases 70 years of ceramic and clay art objects sourced from artists, artisans, institutions and private collectors from across India.
I wasn’t aware of this exhibition till photos of its preview night on October 13, 2017, exploded on all my social media timelines. Friends who knew of my interest in all things art tagged me and I went dizzy just keeping up. In the days that followed, tantalising articles and write-ups in newspapers followed, tempting me to drop everything and visit the exhibition, but as it happened it took me 10 days before I could actually do so.
It was my first visit to the Piramal Museum of Art and when I walked in on that October afternoon, I didn’t know where to look first — the large open exhibition space or the exhibits. Exhibition spaces fascinate me in how they are designed to interact with the exhibits within and also how their very design enhances or limits viewer experience. In this case the large open gallery, a viewing gallery on the first floor, a domed roof and the exhibits promised a great experience.
And I wasn’t wrong.
The exhibition space for “Mutable” at the Piramal Museum of Art. Note the ease of movement between exhibits and the access to view them up close. The only thing I couldn’t really get was the lighting, which made the walls look sickly.
I wasn’t sure what the word “Mutable” meant and had to look it up in the dictionary. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it means ‘prone to change’ and in the context of the exhibition it means the changes that have taken place in ceramic and clay art in India over the last 70 years.
The Mutable exhibition maps this through 5 sections — Shift, Utility, Form, Object and Perception — with each section addressing “diverse practices, and showcases the works of potters, ceramicists and artists” during the creation of a modern and decolonising India. The exhibition also looks at the works made outside “any specific ideological and institutional frame”, and also objects that were created “through collaborations between potters and artists, artists and industry, studio practitioners and hereditary potters, and between organisations and potters”. In brief, the exhibition sought “to record the… history of the art form and its makers and to explore the boundaries that exist between the ‘traditional’ and ‘contemporary’”.
I took my time to go through the exhibition, and then going back to see the ones I liked, taking my time to understand make the connections between the exhibits and the word “Mutable”. For example, one of the first exhibits I saw was a surahi or a traditional water pot and placed next to it were two modern interpretations of the surahi. Though they looked quite different, they were still recognisable as a surahi. So, while the design had become mutable, its functionality had not.
A surahi (L) and its modern renditions (R)
My favourite exhibit was Sudhir Patwardhan’s “Untitled” terracotta work, which at first glance looked like a big slab of pink sandstone. As I looked closer, it revealed surprising details — a tree, and beyond that an undulating landscape. Were undulations mountains or sand dunes? Did the two distinct portions convey a meeting of the traditional and the contemporary? Did this convey the mutable, ever-changing nature of the earth? The terracotta was so compelling that my hands reached out to touch the terracotta slab involuntarily. The ever-watchful security guard cleared his throat loudly and I withdrew my hand guiltily.
Untitled by Sudhir Patwardhan. Terracotta. 1988
There were surp rises and discoveries to be made at the exhibition ! Like Jaimini Roy’s hand-painted work on terracotta. When I saw the hand-painted work, I immediately recognised it as a Jaimini Roy work, but since I only knew of his paintings I had to check and was surprised to find that it was indeed his ! [PS: I also didn’t know that Sudhir Patwardhan worked with terracotta as I only knew of his paintings.] It was also wonderful and special to see the ceramic sculpture (left) titled “Time” by Rekha Goyal. (Hi Rekha 🙂 ), a batc hmate from my Indian Aesthetics programme at Jnanapravaha
The scope, magnitude and importance of the Mutable exhibition revealed itself much like Sudhir Patwardhan’s untitled terracotta — slowly, bit by bit, sometimes bold and clear, sometimes nuanced and subtle, sometimes filling me with nostalgia and sometimes with wonder. I loved some of the exhibits, liked most, while a few left me indifferent and puzzled. A selection of some of the exhibits that I loved/liked are given below.
I left the exhibition in a thoughtful frame of mind and with a lot of questions. I couldn’t help but wonder why such an exhibition has not been thought before. [Or was it that such an exhibition had been held and I missed it?]. I also wonder if the exhibition is a response to the global appreciation for handmade and handcrafted items, even if the focus is on India. I wonder at the interest in and revival of, if it can be called that, Indian ceramic and clay art and wonder if the Mutable Exhibition is the first of many events and programmes planned this in the country. I wonder why the importance given to pottery by archaeologists and historians no longer appears to be there with contemporary work being taken for granted by a large majority, which includes me as well.
I’m definitely one of those who has taken clay and ceramic art for granted. But this was not always the case. When I started working in 1993 and also started travelling to various places, apart from books, I bought clay and ceramic art — for use at home, as souvenirs, as gifts, etc. My first ceramic piece was a blue and white vase that I got at an exhibition; my first clay art was a terracotta elephant from Chennai. I still have both of them !
When I reached home after visiting the Mutable Exhibition, the first thing I did was to I look around and see the ceramic and clay art at home. Within minutes, I had assembled this little ensemble (you see in the photograph below) together. Though there were more, I didn’t have the patience to gather them together and thought that this was a representative enough. The oldest in this lot is from December 1993 and the newest is from October 2017 and have come various places like Kolkata, Puducherry, Chennai, Delhi, Jaipur, etc.
A small selection of ceramic and clay art from my home. The blue pot, my first ceramic art, is in the centre and the terracotta elephant (extreme left), a travel souvenir, was my first clay art.
I’m sure there are many like me who have collected and use ceramic and clay art in its various forms. While such people may not and cannot be termed as collectors in the strictest sense —perhaps patron is a better word? — they are important too. For we too have been a part of the changes sweeping through the world of ceramic and clay art in India. And we too have recorded the changes with our little collectibles. Would you agree with me?
As part of the “Mutable” Exhibition, various events and talks were held at the Piramal Museum of Art. While I had the noble intention of attending at least some of them and interact with the artists, and perhaps even visit the exhibition again, that didn’t happen. As the Museum draws to a close next week, I’m just happy that I managed to visit it.
If you are in Mumbai and haven’t visited the exhibition yet, this weekend is your last chance to do so. Please, please don’t miss visiting the Mutable Exhibition. And if you go or have already visited the exhibition, do let me know what you thought of the exhibition.
PS: I received the very timely Marg Magazine on “Indian Ceramics: History and Practice”, yesterday evening, but am yet to read it. Hopefully, it will answer a lot of my questions.
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Serendipity Barefoot School of Craft is a two-year project which, for this edition of the festival, consists of an architectural competition. The display of all complete submissions and a selection of 15 submissions for development into architectural models will be showcased at SAF 2017.
The Serendipity Barefoot School of Craft seeks to raise awareness about the importance of our continued and collective engagement with local environments, skills, materials and crafts pedagogy.
1. Space Intervention
Every year since 2000 the Serpentine Gallery has commissioned a temporary summer pavilion by a leading architect.
In 2017 Gando, Francis Kéré has designed a responsive Pavilion that seeks to connect its visitors to nature – and each other. An expansive roof, supported by a central steel framework, mimics a tree’s canopy, allowing air to circulate freely while offering shelter against London rain and summer heat.
Kéré has positively embraced British climate in his design, creating a structure that engages with the everchanging London weather in creative ways. The Pavilion has an open air courtyard in the centre where visitors can sit and relax during sunny days. The roof and wall system are made from wood. Similar to the concept of the Serpentine Gallery, the Serendipity Barefoot School of Craft Pavilion will be a sustainable and eco-friendly structure that responds to Goa and shall have an exhibition of architectural models. More importantly, we hope to create a space for an architectural intervention – even in the future.
2. Sustainability
– SAT focuses and has a mandate to respond to Goa as a space and aims to involve the Goan. We are
looking at a pavilion that responds to Goa as well.
– Bamboo as a material must be used.
– Low Carbon Footprint
– The design and production shall need to be based on the use of low skill labour
3. Pavilion shall showcase
– excellence in Design
– proposal entries as well as the 15 shortlisted models
-the space is an intervention of art, crafts, design and most importantly architecture
– post the Festival – it could be a resting point for walkers and visitors
4. Spatial Brief
As per the survey, the site(paved rectangular patch) is approximately 1100 sq.ft. Surrounding area can be used as per design. The structure should be able to host around 40 people at one time and must incorporate all the functions mentioned below:
(i) Oven space where this will be the live aspect of the pavilion where bakers shall
need a traditional oven.
Bake the traditional breads of Goa with some intervention (e.g: adding sea salt)
Allow people and other bakers to come discuss and comment
Maybe sell the breads as well as have tasting for the audiences
The space allotted to this would be 100 sq ft which will include the oven, bread resting racks and fermentation area.
The oven shall cover approximately 60 sq ft.
Remarks: To avoid fire hazards this would need to be outside and not within the pavilion.
Wet space would be needed as water may be needed for the preparation of dough, hand washing and incase of fire hazard.
(ii) Prototyping Area which is only for
– Showcasing objects made of bamboo
– Highlighting the history of bamboo
Shelves for 10 prototypes like bamboo spectacle frames, bamboo spectacle cases, coconut shell and ceramic buttons, etc
Information and graphics about the prototypes
Information of where the designs come from?
(iii) Main Exhibition Space for
– 15 models and proposals
– 3 to 4 feedback pedestals possibly near the entry/exit with tablets (which would need to be secured). This area would be accessed by the public. The space shall also have the option of a
manual feedback as well, so provision to keep questionnaires printed on recycled paper shall be there.
5. Other Elements
(i) Minimal electricity usage
(ii) naturally ventilated
(iii) – The Pavilion should be one that can be retained for a period of 6 months to year, if permission is given to leave it. If needed to be removed, it should be completely removable without any footprints
(iv) no wet area needed (except in Oven area)
6. Need for Design intervention at Bhagwan Mahavir Children’s Park
We are on a journey to explore and reinvent Panjim as a cultural space, and we believe that interventions through contemporary designs play a crucial role. With “Serendipity Barefoot School of Craft: Made in Goa”, we aim to showcase this intervention with traditional craft forms and sustainable yet contemporary architectural designs.
As we have this journey is one that will expand over the years, we would like to use the Children’s Park for the pilot part of the project and merge architecture and craft, reinventing the natural space through sustainable design and create a foundation for architects to build on in the coming phases of the project.
Vernacular spectacular: Craft goes mainstream at India Art Fair | By Neelam Raaji Times of India
NEW DELHI: It’s pretty rare to see Gond and Madhubani paintings rub noses with the Subodh Guptas and Manjit Bawas. It’s even stranger when the setting is the India Art Fair, where commerce takes precedence over culture.
Tribal, folk, naive or native art — all labels that art historians now vehemently oppose — is usually to be found in craft museums, trade fairs or Dilli Haat. Most contemporary art shows give it a wide berth. At best, you get the odd work hung in the name of “inclusion”.
But with the India Art Fair, once considered a scrappy upstart, becoming more confident of its place on the global art map, it’s decided to not only represent work from across South Asia but also widen the definition of contemporary Indian art to include vernacular art.
At the ‘Vernacular in Flux’ section curated by art historian Annapurna Garimella hang some of the best names in Gond, Mithila and Guruvayoor art. “I feel the term vernacular is more apt as it signifies a traditional art language without the limitations that terms like folk, tribal or native have,” says Garimella, who has borrowed works of artists like Gond’s Bhajju Shyam and Mithila’s Baua Devi from noted private collections.
And proving that craft and contemporary are not two different worlds is Gond artist Durga bai Vyam. If one of her accordion books titled Purani Shaadi shows a big, fat and long wedding, Nayi Shadi is short and sweet. Boy sees girl, they romance over a mobile, have a no-fuss shaadi and ride off into the sunset on a scooter. “Though the artists have a committed engagement to traditional knowledge, they are very much influenced by the world around them,” points out Garimella.
Delhi-based Gallery Espace has devoted one booth to 19th century leather puppets from Karnataka that have been painstakingly restored, and plans to expand the initiative.
“Galleries are beginning to put serious consideration into becoming more diverse,” says Garimella. But her worry, shared by many, is that if the market dries up, commitment might dry up with it.
“Mutable”: ceramic and clay art in India since 1947 at Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai
Reposted from: http://artradarjournal.com
“Mutable” showcases diverse ceramic and clay art objects sourced from artists, artisans, institutions and private collectors from across India.
This landmark exhibition, curated by Sindhura D.M. with Annapurna Garimella, is one of the first of its kind in the city and is on display at the Piramal Museum of Art until 15 January 2018.
Abhay Pandit, Tension of Lines (Seascape), 2014-15, stoneware, h 18 x w 14 in. Image courtesy the artist and the Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai.
Building links between the vernacular and the modern
Pottery in India has evolved in the last 70 years since attaining independence from its functional aspects as a utilitarian household item into an aesthetic object and work of art, thereby making a place for itself in the contemporary art space of today. This has been an eventful journey. An important aspect of the nation-building agenda of independent India was theengagement of rural arts and crafts with the nationalist discourse. Pottery, weaving and textiles played an equally critical role alongside painting, sculpture and architecture in the development of a new Indian aesthetic as artists tried to revitalise India’s cultural heritage by using indigenous elements in their practice.
Vineet Kacker, Khojun…Ya Kho Jaun (Should I Look For You, Should I Lose Myself), 2016, mixed media. Image courtesy the artist and the Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai.
During the course of the 20th century, as artists started focusing on individuality, creativity and personal expression, ceramic and clay art developed its own aesthetic language and established itself as a distinct art form – transcending the humble status of its colonial past by incorporating new technologies and modern materials. As stated in the Piramal Museum exhibition brochure,
Mutable: Ceramic and Clay Art in India Since 1947 surveys this changing social, cultural, ecological and visual landscape and explores the enormous range of cultural practices that deal with aesthetics, function and sustainability. The pivotal point of the exhibition is the building of links or bridges between images of the vernacular and of modern art and design.
K Laxma Goud, Untitled and undated, 2017, ceramic, h 21.96 x w 20.98 x d 10.00 in. Image courtesy the Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai and the Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai.
Diversity, creativity and partnerships
“Mutable” showcases the diverse range of pottery-making in India and displays the works of 80 artists from across the country including Gurcharan Singh who is acknowledged as the pioneer of Indian studio pottery, the versatile Devi Prasad who was a painter, potter and lifelong pacifist, and Ray Meeker and Deborah Smith, the founders of Puducherry’s Golden Bridge Pottery and leading educators in the field of contemporary ceramic art.
It also presents the works of leading artists with heterogeneous practices, who have used clay as one of the various media in their repertoire, such as K. G. Subramanyan, Laxma Goud, Himmat Shah, N. N. Rimzon, Nek Chand Saini and MrinaliniMukherjee. In order to celebrate the efforts of hereditary potters, “Mutable” also introduces visitors to the practices of famous father-son duos such as Delhi-based Bhuvnesh and Giri Raj Prasad (both National Award winners), and Padma Shriawardee Brahmdeo Ram and Abhay Pandit, trailblazing ceramists from Mumbai.
“Mutable”, 13 October 2017 – 15 January 2018, installation view at Piramal Museum of Art. Image courtesy the Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai.
The exhibition throws a spotlight on ceramic and clay practices as they have emerged out of India’s art schools and also focuses on work done by institutions working with potters across the country such as Fabindia, Neerja International, Gwalior Pottery and Mitotic Commenting. On the vast diversity presented in the exhibition curators Annapurna Garimellaand Sindhura D.M. said:
“Clay and ceramic are vernacular, classic, modern and plural; they change and endure. ‘Mutable’celebrates seventy years of creative work with these materials, presenting an Indian history of ideas, art, design and technology.”
Brahmdeo Ram Pandit, ‘Crystalline Ceramics’, 2016, stoneware, h 17 in. Image courtesy the artist and the Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai.
Tradition meets technology
As the makers of utilitarian pottery in India have historically been artisanal potters, artists have always been involved in reviving traditional techniques while assimilating new technologies into their ceramic and clay practices. This is clearly evident in the heterogeneity of styles, textures, designs and purposes of the objects on display at “Mutable” which are organised into five sections – ‘Shift’, ‘Utility’, ‘Form’, ‘Object’ and ‘Perception’. Commenting on the broad range of practices of the featured potters, artists, ceramists and organisations that have been working with clay, exhibition curator SindhuraD.M. says:
“Respecting this diversity, the term ‘maker’ is privileged throughout the exhibition to describe and place potters, artists and ceramists in a broader field of ceramic and clay practice. Some makers produce more than one type of work which may include functional ware as well as sculpture. This has led us to include them in more than one section in the exhibition . . . The vast diversity of today’s work with clay, which is presented in this exhibition, is an indicator of the change that is happening within practices.”
Aman Khanna, Acute, Obtuse, Straight and Right, 2017, ceramic/stoneware, h 12 in approximately. Image courtesy the artist and the Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai.
It was artist Gurcharan Singh’s experience of Japanese studio pottery that enabled him to push the boundaries of form, technique and material and introduce stoneware, dull glazes and unusual shapes of tableware in his practice – evident in the exhibition “Kettle, Coffee Cup and Saucers”. In the 1970s, it was the pioneering efforts of artists such as Singh and others like Ray Meeker and Deborah Smith who started Golden Bridge Pottery in Puducherry that paved the way for the younger generation of potters to explore new techniques and develop their creativity. Artists such as Vineet Kacker’s work conflates art, design and craft. Exploiting the tactility of clay, he is able to incorporate layers of meaning into his work by expanding its capacity for creative expression. In Khojun…Ya Kho Jaun (Should I Look for You or Should I Lose Myself)(2016) Kacker merges the earthiness of clay with the modernity of digital technology to create a multimedia installation that urges you to question the spiritual connection between the medium and nature.
Daily Dump, Khamba 3T, 2017, Terracotta, 15.5 x 30.5 in. Image courtesy the Piramal Art Foundation, Mumbai.
In the ‘Utility’ section of the exhibition due recognition has been given to commercial organisations such as Gwalior Pottery and Fabindia that have championed the cause of developing utilitarian items while providing sustainable livelihoods to many generations of potters. This section also includes some unconventional products such as Daily Dump’s Khamba 3 T(2017), a terracotta composter, and Mitticool’s terracotta Refrigerator (2017), which shows that out-of-the-box thinking has given new life to age-old craft techniques. ‘Form’ features the work of traditional potters like Brahmdeo Ram Panditwho received the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in the country, in 2013 and was adept at using different glazes – a skill he acquired by training in several institutions across the world and imbibing international best practices todevelop a studio pottery enterprise.
Gwalior Pottery, Small Milk Jugs. Image courtesy the collection of Anuradha Ravindranath, New Delhi and the Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai.
Diversity in expression
In an attempt to highlight the role played by clay as a medium of creative expression that redefined the art of modern day India, ‘Object’ includes exhibits such as the works of artist and educator K. Subramanyan and his student K. Laxma Goud. Subramanyan supported the Gandhian philosophy of promoting indigenous arts and crafts and urged his Santiniketanstudents to derive something new from the familiar, everyday objects. This is evident in Laxma Goud’s untitled work which is on display in “Mutable” that has the artist using his customary rustic vivacity and earthy style to layer paint on a humble clay plate.
In ‘Perception’, the visitor is urged to look beyond material, tradition and purpose, to acknowledge the importance of the design, the technique and the identity of the maker. Water pots from different parts of India that are on display here show how different artists and artisans explore aesthetics and functionality in a manner unique to their geographical location, cultural background and education.
Gurcharan Singh, Kettle, Coffee Cups and Saucers, 1970s, acrylic, fabric, plywood, glue, fibreglass, iron, rexine, plastic and crystal, 77 x 40 x 28 in. Image courtesy the collection of Anuradha Ravindranath, New Delhi and the Piramal Museum of Art, Mumbai.
It is this conflation of characteristics of the medium that gives it an aesthetic beauty and technological complexity that transforms even the functional and the utilitarian into a work of art. It is this creative diversity in clay and ceramic practices that “Mutable” seeks to celebrate.
Amita Kini-Singh
“Mutable. Ceramic and Clay Art in India since 1947” is on view from 13 October 2017 to 15 January 2018 at Piramal Museum of Art, B Wing, Piramal Tower, Peninsular Corporate Park, Lower Parel West, Mumbai 400013.
Related topics: Indian, ceramics, identity, technology, museum shows, Mumbai
Exploring Buddhist cosmology in ceramics: China’s Geng Xue – artist profile – May 2017 – Art Radar has a look at her current exhibition as well as her artistic practice
11 Artists from the Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale 2016 – December 2016 – the fourth edition of JCCB presents 43 artists from countries worldwide
“Silver Bird”: an exploration of ‘flying’ with Indian artist and cinematographer Shambhavi Kaul – in conversation – November 2017 – Art Radar spoke to Kaul about the ideas behind both the exhibition on display at Jhaveri Contemporary
“Crystal Cities”: Indian artist Jagannath Panda at Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai – October 2017 – the exhibition comes nearly 10 years after Jagannath Panda’s last solo show and is on display at the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum until 29 October 2017.
“A fly on the wall”: Sooni Taraporevala on Mumbai, VR and more – interview – August 2017 – the show features 30 black and white photographs by Taraporevala spanning four decades
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Simple HPLC Method with Internal Standard for Evaluation of Vitamin B1 Status By Use of Whole Blood
Xiaochun Zhang, Xiaoying Tang, Bill Gibson, Thomas M. Daly
DOI: 10.1373/jalm.2017.024349 Published October 2017
Xiaochun Zhang
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Robert Tomsich Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
For correspondence: zhangs@ccf.org
Xiaoying Tang
Bill Gibson
Thomas M. Daly
Background: Two primary assays are routinely used for evaluating a patient's vitamin B1 status: plasma free thiamine and whole blood thiamine diphosphate (TDP). TDP is the bioactive form of vitamin B1 and best reflects body stores. Plasma free thiamine levels are driven by recent dietary intake. The objective of this study was to develop a simple HPLC method with an internal standard (IS) that simultaneously measures TDP and thiamine in whole blood, and to assess the use of this single-tube assay to provide comprehensive evaluation of vitamin B1 status.
Methods: The final assay used amprolium thiochrome as an IS, and the sample preparation procedure takes approximately 1 h. Whole blood thiamine and plasma thiamine were concurrently measured for 126 subjects.
Results: The analytical measurement range was 1.7 to 442.3 nmol/L (TDP) and 1.7 to 375.4 nmol/L (thiamine), with interassay precisions of 4.0% to 4.8% (TDP) and 2.9% to 8.0% (thiamine), respectively. Method comparison with a reference laboratory HPLC method showed r = 0.9625, slope = 1.021, and intercept = 0.982 (n = 53) for TDP quantification. Whole blood thiamine correlated closely with plasma thiamine levels but were slightly higher with a mean difference of 1.0 nmol/L (range: −3.0 to 5.0 nmol/L). The reference interval for whole blood TDP and thiamine was 84.3 to 213.3 nmol/L and 1.7 to 21.9 nmol/L, respectively.
Conclusions: This assay provides a simple and reliable HPLC method with a suitable IS for quantification of both TDP and thiamine from whole blood. It also eliminates the need for separate samples for TDP and thiamine measurement, which will allow both short-term and long-term vitamin B1 status to be assessed from a single sample.
Evaluating a patient's vitamin B1 status currently requires 2 primary assays: whole blood thiamine diphosphate (TDP) to assess total body stores and plasma free thiamine for recent dietary intake of vitamin B1. This study provides a simple and reliable HPLC method with a suitable internal standard for quantification of both TDP and thiamine from a single whole blood sample. Our data show that free thiamine whole blood levels correlated well with plasma levels, eliminating the need for separate samples for TDP and thiamine, which will allow both short-term and long-term vitamin B1 status to be assessed from a single sample.
Vitamin B1 is an important cofactor for enzymes involved in amino acid and carbohydrate metabolism in humans. Severe vitamin B1 deficiency is characterized by cardiovascular (wet) beriberi, neurological (dry) beriberi, and Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome (1), or, less commonly, lactic acidosis (Shoshin beriberi) (2). In Western countries, vitamin B1 deficiency is most commonly seen with chronic alcoholism, as well as liver and gastrointestinal diseases, although recent studies have suggested that vitamin B1 deficiency may also play a role in patients with diabetes, obesity, or heart failure (3–8).
Vitamin B1 is a group of 4 vitamers that include free thiamine, thiamine monophosphate (TMP)2, thiamine diphosphate (TDP), and thiamine triphosphate. Free thiamine is the major form of vitamin B1 found in both dietary sources and vitamin supplements, and is the predominant human plasma form. TDP is the biologically active form of vitamin B1 that makes up 80% of total circulating vitamin B1 in humans (9). TDP is mainly located in erythrocytes and exists at negligible levels in plasma. Whole blood TDP levels correlate with whole-body stores of vitamin B1 and are commonly used as a primary marker for determining long-term vitamin B1 status (9, 10). Free plasma thiamine levels reflect recent dietary intake of vitamin B1 and as a result are less useful in identifying the presence of persistent B1 deficiency in patients (11). The physiological function of TMP and thiamine triphosphate remains largely unclear. Findings indicate that thiamine triphosphate may play a neurophysiological role via regulating chloride channels (12). TMP and thiamine triphosphate are currently not used in clinical assessment of vitamin B1 status.
Assays for evaluating patient vitamin B1 status have evolved from indirect indicators such as transketolase activity to direct measurement of vitamin B1 using either LC-MS/MS or HPLC (9, 10). Because of the difficulty of TDP ionization, most LC-MS/MS methods initially convert TDP to thiamine by an overnight enzymatic reaction using acid phosphatase (13) followed by measurement of the resulting thiamine as a surrogate for total TDP. In contrast, HPLC methods can directly measure TDP levels in whole blood by oxidizing to fluorescent thiochrome.
Because no in vitro diagnostic assays for vitamin B1 are available, most HPLC methods offered by clinical laboratories are laboratory-developed tests based on either a commercially available research use only kit (Chromsystems) or internally developed protocols. The Chromsystems kit uses an internal standard (IS) to control imprecision but requires 2 incubation steps at 60 °C and 4 °C, respectively, and has a limited 2-point calibration curve (vendor website). Most published laboratory-developed tests (10, 12, 14, 15) use a precolumn oxidation of B1 vitamers by use of alkaline potassium ferricyanide. However, these laboratory-developed tests lack an IS and need either an ion pairing reagent in separation (16) or a labor-intensive liquid/liquid extraction with methyl-tert-butyl ether to remove the trichloroacetic acid used to precipitate protein during sample preparation (14). Our goal was to develop a simple HPLC method with an IS that could simultaneously measure TDP and thiamine in whole blood without using a methyl-tert-butyl ether wash in sample preparation or ion pair reagents in separation.
Chemicals and reagents
Amprolium hydrochloride, TMP, TDP, and potassium ferricyanide were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. Thiamine HCl (certified reference material) was purchased from Cerilliant. Hydrochloric acid, sodium phosphate dibasic anhydrous, and trichloroacetic acid were purchased from Thermo Fisher. Methanol (HPLC grade) was obtained from Burdick & Jackson. Sodium hydroxide solution (50%, HPLC grade) and phosphoric acid (85%, HPLC grade) were obtained from FLUKA/Fisher Scientific. Solutions were filtered through a 0.22-μm filter before use. Water was generated using a Millipore water system.
Preparation of stock solutions and IS
Alkaline potassium ferricyanide solution was used to oxidize amprolium, TDP, TMP, and thiamine into their fluorescent thiochrome. Methanol was used to intensify the fluorescent signal. The thiochrome reaction mixture was prepared by mixing 1 part of methanol with 2.5 part of 0.04% potassium ferricyanide in 15% NaOH. The alkaline potassium ferricyanide solution was filtered using a 0.22-μmol/L cellulose acetate filter before use.
The fluorescent thiochrome of amprolium was used as an IS. To prepare amprolium thiochrome, 1-mmol/L amprolium hydrochloride stock solution was made by dissolving amprolium hydrochloride in methanol. The stock solution was then diluted with water to a 20-μmol/L working solution. This solution was mixed with the thiochrome reaction mixture at an 8:7 ratio and incubated at 4 °C for 1 h to create the fluorophore (amprochrome) by a ring-closing reaction.
A sample treatment mixture was used to precipitate protein. The treatment mixture was prepared by mixing 6.7% Trichloroacetic acid (TCA) solution with the IS solution described above at a ratio of 79:1.
Quality controls and calibrator preparation
A stock solution of TDP (approximate concentration 1 mmol/L) was prepared in 0.1 mol/L hydrochloric acid, and the exact concentration of the TDP stock was then determined using a spectrophotometer with molar absorption coefficient of 13000 L/mol/cm at 247 nm. A secondary reference standard (1-mg/L solution) obtained from Cerilliant was used to prepare thiamine calibrators. Stock solutions were further diluted using saline to prepare 5 levels of calibrators. The concentrations of calibrators are 400, 160, 64, 25.6, and 10.24 nmol/L for TDP and 200, 80, 32, 12.8, and 5.12 nmol/L for thiamine. These concentration levels span the range commonly seen in patient samples.
Two levels of quality controls were prepared using residual patient EDTA whole blood specimens. The high control was generated by pooling samples with vitamin B1 levels close to the upper limit of reference interval. Because vitamin B1-deficient samples were rare, the low control was prepared by diluting a random patient pool with saline to below the lower limit of the reference interval.
Whole blood samples were collected into EDTA- or heparin-containing tubes. On receipt in the laboratory, the specimens were frozen at −70 °C for at least 4 h before being analyzed to ensure complete lysis of red cells. For analysis, 250 μL of whole blood thawed at room temperature was added into a microcentrifuge tube containing 750 μL of sample treatment mixture. Saline blank, calibrators, and controls were handled in an identical manner. All sample tubes were loaded on a vortex-type mixer and vortex-mixed at 3000 rpm for 10 min at room temperature. After mixing, the samples were left at 2 to 8 °C for 10 min and then centrifuged at 15000g for 10 min at 4 °C. Each supernatant was transferred into a well of a lipid-removal filter plate (Captiva ND Lipids 96-well plate, Agilent, Santa Clara, CA) with an attached 96-well collection plate to remove any remaining precipitated protein and lipids. The filtrated supernatants (200 μL) were then transferred to amber glass vials with 175 μL of freshly made thiochrome reaction mixture. Thiochrome reaction mixture was prepared freshly each day and used within 2 h after filtration. After mixing, the vials were placed on the autosampler for HPLC analysis. The sample preparation procedure takes approximately 1 h.
A Vanquish ultra-HPLC system equipped with fluorescence detector (Thermo Fisher Scientific) was used in the analysis. Separation was achieved at 25 °C using an Agilent Poroshell 120 EC-C18 column (3.0 × 50 mm, 2.7 μm). Mobile phase A was 25-mmol/L dibasic sodium phosphate (pH 7.0), and mobile phase B was methanol. Gradient steps were as follows: −2.5 to 0 min, equilibration with 97% A (3% B); 1 min, 20% B; 4 min, 40% B; 4.5 min, 40% B; 4.6 min, 45% B; 5.5 min, 70% B, and then return to equilibration. Injection volume was 20 μL, and flow rate was 0.6 mL/min. The fluorescent products were detected at an excitation wavelength of 375 nm and emission wavelength of 435 nm. The maximum excitation and emission of thiochrome are at 375 nm and 432 to 435 nm, respectively (17). Spectral bandwidth was 20 nm for both excitation and emission. Peak area was measured. The length of the analytical run was 5.5 min.
Characterization of assay performance
Assay precision was evaluated using the 2 levels of quality control samples. These samples were assayed in duplicate each day with 1 replicate immediately following the calibrators at the beginning of the run and the other replicating by the end of the run. Imprecision was estimated over a total of 20 days. Linearity was evaluated by diluting whole blood specimens spiked with a high concentration of target analytes to span a range of 1.7 to 442 nmol/L for TDP and 1.6 to 375 nmol/L for thiamine. All linearity samples were assayed in triplicate. The lower limit of quantification was defined as the lowest level where bias and imprecision were both <20%.
Spike recovery was evaluated by assaying patient pools spiked with TDP/thiamine at various concentration levels. Recovery was determined using the following formula: Recovery (%) = 100 × (measured concentration of spiked sample − average concentration of saline spiked duplicates)/spiked concentration. Intermethod comparison was performed against 2 different reference laboratories, 1 using a published HPLC method and 1 using an unpublished LC-MS/MS method. In addition, calibrator materials from a commercial kit (Chromsystem) were assayed as unknowns and compared with the manufacturer's stated value.
Calibrator stability was evaluated by testing aliquots of the working solution stored at −70 °C at various time points. Stability of IS was determined when mixed with 6.7% TCA as part of the sample prep mixture. Specimen storage stability at room temperature, refrigerated, and frozen (−20 °C) was evaluated using pooled patient samples with low and high concentrations of vitamin B1. Stability of posttreated samples was tested using both calibrators and patient specimens when stored in the autosampler at 6 °C. For all stability studies, peak area was used for evaluation, with a percent change of <15% from baseline considered stable.
Reference intervals were generated using random samples from patient samples submitted for complete blood count. Chart review was performed, and samples from patients with alcohol abuse, malnutrition, gastrointestinal diseases, or taking vitamin B supplements were excluded. A total of 128 samples from screened patients were tested for TDP and thiamine to establish ranges.
Correlation between whole blood thiamine and plasma thiamine
To determine whether thiamine levels generated from whole blood would compare well with the standard approach of measuring thiamine in plasma, residual material from 126 EDTA tubes submitted for complete blood count testing was collected. Each sample was split into 2 aliquots. One aliquot was immediately centrifuged at 3000 rpm for 20 min, and the resulting plasma was separated for measurement of plasma thiamine. The second aliquot was frozen at −70 °C for 24 h and then assayed for TDP and whole blood thiamine.
Precision, method comparison, linear range, reference intervals, and detection limits were calculated using EP Evaluator software (Release 10). Comparison between 2 groups was determined using t-test, and P values <0.05 were regarded as statistically significant. Correlation and t-test were performed using Sigma Plot (version 11.2). Reference intervals were defined as the central 95% of the data for each marker using nonparametric, parametric, or transformed parametric analysis depending on data distribution.
Impact of potassium ferricyanide concentration on vitamin B1 thiochrome reaction
Thiochrome reaction conditions were optimized by comparing potassium ferricyanide solutions ranging from 0.02% to 0.40% to determine the concentration that provided the best fluorescent yield (see Fig. 1 in the Data Supplement that accompanies the online version of this article at http://www.jalm.org/content/vol2/issue3). At the highest and lowest concentrations, patient samples and calibrators showed different rates of conversion, leading to a loss of correlation between those sample types. Total fluorescence was strongest at a concentration of 0.04% potassium ferricyanide, and was chosen as the final condition moving forward. In addition, the time course of thiochrome reaction was evaluated using 0.04% potassium ferricyanide. The peak area of TDP thiochrome was the highest immediately after mixing TDP with the thiochrome reaction mixture and then remained stable for at least 24 h (see Fig. 2 in the online Data Supplement). The results indicated the thiochrome formation completed within minutes after adding the reaction mixture.
Fig. 1. Selection of a suitable IS for the vitamin B1 whole blood HPLC method.
Chromatogram of pyrithiamine (1000 nmol/L in water) after oxidization with potassium ferricyanide (A). Small amount of TMP, TDP, and thiamine was found in the commercially available pyrithiamine. Chromatograms of amprolium (500 nmol/L in water) after oxidization with potassium ferricyanide (B). Commercially available amprolium contains about 3% impurity, but no vitamin B1 was found. Overlay chromatograms of amprolium in calibrator-saline solution (black) and in whole blood (blue) after oxidization with potassium ferricyanide (C). The amprolium peak area was significantly greater in saline matrix than that in whole blood. Overlay chromatograms of preformed amprolium thiochrome in calibrator-saline solution (black) and in whole blood (blue) after oxidization with potassium ferricyanide. The amprolium peak area was equivalent between saline matrix and whole blood matrix (D).
Fig. 2. Matrix choice for calibrator solution.
All chromatograms are fluorescence response after oxidation with potassium ferricyanide. The top panel shows saline as an acceptable matrix for preparing vitamin B1 calibrators. Chromatogram of saline blank showing it is free of vitamin B1 (A). 400 nmol/L of TDP in saline, <3% was converted to TMP (B). TDP remains stable for at least 4 h in saline (C). The middle panel shows TDP is unstable in 5% BSA solution, and a significant amount of TDP converted to TMP. 5% BSA solution does not contain detectable amount of B1 (D). About 14% of TDP converted to TMP shortly after TDP was added to the 5% BSA solution (E). About 75% of TDP converted into TMP after 4 h in 5% BSA solution (F). The bottom panel shows TDP was unstable in stripped plasma. (G), Charcoal stripped plasma was free of vitamin B1. About 39% of TDP converted to TMP after it was added to the plasma (H). IS: amprolium thiochrome. RT, room temperature.
Selection of a suitable IS
Three chemicals that were structurally similar to thiamine and produced fluorescence after alkaline potassium ferricyanide oxidation were evaluated as potential IS. Acetylaneurine comigrated with thiamine when using the C18 column and could not be separated by optimizing HPLC conditions (data not shown). Pyrithiamine showed an ideal retention time with a peak between the TDP and thiamine peaks. However, commercially available pyrithiamine from either Sigma Aldrich or Toronto Chemicals contained small amounts of thiamine (Fig. 1A). Amprolium showed an acceptable retention time and did not show any contaminants affecting thiamine or TDP peaks (Fig. 1B). However, the fluorescent signal generated by amprolium when spiked directly into whole blood samples was significantly different than that seen in calibrator-saline solutions (Fig. 1C). This problem was resolved by first oxidizing amprolium to its fluorescent thiochrome and then using the preformed amprolium thiochrome as the IS (Fig. 1D). The CV of amprolium thiochrome peak area was typically between 2.8% and 4.4% within each run.
Selection of matrix for calibrator solution
Initial attempts were directed at producing matrices based on whole blood, which would require removal of the physiologic levels of TDP and thiamine present. Multiple methods including UV exposure and charcoal stripping were unsuccessful at reducing vitamin B1 to undetectable levels in whole blood specimens (data not shown). We next evaluated alternative matrices including saline, 5% BSA, and commercially available charcoal stripped plasma (Fig. 2). No background TDP or thiamine was detected in any of these matrices. However, TDP spiked into either 5% BSA or charcoal-stripped plasma showed gradual conversion into TMP over very short periods (Fig. 2). In contrast, TDP remained stable in saline solution for at least 4 h when kept in dark and on ice. Saline was selected as matrix to prepare calibrator solutions.
Performance characteristics
The representative chromatograms and typical standard curves of TDP and thiamine were shown in Fig. 3. The analytical performance characteristics of the assay are summarized in Table 1. Using lipid-removal filter plate reduced the CV of IS peak area from an average of 25% to <5% within each run and greatly improved the assay precision. Stability of specimens, calibrators, and IS are listed in Table 1. TDP was stable in whole blood samples, and no degradation or conversion to TMP was observed at various temperatures during the time frame specified in Table 1. Reference intervals for TDP and thiamine were established using whole blood specimens from 128 nonalcoholic individuals who were not taking vitamin B1 supplements. The reference population included 75 women and 53 men with ages ranging from 18 to 94 years. No significant difference was found between sexes (P > 0.05). Whole blood TDP/thiamine levels were 138.9 (33.9)/6.8 (5.8) nmol/L in women and 136.7 (36.2)/5.2 (4.0) nmol/L in men, respectively. The established reference interval is listed in Table 1. The median of TDP and thiamine in whole blood was 132.7 nmol/L and 4.4 nmol/L, respectively.
Fig. 3. Representative chromatograms of vitamin B1 and standard curves.
All chromatograms are fluorescence responses after oxidation with potassium ferricyanide. Overlay chromatograms TDP, TMP, thiamine, and IS from 5 levels of calibrators in saline (A). A typical standard curve of TDP (B). A typical standard curve of thiamine (C). Chromatogram of a patient whole blood sample with normal level of TDP (159.2 nmol/L) and high concentration of thiamine (>375 nmol/L), consistent with taking vitamin B1 supplement (D). Chromatograms of a patient whole blood sample with vitamin B1 deficiency (TDP, 63 nmol/L; thiamine, 4.4 nmol/L) (E). IS: amprolium thiochrome. The yellow diamonds indicate the highest calibrator.
Assay performance characteristics.
Assay results showed good agreement to a reference laboratory HPLC method (Fig. 4), and the measured value of a commercially available calibrator (Chromsystems) showed <5% difference from the manufacturer assigned value (92.6 nmol/L). However, a subset of specimens showed a positive bias when compared with an LC/MS-MS method in a reference laboratory. Further investigation of this subset showed these samples to have high levels of free thiamine. To investigate whether these levels might be causing an interference in 1 of the assays, we prepared a pooled whole blood specimen spiked with either 200 nmol/mL or 2000 nmol/mL thiamine. Measured TDP values were unaffected by high thiamine levels using the in-house HPLC method. However, reductions of 19% to 21% in TDP measurements were seen in the spiked samples when tested using the reference laboratory LC/MS-MS (Fig. 4).
Fig. 4. Method comparison of TDP in whole blood with a reference lab HPLC method and a reference lab LC/MS-MS method.
Comparison of the in-house HPLC method with a reference lab HPLC method showed equivalent measurement of TDP in whole blood specimens (A). Bias was observed for a subset of specimens between the in-house HPLC method and a reference lab LC/MS-MS (B). The correlation coefficient was 0.9625 and 0.9530 for the HPLC and LC-MS/MS methods, respectively. High concentration of thiamine in samples adversely affected TDP measurement by the LC-MS/MS method but not the in-house HPLC method. The black dashed lines in (A) and (B) indicate the 1:1 line (C).
Correlation between plasma thiamine and whole blood thiamine
We next compared the thiamine levels between whole blood and plasma from the same individuals (n = 126). A strong correlation and linear relationship was observed between the thiamine levels generated from either plasma or whole blood (R2 = 0.9082, slope = 1.0134, intercept = 0.8803; Fig. 5). Whole blood thiamine levels were slightly higher than plasma thiamine (medians of 4.6 and 3.7 nmol/L, respectively; P = 0.015). The average difference between whole blood and plasma thiamine was 1.0 nmol/L (range, −3.0 to 5.0 nmol/L). No linear relationship was observed between TDP levels and thiamine levels.
Fig. 5. Correlation between plasma thiamine and thiamine in the whole blood.
A total of 126 EDTA whole blood samples were used. Each sample was divided into 2 parts. One part was frozen at −70 °C for 24 h and then assayed for whole blood thiamine. The other part was centrifuged to generate plasma and tested for plasma thiamine. Whole blood thiamine is highly correlated with plasma thiamine and exhibited a linear relationship with a slope close to 1. The median of whole blood thiamine was 4.6 nmol/L, which was slightly higher than the median of plasma thiamine, 3.7 nmol/L (P = 0.015).
Vitamin B1 plays an important role in metabolism and neurologic function, and assays to evaluate potential deficiency are used in many diagnostic workups. Although vitamin B1 deficiency has most commonly been associated with chronic alcohol abuse, lesser degrees of deficiency have been described as contributors to a broad spectrum of diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, heart failure, dementia, and cancer (4, 5, 18–20). The assessment of vitamin B1 status can be somewhat challenging for laboratories because of the lack of high-throughput automated assays and commercial in vitro diagnostic kits. For laboratories with the capacity to perform laboratory-developed tests, HPLC and LC-MS/MS methods are commonly used to measure TDP and thiamine. However, these assays often require long incubations or complex extraction protocols. The assay described in this report provides an optimized HPLC method that provides several advantages over current methods, including a simplified extraction protocol, an IS to improve assay precision, and the ability to measure both TDP and thiamine from a single sample.
Both cyanogen bromide and potassium ferricyanide oxidation methods have been used in detection of thiamine and its phosphate esters. The latter offers several advantages, such as low toxicity, fast reaction speed, and reaction occurring at refrigerated conditions. However, the concentration range of potassium ferricyanide that gives an optimal thiochrome yield is narrow. Too little potassium ferricyanide gives a low thiochrome yield, whereas an excess amount also diminishes the production. A 0.04% potassium ferricyanide alkaline solution prepared by weighing 10 mg of potassium ferricyanide with an analytical balance (0.1-mg readability and 0.1-mg repeatability) and then adding 25 mL of 15% sodium hydroxide solution with serological pipettes (accuracy within ±2%) is practical and provides sufficient precision. Methanol is included in the thiochrome reaction mixture to intensify the fluorescent signal and enhance stability of the fluorescent products (14).
Finding a suitable IS was challenging. A workable IS needs to generate fluorescence, resist strong acid used in the protein precipitation step, and migrate with a retention time compatible with the TDP and thiamine molecules. Although acetylaneurine was used in an assay for TDP in washed and lysed erythrocytes (21), our study showed that the C18 column could not separate acetylaneurine and thiamine and therefore would not work for an assay that measures both analytes. Pyrithiamine was used as an IS in measurement of B1 in cell culture media by ion pair HPLC (16), and has an ideal retention time between TDP and thiamine. However, the commercially available pyrithiamine we tested contained small amounts of TDP and thiamine, which could interfere with accurate measurements. The IS we settled on (amprolium) fulfilled the initial requirements of fluorescence, resistance to acid, and appropriate migration. However, a key finding was that the thiochrome formation rate of amprolium in saline-based calibrators differed from whole blood samples, making it unsuitable for use directly. This was corrected by oxidizing amprolium into its thiochrome before use as an IS. The amprolium thiochrome performs well as an IS and is stable at various storage conditions and throughout the sample preparation.
The accuracy of this method was evaluated using a commercially available calibrator and by comparison with HPLC and LC-MS/MS methods performed at reference laboratories. Correlation with the HPLC method was good across the full range of samples tested, even though the HPLC method being used at the reference laboratory used a slightly different protocol (which included a methyl-tert-butyl ether wash procedure and lack of IS). This indicates that harmony among HPLC methodologies can be achieved regardless of the specific thiochrome reaction method or sample preparation processes. Our method also correlated well with an LC/MS-MS method measuring TDP for the majority of samples. However, a small positive bias was observed in a subset of samples that contained high levels of free thiamine, which was further demonstrated using spiking studies. One possible mechanism for this may be that because the LC/MS-MS method converts TDP to free thiamine by an enzyme reaction before measurement, the presence of high thiamine could potentially inhibit the conversion and lead to low TDP measurement.
An additional advantage of the assay described here is the ability to measure both thiamine and TDP from whole blood, which allows clinicians to assess both short-term and long-term vitamin B1 stores using a single specimen. Our data demonstrate that whole blood thiamine highly correlates with plasma thiamine concentrations measured from the same patient. This is consistent with known vitamin B1 biology, where erythrocyte thiamine levels are relatively low and therefore should not contribute much to the whole blood lysate. Tallaksen et al. (22) measured the concentration of thiamine and its 3 phosphate esters in whole blood and serum from 30 healthy donors. Although their method used a different oxidation reagent (cyanogen bromide) and did not contain an IS, the major findings were consistent with our results. They reported comparable thiamine levels in whole blood and serum. Our assay also contains TMP calibrators and can measure TMP levels. Our data show TMP remains at low levels [2.7 (0.3) nmol/L, n = 126] in whole blood and does not correlate with either vitamin B1 deficiency or supplement intake. Because of its insignificant amount and unclear physiological role, TMP amount is not formally reported in this assay.
