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Bond Cars Ltd was a British car maker. The company was formed by Lawrie Bond in Preston, Lancs in 1948.
Initially called Sharps Commercials Ltd, it changed its name to Bond Cars Ltd in 1965.
The company was taken over by the Reliant Motor Co Ltd of Tamworth, Staffs in 1970 who closed the Preston factory but continued to use the Bond name until 1974 on cars made at their Tamworth plant.
(text source: Wikipedia)
Bond minicar. (source: AutoHistorian )
The Bond Minicar Mark D brochure. Influenced by his years in the aircraft industry, Bond used sheet aluminium for the Minicar's body shell and its 122ccVilliers motorcycle engine produced a top speed of around 40 miles per hour.
With its claimed fuel consumption of 104 miles per gallon and priced at £150 plus purchase tax, it would herald cheap motoring for post-war Britain.
(source: Lancashire County Council).
Bond Minicar Mark C brochure. (source: John Lloyd)
Bond Bug 700ES decal. The Bond Bug did not have doors. The roof, windscreen, and part of the front of the car lifted up and pivoted forward to allow access. The sidescreens were removeable, but there were no opening windows.
Bond Car site resource.
Bond Owners Club Official site.
The Bond Minicar Lawrence "Lawrie" Bond story.
Bond Cars.
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Working to take back marriage for
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Now a 6 part video companion
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Pope Francis:
Children Have Right to
a Their Mother and Father
VATICAN CITY, November 17, 2014 -- Children have the right to be raised by a mother and a father, Pope Francis said, emphasizing that “the family is the foundation of co-existence and a remedy against social fragmentation.”editor
Lots of High Fives:
Philly Celebrates
Announcement of Pope's Visit
PHILADELPHIA, PA, November 18, 2014 -- Pope Francis’ official confirmation of a visit to Philadelphia in 2015 has stoked great Catholic enthusiasm and prompted hopes that a papal visit will reinvigorate the archdiocese.
A New Love Language:
Post Synod Conference
Seeks Ways to Communicate
Truth of Marriage
VATICAN CITY, November 15, 2014 -- Following the dramatic and media-hyped Extraordinary Synod last month, the Vatican is hosting a colloquium seeking to find “new and creative language to speak to people where they are.”
Most Synod Fathers
Seemed Unaware of the
Serious Risks of Cohabitation
PHILDELPHIA, November 10, 2014 -- The work of the Synod on the Family would be helped by a greater knowledge of psychological science with respect to vital issues affecting the Catholic family, including cohabitation, divorce, the resolution of marital conflicts, and homosexuality. Cohabitation will be the focus of this article.
How Can the Pope
Be Defined as "Reckless"?
SAN FRANCISCO, November 3, 2014 -- Recently, during an audience about marriage and family with 7,500 members of an Marian apostolate, the Holy Father fielded a question about how he could be defined as “reckless” by some people. The media has been having a field day spinning comments he has made to cause tremendous confusion. How he answered the question provides sage wisdom for all Christians.
'What is Being Proposed
Is Not Marriage'
Pope Francis Says in Audience
VATICAN CITY, October 26, 2014 -- In an audience with members of an international Marian movement, Pope Francis warned that the sacrament of marriage has been reduced to a mere association, and urged participants to be witnesses in a secular world.
We're 'Just Touching the Surface'
Of St John Paul II's Teachings
WASHINGTON, DC, October 23, 2014 -- St. John Paul II's life and teachings offer a witness to love that is so profound it is only beginning to be be mined for its riches, said the chaplain of the late pope’s national shrine in Washington, D.C.
Is a 'Vocation of Friendship'
Key to 'Gay' Ministry
In the Church?
WASHINGTON, DC, October 24, 2014 -- Recovering an understanding of friendship as a vocation could be a way for the Church to help ease spiritual problems of isolation, especially for those who are gay, said one Catholic author who is both lesbian and celibate.
Work, Pray, Love:
Archbishop Chaput's
Advice for Modern Christians
NEW YORK CITY, October 21, 2014 -- Religious believers should acknowledge that they are now “strangers” in U.S. society, in part because of their own failures, but should nevertheless work for renewal and worship God with joy, said Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput.
In Passionate Ruling,
Federal Judge Upholds
Puerto Rico’s Marriage Protection Law
SAN JUAN, PR, October 22, 2014 -- In a rare court victory for supporters of true marriage, a U.S. District Judge this week upheld the legality of Puerto Rico’s marriage protection law, which defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman.
The Gospel of the Family
in the Secularized West
ROME, October 13, 2014 -- That fundamental cell of society which is the family is going through a period of extraordinarily rapid evolution. Premarital relationships are now lived out in the open and divorce is almost normal, often as a result of the breaking of conjugal fidelity. This is pulling us away from the traditional physiognomy of the family, in countries and cultures marked by Christianity.
The Real Dilemma:
Indissolubility or Divorce
ROME, October 13, 2014 -- After the first week of the synod, one thing is clear: the real focus of the discussion is whether or not to admit divorce in Catholic marriage.
Supreme Indecision
About Marriage Redefinition
WASHINGTON, DC, October 10, 2014 -- Following Justice Anthony Kennedy’s stay on a “gay marriage” court decision in Idaho, marriage advocates are imploring the Supreme Court to reject the judicial redefinition of marriage.
Watch as Reintroducing Marriage
Continues on EWTN-TV
At Home with Jim and Joy,
October 9, 10, 11, or 12
SAN FRANCISCO, October 6, 2014 --Those who heard Catholics for the Common Good president, Bill May on Catholic Answers Live last Friday heard him talk about the need to make a concerted effort to reintroduce what marriage is to the culture in a way that helps people discover its truth and beauty. On Thursday, October 9 at 2 PM ET (11 AM PT), he will be the guest of EWTN’s premier marriage evangelists, Jim and Joy Pinto on their internationally broadcast television program, At Home with Jim and Joy.
Bill May on Catholic Answers Live Radio, Oct 3, 2014
Re-introducing Marriage to the Culture
SAN FRANCISCO, October 2, 2014 -- Please tune in to Catholic A nswers Live radio Friday, October 3rd as Bill May discusses the need to reintroduce marriage to the culture with host Tim Staples. It should be a lively discussion as they take calls from people across the country and Internet listeners. Check with your local EWTN affiliate radio station for the local broadcast times or use the links below.
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Pokémon Advanced Challenge - The Complete Collection to be released in North America
To be available December 5
Reported on Bulbanews by SnorlaxMonster
Originally reported on Amazon
[url=//bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Advanced_Challenge_-_The_Complete_Collection_to_be_released_in_North_America] Pokémon Advanced Challenge - The Complete Collection to be released in North America[/url]
<a href="//bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Advanced_Challenge_-_The_Complete_Collection_to_be_released_in_North_America"> Pokémon Advanced Challenge - The Complete Collection to be released in North America</a>
Pokémon Advanced Challenge - The Complete Collection
Pokémon Advanced Challenge - Complete Collection, the complete DVD box set for the seventh English dubbed Pokémon season, Pokémon Advanced Challenge, will be released in North America on December 5, 2017. The DVDs in this box set are Region 1.
According to the back cover image on Amazon, the set contains over 23 hours of content. However, Pokémon Advanced Challenge should not have a length greater than 19 hours. The same error occurs on the back cover of Pokémon Advanced - Complete Collection, which incorrectly states it has over 23 hours of content rather than over 13 hours. This is likely due to the duration on the back cover being copied from Pokémon: Master Quest - The Complete Collection.
This season was previously released in North America across 10 DVD volumes in 2005 and 2006. This is the first time the entire season has been included in a single home video release in North America.
This follows the release of Pokémon: Indigo League - The Complete Collection in 2014, Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands - The Complete Collection and Pokémon: The Johto Journeys - The Complete Collection in 2015, Pokémon: Johto League Champions - The Complete Collection and Pokémon: Master Quest - The Complete Collection in 2016, and Pokémon Advanced - Complete Collection in 2017.
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By BusinessForensics8 November 2018Client cases
“BusinessForensics is a pleasant vendor to work with and their software is great.”
Jorik Koper – Sr. Fraud Coordinator at KNAB
In 2012 KNAB was founded as a label of Aegon N.V. In the beginning, when KNAB was still a small bank, they could do with keeping an incident register in a simple Excel-sheet. However, as KNAB’s business grew, the use of excel became more and more difficult. KNAB let Aegon know that they were ready for a more professional solution. As one option, KNAB could adopt the incident management system Aegon was working with, that of Syfact, but the supplier had decided no longer to support this system. For that reason, Aegon and KNAB agreed to select a new incident management system.
Jorik describes how the fraud department operated in those early days. The department relied mostly on human logic. With system queries, staff would filter out suspicious payments and possible fraud. Then the incidents were registered in Excel. This caused problems because, for example, only one person at a time could make changes to the Excel file. Another task that was difficult at that time was to identify links between cases.
Growing organization aiming for modernization
KNAB needed to modernize their fraud department. To do so, they wanted an incident management system that was accessible to multiple users in different locations. A system that would make it possible to do big data analysis and to understand the interlinkages between incidents better. Another requirement was that the historical data from Syfact could be used. They also expected the incident management system to have good reporting capabilities.
For the monitoring system, KNAB wanted to do both transaction monitoring and behavior monitoring to be able to make a complete client profile. The system also needed to have the ability to connect to the transaction, IT and CRM systems in order to collect and link data from multiple sources. Further, they wanted the monitoring system to connect to the incident management system and, of course, they needed the quality of the generated alerts to be high.
Jorik tells us that he had expected that the systems of BusinessForensics would be off the shelf products and could be implemented right away. This was different than expected because at the time BusinessForensics worked with a framework that would be configured together with KNAB to adapt to the wishes and needs of their organization. This way of implementing took some extra effort but made the system all the more streamlined to KNAB’s needs.
Improved processes, cost savings, and control
The new BusinessForensics systems provide a lot of time-saving for KNAB. The software has helped KNAB to be much more efficient, it’s easier to spot connections, and they have better insight into what customers do and what KNAB thinks about that from a perspective of fraud and integrity.
The BusinessForensics systems help KNAB to retain control over their compliance by being more aware of what customers do. Because fraud can be detected at an early stage, there are no damages which means that costs and capacity reservation can be used to improve the products for the customer.
“Integrity is the number one priority for KNAB.”
An additional advantage is that the fraud department can show the links that they find in presentations which raises a lot of awareness within the rest of the bank. As a result, the department is more visible and able to gather interest and understanding among the rest of the organization, which fosters trust in the fraud department among the rest of the organization. Something that helps strengthen the cooperation with other departments.
One thing that Jorik did not expect was the positive responses he gets from other banks on the analysis KNAB makes with BusinessForensics. Especially in the fight against fraud cases that spread over multiple banks, KNAB’s analysis is often enlightening. These analyzes are presented comprehensively in diagrams and networks that regularly generate interest and admiration and lead to new insights.
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Tony-Winning Director John Tiffany Gives the Scoop on Hit Musical Once
December 11th, 2013 | By Jesse North
With its gorgeous score and innovative staging, it’s no wonder the romantic musical Once took home the Tony Award in 2012 for Best Musical. Now, the sweeping songs by Academy Award winners Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova are coming to the Boston Opera House from January 7 through 19. Director John Tiffany, who won a Tony for his work on the musical, explains what is so special about Once in the video below. Hear what Tiffany says about transforming theaters into pubs and why audiences have been moved by the actors, who double as musicians.
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Item NU 4741 Proof Coin - 1 Shilling, Australia, 1955
Shilling 1955 (AD)
Proof strike
Mint: Melbourne
This was the first year since 1935 that proofs were manufactured for collectors.
A silver coin (23.5 mm diameter with milled edge) featuring a laureate head of Elizabeth II facing right with the legend, + ELIZABETH . II . DEI . GRATIA . REGINA F: D:. The reverse features a ram's head facing three-quarters left; around above, AUSTRALIA, around below between two Federation stars, SHILLING . 1955. The artist's initials, KG is in the field above the star on the right.
Obverse Description
Head of Elizabeth II, laureate right; around, + ELIZABETH . II . DEI . GRATIA . REGINA . F: D:
Reverse Description
Ram's head facing three-quarters left; around above, AUSTRALIA, around below between two Federation stars, SHILLING . 1955. The artist's initials, KG is in the field above the star on the right.
Edge Description
Milled
Numismatics & Philately
Transfer from Melbourne Branch of Royal Mint, 1978
HM Queen Elizabeth II, Australia, 1955
Melbourne (Mint)
Mary Gillick OBE
George K. Gray - Royal Mint, London
Obverse: + ELIZABETH . II . DEI . GRATIA . REGINA . F: D: Reverse: AUSTRALIA SHILLING 1955 KG
Pre-decimal
Coins, Australia, Proof strikes
History & Technology
23.5 mm (Outside Diameter), 5.639 g (Weight)
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Why US v Mongol Nation is Still a Threat Despite Trademark Win
The recent decision by Judge David Carter in US v. Mongol Nation that the First and Eighth Amendments to the US Constitution prohibits the government’s request to seize the collective membership marks of the Mongols MC, including their club name patch and center-patch, is a victory for all. A victory that should be discussed and celebrated. However, the MPP also believes that part of this discussion should focus on the other implications to Judge Carter’s decision. Implications that aren’t being discussed because the focus has understandably been on the patch forfeiture issues. What other implications? Beyond the issues of forfeiture, a brand-new strategy to target motorcycle clubs under RICO has been born and legally confirmed. The idea that a motorcycle club can be indicted under RICO as an entity, regardless of other members personal guilt, for crimes committed by individuals already punished for those crimes, should equally alarm everyone. Although the government can’t take a club’s patch, they can seize a club’s property and impose huge fines. What else could the government do with this new theory of prosecution?
In the government’s more than decade long mission to take the Mongols MC’s collective membership marks, and property bearing those marks, they stumbled upon a new theory of prosecution after previous attempts to take the patch were ultimately unsuccessful. The 9th Circuit ruled that the government couldn’t take patches and property from members of the club that had not been indicted because that would violate the First Amendment.
However, the court provided a blueprint for the government’s next move. The court concluded that the Mongol Nation, the unincorporated association that owns the collective membership marks in question, would have to be indicted as an entity for the theory to work. So, that’s exactly what the US Attorney decided to do.
US v. Mongol Nation has been the most recent result of the government’s new strategy. The Mongol Nation, as an entity, defined as all full patched members of the club, was charged and found guilty by a federal jury of racketeering and conspiracy to engage in racketeering under the RICO statute. That jury also granted the government’s request for forfeiture of collective membership marks, which Judge Carter set aside for Constitutional reasons. However, Judge Carter upheld the jury’s decision to convict and conditionally granted forfeiture of seized property. Specific items to be seized will be decided at a sentencing hearing set for April 24th, 2019.
They can’t take a club’s patch, but guilty verdict on MC as an entity upheld.
Although Carter doesn’t believe the government can take a club’s collective membership marks, he “agrees with the Government that an unincorporated association including the Mongol Nation can be held liable for each predicate act alleged in the indictment.”(The predicate acts in this indictment include everything from drugs to assault and murder charges)
The Court sees no meaningful distinction between corporate criminal responsibility and liability of unincorporated associations. The Supreme Court addressed the criminal liability of a partnership and specifically held that “the business entity cannot be left free to break the law merely because its owners, stockholders … partners … do not participate in the infraction.”
Leadership v. Rogue Actors- determining guilt for an association.
It is not enough that various members and associates of a motorcycle club “are involved in spontaneous criminal acts as an individual or as a small group of individuals. In other words, the spontaneous rogue acts of individual members and associates do not create guilt for an association.”
What element is required to find an association guilty of RICO? An implied connection to leadership is enough. “[T]o the extent that an illegal act was committed at the express or implied direction of the leadership of the defendant Mongol Nation, the entity may be found guilty. This is entirely consistent with corporate criminal responsibility, and is precisely what Congress intended in passing RICO, which expressly targets criminal organizations.”
The concerning terms “implied direction of the leadership…”
Further analysis of Carter’s decision may shed some light. Carter argues that Congress may constitutionally impose criminal liability upon an entity for acts of its agents. “Such liability may attach without proof that the conduct was within the agent’s actual authority, and even though it may have been contrary to express instructions.” Carter also argues that it’s not necessary for the government to prove that the act was authorized by the entity formally or in writing. Sounds like the government has a very low threshold of proof to establish that an act was committed “at the implied direction of leadership.”
So, what sentence will Judge Carter impose?
Judge Carter has been very explicit about what he intends to do on April 24th. Carter writes, “The Mongol Nation is guilty of substantive RICO and RICO conspiracy. The criminal organization is subject to sentencing fines and criminal forfeiture consistent with this Order.”
Items to be forfeited include weapons, ammunition, body armor, and related items originally seized during ATF raids. This comes as no surprise to the MPP as it seems consistent with other RICO forfeitures.
However, sentencing fines for criminal liability are not explained in-depth. How much can the fine be? Are there limits? Who pays the fine? The leadership? The membership?
What sentences will we see in the future?
Independent of sentencing fines and asset forfeitures, what else could the government seek in terms of criminal liability when a club is indicted as an entity? I’m not sure many people have a solid answer to this question. But I think the question is definitely worth exploring.
After a club is found guilty as an entity under RICO, can the government feasibly obtain an order against any member of the club possessing or carrying a firearm? The answer may vary depending on what state you are in, but even the very pro-2nd Amendment state of Texas is revoking gun rights from individuals solely for membership in a motorcycle club authority label a gang. The sky may not be falling, but possible impacts to gun rights are at least a possibility, particularly in “may issue” states.
What about employment? An individual without a criminal record is a member of an entity found guilty under RICO of Racketeering and Racketeering Conspiracy. Their employment contract requires that all employees not have a criminal record. Could it be argued that they now in violation of their employment contract?
There is no way to predict what the federal government will do moving forward with the newfound strategy of targeting a motorcycle club as an entity under RICO. But there are empirical reasons to believe that whatever strategy authorities employ will not advance civil liberties. Who could have predicted the strategy to completely redefine the First Amendment before they initially tried to take the Mongols MC’s patch? Who would have predicted the government’s initial success? Who would have predicted that nearly 200 individuals in Waco would be arrested on generic affidavits and incarcerated on $1-$2 million dollars bail instead of being questioned and released? Who would have guessed an individual could be arrested for Unlawful Carry in Texas as a LTC holder solely for being a member of a motorcycle club?
The Constitution does not seem to be a barrier in the decision-making calculus of authorities’ intent on targeting motorcycle clubs.
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Ariana Grande Steals Most Followed Woman Title On Instagram From Selena Gomez
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Katie Jerkovich Entertainment Reporter
February 25, 2019 8:17 PM ET
Ariana Grande is having a great month and broke another record Monday, this one previously owned by Selena Gomez for most followed woman on Instagram.
The 25-year-old singer nabbed the crown from the “Wolves” singer sometime in the afternoon when Grande’s follower number hit 146,286,173 compared to Gomez’ at 146,267,801, according to E! News. (RELATED: 24 Reasons To Wish Ariana Grande A Happy 24th Birthday [SLIDESHOW])
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It comes at a time when the “Thank U, Next” hitmaker has been breaking all kinds of records in the music business following reports last week that she topped the Billboard’s Top 100 with her three hits. They were “7 Rings,” “Thank U, Next” and “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored.” It was a feat not yet accomplished since the legendary Beatles did so back in 1964 when they claimed the top five spots on the Billboard. (RELATED: Ariana Grande Unrecognizable In Her Latest Magazine Spread)
The “God Is A Woman” singer has had 13 million more people add her to their feed in the last four months, per Billboard magazine.
In comparison, the “Back To You” hitmaker has been much less visible on the site after announcing back in September she was taking a break from social media following reports that she had entered a treatment facility to deal with mental issues. (RELATED: Ariana Grande Reveals One Version Of ‘Thank U, Next’ Was For Marrying Pete Davidson)
“As much as I am grateful for the voice that social media gives each of us, I am equally grateful to be able to step back and live my life present to the moment I have been given,” Gomez shared ahead of her break. “Kindness and encouragement only for a bit! Just remember: negative comments can hurt anybody’s feelings.”
The pop star previously held the title of the most-followed person on the site until October when soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo past her up, according to Elle magazine. He currently has 155 million followers.
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Dar devises 2bn/- maritime security enhancement project
LUDOVICK KAZOKA in Dodoma
DAYS are numbered for crooks who conduct illegal maritime activities, including illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, trafficking and smuggling through the country’s waters.
The government says it’s determined to enhance maritime security and safety for the country’s social and economic interests.
Under the auspices of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the government through the planned Tackling Illegal Maritime Activities project will establish inter-agency coordination mechanism to address illegal maritime activities.
Permanent Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office for Policy and Coordination Dorothy Mwaluko noted here over the weekend that the government was currently seeking an ideal approach to execute the UNDP-funded project, which will be launched soon.
“Permanent secretaries from the ministries, which will take part in the project will soon meet to deliberate on the best approach to execute the envisaged project,” Ms Mwaluko said at a joint meeting with UNDP delegation.
Chaired by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the 900,000 US dollar (over 2bn/-) project will involve the President’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Government; Vice-President Office, the Second Vice-President Office of Zanzibar, Finance and Planning Ministry and Home Affairs Ministry.
Other ministries which will participate in the project include livestock and fisheries development, works, transport and communication as well as ministry for tourism and natural resources.
Presenting the proposed project before the joint meeting, UNDP’s Pillar Lead Inclusive Growth, Mr Ernest Salla, said the project which will also involve a number of authorities and enhance maritime surveillance through provision of training and speedboats.
Among the authorities, which will participate in the project are Tanzania Revenue Authority, Tanzania Port Authority, Tanzania Fisheries Corporation, Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau, Drug Control and Enforcement Authority and Tanzania National Parks Authority.
Mr Salla informed that the major aim of the project is to support the government in establishing an overarching and comprehensive coordinating mechanism to oversee national maritime safety and security activities, leading to enhanced response to increasing IUU fishing, maritime pollution and trafficking.
“The project will also contribute to the economic security of coastal communities through empowerment on sustainable resource users in artisanal fishery through use of improved technologies and practices,” he said.
Mr Salla observed that threats from maritime crimes like IUU fishing, trafficking and smuggling have existed in the country and there has been, over the past year, an unexpected rapid increase in illegal activities at both the Ocean and lakes.
“This has led to severe fish stock depletion, resulting from undermined management plans to recover overexploited stocks and subsequently threatening food security,” he said.
Global losses to IUU fishing have been estimated at between 10 and 23.5 billion US dollars annually, equivalent to 11 and 26 million tonnes of fish per year.
Mr Salla said with ongoing depletion of fish stock in Tanzanian seas, importation of fish has increased, saying Tanzania produces about 336,821 tonnes of fish per year, against the demand of 731,000 tonnes. “Tanzania imports about 24,000 tonnes of fish worth.
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CNS News 7.5.2018 09:59 am
Sex work turned into an issue by Ladysmith residents
Nameera Sarjoo
Residents have cited the alleged involvement of children in sex work as one of their reasons for concern.
Residents are complaining that the problem of sex work is “getting worse” in Ladysmith.
Concerned residents say they see many sex workers on Settlers Drive at night, prowling for business. The workers are also seen on Forbes Street every day, where they allegedly flash motorists to further entice would-be customers, Ladysmith Gazette reports.
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As part of the first phase in a long-term crime prevention initiative, police and social workers from the department of social development swooped on Forbes Street on Friday, March 9, to address concerns by the public about underage prostitution.
A 17-year-old boy was one of those interviewed by police during the operation. The teenager was removed, and is being assisted in terms of the Child Care Act.
Other crime prevention operations have been planned in the same area in the near future.
People have expressed shock at the number of prostitutes who seem to be taking over Ladysmith, and have complained about young girls and boys being involved in sex work.
“This is really sad and something needs to be done about it, as children are involved in these activities,” said a concerned resident.
According to police, investigations are continuing regarding this matter.
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Flats and Sharps
Sunday Aug 25, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Flats and Sharps + Here At The Fair Sun 25th August Adult
Entry for one adult to concert with Flats and Sharps plus ‘Here At The Fair’ folk opera at 7.00pm (doors 6.30), Town Hall, The Platt Wadebridge, PL27 7AQ. And access to Sunday’s FAR Stage, behind Wadebridge Wines, Eddystone Rd, PL27 7AL
Flats and Sharps + Here At The Fair Sun 25th August Under 16s
Entry for one person under 16 years to concert with Flats and Sharps plus ‘Here At The Fair’ folk opera at 7.00pm (doors 6.30), Town Hall, The Platt Wadebridge, PL27 7AQ. And access to Sunday’s FAR Stage, behind Wadebridge Wines, Eddystone Rd, PL27 7AL
Note: Earlier start for this show — 7.00pm with doors at 6.30pm
Flats and Sharps blew the Cornwall Folk Festival away last year with two back-to-back stunning performances … so we just had to ask them back!
They’ve have come a long way from their humble beginning busking in Penzance as 17 year-olds to performing on the Town Square Stage at the Country 2 Country Festival at the O2 in London in March 2015 and at Proms in Hyde Park, London in September 2015. Along the way that have played for (and with) the Governor of Kentucky who jumped on stage to play with them, won fans at scores of festivals including Isle of Wight, Maverick and many bluegrass and folk festivals and performed for events for Ralph Lauren and Jack Wills shops in London. They were the headline act at the Ireland’s Westport Folk and Bluegrass Festival in June 2015.
With great voices, fast finger-picking and their mastery of playing round a single microphone makes for a thrilling visual and sound experience. They’ve also written some fine songs!
Flats and Sharps are ones to watch out for and these talented young men are clearly going to pick up many, many fans along the way.
With Mick Ryan’s folk opera ‘Here at the Fair’
Sunday Aug 25
£8.75 – £17.5
https://www.flatsandsharps.net
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After Facing Off On ‘The Voice,’ Two Singers Reunite In Harmony With ‘Delta Dawn’ Cover
Casi Joy / YouTube
Every time The Voice airs, viewers anxiously await the competitive battle rounds. The battles have two team members sing a duet in a fight for their spot on the show, leaving it up to their coach to decide who stays.
The battles are always a tough part of the show, since the coaches don’t really want to say goodbye to anybody. It’s tough for the competitors as well, since they form close bonds with their fellow teammates.
Several former battle partners from The Voice continue to work together, including two contestants from Blake Shelton‘s team…Casi Joy and Ashley Levin.
The two sang Reba McEntire‘s “How Blue” in one of the standout battle performances of Season 12 of The Voice. Casi walked away the winner, but Ashley was luckily stolen by Alicia Keys.
Both singers made their way through the knockout rounds and advanced to the live playoffs. They were both eliminated during the first week of live shows, but although their time on the show ended, their friendship did not.
Later, Casi took to her YouTube channel to share a cover of Tanya Tucker‘s signature song “Delta Dawn.” She happily revealed that Ashley was joining her for the cover, which they recorded after reuniting in Nashville.
The girls sang the opening of the song almost entirely a cappella, allowing them to showcase just how well they can harmonize with one another. Seriously, those harmonies will give you goosebumps!
The two took turns singing the verses of the song, but always came back together again on the chorus. That’s sure to be your favorite part of their cover, because you won’t be able to resist how their voices sound together!
Tune in below to watched this talented duo sing their rendition of “Delta Dawn.” We don’t know how Blake ever managed to choose between the two of them on The Voice!
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The Four of Us
Concert: The Four of Us
Date: Sat April 6th Time: 8.30pm Admission: €22/20
We’re delighted to welcome the Four of Us back to the Courthouse! The Four of Us have been a steadfast part of music history for over a quarter of a century. Formed and fronted by Newry-born brothers Brendan and Declan Murphy, they have developed a unique musical identity which has produced original and award-winning recordings, as well as a large and loyal fan base. the band has notched up over two decades of hits from ‘She Hits Me’ to ‘Sunlight’ and six Top 20 charting albums. Newry brothers Brendan and Declan Murphy have remained a constant presence, maintaining an impressive uninterrupted run since the release of their blockbuster debut album Songs for the Tempted.
“Intricate arrangements, skilful lyric writing, and as we have come to expect from The 4 Of Us, the songs are imbued with considerable melodic flair. Excellent” “Never before have I been to a gig where the atmosphere has been so electric …” – The Irish News
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Nurim Circuit Elevated Boardwalk by Design+Architecture & RRC
Nurim Circuit
Elevated Boardwalk
The natural site was the main inspiration. The site slope and remoteness forced the design to be modular with minimal disturbance on the actual site. Meccano principles was used to construct modules off site. The boardwalk looks over the local town and river. The natural bending river inspired the snake-like curvature layout of the boardwalk. The boardwalk is only a vessel for the visitor to experience nature and the breathtaking views.
Collaborative design effort between local consultants. Snake-like curvature boardwalk in a national park overlooking the town and river below. With remote access and steep site, most of the boardwalk was constructed of site and jointed together like Meccano. The boardwalk itself acted as scaffolding to maximize safety. Materials (steel, hardwood timber) was selected to minmize the risk of fire. Local indigenous artwork panels throughout. Unique experience to get in touch with nature and views.
The intention was to create a wheelchair-friendly, non-obtrusive structure that allows the visitor to immerse themselves in the nature and views that surrounds. The structure itself playing second fiddle and only acts as a means to experience the breathtaking views and the natural setting. The boardwalk itself are meant to feel organic but at the same time ensuring minimal environmental impact during construction, cost effective and low ongoing maintenance further on.
The design process started in mid-2017 and completed in November 2018 Mount Archer, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
The extreme slope of the mountain was the main shaper and creator of the design and structure. Rather than levelling out the slopes, the existing terrain was respected, and the boardwalk only gently touches the slope when needed. With remote access to the site and a steep drive up the mountain, the design team had to come up with an alternative construction methodology (with a major emphasis on safety). Inspiration was found in the building principles of Meccano and Lego - Constructing the boardwalk in transportable smaller sections off-site and then then installing, bit by bit. This created minimal works on site and almost no requirement for scaffolding, reducing risk of safety.
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Extreme slope of the mountain was the main shaper and creator of the design and structure. Rather than levelling out the slopes, the existing terrain was respected, and the boardwalk only gently touches the slope when needed. With remote access to the site and a steep drive up the mountain, the design team had to come up with an alternative construction methodology (with a major emphasis on safety). Inspiration was found in the building principles of Meccano and Lego - Constructing the boardwalk in transportable smaller sections off-site and then then installing, bit by bit. This created minimal works on site and almost no requirement for scaffolding, reducing risk of safety.
The slope of the mountain was the main shaper and creator of the design and structure. Rather than levelling out the slopes, the existing terrain was respected, and the boardwalk only gently touches the slope when needed. With remote access to the site and a steep drive up the mountain, the design team had to come up with an alternative construction methodology (with a major emphasis on safety). Inspiration was found in the building principles of Meccano and Lego - Constructing the boardwalk in transportable smaller sections off-site and then then installing, bit by bit. This created minimal works on site and almost no requirement for scaffolding, reducing risk of safety.
Michael Ramsay, Designer + Landscape/Urban Consultant , Malcolm Stewart, Engineer, Thomas Olsen, Project Manager, Luke Studdert, Civil Consultant, Neil Kershaw, Other, National Parks Specialist , Marcus Bree, Other, Visual Designer , Christine Bell, Project Manager, Boyd Hall, Construction Manager and
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Design+Architecture provides boutique modern and alternative architectural design services to clients throughout Queensland. Based in the CBD of Rockhampton, we don’t believe in ‘standard designs’, instead providing original, signature design and documentation to every project we work on. The Design+Architecture approach takes a holistic view of a project, providing a balance between practical use and innovative design. This is reflected in every aspect of Design+Architecture – from the project delivery through to the D+A logo. Rural Queensland still have plenty of work to be done in the architectural space, so there’s endless potential and opportunities for local talent who have determination to work and make a difference. This is why Design+Architecture was founded in Capricornia and will continue to grow in the region. Design+Architecture places a huge emphasis on relationships and truly pioneering with design and originality, which sets us apart from most larger firms. We believe in investing in relationships not just with potential clients, but potential collaborators. Our extended network is what ultimately brings in new and exciting projects. Every project we create is exactly and specifically designed for the end user or client to experience.
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Vano Merabishvili
Vano Merabishvili quits post in Saakashvili’s party
By DFWatch staff| 2017-01-24T19:53:28+00:00 January 24th, 2017|Categories: News|Tags: breakup of national movement jan 2017, Vano Merabishvili|
Vano Merabishvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–A former interior minister and close ally of ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili resigned as secretary general of the National Movement on Monday, the latest episode of a turbulent few months for the party that reformed Georgia over the course of a decade. […]
Three ex-officials including Vano Merabishvili found guilty of beating MP in 2005
By DFWatch staff| 2016-09-23T15:01:46+00:00 September 23rd, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: bringing the Saakashvili regime to justice, Valeri Gelashvili, Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court has found a former interior minister and two other ex-officials guilty of beating a parliamentarian in 2005. The guilty verdict against Vano Merabishvili, Erekle Kodua and Gia Siradze […]
Georgia’s jailed ex-interior minister thinks Strasbourg ruling will free him
By DFWatch staff| 2016-07-22T12:53:17+00:00 July 22nd, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
(Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s former interior minister Vano Merabishvili, who has been in prison since May 2013, claims a recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg will soon lead to his release. After a two years’ silence, Merabishvili […]
‘Saakashvili ordered beating of MP who criticized him to set an example’
By DFWatch staff| 2016-06-17T16:47:17+00:00 June 16th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: bringing the Saakashvili regime to justice, Irakli Okruashvili, Valeri Gelashvili, Vano Merabishvili|
Irakli Okruashvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili on Tuesday testified that ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili ordered the beating of a parliament member to make an example of what would happen to others if they dared openly criticize him. […]
Georgian president rejects politically motivated pardons
By DFWatch staff| 2015-09-30T21:38:25+00:00 September 30th, 2015|Categories: News|Tags: Bacho Akhalaia, criticism of cases against former Saakashvili officials, Gigi Ugulava, Giorgi Margvelashvili, pardoning of prisoners, Vano Merabishvili|
President Giorgi Margvelashvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has rejected a call by his predecessor Mikheil Saakashvili that it is a test of ‘decency’ to pardon three former top government officials who are convicted of crimes committed while in office. Saakashvili, who is now […]
Council of Europe report criticizes Georgia for misusing pre-trial detention
By DFWatch staff| 2015-09-30T17:44:27+00:00 September 30th, 2015|Categories: News|Tags: Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, criticism of cases against former Saakashvili officials, Gigi Ugulava, Pedro Agramunt, Vano Merabishvili, Zurab Adeishvili|
Pedro Agramunt. (Council of Europe.) TBILISI, DFWatch–A European human rights observer claims Georgia is using excessive pre-trial detention for political reasons against former government officials. The new report is written by Pedro Agramunt from the Spanish People’s Party, and published by […]
Merabishvili promises revenge
By DFWatch staff| 2015-04-17T18:48:10+00:00 April 17th, 2015|Categories: News|Tags: criticism of cases against former Saakashvili officials, Vano Merabishvili|
Vano Merabishvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Interior Minister and ally of Mikheil Saakashvil promises to take revenge for every official involved in the detention of former government officials. “I will personally punish them. I will hold each of them responsible personally.” Vano Merabishvili, […]
Georgia modifies charges against five ex-officials including Saakashvili
By DFWatch staff| 2015-03-14T22:53:03+00:00 March 14th, 2015|Categories: News|Tags: Davit Kezerashvili, Gigi Ugulava, questioning of Saakashvili March 2014, Vano Merabishvili, Zurab Adeishvili|
Mikheil Saakashvili. (Facebook.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office on Saturday modified the charges against five former high officials, including ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili. In Saakashvili’s and former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili’s cases, the charges […]
Foreign experts say evidence against Saakashvili is sound
By DFWatch staff| 2014-10-24T12:09:26+00:00 October 24th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: Erekle Kodua, Gia Siradze, questioning of Saakashvili March 2014, Valeri Gelashvili, Vano Merabishvili|
Former President Mikheil Saakashvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Three foreign prosecutors visiting Georgia have concluded that there is enough evidence to continue the criminal prosecution of ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili and three of his associates. Georgia’s chief prosecutor’s office announced this on Thursday. […]
Merabishvili gets three years in jail for Girgvliani murder
By DFWatch staff| 2014-10-20T13:46:01+00:00 October 20th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: Sandro Girgvliani murder, Vano Merabishvili|
Vano Merabishvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian interior minister Vano Merabishvili was Monday sentenced to three years in jail for involvement in the cover-up of the murder of a bank employee in 2006. Tbilisi City Court found the former minister guilty and also prohibited him from […]
Decision in Girgvliani trial expected in two weeks
By DFWatch staff| 2014-11-13T01:26:55+00:00 September 24th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: Data Akhalaia, Oleg Melnikov, Sandro Girgvliani murder, Vano Merabishvili|
Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili is one of the defendants in the trial. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–A verdict in one Georgia’s most controversial murder cases is expected two weeks from now, with a former interior minister as one of the defendants. The defense made its closing remarks in Tbilisi City Court Wednesday in the trial about the murder […]
Merabishvili loses appeal in May 26 case
By DFWatch staff| 2014-08-12T04:59:18+00:00 August 12th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: May 26, Vano Merabishvili|
Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The Appeals Court in Georgia upheld the City Court’s guilty verdict against former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili for the May 26, 2011, violent dispersal of anti-government protesters. Tbilisi City Court in February sentenced Merabishvili […]
Merabishvili found guilty of violent May 26, 2011, dispersal
By DFWatch staff| 2016-07-21T21:44:13+00:00 February 27th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili was Thursday sentenced to four years and six months in jail in a case concerning the dispersal of a peaceful anti-government rally on May 26, 2011. Tbilisi City Court has been reviewing the case for […]
Merabishvili used employment program for election campaign
By DFWatch staff| 2014-02-17T16:41:36+00:00 February 17th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: 2012 National Movement employment program trial, embezzlement of state money under Saakashvili, Vano Merabishvili, Zurab Chiaberashvili|
The two defendants, Vano Merabishvili (left) and Zurab Chiaberashvili, at an earlier court appearance. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Minister of Internal Affairs Vano Merabishvili used an employment program as a way to campaign for the National Movement party ahead of the October 2012 parliamentary election. This is the conclusion of Kutaisi City Court in a trial that has […]
Video shows Merabishvili promising reward for ‘two corpses’
By Rusiko Machaidze| 2016-07-21T21:48:56+00:00 January 30th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
The video shows Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili instructing soldiers after a mutiny at a tank battalion base near Tbilisi in 2009. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–There may be added new charges against former Prime Minister and Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili, according to the head of parliament’s defense and security committee. Wednesday, a 4-minute long video was posted on Youtube, […]
Merabishvili demands a polygraph test
By DFWatch staff| 2014-01-29T04:12:48+00:00 January 29th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
Vano Merabishvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili demands to be subjected to a lie detector test to prove he is telling the truth when he says he was threatened by the chief prosecutor. Merabishvili claimed he was taken from his cell at night, brought to an […]
Merabishvili inquest turns up nothing interesting: Prison Ministry
By DFWatch staff| 2014-01-15T17:08:27+00:00 January 15th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili, Zurab Zhvania's death|
Vano Merabishvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prison Ministry in Georgia says it did not notice anything interesting while looking into claims made by former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili that he was taken out of his cell at night and threatened by the chief prosecutor. The ministry’s […]
Prison Ministry questions former interior minister about threats
By DFWatch staff| 2014-01-04T15:23:38+00:00 January 4th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: Otar Partskhaladze, Vano Merabishvili|
Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Prison Ministry staff have questioned former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili about his statement about being taken from his cell and threatened by the chief prosecutor. Merabishvili said in December that he was brought out of his cell and taken […]
National Movement reacts to mayor’s suspension
By DFWatch staff| 2013-12-27T15:05:22+00:00 December 23rd, 2013|Categories: News, Politics|Tags: Davit Bakradze, Gigi Ugulava, Vano Merabishvili|
The National Movement’s parliamentary leader Davit Bakradze. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The National Movement party went on the offensive on Sunday and demanded an investigation into claims that the Prosecutor’s Office pressured two judges in a corruption case against Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava. Ugulava was Saturday night suspended from […]
Former interior minister says he was threatened by prosecutor
By DFWatch staff| 2013-12-18T22:10:00+00:00 December 18th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili accuses Chief Prosecutor of harassing him. The National Movement party asks to have the case investigated and that the responsible officials are dismissed. The government claims Merabishvili’s accusations […]
Former interior minister defends police reforms in court
By DFWatch staff| 2013-11-07T15:19:01+00:00 November 7th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili held a speech in court about his police reforms. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The trial against former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili for the violent dispersal of an anti-government protest in 2011 will begin November 19. It was on May 26, 2011, that an anti-government protest in front of parliament was brutally dispersed […]
Merabishvili trial to start October 7
By DFWatch staff| 2013-09-26T14:21:19+00:00 September 26th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
Vano Merabishvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The main court hearing in the case of the former interior minister Vano Merabishvili and the Kakheti governor Zurab Chiaberashvili will start on October 7. The main defendant must remain in pre-trial detention until then, the court decided. Both of […]
Merabishvili appears in court in Kutaisi, cracks jokes
Vano Merabishvili in Kutaisi City Court Thursday. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili on Thursday appeared in City Court in Kutaisi in an extensive criminal trial. Merabishvili is charged in several different cases, including the violent dispersal of protesters on May 26, 2011. […]
Ex minister submits US Justice Department report in own defense
By Rusiko Machaidze| 2013-08-13T14:42:07+00:00 August 13th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: May 26, Vano Merabishvili|
Police used excessive force on May 26, 2011, according to Georgian Young Lawyer’s Association. TBILISI, DFWatch–The lawyer of the detained former prime minister Vano Merabishvili demands to stop the criminal prosecution against his client, or at least release him on bail, after the publication of a report commissioned by the US Justice Department. […]
EU parliamentarians visited Georgia’s jailed opposition leader
By DFWatch staff| 2013-07-18T04:31:30+00:00 July 18th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
Vano Merabishvili during a court appearance. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–EU’s enlargement commissioner Štefan Füle has spoken by phone to the UNM Secretary General and former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili, who is in detention waiting to face trial. According to Merabishvili’s Facebook page, the European […]
New charges against Merabishvili
By DFWatch staff| 2013-06-24T18:39:33+00:00 June 24th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Prosecutor’s Office on Monday introduced a new charge against former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili, that of abuse of powers in the case of Sandro Girgvliani’s murder. In a statement, the office said Merabishvili took a number […]
Merabishvili to get a TV
Vano Merabishvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The former interior minister Vano Merabishvili, who is in prison awaiting trial, will get a TV set in his cell today or tomorrow, according to the prison minister, Sozar Subari. Merabishvili, who is a long-time ally of President Saakashvili and […]
Merabishvili on hunger strike, demands TV in his cell
Vano Merabishvili during his first court appearance in Kutaisi last month. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Vano Merabishvili, Secretary General of the United National Movement party, has gone on hunger strike in prison to demand a TV set. When contacted by DF Watch, representatives of the Prison Ministry were only willing to say that he really […]
Saakashvili’s party to hold primary while gen secretary is in jail
By DFWatch staff| 2013-06-18T04:12:43+00:00 June 18th, 2013|Categories: News, Politics|Tags: National Movement's 2013 election campaign, Vano Merabishvili|
Vano Merabishvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili’s party is still planning to hold primary elections to select a candidate for the presidential election, even though party secretary Vano Merabishvili is in detention. The names of the participants have not been revealed, […]
MEP Lisek visits Saakashvili ally in prison
By DFWatch staff| 2013-06-05T02:53:51+00:00 June 4th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: Krzysztof Lisek, Vano Merabishvili|
Krzysztof Lisek, Polish MEP from the center-right European People’s Party, was surprised to find that Saakashvili ally Vano Merabishvili did not have a TV set and no contact with with his family. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Vano Merabishvili says he is optimistic, but complains about lack of information, according to Krzysztof Lisek, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), after meeting the former Prime Minister in Matrosov Prison Tuesday. Representatives of […]
Former interior minister must remain in detention
By DFWatch staff| 2013-05-31T17:55:41+00:00 May 31st, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court placed Vano Merabishvili in pre-trial detention; the second time such a measures is imposed on the former interior minister. This time additional charged were added since his hearing in Kutaisi City Court last week, dealing with […]
Lithuanian businessman detained in Georgia
By DFWatch staff| 2013-05-30T17:56:26+00:00 May 30th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: Saulius Vaitkevičius, Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has confirmed for DF Watch that a Lithuanian businessman has been detained. According to the office, Saulius Vaitkevičius, owner of supermarket chain Populi, is charged with appropriation of another company’s […]
Expanded charges against former interior minister
By DFWatch staff| 2013-05-28T21:18:49+00:00 May 28th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
Former Minister of Internal Affairs Vano Merabishvili is held personally responsible for the violent dispersal of demonstrators two years ago which led to at least two deaths and was accompanied by a nationwide crackdown on opposition groups. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The charges against former Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili concerning events on May 26, 2011 were Tuesday expanded. The violent dispersal of peaceful anti-government protesters by police and regime loyal vigilantes two years ago resulted in at least […]
Saakashvili’s UNM protests against detention of party secretary
Vano Merabishvili, former interior minister and current party secretary of the National Movement party of President Mikheil Saakashvili, appearing in Kutaisi City Court last week. Co-defendant Zurab Chiaberashvili on the right. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Members of parliament for President Saakashvili’s National Movement party have again taken leave from their duties as a sign of protest. Party spokesman Giorgi Baramidze says they will not attend plenary sessions until all the ‘political […]
Merabishvili moved to Matrosov prison
By DFWatch staff| 2013-05-23T14:45:33+00:00 May 23rd, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
Vano Merabishvili in Kutaisi City Court yesterday. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili on Thursday was moved from Kutaisi, in western Georgia, to the capital, and placed in the so-called Matrosov prison, where former government officials and others are offered slightly better conditions […]
Ex interior minister placed in pretrial detention
Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili (left) at his first court hearing. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI–Kutaisi City Court Wednesday placed former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili in pretrial detention. Zurab Chiaberashvili was released on bail. The hearing lasted five hours. Both Merabishvili, Secretary General of Saakashvili’s United National […]
First court appearance for ex interior minister today
By DFWatch staff| 2013-05-22T16:50:59+00:00 May 22nd, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili says the charges are ridiculous. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The City Court in Kutaisi will this afternoon decide whether to place Saakashvili ally Vano Merabishvili and National Movement party member Zurab Chiaberashvili in pretrial detention. Meanwhile their supporters and other UNM members are gathered […]
Georgia detains former interior minister
Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili during his first interrogation December 1, 2012. (Police.ge.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia have detained former Interior Minister and Saakashvili faithful Vano Merabishvili. He is charged with sabotaging the investigation of the murder of a bank employee, Sandro Girgvliani, in 2006, appropriation and embezzlement in connection with […]
Ex intelligence head attacks former interior minister
By DFWatch staff| 2013-04-17T00:18:22+00:00 April 16th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: Data Akhalaia, Lapankuri operation, Vano Merabishvili|
Data Akhalaia, former head of Georgia’s domestic intelligence service CSD/KUD, attacks former interior minister Vano Merabishvili in an open letter on Facebook. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–A message posted on Facebook allegedly by a former official who fled from Georgia after the October elections has triggered a massive outcry in the country. The message purports to be written by Data Akhalaia, former head of Georgia’s domestic […]
Saakashvili’s party recruiting people to weaken government
Elections '12-'13, News
By DFWatch staff| 2013-02-02T16:55:45+00:00 February 2nd, 2013|Categories: Elections '12-'13, News|Tags: cohabitation Saakashvili and Ivanishvili government, Vano Merabishvili|
Impatient. National Movement Secretary Vano Merabishvili can’t wait four years for the next election. “There are other methods,” he says. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili’s political party says it can’t wait four years for a change of power and instead will try to ‘weaken’ the Ivanishvili government. Secretary General of the National Movement, Vano Merabisvhili, says they do not plan […]
Ex-minister questioned again about fake passport
By DFWatch staff| 2012-12-08T18:09:02+00:00 December 8th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: fake passports, Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch — Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili was Friday questioned a second time about his attempt to leave the country with a fake passport November 30. The interior ministry has made public several witness statements seeming to confirm that […]
Testimonies published in Merabishvili forged passport case
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian authorities are continuing their investigation into former interior minister Vano Merabishvili for trying to leave the country with a forged passport. According to the interior ministry, Merabishvili gave them false information on purpose […]
Ex-minister questioned about forged passport
By DFWatch staff| 2012-12-07T13:25:26+00:00 December 3rd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: fake passports, Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch — Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili was Saturday interrogated. He did not comment except saying it’s a pity that the prime minister is using the interior ministry as a tool of repression against the opposition. The interior ministry […]
Ex-minister wanted to fly to Armenia with forged passport
By DFWatch staff| 2012-12-07T13:26:10+00:00 December 1st, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: fake passports, Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch — The former interior minister Vano Merabishvili is under investigation for having tried to board a flight from Tbilisi go Yerevan Friday with a forged passport. Merabishvili was traveling together with President Saakashvili and others. According […]
Ex-minister Merabishvili denies wrongdoing
By DFWatch staff| 2012-11-26T11:31:50+00:00 November 26th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch — A former Interior Minister who is accused of abuse of power says he is ready to answer all questions, but that the accusations against him can not be taken seriously. The case broke a few days ago, when the Interior Ministry provided the prosecutor’s […]
Merabishvili may be investigated
TBILISI, DFWatch — The interior ministry in Georgia has asked the prosecutors to investigate former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili. Ministry spokesperson Nino Giorgobiani Saturday morning explained at a press conference that the material submitted to […]
Government’s newfound leftism considered suspicious
By DFWatch staff| 2012-07-04T15:59:01+00:00 July 4th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch – The government’s action plan ‘More Benefits to People’ is entirely based on social issues. This is now sparking criticism from experts and government opponents. The first promise new Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili made was to give each family […]
Petre Tsiskarishvili explains Merabishvili’s promotion
By Rusiko Machaidze| 2012-07-03T15:34:03+00:00 July 3rd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
President Mikheil Saakashvili Saturday appointed interior minister Vano Merabishvili as prime minister. DF Watch spoke to Petre Tsiskarishvili about the surprise announcement. Tsiskarishvili is parliamentary leader of the majority National Movement party. He says that […]
Georgia’s new prime minister makes bold promises
In brief, News
By DFWatch staff| 2012-07-03T01:39:41+00:00 July 3rd, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s new prime minister Vano Merabishvili has already started making promises, as only three months are left until the parliamentary elections. In a speech Monday in the Gldani district of Tbilisi, near a construction site of a vocational […]
Saakashvili may have violated constitution
By Rusiko Machaidze| 2012-07-02T19:48:45+00:00 July 2nd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili’s appointment of a former interior minister as prime minister may have been in violation of the constitution, and therefore invalid. One of Georgia’s most experienced constitutional experts, Vakhtang Khmaladze, says […]
Georgia gets new minister for employment
By DFWatch staff| 2012-07-02T15:44:09+00:00 July 2nd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: Paata Trapaidze, Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s new prime minister Vano Merabishvili today presented his employment minister, which is a new post. “I have initiative to set up specific Employment Ministry, which will take care to solve problems of employment. A database of unemployed […]
Georgia’s new prime minister has a controversial past
By Rusiko Machaidze| 2012-07-02T15:47:42+00:00 July 1st, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch – The goal of appointing Ivane Merabishvili, the powerful Interior Minister, to the post of Prime Minister is to solve problems in health care and agriculture – this is what Merabishvili said on Saturday, after being appointed to this post. He […]
Saakashvili makes Merabishvili new prime minister
By DFWatch staff| 2012-06-30T19:42:30+00:00 June 30th, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s president Mikheil Saakashvili says he is appointing Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili as new prime minister. Saakashvili announced the decision from his presidential palace in Tbilisi shortly before 19 local time Saturday. Imedi TV broke […]
Georgia’s interior minister: No-one has been shot by police for years
By Lizi Kharebava| 2012-04-27T18:50:48+00:00 April 27th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: police brutality, Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Interior Minister says Georgia is the only country in the world where police haven’t used weapons against a criminal for three years. “For the last three-four years no person has died from policemen’s weapon in Georgia, no policeman died […]
Georgia relaxes detention practice
By DFWatch staff| 2012-01-07T16:52:42+00:00 January 6th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: administrative imprisonment, Vano Merabishvili|
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian interior minister Vano Merabishvili (pictured) claims he is relaxing a controversial practice called administrative detention. Prisoners will be able to make phone calls, receive family members, talk to their lawyer and have more time to shower and be in the open air, the minister promises. The reason for the [...]
Main opposition candidate in Abkhazia stands down due to ill health, replacement vows to stay on same course
Alliance of Patriots sends three MPs to Moscow to ‘enhance relations’ between Georgia and Russia
Anti-government protesters’s tent camp attacked at GD leader Ivanishvili’s private resort
Russia grants South Ossetians right to stay indefinitely
Owner of Georgia’s largest bank plans to go into politics
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Move Over Bakkt: ING Eyes Vakt, Ethereum, Blockchain and Big Oil to Revolutionize Trade and Commodity Finance
Dutch banking group ING is gearing up for a year of more blockchain-based initiatives in 2019 to expand programs for trade and commodity finance in several sectors including energy, crude oil, soybeans, metals and mining.
ING, which has been experimenting with digital ledger technology on its Easy Trading Connect (ETC) platform since 2017, says blockchain innovations and their growing networks are outperforming centralized models.
It highlights powerhouse programs Komgo and Vakt.
Distributed Ledger Technologies (#DLT) are disrupting the #financial industry and make processes more efficient and secure. Let’s take a brief moment to look back on ING’s 2018 achievements in this area. #blockchain #innovation #fintech pic.twitter.com/vT30euwVZN
— ING (@ING_news) December 27, 2018
While plenty of eyes in the blockchain and cryptosphere have been monitoring updates from Bakkt, the upcoming cryptocurrency trading platform from Intercontinental Exchange – the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange – ING is betting on Vakt.
A blockchain-based, digital ecosystem for physical post-trade processing, Vakt is on the precipice of shaking up commodities in 2019 by transforming the trade lifecycle and streamlining transactions.
Launched by a consortium of nine energy majors, independent traders and banks, Vakt is based on Quorum, JPMorgan’s enterprise-focused version of Ethereum is designed to eliminate duplicate data sets and paper contracts. Strategic alliances with Deloitte and software company ThoughtWorks round out its powerhouse base of support.
By the end of the year, the platform will be linked to Komgo for commodity trade finance, allowing banks to offer blockchain-based financing solutions to Vakt users.
Privately launched with BP, Mercuria, Equinor, Shell and Gunvor its first users, Vakt plans to open to the wider market in January and will be linked to Komgo by the end of the year, allowing banks to offer blockchain-based financing solutions to Vakt users.
According to the company’s announcement,
“Though the initial launch is limited to trade specifically in BFOET crude oil contracts, VAKT’s ambition is to extend the platform to all physically traded energy commodities. The company is building its roadmap in response to industry need but has US crude oil pipelines and Northern Europe refined product barges slated for launch in early 2019.”
Andrew Smith, the executive vice president of trading and supply at Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Limited says,
“Digitalisation is changing how the energy value chain works. It’s an exciting time. Collaboration with our peers and some of the industry’s key players is the best way to combine market expertise and achieve the scale necessary to launch a digital transaction platform that could transform the way we all do business. Ultimately the aim is improved speed and security, which benefits everyone along the supply chain from market participants to customers.”
In addition to backing Vakt, ING is expanding its other blockchain initiatives that are focused on commodities trading.
In an interview with Fastmarkets, Arnoud Star Busmann, ING’s program director for trade and commodity finance, blockchain innovation, said an early pilot with energy trader Mercuria to send African crude to a buyer in China using ING’s trade financing, led to a collaboration with other heavyweight leaders in the energy sector: BP, Shell and Equinor (formerly Statoil).
They formed an Ethereum-based blockchain for real-time settlement of physical energy transactions. The decentralized network, which has dramatically reduced increased efficiency on both the banking and trading sides of the transaction, includes trading houses Gunvor, Koch Supply & Trading and Mercuria, along with banks ABN Amro and Société Générale.
According to the report,
“The experiment showed that the average time for a bank to complete its role in a transaction went from about three hours to just 25 minutes. For traders, efficiency went up by a third, with user experience evaluations far higher than expected, Star Busmann said. As the prototype uses blockchain technology and is designed for paperless trade, the risks throughout the process have also been reduced.”
The platform became a blueprint for other commodities, with ING engaging global merchant giant Louis Dreyfus in 2018 to test agriculture. A pilot test moved soybeans from the US to China, with banks Société Générale and ING.
Says Star Busmann,
“Time spent on processing documents and data has been reduced fivefold, from hours to minutes.”
“We built a quite advanced prototype in which we could fully digitalize a soybeans transaction, including all the data, all the documents but also the actors that are part of it, from the commercial process, the financing and through to the regulatory aspects.”
“Louis Dreyfus compared the digital flow with the paper flow and determined there was a factor five efficiency improvement in their operations, so it was significant and very inspiring for the company. The trade demonstrated significant efficiency improvements for all participants in the chain.”
“The platform’s success demonstrates the immense potential of distributed ledger technologies to advance commodity trading and financing. So I’m sure there will be a sequel to that.”
Komgo SA, a larger trade finance consortium that aims to develop a decentralized Ethereum-based platform, includes 15 of the world’s largest institutions, including international banks ING, Citi, and Rabobank, along with trading companies and oil giants such as Shell. Established in September, the international bulk goods marketplace is using blockchain to push through administrative bottlenecks and a morass of burdensome paperwork to digitize trade financing.
Up next for ING: an exploration of supply chain traceability for metals and mining.
Says Busmann,
“The ability to prove the origin of the commodity and the responsible sourcing elements becomes very critical. Given that there’s a big pain point, you can conclude we should be looking at that as well.”
“There’s a huge opportunity in using blockchain to bring more control over inventory movements, and I’m aware of some initiatives in that sector in the metals and broader commodities domain.”
ING, Komgo and Vakt are members of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA).
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The Last Roll of Kodachrome
By TMC in Art, News
Five years ago history was made in Parsons, Kansas where the last roll of Kodachrome was processed at Dwayne’s Photo Shop, the only Kodak certified processor of Kodachrome film in the world as of 2010. The final roll of 36-frame Kodachrome to be manufactured was tracked by National Geographic; it was shot by photographer Steve …
Kodachrome, National Geographic, News, Steve McCurry, TMC News
The Pump don’t work…
By Robyn in Art
…cause the vandals stole the handle.
A group of graffiti artists (BlakCollectiv), led by Kalkidan Assefa, created an impressive, and legal, mural during Ottawa’s Pride Week honoring transgender women of color who had been murdered during the past year.
On Wednesday night an unknown person or group who were offended by the memorial spray painted over much of the mural and added these sentiments:
RACIST BULLS–T
ALL COLORS MATTER
ALL LIVES/NO DOUBLE STANDARD/YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.
BlackLivesMatter, canada, Ottawa, racism, transgender, TransLivesMatter, violence
Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Daesh & Switch – iconoclastic commodities as common capitalist theft
By ek hornbeck in Art, Iraq, Media
By Annieli
Artwork in Iraq gets destroyed by Daesh/ISIS-ISIL (Video)
Polytheistic idolatry is the only thing that gets destroyed, says Daesh, which somehow rationalizes the destruction of historical antiquities, as though there can only be one history, apparently a Sunni and/or Ba’athist one. Only statues that are deemed idolatrous would get destroyed or apparently as originals resold with copies destroyed for social media documentation. But what counts as idolatrous in a modern commodity economy.
Daesh is only controlling the mythology reproduced by the media in order to further not the goals of actual religious beliefs, as they are simply looters maximizing accumulatable wealth. One can say that they are even projecting a pre-modern accumulation of dominance and subjugation returning West Asia and North Africa to some pre-capitalist mode of production. Of course the ideological contradictions will flourish as Daesh elites will keep their modern networked social media and slick magazines as well as their modern weapons in an attempt to reduce all other variants of Islam to their hegemony. Daesh are not the Sentinelese or the Auvergnats – they are common crooks, the lowest form of banditry tarted up when they refer to their genocidal barbarism as a “management of savagery“.
ISIS’ efforts to erase pre-Islamic pictorial art successfully communicates their brand image. click here What ISIS fails to mention is that they are destroying fakes. Blouin Art Info reports that upon the release of the Mosul Museum video, experts determined that “most, if not all’ of the statuary on view were plaster fakes. The officials at the Mosul Museum had previously transported the originals to the Baghdad Museum. The New York Times reported that many of these sculptures were replicas of ancient objects and a portion of the sculptures on display were reconstructed from fragments which included original shards of ancient sculptures.
Fox News’ misreading is that this is something more immoral than the actual activity of the market in art forgery, made complicit often in human history by an entire discipline of art history and archaeology so that Fox’s headline “ where to before then buy female cialis How ISIS created a terrorist art market“, is simply that they are following practices of pillaging going back even before the period to which Daesh wishes to return if only symbolically.
Of course the killing of suspected homosexuals will deprive Daesh of many of the population from which the making of such artwork come. These are the premodern warlord-despots of an imagination-free fundamentalist world of gender, class, and ethnic subjugation. They predictably lack the civility of the Greeks upon losing their (Elgin) Marbles.
Footage released by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) showed the ruins of Syria’s Palmyra untouched as the militant group claimed it only destroy statues which it deems polytheistic, the Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Palmyra is home to a massive Roman theatre where ISIS reportedly executed 20 foreign fighters earlier this week who had been fighting alongside forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
ISIS militants have reportedly executed at least 400 people in Palmyra since capturing the ancient Syrian city, Syrian state media said earlier this week.
ISIS captured Palmyra – and Iraq’s Ramadi – earlier this month despite months of U.S.-led airstrikes.
A YouTube account believed to be affiliated with ISIS posted a video on May 26 showing parts of the city’s ancient ruins and colonnades. It was not clear when the video was shot.
An activist with an anti-regime group in Palmyra said the ruins have not been damaged adding that ISIS said they would only destroy statues they deem idolatrous.
“They haven’t been damaged and members of the organization [ISIS] told residents that they will not damage the city’s antiquities, but will destroy the idols,” the activist with the anti-regime Local Coordination Committee for Tadmur, was quoted by the Guardian as saying.
“Perhaps it’s because the Palmyra antiquities are mostly columns and large buildings and not statues of people, which they consider idols that must be destroyed, and they have no problem with the other antiquities.”
The ideologically-driven destruction of priceless Iraqi artifacts by Islamic State may be a ruse that actually hides a much more cynical operation, in which fakes are smashed to pieces while real treasures are smuggled out of the country and sold on the black market to fund the terrorist army…
Whether worthless or priceless the verdict for destruction is the same. The current terrorist art and antiquities market is dictated by two factors: (1) can an item be transported to a location where a buyer exists for it, and (2) can the artwork be passed off as legitimate once it arrives.
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follow site Background: As some of you may unfortunately know, this past year I’ve been indulging myself with a musical mid life crisis. I’ve started to learn how to play 5 string banjo.
