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Earl Sleek: Audio Idiot
Well, the Ducks won their "home" game in England, 4-1, to put the Sharks squarely in the BoC basement, and also it prevented me from mass producing my "0-2 in the O2" t-shirts. All in all, it seems playing in England was a pretty good opening gesture for the NHL--no major head hits or stick swings, some decent back-and-forth hockey, and two rookies getting the season's first two NHL wins. It did take 15 minutes for the lights to turn on, 5 periods of hockey for an even-strength goal to be scored, and a bit longer to see find out that English fans love fights, but those glitches aside, it seems to have gone off rather well, or at least not badly.
In terms of the game, here's the key stat that caught my eye: in the first game, Coach Carlyle had Ryan Getzlaf out for 5 1/2 shorthanded minutes; he was on the ice for all three L.A. power play goals. In game 2, Carlyle dropped Getzlaf's PK time to 20 seconds while rookie Ryan Carter picked up more than 3 minutes, and the Kings' power play didn't score once.
Anyway, I didn't even get to see this game live--I figured the Ducks stood a better chance of winning if I went to church. But that didn't stop me from listening to the postgame show Duck Calls on my way home (not that rare), nor did it stop me from calling in (a first!). I was on with host Josh Brewster and L.A. Times writer Eric Stephens for what ended up being a 17-minute segment, talking about all the BoC teams. Most of that time I was pacing around a convenience store parking lot like a lunatic, but I guess I ended up sounding intelligible enough.
You can access the audio at the Duck Call site here -- my segment is labeled 'Sept 30 Part 4'. I can't say it's the most inspired piece of call-in-show dialogue, but I will direct your attention to about 55 seconds in, when Stephens throws in this gem: "Yeah, Earl. I have seen your site. It's well done, by the way."
I think I might have to see a doctor about my suddenly bloated head.
Tags: Anaheim Ducks, Earl Sleek Superstar, London 2007, Media
Kings Live-Blog: It's Never Too Early For Hockey!
So here's last night:
I went to Target to buy a gift for my roommate Megalodon and my other roommate, Matt (who refuses to go by a nickname because, and I quote, "I'm not gay,"), bought The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. (I don't know why.) We drank two bottles of wine and then I demonstrated to Matt's little brother the dangers of alcohol.. Anyway, my head feels like it was boiled but I promised you people a live-blog and God dammit, I'm going to give it to you. Here's some articles to start your day. The Kings named Rob Blake as their captain; some people thought it would be Derek Armstrong, which would have literally killed me. One thing those people didn't understand: he's ROB BLAKE. Lubomir Visnovsky and Mike Cammalleri join Scott Thornton as assistants. (Is it associate now? That's really lame.) I don't know why, seeing as how he's older than me and Slovakian, but I'm always really happy when Lubo accomplishes something. He's like my child!
I have a good feeling about these games in London. The Ducks are missing Pahlsson, the good Niedermayer, Selanne, Giguere, and Schneider. If the Kings are going to beat the Ducks this season, it's gonna be now. Anyway, I'll be here all game and Megalodon and Matt will be making snide remarks here and there. Go Kings.
(Oh, and Matt changed his mind: he wants to be referred to as "The Awesome Guy Whose Team Won the Stanley Cup." I hate my roommates.)
8:54: Taylor Swift. I am a fan.
8:56: Huell Howser. I am not a fan. Hockey needs to start.
9:00: Hockey!
9:02: The Ducks are Stanley Cup champions, the Kings are Red Bull chamions. Winner gets both, deal?
Bernier is getting the start.
9:06: The blue lines have been moved out? What the fuck? How is this a real game?
9:10: The British bird sucks at singing. Why are they singing the British national anthem? I thought we kicked their ass so we wouldn't have to listen to this bullshit. Bernier looks like he's about to cry. He needs to change his number if he's going to be on the team for a while.
9:15: Oh for fuck's sake, the lights aren't working. It's like they're trying to give me a heart attack. Matt thinks that they brought the lights from America and they don't plug in right in Britain.
9:23: They showed a shot of Rob Blake and he looked incredibly forlorn, like he was thinking, "Man, I wonder what Scott's doing. I should've retired too." This is not encouraging. Also, the lighting delay means that we get more Brian Hayward. Great.
9:28: According to reader Tapeleg (who I would have sex with, so why shouldn't you?), the usually put dampers on the lights so that they don't have to turn them on again. Apparently that's not how they roll in England. No wonder the British lost the War of 1812.
9:34: Is it just me or is the camera way too close? Also, they almost missed the drop because it's the NHL.
9:36: Okay, Brad Stuart managed to make me care about him; he bleached his hair and he looks ridiculous. Bertuzzi got a penalty for holding, somehow. He managed to keep from murdering someone, though, so that's an improvement.
9:39: Sean O'Donnell just shot on his own goalie. Seriously. He had the puck and shot it on Brzyzgalov. After he shot it, Jimmy said, "English rules!" Meg said, "That doesn't make sense," and I agree with him. We like to think that he's been saying that all week like it's some great joke.
9:46: It's always weird the first couple games of the season; Kyle Calder is wearing 19 and I thought, "What the hell is Sean Avery doing out there?" Shane Hnidy made sure someone noticed him by getting a penalty.
9:49: Hooray! Cammalleri scores on a 5-on-3 thanks to Rob Niedermayer. I think they said that the assists were to Lubo and Kopitar, and I would say that is the perfect first goal of the season.
9:53: The Ducks got a 2-on-1 on the penalty kill but Lubo broke it up beuatifully. I love that guy and I don't care who knows it.
9:56: Just so you guys know, all. Senior. Citizens. Should. Have. Life Alert. I like to think that that old chick talks like that all the time. "Would. You. Please. Get. Me. Some tea."
10:04: Do you think anyone has made a Laurel & Hardy joke when Pronger and Carlyle are next to one another. Also, Jimmy is in mid-season from; there's pointless stories all over the place.
10:03: Wow, Tulane sucks ass... oh, sorry, wrong game.
10:06: They keep pushing this "Name the Rivalry" thing. I think they should name it the "Shut the fuck up and talk about the game" Rivalry.
10:07: The Ducks had a power play but couldn't do anything with it. I love Rob Blake on the penalty kill because it's like he's trying to see what he can get away with without getting a penalty.
First period ends, Kings up 1-0. They look pretty good. Is it just me or are the refs really shitty? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, given that that one Mick is reffing. I'm lovin' the Armstrong-Frolov-Calder line. I'm going to go make some chicken nuggets.
Did you see that Steve Downie got suspended for 20 games for his hit on Dean McAmmond? That seems a little excessive. I mean, Chris Simon didn't get suspended for that long, and he swung his stick at that one dude's head! I guess Downie did deserve that elbow courtesy of Jack Johnson.
10:19: How has John McEnroe made an entire career out of being a whiny asshole? Also, that Carl's Jr. commercial with the flat buns is what is wrong with America. Where did the hot chick go? (I'm pushing Earl to make this a blog about commercials, but so far he's been resistant.)
10:24: I just noticed that Kyle Calder didn't screen Bryzgalov on the King's goal. This is after Jimmy spent 5 minutes talking about how Calder screened him. I love Jimmy, but he's not that good at his job.
10:30: 2nd period starts and it's the little things I love about hockey, like when the ref kicks a center out of the face-off circle. I like to think that they say, "What are you doin'? Get the fuck out of here."
10:32: Lubo gets a penalty for holding Todd Bertuzzi, but that's not fair. Lubo is like 20 pounds, how is he supposed to stop Bertuzzi? I think Bertuzzi should get a penalty for being mean.
10:36: Jimmy said that Bernier works best from his knees and I think he speaks from experience.
10:38: The Kings kill off a penalty kill thanks to Jonathan Bernier, who is amazing. I don't know how to react; the Ducks will dump it in and I just assume that it's going in because, well, that's what happens to the Kings. Bernier's fucking everything up!
10:42: I'd just like to take a moment to say that my brother can't watch the game because he's at work and he doesn't get Prime Ticket. To that I say:
Hey, Shane Hnidy just boarded Patrick O'Sullivan! Fuck you, Shane Hnidy.
10:45: Hooray! Kings score thanks to Rob Blake. Dustin Brown made a great move to start the scoring oppurtunity. I love it when Blake is in front of the net; how do you move him?
Is Ivanans aware that you can't just hit someone when they don't have the puck? I don't think he is.
10:50: The Kings killed off the penalty to Ivanans. Bob and Jimmy talked about how Kopitar is living with his family this season, and that unsettles me.
10:53: Bernier makes a great save and then Rob Niedermayer tries to fight Jack Johnson. I'm not sure if the Kings can send Bernier down without mass rioting in the streets.
10:57: Jimmy said that Jack Johnson was "joshling" for the puck. Take a break there, big guy.
11:00: Modry with the save. Jon Klemm would have checked the puck, though, so he's better.
11:02: That'll do it for the 2nd period with the Kings up, 2-0.. This game kinda has a weird feel to me. Neither team seems like they're totally awake out there. I guess I can't complain too much, though, since the Kings are up. Back for the 3rd period in a bit.
11:05: I have to admit, I never get tired of them talking about how the Ducks don't have Selanne and Niedermayer. I'd like to say that now: the Ducks don't have Selanne and Niedermayer.
11:10: Bill MacDonald said that if Calder keeps playing like this, they might name a trophy after him. You are the worst person in the world, Bill MacDonald. On the other hand, Brian Hayward said that Teemu Selanne is one of the best "Fin(n)ishers" in the NHL. Now that's funny.
11:20: John Zeiler can't skate and it's somehow Pronger's fault. Kings on the power play. Zeiler skates like he has a stick up his ass.
11:22: Hooray! The Kings get another goal, this one thanks to Preissing. Kopitar gets another assist; hey Earl, does your league count power play points?
11:24: Who the fuck is Mark Mauers?
11:26: My roommates keep trying to guess which debilitating injury Jonathan Bernier will suffer this season. They're scaring me. Also, Matt thinks the reason the Ducks are so listless out there is because they're tired from carrying the Cup around everywhere.
11:30: Kopitar gets a penalty for hooking. He sucks and should be traded.
11:31: The Kings have had two good chances on the penalty kill: O'Sullivan had a nifty little move and then got dumped by Pronger, and Brown had a one-timer that Bryzgalov had a nice save on. They're booing Pronger for his hit on O'Sullivan, and how dick do you have to be to get booed by Brits?
11:32: "Jimmy, you can't drink while you're supposed to be working!" "English rules!"
11:38: If anyone wants to join the Jonathan Bernier Appreciation Society, meetings are on Wednesday at 8. Please bring some sort of baked good.
11:40: They gave the 3rd goal to Cammalleri, which gives him 2 on the day. I'd just like to remind everyone that we have him for 2 years at an extremely reasonable salary.
11:42: Boo! Bobby Ryan gets his first NHL goal on the power play thanks to Frolov. Ryan got the puck on a bounce and Bernier didn't really have a shot at it. Send him down!
Perry just got hit and looked shaken up. Unfortunately, he's okay.
11:47: He hasn't scored, but Bertuzzi has looked really good this game. He's driving to the net, staying strong on the puck, getting good shots... it's almost enough to make you forget that he once attempted murder.
11:48: I just noticed that the Kings brought their in-house announcer over to England. Was that really necessary? They didn't have one English guy that could do that job?
11:50: O'Sullivan has looked pretty good today too. He's had a couple of chances 1-on-1 where he just got in position to take the shot instead of trying to make a move.
11:52: Hey, what the hell was that? Andy McDonald just hit Bernier in the back of the head! I will bury you, Andy. The Ducks seem to think they're still in this game, so I don't think there's going to be a fight.
11:54: Well, fuck. There's a minute left, the Ducks are getting a ton of pressure, and Brad Stuart got a penalty.
11:55: Whew. Corey Perry had a great chance but Bernier stuffed him. O'Sullivan made a great play to get the puck to Michal Handzus and he ices the game.
11:56: Wow, Todd Marchant is kind of a dick. He just boarded John Zeiler. Oh well, when you're below .500 like the Ducks will be I guess you have to take the frustration out on someone.
11:58: That'll do it for the game. Kings win, 4-1. Jonathan Bernier played amazing and the Kings played a very tight, controlled game. Kings in first place!
That'll do it for me. Thanks for reading; it's tough to follow a game and write about it, but I might do this again if you thought it was good. If you didn't, keep it to yourself; I have low self-esteem.
Posted by RudyKelly at 8:16 AM 61 comments
Tags: Anaheim Ducks, Live Blog, London 2007, Los Angeles Kings
BoC Gameday—A poetic beginning
Anaheim Ducks (0-0-0, 0 pts) at Los Angeles Kings (0-0-0, 0 pts), 9:00 am
Let's start this season off with a little class and culture, shall we? Before any blood spills, I mean.
L isten, dear readers, to the ballad at hand,
O f a Battle of California in a far distant land,
N ow the choice of location might strike you as odd,
D ucks and the Kings playing hockey abroad,
O 2 Arena—a new chapter ensues,
N ine in the morning—a great time to booze!
O ne team comes searching for answers in net,
P erhaps a teen rookie instead of a vet?
E lsewhere the cup champs begin their defense,
N ervously watching the retirement fence.
E ngland’s a strange place to stage the attack,
R eady or not, though, hockey is back!
Make sure you guys tune in later for Rudy's liveblog; I'm anxious to see a guy start crying before noon. All I'm going to offer is a little perspective from last year. These two teams met up for the season opener in Anaheim, and do you remember who scored the first goal of that game?
Hint: it's the guy in this photo that didn't just win the cup.
The only problem was, Rob Blake scored into his own net. And that's how the BoC's season started. That early mishap seemed innocent enough, but some will argue it set the momentum for the rest of the year; the Ducks continued to find ways to win while the Kings regularly found ways to shoot themselves in the foot.
Well it's a clean slate: a new season with new personnel in a new arena on a new side of the Atlantic. The 2007-08 season promises to be an awesome one in the BoC (especially once it gets to California!)—so let's get this bad boy started.
Prediction: I'm a little stumped what to predict with Pahlsson out of the lineup, so I'll just go with the goal scorers from last year's opener: Ducks 4, Kings 3. Perry gets credit for Blake's own-goal; McDonald, Getzlaf, and Kunitz also score. For the Kings, Kopitar scores two and Visnovsky gets one, making the day a fantasy success.
p.s. If anyone spots a girl in a green shirt in the crowd sitting next to a really tall guy in a Brodeur jersey, yell "Mags!" She's the only one I know at the event, and may provide a firsthand perspective if I'm persuasive enough.
The blog's all yours, Rudy. Go Ducks.
Tags: Anaheim Ducks, Cartoons, Game Day, London 2007, Los Angeles Kings, Poetry Corner
Mullet of Doom
Like Steven Seagal once was, the Sharks are now marked for death -- Barry Melrose has assigned his annual Mullet curse to the boys in teal, calling them the best team in the league in a video reviewing the Pacific Division that you can find on the ESPN NHL page. Fortunately, I don't see this in writing anywhere, so perhaps the Melrose curse only affects things in print form (or online text, depending on how you look at it).
Tags: Barry Melrose, San Jose Sharks
Kings Season Preview Mega-Post, or: Rudy Drinks the Kool-Aid
Additions: Ladislav Nagy, Michal Handzus, Tom Preissing, Michal Handzus, Kyle Calder, Jack Johnson, J.S. Aubin, Jonathan Bernier (for now)
Losses: Tom Kostopolous, Mike Weaver, Mathieu Garon, Craig Conroy, Sean Avery, Brent Sopel, Dan Cloutier (for now)
Projected Lines in Camp:
Brown-Kopitar-Cammalleri
Frolov-Armstrong-Calder
Nagy-Handzus-O’Sullivan
Thornton-Murray-Willsie
Ivanans, Zeiler when we play the Ducks
Visnovsky-Blake
Preissing-Stuart
Modry-Johnson
Dallman when we want to lose
Labarbera
Bernier
I’m pretty optimistic about this upcoming season. Despite last season’s troubles, the Kings still proved that they had a lot of young talent ready to break out. Mike Cammalleri and Alex Frolov can no longer be called "prospects" and both of them led the offense for much of last year. Anze Kopitar descended upon us with golden wings and will probably be our best player this year. Dustin Brown kept improving, slowly but surely, and should improve even more this year as he gears his game toward a more grinding, power style. Patrick O’Sullivan had a little trouble adjusting last year, but it’s going to be difficult for a young player when he realizes that his old moves don’t work in the NHL; he should thrive this year if he can play with a guy like Ladislav Nagy. Jack Johnson is in a perfect position to thrive in the NHL and will assume a larger role as the Kings diminish Rob Blake’s. Jonathan Bernier is playing with house money at this point. Those are just the young guys that are currently on the team; I haven’t even mentioned Thomas Hickey or Lauri Tukonen or Trevor Lewis or Brian Boyle. If these guys can continue to improve like they did last year, the Kings are going to be much better than most people think.
The most important thing Dean Lombardi did this off-season was improve the depth of the Kings. At this point last season, the Kings were pondering lines like O’Sullivan-Conroy-Cammalleri and Frolov-Kopitar-Willsie. We have three lines this year that are better than those two. Say what you want about Ladislav Nagy or Kyle Calder, but they are clearly better than Eric Belanger and Tom Kostopolous. I think a fundamental flaw in John Buccigross’ recent article about the Kings is that he thought guys like Nagy and Michal Handzus were going to take Cammalleri and Kopitar’s ice time. They’re not taking their ice time; their taking Scott Thornton’s and Konstantin Pushkarev’s. (Forgot he was on the team, didn’t you?) The same thing with the defense: Lubo will still get a lion’s share of the power play time, but we won’t have to rely on Matty Norstrom and Kevin Dallman on the 2nd power play unit because we have Tom Preissing and Brad Stuart.
1st Intermission:
I’m pretty pessimistic about this upcoming season. The Kings goaltending situation is even worse than could have been imagined. Dan Cloutier was obviously unhealthy and had to be sent down. Jason Labarbera, too, has been pretty bad this pre-season. I’m not sure why he's struggled, but he was supposed to be the guy who, if not great, was going to be consistently average for us. J.S. Aubin is not really worth talking about. The only guy who has inspired confidence is a 19 year-old kid who has never played a day of professional hockey. The list of NHL netminders who enjoyed success in their teens is as follows: Tom Barrasso. That’s the list. Unless Bernier becomes the 2nd coming, there’s no way the Kings can prevent a repeat of what happened last year.
The Kings have improved their depth for relatively cheap, but the question not being asked is why these players were cheap. Handzus is coming off major knee surgery. Nagy has either been great but hurt or healthy and average. Kyle Calder failed to live up to his initial hype. Brad Stuart was awful the past two years. Even Tom Preissing got benched during the Stanley Cup Finals. The signings seemed smart, but there was a reason 29 other GMs didn’t sign these guys. Even if the Kings had signed a guy like Drury for too much money, you could at least be guranteed some measure of production. The Kings have no such luxury.
During Mike Cammalleri’s arbitration hearing, Dean Lombardi talked about how Cammy had put up a lot of points on a bad team. The implication was that this was an indication of a lack of talent with the Kings rather than an abundance of talent in Cammalleri. The same argument could be applied to Kopitar or Frolov as well. (The fact that Brown did not pile up points with the amount of ice time he got scares me.) That’s the major problem with much of the King’s young talent; sure, they’ve been good on a bad team, but can they be good on a good team? I’m not sure about some of them. Last year, there was no pressure for them to perform. This year, there is.
I’m more in line with the first argument than I am with the second. Ultimately, I think the Kings are going to make the playoffs this season. For those who are still skeptical, here’s my rationale:
The Kings do not have to be one of the 8 best teams in the Western Conference; the Kings need to be one of the 3 best teams in the Pacific Division. Because of the unbalanced schedule, it’s pretty much guaranteed that there will be 3 teams from 2 conferences in the playoffs and then 2 in the other. I think the Pacific and the Northwest will get 3 each, while the Central will get 2. Of the three teams in the Pacific that get in, I think we can obviously write down San Jose and Anaheim and dismiss Phoenix. That leaves L.A. and Dallas. The two of them are opposites: Dallas is all defense and no offense (when was the last time you saw a team so dependant on defensive scoring?) while the Kings are mostly offense and no defense. Dallas has been looking like they were going to fall off a cliff for years now, and I think they finally will this season. Who is going to score on that team? I think the Kings will get just lucky enough with Kopitar and Cammalleri leading the way while the Frolov-Armstrong-Calder line will get an article written about them by December. (Hopefully Darren Eliot doesn’t write it.)
I almost changed my mind based solely on this picture.
It’s hard for me to do any predictions that involve the Kings because I can’t get my own biases out of the way. I’d be an asshole if I didn’t admit I really want the Kings to make the playoffs this year. (“You’re an asshole anyway!” “Hey!”) That being said, the Kings have the talent this year to make the playoffs. Whether they do or not is up to them.
Here’s my 100% bullshit, completely made-up guess as to how the Western Conference breaks down (Eff the East):
So that’s how I have everything breaking down. I’m not too attached to these (though I did spend way too much time thinking about it), so feel free to eviscerate them in the comments.
2nd Intermission:
I was stumblin’ around Youtube the other day and I came across this:
That Game 3 is probably my favorite memory as a Kings fan. When Eric Belanger scored in overtime… well, people always say the birth of your child is the greatest moment of your life, but have you ever actually seen a birth? It’s disgusting. And weddings? No thanks. (Besides, my wife will probably be ugly anyway.) So yeah, that will probably be the greatest moment of my life. This team, this season, is the first time I've felt good about the Kings since that moment. Do I know if the Kings can actually make the playoffs this season? No, but I look forward to finding out. Go Kings.
Posted by RudyKelly at 9:18 AM 4 comments
Tags: Los Angeles Kings, Season Preview, YouTube
Earl Sleek: the model of Londifference
As the Ducks and Kings finish preparing for actual games this weekend, I thought I’d devote a post to the apparent problems of having two BoC teams starting their season in London. This is not to say that there won’t be any positives to these two teams taking the trip—but without knowing what the actual point of this Euro-experiment is, it’s tough to say how well the NHL did in its preparations. Anyway, here’s four reasons why the NHL’s decision-making seems odd to me.
In terms of miles traveled, the Ducks and Kings are the two most geographically distant NHL cities from London, England. It’s quite strange that the NHL would take its two furthest franchises and fly them 5,400 miles out of their way to start their season. But travel distance isn’t even the main concern here—there’s also an issue of time zones. If the NHL is trying to make more fans in the UK, maybe a smarter plan might have been to send two teams that don’t start most of their games at 3 or 3:30 am London time.
2. Destination
While the notion of having NHL games in Europe isn’t a bad one, the actual destination of London is bizarre—unlike many choices in Europe, England is not a hockey hotbed and there aren’t many Brits who make it to the NHL level. I mean, certainly there are British hockey fans, but how the NHL managed to pick a location where most of the locals are indifferent or unaware is beyond me. It’s not that it’s a hugely horrible decision, but it really begs the question—why not Sweden, or Finland, the Czech Republic, or Russia, a place where the NHL would be more warmly received?
I’ve made a point of it before, but it is interesting that the NHL is sending the Ducks, the least European team in the league, to play in Europe. Anaheim’s player bias was exacerbated by the short summer—Sammy Pahlsson remains out with a hernia surgery and Teemu Selanne still needs more time to consider retirement. While it is cool that the games feature the defending Cup champions, I can’t help thinking it would be a better draw to send a team with an actual European superstar on it. I can think of 29 better possibilities in that regard.
4. Opponent
I’ve got a few mixed feeling about the fact that it will be the Ducks and Kings playing. On the one hand, they are pretty bitter rivals and probably will make for some exciting hockey, but on the other, the NHL took two of its guaranteed sell-outs and shipped them overseas. It’s a curious move for a league that is pretty gate-driven, at least. Surely there are games on the NHL’s schedule that could have used a London attendance boost more than Ducks-Kings.
But take heart, London! I’m not really here to make a big fuss about this; in fact, I’m having trouble caring about these drawbacks at all. Sure, the opening travel schedule for the Ducks is way inconvenient for the team, but as a fan, I’m not letting their issues get to me. For instance, the short summer might suck for a hockey player, but coming from the TV wasteland that is Southern California, I’m delighted to see hockey again this soon. And sure, maybe the team is screwed by all this early-season travel, but given the choice, I’d rather be screwed in the first few games of the year than sometime later.
Maybe I’m just feeling generous because of the cup win, but while the London games don’t seem like an ideal fit, I’m not going to raise a stink. Enjoy the novelty show, anyone who’s attending—there will be plenty of time afterwards to figure out if it was worth it or not.
As an aside, if you haven’t seen the Ducks’ picture gallery of the team flying to London, it is perhaps my favorite team photo gallery ever. Not only do you get to see such great shots as Pronger getting his bag searched, Bryzgalov and Perry being screened with a hand-wand, and Parros doing a crossword puzzle, but damn, these Ducks fly in style! Anyway, I will be stealing from this picture gallery a bunch, I bet, so I figured I’d better link to it now.
This is the part of the plane where they keep the criminals.
Also, Sleek-favorite Sammy Pahlsson briefly answered some random questions—it turns out he hates Joe Thornton because he resembles the cast of “Dude, Where’s my Car?” Or something like that.
Tags: Anaheim Ducks, London 2007, Los Angeles Kings, Photos
Aubservations From Austria
They were showing the game online at NHL.tv, so I ignored work for a while and watched the game. The Kings won, 4-3.
-Jack Johnson is a very good stick handler for a guy his size.
-You can't blame the goaltender for any of the goals the Kings let in. (I'm actually not sure who allowed what; Bernier started but was removed some time before the middle of the 2nd.) The first goal was Blake's fault; he jumped up during a change, lost the puck, and hung Lubo out to dry on a 3-on-1. The next two were both tip-ins on the power play.
-Patrick O'Sullivan looked pretty good. He was out there on the penalty kill and really got after the puck. He scored with a rocket from the circle.
-Brady Murray looks like he's skating underwater; he's pumping his arms and legs really fast but isn't actually moving that much.
-Lubo looks amazing on a large ice surface. Can he and Scott Niedermayer play together once? He scored on a power play that was almost ruined by Brian Willsie running into the goalie. I despise that dude.
-Cammy had a ridiculous goal where he went around two guys and then flipped over the goalie's far pad while he was almost past the net.
-Anze outdid him, though, scoring with 46 seconds left in the game. He had a partial breakaway, took a shot, got hauled down, then flipped a backhand over the goalie while he was on the ground. Is it possible for me to have his children? (Side note: he won MVP for the Kings and was given a jersey. The goalie for the other team won a PSP. Apparently tournament organizers thought the particpants were twelve.)
Overall, it was a pretty good game. I hadn't seen the Kings play yet this season, so I was happy. They outshot the other team 47-32, but penalties did them in. I hope that's just because of the larger ice surface (it's way easier to bring the puck in on the power play) and the fact that the refs called everything. The Kings still needed some work and they lacked any real secondary scoring without Handzus and Frolov out there. (I think Nagy was taken out of the game at some point, but I don't know why.) And now, London.
Posted by RudyKelly at 2:02 PM 7 comments
Tags: London 2007, Los Angeles Kings
Kings Gameday: I'm Still Not Convinced This "Austria" Exists
Okay, c'mon, there's no way that's a real place.
The Kings are still in this mythical land of Austria, where people wear hats on their feet and the hamburgers eat people. (Jesus, is that the Australia episode too? That’s a good one.) Despite some… difficulties yesterday, the Kings still managed to win. Labarbera’s struggles in the game mean that he’s obviously worthless and we should just ignore the 80 games he played last year. (Playing goaltender on an international ice surface is way different because you have to adjust how you center yourself; I’m sure that was the problem. At least, I think.)
Anywho, the Kings now play some Swede team that I don’t know and will probably kick the hell out of them. (The day I fear something Swedish is the day I die at the hands of Matty Norstrom.) I assume Bernier will start this time, but I’ve given up on guessing what the hell the Kings are doing. Puck should drop in about 45 minutes.
Prediction: Kings, 6-2. 2 goals by Calder, 2 by O’Sullivan, 1 by Nagy and Brown. Kopitar will have 7 assists because he can do that.
Yesterday over on Inside the Kings, Rich Hammond quoted Marc Crawford as saying that Alexander Frolov and Michal Handzus were hurt. I knew about Frolov, but Handzus? He had his tonsils removed like a month ago! I’m beginning to think he may actually be a woman, or even worse, a baseball player.
I’m doing a live-blog! It should be Saturday, barring unforeseen circumstances. I’m sure I’ll be incredibly witty for the 1st period, realize I’ve made a huge mistake by the 2nd, and completely mail it in for the rest of the game. Should be fun. I usually wait until a live-blog is over before I start to read it, but if you’d like to follow along in the comments, feel free.
Posted by RudyKelly at 10:59 AM 3 comments
Tags: Game Day, London 2007, Los Angeles Kings, Sweden
Draft like the pros, part II
For the second year in a row, I took part in Mirtle's name-dropping fantasy league, which had its live draft this past weekend. There's a lot of big-name participants: Mirtle, BoA's Matt, CiO's Chris!, Spector, PJ, JJ, PPP, David Johnson, Forechecker, and more--it's certainly an intimidating group! In all it comes to 20 teams, head-to-head, as follows:
Positions: C x3, LW x2, RW x2, F x2, D x4, Util, BN x4, IR x3
Categories: G, A, +/-, PIM, PPG, PPA, GWG, SOG, W, GAA, SV, SV%, SHO
So basically, it was two-plus hours of us drafting 400 players--the deepest draft I've ever been a part of. Anyway, without any further excuses, here's how I did.
Rd – Pick – Player
1 – 15 – E. Nabokov, G SJS
2 – 26 – J. Cheechoo, RW SJS
3 – 55 – L. Visnovsky, D LAK
4 – 66 – R. Smyth, LW COL
5 – 95 – A. Kopitar, C LAK
6 – 106 – P. Sykora, C PIT
7 – 135 – A. Hemsky, RW EDM
8 – 146 – T. Bertuzzi, RW ANA
9 – 175 – A. Raycroft, G TOR
10 – 186 – M. Handzus, C LAK
11 – 215 – S. Bernier, RW SJS
12 – 226 – C. Ehrhoff, D SJS
13 – 255 – R. Clowe, LW SJS
14 – 266 – J. Johnson, D LAK
15 – 295 – M. Garon, G EDM
16 – 306 – C. Rivet, D SJS
17 – 335 – R. Fedotenko, LW NYI
18 – 346 – R. Ivanans, LW LAK
19 – 375 – M. Stajan, C TOR
20 – 386 – B. Radivojevic, RW MIN
C – Kopitar, Sykora, Handzus, Stajan
LW – Smyth, Clowe, Fedotenko, Ivanans
RW – Cheechoo, Hemsky, Bertuzzi, Bernier, Radivojevic
D – Visnovsky, Ehrhoff, Johnson, Rivet
G – Nabokov, Raycroft, Garon
So all in all, 12 BoC players drafted on my 20-man roster (6 Sharks, 5 Kings, and a Duck named Bertuzzi), plus this morning I dropped Radivojevic for Jonas Hiller in an attempt to pick up some goaltending stats from England.
If you recall last year, I drafted even more BoC-heavy in this league, getting 13 BoC players in a 19-player draft (7 Ducks, 4 Kings, and 2 Sharks), and then immediately traded away Kiprusoff and Sykora for Niedermayer and Pronger. That worked out well enough; I got a fourth place finish (out of 20), with a claim-to-fame that I played Dan Cloutier every game he was eligible. Now you may be wondering, "Sleek, why the change in strategy? Given up on the Ducks this year?"
To tell the truth, this year's not the fantasy draft anomaly--really, last year was. Last year, I consciously decided to break Fantasy Hockey Rule #1: Never draft with your heart. It's kind of like putting all your eggs in one basket (though this saying has never made complete sense to me--who really wants multiple baskets of eggs?). Had the Ducks suffered last year, I would have been hurting on two fronts: reality and fantasy. Fortunately, they didn't, but I'm not one to keep the same heavy gamble going year after year.
Instead, this year I went with a much more emotionally safe fantasy team--one that offsets my actual desires. That way, if the Ducks score and win a bunch, I might suffer on the fantasy front but I can at least take heart in actual results. If, on the other hand, the Ducks get pummeled in the BoC this year, I'll take a lot of heat on this blog for real-life results but damn--I'll probably be kicking ass in the Mirtle League! Besides, I think it would be nice to experience how the Sharks and Kings fans feel each year after being disappointed by their players' lackluster efforts.
Anyways, I know it's not that helpful just seeing my picks without any context, but if anybody has any comments, advice, or trade offers, the Sleek-store is now open for business.
Go me.
Tags: Fantasy Hockey
Kings Gameday: Wait, They Played Already?
G’Day, Mates! The Kings are over in sunny Austria, playing a few games and then maybe putting a shrimp on the barbie or chillin’ with some kangaroos or something. They just wrapped up their first game, winning 7-6 against Red Bull Salzburg. That’s a little closer than I’d like, but maybe they had a little trouble sleeping last night with all the koalas running around.
Labarbera started the game but got pulled five minutes in after letting in 3 goals (to be fair, 2 were on the power play). Aubin came in and played the rest of the way. Letting in 6 goals is not a good sign for our goaltending, but I’m not going to worry about it until the season starts. With their win, the Kings will play sometime tomorrow against some other team I've never heard of (loser gets the boot). Bernier will probably start that game and be awesome and get all our hopes up before dashing them by never amounting to anything. (I’m trying to keep my hopes low.) I thought the championship game was decided by playing Knifey Spoonies, but I was wrong.
On the offensive side, Kopitar had a hat trick and is my hero. Someone give that guy a bloomin’ onion!
(What's that? Oh, AUSTRIA… I’m an idiot.)
Tags: Game Day, Los Angeles Kings
BoNY made me do it: Season Previews
Now that the Kings have introduced Bailey the hard-luck lion ("Seriously, I have to root for the Kings?!"), I thought I'd make a little all-nature BoC logo based on the teams' mascots. It got me thinking about what it would be like if there really were a three-way fight to the death among these three animals in nature. Sure, a lot of people would take the shark or the lion over the duck, but really, a lot would depend on location: the duck would outlast the lion in open waters and it would outlast the shark on dry land. And if you dropped them out of a plane, I like the duck's chances.
Regardless of what you think of the Kings' new mascot, you still gotta like the choice of a lion better than this option.
Anyway, Rudy and I both got enlisted by Steve from Battle of New York to do another set of season previews for SportsFan Magazine, this time in the form of answering questions. It's actually been about a month since those answers were submitted, but fortunately nobody's made any preview-altering decisions about retirement since then. So here's Sleek answering 15 questions about the Ducks, and Rudy answering the same set for the Kings.
There's not too much to report on the last few days of the Ducks' preseason--I'm not a guy who takes too much hope or dismay out of preseason results. Still, two things worth noting:
1. In the last preseason game against the half-roster Canucks, Coach Carlyle made an interesting lineup change: playing Getzlaf and Perry on separate lines. It's an intriguing possibility that I hadn't really considered until now, and at first blush I gotta say it probably makes sense. Perry played on a top line with McDonald and Kunitz, while Getzlaf killed on a line with Bertuzzi and Bobby Ryan.
2. Swiss goaltender Jonas Hiller "the Killer" played well enough through camp to earn a seat on a plane to London, but it's unclear whether he will get any playing time in the games against the Kings. If he doesn't, that will mean that the Ducks will have managed a pretty neat trick: going to play two NHL games in Europe and not playing any European players.
Well, the next game counts! Go Ducks.
Tags: Anaheim Ducks, Cartoons, London 2007, Mascots
Season (P)Review: Tom Preissing
Last Season: 7 G, 31 A, +40 (Jesus), 18 PIM
Word That Best Describes His Season: Pleasant.
$11 million dollar contract, $5 dollar haircut.
Tom Preissing signed a 4 year, $11 million dollar deal with the Kings this off-season. Since he’s probably going to be on our team for a while, I figure we should get to know him. Here’s 4 things to know about Tom Preissing:
1) He’s smart. Preissing wrote his senior thesis at Colorado College on the lack of competitive balance in the NHL. Apparently it was actually good enough to be published in an economics journal. So hey, Preissing’s not a moron, good to know.
2) He won the San Jose Sharks Playstation Rookie of the Year in 2003. Since I got that from Wikipedia, I’m not sure if that means he won an award presented by Playstation or if he was rookie of the year on someone’s Playstation game. Either way, it's... something.
3) He is better than Mark Bell. Preissing was involved in a three-team trade where Chicago received Martin Havlat, Ottawa got Preissing, and San Jose got Mark Bell. Since I don’t get to say this very much, I’m going to say it now: San Jose’s front office sure fucked that one up.
4) He looks vaguely like a frog. Just sayin’.
"Nice pass, To- oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else."
I’d like to welcome Tom Preissing back to the Battle of California. We basically get Joe Corvo back except Preissing is a little younger, a little better, and a little less inclined to kick a woman in the stomach. The only thing I'm worried about is the fact that the three defensemen we have under control for a while are Preissing, Lubo, and Johnson, all offensive forwards. Oh well, if our biggest problem in 3 years is that we have those 3 guys on our team, I don't think I'll be too upset. Oh, and Sharks fans: if you have fond memories of Preissing (or Mark Bell), feel free to leave them in the comments.
Tags: Los Angeles Kings, Mark Bell, Tom Preissing
Season (P)Review: Mike Cammalleri & Lubomir Visnovsky
Last Season:
Cammalleri- 34 G, 46 A, +5,48 PIM
Visnovsky- 18 G, 40 A, +1, 26 PIM
Word That Best Describes Both Seasons: Spectacular.
I have no idea what's going on in this picture.
I’ve already written a lot about Cammy and Lubo this off-season, so you can check those out here and here. They were our two best players last year and we can only hope that they keep it up. One thing to note: Lubo had to switch defensive sides to accommodate Rob Blake last year and had a little trouble with it, at least in his estimation. That shouldn’t be a problem this year.
(Looking around for help): What the hell? This is hockey, right?
Darren Eliot wrote a piece for SI.com about all the young talent in the West and failed to mention a single King. Not one. In an article about young talent in the Western Conference. Darren Eliot, you were a better goalie than you are a writer.
(Update: I went to SI.com to link to the article and discovered Eliot has a new article about Bernier. I think someone warned him I was going to make fun of him. Whatever, the article is terribly written anyway. It's totally obvious that he just read a few articles and then put them into his own words.)
I’m not excited about Jonathan Bernier. Really, I’m not. Sure, he’s barely 19 and played extremely well at Frozen Fury. Sure, we haven’t a had real homegrown goaltender since… well, ever. But still, I’m not excited; he’s only 19 and will probably get sent down after his 9 games are up. Yes, I’m smiling, but it’s not about him.
I’m not excited.
Tags: Jonathan Bernier, Los Angeles Kings, Media
Kings Gameday: Vegas, Baby, Vegas!
"The Kings suck in this game, you should play as another team."
The Kings are going to try and give the Avalanche the ol' rainman sweep tonight at Frozen Fury tonight. I'm not sure why they do this every year, but it gives Kings fans an excuse to go to Vegas so it's cool with me. There's no word on which goalie is going to start, but my money's on Labarbera. I'm also predicting that Kopitar gets 2 goals tonight because, as you all know, you always double down on 11. I'm also hoping that someone makes Ryan Smyth's head bleed. (Oh, I'm the asshole? I'm out of here. I'm not eating here... I wouldn't eat here... I'd never eat here anyways.)
Bailey, doing his Deadmarsh imitation.
The Kings unveiled their new mascot, Bailey. He's so money and he doesn't even know it. (Okay, I'll stop.) I must say, he's a pretty cool cat. Check out his bio; it's kind of funny to read it and imagine some college graduate pain-stakingly putting it together. He's far superior to Sharky (Sharks can't wear jerseys!) and he's not on fire so that puts him above Wild Wing. Welcome to the Kings, Bailey; you've made a big mistake.
Miao, babe.
Dancin' in the Streets
Dan Cloutier has been placed on waivers. There's a 24-hour waiting period to see if anyone claims him (ha!) and then he'll probably get sent to Manchester. I don't know how I missed this, but thank you Earl. More to come when I actually know what's going on.
Okay, I've had some time to think about this. Here's 3 things I think we can definitively say at this point:
1) Cloutier is not fully healed. I think Dean Lombardi watched the first few games and realized that Cloutier is not quite 100%. Cloutier suffers from "Eric Gagne Syndrome," where he thinks playing through pain will make him look tougher when all it really does is hurt the team and him in the long run. There's no point in him working off his rust up here in L.A., so we might as well let him do it in Manchester. (Sorry Manchester, your loss. I guess that's what you get for living in New Hampshire.)
2) Jonathan Bernier is going to get a shot. He's been the best goalie in training camp by most accounts, so it's only right that he be given a chance. Plus, they already said that they'd take three goalies to Europe. He might not play in London, but he'll definitely be allowed to make his case. I can imagine him and Labarbera splitting time for a while, with Aubin playing the role of back-up.
3) Dean Lombardi is my hero. Sending Cloutier down takes balls. Even though it was the right thing to do if Cloutier was still injured, I can't think of too many other GMs in the league that would do that. I know he made a mistake in giving Cloutier an extension, but every GM will do that; the key is to not compound the mistake by refusing to recognize it. I worship the guy, but this does not seem like something Dave Taylor would have been willing to do.
I never actually thought that the Kings were going to give Bernier a shot because Lombardi has a history for bringing his goalies along slowly. I guess I was wrong. Kudos to loyal reader dbushik, for calling it about a week ago. Let's see how he does.
Update #2: This isn't really an update, but I just wanted to point out that they have highlights from last season over on espn.com. I'm so excited about the season that I'm not even going to get mad that they didn't have one Kopitar goal from last year. (But I mean really, come on...) My personal favorites? Jordan Staal absolutely embarrassing some Philly defenseman (if it were an And 1 game, they would have made the guy leave), Phaneuf's hit on some Senator (I think the guy's a little overrated but he completely stops the other guy's momentum), and the 2nd Ryan Miller flying stick save because he not only stops it but then keeps it from rolling in while still in the air (maybe they should just shoot it on the ground next time). I also like seeing Brodeur doing the ol' half-butterfly to the stick side; you don't really see that anymore.
Tags: Dan Cloutier, Los Angeles Kings
Season (P)Review: Jaroslav Modry
Last Season: 1 G, 14 A, +11, 54 PIM in 76 games
Word That Best Describes His Season: Enough.
There are three things about me that I don’t like people to know: I cried during Homeward Bound, I own the DiCaprio version of Romeo & Juliet, and I don’t mind Jaroslav Modry. That’s the Kings fan equivalent of saying I like to play with my own crap. It’s like a requirement for being a Kings fan: you drink too much, you make fun of the Ducks and the Sharks even though your team wears purple, and you hate Modry. I’ve never been able to. Really, I don’t understand the visceral reaction people have against him.
Kings fans did not take the Modry acquistion well.*
Modry was on the team from 1997 to 2004. He was one of our best defensemen for a couple of years (he played over 20 minutes a game in both 2003 and 2004) and was a nice balance to our two-headed monster of Aaron Miller and Matty Norstrom. He’s always been a pretty good offensive defenseman and he was our best offensive defenseman in the gap between Blake’s departure and Visnovsky’s emergence. He gets a bad rap for his defense, and he’s not really that good at it, but it’s not like he’s Souray out there or anything. Is he a good defenseman? No, probably not. Is he capable? Yeah, sure. Plus, he’s only costing us $1.2 million this year, which isn’t that bad for a defenseman who’s going to play every night.
Umm, Jaro... wrong jersey.
I think the reason people hate Jaroslav Modry is because he doesn’t fit into their pre-conceived notions of what a defenseman is. Most hockey fans love grinders, especially on defense. Guys like Jon Klemm, who are basically worthless but throw a meaningless bodycheck around every once in a while? Can’t get enough of ‘em. Guys like Modry, who are capable but are also labeled as “soft?” Worthless. I don’t really understand it. I think the reason the Sharks have been so successful in the past few years is that they have gone after defenseman who don’t really bring that physical aspect of the game but still know how to position themselves and play defense. I think Lombardi feels the same way in signing guys like Preissing and Stuart and getting Modry from Dallas. It may not be what people expect, but I think it’s what will work.
Modry will probably play with Jack Johnson this season and maybe get a little action on the power play. He’s a good person for Jack to play with; he can show him some tricks on offense while also forcing Jack to be defensively responsible (because Modry will be up most of the time; also, Modry will get beat a lot). I don’t know, maybe I’ll watch Modry this season and discover that I hate him, but right now I think he’s a solid (though not necessarily great) contributor to the team.
*Why is that when I type "Angry Fans" into Google Image Search, the 2nd picture is of a naked guy holding a horse? Come to think of it, that's the 2nd picture when you put anything into Google Image Search.
Tags: Jaroslav Modry, Los Angeles Kings, Season Preview
Season (P)Review: Michal Handzus
Last Season: 3 G, 5 A, 6 PIM, +4, 8 Games Played
Word That Best Describes His Season: Lost.
I must admit, I’m not too familiar with Michal Handzus. There are three things I know about him:
Okay, 4 things: he creeps me out.
1) He’s a good defensive center. I don’t really have anything to go on with this except for a Selke nomination back in 2000 (and Earl can tell you about how that award is bullshit), but I think it’s safe to say that Handzus is an above-average defensive forward. I mean, I could do stuff like “analysis” or “fact-checking,” but who the hell am I, Upton Sinclair? I got shit to do, like… um… eat. (Whew, almost blew my cover there. Nice save, Kelly.)
2) He was injured most of last year with a knee injury. I’m a little nervous about this, just because the Kings signed a solid defensive center coming off a knee injury to shore up their offense and that didn’t work out too well. Even worse, both Alyn McCauley and Handzus have first names that sound normal but are off by one letter; they’re like twins! Anyway, Handzus played in only 8 games last year so he might start off a little slow. Even worse, he just got a tonsillectomy, which is probably the 2nd lamest injury you can miss time for. (The first? Appendectomy. I don’t know why, it just is. Who has the list in front of them? That’s right, so shut up.) Given the Kings’ penchant for signing guys who don’t realize that they actually have to play to earn their money the past two seasons, I’m cautiously pessimistic about Handzus’ knee.
"Meemee!!!"
3) He kind of looks like Beaker from the Muppets. At least he does to me. Wouldn’t it be funny if they did that “Sounds of the Game” thing with Handzus and you could hear him calling for the puck and he was all, “Meemee!” That would be awesome.
So yeah, that’s pretty much all I got when it comes to Handzus. What do you people want from me? I’m not Earl, okay? I can’t do “analysis,” whatever the hell that is. Do you know how hard it is to write about every single Kings player? I’m pretty sure everything I wrote about Raitis Ivanans was made up. Oh well, at least I get paid handsomely… wait a minute, Wild Wing isn’t on the $50 dollar bill! Damn you, Sleek!!!
The Kings are unveiling a new mascot this Friday at Frozen Fury. They haven't given out a picture of him yet but they have revealed his name: Bailey, named after former scout Ace Bailey. I think that's pretty cool. They also gave out his jersey number: 72, after the average temperature in Los Angeles. I think that's pretty cool too. I don't know why some people get bent out of shape about the Kings having a mascot; he won't distract from the game too much and kids will like him. (I always think it's funny when people talk about the tradition of sports. It's for fun people, calm the fuck down!) Welcome, Bailey; I already like you more than Brian Willsie.
Posted by RudyKelly at 3:42 PM 10 comments
Tags: Los Angeles Kings, Michal Handzus, Season Preview
The burning question: How funny is evil?
Well, not too much to report from last night’s SJS 1 – ANA 0 preseason game that isn’t being capably reported elsewhere. It certainly wasn’t the most exciting hockey game, but I think it indicates that preseason or not, the Sharks and Ducks take each other quite seriously.
I have completely flip-flopped on the San Jose road jersey. Seeing it in person, I hate it. The blue and the orange don’t really get along, but maybe more painful was the bottoms of the jerseys. The white part below the horizontal stripe looks like each player is wearing an untucked dress shirt worn below their jersey—it just screams “sloppy”. Then again, the color scheme kind of screams “colorblind”, so pick your poison, I guess.
It’s tough to say who really looked good out there for the Ducks—I was really impressed with a first period shift for Bertuzzi-Getzlaf-Perry (a line I’ve been hoping to see this coming year), but apparently Coach Carlyle wasn’t. The rest of the game was played with Kunitz-McDonald-Bertuzzi followed by Miller-Getzlaf-Perry, which both seemed to be decent while unproductive combinations.
On the Sharks, the guy who probably scared me the most all night was Jonathan Cheechoo. Ron Wilson played a much more mixed lineup, and for the most part the SJ prospect-kids looked pretty good, especially on the blueline. Alexei Semenov is a pretty big monster out there, by the way, which became super-evident when he got in a fight with a comparative midget named Travis Moen.
But hey, I’m stalling. My real burning question has to do with our new goaltender Jonas Hiller, who played a serviceable 60 minutes and could replace Ilya Bryzgalov as Anaheim’s backup this year. Last night at the game we had a good debate about assigning Hiller a nickname. The hilariously-offensive suggestion? Hitler. Now I know that there are hundreds of super-valid reasons why we shouldn’t go down that road, but I have to admit, I had a great time last night with the drinky catcalls “Nice save, Hitler! Watch that five-hole, Hitler!”
So I guess I’ll leave it to the readership. If I need a good talking-to about the appropriate use of historical mega-villains, let me have it. If you think the inappropriateness makes it all the more hilarious, I’m all ears. If you’ve got a better suggestion that will get me out of this debate, I’m certainly open for one. And if you think that this nickname should be reserved strictly for Kings assistant Dave Lewis, I’ll take that into consideration.
Hitler—yay or nay? Rip me a new one in the comments.
LATE NIGHT EDIT: OK, OK, the Swiss have spoken. Hitler's a no-go. I shall instead stick with his more common nickname "The Killer" instead.
Sorry for any drunken insensitivity, Markus. I'll offer this as a peace offering (hopefully you're a Chow Yun-Fat fan):
Tags: Anaheim Ducks, Jonas Hiller, San Jose Sharks
Season (P)Review: Brian Willsie
11 G, 20 A, -20, 49 PIM, 81 games too many
Word That Best Describes His Season: Terrible.
According to Matt Kredell over at Inside the Kings, the word around camp is that Brian Willsie has been the most improved player there. I assume this means that he was able to tie his skates without shitting himself. I despise Brian Willsie. There is no one in the world who could like Brian Willsie except for maybe his mom, and even she probably thinks he should just pass the puck instead of shooting so damn much. Where the fuck does he get off shooting 131 times, anyway? (That’s 8th on the team.) I'm going to preemptively sue him if he keeps this shit up for the years he's taking off my life. I don’t even know why he thinks he has a good shot; it's so bad he couldn’t score on Cloutier. (Zing… oh wait.)
Nice scoring oppurtunity, jackass.
I give Scott Thornton a lot of shit but at least he’s old and is a cool guy off the ice. Willsie is supposedly in his prime and steals people’s organs in his spare time.* I loathe you, Brian Willsie. If you were to get hurt and miss all season, I wouldn’t be happy but… wait, I guess I would. Sorry, Jesus.
(*Not actually true… as far as I know.)
Tags: Brian Willsie, Los Angeles Kings, Season Preview
Out of nowhere, BoC Gameday!
San Jose Sharks (0-0-1) at Anaheim Ducks (2-1-1)
Well, it’s all happened within the last hour, but without a lot of warning, it turns out that I will be in my old haunt tonight—the Row B seats—for my first glimpse of post-championship NHL hockey. If you’re going to be there, feel free to stop by and say hi to the guy in the green shirt, otherwise I’ll probably just see you all in hell (translation: I will tell you how it went tomorrow).
Prediction: Ducks 4, Sharks 2. Goals by Perry, some new kid, Beauchemin, and how about Brad May’s first goal in a Ducks uniform? Damn, I miss Pahlsson already.
Go Ducks.
Tags: Anaheim Ducks, Game Day, Row B, San Jose Sharks
Ducks Preview, Part 1: Defining what needs to be replaced
Well, now that camp is halfway done and it’s become apparent that Niedermayer or Selanne have no imminent plans to rejoin the team, I think I can finally sit down and start writing up a season preview. Previewing this Anaheim team is still a bag of questions, however, as I don’t really know how forward lines or defensive pairs will be laid out, but in any case a good first step is to determine precisely what’s missing from last year. Essentially, this can be boiled down to three significant players and their contributions: Teemu Selanne, Dustin Penner, and Scott Niedermayer. These three combined for 103 goals over 103 games (regular season plus playoffs), but let’s delve in a bit to see where those goals really came from.
To study this, I am going to compare Selanne & Penner’s output to the results of the rest of the Anaheim forwards. Then I will compare Niedermayer’s output to the results of the rest of the defensemen. Finally, I will look at all three players’ results compared to the rest of the team.
Note that this strictly is dealing with on-ice productivity, ignoring such factors as experience, leadership, salary, or popularity. I will also be talking a bit about quality of minutes based on Behind the Net’s quality of teammate and quality of opposition metrics, which basically provide a context for the ice time based on the other players on the ice.
EVEN STRENGTH
Teemu Selanne—Teammate ranking: 15 / 676, Opposition ranking: 566 / 676
Dustin Penner—Teammate ranking: 104 / 676, Opposition ranking: 572 / 676
Scott Niedermayer—Teammate ranking: 486 / 676, Opposition ranking: 132 / 676
ES G
ES A
ES Pts
ES Plus
ES Minus
Dustin Penner
Rest of forwards
Selanne / Penner Pct.
Scott Niedermayer
Rest of defense
Niedermayer Pct.
All three players
Rest of team
Three Player Pct.
Takeaways: Both Selanne and Penner had relatively easy ice time, playing mostly with teammates that produced at even strength and against opponents that did not. Using that icetime, Selanne and Penner were able to score 29% of Anaheim forwards’ goals and 23% of the points, using 18% of the available ice time. Those are lofty numbers, but there is plenty of scoring ice time available to help replace that production.
Niedermayer, on the other hand, played much more difficult even-strength shifts, and despite this was able to score 32% of Anaheim defensemen’s goals and points using 19% of the available ice time. These are going to be much more difficult points to replace at even-strength, as it will have to be done with some defensive-oriented teammates and against some lofty competition.
Overall, the three players produced 29% of Anaheim’s even-strength goals and 25% of Anaheim’s even-strength points.
Teemu Selanne—Teammate ranking: 4 / 428, Opposition ranking: 406 / 428
Dustin Penner—Teammate ranking: 23 / 428, Opposition ranking: 353 / 428
Scott Niedermayer—Teammate ranking: 8 / 428, Opposition ranking: 356 / 428
(note that these rankings are based on 5-on-4 only)
PP G
PP A
PP Pts
PP Plus
PP Minus
Takeaways: By the end of the playoffs, Selanne, Penner, and Niedermayer made up 3/5 of the Ducks’ top power play unit. And even though the Ducks’ PP sputtered towards the end of the playoffs, it still was one of the best performing units throughout all of last year.
Because of the PP dominance, you can see that all three players have very easy-looking quality of icetime, though I should caution that the Teammate ranking is largely based on playing with each other, something that replacement players will not have the benefit of. Still, the players who will need to replace this offense will be given the opportunity to play with the best available teammates, so I’m not sure how these metrics will be affected.
Power play results are a pretty tricky concept, especially when overhauling most of a top unit. It’s tough to get a handle on how chemistry, positions, or roles will change. Selanne in particular appears the most difficult to replace, as his 25 regular season power play goals led the entire league.
One strange factor to note, though: despite the lofty numbers, this trio of players only combined for one postseason power play goal. I guess the encouraging thing is that the Ducks were still able to win despite the special teams dropoff.
PENALTY KILL
(Both Selanne and Penner played less than 10 minutes of PK time, so they are exempted.)
Scott Niedermayer—Teammate ranking: 160 / 395, Opposition ranking: 68 / 395
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Takeaways: This is why Scott Niedermayer is amazing. Alongside his impressive even-strength and power play assignments, he also threw in quite a bit of shorthanded play as well. His results don’t look terribly spectacular, but considering his difficulty of 4-on-5 minutes and his regular spot on 2-man disadvantages, it is significant time that will need to be replaced as well.
These three players represent 29% of Anaheim’s even-strength goals and 42% of Anaheim’s power play goals, and all told represent one full goal-scored per game. That said, there is some pretty attractive ice time available to help offset these losses. With this in mind, let’s take a quick glance at the two main replacements that were brought in this summer:
Mathieu Schneider: Schneider is a pretty optimal replacement for Scott Niedermayer’s even-strength and power play production, I think. He certainly won’t have the versatility and endurance to replace all of Niedermayer’s ice time, but if Scott’s penalty kill can be absorbed by other defensemen (Shane Hnidy or Sean O’Donnell, perhaps), then I think the Ducks can avoid a huge dropoff in their blueline production.
Todd Bertuzzi: This is where things get complicated. In a good scenario, Bertuzzi could pick up Selanne’s slack on the top line; in a bad scenario, Bertuzzi is only good enough to pick up Penner’s slack on the second line. But for sure, he will not be able to replace both of them, and whichever one’s offense he cannot replace will have to be offset from within the organization (a tall order, especially if it’s Selanne’s production). Bertuzzi certainly has upside that could possibly replace Selanne, but it’s tough to know for sure until he sees some regular ice time.
Anyway, it’s clear looking at the players leaving and the replacements that Anaheim (in the absence of any future roster moves) is due for a drop-off; there’s just not enough talent coming back to replace the talent that is leaving. Of course, all this gets thrown out the window should either Selanne or Niedermayer decide to pick up the skates and start playing again, but in their absence, how much will the offense suffer? And how much will that affect results?
I don’t have a solid idea of how this season will turn out for Anaheim’s title defense, but this post gives an idea of what the on-ice obstacles will be. It certainly promises to be a revealing year for Anaheim, though, and while I can’t predict it very well, I’m still looking forward to it with eagerness.
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36-Yr-Old Prisoner Absconds From Prison Farm
[Updated] The police are seeking the whereabouts of 36-year-old Shane Todd, who failed to return to the Prison Farm at the designated time while on a work release programme.
A police spokesperson said, “The Bermuda Police Service is seeking the whereabouts of 36 year old Shane Todd. Mr. Todd recently failed to return to the Prison Farm at the designated time while on a work release programme.
“He is described as brown skinned, approximately 5’8” tall weighing around 150 pounds. He was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt, blue pants and white high-top sneakers.
“Acting Chief Inspector Andy Morgan of the Public Protection Department advises members of the public who may see Mr. Todd to contact the main police number 295-0011 at the earliest opportunity.
“Similarly, anyone with any information on the whereabouts of 36 year old Shane Todd is encouraged to contact police directly on 295-0011.
“The Bermuda Police Service would like to remind the public that harbouring a fugitive is an offence punishable under the law.”
Update 5.46pm: Prison Commissioner Lt/Col Edward Lamb explained that the inmate “did not escape our custody – he was released by us to participate in employment outside the Prison Farm, a daily occurrence for many inmates at that facility.”
“We have stringent guidelines and rules in place for inmates on Work Release, with which inmates must comply or risk being removed from the privilege of Work Release if they fail to do so.
“Moreover, we conduct regular and random spot checks of work sites to monitor inmates on Work Release. We also liaise closely with their employers to ensure compliance with our rules and regulations,” continued Lt/Col Lamb.
“It should be noted that this is the first time in a very long time that an inmate has failed to return to the Prison Farm while on Work Release, which indicates the success of this programme and validates our selection of inmates for this programme.
“We are currently working with the Police and the inmate’s family to locate him and we have every confidence that he will be returned to custody. In this regard, we urge IMP Todd to do the right thing and turn himself in immediately.”
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Tommy Chong says:
Despite what the police reports are saying about shane not being dangerous he is. This piece of trash is a complete psycho & should never have been let out on work release. If anyone sees him I’d advise them to not try & be a hero & make a citizens arrest unless they have metal pipe or bat with them for defense. I hope he is caught soon & given more years for his escape as we don’t need freaks like him out in society.
Only In Bermuda says:
Good God! Why can’t people just behave and stay out of trouble! 36? Grow up and those cuts in your eyebrows are equally childish. Trying relive your youth, pathetic. Col. Lambe is full of it as usual.
QStreet says:
Dont you just love the part where they said, “he did not escape our custody”! Why would they need to, you open the gates and wave goodbye to them!
May I suggest that when these “missing prisoner” statements are made to the press that the public be made aware of what they were incareserated for. I would like to know if he is dangerous, a pedafile, a robber, a drug addict or at the very least is he the type of criminal that we the public need to worry about, espeially if he is desperate and hiding,
Before people start saying that the Prison Farm is just for non violent crimals – that is definately not true. I know of a family friend that had a series of violent crimes and eventually did time at Westgate and was eventually released. He was again arrested on drug possession charges (non violent) a year later a sent to Westgate but after a few short months he was transferred to the Fram. Was he violent and a menace / threat to the public – HELL YES! The only difference was that the “crime” that he was arrested for that LAST time was not violent, but history ofen repeats itself. He has been out now for a few months but I have zero doubt based on what I have seen from him that he will see westgate again real soon.
cuts in eyebrow are childish, yes. but i hear that in prison each cut means you’ve been raped, lol (joking)
wondering says:
Quote: “Prison Commissioner Lt/Col Edward Lamb explained that the inmate “did not escape our custody – he was released by us to participate in employment outside the Prison Farm, a daily occurrence for many inmates at that facility.”
Translation – he ESCAPED and this politically correct lip service game is being applied to fool the citizens of Bermuda…………………
I CAN’T BELIEVE THE EXPLANATION
That’s like saying a masked bank robber with a gun and getaway vehicle who runs out and drops a bag of money which is then later picked up by an innocent bystander and not returned isn’t robbery……but theft instead. Bottom Line is no matter how you paint the picture it still equals a missing prisoner!!
STOP THE PRESSES…………….don’t we have electronic tags or are we paying the Commissioner of Prisons too much to think of how to ensure the day release persons are actually where they are supposed to be!!!!!
Amen says:
What ever happened to regulation prison hair cuts?
Im all for day realease work programs for inmates. I completely understand the benefits. However, in these economic times if there is work out there, we should be giving that work to honest, hard working individuals first!
Employment is a priveledge and a necessity for most of us and NOT a right as many of us seem to think. Keep these guys behind bars where they should be and leave the jobs to those of us without work and those of us at risk of losing our homes. One of the few beneefits of being a prisoner is that they have three meals a day and a roof over their heads. Many hard working and law abiding Bermudians are at risk of loosing our.
Unbelievable says:
“Work Release” should actually be defined as “Charitable” as 99% are not paid for what they are doing. Maybe if our law-abiding unemployed would get up and volunteer at places where these guys go there wouldn’t be anything available for them as the charities/not-for-profit organizations would have their quota of volunteers!!!
Mayan says:
Why would a prisoner so close to release mess up by trying to make a run for it now? It doesn’t make sense. I hope something bad hasn’t happened to him…
Ia agree…or someone else? Remember Dockyard Maritime museum and the German tourist ?
no doubt says:
You obviously dont know Shane then!! look him up!! and if they wanna find him just look at his girlfriends facebook his all over it…..smh
Something bad hasn’t happened to him??!?! LMAO!!!! This is just something that happens when the elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top floor.
How do people know that something didn’t happen to this guy? The way this island is u cant count out any possibility of his situation.
This guy is notorious in the streets for making something happen to others so you may be right. On the other hand he is looked up to by many of the gangster groupies & wannabe idiots so might be that one of these fools is hiding him. Hopefully he gets caught soon & many more years are added to his sentence. This is one who should never be released into society.
ABC says:
dis punk is a danger 2 society
police 2 busy lookin for marijuana
a joke u ALL R
Agreed! Look up psycho in an encyclopedia & his picture will be next to the description. I can’t believe all they’ve ever gotten him on is drug charges. Maybe if the police helped others out in convicting him instead of acting like a bunch of vindictive fools he would have been put away longer with no work release & this would have never happened.
M.P.Mountbatten JP says:
Last seen sailing into the sunset .
mixitup says:
I find this bizarre, this guy has to be close to release by now.. Strange that he would just disappear.
YES MATE! says:
Um Eddie you are wrong. Unless he has completed his sentence and has been released, he has escaped custody. GPS Eddie.
The Devils Isle says:
Heroine addiction will get the best of you once your given a little freedom also not having any female attention will lead you astray if your able to have a little fun…
Pay attention says:
So, what i gather from most comments made is that people who have been incarcerated for a length of time are just supposed to jump right back into society without any sort of transitional phase?! Get real!! Are these people not supposed to be afforded an opportunity to be phased back into the community or have a chance to put in an honest day of work (in some cases for the first time in their lives)? I suppose we should just let them out of prison when their time is up to fend for themselves while we HOPE that they know how to fit back into society to become productive citizens and not fall back to what got them there in the first place. Had these transition programs not been in place most of these guys would be released without a job or any money in their pockets and may break into YOUR house to get it. Maybe something unfortunate did happen to him or maybe he is stupid enough to mess up his chance of being released….who knows. What I do know is that occurrences such as this are not frequent and the program has assisted many former convicts to blend back into society. Some of them have even been able to retain the jobs gained while incarcerated for many years and end up becoming productive and lawful members of the community
xfiles says:
Your name says it all.Pay attention to the real world.This is a joke of a legal and prison system.The dudes are just having a holiday and we’re paying for it.
shut de f up ok
pay attetion
grown up says:
that is a very childish reaction how old are you ? 10
Just wonderin says:
i’m a little curious abut the Dockyard Maritime museum and the German tourist?? Do tell !!
Man escapes from prison & has his way with a female German tourist in one of the fort rooms then murders her. This happened many years ago.
Bermydude says:
The prison system is a joke!! Them the Minister want to bring three men to the television!! Please!! The family that lost the love ones are still suffering, and Minister yiu want to put sand in peoples eyes!!