An important consideration is how best to set a reference interval for TDP. Many laboratories use 70 nmol/L as the lower limit of their reference interval (9) based upon the Institute of Medicine's definition of deficiency (23). The recommended daily allowance of vitamin B1 is based on these criteria. However, the patient-based population we used for our reference study skewed toward higher values, with a calculated lower limit of 84 nmol/L. Many patients who were excluded from the study because of conditions such as gastric bypass surgery, gastrointestinal bleeding, end-stage kidney disease, end-stage malignancy, or moderate degree of malnutrition often had TDP levels between 70 and 85 nmol/L, suggesting that the “marginal deficiency” range (70–90 nmol/L) defined in the Institute of Medicine report may be more common than expected. Defining the reference range in a manner that would flag these patients could potentially help identify patients with borderline deficiency that could be addressed with vitamin supplements.
In conclusion, this study describes a simple HPLC method with a suitable IS for evaluation of both vitamin B1 storage status and recent intake. This can provide an additional option to laboratories that are considering establishing their own assay for vitamin B1 measurement, or improve workflows for laboratories already performing another version of this assay. The use of a single sample for both free thiamine and TDP measurement will also eliminate an extra blood draw for patients, and potentially decrease the cost of testing.
↵2 Nonstandard abbreviations:
thiamine monophosphate
thiamine diphosphate
internal standard.
Authors' Disclosures or Potential Conflicts of Interest: No authors declared any potential conflicts of interest.
Received June 7, 2017.
Accepted August 10, 2017.
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Vol. 2, Issue 3
The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine Nov 2017, 2 (3) 367-379; DOI: 10.1373/jalm.2017.024349
Reproducibility and Variability of Protein Analytes Measured Using a Multiplexed Modified Aptamer Assay
Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations from Patient Groups at High Risk for Deficiency
Transition of Methotrexate Polyglutamate Drug Monitoring Assay from Venipuncture to Capillary Blood-Based Collection Method in Rheumatic Diseases
Serum Folate Forms Are Stable during Repeated Analysis in the Presence of Ascorbic Acid and during Frozen Sample Storage
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Kartel and Killer good again - Warlord endorses Gaza boss' new single
Shereita Grizzle
A post made by dancehall artiste Bounty Killer recently had social media and players in the industry 'in their feelings' at the thought of him and his protege, Vybz Kartel, reconciling.
Bounty heaped praises on Kartel for his new song, titled Under Water, dubbing it a song with ''real dancehall sounds''.
Although it is unclear whether the Instagram account owned by the incarcerated deejay is being operated by him, whoever was managing the account was involved in a brief conversation with the 'Five Star General', much to the delight of social media users.
The account owned by Kartel commented on Killer's post, saying the song and sound had much to do with the lessons he was taught while a part of Killer's Alliance group and referring to Killer as 'Daddy'.
"Daddy a your school mi graduate from eno #AllianceUniversity so it ain't no surprise daddy," the post from Kartel's account read.
Fans were happy to see the exchange between 'father and son' and are hoping it is just the beginning of them putting their differences aside.
Killer's manager, Bankelous, agreed that the exchange was a good look for dancehall and explained that although the two have had their disagreements in the past, they have always maintained a level of respect for each other's work.
"Rodney Pryce is a God-fearing person, and him nuh hate people. Him might say supmn today, but that nuh mean nothing. Him nuh hold grudge because him mother grow him right. You might see the 'angry [and] cross', him on stage, but is a different personality him have off stage," he said. "Kartel a him son, so him can't have nothing against Vybz Kartel. People might did look at it different in the media, but in a di two a dem heart, a did always love and respect. Music a love, enuh, and after we leave and gone, music live on, and di two a dem know dat."
Killer and Kartel were involved in a 'war of words' that started in 2006 and reached its peak in 2009.
Killer had become very vocal about Kartel's bleaching and other practices of his, while Kartel claimed Killer was past his prime.
The heated exchanges got so much attention that persons believed a 'father-son' clash would have, materialised at Sting that year. But the showdown never happened.
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Minister of Finance
Fukushiro NUKAGA
Date of birth: January 11, 1944
Born: Ibaraki Prefecture
Member of the House of Representatives
Constituency: Ibaraki 2nd Electoral District
Number of times elected: Eight
�@ Graduated from Waseda University
(Faculty of Political Science and Economics)
2007.9 Minister of Finance
2006 Chairman, Special Committee on Space Development, Liberal Democratic Party
2005 State Minister/Director General, Defense Agency
2004 Chairman, Research Commission on Security, Liberal Democratic Party
2003 Chairman, Policy Research Council, Liberal Democratic Party
Chairman, Special Mission Committee on Free Trade Agreement
Chairman, Research Commission on Oil, Resources and Energy, Liberal Democratic Party
2002 Acting Secretary-General, Liberal Democratic Party
Deputy Chairman, Research Commission on the Tax System, Liberal Democratic Party
Chairman, Financial Policy Committee, Administrative Reform Promotion Headquarters, Liberal Democratic Party
2000 Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy and Information Technology
Chairman, Public Relations Headquarters, Liberal Democratic Party
1999 Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
Vice Chairman, Research Commission on the Tax System, Liberal Democratic Party
1996 Chairman, Standing Committee on Finance, House of Representatives
1995 Chief Whip, Standing Committee on Rules and Administration, House of Representatives
1994 Deputy Chairman, Diet Affairs Committee, Liberal Democratic Party
1993 Deputy Chairman, Policy Research Council, Liberal Democratic Party
1992 Director, House Affairs Division, Liberal Democratic Party
1991 Chief Whip, Standing Committee on Commerce and Industry, House of Representatives
1990 Parliamentary Vice Minister of International Trade and Industry
1983 Member of the House of Representatives
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Well there's a turnup for the books. We've had a string of bi nominees for the Homo Hero awards - myself, Natalya, Marcus, BCN magazine - but invariably walked away empty handed. This year they rebranded them to be bi & trans inclusive there were a plethora of trans winners including me.
This time I was up for the Volunteer category. In fairness it may be my strong suit: an honest biography says I've been doing LGBT volunteering every month, usually every week, for the past twentysome years of my life. Sometimes big-ticket stuff: running a BiCon, inventing the Bisexuality Report. Often individual level change, being the first person someone can talk to about being bi, pressing an LGBT group about their failure to mention biphobia and the like. Sometimes, like a couple of years ago, it's had to be mostly online work when long-term illness has struck or been particularly challenging.
The LGBT Foundation say the awards were decided by some 11,000 plus votes, which with three nominees in each category would suggest I picked up something like 4,000 votes to beat the other two (4,000+3,500+3,500 = 11,000). That's more votes than the average Lib Dem candidate at the last General Election!
I'd written off any chances of winning to the point that I regarded it as a night out drinking with (oh dear) no worries about whether I would look presentable to collect a trophy. As the host read out the winner in my category, I mouthed the name of the person I reckoned was going to walk this category. My somewhat tipsy brain then did a couple of beats of "hang on, that one reading the name out got it wrong" followed by "wait, that's my name". Those sat round my table were then treated to a gracious yelp of "Oh (rudeword), it's me!"
So a big thank you to an awful lot of people I've never met who seem to have voted for me. You all totally threw me there!
(It's not my first shiny trophy. In 2005 I took the Home Office "Volunteer of the Year" award for contribution to the bisexual community while in 2002 there was a Cake Award from BiCon for, er, well I presume for keeping BiPhoria afloat while most bi groups were imploding, and my BCNning, BiCon running, inventing BabyBiCon and the like.)
Labels: awards, homo heroes, lgbt, manchester. biphoria, trans, visibility
Gender outrage
Privilege: less Street Fighter, more D&D
Stonewall 100 and Bisexuals At Work
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Jewish World Review July 26, 2011 / 24 Tamuz, 5771
A cable calamity
By Betsy Hart
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | I waited, fearful and trembling, for my children to return home so I could tell them.
Yep, it was that bad: Our Internet was out of commission, and likely would be for some 40 hours until the cable company could get here to fix it.
Forty hours.
Knowing I would have to face the kids with that news as they walked in was right up there with sharing news of a beloved pet's death. Of course, I begged and pleaded with the cable fellow to somehow get me service sooner. A nice fellow, that cable man. He apparently sensed my panic: "Forty hours?? I've got four kids, pal. I'm a single mom to those four kids. Do you really want to be responsible for what could happen here without an Internet connection to keep them occupied over that span of time? It could get really ugly, friend!"
He promised to include, as he put it, a "begging for service" note on my ticket. Seriously. He got it.
After hanging up, I did what any resilient mom would do. I walked all over the house with my laptop trying to find a hot spot that would pick up a neighbor's Wi-Fi signal. What is it with people so uptight about "locking up" their wireless Internet connections, anyway? Sheesh.
I braced myself for the onslaught.
When it came, it washed over me like waves. One after another. The first, daughter Tori, 14, had her mouth drop to the floor. Her exact words after several seconds: "I won't know about my life until Wednesday?" Her life apparently being Facebook and email.
Daughter Madi, 12, had brought a friend home and apparently felt the need to put her game face on as she received the news. OK, two down. Son Peter, the oldest at 17, literally refused to believe it: "Of course it's working, Mom." Now that's devotion. The last, daughter Livey, 9, simply asked, "Did Madi use it too much?"
Madi is currently the source of all problems in Olivia's life.
But it was Livey who came around the most quickly. "Well, Mom," she said, "this is how old people used to live in olden days. I guess we can just play around like they did for a while." Pause. "Do we still have indoor plumbing?"
Back to figuring things out.
I really don't like to come up against a brick wall. I'm always determined to find the back door. My oven went on the blink recently, constantly beeping when not actually on. I discovered it had to do with a computer chip that there was no way to fix. Replacement? We're talking $660. Morally outraged at the idea of such a thing, I got back at the fancy-pants oven people by getting an inexpensive toaster oven for the little things. For the big ones, the kids are now used to me calling down to the basement, "Honey, can you go to the fuse box and turn the oven on?"
So, I decided to try wrestling with the Internet connection again myself, thinking failure just couldn't be an option.
I pushed and I prodded the various wires, and reset everything for the tenth time. Finally, somehow, there was a flicker of Internet a teaser, really, before it went out again. I just became more determined. Then, amazingly, it came back on and has now been on for several hours. Problem solved? We'll see.
I know, I know I have a lot to learn from all this about depending way too much on high-tech. Later. Right now, I'm just trying to figure out how to work into the monthly budget the cost of putting a cable repair guy on retainer.
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Jim joins Tim Hudak and Steve Clark to demand accountability over gas plant scandal
(May 8, 2013) Jim joined Tim Hudak and Steve Clark for a press conference today to announce a motion the PCs are tabling to demand answers over the Gas Plant scandal. For the full press release click on the link below
Time for Accountability from the Liberals - And NDP
It’s time for the Liberals to be held to account for treating public money like a political credit card in the gas plants scandal, Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak said today.
“The Liberals have not been working for the people – but to protect their own political power. Kathleen Wynne and Dalton McGuinty himself have both made that clear now,” Hudak said.
“But in some back room at Queen’s Park, the Liberals and the NDP are determined to block our effort to make the government accountable. If that’s the case, both parties need to explain why.
“So today we’ll call on them to stand up and give their reasons to Ontarians. “Do they think the gas plants scandal crosses a line – or not?”
Ontarians deserve a government that puts their interests ahead of Liberal politics, Hudak added. “And they deserve a vote on whether the Liberals deserve to keep governing.”
PC Deputy House Leader Steve Clark said questioning Dalton McGuinty in a Legislative committee yesterday was like pinning Jello to the wall: “But it’s clear he masterminded this heist. We can’t let Andrea Horwath drive the getaway car.”
Hudak said Ontario is on the wrong path. “Every extra day with the Liberals in charge means more lost jobs, more spending and more debt.
“Are the NDP still eager to support a Wynne-McGuinty government they themselves call dishonest?”
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Mamajuana
The true Caribbean Taste!
J&J Spirits
The makers of Mamajuana Kalembú
J & J Spirits is the manufacturer of mamajuana Kalembu, a company established in 2005, at the free zone park of Hato Nuevo in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
The founders of J & J Spirits, Jack Astacio and Julio Astacio, were the ones to do what nobody had done before; blending a ready-to-drink mamajuana on an industrial level, complying with international quality standards.
Until that moment the only way mamajuana was sold was in recycled bottles but only with the sticks and leaves which are used to prepare mamajuana. So people had to cure the mamajuana ingredients first and then add the rum, honey and wine. Then had to wait until it was ready. In this inconvenient way the taste of the mamajuana was never the same, people didn't know what was in it and it was more expensive.
The company founders had been producing Mamajuana for years already. At first selling only to the touristic market on the island such as giftshops and hotels. After having received many requests from people all over the world it was decided to take the production to an other level in order to be able to take mamajuana to the global market.
MAMAJUANA?
Mamajuana is a drink from the Dominican Republic that is made by adding rum, red wine, and honey to a combination of twigs, bark, leaves and herbs. The taste is a unique combination of woody and herbal flavors, it is sweet to semi-sweet and normally the color is a deep brown/red.
Kalembu is the ready-to-drink mamajuana that has revolutionized the world of mamajuana. The founders of J & J Spirits were the ones to do what nobody had done before; blending a ready-to-drink mamajuana on an industrial level, complying with international quality standards. Mamajuana Kalembu is the result of years of research, tasting and developing a way to produce a ready-to-drink mamajuana without being untrue to the original recipe and ingredients of the maceration process implied when making mamajuana.
Mamajuana is seen and advertised as an aphrodisiac, with many people describe it as a type of natural "liquid Viagra". Women have also claimed that mamajuana enhances sexual desire.Although mamajuana became famous for their supposed ability to stimulate the libido, the drink was originally regarded as a cure-all that was an effective treatment for many ailments from a common cold, or influenza, right through to far more serious conditions.
This reputation may have derived from traditional remedies handed down through the ages from as far back as the times when the ancient tribes inhabited the island.Whatever the truth about mamajuana's efficacy there have been a number of recent, and reputable scientific studies that have confirmed the potentially positive healthful effects of some of the typical herbal and botanical ingredients that may be used in the brewing of the liquor. Examples could be said to include resveratrol, in red wine, thought to enhance longevity, and the use of cinnamon in blood sugar control for diabetes sufferers. Studies into some of the rarer botanical herbs, roots and barks used in making mamajuana are still ongoing.
Kalembú Mamajuana
is a traditional drink from the Dominican Republic. It is prepared through flavoring rum with a mixture of ingredients giving it a spiced twist. Kalembú Mamajuana ever to be imported into the U.S.A. Since we have made all efforts to keep the tradition untouched, we have been awarded the Spiced Rum with Natural Flavors label approval.
Best when chilled, can also be mixed with natural juices. Cheers!
Kalembú - Café Rum
In tribute to our ancestor of dominican Republic and generations of good taste, may we present Kalembú - Café Rum-, blends roasted coffee beans from the high and beautiful mountains of the Dominican Republic, with sugar cane rum and a touch of local honey for subtle, natural sweetness.
Enjoy Kalembú Café Rum straight, mixed, or on the rocks and especially after dinner. Here´s to Health, the senses, and responsible enjoyment.
Kalembú - Guavaberry Rum
J & J Spirits introducing the Kalembú - Guavaberry Rum-, as delectably complex as its name suggests, throughout history, the guavaberry fruit, or arrayan, thrived in Hispaniola, where Eastern- Caribbean Inmigrants and sugar cane planters deemed in the perfect companion to rum, In tribute to our ancestors of San Pedro de Macoris, and generations of good taste, I proudly present Kalembú Guavaberry Rum for your supreme drinking pleasure. Smooth of the rocks, splendid as a cocktail, enjoy exotic Kalembú series 23, Here´s to health, the senses, and responsible enjoyment.
Lenny Potter
Custumer
Terry Thompson
Sophie Robben
Lloyde West
( +1 ) 809.902.1212 / ( +1 ) 829.801.1212
Zona Franca, Hato Nuevo
( +1 ) 809.902.1212
info@kalembu.com
© 2016 J&J Spirits All Rights Reserved.
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http://www.howstuffworks.com/ram.htm
RAM stands for random access memory; it is the most familiar in terms of computer memory. It is regarded as random access because memory cell can be accessed directly if the location of column and row is known, unlike the SAM, serial access memory, where data is stored as a series and can only be accessed sequentially.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/ram.html
RAM is an acronym for random access memory. It is a type of memory that can be accessed randomly, which can be accessed without having to contact with preceding bytes. There are two different types of RAM: DRAM and SRAM. DRAM stands for dynamic random access memory. DRAM needs to be refreshed thousands of times per second. On the other hand SRAM does not need to be refreshed therefore it is faster than DRAM.
http://www.blurtit.com/q248576.html
RAM is an electronic, or volatile, state. When the computer is off, RAM is empty; when it is on, RAM is capable of receiving and holding a copy of the software instructions and data necessary for processing. The Ram is used for the following purposes:
• Storage of a copy of the main systems program that controls the general operation of the computer. This copy is loaded into RAM when the computer is turn on; it stays there as long as the computer is on.
Sound Blaster Audigy SE
24 bit / 96 KHZ Playback
8 Channel Audio Output
Karaoke Support
10 Band Equalizer w/presets
Easy connection to home audio equipment
Special effect includes concert hall and more.
Total DVD theater surround sound experience.
DIAMOND XtremeSound 7.1 24 bit Sound Card
Output 5.1
Line in - Microphone in / Digital I/O
Startech: 5 channel low profile PCI sound card - 24 bit
5.1 surround sound output
Includes both low and full profile brackets
Audio playback at 96 Khz/24 bit and recording at 48 Khz/16 bit
Supports full duplex operation
6 outbound stream and 2 simultaneous input streams
Supports PCI Version 2.2 with ACPI and PMI support
Support PnP installation w/Windows WMD drivers
Three internal auxiliary inputs
From the review of these three manufacturers of sound cards, if I were in need and need to purchase a sound card I would probably go with something from Creative Labs.
The reason why I would choose Creative Labs is while doing my research on the sound cards I elected to go with a sound card with the price range of about $30.00, and out of the three manufacturers it seems like the
Sound Blaster Audigy SE manufactured by Creative Labs offers the most useful features, such as the preset equalizer and the concert hall sound effects, etc., for about the same price as the other sound cards that were manufactured by the other two manufacturers.
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Review- A Bedtime Story (The BTS Trilogy, #1) by L.C. Moon
Title: A Bedtime Story (The BTS Trilogy, #1)
Author: L.C. Moon
Publication Date: December 10th 2014 by D. A. D. inc Publishing
Plot: Laura Spencer. Young, pretty, introverted. She worked at a local deli, where she left more broken plates than collected tips. Apologizing to aggravated waiters and cowering from overfriendly male clients made up most of her social interaction. The only friends she had lived inside the pages of books or on movie screens, offering slim comfort during the long, dark nights of her lonely life. Every two weeks, a postcard was delivered through her mail. She lived for those deliveries.
Peter Spencer. Her brother, her lifelong protector and her only family. The only one who truly knew her, who would sacrifice it all for her. Peter made a bad decision, involving the worst kind of people.
Kayne Malkin. Tall, dark and handsome. He belonged to the Organization, the Quebec fraction of a ruthless Russian Mafia. He was known for many things. He killed and tortured for a living. He seduced and destroyed for pleasure. But above all else, he built his reputation on one trait only. Kayne Malkin never lied. Not to the men he interrogated, not to the women he set his sights on. He got what he wanted, while staring them in the eye. Honest and remorseless. Kayne Malkin’s assignment: The Peter Spencer case.
On the first warm spring night, while Montreal celebrated the passing of winter, Laura reluctantly accepted to accompany a coworker out on the town. Kayne smirked by himself seeing her arrive, all dolled up, looking uncomfortable. Lurking in the shadows, he patiently waited. The trap was set.
WARNING: Contains explicit sexual content and dubious consent. Read at your own discretion.
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**A Note to readers: For those of you who’s hard limits include: **cheating** and a **non-happily ever after** then this book may not be for you. :)
The story in short: To sum everything up in a jiffy---The heroine’s dimwit brother messes up, BIG TIME, with the Russian mafia no less….and in comes, our male anti-heroine to collect his debt with the heroine. From there, you could say, “the rest is history” as Kayne Malkin is literally a wolf luring the poor little lamb Laura into his world, and from then on-- their worlds are forever changed with: love, lust, debt, ploys, blood, vengeance, and sacrifice.
A Bedtime Story was quite the baffling read if you ask me. It went in a totally different direction from what I had expected.
When I think of the literal impressions of what comes to mind of the title, A Bedtime Story, I picture a story that albeit rough and imperfect throughout—to being one full of surprises and happy endings with a pretty bow on top.
This is the complete opposite of what happens in this particular bedtime story.
Here, Laura-- the female protagonist’s, character development and evolution utterly shocked and surprised me. I get that in reads where it deals with the mafia, it's going to be intensely dark, gritty, and ruthless…but, I guess from my stand point, I didn’t expect Laura’s personality to alter drastically from that innocent, quiet girl to eventually becoming hardened and cunning.
Granted, it's only natural that she would be forced to to assimilate with Kayne’s world, so it would naturally change her a bit. It's just that, her character was just scandalous that it startled me a bit.
(++)Now add in Kayne, the ever enigmatic and mysterious one, to which I just did not know what to really expect from him or what to happen next...and you've got yourself a story!!
Definitely kept me on my toes with the thrill and suspense!!
My conclusion?:
A good read that perplexed me....kept me intrigued and wanting some more… AND! at times pissed me off like no other because it touched on some of my hard limits….
But over all, I liked it in my own way. Can't wait for bk2!! Gawd, I soooo need it!! I feel so unsettled by that ending!! Aahhh!!
♥♥♥♡
L. C. Moon is a graduate of Concordia University. She lives in Montreal with her husband, black Labrador, and Calico cat.
She has written several poems and a few short stories. A Bedtime Story is her first novel. As with all her other works, it touches on themes such as forbidden fantasy, duality and inner struggle.
A Bedtime Story is intended as the first installment of the BTS trilogy.
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Review- Mending Michael (Hunter Hill University #2) by J.P. Grider
Title: Mending Michael (Hunter Hill University #2)
Author: J.P. Grider
Genre: New Adult, Romance
Publication Date: December 13th 2014 by Fated Hearts Publishing
Plot: There is a fine line between love and hate.
When bartender Mick Ross first sees Holly Buchanan walk into Donny's Bar, his heart comes to a halt. That is, until she serves him her fake ID and reveals her true nature when she's declined her drink.
Holly thinks Mick is an ass, and she has no clue why he can't stand her. Though, she does enjoy looking at his ass.
So, when Donny hires Holly to waitress at his bar, she must either deal with Mick's hatred toward her or give him a taste of his own medicine.
Tensions are high.
Comments are made.
Hearts are hurt.
But if there really is a fine line between love and hate, then Mick and Holly must decide on which side they stand.
☆ I received an ARC via Xpresso Book Tours in exchange for an honest review. Thank you! ☆
Mending Michael was an incredibly sweet romance which touched home on love, family, finding your own path, and making your own choices.
Michael “Mick” Ross has a lot on his plate. After tragedy struck his household at a young age, he and his sister have had to fend for themselves since a young age. Now with said sister now finding herself in a pickle with the law and CPS, Mick now has to find a way to save his sister from her own path of destruction and his beloved niece from being taken away by child protective services forever.
Now enter Holiday “Holly” Buchanan. The girl with everything going for her. Or so it seems.
Holly is everything that Mick does not have. Money, a pristine family background and social standing, and a shining future.
What Holly does not have is control over her life. Everything is carefully mapped out for her by her over controlling father.
Can she break out of daddy’s thumb and succumb to her own dreams and desires?
Can Mick save his family from crumbling beneath him, or suffer an endless string of disappointments once more?
And when an ex-flame comes into the picture and tries to re-capture Mick’s heart, what will become of this unlikely couple?
Read and you will find out!
#Over all, a pretty tame romance from what I’m used to, but nevertheless, a very cute read!!
Mending Michael was a very clean read with themes of coming over loss, tragedy, scars of abandonment, infidelity, drug use, and pre-conceived misinterpretations and impressions we perceive of people.
--A great addition to this lovely series!!--
J.P. Grider is a Young Adult and New Adult author. She is the author of six novels. Her young adult series The Honor Trilogy consists of A Touch of Honor, A Man of Honor, and A Heart of Honor, while her first two novels - Unplugged (A Portrait of a Rock Star) and Maybe This Life - are standalone adult contemporary novels. Her most recent release is the new adult romance Calling California, which is the first in her Hunter Hill University series. The next book in the series – Mending Mick – will be released in October, 2014. All the books in the Hunter Hill University series will be standalone books and can be read in any order.
You can follow J.P. on Facebook at J.P. Grider, Author, on Instagram and Twitter @JPGrider1, and on her blog at jpgrider.com.
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Blog Tour Review- Wild and Free (The Three #3) by Kristen Ashley
Title: Wild and Free (The Three #3)
Author: Kristen Ashley
Publication Date: December 29th 2014
Plot: Abel Jin and Delilah Johnson have lived their lives with a hole in their soul, yearning for something they don’t understand.
Until one night Delilah is in mortal danger and a man who’s otherworldly strong and supernaturally fast saves her. Delilah is then cast into a world where fiction comes to life in the form of Abel, her destined mate, a vampire/werewolf hybrid who claims her at first breath as his.
But Abel knows the danger isn’t done. He’s dreamed for centuries that his mate will perish and he will stop at nothing to keep her safe.
For Delilah, she’s not only coping with fantasy come to life, but a mingling of very different families. Not to mention, she has on her hands a man who doesn’t understand his true nature and has lived his long life thinking he’s a monster.
Abel and Delilah together fills the hole that has been clawing at them for decades. But finally finding each other, it also tips their destinies as the last of The Three. They must unite with the other destined lovers, who with Abel and Delilah, are fated to save the world.
Or die trying.
--> November 25th 2012 <--- A day that will be forever etched in my mind as 'The day' I read With Everything I Am (The Three #2). The day I also got a tiny tease of Wild and Free...
Sooo... with just a month shy of TWO YEARS we FINALLY! have Wild and Free (The Three #3)
*Who else is doing their Happy Dance with their Kindle right now?? I know I AM!*
I can't tell you how much I have been hanging out for Wild and Free. To be able to finally read the 3rd instalment and for it to actually live up to all that I thought it would be! *Huge smiles*
Abel and Delilah together are just WOW! Abel by himself... SWOON! Abel has to be the roughest KA Alpha yet! And that is definitely saying something! You will LOVE him! For example...
"Even if it's to my peril, I think it's pertinent to point out at this juncture that you're in a serious fucking jealous rage and I haven't even kissed you yet."I snapped my mouth shut.He watched me do this before he grinned.My stomach flipped over.Oh yeah, he was beautiful."You wake up in a bad mood all the time or just when you think of me bangin' another bitch?" he asked."
"You need to take a breath. That doesn't work, you need to take another one. Then you need to feel it. Feel it. And you know exactly what I'm talkin' about. When you feel it, you'll know this shit isn't crazy. This shit is something else. I don't know what the fuck it is. I just know you're not gonna get dead because of it, seein' as I've waited three lifetimes for you, and now that I've got you, I'm keepin' you."
Okay, into the book itself. The Three... apart from the story of Abel and Delilah, we also have the whole clan, Lucian and Leah, Callum and Sonia, Yuri and Gregor along with the families of all three. Its a huge family affair, as it should be with the fight for humanity in their wake. There is alot of drama, alot of love and some heartbreaking loses.
I loved this! I am so happy I finally got to read the last installment at the same time heartbroken that it's over. You will love this! To everyone who has been hanging out for this as much as I have, you will not be disappointed! K. A. as usual gives us what we crave for.
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“I’m a monster, Lilah.”
“What?” I whispered.
“I’m a werewolf vampire. I exist on human blood. I can tear a man’s head off and I have. I’m a monster.”
“I am,” he stated flatly. “And the first chance I’ve had in all my years to understand why I am as I am is to go to that fuckin’ hotel.”
I stared at him, then straightened my body so I was fully facing him. This caused his jaw to get hard again, but I ignored that and stated, “Okay, let’s break this down.”
“Nothin’ to break down.”
“Humor me,” I snapped, his head jerked, and his lips curved up.
“Carry on,” he muttered.
“Thanks,” I bit out. “First, how many men’s heads have you torn off?”
“Four, and two wolves.”
“That’s it?” I asked.
“These being the night we met,” I stated.
“Yeah,” he repeated.
“The night some of them were trying to kill me and the others were trying to kill you.”
To that he said nothing.
I kept going, “So you haven’t torn off unsuspecting citizens’ heads willy-nilly, for the fuck of it, or on a psychotic rampage?”
He pressed his lips together and I knew it was to hide his humor because his eyes lit with it before he unpressed them to say, “No.”
“Right,” I said sharply. “Have you ever had a psychotic rampage?”
He shook his head.
“So let’s get to the human blood part,” I suggested. “When you were,” I paused, “drawing from one of your ex-bitches, did you ever kill one of them?”
“Fuck no.”
“Take too much and make them sick?”
“Do it against anyone’s will?”
His eyes went guarded, but he said, “No.”
I threw up a hand. “Okay, so what’s the problem?”
He blinked, straightening in his chair, but again said nothing.
“I mean, seriously,” I went on, “I’ve seen lots of vampire movies and TV shows and even the good vamps screw up and overindulge. Hell, Jessica killed three fairies in a ravenous attack. She might have had her issues as a young vampire, but by that time, she was full-on good.”
His brows shot together. “Fairies?”
“Fairies.”
“What the fuck are you talking about?”
I threw up both hands and cried in exasperation, “True Blood!”
“Jesus, Lilah,” he muttered.
“No, seriously, Jessica is very sweet.”
“For fuck’s sake,” he growled, sounding like he was losing patience, which I didn’t figure was a good thing.
“Okay, back on track,” I began. “Tell me. Tell me one instance in your life where you actually behaved like a monster.”
“I wanna fuck you,” he snarled.
I stared.
“Yeah,” he ground out. “I wanna fuck you, Delilah. Consumed with the need and I have no idea why, but I can guess, seein’ as it’s like you’re a bitch in heat, I’m a dog that catches the scent and his mind is wiped…wiped of anything…but the need to mount you and”—he leaned forward—“rut.”
“Holy fuck,” I breathed.
“Yeah,” he said again. “That make you feel safe?”
“I can smell your fear.”
“It turns me on,” he kept going. “Makes me wanna tear into your throat and fuck you and feed from you.
Now, does that make you feel safe?”
“No,” I whispered, because it really fucking didn’t.
“Right. No,” he bit off. “So I’m not a monster?”
Kristen Ashley was born in Gary, Indiana, USA. She nearly killed her mother and herself making it into the world, seeing as she had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck (already attempting to accessorise and she hadn't taken her first breath!).
Kristen grew up in Brownsburg, Indiana but has lived in Denver, Colorado and the West Country of England. Thus she has been blessed to have friends and family around the globe. Her posse is loopy (to say the least) but loopy is good when you want to write.
Kristen was raised in a house with a large and multi-generational family. They lived on a very small farm in a small town in the heartland and existed amongst the strains of Glenn Miller, The Everly Brothers, REO Speedwagon and Whitesnake (and the wardrobes that matched).
Needless to say, growing up in a house full of music, clothes and love was a good way to grow up.
And as she keeps growing up, it keeps getting better.
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ARC Review- A Promised Fate (The Beautiful Fate #3) by Cat Mann
Title: A Promised Fate (The Beautiful Fate #3)
Author: Cat Mann
Plot: Devotion, passion and promises are no longer enough. Everything Ari has built his universe around threatens to come to a tragic end. Ava's seven Kakos foes have been vanquished, but a new and even deadlier terror threatens the Alexander home. As Ari struggles with his role as a deity, he is forced to reveal to Ava his true lineage and what his identity means for their future together. The Zilotis, an occult group of surviving Kakos extremists, rise up to set themselves against the Fates...and no one is safe, no one can be trusted. Ari’s fears control him. Trust crumbles and promises lose all meaning as Ari comes to grips with his past and the vows made in the past in his name. Ari will do anything for Ava, even if his devotion means his own death. Secrets are rampant, lies and new nightmares emerge. Will Ari be the man he promised he would be?
☆ I was gifted a copy by the author in exchange for an honest review. Thank you! ☆
A Promised Fate was a definite rev-up from the previous 'Fate' installments. Before, it was Ava in the forefront and Ari acting as a secondary character but not here!! Now, with Ava taking a backseat in the chaos, it was awesome to see Ari show what he’s made of and finally reveal what he's kept hidden all this time!! *Yay!!*
Ari really steps it up as the man of the house as the stakes are lifted to another excruciatingly higher level of extreme, and only Ari can save him and his family from the path of destruction.
As said by the famous Dr. Phil, Ari proves to be the sequential “Man in the Family” as he acts as the—provider.protector.leader.and teacher.
But in doing so, Ari has to make some very tough decisions and do things, although at times rash, for the better good of everyone.
After all, the fight between good and evil has only begun…Will Ari rise up to his destiny amongst the lies, secrets, and devious revelations set against him? Who can be trusted? What can he do to prevent the obliteration of his entire world? Or will he crumble to the pressures set against him?
#An astonishingly solid read full of mythological and modern ideals filled of love, family, anguish, and increasing risks and consequences that could mean life or death!! Can't wait to see what happens next in book 4!!
♥♥♥♥♡
Cat Mann is an Illinois author who writes teen and adult romance. She is happily married to a genius of a man and together they are raising two beautiful daughters.
With her dog at her side, Cat obsessives over French music, witty films and lengthy novels.
Cat’s books have been listed on numerous Amazon bestseller lists, including the Amazon Top 100, Literature & Fiction Fantasy Based Novels, as well as being a top contender in Mythology & Fairy Tales.
To find out more about Cat’s projects and get dates on upcoming releases, find her on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/authorcat.mann and follow her blog, http://authorcatmannblog.blogspot.com/.
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ARC Review- Behind the Stars (Behind the Stars #1-6) by Leigh Talbert Moore
Title: Behind the Stars (Behind the Stars #1-6)
Author: Leigh Talbert Moore
Publication Date: December 31st 2014 by Leigh T. Moore
Plot: Prentiss Puckett is certain of three things:
-Graduation is two weeks away.
-Summer only gets hotter in south Mississippi.
-She’s getting a job with air-conditioning.
She did not expect to be kidnapped walking to work.
And she never expected to become a hero.
Red Dawn meets L O S T in this new action-adventure romance from Amazon bestselling author Leigh Talbert Moore.
☆ I received an ARC via the author in exchange for an honest review. Thank you! ☆
Behind the Stars almost lost me at 30% into the book. It just didn’t catch me with the amount of flashbacks (particularly of Jackson) as it felt quite unnecessary and redundant after awhile.
Luckily though, it did pick up the pace around the 35% mark and from there I was intrigued.
A lot of the plot revolves around….
1) Who are these invaders? Why did they kidnap us?
2) Are they really not from our world? What do they want from us?...our world?
3) What does the future hold us? Are they going to kill us? Who will live? Who will die? And will things ever be the same?
These are the questions that plague Prentiss Puckett as she and her friends are kidnapped and forced to work a secluded camp on the outskirts of her hometown. Determined to regain her freedom, free her fellow kin, and find her longtime love and boyfriend, Jackson… Prentiss develops a plan of escape… ONLY, that’s easier said than done.
When handsome Gallatin enters the picture, Prentiss becomes majorly conflicted as he is one of her captors keeping her locked up in that prison. The more she spends time Gallatin, the more she can’t help but feel more of a pull and attraction for. You’re not supposed to fall in love with the enemy, right? And yet, this is where Prentiss’ loyalty and inner turmoil dwindles.
Will she be able to get to the bottom of everything and find a way to rescue herself and the rest of the people captured?
What about Jackson? Who will Prentiss choose? Him or Gallatin?
And with a human resistance brewing, what will Prentiss do? Who’s side will she choose?
#So overall: A slow start, but nevertheless, captivating read that was mildly solid yet well-crafted and captivating!! Loved the PrentissXGallatin pairing though!! I totally shipped them!!♡♥
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LLL019 Candace Karu: Marathon Woman @CandaceKaru
What will make Candace Karu wear palazzo pants and carry a long cigarette? Lanna hunkers down with Favorite Foodie Candace for a rousing discussion of food, art, and work/life balance. Lanna learns about the meditative properties of running. Candace shares her appreciation of great cheddar and passion for healthy living. And she answers 10 questions.
Candace Karu on Candace Karu:
My career path may seem like a joyride through life with no discernible connections from one stop to the next. On closer inspection, however, you might see the very real ties that bind the experiences into a cohesive, if unusual whole. If the ties are not readily apparent, then perhaps the journey is interesting enough on its own.
After studying Russian and Chinese at Ohio University, I went on to promote rock concerts in Los Angeles, work as an advertising and public relations executive in Washington, DC, design interiors for both residential and commercial projects, take up a full-time studio practice as an artist, and work as a freelance writer.
In the early 1990s, as a working mother with two young children I discovered distance running, a pastime that quickly became a passion. I ran my first marathon in 1990, eventually qualifying for the 100th running of the Boston Marathon in 1995. This experience led me to an assignment for Running Times magazine, where I started as a freelance writer and eventually became Editor at Large. My column “The Running Life” appeared in the magazine for more than three years. I also wrote articles on cross training, nutrition, personality profiles, and apparel and gear reviews. While at Running Times, I edited the popular how-to book, “The Running Times Guide to Breakthrough Running” with Gordon Bakoulis.
I left Running Times in 2007 and became Editor at Large at Maine Home+Design magazine, where I wrote about art, architecture, design, and cuisine.
In 2009, I was named the Consumer Lifestyle Commentator & Favorite Foodie (yes, that’s my real title) for Cabot Creamery in Vermont. In this capacity I write about health, fitness, lifestyle, and wellness, as well as representing Cabot at culinary, health and fitness events around the country. I am also the social media voice for this iconic New England brand. Cabot is a company with a rich 90+ year history, and remains cooperatively owned by the dairy farmers who share in 100% of its profits. It is Cabot’s commitment to helping their consumers lead the best lives possible and my own work supporting those goals that brought my career full circle.
In addition to my work at Cabot, I maintain an interior design practice with my daughter, Tyler. Our company, Karu Decor, serves residential clients in New England and New York.
Having served on the board of the Maine College of Art since 1991, I am the past Chair of the MECA Board of Trustees. I am on the board of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, and Engine, an arts advocacy organization in Biddeford, Maine. I also serve on the Advisory Board of ZAP Fitness Foundation in Blowing Rock, NC.
I can be found on the coast of Maine, hanging out with my two ill-behaved dogs and cooking for a rag-tag assortment of family and friends. I am still committed to fitness and running, having participated in over two hundred road races around the world, including nineteen marathons.
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Netflix News: Netflix Jumps the Shark?
When I first heard buzz this evening that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings had posted an apology at the Netflix website for the way the company abruptly handled implementing a 60% price increase, I was pleasantly surprised.
Netflix has been bleeding customers in the weeks since the announcement, as a significant number of subscribers not only declined to pay the rate hike to maintain both DVDs and streaming, they refused to choose one service over the other. Instead they simply left.
I wondered if Hastings might even announce a new deal for subscribers to both services, perhaps lowering the monthly fee by a dollar or two.
What I found in Hastings' letter was something quite different. In fact, the further I read, the more I started to wonder if Netflix had fallen prey to hackers, because Hastings' letter felt like a parody at the Onion.
After the reader gets past Hastings' mea culpa and confession that he "slid into arrogance," he announces what comes next, and it's a doozy: Netflix is splitting into two companies, and the DVD side of the business will now be called...wait for it...Qwikster. Seriously? I mean, that name just says "Movies," now doesn't it? And such positive Napster-like connotations (not!).
Hastings: "We chose the name Qwikster because it refers to quick delivery. We will keep the name 'Netflix' for streaming."
I just can't believe this is for real.
Want to see at a glance if a title is available on disc vs. streaming? That information is integrated no more. Instead, even if you subscribe to both services, it will require a visit to two separate sites. In a few weeks your DVD queue will be moving to Qwikster.com. Separate credit card bills, too.
What was once a smoothly operating high-tech system, with all the necessary information available at a few clicks of the keyboard, is now sliding backwards towards the analog era.
The separate billing is sure going to make the plans of some subscribers to switch back and forth from DVDs to streaming on a monthly basis a little more complicated...but maybe that's by design.
My oldest daughter is so appalled at the idea of her beloved red envelopes turning into "Qwikster" envelopes that she's talking about cancelling. And she's one of their most loyal subscribers. My husband, on the other hand, thinks they're going to sell off the DVD business.
The bottom line is none of this inspires consumer confidence. Indeed, Adam Jahnke of the Digital Bits Tweeted me "That's just about the strangest mea-culpa solution to a problem I've ever seen." Indeed. He later wrote "Anybody else get the feeling we're watching Netflix implode in slow motion?"
I can't think this is going to go over well. It will certainly be interesting to read reactions this coming week -- and then to see how this latest move impacts consumer choices.
I've mentioned here previously that I was actually in the studio audience for the filming of the infamous HAPPY DAYS episode where Fonzie jumped the shark (although to be completely clear, the shark jumping itself was filmed outdoors at another time). Tonight, I think I may have witnessed another "jump the shark" moment. And this time the experience is not nearly as much fun. Just the opposite.
This feels like a death knell for Netflix. The part of the business that formed the foundation of the company -- the red envelopes in the mail -- no longer exists as Netflix. And the future's looking very uncertain.
Monday Morning Update: A few additional thoughts in the cold light of day: the genius of Netflix has always been offering its customers products they want in an ultra-convenient manner, whether by mail or streaming.
Because of the convenience and years of good will, over recent months customers have tolerated decreased DVD availability and the reduction of services such as DVD reviews posted by reviewer name. Customers also overlooked titles unavailable via either disc or streaming because of the way the two services complemented each other; what isn't available via one service can be seen via the other.
Now, suddenly, customers are being clearly told that our convenience no longer matters; what matters is that customers adjust to the company's needs. Some might say this new attitude is necessary for the company's long-term survival (or should I say companies). Yet, trying to survive as technology evolves and the postal service declines, Netflix is undoing the very features that made it so loved by busy movie fans everywhere.
Suddenly if we rate a movie in the instant queue, it will have no impact on our recommendations for the DVD queue. We'll now need to search two databases for films, instead of one. And the list of inconveniences goes on. This is not the Netflix I've known and loved for the last four and a half years.
Beyond that, it's very clear -- if it wasn't already when Netflix adjusted its pricing -- that Netflix wants out of the DVD business. Many companies treat their best customers appreciatively by offering discounts for buying multiple services or products. But Netflix's best customers, those who continue to subscribe to both discs and streaming, are being told they're not really wanted, with disc customers treated as an inconvenience to be passed off to an entirely different company.
And it must be added that the name Qwikster is so ghastly, it's almost as if Netflix is thumbing its nose at its longtime subscriber base, attempting to drive DVD subscribers away by giving the DVD service a trashy, unappealing name.
I thought Ryan Lawler of Gigaom had very good analysis last week about the impact of the pricing changes. Here's his take on Qwikster and the future.
Among Lawler's perceptive comments: "But what happens when you create a separate website, with separate queue management and a separate billing mechanism? If you’re Netflix, you lose the power of the existing customer relationship and much of the goodwill that you’ve built up over the last several years. Regardless of the miscues in handling the price change and the separation of the DVD business, the Netflix brand still carries tremendous value to a number of existing and potential new subscribers. You also lose the power of the bundle..."
There's more analysis from A.V. Club, Engadget, and Beta News.
Comments are coming in fast and furious at Hacking Netflix and the official Netflix blog, which at this hour has logged nearly 12,000 comments since late last night.
Update: Adam Jahnke has filed a post at The Morton Report.
Comments continue to pour in at Netflix, which has now logged over 14,000 comments in a matter of hours.
Chris Taylor asks in an excellent column if this is "The worst product launch since New Coke?" It's definitely way up there, and the stealth midnight rollout tends to indicate to me Netflix knows it and doesn't care. Learning why Netflix doesn't care will answer a lot of questions.
Chris has some excellent fresh analysis about problems with the rollout, including breaking trust with subscribers.
Wednesday Update: Please visit my new post Netflix News: A Qwikster Roundup.
Rick Moore said...
I've never used Netflix, mainly because I'm not that big a movie buff and I found their pop-up ads on websites very annoying.
My son, however, just subscribed to their streaming service which he uses via his Xbox in his dorm room. He loves it, but he's also getting the good end of this new pricing schedule. For the real movie buff...or movie blogger...I imagine this whole thing is a real pain.
Cliff Aliperti said...
So our last announcement didn't quite kill our DVD by mail service, we figured we'd go all out, make it tougher to access and give it a name that turns people off.
Seriously, I don't know how this is all going to be implemented, but reading the letter my first thought was that they were breaking them apart in order to make it a little more of a pain for people to switch between services month to month.
The explanation for this, I understand, is that Netflix intends to sell the old DVD business. (They may expect it to go the way of BBSs, record albums cassette tapes and Western Electric telephones, but think a greater fool will buy it.
It's all completely stupid. They would not even be gettinbg the best price.
It's not only government which is mismanaged, but if a business is mismanaged, there may be competition, and it doesn't keep on doinbg what it's doing. It shuts down.
We do get the occasional business destroyed by mismanagement, often after a merger.
DKoren said...
Noooo! How completely and utterly lame, particularly coming after the price hike, which I was prepared to weather! But this? Why??? Quikster? Really? *sighs* I guess I need to start looking for alternatives. What a shame they're ruining what has been a good thing for so many years.
I can't believe they chose a name that hard to spell, for one thing...it's a real bummer!
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Aprilia Mana 850cc Motorcycles, page #2
2014 WSBK – Donington Results
Tom Sykes and Loris Baz captured a pair of one-two finishes for Kawasaki at England’s Donington Park. The first race saw the reigning World Superbike champion fight his way up from 11th place for the win while Race 2 offered a three-way battle between the two Kawasaki riders and Aprilia‘s Sylvain Guintoli. Race One #493744055 / gettyimages.com Normally a strong starter, Sykes had a nearly disastrous beginning in Race One, while up front, Suzuki‘s Alex Lowes battled with Guintoli and Baz.