The short story is this. For just about my entire life there had been this old dusty banjo in the house that no one played. It belongs to my father. In the mid fifties he helped organize a Pete Seeger (a known communist) concert on campus. This means he probably has his very own file folder deep in the Hoover building. My father also has his very own Pete Seeger story but that will have to wait for another blog post. A short while after the concert, inspired by Seeger and other folk artists, my father purchased the least expensive banjo available at Sears. Since he was already making progress learning the guitar he figured the banjo would be easy. After all, it had less strings!
After another short while, frustrated, the banjo was put back in its case to collect dust for five decades. A couple decades in the attic, then about 10 years in the basement, another 10 years below the plant rack in the den next to the LPs we haven’t played since we couldn’t find replacement needles for the old HiFi. Followed by some time in the garage before moving to a storage unit. Except for the few times I’d sneak it out of the case and strum it as a little kid looking for trouble, this specific instrument has had a pretty uneventful life. Until recently at least. Now I annoy people with it for at least 5 minutes every day. I know, I know, 5 minutes a day is not enough to make any measurable progress but I don’t want to drive the people I live with completely insane.
I’m not sure exactly what drew me to rescue the banjo from storage and start playing it at age 46. Maybe it was Seeger visiting Occupy Wall Street. I’m sure that was a factor. I was also a band geek in high school. One of my greatest achievements was making it into the All-State Band playing Small Tuba aka Euphonium. It’s been a long time since I’ve been The Best at anything and I admit to missing the stage and everything that goes along with it. Anyone who says they don’t like the cheers and adulation is just lying. Small Tuba does have its drawbacks. There’s not much you can do with it beyond joining a circus or military band. While a circus band would be loads of fun, the musicians who play in them are world class. And it’s been a quarter century since I’ve played seriously. So I asked myself, why not find a new passion? Why not lead people in a robust chorus of Solidarity Forever & Which Side Are You On? Everybody and their brother plays guitar. But banjo? That would be bad ass cool! I knew where I could find an instrument, and of course the most important factor – it was FREE – just sitting there in storage waiting for me. Enough about my uncomfortable past…
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The banjo is a four-, five- or (occasionally) six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator. The membrane is typically a piece of animal skin or plastic, and the frame is typically circular. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in Colonial America, adapted from several African instruments of similar design.[1]
The banjo is frequently associated with country, folk, Irish traditional and bluegrass music. Historically, the banjo occupied a central place in African American traditional music, before becoming popular in the minstrel shows of the 19th century. In fact, slaves both were influenced by and influenced the early development of the music, which became country and bluegrass, particularly in regard to the innovation of musical techniques for both the banjo and fiddle.[2][3][4] The banjo, with the fiddle, is a mainstay of American old-time music.
Part of learning a new instrument is learning its’ history. What I meant by its past being uncomfortable, is not the banjo’s fifteen minutes of pop culture fame as the sound track for Appalachian man on man rape in the movie Deliverance (BTW if you’re ever on Jeopardy, the Dueling Banjos tune is traditionally performed with banjo and guitar, not two banjos). I’m talking about the history of the banjo, heavily promoted at the time as “The American Instrument“, and its association with American blackface minstrel shows of the 19th and early 20th century. Basically you have an instrument with African roots, being popularized by white American performers in blackface, then later black Americans in blackface, using exaggerated stereotyped… well you can understand why the instrument lost a great deal of popularity over the 20th century.
So how are actual black American minstrel show artists and performers viewed? As you might imagine, their work has a long history of being celebrated and vilified. Even now there are black banjo performers getting called Uncle Toms in the comment threads on You-Tube.
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The Kerry Blue Terrier is the quintessential working dog. He hails from County Kerry, Ireland, where he was bred to hunt small game and birds, kill rodents, and herd sheep and cattle. Intelligent and brave, he became a cherished pet as well, displaying fierce devotion to his family or pack. While not a particularly well-known dog breed, the Kerry Blue enjoys a dedicated following of fanciers, thanks to his working abilities and loyal companionship.
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Breed Characteristics:
Adapts Well to Apartment Living
Contrary to popular belief, small size doesn't necessarily an apartment dog make — plenty of small dogs are too high-energy and yappy for life in a high-rise. Being quiet, low energy, fairly calm indoors, and polite with the other residents, are all good qualities in an apartment dog.
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Good For Novice Owners
Some dogs are simply easier than others: they take to training better and are fairly easygoing. They're also resilient enough to bounce back from your mistakes or inconsistencies. Dogs who are highly sensitive, independent thinking, or assertive may be harder for a first-time owner to manage. You'll get your best match if you take your dog-owning experience into account as you choose your new pooch.
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Sensitivity Level
Some dogs will let a stern reprimand roll off their backs, while others take even a dirty look to heart. Low-sensitivity dogs, also called "easygoing," "tolerant," "resilient," and even "thick-skinned," can better handle a noisy, chaotic household, a louder or more assertive owner, and an inconsistent or variable routine. Do you have young kids, throw lots of dinner parties, play in a garage band, or lead a hectic life? Go with a low-sensitivity dog.
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Tolerates Being Alone
Some breeds bond very closely with their family and are more prone to worry or even panic when left alone by their owner. An anxious dog can be very destructive, barking, whining, chewing, and otherwise causing mayhem. These breeds do best when a family member is home during the day or if you can take the dog to work.
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Tolerates Cold Weather
Breeds with very short coats and little or no undercoat or body fat, such as Greyhounds, are vulnerable to the cold. Dogs with a low cold tolerance need to live inside in cool climates and should have a jacket or sweater for chilly walks.
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Tolerates Hot Weather
Dogs with thick, double coats are more vulnerable to overheating. So are breeds with short noses, like Bulldogs or Pugs, since they can't pant as well to cool themselves off. If you want a heat-sensitive breed, the dog will need to stay indoors with you on warm or humid days, and you'll need to be extra cautious about exercising your dog in the heat.
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All Around Friendliness
Affectionate with Family
Some breeds are independent and aloof, even if they've been raised by the same person since puppyhood; others bond closely to one person and are indifferent to everyone else; and some shower the whole family with affection. Breed isn't the only factor that goes into affection levels; dogs who were raised inside a home with people around feel more comfortable with humans and bond more easily.
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Incredibly Kid Friendly Dogs
Being gentle with children, sturdy enough to handle the heavy-handed pets and hugs they can dish out, and having a blasé attitude toward running, screaming children are all traits that make a kid-friendly dog. You may be surprised by who's on that list: Fierce-looking Boxers are considered good with children, as are American Staffordshire Terriers (aka pit bulls). Small, delicate, and potentially snappy dogs such as Chihuahuas aren't so family-friendly.
**All dogs are individuals. Our ratings are generalizations, and they're not a guarantee of how any breed or individual dog will behave. Dogs from any breed can be good with children based on their past experiences, training on how to get along with kids, and personality. No matter what the breed or breed type, all dogs have strong jaws, sharp pointy teeth, and may bite in stressful circumstances. Young children and dogs of any breed should always be supervised by an adult and never left alone together, period.
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Friendliness toward dogs and friendliness toward humans are two completely different things. Some dogs may attack or try to dominate other dogs even if they're love-bugs with people; others would rather play than fight; and some will turn tail and run. Breed isn't the only factor; dogs who lived with their littermates and mother until at least 6 to 8 weeks of age, and who spent lots of time playing with other dogs during puppyhood, are more likely to have good canine social skills.
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Friendly Toward Strangers
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Amount Of Shedding
If you're going to share your home with a dog, you'll need to deal with some level of dog hair on your clothes and in your house. However, shedding does vary greatly among the breeds: Some dogs shed year-round, some "blow" seasonally -- produce a snowstorm of loose hair -- some do both, and some shed hardly at all. If you're a neatnik you'll need to either pick a low-shedding breed, or relax your standards.
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Drooling Potential
Drool-prone dogs may drape ropes of slobber on your arm and leave big, wet spots on your clothes when they come over to say hello. If you've got a laid-back attitude toward slobber, fine; but if you're a neatnik, you may want to choose a dog who rates low in the drool department.
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Easy To Groom
Some breeds are brush-and-go dogs; others require regular bathing, clipping, and other grooming just to stay clean and healthy. Consider whether you have the time and patience for a dog that needs a lot of grooming, or the money to pay someone else to do it.
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Due to poor breeding practices, some breeds are prone to certain genetic health problems, such as hip dysplasia. This doesn't mean that every dog of that breed will develop those diseases; it just means that they're at an increased risk. If you're buying a puppy, it's a good idea to find out which genetic illnesses are common to the breed you're interested in, so you can ask the breeder about the physical health of your potential pup's parents and other relatives.
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Potential For Weight Gain
Some breeds have hearty appetites and tend to put on weight easily. As in humans, being overweight can cause health problems in dogs. If you pick a breed that's prone to packing on pounds, you'll need to limit treats, make sure he gets enough exercise, and measure out his daily kibble in regular meals rather than leaving food out all the time.
Dogs come in all sizes, from the world's smallest pooch, the Chihuahua, to the towering Great Dane, how much space a dog takes up is a key factor in deciding if he is compatible with you and your living space. Large dog breeds might seem overpowering and intimidating but some of them are incredibly sweet! Take a look and find the right large dog for you!
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Easy To Train
Easy to train dogs are more adept at forming an association between a prompt (such as the word "sit"), an action (sitting), and a consequence (getting a treat) very quickly. Other dogs need more time, patience, and repetition during training. Many breeds are intelligent but approach training with a "What's in it for me?" attitude, in which case you'll need to use rewards and games to teach them to want to comply with your requests.
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Dogs who were bred for jobs that require decision making, intelligence, and concentration, such as herding livestock, need to exercise their brains, just as dogs who were bred to run all day need to exercise their bodies. If they don't get the mental stimulation they need, they'll make their own work -- usually with projects you won't like, such as digging and chewing. Obedience training and interactive dog toys are good ways to give a dog a brain workout, as are dog sports and careers, such as agility and search and rescue.
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Potential For Mouthiness
Common in most breeds during puppyhood and in retriever breeds at all ages, mouthiness means a tendency to nip, chew, and play-bite (a soft, fairly painless bite that doesn't puncture the skin). Mouthy dogs are more likely to use their mouths to hold or "herd" their human family members, and they need training to learn that it's fine to gnaw on chew toys, but not on people. Mouthy breeds tend to really enjoy a game of fetch, as well as a good chew on a chew toy that's been stuffed with kibble and treats.
Prey Drive
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Dogs that were bred to hunt, such as terriers, have an inborn desire to chase and sometimes kill other animals. Anything whizzing by — cats, squirrels, perhaps even cars — can trigger that instinct. Dogs that like to chase need to be leashed or kept in a fenced area when outdoors, and you'll need a high, secure fence in your yard. These breeds generally aren't a good fit for homes with smaller pets that can look like prey, such as cats, hamsters, or small dogs. Breeds that were originally used for bird hunting, on the other hand, generally won't chase, but you'll probably have a hard time getting their attention when there are birds flying by.
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Tendency To Bark Or Howl
Some breeds sound off more often than others. When choosing a breed, think about how the dog vocalizes — with barks or howls — and how often. If you're considering a hound, would you find their trademark howls musical or maddening? If you're considering a watchdog, will a city full of suspicious "strangers" put him on permanent alert? Will the local wildlife literally drive your dog wild? Do you live in housing with noise restrictions? Do you have neighbors nearby?
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Wanderlust Potential
Some breeds are more free-spirited than others. Nordic dogs such as Siberian Huskies were bred to range long distances, and given the chance, they'll take off after anything that catches their interest. And many hounds simply must follow their noses, or that bunny that just ran across the path, even if it means leaving you behind.
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High-energy dogs are always ready and waiting for action. Originally bred to perform a canine job of some sort, such as retrieving game for hunters or herding livestock, they have the stamina to put in a full workday. They need a significant amount of exercise and mental stimulation, and they're more likely to spend time jumping, playing, and investigating any new sights and smells. Low-energy dogs are the canine equivalent of a couch potato, content to doze the day away. When picking a breed, consider your own activity level and lifestyle, and think about whether you'll find a frisky, energetic dog invigorating or annoying.
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A vigorous dog may or may not be high-energy, but everything he does, he does with vigor: he strains on the leash (until you train him not to), tries to plow through obstacles, and even eats and drinks with great big gulps. These dynamos need lots of training to learn good manners, and may not be the best fit for a home with young kids or someone who's elderly or frail. A low-vigor dog, on the other hand, has a more subdued approach to life.
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Some breeds do fine with a slow evening stroll around the block. Others need daily, vigorous exercise -- especially those that were originally bred for physically demanding jobs, such as herding or hunting. Without enough exercise, these breeds may put on weight and vent their pent-up energy in ways you don't like, such as barking, chewing, and digging. Breeds that need a lot of exercise are good for outdoorsy, active people, or those interested in training their dog to compete in a high-energy dog sport, such as agility.
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Potential For Playfulness
Some dogs are perpetual puppies -- always begging for a game -- while others are more serious and sedate. Although a playful pup sounds endearing, consider how many games of fetch or tag you want to play each day, and whether you have kids or other dogs who can stand in as playmates for the dog.
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Vital Stats:
Dog Breed Group:
Terrier Dogs
1 foot, 5 inches to 1 foot, 7 inches tall at the shoulder
33 to 40 pounds
More About This Breed
This working-class dog is definitely all terrier: alert, resourceful, muscular, and always ready for action. His defining characteristic, however, is his coat: blue, with a gray tint (though it doesn't start out that way). Puppies are often born black, transitioning through dark blue, brown, gray, and combinations of these colors until they reach a mature blue-gray color at about 18 months of age. His V-shaped ears, black nose, and the mop of hair that falls over his eyes further distinguish his look.
The Kerry Blue Terrier is typically good-natured with people of all ages, including children. He is an excellent family dog who enjoys participating in all family activities and he is happiest when he is with those he loves. He makes a good watchdog too, ready to warn his family of intruders or anything out of the ordinary. The Kerry Blue is not especially vocal, but when he barks, he sounds intimidating.
The Kerry Blue is not especially good-natured with other dogs. In fact, he is prone to dog aggression (fighting with other dogs), especially if he's intact. Early Kerry Blue Terriers were even more aggressive than those found today. Conscientious breeders have worked hard to retain the liveliness of the breed while toning down their natural inclination to aggression.
Good breeding, combined with proper socialization (the process by which puppies or adults dogs learn how to be friendly and get along with other dogs and people) and training, helps prevent dog aggression, but watch out. This is not a dog to back down from a fight.
The Kerry Blue is loyal and affectionate toward his family, but he is strong willed. He needs an equally strong-willed owner, one who can kindly and consistently show leadership. The Kerry Blue will walk all over a wishy-washy human, which is why he is not always recommended for first-time dog owners.
Not surprisingly, the working Kerry Blue is an active dog who needs a great deal of exercise every day. (If he is trained and socialized not to fight with other dogs, he makes an excellent jogging, hiking, and bicycling companion.) Grooming is another daily activity. Although the Kerry Blue doesn't shed and is relatively odor-free, he must be brushed every day to prevent matting and to keep his coat neat and clean.
It's not difficult to be captivated by this proud dog from Ireland with the blue-gray coat. However, in considering a Kerry Blue, it's important to realize he has many traits similar to all terriers: the love of digging, a bit of an attitude, and a high prey drive. These traits must be taken in account when considering adding him to the family.
The Kerry Blue Terry is a quick study, though he can be strong willed at times. You'll need a lot of patience and firmness, plus a good sense of humor, when training this breed.
The Kerry Blue is friendly to people, but his distaste for other dogs is well known. He can be aggressive and quarrelsome. Owners must be vigilant when taking the Kerry Blue in public. If he's socialized and well trained, he probably won't pick a fight, but he might try to end it if he's taunted.
Keeping your Kerry Blue groomed is expensive and, if you do it yourself, it's hard work.
Like all terriers, the Kerry Blue can be feisty. He loves to dig, chase, chew, and sometimes bark.
This is an active breed. He needs plenty of exercise, every day. A yard to play in is best, combined with daily walks.
To get a healthy dog, never buy a puppy from an irresponsible breeder, puppy mill, or pet store. Look for a reputable breeder who tests her breeding dogs to make sure they're free of genetic diseases that they might pass onto the puppies, and that they have sound temperaments.
Ireland — specifically, the mountainous area of County Kerry — is the birthplace of the Kerry Blue Terrier. He was originally a working terrier, hunting small game and birds, killing rodents, and guarding his homestead. He was used successfully for herding sheep and cattle. Eventually, the breed was shown in conformation and highly favored. English fanciers saw potential, too, and the breed was recognized by the Kennel Club.
Aggressiveness was originally was bred into the Kerry Blues intentionally. In early dog shows, the Irish Kennel Club required each to pass a "gameness" test before he could be judged. The tests included catching rabbits and bringing a badger to bay. From these tests, the Kerry Blue earned the nickname "Blue Devil."
No one really knows who brought the first Kerry Blue to the United States. He was thought to have appeared at the Westminster show in 1922, and the breed was officially recognized by the Amercian Kennel Club in 1924. During the Westminster show of 1926, a group of fanciers met at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City and organized the Kerry Blue Terrier Club of America.
In the early 1900s, Irish patriot Michael Collins introduced legislation to name the Kerry Blue the National Dog of Ireland. His own Kerry Blue was named Convict 225. Collins was murdered, however, before the legislation could be passed, and after his death, interest in the initiative was lost.
Males stand 18 to 19.5 inches tall. Females stand 17.5 to 19 inches tall. Males and females weigh 33 to 40 pounds.
The Kerry Blue is a hard-working, independent, and athletic dog with plenty of energy and stamina. Like most terriers, he is prone to dig, chase, and bark (occasionally). If you are considering a Kerry Blue, think about whether or not you are willing to live with his propensity toward these behaviors. If so, you will be delighted with the Kerry Blue's fun-loving, even silly, attitude.
The Kerry Blue is an active breed, and he needs plenty of exercise — mental and physical. Don't leave him alone for long periods of time, or he is likely to become bored, which leads to the destructive behaviors mentioned above. Training is essential to teach him proper canine manners. And as delightful as he is, the Kerry Blue does not get along well with others. He tends to fight with other dogs and chase small animals he perceives as prey.
Temperament is affected by a number of factors, including heredity, training, and socialization. Puppies with nice temperaments are curious and playful, willing to approach people and be held by them. Choose the middle-of-the-road puppy, not the one who's beating up his littermates or the one who's hiding in the corner.
Always meet at least one of the parents — usually the mother is the one who's available — to ensure that they have nice temperaments that you're comfortable with. Meeting siblings or other relatives of the parents is also helpful for evaluating what a puppy will be like when he grows up.
Like every dog, the Kerry Blue needs early socialization — exposure to many different people, sights, sounds, and experiences — when they're young. Socialization helps ensure that your Kerry Blue puppy grows up to be a well-rounded dog.
Enrolling him in a puppy kindergarten class is a great start. Inviting visitors over regularly, and taking him to busy parks, stores that allow dogs, and on leisurely strolls to meet neighbors will also help him polish his social skills.
Kerry Blue are generally healthy, but like all breeds, they're prone to certain health conditions. Not all Kerry Blue will get any or all of these diseases, but it's important to be aware of them if you're considering this breed.
If you're buying a puppy, find a good breeder who will show you health clearances for both your puppy's parents. Health clearances prove that a dog has been tested for and cleared of a particular condition.
In Kerry Blue, you should expect to see health clearances from the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA) for hip dysplasia (with a score of fair or better), elbow dysplasia, hypothyroidism, and von Willebrand's disease; from Auburn University for thrombopathia; and from the Canine Eye Registry Foundation (CERF) certifying that eyes are normal. You can confirm health clearances by checking the OFA web site (offa.org).
Entropion: Entropion is the inward rolling of the eyelid, usually the lower one, and found in both eyes. It causes vision loss and irritation, and generally occurs before a dog turns a year old. Corrective surgery when the dog reaches adulthood is an effective treatment.
Hypothyroidism: This is a disorder of the thyroid gland. It's thought to be responsible for conditions such as epilepsy, alopecia (hair loss), obesity, lethargy, hyperpigmentation, pyoderma ,and other skin conditions. It is treated with medication and diet.
Skin Cysts: It's not unusual for the Kerry Blue to develop lumps and bumps, usually epidermal cysts or sebaceous gland cysts that don't cause a problem. If a cyst ruptures, however, it can become infected.
Cancer: Symptoms include abnormal swelling of a sore or bump, sores that do not heal, bleeding from any body opening, and difficulty with breathing or elimination. Treatments for cancer include chemotherapy, surgery, and medications.
Keratoses: Keratoses (of the nose and foot) is the development of corns, warts, and calluses on the feet or nose. Often painful, corns can be inherited and are associated with thin pads or flat feet. Keratoses can be removed surgically or treated with antibiotics and corticosteroids.
Cataracts: Cataracts cause opacity on the lens of the eye, resulting in poor vision. The dog's eye(s) will have a cloudy appearance. Cataracts usually occur in old age and sometimes can be surgically removed to improve vision.
Dry Eye: Keratoconjunctivitis sicca and pigmentary keratitis are two conditions seen in Kerry Blues and can occur at the same time, or individually. Dry eye is caused when the eyes don't produce enough tears to stay moist. Your vet can perform tests to determine if this is the cause, which can be controlled with medication and special care. Pigmentary keratits is a condition that causes black spots on the cornea, especially in the corner near the nose. If the pigment covers the eye, it can cause blindness. Your vet can prescribe medication that will help keep the eyes moist and dissolve the pigment. Both of these eye conditions require life-long therapy and care.
Chronic Otitis Externa: This is a chronic infection of the outer ear canal, often caused by excessive hair in the ear that fosters bacterial and fungal growth. The Kerry Blue can be prone to infection. Treatment includes cleaning the ears and plucking the hair growing inside the canal.
Progressive Neuronal Abiotrophy (PNA): This is a rare, inherited nerve disorder. Symptoms usually appear when the dog is between 2 and 6 months of age. By the time the dog is a year old, he can't stand up. There is no treatment, nor are there any tests that determine if breeding dogs are carriers of the condition. Research is underway to create testing for breeding stock.
Hip Dysplasia: This is an inherited condition in which the thighbone doesn't fit snugly into the hip joint. Some dogs show pain and lameness on one or both rear legs, but others don't display outward signs of discomfort. (X-ray screening is the most certain way to diagnose the problem.) Either way, arthritis can develop as the dog ages. Dogs with hip dysplasia should not be bred — so if you're buying a puppy, ask the breeder for proof that the parents have been tested for hip dysplasia and are free of problems.
Patellar Luxation: Also known as slipped stifles, this is a common problem in small dogs. The patella is the kneecap. Luxation means dislocation of an anatomical part (as a bone at a joint). Patellar luxation is when the knee joint (often of a hind leg) slides in and out of place, causing pain. This can be crippling, although many dogs lead relatively normal lives with this condition.
Factor Xl Deficiency (Plasma Thromboplastin Antecedent Deficiency): This is a rare inherited blood clotting abnormality that is characterized by severe bleeding after surgery or trauma. As the name implies, it's caused by a deficiency of the factor XI in the blood-clotting mechanism.
The Kerry Blue Terrier is a powerful, agile, and athletic dog who requires regular exercise. While some Kerry Blues will exercise themselves in a securely fenced back yard, others do not.
Not only will a daily walk maintain muscle tone and keep a Kerry fit and trim, it will provide the necessary stimulation and socialization to keep him mentally alert. The Kerry Blue who lives in an apartment or condo requires at least three daily walks, even if it's raining or the temperature is below freezing.
Training and socialization is essential for the Kerry Blue, beginning with puppy classes. Incorporate socialization with training by taking your Kerry Blue with you to many different places — the pet supply store, outdoor events, or long walks in busy parks — anywhere there are a lot of people to meet and sights to see.
Remember, though, that he has a tendency to quarrel with other dogs. Also: if you don't have children, but may in the next few years, the Kerry Blue must be socialized early to them.
The Kerry has a mind of his own and requires a firm but loving hand to show what is expected from him. He instinctively wants to please, and with positive reinforcement and praise, learns quickly. Harsher techniques aren't useful with a Kerry, because despite his toughness, he is surprisingly sensitive.
Recommended daily amount: 1.5 to 2 cups of high-quality dry food a day, divided into two meals.
Note: How much your adult dog eats depends on his size, age, build, metabolism, and activity level. Dogs are individuals, just like people, and they don't all need the same amount of food. It almost goes without saying that a highly active dog will need more than a couch potato dog. The quality of dog food you buy also makes a difference — the better the dog food, the further it will go toward nourishing your dog and the less of it you'll need to shake into your dog's bowl.
Keep your Kerry Blue in good shape by measuring his food and feeding him twice a day rather than leaving food out all the time. If you're unsure whether he's overweight, give him the eye test and the hands-on test.
First, look down at him. You should be able to see a waist. Then place your hands on his back, thumbs along the spine, with the fingers spread downward. You should be able to feel but not see his ribs without having to press hard. If you can't, he needs less food and more exercise.
For more on feeding your Kerry Blue, see our guidelines for buying the right food, feeding your puppy, and feeding your adult dog.
Coat Color And Grooming
The Kerry Blue coat is soft, dense and wavy, and though considered non-shedding, the coat is high maintenance. He needs daily brushing, plus trimming and bathing every four to six weeks.
Most owners opt to hire a professional groomer to trim the Kerry Blue, though finding one who knows the correct Kerry trim can be difficult. An uncommon breed, the average groomer doesn't have much experience with it; you might end up with your Kerry Blue looking like a Schnauzer or a Poodle.
Your best option is to choose a groomer who certified with a national certifying agency. While certification is not mandated legally (like kennel licensing), it does show ongoing education. Also, owners can find a state-by-state listing of experienced groomers at The Kerry Blue Foundation website.
Brush your Kerry Blue's teeth at least two or three times a week to remove tartar buildup and the bacteria that lurk inside it. Daily brushing is even better if you want to prevent gum disease and bad breath.
Trim his nails once or twice a month if your dog doesn't wear them down naturally to prevent painful tears and other problems. If you can hear them clicking on the floor, they're too long. Dog toenails have blood vessels in them, and if you cut too far you can cause bleeding — and your dog may not cooperate the next time he sees the nail clippers come out. So, if you're not experienced trimming dog nails, ask a vet or groomer for pointers.
His ears should be checked weekly for redness or a bad odor, which can indicate an infection. When you check your dog's ears, wipe them out with a cotton ball dampened with gentle, pH-balanced ear cleaner to help prevent infections. Don't insert anything into the ear canal; just clean the outer ear.
Begin accustoming your Kerry Blue to being brushed and examined when he's a puppy. Handle his paws frequently — dogs are touchy about their feet — and look inside his mouth. Make grooming a positive experience filled with praise and rewards, and you'll lay the groundwork for easy veterinary exams and other handling when he's an adult.
As you groom, check for sores, rashes, or signs of infection such as redness, tenderness, or inflammation on the skin, in the nose, mouth, and eyes, and on the feet. Eyes should be clear, with no redness or discharge. Your careful weekly exam will help you spot potential health problems early.
The Kerry Blue loves kids, and because he is a sturdy dog, he can take a few knocks if the play gets rough. He is good-natured, and isn't normally grouchy with children.
As with every breed, you should always teach children how to approach and touch dogs, and always supervise any interactions between dogs and young children to prevent any biting or ear or tail pulling on the part of either party. Teach your child never to approach any dog while he's eating or sleeping or to try to take the dog's food away. No dog, no matter how friendly, should ever be left unsupervised with a child.
He is grouchy, even aggressive, with other dogs, though with socialization and training — and altering — this tendency can be minimized. Never let your guard down, though, when the Kerry Blue is around other dogs, especially those unfamiliar to him.
The Kerry Blue isn't especially fond of small animals either, given his strong prey drive. His instinct tells him to chase, so keep him leashed in public. The best way to ensure he'll get along with cats or small mammals in his home is to raise him with them and introduce them properly. Following that, close supervision is advised.
Rescue Groups
Kerry Blues are sometimes bought without any clear understanding of what goes into owning one. These dogs may end up in need of adoption and fostering.
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OH FUCK OFF!!!! This wasn't assisted suicide it was at best coerced suicide. Assisted suicide is more like what Kevorkian did, not this bullshit.
Professional cat spooner.
The involuntary manslaughter conviction of a young woman who encouraged her boyfriend through dozens of text messages to kill himself was upheld Wednesday by Massachusetts’ highest court.
Carter’s lawyers said in an email they are disappointed in the ruling and will consider appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court, among other legal options. Carter, now 22, was sentenced to 15 months in jail, but has remained free while she pursues her appeals.
Mass. high court rules on Michelle Carter’s involuntary manslaughter conviction in texting suicide case
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Wednesday that the evidence proved Carter’s conduct caused the suicide of Conrad Roy III in 2014.
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I'm a little surprised she hasn't won any appeals. Telling someone to do something doesn't usually make you criminally responsible (and I'm absolutely not talking morally responsible here, she's a POS). I'm also not sure why part of the ruling had to do with the fact that she didn't call police - isn't that legally only the responsibility of mandatory reporters?
Maybe I'm missing some laws she broke though, since I'm not sure how else she would lose an appeal. Good riddance either way.
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spiff said:
It might have something to do with the Boyfriends State of mind, and her taking advantage of that weakness. I wouldn't consider it to be perfectly normal to want to attempt suicide, such that they may be considering him mentally fragile & easily manipulated, treating it like they might had the victim been mentally retarded. I have no more knowledge of the case than you but that would be my guess.
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Sickening abortion of justice
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Man, I had to create an account just for this...
Court upholds conviction of girl who urged suicide with texts and calls
"You're just making it harder on yourself by pushing it off," one message said.
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Well, stick around and continue to comment, TechGuyDallas. I'm located in N Texas, too.
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I thought it was kind of odd for Ars Technica to dive into this type of tech fringe story, but eh.
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‘‘I thought you wanted to do this. The time is right and you’re ready — just do it babe,’’ Carter wrote in one message.
‘‘You’re finally going to be happy in heaven. No more pain. It’s okay to be scared and it’s normal. I mean, you’re about to die,’’ she wrote in another.
The dude was a very weak ass fucker and he was going to kill himself one day, with or without her urging.
Actually, if the girl was really serious she could have saved all those texts and just him this.
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Update on the story (click on link, Michelle is not looking too good these days):
Aunt of teen who killed himself says 'justice has been served'
Conrad Roy III's aunt Becky Maki said she and the family feel 'justice has been served' after Michelle Carter, 22, was taken into custody to begin serving her 15-month jail sentence.
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Another update...with video of current Michelle
Woman convicted in texting suicide case is headed to jail
Michelle Carter was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2017.
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Holy shit! Look what I found:
Just click the facebook logo to go to the post
What a foul cunt. She was loving it.
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Wrongful death lawsuit against Michelle Carter dismissed
Update on this case...
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gah,, she is an ugly psycho looking thing, people can be so easily led, I feel for this boys family
Sheriff Hodgson: Michelle Carter adjusting to life behind bars
The 22-year-old Plainville woman was moved to general population from the medical wing, has a job in the Women's Division and is taking programs,
www.southcoasttoday.com
An update about how she's adjusting...
I Love You, Now Die Is The Most Harrowing True Crime This Year
The HBO documentary follows the case of Michelle Carter, who was jailed for 15 months after encouraging her teen boyfriend to kill himself
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HBO will be showing a new dramatization of the case....
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This cunt just doesn't get it does she?
Michelle Carter, who encouraged boyfriend's suicide, appeals to Supreme Court
Lawyers for Carter argued that her conviction violated her constitutional right to freedom of speech.
The Massachusetts woman who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself filed an appeal to the Supreme Court Monday.
Michelle Carter, 22, was sentenced to 15-months in prison for her role in the death of Conrad H. Roy III, who died in 2014 by inhaling carbon monoxide inside his pickup truck in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, while on the phone with Carter.
A judge found Carter contributed to Roy's death by telling him to "get back in" his truck as it was filling with poisonous fumes. She was 17 at the time and only about a month out of a psychiatric hospital when Roy took his own life.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld Carter's conviction in February, arguing that " the evidence against the defendant proved that, by her wanton or reckless conduct, she caused the victim's death by suicide."
Lawyers for Carter argued that the conviction violated her 1st Amendment right to free speech in a writ of certiorari petition to the Supreme Court of the United States filed Monday.
Story continues here - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michelle-carter-who-encouraged-boyfriend-s-suicide-appeals-supreme-court-n1027601
Somebody needs to tell her to just quietly do her time then she can start her career as a bottom feeding cam girl because no one in hell is ever going to hire her into the regular workplace.
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LFODBiker said:
shes a complete sociopath attention whore & deserves full time& eliminated from society completely, anyone doing a special on her deserve to be flamed if they didn't demonize her completely
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Sejanus
Repugnant broad needs to just go away forever.
Looks like she is getting her jailhouse lesbian on in those images.
Danse Macabre Instructor
She should shut the fuck up and serve her tiny jail sentence and be super grateful the length was so short.
I agree with her on this. No one should be criminally liable for telling someone what to do. She didn't force him to do anything. He wasn't a child, she had no authority over him, and they weren't even physically together.
She's a soulless monster, but she should not be criminally liable and I was really surprised the courts didn't see this as a first amendment violation from the get-go.
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2015 NR 1 season
In the wake of Jesus Christ's crucifixion, his apostles dedicate themselves to spreading his message, risking their freedom and their lives to foster a new and revolutionary religion destined to change the world.
Juan Pablo Di Pace, Adam Levy, Richard Coyle, Vincent Regan, Babou Ceesay, Chipo Chung, Greta Scacchi, Emmett Scanlan, James Callis, Joanne Whalley, Jodhi May
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Emotional, Inspiring
Bringing to life the turbulent era after the crucifixion of Jesus, this faith-oriented miniseries chronicles the efforts of Christ's first disciples to spread his message to a broader audience.
Widescreen 1.78:1
English SDH, Spanish (Neutral), French
English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish (Neutral): Dolby Digital 5.1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio, Spanish (Neutral): Dolby Digital 5.1
Common Sense rating OK for kids 14+
Parents need to know that A.D.: The Bible Continues documents the violence of Jesus Christ's crucifixion in considerable detail, showing nails being driven into Jesus' hands, a spear being thrust into his side, and other bloody acts. Words such as "damned" or "shut up" are used, albeit infrequently. Some characters kiss and drink socially.
Kissing.
Violent acts can be bloody and include crucifixion (with a shot of a nail being driven into Jesus's hand), stabbings, strangulation, and suicide by hanging.
"Damn" and "shut up" are audible.
The series stresses the value of loyalty, love, friendship, and, above all, faith. Bad things happen, but good ultimately triumphs over evil.
Social drinking (wine).
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Is there a word, phrase or coined expression that refers to the x-contains-y relationship?
I am not sure if there's a specific word, I can think of the word metonym, but it doesn't work for all x-contains-y relationship. For example, dish can refer to the food it contains (metonym), but ship cannot refer to the bolt it contains (never used as a metonym although they're tied by the same logical relationship). So what are some specific words for the x-contains-y relationship?
The ship and the bolt are in a ___ relationship whereas the lobster and the dish are in a metonymic relationship.
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This isn't exactly off-topic here, but you would probably get better results at EL&U. The precise terminology for metonyms, non-metonyms, and so forth isn't really something that comes up in normal English conversation, and few native speakers would be able to recognize either correct or incorrect terms. – Nathan Tuggy Apr 9 at 4:10
In object-oriented programming (OOP), the answer would be:
The ship and the bolt are in a "Has-a" relationship
The ship and the bolt are in a "contains" relationship
Of course, "has-a" and "contains" are opposites.
However, I am not aware of another word, usable for general English, non-OOP contexts.
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New Media Literary: Hypertextual, Cybertextual, and Networked
Katarina Peovic Vukovic
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Presented at Event:
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hypertextcybertextintroductory
The presentation deals with the problem of new media literacy, as compound of digital and network paradigm – whose differences with Web 2.0 are rapidly disappearing. However, the differentiation between digital and network is necessary in order to translate textual typology into cultural analysis – the hidden mission of new media theory from the very beginning.
First generation of hypertextual theoreticians detected hypertextuality as the basis of new media literacy – nonlinearity, interactivity and openness of the text were seen as democratisation of literacy. The presentation will try to demonstrate that hypertextuality is only a component of the digital paradigm, which is marked by broader flexibility of the text as productive apparatus. (That productivity of digital deconstructionist and poststructuralist theory connected with interpretation, but productivity is conducted, as Espen Aarseth pointed out, at the level of mechanical production.)
Cybertext and hypertext as two, I will try to demonstrate, separate digital genres are based on flexibility, whether in the form of topological organization of text or algorithmical variability. Topography and variability marked digital genres: hypertexts, computer games, artificial intelligence conversators, textual generators, etc
But scepticism in the late nineties stressed that this playfulness of text (as topological, variable etc.) has not proved as politically powerful. Some theoreticians welcomed the Net as the final achievement of that productivity. At the same time others rejected it as the place “in which the quiet voice of literature cannot easily be heard” (Robert Coover, Literary Hypertext: The Passing of the Golden Age, 1999). In some way both assertions are correct. Flexible, digital, productive text was given the channel for distribution that enables the reader-writer to publish her work. On the other hand, Internet developed communication genres. Network paradigm is primarily communicative, in relation to the digital paradigm which developed a context for fictional, narrative and poetic genres.
Although the World Wide Web as global hypertext emerges from digital paradigm, the hypertextual structure as primary digital, flexible is determined by the distributiveness: a “structural form without centre that resembles a web or meshwork” (A. Galloway). The architecture of the Internet provides the context for the consuming and producing signs. Although fictional elements play an important role (in communicating with other avatars in Second Life, or writing a blog), the read-write practices are generally defined by the communicative function of language.
The political function is determined not only through the Technological, but also Cultural. For that purpose it is important to differentiate the flexibility (and consequently poetic function) as an essential function of hypertext and cybertext, from distributiveness (and communicative function) of the networked genres. Therefore both, productiveness of the digital – the ability to produce signs, and distributiveness of the network, emerge from specific technological context, but only through cultural practices, they produce political context.
Lexia to Perplexia Talan Memmott 2000
The Jew's Daughter Judd Morrissey 2000
peovic_vukovic_fullpaper.pdf
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Dear Eastwood Collegiate families,
I am writing to let you know of an incident that happened in our school today.
This afternoon, a small grease fire started in the kitchen lab just after 12:00 pm. Staff acted quickly and evacuated the classroom. All students were safely evacuated from the school and the fire department responded.
The fire was contained to the kitchen and was quickly extinguished. Students were able to return to their regular classroom routines at 1:30 pm, after the fire department determined it was safe to do so.
The kitchen lab will be unavailable to students for a few days as we clean up the classroom. No other areas of the school are impacted.
We would like to thank our students and staff for acting quickly and safely evacuating the school, and the fire department for responding and keeping our school community safe.
If you have any questions about the incident, please do not hesitate to contact me at school.
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War of the Rebellion: Serial 068 Page 0439 Chapter XLVIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. - UNION.
Respectfully forwarded for the information of commanding general. Captain T. is at house on left of our line.
P. A. TAYLOR,
Captain and Signal Officer.
CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
May 6, 1864-7 a.m.
The question of ammunition is an important one. The major general commanding directs that every effort be made to economize the ammunition, and the ammunition of the killed and wounded be collected and distributed to the men. Use the bayonet where possible.
By command of Major-General Meade:
S. WILLIAMS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
Corps commanders will have one-half of the ammunition wagons of their command emptied of their contents and the ammunition issued to the troops without delay. The empty wagons will be turned over by the quartermaster to the chief quartermaster of the army at these headquarters.
HEADQUARTERS SECOND CORPS,
May 6, 1864-5.40 a.m.
Major-General MEADE,
Headquarters Army of the Potomac:
GENERAL: General Hancock went in punctually, and is driving the enemy handsomely. Some prisoners. Nothing from Longstreet. Hancock has a rifle-pit on left to be ready for him, and scouts out. Birney has joined with Wadsworth.
T. LYMAN,
Lieutenant-Colonel, Volunteer Aide-de-Camp.
HDQRS. SECOND CORPS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
May 6, 1864-5.40 a.m
[General A. A. HUMPHREYS?:]
GENERAL: We have driven the enemy from their position, and are keeping up the plank road, connected with Wadsworth, taking quite a number of prisoners. My attack is being made with three divisions on both sides of the plank road.
WINF'D S. HANCOCK.
Major-General of Volunteers.
The prisoners appear to belong to Heth's and Wilcox's divisions, so far as I have questioned them.
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War of the Rebellion: Serial 092 Page 0188 OPERATIONS IN S. C., GA., AND FLA. Chapter LVI.
Chattahoochee River at 4. 30 p. m. November 15, marched at 6 a. m. ; reached Atlanta 2 p. m. ; went southeast of city and camped; drew clothing and rations. November 16, were ordered to move at 7 a. m., of Stone Mountain; camped at 7 p. m. November 17, moved at 6. 30 a. m. ; reached Lithonia 1. 15 p. m. ; went three miles farther and commenced destruction of railroad; burned about ----; went into camp at Conyers Station at 7 p. m. November 18, marched at 6 a. m. ; were train guards; reached Covington 1. 15 p. m. ; here left the railroad to our left and went toward Eatonton; camped at 4 p. m. November 19, marched at 6 a. m. ; rainy; made camp at 4. 30 p. m. November 20, marched at 6. 45 a. m. ; were in advance of the corps; went to one mile of Eatonton Cedar Creek. November 23, started at 6 a. m. ; camped at sundown two miles from Milledgeville. November 24, moved at 9. 40 a. m. ; reached Milledgeville 10. 20; crossed Oconee River and went into camp six miles from town. November 25, marched at 6 a. m. ; camped from 7 to 10. 30 p. m. six miles from Sandersville; were train guards. November 26, marched at 6. 15 a. m. ; went into town 9. 15; went to east side of town and camped. November 27, marched at 6 a. m. ; camped at sundown. November 28, moved at 7 a. m. ; camped at 8. 30 p. m. one mile east of Louisville; here remained until December 1. The regiment had three companies on grand guard east of camp, when were attacked by about-mounted infantry. Our men charged and drove them across an open field, where they rallied and tried to drive our men back, but failed. The enemy lost three killed and several wounded. No loss on our side.
December 1, started at 12 m. ; went into camp 7. 30 p. m. December 2, moved at 9 a. m. ; were train guards; halted about sundown. December 3, marched at 10 a. m. ; were train guards; went into camp between 11 p. m. and 2 a. m. the 4th. December 4, started about 8 a. m. ; crossed the Augusta railroad at 10 a. m. ; went into camp at 7 p. m. December 5, moved at 6. 30 a. m. ; went into camp at buck Creek, on old River road; regiment on grand guard. December 6, brigade in rear; moved at 10 a. m. ; went into camp at 9 p. m. December 7, moved at 7. 30; camped near Ebenezer Creek soon after dark. December 8, marched at 10 a. m. ; then went back three miles; moved very slow; camped at 11. 30 p. m. December 9, moved at 7. 30 a. m. ; made camp at 4 p. m. December 10, moved at 7. 30; went to railroad and remained until 3. 30, when went on grand guard on Augusta road. December 11, at 9 a. m. were relieved; went to Conyer's, and on toward Savannah; went to five miles of town; crossed to right of Georgia Central Railroad; went into position near Telfrair Station, and about four miles and a half from the city; no calls allowed to be sounded or camp fires at night. December 14, had orders to lay out camp in regular order. December 16 and 20, regiment on grand guard. December 21, had orders to be ready to move at 8 a. m., but did not start until about 9 a. m. the 22d; went about one mile and a half nearer the city and went into camp.
Distance marched during the month of October, 210 miles; November, 233 miles; December, 126 miles; total, 569 miles.
Respectfully submitted.
CHAS. H. RICHMA,
Captain, Commanding Regiment.
Captain JOHN P. HOLLERS,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, First Brigade, &c.
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Rheenendal bus crash inquest postponed
The inquest into the bus crash that claimed the lives of 14 school children has been postponed.
Police divers at the scene of an accident where fifteen people died and 44 were injured when a school bus plunged off a bridge and into a dam in Knysna in August 2011. Picture: SAPA
Rheenendal bus crash
Knysna Magistrates Court
Rheenendal bus crash inquiry
Eyewitness News | 2099 days ago
CAPE TOWN - The inquest into the Rheenendal bus crash that claimed the lives of 14 school children and a driver is set to resume in April next year.
The school children and driver were killed when the bus they were travelling in plunged into a river.
It's believed the incident was caused by faulty brakes.
The matter was postponed in the Knysna Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
Jerald Andrews, the lawyer representing the victims' families, says, "We were unable to prepare properly the transcript of the record of the previous sitting and we have not received the report of the expert witness that the other party's would have called to dispute the evidence."
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Yeoville residents express mixed feelings following Cele’s visit
Cele and Motsoaledi promised to work hard to address issues such as crime, unemployment and tensions between locals and foreign nationals in the area.
Aaron Motsoaledi
Minister of police Bheki Cele
Yeoville Police Station
Yeoville policing
Border control
Bonga Dlulane | 31 days ago
JOHANNESBURG – Yeoville residents say they have mixed feelings on whether Ministers Bheki Cele and Aaron Motsoaledi will stick to their word.
This follows governments crime imbizo in the area on Saturday.
But they have admitted it will take time.
Residents in Yeoville raised complaints about corridor police officials, rampant crime and a lack of jobs.
Cele says they have heard Yeoville community's cries.
“People that come from other countries must be documented when they arrive in South Africa. So, as the government we must work on those things; I’m sure that everything will be fine.”
His counterpart from Motsoaledi said only documented foreigners must enter the country.
The government says they will come back for a second imbizo in Yeoville.
BORDER CONTROLS
Motsoaledi says the government is working on a border management authority to clamp-down on illegal border crossings.
Motsoaledi says the bill has been passed by the National Assembly but it's stuck at the National Council of Provinces (NCOP).
Motsoaledi ensured the residents that the government is working on a plan to stop illegal migration.
The minister says he's been instructed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to ensure the border management authority bill becomes law.
“When a person crosses the border, there’s going to be the department of Home Affairs, of course, it’s an Act under Home Affairs, but the police are going to be there and the army, the customs officials and the DTI.”
Motsoaledi says the bill is not xenophobic.
“You said that again and again and again; that’s not xenophobic but you said a xenophobic storm is brewing because of the conditions you find yourselves.”
The minister says he will be engaging with the NCOP to fast-track the bill.
ADEQUATE POLICING
After hearing residents complain about inadequate policing in Yeoville, Cele said the South African Police Service will do better.
However, to achieve that, Cele said they need the community of the troubled area to assist them by not abetting criminals.
Residents in the area raised concerns about police failing them and being corrupt.
Cele said he's working in making sure that Yeoville is not a crime hub.
"If you're an owner of a shebeen, it's your responsibility to make sure that under 18s can't be in shebeens. You are not complying and we will hit you hard."
Cele made bold promises that he will ensure he roots out corruption in the police service.
He said he will work out a plan and come back to Yeoville to implement it.
(Edited by Leeto M Khoza)
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When dissatisfied with a complaint to the EIB Complaints Mechanism, citizens can then turn towards the European Ombudsman. A memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the EIB and the European Ombudsman establishes that citizens (even outside of the EU if the Ombudsman finds their complaint justified) can turn towards the Ombudsman on issues related to 'maladministration' by the EIB. Note that before going to the Ombudsman, an attempt must be made to resolve the case by contacting the EIB. In addition, the complaint must be made within two years of the date when the facts on which your complaint is based became known to you. You can write to the Ombudsman in any of the languages of the European Union. Additional details, including filing requirements and complaint forms, are available at: http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/atyourservice/interactiveguide.faces
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Page:Popular Science Monthly Volume 65.djvu/467
EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN HAND.
and other parallel fingered species soon after their adoption of the arboreal habit—or at least before the appearance of any important modification of the earlier structural relations of their limbs—took to a form of locomotion in which the body was partly supported from beneath by the hind limbs and partly steadied or suspended from above by the grasp of the fore limbs; so that the peculiar modification which the arboreal form of life contributed to the animal type was incorporated in the hind limbs alone. The anthropoid apes, on the contrary, which show this specialization in fore as well as hind limbs, we shall conceive to have persisted in the quadrupedal habit during a period the continuance of which was sufficiently protracted to allow of the appearance of similar modifications in all four limbs. Only subsequent to this process of adaptation should we imagine the progenitor of man to have arisen from the quadrupedal position and to have used the fore limbs for the secondary support of the body by grasping the upper branches.
In this new function the limb specialized by opposition had probably little advantage over the more primitive hand of the monkey, in so far as suspensional support was concerned. In respect to those other uses upon which the subsequent development of man in all kinds of mechanical skill depends, this new structural variation was of the highest significance. The monkey tribe gave up the habit of walking on all-fours too early and is suffering from the consequences to the present day.
This stage of development, however, represents a condition in which the factors of further evolution are confused and the various parts of the organism imperfectly adapted to the functions they are hereafter to perform. Hands and feet conform to the same architectural type. Both share in the unitary process of locomotion; the hands are capable of supporting the fore part of the body in moving, the feet are still prehensile organs. There is no exclusive functional specialization by which fore and hind limbs may be set off from each other. This subdivision of labor must come about through a development of the lower limbs by which they become capable of the sole support of the body at rest and in progress. In other words, the hands can not be released from their office of steadying and supporting the body until sufficient skeletal changes and muscular growth have taken place in the lower limbs to enable them to carry on the function of locomotion alone. The freeing of the hand for exclusively manipulative purposes thus depends upon the replacement of the semi-erect posture by a fully erect one, in which process the calf develops, the joints are straightened and the whole limb rotates upon its point of attachment to the body until the main axes of the two are parallel and each is vertical in position.
These changes could hardly have taken place during the continuance
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the agent, joined the rebel cause and took rank as Grand Vazeer or Prime Minister in the Rebel Durbar ; in this position he dispossessed the trustees and assumed sole control over the whole trust. The rebel government running short of funds, the whole of the gold and silver plate was taken from the Imambara, by order of Prince Birjeesh Kudr, the son of the rebel, Begum Huzrut Mahal, was sent to the mint and coined into money to pay the rebel troops. The trustees, according to their account, were coerced into giving up their seals, under the threat of murdering the son of the elder trustee, the Government securities were taken, and the sinews of war enhanced, by selling some of them to bankers at the rate of 20 per cent, of their actual value. The remainder of the securities fell into the possession of the rebel Begum and are probably in her possession still. The old trustees were deposed and in their place, the present trustees Nawab Mohsun-ood-dowlah Bahadoor, K. C. S. I., and Nawab Moom-taz-ood-dowlah Bahadoor, were appointed, and in place of Shurf-ood-dowlah, Moonshee Ramprashad was appointed as agent. Government granted duplicates of the missing securities, and now the trust seems to be managed on a very grand and extravagant scale, none the worse for its misfor- tunes.
Returning from Hossain-abad, on the right is the " chowk" or great Bazar : it extends from north to south for about a mile and is entered, at both ends, by an arched gateway. The north gate is called the " Gol Durwaza," the south is known as the " Akbari Durwaza." The latter is said to have been in existence when the Emperor Akbar, of Delhi passed through Lucknow, and on his return, after subduing Nepal, he ordered the arch to be repaired and gave it his name. The chowk is a busy street, but so narrow that a carriage cannot turn in it, hence, none are allowed to enter, but elephants may be seen passing at all hours of the day.
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The further adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford under-graduate/Chapter 10
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2270554The further adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford under-graduate — Chapter 10Cuthbert Bede
MR. VERDANT GREEN ENJOYS A REAL CIGAR.
The Christmas vacation passed rapidly away; the Honeywood family returned to the far north; and, once more, Mr. Verdant Green found himself within the walls of Brazenface. He and Mr. Bouncer had together gone up to Oxford, leaving Charles Larkyns behind to keep a grace-term.
Charles Larkyns had determined to take a good degree. For some time past, he had been reading steadily; and, though only a few hours in each day may be given to books—yet, when that is done, with regularity and painstaking, a real and sensible progress is made. He knew that he had good abilities, and he had determined not to let them remain idle any longer, but to make that use of them for which they were given to him. His examination would come on during the next term; and he hoped to turn the interval to good account, and be able in the end to take a respectable degree. He was destined for the Bar; and, as he had no wish to be a briefless Barrister, he knew that college honours would be of great advantage to him in his after career. He, at once, therefore, set bodily to work to read up his subjects; while his father assisted him in his labours, and Mary Green smiled a kind approval.
Meanwhile, his friends, Mr. Verdant Green and Mr. Henry Bouncer, were enjoying Oxford life, and disporting themselves among the crowd of skaters in the Christ Church meadows. And a very different scene did the meadows present to the time when they had last skimmed over its surface. Then, the green fields were covered with sailing-boats, out-riggers, and punts, and Mr. Verdant Green had nearly come to an untimely end in the waters. But now the scene was changed! Jack Frost had stepped in, and had seized the flood in his frozen fingers, and had bound it up in an icy breast-plate.
And a capital place did the meadows make for any Undergraduate who was either a professed skater, or whose skating education (as in the case of our hero) had been altogether neglected. For the water was only of a moderate depth; so that, in the event of the ice giving way, there was nothing to fear beyond a slight and partial ducking. This was especially fortunate for Mr. Verdant Green, who, after having experienced total submersion and a narrow escape from drowning on that very spot, would never have been induced to again commit himself to the surface of the deep, had he not been fully convinced that the deep had now subsided into a shallow. With his breast fortified by this resolution, he therefore fell a victim to the syren tongue of Mr. Bouncer, when that gentleman observed to him with sincere feeling, "Giglamps, old fellow! it would be a beastly shame, when there's such jolly ice, if you did not learn to skate; especially, as I can show you the trick."
For, Mr. Bouncer was not only skilful with his hands and arms, but could also perform feats with his feet. He could not only dance quadrilles in dress boots in a ball-room, but he could also go through the figures on the ice in a pair of skates. He could do the outside edge at a more acute angle than the generality of people; he could cut figures of eight that were worthy of Cocker himself, he could display spread-eagles that would have astonished the Fellows of the Zoological Society. He could skim over the thinnest ice in the most don't-care way; and, when at full speed, would stoop to pick up a stone. He would take a hop-skip-and-a-jump; and would vault over walking-sticks, as easily as if he were on dry land,—an accomplishment which he had learnt of the Count Doembrownski, a Russian gentleman, who, in his own country, lived chiefly on skates, and, in this country, on pigeons, and whose short residence in Oxford was suddenly brought to a full stop by the arbitrary power of the Vice-Chancellor. So, Mr. Verdant Green was persuaded to purchase, and put on a pair of skates, and to make his first appearance as a skater in the Christ Church meadows, under the auspices of Mr. Bouncer.
The sensation of first finding yourself in a pair of skates is peculiar. It is not unlike the sensation which must have been felt by the young bear, when he was dropped from his mamma's mouth, and, for the first time, told to walk. The poor little bear felt, that it was all very well to say "walk,"—but how was he to do it? Was he to walk with his right fore-leg only? or, with his left fore-leg? or, with both his fore-legs? or, was he to walk with his right hind-leg? or, with his left hind-leg? or, with both his hind-legs? or, was he to make a combination of hind and fore-legs, and walk with all four at once? or, what was he to do? So he tried each of these ways; and they all failed. Poor little bear!
Mr. Verdant Green felt very much in the little bear's condition. He was undecided whether to skate with his right leg, or with his left leg, or with both his legs. He tried his right leg, and immediately it glided off at right angles with his body, while his left leg performed a similar and spontaneous movement in the contrary direction. Having captured his left leg, he put it cautiously forwards, and immediately it twisted under him, while his right leg amused itself by describing an altogether unnecessary circle. Obtaining a brief mastery over both legs, he put them forwards at the same moment, and they fled from beneath him, and he was flung—bump!—on his back. Poor little bear!
But, if it is hard to make a start in a pair of skates when you are in a perpendicular position, how much is the difficulty increased when your position has become a horizontal one! You raise yourself on your knees,—you assist yourself with your hands,—and, no sooner have you got one leg right, than away slides the other, and down you go. It is like the movement in that scene with the pair of short stilts, in which the French clowns are so amusing, and it is almost as difficult to perform. Mr. Verdant Green soon found that though he might be ambitious to excel in the polite accomplishment of skating, yet that his ambition was destined to meet with many a fall. But he persevered, and perseverance will achieve wonders, especially when aided by the tuition of such an indefatigable gentleman as Mr. Bouncer.
"You get on stunningly, Giglamps," said the little gentleman, "and hav'nt been on your beam ends more than once a minute. But I should advise you, old fellow, to get your sit-upons seated with wash-leather,—just like the eleventh hussars do with their cherry-coloured pants. It'll come cheaper in the end, and may be productive of comfort. And now, after all these exciting ups and downs, let us go and have a quiet hand at billiards." So the two friends strolled up the High, where they saw two Queensmen "confessing their shame," as Mr. Bouncer phrased it, by standing under the gateway of their college; and went on to Bickerton's, where they found all the tables occupied, and Jonathan playing a match with Mr. Fluke of Christchurch. So, after watching the celebrated marker long enough to inspire them with a desire to accomplish similar feats of dexterity, they continued their walk to Broad Street, and, turning up a yard opposite to the Clarendon, found that Betteris had an upstair room at liberty. Here they accomplished several pleasing mathematical problems with the balls, and contributed their modicum towards the smoking of the ceiling of the room.
Since Mr. Verdant Green had acquired the art of getting through a cigar without making himself ill, he had looked upon himself as a genuine smoker; and had, from time to time, bragged of his powers as regarded the fumigation of "the herb Nicotiana, commonly called tobacco," (as the Oxford statute tersely says). This was an amiable weakness on his part that had not escaped the observant eye of Mr. Bouncer, who had frequently taken occasion, in the presence of his friends, to defer to Mr. Verdant Green's judgment in the matter of cigars. The train of adulation being thus laid, an opportunity was only needed to fire it. It soon came.
"Once upon a time," as the story-books say, it chanced that Mr. Bouncer was consuming his minutes and cigars at his tobacconist's, when his eye lighted for the thousandth time on the roll of cabbage-leaves, brown paper, and refuse tobacco, which being done up into the form of a monster cigar (a foot long, and of proportionate thickness), was hung in the shop-window, and did duty as a truthful token of the commodity vended within. Mr. Bouncer had looked at this implement nine hundred and ninety nine times, without its suggesting anything else to his mind, than its being of the same class of art as the monster misrepresentations outside wild-beast shows; but he now gazed upon it with new sensations. In short, Mr. Bouncer took such a fancy to the thing, that he purchased it, and took it off to his rooms,—though he did not mention this fact to his friend, Mr. Verdant Green, when he saw him soon afterwards, and spoke to him of his excellent judgment in tobacco.
"A taste for smoke comes natural, Giglamps!" said Mr. Bouncer. "It's what you call a nascitur non fit; and, if you haven't the gift, why you can't purchase it. Now, you're a judge of smoke; it's a gift with you, don't you see; and you could no more help knowing a good weed from a bad one, than you could help waggling your tail if you were a baa-lamb."
Mr. Verdant Green bowed, and blushed, in acknowledgment of this delightful flattery.
"Now, there's old Footelights, you know; he's got an uncle, who's a governor, or some great swell, out in Barbadoes. Well, every now and then the old trump sends Footelights no end of a box of weeds; not common ones, you understand, but regular tip-toppers; but they're quite thrown away on poor Footelights, who'd think as much of cabbage-leaves as he would of real Havannahs, so he's always obliged to ask somebody else's opinion about them. Well, he's got a sample of a weed of a most terrific kind:—Magnifico Pomposo is the name;—no end uncommon, and at least a foot long. We don't meet with 'em in England because they're too expensive to import. Well, it would'nt do to throw away such a weed as this on any one; so, Footelights wants to have the opinion of a man who's really a judge of what a good weed is. I refused, because my taste has been rather out of order lately; and Billy Blades is in training for Henley, so he's obliged to decline; so I told him of you, Giglamps, and said, that if there was a man in Brazenface that could tell him what his Magnifico Pomposo was worth, that man was Verdant Green. Don't blush, old feller! you can't help having a fine judgment, you know; so don't be ashamed of it. Now, you must wine with me this evening; Footelights and some more men are coming; and we're all anxious to hear your opinion about these new weeds, because, if it's favourable we can club together, and import a box." Mr. Bouncer's victim, being perfectly unconscious of the trap laid for him, promised to come to the wine, and give his opinion on this weed of fabled size and merit.
When the evening and company had come, he was rather staggered at beholding the dimensions of the pseudo-cigar; but, rashly judging that to express surprise would be to betray ignorance, Mr. Verdant Green inspected the formidable monster with the air of a connoisseur, and smelt, pinched, and rolled his tongue round it, after the manner of the best critics. If this was a diverting spectacle to the assembled guests of Mr. Bouncer, how must the humour of the scene have been increased, when our hero, with great difficulty, lighted the cigar, and, with still greater difficulty, held it in his mouth, and endeavoured to smoke it! As Mr. Foote afterwards observed, "it was a situation for a screaming farce."
"It doesn't draw well!" faltered the victim, as the bundle of rubbish went out for the fourth time.
"Why, that's always the case with the Barbadoes baccy!" said Mr. Bouncer; "it takes a long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull all together to get it to make a start; but when once it does go, it goes beautiful—like a house a-fire. But you can't expect it to be like a common threepenny weed. Here! let me light him for you, Giglamps; I'll give the beggar a dig in his ribs, as a gentle persuader." Mr. Bouncer thereupon poked his pen-knife through the rubbish, and after a time induced it to "draw;" and Mr. Verdant Green pulled at it furiously, and made his eyes water with the unusual cloud of smoke that he raised.
"And now, what d'ye think of it, my beauty?" inquired Mr. Bouncer. "It's something out of the common, ain't it?"
"It has a beautiful ash!" observed Mr. Smalls.
"And diffuses an aroma that makes me long to defy the trainer, and smoke one like it!" said Mr. Blades.
"So pray give me your reading—at least, your opinion,—on my Magnifico Pomposo!" asked Mr. Foote.
"Well," answered Mr. Verdant Green, slowly—turning very pale as he spoke,—"at first, I thought it was be-yew-tiful; but, altogether, I think—that—the Barbadoes tobacco—doesn't quite—agree with—my stom—" the speaker abruptly concluded by dropping the cigar, putting his handkerchief to his mouth, and rushing into Mr. Bouncer's bedroom. The Magnifico Pomposo had been too much for him, and had produced sensations accurately interpreted by Mr. Bouncer, who forthwith represented in expressive pantomine, the actions of a distressed voyager, when he feebly murmurs "Steward!"
To atone for the "chaffing" which he had been the means of inflicting on his friend, the little gentleman, a few days afterwards, proposed to take our hero to the Chipping Norton Steeple-chase,—Mr. Smalls and Mr. Fosbrooke making up the quartet for a tandem. It was on their return from the races, that, after having stopped at The Bear at Woodstock, "to wash out the horses' mouths," and having done this so effectually that the horses had appeared to have no mouths left, and had refused to answer the reins, and had smashed the cart against a house, which had seemed to have danced into the middle of the road for their diversion,—and, after having put back to The Bear, and prevailed upon that animal to lend them a nondescript vehicle of the "pre-adamite buggy" species, described by Sidney Smith,—that, much time having been consumed by the progress of this chapter of accidents, they did not reach Peyman's Gate until a late hour; and Mr. Verdant Green found that he was once more in difficulties. For they had no sooner got through the gate, than the wild octaves from Mr. Bouncer's post-horn were suddenly brought to a full stop, and Mr. Fosbrooke, who was the "waggoner," was brought to Woh! and was compelled to pull up in obedience to the command of the proctor, who, as on a previous occasion, suddenly appeared from behind the toll-house, in company with his marshall and bull-dogs.