West gate is a joke of a prison, theres more drugs in West Gate them on the streets, drug business is controlled by from the prison. Just a few days ago i saw a individual that i havent seen in more them 5 years, well he was in West Gate, so we started talking about his stay, well i was very surprised when he told me this: I had a joint every night in my cell, I had a cell phone, it was cool up there, he also told me that some inmates that are at West Gate for life leave the prison at night and return before the sunrise, they go home to sleep with there wives or girlfriends, really? he told yes man, if your cold with the gurads he hook you, got pay something, he said. Also he said, theres guys in there for drug inportation that still have guys on the exterior dealing there drugs, they are in contact on a daily basis thru cell phones!! JOKE OF A SYSTEM!!
Truth is killin' me... says:
Lamb just keeps on racking up the loyalty points! When will it end. His staff knows the REAL DEAL!!!
Why blame Eddie for his statement – He is going by the ‘book’ – isn’;t that what he gets paid for? Ministers have speeches prepared for them and Eddie has his book. If you know Eddie at all, you would know he would have said – he didn’t return when expected and is now deemed an “escapee” or whatever. What you need to focus on is the fact this guy is down right STUPID!! He would have been released as has been shared in a matter of time and does this – definitely something of more importance than his return to prison and his freedome came about – perhaps he had to deal with a family matter, or a loved one is sick in hospital orrrrrrr he has to handle another matter. Not all of Bermuda’s prisoners are so unfocused and yes, this programme has helped many a former prisoner to get their lives in order and just as the four young men shared their testimonies about Casemates (oops! Westgate), perhaps it can be arranged for former prisoners to share their testimonies about Prison Farm and Day Release and then they can skip over to the Co-Ed facility and the Observatory Cottage. Share the testimonies of young people who have gone through and now walking tall to encourage their peers to not follow their example but to get involved in positive things and to make all efforts to get a great education and to apply themselves.
Why blame Eddie for his statement – He is going by the ‘book’ – isn’;t that what he gets paid for? Ministers have speeches prepared for them and Eddie has his book. If you know Eddie at all, you would know he would have said – he didn’t return when expected and is now deemed an “escapee” or whatever. What you need to focus on is the fact this guy is down right STUPID!! He would have been released as has been shared in a matter of time and does this – definitely something of more importance than his return to prison and his freedome came about – perhaps he had to deal with a family matter, or a loved one is sick in hospital orrrrrrr he has to handle another matter. Not all of Bermuda’s prisoners are so unfocused and yes, the programme mentioened earlier has helped many a prisoner get their lives in order and just as the four young men shared their testimonies about Casemates (oops! Westgate), perhaps it can be arranged for former prisoners to share their testimonies about life at the Prison Farm and the Day Release programme and then they can skip over to the Co-Ed facility and the Observatory Cottage. Share the testimonies of young people who have gone through and now walking tall to encourage their peers to not follow their example but to get involved in positive things and to make all efforts to get a great education and to be mentors to primary school children to encourage them as they were encouraged – The Circle of Life!
Real Talk says:
On a somewhat unrelated note, how about reports of prisoners up in Dockyard soliciting funds for a charity… One of those spotted out and about was no less than Ze Selassie… What the F#%&% !? Can you imagine the reaction of our tourists if they knew that a convicted rapist and child murderer was walking amongst them? Guess everybody has forgotten about the tourist raped and killed up in Dockyard by a prisoner out on day release… SMDH.
For real says:
Not to mention a certain Jamaican criminal “mixed up” in the famous Middleton case who is on work release…nice he is able to be reintroduced back into society…how does that make you sleep at night…yeah yeah I know he was not convicted….give me a break.
Whaatttttt? Is that true? Bermuda is a joke. That is disturbing to know.
Real says:
And Lamb says he is not dangerous. He is serving 15yrs for two counts of rape,two counts of robbery and a count of wounding. And he is not DANGEROUS?
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Potassium dichromate
MFA Acc. #: 2003.166
2 Synonyms and Related Terms
3 Other Properties
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Bright orange crystals that are light sensitive. Potassium dichromate is used as a chrome mordant in dyeing textiles. It is also used to chrome tan leather and stain wood to an orange color. Potassium dichromate is used as an intensifier in black and white photographic processing. It is used as a pigment and as an insecticide. Potassium dichromate may also be used as a colorimetric reagent for the detection of lead in objects because the two materials react to form bright yellow lead chromate crystals (Odegaard et al 2000). Silver reacts with potassium dichromate to form a red precipitate.
Synonyms and Related Terms
potassium bichromate; red potassium chromate; red potassium chromate; dipotassium dichromate
Soluble in water. Insoluble in ethanol.
K2Cr2O7
mol. wt. = 294.18
1.7202, 1.7380, 1.8197
500 (dec)
Hazards and Safety
Toxic by ingestion or inhalation. Severely corrosive on contact with hands. Strong oxidizing agent.
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Richard S. Lewis, Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 10th ed., 1993
Palmy Weigle, Ancient Dyes for Modern Weavers, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1974
Tom Rowland, Noel Riley, A-Z Guide to Cleaning, Conserving and Repairing Antiques, Constable and Co., Ltd., London, 1981
Michael McCann, Artist Beware, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York City, 1979
John and Margaret Cannon, Dye Plants and Dyeing, Herbert Press, London, 1994
The Merck Index, Martha Windholz (ed.), Merck Research Labs, Rahway NJ, 10th edition, 1983 Comment: entry 7790
N.Odegaard, S.Carroll, W.Zimmt, Material Characterization Tests for Objects of Art and Archaeology, Archetype Publications, London, 2000
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Robert Weast (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, v. 61, 1980 Comment: ref. index=1.7202, 1.7380, 1.8197
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Max Homa (ranked 118th by Golf Predictor) won the Wells Fargo Championship on the US PGA Tour. The 28 year old American put his travails behind him with an impressive display at Quail Hollow. The world number 417 held off some big names, including course specialist Rory McIlroy, Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose and Rickie Fowler and survived a weather delay to win by three shots. McIlroy was out top ranked player and he finished in tied 8th. Overall, we had thirteen of the top eighteen plus ties (13/23**) in total on the testing layout.
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**Due to withdrawals, Stanley, Mitchell & Sabbatini are promoted to the top 23 of the GP Rankings.
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MassDOT Berkshire Rail Line Purchase
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The MassDOT Board of Directors has authorized MassDOT Secretary and CEO Richard A. Davey to execute an agreement to purchase the Berkshire Line from the Housatonic Railroad Company, a major step toward delivering passenger rail service between New York City and the Berkshires.
The agreement includes $12.13 million to acquire the line and an estimated $35 million for initial track improvements, funded by the 2014 Transportation Bond Bill approved by the legislature. The Berkshire Line extends approximately 37 miles from the Connecticut border in Sheffield through Great Barrington, Stockbridge, Lee, and Lenox to Pittsfield, where it joins the CSXT Railroad main line.
“Studies have shown that a Berkshire County rail connection to New York City would be a winner, with more than one million rides annually,” said Secretary Davey. “This purchase and the initial upgrades in the line represent historic steps toward improved access to the Berkshires for tourists and residents alike.”
The initial track improvements will permit the operation of passenger trains but serve freight trains until the Connecticut portion of the project is completed. A final round of track improvements will be required along with improvements on the Connecticut portion of the line prior to the start of passenger rail service. The Transportation Bond Bill included $113 million for the purchase and Massachusetts portion of the track improvements.
A date for the beginning of passenger service is dependent upon completion of the upgrades in both states.
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Any mention of where stations would be?
No final determination has been made regarding possible stops.
Will we be able to go from Boston to Pittsfield to NYC? I'm just wondering if there would be a way to hook up with the Adirondack North. That's the one who goes up state NY all the way to Montreal. Thanks!
boblothrope says:
Depending on the schedules, you might be able to take the Lake Shore Limited (or another train, if a service expansion occurs) from Boston to Pittsfield, and then this Berkshires train to NYC. But it would take *way* longer than just taking a Boston-NYC train to begin with.
If you're heading north on the Adirondack, you might think about connecting in Albany (without any transfer in Pittsfield to the Berkshires train). But because of infrequent schedules and slow speeds on the Boston-Albany route, you'd probably be better off connecting in NYC.
Rob C. says:
This is interesting news! I have couple of questions:
Since the branch goes North to South, is the line intended service people going to Boston?
Or this going be regional separate commuter line with no connection regular MBTA Rail Line or is Amtrak going to be running it?
There already New Haven-Hartford-Springfield Commuter Rail Line worked on, is Berkshire Line going to connect to this one?
The line would serve the significant expected ridership from the south, representing the thousands of New York and Connecticut visitors to the Berkshires while not precluding future connections to lines serving Springfield and Boston.
John S. says:
This would connect Pittsfield to Grand Central via Danbury and Stamford.
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LED streetlights threatening 2000 moth species in New Zealand
July 27, 2017: Cities shifting to LED streetlights will definitely cut down costs of the administration, but it is endangering the native moths of New Zealand.
Auckland will see all its high-pressure sodium streetlights replaced with LED streetlights, and the project will complete by 2025. The first stage of installing of 44,000 LED streetlights, has been started off since the past 18 months. LED lights have the potential to save $32 million as the LED lights have 20-year life.
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As the moths are drawn to the blue LED streetlights, which measure more than 4000 kelvin, is bad for the moths—in fact anything over 2800 kelvin is bad for the species. On the other hand, sodium bulbs have approx. 2000 kelvin.
“LED streetlights will extract moths out of the ecosystem. It wears them out and they also congregate in one area around a light and mice are just cleaning them up,” he said.
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Esta es una receta que recientemente salió publicada en la edición 207 de la Revista Padres de Cosas, el link para verlo es este: https://www.thinglink.com/scene/701126289490182144
La receta es súper sencilla, pero lo que me gusta es que los peques de la casa consumen manzanas como si fuera un dulce.
Prepárenla en casa y a disfrutarla
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250 gramos de harina preparada
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½ cucharadita de polvo de hornear
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Batir los huevos con el azúcar rubia hasta que doble el volumen, añadir el aceite y la leche, mezclar bien. Añadir la harina preparada, canela, nuez moscada y polvo de hornear, todo previamente cernido. Una vez que la masa esté uniforme añadir la manzana cortada en cubos. Colocar la masa en una plancha con pirotines y añadir en la parte superior el crumble como topping antes de llevar al horno.
Para el crumble mezclar la harina, azúcar y mantequilla hasta obtener una masa consistente y granulada. Llevar al horno precalentado a 180ªC por aproximadamente 35 minutos.
Tips: Utilizar de preferencia manzana delicia y cortarla en cubos pequeños
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Oh, Holy Night
Fantasia on Greensleeves (What Child is This) by Ralph Vaughan Williams
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I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In (as arranged by Mormon Tabernacle Organist Richard Elliott)
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This program is free and open to the public.
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Department: Tabernacle Choir Department
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I'm honored to play on the Advent/Adoration Recital Series at St. Sebastian Catholic Parish in Akron, Ohio next Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at noon. St. Sebastian's is a lovely church building with one of the finest pipe organs in the area. Laura will join me on flute. The program will last about a half hour and is free and open to the public. Please come and join us!
Fantasia on Veni Emmanuel – Alec Rowley (1892-1958)
Pastorale per Organo, 1615 – Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Chorale and Variations on Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele – Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
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In Dulci Jubilo – Peter Crisafulli
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I Saw Three Ships – Richard Elliott (1957)
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It's all too often the way of things these days. Congregations age, worship styles change, members move away and churches find themselves struggling to adapt, retain membership, and attract new members. Such is the case at a local church I service, a congregation who has served their community for nearly 190 years. I was once part of their membership and served as music director and organist, and I have serviced their pipe organ for the past 26 years. And so it was with great sadness I watched their decline, and although no longer a member of that faith community, nonetheless felt a spiritual kinship with their people and history.
The church was a pioneer in small town Ohio. Founded in 1827 by the founders of its faith, the early members first met in a home, then a barn, and finally erected their first building in 1832, followed by a second building in 1850, and their present edifice in 1925. By the 1950’s the church was filled to capacity each Sunday and active in the community.
Music was always important to this congregation. The early singing school met there and singing hymns by lining out was part of their early practice. There’s an oral tradition that a small pipe organ from “out east” was installed in the 1860’s in the second church building, and a reed organ from that building (“pump organ”) built locally, survived and was finally sold in the 1980’s at a church rummage sale. In the new 1925 building a space was made for a pipe organ and one was installed in 1929. A WurliTzer Theatre Organ. Purchased from a movie theatre in a town many miles away, the organ became available when both “talking pictures” and the Great Depression hit the local theatre with significant financial troubles. The mighty WurliTzer was installed, complete with the toy counter (sleigh bells, drum, car horn, harp, and castanets) in the space made available. How exciting it must have been to have that sort of organ power in the new building. This instrument served reliably until 1977. More on the 1977 organ in the next post.
Sadly, the pipe organ must come out of the building now before the church closes.
In the coming days I'll be blogging the process of removing this wonderful pipe organ through pictures and video, and sharing a bit of history along the way. I hope you enjoy.
Below is a short video I made on the day we began removing the instrument. This is the last time the organ would play.
All in the Family: Uncle Christoph Built an Organ
The Aebi Organ in St. Georg, Switzerland
Aebi Organ in Ernen-Schweiz
It's hard to imagine a 335 year old mechanical music instrument. Harder still is imagining that this music instrument still works. But that's exactly the case with the historic Christoph Aebi organ in the church of St. Georg in Ernen, Switzerland. First built in 1680 and repaired only minimally, and with very few modifications over the years, Aebi's pipe organ looks and sounds much as it did when he built and installed it in the beautiful town church.
Pfarrkirche, St. George, Ernen
Aebi Organ Keydesk
Christoph Aebi, organbuilder from Solothurn, was contracted to build an instrument for the church in 1680, with the first delivery of parts occurring that year. The table or tablet of the organ where the pipes would eventually stand was delivered first. We might today call that the windchest. Eventually an instrument of one manual and pedal with 11 ranks, and in a beautifully painted gothic case would take shape.
The organ plays regularly for church services and programs. A seminal 2011 recording by Hungarian composer Zsigmond Szathmáry on the Ars Musici label, entitled Die Historische Aebi-Orgel in Ernen-Schweiz, highlights the beautiful sound of theChristoph Aebi pipe organ. Featuring works by Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Sweelinck, and Frescobaldi, the instrument beautifully renders each piece with a sweet sound, from the softest 8' Coppel flute; but with enough power to support even the largest passages.
The organ has mechanical slider chests and a mechanical stop action, with one pull-down manual to pedal coupler.
The organ stoplist as it is today:
Manual I, C - d'''
Prinzipal 8 '
Coppel 8 '
Oktave 4 '
Flöte 4 '
Quintflöte 2 2/3 ' (addition)
Superoktave 2 '
Hörnli 2 ' + 1 3/5 ' (addition)
MixturIII 2 '
Quinte 1 1/2 '
CymbelII 1/2 '
Pedal, C - d'
Subbass 16 ' (addition)
Flötbass 8 '
Posaune 8
I hope someday to play this organ built by my great, great, great, great, great, great, great uncle, Christoph Aebi. I own the recording and have studied as much history on the instrument as I can find, and know this to be a beautiful example of his work.
This page will give, in German, a fantastic history of some of the modifications over the years.
A Pipe Organ Desk
recently created a board on Pinterest called Random Old Organ Pipes. I got the idea from a picture I'd seen of a birdhouse made out of two old wooden flute pipes. (Whether or not making a birdhouse from an organ pipe qualifies as a travesty is a topic for later discussion...) Well, it's surprising what people have dreamed up. An organ pipe shelf. An organ pipe knife holder. An organ pipe ribbon rack. Organ pipe benches. And my favorite, the aforementioned organ pipe birdhouse.
But it was the Kagen Sounds pipe organ desk that really grabbed my attention, for, not only is it beautifully crafted desk with organ pipes about; it's also a sort of puzzle!
Rally 'Round the Flag! Some Pipe Organ Fireworks for the 4th of July
This iconic song of the American Civil War was at one time so popular that the publisher's 14 printing presses ran around the clock and could not keep up with the demand from the public for copies of the sheet music. Written by George Frederic Root in 1862, it was to become one of the most popular songs of the period. It is estimated that over 700,000 copies were produced.
Brian Ebie: A Checklist for Organ Practice
The study of the pipe organ (and its electronic imitation), its composers and repertoire, and the art of playing it, can occupy a lifetime. This outline looks at the art of practicing with activities to stimulate learning and retention from pre-practice to follow-up and assessment. I hope organ students young or old use these techniques to advance and find fulfillment in their improvement.
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Rhode Island - Legislative Immunity
According to yesterday's Providence Journal, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from the court decision supporting the former state senate president's claim of legislative immunity against the Rhode Island Ethics Commission, which equally has jurisdiction over local government legislators and other officials. It has thus recognized the importance of this issue to enforcement by the state's EC.
However, the Supreme Court refused to stay the lower court decision, so that, for the time being, legislators involved in legislative activity are outside the EC's jurisdiction. It is not clear whether this would apply to local government legislators, as well.
Oregon - Annual Disclosure
According to an Associated Press article yesterday, the Oregon legislature is considering changes to the state's annual disclosure requirements due to the many complaints and resignations of local officials, as discussed in a couple of blog entries here, both accessible from the one link. According to the article, the biggest problem local officials have with the disclosure requirements is listing their adult relatives.
"It doesn't make any sense; there's no public benefit to it," the Senate Majority Leader is quoted as saying. Is there really no sense in knowing the names of relatives who might come before a commission member or get a contract from the local government? If there's no sense to this, there's also no sense in knowing whom an official works for or what property he or she owns in town, because knowing this would not in any way help people know if there's a conflict. And it would also be of no benefit to the public if an official who discloses this information were (sensibly) more careful about letting family members or employers benefit from his or her position.
I think we should all thank Senator Devlin for knocking some sense into government ethics.
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Wednesday, May 15, 2019 by Hannah Jones in News
City planners want a more pedestrian-friendly Minneapolis, and drive-thrus tend to throw a wrench in things. Renee Jones Schneider, Star Tribune
Imagine the city 20, 40 years down the line, and envision its brand-new banks, coffee shops, and hamburger joints. Ask yourself: Do you see any drive-thru windows?
That’s the question the city is asking itself now. On Thursday, the Minneapolis Planning Commission will entertain an all-out ban on new drive-thrus throughout the city.
There are plenty of people who love drive-thrus, and it’s easy to see why. They’re quick, convenient, and don’t require leaving your car. If you’re a parent wrangling young children, or you’re disabled, you might consider them something of a miracle. So the forgive the anger over the plan, which some have responded to with incredulity and venom for the “dumbshits” behind it, as one opponent remarkedon Twitter.
But love them or not, there are plenty of cases against them. At their best, they mean more paved surfaces slick with polluted runoff, more curb cuts where pedestrians will have to dodge traffic, and the occasional phalanx of queuing cars blocking sidewalks. Then there's the din of engines and the spew of empty Taco Bell cups and Whopper wrappers neighbors often deal with.
At their worst, they can be destructive – even dangerous. As evidence, one need only remember the countless headaches and near-misses caused by the Starbucks drive-thru on Snelling and Marshall Avenues in St. Paul, all of which earned the bedeviled spot its own hashtag (#carbucks) and its own designated traffic cop.
City Council President Lisa Bender, who is championing this ordinance, says the reason city leadership started considering the ban a few years back was because of “community opposition to new drive-thrus in several locations.”
"Residents in my ward have continued to bring up the challenges these facilities bring to our neighborhoods and environment," she said in a statement.
But the biggest issue is they effectively encourage people to drive, and that’s the opposite of what city planners want for Minneapolis. When they envision the city’s future, they see a lot more pedestrians and a lot fewer cars. They see unobstructed sidewalks, less traffic, and more room for housing and offices in place of parking lots.
In order to reach that broader vision, they’ve been taking small, calculated steps to make it harder to be a driver. Banning future drive-thrus would be just one of them. (See this article from last month about the city jacking up the price of on-street parking downtown.)
“I’m sure there will be pushback,” senior city planner Mei-Ling Smith says. But she’s hopeful Minneapolis will see the benefits. She’s not aware of any other city making such an ambitious move.
Bender and fellow council member Lisa Goodman introduced a similar plan back in 2016. On top of that, the city already has some pretty heavy restrictions on car-side windows. Minneapolis has 23 zoning districts, and new drive-thrus are only allowed in six of them.
If Minneapolis does manage to pull this off, existing pickup windows will still be there, and many stores – like Target – are evolving new delivery and pickup options that eliminate the need for a drive-thru altogether. The ban will amount to a small adjustment, but a significant one, if you factor it into a broader plan.
But that’s only if. Thursday is just the beginning of what’s sure to be a long conversation. The first public hearing on the matter should take place on June 3. If all goes according to plan, the ordinance will come before the City Council for the first time on June 27, and we can expect a full hearing and a vote on July 12.
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BLOOMSDAY 2009 + COLLECTED WORKS' AUTUMN REPORT
Farewell Autumn, welcome Winter! April & May have come & gone! We'd better advertise Bloomsday then, the annual June 16th celebration falling this year on the Tuesday, which will be the next event at the Shop. In recent years, the profusion of Bloomsday events elsewhere leads us to concentrate our reading into the lunch period, midday til 2.30 or so. All James Joyce fans welcome!
The Autumn report, begun late March, was put to the side while I composed The Divine Issue (published in April), and though I took up the former again in early May, I was then wonderfully diverted by correspondence flowing from TDI as well as revisiting the same period's literary material, some of which research accrues now as its Addendum.
Had I been better organized I'd have flagged the two May events, namely the launch of Mary Napier's spoken-word CD, Open Thoughts, on the 15th, and the tribute reading for Dorothy Porter on the 28th.
A major distraction has been Loretta's health glitch (--an irregularity detected via breast screening which led to needle biopsy and then surgery for breast cancer; disappointingly this is a continuing story with further though smaller surgery in the offing)... On the day Dorothy's tribute took place at Collected Works, Loretta was having her operation at the Peter Mac. What I called 'exquisite irony', Jenny Harrison (who, with Gig Ryan, curated & catered the Tribute) named a 'symmetry' in which Dorothy was linked to Retta & all women touched by the illness. There was never a thought to cancel the event; Retta would have been appalled. She was certainly at the shop in spirit just as all her well-wishers were with her at the Peter Mac...
Disaster & disease affect everyone; the poets die the same kind of deaths as everyone else. Today I've read a notice posted by Lorin Ford on the Overload Nation poetry site concerning the death of Andrea Sherwood. We catch our breath, then breathe again... Geoff Eggleston, Dorothy Porter --mourned & celebrated by their families & literary communities in December... In February the fires came. Entire hamlets, towns disappeared. Family & friends were burnt out &/or killed. Young poet Ella Holcombe's parents perished in Kinglake. The subsequent memorial service at Montsalvat, attended by Melbourne poets in solidarity with Ella, was also a grieving for that whole community... In Redesdale, Robert Kenny faught for his house for ten minutes before abandoning it to save his own life. His academic work-in-progress was backed-up at La Trobe University but library, archives, art work & studio are all gone... From Berlin the shocking news of artist, print-maker Julia Harman's tragic & untimely death --she was Tim Hemensley's first serious partner, and felt that however separated by distance in life, & then by his death, she was always with him, and now she is I guess... Concentric circles of all whom one considers family. A good friend of the Shop, Tim Sheppard, died on the 11th March after illness. A great devotee of poetry, especially the 1st World War British poets, he also wrote poems although a collection never saw light of day...
For the poets, as I'm fond of saying, t'was always so. All of this in the midst of life. And life goes on (--and it does go on despite the traumatisation of survivors --so well and still do I recall the experience of 6 years ago when the fact of my son's death was like an imposed nakedness upon me -- worse : I felt skinned, scourged of my skin, wearing only the fact of his death, feeling as I stood there in the world that only I knew the catastrophe and no one could see what I was feeling)... Some of the life that goes on, for the poet, involves the readings & launches, gatherings of the clan... For the Melbourne poet these are all around town, constantly, if the handbills or emails I see are any indication.
Collected Works' Autumn season kicked off on the 12th March with the first of two new poetry collections published by Barry Scott's Transit Lounge : Kent McCarter's In the Hungry Middle of Here (--launched by Jenny Lea, whom I dont think I've seen since I dropped in on a Meanjin/Overland cricket match on the Domain Oval in South Yarra --early 90s? --I'm not sure whether she was playing or barracking but we chatted at tea in amongst the trestle tables & eskies --and what a dynamo was Meanjin's skipper, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, clapping for attention, darting hither & thither in the field when he wasnt bowling --but that's another story!), & Jennifer Mackenzie's Borobudur (launched by Tim Lindsey from the Asia Law Centre) on the 20th. Good attendances for both, more local poets at McCarter's, lots of Asian Studies people at Mackenzie's.
It's a truism in the Melbourne writing & performance community now that with the scene's current proliferation there are always going to be new names, poets one hasnt previously encountered. Blurbs from Gig Ryan & CWC for McCarter underlined my ignorance. Conversely, my blurb for Jenny Mackenzie attests a long acquaintance with author & family punctuated for the times she lived in China.
I remember twenty years ago Jennifer thinking of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights as a potential publisher of her Borobudur project. This must have been canvassed around about 1985 since that was when Robert Kenny's Rigmarole Books withdrew from the fray, having to decline such new writers as Brian Castro as well as foreclosing what had become a new writing stable including John Scott, Anna Couani, Ken Taylor, Ken Bolton, Chris Barnett, Ania Walwicz, John Anderson, Laurie Duggan, Walter Billeter, Kenny himself & yours truly. Who knows how it might have developed had personal & financial conditions played out differently? Rigmarole might now still have been the major small-press in Australia that one or two publishers in North America survived sufficiently long to become over there. But then again, gaps are inevitably filled and the culture is always changing, implying different aesthetical & political imperatives for different times. Rigmarole in the mid to late 80s would have been a natural home for Borobudur. While congratulating Jenny Mackenzie's tenacity and sighing with her At last, at last, one realizes it was more the case of putting something aside than of battling for twenty years; even so, twenty years is quite a hiatus.
A note now on Tim Lindsey's comments (overwhelmingly in the poet's favour)... Inevitably it was an Asian Studies/Foreign Affairs appreciation of the book as a cultural-political object --that is, Mackenzie's poem was read as a long overdue Australian translation of a classic Javanese story subsuming crucial aspects of that tradition, a belated but worthy act reflecting Australian recognition of the antiquity & authority of an important geopolitical neighbour.
Lindsey's pitch was not uninteresting --indeed, in the context of an exotic literary publication, his political & economic language was an instructive counterpoint. However, as I quipped to him later, I'd contend Indonesian-Australian relations, as with East-West relations in general, are a two-way street. Interesting that Australian ignorance of Javanese epic is supposedly indicative of an Australian know-nothing arrogance which will marginalise us in the future; yet the lay observation of the Asian neighbours' voracious appetite for Western popular forms, from democracy & personal freedoms to t-shirts & rock & roll, is unmentioned. Actually, Western translation of Asian literary & religious classics is the typical form of the Anglo-European interaction with Asia over a very long period, and as fast as we gobble up their elite texts so do they our popular ones.
It also occurred to me last year, after meeting a Singaporean poet & academic, that his expertise in modern British poetry, from Hardy to the present, surely curries our conception of the post-colonial! Furthermore, the considerable East-West collaboration of artists & writers, including Australian & Asian, in my opinion significantly corrects the postcolonial ideological cliche. I offered Tim Lindsey the examples of Sandy Fitts (whose View from the Lucky Hotel (Five Islands Press, '08) has won this year's Anne Elder Prize for a first collection) & Jane Gibbian (Ardent is her first full collection, published by Giramondo Press, '08) as Aussie poets redeeming quality collaboration from their trips to Vietnam. I also mentioned to him Cathy O'Brien's description of her meeting in Vientiane, Laos with an Australian colleague's partner, the Iraqui poet Basim Furat, residing there after a spell in New Zealand where, according to Mark Pirie, he had impressed the local scene. They may well collaborate in the future. For me a tiny but interesting example of the hybridization increasingly possible in global culture.
Of course, violent displacement is also increasing & is one obvious explanation of such unlikely crosscurrents. Yet let's recall Ford Madox Ford's witty definition of English culture, against the xenophobia of his day, as the happy result of "successive periods of unrest amongst the Continental peoples".
March/May/June 4 '09
Posted by collectedworks at 10:38 PM
Labels: Basim Furat, Cathy O'Brien, COLLECTED WORKS BOOKSHOP EVENTS, Dorothy Porter, Ella Holcombe, Jennifer Mackenzie, Julia Harman, Robert Kenny, Tim Hemensley, Tim Lindsey, Tim Sheppard
Rosemary Nissen-Wade said...
I loved reading this, Kris. (And still cherish my copy of PIE, not to mention Deep Blue & Green.)
kris & retta
you are really treasures. i wander from where i am to read through the reeds
still steel
christopher barnett
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Number 379 - Amii Stewart
Amii Stewart
"Knock On Wood"
................Genre: Disco...............
art by scandaliciousinpink
Since the last entry, i have written about the "Fake Moon Landing in '69", my disaster using "FireFox" .. and also my metaphoric rise [kaff] in "Twitter" only to be dumped by a facetious report i made about Jeff Lynne getting a blood transfusion from George Harrison so he could become the "legitimate" 5th Beatle. As i always say in Digg.com .... don't drink and comment!!! [I lost 7 friends with that remark about George ~ sniff]. It's OK, I'm thick skinned or as other people remind me "Thick skulled" I am sure it means the same thing.
Now, Amii Stewart's song will probably come at a surprise to you entering at #379, after all it is Disco and most people find this genre at best, awkward, unless your name is Uncle Bert living in Michigan, who likes duck bill shoes and has every vinyl issue of Abba records in mint condition. But ... "Knock on Wood" was not just any disco song, like Donna Summer's song "I Feel Love" [#420] it was to be the beginning of Techno/Trance/Dance music that appeared in the late 80s to now. Is is not Amii Stewart's fault she has been over looked by critics and Rolling Stone magazine. At least here, Amii is recognised.
Anyway, if you disagree, you can always vote her off. $^&$%#^@
Washington, D.C., vocalist Amii Stewart came whooping and shouting into the spotlight with an amazing though unconventional cover of Eddie Floyd's "Knock on Wood." Her boisterous vocal, coupled with a non-stop arrangement and equally unrestrained backing vocals, topped the pop charts in 1979 and reached number six on the R&B side. Stewart, who was in the Broadway musical +Bubbling Brown Sugar, did another remake as a follow-up, the Doors' "Light My Fire," backed by "137 Disco Heaven." It dissipated the initial momentum of the lead single, and things went downhill from there. Stewart later moved to Italy and had some singles issued on international labels before trying again in America on RCA in the mid-'80s. Her 1985 single "Friends" for Emergency just missed the R&B Top 40. ~ [Ron Wynn All Music Guide]
But, not just Amii ... Guess who else sung it ..
No, Who?
~ Wilson Pickett on the album The Wicked Pickett (1967)
~ Otis Redding and Carla Thomas in a duet (1967)
~ Alton Ellis featured on The Best of Alton Ellis (1969)
~ David Bowie recorded live and released later that year (1974) as a single
~ Cher on the album I'd Rather Believe In You (1976)
~ Eric Clapton on his album Behind the Sun (1985) [WTF?]
~ Michael Bolton on the album Timeless:The Classics (1992) [OMG .. ewwww?]
~ Seal on the album Soul (2008) [huh?]
~ James Taylor in concert over the years and on his 2008 album Covers [double huh?]
~ And the original ... "Knock on Wood" is a hit 1966 song written by Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper and originally performed by Eddie Floyd. The Eddie Floyd version peaked at number twenty-eight on the Hot 100, and spent one week at number one on the soul singles.
Amii Stewart's version reached #1 in the U.S. charts in April 1979, as well as charting on the soul singles and disco charts, becoming the most well-known version of the song. ~ [Source: Wikipedia]
For Jeff Lynne see Number 384, #790, #969
For George Harrison see Number 806
For Abba see Number 919
For Donna Summer see Number 420
For the Doors see Number 729, #746
For Otis Redding see Number 623
For Cher see Number 889, MM Vol 1 #088
For Eric Clapton see Number 537
For Seal see Number 503
For James Taylor see Number 820
What does Rolling Stone think? [oh boy] er well ... not one mention anywhere, not even on rhapsody.com [crowbarred is on his own with this one.. oh dear]
Rolling Stone magazine deemed their '379th Song of all Time' was "Radio Free Europe" by R.E.M. REM has appeared in The Definitive 1000 of All Time @ #597, #712
Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs ranked this song at Number (Oh dear, oh dear) and the Album ranked at (You seem to be in a pickle now crowbarred -no-one is going to vote for this)
Amii Stewart - Knock on Wood
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UT Air Force ROTC wins Team of the Year
Valkyrie flight of UT’s Air Force ROTC Detachment 825 practices drill and ceremonies near the LBJ School of Public Affairs on Thursday morning. Detachment 825 was recently named “Team of the Year” beating out 144 other college ROTC and 892 high school JROTC units with some of the best physical, academic and military performance ratings in the nation.
Photo Credit: Anthony Mireles | Daily Texan Staff
Published on April 18, 2019 at 11:35 pm
By Raul Rodriguez
UT’s Detachment 825 Air Force ROTC program was named Team of the Year this semester after competing against 144 university detachments and 892 high school units for the title last fall.
The award is given by the Jeanne M. Holm Center for Officer Accessions and Citizen Development, a commanding body above the Air Force ROTC national headquarters. To win, a unit must be exceptional at everything it does, from performance during missions to performance as a team, said Matthew Lively, a government and history senior.
Lively was Cadet Vice Wing Commander last fall. He said he credits the active duty staff and detachment’s teamwork as the main reason for winning the award.
“To put it succinctly, Team of the Year is the reward for demonstrating the best teamwork,” Lively said in an email. “(Active duty staff) give us the tools to literally run the program and affect things like reaching some of the highest GPA, fitness and military performance scores in the nation.”
Detachment 825’s mission is to train and educate leaders for the United States Air Force, said Colonel Paul Tombarge, chair of the Department of Air Force Science. After graduating, cadets will be commissioned as second lieutenants in the Air Force with the responsibility of leading airmen.
Brittney Copp is currently the Cadet Vice Wing Commander in Detachment 825 and said her time at Air Force ROTC has taught her about being a leader.
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“One thing that I’ve taken away from my time here in Air Force ROTC is the value of servant leadership and doing good for your people,” Copp, a public health senior, said in an email. “As leaders we are called to serve the people we lead, providing them all the opportunities, knowledge, and support to be the best they can be.”
Tombarge said the detachment’s dedication contributed to its achievement. However, he said winning the award wasn’t their main focus.
“While it is nice to have our team recognized at this level, we didn’t set out with winning this award as our goal,” Tombarge said in an email. “Instead, we challenged our team to set tough but achievable expectations in several areas and motivated them along the way.”
Students and staff from the Air Force ROTC recently received a trophy for their efforts.
“We are fortunate that our regional and national leadership takes the time and effort to recognize the individuals and teams across the country who excel in what they do,” Tombarge said in an email.
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CapitalistImperialistPig
Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose..............J.B.S. Haldane ............................................................................................................ Quantum Mechanics is not only stranger than you imagine, but stranger than you can imagine ............(a version attributed to Richard Feynman)
Advice from Josh Marshall
Joshua Micah Marshall's Talking Points Memo was the first blog I regularly read, and it's still the very best. He has some end of the year advice for Democrats and liberals that I consider spot on.
First, he says, we have to attack and oppose. There is no point in being an opposition party if there is nothing to oppose, and I think all Dems and liberals find plenty to oppose in current policies and governance. He goes on to give some penetrating advice about writing, politics, and life in general.
Bad writing is usually imprecise writing -- and its badness usually stems from the bad writer not having taken the time to think through just what he or she means to say. The cobwebs and vagaries of their minds are revealed in bad prose.
Bad politics usually stems from people not having a clear idea of what they're trying to achieve, where they're trying to go. Once you know where you're trying to lead the country, strategy and tactics and optics and gutting the other…
Is Iran Next?
Drudge links to this Jerusalem Post story that says the US is preparing for a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.
The United States government reportedly began coordinating with NATO its plans for a possible military attack against Iran.
Many rather similar stories have talked about a possible Israeli strike against these facilities, but most doubt that Israel can carry off such a strike in convincing fashion. Compared to the strike Israel carried out against the Iraqi reactor way back when, attacking a dispersed and possibly largely underground Iranian nuclear program is much harder and much farther away. No one doubts that the US could carry out such attacks, but whether they would succeed is a question, and so is the resulting backlash in Shiite Iraq.
My guess is that at the moment, we are just seeing more saber rattling, intended to pressure Iran into abandoning uranium enrichment. If and when the strike comes, and I guess it will if Iran doesn't blink, I suspect th…
Selling America to the Highest Bidder
Via Josh Marshall.
R. Jeffrey Smith outlines how Tom Delay and the Republican Party sold out America to Russian oil interests, foreign sweatshop owners, and almost anybody else with cash in this Washington Post story. A key component of this Abramoff-Delay operation was a slush fund called the U.S. Family Network (take that, George Orwell).
The former president of the U.S. Family Network said Buckham told him that Russians contributed $1 million to the group in 1998 specifically to influence DeLay's vote on legislation the International Monetary Fund needed to finance a bailout of the collapsing Russian economy.
Now we know what Bush meant when he looked into Putin's eyes and saw "a good man."
There is a lot more in the story, all equally depressing. These swine have sold their country out at every turn. It makes me ashamed to call myself a pig.
Get Me a Bigger Alphabet!
Tropical Storm Zeta is now spinning out in the Atlantic. It won't live long, but it surely is a freak. I wonder if there has ever been a January Tropical Storm before?
(learned about this from Brad Delong )
Here are some predictions I made for 2005, but unfortunately neglected to publish in a timely manner.
(1) GW's Social Security plan will collapse in ignominious failure.
(2) The Iraq War, contrary to Bush's claims, will make little progress in 2005.
(3) The Endemic corruption of the Republican House will begin to stink up the courts as well as the country.
(4) The Senate will get tired of rubber stamping dubious Bush nominees.
(5) String Theory will continue to dominate the landscape of theoretical physics, crushing all rivals. Or have I mixed up the word order?
(6)The Pig will become a must read blog for the nation's movers and shakers.
More Predictions
William Safire has his multiple choice prediction for 2006 up here at the NYT. I found that my answer to most of his possibilities was "who cares," but his finale was:
14. As Bush approval rises, historians will begin to equate his era with that of: (a) Truman; (b) Eisenhower; (c) L.B.J.; (d) Reagan; (e) Clinton.
My pick was (f) Caligula, but Bill went with (a).
Jack and Tom Went up the Hill
Now that Jack has fallen down, and both crowns look dented, Jack's signature DC bar Signatures is looking for a new name. Josh Marshall and reader's have come up with some memorable suggestions: Licence Plates, Jack-in-the-Box, and The Pen, the last a play on the old Signatures name. I don't have any that can top these, but how about a brief eulogy:They've gone away,
Our Jack, our Duke,
And good old Ney,
Cause they must pay,
Cause they must pay.
Bad times for
The mighty Hammer,
Lord of K
Mighty no more
Once in slammer
The Waco Tribune-Herald reports that:
The president is reading "When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House," but presidential spokesman Trent Duffy said Bush is not thinking about his post-Oval Office days.
It wasn't reported, but my informants claim that actually Karen Hughes is reading one paragraph chapter summaries to him at bedtime. He likes his books unfiltered by the media. Besides, it's a heavy book, and he doesn't want to risk another pretzel attack when he falls asleep.
If he really wants a glimpse of the post-presidential future he might want to check out Milosevic's forthcoming "My Life in The Hague."
History of the Great Conservative Revolution
Brad Delong keeps turning over rocks in the National Review Archive, and loathsome creatures keep wriggling out. Bill Buckley as a smarmy little racist shit:
Let me say at once, for the benefit of the wicked, fearful South, that Martin Luther King wil never rouse a rabble; in fact, I doubt very much if he could keep a rabble awake... past its bedtime... lecture... delivered with all the force and fervor of the five-year-old who nightly recites: "Our Father, Who art in New Haven, Harold be Thy name."...
This is a pretty silly idea, since I have repeatedly been discredited as a prophet. Nonetheless, the courage born of folly will sustain us through the enterprise.
1) Five more Republican Congressmen will be indicted in 2006, together with two more members of the Bush inner circle.
2) A great black dog will haunt the Republican party through 2006, and his name won't be Snuffles or Sirius Black but something more like Abramoff, Jack.
3) The economy will sputter along, at least until Summer.
4) Television news will mutter on irrelevantly.
5) Lumo will not crack the Riemann Hypothesis (bearing in mind my track record, this prediction is actually a favorable omen, Lubos).
6) The American people will start getting upset about pensions, health care, and education.
7) 1) 3) and 6) will lead to the Republicans losing 35 House seats and 4 Senate seats in the mid-term elections, thus retaining a narrow majority in the Senate but decisively losing the House.
8) Usama bin Laden will die of natural ca…
The New Despotism
The founders of the American experiment were vary aware that the republic is a fragile form of government. The concensus of world intellectuals at the time was that it probably couldn't work, and would inevitably fail like so many republics past. The constitution and the rule of law were intended as guards against the usurpation of authority by a ruler and for the protection of minority interests.
The end of the twentieth century saw the collapse of the communist despotism in Europe and it vast weakening everywhere. Democracy asserted its appeal in South Africa, South American, and elsewhere. Unfortunately, the new century has not seen the good news continue. A couple of bad omens in the news: The New York Times reports here that Putin's Senior Economic Advisor has resigned,
warning that Russia's nascent political freedoms have been lost and the Kremlin's economic choices have been poor. He also said that he had no more ability to influence the government's c…
Peter Jackson has made a nice little period comedy here. Unfortunately, he has appended two hours of retarded video game scenery and interspecies conflict, plus of course, the obligatory but still terminally lame interspecies love story. The chase/disaster through the streets of New York was OK though.
The whole movies was only a little over three hours, but it felt like so much more.
A member of a software start-up explained to me about recruiting software talent in China. University X graduates 20,000 software engineers per year. You assemble 1000 of these in an auditorium, where they take a battery of tests. An IQ of 140 might be the minimum. The top 100 take more specialized tests, and twenty get interviewed. Maybe three get hired at $10,000/year.
At the same dinner, a software engineer for a major defense contractor explained how many of his colleagues had little real work to do, and most couldn't do it very well anyway, but stayed on the rolls because it was a cost plus contract.
I somehow doubt that the Chinese will be content to be high IQ cheap labor for long. Ditto their counterparts in India.
At some point, the government of China will decide to invest in all that highly-skilled (and soon, highly experienced) labor, and that immense flow of dollars financing the US spend and borrowing spree will vanish. I fear a pretty hard landing for the US e…
John Derbyshire is not an Idiot?
My guess is that the conclusion of the title is not a surprise to anyone who has actually read him, but it's always a bit of a shock for me to conclude that about someone who writes for the National Review and the Washington Times. My conclusion is based on scant evidence, I admit, since I've now read exactly three things by him: Part of a book (Prime Obsession, a popular book about the Riemann Hypothesis, and two articles). Overall, the interesting to banal coefficient was one I can only dream of, and I didn't find anything egregious in any of the three.
Naturally, this conclusion is subject to revision, and further research may discover some reason why the idiots at NRO would employ him.
UPDATE: I have now learned that there are a large number of people who believe that Derbyshire is, if not an idiot, at least a villian. The reason for this is his anti-homosexual views. Having now read a bit of his writings on the subject, I think his two main objections are personal…
Merry Christmas to All and To All a Good Night!
Not to mention Happy Holidays, whatever they may be.
Last minute Christmas shopping is a competitive sport.
Standing around, waiting as the guys in the blue vests unloaded the last pallet of X-Box 360's in town. In the country. In the Universe. I was psyched. I'd seen the mahem on TV on "Black Friday." I was well-positioned and thought I was ready. A sharp blow in the ribs sent me reeling. A thuggish looking fat guy steps into my spot, followed closely by a muscular looking man in one of those jackets with the big FBI on the back.
I knew this was a world where wimps lose out, a world where not having an X-Box competitive parent can scar a kid for life. As I struggled to regain my footing, part of that footing became fatso's shoe, and somehow the front of my knee made contact with the back of his. The big guy goes down like one of those helicopter dropped sandbags in New Orleans.
I jumped forward and as I bent to grab my X, FBI jacket inexplicably dives for the games. Bad timing. My knee, the same knee (…
The National Review: Heritage
Brad Delong has been mining the National Review archive. It's a rich trove, loaded with William F. Buckley's praise of McCarthyism, defense of racism, and denunciation of integration. Here's a recently unearthered gem:
October 26, 1957: General Franco is an authentic national hero... [with the] talents, the perseverance, and the sense of the righteousness of his cause, that were required to wrest Spain from the hands of the visionaries, ideologues, Marxists, and nihilists that were imposing... a regime so grotesque as to do violence to the Spanish soul, to deny, even, Spain's historical destinyAnd this great visionary has left his traces on the Spanish body as well as soul that endure today. If you look at members of the generation that grew up under Franco, they are about a foot shorter than modern (but still short) Spaniards.
Such is the sick and twisted vision of William F. Buckley, a "natural aristocrat" who pines for those days when you could recognize …
The Age of WalMart
CNBC did a nice long form story called "The Age of Walmart." It's a very even-handed but probably ultimately pro-WalMart story. No matter how you look at it, it's a pretty impressive phenomenon. Their logistical and management techniques are pehaps the most impressive ever developed.
There is still plenty there to offend anybody who loves liberty or human freedom. Part of WalMart's method is instilling a quazi-religious fervor and committment in the employees. Combine that with employing a large fraction of the working population of the country and their practice of closing an story that unionizes (almost certainly illegal), and you have an offensive degree of thought control.
"Must Restrain - Fist of Death"
Some years back, when I was a rather inept almost 50 in our over 30 soccer league, I was dribbling up the sideline while the opposing defender was trying to get the ball away. We continued in this fashion for twenty-five yards or so with him first charging shoulder to shoulder(legal), elbowing me in the ribs and chest(not), and finally grabbing my crotch. I manage to pass the ball to a teammate in the penalty area and turned back upfield with murder in my heart. The object of my rage was flat on his back, 10 yards upfield, where our last shoulder contact had left him, and I laughed, and the World was good. I was reminded of this by a story in today's sports page noting that English soccer star Vinnie Jones has this year been "immortalized in a statue depicting him reaching back and squeezing an opponents testicles." (Dave Kindred in The Sporting News).
The memory is also a useful sedative when I'm particularly annoyed at some Czech punk who has called me a "…
God Speaks to the Israelites - and Everybody Else
Tim Berners-Lee now has his own blog, as I learned from reading this Lubos post. Since Tim invented the World Wide Web, this really is a case of a Giant walking among men, much more significant to me than if some relative non-entity, like some random Cabinet officer or maybe Madonna, were to start one. Of course he had to turn off comments to still the clamor of believers.
WaPo vs. Froomkin: Delong Score Again
Brad Delong has another one of those great long posts taking a deep look at the Froomkin Affair, which, we recall, involved WaPo Ombudsman Howell and political editor Harris dissing WaPo blogger Froomkin. Brad's article, in the form of a Platonic dialogue, manages to peel back many layers of this onion, and shows that more than just fear of the White House was probably involved. Everybody should read the whole dialogue, but here's a tiny excerpt:
Thrasymachus: You are naive.
Televisticus: Well, yes, I agree that I am naive. But in what way do you think I'm naive?
Thrasymachus: You said that Post corporate headquarters will transfer jobs from the Washington print newsroom to the Arlington web newsroom, in the process destroying the Newspaper Guild and halving journalists' salaries.
Televisticus: I did.
Thrasymachus: Why should they transfer jobs? Why shouldn't Post corporate headquarters wake up to the fact that its three White House print beat reporters spend a large …
Down the Slippery Slope
Joshua Micah Marshall:
William Kristol and Gary Schmitt have a column in today's Washington Post that advances a simple premise: the president "uniquely swears an oath -- prescribed in the Constitution -- to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution."
If you follow those gentlemen, you will not be surprised that their column is up to their usual standard of unprincipled duplicity:
A U.S. president has just received word that American counterterrorist operatives have captured a senior al Qaeda operative in Pakistan. Among his possessions are a couple of cell phones -- phones that contain several American phone numbers. In the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, what's a president to do?
If the president were taking the advice offered by some politicians and pundits in recent days, he would order the attorney general to go to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The attorney general would ask that panel of federal judges for a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveil…
Teaching Darwin as Cultural Imperialism
I understand that the US is one of perhaps only two holdouts against a UN treaty supporting cultural diversity. This prompted me to think about what cultural imperialism is.
Is it cultural imperialism when we try to stop cultures from some practices which spreads disease (e.g., funerary cannibalism among the Fore), or try to stop female genital mutilation? How about making people let girls go to school? How about showing the rest of the world Spiderman and Harry Potter. Or even making children of fundamentalists study evolution in school?
My answer is yes to all of the above, but I still think they are all good ideas. The values of cultural diversity have been highly touted, especially among liberals. United States Defence Department employees, for example, are now required to have cultural diversity awareness objectives in their annual performance plans. Such ideas would have been considered bizarre a hundred years ago, and the Europeans who conquered much of the World over the…
Buying the Good News
I don't fully share the outrage about the fact that our military has been paying the Iraqi press to print good news stories. I'm more bothered by the fact that the Bushies were doing the same in the US. It does seem to have a little of the comic opera ineptitude about it that has characterized so much of the Bush war, though.
I was particularly impressed by the rationale somebody offered on NPR today. It's the custom in that part of the world. Saddam did it.Well, that's a precedent we wouldn't want to tamper with, huh?
Stupid, Ignorant, Evil, or Insane?
Brad Delong takes on Gregg Easterbrook, who wrote:
Don't take this personally, but if you are an American adult there is a one in two chance that Richard Dawkins, a renowned professor of science at Oxford, thinks you are "ignorant, stupid or insane," unless you are "wicked." These are the adjectives Dawkins chooses to describe the roughly 100 million Americans adults who, if public opinion polls are right, believe Homo sapiens was created directly by God, rather than gradually by evolution.
Actually Brad thinks that those four possibilities pretty much cover it:
...The important point, of course, is that contrary to Easterbrook's claim that there isn't much to choose from, that list actually covers the whole wide range of possibilities. Dawkins himself goes on to explain that the stupid, insane or wicked are the minority possibilities, but let's be honest and face the facts: if you are a creationist, you are almost certainly deeply ignorant of biolo…
Beat the Press
I really want to beat the Press after one of these idiotic press conferences. Or maybe just waterboard them a little. Some good questions did get asked, along with the moronic one like "so now what mistakes will you own up to?" What really really makes me mad is the obvious questions that go unasked. Two from me:
Mr President, you just described leaking classified information [about the NSA wiretaps] as shameful. Earlier you said you would fire anyone who had leaked the identity of the CIA agent. Given that Karl Rove has admitted leaking the CIA agent's name, why is he still your Deputy Chief of Staff?
Mr. President, Bob Novak says you know the identity of the other person who leaked the CIA agent's name? Who was it? Was it you?
Loco Control
We have a tradition of local control of the public schools in this country, but at this point almost all that's left is tradition - control is long gone. There is some logic to State or national control of education, but the system we have now, where school boards are nominally in charge but subject to all sorts of State and National mandates and incentives, is crazy.
The huge bureaucracies almost all school districts have today is driven in large part by the need to conform to mandates and compete for "grants." Because these mandates are driven by all sorts of special interests they are often mutually contradictory.
No child left behind is the latest and in many ways the most disruptive of these mandates. I think the country needs to make some choices about who controls what in the schools, and when they make those choices, make them in such a way that lines of control and responsibility are clear cut and obvious to all.
Bush's speech on Iraq tonight was more forthright than his usual, but it did reiterate one of his big lies - the conflation of Iraq and terrorism. He also failed to squarely confront the central problem in today's Iraq - the simmering three-way civil war among Kurds, Sunnis and Shia. He quite likely is correct that walking away right now might cause us more problems than it solves. Having broken the Iraqi state, can we put it back together?
The existing constitution is an almost certain recipe for continuing civil war. After the defeat of Japan, McArthur pretty much personally wrote the Japanese constitution, and took extensive steps to make sure that Japan developed the institutions to support it. In their weakness, folly and arrogance, the Bushies didn't even try to do the same in Iraq.
Many, like Republican Lindsay Graham and Democrat Joseph Biden, say that the next six months are critical for achieving a workable constitution in Iraq. I'm not sure we still have…
Illegal Snooping
President Bush has admitted authorizing what appear to be clearly illegal wiretaps on US citizens. This David E Sanger New York Times Story has some of the details. Once again, the President claims a justification in the form of another John Woo special opinion - (remember him, the torture is not torture guy?) - holding again that the President is above the Law. Josh Marshall is all over this story. There is little doubt that the actions of the President and his subordinates constitute a felonious violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act but, naturally, little prospect that they will actually be prosecuted.
UPDATE: As commenter Levi pointed out, I should have said John Yoo, not John Woo.
Another Republicrook on the Ropes?
New York Republican gubernatorial candidate William Weld is perhaps the latest prominent Republican to be caught up in an ethics problem. New York Times reporters Sam Dillon and Patrick D. Healy lay out the story in this multipart article. It seems that Weld was CEO of the for profit Decker College, which collapsed amidst accusations of fraud victimizing the students, employees, and the Federal Student Loan program. Among other things, the school is accused of recruiting unqualified students with high pressure tactics, helping them cheat on exams, falsifying attendance records, and paying off former employees not to report these illegalities. At this point Weld has not been accused of personal criminal activity, but running a criminal enterprise isn't much of a recommendation for a governorship even if he was merely a dupe.
White Boys ...
According to Nicolas Wade in this NYT story, scientists at Penn State report that they have found the long sought "white boy" gene responsible for the light skin color of Europeans and the darker skin color of Africans.
The gene comes in two versions, one of which is found in 99 percent of Europeans and the other in 93 to 100 percent of Africans, the researchers report in today's issue of Science.
The gene is unusual because with most human genes, different versions are generally shared, though one version may be more common in one race than another.
We were all presumeably black from the time we lost our hair 1.5 million years ago or so until about 40,000 years ago when Europeans moved into the far less sunny climes of the North.
But when the modern humans who left Africa began to live in northern latitudes, they needed more sunlight to penetrate the skin, to permit the chemical reaction that produces vitamin D.
Oddly enough, the gene, and its varieties were not initial…
Lubos was apparently thrilled to find this rather shallow analysis of the concept of 'sustainability' by Roy Spencer on the Exxon funded propaganda site TCS Daily. Spencer's argument:
Even though it is fashionable for now, ‘sustainability’ is not a very useful concept. In the final analysis, only change is sustainable.Much of his essay is devoted to a couple of lame jokes: the idea that New York had a critical environmental crisis in the form of too much horseshit, only to be saved by the internal combustion engine, and some ecological organization's budget having been determined to be "unsustainable."
Some hundreds of millions of years in the future, the accumulation of helium at the Sun's core will cause it to expand and fry the Earth, so in the long run, life on our planet cannot be sustained. At some point, your automobile engine, no matter how carefully maintained, will fail. Neither of these facts is justification for ignoring shorter term sustain…
Sustainability Parable
1500 years ago Polynesian explorers reached and settled the most isolated piece of habitable land in the world - an island some of their descendants called Rapa Nui. Only sixty-four square miles, but extremely fertile, it was well forested, and the inhabitants were able to live quite well by fishing and farming, making use of the trees to make the excellent outrigger canoes with which their people had explored so much of the world. Their population grew to about 15,000 and they built a vigorous civilization, featuring elaborate stone statues, which they erected at great cost in labor and wood. Their religious enterprises began depleting the forests, but the high priest of the cult, who was called Exxon, assured the population that the only way to propitiate the gods was to continue to cut down trees in order to erect more stone statues, and that stopping would bring economic ruin. When the last tree was cut down, no more canoes could be built, and without the fish which had been t…
Tammy Bruce is Not a Fan
Of current movies, including Brokeback Mountain, which she describes thusly:
A love story between two gay sheepherders (erroneously labeled 'cowboys' by the media, I suppose because they wear hats).
Gay sheepherders? The hell you say! I mean, like, gay cowboys has some novelty value, but gay shepherds is sort of like gay hairdressers.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
(Via Shakespeare's Sister, subbing for Kevin Drum at Political Animal.)
Repairing Environmental Damage
Global warming naysayers sometimes take the tack that even if were are screwing up the planet, trying to limit the damage would be too costly. There is one encouraging sign out now though. One of the first examples of global environmental destruction that nations cooperated to deal with was ozone destruction.
This year, we are seeing the first signs of recovery . It's an interesting historical fact that many of the same cast of characters who now deny global warming played the same role with ozone loss, denying and denying until the scientific evidence became overwhelming. Of course the stupidocracy, like Rush the junkie, are still deluded.
The case for anthropogenic climate warming, and its bad consequences, is not yet at that same level of certainty. We should remember, though, that it will take decades more for the ozone to fully recover, but with global warming we might be talking centuries.
Genesis 6:14 A
The Lord looked at that part of the Earth bounded by the Beltway, and was not well pleased.
He spoke to Noah Johnson, a hot dog vendor on Dupont Circle, and said.
I intend to flood this place, and so separate the righteous from the unrighteous.
So get some plywood and build and ark.
Make it 4 cubits long, two cubits wide, and 1 cubit high - that should be plenty for the righteous.
Take some canned goods, a flashlight, and a good bailing can.
And here's a FEMA credit card - try not to flash it on Meet the Press.
"Let the rains begin."
Neither a Borrower nor a Lender be?
My family and I borrowed about $1100 bucks last month. It seems like a lot, but we've been borrowing almost as much every month for a long time now, so it should be OK, right?
We aren't exactly borrowing it personally, our friendly Congressmen are doing it for us. You know, those guys who like to tell us "it's your money" as they chuckle and give another couple hundred million to Paul Allen so that he can buy another 600 foot boat. Who the f&*# do they think is going to have to pay it back?
The New York Times reports:
The United States trade deficit reached a new high for the second consecutive month, the Commerce Department reported today, widening to a record $68.9 billion in October as oil imports far outpaced exports of capital goods like airplanes.
That extrapolates to about $826 billion per year, or roughly $2700 per person ($10,800 for a family of four), but, since it has been setting a new record every month, constant extrapolation is probably an under…
John Harris, Twisting Slowly, Slowly, in the Wind
Dan Froomkin writes an online political blog for washingtonpost.com called White House Briefing. Deborah Howell, whose job title is Ombudman, but who appears to be more of a right-minder for the Republican Party wrote this column dissing Dan as a biased liberal. This provoked a storm of protest from readers, overwhelmingly Froomkin fans. This in turn led Washington Post Political Editor John Harris to write this rejoinder, provoking yet more reader outrage.
Jay Rosen of Press Think got this interview with John Harris, and it wasn't pretty. Who exactly, was confused or outraged about Froomkin's blog?
Q: What sort of complaints or reactions have the political writers received (and from whom) that would lead them to think that White House Briefing is harming their credibility?
John Harris: I don’t keep a running log, but I regularly run across people who think Dan is one of our White House reporters. One of them was a very news-saavy source of mine who actually ru…
Threnody for Strings
Peter Woit has this post up on David Gross's talk at Solvay. (Lubos weighed in earlier, but he mostly just plays defense). The most popular interpretation seems to be that String Theory has hit a bit of an impasse. This has happened before, and each time some new breakthrough has occurred to inspire the faithful. I found many of the comments on Peter's blog interesting, including some I could understand.
The most inexplicable thing in theoretical physics for me today is the fanatical and religious way so many in String Theory defend their idea as the "one true way." This is so foreign to the way physics was done in the first 70 years of the twentieth century that it seems bizarre to me. Einstein, Bohr and others seemingly fought their battles back them with a dignity and good humor that makes a lot of the ST crowd look like back alley thugs.
WaPo Tries to Kiss Some WH Butt
John Harris, WaPo's chief White House flunky (aka, the National Politics Editor), is afraid that Karl Rove may think that WaPo Kowtow is not quite low enough. He explains about Dan Froomkin and:
the concerns about "White House Briefing" in the Post newsroom.I think he means Corporate cowardice headquarters.
The first issue is whether many readers believe Dan's column is written by one of the Washington Post's three White House reporters. . .
Given that there is such confusion, the question is whether this is a problem. For me it is a problem. I perceive a good bit of his commentary on the news as coming through a liberal prism--or at least not trying very hard to avoid such perceptions. Dan, as I understand his position, says that his commentary is not ideologically based, but he acknowledges it is written with a certain irreverence and adversarial purpose. Dan does not address the main question in his comments. He should. If he were a White House reporter for a…
Gerhard Globocrook
This year's tense battle for the World Scumbag Championship has been broken wide open by former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's deal with Russian energy company Gazprom. Just weeks ago, the Tom Delay-Jack Abramoff axis appeared to have the trophy wrapped up, but Schroeder's big move has turned the struggle upside down.
Even the scandal hardened Washington Post had a harsh word ("Sellout") for a Chancellor who:
leaves his job and goes to work for a company controlled by the Russian government that is helping to build a Baltic Sea gas pipeline that he championed while in office. To make the decision even more unpalatable, it turns out that the chief executive of the pipeline consortium is none other than a former East German secret police officer who was friendly with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, back when Mr. Putin was a KGB agent in East Germany. If nothing else, Mr. Schroeder deserves opprobrium for his bad taste.
But the announcement should also r…
Darwin vs. God
I've been reading over the Newsweek readers' responses to their article on Darwin. There are the usual people who find it hard to believe Darwin because the find it hard to believe Darwin, and also a bunch who find no incosistency between religion and Darwin.
The real problem that Darwin in particular and biology in general present for religion is not that they make it hard to believe in God, it's that they make it hard to believe in a God who cares. Darwin himself started as a believer, and even planned a carreer in the clergy. It was the cruelty of nature and of evolution that turned him against God. What kind of benevolent God would create an ichneumon wasp and the way it makes its living? Once you ask that question, it's easy to wonder the same about malaria, polio, and AIDS.
Bubble Boy Gets Out
I don't know any details, but Bush actually answered some questions after his speech today. About time. He might find it makes him a lot more popular. Expecially if he gives straightforward answers and not the usual Rovian mumbo-jumbo.
Emerging Economic Superpower
Harvard economist LM has observed the emergence of a new economic superpower. Some might think that one cold day in Cambridge does not exactly disprove global warming, or that one year's good economic growth might convince only the most credulous, but, stamped with the authority of Harvard, how can we doubt?
The CIA factbook has published some economic data for Iraq, which shows that the GDP grew by 52.3 percent in 2004. LM notes this and deduces:
The country has not only a terrific growth potential but also a big potential to become an extremely civilized territory, just like it was thousands of years ago when Europe was their barbarian borderland.
And any doubters are "immoral bastards."
The CIA factbook is a bit more cautious in its assessment.
The high percentage gain estimated for GDP in 2004 is the result of starting from a low base.And notes that:
The military victory of the US-led coalition in March-April 2003 resulted in the shutdown of much of the central economic a…
Are Corporations Evil?
To me, the title is sort of a silly question, something like asking "Are volcanoes evil?" Of course there is the important difference that corporations are a human creation, unlike volcanoes. There is also the possibility of regulating corporations, unlike volcanoes (at least so far).
In a couple of previous posts I have mentioned the influence of the energy industry on the debate over anthropogenic global warming. Naturally I don't expect, say, Lubos, to understand any subtle distinctions, but I was a bit disappointed that Wolfgang seemed believe that meant I equated Exxon with evil. OK, maybe I might have referred to some of our corporations with endearing terms like "The Evil Empire," but that's just a little joke. Corporations are supposed to make money for their stockholders, and it seems likely to me that most of Exxon's efforts were directed towards that end, so in that sense proper.
I'm not so happy about the new ways corporations have fo…
Energizing the Opposition
While checking up on Dr. Spencer (previous post) I found this web site. Essentially every anti-global warming organization you ever heard of is listed on Exxon's payroll. Ditto most of the usual right wing suspects: The American Enterprise Institute, The Cato Institute, The Federalist Society, The Heritage Society, The Hoover Institution, The Hudson Institute, Junkscience.com, The Reason Foundation, and of course Tech Central Station. I didn't list the climate related ones, but check them out - and think twice before you trust anything from anybody on the payroll of the world's largest source of pollution.
Climatic Moment
Roy Spencer, a real scientist with some climate science chops, is a global warming skeptic. Oops, let me try that again: An anthropogenic global warming skeptic. I had to put in the qualifier because Roy, like Prof M (to whom I owe the link to Roy's article) is exercised by those who are ignorant enough or otherwise sufficiently imprecise as to ignore the vast spectrum of naturally occurring climate change. It's a legitimate point, unless it's used to try to obfuscate the increasing evidence for human induced climate change.
So what's bothering Dr. Spencer? It seems that he was one of the few scientists at the UN's 11th Conference of Parties meeting in Montreal, and he found that most of the delegates weren't interested in how certain or uncertain climate predictions were.
All these people know - or need to know - is that the "glaciers are melting," it's getting "hotter every year", and "climate change is killing people now&q…
Hating Hillary
Susan Estrich, a liberal obnoxious and funny looking enough to rate frequent Fox News gigs, has written The Case for Hillary Clinton. I'm not likely to read it, but hearing about it prompted me to think about why I really hate the thought of her as a Democratic presidential candidate.
It's actually not personal - or at least mainly not personal. Though her voice does grate on my nerves.
a) She is Bill Clinton's wife. I like Bill Clinton. He is very charming and intelligent. He was even a good President until his philandering and perjury got him caught up in fighting stupid political charges. Those same misdeeds destroyed the Democratic party and cost them the next two elections. We would have been far better off if he had been convicted and removed from office. Too bad the Republicans were too stupid to charge him with his real crime.