Aprilia Caponord Demo Tour To Reach 43 Cities
Tue, 20 May 2014 00:00:00 -0700
Aprilia has announced a coast-to-coast tour to showcase the capabilities of the new Caponord 1200 ABS Travel Pack. Beginning this Thursday, May 22, and running through through July 5, at one of Aprilia USA’s 43 participating dealerships, licensed riders can throw a leg over the Caponord and experience all that Aprilia’s latest adventure-tourer has to offer. The tour kicks off its west coast leg at GP Bikes in San Diego, CA and east coast leg in Belleville, New Jersey at Motorcycle Mall. You can find all the tour dates below, with full routing and additional information available at http://www.apriliausa.com/demotour.
Help Crowdfund Official WSBK Mobile Game – Get an Aprilia RSV4
Video game developer Digital Tales is seeking backers to crowdfund an officially-licensed World Superbike Championship mobile game. Like most crowdfunding projects, Digital Tales is offering a number of incentives based on how much a donor pledges. For the SBK14 Mobile game, the top tier pledge nets the donor a package of prizes including special edition Aprilia RSV4 SBK personally delivered by Marco Melandri at the Laguna Seca Superbike round.
2014 WSBK – Assen Results
Heavy rains and a fortuitous red flag were the difference in the World Superbike Championship‘s visit to The Cathedral of motorcycle racing, the TT Circuit Assen in the Netherlands. Aprilia‘s Sylvain Guintoli captured his second win of the season in Race 1, which was halted early by a red flag with five laps to go just as it looked like reigning WSBK champion Tom Sykes was gearing up for a final challenge. The second race was also shortened, not by a red flag but because of a rain, turning the 21-lap race into a 10-lap sprint.
2014 WSBK – Aragon Results
Reigning World Superbike Champion Tom Sykes put on a clinic this weekend, leading every lap in both races to claim a pair of wins at Spain’s Motorland Aragon circuit. Sykes’ Kawasaki teammate Loris Baz was right there with him, recording a pair of second-place podiums to give Team Green a pair of one-two finishes. Sykes and Baz were also one-two in the Superpole qualifying on this nearly flawless weekend for the Kawasaki factory team.
Colin Edwards Announces Retirement At End Of Season
Colin Edwards has announced he will retire at the conclusion of the 2014 MotoGP season. The announcement came during the pre-event press conference ahead of this weekend’s Austin MotoGP race — Edwards’ home round. The two-time World Superbike champion cited a lack of progress from winter testing as one reason for the decision.
Aprilia Fools Day!
The Aprilia Racing Team got into the spirit of April Fool’s Day with a new video touting an all-new livery for its RSV4 Superbike. Get the Flash Player to see this player. The video appears to have been filmed around the same time Aprilia revealed its actual “Silver Fireball” livery.
MotoGP to Standardize ECU Software in 2016 Season
MotoGP‘s Grand Prix Commission announced the series will adopt a standardized Engine Control Unit hardware and software programming for all entries starting with the 2016 season. At the moment, all teams are required to use a standard ECU hardware supplied by Magneti Marelli. Teams competing under the Factory option are allowed to use their own proprietary software programming while Open option participants must use standardized software.
2014 WSBK – Phillip Island Results
When he signed with the team, Eugene Laverty said he would give all he possibly could to bring Suzuki back to the top of the podium once again. Well, it sure didn’t take the Northern Irishman long to accomplish that goal, winning the very first race of the 2014 season at Australia’s Phillip Island course. The win was Laverty’s third in a row, including the final two races of the 2013 season when he raced for Aprilia.
2014 Aprilia RSV4 SBK
Hopefully a 12-year old is looking at this 2014 Aprilia RSV4 SBK wide-eyed, with his jaw on the floor in the same way I looked at Fogarty's 1994 Ducati 916 SBK twenty (shit, I feel old) years ago and the feelings he gets from seeing that Aprilia will spur him on to become a biker! I could look at that for hours, it's a work of art.
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Mercer Cluster
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Cluster Editorial
Mercer announces Center for Collaborative Journalism
Elizabeth Bibb
Filed under Campus, City, News
*Updated January 26, 2012
At the close of fall semester, Mercer President William Underwood announced an effort sponsored by the Knight Foundation to bring together professional journalists and students in a joint newsroom in College Hill Corridor.
A $4.6 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will create the Center for Collaborative Journalism, to be located on the first floor of Phase II of the Lofts. Mercer is partnering with The Telegraph and Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB Media) to give students a chance to work alongside professionals in the field.
The effort is also aimed at expanding media involvement in the community. In coming years, the joint newsroom will lead community engagement projects that involve Macon residents in creating the news by choosing which issues to cover, reporting, debating problems and creating solutions.
“We hope Mercer’s Center for Collaborative Journalism and GPB Radio Macon will shine as examples of the kinds of journalistic excellence in the digital age that helps communities build themselves,” said Beverly Blake, Macon program director for Knight Foundation. “I am proud of Macon, and I want it to thrive. A vibrant information ecosystem will help that.”
Mercer is receiving $3.74 million of the grant to create the center itself, which will be part of a mixed-use building in the Lofts also housing Mercer students.
“GPB is a trusted Macon citizen and an active presence in the communities of Central Georgia,” said Teya Ryan, president and executive director of GPB Media. “Combining the talents of the Telegraph newsroom with GPB Radio and tapping into the digital DNA of Mercer journalism students, we will create a town hall for Macon and Central Georgia with more enterprise reporting, more storytelling about this community and far greater reach across all media platforms.”
In addition to GPB staff, editors of The Telegraph will have offices in the Center.
“Our goal with this partnership is to harness our collective resources to elevate community and civic journalism, involve and engage more citizens, readers, listeners, web and mobile users, and provide a unique learning environment for both new and seasoned journalists,” said Sherrie Marshall, Executive Editor of The Telegraph.
Phase II of the Lofts is set to open in July 2012. The Journalism and Media Studies department will be in the Center.
“In order for local media to survive, they have to go hyper local,” said Jay Black, assistant professor of journalism. “Small community newspapers will have to beef up their reporting on local issues because it’s the only place people can get info about their community. What we’re trying to do with this new center is find a way of teaching this hyper local news in today’s converged media atmosphere,” added Black.
Cynthia Gottshall, head of the journalism department, is optimistic about the effect the move will have on students. “[They] will have the direct opportunity to work with professionals. That kind of collaboration can only benefit the students,” she said.
Kaleigh Manson, a junior journalism major, is also excited about the Center. “Hopefully it will open up opportunities for for students,” she said.
Larry Brumley, Senior Vice President for Marketing Communications and Chief of Staff, said it has not yet been decided how student media outlets like The Cluster will be affected by the move.
According to Brumley, the administration is focused on recruiting a director for the Center and will hold a prospective student visitation day on March 24 for high school students interested in journalism and communications.
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Fan works and the Metroid Prime 3 soundtrack
Saturday, 29 March 2008 at 02:59 GMT
Plenty of Metroid goodness today. First up we have two new fan art gallery additions: be sure to check out James Chung and Reinaldo Quintero's fantastic work. Second, swing by our new Fan fiction section and enjoy our first submitted piece (special thanks to Aleclom for getting this initiative going!) - any writers out there adding to the Metroidverse, please feel free to submit your work!
Lastly, a big treat for Metroid music fans: the Metroid Prime 3 soundtrack in all its audio brilliance. As with all the soundtracks, pick up each track separately or grab them all in one giant zip archive. This is some of Kenji Yamamoto's finest work, so enjoy!
Metroid Prime 3 walkthrough - Mission complete
Sunday, 9 March 2008 at 12:10 GMT
At long, long last, I've finally put the finishing touches on our main Metroid Prime 3: Corruption walkthrough.
This colossal piece took around a month and a half, many late nights and no caffeine (really) to finish, so I do hope you enjoy perusing through its many (36!) chapters for all sorts of MP3 goodness.
I've also riddled the walkthrough with more screenshots than you can poke a Metroid at, giving it a much better look than just reams of text.
I've made slight updates to all the other MP3 guide sections as well - so all in all the entire lot is now wrapped up in a nice and neat package. Just in time for Smash Bros Brawl too, well at least in North America.
Metroid Prime 3, what a game... enjoy the guides!
Metroid Prime 3 arrives in Japan
Thursday, 6 March 2008 at 09:58 GMT
On this day in Metroid history, Metroid Prime 3 is finally set free in Japan, completing the game's release schedule around the major regions of the world. Nintendo's special Japanese Metroid website has also been given a hearty facelift to celebrate the release of the game.
Be sure to check it out for more of the gorgeous boxart design the Japanese version's been spoiled with, along with a multitude of videos we've already seen months ago (but all with a wonderful Japanese style). There's a few good articles linked to the Nintendo.co.jp website, but naturally you're out of luck if you can't read Japanese. Either way, it's great to see the game finally out where the series began, so here's hoping there's enough people breaking away from Brawl enough to give it a try.
I've also recently been sent a complete Metroid II map from Shane Carter, who colour-coded and cleaned up a map originally made by Ray Kremer, so be sure to check these out on the new Metroid II maps page for a great view of SR388's depths.
Have you ever heard of (or been to) the fantastic video game live concerts going on in recent years? Check out this video below for a few familiar tunes played by a complete orchestra - really good stuff.
The Metroid Prime 3 walkthrough? Almost, almost there.
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Two Hundred and Ninety (290) newly recruited Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) recently recruited by the National Ambulance Service (NAS) have been inducted into the Paramedic and Emergency Care Training School (PECTS) at Nkenkaaso in the Offinso-North in the Ashanti Region.
The EMTs forming group one of a total number of five hundred and seventy-seven (577) EMTs recruited are expected to spend three months in the School.
The other remaining group of EMTs currently undergoing their training at the various ambulance stations in the country are also expected in the training school in November, where they will spend three months also.
Inducting the group into the training school, the Deputy Chief Executive (DCEO) NAS, Dr. Andah Nacauley urged them to strictly adhere to the laid down rules and regulations governing the training of EMTs.
According to Dr. Narculey, the management of the School would not spare anyone who goes contrary to the rules of the school and therefore advised them to attach importance to all curricula of activities that their trainers are taking them through.
“Today marks another beginning of your life, it is your own responsibility to make your impact in this training and your emergency medical technician career”, Dr. Nacauley told the recruits.
He continued that their presence here at the PECTS was not by accident but by a destiny which they need to enhance for the betterment of their future.
The DCEO advised the new recruits to form study groups, particularly with their colleagues who are naturally good, so that they can learn and to become good EMTs.
The Head of Training at PECTS, Dr. Osei Ampofo welcoming the EMT Recruits urged them to consider whatever training they would be taken through as very important and embrace it seriously.
According to Dr. Osei Ampofo, all the training courses such as drills, psychomotor and clinicals they would be going through are crucial to their training adding that all these would make them come out as better EMTs.
He told them that, the training offered them here at PECTS is intended to instill discipline and empathy in them, so that they would also have same for their patients.
“You are going to become Ambassadors of NAS, therefore, it is incumbent upon you to study hard in order to become the needed ambassadors the Service wants you to be”, Dr. Ampofo stated.
Other speakers included Mr. Foster Ansong-Bridjan, Head of Operations, the Administrator of PECTS SAEMT Vitus Agongo and Chief Drill Instructor, AEMT Slater Banini-Davordzie.
The induction ceremony was moderated by the Head of Public Relations, Mr. Simmons Yussif Kewura.
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Journal of Cold War Studies
Special Issue: CSCE, The German Question, and the Warsaw Pact
The end of the Cold War has released a flood of new archival materials and memoirs both in the former Communist world and in Western countries. Declassified documentation and first-hand accounts have enabled scholars to gain a much better understanding of some of the key events of the past century. Journal of Cold War Studies is the first peer-reviewed journal to feature research based on these new sources.
Mark Kramer, Harvard University
Tristan Knight, Harvard University
Hannes Adomeit, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (Berlin)
Csaba Békés, Cold War History Research Center (Budapest)
Archie Brown, Oxford University
Chen Jian, Cornell University
Eliot A. Cohen, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Nicholas J. Cull, University of Southern California
Jorge I. Dominguez, Harvard University
Lawrence Freedman, King’s College, University of London
John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University
Charles Gati, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Leonid Gibianskii, Institute of Slavic Studies (Moscow)
James G. Hershberg, George Washington University
David Holloway, Stanford University
Robert L. Jervis, Columbia University
Donald Kagan, Yale University
Ethan B. Kapstein, Arizona State University and U.S. Institute of Peace
Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University
Erik Kulavig, University of Odense (Denmark)
Carol Skalnik Leff, University of Illinois-Urbana
Fredrik Logevall, Harvard University
Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University
Charles Maier, Harvard University
Andrew Moravcsik, Princeton University
John Mueller, Ohio State University
Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University
Christian Ostermann, Cold War International History Project
Andrzej Paczkowski, Institute of Political Studies (Warsaw)
Silvio Pons, Gramsci Foundation, University of Rome
János Rainer, Institute for Study of the 1956 Revolution (Budapest)
Robert Ross, Boston College
Paul Schroeder, University of Illinois-Urbana
Angela Stent, Georgetown University
Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland-College Park
Marc Trachtenberg, University of California, Los Angeles
Oldřich Tůma, Institute of Contemporary History (Prague)
Stephen Van Evera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen M. Walt, Harvard University
Natalia Yegorova, Institute of Universal History (Moscow)
William Zimmerman, University of Michigan
Elena Zubkova, Institute of Russian History (Moscow)
Volume 18, Number 2, Spring 2016
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℗ 1992 Polydor Records 517 231 / © Remark Records
℗ 1992 Polydor Records 513 954
French pop star (and SO of Johnny Depp) recorded her English-language debut record in 1991; the self-titled disc was a bit of a flop commercially, but, surprisingly, succeeds artistically. Producer Lenny Kravitz gives Vanessa Paradis some of his best songs and she really can carry a tune with her breathy little-girl vocals. The highlights of the record are many, but the songs that will have you smiling like a fool at the sheer poptasticness of it all are the gliding funk with orchestra of "Natural High;" the strutting girl group of "Be My Baby;" the sweet-as-sugar sunshine pop of "Sunday Mondays;" the psych-soul of "Your Love Has Got a Handle on My Mind" (which features Paradis' most assured vocal and a nice background assist from Kravitz); and the sweet soul of "Just as Long as You Are There." Even her cover of the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting for the Man" works wonders. It really shouldn't, but the propulsive beat and Paradis' sexy vocals somehow do the trick. The only song that falls flat is the autumnal folk of "Silver and Gold," as the ultra-serious lyrics and tone are painfully out of step with the glitter and groove of the rest of the record. Kravitz should be praised for his wonderful production. He rarely makes a wrong move and provides wonderful settings for Paradis to shine. It is too bad they didn't make more records together. Johnny Depp's gain is pop music's loss. Odds are there will never be a deluxe reissue (sadly), so you will have to seek this out in used stores and bargain bins. — Tim Sendra.
1. Natural High [03:21]
2. I'm Waiting for the Man [03:25]
3. Silver and Gold [02:44]
4. Be My Baby [03:41]
5. Lonely Rainbows [02:33]
6. Sunday Mondays [03:56]
7. Your Love Has Got a Handle on My Mind [03:56]
8. The Future Song [04:55]
9. Paradis [03:03]
10. Just as Long as You Are There [03:25]
11. Gotta Have It [02:17]
Vanessa Paradis: vocals
Sarah Adams: cello, viola
Tony Breit: guitar
Debbie Cole: guitar, background vocals, choir, chorus
Eric Delente: viola
Henry Hirsch: bass, guitar, drums, tambourine, mellotron, string arrangement
Soye Kim: violin
Lenny Kravitz: bass, guitar, trombone, drums, saxophone, tambourine, backing vocals, choir, chorus, arp, vocal arrangement, string arrangement
Richard Mitchell: choir, chorus
Brenda Jay Nelson: guitar, backing vocals
Antoine Rooney: trumpet
Craig Ross: bass, harmonica, chimes, drums, tambourine, vocals, backing vocals, coral sitar
Angie Stone: piano, backing vocals
Allen Whear: cello
John Whitfield: bass, piano, strings
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"Anatomical Art: Dissection to Illustration," Exhibition Curated by Marie Dauenheimer, Arlington, Virginia
"We have the gift of language, the gift of making memories in words and pictures," Aziz says. "The bodies are gone, but by making these memories, we, to an extent, resurrect them. This is the antidote to death."--David Montgomery, "In gross anatomy, Howard U.'s Ashraf Aziz sees nothing but grace," Washington Post, Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Marie Dauenheimer, friend, friend of Morbid Anatomy, and Observatory lecturer past and future (more on that future lecture--which is entitled "Three Unique Medical Museums in Northern Italy" and will take place on Saturday May 1--soon!) has curated an exhibition of artworks inspired by the cadaver as part of a year-long collaboration between Howard's College of Medicine and the Art Institute of Washington. The Washington Post just ran a really lovely and in-depth story about the exhibition and the collaboration; it was such an interesting article that I have posted it here in its entirety:
In gross anatomy, Howard U.'s Ashraf Aziz sees nothing but grace
By David Montgomery
At 71, Ashraf Aziz has spent half his life cutting open cadavers and initiating medical students at Howard University into the pungent mysteries of human anatomy. He likes the heads. Extracting the muscles of chewing is one of his specialties. There is little about the body that can faze him anymore.
And yet, here in a little art gallery across the street from the Rosslyn Metro station, this most eloquent and loquacious man of science has been rendered almost speechless.
"I, I'm really a little bit -- " he stammers.
He sounds like a first-year medical student about to be overcome in the embalming room.
"I'm sorry," he says.
Tears well in his eyes.
Surrounded by red-wine-sipping artists and art students on a recent evening, the anatomist is contemplating their renderings of the human body. The nudes not only have no clothes, they also have no skin. The subjects are cadavers -- cadavers from the lab where Aziz teaches gross anatomy.
"I'm so deeply moved," he says. He never thought he would find such kindred spirits.
This exhibit, "Anatomical Art: Dissection to Illustration," is just one outcome of an unusual year-old collaboration between Howard's College of Medicine and the Art Institute of Washington. The cross-disciplinary ping-pong continues strong in both directions:
There is talk of enlisting animators from the art school to enhance lessons on locomotion at the medical school. An Art Institute sculptor presented Aziz with some fancy modeling clay, which he used to take an impression from the inside of a chimpanzee skull as part of his comparative chew-muscle research.
Meanwhile, at the art school, to such curriculum standards as "life drawing" -- portraits of live, nude models -- has been added the informal option of, well, dead drawing, in the cadaver lab. Some artists have taken to exploring -- and memorizing the Latin names of -- complex muscle groups that invisibly influence the supple motions of the living torso.
Perhaps most striking has been seeing the life and career of one of Washington's singularly passionate scientists come full circle.
The son of amateur artists in the Indian diaspora, growing up in Tanzania, Aziz, too, once wanted to become an artist. But his poet-carpenter father and his henna-painter mother feared there wasn't a secure future in art. So Aziz became a zoologist and a human anatomist, an associate professor at Howard.
The choice was apt, for the study of anatomy has embraced art -- and vice versa -- at least since Leonardo da Vinci performed dissections and drew the results. From "Gray's Anatomy," the seminal 19th-century illustrated text, to latter-day sensational exhibitions of plasticized cadavers such as "Bodies" and "Body Worlds," the dissected corpse continues to fascinate, repulse, instruct and inspire.
Aziz believes that when science and art diverge, both lose. He draws his own illustrations. To conclude his regular medical lecture on the hand and forearm, he has had traditional Indian tabla drummers demonstrate the dexterity of the muscles and tendons that his students will tweeze in the cadaver lab. In 1999 he co-wrote a 19-page academic journal article in which he cited Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce and Marshall McLuhan, along with medical authorities. The ostensible subject was to defend the relevance of the "real" cadaver in medical education despite the rise of digital "cyber cadavers" -- but really the piece was a stirring meditation on authenticity. Away from the lab he reads poetry and writes essays on popular Indian cinema.
Aziz's dream has been to see what a new generation of artists would bring to a new generation of cadavers. Even if the results were nothing revolutionary, he thought, the process itself would be illuminating for all involved: Where life has ended, insight might begin.
Anatomy for art students
As Aziz was casting his thoughts from the realm of science to art, an artist named Marie Dauenheimer was thinking in the other direction.
In 1979, five years after Aziz began teaching at Howard, Dauenheimer was sitting in a class, Gross Anatomy for Artists, at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. What a concept, she thought: The students would spend a couple of hours in a studio life drawing, then cross the hall to the anatomy lab. They would shuttle back and forth from living to dead, surface to structure, skin-deep to skinless.
"That was a turning point for me," she says.
She got a master's in medical illustration at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she took gross anatomy and dissected a cadaver. "I loved every minute of it," she says. "To explore the human body and then being able to draw it."
She built a career as a freelance illustrator -- drawing surgical procedures, molecular structures, physiological processes. Four years ago she joined the faculty of the Art Institute, teaching classes in life drawing and human and animal anatomy.
Last year she conceived a summer sabbatical to realize one of her own dreams. She wanted to conjure those epiphanic student days in the anatomy lab. She proposed to develop a more powerful way to teach principles of anatomy to art students.
One of the best friends and collaborators of her husband, anthropologist Samuel Strong Dunlap, was none other than Aziz. Dauenheimer paid a visit to Howard. She expected just to have coffee with Aziz, and brainstorm how they might work together. Aziz surprised her.
"Your cadaver is waiting for you," he said.
He encouraged Dauenheimer to do the dissection herself, with help from Dunlap. All summer she cut and drew, inviting art students and colleagues to make their own sketches and sculptures. That work is in the exhibit.
The anatomist imposed one condition on the artist.
"He had dibs on the head," Dauenheimer says.
Dissection puts Aziz in a philosophical mood. In the lab one recent afternoon, he grasps the left hand of a cadaver and holds it up for inspection. The flexible assemblage of bones, muscles and tendons rests in his rubber-gloved palm.
"Look at this here," he says, manipulating the sinewy thumb. "What Aristotle called the organ of organs, the opposing thumb."
His rubber fingers glide down the flayed forearm, and he lightly presses and pulls stringy cords that cause the thumb and fingers to move, puppetlike.
"The body is organized in layers of muscles," he says. "Look at the silvery tone of the tendons! Beauty is not skin-deep, it is deep-deep. . . . The cadaver opens itself up to reflection. This is where data and information lead to knowledge and insight."
Aziz is standing in the center of a vast space filled with 46 stainless steel platforms, each supporting a cadaver in a blue or white body bag and connected to black ventilation tubes.
The atmosphere is not morbid, but reverent. The bodies have been donated by the families of the dead. For six months, students work with the cadavers. Then the remains are cremated and returned to the families, or interred in a plot in Beltsville. No personal details about the cadavers are revealed to the students. The cadaver that Dauenheimer dissected and that most of the artists drew belonged to a 94-year-old woman.
Before dissection, the bodies are embalmed in a room next to the lab. The blood is drained out and preservative chemicals are pumped in. During dissection, the skin is peeled back and fat and other tissue is cleared away to reveal the purple-brown muscles and iridescent tendons.
In Aziz's view, the anatomy lab is not the end of anything, it is the beginning of something.
"The cadaver is a medical student's first patient," he says.
It is like a message from the physician who signed the death certificate to a new generation of doctors. "The novice begins training where the trained physician leaves off," he wrote in his manifesto celebrating the cadaver.
A cadaver is unwieldy. It will not fit in your laptop for later reference. Hence the need to depict and describe it -- the artist's role.
Yet Aziz stakes his worldview on this point: Just as the medical student must begin his initiation with the original flesh and guts, not with a pristine digitized reflection, so the artist -- engaged in creating yet another reflection -- must begin at the source.
Moment of insight
Pen and sketchbook in hand, Geoffrey Moore was paying close attention to the skinned and stripped lower leg and foot of the cadaver. He noticed that one of the toenails was still tinted with polish. Fuchsia. A sudden powerful consciousness of this departed life flooded his imagination.
"I had to stop drawing for a minute," recalls Moore, 21, a third-year animation student.
Then he went back to work. He was trying to solve an artistic problem. In his animation exercises at the institute, he had been having trouble with the "toe-roll" or "foot-roll" motion, when an animated character is taking strides. Now in the lab he was drawing -- and mentally absorbing -- those muscles and tendons that make that roll possible.
"We're all kind of differently shaped, but motion is universal," Moore says. He was accustomed to rendering the surfaces of things, where appearances vary so much. The cadaver lab reveals the universal in the particular. "Instead of seeing the differences, you see the similarities in our bodies," he says. "The more you learn about what's under the skin, the more you can apply that when you see someone walking down the street."
Moore's sketches of the leg and foot hang in the exhibit organized by Dauenheimer, along with the work of eight other students and professional artists.
At the exhibit opening, having recovered his composure, Aziz walks from picture to picture, pausing delightedly at each. Courtly and cheerful, he wears a sports coat and a striped tie with little skulls on it. He is joined by his wife, Barbara Dunn, an oncologist with the National Cancer Institute. They live in Mount Pleasant.
"This is fantastic," Aziz says to Charl Ann Brew, who has made an eight-inch sculpture of a gesturing cadaver whose bones and muscles are revealed to different degrees on different limbs. Aziz lingers over the head.
"You have the forehead muscle . . . the smile muscle . . . then the kissing muscle right there . . . and in order to give a French kiss, the muscle there to get deep suction. Exquisite detail!"
Brew, an art instructor, says the project has inspired her to look deeper. "I'm memorizing a different sent of muscles every quarter."
As he walks through the exhibit, Aziz cites a few lines by the Urdu poet Ghalib, about how the awareness of death adds intensity to life: "If the candle did not immolate itself in all its brilliant colors, the night would not be illuminated."
These are his most important anatomy lessons.
"We have the gift of language, the gift of making memories in words and pictures," Aziz says. "The bodies are gone, but by making these memories, we, to an extent, resurrect them. This is the antidote to death."
The exhibition--which looks not-to-be-missed--will be on view until May 8th at the Art Institute of Washington Gallery (“Gallery 1820”), 1820 N. Fort Myer Drive, Street Level, Arlington, Virginia. You can read the entire article in context on the Washington Post website by clicking here. You can see the photo gallery--from which the above image was drawn--by clicking here. You can find out more about the show by clicking here.
Image: Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post; Caption reads: "The son of amateur artists in the Indian Diaspora and growing up in Tanzania, Aziz, too, once wanted to become an artist. But his poet-carpenter father and his henna-painter mother feared there wasn't a secure future in art. So he became a zoologist and a human anatomist, and is now an associate professor at Howard. Here, Aziz spritzes a solution on a cadaver to keep it moist at the gross anatomy lab in Northwest Washington." You can see the full photo essay by clicking here.
Posted by JE at 11:50 AM
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JaQuel Richmond Released from Men’s Basketball Team
Freshman guard JaQuel Richmond takes a shot against Marshall's Jay Johnson. Coach Kermit Davis and the Blue Raiders trample the Thundering Heard in a 90-51 victory on the night of Thursday February, 19th. (MTSU Sidelines/R.J. Estrella)
MURFREESBORO – Middle Tennessee freshman point guard JaQuel Richmond has been released from the team, failing to make the trip to the Conference USA tournament with MTSU.
Richmond, a North Carolina native, averaged just 3.4 points and 1.3 rebounds in 13 starts and 27 games for the Blue Raiders.
The freshman last played against Western Kentucky on Feb. 22. He suffered an injury the Tuesday after that game in the weight room that caused him to miss the final three games of the regular season.
Richmond has not practiced with the team since the WKU game, and he did not travel with the team on either of its final two road trips.
Head Coach Kermit Davis said that he will not be back with MTSU.
The news of Richmond’s release comes less than 24 hours before the C-USA tournament begins on Wednesday. The sixth-seeded Blue Raiders (16-15) are set to begin play in the C-USA tournament Wednesday against 11th-seeded Charlotte (14-17) in Legacy Arena at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex in the first round of the C-USA Basketball Championships. The game is scheduled to start at 2:30 p.m. CST.
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Wednesday, December 30, 1998 Published at 02:03 GMT
Text of President Clerides' statement
Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides announced on 29 December 1998 that Russian-made S-300 surface-to-air missiles will not be deployed in Cyprus.
The following is the text of the president's announcement, read out by a Cyprus TV announcer.
I [have] reached the decision on the non-deployment of the missiles in Cyprus and agreed that we negotiate with the Russian Government their possible deployment in Crete.
I feel the need to underline that the sole criterion in reaching this decision was the interest of the Cypriot people and the wider interest of Hellenism.
I accept that my decision deviates from a previous decision on the deployment of the missiles in Cyprus. However, I do not accept that today's decision was the outcome of submission to pressure, threats, and blackmail.
It was merely the outcome of a responsible examination and a realistic assessment of the current conditions, factors, and prospects that directly or indirectly affect the course of our national issue.
I neither reproach nor criticise as being wrong the decision made for the purchase and deployment of the S-300 missiles.
However, I would not be a responsible leader if I obstinately insisted today on the decision made then, knowing that the implementation of that decision would harm the substantial and lasting interests of Cyprus and Greece.
I respect the views that are contrary to my decision. I know I will be the target of acute criticism due to my decision.
However, I [have] never hesitated in adopting a decision that I believed served the interests of the country, which I always set above personal and political observations.
I believe in the correctness of the decision I made today and I am completely certain that with this decision our national issue and our national interest are effectively served.
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Jose Mourinho still interested in Arsenal star Mesut Ozil
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Main Text
Patthana - Conditional Relations Studies
With what as object, Samiddhi, do thoughts and concepts arise in a man?
With name-and-form as object, venerable sir.
But wherein, Samiddhi, do they assume diversity?
In the elements, venerable sir.
But whence, Samiddhi, do they arise?
They arise from contact, venerable sir.
But on what, Samiddhi, do they converge?
They converge on feeling, venerable sir.
But what, Samiddhi, is at their head?
They are headed by concentration, venerable sir.
But what is it, Samiddhi, that dominates them?
They are dominated by mindfulness, venerable sir.
But what, Samiddhi, is their (point of) transcendence?
They are transcended by wisdom, venerable sir.
But what is it, Samiddhi, that forms their essence?
They have deliverance as their essence, venerable sir.
But in what, Samiddhi, do they get merged?
They get merged in the Deathless, venerable sir.
Anguttara Nikaya IV 385f.
Brief description of the language-process from the point of view of Patthana.
The states of materiality and mentality, which arise together to carry out their respective functions and are present at every moment, are related to one another by presence condition. But these states are not permanent for they cease soon after they have arisen. However, the successive arisings and ceasings take place so rapidly that they appear to be present all the time. Thus they give rise to the concepts of continuity, collection, form and action in the mind.
As a consequence, various forms, images and the drama of life are visualised in the mind. Of course these concepts do exist but only in the realm of the mind, i.e. not independent of or outside the mind as are the momentary material and mental states from which they are derived. These operations of the mind are similar to those that take place whereby forms, images and the drama of a story are visualised and mentally projected on the cinema screen when one watches the momentarily present shadows that are projected in rapid succession on that screen.
It has to be realised, therefore, that such forms, images and the drama of life of oneself or of another are due to the activities of the mind on the past and present states of materiality and mentality and are not real like them but simply conceptual objects of mind-consciousness element and its associated states (subjective mind for short) that had arisen along with the subjective materiality at that moment. Then when there is awareness that it is the subjective mind which takes those concepts as objects and attention is directed to the subjective mind:
(i) those concepts will disappear because they are no longer taken as objects at such moments. This may be compared to a self-destructive machine with all its parts connected together and which, remaining at a standstill, is calm and quiet. However, once the switch for its operation is turned on, all the various parts start to break into small pieces which scatter in all directions and the machine disappears because it is destroyed;
(ii) greed and the other corruptions cannot arise because no images are taken. For it has to be remembered that corruptions arise only when unwise reflection is made on images. For although the image may he discriminated as beautiful, pleasant, cultured, estimable or lovable, unless there is unwise reflection on it there can be no delight for it for greed to arise.
Moreover, there cannot be any self-existent entity present because, according to presence condition, one state is present because another state is present or for one state to be present there must be another state related by presence condition. So, at any moment, there must be at least two states present. Therefore, it will be realised that the states of materiality and mentality of presence condition are collectively taken as a unit for the purpose of communicating about them in the briefest way possible since the image derived from them is worded as ‘I’, ‘self’, ‘being’, ‘person’, ‘man’, ‘woman’ and these are then further distinguished as ‘John’, ‘Mary’, etc. Being ignorant of the presence of the subjective mind that takes those words as objects when they are recalled to mind, spoken or written (for only mentality can take words as objects) those words, which are really objective states, are taken as unitary, subjective states. Besides, these words are taken to be the subject in grammar. This is how wrong view of words has come about, i.e. of the view that they are subjective states which correspond with reality. Also, not being aware of the fact that words were coined in the mind of man for the purpose of expressing ideas of the various forms, images and actions in the briefest possible way, repeated use of them with the view that they represent reality has brought about deep attachment to that view. Hence, there was no need to enquire whether the view held was correct or not.
Guide to Conditional Relations Part I, U Narada
For further investigation of concept “language”, we can distinguish its following areas:
Mentality, which produce speaking.
Object of this speaking-producing mentality.
Material phenomena of speaking which is movements of organs of speech.
Sound produced by these organs, which is considered to be a mind-produced sound.
Material ear, which acts as a supporting material base for hearing a sound.
Mental process of hearing.
Mental process of listening, i.e. recognizing, interpreting and so on.
Let us consider them one by one.
to be continued soon
Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought (pdf)
An Essay on Papanca and Papanca-Sanna-Sankha
The Magic of the Mind (pdf)
by Bhikkhu Katukurunde Nanananda
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Jason Holder to lead Windies in Sandals T20s against England
Squad named with ICC Cricket World Cup in mind
Hosts aim to maintain momentum from Test Series win and ODI Series tie
First contest bowls off on Tuesday at Daren Sammy Cricket Ground
GROS ISLET, Saint Lucia – Two-time World T20 champions West Indies have named the 13-member squad for the three-match Sandals Twenty20 International Series against England. The Cricket West Indies Selection Panel has named Jason Holder as captain for this series and have kept the core of the squad which played in the five-match Colonial Medical Insurance ODI Series.
Chairman of Selectors Courtney Browne said the aim is to give as much exposure as possible to the hopefuls for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 in England and Wales in a bid to continue planning towards the marquee event. Holder therefore, will lead the squad for this Series only, while Carlos Brathwaite remains the bona fide T20 captain.
“After discussion with the coach surrounding preparation for the ICC CWC 2019, it was proposed that we retain the ODI squad to play the T20 matches against England. After deliberations with captain, coach and the panel, we all are of the opinion that it would aid in the team’s World Cup preparations,” Browne said.
“We have a triangular series in Ireland in early May, which coincides with the Indian Premier League. A high number of the World Cup hopefuls will be involved in the IPL and will miss the tour to Ireland. We therefore, felt, that we could not miss this opportunity for the coaching staff to continue work towards finalizing their strategies.”
Browne added: “We were very impressed with the way the team played in the recent Colonial Medical Insurance ODIs. To bounce back and level the series 2-2 against the Number 1 ranked team in the world was a great performance. We wish Jason and his team all the best in the Sandals T20 Series, and we wish them more success as we continue preparation towards the ICC CWC 2019.”
The Sandals T20 International Series begins on Tuesday with a day/night contest at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground. First ball is 4 pm (3 pm Jamaica Time/8 pm GMT).
FULL SQUAD (with jersey numbers)
Jason Holder (Captain) – 8
Fabian Allen 97
Devendra Bishoo – 70
Carlos Brathwaite – 26
Darren Bravo – 46
John Campbell – 32
Sheldon Cottrell – 19
Chris Gayle – 45
Shimron Hetmyer – 2
Shai Hope – 4
Ashley Nurse – 5
Nicholas Pooran – 29
Oshane Thomas – 42
NOTE: CWI Medical Panel outlined that Andre Russell has been withdrawn from the squad, due to an adverse reaction he had to a medical procedure done in Dubai before he flew to the Caribbean.
1st Sandals T20 International
Daren Sammy Cricket Ground – Tuesday, March 5
2nd Sandals T20 International
Warner Park – Friday, March 8
3rd Sandals T20 International
Warner Park – Sunday, March 10
• Tickets for the matches are on sale at the main ticket booths at Daren Sammy Cricket Ground and the Warner Park. Also available online http://www.windiescricket.com via the “BuyTickets” button. Local fans can also benefit from a discount when they present their local ID.
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THE BODY LAUTREC (Aaron Cromie and Mary Tuomanen): Fringe Review 53
September 15, 2014 - Debra Miller
“Can you see beauty in ugliness, or is it just playing in the dirt?”
(Lou Reed, “Starlight,” Songs for Drella)
The dissolute life and physical afflictions of French Post-Impressionist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) are the subjects of THE BODY LAUTREC. The original Fringe offering, co-written by Aaron Cromie (he stars in the title role, capturing the figure’s look and personality) and Mary Toumanen (she directs), is decidedly not for all ages and certainly not everyone’s cup of tea (Lautrec here fills his teacup with liquor). It is a shockingly hard-core depiction of the depravities in which the artist reveled and the debauched culture of late-19th-century Montmartre that he depicted. The show succeeds in setting a convincingly debased tone, and repels with its full-out crudities: Lautrec urinating on furniture then wiping his wet hands in his hair; fully nude and bottomless women exposing themselves and parading around the stage; a degrading conversation about the best nipples in Paris; among others.
Aaron Cromie stars in THE BODY LAUTREC (Photo credit: Mary Tuomanen)
Puppets (of Lautrec’s skeleton and a towering doctor, created by Cromie and operated by Kittson O’Neill) share the stage with live actors. Segments of medical procedures and voice-over analyses—some of the artist’s disabilities were congenital (presumed pycnodysostosis, dwarfism, and hypertrophied genitals, the result of his aristocratic family’s inbreeding), but the fatal ones (alcoholism and syphilis) were self-induced—are interwoven with scenes of brothels and cabarets (Kate Raines, Malgorzata Kasprzycka, and the riveting Christie Parker are the prostitutes/dance-hall girls, accompanied live by composer/pianist Heath Allen). The costumes (Maggie Baker), lighting (Maria Shaplin), sound (Rob Kaplowitz), set and props (Cromie) are historically evocative (in consultation with the Mütter Museum), and the imagery has the appropriately perverse tone of an absinthe-induced nightmare, but the brazen production generates more disgust than sympathy for this shamelessly “hedonistic soul in a broken body” and his distasteful coterie. [Caplan Studio Theatre, University of the Arts, 211 S. Broad St., 16th floor] September 12-21, 2014; fringearts.com/the-body-lautrec.
Read another Phindie review of THE BODY LAUTREC.
Fringe Festival, Fringe reviews, Reviews, Theater - Tags: Aaron Cromie, Christie Parker, FringeArts, Heath Allen, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Kate Raines, Maggie Baker, Malgorzata Kasprzycka, Maria Shaplin, Mary Tuomanen, Rob Kaplowitz, The Body Lautrec - no comments
Debra Miller
Debra holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Delaware and teaches at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ. She is a judge for the Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, Philadelphia Arts and Culture Correspondent for Central Voice, and has served as a Commonwealth Speaker for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and President of the Board of Directors of Da Vinci Art Alliance. Her publications include articles, books, and catalogues on Renaissance, Baroque, American, Pre-Columbian, and Contemporary Art, and feature articles on the Philadelphia theater scene.
CABARET Couple: Talking to the married stars of a Broadway tour Roundabout Theatre Company's Tony award-winning production of CABARET will make its Philadelphia premiere at the Academy of Music April 4-9 by Debra Danese
Dance in Sketch: Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers
Artist Chuck Schultz recently attended a rehearsal of Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers Fall/Spring season at the Chi Movement Arts Center more…
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Testing Center sets hours for finals week
May 11, 2015 June 17, 2015 <a href="http://pioneer.occc.edu/byline/christy-montenegro-staff-writer/" rel="tag">Christy Montenegro / Staff Writer</a>
Finals week in the Testing Center starts out busy and gets busier, said Linda Little, director of Testing and Assessment at OCCC. On average, about 4,000 tests are administered during finals week, Little said.
To accommodate students, the Testing Center will be offering extended hours during finals week.
Monday through Friday, May 11 through 15, the Testing Center will be open from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. The doors will lock at 10 p.m.
On Saturday, May 16, the hours will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and doors lock at 4 p.m.
For students who have some flexibility about when they take final exams, Little had some advice on how to make the best of a hectic period.
She said Tuesday and Wednesday are less busy in the Testing Center but Thursday, Friday and Saturday can get very crowded because a lot of people will wait until the last minute.
“When they do that, there will be more people trying to get in to test at the same time,” she said.
When the room gets crowded, it can become hot and stuffy, Little said. She suggests that students dress comfortably, and consider wearing light layers, since it can get pretty warm. Early morning hours and later in the evening tend to be less crowded.
“If students want to come when we’re less busy, they need to come in the morning before 10 or 11 or in the evening between 7 and 10,” she said.
Testing Center activity picks up around 11 a.m. and stays busy until at least 7 in the evening, Little said. They’re busy all day but some hours not as busy.
Taking tests early in the day is better for some students.
“I like to go to the Testing Center in the morning,” said student Jing Long. “I don’t like the evening or afternoon because in the morning your brain will be much smarter and remember all the things you have to remember.”
Others prefer different hours.
“From my experience here, I always prefer to come around 1 o’clock to have a lot of time before they close,” said student Nariman Obias. “I like to spend maybe two hours and a half working on my test.”
Obias said she plans to start studying a week before her test and work hard to be prepared.
Little said a few students arrive with incomplete information, which can add to an already stressful situation. And sometimes they arrive too late to take the test.
“The most common thing all the time is that they either show up without their student ID, because they have to have a student ID, or they show up after the doors are locked, because we lock the doors an hour before we close,” Little said.
“Other important things for students to know are their professor’s name and their course prefix and number.” She said it’s also important for students to know what test they’re going to take.
“During finals week it isn’t as much of a problem because 95 percent of the people coming in are taking finals, but sometimes there are people that still need to take an exam they missed,” she said.
“And students should be sure to write their name on the test,” said Little, of another common mistake. “I’m amazed at how many students forget to write their names on them.”
She said the staff tries to catch that before the student walks out but can’t always, especially if they’re really busy in the Testing Center.
“A lot of students will have more than one test during finals week so they’ve got to manage their time to try and balance that out,” she said.
She suggests students start studying at least one week in advance.
“They can’t bring anything into the Testing Center other than what they might need to take the test,” Little said. All personal belongings, including cell phones, should be placed inside the lockers outside of the Testing Center.
“Students should make sure if they use a locker, to lock the locker,” Little said. If students don’t know how to use the lockers, there are instructions on the inside.
During peak hours the lockers can get full so students might want to leave their belongings locked in their car.
Little said they will be posting signs with the Testing Center hours during finals week and students can also pick up a card at the front counter of the Testing Center with those hours.
“I know finals can be really stressful for everybody,” she said.
For more information, email linda.k.little@occc.edu or call 405-682-7531.
To contact Christy Montenegro, email onlineeditor@occc.edu
College degree paves road to success
Network with peers, take initiative
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5th edition of prestigious Kalinga Literary Festival kick-started, Amish Tripathy announces to write a book on King Kharavela on KLF
Bhubaneswar: The 5th edition of prestigious Kalinga Literary Festival kick-started here with the presence of eminent personalities represents Indian literature, politics, media and public services.
Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, who inaugurated the event, lauded the efforts of Mr Rashmi Ranjan Parida, KLF Founder and Director for placing the event in the map of important literature festivals of India and said he hoped that the event will ultimately become a platform for young budding writers.
“It is my sincere request to the organisers that KLF should not remain just an event only. There must be an intellectual outcome after each event which should inspire the society for generations to come. This festival must fulfill the dreams of our young writers who can represent Odisha and India one day,” he said at the inauguration ceremony.
Kalinga Literature Festival celebrates not just Odia but Indian as well as global literature with the presence of many non-Indian writers. Minister Pradhan said this could be a perfect opportunity to showcase rich heritage of Odia literature and literateurs.
“I propose that let there be discussion on literary works of eminent Odia writers who have been felicitated with National Awards. Let us discuss, appreciate and critically analyse their works which will have an impact on many future writers,” he said in his inaugural speech.
He also requested the writers present in the event to write about rich Kalinga legacy.
Mr Amish Tripathy, the Indian mythological writer famous for his books such as Immortals of Meluha, Shiva Trilogy said, “Ancient Kalinga had rich legacy and was influential in not just east India but entire India. This legacy must be retold to new generations. As I had lived in Odisha in early childhood, it has become my duty to write about King Kharavela to showcase rich Kalinga culture.”
Mr Pawan Verma, former bureaucrat and advisor to Janata Dal (United) president Nitish Kumar in his key note address said, “Language is not just a medium of communication, but a carrier of an entire culture. Speaking about literature and culture he said if one is rooted in his or her culture, then it becomes easier to connect with others easily. And about literature, he said literature has to reflect the reality of life not just the dreams”.
Eminent Odia writer Dr Pratibha Ray said literature does not know any boundaries called language. It is an open sky where each writer can paint his or her imagination without fear of being judged.
Another prominent Odia writer Pratibha Satapathy said a writer may live in pain, but he or she gifts the readers a pleasurable feeling through the literary works and that is why literature should be celebrated, before ending her speech with a beautiful odia poem.
During the inaugural ceremony, KLF 2018 felicitated eminent writers for the world standard inspiring work in the literary and professional world. Mr. Padmaj Pal received Kalinga Sahitya Sanman (Odia), Mr. Amish Tripathy received Kalinga International Literary Award (writing in any global language) and Nirupama Rao accepted Kalinga Karubaki Literary Award (for women writers) on the inauguration day from the Hon’ble Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
Besides, during the three-day event, young writers and poets from several districts of Odisha will receive Kalinga Literary Youth Awards for their excellence in literary fields. The youth awards have received great response and excitement around the small towns of Odisha.
The festival will see more 300 writers, poets, lyricists, journalists and public intellectuals speaking on the idea of a just society and how literature reflect this through the ideas of equality, equity and humanity.
The Kalinga Art Festival has attracted more than 40 artists from many states of India. There are dedicated sessions on understanding and appreciating art. The artists and expert art critics will be discussing the important concerns in their profession, the connection between art and literature and moreover, prepare a roadmap for future engagement.
Mystic Kalinga multi-lingual poetry sessions will see many senior poets reading poetry in different languages including that of Odia, Hindi, English and Bengali among others. Legendary names like Rajendra Panda, Harihara Mishra, Amaresh Patnaik, Paramita Satpathy Pavan Varma, Nirupama Rao, Jayshree Tripathi, Pravakar Satapathy, Hrushikesh Mallick, Husaain Rabi Gandhi, Mamata Dash, Ashutosh Parida and Kedar Mishra etc will read their poems.