The Sentence pronounced on our hero the next day, was, "Sir!—You will translate all your lectures; have your name crossed on the buttery and kitchen books; and be confined to chapel, hall, and college."
This sentence was chiefly annoying, inasmuch as it somewhat interfered with the duties and pleasures attendant upon his boating practice. For, wonderful to relate, Mr. Verdant Green had so much improved in the science, that he was now "Number 3" of his college "Torpid," and was in hard training. The Torpid races commenced on March 10th, and were continued on the following days. Our hero sent his father a copy of "Tintinnabulum's Life," which—after informing the Manor Green family that "the boats took up positions in the following order: Brazenose, Exeter 1, Wadham, Balliol, St. John's, Pembroke, University, Oriel, Brazenface, Christ Church 1, Worcester, Jesus, Queen's, Christ Church 2, Exeter 2"—proceeded to enter into particulars of each day's sport, of which it is only necessary to record such as gave interest to our hero's family.
"First day. * * * Brazenface refused to acknowledge the bump by Christ Church (1) before they came to the Cherwell. There is very little doubt but that they were bumped at the Gut and the Willows. * * *
"Second day. * * * Brazenface rowed pluckily away from Worcester. * * *
"Third day. * * * A splendid race between Brazenface and Worcester; and, at the flag, the latter were within a foot; they did not, however, succeed in bumping. The cheering from the Brazenface barge was vociferous. * * *
"Fourth day. * * * Worcester was more fortunate, and succeeded in making the bump at the Cherwell, in consequence of No. 3 of the Brazenface boat fainting from fatigue."
Under "No. 3" Mr. Verdant Green had drawn a pencil line, and had written "V. G." He shortly after related to his family the gloomy particulars of the bump, when he returned home for the Easter vacation.
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Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity
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The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity, also known as the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) is a 2010 supplementary agreement to the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Its aim is the implementation of one of the three objectives of the CBD: the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources, thereby contributing to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.[1] However, there are concerns that the added bureaucracy and legislation will, overall, be damaging to the monitoring and collection of biodiversity, to conservation, to the international response to infectious diseases, and to research.[2][3][4]
The protocol was adopted on 29 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan, and entered into force on 12 October 2014. It has been ratified by 114 parties, which includes 113 UN member states and the European Union[5]. It is the second protocol to the CBD; the first is the 2000 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
2 Obligations
2.1 Access obligations
2.2 Benefit-sharing obligations
2.3 Compliance obligations
2.4 Implementation
2.5 Relationship between the Nagoya Protocol and other international agreements
2.6 Criticism
Scope[edit]
The Nagoya Protocol applies to genetic resources that are covered by the CBD, and to the benefits arising from their utilization. The protocol also covers traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources that are covered by the CBD and the benefits arising from its utilization
Obligations[edit]
The Nagoya Protocol sets out obligations for its contracting parties to take measures in relation to access to genetic resources, benefit-sharing and compliance.
Access obligations[edit]
Domestic-level access measures aim to:
Create legal certainty, clarity, and transparency
Provide fair and non-arbitrary rules and procedures
Establish clear rules and procedures for prior informed consent and mutually agreed terms
Provide for issuance of a permit or equivalent when access is granted
Create conditions to promote and encourage research contributing to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use
Pay due regard to cases of present or imminent emergencies that threaten human, animal, or plant health
Consider the importance of genetic resources for food and agriculture for food security
Benefit-sharing obligations[edit]
Domestic-level benefit-sharing measures aim to provide for the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources with the contracting party providing genetic resources. Utilization includes research and development on the genetic or biochemical composition of genetic resources, as well as subsequent applications and commercialization. Sharing is subject to mutually agreed terms. Benefits may be monetary or non-monetary such as royalties and the sharing of research results.
Compliance obligations[edit]
Specific obligations to support compliance with the domestic legislation or regulatory requirements of the contracting party providing genetic resources, and contractual obligations reflected in mutually agreed terms, are a significant innovation of the Nagoya Protocol.
Contracting parties are to:
Take measures providing that genetic resources utilized within their jurisdiction have been accessed in accordance with prior informed consent, and that mutually agreed terms have been established, as required by another contracting party
Cooperate in cases of alleged violation of another contracting party's requirements
Encourage contractual provisions on dispute resolution in mutually agreed terms
Ensure an opportunity is available to seek recourse under their legal systems when disputes arise from mutually agreed terms (MAT)
Take measures regarding access to justice
Monitor the use of genetic resources after they leave a country by designating effective checkpoints at every stage of the value-chain: research, development, innovation, pre-commercialization, or commercialization
The Nagoya Protocol's success will require effective implementation at the domestic level. A range of tools and mechanisms provided by the Nagoya Protocol will assist contracting parties including:
Establishing national focal points (NFPs) and competent national authorities (CNAs) to serve as contact points for information, grant access, or cooperate on issues of compliance
An Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House to share information, such as domestic regulatory ABS requirements or information on NFPs and CNAs
Capacity-building to support key aspects of implementation.
Based on a country's self-assessment of national needs and priorities, capacity-building may help to:
Develop domestic ABS legislation to implement the Nagoya Protocol
Negotiate mutually-agreed terms
Develop in-country research capability and institutions
Transfer technology
Target financial support for capacity-building and development initiatives through the GEF
Relationship between the Nagoya Protocol and other international agreements[edit]
A growing number of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) include provisions related to access to genetic resources or to the sharing of the benefits that arise out of their utilization. Indeed, some recent trade agreements, originating notably from Latin American countries, provide specific measures designed to facilitate the implementation of the ABS provisions contained in the Nagoya Protocol, including measures related to technical assistance, transparency and dispute settlement.[6]
Criticism[edit]
Many scientists have voiced concern over the protocol, fearing the increased red tape will hamper disease prevention and conservation efforts[7], and that the threat of possible imprisonment of scientists will have a chilling effect on research.[2][4] Non-commercial biodiversity researchers and institutions such as natural history museums fear maintaining biological reference collections and exchanging material between institutions will become difficult.[3]
Bermuda Principles
Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
^ "Nagoya Protocol".
^ a b "Biopiracy ban stirs red-tape fears".
^ a b "The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing—International treaty poses challenges for biological collections".
^ a b "A plea for open science on Zika". www.sciencemag.org. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
^ https://www.cbd.int/abs/nagoya-protocol/signatories/default.shtml
^ Jean-Frédéric Morin and Mathilde Gauquelin, Trade Agreements as Vectors for the Nagoya Protocol's Implementation, CIGI papers, no 115, 2016, http://www.chaire-epi.ulaval.ca/sites/chaire-epi.ulaval.ca/files/publications/paper_no.115.pdf
^ "When the cure kills—CBD limits biodiversity research". science.sciencemag.org. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
Signatures and ratifications, un.org
Explanation of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing and its implication for microbiology, microbiology.org
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nagoya_Protocol&oldid=896854500"
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‘Black Lightning’ Trailer: Your Action-Packed First Look At CW’s DC Comics Drama
By Denise Petski, Deadline May 18, 2017 at 3:52pm
2017-2018 Primetime TV Grid: It's 'This Is Us' Vs. 'Scandal', Marvel & DC Vs. Everyone, Comedy Sigalert Tuesday
The CW New Series Trailers: 'Life Sentence' Starring Lucy Hale, Military Drama 'Valor'
'Dynasty' Trailer: First Look At The CW Reboot
“Black Lightning was a savior who kept our streets and our schools safe. He was hope personified, but he was also Jefferson Pierce, my father.”
We’re getting the first look at Black Lightning, The CW’s DC drama from producer Greg Berlanti, Salim Akil, and Mara Brock Akil.
Based on the DC character created by Tony Isabella with Trevor Von Eeden, Black Lightning centers on Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams). He made his choice: He hung up the suit and his secret identity years ago, but with a daughter, Jennifer, hellbent on justice and a star student being recruited by a local gang, he’ll be pulled back into the fight as the wanted vigilante and DC legend Black Lightning.
Nafessa Williams, China Anne McClain and Christine Adams star.
The series hails from Berlanti Productions and Akil Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.
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Hollywood said:
Gibberish.
Now there is a "Comey/Clinton crime family. Un fucking believable.
What didn't you understand about the statement ",,,distraction from what Trump is doing today?"
Where did i mention anything Trump did or said in 2012?
Your comment makes no sense.
No Kupkake....Hillary was on the public payroll as US Sec of State in 2012, that is why she is still relevant today.....Trump did not get on the public payroll until Jan 2017....from that point on he answers to us...
Toefoot said:
Oh my, Trump ran a business. Another empty thread.
From an empty head, there is absolutely no evidence of any wrong doing. I shared as much yesterday, fake news is all this is.
At first glance, you have a point, but your comment is (IMO) a false equivalency. Clinton has been in politics for decades. Her personal life, lies, scandals, policies, relationships, foundation, taxes, speaking fees, mistakes, and party loyalties have been on public display--argued, published, vetted and loved or hated. Her experience level is something rare--first lady (gov and pres), Secretary of State and Senator. She's a centrist Democrat--always has been--who knows public and foreign policy COLD. She is a meticulous planner--highly educated on the legislative process, governing, history, influential D.C. people, and world events.
AND YES---she has issues--ethical issues, political issues, personal issues, and explosive past. Has she lied? Of course. Has she exaggerated? You bet. Clinton is flawed to the extreme, but compared to DJTrump, Clinton walks on water.
Trump has ethical issues that Clinton can't even being to match. He entered the presidency with 75 fraud lawsuits pending. He has bragged about bribing, sexual assault, adultery, employing illegal immigrants, sending jobs to China, his wealth, his schemes, his avoidance to pay taxes and much more. Trump is the first candidate in decades not to release his tax returns. We know he probably hasn’t paid much if any federal income tax since 1995, when he lost $916 million, contradicting his claims to be a savvy businessman, but we don’t know what other ethical land mines are buried in his records. Does he have financial as well as sentimental ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin? No way to know.
We do know Trump is intolerant of dissent. He threatened lawsuits against his accusers and libel suits against newspapers that have reported their allegations. He wants to loosen libel laws to facilitate such suits. He has incited violence at his rallies. He is, in short, an authoritarian who should never have been given control of the FBI and IRS, because NOW he has fired the very person (and two others) in charge of an investigation that MAY involve HIM personally.
Trump lacks a presidential temperament. He gets flustered when he isn't adored. Trump is also almost completely ignorant of public and foreign policy. He has insulted our allies, praised world dictators and made numerous enemies IN HIS OWN PARTY---which he has changed at least three times in the past 2 decades.
He is NOT a conservative--not a uniter--and has no intention of making America great again. Trump doesn't seem to give a fig about nuclear proliferation and in fact says "Why bother having nuclear weapons if we aren't going to use them?"
So, YES. Clinton has enemies but does she have more than Trump? As many as Trump? She has been investigated on every possible level from fruit to nuts including her husbands disastrous affairs to her personal email server, from Whitewater to Benghazi, with a DNC hot mess in the middle. Love her or hate her we KNOW her--inside and out--which doesn't matter any more because Clinton is not the president of the United States.
Trump?? Well, that's another story. There's too much we do not know, but by the time his presidency comes to an end, I'm betting we'll have enough sewage to drown in it.
And one more thing: The Media. The powerful MEDIA. AND they alone may be Trump's undoing.
I have proved to the idiots on the right over and over and over that the Clinton email scandal, Clinton Foundation scandal and Benghazi scandal were ALL right wing manufactured lies. If dumbfucks like you don't want to accept facts you can remain the butt of jokes from intelligent people. In case you haven't noticed, the American right wing has been the laughing stock of the world for decades.
And many others see see the relentless bashing of Hillary's actions in the PAST as a distraction from what trump is doing TODAY.
Yes,and you are known as sheeple!
Talk about a laughing stock!!....the way he keeps using that line "we intelligent people, think this,or that, or whatever"....Intelligent people have disowned him long ago...
Deny all you want. It is unraveling more and more.
Shades of Nixon all the way.
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Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live
Hot Wheels™ Monster Trucks Live, a new nationwide tour that will create an immersive experience for Monster Truck fans, is coming to FedExForum for two shows on February 16.
Tickets are on sale and available at all Ticketmaster locations, ticketmaster.com, the FedExForum Box Office or by phone at (800) 745-3000.
Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live will bring everyone’s favorite Hot Wheels Monster Trucks to life, combining Hot Wheels’ iconic jumps and stunts with epic crashing and smashing to deliver an exhilarating family entertainment experience for kids of all ages. In addition to the Trucks, each show will feature specialty acts like the superstars of freestyle motocross, world record attempts and Megasaurus – the massive, car-eating, fire-breathing prehistoric robot who loves chomping on anything with four wheels – as it makes its Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live debut.
For more information, visit fedexforum.com, ‘like’ FedExForum on Facebook or follow @FedExForum on Twitter and Instagram.
ABOUT RAYCOM-LEGACY CONTENT COMPANY:
Raycom-Legacy Content Company is a large-scale event operation, promotion, television production, licensing, media and public relations firm. The company owns and operates Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live, a nationwide Monster Truck tour visiting more than 20 markets in 2019, its inaugural year. Raycom Legacy Content Company is a partnership between Raycom Sports – a leading independent sports marketing, event management and production firm – and Legacy Motorsports Events – which was co-founded by entertainment and motorsports executives Ken Hudgens, Tim Murray, Eric Cole and Bob Boggess. The company is based on Charlotte, N.C.
UPDATED 11/19/18:
Hot Wheels™ Monster Trucks Live has moved their first show originally scheduled for Friday, February 15 at 7:00pm to Saturday, February 16 at 1:30pm.
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LGF-A - Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.
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LIONSGATE'S PILGRIM MEDIA GROUP AND WORLD SURF LEAGUE STUDIOS TEAM UP IN LANDMARK MULTI-PLATFORM CO-DEVELOPMENT DEAL
LOS ANGELES, July 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Trailblazing production company Pilgrim Media Group and the World Surf League's (WSL) newly established studio arm, WSL Studios, have teamed up for a landmark co-development deal to produce a variety of surf-centric sport and lifestyle content across all formats and platforms. The endeavor is the first to be announced by WSL Studios and will involve live and non-live unscripted projects, as well as a range of distinct scripted opportunities. Pilgrim, a Lionsgate Company, and WSL Studios have two major undertakings in the pipeline already – a feature documentary and a fresh nonscripted competition format for which the parties partnered with the UFC's Dana White – with several other programs in active development.
GLOBALGATE EXPANDS ITS REACH WITH ADDITION OF LEADING FRENCH MEDIA COMPANY TF1 STUDIO TO ITS WORLDWIDE CONSORTIUM OF PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS
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It wasn't exactly head-turning news from Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX). The streaming giant just hired Spencer Klein as its director of theatrical distribution of its movies. Indeed, it's unlikely that most owners of NFLX stock know or care about it. Like so many announcements, this one looked and felt boilerplate, serving more as a courtesy or maybe even required disclosure.Source: Via NetflixSome experts even commented that Klein's arrival changes nothing about the company's current business model. Essentially, he's only filling a position left open by the untimely death of his predecessor, Andy Guenberg.Some substance might exist from this news though. And if there is, not only will an ongoing debate heat up, it could mean Netflix has ambitions that don't include your television or tablet.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Who's Spencer Klein?Klein's pedigree is at least curious. Displaced by the Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) acquisition of Fox, Klein nevertheless has serious executive experience. He's worked for New Line Cinema, Loews (NYSE:L), The Weinstein Co and The Film Group. These are organizations on both sides of the movie business. And on the surface, this experience benefits Netflix stock. * 7 S&P 500 Dividend Stocks to Buy That Yield 4% or More Inasmuch as he's replacing Guenberg rather than assuming a newly created position, it would be easy to assume Netflix's interest in releasing films in actual theaters remains seemingly modest. The optics suggest that the company is merely angling for industry awards.Klein wasn't the only new hire that bolsters this aspect of the company's operation, however. Former Warner Bros distribution chief Dan Fellman, who consulted with Netflix on the theatrical release of Roma, is still around doing other similar work. The streaming firm also brought in Lions Gate Entertainment (NYSE:LGF.A, NYSE:LGF.B) distribution expert Lori Bandazian.It's an awful lot of veteran firepower for just seeking enough theatrical exposure to qualify for Oscars. Netflix Stock Runs Up Against a Complicated AristocracyThe moves set the stage for another chapter of what has become something of a saga within the film world.The short version of a long story: to qualify for an Academy Award of any sort, tradition dictates that a film must play for seven consecutive days in a theater located in Los Angeles. But tradition also holds that a movie theater won't play a movie unless the film studio guarantees distribution exclusivity. In other words, a studio cannot show the film in another format for at least 90 days. Most theater chains are still holding fast to this norm.It's a framework that leaves NFLX stock in a proverbial no-man's land. It doesn't want to offer three-month exclusivity (most Netflix films, while quality flicks, aren't exactly high-volume draws). But it does want the credibility that winning Oscars delivers.The rules have been bent, to be clear, if not outright broken. Roma was exclusively in theaters for three weeks before Netflix's streaming customers could view it. Though it did win some awards, it was ineligible for the "Best Picture" award due to surprisingly technical rules.Solution? Buy a theater to release your own films in, circumventing Hollywood's securely closed logistical gates.Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is reportedly mulling the idea, eyeing Landmark Theatres, which owns roughly 250 screens spanning 27 markets. Rumors indicate that Netflix is adopting the same game plan. Industry insiders suggest that NFLX is targeting the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles.Almost needless to say, some of Hollywood's elite traditionalists -- like Steven Spielberg - have voiced their strong opposition. 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This too would change the dynamics for Netflix stock.Whatever's in the cards, the contentious matter clearly isn't going away. It's going to come to an explosive head one way or another. For that reason alone, it's a matter current and prospective owners of NFLX stock may want to keep tabs on.As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. You can learn more about James at his site, jamesbrumley.com, or follow him on Twitter, at @jbrumley. More From InvestorPlace * 4 Top American Penny Pot Stocks (Buy Before June 21) * 7 S&P 500 Dividend Stocks to Buy at Least Yielding 3% * 7 Stocks to Buy That Don't Care About Tariffs * 5 Healthcare Stocks to Pick Up From the Wreckage Compare Brokers The post New Hire Could Fundamentally Change Netflix's Film Arm appeared first on InvestorPlace.
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Series of '56 is still the best
Oct. 20, 2000 - The mother ordered the kid to take out the trash and start doing his homework.
"Now," she added.
"But, mama," the boy whined, "Don Larsen's pitching a perfect game."
"That's nice," the mother said. If the kid had told her President Eisenhower was in the front room, she would have replied: "That's nice, but carry the garbage can to the alley, and don't forget to wash your hands after." She didn't know Don Larsen from Howdy Doody.
"Mama, I'll eat all my turnip greens (God, the kid hated turnip greens) if you'll just let me watch the rest of this game. And I promise to take a bath.
"Pleeeease."
With great reluctance, she relented. (To repay her kindness, the son, much older, recently bought his mom new carpet for her entire house. She has covered it in plastic and throw rugs and makes everyone remove their shoes, and the son still has to take out the garbage and eat his greens when at home.)
Forty-four years ago on that afternoon, the boy lied to his mother and Miss Goode, his fourth-grade teacher, and most assuredly was in eternal trouble.
When he heard at school on a radio that Larsen - a mediocre pitcher whose baseball card he had traded for Harry "Suitcase" Simpson - and Sal "The Barber" Maglie were wrapped up in a double no-hitter, he told Miss Goode he was "really, really sick. I got bad milk in the cafeteria. I need to walk home and go to the hospital. If I don't, I'll die in arithmetic."
He never ran the 6 blocks from Cherokee Elementary to the house on South Dunmore as fast.
"What are you doing home?" his mama asked the sweaty youngster.
"Let us out early because ... because ... because there was a fire drill and the hall flooded and a teachers meeting," he fibbed.
"That's nice," the mom said.
The kid turned on the 13-inch Philco, grabbed the cardboard out of one of his dad's freshly cleaned shirts and, with a ruler and a No. 2 pencil, made himself a scorecard.
Just about then, with two outs in the fourth at Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle hit a solo home run for the Yankees' first hit. The Dodgers didn't have any yet. Mantle much later wrote a book called "My Favorite Summer 1956," and the grown kid interviewed him on a radio show and agreed that 1956 was his favorite whole year. When you were 10 in 1956 and had hit .445 and played shortstop for First Baptist Church and got new jeans and you had an "A" for a poster made out of painted eggshell pieces and you were in love for the first time (Mary Jane Gibson, an angel), everything was good.
And Don Larsen was pitching a no-hitter in the World Series.
The boy wasn't thinking about a perfect game, because he'd never heard of one, and all Mel Allen, the sportscaster, would say so as not to jinx Larsen, was: "The Yankees have all the hits in this game."
The kid barely could subtract in school, but he could keep a terrific box score. On Jackie Robinson's shot to third that bounced off Andy Carey and was picked up and thrown to first in time by Gil McDougald, he promptly, and accurately, wrote "5-6-3."
It was 2-0 in the top of the ninth of the fifth game of the "Subway Series," and the kid was thinking: "If I ever get rich, I'm going to New York City and ride the subway to Ebbetts Field and then to Yankee Stadium and watch about 20 baseball games. I might even get to see a World Series game between Brooklyn and New York."
Never got rich, but he made it to New York and rode the subway and saw more than 100 World Series games - many at Yankee Stadium, but none at Ebbetts Field. Nothing, though, has matched that 1956 game, and the 2000 Subway Series won't, either.
The kid was mesmerized by the drama, the distinct shadows creeping across Yankee Stadium and the big beer billboard. (Never drank a "Ballentine Beer.")
The scoreboard in right field announced:
Brooklyn 000 000 00 - 0 0 0
Yankees 000 000 00 - 2 5 0
Ball: 1 Strike: 2 Outs: 2 Batter: 8
Larsen vs. pinch-hitter Dale Mitchell. Irony. The kid learned as an adult that Larsen had pitched in 1955 for the Denver Bears, and Mitchell spent his retirement just up the road from Denver.
Third strike. Called. Yogi Berra jumps into Larsen's arms. The only perfect game in World Series history. What a perfect world for a 10-year-old boy. It never got any better than that.
"Mama, I can take out the garbage. Don Larsen has pitched a perfect game."
"That's nice," the mom said to the kid.
Sept. 23: Mysterious Perec bids abrupt adieu
Sept. 22: Tales from the lonely Outback
Sept. 21: Real U.S. Dream Team of Games
Sept. 20: E. Timorese prove mettle
Sept. 19: U.S. gymnastics teams fall flat Down Under
Sept. 18: Talls of China make big impression
Sept. 17: Shooting seems so American
Sept. 16: Sydney ablaze for epic opening
Sept. 15: Qatar can afford to buy a vowel
Sept. 14: A bridge too far, too high
Sept. 10: Falcons finally use air forces
Sept. 5: Griese proves credible
Sept. 4: Helton made right choice
Sept. 3: Scoreboard, state belong to CSU
Sept. 1: Tipsy tip
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China Really Raises A Lot Of Red Flags…
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Maybe that’s something China and puns have in common because they tend to raise a few red flags for some people too.
Not for us, though, because I know you are here for Pun Day!
Enjoy or endure!!
Two silkworms had a race
– it ended in a tie.
If you attached a bunch of
watches together to make a belt
it would be a waist of time.
I don’t really know maths too well.
Until recently I thought logarithms
were a brand of laxative.
As a gift to my girlfriend, Tola,
I tattooed her name on myself in the mirror.
I think that says alot.
A fella in the bar asked me what it’s like to be married.
I said, “Amaze.”
He asked, “You mean amazing?”
I replied, “No, I mean it’s hard to get out of.”
I’ve been assembling a condiment army.
It is now fully mustered.
I was asked if I had any plans
for National Nudity Day…
I said “I’ve got nothing on”.
My little brother cut himself with
a razor shaving this morning.
“How Gillette that happen?” I asked.
My dad was a man of few words.
We always beat him at Scrabble.
A friend once asked me,
“Do you think you could have an
eraser at both ends of a pencil?”
“I suppose you could,” I replied,
“but what would be the point?”
A large area of the alphabet has been destroyed
in what is thought to have been a terrorist attack.
It’s not yet known who had anything to do with this atrocity.
But early reports indicate G had.
My friends had a good laugh
at my expense last night.
I paid for them to go
and see a comedian.
What’s the gayest type of question?
A query.
My son asked me what
the opposite of a lie is.
It’s a true story.
Was just looking at the all time
top 10 movies list online.
I was surprised Seven wasn’t there.
Clones Are People Two.
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Great news today!
The September puns start here.
I know you will, but I’ll say it anyway.
My son broke his Apple computer today and
had the audacity to ask me to buy him a new one.
I just told him, “Apples don’t grow on trees you know!”
I didn’t hear the sea when I held a Shell up.
I did, however, get six years in jail
for armed robbery of a gas station.
NBC have commissioned my new show about
what goes on inside an airplane cockpit.
We’re filming the pilot next week.
A man walks into a library and says
“I hope you don’t have a book on reverse psychology.”
People used to tell me being blind would
hinder my chances of becoming a comedian.
Who’s laughing now?
My cheating ex-girlfriend was called Tulsa.
Looking back, she was aslut.
My friend recently moved in with his girlfriend
and her massive magazine collection.
But when she refused to part with them he left her.
Apparently she had too many issues.
I’m not worried about the Third World War.
That’s the Third World’s Problem.
I have got a bit of a reputation as a ladies man in my local bar.
All I can say is, they smell so much cleaner than the gents.
Some guy broke into my house last night.
Thankfully the only thing he took was one of my bullets.
My father’s answer to everything was alcohol.
He didn’t drink, he was just bad at quizzes.
I recently went on a holiday to a place called Romania.
It was useless; no one was even rowing.
A guy I know has invented a new hobby
called “blindfold plane watching”.
Can’t see it taking off.
I was watching a DVD on my laptop when I thought,
“Maybe it would be better if I put it in.”
My wife told me she was absolutely fed up with the world.
“Why?” I asked
“Arrogant people like you!” she screamed back.
I said “Yeah they do, don’t they?”
Someone has been pretending to be Mr T by using a similar name,
but no-one knows his real identity.
It’s a Mr E.
I’m reading a book about the Titanic at the moment,
and the experts speculate that the designer of the Titanic had a lisp.
That’s unthinkable!
I went to the shop and said, “I need a battery so I can tell the time.”
The man said, “Is it for a clock?”
I said, “How do I know, that’s why I asked you for a battery.”
I won $2 million on the lottery this weekend
so I decided to donate a quarter of it to charity.
Now I have $ 1,999,999.75.
I’ll leave you with a word of warning.
Some More Witty Sayings, Inspired By George Carlin
September 19, 2012 September 26, 2012 fasab comedy, Computers, court, George Carlin, Humour, Language, lawyers, Legal, Uncategorized, Unusual, Witty Sayings air, ANSI, ASCII, blankets, Blogs, capitalism, comedian, Comedy, court, Dickson's Gardening Rule, education, Entertainment, expenses, experience, find, finding, foot in mouth, found, funny, gardening, geeks, George Carlin, gift horse, grave, H2O, H2SO4, health, hope, Humor, Humour, imagination, intelligence, jury, language, lawyer, Life, lost, marriage, meeting expenses, Misc, Miscellaneous, nerds, one good turn, one-liners, pedestrians, People, questions, quit while you're ahead, quitters, quotes, Random, rut, second marriage, sex, sexually transmitted, smiles, stupid, stupid people, stupidity, talk in your sleep, television, Thoughts, triumph, tv, unbreakable toys, weeding, weeds, winners, witty, witty one-liners, work
There was a lot of love for the short series of quotes from George Carlin. I was pleased that he is remembered well and still giving amusement to people, despite no longer being with us.
Today I have a selection of other witty sayings, not attributed to anyone in particular, but in the same spirit as last week’s post.
I hope you enjoy these too.
Dickson’s Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
Sex is like air; it’s not important unless you aren’t getting any.
One good turn gets most of the blankets.
There are two kinds of pedestrians — the quick and the dead.
Life is sexually transmitted.
An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.
If quitters never win, and winners never quit, then who is the fool who said “Quit while you’re ahead”?
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI. (One for the nerds and geeks to LTAO.)
Willie was a Chemist, But Willie is no more, What Willie thought was H2O Was H2SO4.
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
It’s not hard to meet expenses, they’re everywhere.
Jury — Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.
Never lick a gift horse in the mouth.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After marriage, the ‘Y’ becomes silent.
If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep.
Witty One-liner Wednesday – Some Sayings Of The Late George Carlin, part 3
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Today I have great pleasure in presenting the third, but unfortunately, final part of this short series of Witty One-liners from the late and great George Carlin.
Where have all the clever comedians gone, I wonder?
Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view.
Have you ever noticed that the lawyer always smiles more than the client?
I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.
If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.
“Meow” means “woof” in cat.
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
“No comment” is a comment.
If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.
So far, this is the oldest I’ve been.
When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn’t a lot worth paying attention to.
I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.
If the cops didn’t see it, I didn’t do it!
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.
I don’t have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.
It isn’t fair: the caterpillar does all the work, and the butterfly gets all the glory.
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
“I am” is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that “I do” is the longest sentence?
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.
Witty One-liner Wednesday – Some More Sayings Of The Late George Carlin
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This Wednesday I am pleased to present part two of my trio of tributes to the late George Carlin and his great gift for seeing the world from the humorous side.
It turns out from the reaction to last week’s post that George still has a lot of fans out there which is great news.
Enjoy this latest selection.
If it requires a uniform, it’s a worthless endeavor.
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.
If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.
I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
If you’ve got a cat and a leg, you’ve got a happy cat. If you’ve got a cat and two legs, you’ve got a party.
Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?
Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.”
I’ve never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade.
One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you’re too tired.
If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense?
In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.
“One thing leads to another”? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.
Property is theft. Nobody “owns” anything. When you die, it all stays here.
The future will soon be a thing of the past.
Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.
Witty One-liner Wednesday – Some Sayings Of The Late George Carlin
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I’m going to run a short series of ‘Witty One-Liners’ from the late great comedian, George Carlin.
I didn’t agree with everything George believed in or everything he said, but the man had a great gift of looking at life from a slightly different, and very humorous, perspective than most people.
I hope you enjoy them too.
If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?
Is there another word for synonym?
If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why are a ‘wise man’ and a ‘wise guy’ opposites?
Why do ‘overlook’ and ‘oversee’ mean opposite things?
Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
If it’s true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That’s just common sense!
A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.
Have you ever noticed that their ‘stuff’ is shit and your ‘shit’ is stuff?
You can’t fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.
If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?
No one knows what’s next, but everybody does it.
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
Weather forecast for tonight: Dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
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Couple gets life sentences in torture killing of Kansas man
Posted 5:11 pm, November 6, 2018, by AP Wire
WICHITA, Kan. — A couple has received the maximum sentence for torturing and killing a Kansas man in a crime that the judge called “horrific beyond imagination.”
Jeff and Heidi Hillard were recently convicted of participating in the November 2016 killing of 33-year-old Scottie Goodpaster Jr. of Wichita. Both were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 50 years.
Prosecutors say Goodpaster and a woman were kidnapped because of $185 in missing drug money. Goodpaster was attacked at a home in Valley Center with an ax, knife and staple gun, and suffered genital injuries. His body was found hanging from a tree six days later.
Jeff Hillard was sentenced to another 27 ½ years for other crimes, while Heidi HIllard received an additional 44 ½ years. Those sentences will run consecutively to the life sentences.
Attorneys for both defendants say they will appeal the sentences.
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Terry Mattingly, Editor
Terry Mattingly (tmatt.net) writes the nationally syndicated “On Religion” column for the Universal Uclick Syndicate and is Senior Fellow for Media and Religion at The King's College in New York City. He was the founder of the Washington Journalism Center at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, which in 2015 was rebooted at The King's College. Mattingly’s father was a pastor and his mother a language arts teacher. Thus, it’s no surprise that Mattingly is a journalist and teacher who focuses on religion and that he continues to study both writing and religion. He double-majored in journalism and history at Baylor University and then earned an M.A. at Baylor in Church-State Studies and an M.S. in communications at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
He has worked as a reporter and religion columnist at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver and the Charlotte Observer and the Charlotte News. In 1991, Mattingly began teaching at Denver Seminary. While teaching, he has -- nearly three decades -- continued to write the weekly “On Religion” column which is sent to about 600 newspapers in North America. He is also the author of the book “Pop Goes Religion: Faith in Popular Culture.”
In addition to his classroom duties, Mattingly has lectured at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass., the Torreys Honors Program at Biola University, the School of Journalism at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Baylor University in Waco, Texas, the University of MIssissippi and in other settings across the nation.
Mattingly is a prodigal Texan who has never met a mountain that he did not love. He is a music fanatic whose interests range from Celtic guitar (12-fret guitars, especially) to Russian chant. His wife, Debra Bridges Mattingly, is a public librarian, and they have two grown children, Sarah Jeanne Wagner, and Frye Lewis Mattingly. The Mattinglys are members of St. Anne's Orthodox Church in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Follow him on Twitter: @tweetmattingly
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Occasional Geyser
Baselines
Last Known Eruption
63d 2h 58m ago
Latest Eruptions
14 May 2019 @ 1319 ie 1y 249d 48m
07 Sep 2017 @ 1231 < than a minute 10d 23h 20m
27 Aug 2017 @ 1311 3d 6m
24 Aug 2017 @ 1305 11d 23h 31m
14 Jun 2017 @ 1748 2d 7h 58m
12 Jun 2017 @ 0950 11d 38m
01 Jun 2017 @ 0912 1d 23h 43m
30 May 2017 @ 0929 237d 23h 12m
04 Oct 2016 @ 1017 1d 18h 0m
02 Oct 2016 @ 1617 29m
02 Oct 2016 @ 1548 2d 2h 49m
30 Sep 2016 @ 1259 35m
30 Sep 2016 @ 1024 15h 12m
29 Sep 2016 @ 1814 5d 6h 23m
23 Sep 2016 @ 1736 2h 19m
23 Sep 2016 @ 1222 21h 6m
22 Sep 2016 @ 1347 4d 19h 3m
17 Sep 2016 @ 1844 2d 1h 6m
15 Sep 2016 @ 1536 1h 1m
15 Sep 2016 @ 1435 4d 28m
11 Sep 2016 @ 1407 35s 3d 18h 31m
31 Aug 2016 @ 1855 28m
31 Aug 2016 @ 1827 6h 59m
31 Aug 2016 @ 1051 ie 21h 37m
30 Aug 2016 @ 1221 2d 1h 1m
28 Aug 2016 @ 1120 1d 43m
27 Aug 2016 @ 1000 17d 15h 0m
09 Aug 2016 @ 1900 1d 22h 34m
07 Aug 2016 @ 2026 Ml 1d 4h 8m
06 Aug 2016 @ 1618 7d 4h 44m
30 Jul 2016 @ 1134 38m
30 Jul 2016 @ 0900 10d 23h 10m
19 Jul 2016 @ 0950 6d 12h 56m
12 Jul 2016 @ 1950 22h 39m
11 Jul 2016 @ 2041 1h 3m
11 Jul 2016 @ 1911 2d 1h 50m
09 Jul 2016 @ 1721 <2m 13d 20h 8m
25 Jun 2016 @ 2113 2d 10h 7m
20 Jun 2016 @ 1225 35m
10 Jun 2016 @ 1925 2h 59m
08 Jun 2016 @ 1707 1h 1m
04 Jun 2016 @ 1328 16h 16m
Interval Statistics
Interval Count 100
Min 25m
Max 1y 249d 48m
Mean 10d 17h 56m
Median 1h 1m
Latest Notes
Note ID
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End Time (US/Mountain)
10616 16 Oct 2018 @ 1510 --- Tara No signs of reactivation, still inactive.
9048 06 Jul 2018 @ 1305 --- minissa During 3 hours of watching Lone Pine, including a full eruption of LP, the pool of Occasional visible from road did nothing more than intermittently fluctuate as if it might erupt, then quit. It sat for the entire duration at just below the high water mark visible in crater, perhaps 8" below rim of formation. Not sure if this represents dormancy or just severely changed behavior. Pool is still hot based on pretty blue color of water, but orange cyanobacteria easily visible in right-hand runoff channel (seen legally from road)
9033 05 Jul 2018 @ 0708 05 Jul 2018 @ 0715 bhoppe Overflowing from the vents next to the formation for the entire time. In past years, I would typically see it pulsate and erupt from the same level. Lone Pine was full, overflowing, and bubbling.
5890 07 Sep 2017 @ 1608 --- cb leaving the area. hoped to get a closed interval for Occasional but it didn't erupt again. just a bit of boiling around the rim.
4312 14 Jun 2017 @ 1655 14 Jun 2017 @ 1747 Art No eruption for close to an hour of observation
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01 Jun 2016 @ 1808 JSJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33AKP9tI2N4#t=4m10s Clip 7 of this video compilation (time stamp 4:10 to the end) shows Occasional Geyser's 6:08 to 6:09 PM eruption on 1 June 2016.
01 Jun 2016 @ 1732 JSJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33AKP9tI2N4#t=2m18s Clip 6 of this video compilation (time stamp 2:18 to time stamp 4:10) shows Occasional Geyser's 5:32 to 5:34 PM eruption on 1 June 2016.
01 Jun 2016 @ 1706 JSJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33AKP9tI2N4 Clip 1 of this video compilation (beginning to time stamp 0:42) shows Occasional Geyser's 5:06 to 5:07 PM eruption on 1 June 2016.
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Expect Big Things from The Game Awards 2018
by Ben Lamoreux
Geoff Keighley, longtime host of Spike TV’s annual game awards, has been flying solo and running his own show since 2014. The Game Awards have grown in viewership and prominence every year since, and Keighley’s show is returning once again in less than a month. As the name suggests, The Game Awards honors some of the best and most popular releases from the year, but that’s only about half of the story.
The Game Awards also features announcements about upcoming releases, some of them previously unknown. It’s always a struggle for Keighley to choose how he wants to balance the show, focusing it more on the awards or more on the reveals. Based on a recent comment, it would seem this year he’s really leaning into the reveals.
According to one of his tweets, this show will be record-breaking in two ways. The Game Awards 2018 will be streamed on a record 40 different platforms, and it will feature a record number of new game announcements. Interestingly, Sony chose not to hold their normally annual PlayStation Experience this year, and Microsoft recently wrapped up a show of their own. Could we be in for some big Nintendo announcements?
On December 6 #TheGameAwards will stream live on a record 40 global video platforms. With our biggest lineup yet in terms of new game announcements, it's going to be a very exciting night filled with surprises and celebration. Worlds Will Change. Will You? pic.twitter.com/0hQ8lz5CHw
— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) November 9, 2018
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Trump’s approval rating among African-Americans is a yuge 3%
That is according to the Washington Post-ABC News poll released today, with 93% disapproval.
Just 3 percent of black Americans polled said they approved of Trump’s performance, compared to the president’s 36 percent approval overall. An overwhelming 93 percent of black Americans, meanwhile, said they disapprove. Those numbers have plummeted, data over time shows; just months ago his approval among black Americans was nearly 20 percent.
Non-white respondents overall largely disapprove of Trump, with 78 percent saying that he’s handling the presidency poorly and 19 percent saying he’s doing well. Those numbers were on the upswing, but sunk back down to the consistent low marks that Trump has received since entering office. Women also disapprove of Trump at higher rates: Sixty-six percent of women disapprove of his performance, and 54 percent of men agree.
Among white respondents, 45 percent approve of the president, while 51 percent disapprove. Trump’s approval ratings are worse than ever among all demographic groups — 60 percent disapproval overall is the highest the Post has ever found.
So now the burning question is who is in the 3%? Probably just Ben Carson, Paris Dennard, Clarence Thomas, Diamond and Silk, and the one black person who can be found at every black Trump rally, strategically placed behind Trump for the benefit of the TV cameras. Too bad Omarosa Manigault Newman is no longer there to boost his numbers.
StonedRanger says
Im amazed herr dumpf has an approval rating at all. I wasn’t aware there was that many people living in caves.
RationalismRules says
the one black person who can be found at every black rally
I’m pretty sure there’s quite a lot more than one at most black rallies. Trump rallies, on the other hand, not so many… 😉
Bakunin says
20%?! 1 in 5 black Americans approved of a man who was found to be racially discriminating in housing? 20%? Seriously?
Kreator says
@Bakunin:
But those are just fake news. [/sarcasm]
deepak shetty says
You forgot the guy who works at the Whitehouse and Kanye West
Mano Singham says
RationalRules @#2,
Thanks for that catch! I have corrected it.
PatP says
According to the polls, Hillary has 98.1% of winning the electoral college. Dems are poised to take over the Senate.
Actually, Upshot states that pollsters haven’t changed their methodology since the 2016 election. Beware!
Feel good outliers make people lazy.
What are the 3%, the dead black people in Georgia who vote Republican?
In other news, the Pope’s approval among Muslims (and child abuse victims) is quite low and it turns out most turkeys aren’t in favour of Christmas.
I’ve never understood why people pay attention to this marketing effort by polling organisations. There’s only one “approval poll” that matters, it’s called an election, you have one every four years and Trump won. Trump -- arguably the second worst candidate ever fielded by a political party in a US election. He began his Presidency with already one of the lowest “approval ratings” in history (45%) and has since bobbled about between 45% and 35%.
But Gerald Ford’s average was only 47%. Barack Obama’s rounded up to 48%, and Dubya’s average was 49%. All this shows is that it’s perfectly possible to be a two-term president without the approval (in fact, with the active disapproval) of more than half the country. This is not fake news -- it’s just not news.
This is of a piece with finding out that -- shockerdoobie -- a bunch of rich and influential Jews don’t like ardently left-wing Jeremy Corby being a possible PM of the UK, and are openly conspiring to get him replaced. There are two reasonable responses to both these bits of “news”:
(1) why are you surprised?
(2) who gives a monkey’s?
African-Americans are 12% of the US population, a minority Trump obviously calculates he didn’t and doesn’t need.
Jews are 0.4% of the UK population and I honestly don’t understand why the Labour leadership are tolerating the shit they’re getting from the tiny, tiny minority within that who won’t just fuck off and vote Tory if they don’t like Labour.
One more thing -- it’s fun to joke along the lines of “who are these six people???”. Do the maths. 3% of African-Americans is over one and a quarter MILLION people.
John Morales says
sonofrojblake,
One more thing – it’s fun to joke along the lines of “who are these six people???”. Do the maths. 3% of African-Americans is over one and a quarter MILLION people.
A salient observation, IMO.
But in how many jurisdictions? All of them, presumably (obs, I haven’t researched).
So, yeah, a tiny minority. Not even one in ten. Outliers.
Hint: identity politics.
Jews are Jewish, and their Jewishness carries a lot of weight.
By the same principle, what percentage of the UK population is pregnant?
(I reckon gravidity carries even more weight than Jewishness.)
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Sure they are different issues. But they both fall under good governance.
This is a very good point and one I have considered. And it is not just African American voters but urban dwellers in general that would lose political power. I think it is a very good argument against the idea, but I still think the potential positives outweigh the negatives. And I should also say I don't think a complete county/city merger is necessary to create positive results. If the inner ring suburbs were consolidated into Cincinnati I think that would make a noticeable difference. Make the wage tax lower for city residents than for non-city residents and offer the adjacent communities the chance to consolidate. See if any take you up on it. Probably not, but it would be smart.
I agree taxes wouldn't change much, but I'm not concerned about taxes. It's pretty well established that people/businesses don't make taxes a big part of their decision about where to locate. I'm more concerned with quality of services. Our dollars would stretch farther if we consolidated jurisdictions. And that goes for school districts too.
There is absolutely money to be saved. Economies of scale. A government that provided services to all of Hamilton County could do so much more efficiently than 50 different little governments covering different (sometimes tiny) areas. That was the whole impetus of the consolidations in Kentucky and Indiana.
DEPACincy replied to gottaplan's topic in Current Events
Imagine actually believing this.
Cincinnati: Northside: Development and News
DEPACincy replied to a topic in Southwest Ohio Projects & Construction
Now that the parking restriction removal is permanent could we see the one-lane roundabout get revived? Or at the very least some bump outs and other traffic calming measures?
I know you were. And I'm sorry if it sounded like I was attacking you. It's just frustrating to me because I love Cbus. I think it is a great city. I love spending time there and I tell people about all the cool things going on there. I went to OU and we'd go up to Cbus sometimes and bop around and I have tons of friends from college who live there now and I visit often. But I feel like any time someone says something that could be interpreted as even slightly negative about Cbus here they get jumped on. Nobody said annexation was bad. I wish Cincinnati and Hamco would just consolidate completely. EDIT: Also, I'm not intending this to sound combative. Just pointing out a perspective. I know sometimes tone is hard to convey in text.
Well first of all, it was reported during the 2016 campaign and people here talked about it. Also that tweet makes no sense. Alberto Gonzalez is a Republican AG who resigned in disgrace. Robert Mueller is a Republican. James Comey is a Republican. Is their alleged incompetence supposed to be the fault of the Dems?
This gets annoying. Columbus is the fastest growing city and metro area in the state. It is the most diverse. It has the largest state university and is the seat of government. It has many booming and wonderful neighborhoods. It's got everything going for it. So why do Cbus people get so defensive about every little thing? It is 100% true that a lot of Cbus's growth in the city proper today is because they annexed a ton of undeveloped land over time. No one made a value judgement about that. I wish Cincinnati had annexed more land. It's dumb that the densely populated neighborhoods up the I-75 and I-71 corridors aren't part of the city.
I don't think that's what is being said at all. They are saying if growth happens in Mason or North Ridgeville those numbers don't count toward Cincy or Cleveland populations. But all the growth happening along 161 between 270 and New Albany counts toward Cbus's growth.
Cincinnati: Downtown: The Banks
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DEPACincy replied to a topic in City Discussion
It makes total logical sense. We wanted to buy in Downtown/OTR but couldn't afford the amount of space we wanted so we ended up in Northside. I've talked to people in Northside bars who bought in College Hill because they couldn't afford Northside. And so on and so forth. Every single millennial I know who has bought in the suburbs did so out of necessity, not because they wanted to be there. We also fully intend to have children and raise them in Northside.
That's fair. I mostly agree. Except for Tin Roof. It's basically on the same level as PBR, which I also have enjoyed from time to time. But 100% agree that we do not need a TGI Friday's or a Hard Rock Cafe. Unless the casino gets re-branded to Hard Rock, then they can put one in there.
Cincinnati: Restaurant News & Info
DEPACincy replied to The_Cincinnati_Kid's topic in Restaurants, Local Events, & Entertainment
Yea, I think West 6th is probably the most likely, if any. I personally always steer people who come from other states toward Jackie O's. Does Athens count as local? Is Platform local since they have a Cincy location now?
Greater Cincinnati Metro (SORTA) and TANK News & Discussion
DEPACincy replied to buildingcincinnati's topic in Mass Transit
Reading Road and Glenway are the first two proposed to be implemented. That would be followed eventually by Hamilton Ave and Madison Road. https://reinventingmetro.com/index.php?page=bus-rapid-transit
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Dealing with my mother
RobbieLynnette
May 2017 in 3rd Trimester
Hello, I was hoping I could get some advice or something.
I'm 30wks along on Tuesday and for several months now my husbsnd and I have been discussing things we want to happen on D-Day. One of the big items for both of us (but probably me more) is that when I'm admitted for real labor and it's actually happening we don't want anyone else but him, our doc and our nurse there. We don't want his mom & family or my mom and family there until after baby is delivered, we've had some time to rest and get "comfortable"
I really don't think that's asking a lot.
Last night we told my mother and she lost her absolute s*it. First she said "no one but me right?" To which I replied the only people we want in the room is us and our doc and nurse. She then told me that she absolutely couldn't do that. Again I stated I was sorry but it would just be my husband an I plus our caregivers and that once our son was born and we were ready we'd be letting family up to meet him. At this point she said I was being mean to her and I'd hurt her and she was done for evening and got up and left (we were having dinner with her and my dad). I wanted to explain that it has nothing to do with her, and that my husband and I feel this is a moment for just us.
I truly feel horrible, and I don't think I should.. I won't be changing what we've decided, but I hate that she's so upset. I called this afternoon to talk to my dad about how she's doing and he said it wasn't good. He'd never seen a reaction like this and wasn't sure what was going to happen. He told me they'd talked about it last night and she told him that she'd been so incredibly excited for her and him and my husband an I to all be there together when my son (and first child) was born that she was heartbroken that wouldn't be happening. She doesn't understand why we don't want her there.
When I told her we didn't want anyone else in the room I worked hard to make sure I didn't use the words "we don't want you there" or "you can't be there" or anything similar because I was worried that's how she'd take it. And from what my dad said that's all she heard when I was trying to explain our decision.
I truly don't know what to do now. My dad thinks maybe I should give it a day or two and go try and talk to her. My husband doesn't feel I should have to try and explain anything other then what I have and that its on her to get over it and he is furious with her for reacting like this because it's causing me so much anxiety. I've already been having some depression and anxiety issues
I just don't know what to do. I don't want to upset her or cause her pain but I'm not changing what we've decided because she assumed she'd get to be there.
A little background on my mother. She's absolutely used to getting her way. She's a very aggressive, dominate, controlling personality. She doesn't handle emotions well. Her and I had a very rough/rocky relationship when I was growing up. I am 28 and only recently with help/support from my husband stopped being overly terrified of her reactions when I do something I think will upset her. This is really the first time in my life I've made a decision that she didn't like/agree with that I've stuck too under her anger.
I really don't know how to handle this from here out...
Re: Dealing with my mother
harpseal135
RobbieLynnette said:
Sorry, but she will have to deal. It's your wishes, it's your delivery, it's your choice. We did not want anyone to be there but ourselves too. For me, it would have been too much having other people there. It's stressful enough with just DH and I with the caregivers, personally I couldn't imagine others in the room.
It's a very personal decision and she needs to respect that. Stick to your guns and hopefully after baby is born she will put it past her. In the mean time, I guess you will have to emphasize "mom, this is our decision, we are not changing it, you will be the first to know and the first to visit, but before that it's just DH and I."
That's just me though....
peregrinefalconx
(lurking a bit here)
I felt exactly the same about who I wanted in the room (just DH and staff). My MIL/in laws made it a point to tell me that she had been at every single grandchild's birth. I felt it was pretty much the most private thing a lady can do. My mom wanted nothing to do with it! Couldn't imagine seeing me in pain and get deal with blood anyway. So nobody was there but she came to the hospital the next day (and stayed for a week or two to help). But that's my story.
Your story is that you have stated your boundaries and you have no control over how your mother reacts. Now your job is to hold the boundary (unless you change your mind). Your mom is just continuing in her typical pattern. So stay strong unless you decide it's just not worth the mental energy of holding on to this. Of note, I went into labor and gave birth at night (short 1st labor) and nobody knew until after it happened.
This is a really great book (at least I think it was this one) Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No.
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neludelu
your mother sounds like a brat. You wouldn't give into a toddler or child so don't give into her. Let her calm down and come around. You have no explaining or work to do. Don't feel
bad this is your child and your experience. Go you for standing up to her. Don't feed into that childish silly mess.
meggyme
If you've had problems with your mother trying to manipulate situations with her reactions before then definitely stand firm on your decision because it seems like firm boundaries are what your relationship with her needs. How you give birth is a very private decision and like your father said, you don't need to explain yourself if you don't want to. And unless she's an entirely petty heartless woman, the instant your son has arrived safely and you have decided you're ready for visitors it won't (/shouldn't) matter that she didn't see him physically exit you.
If she does something crazy like show up at the delivery ward, most nursing staff are more than happy be the bad guys and tell people you're not allowed or not taking visitors.
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Thank you for the book suggestion!
A slight "downside" would be our hospital is rather small and she is the Nursing Manager of the Medical/Surgical floor. Most of the nurses on the Family Birthing floor (OB) also work on her floor sometimes and they've all known me since I was little. While yes they'll still do what I want, I feel horrible if it comes to that.
May 2017 edited May 2017
RobbieLynnette said:the
They still must respect HIPPA law, despite who your mom is. Nothing to feel bad about!
lovesclimbing
Basically, everyone's advice is spot on. Tell her you'll let her in the room if she'll agree to drop trou in front of you for a few hours while undergoing something extremely stressful and painful.
suchaglencoco
Stick to your guns. You need to set the precedent now that what you say goes.
You and your husband are the parents and you are the ones who will make decisions for your son until he is 18+. This will definitely include decisions your mother, or other family member, do not agree with.
Your mother will just have to adjust her way of thinking and learn throwing a fit won't get her her way.
delujm0
I am consistently surprised at how often this issue comes up on these boards. Neither my mother or my MIL ever expected to be in the delivery room with me. MIL wasn't in the delivery room with SIL either. Certainly if we told them we would like them to be there they would have been, but I truly do not understand why any woman believes it is her right to watch her grandchild come into the world. My own mother didn't even arrive until the day we came home from the hospital, because she knew there was almost nothing she could do to help us until we were back at the house, and she wanted to be helpful.
Don't give in, and use the nurses if you need to. Even if they know your mother personally, if you tell them you don't want her in there they should respect your wishes. You could also not tell your mother when you're in labor. If she's at the hospital that day word might travel...but if you're very clear that you want anonymity there should be something they can do to protect your identity while you're there.
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kswiger06
Yikes!! I had a similar situation with my mom. She had just assumed she'd be in the room for delivery, but I wanted only medical staff and my husband. My mom boo hoo' d about it for a while but I stuck it out. Aaaand she threw a fit when my second was born and again when my 3rd was born. She would just make remarks like "well I've been in the room for all my grandkids except yours" and I said "well you won't be in there this time either, nothing's changed."
I think it's hard on us because we don't want to hurt their feelings, but we are adults with feelings too and it's stressful and frustrating for people to not respect our wishes. Honestly it sounds like she's the type who will give you a hard time with decisions regarding your child after birth too. My mother in law always gets her way too and it's caused us a lot of unnecessary madness when it comes to us as our own family. Set your boundaries now and stick to them. Try to never say things like "my husband would rather not." Always say "we" so to not put blame on your spouse. I hope your mother doesn't cause you any drama with your growing family
lewliv
Her feelings are not more important than yours and DH's. I wouldn't even bring it up again. It's already decided and she was informed about it.
mrsguzman1002
My mother was the same way and didn't talk to me for weeks. It sucked and I felt bad and I actually did want her there it was my husband who said no it was a moment for us and honestly I was glad he was the only one there it was special and it was really really really crowded !! But after he was born she didn't care because he was there and she wanted to hold him. So just let her throw her temper tantrum and eventually she'll be fine.
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Featured Neighborhood: Traveller’s Hill
by Admin | Jun 2, 2015 | History | 0 comments
General Robert E. Lee pictured in front row, second to left. – Photo Courtesy of The Greenbrier Historical Archives
Information & Photos Credited to Dr. Robert S. Conte, Greenbrier Historian
Many may know that on August 31, 1942 The Greenbrier became Ashford General Hospital. But, did you know that in 1861 it became the hospital for wounded and sick soldiers during the Civil War?
The Greenbrier, then “The Old White,” served as both military headquarters and hospital for the Confederacy. For two years, the grand hotel accommodated up to 1,600 soldiers, and its dining room and parlor were filled with multiple rows of the wounded. According to the National Archives, 192 Confederate soldiers died during their time at The Old White, with many of them passing during late fall into winter. It was during this time, that Confederate General Robert E. Lee made a stop at White Sulphur Springs, as he came down the mountains and into western Virginia. Upon visiting the wounded, Lee first saw the horse he would eventually ride in battle and throughout his later years in life. This horse was born approximately 20 miles from White Sulphur Springs, and was originally named “Greenbrier” by his owner Major Thomas Broun. A year later, Lee met the Major in South Carolina and was given the horse as a gift. Lee kindly turned down the offer as a gift, and demanded Broun take $200 payment for the horse he then named “Traveller”.
After the war, Lee rode Traveller from Lexington, Virginia (where the General had become the President of today’s Washington & Lee University, then Washington College) to White Sulphur Springs for three consecutive summers to vacation in Baltimore “G” cottage with his family. The Greenbrier served as a much-needed oasis of relaxation from the turmoil of battle for Lee, his family, and friends.
Years later, during the 1930’s, The Greenbrier held a week long celebration in honor of General Lee, titled “Lee Week.” Above is Mrs. Woodrow Wilson unveiling the portrait of General Lee on Traveller (portrait to the left), painted in 1932 by Natalie Grauer. Natalie and her husband William founded the Alabama Row Art Colony in the 30’s, which is today the Art Colony Shops. Both Mr. and Mrs. Grauer painted the murals in the President’s Cottage Museum, which show Lee and his family on the porch of their Baltimore Row cottage (mural shown below).
Today, we honor General Lee and his beloved horse in the namesake of one of our most popular neighborhoods, Traveller’s Hill. Located adjacent to The Greenbrier Sporting Club’s Equestrian Center, Traveller’s Hill is the ideal neighborhood for equine lovers and those looking for convenient access to equestrian activities, as well as Greenbrier amenities.
Member Profile: The Reardon Family
by Admin | Jun 1, 2015 | Members | 0 comments
Names: Michael and Stephanie Reardon
Children: 2 Daughters: Amy and Robin and 4 Grandchildren, 2 boys & 2 girls
Primary Home: Wooster, Ohio
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Q: How did you first become aware of The Greenbrier and our real estate opportunities?
A: We’ve been coming for 40 years, before they even started selling homes and homesites!
Q: What attracted you to become a member at The Greenbrier Sporting Club? What were you looking for in a club?
A: We love The Greenbrier, and owning a home is part of The Greenbrier experience. We are probably their most loyal customers!
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Q: How often did you visit The Greenbrier before purchasing real estate?
A: We have been coming for 2-4 times a year, along with the kids and grandkids; they love it.
Q: How often do you visit The Greenbrier Sporting Club now since becoming a member?
A: We visited The Greenbrier for about 38 years before our Real Estate purchase, and our home just completed construction late 2014. We will still come several times during the year, nothing will change about that! Proximity allows us to come more often, and the kids and grandkids will visit as much as they can.
Q: What drew you specifically to your real estate purchase?
A: Brooks Beard (a former Sporting Club sales executive)—we stopped in to talk to him in the office. It was a rainy day, so we decided to take a drive up the mountain to look at some homesites, which I had never been up to. I love to play golf, so I love the views looking down to the courses and The Greenbrier. I bought that afternoon!
Q: What legacy do you hope to create with your family at The Greenbrier Sporting Club?
A: Already established…the kids and grandkids are so at home here.
Your Insight on Building at The Greenbrier Sporting Club:
Q: Why do you believe now is a good time to build at The Greenbrier Sporting Club?
A: Simply put, I bought a homesite and wanted to build on it. We are very committed to The Greenbrier, and it is our favorite vacation place in the country.
Q: What was the inspiration that led to the architectural design of your home?
A: George & Mitch Acock, Acock Associates, Columbus, OH. There really was no inspiration—they showed us plans and ideas, and went from there. We liked what they put together, so we went with it!
Q: What factors led to the directional orientation of your home (i.e. morning golf view, sunsets)?
A: The view of The Greenbrier and the mountains was what led us to our directional orientation of our home. Because we are at the top of a ridge, you can see in all directions.
Q: What architectural, building, landscape and/or interior design firms did you use and why did you choose them specifically?
A: George & Mitch Acock, Acock Associates, Columbus, OH (Architecture Firm). We chose Peter McKinney from Agsten Construction to build our home. Tony Oates, Oates Landscape Architecture, Richmond, VA for the landscaping and a close family friend, Dean Huntley, Plantation Interiors, Hilton Head Island, SC as the interior designer. We are thrilled with our choices and wouldn’t change a thing!
Q: What’s a specific feature of your home/homesite that you enjoy (or will enjoy) the most?
A: The views, most certainly!
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Date: June 19, 2019Author: Harrison White - Journalist
This week came the announcement that my home city Melbourne has been chosen as one of three cities to ‘luck enough’ too experience Uber Air before anyone else, with the ride-sharing giant announcing that test flights will begin in 2020.
In a statement released, Uber announced Melbourne would join Los Angeles and Dallas as trial cities for the aerial service, which aims to “open up urban air mobility and help alleviate transportation congestion on the ground”.
The recent artist’s impressions that the transportation juggernaut released also shows well to do businessman looking down over the masses stuck in the ‘real world’ as they gleefully traverse from one meeting to another.
However, whilst many in Melbourne believe the latest ‘announcement’ is actually little more than a marketing ploy by a company that still fails to make a dollar. This literally two-tied mode of transportation reminded of what is actually happening in my the rapidly progressing city of Bangkok.
The Bangkok Mass Transit System, commonly known as the BTS or the Skytrain (rot fai fa), began as a congestion alleviating concept in the 1980’s. An early version of the Skytrain project was known as the Lavalin Skytrain because it was designed using the Vancouver system as a model and adopting it’s technology.
However due to political interference plans were cancelled in June 1992, despite Bangkok’s chronic traffic congestion. The Thai Government focused on increasing road and expressway infrastructure in an attempt to reduce congestion.
Although this had little impact as the number of cars on the road continued to increase dramatically, and city hall conceded that an elevated rail would need to be built. The next few years bought downtown Bangkok to a near standstill and caused even further transportation issues whilst construction was undertaken.
On 5 December 1999 Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn opened the now famous transportation system with a record 760,000 passengers travelling on Sunday, 22 December 2013.
Howeverwhilst many acknowledge the amazing ability of this service to combat road congestion, the fees currently being charged to travel is starting to reach a level that many ‘ordinary’ Thai’s state is consuming a major chunk of their monthly wages.
In April this year the current maximum BTS fare will increase from THB52 to THB57. This equates the cost of going to and from work at THB114 a day ($5.33AUD).
For your average westerner reading this article this might not seem like a lot, however currently, the minimum salary in Bangkok is still only 325 Baht ($15.21AUD) per day. Representing a near third of one’s after-tax wage spent on travel and an impossible proposition to request.
However with regular price increases it is not just Bangkok’s cooks and cleaners that are feeling the cost of living pinch. The average wage for an office worker in Bangkok is 25,500 Thai Baht per month, back of the napkin math would determine that THB 114 a day x 5 days x 4.2 weeks a month = THB 2,394 or 9.38% of one monthly after-tax wage spent of transportation.
If the Thai Government wants to ensure its middle class can continue to get to work they will need to explore either subsiding travel or introducing capped fee increases. Although with the top military Government travelling only with a police escort may would be unaware what is the daily plight for millions of their citizens.
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Straight to Malaysia and the Economic Affairs Minister Azmin Ali for the first time openly accused party insiders of masterminding the release of the gay sex video in which he allegedly appears, a move set to stoke tensions within Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR).
Since the video was released on June 11, speculation had been swirling that a rival faction within PKR, led by party president Anwar Ibrahim, could be behind the video’s release to weaken Datuk Seri Azmin, a rising political star in the year-old Pakatan Harapan (PH) government.
Asked by reporters on Tuesday if he was convinced the video was an inside job given the recent turn of events, Mr Azmin was quoted as saying by The Star Online: “I am convinced. From the very beginning, I am sure that this has a political agenda, done by certain people who intend to halt my progression in the government as well as in politics.”