But even if he had been a perfect, saintly, and universally beloved President, I would still find his Presidency disqualifying for Hi…
Three for the Show?
Unless events unfold a lot differently than I expect (and they usually do), the Republican Candidate in 2008 will likely face some uninviting odds - eight years of Bush rule having left the country more or less bankrupt, with the jails full of Republican officials, and the Iraq disaster either not yet gone or at least not forgotten. Not to worry - the Democrats are unlikely to field a reasonable candidate. At this point, the favorites are the unbearable Hillary Clinton, soon likely to be hated as much by the liberals as by the right, proven loser John Kerry, and the lighter-than-air John Edwards. Meanwhile, Congressional Democrats have sat on their hands while Republicans have conducted the most corrupt Congress in recent memory. Despite ample evidence of misbehavior and even indictments, no ethics complaints have been filed in Congress.
All a third party needs at this point is a credible candidate with a reasonable platform. They could start with anti-corruption, fiscal responsib…
Shrill Nobel Playwright
Harold Pinter doesn't like us:
"The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them," Mr. Pinter said. "You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis."
Mr. Pinter attacked American foreign policy since World War II, saying that while the crimes of the Soviet Union had been well documented, those of the United States had not. "I put to you that the United States is without doubt the greatest show on the road," he said. "Brutal, indifferent, scornful and ruthless it may be, but it is also very clever. As a salesman it is out on its own and its most saleable commodity is self-love."
He returned to the theme of language as an obscurer of reality, saying that American leaders use it to anesthet…
Remembering the SSC
No blogger intimidates me quite as much as Brad Delong. The guy is amazingly prolific and equally amazing in his breadth of knowledge. This short note inspired by Lisa Randall's Warped Passages asks us to:
Just think of what we would know if since 1970s we had diverted NASA's manned space flight budget into building bigger and bigger atom smashers...
The shuttle and space station were indeed tragic wastes. I'm a fan of manned space flight myself, but I think we have to say that NASA in the 70's wanted to pursue manned space flight in the worst possible way - and they did. Like George W and the invasion of Iraq.
We can't really know if completing the rather embarassingly named Superconducting Supercollider would have advanced our knowledge of physics, but if it hadn't, it would have put the whole subject to sleep for a century or so.
Of course it's pretty obvious now that the $5 billion saved by killing off the SSC is drarfed by all sorts of other governme…
Educating America
I had some interesting conversations with current and former teachers and school administrators recently. There is a tremendous unhappiness with the No Child Left Behind education program passed by the Congress and the President. One common complaint is that the emphasis on standard tests has been a big boon for the testing companies, but not for the students. Typical elementary school children now spend ten percent or so of their total instructional time sitting for standardized tests.
The real source of bitterness, though, is the sense that the public schools are being held to an impossible standard. In particular, for a school to be successful, it has to succeed with every category of its students (race, sex, and some other distinctions). One example brought to my attention - in order to succeed, schools need to have 95% of the students in each category show up for the exam. In some categories, the absence of one or two students on test days could fail the school. This bitter…
This paper (gr-qc/0512018) up on the ArXiv today has an abstract with a great punchline:
Starting from a perfect cosmolgical fluid, one class of frequency metrics that satisfies both Einstein's General Relativitic equation and the perfect fluid condition is: g_uv = e^iwt N_uv. Such a metric indicates spacetime behaves locally like a simple harmonic oscillator. During spacetime compressions and rarefactions particles are exuded with a mass equal to the compressive work that produced them. They comprise the cosmic dark matter that makes up this perfect fluid. By treating spacetime as a classical thermodynamic problem, the mass of these particles is determined to be in the range of an axion particle sought by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. When axion particles collide they give off a photon having a microwave frequency inversely equal to that of the frequency of the spacetime compression that produced them. These microwave photons make up the 2.7K cosmic background radiat…
The Pro-Torture Lobby
Oddly enough, our Stalinist friend, L. Motl, has a pro-torture post up right now.
His justification, like those of torture justifiers always and everywhere, is that the victims (in this case terrorists) of the torture are so bad and undeserving of human treatment, that they deserve this treatment, and, moreover torture is needed to combat them. Others against whom this rationale has been used include "reactionaries" and "counter-revolutionaries" in Communist nations, enemies of the ruler, practically everywhere, Jews, and heretics like scientists.
Those who founded this country incorporated some provisions against torture into the constitution. They knew that torture victims are all guilty, because the tortured will confess to anything. That is how Bush got his phony evidence of a collaboration between al Quaeda and Iraq - they tortured an al Quaeda operative until he figured out what it was they wanted him to confess to. For the torturer, this nicety is a small …
George "mpos" Stephanopolis interviewed National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley on ABC's this week. Skipping over the important details (Hadley's admission that Bush is planning to cut and run from Iraq), George also very gently probed Hadley about whether Bush would accept the McCain anti-torture amendment. Hadley bobbed and weaved, and went on his way, but Stephanopolis came back to the subject in the "round table" discussion.
Gee, opined the mpos, if they won't compromise on this that must mean the military really thinks they need it. What a crock of shit! The military neither needs nor wants it. The guy who wants it is the smirking sadist who went from blowing up frogs as a kid to branding pledges with a red hot coat hanger as a young man. The guy who wants it is the one who could never cover his glee at putting to death prison inmates and was amused by the prospect that some of them had had very feeble legal defenses. The guy who wants it is …
Bush on the Couch
I've already had some fun here at the expense of Justin Frank's book, title as above, but having read more of it, I think that beneath all the Freudian mumbo-jumbo, there is some truth. However silly their theories may be, shrinks have had a lot of experience with psychopathologies, and I'm not sure Frank is so wrong about Bush.
The ADHD President As governor, while holding a press conference on a fatal heat wave and forest fire, after he called the forestry official up to speak:
Bush looked toward the journalists, stuck out his tongue, and made a funny face by puffing out his cheeks like a blowfish.
Bush the Alky, twenty years of heavy drinking takes a toll:
All one has to do to observe Bush's innattention is watch him listening to a speech given by someone else, watch his behavior on the campaign trail, or consider the obviously desperate attempts he makes to retain focus in every speech he gives.
The Religious Fanatic:
God told me to strike at al Quaida and I struck th…
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Black Holes I.
Black holes again. Some of you may recall that I am something of a fan of the allegedly crackpot theories that black holes don't really form because they evaporate first.
There are a few recent relevant papers up on the ArXiv.
My first candidate is Sean A. Hayward's Formation and evaporation of regular black holes (gr-qc/0506126). A regular black hole, as I learned, is a black hole without a singularity at the center. From the abstract:
Regular (non-singular) space-times are given which describe the formation of a black hole from an initial vacuum region, its quiescence as a static region, and its subsequent evaporation to a vacuum region. The static region is Bardeen-like, supported by finite density and pressures, vanishing rapidly at large radius and behaving as a cosmological constant at small radius. The dynamic regions are Vaidya-like, with ingoing radiation of positive energy flux during collapse and negative energy flux during evaporation, the latter balanced by outgoi…
After Bush's Annapolis speech, Senate Democrats apparently had John Kerry (?!) give a response. John Stewart excerpted a few of the more preposterous elements from Kerry's speech and later told Nancy Pelosi "He's not good at that."
What in the hell are Democrats thinking? All of Kerry's verbal and intellectual sins, or at least a surfeit of the mortal ones, were on display: Pomposity, wandering syntax, incoherence, the congenital inability to get to the point, all culminating in and illustrating the fact that the man seemingly has nothing to say. John Murtha would have been a far better choice.
Underneath the ugly surface, the real cause of Democratic confusion is all too apparent: abject cowardice. Anybody thinking of running for President is petrified of saying anything that might be used against him or her=Hillary. Now that Bush's little foreign adventure seems to be turning out badly, everybody is afraid of the old "stab in the back"…
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Anatomy of Colour
The Anatomy of Colour begins with types of paint - from distemper to lime wash to milk paint and more - and then Patrick Baty sets out the sources of pigment for those paints so through white paint, black paint and then on to each colour through the blues, the browns, greens, reds and yellows - so, generally, for each colour, he traces the development from natural pigments, from plants and minerals, to the by-products of emerging industries and then on to the first pigments by industrial chemists.
Historic practices and techniques for house painters are discussed; there are fascinating reproductions of historic catalogues for the paint brushes and the tools of professional painters and the author looks at the early organisation of guilds and paint companies. However, for designers, the important contribution of the book comes from the extensive number of historic colour charts reproduced along with summaries of early colour theories and detailed discussions for each major period or each major style and fashion, that helps set historic design within the context of colour. He combines longer sections of text with carefully designed double-page spreads and uses longer captions effectively so you can sit and read the book cover to cover or you can use the book and its images as a reference encyclopaedia seeing where cross references take you.
We tend to describe styles and the relatively distinct periods of interior design in terms of the forms and types of furniture that were popular in a certain period and we also recognise distinct patterns that appear on furniture or are reproduced on textiles but certainly styles or periods can have distinct preferences for colours or, and more interesting, for the juxtaposition of certain colours. Even the choice of materials can be determined by what are fashionable or unfashionable colours so distinctly orange Oregon Pine was popular for a relatively short period and Formica was as much about having a wide selection of deep strong colours as it was about having a smooth clean surface for food preparation.
Reproductions from historic paint charts and books or articles about colour theories by contemporary artists and designers show how the presentation of colours and any general discussion about colour can influence our choice of colours for our homes. We may not even realise we are being influenced because, of course, although we feel now that there is almost infinite choice, what we see clearly here is that what designers select and what companies produce and make available and what they advertise all influence that choice.
It is absolutely right to describe this book as an anatomy of colour because, in a careful and scholarly way, the technical development of household paints and the theories of colour and the preference for certain colours in certain periods is dissected. It feels, in a good way, like sitting in an old-fashioned lecture theatre with high banks of seats to watch someone with skill take something apart, with care, to say now look at this … isn’t it fascinating … and this is how and why it works.
The Anatomy of Colour, The Story of Heritage Paints and Pigments, Patrick Baty, Thames & Hudson (2017)
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Anatomy of colour, Patrick Baty, Paint, pigment
Stangestolen / The Snake Chair by Poul Henningsen 1932
Having looked at and written about a number of Danish chairs that were designed in the 20th century, it seemed important to include this chair - The Snake Chair designed by Poul Henningsen - not because it is remotely representative - it is actually perversely unique - but because it is distinctly modern in the materials it used.
With a single coil of tubular steel to support the seat and back, it breaks with almost all conventions, but, curiously, it also appears to be 'of it's period'.
a danish chair, furniture, interiors
an everyday chair
These chairs were designed by the Copenhagen City Architect's Office, about 1930, for use in school offices.
They are not exactly what would have been found in a kitchen in Vesterbro or at a table in an apartment in Islands Brygge but they are pine and they are painted and the designs are straightforward with a simple arrangement of stretchers to strengthen the framework of the legs and simple plain wood back rests that are either fixed across or fixed between the uprights of the back.
Dining table and chairs in birch designed by Viggo Sten Møller and made by Adolf Jørgensen for the Cabinetmakers' Exhibition in 1929. The setting had a P.H. lamp over the table.
Over the last month or so, posts here have focused on a number of chairs from the 20th century that are design classics and all, in different ways, examples of new styles or examples of experiments with new forms and new manufacturing techniques. However, the problem is, this gives an impression that every Danish chair represents a point in time on a rapid, inevitable and ongoing progression of design innovations.
But if you look at photographs of homes from the 20th century or even photographs from the annual exhibition of the Cabinetmakers' Guild Furniture exhibitions that were held from 1927 through to 1966 - where craftsmen were actually competing to produce the latest and the best - you see a good number of strangely old-fashioned chairs and much of the best modern furniture was produced in small quantities or, in some cases, made only when commissioned and many of the designs would have been considered expensive, even at the time, so well beyond the budget of an ordinary working family.
Of course, for offices and schools and factories - let alone for ordinary families in ordinary homes in new apartments in the city in the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s - and then on through the period of so-called classic Danish furniture in the 1950s and 1960s - Denmark actually had to produce ordinary chairs or, at least, chairs that were designed and made to be robust and affordable rather than being primarily award winning, memorable or collectable.
So part of the story of the development of modern design in Denmark is the story of designers trying to produce ordinary chairs that were well designed and well made.
One reason - perhaps the main reason - for the annual exhibition of the work of cabinetmakers was so that these craftsmen could show they could compete with the emerging furniture factories, so proposals from cabinetmakers were "submitted for both cheap and somewhat more expensive furniture" for the exhibition.
For the Cabinetmakers' Exhibition in 1929 Viggo Sten Møller and Hans Hansen designed furniture for a two-room apartment with a compact dining tables and chairs made by Adolf Jørgensen.
In 1932 Møller became the editor of the trade journal Nyt Tidsskrift for Kunstindustri and alongside technical articles he introduced pieces on colour schemes, lighting and textiles and from the architect Marinus Andersen he commissioned an article about furnishing a small apartment for a couple about to get married.
The cabinetmakers began to introduce a broader range of furniture so pieces specifically for children or in 1939 designs for a study for a student designed by Børge Mogensen and Aage Windeleff. In the exhibition in 1962 there was even a large kitchen designed Henning Jensen and Hanne and Torben Valeur that was made by Christensen & Larsen although it was clear that this would have been an exceptional and expensive project … so hardly a flat-pack job.
But it was not just cabinetmakers who were trying to improve the design of furniture that could be sold at a reasonable price. Around 1930, Magnus L Stephensen was asked to furnish two test apartments for a public housing scheme at Ryparken, designed by Povl Baumann, that was based on a budget that was realistic for a young working family but he found only one factory and one traditional workshop in the city who could provide furniture he considered good enough within that budget.
Dan-stol (left) from 1930 by Søren Hansen the grandson of the founder of Fritz Hansen
Bentwood chair model 234 (above) from Fritz Hansen by Magnus Stephensen (1903-1984)
Magnus Stephensen produced designs for the furniture makers Fritz Hansen.
Perhaps the first factory chair and, in some ways, one of the most popular everyday chair (in terms of the numbers produced) was the Café Chair in bent wood from the Viennese manufacturer Thonet that was designed in the middle of the 19th century. Methods of steam bending wood, rather like the development of plywood, had not been common in Denmark but from the 1920s Fritz Hansen realised the potential of both. The grandson of the founder of the Fritz Hansen designed a Dan-stole for the company in 1930 - a rationalisation and simplification of the Café Chair - and then Magnus Stephensen designed the chair Model 234 that combined a bent-wood frame with a more comfortable shaped and curved back rest in thin wood. DAN was a general term used for these chairs in steam-bent beech.
Co-op Denmark started to manufacture high quality but inexpensive furniture in 1940 with the architect and planner Steen Eiler Rasmussen providing advice as a consultant. He had curated an exhibition of applied art in 1932 to look at well-designed everyday objects.
Chairs and a dining table designed by Børge Mogensen and made by the cabinetmaker Erhard Rasmussen in pear wood for the Cabinetmakers' Exhibition in 1944. Very simple square frame with upholstered pad for seat and simple curve of thin wood for back support presumably screwed to back uprights with plugs over the fixing in contrasting wood. But note that the back supports are curved in section so not actually that basic and because the legs are relatively thin in section then tere are stretchers to strengthen the frame but, rather unusual, to front and back but not to the sides between the front and back legs.
Børge Mogensen was appointed to be head of the design department at FDB Møbler (Fællesforeningen for Danmarks Brugsforeninger or Commonwealth of Danish Confederations of Users … part of the Danish COOP) and in 1944 he furnished a test apartment in their store on Frederiksborggade in Copenhagen. In the sitting room there was a pine table, an Ercol style chair and a version of an English Windsor Chair at a desk that was a wall unit with a front flap that dropped down as a surface for writing at and on the floor their was simple rush matting.
Rasmussen published an article in the magazine Andelsbladet to explain the work of this better furniture campaign. The apartment in the store had "realistic rooms and floors, walls, ceilings, doors and windows - all with the dimensions that are found in ordinary little homes." … and it was described as a 'housing laboratory.'
"The new furniture is so ordinary and direct that one would almost believe it had made itself. But this is a virtue. It is not seductive and overwhelming like the pieces we see in advertisements, but then there is also hope that people will not grow tired of them in the long run."
Several well known or established designers in that classic period - through the 1950s and 1960s - produced chairs that were priced for an ordinary buyer … so Hans Wegner, Poul Volther, Mogens Koch, Jørgen Bækmark along with Børge Mogensen all designed chairs for FDB Møbler.
J39 / Folkestolen / People's Chair designed in 1947 for FDB by Børge Mogensen
Now all the major design and furniture companies have a range of basic or straightforward but well-made chairs and the launch of a new chair can be a major event and some companies produce major classics designed in the 1950s and 1960s where the price can be kept low by the rationalisation of manufacturing methods or simply by the scale of production and making it possible to have a choice from dozens and dozens of different well-designed chairs that are well made and reasonably priced.
J48 designed by Poul Volther for FDB Møbler and still made for the Danish Coop. This is a good everyday chair but is also a sort of cross-over design inspired by simple country furniture but given a real sense of modern style with a choice of strong colours.
chair made in Copenhagen by Søren Ulrich … the style is reminiscent of chairs from the 1930s and 1940s and would be a good choice for a kitchen table or small dining room and appropriate for one of the apartments in the city dating from the early 20th century
Viggo Sten Møller, Adolf Jørgensen, Cabinetmakers Exhibition, Nyt Tidsskrift for Kunstindustri, Magnus Stephensen, Povl Baumann, Fritz Hansen, FBD, Børge Mogensen, Poul Volther
Dansk Møbelkunst gennem 40 År
October 29, 2017 / John Heward
40 years of Danish Furniture Design - The Copenhagen Cabinet-makers’ Guild Exhibitions
In four volumes: 1927-1936, 1937-1946, 1947-1956 and 1957-1966
Compiled and edited by Greta Jalk - first published in 1987 and republished by Lindhart og Ringhof in 2017
a living room and study with furniture by the cabinetmaker Andersen & Bohm that was shown at the exhibition in 1928
these volumes of Dansk Møbelkunst Gennem 40 År are so important because they record just how and how quickly the work of the cabinet makers changed through even the first years of the exhibitions
This is a major reference work - not just for the history of modern Danish furniture design and the design of homes but these volumes, compiled by Greta Jalk, are also a record of social history - recording much about how Danish families lived or wanted to live through that period of massive changes in the middle of the 20th century - and indicate much about Danish business and the way that Danish design, through this period, was marketed.
There is a forward and a general introduction but otherwise the volumes are set out year by year with contemporary photographs of the furniture shown at each exhibition, along with some technical drawings. There are images of the covers of the exhibition catalogues - themselves giving an insight into Danish typography and graphic design through this period - and quotations from contemporary reviews of the furniture.
By the 1920s a widespread economic Depression across Europe was having a marked effect on the independent furniture makers and on the furniture trade in Copenhagen and to compound the problem, there was a clear change in the way people were living, so a change in what furniture they needed, with a growing number of people living in smaller apartments in the large number of new apartment blocks that were being built around the city.
Trade and craft guilds from the medieval period onwards had been formed to oversee the training of apprentices and to protect craftsmen and their work in their own cities - guilds were based in cities and towns - and to monitor and where necessary restrict competition. Usually the guilds also provided support for widows and retired craftsmen. Through the 19th century, in major historic cities in Europe, these craft guilds began to loose their relevance as methods of production, of all sorts of goods from glassware to furniture, moved from small workshops that served a district or a town or a city to larger and larger factories. So it is ironic that Denmark, producing now some of the best and most highly regarded modern furniture, does so because it’s old craft guilds survived longer than elsewhere and fought back and in the process adapted and changed.
So the first Cabinetmakers’ Exhibition in 1927 was organised as a way of demonstrating the skills of the furniture makers in the city and to bolster sales or, rather, to revive flagging sales.
From consecutive years an unusual idea … a square card table and chairs with sharply-curved backs set on an angle so when they were pushed in they form a scallop arrangement. The table and chairs shown in 1960 had been designed by Kaare Klint in 1935 and examples of the same design in mahogany were shown in 1946 and 1948. This version in rosewood was produced to commemorate the work of Klint who died in 1954. Svend Eriiksen wrote that “The tradition established by Klint is tenacious and durable. It will take vigorous effort to keep it alive” and the critic from Jyllands Posten wrote of this furniture that “they still stand out as some of the finest pieces to have been made in this country.”
Exhibitions were held in different venues but at an early stage room settings rather than simple display stands were built. Clearly, the aim was to show people, particularly young couples, how they might furnish a new home and they encouraged people to see furniture made by cabinetmakers as not just for the wealthy upper middle classes but as a sensible source for well-made furniture for a broad range of families.
In the second year, in 1928, there was a crucial change when cabinetmakers began to collaborate with architects and furniture was shown that had been designed by Viggo Sten Møller and Kay Gottlob and a sideboard was shown that was designed by Kaare Klint that was made by the cabinetmaker Otto Meyer.
That set a pattern and - to use a pun deliberately - that set the bench mark for the next forty years. These partnerships established an important precedence where designs and styles evolved - not just through discussion amongst the cabinetmakers but year on year as a response to what the market wanted.
This room from 1944 included Chair NV44 designed by Finn Juhl and made by Niels Vodder. The side table is interesting with an integral hot plate to keep food warm. Reviews were critical - one pointed out that “The table was a new and interesting kind of extension table; but it seemed as if its design was not really related to that of the other furniture” and another thought “the curved chairs are nice to look at and comfortable - but the cost of making it.”
Obviously, this furniture can not be completely representative of all furniture made through this period and nor was it all successful. Some cabinet makers were more adventurous than others … some produced amazing pieces of furniture that were not widely appreciated while other designs went on to achieve commercial success and some pieces are still produced and sold today.
The photographs and drawings in these volumes show how the way of life in the city for many changed through this period so, for instance, large cupboards for storing 12 or more place settings for formal dining disappear and tables and dining chairs become more compact. There were few beds shown - presumably for the simple reason that people don’t buy beds too often - but towards the later years there was quite a bit of furniture for the garden or balcony.
from 1962 bar stools in rosewood designed by Mary Beatrice Bloch and beds in teak designed by the Icelandic designer Gunnar Magnusson made by Christensen and Larsen. The sofa chairs and combined dinning table work table are also in teak, designed by Steffen Syrach-Larsen and made by the cabinetmaker Gustav Bertelsen & Co.
What you see, above all through these 40 years, is how the shapes and styles of chairs and tables and cupboards become simpler visually so superfluous decoration of any kind disappears.
That is not to suggest that the furniture compromised quality by becoming more basic so cheaper to produce. Actually the opposite. As clear form and shape become more and more important then there is nowhere for shoddy workmanship to hide. If there was any extravagance or bravado it was through using more expensive imported timbers such as walnut or teak but there was always a focus on quality of workmanship to demonstrate mastery of woodworking techniques.
Nor is that an implication that the cabinetmakers were defensive or protectionist or reactionary because many of the pieces shown at the exhibition involved new methods of construction that required new machines and jigs and new ways of working with wood - many of the most adventurous designs by Hans Wegner or Finn Juhl would have been impossible to make without new techniques for shaping, bending and joining wood. Furniture makers were moving from the workbench to the idea of the larger workshop or factory where larger numbers of each piece could be made so these exhibitions were less and less about the one-off commission, although those must have been welcome, but more and more about the establishment of an outward-looking and successful furniture industry.
Chair designed by Jørgen Høvelskov and made by the cabinetmaker J H Johansens was shown in 1966.
One critic wrote “…The purpose in exhibiting at the cabinetmakers’ furniture exhibition is either to show furniture of supreme quality or or to suggest future solutions by means of experiments. There are one or two examples of these experiments such as the chair designed by Jørgen Høvelskov and made by Henning Jensen. It is intended to be very simple with a frame threaded with heavy cord, but unfortunately the total impression is anything but simple. The chair seems confused and unfinished, and it is correspondingly uncomfortable.”
October 29, 2017 / John Heward/
craftsmanship, furniture, interiors, book review
Cabinetmakers Exhibition
a modern Danish aesthetic?
Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor painted in 1901 by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) in the collection of Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen
In the Spring and through into the early summer, there was an important exhibition of the works of the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi at the museum and gallery at Ordrupgaard which is just to the north of Copenhagen. With the title At Home with Hammershøi, the exhibition focused on an amazing series of paintings of interiors that he produced when he and his wife were living in an apartment that they rented in Strandgade in Christianshavn from 1898 through to 1910.
The rooms have plain walls that were painted in soft greys or creams with all the woodwork simple colours - rather than picked out with any gilding - and furniture is relatively simple, set back against the walls, although they had a piano, at least one bookcase and with a few small paintings and simple pottery. This is in marked contrast to photographs and paintings that survive of what must have been more typical middle-class homes in the city with carpets, heavy curtains, upholstered furniture and banks of paintings on the walls.
Was Hammershøi reacting to the clutter of rooms in middle-class homes of the late-19th century? Was it simply that furniture was carefully rearranged for the painting? Was it a consequence of poverty or, at least, the relative poverty of an artist although he came from a middle-class family and while they lived in Strandgade, Hammershøi spent time in London and in Rome. These paintings are certainly not about ostentatious affluence. Whatever the reasons for their restrained good taste, they do seem to reflect a clear and recognisable Danish design aesthetic and these are interiors that we can appreciate as distinctly modern.
interiors, light + lighting, museums + galleries
Vilhelm Hammershøi
just how difficult can it be to design a staircase?
the recently remodelled staircases in the Illum store in Copenhagen
Well, actually, quite difficult.
A staircase is not just a major feature in any building but it can also be a particularly difficult part of the design to modify if other parts of the scheme are changed as the plan develops. It becomes a difficult game of consequences - change one part and another no longer works.
It might sound like stating the obvious but a staircase really does have to function well. A doorway can be slightly too narrow or a window sill too high and people grumble. If a staircase is too steep or too dark or the steps are irregular or too small then it is difficult to use easily and it might even be dangerous.
A design for a staircase normally has to start with the dimensions for the height and depth of a step - the tread and the riser - fixed by the average foot size and the average stride pattern so a tread of at least 300mm and a step up or riser of between 150 and 200mm. These can vary slightly from one staircase to another but not by much and they have to be consistent and ideally consistent through the full height of that staircase. Just watch how many people stumble at the top and bottom of an escalator if it has stopped moving so after a number of abnormally high steps you get into a rhythm for the stride and then hit two or three very shallow steps at the end. It is interesting that even though people clearly understand the escalator has stopped many still stumble.
buildings, design theory, interiors
stair, staircase
Nicki van Roon and René Hansen are based in Aarhus and their designs were produced to solve a specific problem … they couldn’t find what they really wanted for their own apartment.
In fact, that seems to have become a key feature of their work … it’s problem led or do I mean solution driven? That’s a good starting point for any design … identify a problem - don’t just accept that something is and should be like that because it has always been like that and try to come at a problem from a different direction, a different viewpoint, to find a different solution.
Roon & Rahn also have a strong interest in graphics and they exploit engineering for the precision they want in manufacturing their designs.
Pieces in production include a bench and a round stool with three legs in wood; a rack for storing shoes; lighting and a wall hanging system called Moodboard and in development there is a very clever spice rack.
That might not sound like an extensive catalogue but Roon & Rahn are a young company and they are sensibly taking their time to add the right new designs. Moodboard took a year to develop, to come up with exactly what they wanted - the right design - and that is obvious in the quality of the finished product and in the clever way their system works. In fact, I liked the design so much that later in the Autumn, after seeing their work first at Northmodern, I tracked them down at Designer Space in Copenhagen to buy a Moodboard for my new apartment and then ended up buying a couple of their lights as well.
The pendant lights are interesting. They are simple with a large globe bulb hanging from a cable that runs through a brass stem but turned wood that drops over the bulb holder was made from timber salvaged from old recycled furniture. They use twisted flex in a natural linen colour that was chosen to give the lights a less clinical, less hard and less technical quality, as, over time, the brass will gain a patina.
R&R have a keen interest in the materials they use - the brass stems for the lights are made by them and we talked for quite a long time about sourcing good timber and about fuming or smoking oak. Again this is not about just designing at a drawing board but about working with materials and trying out ideas in the workshop to discover what a material can do or might do. The clear perspex used for the Moodboard is another good example because they had to experiment and had to work out how they could use laser cutting to get the precision and finish that they wanted.
From talking to Nicki and René, it was clear that in Aarhus there are local craftsmen, workshops and designers who together provide a mutual support group … so if they don’t know exactly how to do something then they know someone who does.
Packaging for their products is good. They use simple unbleached cardboard but again that disguises just how carefully thought out and stylish it all is … pictograms they designed for instructions for mounting the Moodboard on the wall are particularly good. These graphics are actually a step up from a pictogram but are still simple illustrations and are used instead of detailed written instructions … important when aiming for an international market. That same preference for good clear but sophisticated graphics can be seen in the design of their printed catalogue as well as the layout for their web site.
In the catalogue they use white lettering on a warm grey background … all simple but stylish and all very carefully thought through, as you would expect. A non-standard ampersand and their logo with interlocked Rs is interesting, one R inverted, so together they look like a bolt or screw head.
Roon & Rahn show yet again just why Danish design is so strong and why so many young designers and new companies are so successful … it’s not just about drive and ambition … they certainly have that … but about imaginative new solutions to old problems, with a clear sense of style, high standards for manufacturing with good, high-quality materials and the understanding that every detail really does matter.
designers, furniture, interiors, light + lighting, shop for design
Moodboard by Roon & Rahn
The basic idea of the Moodboard is simple … a plain wood board that is mounted on the wall and has a series of holes in either a single line or in two parallel lines and with several different styles of wooden peg that can be arranged, as the buyer wants, to store and to display things like keys or glasses but the pegs are more than strong enough to take coats and even much heavier things … Nikki van Roon told me that he has a guitar and a snowboard hanging from Moodboards.
There are different types of wooden peg of different lengths and a very neat key holder. With a choice of oiled oak or smoked oak for the board itself and, with the same options of light or smoked wood for the pegs, it means quite a few possible permutations, to give the buyer an interesting number of options.
More and more designers are trying to develop and extend options for customers to personalise what they buy. We discussed this at Northmodern and agreed that it’s difficult to get the balance right. Along with trying to give some of the background story for a company or for a product, personalisation can give the customer what is now, I think, called emotional ownership - an odd phrase that must have been thought up by a marketing man rather than a designer - but the idea itself is fine. However, it is necessary to limit options in order to manage expectations and prevent people from selecting a combination that does not work well or putting together a combination which they tire of quickly which obviously they would blame on the designer… that’s the down side of ‘consumer choice’ … the customer rarely chooses to accept the blame. And of course too many options can create problems for manufacturing and with packaging.
There is an engineered character to the design. Not just in the quality of finish but also the clean precision of the laser-cut Perspex and the fixing bolts are matt black, tightened with an allen key, and they project forward of the board to hold the perspex and it is that gap that supports the pegs and in a very simple way stops them from dropping out or being pulled downwards by the weight of whatever is hung from the peg.
A bold chamfer undercutting the edge of the board itself makes it look thinner but also has the effect of making the board appear to stand slightly forward of the wall because of a line of shadow. Very clever.
Finally, perhaps the most important feature … a metal back plate to the board and small strong magnets in each peg hold them firmly in place and if you swap them around they are almost sucked back into their sockets in a very satisfying way and with a nice clunk sound as well. What’s not to like?
designers, interiors, shop for design
Fredericia at northmodern
With such a large number of designers and manufacturers showing their work at northmodern it is a place where you actually have to revise a few of those myths about Danish design. For a start Danish design is not all about white walls or, when colour is used, all safe, soft and muted.
Fredericia took the opportunity at northmodern to show their work with Uffe Buchard from Darling Creative Studio to create the ‘Double F Hotel’.
Shown in May in their city-centre store as part of 3daysofdesign, the spaces created represent a bar, a hotel lounge and a dining room. Publicity material from Fredericia talks about the ‘bright colours, unexpected textiles and … homey atmosphere, which today’s traveller demands … A home away from home.’
All the furniture is from the current Fredericia range but here shown against very strong colours and with dramatic use of lighting and plants and some furniture is shown with new textiles.
The concept is inspirational.
Design hotels all over the world are a target market for any major design or furniture company, not just for the contract itself, but of course many travellers now seek inspiration from where they stay on holiday or business trips … a stay in a hotel is a chance to actually try out a new design or discover a new idea for fittings or decoration or use different and sometimes outrageous bathrooms … and then try to reproduce the look or track down the furniture for their own homes.
Colours chosen by Uffe Buchard and the very confident juxtaposition of certain classic designs could certainly be copied in larger apartments in Copenhagen or Oslo or Sweden and particularly in older buildings with higher ceilings and large sash windows but would be equally theatrical in the new harbour-side apartments with their dramatic light reflected back up off the water. A large apartment only because in a small or cluttered space the use of such strong dark colours can be claustrophobic but maybe I'm still too cautious about using colour in this way ... maybe all that’s needed is inspiration … and maybe a little courage … or conviction.
colour, furniture, interiors
Double F Hotel, Fredericia, northmodern
the first day of 3daysofdesign
Montana at Pakhus 48
3daysofdesign this May in Copenhagen has involved nearly 90 designers, studios, design stores and manufacturers around the city who open their doors for three days and, in what is really a festival atmosphere, give everyone a chance to see what is happening in the various parts of the design industry in the city. Some of the participating companies are open to the public normally but some not so this is a unique opportunity to meet designers and design professionals on their home territory. There were special displays, demonstrations and exhibitions set up for open house and many generously provide food and drink. Several companies use the 3days to launch new designs or to officially open new or remodelled display spaces or studios.
an interior by Vilhelm Hammershøi
January 25, 2016 / John Heward
An interior in a house in Strandgade in Copenhagen with sunlight on the floor, painted by Vilhelm Hammershøi in 1901.
Painted in the apartment on Christianshavn, where the artist and his wife lived, the position of the door and the bright light shining through the window indicate that this room was on the south side of the building and looked into the courtyard. Although much of the mood of the painting depends on the sparseness of the furnishings - the catalogue of an exhibition of the artist’s work in London and Tokyo in 2008 described his paintings of interiors as “unsettlingly empty, silent and still” - photographs that survive of these rooms show that furniture, even if deliberately staged by the artist for his paintings, was furniture actually in the apartment and the rooms were certainly not cluttered. Can the paintings be seen as an example or, at least, as an interpretation of the taste and simple restraint to be found in the interiors of some middle-class houses in the city in the 19th century?
Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) was the son of a wealthy merchant. He studied first at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and then with the artist Peder Severin Krøyer. His life-long friend and brother-in-law was the painter Peter Isted. This painting (KMS3696) is one of a series Hammershøi painted in the apartment in Strandgade and is now in the collection of the National Gallery in Copenhagen - Statens Museum for Kunst
January 25, 2016 / John Heward/
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Statens Museum for Kunst
Copenhagen in the snow
Houses in Kronprinsessegade from the King's Garden
This photograph of houses on Kronprinsessegade in Copenhagen was taken from the King’s Garden walking across to the National Gallery - to Statens Museum for Kunst - to see their major exhibition on the work of the Danish artist Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg on the last weekend before it closed.
Eckersberg was born in 1783 in Schleswig - then part of Denmark - and moved to Copenhagen in 1803 to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He would certainly have known the King’s Garden and these houses. This large area of avenues and formal planting had been the private garden of the King’s house of Rosenborg, built in the early 17th century and just outside the city walls, but was opened to the public in the late 18th century and the iron railings and pavilions, between the gardens and the street, designed by Peter Meyn, date from about 1800 … so just before Eckersberg arrived in the city.
the pavilions and railings between the garden and the street
Historiske Huse, a catalogue of historic houses in the city, that was published by the National Museum in 1972, indicates that these fine town houses date from the first decade of the 19th century and were part of the expansion of the city to the north in the late 18th century and early 19th century.
The National Gallery did not move to its present building until the 1890s and, through the 19th century, the royal collection of paintings, the core of the National Gallery collection, was housed in the Christiansborg Palace on the opposite side of the city but the Royal Academy, where Eckersberg studied, was in the Charlottenborg Palace on Kongens Nytorv just a few blocks from the gardens. The Academy had been established in the Palace in 1753 and is still in that building.
After a period at the Academy as a student, Eckersberg travelled first to Paris in 1812 to study under the artist Jacques-Louis David and then on to Rome where he remained until 1816. Back in Copenhagen he returned to the Academy and was appointed to a professorship in 1818.
As a product of the Royal Academy and as a teacher Eckersberg did produce grand paintings of historic and classical scenes but he is better known now for his portraits of wealthy middle-class families of Copenhagen society and for marine landscapes and for studies of his city and of his family. He lived in an age noted for rational investigation and he knew and associated with contemporary scientists - men like the physicist Hans Christian Ørested whose portrait he painted in 1822. Linked to scientific observation, an interesting areas of the exhibition at the National Gallery were the cloud studies by Eckersberg and his drawings and studies of perspective including a modern version of the viewing screen with gridded glass that he used for drawing in the landscape and a copy of notes and instructions on perspective for his students produced at the academy.
perspective study by Christoffer Eckersberg from the collection of Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen
By comparing preparatory sketches and the paintings completed in the studio you could see that in the finished works he rationalised the view to create distinct planes, rather like theatre sets, so that more distant features could be pulled forward and given more emphasis. This might sound as if the works were therefore not strictly naturalistic but in fact he simulated well what the human eye does so well naturally … how often have people taken a landscape photograph and realised that a distant feature, quite clear to the human eye, looks more distant and much smaller in the photograph but then if a zoom lens is used, the distant feature looks more like what the eye can focus on but the width of view suddenly looks much narrower.
Eckersberg used the same rationalisation and the same sharp observation in his portraits and his drawings of interiors. In these works, you see some of the well-established and prosperous families of Copenhagen but remarkably little ostentation or show. Clearly, in part, that is because of the style in clothes at this period, with little expensive lace or ornate embroidery, but as with the uncluttered interiors you can see the expression of wealth in high-quality materials and well made clothing and furniture.
detail of the painting of the Nathanson family from the collection of Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen
The interiors themselves seem surprisingly but deliberately simple with shutters, rather than draped curtains, or at most blinds at the windows and stripped plain floors and unified and straight-forward colour schemes with all the panelling one flat and quite dark colour or at most one colour below the dado and a second colour for all the panelling and the cornice above the dado rail. There seem to be relatively few pieces of furniture in each room but that furniture is relatively restrained but clearly of good quality.
Similarly with the houses of this period, typical examples being those looking down into the King’s Garden, which are sober and elegant with carefully spaced windows and features such as doorways with columns that are based on classical precedents. Solid and respectable.
view of Sankt Annæ Plads, close to the Academy at Charlottenborg Palace
Does this sound familiar? I would not go so far as to suggest that what is called the classic period of Danish design from the 1950s and 1960s - the work of Arne Jacobsen, Hans Wegner or Finn Juhl - looked back to the first half of the 19th century in terms of style but at least you can see through the works of Christoffer Eckersberg an important stage in the development of middle-class Danish taste that can be seen echoing still in the best modern furniture and interiors in Denmark.
the daughters of the artist as they look out of a window in the Academy. Drawn by Eckersberg shortly before his death in 1853. From the collection of Statens Museum for Kunst and available through the Google Art Project
colour, design theory, interiors, parks + gardens
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Statens Museum for Kunst, King's Garden, Copenhagen
furniture at northmodern
northmodern shows clearly how strong and how diverse the furniture industry is in Denmark. Scale, approach, style of product and even preferred materials vary enormously from furniture company to furniture company but also what differs is the business model … particularly the difference between, at one extreme, companies that select design from a number of well-established manufacturers, almost like a curator might, and, at the other, companies that actually commission unique designs from independent furniture designers and work with a number of manufacturers to produce a collection that reflects what aims to be the unique style and the focus of the company.
Hornbak & Co
Hornbak have showrooms in Nordhavn in Copenhagen at Pakhus 48 and represent the Italian company Arper; the German designers and manufacturers Zeitraum; Offecct from Tibro in Sweden and Kasthall who are also Swedish. My assumption here is that they import primarily for the office and commercial market.
FK 6720 and FK91 by Preben Fabricius and Jørgen Kastholm from Lange Production Copenhagen
Based in Hellerup on the northern edge of Copenhagen, Lange Production were established in 2006. They have a carefully curated catalogue of Danish furniture where they have acquired the licence to reintroduce and put into production mid-century classics from the design partnership of Preben Fabricus and Jorgen Kastholm and furniture by Greta Jalk.
Chair by Greta Jalk from Lange
Chair and tables by Greta Jalk - Designmuseum Danmark, Bredegade, Copenhagen
Lange Production
Menu has been described in editorials as a design brand. Several companies like Menu have been established in Denmark over the last 30 or 40 years including Gubi, Normann, Muuto and Hay and there are similar companies in nearby countries including Design House Stockholm and most recently Hem in Germany. The companies vary in organisation so Menu does not have it’s own stores but markets only through selected retailers while Normann has a major store in Copenhagen as does Hay but both retail their products through a large number of furniture and interiors shops. What they all have in common is that they use a number of designers and independent manufacturers to create a distinct catalogue that tries to create a relatively clear brand style.
All the companies produce a number of lights and decorative pieces so it is possible to furnish a Menu room or buy many of the major items of furniture needed to set up a new home. Menu is increasing the number of major pieces of furniture in its catalogue and at northmodern showed the Afternoon Chair by Hung-Ming Chen and Chen-Yen Wei inspired by bentwood chairs from Thonet from the early 20th century but using powder-coated tubular steel.
The Menu web site lists 47 different designers or design studios that have worked with Menu on their products but there is a clear and deliberate Menu style so pieces work well together and in various combinations. One strong characteristic is the use of metal for furniture to create a spare and slightly industrial feel … a new range of three different sizes of table by the Stockholm-based designers Afteroom are said to have been inspired by Bauhaus furniture.
Bottle Grinder by Norm Architects
Corner Shelf and Corner Divider by Kyuhyung Cho
New starkly-simple seating called Godot with an arm chair and two sizes of sofa was designed by Iskos-Berlin and has just been launched and there is an elegant day bed by Anita Johansen, a young Danish designer who graduated in 2012.
Perhaps the strongest partnership for the company is with the Danish architectural practice Norm and new pieces by them shown at northmodern included new versions of the Bottle Grinder in polished or matt steel rather then the soft grey and stone colours of the original plastic versions.
Woud are the new company to add to the group and at northmodern they launched a new catalogue for 2016 with two new chairs. As with Menu they work with a number of designers - the catalogue lists 25 designers and studios - and again, as with the other ‘brand’ companies, they achieve a coherent style through their range of furniture, lighting and accessories.
1 | Virka Sideboard by Mark Wedel Pedersen & Rasmus Røpke
2| S A C Dining Chair by Naoya Matsuo
3| Bank by Nur
4| Lean Lounge Chair by Nur
furniture, designers, interiors, light + lighting
Hornbak&Co, Lange Production, Menu, Woud
Makers With Agendas at northmodern
The architect Julien de Smedt curated the area of northmodern for Belgian designers but also gave an important lecture on the work of his architectural practice and showed the work of his design and furniture company Makers With Agendas.
Simply from the name but certainly from the furniture itself you can see that the designs have a carefully thought-through philosophy or approach to the product. One really strong theme is the idea that the pieces should be resilient, sustainable and essentially timeless and well made so that there is no reason or excuse to replace them.
One very interesting image shown in the lecture had all the contents for a room dismantled and stacked for the move to a new home. The forms and construction details are crisp and simple but therefore quite elegant: the furniture is stylish and timeless rather than having a clear style in the sense of being of a period. This is incredibly rational furniture for people with a pared back life and probably a life on the move … described by MWA as “Minimal Logistics”.
Julien De Smedt and Wouter Dons from MWA
Makers With Agendas
designers, furniture, interiors
MWA, Makers With Agendas, Julien De Smedt, William Ravn, northmodern
Heidi Zilmer at northmodern
Heidi Zilmer had a stand at northmodern to show her hand painted wallpaper.
Her work may sound like a rather specialist or tightly specific area of design … one that depends on very high levels of craftsmanship to produce one off pieces … and that is true in part but what is important and interesting, in terms of general design theory and practice, is that her work is not about a designer trying to develop a recognisable or signature style. Just the opposite. What is astounding is the wide range of styles in the designs from those that take historic wallpapers as a starting point through to designs that are starkly and uncompromisingly modern and from designs that can be delicate and subtle, looking like shot silk, to designs that are strong powerful and uncompromising statements.
A starting point can be a pattern found in nature; a pattern inspired by an ancient oriental or traditional Scandinavian motif, or from playing with a strong geometric pattern but all are seen with an amazing eye for colour but it is a wide-ranging imagination that is crucial and an open approach that sees an idea or a form for inspiration that is then developed into a unique design but with a keen awareness of what is appropriate for homes and interiors now.
For this display a basic colour of deep blue was chosen to link the works but that was a starting point for ornate Japanese style motifs, Viking patterns or the starkest and sharpest geometric pattern of gilded crosses.
Heidi Zilmer
colour, craftsmanship, design theory, designers, interiors
Heidi Zilmer, wallpaper, northmodern
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Antipode: 31°S 91°E
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31°N 89°W (visit #4)
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(visited by Aaron B and Wendell F)
20-Dec-2008 -- In December, my cousin Wendell and I went on a road trip to Indiana for a friend's graduation from Purdue University and his subsequent commissioning into Navy flight school training. Our route went via New Orleans, however, so that we could have a day of fun in warm weather before braving the 0°F temperatures up north.
We visited 31°N, 89°W on a nice partly cloudy day after leaving New Orleans that morning. The initial plan was to visit 30°N, 90°W, but we were discouraged by signs near that confluence saying not to enter. However, 31/89 was on our way and looked to be easy enough to get to so we opted for it instead.
The confluence is in the Desoto National Forest in southern Mississippi, a very beautiful area abundant with pine trees. The point itself is directly on a gravel back road. No trespassing required to reach it!
Because of the tree cover, it was hard to locate the exact point, and even in the 10 minutes we were there it seemed to move around a lot, from one side of the gravel road to the other. The pictures should still capture the essence of the area.
#1: East View
#2: South View
#3: West view
#4: North View
#5: GPS shot
#6: Hunting for zeroes
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Steve Scalise Moves Out Of Intensive Care Unit
Judge will decide fate in Michelle Carter trial
Author: Larry Hoffman Jun 06, 2017,
According to the text messages presented at her trial in 2016, when Roy reportedly expressed hesitation about his suicidal ideation, Carter sent him text messages that included "You just need to do it" and "You're just making it harder on yourself by pushing it off, you just have to do it".
Psychiatrist Dr Peter Breggin has since said Carter was "involuntarily intoxicated" by prescribed antidepressants when she texted her boyfriend encouragement, and testified that she wouldn't have understood the impact of her actions.
The trial was to have begun earlier this year but in February, the defense team asked for the delay until June in order to review what they called the "enormous" amount of evidence in the case, including computers and text messages. He says Carter was not responsible for his death.
The 20-year-old Carter is charged in the 2014 death of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in his pickup.
"At the moment, there's really no law on the books in MA about whether somebody can encourage somebody to commit suicide or not", he said.
Image Conrad Roy III killed himself in July 2014. Pic Janice Roy
Carter's defense attorney previously said she tried to help her boyfriend get help but ultimately gave in and backed his suicide plan.
Opening statements are scheduled to begin Tuesday morning.
"You're ready and prepared". At one point, he got out of his truck and spoke to Carter for more than 40 minutes on the phone, telling her that he was having second thoughts about taking his life, prosecutors said. "She told him to get back in the auto". Roy's family said that he was a well-rounded athlete, but he had been in treatment for mental health issues since 2011.
Carter's lawyer has argued the texts are protected by free speech. In one text message, Carter allegedly counseled Roy on exactly how to commit suicide using carbon monoxide. Text messages showed that Roy had come up with the idea to die by inhaling carbon monoxide, which prompted Carter to provide technical advice.
Summary: Today is the first day of trial for a woman accused of instructing her boyfriend on how to kill himself. Court proceedings are open because she was charged as a juvenile offender, which makes her subject to adult punishment if convicted.
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The nephews from marrying Scrooge: Glittering Goldie. Despite her initial ditzy qualities, is a pretty capable pilot and mechanic. He uses mounted moose antlers to scratch his back. It seems as if El Capitan goes to the bottom with his ship. Then the Beagle Boys run into a real sewer gator.
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In the second season, whenever the plot is based on a comic, Fenton at least when he's not Gizmoduck fulfills Donald's role the way Launchpad did in the first season. Although Donald Duck was a major player in the Uncle Scrooge comics, he appeared as a guest star in a few DuckTales episodes. Part 2: Scrooge, Launchpad, Dijon, and Poupon try to retrieve the Golden Goose from Glomgold and the Beagles before it can set off its transformations that can bring forth the end of the world. Walker David Weimers and Ken Koonce September 21, 1989 1989-09-21 305 The Beagle Babes, female cousins of the Beagle Boys, kidnap Webby in ransom for a set of crown jewels. Meanwhile to prevent Scrooge's business enterprise from falling apart before his disappearance becomes known, Fenton is forced to impersonate Scrooge and complete the sale of the factory, unaware that it is the one where the amnesiac Scrooge is at. It turns everybody who eats it aside from Scrooge into a.
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Yes Facebook and Twitter Matter
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Digital Marketing, Social Media
You may question whether Facebook and Twitter matter to you, but the fact is, they and other social media platforms matter to your target audience. If you want to reach your audience you can’t dictate the medium through which they will engage. So you need to be everywhere.
Social media has to be a significant component of your message delivery plan. We hear “Do I really need a Facebook page?” and “I don’t get Twitter” all the time.
We are here to help. We will explain the various social media platforms, explain how they work, and strategize how you can use them to advance your cause, sell your product, elect your candidate and/or spread your message.
Just this year it was reported that a majority of U.S. adults – 62% – get news on social media,
It is also useful to see how, when combined with the sites’ total reach, the proportion of users who gets news on each site translates to U.S. adults overall. Facebook is by far the largest social networking site, reaching 67% of U.S. adults. The two-thirds of Facebook users who get news there, then, amount to 44% of the general population. YouTube has the next greatest reach in terms of general usage, at 48% of U.S. adults. But only about a fifth of its users get news there, which amounts to 10% of the adult population. That puts it on par with Twitter, which has a smaller user base (16% of U.S. adults) but a larger portion getting news there.
However, a word to the wise: don’t just limit your concerns to a mere presence on social media. Your message needs to be mobile-ready. If your message isn’t accessible on a mobile device (smartphone, tablet, etc.) then you’re ignoring almost every potential consumer/client/voter under the age of 30…
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After meeting in Israel: America may adopt Bottom-up approach against Iran.
AMMONNEWS - By Dr. Kamal Alzghoul - It seems that the US president has returned to the usual path of American foreign policy, and this was clear when he did not strike Iran after the American drone was shot down over the territorial water of Arabian Gulf .In addition, President Donald Trump said that John Bolton is one of the "hawk's Team" and listens well whenever it comes to talk about the US's national security which has no space for errors based on a hasty decisions.
Two basic points suggest that the US President has returned to consult the making- decision experienced team in his cabinet ,First, he didn't respond directly to the drone's incident that happened over Arabian Gulf water , which proves that President's tweets have nothing to do with decisions being taken in the White House, because the White House knows well that a comprehensive war cannot succeed without new EU-US coalition as it happened in the war on Iraq and the during the war on Afghanistan.
Second, the Russian-American-Israeli meeting, which was attended by US national security adviser John Bolton, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and Israeli Security Council chief Meir Shabat, came to announce a bottom-up approach against Iran.
Militarily, American advisors with Israeli Air Force may begin to clean up Iranian militias in the region, and, it became clear that Syrian theater took the first priority to engage with Iranian Militias in parallel with setting up an economic peace plan for the Arab Israeli conflict, and the second priority would be the Yemeni theater by supporting the Arab alliance forces.
In order to avoid all-out war ,America gradually starts to build up an effective policy, so Russians may participate to eject Iran from Syria, and Bashar al-Assad may be replaced if he refuses to do so, but at the same time, keeping the pillars of Bashar's regime is possible to find a transitional political solution in Syria. Therefore, practical escalations between Iranians, Syrian regime and Russians may start. The rhetoric between Iran and Russia may be escalated. "America is planning a dangerous scenario for Iran" Lavrov's said (Russian secretary of state ) and this statement was a message to Iran to leave Syria. The Syrian opposition may take a long-term approach to impose a new reality on the ground.
In summary, the economic sanctions combined with the US militarily engagement with Iran's in Syria, in Iraq and in Yemen, represent the new and clear US's strategy which is being demanded by Democrats as well as Republicans in the US Congress. Generally speaking for U.S, fighting Iranian branches on the ground in Syria is the step to destroy the Iranian central regime before it activates the centrifugal force in the Bushehr nuclear reactor.
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Zamalek will not rush into January transfer market: Amir Mortada
Ahmed Abd El Rasoul, Tuesday 25 Dec 2018
Zamalek players during a recent training session (Photo: Zamalek's official website)
Zamalek coach Gross angry at loss to CotonTchad despite qualification
Zamalek concede two late goals in Chad but advance with 7-2 aggregate win
Zamalek demolish Chad's CotonTchad 7-0 to ensure no repeat of last season's fiasco
Zamalek will not be rushing into the coming January transfer market, according to the team's manager Amir Mortada, who also said that the current squad will likely stay as it is till the end of the season.
"We won't be doing many deals in January," Amir told an Egyptian radio station late on Monday.
"Generally we will be signing new players, but the team's benefit will be our priority. Our new recruitments won't be at the expense of our current players," Amir said.
"It is 99 percent that there won't be any departures in January as we need all our players for the time being. It is the desire of both the board and the technical staff," said Amir, who is the son of club chairman Mortada Mansour.
The Cairo giants were reportedly in talks recently to sign Egyptian attacking midfielder Abdallah El-Said, who currently plays for Saudi side Al-Ahli, West Bromwich Albion's Egyptian defender Ahmed Hegazi, and Syrian defender Omar Khribin, who plays for Saudi club Al-Hilal.
"Anything is possible," Amir Mortada said regarding these negotiations without giving any details.
Zamalek, who currently lead the Egyptian Premier League table with 35 points from 14 matches, already had much recruitment last summer as they are bidding for their first league title since the 2014/2015 season.
At the continental level, Zamalek reached the African Confederation Cup round of 32 on Sunday despite the 2-0 loss to CotonTchad.
The White Knights slumped to a late 2-0 defeat in the second-leg of the competition's second round in N'Djamena but advanced with a 7-2 aggregate win.
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مکالمه در مورد دوست داشتن
شما اینجا هستید : مکالمه در مورد دوست داشتن
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A: “You’re embarrassing me.”
B: “You asked.”
A: “I love you so much. I’m so happy and I think we have a wonderful marriage...”
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Upper Hutt Posse
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Upper Hutt Posse are the progenitors of hip hop music in the South Pacific. Originally formed as a four piece reggae group in 1985, the Posse emerged at the forefront of the local response to emerging rap culture. Their unique fusion of rap and reggae (in both English and Maori languages) has been an inspirational injection into the national music scene, and a powerful vehicle for UHP's revolutionary socio-political perspectives and contemporary Maori aspirations.
In 1988 they released this country’s first rap song 'E Tu' (Stand Up) following a year later with the first rap album 'Against The Flow', touring with impassioned performances that brought notoriety and respect. With 5 albums (the fourth of which was awarded ‘Best Mana Maori Album’ at the NZ Music Awards 2003) and 18 music video clips, UHP are currently working on their sixth album and released the first single ‘Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou’ (We continue to struggle) in December 2008 celebrating 20 years since their debut.
The song-writing vision of Te Kupu (The Word) and MC Wiya is the solid backbone of this ever fresh, fluxing collective of vocalists and musicians. Currently performing as a nine piece live group which includes a horn section.
UHP embrace a kaupapa (objective/purpose) of consciousness-raising and are unrelenting in their momentum, addressing global imperial capitalist culture from an indigenous perspective and enlivening peoples determinations to realising an altruistic vision of human culture. The perceptive scope of UHP's bilingual lyricism and originality secure them a distinguished position in the local music industry.
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Tim McCord records new music for solo album
Tim McCord has confirmed that he is recording new music for an upcoming solo album. He has posted a few pictures and video snippets of what he’s been working on in the studio on his Instagram page – which you can follow here. It’s currently unknown how many tracks the it will have, but his wife, Dani, said that he has at least 14 songs written for the release.
Tim will be recording the guitar, bass, and even vocals for this album! A special behind-the-scenes video has been filmed and will be posted soon. Stay tuned for updates!.
And it begins! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
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Dream Too Much available on Spotify and Apple Music!
Finally, after 2 years of its premiere Amy Lee‘s children’s album is available on digital music platforms.
So happy to announce that DREAM TOO MUCH, The super fun kids album I made with my dad, uncle, sisters and brother (and even Jack!) is now available on Spotify and Apple Music. Check it out!!
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You can buy the album on Amazon here http://www.amazon.com/dreamtoomuch
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See Evanescence’s Amy Lee Make Emotional Cameo in New Veridia Video
Amy Lee and Veridia‘s Deena Jakoub channel personal loss and grief into moving duet
Nashville-based pop/rock/electronic band Veridia have released a candid new performance clip for “I’ll Never Be Ready” off their latest album The Beast You Feed. The track features Amy Lee on piano and backing vocals, and its accompanying video captures the Evanescence frontwoman playing the song with Veridia for the first time at the band’s album release party at Nashville’s Analog.
Veridia frontwoman Deena Jakoub wrote “I’ll Never Be Ready” as her dad was dying from renal disease, and when she reached out to Lee to guest on the song, it resonated strongly with the Evanescence bandleader, who had recently lost her brother. Both singers talk about their experiences with loss and how the song and the collaboration helped them to heal in the video.
“It felt like we were divinely brought together to walk through and perform through those deep emotions,” Jakoub told Alternative Press. “She played the song of my soul that I could not find the words to sing.”
“There are things in this world that are cruel and unfair, and there are also things in this world that are impossibly beautiful,” Lee added. “Reaching out and finding someone else in the darkness lights up the one thing that lives forever. Love. And to quote the words that hold my heart, ‘I’ll never forget how much I was loved.'”
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Ready Amy Lee‘s reaction on Twitter:
“This song found me when I needed it so bad. So proud and so grateful for this night, this connection, this expression of deepest love. Thank you Deena Jakoub and Veridia”
This song found me when I needed it so bad. So proud and so grateful for this night, this connection, this expression of deepest love. Thank you @DeenaJakoub and @VERIDIA https://t.co/b0AtN8sxUr
— Amy Lee (@AmyLeeEV) 30 de octubre de 2018
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Evanescence’s Amy Lee Reveals Personal Turmoil Behind Success of Fallen
Evanescence vocalist Amy Lee has revealed that the success of the band’s 2003 debut Fallen was overshadowed by fears for the health of her brother.
In an exclusive interview with Kerrang!, Lee opens up about her personal life during the upswing of her band’s popularity following the release of the single Bring Me To Life.
“My life has been so full of extremes,” says Amy. “It’s hard to sum up what it was like when it was all happening because it was happening fast, but there was so much else happening at the same time. I’ve had major tragedies in my life and major victories, too. But at the time the first song, Bring Me To Life, made it to Number One in the UK, and the next song [Going Under, which charted at eight in the UK]… It was all happening and we were at the GRAMMYs.”
“That whole year, as much as it was wonderful, at the same time, my brother Robby was having brain surgery and facing the fact that he might not ever be okay,” she continues. “And my family was so happy and so excited for me, and I realised there was a lot of turmoil within the band behind the scenes at that time. There was so much going on. It was wonderful and also terrifying, and a lot of learning happened. I’m grateful for it all. In some ways, I’m a lot happier to be where I am now than where I was then.”
Evanescence’s Synthesis is out now on DVD and Blu-ray.
You can read the full interview in this week’s Kerrang!, on sale now.
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The Almost Now
“Change Almost Comes to Poco Cabesa (again)”
Great Guano Dust Storm
A few decades ago, in the dead of the night following the day of the Great Guano Dust Storm, while Joetown lay slumbering and its one-man police force lay under a three-legged barstool drunk as a stoat, Comrade Joe the First’s ambitious, Citadel-educated nephew, Sgt. Joseph Chan Fourneux Jones, led eight other soldiers in a coup that peacefully toppled his uncle’s government (these nine soldiers comprised the island’s armed forces — air, land, and sea).
Perhaps “topple” is not the appropriate word. No, Comrade Joe the First’s nephew and his comrades merely applied a boot or three to a door that had long been suffering from dry-rot and moral turpitude. At least that’s what people said to his face. What they said behind his back did not matter and they did not much care about the change in leadership — at least the town’s name wouldn’t change again.
“Go ahead, Al. But I still don’t see why we have to invade Spain.”
In any case, while Ronald Reagan was keeping Miami and Mobile safe from marauding Grenadans, Poco Cabesa woke up one morning and found itself with a new President-for-Life. Actually, some people did not learn about it until late in the afternoon because they were sleeping off the previous day’s celebration of Dean Martin’s birthday.
As stated, the previous President-for-Life, Comrade Joe the First, prudently disappeared into the coastal highlands of Medillo Grande along with his French wife (the reputed and much feared provider of said turpitude), there to become the island’s most celebrated recluse.
Subsisting on fish, jungle plants, and a feral cat whenever Fate sent one their way, like Napoleon on Elba or Nixon in San Clemente, Joe the First found plenty of things to occupy his time — collecting beach flotsam under cover of darkness, hunting palm crabs, avoiding his seething spouse. According to those still in contact with him, Joe never thought retirement could be this good.
“Hostages? I thought he was trading arms for sausages.”
“I swear to tell the truth. This time. Really, I do.”
Perhaps some of his pleasure can be attributed to Joe the First’s decision to take the liberty of vacating the premises with what there was of Poco Cabesa’s tiny treasury. This caused numerous problems for his nephew, including eight disgruntled “revolutionaries” who were hoping they’d finally get paid. Undeterred, Joe the Only set about doing what his uncle could not: Reinventing Poco Cabesa (with apologies to Al Gore).
Among each generation of island residents there have been those optimists who ignore the heat, the dust, and the smell and continue the struggle to improve their island home. History has also shown that those who can usually leave by whatever means available.
But some citizens had high hopes. Their new leader was an educated man who had seen the world (well, at least Charleston, South Carolina) and he even had an undergraduate degree in accounting. Maybe this time things would be different.
Comrade Joe the Only is a pleasant, cultured, handsome man schooled at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Commandant of the military junta running the island (it is a very small junta). Like many island residents, his heritage is Anglo-Hispanic-African-Chinese-Hawaiian-Portuguese-Congolese, with a few other genetic codes sprinkled here and there.
Based upon his stated plans, the newest President-for-Life’s plan was to transform his homeland into a thriving banking haven modeled on the Cayman Islands and a peaceful nation of industrious, respectful and docile citizens modeled on Singapore. He called his approach “compassionate Caribbean capitalism.”
Early attempts at bungee-jumping on Poco Cabesa.
Comrade Joe the Only professed to idolize Lee Kuan Yew (the man who made Singapore what it is today) and stated that his intention was to turn Poco Cabesa into a resort destination and off-shore banking haven for international corporations seeking to reduce their tax burdens. At the very least, he hoped to transform the island into a tourist destination for those seeking the thrill of sports activities unavailable elsewhere due to high insurance costs.
Comrade Joe the Only believed that a parliamentary dictatorship guided by laissez faire supply-side economics was the key to stable, consistent growth and social order. Unfortunately, this belief required the aggregation of the island’s meager total monthly stipend into a lump sum for collateral, providing the seed-money necessary for Comrade Joe the Only’s ambitions, and no one receiving Trust funds wants to share. Confounded by his miffed uncle’s liberation of the island’s treasury, his current economic realities include late payments to BP Amoco for fuel for the island’s generator and soldiers who thought revolution meant finally getting paid.
Comrade Joe the Only does control the disbursement of monies from the Hyman Trust and, although the people are guaranteed the dole, a little supplication to the boss is always necessary in order to receive your full allotment. But, try as he might, he has been unsuccessful at getting his countrymen to pool their money and put it toward a common goal.
Joe the Only’s banker in custody at Miami International Airport.
His efforts were further complicated by the fact that Comrade Joe the Only’s international banking connection is currently doing eighteen years in the U.S. Federal prison for embezzling Hurricane Katrina relief fund donations. This means that Comrade Joe the Only’s options are severely limited for the moment.
But, just as he seized the opportunity to depose his uncle, he has always had an eye out for any business opportunity. As an example, he owns and operates various businesses and services, including the cable TV system, which runs off of Comrade Joe the Only’s satellite dish (the picture is excellent, but you better be ready to watch what Joe the Only wants to watch).
Comrade Joe the Only, enlightened capitalist though he might be, is also a product of his culture. Any business showing a profit draws Comrade Joe and his boys like picnics draw ants.
Despite his education, Joe carries the genetic code of the risk-takers, freebooters, buccaneers, and marine supplies salesmen who made Poco Cabesa what it is today. Try as he might, sometimes his pirate nature gets in the way of his entrepreneurial spirit.
The Do Me Quartet (Dewdrop, far right)
At various times, Comrade Joe the Only’s uncle (Comrade Joe the First) claimed that he could trace his heritage to ancestors as diverse as Hyman Klinkle, an ancient African Aksum king named Malik Malik, and a quarter-Cherokee singer-barmaid named Dewdrop. But it is clear that Hyman was a circumspect, devoutly religious man, who bored his own long-suffering wife to tears for nearly forty years, nobody in ancient Aksum ever heard of a Malik Malik, and all that was worth remembering about Dewdrop was lost long ago on some repainted men’s room wall.
But, despite these disappointments, no one on the island held these reality misdemeanors against Comrade Joe the First (except, perhaps, Comrade Joe the Only). Making up your past was (and remains today) as common on Poco Cabesa as tattoos on a professional basketball player. To the long-suffering residents, once again the best laid plans of optimistic individuals had come to grief upon the aromatic shoals of their island home.