KLF Founder and Director Mr. Rashmi Ranjan Parida believes that KLF 2018 is unique in many ways as it bridges the gap between the local, national and global literary dialogues. He believes KLF has attempted revolutionary steps to bring the legends and the emerging writers to one platform. Mr. Debasish Samantray of KLF believes that the storytelling sessions will have interesting stories to attract the attention of literature lovers.
The three-day festival will see more than 10 books released. Leading names like Ramakanta Rath, Gourahari Das, Jatin Nayak and Swaraj Mishra will also join for book discussion sessions. The KLF has made unique arrangements to promote Bhubaneswar and the Golden Triangle among the delegates and speakers. Delegates will get rented cycles to roam around the city. Participation in Heritage Walk has been designed to explore the temple city and the natural surroundings of the old Bhubaneswar.
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Welcoming the Angel of Truth
A 2-part dissertation by Milo (full name known to me) on May 22, 2008,
in answer to my e-mail letter of that same day,
“Eye opening Obama video.”[c]
Milo is a brother in the Lord whose beliefs are representative of most Christians, whether born-again and Spirit-filled, or traditional denominational. These beliefs are based on almost 2 Millennia of Gentile Christianity teaching, increasingly removed from the original teachings of the Jewish apostles and ever more misinterpreted, just as the apostles Peter and Paul had warned [1]
In 1982 the Lord spoke to me by Isaiah 41:15-16, saying that I would be like a threshing instrument and a winnowing fork in His hands by which He would “thresh” the mountains of erroneous teachings accumulated throughout the centuries, and crush the hills of man’s religious traditions, turning them into “chaff”. The proud, arrogant, haughty and conceited would “winnow” themselves. He was going to set my heart on fire for G-d’s Truth with love that would not tolerate the least digression. At last, His Spirit would carry away these falsehoods and religious traditions invented by man and scatter them irretrievably with the hurricane of His judgment.
Thus, He used me to teach on the converted Gentiles relationship to literal, restored Israel; the role this nation plays in His plan of salvation; and what had to be ready on earth before the Lord Yeshua’s Return[2].
The teachings and prophecies He gave me proved all too challenging for a doctrine established through almost two Millennia. Invariably I and the teachings were eventually dismissed as “false,” although having been first recognized as speaking the Truth from G-d, and sent by Him. Since people dislike being taken out of their comfort zone by teachings demanding change, people ceased to invite me to speak.
For many years I taught these specific truths in obedience to the Lord who desires to spare His saints the profound deception Satan has woven across the globe like a spider his net. Yeshua Himself had warned that the nature of the charade would be such that if possible, even the elect would be deceived [3].
“I want you to teach again on who and what Israel is in my ultimate plan of salvation,” the Lord would frequently say to me. “Explain again the difference between restoration and recreation; how the Gentile, by nature a wild olive tree is by faith in Yeshua engrafted among My people into their tree to partake of both the rich Abrahamic root and their destiny. Remind them, therefore, not to be arrogant toward the Jewish people, for it is the Jewish root that supports him (and not the converted Gentile who supports the root)[4]. Most have still not grasped these truths and are in danger of losing their place and their crown if swept off the path of life by the coming deception.”
Far be it for me to suggest that my brother Milo is lost, that He does not believe in Yeshua being the Savior, the Son of G-d for he undoubtedly holds these truths in accordance with the Gospel. However, he simultaneously embraces certain misunderstandings and misinterpretations delivered down through the centuries. Clinging to them may cause him to miss the mark.
1 2 Pe 3:16; 2 Tim 4:3-4
2 Eph. 2:11-22; 4:4-6;Romans 11; Jer.31:35-37; 33:19-21, 23-26; Ezekiel 25, etc. etc
3 Mark 13:22; Matt. 24:24 4 Ro 11:17-18; Eph. 2:11
What Christians Believe
[Milo writing:] Hi,
About God’s judgment of the USA… God is looking for the increase of Christ in a people. [My comment: TRUE]. His church is not made up of nations but of people [My comment: partially true + false. His redeeemed are from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues – Rev.7:9]. 2000+ years ago, His punishment of the nation of Israel, and other nations who disobeyed Him had to do with drawing a people unto Himself inside the covenant with Israel [My comment: True].
God’s judgment of the entire Adamic race happened at the cross [My comment: False]. Once that was done, there was no more 1st Covenant [My comment: False. Jews who do not believe in Yeshua are still under the Old Covenant. Furthermore, Yeshua did not abolish the other covenants nor the Tenach, meaning Torah, the Prophets and the Writings. All of this is still in force – Matt. 5:1719 – until ALL has been accomplished, which will be with the new heaven and earth]. It was fulfilled in the Second Covenant which was placed in the hearts of those who would believe. Death had been judged and put away [My comment: True]. Judgment does not mean punishment, it means separating the old from the new, the 1st covenant from the second… [My comment: True] separating all that is of Christ from all that is not of Christ, since Christ is “all and in all” and everything that means anything was settled at the cross – in Christ [My comment: True].
God dealt with governments during the Old Testament times in a different fashion than He does now [My comment: False. G-d has not changed, nor have His laws]. Everything was type and shadow pointing to the Day the day that Christ would come on the scene [My comment: True] and the cross would free mankind of the law [My comment: Would free the Jew, NOT mankind, as the Gentiles never received the Law and hence were not under its rule] and of the fallen-ness that Adam could not escape [My comment: True]. “For I (my old Adam nature – ) have been crucified with Christ, and I live, yet it is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me…” [My comment: True. However, all of the “Goyim/Gentiles” are NOT of the “Adamic” race but of the one called “Enosh” – Ps 9:19-20. G-d separated the race of Adam of whom Abraham was the last from the rest of mankind when Lot separated from Abraham. G-d chose Abraham to be the father of a new race of “Adam,” the House of Israel, and of every Gentile who through faith in the Messiah of Israel has been engrafted into that race, that “goodly, cultivated olive tree” – Ro 11:24. Ultimately there will be the final and true Adamic race, raised up through Messiah, the Last “Adam” – 1 Cor. 15:45-49].
We (the entire human race) have already been judged [My comment: False]. People, individually, either belong to Christ, or they do not [My comment: True]. The Cross is the sword unlike no other! [My comment: True] Any further judgment in addition to the cross would be anticlimactic and would diminish what Christ did [My comment: False] to bring about the end of the old race and the beginning of the new race where there is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female…. [My comment: True]
Milo (full name given)
Annelore,
Sometime I’d love to talk about the “Land of Israel” with you.
God said “Israel is my son.” The people were chosen by God — but the geography was only a place for them to live [My comment: False]. Anything it had that connected to the sacred relationship that Jews had with God changed at the cross when all the prophesies were fulfilled [My comment: False. Not ALL of the prophecies have been as yet fulfilled].
Geography was included in things of the covenant of Moses that gets fulfilled through the cross [My comment: False; strange idea that G-d relinquished the Land He calls His OWN at the cross. It would not matter then, if the Land gets divided up, and given away. And Yeshua could always return to Kimbuktu, couldn’t He? Even though there won’t be his people as a sovereign nation, nor Jerusalem, nor the throne of David. Yeshua does not remain in heaven but will return to earth to rule from Jerusalem over the nations with an iron rod. Hence the “geography” concerning the Land of Israel has not been abolished by the cross] and in the new covenant there is not Jew and Greek separation [My comment: True]. I know that I am saying something you already know… but there is no longer a separate old covenant with the Jews [My comment: as I already said, for the Jew outside of Messiah Yeshua the Old covenant is still in force; he is stil UNDER the Law and will be judged by it] and also a new covenant with Christians [My comment: True, except that the New Covenant was also made only with and for the House of Israel; yet believing Gentiles through faith are joined into that New Covenant and become simultaneously fellow-citizens and co-heirs with Israel, for by means of this New Covenant both believing Jew and Gentile have become ONE NEW man in Messiah]. The old was never to be anything beyond that which would point to Messiah [My comment: True +False].
The only covenant that exists is the new covenant [My comment: False]. You remember that the Jews got upset when Jesus himself said that He was the only way to the Father. That is still true [My comment: for one who would be a CHILD of G-d].
Although much of what Milo says is true, fallacies of the early Gentile church which are accepted as truth even to this day darken his understanding. And because such a vast multitude believe these doctrines, the truth is regarded as error.
In the epistle to the Romans, Paul wrote this concerning the Jews: “They are Israelites, and to THEM belong the sonship, the glory, THE COVENANTS, the giving of Torah, the worship, and the PROMISES; to THEM belong the patriarchs and of THEIR race, according to the flesh, is the Messiah. G-d Who is over ALL be blessed forever. Amen.”[5]
In the epistle to the Ephesians he wrote: “… REMEMBER that YOU were at that time, formerly, separated from Messiah, alienated from the Commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the COVENANTS OF PROMISE, having no hope and without G-d in the world.”[6]
What is widely overlooked by most Christians is that G-d made MORE than one Covenant with His people Israel. The OLD covenant was a BLOOD covenant, as is the NEW covenant: a BLOOD covenant our Lord Yeshua instituted by the shedding of His blood!
The FIRST, or OLD blood covenant is recorded in Exodus 24:7-8:
“And he [Moses] took the book of the covenant [Torah], and read in the audience of the people: and they said, ‘All that the L-RD has said will we do, and be obedient.’
“And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it ON THE PEOPLE and said, ‘Behold, the BLOOD OF THE COVENANT, which the L-RD has made with you concerning all these words.”
THIS is what the Scriptures refer to as the “Old” covenant.
Most Christians, however, understand this to mean that all of the Mosaic dispensation is obsolete, no longer valid and no longer in force.
This is false!
The First blood covenant was based on keeping the Law (which is called “Torah – The Teachings of the Commandments of G-d”), and ratified with the sprinkling of animal blood which could neither redeem from the power of sin and death nor cleanse one’s conscience.
The Second and New blood Covenant is based on FAITH in MESSIAH YESHUA’S blood which obliterates the foundation of the first and old Blood Covenant and thereby changes everything. For what the First blood covenant could not achieve with animal blood, the Second covenant fully achieves with Yeshua’s blood:
• It atones for sin;
• redeems from the first sin in the Garden, and from Satan’s control held over mankind ever since;
• it delivers the believer from the power of sin and death;
• it cleanses the conscience of the former sinner, as he repents;
• it is the source of recreation by which G-d transforms the sinner into a new man, a child of G-d, the
former, sinful nature being “circumcised” by the circumcision of Messiah in baptism[7].
Whereas the Old Covenant was founded upon WORKS – the keeping of the Law or Torah to perfection, the New covenant is founded upon FAITH – faith in Yeshua’s atoning death, in His resurrection and ascension. Hence, FAITH in YESHUA’S BLOOD redeems us from TRANSGRESSIONS of the Law of Torah.
It is the FOUNDATION and the BLOOD of the Old covenant that have changed – but NOT the standard of righteousness, justice and holiness as embodied in Torah according to which we are meant to conduct our daily affairs.
Torah has never been abolished!!! Isaiah and Micah the prophets declare that in the Messianic Reign
“… out of Zion shall go forth the Law, and the Word of the L-RD from Jerusalem.” The word for “Law” is Torah. Are they wrong?[8].
5 Ro 9:4-5 6 Eph. 2:12
7 Col. 2:11-12; Heb. 2:14-15; 2 Cor. 5:17
8 Isa. 2:2-3; Mic 4:1-2
Messiah Yeshua abolished neither Torah nor the Prophets
Yeshua Himself taught in the Sermon on the Mount that He came not to abolish the Law/Torah and the prophets but rather fulfill them. He stated that it was easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single vowel sign (the dots and tittles of the Hebrew vowels) from the Law/Torah until ALL is accomplished[9].
And ALL will be accomplished only once the new heaven and new earth come into existence. Until then “the love of G-d is to keep His commandments”[10] as specified in the Ten commandments and expounded/expanded on in Torah stands. Yeshua cautioned that anyone who relaxes one of the least of these commandments [of G-d] and teaches [Jewish] men so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the Kingdom of heaven.”[11]
Note that Yeshua addressed the Jews in this sermon, NOT the Gentiles, for this first blood covenant of the keeping of the Law pertained only to the House of Israel and not the Gentiles.
When some Jewish believers demanded that the new Gentile converts be circumcised and keep all of the Law, the Jerusalem conference was called to address this issue. The decisions taken were as follows:
“….it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, the Jerusalem assembly and the apostles to lay no greater burden upon the Gentile converts than these necessary things:
• To abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols;
• To abstain from drinking or eating blood;
• To abstain from what is strangled [i.e. put to death in a way that causes the creature to suffer and
to release a secretion into the bloodstream harmful to human consumption; furthermore, Adam became a living soul when G-d breathed into his nostrils; ever since the life is in the blood, it may not be strangled]
• To abstain from fornication.[13]
Just as those Jewish legalistic believers misinterpreted the changes of the New Covenant, so did the early Gentile Christian church fathers likewise misunderstand. They failed to see the change in the FOUNDATION of the blood covenant; that the FOUNDATION was no longer works of the law but FAITH IN YESHUA for, “…no other foundation can any man lay than the one which is laid, which is Yeshua HaMashiach.”[12]
The early Gentile church fathers wrongly taught that Yeshua had abolished all of the Mosaic Law in the New Covenant. Hence, any convert, whether Jewish or Gentile, who delighted in G-d’s commandments and endeavored to observe them was accused of being “under the Law”.
Eventually, the early church went so far as to make the keeping of Torah, i.e. the Law of Moses, punishable by death and in later years, beginning with the Crusaders, forced the Jews to convert to their Gentile Christianity and constrained them, in writing, to relinquish any relationship to the Jewish people and Torah.
In other words, the Church did all in its power to cut the Jew off from his own, cultivated olive tree and graft him into its wild olive tree – precisely opposite to G-d’s plan of salvation. Satan was doing all he could to foil G-d’s plan.
The above gross misinterpretation shows that the Church had failed and still fails to understand the connection between Torah, the Jews and Yeshua; that Torah applied to the Jew alone, the Gentile having no business with it, and that Yeshua HAD NEVER ANNULLED the laws of Torah which pertained only to the Jew.
Apart from the Noahic covenant, G-d had never covenanted with the Gentiles. Therefore the Gentiles never did suffer the consequences of transgression as did the Jews.
Orthodox Jews outside of Yeshua still base their righteousness on keeping Torah along with additional regulations added by Jewish sages throughout the centuries. The orthodox Jews still have a “merit” system of works by which they may gain G-d’s favor, blessings, prosperity, healing, etc.
The Gentile outside of Yeshua, on the other hand, is without hope and G-d in the world[14]. Therefore he is commanded to REMEMBER from whence he was brought and from what he was delivered.
Indeed, Gentiles may join Israel but Israel may never join the Gentiles.
Yeshua Himself said that HIS yoke is easy in contrast to the Law whose yoke is hard. It was the House of Israel who accepted the heavy yoke of the Law, not a Gentile nation. Yeshua came to free the House of Israel from that heavy yoke.
But G-d did not abolish His good commandments (extolled in Psalm 119); they are His standard of righteousness by which we are to conduct our daily lives while NO LONGER UNDER THE CURSE OF THE LAW!! The curse was part of the foundation of the Old, First blood covenant.
G-d’s Kingdom is not a Kingdom of lawlessness. Rather, Torah and the Word of G-d remain in effect as standard of righteousness, justice and holiness[15].
9 Matt. 5:17-19 10 1 Jn 2:3-4; 3:22; 5:2-4 11 Matt. 5:19
12 1 Cor. 3:11 13 Acts 15:28-29 14 Eph. 2:12
15 Isa. 2:4; Mic. 4:2
God’s First Covenant was with Abraham to Separate a People unto Himself
Moreover, what is generally overlooked by many Christian teachers is the fact that there are SEVERAL covenants!
1. The first covenant is G-d’s covenant with Abraham in order to create a people unto Himself, of
which circumcision is the SIGN[16].
2. The second covenant is the inheritance of a land, a literal geographical area, made irrevocable by a
divine oath.
3. The third covenant is the one known as the “old testament” and is based on Torah. This is the first
blood covenant for it was ratified by Moses with the sprinkling of animal blood on the people.
4. The fourth covenant is with King David, irrevocably established with G-d’s oath by His own holiness,
that David’s throne shall endure forever, with a Son of His loins sitting on it, and that David’s line,
house, children would continue before the L-RD.
5. The fifth covenant is the one known as the “new testament”. This new, second blood covenant was
instituted by Yeshua in His own blood. The blood of Messiah effectively annulled the “animal blood”
foundation of the first covenant as well as the lordship of Torah.
G-d’s plan with the first covenant was to call forth a people who would be His own people. They would be His people and He would be their G-d. Through this people and by this covenant, G-d created a “root” – called “Sion”[ Y ] – which would give rise to a new, cultivated olive tree whose purpose was to conceive a new race of man, immortal, no longer subject to the law of sin and death.
This first covenant in effect created “a womb”, Israel, for the Promised Seed of salvation, G-d’s own Son, Yeshua the Messiah. At the appointed time, G-d sent His Promised Seed into this “womb” prepared within the righteous parameters of Torah.
G-d’s Seed appeared within this “womb” as the Anointed One, the awaited Savior of G-d’s people. The Body of this Seed would likewise grow inside this womb as believing Jews and Gentiles were grafted into it[17]. Like an embryo grows in its mother’s womb so does the Body of Messiah grow inside Israel until full “gestation” or growth has been reached. When the time of birth comes, the womb will begin to contract.
It is obvious to all that the womb – Israel – has entered into her birth pangs.
The “sign” of this covenant signals the immortal, eternal nature of Abraham’s ultimate descendants who will walk in the “circumcision of Messiah” as a new creation through faith and baptism, the former nature of mortal, sinful flesh having been “circumcised”.
The circumcision of this covenant is on that body organ which emits the “seed” and furthermore takes place on the 8th day, which points to a new beginning – Bereshit/Genesis III – of a new heaven and earth, to be inhabited by a new race of immortal men who are neither Jew nor Gentile but the true seed of Abraham still called “Israel.”
After Abraham “sowed” the promised “seed”, his son Isaac of supernatural birth, into G-d’s promise of making him the father of a multitude, G-d confirmed the covenant concerning Abraham’s descendants with an oath[18], which altered the covenant made in the flesh into an ETERNAL one. The fulfillment of this covenant is Messiah, that Promised Seed of supernatural birth, in Whom the sinful nature is discarded through baptism as is the foreskin in circumcision. For the “old” man shall not inherit in the Kingdom of G-d[19].
The second covenant G-d made with Abraham, also called through Isaac and Jacob, was the promise of Land inheritance upon entrance into Canaan[20]. This covenant was confirmed with G-d’s OATH. While the first covenant was conditional upon Abraham’s performance, this second one had no such terms.
This covenant of promised land G-d sealed with heavenly fire and a pot of glowing, smoking coals from G-d’s heavenly altar[21]. This “geographical” area termed “My Own Land” by G-d stretches from the great river Euphrates to the Egyptian river, the Nile.
The cross has not abolished this covenant. Scripture labels this “geographical” area also “the pastures of G-d”[22] Who has not by any means relinquished them: Judea is His “Sceptre,” and Samaria alias Ephraim His “helmet.” Furthermore, G-d has spoken by His holiness that “with exultation[23] He will divide up Shechem,” which is known today as the “Palestinian” town of Nablus; “and portion out the Vale of Succoth,” which is the large valley surrounding and running from Shechem and the hills where Jacob and all his household had encamped, and from where one could see the Tabernacle at Shiloh[24].
G-d caused His Land to have a Sabbatical of almost two millennia, with the rightful heirs of the Land scattered abroad among the nations. But He also promised in numerous Scriptures that He would bring the literal, natural descendants of Jacob, the offspring of Israel BACK into their OWN Land.
This Land is like a “tithe” from the whole earth, which G-d separated unto Himself to be His own possession. He repeatedly refers to it as “My” Land, “My OWN” Land, and that He has given it to Jacob and his descendants after him as an everlasting possession. Hence, it is THEIR OWN LAND.
The salvation of G-d is more than stated by Milo, for whom all comes to a climax at the cross. For while the cross obliterates the Old blood covenant based on the works of the Law; brings to an end the system of atonement through animal sacrifice and the power of the devil over sin and death, it signals the BEGINNING – Bereshit/Genesis II – of G-d’s new creation.
Yeshua’s shout from the cross, “IT IS FINISHED!”, indicated that the first phase of what G-d the Father was raising up was accomplished. The completion of the second phase is announced with another “It is finished!” following the 7th bowl of divine judgment of this present age and the Babylonic system. A third “It is done!” is uttered after the second resurrection and the great white throne judgment when the new heaven, i.e. another galaxy with a new earth will have materialized[25], the old Milky Way spiral having rolled up with a terribly loud noise and gigantic flames into an extremely dense, immeasurably heavy, mere “spot”[26].
This will be the time when ALL shall have been accomplished.
G-d judged sin on the cross, nailed the lordship of the old blood bond with its legal demands and curses to it, and by it stripped the devil of his power, which is death[27]. By the cross G-d disarmed the principalties and powers, making a public spectacle of them and triumphing over them[28]. On the cross Yeshua atoned for sin and died unto sin, delivering whosoever believes on Him from the power of sin[29]. The Son of G-d came to destroy all the works of the evil one and this He accomplished on the cross for whosoever receives Him[30].
Those who believe not remain in the power of the devil, subject to sin and death and the judgment of the Great White Throne. The victory of the cross does not benefit them.
The cross, Yeshua’s shed Blood and broken Body, water baptism[31] and baptism with the Holy Spirit opens the DOOR into the Presence of G-d[32]. We enter not only His courts but also His Sanctuary.
“I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life,”[32 x U ] Yeshua said. For all who believe, the cross transformed these words into new life.
Y The word for root is always written as “Sion.” Mt. Zion is spelled as Mt. Sion as well, depending on the language. Zion usually refers to Jerusalem alone because Mt. Zion is part of her; but in some Scriptures it refers to all of Israel and her 12 tribes. For the root of the olive tree to have the same name as the city G-d has chosen for Himself would seem to be more than mere coincidence.
16 Genesis 17:1-14, 19-21
17 Romans 11:24 – “engrafted” by faith and baptism INTO Yeshua, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (for G-d is ONE united G-d and not 3 gods – Eph. 4:4-6) which is total submersion into a body of crystal-clear, “living”, that is moving water, either in a mikve, a creek or river, or swimming pool. The stagnant water of a “baptismal” only stand for death, without the resurrection.
18 Genesis 22:16-18; Hebrews 6:13-18
19 1 Corinthians 15:50; Colossians 2:11-12 20 Gen. 12:7; 13:14-17; 15:7, 18-21; 35:12
21 Gen. 15:17-21; Ps 105:8-11 22 Psalm 83:12
23 Ecstasy, joy, delight, euphoria, jubilation, excitement 24 Ps 60:(6)7-8; 108:(7)8-9; Gen. 3:18-19 (Josh. 18:1)
25 John 19:30; Revelation 16:17; 21:6 26 Isaiah 34:4; 2 Peter 3:10-13; Rev. 6:14
27 Heb. 2:14-15 28 Col.2:14-15 29 Romans 6:1-11 30 1 John 3:8
31Correct water baptism is not the mere sprinkling with water; it is a BURIAL! One does not bury a corpse by merely sprinkling it with a few handful of earth. We bury the dead 6 feet under the earth. Water baptism into Messiah is a participation in His DEATH, BURIAL, a BURIAL of the Old , sinful man, as well as a participation in Messiah’s RESURRECTION, as a new creation, a child of G-d. Hence the required in and outlet in the mikve/baptismal.
32 1 John 5:8 32 x U John 14:6
Salvation is of the Jews
However, neither the judgment of the nations nor the judgment of mankind was accomplished on the cross. Milo fails to understand the words that Yeshua was sent “only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel;” and that “salvation is of the Jews.”[33] [a]
All who are NOT in Messiah are “…separated from Him, alienated from the Commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without G-d in the world.” [34]
They remain branches of the “wild olive tree” and are not members of the “Adamic race,” as Milo believes. The Psalmist pleads with G-d in Psalm 9 about the plotting of the nations, crying, “Arise, O L-RD! Let not ENOSH – or man – prevail; let the nations – or Gentiles/goyim – be judged before you! Put them in fear, O L-RD! Let the nations – Gentiles – know that they are but ENOSH!”[b]
The Abrahamic covenant separating him and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob from the Enosh-mankind unto G-d; the covenant regarding the inheritance of the Land; the covenant of the Promised Land; the First blood covenant based on the keeping of the Law abolished by the New blood covenant based on faith; and the covenant with King David that was established with an oath, are ALL covenants made with Israel, who is still of the Adamic race. The Gentiles have no part in any of these unless they are brought near by the blood of Messiah, cut off from the wild olive tree “Enosh” and grafted into the cultivated olive tree of “Adamic” race, Israel, the root – Sion – of which is the Abrahamic covenant.
Milo writes, “Any further judgment in addition to the cross would be anticlimactic and would diminish what Christ did to bring about the end of the old race and the beginning of the new race where there is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female……..”
Although in Messiah there is indeed no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female when standing in the Presence of G-d, certain rules still apply as long as the believer lives here on earth in an unredeemed mortal body of sinful flesh.
The judgment on the nations is separate from the cross. It pertains to having divided up G-d’s OWN land [35], displaced many of its Jewish citizens, and wanting to make Jerusalem the capital of an alien people. G-d’s purpose is to gather these nations into the valley of Yehosaphat to bring down on their heads their own schemes, as is written: “The nations have sunk in the pit which they made [for Israel]; in the net which they hid [to catch G-d’s nation] has their own foot been caught.”
“… God said ‘Israel is my son.’ The people were chosen by God — but the geography was only a place for them to live. Anything it had that connected to the sacred relationship that Jews had with God changed at the cross when all the prophesies were fulfilled.”
“Geography was included in things of the covenant of Moses that gets fulfilled through the cross and in the new covenant there is not Jew and Greek separation. I know that I am saying something you already know… but there is no longer a separate old covenant with the Jews and also a new covenant with Christians. The old was never to be anything beyond that which would point to Messiah.”
“The only covenant that exists is the new covenant.”
Furthermore, “The L-RD has made Himself known, He has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands.”[36] Wherefore the Lord counsels the kings and rulers of the earth who conspire against Him and His Anointed (both Messiah and nation) to be wise and heed the warning, lest His wrath is quickly kindled and they perish in the way[37].
Hence, if the geography where about 5.5 million Jews live today in the sovereign State of Israel, has no longer any significance because it was “only a shadow and type” that was fulfilled at the cross, then where would Milo say that the Lord Yeshua will return to?
The L-RD declared already 3,000 years ago, “I have set My King on Zion, My holy hill.”
Will Yeshua return to an unspecified geographical area bereft of the throne of David? Not according to G-d’s promises. His foot shall touch down on the Mt. of Olives, causing it to split apart with the underground water gushing forth toward the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean[38].
The covenant regarding the Land and the covenant with King David have yet to be fulfilled: Israel’s borders must extend to the Euphrates and the Nile; the literal descendants of the House of David must be presented to the Jewish people and the world; and David’s son, King Yeshua, must sit upon the Throne of David.
G-d promises in Jeremiah that “Fields shall be bought in this land of which you are saying, It is a desolation, without man or beast… Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be signed and sealed and witnessed… for I will RESTORE their fortunes, says the L-RD.”[39]
And so it is: fields, orchards, vineyards, parks and forests grace the Land of Israel, new settlements, towns and cities, a modern, sophisticated infrastructure. What’s more, fairy-tale like weddings, joyful Bar-Mitzvahs, children playing in the streets and old people enjoying their retirement are all prophecies of Jeremiah come true.
33 Mt 15:24; Jn 4:22 34 Eph. 2:1-12 35 Joel 3:1-3, 9-16 36 Ps 9:15-16
37 Psalm 2:10-11 38 Zechariah 14:4, 8 39Jer. 32:43-44; 33:7-13
Israel Continues to be a Nation Before God Forever
The Jews have NOT ceased to be G-d’s own Covenant people, for He says:
“… the L-RD Who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar – the L-RD of hosts is His Name: if this fixed order departs from before Me, says the L-RD, then shall the descendants of Israel cease from being a nation before me for ever.”
“Thus says the L-RD: ‘If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, THEN I will cast off all the descendants of Israel for all that they have done…”[40]
Again the Lord speaks by Jeremiah, “Thus says the L-RD: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time, THEN also my covenant with David my servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests my ministers…”
“Have you not observed what these people are saying (mostly Gentile Christianity throughout nearly two millennia: the Roman Cath. Church and many Protestant denominations): ‘The L-RD has rejected the two families which He chose’? Thus they have despised MY people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.”
However, “Thus says the L-RD: If I have not established My covenant with day and night, and the ordinances of heaven and earth, THEN I will reject the descendants of Jacob and David My servant and will not choose one of his descendants to rule over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I WILL RESTORE their fortunes, and will have mercy upon them.”[41]
We all can avow that day and night still come at their appointed time and that the fixed order of the sun, the moon and the stars has not ceased and therefore Israel continues to be a nation before God forever.
In the day of Jacob’s calamity, in the time of his final punishment, when the children of Israel became living sacrifices and burnt offerings in the Nazi death camps, their bleached bones scattered in the ground while the churches stood passively by, in that day and at that time G-d saved Jacob out of it and performed the words He commanded His servant Ezekiel to speak to those bones. The nation of Israel was reborn in one day, when on Friday, Sabbath evening, May 14, 1948, Ben Gurion declared the sovereign State of Israel to be an independent Jewish homeland immediately upon the end of the British Mandate[42].
“For G-d will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and His servants shall dwell there and possess it; the children of His servants shall inherit it, and those who love His Name shall dwell in it.”[43]
“What will one answer the envoys/messengers/reporters of the Gentile nation[s]? That it was [not mere men but] the L-RD Who founded Zion, for the afflicted of His people (in Russian Pogroms, European and Arab anti-Semitism and the Nazi Holocaust) to find refuge there.”[44]
Hence we see G-d regathering the Jewish people, Israel, into their own Land in accordance with His promise[45] to gather His people from the east and from the west, from all the countries to which they were driven, and bring them back to their own land[46].
Moreover, the Word of salvation is now returning to the Jewish people, to Israel, and will bring forth a great harvest from among them into the Kingdom[47]. From them evangelists, prophets and apostles will go out to all the nations, peoples, tribes and tongues among whom they had lived, and proclaim the full Gospel with signs, wonders and miracles following, making disciples of yet millions of Gentiles.
The Covenant with David[48] is likewise of too great importance to be merely a “type” and “shadow”, done away with at the cross. Who needs this covenant, you may ask?
The Lord Himself does as does the Father Who prepares His Son’s throne in the restored Tent – “ohel” – of David. The Word says that God raises up the “sukkah” of David, repairing its breaches and closing up its gaps which turns it into an “ohel”[49].
The Davidic leadership, unspoiled by political machinations, will be much needed in the days of the final war about Jerusalem. The royal lineage shall lead the people of Israel LIKE G-d, LIKE[50] the Angel of the Lord. Yeshua, Who IS G-d and Who IS the Angel of the Lord has not as yet returned. The word “like” seems to indicate that this royal lineage of the House of David (there are many families of David for he had many wives and children, and they have descendants until this day[51]) consists of believers in Yeshua.
The blood of the nations’ combined armies will flow for nearly 200 miles (approx. 300 km) down the descent from Jerusalem[52], at some areas to the depth of 4.5 ft (1.3 m). Their eyes will rot in their sockets and their tongues in their mouths from the chemical and/or biological weapons the nations will use in this war to wrest Jerusalem from Israel[53].
No judgment on nations? All was done on the cross? There is now only one covenant?
40 Jer. 31:35-37 41 Jer. 33:19-26
42 Ezek. 37:1-14; Isa. 66:8-9; http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/decind.html ; http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Dec_of_Indep.html ;
43 Ps 69:35-36 44 Isa. 14:32
45 Ezek. 36:24, 37-38; 37:21-22; 39:25-29; and many, many more such words of restoration to a literal land, the ancient ruins raised up in archeological digs, the former cities rebuilt as well as new cities, with foreigners working in construction and in our fields all over the land – Isa. 61:4-5
46 Zech. 8:4-5, 7-8
47 The Power of the Word 48 2 Sa 7:25-29; 1Chr. 17:17, 27
49 Isa. 16:5; Amos 9:11
50 “Like” is a word of comparison, not an “IS” 51 Zech. 12:7-9,10,12; Ps 89:30-36
52 The “city” is Jerusalem, and hence this is not the war of Armageddon over the Galilee, near “Har Megiddo”; see “Final years”
53 Zech. 14:12, 15
There are Two Books of Life and Two Resurrections
My beloved brother Milo,
not ALL prophecies have been fulfilled at the cross, and not ALL has been accomplished as yet; certain former covenants remain in effect. Neither has Torah been abolished.
What has changed is that the Law no longer lords over the believing Jew. Yeshua has taken its place, and HIS yoke is light. Over the Gentile the law never exercised this lordship in the first place.
What so many Christians fail to realize is that all this “political” fuss over Israel is a satanic attempt to prevent Yeshua’s return. According to Christians, “politics” have nothing whatsoever to do with Messiah, the cross, salvation, G-d’s Kingdom, or any geographical area. If that were so, there would be no Messianic Reign.
G-d established governments, thrones and authorities. A King without a sovereign people and land, without a royal house and throne functions not as a king. As long as the Jews were scattered, Yeshua’s Return seemed far off. But now the Jewish people are back as a sovereign people, in their own land, no longer nameless. Yeshua’s Return is imminent.
“Church” is not a name; it is the transliteration of Kehila and means “assembly,” community,” “congregation,” as well as “called out ones.” The true name of G-d’s people and heirs of G-d’s promises, both natural and spiritual, is Israel. Yeshua shall reign over this natural and spiritual seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob from JERUSALEM – the literal, geographical capital of that people. There He shall take His seat on the throne that was established for Him in the Tent / ohel of David.
And everyone whose name is recorded in the Lamb’s Book of Life and who shares in the First Resurrection and the Wedding supper of the Lamb shall return with Him, shining brightly like the stars, all of them sons and daughters and priests of G-d, neither Jew nor Gentile, master nor slave, superior male nor inferior female, the only difference being the measure of their glory according to their measure of Christ-likeness.
Indeed, there is no separate blood covenant for believing Jews and believing Gentiles, for in Messiah both are created as one new man, both being joined together into a dwelling place of G-d in the Spirit[54].
But there is still a NATURAL people descended from the House of Israel and the House of Judah, and G-d’s covenants still stand with them who have not come to faith in Yeshua. If they live under the Law they will be judged by the Law, and their names may get recorded in the Book of Life[55], but not in the Book of Life of the Lamb[56]. They may live (else the patriarchs and matriarchs, even Moses and all the prophets would not have eternal life?) but their nature and glory will be as much inferior as the first Adam is to the Last Adam, as the earthen glory is to the heavenly. Wherefore also Paul, blameless as to righteousness under the Law, considered his blamelessness as filthy rags when compared to the surpassing worth of knowing Yeshua the Messiah and being found IN HIM[57].
There are two books of life and two resurrections. Two kinds of people will live on the new earth: those of heavenly origin and glory will be as innumerable as the stars[58], and those of earthen glory will be as innumerable as the dust of the earth and the sand on the seashore[59] The latter will form the nations who will bring their glory into the city of G-d come out of heaven, and partake of the leaves of the tree of life for healing[60]. Those of heavenly origin and glory will need no healing, for as partakers of the divine nature they will be like Yeshua Himself, true sons and daughters of G-d, serving in His city as His ministers, His priests[61].
What more can I say? The teachings on this subject are many.
If you can see, recognize, accept and love the Truth, G-d will protect you from the great delusion that has already begun to engulf the earth. The knowledge and love of Truth will shield you from the terrible deception by which G-d separates the wheat from the chaff as He gathers people upon His threshing floor.
Let us turn from the lie that 1800 years of Gentile Christianity has taught and start afresh, searching out G-d’s Word, carefully dissecting it to KNOW the Truth, to embrace it and love it and fill ourselves with it, to have abundant light even at night should our Bridegroom tarry.
May this teaching bless you, the reader and student of the Word, even if you are taken out of your “comfort zone.” I pray that none take offense, refusing to check it out, but that all be enriched and blessed and prepared for the time to come. Amen and amen.
54 Eph. 2:14-16, 21-2 55 Rev. 3:5; 17:8; 20:12, 15 56 Rev. 13:8; 21:27
57 Philippians 3:7-9 58 Genesis 15:5 59 Gen. 13:16; 22:17
60 Rev. 21:22-27; 22:2 61 1 Cor. 15:35-50; 2 Pe 1:42
The Jews are an Adamic race, the goyim-Gentiles are of the race of Enosh
[a] Joseph, son of Jacob, is the perfect foreshadowing of this truth: He explained to his brethren who during the 7 years of famine came to him in Egypt that “G-d send me before you to preserve for YOU a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for YOU – i.e. ISRAEL – many survivors. So it was not you who sent me here but G-d…” – Gen. 45:7-8. Israel at the time were but 70 souls – Gen. 46:27. Yet alongside those mere 70 souls all the Egyptians were saved – Gen. 47:25, and “all the earth” came to Joseph as well to escape the death of famine – Gen. 41:57
[b] The separation of Abraham from Ur of Chaldea and from Lot did not suffice. Another, invisible separation occurred at the time of Abram and Lot’s parting — that of separating Abram and his future seed from the rest of mankind.
The race of man up until the flood was a race of “Adam” descended from the “first” Adam. This race was totally wiped out by the flood except for Noah and his sons [Gen. 7:21-23]. They were the only Adam men who crossed from the era before the flood into the post-deluvian age. Abram, through the lineage of Shem, became the last seed of the former Adam race when G-d singled him out as such at the time of Lot’s disjoining. Henceforth the human race in general is called Enosh – – (human) Flesh, in accordance with G-d’s words in Genesis 6:3, “My spirit shall not abide in Man – Adam for ever, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.”
In order to fully understand the significance of the difference between Adam and Enosh, we need to look at their first occurrence in the Scriptures. Adam (male and female), we know, was made in the Image and after the Likeness of G-d. After the trespass, which resulted in the gradual corruption of this race, they had children. The mentioning of the third child, Seth, follows the sentence: “This is the book of the GENERATIONS of Adam.” This is for a reason, for now we shall be given a genealogy of this race, as well as its ensuing history.
Immediately after this sentence, which states one more time that G-d originally created Adam in His own Image and after His Likenes, we are informed that Adam’s third child, Seth, is now in the image and after the likeness of his fallen parents (Gen. 5:1-3). I.e., he genetically inherited their henceforth corrupt nature (Romans 5:12, 14-19, 21) and, in order that there be absolutely no doubt about it, we are given the name of Seth’s firstborn: Enosh. This name symbolizes the fallen nature of the once sinless Adamic race, having become a “sinful” race, which eventually would degenerate to mere “human flesh”, void of the Spirit of G-d.
However, Abram was still of the Adamic race, although the degeneration of the race is shown in the rapid decline in age. Whereas Noah and his sons still reached an age of several hundred years (Gen. 9:29; 11:10-11), Abram died at the age of 175 (Gen. 25:7).
Enosh[01] indicates a feeble, sickly and woeful race of mortal men void of the Spirit of G-d, which hardly bears any resemblance with the former race of Adam. The words ish [male human], and ishah [female human] merely refer to gender and are also used in the plural [anashim and nashim], whereas Adam and Enosh are used only in the singular, indicative of the type [race] of humanity.
G-d chose this last one of the former Adamic race to become the father of the new Adamic race, recreated through G-d’s grace by faith in Messiah. Yeshua’s two genealogies of Matthew and Luke also attest to Yeshua being a BEN ADAM [and Ben Abraham, Ben David], who, in Luke 3:38, is referred to as “Son of G-d.” Alluding to this fact Yeshua never referred to Himself – when speaking in the third person – as “ben enosh” but only as Ben Adam, the Son of Man [Matt. 11:19; 12:8, etc.] of the more dignified humanity of Adam.
Paul established this factor even further by referring to Yeshua as the Last Adam [1 Cor. 15:45], and by speaking in Romans 11 of branches cut off from their wild olive tree and engrafted into the cultivated olive tree, through faith in Yeshua. Being joined into the cultivated olive tree causes these branches to be filled with and converted to the kind and nature of the cultivated tree. The wild tree is the Enosh-mankind, the cultivated one the Adam-mankind.
G-d separated Abraham from general humanity – Enosh – by means of a covenant. Hence, the “Root – Sion” of the cultivated olive tree is the Abrahamic covenant. All who are branches of that tree – whether natural branches or engrafted ones – partake of that root and tree.
G-d placed yet a further “chasm” between the wild olive tree of general humanity – Enosh – and the cultivated one – Adam – raised up through Abraham, by means of Torah and His specific prohibition of intermarriage. The creative law that undergirds these progressive steps of separation is found in Genesis 1:11-12, 24-25: “Let the earth put forth vegetation… each according to its kind… So G-d created …each according to their kinds…” Just as a thornbush does not bring forth figs, so does the race of Enosh not produce a race of Adam.
Satan has tried with all his might to thwart G-d’s purpose by having the Jews, all of whom are “B’nei Adam,” engrafted into the wild olive tree in order to change their nature into that of Enosh. Nevertheless many millions of Jews rather preferred death than being joined to the race of Enosh. The Spanish Inquisition even created the infamous “certificado di sangue” – “Blood Certificate,” which was to attest to a former Jew’s “pure Christian blood” by him being the 7th generation of intermarriage with Gentile “Catholic Christians.” Since the Church of Rome rejected the Jews as G-d’s chosen people and instead labeled Israel as the “seed of the serpent” while calling itself the “New Israel of G-d,” Jews who converted were forced into abandoning their own, cultivated olive tree. Indeed, many Jews were lost to the House of Israel, while others, through their genuine faith in and baptism into Yeshua remained yet part of the cultivated tree, albeit hidden.
An engrafted branch takes on the nature of the tree into which it is engrafted and of its root. Hence, we can clearly perceive Satan’s scheme of turning things upside down, “converting” the Adamic humanity of the Jews into that of Enosh. Were it not for the Jewish resistance to forced conversion and G-d’s separation of His people from general humanity, the Abrahamic covenant people of Adamic descent would long have ceased to exist. The period of “Enlightenment” — “to the man – enosh all rights, to the Jew – ben adam none,” almost succeeded in swallowing up the Jewish people had it not been for something as horrible as the Nazi Holocaust. G-d apparently preferred His people to become a living sacrifice whom He would raise up in the Resurrection rather than having them cut off from Israel forever. (At least that is the only explanation for the Holocaust I ever could find to make any sense at all.)
And now, in these last days, we see a people descended from the lineage of Ham (see Gen. 10:6, 13-14 – Egypt, father of the Caphtorim from whom the Philistines originate, who came from Caphtor, that is Crete), who call themselves “Palestinians,” contending for the promised Land, challenging G-d’s covenant, oath and promise, intent on utterly destroying Israel as is written in Ps 83: 3-4: “They lay crafty plans against G-d’s people; they consult together against His protected ones. They say, ‘Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”[02]
Therefore, let every engrafted saint understand, know and realize the importance of the tree into which he was engrafted and thank G-d for having been made a fellow citizen and co-heir of its covenants, heritage and inheritance.
01 see Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible – Hebrew: 376 – ISH [ ] – a MAN as an individual or MALE person; i.e., it mainly identifies gender, like manly, (mighty) man; husband = my man; [perhaps derived from an unused root mean. to be extant]; or derived from
582 – ENOSH [ ] – a MORTAL (differing from the more dignified Adam – see 120); man in general (singly or collect) referencing race. It is often unexpressed in the English Version, especially when used in apposition with another word.
582 is derived from 605 – ANASH [ ] – to be frail, feeble, desperately wicked, incurable, sick, woeful; and
606 – ENASH [ ] – a man, whosoever, corresp. to 582; see also The New Hebrew/English Dictionary by Haim Shachter, Yavneh Publishing House, Tel Aviv, 1989
Modern Hebrew: INCURABLE; DANGEROUSLY ILL = ANUSH; HUMANITY = ENOSHUT [ ]; HUMAN; HUMANE = ENOSHI; HUMANITY; HUMANESS = ENOSHIUT;
02 Psalm 83 in English
Eye Opening Obama Video
[c] Subject: Eye opening Obama video
Shalom shalom, dear friends:
This letter is to you, my American and Israeli friends, fellow citizens nd brethren in Yeshua/Jesus.
I believe the next elections will be more decisive for American’s future than the Bush/Gore elections were. If the American people vote Barack Hussein Obama into Office they will have voted Anti- Americanism, black liberation theology, anti-Israel and Islam into power. Hearing Obama’s pastor rail against America, shouting “God damn America!”, and saying that he supports Iraq’s fight of liberation against the rich, white people who invented the HIV virus to use against the colored people, my hair stood up in horror, so-to-speak. Obama’s hands are down and folded during the singing of America’s national anthem, and he refuses to rebuff Rev. Wright and his outragous sermons and accusations. Having been for 20 years under the influence of such anti-America, anti-white, black liberation theology, and furthermore exposed to radical Islam would make this man, if voted to be the next President, the #1 enemy of the American people.
Worth 10,000 words!
NOTE the ACLU logo and what it says under it!
(Anti-Christian Lawyers Union – “Jihad with a Law Degree”)
I know, and have warned many times, that judgment has been decreed upon the nation if it will be the United States of America leading in the dividing up of G-d’s own land. Although this is not America’s only sin, the many other sins would not lead to the downfall of America and the disassembling of her Union. G-d would judge, yes, He would discipline, yes, but He would not bring the nation to the brink of ruin. If Israel will be divided up by the American administration, then it may just be that judgment will come by the very man the American people will vote into office — Barack Hussein Obama.
I am an American/Israeli citizen myself, by choice and not by birth, and I love both nations. After having learned these things about Obama, and heard his pastor of 20 years rail like this against America and make such outrageous, ridiculous accusations against “rich, white people”, with theologican James Hal Cone, founder of the black liberation theology, personifying Obama’s beliefs, and Cuban Marxist guerilla fighter Che Guevara being one of his heros, his poster hanging in Obama’s campaign offices, I KNOW whom NOT to vote for!.
I believe ALL of America, regardless of race and creed, as well as all of Israel, needs to listen to this video – A Video Portrait Of Barack Hussein Obama – and be warned whom NOT to vote into Office.
May the Holy One of Israel prevent the present American President from dividing up G-d’s own Land, turning Judea (G-d’s sceptre) and Samaria (G-d’s helmet) over to the entity that seeks the destruction of the whole nation of Israel, and dividing up the city of the Great King, Jerusalem. If a Palestinian State will be created upon G-d’s sceptre and helmet, with the land of Israel getting divided by connecting Judea and Samaria with the Gaza strip, and East Jerusalem made the capital of the alien entity with whom G-d has made no covenant, THEN judgment is inevitable.