Accusing political rivals of ‘gay’ activity has been a stalwart of South East Asian politics in the Muslim strongholds of Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei for years, however the tactic continues to be effective with the countries hardliners.
Keeping on the theme of supposed ‘vice’ the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has imposed a 10,000 baht ($437AUD) fine on a hotel in the Charansanitwongse area of the capital’s Bangkok Yai district for improperly disposing of used condoms and toiletry items.
The items were found at the weekend floating in a canal, leading to images circulated by Thai netizens expressing their disgust. City workers completed removing the the ‘used items’ from the canal – which connects to the Wat Tha Phra, Wat Tha Mul and Wat Dee Duat canals – by midnight on Sunday (June 16).
Having found no hotel executives on the premises, and only maids, the officials learnt that the hotel occasionally hired a Nakhon Pathom-based company to send workers to collect used condoms and garbage from the hotel’s five septic tanks, none of which were connected to the canal. They were told that the company’s workers had last cleared the tanks on Saturday.
As reported a few weeks ago the African swine fever outbreak is continuing to cause havoc amongst pig breeders in Vietnam and has resulted in more than 2.5 million pigs being culled to contain the outbreak.
The virus, which is only deadly to pigs, was first detected in Vietnam in February and has spread to farms in 58 of the country’s 63 provinces, according to Mr Nguyen Van Long, head of epidemiology at Vietnam’s Department of Animal Health. A second senior official at the department said it was “only a matter of time” before the disease spreads to all 63 provinces.
Pork accounts for three-quarters of total meat consumption in Vietnam, a country of 95 million people where most of its 30 million farm-raised pigs are consumed domestically. Vietnam said last month it would mobilise its military and police forces to help combat the outbreak, and called on people not to turn their backs on pork consumption.
The Week Ahead:
The topic of over tourism has been in the media this week with reports that the European city of Barcelona has stopped giving out any further hotel licenses. I will explore the future for Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
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Depending on personal goals, there are a variety of scales that can be used. All scales track weight, while some also track body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage, muscle mass, bone mass, and water mass. Different scales also have different weight capacities. When buying a scale, it is important to look at all the different features and decide which is right for your health and fitness goals.
Fitbit Aria Wifi Smart Scale
This scale tracks weight, body fat percentage, and body mass index (BMI). It syncs your stats with an online application that you can use on your phone as well as computer. This way, you can set goals and track your progress over time. It recognizes up to eight different people and can sync to eight different Fitbit accounts. It is approximately 1'x1' and 4 pounds. It can hold up to 350 pounds and costs $130.
Escali Ultra Slim Health Monitor
This scale tracks weight, body water, body fat percentage, and muscle mass. It measures in increments of up to 0.2 and can hold up to 400 pounds. The scale itself is approximately 12"x12"x0.75", making it light and thin. It comes with a lifetime limited warranty and is $89.95.
American Weigh Bioweigh
The American Weigh Bioweigh scale tracks weight, body fat, water mass, muscle mass, and bone mass. It stores your data and comes with a USB cable to upload the data to your computer. It also comes with software to keep track of the data and track progress. It is approximately 12"x12"x0.7" and has a weight capacity of up to 330 pounds. This scale is $49.99.
WeightWatchers Digital Scale
For a more basic scale, the WeightWatchers digital scale is highly rated for precision and accuracy. It tracks weight. It holds up to 400 pounds and is 12"x13.5". This model comes with a 10 year limited warranty and is only $31.99. This scale is made by Conair.
Fitbit: Aria Scale
Escali.com: Ultra Slim Health Monitor
American Weigh: American Weigh Bioweigh Scale
Weight Watchers: Conair Digital Scale
Elizabeth Gray has been writing since the age of five, but professionally since the age of 21. Her current writing gigs include article writing for Studio Anya, and playwriting for the Manhattan Repertory Theatre.
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Halshug stream 'Sort Sind', The new LP from Copenhagen's caustic hardcore crew
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Danish hardcore trio Halshug's scathing new full-length, Sort Sind, sees release today via Southern Lord and you can now hear it ahead of its release over at Team Rock. Splenetic and snarling throughout, Sort Sind features nine sharp and gritty new tracks that expresses boundless vehemence proving this to be a great feat for the band.
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The theme of Sort Sind is inspired by the members' experiences growing up in the 1990s and 2000s in neglected parts of Denmark, hoping to in some way contribute to their scene and invoke some energy in those who hear it. Fitting into this storyline are the previously released singles "Vold," which translates to violence, and according to the members of Halshug is about psychic terror and "Udskud," which also clearly displays the tumult and unrest the band has captured in their second full-length.
The album's title, Sort Sind, translates to "black mind." A brutal rock record, Sort Sind bears hints of motorcycle-fuelled d-beat while still retaining the raw punk that made the sound on their Blodets Bånd debut so potent, the songs showing an even more destructive and elevated approach to their songwriting. Recorded live, produced and mixed at Ballade Studios by Lasse Ballade, who also produced and mixed Blodets Bånd, the Sort Sind LP was mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Southern Lord will issue Halshug's Sort Sind on CD, LP, and digital platforms today.
Following their recent performances at Roskilde Festival and more throughout Denmark, followed most recently by their first US shows with a brief East Coast tour in August, further live actions from Halshug are impending, including a record release show on October 7th and more.
Halshug Live:
10/07/2016 BumZen - København, DK *record release show [info]
11/25/2016 Stubborn Fest - Barcelona, ES [info]
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GMA - Vol194 - Kryocell, Blackened Ritual, We Are The Catalyst, Overoth, Incipit, Countless Skies, Mutagenocide, Saille, Battalion, Valkyr
KRYOCELL
'Entrail Fuelled Leviathan'
If there is one band name that should be on everyone's lips in the Death Metal scene this year, it's Kryocell. Exploding with sheer confidence through their premier EP 'Entrail Fuelled Leviathan', it is crystal-clear that this Liverpool quartet know where they want to take their infectious blend of complex rhythms, barbaric riffs and gut-grinding vocals. This four-track beast has enough ferocity to crush your cranium with such conviction, you would immediately begin to believe that Kryocell are one of the most exciting bands to emerge out of the British Metal scene this year. On the strength of this EP, the eventual debut album will certainly have a lot of expectation riding on it, in fact this could be the time that the Liverpool Metal scene gets a shake-up. If you like your Death Metal full of grit, thick elements and stomach-wrenching vocals, then you have come across the perfect release.
Download This: "Entrail Fuelled Leviathan" - Click here to listen
For Fans of: Nile, Machine Head, Decapitated
BLACKENED RITUAL
'Blackened Ritual'
Dropping a release before any major festival appearance always bodes well in allowing punters to get a taste of whats to come, this is exactly what Blackened Ritual have done. These bonnie Scottish lot lay down the law with their uncompromising mish-mash of Thrash Metal maniacal brutality and heavy-punching Heavy Metal beats with their self-titled debut album. Hailing from the home of fellow metal brethren Alestorm, Blackened Ritual form the next link in the chain of hidden gems from the Gaelic north and whilst Thrash Metal appears to be seeing a slight lull in the overall British scene, Blackened Ritual certainly keep the flag flying for Scotland. If you are not banging your head to this delicious beast-of-an-album, then ponder why that is.... Blackened Ritual just blew up your speakers, word.
Download This: "Eradication Of The Human Disease" - Click here to listen
For Fans of: Pantera, Megadeth, Iron Maiden
WE ARE THE CATALYST
'Monuments'
We Are The Catalyst are without a shadow of a doubt, Sweden's answer to Evanescence. Through the magical dynamics developed between the crunching riffs, mind-blowing vocals, unrelenting drumming and thunderous atmospherics, this Swedish quintet's debut album 'Monuments' may well just position the band as perhaps one of the most exciting prospects to emerge out of the Nordic nation in the last few years. Funnily enough this is the sort of effort that could enable Sweden to retain their Eurovision 2015 crown (well Finland did win with Lordi!), whether this is in the scope of the band's career is another proposition, but what is clear is that 'Monuments' has given WATC well deserved attention. In fact there are some pop elements wafting in and out of this release alongside the crystal-clear metallic rock sounds, make no mistake WATC are here to stay and are going places. Amaranthe and Evanescence rolled into one = We Are The Catalyst, you better believe it.
Download This: "Time Will Show" - Click here to listen
For Fans of: Evanescence, Amaranthe, Linkin Park
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OVEROTH
'Kingdom Of Shadows'
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You would have to take a trip back to the year 2010 to see the latest official material by Northern Irish Death Metal mob Overoth. Their debut album 'Kingdom Of Shadows' blasts out a furious hailstorm of ballistic drumming, gnarly riffs and guttural sermons that coupled with the almost Doom-inspired atmospherics, immerse the listener in a sea of rotten blood, horror-orgasms and cranial dispositions. In other words, a skull-cracking effort. Upon listening to 'Kingdom Of Shadows', you will experience a sensational mauling that will leave you whimpering for your mummy. For this slab of concrete Death Metal should be taken with a serious conviction, as it is not for those who love their Death Metal full of flash and beautiful elements, this is for the down-and-dirty-laden-with-blackened-grit Death Metal fans. Take it away Captain Mainwaring.
Download This: "The Serpent Of Old" - Click here to listen
For Fans of: Obituary, Unleashed, Cattle Decapitation
'Demo 2013'
Given the strength of their premier demo released in 2013, Incipit's forthcoming debut album will be one exciting release to keep an eye out for, especially given this Blackened Death Metal unit know how to deliver a rapid firing of blazing drums, murderous riffs and ferocious vocals, sure the line-up between the two releases has changed, but the spirit of Incipit still remains as solid as it did at the point of the band's inception. Whilst not as clean-cut as the likes of Behemoth, the level of raw emotion and sounds pouring out of this demo is riveting, pleasing and without any doubt a fine way of paying homage to the Norwegian Extreme Metal scene. If Incipit do not get a record label deal within the next year or so, then either there is something drastically wrong with the music industry or there is something wrong with me, if it's the latter I'll quit my day job.
Download This: "Iconoclast" - Click here to listen
For Fans of: Enslaved, early-Myrkskog, Eastern Front
COUNTLESS SKIES
'Countless Skies'
For their first effort, Countless Skies' self-titled EP is not half bad, but is not half good either. The EP itself is split 50/50 into two bad and two good tracks, so despite the attempt to create something that would give them the ammunition to take things seriously, they are not near that stage. Ignoring the production qualities, the vocals are too domineering in the way they are delivered and whilst the guitars save the EP with eccentric elements, the drums at times are so dirge, it would make you cry. But despite all of the said negativity, there is glimmers of hope in that Countless Skies can re-arrange their outlook and craftsmanship into something that will keep listeners hooked. That is not to say they aren't trying, they just don't seem to be looking in the right areas with this effort.
Download This: "Reverence" - Click here to listen
For Fans of: Amon Amarth, Kalmah, Dark Tranquility
MUTAGENOCIDE
'Devolve' & 'Demo 2015'
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One of Oxfordshire's most exciting metal exports Mutagenocide show why they are the next Thrash Metal band that will be paying your local venue a visit in years to come. Reflecting back on their follow-up EP 'Devolve' released last year and the progression made is evident, the brutality has amplified, the rhythms gone complex and the effort as crisp as glacial water. In fact, this EP ought to come with a health warning of imminent neck-ache, for the velocity shat out has enough power to blow your skull clean off your spine. Thrash Metal in the UK certainly seems to be going through a transitional phase and it is bands like Mutagenocide who are overseeing it with sexy efforts like this. Then of course forward a year and then you come across their latest material.
Demo's are always a hit or miss, usually a miss and sadly this time it's a big miss. The vocals are poor, the drums forming a wall of sound and the riffs so messy they couldn't organize a festival er-hem. In all honesty given their EP 'Devolve' was so well done, this is a huge step down for the boys from Oxfordshire, it really lacks that killer instinct and thus brings the band back to the drawing board. Here's hoping though that they pick up the pieces and deliver another belting EP not before long in order to eradicate this demo from recent memory.
For Fans of: Slayer, Evile, Fallen Fate
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SAILLE
'Eldritch'
Soon to become veterans of the Belgian Black Metal scene, sextet Saille take no prisoners when it comes to unleashing seismic belting albums. Their third album 'Eldritch' released last year sees them carrying on their furious undertone of soul-soothing symphonies and erratic-yet-erotic Black Metal compositions. All within the Lovecraft sermons from which embodies their albums lyrically, as for their latest effort, it's nine tracks lasting a phenomenal 56 minutes gives any listener plenty to chew on. From start to finish, the majestic nature of this Black Metal outfit begins to bore down into 'Eldritch' with such conviction, their recent Bloodstock appearance would certainly be deemed as their just reward and will no doubt be the start of something rather magical. Move over Dimmu Borgir, Saille want your scalps and they want them now!
Download This: "Walpurgis" - Click here to listen
For Fans of: Dimmu Borgir, Vesperian Sorrow, Advent Sorrow
'Generation Movement'
It does not get any better than this for Battalion, or does it? Having released their fourth album 'Generation Movement' upon the masses, they then had the privilege of performing at Bloodstock Open Air Festival. For this Swiss quartet, their fashioned style of Thrash Metal bodes well in the eyes of whomever listens to their latest offering or at said live performance. 'Generation Movement' packs a seismic punch that will get you fist-pumping, banging your head to death and snorting beer before you can say 'what the fuck is this?'. But that's not all, what with the unrelenting, vocals so gritty they make your ears bleed and riffs so tasty, they relegate Swiss chocolate becomes relegated, 'Generation Movement' is a toast to one of the oldest forms of metal music. This may be a 'Generation Movement' in terms of new wave of Thrash Metal, but as far as Battalion goes, this is just another chapter in their sensational career.
Download This: "Rapid Damage" - Click here to listen
For Fans of: Evile, Metallica, Dublin Death Patrol
VALKYR
'Sovereign'
It's all well and proper to make your own music but it is not alright to sound exactly like tens to hundreds of other bands and this is exactly what Valkyr have done. Ironically the music is just as good, full of punch, grit, sweet and blood. Said sentences are about the German quintet's premier EP 'Sovereign, there is very little key changes and the songs sound too similar, leaving the EP to fall into the trap of being lauded as one that perhaps needs revisiting in order to make their impending debut album the best it can be. However there is some conciliation in as far as their cover of Kreator's 'Phobia' is a remarkable effort that needs a gentle nod to. But as a whole the EP just does not cut it and thus may fall short of some listener's expectations, irrespective of the effort because effort does not always equal success, Valkyr need to configure their sound before they become entrapped in the 'common metal' cesspool for good.
Download This: "Under The Spell Of Time" - Click here to listen
For Fans of: Omnium Gatherum, 'Melodic Death Metal'
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Jeff Morgan: California and Israeli winemaker on why he makes wine in both places
February 12, 2017 July 5, 2018
California, Israel, Uncategorized, Wine Reviews, Winemaking, Winery/Winemaker Profile 2 Comments cabernet sauvignoncaliforniachardonnayCovenant WineryIsraelJeff MorgankosherMalbecpetit verdotsyrahwinemaking
This is the second in a series of interviews with winemakers who have experience making wine in Israel. The first interview featured Shane Moore of Zena Crown Vineyards in Oregon. This time around I spoke with Jeff Morgan, co-owner and vintner of Covenant Wines in California. While both have vineyard and winemaking experience in Israel, their stories are quite different, set off by a pivotal distinction: Jeff’s Judaism.
Fourteen years ago Jeff and his partner Leslie Rudd drank a red wine from Domaine du Castel, one of Israel’s premier wineries. “It was really good wine,” Jeff told me, much better than either expected it would be. What really blew them away was that it was made according to kashrut (the laws of keeping kosher), which back then was a category of wine that didn’t have a reputation of being very good at all. Ironically, the wine wasn’t actually kosher, but that false assumption would prove fateful. They had already been making wine in California for more than a decade, but the bottle of Castel motivated them to see if they couldn’t make a better kosher wine in California. The challenge wasn’t connected to Jeff’s Judaism at the time – he was a secular and largely disengaged Jew – but really just a focus on improving the quality of kosher wine.
They deemed cabernet sauvignon the greatest expression of California’s terrior and climate, and decided to use it to achieve that goal. Leslie had access to the grapes and capital and Jeff had the winemaking experience and so they created Covenant Wines. Quickly the goal of the project changed into making the best kosher wine in the world. Fourteen years ago that bar wasn’t very high; today it’s far more challenging.
2014 Covenant Cabernet Sauvignon Blend. From California, Covenant’s flagship wine. Nose of cocoa, espresso and toffee barrel notes along with dark cherries and blackberries. There’s graphite and scorched Earth and some heat on it as well. The full body has smooth, subtle but developed tannins. Strong saline and iodine streaks help the wine overcome lean acidity. As the wine takes on air, the nose turns savory as olive juices start wafting. Orange zest develops on the palate along with toffeed barrel char, sweet strawberries and rich boysenberries, creating a densely layered wine. It has great balance but is tightly wound and will improve over 5-8 years. 92 points. Global value: C-. Kosher value: B.
The making of kosher wine had a slow but cumulative effect on Jeff and Leslie’s connections with Judaism, and in 2011 they took a trip to Israel to explore their Jewish roots. While there they visited vineyards and wineries and noticed that the topography was very similar to that of California, as was the climate, soils, hillsides and valleys. Shortly after returning to California they decided that making Californian kosher wine was insufficient and moved to open a second line of Covenant wines made in Israel using Israeli grapes – the appeal of making wine in California and in the region where wine was created was too strong to resist.
In 2013 they started with three barrels working with an American-Israeli winemaker friend. They increased to seven barrels in 2014 and by 2016 were up to fifty (roughly 2000 cases’ worth of wine). In that year they crushed 35 tons of fruit, roughly one-third the tonnage of their California production. They began with one vineyard in the Golan Heights, but are now sourcing from seven vineyards across the Golan and the Galilee. Jeff loves the markedly different terriors of the two regions, although he noted that there are many stylistic similarities between the wines of California and Israel, more so than, say, between California and Oregon. So far they’ve used Jezreel Winery’s facilities to produce their wines, though because Jeff travels to Israel five or so times per year and he and his own team do the production themselves, he has become intent on opening his own winery there someday. He gives credit to his California team and cloud-based computing for allowing him to spend the time needed in Israel to oversee the production there without sacrificing attention of the California production. In 2017 he feels confident enough that he plans to leave California in the middle of harvest to monitor fermentation in Israel.
2014 Covenant Wine Israel Syrah. This needed several hours of decanting. Nose: Dark and smokey. Stewed blackberries and blueberries along with maraschino cherry and caramelized sugar. Wafty smoke, a good dose of minerality and just a bit of olive juice. Palate: full bodied with coarse tannins that with multiple hours of air begin to integrate. Medium acidity. The fruit is dark and brown sugar sweet. Lot of blackberries and blueberries. Just a bit of orange and graphite and a good dose of tar. There are also some pronounced barrel notes of vanilla and nutmeg. This is a promising young wine. Fruit forward in its early stages, after 4 hours of air definite savoriness really starts to emerge. This has the tannin and acid to age and it will improve with another 3-5 years. 93 points. Global value: C+. Kosher value: B+.
Everything Jeff has learned about winemaking he picked up in California and New York State, and he’s applied those lessons to Israel where the biggest difference from the United States is mentality in the wine industry. Jeff noted that one difference is in vinicultural where Israel, despite closing the gap, is still behind. The California scene is more “dialed in” to the detail and knowledge of how individual vines respond to terrior while the workforce is more experienced in large part due to California’s immigrant labor that has worked the vineyards for generations (“and are great to say the least”). Conversely, in Israel “you have a ragtag crew of Thai and Arab workers along with some Jewish ones who are still figuring out what the essence of grape viniculture is and how it relates to great wine.” Further, Jeff noted that the Thai and Arab cultures don’t feature wine consumption as a tradition, and this makes it harder for vineyard workers to appreciate why vinicultural techniques affect the final product: “If you don’t drink wine you can’t really see the end result. That doesn’t mean you can’t do great work, but it’s a difference.”
Despite these differences, Jeff is high on the Israeli wine scene because every year the overall quality is markedly improving. The culture of wine in Israel, the making and consuming of it, is still decades behind the U.S., however. The level of “religious conviction” in California to their way of wine life remains higher than that in Israel. “Israelis still refer to wineries as ‘plants,’” Jeff told me, adding that Israelis don’t drink nearly as much wine as Americans. The winemaking community, therefore, “needs to raise the consciousness in Israel about the product. Israel is where Napa was thirty years ago in that sense, but Israel is more advanced in the winemaking than Napa was at that point.”
We shifted in conversation to the wines Jeff produces at Covenant. In both locations he starts with the same general protocols because “you can’t erase terrior, it’s stronger than the protocols. The idea is to make wine in a gentle, non-interventionist manner to allow the freest and truest expression of terrior to be seen in the wine.” All of his wines are native yeast fermented, something he notes that is common in California but very unusual in Israel “because they’re afraid of it.” He prefers native yeast fermentations “because native yeast is a key component in harvesting terrior from the vineyard, [which also produce] slower fermentations which yield more complex wines.”
2014 Covenant Wines Lavan Chardonnay. From California. Nose: big varietal characteristics of high strung lemon, grass, white pepper and vanilla bean. There’s also a little big of spearmint and a lot of slate and honey along with a mild petrol note. Palate: full bodied and although lush, the acidity is sharp and zips enough to keep the mouthfeel light and lively. Meyer lemon curd, lemon sorbet, Granny Smith apple and vanilla pudding dominate on the onset, but really nice red pepper flake spice and dried tarragon kick in on the mid palate. The ML and oak manifest themselves in a macadamia nut flavor and texture. Very pleasing and drinkable, there’s no reason to sit on it. 92 points. Global value: B. Kosher value: A.
Jeff’s style tends to favor softer, suppler tannins in his reds and bright, fresh acidity in his whites and roses, leveraging the heat of California and Israel to achieve those profiles. His California and Israeli flagship wines, a cabernet sauvignon blend and a syrah, respectively, reflect his belief that the terrior of California favors Bordeaux varietals while Rhones best suit Israel. The sales figures speak to the appeal of Jeff’s wine: he sells both wines in both countries, and he sells out.
I asked Jeff about my favorite Israeli wine topic: does Israel have a signature style and, if not, should it? If Israel were as monochromatic as Napa, Bordeaux or Burgundy, Jeff responded, it would be easier to wish for, or define, a signature style. But Israel has so many microclimates and so many different kinds of grapes in production that it’s “wishful thinking and would make Israeli wine boring.” Syrah in the Galillee “is very different from in the Golan, viognier is very different from anywhere else in the world – ours came in at 11.5% alcohol by volume [an unusually low figure for the grape].” Signature styles “need to come from the winemakers themselves and while it’s true wine is made in the vineyard, that’s only true until it comes to the winery and the winemaker does their thing with it. What’s exciting for the consumer is that in Israel it’s all about the producers and their own styles, if they have one.” When he looks at the wine list in Israel he looks at the producers names, not the region, because “that’s where the signature is for me in Israeli wine.”
When asked about his hope for the Israeli wine industry’s future, he said his greatest hope “is that Israel is synonymous with high quality wine. Varietally they’ll see which deliver best long-term. Syrah is likely king but cabernet could be a close second or overtake it depending on where it’s grown and who is making it. We need 10-20 years of developments before we’ll have a real answer.”
2014 Covenant Wine Neshama. From California, a blend of petit verdot, malbec and syrah. Nose: Very cool profile of big grapiness, blackberries, strawberries, asphalt, wet forest floor and Herbs de Provence. Just a hint of rubbing alcohol. The profile is dark and brooding but somewhat muddled, an issue a few years of aging will clear up. Palate: full bodied with big, coarse palate-drying tannins. Moderate acidity and tamed alcohol keeps it in good balance. The fruits are black, red, big and juicy: acai, strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries. There’s wet smoke and black pepper as well with graphite and iodine. This is hedonistic stuff, but it’s impressively managed. It’ll only get better over the following 10 years, but I’d sit on remaining bottles for at least five. At minimum give this a 2+ hour decant. 93 points. Global value: C+. Kosher value: B+.
Beyond aiming to make better Israeli wine from one vintage to the next, Jeff is pitching in to help the industry. He has been working with Israel’s government, importers and distributors to raise consciousness outside Israel for its wines and develop more export markets. Israeli wine “won’t be an overnight sensation but the status quo has shifted dramatically in a short amount of time, for wine.” Israel wasn’t on the wine map when Jeff got started thirty years ago, whereas it graced the cover of Wine Spectator in 2016. “It’s going to happen,” Jeff said, “but nothing happens fast in the wine world.”
I received four of Jeff’s wines to review for this piece. All were exceptional in quality but the challenge I had in reviewing them was assigning a value grade. My normal approach is to put the wine in the context of the body of wine I’ve consumed to rate it based on its price competitiveness with that “global” market. However, in this case the wines are certified kosher, which means the wine requires a process that is different from the rest of the global market and therefore it could be argued that the value should be based on the category of kosher wine. The thing is, Jeff’s wines are not only among the best kosher wines I’ve had, but also great wines in the global context, so I wouldn’t want to suggest to the reader that they should try Covenant only if they focus on the kosher category. Therefore, I’m going to give value ratings for both the global market and the kosher category.
Jeff is building a very cool project and the wines are quite good. One of the more interesting practices of Covenant is their wine club, which includes a version that supplies the member with kosher wine for every Shabbat of the year. It’s a fantastic concept. I’m excited to follow the winery, especially as he expands his Israeli production where the syrah I tried is especially distinctive.
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What IV Boston’s New Commercial Means For Boston
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Boston is a city majorly defined by its success in sports. Surely, this reputation is not without merit, as years and years of championships and dynasties are sure to do this to one’s identity. But in 2018, during a time of flourishing art communities and more than enough creativity coming out of Boston, it’s time that a connection is bridged between these two worlds, allowing the city to prosper as a whole rather than in just one area of entertainment.
Here to accept this challenge is Sean Milliken of IV Boston. By presenting the city’s lesser-known history (by this, I mean the figures outside of your Tom Bradys and Larry Birds) in the context of fashion, Sean has been tirelessly working to pay tribute to the numerous legends that have made their mark in the city’s history over the years.
His latest act — the first ever IV Boston commercial, equipped equally with scenes of Boston sports culture as it is with Boston arts culture.
Originally aired during the Celtics vs. Cavaliers game on November 30th, this commercial offers cement proof of bridging the aforementioned gap that so many have worked toward bridging over the years. Milliken and his IV Boston team are on the cutting edge of bringing their city’s abundant talent together, and as a witness of this history, we couldn’t be more proud.
We spoke to Milliken about the commercial and the direction of his brand in a brief interview. Read the conversation below.
When did the idea for this commercial come about? How were you able to get so many important figures from the city involved?
I had the idea for the commercial since I started the brand — it’s something I envisioned since the beginning. I still have the notes in my phone dated back to March 4, 2016. Fast forward to this past April/May, I reached out to my friend Gilad (Shadow Lion) who does video work asking him if he would be interested in doing some video/mini-docs for the throwback jerseys I was releasing over the summer. He was down and wanted to get involved. A couple days passed and I was planning the shoot for the Patrick Ewing CRLS throwback kit with Millyz and Patrick’s nephew, Terrance, when Gilad called me. He said he was talking with Tom Brady, whom he shoots a lot of content for, about the brand and said, “we want to make this a bigger thing and shoot a commercial”. As soon as I heard Gilad say those words I was off and running with the idea I always had for a commercial.
We had the camera and crew available for a couple days in May, so I hit up some friends and tried to work out a schedule for the two days we had the equipment, all while knocking out the Ewing stuff, as well. We shot a few more times in the following months when we were able to get everything together at once.
Shoutout to everyone who was involved, it means a lot. And big thanks to Chris Herren for doing the voice over.
How does this commercial communicate the vision of IV Boston?
I feel like Boston has always had this divide between sports and the arts. We have the best sports teams/athletes in the world and it has always baffled me why no one in these high positions, or positions of influence in the city, have ever combined the two or made a connection for local artists with some of the high profile athletes. I’m happy to see it starting to get better, with Stizz voicing Celtics commercials and things like that. I want to see more of that.
So yea, the vision is showing [Jefe] Replay in Dudley alongside Charlie McAvoy taking slap shots, if that makes sense.
I imagine this commercial has to be a dream come true for you, in some ways. Explain the feeling of watching your commercial play during the Celtics game on live TV and what it meant for you.
It’s crazy, very humbling. Wouldn’t have been possible without Gilad, everyone involved, and the people who support the brand and see what we are trying to do for the city.
Lastly, what can supporters expect from IV Boston in 2019?
The second collection of “Boston Legends” with the throwback kits. We’re releasing four kits in summer 19, telling that history, and giving the city more stories of the local legends while educating the youth on the basketball culture of Boston and Mass as a whole. Definitely some special things in the works.
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An eerie history haunts the city of Fullerton
Rebecca Hiraheta Posted On October 16, 2018
For anyone looking for a good scare but also willing to learn about the history of Fullerton, the Fullerton Museum Center opens their haunted walking tours to the public.
With tickets starting at $20, the public can reserve a spot on this popular tour. The experience of the tour is eerie but wholesome. Attendees are able to hear the community share their puzzling experiences of the paranormal and how some members of Fullerton consider some of these ghosts to be their friends.
The tour takes walking groups around the haunted historic sites in Fullerton, which included Le Potager, Villa Del Sol, and the long uninhabited Fox Theater.
At each site, the tour guide will elaborate on the stories and tales that give each location its mysterious reputation.
The haunted walking tours begin on Oct. 15 through Nov. 2, at the Fullerton Museum Center. Aimee Aul, who the Educational Coordinator at the museum, spoke about how education inspired the tours and how history ties into the eerie haunts of Fullerton.
“About 18 years ago our director at the time wanted to do a Halloween event. The idea at that time was to do a spooky haunted house, and I was like no let’s make it educational. It turns out that there’s a lot of ghost stories here in town that could also be used to teach Fullerton history,” said Aul.
She also spoke about how the tour gets the community excited about local folklore.
“I think people that are not that interested in history but come here for the ghost stories learn a little bit about history. I think it’s good for people to just get out of the cars and walk and interact with each other,” said Aul.
The garden of the Le Potager. Aimee Aul talked about the impeccable ghostly but non-daunty taste shown in the interior and exterior of the home. Photo credit: Rebecca Hiraheta
Susan Rhein, is a Fullerton native since the age of nine and loves learning about her city’s history.
“I love hearing the history even though I already know it, I love how they impart knowledge,” said Rhein.
The Fox Theater is the most popular haunt in the community. NOCPS told ghost stories about their paranormal experiences they have had inside of the old theater. Photo credit: Rebecca Hiraheta
During the tour, attendees will get the opportunity to explore the paranormal phenomena surrounding the Fox Theatre in Downtown Fullerton. Tour guides speak about the history of the theater and its architecture. Some might see something spooky themselves while sitting in the chairs of the old structure.
Some people in the community even have their own ghost stories of the Fox Theatre. Including Rhein herself, who was involved in the restoration of the theater.
“Before we closed escrow, we went in with hard hats to clean up the graffiti underneath. I opened a storage closet and then I looked and saw a very bright blue sparkling orb that was behind [my friend]. I wasn’t scared but I thought it was interesting,” recalled Rhein.
The owner of Le Potager, shows his ghost artifact. He explains that the ghost approves of his presence in her home and that he considers her a friend and framed the tag she left for him. Photo credit: Rebecca Hiraheta
Those who fashion themselves paranormal investigators also attend this tour to learn of Fullerton’s rich ghostly history. Investigators study the Fullerton haunted walking tours and the stories that run chills down the spine.
A member of the North Orange County Paranormal Society, who was featured at the tour, spoke about the myriad of paranormal activity within the community that continues to give to the oral history of Fullerton.
“At the end [of the tour], I have sat at Café Hidalgo just listening to stories from other people and their experiences. There’s so many of them, it’s so hard to pinpoint one,” said paranormal investigator Jim VanEeckhoutte.
The Fullerton community can really learn a lot from this tour while getting spooked at the same time. For anyone looking for a local thrill in the city of Fullerton, the haunted walking tour offers a cheaper and historical experience.
“Folklore makes a community establish its identity. Ghosts stories make people feel connected, telling stories keeps the past alive and connects people to their past.” concluded Aimee Aul.
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Thank you Rebecca, it was a pleasure talking with you. 😉
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Another Chef-Driven Chain is Opening a Tex-Mex Restaurant in Houston
Blanco Tacos + Tequila coming soon to the Galleria. Photo courtesy of Fox Restaurant Concepts.
Posted: November 15, 2018 at 2:31 pm / by Carlos Brandon / comments (0)
tags: Margarita, Mezcal, tacos, Tequila, Tex-Mex, Tortillas
Fox Restaurant Concepts — which is in the process of selling its interests in North Italia and Flower Child to business partner The Cheesecake Factory — is heading back to Houston to open another new restaurant. This time, it’s Tex-Mex. The Phoenix-based company is led by multiple-time James Beard Award nominee Sam Fox and also recently sold off True Food Kitchen. Its latest Houston endeavor is the sixth location of Blanco Tacos + Tequila, slated to open on December 17 in the Galleria below Nobu and next to Fig and Olive.
It’s the latest high-profile, out-of-town, chef-led chain to open a Tex-Mex location in Houston. Atlanta-based Ford Fry Restaurants (named for the chef who leads it — and who is also a multiple-time James Beard Award nominee) has four locations of Superica and opened its first location in Houston in September. Forthcoming Blanco has a similar focus, specifically on craft cocktails, fresh ingredients and an aesthetic that borrows authenticity and charm from more traditional restaurants.
House margaritas. Photo Courtesy of Blanco Tacos + Tequila
With highlights like Hamachi & Watermelon Ceviche, Short Rib Machaca, Wagyu Fajitas and tacos on hand-made tortillas, Blanco’s menu is a far cry from run-of-the-mill franchises. Beyond its authentically focused dishes, Blanco will also offer more casual fare like burritos, bowls and salads. So, the chic locale is offering the best of both worlds: upscale Tex-Mex and lowbrow favorites.
Behind the bar, bartenders will mix fresh juices with an assortment of tequilas and mezcals for house margaritas and craft cocktails. Diners can select any tequila or mezcal shot and turn it into a margarita for just a buck more, or choose a variety to sample as a flight. That is in addition to the tequila-driven craft cocktail list that includes big, sharable cocktails for two. Though tequila is in the name, mezcal plays a key role in Blanco’s bar program. After all, the blue collar cousin of tequila has become the trendy spirit of choice for craft bartenders from Houston to Oaxaca.
Wagyu Fajitas from Blanco Tacos + Tequila. Photo by Phaedra Cook
In Houston, land of Tex-Mex and host to the likes of The Original Ninfa’s on Navigation, El Real Tex-Mex and El Tiempo, is there room for these types of restaurants conceived in cities where the cuisine wasn’t born?
If Superica is any indicator, Blanco may indeed see fast success. Superica has been well-received by the general public and currently boasts a four-star Yelp rating.
Both out-of-town concepts also have local ties. Fry was raised in Houston and tapped local chef Bobby Matos for the first restaurant in Fry’s former hometown, State of Grace. It’s been very successful.
Fox Restaurant Concepts’ corporate pastry chef is Plinio Sandalio, a Houstonian who earned a great deal of acclaim for his work at Soma, Gravitas, Textile and even as a bartender at Anvil Bar & Refuge before joining Congress restaurant in Austin and later taking the corporate pastry chef job with Fox Restaurant Concepts in Phoenix.
So, out-of-town chains or not, neither company is ignorant of Houston cuisine and culture. Both are well-oiled machines highly capable of executing great dishes. In addition, both are generating dozens of new restaurant jobs. According to a press release, Blanco expects to generate 140 additional jobs and is hosting job fairs from November 12 through 21 and 26 to the 28 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Whether or not it’s going to be easy to fill those jobs with qualified staff is an entirely different matter.)
The key to success is going to be bringing something fresh and unique to diners — and perhaps just being at the right place at the right time. One big advantage for Blanco is the lack of Tex-Mex restaurants in the Galleria area.
Fresh tortillas, a smart cocktail program, Wagyu beef, fancy street tacos and surprisingly great desserts don’t hurt, either.
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Hitler's top 10 blunders
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sylla1
Maybe the German blunders all along WW2 should be shared by some more people; attributing absolutely all the mistakes to the Führer and all the good decisions to anyone else might be a bit biased, given the understandable general antipathy against Herr Hitler.
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sylla1 said:
As far as Goering is concerned you are right. Big part of Hitler's blunders were actively contributed by Goering: His promise and then failure to destroy the BEF from the air at Dunkirk. He then repeated himself at Stalingrad with the boast that he could deliver 500 tons per day by air.
Except for Goering, hardly anyone else comes to mind who had his own voice even to approach making a blunder of his own.
deadkenny
I'm not sure Goering can be 'credited' with those blunders, although he is certainly justly faulted for facilitating them. Goering's 'skill' (in addition to stealing art) was knowing how to gain favour with Hitler by playing the 'yes man' at opportune moments. Goering does truly 'own' some blunders though, such as cancelling important aircraft development projects that really damaged Germany's efforts starting in the mid-war period.
As the absolute autocrat that he was, Herr Hitler must be held responsible of all the great strategic decisions of the war (at least for allowing them); however, no chief can care of all details every minute. In a war of such magnitude, even minute details could have had portentous consequences.
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Gotta be declaring war on the USA - unprovoked. Suicidal!
Closely followed by allowing Spain to stay out of the war, thus exposing the Med to British and Amercian access (North Africa, Italy< Palestine, South of France etc.) He should have forced Spain more actively into the war as an ally or taken Gibraltar by airborne attack.
Chile, Santiago
A good part of that can be laid at the feet of the brilliant diplomacy of Franklin Roosevelt. During the '30s FDR had taken care to keep the United States out of the war in Spain, and in WWII he quite successfully cashed in the points he had earned from that to lean on Franco to stay neutral. Franco differed from Hitler and Mussolini in being an essentially pragmatic man who knew what side his bread was buttered on.
Optiow
cfraser said:
But Spain was still divided. There were many who were anti-Franco and would have fought for the Allies as a resistance members. We already know they helped many Allied POW's escape, and they would have obstructed a lot of Axis matters.
Also, what was to stop Spain being another Italy? The Germans would most likely have had to send troops to prop them up, diverting manpower away from the Russian front.
SomeGuy
Spain was in no shape to help the Axis forces. They were decimated by their civil war. Germany would have had to carry them like they did with Italy.
But Hitler's biggest mistake easily had to be invading Russia, especially without having defeated the British first. He should have learned from Napoleon.
"Unprovoked" might not be the right term here; even if undeclared, the US were already in an overtly hostile activities against the Axis, at least from the Columbus incident in December 19, 1939 to the occupation of Iceland by some 40,000 American soldiers since July 7, 1941.
In fact, the Pan-American Security Zone severely hindered the critical U-boat campaigns in the Western Atlantic since 1941.
The American lend lease was already overtly providing highly needed support to both the UK and the USSR.
Everybody expected a full participation of the US sooner or later.
Even so, essentially all the German command (Hitler included) agreed that it was better not to accelerate the process.
That changed after Pearl Harbor; the Führer presumably expected his Japanese "allies" to attack the Soviets in exchange; needless to say, he was utterly disappointed.
As already pointed out by Optiow & Someguy, Spain was in terrible conditions after their long and fierce Civil War; even so, it was a "non-belligerent" member of the Axis.
Mainly for economic reasons, the Spanish neutrality was actually helpful for both sides.
Naturally, Hitler tried to get the Spanish support for the projected Operation Felix against Gibraltar; Franco actually considered the offer in his meeting with Hitler at Hendaya and reportedly asked for some colonial compensations. like Morocco, Tanger, Oran, and the increase of the territories of Rio de Oro and the Spanish Guinea; the Vichy France would have to pay for that exchange.
After the succesive meeting Hitler-Pétain at Montoire, the ¨Germans concluded it was better for them to keep the cooperation of the Vichy regime.
It seems Hitler sometime considered invading Spain; being that the case, it's clear he concluded it was not worth the effort at the time.
Emilio Primo
The number 1 blunder for Hitler was:
Being too successful early on which in turn cause Hitler to become overconfident and make disastrous blunders later on in the war.
The Nazi basically steamrolled EVERYONE early on in the war, I think this lead to a false sense of superiority of the German war machine, which in turn caused him to make decisions thinking victory would be swift and total.
I have seen making good post of Hitlers blunders , Deadkenny had some really good points.
His remarks about Hitler NOT coming as a "liberator of communism" when he invaded the Soviet Union was mroe of a blunder than is realized. Many peoples of the Soviet Union AT FIRST did think of the Nazi as liberators, until they came to realize that the Nazis were far worst that the Soviets.
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Matt Damon Proud of #Metoo movement but will like to Shut His Mouth for a While
January 17, 2018 by Frank Fancher
Good Will Hunting actor Matt Damon’s latest movie, Downsizing, shows the commitment to save the planet and which should probably include voice against sexual misconduct and the recent announcement from the actor saying he would like to shut his mouth for a while from #MeToo movement looks confusing. So, let's deal with it in detail.
Damon back in December, in an interview with ABC News’ Peter Travers, said
“There’s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right? Both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicate without question, but they shouldn’t be conflated, right?”
On Tuesday, a repentant Damon told Kathie Lee Gifford on Today's show
“Boy, I really wish I’d listened a lot more before I weighed in on this, a lot of those women are my dear friends and I love them and respect them and support what they’re doing and want to be a part of that change and want to go along for the ride, but I should get in the back seat and close my mouth for a while.”
Also read: Matt Damon's Married life with Luciana Barroso
We really like Matt who is also a father of a beautiful daughter correcting his statement but yes he corrected his statement and for someone like Damond, with that star power, he surely should think about the consequences of his actions and speak accordingly.
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09 December 2018 8:34 AM
Well, I Did Warn You - a word to the weird zealots who spent decades not caring about the EU
This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column
A word to the weird zealots who spent decades not caring about the EU and now can't talk or think about anything else.
With a heavy heart, I feel compelled to write about the European issue again. I am sick of it. I want it to be over. I would, by now, accept almost any arrangement if only this ignorant, stupid squabbling would stop.
People who only five years ago dismissed the whole subject as irrelevant are now on fire with mad passion for one outcome or another.
They have no business to be. I recall trying to persuade Tory politicians, now brawling, red-faced and panting about backstops and customs unions, that the EU mattered at all. Nothing doing, they said. Not important, they said. A dead issue, they said. People don’t care, they said.
Then and later, they never bothered to try to find out why it mattered or how it worked. They wouldn’t read the necessary books, or talk to the people who knew. To this day most of them are clueless. In fact, the more clueless they are, the more frantic they get.
I also warned against the referendum, and that it would cause a constitutional crisis. Almost everything I warned of has come to pass.
So now I’ll say just this. It seems that Mrs May’s agreement will fail. I care little about that. The only point of it was to fend off the madmen who are so blinded by dogmatic frenzy that they want a Tory leadership challenge and a general election, and to hell with the country.
The May plan has prevented that until now. It has also left a tiny passage through which we might escape into calm and sanity. I have for some time urged that we take the Norway option, out of the EU, away from its courts and its wasteful farm and fishery policies, with access to a powerful emergency brake on immigration but still able to trade easily through the Single Market.
It is still just possible that in the weeks of closed minds and jockeying which now seem likely to come about, enough calm heads will grasp this. There could actually be a majority for it. It would be miles better than any other feasible outcome.
But it is like that bit at the end of the adventure story where the hero, pursued by implacable enemies, has to leap from a tottering, crumbling bridge on to a meagre ledge below, and then swing himself into the tiny opening to safety.
In the story, you know he is going to do it. But in British politics, it is far more likely that he’ll miss his footing and fall screaming into the chasm below, taking the rest of us with him. Well, you can’t say I didn’t warn you.
The Obvious Lesson about Schools which Nobody Seems Able to Learn
Once again the Sutton Trust does excellent research on the terrible state of our schools. Once again, driven by ideology, it misses the point. The revelation that eight very expensive private schools together scored as many Oxbridge places as 2,894 state schools will delight left-wing fanatics, who will pretend it’s the result of Oxbridge snobbery.
In fact the two great universities strive very hard to encourage applicants from poor backgrounds. But atrocious, disorderly state secondaries don’t teach them well enough, and too many of their teachers, in the grip of inverted snobbery, sulkily refuse to encourage children to apply for top colleges.
But that’s only the half of it. The Sutton figures, read carefully, show that academically selective state grammar schools come close to matching the vastly expensive public schools in gaining Oxford places.
But there are hardly any of them. In the days when we had a national network of state grammar schools, 64.6% of their pupils came from working class homes, according to the Gurney-Dixon report of 1954. And most survived into the Sixth Form, in those pre-expansion days the equivalent of university. The Crowther Report of 1959 found that more than 40% of sixth-formers at grammar schools were working class. What ‘outstanding’ comprehensive or academy can say that today?
By 1964, these bright boys girls from working class homes were storming Oxford and Cambridge, beating the expensive private schools without any special help or concessions. Then that stopped, when all but a tiny rump of grammars were smashed up in the egalitarian lunacy of the 1960s.
Watching ‘experts’ and politicians discussing education today is like being in a nightmare. In that awful dream, I have to watch, powerless, while a surgeon kills a patient because he refuses to use the only procedure which could have saved him.
Losing faith in Alice's Humanist Excuses
You may recall Professor Alice Roberts, the TV star and Humanist zealot, who made such a fuss about how she could not find places for her children in non-Church schools. She said ‘Seven out of the nearest nine schools to me were Church of England schools. I applied to the two which weren't and we did not get in there’,
The accounts of this clearly stated that she lived in Bristol. I was a bit baffled about this. Bristol council told me that of the 108 state schools in the city that take primary pupils, just 26 schools have church affiliations. So there are 82 non-church schools, roughly two per square mile. This is probably fairly typical, as about 7,000 of 20,000 state schools in England are Church schools, but many of the Church schools are concentrated in rural areas.
I do not know or seek to know where exactly Professor Roberts lives. But it seems to me that if it is so important to her to send her children to a non-church state primary school, she ought to have been able to find something to her liking among 82 possible schools in her home city.
When I put this to the Humanists, they revealed that she doesn’t in fact live in Bristol at all. Coyly, they said ‘Without disclosing where Alice lives, I am afraid your premise, that she lives in the boundaries of the city proper, is faulty’. Perhaps, I wondered, she’d chosen to live in a country area, where the chances of finding a church school are known to be high. Who can blame her. But in that case, was her complaint valid? When I tried to discover more from the Humanists, they suggested wrongly that I was seeking to know where she lived, and then fell silent.
Film-makers take sides in the Sexual Revolution
Even the left-wingers at the Guardian are a bit perplexed by the number of lesbian films we seem to be getting in our cinemas now, from action-thrillers such as ‘The Girl in The Spider’s Web’ to ‘The Favourite’, out soon, which suggests that poor old Queen Anne throbbed with same-sex passion.
Perhaps most irritating is a much-praised drama called ‘Disobedience’, starring Rachel Weisz. Weisz plays a modish Manhattan photographer who, while not taking pictures of pathetic tattooed old men, or smoking hard enough to keep warm, is having vigorous heterosexual encounters in lavatories.
Suddenly her father, a very strictly Orthodox Rabbi, dies in mid-sermon. Back she goes to London, where she irritates everyone by her contempt for their faith, her smoking and, finally, by seducing another rabbi’s wife in a park, and later in a hotel, destroying their marriage and endangering his faith.
Of course, it’s the devout Jews with their ancient respect for God and scripture, who are portrayed as the difficulty. This sort of propaganda can always get money and publicity. How I wish the same attention had been paid to the beautiful, brilliant Polish film, Ida, which avoids all these weary clichés and is as a result one of the best and most neglected films of the past 10 years.
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Mike B and Ewan Maclean,
I hope that when you are out purchasing Christmas presents for anyone and everyone who you feel *compelled* to buy for, i.e all those that you would make yourself feel uncomfortable and even guilty for leaving out, forgetting or for not returning their compliment - I hope you realise how inculcated you have become by the corporate's religion that has ensnared you into its grip and forced you to comply with its doctrines on consumerism by demanding you indulge in its orgy of unnecessary giving, taking, waste and debt.
It puts Christianity and all its victims to shame.
Posted by: Michael Wood | 17 December 2018 at 10:50 AM
I disagree with PH, in his response to my post, and maintain that Alice Roberts’s financial decisions regarding the education of her children are nobody’s business but her own. I also think that her (very minor) celebrity is of no moment in this regard. Let’s assume that she can afford to educate her children privately. She, nonetheless, clearly supports the state system and is entitled to call for changes to it without being told that she should betray her beliefs, as so many do, and bypass it.
I am aware of the history of the churches in public education, at a time when religious observance was commonplace and when Christianity held sway, but that is not a justification for their receiving state funds to educate their children separately from the rest today.
I believe that this practice can only fuel a sense of ‘otherness’ in pupils at faith schools. Complex as the Northern Ireland troubles are, they might have been mitigated had Catholic and Protestant children not been educated separately.
As to the threat (and I us the word advisedly) of Islamic schools, I disagree with PH when he says that the answer is stronger Christian schools: I think the answer is an end to separate education in the state sector on grounds of religion.
Posted by: Mike B | 16 December 2018 at 07:16 AM
@Sally 14th December at 04:28PM
"But she isn't spending her own money."
Your suggestion was that she educate her children privately and I responded that it was none of your business how Alice Roberts should send her own money, which it isn't.
***PH remarks. Professor Roberts is a public figure by her own choice, having voluntarily become the official figurehead of Humanists UK, while also being a prominent presenter on the supposedly impartial BBC . I find it hard it believe that either she or Humanists UK were uninfluenced by, or regretted, her BBC celebrity in agreeing this appointment. So if she enters a controversy about education by complaining about the education of her children in the state system, and calls (using her celebrity) for a change in policy which would directly affect many parents and children in such schools if it were adopted, perhaps causing those who could afford it to seek private schooling rather than sub,it to the change she desires, others are quite entitled to make comments on her own personal education policy. If she does not like that, she should not make such statements, or make details of her own children's educations public. ****
"---she is demanding the overburdened state funds her child's education to her particular humanist tastes."
No, she is not. She is not asking for a humanist curriculum, but a religiously neutral one. It is the religious who are demanding state funding for separate schools in which their religion is given priority.
***PH asks :'neutral;' between what and what? She is proposing the removal of something which exists, and which many people like. That is not neutral. ***
I do take Michael Wood's point that parents can withdraw their children from RE classes, but the fact remains that religious organisations are seeking exceptionalism in the state education of children of their faith.
***PH asks : What does he mean by 'exceptionalism' ? Churches created a large proportion of our state schools when there were none. Since then, parents who would prefer their children's education to be based on an acceptance of the Christian religion have been accustomed to being able to obtain it within the state system. In my view the Christian aspect of these schools is far too mild. Except in rural areas where church schools predominate (but have long been accustomed to educating children whose parents do not want a religious schooling) , secular state education is readily available. ****
I do wonder whether you will be quite so strident in your demands for such exceptionalism when Christian, agnostic or atheistic parents are faced with the alternatives of educating their children at an Islamic state school or privately. That might not be too far down the line in some inner city areas. ***PH remarks . Well indeed, no. It is *Christian* education that many parents want . And if Christianity is dismantled in this country under secularist pressure, Islam will very likely fill the gap that is left. . BUt that is an argument for strengthening Christianity in the schools, not for weakening it.
Posted by: Mike B | 15 December 2018 at 02:48 PM
> "....I'm cognitively immune to "buzz words" (such as 'xenophobia' and 'racism') so often deployed by liberal-bigots of political correctness as a virtual electric fence and intimidatory censorship device -- effectively disallowing all dissent, since those who apply such terminology also insist upon it being in exclusive accord with their own definitions ...."
> Posted by: C. Morrison | 14 December 2018 at 05:45 PM
Not sure you intended to draw the parallel, so if you didn't I'll highlight it for you:
Words such as 'xenophobia' and 'racism' are deployed so often by liberal-bigots of political correctness as a virtual electric fence, an intimidatory censorship device -- exactly as a psychological barrier or wall to keep the rest of us out of what they believe is the good, just (ha), right thinking society, by very effectively disallowing all dissent, since those who apply such terminology also insist upon it being in exclusive accord with their own definitions.
In other words they deny access to their society of anyone belonging to a different culture, and reserve the right to be judge, jury and executioner, of their border control rules, which everyone must obey.
Be it internally, with people like Tommy Robinson exiled by even UKIP, and even serially imprisoned for Kafkaesque charges (eg for doing a Mandelson, Prescott or Kinnock, when they weren't even investigated, allegedly).
Or barred by border controls that seem to be unable to do the same with millions of other illegal immigrants, but suddenly work for the likes of eg Pamela Geller, Gert Wilders and Lauren Southern.
Posted by: Jeremy Bonngton-Jagworth | 15 December 2018 at 02:01 PM
If the Norway option offers a powerful emergency brake on immigration, we the public need to know more. My impression, as in many, was that it provided no such controls. But then at least having tried - and failed - to understand every nuance in the current debacle, I think though do not comprehend that there is an immigration brake of sorts under current EU membership. Again, the public need clarity here for be in no doubt. That spectre of an increase in our population on current trends of a million people and more entering this country every decade was the main reason why most people voted to leave. Powell was never right to have been permanently hot under the collar about an additional 30,000 pa but this century's additional 300,000 pa is to use a colloquialism something else.
Anyhow, if that brake remains unexplained, we need a new brave option that none of the dogmatic types on each side cannot access and hence have not accessed in their minds. It is based in No Deal - a cliff edge only for the few who are still financially atop any cliff, notwithstanding impacts on services - but not as you know it or have heard it. This is to say it would be combined with a new EEC - note that this is not a new EU - British led, in direct competition with the EU, and initially peeling off member states and others who may themselves wish for a saner alternative without a door that is so open it defies the laws of physics and which for example does not involve ever increasing political union.
Early membership? Take your pick. Poland, perhaps. Hungary. Norway. Iceland. Switzerland. We can debate this. Key to its success, though, would be the enticing and subsequent inclusion of the Republic of Ireland to deal with the Northern Ireland border conundrum once and for all. This option - No Deal plus a New EEC - could in time be actual, thereby diluting the more severe aspects of cliff erosion. However, it does not have to be. It could merely be the ultimate negotiating tool for encouraging the EU either side of Christmas to change its stance on reopening the withdrawal agreement to address the backstop issue. The very notion that member states and others could be lost to a British led European Common Market should concentrate minds nicely.
Posted by: Jeremy Harrison | 15 December 2018 at 08:47 AM
Henry L'Eplattenier | 13 December 2018 at 12:07 PM :
**.. to claim in times of peace that the borders need "defending" implies that immigrants are dangerous enemies trying to enter the country in order to destroy it. That is a narrative of prejudice and hate (and irrational fear) that is, if not racist, at least profoundly xenophobic.***
***PH remarks : Mr L'Eplattenier will not be responding to this until he has apologised for and withdrawn certain remarks on another thread***
You'll not be minding if uninvited squatters move in and take over whichever rooms they please, in your own place of residence (wherever and whatever that might be)?
If borders aren't defended, then what is there to prevent unlimited numbers of outsiders from flooding in to such an extent that the indigenous identity of a nation or culture is reduced to minority status, very significantly eroded, or effectively obliterated? Does that not amount to destruction?
In such context, any measures towards an improvement in quality of life -- or even just economic conditions -- within any country or region would tend to make uninvited and undesired change from outside all the more likely ... surely a disincentive for most people to care a damn about anything.
That's even before consideration of ulterior motives on the part of those who want to "outsource" populations. And don't forget that multinational corporations of business and finance -- some of deservedly dubious reputation -- are entities which long since acquired for themselves the legal/rights status of "person". So is it racist and xenophobic for a population to oppose their predations?
I'm cognitively immune to "buzz words" (such as 'xenophobia' and 'racism') so often deployed by liberal-bigots of political correctness as a virtual electric fence and intimidatory censorship device -- effectively disallowing all dissent, since those who apply such terminology also insist upon it being in exclusive accord with their own definitions ... so to convince anyone like me, you'd need to come up with some actual arguments in favour of the form of society and administration you appear to want.
I doubt you could.
Posted by: C. Morrison | 14 December 2018 at 05:45 PM
Henry L'Eplattenier
Please tell me how many should come per year? Ten thousand? One hundred thousand? One million? Ten million? There are Seven billion people on the planet, can they all just wander in?
And why do we have to accommodate their culture,and beliefs? After all, they want a better life away from the vey beliefs and cultures that dragged down their own country’s of origin. If they want to live in a more prosperous western society why do they want to destroy the native culture that has been more successful than their own?
A new survey suggest that 60% of recent immigrants into the US are on some form of welfare. Please explain who is going to pay for all these people who have not paid in to the system? The health service is on life support, and as we have seen from Alice Roberts the problems in providing endless options from the education system.
As Peter Hitchens suggests in his debate on morality there is an unholy alliance between the new left with its obsession on identity politics utopias, and the Corparate elite who want to end national borders, and have a constant stream of cheap labour. Funny how the corporate elite tend to live on expensive tax free islands
My hunch is you leftie types are being played for fools by the Soros, Branson, and Blair elites. Mass immigration will lead to the destruction of wage rates, and the end of the very welfare state you so support. But then modern liberals have a distain for the working class, and poor sections of home nations so it won’t bother you.
Posted by: Sally | 14 December 2018 at 04:50 PM
But she isn’t spending her own money, she is demanding the overburdened state funds her child’s education to her particular humanist tastes. The state can’t provide for every demand in every area. If there are no options available she should either pay to go private or move house.
We can all dream up a lavish menu of demands that the state education system should provide, who’s going to fund them all in every area?
Perhaps we should have a voucher system where every one is given a voucher from the state that is redeemed at at a school of the parents choice. It can be put forward as part of a bigger payment to private schools.
Yea right, I’m sure the liberal left wing education establishment will just love that. Peoples choices are non to popular on the left. Because they tend to do what is best for their own kids interest rather than the leftie elites.
Mike B.."You have not addressed the point that people should not be required to educate their children in a faith they do not hold. It is a very simple point and your failure to answer it demonstrates the weakness of your position."
To address your point it would have to be true - and it isn't.
We are 18 years into the 21st century, Mike B, not 1818 or even 1918.
My last post adequately describes why your point is based on a false premise and that your's and Roberts' 'position' is completely untenable.
@Sally 13th December 2018 at 01:49PM
I did not say that you were not entitled to comment on the lady’s salary, merely that how she spends it is none of your business.
Your post is presumptuous in calling me a ‘liberal’. I oppose abortion, think divorce is too easy and oppose same sex marriage. However, your binary mindset is such that you think that anyone opposing any of your positions must automatically hold certain views on all other matters.
It is rather sad and displays great immaturity.
@Michael Wood 13th December 2018 at 07:06PM
Your above post makes not the slightest attempt to respond to what I have written and simply draws ridiculous analogies, such as removing people from their homes.
You have not addressed the point that people should not be required to educate their children in a faith they do not hold. It is a very simple point and your failure to answer it demonstrates the weakness of your position.
Moreover, I do not criticise all Christians and respect their faith. It is certain institutions and their representatives, whose behaviour and priorities have brought that faith that I have criticised as well as those whose attitudes betray the incincerity of their faith.
Mike B, and to Mrs Roberts (if she’s there)
I am beginning to doubt whether you, or your children and Mrs Roberts or her children, have ever been to a state Church school! If you or they had, they would know: before that ‘frightful’ word ‘God’ is mentioned in its Christian capacity, any parent of any pupil can request that their children be excused from hearing its message – be it through communal worship in assembly or specifically Christian religious education in class - which, incidentally, no longer happens.
However, 70 years ago – in my schooldays - in all schools, Jews, other religions and even Roman Catholics were excused and left the hall when hymns, prayers and a Bible reading began. The rest of the school day, safe from that ‘dreadful indoctrination’, was devoted to the three R’s and other worldly studies.
I also know from recent experience that this respect for all or any alternative wish, be it religious or secular, is still upheld.
So what then, is this fuss that you and Mrs Roberts is creating really all about - because it isn’t about indoctrinating yours or anyone’s children into Christianity. In fact, and considering that most children don’t even understand the concepts of religion, it seems more likely that it’s all about you and Mrs Roberts actively trying to indoctrinate the rest *against* Christianity!
I also have no doubt that if there happened to be a secular state school close to Mrs Roberts she would take one look at it and send her children to the nearest private school!
. . . to claim in times of peace that the borders need "defending" implies that immigrants are dangerous enemies trying to enter the country in order to destroy it. That is a narrative of prejudice and hate (and irrational fear) that is, if not racist, at least profoundly xenophobic.
Yawn! That old knee-jerk racist and xenophobic smear just doesn't work any more, it's completely threadbare through overuse. It's not about ethnicity, it's not about individuals, it's about the sheer scale of the existential threat to the west that uncontrolled mass migration presents.
According to the EU's own research, some 27% of Africa's adult population 'would like' to emigrate from Africa, of which total around 40% name Europe as their preferred destination. In a continent of over 1,250,000,000 people that's a colossal number of wannabe immigrants. The principal reason that the actual figure is thankfully much smaller than that, is the existence of border controls (such as they are). Inadequate these controls may be, but if there were no borders at all, as advocated jointly by insane Greens and malevolent Anarcho-Communists, the numbers would rapidly increase way beyond this country's capacity to cope with the demands such a mass migration would create, in a country already £1.87 trillion in debt. It is neither racist nor xenophobic to point out that the United Kingdom would effectively cease to exist if such a catastrophe were to befall it.
The majority of African migrants come from the sub-Saharan regions, namely West Africa, Middle Africa and East Africa, whose population growth is recognised as out of control. According to the UN's own figures, together these regions are projected to increase their populations five-fold by the end of the present century. These are not expressions of prejudice, they are simply the facts of the matter, which too many people seem to prefer to ignore.
Posted by: Brian Meredith | 13 December 2018 at 04:56 PM
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Posted by: Brian Meredith | 14 December 2018 at 11:41 AM
Henry E' Leplattenier
There are M.P's who voted Remain, who do say they will honour the result of the Referundum.
Others like Grieve and Soubry cannot come to terms with the result. Hence and I've had a good dip in early debates where they were vocal in their horror at the result to calling for a people's vote a another go referundum.
(I watch debates. I watched and recorded one on young children and violence yesterday).
Cameron ( in my opinion not a true Conservative, gave us a referundum on which the result would be honoured. His words.
What he did was to hand us back sovreignity. Parliament then needed to work toward leaving the single market and the customs union as he informed us we would
He tried to get a deal and couldn't, so gave us a choice stay on what he'd brought back or leave. 9 million spent on a leaflet.
The ERG are being slated for standing up for that.
When it is Grieve and his Soubry who are the thwarting of not a a No deal but another deal like Owen Patterson, Dominic Raab and David Davis John Redwood are suggesting.
The media are now discussinb it a bit.
Grieve wants to deny us that. Is he not the rebel really ?
I've just listened to Blair on the Today programme. It seems Europe is moving towards stopping the current migration of thise whe are allowed to migrate and undercut workers.
He believes there will be a shift because of unhapiness in Europe.
Hoping thus might nean a change will help a new referendum to stay.
Clutching at straws. Or too late old son?