Baby Willie Yu’s grandfather, Sigmund Yu, was a wealthy speculator.
In recent years, Comrade Joe the Only has established an uneasy alliance with another island native, Baby Willie Yu. Born during the Great Guano Dust Storm of 1954, which lasted for forty days and forty nights (leading to the island’s only real tourism boom when evangelicals flocked to Poco Cabesa to await the “End of Days”), Baby William Jefferson Alvarez Wu seemed destined for great things.
His father (whose own father acquired what passed for a fortune on Poco Cabesa by speculating in bean curd imports and then rum-running during Prohibition) owned two of the six taverns licensed to operate in (then) Klinkleburg. His mother (who lavished attention on her only son and gave him his nom de plume) kept the family books.
Baby Willie as a schoolboy giving national salute, circa 1962.
Because of his parents’ exalted social and economic status, Baby Willie’s boyhood was, by Poco Cabesa standards, quite privileged. Unlike his peers, whose families survived on funds from the tightfisted Limited Trust, Baby Willie benefited from having parents who actually earned a living. Schooled at home by a string of pious tutors, Baby Willie also took lessons from his saloonkeeper father in the big classroom of life.
After Comrade Joe the First’s unusual ascent to power in the early 1960’s, Poco Cabesa (except, of course, for Medillo Grande) was quite similar to Florence, Italy, during the time of the Medici family (but without the great art and culture). Kingpins obtained and retained their economic, political, and social clout by whatever means necessary. Turf-wars settled with scathing insults and big sticks were a monthly occurrence. Hustles and cons were as common as lobbyists in the foyer of your state capitol.
Those lucky enough to have connections to the rest of the world profited most, because those limited to island resources only had access to an extremely tight currency supply that made borrowing and lending a fairly static affair. Only funds brought in from outside could change the status quo, and the lucky “jet-set” few (like the Wus) had no reasons to invest in this decidedly unpleasant island. Excluding Medillo Grande, there was nothing to attract anything but flies to Poco Cabesa.
Baby Willie promoted groups to Motown in the 1970’s but failed to foresee the Disco craze.
Through the Swinging Seventies, Egregious Eighties, and dotCom Nineties, Baby Willie used his smarts and his family position to carve out a niche for himself atop the island’s demi monde. Resisting entreaties from expatriate family members to join them in Virginia Beach or Houston, in many ways this dapper, chubby fellow is Poco Cabesa’s version of Sydney Greenstreet.
Not exactly what festival-goers had in mind.
Inspired by events like OktoberFest, Burning Man, Mardi Gras, and the Beijing Olympics, Comrade Joe the Only and Baby Willie staged a “PirateFest” to attract tourists. The first night drew some of the biggest names in entertainment (well, Charo and Gene Simmons showed up), but a methane explosion in Cesspool #13 dampened the evening’s gaiety.
That (combined with the surplus tents pitched in the rocks and billed as “beach bungalows”) led to the rapid exodus of the few curiosity-seekers who stopped in to see the “pirates.” Despite Baby Willie’s best efforts, including importing Cubans to pack the audience, the whole production closed early amid accusations of financial improprieties and misplaced payrolls.
Angry performers demanding their wages.
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Deterritorializing Paul Bunyan
Although well known in American folklore, Paul Bunyan is an enigmatic character with dubious Canadian origins. James Stevens’ 1929 version of the story has him crossing the Quebec-Maine border proudly declaring his transformation from a backwoods habitant to a “real American”.
A quick snapshot of Paul Bunyan in the 20th century has him changing from a worker’s hero to a kind of patron saint of big business, an earth moving giant that personifies the ideals of extraction in terms of economic and industrial interests.
In 1954, Fortune magazine features a cartoon of him on their cover as the benign face of the logging industry. Reading between the lines of these histories, how might we view the changing representations of Mr. Bunyan? Can he be revisioned in terms of contemporary politics: Could he be considered among the early architects of NAFTA? A subversive border crosser, roaming freely through the Northern woods between Canada and the US? Workshop at University of Maine Farmington, with Justin Langlois and the Tug Collective. April 2011.
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Equipment/Firearms FAQ
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What happens when I buy a gun from the gun store?
Federal law requires that the seller do a background check in all firearm transactions if the seller has a federal firearms license (e.g. gun dealer) or if the customer is from another state. This takes about 10 minutes during business hours.
The dealer calls the FBI's Criminal Justice information Services Division and gives the buyer's name and social security number. If it's clean, the transaction has the federal government's blessing. If you are prohibited from buying a gun for one of the reasons listed on Armory p191, you cannot purchase the gun.
Well, what about buying from another person?
No background check is required as long as the seller and buyer live in the same state.
Even in states (like Maine) that require no record keeping, the seller is liable if he sells a firearm to someone prohibited from possessing one.
If a private citizen sells a gun registered to him and the weapon is later used in a crime, the police will trace the registered owner... not the actual owner.
What's up with serial numbers?
Every single firearm is manufactured with a unique serial number. It's printed on every major part of the gun, and at the least it is on every receiver.
The serial number is how a gun is tracked when changing owners or when being purchased from a dealer.
Removing or obscuring a serial number is a felony offense.
If a gun is used in the commission of a crime, the police will scan that serial number and the ballistics of the weapon to see if it has been used in other crimes.
I want something bigger. Give me a machine gun!
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) issues federal firearms licesnes (FFL). This permit allows a person to purchase a firearm across state lines and to operate a retail business in firearms. It also helps you get dealer prices.
To get a FFL, you have to apply to the ATF. This takes 6 weeks minimum and requires an application fee (Cost •). Then you have to pass a background check, an in person interview with ATF investigators, and you have to have a legitimate site to run your business from.
The ATF loves to audit people. You will not get a warning.
FFL holders must report any loss or theft to the ATF within 48 hours or loose their license. (Just like the TV show Sons of Guns, sports racers).
There's a sub-type of FFL that only applies to curios and relics. C&R FFL lets you purchase a gun across state lines or on the collectable list as long as the weapon is older than 1946. These are pricy items because their number only decreases over time.
What if I just want a suppressor or a sawed-off shotgun and I don't want to be a dealer?
All those restricted firearms and equipment are considered Class 3 firearms (often referred to as NFA Firearms). If you want one, you have to:
purchase it from a dealer in your state
pay $200 for a transfer fee
submit a form to the ATF that includes fingerprints, photograph, and a signed statement from the local head of law enforcement (police chief or sheriff usually). The head of law enforcement must attest that you live in their jurisdiction and he has no info that you're going to be nefarious with it.
If you own a Class 3 firearm, you are legally responsible for it in every way. Part of the documentation you sign when purchasing one is giving the ATF the right to search your home, vehicle, and property at any time and without a search warrant, to make sure you have all the Class 3 firearms in your possession.
If you ever transfer a Class 3 weapon illegally, it will be seized. And if you transport it across state lines, you need ATF permission first.
If you violate any rule related to Class 3 weapons, you're subject to up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine per incident. Using a suppressor in a crime will automatically add 30 years to your sentence. There has only been one recorded instance, ever, of a FFL owner committing a crime with an NFA weapon. The federal government aggressively investigates and prosecutes.
I want to make a big boom. How do I get explosives?
Getting a Federal Explosives Permit (FEP) is even harder than getting a FFL. This extends even to low grade explosives like fireworks.
You're not the only one investigated. So is anyone who may potentially have access to that material. Failure of one is failure of all. The application takes 1 to 3 months to complete and includes another face to face interview and application fee (Cost ••).
You have to prove that you have a secure and blast resistant facility to store the materials (Cost ••••, or Cost ••• if using a haven, sanctum, or other secured facility paid for by XP.)
You give up your 4th Amendment rights concerning the explosives, just like with a FFL.
So... how do I get these licenses?
There is a custom Status merit for that, see the House Rules section below.
What happens if I get caught doing illegal things with these?
In practical terms, you lose your character. You go to jail. You are locked away for beyond the scope of this game. In character, your restricted property is seized, you are sentenced to prison, and you are fined massive amounts of money. You want to reconsider doing crazy things with Class 3 weapons and explosives.
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Live from the Future Shock Arena in Boston, Massachusetts
A stick of dynamite is plunged into a stone wall with a fissure. The fuse burns down to the end before the wall blows apart. Covering her face from the blast is Mara Werth dressed in what looks like a tomb raider outfit. “Bringing Down the Giant” by Saving Abel begins to play. She heads inside the opening in the wall, shining a flashlight on one wall showing the FFW logo and then the Future Shock logo. As she moves ahead, she comes across a platform overlooking a pit. Upon looking inside, she sees Lacey surrounded by dead flowers blowing red mist towards her.
Oh. I hit the wall I got back up and dusted off.
I’m past the pain and I’m taking back all that I lost,
I’m going to kick you off the throne hang your crown up on the wall
We then cut to quick takes showing Lydia Charisma delivering her Ocean’s Eleven finisher. Celeste is then shown hitting her Heaven’s Cloud ace crusher to a pop from the crowd. Then we see a large bubble being blown before it pops to reveal the smiling face of Nora Harris. Bianca Reed takes off her sunglasses, and throws them into the crowd. Mila is shown with her surfboard dragon sleeper locked in before we cut back to the tomb.
Yeah your glory days are gone gone gone.
Yeah I’m bringing down the giant
I won’t sit here undecided.
Mara extends her arms to both sides, and walks carefully across the platform before she makes it to the other side. She reaches the other side, finding a hall of mirrors as she steps into another entrance. She glances at the various mirrors around her as she walks past them, while Tara Cortez passes her twice in one mirror after Mara moves away. She comes upon two stone statues that look like guardians to a door. She retrieves two gems from her pocket, placing them in the stone hands of the statues before the door starts to move.
When your world comes crashing down I’ll remind you
I’m the one who’s laughing loud in your face
Yeah yeah your karma’s coming back here to find you this is going to get a little violent
Yeah I’m bringing down bringing down the giant.
We cut away from there to see Gemma Pierce and Kaya Crimson staring across at one another. Gillie Barnes thrusts the Future Shock Championship over her head with a smile, and Harley Shannon has the Harley Headlock locked in next. Cassandra Steen is shown counting her money as Kyle stands over her shoulder. “Poison” is shown next as Rose is dressed like Harley Quinn, and slams a giant mallet onto the camera before it cuts back to the tomb.
The doors finally open as Mara carefully steps forward, looking around as a row of lights come up all the way to a throne. And there sat on the throne with two lions sat in front of her is Elizabeth Lannister. She points towards Mara as the two lions roar and launch towards the camera before we cut to the live broadcast to see a roaring crowd full of Future Shock fans.
Zack: Boy, is it good to be home! Welcome back to the Future Shock Arena here in Boston! And after two shows that took us from Glasgow to Fiji, Lyn, it’s nice to be back in a familiar setting. Thank you for joining us for the latest edition of Future Shock, where tonight we got a six woman tag team main event on tap! All three members of the Privileged Circle will meet Harley Shannon and the reigning Future Shock Tag Champions, NHB.
Lyn: Talk about a big time clash, Zack. I suspect Shannon has followed NHB’s careers given her deep love of the sport. This is the working class versus the first class with the Privileged!
Zack: There’ll be two in-ring Prospect debuts as well. Mars Whimsey will step foot into a Future Shock ring for the first time as she meets Lilliana Leucrotta. Given her last two outings, I’d say Lilliana needs this victory more than Mara, but it would be a very nice debut for Whimsey if she manages to pull it out.
Lyn: You won’t hear me say this about another Prospect anytime soon but... Yeah, who cares what Leucrotta needs. Fuck her. I wanna see Whimsey win.
Zack: After the events at the pool party, Adam has scheduled a meeting with both Tara Cortez and her manager, Christian Kincaid. I’m curious to hear what’s on Adam’s mind after a reveal that the pair are still not recognizing as what we saw.
Lyn: Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. I have to hand it to Christian and his client for nothing else than being committed to the lie. Hilariously, our Future Shock champion has decided to do a This Week In Wrestling about twins in wrestling... Apparently she’s going to be offering some future tips from the past on how to deal with... Well. Twinning.
Zack: And we’ll be kicking off the show with the in-ring debut of Cassandra Steen, who is out to prove she can do everything better than her sister. She’ll meet Nora Harris, who will be competing inside the Future Shock Arena for the very first time herself.
Lyn: If I am a betting man Zack, I will put money down that Cassandra’s sister will be rooting for Nora wholeheartedly and getting ready to start passing out Nora merch come a victory. A victory that Cassandra Steen is does not want happening.
Zack: We’ll also be hearing from the “Lioness” Elizabeth Lannister, who has made a habit of ruining Celeste’s chances in both her Aspire Ring match and at the pool party as well. Something tells me this has something to do with Kilmeade.
Lyn: Zack. My friend. My broham. It ALWAYS has something to do with Kilmeade.
Zack: Let’s send it up to---hang on.
Zack’s attention is diverted as we see a brunette in grunge apparel heading down the steps to take a seat in the front row. She puts her cup down, and tilts up the soda of the fan next to her to cause it to pour all down their shirt before she takes a seat with a grin on her face. Security goes towards her, but she flashes her ticket to them.
Zack: She was at the pool party being obnoxious too. That’s Ashley Maldano, Lyn. She doesn’t work here, but you can see she’s still making an ass of herself in the front row.
Lyn: Kinda like a frat boy before the pre-gaming.
Zack: Let’s just send it to the ring for our opening match.
The cameras head to ringside as the “Wildcat” stands in the center of the ring with her microphone in hand as always.
Gaby: The opening contest of Future Shock is scheduled for one fall.
I won’t give up, no I won’t give in
Till I reach the end
And then I’ll start again
No I won't leave
I wanna try everything
I wanna try even though I could fail
Gaby: From Chicago Illinois, weighing in tonight at 103 pounds... she is Nora Harris!
The bouncy music of Shakira's Try Anything plays and out comes Nora, bouncing on the toes of her boots as she waves to the fans and then she cartwheels into the aisle before she sprints down to the ring, slides under the bottom rope and pops up to wave at the fans again.
She smiles at the referee and respectfully waits for the start of the match.
Zack: Nora Harris made her Future Shock debut in Glasgow in what turned out to be a brawl against Stacey Sky. I am positive that isn’t over yet, but she’s got a different challenge tonight.
Lyn: A different challenge but a similar face attached to it.
The opening bars of “You Call Me A Bitch Like It’s A Bad Thing” begin to play through the speakers around the arena and the lights on the stage go out leaving it darkness.
You took me to your little crib
Guess it must have been a big deal
Got me starring in your wet dream
Now it's time to get real
I'm not looking for love
No not today
But you call me up and had the nerve to say
See you next Tuesday
A white spotlight hits the centre of stage to see Cassandra Steen standing in the middle of it, wearing blue ring gear accompanied by her manager Kyle Kilmeade. The crowd instantly show their disdain for the pair with a loud chorus of boos. Cassandra does not seem phased at all by this and in fact seems to revel in it. A smirk curling on her lips as she surveys the crowd.
You call me a bitch like it's a bad thing
You call me a freak like that means something
Can't get your way so you're sulking
I think we know the rest
Get it off your chest
I don't give a shit
I love it when you call me a bitch like it's a bad thing
Kyle extends his arm towards Cassandra and she accepts it to allow him to escort her down the ramp to the ring. Neither of them seeming particularly bothered by the less than favourable yells from the crowd.
Gaby: Making her way to the ring, from Leeds, England and accompanied by her manager, Kyle Kilmeade, she is ……………….CASSANDRA STEEN!
You show up everywhere I go
Get a grip you're acting so weird
I don't need your jager bombs
I think I can take it from here
You gotta learn to leave when the party ends
I don't really care what you tell your friends
Tell me again
As they reach the ring, Cassandra climbs the steps and takes a moment to look around at the crowd. Kyle holds the ropes open for her, as she climbs into the ring between the middle and top ropes. Kyle follows and the pair share a few hushed words in the centre of the ring.
Can't get your way so you're angry
I love it when you call me a bitch
Cassandra’s music comes to and end and as it fades out, she makes her way to her corner, leaning back against the turnbuckles and resting one arm on the ropes beside her.
Zack: Why am I not surprised to see Kilmeade out here with Cassandra? Apparently he’s hired top trainers, and had her prepared since January. Let’s see if she’s learned anything from the last time she was in the ring, Lyn.
Lyn: Zack you remember that Star Trek episode where every evil twin has a beard? I’ve figured it out. Missy’s sister Cassandra doesn’t have a beard... She has a bang that goes slightly to the left by three inches. If you look REALLY hard... No seriously like, look at it man...
Referee Jennifer Stringer checks both women quickly as Gaby leaves the ring. She then calls for the bell as the Boston crowd immediately starts chanting for Nora. It brings a grin to her face hearing them, but seems to do the opposite for Cassandra. The pair move to the center as Cassandra begins telling her how the fan support isn’t going to help her. Nora chooses not to pay much attention to it as the pair lock up. Harris tries to push her back, and Cassandra executes a hip toss to send her to the mat. A confident smile forms on her face as Nora gets up, and they tie up again. This time, Nora returns the favor and puts her down with a hip toss. Steen glances around for a moment, clearly not amused with this before she extends her hand for a shake. A very skeptical Nora shakes her head until she gets a kick in the ribs from Cassandra, who then proceeds to send her shoulder first into the nearest corner. As soon as Nora collides with it, Cassandra pulls her out and executes a Russian leg sweep.
Zack: It’s still pretty early to make any major assessments here, but it certainly seems like Cassandra has a rudimentary grasp of technical wrestling so far.
Lyn: Yes. Congratulations Cassandra. It’ll now only take you about six years, eight months and ten days left to catch up to your sister’s level.
A punt in the ribs followed that when Nora tried to get up. She dragged her to her feet, and then shoved her backwards into the ropes. Nora bounced forward, and was scooped up into a backbreaker across Steen’s knee. Kyle applauded his business partner from the floor as she took off for the far side. Cassandra picked up momentum and delivered a leg drop….but Harris wasn’t there when she landed. Nora got back to her feet to the delight of the crowd, and met Cassandra with right hands one after another. Each shot rocked her backwards before she got sent across to the far corner. Cassandra struck hard as Nora followed her in and left her feet for a codebreaker that flipped her out onto the canvas. The crowd got louder as she dove for the cover, and hooked the leg in the process.
Zack: Nora’s looking to catch Cassandra off guard, she may have it here!
ONE!!!
TW-NOPE!!
Steen kicked out as the two came down, and shoved Nora off the cover. The Pixie got to her feet, and took off for the far side as her opponent was getting up. Cassandra didn’t stand on her feet long before a flying headscissors snapped her back to the mat. She transitioned from that into a seated rear chinlock.
Lyn: Nora really knows her transitions. That’s something you can’t teach, you just learn. I HOPE YOU’RE TAKING NOTES STEEN! IF YOU’RE NOT I’LL ASK YOUR MORE COMPETENT SISTER TO EMAIL THEM TO YOU! YOU KNOW THE ONE! SHE MIGHT ACTUALLY GIVE NORA SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE A FIGHT!
The referee dropped down to check on Cassandra, who looked none too happy at the moment as Nora pulled back on the hold. She pushed up on her feet to try to pull that much more before Cassandra was already starting to get to her feet. Harris kept the hold applied as they both stood, causing the trapped twin to try to shove her off. It didn’t work though, and Cassandra resorted to a kidney punch. That worked much better as it froze up Nora for a second, allowing Steen to get free. She pulled Nora down by the hair into an reverse DDT. Steen sat up on her knee, looking over to Kyle who once again was giving her applause.
Zack: I’ll give Cassandra credit. She’s been able to hold her own pretty well with Nora so far. It looks like those trainers and all that time in the gym paid off so far.
Lyn: Yeahsurewhynotwe’llgowiththat.
Before Nora could get up, her opponent pulled her arms behind her and executed a curb stomp to the back of her head. She took off for the far side this time, and came back with a knee drop into Nora’s head. The Boston crowd was not amused, however, and gave her plenty of static. It caused her to roll her eyes, and allowed Nora to start to get back up again. Cassandra grabbed her head, and executed a swinging neckbreaker to put her down again before going for the cover this time.
Zack: Nora got dropped like a bad habit right there, and Future Shock’s Corporate Killer is looking for the first win of her career!
TWOOOOOOOOOOO-NOPE!!
Lyn: ...What... What does mean really Zack? Corporate Killer? Does she jab people with pink slips? Anyway our resident Pixie needs to get a big turnaround in a big way.
Nora kicked out right at two, causing Cassandra to get to her feet. She pulled Harris with her, and hung her up in a tree of woe in the corner. The Corporate Killer began putting the boots to her body. The referee counted her down to let Nora out of the corner. But instead of that, Cassandra bolted for the far side and came back with a baseball slide aimed for Nora’s head. But Harris pulled herself up, and Cassandra’s feet hit the ring post instead. It only stunned her briefly, but gave Nora a chance to reset herself. And when Cassandra made it back to her feet. Nora dropped her with a missile dropkick to the chest. Once more, she brought the Boston crowd to life.
Lyn: Harris scores big with that dropkick and now the crowd looks hopeful!
With a smile on her face, she headed back to the corner again. She made it to the top rope until she saw Kyle hop up on the apron and start trying to antagonize her. The referee went to get him down as Nora turned her attention back to the ring, only to find Cassandra shove her feet out from under her. Nora straddled the top turnbuckle in pain as Steen climbed up with her, and snapped off a hurricanrana to bring her back to the mat with a thud. She reached behind her to hook the legs for the cover.
Zack: A little shot to her sister with that hurricanrana, and now Cassandra’s 3 seconds from hitting the showers!
TWOOOOOOOOO!!!
NOPE!!!
Again, Nora managed to kick out. Cassandra climbed back to her feet, clearly annoyed now as she pulled her to her feet. A series of European uppercuts to the head followed that before she fired her into the far corner. Cassandra barreled in behind her, but Nora ran up the corner and hopped behind her. And as soon as Steen turned to face her, she got caught with Nora’s double knee facebreaker!
Zack: Right out of nowhere, there’s the HELLO, PATELLA!
She immediately went for the cover, hooking both legs in the process. But there was no counting, causing her to look around and see that the referee was still trying to get Kyle down off the apron. Harris pounded her fist onto the mat, trying to get her attention before Stringer spun around and dropped to make the count.
Lyn: Hello, Patella... Good night, Cassandra!
ONE!!!!
TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
TH-NOPE!!
Steen’s shoulder came up in time, causing Nora to sit up with an irritated look towards Kyle, who was now back standing ringside.
Zack: I think she would have had it right there, Lyn. Cassandra had too much time to recover though, thanks to her business partner.
Nora got back to her feet, and was about to grab Cassandra when she noticed Kyle waving towards the back. And slowly, Stacey Sky began to make her way to the ring. Nora spotted her immediately, which gave Cassandra the chance to surprise her with a cobra clutch. She began dragging her towards the center of the ring as Nora tried to find a way to break the hold. But she wasn’t having much success though as Cassandra tried to step on the back of her knee to get her down to the mat.
Lyn: A cobra clutch also known as a arm-trap half nelson sleeper. Alright Steen... I’ll give you this one but Nora is quickly trying to get an escape on.
Zack: It’s growing quickly clearer that Cassandra has learned quite a few things in her limited time training. And you’re right about Nora, she better do something quickly.
Nora kept herself from going down though, and widened her base before she began trying to move towards the ropes. The crowd was certainly behind her as she reached for the ropes, and tried to move forward. But her movements began to slow and falter as the hold took effect. Her body started to grow lethargic as she stumbled in place. It wasn’t until she grabbed Cassandra’s head, and executed a jawbreaker that sent her staggering backwards that she managed to get free. Harris dropped to her knees to try to collect herself before Kyle hopped up onto the apron again to complain. The referee went to get him down as Stacey rolled into the ring on the other side.
Lyn: Cassandra gets countered but... Christ what’s she doing out here!?
Nora made it back to her feet, only to eat a superkick from Stacey that sent her backwards into the waiting grip of Cassandra. A cobra clutch driver planted Harris before Sky rolled out of the ring, and Cassandra went for a tight cover hooking both legs. The referee spun back around to make the count.
Zack: She calls that the HOSTILE TAKEOVER!!
TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Steen rolled off the cover, and got back to her feet to a round of boos from the Boston crowd. Kyle and Stacey joined her, each raising a hand before the referee did.
Lyn: Well... It was sincerely hostile.
Gaby: Here’s your winner……………….CASSANDRA STEEN!!
As Kyle applauded his client, Stacey dropped to the mat and locked in a rear naked choke on the fallen Nora. Kyle and his business partner looked down to see it as the referee tried to get her to break it, but Sky refused until Nora stopped struggling and seemed to be out. She finally let go, and rose back to her feet.
Lyn: And here’s Stacey to pick at the bones after Nora’s actually been wrestling. Impressive. Truly.
Zack: These two need to settle this once and for all, and that’s what will happen come Wipeout when Nora is fresh and ready to fight back.
The trio headed for the ramp to more boos as a trainer went to the ring to check on Nora. And then the show headed elsewhere in the arena.
Hunting A Lioness
When the show returns to the back, we find the familiar pair of Celeste and her manager, Christian Kincaid. They are watching a pair of clips on the monitor showing Elizabeth Lannister costing Celeste the Aspire Ring at Anarchy during her match with Lacey, and then her involvement during the dodgeball challenge at the pool party. As the clip concludes, the pair look back to the camera.
Christian: Let’s not pretend that we don’t know what all this is about. I don’t care what Elizabeth or Kyle or anyone else says. The entire reason that they have been targeting my client here is because well….she kicked Kyle’s ass in a tag match with Lacey.
Saying it brought a smile to his face as he looked to Celeste. She shakes her head in disappointment.
Celeste: So this is all backlash.
Christian: But let’s be honest about it. HE asked for the match, he put himself into it. He made himself Lacey’s partner. So the fact he got knocked goofy by myself and Celeste, well...who’s fault is that?
He seems to ask Celeste.
Celeste: It's all Kyle's own fault.
Christian: And now, here we are set for Wipeout when this girl right here gets to go hunting for a lioness. See, what Elizabeth has to remember is this isn’t a girl who’s going to throw cockroaches on her. This isn’t a girl who’s going to play mind games with her. Nope, Celeste is a girl who will get right in her face and go straight ahead from there.
Celeste: I never play games. I bring the fight to the ring and you better be ready for it or else!
Christian: Costing her the dodgeball challenge...and far more importantly, her shot at the Aspire Ring….yeah, these aren’t things that are going to be ignored. After all, I’m sure you’d agree you had Lacey dead to rights that night, wouldn’t you?
Celeste: You bet I did! No one who watched that match can deny just how much of a threat I am in that ring, but so many put me down or brush me aside. Well that's one BIG mistake!
He seems to agree, and looks back to the camera.
Christian: But we’ll deal with her at Wipeout, and finish that piece of business before Celeste here goes and gets the Aspire Ring. But I figure we should mention how you’re part of the Future Shock Cup now. Where you have to win a tag match to get into a fatal four way later. And you got a pretty great partner in Lydia Charisma. She’s a powerhouse and a half!
Celeste: Yes! Her strength and my speed should mix well. Lydia pounds them and then I ground them.
Celeste punches one fist down into then other and grinds the knuckles into the palm. Christian looks from her, back to the camera.
Christian: So all things considered, what you are looking at here is a woman who will be looking to get the Future Shock Cup for herself and maybe mounting a lioness’ head on her wall after Wipeout. How’s that sound?
Celeste: I think it sounds like a plan.
He gives her a pat on the back as the pair head off camera. From there, we head to a commercial for the next episode of Future Shock.
Her Cup Runneth Over
The next image we see is that of the Future Shock Director Adam Grant as he is seen in a hallway talking with Angel, who at this point, is alone. As the camera moves closer, it picks up the conversation.
Adam: Angel, thanks for joining me. I had something to discuss with you, and I think it could be a big opportunity. But there’s one small issue, which is why I wanted to chat with you about it first.
Angel gives Adam a curious look, arching an eyebrow slightly.
Angel: There are usually issues where it involves me. What can I do to help you with this one?
Adam: Well the idea is that I would like to put you into consideration for chasing the Future Shock Cup this year. It’s been a pretty big deal for most everyone who’s won it, and I am of the mind that you deserve a shot to get into the running. How would you feel about that?
That brings a smile to the blonde’s face.
Angel: I would be most appreciative of the opportunity. You’re right too, everyone who’s won it has never lead a life after of being nobody...except maybe one, but we won’t talk about her. So, what’s the issue?
Adam: Well the issue is the fact that...you don’t really have any friends or allies in Future Shock. In my first two teams I made, we have Lydia Charisma and Celeste. They may not be besties, but they like and respect each other. I’d say the same goes for Lacey and Elizabeth Lannister. But….I hate to put you into a situation where you have to team with someone when you really are kind of a loner. It almost feels like I’d be stacking the deck against you, if that makes sense.
Angel: That makes sense. And I understand the predicament. However, I would like to think that in order to achieve a common goal, I could work with quite a few people. Whether this changes anything for you, I don’t know. All I can offer you is a reassurance.
Adam: It is just for one match. After that, we start narrowing the field down. Hm.
As he thinks it over, that’s when Angel’s manager joins her. Christian moves behind Angel with a brief shoulder rub before he stands alongside her.
Christian: Sorry I’m late. What’d I miss?
Adam: I want to put Angel in the running for the Future Shock Cup this year, but she doesn’t really have any friends or allies….other than you in Future Shock.
That brings a grin to Christian’s face.
Christian: I’d be her partner, though the prizes are probably not something I’d be able to chase after later.
Angel: I’m also quite sure you wouldn’t be allowed to on account of the fact you don’t have female anatomy!
Christian: Well that’s very true. But look, I’m pretty sure I can help with this one. I have a few clients after all, and I doubt I’d need to make too many phone calls to find one who would love to add the Future Shock Cup to their resume. Would you both mind if I found her a partner? I don’t want her to be precluded just because she tends to be a loner.
Angel: I certainly have no issue with it, but it’s ultimately not my call to make.
Adam: Alright then, just make sure it’s someone in Future Shock or an alumni, whoever you pick.
Christian: I can do that, and have you an answer before the end of the week at the latest. That way, Angel here can do what she does best and put that Cup on her achievements list.
Adam: You got yourself a deal then.
Adam offers Christian a handshake, which he returns.
Adam: Now go get Tara...I want to see you both in my office before the show is over.
Adam headed up the hallway as Christian looked to his client and former tag partner with a smile.
Christian: Don’t worry about it. Leave everything to me.
Angel: I trust you, don’t worry. We wouldn’t be as close as we are if that wasn’t the case.
He nodded his head as the show heads elsewhere.
Re: FFW Future Shock - Episode 42
The show heads back to the ring after the commercial break, and we find the “Wildcat” once again front and center.
Gaby: The following contest is scheduled for one fall!
Zack: Another debut set to take place right here, Lyn, as Mars Whimsey is about to show us what she can do against an unpolished and easily dislikable Lilliana Leucrotta.
Lyn: Miss Personality Free? Yeah she’s plenty dislikeable.
The techno-pop beat gets multi colored strobes flashing as Mars rushes out onto the stage, arms held high and waving to the crowd. She smiles brightly before starting to stride down the ramp, leaning out to slap hands with the FFW faithful.
As Whimsy gets down to ringside, she does a quick, old-school lap around the ring, actively trying to slap hands with as many fans as possible before trotting up the ring steps and onto the outside apron, where she quickly hops up on the outside second turnbuckle bracket and holding her arms out wide.
Gaby: Introducing, from Las Angeles, California, standing at 5’7” tall and weighing in at one-hundred and ninety pounds, MARS WHIIIIIIIIMSY!
Nodding to the crowd Mars lightly hops over the ropes and into the ring, removing her multi-colored headband and walking to her corner to await the start of her match.
Zack: We don’t know a whole lot about Mars. The biggest connection she has around these parts is that she’s a friend of Andi Takata. So she has that going for her, but it’s not going to be much help here.
Lyn: Not at all. I admit I am interested in what she can do in the ring though. She’s very... Bright.
Gaby: And in this corner, from South Bend, Indiana... weighing one hundred sixty-five pounds... Lilliana Leucrotta!
Zack: Little Mary Sunshine here came in like a house of fire in Future Shock, and went on quite a tear until she met Mara Werth. Then she came up short in Glasgow, and is likely in an even fouler mood than usual. That’s saying something.
Lyn: After Mara there’s been a distinctive... Hiccup in Lilliana’s step.
Referee Jennifer Stringer checks both women before calling for the bell when Gaby leaves. The two meet in the center, and with no hesitation, Leucrotta spits in Mars’ face. The newcomer reaches up to wipe the spit away when Lilliana starts firing right hands. But Mars blocks them with one hand, and unloads with a series of elbows to her head She starts using both elbows one after another, sending the foul mouthed Prospect back into the ropes. Lilliana gets fired across to the far side before Mars follows in after her with a roaring elbow to the head that drops to her a seat against the ropes. Whimsey climbs up onto the middle rope, and comes down with a basement dropkick to the chest. It nearly sends Leucrotta through the ropes, but Mars drags her back into the ring by her legs. A double leg drop between her legs follows that, and Mars gets back to her feet immediately.
Zack: Lilliana wanted to start by disrespecting Mars at the bell, and whoo boy! She paid for that in spades just now!
Lyn: As my cousin would say, you might have heard of her, ‘beating that ass up and down the ring’!
Leucrotta started to get to her knees before Mars hit the near side ropes, and caught her with a hip check to the head that sent Lilliana reeling to the side. She pulled her back to her feet, and hoisted her up for a vertical suplex. And in quite the show of strength, she held her upside down for nearly six seconds before crashing Leucrotta down to the canvas. Whimsey rebounded off the far side with a rolling thunder senton on top of her opponent before hooking the leg to make the cover.
Zack: Mars got some skills in there, Lyn! Leucrotta’s already in trouble!!
TWOOOOOOO!!
The Indiana native got her shoulder up, and Mars got back to her feet. She pulled her up by the arm, and spun into her with a discus elbow to the mouth. It sent her staggering backwards before Mars scooped her up, ran in a half circle before driving her into the mat with a powerslam.
Lyn: Whimsey is... Terrifyingly strong and fast. Like... We’re into some lightning bruiser territory.
The crowd was solidly behind the newcomer as she got back to her feet. She looked out over the crowd with a nod, and her opponent used the opportunity to roll out of the ring to the floor. Lilliana was a little wobbly on her feet before she leaned against the barricade. Stringer began her ten count as Leucrotta began to get her bearings as she walked around the ring.
Zack: You can tell Lilliana’s trying to remember if she’s in Boston or Bangkok right now. I don’t think she was expecting this from Mars.
Lyn: I’m not sure any of us were but you know what they say about happy surprises.
Mars stood in the center of the ring, not taking her eyes off her opponent before she got back onto the apron. She was about to step through when Mars went to get her, but she surprised the newcomer with a shoulder thrust in the ribs. It backed her up a little before she came back into the ring. When Mars went to grab her again, Lilliana scooped her up and fell backwards into a stun gun across the top rope. Whimsey struggled to breathe before Lilliana mowed her down with a clothesline, and then dropped down to bite into her face.
Lyn: Leucrotta finally has her say in this match though she looks a bit worse for wear for... Is THAT necessary!? BITING?
Zack: it’s one of her trademarks. That’s something you do, I guess, when your actual in-ring abilities are as limited as hers.
She finally let go at four as the referee was about to call for the bell. Lilliana drove hard elbows into the side of her head before wrapping both hands around her neck to choke her. Another four count occured before she let go. Rising back to her feet, she took off for the near side ropes and connected with a double stomp to her body that folded Mars up on the mat. She pulled her up long enough to put her into position for a piledriver, which she then executed before going for the cover.
Zack: I haven’t seen her use a piledriver too often, maybe it’s enough to put Mars away in her Future Shock debut.
TWOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
T-NOPE!!
Whimsey got her shoulder up in time before the three. Leucrotta made her suffer for it by biting into her shoulder this time. Stringer got to four before she let go, and the cameras could see the bite marks and little drops of blood on Mars’ shoulder.
Lyn: Someone get that woman antiseptic after the match. We don’t want any promising new talents to catch rabies.
The Indiana native got back to her feet, dragging Mars up with her. She caught her with a short knee to the ribs that doubled her over before Leucrotta bounced off the near side with a running kneelift. Whimsey stumbled backwards before she was hoisted onto Leucrotta’s shoulders before she fell straight backwards with her to the mat. She got to a knee from there, and began unloading with punches to the head.
Zack: I’m not sure if she’s learned how to do a Samoan drop, or that was just a fluke. But in any event, Lilliana is doing some damage here. And right back to those punches. If she learned a few things, she could rely on more than just brawling tactics, Lyn.
Lyn: It’s what she just... Knows, Zack. In her defense, something you will probably NEVER hear me say again. It’s easier to work with what you know than what you may not.
Leucrotta got to her feet, and headed for the corner. She squatted for a second, watching Mars as she tried to get up. And when she looked like she was about to rise, Lilliana bolted out of the corner looking for her curb stomp. But Mars avoided it, and all her opponent did was stomp the mat. Mars got back to her feet, and scooped her up for a Michinoku driver! The crowd came back to life as she reached for the leg to make a cover!
Lyn: Big time sitout Michinoku driver and that might be all she wrote!
TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
THREEEEEEEEEEEEE-NOPE!!!
Much to the crowd’s chagrin, Lilliana popped her shoulder off the mat. Mars slowly got back to her feet, She whipped Leucrotta with all her might into the corner before she crashed, and fell to a seat against the turnbuckles. Mars glanced around, and took off towards her and landed a bronco buster, bouncing up and down on Lilliana’s chest!
Zack: Mars has turned the tide, and Lilliana’s been taken for a ride! I’m not sure why Mars was nervous about getting in the ring, she’s been absolutely outstanding!
Mars climbed back to a vertical base with the crowd solidly behind her now. She pulled Lilliana out to the center of the ring before Whimsey took off for the far side. She built up quite a bit of momentum before she left her feet with a cannonball right onto Lilliana’s chest. It landed just as Lilliana was trying to sit up, crushing her back to the mat before Whimsey got back to her feet with a newfound surge of adrenaline.
Zack: Cannonball senton from Mars, and that’ll collapse your lung no matter what size you are! I think she may be close to putting this match away!
Lyn: I’ll bet you even our Ultraviolence champion, a proponent for that maneuver was taking notes from Mars’ usage!
Lilliana was slow to get to her feet before Mars helped her the rest of the way. She scooped her up over her shoulder before Leucrotta started hammering elbows into the side of her head. It caused Mars to lose her balance for a second, and allowed Lilliana to land on her feet behind her. She scooped Mars up, and immediately dropped her into a brainbuster. Leucrotta immediately followed it up with a tight cover, an angry look on her face.
TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-NOPE!!!
Mars got her shoulder up in time once more, causing Lilliana to hurl some obscenities at the referee before she got back to her feet. Muttering angrily to whoever was listening, she headed for the corner and looked to be measuring her opponent. When Mars started to move, Lilliana bolted towards her and left her feet looking for a curb stomp!
Lyn: Leucrotta looking to finish this with one, final---
Leucrotta bolted towards her, once more looking for her finisher. But Whimsey avoided the contact, and got back to her feet. Lilliana spun around to face her before she got caught with a facebuster to the mat. Whimsey headed for the corner herself this time, but not with a curb stomp in mind. She headed up to the middle turnbuckle, and came off with her second rope senton into a cover!
Zack: She calls that ON A WHIMSEY!! And she may have knocked a lot more than whimsy out of Lilliana!!
TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
The crowd came to its feet as Mars sat up, catching her breath and then got up as well. The referee raised her hand, bringing a smile to her face.
Lyn: I’m not sure she ever had any but I’ll take this one all the same!
Gaby: Here’s your winner…...MARS WHIMSEY!!!
Whimsey dusted her hands together, and headed for the corner where she climbed back to the middle rope to rally the crowd.
Zack: What a debut for Mars Whimsey! She weathered Lilliana’s worst, and came away with her hand raised. Color me impressed, Lyn.
Lyn: Color you impressed, color Mars... Well, everything else.
Mars rolled out to the floor, and greeted many of the fans at ringside before she started to head for the back. From there, Future Shock went to a commercial break.
Roar of the Lioness
As Future Shock heads to the back, there we find the “Lioness” herself along with her manager, Kyle Kilmeade. The bombshell is finishing up a photo shoot with one of the photographers. As she finishes, Kyle hands her a bottled water with a smile.
Kyle: Flawless as always. It’s a pleasure to watch you in action.
Elizabeth: When you look like me, it comes as easy as breathing.
He turns his attention to the camera, still looking quite pleased with his client.
Kyle: In the last few weeks, there’s been some questioning as to why exactly this world class talent has been sullying her hands with someone like Celeste. I mean you all blame her for the Aspire Ring match at Anarchy, and then there was the pool party where Celeste had virtually no coordination… But let’s address the Aspire Ring match against Lacey first.
Elizabeth: People have apparently been quite upset because of my actions. They have even gone so far as to say I had no business being out there. That is where they are wrong. I went out there and made sure that Aspire Ring stayed where it was made to stay. Is it my fault that Celeste made one huge mistake when she ruined my manager’s very expensive suit? No. What I did was simply a warning.
Kyle: How about the pool party? It looks like you had a lot of fun. I know I did.
Elizabeth: That was a great party. The weather was perfect. I was simply minding my own business, enjoying a drink on my swan float when I saw Celeste have trouble standing. All I did like any good Samaritan was go over and make sure that she didn't fall. It's not my fault she has two left feet and fell in anyway.
The memories of both seem to bring a smile to his face.
Kyle: So if you want to know so badly and haven’t figured it out yet….maybe you’re slow. Maybe you have some kind of head trauma. I wanted to take this chance to let this world class talent and beauty as well explain it herself.
Elizabeth folds her arms across her chest as she takes a slight breath.
Elizabeth: In case you haven't heard or you have been living under a rock, I have the world's best manager in my corner. Having a great mind like Kyle means you are several levels above everyone. What Celeste did to Kyle was inexcusable. It was reprehensible. It was downright wrong. So naturally, he wants revenge. But since he is nothing short of a gentleman, he would never lay a finger on her. That is where I come in. And Celeste….you have no idea what you've done.
He nods in agreement as he listens to her, and folds his arms across his chest with a widening smile on his face.
Kyle: For whatever reason, Celeste seems to think she needs to get some payback. I don’t know why, because she’s trying to punch way out of her league here. But you know what? With it being set for Wipeout, Future Shock’s biggest event of the year, I don’t mind as much. I don’t mind at all actually, because a woman like this deserves to be spotlighted and featured on as big of a stage as possible. So if she has to wipe the mat with Celeste, I can live with that.
Elizabeth: A star and talent like me deserves to be showcased on nothing less than the biggest stage possible.
Kyle: You get your wish at Wipeout, Celeste. But like the saying goes, be careful what you wish for because you are definitely going to get it.
Elizabeth: Celeste, I hope you know what you are getting into at Wipeout. I was nice before. But now? You're getting every single claw.
He escorts her away from the photographers as the show cuts to a commercial for Wipeout.
The music starts playing with a series of hazy looking technicolor clips that slowly meld into black and white clips of professional wrestling, both women and men of days long past...
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The Future Shock champion disappears off the screen and returns with a boxed version of a Play Arts action figure. As she steps away from the left, a hand reaches in from the other side to grab the Future Shock title off the back table. The champ comes back on screen, completely unaware and too excited to do her usual plugging.
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The champion clears her throat and puts the boxed action figure down before she looks at the camera, turning to glance back at her now... Missing championship.
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Gillie gets cut off when a figure rushes onto the scene, knocking her out of her boots. The red hair is a dead giveaway as Valerie McKinley stands over a fallen Gillie, clutching her missing Future Shock championship in her hand. Gillie is dazed as she clutches her head. Valerie drops down and blasts Gillie across the head with the title belt, throwing in a couple of fists to the skull and upper body for good measure. “Old School” tries to protect herself but she’s quite obviously dazed from the initial headshot with the title and the blows do little to help. Valerie stands up slowly and raises the Future Shock championship above her head.
Valerie: Your days are numbered, champ. This championship is coming with me, and there is nothing that you or anyone else will be able to do about it.
“Old School” tries to reach up, grabbing for McKinley but the One Percenter takes a step back before dropping the title in front of Gillie. Barnes looks down in confusion as she gets on all fours... Before Valerie forces her up and drops her with a Divine Providence right on the title for good measure. With the Future Shock champion spread eagled on the ground, The One Percenter kicks up dust and walks away.
We cut away from there.
Shades of Macbeth
The show cuts to a video of a candle flame flickering in a dimly lit room. Then three voices begin to speak.
Voice 1: Come what may and come what might
Voice 2: Our arrival will be far from slight
Voice 3: No cauldron bubbling or pointy hat
All 3 Voices: Oh Future Shock, we are so much more than that.
At the snap of a finger, the candle is extinguished and the room goes black. Then we head to commercial.
The bell sounds as Future Shock returns from the commercial break, and we head back to the ring with Gaby ready to go.
Gaby: The following contest is your main event of the evening, and it is a six woman tag team match scheduled for one fall.
Lyn: This has all the makings of a powder keg just waiting to explode, Zack!
Zack: You’re not just whistling in the graveyard when you say that! No shortage of combustible elements in tonight’s main event.
As Seven Notes in Black by the Vince Tempera Orchestra begins to play, Harley Shannon appears on the stage wearing a leather jacket over her ring attire, with her tied up in a bun, held in place with a pair of chopsticks. Harley stands quietly in the spotlight as the song stops playing.
Gaby: Weighing in at 122 lbs, standing 5’6” tall and coming from Hanover, New Hampshire...HARLEY SHANNON!!!
After a couple of moments of silence the song starts up once more - with a more eerie tone and at that moment Harley starts off down the ramp, shedding her leather jacket before reaching back and pulling the chopsticks out of her hair and shaking her head to let her bright, flame red hair fall down around her shoulders. As she got to the bottom of the ramp, the girl picked out a young fan at ringside, giving the chopsticks to the fan before she slides into the ring and pops to her feet. Heading for the corner, Harley climbs to the middle rope, throwing her hands up in the air to get cheers from the fans before she drops back down to the canvas and waits for the match to begin.
Zack: In her last tag match here in Future Shock, Harley’s team fell victim to the Circle, then known as Ascension. I’m positive she wants to turn those fortunes around, and she has the best tag team in Future Shock right now to help her, evidenced by the fact they are holding the gold.
Lyn: As I said earlier, I have to believe that as much as Harley eats, sleeps, and drinks this business, she’s seen a few NHB matches when they were on the indies and already knows how she’s going to fit into their usual team dynamic. What that equation spells? Disaster for the Circle.
“Deuce” by Kiss begins to play, Jem runs out of the back and onto the stage area with a title belt around her waist, sprinting across to the far side and bouncing on the balls of her feet as she encourages the crowd to get a little louder. Charging across to the other side of the stage, she once more cheer leads before heading back to the middle of the stage. Meeting her partner there, Angela with her title belt on her shoulder, the two girls double high five and turn it into a hug that breaks as Jem charges down to the ring, sliding underneath the bottom rope. Angela follows her down the ramp, slapping hands with fans. Jem pops up to her feet and makes a tour of the corners, climbing to the middle turnbuckle and throwing her hands into the air to get a cheer from the crowd before moving onto the next one. As Angela reaches the ring she walks hops up onto the apron and raises one clenched fist in the air before she enters the ring and walks to the NHB corner to await the start of the match, then passes the titles to the referee.
Gaby: Approaching the ring at a combined weight of 306 lbs, the team of Jem Michaels and Angela Hinchcliffe. They are the reigning Future Shock Tag Team Champions.....NO HOLDING BACK!!!
Zack: Jem and Angela made history as the first team to ever hold the Future Shock Tag Team Championship, and so far...the only team. They have been nothing short of dominant, having held the titles since last October, Lyn!
Lyn: I know Valentina and Isis want to dethrone them, but it’s a big question of how rather than when!
The opening chords of “Destroy & Conquer” by Future World Music begin to rattle through the arena, the curtains start to move as Valentina Lozano & Isis Morales slowly steps out onto the ramp. They are unfazed by the boos from the crowd as Valentina bends her right knee and angles her left leg, her right arm shooting up into the air with a cocky smirk with Isis standing behind her, raising her fist in the air with a cocky smirk, standing in a unified domineering pose while basking in the negative heat of the crowd. Valentina gets back to her feet and then begins to walk side by side with Isis down the aisle.
Maggie: Making their way to the ring…at a total combined weight of three hundred and sixty-five pounds....”The Latin Goddess” Valentina Lozano and “The Titaness” Isis Morales... They are...
THE PRIVILEGED CIRCLE!!!!!!!!!
At the ringside area, Valentina and Isis walk around the ring once, gracing the crowd with sneering glares before entering the ring, Valentina then glares towards the referee in the ring and orders the referee to hold the ropes for her, which the referee reluctantly complies by doing what she says. She then wipes her feet on the apron and enters the ring. Meanwhile, Isis enters the ring by stepping over the top rope with ease. The ladies then go to opposite ring posts in which they climb up and pose to the crowd with complete confidence, taking in the atmosphere while the crowd reaction continues and the cameras flashing.
After the ladies taunt the crowd (and/or opponents), Valentina then goes to one of the corners to lean against. After giving Valentina a few words and patting her on the shoulder, Isis smirks and stretches a little as they await for the bell to ring (or their opponents to come out.)
Zack: A win here for the Circle could put Valentina and Isis back into the mix for the Future Shock Tag Titles if they can pull it off. And they’ve proven they can against Harley in the past, but NHB has been a quandary for them.
Lyn: I’ll do you one better Zack. It’s not just a quandry. It’s a downright quagmire.
The lights in the arena sharply cut off, leaving everything in complete darkness. The chiming of a clock is heard echoing in the darkness, followed by a chipper, circus like chime tone. As the tone chimes on, a vibrant gold spotlight shines down on the top of the stage. The circus chimes are soon replaced by the opening chorus of “Villain” by Wild Fire.
"Tic tic toc, the time bomb clock
Ticks grinning ear to ear here baby
Tic Tic Toc, the time bomb clock
ticks counting down...
tic, tic stop!"
At the exact moment “stop” is sung, the song kicks into full gear, setting off a series of shimmering gold strobe lights going off on either side of the ramp. A few seconds pass before the controversial redhead, Valerie McKinley makes her way out from behind the curtain and stands in the immediate center of the stage, standing in the gold spotlight. Coming out behind her and standing next to her was her manager, one Kyle Kilmeade.
"You know I speak in riddles,
And I’m plotting to destroy
Villain as I always was
Crazy is as crazy does"
Clad in a mid-thigh length leather jacket worn open over her gear, Valerie looks around at the crowd showering her with a rousing chorus of boos. She looks over at Kyle and the pair simply shake their heads. The strobe lights begin to lessen in intensity as the pair makes their way down the aisle, her arms at her side and a focused look on her face. As she makes her way to the ring, the fans on either side of the aisle make their displeasure at her appearance rather noticeable, which Valerie simply dismisses with an arrogant flip of her hand.
"My sanity's in short supply
Mad as a hatter, hey surprise!
T-T-T-Ticking bomb on the inside
Livin' with the villain pacing in my mind."
Gaby: Ladies and gentlemen, making her way down to the ring, being accompanied by Kyle Kilmeade…..from Providence, Rhode Island…….Valerie McKinley!!
The boos grow louder as Kyle hops up onto the apron and climbs into the ring. Valerie hops up onto the apron and spins around so her back is resting on the ropes. With her head bowed, she lifts both arms up towards her head and has her pointer finger and thumb on both hands close to her head. She lifts her head up and extends her arms out, her fingers pointing out at the crowd like pistols. She then makes a motion like she was firing her finger guns at the crowd before turning around to see Kyle already holding the ropes open for her. She steps through the open ropes and into the ring.
"I'm blowing up the mystery
And all the pretty things you see
Light flame to fuse
And Sparks will fly
You said goodnight
Now say goodbye."
Once in the ring, she walks around with her arms extended outward, reveling in the heat from the crowd. She walks over to the corner and peels off her jacket, letting it drop to the apron as the lights return to normal and her music fades out. She rests her back against the turnbuckles and brushes a few stray strands of hair out of her face, awaiting the start of the action.
Zack: On our next Future Shock, fans, you’ll see a rare defense of the Future Shock Championship on network television when that woman right there challenges Gillie Barnes for the title in our main event!
Lyn: I have to hope that McKinley has since learned something in getting ready to clash with Barnes. Two times now she has made it clear she thinks little of the Future Shock champion, and two times now, said “Old School” has beaten her. One has to think The 1 Percenter has go to in there with a different mindset but tonight... Tonight is a different story.
Referee Jennifer Stringer checks all six women as Gaby leaves the ring, and then calls for the bell to start the match. Angela starts for her team, and Valentina begins for hers. The two stare across at one another as Valentina looks supremely confident as usual. When they lock up in the center of the ring, they jockey for position with Angela digging in and starting to push Valentina back into the ropes. She gives a clean break when Valentina goes for a cheap shot, only for it to get blocked and Angela fire back with an uppercut. The shots start coming faster than before Hinchcliffe uses a hip toss to bring Valentina down to the mat. It doesn’t keep the “Latin Goddess” down long though, and Angela meets her getting up with a running forearm to the mouth. It staggers Lozano briefly before Angela scoops her up for an inverted atomic drop followed by a short arm clothesline. She quickly makes the tag to Jem before they both grab the top rope, and Angela uses it to slingshot her partner over the top rope into a flying shoulder tackle as Valentina gets back to her feet.
Lyn: Valentina and Angela starting things out for their team and already Jem is in... I don’t think Lozano saw that... Or that tackle coming.
Zack: Of the three on her team, Angela is the best suited to go toe to toe with someone like Valentina, especially in the power department. I’m sure she’d agree if she wasn’t being hammered.
Jem quickly sits her up, and plants a knee in her back before applying a rear chinlock on the more powerful wrestler. Valentina’s face shows plenty of anguish as her body is bent, courtesy of the redhead. She doesn’t stay down long though, and makes it back to her feet before Jem transitions it into a side headlock. Lozano easily fires her off into the ropes, but Jem stops herself before she hits them. Lozano comes in behind her, but Jem bounces off the middle rope and rolls over Valentina’s back when she lowered her head. Lozano looked up, and got brought straight down with an inverted facebuster, striking the back of her head off the mat before Jem hooked a leg for a cover.
Zack: Jem must have eyes in the back of her head! We got a cover!!
TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
NOPE!!
Valentina kicked out at two, and Jem was already back to her feet. She darted back to her corner, and made the tag to Angela. The powerhouse stepped in, and whipped her own partner towards Valentina as she was getting up. Lozano ducked her head for a back body drop, but Jem turned it into a sunset flip! Lozano wasn’t going down though until Angela mowed her down with a lariat, and into her own cover as Jem rolled out.
Lyn: Beautiful sunset flip by Jem and Angela follows it up with that step-through lariat! This is the type of consistency you need to even step to NHB.
Again, Valentina manages to kick out at two. Angela quickly gets back to her feet, and circles around behind Valentina to apply a three quarter nelson.
Zack: NHB are just on another level right now as a tag team, Lyn. They have been nothing but flawless in this match since the bell rang, and Valentina’s got no answer.
Lyn: There’s no credit line high enough to buy her way out of this!
The crowd was solidly behind her as Angela shook Valentina a little bit, trying to disorient her in the hold. But Valentina weathered that, and used her free hand to start firing fists into Angela’s head. It broke the hold, and gave Valentina a chance to catch Angela with a running knee to the body that doubled her over. A gutwrench suplex followed that before Lozano measured a fist drop into her face. It caused Angela to roll onto her stomach, and gave Valentina the opening she wanted to begin hammering elbows into her lower back. Six in a row connected before she pulled her fellow powerhouse up, and then executed a backbreaker across her knee. Lozano reached back towards her corner, making the tag to Valerie who glided through the ropes into the ring. She hopped up onto the second turnbuckle from the inside, and came off with an elbow drop aimed directly into Angela’s lower back.
Zack: Valentina’s managed to neutralize Angela here, and she’s calling in the more technically precise member of the Circle to continue where she left off. Valerie will likely slow this pace down to keep Angela on the mat.
Lyn: She has to. As much guff as I give Kyle’s clients, they’re all capable when they want to be. McKinley more than most.
McKinley kept the pressure applied by using a standing surfboard, pulling back on Angela’s arms as she planted her foot against her lower back. Stringer moved down in front of Angela to see if she wanted to submit, and got no such confirmation. Valerie seemed to be enjoying herself though as she pulled back further, and even added more pressure by crossing her arms behind her back and moving her foot up between Angela’s shoulder blades. The tag champion’s face grimaced in pain.
Zack: You can see how this feels by looking at Angela’s face. Valerie has to spend virtually no energy to keep this hold applied as long as she wants. We know from Kyle she and Lacey would like to challenge for the tag titles.
Lyn: Your more ravenous fans might start chanting ‘boring’ at Valerie... Which would in turn make her keep this hold only going longer... Wait seriously? They just want everything don’t they?
McKinley continued to apply pressure, but ultimately broke the hold when Angela refused to submit. She drove a pair of knee drops into her back before she took off for the far side. Angela started to get back to her feet, aiming to clothesline Valerie on the rebound. But the redhead ducked underneath her arm, and surprised her with a codebreaker. She quickly went for the cover, and hooked the outside leg in the process as Stringer slid into position.
Zack: A double knee backbreaker, and Valerie could be close to knocking off one half of the tag team champions!
Angela’s arm came up in time, and Valerie got back to her feet with a huff. Hinchcliffe tried to rll away from her towards the ropes and started to rise herself. It was clear how much pain her back was in though as she moved forward. Valerie charged her, but got caught and planted with a spinebuster by Angela. Both women lay on the mat as Angela looked around to find her corner.
Lyn: Angela powers Valerie down and now they BOTH need to make a tag, Zack!
Hinchcliffe rolled onto her stomach, and began to crawl towards her team’s corner with both Jem and Harley with their hand outstretched. As she got closer, Valerie got back to her feet and grabbed her foot and started trying to drag her backwards.. Angela rolled onto her back, and used both feet to piston Valerie backwards a couple steps before she got to her feet. The redhead went to get her again in a rear waistlock, but Angela began firing back elbows with both arms, rocking her loose as McKinley stumbled in place. The powerhouse bounced off the near side ropes, and connected with a rolling koppu kick that flattened her. The crowd came to life again as Angela started towards her corner once more.
Lyn: Man I love that maneuver. Angela is literally WILLING herself into the corner and now it's time for an eruption!
Zack: And there’s the tag! Harley Shannon’s checking in, and she’s fresh as a daisy and ready for a fight!
Hinchcliffe dove towards her corner, and made the tag to Harley. Shannon hopped up onto the top rope, and bounced off when Valerie got up to bring her down with a blockbuster. Shannon took off towards the other team’s corner, and blasted Valentina too with a stiff shot and one for Isis before the Titaness tried to grab her. She managed to get away though, and circle around behind Valerie. She snapped off a German suplex followed by three more before she bridged up for the pin!
Zack: Wow, Harley wants to welcome everyone to Future Shock! Four rolling German suplexes later, and she’s ready to send Valerie home in a bad mood!!
TWOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
THR-NOOOOOOOOOOOPE!!
McKinley rolled her shoulder before the three came down, and Harley hopped right back to her feet. She headed for the corner, and made her way to the top rope. With grace and agility, she left her feet with a 450 splash that landed perfectly before she went for the cover again!
Lyn: HARLEY SHANNON WITH A DAMN 450 LIKE IT’S NOTHING!
TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-NOPE!!!
She got dragged off the cover by Isis. Harley hopped to her feet, and looked up to the Titaness who stared down at her with disgust. The crowd came to their feet as the two stared into one another’s eyes, while Stringer tried to get Isis out of the ring.
Zack: Look at this image! Isis and Harley are staring at one another, and I think these people want to see it!
Lyn: Shannon knows no fear! Isis can throw those hands but I’m pretty sure Harley’s legs are lethal weapons!
The staredown was broken up though when Valerie used a belly to back suplex to send Harley into the turnbuckles. She grabbed the top rope, and began to stomp away at her. Isis finally stepped back out to the apron as Valerie took off for the far side. She rebounded quickly with a running knee trembler into the side of Harley’s head, crushing it against the corner. She dragged her away from the corner by her feet, and fell into a cover with a hook of the leg.
Zack: Harley could be out cold!
Harley kicked out at the two count before Valerie pulled her up, and drove her headfirst into the corner with a bulldog. It dropped her to her knees as Valerie pulled her up, and brought her down with a slingshot suplex. She was about to pick her up again when she heard Isis’ voice, and found the Titaness with her arm outstretched for a tag. Valerie immediately gave it to her.
Lyn: Isis has decided she wants a piece of Harley now!
Isis stepped over the top rope as Harley was trying to get to her feet. She jerked her forward, and high overhead into a gorilla press slam before walking out from under her. Shannon hit the mat hard before isis stepped onto and over her chest walking past her. Morales reached down, and picked her up by the throat with one hand. And with one swift motion, she landed a chokeslam on the former Future Shock Champion. The Titaness pressed both hands into her chest for the cover as Stringer dropped to make the count.
Zack: A bone shaking chokeslam from Isis, and the Circle can see the end in sight!
TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-WHOA!!
The count never finished before a pair of running baseball slides from NHB sent her rolling off to the mat. Jem and Angela began unloading with shots to Isis’ head before Angela rolled out to the floor. She slid a chair in the ring, and set it up on the mat.
Zack: What is she---
As soon as she did, Jem took off towards the chair, and used it for a step up superkick that sent Isis backwards and falling into the ropes with her arms caught! Angela got rid of the chair immediately before the referee started trying to get them out. Morales struggled to get free with her arms wrapped in the ropes until Harley made it back to her feet, and caught her with a superkick of her own. It snapped her head backwards before she gave a tag to Angela. The powerhouse came in, fired off one powerful superkick of her own, and then tagged in in Jem. The redhead took off for the far side, and came back with a spinning roundhouse kick to Isis’ jaw as she remained trapped in the ropes!
Lyn: E-E-E-ERUPTION!!! I think... Holy... Zack I think Isis Morales is OUT COLD!
Zack: How could she not be?! It turned into a superkick party that Andi Takata would be proud of! Isis is colder than a mackerel!
Isis’ head hung forward against her chest as Valentina and Valerie tried to free her from the ropes. Jem doubled back to the corner, and made the tag to Angela. She stepped back in as the Circle managed to free Isis. And when the powerhouse stumbled back to her feet, Angela took off and caught her with a huge spear into a cover!
Lyn: THEY HAVE LITERALLY CHOPPED ISIS MORALES DOWN LIKE A REDWOOD! MY GOD WHAT A SPEAR!
TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-NO!!
The cover was broken up by Valentina, who used a double stomp to Angela’s back to break the pin attempt. As Lozano was heading back to the corner, that was when Harley darted back into the ring and the two started trading blows before they toppled through the ropes to the floor. Valerie hopped down off the apron, and the two began to double team Harley on the floor….at least until Jem climbed up onto the top rope, and came off with a suicide dive that wiped both of them out.
Zack: The referee has lost control of this, and Jem just wiped out two thirds of the Circle right there! And then there were two….Angela and Isis!
Isis started to sit up, holding her head as she got back to her feet. Angela was already up, waiting behind her and looking for another spear when she turned around. Morales did turn, but brought her knee up into Angela’s face as she went for that spear. It crumpled her where she landed before Isis scooped her up onto her shoulders in a very familiar position.
Lyn: Angela went too many times to the well--
Isis wasted no time in executing her F5 into a DDT, drilling Angela into the mat with thunderous impact. She hooked the leg for the cover as the referee moved into position.
Lyn: --And got a VOYAGE TO ARMAGEDDON FOR HER TROUBLES!
TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Harley and Jem tried to make the save, but were yanked back out by Valentina and Valerie when the final count landed.
THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Boos rained from all around the arena as Stringer called for the bell. Isis got back to her feet, breathing heavily as she was joined by her partners. The referee raised their hands in unison.
Gaby: Here are your winners…..VALENTINA LOZANO, VALERIE MCKINLEY, ISIS MORALES…..THE PRIVILEGED CIRCLE!!
Zack: What a wild main event, but in the end, Isis proves to be the ultimate difference maker...as she usually does! The Privileged Circle have pulled out one hell of a big win tonight!
Lyn: They’ve put themselves onto the momentum train in multiple ways tonight.
Valerie and Valentina looked quite pleased, despite the crowd’s response to their win. Isis looked over to the floor to see Harley, taking a deep breath as the two locked eyes again.
Lyn: ...But that looks like a story for a different time.
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Tour Destination
Top Station
Mattupetty Dam
Attukal Waterfalls
Pallivasal Falls
Thoovanam Falls
Iravikulam national park
Description about Munnar
Munnar with its impeccable beauty is the most famous holiday destination in South India. In the green and serene Kamman Devan Hills lies the quiet and restful resort of Munnar. Munnar is located in the Idukki district in Kerala. Munnar, the queen of hill stations is located at the confluence of three mountain streams namely, Mudrapuzha, Nallathanni and Kundala. Munnar is located about 6,500 feet above the sea level along the western ghats on the eastern border of Kerala. Sprawling tea plantations, picture-book towns, winding lanes and holiday facilities make this a popular resort town.
There are various tropical plantations of tea, coffee, cardamom and other spices, dense forests and wildlife sanctuaries full with various types of flora and fauna. The major wildlife animals which are found in Munnar are the Nilgiri Tahrs (Mountain Goats), Langurs and Elephants. Among the exotic flora found in the forests and grasslands here, is the Neelakurinji. This flower which bathes the hills in blue every twelve years, will bloom next in 2006 AD.