I urge all American and Israeli believers in the Messiah of Israel, Yeshua/Jesus of Nazareth, to join in a nation wide fast, with faces on the ground, even in sackcloth and with ashes, pleading G-d for saving them from this man and from being used to divide up G-d’s own Land. And this should not be merely a 1-day fast and prayer, it should be a cry that goes up to G-d from the very bottom of our hearts, not giving ourselves rest until G-d has diverted the disaster from befalling Israel and therefore America.
Israel and America are in VERY GRAVE DANGER!!! Let us not take our freedom, our prosperity, our homes, our lives, for granted! Let us pray to the G-d of all the earth, the Father of our Lord Yeshua/ Jesus, OUR Father, and beseech Him to save our nations from disaster. Of course, what is written will come to pass, for Scripture cannot be broken, but let it not be our beloved America that will cause our beloved Israel, G-d’s land, to be divided.
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6/8/17 O&A NYC THROWBACK THURSDAY PRIDE MONTH: Free Man- South Shore Commission
By OutandAboutnycmag June 8, 2017 June 8, 2017 Disco, Entertainment, Funk, Music, Music Video, Performance, R&B, Television, Video
South Shore Commission, a Chicago based R&B funk band, topped the Billboard magazine dance chart in 1975 with Free Man.
The band had three Billboard Hot 100 chart hits, the most popular of which, Free Man hit number 61 in 1975, reached number 9 on the Soul chart and went to number one on the disco chart for one week. Free Man was the #1 disco record for the year in Billboard Magazine and in the top three for Record World and Cash Box magazines the same year.
Free Man- South Shore Commission
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Size Doesn’t Matter (119): Unearthly; Love and First Sight; How It Feels to Fly
posted at Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 at 8:00 AM | Mini Reviews, Reviews, Young Adult
Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
Series: Unearthly #1
Published by HarperTeen on January 4, 2011
Source: Purchased
Amazon • The Book Depository • Audible
In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees...
Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Figuring out what that is, though, isn't easy.
Her visions of a raging forest fire and an alluring stranger lead her to a new school in a new town. When she meets Christian, who turns out to be the boy of her dreams (literally), everything seems to fall into place and out of place at the same time. Because there's another guy, Tucker, who appeals to Clara's less angelic side.
As Clara tries to find her way in a world she no longer understands, she encounters unseen dangers and choices she never thought she'd have to make between honesty and deceit, love and duty, good and evil. When the fire from her vision finally ignites, will Clara be ready to face her destiny?
Unearthly is a moving tale of love and fate, and the struggle between following the rules and following your heart.
Unearthly was one of the first ARCs I got off of NetGalley back when I first started book blogging in 2010. I must have been really excited about it, because I read it a couple of months early. At the time, I was quite impressed with this angel paranormal, but it doesn’t hold up as well today.
I totally get why I really liked Unearthly. The voice is pretty good. Angels are my least favorite paranormal creature because eugh religion, but they’re inoffensive thus far. And, most important, Tucker. He called her “Carrots.” What more reason did I really need?
YA has come a long way since Unearthly, however, and it suffers a few problems typical to the paranormal fad. There’s some casual shaming of both sluts and girls who wear make up, because shaming was a classic element of paranormal. There’s a lot of dependence on the “I won’t tell you stuff to protect you” trope coming from Clara’s mom. Clara and Tucker, as cute as they are, confess their love within a couple weeks of actually hanging out; that would maybe not feel so instalovey without her angel powers confirming that this is LOVE.
The biggest problem, though, is that the whole plot of this first book is the love triangle. I’m not opposed to a well done love triangle, and in the first installment this one’s alright, but I do think books with love triangles should still have actual plots. Certainly if they’re genre fic. I’m also not thrilled to have to watch Clara go back and forth between the guys for three books.
Unearthly didn’t bear up that well to rereading, but it was still fun. At this point, I do plan to finish out the series (I only ever read the first book before).
Tl;dr – Review in a GIFfy:
I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Love and First Sight by Josh Sundquist
Published by Little Brown BFYR on January 3, 2017
Genres: Contemporary, Romance
Love is more than meets the eye.
On his first day at a new school, blind sixteen-year-old Will Porter accidentally groped a girl on the stairs, sat on another student in the cafeteria, and somehow drove a classmate to tears. High school can only go up from here, right?
As Will starts to find his footing, he develops a crush on a sweet but shy girl named Cecily. And despite his fear that having a girlfriend will make him inherently dependent on someone sighted, the two of them grow closer and closer. Then an unprecedented opportunity arises: an experimental surgery that could give Will eyesight for the first time in his life. But learning to see is more difficult than Will ever imagined, and he soon discovers that the sighted world has been keeping secrets. It turns out Cecily doesn’t meet traditional definitions of beauty—in fact, everything he’d heard about her appearance was a lie engineered by their so-called friends to get the two of them together. Does it matter what Cecily looks like? No, not really. But then why does Will feel so betrayed?
Sundquist clearly did a lot of research in writing Love and First Sight. The voice is almost there too. But Love and First Sight only kind of worked for me.
I can’t really say how accurate the representation in Love and First Sight is, but I didn’t necessarily love some elements. Certain things, like how confusing things like perspective and depth perception are, were really interesting. What bothered me most, I think, was that the whole book is about Will’s blindness, and about him becoming sighted. The giant conflict is about finding out that people have lied to him about how attractive his crush is. That pretty much took out anything remotely shippy about Will and Cecily.
Sundquist clearly worked really hard on this book, but I wish there was a bit more to it. And I’m not sure that this was a great story about blindness to tell, especially as it’s not own voices.
How It Feels to Fly by Kathryn Holmes
Published by HarperTeen on June 14, 2016
Genres: Contemporary
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A struggle with body dysmorphia forces one girl to decide if letting go of her insecurity also means turning her back on her dreams.
Sam has always known she’d be a professional dancer—but that was before her body betrayed her, developing unmanageable curves in all the wrong places. Lately, the girl staring back at Sam in the mirror is unrecognizable. Dieting doesn’t work, ignoring the whispers is pointless, and her overbearing mother just makes it worse.
Following a series of crippling anxiety attacks, Sam is sent to a treatment camp for teens struggling with mental and emotional obstacles. Forced to open up to complete strangers, Sam must get through the program if she wants to attend a crucial ballet intensive later in the summer. It seems hopeless until she starts confiding in a camp counselor who sparks a confidence she was sure she’d never feel again. But when she’s faced with disappointing setbacks, will Sam succumb to the insecurity that imprisons her?
This compelling story from Kathryn Holmes examines one girl’s efforts to overcome her worst enemy: herself.
The only reason I picked up How It Feels to Fly is that it came along in a package with an ARC I’d requested. It sounded too sad, but I thought I’d give it a shot since an ARC came to me. I’m really glad I did.
Aspiring ballerina Sam has been having panic attacks since her body morphed from the ideal dancer’s body into a curvy shape. All the pressure, negative attitudes towards anything but a thin, delicate body type, and a lack of success dieting the weight off have left Sam with a little voice in her head telling her how fat and ugly and useless she is at all times. After one of her panic attacks hits around people, she’s sent to a therapy camp for athletes/performers with anxiety.
I got completely sucked into How It Feels to Fly. It’s definitely sad most of the time, and Sam makes some really unhealthy choices that you see coming a mile away; her crush on Andrew is cringe-inducing, for example. These books about anxiety therapy are always so painful and cathartic for me, and I can relate to aspects of what these kids are growing through (the inner voice telling you how much you suck 24/7 and the way Zoe lashes out at others when she’s uncomfortable, most especially).
How It Feels to Fly isn’t my usual read, because it’s not a fluffy romance book or a lush fantasy world, but I think it’s a read that I needed.
By Cynthia Hand
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Review: The Storyspinner by Becky Wallace
Review: The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand
Review: We Should Hang Out Sometime by Josh Sundquist
Review: Unearthly
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One response to “Size Doesn’t Matter (119): Unearthly; Love and First Sight; How It Feels to Fly”
Jason Cruickshank says:
Yikes. i guess I won’t be reading the first one.
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Deity Pictures Index
Srila Prabhupada's father, Gour Mohan De, taught his son how to worship the Deities of Radha and Krsna. Srila Prabhupada describes this with great affection in the dedication to his Krsna Book:
"To My Father, Gour Mohan De (1849-1930)
a pure devotee of Krsna, who raised me as a Krsna conscious child from the beginning of my life. In my boyhood ages he instructed me how to play the mrdanga. He gave me Radha-Krsna Vigraha to worship, and he gave me Jagannatha-Ratha to duly observe the festival as my childhood play. He was kind to me, and I imbibed from him the ideas later on solidified by my spiritual master, the eternal father."
As a small child, Srila Prabhupada worshiped his beloved Deities, Sri Sri Radha Govinda. Later in life, Srila Prabhupada introduced the authorized worship of the arca-vigraha (or Deity form) of the Lord in many temples around the world. Here are but a few examples:
Deities #1: (Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #2: (Sri Sri Radha London Isvara, London, England)
Deities #3: (Sri Sri Radha Gokulananda, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, England)
Deities #4: (Sri Sri Radha Vrindavan Candra, New Vrindavan Dhama, West Virginia)
Deities #5: (Sri Sri Rukmini Dvarakadisa, New Dvaraka Dhama, Los Angeles, California)
Deities #6: (Sri Nathji, New Vrindavan Dhama, West Virginia)
Deities #7: (Sri Sri Radha Ksira-Cora Gopinatha, New Remuna, Toronto, Canada)
Deities #8: (Sita-Rama-Laksman-Hanuman, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, England)
Deities #9: (Sri Panca-Tattva, Honolulu, Hawaii)
Deities #10: (Sri Sri Prahlada Nrsimhadeva, Temple Unknown)
Deities #11: (Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #12: (Sri Madan Mohan, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #13: (Sri Sri Radha Manohara, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Deities #14: (Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Deities #15: (Jagannatha Deities, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Deities #16: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Deities #17: (Sri Manohara, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Deities #18: (Srimati Radharani, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Deities #19: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, Ottawa, Canada)
Deities #20: (Sri Kartamasayi, Ottawa, Canada)
Deities #21: (Sita-Rama-Laksman-Hanuman, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, England)
Deities #22: (Sri Sri Radha London Isvara, London, England)
Deities #23: (Srimati Radharani, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #26: (Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Ottawa, Canada)
Deities #28: (Sri Sri Radha Ksira-Cora Gopinatha, New Remuna, Toronto, Canada)
Deities #31: (Sri Sri Radha-Damodara, traveling sankirtana bus, 1970)
Deities #32: (Sri Sri Radha Vrindavan Candra, New Vrindavan Dhama, West Virginia)
Deities #33: (Sri Sri Radha Madhava, Sri Mayapur Dhama, India)
Deities #35: (Lord Balarama, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #36: (Sita-Rama, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, England)
Deities #37: (Lord Rama's Lotus Feet, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, England)
Deities #40: (Sri Sri Radha-Golokananda, New Goloka Dhama, North Carolina)
Deities #41: (Lord Baladeva, Lady Subadra and Lord Jagannatha, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #42: (Sri Sri Kishore Kishori, New Seva Kunj Dhama, Chicago, U.S.A.)
Deities #43: (Sri Sri Radha Vraja Bihari, New Naimisaranya Forest, Miami, U.S.A.)
Deities #45: (Jagannatha Deities, New Naimisaranya Forest, Miami, U.S.A.)
Deities #46: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, New Naimisaranya Forest, Miami, U.S.A.)
Deities #47: (Sri Giridharilal, Middle East)
Deities #48: (Sri Gopinatha, Radhadesh, Chateau de Petite Somme, Belgium)
Deities #49: (Sri Radha, Radhadesh, Chateau de Petite Somme, Belgium)
Deities #50: (Lord Jagannatha, Radhadesh, Chateau de Petite Somme, Belgium)
Deities #51: (Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha, Radhadesh, Chateau de Petite Somme, Belgium)
Deities #53: (Srimati Radharani, Radhadesh, Chateau de Petite Somme, Belgium)
Deities #55: (Srimati Radharani, Radhadesh, Chateau de Petite Somme, Belgium) Deities #56: (Sri Gopinatha, Radhadesh, Chateau de Petite Somme, Belgium)
Deities #58: (Sri Gopinatha's Lotus Feet, Radhadesh, Belgium)
Deities #60: (Lord Sri Krsna, Radhadesh, Chateau de Petite Somme, Belgium)
Deities #63: (Lord Caitanya, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #65: (Sri Govinda, New York, U.S.A.)
Deities #66: (Sri Radha, New York, U.S.A.)
Deities #67: (Sri Sri Radha Govinda, New York, U.S.A.)
Deities #69: (Jagannatha Deities, London, England)
Deities #70: (Lord Caitanya and Sri Sri Radha Madhava, Mayapur, India)
Deities #71: (Lord Baladeva, Lady Subadra and Lord Jagannatha, Detroit, Michigan)
Deities #81: (Sri Golokananda, Hillsborough, North Carolina)
Deities #82: (Srimati Radharani, Hillsborough, North Carolina)
Deities #83: (Sri Sri Radha-Golokananda, Hillsborough, North Carolina)
Deities #88: (Sri Sri Nitai Gaurachandra, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Deities #90: (Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Deities #91: (Lord Nityananda Prabhu, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Deities #93: (Sri Sri Kodha-Nitai Mayapur-Shasha, Lesmahagow, Scotland)
Deities #94: (Sri Sri Radha Gokulananda, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, England)
Deities #96: (Lord Nityananda and Lord Caitanya, Newcastle, England)
Deities #97: (Srimati Vrinda Devi, Lesmahagow, Scotland)
Deities #100: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, Ottawa, Canada)
Deities #101: (Sri Kartamasayi, Ottawa, Canada)
Deities #102: (Srimati Radharani, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #103: (Srimati Radharani, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, England)
Deities #104: (Sri Sri Radha Vallabha, Melbourne, Australia)
Deities #106: (Sri Manohara, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Deities #107: (Lord Nityananda, Sri Mayapur Dhama, West Bengal, India)
Deities #108: (Sri Golokananda, Hillsborough, North Carolina)
Deities #109: (Srimati Radharani, Hillsborough, North Carolina)
Deities #111: (Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra, Bhaktivedanta Manor, England)
Deities #117: (Lord Caitanya and His Associates, Newcastle, England)
Deities #118: (Sri Sri Nitai Gaurachandra, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Deities #119: (Lord Nityananda, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Deities #120: (Lord Caitanya, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Deities #121: (Sri Sri Radha London Isvara, London, England)
Deities #122: (Sri Jagannatha Deities, Ludhiana, Punjab, India)
Deities #123: (Sri Sri Radha Gokulananda, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, England)
Deities #124: (Sri Sri Krsna-Balarama, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #126: (Sri Panca-Tattva, Newcastle, England)
Deities #127: (Sri Syamasundara, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #128: (Srimati Radharani, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #129: (Srimati Radharani, Montreal, Canada)
Deities #130: (Sri Gokulananda, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, England)
Deities #133: (Sri Golokananda's Lotus Feet, Hillsborough, North Carolina)
Deities #134: (Sri Sri Radha-Golokananda, Hillsborough, North Carolina)
Deities #137: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, Jaipur, India)
Deities #142: (Sri Sri Radha Govinda, New York, U.S.A.)
Deities #143: (Sri Nityananda, Newcastle, England)
Deities #144: (Sri Sri Radha Manohara, Montreal, Canada)
Deities #147: (Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #148: (Jagannatha Deities, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #149: (Sri Sri Radha-Syamasundara, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #152: (Sri Sri Radha Golokananda, Hillsborough, North Carolina)
Deities #163: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, Prabhupada-seva Dhama, Campbellford, Canada)
Deities #164: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #173: (Sita-Rama-Laksman-Hanuman, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, England)
Deities #176: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, Hillsborough, North Carolina)
Deities #179: (Sri Sri Radha Madhava, Coarsegold, California)
Deities #180: (Jagannatha Deities, Coarsegold, California)
Deities #182: (Lord Caitanya, Hillsborough, North Carolina)
Deities #183: (Lord Nityananda, Hillsborough, North Carolina)
Deities #188: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, Montreal, Canada)
Deities #195: (Jagannatha Deities, Niles, Michigan)
Deities #196: (Sri Sri Radha-Damodara, Gita Nagari Dhama, Pennsylvania)
Deities #197: (Sri Sri Radha-Kalachandji, Gita Nagari Dhama, Pennsylvania)
Deities #198: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, Potomac, Maryland)
Deities #199: (Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan, Potomac, Maryland)
Deities #200: (Sita-Rama-Laksman-Hanuman, Potomac, Maryland)
Deities #201: (Sri Madan Mohan, Goloka Dhama, Abentheuer, Germany)
Deities #202: (Srimati Radharani, Goloka Dhama, Abentheuer, Germany)
Deities #203: (Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan, Goloka Dhama, Abentheuer, Germany)
Deities #209: (Sri Karuna-sindhu, Mentone, Australia)
Deities #210: (Srimati Radharani, Mentone, Australia)
Deities #211: (Sri Sri Radha Karuna-sindhu, Mentone, Australia)
Deities #212: (Sri Madan Mohan, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #213: (Sri Giridharilal, Middle East)
Deities #215: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai and Hanuman, Bhaktivedanta Manor, England)
Deities #216: (Jagannatha Deities, London, England)
Deities #217: (Sri Sri Krsna-Balarama, New Mayapur Dhama, Lucay le Male, France)
Deities #218: (Srimati Vrinda Devi, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, England)
Deities #221: (Sri Gokulananda's Lotus Feet, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, England)
Deities #240: (Sri Sri Sri Radha Vrindaban Chandra, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #243: (Sri Vrindaban Chandra, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #244: (Srimati Radharani, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #245: (Sri Vrindaban Chandra's Lotus Feet, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #246: (Jagannatha Deities, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #247: (Lord Jagannatha, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #249: (Srimati Radharani's Lotus Hand, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #254: (Sri Sri Radha Vrindaban Chandra, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #256: (Srimati Radharani, Gita Nagari Dhama, Pennsylvania)
Deities #257: (Sri Damodara, Gita Nagari Dhama, Pennsylvania)
Deities #262: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #268: (Sri Nathaji, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #274: (Lord Rama, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, England)
Deities #281: (Vrindaban Chandra's Lotus Feet, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #290: (Sri Nila Madhava, Mini Puri Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #293: (Lord Nrsimhadeva & Prahlada Maharaja, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #300: (Lord Nityananda's Lotus Feet, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #309: (Sri Giridhari, New Govardhan, San Diego, California)
Deities #310: (Srimati Radharani, New Govardhan, San Diego, California)
Deities #311: (Sri Sri Radha-Giridhari, New Govardhan, San Diego, California)
Deities #316: (Lord Nrsimhadeva, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #343: (Lord Balarama, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #344: (Lady Subhadra, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #345: (Jagannatha Deities, Ludhiana, India)
Deities #349: (Sri Pancha-Tattva, Newcastle, U.K.)
Deities #351: (Sri Londoniswara, London, England)
Deities #354: (Srimati Radharani, London, England)
Deities #355: (Lord Nityananda and Lord Caitanya, Newcastle, U.K.)
Deities #360: (Sri Nityananda Prabhu, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.)
Deities #367: (Lord Jagannatha, Montreal, Canada)
Deities #369: (Sri Pancha-Tattva, Middle East, 1979)
Deities #374: (Sri Madan Mohan's Lotus Feet, New Gokula Dhama, Canada)
Deities #377: (Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan, New Gokula Dhama, Canada)
Deities #382: (Lord Nrsimhadeva & Prahlada Maharaj, New Vrindaban, West Virginia)
Deities #396: (Sri Sri Radha Syamasundara, Krishna Balaram Mandir, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #397: (Sri Syamasundara, Sri Krishna Balaram Mandir, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #398: (Srimati Radharani, Sri Krishna Balaram Mandir, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #399: (Sri Sri Krishna Balarama, Krishna Balaram Mandir, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #415: (Lord Jagannatha, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #416: (Lord Baladeva, Lady Subadra, Lord Jagannatha, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #429: (Sri Sri Radha Karuna-sindhu, Melbourne, Australia)
Deities #430: (Srimati Radharani, Melbourne, Australia)
Deities #431: (Sri Karuna-sindhu, Melbourne, Australia)
Deities #446: (Jagannatha Deities, Montreal, Canada)
Deities #458: (Sri Sri Radha Karuna-sindu, Melbourne, Australia)
Deities #469: (Sri Syamasundara, New Raman Reti Dhama, Alachua, Florida)
Deities #470: (Srimati Radharani, New Raman Reti Dhama, Alachua, Florida)
Deities #474: (Sri Sri Radha Syamasundara, New Raman Reti, Alachua, Florida)
Deities #478: (Jagannatha Deities, New Jagannatha Puri, Berkeley, California)
Deities #479: (Sri Sri Radha-Damodara, Radha-Damodara Traveling Sankirtan Party)
Deities #480: (Sri Sri Radha Gokulananda, New Jagannatha Puri, Berkeley, California)
Deities #481: (Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan, San Jose, California)
Deities #482: (Lord Caitanya and Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan, San Jose, California)
Deities #484: (Srimati Radharani, Radha-Krishna Temple, London, England)
Deities #485: (Sri London Isvara, Radha-Krishna Temple, London, England)
Deities #486: (Sri Sri Radha Londonisvara, Radha-Krishna Temple, London, England)
Deities #490: (Sri Londonisvara, Radha-Krishna Temple, London, England)
Deities #492: (Sri Sri Krishna-Balarama, Krishna-Balarama Mandir, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #495: (Sri Sri Radha Shyamsundar, Krishna-Balarama Mandir, Vrindavan)
Deities #499: (Sri Sri Gaur Nitai, Krishna-Balarama Mandir, Vrindavan)
Deities #511: (New Gokula Temple Room, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #513: (Sri Jagannatha Deities, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #515: (Sri Pancha-Tattva, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #516: (Vancouver Temple Altar, Radhastami 2009)
Deities #519: (Madan Mohan's Lotus Feet and Radharani's Lotus Hand, New Gokula)
Deities #525: (Small Radha-Krishna Deities (Radhastami)
Deities #551: (Sri Sri Radha Gokulananda, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, U.K.)
Deities #552: (Sri Gokulananda, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, U.K.)
Deities #553: (Srimati Radharani, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, U.K.)
Deities #560: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, Krishna Balaram Mandir, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #567: (Srimati Radharani, Krishna Balaram Mandir, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #569: (Sri Yamuna Devi, Kesi Ghat, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #574: (Sri Sri Radha Damodara, Gita Nagari Dhama, Pennsylvania)
Deities #580: (Sri Nathji, New Vrindavan Dhama, West Virginia)
Deities #581: (Jagannatha Deities, Berkeley, California)
Deities #583: (Sri Hanuman, Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, U.K.)
Deities #584: (Sri Pancha-Tattva, Lord Caitanya in Five Features)
Deities #603: (Sri Sri Radha Ksira-Cora Gopinatha, New Remuna, Toronto, Canada)
Deities #615: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, Krishna-Balarama Mandir, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #620: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, Melbourne Mahaprabhu Mandir, Melbourne, Australia)
Deities #622: (Sri Sri Radha Gopivallabha, New Gundica Dhama, Boston, U.S.A.)
Deities #638: (Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, New Gokula Dhama, Vancouver, Canada)
Deities #648: (Sri Sri Radha London Isvara, London, England, 1978)
Deities #650: (Sri London Isvara's Lotus Feet)
Deities #655: (Sri Gokulananda, Bhaktivedanta Manor, England)
Deities #656: (Srimati Radharani, Bhaktivedanta Manor, England)
Deities #658: (Sri Gokulananda's Lotus Feet, Bhaktivedanta Manor)
Deities #664: (Sri Sri Radha Gopi-vallabha, Boston, Massachusetts)
Deities #665: (Sri London Isvara, London, England)
Deities #667: (Sri Ksira-Chora Gopinatha's Lotus Feet, Toronto, Canada)
Deities #668: (Sri Sri Radha Ksira-Chora Gopinatha, Toronto, Canada)
Deities #671: (Sri Ksira-Chora Gopinatha, Toronto, Canada)
Deities #672: (Srimati Radharani, Toronto, Canada)
Deities #675: (Jagannatha Deities, Toronto, Canada)
Deities #680: (Sri Manohara, Montreal, Canada)
Deities #681: (Sri Manohara's Lotus Feet, Montreal, Canada)
Deities #683: (Sri Sri Radha Shyamasundara, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #684: (Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarkadhish, Los Angeles, U.S.A.)
Deities #685: (Sri Sri Krishna-Balarama, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #686: (Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #691: (Sri Shyamasundara, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #692: (Sri London-Isvara, London, England)
Deities #701: (Sri Sri Radha London-Isvara, London, England)
Deities #710: (Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, Vrindavan, India)
Deities #723: (Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga, Juhu, Mumbai, India)
Deities #725: (Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha, Radhadesh, Belgium)
Deities #726: (Sri Gopinatha, Radhadesh, Belgium)
Deities #727: (Srimati Radharani, Radhadesh, Belgium)
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Avalokiteśvara, Kuan-yin, and Kuan-shih-yin
By David Reigle on May 30, 2013 at 9:21 pm
In the translation of Book of Dzyan, stanza 6, verse 1, Kuan-yin is distinguished from Kuan-shih-yin: “By the power of the Mother of Mercy and Knowledge — Kwan-Yin — the “triple” of Kwan-shai-Yin, residing in Kwan-yin-Tien, Fohat, the Breath of their Progeny, the Son of the Sons, having called forth, from the lower abyss, the illusive form of Sien-Tchang and the Seven Elements:*” (The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, p. 32). Note that the spellings Kwan-Yin and Kwan-shai-Yin were adopted by Blavatsky from Samuel Beal’s 1871 Catena of Buddhist Scriptures from the Chinese, before the Wade-Giles system of transcription for Chinese became standard, in which the spellings are Kuan-yin and Kuan-shih-yin (today the pinyin system has become standard, in which the spellings are Guanyin and Guanshiyin, although the Wade-Giles system is still used in many books and for many words). Then in a chapter titled, “On Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin” (The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1, pp. 470-473), Blavatsky further distinguished Kuan-yin from Kuan-shih-yin, concluding: “To close, Kwan-Shi-Yin and Kwan-Yin are the two aspects (male and female) of the same principle in Kosmos, Nature and Man, of divine wisdom and intelligence.”
As is well known, Kuan-yin and Kuan-shih-yin are Chinese translations of the name Avalokiteśvara, taken as Avalokita-svara. On Avalokiteśvara versus Avalokita-svara, this is another question for another time. The Chinese word kuan translates the Sanskrit word avalokita, “seen,” and the Chinese word yin translates the Sanskrit word svara, “sound.” The Chinese word shih in the longer name, Kuan-shih-yin, means “world.” Thus, Kuan-yin means “Perceiver of sounds,” and Kuan-shih-yin means “Perceiver of the sounds of the world.” The reason for the addition of the word shih to the name of this bodhisattva is obvious, to make clear what sounds are perceived; namely, the cries of the world. The names Kuan-yin and Kuan-shih-yin, then, refer to the same bodhisattva, being no different than Helena Blavatsky and Helena P. Blavatsky. These have been used interchangeably from the earliest translations of the Sanskrit Buddhist texts into Chinese, starting near the end of the second century C.E., right up to the present in China.
No one doubts that the male bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara transformed into a female deity in China. This occurred around the beginning of the second millennium C.E., as can be traced in his/her representations in art or iconography and in written texts. No one knows why or how this happened. About four theories for this have been proposed, and are described in what is now the standard work on this subject, Chün-fang Yü’s 2001 Kuan-yin: The Chinese Transformation of Avalokiteśvara. However, it is not the case that the name Kuan-shih-yin was and is used for the male deity, while the name Kuan-yin was and is used for the female deity. They are both names of the same deity, whether first as a male, or later as a female. As stated in Chün-fang Yü’s opening sentence of her Introduction, “Kuan-yin (Perceiver of Sounds), or Kuan-shih-yin (Perceiver of the World’s Sounds) is the Chinese name for Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, who has been worshiped throughout the Buddhist world.” Then in her chapter on Scriptural Sources (p. 36), “Kuan-yin and Kuan-shih-yin, therefore, were names used interchangeably in the earliest translations.” The fact that the male and female forms or aspects of the deity are to be distinguished is not in question. There is, however, a significant error in the terms used by Blavatsky to make this distinction. Her use of the name Kuan-shih-yin for the male and Kuan-yin for the female is erroneous.
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HomeNew ‘TeenSafe’ app data breach reveals thousands of Apple IDs and passwords in plaintext
New ‘TeenSafe’ app data breach reveals thousands of Apple IDs and passwords in plaintext
TeenSafe, a mobile app that allows parents to monitor their kids’ phone usage has suffered a massive data breach. Unfortunately, at least one server used by the app has leaked tens of thousands of accounts of both parents and children, according to ZDNet, in an exclusive report. In this article, you’ll learn more about the type of data compromised and what you can do about it.
The app, once available for both iOS and Android, allows parents to look at their children’s text messages and location, who they’ve called and when, and more. Called “secure” by its developers, TeenSafe claims to have over a million parents using the service.
The TeenSafe data breach
The Los Angeles-based company left two servers, both hosted on Amazon’s cloud, without protection and easily accessible without a password. Both devices were taken offline on Sunday, May 20 following the ZDNet report. One of the servers only contained test information.
Through a spokesperson, Teensafe explains, “We have taken action to close one of our servers to the public and begun alerting customers that could potentially be impacted.”
The database stores the parent’s email address associated with TeenSafe, as well as their corresponding child’s Apple ID email address. It also includes the child’s device name — which is often just their name — and their device’s unique identifier. The data contains the plaintext passwords for the child’s Apple ID. Because the app requires that two-factor authentication is turned off, a malicious actor viewing this data only needs to use the credentials to break into the child’s account to access their personal content data.
The unsecured data didn’t include content, such as photos or messages, nor did it provide the locations of either parents or children. In total, 10,200 records went unprotected, although some of these were duplicates.
TeenSafe claims it’s still looking into this situation and “will provide additional information” when it becomes available. If you’re a TeenSafe user, your best bet is to change the passwords on your account or contact the company for more information.
This isn’t the first time iOS users had to deal with a data breach this year. Back in March, Under Armour announced that its popular diet tracking app MyFitnessPal had been hacked. It involved the usernames, email addresses and [hashed] passwords of some 150 million user accounts.
Was your data possibly unprotected by TeenSafe? Let us know below.
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Friendswood Lady Mustangs
Clear Springs started off district play with an 83-34 win over the Friendswood Lady Mustangs. The Lady Chargers had four players score in double figures, led by Sierra Cheatham’s game-high 21 points. vSprings took the first quarter 21-10 to help build a halftime lead of 19 points.
The Lady Chargers outscored Friendswood 44-14 in the second half.
Dymond Gladney tallied 13 points, JaNay Redic had 12 points, and Vianey Galvan added 10 points for Clear Springs.
Dawson Lady Eagles
The Dawson Lady Eagles improved to 6-8 on the 2016-17 basketball season with a non-district win over the Fort Bend Travis Lady Tigers 53-36.
Dawson jumped out to a 14-6 first quarter lead and stretched the margin with a dominating second period to outscore the visitors 20-5 giving them a 34-11 lead at intermission.
The Lady Eagles continue to dominate the game by taking the third quarter 10-6 giving them a 44-17 lead entering the final eight minutes.
With reserves playing for Dawson, Travis outscored the Lady Eagles 19-9 in the final stanza to close the gap to 53-36 as the game came to an end.
Kristen Shotts
Dawson head coach Isabel Gomez got a well-balanced scoring attack from her girls as Elizabeth Davis led the offense with 17 points and Kristen Shotts added 12. Shotts was 4-for-6 from the 3-point arc.
Jada Rogers had eight rebounds and two assists while Amaya Bickham had six boards and two steals.
The Lady Eagles will now prepare to challenge for the District 23-6A crown as they played Alief Taylor in the opening round of district action on Tuesday (late). They will travel to face Alief Hastings on Friday, December 16 at 7:00 p.m. Dawson will travel to play George Ranch on Tuesday, January 3 at 7:00 p.m.
Pearland Lady Oilers
The Pearland Lady Oilers are 14-6 overall for the 2016-17 basketball season as they enter District 23-6A competition.
The Lady Oilers lost their sensational freshman Deyona Gaston who has attracted the attention of major colleges before she played her first high school game.
Schools like Notre Dame, Louisville, South Carolina, Texas, Oregon, Auburn, North Carolina, Colorado, Minnesota, Texas Tech, and Houston have the 6-foot-2 forward with explosive athleticism on their radar.
Gaston will learn the fate of her knee injury on Wednesday, December 14 as to whether she will need surgery or not.
Since her injury, the Lady Oilers have lost their last two games with the district schedule opening up on Tuesday, December 13 at Brazoswood (late).
Pearland came up short against Goose Creek Memorial 47-45.
Memorial got a fast offensive start outscoring the Lady Oilers 21-9 in the opening quarter and extending the lead 13-6 in the second period as the cold-shooting Lady O's fell behind 34-15 at intermission.
Pearland began to chip away at the lead in the third quarter 9-4 to close the gap to 38-24.
The Lady Oilers closed out the game with a flurry outscoring the home team 21-9, but they ran out of time as the Lady Knights hung on for the 47-45 win.
Pearland was led on offense by Ravae Payne who scored 13 points while Julia Gonzales, Macey Braswell and Jocelyn Thompson tossed in seven points apiece.
Leslie Nichols had seven rebounds while Thompson added six boards.
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New name; same address
When I began blogging in May 2006, I was going to China. I saw blogging as a way of keeping in touch with family and friends without writing endless feature emails or clogging everyone's mailbox with pictures. I had read just a handful of blogs and had no understanding of their power. Blogs link us with friends, strangers, and enemies, rendering location irrelevant. They provide a writing space at once personal and connectional.
I hope to travel again, but for now I'm in the US. No longer am I writing a 'China Blog.' I have renamed this blog 'Gannagram,' but its address will remain the same: http://www.rozchina.blogspot.com/ Address changes on the web are a nuisance, as they are everywhere else.
Re-entering the blogosphere
A year ago, I returned from my stint in Weihai. I was in China again for two weeks in March. Re-entry into the life of the university and that of my family took quite awhile. I'd been warned that it all took time, but I was surprised nonetheless. You change while you're overseas, and returning home requires that you change again. This makes it hard to find your orientation to writing, your voice.
In reentry, there is a heightened sense of absurdity. For a long time I felt unable to blog about anything interesting without being negative, critical or tactless. This is changing. I'm back in the blogosphere.
Meltdown avoided!
Our sons pushed off this morning; Emily and Steve leave tomorrow morning after breakfast. There has been no significant meltdown in our family's Christmas this year. My daughter Emily reminds me there is still time. After all, "It's not over 'til the fat lady sings."
All kidding aside, it's been an unusually harmonious holiday, considering what things can be like when our family gets together. Christmas conflict seems to be hard wired into our species. You probably read about the trigenerational murder in Carnation Washington Christmas Eve http://kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=7545487 Our family is not violent; we're much to boring. We're good at hurting each other's feelings, though. Especially at Christmas.
So what was different this time? Families don't change that much or that fast. I think of the celebration which preceded our family's Christmas. We had guests from across the world. Did the universe approve and send us a gift? It's possible. ' Tis the season, after all.
Family negotiation
The past is never over, as Sydney Carter once wrote. For this reason, family holidays can be tense. When I see my sons this time of year, I remember their first Christmas, when we photographed them inside the Christmas stockings which now hang by the fireplace; and I think of the Strawberry Shortcake bed set we bought for my daughter one year. To our children, this silent reminiscence must be annoying. At times they allude to occasions when I was arbitrary and out of touch. This hurts, for I did my best.
Their energy level is different from mine and Joe's. We go shopping, and in the space of two hours, they visit four or five stores. Left to my own devices, I'd go to one and take a break. Joe no longer comes on these excursions. As I struggle to keep up with them, they obviously view me as feeble. I find their perception unfair. Earlier this year, I climbed the Great Wall of China.
In my preparations, I fixed enough food for a small army. Clearly, our children prefer to eat out. This morning, Ben's and Mike's last at our home, they will humor me by coming here for breakfast. As I write, cinnamon rolls rise in the kitchen.
Above: Emily and her husband Steve.
Below: Ben, Mike, Emily, and Steve.
Now, the real challenge!
Zhao caught the greyhound after dinner yesterday evening. Our children have arrived: Emily, her husband Steve, Ben and Mike.
Now begins the challenging part of the holiday. The rituals are the same: dinner, stockings, presents under the tree. But families can have melt downs unlike anything that can occur with those not so close. To get myself prepared, I have been blogging more than I have in months.
Above: Ben and Mike
Bel ow: Emily and Steve
How I learned about Christmas
I grew up in a Jewish section of Brooklyn. Christmas was not a holiday celebrated by my Jewish family, though we were quite secular. My early images of Christmas came from television and things people wrote. In Mr. Kent's seventh grade English class at Cunningham Junior High School in Brooklyn, Marnie Mahoney wrote an essay about what her family did on the holiday. So unusual was its content that she was asked to read it to our class. It was very detailed, and my early knowledge of Christmas customs was based on her composition.
Marnie and I were good friends, but we have not seen each other for upward of forty years. Some months ago, she googled my name, wrote a brief email, and we had a brief exchange. I thought of her when I was stuffing stockings, and I wrote saying I remember her essay. As a professor of law, Marnie does more technical writing these days and does not remember the essay.
Turns out that Marnie and her husband have a house in Asheville, North Carolina, an hour's drive from here. So when the kids go home this holiday, we're getting together.
Tree guests
Christmas afternoon, our Chinese guests showed us how to make paper ornaments for the tree utilizing the Asian art of paper folding. The Japanese call this art origami; I cannot remember its Chinese name. Both nations claim to have invented it.
Let's hear it for reindeer!
Santa does his work in the context of a complex organization, which is dependent on the efforts of many elves and reindeer. I hope Santa realizes this.
Usually, holidays are spent with families, and that makes the enterprise more nuanced and complex. Christmas is different when spent with friends. You make all the preparations, but there is not the history, the strong emotional ties. But also, there is less likelihood of conflict.
Above: Yinguan and Joe, the latter in his reindeer antlers.
Below: Dennis and Marie Cope
On Christmas, I spend lots of time in the kitchen. It's one of the few times I get to bake, these days. Joe is in charge of the cookies for the most part, and these can be done ahead, but breads and coffee cakes should be made up fresh. Zhao and Leonard Li were interested in helping, which I much appreciated.
With so much activity in the kitchen, Butter, our orange tabby, retreated from his accustomed perch on the counter top and took up residence in an Amazon box.
Santa Turf
When the Gann family Santa went down to the family room to fill stockings, she noticed something curious. Two of the stockings-- Roz' and Joe's-- already had presents in them. These appeared to be from China. How was this possible?
Leonard Li offered an interesting hypothesis. He thinks the unidentified presents were placed by the Chinese Santa Claus, who arrived earlier, because China is thirteen h ours ahead of the U.S.
The Night Before Christmas
Before leaving for church, we labeled our stockings with our names. We wrote our names on our stockings in English and Chinese, the latter with the help of our guests. Dennis and Marie have Chinese names, now. Joe read us the Clement Moore poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas," commonly known as "The Night Before Christ mas."
The descriptions of Christmas crackers in English novels always confused me. In my mind, 'cracker' denotes something edible and crunchy, like a saltime. But apparently English crackers explode, at least at Christmas.
After dinner last evening, my confusion was finally put to rest. Dennis Cope, native of London, brought over a box of Christmas crackers, sent by his brother. They are actually low voltage which contain tiny amounts of explosive. They open with a loud pop, offering crowns and small toys-- kind of like a pinata. Inside my cracker was a shoe horn. Zhao got a silver yo-yo.
We were lucky to have these Christmas crackers from England. While their explosive force of was not enough frighten the cats, no one would want explosives on a plane or travelling through the mail these days, whatever the amount. Marie Cope said she'd seen them at Bath and Body Works, so app arently you can get them over here. They're lots of fun.
Deck the Halls!
Joe put up the tree a couple of weeks ago, but except for the lights, we left it untrimmed until Christmas Eve. By then, the Chinese members of the crew had assembled-- Leonard Li and Zhao from Troy University in Alabama; Yinguan, my graduate assistant and her friend Jing. They put the finishing touches on the tree.
It's always interesting to go through the ornaments we've accumulated over the years. They aren't just decorations-- they are artifacts of our life. Along with the generic glass balls of past years: embroidered cloth ornaments made by Joe's mother in the latter years of her life; beaded candy canes and clothespin reindeer made by our children in grade school. A silver ornament inscribed with the name of Jan Lenz, my daughters first grade teacher. On it is a date: 1986/
Go Greyhound!
This Christmas, our home will be full of international students. Some from Johnson City, some from further away Our kids don't arrive here until December 26 as they're going to Cincinnati first.
I sent an air ticket to Leonard Li, a former student from Weihai who is now studying at Troy University in Alabama. Leonard helped me in countless ways when I taught in Weihai last year. He wanted to bring his girlfriend Zhao, but she decided to come by Greyhound. I wondered what kind of experience she would have. Turned out Zhao's trip was much better than Leonard's. She left Troy at 3:00 PM Sunday and was in Johnson City by 9:15 the next morning. Leonard arrived at the Montgomery airport at 4:00 PM Sunday. His flight was delayed, and he slept on the airport floor. He finally got here today (Monday) just before Noon. I haven't taken Greyhound in years, but it apparently does better sometimes.
Above: Zhao and Leonard
Below : Butter, principal feline and master of the of the feast
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OSA Publishing > Optics Express > Volume 17 > Issue 10 > Page 8081
Coherent interference effects in a nano-assembled diamond NV center cavity-QED system
Paul E. Barclay, Charles Santori, Kai-Mei Fu, Raymond G. Beausoleil, and Oskar Painter
Paul E. Barclay,1,* Charles Santori,2 Kai-Mei Fu,2 Raymond G. Beausoleil,2 and Oskar Painter1
1Thomas J. Watson, Sr., Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
2Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
3Presently with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
*Corresponding author: paul.barclay@hp.com
P Barclay
C Santori
K Fu
R Beausoleil
O Painter
Issue 10,
pp. 8081-8197
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.008081
Paul E. Barclay, Charles Santori, Kai-Mei Fu, Raymond G. Beausoleil, and Oskar Painter, "Coherent interference effects in a nano-assembled diamond NV center cavity-QED system," Opt. Express 17, 8081-8197 (2009)
Electric fields
Optical fields
Spectral properties
Spontaneous emission
Tunable diode lasers
Microcavities (140.3945)
Resonators (230.5750)
Coherent optical effects (270.1670)
Original Manuscript: February 4, 2009
Revised Manuscript: April 2, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: April 20, 2009
Diamond nanocrystals containing NV color centers are positioned with 100-nanometer-scale accuracy in the near-field of a high-Q SiO2 microdisk cavity using a fiber taper. The cavity modified nanocrystal photoluminescence is studied, with Fano-like quantum interference features observed in the far-field emission spectrum. A quantum optical model of the system is proposed and fit to the measured spectra, from which the NV-zero phonon line coherent coupling rate to the microdisk is estimated to be 28 MHz for a nearly optimally placed nanocrystal.
©2009 Optical Society of America
Scalable fabrication of coupled NV center - photonic crystal cavity systems by self-aligned N ion implantation
T. Schröder, M. Walsh, J. Zheng, S. Mouradian, L. Li, G. Malladi, H. Bakhru, M. Lu, A. Stein, M. Heuck, and D. Englund
Fiber-microsphere system at cryogenic temperatures toward cavity QED using diamond NV centers
Hideaki Takashima, Takeshi Asai, Kiyota Toubaru, Masazumi Fujiwara, Keiji Sasaki, and Shigeki Takeuchi
Hybrid photonic crystal cavity and waveguide for coupling to diamond NV-centers
Paul E. Barclay, Kai-Mei Fu, Charles Santori, and Raymond G. Beausoleil
Opt. Express 17(12) 9588-9601 (2009)
Observation of 1.2-GHz linewidth of zero-phonon-line in photoluminescence spectra of nitrogen vacancy centers in nanodiamonds using a Fabry-Perot interferometer
Hong-Quan Zhao, Masazumi Fujiwara, Masayuki Okano, and Shigeki Takeuchi
Chirped circular dielectric gratings for near-unity collection efficiency from quantum emitters in bulk diamond
Jiabao Zheng, Andreas C. Liapis, Edward H. Chen, Charles T. Black, and Dirk Englund
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Fig. 1. (a) Schematic of the nanocrystal fiber-to-microcavity positioning technique. (b) SEM image of a diamond nanocrystal positioned on the edge of a SiO2 microdisk. Illustration of the interference between direct dipole and indirect dipole-cavity radiation, (c) for a generic Fabry-Perot single-sided cavity and (d) for a microdisk cavity with nanocrystal-scattering radiation loss.
Fig. 2. Scanning confocal microscope (SCM) images (details in [12]) of a mesa before (a) and after (b) a nanocrystal has been picked up with a fiber taper. Optical images of (c) fiber taper and attached nanocrystal aligned with microdisk edge, and (d) after nanocrystal placement. Nanocrystal imaging is aided by a white light source coupled into the fiber taper and the microdisk. (e) SCM image of microdisk after nanocrystal placement.
Fig. 3. (a) Emission from a diamond nanocrystal attached to a fiber taper, collected through the high-NA lens in the far-field and through the fiber taper in the near-field. The fiber taper data was scaled by a factor of 1.6 to take measured fiber insertion loss into account. Peaks near λ = 690 nm are due to fluorescence in the Ge doped fiber core. (b) Measured emission when the taper interacts with a microdisk, for varying nanocrystal position relative to the microdisk and spectrometer, as indicated by the illustrations.
Fig. 4. (a) Microdisk mode lineshapes measured by monitoring the fiber taper transmission spectrum with the taper positioned in the microdisk near-field, before (blue) and after (red) nanocrystal placement. A 850nm band tunable diode laser source (New Focus Velocity) was used to measure the taper transmission; a 630nm tunable source was not readily available at the time of the measurements. The dashed lines are fits [24] to the resonant line-shapes. Cross-sectional view of the 630 nm wavelength band (b) TM p=1 and (c) TM p=3 whispering-gallery mode profiles near the disk edge as calculated using the finite-element-method (FEM). The white outline indicates the periphery of the microdisk, with the shape of the disk profile estimated from SEM images. Only the dominant, vertical component of the electric field is plotted for clarity. The position of the nanocrystal, as placed on the disk, is indicated by the red diamond.
Fig. 5. (a) PL from the diamond nanocrystal placed on the microdisk in Fig. 1(b), collected at room temperature through the near-field fiber taper (green) and far-field lens (blue). (b) High resolution (δλ = 20 pm) PL spectrum of the lens-collected emission around λ = 680 nm. The red curve is a fit using S lens from the text, generalized to include multiple decoupled cavity modes.