Posted by: Mrs.B. | 14 December 2018 at 08:50 AM
Your complaints on behalf of Madam Roberts are by any measure the same as hers - a selfish expectation that would happily oust every Christian family and their children from their deliberate choice to live by a long established Christian school or to suffer the imposition of sending their children to one outside their own location.
I doubt that cuts any ice with you, but I imagine you wouldn't be any too pleased if you were to be subjected to the same criticism, abuse and expectation were you expected to move aside for another family who demanded their 'human right' to the convenience of your house.
So, then, leave us Christians in our Christian schools and to our God-given right to teach our children as we please, alone - we are not trying to commandeer or encroach on your Godless schools.
You are a long-standing and regular critic of anything and anyone Christian on this blog, which shows you are indeed very much 'bothered' by our faith in Christianity. Why? And at what cost, inconvenience or danger is it to you, or is it just another irresistible, fashionable, unfounded, atheist suspicion of your own?
Mike B,
First, regards Alice Roberts financial position. She is a public figure earning a salary from an organisation I’m forced to fund through taxation. I have every right to comment, and it was she who decided to virtue signal not me.
However, judging by the many salaries of BBC presenters that have been revealed to the public , and seeing that she is a high profile presenter. (The BBC have pushed her forward as she fits the BEEBs obsession with female presenters in subjects that were once bastions for men like science) I think we can reasonably assume she is well paid. And she has been a fixture of BBC output for the best part of a decade now. There are BBC employees earning six figure salaries who only present a few hours of radio every week. You don’t need to be Einstein to surmise she is doing vey well.
I was particularly amused at your enquiry of who the hell I am to pass judgement? Im a tax payer. Something you liberals don’t respect. I, and millions of others pay for her and her over paid fellow BBC presenters like Gary Linker.
It is fascinating how the liberal mind works. She , according to you is apparently “entitled” to a school that fits her demands paid for by the tax payer, while I am not permitted to pass comment as a tax payer. How revealing.
It is you liberals who demanded the utopia of a multi faith country. Now you have to deal with the pricey consequences of all the special demands. Al a carte, bespoke menus can be pricey. This country is already close to two trillion £ in debt. Good luck funding all the demands of the entitled middle classes to live where they choose, and have a nureous selection of schools made available to them on tap. Perhaps instead, sho should move to where there are more choices?
@Michael Wood 13th December 2018 at 09:41AM
What I did, Mr Wood, was to state that some people hold Christianity to be as I have described, and that, this being the case, they should not be required to send their children to a school which gives Christian instruction. That is, most emphatically, not an attack on Christians and you are mendacious to suggest otherwise.
Clearly, the instruction that "Thou shalt not bear false witness" has no resonance with you, which does not surprise me as it is glaringly obvious that your Christianity is only nominal.
Josep writes: "Many of the immigrants being spoken of were not just non-whites such as Middle Easteners, but also white Europeans such as Poles, so I don't think they were singling out non-whites as the pro-immigration left makes it out to be. All in all, I don't see how it's "racist" to defend one's borders."
- In times of war, it is indeed entirely legitimate to defend the borders. However to claim in times of peace that the borders need "defending" implies that immigrants are dangerous enemies trying to enter the country in order to destroy it. That is a narrative of prejudice and hate (and irrational fear) that is, if not racist, at least profoundly xenophobic.
Henry L'Eplattenier …"|The pro-Brexit public has only itself to blame for this, since areas that voted to leave the EU nonetheless elected MPs that had voted to remain!"
That's right, and I'm pretty sure most people vote for candidates that they know absolutely nothing about, and then they wonder why the nation is heading in the opposite direction to that of the will of the majority.
Until there is some intelligence exercised by voters, those they elect to power will sell everything those voters have built and financed over the centuries from under them and sell them and their children into slavery. That's how Tory conservatism has always worked.
Mrs B. writes: "We have a Parliament that is mostly Remain. They have spent over two years looking down on the public who voted to leave as in "How dare they". "
- The pro-Brexit public has only itself to blame for this, since areas that voted to leave the EU nonetheless elected MPs that had voted to remain!
Posted by: Henry L'Eplattenier | 13 December 2018 at 10:30 AM
Methinks you protest too much.
You cannot concoct six, less than complimentary and more like derogatory, expletives describing Christianity and then claim it is not an attack!
If you had tempered your own language about Christianity you wouldn't still be smarting from the image you saw in your mirror when I likened your comments to where they can lead.
Until the right to declare or display their faith is completely outlawed - which I don't doubt people like you will eventually achieve - you should respect their lifestyle as you expect them to tolerate yours.
Or is that too much to expect?
We have a Parliament that is mostly Remain. They have spent over two years looking down on the public who voted to leave as in "How dare they".
Anna Soubry in the booming voice of a pantomime dame, tells us to, " Suck up" , genuine issues on free movement, from her privileged bubble. Does she think we don't watch debates? Such arrogance.
Mrs. May has spent too much time with closed ears and has now been forced to listen.
Labour spout out about workers rights, when as one of their own ladies from Tyneside who sat next to Kate Hoey, (in the debate about the meaningful non vote vote), referring to its lack of care about agencies hiring abroad and the effect on her constituents. Not a happy M.P.
Kate Hoey agreed with the M.P. from East Londonderry that the, " backstop", was unnecessary.
Her views that we have a Remain establishment and unhappiness at a seemingly the same civil service.
I've watched afair bit of debate. The drone of a people's vote, from closed ears.
Philip Hammond calls 117 who voted no confidence, extremists.
An establishment view.
Dominic Raab and David Davis, Arlene Foster an alternative plan. Was it the one ignored by Mrs. May and Ollie Robbins ? In her stubbornness? .
Was that the way to do it?
What a pantomine.
Mrs. Average looking in.
I am afraid that I cannot let your above comment go unchallenged.
I have made no attacks on Christian people and your suggestion that I have is a downright lie. You are clearly incapable of proper debate, Mr Wood, firstly resorting to Nazi comparisons and then to mendacity.
For all your constant trumpeting of Christianity, Christian values and your devotion to your 'Saviour', 'honesty', which I had always thought to be a Christian virtue, clearly, does not rank highly on your list of priorities.
I see that you are privy to Alice Roberts's financial circumstances, her incomings. outgoings and long term financial commitments, though you do not say how you came by such information.
Even if she can afford to educate her children privately, if she believes in the state system, she should be able to avail her children of non-religious education and neither she, nor anybody else, should be required to move home to do so.
In any event, just who do you think you are to tell anybody how she should spend her money?
Apologies for the predictive typo error. That should have read Elaine Q, not Elaine Queen.
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EU Funds in Central and Eastern Europe: Progress report 2007-2015
EU Funds in CEE, Progress report 2007-2015
A comprehensive KPMG study shows that Bulgaria is among the three countries in Central and Eastern Europe that have started implementation of the new programming period 2014 – 2020.
EU Structural and Cohesion funds contribute 11-24% of the GDP of EU Member States in Central & Eastern Europe (CEE), making outstanding contributions to these countries’ infrastructure, transportation systems and urban modernization, among others. Following the completion of the 2007-2013 programming period, CEE countries now find themselves in the 2014-2020 EU funding interval, having finalized the negotiations stage with the European Commission, while some, Bulgaria being among them, are even at the implementation stage.
What does the data mean for Bulgaria?
Bulgaria demonstrates average results in terms of overall progress in EU funds implementation. At the end of 2015, the country achieved 105% contracting and 95% payment ratios which is slightly above the average CEE result. However, in terms of disbursed amounts by the European Commission Bulgaria lags behind the other countries with only 81% certification ratio, while others, such as the Baltic countries, Slovenia and Poland score the highest ranking with an average of 96% certification ratio.
In terms of the current 2014-2020 programming period only Bulgaria, Estonia and Poland have started implementation, Estonia being the leader in this respect with 23% contracting and 2% payment ratio at the end of 2015. This result might be due to the fact that the country reduced the number of operational programmes compared to the previous period from three to one, thus aiming at better coordination and efficiency. For Bulgaria the results are close to 8% contracting and 0.7% payment ratios, respectively.
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The latest survey from KPMG's Government & Infrastructure Sectors practice in CEE, entitled EU Funds in Central and Eastern Europe: Progress Report 2007-2015, shows the progress of the CEE member states in the present funding period, and reveals the general trends, successes, areas for improvement and lessons learned throughout the programming period for each country.
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Uvidea Xl Tone-Up Light Cream Spf50+
Durably protect sensitive skin against UV rays and pollution particles. Immediately tone-up for a brighter and natural complexion.
Uploaded by: geekyposh on 13/06/2018
Aqua, Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate (6.7%), Squalane, Glycerin, Drometrizole Trisiloxane (4%), Terephthalylidene Dicamphor Sulfonic Acid (3.96%), Propylene Glycol, Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles, Alcohol Denat, [more]Triethanol Amine, Dipropylene Glycol, Mica, Stearic Acid, Potassium Cetyl Phosphate, Tocopherol, Nylon-12, Acrylamide/Sodium Acryloyldimethyltaurate Copolymer, Aluminum Hydroxide, Bht, Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine (0.5%), Butylene Glycol, Butyrospermum Parkii Seedcake Extract, Caprylyl Glycol, Carbomer, Cetyl Alcohol, Barium Sulfate, Ci 77891, Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate (0.5%), Disodium Edta, Ethylhexyl Triazone (0.5%), Glyceryl Stearate, Isohexadecane, Myristic Acid, Paeonia Suffruticosa Root Extract, Palmitic Acid, Peg-100 Stearate, Phenoxyethanol, Polysorbate 80, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Cocoyl Sarcosinate, Sorbitan Oleate, Thermus Thermophillus Ferment, Titanium Dioxide, Tromethamine, Xantham Gum
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Fragrance and Essential Oil Free
Antioxidant: Tocopherol
Skin-identical ingredient: Squalane, Glycerin
Sunscreen: Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate (6.7%), Drometrizole Trisiloxane (4%), Terephthalylidene Dicamphor Sulfonic Acid (3.96%), Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles, Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine (0.5%), Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate (0.5%), Ethylhexyl Triazone (0.5%), Titanium Dioxide
Antimicrobial/antibacterial: Alcohol Denat
Buffering: Triethanol Amine, Tromethamine
Chelating: Disodium Edta
Colorant: Barium Sulfate, Ci 77891
Emollient: Squalane, Stearic Acid, Aluminum Hydroxide, Caprylyl Glycol, Cetyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, Isohexadecane, Palmitic Acid
Emulsifying: Potassium Cetyl Phosphate, Cetyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, Myristic Acid, Peg-100 Stearate, Polysorbate 80, Sorbitan Oleate
Moisturizer/humectant: Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Aluminum Hydroxide, Butylene Glycol, Caprylyl Glycol
Perfuming: Myristic Acid
Preservative: Bht, Phenoxyethanol, Potassium Sorbate
Skin-identical ingredient: Palmitic Acid
Solvent: Aqua, Propylene Glycol, Alcohol Denat, Dipropylene Glycol, Butylene Glycol, Isohexadecane
Surfactant/cleansing: Potassium Cetyl Phosphate, Myristic Acid, Peg-100 Stearate, Sodium Cocoyl Sarcosinate
Viscosity controlling: Alcohol Denat, Stearic Acid, Nylon-12, Acrylamide/Sodium Acryloyldimethyltaurate Copolymer, Aluminum Hydroxide, Carbomer, Cetyl Alcohol, Sodium Chloride, Xantham Gum
Aqua solvent
Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate (6.7%) sunscreen 0, 0
Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie
Drometrizole Trisiloxane (4%) sunscreen
Terephthalylidene Dicamphor Sulfonic Acid (3.96%) sunscreen goodie
Propylene Glycol moisturizer/humectant, solvent 0, 0
Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles sunscreen goodie
Alcohol Denat antimicrobial/antibacterial, solvent, viscosity controlling icky
Triethanol Amine buffering 0, 2
Dipropylene Glycol solvent
Stearic Acid emollient, viscosity controlling 0, 2-3
Potassium Cetyl Phosphate emulsifying, surfactant/cleansing
Tocopherol antioxidant 0-3, 0-3 superstar
Nylon-12 viscosity controlling
Acrylamide/Sodium Acryloyldimethyltaurate Copolymer viscosity controlling
Aluminum Hydroxide emollient, moisturizer/humectant, viscosity controlling
Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine (0.5%) sunscreen goodie
Butyrospermum Parkii Seedcake Extract
Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/humectant, emollient
Carbomer viscosity controlling 0, 1
Cetyl Alcohol emollient, emulsifying, viscosity controlling 2, 2
Barium Sulfate colorant
Ci 77891 colorant 0, 0
Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate (0.5%) sunscreen goodie
Disodium Edta chelating
Ethylhexyl Triazone (0.5%) sunscreen goodie
Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying 0, 1-2
Isohexadecane emollient, solvent
Myristic Acid surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying, perfuming 0, 3
Paeonia Suffruticosa Root Extract
Palmitic Acid skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 2
Peg-100 Stearate surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying 0, 0
Polysorbate 80 emulsifying 0, 0
Sodium Chloride viscosity controlling
Sodium Cocoyl Sarcosinate surfactant/cleansing
Sorbitan Oleate emulsifying 0, 3
Thermus Thermophillus Ferment
Tromethamine buffering
Xantham Gum viscosity controlling
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Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate (6.7%)
Also-called: Octinoxate, Octyl Methoxycinnamate | What-it-does: sunscreen | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
A clear, oil-soluble, "cosmetically-elegant" liquid that is the most commonly used chemical sunscreen. It absorbs UVB radiation (at wavelengths: 280-320 nm) with a peak protection at 310nm.
It only protects against UVB and not UVA rays (the 320-400 nm range) – so always choose products that contain other sunscreens too. It is not very stable either, when exposed to sunlight, it kind of breaks down and loses its effectiveness (not instantly, but over time - it loses 10% of its SPF protection ability within 35 mins). To make it more stable it can be - and should be - combined with other sunscreen agents to give stable and broad-spectrum protection (the new generation sunscreen agent, Tinosorb S is a particularly good one for that).
Regarding safety, there are also some concerns around Octinoxate. In vitro (made in the lab not on real people) and animal studies have shown that it may produce hormonal (estrogen-like) effects. Do not panic, the studies were not conducted under real life conditions on real human people, so it is probably over-cautious to avoid Octinoxate altogether. However, if you are pregnant or a small child (under 2 yrs. old), choose a physical (zinc oxide/titanium dioxide) or new-generation Tinosorb based sunscreen, just to be on the super-safe side. :)
Overall, Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate is an old-school chemical sunscreen agent. There are plenty of better options for sun protection today, but it is considered "safe as used" (and sunscreens are pretty well regulated) and it is available worldwide (can be used up to 10% in the EU and up to 7.5% in the US).
Squalane - goodie
What-it-does: skin-identical ingredient, emollient | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 1
It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life.
It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (e.g. olive), and in the sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) of the human skin. As f.c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are "emolliency, surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with extreme cosmetic elegance". In other words, it's a superb moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy.
Another advantage of squalane is that it is pretty much compatible with all skin types and skin conditions. It is excellent for acne-prone skin and safe to use even if you have fungi-related skin issues, like seborrhea or fungal acne.
The unsaturated (with double bonds) and hence less stable version of Squalane is Squalene, you can read about it here >>
Drometrizole Trisiloxane (4%)
Also-called: Mexoryl XL | What-it-does: sunscreen
A L'Oréal-group exclusive sunscreen agent that was invented in 1999 and is commonly called Mexoryl XL. It is an oil-soluble, photostable chemical sunscreen with both UVB and UVA protection with peak absorbance at 303 nm (UVB) and at 344 nm (UVA).
Terephthalylidene Dicamphor Sulfonic Acid (3.96%) - goodie
Also-called: Ecamsule, Mexoryl SX | What-it-does: sunscreen
A L'Oréal-group exclusive sunscreen agent commonly called Mexoryl SX. As opposed to most sunscreen agents, it is water soluble and protects in the UVA range with a peak absorbance at 345 nm.
It's a helper ingredient that improves the freeze-thaw stability of products
It's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancer
It has a bad reputation among natural cosmetics advocates but cosmetic scientists and toxicology experts do not agree (read more in the geeky details section)
Read all the geeky details about Propylene Glycol here >>
Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles - goodie
What-it-does: sunscreen
Titanium Dioxide is one of the two members of the elite sunscreen group called physical sunscreens (or inorganic sunscreens if you’re a science geek and want to be precise).
Traditionally, UV-filters are categorized as either chemical or physical. The big difference is supposed to be that chemical agents absorb UV-light while physical agents reflect it like a bunch of mini umbrellas on top of the skin. While this categorization is easy and logical it turns out it's not true. A recent, 2016 study shows that inorganic sunscreens work mostly by absorption, just like chemical filters, and only a little bit by reflection (they do reflect the light in the visible spectrum, but mostly absorb in the UV spectrum).
Anyway, it doesn't matter if it reflects or absorbs, Titanium Dioxide is a pretty awesome sunscreen agent for two main reasons: it gives a nice broad spectrum coverage and it's highly stable. Its protection is very good between 290 - 350 nm (UVB and UVA II range), and less good at 350-400 nm (UVA I) range. Regular sized Titanium Dioxide also has a great safety profile, it's non-irritating and is pretty much free from any health concerns (like estrogenic effect worries with some chemical filters).
The disadvantage of Titanium Dioxide is that it's not cosmetically elegant, meaning it's a white, "unspreadable" mess. Sunscreens containing Titanium Dioxide are often hard to spread on the skin and they leave a disturbing whitish tint. The cosmetic industry is, of course, really trying to solve this problem and the best solution so far is using nanoparticles. The itsy-bitsy Nano-sized particles improve both spreadability and reduce the whitish tint a lot, but unfortunately, it also introduces new health concerns.
The main concern with nanoparticles is that they are so tiny that they are absorbed into the skin more than we want them (ideally sunscreen should remain on the surface of the skin). Once absorbed they might form unwanted complexes with proteins and they might promote the formation of evil free radicals. But do not panic, these are concerns under investigation. A 2009 review article about the safety of nanoparticles summarizes this, "to date, in-vivo and in-vitro studies have not demonstrated percutaneous penetration of nanosized particles in titanium dioxide and zinc oxide sunscreens". The English translation is, so far it looks like sunscreens with nanoparticles do stay on the surface of the skin where they should be.
All in all, Titanium Dioxide is a famous sunscreen agent and for good reason, it gives broad spectrum UV protection (best at UVB and UVA II), it's highly stable, and it has a good safety profile. It's definitely one of the best UV-filter agents we have today, especially in the US where new-generation Tinosorb filters are not (yet) approved.
Alcohol Denat - icky
Triethanol Amine
Dipropylene Glycol
What-it-does: solvent
A clear, colorless liquid that works as a solvent and viscosity decreasing ingredient. It also has great skin-moisturizing abilities.
Also-called: CI 77019
A super versatile and common mineral powder that comes in different particle sizes. It is a multi-tasker used to improve skin feel, increase product slip, give the product some light-reflecting properties, enhance skin adhesion or serve as an anti-caking agent. Popular both in makeup and in skin care products.
What-it-does: emollient, viscosity controlling | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 2-3
A common multi-tasker fatty acid. It makes your skin feel nice and smooth (emollient), gives body to cream type products and helps to stabilize water and oil mixes (aka emulsions).
A white to beige powder that is described as the golden standard emulsifier for emulsions (oil+water mixtures) that are difficult to stabilize. It is especially popular in sunscreens as it can boost SPF protection and increase the water-resistance of the formula.
Tocopherol - superstar
Also-called: Vitamin E | What-it-does: antioxidant | Irritancy: 0-3 | Comedogenicity: 0-3
Primary fat-soluble antioxidant in our skin
Significant photoprotection against UVB rays
Vit C + Vit E work in synergy and provide great photoprotection
Has emollient properties
Easy to formulate, stable and relatively inexpensive
Read all the geeky details about Tocopherol here >>
Nylon-12
An odorless, slightly yellowish powder that's used as a polymer microsphere (a tiny little ball from repeated subunits). It gives products an elegant, silky texture and better slip. It can also scatter light to blur fine lines while letting enough light through so that the skin still looks natural.
Acrylamide/Sodium Acryloyldimethyltaurate Copolymer
A kind of polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) that helps to thicken up and stabilize products. It usually comes to the formula as part of some thickener complex. For example, coupled with isohexadecane and polysorbate 80, the trio helps to create soft and supple textures.
Aluminum Hydroxide
What-it-does: emollient, moisturizer/humectant, viscosity controlling
Officially, CosIng (the official EU ingredient database) lists Aluminum Hydroxide 's functions as opacifying (making the product white and non-transparent), as well as emollient and skin protectant.
However, with a little bit of digging, it turns out Aluminum Hyroxide often moonlights as a protective coating for UV filter superstar Titanium Dioxide. Specifically, it protects our skin from the harmful effects of nasty Reactive Oxygen Species (free radicals derived from oxygen such as Superoxide and Hydrogen Peroxide) generated when Titanium Dioxide is exposed to UV light. Btw, chlorine in swimming pool water depletes this protective coating, so one more reason to reapply your sunscreen after a dip in the pool on holiday.
Other than that, Aluminum Hydroxide also often shows up in composite pigment technologies where it is used the other way around (as the base material and not as the coating material) and helps to achieve higher color coverage with less pigment.
Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine (0.5%) - goodie
Also-called: Tinosorb S, Bemotrizinol | What-it-does: sunscreen
Its INCI name is a bit of a mouthful, but Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine is worth recognizing it as it is one of the best sunscreen agents known today. Unfortunately, it's not FDA-approved so you will not find it in sunscreens coming from the US (not because it's not good, but because US regulations make it impossible for newer sunscreen agents to get approved), but it is widely available in other parts of the world like Europe, Australia or Asia.
It is a broad-spectrum (covers the whole UVB and UVA range, 280-400 nm) chemical sunscreen agent with peak protections at about 310 and 345 nm and unlike older UV filters, it's very photostable. It hardly deteriorates in the presence of UV light and it's also useful in stabilizing other less stable sunscreen agents, like the famous UVA protector, avobenzone.
It's a new generation sunscreen agent that was specifically designed for high SPF and good UVA protection and based on a 2007 study that compared 18 sunscreen agents available in the EU it really had the best SPF protection (they used the highest concentration allowed by EU regulations from each 18 sunscreens and Trinosorb S gave an SPF 20 all by itself).
It is an oil-soluble, slightly yellowish powder that is not absorbed into the skin too much. This is good news for a sunscreen agent as it needs to be on the surface of the skin to do its job properly. Regarding Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine side effects, we have good news here as well: it has a great safety profile and unlike a couple of other chemical sunscreens, Trinosorb S (and M) does not show estrogenic activity.
Overall, we think Trinosorb S is one of the best sunscreen options available today.
Are you into sunscreen agents? We have shiny explanations (along with product lists) about others as well:
Methylene Bis-Benzotriazolyl Tetramethylbutylphenol, aka Tinosorb M, the good buddy of our current molecule Tinosorb S
Tris-Biphenyl Triazine, aka Tinosorb A2B, the newest addition to the Tinosorb family that protects strongly in an in-between wavelength that most other filters miss
Ethylhexyl Triazone, aka Uvinul T 150, another new generation sunscreen agent with super-high UVB protection
Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate, aka Uvinul A Plus, a new generation sunscreen for UVA protection
What-it-does: moisturizer/humectant, emollient
It’s a handy multi-tasking ingredient that gives the skin a nice, soft feel. At the same time, it also boosts the effectiveness of other preservatives, such as the nowadays super commonly used phenoxyethanol.
The blend of these two (caprylyl glycol + phenoxyethanol) is called Optiphen, which not only helps to keep your cosmetics free from nasty things for a long time but also gives a good feel to the finished product. It's a popular duo.
What-it-does: viscosity controlling | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 1
A big molecule created from repeated subunits (a polymer of acrylic acid) that magically converts a liquid into a nice gel formula. It usually has to be neutralized with a base (such as sodium hydroxide) for the thickening to occur and it creates viscous, clear gels that also feel nice and non-tacky on the skin. No wonder, it is a very popular and common ingredient.
What-it-does: emollient, emulsifying, viscosity controlling | Irritancy: 2 | Comedogenicity: 2
A so-called fatty (the good, non-drying kind of) alcohol that does all kinds of things in a skincare product: it makes your skin feel smooth and nice (emollient), helps to thicken up products and also helps water and oil to blend (emulsifier). Can be derived from coconut or palm kernel oil.
Barium Sulfate
What-it-does: colorant
Also-called: titanium dioxide/ci 77891 | What-it-does: colorant | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
Ci 77891 is the color code of titanium dioxide. It's a white pigment with great color consistency and dispersibility.
Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate (0.5%) - goodie
Also-called: Uvinul A Plus, DHHB | What-it-does: sunscreen
Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate is a new generation, chemical sunscreen agent (not available in the US due to impossible FDA regulations) that's designed for high UVA protection and high photostability. It gives sun protection in the whole UVA range (320-400 nm) with peak protection at 354nm.
What-it-does: chelating
Super common little helper ingredient that helps products to remain nice and stable for a longer time. It does so by neutralizing the metal ions in the formula (that usually get into there from water) that would otherwise cause some not so nice changes.
Ethylhexyl Triazone (0.5%) - goodie
Also-called: Uvinul T 150, Octyltriazone | What-it-does: sunscreen
Ethylhexyl Triazone is a new generation, chemical sunscreen (not available in the US due to impossible FDA regulations) that gives the highest photo-stable absorption of all available UVB filters today. It protects in the UVB range (280-320nm) with a peak protection of 314nm. It is an oil soluble, odorless, colorless powder that works well in fragrance-free formulas.
Glyceryl Stearate
What-it-does: emollient, emulsifying | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 1-2
A super common, waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together, gives body to creams and leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth.
Chemically speaking, it is the attachment of a glycerin molecule to the fatty acid called stearic acid. It can be produced from most vegetable oils (in oils three fatty acid molecules are attached to glycerin instead of just one like here) in a pretty simple, "green" process that is similar to soap making. It's readily biodegradable.
It also occurs naturally in our body and is used as a food additive. As cosmetic chemist Colins writes it, "its safety really is beyond any doubt".
Isohexadecane
What-it-does: emollient, solvent
A light, velvety, unique skin feel liquid that is a good solvent and also makes the skin feel nice and smooth (aka emollient). It's often used in makeup products mixed with silicones to give shine and slip to the product. It's also great for cleansing dirt and oil from the skin as well as for taking off make-up.
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying, perfuming | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 3
A 14 carbon length fatty acid that can be naturally found in nutmeg, palm kernel oil, coconut oil and butter fat. It's used as a foam building cleansing agent. Paula Begoun writes that it can be a bit drying to the skin.
A fatty acid that can be found naturally in the skin. In fact, it's the most common saturated fatty acid found in animals and plants.
As for skincare, it can make the skin feel nice and smooth in moisturizers (emollient) or it can act as a foam building cleansing agent in cleansers. It's also a very popular ingredient in shaving foams.
What-it-does: surfactant/cleansing, emulsifying | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
A very common water-loving surfactant and emulsifier that helps to keep water and oil mixed nicely together.
It's often paired with glyceryl stearate - the two together form a super effective emulsifier duo that's salt and acid tolerant and works over a wide pH range. It also gives a "pleasing product aesthetics", so no wonder it's popular.
What-it-does: emulsifying | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0
A common little helper ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together, aka emulsifier.
The number at the end refers to the oil-loving part and the bigger the number the more emulsifying power it has. 20 is a weak emulsifier, rather called solubilizer used commonly in toners while 60 and 80 are more common in serums and creams.
Also-called: Salt | What-it-does: viscosity controlling
Sodium chloride is the fancy name of salt. Normal, everyday table salt.
If (similar to us) you are in the weird habit of reading the label on your shower gel while taking a shower, you might have noticed that sodium chloride is almost always on the ingredient list. The reason for this is that salt acts as a fantastic thickener in cleansing formulas created with ionic cleansing agents (aka surfactants) such as Sodium Laureth Sulfate. A couple of percents (typically 1-3%) turns a runny surfactant solution into a nice gel texture.
If you are into chemistry (if not, we understand, just skip this paragraph), the reason is that electrolytes (you know, the Na+ and Cl- ions) screen the electrostatic repulsion between the head groups of ionic surfactants and thus support the formation of long shaped micelles (instead of spherical ones) that entangle like spaghetti, and viola, a gel is formed. However, too much of it causes the phenomenon called "salting out", and the surfactant solution goes runny again.
Other than that, salt also works as an emulsion stabilizer in water-in-oil emulsions, that is when water droplets are dispersed in the outer oil (or silicone) phase. And last but not least, when salt is right at the first spot of the ingredient list (and is not dissolved), the product is usually a body scrub where salt is the physical exfoliating agent.
Sodium Cocoyl Sarcosinate
A mild and gentle cleansing agent derived from the amino acid sarcosine and coconut fatty acids. It is known for its good foam boosting abilities and improving the mildness of the formula.
Sorbitan Oleate
A mainly oil-loving, vegetable raw material based ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together, aka emulsifier. It can also function as a wetting and dispersing agent helping insoluble particles such as color pigments or inorganic sunscreens (zinc/titanium dioxide) to disperse nice and even in liquids.
Chemically speaking, it comes from the attachment of sorbitan (a dehydrated sorbitol (sugar) molecule) with the unsaturated fatty acid Oleic Acid, that creates a partly water (the sorbitan part) and partly oil soluble (oleic part) molecule.
Tromethamine
What-it-does: buffering
It's a little helper ingredient that helps to set the pH of the products to be right. It has an alkaline pH and can neutralize acidic ingredients.
Xantham Gum
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Octinoxate - an old-school chemical sunscreen that absorbs UVB radiation (wavelengths: 280-320 nm). Not photostable and does not protect against UVA. [more]
what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | emollient
An emollient and natural moisturizer that can be found also in the sebum (oily stuff our skin produces). It leaves a nice non-greasy, non-heavy feeling on the skin. [more]
Mexoryl XL - a L'Oreal group exclusive chemical sunscreen agent with both UVB and UVA protection. [more]
A L'Oréal-group exclusive sunscreen agent commonly called Mexoryl SX. As opposed to most sunscreen agents, it is water soluble and protects in the UVA range with a peak absorbance at 345 nm. [more]
A common glycol that improves the freeze-thaw stability of products. It's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancer. [more]
A physical/inorganic sunscreen with pretty broad spectrum (UVB and UVA II, less good at UVA I) protection and good stability. Might leave some whitish tint on the skin, though. [more]
A clear, colorless liquid that works as a solvent and viscosity decreasing ingredient. It also has great skin-moisturizing abilities. [more]
A mineral powder used to improve skin feel, increase product slip, give the product some light-reflecting properties, enhance skin adhesion or serve as an anti-caking agent. A real multi-tasker. [more]
what‑it‑does emollient | viscosity controlling
A common multi-tasker fatty acid that works as an emollient, thickener and emulsion stabilizer. [more]
A white to beige powder that is the golden standard emulsifier for emulsions (oil+water mixtures) that are difficult to stabilize. [more]
what‑it‑does antioxidant
irritancy, com. 0-3, 0-3
Pure Vitamin E. Great antioxidant that gives significant photoprotection against UVB rays. Works in synergy with Vitamin C. [more]
A polymer microsphere that gives products an elegant, silky texture. Can also scatter light to blur fine lines. [more]
A kind of polymer (big molecule from repeated subunits) that helps to thicken up and stabilize products. Helps to create soft and supple textures. [more]
what‑it‑does emollient | moisturizer/humectant | viscosity controlling
Officially, CosIng (the official EU ingredient database) lists Aluminum Hydroxide 's functions as opacifying (making the product white and non-transparent), as well as emollient and skin protectant.However, with a little bit of digging, it turns out Aluminum Hyroxide often moonlights as a protective coating for UV filter superstar Titanium Dioxide. [more]
Tinosorb S - a new generation, broad-spectrum and very photostable sunscreen agent with great safety profile. [more]
what‑it‑does moisturizer/humectant | emollient
A handy multi-tasking ingredient that gives the skin a nice, soft feel and also boosts the effectiveness of other preservatives. [more]
A handy white powder that magically converts a liquid into a nice gel formula. [more]
what‑it‑does emollient | emulsifying | viscosity controlling
A fatty (the good, non-drying kind of) alcohol that makes your skin feel smooth and nice (emollient), helps to thicken up products and also helps water and oil to blend (emulsifier).
what‑it‑does colorant
Titanium dioxide as a colorant. It's a white pigment with great color consistency and dispersibility.
A new generation, chemical sunscreen agent (not available in the US due to impossible FDA regulations) that's designed for high UVA protection and high photostability. [more]
what‑it‑does chelating
Super common little helper ingredient that helps products to remain nice and stable for a longer time. It does so by neutralizing the metal ions in the formula (that usually get into there from water) that would otherwise cause some not so nice changes. [more]
A new generation, chemical sunscreen (not available in the US due to impossible FDA regulations) that gives the highest photo-stable absorption of all available UVB filters today. [more]
what‑it‑does emollient | emulsifying
Waxy, white, solid stuff that helps water and oil to mix together and leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth. [more]
what‑it‑does emollient | solvent
A light, velvety, unique skin feel liquid that is a good solvent and also makes the skin feel nice and smooth. [more]
what‑it‑does surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying | perfuming
A 14 carbon length fatty acid that can be naturally found in nutmeg, palm kernel oil, coconut oil and butter fat. It's used as a foam building cleansing agent. [more]
A fatty acid that can be found naturally in the skin. It can make the skin feel nice and smooth in moisturizers (emollient) or it can act as a foam building cleansing agent in cleansers. [more]
what‑it‑does surfactant/cleansing | emulsifying
A commonly used water-soluble surfactant and emulsifier. [more]
what‑it‑does emulsifying
A common little helper ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together, aka emulsifier. [more]
Sodium chloride is the fancy name of salt. Normal, everyday table salt. If (similar to us) you are in the weird habit of reading the label on your shower gel while taking a shower, you might have noticed that sodium chloride is almost always on the ingredient list. [more]
A mild and gentle cleansing agent derived from the amino acid sarcosine and coconut fatty acids. It is known for its good foam boosting abilities and improving the mildness of the formula. [more]
A mainly oil-loving, vegetable raw material based ingredient that helps water and oil to mix together, aka emulsifier. It can also function as a wetting and dispersing agent helping insoluble particles such as color pigments or inorganic sunscreens (zinc/titanium dioxide) to disperse nice and even in liquids. [more]
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The Lounge Lizards feat. Mike City – She’s The One
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First Listen: The Lounge Lizards feat. Mike City – She’s The One (Original Mix) (Tribe Records)
There’s an intrinsic if not instinctual soul tessitura on the sweet and delightful ‘She’s The One’. Not that surprising though considering the CV of Atlanta-based DJ/producer DJ Kemit. A name you might remember for his contribution to Arrested Development. But also as one half of production pair KemeticJust.
There, he teams up with Luke Austin under The Lounge Lizards guise. With both of them sharing an obvious inclination for classic Soul vibes. With the presence of Californian singer Mike City adding much to the feeling. As a result, I don’t think it will be an offence. This when stating as to how there’s something of Osunlade on this jam. If not and possibly even more of Peven Everett.
Mind you, more than a rating X or Y which is per definition reductive, we’re speaking of Modern Soul of an undeniable standard. So please, make yourself a favor. Firstly, give it a listen. Secondly, forget about its categorization. Then thirdly, let us know how you feel…
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– Not to be missed with the defunct avant-garde music group of the likes… The Lounge Lizards result from the reunion of two talents. On one side, DJ Kemit, once a member of Arrested Development. But also one half of KemeticJust. A man whom you might remember as well for his numerous collaborations. With Eric Roberson, Rich Medina or Heston among others. And on the other side, Luke Austin. A keyboardist who’s worked with Jill Scott and Tisha Campbell to name a few.
Luke and Kemit began creating music together. This after discovering they both shared the same enthusiasm for many things. Be this rare grooves, classic Soul, classic Chicago House, soulful House or Disco.
Mike City is probably best known for producing singles such as ‘Heard It All Before’ for Sunshine Anderson and ‘Full Moon’ for Brandy. Initially a songwriter and musician, City became a singer by trade and later a producer after needing an outlet for the songs he wrote.
“Working with Mike City has been a blessing. And we felt that this was the right time to introduce our brand of soulful house to the masses”, says Kemit. “The Lounge Lizards and Mike City present ‘She’s The One’ for the world to dance to…”
– Philadelphia, PA native Michael Flowers first came to fame back in 1999. This while writing and producing ‘I Wish’ for Carl Thomas. Suggested to collaborate with Sunshine Anderson by a friend of his who’d heard her singing in the cafeteria line at North Carolina Central University, he became her mentor. Eventually co-writing and producing the memorable ‘Heard It All Before’ for her 2 years later.
A quick check at the man’s discography brings the opportunity to realize the consistancy of his contribution since the early 90’s. Working with an impressive array of luminaries. From Usher, Bilal and Nate Dogg. To Brandy, Dwele, Rihanna and Gerald Levert to name a (very) few. Meanwhile he would keep on ear on the House Music production. Eventually becoming a die hard fan of Ten City that would get him to change his moniker as a wink to them.
Surprisingly enough, he only released one album – ‘City Limits’ back in 1998 – as an artist during all these years. Resurfacing in the mid 2010’s while sharing the duties with producers such as Mark Francis (‘I Need Your Love’) and Booker T. But also Adam Rios (‘We Keep Going’), Ian Friday and Sean McCabe. Not to mention Earl Tutu & John Khan (‘Everybody Needs Somebody’, ‘Lately We’). And The Lounge Lizards (‘She’s The One’) more recently. With the good news being Mike is on his way to release ‘The Feel Good Agenda’ on BBE. An album – his second – that boasts cameo appearances from artists such as Lalah Hathaway, Dwele (on ‘I Rock Wit U’), Carl Thomas and Junior. And, last but not least, Faith Evans on its first offshot, ‘When I Luv’. This with remixing work courtesy of Kenny Dope.
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First Look: Sonos Amp Adds Versatility to Home Audio
August 29th, 2018 I&T Today
Written by Jeremy Glowacki
Sonos Amp is designed to drive systems as simple as a turntable and a pair of speakers to as powerful as entire house of streaming music.
Sonos, one of the best-known brands in home audio, is adding a new piece of hardware called the Sonos Amp that is designed to drive systems as simple as a turntable and a pair of speakers to something as powerful as an entire house of streaming music.
This new “home audio hub” can power traditional wired speakers with sound from nearly any source and fully integrates these speakers into Sonos’ wireless home sound system. It supports Apple’s AirPlay 2 and more than 100 streaming services and includes an HDMI Arc port for TVs.
Launching globally to consumers via the Sonos website in February 2019, the $599 Amp will be available first to professional installers in the United States and Canada starting December 1, 2018.
“The world is changing fast, and we need to be there for the installer community,” said Matthew Seigel, Sonos chief commercial officer, during a media preview at Sonos’ Boston offices on August 23. “It is more powerful and is designed in a way to stack perfectly inside an AV rack, to be placed inside a cupboard, or left out on a counter. It was built in collaboration with our partners after understanding what they needed over the past two years. There’s a ton of strategic alignment between the installer community and Sonos.”
A More Powerful Sonos Amp
Amp is twice as powerful as its predecessor, the Connect:Amp. A single Amp can power up to four speakers with 125 watts per channel. To power a multi-room audio system, as many as 32 Amps could be mounted inside a component rack.
Specific design features enable multiple Sonos Amps to be stacked together to drive multiple rooms of audio.
HDMI and line-in ports on the back of an Amp means that TVs, turntables, CD changers, and other audio components can easily connect to the device and become part of the Sonos system.
Amp’s hardware was built to power the Sonos software platform. New updates to the platform make it easy for installers to incorporate Amp into integrated smart home set-ups, including smart lighting and centralized control systems. It is also AirPlay 2 compatible, meaning music and other audio from any iOS device can be played wirelessly through Amp. And when wirelessly connected to an Amazon Alexa-enabled device, like a Sonos One or Beam, Amp is controllable with voice commands.
“The growth of the sonic internet — the convergence of paid streaming, the smart home, and artificial intelligence through voice technologies — drives everything we do at Sonos,” said Sonos CEO Patrick Spence. “While plug-and-play options like Sonos Beam and Sonos One are an important part of the equation, architectural sound and making it even easier to integrate with lighting and home control are equally as important. We’ve listened to custom installers and dealers to create Amp, a versatile product designed to be at the center of the smart home sound experience.”
Expanding Into the Architectural Amp Space
As part of its Amp media event, Sonos also announced a collaboration with architectural audio manufacturer Sonance aimed at delivering a series of three architectural speakers — in-wall, in-ceiling, and outdoor — that gain additional functionality through software when paired with the new Sonos Amp. This collaboration will provide a complete offering for professionally installed architectural sound, exclusively enabling Sonos’ Trueplay tuning capabilities to ensure the best sound for the space as well as the benefits of Sonos’ software platform. These products, which will be sold and marketed by Sonos, will launch in early 2019.
The platform will continue to expand with new APIs that allow partners to innovate on their integrations with Sonos. New control APIs and features can make the experience better for customers, especially those with integrated control systems, such as Control4 and Crestron.
Features may include line-in switching (for both analog and home theater), to allow for components to be selected within the third-party control interface. Volume pass-through would allow for easier and more predictable volume control. And, the ability to add Sonos playlists will be enabled within a third-party interface. Eventually, other capabilities may include notifications and alerts from third- party devices, like a doorbell, through Sonos speakers.
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More Details On Porsche Taycan Spill After Initial Media Test Rides product 2019-03-31 11:48:09 https://insideevs.com/news/343658/more-details-on-porsche-taycan-spill-after-initial-media-test-rides/ Porsche Taycan General
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The Taycan could actually be better than initially anticipated in the concept version
Several media outlets were invited to visit the Porsche Taycan test event in Sweden to see the prototypes, talk with engineers and even take some rides.
The Taycan is considered as the major competitor to the Tesla Model S and it will be interesting to compare the two later this year when the electric Porsche hits the market.
First of all, there will be several dual motor, all-wheel drive powertrain options of the Porsche Taycan. Autocar says about three from mid-450 bhp to over 600 bhp (potentially 630 bhp). The fourth version - a rear-wheel drive with single motor and power of just over 300 bhp is under development, but not yet decided as there is no clear answer whether there would be demand for it (and profitability).
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Interestingly, the rear drive unit consists of a two-speed transmission (the front one is single-speed), which is kind of a new solution in a series-production model, previously seen in some low volume BEV models.
Porsche tries to maintain the feeling of conventional models and in the case of regenerative braking decided to engage it only when the driver hit the brake pedal (the first stage is for the regen, and the later stage of pedal application is for friction brakes also). Lifting the acceleration pedal results only in coasting.
The German manufacturer intends to offer several drive modes, including the ability to turn off the traction control. Each mode will get a slightly different artificial motor sound.
Total weight of the car should be comparable to the Panamera hybrid (2,250 kg).
In terms of performance, not only will the numbers to be strong, but the Taycan will be able to sustain the performance over a longer time, according to Porsche engineers. The numbers reportedly will be better than in concept form:
0-100 km/h (62 mph) in "way below" 3.5 seconds
"more than a dozen 0-62mph standing starts with no fall-off in power"
"at least four 0-124mph runs without degradation"
top speed of at least 250 km/h (155 mph)
"It will maintain its top speed "for longer than you could drive at that speed on any public road"
range to be above 500 km (311 miles) NEDC
800 V architecture
battery recharge in just 4 minutes to replenish 100 (62 miles) according to NEDC
10-80% recharge in around 20 minutes
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Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio in top form at start of season
Cervélo Bigla Pro Cycling Team’s Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio started the season off with a bang when she placed second overall and won the mountains classification at the Setmana Ciclista Valencia in Benidorm yesterday.
The South African ended her 2017 season on a high when she won her fourth 947 Cycle Challenge title in November. Prior to that, she finished seventh in the elite women’s individual time-trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Norway.
South Africa’s Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, who rides for Cervélo Bigla Pro Cycling Team, placed second overall and won the mountains classification at the Setmana Ciclista Valencia in Benidorm, Spain, yesterday. Photo: Velofocus
Her teammate Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig claimed a fourth place in yesterday’s race. This result means the team claimed an overall podium position, a classification win and three-second places.
“I’m very happy with the start to my season and it was great for the team, because it showed that we’re working really well together,” said Moolman-Pasio.
“It was actually a surprise for me to be so strong so early in the season, but it’s a great thing and I’m happy about that. I came into the race just to race hard and use it as a training block, so I had no real goals or intentions.
“In terms of the overall GC, i think Canyon-SRAM did a great job. To win the race as a team, we maybe made some mistakes tactically that cost us the victory at the end of the day, but in general it was a really great way to start the season. It gives me good confidence and motivation going forward,” said Moolman-Pasio.
Last year the team won six national titles and World Tour races such as the Gent-Wevelgem and a stage in the Giro Rosa.
“I’m really proud that we can compete against big teams until the last kilometre of a four-stage race like this. I want to help the girls become world-class athletes and races like this are great for their development,” said team manager Thomas Campana.
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Quotes October 10, 2014 October 7, 2014
by Jenn Granneman
HSPs tend to fill that advisor role. We are the writers, historians, philosophers, judges, artists, researchers, theologians, therapists, teachers, parents, and plain conscientious citizens. What we bring to any of these roles is a tendency to think about all the possible effects of an idea.
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Home » Knowledge Base » HTML5
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the language used by browsers to render webpages. The most recent version, HTML4 was released in the late 1990s. It is made up of a number of tags where are placed around text and images to identify the rolls they play in the webpage.
<h1>This is a headline</h1> tells the browser that this text is a level 1 headline and so it will be larger in typeface and bold, and run the full width of the container it is in.
[example of an h1]
<p>This is a paragraph</p> tells the browser this a paragraph. It will default to the base typeface and font-size of the browser and will be naturally spaced from other tagged its. It will also normall run the full width of the container it is in.
[example of a paragraph]
There are tags that displayed images, that construct tables, with rows and cells, and that create unordered and ordered lists.
HTML5 For Developers
HTML5 is the latest version of HyperText Markup Language, officially released by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 2011. It is recognised by all major, modern browsers, though may not be by older versions of some browsers.
It’s development came about by identified certain stands that were not being met by HTML4:
new features should be based on HTML, CSS, DOM and JavaScript
the need for external plugins (e.g. Flash and Java) should be reduced
error handling should be easier
scripting should be replaced by markup
the language should not be dependent on device
a public development process so people can see what’s going on
There are a number of new tags available, all bent on making code cleaner and more logical. Some of these inherently define differents areas of the webpage: <header>, <footer>, <article>, <section>, and <nav>.
There are special tags like <audio> and <video> which mean the browser is no longer reliant on an external plugin to render these.
The tags are also meant be used to better organise sections of pages. So, while <header> and <footer> will identify these areas of the page itself, they can also be used to identify header and footer areas of sub-sections on the page.
HTML5 allows pages to be more directly encoded for character sets beyond the basic Western alphabet, so if your website requires a multi-lingual design which uses non-Western characters or enhanced Western characters, this has become easier to achieve.
HTML5 For Everyone
But why is HTML5 important to someone who isn’t writing code?
Because the code follows better standards and is more efficient, browsers will load pages faster and require less bandwidth in order to do so. Also, less reliance on plugins will mean less browser-overhead (and not having to ensure that your plugins are all up-to-date).
This cleaner, more efficent design also leads to improved SEO, since search engines can read and interpret content better.
Together with CSS3* (the latest coding for Cascading Style Sheets), HTML5 is prime for being used in responsive website design, the latest trend in assuring that your website will be capatible for any type of viewing device your audience intends to use.
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BY Samuel Tongue
Hula Hoop Spiritualities: Social Media, Embodied Experience, and Communities of Practice
A Bourdieusian Take on the Imperial Patronage of Cloisonné in Qing China
Samuel Tongue
“Marginal Maps:
Sketching Geopieties in 16th Century Bibles”
Web blog post. Material Religions.17 June 2017. Web. [date of access]
Glasgow University’s Special Collections contains a 1537 ‘Matthews’ (Tyndale-Coverdale) Bible with some fascinating marginalia. An unidentified bird’s muddy footprints march across the beginning of the prophet Nahum, prompting questions as to where this Bible was kept during its everyday life. In addition, and opposite the title page is a hand-drawn chronological table showing the time elapsed since various biblical events up to 1651, presumably the year in which the owner wrote it in.
However, my interest lies in the rude sketch of a Holy Land map, bearing the same graphological signature and, as is evident from placing the two Bibles alongside one another, clearly copied from a 1560 Geneva Bible: Why might the owner have perceived his bible as somehow lacking in relation to the scholarly and parabiblical material included in the Geneva Bible? What material conditions made it possible for the cartographic scribbler to complete this fascinating example of biblical marginalia? And what are the implications of producing such territorial inscriptions?
Image 1: Copy-Specific detail of hand-drawn Holy Land Map in The Byble: which is all the holy Scripture: in whych are contayned the Olde and Newe Testament / truly and purely translated into Englysh by Thomas Matthew. M,D,XXXVII, Set forth with the Kinges most gracyous lyce[n]ce. University of Glasgow Special Collections. Photo by Robert Maclean.
Figure 2: Holy Land map from 1560 copy of Geneva Bible.
Maps in Bibles arise within a complex nexus of historical and theological contexts prompted, in no small part, by the development of print media. Travelling across the disciplines of book history (and print Bibles in particular), marginalia studies, reader usage, cartography, and cultural geography, my focus is on the inclusion of maps in 16th-century printed Bibles: why are they included and how does this intersect with what Edward Said has called an “imaginative geography,” J. B. Harley a “subliminal geometry,” and, in a particularly useful formulation, what Burke O. Long terms ‘geopiety’, “that curious mix of romantic imagination, historical rectitude, and attachment to a physical place” [i]—in this case, a distant, idealised, and constructed ‘Holy Land’? As I shall explore, these maps exist on a spectrum of imagined Holy Lands, beginning in the biblical texts themselves, moving into pilgrimage accounts and on to large, free-standing mappae mundi and broadside imperial maps, right up to contemporary Holy Land parks and guided tours of supposedly ‘biblical’ sites. In this way, geopieties are formed and informed by different types of media interaction. What I want to suggest, is that, for a certain Bible user, these 16th-century maps produce an imagined ‘Palestine’ constructed around biblical characters’ lines of movement, framing the land as stage for a divine history, whilst also underwriting the ‘truth’ of the biblical texts in a type of cartographical Protestant geopiety.
‘Andro Duncan’
In terms of the provenance of this ‘Matthews’ Bible, Duncan claims ownership of the book in 1672, proudly writing on the flyleaf that “Andro Duncan is my name and for to writ think not sheam”. We are immediately confronted with the medium of the printed book and how it allows a user a certain level of interplay with the text. As Heather Jackson notes, “all the front area of a book, from the inside of the front cover to the beginning of the text proper, presents an opportunity to provide introductory material, and the first impulse of any owner appears to be the impulse to stake a claim” [ii]. This sense of ‘staking a claim’ is important and I shall explore this further below. After examining the map and the penmanship around it, it is highly probable that Duncan is the cartographic copier. I shall not attempt to construct Duncan in great detail, as a reader, actual or implied; for my purposes, Duncan serves as a cipher for the questions I want to outline and explore – I hope not to ‘sheam’ him in the process.
The Bibles, side-by-side
In order to get a sense of the context of Duncan’s scribbles, a brief note on the Bibles that he is using is pertinent. Duncan’s Matthews Bible, printed in Antwerp in 1537, earned its name from its ascription to “Thomas Matthew commonly taken to refer to the names of a disciple of Christ and an evangelist in order to form a pseudonym for John Rogers, a one-time associate of [William] Tyndale,” [iii] who edited what is essentially Tyndale’s work but also included Miles Coverdale’s translation of the Apocrypha. Tyndale had been executed at Henry VIII’s command only a year before the publication of this version although, with a dark irony, the Matthews Bible would form one of the main sources for the King’s Great Bible of 1539, the first authorized edition of the Bible in English.
However, according to John King and Aaron Pratt, the Matthews version failed to “gain traction even though it furnished what became the primary basis for later versions […]. The Matthew translation and its revisions […] were published in only nine among close to two hundred Bible and New Testament editions produced prior to the King James Bible” [iv]. With this in mind, it is noteworthy that this is the Bible that Andrew Duncan is using nearly one hundred and fifty years later in 1672 and possible reasons for this will be explored further below.
The second Bible is the 1560 English Geneva Bible. With its thorough revisions of the Great Bible [v], in particular those books that Tyndale had not translated [vi], and its “most profitable annotations upon all the hard places” (from the title-page), this version became the household Bible of English-speaking Protestants in the 16th-century. In more outspokenly Calvinist Scotland, with its links to Geneva through John Knox and other exiles, “the Geneva Bible was from the beginning the version appointed to be read in churches” [vii] and it was actually the first Bible printed in Scotland in 1579.
The mise-en-page of the Geneva Bible was novel: “it was printed in roman; it divided the text into verses, so as to facilitate the use of a concordance; words supplied in order to render the translation idiomatic were printed in italic; books and chapters were supplied with ‘arguments’; and summary running titles were provided” [viii]. However, for all its novelty, it also, infamously, includes extensive discursive marginal notes, “similar to manuscript and early printed commentaries” [ix] belying some of the Reformers’ protestations to let the text speak for itself. With this popular printed format in mind, it is easy to see how this version is seen as the first ‘study’ Bible to be put into the hands of vernacular readers.
Much has been made of the textual apparatus yet little work has been done on the maps that are included in the Geneva Bible. If one lays the two Bibles alongside one another, it is clear that Andrew Duncan has compared them and decided to copy the Holy Land map into his own. This felt need is made manifest in this unique piece of marginalia, not scribbled around or into the text at the opening to the New Testament where it is bound in the Geneva Bible, but placed right at the very beginning, even before the beginning, of his Matthews Bible. But where does this map come from and what functions might it be serving for Duncan?
Biblical Maps and the Printing of Protestant Geopiety
Catherine Delano-Smith and Elizabeth Morley Ingram have covered this topic in fantastic detail, examining over 1000 Bibles and New Testaments, including at least one copy of every recorded 16th century English edition of the Bible. Interestingly, only 176 editions contain maps and “they occur primarily in full Bibles rather than in New Testaments” [x]. The maps are also included in Dutch, English, and German Bibles and French editions published in Switzerland or in Swiss-influenced parts of France; as Delano-Smith and Ingram make clear, “the history of maps in Bibles is part of the history of the Reformation” [xi].
The Holy Land map we are concerned with appeared as one of four new woodcut maps printed in Nicolas Barbier and Thomas Courteau’s French Genevan Bible (1559): “Two of the maps relate to the Old Testament (Exodus, the Division of Canaan among the twelve tribes), and two to the New (Palestine in the time of Christ, the Eastern Mediterranean for the journeys of Paul). All four maps appear to have been made specifically for this Bible and are announced on its title-page” [xii]. Barbier draws attention to the “four chorographical maps of great use and consolation” (‘quatre cartes chorographiques de grande utilité et consolation’) and explains that their purpose is “to present clearly to the reader’s eye what is otherwise difficult to grasp from the text alone” (‘pour representer au vif devant les yeux ce qui seroit plus difficile a imaginer & considerer par la seule lecture’) [xiii]. These four maps “were published again, from different woodblocks, in the following year in Rouland Hall’s English translation of the Genevan bible, also published in Geneva” [xiv]. This ‘set of four’, along with the addition of John Calvin’s Eden map,
provide an exceptional example of consistency in map design. They were used as a more or less complete set by at least twenty-four different publishers for forty-eight different editions of the complete bible in nine languages in many countries for half a century. They were copied and recopied. Yet each remained to all intents and purposes identical. [xv]
As Delano-Smith and Ingram highlight,
the maps also, no doubt, had a commercial function. Like other illustrations in the Bibles, they were a selling point as their advertisement on title pages indicates; and like other illustrations, they were costly. Publishers and printers could economise by borrowing existing map blocks or by copying prints. Such commercial restraints must explain, at least in part, the quite astonishing faithfulness of so many Genevan map copies from 1559 onwards, and their overall durability. [xvi]
The Genevan Bible is an enhanced Bible and thus eminently more marketable, targeting those users who appreciate the utility and ‘consolation’ of maps and other apparatus. But this remains a theological market – the maps also demonstrate the Protestant view of the primacy of scripture over doctrine and emphasize “both the historical reality and the eschatological promise of scripture by demonstrating its geographical setting” [xvii]. The Holy Land map serves as an illustration, supplementing the text, and adding a visual, imaginative dimension to be read with the biblical accounts.
The commercial constraints on production and the durability of these illustrations in printed Bibles ensures that they reach a wide public [xviii] and goes some way to accounting for Duncan’s awareness of and desire to copy the Genevan map. The medium of a printed map raises some interesting questions relating to its usage however, particularly around the intersections of early modern cartographical thinking and knowledge production.
There is much debate in book history circles over whether the development of printed material led seamlessly to the “diffusion of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century, the Protestant Reformation and the Renaissance” [xix]. Some scholars make the point that the dissemination of a more ‘scientific’ cartography can be married to a sense of uniformity in print, “a vital development for reference works like maps […] [which] would have little credibility if the reader knew that every copy was unique” [xx]. Yet it is important not to overstate the case for print’s accuracy and fixity per se. As Adrian Johns has asserted, “early modern printing was not joined by any obvious or necessary bond to enhanced fidelity, reliability, and truth. That bond had to be forged” [xxi].
Yet, in the case of the Geneva maps, geographical accuracy is not the primary aim and it is here that we can see one of the key outworkings of the maps printed in Protestant Bibles. These maps, “as art and not just like art, became a mechanism for appropriating the (sacred) world by categorizing it in the manner approved by the religious authorities” [xxii]. The bonds that compel Andrew Duncan to sketch his map are formed from the religious, historical, and economic forces that undergird the authority of the map: even as late as 1672, this is the map that he wants as, through its repetition in printed Bibles, it is now an authorized cartography of Palestine, an aid to his own locating of the peregrinations of Jesus and his disciples across the text.
Andrew Duncan’s Marginal Map
Through an accident of its material production, Andrew Duncan’s old Matthews Bible opens up a substantial marginal space, providing the opportunity for what Kate Narveson terms the “imaginative control of one’s self-understanding” [xxiii]. Evelyn Tribble suggests that marginal notes on the early-modern printed page demonstrate “a territory of contestation upon which issues of political, religious, social, and literary authority are fought” [xxiv]. Yet Duncan’s scribbled map sits at a complex nexus of material uses of the Bible and he seems uninterested in contesting biblical authority. Rather, he utilises this space to underwrite received authority with his own sketched copy. Heather Jackson argues that “the Bible is a prototype of all especially treasured and pored-over volumes […]. It attracted supplementary materials, almost as an act of worship, certainly in a spirit of reverence” [xxv]. Perhaps due to the high cost of a purchasing a King James Version [xxvi], Duncan has procured a Geneva Bible from which to copy his Holy Land map and constructs this hybrid Matthews Bible. This supplementary map is a detailed aide-memoire that is a performance of his own geopiety; through his lines of ink and penmanship, he travels imaginatively and with graphological flourish across this biblical page.
However, his marginal sketch is also central to understanding the “cartographic image in a social world” [xxvii]. The Geneva Bible, in its innovative layout and marginal apparatus, invites imitation; as Jackson notes, printed editions of “the Bible and of classical and vernacular literature provided models of scholarly annotation that readers could extend to works of their own choosing […] the book itself providing the system of organization” [xxviii]. The Geneva Holy Land map invites Duncan to reproduce it in the white space of his Matthews Bible, where he does not question its validity as a map per se, but confirms its cartographic authority as “part of the intellectual apparatus of power” [xxix]. Alongside the ownership marks, Duncan is careful to copy in the note indicating that his sketch is a ‘description of the holie land and of the places mentioned in the foure euangelistes’. This cartographic means of ‘staking a claim’ sets the scene for a geopiety that fuses an unvisited land with an ‘imaginative geography’, maintained by a combination of textual authority and widely disseminated biblical maps. This map does not stand isolated and alone; it is part of a mesh of other contemporary cartographical works, existing alongside other Renaissance and early-modern exegetical visualisations of the Holy Land: histories, atlases, and “mural map cycles designed for both sacred and secular settings” [xxx]. These maps do not function as mirrors but are producers of a specific cartographic world-view that anchors theological exegesis in an idea of the real, historical world. But this has other consequences. The woodcut map from the English Geneva Bible also depicts three 16th century galleons carving up the Mediterranean; Duncan includes one of his own, quite literally a ‘ship of the line’. In this way, this unique and reverential marginal map participates in the cartographical thinking that claims and colonises lands on paper, anticipating other lines of power, ultimately justified by a God’s-eye view [xxxi]. As John Pickles notes, “maps provide the very conditions of possibility for the worlds we inhabit and the subjects we become” [xxxii]. For the geopious subject, the biblical map is nothing less than the sketching out of the divine entering the measurable, mappable ‘real’.
Acknowledgment: The author would like to thank Robert Maclean, Assistant Librarian at Glasgow University Library’s Special Collections, for drawing his attention to the Matthew’s Bible.
Bruce, F. F. The English Bible: A History of Translations. London: Methuen, 1963.
Delano-Smith, Catherine. ‘Maps as Art and Science: Maps in Sixteenth Century Bibles’. Imago Mundi 42 (1990): 65–83.
Delano-Smith, Catherine, and Elizabeth Morley Ingram. Maps in Bibles 1500-1600: An Illustrated Catalogue. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 1991.
Harley, J. B. ‘Maps, Knowledge, and Power’. In The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design, and Use of Past Environments, edited by Denis Cosgrove and Stephen Daniels, 277–312. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Ingram, Elizabeth M. ‘Maps as Readers’ Aids: Maps and Plans in Geneva Bibles’. Imago Mundi 45 (1993): 29–44.
Jackson, H. J. Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
King, John N., and Aaron T. Pratt. ‘The Materiality of English Printed Bibles from the Tyndale New Testament to the King James Bible’. In The King James Bible after 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences, edited by Hannibal Hamlin and Norman W. Jones, 60–99. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Long, Burke O. Imagining the Holy Land: Maps, Models, and Fantasy Travels. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003.
Lyons, Martyn. A History of Reading and Writing: In the Western World. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
McMullin, B. J. ‘The Bible Trade’. In The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: 1557-1695, edited by John Barnard, D. F. McKenzie, and Maureen Bell, 4:455–73. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Narveson, Kate. Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England: Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture. Farnham and Burlington: Routledge, 2012. Pickles, John. A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World. London and New York: Routledge, 2003.
Said, Edward W. ‘Invention, Memory, and Place’. In The People, Place, and Space Reader, edited by Jen Jack Gieseking, William Mangold, Cindi Katz, Setha Low, and Susan Saegert, 361–65. New York and London: Routledge, 2014.
Tribble, Evelyn B. Margins and Marginality: The Printed Page in Early Modern England. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 1993.
Watts, Pauline Moffitt. ‘The European Religious Worldview and Its Influence on Mapping’. In The History of Cartography, edited by David Woodward, 3 (Part 1): 382–400. Chicago & London: Chicago University Press, 2007.
[i] Burke O. Long, Imagining the Holy Land: Maps, Models, and Fantasy Travels. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003), 1.
[ii] H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 19.