Rajamala About 15 km from Munnar, the famous hill station of Kerala, is the beautiful Rajamala. The natural habitat of the Nilgiri Tahr (Hemitragas hylocres), the Eravikulam - Rajamala region is now home to half the world Tahr population estimated at around 1300. But the Tahr is only one of the reasons to make a visit to Rajamala. The picturesque beauty of this mountain will make you want to tent here forever! Rajamala is place that gives shelter to the extremely endangered species of Nilgiri Tahr (Hemitragas bylocres). Infact, the place is home to nearly half the population of this mountain goat species in the entire world. Rajamala is situated at a distance of 15 km from Munnar and at a height of 2695 m above sea level. Half the world's population of the rare mountain goat or tahr which is fast becoming extinct, is now found here.The Nilgiri tahr in Rajamalai are now to be found in small herds found in Eravikulam-Rajamala region. The total number of Niligiri Tahrs in Rajamala
Places of Interest in Munnar
There are various places of interest in Munnar which are located at a very short distance like the Anaimudi peak, the South India's highest peak, Rajmalai, Eravikulam National Park, Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary and Thekkady. The Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary is the home to some of the rare species of flora and fauna. Half of the entire population of Nilgiri Tahr is found in Rajamalai. The places like Pothamedu, Lokheart Gap and Devikulam offer various adventure, trekking, trout fishing and picnic opportunities. In Attukal, Nayamakkad and Chithrapuram you will enjoy the cascading waterfall and the alluring charm of plantations. Mattupetty Lake is a calm spot for picnics and boating.
Things to do in Munnar:
The tourists can do various things in Munnar like Forest trekking, Camping, Angling, Plantation tours, Visit to a Tea Factory, Golf, Cycling and Boating.
How to reach Munnar
The nearest airports are located at Madurai and Cochin which are about 140 kms and 190 kms respectively.
By Rail:
The nearest railway station is located at Madurai which is about 136 kms and at Kottayam which is about 114 kms.
Munnar is connected to various cities like Madurai, Cochin, Kottayam, Kozhikode, Trivandrum, Chennai and various other cities of South India and Kerala.
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The Essence of India brings to you the quintessence of India through the journey covering the diverse tourist destinations. We provide you with the various facets of India, the urban (Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), the rural (Orchha), the religious (Varanasi, Madurai), the heritage and cultural (Jaipur, Aurangabad, Mahabalipuram), the acceptance of foreign cultures (Kolkata, Pondicherry), the Taj Mahal at Agra and you have the choice of finishing this tour on the palm-fringed beaches of Goa. Come with an open mind and take back an experience of a lifetime.
Traditional welcome on arrival at Delhi international airport by Travel Pals executive to transfer to hotel for immediate checkin.
After breakfast, guided tour of historic city of Delhi. The city where one can experience the influence of the many rulers who ruled this region, a city built and destroyed and re-built over seven times. The tour includes the magnificent Red Fort, the Jama Masjid, on of Asia's largest mosque, Rajghat .
After breakfast, drive in air-conditioned tourist car to Jaipur - the Pink City of Rajasthan. A guided half-day city tour of Jaipur covering Hawa Mahal, City Palace, Jantar Mantar. Evening at leisure for enjoying the real charm of this royal city to stroll in the local bazaars to see some handicrafts and artisans.
Enjoy a royal breakfast at hotel. Then guided excursion to the majestic Amber Fort - the erstwhile capital of the Kachwahas Rajputs. This is the only fort where one can still go by the elephant back even today like a Maharaja. Afternoon drive to Agra via Fatepur Sikri; a World Heritage Site.
After breakfast, visited the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort. The Taj Mahal of Agra is a monument built by emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of her wife Mumtaz Mahal while the Agra Fort was built by Emperor Akbar. After Lunch proceed to Orchha. Check into hotel. Overnight at hotel.
After breakfast, a half-day guided programme of Orchha. Orchha was the erstwhile capital city of the Bundela rulers. The town is steeped in history and is famous for its palaces and temples built in the 16th and 17th centuries. Visit Jahangir Mahal, Rajmahal and Phool Bagh. In the afternoon, drive to Khajuraho.
Breakfast followed by a guided tour of Chandela dynasty temples famous for their spectacular sculptures and carvings. Visit the Northern, Eastern and Southern group of temples. Evening for leisure. Overnight at hotel.
Breakfast. In the afternoon transfer to the airport to catch a flight to Varanasi. On arrival, check into hotel. Spend the evening on the ghats of the Ganges. Overnight at hotel.
Breakfast. Transfer to the railway station to catch a train to Patna. Arrive Patna in the evening, check into hotel. Evening free. Overnight at hotel.
Day 10 ()
After breakfast take a guided excursion to Vaishali where Lord Buddha preached his last sermon announcing his approaching Nirvana. Visit stupas holding urns containing ashes of Buddha and Ashok pillar erected by Emperor Ashoka to mark places sanctified by Buddha.
Breakfast. In the afternoon transfer to the airport to catch a flight to Kolkata. On arrival, check into hotel. In the evening, drive around this once colonial city built in the 18th century. Like Mumbai and Chennai, which we later visit, Kolkata originated largely due to the expansionist ambitions of the European powers.
Breakfast followed by a full-day guided tour of Kolkata visiting the Victoria Memorial, Indian Museum, Fort William, Kali Mandir and Belur Math, in the evening transfer to the airport to catch a flight to Chennai. On arrival, check into hotel. Overnight at hotel.
Breakfast at hotel. Then a full day guided visit to Fort St. George, War memorial, St. Mary's Church, the Basilica of Saint Thomas, believed to have been built by St. Thomas, the apostle, Snake Park ending the day on Marina Beach. Overnight at hotel.
After breakfast, drive to Kanchipuram (1 hr.) the erstwhile capital of the Pallavas and Cholas. Visit the temples dedicated to various gods and goddesses. Also visit the shopping area, as it is also home of weavers of the famed Kanchipuram silks. Lunch at Kanchipuram. Evening drive to Mahabalipuram (Mamallapuram).
Breakfast at hotel. Mahabalipuam, too was part of the Pallavas dynasty and exhibits some of the most outstanding examples of the Dravidian style of art and architecture. A full day guided tour of Arjuna’s Penance, the rock cut caves, the Krishna Mandapam, the famous rathas and the Shore Temple.
Breakfast at hotel. Proceed for a half-day sightseeing tour visiting Auroville and Aurobindo Ashram. Overnight at hotel.
Breakfast at hotel. Drive to Madurai. On arrival, check into hotel. Overnight at hotel.
Breakfast followed by a half day guided programme of Meenakshi temple built in the Dravidian style and Teppa Kulu, a tank with an island temple and Tirumalai Nayak Palace. Afternoon, drive to Trivandrum. Check into a beach resort. Overnight at resort.
Breakfast. Morning free to spend time on the beach. Afternoon transfer to the airport to catch a flight to Mumbai and an evening flight to Aurangabad. Overnight at hotel.
Breakfast. Followed by a full day guided excursion of the ancient Ajanta and Ellora Caves, a world heritage site. The 30 odd Buddhist caves at Ajanta are full of sculptures and frescoes of life of Lord Buddha. The Ellora Caves, is where one can see Buddhist, Jain and Hindu shrines dating back to 4th to 9th century A.D.
Early breakfast. Catch a flight back to Mumbai. On arrival, check into hotel for wash-n-change followed by a full-day guided sightseeing of Mumbai covering Hanging Garden, Marine Drive, Dhobi Ghat, Vidhan Sabha, Malabar Hill and Prince of Wales Museum. Evening free. Overnight at hotel.
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport to catch a flight to connecting destination.
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Scats and Tracks of the Great Plains
A Field Guide to the Signs of Seventy Wildlife Species
See those animal signs on the trail? Was that footprint left by a fox or a wolf? Was that pile of droppings deposited by a moose, a mouse, or a marten? Scats and Tracks of the Great Plains will help you determine which mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians have passed your way and could still be nearby in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Clearly written descriptions and illustrations of scats, tracks, and gait patterns will help you recognize species across the whole Great Plains region. An identification key, a glossary of tracking terms, and detailed instructions on how to document your finds are also included here. Easy-to-use scat and track measurements appear on each page, making this book especially field friendly and letting you know if a white tailed ptarmigan, a red fox, or even a black bear has been your way.
About Halfpenny, James
James Halfpenny was featured in a Discovery Channel documentary on the loss of native tracking skills and has taught outdoor education since 1961 for the Smithsonian, Outward Bound, and the Appalachian Mountain Club.
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Foraging the Rocky Mountains Morgan, Lizbeth
Foraging Mushrooms Washington Meuninck, Jim
Basic Illustrated Medicinal Plants Meuninck, Jim
Rockhounding Alaska Hodges, Montana
Insects of North America Phillips, David M., PhD
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MACEDONIAN ETYMOLOGY OF FILM CHARACTERS
alexander-the-great.co.uk Forum Index -> Discuss 'Alexander' the Movie - Pre-Release
bazil
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 6:38 pm Post subject: MACEDONIAN ETYMOLOGY OF FILM CHARACTERS
Here is the meaning of the names of Alexander and other ancient Macedonians:
ALEXANDROS - Ancient Greek (ALEXANDER Latinized)
Pronounced: al-eg-ZAN-dur
From the Greek name Alexandros, which meant ‘defending men’ from Greek alexein ‘to defend, protect, help’ and aner ‘man’ (genitive andros). Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, is the most famous bearer of this name. In the 4th century BC he built a huge empire out of Greece, Egypt, Persia, and parts of India. The name was borne by five kings of Macedon.
PHILIPPOS - Ancient Greek (PHILIP Latinized)
Pronounced: FIL-ip
From the Greek name Philippos which means ‘friend of horses’, composed of the elements philos ‘friend’ and hippos ‘horse’. The name was borne by five kings of Macedon, including Philip II the father of Alexander the Great.
AMYNTAS - Ancient Greek
Derived from Greek amyntor meaning ‘defender’. The name was borne by three kings of Macedon.
ANTIGONOS - Ancient Greek (ANTIGONUS Latinized)
Pronounced: an-TIG-o-nus
Means ‘like the ancestor’ from Greek anti ‘like’ and goneus ‘ancestor’. This was the name of one of Alexander the Great's generals. After Alexander died, he took control of most of Asia Minor. He was known as Antigonus ‘Monophthalmos’ ('the One-Eyed'). Antigonos II (ruled 277-239 BC) was known as ‘Gonatos’ (‘knee, kneel’).
ANTIPATROS - Ancient Greek (ANTIPATER Latinized)
Pronounced: an-TI-pa-tur
From the Greek name Antipatros, which meant ‘like the father’ from Greek anti ‘like’ and pater ‘father’. This was the name of an officer of Alexander the Great, who became the regent of Macedon during Alexander's absence.
ARGAIOS - Greek Mythology (ARGUS Latinized)
Derived from Greek argos meaning ‘glistening, shining’. In Greek myth this name belongs to both the man who built the Argo and a man with a hundred eyes. The name was borne by three kings of Macedon.
DEMETRIOS - Ancient Greek (DEMETRIUS Latinized)
Latin form of the Greek name Demetrios, which was derived from the name of the Greek goddess Demeter. Kings of Macedon and the Seleucid kingdom have had this name. Demetrios I (ruled 309-301 BC) was known as ‘Poliorketes’ (the ‘Beseiger’).
KARANOS - Ancient Greek (CARANUS Latinized)
Derived from the archaic Greek word ‘koiranos’ or ‘karanon", meaning ‘ruler’, ‘leader’ or ‘king’. Both words stem from the same archaic Doric root ‘kara’ meaning head, hence leader, royal master. The word ‘koiranos’ already had the meaning of ruler or king in Homer. Karanos is the name of the founder of the Argead dynasty of the Kings of Macedon.
KOINOS - Ancient Greek
Derived from Greek koinos meaning ‘usual, common’. An Argead king of Macedon in the 8th century BC.
LYSIMACHOS - Ancient Greek (LYSIMACHUS Latinized)
Means ‘a loosening of battle’ from Greek lysis ‘a release, loosening’ and mache ‘battle’. This was the name of one of Alexander the Great's generals. After Alexander's death Lysimachus took control of Thrace.
MENELAOS - Greek Mythology (MENELAUS Latinized)
Means ‘withstanding the people’ from Greek meno ‘to last, to withstand’ and laos ‘the people’. In Greek legend he was a king of Sparta and the husband of Helen. When his wife was taken by Paris, the Greeks besieged the city of Troy in an effort to get her back. After the war Menelaus and Helen settled down to a happy life. Macedonian naval commander during the wars of the Diadochi and brother of Ptolemy Lagos.
ORESTES - Greek Mythology
Pronounced: o-RES-teez
Derived from Greek orestais meaning ‘of the mountains’. In Greek myth he was the son of Agamemnon. He killed his mother Clytemnestra after she killed his father. The name of a king of Macedon (ruled 399-396 BC).
PAUSANIAS - Ancient Greek
King of Macedon in 393 BC. Pausanias was also the name of the Spartan king at the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC and of the Greek traveller, geographer and writer whose most famous work is ‘Description of Greece’, and also the name of the man who assassinated Philip II of Macedon in 336 BC.
PERDIKKAS - Ancient Greek (PERDICCAS Latinized)
Derived from Greek perdika meaning ‘partridge’. Perdikkas I is presented as founder of the kingdom of Macedon in Herodotus 8.137. The name was borne by three kings of Macedon.
PERSEUS - Greek Mythology
Pronounced: PUR-see-us
Possibly derived from Greek pertho meaning ‘to destroy’. Perseus was a hero in Greek legend. He killed Medusa, who was so ugly that anyone who gazed upon her was turned to stone, by looking at her in the reflection of his shield and slaying her in her sleep. The name of a king of Macedon (ruled 179-168 BC).
PTOLEMEOS - Ancient Greek (PTOLEMY Latinized)
Pronounced: TAWL-e-mee
Derived from Greek polemeios meaning ‘aggressive’ or ‘warlike’. Ptolemy was the name of several Greco-Egyptian rulers of Egypt, all descendents of Ptolemy I, one of Alexander the Great’s generals. This was also the name of a Greek astronomer. Ptolemy ‘Keraunos’ (ruled 281-279 BC) is named after the lighting bolt thrown by Zeus.
PYRRHOS - Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology (PYRRHUS Latinized)
Pronounced: PIR-us
Derived from Greek pyrros meaning ‘flame-coloured, red’, related to pyr ‘fire’. This was another name of Neoptolemus the son of Achilles. The name of a king of Macedon (ruled 287-285 BC). This was also the name of a 3rd-century BC king of Epirus.
TYRIMMAS - Greek Mythology
Tyrimmas, an Argead king of Macedon and son of Coenus. Also known as Temenus. In Greek mythology, Temenus was the son of Aristomaches and a great-great grandson of Herakles. He became king of Argos. Tyrimmas was also a man from Epirus and father of Evippe, who consorted with Odysseus (Parthenius of Nicaea, Love Romances, 3.1)
QUEENS AND ROYAL FAMILY
EURYDIKE - Greek Mythology (EURYDICE Latinized)
Means ‘wide justice’ from Greek eurys ‘wide’ and dike ‘justice’. In Greek myth she was the wife of Orpheus. Her husband tried to rescue her from Hades, but he failed when he disobeyed the condition that he not look back upon her on their way out. Name of the mother of Philip II of Macedon.
KLEOPATRA - Ancient Greek (CLEOPATRA Latinized), English
Pronounced: klee-o-PAT-ra
Means ‘glory of the father’ from Greek kleos ‘glory’ combined with patros ‘of the father’. This was the name of queens of Egypt from the Ptolemaic royal family, including Cleopatra VII, the mistress of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. After being defeated by Augustus she committed suicide by allowing herself to be bitten by an asp. Also the name of a bride of Philip II of Macedon.
THESSALONIKI - Ancient Greek
Means ‘victory over the Thessalians’, from the name of the region of Thessaly and niki, meaning ‘victory’. Name of Alexander the Great’s step sister and of the city of Thessaloniki which was named after her in 315 BC.
GENERALS, SOLDIERS, PHILOSOPHERS AND OTHERS
ARISTOTELES - Ancient Greek (ARISTOTLE Latinized)
Pronounced: AR-is-taw-tul
From the Greek name Aristoteles which meant ‘the best purpose’, derived from aristos ‘best’ and telos ‘purpose, aim". This was the name of an important Greek philosopher who made contributions to logic, metaphysics, ethics and biology among many other fields.
ARISTON - Ancient Greek
Derived from Greek aristos meaning ‘the best’. The name of a Macedonian officer on campaign with Alexander the Great (Arrian, Anabasis, Book II, 9 and Book III, 11, 14).
HEPHAISTION - Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Derived from Hephaistos (‘Hephaestus’ Latinized) who in Greek mythology was the god of fire and forging and one of the twelve Olympian deities. Hephaistos in Greek denotes a ‘furnace’ or ‘volcano’. Hephaistion was the companion and closest friend of Alexander the Great. He was also known as ‘Philalexandros’ (‘friend of Alexander’).
KLEITOS - Ancient Greek (CLEITUS Latinized)
Means ‘splendid, famous’ in Greek. This was the name of one of Alexander the Great's generals.
PHILOTAS - Ancient Greek
From Greek philotes meaning ‘friendship’. Son of Parmenion and a commander of Alexander the Great’s Companion cavalry.
PHILOXENOS - Ancient Greek
Meaning ‘friend of strangers’ derived from Greek philos meaning friend and xenos meaning ‘stranger, foreigner’. The name of a Macedonian soldier on campaign with Alexander the Great (Arrian, Anabasis, Book III, 6).
THAIS - Ancient Greek
Possibly meaning ‘bandage’ in Greek. This was the name of a companion of Alexander the Great.
BUCEPHALUS - Ancient Greek
The name of the horse of Alexander the Great. The name derives from the two Greek words vous (‘ox’) and kephali (‘head’), meaning the horse with a head as big as an ox’s head.
AEGAI Ancient Greek
Derives from the Greek word Aega meaning ‘goat’. The name of the first capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia. Karanos, the first king of Macedonia, who in order to find a place for the capital of the kingdom, followed a herd of goats (aegai) and settled the capital at the place were the goats had stopped. The goat appears as a symbol on Alexander I's coins (E. N. Borza, In the Shadow of Olympus (1990[1992]) 127-128 and 285-286 [coins]; N.G.L. Hammond, History of Macedonia II [1979] .
Ptolemy V
Nice one Bazil - I was about to post this etymology as well 'cause "Ptolemy Lagos" on that other forum is me! Nevertheless, never mind, I'm happy for people to post my compilation.
Some of the etymologies I got from a site called "behindthename" while the rest are based on my own research and knowledge of Greek.
When I get time, I also wanted to pick out from Arrian's Anabasis some more names of Macedonian officers and generals and provide their etymology.
Just to provide some brief additions:
Glaucus - means "grey-green" in Greek. The name of an officer in Alexander's army
Also Meleagros comes from the Greek "Meleagris" which means "pheasant".
ptomely V wrote:
as in THE Anabasis.
Xenophon's march of the 10 thousand?
It's a good. I read it last year found it abit annoying towards the end with the constant rear gaurd skirmishes and just the same thing going on again and again and you know that they are going to get to the Black sea ok etcetc. But it was still damn good
dynamo wrote:
It's a good.
Yes it is a very good read - and so is Arrian's "Anabasis of Alexander". BTW "anabasis" means a "journey" or "expedition".
LOL. You caught me plagiarizing, Ptolemy V! I made a few changes and passed it off as mine. I was impressed with the information. Some of it I knew and some of it I didn't.
Just so everybody knows, the etymology information in my post is actually from Ptolemy V.
Peace, my fellow Greek.
Rhemy
Location: Mustafaar
Just for fun:
Emytology For:
BASIL Derived from Greek basileus meaning "king". Saint Basil the Great was a 4th-century bishop who was one of the fathers of the early Christian church. This was also the name of two Byzantine emperors
KEVIN Anglicized form of the Irish name CaoimhÃn, derived from the older Irish Coemgen, composed of the Old Irish elements coem "kind, gentle, handsome" and gein "birth". Saint Caoimhin established a monastery in Ireland and is the patron saint of Dublin.
bazil wrote:
Peace to you too baz...
BTW feel free to post the etymology elsewhere - good educational material.
Rhemy wrote:
Nice one Rhemy!
Unfourtubately I do not have anything to include emytology wise for this period. Everything I know the roots from are mainly old English, ANglo-Saxon, French or Latin in origin. Oh well.
It's an interesting topic though. Keep them coming.
Since I apparently have "no life" and "nothing better to do", heres a list of the ancient kings of Macedon, their dynasties and the dates they ruled - hope it is of interest to some forum members. BTW, I suppose if I gave an "alternate" etymology I'll be receiving "slaps on the back" and a "well done" - gee, I might even have a life then!
KINGS OF ANCIENT MACEDONIA
ARGEAD DYNASTY
• Karanos (c. Late 9th/Early 8th Cent.)
• Koinos (c. Mid-8th Cent.)
• Tyrimmas (c. Late 8th/Early 7th Cent.)
• Perdikkas I (c. 670-652)
• Argaios I (652-621)
• Philip I (621-588)
• Aeropos I (588-568)
• Alketas (568-40)
• Amyntas I (540-498)
• Alexander I (c. 498-454)
• Perdikkas II (c. 454-413)
• Archelaus (413-399)
• Orestes (399-396)
• Aeropos II (396-393)
• Pausanias (393)
• Amyntas II the Little (393)
• Amyntas III (392-370)
• Argaios II (390)
• Alexander II (370-368)
• Ptolemy Alorites (368-365)
• Perdikkas III (365-359)
• Philip II (359-336)
• Alexander III the Great (336-323)
• Philip III Arrhidaios (323-317)
• Alexander IV Aegeos (323-309)
RIVAL KINGS: 309-301 B.C.
• Kassander
• Antigonos I Monophthalmos
• Demetrios I Poliorketes
• Lysimachos
• Seleukos Soter
• Ptolemy Lagos
ANTIPATRID DYNASTY
• Kassander (301-297)
• Philip IV (297)
• Antipater (297-294)
• Alexander V (297-294)
RIVAL RULERS
• Demetrius I Poliorketes (294-287)
• Pyrrhos (287-285)
• Lysimachos (285-281)
• Ptolemy Keraunos (281-279)
• Meleager (279)
• Antipater Etesias (279)
• Sosthenes (279-277)
ANTIGONID DYNASTY
• Antigonos II Gonatas (277-239)
• Demetrios II (239-229)
• Antigonos III Doson (229-222)
• Philip V (222-179)
• Perseus (179-168)
As some of you will know, I've just deleted a load of posts from this thread. I've lost any patience I did have with some of you and I don't need much in the way of an excuse to make sure you don't post again. Next time I delete a post I'll delete the user account for the person who made the post too, which means you've wasted your time in the first place as no-one will see ANY of your posts.
ChristianMacedon
Location: Portsmouth, United Kingdom
you mean the greek meaning of Alexander and the Macedonians
ChristianMacedon wrote:
No, the meaning in English when translating the Greek words that make up their names.
No, the meaning in English when translating the Greek words that make up their names
yes,the greek meaning i hope i am clear now.
ie. greek words(alexandros,buchefalos etc) and the meaning behind it in greek.right?
Yes, the Greek names/words have a meaning in the Greek language which I have then translated into English.
For example, the name "Philoxenos" is made up of two words "Philo" and "Xenos". "Philo" means 'friend' and "Xenos" means 'stranger'. So the name means 'friend of strangers'.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=philo&x=17&y=8
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=xeno&x=13&y=17
Similarly, the name "Xenophon" means 'strange voice' - "Xeno" meaning 'stranger' and "Phon" meaning 'voice' (the modern day English "phone" is derived from this Greek word - e.g phonetic, telephone).
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=phone&x=11&y=10
So whats your point?
MACEDONIC
I also wonder.....Hmmm!!!What is ur point Christian?
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Subject: Quincy Thu May 08, 2014 5:38 pm
Name: Quincy
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Background: The Quincy (滅却師 (クインシー), Kuinshī; lit. "Monk of Destruction") in modern terms, were Human mediums, having the ability to detect the existence of Hollows. It all started when they began training to confront Hollows in order to defeat them, the same as Shinigami do. Most of the Quincy were destroyed by the Shinigami over 200 years ago in order to prevent the destruction of the world. Quincy are the polar opposite of Shinigami. Quincy are spiritually aware Humans able to absorb and manipulate Reishi into spiritual weapons.
Gemischt and Echt Quincy
At some point within their history, the Quincy began to distinguish themselves based upon an individual's ancestry and adopted the practice of true-breeding. Those who were descended from a long line of only Quincy and so, were thought to have a pure heritage, came to be known asEcht (純血統 (エヒト), Ehito; German for "Real", Japanese for "Pure-Blooded") Quincy, while all others were instead referred to as Gemischt (混血統 (ゲミシュト), Gemishuto; German for "Mixed", Japanese for "Mixed-Blooded"). In order to preserve their pure lineage, many families conducted arranged marriages between their own children and only those belonging to other pure families.
The final point of contrast between the Quincy and Shinigami is their respective choice of uniform. While the Shinigami wear traditional, black, flowing hakama, the Quincy wear white, form-fitting, high-collared tunics. These bear some resemblance both to Mandarin Chinese dress and to cassocks of Catholic priests. This gives the Quincy a distinctly "foreign" or "Western" style compared to the Shinigami. One peculiar recurring motif of Quincy is that of a cross, which appears frequently on their uniforms and artifacts. The cross is not the same shape among all Quincy. There is also a six-pointed cross that appears on the back of Uryū's Quincy tunic. The differences between Quincy and Shinigami in costume and iconography are minor compared to the differences in weaponry and ideology.
The Quincy were created by Yhwach. He is their King and his blood flows in every Quincy. The Quincy were scattered all over the world at one time. They were relatives of magic hunters who specialized in the war against Hollows.
Fall of the Quincy
Since the origin of the Quincy, many years passed within Soul Society trying to appeal to the Quincy that the handling of Hollows should be left to the Shinigami. The Quincy refused to accept the situation. As time went on, the number of Quincy increased and the cycle of souls became more unstable, forcing the Shinigami to reluctantly wipe out the Quincy in order to maintain the balance of the world.
Failed Reconciliation
The Quincy line was closely monitored over the decades, as their numbers continued to dwindle. Later the Quincy advanced the idea that since they were already among the living and still more numerous at the time, they could act as "first responders" to Hollow attacks: protecting Humans until the less-numerous Shinigami could send a representative to finish the Hollow off. Embittered by the recent war, the Shinigami refused to participate, opting instead to allocate their limited resources to reacting to the most dangerous Hollows and current Hollow attacks. This caused great enmity towards Shinigami. Uryū Ishida, Ichigo's classmate and a Quincy whose grandfather, Sōken Ishida, was the last advocate of the Quincy plan was slain by a group of Hollows before the Shinigami could arrive.
Quincy Legend: History Realized
Within Quincy legend, there is a song known as the Kaiser Gesang (聖帝頌歌 (カイザー・ゲザング), Kaizā Gezangu; German for "Emperor Song", Japanese for "Praise-Song of the Sacred Emperor") which speaks of a sealed king. According to the song, the seal would be broken and the king would regain his heart after 900 years. 90 years after, his intellect would return. And 9 years afterwards, his power would return. To regain his powers, the king would have to steal the powers of impure Quincy. This legend was proven true when Yhwach stole Masaki Kurosaki's and Kanae Katagiri's powers. However, according to Yhwach, there is an additional part of this song: 9 days after he regained his power, the emperor will regain the world.
Danger to the Balance
Shinigami govern the souls between the Human World and Soul Society, which maintains a balance that if not kept would result in the mutual destruction of both worlds. All souls, including Hollows, are subject to the Shinigami governance of maintaining the balance. Quincy completely extinguish Hollows. Thus the souls that come to the Human World do not return to Soul Society and therefore the souls would increase only on the side of the Human World. Meaning, the Human World becomes heavy in souls causing Soul Society to spill over into it; mixing life and death. The ultimate result would be the end of the world.
Special Abilities: Reishi Absorption: Although Shinigami and Quincy both use Reiryoku when fighting, they both have a completely opposite fighting style. Shinigami use the spiritual power created from their soul in conjunction with a Zanpakutō to fight against the Hollows. It can be said they fight using a power from within. On the contrary, a Quincy uses the Reishi in the atmosphere, and combines it with his/her Reiryoku to create weapons. They fight using a power from outside. They have an easier time collecting this energy in environments with higher concentrations of Reishi such as in Soul Society or Hueco Mundo. To a sufficiently powerful Quincy, there is no difference between Reishi and Reiryoku as a source of power.
Spirit Weapon: The weapon that Quincy create by gathering the Reishi in the air. The only limit to a Quincy's ability to create and fire arrows is their own stamina and ability to absorb ambient Reishi.
Spiritual Awareness: As a spiritual being, the Quincy can sense Hollows and other spiritual beings at a significant distance, and tell in what direction they are in. Quincy have an acute perception of Reiatsu.
Quincy Combat
Archery: It is the most used form of combat among the Quincy. Since they're still human, maintaining a distance from highly dangerous Hollows as well as launching numerous attacks on multiple opponents gives them a great advantage offensively and defensively.
Gintō: A capsule-shaped tool used by Quincy to store their Reiryoku. It is an antiquated tool, but the use of it allows Quincy to perform certain techniques.
Hirenkyaku: An advanced Quincy moving technique. It allows for high- speed movements by riding on the flow of Reishi created below the user's feet.
Blut: A Quincy ability that gives a practitioner inhuman defensive and offensive capability. By making Reishi flow into their blood vessels, Quincy increase their attack and defense power drastically. Though Blut is significantly dangerous, it has one big flaw; the two forms of Blut for attack and defense work using two different Reishi systems, so they cannot be used at the same time.
Rare Quincy Techniques
To go with their bow, the Quincy have a number of rare special techniques to give them an edge in combat:
Ransōtengai: A high-level technique that allows the user to control their body parts using strings of Reiryoku controlled by their brain, forming lines or strings out of Reishi. By using this technique, the user can control their body as one would a puppet, allowing them to move freely despite paralysis, broken limbs, or any other force that would impede normal movement.
Quincy: Letzt Stil: The last resort for a Quincy reached after removing the Sanrei Glove. It gives the user a tremendous amount of power, but at the price of loss of their powers upon its completion.
Quincy: Vollständig: A part of Quincy evolution and the answer to the drawbacks of the outdated Quincy: Letzt Stil. It is the easiest ability to understand because a practitioner's appearance and power change drastically.
Kirchenlied: Sankt Zwinger: A powerful Quincy spell that creates an area of Reishi shaped with countless Quincy crosses protruding from the ground: Though its effects remain unseen, Royd Lloyd described it as "the spell of maximum protection among the Quincy techniques of offense and defense" and stated the "light of the lord" will "strike dead" anything which comes within its limits.
Quincy training is referred to as Seiren (聖練, Sacred/Holy Training). Additionally, there is a location they can train at known as Fünft Feld(第５練場 （フェンフト・フェルト, Fenfuto Feruto; German for "Fifth Field", Japanese for "Fifth Training Field").
Quincy items
The Quincy possess numerous artifacts and equipment which help them in different ways.
Quincy Cross (滅却十字 (クインシー・クロス), kuinshī kurosu; Japanese for "Destruction Cross"): A cross in the shape of the Quincy symbol that only those who have inherited Quincy abilities and techniques are allowed to possess. Standard equipment for any Quincy, the Quincy Cross acts as the focus for a Quincy bow. The cross need not necessarily be in a cross shape, as Ryūken's cross is a pentacle. Uryū's first Quincy Cross took the shape of a cross, but his recent one also takes the shape of a pentacle.
Sanrei Glove: This is a powerful Quincy artifact that can increase a Quincy's power exponentially, but requires a dangerous and exhausting type of resistance training by wearing it for a week while constantly firing spiritual arrows to master. The glove works by scattering the Reishi in the surrounding area, making it much harder to form a working bow.
Gintō: Gintō are small liquid-filled capsules that store Reiryoku, and are used by the Quincy for spell casting in the same way that Shinigami use Kidō. Like Kidō, they are activated by calling out various commands.
Seele Schneider: The Seele Schneider is a thin sword that can be fired similarly to an arrow. It's much longer than a standard arrow and functions something like a chainsaw: the Reishi of its blade vibrate at ultra-high frequencies, loosening the molecular bonds between any spirit matter it cuts so that the Quincy user may easily absorb the freed spirit particles. Uryū also stated that using it increased his spiritual power. The Seele Schneiders Uryū uses are stolen from a secret storage room under Karakura hospital.
Quincy Bangle (装身具, Sōshingu; lit. "Body-Dressing Element"): The Quincy Bangle is an artifact designed to mimic a Quincy's natural powers. It works by drawing in Reishi from the environment, much like a Quincy does regularly. It can only be used properly by those who are already adept at forming and directing Reishi.
Hollow Bait: This item is a small, coin-shaped disk that attracts Hollows when crushed.
Disadvantages: While more powerful than normal humans; they are at heart just that; and can be easily killed the same way. Contact with Hallow blood, acids, energy, or Hallowfication attempts will result in extreme damage, and possibly death for a Quincy. Attempts at Hallowfication will ALWAYS fail, and the Quincy will be totally destroyed, with no option for revival, nor with they be taken to the death realms. They will, simply speaking, cease to exist.
Special Customs: While they are trained to confront Hollows in order to defeat them just as Shinigami do, the biggest difference between the Quincy and Shinigami, since ancient times, is whether to kill or not to kill Hollows. The Shinigami purify Hollows with their Zanpakutō and send them to Soul Society, while the Quincy killed the Hollows. The idea can be seen as comparing justice and vengeance: "Hollows devour souls of Humans, so why must it be that those who harm and kill friends and relatives get sent peacefully to Soul Society?" Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi surmises Quincy are not hostile to Hollows so intensely simply because of tradition because hostility is born from different ideologies, but it is impossible to hate something which has no will or ideology, and theorizes there is only one reason one could maintain such a grudge for so long: the innate fear which comes of something that threatens one's very existence. This view is corroborated by Kisuke Urahara. who reveals Quincy have no "anti-bodies" to defend from Hollows and everything composing a Hollow is poison to a Quincy. If a Quincy is eroded by a Hollow, not only does their Reiryoku weaken, but their soul itself is destroyed, and they die: they cannot even undergo Hollowfication like a Shinigami. This is why Quincy must eradicate Hollows.
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Physiological Variations of Intra Ocular Pressure in Melanoderm Subjects
Williams Atipo Tsiba, RC Messe Ambia Koulimaya, S Adiba Fene, A Omgbwa Eballe, SR Ebana, VA Dohvoma, El Hadji Ba
Background. The intra ocular (IOP) is the only evidence to monitor the efficacy of anti-glaucoma therapy. There is lots of evidence indicating that it varies periodically both during the day and over periods of weeks or months. Little is known about these physiological variations in black African subjects, although this knowledge is useful to determine the proper timing of instillation of anti glaucoma eye drops in order to obtain the maximum therapeutic effect.
Objective. To evaluate the physiological variations of IOP in melanoderm subjects.
Materials and methods. This was a cross-sectional study carried out in 10 days at Clinique Médicale de Brazzaville. For recruitment, oral announcements on the study were done in one church and the sample was done on a voluntary basis. Inclusion criteria were: patients aged 18 years or more, absence of ocular or systemic disease, and no drug intake. Criteria of non-inclusion were: pachymetry < 500 µ or > 600 µ, papillary excavation > 0.6, difference of papillary excavation of more than 2 units even when it was < 0.6. The IOP was taken at three occasions: 8 AM, 2 PM and 8 PM. The data were collected and analyzed with Microsoft Excel software.
Results. Fifty people (corresponding to 100 eyes) were recruited. The mean age was 47 years (range: 18 years - 70 years). The age group 38-58 years accounted for 74% of cases. The curves of variation of the intra ocular pressure during the day were parallel and superimposable almost at all times.
Conclusion. In the absence of glaucoma IOP remains constant throughout the day.
Intra ocular pressure, physiological variations, glaucoma treatment.
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Charles Allen announces outstanding inaugural Council staff team
Ward 6 Councilmember-Elect Charles Allen Announces Council Staff Appointments
Ward 6 Councilmember-Elect Charles Allen takes office on January 2, 2015, and has announced the appointment of his inaugural Council staff. We know most of the team he's hired and are thrilled to have such a terrific group contributing to the well-being of Ward 6 and the District.
Laura Marks, who served with distinction as Chair of Allen’s Council campaign, will be his Chief of Staff. Marks previously worked for Democratic political media consulting firm Struble Eichenbaum and Democratic polling firm The Mellman Group. A graduate of Smith College, she lives on Capitol Hill with her husband and two children. Marks has long been active in neighborhood activities including the local DC public schools, parks, and pedestrian safety issues. She was an inspired choice to serve as the campaign's chair and is an outstanding hire to help lead the office. Look for her to be especially involved in Allen's activities on the Council's Committee on Education among others related to schools, parks, and government facilities.
Anne Phelps will serve as Legislative Director. Phelps is an alum of Tommy Wells office and recently served as Committee Director for the Council's Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, Committee Director for the Committee on Libraries, Parks, Recreation, and Planning, and General Counsel for the Transportation and Public Works Committee. Her prior service on the Transportation Committee will be especially helpful to Allen and all of us as he joins the Committee this year. She holds a JD from Cornell Law School and lives in Ward 6 with her husband and daughter. She previously served as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner on ANC6C. She's held is great regard inside the Wilson building and around Ward 6, including here on H Street. No doubt, she had a number of opportunities available to her and her decision to stay at the Wilson building and to run Allen's legislative operation will help him effect policy far beyond that which might typically be expected of a first term member of the body.
Nichole Opkins was appointed General Counsel. She most recently served with great effect as a an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner on ANC6B, and was a key player on Allen’s Council campaign where she held the title of Volunteer Coordinator. Opkins was born in the District and lives in Hill East with her husband and daughter.
Jamaal Jordan will serve as the Director of Constituent Services. He previously served in a similar capacity for At-large Councilmember David A. Catania. We haven't worked with him previously, but hear great things and his prior experience addressing constituent needs on the Council positions him well to be a great asset to Allen and to Ward 6.
Naomi Mitchell will continuing in her role as Ward 6 Community Liaison following eight years on Councilmember Wells staff. Mitchell brings an extensive knowledge of various Ward 6 neighborhoods and initiatives. She is a longtime Ward 6 resident and has been a fixture at community meetings throughout the Ward.
Myisha Atchison will also continue on from Councilmember Wells’ office as Allen’s Scheduler and Administrative Assistant. Atchison is a thirteen-year veteran of the Council and Allen will be the third Ward 6 Councilmember for whom she has worked.
“I know first-hand the importance of a strong Council staff and I’m excited to welcome aboard this outstanding team. They bring a wealth of experience and relationships, both at the Council and in our Ward 6 neighborhoods. I know this team is as ready as I am to get to work improving our public schools, building age-friendly neighborhoods, helping create and preserve family-based affordable housing, and supporting our small businesses,” said Allen.
Allen and his staff will host an Inaugural Open House on Friday, January 2, 1:00 pm until 2:30 pm, at his new Council office, Suite 406 in the John A. Wilson Building. More information can be found at http://www.charlesallenward6.com/openhouse
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Construction is nearing completion at 1115 H Street, NE and residents will soon be moving into 16 newly constructed condominium homes there. Wall Development is nearing completion of its five-story mixed-use development on the site. Urban Pace is now taking reservations from prospective buyers.
1115H is designed to achieve LEED Platinum certification from the US Green Building Council. Its energy-efficient and environmentally friendly features will include a green roof, triple-glazed windows, wiring for potential electric car charging stations, covered bicycle storage, and a one-year “transit package” for new residents. Square 134 of Washington, DC is the project architect.
“The new condos at 1115H will offer more District residents the opportunity to purchase their own homes in the hip H Street corridor for less than the cost of renting comparably sized apartments in many DC neighborhoods,” said Lynn Hackney, President of Urban Pace. “Living in a green building that’s located in a transit corridor will help residents save money on transportation and utility costs, while they enjoy the shopping, dining, and entertainment options available all along H Street.”
Developer Stan Wall explained that condos are the perfect use for the 16,000 square foot building, which will include have about 3,000 square feet of ground-level retail space. Homes at 1115H will be priced from the mid $300,000’s.
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Toyland After Hours: a night club of holiday spectacular 12/17 @ Rock n Roll Hotel
Toyland After Hours: a night club of holiday spectacular
1353 H St. NE 20002
$10 advance/$12 door
Tickets: www.rockandrollhoteldc.com
Show: 9:00pm
Join toymaker Mab Just Mab as she takes you to Toyland After Hours: A night club of holiday spectacular! Come see what happens once the children are in bed and the toys stretch their legs. What do we have under the tree at Toyland After Hours? Burlesque, Sideshow, Vaudeville and a few surprise for those who are naughty and Nice. Presented by Palace Productions and Buster Britches Stage Show.
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Foie La La returns to H Street 12/15-25
FOIE LA LA RETURNS TO H STREET NE
For the second consecutive year, several H Street restaurants are celebrating the holiday season by featuring one of the finer things in life, foie gras. Starting on Monday, December 15, nine restaurants along the H Street corridor will participate in the 2nd annual Foie La La competition by offering a special foie gras dish on their menus through December 25th. Diners can then vote for their favorite online at www.foielala.com.
"There is nothing quite like foie gras when it comes to indulgence," says Chef Brad Walker, co-owner of Boundary Road who came up with the idea for the Foie La La competition. "It's rich, unctuous, forbidden, luxurious, and the most delicious substance on earth. This time of year we celebrate and feast. It's more fun to celebrate with our neighbors."
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5th Annual FreshFarm food drive at H Street FreshFarm Market this Saturday, Nov 22
FreshFarm food drives are different than most, in that they focus on collecting FRESH food for donation. They do this by collecting tax-deductible monetary donations from market shoppers and spending the money with their farmers on fresh foods, which all go to their gleaning partners. These food drives are a great way to help farmers (who need every sale as the season winds down), help those in need, and connect shoppers with the FRESHFARM Markets philanthropic mission.
For the past five years the H Street NE FRESHFARM has worked with First Church of Christ, Holiness, which services needy families in Brookland. Last year, with our donations, the market gave out 50 holiday baskets (complete with turkeys) and this year First Church wants to distribute 75 baskets! FRESHFRESH is committed to purchasing 50 of these 75 turkeys from two H Street farmers, Full Cellar Farm and Garden Path farm and needs the community to pay for the turkeys.
Every year our little H Street NE FRESHFARM market raises more at our food drive than at the food drives at any other FFM market, including the huge Dupont market! Let's be sure to make this trend continue this Saturday!
Make your donation at the yellow tent at the entrance to the Market as you wait for Frenchie's or buy fresh produce to donate and drop it as you leave.
Additional details are available here.
Mushroom, cheese and beer pairings next week at Boundary Road
Who doesn't like a good mushroom, cheese and beer pairing? Especially amidst cold weather like today's...
Next week, from Tuesday the 18th thru Sunday the 23rd, Boundary Road (414 H St) will offer 3 distinct "Funky, Foraged & Fermented" pairings at the bar and in the dining room. You will have the option to do one of the mushroom & cheese pairings for $9 each or add a 5 oz pour of the paired beer for $3 more. A full board of all 3 pairings of mushrooms, cheese and beers will be available for $30. Pairings include:
Mushroom: Shaved Porcini Mushrooms with Parsely Root and Cold-Pressed Olive Oil
Cheese: Sainte Nectaire, Tommes (Auvergne, France)
Beer: Bayerischer Bahnhof Gose, Gasthaus and Gosebrauerei (Leipziger, Germany)
Mushroom: Braised Chanterelles in Demi Glace with Rosemary Oil
Cheese: Buttermilk Bleu (Monroe, WI)
Beer: Terrapin Guano Loco (Athens, GA)
Mushroom: Grilled Lobster Mushrooms with Salsa Verde
Cheese: Cabra La Mancha, Washed Rind (Accident, MD)
Beer: Cisco Gray Lady (Nantucket, MA)
Offerings start at 5:30pm nightly during the promotion. No reservations required.
Story time activities at Rosedale Library (1701 Gales St NE)
Rosedale Library (1701 Gales Street NE) has a full slate of programs for children and teens this month, including celebrations of everyone's favorite childhood friend, the Teddy Bear! Plus Chess Club, movie nights, sign-alongs and special birthday events for Curious George and Mickey Mouse.
Rosedale Library is also collecting coats, hats, gloves and other warm accessories for children and teens in Ward 6 and at the DC General Shelter. Drop off items for the "Give a Child a Coat, Share the Warmth" drive now through November 20th.
Story time: Every Monday and Wednesday at 10 a.m. -- Children ages birth-5 with their caretakers can enjoy a story time that includes songs, stories, action rhymes, and fun!
"Big Chair Chess Club": Every Monday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. — Children and teens get to learn how to play from an experienced instructor, Mr. Norman, and participate in friendly games against each other.
Teddy Bear Storytime: Friday, November 14 at 4:30 p.m. -- In honor of National Teddy Bear Day, bring your favorite friend to Rosedale Library for a teddy-themed story time, with songs, poems a snack and a photo with the two of you!
Curious George Day: Saturday, November 15 beginning at 11:00 a.m. — Rosedale will be having a special Curious George Day, filled with all sorts of fun, including a story time, film, and crafts.
Mickey Mouse Day: Tuesday, November 18 beginning at 4 p.m. -- In honor of Mickey Mouse's birthday in 1928, children will enjoy a Mickey-themed story time, make their own Mickey (or Minnie!) mouse ears to take home, and see a few Mickey Mouse Playhouse episodes.
Reel Reading Book Club: Tuesday, November 25 at 5 p.m. — Join Rosedale's Reel Reading Book Club! Kids read a book and then on the last Tuesday of each month they watch the movie that the book inspired, or the movie that inspired the book. Kids can enjoy a brief group discussion as well! November's book selection is Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid, which inspired several movies!
For more information, visit the website at: http://dclibrary.org/rosedale; call 202-727-5012 or email rosedalelibrary@dc.gov,
Posted by the Friends of the Rosedale Library
Happy Halloween on west end of H @ Boundary Road, the Big Board, Micho's, Driftwood Kitchen, le Grenier, Metro Mutts, DC Harvest & Cirque du Rouge
A host of your favorite spots along the western half of H Street have banded together to pass out candy to our young trick or treaters. The following H Street businesses will also have specials for the little trick or treaters' adult chaperones.
Driftwood Kitchen (400 H St)
Boundary Road (414 H St)
Cirque du Rouge (416 H St)
Big Board (421 H St)
Micho's (500 H St)
Le Grenier (502 H St)
Metro Mutts (508 H St)
D.C. Harvest (517 H St)
Kudos to these neighborhood businesses for getting in the holiday spirit and welcoming neighbors of all ages!
Support local DCPS Miner Elementary (15th & F) by visiting Star & Shamrock (1341 H St) tonight & next Tuesday
MINER ELEMENTARY NIGHT AT STAR & SHAMROCK TONIGHT AND NEXT TUESDAY
Miner Elementary (located at 15th & F Streets NE) and Star & Shamrock (1341 H St) are teaming up to hold Miner Night out tonight, Tuesday, October 21, and next, Tuesday, October 28, from 5:00 pm, onward. Miner, a Title 1 school, is the in-bounds school for the east-side of H Street running east of 12th Street NE. Come out and support Miner students! Simply tell your server that you are there to support Miner Elementary and 10% of your bill will go to the school to support classrooms, special programs, and unique opportunities for the kids.
Organized by the Miner Elementary Parent Teacher Organization (PTO).
Cut the ribbon on the new Sherwood Rec Ctr playground w/ Mayor Gray, DGS, DPR & celebrate Sherwood Day with Sherwood Neighborhood Volunteers: Saturday, 9:30 am-2 pm
Announcing the 2014 H Street Festival this Saturday, September 20
Announcing the 2014 H Street Festival
The 2014 H Street Festival will take place on Saturday, September 20, 2014. This will be the biggest Festival ever, spanning 10 blocks of H Street NE and featuring over 200 businesses, restaurants, community organizations and merchants. Come down and enjoy great food, drinks, music, contests, kids’ activities and more!
The annual celebration highlights the development of the H Street NE Corridor and it’s vibrant businesses. The event is one of the District’s most popular festivals, and has been named Washington, DC’s best neighborhood festival by Washington City Paper for the last four years. In a city that boasts so many wonderful neighborhoods, the H Street NE Corridor has become one of the most diverse and exciting neighborhoods to live in, shop, eat and hang out.
This year’s Festival will offer more entertainment than ever before, featuring more than 500 performers and artists on 14 staging areas spread throughout the event. Performances will range from jazz, pop and gospel music to fitness demonstrations, a “skills on wheels” performance and interactive art displays.
For those who come hungry or thirsty, the Festival will feature over 70 food vendors, food trucks and restaurants serving up meals from all corners of the world. Festivalgoers can also visit the beverage gardens located along the festival route to sample the many available libations.
Other attractions at this year’s Festival, include:
- Washington Nationals Presidents – The Presidents will race down part of the Festival route from the 8th Street Stage (8 and H) following the singing of the national anthem at noon. The Presidents will also be available for pictures with festivalgoers at 3 p.m. at the Zone 9 parking lot (9 and H).
- DC Streetcar Open House - Visitors will be able to get an up close look at the exterior and interior of the DC Streetcars, which are set to begin running later this year (5 and H, 8 and H and 13 and H).
- Grand Opening of Gallery on O – The H Street Festival will celebrate the grand opening to the public of the Gallery on O, showcasing the 50th anniversary of Washington Informer photography (13 and H).
- Kids Zone – The Festival will have a special “kid’s zone,” featuring GolfZilla, a Godzilla-themed inflatable target that kids can hit golf balls at, multiple appearances by Callaloo the puppet, face painting, a giant slide and other family-friendly activities (9 and H).
- Interactive Art Displays – Festivalgoers will be able to get an up close look at a number of art cars (13 and H), as well as watch artists paint an H Street-themed bus from start to finish and build custom bikes from scratch (5 and H).
- Contests and Competitions – Attendees are invited to compete in or watch the annual pie, chili and burrito eating contests, a bad tattoo competition (10 and H) and an arm wrestling competition (9 and H).
- District Fashion Week – The Fashion Stage will kick off the annual District Fashion Week celebration with area designers (10 and H).
- Pedicabs – Pedicabs will offer weary festivalgoers transportation at a special festival rate parallel to the festival route on G and I Streets.
- And much more!
Sponsors of the event include, Auto Zone, DC50-TV, Fisher Brothers, Giant, H Street Community Development Corporation, H Street Connection, Insight Property Group, Property Group Partners, Stewart Investment, Uber, Walmart and Washington City Paper.
Festival hours are from noon – 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. The Festival will take place between the 400 and 1300 blocks of H Street NE.
Neighborhood exhibit oepning at Batter Bowl (403 H St) Friday, September 19, 7 pm
MOTH Family Fest: this Sunday, September 14, 1:30-4:30 pm at Garfield Park (3rd & G SE)
MOTH FAMILY FEST ANNOUNCED FOR SEPTEMBER 14TH
Annual community event includes face painters, live music, and raffle
The Moms On The Hill (MOTH) Family Fest will be held Sunday, September 14th, in Garfield Park at 3rd & G Streets SE, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Hill families are invited to join in this annual celebration and enjoy food, games, and other child-friendly activities. Entertainment will include moonbounces, balloon animals, face painting, Turley the Magician, a performance from Tippi Toes, and live music from Mr. Skip, Meadowlark, and Most Wanted. Additional activities for families will be provided by Little Loft, fibre space, Relay Foods, Labyrinth Game Shop, the National Postal Museum, Breathing Space Yoga, and Vida Fitness. A limited supply of food will be provided by local vendors; families are welcome to bring picnics.
The event will also feature a raffle with prizes donated by local businesses, including Metro Mutts, Hill Rag, and Boogie Babes. T-shirts in adult and child sizes will also be for sale. A portion of all event proceeds will go towards the purchase of uniforms for DCPS students through the Homeless Children's Playtime Project.
MOTH Family Fest will take place rain or shine. Admission is free. Additional information can be found at www.mothfamilyfest.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/events/307475592748636/.
About MOTH
MOTH is a virtual and real-world community for parents living in the Capitol Hill. To join, send an email to mothinvites@yahoo.com with your name, email address, Hill address, and parent or parent-to-be status.
MOTH FAMILY FEST SPONSORS
LUNA MOTH ($3,000+)
CSX * www.csx.com
GYPSY MoTH ($1,000+)
Au Pair in America * www.aupairinamerica.com *
Lee Murphy, Washington Fine Properties * www.leemurphy.net *
Meg Shapiro & George Olson RE/MAX Allegiance * megandgeorge.com *
National Capital Bank * www.nationalcapitalbank.com *
MOTH ($500 - $999)
AtlasVet * www.atlasvetdc.com *
COVE * www.cove.is *
fibre space * www.fibrespace.com *
John C. Formant Real Estate * www.johncformant.com *
Polar Bear Air Conditioning * http://www.polarbearairconditioning.com *
Traditions Contracting * www.traditionscontracting.com *
South Capitol Smile * www.SouthCapitolSmileCenter.com *
CATERPILLAR ($250 - $499)
Grubb's CARE Pharmacy * www.grubbscare.com *
H&Pizza * andpizza.com *
Dr. Tawann Jackson, DDS *
Judi Seiden, GRI, Associate Broker * www.judiseiden.com *
Johnson Law Group * www.johnsonlawgroupintl.com *
FRIEND of MoTH ($100 - $249)
Capitol Hill Yoga * www.capitolhillyoga.com *
Schneider’s of Capitol Hill * cellar.com *
Union Veterinary Clinic * unionvetclinic.com *
T-minus three weeks until H Street Festival: Save the date and the entire day for Saturday, September 20
The H Street Festival returns on Saturday, September 20. It's going to be bigger and better than ever before and you're not going to want to miss it. The Festival runs from noon until 7 pm.
DC Harvest to open at 517 H Street on September 2
DC Harvest opens at 517 H Street on Tuesday, September 2
Restaurant front and back-of-the-house veterans Jared & Arthur Ringel are set to open DC Harvest (517 H St) on September 2nd. Jared, will manage the restaurant, and his brother Arthur, the chef and veteran of local kitchens including Vermillion, Vidalia and Hank’s Oyster Bar will provide the food.
The restaurant will feature all local products in a menu that will change seasonally based solely on local products from the foodstuffs to the beers, wines and libations. Look for local beers including DC Brau, Port City, Three Stars, and Flying Dog, libations like those of Catoctin Creek and Don Ciccio & Figli and a variety of local wines as well.
Open beer selections include DC's Three Stars, Atlas Brew Works, DC Brau, Virginia's Port City and Starr Hill and Maryland's Flying Dog
The menu will change frequently and feature homemade pastas as well as livestock, fish and produce from local seas and area farms. Brunch will also be served beginning September 13. Among the dishes that will be included on the opening menu are: half dozen local oysters on the half shell with watermelon mignonette ($14); Virginia Fluke crudo with marinated cucumber, celery, Maine Uni and chili ($11); ricotta kale Agnolotti with confit yellow tomatoes, eggplant and marjoram ($10/$18); fresh spelt linguine with house-made spicy lamb sausage, Swiss chard and garlic bread crumbs ($11/$19); Zataŕ roasted turkey breast with Swiss chard, kamut and shitake mushroom ($21); Crispy Quinoa Cakes with broccoli rabe, shitake mushrooms, confit yellow tomatoes and Allegheny Chevre ($19); and pan-roasted scallops with beans, corn cherry tomatoes, garlic chive and chili ($25).
“We can't wait to share DC Harvest with everyone, Jared says. “Both Arthur and I look forward to opening and being a part of the H Street neighborhood and look forward to getting to serving our area friends and their families who we hope will become regulars." “Our ambiance is casual and family friendly. We'll have a kids' menu and are always happy to accommodate special requests."
Chef Arthur said: “I am so excited to get into my new kitchen and get cooking. The quality of the local products coming from our area farmers and fishermen is at its peak right now. It’s going to be a lot of fun cooking with these ingredients for all of our customers."
DC Harvest’s ‘modern farmhouse’ ambiance was designed by Edit Lab at Streetsense and features a 10 seat, Carrera marble-topped wooden bar on the ground floor and 50 table seats over two levels with an open kitchen on the second floor. The ceilings boast wooden beams, some original to the venue, with walls are adorned with earthy textured wall coverings and whitewashed original brick.
1st floor marble bar area featuring all local beers on tap and a variety of local wines and spirits
DC Harvest is located at 517 H Street NE and is open for dinner 7 days a week at 5pm and Brunch - Saturday & Sunday 11-2:30 pm beginning September 13. Reservations are available through Open Table, by phone 202-629-3296 or via their website http://www.dc-harvest.com/.
Heal H Street documentary short film playing at 11th Annual DC Shorts Film Festival next month
Heal H Street is a short documentary film on the neighborhood and its history from neighborhood resident Craig Corl and is running at the DC Shorts Film Festival this year. The Festival runs September 11-21. Heal H Street will be shown at the E Street Cinema on September 14 and 17 and will also have showings at the Navy Memorial and Angelika Film Center in Fairfax.
http://festival.dcshorts.com/heal-h-street/
Bardo Brewpub (1200 Bladensburg Rd) releases first two specialty brews
In case you missed it, Bardo (1200 Bladensburg Rd) is now serving their own beers. We haven't had a chance to try them, but these guys have been making their own beers for decades and have been known to make some very good stuff. A press release about their release of their first two specialty beers, which will be tapped tomorrow evening follows. If you haven't been to Bardo yet, a chance to try some of their brews for $3.45 a pint seems like great excuse to stop by and check them out. Bardo is open Tuesday through Friday starting at 6 pm and weekends starting at 1 pm.
Bardo Brewpub releases first two specialty brews.
Just two weeks after the debut of their first five beers, Bardo is now introducing two cask conditioned specialty brews. A chestnut oak aged stout and a dry hopped pale ale will be tapped Wednesday, August 20th.
Bardo Rodeo operated in the 90's as the largest brewpub in the country. The 22000 sq. ft. former car dealership included 900 indoor & 700 outdoor seats as well as a 25-barrel brewhouse. As one of the first bars in the Clarendon neighborhood in Arlington VA, Bardo brewed 4000 kegs a year and enjoyed thousands of visitors each weekend.
The decision to put the brewery in storage for more than a decade proved a fortuitous one. Bardo head man, Bill Stewart, had been living overseas for years when his brother, Andrew, convinced him to come back stateside a start making beer again. "I didn't know craft brewing had become cool again. We rode the last wave, we decided to jump on this wave." Bill stated.
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of their first brew, Bardo is pricing all beers like it's 1994. For a limited time, you can enjoy $3.45 pints, $9.91 pitchers and $14.11 growler fills of Bardo brew.
Bardo Brewpub is the largest beer garden in the city. A newly renovated interior boasts one hundred year old pine floors, brick walls and early century, tin, press plate ceilings. A wide variety of GABF award winning house brews are available in pints and pitchers as well as growlers. Bardo is 100% dog friendly every day with 15,000 square feet in our beer garden to roam off leash. Located at 1200 Bladensburg rd NE, Bardo has cornhole, outdoor movie screenings/sports and is available for private parties/fundraisers, large and small, with no charge for the space.
Meeting to discuss reuse of recently shuttered Gibbs Elementary School (500 19th St NE) September 9, 6:30 pm at Rosedale Rec Center
This meeting may be of interest to Rosedale neighbors, local developers, and those with interest in our public schools.
The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education will hold a community meeting on the reuse of Gibbs School located at 500 19th St NE. The meeting will take place at 6:30 pm on Sept. 9, 2014 at the Rosedale Recreation Center at 1701 Gales St NE.
Comments on the re-purposing of the school can be sent to Althea Holford at althea.holford@dc.gov.
Nick Alberti
Chair, ANC 6A
DC Beer Week Dogfish Head Beer Dinner at The Big Board (421 H St) Tuesday, 8 pm
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Streetcar stroll and roll this Saturday and next up and down H
H Street Celebrates Streetcar Line With Upcoming Stroll and Roll Events
Pedicabs to give the public free rides along future streetcar route; participants encouraged to visit H Street Corridor businesses, restaurants and bars
H Street Main Street, in conjunction with H Street Corridor businesses, will host “Streetcar Stroll and Roll” events on Saturday, July 26 and Saturday, August 23 from 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. to promote the upcoming launch of the District’s first streetcar line and highlight the development of the H Street NE Corridor and it’s vibrant businesses.
A number of streetcar style decorated pedicabs will provide the public with free rides along the H Street Corridor from the Union Station to Maryland Ave. NE—the route of the upcoming H/Benning DC Streetcar line. While enjoying the pedicab rides, participants are encouraged to visit H Street NE businesses, restaurants and bars, enjoy displays from local artists that will be featured along the corridor and experience the neighborhood’s unique atmosphere.
“The H Street Corridor has really undergone a dramatic transformation over the last decade and we’re excited the streetcar line will open soon, making travel to H Street NE even easier for District-area residents and tourists,” said Anwar Saleem, Executive Director of H Street Main Street. “H Street NE has so much to offer—exceptional food, shopping and entertainment—and we hope that the public will take advantage of these events and explore the area.”
The H/Benning line will be the first segment of the DC Streetcar system running 2.4 miles along H Street NE and serving residents, businesses, commuters and visitors between Union Station on the west and the Anacostia River on the east. Eventually, the H/Benning segment will be just one piece of the overall One City Line that will cross the city east to west from beyond the Anacostia River all the way to the Georgetown waterfront and facilitate easy travel to the H Street Corridor and other areas of the District.
In addition to celebrating the upcoming launch of the streetcars and the evolution of the H Street Corridor, the July 26 Streetcar Stroll and Roll will mark the grand opening of seven new H Street NE businesses:
· Art By The Glazz, 407 H Street, NE
· Halftime Sports Bar, 1427 H Street NE
· H Street Organic Market, 806 H Street, NE (Great Streets Grant Recipient)
· Island Dyes, 331 H Street NE
· Micho's Lebanese Grill , 500 H Street, NE
· Po Boy Jim, 709 H Street, NE
· The Pursuit - Wine Bar & Grill , 1421 H Street NE
The events will take place on Saturday, July 26 and Saturday, August 23, 2014 from 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. along the route of the upcoming DC Streetcar line. The cabs will take passengers from Union Station to Maryland Ave. NE and back at no charge.
Streetcar Construction on 12th between H & Linden today
DC Streetcar Construction Update
Traffic Delays: Intersection Work at 12th and H Street Tomorrow
On Monday, July 21, 2014, the DC Streetcar team will mill, overlay and restripe the roadway at the intersection of 12th and H Street NE, and on 12th Street NE between H and Linden Place NE; weather permitting. The work will take place from 7:00am-3:30pm; expect delays.
Flaggers will be on site to guide motorists traveling southbound and northbound on 12thStreet NE through the work zone.
“No Parking” signs will be posted near the intersection on H Street NE and along the work zone on 12th Street NE. There will be no impacts to the WMATA bus stop in the eastbound 1200 block of H Street NE. Minor impacts to pedestrian movements are expected.
We ask that motorists and pedestrians use caution as they travel through or near the work zone, and follow all restrictions. Please watch for advance warning signs alerting motorists to changes in traffic patterns and detours. All construction activities are contingent upon weather, material and equipment availability and other unforeseen conditions. We encourage you to contact us at any time to share concerns or request more information at construction@dcstreetcar.com or (202) 210-3700. Thank you for your patience!
Thai Cuisine & Bab: Korean Fusion restaurants coming to 1300 block of H Street
1387 H Street has been vacant for several years. It was supposed to house a pizza spot and underwent renovations for it off and on for a few years before that frequently renamed concept petered out. A couple weeks back new signs were posted saying that Bab Korean Fusion was coming soon. This is the building at the SE corner of 14th & H Street.
Has anyone heard anything more about Bab?
There's also a sign posted for "Thai Cuisine" at 1360 H Street, which was home to a short lived Pho restaurant. This is next door to Impala.
Photo of 1360 H posted to twitter by @DCVet
Thai Cuisine has been on our short list for places that should really open on H Street for as long as we've lived here, so we're pretty excited to see a Thai spot finally coming to fruition. Between the new wine bar and this Thai place coming soon, we're going to have update our list of what H Street needs to have open soon.
The Emporiyum with Momofuku Milk Bar, Bryan Voltaggio, Erik Bruner-Yang, Spike Gjerde & more to Dock5 @ UnionMarket 11/15-16
THE EMPORIYUM, A TWO-DAY MARKET AND CELEBRATION OF DELICIOUS FOODSTUFFS, MAKES ITS DC DEBUT
DOCK5 @ UNION MARKET
TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT WWW.THEEMPORIYUM.COM
The Emporiyum, an event designed to introduce people with a passion for food to a selection of artisans from the Mid-Atlantic region and around the country is coming to Dock5 at Union Market on November 15 and 16. The two-day marketplace brings together a remarkable lineup of food and beverage purveyors. Meet the people behind the brands, taste and learn about their products, and wow friends and family for the holidays with unique edible gifts.
Local area favorites such as Erik Bruner-Yang (Toki Underground, Maketto), Spike Gjerde (Woodberry Kitchen), Bryan Voltaggio (Volt), and Luke’s Lobster welcome a roster of visitors including Paul Qui (Qui, East Side King), Momofuku Milk Bar, Mast Brothers Chocolate, Black Seed Bagels, Bittermilk, Quin Candy, Butter & Scotch, Bellocq Tea, will be on hand. The full list of participants is being updated regularly on The Emporiyum’s website.
VIP ($40) and General Admission ($20) tickets may be purchased online at: www.theemporiyum.com. There's no charge for bringing kids under 12.
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Scottish PSC needs to be credited for a well researched article that deserves wide circulation. An excellent piece to counter the saturated corporate media coverage of this story.