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Venezuela's RCTV Acts of Seditions
Hugo Chavez within the law acting against a flagrant media lawbreaker.
Nona Muse 26.01.2007 21:06
Is this what the Chemtrails people were referring to?
The UK Guardian reports Friday that the "US answer to global warming: smoke and giant space mirrors....Washington urges scientists to develop ways to reflect sunlight as 'insurance'"
Is this a refernce to chemtrails ?
White Rose 26.01.2007 16:20
Time to spread 9/11 truth to military/security personnel
THIS WOULD BE A VERY GOOD TIME for all who have had their eyes opened to 9/11 truth to expose the most convincingly presented 9/11 truth you can to EVERYONE you personally know in government security/enforcement/etc. fields and/or to those you know who personally know others in those fields.
LONE VET REPORT
Time in the Gorgon's Office
theresa mitchell 26.01.2007 10:44
liar in chief
Bush lies about his plans for war with Iran
Between the Lines' Scott Harris 26.01.2007 09:24
Democrats' First 100-Hour Agenda Doesn't Address America's Racial...
...Racial, Economic Divide~Interview with Emma Dixon, executive director of the Creation of Wealth Project, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
NXNGRG 26.01.2007 08:36
9/11 Perpetrator Watch List
Frustrated by continual calls for an "independent investigation' and endless talk of "unanswered questions" around 9/11, I think it high time to see the NAMES of the people connected to the planning ,and those benefiting,from the monumental crime of the 9/11 attacks. The list is by no means exhaustive, and is pulled from the outstanding groundbreaking research of "Ewing2001".
cruciaL aRtz orrior 25.01.2007 20:53
To radically understand the evil of the empire: bigotry, alienation, and--
This article is inspired by the recent news of a new "nonlethal" laser ray weapon that the u.s. has developed, allegedly to be used on all who violently oppose u.s./nato imperialism-type aggressions. Shared here is from an informal confrontive (non-pacifist) ""cruciaL aRts"" perspective; controversial to traditonal politics for sure, yet offering input to thinking through the continuing intensity.
Pedro Talavera 25.01.2007 18:53
The automotive diagnostic dilema
This piece relates to the ongoing problem facing repair shops.
. 25.01.2007 17:13
Was Vera wearing dead animals?
The Katz took a ride on Boon, or Doggle today, and unless I am mistaken, she was wearing the carcass(es) of some formerly beautiful creatures.
Boycott All UFPJ & IA Activities
This weekend's so-called peace rally in Washington D.C. will simply amount to aa enormous waste of time
whitebuffalo 25.01.2007 06:34
The history of the "drug free zone mentality", exposed
The history behind the drug free zone isn't so complex that normal citizens should be protected from hearing it. Quite to the contrary, patriotic people everywhere need to be exposed to the history behind this scam, that is commonly refered to as the,"drug war".
White House Reversal on Domestic Spying Program Shouldn't Derail Congressional Investigati
...Derail Congressional Investigation~Interview with Shayana Kadidal, Center for Constitutional Rights attorney, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
Ohnny 24.01.2007 22:53
....No smoking? No Homeless?
Your home r belong to us.
Dr. Humorville 24.01.2007 15:35
George W. Bush Gets a Job
A stunningly similar example of how George W. Bush (the supposed President) got a job -- like Curious Geroge (the monkey).
js 24.01.2007 09:34
Body found east of Sandy
-Anybody know where Bergin and Willard are?
The Peoples� Counter State of the Union Message
George W. Bush, the Liar-in-Chief, did his thing on Tuesday night, Jan. 23, 2007. He delivered another one of his so-called "State of the Union" messages to the Congress, on Capitol Hill. Outside the building, however, by the reflective pool, activists, like: Col. Ann Wright, Medea Benjamin, Jeffrey Milliard and Travis Morales, offered a true representation of the state of our nation. They demanded an end to the Iraqi War and bringing our troops home.
Wat Tiff 24.01.2007 07:12
Will Someone Please Explain?
Why is it that the entire country, suffering as it does from a completely broken "democracy," continues to focus it's "election" attention on Iowa (7) electoral votes, and New freakin Hampshire (4) votes?
Noel Boudy 23.01.2007 22:24
OHSU Student Publicizes Ignorance
OHSU Student Mars Hall wrote a letter to the "Oregonizm" magazine, which was published in the December and January issue. The content of the letter is illustrative of the blind ignorance that so-called "educated" people embrace to support fraudulent science. There is also clear evidence of the author's careless hatred of others.
Cheney, Rice Sponsor Diarrhea Medicine for Big Pharma at State of Union Address
There can only be one explanation for the grimaces on the faces of Cheney and Rice as they listen to the State of the Union Address--they are either trying to "out serious" the Democrats (Nancy Pelosi must have to pee real bad, cus she keeps squirming in her seat) or they are sponsoring diarrhea medicine for big pharmaceutical companies.
No American Dream For America�s Youth
The end of the American Dream is having a profound affect in the US as the pauperisation of the US working class intensifies, but it will not go unanswered.
Workers� International League 22.01.2007 13:31
Why capitalists support the war
To put it simply, they want to maximize their profits at the expense of the vast majority. This requires access to raw materials, markets, and cheap labor, not to mention juicy government contracts with built-in profits. But don't take our word for it. Here's what the representatives and defenders of U.S. capitalism have had to say about it over the years:
"War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses...
"It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."
- USMC General Smedley Butler, 1933
Repost-Marlena Gangi 22.01.2007 12:22
SEXPRESSO: I/2 NAKED BARISTAS HIT SEATTLE
I just had a great discussion--well, heated discussion...ok, it was a knockdown drag out and I actually just threw a neighbor out of my apartment--about this article...
gk 22.01.2007 10:20
Citizens Tribunal, day 2 only
Presentations on all aspects of the Iraq War with panelists' inquiry
Omega 22.01.2007 09:37
Lost Boys of Sudan hoopla, but what about the Girls?
Thousands of boys and men are being resettled to america, the so called Lost Boys of Sudan get to come to the land of Nike and Nintendo while the girls are left to suffer.
Rodrigue Tremblay 22.01.2007 05:05
IRAN: Looking for a Gulf of Tonkin-like Incident
Obviously, President George W. Bush is busily looking for a Gulf of Tonkin-like incident in order to further escalate the war in Iraq and to start a fresh one with Iran.
colpiz 21.01.2007 19:16
White House Denies Rumour Of Iranian Strike
A new round of crying wolf has begun, with this little tidbit of propaganda-op
news. Of course, this false-flag alert is obviously phony, and it shows just how
stupid they really are.
Lt. Gen. William E. Odom: A Cassandra for Our Times
The Bush-Cheney Gang's immoral and illegal war in Iraq "hugely advances" the interest of Al Qaeda and Iran. "No American interests" are served by that conflict, according to Lt. Gen. William E. Odom, USA, Rtd. The longer U.S. forces remain in Iraq, he said, "the worse it will get." He added: "Staying the course makes no sense." Leaving Iraq now, Gen. Odom insisted, "is the only way to recover from the greatest strategic mistake in American history."
Simon Willace 19.01.2007 22:16
I found a great web site for anyone who recognises that global warming is the greatest threat. Sadly those that run the site have yet to understand that we cannot stop Climate change they show a inconvienient rather than an accurate one. Even though the site faces facts and presents a doomsday message. The writer clearly maintains that humans can prevail and restore the planets life support systems.
I will prove humans cannot.
a rationalist 19.01.2007 13:29
Bush Ordered Israel Not to Seek Peace With Syria
From blog, The Third Way: A Different View of the Middle East, "Peace With Syria: What Would It Mean?" by Mitchell Plitnick. The Israeli refusal may have been ordered by Washington, but the Israeli government cannot escape its own culpability.
Speaker 19.01.2007 11:06
How Can Americans Be So Stupid?
If you've traveled abroud much over the last several years, it's likely you heard that one. However, it is more than just having voted for Bush or choosing to nibble on "freedom fries." If you try to really engage Americans, even educated ones, you start to believe that, as a whole, Americans really are stupid.
Hugo Chavez Deepens Venezuela's Social and Economic Transfor 19.01.2007 06:09
Hugo Chavez Deepens Venezuela's Social and Economic Transformation Interview with Steve E
Interview with Steve Ellner, professor of economic history at the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
Brian Thomas Auker 18.01.2007 18:00
Schumacher Fur Story: from an ex-employee!
I worked for schumacher fur for a short time...
Textual Healing
When future cultural anthropologists are sifting through the
artifacts of the 21st century, to use a rather tired linguistic
clich�, they may very well find the record of our downfall in the
breakdown of our language.
Thoughts on the Snow Day
Portland woke up on Tuesday to everything covered in white, and promptly went about falling apart. Trimet made the amazing decision early in the morning to not chain up the busses, and by 8:00 nobody could accuse them of overreacting to inclement weather. According to Oregon Public Broadcasting's "Oregon Considered," Portland Public School District-along with most of the surrounding districts-announced first that they were going to remain open, and then decided to close. One of the main problems with how the schools went about this decision was actually waiting until many children were already at school, and then basically telling them to go home for the day.
Libby�s Trial Crafted to Protect Bush-Cheney Gang
Instead of going after the cabal that lied the country into the Iraqi War, Special Counsel, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, focused on only one defendant, Irving "Scooter" Libby. He also made sure no conspiracy count was utilized in the indictment against him. V.P. Dick Cheney will not testify at Libby's trial. Fitzgerald, who has close ties to Rudy Giuliani, will continue to make sure that nothing comes out to hurt the interests of the Bush-Cheney Gang.
Lawyers Representing Guantamano Detainees Lash Back at Bush 18.01.2007 07:12
Lawyers Representing Guantamano Detainees Lash Back at Bush Administration Critics Interv
...Bush Administration Critics~Interview with Tom Wilner, attorney with Shearman and Sterling, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
Alan Woods 17.01.2007 23:57
How Capitalism Failed African Americans
The Second American Revolution [The U.S. Civil War] was a tremendous step forward, but it never realized its promise to Black Americans. The real winners in the Civil War were the Northern capitalists who opened up new markets and obtained a huge new supply of dirt-cheap labor. Nearly a century and a half after the abolition of slavery in the U.S.A., we are very far from achieving genuine equality for all, regardless of race, color or sex. Despite a number of advances achieved through the struggles of black people in the 1960s, the position of black Americans remains one of clear disadvantage. Michael Moore points out that in the U.S.A. today:
Why 17.01.2007 18:37
Real reason for troop 'surge'?
Is the US troop 'surge' actually a counter to any protests of an Israeli nuclear strike on Iran?
Watchdog 17.01.2007 18:31
Forced to Patronize For-Profit Insurance Business??
Oregon may follow in Calif and Mass bootsteps and compel citizens to purchase services from Private Insurers which have motive and corporate DUTY to take in the most money possible, while providing the least services possible. But that's not the worst of it.
WSQT Guerrilla Radio 87.9 FM in DC 17.01.2007 13:30
Stimson apologizes for threatening lawyers who dare to represent Guantanimo detainees
Almost immediatly after protestors demanded on Jan 11 that Guantanimo Bay be closed, assistant deputy Secretary of Defense for Detainee affairs Charles Stimson called for a boycott and for investigation of lawyers representing detainees. Now, thanks to YOUR PRESSURE, he has printed an apology in the Washington Post.
jody 17.01.2007 11:52
Moyers gets subversive at the Memphis Media Reform Conference
Just when I'd written off all the PBS talking heads as far too beholden to corporate interests to have any integrity left, Bill Moyers opened the National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis last week with a compelling media critique: "Big Media is ravenous. It never gets enough, always wants more. And it will stop at nothing to get it. These conglomerates are an empire, and they are imperial."
New prison dispatch from Jeffrey Free Luers 17.01.2007 07:34
Friends of Jeffrey Free Luers
Below is Jeff's latest prison Dispatch.
df 16.01.2007 21:57
Why War?? Military Families Speak Out!
BY: LARA DELUZ 16.01.2007 18:38
SPIRIT WOMAN -- A SPIRITUAL PORTRAIT
With the right spiritual perspective we could transform our nation and world into a wonderful place, overnight. This piece suggests where our focus should be as Americans living in a global community. Instead, however, we are fixated on unprincipled wars, the destruction or misuse of resources, along with skewed economic and political systems that are all too often engineered to the sole benefit of an elite or ruling class. Realizing that no political system will work until people endeavor to work on themselves individually for the betterment of our globe spiritually, in my estimation, suggests the only sensible direction for all of us now.
Accordingly, Black Elk in 1887, a famous Medicine Man of the Oglala (Lakota) Sioux Nation, stated he joined the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with the intent of better understanding Americans up close, especially those whites that dominated the wealth in the US. Given his deeply mindful assessment of our culture, his quote still resonates as truth more than 200 years later. Ponder Chief Black Elk's words that captured so well our fixation with materialism and the greed, hypocrisy and widespread inhuman treatment this led to of both America's own and others around the globe, both then and now.
Raquel Holway 16.01.2007 12:42
Raquel Holway
En la busqueda de una sociedad mas justa, mas igualitaria, con mas posibilidades para todo el mundo es que proponemos que nos acompa?es en nuestro proyecto.
Voxfux 16.01.2007 11:09
Buzzflash: Another Disappointing CIA Fake
911 censorship by Buzzflash
PCASC 16.01.2007 08:59
Salvador: CISPES Declaration on the 15th Anniversary of the 1992 Salvadoran Peace Accords
As Salvadorans prepare to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the signing of the 1992 Peace Accords, CISPES salutes the Salvadoran people's history of struggle. Fifteen years ago, we celebrated together with the FMLN and the people of El Salvador the end to the civil war and U.S. military intervention in the country. While the January 16th signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords brought to a close the 12-year armed conflict, they did not resolve the root causes of the war...
Shut Off the Lights at the Whitehouse
Pull the plug on Mad George.
Mary Tormey 15.01.2007 15:27
How can I tell the difference between an officer and a criminal?
If they behave the same there is no point in having both.
A criminal is a crimanal with or without a badge.
blackgelt 15.01.2007 13:50
It's the Oil, Stupid!
For those still clinging to the notion that U.S. Middle Eastern policy is based on the "awesome power" of Jewish money and political maneuvering: you need to become more rational very quickly.
Joe Walsh 15.01.2007 13:47
Our protest must move
A.K. Gupta 15.01.2007 13:16
Understanding Bush�s �Surge� Strategy for 2007: A Second Civil War or Genocide
After all the study groups and reports, an electoral repudiation, months of deliberation and hundreds of thousands dead, the Bush administration Iraq policy debate boils down to this: choosing between genocide against Sunni Arabs - a strategy known as the "80 percent solution" - or fomenting a second civil war, this one a Shia-on-Shia death match. Or perhaps both.
Paul Craig Roberts (repost by M. Delgado) 15.01.2007 12:24
The Coming Attack on Iran
On January 7 the London Times reported that it has learned from "several Israeli military sources" that "Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons."
From The Back Of The Bus To Prison
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a White passenger on a city bus 51 years ago, it was the spark that brought about the American Civil Rights Movement; changing the lives for millions of Blacks. For a short while, in the mid 60's and 70's, Blacks made some social and racial gains, however today many Blacks are wasting away their lives in American prisons due to the unjust practice of the Three Strikes Laws.
Ted 15.01.2007 11:29
Government Found Guilty of Martin Luther King Murder in Federal Court - 12/8/99
Undisclosed conspirators for the governments of the United States, the State of Tennessee, and the City of Memphis were found liable for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. on December 8, 1999, in a federal circuit court. The federal government never appealed the decision. The mainstream media in the U.S. never covered the assassination conspiracy verdict, even though the implications of the story were greater than Watergate. The family requested a subsequent independent investigation to be set up by President Bill Clinton (who has since established office in Harlem), but he refused the request.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr 14.01.2007 22:25
Birth of a New Nation
I want to preach this morning from the subject, "The Birth of a New Nation." And I would like to use as a basis for our thinking together a story that has long since been stenciled on the mental sheets of succeeding generations...
Dr. Suzan D. Johnson Cook Honors MLK Jr.�s Memory
Martin Luther King Jr., a hero of the Civil Rights Movement, was assassinated in Memphis, TN, on April 4, 1968. His impressive legacy, however, lives on. For the last 25 years, the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore has honored his memory with a commemorative lecture. On Jan. 13, 2007, Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook filled that role with distinction. She called on her audience to do their part, "to make a difference," and to be "strengthened by our struggle."
xtinA 14.01.2007 19:50
Saturday night at the movies...a review
I went so you don't have to...
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(KJV) After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
(1611 KJV) After these things, the Lord appointed other seuenty also, and sent them two and two before his face, into euery citie and place, whither hee himselfe would come.
(1587 Geneva Bible) After these thinges, the Lorde appointed other seuentie also, and sent them, two and two before him into euery citie and place, whither he himselfe should come.
(1526 Tyndale) After these thinges the Lorde apoynted other seventie also and sent them two and two before him into every citie and place whither he him silfe wolde come.
(1881 RV) Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself was about to come.
(1901 ASV) Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself was about to come.
(AMP) Now after this the Lord chose and appointed seventy others and sent them out ahead of Him, two by two, into every town and place where He Himself was about to come (visit).
(CEB) After these things, the Lord commissioned seventy-two others and sent them on ahead in pairs to every city and place he was about to go
(CEV) Later the Lord chose seventy-two other followers and sent them out two by two to every town and village where he was about to go.
(CSB) After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others, and he sent them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself was about to go.
(1899 Douay-Rheims American Edition) And after these things the Lord appointed also other seventy-two: and he sent them two and two before his face into every city and place whither he himself was to come.
(ERV) After this, the Lord chose 72 more followers. He sent them out in groups of two. He sent them ahead of him into every town and place where he planned to go.
(ESV) After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.
(GNB) After this the Lord chose another seventy-two men and sent them out two by two, to go ahead of him to every town and place where he himself was about to go.
(HCSB) After this, the Lord appointed 70 others, and He sent them ahead of Him in pairs to every town and place where He Himself was about to go.
(JB PHILLIPS) Later on the Lord commissioned seventy other disciples and sent them off in twos as advance-parties into every town and district where he intended to go.
(THE MESSAGE) Later the Master selected seventy and sent them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he intended to go. He gave them this charge:
(NASB) Now after this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them in pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come.
(NCV) After this, the Lord chose seventy-two others and sent them out in pairs ahead of him into every town and place where he planned to go.
(NIRV) After this the Lord appointed 72 others. He sent them out two by two ahead of him. They went to every town and place where he was about to go.
(NIV) After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.
(NLV) After this the Lord chose seventy others. He sent them out two together to every city and place where He would be going later.
(NLT) The Lord now chose seventy-two other disciples and sent them ahead in pairs to all the towns and places he planned to visit.
(RSV) After this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.
(VOICE) The Lord then recruited and deployed 70 more disciples. He sent them ahead, in teams of two, to visit all the towns and settlements between them and Jerusalem.
(2011 NAB-Roman Catholic) After this the Lord appointed seventy [-two] others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit.
(NWT-Jehovah’s Witnesses) After these things the Lord designated seventy others and sent them forth by twos in advance of him into every city and place to which he himself was going to come
μετα δε ταυτα ανεδειξεν ο κυριος και ετερους εβδομηκοντα και απεστειλεν αυτους ανα δυο προ προσωπου αυτου εις πασαν πολιν και τοπον ου εμελλεν αυτος ερχεσθαι
μετα δε ταυτα ανεδειξεν ο κυριος ετερους εβδομηκοντα δυο και απεστειλεν αυτους ανα δυο δυο προ προσωπου αυτου εις πασαν πολιν και τοπον ου ημελλεν αυτος ερχεσθαι
Omits “also”
XI 040 - Sixth century
Changes “70” to “72”
M 021 - Ninth century
R 027 - Sixth century
Keeps “also” and “seventy”
Gamma 036 - Ninth or Tenth century
Adds “two” after “seventy”
Lachmann, Karl - 1842 (in brackets or margin)
Westcott and Hort - 1881 (in brackets or margin)
Nestle-Aland - 1979 - Twenty Sixth Edition (in brackets or margin)
Nestle-Aland - 1993 - Twenty Seventh Edition (in brackets or margin)
United Bible Societies - 1983 - Fourth Edition (in brackets or margin)
Tregelles, Samuel - 1857 (in brackets or margin)
Alford, Henry - 1849 revised in 1871 (in brackets or margin)
This verse has been attacked in two places. The first place is when they change seventy to seventy two. Seventy two holds absolutely no significance and is not found in the King James Bible. They would have been sent out by two for two basic reasons, the first was for companionship and the second was for legal reasons, the law required two witnesses. The number seventy (70) was symbolic because there were seventy on the Sanhedrin, seventy nations listed in Genesis 10, all the souls that came from the loins of Jacob were seventy, and seventy years of captivity in Babylon, Peter having to forgive seventy times seven. The sending of the seventy was kind of a precursor of the time when the Gospel would go forth throughout all the world.
The second place they attack this verse is by omitting the word “also.” While it seems like an insignificant word, if there is one thing we have learned is that every word in the Bible has significance. The word also looks back to the dispatching of the twelve who were also given the authority to heal and to cast out devils. The word means “in like manner” or “likewise.” (Luke 9:1-2 KJV) Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. {2} And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
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Home Reviews Carl Zeiss Standard Zoom Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 24-70mm f/2.8 (ZA) Lens Review
Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 24-70mm f/2.8 (ZA) Lens Review
Test Report Part I (Resolution, Color, DOF)
Test Report Part II (Flare, Vignetting, Distortion)
Test Report Part III (Macro, Coma)
Test Report Part IV (Recommendation, Sample Images)
Test Report Part V (User Reviews)
With the acquisition of Minolta's camera business, Sony faced a major problem of tilting the user base away from the incumbent players like Canon and Nikon. After all, Minolta's of the DSLR percentage market share has been steadily declining from in 1990s, dwindling to low single digits. Besides introducing a wide range of aggressively priced, well marketed and more importantly competitively featured cameras, Sony also pursued an aggressive strategy of expanding the lens lineup for its fledgling alpha lineup. The company struck a number of partnerships to rebadge several lenses from Tamron in addition to rebadging the most popular Minolta lenses, and in late 2006 announced a partnership with Carl Zeiss to manufacture lenses designed by this venerable optics manufacturer. This certainly caught attention of many users and Sony managed to outpace all of its competitors, rapidly expanding and capturing ~13% of the total DSLR market share by 2010. The roll-out of Carl Zeiss lenses was rumored to be pretty aggressive, with 1 to 2 new lenses planned to be released every year.
Vario-Sonnar 24-70/2.8 is a full frame lens, but can be used on any alpha mount camera, full frame or APS-C. It can also be used on NEX cameras with a special electronic adapter (manufactured by Sony), which allows retaining all electronic functions of the lens, including proper EXIF transmission and aperture control. On 1.5x crop APS-C/NEX cameras, the lens will have EFOV of 36-105mm.
Lens Composition 17 elements in 13 groups
Angular Field 84-34 degrees
Minimum Focus 34cm/12.7in
Focusing Action AF/MF
f-stop Scale f/2.8-f/22, electronic
Lens Hood Metal (included)
Weight 985g/34.74oz
Dimensions 80x111mm/3.25x4.4"
Lens Case Soft lens pouch (included)
Retail Price $1,799 (2012), $1,799 (2009)
Depreciation -$500 (2012)
The so called 'universal' zoom lenses have always been fairly popular among users who want to have a one lens combo for example for travel. Lens makes understand that quite well and have answered demand with a reasonable selection. However, for whatever reason, the 24-70mm zoom range has always been considered to be premium - if you look at the lens lineup from Canon or Nikon in this range, you would only see the so called 'professional' grade lenses. It is as if only 'professionals' want a 24-70/25-105 zoom and everybody else will settle for a super zoom, i.e. something like 18-200mm. Market segmentation at work... But when Sony entered the SLR market, it had to offer something respectable (read 'professional' grade) in order to be able to compete with the likes of Nikon 24-70/2.8G and Canon 24-70/2.8L. Carl Zeiss to the rescue! Who else but Zeiss can instill the image of professionalism?
To the best of my knowledge, the Vario-Sonnar 24-70/2.8 is a new design - never in its history Zeiss has had a 24-70 zoom. The closest predecessor from the past seems to be the 35-70/3.5 Vario-Sonnar. I never owned that lens myself, but from various online reviews, it seems like a fairly solid performer. But a new design does not surprise me - it has always been rumored that Sony struck some kind of an exclusivity clause in its licensign deal with Zeiss. And so we may never see 24-70/2.8 outside of the Alpha mount. It's a pity... Carl Zeiss so far has introduced only manual focus lenses in all other SLR mounts - I am not complaining as the lineup has been quite strong so far, but I will squeal like a little girl when the company decides to bring back the venerable Apo-Teletessar N 400/4 with fully electronic focusing in Canon or Nikon mount! Ok, I will squeal even if Zeiss decides to license it to Sony. But I am digressing...
The Vario-Sonnar 24-70 is a fairly bulky and heavy lens, slightly heavier than its direct competitors in Canon and Nikon mounts. When mounted on a larger a850, the combo becomes heavy enough to warrant using both hands for stabilization when shooting. The center of the weight is shifted slightly towards the tip of the lens, particularly with the inner lens tube extended when zoomed at 70mm. The lens does not have a lens collar, so when mounting on a tripod, use a quality ball-head to prevent the camea/lens combo from drifting downwards. But, with the bulk and weight also comes ruggedness - the build of the lens is quite solid. I lugged this lens across Japan and China with all the usual bumps, dings and occasional drops along the way and it withstood all of this abuse without any problems. While in Kyoto, I took a trip to Fushimi Inari Shrine one of the days, but when I got out of the JR train station, it started to rain. Not willing a light drizzle stop me, I hiked to the entrance, but by that time the drizzle turned into a pretty heavy rain. I still decided to hike through the area since I had a waterproof jacket - well my a850 and Vario-Sonnar did not and got completely drenched in water. Still, pictures came out just fine and after wiping the moisture off the camera and lens they were ready for the next adventure. My only wish here is that the lens had inner focusing and zoom so that the barrel length remained constant at all positions instead of extending towards longer end of the zoom range. But at least the tube is made of hardened plastic (or metal, I can't really tell), so it seems to be able to withstand some amount of abuse..
The lens sports all the usual features of an Alpha mount lens - you will find an AF/MF switch on the side of the barrel along with the focus lock button. The distance scale window is also present with markings in meters and feet (and unlike with the NEX lenses, where the lack of the distance scale is an endless cause of my frustrations during testing). The Vario-Sonnar supports manual focusing as well as manual focus overdrive - basically after the lens auto-focuses on something, you can nudge the focusing ring to adjust the focus position without refocusing the lens anew. But the manual focusing is kind of an afterthought on this lens (like pretty much on all modern AF lenses these days) - the focusing ring travels ~90 degreed from the MFD to infinity and thus does not leave enough precision on the longer end of the zoom range. But the AF is quite good - it's pretty fast and reasonably accurate. It does tend to hunt quite extensively at the MFD and longer end of the zoom as well as in dim or low contrast environments, but this is not unique to Sony lenses. Both focusing and zoom rings are nicely damped and have tight tolerances. The focusing ring is decoupled and does not rotate during AF operation. The lens does not have a zoom lock but there is no creep even when the lens is pointed down.
One area where Sony holds a dubious lead over its main competitors is in nickeling and diming poor users who need to replace lens accessories. For example, if you lost or broke your petal shaped lens hood, it's gonna cost you a whopping $130 to buy a new one. Canon's costs $70, while Nikon's costs $41. Yea... that's for the piece of plastic that costs 10c to manufacture (fine, Sony's aluminium hood costs 20c to manufacture).
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Midnight Beach Liaison!
Vince and Moon waited in silent anticipation of the day to come. They had gotten used to the familiar smell of the coastal salt air wafting on the tidal breeze. Vince pulled a last heavy draw on his cigarette as Andy's headlights turned into the driveway. Moon jumped across the steps to greet his friend as soon as the car stopped. Andy opened the door for him saying, "What's happenin', Moon? You ready to fly back to Texas?" Moon meowed an eager reply. Vince climbed into the back seat with Moon since Earl occupied the front. They chatted casually on the way to the airport, Vince clarifying Andy's rather vague remembrance of the directions to the local zoo.
Andy and Earl checked out the Horizon while Vince and Moon procured steaming hot coffee from the flight tower. The sleek jet idled a low moan as he and Moon boarded. The men enjoyed their morning boost while the Horizon warmed to operating temperature.
A high-altitude sunrise greeted them with hues of orange and violet christened with a tinge of bright yellow. It disappeared momentarily when Andy nosed the jet down a couple of thousand feet to fly under the patchy clouds harboring a layer of upper level turbulence. The jet outran the sunrise for another fifteen minutes on its westward quest for Texas before the blackness of the Gulf waters below reflected the golden rays of the sun from the cresting wavetops.
Moon slept peacefully during the remainder of the flight while Vince, Andy, and Earl reminisced of their adventure in Hawaii. Before the crew landed, they had planned a family deep-sea fishing trip for the first week-end they could arrange for everyone and their families to get together at the same time.
The final approach to the small airport took the plane over wave upon wave of pastel pink country-side fields. Curious, Andy asked Vince what they were. With Texas flair, he replied, "Peaches. The growers got lucky this year. I figured a late freeze would wipe them out this year."
Andy landed the nimble jet so lightly that Moon did not awaken until the hatch was opened. He then immediately jumped up as his sensitive nostrils filled with the familiar smells he associated with his pine-laden East Texas country heritage. He jumped from the jet with renewed gusto to quickly test the wind in each direction. Vince laughed, "Smells like home, does it not, Ole Buddy?" Moon meowed his acknowledgment on the way to the restaurant for breakfast while the Horizon was being refueled and put in a hangar. Andy rented a car so he and Earl could do some sight-seeing before they went back. They would drop off Vince and Moon to pick up his truck at the state park before they proceeded to the zoo.
Vince's park buddies welcomed him with open arms. Moon received his just due of attention as well. Vince introduced Andy and Earl to his former troop of rangers. Several asked him to reconsider his resignation from the park service. Vince thanked them for their loyalty, but respectfully declined, explaining that he had only stopped in to get his truck. He drove Earl and Andy on a grand tour of the park after a round of sincere handshaking at the end of his farewell speech. Finally, he had gazed around one last time stating, "Moon and I are gonna miss you guys and this park. We had a lot of good times here."
Vince's truck was running smoothly after the warm-up jaunt around the park. Fortunately, it had been in the park maintenance shop for a tune-up when the cabin had been destroyed. He waved to the pilots as they turned onto the loop in the direction of the zoo. He and Moon headed in the opposite direction toward the sporting goods store on the south side of town. He intended to pick out his new rifle and collect his prize money from the buck contest before they started back. He would also pick up his and Anna's mounts at the taxidermist shop if they were ready.
Vince left Moon in the truck at the store. He was fairly sure of the rifle he wanted. He only needed to see if they had one in stock. He was directed to the store manager by a young sales lady in the sporting goods department. When Vince told him who he was, the man congratulated him warmly. He also requested that Vince pose for a picture with the new 7MM magnum he had won alongside his buck's striking head mount. The store had placed his mount on display ever since the taxidermist had finished it. Anna's boar mount was next to it with a short news article explaining the entire ordeal! Vince posed proudly between the trophies, and signed several forms while store personnel loaded the mounts onto a cart destined for his truck. As a last gesture, the man handed Vince his prize check, two boxes of premium hunting loads for the rifle, and shook his hand, urging him to enter next year's contest when the season arrived. Vince thanked him and left, cradling the box with his new magnum in the crook of his elbow. A couple of store employees carted out the trophy mounts to his truck.
Vince opened the door to the truck on Moon's side to put the gun behind the seat. Moon jumped out to stretch his legs. He spotted the old blind boar's head on his way to the pavement, hissing and arching his back in a startled attack posture at the untimely sight of his old enemy. It took Vince several minutes to convince Moon that the boar posed them no threat. He finally covered the head with a tarp so the menacing growl in Moon's throat would subside. Even at that, Moon looked out the back window several times in the next few miles, half expecting the hog to come back to life and viciously attack them from the rear once again. He was back to normal by the time Vince stopped near the edge of town to gas up and check the oil on the way to the interstate highway.
Vince picked out a variety of sandwiches and chips and a can of processed ham for Moon to munch on along the way. He wished to make good time during the first leg of their journey and decided they would not stop until suppertime except to relieve themselves. He buckled his seatbelt, popped in one of his favorite Led Zeppelin cassettes, and pulled onto the entrance ramp, his thoughts reminding him sharply of the many miles between him and Anna. He melted into the traffic easily, setting the cruise control as high as he dared to avoid being cited for speeding. Even so, other cars passed him constantly and he speeded up more just to stay with the main flow of traffic.
The miles passed quickly. Vince replaced the first tape with an Eric Clapton album when they crossed the Red River into Louisiana. They were making excellent progress. Moon was content to simply sit up in the seat and watch the scenery slip by to the steady stream of vintage rock-n-roll. He had developed quite a fondness for Vince's music. Some songs made his ears twitch in perfect time with the beat of the tune. Vince had often wondered whether his faithful companion was doing it on purpose or involuntarily.
The pair neared the Mississippi River before they realized it. Moon shifted his front feet to the dashboard when a nice buck, followed by two big does and a yearling broke the cover of the woods to dart fleetingly across the highway in front of them. Vince instinctively touched the brake and released the cruise control in case the deer changed their mind in the middle of the road as he knew them to do often. The interruption reminded him to stop at the next service station so he and Moon could go to the rest room. He would go ahead and fill the tank back up to avoid another stop in Mississippi.
Vince and Moon ate while the station attendant admired the trophies in the bed of the truck. Vince was aptly surprised when the man told him the story of his, Anna's, and Moon's ordeal had come out in the local paper. The man even wanted a picture of them, and, Vince's autograph for his wife! He gave Vince his name and address before they left, inviting them back for a hunting trip if they ever had time.
The old bridge was visible as they crossed the wide expanse of the mighty Mississippi River. Moon watched intently while an old paddleboat steamer cruised beneath them, emerging back into view to the north on its upstream voyage. The terrain changed abruptly on the far side, going to broken, wooded hills. The travelers welcomed the change of scenery between Vicksburg and Jackson. There, they turned south, angling toward the coast for several hours.
The light was fading amidst the tall timber of southern Mississippi when Vince reached for the headlight switch. His stomach was growling and he knew Moon must be getting hungry as well. A small steakhouse came up on the right. Vince wheeled in. He told Moon to stretch his legs while he went in to get them something to eat. Moon sniffed the air tentatively as Vince walked stiff-legged towards the rustic door, telling Moon he would be right back.
Vince ordered a big medium-cooked T-bone steak dinner with a baked potato for himself and had them add a second rare steak for Moon. The waitress made a polite comment that Vince must be from Texas with an appetite that big. Vince chuckled and watched her reaction when he informed her that the statement was partially true but the other steak was for his cat. The lady simply shook her head mumbling something in a pronounced accent to the effect that she would never understand how eccentric Texans' pets ate better than she did! Vince only smiled, adding a good tip with his payment.
Moon was nowhere in sight when Vince got to his truck. He set the food on the seat, walking around the truck calling for him. A muffled squeal coming from the direction of a stack of seasoned, split hickory firewood caught his attention. He strained in the final light of dusk to see Moon trotting from the shadows with a fat wood rat dangling limp and lifeless from his overly efficient jaws. He stopped at Vince's boot. Vince stooped to rub his ears, apologizing, "Sorry, Moon. I didn't realize you were hungry enough to feel the need for a fresh meat appetizer. You're gonna have to eat him outside. You can eat your steak on the way. I'll leave your door open so we both have some light. Jump on in when you're through. I'm gonna eat right here in the parking lot."
Moon polished off the rat almost before Vince finished pouring him a bowl of water from the plastic jug in his tool box. He took a long drink and jumped up on the seat where Vince had opened up the styrofoam box containing his steak. Vince was busy cutting his up and salting his baked spud. Moon did not wait for him to get started, savoring the bloody juice from the seared meat with the inborn gusto of a natural predator as he lapped it up before tearing into the steaming meat. They were both famished and ate every scrap in the boxes, Moon licking the juice from Vince's when he finished. Vince commented, "Damn. They cook a pretty mean steak in this part of the country, huh, Moon?" Moon meowed his approval between licks of the bases of his long whiskers.
Vince glanced at his watch. He turned back to Moon, "Get you another drink if you want it, Moon. We've made good time so far. We might make it a couple of hours earlier than we planned and relax a little before Anna gets there." Vince noticed Moon's ears turret towards him at the mention of Anna's name. He reached to gently stroke the fur on his back, "You miss her, too, don't you?" Moon stopped lapping at the water to meow his answer.
Vince went around to Moon's side, poured out the remaining water, and shut the door. Climbing back into the truck he reached for the map, quickly scanning the proposed route to see where the next turn would occur. Satisfied, he stuck it out of the way over the visor, cranked the truck, and pulled back onto the highway.
Moon was content to meticulously lick himself clean during the next thirty miles. Vince tried several of his tapes before finally turning on the radio instead. Moon snuggled up next to his thigh and slept all the way to the entrance of the tilelined, lighted tunnel taking them underneath the Mobile Bay, halfway across Alabama. From there, they angled southeast toward Pensacola, Florida, making even better time with the decreased traffic on the highway after dark. Although little could be seen when they crossed the state line into Florida, the smell of the gulf salt air was increasingly evident. Vince welcomed it over the heavy, earthy smell of the humid Alabama forests. His thoughts shifted to Anna in acute anticipation of the forthcoming night with her and subconsciously increased his speed slightly. Nobody seemed to notice except a bored Florida State Trooper working the lonely stretch of highway. Vince pulled over in the glare of flashing red and blue lights in the rear-view mirror.
Vince waited patiently for the officer to walk up alongside the truck before he took off his seatbelt to get out. He was reaching for his license before the trooper even asked for it. The cop took it, telling him to stay where he was and went back to his car in silence. In a minute, he returned, calling Vince by name, "Mr. Casey, is there any emergency to justify the speed in which you were driving?" Vince replied a simple "No sir." The officer peered inside the truck with his flashlight, only to be greeted by the sight of Moon's hulking shape stretching on the seat. He caught his breath and took a step backwards, exclaiming under his breath, "Damn, that's a big cat!" With license in hand, he turned back to Vince, "Is there any remote possibility that might be the famous "Moon" and you're the guy whose house got blown up?" Vince nodded, "One and the same, Officer."
The man's entire legal attitude abruptly changed to one of admiration, "Dad gummit, Mr. Casey! My little girl is a great fan of Mister Moon in there! She keeps up with every article written about him. You must be married to that, Dr. Fontain lady from the institute down south, huh? The uh, Blond Bombshell's boss lady, you know the looker that drives that bad-ass pink Camaro?" Vince nodded, "Right again, Officer."
Vince felt the tension of the situation relinquish itself in the conversation of the trooper. He was agast that he had the good fortune of stopping someone he deemed to be a noteworthy celebrity. He slapped his knee and continued, "You know that pretty li'l Texas gal cost me the Street Modified class trophy this year! Smoked the tires an' still caught an' passed me! I tell you what Mr. Casey. That li'l cute gal's got one helluva car and a personality to match that figure of hers! You want to know what she told me when I asked her how she managed to pull off that win? She just tossed that pretty blond mane over her shoulder, winked at me an' said, "Well sir, it just wouldn't be fittin' for a well-bred southern gal such as myself to be chasin' the law now, would it?" He slapped his thigh again and started laughing, "Can you believe that? Is that high class or what?" Between chuckles, he handed Vince his license back continuing, "Mr. Casy, I'm not going to give you a citation tonight. I figure you're bound to have some good reason for bein' in such a hurry with the company you keep. Instead, I just want you to deliver a message to Miss Stacey. You tell her that ol' Ted the trooper is gonna beat her next year and he jus' wanted to let her know in advance! You an' Mister Moon have a nice trip now. Jus' slow her down a bit!" He slapped his leg a third time on the way back to his car, "I'll just be damned! My little Geena ain't never gonna believe I got to meet Mr. Vince Casey hisself and the famous Mister Moon."
Before Vince could regain his composure, the trooper had thrown his car into gear and nailed the throttle, leaving Vince's truck in the aftermath of a cloud of dust and gravel as he pulled a U-turn and headed back in the direction he had come. Vince could still hear the trooper's engine straining for more speed as he disappeared into the darkness over the crest of the hill. Vince shook his head in disbelief, addressing Moon, "Looks like our good reputation got us out of that one, Moon!"
The altercation had cost them a quarter hour by Vince's watch. He reset the cruise to a more tolerable speed in the local law's eyes and steered the truck in the direction of Santa Rosa Island. By his calculations, they should still arrive at the motel two full hours before Anna was to get there.
Sand dunes dotted with signs warning passers-by not to pick the sea oats lined the sides of the highway during the last few miles to the bridge going over the bay to the island. Moon stood up in the seat when all evidence of solid land disappeared beneath the railings bordering the road. The night was bright from the moon glimmering on the dark waters below them, and the glow of civilization could be seen on the horizon ahead lending a friendly feeling to the remote bay scenario. Vince told Moon they were almost there. He drove straight ahead as Vera had instructed, turning left when the road T'd at the white sand beach separating the gulf waters from the island. Their motel was on the right scarcely a quarter mile down the beach. Vince pulled up beside the office and left Moon in the truck while he went in to register. As Vera had promised, their room was on the backside overlooking the ocean from the second floor. Vince parked the truck and went up to unlock the room, telling Moon not to roam too far.
Vince didn't realize just how tiring the long ride had been until he fell down on the bed to test it out. He regretted having to get back up just to lock the truck and cover up the deer mount. He called to Moon on his way back up only to have him run past his feet on the stairwell. Vince called the office requesting a wake-up call after two hours. He fell asleep almost as soon as his head hit the pillow with Moon content to curl up at his feet. They slept soundly until the phone rang.
Vince splashed some water on his face to help knock out the leftover drowsiness from the nap, snapped a leather leash on Moon's collar, and headed for the lobby to meet Anna.
Vince had just sat down when a yellow taxi with a checkered stripe down the side pulled into the covered drive outside. A burly man sporting a full white beard stepped out of the back door, waiting patiently for someone else to exit before he shut it. Vince was elated to see Anna emerge. Moon tugged at the leash at the mere sight of her. He was just as glad as Vince to see her. Moon half dragged Vince to the door while she paid the driver. Vince glanced at his watch when he opened the door for them. Twelve o'clock sharp.
Anna handed the man a small basket covered with a towel along with a leather overnight case. Turning around, she held out her arms and snapped her finger. Moon eagerly jumped into her arms, nuzzling fondly against her cheek, purring loud enough for all to hear. He wasn't in the least disturbed when Anna slightly squeezed him in her effort to kiss Vince. He extended the greeting ten seconds longer than Anna had intended causing her to blush slightly. She turned to Sam, a hint of embarrassment in her voice, "Sorry, Sam. Seems both of my men missed me more than I anticipated!" She reached for Vince's hand, "Sam, I'd like you to meet my husband, Vince Casey and our beloved friend and companion, Master Moon."
Sam extended his hand to Vince, telling him how pleased he was to finally get to meet the man he had heard so much about from Anna. He then turned to scratch Moon's ears, "I hear extraordinary things about you, too, my furry friend." Moon licked the weathered fingers with his rough tongue, a sure sign that he liked the gentle ways of the elderly man. The taxi still waited outside.
Sam excused himself with the fact that it was late and he needed his rest, lest he became a "grumpy old man." He told Anna he would pick her up for lunch at eleven o'clock the next morning, waved to all on his way out, and disappeared into the back seat of the taxi.
Vince picked up the basket and the small suitcase and led the way back to the suite on the second floor. He and Anna chatted casually of the details comprising their separate trips along the way. Vince set the basket and case on the floor to dig in his pocket for the key. Anna put Moon down beside them and unsnapped the leash from his collar. She turned to embrace Vince from the rear while he fiddled with the lock in his own shadow created by the brightness of a full moon overhead. Anna deftly slid one hand between the buttons of Vince's shirt, sighing contentedly, "I surely missed you today. Every minute seemed like an eternity till it was time to leave." The key clicked in the lock, but rather than opening the door, Vince turned to face his wife, "The feeling is mutual m'lady. I can't imagine being without you for any length of time." He ran his fingers through the auburn hair blowing across her face on the balmy ocean breeze, "You are so beautiful in the moonlight!" Anna smiled and coyly kissed him on the cheek, "Thank you Sir Vince. You're rather dashing, yourself, but I must warn you that mere compliments will net you no special favors with such a damsel as myself; however, a barefoot walk on a white sand beach 'neath a silvery moon with a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou, might induce such a serene sense of tranquillity that some fair maiden might be persuaded to shed the cloak of proper social restraint an give in to her deepest desires of romantic lust for pleasures of the flesh!" Anna grinned slyly at Vince while fluttering her long lashes provocatively and simultaneously swaying side to side to lightly rub her breasts across his broad chest!
Vince sucked in a quick breath, his heartbeat escalating with anticipation, "Dammit! You sure know how to drive me crazy. I suppose you've already taken the initiative of arranging the loaf of bread and the jug of wine?"
Vince opened the door.
Anna nodded, "Along with some cheese and crackers, too. The only thing missing is thou, so grab a blanket off the bed and take your shoes off while I slip out of these business clothes. I'll only be a minute." She grabbed the suitcase and disappeared into the bathroom with Moon following close behind. Vince sat on the bed to pull off his boots and roll up the legs of his jeans. He took his shirt off as well, draping it loosely across the back of a chair. He opted for the thin bedspread instead of a blanket, leaving the bedding undisturbed.
Anna emerged from the bathroom wearing a teal-colored satin wrap-around robe which accented the voluptuous curves of her figure to their full advantage. Vince's eyes roamed hungrily over his wife, drinking in her stark beauty. Anna obliged her husband by playfully turning a circle to allow him a full view in the light from every angle, then stopping in a classic model's pose, "Does this please your fancy, Sir Vince?" He could not take his eyes off her, "That, m'lady, is an understatement! Babe, you're the most beautiful and sexiest woman on this planet. I still find it hard to believe you're my wife!" Anna said nothing, preferring to kiss him instead. Vince felt her nipples rise and stiffen through the satin fabric against his bare chest halfway through the passionate kiss. In an effort to stem his rising desire, he warned, "Babe, if we don't hit the beach now, we're not gonna ever make it out of this room!"