[iii] John N. King and Aaron T. Pratt, ‘The Materiality of English Printed Bibles from the Tyndale New Testament to the King James Bible’, in The King James Bible after 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences, ed. Hannibal Hamlin and Norman W. Jones (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 67.
[iv] Ibid.
[v] The Great Bible of 1539, prepared by Myles Coverdale, was the first Bible authorised by Henry VIII to be read in Church of England churches. Much of the material comes from William Tyndale, with Coverdale providing material missing from Tyndale’s original.
[vi] F. F. Bruce, The English Bible: A History of Translations (London: Methuen, 1963), 89. [vii] Ibid., 92.
[viii] B. J. McMullin, ‘The Bible Trade’, in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: 1557-1695, ed. John Barnard, D. F. McKenzie, and Maureen Bell, vol. 4 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 456. Notwithstanding Conrad Badius’s publication of an English New Testament in 1557 (translated by the English exile William Whittingham) which is the first English Bible to include both chapter and verse divisions.
[ix] King and Pratt, ‘The Materiality of English Printed Bibles from the Tyndale New Testament to the King James Bible’, 77.
[x] Catherine Delano-Smith and Elizabeth Morley Ingram, Maps in Bibles 1500-1600: An Illustrated Catalogue (Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 1991). xvi.
[xi] Ibid.
[xii] Elizabeth M. Ingram, ‘Maps as Readers’ Aids: Maps and Plans in
Geneva Bibles’, Imago Mundi 45 (1993): 29.
[xiii] Ibid., 30.
[xiv] Catherine Delano-Smith, ‘Maps as Art and Science: Maps in Sixteenth Century Bibles’, Imago Mundi 42 (1990): 67.
[xv] Ibid., 73.
[xvi] Delano-Smith and Morley Ingram, Maps in Bibles 1500-1600: An Illustrated Catalogue, xxix.
[xvii] Ibid.
[xviii] Ingram, ‘Maps as Readers’ Aids: Maps and Plans in Geneva Bibles’, 39.
[xix] Martyn Lyons, A History of Reading and Writing: In the Western World (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 26.
[xx] Ibid., 33–34.
[xxi] Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 5.
[xxii] Delano-Smith, ‘Maps as Art and Science: Maps in Sixteenth Century Bibles’, 77.
[xxiii] Kate Narveson, Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England: Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture (Farnham and Burlington: Routledge, 2012), 6.
[xxiv] Evelyn B. Tribble, Margins and Marginality: The Printed Page in Early Modern England (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 1993), 2.
[xxv] Jackson, Marginalia, 182.
[xxvi] See McMullin, ‘The Bible Trade’.
[xxvii] J. B. Harley, ‘Maps, Knowledge, and Power’, in The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design, and Use of Past Environments, ed. Denis Cosgrove and Stephen Daniels (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 303.
[xxviii] Jackson, Marginalia, 184.
[xxix] Harley, ‘Maps, Knowledge, and Power’, 282.
[xxx] Pauline Moffitt Watts, ‘The European Religious Worldview and Its Influence on Mapping’, in The History of Cartography, ed. David Woodward, vol. 3 (Part 1) (Chicago & London: Chicago University Press, 2007), 395.
[xxxi] Harley, ‘Maps, Knowledge, and Power’, 282.
[xxxii] John Pickles, A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World (London and New York: Routledge, 2003), 5.
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2018 Favourite Reads (Part Two)
November 29, 2018 November 12, 2018 ~ K. Callard ~ 4 Comments
I’ve read (okay, for the most part, listened to audiobooks of) so many amazing novels this year, that I couldn’t put all my favourite reads into one post. If you missed Part One, be sure to check it out. The last post is scheduled for the last Thursday in December. (I’m posting the books in roughly the order in which I read them.)
The Wrath and the Dawn by: Renee Ahdieh (YA Fantasy)
(From Goodreads): In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat come morning. When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad’s dearest friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride. Shahrzad is determined not only to stay alive, but to end the caliph’s reign of terror once and for all.
Night after night, Shahrzad beguiles Khalid, weaving stories that enchant, ensuring her survival, though she knows each dawn could be her last. But something she never expected begins to happen: Khalid is nothing like what she’d imagined him to be. This monster is a boy with a tormented heart. Incredibly, Shahrzad finds herself falling in love. How is this possible? It’s an unforgivable betrayal. Still, Shahrzad has come to understand all is not as it seems in this palace of marble and stone. She resolves to uncover whatever secrets lurk and, despite her love, be ready to take Khalid’s life as retribution for the many lives he’s stolen. Can their love survive this world of stories and secrets?
Tyler Johnson Was Here by: Jay Coles (YA Contemporary)
(From Google Books): When Marvin Johnson’s twin, Tyler, goes to a party, Marvin decides to tag along to keep an eye on his brother. But what starts as harmless fun turns into a shooting, followed by a police raid.
The next day, Tyler has gone missing, and it’s up to Marvin to find him. But when Tyler is found dead, a video leaked online tells an even more chilling story: Tyler has been shot and killed by a police officer. Terrified as his mother unravels and mourning a brother who is now a hashtag, Marvin must learn what justice and freedom really mean.
Tyler Johnson Was Here is a powerful and moving portrait of youth and family that speaks to the serious issues of today–from gun control to the Black Lives Matter movement.
An Ember in the Ashes by: Sabaa Tahir
(From Goodreads): Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free.
Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.
It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do.
But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy.
There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.
The Belles by: Dhonielle Clayton (YA Fantasy)
(From Google Books): I am a Belle. I control Beauty. In the opulent world of Orleans, the people are born grey and damned, and only a Belle’s powers can make them beautiful. Camellia Beauregard wants to be the favourite Belle – the one chosen by the Queen to live in the royal palace, to tend to the royal family and be recognized as the most talented Belle in the land. But once Camellia and her Belle sisters arrive at court, it becomes clear that being the favourite is not everything she always dreamed it would be. Behind the gilded palace walls live dark secrets, and Camellia soon learns that her powers may be far greater – and far darker – than she ever imagined. When the queen asks Camellia to break the rules she lives by to save the ailing princess, she faces and impossible decision: protect herself and the way of the Belles, or risk her own life, and change the world forever.
American Panda by: Gloria Chao (YA Contemporary)
(From Google Books): At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade was part of her parents’ master plan. Now a freshman at MIT, she is on track to fulfill the rest of this predetermined future: become a doctor, marry a preapproved Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer, produce a litter of babies.
With everything her parents have sacrificed to make her cushy life a reality, Mei can’t bring herself to tell them the truth—that she (1) hates germs, (2) falls asleep in biology lectures, and (3) has a crush on her classmate Darren Takahashi, who is decidedly not Taiwanese.
But when Mei reconnects with her brother, Xing, who is estranged from the family for dating the wrong woman, Mei starts to wonder if all the secrets are truly worth it. Can she find a way to be herself, whoever that is, before her web of lies unravels?
Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by: Dana L. Davis (YA Contemporary)
(From Goodreads): For sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly, life hasn’t been safe or normal for a while. Losing her mom to cancer has her a little bit traumatized and now she has to leave her hometown of Chicago to live with the biological dad she’s never known.
Anthony Stone is a rich man with four other daughters—and rules for every second of the day. Tiffany tries to make the best of things, but she doesn’t fit into her new luxurious, but super-strict, home—or get along with her standoffish sister London. The only thing that makes her new life even remotely bearable is the strange boy across the street. Marcus McKinney has had his own experiences with death, and the unexpected friendship that blossoms between them is the only thing that makes her feel grounded.
But Tiffany has a secret. Another man claims he’s Tiffany’s real dad—and she only has seven days before he shows up to demand a paternity test and the truth comes out. With her life about to fall apart all over again, Tiffany finds herself discovering unexpected truths about her father, her mother and herself, and realizing that maybe family is in the bonds you make—and that life means sometimes taking risks.
The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by: Amy Spalding (YA Contemporary)
(From Google Books): Seventeen, fashion-obsessed, and gay, Abby Ives has always been content playing the sidekick in other people’s lives. While her friends and sister have plunged headfirst into the world of dating and romances, Abby’s been happy to focus on her plus-size style blog and her dreams of taking the fashion industry by storm. When she lands a great internship at her favorite boutique, she’s thrilled to take the first step toward her dream career. Then she falls for her fellow intern, Jordi Perez. Hard. And now she’s competing against the girl she’s kissing to win the coveted paid job at the end of the internship.
But really, nothing this summer is going as planned. She also unwittingly becomes friends with Jax, a lacrosse-playing bro-type who wants her help finding the best burger in Los Angeles, and she’s struggling to prove to her mother—the city’s celebrity health nut—that she’s perfectly content with who she is.
Just as Abby starts to feel like she’s no longer the sidekick in her own life, Jordi’s photography surprisingly puts her in the spotlight. Instead of feeling like she’s landed a starring role, Abby feels betrayed. Can Abby find a way to reconcile her positive yet private sense of self with the image others have of her?
Little and Lion by: Brandy Colbert (YA Contemporary)
(From Google Books): When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she’s isn’t sure if she’ll ever want to go back. L.A. is where her friends and family are (as well as her crush, Emil). And her stepbrother, Lionel, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, needs her emotional support.
But as she settles into her old life, Suzette finds herself falling for someone new…the same girl her brother is in love with. When Lionel’s disorder spirals out of control, Suzette is forced to confront her past mistakes and find a way to help her brother before he hurts himself–or worse.
Here We Are Now by: Jasmine Warga (YA Contemporary)
(From Google Books): Despite sending him letters ever since she was thirteen, Taliah Abdallat never thought she’d ever really meet Julian Oliver. But one day, while her mother is out of the country, the famed rock star from Staring Into the Abyss shows up on her doorstep. This makes sense – kinda – because it turns out Julian Oliver is Taliah’s father…
When Julian asks her to go with him to his hometown to meet the family she has never known, Taliah embarks on a three-day voyage of discovery – of her father, of the past her mother has never shared with her, and of herself.
Simon vs The Homo-Sapiens Agenda by: Becky Albertalli (YA Contemporary)
(From Goodreads): Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised.
Dumplin’ by: Julie Murphy (YA Contemporary)
(From Goodreads): Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed “Dumplin’” by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked…until Will takes a job at Harpy’s, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn’t surprised to find herself attracted to Bo. But she is surprised when he seems to like her back.
Instead of finding new heights of self-assurance in her relationship with Bo, Will starts to doubt herself. So she sets out to take back her confidence by doing the most horrifying thing she can imagine: entering the Miss Clover City beauty pageant—along with several other unlikely candidates—to show the world that she deserves to be up there as much as any twiggy girl does. Along the way, she’ll shock the hell out of Clover City—and maybe herself most of all.
Puddin’ by: Julie Murphy (YA Contemporary)
(From Goodreads): Millie Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every year since she was a girl. Not this year. This year she has new plans to chase her secret dream—and to kiss her crush. Callie Reyes is the pretty girl who is next in line for dance team captain and has the popular boyfriend. But when it comes to other girls, she’s more frenemy than friend. When circumstances bring the girls together over the course of a semester, they will surprise everyone (especially themselves) by realizing they might have more in common than they ever imagined.
That’s it for this post. Be sure to check out Part Three of the list in December.
NaNo Check In
November 22, 2018 November 21, 2018 ~ K. Callard ~ Leave a comment
Wow, hard to believe how quickly this month has flown by!
I knew going into NaNoWriMo that this November was a busy month for me, and I’d be hard pressed to hit 50,000 words by the 30th. But I had a story begging to get to put on the (digital) page, so I told myself I’d be happy with any progress I made.
I should have known better.
I’m waaaaay too competitive for an attitude like that.
So instead of being happy with my ever-rising word count, I’ve been stressing out every time I fall behind (which, thanks to some unexpected health stuff, happened even more than I could have predicted at the start of the month).
On the other hand, maybe the stress is worth it, considering I’ve actually (as of Wednesday night) managed to get my word count ahead of where it needs to be to finish on time, thanks to squeezing writing time in every chance I get.
I still may not “win” NaNo. I don’t usually get much writing done on weekends, and this Friday my kids have the day off school, which means I won’t be writing then, either.
But I’m going to keep trying. Despite it stressing me out, despite literally losing sleep. Because I feel like I need this one thing to go right for me.
But, if I don’t win, I’ll still be 40,000 words closer to a draft than I was at the start of the month. (Somebody remind me of this in December, okay?)
If you’re taking part in NaNoWriMo, I hope your word counts are ever-climbing.
And Happy Turkey Day to my American readers!
CANSCAIP Conferencce Recap
Last weekend I had the great pleasure of attending the CANSCAIP (Canadian Society for Children’s Authors, Illustrators, and Performers) Packaging Your Imagination Conference in Toronto. It was a great gathering of Who’s Who in the Canadian kidlit world, and I had a blast meeting up with old friends, making new ones, and finally having in-person encounters with some of my online critique partners.
As usual, I won’t get into the specifics of the workshops, because that wouldn’t be fair to those who paid to attend (or those being paid to give them). I also probably won’t breakdown every moment, but try to recap the ones that stuck with me the most.
Ruth Ohi talked a bit about her process in her opening keynote, and her enthusiasm for her craft was positively contagious.
Danielle Younge-Ullman explained how her experiences inhabiting roles as an actor has influenced the way she goes about creating full, rounded characters.
The Breaking-In Panel, featuring S.K. Ali, Naseem Hrab, and Jean Mills, inspired me with their tales of perseverance.
But I think I got the most out of Karen Krossing’s Workshop on Plot. With just four quick, one-to-two question writing exercises, she helped me form a greater understanding of the main character of my NaNo book, and how she needs to drive the plot.
I also paid for a One-on-One manuscript critique, which went very well. Not only did I get some good feedback on the first chapter of my MG Fantasy, but I also got some helpful info about the Canadian Publishing Industry as a whole.
All in all, I came away from the weekend excited to jump back into writing, and more determined than ever to get my work published.
NaNo News is Good News
November 8, 2018 October 25, 2018 ~ K. Callard ~ 8 Comments
As you may have been able to tell from recent posts, I’ve been in a bit of a slump lately. I struggle with Impostor Syndrome at the best of times, and this year has been anything but.
I wasn’t planning on doing NaNo (aka NaNoWriMo, aka National Novel Writing Month) partly because I’m low on time this month, and partly because I just didn’t have any story ideas ready to go.
And it was frustrating, because I’m just about finished this MG Fantasy re-write, and I have no idea how to fix my YA or other MG, so writing something new is exactly what my next step should be.
Except every idea in my “Book Ideas” doc (am I the only one who has one of these?) felt tired. I came up with most of them years ago, just waiting for the time to feel right, or wisps of ideas to get fleshed out into whole stories. But the world has changed a lot in the last few years, and many of the ideas didn’t feel relevant anymore.
Except for one.
One tiny nugget of an idea that was so out there, so flimsy, I didn’t even bother to write it down. And just like that, the character and the world burst out me like Athena, fully formed and armed, and demanded I write them. So, I spent the last ten days of October developing the side characters, plot twists, and tiny little details of the world. I did research that spawned more ideas (seriously, I think I have rough plot outlines for, like, five books right now).
The catch?
It’s an Adult book. (Not, like, adult as in naughty, but a book for grown-ups, with a main character around my own age).
And I’m going to write it.
I have no idea if I’ll “win” NaNo this year (aka write 50,000 words by the 30th). I’ve got a lot on my plate this month, including a conference out of town (more on that next week), and my fibromyalgia has been brutal lately. But this story wants to get out of me, so I’m going to try.
After all, my NaNo theory is: If you end the month with more words than you started, count it as a win.
If you’re doing NaNo this year and want to be my writing buddy, I’m there as K Callard.
October Reading Stats
November 1, 2018 November 1, 2018 ~ K. Callard ~ Leave a comment
Going to keep this post pretty short this week. My fibromyalgia has been kicking my butt lately – although it at least chose to give me my worst flare when I’d been off sugar for a week, so I’m back to allowing myself small amounts (yeah, yeah, I know it’s not definitive proof, but cut me some slack, I’m in pain *and* we have Halloween candy in the house).
My stats aren’t very impressive this month, although three of the audiobooks I listened to were around 20 hours long (and felt like it). I also spent a considerable amount of time wallowing in comfort re-reads.
October Reading Stats:
MG Fantasy (2)
MG Contemporary (1)
YA Urban Fantasy (1)
A Sci-Fi (1)
A Suspense (1)
A Urban Fantasy (1)
Re-read: (A Urban Fantasy: 9)
October total: 9 (+ 9 re-reads)
Year-to-Date: 154 (+ 9 re-reads)
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Team Sonic Racing: The Kotaku Review
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While it’s true that kart racing clashes with the idea of a character who runs super-fast, Sonic the Hedgehog is less likely to trip up when he’s driving a vehicle. Developer Sumo Digital proves that statement true a third time with Team Sonic Racing, a very good kart racer with a game-changing co-op twist.
This piece was first published on May 17, 2019. We’re bumping it today for the game’s release.
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed are a pair of very good but relatively basic kart racers. Both did a fine job of covering the kart racing fundamentals: Cool characters in colorful karts race through convoluted courses, drifting for speed boosts and grabbing item boxes filled with weapons and power-ups. The second game in the series mixed things up by having vehicles transform from car to plane to boat, very much like Nintendo’s Mario Kart 7, but both games were solid but basic. I enjoy them, even if some of my former colleagues do not. But if you take away the cast of nostalgia-inducing Sega characters and strip away the fan service-caked tracks, the All-Stars games could be any kart racer.
Team Sonic Racing is something different. For one,it exclusively features Sonic series characters, instead of drawing from the entirety of Sega’s vast stable of fan favorites. Built on the All-Stars engine, it’s got the same solid base as its predecessors. The kart controls are tight and intuitive. Drifting is satisfying, and the resulting speed boost is a nice reward for a curve well-taken. During jumps players can tilt the right analog stick to perform tricks, gaining a burst of speed upon landing. Power-ups, here called Wisps, are as empowering when used as they are devastating when used against you.
The difference is teamwork. Though players can race alone in Team Sonic Racing, the game’s primary focus is on teams of three racers working together to win.
When one team member gets behind another, one can ride the other’s trail, using it to slingshot forward in a burst of speed. If a racer has been slowed by a hazard or hit with a nasty Wisp, a teammate can drive closely past them, giving them a “skimboost” that ups their speed and gets them back in the game. Teammates can even offer item boxes to each other and transfer Wisps back and forth. Performing team actions charges up a team’s “Ultimate Meter.” Once full, racers can activate a “Team Ultimate,” gaining super-speed and invulnerability for a brief period.
Teamwork adds a fresh element to otherwise standard kart racing fare.The trail of a teammate ahead of you while struggling to catch up with the pack is a welcome sight. Missing out on grabbing a Wisp while passing a line of item boxes, only to have one of your teammates offer up their own, is beautiful. And in kart racing’s darkest moment, when all the missile Wisps and laser Wisps and eagle-but-secretly-blue-shell Wisps hit you at once, having a teammate skim by and boost you out of despair is like the heavens opening up and angels singing. I might cry.
Teamwork mechanics work even when playing single-player. I was worried that not having real people controlling my teammates would negate the benefits of the team system, but time and time again my AI compatriots proved that wasn’t the case. They use lines of spoken dialogue to let me know when they’re lining up for a boost or offering up an item box. They stick with me as best they can. When I am at the front of the pack, they strive to catch up. When I fall behind, they drop back to offer assistance
I’d go as far as saying the AI racers are more reliable than the humans I’ve been grouped with during my pre-launch online sessions, who I imagine were just a bunch of dirty game journalists and the odd influencer. It takes a well-organized trio to excel at team-based online multiplayer Team Sonic Racing. I’m looking forward to seeing how the community grows and plays once the game goes live.
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"Gotta go fast in cars with friends"
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Mario Kart, Only With Sonic
Team-based game mechanics set it apart from other kart racers, looks and plays great, Blaze the Cat
Daredevil races are BS and should be set on fire
PC, PlayStation 4 (played), Switch, Xbox One
Spent eight hours on single-player story mode, one hour or so with online multiplayer and another hour customizing Blaze's car
There is a downside to racing as a team. When a race ends, each racer is given a score based on their finishing position. The scores for each team are tallied, and the team with the highest points wins. This can lead to situations where, no matter how well my favorite Sonic character Blaze the Cat races, there’s always the possibility that stupid Silver and Vector drag her down, those bastards. It’s particularly harrowing during four-track Grand Prix races, in which you watch the point tally rise and drop as you get deeper into the set. But drama is good, right?
The bulk of my time spent playing Team Sonic Racing so far has been in the single-player Team Adventure mode, which has no shortage of drama. A tanuki named Dodon Pa recruits Sonic and his fabulous furry friends to race in order to harvest the team energy needed to create an Ultimate Energy Engine, a device capable of generating power for the entire world. At first it’s just Team Sonic, consisting of Sonic, Tails and Knuckles, facing off against Team Amy, featuring Amy Rose, a group of adorable Chao and Big the Cat. As the story progresses everyone is joined by Team Blaze, which is the best team. Eventually Shadow, Rogue and Omega show up as well, but who cares because Blaze.
Then Dodon Pa invites Eggman to the party, who brings along Metal Sonic and Zavok, the demon-looking guy who debuted in Sonic Lost World. This proves to be a bad idea. No one saw that coming.
I appreciate there being a story, rather than just a series of racing cups to complete. I would have preferred something more dynamic than visual novel-style static cutscenes, but it’s better than nothing. Besides, there are far too many races to complete in Team Adventure mode to worry too much about character development.
There are seven chapters to Team Adventure mode, each made up of multiple racing events. Players don’t have to complete every event to finish the story, but it’s still a whole lot of racing. Finishing chapter seven, largely sticking to as direct a path through each chapter as possible, I still managed to complete more than 100 races. I also performed over 600 stunts and 200 slingshot boosts. I only transferred three Wisps to my AI teammates, however, because I am a monster.
As players progress through the story mode they encounter several special events, each with their own unique goals and victory conditions. Destruction events have players destroying targets as they race through a course, attempting to achieve medal-winning scores within the time limit. Survival races play out like normal races, only after every lap the racers in the last three positions are eliminated. I particularly enjoy Eggspawn Assault courses, where players must use missiles and ramming to take out different types of Eggman robots.
I absolutely hate Daredevil races. Presented with little explanation, Daredevil races task players with drifting past slalom-style pylons. One side awards the player with points. The other side gives less points but creates a score multiplier that slowly drains as the player drives along the track. I butted my head against Daredevil races again and again, never achieving more than a bronze, the lowest medal possible. I avoided the event type whenever I could. Then, in chapter six of seven, I encountered a Daredevil race that required me to get a silver medal or higher to progress. I threw myself against that race for an hour. I emailed Sega PR to see if the developers had any tips—something I have never had to do before.
I even tried fiddling with car customization, hoping swapping out parts to adjust my racer’s five attributes—acceleration, boost, defense, handling and top speed—would make a difference. Using points earned by winning races, players can purchase capsules containing cosmetic enhancements, performance parts, vinyl decals and paint applications to customize their kart. Ultimately, small shifts in any of the stats didn’t feel like they made a significant impact in performance. I did, however, really enjoy trying out different looks for Blaze’s car. She deserves to be pampered.
Finally, after much pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth, I just barely achieved the silver medal. I cheered. My wife cheered. I never want to do a Daredevil race again.
The good news is I shouldn’t have to. There’s plenty of racing to do in Team Sonic Racing aside from the one thing I hate. Offline I can go back and complete all the non-Daredevil events I passed up while speeding my way (AKA racing for a good eight to ten hours) through the story. Offline I can also participate in Grand Prix and exhibition team or solo races. There’s a time attack mode, in which players can race against leaderboard ghosts to try to improve their lap time across the game’s 21 courses.
Then there’s online, which I didn’t get much time with pre-release. I only got four or five online races in, but I liked what I played. There are ranked and casual modes for both team and solo races. Players can also create rooms for custom races, tweaking the difficulty and selecting which Wisps show up in item boxes.
Or I could just spend more time than anyone needs to spend adjusting Blaze’s ride.
Mostly, I will race, because Team Sonic Racing is, as I mentioned previously, a very good kart racer. A good kart racer is one where you can engage in more than 100 races in a short period of time and not get bored. It’s a game where, no matter how good you are, a random blue shell or its eagle Wisp equivalent can ruin everything at the last minute. It’s a game that feels good to play and looks good in action. Team Sonic Racing is all of those things, with an intriguing team-based addition.
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What if Hitler read Twilight?
Posted on January 29, 2010 by Bekah
Dear LTTers,
I know what you do. You see we do a video post and you say “Oh, I’ll watch that later” or “Nah. Not in the mood for a video today” and go on your merry way, never coming back to watch the brilliant videos we hand-pick for you. Don’t let that be the case today. Take 6 minutes out of your day to watch these two videos. Stick your kids in front of the teletubbies (does that still exist?) and sneak to the bathroom if you’re working and watch them on your iPhone. I’m serious. I needed this laugh and you need this laugh. There’s nothing going on in the Twi-world. Nothing to lift your spirits…. except for this.
(Warning: May not be funny if German is your first language. Or maybe it will be. I have no idea! UPDATE: if you speak German, MUTE the video and it’ll be funny!)
Hilter Finds out Edward leaves Bella in New Moon
Hilter Finds out the Eclipse script has leaked
Laughing yet?
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You may have noticed the pretty new flashing image up in our sidebar. That’s the latest sponsor to join LTT & LTR: Jeweled Ambrosia.
She describes her jewelry as “Vintage vampire inspired jewelry,” and it’s really creative and really quality stuff!
My favorite line has to be in the “Vampire Girls” line (of course). Check out this adorable necklace that has a metal tag that says “Under a Vampire’s Spell” and sits next to a gorgeous red teardrop-shaped glass prism! (plus, let’s lust over that shirt together. I want!)
And I know she’s sponsoring US to get some interest in her Twilight-inspired line, but check out her other non-Twilight related stuff too! I’m in love with these earrings, this headband and this necklace. Did I mention I LOVE that shirt!?
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ambushed by twilight, on January 29, 2010 at 8:15 am said:
well 1st off, i want to say that the “heading” for todays post took me a-back a bit. but i’ve recovered now… i’m waiting for the vids to download… i’ll let you know if i’m stumbled. 😉
okay, i watched them… funny. totally inappropriate, but the subtitles are funny. but yeah, i don’t think it’ll be funny if you understand German, umm, no. some people out there in the world wide web-dom have way too much time on there hands… but if Hitler “really was” THAT obssessed w/ Twilight/NM/Eclipse then i would have to rethink my love for it… b/c i want nothing in comon w/ him… *shudder*
unintendedchoice, on January 29, 2010 at 9:36 am said:
apparently it’s like a “thing” to use that clip and change the subtitles… bikechick saw a Hilter/iPad commercial and then said “I bet someone did this for Twilight” which, of course, they did!
robgirl86, on January 29, 2010 at 9:50 am said:
UC..I ❤ you and I know that you didn't make this thing…I couldn't read the subtitles, because I cannot believe that somebody can relate in any form this videos to Twilight. It's horrible…and I usually don't comment here, but I felt that I have to say that today…and YES…german is my first language and Hitler was a mass murderer…. and I'm doing this comment because I just wanted to give you a little feedback.
CalientePocket, on January 29, 2010 at 10:30 am said:
This did this clip with a NFL playoff game last year, I think it was the Cowboys and the Giants.
StotheP, on January 29, 2010 at 11:34 am said:
Seriously, with the downthumb?
I mean, seriously?
robgirl86, on January 29, 2010 at 12:04 pm said:
StotheP..thanks for your note.<3
ambushed by twilight, on January 29, 2010 at 1:19 pm said:
i know, right? why the crap did someone thumbdown my comment? i was just stating my feelings and yes, umm, “hello?” Hitler?! gawd… i have close affiliations w/ groups of people who were killed in the camps and i have been to the Holocaust museum, so i personally don’t happen to appreciate the reference… witty consept but tacky use. no offense intended to UC, she didn’t create it, so why thumb me down? what-ever.. go ahead… someone’ll just do it again… *rasberries*
Jess, on January 29, 2010 at 5:31 pm said:
this site is meant for sharing opinions, am i wrong?
unless you’re TammyO and out to get everyone, there really shouldn’t be very many thumbs downs.
it’s so ridiculous.
mountainlion, on January 29, 2010 at 2:05 pm said:
Seriously shocked by the thumbsdown on ambushed’s comment.
thank you *sniffle*
Jess, on January 29, 2010 at 8:20 am said:
That was incredible. The BEST way to start my morning.
“Stop crying you stupid emo. You know it sucked” – I love that line.
I feel like it might not be as funny if you can understand German though. And now that I’m thinking about it, I feel kind of bad. It’s probably not a laughing matter at all..
Either way though. Totally brilliant.
i know… i bet it’s totally awful in German.. i wish it was in some language no one knew!
I know we have German readers.. so we’ll find out!
robgirl86, on January 29, 2010 at 10:17 am said:
as I said…it’s awful….but I’m not offended…it’s just awful!
Jess, on January 29, 2010 at 11:33 am said:
I haven’t seen this film.
What’s going on in the scene for real?
I know the movie is about Hitler’s final 12 days in his bunker in Berlin. I haven’t seen it in years, but I’m pretty sure this is the part where he is told that the Allies have made it to Berlin.
unintendedchoice, on January 29, 2010 at 12:07 pm said:
me neither!!
Sparklecakes, on January 29, 2010 at 8:25 am said:
I loved these. I loved Inglorious Basterds even more. Tarantino is a genius. I love him. That is all.
Bella - Not an Addikt, on January 29, 2010 at 9:07 am said:
INGLORIOUS BASTARDS SPOILER ALERT i walked into our living room once when the hubby was watching IB. It was the scene at the end. with the fire. and then in the woods… NOT a good place to walk in. But i was entranced… I had no idea what was going on..
Then I asked “is this a true story” and he looked at me like i’m totally stupid (it was a DUMB question) and said “yes, hilter and all the nazi’s burned in a movie theater”
HeyyyBrother, on January 29, 2010 at 10:19 am said:
You must watch it! It was seriously one of the most intense movies I’ve seen, which is impressive considering there are long bouts of dialogue that you would think could be boring. Seriously though, the beginning 15 mins or so of that movie had me feeling ready to explode. And Christopher Waltz playing Hans Landa is one of the best villains I’ve ever seen.
absolutelyvlc, on January 29, 2010 at 11:30 am said:
oooooooooooo, that’s a bingo!!! (sorry, I just loved that line so much I take every opportunity presented to say it)
HeyyyBrother, on January 29, 2010 at 12:23 pm said:
I forgot about that line! It totally cracked me up though. Now I’m going to need to use it… Thanks for reminding me. I’m sure the people that will be listening to me say that over and over again will thank you too. Not.
allryans, on January 29, 2010 at 11:51 am said:
Christoph Waltz is now in my freebie five cause his award acceptance speeches said nothing of poop in his pants.
hahaha. But he DID mention “golden balls”.
JodieO, on January 29, 2010 at 10:25 am said:
GAH! UC!
At least put a spoiler alert on yourself!
I haven’t seen it either, but it is currently in my DVD player waiting for me for tonight.
oh CRAP. did i just ruin it!? forgive me. I should know better
JodieO, on January 29, 2010 at 1:08 pm said:
BTW, everyone dies at the end of Breaking Dawn.
fangbanger06, on January 29, 2010 at 1:09 pm said:
*sobs hysterically*
Oh. And Harry dies too.
snowwhitedrifted, on January 29, 2010 at 1:43 pm said:
and the boat sinks in Titanic.
I heard some guy dies at the end of Passion of the Christ, but I forget who…
Kristin Shepard shot JR. Don’t confuse her w/ Kristen Stewart… although I wouldn’t put it past her.
Tavern scene in IB is one of my all time favorites. Brims with suspense. Thanks for bringing it up, Sparklecakes.
Sparklecakes, on January 29, 2010 at 8:02 pm said:
IKR? Seriously adore that movie. Best role Brad has ever played IMO and Diane Kruger was amazing. Dood, what I would give to pick the brain of Mr. Tarantino.
mountainlion, on January 29, 2010 at 11:20 pm said:
Totally agree with you, Sparklecakes, it’s Brad’s best role ever. Loved the music, too.
Keisha, on January 30, 2010 at 12:19 am said:
IG was amazing!! Christoph deserves every award he’s winning.. he totally made that movie what it is!!
“That’s a bingo!”, “Eye-talian”, “Do you mind if I smoke my pipe”… Again, the movie is amazing!!
toooldforthis, on January 29, 2010 at 8:26 am said:
Have you guys seen the one where Hitler reads Breaking Dawn?
You can find it on youtube. It’s hilarious! (warning: if you liked BD, you might not find it funny).
Shleeeigh, on January 29, 2010 at 8:44 am said:
In that case I’ll LOVE it! 😉
yes…! there are a bunch more of these to post in the future!
Alice - Not an Addikt, on January 29, 2010 at 8:43 am said:
I think this might have been the funniest Twi-vid I’ve ever seen. I can understand a fair bit of German and I’ve seen the movie, but it is still f*cking funny!
I love the really quiet “Godammit, Jasper” line!
BiteThatLipRob, on January 29, 2010 at 8:50 am said:
I loved the “Why did that discoball leave her?!” line. I dunno why
Maybe because discoball belongs in the same category as marshmallow.
There are non-Twilight related ones too, I checked on youtube. Whoever made them is a genius, I’m gonna be laughing all day!
dazzledtodeath, on January 29, 2010 at 8:51 am said:
These are hilarious. Slightly sick and hilarious.
tuesdaymidnight, on January 29, 2010 at 8:55 am said:
They’re just as funny on mute!
MariaCecilia, on January 29, 2010 at 9:19 am said:
Yes they are! Hitler may not have been funny in real life, but watching this has the same surreal feel as a Monthy Python sketch. Want to re-watch the North Minehead by-election-sketch with “Mr Hilter”, “Ron Vibbentrop” and “German Herring” ineptly in hiding at an English boarding house, anyone? 🙂
http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/nthmine.htm
Hahahaha! Yes!! Planning a little excursion, eh, Mr. Hitler?
Rachel B, on January 29, 2010 at 9:13 am said:
I saw those videos before and they are so funny!
PS- I love that t-shirt with those flowers…I want!
This is hilarious! I don’t think any Germans will be offended though… he’s quite funny in German too. At this stage of the movie (Der Untergang, brill, watch it!) he’s completely lost his mind anyway, so there ain’t much sense comin’ out of him.
“I bet James Cameron did this because Jackson Rathbone is in the real Avatar movie, Avatar: The Last Airbender.” OfficeLOL
BB, on January 29, 2010 at 9:25 am said:
Nope. Not offended. I think we are the people that make fun of this guy the most.
Yeah, nobody hates Hitler more than Germans.
Grey, on January 29, 2010 at 10:28 am said:
That was my fav line, too!!!!!
Cazza, on January 29, 2010 at 9:18 am said:
UC you might want to change Hilter to Hitler!!!!
Very funny, especially in both vids when they all leave if you have thought of the sparkly one’s skin, are on team edward, robsten etc.
unintendedchoice, on January 29, 2010 at 10:00 am said:
HILTER? hahah.. i love myself sometimes
I love yourself ALL the time 😀
Cazza, on January 29, 2010 at 5:45 pm said:
we love you long time
poochimama, on January 29, 2010 at 9:22 am said:
Bwahahahaa! Just what I needed – thanks UC!
“Have you SEEN 30 Days of Night?” LMFAO
Nope. Not funny, if German is your first language bc you listen more than you read.
But it is funny, if you mute it and only read the subtitles without being distracted by what he says.
usualnurse, on January 29, 2010 at 9:30 am said:
I have no words for how great this is. Tears in my eyes from LMAO.
JodieO, on January 29, 2010 at 9:32 am said:
Get me Chris Weiz on the phone!
Who listens to a giant silver bunny??
Thanks, UC. Now I’m in the uncomfortable position of thinking Hitler was a pretty amusing dude…
Haha, the “Donnie Mother f*cking Darko” line cracked me up!
i just like to think that the german playing that part was an amusing dude
J-9, on January 29, 2010 at 10:05 am said:
Ah ha ha ha! Flippin HILAR! The Eclipse one was the best I thought. ‘And why couldn’t KStew just wear a wig for her part in The Runaways!’ lmao I can’t!
Booo I can’t play along because my work blocks YouTube. Jerks =( Probably for the best, though. Whoever is watching my internet activity already thinks I’m weird enough… throw in a Hitler video and I have a feeling I’d be in HR pretty quickly.
fangbanger06, on January 29, 2010 at 10:34 am said:
I kinda love videos that make fun of Hitler.
We can either make fun or cry and get angry. I choose make fun today.
“and to make things worse, that rat son of a bitch jacob can make a move on her now!”
That killed me! It’s exactly my same thought in New Moon.
OMG. I just watched the second vid.
That is further proof that I really am an “emo Hitler”.
I NEED THE EMOTICON! *pushes back emo bangs*
I’m disturbed. Disturbed that my reaction to the script leak was exactly the same.
Megsten, on January 29, 2010 at 11:12 am said:
Gah damn that was funny. I know it takes a certain sense of humor to find Hitler funny but lets be honest. That evil SOB deserves to look like a little bitch that would be bothered over a “girlie” movie.
Janetrigs, on January 29, 2010 at 11:15 am said:
I can’t wait to get home and see what you’re talking about. Stupid Work security wall.
“Frederick … didn’t you go to that concert last week? …. Go get me your laptop.” BWAH HAHA!
So inappropriate and hilarious.
justdroppinby, on January 29, 2010 at 11:58 am said:
i would have expected Adolf Hitler to do something like this:
FullyAlive, on January 29, 2010 at 12:17 pm said:
Thanks for the videos! I was doing my snort-laugh, so you know it was good! And yes, 30 days of Night was a bloodbath so I am excited to see Eclipse. I have imaged it will be something like 30don and the Girls Not Grey vid David Slade did for AFI…with blinking and stuttering. It will be great! 🙂
bikechick3, on January 29, 2010 at 12:28 pm said:
These were too funny not to share, despite the original subject material. I don’t speak enough German to understand, but I’m told that this scene is where Hitler is told that Berlin is surrounded. Again, not a funny subject but when taken out of context, if we don’t take it too seriously, credit to those who put these together (and there are a MILLION versions of this out there) because I laughed my A$$ off at these!
Crystal (bikechick3)
calliope, on January 29, 2010 at 12:38 pm said:
bahahhahaha. thank you.
KinkyKiss, on January 29, 2010 at 1:13 pm said:
omg… that was fuuuuunny!!
im glad i dont understand german
if it were in es-pan-itch it wouldnt have been funny
Jeweled Ambrosia, on January 29, 2010 at 1:34 pm said:
haha! I love that one, the one where he reads Breaking Dawn is hilarious too!
(and as far as that shirt on the mannequin, I love it… I got it at Ross 😉
anybody wanna see some new Charlie Bewley pics? I know there are some fans out there! (WHERE’S TeamSeth?!) clicky!
http://www.eclipsemovie.org/new-charlie-bewley-photo-shoot/#more-39941
TS, I could use a few new BB photos, please.
chimaera2009, on January 29, 2010 at 4:36 pm said:
Here ya go. http://bit.ly/1YSI5R 😀
DontQuestionMe, on January 29, 2010 at 1:50 pm said:
OH MY GOD! It’s like you really know what goes on in my head.
I freakin’ love these Hitler parody videos. People have been teasing me about my love for Fake Hitler because I post these to Facebook all the time, the latest being the reactions to the stupid iPad.
My esteem for you, which was already very high, has just grown (that’s what she said) exponentially. ❤ your faces 4eva.
You have to goose step pretty early in the morning to link Hitler and Twilight.
Funny stuff.
…and damn you US for showing us that really cute top. Agh, I like that style too. Now you have me on Anthropologie’s website looking at stuff I can’t buy.
oops, I meant UC.
unintendedchoice, on January 29, 2010 at 4:52 pm said:
i’m just thinking that shirt would really show off some nip, ya know?
Bleriana, on January 29, 2010 at 2:19 pm said:
ok you guys normally I am not easily affected of any disturbing video but this one is just bad…
How is someone even able to relate Twilight to Hitler?!? I mean I know people outside of Germany make jokes about him because they dont know how serious it actually was… But we in Germany take it very very serious (like tweed-serious) and therefore I don’t find this funny at all. If it wasn’t posted over here I would have ignored it for sure…
kitkat, on January 29, 2010 at 4:23 pm said:
That’s an interesting cultural comparison, Bleriana. I can see where you’re coming from. We have distance, and it didn’t really affect any of us. Is there anything that Germans/Europeans joke about that the US might not find funny?
SJ, on January 29, 2010 at 8:46 pm said:
‘Is there anything that Germans/Europeans joke about that the US might not find funny?’
BWAHHAHAHA!
Sorry, *struggles to put on serious face*.
52 Faces, on January 30, 2010 at 4:47 am said:
Dude it’s like the opposite! They were telling German jokes in a Fassbinder film when I was first learning it and it was utterly unfunny…but very existential.
I can’t speak for all non-Germans, but I’m pretty sure we are all aware that Hitler was a pretty bad guy. Certainly no one here thinks his actions were a joke, but these clips are not making fun of genocide.
Alice - Not an Addikt, on January 29, 2010 at 6:04 pm said:
Please. This video is making fun of him. He would have hated that, even more reason to do so. Srsly people, my grand parents have suffered in the war too. Don’t turn this into a Europe vs. US thing. This video isn’t insulting anyone except Hitler. So hurray for that.
Go on and downthumb me all you want. I’m not gonna apologize this time. I’m not mad at anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I don’t like people telling me what I’m supposed to find funny and insinuate that I don’t take the war seriously. Belgium was in the war too. The war was horrible. Hitler was an ass. That video is funny. The end.
Big Hug en no hard feelings! 😉
Hitler is what makes The Producers funny. Anytime you can take ultimate evil and turn it into a buffoon is ok by me.
kristen's bestie, on January 29, 2010 at 3:38 pm said:
Hilarious! This is why I love LTT/LTR. You find all this stuff when I don’t have time to. Thank you, thank you, thank you….. Again!
B- just for the record I don’t find it funny because it is Hitler. It’s funny because of the words and the idea that someone would be mad about the story and acting that way. I didn’t imagine it was Hitler while listening even though that is who the actor was portraying, just a angry person.
You are right of course, nothing about Hitler is funny.
See, I think it’s funny BECAUSE it’s Hitler. If it was just some random guy THAT upset that Edward dumped Bella it would probably make me smile. But dude, Hitler is one of the most evil guys ever and he’s screaming at the SS about Edward and Bella? That’s pretty damn funny.
It’s funny.
NicoletteXIV, on February 1, 2010 at 4:01 am said:
Exactly! Making light of something serious doesn’t mean one is necessarily irreverant, especially when it is in the past, we’ve learned from it and moved on, without forgetting. However, mocking a depiction of Hitler, not his victims, is funny to me – whether it be him complaining about the iPad, Twilight, and especially when he gets banned from Xbox Live. I completely agree with you JodieO.
Becca W., on January 29, 2010 at 3:55 pm said:
I laughed. I did. I felt bad, but I laughed. Hitler…. wow.
“Why do you keep calling her Isabella??” *giggle giggle*
Genius! The Twilight road to world peace.
We can start by shipping copies of the saga to every dictator in the world, rope them into fandom and ta da! they’ll be to busy commenting on LTT and scanning the web for latest Robsten pics to notice the people taking back their countries. It’s infallible!!!
PS Is it mean because I chuckle at everyone assuming Hitler would be TeamEdward?
cgard15, on January 29, 2010 at 10:37 pm said:
This was pretty freaking funny. So thank you for making me actually laugh out loud (it was needed). The war and what he did was a horrible tragedy but why not make fun of the devil’s spawn. We all know who and what the bastard was. My .02 FWIW (–not very much I know)
CullenGirl08, on January 30, 2010 at 12:29 am said:
after a crappy day…that’s all I needed to stop crying and start laughing, Thank You!
x.rosa.lie, on January 30, 2010 at 4:05 am said:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid463901453?bctid=63666777001
Has anybody seen this video?
Jamie Campbell Bower, Jack Huston (who plays Royce King in Eclipse) and Tom Sturridge are in it!
Hitler is Team Edward? Ha! See! Team Jacob rules once again. Allies for Team Jacob.
What? German was my 4th language. It’s funny.
I think the clips are hilarious – the original clip is from Downfall, a German film documenting the last hours of Hitler’s rule, and the freak out is in regard to him finding out essentially, that all is lost. It’s a film. That is an actor. Toying with subtitles is fun, getting emotional about the alteration to the subtitles of a fictional film about a madman is a little silly.
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Libraries home 150 Years in the Stacks Year 143 – 2003: Visionaire, Issue 41: World
Year 143 – 2003: Visionaire, Issue 41: World
Published: New York, 2003
“The idea of a publication that changes format and continually morphs and redefines itself is intriguing” – Variety
Intriguing and continually morphing in every imaginable way, Visionaire is an art and fashion publication issued in numbered, limited editions, three times a year since 1991. For each issue, artists, photographers, and fashion designers work with Visionaire‘s editors to interpret a particular theme and produce a volume in a format that’s unique to that issue – and generally unlike any format encountered in a traditional print publication. Each volume is visually rich and pretty irresistible; you want to pick it up and look at it, touch it, even play with it. One issue of Visionaire actually requires employment of your taste buds.
The MIT Libraries own a number of these extraordinary volumes, and their diverse formats and themes illustrate the variety in the series as a whole. Volume 50 “Artist toys,” for example, consists of a set of 10 nesting dolls designed by Alex Katz, Kurt Vonnegut, R.Crumb, and other artists, while Volume 54 “Sport” is a “wearable publication” housing 3 Lacoste polo shirts screened with photographs.
The New Yorker described Visionaire as “a creative playground for leading designers, artists, photographers, and thinkers. It’s a gallery in print. A cabinet of irresistible curiosities. A daring iconoclast dressed to thrill.” Volume 55 “Surprise” is literally a cabinet; its purple doors open to reveal several slim books. Each evokes childhood memories with its pop-up format, but each also has a decidedly modern artistic twist.
The volume for 2003, entitled “World,” gives readers a glimpse into where photographers including Craig McDean, Nan Goldin, David Byrne, Satoshi Saikusa, and 150 other contributors from around the world live, work, come from, or simply like to be. The photos are bound in orange corduroy and housed in a matching Gap tote bag created exclusively for Visionaire. MIT’s copy is number 1370 of a numbered, limited edition of 4000 copies.
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Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover, and Juliana Spahr
Elegy, or the poetics of surplus
"RIP RichD (Dancing in the Rain)," Turf Feinz
We often find ourselves discussing, often in rooms with other poets, often in schoolish settings, what it means to say that something is poetic. It is for the most part clear enough in reference to other literature, suggesting a higher-than-average degree of patterning the sonic and visual aspects of language. Or to put matters in another register, “poetic” suggests that some relatively larger portion of the communication is borne by things other than denotation and connotation, by measures to be found beyond the dictionary and thesaurus.
But when something beyond language is identified as poetic, problems arise.One can easily imagine some people agreeing over dinner that a particular piece of furniture was poetic, but when pressed, producing five or eleven different explanations. In the last century, poetry did perversely well in coming to stand for something like an acme of aesthetic achievement, indeed becoming a kind of synecdoche for imaginative capacity itself — perversely in that it is able to mean so much precisely by meaning so little, or at least lacking a specific self-recognition. Fredric Jameson offers a rather unsympathetic formulation of this inverted development as part of modernist ideology.
It is as though in return for the acknowledgement, by the other arts and media, of the supremacy of poetry and poetic language in the modernist system of the beaux-arts, poetry graciously returned the compliment by a willingness to adopt, however metaphorically, the technical and material accounts the other arts gave of their own structure and internal dynamics. (A Singular Modernity, 153)
In the following era, whether we use the term "postmodernism" or not, poetry has been largely evicted from the catbird seat, while still doggily panting after other modes; one need only consider the familiar blather about poetry trailing X number of years behind painting or sculpture or what have you, as if the only difference among these practices was that certain external ideas that simply exist floating freely in the ether had been spotted sooner elsewhere, and now it was just a matter of poetry pulling the wool from its eyes and cotton from its ears. We might suggest that this ambiguous delusion about the comparability of poetry and the studio arts has a half-submerged class character. One need only consider the well-known phenomenon (we have felt it ourselves) of poet's jealousy when the painter comes strolling out of his or her studio at end of day, clothes smudged and streaked with lovely and serious-looking oils, runoff turpentine staining sturdy shoes. This envious sense that painters, e.g., go to work and have work clothes, that they actually make things, that they work with their hands — well, this is not terribly challenging to decode.
Surely this is the reason that Jameson's epochal assessment of postmodernism begins with a historically older image, able to stand for the lost era of manual labor: a painting of work boots. Grounded in the materiality of real production, painting et al. are also able to leap into the future via transforming their production process. But if this is in any sense true, such an analogy must simultaneously disclose the absurdity of poetry haltingly trying to reproduce fine art's dematerialization of the art object; it is precisely fine art's parallels to commodity production that gives the refusal to produce a political charge.
These are merely preliminary thoughts toward approaching the question of "the poetic" in an art that is purely physical, activity without direct product. What would it mean to say that a dance is poetic? The occasion for this question is subjective: an encounter with a specific dance or two as the most astonishing experience of art in the last few years. Turf Feinz is a collective from Oakland and environs. They practice a dance style known as turfing, which is also a way of understanding style itself according to an intense localism — an assertion that stylistic distinctions belong not just to a city but to a neighborhood, to a few blocks. Turfing is in turn associated with hyphy, a hip-hop phenomenon largely of the Bay Area that simmered during the nineties and emerged nationally around 2006-2007; it is the soundtrack of choice for turfing shows, sharing with the dance style an intense localism, as if its language were landscape. As the immortal E-40 puts it, in a turf-laden video, "I'm from the Bay where we hyphy and go dumb / from the soil where them rappers be getting they lingo from." E-40 is not himself from Oakland but from Vallejo, a few towns over.
It is not the association with hyphy, exactly, that makes Turf Feinz poetic; in the first instance, it is the intensely elegiac character of the dances. This is true in the most literal sense: the major pieces (recorded and tracked by YAK Films) are dedicated to the dead. The first Turf Feinz' piece to find a global audience is frequently known as "Dancing in the Rain," from 2009; its proper name is "RIP RichD." It was recorded on a rainy streetcorner the day after the death of dancer Dreal's half-brother in a car accident. It remains incomparable. It comprises an astonishingly inventive set of passages, building from a single dancer toward an improvised quartet, the dancers betraying considerable formal training, some ballet behind the classic "Oakland boogaloo" from whence turf dancing springs. The main feel is that of gliding, its intensity amplified by the slick surfaces. On the corner of 90th and Macarthur, the moves feel — despite the remarkable technique — perhaps a bit tossed off, casual. But that's not it. The dance is somewhere between machinic and all-too-human, but it is insistently expressionless. The first dancer is masked up. As others join, it becomes clear that the inexpressive faces are part of the performance: all of the embodied activity with none of the exuberance such motion would ordinarily imply. The dance is soulful, whatever that means, but without spirit. Even as the four members wheel and pivot through space, the dance is flat, or flattened. It is in this way that it becomes fully elegiac. It is about what's missing, or a missing dimension.
It is also about the police. The establishing shot, indeed, is a conversation between one of the crew and a cop in a roller, which must depart before the dance can begin. This will foreshadow Turf Feinz' other best-known dances: "RIP 211" and "RIP Oscar Grant." Kenneth "211" Ross was shot to death by officers in December of 2009; Oscar Grant on January 1st of that year by transit cops, though such differences are specious. All cops are bastards, after all, and killing African-American kids is pretty much their thing. This is a broader context of elegy as it exists in Oakland; the missing dimension is always the life of kids of color. At the end of "RIP 211," under heavy dubstep (a remix of Nero's "This Way"), the crew gathers against the wall of a squat. An AC Transit bus passes across the frame like a cinematic wipe made from the material of the city. When it's gone, so are they.
This shot will be repeated in "RIP Oscar Grant," finally the most powerful of the trilogy — but in the middle, at the inflection point. Seven and half minutes long, it develops with no hurry as the crew makes its way, inevitably, to the Fruitvale BART station where Oscar Grant was murdered, an event that would set off a sequence of riots and confrontations known as the Oscar Grant Rebellion. Here are some acual images of the police murder:
Accompanied by audio collage of news reports and a minor-key piano, the crew one by one offers isolated performances at the site of the killing: patient, slow (and sometimes filmed in slow motion), beautiful. Again they remain expressionless. Just before the three minute mark, one of them slides up and down the platform, at moments almost frictionless and yet absolutely stuck to the earth. There is no taking flight in turfing, no transcendence, no symbolic emancipation or escape. There is only this world, where the bodies are until erased. At 3:04 the lateral motion is suddenly interrupted by an awkward, astonishing pirouette against his angular momentum, pivoting and then improbably pausing on pointe, just one foot, body perfectly arched. The world is suspended. He tilts backward and toward the ground, his backpack pulling on him. Cata•strophe, a downward turn. It seems he'll fall, that everything will come down. A BART train enters the picture and obscures whatever happens next. There is the sound of a gunshot. When the train passes, another dancer is mid-move. Things resume.
If the social distance between poetry and painting concerns ideologies of production, what then of dance — of allegories of physical labor without a product? It would be easy enough to go to the late modern ideas about performance and post-medium arts, the dialectically doomed attempts to outmaneuver commodification. But this seems inapposite to say the least, and moreover shifts us unremarked to the consumption side, where commodities are exchanged and exhausted. This won't do, finally. The dance is production side, if via its absence. It is scored and choreographed to the rhythm of machines but without their presence, embodying the blank technicity of labor without any production to speak of — but still unable to efface entirely its moments of human invention, the swerve. It is a dance of aimlessness and streetcorner, invention for its own sake, amazing and defeated: a dance, and here we perhaps arrive at the far horizon of the argument, not of surplus goods but surplus populations, excluded from the economy if not from the violence of the state. A post-production poetics.
In this sense, poetics means something like a form of timeliness. The shape of being historical. At the end of 2009, the year from which these three dances issue, the unemployment rate for black youth rose to 50% — almost half the population excluded from the wage. The dance in this sense is a conversation with Detroit and Athens, Madrid and Dhaka, with the favelas of São Paulo; a quiet confrontation with the world as it goes, after the global slowdown, after the social factory could put any kind of good life on offer. In Oakland, where unemployment already runs above state levels, the rate for African-Americans is generally double the city average at any given time. In 2008, Vallejo, home of E-40, became the largest California city to declare bankruptcy. Catastrophe calls the tune. It is perhaps seductive to imagine a post-production aesthetic as utopian, emancipatory, freed from the factory whistle. Post-human, even. For now, the inverse is the case. There are bodies. They have neither an obvious way out nor a persuasive way back in. This surely is the peculiarity of our moment...
We are three editors at Commune Editions, a new press for poetry and other literary writing committed to anticapitalist and antistate politics. We hope in this series for Jacket2 to consider a series of issues, texts, and moments corresponding to the intersection of poetry and communist/anarchist activity.
Jasper Bernes is a lecturer in the Department of English UC Berkeley, where he received his PhD in 2012. He is currently completing a book manuscript, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization, about the role literature and art play in the postindustrial restructuring of labor. He is also the author of a book of poems, Starsdown (ingirum, 2007) and two small chapbooks, Desequencer (Taxt, 2009) and We Are Nothing and So Can You (Tenured Ninja, 2012). Recent poems of his appear in Lana Turner, The Capilano Review, The American Reader and Everyday Genius. He has also published on contemporary politics and social movements in Endnotes, The New Inquiry, Los Angeles Review of Books and the anthology Communization and its Discontents.
Joshua Clover is the author of four books, two poetry and two cultural theory. He recently edited and co-translated Tarnac, a preparatory act by Jean-Marie Gleize (Kenning Editions, 2014); he has articles forthcoming in Representations, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Critical Inquiry. The poetry collection Red Epic is due out this year, and The Transformation Problem: Poetry, Capital, Crisis is expected before the world ends.
In addition to Commune Editions, Juliana Spahr edits the book series Chain Links with Jena Osman and the collectively funded Subpress with nineteen other people. With David Buuck she wrote Army of Lovers, a book about two friends who are writers in a time of war and ecological collapse. She has edited with Stephanie Young A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism (Chain Links, 2011), with Joan Retallack Poetry & Pedagogy: the Challenge of the Contemporary (Palgrave, 2006), and with Claudia Rankine American Women Poets in the 21st Century (Wesleyan U P, 2002). With Joshua Clover, she has twice organized somewhat free schools, the 95 cent Skool (summer of 2010) and the Durruti Free Skool (summer of 2011), written on politics, on manifestos, applied for a job at the Poetry Foundation, and organized, with Chris Chen too, the conference Poetry and/or Revolution.
All of the entries here are collectively authored. We might use "I" in ways that are confusing or inconsistent, though we will try to avoid this. It's really ok.
Jacket2 Commentaries feature invited posts by poets and scholars who take a close, serial look at poetry scenes, archives, poetic concerns, or theoretical clusters. Commentaries, although curated, are not edited by Jacket2 staff. We welcome your comments. Send queries and notes to Commentaries Editor Jessica Lowenthal or contact us at this page.
COMMUNE EDITIONS:
My Trials, by Louise Michel
Götterdämmerung Family Barbecue, by Jasper Bernes and Joshua Clover
The self-abolition of the poet
Baraka / the divide
Starting from lull
Jill Richards' 'Distribution Series'
Self-abolition of the poet (Part 2)
A thimbleful of cultural heat
Lions, mists, riot poems
Cultural riches?
The realization of poetry
Singers and Experts
Gwendolyn Brooks's 'Riot' and the opt out
Spring and all, farewell to jackets
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Tag: PwC
Easter Miscellany 2016
On 24/03/2016 31/03/2016 By JacIn Assembly, Cardiff, Civil Service, Colonialism, Corruption, Housing, Labour Party, Local Government, Planning, Public Funding, Social Housing, Swansea, Third Sector, Welsh Government, Welsh Labour34 Comments
RCT HOMES
Earlier this month Martin Shipton of the Wasting Mule and WalesOnline had a brief bout of outrage on learning that RCT Homes was advertising for a chief executive at a salary greater than that paid to the UK Prime Minister or Wales’ First Minister. Here’s the advertisement – with a London recruitment agency – that occasioned his momentary unhappiness with the colonial system.
This recruitment follows on from a number of personnel changes at RCT Homes (mentioned in the same article) that are worthy of reporting, not least the departure of Andrew Lycett, the previous chief executive. So let me hand you over to a correspondent who explains the complexities of it all. I have added links and a few comments to help you understand better who’s who and what’s what.
Now read what follows carefully and join up the dots.
“The Wasting Mule tells us that Andrew Lycett left RCT Homes for reasons that were unexplained on the grounds of “confidentiality”. A more typical corporate response to that question is that he “has found career opportunities elsewhere” which led me to investigate.
Lycett submitted his resignation from RCT Homes at the same time as Cllr Kieron Montague (Labour) announced he would step down and not seek re-election. He is Cabinet Member for Tackling Poverty, Engagement & Housing. He also sat on the RCT Homes board, on behalf of RCT council.
Lycett has actually taken up the role of Finance Director with the Jehu Group, a real estate development company, who beside being a major player at the SA1 development in Swansea, but also has expanded to the west, opening a new office in Haverfordwest, under their subsidiary Waterstone Estates.
Montague, meanwhile, has now taken up a role with Cynon Taf Housing Association, who unlike RCT Homes, has a substantial holding of vacant development land.
In a previous post (here, scroll down) you correctly pointed out the outsourcing of estates administration by a number of local authorities to PwC. A partner of PwC, Lynn Pamment, also sat on the board of RCT Homes, alongside Lycett and Montague. She will, of course, be very conversant with the issues which PwC has been required to ‘assist with’, that of, balancing the budget for Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion councils. This includes selling off land for development.
This, of course, is the very footprint that Waterstone Estates has opened an office for in Haverfordwest for. Waterstone Estates is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Jehu Group, which Lycett is now director.”
We are all familiar with the links between the Third Sector and the Labour Party, but now we see a third element become more evident, that of private businesses, which recruit people with local government and Third Sector experience to help ‘smooth the way’ with the acquisition of land, the gaining of planning approval, and of course the clamping of the sweaty paws upon the funding public.
The supplier of the information mentions the RCT Board, and so I took a peek for myself. It hasn’t been updated, so here it is before it’s changed.
It’s the usual mixture of Labour time-servers, Third Sector spongers and token residents. But as we were warned just now, there’s also the PwC representative, looking after her company’s best interests. Lynn Pamment is of course one of those selfless English missionaries without whom we Welsh would be running around naked doing unspeakable things to each other and gabbling away incoherently.
Also on the Board is someone I’ve mentioned before, a regular contributor to the Letters page of the Wasting Mule, where he can be relied upon to fly the flag for Queen and Country (his country that is, not ours), Kel Palmer. And talking of flying, his bio describes him as “A former fast jet pilot in the RAF” . . . not to be confused with those slow jet pilots . . . always getting in the bloody way . . . slowing down the bombing runs. It’s a wonder regime change is ever achieved.
This I think is one to watch. Particularly the future careers of Andrew Lycett and Kieron Montague.
[With so many different people sending me stuff I seem to have lost the original e-mail containing the information used above. So will whoever sent it please get in touch to remind me who you are.]
APPRENTICE APPARATCHIKS
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the need to provide apprenticeships, with political parties trying to outdo each other in the number they’d provide if elected, but did you know that the ‘Welsh’ Government has its very own apprenticeship scheme?
I am indebted to another correspondent for drawing this to my attention. Though he’s very concerned by the fact that most of those chosen for these apprenticeships seem to be related to someone already working for Carwyn and his gang.
Which, I suppose is only to be expected. For it seems that these apprenticeships are advertised only on the ‘Welsh’ Government website. Now with the best will in the world, I doubt if many young people visit the site . . . unless advised to do so by family or friends.
Is this how it should be done? Doesn’t it risk getting nepotism a bad name?
And by the way, Carwyn, I wouldn’t give a job to that shifty-looking little bugger in the middle, the one fiddling with his tie. If he’s going to do Oliver Hardy impersonations he needs to put on about 150lb . . . and also develop a personality.
CHRISTOPHER MUNDAY, GOAT-TETHERER
A third supplier of information has very interesting things to tell us about Christopher Munday who, you may remember, is the genius who set up the Regeneration Investment Fund for Wales which I – in my previous post – likened unto tethering a goat and waiting for the predators to appear.
He writes . . .
“CM is typical of many public sector employees who see their advancement “up the greasy pole” by avoiding decision making and adopting the mantra of “plausible deniabilty” if anything goes wrong.
He joined Welsh Development Agency in the 1980’s having formerly been a “site finder” for a medium sized house building company. He progressed through a number of low and medium grade clerical jobs, as the WDA expanded through the 1990’s, and then became employed in a department seeking to access private sector money to add to the Agency’s budget for property development purposes.
As he had little knowledge of funding (and no knowledge of property development), his approach was to appoint major firms of accountants to “write reports” as to how private funding might be accessed. It was quickly realised in Cardiff, that operating a large budget for the purposes of employing private sector accountants, made CM a prime target for the KPMGs, PWC, Deloittes of this world in “keeping him sweet”. He attended, for many years, the annual MIPIM property junkets in Cannes, where his time was spent networking (i.e. being entertained) by his accountancy pals.