Mercaz HaRav - a training centre for illegal occupation, murder and 'Arabs to the Gas Chambers'
Mick Napier, Chair of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
A Palestinian killed eight Israeli students in a settler movement training centre, in retaliation for Israel’s massacre of over a hundred Gazans, mostly civilians. Hundreds of the seminary students later chanted “Death to the Arabs” at the gates of their seat of learning.[1] This was somehow missed by the BBC.
“The difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews – all of them in all different levels – is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle.”
Rabbi A.Y. Kook, founder of Mercaz HaRav yeshiva
British prime Minister Gordon Brown, following Bush, hurried to condemn “the murders” of the Israelis at the settlers’ training centre.[2] This contrasts with his deep silence during Israel’s recent massacres in Gaza. The word "murders" could never pass his Presbyterian lips to describe what Israel does to thousands of Palestinian women and children.
The BBC would have us believe that Mercaz HaRav yeshiva is a normal school where 'religious students' [3] pursue esoteric religious studies. In fact Mercaz HaRav is the main educational and training centre of the fanatical Israeli settler movement, Gush Emunim, what the British newspaper,The Independent, somewhat disingenuously calls the “controversial settler movement”. Many Mercaz HaRav graduates fill the ranks of Gush Emunim,[4] which organises attacks on Palestinians from Jewish-only military settlements across the West Bank as part of its declared aim of dispossessing Palestinians of 100% of Palestine.[5]
15 January 2008: "settlers stop next to a cistern in Humra Valley, open the lid and raise the bucket. Such activity raised suspicions in the village because of previous incidents when area cisterns have been poisoned with dead chickens or dirty diapers....an international NGO [obtained] results from a university lab [which] showed the water had pH 2.4 (potable water has a pH of approximately 7), and a high number of solubles. The NGO determined the water was `contaminated', and said it is not healthy for humans or animals."
The parent organisation, Gush Emunim, is heavily armed and carries out the most revolting crimes against innocent Palestinians across the West Bank.[6] This writer has visited the Palestinian village of Yanun after settlers had washed their dogs in the Palestinians’ drinking water. A Medieval ideology goes hand in hand with Medieval tactics - Hebron settlers poison village wells with putrescent chickens. [7] They beat and shoot Palestinians, poison their sheep,[8] generally act like the violent thugs they are. One well-known graduate of Mercaz HaRav, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, who founded the colonies of ultras in Hebron was such a vicious psychopath towards Palestinians that he was even found guilty of killing a Palestinian by an Israeli court, for which he served three months in detention.[9] Rabbi Levinger was also found guilty of unprovoked assaults on women and children, unusually, since the settlers enjoy complete immunity[10]; many a Palestinian has been found guilty by the Israeli authorities of beating himself up in the vicinity of Jewish settlers.
The Mercaz HaRav yeshiva is based on contempt for all Gentiles, not only Arabs. This yeshiva was founded by Rabbi A.Y. Kook, and later led by his son, T.Y. Kook. The manner in which young minds are shaped at this Yeshiva can be guessed from one of A.Y.'s spiritual pronouncements, that “The difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews – all of them in all different levels – is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle.”[11] Kook's classification of Palestinians as non-human allows the graduates of Mercaz HaRav to ignore those commandments that forbid stealing, murder and coveting.
“While God requires other normal nations to abide by abstract codes of justice and righteousness, such laws do not apply to Jews.”
Gush Emunim Rabbi, Shlomo Aviner
Since non-Jews are similar to another species in the Kooks’ world-view, the very notion of human rights governing the relations between Jews and others is naturally repugnant to his followers; human rights are definitely not on the syllabus at Mercaz HaRav. The Kooks’ primitive god is similar to that of their American Christian fundamentalist counterparts. Both groups of fundamentalists believe that the coming of the Messiah is imminent (they disagree on whether this is a first or a return visit; they also disagree on who should kill or rule over whom at that time) but they agree that the normal forms of human decency are no longer in force. For reasons that need not concern us here, the beginning of the messianic age allows the activation of the rule, as expressed by another unlovely Gush Emunim Rabbi, Shlomo Aviner, that “While God requires other normal nations to abide by abstract codes of justice and righteousness, such laws do not apply to Jews.”[12]
Settlers have spray-painted "Gas the Arabs!" outside a local Palestinian's home
The suspension of ‘such laws’ extends to non-Jews’ right to live and breathe. Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, another settler leader, asked pragmatically whether “If a Jew needs a liver, can he take the liver of an innocent non-Jew to save the Jew?”[13] He replied in the affirmative, supporting an Israeli fundamentalist theology that should make anyone think twice before taking the kids on that beach holiday in Israel. Palestinians have to take Ginsburgh’s ideas seriously, though, for the learned Rabbi leads a heavily-armed gang of settlers,[14] past graduates of the classrooms of yeshuv Mercaz HaRav.
Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, leader of a heavily-armed gang of settlers, asked pragmatically whether “If a Jew needs a liver, can he take the liver of an innocent non-Jew to save the Jew?” He replied in the affirmative.
Ginsburgh also defended one particular massacre of Muslims, the killing of 29 Hebronites at prayer in the Al-Ibrahimi mosque, on the religious basis that a Jew is permitted to kill any non-Jew and not be deemed to commit murder. He added, in case anybody didn’t quite get the message, that killing even innocent Palestinians to exact revenge is ‘a Jewish virtue’. Another Mercaz HaRav graduate, Rabbi Dov Lior, in 2004, instructed his settler followers, parents of those killed in the yeshiva recently, that the Israeli occupation forces are allowed to kill innocent Palestinians.[15] Mercaz HaRav alumni all sing from the same savage hymn sheet.
Mercaz HaRav graduates don’t just believe they can use your, or any passing Palestinian’s, liver. Gentiles can also be useful to science. The Israeli Attorney General was forced to intervene to bar Rabbi Lior’s election to Israel’s top religious body following concern over his public proposal to use captured Arab ‘terrorists’ to conduct medical experiments.[16] (Gush Emunim considers all Palestinians to be 'terrorists'.) Lior is reputed to be the top student of Kook fils. Note that Lior had to be barred by adminstrative methods after he had secured enough votes from his supporters to secure a seat on Israel's Supreme Rabbinical Council.
The Israeli Attorney General was forced to intervene to bar Mercaz HaRav graduate Rabbi Lior’s election to Israel’s top religious body following concern over his public proposal to use captured Arab ‘terrorists’ to conduct medical experiments.
Lior recognised a kindred spirit in American-Israeli Baruch Goldstein, who murdered the 29 Palestinian worshippers (and wounded another 150) in the Hebron mosque. Lior eulogised the mass killer thus: “Goldstein was full of love for fellow human beings. He dedicated himself to helping others.” [17]
The idea of using Arabs for medical experiments ought to be a clue to something bigger. Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, in Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, spell it out: “the similarities between the Jewish political messianic trend and German Nazism are glaring. The Gentiles are for the messianists what the Jews were for the Nazis.”[18] If you think that stealing peoples organs is just your average settler yeshiva ghoulishness, Gush Emunim settlers’ idea of leisure time activities after yeshiva is out is to decorate Palestinian homes in Hebron with "Arabs to the gas chambers".[19]
The Israeli settlements where Mercaz HaRav sends its graduates are centres of military power and domination of the Palestinians in the West Bank. Since secular Jews are no longer very much interested in building settlements in densely-populated Palestinian areas, where there is a risk of armed Palestinian opposition, only the religious fanatics are prepared to undertake this task. That is why they are so strongly supported by the army[20] which is still mainly controlled by secular Zionists.
“When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle”
Rafael Eitan, past Army Chief and Deputy Prime Minister
The Gush Emunim settlers are highly militarised zealots who can be relied upon to fight in the army and to abuse and beat Palestinian ‘cattle’ at the hundreds of checkpoints they help to run across the West Bank and East Jerusalem. These zealots are increasing their influence throughout the Israeli military[21] as the Labour Zionist-run core of the state is eaten away with corruption and failure to defeat the Palestinians or Hezbollah. Their settlements vote overwhelmingly for ultra-right parties, groups that the late Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz termed “Judeo-Nazis”.[22]
Why did some Gazans celebrate the Mercaz HaRav attack? We might find an answer if we ask why the US refused to allow the UN Security Council to condemn the Jerusalem Yeshiva and the Gaza killings together.[23] The US has a high limit on the number of Palestinian Arabs it allows Israel to kill, and the it doesn't object that some of the huge volume of US arms pumped into Israel find their way to settlers. These thugs combine their guns with creative methods to harm the farmers whose land they covet. When one man strikes back against the most genocidal settler group it is bound to bring a grim satisfaction to those crouching under Israeli-imposed siege in the Gaza Killing Zone. Bush, Brown, the EU, and the UN have delivered these Gazans to Israel’s tender mercies. They well remember the hideous settlers inside Gaza who treated them like 'cattle'.
Threats of rape spray painted on the wall of a Palestinian home - "Watch out Fatima - We will rape all Arab women!"
Alaa Abu Dheim killed eight students who were being trained to oppress and dispossess him, his family, his entire people. He was himself killed by an armed student.
Jerusalem, like Palestine as a whole, is saturated with armed Jews, uniformed soldiers and police as well as gun-toting settlers. Both groups cooperate to control the Palestinian population, who are kept unarmed in order that they can be dispossessed. This dispossession is achieved by a combination of the illegal occupation’s ‘legal’ means combined with the settlers’ violent extra-legal actions. Any armed Palestinian is killed on sight. Jerusalem, like all of Palestine, pits Jewish supremacism and military power against a colonised population, whose anger at their status and hostility towards their occupiers and violators is natural and healthy. Should they kiss the whip held over their heads? Palestinians continue to resist and we should be inspired by their courage, fortitude and endurance against an enemy that threatens them openly with a ‘Holocaust’.[24]
Alaa Abu Dheim killed eight students who were being trained to oppress and dispossess him, his family, his entire people. He was himself killed by an armed student. Abu Dheim's sister, Iman, said he had been deeply affected by the Israeli massacres in Gaza. She said her brother had told her "he wasn't able to sleep because of the grief".[25] Rafael Eitan, a past Army Chief and Deputy Prime Minister explained the rationale behind Israel's incessant brutality:the crushing of the Palestinians. “When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle”.[26]
Israel’s brutality towards Palestinians is a means to the Zionists’ declared end, shared by dominant groups in both secular and religious camps, to dehumanise the ‘cattle’, the ‘cockroaches’. Israel was cleared for immigration in 1948 by terror, and is still to this day based on terror against the entire Palestinian people. Gideon Levy claims that “Most of the delusional right-wing perpetrators and the mongers of hate for Arabs came from this flagship,”[27] but the atheists who founded the state of Israel were no slouches at using terror to drive out the natives,[28] nor are their secular descendents. [29] Mercaz HaRav graduates, however, take second place to none in the history of Israeli demonization and dispossession of Palestinians.
Mick Napier
(Mick Napier is Chair of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, affiliated to PSC-UK. This article represents his personal views, not necessarily those of the Campaign)
[1] http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=357523
[2] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brown-massacre-strikes-at-heart-of-peace-792871.html
[3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7282579.stm
[4] http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/961727.html
[5] Shahak, I. And Mezvinsky, N. (1999) Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, London, Pluto Press, p.20
[6] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/07/29/wmid29.xml
[7] Zionism in Microcosm & http://www.cpt.org/hebron/documents/Tuwani_media_packet.htm for CPT detailed reports of poisonings by settlers in Hebron hills. In one example, "Israeli settlers put dead chickens in one of the two At-Tuwani drinking water wells." CPT, Hebron reported, 15 January 2008 settlers "stop next to a cistern in Humra Valley, open the lid and raise the bucket. Such activity raised suspicions in the village because of previous incidents when area cisterns have been poisoned with dead chickens or dirty diapers....an international NGO [obtained] results from a university lab [which] showed the water had pH 2.4 (potable water has a pH of approximately 7), and a high number of solubles. The NGO determined the water was `contaminated', and said it is not healthy for humans or animals."
[8] http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=6967
[9] http://www.israelblog.org/Articles/The_City_of_the_Dead_-_Part_1.html
[10] http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/tel-rumeida.html
[11] Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.ix
[12] Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.71
[14] Amayreh, Khalid. “Kristallnacht Revisited.” Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 12 –18 Oct. 2000. Issue No. 503
[15] http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5338.shtml and
"We were in a weapon carrier when this guy, around 25, passed by in the street, and just like that, for no reason, he didn't throw a stone, did nothing - bang, a bullet in the stomach - he shot him in the stomach and the guy is dying on the sidewalk and we keep going, uninterested. No one gave him a second look."
http://files.tikkun.org/current/article.php?story=20071019115027411
[16] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Lior
[17] Shahak & Mezvinsky, p.103
Goldstein was not an isolated murderer. "...within two days of the massacre the walls of religious neighborhoods of west Jerusalem (and to a lesser extent of many other religious neighborhoods) were covered by posters extolling Goldstein's virtues and complaining that he did not manage to kill more Arabs. Children of religious settlers who came to Jerusalem to demonstrate sported buttons for months after the massacre that were inscribed: 'Dr. Goldstein cured Israel's ills.' Numerous concerts of Jewish religious music and other events often developed into demonstrations of tribute to Goldstein...No major politician protested against such celebrations."
[19] http://electronicintifada.net/$artman2/uploads/1/gaschambers235.jpg &
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9381.shtml
This writer has seen a lot of this Nazi graffitti by Mercaz HaRav graduates in Hebron.
[20] http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/seth_freedman/2007/07/peace_now_report.html Western media flag up the risk of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons falling into the hands of fundamentalist Muslim groups in that country, The lunatic graduates of Mercaz HaRav are inching up the ladder of the military of the Israeli nuclear super-power.
[22] http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=1798
[23] http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06272490.htm
[24] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7270650.stm
"We offer our solidarity and support to the victims of this brutality and to those who mount a resistance against it. For our part, we will use all the means at our disposal to expose the complicity of our governments in these crimes. There will be no peace in the Middle East while the occupations of Palestine and Iraq and the temporarily "paused" bombings of Lebanon continue.
Tariq Ali / Noam Chomsky / Eduardo Galeano / Howard Zinn / Ken Loach / John Berger & Arundhati Roy
[25] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7366776
[26] http://www.washington-report.org/archives/Jan_Feb_2005/0501021.html
[27] http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/962041.html
[28] http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n01/papp01_.html
[29] http://www.caiaweb.org/files/UriDavis-CanadaPark.pdf
Source: http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2249&Itemid=404
"The truth is this is not really an occupation of the West Bank at all, its colonisation - aggressive on going colonisation! There are now nearly half a million permanent settlers in the West Bank. Pristine hill top settlements are omnipresent and canonise the West Bank. What’s more they breed yet more electric fences, moats, Jew-only roads, road-blocks, checkpoints, soldiers - over 500 of them. Imagine if this situation was reversed, if it was the Palestinians doing this to the Jews would the reaction of this government and the world be the same? I don't think so."
Lord Andrew Phillips
Enough Occupation Rally, June 2007 [6min / 3Mb]
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Teimouri Yansari, A. (2016). Physical Characteristics and Physically Effectiveness of Beet Pulp for Ruminant. Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science, 6(2), 317-326.
A. Teimouri Yansari. "Physical Characteristics and Physically Effectiveness of Beet Pulp for Ruminant". Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science, 6, 2, 2016, 317-326.
Teimouri Yansari, A. (2016). 'Physical Characteristics and Physically Effectiveness of Beet Pulp for Ruminant', Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science, 6(2), pp. 317-326.
Teimouri Yansari, A. Physical Characteristics and Physically Effectiveness of Beet Pulp for Ruminant. Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science, 2016; 6(2): 317-326.
Physical Characteristics and Physically Effectiveness of Beet Pulp for Ruminant
Article 9, Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2016, Page 317-326 PDF (287.72 K)
A. Teimouri Yansari
Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural Science, Sari University of Agricultural Science and Natural Resources, Sari, Iran
Receive Date: 26 August 2015, Revise Date: 11 December 2015, Accept Date: 15 December 2015
Beet pulp as component of cattle feed can be processed in different way. Tis study was performed to characterize the physical properties of so called fine beet pulp (FBP); normal beet pulp (NBP) and pelleted beet pulp (PBP). The following parameters were determined: bulk density, kinetics of hydration, functional specific gravity (FSG), water holding capacity (WHC), soluble dry matter and intrinsic osmotic pressure (IOP) were investigated. Furthermore particle size distribution and its geometric mean were determined according to ASAE S424.1. All three types of beet pulp had similar composition, but different acid detergent insoluble nitrogen, bulk density, WHC, hydration rate, soluble matter and IOP. PBP had the highest (0.967 g/mL) and NBP had the lowest (0.623 g/mL) bulk density. WHC was 4.318, 5.261, 4.881 (g/DM) and hydration rate 0.0527, 0.0663, 0.0657 (g/DM/Min) for FBP, NBP and PBP, respectively. Grinding and pelleting significantly decreased WHC. Initial FSG of FBP was higher than of NBP and PBP (1.416 vs. 1.371 and 1.384, respectively). FSG changed with incubation time as particle size decreased. Final FSG of all three beet pulp types were similar. FBP had the highest soluble DM (28.61 vs. 17.98 and 23.66% of initial DM in NBP and PBP, respectively). In addition, FBP had the highest soluble ash (45.18 vs. 37.79 and 39.36% of initial ash in NBP and PBP, respectively). FBP had the highest IOP and there are not significant differences between NBP and PBP. The studied physical properties were highly correlated with the chemical composition of the pulp. So was bulk density negatively correlated with the neutral detergent fiber (NDF), crude protein (CP) and non-fiber carbohydrates (NFC), hydration rate and WHC and was positively correlated with the DM, EE, FSG, soluble DM and ash, and IOP. In addition, WHC was positively correlated with dry matter (DM), NDF, NFC, CP and EE, but also negatively correlated with bulk density, FSG, soluble DM, soluble ash and IOP. FSG was highly negatively correlated with DM, NDF, CP, NFC, EE, hydration rate and WHC and positive correlated with bulk density, soluble DM, soluble ash and IOP. The physical properties of beet pulp aid in establishing the nutritive value of feedstuffs for ruminant. They physical properties of feedstuff take into account the modifying role of the reticulo-ruminal function on the speed of the character of the quantitative and qualitative biochemical degradation process.
beet pulp; physically effective fiber; physical property; ruminant feed
The optimal utilization of diets by dairy cows is affected by the chemical composition as well as by the physical characteristics of its various components. The physical characteristics of feed particles determine the retention time of the feed components in the rumen and their passage rate into the reticulum and rest of the gut. Particle size affects the speed of postprandial ruminal emptying and subsequently determines the magnitude of voluntary feed intake. Therefore, optimal particle size could enable a larger feed intake which on its turn is a condition for high performance. These physical characteristics of feedstuffs for ruminants are rarely measured or seriously considered in the evaluation of digestibility next to particle size (Mertens, 1997), functional specific gravity (FSG) (Wattiaux, 1990; Teimouri Yansari et al. 2004; Teimouri Yansari and Pirmohammadi, 2009), hydration rate (Bhatti and Firkins, 1995; Wattiaux, 1990), water holding capacity (WHC) and ionion-cation exchange (Van Soest, 1994) determine the physical status of feed components. Physical characteristics become critical factors if correct lower limits for acceptable forage to concentrates ratios must be set for dairy (Mertens, 1997). Effective dietary fiber sources are those that stimulate chewing and sustain normal milk fat yield with maintenance of a good ruminal structure (Teimouri Yansari et al. 2004). In addition, calculation of physically effective NDF (peNDF) values based on chewing activity allows the separation of physical and chemical effects of fiber and quantities the impact of replacing forage fiber with NFC of small particle size (Grant, 1997). However, some physical properties such as FSG (Bhatti and Firkins, 1995; Wattiaux, 1990; Teimouri Yansari and Pirmohammadi, 2009), WHC and hydration rate (Wattiaux, 1990; Teimouri Yansari et al. 2004) influenced on physically effective factor (pef), but only particle size measurement is central to all effective fiber systems. Beet pulp (BP), the dried residue from sugar beets is a bulky and highly palatable feed for dairy cows that may be fed in various ways BP is often used to reduce the content of NFC in the diets of dairy cattle. Much of the NFC in BP is pectin, which has a propensity for production of acetate rather than propionate in the rumen. The NDF in BP is highly fermentable in the rumen, and it can be used to supply fermentable fiber in the diet. BP has some effective fiber. The objective of this study was to compare three physically different types of BP for physical parameters bulk density (BD), particle size, kinetics of hydration, FSG, WHC, and intrinsic osmotic pressure, all measured in vitro. This study forms a part of a larger study that evaluated effects of the three types including fine dried BP (FBP); normal dried BP (NBP) and pelleted BP (PBP) on effectiveness of BP. This paper discusses the effects on BD, kinetics of hydration, FSG, WHC, soluble DM, and intrinsic osmotic pressure (IOP).
Sample preparation and composition
Two types including NBP and PBP were used in this experiment were prepared from feed manufacture of Khorasan province, Iran. The FBP was prepared by milling NBP, using 2 mm screen pore size of miller. Feeding dried BP chips into the pelleting machine produced pellets. Pellets were obtained from dried BP by grinding and hardening into a cylindrical shape, about 5 cm long and about 0.5 cm in diameter and are uniform in appearance and texture. Samples were dried at 55 ˚C, ground through a Wiley mill (1-mm screen), analyzed for DM, OM, Kjeldahl N, ether extract, Ca, P (AOAC, 2002), NDF, ADF (Van Soest et al. 1991) and ash at 605 ˚C at 3 h. NFC was calculated by 100 - (% CP+% NDF+% Ash+% EE) Table 1; (NRC, 2001).
Physical measurements
Bulk density
Bulk density was determined by a modification of the method of Montgomery and Baumgardt (1965), as was described by Giger-Reverdin (2000).
Particle size measurements
Particle size of all types of BP was determined by dry sieving. The ASAE (2002) and original (Lammers et al. 1996) and new (Kononoff, 2002) Penn State Particle Separator (PSPS) sieves were used for measuring particle size distribution (Table 2). The geometric mean (GM) and the standard deviation of GM were calculated according to ASAE (2002); (Table 2). The NDF content of all materials retained on PSPS sieves was measured (Van Soest et al. 1991). Using 3 systems, the pef of all types of BP were determined. According to Mertens (1997), the pef was determined based on proportion of DM retained on the 1.18-mm sieve (pefm). Using the PSPS, the pef values were determined as the proportion of DM retained on 19 and 8 mm sieves (pef>8); (Lammers et al. 1996) and on 19, 8 and 1.18 mm sieves (pef>1.18); (Kononoff, 2002), respectively. By multiplying NDF content of the all types of BP by peNDFm, peNDF > 8 and peNDF > 1.18 was calculated (Table 2).
Kinetic of hydration and functional specific gravity
The kinetic of hydration, FSG and changes of specific gravity of all types of BP measured with 100 ml pycnometer (Wattiaux, 1990). The data obtained during hydration were used to determine the rate of hydration and water uptake using NLIN procedures of (SAS 1988; Wattiaux, 1990). A biexponential models could be described by the function below:
Yt= Ae-kat + Be-kbt
Y: water uptake over time (g/g of IDM).
A and B: represent pool sizes of hydration.
ka and kb: represent respective fractional rates of hydration (minutes-1).
Total WHC(gram/gram of insoluble DM (IDM) was calculated as the sum of total solution uptake (sum of A+B) and initial moisture content of the samples. A mean for hydration rate that was weighted for pool sizes from biexponential models was calculated: [(A×ka) + (B×kb)] / (A+B) (Bhatti and Firkins, 1995).
Table 1 Chemical components of three types of beet pulp
The means within the same row with at least one common letter, do not have significant difference (P>0.05).
DM: dry matter; OM: organic matter; CP: crud protein; NDF: neutral detergent fiber; ADF: acid detergent fiber; ADL: acid detergent lignin; EE: ether extract; NFC: non-fiber carbohydrate; Ca: calcium; P: phosphorus; ADIN: acid detergent insoluble protein and ADIP: acid detergent insoluble protein.
Data were analyzed as a complete randomized design by ANOVA using proc GLM of SAS (1998). Means were separated using Duncan's multiple range test with an alpha level of 0.05.
WHC of all types of BP was measured using an adaptation of one of the methods proposed by Robertson and Eastwood (1981).
Feed solubilization
The filtrate sample collected after passage through the filter was oven-dried for 72 h at 105 ˚C, weighed and subsequently ashed at 605 ˚C for 3 h and weighed. Dry matter and ash solubilized were expressed as g-1 or as percentage of initial weight of the component considered.
Intrinsic osmotic pressure
2.5 g of sample was soaked in 50 mL of water for 24 h. Filtration was performed according to the WHC method already described, but without the addition of water. OIP was measured on the filtrate using the freezing point depression technique with a Mark 3 osmometer, manufactured by Fiske (USA) (Giger-Reverdin, 2000).
The data of BD, particle size measurements, kinetic of hydration parameters, initial FSG (FSG at 0.1 h were considered as initial FSG for all of samples), WHC, soluble DM, soluble ash and IOP were analyzed by a complete randomize designs as three types of BP were considered as treatment. Data were analyzed by using the GLM procedure of SAS (1998).
Table 2 Particle size measurements of feed ingredients were used in the experiment
GM: geometric mean of particle size.
pef8, pef > 1.18 and pefm were physically effective factors that determined as a percentage of DM remaining on 19 and 8; 19, 8, and 1.18; and 1.18 mm screen using a dry sieving.
Correlation analyses of the physical and chemical properties of feed were done with CORR procedure of SAS (1998). In addition, regression analyses of the physical and chemical properties of feed were done with REG procedure of SAS (1998). The analysis of regression was done to getting the best predictor model including chemical components and physical properties of feeds. Therefore, the models were chosen with highest R2 when P-value of all independents variable in the models was statistically significant (P<0.05). All determinations have been performed in three replicate, when calculated coefficient of variation was higher than 5, the measurements were repeated.
Chemical composition of three types of BP had not signifycant differences, except on acid detergent insoluble nitrogen (Table 1). Grinding of BP had not significant effect on acid detergent insoluble nitrogen, but pelleting, regardless of CP, significantly increased acid detergent insoluble nitrogen content of PBP (Table 1).
Bulk density varied greatly between feedstuffs (Table 3). There was a very high correlation (r=0.99) between BD50 and BD100). Therefore, it seems that both of variables may be used for outlining of the relationships between feeds BD and other chemical and physical properties. The variation coefficients were 1.91 and 2.11%, for BD50 and BD100, respectively. Therefore, the BD50 appears more precise than BD100. In contrast, Giger-Reverdin (2000), found that the BD100 was a more precise method than BD50. PBP had the highest density (0.967 g/mL) and NBP had the lowest (0.623 g/mL). However, all types had BD50 and BD100 higher than the 0.5 g/mL. Grinding and pelleting significantly increased BD that is due to decreasing particle size and removing space between particles. The benefits of grinding and pelleting feed stuff include enhanced handling, improved animal performance, increased BD and flow ability, digestibility, decreased ingredient segregation, better palatability, decreases spillage and wind loss and a reduction of energy for prehension. Bulk density was negatively correlated with the NDF, CP, NFC, hydration rate and WHC, but was positively correlated with the DM, EE, FSG, soluble DM and ash and IOP (Table 4). The following equation had maximum R2 when all of chemical components (P<0.05) of all feeds were used vs. BD50 in analysis of regression:
Bulk density (g/mL)= 14.544 - 0.340 CP - 0.279 NDF + 0.079 Ash (R2=0.999; P<0.0001; n=9; equation 1).
In current experiment, the best relationship between BD and NDF and CP were described with following model:
Bulk density (g/mL)= 17.532 - 0.421NDF (R2= 0.818; P=0.0008; n=9; equation 2).
Bulk density (g/mL)= 19.702 - 1.968CP (R2=0.920; P<0.0001; n=9; equation 3).
Grinding significantly decreased the proportion of retained particles on 19 and 8 mm screens, but increased the proportion of retained particles on a 1.18 mm screen and a pan (Table2). In addition, the GM of BP particles was decreased (Table2). Regardless the type of BP, the lowest GM and the highest standard deviation of GM, were for the measurements of size with the 19 and 8 mm sieves. GM and standard deviation of GM obtained using 19, 8 and 1.18 mm sieves and ASAE were similar.
Water holding capacity, hydration kinetic and functional specific gravity
The WHC was measured by both of filtration and exponential curve fitting methods. Measured WHC that obtained via filtration, varied greatly between different types of BP (Table 3). NBP has the highest WHC and FBP had the lowest WHC. Grinding and pelleting significantly decreased WHC of BP. However, calculated WHC that obtained via exponential curve fitting methods had not significantly differences (Table 3). Therefore, in regression analysis we used WHC that was resulting from filtration method. WHC had positive correlation with DM, NDF, NFC, CP, and EE, but had a negative correlation with BD, FSG, soluble DM, soluble ash and IOP (Table 4). Regardless the methods, NBP had the high WHC and hydration rate. Initial FSG of FBP was higher than NBP and PBP (Table 3). Changes of FSG over the incubation time (h) in pycnometers are shown in Figure 1. Initial FSG (0.1 h) and final FSG increased when particle size decreased. FBP had an initial FSG more than NBP and PBP. However, the final FSG of all types were similar. FSG was high negatively correlated with DM, NDF, CP, NFC, EE, hydration rate and WHC and had positive correlation with BD, soluble DM, soluble ash, and IOP (Table4). Hydration rate was high negatively correlated with NDF, CP, NFC, EE and WHC, but had high positive correlation with DM, BD, FSG, soluble DM, soluble ash, and IOP (Table 4). The following equations had maximum R2 when all of chemical components (P<0.05) of all types of BP used vs. WHC, FSG and hydration rate in analysis of regression:
WHC (g/g insoluble DM)= -82.359 + 2.547 CP + 1.466 NDF + 0.551 Ash
(R2=0.997; P<0.0001; n=9; equation 4)
Hydration rate (g/g insoluble DM/h)= -1.097 + 0.027 NDF + 0.011 Ash
(R2=0.953; P=0.0001; n=9; equation 5)
FSG= 5.252 – 0.092 NDF – 0.027 Ash (R2=0.973; P<0.0001; n=9; equation 6)
In addition, the relationships between WHC, Hydration rate, and FSG with chemical composition were illustrated by following regression models:
WHC (g/g insoluble DM)= -54.729 + 1.495 NDF
WHC (g/g insoluble DM)= -4.899 + 0.223 NFC
Hydration rate (g/g insoluble DM/h)= -0.092 + 0.190 EE (R2=0.667; P=0.0071; n=9; equation 9
FSG= 4.071 – 0.067 NDF
(R2=0.532; P=0.0256; n=9; equation 10)
FSG= 3.344 – 0.0203 CP
FSG= 1.866 – 0.011 NFC
(R2=0.500; P=0.034; n=9; equation 12)
Soluble dry matter and ash
The FBP had the highest soluble DM (28.61 vs. 17.98 and 23.66% of initial DM in NBP and PBP, respectively. In addition, FBP had the highest soluble ash (45.18 vs. 37.79 and 39.36% of initial ash in NBP and PBP, respectively. There was no significant difference between soluble ash content of NBP and PBP (Table 3). The correlation between the soluble DM and ash content with DM, NDF, CP, NFC, EE, hydration rate, WHC were negative, but with BD, FSG and IOP were positive (Table 4). The correlation between the soluble DM and ash was positive (Table 4). The following equations had maximum R2 when all of chemical components (P<0.05) of all feeds used vs. soluble DM and ash in analysis of regression:
Soluble DM (% of DM)= 472.126 – 21.887 NDF + 4.582 OM
(R2=0.974; P<0.0001; n=9; equation 13)
Soluble ash (% of ash)= 720.677 – 21.258 CP –10.846 NDF – 5.605 Ash
The FBP had the highest IOP and there are not significant differences between NBP and PBP (Table 3). IOP had positive correlation with BD, FSG, soluble DM and ash, but had negative correlation with DM, NDF, NFC, EE, hydration rate and WHC (Table 4). The following equation had maximum R2 when all of chemical components (P<0.05) of all feeds were used vs. IOP in analysis of regression:
IOP (mOsm/kg H2O) = 258.880 – 4.940NDF – 2.057Ash(R2 = 0.815; P = 0.0002; n = 9; equation 15)
Relationships between physical parameters
The results of the current experiments show that BD had positive correlation with FSG, soluble DM and ash and IOP, but had negative correlation between BD with hydration rate and WHC. FSG of feeds was negatively correlated with hydration rate, WHC, but there were positive correlation between FSG with soluble DM and ash and IOP. Hydration rate has negative correlation with BD, FSG, soluble DM and ash and IOP, but there was positive correlation between Hydration rate and WHC. The amount of soluble DM and ash were positively correlated with BD, FSG and IOP, but were negatively correlated with hydration rate and WHC. Also, there was positive high correlation between soluble DM and ash (R=0.932; Table 4). The IOP had positive correlation with BD, FSG, soluble DM and ash, but had negative correlation with hydration rate and WHC. Various types of BP have been analyzed by several physical methods: BD, hydration rate, FSG, particle size, WHC, soluble DM, soluble ash and IOP. Some of these methods already exist and have been adapted and others have been developed by Giger-Reverdin (2000). All of the physical characteristics measurement methods are quite easy to perform and the results are very repeatable. The data obtained by the physical and chemical methods have been correlated. All results were very similar to Giger-Reverdin (2000). According to Giger-Reverdin (2000), the physical methods gave new information about the nutritive value of feedstuffs for ruminant and they can be used to differentiate between feedstuffs and taken into account in feed formulation. They might explain part of the role played by rumen or on feedstuffs, which is not taken into account by the chemical approach. Grinding and pelleting hay alters the physical characteristics of the BP and consequently, may affect the time that cows spend chewing. Chewing during eating and ruminating plays a key role in digestion and passage of feed through the gastrointestinal tract of the dairy cow. Chewing activity is associated with saliva secretion, solubilization of feed DM and physical breakdown of feed particles, which facilitates the ruminal fermentation process and passage of digesta. Changes in chewing activity could affect ruminal function, voluntary intake, and fat content of the milk yielded by cows (Teimouri Yansari et al. 2004; Mertens, 1997). Today’s, dairy producers attempt to minimize the inclusion of forage in the diet; thus, emphasis is on the efficacy of the fiber source in maintaining fat content of milk and preventing disorders associated with high grain diets.
Table 3 Effects of feed source on physical properties of feed ingredients were used in the experiment
FSG: functional specific gravity and WHC: water holding capacity.
Table 4 Correlation coefficient between physical and chemical components of cereals1
1 Correlation coefficient, above diagonal; P-values, below diagonal; n= 9.
DM: dry matter; NDF: neutral detergent fiber; CP: crud protein; NFC: non-fiber carbohydrate; EE: ether extract; FSG: functional specific gravity and WHC: water holding capacity.
NS: non significant.
* (P≤0.05); ** (P≤0.01) and *** (P≤0.001).
Figure 1 Functional specific gravity (FSG) of fine (¨), normal (■) and pelleted (▲) beet pulp according to incubation time (h) in pycnometers. Initial FSG (0.1 h) and final FSG increased when particle size decreased. Fine beet pulp had an initial FSG more than normal and pelleted beet pulp. However, the final FSG of all types were similar
Bulk density or packing density is the ratio of the mass of a collection of discrete pieces of solid material to sum of the volume of the solid in each piece, the voids within the pieces, and the voids among the pieces of the particular collection (ASTM, D3766, D32, 2000). The adapted method that used for BD measurements was very easy to perform and the precision of the method was quite good. The results were close to the Giger-Reverdin (2000). There were differences between BD of different types (Table 3). According to equation 1 to 3, the chemical component of feed including CP, NDF and ash can be used to accounting 99.9% of variation of BD of BP. The NDF and CP content of different types of BP accounted 81.8 and 92.0% of variation in BDs, respectively (equation 1 and 2). However, Giger-Reverdin (2000) found that had negatively correlated with cell wall content and NDF expressed 64.4% of variation of BD in different animal feeds (BD (g/mL)= 0.743 -0.589 NDF (Kg/Kg DM) (R2=0.644; equation 4)). There was a negative correlation between NDF and BD (Table 4). Singh and Narang (1991) and Giger-Reverdin (2000) reported that feedstuffs with high NDF had low BD, might have more effect on rumen fill than feedstuffs with high BD. Hence, forages that occupy larger volumes per unit of DM weight should be have a greater effect on fill than another feeds (Wattiaux, 1990). Wattiaux (1990) and Van Soest (1994) reported that BD influences DMI, passage rate and ruminal mean retention time. Teimouri et al. (2004) found that chopping alfalfa significantly increased BD and DMI but decreased chewing activity, ruminal pH, and milk fat content. It seems reduced BD by grinding and pelleting may affect on DMI, retention time, and chewing activity.
Regardless the method, NBP had higher frequency of particles on top sieves than the FBP (Table 2). In all systems, the amount of feeds that retained on arranged sieves were significantly different. The values of peNDF were differences between the feeds. Regardless the method, NBP had higher peNDF than the FBP. The value of peNDF > 8 were lower than the peNDF > 1.18 and peNDFm. The value of peNDF > 8 was lower than others. Therefore, with the construction of an additional screen (1.18 mm); (Kononoff, 2002), the PSPS is capable to making peNDF measurements proposed by Mertens (1997) and Kononoff (2002). Additionally the third screen may be useful in measuring the particle size of grounded feeds and non-forage fiber sources as well as processed grains. The concept of effective fiber was created to unite the chemical and physical nature of the forage and to quantify its value to rumen function. Chewing and rumination are known accurate measurements of the roughage characteristics for ruminant diets. The peNDF is defined as that dietary fiber source which effectively stimulates rumination and salivation (Mertens, 1997). Particles that were retained on a sieve measuring 1.18 mm pass out of the rumen slower than those, which are not retained. Therefore, particle size measurement in feeds and accounting, as an important factor in ration formulation is very helpful in ruminant nutrition. Inclusion of BP in early lactation diets allows the formulation of high NDF, moderate NFC diets of high energy density. However, it has limited forage replacement value (Armentano and Clark, 1997) and effectiveness factor of 0.40 (fraction of NDF) versus 1.0 for forages (Mertens, 1997). In addition, Mertens (1997) suggested that the pef of ground and pellet were 0.40 and 0.30, respectively. Although the cubing and pelleting process reduces forage particle size, reduces the chewing time, increases ruminal acidity, which is associated with cows going off feed, depresses fiber digestion, increases rate of particulate passage from the reticulorumen and may result in milk fat depression (Teimouri Yansari et al. 2004). However, the effects of particle size of by products in relation to their roles in the reticulorumen have rarely investigated. It seems that another physical characteristic, which have studied in this experiment, are more important on effectiveness of BP fiber.
Hydration rate, water holding capacity and functional specific gravity
Both filtration (Giger-Reverdin, 2000) and biexponential curve fitting methods (Wattiaux, 1990; Teimouri Yansari et al. 2004) were used to measure the WHC of BP samples. The values those estimated by biexponential curve fitting method for FBP and PBP were lower than the values obtained with filtration (Table 3). The results of filtration method were very close to Giger-Reverdin (2000) but the values of curve fitting method were different with previous studies. Bhatti and Firkins (1995) and Wattiaux (1990) found that exponential curve fitting method had lower estimation of WHC than filtration method. The previous studies (Bhatti and Firkins, 1995; Giger-Reverdin, 2000; Wattiaux, 1990) confirm the results of filtration method are more realistic. Therefore, we used the data of WHC these obtained with filtration method in regression analysis. The high correlation of WHC with NDF (r=0.813) is in agreement with previous studies (Singh and Narang, 1991), as is the effect of pectin on WHC. In ruminant, WHC may affect ruminal liquid pool size and the rate and extent of ruminal digestion (Allen and Mertens, 1988). Digesta WHC may influence the extent to which salivary secretions are retained intraruminally, influence the relationship between salivary production and ruminal liquid outflow (Froetschel and Amos, 1991). The effect of WHC on gut function is related to the susceptibility of fiber to fermentation. Wattiaux (1990) found that fermentation reduces the WHC of fiber. Froetschel and Amos (1991) reported an inverse relationship between WHC of ruminal digesta and passage rate and a positive correlation between WHC and ruminal liquid volume. Feedstuffs with a high WHC have generally low BD values. This could be because feedstuffs that have low BD could have numerous gas pockets within their cell wall matrix and these pockets might retain water when it is in excess, such as in the rumen, therefore they have a high fill effect and have a low transit rate. Giger-Reverdin (2000) reported that BP had highest WHC between 24 animal feeds that he used in his study. It seems that BP, which has high pectin content, had a higher WHC than feedstuffs with low pectin levels. SG is the ratio of the mass (density) of a sample material to the mass (density) of an equal volume of water at the same specified temperature (ASTM, D1616, D19, 2000). SG is unit less because masses cancel out (Bhatti and Firkins, 1995). FSG is of interest to ruminant nutritionists because it is related to rate of hydration, digestion lag time and rate of passage from the rumen (Hooper and Welch, 1985).FSG accounts for the void spaces in a sample (from air or gas) can be determined for actual feed samples with pycnometers and FSG of feed particles is altered by exposure to ruminal conditions (Wattiaux, 1990). The FSG of all types BP significantly ranged from 1.371 in NBP to 1.416 in FBP. Siciliano-Jones and Murphy (1991) reported that SG affected by feeds and particle size and ranged from 1.3 to 1.5 (approximately 1.4 for by products). There were high negative correlation between the FSG and feed compositions (Table 4). Those results agreed to Wattiaux (1990) and Hooper and Welch (1985). Particles with a density range of 1.2 to 1.5 seem to have the highest rate of passage in cattle (Murphy et al. 1989) and sheep (Katoh et al. 1988; Kaske and Engelhardt, 1990). Particles with an SG lower than 1.2 are likely to float above, and those higher than 1.5 are likely to sink below. Manipulating the diet to alter the FSG of particles in the rumen may help to obtain the desired effects on digestion in and passage from the rumen (Siciliano-Jones and Murphy, 1991). Hydration rate was significantly different between the feeds (Table 3). The results were similar to Bhatti and Firkins (1995). Bhatti and Firkins found that hydration ground BP was 0.252. These values were higher than the hydration rate of ground beet in the current study, which may be due to difference in hydration solution in their study from that in ours. However, Bhatti and Firkins (1995) found that hydration rate did not show any clear patterns in the feeds tested. Hydration of feeds is required before bacteria can infiltrate feed particles; therefore, hydration rate was expected to relate to the lag time of fiber digestion. However, Bhatti and Firkins (1995) reported that hydration of feed was not a major factor limiting fractional digestion rate of DM. FSG and changes of FSG over only in early incubation time were different. After 4 h incubation, all types had similar trend in changes of FSG. However, FSG, which accounts for the void spaces in a sample (from air or gas), can be determined for actual feed samples with pycnometer (Wattiaux, 1990). Particle density influences their rate of passage from the rumen (Ehle, 1984; Martz and Belyea, 1986) and thus ruminal turnover rate of feeds and possibly their level of intake (Singh and Narang, 1991). Particles with a density range of 1.2 to 1.5 seem to have the highest rate of passage in cattle (Murphy et al. 1989) and sheep (Katoh et al. 1988; Kaske and Engelhardt, 1990). Particles with an SG < 1.2 are likely to float above, and those > 1.5 are likely to sink with inert plastic particles (Murphy et al. 1989; Kaske and Engelhardt, 1990; Welch, 1986). FSG of forage particles is profoundly altered by exposure to ruminal conditions (Wattiaux, 1990) and this change is result of up taking ruminal liquor. WHC has an impact on microbial colonization and osmotic pressure is a factor that should be considered in the overall ecology of the rumen. Therefore, rate and extant of these changes is very important on ruminal mean retention time and digestion on rumen condition.
There was not high correlation between the SDM and chemical components of feeds but SDM was correlated with soluble ash (r=0.65). Therefore, the most portion of SDM was result of soluble ash. In roughages, SDM had high negative correlation to NDF, ADF, EE, WHC and peNDF > 1.18 and high positive correlation to lignin, NFC, osmotic pressure. In by products, there were high negative correlation between the SDM and cell wall components and negative correlation to HR and osmotic pressure. Solubility might be an estimation of nutrient availability. However, some soluble substances (Millard products, soluble tannins and other phenolics) are not digestible (Van Soest, 1994). Giger–Reverdin (2000) noted that the quantities of SAsh and OM were not very well correlated and quantity of OM solubilized was not explained by chemical composition because they have not the same potential of solubility in feedstuffs. It was not significantly correlated with ash content. This result was the same of Giger-Reverdin (2000).
Osmotic pressure is a measurement of the potential energy difference between solutions on either side of a semi permeable membrane. A factor is designing the operating pressure of reverse osmosis equipment. The applied pressure must first overcome the osmotic pressure inherent in the chemical solution in order to produce any flux (ASTM, D6161, D19, 2000). The IOP of fees ranged from 39.20 (barely) to 112.57 (cotton seed; Table 3). The cereals had the lowest IOP. These results were very close (a little higher) to Giger-Reverdin (2000) that reported the IOP of barely, corn, wheat bran, soy bean meal, sugar BP, corn silage and alfalfa 36, 20, 73.5, 63, 40, 85 and 102.5, respectively. According to Giger-Reverdin (2000), IOP of a 2.5 g soaked samples in 50 mL of water were measured. These values were correspond with a 5 kg sample in 100 L. Comparing these values with data that obtained in dairy cows by in vivo, multiplying by four to give the theoretical intrinsic values for 20 kg of feed samples in a rumen of 100 L. Therefore, the value of IOP in BP was 176.8 mOsml-1. Giger-Reverdin (2000) found that some feeds have an IOP higher than 300 mOsml-1 (wheat bran, corn gluten feed, lupine, citrus pulp, corn silage and alfalfa hay had a IOP 300, 330, 300, 320, 340 and 400 mOsml-1, respectively). The normal value for ruminal osmolality might be assumed to be around 300 mOsml-1 (260-340 mOsml-1) and might increase up to 400 mOsml-1 after a meal (Bergen, 1972), this means that the feedstuffs alone mentioned above could induce IOP close to those observed in vivo after a meal (Giger-Reverdin, 2000).
The nutritive value of feedstuffs is based on chemical analysis that on its own is unable to explain some facts observed in vivo, such as acidosis or loss of appetite. As the chemical parameters and the physical ones described in this paper gave different information about feeds, the proposed methods might allow a new approach for feeding and help to reduce these problems. They are quite easy to perform and to standardize. Data obtained in different runs did not differ for a given feedstuff. The main drawback of these methods concerns the need to grind the samples, which is necessary to obtain repeatable data. Therefore, the feedstuffs are not analyzed as fed. These methods need to be tested more extensively in vitro and in vivo in order to test their usefulness. For example, BD, intrinsic IOP and WHC needed to be more extensively related to voluntary intake, particle size to risk of digestive disorders, solubility to nutrient availability. Some of the data issued from these methods could then be integrated into systems to predict the nutritive value of feeds, when the information given is not redundant compared to that of chemical analysis.
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Effectiveness of Medicinal Plants Extract Combination on Sexual and Psychological Performance in Patients with Schizophrenia
Omid Rezaei
Elmira Majedi
Asghar Dadkhah
Masafi Saideh
Fatemeh Rooshenas
1University of social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, IRAN
2 Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, IRAN
3Department of Clinical psychology, University of social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, IRAN
4 Deparment of Psychology, Kish International Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kish, IRAN
5Department of Psychology, Kharazmi (MoaalemTarbiat) University, Tehran, IRAN
Int. Res. J. Biological Sci., Volume 3, Issue (5), Pages 40-44, May,10 (2014)
One of the complications of schizophrenia and consumption of antipsychotic medicines is a disorder in sexual performance which may lead to a negative effect on the life quality of patients. This study aims to examine the effect of all medicinal plants extract on improvement of the patients' sexual performance .40 patients with schizophrenia were selected using convenience sampling and were considered into two groups each consisting of 20 patients. In the first step, the patients were provided with SFQ and BPRS questionnaires as pretest. Then, each of them was given three pills per day containing Saffron, Caltrop, Cinnamon and Ginger for a period of one month. The results show thatthe difference of pretest-posttest grades on sexual performance Green House-Geisser statistical test- wasn�t significant (P0.05) and the mentioned medicinal plants extract have no effect on sexual desire, sexual arousal and orgasm, yet they have a positive effect on their psychological performance and the differences of averages are statistically significant(P0.05).The extract of saffron, caltrop, ginger and cinnamon has no effect on the sexual performance of patients with schizophrenia but this set has been recognized on schizophrenic patients' mental performance improvement.
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In Defense of Hacking and Blagging
Forbes’ media blogger Jeff Bercovici today takes issue with a public interest defense for journalists to phone hack. The prompt for his post is a 2006 admission voluntarily made by The Guardian’s top investigative reporter David Leigh that he had listened to voicemails of people he was targeting and lied about his identity on phone calls to secure information. Lying about your identity is known in the trade as blagging.
Bercovici notes the irony in this considering that The Guardian was the newspaper most responsible for bringing to light the appalling phone hacking of celebrities and the bereaved by the News of the World. Although he doesn’t himself condemn Leigh or dismiss a public interest defense, he turns to the Poynter Institute’s Kelly McBride, who apparently teaches media ethics. And she does the condemning for him.
He asked her whether Leigh’s public interest defense holds water? And she dismisses the defense pretty much out of hand. “The problem with that is he’s suggesting that the ends justify the means. In most ethical reasoning it doesn’t because it’s a subjective call. For him, it’s exposing bribery and corruption. For somebody else it might be exposing that some pop star lip synchs over his songs.”
He then paraphrases her, saying that “breaking the law in pursuit of a story — or committing a legal breach of journalistic ethics, such as misrepresenting one’s identity — is only excusable if it’s a story that’s not only in the public interest but impossible to get at through other means.” And that McBride is sure “almost never happens.”
Apparently, a “diligent enough reporter with good enough sources can always get the story with above-board methods.”
I suspect neither Bercovici nor McBride have much knowledge of David Leigh’s journalism. They seem also to have little understanding of the legal situation in the UK, where courts have upheld a public interest defense, or the ethics code of the UK’s Press Complaints Commission.
And I am pretty sure after researching the careers of both that neither has spent that much time investigating international gunrunners, spies, drug cartels or public corruption. On Poynter’s website there is mention that McBride, while a local reporter in Idaho, wrote some stories on white supremacists and the meth trade, but most of her reporting has been on religion.
First, to David Leigh’s journalism: His work back in the 1970s and 1980s did a lot to bring to light the attempts by some in British intelligence to destabilize the Wilson government. In the 1990s, his journalism led to the jailing for perjury of former UK Conservative defense minister Jonathan Aitken. In the 1990s, he wrote with Rob Evans a series of corruption articles on the international arms giant BAE Systems – articles that prompted prosecutions on both sides of the Atlantic and led the company to be fined more than $500 million. I don’t see anything from Bercovici or McBride that would compete with this quality of work — so some respect may be in order here.
Is McBride suggesting that none of these stories could be considered to be in the public interest? Could any intelligent judge for one moment fear that these kind of articles could be confused for a second with tabloid tittle-tattle about celebrities, or that even a tabloid journalist would not be red-faced in trying to suggest that there was an equal public interest in exposing the fact that some pop star lip synchs over his songs?
(On a broader ethical point, it is not always wrong to justify the means by the ends. In real life, it depends on the circumstances. And when it comes to formal philosophy I assume as an ethicist McBride is aware of the theory of consequentialism, a term coined by the Cambridge philosopher GEM Anscombe in her 1958 essay “Modern Moral Philosophy to describe a central error in some moral theories put forward by JS Mill and Sidgwick. Consequentialism now refers to moral theories which hold that the consequences of actions are the true basis for judgments about the morality of conduct. So there is a debate about this for ethicists)
Second, McBride should be careful in assuming that the laws in the UK and the US are the same. David Leigh is right. There is a public interest defense contained in the UK’s Data Protection Act.
And there is also a public interest clause available in the journalism ethics code of the Press Complaints Commission. For example, the code says this: “Engaging in misrepresentation or subterfuge, including by agents or intermediaries, can generally be justified only in the public interest and then only when the material cannot be obtained by other means.” So, Leigh has grounds for arguing that he broke no ethical guidelines of his profession.
For McBride subterfuge should only rarely be invoked — hell, if you are a half-decent journalist you should always be able to get the sources and the stories without subterfuge, she sniffed, remember. But it really does depend on what journalism you are doing.
Like David Leigh I have resorted in the past to subterfuge to secure information on Mexican drug cartels, Russian crime syndicates, terrorist groups, intelligence operations, human trafficking and public corruption. I don’t think it would have been a good idea, for example, to wander around Juarez or other Mexican border towns or in Colombia on various stories and be that open about my identity and what I was doing. Not only would I have failed to secure the information I was hoping to get but I would have also endangered my life and the lives of those who were assisting me.
Have I listened to voicemails? Yes, from tapes supplied (unofficially) to me by US law enforcement agents and Colombian police of intercepted conversations between drug traffickers. Was that questionable? No, there was a clear public interest in the journalism I was doing.
Have I ever hacked a phone myself? Yes, for a big investigation back in 1992 for The Times of London on how easy it was to hack cell phone conversations using a cheap scanner sold in British high street stores and costing then about $30. This was back in the analogue days of mobile telecommunications and the industry was claiming that you couldn’t hack cell phones and, maybe, if you could, only one side of the conversation could be eavesdropped on.
I spent a week listening to hundreds of conversations. You could only do this at random but the information I secure was deeply disturbing. I was able to secure credit card and bank details galore. I knew when the top civil servant in Northern Ireland was due to land at Heathrow airport and where he would be going and then his time of departure back to Belfast (this was when the Troubles in Northern Ireland were still very much on). I discovered where police anti-terrorist checkpoints were planned for in London. I listened into several calls from MPs, and heard an extraordinary row between the lead singer of a major pop group and the band’s agent.
What did we do with all of this information? Of course, we didn’t publish the details of credit cards or bank accounts nor did we name the pop band, etc. We did indicate what kind of information we had received and played up the security aspect of the dangers of cell phone conversations.
In short, without hacking we could not illustrate our public interest point – use cell phones with care, you don’t know who might be listening and you could be giving away vital information. The BBC followed our expose, and the mobile telecommunications industry was left embarrassed. Sorry, Ms. McBride, we didn’t think getting sources to say how easy it was to hack would have quite the same impact as doing it.
On blagging, I could give several personal examples. But one may suffice. Back in the mid-1990s I was writing for the Washington Times Corp. a series of articles on organized crime in Germany and central Europe. One concerned human trafficking. To be more specific, it focused on the trafficking of young women from further east, especially Ukraine and Russia. To be able to secure interviews and to get around pimps and guards, I did not reveal my purpose or my job. Was that wrong?
What is curious — or maybe not — about Bercovici’s post is he doesn’t mention the examples David Leigh uses to illustate his point about public interest journalism and phone hacking and blagging.
Here they are:
“I, too, once listened to the mobile phone messages of a corrupt arms company executive.” And,
“I still treasure the moment when I rang up Mark Thatcher in Downing Street. Thatcher was secretly on the payroll of a firm trying to get a construction deal in Oman. But at the time, we could not yet prove a link between him and the Middle East fixer concerned, whose name was Jamil Amyuni. ‘Who’s calling?’ said the Downing Street switchboard. I said ‘Tell him it’s Jamil Amyuni’. In two seconds flat, Mark came on the line, and shouted cheerily ‘Hi, Jamil!’ We had our story. Was I wrong to do that? Surely not. We were successfully exposing what many people thought was misbehaviour by the then prime minister’s son, who was shamelessly exploiting his position.”
Of course, offering the detail David Leigh supplied would have weakened the Forbes’ post. I assume that is why the author chose to leave them out.
What the News of the World was up to in hacking the voicemail systems of celebrities and the bereaved parents of British soldiers killed in action in Afghanistan was outrageous. The paper had no public interest defense in hacking the voice mails left on the phone of a missing girl, either. It was illegal and ethically indefensible. But let’s take care not to throw the baby out with the dirty bath water. Public interest journalism can entail the need for hacking and blagging.
Posted in Media Matters, UK Politics, US Politics | Tagged BAE, Blagging, Consequentialism, David Leigh, Ethics, Forbes, GEM Anscombe, Jeff Bercovici, Jonathan Aitken, Journalism Ethics, Kelly McBride, News of the World, Phone-Hacking, Poynter Institute, the Guardian, The Times, The Wilson Plot | Leave a reply
Blair Memoirs, Hague Denies — The UK Media
Posted on September 2, 2010 by Jamie Dettmer
The British media is just getting sillier. I wasn’t sure it was possible but after watching and reading the coverage this week of Tony Blair’s memoirs and of the gay rumors swirling around the Foreign Secretary William Hague that is the only conclusion I can reach.
On Blair, the U.K. media has been focused mainly on the former Prime Minister’s disclosures about how poor his relationship was with the dour and obsessed Gordon Brown, his grim-faced Chancellor of the Exchequer. Poor old Tony had to put up with constant conpsiring by Brown and his gang – allegedly Brown even triggered the party investigation into the money-for-honors scandal that dogged 18 months of Blair’s premiership. Some commentators rightly castigated Blair for his playing the victim in his memoirs – ye Gods, he was the Prime Minister and should have sacked Brown.
But the news pages have been taken the Blair claims far too seriously instead of questioning far more strongly whether the former Prime Minister should be writing in the vein he does. Virtually all politeness and conventional form have been thrown out in the book by Blair – he dishes on former colleagues, reveals private conversations with members of the Royal family, etc. One expects this kind of thing from Labour’s gosipy “prince of darkness” Peter Mandelson but should a former Prime Minister be writing in this way?
Blair has produced a “soap book” — not a serious, substantial tome. His chapter on Iraq – and his refusal to accept that he and Bush made any mistakes – should have been the media focus and not the “Brown was mean to me” stuff.
And Hague? After putting up with weeks of a semi-public media whispering campaign, Hague decided earlier this week to rebut blog-launched allegations that he had slept with a male aide. To add credence to his rebutal he went into detail about the difficulties he and his wife have been facing in trying to conceive a child. Now the poor man has to put up with claims that his denial is a public relations blunder – too much information, according to The Times.
The BBC has been running the Hague story as its second lead most of the day with news anchors questioning public relations “experts” and spin-doctors. Sheila Gunn, a former colleague on The Times and now a political consultant, argued that Hague has just prolonged the story by “giving it oxygen.”
Well, it didn’t need any external oxygen before – the blogger Guido just carried on making the allegations with nothing to go on except a photograph showing the aide and Hague walking along the street dressed GQ casual and smiling and the fact – not connected with the picture — that during the election campaign they shared a room with twin beds in it. And with nothing to go on now, the media is keeping the gay allegations going by questioning the public relations efficacy of his denial. And this is journalism?
Hague was utterly right to issue a denial and I don’t see how disclosing the problems he and his wife are facing in trying to create a family will do him any harm with the public. As the newspapers watch their circulations decline — and as the BBC watches its standing fall — maybe they should all rethink how they cover the news.
Posted in Media Matters, UK Politics | Tagged BBC, Gay Allegations, Gordon Brown, Guido, Iraq, Labour, Peter Mandelson, Sheila Gunn, The Times, Tony Blair, William Hague | Leave a reply
OUCH! TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES PAY-WALL DRIVES OFF TRAFFIC
Posted on July 23, 2010 by Jamie Dettmer
Celleno has been on holiday but is now back.
The Times and Sunday Times have seen massive declines in Online readership since News International introduced a pay-wall in June, according to calculations done by the Guardian newspaper. The fall-off may be between 84 and 93 percent – in line with industry predictions before the wall was erected.
The Guardian argues that The Times has now traffic of between 84,800 and 195,700 daily unique users. In February, The Times site had 1.2 million daily unique users, according to ABCe data.
This blog has argued consistently that pay-walls for general daily newspapers won’t work – there are plenty of capable rivals around allowing free access and (The Times isn’t that good). Celleno maintains that pay-walls will only work for niche or specialty publications, especially in the business and sports areas.
Posted in Media Matters | Tagged News International, Pay Wall, RUPERT MURDOCH. NEWSPAPERS, The Times | Leave a reply
iPad Could Save Newspapers
Posted on April 8, 2010 by Jamie Dettmer
Speaking in Washington DC yesterday Rupert Murdoch said he had “got a glimpse of the future last weekend with the Apple iPad. It is a wonderful thing.”
“If you have less newspapers and more of these… it may well be the saving of the newspaper industry,” he added.
His comments point to what I suggested in a posting the other day: that the paywall News International intends to place around The Times and Sunday Times this summer is now part of a more thought through strategy than when Murdoch first started to threaten to do it last year.
In a Q@A session last week The Times editor James Harding clearly indicated that the pricing difference between the digital editions and print editions was aimed at making the digital far more attractive.
I think Murdoch is right that the iPad and similar tablet devices could well be the saving of the “newspaper” industry.
Posted in Media Matters | Tagged iPad, James Harding, News International, Rupert Murdoch, Sunday Times, The Times | Leave a reply
Johnstone Press Abandons Paywall
The Johnstone Press, the publisher of the Scotsman and Yorkshire Post, is to scrap an experimental paywall it erected around several of its newspapers. The trial, which saw different pricing and schemes being tried across its local and regional UK newspaper empire, saw poor take-up. The scrapping of the scheme comes just days after News International announced it intended to charge from June for online access to The Times and Sunday Times. Will the national titles fare better?
News International has started to market heavily the pay scheme, offering early registration and a chance to preview the new sites and multi-media fare that will accompany the introduction of the charge.
Posted in Media Matters | Tagged Johnstone Press, News International, Scotsman, Sunday Times, The Times | Leave a reply
Game-Changing at The Times
Apparently The Times editor, James Harding, shares my thought that there is a financial flaw in News International’s paywall plan. Why pay 8.50 pounds a week for the print editions of The Times and Sunday Times when you will be able from June to read both online for 2 pounds?
According to Harding that price difference is exactly the point. In a Q&A session with readers he made this comment: “I hope that what we’re doing is providing a simple price and one that, even in these difficult times, is affordable. It’ll be £2 a week for all seven days. The print editions will cost you £8.50. And, I hope, that over time you’ll see that the digital editions of The Times and The Sunday Times will give you so much more…”
In other words this is a game-changing approach designed to slowly kill the papers and turn them into digital online products while bringing the readers along at the same time. Harding says that the digital product to be launched will be innovative. “We can do so much more online: we can provide video, interactive graphics, personalised news feeds and a chance for people to engage, directly, with our journalists.”
Obviously, this is a big market to play in with some tough rivals. They include the BBC and ITN, who both have free sites. Can News International pull this off? Certainly it is a brave move and one preparing the papers for a time when most readers will read their papers on tablets, I-Pads and computers. Curious, though, that one had to find out Harding’s thoughts in a Q&A session and that News International hasn’t marketed or announced such thinking behind the paywall.
Posted in Media Matters | Tagged James Harding, News International, Paywall, Rupert Murdoch, Sunday Times, The Times | Leave a reply
Murdoch to Mount the Charge
So Rupert Murdoch will start in June throwing a paywall around the websites of The Times and Sunday Times. Online readers will be charged £1 for a day’s access or £2 for a week’s subscription. Payment will allow access to both websites.
A weekly subscription will give readers also access apparently to an e-paper version and other new, as yet unnamed, digital applications. Those who already subscribe to the print edition of either paper will also gain free online access. The Times editor is gung-ho: “Now, we are leading the way again. Our new website – with a strong, clean design – will have all the values of the printed paper and all the versatility of digital media. We want people to do more than just read it – to be part of it,” James Harding announced in a press release.
He continued: “The coming editions of The Times on phones, e-readers, tablets and mobile devices will tell the most important and interesting stories in the newest ways. Our aim is to keep delivering The Times, but better.”
Now let’s see if it works. I have written elsewhere on this blog that Murdoch doesn’t really get the Web – News International was much slower than its UK newspaper rivals at the Guardian and the Telegraph, to exploit the Web. Likewise in the U.S. with American cable rivals. His belated internet purchases to try to catch up have fizzled badly: he over-paid for already established sites and has generally made a hash of them, MySpace being the best example.
Paywalls as conceived by Murdoch may be over aggressive at this stage. Total paywalls may well put off users, especially in the absence of rivals following suit – a blend of free and paid-for is far more likely to succeed. Paywalls have an effect of reducing online social marketing, blocking blogs and social media sites from linking to stories and giving them wider dissemination.
Clearly, as the online World develops and as new tablets and e-reader devices are developed, paying for content is likely to reassert itself: there will be a convergence of hardware, reading habits and the ability to personalise and market more surgically that will encourage payment. And those who really want real news – you know, the kind that actually involves news-gathering and reporting facts as opposed to opinion-mongering and shouting at opponents on talk shows – will need to pay if they want to get anything of value or authority. News-gathering is expensive. The waning of real reporting and the reduction in the numbers of real reporters able to place events and facts into context in an informing way is becoming ever more apparent.
But is Murdoch too early and too over-reaching? I suspect so. For instance, News International clearly has made the decision to keep the price low for online access in order not to drive away online readers. But is the price too low, if the company wants to keep people buying the actual print editions? Why spend 6 pounds a week on buying the hard-copy The Times when one pound will get you a week’s online access plus other features? Two pounds will get you both papers online. And that doesn’t even factor in the cost of a copy of the print edition of the Sunday Times. Okay, you can subsrcibe to the papers and get everything. But we shall see what we see.
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UK Newspapers Take a Pounding
The UK’s national newspaper circulations fell badly in September. The Guardian and Independent fell 9.7 per cent and 15.6 per cent year on year respectively. But the biggest loser among the quality dailies was my old paper The Times, down 10.4 per cent. Despite its international brand name, the Independent has a circulation way below 200,000. Is it time it followed the example of the Christian Science Monitor – namely, be exclusively an online product and focus solely on international news? When is it going to close its sister Sunday newspaper, a paper that adds little to its brand and doesn’t help with the finances?