As if the statement was planned into her strategy, Anna backed slowly away from Vince never taking her eyes from him as she reached behind her for the doorknob with one hand and the picnic basket with the other. She winked at him silently and in another instant, had disappeared through the door. Taken by surprise, Vince grabbed the bedspread and stubbed his toe in his haste to pursue her. By the time he got out the door, Anna was down the back stairs and kicking up small piles of white sand as she raced toward the breakers in the pale moonlight. Moon kept pace slightly ahead of her. To make up for lost time, Vince simply vaulted over the railing when the staircase turned, skipping the last six feet of stairway altogether. He hit the sand running with perfect balance. Anna and Moon were rounding the last dune between them and the open beach when Vince reached the first. Instead of following their path, Vince cut sharply to the left between the dunes in an effective effort to catch them by way of the shorter route.
Anna was running while looking back over her shoulder to see if Vince was gaining on her when he passed between the last dunes scarcely ten yards behind and to her left. A genuine scream escaped her lips when she spotted him as she turned her head back to see where she was going. The sight of him so close to catching her had actually startled her enough to drop the basket in the sand. Vince threw the bedspread beside it as he passed. He would have caught her with only two or three more of his powerful strides had she not abruptly cut back to the right in a last-ditch effort to avoid the inevitable capture. Vince adjusted quickly to match her direction into the surf. About to be caught, Anna screamed during the final few seconds when Vince's arms closed around her, their momentum sending them tumbling headlong into the dark water as a breaking wave crashed into their thighs.
Moon sat high and dry up on the beach watching as Vince and Anna came to the surface locked together in a passionate kiss, their hands roaming wildly over each other's heaving bodies. The wet satin robe clung to Anna's curves like a second skin, revealing the fact prematurely to Vince that she had absolutely nothing on beneath it. Their intense physical need for one another quickly overrode normal civilized inhibitions in the heat of mutual passion. Their drenched clothing was cast aside in the surf before the couple retreated out of the water to fervently make love on the wet sand, guarded silently by Moon and the stars above.
After satisfying their immediate need, Vince and Anna rinsed the coarse sand from their bodies and gathered up the surf-washed articles of clothing. Moon busied himself with stalking hermit crabs in borrowed shells, waiting patiently until one started moving before pouncing on it.
A pronounced chill drifted in on the early morning ocean breeze. Vince and Anna had retreated to the dunes in an effort to block the wind while, wrapped up together in the bedspread, they shared the bottle of wine, cheese, crackers, and French bread Anna had packed in the basket. Afterward, they had made love again and inadvertently dozed off in each other's arms.
Vince awakened to the gritty feel of Moon's sand-covered paw resting lightly on his cheek. He was startled to find the eastern sky ablaze with the pink, purple, and orange hues of the gulf sunrise, bathing the beach and dunes with its friendly glow. Vince bolted upright with the full realization of their clothing situation exclaiming, "Dammit! Thanks for waking me, Moon." The sudden move awakened Anna, too, asking what was wrong. Vince had a look of concern on his face when he spoke, "Nothing really, 'cept for the fact that we're about to be caught with our pants down, so to speak." Completely undaunted, Anna started laughing and yanked up the bedspread, peering down at their naked bodies as she spoke, "Well, I do declare! I believe you've got it, Sir Vince!" He retorted, "Come on, Babe. This is no time for jokes. Our clothes are still wet, but if we hurry, we can probably sneak back before anyone else gets up." Anna continued to joke with him, "I'll have no part of sneakin' anywhere with my own husband! We'll simply hide our wet clothes in the basket under the towel, keep the bedspread wrapped around us, and stroll back nonchalantly as if we've merely taken Moon for a sunrise walk. Nobody will ever suspect that we're stark naked underneath it, so quit worrying and revel in the memory of a glorious intimate night on the beach." She kissed him for an additional bit of assurance and the troubled frown was instantly replaced with a slight chuckle, "I guess you're right, Babe. Nobody will ever be the wiser."
Anna leaned forward, stretching for the basket and their garments. Vince took advantage of the move to shift control of the moment back to himself by allowing his hand on her shoulder to drag downward, lightly brushing across her breast on a path down the inside of her thigh. Anna caught her breath and Vince felt a rash of goosebumps on her leg during the return trip up the same path. Vince grinned when he reached her breast again to find the nipple standing at attention as he had expected. She offered no resistance to his caress, but simply retaliated by reaching directly for his groin as she turned to face him, "I wouldn't advise starting something you didn't intend to finish out here in broad daylight, Sir Vince!" Breaking off the tease, he grinned and stated, "Touche' m'lady." They returned to their room without further incident, stopping briefly by the truck so Anna could see their mounted trophies.
Vince ordered them breakfast via room service. They ate their fill and took a shower together while Moon finished up every scrap of the leftovers. Anna dried off and crawled into the bed while Vince got dressed to leave. She thought about teasing him into finishing the escapade on the beach, but knew he would not get home till very late in the evening if he didn't get going. She knew the remaining distance would take him all day and part of the evening as it was. Anna planned to catch a couple hours of sleep before Sam picked her up for dinner.
Vince shaved the night's stubble and put the razor in his duffle bag. He sat down on the bed beside Anna and asked Moon if he wanted to ride in the truck with him or fly back with her. Moon snuggled into covers between Anna's legs and stared up apologetically. Vince just smiled and said he didn't blame him.
Anna flipped the covers back, baring herself from the waist up, teasing Vince by asking if he was sure he didn't want a "quickie" for the road? He leaned over and kissed her, then whispered in her ear, "I don't do quickies! Just keep it hot till I get home! I love you. Gotta go." He covered her back up, tucking the sides in around her as he got up. Anna told him to be careful and that she loved him. Vince told Moon to take good care of her as he waved good-bye and shut the door.
Vince left the island, stopping only once to fill up with gas and grab some chips and sandwiches for the road. He opened a fresh pack of smokes, popped in a tape, and settled back for the long ride.
The miles steadily clicked by. Somewhere near the halfway point, a plane buzzed over his truck from behind, rocking expertly back and forth as if waving. He watched it bank sharply to the right in a full circle and come up on his left side to make a slower pass. Moon and Anna were plainly visible through the cockpit windows. Vince waved while Anna blew him a kiss. She waved as the plane pulled up sharply to clear the power lines ahead. It kept climbing until it was almost out of sight and finally leveled off. Vince muttered to himself, "Keep it hot, Babe. I'm truckin' as fast as I dare."
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Dick Groves
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PLG Music UK is a division of Touch Records Inc. of Chicago USA.
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Having been a drummer in a successful band, Dick decided to venture into songwriting and music production back in 2005. Since those early days, Dick has completed courses in sound-engineering and music production and has proved himself as a multi award winning songwriter and now works exclusively for Touch Records Inc. in Chicago. His ‘writing’ studio has now developed into ‘The Oaks Studio’ where all recording and production is created, and is considered to be the UK hub of PLG Music Group. Originally working solo, Dick has now completed a number of collaboration projects with many artists and prominent producers, which he says has helped to broaden the creative results.
Dick’s first album was an anthology of his earlier work selected by William Wilson containing 11 tracks written by Dick featuring 8 different singers that have recorded at The Oaks. The album entitled ‘The Journey’ was released at the end of 2012 and was quickly followed up with his next album ‘Deep Into You’ featuring the vocals of Sidonie Spooner. Since then, Dick continues to be a prolific writer/producer and has recently had releases with Naomi Thompson, Jade Titmarsh, Simon Tricker and Alice Kenny.
Dick is currently working on a number of new projects with those, and other artists, and enjoys matching the genre of his produced music to best promote their individual vocal skills. He is always looking to develop modern and original styles when the right vocalists come along.
“I would like to think that my main talents are determination, imagination, creativity and constantly trying to improve my craft.”
The Oaks Studio Release Vol.5
The Oaks Studio Vol.4
A Time To Chill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJUMjVLqq7I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fy_H-CHBP0
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Ethel Nwobo visits The Oaks Studio
Progress behind the scenes
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The Oaks Studio Release Vol.5. Now in pre-release
Fantasy by Chloe Clementine pre-release.
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Featured Article: Manufacturer Introduction
Introducing Black Dog Bait Company...
Manufacturer: Black Dog Bait Company
Introduction: Earlier this year, during our coverage of the Northern California International Sportsman Expositions, we found, in the Quantum booth, a fantastic promotion - with any purchase of a Quantum swimbait rod and reel combination, receive a free, hand crafted swimbait valued at $60. The bait being offered? the Shellcracker - a brand new bait by a brand new company. Grant Olguin, co-founder of this new company was on hand to introduce us to his products, but when we realized all of us were relatively local to one another, he quickly invited us out to join them on a field testing trip so we could experience, first hand, some of the trials and tribulations they went through bringing this bait to market. It is now our distinct pleasure to introduce you to Black Dog Bait Company.
Introducing... Black Dog Bait Company
The Founders: Both Grant Olguin and his partner Jeremy Andersen are passionate in their pursuit of black bass. The California Delta is their home water and where they target and test their new concepts. Jeremy is very well known locally, for his painting and crafting talents, and several short years ago the groundswell for his baits was becoming overwhelming. It was at that point his friend for over a decade, Grant suggested going mainstream with his talents to take advantage of the demand. Grant was also a tournament fisherman and knew, first hand, the need for something different to shake things up in both the marketplace and on the tournament trail. From there, everything quickly fell into place and early in 2005, they founded Black Dog Bait Company.
Jeremy Andersen, co-founder of Black Dog Bait Company
Grant Olguin, Jeremy's partner in crime
The Baits: "Everyone has a trout bait and we wanted to do something different, so we started with the bluegill" Grant told us as we pulled up to our first spot on the Delta. "We were working on a trout patterned surface plug at the same time, but we felt the timing was right for a bluegill bait. Now that the Shellcracker is out, we're working quickly to bring the trout bait to market and expect to have it out and available in the next few weeks."
The bait that started it all, the Shellcracker, is available in both sinking and floating models and sells for $59.99. This is one of their early prototypes and is still in new condition.
From the outset, their goal has been to offer something a little different and judging by the popularity of their baits locally, they're on to something. The trout plug mentioned above is called the Lunker Punker. It will be available in two sizes, a nine-inch version and a six-inch version (called the Punker Jr.), and they will retail for $54.99 and $49.99 respectively. The bait hasn't even hit the market nor has it really been announced, but there's already a waiting list for it. If you think it's just folks in Northern California clamoring for their baits, think again. Mike Bucca (a.k.a. Triton Mike) is among those on the waiting list for Black Dog Bait's new surface plug and he thinks it will be ideal for those aggressive Georgian spotted bass he pursues on a daily basis.
Next to market will be the Lunker Punker - a bait that behaves like your prototypical cigar bait only with A LOT more surface commotion!
But wait, that's not all! Jeremy and Grant have yet another bait in the works that promises to create quite a stir. It is the Go-To minnow, a side to side slashing bait that if cranked down, swims at about three to four feet under the surface in a lazy s-pattern. Twitch it or bing it back slowly and it's a very effective wake bait. The Go-To Minnow will be available in three colors (Delta Shiner, Chartreuse Shad, and Rainbow Trout) and will retail for around $30.
Another bait quickly making its way through their testing and production regiment is this jointed bait called the Go-To Minnow
Production: Each of the baits mentioned here are hand carved out of Malaysian Balsawood. The baits are produced in China but to Black Dog Bait Company's exact specifications and are based off of samples Jeremy and Grant built and painted themselves. It took nearly a full year to get the Shellcracker from concept to full blown production. Early on, they were carving and painting all the baits in-house but when it took well over five hours at peak efficiency to finish just one bait, they knew something had to give. That just was not going to work. They did not want to have to price their baits over one-hundred dollars, nor did they want to go down the road of not having enough supply for what they hoped to be very high demand.
Making and testing new baits is a tough gig, but somebody's got to do it
So they tried a manufacturer back east who could produce resin bodies for them to paint, but still this was too slow. When the president of another bait company, Cliff Liddy of Persuader American Baits, pointed them to a very good factory in China, Grant and Jeremy were a bit skeptical at first, but decided to give it a trial run. The results exceeded their expectations and they have been in full swing ever since.
The Lunker Punker at rest in the water
Next Section: Out in the field with Black Dog
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Kitesurfing over Brighton Pier
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Brave kitesurfer Lewis Crathern soars over the Brighton Pier
Now the brave kitesurfer, who completed his "life-long dream" by jumping the enormous structure, has spoken out about the world-first stunt.
British sportsman Lewis Crathern achieved his life-long ambition when he soared through the air over the 1, 719ft long iconic pier.
I waited two years for the perfect opportunity. It wasn't something I did just willy-nilly, it was a life-long dream
It took the four-time British kitesurfing champion TWO YEARS to get the perfect opportunity to clear the Brighton landmark.
But he finally completed his monumental bucket list jump back in 2010.
During that time he would the length of the pier, measure and inspect it on Google Earth and research the ideal wind measurements and readings.
Speaking about the kitesurfing stunt, 29-year-old Mr Crathern said: "The main dangers are smashing straight into the pier, not getting enough height on the jump or equipment failure on the way over.
"All I had to do was hold my edge, hold my nerve and make a big jump.
"I waited two years for the perfect opportunity - it wasn't something I did just willy-nilly, it was a life-long dream."
The athlete, who lives in Worthing, started kitesurfing when he was just 18 - and quickly rose to become one of the best in the world.
The champion said: "I loved the height you could get to and it seemed the things I did before prepared me to learn this sport fast.
"Kitesurfing has really taken off.
"It is the fastest growing water sport in the world and my home town of Worthing are really pushing it.
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Home > Posts > Blog > Nuggets from the Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference 2011: Stacey Monk of Epic Change
Nuggets from the Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference 2011: Stacey Monk of Epic Change
By Ami Neiberger-Miller on Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Stacey Monk, CEO and co-founder of Epic Change delivered an emotional keynote address for the Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference.
I had never heard Stacey’s story before, and was surprised to hear some parallels with my own. Stacey left her management consulting job after her brother died suddenly from a drug overdose. Taking time off for a life-changing trip to Africa, Stacey came back to the States ready to transform her life. The transformation was not easy. She got divorced and rebuilt her life.
While I’ve worked in the nonprofit sector for many years, I must admit, my own life course has been impacted by tragedy. After my 22-year-old brother’s death in Iraq in 2007, like Stacey, I was forced to confront some of the big questions in life too. And while I’ve continued consulting with nonprofits, my practice has shifted to include more organizations helping veterans and families of the fallen. And I would say my pr work has gotten more personal. It matters more to me now. I tweeted as Stacey shared her story that post-traumatic growth opens new doors for many of us and that “your pain is about the breaking of a shell that conceals your understanding.”
Epic Change is a startup nonprofit that amplifies the voices and impact of grassroots changemakers. The organization began its work in Arusha, Tanzania, where Stacey met Mama Lucy Kamptoni, a former chicken farmer who used her income to build a school in her village. Epic Change has rallied thousands of people across the globe to invest nearly $200,000 in the school so far to build a locally-led primary school for over 400 children that is now completely self-sufficient and consistently ranks among the top 3 out of over 120 in its district. The school’s founder, Mama Lucy, has already repaid over $15,000 of that investment, and funds have been recycled to invest in Nepali changemaker Subhash Ghimire who is currently building a school – to be open this summer – in the village where he was born and raised.
Monk’s work is about micro-change, working at a grassroots level to organize volunteers virtually (most of whom she has never met) and inspire community change and growth. So needless to say, to professionals working at nonprofits with “big mind” mentalities, she had some fascinating, inspiring, and controversial things to say:
Start from the heart. Resources flow from love, don’t start with the intention of raising money.
Look at your language. When is the last time you wordled your site? Are the words that pop up about gloom and doom, or about hope and love?
Giving should not just be a transaction. Nonprofits need to cultivate more meaningful giving experiences. It should be about cultivating love and gratitude.
Supporting a cause should give people joy. Conscious giving gives people radical joy.
Giving is personal. “Giving is a sacred act that we diminish when we think of our jobs as getting people to click a donate button.”
Embedded giving may be a wonderful idea – but does it take away something, or give us more? Does embedded giving (10% of my coffee purchase goes to a cause) diminish “regular” philanthropy? If so, what does this mean for future?
Our donors and the people we help through our nonprofit organizations should not be kept segregated in discrete cones of communication. Our donor and beneficiary communities should not be kept apart as discrete entities. Linkages between these groups can be good for both.
Trust others. You can’t be a type-A control freak if you are innovating. You must be able to trust others to steward the vision.
We may be losing something in getting too big. Goods can be commoditized but human lives can’t be. Nonprofits should re-evaluate scale and the social entrepreneurship model.
Use the tools available to you that help you connect and share your nonprofit’s vision. Social media is a tool to build relationships, but not an end in itself.
We have to trust the people we work with. Radical trust can be inspiring on a small scale.
Tagged: Facebook, fundraising, online giving, social media, trauma survivors
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The Leftovers Turned the End of the World Into the Best Show on TV
The Ringer talks the phenomenon that is HBO’s cult TV series The Leftovers, and how it managed to subvert the expectations to create a unique, captivating experience during TV’s golden age.
Along the way, The Leftovers inadvertently became a solution to, or at least a respite from, pop culture’s solution addiction. In a TV ecosystem consumed by figuring out either what’s already happened or what will, it’s a relief to have a show that can’t be cracked — and one where cracking it is beside the point. The Leftovers has discovered the creative potential of exploring the fallout of a climax rather than the buildup to one.
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Salesforce Show and Tell
Day 2 of the Salesforce Non-Profit Roadmap session was focused on refining plans and sharing information. We had sessions and reports from Salesforce Product managers and developers, and we discussed and demoed some of the creative things that our community has developed. The Salesforce guests showed off Apex, the new scripting language that will be available for live use sometime next year; and we had a fascinating (but non-discloseable!) peek at where the reporting is going.
A lot of the talk focused on ways that we can — or will be able — to get around Salesforce’s core assumption that we deal with companies and contacts when, in fact, donation management is about individuals and households. And a big topic was integration, with a lot of questions centered on what can or should be done in Salesforce and what should be programmed on top of it. Two technologies that popped up a lot were Facebook and Ruby on Rails. I learned about (and immediately grabbed) a Salesforce library that has been developed for rails, and Alan Benamer sang the praises of Facebook both as a compelling social network and a fundraising tool, via their new “Causes” feature. Facebook has been in the news for opening up a powerful API, which makes them pretty much the “Salesforce of Social Networks”.
In the afternoon, we got to th fun stuff – showing off what we’ve done. Six of the participant’s showed off projects big and small.
Ben Munat showed us ChipIn, a fundraising widget that currently is available as a wep page plug in, but will soon be integrated with Salesforce, Facebook, and other application platforms.
Sonny Cloward showed us a very clean and elegant Salesforce template for fund development created using Salesforce’s Person object. The Person object, which can be used in lieu of Accounts and Contacts, was introduced late last year to a somewhat underwhelming response, the problem being that it’s an either/or choice. If you use Person objects, you can’t use Accounts and Contacts, and, in most cases, you have both companies and individuals among your constituents. All the same, Sonny’s template transformed Salesforce into a clean and simple CRM that would be far easier to teach and support, and maybe quite suitable for small organizations.
Rem Hoffman demoed the very sophisticated case management system that his company, Exponent Partners, has put together. This was a real ooh and aaher, as he demoed how a Mental Health agency, swamped in paper, could use it to track cases and print all of the paperwork with about a quarter of the effort that had been required. I’m very intrigued by Rem’s work, as I believe that case management options in the workforce development industry are all pretty painful. As far as I know, Social Solutions is the only company talking about opening up their application; most are the worst examples of grabbing a company’s data and locking them out of it.
Ryan Ozimak of PicNet demoed his Joomla/Salesforce integration, which is also very cool and clean, and promising. At present is is likely the fastest and easiest way to develop a web site with Salesforce Contact integration, and the next steps will open up other objects for clean integration. Ryan (who is sitting next to me as I type) has just let me know that this is around the corner.
As usual, Steve Anderson of One/Northwest had an amazing demo, showing how he has developed Apex code that completely masks the Account/Contact model so that a user can easily add and remove individuals from households. This was very slick, as his automation made tasks that take multiple screen views and actions today and almost magically integrated them. For example, if you have the household of John Doe and the house hold of Jane Doe, and you want to combine them, then you add Jane Doe to John Doe’s household and – poof! – the household is automatically renamed to “John and Jane Doe” and Jane Doe’s household is deleted. This completely removes the limitation that use of Person accounts involves – you can still have accounts and contacts. The problem being that Apex is only available in the sandbox for now.
Finally, Evan Callahan of NPower Seattle demoed a simple translator lookup app that he created for a client. What was cool about this was both that he put together a very intuitive and functional tool for finding a translator with the proper skills and availability, and he did it with some very simple code and a web form. In both Steve and Evan’s cases, they took innovative and undocumented approaches that produced powerful results. Must be something in that moist Seattle air.
Today we dive into how the Salesforce community can better operate as a cohesive support infrastructure and wrap up at noon. If you are a Salesforce license donee, keep your eyes open for a survey that will let you in on this critical input. And look for a bigger event next year — this was a great exercise for all parties.
This entry was posted in NPTech, Technology and tagged CRM, fundraising, joomla, salesforce on June 6, 2007 by Peter Campbell.
NTEN Connected
Just a note that my article on IT Leadership was featured in the latest issue of NTEN Connect.
On a related note, my blog entry on Joomla Day West was almost quoted verbatim in the latest Joomla Weekly News (this is a PDF download). And I have an article coming out soon in Non-Profit Times on Data Management, a summary of the Managing Technology 2.0 presentation that I led at the NTEN conference in April. (Powerpoint link here).
This entry was posted in Blogging, Life, NPTech and tagged admin, joomla, leadership, NTEN on May 23, 2007 by Peter Campbell.
The Rails Thing
It’s Thursday morning, and I’m in Portland, Oregon at the 2007 O’Reilly Railsconf, all about the web programming language/environment/framework called Ruby on Rails. I was introduced to Ruby on Rails by a friend/associate who I hope to be doing some work with soon – we’re part of a group looking for funding to develop some applications. I program in a few languages, mostly PHP, but agreed to learn Ruby on Rails after being introduced to it.
Ruby on Rails, it turns out, is a controversial language, in a way that is very reminiscent of the Apple vs. everything else debate. Rails enthusiasts are very attached to the platform, and adherents of Java, C, and even PHP, tend to be very skeptical, with complaints that the structure is too rigid and that the language only goes so far. They might be right – I’m not fluent enough yet to know. But there are a few definite things that have me interested in Rails.
Rails abstrats the database creation and management process in a really fascinating way. Using the MVC framework — model, views, controller — you basically develop your database using plain english to describe the relationships between tables. This really works for me. To create the database, you write some very simple code that adheres to certain naming conventions, and then you can manage the database almost exclusively from the code.
Once the database is created, Rails uses a method called scaffolding to automatically create forms for database manipulation. With one line of code in your controller, you can very simply grab data from multiple tables using a simple syntax. Rails makes it all very, very easy.
I’m looking for a holy grail, of sorts, something that falls halfway between a programming language and a content management system (CMS), and this comes close. What can we use to rapidly develop interactive, web-based applications that doesn’t lock us into the type of assumptions that Drupal and (the current version of) Joomla do, but don’t require building the whole thing from scratch? Ruby on Rails is still a pretty complex thing for most techs at non-profits to budget the time to learn, but it’s intriguing, as is the move in the next release of Joomla to have it sit atop a Ruby on Rails-like framework (that, unfortunately, lacks the database routines).
I’m also looking at Javascript/ajax libraries – I’m in one right now on Prototype and scriptaculous, but the presenter is the developer of scriptalicious and his presentation style is somewhat coma-inducing…
This entry was posted in Technology, Web and tagged joomla, open source, rails, webdev on May 17, 2007 by Peter Campbell.
OpenID Enabled
Just to put this all together, I’ve written a F.A.Q. and a How-To on OpenID and added them to the OpenID offerings here at Techcafeteria which are, in a nutshell:
The OpenID-enabled Blog;
The OpenID server, which I’m committed to maintaining. Techcafeteria won’t be going away anytime soon!;
A new OpenID F.A.Q., which links to other OpenID resources;
and a new OpenID illustrated How-to, which uses the Techcafeteria server as an example but overviews how they all work.
Why am I harping on about this? I really do think that OpenID offers a solution to a very pesky problem. I have an encrypted file with all of the logins and passwords that I keep on a regular basis for web sites and services that I use. There are over 200 of them. I might be an extreme case, but I’m far from alone. And, from my years as a technology manager, I know that most people solve this problem by using the same password at multiple sites. So if those sites include your online banking, that’s a serious risk.
But, beyond the convenience and security, I look at it this way. My goal for Techcafeteria is to grow it into a real diverse offering of web-based services, in fitting with the name. Some of these, like the blog, will be based on third-party platforms, others will be things that I develop (I’m experienced with PHP/MySQL and I’m learning Ruby on Rails – I’m even attending O’Reilly’s big conference on it in Portland this week). My goal is single sign-on, via OpenId, for everything that Techcafeteria ever offers.
It’s not a big deal doing this on my web site. It would have been a huge deal if I could have accomplished it at the large non-profit or decent sized law fIrm that I served as an IT Director for. At both of those jobs, we had a variety of systems, all tied into Novell and/or MS networks, but we still had nothing but password soup to offer our users, because the apps weren’t standardized enough to allow for true single sign-on.
At Joomla Day on Saturday, I sat in on a session where one of the core developers (Sam) demonstrated a way to share authentication between Joomla and MediaWiki. Very cool, but somewhat easy because MediaWiki stores the password unencrypted. Assuming that most sites use standardized encryption protocols (MD5 being the big dog, that’s not an insurmountable challenge. But I couldn’t help thinking how much easier this will be via OpenID. It’s not just about this stuff being possible – it’s also about allowing Sysadmins who are not also programmers to implement it.
So, end of OpenID rants, for now. I’ll be doing some live blogging from the Rails conference, and I’ll try and include some context as to why I think Ruby on Rails is an important programming environment.
This entry was posted in Technology, Web and tagged joomla, open source, OpenID, rails on May 15, 2007 by Peter Campbell.
A Day of Joomla (live)
I’m posting this live from the first Joomla Day West conference being held at Google headquarters in Mountainview (so, yes, wireless is reliable!)
This is an interesting event – an “un-conference” as Ryan calls it, which falls somewhere in the territory of a traditional conference, a town hall meeting, and, maybe, the Phil Donahue show, as emceed by the always entertaining Gunner (of Aspiration fame).
It’s about halfway through the day, and continuing through tomorrow, but I won’t be able to come back, because that would incur the justified scorn of my son’s mother, who expects me to not be a computer geek on her day. There are 100 or so people here from many corners of the earth (well, the Americas and Europe are healthfully represented) and associations to Joomla that range from a tiny non-profit thinking about using it to the core development team. Joomla, for those who don’t know, is a popular open Source Content Management System (CMS) with a huge developer community, making it very powerful and popular. It has it’s roots in a CMS called Mambo.
The big topics are:
The upcoming Joomla 1.5 release, which is a dramatic rewrite of the application that will make developers (like me) very happy. They have exposed a programming framework that could develop into an environment all it’s own, and they’ve made changes to the templating that allow for powerful customizations.
The move to more strictly enforce GPL compliance. The GNU General Public License is designed to offer users of GPL applications much freedom,with restrictions on how the code can be redistributed that insure that the community will share in all enhancements. The Mambo/Joomla developer community apparently includes many add-ons that aren’t compliant with this, and the Joomla team hopes to (appropriately) bring them back to compliance.
This is a seriously fun event with group activities intersperced with break out sessions, and a kind of “this is being made up as it goes along” agenda. Next up: speed geeking! which Gunner describes as “like speed dating, but completely different”.
This entry was posted in NPTech, Technology, Web and tagged Aspiration, joomla, open source, webdev on May 12, 2007 by Peter Campbell.
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Your Jenkins X Questions Answered at DevOpsWorld | Jenkins World 2019
Have questions about Jenkins X? Don’t worry, you aren’t alone! Thousands of the DevOps community will be coming together and when they do, Jenkins X is a very popular topic. Come to the source and get your questions answered - more Jenkins X experts will be present at DevOpsWorld | JenkinsWorld than anyplace else on earth! This is the hub of the Jenkins X conversation and you’ll have the chance to hear first-hand how organizations are using Jenkins X, the best practices for succeeding with Jenkins X yourself, and how to best leverage Jenkins X alongside your other technologies. There’s no better place to meet the people and learn the technologies behind Jenkins X than at DevOps World | JenkinsWorld. Add the below sessions to your schedule, and if you aren’t registered, get registered now!
Jenkins X Optimized for GCP
This session will cover how to deploy, configure, and use Jenkins X CI/CD pipelines within Google Kubernetes Engine while taking full advantage of Jenkins X native integrations with GCP’s services.
Craig Barber - Google - Software Engineer
Pipelines in Jenkins X
This talk will introduce the new ways to define and execute pipelines in Jenkins X serverless, using the Tekton Pipelines execution engine behind the scenes. We’ll go over everything from the new YAML syntax used to define explicit pipelines in your repository, to how you can use build packs without needing to define pipelines in the repository.
Andrew Bayer - CloudBees - Senior Software Engineer
Cloud Native CI/CD with Jenkins X and Tekton
In this session, we’ll explain the CI/CD challenges in a cloud native landscape, and show how Jenkins X rises to them by leveraging open source cloud-native technologies like Tekton. We will describe how the Jenkins X project has evolved on its own cloud-native journey and the benefits we gain by using the cloud.
James Rawlings - CloudBees - Engineering
Kubernetes to be a Hot Topic at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019
Kubernetes has grown by leaps and bounds and is fast becoming a must-have for any DevOps organization. It should be no surprise that Kubernetes is a hot topic at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019, featuring sessions from industry leaders at Microsoft, Snyk, and Manifold, as well as CloudBees’ own expert bees. Check out a sample of these sessions below and if you are already registered, add these to your schedule. If you aren’t registered and Kubernetes is critical for your operation, it sounds like you need to attend! Register here!
From Zero to DevOps Superhero: The Container Edition
Microservices can be hard; understanding container best practices can be hard as those practices are still being discovered. This session aids in minimizing the learning curve with container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes, by bringing DevOps best practices into the mix. You will walk away from this session with a deeper understanding of this area, as well as some hands-on material to help you get started.
Jessica Deen - Microsoft - Cloud Advocate
This session will explain the CI/CD challenges in a cloud native landscape, and show how Jenkins X rises to them by leveraging open source cloud-native technologies like Tekton. It will also describe how the Jenkins X project has evolved on its own cloud native journey and the benefits we gain by using the cloud.
Securing Containers by Breaking in
Attendees of this session will get to watch some live hacking of Kubernetes! We’ll explain the security concern of each layer in the container stack by actually exploiting each layer so that you can better understand the security mistakes you can make, their implications and how you can avoid them.
Simon Maple - Snyk - Director of Developer Relations
Your Cluster Should Run Your cluster: Using Kubernetes Operators to Make Self-service a Reality
In this talk, we’ll look at how Manifold architected its infrastructure so that its teams can self-service their needs. We’ll go over elementary concepts like IAM permissions and Terraform configuration. We’ll end with how we got to full self-service with Kubernetes Operators and Custom Resource Definitions which are bundled with our application configuration.
Jelmer Snoeck - Manifold - SRE Lead
DevSecOps - Balancing agility, stability and security in a continuous software business
In this session, we will discuss practical ways to manage security, performance and delegation of the capability to engineering teams in fast-moving continuous delivery environments.
In this presentation, we also discuss the technical approaches we’ve taken, the challenges of SOC2 compliance vs DevOps, and the real-world implementation of platforms / tools such as Terraform, AWS GuardDuty, Kubernetes, Vault, DataDog and others.
Ben Walding - CloudBees - IT Operations Manager
Lean Coffee for the Public Sector
This probably isn’t the best way to start a blog post about my upcoming session at DevOps World | Jenkins World but — my favorite part of attending conferences is the interactions I have in between the sessions. You know, when you bump into that person in the hallway for whom you have a burning question. Or when you end up talking to one of your favorite authors while in line for coffee. And how about when you run into two people you follow on Twitter in the bathroom and the three of you end up solving all the world’s DevOps problems?
In my role as a customer success manager, I have the distinct pleasure of working with several brilliant customers in the public sector, specifically in the United States government. How this came about is actually a funny story. I lived and worked in Washington, D.C. for over 20 years, and during that time I somehow managed to never really work on any government projects. About three years ago, I moved from DC to North Carolina, and when I joined CloudBees I was immediately pegged as the Washingtonian and put on several of the U.S. government accounts. I guess DC is in my blood forever.
Working with these customers, I quickly learned that bringing DevOps to the public sector presents its own special challenges, often requiring creative solutions, brilliant minds, and some serious patience. Working in this space can be isolating, with the larger DevOps world speeding towards technologies that may not yet available to us, as we struggle internally to bring basic DevOps concepts to legacy programs. Which is why I wanted to take the opportunity at DevOps World | Jenkins World to deliberately organize a “between the sessions” interaction with those of us working in and with the public sector.
In this session, we will take advantage of this rare gathering of DevOps professionals to come together as public sector DevOps professionals and help each other solve our common issues. Using the Lean Coffee meeting technique, we will democratically determine our agenda and begin attacking some of the public sector DevOps challenges.
I am not an expert when it comes to DevOps and Jenkins in the public sector, but I can tell you several of my customers are. So rather than creating slides and preparing a talk on what I believe to be the important topics, I decided to use the Lean Coffee structure to determine the topics and facilitate the session. For those not familiar with Lean Coffee, it’s a structured way to democratically create a meeting agenda and run the discussion similar to sprint planning, using a Kanban board and timeboxing (I am a big fan of the technique and strongly recommend anyone who runs teams and/or meetings check out http://bit.ly/leancoffeguide for more details.)
All who work with and for the public sector are welcome, however, vendors and contractors will not be permitted to do any direct selling during the session. Should you attend if you don’t work in the public sector? Absolutely! Anyone who works in a regulated/highly regulated environment will benefit from joining in or simply observing.
Register now for DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 in San Francisco, CA August 12 - 15.
WebHook Events and the Party Problem
There was a dark time in the history of the web. The time before services had APIs. Thankfully, that time is past now. Everyone recognizes the need to provide their customers with API access to their service.
If your service only has a few customers using your API, they probably don’t generate too much load. The probability is that you will not have API limits enforced. The smart businesses will have at least some basic mechanism in place to enable enforcing API limits in the event of a runaway overnight success.
Hopefully your service grows to a level of success where you need API limits. Now you start to get requests from customers (or maybe you had these requests before). Before API limits, customers could just repeatedly poll your API to see what changed. Those repeated polls are rude clients, but they are also really simple to write and debug. The solution seems obvious, invert the responsibility: your API will call the customer when things change. WebHooks, events, callbacks, etc., it doesn’t matter what we call them, the reality is that they are the solution pattern we use to remove the repeat pollers and reduce the API load on our services.
If we were to define a Maturity Model for service APIs, it would probably look something like this:
We have an API
You can do everything with our API
You need to know about our limits
We have WebHooks
But I don’t think we should stop there. I think there is at least one further level, and unfortunately, I don’t see many service APIs that are at this level yet. An analogy may help.
The party problem
We’re hosting a big party - imagine one of those Oscar after-parties. Guests are coming and going.
We offer an API that tells you who is at the party. Deals are made at these parties, there’s no point in being at the party to pitch Will Smith if he isn’t even there. Heck, there’s no point staying at the party to try and bend Scarlett Johansson’s ear on your script if she has left already. So we offer /api/v1/attending/{name} to let you check if the person is there. This is level 1. We have an API that meets the needs of a few big paying customers.
There are other customers of our API who want to know who’s hanging with whom. Ok so the gossip rags are a bit of a shady business, but they’re paying customers… and the celebrities actually need the attention. We cannot have them continuously running:
for name in $(cat celebs.txt); do
curl http://bigparty.example.org/api/v1/attending/$name && echo $name >> attendees
Never mind that it drowns our servers, their celebs.txt file is missing the hot new blood that draws the big names to our party. So we offer /api/v1/attendees that returns a list of everyone in the party. This is level 2.
Did you know that we have a bunch of high-frequency traders using our API? Seemingly they are using machine learning to correlate the party attendees and try and predict what movie deals will be made in order to drive investment decisions in the various movie studios! Who knew? But yeah, we’re going to have to put rate limits on our API because they are absolutely hammering it. This is level 3.
Nobody is happy with the API limits. The media moguls who are waiting to time their entrance immediately after Jennifer Lawrence arrives at the party had been used to running
while ! curl http://bigparty.example.org/api/v1/attending/Jennifer+Lawrence ; do sleep 1
And everyone else has been used to basically hitting http://bigparty.example.org/api/v1/attendees as often and as fast as they can in order to get the edge on their competition.
So we introduce a WebHook API. The media moguls can just subscribe to the one or two people they are interested in receiving notifications on, and we’ll call them as soon as they arrive or leave. Everyone else can subscribe to the full event stream to be notified as each person arrives and leaves. This is level 4.
So now, as a user of the API, if we want to know the changes in the attendees, we have a choice:
We can periodically get the list of all attendees and manually correlate the delta since the last poll; or
We can subscribe to the WebHook.
But what if we want to know who is in the party at any point in time?
If WebHooks were reliable, if our WebHook receiver has 100% uptime, and if the network between the two is always available, then we can work from a known starting point and just keep applying the deltas to our list.
But these things are not 100% true. They are probably mostly true, but that 1% or 0.1% or 0.01% happens annoyingly often enough that we need to put in place some way to correct for it.
The naïve solution is to just periodically call the list of attendees API. But what happens if there are WebHook events co-incident with our request?
Ask for list of current attendees
Tom Cruise arrives
Emma Watson leaves
We get the list of attendees
Should we add Tom Cruise to our list of attendees? Or should we remove him? What about the event about Emma Watson leaving? What if she wasn’t even in our original list of attendees? And we haven’t even described the case where the list of attendees we are given included Emma Watson because when the transaction to build the list of attendees in the service backend started she was still present.
Periodically calling the list of attendees API is not making things easier.
Maybe repetition is the key. We decide the rate of change is too fast to be sure at any point in time that our list is 100% accurate, but we want to ensure that we heal the event gap in some reasonable time.
If we call the attendees API twice in succession and compare the two lists. Anyone who is present in both lists most certainly was present at some time in between making the first request and receiving the second response. Anyone not present on both lists most certainly was not present at some time in that window. This gives us two lists of corrections that we can apply.
What would be much better is if the party attendees API included some mechanism to assist clients to reconcile their internal state between the two API paths. This is level 5.
The Service API Maturity Model (SAMM)
Level 1: “We have an API” The API is characterized by functionality gaps and probably has been driven by the needs of one or two big customers who have effectively designed the API through feature requests.
Level 2: “You can do everything with our API” The API is now sufficiently powerful that you can avoid using the service UI and just interact with the API. If there are usage limits, the limits are sufficiently high that most customers can effectively ignore them.
Level 3: “You need to know about our limits” The service and API are generally successful and, as a result, the limits have been lowered to the point that they affect most customers.
Level 4: “We have WebHooks” Look at our shiny events API that will call you when things change. Please stop polling our API as it is causing the operations team to lose sleep.
Level 5: “Reconciliation” There is a mechanism that allows WebHook receivers to reconcile the events they receive with the point-in-time queries from the query API.
What can Level 5 look like?
So there are many ways this reconciliation can be achieved, all depending on the kind of back-end that the service is provided on top of.
If your service has a global monotonic counter that gets incremented with each change and transactional isolation, you could include that counter value in every event payload and query API response. This lets the consumer decide which events can be ignored because they have a newer query API response.
If your service has a global monotonic counter but cannot provide transactional isolation for queries, you can return the starting and ending values of your counter with query responses, thereby enabling clients to divide events into three buckets and then they can just re-query the events that were concurrent with query execution.
If you cannot provide a global monotonic counter, a timestamp can be used to provide a weaker form of reconciliation.
If you cannot provide a global monotonic counter, perhaps you can provide a monotonic counter per logical context. In our party API example, suppose our party was a hat swapping party where guests were encouraged to swap hats. We might expose an API of what hat each attendee was wearing. We could have one monotonic counter for the list of attendees and a monotonic counter for each attendee to track changes in their current hat.
There is one approach that I don’t see in use that I think would be quite useful for some APIs. Bloom filters. The basic idea is like this:
The replicating side picks a random seed, and based on the estimate for the number of elements and the desired accuracy, sizes a bloom filter.
The bloom filter is populated using hash(seed + item)
Send the seed and the bloom filter to the authoritative side.
The authoritative side runs through the same bloom filter population to build its filter and sends events for any missing items.
The authoritative side completes by sending the difference between its bloom filter and the replicating side’s bloom filter.
The replicating side runs through all the items again removing those on the final filter.
NOTE: The use of a client chosen random seed for every round is to ensure that hash collisions affect different elements each round and thus items mapping to the same bit of the Bloom Filter in one round will be on different bits in subsequent rounds.
What I like about this model is that there is effectively no difference between bootstrapping and reconciliation. As a replicator, when we first start up we can start processing events immediately. Our initial bloom filter will be all 0’s and the authoritative side can send us the seed list at a rate of its choosing.
This kind of reconciliation API can be implemented either by sending the reconciliation data through the WebHooks or by returning it as a Query API response.
Because it cannot give you perfect reconciliation, it encourages consumers to recognize the reality of eventual reconciliation.
Because the Bloom Filter requires minimal state to compute and doesn’t require any ordering in the processing of items, it does not impose any transactional requirements on either side.
If we let the client specify what additional state to include in the hash we can also provide updates for internal state changes. For example, if JIRA offered this kind of API then the client could say hash(seed + ticket_id + ticket_title + ticket_status) so that it can discover not just when tickets are created or renamed, but when the display title changes or when the ticket sate changes. Other clients might only ask for hash(seed + ticket_id) because they just want to know that the ticket exists.
If you cannot provide a global monotonic counter (and I suspect most really good services cannot) please consider offering something like a Bloom Filter to allow clients to reconcile your events API with your query API.
Stephen Connolly has over 25 years experience in software development. He is involved in a number of open source projects, including Jenkins. Stephen was one of the first non-Sun committers to the Jenkins project and developed the weather icons. Stephen lives in Dublin, Ireland - where the weather icons are particularly useful. Follow Stephen on Twitter, GitHub and on his blog.
Sessions Highlight Security at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019
Security, security, security! Everyone is always talking about it, but are we doing anything about it? It’s daunting, it’s a huge topic, where do you even start? Start with this selection of sessions at this year’s DevOps World | Jenkins World event, geared to help you make real, tangible improvements to the security of your source code infrastructure. It doesn’t have to be overwhelming or confusing; experts from Fugue, Contrast Security, and CloudBees can help you out with practical examples and automation approaches that improve your security posture without magnifying your workload.
Using Chaos Engineering for Resilient Cloud Infrastructure Security
Infrastructure misconfiguration is the top cause of cloud data breaches today due to human error, a lack of policy controls in CI/CD pipelines, and threat actors. These malicious actors are often able to find and exploit the vulnerabilities caused by misconfigurations before legitimate cloud tools can. As a result, security teams can only react to the exploit instead of preventing it. One way to avoid reactionary security is to perform misconfiguration simulations and identify security gaps before threat actors do. This session will cover how cloud misconfigurations happen and how to avoid them.
Ricardo Green - Fugue - Senior Solutions Architect
Thinking about Jenkins Security
This session is a condensed version of a training course accompanied by demonstrations of important security concepts and best practices for protecting Jenkins.
Mark Waite - CloudBees - Technical Evangelist
Automating Application Security for Modern Software
Traditional approaches to application security slow down software development and deployment while the shortage of skilled security staff makes many tasks unmanageable. This session will cover how automation can help with software vulnerability detection and exploit prevention, as well as how to incorporate it into the CI/CD process and Jenkins pipeline.
Robert Statsinger - Contrast Security - Senior Solutions Architect
Applying the DevOps Shift Left Practice to CloudBees Documentation
Shifting left to include technical writers in the discovery process
Have you ever read the documentation for a product and thought, “This didn’t help me. Why did I waste my time?” That kind of frustration makes customers unhappy and leads them to either give up or pick up the phone and call support. So many times, customers can solve a problem themselves by reading the documentation. But, if they feel like they won’t find what they need, they won’t do it.
Producing clear, accurate, and timely documentation should be every company’s goal, but getting there is not as easy as it would seem. You can have the best technical writers in the world, but their skills don’t matter if they aren’t included in the development process and don’t know what features are being created, why they are being created, or when they are being released. Communication between documentation and development is essential, but it doesn’t always happen.
CloudBees is trying to change that. At CloudBees, documentation is considered to be as important as the code. In fact, we follow a “docs as code” model for creating documentation. Technical writers are embedded in the development squads for the products that they support. As a technical writer, I attend all product meetings and sprint ceremonies for my squads. Additionally, I’m included in the discovery process for new features. Being included in the discovery process allows me to write the documentation for a feature before the feature development is completed. By shifting left, documentation no longer lags behind feature releases or holds up releases.
The discovery process
Recently, the CloudBees DevOptics team decided to try a different approach to discovery. The selected approach involves several hours of meetings for five days, with each day assigned to a specific task:
Day 1 - Define the problem
Day 2 - Create rough sketches of ways to solve the problem
Day 3 - Choose one sketch
Day 4 - Create a prototype
Day 5 - Test the prototype
With that process in mind, the discovery team was assembled. The team included front-end and back-end engineers, a UI designer, a product manager, and myself. We all rearranged our calendars to accommodate three- or four-hour blocks of time to dedicate to discovery.
The writer’s role in discovery
What was my role as a technical writer in the discovery process? In the problem definition portion, my role was mostly to listen and observe. The team discussed the problem statement, what success would look like, and what might cause them to fail. Having that background knowledge of the problem helps me to frame the documentation in the right context.
During the problem definition portion, the issue of terminology came up while the team was considering possible risks associated with the new feature. The design that was being conceived represented a new way of thinking about existing functionality. The team marked terminology as an action item. We would need to make sure that we were using terms that were intuitive and that applied to both the existing functionality and the new functionality. Since technical writers own terminology at CloudBees, this action item is one example of the importance of including documentation in discovery.
In the idea-sketching phase, the team broke into pairs to develop rough sketches of ideas for implementing the feature. I paired up with a UI designer, but mostly reviewed and asked questions to help refine the designer’s ideas.
During the decision phase, I had an equal vote on which sketch the team wanted to implement as a prototype.
I was active during the prototype creation by making sure the prototype text was clear and that terminology made sense for the feature. By making sure the text is user-oriented, we can avoid the “engineer-speak” that can be found in many products.
Additionally, I attended the user testing sessions. Some testers provided feedback on text and terminology that was unclear, which will be valuable if the team goes forward with the prototype.
So far, CloudBees DevOptics has held two discovery sprints using this process. The first sprint was a trial of the new discovery process. The main takeaway from the first sprint was that the feature the team wanted to implement was more complex than they initially thought. One developer was chosen to take a week to work on a proof of concept for the technical aspects of implementing the feature. A follow-up meeting for the proof of concept is scheduled. For that reason, no documentation has come out of the first sprint yet.