Once these reports had been completed, at costs between tens of and hundreds of thousands of pounds, these would be “topped and tailed” by CM and subsequently presented to his line managers and, ultimately, ministers as “all his own work”. On two or three occasions the reports suggested “arms-length” initiatives, with a view to private sector organisations participating in the development of offices and factories in Wales.
In at least one of these initiatives (called WISP) the “partner participant” was a company called Babcock and Brown. By this time WDA had been “absorbed” into the Assembly. The basis of WISP was that the Assembly would take a long lease on an office block before it was built, and the investment would be pre-sold to provide the funds to build it in the first place.
Unfortunately, after a couple of office developments, Babcock and Brown went bust, and the WISP idea terminated. Babcock and Brown’s contact with CM was Leo Bedford(LB), and LB started up another company out of the ashes of Babcock and Brown, called Amber.
It was, therefore, of little surprise that when the RIFW (a.k.a. JESSICA) initiative was suggested to Welsh Government, CM was put in charge of running it, and (surprise, surprise again) Amber was appointed as Fund Manager. It is not clear who decided Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) should be appointed as Property Advisers, but it is clear that Welsh Government appointed both firms (see attached press release). It is also interesting to note that when the RIFW s**t hit the fan, CM denied flatly that Welsh Government had appointed LSH, and insisted that LSH had been appointed by Amber without his knowledge (!).
I know several people who have worked, and still work with Mr Munday, and it is the case that work colleagues, AMs and Ministers largely regard him as a . . . at which point I have to intervene because it gets rather personal, and I’m down to my last couple of mill. Munday commutes to Cardiff from Wiltshire.
What are we to make of this, boys and girls? Now as you know, Jac is a simple soul, and talk of conferences in the South of France, and big numbers that I can’t get my head around, send me into a tizzy. But if half of what my informant tells us is true, then this man sounds like a complete asshole! But of course he’s an English asshole, so he’s guaranteed an important job in Wales, losing millions and millions from the Welsh public purse.
JAMES BOND COMES TO CARDIFF
The ‘Welsh’ media has gone overboard reporting the fact that Aston Martin is to build a new plant in Sant Tathan, just outside Cardiff. Now me explain this to you.
This has nothing to do with jobs; the number of jobs created is almost irrelevant for those who persuaded the ‘Welsh’ Government to bribe Aston Martin to set up on the outskirts of Cardiff. The motivation, pure and simple, is the promotion of Cardiff.
The Aston Martin plant is just another prestige project to add to the Millennium Stadium, the Millennium Centre, the Swalec Stadium, the National Ice Rink and all the other developments we’ve seen in recent years, including – don’t laugh! – the Assembly building itself. Within a very short time I guarantee we shall be hearing, ‘Cardiff – Home to Aston Martin’.
Many are already asking how much the ‘Welsh’ Government paid Aston Martin to move to the Vale, but nobody’s answering. I am indebted to @tomgallard for letting me publish this letter in which the ‘Welsh’ Government refuses to disclose how much it invested in this wonderful project that will be of benefit to the whole of Wales.
If you think I’m just an embittered old Jack, and that the ‘Welsh’ Governments’s prime consideration was jobs, just ask yourself this – would they have rolled out the red carpet with gold thread for Kia, or Dacia, even if these companies were creating 3,000 jobs? And answer that honestly.
And if you believe that employment / investment was the prime consideration, and that’s why the ‘Welsh’ Government was prepared to break the bank to get Aston Martin to Wales, then why weren’t the jobs directed to an area where they are much more needed than the Vale of Glamorgan, where I guarantee residents will soon be opposing all the disruption the Aston Martin development threatens?
Oh, and one final thing. Scroll down on the letter to Tom Gallard and see who signed it. Yes, that’s the same Christopher Munday we discussed just now. Whenever there’s Welsh public funding to be wasted, Munday’s yer man!
P.S. Another factor worth considering is that this rush of automotive good news – Aston Martin to the Vale of Glamorgan, TVR to Ebbw Vale – comes just ahead of the Assembly elections on May 9. The Labour Party must be calculating that news like this is worth a few thousand votes, maybe saving the party a couple of seats. Very important when we remember that Labour currently holds 30 out of the 60 seats and is predicted to lose anything up to 5 of them.
What we see in these examples, and in other cases I’ve highlighted over the years, is utter contempt for the democratic process and the public purse – which works to the detriment of us all. Basically, it’s, ‘Sod off! we don’t have to tell you anything’.
When RCT Homes was questioned by Martin Shipton about the £150,000 salary for its chief executive he could only tell us, “A spokeswoman for RCT Homes said the body would not be offering a comment.”
And when Andrew Lycett left RCT Homes to take up his post with real estate company the Jehu Group, the reasons for his leaving were unexplained on grounds of “confidentially”. This, remember, is a Registered Social Landlord getting large dollops of funding from the public purse.
The ‘Welsh’ Government apprenticeships are obviously aimed squarely at those in the know. Otherwise they’d be advertised properly so that everybody’d have a chance.
The RIFW scandal for which Christopher Munday is so culpable is still shrouded in mystery because so much information is being withheld and so many lies are being told.
Finally, we have the countless millions lobbed Aston Martin’s way to get another blue chip company to Cardiff. Yet we cannot be told how much because this information is – so someone at the ‘Welsh’ Government argues – “exempt from disclosure”. Is that really true?
And all this is happening in a system that prides itself on ‘openness’, focussed on a building made of glass, so that we, the people, can see what they’re up to. What a load of deceitful symbolism and absolute bollocks!
(Calm down, Jones.)
Now a compete change of subject, but another indictment of how Wales is run, and the priorities of those who run our county and our cities.
BEDD GWYROSYDD
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When I was a boy, I used to catch the school bus at Brynhyfryd Square, which would then make the long haul up Llangyfelach Road, past the ‘Public Hall’ and its bust of Daniel James, before the turning left and along Heol Gwyrosydd to Penlan School.
Of course I knew the hymn Calon Lân, and I knew that the words had been written by local man Daniel James. (Bit of a hero of my mamgu!) Which was just as well, because I wasn’t going to learn things like that in Penlan School, or any school in Swansea. Trigonometry, Latin, and the history of British imperialism would stand me in much better stead for the world that awaited me.
These memories came back when I opened an e-mail and saw a photo that someone had sent with it. The photograph was taken the day after Palm Sunday, and it shows Daniel James’ sorry-looking grave in Mynyddbach cemetery. The person who sent me the photograph said he had to avoid huge Victorian headstones leaning at dangerous angles to reach the grave, and that a machete would have helped to get through the undergrowth.
Doesn’t the man who wrote perhaps our most famous hymn deserve better than this? If I was talking here about some monument to our subjugation, or a reminder of our colonialist exploitation, or some house where Nelson had enjoyed Lady Hamilton, then Cadw, or the National Trust, or some other bunch of colonialist grant-grabbers would demand a few million to ‘maintain it for the nation’. (And we know which nation.)
If you feel as I do, that Daniel James deserves to be remembered better than this, then write to somebody; Swansea council, the ‘Welsh’ Government, anybody. Send a letter or e-mail to your local paper, or the Daily Post, the Western Mail.
Because how much would it cost to maintain this grave with the dignity it merits? Less than a set of tyres on an Aston Martin. Probably less than Christopher Munday earns in a week. One per cent of what the chief executive of RCT Homes will be paid in a year. Wake up people! let’s start getting our priorities straight. Let’s start remembering who we are.
UPDATE 28.03.2016: Good News! A mystery benefactor has appeared to help with the restoration of the Gwyrosydd headstone.
Shorts & Updates for St. David’s Day
On 29/02/2016 01/03/2016 By JacIn Colonialism, Colonisation of Wales, Housing, Plaid Cymru, Social Housing, Tourism, Ukip, Welsh Assembly, Welsh Government, Welsh Labour25 Comments
I’m off to Swansea this weekend, treating myself and the wife to a wee break. (Well, actually, the wife’s paying for the hotel.) I shall visit relatives and friends and go watch the Swans playing Norwich (son’s treating me!). So it will be at least a week until I put up my next post.
In the meantime, enjoy these tit-bits from hither and yon and have a good St. David’s Day. I might pop over to Wrecsam for the parade there, or maybe down to Aber’.
DAWN BOWDEN AM?
Some of you will know by now that Dawn Bowden has been selected as the Labour Party candidate for Merthyr and Rhymni in May’s Assembly elections. If you haven’t heard – and even if you have – you’re probably wondering who the hell she is.
Around this time last year I also got to wondering, because I was told that she’d
been promised a place in the Assembly, and although the seats suggested were Islwyn and Caerffili, my source was adamant that her elevation would be stitched up with a women-only shortlist. This prompted me to make enquires, resulting in a mention for Ms Bowden in my post ‘Welsh’ Labour And A Milking System Unknown To Farmers. And lo! it came to pass . . .
On the right you’ll see two screen-captured Twitter profiles for Ms Bowden, the ‘Before’ image taken at around 19:30 on Saturday, the ‘After’ around 00:30 on Sunday. (Thanks to ‘S’ for tipping me off.) There are significant changes in the second profile.
First, the reference to loving the unions is gone. Second, she has changed out of the Brizzle City shirt – a dead giveaway for her origins. Third, she is no longer a socialist. (Rhodri Morgan’s ‘clear red water’ seems to be flowing the other way at the moment.) Fourth, she has removed the reference to @Carrageryr, aka Martin Eaglestone, her current beau and another Labour insider. Gone with the reference to Eaglestone is the mention of being step-mother to his children by an earlier wife in Gwynedd. (Or at least I assumed they were his.)
The new profile was obviously put up in a hurry; such a hurry that she couldn’t tell us the full title of her job with UNISON or even get the spelling right for the party she represents. Maybe the champagne had gone to her head. No doubt everything has been put right by now.
Dawn Bowden is obviously a Labour loyalist first and foremost, knowing little about Wales, and even less about Merthyr. Just another Labourite on the make who’s come through the system of Unions and Third Sector, the kind of woman who’s always banging on about ‘the people’ but rarely gets to meet them because she lives in a Labour cocoon where she only mixes with her own kind.
Her success in Merthyr came about because the sitting AM, Huw Lewis, surprised quite a few people last month by suddenly announcing he was standing down. I won’t go into the reasons for this decision, suffice to say that they are of a delicate and intimate nature, the kind of messy personal relationships of which Ms Bowden and Martin Eaglestone have experience.
The other two women on the Merthyr and Rhymni shortlist were Carol Estebanez, who is also from that magic land, ‘Away’, and also helps prop up a ‘Welsh’ Labour Party having serious problems finding Welsh candidates of any quality; and then there was Anna McMorrin, who worked as an advisor to the dickheads down Cardiff docks and who is / was having an affair with Alun Davies AM former Natural Resources Minister.
The decision to impose an all-women shortlist in order to guarantee Ms Bowden her promised seat did not go down well with the bruvvers in Merthyr. Misogynists almost to a man who see La Bowden as the beginning of the end, for not only do the long shadows of council merger creep ever closer, but in the distance can be heard the heavy tread of the Westminster executioner coming to take an axe to the Merthyr constituency.
There’s nothing here to surprise anyone who knows how the Labour Party operates in Wales, but I still have three questions:
1/ Is ‘Welsh’ Labour now an official branch of UNISON?
2/ How much of the donkey vote will turn out for this latest parachutist?
3/ Will the Merthyr bruvvers – and, indeed, the disgruntled local sissters – canvass for Dawn Bowden?
OXBRIDGE AND THE WELSH CRINGE
The aforementioned Huw Lewis is still the ‘Welsh’ Government’s Education Minister, and something (else) that causes him sleepless nights is the fact that so few of us aspire to Oxford and Cambridge universities. To listen to him and others who talk through their back heads the Welsh education system should be geared to getting as many as possible of our young people to Oxbridge.
So I was intrigued to see this item on the BBC website by Gareth Jones, a producer with BBC Wales, talking about the Oxbridge ‘success’ rate of his old school in Swansea, Olchfa Comprehensive. Though what I found most interesting, and disturbing, was that hardly any of those who went from Olchfa to Oxford and Cambridge returned to Wales.
And yet, this is how it must be in a colonial relationship. Wealth gravitates to the centre, where power and influence is also concentrated. The peripheries provide raw materials and manpower, holiday destinations and other benefits for the centre. This is how it was in Rome and every empire since.
Which means that Huw Lewis and all the other cringers, all those desperate to show ‘our English friends’ that we’re (almost) as good as them, want us to pay for our brightest and best to leave Wales and never return – and we are expected to be ever so grateful! This, remember, is ‘the Welsh Government’.
Here’s a better suggestion, Lewis . . . Why don’t you and your half-wit, forelock-tugging colleagues try to shake off your inferiority complex and start putting Welsh interests first. And to give you a clue where to start, subsidising a brain drain does not serve the Welsh national interest.
And if you aren’t serving the Welsh national interest then you really have no right to call yourselves ‘the Welsh Government’.
TOURISM PAYING ITS WAY
Regular readers will know that I have firm views on tourism in Wales. Basically, I believe that it is a colonialist activity from which few Welsh people benefit, and that it is also destroying Welsh identity. In fact, from a patriotic perspective, I see nothing to be said in favour of the tourism Wales suffers today.
This unregulated and destructive ‘industry’ is doing irreparable harm to our homeland. Just look at the photograph below showing hordes of tourists swarming up to the summit of Snowdon, having been brought up almost all the way by the vile little train. Shouldn’t we be treating our beauty spots and our iconic mountains with more respect? Perhaps we would, but of course we Welsh have no control over the tourism ravaging our country.
In Italy they do things better. With tourism taxes in various locations that suffer from too many gawpers and clickers. The latest moves are to limit the numbers of visitors to the Cinque Terre area. And as the article I’ve linked to tells us, big cruise liners are now banned from the Venice lagoon.
Elsewhere, in Italy and other countries, tourists are expected to put money into the public purse, not just the pockets of those taking the tourists’ money, who may be foreign companies or individuals from outside the country. The article I used tells us that such economic pragmatism is not limited to Italy, for “Bhutan doesn’t limit its number of tourists, but it does force them – through package tours – to spend $250 a day in high season ($200 in low), which apparently funds education, healthcare and so on.”
Here in Wales, when the subject of a tourist tax was mentioned last year, a spokesman for the industry was quite receptive to the idea – “providing the cash raised was ploughed back into the sector”. Er, no.
Wales has a problem with tourism. We have too much of it causing too much damage and bringing too few benefits to Welsh people and Welsh communities. So let’s tax tourism, thereby reducing the unmanageable numbers, and invest the money raised in those areas suffering the worst.
One way of using this income would be to help young locals buy homes in areas where tourism, and the resultant irruption of good-lifers and retirees, has priced them out of the property market. But it would be insane to ‘invest’ the money raised from tourism to encourage more tourism!
Of course the argument usually employed against a tourism tax is the same one used against raising council tax on holiday homes, which is that such measures would reduce the numbers of tourists coming from England.
I have given this argument a great deal of thought. It has caused me many a sleepless night. But for the life of me, I don’t get it. Because from where I’m sitting, Welsh people and Welsh communities seeing financial and other benefits from fewer tourists is a win-win situation.
IS ‘WELLNESS’ A SYNONYM FOR PRIVATE HEALTH CARE?
Those of you lucky enough to live in James-shire, the entertainment capital of Wales, may already be aware of the goodies coming your way in the very vague form of the Wellness village, or the Wellness centre, planned for Delta Lakes in Llanelli. I say ‘very vague’ because even if you are aware of it, I guarantee you don’t know who’s involved and what it’s all about.
MERYL GRAVELL
There are so many interlinking and overlapping organisations involved with this project that I shall not attempt to list them, let alone guess at how they might be connected. Instead, I refer you to a piece that appeared on the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board website in December 2015, and this article from last week’s Llanelli Herald which quotes the one and only Meryl Gravell, Mark James’ plenipotentiary extraordinary to us mere mortals.
If I was cynical (and I thank God I’m not!) I might suggest that what’s happening is this: The leisure centre is being demolished and a new one built; but to get as much lolly as possible bells and whistles are being added in order to promote the project as a ‘Wellness Centre’ incorporating a health centre, a hotel and conference centre, facilities for various ‘therapies’, etc.
Which could result in some poor bugger struggling down there with a bad back, going through the wrong door and finding himself confronted by a Siberian shaman; or perhaps getting legless with a bunch of middle managers down for a conference.
And if I wanted to be really, really cynical I might wonder who is involved in this project that isn’t among the many bodies named. For even the most trusting soul might have his or her suspicions raised by this document on South Llanelli, adopted by Carmarthenshire County Council in December 2014, which has this to say of Delta Lakes (on page 25): “Other related uses (eg healthcare /service sector – social and/or private health care) may also be considered appropriate”.
“Private health care”! Can we hypothesise that the undisclosed ‘partners’ in this project might be private health care providers? Though let me say that I have no objection in principle to private health care. Who can possibly object as long as such companies build hospitals and other health facilities using money provided by investors, banks, and those subscribing to private health care schemes?
But this is Wales and, more importantly, Carmarthenshire, so there must be a possibility that a company providing private health care has been wooed to Delta Lakes with the promise of spanking new facilities funded with public money, sixty million pounds of it.
And this being Wales it will also be trumpeted as a great coup that BUPA or Spire has chosen to ‘invest’ in Llanelli and Carmarthenshire. The massive investment from the public purse that underpins and explains this ‘coup’ will of course be downplayed if not excised entirely from the hyperbolic narrative.
So I suggest that instead of trying to confuse the public, those behind this project explain it better, and give us the names of all the ‘partners’. If only to allay the suspicions many hold.
Because Carmarthenshire in recent years has seen too many projects pushed through in secret. Loans have been made (and lost), and planning permission has been granted, on a nod and a wink. Small wonder that some ask if backhanders might explain this curious methodology.
And seeing as this Delta Lakes project – whatever it is – has the enthusiastic support of Mark James and Meryl Gravell we’re also entitled to ask if the council’s favourite business adviser, Robin Cammish, is involved.
A LITTLE HOME IN THE WEST – RENTED FROM AN ‘INVESTOR’?
I like a man who can’t be fobbed of with flim-flam and bullshit, and one such man is regular correspondent Wynne Jones down in Cardigan. Not only is Wynne alert to flim-flam but he’s also very well organised, knowing what questions to ask and to whom they should be directed.
Not so long ago, after receiving information from Wynne, I wrote about Pembrokeshire Housing and its subsidiary Mill Bay Homes, first in Social Housing, Time to End This Lunacy (December 14), and then with Mill Bay Homes, Tai Ceredigion, Answers Needed (January 03).
To briefly explain, Pembrokeshire Housing is a publicly-funded – £27m since 2008 in Social Housing Grant alone – housing association or Registered Social Landlord (RSL). Mill Bay Homes, a ‘subsidiary’ of Pembrokeshire Housing builds and sells properties on the open market, with the money made from this activity going to the parent company for it to invest in more units of social housing . . . or at least, that’s the theory.
But as Wynne found out in a recent reply from Helga Warren, Head of Housing Funding for the ‘Welsh’ Government, Pembrokeshire Housing has yet to see a penny of the money Mill Bay Homes has made from five private developments! Admitted in the extract below, taken from a larger document (click to enlarge).
As I mentioned in my earlier posts, Mill Bay Homes advertises its properties as ideal investments for Buy-to-let landlords. Some reading this might think it odd for the subsidiary of a publicly-funded RSL to be encouraging such activity, I certainly think there’s something not right here.
Especially when we realise that Mill Bay Homes also administers the ‘Welsh’ Government’s Help to Buy – Cymru scheme, intended to help people, presumably young people, buy their first new home. Inevitably, Wynne and I wondered if ‘investors’ had been allowed to avail themselves of the Help to Buy scheme.
Ms Warren came to the rescue with this assurance: “Help to Buy is operated by Help to Buy (Wales) Ltd. They carry out extensive checks on behalf of Welsh Government as part of the affordability calculations for any potential buyer. As part of this assessment customers are advised that buy-to-let investments are strictly prohibited under the scheme. Scheme documentation clearly indicates that any fraudulent application for Help to Buy (Wales) assistance could be liable to criminal prosecution. Any fraudulent claims uncovered as part of our monitoring and governance arrangements, will always require immediate repayment of the shared equity loan assistance”.
Read it carefully. There is ‘advice’, there is ‘documentation’, but there seem to be no real checks. As things stand, someone from outside of Wales could buy a new property from Mill Bay Homes, taking advantage of the Help to Buy – Wales scheme, and use it as a holiday home – because nobody is checking. It is a system yelling to be abused.
But even this is only part of the much wider problem we have with housing associations, which in Wales have received, since 2008, close on £800m in Social Housing Grant alone. Then there’s Dowry Gap funding projected to cost £1.3bn and Welsh Quality Housing Standard funding of an estimated £1.7bn. Finally, there’s the Housing Finance Grant totalling £120m.
These are huge amounts of money in a poor country like Wales, so surely the ‘Welsh’ Government insists on every penny being accounted for . . . umm, no. The ‘Welsh’ Government dishes out the cash and seems to say something along the lines of, ‘If you get a chance, you might want to send in a report telling us how you’ve spent the money. No need for any nonsense like differentiating capital from revenue, or explaining where the money’s actually gone, all we need is good news to use as propaganda and to justify us giving you the money in the first place’.
There is no official oversight or monitoring. Housing associations regulate themselves. No one in the ‘Welsh’ Government seems to give a damn as to whether or not billions of pounds of public funding are being properly spent.
Keep up the good work, Wynne.
‘EVERYTHING MUST GO’ SAYS CYNGOR CEREDIGION PwC
Someone else with whom I’m in contact down west tells me of a curious partnership that has developed between Cyngor Ceredigion and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC). It seems the council has retained bean-counters PwC to identify areas where cuts can be made – for a fee of 16% of identified savings.
And as in neighbouring Carmarthenshire, openness and telling the public what you’re doing in their name comes very low down on the list of priorities, with things being stitched up at private meetings.
Though this report from the ‘Nazis’ Cambrian News is able to tell us that by late January the council had already paid PwC £963,630. If my maths is up to it, this must mean savings already of over £6m. (And this must be delicate or even dangerous work, because it looks as if the reporters need to use pseudonyms.)
When you come to think about it, it’s a bloody strange system. This company is paid by cuts it identifies. So let’s say Ceredigion spends £100m a year on education, PwC could argue that, ‘The little buggers have all got iPads and smart phones nowadays – let them get their education from Google and Wikipedia‘, and make themselves a quick £16m! I could do that!
Then again, maybe there’s a simple explanation for it all.
Cuts have been forced on our local authorities by the Labour regime in Cardiff docks, and every time cuts are announced rural – i.e. non-Labour – councils take the hit, with Labour-voting councils being protected from the worst.
Now it just so happens that PwC is a major donor to the Labour Party. This article from the Guardian (12.11.2014) explains that Labour received £600,000 of advice from PwC on forming its tax policies – from a company that specialises in tax avoidance schemes. This article from the New Statesman (19.02.2015) tells us that, apart from trade unions, PwC is Labour’s biggest donor.
I was surprised to find no mention of Ceredigion on the PwC website
As we all know, few individuals and no companies give large sums of money to a political party without expecting something in return. I guarantee that PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is no exception.
Can’t you just imagine the phone call from London to Cardiff: ‘Listen now, Carwell, PwC have been very generous to the party, so we’d like you to put some business their way, some out-of-way place where nobody’ll ask too many question. Got that?‘
Though that still might not explain why a non-Labour authority would agree to go along with this lunacy, so maybe the responsibility lies within Ceredigion. Can you help?
Of course, none of our local authorities would need to cut services if the ‘Welsh’ Government wasn’t so profligate with it’s meagre resources; especially with the funding it showers on housing associations and the Third Sector, money that the ‘Welsh Government loses all interest in once it’s been handed over.
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus / Happy St. David’s Day
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Portland gears up for rat fight
Published:Saturday | June 15, 2019 | 12:21 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer
Photo by Gareth Davis
From left: Mayor of Port Antonio Paul Thompson, Member of Parliament Ann-Marie Vaz, and Public Health Inspector Samuel Roberts at a special meeting at the Port Antonio bus park yesterday to address the escalating rodent problem in the seaside town.
Port Antonio, Portland:
The eastern parish of Portland is arming itself to tackle a rat-infestation problem that has taken root especially in the seaside town of Port Antonio, the parish’s capital.
“They are just about everywhere. You hear them running up and down in the ceiling and you can hear them squeaking,” Public Health Inspector Yizouna Forsythe told community stakeholders in the first of three emergency meetings called to address the issue as the Ministry of Health and Wellness and the Portland Municipal Corporation are teaming up to tackle the issue.
“It is very important that we have these rats under control. Rats are what we call vectors, and vectors are vehicles that can transmit disease,” she added.
“When you see rats during the day, you know that there is a very heavy infestation,” said Forsythe.
The problem of rodents, which have been plaguing business places in and around the resort town of Port Antonio, has been ongoing for some time, and the public health inspector has urged residents to store their food properly and limit meal sources for the pests.
“So if you eat food that has been contaminated by the urine of the rat, and they have that germ that can cause the leptospirosis disease, then you will come down with it. Proper storage of food and water is important for our safety. Proper disposal of garbage is important. If we eliminate their food source and water source, then we will be on our way to reducing the rat population,” she said.
The increase in rats and roaches has also sparked public outcry from operators of restaurants, grocery shops, and supermarkets, who are appealing for urgent action to combat the situation.
Vendors losing
Additionally, some market vendors, including Albert Phillips, who sells sweet potato, mangoes, cabbage, and other produce at the Musgrave Market, are crying over losses as rats continued to nibble on their produce.
East Portland Member of Parliament Ann-Marie Vaz yesterday said that she, too, has suffered as rats invaded her San-San home. She told The Gleaner that it will require all hands on deck to win the fight against the rodents.
“Rats invaded my home and chewed up two of my favourite shoes,” said Vaz. “I have been a victim and, therefore, I am in full support of the Ministry of Health initiative to rid Port Antonio and its environs of rats, which pose serious health risks to residents. Along with the Portland Municipal Corporation and the business community, I am backing this initiative. I will be providing, in short order, garbage receptacles so that residents can dispose of their waste properly. ”
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Buzzfeed Lists 21 Little-Known but Classic Jamaican Dishes
Buzzfeed explores Classic Jamaican Dishes
When diners think of Jamaica they often think of jerk spices especially as applied to chicken, but there are other classic dishes from the island that can tempt the taste buds of the most discerning foodie. Buzzfeed has helpfully compiled a list of these traditional Jamaican offerings.
The Christmas Cake recipe from Jamaicans.com was featured on Buzzfeed’s list, ranked at Number 20. Christmas Cake is a rum cake, also known as Black Cake, and is a traditional strongly flavored and sweet dessert that includes ground raisins, currants, dates, and prunes soaked in rum and port wine among its ingredients. The fruits soak for several months before being added to the cake and baked in time for the holidays. Enjoyed with friends and family at Christmastime. Sometimes, the cake is frosted with marzipan frosting spiked with rum.
Among the other lesser-known dishes from Jamaica are:
Ackee and Saltfish, the official national dish of Jamaica, which is made with ackee, the national fruit of Jamaica, and a dried and salted version of cod
Sorrel, a red drink made from hibiscus and usually associated with Christmas, but available year round
Festival, a popular fried dough dish
Bammy, a round flat bread made with cassava flour; one of the oldest dishes in Jamaica
Sweet Potato Pone, a type of pudding made with sweet potato, cassava, or cornmeal mixed with spices, sugar, and coconut
Chicken Foot Soup, a soup made with chicken feet, carrots, yams, and boiled dumplings seasoned with Scotch bonnet peppers, thyme and garlic
Cornmeal Porridge, served at breakfast and made of cornmeal mixed with sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, and milk or coconut milk
Rice and Peas, one of the most popular dishes in Jamaica, it is made from rice cooked with beans – either pigeon peas or kidney beans- coconut milk and seasonings
Gizada or Gizzada, a pastry filled with spiced and sweet coconut shreds
Oxtail Stew, a hearty stew made from oxtail, lima beans, and flavored with allspice, thyme and garlic
Irish Moss Drink, a drink made of a red seaweed known as Irish Moss that is washed, dried, and bleached before being flavored with rum, nutmeg, Sinnamon, and coconut milk or condensed milk; a popular superfood on the island that is known for its healing properties
Fried Dumplings, fried dough balls usually eaten at breakfast and made of flour or other starch like cassava flour, cornmeal or grated plantains
Callaloo, popular throughout the Caribbean, this leafy vegetable is prepared by steaming and cooking with salt fish or mackerel, onions, scallions and salt
Stew Peas, the ultimate comfort food, this stew is made from kidney beans and pigtail simmered with coconut milk and spices, then served with dumplings
Grater Cake, a dessert made from grated coconut and sugar, sometimes flavored with ginger
Saltfish Fritters, a breakfast staple in Jamaica made with saltfish coated in flour and fried with onion, garlic and peppers
Peanut Punch, sometimes made with Guinness stout or oats, its main ingredients are peanuts, nutmeg, vanilla extract and choice of milk
Ital Stew, a vegan stew linked to Rastafarian dietary rules, which define ital foods as those that are unprocessed, vegetarian and from the earth; usually made without salt
Jerk Pork, pork meat prepared with jerk seasonings and cooked on a wooden grill or covered pit
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By Dora | December 28, 2014 | Add to Favorites
Platform: Windows, Retail
Categories: action, adventure, affiliate, bioware, console, download, fantasy, game, greenmangaming, origin, ps3, ps4, rating-r, rpg, windows, xbox360, xboxone
If you're at all into Western RPGs, then Bioware is probably a name that makes your heart go pitty-pat. They've been behind some of the most (rightfully) highly praised RPGs of all time, from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic to Baldur's Gate, and they're also responsible for two of the biggest RPG series in recent memories... Mass Effect, and Dragon Age. If you're a fantasy fan, it's the latter that held your heart, and Dragon Age: Inquisition has arrived to devour every scrap of your free time for the foreseeable future. As Inquisition begins, roughly ten years after Dragon Age: Origins, the world is already having its share of problems, when the mages, who have previously lived under lockdown, decide to buck the Templars' control. Things go from rocky to, well, apocalyptic when a massive rift opens in the sky and demons begin pouring out of it. In the middle of all that, literally, comes you. You appear out of nowhere, staggering out of a glowing portal, and suddenly you find yourself named the Herald of Andraste whether you like it or not. Admittedly, when you discover you've got the power to close the rifts opening up all over the realm, it does seem like you're destined for some pretty big things... too bad that means a lot of people want you dead, and you're suddenly saddled with the responsibility of leading the Inquisition to boot. Now you're leading an army, and all you have to do is close that enormous breach in the sky and everything will go back to normal... right? With a daunting amount of play time, huge, open maps filled with quests that span both Ferelden and Orlais, an epic quest with a diverse and fully realized cast, and a massive stronghold to oversee and grow, Dragon Age: Inquisition isn't without its flaws, but is formidable and fun in all the right ways.
While Dragon Age 2 forced you to play as a specific human and limited your character creation to aesthetics and class choices, Inquisition gives you much more freedom. You can now choose your race (and of course still whether to play as male or female) again, playing as either human, elf, dwarf or (finally!) the imposing horned Qunari, and if you like tweaking your character's physical appearance, then prepare to be paralyzed by the sheer amount of options available to you here. How you look doesn't have any impact on the game, of course, but it's nice to be able to really create someone unique. Most of your time is going to be spent exploring some frankly massive maps. Each location you open up around the world is huge, some even containing several towns on top of multitudes of unique sidequests, and every location is different down to the various resources you can gather in them for crafting.
Because every hero needs a place to hang their hat, your base of operations is something you'll be seeing a lot. It's here you'll chat (or maybe flirt?) with your party members, craft or enhance your armor, and perhaps most importantly, organize missions from your War Room. See, there's a lot going on in the world that doesn't necessarily need your direct involvement, but you can dispatch your agents to take care of these issues for various rewards. Different people will, of course, take different approaches to problems, so always take some time to consider who's best for the task at hand. Though your stronghold starts small, later in the game you'll get the chance to improve it dramatically, and its functionality will improve as well. Additionally, you can find and unlock everything from different window styles to banners and more to customise the look of it, because the end of the world can darn well wait for you to rearrange your bedroom for maximum Feng Shui.
Inquisition's Rift mechanic feels a bit like something you'd get if you crossed Defiance's Arkfalls with The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion's Oblivion Gates. When you find one, demons pour out of it in waves until it's destroyed/closed for good thanks to your magic stink finger. Combat, for the most part, hasn't changed from the first two games, though a lot of the other underlying mechanics have. You can now only carry a very few potions, for example, shared throughout the party, and when those run out you need to either run back to camp to resupply, or hope you stumble across a rare supple cache because potions are never dropped as loot. It's a hard limit that makes certain battles and dungeons very difficult. Character progression has also been simplified, sort of, in a way that makes crafting items more important. You don't get to distribute attribute points to things like strength or cunning anymore... those can only be permanently increased by unlocking certain spells or abilities, so creating or enhancing weapons and armor with crafting components that apply the proper bonuses you need for your party is a big deal. You can of course still buy or find equipment, but the game is going to shove a lot of schematics at you, and the things you make yourself will almost always be better than what you can find or buy.
Analysis: One of the biggest changes in Inquisition is the way each area has evolved and grown. It's not just that they're big, though they certainly do convey a sense of scope and scale the previous games just didn't, it's that they flesh out the world as a whole. They do suffer a little from padding, with much of your time spent trundling about for resources or fighting off scores of enemy spawns, but they're sprawling and beautiful and filled with secrets and quests enough to keep you busy for hours in each one. Likewise, while the story's basic concept of gathering an army to thwart a big ancient evil is nothing new, the way it unfolds is fantastic. Pivotal cutscenes have a fantastic sense of cinema and drama that's downright jaw-dropping in places, and you really get a sense of high stakes. A lot of games have you play the hero on whose shoulders the fate of the world rests, but Inquisition makes you really feel and realize it the way few others ever have as more people, not just soldiers but civilians, rally around you. There's a scene partway through the game featuring a song that gets taken up by your entire army that should be cheesy, but instead raises goosebumps because of how masterfully it's executed and what came before it.
If you held on to your save file from the original games or built one using the online Tapestry, Inquisition will import your choices from those games and alter its world accordingly. For the most part, the impact this has feels relatively minor. It's neat to see what a character you may have helped as the Hero of Ferelden is doing now, or what Hawke, your hero/ine from Dragon Age 2, has been up to, but little of it is substantial or significant enough to really get you excited to load up with an entirely different save file for your next playthrough. The choices you make in Inquisition range from minor to major as you'd expect, but there aren't quite as many of them in the grand scheme of things. Largely, your most frequent choices come down to deciding how to react to something or simply whether to help someone, though there are instances where you'll be forced to pick sides and render judgement. If you're a Bioware fan, one of your most important decisions is likely going to be who you want to romance, and the progression of these relationships feels refreshingly natural. For the most part, triggering them comes down to choosing flirty or otherwise romantic, so you can simply ignore them completely if you choose, but it'll be a long time before anything even slightly serious comes of it.
Inquisition's romance options are refreshingly diverse, featuring characters who are straight, gay, or bisexual, and if the notion of gay or bi romance isn't for you, well, opt not to flutter your eyelashes at someone of the opposite sex when the option is given. Bioware has rightly been given a lot of approving nods over the inclusion of their first trans character, even if he only exists in a minor role, but I'm still going to have to deduct a few points for not having Varric as a romance option. Your party members actually feel a little more well-rounded that some previous Bioware titles, so it isn't always easy to tell what will make them happy or upset them as opposed to, say, Origins' Morrigan who scowled whenever you held the door for someone. Instead, their attitudes towards your actions feel more realistically driven by circumstance than a simple matter of being arbitrarily good or bad.
On the gameplay side of things, Inquisition has clearly tried to give itself a bit more of an open-world feel with its enormous areas, but it also feels as if it's become more combat focused as a result. Those huge maps tend to have many more enemies than anything else, and most of the quests you'll encounter revolve around either killing enemies, tramping to different locations and claiming them for the Inquisition by dropping a standard, or slaying your way through the countryside while you pick up certain amounts of resources. The addition of mounts helps get around quicker, but riding on horseback fails to offer any real excitement, besides the way your party members vanish until you hop down, so don't expect to get too attached to your little pony. While there are towns and cities, there often isn't very much to do in them, and they're dwarfed by the amount of time you spend wandering around the wilds. That exploration and combat feels like it overshadows everything else, and even the way most conversations are now conducted through a strangely impersonal camera angle means Inquisition doesn't feel quite as intimate an adventure as its predecessors.
While there are a truly daunting amount of sidequests, it almost seems like less would have been more. If sacrificing even a fifth of the simple "fetch this thing for that person" or "find X amount of this resource" quests meant the rest would have been fleshed out more, the game might have been even stronger for it. Few of the optional quests really stand out or are particularly memorable, mostly serving simply to make you stronger or give you treasure, so even completionists who normally can't bear to leave an area until every single thing possible is finished might get quest fatigue after a while. In an era where big budget games seem to be getting shorter and shorter, however, complaining that one game has so much to do in it is sort of the ultimate entitled gamer problem. There is still a tremendous amount to do that is exciting, fun, and even frequently extremely funny or unexpectedly moving. Stumble across a stormswept battle between a giant and a dragon, judge the fate of a man charged with the heinous crime of chucking goats at your walls, delve into the ugly family matters of your most seemingly flippant party member... hey, I can put up with picking bouquets of elfroot if it means I get all that and more.
It's ridiculously to get lost in Inquisition. It's a beautiful, beautiful game, with stunning environmental design and landscapes swept by rain or drenched with sun through the leaves. The soundtrack relies a lot on ambient sound, but the melodies when they do appear tend to be beautiful, and of course the voice acting is as fantastic as you'd expect. Dragon Age: Inquisition is a behemoth of a game that delivers on virtually everything it sets out to do. It's a cinematic epic filled with all the things that prove Bioware's people are masters of their craft... hard choices, diverse characters you'll grow to care about, and a world rich in lore and history. And, yes, you'll get to knock around a dragon or two. Or be knocked around by one. Probably the latter more than once.
Try Boot Camp or Parallels or CrossOver Games.
neo1973 • December 29, 2014 9:06 PM
They should have named it "Dragon Age: Skyrim Edition".
The evolution of the Dragon Age series has been from Fallout style RPG, then to more hack-n-slash, followed by even more hack-n-slash, and now this... Skyrim wannabe.
I didn't like the pace of Skyrim, I don't care for this version of the game either. The tactics camera is at best clumsy and odd, at worst simply broken. Every you switch to a character to control their tactics, either they are on cooldown or out of mana. Super frustrating.
Further, the game opening chapter is almost 3 hours long, filled with lengthy (though inconsequential) dialogue and cut-scenes.
If you liked Skyrim, I'd say give it a whirl. If you are looking for more of the same as the last DA games, you might want to rent this one first.
Alex M • December 30, 2014 5:20 PM replied to neo1973
How did it go through four iterations across three games?
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By Dora | June 24, 2013 | Add to Favorites
Rating: 4.3/5 (476 votes)
Categories: bombocracker, browser, flash, free, game, linux, mac, platform, puzzle, rating-g, windows
Don't be afraid of the dark! Bombocracker's platforming puzzle game Night Lights may seem a little eerie, but shine a little light on things and you'll find there's nothing to be afraid of at all. Use the [WASD] or [arrow] keys to walk and jump, and head for the exit at the end of each level. The catch is that in the dark, hazards like spikes can appear and be harmful, and while the light can get rid of some of them, it can also reveal gaps in ground you could walk across when no light shone on it. Though you'll have to rely on a lot of stationary light sources to change the environment for you, some levels will also grant you a lamp, which can be picked up or put down with [X] and turned on by holding down [C], giving you a comforting, portable glow you can even use to weigh down switches.
It's a simple concept, but it's executed very well here, thanks in no small part to a gorgeous little art style and a perfect moody soundtrack that was even created by the developer. The challenge is that not every type of object behaves the same way, so while most of the spikes in a row may vanish when you turn on your lantern, some patches may not. The same goes for boxes, and for some players, being unable to tell at a glance what's going to be invisible under light might be frustrating. It means you have to proceed slowly and carefully, which chafes somewhat if you're more of a LEEEEEROY JENKINS kind of player. Night Lights, however, really is the sort of game that you want to slow down with anyway. The small, carefully designed levels do a lot with a handful of elements to provide an experience that's challenging, but not hair-rippingly so, and the result is the sort of charming, thoughtful little puzzler that fits right into a snack-sized portion of your time... day or night.
Play Night Lights
keeggeek974 • June 24, 2013 3:03 PM
"Oh the night life ain't no good life, but it's my life!" err sorry that's night light not life. Loved the game original in my opinion and well executed. Nice find Dora!
SrPilha • June 25, 2013 6:43 AM
hey, very nice one! perfect balance of cute and light challenge, and I swear I didn't think of that pun beforehand.
LuckyDee • June 25, 2013 1:24 PM
I quit after about 10 attempts at level 8: it's so easy to nudge the blocks just ever so slightly too far, forcing you to reset the level because you can't squeeze in between the wall and the block in order to push it back anymore.
The controls/physics could do with some finetuning, but other than that, great game, from the Nitromoid sounds and graphics to the puzzles themselves.
lorenlang • June 26, 2013 6:53 AM
I can't even figure out how to get the blocks to drop on level 8. (It must be possible, right? It's in the picture above...) I've tried everything I can think of. What am I missing?
@lorenlang: it's a sneaky one.
Contrary to what you see, the blocks aren't the same...
eamurdock • June 27, 2013 11:38 PM
Great game. The only really hard level was 15, but some good puzzling along the way.
Fanjita • June 29, 2013 3:24 PM
The fact that you have to guess in a few levels what is safe and what isn't ruined this for me. Puzzling shouldn't be about guess work.
Marnen Laibow-Koser • July 1, 2013 10:19 PM
Interesting game; reminiscent of Closure (which I still think is one of the best games ever). My only complaint is that there's too much guesswork.
damon • November 6, 2015 9:55 PM
No walkthrough? A crime that must be solved!
each level answer will be marked in separate spoiler tags.
Note: these are complete solutions, so remember that.
Here goes.
Pretty easy, but it's a tutorial level, so it makes sense.
Move to the right out of the spotlight. The switch near the short wall turns on another spotlight to reveal the passageway to the exit, but none of the switches stay down unless something's on them. (You, the lantern, or a block) Get used to that. Jump over the short wall and stand on the other switch, which turns on the spotlight above, and drops a real block to the floor. Hop back over the short wall, push the block against it (holding down the switch) and hop through the hole revealed by the spotlight to reach the exit.
Notice that the moving spotlight reveals two holes (one above your current area, one on it) and that the spikes aren't real. One problem: even if things aren't real, they can still kill you if you touch them while in shadow yourself. So to avoid dying on the spikes, follow the spotlight through them.
You can't climb up the ladder all the way, because it isn't truly real. So dismount at the higher platform where the block is, and push it so it lands on the button far below when the spotlight reveals the holes. (If it misses the button, that's ok, but you'll have to go down there and push it on properly, then follow the moving spotlight through the shadow-spikes again) Once the only switch in this level is pressed, the left-facing spotlight removing the top of the shadow ladder turns off, allowing you to climb the ladder all the way up to the exit.
A lantern! Cool, a portable light source! Also a portable weight. Follow the instructions and press "X" to pick up the lamp. This thing will be your best friend in the levels to come, but unfortunately cannot be carried from level to level. Anyway, follow the instructions again and hold "C" to turn it on. Release "C" to turn it off. Couldn't be simpler. Hold "C" and find the hole in the box you're in. (It's right above the "hold 'C'" instructions) Fall through and keep the thing on to pass by the shadow-spikes. When you get to the switch, turn the lantern off and press "X" again to put it down on the button and turn off the spotlight, thus revealing a shadow-ladder leading to the exit.
Ooh, deadly darts! Not good. Don't think of bringing the lantern down there, the darts are real and WILL kill you. Anyway, go right and pick up the lantern, then go left with it on to reveal a hole in the walkway. Drop through, but quickly turn the lantern off once you're past the first hole so you don't drop through the second one below it and get killed by the darts. Go over to the block (with the lantern still off, mind you!) and push it above the switch on the right. Go ahead and turn on the lantern now. (Make sure you're left of the block so you don't get a dart to the belly.) You and the block will fall to the lowest platform. If you positioned the block correctly, it should simultaneously guard you from the darts, and keep the button pressed, which unblocks the passage behind you; the one leading to the ladder. It's ok to turn the lantern off now. Go over and stand on the other switch, (which unblocks the exit) and leave the lantern there. Exit.
This level has your first shadow-block (it's the farthest one) and three walls blocking the exit. The three switches get rid of these walls, so you'll need to keep all three down. To do so, first pick up the lantern if you haven't already, and go over to the closest block. Turn the lantern on, and you and the block should fall to the lower level. Push the block onto one of the buttons and leave it there. Now, you can either leave the lantern on the other button, or take it with you. I like to do the latter, since it makes for a faster descent then climbing down. Either way, climb up the ladder, and push the shadow-block to the switch on the upper platform. If you have the lantern, be sure not to turn it on here, or the block will disappear and you'll fall unless you're on the leftmost part of the platform. Once the shadow-block is on the switch, go back down to the lower platform (The lantern can be used to fall down there, if you prefer) and leave the lantern on the remaining switch, if you didn't already. Leave.
Ok, this one can be tricky if you don't know what's going on. The block right in front of you is actually a shadow-block, so it'll disappear if the spotlight touches it, leaving you pushing nothing. In any case, push the block a bit, then retreat from the light so you don't fall into the spikes. Once the light returns right, go back and continue to push the shadow-block. when the light comes again, this time jump in place as it passes, and then leave the shadow block on the switch, which allows you to grab the lantern. Turn it on to pass the shadow-spikes, but watch out! Four of them are actually real, and will need to be jumped over. Try to jump as the spotlight opens up more room above your head. It isn't necessary, but it helps if you're afraid you won't clear those spikes. Make sure your lantern is on the entire time, of course. Leave the lantern on the button to unblock the door, and exit.
Pick up the lantern, but DON'T TURN IT ON YET! If you do, you'll fall into the spikes. Not good. The closest switch turns on the spotlight on the right side of the level, the switch past it moves that light up and down its wall as long as it's pressed. Hold the second button down, and move the light as far down as it will go. (If you have it right, when the light is on, it should remove the entire lower section of the shadow-spiked wall) Keep the lantern, and use it to drop the block from the higher platform to the lower. Push the block onto the light switch and leave it there. Then climb the ladder again and leave the lantern on the third switch, which unblocks the door. Exit.
The three blocks on the uppermost platform are not all the same. The rightmost one is actually a shadow-block, so ignore the two switches at ground level for now and go up there and push it as far to the right as you can, leaving a space big enough so you can push it left later. Push the middle block near it, then go back down to the ground-floor switches. Like the previous level, one moves the left-facing spotlight up and down on its wall, the other turns it on. Unlike the last level, neither of these buttons need to be kept down. Anyway, move the light up to the highest platform and turn it on so the real block you put next to the shadow-block falls down one level. While you're at it, move the light down to the second level and drop the block to the third. Then go up there and push it onto the switch. Go back up to the highest platform and push the remaining real block near the shadow block, and drop it down like before. Push the real block onto the next switch, then push the shadow-block (you did leave enough space, right?) onto the topmost button, finally unblocking the door. Leave.
The two buttons on the ground floor remove walls that are blocking the door high above you. You can't see it from here, though. The button on the step moves the lit spotlight up and down along its wall. Yeah, that's a theme here. Anyway, go ahead and stand on the button for a while. As you do, you'll notice that one small part of the ladder is real. Leave the spotlight directed at that section, and climb all the way up to grab the lantern. Notice the button near it that removes the third blocking wall. You'll have to put the lantern here when you're done with it. In any case, go down and push one of the blocks (it doesn't matter which one you do first, but be mindful of the gap. It's kinda tricky) onto the spikes, then drop onto it and turn the lantern on to remove the spikes (and the platform underneath them) and drop the block to the ground floor. You'll fall in front of the block, so go over to one side and push it onto one of the switches. Then go up and do the same with the other block. (Careful you don't step on the light mover button) Once both blocks are on the switches, go up to where you found the lantern, and put it on the button you noticed earlier. Leave.
You're on the home stretch! 5 more levels after this one!
here, you have another moving spotlight removing a line of shadow-spikes, just like in level 2. However, this light moves quite faster than the level 2 light. You may have to jump forward a few times to keep up. Once you make it, climb the ladder, then jump over the block and pick up the lantern. Push the block onto the switch, which removes a blocking wall near the door. The platform nearest the ladder is just shadow, but the spikes underneath it are all too real. Instead of dropping through, go past the shadow-spikes under the quickly-moving lamp again; which is exactly like before, except now you can go at your own pace thanks to your trusty lantern. Back near the beginning of the level, just past the spotlight's range, is another hole blocked with a shadowy platform. Drop down and keep that lantern on to subvert the shadow-spikes and drop into the small passageway with the switch. Put the lantern on it to remove the last blocking wall, and go on to the next level.
Ah yes, this one. You have to push the blocks onto points where the downward-facing and upward facing spotlights combined give them the most-uninterrupted path to the outer switches. (The inner switches move the spotlights) The left block is fine just being positioned right over its outer switch, but the right block will have to trek a bit further; place it a square or two left of the inward-protruding upper-right corner. Then line up the spotlights to roughly where the blocks are to drop them straight through. Push the rightmost block onto its outer switch, and go on.
One of my favorites cause it's nice and short, but it requires quite a lot of guesswork. Allow me to do it for you. Pick up the lantern, and stand just under the center of the right side indent in the ceiling before turning it on and falling through the platform and the shadow-spikes below. If you lined yourself up correctly, you'll land on a three-square real platform if you don't turn off the lantern just before landing. Turn it off now, though, and stand just to the right of the switch you can see below before turning it on again and falling down there. Put the lantern on the switch and leave.
Another favorite, cause the idea is ingenious. Once again, one of the buttons moves the spotlight along the ceiling, and the other turns it on. Position the light above the block on the left, then turn it on to drop the block. Drop the block on the right, too. Then, put both blocks on the buttons. Stand on one, (it's ok if the block's centered on the button) and use it as a stepping stone to jump to the center platform once it's awash in light and the shadow-spikes vanish. Then jump to one of the "staircases." The switch on the left moves the light if you didn't put both blocks on the switches, but if you did, it stops the light. Kinda useless, in that case. Anyway, the light will dispel the wall blocking the door as just shadow, so pass the shadow-wall when it's gone to leave.
One more after this! Those darts shooting out are just shadows, so pick up the lantern and head for the ladder with it on. (The switches next to the spotlight turn off the shadow-darts and unblock the door, respectively. However, putting the lantern on them won't do you any good) Put the lantern on the switch up the ladder, which turns off the spotlight and reveals a shadow-block where you started. Climb the entire length of the ladder, then go across the overhanging platform, and push the shadow-block onto the button that turns off the dart shooter. With the danger gone, go retrieve the lantern, climb the ladder, and drop off the overhang again. Now, here you have two choices. Either: 1) put the lantern on the button that unblocks the door and go through (which is most likely what the creators intended) or 2) Push the shadow-block onto that button and use the lantern to pass by the shadow-darts and leave with it. This is the only level where you can actually leave with the lantern, but as I said before, it doesn't carry over anyway.
This is it, the final level... and it sure looks that way. The shadow-box near you is currently protecting you from the shadow-darts, (as evidenced by the fact that they don't show up in the spotlight) so good for it. Push it into the spotlight, but don't go too far. The shadow-block continues to protect you from the shadow-darts, even though you can't see it now. Go up the ladder, and push the real block through the spotlight (And technically, the shadow-block itself) and park it just above the two buttons you can see below the platform, just past the lantern (need I tell you to pick it up?) Turn on the lantern, and the block should fall in a hole. If you don't, go drop in. Make sure your lantern is still on until you go in there to avoid being spiked by a dart. Push the block onto the right button to remove a blocking wall, and stand on the button left of that to move the spotlight. Move it 'till it's illuminating the hole, then leave the area left and climb the ladder there to go push the shadow-block into the spotlight again. Move the spotlight to the left of the shadow block, then go around again and push it onto the button closest to the shadow-dart shooter. This will remove another blocking wall.
To remove the last wall, first, re-position the spotlight illuminating the hole. Then, go left and put the lantern on the remaining button. (not the light mover) Climb up to the middle pathway for the last time, drop into the hole, and leave to finish the game. You did it!
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Two years later, they went up again and quickly established themselves as a decent Second Division side throughout the s, although they still failed to clinch that elusive First Division place, despite the introduction of the playoffs in the second half of the decade, which gave teams finishing as low as fifth and eventually sixth the chance of winning promotion.
At the time of the creation of the FA Premier League in , Barnsley had been Football League members for 94 years but had still not reached the top flight.
They were, at least, in a decent position to make that breakthrough, as members of the new Division One as the old Second Division was now called.
They finished 10th a year later before finally emerging as serious promotion contenders in the —97 season , finally clinching runners-up spot and automatic promotion and gaining the top flight place that they had spent 99 years trying to win.
Barnsley lasted just one season in the Premier League but did not go down without a brave fight, and they did reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup , famously defeating Manchester United in the fifth round.
Wilson then departed to take over at Sheffield Wednesday , being succeeded as Barnsley manager by veteran striker John Hendrie , who had been a key player in the promotion-winning team.
Barnsley were the only team from outside the Premier League to reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup in the —99 season , but had a disappointing season in Division One , never really looking like winning promotion and eventually finishing a dismal 13th in the final table.
Hendrie was then replaced as manager by Dave Bassett , who rejuvenated the team and took them to fourth place in — , but they lost in the playoff final to Ipswich Town.
In the following years Barnsley were not as successful, with relegation to Division Two in and administration both threatening the existence of the club.
Barnsley suffered greatly due to the ITV Digital crisis. Doyle has since left the club, leaving Gordon Shepherd and local businessman Patrick Cryne in control.
Barnsley had the distinction of playing in the last play-off final at Wembley before the stadium was closed for redevelopment, [7] and in won in a play-off final at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff , where they beat Swansea City 4—3 on penalties 2—2 after extra-time to earn promotion to the Championship.
The manager at this time was Andy Ritchie , who was in his first season in charge after replacing Paul Hart. The team struggled in their first season back in the Championship.
Davey managed to steer the team away from relegation in the second half of the season, and the eventually finished 20th.
The following season, a much-changed Barnsley side managed a historic FA Cup run, beating Premier League giants Liverpool 2—1 at Anfield and defending champions Chelsea 1—0 to reach the semi-finals for the first time since , where they narrowly lost out 1—0 to fellow Championship side Cardiff City at Wembley.
Barnsley narrowly avoided relegation from the Championship that season, and after a disappointing start to the —10 season Simon Davey.
In May , after a difficult —11 season, Robins resigned as manager due to a dispute over the budget for the following season. In September , Barnsley were caught up in an ongoing scandal in English football, with assistant manager Tommy Wright alleged to have accepted "bungs" in exchange for working as an ambassador for a third-party player ownership consortium.
Wright was initially suspended before being sacked by Barnsley on 28 September. Indian investor Neerav Parekh and baseball legend Billy Beane have also bought part of the club as part of the international investor consortium.
Barnsley were relegated back to the third tier in —18 , after finishing 22nd. Barnsley have spent more seasons at the second level of English football than any other team and on 3 January became the first club to achieve 1, wins in the second level of English football with a 2—1 home victory over Coventry City.
Barnsley are also the first club to play 3, games in second-level league football W, D, L The name, Oakwell, originates from the well and oak tree that were on the stadium site when first built.
Oakwell is a multi-purpose sports development in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, used primarily by Barnsley Football Club for playing their home fixtures, and their reserves.
Until the stadium and the vast amount of land that surrounds it was owned by Barnsley Football Club themselves; however, after falling into administration in the council purchased the main Oakwell Stadium to allow the club to pay its creditors and remain participants in The Football League.
Barnsley have played their home games in red shirts for most of their history. The team first wore their now traditional red shirts in Since this time, the team has worn red shirts often with a white trim.
In more recent times a black trim has sometimes been used. As with most football clubs the shirt design varies from season to season. One particular design that stands out is the —90 season shirt which featured white stars on a red background and has been named as one of the worst shirts ever.
Sponsors names and logos were first worn in the —81 season and the club has had 12 different sponsors on the shirt in total. Since manufacturers logos were added to the shirt in the —77 season, the club has 12 different kit manufacturers.
Traditionally, the team has worn white shorts sometimes with red or black trim for their home games with the only recent exceptions coming in the early years of the 20th century.
One other notable exception came in the Division One Playoff Final against Ipswich Town , where the team wore red shorts, thus having an all-red strip.
Again, the design changes from season to season. For —11 the kit was the traditional red, with white trim. The main design was the Barnsley Building Society eagle logo, a return to the design from — In the —16 Play Off Final, Barnsley wore the new home kit for the —17 season, but with black shorts.
In the —17 season, the home shirt was the traditional red, with a white Puma logo and club badge on the chest area. There was a white Puma logo on each shoulder.
The shorts was all white with a red Puma logo and club badge on the front. The socks of the upcoming —17 season were very much like the socks that Barnsley wore when they were promoted to the Premier League.
The most common colour for the away shirt has been white but many others have been used, including blue, yellow, black, ecru , dark green and even black and blue stripes.
One notable away strip was the —02 "Its just like watching Brazil" kit, where the team wore the colours of the 5-time World Cup winners Brazil for their away games.
In the —17 season, the away shirt was a navy blue, with a gold Puma logo and club badge on the chest area. There is a gold Puma logo on each shoulder.
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Train services are provided by Northern. Northbound there is a half-hourly express service to Leeds which takes around 35 minutes augmented by a slower service via Castleford which takes around 50 minutes.
There is an hourly service to Huddersfield via the Penistone Line. Southbound there are four trains per hour to Meadowhall Interchange and Sheffield, two of which are local stopping services and two of which are express.
One service per hour continues to Chesterfield and Nottingham. Evenings and Sundays there is a less frequent service. Barnsley College is one of the largest further and higher education establishments in Europe [ citation needed ] and is situated on a number of sites throughout the town centre, chiefly the Old Mill Lane Site, Eastgate House, The Sci Tech Centre, the Honeywell Site and the Construction centre.
This is known as the University Centre Barnsley. Barnsley is home to a tradition of brass bands , which were originally created as social clubs for the mining communities.
Barnsley has long been known as Tarn by locals. His film The Price of Coal was set at a fictional Milton colliery in the Barnsley area, although the site of filming was Thorpe Hesley , near Rotherham.
There is a live rock and hip hop music scene, which reached its height in the Britpop years, around , due to its close proximity to Sheffield and Manchester.
Barnsley is the home of several live music venues such as The Underground , Shambles St and formerly hosted the Barnsley Origin Music festival BOMfest , an outdoor summer music festival which catered for local and national artists which made the Daily Telegraph top U.
Summer festivals in It is situated in Elsecar Heritage Centre and curates eight contemporary art exhibitions per year. The HIVE programme ranges from supporting emerging contemporary artists to exhibiting the work of nationally and internationally known artists.
The Civic, in Barnsley town centre, is a multi-purpose performance venue in a grade II listed building, The Civic was re-opened in March after a major redevelopment.
Barnsley is twinned with: Their home ground, Oakwell Stadium is situated in Oakwell , just outside the town centre.
The club has had a mixed recent history. In the late s they had a brief spell in the Premier League , but were relegated after one season.
Subsequent seasons saw them relegated to the third tier of English football; they were promoted to the second tier in , beating Swansea in the play off final.
After two seasons, Barnsley regained a place in the second tier, following a victory at Wembley in the Football League One play-off Final , and the winners of the Football League Trophy Final.
Speedway racing was staged at a track near Barnsley at Lundwood. The track entered a team in the Northern Leagues of and Rugby league is played in the town, at a number of clubs, past and present.
This however failed to materialise leaving only one club to represent the town. Like Dodworth and Hoyland , they participate in the Pennine League.
Also based at the Miners Welfare, Barnsley Broncos were set up to play in the less intense summer season. Shaw Lane is the home to many sports in town, cricket, rugby union, squash, bowls, football, athletics and archery are all played to a high standard and host many of the towns teams including Barnsley CC and Barnsley RUFC.
Peoples Sport in Barnsley is a project writing the history of participation in sport in Barnsley is in progress and is expected to be complete in Ardsley Golf Club, Barnsley, now defunct first appeared in the s.
The club disappeared at the onset of the Second World War. There are a number of cycling clubs in and around Barnsley, including Barnsley Road Club itself, the long-established Birdwell Wheelers and Team Cystic Fibrosis a charity-focused team , together covering many different forms of cycle sport and leisure.
There have also been various other initiatives set up to promote cycling in the town and district of Barnsley. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Barnsley is twinned with: Their home ground, Oakwell Stadium is situated in Oakwell , just outside the town centre. The club has had a mixed recent history.
In the late s they had a brief spell in the Premier League , but were relegated after one season. Subsequent seasons saw them relegated to the third tier of English football; they were promoted to the second tier in , beating Swansea in the play off final.
There have also been various other initiatives set up to promote cycling in the town and district of Barnsley.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the larger local government district, see Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley. For other uses, see Barnsley disambiguation.
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We go to Berlin for a long weekend. It is February, snowing.
We visit the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Afterwards, I return to the hotel to rest. My brain is full of numbers, starting with 2,711 grey concrete slabs.
He pulls the curtains closed. “We shouldn’t have started with the memorial,” he says. “We should have eased ourselves in.”
“How do you ease yourself into an apocalypse?”
“We should have gone to a pub first,” he says, leaving.
I stir at the sound of the hotel door opening. He has bought bread, cheese and wine.
“I figured you didn’t want to go out,” he says.
He leans down and kisses my cheek. The evening cold comes off him. He smells of beer.
My toes are numb from walking through the snow, but that can’t be possible when I have been in bed for hours. He sits on the bed and shows me photos on his phone from his walk. Snowflakes fall white and blurry past the screen, the camera capturing their fast descent, like comets with long tails.
We go to the Neue Wache to see the pietà sculpture Mother with her Dead Son.
“Is there anything sadder?” I say.
He looks at me. “Would you rather go shopping?”
I hear the irony but I say, “Yes.”
We walk to Wittenberg Square and go to Kaufhaus des Westens, the “Department Store of the West”. It is warm, white, clean. Bowie sings “Heroes” and even Bowie has died.
He buys me a woollen blue scarf that is cashmere, beyond soft and far too expensive. While we wait in line for the cashier, he winds the scarf around and around my neck.
“You don’t have to buy this for me,” I say.
“I know. I want to. Okay?”
He pulls the ends tight, tighter still. I feel the pressure on my throat and I want him to pull tighter again.
The blue scarf is flecked with green and lilac. It makes me think of gardens, lakes, “Waterlilies”, of the world in 1920 when Monet painted, rather than here in 1939-1945, or 1961-1989.
We eat currywurst and he tells me this is Berlin’s street food. I know he’d rather we were sitting in a gutter in some tiny village in Vietnam eating wow-I-didn’t-know-you-could-eat-this-species food, but we are here with chopped Bratwurst, curry powder, ketchup and a side of fries.
The lights at the top of the Fernsehturm flicker red, white, red, white.