The circulations for the once excellent indigenous Scottish qualities make for grim reading. Another one of my old papers, Scotland on Sunday, twice the UK newspaper of the year, has seen its circulation halved in less than a decade. Both the Scotsman and the Herald are selling fewer copies than some major regional English dailies. Andrew Neil did not help the commercial cause of the Scotsman Group when the Barclays Brothers were the owners: telling the Scots they are a miserable lot and should be more like the English tends not to boost newspaper sales over the border. But, of course, it is not all Neil’s fault: the Internet reaper is doing its bits in Scotland, too. Clearly the only way forward for the Herald and Scotsman Groups is somehow to bridge the west-east cultural divide in Scotland and to merge.
Posted in Media Matters | Tagged Andrew Neil, Glasgow Herald, Independent, Scotland on Sunday, Scotsman, Telegraph, The Times, UK Newspaper Circulations | Leave a reply
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Home > Player Profiles > Helpi Reyes Advances in Moniker Madness
July 24, 2012 cwinkler8 Leave a comment Go to comments
Another week down and another win for Jamestown Jammers starting pitcher Helpi Reyes, who advanced into the final 16 in an online contest on Minor League Baseball’s official website.
MiLB.com’s Moniker Madness is in its sixth year and is a fan vote to determine “Who has the best name in the Minor Leagues?” The tournament starts with 64 players, similar to NCAA Tournament and has now been trimmed down to the final 16.
“I was the first to notice when we were in Brooklyn,” said relief pitcher and social media-extraordinaire Beau Wright. “We’re aware, but it’s kind of on me to keep checking.”
Reyes defeated Roidany Aguila in the first round and Yogey Perez-Ramos in the second round to advance to the Natty Nattress Region semifinals.
Reyes, who turns 20 on Friday, is native of Cotui, Dominican Republic and doesn’t speak a whole lot of English. While some of his teammates are aware of contest, Reyes isn’t, but it’s hard to fault him on focusing on pitching instead of an online vote.
And the same goes for his teammates.
“I don’t think so,” said Wright referring to if his teammates are stuffing the ballots. “We just think its cool for him to be in it.”
Reyes will face Boss Moanaroa, a first baseman for the Greenville Drive of the South Atlantic League. That voting goes from July 24-26 with the winner to take on either Rougned Odor of the Hickory Crawdads or Zelous Wheeler of the Norfolk Tides. Quarterfinal voting will be this weekend, starting on Helpi’s birthday, July 27 and going through July 30.
“Pretty much I have been plugging it on the website and Facebook,” said Justin Michael, media relations officer for the Jammers. “But beyond that we haven’t made buttons or anything special like that.”
Fans can vote by simply logging onto milb.com and clicking on the Moniker Madness page. Once there, you only need to fill out winners for each matchup before filling out your name and birthdate.
Voting ends at midnight on Thursday
On the field, Reyes has been an important cog to the team. He’s 1-2 with a 3.26 ERA in seven starts this year. He’s allowing opponents to hit just .214 off him and has struck out 26 while only walking 14 batters this year.
In addition, Reyes has improved in a lot of categories this year versus his first stint in Jamestown last year when he went 1-6 with a 5.37 ERA.
“He is slated as our No. 1 starter in the rotation,” Michael said.
Elsewhere in the contest, in the Icicle Reeder Region, it’s top-seeded Caleb Bushyhead vs. Socrates Brito, and Bear Bay vs. Kevin Quackenbush. Winners will face each other next round.
In Farmers Works Region, top-seeded Duke von Schamann vs. Rock Shoulders and Jamodrick McGruder vs. Scooter Gennett.
Finally, in the Razor Shines Region, it’s top-seeded Forrest Snow vs. Tuffy Gosewisch and Michael Goodnight vs. Xander Bogaerts.
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My father was Jewish. I am married to a Jewish man. My children were raised in a very Conservative Jewish way, and have married into almost Orthodox families. I consider myself a Jew. Where can I convert to be accepted as fully Jewish in ALL Jewish communities?
Click here for a(n) Orthodox answer by Rabbi Dov Fischer
I am a mainstream, normative Orthodox rabbi, and I say to you, with sensitivity and with honesty — because your question reflects that you want to hear the truth and not puffery that merely will make you feel good about yourself for a few minutes — that mainstream, normative Orthodox Judaism does not recognize the child of a non-Jewish birth-mother as a Jew unless that child converts to Judaism in accordance with the standards of Orthodox Jewish law. Thus, your status as a Jew is not related to whether your husband is Jewish, how you rear your children, whom they marry, how you feel or identify, or anything other than your birth mother. If she was not Jewish, then you are not. If you are not, that means — because you are the female —that your children are not, and their children will not be. And someday, long after we all are gone, some descendant will learn, “out of left field,” that (s)he will have to go through the process of an Orthodox conversion in order to marry the Jewish person whom (s)he loves and who loves her or him, because no one previously in the family tree underwent that conversion process.
You can change that “Ghost of Chanukah Future” and can assure your lineage its Judaic authenticity for all time to come. To do so, you would have to undergo an Orthodox conversion.
I have been involved rabbinically in situations like yours, and someone with your situation presently is in our shul’s conversion program. For an overview of our shul’s and my approach, please see: http://www.rabbidov.com/conversion/conversion.htm
Basically, you would need to undergo an Orthodox conversion (“Gerut,” in Sephardic modern Israeli pronunciation; “Geirus,” in Ashkenazic / Yiddish pronunciation). The Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) has coordinated its Orthodox conversion program in America with standards accepted by the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. http://www.rabbis.org/conversion.cfm That helps conversion candidates know that the Orthodox conversion to Judaism they are pursuing now will be accepted by mainstream normative Orthodox institutions in Israel now and in the future. http://www.judaismconversion.org/ Thus, you may wish to contact RCA’s Beth Din of America (BDA) at: geirus@bethdin.org
If you ask any other Orthodox rabbinical resource besides RCA and its BDA to conduct you through a process that would lead to an Orthodox conversion, ask the rabbi to sign the following statement: “I personally assure you and vouch that the process of conversion that our Beth Din offers will result, upon your successful completion of the program, in an Orthodox conversion that will be accepted by mainstream normative Orthodox institutions in Israel so that your future generations will be accepted by mainstream normative Orthodox institutions in Israel.” If the rabbi will not make you that assurance, you may draw the proper inference.
It is heart-breaking to meet people who have gone through a Reform conversion, then a Conservative conversion, only to learn what neither of their previous converting agencies ever disclosed to them that their descendants will not be accepted as Jews in Israel and that, as Orthodox Jews continue their demographic emergence among American Jews over the next half century, will not be accepted as Jews by huge swaths of the Jewish population here either. As such two-time converts approach me for their “third conversion,” the question they ask me, with tears in their eyes, is: “Why didn’t the previous rabbis disclose to me the problems I would encounter in gaining recognition as a legitimate convert to Judaism, here and in Israel?”
I cannot answer for them, but I hope this answer from an Orthodox rabbi has helped and will guide you on your journey to attain authenticity. I wish for you the fulfillment of your dreams and aspirations.
Answered by: Rabbi Dov Fischer
Click here for a(n) Conservative answer by Rabbi Gilah Dror
Our sense of Jewish identity and our formal status as Jews are two separate realms, each with a significance and importance in our lives. You clearly have a strong sense of Jewish identity. It is completely understandable that you desire to align your formal Jewish status with your strong personal sense of Jewish identity in the broadest Jewish circles possible.
However, we are part of a people whose Torah teaches us to study and to interpret Torah using both our minds and our hearts - a tradition that encourages us to listen and to learn from widely diverse understandings of Torah.
Within our diverse Jewish world, differing understandings of what constitutes acceptance of Torah and mitzvoth (commandments), coupled with differing understandings of who is considered an acceptable member of the Bet Din that witnesses, lead to divergent standards in regard to conversion.
As a result, the reality is that there is no place where a person may convert and automatically be assured that that conversion will be universally recognized by all Jewish communities.
I would encourage you to follow your heart and to consult with a rabbi, or better yet, with rabbis of the various denominations, in your area to determine which of the paths toward conversion and toward aligning your strong Jewish identity with your formal status as a Jew might suit you best in as wide as possible a circle of Jewish communities.
It has been my privilege and honor to accompany many people in similar circumstances through the process of determining the most appropriate venue for them to confirm their Jewish identity and align it with their formal status as Jews through the process of conversion. In my experience, in the end, it was not the universal acceptance that gave significance to this important step, it was the fact that a person found a path that resonated deeply with their understanding of Jewish life, teachings, history, and wisdom – a path that united their personal sense of identity with a communal and historical sense of belonging. The community or denomination that one ultimately chooses, will be enriched by that choice, and the person choosing that community will be enriched by being a part of that community.
May you go from strength to strength as you search for the best way to align your strong sense of Jewish identity with your formal status as a member of the Jewish people.
Answered by: Rabbi Gilah Dror
Click here for a(n) Reform answer by Rabbi Michael Zedek
The query above is something of a "no-brainer" even as it raises some of the most contentious matters in contemporary Jewish life. The simple response to the questioner’s direct inquiry is “No.”
To elaborate, were the individual to convert under Reform auspices, the following is the likely outcome: all Reform authorities and institutions would recognize the conversion as an authentic initiation into Jewish life. Depending on the ritual involved in conversion, many Conservative authorities would accept the person as fully Jewish, and no Orthodox authorities would acknowledge the conversion as valid.
Assuming a conversion takes place within a Conservative setting, it is my understanding that all Reform and practically all Conservative authorities would recognize the conversion, and no Orthodox ones would do similarly. Should the person convert in the Orthodox community, while all Reform and Conservative leaders would accept the conversion, such would not necessarily confer universal acceptance in the Orthodox world, as the matter of whose conversions will receive universal recognition in the Orthodox camp is filled with controversy.
In short the questioner simply must consult with her "home" Rabbi for guidance, and while her goal of full recognition likely is not attainable, it may be the case – depending on her choices and commitment about observance – that a path exists that will result in a conversion viewed by the community or communities she identifies with as authentic and binding.
Rabbi Michael Zedek
Answered by: Rabbi Michael Zedek
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Keswick Film Club - I Served the King of England
2008 Festival Programme
(Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále)
Director: Jiri Menzel Country: Czech Republic/Slovakia
Cert: 15 Year: 2006 Length: 120 mins Language: Subtitles
Menzel has adapted one of the late Bohumil Hrabal's novels before: Closely Observed Trains, a seminal film of the 60's. Amazingly, he's still directing, and still on form, with this picaresque story of a Czech everyman Jan Dítě (literally John Child). Jan resolves to reach the top of the hotel trade, despite minor problems like the onset of World War II, and his chronic tendency towards bad luck and black humour. The film manages to remain funny, sexy and sensual – with more than a nod towards silent comedy – even as the story deepens and darkens.
NW England première – thanks to Arrow Film Distributors
A visual extravaganza. There are beautiful touches of magic realism... and many of the film's flashback moments feel like mini comedy classics in their own right. Amber Wilkinson, Eye for Film
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Alrighty folks, here it is. Please take your time reading it. I needed to take the day off work to write it, so economically speaking I need you to read every last word. I gotta mention a few things this time around. This year I really utilized the Letterboxd site and app. It's like Instagram for movie reviews. You say something about a movie and your followers like or comment or whatever and you do the same for them. You can find me at letterboxd.com/rexbasior! Anyway, I've been using the app to keep track of movies the day I watch them rather than trying to remember what I thought about them on the last day of the year. The length of my notes sort of ranged between 2 and 1,000 words, depending on my mood, energy level, or mental state at the time. So yeah, there are lots of different lengths this year. That's not necessarily a comment on movie quality. Also, speaking of movie quality, I love talkin' movies and I love doing the ranking thing, but I don't want to put too much emphasis on the numbers. A movie can be good or bad, but I hope that minor detail is secondary to what a movie makes us feel. The discussion is ultimately the benefit of this. That's why I put in so many words. Please please comment or message me with your thoughts.
As usual, I've divided the movie log into a few different sections with some stats at the end. We'll start with the one you'll probably find most interesting for the last day of 2018.
Top 70 movies of 2018!
Alrighty here's the list of movies from this past year. Way more than usual, there are a few here that were specifically released on Netflix rather than theaters. I imagine by the end of my life they'll all be Netflix movies. I've tried to point those out. I've also tried to point out the ones I specifically saw at Sundance. The Sundance ones will either be the most important movies of the year, or mentioned here and nowhere else. Anyway, here we go.
70. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Sundance viewing. Ugh. Hmm. So there's a guy in a wheelchair and he's a jerk. Didn't really connect with this and I get the feeling Gus Van Sant didn't either. Joaquin Phoenix gives us a blankness. Jonah Hill is a rich hippie character that seems to be one of his cut from air SNL characters.This movie also clinches my vow to never attend group therapy -- especially if there's any truth to how it stereotypically presents it here with all the participants thinking they're witty screenwriters. Actually if you ever see it, the good part is Jack Black's performance toward the end. He seems to be the only one living in the story rather than the set.
69. The Cloverfield Paradox
Netflix movie. Two things going against this: 1) I just finished the mirror universe arc on Star Trek Discovery, so I’m parallel universed out and 2) a Netflix movie is a movie with distractions, so the movie’s details escape me. Something tells me, though, that the details don’t actually make any sense at all. Still it’s nice that the actual character of Roy from The IT Crowd is moving on to more lucrative careers.
68. Ibiza
Am I really supposed to believe a celebrity DJ played by Robb Stark has ANY problem talking to girls? Fun is saved by Vanessa Bayer’s (often non-verbal) reaction shots.
67. A Boy. A Girl. A Dream: Love on Election Night
Sundance viewing. Always a fan of the single shot or the near-single shot film. I only wish this one backs up its characters voices in finding inspiration. It’s something discussed — constantly — but hardly shown. There's a Transmorpher moment when one character shows another character some life-changing piece or work on their phone and the viewer reacts like it's life-changing. We don't see what they're attempting to react to, so it's neither show nor tell. The movie says we need to be more inspired without bothering to be inspired itself.
66. Sierra Burgess is a Loser
Netflix movie. Oh Sierra. You’re gonna need to better convince me that you’re an interesting person. Despite this movie’s purpose, more than ever I feel like appearances are more important than they need to be. The movie is shot in a high contrast that appears to reach for an East Beverly feel rather than Bayside — nevertheless every character is pasted in from high school parodies. The best friend is so silly he should have been revealed to be an imaginary friend. The mean girls fall into such simplistic movie superficiality that I find it impossible to believe anybody could even have their feelings hurt by them. Other haters of this movie may disagree, but I think the biggest gleam is what turns out to be the centerpiece. The middle section focusing on the unlikely girl-on-girl friendship needs even more lingering, because despite the routine high school characterizations, the nerd and bitch bonding actually feels like a new concept. The boyfriend should be faceless and inconsequential.
65. Like Father
Netflix movie. Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer as father and daughter stuck on a boat together. Look, it’s important that we put our phones away every once in a while, but it’s just a bit too obvious as a moral. Maybe also throw in a sincere argument over which karaoke song to sing.
64. The Kissing Booth
Netflix movie. A fun reminiscing of 90s high school movies. Sometimes strengthened by the expected tropes, but mostly hindered by them. I watched this movie because I saw a promo with just the two leads arguing about American and Australian words. The promo was much more exciting. I’ll look forward to the next Joey King high school movie where she’s NOT expected to scrape so much from insincere material.
63. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
There’s only one man evil enough to officiate this monster auction... AND HE’S ONLY GOT TEN MINUTES!!! Yeah we really could do without the evil business meeting halfway through. Yeah yeah, businesspeople are evil. Now it’s like we just get that first day day of work chronicled immediately after our island vacation. There’s a part where a little girl is surrounded by dinosaurs and she’s scurrying through her house and just runs into her room and hides under her covers and I’m like THAT’S ME EVERY DAY, SISTER! There’s also a part where a bad guy hides under a car during a dinosaur stampede and gas starts leaking out of the car and I wanted a raptor to throw a lit cigarette lighter at it then walk away, but that didn’t happen :( :( :(.
62. Solo: A Star Wars Story
We’ve heard it all before. Seeing it for the first time has a remake blandness to it. The stuff I hadn’t heard already is the most fun to see, but it's about a 40/60 on that ratio (40 being new interesting stuff). Big sorry to Alden Ehrenreich. He's so great in Hail Caesar, but nobody saw it. He's pretty good in this, but he's probably going to take most of the blame for its failure. It's kind of weird how I love Star Wars, but get sick of the Jedi Skywalker family mumbo-jumbo. It's always been the scoundrel blaster-toting stuff in that universe I find so fun, yet strangely everytime we expand out in any way from the continuous saga it just feels bland and empty. Maybe there isn't really a universe there for me. Maybe it's just about that original small story that shines bright in comparison to the universe itself.
61. Life of the Party
Sort of suffers from What About Bob syndrome. We get an over-the-top character that a majority of the other characters accept as perfectly normal. The natural conflict of the situation is unnaturally bypassed. Melissa McArthy is always pretty amazing, but the stuff she produces on her own somehow doesn't channel her potential.
60. I Think We're Alone Now
Sundance viewing. My ever-growing list of movies titled after songs that don’t actually appear in the movie increases. Dinklage is always great to hang out with even when he doesn’t want to be hung out with. The third act takes a sharp, mostly unwelcome turn, but thematically necessary, I guess. Certain elements of finding goodness in grief and regret apparently just can’t be managed in a last two people on earth scenario.
59. Blockers
Alrighty, here's a movie about horny girls trying to get some, but somehow I don’t believe those girls. But then again, making them more believable would REALLY make the parents seem more clownish. I hate John Cena, but only because he has incredible muscles and has great comic timing and I usually have neither.
58. Ready Player One
And now for another edition of Jon Would’ve Done It Different™️. A movie with different layers of reality needs a visual distinction — especially at the top level. More dirt, sweat, and blood is essential in the so-called real world. At the same time, such a lost opportunity in the virtual world. Varying cultural timeframes could have yielded varying degrees of pixelated beauty (with the horror sequence a notable exception). I hate when people overuse this criticism, but a surprising amount of tell, not show. I’m using that card now, because if ANY movie had the potential to be the other way around it would be this one. Even the inevitable “we should appreciate the real world” is only mumbled half-heartedly. I really hate how the main girl is far more attractive in person than her avatar. She just has this mega-cute birthmark that she says is hideous, but then the douchey lead guy only has to say she's beautiful to him. She's bloody universally beautiful! There's no need for pity! There is also a tacked-on-ness with the whole "see the world and don't be online so much" message at the end. Hmm, really? The whole entire movie up to literally the last minute consists of a bunch of people risking their lives to save a virtual video game world. Perhaps I missed the line, but the movie could have moved up an entire grade if it just acknowledged that the real world is in shambles, but the phony things we create online aren't and if we just spent a fraction of the time working on our real world rather than our fake one, we can seriously rebuild something special. As far as I remember, that line isn't in there. The book is its own kind of sensation that would have culturally played much better as a movie like ten years ago.Here's a great thing though. All those evil gamers hired by the corporation? Gold. Seeing them all collapse in the VR machines while other minions scurry to take their place is some great chuckly visual. Even better are the higher-up young professionals arguing in what seems to be writers' rooms about the meaning of the game. Interpreting media is fun stuff that sometimes passes on to tedium and those people are really just all of us now.
57. Clara's Ghost
Sundance viewing. So you know Chris Elliot from Get a Life. He's got a couple of daughters: Abby, once a regular on SNL, and also Bridey, the director of this movie and a couple others. Anyway, the whole Elliot clan got together for this movie about a family's stressed out mom (played by the actual Elliot mom, Paula) and some kind of haunted happenings. Fun idea, but it comes across as the Elliot family's sweary Family Home Evening.
56. Price of Free (Kailash)
Sundance viewing. Very well-meaning documentary with a stance against child slavery -- actually more than a stance. The movie actually provides a lot of instruction to combat the issue those of us so seemingly removed from it. Unfortunately I'm left a bit cold because there's an uncomfortable emphasis on the personality of of the activism leader that overshadows the activism itself. My perception is the personality works the spotlight a bit too much. Imdb just told me the movie changed names from Kailash (the name of the guy) to Price of Free. Perhaps that little editorial adjustment between Sundance and regular release is a step in the correct direction for this movie's ultimate effect.
55. The Predator
Turns out the real predator... was love. Well, maybe too much love for the Predator legend, anyway. Part of me is charmed by the silly funny zingers of the characters and part of me is a bit annoyed they don’t take the situation more seriously. I’m also conflicted about Olivia Munn. I mean I love her, but it would be nice if she said something like she’s training for Ninja Warrior or she’s a coke addict or something to explain her inexplicable badassery. Of course just one “back off me man, I’m a scientist” wouldn’t be out of place in the slightest. There’s a strange through line theme of mental illness tolerance with the spectrum autistic kid indispensable to puzzle-solving and the new muscley crew composed on the fly of psych ward (but trigger-happy) military weirdoes. There are far too many other ideas that make it difficult to latch onto anything specific. Similarly, the characters make mega leaps in logic just to inform us backstory when they shouldn’t be concerned with such things when their total reality is this weird monster killin’ stuff. Back to the Dream Team (in that they’re mentally ill like that Keaton movie and not that they’re basketball players). Threat level is high the entire movie, but there’s a strange story sense that they’re not allowed to die until the situation is similar enough to the first movie. Seems to break the rules with the good gang invincible during the first set of threats, but then made of straw in the end. I’ve always had a bit of a problem with Predators in general. Not so much the movies, but the creatures themselves. Maybe I’m generalizing or just being racist, but I don’t think their haughty attitude is justified. They come to Earth, apparently for the thrill of the sport, but then they need every advantage. Where is the adrenaline rush when they have laser-aiming, a force shield, a tough eco-skeleton AND wussy invisibility? Wasn’t it Mitch Hedberg who said something about the toughest tennis opponent being a brick wall because it’s so “relentless.” Watching bullets do nothing to these creatures is like spectating a tennis match between a guy and a brick wall. And why are Predators so into being the brick wall?
Sundance viewing. I’m not sure if I like the lack of plot twists here, but by the end we kind of see where they’re going with an anti-Spielberg wrap-up (that certainly sets this apart from the Stranger Things tidal wave). I still struggle with the love interest. A little too pretty and loose with our young boy hero. Also one of the boys lands half his zingers, but the rest need cutting. Maybe 25 “your mom” zingers rather than 50? Thinking about it nearly a year after I saw it and my ultimate take is that it just want to put a gritty dark dagger into cute Spielbergian nostalgia drama. Not that I'm a big fan of the Spielbergian, but taking down something that's already built up hardly qualifies as a new ediface.
53. Dumplin'
Watched this in waves so I’m probably not giving it a fair shot. Glad it’s not just about the Willowdean character, but with that decision a bit more emphasis on the three other pageant misfits would be welcome (especially that gothy one). Also, they really start the heartwarming smiles a bit too early. I mean I don’t want to be THAT supportive of beauty pageants. By the final third I’m nervous and fidgety with the barrage of supportive hugs and there’s still a lot of comfortable sarcasm left untapped in the tank.
52. Believer
This is that one from the Imagine Dragons guy about mostly the gay aspet of LGBTQ+ism and also Mormonism (CoJCoLDSism). A great overview of the middle of the issue, but probably needs rep from both extreme ends to become truly thought-provoking. That's likely a copout on my part. I think the movie could be better and more interesting and have more thoughtful interview subjects, but ultimately I like that this is presented by someone struggling with the topic within the church (even if his music is the annoyingest rock music that still exists). If nothing else this illustrates that as silly as religious people are, the faith life is still filled with reckoning rather than aloof justification (at least if you're doing it right (or maybe wrong, who knows?)). Of course this isn't a new club or whatever. Kind of a big point of religion is that you don't get to pick the rules. At the same time the organization can at least try to seem a bit more compassionate in the enforcement. Arrgh. Whatever. We need to get along better and it's very tricky to get along better when every discussion and counter discussion draws more lines in the sand. I debated with myself whether to get into it over what I think is a more forgettable movie than we deserve, but whatever there it is.
51. Apostle
What a shame there’s not a lot of people kicking each other like in The Raid, but at least Dan Stevens gets to channel crazyface in ways his Downton Abbey character darest not dream. We also get a delightful melange of torture implements to make Jigsaw proud. I get the sense thinking up new miseries in this world is the only way to stave of inevitable despair.
50. Suspiria
So it’s finally revealed that there’s a great connection between the power of dance and the power of witchcraft. There’s a bludgeoning scene in particular that really edits the two together. Apart from that here’s another film that just hasn’t grabbed me lately. Yeah, could be my fault. I just think here there’s not enough compelling me to wonder and invest. A little whimsy, humor, gore, seduction, intellectualism, SOMETHING needs to peek behind the curtain to let me know it’s there. The extra mile in this remake THIS time around is lots of background exposition. Here we have the talk about flight hijackings and WWII and witch politics and Mennonites. I think all are the backdrop for a unifying theme, but strangely most of the (nearly 3-hour movie) is muddled with the other ungraspable bits. Oh, the thing’s long enough for seven (!) title cards. Six acts and an epilogue. One would think that device would provide structure, but it really mostly points out the sameness from scene to scene.
49. Ant-Man and the Wasp
Evangeline Lilly’s ankle game is very on point. That's actually the only note I took for this movie. I mostly love the Marvel movies, but from now on they're gonna need a lot more gimmicks per episode to be really memorable. This one has a lot more shrink/enlarge guns in it, so that's pretty fun. Also, I'm now pretty sure my plasticy red Scion XD is just a toy car enlarged by Hank Pym.
48. Game Night
Some fun choices (weird electric music, tilt shift camera that sets the scene miniature as if in a board game), but ultimately the movie asks us to believe a certain amount of charm that doesn’t quite exist. There's a really great montage of embarrassing game night dates and I would’ve liked more of that. Rachel McAdams is delightful.
47. Mandy
Sundance viewing. This movie is delicously mesmerizing in its apocalyptic neon nightmare look, but it's cursed back into the real world with one of the Cagey-est Nicolas Cage performances ever. It's absurd and weird and a bit silly, but Cage puts an automatic camp stamp on it. Still, put it on as a screensaver sometime. It's like the side of an airbrushed fantasy scene on the side of a 70s van come to life.
46. Madeline's Madeline
Sundance viewing. This definitely DOES NOT assuage my deep terror of experimental theater groups. The lead is sparkling and intense (and very talented). Full disclosure: due to waitlist error I arrived five minutes late and I missed five (important) minutes near the end to get in my next waitlist. For the most part I didn’t get this, but I can tell in the clutter there’s an interesting story about two different authority figures taking advantage of the protagonist in different ways. Somehow this would make more sense to me with a consistency of weird abuse from the mother — and not scenes sprinkled in that pretend the weirdness didn’t happen.
45. Mute
The fightin’ Amish. Swaths of this to dislike— needlessness of muteness anyway, fullness of a love interest, boring side character flamboyance, etc. — BUT so much is salvaged by Paul Rudd channeling Trapper John M.D. by way of all the charismatic scumminess that’s ever existed in the world. Also future Berlin is built well even if seems to distract Jones from a more interesting story.
44. Outlaw King
After an audacious (if not unnatural) one-shot opening, the movie sure settles quickly into straight-to-video Braveheart sequel mode far from the grandeur of the William Wallace tale. Chris Pine’s baby blues get stuck behind a shaggy beard and mullet, not to mention Battle of the Bastards levels of mud. His dourness is such a shame considering his charm and verbal prowess could have been used to greater success than his physical fighting ability. Hey the fights are cool and bloody enough, but I counted more than once a soldier slowing his attack in order to get to his death mark at the proper choreographed moment. Still, one guy took off his chain mail helmet and used it as both a whip and a boxing glove so that’s pretty badass. But what’s with the English falling for the pikes again? Did they not even see Braveheart?
43. Ocean's Eight
There’s a part where Sandra Bullock considers the impression their crime team will make to young girls as a positive thing and I totally dig it as the feminine part of me that wants to be a feminine badass (with the obvious stipulation that NOBODY (not even women) should be thieves). I saw this six months ago, and looking back, I'm betting this will be pretty forgotten six months into the future. Looking over my notes, I apparently liked the ending, but don't quite remember the ending now. I just have a note that a lot of people won't like it (thanks A LOT Past Jon). I'm thinking now that it's not that this movie doesn't take chances, but the chances it takes are really pretty boring when it comes down to it. John Mulaney has this (probably pretty offensive) bit from long before this movie's existence about how a group of women could never pull off a heist properly because at least two of them would break away to talk crap about the other nine (how could Mulaney have known they'd only bother with eight?). Obviously that doesn't happen here. The girls are cool and a team and the plan goes off without a hitch and even the woman they DUPE thinks it's all cool. Okay that's awesome girl power and everything, but this lack of conflict is the dullness I was implying earlier. My notes also mentioned my own prediction that I'd get really into Awkwafina in the next six months and that was indeed an accurate prediction.
42. Deadpool 2
I can deal with five meta jokes. I have a much more difficult time with 50 meta jokes. I’m not sure how I’m expected to invest in a story that constantly pisses on itself. FORTUNATELY, by halfway through, the movie finds other means. The pretty good action isn’t an afterthought and a few new characters bring a reasonable balance to Reynolds (who doesn’t deserve the burden of being the life of the party for the full two hours). I love the look of Domino. For those unaware, she normally has a white face with a black blotch over an eye. The movie version has a black girl playing the part (a smokin' Zazie Beetz), so it's a white blotch rather than a black. It's little touches like that that make movie interpretations so much fun. It's a tiny little spin in the cinematic interpretation with a callback to the source without being enslaved to it.
41. Burden
Sundance viewing. Garrett Hedlund exhibits an exaggerated bro-stagger that makes him immensely punchable, but I suppose that’s the least of his character’s concerns. Often racism is depicted as so overtly villainous it doesn’t seem real. Here, it’s still plenty ugly, but it’s believable as a sort of inertia that’s very difficult to stop once the conditions are in place. Heckler does a great job showing the natural state of being defensive helping to perpetuate the problem. Ultimately, swagger aside, Hedland’s performance wins over. Even the scumbag moments are understandable while still despicable. Like eyes that constantly read like shame, despite all that nervous limb motion.
40. Creed II
So I know it would be impossible to pull off, but if I could have seen this movie without knowing Dolph Lundgren was in it, that opening scene with the Drago reveal in the shadows would have been my favorite movie moment of this century. Alas, once Drago is introduced, it’s pretty disappointing to see him with the same dull revenge identity as the bad guy in Taken 2. There’s a scene where Rocky and Drago meet after 30 years and they simply have nothing to do but stare at each other. Minor spoiler warning, but the places Drago gets to by the end are all well and good and great for like a minute, but the previous 129 minutes would be far more interesting if the Dragos had gotten to that point ahead of time. Okay but this is mostly the Americans’ movie, yeah? Michael B. Jordan is ripped and delicious, Tessa Thompson is strong and soothing, and Sylvester Stallone is now a zen-like (yet endearingly dopey) Burgess Meredith type. The players in place, I really wish the screenwriters (Stallone and some guy) didn’t use terrible sports commentators as the Greek chorus of whatever they wanted the tone and theme of the story to be. It’s like these guys are just reading a screenplay’s emotional notes between the lines rather than just let the characters act. Okay but there’s good. Two fights and two awesome training montages. I think by now we all know boxing movies are really about the training montages. I mean, boxing as a concept, by all notions of even a partially-civilized society, should have been banned, oh, 500 years ago (conservatively speaking). Still love boxing movies though. Funny how Stallone wrote this, because that’s the only reason Brigitte Nielsen appears. Perhaps he’s actually the one who wants her back? I also wonder if the movie was fast tracked because of all the crazy Russian stuff in the last couple of years. Strangely no mention of current tensions, or even any talk of it really being an entirely different country 30 years ago (not even referring to the Soviet Union). Perhaps it’s the Russians who did the fast tracking. Yes, Americans. Russians always the same. Nothing to worry about with us. Only boxing.
39. Avengers: Infinity War
I've found that when the Marvel movies are strong, they're able to focus on individuals. They struggle a bit when they all jump in together in the Avengers movies. This one is kind of like a great cocktail party with eager, fun-loving people. Over the course of a few hours you get to hang out with different groups interacting with each other. Every individual has a bubbly personality and a different dynamic depending on who flows in or out of the party circle. By the end of the night, though, you don’t get the action you were anticipating before the party started. Also, Thanos is a goofy cartoon. He looks like Barney the dinosaur. Even beyond the blatant cartoonishness, it's silly to make him tortured/complex when his motivation is beyond Hitlerian. SPOILER -- Do I like the ending? No. Does the ending at least have balls? Also no. Maybe that's an unfortunate side effect of knowing there's a part 2 and the harsh real world reality of knowing the studio won't REALLY kill off its biggest new moneymakers. Notice all the young people die, but the old people live. Okay well prep yourselves for part 2 when they use gem magic to bring everybody back to life and then the old people (who are getting too expensive to keep in the franchise) will then die. The downer ending could have worked. Maybe if they made the deathcount a bit more conservative it would be believable.
38. Crime + Punishment
Sundance viewing. Documentary that channels a present-day urgency with universal stakes rather than a hindsight stuffiness take on heroism. Even afterward at the Q&A, the heroes of this movie gathered united, but with several different opinions regarding a police system that's more about harassing and arresting than service.
37. Andre the Giant
Began my watch kind of annoyed the doc wasn’t delving into the mechanics of the sport itself. I’ve never gotten a straight, intriguing answer about it in the last 30 years. Nevertheless, I’ve become swept away in the sad tale of a kind man doomed to die young in a prison of his own body.
36. Search
Sundance viewing. A gimmick like Unfriended, so I guess these movies that take place on computer screens are gonna be around for a bit. Maybe replacing found footage movies? This one utilizes hidden cameras and newscasts and the strange concept of FaceTime self-video outside of a conversation. The inventiveness of cramming in-story media is pretty fun, but also makes me wonder if it’s more worth it just to cheat a bit to be less distracting. John Cho brings some strange capability in order to bring real emotion to the unusual method.
So I’m like totally ready to list off a bunch of unnecessary homages left over from the original that this movie doesn’t need (the white Shatner mask for example). Also locked and loaded is my annoyance regarding dismissing all the other sequels, but still maintaining the in-movie reverence of a 40-year franchise monster. Thing is, as much as David Gordon Green annoys me with pretension, the movie eventually comes around to some interesting ideas that actually benefit from the whole idea of a sequel. I forgive the characters’ reverence for the killer because I ultimately believe villain-worship is the true villain of this particular story. Characters want to be Michael by choice and others become him by necessity. I suppose his fancy teleportation trick isn’t so much a superpower so much as it’s a symbol for the spreading of the bizarre psychological condition known as Auto-pilot Killer Crazy.
34. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Sundance viewing. I was told this movie has a “John Hughes” quality. I guess maybe, because angsty teens talk to each other, but I’m not sure Hughes ever dealt with homosexuality. Chloe Grace Moretz seems to suddenly have a startling ability to more gay than usual when she’s sitting perfectly still. It’s on her face even when she has no expression. The film has a restraint I respect. There is a monstrosity to the gay-fixers, but they’re not comically villainous. John Gallagher Jr. brings a conflicted soul on the opposite side. Emily Skeggs brings a refreshing Ellen Page similarity and a heartbreaking complexity on the side.
33. A Quiet Place
It’s not just bringing a baby into this world. It’s the AUDACITY to think you can do it silently. Well-enough executed. Surprised this silence novelty hasn’t been this utilized sooner. I’m slightly bugged that this feels like the one big chance to do it. I kinda feel the gimmick could have been used even more, but at least they didn't screw the whole concept up. If nothing else it got people to finally shut up during a movie.
32. Super Troopers 2
“Happiness in the household.” Good enough. I like these guys a lot except: 1. Still can’t really tell them apart 2. Some jokes feel laaaaame and old (like the ongoing thing where the guy takes woman drugs and becomes more sensitive) 3. The chummy banter is often unnatural. I say “some” and “often” in the last two points because it’s worth noting that the rest of the time it’s fresh AF ranging from sustained giggliness to jump-laugh. Is jump-laugh a term? I’m using it in the sense like jump-scare. Like when a guy suddenly gets electrocuted and you involuntarily exude a sudden loud breath of laughter. Btw, consider just watching the first ten minutes. The first ten minutes are AMAZING.
31. Set it Up
Netflix movie. Is this the “Scream” of rom-coms where the characters know they’re in a rom-com? No, definitely not. The trope-awareness is definitely for the viewers’ pleasure only. Just like old times. Old, comfortable times. Get me some ice cream and pizza and I’ll watch it again.
30. To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Netflix movie. Another Netflix exercise in rom-com. The tropes and cliches are here again, but the formula is used as a playground for fun young romance and earnest feels. Not sure why the three sisters look to be three separate races though.
29. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Turns out the horse is the father! Strangely better than the first one. I have a few theories. 1. While the additional songs are definitely lower-tier ABBA, at least they don't have the burden of living up to the other masterpieces in the visual presentation. 2. The movie fully acknowledges the whoreish irresponsibility of condomless dalliances with three strangers within a week's time. 3. The two separate timelines not only mean two sets of beautiful people, but also enable easy quick cuts when things get boring.
28. Hereditary
Sundance viewing. A few earned startling moments, but at least a half dozen too many horror story elements. By the climax I was hoping the traumatized main characters would call time out to ask the baddies the logistics of the cult and how it applies to the family line and also what fire has to do with beheadings and also possession and then the gender thing. I saw this at Sundance and was extremely underwhelmed. I'm very surprised to see it become such a sensation. It does really well with the amazing horror mood, but, as somewhat stated above (something I jotted down the day I saw it), there are simply too many vastly different horror elements for me to take it seriously.
27. Ophelia
Sundance viewing. Naomi Watts is so nice, she has to act twice. The film seems quite proud of itself for retelling Hamlet from the female perspective, but I mean, what changed, REALLY? Pretty much the perspective shifts just enough to say “told you so,” with no real shifts in character or consequence. The character of Ophelia is already painted in a corner, so may as well knock down the corner walls. There is plenty of delight in the pseudo-Shakespeare back-and-forth dialogue that feels like sixteenth century burn contests.
26. Incredibles 2
The first Elastigirl/Screenslaver fight: Blows. My. Mind. Although my favorite is an examination of decision and doubt. Doubt needs to be more of a virtue these days.
25. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Great! Buuuuuut, I’m not giving it the 4.5 stars everyone else is giving. I may just completely dissociate with the concept of several parallel dimensions. I mean that kinda stuff is real groovy and I dig it, but with possibly infinite characters and settings and tones, I just have a hard time latching on to THIS particular story. Also, choppy animation. YES I know it’s stylistically on purpose, but that fact doesn’t help me see what’s going on when what’s going on isn’t discernible. But the animation is oh so cool at other times. My eyes wig out during the flickery parts, yes, but the tactic really brings to mind the flipping of actual comic book pages. It’s about time comic book movies leaned into the brilliance of comic book spectacle rather than the tired old cinematic spectacle.
24. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
The documentary about Mr. Rogers as a person. It's obviously inspiring to see what kind of positive person we can possibly aspire to, but it's also sort of evidence that we're living in one of the darkest parallel universes. What have we as a people become when there's only one Fred Rogers? How especially WEIRD is it that someone would value love and kindness above everything else? How absolutely messed up are we (especially myself) to think that? This is such a terrific movie that examines the best aspects of a man, but yeah, beyond the movie i worry about the earth. The Flanders-like kindness of Fred Rogers is like absurd alien behavior and it obviously shouldn't be.
23. Free Solo
Boy this makes Man on Wire look like a pile of puke, huh? Ultimately far and away scarier than any horror movie I’ve seen this year, so I’ll definitely give it that. I have guilt pangs for watching it though. I don’t like how Alex Honnold visits schools and talks about what he does and I don’t like how my movie ticket likely feeds into the free solo industrial complex. Maybe this amygdala-less freak isn’t a great role model. We should literally look away. Free soloing is wreckless and dangerous and yeah it’s a free country and people can commit suicide if they want to, but the weight of that seems to fall on friends, loved ones, and the rest of us with normal brains that get anxiety about falling off mountains. I feel guilt. But it’s such an amazing feat. And the documenting is another amazing feat. With my above qualms I would have just done a slight editing switcheroo. The ethical ramifications with loved ones is studied in the middle, to leave room to conclude with the triumph. Switch those around and leave the audience thinking about the cost of dreams. I think that’s the right decision, but movies like this are great at picking at the thoughts and emotions of the audience. Other movies might have objective correct editorial decisions, but this one (ironically) depends on individuals’ amygdalas. A LOT can be said about the unusual romance. The way the movie puts it into perspective I would think Sanni McCandless probably broke up with him on the way out of the movie’s premiere. It’s interesting that his passion is obviously what makes him so attractive. Here’s the best example, though, of that same passion actually derailing what it wrought. We’re weird beings like that. We couple up, but we need to abandon what brought us together in order to stay together. Alex’s single-mindedness and the woman who loves him simultaneously because of and in spite of that is like something out of Greek myth. I’m also a little mad at Alex because he beat Captain Kirk to the top (see Star Trek V).
22. Bohemian Rhapsody
Okay too bad musical versions of “Death on Two Legs” and “You’re My Best Friend” are left out, but certainly not much to complain about the musical aspects of this movie. Very weird, though, is the absolute rubbish bits of dialogue and insincere drama between all those musical sequences. The normal talkie scenes are like if some side character of some other movie visited a movie set and those are the lines written for THAT film within a film. It’s like when the band isn’t performing, the action is beyond mere placeholder levels of insincerity. I’m almost ready to believe the dullness of the uh, recitatives if you will, is completely deliberate in order to make the musical sequences that much more grand by comparison. So Freddie is obviously larger than life, but I definitely appreciate the attention to the other band members. Gwilym Lee in particular looks and sounds exactly like Brian May and I love how much screen time the Roger Taylor character gets (Ben Hardy looks amazing in drag). If there is a lesson to the movie at all it may be that eccentric genius is best when tempered against down-to-earth normalcy. So yeah, there’s the music. As someone who actually took the time to watch Live Aid through Netflix DVDs, I can tell you we’re treated to far more Live Aid here than the movie narrative needs or deserves, but it is so very very welcome. The montage surrounding “Another One Bites the Dust” is also a bit of fun that sits outside the flow of the movie. It’s actually that “Dust” disco sequence that makes me think how much better this thing would be if it were organized more experimentally. My friends and I agreed afterward that the trailer for the movie is actually the superior work (with the disadvantage of being over two hours shorter). Seeing this, MY experiment would be to structure completely around the musical sequences — May and Taylor were on board with production, so we could fill the time with even more Queen music. Those ghastly in between bits could just run underneath the musical interludes sans dialogue. The simple events need not be spoken aloud; we’ve all seen any episode of Behind the Music. I think the result would cheekily be similar to, you know, an opera. Also this has Lucy Boynton.
21. Widows
Years from now we’re gonna take a nice contextual look at all female-led movies from this era and decide whether #metoo and #timesup and all that were a subtle influence or a bludgeoning one. I find a bit of subtlety in the setup. Several sets of men mismanage the world and ultimately the innocent must set things right — fueled by desperation rather than greed or power. When asked where to find a gun, Viola Davis quickly responds with “This is America!” These women have a job to do and they’re doing it within the dystopia men in charge have created. Unfortunately the pendulum swings a bit sideways at times. The battle of the sexes is a bit overdone and simplified in another Davis line, “no one thinks we have the BALLS to pull this off!” I wonder in that future I mentioned at the beginning of this review will have a lot of wishing that we didn’t just compare women to men as a means of showing strength. Bit of a slow burn as far as heists go. McQueen doesn’t achieve the same resonance as 12 Years a Slave, but he does something right with the build-up. All the pieces move into place like a compelling chess match with a kickboxing match at checkmate. Oh hey also nearly forgot to mention some great casting here. Watched Daniel Kaluuya for two hours thinking, who is that guy? I KNOW I just saw him in something. I think I didn’t recognize him because here he unlocks a sinisterness I didn’t realize was possible after Get Out.
20. Mission Impossible -- Fallout
The cracks are barely starting to show. His running is almost not believable. Almost. Spectacular armrest-gripping sequences, but at the same time a few sequences where characters are weirdly dispatched (probably because they didn’t have a specific stunt sequence planned for that setting). Henry Cavill has a great mustache and great arms. I'm still stunned they haven't fired Simon Pegg. Not from the movie, but from the IMF. Is the whole force just Tom Cruise and every single other person dumb enough to apply for such a dangerous job?
19. Unsane
The Get Out for highly-approachable white women. Living the stifled life of a queen must have done a number on Claire Foy because she's done a lot of crazy things this year, like this one about a woman committed against her will. Slight spoiler warning, but also slightly not as well. With wrongfully committed movies, there's a tendency to go the "is she really insane?" route. Here, the perspective distinctly shifts to another character for a scene in order to throw the question of her sanity right out the window. I actually really appreciate the movie for letting us know, okay THIS is the movie you're watching. Don't worry about some other interpretive thing that may be a twist later. That choice allows the viewers to not expend energy elsewhere and just focus specifically on the character as presented.
18. Private Life
It’s so bloody simple. It’s just a strung-together series of events centered around a couple’s fertility quest and the family it affects. It’s riveting, but they make it look easy. Perhaps it was easy to make, and if so it’s a credit to the work it must have taken writing-wise and acting-wise to fully create these different characters before the cameras ever rolled.
17. Crazy Rich Asians
Fortunately and weirdly this thing is long enough to build sympathy for the main character. That first half is iffy for her with a few groany lines (like the swaggery "go buy a haircut" after tossing that white bro student (the only white character with lines I think (!)) a poker chip). Anyway, once the glitz yields to the more interesting family guiltism, we’re totally on the way. Btw, in it’s second week and my theater was totally filled to the brim with whiteys like me. I don’t think it has anything to do with some kind of progressivism that’s suddenly hit town. I read EW, so I know this and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is a big deal because studios always angle white for business reasons. Right now I’m thinking the reason these things are succeeding is Romance in the academic nineteenth century term. "Anywhere but here" because we’re pretty sick of ourselves. The bigness of another culture is practically high fantasy now. Hey for the second time this year I want even more Awkwafina. She’s the absolute master of side-eye. Oh but what’s up with that mega all’s well ending? Either go back to NYC with your convictions, or split up to sort out your issues. These are heavy dilemmas and can't be solved with another 24 hours of extravagance. In short, the movie sputters at the beginning and end, but quite a tasty middle (like an egg roll burned too crispy at both ends). Okay I’ve been thinking more about that weird ending. Is it possible there’s some kind of background cynical message? Almost like a Casablanca-like vibe of putting love second to the needs of the world? There’s that little mini-conversation in the middle of the movie where a character tells the male lead that leaving the family business would be impossible. The irresponsibles next in line would destroy it. These people are so ensconced in the world economy, that they’re too big to fail. Doing so would send repurcussions that any NYU economy professor would agree would have a negative effect across the globe. His staying and her looking the other way is the bailout price for us all.
16. Roma
Fortunately there’s all that footage of the big car scraping through narrow spaces to prepare me for that horrendous birth sequence. I’m so very sorry to Cuaron and the world that I didn’t see this in the cinema. I’m glad Cuaron got like a billion dollars from Netflix and everything, but it’s unfortunate that the majority of viewers only get the 55-inch version. I hear it’s quite a big screen spectacle. At the same time, though, it’s not like there are THAT many action sequences. Also the nude martial arts sequence doesn’t need much enlargement. The camera precision is pretty fascinating. It calls attention to itself constantly with steady robotic pans. The world of 1970s Mexico City appears utterly complete. It’s like the camera injects itself like a syringe needle to withdraw a specific portion of the larger world. As for emotion, it’s there a bit in this story pulled from the director’s childhood memories about his family’s house servant. We’re observing events much more than getting deep in anyone’s head. This may be more pure, and allow us our own imaginations of the main character’s deepest feelings, but part of me wishes the needle went more into her soul than the surrounding scenery. This, though, might be the restraint needed to make the movie more deep and personal on repeated viewings. We’ll see how time tells it.
15. A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Okay this one played at Sundance, but I caved and watched it alone on Netflix rather than with a theater full of rowdy moviegoers. Part of me hates Netflix for quashing any kind of cinema run, but it looks like the film actually has home viewing in mind. Several jokes rely on pausing the action (including a long sequence that’s pretty much the film’s Imdb trivia section). Doug Kenney and Henry Beard are portrayed as humorists who are driven by humor, but take little joy in it. Hardly a chuckle from either of them — like humor is a weapon (or at least just the most agreeable way to pass the time). Domhnall Gleeson is commendably intriguingly so American and so straight. Didn’t recognize him for the first 20 minutes. The lovely stunt casting of the significant players of the time elicits pleasure, but it’s hardly a factor as the cameos are mere seconds of screen time. The movie is about Doug Kenney more than National Lampoon, which is fine. Not sure if Will Forte is a lot like Kenney, but I sure hope so. I got much more of the Forte personality I know rather than a new version of the Kenney I don’t know.
14. Black Panther
Again with the dark, murky action scenes. Also got my tickets late so had too sit too close, which doesn’t help. BUT, fun to be had here. They say there are only seven stories in the universe or whatever. I suppose that means there’s at least enough scenery in the Marvel Universe to live with just two or three stories. And Wakanda is quite a beauty too. It’s not perfect, but I love the newness of such an alien, but distinctly human world. I’m sure Michael B. Jordan really loves finally sinking his teeth into villainy. Would like even more baring of teeth from him, though. The above are my notes the day I saw it. I suppose I didn't have the energy to really comment on the racial aspects. Perhaps I was smarter then. I'm the last person who should comment on that kind of thing. However, I should mention how the movie addresses Wakanda as a secluded nation in much the same way The United States is becoming more secluded. A few terrible opinions use this as ammunition that the movie ignorantly promotes the same kind of xenophobic attitude exhibited by our own government right now. The beauty of this movie isn't just that it's cheerleading for Black pride. It uses the fictional country as a separate and needed perspective for everyone else. Notice the method for making Wakanda great again is not to actually keep their walls up.
13. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Weird how Netflix didn’t talk the Coens into just making an anthology TV show rather than draping a bunch of separate stories within a movie. I love love love the opening psycho whimsy sequence of Buster Scruggs himself, but I have a feeling it’s the more sincere and contemplative segments that follow are gonna be the ones I truly remember. Probably the delightful one with Zoe Kazan upended by the slightest tragic imperfection. It’s a shame that the cinematic Coen splendor is reduced to straight Netflix, but at least it makes sense in a series of episodes. Maybe the Coens have been watching the TV version of Fargo for inspiration. Didn’t do the research, but I imagine this project is the result of several unfinished writing projects they had difficulty extending to feature-length. Actually a breath of fresh air as far as short films go. Gosh, wouldn’t it be great if each one of these were individually nominated for the Best Live Action Short film Oscar? Shoot. I’m sure they’re wrongfully disqualified for at least two reasons I can think of.
12. A Star is Born
See THAT’S why I don’t like watching the Emmys. Unlike a Behind the Music episode, this is sincere and unboring. Cooper is earnest and real, but maybe too much so with his dialogue belched up in a low register my ear can’t recognize. He has some kind of family relationship with his brother and his parents or something that they talk about a ton, but it only gets in the way of the Gaga stuff. Gaga's a natural and the movie would do well to put a greater weight to her struggles rather than his. Her eyes and purposely pouty lips defy the character’s naïveté, but I’m certainly not complaining. Great music from the both of them though. He's got his weird loud rock country thing and she belts out the works, but there's an expected unevenness between pretty good and pretty spectacular. We get the showstopper to begin the stardom, but subsequent similar songs just aren’t revved up as much. "The Shallows" is a thing of beauty in itself and explodes the film, but that's not the case for the rest of the songs stuck with having to be compared to it. And the pop-style image adjustment is purposely not as interesting so we can’t get our tune thrills there.
11. Tully
Putting the spoiler warning on here even though I’m gonna avoid super specifics. This is about Charleze Theron hiring Mackenzie Davis as a night nanny and there's a twist that I think some may consider very groan-inducing, but I really love it here. I really hesitate to bring it up in my end-of-year list thing, because now if you see it you'll be looking for the twist rather than just watching the movie. Just watch the movie. The twist is slightly absurd, but hardly cheap. It’s a device to emphasize the personal themes of the main character, rather than distract from them and this is more about character than yelling "called it!"
10. Juliet, Naked
First of all, Rose Byrne is an international treasure. Her series of perplexed faces issue sincere feeling that’s somehow unaware of her outrageous beauty. Chris O’Dowd is the flawed doofus with possibly too much sympathetic hurt in his eyes. Ethan Hawke is the scumbag I was born loving, almost as if it’s in my genes. Not sure I can write a real review, though, because this one caught me in some bizarre outer context. I’m slightly frustrated with the ending. Not to be too spoilery here (probably add the spoiler screen because I’ve been called out for less), but I question one character’s “deserving” of another character, despite the implied off-screen mistakes — while another character is abandoned over one such mistake. Yes yes yes, it’s a world of difference, considering the third member of the triangle has never had the displeasure of being hurt by the more immoral one. Still somehow my gut feels a tinge of “problematic” (or is it just a touch of hurt masculine “unfairness”). Alrighty, all that is mega-silly though, because the last thing we need is to keep score. The heart wants what it wants and definitely harms those that don’t sync with it and it’s not fair to say who deserves what. But then again how does anybody wind up together? If there’s one thing Juliet, Naked points out, it’s that it’s the tiniest, dumbest things that spur the end of relationships and it’s the tiniest, dumbest things that begin them. But what goes in the middle? Just imperfection that rarely aligns. Really quick, two scenes resonate. 1. Ethan Hawke’s fumbling attempt at family control in the hospital. 2. Chris O’Dowd’s curt declaration of love for the art minus the artist. I wonder what would really happen if Annie were more positive about the album (SIDENOTE: she really DID love it, right? I mean it absorbed her so much she burnt the leftovers. BUT she doesn’t admit that to Duncan or even Tucker. Almost as if she can’t admit the same sort of Duncan-type vulnerability. (I could be seriously wrong on this sidenote)). If so, would her continued standard relationship still somehow be valid or would it just be eternally dishonest sans outright lies? I ask all these questions because more and more often I find myself annoyed IRL at the love story not going the way I want. Perhaps I’m just consistently the antagonist, a sin short of perfection and forced out of alignment on a detail important only to me. With all these dang movies I’ve seen, I wonder if they’ll ever really teach me anything.
Might possibly be overranking at this time. We’ll see how time tells, but right after seeing it it’s like I felt a moon landing more than saw one. Weird in a good way how such an event considered so universal is shown from such a dangerously clinical level of introversion. Surprisingly Chazelle throws in a sequence with a black protester singing about the needlessness of whitey going to the moon with so many problems still on earth. At first thought it’s a possible inadvertent dig at the unnecessary Moonlight/La La Land rivalry among fans of both movies after the Oscar screw-up. As a big fan of Chazelle I cringe a bit that this will be interpreted as promoting white accomplishments over other social problems. On further thought, the movie actually does nothing to debate the idea that the moon landing does anything at all for a whole society. Rather than waving a flag, Chazelle gives in to space travel critiques in order to make it so completely about a near mental disorder it takes to see the journey done. Not that the effort wasn’t accomplished through the work of thousands. The movie just uses the massive moments to go almost completely first-person. The momentous events aren’t framed in hero shots on the outside for us to admire. They’re framed in the small perspective on the inside from the experiencer himself. The shakiness does well to put us there, but as a personal complaint, it sometimes shakes me out of the action when it’s likely not supposed to. This may be crazy, but I’m submitting the movie is inspired at least a little by another space movie, Making Mr. Right. As you likely recall, that movie is much about the concern of what space travel does psychologically to humans, so maybe we should send robots (and also the movie is mostly anout the John Malkovich robot falling in love with some hot human PR lady I think). ANYWAY, kind of interesting that Gosling plays even more of a focused robot-type here than he did when actually was a robot. The things robots do to earn humanity. Btw during one of the bad day test sequences, the sound design emitted this horrific rhythm screech that’s the scariest thing I’ve been exposed to in the Halloween month.
Haven’t had a lot of love in my previous Spike Lee experiences, but I appreciate the balancing act here, even though the altitude is unexpected. The bulk is behind-the-scenes KKK doltish bigotry, which isn’t offset by power rallies on the other side. Both perspectives induce discomfort and rather than evening out the sides, the duality emphasizes an inescapable tension. Lee gives us a break by easing that tension with humor and a final, hopeful narrative epilogue of sorts that brings the barriers down a bit in favor of a common achievement.
Alienation at a cellular level. Okay shoot. I really really like this movie, but that's all I wrote down when I saw it. Obviously it says something about the human condition, but I'm not entirely sure I can parse out anything useful in that regard here. I'm actually more fascinated by the literal alienation of literal aliens. Our life on Earth is so very complicated that would we even recognize life outside of Earth if we encountered it? Such life would have a completely different basis. In the past 30 years or so we've gone from E.T. to Arrival, but the concept of otherworld visitors reaches a kind of horrific and wonderful culmination with this one. We watch the progress Natalie Portman makes, but even with all the revelations we can't even really conclude what these beings want, or if they're even conscious. Is it a matter of survival or love or hostility or nothing at all? Normally I'd ask all these questions and say the movie is taking the safe way out by presenting unanswerable questions and passing that off as deep. I'm not gonna say that here. Even though I practically had more questions leaving the theater than going in, the movie still gets a pass for invoking possibility instead of lone befuddlement.
6. Hold the Dark
Netflix movie. Okay I don’t know what this movie means. I’m completely perplexed. I’m wondering if I’m even supposed to know. The characters in the movie certainly say as much. I suppose in these trying times it’s almost insulting to even pretend to understand the downtrodden, so maybe that’s what’s up. All I need to know, or rather, all I need to feel, is that tension Saulnier provides (as usual). I always love a good dream logic movie. Sometimes it’s a cheat to throw logic out the window, but at least there’s the thrill of unpredictability. This time there’s the over-arching bizarre inexplicable character (which can be explained by someone else, I’m sure) behavior coupled with the absolute visceral reality of cold and bullets and blood. It’s like a constant pinch assuring us we’re in no dream.
Definitely maybe dressing up in Rachel Weisz’s rifle outfit for Halloween. There’s a cynicism of humanity on display that’s a delight to behold. We’re savage animals lurking underneath the makeup and fine dress. The game played here must be won at all costs, but Lanthimos is sure to let us know the endorphin rush that comes with smug victory hardly lasts. Weisz has a natural sparkling chilliness in this evil survival game, but her worst decision is likely the small act of compassion toward Emma Stone. This is the part Stone was meant to play. Her subtle expressions in her own solitude are priceless and somehow cartoon-like with her large eyes as emphasis. And when I say cartoon-like, I mean the very best cartoon. The locale and costumes are firmly 18th century, but the camera moves in a way unusual for such a period picture. It’s not so much in the angles as it’s in the entire geometry. There’s a lot of severe swiveling as well as foreboding low angles. This somehow brings to mind a sense of a paranoid perspective.
Okay here's an intriguing documentary about a bizarre little filmmaking tale from the director's own life. The footage begins with the thrill of creativity and collaboration, but as often (nearly always) happens, individual personalities clash against the spirit of creativity. That's an understatement here, as the film chronicles a 20+ year search for the film the director, Sandi Tan, thought she made. We're treated to an obvious and intensely mysterious villain, but the movie morphs a bit into discussing those same villainous qualities on our seeming protagonist. That thrill of creation becomes a sort of blindness from another perspective. I weirdly love these sort of introspective documentaries. They have the tendency to be a bit more overtly personal than a highly-manufactured narrative.
3. Minding the Gap
This is a documentary. Sort of. We're treated to some really great moving skateboard footage that weaves in and out of riders for some breathtaking stretches. Eventually the subject matter slowly moves from skateboarding to much deeper relationship matters. It really makes compelling filmmaking look easy. As a small example, sometimes characters are filmed during an interesting bit of dialogue or action and in the same shot the phone would ring with important information on the other side. Okay I haven’t researched this, but a big part of me believes this is actually a scripted narrative framed as a video diary-style documentary. If that’s the case I think I’d feel a sort of sense of betrayal, but it could be argued that such a thing would be even more of a filmmaking accomplishment. Regardless, brilliant work easing a harsh theme slowly into fantastic skateboarding footage. I probably already said this (because as of this second I haven't actually written anything about Shirkers yet), but I believe the future of filmmaking is in documentaries rather than features. The documentaries of today surprisingly find a much easier time exhibiting a director's personality than a narrative. We're gonna see a lot more docs where the camera is turned inward rather than a focus on an external subject.
2. Sorry to Bother You
Okay this one's great. The simple flourishes, such as the desk dropping into homes to illustrate the privacy disruption of telemarketing, will make this one worth talking about in the future. Oh, and of course there's the extra horse mile. It could have stayed solid as a grounded, safe satire, so mad respect for all the insane perplexing curves it takes. It starts off as a telemarketing comedy, but I'm at a loss in how to describe where it goes. Ultimately I think I like it so much because I didn't quite get it. Like a bunch from this year, it's a movie about race, but it's told in a bizarre fantasy world where I'm not quite sure what the allegories are, but rather than frustration, there's exhilaration in knowing there's more to uncover. Regardless on the details, it's certain this movie comes from a place of aggravation at the absurdity of the current state of black peoples' place in the country right now. It''s funny in the most whimsically angry way.
1. Eighth Grade
Sundance viewing. Right from the he beginning we love Elsie Fisher as young Kayla. It’s not coolness or precociousnees, but a pure heart, I think. The girl carries her burdens in a way that doesn’t necessarily convince us of the stresses of young adult life as much as it brings it to our sudden and tactile remembrance. Middle school stakes are paltry on paper, but Fisher brings a truth that says these stakes outweigh any war or moon landing. Was genuinely worried about little Elsie Fisher as a person until she came out for Q&A after the show with so much of the same sputtering goofiness as in the film, but also mixed with a real-world confidence that made me excited for the rest of her life. Meta bonus that the young actor who provides her chicken nugget date has the real-life name of Jake Ryan, Molly Ringwald’s object of affection in Sixteen Candles.
So that above paragraph is what I wrote when I first saw the movie almost a year ago. It's not the highest praise, but I will tell you that at times throughout the year, I've remembered an especially sad scene from Eighth Grade where the Kayla character finally reveals her insecurities to her father. Remembering his immediate and sincere response to her nearly brings me to tears every time I just remember it. I haven't actually seen the movie again, so perhaps a lot of this has the benefit of misremembering. If that's the case then good for the movie for incepting me like that. Anyway, I feel like my anxieties really started around the time of eighth grade and the movie shows that feelings don't change that much, but by some miracle we get through it.
Leftover top 25 movies from 2017!
Okay so these are the awkward ones from 2017 I either saw at the beginning of the year or, for some reason they weren't released here in Utah until 2018 or I caught them once they finally went streaming. Quite a few like this from Sundance, etc. I didn't write these up too much.
25. Our New President
Sundance viewing.
24. Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Some silly thing about He-Man.
23. Blade of the Immortal
Was this a martial arts movie?
22. The Greatest Showman
EVERY SINGLE SONG IS CALLED “FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS”
21. Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie
Netflix movie.
20. The Post
Last year's big one from Spielberg.
19. Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts
Yeah these are always boring.
18. Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts
17. Darkest Hour
Gary Oldman finally lives up to his name.
6. Papillon
What’s up with just how AMERICAN both versions of this movie are? An ascot, accordion, baguette, ANYTHING to put a little French tickle into it.
15. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Jack Black as a woman for the win.
14. Jungle
Harry Potter gets lost in the forest.
13. Sweet Country
Sundance showing. Narrative about Australian Aboriginals.
12. The Lego Batman Movie
Legos.
11. Molly's Game
Aaron Sorkin movie about that poker game lady.
10. Patti Cake$
The girl from Dumplin'. Better than Dumplin'.
9. Brawl in Cell Block 99
Vince Vaughn beats up a car and it's awesome.
8. Good Time
Robert Pattinson saves his brother by being a blond scuzzbag.
7. Phantom Thread
Big picture from last year that's funnier than you might think.
6. First Reformed
All the negative feels with a slight grace of the positive. Even with the benefit of faith there’s hopelessness without seeking to care for each other. This one asks quite a few difficult questions about faith and environmentalism. In a more broad sense it asks whether the individual is absolved from society's sins. Faith-based subject matter, but hardly the usual Christian-themed movie. A challenging breath of fresh air, though. Dealing with doubt is the essential aspect of faith, after all. This is a super fun one and a bit of an awesome bummer.
5. I, Tonya
Maybe Tonya was better than Nancy.
4. Call Me by Your Name
Way long, but I think I still cried at the end.
3. Foxtrot
Wow this one provides an unfair whiplash of emotion.
2. The Death of Stalin
Good to know politicians in Soviet Russia back in the day were just as petty as ours now.
1. Thoroughbreds
Why not have psychopaths on both ends of the emotional spectrum and let them talk to each other? So anyway this one's about a couple of odd high school girls who become friends and then bad things happen.
A ranking of all the old movies I watched in 2018 that I'd never seen before!
I put the year in parentheses. No blurb on these because you've probably seen 'em all anyway. I should mention I've been watching a lot of older movies because of my duties on the Yours, Mine & Theirs Podcast. Check it out.