The second discovery sprint was more successful. At the conclusion of the discovery sprint, I was able to write a draft document that includes procedural information and some conceptual information based on the prototype. If the proposed feature is moved to a delivery epic, the draft documentation can serve not only as the basis for the user-facing documentation, but also as an internal single source of truth for the feature.
Being involved in a discovery sprint allowed me to learn the what, why, and how of a potential new feature; what it is, why a customer would use it, and how it works. This thorough understanding of the feature is crucial to writing documentation that is focused on what users want to accomplish. Additionally, completing documentation early in the development cycle means that documentation can be released as soon as a new feature is released.
The only disadvantage was the time commitment. Several hours a day were blocked off for the discovery sessions. Since the discovery was not part of a sprint, all the normal sprint work still needed to be completed.
Overall, it was a valuable experience that will lead to more user-focused documentation at CloudBees.
Check out the CloudBees DevOptics documentation here: https://go.cloudbees.com/docs/cloudbees-documentation/devoptics-user-guide/
CloudBees Core integrates with Binary Authorization on GCP
Editor’s Note: This blog post was updated by Jeff Fry, principal business development engineer. The original post was published on August 20, 2018.
Binary Authorization on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is now Generally Available (GA). CloudBees has been a close partner with Google and the Binary Authorization team during the alpha and beta versions. We are excited to be a part of the GA launch and CloudBees congratulates the Binary Authorization team on this important milestone!
Binary Authorization is based on the open source Grafeas artivact metadata API, allowing teams to ensure all containers deployed to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) have been validated against a defined policy for security and compliance. By integrating Binary Authorization with CloudBees Core, you can secure your container images during the Jenkins build process. This allows you to then implement a policy to control the secured delivery of these images to GKE clusters.
One of our goals with CloudBees Core is to enable enterprises to optimize their usage of Jenkins through standardization, compliance, security and best practices so I thought this was a perfect opportunity to demonstrate this by constructing a Jenkins Pipeline in CloudBees Core that integrates with Binary Authorization. Because CloudBees Core is fully integrated with Kubernetes and available for quick deployment on GKE from the GCP Marketplace, it is actually pretty straightforward to take advantage of this new capability.
The ability to move software from source to production has never been this easy. However, this velocity does not come without risk. With the growing use of containers and automation as the foundation for modern application development, the need for security, compliance and governance does not go away. Operations teams and SREs must still ensure that all applications continue to run as designed, corporate standards have to be maintained, compliance must be met and security guaranteed. These concerns are top priority for our customers who rely on CloudBees to help deliver software fast while still solving these problems.
To meet these needs, organizations rely on a variety of techniques to implement quality and security gates in their continuous delivery pipelines. Quality, security, governance and compliance standards have typically been solved by inserting approval steps into the software delivery chain requiring that everything stop until a person can verify and approve release. One popular method of implementing gates into the pipeline is the input step.
The input step works well to ensure that a human has validated the quality of the application before moving to the next stage of the pipeline. The input step can also require specific user’s approval before the pipeline can progress as well as provide an audit trail of who approved the release.
For many software release cycles this is fine but it still requires a manual step with human input. Kubernetes and containers are completely changing how teams develop, deploy and manage software. These approval gates become a bottleneck in source to production continuous delivery pipelines. The promise of Binary Authorization is to enable all aspects involved in a continuous delivery pipeline, including the signed approval of compliance and security, to be automated.
Offering customers the ability to define specific compliance rules, maintain quality and increase their overall product velocity is critical to CloudBees’ product strategy. The combination of Google Cloud’s Binary Authorization and CloudBees Core creates a very compelling story for enterprise customers.
Of course, none of this means that you have to automate everything or that Binary Authorization won’t work with manual compliance gates. In fact, it makes compliance gates even more powerful. In order to sign an attestation, a private key and public key must be present. The private key might be held by a user (creating a two-factor authentication) for progressing the pipeline or the private key may only be accessible to specific pipelines or jobs in a different folder in your managed master or it might only be available in a separate managed master. Your policy can require any combination of attestations from humans or tools before it is allowed in production.
I have made a full demonstration application here. I tried to make this as close to a reference implementation as described by Google as possible. If you run the setup.sh script provided, it will configure everything you need on GCP to play with this yourself. I have included instructions on how to setup and use the demonstration and documented each step so different parts of it can be applied to your continuous delivery pipelines.
All of the steps used are documented in simple bash scripts to show how things are accomplished. These scripts can be used in any pipeline as is or adapted to your specific use case.
You can watch a walk-through of the configuration, installation and running of the demonstration here:
DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019: Made for Developers
As a software developer, you might have attended some conferences in the past where the tough topics get breezed over, and there’s not enough technical information to answer your really detailed questions. Well, DevOps World | JenkinsWorld is not that kind of event! Our sessions get into the tough technical questions and get very specific, digging into what works and what doesn’t, how to configure systems for maximum success and how to pull together the best cutting-edge technologies into your DevOps pipeline. Below is just a sample of these interesting and engaging sessions from CloudBees’ staff, partners and customers. If you consider yourself a highly-technical member of the DevOps universe, these are the kind of sessions you’ll want to add to your agenda! If you aren’t registered yet, get started here.
Who broke the build? — Using Docker to improve local testing and release faster
No one wants to be responsible for breaking the build, so how can developers avoid being that person?
This session will include a brief history of build testing challenges and what difference Docker can make for better, more streamlined builds.
Ram Mohan Rao Chukka - Appfire - Principal Software Engineer
Can Jenkins be the engine of Mobile DevOps?
There is no doubt that Jenkins has become the engine of DevOps for web apps, but what about for mobile? The mobile DevOps process can be a headache; learn how Jenkins can help.
Shashikant Jagtap - XCTEQ Limited - Director
Smart and stable automated testing using AI based Dynamic Locators
One of the biggest problems with UI-based test automation is maintenance. Many tools, frameworks, and approaches already exist to try to solve this issue, but they have had limited success. AI may be the answer to this problem. In this session, learn how AI and AI-based dynamic location strategies can help with UI-based test automation,
Raj Subramanian - Testim - Developer Evangelist
How Jenkins builds and delivers Jenkins in the cloud
Want to know how Jenkins builds Jenkins? Catch this session to see the real-life implementation of Jenkins’ development and delivery infrastructure in the cloud as it has evolved from a mix of platforms to multi-platform VMs, containers, and Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure.
Brian Benz - Microsoft - Cloud Advocate
Faster Git
This session will review and prioritize techniques to manage large git repositories, including reference repositories, narrow refspecs, and more.
Episode 57: Haley Daiber of Unusual Ventures Says Organizations Miss the Big Picture in DevOps Implementation
A lot is happening in the world of DevOps and with all the buzz around evolving tools and practices, it’s not rare for organizations to miss the big picture. In the latest episode of DevOps Radio, co-hosts Michael Neale and Karen Taggart speak to Haley Daiber, senior associate at Unusual Ventures.
Teams are often deeply stuck in the nitty-gritty of tools and technology “without really understanding what’s the big picture of what this (DevOps) shift means and what we’re trying to achieve,” said Haley. Unusual Ventures is a seed fund that focuses on both consumer and enterprise startups.
While there may be different motivations for organizations to consider new technologies, Haley suggests that it’s more about empowering teams and making the work easier and efficient. At the end of the day, it’s like the shift towards microservices in which organizations want to deliver software faster.
“It’s how you can create these smaller teams of people that can get things done,” Haley noted.
During the podcast, Haley pointed out the differences between how smaller firms and their enterprise counterparts approach DevOps. Being a seed-stage fund, Haley’s work usually revolves around small teams who are busy solving real-world problems than those who are trying to wrap their heads around how to implement DevOps in their traditional process-heavy setups.
Is more better?
Haley turned the discussion around and asked Michael and Karen if bigger organizations want to work with a single vendor or they prefer point solutions from different vendors. Karen thinks that frequently the need for adopting point solutions or newer tools comes from smaller teams working under strict deadlines. These teams are forced to adopt tools and processes that differ entirely from those used by others in their organization. When successful, their organization brings such teams together, which can create conflicts as their DevOps implementation can vary a lot.
Karen noted the challenge is more pronounced when there is a buyout and (there are) two different companies with two mature DevOps programs working in two different directions. The key to solving such challenges lies in understanding how teams and departments function in an organization. With no two organizations having a similar structure, the differences in ‘which team handles what responsibilities’ creates an endless unproductive cycle of discussions and meetings.
“…I think it totally comes back to organizational structure and people,” said Haley.
Looking towards upcoming trends and gaps organizations are trying to fill with a new approach, Haley mentioned businesses are maturing in their DevOps implementation and technology architecture. These organizations want to go beyond traditional testing and build higher resilience against unexpected scenarios or events. She hinted that chaos engineering will gain traction in the coming years. (Chaos engineering involves experimenting on a new software system in production to gauge a system’s resilience against turbulent and unexpected conditions.)
Haley also suggested the traditional demarcation of roles and responsibilities is becoming irrelevant. There is an increased sense of sharing responsibilities and a QA or a test engineer has to adapt to meet these evolving needs. Haley’s thoughts resonate strongly with the idea of expanding the scope of CI/CD to continuous testing and continuous everything.
“If you start to think about the testing process all the way through the software development process, starting even with design, then that’s something that really influences how everything plays out,” said Haley.
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Episode 56: Results from the Fifth Annual DevOps and Jenkins Community Survey
Host Brian Dawson is joined by Kohsuke Kawaguchi, chief scientist at CloudBees and creator of Jenkins, and Kristen Baskett, solution marketing manager at CloudBees in Episode 56 of DevOps Radio. The trio dig into results from the fifth annual DevOps and Jenkins community survey and share their insight on the industry’s trends.
Kohsuke starts the episode by discussing how Jenkins has contributed to the evolution of DevOps and its continued impact on DevOps today. He notes best practices coming out of the community, which was brought to the forefront with the excitement around the launch of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) and what the CDF is doing for Jenkins and the community.
The survey’s results reported an uptick in ‘DevOps washing’ where 67% of practitioners report using DevOps but only 43% say they are practicing continuous delivery (CD). Kristen believes to practice DevOps well you need to practice CD, but because DevOps is a buzzword, people often define the actual process differently.
The survey report also revealed an emerging class of respondents dubbed high-velocity practitioners. These practitioners represented the top 25% of respondents who outperform others in areas such as deployment frequency, automation of the delivery process and more. This classification enables teams to identify the gaps in their DevOps implementation strategy and understand how they can replicate the success of their high performing counterparts. These high-velocity practitioners are similar to the elite performer segment found in the annual State of DevOps Report from DORA.
Highlights from the survey
Massive traction for CI but CD is still lagging
Like the past several years, the survey highlighted that organizations are more comfortable automating their upstream development or build and test activities than automating their downstream operations. Indeed, 95% of respondents automated build activities.
Increased impetus on downstream automation
An important finding of the survey is that high-velocity practitioners are now automating activities across a wide range of the value creation cycle. Also, they are automating at a much higher rate than some of the average groups.
High-velocity practitioners automate governance at 30% vs. an average of 18% and security at 38% vs. an average of 23%
Kristen said earlier, people automated until the point that they needed to deploy. But now we see it shift from, “I’m automating very CI-specific things,” to “I’m automating more of the life cycle, I’m automating outside of like the traditional developer bubble and moving towards the business.”
Sharing his take on the results, Kohuske said it made perfect sense high-velocity practitioners are automating more of their work. He agreed that breaking conventional silos between the operations and development teams while sharing the onus of things like security and governance can bring significant benefits.
Collaboration takes the driver’s seat
The survey also highlighted that high-velocity practitioners see significant value in collaboration.
99% of high-velocity practitioners as compared to 74% of the average groups collaborate to plan future work
The panelists discussed that while finding the right tool with a perfect blend of technology can help support collaborations, when organizations mature with their DevOps implementations, moving beyond the tools becomes imperative. The need to develop culture and processes takes priority. Fostering high levels of cross-functional collaboration is key to the success of DevOps. Kristen summarized that “the big takeaway there is collaborate, collaborate, collaborate.”
Metrics rule continuous improvement
The survey also highlighted the need to implement systems and processes which allow organizations to measure the effectiveness of their DevOps efforts over a period. Measuring and assessing the impact of their changes is essential for continuous improvement.
84% of high-velocity practitioners capture software delivery process metrics while 50% of high-velocity practitioners use Jenkins to automate their metrics reporting, representing 35% above average
“We saw that of those high-velocity practitioners, those who are tracking four or more metrics are actually experiencing less unplanned work. So that’s bringing their unplanned work down by eight percent,” Kristen added.
“This is like using data to drive the software development process,” said Kohsuke. “That’s something I’m lately very interested in and I’ve been giving conference talks on that topic. So it’s exciting to see this number going up.”
Other key findings:
Cloud adoption has grown significantly with 78% hosting Jenkins on some form of cloud. Last year, only 62% indicated the use of cloud for hosting Jenkins.
67% stated they actively work at an organization that practices DevOps, an increase from last year’s 47%.
65% use container technology, with Kubernetes usage growing 235% versus the 2017 survey results.
Finally, the episode closes out with some thoughts including the importance of release automation, noting the CloudBees’ recent acquisition of Electric Cloud.
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jeudi, juin 29, 2006
Imagine that there is a real location on earth which has been the home of Adam and Eve, the Eden garden: "A river rises in Eden to water the garden; beyond there it divides and becomes four branches... The name of the third river is the Tigris; it is the one that flows east of Asshur. The fourth river is the Euphrates" (Genesis 2:10–14).
Imagine that there is a general who's planning to destroy this sacred Garden, between Tigris and Euphrate, because he is certain that many of his enemies hide there. This Garden is located in a wetlands region. The general drains 90% of this mythical territory between 1990 and 2000. His ennemies, supposedly hidden in the Garden were the Shiit rebels... and the name of the general is Saddam Hussein. Eventually, imagine what could happen if some fundamentalist Christians talk about this Eden mass destruction to a born again called G.W.
mercredi, juin 28, 2006
An excellent film about Irak; it's called "Irak, le chant des absents". As a DV movie, sometimes the sky is becoming too white and the sun looks like a neon volcano; but the aim of the movie wasn't to make un film d'esthète. It's a movie about the real Irak of today, from the south to the north. Amongst hundred of interesting informations, I was amazed by the presence of so many religions. Especially, 2 religions I had never heard about: the Mandeans and the Yazidis. Both are older than Jesus and Mahomet; the Mandeans are the last surviving Gnostic sect and perhaps, the lost Nazoreans, the last of the Essenes (Saint John the Baptist's sect). The Yesidis are very old too: "the Yazidi religion is a syncretic combination of Zoroastrian, Manichaean, Jewish, Nestorian Christian and Islamic elements." This is also Irak, the country where many of our civilization (Sumer, Abraham) was born.
mardi, juin 27, 2006
In 1993, when Marseille won the EU football cup, we went down to La Canebière to see the human tide... Marseille is a city of football, of muscles, of boobs and blood. We could hear the girls having (or faking) sexual pleasure from our appartment, this is how they signified to the man that he was a real one. We could listen to the football match development the same way, windows open. Now, the south seems to have reached Paris: every football action in the tonight match is followed by a huge rumour coming from everywhere. It sounds like a displaced reaction. So many people seem to have converted to football recently. Why? My feeling is that more and more people reject intelligence and culture and choose to go back to the circus maximus. This was my research in litterature at the Aix en Provence university in 94: humans going back to previous levels of civilization and they fail, because they are not owning the key anymore. On a gagné doesn't create reality, doesn't make a community. You're not making a nation by beast howlings. Prehistory didn't have football but already had some gods, already had the arts.
And probably some primitive football too... with the enemy's head.
I spend time recording a song written in Marseille in 1993. It's a very simple song with the acoustic guitar. I cannot play the guitar very well... We moved to Marseille in 1991 and stayed there until september 1995. We lived 6, rue des convalescents and 13, rue mazagran, in the heart of quartier Belsunce. There is an excellent french rap song called Belsunce breakdown. People say that this area is changing; it was poor and warm, you could feel the poetry of the city everywhere. People were sitting outside to the sun. Rosting lamb heads were giving an eye to you while you passed by. You could have a delicious couscous for about 4 euros at the restaurant "Sur le Pouce". We loved Belsunce. I hope that Belsunce will escape the bobo fate that spreads like a disease in every big city of the world. Bye bye regular people, bye bye the artists, bye bye the soul, par ici la monnaie!
samedi, juin 24, 2006
En plein air, pas mal de concerts gratuits avec en plus un village de labels pour apporter timidement sa démo et acheter: Villette Sonique. Cherchez les stars dans le public!
Les stars: David Fenech; Olivier Lamm et Shinsei sont les stars que je remarquai. Matmos a fait du bon boulot sur sa scène aménagée sur un marécage en béton (Matmos played on a concrete swamp). J'ai acheté dans le Village label les disques Yupi de chez Plop; le nouvel Hypo (qui est génial de folie et d'inventivité); un LP de Gutevolk de chez Happy; le Pellicule de Davide Balula, chez un homme qui distribue des disques japonais en France (Mochi Mochi). Vu le Digiki dont le packaging sortait de la rangée de CD's. Achetez le magazine Standard, abonnez-vous. Le contenu est palpitant.
Henri Chopin at the Galerie Laura Pêcheur, yesterday evening for a live performance, thanks to his publisher Ikko. A 84 years old man who's still a jeune homme, who's having incredible stories to tell with his mouth, with his breath, with his body. A sound poet who says that he's not having a soul but a body. Later Henri Chopin went back to his hôtel and we went to a restaurant at the corner of rue Montmartre and Rue Lafayette. At 3 in the morning we witnessed a huge accident; I saw a motorbike flying in the air and put my hands on my eyes. Dancing couples with no music (OK).
I am working on the next Toog album. Goto will be a CD + DVD album. There is a new support called DAVD on which you can have the CD on one side and the DVD on the other. On the CD there will be songs like: are visages electric, my house, ébréché, la chambre noire, go to, alabama gay, plus songs taken from the book soundtrack: forfait, 52 jours pour Tombouctou, elle retire sa culotte. Most of the album is slow, dense, dark, low-fi, even if you sometimes have 70 tracks. How many copies of Goto will I sell? My first album "6633" sold environ 5000 copies worldwide, because we toured a lot with Momus and Kahimi Karie. The last one, "Lou étendue" with Asia Argento, only sold 1000 copies because there was no show. Conclusion: never release an album without live promotion.
I have edited one hour of Goto. It's a movie I really wanted to see, so I made it. All the actors are amateurs because I don't like to work with professionals: the cactus are amateurs, the cities are amateurs, the people are amateurs, the food is amateur, the weather is amateur, the drive is amateur, the life is amateur. I shot 12 tapes; too excited by the idea of editing the last tape on imovie, I dropped it and it broke. Now it is on the way to Beaulieu-Images, a former Super 8 french factory (I bought one Beaulieu years ago) who repairs video tapes, amongst other activities. It is a good transition from Super 8 to DV. In the early nineties I shot many Super 8 after having watched the Jonas Mekas films in Marseille (1993). Mekas was working with a portable Bolex 16, a very nice looking cam. You don't know the Jonas Mekas diaries? One of the most influential piece of art I have ever seen, something that will last forever.
Going to the cinema to see OK Corral wasn't a waste of time and money. First, because we saw the cactus hills you briefly see in the movie 2 weeks ago. In the Saguaro park near Tucson, we met a famous cactus who played a scene with Kirk and Burt; he introduced us to the stunt cactus that you can see in this image. Cactus have always behaved like the very professional actors they are; I regret that they are underused now...
The role played by Kirk's cleft chin in the film is extraordinary; you only understand at the very end that the guns were hidden in the depth of it. You can't figure it out since you have this white horses herd drinking around the shadowy cleft, which is also a pond.
You have the very young Dennis Hopper playing the role of Billy. While being dead, Hopper is moving 2 times his eyelids, due to very small noises. He is a very bad actor; the first thing that you learn as an actor is to not move your eyelids when you're dead. Even the children know that. Hopefully, he did extraordinary films as a director such as "Out of the blue", that I saw at the Etrange Festival in Paris, thanks to Asia Argento's choice...
After our cover version of Woodie Guthrie's "This land is your land" that we sang in New York with Florence, a cover that everybody seemed to enjoy (and that the amazing Fashion Flesh will produce during the summer), I would love to do the OK Corral song, which is very complicate. The legend says that OK comes from the civil war, it meaned zero killed; zero killed in a war day was a good day. In a time of peace, the real shooting at Zero Killed Corral is an extraordinary clin d'oeil à l'histoire.
déclarez la guerre aux dj résidents
délogez les dj dégagez
faites la guerre aux platines mollies
des restaurants lounge
foutez-les moi dehors je préfère voir
le dj résident chez shopi
au rayon frais
plutôt que dans ces réserves
où ils végètent au rayon légumes
During the Controlling Tumble Weeds by the Power of the Mind annual Festival in New Mexico, I am proud to say that, for the first time in my life, I was able to control two tumble weeds in the same time from a small distance. Some young women in the assistance fainted while watching this small miracle.
Later the same day a journalist interviewed one tumble weed called Jean-Michel for the tumble weeds magazine. Jean-Michel answered some questions:
I am where I go.
What are you?
I'm what makes me go.
Where do you go?
I come from where I go.
Where do you come from?
I'm from where I go.
What do you feel?
I feel like I'm gonna go now.
Prada Marfa is incredible. It's not far from the Chinati Foundation initiated by Donald Judd in Marfa. For me, it means much more than the art by Judd and friends, an art turned into money & religion & museum circuit. This genuine Prada store along the road in the desert is the most moving piece of art I have ever seen (but the sceneries that surround it, mother nature still being artist n°1 in the South West).
At the Chinati, you have to be careful to not move any piece of dust in the Kabakov installation (a communist abandoned school) since it is there on purpose. You have to be careful to not touch the aluminium giant sculptures by Judd and to not move the stones by Richard Long. The people start to talk very carefully to not disturb the ghosts of such a grandeur...
Artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset present their newest sculpture, entitled Prada Marfa. "The work is located on the outskirts of Valentine, Texas near Marfa on desolate ranching land with no other visible trace of civilization. As one drives toward the artwork it appears to be a large minimalist sculpture; as one gets closer it looks like a luxury boutique where a display of Fall 2005 high-heel Prada shoes and bags can be seen through the store front windows. Yet, one cannot open the door, it is a sealed time capsule and will never function as a place of commerce."
Quemado, New Mexico.
New York, Athens (al), Austin (tx), Fredericksburg (tx), Big Bend (tx), Presidio (tx), Marfa (tx), White Sands (nm), Truth or Consequences (nm), Chloride (nm), Saint John's (az), the petrified forest site (az), Tucson (az), Las Vegas (nv), San Diego (ca), Los Angeles (ca), Salt Lake City (ut), Wendover (ut), New York.
Thanks to all the friends (Joseph and Alton, Karin, Jen-Marie, Momus, Carolina and Juan) and people who made this trip a wonderful experience... Once we heard "you'll see a lot of nothing" and it was right: in 3000 miles, we saw a lot of nothing, but this nothing was stuffed with a voice from the everything.
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Missy Elliott to Join Katy Perry at Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show?
By Emily Tan January 30, 2015 2:03 PM | The Boombox
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Super Bowl halftime shows usually include a few surprise guests. Remember when Bruno Mars brought Red Hot Chili Peppers to the stage last year? This year seems to be no different as Missy Elliott is reportedly making a special appearance during Katy Perry’s set on Sunday (Feb. 2).
According to the AP, a source who knows what will go down for the halftime show revealed that the ‘Work It’ rapper will be performing on the field at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz this weekend. However, the NFL has yet to make any confirmations.
Missy had a featured spot on the remix of Katy’s 2011 track, ‘Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)’ so that might be where she appears in her set.
When Katy spoke a press conference yesterday (Jan. 29), she dropped hints by saying that the show will include an “old school” female singer. “When you hear the first ring of the chord,” she said. “I think jaws will drop and faces will melt.”
Lenny Kravitz is also scheduled to perform as a featured guest during the halftime show.
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Source: Missy Elliott to Join Katy Perry at Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show?
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Sam Smith Mourns Loss of His Love in ‘Lay Me Down’ Visuals [Video]
By Emily Tan February 5, 2015 9:02 PM | The Boombox
Sam Smith has given us heartbreak in the past, but he takes it to another level with his new video for ‘Lay Me Down.’
Set in a church in southeast London, the crooner stands in the middle of the aisle with the congregation gathered around him holding candles. As the camera starts to pan out, we find out that he’s at a funeral where the song becomes a kind of eulogy to the loved one he lost.
Darkness turns to daylight and we find Sam in the middle of his wedding — leading us to assume that the one in the coffin is his late husband. Next, the singer is found reflecting in a pew about the happy memories he once had with his other half.
While he says that he doesn’t necessarily want to be a spokesperson solely for the LGBT community, this video really makes a mark on what is going on in the world today with the same-sex marriage debate still a hot-button issue.
He shares more of his feelings about the visual, which he collaborated on with director Ryan Hope, on his Facebook page. Check out his touching words below.
Post by SAM SMITH.
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The Finger Wrap: Moscow, Madhya Pradesh & Madurai
Of all the excuses in the world to obscure sexual harassment here’s one we’ll bet you haven’t heard before: a combination of magic realism, metaphysical dimensions, poetry and research. Good luck understanding it!
Justice G Rohini
Justice G Rohini, 58, formerly a judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, is the first woman to be sworn in as Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court.
Itching for a new book and wishing it would land at your doorstep? Meet Rajani Bai T.K., a travelling librarian in a Kozhikode neighborhood working for a scheme to get more women to read.
In a charge-sheet filed against Yasin Bhatkal and his aide Asadullah Akhtar, a Special Cell of the Delhi Police told a court that the September 2010 attack on the Jama Masjid was prompted by the “un-Islamic” act of having foreign visitors wearing “mini skirts/short clothes”.
When a pregnant journalist asked Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky (head of a pro-Kremlin nationalist party) a question he didn’t like, he unleashed a tirade against “bloodthirsty” women with “uterine frenzy” and, terrifyingly, asked his aides to “violently rape her”.
An Amnesty International report details how Qatar’s laws make it possible for employers to abuse their domestic help, often drawn from Asian countries.
A 16-year-old Dalit girl in Madhya Pradesh who alleged she was gang-raped was submitted, against medical guidelines, to the two-finger test by doctors in Singrauli. They concluded she was “habituated to sexual intercourse” and had no injuries, therefore she was not raped. Time to send our doctors back to school?
Last week, you read about Bharathi Kannamma, a transgender in Madurai standing for Lok Sabha elections. This week, there’s more from Madurai: heard about the transgender recruits of the Madurai Home Guard?
Emma Stone awesomely interrupts a Q&A session with co-star and boyfriend Andrew Garfield that has little kids in the audience, to point out a sexist remark. PolicyMic points out she’s called out sexism before.
Victoria Coren Mitchell is the first person to ever win the European Poker Tour twice. In 2006, she was the first woman to win the title. Here’s a fascinating interview.
In sports this week, squash champ Joshna Chinappa defeated Australia top-seed and former world champion Rachael Grinham to win the Richmond Open, and Anjum Chopra received the Padma Shri for her contribution to cricket. Meanwhile, at the Badminton Asia Championships in Gimcheon, Korea, PV Sindhu and doubles partners Ashwini Ponnappa and Jwala Gutta all had to settle for bronze medals.
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Changing the way we live
Posted on July 3, 2019 Leave a comment
In what should be called a terrorism trial, but is not, a muslim “asylum seeker” from Afghanistan asked shoppers if they were English, before attacking them with 10-inch knife. The migrant at a south London Tesco Extra supermarket was motivated by a desire to “kill members of the public if they were English”, a court at the Old Bailey has heard.
Samiulahaq Akbari, 32, stalked potential victims at a Tesco Extra in Thornton Heath on January 8 while holding a 10-inch blade.
Footage shows the Afghan asylum seeker tapping shopper Nicholas Speight on the shoulder before asking his nationality. When Speight revealed that he was from the UK, Akbari lunged at the victim with a large knife, the court was told.
Prosecutor Heidi Stonecliffe told the court on Tuesday that it was only “by luck” that the unsuspecting victim had escaped the ordeal without a mark.
Categories: Alternative Media, Anti-White, apologism, Assault, Asylum Seekers, Attack on Europe, Border Protection, Changing the way we live, Crime, Culture Wars, England, European News, Free Speech, Globalism, Illegal Immigration, IRC, Ireland, Islam, Islamic immigration, Islamic terrorism, Islamisation, knife attack, London, Lying Media, mass immigration, MediaWatch, migrant invasion, Multiculturalism, Muslim immigration, Open Borders, Police, population replacement, refugees, Sadiq Khan, Security, Terrorism, UK, United Kingdom, Western Europe, White Genocide
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Backwards Integration: Is it not up to the incoming population to integrate with the existing population? Should muslim kids not be taught christian ways? Why is the existing population expected to integrate with the incoming population? That is invasion and ethnocide. A video of a Danish class chanting Allahu Akbar triggers strong reaction.
The methods of integrating Muslim refugee children into Denmark’s society is at the center of a fierce debate, after a video of Danish pupils being trained to recite Islamic prayers prompted harsh criticism from conservatives.
Defenders of European identity quickly rushed to condemn ‘Koran indoctrination’ in schools after a two-minute video surfaced online showing a boy of African descent teaching his third-grade classmates his daily prayer ritual, all under the careful guidance of their teacher. The entire exercise ends with the class kneeling and chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is great).
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Tags: DENMARK, English Democrats, Integration, Islam, Koran, Mohamed Shafiq, North West, Ramadhan Foundation, Reverse, School, Stephen Morris, Thyregod, Vejle
Female pilots in Ireland are being told by their employers to “terminate” their pregnancies or their employment, according to Capt. Evan Cullen, who leads the Irish Air Line Pilots’ Association. Approximately half of all pilots serving airlines registered in Ireland are self-employed contractors, thus making them reluctant to complain about work conditions. Some of the female pilots, Cullen said, have been told they should not become pregnant.
Female pilots, he said, are being told “you have a choice, you terminate your employment or you terminate your pregnancy. You can’t have both. So that is absolutely what goes on.”
In a hearing before the Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection in Ireland’s Dáil — the lower house in Ireland’s Oireachtas national legislature — Cullen said self-employed pilots are afrai
Categories: Alternative Media, apologism, Attack on Europe, Changing the way we live, cover-up, Genocide, Globalism, Health, Ireland, population replacement, Women Safety
Tags: Aer Lingus, Airline, Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Dail, Evan Cullen, Oireachtas, Paul Murphy
An Indian MP has lashed out at praying Muslim groups blocking roads and public places, saying that Muslim worshipers in India should pray in mosques and that those who block public streets, while offering Namaz should be dealt with. The Indian lawmaker has said this as the country’s minority Islamic community celebrates Eid-al-Fitr.
Some religious practices of local Muslims cause inconveniences to residents of Indian and many other cities, Bhola Singh, who was recently re-elected to the Indian parliament has said. The lawmaker from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) is urging Muslims to restrict their prayers to specialized places of worship.
“A place has been designated for expressing your devotion. Roads should not be blocked. If it happens, it is wrong. Action should be taken.”
The politician believes that Hindus celebrating their festivals are, by contrast, not disturbing anyon
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Bono & Leo – Selling Kith, Kin and Country for EU Coin While The EU Crashes yet Ireland Has NO Plan B!
Bono & Leo – Selling Kith, Kin and Country for EU Coin While The EU Crashes and Socialist Ireland Has NO Plan B!
As Merkel starts her exit, hapless Macron who has been primed to take over lead in EU is having serious problems of his own. When the loss of UK hits EU and their budget, EU will get yet another knock to add to Italy ignoring EU dictates on their national Budget and Eastern Europe standing in Solidarity against enforced mass immigration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqQAzTXacb0
Meanwhile EU and the Irish Regime are smuggling in as many Africans into UK over the non existent NI border, as many as 30 per night are being bussed from Dublin Airport…
Maggie Thatcher’s words and criticism of John Major signing the Maastricht Treaty are becoming true 30 years on…
The more you educate yourself about EU the more you learn it gives you no choice but to resist it…
Wake up and start fighting back – we will need to make
Categories: Alternative Media, apologism, Attack on Europe, Border Protection, Brussels, Changing the way we live, EU, Europe, European News, Foreign Affairs, France, Ireland, Italy
Tags: Bono, Dublin Airport, Eastern Europe, EU and their budget, EU Coin, EU Crashes and Socialist, Europe news, existent NI border, Immigration, Ireland, Ireland news, Irish news, Irish regime, Italy news, Maastricht Treaty, Macron, Maggie Thatcher, Merkel, smuggling, SOLIDARITY, wold news
While Italy and Hungary Reward Families, Ireland’s Death Cult Murders Babies, Attacks Families and Family Values
While Italy and Hungary Reward Families and encourage them to have children, Ireland’s Cult of Death Attacks Families and Family Values.
As Ireland hurtles headlong into absolute cultural marxism where everything is objectified and families are deconstructed, it seems free abortion on demand and abortion tourism is inevitable, despite denials that it would never happen from the ministers of the cult of death that currently rule in Ireland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE8cJhpqvwk
A Death Cult which will not hesitate to use the most horrendous grotesque method to murder babies in the womb… at the very time that they spend millions bringing 3rd worlders and their children in to Ireland…
They literally murder their own children whilst importing the children of 3rd worlders – there can be no greater treason and evil…
This attack on Christianity accompanies an attack on sovereignty and resources as witnessed by gay marriages and murder of unborn babi
Categories: Alternative Media, apologism, Attack on Europe, Changing the way we live, EU, Europe, Genocide, Globalism, Ireland, Islam, Islamic terrorism
Tags: abortion referendum, abortion tourism, biased media, brainwashed, Christianity, Europe news, free abortion, gay marriages, Hungary news, importing children, Ireland news, Irish Children, Irish heritage, Irish news, Islam, Italy news, Left Wing, murder of unborn babies, murdering babies, porn, the cult of death
Sweden Hates White Families – Commie Social Minister Summonses Hungarian Ambassador Because Orban Spends Money on Families and Not Migrants
Not long after the communist’s, pretending to be centre left, managed to manipulate another four years in power, a diplomatic row over Budapest’s new family policy heated up between occupied Sweden and Hungary after Sweden said it had summoned Hungary’s ambassador to the foreign ministry.
“The meeting will take place today … in Stockholm,” foreign ministry spokesperson Anton Dahlquist told AFP, refusing to disclose other details.
On February 12th, Sweden’s Social Democratic Social Affairs Minister Annika Strandhäll wrote on Twitter that Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s seven-point family planning policy “reeks of the 1930s” and that “what is happening in Hungary is alarming”.
“Now Orban wants to have more ‘real’ Hungarian children. This kind of policy will harm the autonomy for which women have struggled for decades,” Strandhäll said.
Categories: African migrants, Africans, Alternative Media, Anti-White, apologism, Asylum Seekers, Attack on Europe, Barbara Spectre, Border Protection, Changing the way we live, Communism, Culture Wars, diversity's dark side, Eastern Europe, Europe, Foreign Affairs, Genocide, Geopolitics, Globalism, Hungary, Immigration, IRC, Ireland, Marxism, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Occupation Regimes, population replacement, Scandanavia, Sweden, Viktor Orbán, White Genocide
Tags: Annika Strandhäll, Anton Dahlquist, Budapest, Family, Hungary, Orbán, Zsolt Semjen
Homosexuality Caused Majority of Sex Abuse in Catholic Church, After Mistakenly Following The Sexualisation of Greater Society
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Homosexuality is the root cause for the majority of sex abuse at the catholic Church, not the Catholic Church itself, says a German cardinal who is one of the most senior German figures in the Catholic Church. He has controversially denied that sexual abuse was a problem in the Catholic Church, saying that the problem was caused by gay men rather than catholic priests.
Cardinal Walter Brandmüller played down widespread reports of sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church in an interview with news agency DPA on Friday. Bradmüller said that public debate on the sexual abuse “forgets or silences the fact that 80 percent of the cases of sexual assault in the church affected male youths not children”. He added that it was “statistically proven” that there is a connection between homosexuality and sexual abuse.
In an impassioned defence of the Church’s record, Brandmüller claimed that “<
Categories: Alternative Media, apologism, Attack on Europe, Changing the way we live, Christianity, Christians, Corruption, cover-up, Germany, Globalism, Ireland, Lying Media, Marxism, MediaWatch, morality, Religion, The Establishment, Western Europe
Tags: Cardinal, Catholic, church, Die Welt, Germany, Ulf Poschardt, Walter Brandmüller
Illegal Alien Jailed in Sweden for Raping 9 Year Old Girl – Lying Press Try Hard To Hide His Identity
An illegal alien has been sentenced to six years in prison and deportation from Sweden for raping a nine-year-old girl in a shed outside an apartment building. Fake news mainstream media has hidden his origin country and ethnicity for obvious reasons…
The 30-year-old approached the girl as she was cycling home from her school in Malmö, then lured her into the shed, locked the door, pushed her to the floor and raped her.
He then held the girl by the throat, and threatened to beat her if she didn’t stop screaming, according to a report in the Aftonbladet newspaper,
The girl told police that she had never seen her attacker before, leaving police struggling to find a lead. But the man turned himself in five days later, confessing fully to what he had done.
According to the court’s judgement, the man, who is himself father to a 9-year-old, told police that he had been in the area where the attack took place because he wanted “to find a girl to rape”. It didn’t m
Categories: Asylum Seekers, Border Protection, Censorship, Changing the way we live, cover-up, Crime, Crimes, Criminals, Deportation, Europe, European News, Illegal Migrants, Illegals, Ireland, Lying Media, Migrant Crime, Migrant Rape, Migrants, Rape, rapefugees, refugees, sexual assault, Sweden, UN
Tags: Europe, identity, illegal alien, Ireland, jailed, Lies, Malmo, Migrant, Migrants, perptrator, Press, Rapefugee, sexual offence, sexually abuse, Skellefteå, Sweden
GRAPHIC: If This Video Offends Or Bothers You, You Should Not Be Welcoming Illegal Unknown Migrants. M&M’s Anyone?
This is the video the Establishment, Mainstream media and Social Media Networks do not want you to see. Some mainstream media outlets like BBC and CBS are going so far as to call the islamic beheading as mere stab wounds to the neck! Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are removing this video as soon as it is being posted by users. We have decided to post it on EuroWars.org, as horrendous as it is, in an effort to make people realise the barbarity they are welcoming with open arms, and also in the interest of not censoring the brutality and inhumanity of these warriors and servants of Allah, but also to highlight the deceit that Mainstream media and the Establishment is practicing in the name of false virtue and oil cash.
You wouldn’t think the much vaunted ‘Religion of Peace,’ would need public relations interference by the mainstream media, establishment and global tech elites, but that’s exactly what Islam is ge
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Selling Kith, Kin and Country for EU Coin – While The EU Crashes and Ireland Has NO Plan B
While Italy and Hungary Reward Families, Ireland’s Death Cult Attacks Families and Family Values
Far Left in Ireland in Panic Mode as Christian Conservative Filmmaker Lauren Southern Secretly Visits and Gathers Evidence…
It seems the Irish Occupation regime’s decision to open FOUR Direct Provision centres in quick succession has drawn sharp objection, not only from indignant locals, but has also prompted a secret visit from conservative documentary maker Lauren Southern, whose documentary “Farmlands” about Farm Murders in South Africa (see video at bottom) has received wide acclaim with over 2 Million views on youtube. Lauren is working on a new documentary entitled “No Borders”.
The far left organisations behind the invasion of Ireland, like the Irish Immigration Council, the Irish Refugee Council, Refugee Integration Agency, Dept of Justice, etc. etc, resorted to sending out an emergency alert to all direct Provision centres to warn their profit units (migrants) about the bad boogeyman (rayyyssists!) who would offer them bribes to do an interview.
Whilst this claim is totally false, Lauren has confirmed to Irish news that she does not pay anyone:
Lauren stated: “Wow. I
Categories: Africa, African migrants, Africans, Alternative Media, Antifa, apologism, Asylum Seekers, Attack on Europe, Border Protection, Censorship, Changing the way we live, Constitution, consumers, Culture Wars, Deportation, EU, Europe, European News, Farm murders, Fascism, Foreign Affairs, Free Speech, Genocide, Geopolitics, George Soros, Globalism, Greece, Illegal Immigration, Independence, IRC, Ireland, Lying Media, mainstream media, MediaWatch, Migrants, Multiculturalism, New World Order, Occupation Regimes, refugees, South Africa, The Establishment, UK, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, Western Europe, White Genocide
Tags: African, Bribe, Corruption, Council, Far Left, Gemma O'Doherty, GEORGE SOROS, Grant, ICI, Immigration, Independent, IRC, Ireland, Justive, Lauren Southern, Petition, RIA, RTE, Traitor
Gotcha! Southern Exposes Left Wing NGOs Who Train Migrants To Lie in Asylum Claims – UN Pretends Ignorance and “Alarm”!
Undercover reporting from Lauren Southern, for her upcoming documentary Borderless, shows Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) training Muslim migrants how to lie about trauma they have allegedly experienced, and about being Christians in order to gain asylum status in Europe amongst other things. It is well known George Soros funded the printing of maps and guides with phone numbers for these left wing NGOs so the migrants could call them the moment they land (that is why they all have a phone when they arrive and guard it with their life)!
Lauren Southern is the young Christian Canadian who was banned from Fascist UK for simply critising Islam…
Ariel Ricker, the director of Advocates Abroad, which is a left wing group staffed by legal experts who help those seeking asylum, is heard admitting that “it’s all acting,” and is akin to “theatre.”
In one part of the undercover video recorded in Greece, Ricker is heard giving an exampl
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Kate Hudson’s Trainer on How to Get Fit in Time for Your Summer Vacay
What’s your go-to excuse for not being in shape? Not enough time on your hands? Is your gym too far?
Whatever it may be, after taking a class with Jason Wimberly, the self-titled “King of Lean,” or sitting down with him for 20 minutes (as in our case), you’ll struggle to find the words to excuse your unhealthy ways. The trainer, who works with Kate Hudson, Selma Blair and Sonoya Mizuno to name a few, doesn’t force his clients into a lifestyle of restriction. There isn’t a crazy diet involved. You don’t have to workout three times a day. You just have to do your morning workout, which you can do at home or on the go.
To prove his hassle-free concept of fitness, the trainer is joining W Hotels on their Fuel Weekend in Punta Mita, Mexico, which includes workout classes with the pros, spa treatments, beach parties, zip-lining and an open bar. The all-expense trip, from May 25-28, will cost you over $2,000, but according to Jason, the lifestyle is free.
While you may or may not be heading to Punta Mita, chances are, you will be heading somewhere soon. It’s summer, and more specifically, it’s wedding season. Your go-to excuse as to why you’re not working out on the regular won’t matter when your posing in a matching bathing suit for the inevitable “Bride Squad” vacation photo.
Don’t worry, Jason has fast and efficient ways to get your body snatched in time for your next bikini photo opp. Check out his workout tips below!
Hint: You’ll need lip gloss.
One Month Before
What to do: Move as much of your body as you can
Jason’s studio, The Wall (set to open its LA-based location in June), offers his signature workout, which he says will help you get right and tight fast, if you’re consistent. It includes 10 minutes of core activation, 20 minutes of weight-training and 30 minutes on a spin bike, with a break for lip gloss application because you should like fly while you’re getting fly—okurrr!
“To change your body the most, as quickly as possible, you need to move as much of it as possible,” he shared with us. “Don’t focus on one muscle group, move your body as much as you can with as many compound movements and multi-joint movements, because that increases your metabolic rate and really tones your muscles.”
What not to do: Do cardio, then lift weights
“A lot of people do heavy cardio and then lift weights, depleting their muscles’ ability to lift,” the fitness guru explained. “Your muscles are like batteries. They have a certain amount of energy they can spend and then they have to recharge. If you do cardio, then you try to lift weights, it’s disadvantageous. There’s no point. Your muscles can’t do anything because at that point they’re already maxed out.”
One Week Before
What to do: Focus on your upper back and do workouts that require a twisting motion
“If I have a deadline—I train a lot of models and actresses—I’m working on posture exercises that will get the upper back toned, and anything twisting through the center, because that makes your waist smaller,” he shared.
According to the pro, there are two reasons to focus on these regions.
The first: “By working the back of the shoulder with the bands, upper back toning changes the physique for much. Plus, when your shoulders have a better shape to them, your waist looks smaller.”
Known for his focus on the ab region, his second will shrink your waist: “For your core, anything that has a twisting motion [works]. It works your transverse abdominals and that’s what pulls your waist in. If you learn how to control your transverse [abs], your waist can shrink up to 1.5 inches.”
What not to do: Slouch
“Good posture makes you look so much leaner, younger and more graceful,” he revealed. “If you’re acting like an older person, you slouch over, so if you want to look the opposite of that, you stand up tall and have good posture. Plus, the majority of our injuries comes from bad posture.”
During the Trip
What to do: The Tabata Workout in the morning
“Tabata is a four-minute exercise, developed by Japanese scientists in the ‘70s for the Olympics. The theory is by pushing your body to an anaerobic threshold—meaning you’re unable to breathe—we can have a higher caloric burn in four minutes, than you would with 40 minutes of cardio. You do 20 seconds of an activity like high knees, mountain climbers, jumping squats, as hard and fast as you can. Then, you take 10 seconds to break. You do that for four minutes.”
What not to do: Waist your vacation doing cardio
“Studies say that cardio is what you need to do. You know, like hop on a treadmill for 45 minutes. It’s so pointless—a waist of your life.”
From: E News
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Nguyen Dai Hung , Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), Viet Nam
Nguyen Ba An, Institute of Physics, VAST, Hanoi, Vietnam
Philippe Brechignac, University of Paris-11, France
Nguyen Duc Chien, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietam
Bach Thanh Cong, Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Institute of Physics, VAST, Hanoi, Vietnam
Nguyen Manh Duc, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, UK
Natalia Del Fatti, University of Lyon 1, France
Jean-Marie Frère, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Kohz Hakuta, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Trinh Xuan Hoang, Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Viet Nam
Vo Van Hoang, Faculty of Applied Science, University of Technology, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Pham Van Hoi, Institute of Materials Science, VAST, Hanoi, Vietnam
Takeo Inami, Nishina Center, RIKEN, Japan
Totaro Imasaka, Kyushu University, Japan
Hideaki Kasai, National Institute of Technology, Akashi College, Japan
Le Hong Khiem, Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam
Dao Tien Khoa, Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
Dinh Xuan Khoa, Vinh University, Vinh city, Nghe An, Vietnam
Fam Le Kien, University of Vienna, Australia
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Nguyen Anh Ky, Institute of Physics, VAST, Hanoi, Vietnam
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