“I love television towers,” I say.
He laughs. He takes my hands, blows on them and rubs them between his gloved hands.
“Where are your gloves?” he says.
Sometimes I don’t wear them when we walk because of this.
We go to a bar that is underground, like most cool places in Berlin. But then I think of bunkers and small, glass vials of cyanide.
“Do you think we could just have a drink?” he says.
My purple, silk dress rustles when I move. His hand on my shoulder and his hip against mine, he heats the silk until it is hot, electric.
I touch my fingers to the window in our hotel room and it is frozen, the snow falling on the other side of the glass. He slides the zipper of my dress down slowly, all the way down my spine, and I hear it, tooth by tooth.
One wall of our hotel room is painted deepest, darkest red.
“I know what you’re doing,” he says. “You have to stop thinking about death.”
I laugh. “What an extraordinary thing to say. How can I not think about it?”
“You’re depressed,” he says.
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I stick out my tongue to taste the snow as it falls.
“How many metres do you think it fell to reach me?” I say.
“Why do you wonder about things like that?” he says.
In bed, I shake and shake.
He holds me. “What’s wrong? I’ll call an ambulance?”
My spine, my limbs, all of me moves. I cannot stop.
He puts me in the shower and I sit on the floor, my legs unsteady, hollow. My stomach is empty. He searches on his phone while holding the showerhead over me and makes the water cool, then hot, then lukewarm, then tepid.
“Everyone says something different,” he says, still looking at his phone.
“What are you searching for?” I say.
“Convulsions. Fitting. Seizures. Epilepsy.”
I push my face into the stream of water. It hurts — icy needles. My teeth bite and grind against each other.
“Make it hot,” I say.
He dresses me in a T-shirt, pyjama pants. He bends down in front of me, on his knees, and pulls on my socks for me. I put on his hoodie and smell him, the plane, home. I wind the scarf around my neck and my hands. He asks me in ten different ways to go to the hospital and I say no, each time.
We approach a church, St Anthony’s. I don’t tell him that St Anthony is the patron saint of lost things.
“I want to go inside,” I say.
He looks at me. “What? Why? Is this one supposed to be good?”
He tips his head back to survey the church and I know he is evaluating architectural merit, cultural significance, relevance.
I step inside and it is quiet. There are only a few people in the pews, each with hands joined and head bowed. They are islands.
I pay one Euro into the old, wooden box, and light a candle. I don’t know who or what to pray for. Other candles gutter there, bright, beneath the statue of St Mary. She is too white, Caucasian, not historically accurate. I know that. But she watches me above the sea of candles and she is the expression of everything I want and cannot say.
Melissa Goode’s work has recently appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Whiskey Paper, New World Writing, Split Lip Magazine, Atticus Review, Blue Fifth Review, and (b)OINK, among others. She lives in Australia. You can find her here: www.melissagoode.com and at twitter.com/melgoodewriter
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Lasell Men’s Soccer shut out by Salve Regina
Salve Regina (13-0-2) 1 1 2
Lasell (3-9-2) 0 0 0
1st - 21:22 - Donald Igo (Salve Regina)
2nd - 79:10 - Donald Igo (Salve Regina)
G: Donald Igo - 2
Sh: Matthew O'Donnell - 5
Sv: Michael Payan - 2
Sh: Jake Oullette - 2
Sv: Jackson Burhans - 4
NEWTON, Mass. – Junior Donald Igo (Needham, Mass.) scored two goals Saturday afternoon as Salve Regina University defeated Lasell College, 2-0, in a non-conference men's soccer contest at Taylor Field.
The Seahawks kept their unbeaten season alive, improving to 13-0-2 overall, while Lasell drops to 3-9-2.
Prior to the game Lasell honored six seniors for their contributions to the program. Connor Wall (East Hampton, Conn.), Matt Ferris (Wethersfield, Conn.), Abel AlCantar (Revere, Mass.) Sawyer Geelan (Guilford, Conn.) Carter Migre (Halifax, Mass.) and Jordan Bowman (Haverhill, Mass.) have each dedicated time and hard work to the Lasell men's soccer program during their careers.
Salve Regina took a 1-0 lead in the 22nd minute, as junior Donald Igo (Needham, Mass.) capitalized on a pass from Owen Stevenson (Middletown, Conn.)
Near the end of the first half, in the 44th minute, Lasell freshman Jake Oullette (East Granby, Conn.) had his second shot of the game, but was unable to find the back-of-the-net.
In the second half, the Salve Regina defense kept the Lasers without a shot. Igo added his second goal of the game with just over 10 minutes remaining.
Between the pipes for the Lasers, juniors Teo Cugno (Medford, Mass.) and Jackson Burhans (Berlin, N.Y.) each played added 45 minutes of action. Cugno stopped three shots in the first half, while Burhans made four saves in the second half. Salve Regina's Michael Payan (Fort Lee, N.J.) made two saves to secure the Seahawks victory.
The Lasers travel to Keene State on Monday October 15th at 7:00 p.m. Salve Regina heads to Wentworth for a 7:00 p.m. match-up on Wednesday October 17th.
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Lucie Bochon | Reporter
Nov. 18, 2015; 11 p.m.
Students came together to support each other.
Photo by Nao Enomoto
Having a moment to remember the victims of terrorist attacks in Paris last week was important to French student Pauline Teruin, who is from Aix-en-Provence.
“It was important for us to have a moment to remember all the people killed during those attacks, not only in Paris but everywhere else it happened those past days,” Teruin said.
Lindenwood students, moved by the tragic death of innocent civilians in Paris, organized a candlelight vigil to mourn the victims of those terrorist attacks at the pavilion on Monday.
“I no longer understood the world we live in,” Teruin said.
Vincent Sorba, from Ajaccio, said that being present to the vigil was important to him.
“It was a way of connecting with France while being so far from our country,” Sorba said. “A way of mourning collectively and somehow lighten our fears and worries by standing as a community.”
After saying a few words in French at the vigil, French professor Heather Brown-Hudson addressed the audience in English to express empathy and mourning to all victims of terrorism attacks across the world.
“We shall not rank global tragedies against one another, we shall crack open the frame of reference and expand it,” Brown-Hudson said. “We are all here united as a cooperative body of humans who, despite coming from so many different communities, culture and regions, are collectively moved by the atrocities that unfolded this week.”
French students gathered to sing the French anthem before each member of the audience lit up a candle in memory of the victims.
Many students and staff members were present to mourn together, with a majority being French students. France has the the third largest international community at Lindenwood, with 61 French students currently enrolled this semester.
Below is an audio clip of Lindenwood French students singing the French national anthem at the vigil:
https://lindenlink.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/FrenchAnthem.mp3
Several students contacted before and after the vigil shared their thoughts about the attacks.
Several local news outlets came to Lindenwood to cover the vigil.
Photo by Lucie Bochon
Yassine Kechida, from Paris, learned the news of the attacks through social media.
“I was lucky because I didn’t have anybody in my family who got touched by those attacks, but I know some friends that lost a member of their family,” Kechida said.
French student Marie Caroline Serre said she was couldn’t believe the news.
“I was shocked and then horrified that such crimes could be committed,” Serre said. “I cannot even find the words right now to describe how I’ve been feeling for the last couple of days, because this should not be happening.”
The tragedy not only moved French students, but many other students from different countries.
Below is an audio clip of organizer Geddy Avery’s speech to the crowd, which was part of the vigil:
https://lindenlink.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Student.mp3
Brook Philips, from the U.S., said she is distressed and devastated by the Paris terrorist attacks.
“It’s a blow to our country since that region has really been affected by stuff that happens to us,” Phillips said. “I feel like Americans are also affected by what happens to them (France), because we’ve had that bond for so long.”
Geddy Avery speaks to the crowd about remebering the victims of the recent terrorist attacks.
Photo by Lucie Brochon
Tara Rajesh, from Denmark, said she is concerned about terrorist attacks.
“I was shocked and quite scared, because this can take place anywhere and it worries me for my family and loved ones,” Rajesh said.
Moath Abdullah, from Saudi Arabia, said he feels sympathy for the families affected by the attacks.
“All my condolences go to all the French families,” said Abdullah. “I just want the world to be united and to be a safer place to live in.”
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria attacks killed 128 people in Paris on Oct. 13, a suicide blast also killed 27 people in Baghdad the same day and a double suicide bombing took 43 lives in Beirut the day before.
Islamic terrorist group ISIS claimed responsibilities for all those terrorist attacks, and because of this, Abdullah, a Muslim himself, worries that people associate Islam with terrorism.
“A few days ago Lebanon got bombed and Muslim countries such as Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Kenya [were bombed as well],” said Abdullah. “It seems that no one cares for our blood. Isis is not part of Islam and not representative of Islam.”
Many students, such as Rajesh, felt that there was not enough coverage on the attacks that happened outside of France.
“I think there is a lot of coverage (in France) but that’s not a bad thing, however I do feel that there wasn’t enough light shed onto other countries who were hit with the same problem like Lebanon and Syria who experience that almost on a daily basis,” said Rajesh.
Professor Heather Brown-Hudson addressed the audience in English and French to express empathy and mourning to all victims of terrorism attacks across the world.
Stephanie Berg, from Grenoble, said she was offended by some students’ reaction over media coverage.
“I see on social media that some people are complaining that Paris is getting all the spotlight from the media and I think it is really silly,” Berg said. “A lot of people died, and fighting over front covers is kind of ridiculous and is not going to change any of what happened. Let’s support each other in this difficult time and not forget what should be focusing on.”
Pauline Teruin said that the terrorist attacks that occurred in different locations should matters to everyone.
“As human being we are all raised and educated to respect each other, spread love around us, the exact contrary of what those terrorist actions has showed to the world and that is why it should affect all of us, not only French students,” Teruin said.
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The stories we tell
Bearing in mind, I can tell you right now, categorically without a shadow of a doubt, who you actually are is beautiful. Awesome beyond measure. A woman o' total and utter freakin' wonder, who do you think you are? I write books and call myself an author, but just so you know, we are all storytellers. Storytelling is how we make sense of ourselves. We tell stories to ourselves and to the people around us every single day. It’s our narrative. As we experience life, we ‘tell’ it. We share almost every event that happens to us, whether it’s as an anecdote or complaint, an amusing over-dinner story or whether it’s told purposefully and with interpretation in a blog post, or the pages of a book. What we tell is totally subjective, we choose the words, the tone, and the attitude. So by choosing our narrative, we define the experience. In fact, our entire reality is defined by the stories we choose to tell and damn g-friend, at times, we tell ourselves some fucked up shit. Worse still, we believe that fucked up shit. And then we get stuck. Stuck in a story that doesn’t serve us. Maybe we perpetuate an inherited story. The one our mother learned from her mother and then passed to us. The women in our family have never earned their own money. Perhaps it’s something that was implied when we were a child. Your sister is the smart one. Or, and this is my personal favourite, maybe it’s been ingrained in us throughout our entire life. Writing isn't a secure job, become a teacher. Or perhaps it’s a limiting belief we’ve imposed on ourselves that holds us back from achieving our dreams. I’m no good at this; I’m not as brave as she is, I could never do that. Regardless of the actual truth in the stories, if we tell them often enough, eventually they become our reality. And that? Well that sucks. Big ones.
Tweet: When we share our stories, we create space for our truth to be revealed.
Remember those stories you read as a kid where you could choose the ending? Our lives can be like that, too. We can’t control everything that happens in our lives, but we can chose how we respond and react to them. Shit can and will happen. But as long as we live and breathe in these bodies, it's never too late to redraft our narratives. Celebrated chef, Julia Child, didn’t learn to cook until she was 40 and was nearly 50 when her first cookbook was published. Laura Ingalls Wilder got her first book published when she was 65. These women modified their stories. You can too. Pick up an inky red pen and write a narrative that includes who you really are and not who you think you are. Forget sugar-y sweet Spice Girl Girl Power, I’m interested in the juicy, real deep SHE Power, so write the truth, your dripping-in-blood-and-realness truth. I dare you.
What stories are you telling yourself that no longer serve you? What’s your truth? I would love for you to share them with me in the comments below - share and declare.
FYI: If this has inspired you to delve deeper into your own stories and to create space for your own truth to be revealed, I would love to invite you to join me this April for SHE Stories: a write-your-freakin'-heart-out, story sharing and truth telling circle o' ladykind launching in April 2014. Sign up below for SHE Stories priority mail - you'll receive all the deets as soon as they're released and a sneaky I-signed-up-first discount, because I'm good like that.
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Jim Dabakis
After the Legislature avowed to lower Utah's drunk-driving threshold to .05 percent, Jim Dabakis jumped on Facebook. Podcasting from a local watering hole, he and two volunteers tried to determine how much booze it would take to break the legal limit. Instead, Dabakis broke the breath monitor (literally)—after using mouthwash and blowing a lethal .5. The stunt was typical of the gregarious state senator who's championed progressive causes for decades. From co-founding Equality Utah to chairing the state Democratic Party, Dabakis makes the word "liberal" almost palatable in the reddest-of-the-red states. (Lance Gudmundsen)
2nd place: Ben McAdams
3rd place: Jackie Biskupski
Best Nonprofit Organization
When hurricanes hit, people are frightened and confused. Try to imagine, then, the terror of thousands of helpless animals caught in nature's wrath. Best Friends Animal Society does. And its volunteers even now are comforting these often-forgotten victims of natural disasters. Further inland near Kanab, another 1,600 abandoned, abused or sick animals have a safe harbor at Best Friends' sanctuary—the nation's largest no-kill facility. Looking for furry companionship? The society operates adoption centers, including one in Salt Lake City. (LG)
bestfriends.org
2. Planned Parenthood
3. Humane Society of Utah
Geek Show Podcast
It looks like somebody's reworked basement. But the ragtag broadcast studio of the Geek Show Podcast could well be the holodeck of the Starship Enterprise as it transports a legion of devoted fans into the world of All Things Geek. A half-dozen irreverent dudes—encouraged by a shot or two—regularly explore such imponderables as "The Shape of Water" and "Superman's Mustache." Gee, I always thought that was Wonder Woman. (LG)
geekshowpodcast.com
2. I am Salt Lake
3. RadioWest
Best Political Scandal
Operation Rio Grande
"Operation Rio Grande" has that military ring—like "Desert Storm." Regrettably, it's turning out like Hitler's "Operation Barbarossa," his ill-fated invasion of Russia during WWII. Police cracking down on "the worst of the worst" around the drug-infested Road Home shelter are collaring garden-variety addicts galore (some say at the expense of civil rights), but drug kingpins lurk in the shadows. Rio Grande Street's been closed—but to what good end? Dealers still ply their wares on the peripheries. Legislators are being asked for $67 million for a two-year cleanup. Sadly, though, the homeless remain homeless. And while politicians posture, winter is coming. (LG)
2. Jason Chaffetz resignation
3. Losing Outdoor Retailer
Radio From Hell
Did president No. 45—that's The Donald, incidentally—appropriate the mission statement of 96.3 FM's Radio From Hell? Maybe. Among other things, it reminds listeners "that we never lie and we're always right." Sure. First aired 31 years ago, it's one of the nation's longest-running radio shows. Always smart and often sassy, Radio From Hell treats listeners to insights of local sages like The All-Knowing Suit and Sister Dottie S. Dixon. (LG)
3. The Morning
STEVEN VARGO
Best Social Cause
The homeless might as well be made out of cellophane because we often look right through them. Right now, their plight is a hot-button issue because of the crackdown around Rio Grande Street and the brouhaha over where to locate new shelters. Amid the political posturing and not-in-my-backyard protests, let's try to remember we're talking about human beings—people's sons and daughters; fathers and mothers, and innocent youngsters. There's a $67 million appropriation in the wings to bandage their wounds. To the powers that be: Spend wisely. (LG)
2. Bears Ears
3. LGBTQ Equality
If Harland Sanders had grabbed a microphone instead of a pressure cooker, he might have invented X96 instead of KFC. That's because the perennial Best of Utah winner is the local airwaves' equivalent of comfort food—your solace when things go wrong. Mixing alternative music from the '80s and '90s with today's hits, X96 also adds promising up-and-comers to its playlist—a recipe that keeps listeners smiling contentedly. Turning your dial to a corporate station with its computer-generated lineup might be a change—but you'll be risking a case of heartburn. (LG)
2. KRCL
3. KUER
Best Sports Reporter
A quarter-century has passed since David James joined KUTV 2 as a fresh-faced
newcomer from Sacramento. Like a good vintage, the genial James has improved with age. His encyclopedic knowledge—combined with a relaxed but authoritative delivery—has made him the go-to guy for all things sports. His two Talkin' Sports weekend shows often spawn surprises, and an occasional scoop. And motorists can catch him on their morning drive at 1280 The Zone. After all these years, he's never lost his love of the game. (LG)
2. Dave Fox
3. Wesley Ruff
Best TV Anchor
Shauna Lake
Schadenfreude was in short supply—at least among her colleagues—after KUTV 2 anchor Shauna Lake was arrested on suspicion of DUI in May. (She later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of impaired driving). "It broke my heart," wrote The Salt Lake Tribune's Robert Kirby. Her resilience and resolve, however, trumped chagrin and shame—and Lake soon was back in her co-anchor seat. Viewers admire her always-affable but no-nonsense approach to the day's events. She also hosts a weekly interview segment, "Person 2 Person." (LG)
2. Hope Woodside
3. Kerri Cronk
Best TV News Reporter
Ben Winslow
On Sept. 12, the last day to vote for Best of Utah, Fox 13's Ben Winslow tweeted an "utterly shameless" request for votes to his nearly 25K followers. Clearly, it worked. Known for having some of the fastest digits in the business, he's über adept at instant-sharing information with his audience while simultaneously reporting on some of the day's biggest stories. His station describes him as a "multi-platform journalist," which sounds about right. In a nearly 20-year career, Winslow's won a plethora of honors—including a national Edward R. Murrow award—proving that underneath that beard and cuddly persona lurks a razor-sharp mind. (LG)
2. Rod Decker
3. Big Budah
Best Weather Reporter
Sterling Poulson
He's not the flashiest weatherman (err, meteorologist) on the block, but KUTV 2's Sterling Poulson knows his stuff. Viewers can count on a thorough and authoritative forecast from the 66-year-old broadcast veteran. He earned his bona fides during a 10-year stint in the U.S. Air Force where he was a forecaster. Among his squadron's clients was Air Force One. Fun fact: Poulson shares his passion for isobars with music bars as director of the 120-voice Choral Society of Utah. (LG)
2. Allison Croghan
3. Kevin Eubank
Best Utahn
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
He'll cringe at the imagery but earlier in the year, billionaire industrialist and philanthropist Jon M. Huntsman Sr. found himself in a royal pissing match with the state's premier center of higher education, the University of Utah. The U, it seems, wanted to take control of the world-class Huntsman Cancer Institute. Not so fast, said Senior. After a couple of acrimonious weeks, the smoke cleared. Among the casualties: The U Health Care's CEO who resigned and U president who announced his retirement. Still standing tall: The octogenarian with deep pockets and a big heart. (LG)
2. Jim Dabakis
3. Gail Miller
Best TV News Station
KUTV 2
Let's do the math: Best anchor (Shauna Lake), best sportscaster (David James) and best weatherman (Sterling Poulson) adds up to KUTV 2 walking off as this year's best TV news station in our part of the forest. A fixture on Main Street, it's picture-window studio is a magnet for pedestrians. So what's a little distraction if everyone's taking in some information—and having a bit of fun? (LG)
kutv.com
2. Fox 13
3. KSL 5
Worst Utahn
Grammarians, take heed: Jason Chaffetz is now a verb. Mother Jones reports that "in the political world, to Chaffetz means to throw a former mentor under the bus in order to get ahead." Such is the reputation of the former five-term Utah congressman who resigned his seat ostensibly to spend more time with his family. Chaffetz bailed just as Democrats were calling for the House Oversight Committee of which he was chairman to probe Trump's Russian shenanigans. If and when he seeks future office, critics hope he might end up as a dangling participle. (LG)
2. Orrin Hatch
3. Gary Herbert
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Gaby (1956)
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mik-1913 April 2004
Sweet and unaffected
Warning: Spoilers
The first two thirds of 'Gaby' work like a charm. A young American paratrooper in the bombed-out London of 1944 falls instantly in love with French ballerina on his 48 hour leave. They decide to marry, but she won't spend the night with him the day before, and he is sent off to participate in D-day and is reported missing in action ...
So far, so good. Leslie Caron and John Kerr make an attractive young couple, and there is such unaffected sweetness and poignancy in their interacting. The last third doesn't quite convince of the sudden change in Gaby's character (there won't be any spoilers in this review!), and there are quite a few surprises in store. Not all of them work in the dramatic sense.
A cross between 'Brief Encounter' and 'Waterloo Bridge' (on which it was based), and much, much too sweet not to give a chance. TCM airs it frequently.
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wictorfw11 April 2005
remake of Waterloo Bridge
All and all this is not a bad movie, and Leslie Caron is truly one of those actresses whom you just can't help falling in love with, she has that magical presence that is the mark of a great actress, and even thou it's not one of her best her performance, her performance in this movie is definitely impeccable, but still this movie it's essentially a lightweight remake of the three times before filmed Waterloo Bridge, so even thou Leslie Caron is as always charming, I suggest a peek at Vivien Leigh as the delicate dancer Myra and Robert Taylor as Col./Capt. Roy Cronin in the 1940 release of Waterloo Bridge, a movie that is (even thou slightly forgotten) undoubtedly one of the best romantic movies ever made.
gleywong25 January 2003
diamond in the rough
The plot may be hackneyed (see previous review), but the performances ring true, and Leslie Caron is nothing less than sterling. Also, the dialogue in the script (written by veterans Sherwood and Behrman) holds up after these many years and sits better on my ears than many a television or even movie script today.
"Gaby" reminds me of the film Caron did later about the effects of war on ordinary people in London, "The L-shaped Room (1962)," in which she appears more sophisticated, also falling in love with an Englishman, but in which there is no committment on his part and no "happy ending." As the American serviceman, Kerr is a bit stiff in the beginning of this movie, but eventually grows into his role, and Caron is supple as a dancer in her timing and delivery, her English impeccably musical and her face still retaining the innocence and bit of "baby fat" that we cherish in her "American in Paris" debut. Because she had such thorough ballet training, people tend to remember her in the many musicals with ballet routines, but Caron was equally good, possibly even better, in pure drama, such as these two films. Of course, the director should be given credit for drawing out the genuine emotion in her performances, but she could also do comedy, with that great timing that she had (see her in "Last of the Blonde Bombshells" which she did at age seventy with Judi Dench.)
Caron has an authenticity and committment in her roles that comes across on screen for me the same way Audrey Hepburn does, and did from the very beginning, in her "Roman Holiday" debut. Not only were Caron and Hepburn real persons with inner lives (who not so incidentally had witnessed and survived WW II) when they were tapped by and discovered for the movies, they also didn't go through the technical hoops of acting training that the professionals of today bring to similar roles. Actresses of today tend to bring more training and "acting talent" to their roles, but less inner complexity, resulting in, for me, a less authentic performance, regardless of the high budget and publicity hoopla.
Supporting roles by Taina Elg, Cedric Hardwicke and Margallo Gillmore also do not let the movie down. Taina is better in "Gaby" than in the frivolous but enjoyable "Les Girls." And Hardwicke had such a distinguished career that one cannot imagine him consenting to play this very minor part if he didn't think the whole project worthwhile. In sum, highly recommended and requiring hankies for the vulnerable.
TxMike5 December 2001
Simple, lightweight love story during WW-II, stars Leslie Caron as "Gaby."
I'm a true fan of Leslie Caron, so by definition she cannot be in less than a good movie. "Gaby" is a French ballet dancer in London in 1944. Her parents are dead, she is alone, and resists but gives in to the stalking by the American G.I. from Omaha. During filming she was 24, but already in her 9th film. Her only true dancing is during the opening ballet numbers, and does esentially no singing.
Who in their right mind would meet one day, spend an evening together, not even kiss goodnight, and yet decide the next day they are in love and want to get married? Well, maybe in 1944, during the war. Fortunately for the story, they were unaware of all the military 'red tape' to guarantee a 'cooling off period', so he went off to V-Day invasion still single. He writes letters, she dances, they are both lonesome.>
In her first visit to his aunt in London, she gets word that a telegram had been received, reporting his being missing and presumably dead. She was devastated. Months later, they find out he had been wounded, taken in by the French, and was coming back and going home. Friends threw a pre-wedding party, permissions were granted, but she felt unworthy and tried to run away. In an excruciatingly slow scene in the bedroom, where she didn't want to tell him why, she finally admitted to having become a 'loose woman' during his presumed death. She had not forgiven herself for not allowing him to spend what she thought was his last night with her.
This is a good example of a 50s film, not one of Caron's best, still highly watchable.
wes-connors25 April 2015
Waterloo Bridge Revisited
During World War II, American paratrooper John Kerr (as Gregory "Greg" Wendell) arrives in London on a 48-hour pass. Making his way out to find female companionship, Mr. Kerr collides with pretty French ballerina Leslie Caron (as Gaby). He is smitten. She is not. After watching her dance, Mr. Kerr visits Ms. Caron backstage. She gradually becomes interested and they begin a whirlwind romance. They want to consummate, but are unable to get married due to their alien status. Caron decides to "save herself" (like they used to say) while he goes back into battle. Alas, he's reported dead. Feeling bad about not giving Kerr something to remember, Caron decides to give it up for other soldiers...
It turns out the news about Kerr wasn't exactly accurate...
"Gaby" has been criticized for sanitizing the opening status of Caron's character and altering the original ending of Robert E. Sherwood's play "Waterloo Bridge" (1930), which previously impressed film critics in versions starring Mae Clarke (1931) and Vivien Leigh (1940). However, the important alteration is in timing; note, the explicit exchange where Caron ends with, "Not a man, Greg
MEN!" The problem, this time, is that Caron shows little degradation during this period; she appears chic and confident, throughout. The different ending, while not as memorable, can be applauded for not punishing "Gaby" for her perceived "sinful" behavior. The revisions aren't as bad, as they seem...
Possibly restrained by the production values, director Curtis Bernhardt is unable to give the story enough intimacy...
Caron could have shown some interest in Kerr during their first encounters, and still been standoffish. They're supposed to be drawn to each other, as if they were destined to meet. This is touched upon in a scene hinting at reincarnation. The reincarnation mention may have also been included to support MGM's use of "Where or When" (by Rogers and Hart) as the film's theme. The timeless song is used well. Another revision is having Kerr sustain a symbolic wound; yet, it is another addition which doesn't fully take full advantage of the dramatic opportunities. Veteran stage actress Margalo Gillmore (as Helen Carrington) has a couple of outstanding scenes. In spite of all, the co-stars are a nice couple.
****** Gaby (5/9/56) Curtis Bernhardt ~ Leslie Caron, John Kerr, Taina Elg, Margalo Gillmore
AndreaValery4 September 2005
Inadequate successor
This film is a re-make of "Waterloo Bridge" which I saw many years ago. It was an atmospheric love story with sterling performances from Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor. The original play was by Robert E. Sherwood, also known for "The Petrified Forest".
This re-make fails on several counts. First of all there is almost no atmosphere. There is beautiful saturated color and cinemascope, neither of which add anything specific to the story. Furthermore, the sets in many scenes, especially at the end in the bombing, are so obviously fake you can almost imagine stagehands picking up the pieces for the next performance.
Second, no matter how hard she tries, Leslie Caron is not convincing as a prostitute. As a dancer, yes. When she abandons dance for prostitution we do not see a transition. She gives as a reason for her actions remorse over sending Greg away before their love was consummated. Now that he is dead, she wants to give others what she deprived him of. A rather shaky rationalization.
Third, no matter how hard he tries John Kerr is incapable of playing a grown-up. He is forever the boyish young man, awkward in speech and movement.
The film does not have a smooth trajectory. The individual scenes seem to be patched together.
The ending, likewise, is not convincing. He forgives her as if all she had done was to ruin the soufflé. They seem like two kids in love playing around with adult games.
The fault for all of this lies in the general concept of this particular re-make, which the producers obviously felt had to be more sugar-coated for the audience of the mid-fifties, unwilling, no doubt, to accept Leslie Caron as a bad girl. But in the end, nothing is gained by this strategy.
However, there is still some charm - almost unavoidable when Leslie Caron is the star - and some moments that show the promise of what might have been a very good movie.
mike4812823 January 2019
Classic Drama remade as a "Vehicle" for Leslie Caron
Basically for fans of Leslie Caron. A sweet, innocent ballerina working in England during WWII becomes a "loose" woman after she presumes that her "love-at-first-sight American G.I. fiance is dead. Prostitution is strongly hinted at, and she feels ashamed after he turns up "crippled" but quite alive. Beautifully filmed in CinemaScope and Eastman Color, which does add something to the movie. Quite unbelievable, but if you are a fan of Caron, you will enjoy this move as she has great "screen presence" and makes it an earnest performance that outshines the material. Certainly no "Gigi" or "Lili", to be sure.
Purple-daisy2 July 2014
An excellent and underrated film
"Gaby" (1956) is a film about a French ballerina's romance in London during WWII. Leslie Caron gives a superb performance in a role with many emotions, including love, heartbreak, and disillusionment. John Kerr is very good as the chipper American paratrooper Greg. The movie is beautifully filmed in muted shades of blue, red and green. The sets look authentic, and there are many memorable scenes. Gaby and Greg are a charming couple. This is a romantic, sweet and poignant film.
There is a particularly dramatic scene at the Ballet Theatre. Twenty ballerinas in full white tutus perform on stage against a blue background. Suddenly, air raid sirens blare, and explosions outside are heard. An "alert" sign flashes on the stage. The dancers bravely continue the performance.
At the French canteen, Greg jumps on a table and sings a French song, to the delight of the audience. At a swanky American "bottle club," Greg shows Gaby how to swing dance.
While walking down down a street at night, Gaby and Greg hear the air raid sirens blast. They quickly go into an underground bomb shelter.
Gaby goes to a church to pray for Greg. The church has stained glass windows and candles.
There is a nice scene in Gaby's apartment, where Gaby's roommate has left a wedding cake for the couple.
The film shows dark foggy streets, dancers practicing backstage, and a luxurious mansion.
Gaby wears a red dress when she tells Greg that she was a prostitute. She is symbolically a "scarlet woman."
The film has a few shortcomings. It would have been nice to see more of Leslie Caron's dancing, since she was a professional ballerina who performed in Roland Petit's Ballet des Champs-Elysees. Also, her role as a disillusioned prostitute could have been presented more effectively.
"Gaby" (1956) is significantly different from "Waterloo Bridge" (1931 and 1940), and has merit in its own right.
This is an underrated film. I hope a DVD is released soon.
TheLittleSongbird18 June 2016
The third, and weakest, film adaptation of 'Waterloo Bridge'
The 1931 and 1940 films, both named 'Waterloo Bridge', are very highly recommended, and are very good films in their own right with the slight edge going to the 1940 film despite being less faithful to the original story.
Although it is a long way from a bad film, 'Gaby' isn't in the same league. There are a lot of things to like, with the best things being Leslie Caron, who despite being unconvincing as a prostitute (and the transition is even less convincing) beguiles and charms in the lead, and the luminous Metrocolor cinematography that gives the film a quaint 1950s sheen, the use of Cinemascope is also striking.
Further great assets are the beautiful and never too sugary or melodramatic music score, and the timeless Rodgers/Hart-penned "Where or When". The two French songs ("Sur Le Pont D'Avignon" faring the slightly better of the two), "My Country Tis of Thee" and Chopin's Piano Concerto are also well used, just not leaving as big an impression in the film as "When or When". The dialogue is thought-provoking, some of the sets are nicely done and atmospheric and the supporting cast especially a distinguished Cedric Hardwicke acquit themselves very well.
However, John Kerr's performance is very one-dimensional, with stiffness and awkwardness being the only real emotions he shows. Even those not completely enamoured with Robert Taylor's performance in the 1940 film will find themselves appreciating it more after seeing Kerr, I certainly did. His chemistry with Caron is quite bland too. 'Gaby' is also very dully directed by Curtis Bernhardt, with the film never seeming to find proper momentum.
It is agreed that there is a lack of atmosphere- the 1931 film was gritty, at times steamy and dark while the 1940 film while, due to the Code and its constraints, tamer and more romanticised was very lovingly romantic, lavish and incredibly poignant. These are things that, other than a lavishness in the cinematography and some of the costumes and sets, 'Gaby' lacks, dullness and glimpses of sugary charm being the primary feelings here. The ending is pure contrived tack, as problematic as the ending of the 1931 film was it was still more believable than this, and things are all far too easily forgiven. Gaby's transformation is too sudden, and some of the sets are on the cheap and cobbled together side.
All in all, watchable thanks to Caron and the cinematography, but anybody who loved the previous two 'Waterloo Bridge' film adaptations like this reviewer did will find themselves disappointed. 5/10 Bethany Cox
didi-512 November 2008
sanitised version of Waterloo Bridge
By the 1950s, remakes were very much the thing - 'Gaby', with Leslie Caron as the ballerina and John Kerr as the soldier, is the third film version of 'Waterloo Bridge' (first done with Mae Clarke and Kent Douglass in 1931, then with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor in 1940). It's by far the most dull, even though it does make clear what Gaby has been up to while her beau was away at war.
Leslie Caron being the star, of course Gaby is now French, not English. John Kerr is a GI who finds himself at a loose end on leave in London. There's air raids to content with, foggy streets, and taxis, as well as Gaby's fellow dancer and roommate, and the GI's English well-heeled relations.
Sweet enough, but paling in comparison beside the other versions, both of whom have more merit. It's OK - but nothing special.
bkoganbing22 January 2019
Meeting On Waterloo Bridge one more time
This third version of Waterloo Bridge retitled Gaby for the character Leslie Caron plays co-stars her with John Kerr who is an American soldier, a paratrooper awaiting the D-Day invasion. As you see it has been updated to be a World War II story this time.
It also received one very bad change in the plot that reduces Gaby to just another wartime romance story. From a poignant tragedy in this one our female lead lives and the lovebirds go off happily ever after. It ruins the whole movie.
Fans of Leslie Caron and John Kerr will like it for them. And Gaby is generally OK. But no more than that.
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Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate ... See full summary »
John Agar
Maj. Bruce Jay
Phyllis Penner
Dr. Adam Penner
Robert Hutton
Dr. John Lamont
Dr. Karol Noymann
Hal Torey
Paul Langton
Lt. Gen. Stone
Eden Hartford
WAAF Secretary
Edward L. Cahn
Samuel Newman
24 July 2015 | utgard14
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Invisible aliens stationed on the moon have had enough of Earth's atomic tomfoolery. So they use reanimated dead bodies of humans to let the nations of the world know they mean business, delivering an ultimatum that Earth better surrender to them or else! Now a group of people gather together in a bunker laboratory to work on a way to defeat the invisible invaders while zombies lurk outside.
Edward L. Cahn directed this campy and cheap sci-fi movie with a muddled anti-nuke message. The special effects are poor with an overuse of stock footage and a monotone narration (one of the staples of no-budget sci-fi flicks back in the day). Still, Cahn produces a reasonable amount of atmosphere and it kept my interest throughout. The short runtime helps. It stars washed-up stars John Agar, John Carradine, and Robert Hutton, along with Jean Byron (of Patty Duke Show fame) and venerable character actor Philip Tonge. Other reviewers have pointed out that the movie might have inspired Night of the Living Dead. Whether that's truly the case or not, I don't know, but it is certainly something for movie buffs to chew on. Not a particularly good picture but fun in its way. Fans of '50 sci-fi will like it more than most.
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Bronson Canyon in Los Angeles served as the location for the stronghold featured in the last third of the film.
Dr. Adam Penner: Dear Lord, I pray that I am insane, that all that happened is only in my mind. I pray that tomorrow the sun will shine again on living things, not on a world where only the dead walk the Earth.
The same shot of the same dead men walking over a hillside near the bunker is used over and over.
In the film, John Carradine's character is named Dr. Karol Noymann. In the ending cast list, his character is listed as "Carl Noymann."
Sci-Fi | Horror
Paramount Sunset Lot, 5800 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Gathering for new forestry materials
Latest news from LiU
Treesearch held its first meeting with researchers from academia and the forestry industry. In addition to networking and sharing results, over 200 participants listened to minister Ibrahim Baylan, and Sara Mazur, once head of research at Ericsson.
“Sweden is to become the world’s first fossil-free modern society, and we aim to be carbon-neutral by 2050. I’m optimistic – the goal is within our reach”, said Ibrahim Baylan, minister for business, industry and innovation. THOR BALKHED
Minister for business, industry and innovation Ibrahim Baylan was one of several keynote speakers at Treesearch Progress, 2019. The Treesearch collaboration platform is one component of a government initiative in a future biobased economy.
“I’m optimistic: in Sweden we’re good at solving problems, and I’m sure we will succeed. We have managed to take major structural steps previously, such as reducing our overall dependence on oil for heating. Now, between two and three percent of heating is oil-fired. Have we lost any jobs? Has the economy suffered? No – on the contrary, we have created employment opportunities and stimulated the economy”, he said.
He predicts that collaboration between the academic world, industry and organisations will enable us to benefit from the bioeconomy in a sustainable manner.
“We live in a small country, far away from everything else, and we must be able to use air transport. But maybe we don’t need to fly as much as we do today. This is another area that will require broad collaboration to reach our goal of fossil-free domestic flights by 2030, and completely fossil-free air travel by 2045.”
Separate innovation from production
In order to reach all of these objectives and continue as a successful research-based country, innovation is needed, and this is an important part of Treesearch.
Sara Mazur, previously director of research at Ericsson and now director of strategic research in the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, presented much useful advice, Sara Mazur, director of strategic research in the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation Photo credit THOR BALKHEDmainly to companies working in forestry. The most important advice she gave was to separate innovation and the development of new ideas from routine commercial operation.
“An idea, now matter how good it is, can never compete with what is actually making money at the moment. Keep them separate until you have an innovation that is sufficiently strong to offer to routine production. Engineers are innovative, and you should let them be like that. But make sure that you create a separate ecosystem for innovation that is independent of the daily operative management in your company”, she advised the listeners.
If you don’t keep up, you’ll become history.
The reason that development is now progressing so rapidly, she believes, is that much technology has been developed during a relatively long period that is now ripe for commercialisation. She gave examples from her own area of expertise: 5G, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud-based applications, and the internet of things.
She advised companies to collaborate with universities, if they want to know which areas of technology are important to invest in from a long-term perspective.
“It takes at least ten years to develop new technology. That’s why it’s necessary to be out there early and listen, in order to be among the front-runners.”
Treesearch – open for all
Treesearch is a research and collaboration platform intended to develop new materials from forest raw materials. It was set up in the summer of 2017 and is now in full operation. Just over 200 researchers, research students and senior researchers, from the academic world and industry, met at the Kolmården Wildlife Park to spend two days exchanging ideas, knowledge and experience.
Daniel Söderberg, from the Royal Institute of Technology and director of Treesearch, was proud to present ForMAX, the new beamline constructed solely for research into forest-based materials. “An amazing tool, open for us all to use.” Photo credit THOR BALKHED“Many of us realised that something had to be done: that an effective collaboration between academia and the forestry industry was needed for research into new forest raw materials. It’s just great that we are meeting here to discuss exciting results and how to increase collaboration”, was how Daniel Söderberg, director of Treesearch, welcomed the participants.
“Treesearch is a collaboration platform open to all who are working in any one of the four fields that are incorporated. And those who participate in the collaboration are expected to share results”, he said.
Research projects into new materials from the forest can join the Treesearch platform. The largest project in Treesearch is the Wallenberg Wood Science Center, WWSC, which is financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the universities involved, and the forestry industry (through Treesearch), until 2028. Treesearch is in turn financed by Vinnova, participating universities and industrial partners.
The initiative includes also investment in research infrastructure. The Wallenberg Foundation is providing the investment required to establish a beamline, ForMAX, at the Max IV synchrotron in Lund, dedicated to research into new materials from the forest, while Treesearch will be responsible for its subsequent operation.
“An amazing tool, open for us all to use,” as Daniel Söderberg put it.
The day included further lectures, some of them given by Treesearch participants who had gone from academia to industry, from academia to research institutes, and from the business world to academia.
Lignin is cool
Patrik Isacsson is a qualified forester employed by speciality paper manufacturer Ahlstrom-Munksjö, and an industry-based doctoral student at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, LiU.
Patrik Isacsson, employed by Ahlstrom-Munksjö and doctoral student at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, described his journey from industry to academia. Photo credit THOR BALKHED“Ever since I was a student, I’ve been interested in how we can use forest raw material to create a better society. I found out about the opportunity to work as a doctoral student when my company became involved with the Digital Cellulose Center, developing paper-based batteries”, he told the conference.
The Digital Cellulose Center is a centre of expertise based at Campus Norrköping, with participants from RISE, LiU and the Royal Institute of Technology, financed by Vinnova since 2017.
“Working as an industry-based doctoral student means adding to knowledge that can subsequently be used in the industry. To put it simplify, you can say that industry describes the problems and the university formulates the research questions”, he said.
In Patrik Isacsson’s case, the work focusses on stabilising wood-based electrodes for energy storage. Electrodes manufactured from several forest raw materials such as lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose are involved. “Lignin is a really interesting material”, according to Patrik.
“This is a truly exciting conference: it’s just great to walk around and talk to people, exchanging experiences with those who work in similar fields.”
The first day of the meeting was spent in plenum sessions, a poster exhibition, socialising and a mini trade fair, while the second day offered many scientific presentations in several parallel tracks. Patrik Isacsson gave one of the presentations together with a colleague from RISE, describing a paper type that has been given conducting properties using nanographite.
Translated by George Farrants
An audience of 200 with representatives from both research and industry participated in Treesearch Progress 2019. THOR BALKHED
Discussions in the exhibition. Vinnova’s Anna Ottenhall, Göran Gustafsson from RISE and Isak Engquist, head of research in printed electronics at LiU’s Laboratory of Organic Electronics. THOR BALKHED
Jenny Joensuu, project coordinator at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, welcomed participants in her role as vice director for Treesearch. THOR BALKHED
Igor Zouzoulenko, professor in the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, in conversation with Anita Teleman from RISE and Mathieu Linares, who works both at LOE and the Bioinformatics Division, LiU. THOR BALKHED
Sara Mazur, director of strategic research for the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, also spoke about the value of large initiatives, such as the Wallenberg Wood Science Center, WWSC, and the Wallenberg AI Autonomous Systems and Software Program, WASP. THOR BALKHED
Fuel from the forest. THOR BALKHED
Project Coordinator at LOE and deputy Director at Treeserach
Jenny Joensuu
Department of Science and Technology (ITN)
Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE)
jenny.joensuu@liu.se
Huge research investment into new forestry materials
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has decided to provide up to SEK 400 million for WWSC 2.0, the Wallenberg Wood Science Center, between now and 2028. KTH, Chalmers, Linköping University and the forestry industry are participating.
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Greater differences in study results between schools and increased segregation. These are examples of what the marketisation of the education system in Sweden has led to.
A newly discovered mechanism reveals how Parkinson’s disease can spread
Tiny channels between nerve cells are involved in a newly discovered mechanism of how Parkinson’s disease can spread throughout the brain. Harmful protein aggregates can “hitch a lift” with channel-forming proteins, and spread to healthy cells.
Regime oppression brings Hungarian researcher to LiU
Restrictions on academic freedom in Hungary have become so serious that researcher Károly Takács has moved from Budapest to Norrköping and LiU. He brings with him his family and a large part of his research group.
Honorary doctor from Sudan fighting for women in academia
Physics researcher and LiU master's alumna Nashwa Eassa has a vision – that women in Sudan will gain equal opportunities for education and research as men. At Linköping University’s annual Academic Ceremony, she was awarded an honorary doctorate.
Future sea rescue systems at Gränsö Manor
The next major demonstration of autonomous sea rescue is being planned here. Forty-five people have gathered at Gränsö Manor. Researchers and technologists, doctoral students and undergraduates – everyone is working towards the same goal.
Progress in hunt for unknown compounds in drinking water
When we drink a glass of water, we ingest an unknown amount of by-products that are formed in the treatment process. Researchers have been able to detect new compounds – where every water treatment plant has a unique combination.
Large positive secondary effects when industry saves energy
Improvements in energy efficiency in industry often give rise to large positive secondary effects. Even so, these added values are seldom given weight when considering whether to reduce energy consumption.
77 new doctors to be promoted
The 2019 Academic Ceremony at Linköping University will take place on Saturday 25 May. Eighteen new professors, 77 doctors and seven honorary doctors will be honoured at the ceremony, to be followed by a banquet.
International student exchanges offer rewarding perspectives
Knowledge about HIV/AIDS and fascination that teachers listen to students. Swedish and Kenyan medical students learn lessons for life, as they swap countries for a few months.
Research into energy conservation in the aluminium industry
Two company-based factors – support from management and owners, and a long-term energy strategy – are high on the wishlist of the aluminium industry, as it moves to reduce energy consumption. LiU researchers have investigated barriers and drivers.
A new sensor for light, heat and touch
Inspired by the behaviour of natural skin, researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics have developed a sensor for use with electronic skin. It can measure changes in body temperature, and react to both sunlight and warm touch.
Successful collaboration for medical care in Kenya
A delegation from LiU and Region Östergötland recently visited Moi University and the university hospital in Eldoret, Kenya. The collaboration between the two countries has led to improved medical care at the Kenyan hospital.
Global learning in Kenya widens LiU students’ horizons
The upper secondary school Kenswed Academy in Kenya provides free education for young people from Nairobi’s slums. The school operates with the aid of students of teaching from Linköping University, who gain insight into global issues.
Research to aid smart urban energy planning
Researchers at LiU are to develop a platform that allows municipalities and urban areas to obtain support when making decisions about energy. The FlexSUS project lies under the EU Horizon 2020 programme, and is led by Associate Professor Yang Liu.
Manufacturing industry facing major challenges from servitisation
With more than 80 participants – some from Asia and America – interest for this conference on industry servitisation has reached a record level. The meeting in Linköping is world-leader in this research field.
SOF - Sweden’s largest student-organised festival
Since 1973, a festival of student music known as SOF has spread happiness among students and Linköping residents. But how was it that the largest student-organised festival in Sweden ended up in Linköping?
Water creates traps in organic electronics
Poor-quality organic semiconductors can become high-quality when manufactured correctly. Researchers at Linköping University have shown that the motion of charges in organic electronic devices is dramatically slowed by minute amounts of water.
AFM 2019 Infrastructure Support Call for proposals
Hereby, Advanced Functional Materials, the Strategic Research Area (SRA, SFO) of LiU in Materials Science, announces a call for Infrastructure support, for purchase of equipment (minimum 3 MSEK, maximum 10 MSEK per equipment).
Welcome the spring on Walpurgis Night (30 April)!
The LiTHe student orchestra will parade from St. Lars Church to Borggården at Linköping Castle, where the Male Voice Choir will take over to welcome the spring. The event will be broadcast live. It’s a Swedish tradition for Walpurgis celebrations.
Great value in selling more than just products
The transition from simply selling products to delivering functions involves fundamental changes for many industrial companies. Done the right way, it can both create significant added value and lead to solutions that are more sustainable .
Information about book borrowing exposed online
Information about library users and books borrowed through the self-service machines in the LiU libraries has been exposed online since 2012. The library is taking the event seriously, and the machines have been taken out of use.
Top marks for teacher education at LiU
Linköping University receives top marks in a survey of teacher education in Sweden carried out by the Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ). All of the teacher education programmes examined at LiU were given the assessment “High Quality”.
Improving chickens’ living conditions
Methods used to calculate airflow in the aeronautical and motor industries have been tested for calculating the airflow in animal houses, in this case poultry houses with tens of thousands of chickens. With excellent results.
Circular economy brings hope for the future
The circular economy can’t solve all the world’s problems, but it can solve several. And, to be honest, what’s the alternative? If we continue to consume the Earth’s resources at a rapid pace, we will bring the human race to catastrophe.
NIH research grant to study harmful proteins in the brain
Fluorescent tracer molecules developed by scientists at LiU will be used to develop new diagnostic methods in dementia. Peter Nilsson and researchers at Indiana University have now received a grant from the National Institutes of Health in the USA.
Field studies gave new perspectives
By carrying out field studies in a developing country, students can contribute to a better world, while gaining different and memorable experiences. The Minor Fields Studies programme is open for students from all academic fields.
Peter Wallenberg awarded honorary doctorate
Peter Wallenberg Jr. is one of those awarded an honorary doctorate by Linköping University in 2019. He will receive the honour together with six international researchers at the Commencement Ceremony on 25 May.
LiU-student plays lead in Netflix series
Hanna Ardéhn is a fourth-year student of psychology at Linköping University. At the same time, she is in the news as lead actor in Sweden’s first Netflix production, “Quicksand”, which premières on Friday 5 April.
Students to organise conference on humans and technology
For 25 years, students taking the Cognitive Science programme have organised an annual conference about humans and technology. The topic this year is assuring the quality of the future by understanding both human and machine.
Several innovations from LiU on IVA toplist
Three innovations from Linköping University are included on the IVA Top 100 List: Translating Knowledge to Competitiveness. “An important signal and a great honour”, says one of the prize-winners.
New polymer mixture creates ultra-sensitive heat sensor
Scientists at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics have developed an ultra-sensitive heat sensor that is flexible, transparent and printable. The results have potential for a wide range of applications – from wound healing to smart buildings.
Maria Boyce is votet best teacher - for the fifth time
A subject that can be considered boring, and a compulsory course – the prospects are not great when Maria Boyce walks into the lecture theatre. Even so, she has been nominated as best teacher – for the fifth time. “I just love teaching”, she says.
Major investment in bioelectronics against serious diseases
Magnus Berggren, director of research in the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, has been awarded a personal European Research Council Advanced Grant of around EUR 3 million, for research in the borderland between medicine and electronics.
Record efficiency for perovskite-based light-emitting diodes
Efficient near-infrared (NIR) light-emitting diodes of perovskite have been produced in a laboratory at Linköping University. The external quantum efficiency is 21.6%, which is a record. The results have been published in Nature Photonics.
Markus Heilig appointed Wallenberg Clinical Scholar
Markus Heilig is one of five medical doctors active in research appointed to be Wallenberg Clinical Scholars. He receives a research grant of SEK 15 million to investigate why some, but not all, people become dependent on alcohol.
New cellulose-based material gives three sensors in one
Cellulose soaked in a carefully designed polymer mixture acts as a sensor to measure pressure, temperature and humidity – at the same time! The sensor may be highly significant in fields such as robotics, healthcare and security.
New surface treatments can improve gas turbine effiency
New surface treatments can give increased temperatures and higher efficiency in gas turbines. A new thesis demonstrates how the lifetime of such surface coatings can be calculated – and how much better they are than previous technology.
Three new Wallenberg Scholars at LiU
Three professors at LiU, Anders Ynnerman, Erik G. Larsson and Igor Abrikosov, have been selected as Wallenberg Scholars in 2019, which means that they each receive SEK 18 million for free research in the coming five years.
Adolescents’ everyday problems not always mental ill-health
Alarming reports about increasing mental ill-health among adolescents may be seriously exaggerated. This is the conclusion of LiU researchers after studying replies from young people in a Swedish investigation.
Helping others to master maths
The date 14 March has been selected as Pi Day, and as the International Day of Mathematics. LiU-student Björn Runow has his own YouTube channel where he uses short videos to help others get to grips with the mysteries of maths.
The sharing economy needs both heart and wallet
Both the heart and the wallet must be involved if collaborative consumption is to work. Certain operations have a more non-profit character, others are more commercial, and both types are equally important. This is the conclusion of a new thesis.
From LiU student to minister
Åsa Lindhagen took a master’s degree in engineering at Linköping University. Now, 10 years later, she has been appointed minister for gender equality. The advice she gives to today’s students: “Sit down occasionally and reflect. Think about how you can contribute to society.”
Agriculture: a guarantor for peace and freedom
Society must reconsider the role of agriculture. Major investment is required in innovation, not only to feed the world’s increasing population, but also to avoid more wars and crises, claims LiU researcher Per Frankelius in The Lancet.
New method opens the way for cutting tools with longer lifetime
Researchers at Linköping University have developed a theoretical model that enables simulations for showing what happens in hard cutting materials as they degrade. The model will enable manufacturing industry to save both time and money.
Application for ECIU university submitted
LiU is one of thirteen European universities behind an application to the European universities call of the EU Commission. The objective is to forge a common and innovative university, dedicated to solving contemporary challenges.
Why you lose hearing for a while after listening to loud sounds
When we listen to loud sounds, our hearing may be impaired for a short time. Researchers at LiU have discovered a mechanism that helps to explain how this happens.
Award to Eleni Stavrinidou for work with electronic plants
Eleni Stavrinidou, Laboratory of Organic Electronics, is to receive the 2019 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Prize for her research into electronic plants. It will be presented by the Swedish minister for higher education and research.
LiU takes AI to the public
With the aim of making it easier for the general public to learn more about artificial intelligence (AI), Linköping University is to begin a collaboration with the Finnish online course Elements of AI.
Wetlands to purify water in South African informal townships
Karin Tonderski of the Division of Biology has been awarded SEK three million over three years from Formas to contribute to the installation and evaluation of wetlands in South African informal townships.
30-year collaboration celebrated in Kenya
Linköping University has collaborated with Moi University in western Kenya for 30 years. This April a LiU delegation will travel there, to mark the anniversary and to discuss new joint projects.
Three new research grants from Horizon 2020 to LiU
Scientists Feng Gao and Daniel Aili, both at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, have been awarded research grants from the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. The amount involved is approximately EUR 600,000 for 2 years.
Cause and effect in the transformation of ecosystems
How can we distinguish between cause and effect when changes take place in a ecosystem? Can new methods give a more accurate picture of the interaction between society and the natural world? These are important questions for a new research programme.
LiU breaks the 4 billion barrier
Economic growth continued for Linköping University during 2018. The newly published annual report shows that the annual turnover for the first time exceeded SEK 4 billion.
Food industry waste becomes profitable biogas
Huge gains can be made by using waste from the food industry for biogas production, no matter whether the biogas is used in vehicles or to produce electricity and heat. This is the conclusion of researchers from the Biogas Research Center.
WE CAN BE HEROES
Twice before it has been a public success. Now it’s time for another, signed by the Linköping University Symphony Orchestra. The theme: music from the world of cinema and gaming. In Linköping on 3 March, we will be saved from evil by heroes.
Close to reality in "the best dome in the world"
Better images for visitors and sharper tools for researchers. The dome at Visualization Center C has been upgraded with laser projectors as part of a Swedish initiative in which Linköping University and Norrköping municipality are central.
We’re poor at interpreting immigration facts
Our ability to analyse facts is clouded by our political views, according to a study on immigration and crime.
AI research needs major investment in infrastructure
“We have survived the AI winter: now we need suitable infrastructure to break the ice.” The words are those of Anders Ynnerman, professor at LiU who once again is standing on the barricades to unite the Swedish research community.
Paradigm shift to give superfast supercomputers
“In just a few years we’ll have supercomputers that work at exaflop speeds. We are witnessing a paradigm shift.” The words are those of Thomas Sterling, a grand old man in supercomputing and professor at Indiana University, visiting NSC and LiU.
New gel for liver cell culture on microchips
Scientists at LiU have developed a hydrogel, that have properties similar to the natural environment of cells in the body. It can be adapted to the requirements of difficult-to-culture cell types, and to produce organ-like structures on a microchip.
Theories describe dynamically disordered solid materials
Theoretical physicists at LiU have developed a computational method to calculate the transition from one phase to another in dynamically disordered solid materials. This is a class of materials that can be used in many eco-friendly applications.
Selling sex can be a self-injury behaviour among adolescents
Selling sex or putting oneself in other risky sexual situations can be a way for an adolescent to self-injure, comparable to cutting or burning oneself. This is according to a doctoral thesis from Linköping University.
Realistic images of working life can reduce student stress
Increasing numbers of students are stressed and worried about their studies and working life. At a workshop on the mental health of students, stakeholders discussed strategies and solutions.
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Impact cases
Organic Electronics
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Animals, DHARMA Initiative, Experiments
"Rabbit" redirects here. For the Season 1 episode, see White Rabbit.
Young Ben pulls out a rabbit from his bag. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")
Rabbits have appeared in Lost as research animals, food animals, in art, and as symbols.
Research rabbits
Rabbit #8 in the cage, appearing lifeless, after Ben shook it furiously ("Every Man for Himself")
White-furred, red-eyed, sometimes number-painted rabbits or bunnies have appeared on multiple occasions in the show. The bunny is a New Zealand white rabbit. The first rabbit appeared in "Every Man for Himself", in which it is was presented in a small steel cage, placed above Sawyer's chest by Ben. The rabbit had the number 8 painted onto his fur. Ben then shook the cage violently and the rabbit quivered, then fell still. Ben told Sawyer the bunny was dead and had a pacemaker in him, which due to the rabbit's anxiety, caused its heart to explode. Later, the rabbit was in Ben's bag when they made the trek to the Hydra Island lookout, and was alive and okay. Ben said that he only gave the bunny a sedative, and then placed it back in his bag.
A different rabbit appeared in "The Man Behind the Curtain" where Ben, as a child, owned a similar, white, red-eyed young rabbit which he kept in his room as a pet. He later brought the bunny to the sonar fence in a bag and pushed the bunny toward the pylons to see if the fence was truly deactivated. It worked, and Ben followed the white rabbit through the fence, then scooped up the bunny and placed him back in the bag. Damon Lindelof, in the Lost: The Complete Third Season (DVD) commentary says,"Ben's penchant for numbering his rabbits probably has something to do with fertility experiments."
Yet another rabbit, named Angstrom, appeared in "Happily Ever After" as a research subject for a test Widmore's team is conducting using the generator on Hydra Island. It was also white with red eyes and was kept in a cage.
Rabbit's feet
A rabbit's foot is considered in American folklore to be a good luck amulet. Numerous rabbit's feet have been shown or mentioned in Lost:
Hurley finds a keyring that has a rabbit's foot on it. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
The co-pilot of the Coast Guard plane carrying the Oceanic Six is holding a rabbit's foot and says, "We need it with the cargo we've got." ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
The keys to Hurley's Camaro, which Hurley's dad hands him, have a rabbit's foot keychain. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
Ilana suggests that Sayid buys a rabbit's foot, to give him luck while on Ajira Airways Flight 316. ("He's Our You")
Other occurrences
Alex preparing white rabbit ("Greatest Hits")
Alex is seen in flashback skinning another rabbit. ("Greatest Hits")
The logo for the DHARMA Initiative station the Looking Glass is a white rabbit.
Young Charlie wore slippers resembling rabbits. ("Fire + Water")
Locke prepared a rabbit for Ben, who asked Locke if the rabbit had a number on it. ("The Other Woman")
The magician at Ray Shephard's assisted-living facility performed a trick with a white rabbit. ("316")
"Dharma Lady" album artwork
The Geronimo Jackson concert poster
The Geronimo Jackson single, "Dharma Lady" album artwork features Rabbit Jack (a white rabbit skull).
The Geronimo Jackson concert poster seen in the DHARMA cafeteria shows the white rabbit from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in the bottom left corner. ("He's Our You")
A white rabbit poster on Aaron's bedroom door
A poster of The White Rabbit (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) is seen on the Aaron's bedroom door in Kate's house, while she had the dream of Claire. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")
Miles uncovered a key hidden under a statue of a white rabbit. The number 8 (or the infinity sign) is written inside the ear of the rabbit statue. ("Some Like It Hoth")
During the meal between Eloise and Daniel, some fans believe a white rabbit can be seen in the distorted image through Daniel's wine glass. ("The Variable")
A white rabbit in a drinking glass
Jack finds the key to David's mother's house under a ceramic white rabbit. ("Lighthouse")
Kate is found by Sawyer tending a fire when he returns from meeting Charles Widmore on Hydra Island. When Sawyer asks what Kate is cooking, she replies, "Rabbit. I think." ("Recon")
Sawyer read Of Mice and Men while in prison, and made several references to the book, as did Ben. In the book, the mentally challenged character Lenny's obsession with rabbits is a key plot element. ("Every Man for Himself")
In "Confidence Man", Sawyer is reading Watership Down, a novel featuring rabbits as the protagonists.
The Blue Danube is the second part of a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
The nonfiction Stephen King book entitled On Writing asks the reader to conduct an writing exercises. One essay about writing invokes the image of a nondescript rabbit in a cage with the number 8 written on its back. King uses this image to make the point that writing is "telepathy." He argues that though the writer tells the reader of this rabbit, the reader and writer will inevitably see different rabbits, but because the 8 is unique, they will both see the 8 and be able to communicate.
The idea of the white rabbit is a running theme of the show, even referenced in one episode title, Season 1 episode 5, "White Rabbit". Ironically, most characters are led out into the jungle after their white rabbits (as when Jack follows Christian in the episode that introduced the idea), but Sawyer is led to remain caged after he sees the real white rabbit.
The idea of a character following a white rabbit can be traced back to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There" by Lewis Carroll. Both stories had the "Alice character" experiencing an amazing journey when her insatiable curiosity roused her to follow a nervous white rabbit into a cave-like opening
Rabbits are a symbol for fertility, a theme which surrounds the Others. For example, rabbits were killed in an early and well-known pregnancy test. The urine of pregnant women contains human chorionic gonadotropin, which causes changes to a female rabbit's ovaries when it is injected. Early pregnancy tests involved injecting the urine and then killing the rabbit and inspecting its ovaries.[1]
Alex skins a white rabbit moments before betraying her father Ben, who had a pet bunny as a child, and is a bit of a "white rabbit" himself (leading those who follow him on strange journeys). (Symbolism)
Outside of Lost episodes
Orchid Orientation film
A shot of the Orchid Orientation film
In the Orchid Orientation film, Edgar Halliwax (Pierre Chang) holds up a rabbit with the number 15 on it. After a moment, it is shown that behind him a second rabbit with the number 15 sitting on the top shelf of the metal shelving unit. Chang and his assistants are upset by the second rabbit and Chang moves away from it, saying the two cannot be close together. The film abruptly ends and restarts with only one rabbit. The film implies there is a significant population of white rabbits in the Orchid.
Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse suggest that fans curious about Charlotte's discovery of a polar bear skeleton in Tunisia watch the Orchid video, and further draw a link between the polar bear with the bunny in the video. (Official Lost Podcast/February 19, 2008)
Hydra Orientation film
White rabbits at the Hydra Station
In the Hydra Orientation film, Pierre Change walks through the Hydra Station, where we see 6 caged white rabbits, all with numbers on their sides.
White rabbits appear in both Lost: The Mobile Game and Lost: iPod Game.
Watership Down, which has rabbits as main characters
Entertainment Weekly - Oct 31, 2006 article by Jeff Jensen on the possible connection with Stephen King
Birds • Boar • Cats • Cattle • Chickens • Dog (Bpo Bpo) • Dog (Buster) • Dog (Vincent) • Doves • Gulls • Horse (Kate's) • Horse (Bea's) • Horses (Bedouins') • Hy-bird • Medusa spider • Moths • Orangutan (Joop) • Polar bears • Rabbit (Angstrom) • Rabbits (DHARMA's) • Rat (Eloise) • Sharks • Sea urchins • Frog
See Also: Theories about animals
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