52. Scrooged (1988)
51. Batman & Robin (1997)
50. Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988)
49. The Worst Witch (1986)
48. Rocky V (1990)
47. Pink Floyd: The Wall (1972)
46. The Prowler (1981)
45. The Fly (1958)
44. The Tingler (1959)
43. Hoosiers (1986)
42. Diggstown (1992)
41. Conan the Barbarian (1982)
40. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
39. Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
38. Demons (1985)
37. Swamp Thing (1982)
36. Bachelor Party (1984)
35. Hard Eight (1996)
34. Get Over It (2001)
33. 3 Godfathers (1948)
32. Persona (1966)
31. My Bloody Valentine (1981)
30. The Way of the Dragon (1972)
29. U2: From the Sky Down (2011)
28. Angel and the Badman (1947)
27. F/X (1986)
26. The Blob (1958)
25. Timecrimes (2007)
24. Found Footage 3D (2016)
23. Train to Busan (2016)
22. Atlantic Rim (2013)
21. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
20. Holiday Inn (1942)
19. Key Largo (1948)
18. Rabid (1977)
17. Santo vs. Frankenstein's Daughter (1971)
16. Hocus Pocus (1993)
15. Deep Red (1975)
14. Wait Until Dark (1967)
13. Coffy (1973)
12. The Thing from Another World (1951)
11. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
10. Fort Tilden (2014)
9. The Exorcist III (1990)
8. Sleepaway Camp (1983)
7. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
6. Infernal Affairs (2002)
5. The Big Sleep (1946)
4. High Plains Drifter (1973)
3. Halloween (1978)
2. Solaris (1972)
1. Starred Up (2013)
A ranking of all the movies I watched in 2018 that I'd already seen!
Alrighty, so maybe don't think all these lower ranking ones are too bad. I said it last year and I'll say it again: I usually only rewatch movies I actually enjoy, so most of these are real winners.
45. Rubin & Ed (1991)
44. Mac and Me (1988)
43. True Grit (1969)
42. The Overnight (2015)
40. Suburban Commando (1991)
39. Four Lions (2010)
38. The Wolverine (2013)
37. They Live (1988)
36. Dead Snow (2009)
35. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
34. Evolution (2001)
33. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
32. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
31. Idiocracy (2006)
30. The Love Witch (2016)
29. Dark City (1998)
28. Moon (2009)
27. Wanderlust (2012)
26. Clueless (1995)
25. The Village (2004)
24. Splash (1984)
23. Role Models (2008)
22. The Death of Stalin (2017)
21. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
20. Raw (2016)
19. Soylent Green (1973)
18. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
17. 24 Hour Party People (2002)
16. The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
15. Evil Dead II (1987)
14. Never Let Me Go (2010)
13. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
12. Better Off Dead... (1985)
11. The Thing (1982)
10. Sing Street (2016)
9. The Fly (1986)
8. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
7. Batman (1989)
6. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
5. Highlander (1986)
4. The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
3. Die Hard (1988)
2. Point Break (1991)
1. Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
Silly facts and stats only I care about!
Bound to be a bit of human error here.
Total number of movies seen: 195 (a bunch more than last year (169)!)
Total number of 2018 movies seen: 70
Total number of non-2018 movies seen: 125
Year of oldest movie: 1942 (Holiday Inn)
Total number of movies seen more than once within 2018: 2 (Die Hard, Mac and Me (for some reason))
Biggest movie-watching month: January (30 (thanks again Sundance!))
Smallest movie-watching month: September (11)
Movies seen at the cinema (excluding Sundance showings): 64 (this is going down because of the disintegration of MoviePass)
Most popular theater: Tower (17 showings)
Movies seen on Netflix: 24
Movies seen on DVD/Blu-ray: 38 (up 17 from last year!)
Movies seen at Sundance: 19 (a new record!) and that's not counting A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Movies seen at the annual 24-hour movie marathon: 11
Movies seen on an airplane: 0
Movies seen as part of a special screening/special event: 0
Movies seen on Amazon Prime: 13
Movies seen as an Amazon rental: 1 (Dead Snow)
Movies seen on Hulu: 2
Movies seen on YouTube TV: 4
Movies seen on Shudder: 7
Movies seen on HBOGo: 7
Movies seen on iTunes: 0
Movies seen on TubiTV: 1 (My Bloody Valentine)
Movies seen on Vimeo: 0
Movies seen on Vudu: 3
Movies seen on just some computer file that someone sent be 'cause it was the only way to find the movie: 1 (Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith)
Movies seen on straight-up broadcast TV: 0
Average Rotten Tomatoes score: I didn't have time to check! But last year it was 79.77%
END LIST! Now send me yours!
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Airing of Grievances 2018
It’s Festivus. I reveal now this year’s Airing of Grievances. Taking requests for next year. I’m already planning on a grievance regarding all your spectacularly lame ideas.
Useless Wi-Fi networks-
When I was a young boy I dreamed of a spanning online network enabling me to read moronic social media updates from all parts of the world. Now we have several networks -- most of them offline. If I’m gonna turn on the Wi-Fi of my phone, I’d like to be linked to networks that actually take me to the internet and not, as most do, to nowhere. Okay fine, I’ll call out the big one. Xfinity, your network never works. It’s more like a worldwide jamming frequency than anything. My absolute serious theory is that all the wireless networks block the net on purpose so we’ll all just give up and dip into (our strangely always reliable, yet costly) data plan.
iPhone cursor-
This thing is like a game of keepaway. There’s only one delete button on the phone keyboard and it goes backwards. 99% of the time the cursor wants to go to the beginning of a word, meaning whenever I need to delete something in the middle of my rant, I’m forced to delete at least two words rather than one. Some tech nerd or possibly some sinister AI wants me to have mistakes in the middle of my sentences. And precision cursor-placement is impossible enough when fingertips are nearly the size of the entire phone screen anyway. And forget all about it if I’m trying to adjust something in the bottom right corner. Rather than moving into edit mode, it’s more likely a fat finger on the send text/tweet button sends something like this to the world: “I’m ferlingupsert tod.”
AirPods-
Still haven’t tried them, but what’s up with the people who have? It’s like, “hey look how good my ear muscles can flex!” Yeah, no need to keep them in all day. Don’t freaking wear them into meetings. The things are dorky and make you look like White Shrek.
Additional self-promotion when tweets go viral-
Okay this one popped into my head at the very beginning of the year and it’s practically already to the self-parody stage. That’s progress, I suppose. Anyway, for the Twitterless, here’s what’s going on. Sometimes a tweet comes along that’s totally viral with like over a thousand retweets -- usually a great joke about some current trend or president. Once popularity has been assured with that many retweets, the protocol is now for the author to then attach ANOTHER tweet (thus creating a “thread”) to the original that says something like “Thanks for the support! I have a SoundCloud full of manifestos you should check out!” This little act of self-promotion not only muddies up the original brilliance, but the “Show this thread” messaging that’s automatic with the tweet addition gives the false impression there’s more to the original. We’re now at a point where the true test of the add-on tweet should be just how much the author can troll the retweeting masses by saying something completely off-base in the add-on. “Hey wow this tweet really blew up! Please click on this link to join my personal society of Nazi flat earthers!” Please sign my petition that all Twitter thoughts and all thoughts in general should be self-contained and limited to 140 (yes, 140) characters.
Tweets that think retweets are currency-
Hey have you ever seen something this one? “Hey Michael Jackson! How many retweets would it take for you to rise from the grave and play at my high school prom?” Okay that’s sort of an extreme example, but usually a dream prom or wedding with a celebrity is often involved. Look man, don’t open that up. There’s democracy and then there’s a bunch of people wishing we could change spacetime. Social media is just a way to talk to each other and we can’t let it get more than that. Think about the world you’ll create where the popular have even more riches and power than they do now.
Presidential tweets-
Adding this one real quick right now. It’s kind of related. Hey we need to not pay so much attention to one person’s social media. I think we like it because it’s a trainwreck, but by paying so much attention, we’re actually giving a runaway trainwreck a lot more power than warranted. His stupidity is actually benefiting him. He’s skirting process by acting like a clown. The rest of the government finds out “policy” before any plans are in place. Disorder is control. CNN, MSNBC, NYT, AP, BBC, WSJ, WP, NBC, ABC, CBC -- all y’all have got to stop reporting on the president’s tweets. AND ALSO the rest of us do too. The emperor’s clothes are meaningless and we shouldn’t have gone to the parade in the first place.
Character take-downs when people die-
Hey everybody’s scum. Let’s just acknowledge that right now. With this in mind, maybe don’t worry about hot or even lukewarm takes regarding the weaknesses of the recently deceased. They can’t respond to you, so give ‘em a couple of months. Give them respect as a human and then Nixonize when the flowers are gone.
Buffering issues-
This is like totally a 20th century grievance. Somehow sometimes some days I’m playing some video through this thing called the internet and the nerds or the robots in charge only give me audio without the video -- as if I wouldn’t notice. Look, I know there’s only so much internet to go around, so don’t play the video until the whole thing is ready to play. And also get the whole thing ready to play like right now! I pay taxes!
Girls who can’t figure out their age-
Okay so all you married people, there are a lot of new society-ending dating apps that the rest of us (and many of you!) are using. Usually these apps link directly to social media profiles (probably so users can’t create a million fake identities). Very very very VERY often, somehow many of these girls (and I assume this goes the other way too) say something like “i’m not really 35 haha i’m really 42 i don’t know why it says the wrong age!” Yeah, it says the wrong age because you’re lying about your age somewhere. Hey, just look to Aaliyah and treat age as just a number. Not that I’ll reveal mine.
Stacks of paper towels in fancy restaurant bathrooms-
Terrible bathrooms have paper towel dispensers, but really posh bathrooms apparently find the bulky beasts incredibly gauche. Rather, we’re treated to a stack of paper towels meticulously folded into each other like an accordion art exhibit. After proper post-waste disposal sink procedure, our sopping wet hands attempt to gather one or two towels, but the entire stack is affected with the damp of a thousand diluted pee-riddled bathroom occupants. That’s if we’re lucky. Usually the whole accordion of towels sticks together long enough to spread out, landing in the massive liquid pools that have now collected on the counter. This is luxury? What do the peasants use?
Opening new box for used item-
Sometimes you return things and then I buy them again unawares. I can tell by the shoddy inner packaging. Hey it sure looked new on the outside. What did you do to it? What could you have done to it that would make me comfortable? Anything at all? Where did you stick this thing you bought and returned?
Misplaced faith in aggressive driving-
Okay look, driving fast and swerving through cars and cutting people off is a grievance in itself, but what really irks me is when people say “well where I come from everybody drives like a dick and we’re better drivers so we should all be dicks because that’s the way to drive because medick.” AGAIN, please think about the world you’re trying to create. Why is being a jackhole considered the correct action? Be patient and realize if you’re disrupting the system, you’re a jerk and not in a noble revolutionary way in this case.
Empty space between sitting cars-
Okay perhaps you need some kind of carburetor breathing room or something, but when you’re stopped at a light (most likely in the left turn lane), for cars’ sake pull as forward as you can. You’re ignorant to those around you, but there’s an entire blocked intersection behind you because you want 50 feet of extra space to accelerate into. WE NEED YOUR SPACE. And don’t think that just because I said “your space” that it belongs to you. It’s ours. The ones forced to stick our butts out for other cars to clip.
Self-titled album ridiculousness-
Hey Weezer, you went through the effort of composing music and lyrics for 12 entire albums, can’t you at least think of five more words and slap them on as album names? There is no need for a band to have five self-titled albums. Or four. Or three. Or two. Or even one isn’t necessary. It’s a nightmare of organization. Hey, if everybody calls it “The Green Album” then officially call it “The Green Album.” This is why the music industry failed. Also, if you have it, your self-titled album can ONLY be your first album. Who is The Cure fooling when they release an album called “The Cure” in 2004 (their 12th). Are we really expected to believe that THIS work is the over-arching piece that sums up exactly who you are? Hey if you self-title your albums AT LEAST number them (I, II, III, IV, and so on). But also don’t do that. Queen started this and then abandoned it by the third album. I mean think of SOMETHING to call your piece. Just a random lyric from the work. YOU WORKED HARD ON IT (maybe), so throw your words around a little bit more. The time this most makes sense is when Van Halen III came out to coincide with their third lead singer taking the job. I think it’s also considered their least-successful album by far, so again, don’t do it. We must all blame Zeppelin for this. Led Zeppelin rules, of course, but they’re fiends when it comes to album naming. Here are the first four: “Led Zeppelin,” “Led Zeppelin II,” “Led Zeppelin III,” and then the one with the guy on the cover with sticks that’s technically called “Led Zeppelin” (again), but is usually called “IV” even though it doesn’t say it anywhere. So yeah pretty much Zep broke decent album-naming conventions FOUR times in TWO different ways. Jimmy, John, John Paul, and Robert, you’re gods of rock, which is why you need to set a better example to your worshippers. This grievance may have been more relevant 45 years ago.
Dumb slowed down cover songs-
I’ve mentioned this in years’ past thinking that the dumbest trends would be first to go, but at least 15 years later and here we are. This is constantly a matter of silly marketing of something else rather than anything to do with the music industry. Usually it’s for a cheap trailer to a new movie or TV show. The process is meant to lend an added sense of drama, but the result is silly after silly -- mostly because of the sheer volume of the practice. Literally just now I saw a commercial with a slowed-down “raw” version of “Praise You” by Fatboy Slim. Here’s an article from earlier this year with the author lamenting that this is the third such list he’s needed to compose -- http://screencrush.com/trailers-with-sad-cover-songs-third-list/. This trend is most often associated with “gritty” reboots of previously existing franchises. As a side grievance maybe it’s time to stop making fun properties all dark and gritty. There are only so many numbers on a standard brightness/contrast scale and we’re into the negative ones now. Freakin’ bring on the bright spandex already.
Social justice as a means to be mean-
Look, I get that most progressive causes mean well. 30 or so years of political correctness have gotten a lot of us to re-evaluate how we exist in a society and what we can do to make others’ lives easier. But veeerrrrrry often I see a lot of social justice warriors blatantly calling stuff out not so much to help the oppressed, but to use an opportunity to take someone else down without the darn social consequences. It’s pretty much sidestepping one form of oppression in favor of another. These up and comers are remnants of high school mean girls. It’s like they’ve got to be mean to SOMEBODY, so victimizing with justification is the most convenient path. Listen, do what you need to make the world a better place. Just don’t enjoy hurting others (this is pretty much the same advice one of the cruel SJWs would recommend to others anyway).
Too many end of year movies-
I watch a lot of movies. I also write -- twice a year. These two things reeeeeaaaaallly get in the way of each other. I write my grievance list on 12/23 and my movies of the year list on 12/31. Traditions old as time. For some reason, the movie industry drops about half of the year’s “good” movies within the single month of December. That usually means I don’t get to see most of the prestigious pictures until after the year is over. December’s busy enough with all the lame Hanukkah and solstice stuff going on. I swear I really really would have watched Roma in the theater if I weren’t camping at my parents’ house for the holidays right now. Obviously this wreaks havoc on my end of year movie list. I always have this stupid awkward separate list within my movie list to point out all the interesting movies from the previous year not included on the appropriate list. And why? The movie company thinks people won’t remember anything for awards season unless it’s released within a couple weeks of the year deadline. More often than not, most of these movies get forgotten in a sea in which they’re a measly drop. Hey movies, we need awesome ones of you in March too.
USB plugging in wrong-
I’ve plugged a USB device in, I’m guessing, about 2,500 times. I haven’t ONCE gotten it right. It’s ALWAYS upside-down. Just once, before the technology goes obsolete I’d like to be correct in my insertion.
Day is life, sleep is death-
So I’ve just realized every day is its own life story. At the beginning, my eyes are glazed over and I can’t walk. After that I get the most stuff done in the youth of mid-morning. By the afternoon or mid-years I’m over it and just want to rest. And then at the end of it all I’m in bed, wide awake and remorseful, horrified by the mystery of sleep or horrified to repeat the process.
Merry Christmas-
So all other holidays are “happy,” but isn’t there something limiting about “merry”? It’s like a happiness subset. I feel the need to be bloated or at least halfway to jolly in order to be merry. What if I don’t like merry? What if we can have the kind of endorphins for Christmas that aren’t the same as unbuttoning after a day at the buffet? What about the “thrilled” or “demure” or “blithe” aspects of the day? I want those for Christmas. The season covers like a tenth of the entire year so we can’t limit ourselves to just being merry. I propose each day during the holiday season is something other than merry. “Ecstatic Christmas!” “Jubilant Christmas!” “Intoxicated Christmas!” “Tickled Christmas!” “Can’t complain Christmas!”
Pain hurts more than joy satisfies-
An eternal imbalance. Most of what I feel could apply to this list, but can't be properly covered. It would amount to just taking constant dictation of my feelings and that would be closer to typing than writing.
The end of the world-
So yeah. After all this -- the world is ending. We’ve practically got an exact time and it’s very likely we’ll destroy each other before even then. This is like, super annoying. I don’t want the world to end. As much as I hate everything, I’m actually quite fond of this world. I think even if we had another world or maybe even two others, this one, the one we have, is so filled to the brim with wonder, that it’s hard to even imagine someplace cooler. There’s too much to love and I’m not just talking about nature. DEFINITELY not just talking about nature. I’m more about the whimsy of our own weird minds. Humans are a joke, but we’re also hilarious and at times -- at times -- we’ve really been there for each other. And yeah I know. Some of us are religious and the end of the world is a good thing. It’s when God Himself sorts out everything for the better. But, BUT, doesn’t it annoy you just a little bit that we couldn’t just get the house all sorted by the time our parents got home? After doing the fire thing and pyramids and The Renaissance and landing on the moon and The Office we couldn’t learn from all that and just finish it all up for the good on our own? God’s on His way and you don’t feel the slightest bit guilty about the NEED for such divine intervention? Life in general may be the ultimate universe mutation and our end may have been coming since our inception, but I hate to see it go with so much unsaid and unfelt. We ALMOST made it. Strangely I feel we were totally on the very cusp of figuring everything out for each others’ sake, but even those of us who have everything we could ever want are only met with the depression that comes with the emptiness of matter.
Mom-
One of these days Mom won’t be around anymore and I have no idea what I’ll do at that point.
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"Hunger and Thirst"
In the blind taste test of music, Typhoon proves difficult to classify into one category. With hints of Beirut, Damien Rice, Feist, the Builders and the Butchers, even a whisper of Sufjan Stevens at times, this band is a smorgasbord of influences and sounds.
With seven core members, but seventeen total band members and contributors, these Portland natives have produced an impressive range of eclectic, inventive sounds without the end result being chaotic. With haunting melodies and layered cadences, this is the type of album capable of commanding both the attention and mood of anyone within earshot. Tracks like "Starting Over" and "Belly Of The Cave" stand out amongst the others as the songs I kept hitting “repeat” on, but it’s clear that Typhoon’s new album Hunger And Thirst is meant to be listened to from beginning to end.
Although there exists today a bevy of musical groups who certainly possess talent, Typhoon comes across as having a unique voice and point of view. Hunger And Thirst is a warm and soulful album, with interesting textures and depth. And while it’s nothing epic or life-changing, Typhoon has produced an album rife with emotion, haunting at times, joyful and upbeat at others.
Hunger And Thirst will be released on May 4th, but if you preorder through Tender Loving Empire before May 3rd, they’ll kick down a copy of the two disc Friends and Friends of Friends album.
- Arielle Mullen
Scott Churchman Record Release Party at The Ox April 10
Scott Churchman will be celebrating the release of his self-titled album on Single Girl, Married Girl Records tonight at The Ox w/Snow Caps, The New Heaven and The New Earth, and Ramona Cordova. You may know Churchman from his work with local bands Ape School and Folklore, whose members along with The Lilys, Whales and Cops, Kurt Vile and a handful of other musicians that he recruited to make this dark, haunting work which sounds like it channels the spirits that still lingered in the 16th century house where it was recorded. The Ox, (Just Ask myspace.com/theoxphiladelphia), 8pm, $5, All Ages myspace.com/scottchurchman - H.M. Kauffman
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Jotto Celebrate New Century Courting at M Room April 10
Like many of the greats, Jotto formed during art school and managed to survive post-grad. Despite their quasi-cliché origin, this Brooklyn/Philly four-piece is anything but contrived. Setting to unveil their latest EP in a celebratory fashion, last March’s release of New Century Courting marks an end to countless months of recording that took place across the globe. Between Brooklyn and Tel-Aviv, Jotto’s sound remains intact, unpredictable and fresh. Lyrically fueled by their encounters with love, platonic and romantic, songs like “Little Coyotes” pay homage to city landscapes, booze and moonlight while the buzz and thump of “One Distraction” ushers a tribal backbeat into a shimmer of chants. New Century Courting is currently available for FREE download via their website. M Room. 15 W. Girard Ave, 9pm, $8, 21+ myspace.com/jottomusic - Dianca Potts
‘tine - ‘tine The STDiva with a Ticket to Your Heart at JR’s April 10
'tine-'tine (a.k.a. Christine Griffis) describes her music as having "atrocious sound quality and an accent to match." Her self-deprecating humor and sharp-witted tongue aimed directly at her ex-lovers are the driving force behind her short but sweet lo-fi hip-pop songs. She's been making music since 2006 and already has two albums under her belt, so she's spent plenty of time perfecting her craft of being as foul-mouthed as possible. Yes, it sounds like all her songs are made on GarageBand, and certainly that accent hints at a Jersey/NE Philly upbringing with the manners to match, but isn't that the point? If you don't get it, then screw ya! If you do get it, then join our STDiva tonight at JR's where she'll be sharing the bill with Filmstar, D&M, and Bornpilot. JR's, 22nd and Passyunk Street, 8 pm, $5, 21+ myspace.com/radicalclavicles - Joe Poteracki
Deli Metal Show at The Studio: Wizardry, Thinning the Herd + More
Here at The Deli we have organized our very first Metal show - it was right about time after 5 years of live indieness and folkyness. We have a lineup of exciting (and of course loud local artists), including, SOS, the band of the man that writes pretty much all our metal reviews (Mike SOS).
Check out the line-up and come over next week to the Studio at Webster Hall to blast your ear drums with us - yay!
07.45 SOS
08.30 Ruby Bullet
09.15 Thinning The Herd
10.00 Descender
11.00 Wizardry
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Kassym-Jomart Tokayev receiving new congratulatory letters
NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has received new letters and telegrams of congratulations on his election as the President of Kazakhstan, Kazinform cites the press service of Akorda.
Extending his greetings, President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in expressed confidence in strengthening the strategic partnership between the two countries, and also invited the Head of State to pay a visit to Seoul.
"At a time convenient to both sides, I am ready to meet with you again in Seoul and continue our constructive dialogue on the development of cooperation between the two countries," the telegram reads.
The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, wished success to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and prosperity to the people of Kazakhstan, and also expressed confidence in deepening the multifaceted interaction between the two countries.
Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel expressed his respect for the President of Kazakhstan and wished him success in his work.
"I am pleased to have the opportunity to continue cooperation with you in developing friendly relations between Kazakhstan and Luxembourg," the congratulatory message reads.
President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė in her congratulatory letter expressed confidence that the friendly relations, mutual dialogue between Lithuania and Kazakhstan will continue, and the level of bilateral interaction within the European Union will be maintained.
"This will open up new opportunities for economic growth in our countries, improvement of the two peoples' well-being, and further expansion of cooperation," the telegram reads.
Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Tigran Sargsyan pointed out that Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's decisive victory lays the groundwork for the further steady development of Kazakhstan as a modern and dynamic nation.
"I am confident that your personal involvement in the development of our integration association will make it possible for our Union to pursue the path of sustainability, determination, and turning into one of the world's most crucial economic actors," Tigran Sargsyan emphasized.
Besides, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev received congratulations from Acting Secretary General of the CSTO Valery Semerikov, SCO Secretary General Vladimir Norov, Secretary General of the Turkic Council Bagdat Amreyev, Secretary General of TURKSOY Dyussen Kasseinov, Secretary General of the General Confederation of Trade Unions Vladimir Shcherbakov, and Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom Alexey Miller.
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2012 evaluation plans posted
2012 evaluation plans posted and LLNL plan is 26 pages, LANL plan is 92!!
There is lots of reading in here, but the real meat in the meal is when the scores are known.
http://nnsa.energy.gov/sites/default/files/nnsa/09-12-inlinefiles/LANL%20FY12%20PEP.pdf
http://nnsa.energy.gov/sites/default/files/nnsa/09-12-inlinefiles/LLNL%20FY12%20PEP.pdf
By scooby at November 29, 2012 7 comments:
Why is it so difficult at LANL?
This one is a zinger.
Fence building is not a difficult job at Y-12, but reportedly a most difficult job to get it right at LANL.
While it may be something that 'we' know how to design and construct, 'we' clearly is not LANL, according to the recent reports on TA-55.
"Putting these fences in is not a very difficult job or difficult project," he said. "But, all things considered . . . I mean, there's a PIDAS system around the Air Force One hangar. PIDAS systems are used widely. So this is something we actually know how to design and construct."
John Eschenberg, federal project director for UPF.
By scooby at November 29, 2012 23 comments:
Albuquerque Journal Urges Consideration of NNSA Dismantlement
Weapons Complex Monitor
Noting a string of security lapses and project management blunders, the Albuquerque Journal urged a bipartisan commission proposed by a pair of Senators to strongly consider scrapping the National Nuclear Security Administration in an editorial published Nov. 25. “The agency’s track record is appalling,” the Journal wrote. “Not only is it a questionable duplication to the DOE, it has turned the nuclear weapons complex into a bureaucratic quagmire that defies attempts at efficiency. Its inability to move forward with essential projects is itself a threat to our nuclear security.” Sens. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) are planning to offer an amendment to the Senate version of the Fiscal Year 2013 Defense Authorization Act that would establish an “advisory panel” to study governance options for the NNSA, which has been beset by problems on major projects like the Uranium Processing Facility and a security upgrade at Los Alamos National Laboratory, endured an embarrassing security breach at the Y-12 National Security Complex, and angered some Republicans by deferring work on the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement-Nuclear Facility at Los Alamos. The creation of the advisory panel would allow a compromise on controversial NNSA reform language that is in the House version of the Defense Authorization Act but has met resistance in the Senate. “Congress should approve the panel but demand a report with clear recommendations that either put this turkey on the chopping block or figure out how to make it earn its feed,” the Journal wrote.
The Journal’s suggestions appear to have at least some support. The newspaper quoted retiring Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) on the prospects of eliminating the NNSA, perhaps in favor of a move to the Pentagon or the creation of a standalone agency operating outside of the Department of Energy. “I’ve always had problems with the NNSA as another level of bureaucracy between the secretary of energy and the labs,” Bingaman said, according to the Journal. “It doesn’t give me any heartburn to think that we would revisit the decision to set up the NNSA. I think it would make some sense.”
Five Los Alamos Guards Dismissed
Five Los Alamos National Laboratory security guards have been fired after allowing unauthorized visitors to operate a variety of weapons at the lab’s shooting range, laboratory Director Charlie McMillan confirmed in a message to lab employees shortly before Thanksgiving. The guards, employed by lab protective force subcontractor SOC, are believed to have accessed the shooting range in the lab’s Technical Area 72 earlier this month. An anonymous tip sparked an investigation by the laboratory and SOC, which led to the dismissal of the guards. “After a swift but preliminary inquiry, it was concluded that inappropriate behavior warranted the termination of five protective force firing range personnel,” the lab said in a statement. “The Laboratory will continue to determine involvement by others, including Laboratory personnel.”
The lab said that its review of the incident determined that there was no safety or security risk, but it said it “does not tolerate unauthorized use of our facilities or equipment. We hold ourselves and our contractors to the highest possible standards of behavior.” Lab spokesman Kevin Roark said the lab’s investigation of the incident is “ongoing and we will determine what further actions are needed, if any.”
LANS lawyered up over fence failure
There are some reports that claim a legal battle is brewing over the TA 55 security fence construction project. Always thought that LANS had some good in house lawyers so this must be a really strange deal if they have to bring in outside legal big guns. On the outside it doesn't look like much of a case, since the problems apparently had been widely known for over a year. It could also just be a ploy to divert attention away long enough for the board to find some new leaders.
Don't Throw MFE under the bus because of recent ICF failures
"Don't Throw MFE under the bus because of recent ICF failures"
This is a New York Times opinion piece that takes a blog post from PPPL director,
The fact that ignition in a large American experimental inertial confinement fusion facility did not occur as hoped by Sept. 30 has sadly raised questions about the scientific legitimacy of that pursuit. That the scientists did not meet their goal by that day probably has little bearing on that field’s ultimate success. Importantly, this non-event should not bear any relation to the fate of other vital work centering on an entirely different approach known as magnetic fusion.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/in-defense-of-sustained-research-on-fusion/?ref=lawrencelivermorenationallaboratory
Unallowable Costs Incurred by Los Alamos National Laboratory
Questioned, Unresolved and Potentially Unallowable Costs Incurred by Los Alamos National Laboratory During Fiscal Year 2010
http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/OAS-L-13-02.pdf
And the bad news just keeps on coming. Poor Charlie. Another IG report on LANL on his watch. How much more can he take?
First casualty of the LANL problems
The head of the local NNSA site office has been reassigned with no notice. Replacement to be named at a later date, probably when they can find anyone desperate enough to take the position. No one lasts long in this slot, it is just a meat grinder for the unlucky federal worker that draws the short straw.
LANL Security Force Shenanigans
Five members of the Los Alamos National Laboratory security force were terminated last week for the improper use of the live fire shooting range located at Technical Area 72, according to a statement released by the lab Wednesday.
The lab security force is called Securing Our Country or SOC.
The statement went on to say, “After a swift but preliminary inquiry, it was concluded that inappropriate behavior warranted the termination of five protective force firing range personnel. The laboratory will continue to determine involvement by others, including laboratory personnel.
“Although the inquiry concluded this was not a safety or security risk, the laboratory takes this kind of inappropriate behavior very seriously.
“The laboratory does not tolerate unauthorized use of our facilities or equipment. We hold ourselves and our contractors to the highest possible standards of behavior.”
Lab officials declined to discuss what the nature of the behavior was that resulted in the terminations.
Happy Thanksgiving and best wishes to all.
More LANL security headlines
Charlie said not to worry when the TA 55 security fence had issues, because the guards were on the job and all was good. But wait, now it turns out that some of the guards were out taking pot shots at the rocks with their service hardware. This whole sorry mess looks worse than what led to the last contract transition.
BLOG suggestions
This is not really a suggestion for Scooby and his blog, but more for Google and the capabilities that it provides in the blogger tools.
It would be nice to be able to have a "sticky" functionality, which allows certain threads to "keep current" and either on the top of the blog, or on a special list, so that it persists.
Or a way of having new posts shown at the top of page, but are still categorized within a previously established thread.
Some topics particularly around talent retention, employee and retiree benefits, legal actions and NIF should have their own "stickies." Otherwise, the many of the threads become fragmented over time, and some threads that go out of sight (off the front page) go out of mind.
I can explore whether some of the other "templates" have something like that, but I thought it was just something to suggest and also bring to the attention of the other readers here as well. The thought was simply to make it easier to find and refer to older posts, and perhaps to encourage Scooby to explore such template options if he's inclined to do so
By scooby at November 19, 2012 No comments:
Alameda County WARN listing only tallies 126 employees
Hmm, the Alameda County WARN listing only tallies 126 employees.
http://acwib.rkswebs.com
Comment moved here from the "suggested topics" post:
It doesn't matter who's right and who's wrong. 2013 is going to tell the communities an entirely worse story. Maybe that 126 in Alameda county and the balance of the people are from other counties. There are a lot of people that work at LLNL who don't live nearby.
By scooby at November 17, 2012 1 comment:
LLNL files WARN Act 11/15/12
LLNL files WARN Act as of 11/15/12
This means 205 people to be laid off:
http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/eddwarncn12.pdf
Personnel policies changes
FAQs were released. What is your opinion?
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByP_XBAJjPAyX3RfSmZQdFYyQ1k
LANL culture faulted for "completely preventable" accident
The LANSCE radiation contamination report (all 100+ pages of it) is on line.
The executive summary draws a special focus to the culture of the facility and the "normative behavior when responding to authority". Ouch.
Without directly charging that there were individuals involved in the accident that were non-functional in English ("including proficiency in the English language"), it also strongly suggests that to have been the case. Double ouch.
http://www.hss.doe.gov/sesa/corporatesafety/aip/docs/accidents/typea/10-18-2012_lansce_federal_ai_report.pdf
Recent "High Risk" Events at LANL
All LANL employees are being formally "warned" in lab-wide briefings from the PADS, that as a result of the Tc-99 Exposure, NUSSUP debacle, and other Security issues that LANL is facing a potential Labwide "stop work". Any more details?
More from POGO on LANL security
http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2012/11/our-nuclear-insecurity-complex.htmlhttp://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2012/11/our-nuclear-insecurity-complex.html
"The situation at Los Alamos is just as troubling. The National Nuclear Security Administration warned the contractor as early as 2010 that a new security project was in danger of being late and over budget. And now, two years later, the agency is demanding that the contractor fully disclose all of the project's problems and show that the nuclear materials stored at the New Mexico facility are safe.
Good idea. But how did the project get this far and so over budget when the agency with oversight power has an office right in Los Alamos that's supposed to oversee the contractor?"
Lab revises its workforce management policies
On Newsline today:
"Lab revises its workforce management policies"
Employment Conditions are a "right of property in CA"
When an employee is hired into a class of employees, and is in that class of employees for over a year, he inherits the conditions of employment as a "right of property." If the employer decides to unilaterally change the conditions surrounding this employement, such a remove seniority as a critera for employment priority during times of layoff, or unilaterally makes an employee at-will after a year or more of not being at-will, this is a breach of the "right of property." This has been argued quite successfully several times against the U of CA, and can and will be done against LLNS should it attempt to do this. Your thoughts?
Note from scooby: the following is a comment made while the post was still in the suggestions section:
How does an employer change wages and working conditions, such as in a downturn or loss of funding? Is termination the only tool? What about reduction of work hours? What is the source of this "right"? It seems that an employer can change the work contract of future wages and working conditions at a future date and the employee has the choice of accepting contract or terminating. It seems that making a one-year work contract a permanent right infringes the property rights of the employer. Who would employ under these unfavorable conditions?
More info appreciated. Not my field.
Let's give Parney alternatives
There are a lot of people with negative comments on this blog. I think we need a discussion on what we expect out of our leaders and what/when did LLNL, LANL, and NNSA have great leaders. Who were they ? There are high levels position being posted. Let's give Parney alternatives, instead of same old same old. This is not working.
Say Goodbye to your Junk Food Rooms
Livermore Lab has signed a contract with with a new vendor to supply the vending machines at the lab.
Apparently this contract was let to a company that has a blind person on staff. A state law is on the books stating that vending machines on federal property operated by blind people shall have a non-compete status. A monopoly if you will.
So all of those entrepreneurial lab employees that have been running their own junk food supply depots (that are less expensive than the vending machines) must now fold their tents and blink out of existence.
So to add to our worries of NIF, TA55, Y12, retirement plans, sequestration and bloated management we now will have to pony up more for our snack fix.
It's only a nick in the death of a 1000 cuts, but just like any other paper cut, it's annoying.
But on the bright side, perhaps we will bring in more healthy snacks from home for our own individual consumption.
Charlie on plutonium facility security fence project failures
From John Fleck's column in the ABQ Journal.
SUBJECT: Personnel Changes on NMSSUP
A few days ago, I shared with you some serious construction issues we have encountered on Phase II of the Nuclear Materials Safety and Security Project at TA-55, or NMSSUP.
Since then, a team of senior Laboratory managers, LANS board members, and managers from parent organizations have been working with the government to develop a solution to complete the project. I believe changes are necessary to ensure that this project is completed successfully, so I have some important updates to report to you today.
We have delivered a revised cost estimate for the project to NNSA. We believe the total project costs will rise from approximately $213 million to approximately $254 million. Because we are not authorized to make this type of change in funding, the project remains in suspended status until Congress or NNSA directs us otherwise.
With the assistance of the LANS board, I have asked three senior, experienced leaders to assume responsibility for the NMSSUP project.
Tyrone “Ty” Troutman will be the NMSSUP project manager. Ty is the construction functional manager for Bechtel Systems and Infrastructure. Although NMSSUP will remain a project of the Principal Associate Directorate for Capital Projects, Ty will report directly to me.
Jimmie L. Willman will manage procurement activities. Most recently, Jimmie was vice president, deputy program manager, and Business Services manager for Kwajalein Range Services, LLC.
Toby Wilson, currently managing Project Controls for LANL’s Environmental Programs directorate, will be assigned to NMSSUP in the same capacity.
The team is taking on this top-priority issue at my request. I ask that you support Ty, Jimmie, and Toby as they assemble the people, processes, and controls necessary to complete the project.
Let me again stress to you that nuclear material at TA-55 remains safe and protected, just as it has during NMSSUP construction. I am convinced that, once complete, NMSSUP will give TA-55 the modern, reliable, perimeter security system it needs.
Performance on this project has been unacceptable to me, the LANS Board of Governors, and our customer. This has damaged the Laboratory’s credibility. We must do better. As we learn more about the breakdowns that occurred, we will share lessons learned.
I expect you will read more about this project in the news media.
Please stay focused on safety, security and executing our missions for the nation.
Charlie should be fired for this debacle. Not only for deceiving the public, but wasting their money. It is unfortunate that he will not only get away with this, but awarded his "full" bonus this year. Wow!
"We have delivered a revised cost estimate for the project to NNSA. We believe the total project costs will rise from approximately $213 million to approximately $254 million." Charlie McMillan
Here we ago again CMMR, NMSSUP, ... another re-baseline on the cost estimate (and more LANS Managers) to solve the problem. Charlie, are you kidding us?
Math,LANL style
Math, LANL style
The NNSA report last week indicated that 25 million more was needed to complete the TA 55 security fence failure. In a typical LANL cost estimation expect to see this number double.
The cost of NIF
The US National Ignition Facility has so far failed to generate fusion energy, but repurposing it as a tool to study nuclear weapons and basic science could be its saving grace.
On a breezy day in 2009, action star Arnold Schwarzenegger, then governor of California, took to the stage to dedicate the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world’s most powerful laser. “I can see already my friends in Hollywood being very upset that their stuff that they show on the big screen is obsolete,” the governor quipped in front of the recently completed facility, which uses lasers to squeeze fusion energy from a tiny pellet of hydrogen fuel. “Fusion energy may be exactly what will power future generations on the globe,” he added.
Laser lab shifts focus to warheads
Laser fusion nears crucial milestone
Superlaser fires a blank
Fast-forward three years and the script is somewhat different: the lofty hopes of Schwarzenegger and other politicians who attended the ceremony that day seem less realistic. At the end of September, officials at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California, where the NIF is based, announced that the facility would miss a crucial milestone to produce ignition — releasing as much energy from fusion as is supplied by the lasers. After an intense, six-year effort, the facility remains a factor of ten away from that goal. In the coming weeks, LLNL scientists are expected to lay out an alternative, much longer, path to ignition, while senior officials refocus the laser’s work (see page 170). For now, thanks in large part to the NIF’s role in nuclear-weapons science, politicians will allow the research programme to trundle on at a cost of US$280 million per year. But the great unfulfilled promise of the NIF should serve as a cautionary lesson for scientists who promote Hollywood solutions from their research.
November 7, 2012 6:56 PM
Wow. The narrative here reflects almost identically the sentiments about the con job and PR oversell stated by many contributors over a long time in this blog. Almost as if the seeds for the article came from or resonated with these blog posts.
NIF = Con Job
Source = Nature Magazine
Moses and numerous LLNL managers and scientists = Con Artists
The Nature article was being too kind to NIF. The role of NIF in nuclear weapons science is marginal. It reflects a larger problem where many projects in the NNSA portfolio don't really support the stockpile, but just keep scientists employed as part of a white collar high-income social welfare program for a pool of scientists who spend all their time trying to justify their existence in ways other than demonstrating value and contribution to their customer.
On top of that, our public funds were being spent to con not only the public, but also people like Friedman and Schwarzenegger and numerous other public figures. They were manipulated into contributing to a fantasy narrative. Frankly, I'm surprised at how this was a huge pie in the face for Friedman, it's not easy to swallow the fact of having been manipulated and victimized like that particularly for people act in a role of shedding more light and finding clarity in complex situations. But we really need to focus more on the victimizer and not the victim. Due diligence may have provided Friedman with red flag indicators to stay clear of Moses and his co-conspirators.
This blog is proving to be very valuable because people here are quick to call a spade "a spade" and to point out harsh truths and allegations that the media (like Nature magazine) tends to soften and candy-coat. While the "facts" can be somewhat fuzzy in some of the blog contributions, many others have seeded legitimate questions and doubts, and have pointed out the trail of crumbs that a journalist or investigator can use to find their way towards the truth. Good job everyone.
LLNL had been the center of a controversy regarding deuterium equation of state in which their results were repudiated by the scientific community. As far as I know, there was no corrigendums issues regarding the shoddy analysis, raising doubts about the ability by some to perform work in this field or to employ adequate internal technical reviews.
And so it is very important to keep an eye on who is in the role of technical lead for some of the research areas being proposed as part of the shift towards the focus on warheads (e.g., NNSA programmatic mission). For example, some of these people in leadership roles have no business leading experimental efforts and analyses, and may be unflatteringly characterized as "con artists."
If I were to read carefully between the lines for both the editorial and the article pieces from Nature, I would have to guess that the most rational next step involves restructuring the organization in which NIF becomes part of the WCI directorate and overseen by their management. This would make sense, since to make good on their promise, you would rely on their expertise to drive and assess the value of the experiments in support of weapons science. I can only speculate about what this means for Ed Moses if indeed such a move takes place. He certainly does not have the technical background for taking over the equivalent level management role in WCI. Being assigned a more subordinate role would probably not work since he is not that kind of person who reports to or feels he should be accountable to others.
Keeping the status quo management structure in which NIF is a standalone directorate will not work. Staffing decisions for who provides what supporting technical role needs to rest in the WCI program management. The reprioritization by NNSA affirms a commitment to funding programs in support of its core programmatic mission needs. This, in turn, reaffirms WCI's role as the core mission program for its NNSA customer, and not as a matrix organization in support of NIF's fusion energy / ignition program.
The reprioritization is a move in the right direction, though not without peril. The high costs associated with operating NIF will not go away, and many needed cuts may be more painful to endure when self-inflicted (as opposed to being imposed by another organization). On top of that, there are other problems that do not simply go away with a re-organization. The current pervasive Edisonian approach towards solving problems is not just a sign of desperation but rather a pervasive way of "doing science in our unique way." Trial and error approaches to figuring out how to solve the alpha heating milestone failure problem using expensive NIF shots at over 1M per shot demonstrate a level of irresponsibility in how one goes about using tax-payer funded resources.
But we'll have to wait and see. LLNL is an unpredictable beast. There is a big battle of egos within a lab where everyone else is the enemy. NNSA is the enemy of LLNL. Sandia and Los Alamos are the enemy. ITER is the enemy. If that is still the case, you should not be surprised when LLNL makes baffling and mind-boggling decisions that appear, to most rational minded people, to go against their own long term interest. LLNL management making insulting comments disparaging Cook's technical abilities and background for example... is not only incorrect but does not help itself at all. Going to Forrestal only to piss off administrators and get escorted out... demonstrates how one can set new lows in eroding trust and goodwill.
There is one certainty however from the insanity that is pervasive in parts of the lab... that the lab is such a rich source of material for this blog.
NIF has to find its feet all over again
from Nature | Editorial
But during the past six years, expectations around the NIF have grown well beyond that credible campaign. In many ways, the lab itself is to blame for the unrealism. Lab officials gave tours to prominent politicians and journalists in which they promised a lot more than just ignition. The NIF, they claimed, was the first step on the road to potentially unlimited fusion energy. In support of their dream, LLNL scientists developed a prototype for an electricity-producing reactor that they hoped would gain financing once ignition was achieved.
But problems were mounting even as the lab eagerly promised clean, cheap electricity. Outside reviewers noted that the hydrogen fuel was not being compressed properly. The computer codes used to predict the facility’s performance were themselves operating badly. Privately, most people familiar with the programme had known for more than a year that the NIF could not reach ignition in the time allowed. Yet the LLNL stubbornly insisted that it might yet meet its goal. Enthusiasm gave way to saving face, as the leadership struggled to hold the line and keep up the appearance that all was going well.
The size and cost of the NIF make it an easy target for criticism, but those working there are hardly alone in their hubris. From stem cells to materials science, researchers around the globe make daily headlines with bold claims about what can be done in their fields. Politicians and the public, eager for solutions to the world’s many problems, embrace their words. The process is often healthy: scientists insert caveats, and citizens are given a vague sense that things may not work out. But striking the balance between enthusiasm and conservatism can be difficult. The NIF reminds us that the line between optimism and overselling is a thin one that can too easily be crossed.
Pride comes before a fall. Now the NIF has to find its feet all over again.
NIF cannot just be open-ended
from Nature | News
Nature isn’t the only one pushing back — the NIF’s funders in Congress also want answers. “We’re disappointed,” says one congressional staff member, who spoke to Nature only on condition on anonymity. Critics say that the lab’s enthusiastic promotion of the idea that laser fusion could generate electrical power led many in Congress to believe that they were funding an energy project, when in fact laser fusion is decades from producing electricity. “The lab overemphasized and oversold the energy aspect of the NIF, at the expense of the very important and successful work it was doing in stockpile stewardship and basic science,” says a senior scientist familiar with the NIF programme.
The NIF’s current director Ed Moses bridles at accusations that ignition was overemphasized. “I don’t think it was oversold or undersold. It just was.” Moses insists that “remarkable progress” has been made in the past 16 months, since the NIF began working with hydrogen-pellet targets. “The goal was to do the initial exploration of the ignition conditions and see where we were, which is what we’ve done.”
Keeping momentum in the ignition campaign may be crucial, because many in Congress still believe in the energy-research mission being pushed by the lab. Lawmakers have mandated that a new plan for reaching ignition be delivered to them by the end of the month. Politicians are ready to accept that it may take longer than originally stated, but they need to see evidence that it is on course, the congressional staff member says: “It can’t just be an open-ended: ‘Just give us money, we promise we will do good science’.” And if the NIF fails to reach its ignition goal in a few more years? “Then we’ll have to evaluate whether it’s worth continuing to fund the facility.”
NNSA report on LANL radiation leak?
Since the NNSA report on the multiple failures of the TA 55 security fence was made public, does anyone know when the report on the multiple failures of the LANSCE radiation safety controls will be released?
Who is next?
Anonymously contributed:
Episode 1is now complete and Obama is back again.
Stay tuned for episode 2, when we learn the fate of Chu.
How will it turn out?
Nucleardiner.com mentions this BLOG
http://nucleardiner.com/archive/item/sequestration-in-nm
NNSA defends LANL analysis
Anonymoulsy contributed:
This is a complex letter to DNFSB on PF 4. The bottom line is that this is still a work in progress.
http://www.dnfsb.gov/board-activities/letters/doe-response-board-june-18-2012-letter-which-issued-reporting-requirement-c
Specialized Planning Needs Contribute to B-61 Expense Boost: Pentagon
Global Security Newswire
Completing planned updates to the U.S. stockpile of B-61 nuclear gravity bombs would require the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico to carry out significantly more engineering activities than the National Nuclear Security Administration has acknowledged, an oversight responsible in large part for the agency's incorrectly low projection of the effort's expense, according to U.S. Defense Department findings reported by the Albuquerque Journal on Sunday.
Staffing demands for B-61 modernization activities would probably necessitate more than the 600 specialists anticipated by the Sandia laboratory, according to an abstract of findings by the Defense Department's Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office. The National Nuclear Security Administration -- a semiautonomous branch of the Energy Department -- has not described how it would provide additional specialists to update the bomb's schematics and assemble the altered weapon with new parts, the CAPE office indicated.
A 2010 NNSA estimate placed at $3.9 billion the expense of extending the lives of the decades-old tactical armaments, thought by nongovernmental analysts to number around 400. The agency's projection reached $6.8 billion by July, and the Defense Department later suggested the price tag would rise to $10.4 billion and the program time line would increase by 36 months.
Plans to update and reproduce almost every interior B-61 part are a large, unnecessary contributor to the initiative's projected expense, according to detractors of the effort.
One-time Sandia laboratory vice president Bob Peurifoy said there are no indications of any necessity for steps now being taken to rebuild the 29 key elements that almost constitute the weapon in its entirety.
Shocking news report - NNSA budgets not credible!
Nothing in this article is a surprise, but having it all put together in one story is pretty damning. Four major construction projects (LANL, Y-12, LANL again, and LLNL), each over budget, behind schedule, and failing to meet performance specs -- it has been a busy six months for NNSA. Not to mention that there was still time to have the Y-12 nun breach and the LANL radiation exposures.
"The B61′s cost and schedule problems compound increasing difficulties the agency faces as a result of repeated instances of similar problems on other major nuclear weapons projects.
♦ In February, the agency was forced to indefinitely defer work on a new plutonium laboratory after its estimated cost ballooned from $800 million in 2007 to an estimated $4 billion to $6 billion, too much for the agency’s budget.
♦ Last month, agency officials acknowledged they had to redesign a similar multi-billion dollar building they are trying to build to do nuclear weapons work in Tennessee after realizing the current design is too small to hold the equipment needed.
♦ Also last month, the agency acknowledged that a new $213 million security system at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s most sensitive nuclear facility did not work, forcing the lab to spend significant extra money to add the necessary guards to keep a major stockpile of nuclear weapons-usable plutonium safe while the agency figures out how to finish the project.
♦ In September, the agency acknowledged that the $5 billion National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, built for $5 billion over more than a decade to support nuclear weapons research, had failed to achieve its goals in simulating the fusion blast of a weapon."
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/11/04/news/billions-more-needed-to-refurbish-bombs.html
Sequestration explained
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9eIrcyRIQxyX0VLTWVPQmxBcmM
Will things change?
Anonymously conributed:
So with only a few days left until the election does anyone want to speculate how things might change or stay the same at the labs. Please keep it civil and on track. I will start off and say that if Obama stays than things at the labs will stay about the same as they have. If Romney gets elected I have no idea.
Prove you are not a robot!
To Scooby:
Your "prove you're not a robot" stuff has really gotten ridiculous. I know for a fact that you can turn it off, so enlighten us as to what problem it is solving. When I come up against a particularly bad case of visual stupidity, I simply enter random keystrokes until I get one I can actually read. Nice way to discourage posting in general and in particular to piss off people who really would like to post. Not very bright. Just another modern inconvenience that people will come to accept, such as staring into a tiny screen to see something that your high-resolution laptop screen would render absolutely stunning, or trying to understand a static-ey. unstable phone conversation that your land line could render clear and static-free, without anyone having to shout.
Not this again...
Keep hitting the cycle button until you get one that you are fairly certain you will enter correctly
" so enlighten us as to what problem it is solving. "
To keep drunks and idiots from posting.
What is it about anonymous communication (including text messaging, etc.) that turns physicists into rude, disrespectful people (the exception being me) with 'binary opinions?
" turns physicists "
I would say most posts come from techs and some engineers. It seems like a number are ex-military. Just a guess on my part so who knows. If you look up the makeup of LLNL, LANL, or Sandia there is probably not that many physicists compared to everyone else.
Y-12 guards given cheat sheets by contractor
Not on the same level as the LANL scandals, but still raises questions about culture.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/31/usa-security-nuclear-idUSL1E8LV89B20121031
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Dumbstruck
Karla Oceanak
Illustrator: Kendra Spanjer
For ages 8 to 11
Bailiwick Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-1934649169
The summer vacation is just about over and Aldo Zelnick is not looking forward to starting fifth grade. As far as he is concerned there is nothing about school that is appealing. Aldo loathes getting up early; he resents that fact that school uses up seven and a half hours of each school day; he does not like wearing school-appropriate clothes; he thinks that the portions at lunch are dreadfully inadequate; he dislikes being forced to spend time outdoors when he walks to and from school; Max (the dog) does not like being alone all day; and Aldo hates homework. He does not even like buying school supplies, an activity most kids enjoy.
Reluctantly, Aldo goes to the pre-school ice cream social. Do the grownups really think that “a spoonful of vanilla and a cherry” is going to make up for school? Aldo meets his homeroom teacher and he also meets his new art teacher, Ms. Munro. Ms. Munro tells the students that this year they are going to begin the school year with a contest. The prize will be a “mystery gift” and lunch from a take-out restaurant. The winner even gets to choose the restaurant.
At first Aldo is sure that he does not want to participate in the contest, but then he changes his mind. In fact he decides that he is going to “win this contest.” The theme is pop art, and Aldo is sure that he can create a picture of something popular that will be fantastic. His first idea is to draw a picture of a Dagwood sandwich, but then Aldo decides that a Slurpie is better. When Aldo’s artistic homeschooled friend Bee joins his art class he knows that there is going to be some stiff competition. Winning the contest is not going to be easy. It does not help that Danny (the new boy who is deaf) is always making fun of Aldo, and that Aldo keeps getting dumbstruck every time he is around Ms. Munro. What is wrong with him?
Life is further complicated when Aldo is forced to play a flute in band (a girl’s instrument for heaven’s sake) and when he is given the part of Bottom in the Midsummer’s Night Dream play that they are studying in Language Arts. School life keeps getting worse and worse.
In this fourth Aldo Zelnick title Aldo once again finds himself having to deal with problems that get way out of control. Readers will quickly get involved in his account, enjoying his diary style narrative, his drawings, and the interruptions that occur when Bee decides to add something to his journal sketchbook.
Throughout the book readers will find words beginning with D that are asterisked. At the back of the book there is a glossary where there are definitions for these words.
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The Roles
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Lancashire is a vibrant and striking place to live and work and it’s also one of the fastest growing locations in the UK. As the fourth largest local authority in the country and the largest in the North, we serve 1.2 million residents. Our City Deal programme adds £1bn a year to the economy and £2.3bn of private investment with a potential £1bn worth of investment around the HS2 hub at Preston Train Station, so there’s lots to do. We’re the leader in terms of advanced manufacturing in the country and the 9th largest manufacturing area globally. It’s a key region linking both industry and innovation to a strong local heritage and an area of outstanding natural beauty. We’re now looking for two outstanding leaders to drive forward our growth and regeneration as well as our key transport and infrastructure that will improve the lives of people across our flourishing county.
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Our new Director will help us to develop a strong corporate vision, strategy and robust operations to service a whole range of regional opportunities to promote, regenerate, enhance and sustain economic development and jobs growth across Lancashire. We are seeking a dynamic leader who has significant experience of leading all aspects of growth, environment and investment. You’ll be a member of the Directorate Management Team and as a consequence be contributing and influencing at the highest levels requiring a high level of strategic input and corporate working in a fast-paced setting.
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We are looking for a passionate and energetic leader to deliver a range of ambitious and major projects across our economic development, highways and transport services. As a strategic link between Manchester and Liverpool City Regions we’ll require a collaborative approach to build our regional infrastructure including building out major development sites and ambitious new road building programmes.
It’s an exciting time for Lancashire and this new role requires an exceptional candidate who can manage a broad and varied portfolio. You will be responsible for delivering a range of high profile and ground-breaking programmes that will change the landscape of our county and improve the lives of millions of our residents and visitors.
For an informal discussion about the roles contact our retained consultants at Penna: Carol Coyle on 0203 849 2619, or Helen Alwell on 0121 788 6697 or Pete John on 07701 305617.
Closing date: Wednesday 13th March 2019 at 12 noon.
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22nd January 08 Opportunities and Challenges of 21st Century - Emerging Technologies
by D K Matai
Let me ask you to engage in a thought experiment. What if Einstein and Heisenberg are present with us here in this room, engaging in the style of conversations they had in the 1930s. What would they be discussing when confronted with the challenges of the 21st century? Just as they reflected on the profound implications of the technologies emerging in their day, so they would be now. What we define as emerging technologies changes over time, as fresh technologies emerge with their own vast implications for human well-being. In 2008, we pose the same questions and ask what are the implications of the latest technology for today and tomorrow. What I am seeking to do today in this presentation is to provoke you into taking forward that conversation.
9th June 07 Low Probability High Impact and Black Swan Events
We are all being hurled closer to each other as the world integrates faster than ever before. The propensity for fast global integration creates both huge opportunities and its inevitable flip-side, huge risks. In the future, we should be concerned about Low Probability High Impact and Black Swan events which can change the present trajectory of nation states and large economic entities, many with turnovers in excess of the GDP of most nations. Welcome to Asymmetric Globalisation in which friends and adversaries are no longer similar looking as they react to off-the-radar forces giving rise to Low Probability High Impact and Black Swan Events. This also means that more risk is transferred into the markets away from Sovereign states.
13th October 06 Evian: Grave Crisis of Globalisation: Regenerating the Momentum
The Big-10 global risks and opportunities of the 21st century, depend on 'Disruptive Innovation' to address and to begin to resolve some of the seemingly intractable yet interlinked confrontations. As those inherent confrontations accelerate and feed off each other's momentum they possess the capability to damage and to disrupt the delicate global dynamic equilibrium. Faced with this unpalatable prospect for humanity in the coming two decades or less, it is necessary to rethink strategically and come together in joint action, which is the main aim of the high-level global dialogue established by organisations such as The Evian Group, ATCA and The Philanthropia. We need to be moving towards a wisdom based global economy, where longevity and sustainability are at the top of the agenda.
24th May 05 Holistic Solutions to Counter Asymmetric Threats: The Pivotal Role of Technology
The importance of information and knowledge today is forcing us to take a new look at the main actors in international relations. Traditionally, states have been the exclusive holders of power and authority. With the advent of the internet, new and diverse actors have entered the stage, and simultaneously the speed, capacity, and flexibility in collecting, producing, and disseminating information have increased. As a result of the fragmentation of authority and the altered quality of power, the traditional foundations of security have also been turned upside down.
10th February 05 Cyberland Security: Organised Crime, Terrorism and The Internet
There is growing debate over threats to the security of the Internet, including competing views of their source and severity. But how significant and extensive are the actual threats? Are anarchic spammers the prime suspects? To what extent are organized criminal syndicates and terrorists using and abusing the Internet? And how can police and security forces use the Internet to counteract Cyberland risks? DK Matai discusses the myths and realities of security threats from his perspective as chairman of one of the leading authorities on electronic security for major financial institutions, government agencies and multi nationals in Europe, America and Asia.
18th February 04 Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance - Third Session
The world is a changed place post 9/11: ranging from the ritual of removing shoes at US airports before every departure to the introduction of biometric facial and fingerprint recognition devices upon arrival. Technology is being used in every way to control borders and apprehend organised criminals and extremists both in the physical world and in cyberspace. Emails and voice communications are being monitored for keywords both in the US and by other intelligence agencies across the Western world. Every country and global corporation faced with national insurgence, trans-national extremism and organised crime will ultimately need to migrate closer towards Total Information Awareness Systems (TIAS) in the years ahead. Every citizen and permanent resident of a country, employee or sub-contractor of a corporation has to be equipped with an identity card with biometric tags and governments as well as corporations need to be aware of their stakeholders' movements across borders and the frequency with which their travels, entry and exit out of specific cities, valuable complexes and public places take place.
22nd October 03 Queen's Award Celebration Speech
It is a great pleasure and honour to welcome you to Lloyd's of London, which has been the home of insurance and innovative risk solutions since 1688. Thank you for taking the time to be with us. We appreciate it. General Peter Istead, the representative of the Lord Lieutenant has been very kind to come today and present Her Majesty's crystal bowl and deed. We are honoured to receive the Queen's Award for enterprise in the category of innovation this year.
3rd April 03 Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance - Second Session
The war with Iraq may have exacerbated the threat from asymmetric attacks as witnessed by the surge of politically motivated digital attacks which have already cost in excess of USD 10 Billion in economic damage over the last nine months. The most likely asymmetric risk scenario in the years to come would involve conventional or chemical bombs blended with suicide attacks and amplified with simultaneous digital attacks that cripple emergency services and stop people from being able to use air or rail transport, banking and credit card infrastructure at the same time. There is a need for a robust business continuity capability within most businesses and government departments that will allow those organisations to deal with large scale asymmetric attacks and prevent systemic risk.
20th February 03 Impact on Confidence of War with Iraq
Any prevailing uncertainty in regard to the war with Iraq is likely to depress the capital markets further and hinder growth. So, in the end, there may be no choice left but to embark on the conflict in hope of the most benign economic outcome. Most wars in US history have tended to stimulate economic growth partly because of higher defence spending. In contrast, the Gulf war in 1991 was followed by a recession. Even if the war with Iraq is won, it is difficult to envisage how easy it would be to capitalise effectively on the world's second largest oil reserves.
11th December 02 The Economic Impact of War with Iraq - Asymmetric Risks
Concern about war with Iraq has mounted and may have important economic consequences as well as political and security-related consequences. First-order consequences might include increased oil prices and higher defence expenditure at a time when it appears that tax revenues will be rising much more slowly than government spending. There will also be second order consequences, such as a possible further instability to the region.
28th November 02 Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance - ATCA
Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance - ATCA - Findings
The Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance promotes the discussion and awareness of asymmetric threats facing today's society among decision makers. The inaugural event took place on 28th November at the Athenaeum Club in London.
12th August 02 Will Falling Equity Prices Produce a Double Dip? (218k)
by David Hale (70k)
The divergence between the performance of the US economy and equity market is the greatest in living memory. The US equity market appears likely to experience its third year of negative returns for the first time since the periods 1929-1933 and 1939-1941 despite the fact that there are clear signs of at least a moderate economic recovery. There is a clear risk that the new regulatory mood will cause both accounting firms and corporate managements to become highly risk averse.
18th July 02 Introduction to The Question of Trust
Trust denotes a feeling of certainty or faith, that a person or entity will not fail. It is the assured peace of mind on the integrity of another and with information security issues increasingly assuming predominance in an ever more insecure and volatile world, trust is rapidly becoming the most important asset we can have. We know from our own experience at mi2g that trust in both corporations and governments can be shattered by public digital attacks resulting in unauthorised access of user profiles or financial information, often significantly damaging reputation and in the case of a publicly quoted company - its market capitalisation.
18th July 02 Capitalism in a Post Enron World (116k)
by Charles Tilley (107k)
The sudden collapse of Enron, followed by other scandals such as WorldCom and a growing list of companies that have inflated earnings figures, has shaken the trust in corporations and their management. Each time we think we have seen it all, another story unfolds but let us not forget that the underlying causes remain the same (as do the responses required to restore confidence).
18th July 02 Trust in Computing Platforms
Trust in the real world and digital world are very similar concepts. They sustain confidence. And there is a key difference as well, which is that the parties involved in any online interaction have very little knowledge about each other and cannot depend on time honoured trust building measures such as physical proximity, face to face and eye contact, handshakes and assimilating body-language. Instead it is necessary to rely upon other trust building proxy measures such as the use of devices or biometrics for authentication; referencing through trusted third parties; wrapping confidentiality around messages and performing integrity checks; defining the limits of risk exposure; and clearly stipulating general safeguards against non-repudiation.
18th July 02 Trust as the Flip side of Risk (79k)
by Dr Brian Collins (277k)
All businesses and governments are attempting to transform themselves in part or in full to exploit the possibilities offered by modern Information and Communication Technologies. This is mainly through the exploitation of the Internet, but includes exploitation of and integration with telephone systems, fixed and mobile, multimedia content and the use of new channels such as interactive digital television and new 'user devices' such as personal digital assistants. For this exploitation to be successful a number of issues have to be addressed; amongst these are reviewing the processes of trust and risk management.
30th May 02 Exploration of the Effects of Asymmetric Attack
In the 21st century, asymmetric warfare is multi-dimensional. It is fought on land, on the seas, in air as well as through cyberspace.
21st March 02 Six Months Beyond 11th September - Risk of Asymmetric Warfare
Mercifully the scale and ruthlessness of the terrorist attacks on 11th September has not been matched in the last six months. The daily news of deaths and casualties on both sides - Israel and Palestine - as well as Sunday's attack on Church-goers in Islamabad, in which five people died suggests that the ideological chasm between the fundamentalists and liberals has not narrowed. The idea of bombing Iraq is gaining justification even as Britain has sent a further 1,700 troops to help root out hardcore al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The UK troops join 5,300 US troops already on the ground. We in Britain are staunch supporters of the US so we are legitimate targets in this "War on Terrorism". All the early warnings and recent developments suggest that this war is likely to be a long drawn out one.
30th January 02 Growing a Digitally Networked Organisation with Values (130k)
by Dame Stephanie Shirley (77k)
My corporate story starts in 1962 when I founded Xansa as a 20th century cottage industry for women. And it comes into this century with a series of personal initiatives and innovations I've been able to make since my retirement. My life's theme, if it has one, is, I think, empowerment - empowerment of women, empowerment of colleagues and the workforce, and empowerment of people with disabilities.
14th November 01 Asymmetric Warfare - Business Continuity in the Face of Terrorism
Businesses need to be able to carry on functioning despite interruption. However, if they suffer loss of critical assets on the scale of 11th September, the most meticulous disaster recovery programmes and business continuity procedures can cease to deliver.
22nd October 01 The World Beyond 11th September - Focus on Asymmetric Warfare
The focus of the terrorists is to attack the population's confidence and monetary stability. Theatrical attacks with clear messages of dissent in the digital or physical world do undermine confidence. Whether it is the televised annihilation of the World Trade Center or men wearing spooky suits searching for Anthrax in the Senator's Offices in the US or the Liverpool Post Office in the UK, all such activity undermines society's confidence.
17th October 01 The Coming Linux Tsunami - An Open Source Revolution
The start of war by America and UK on Afghanistan and the subsequent confirmed cases of Anthrax in the US have severely dented business and consumer confidence. After the assassination of Mr Zeevi, a member of the Israeli cabinet today, things are looking very uncertain for the Middle East peace process. Security is suddenly a very big issue and so is cost cutting in the brutal new competitive environment. Profitable trading is essential to survival and Linux has a big part to play in this equation.
5th October 01 Developing the Linux Business Case for Financial Services
The dramatic success of the low-cost eBusiness operators versus the dinosaurs of the corporate world is an urgent warning to multi-nationals, banks and global insurance companies that unless they radically change and take out cost from their businesses, then they could easily suffer the same fate as the airlines via tectonic shifts in customer preference.
3rd October 01 How can financial services cut cost
Computers have now infiltrated every part of the economy and in most industries, particularly in insurance and banking, eBusiness offers unrealised potential to increase productivity.
11th July 01 Information as Currency - The future of financial services
The subject of today's talk is the contribution of Information Technology in evolving financial services beyond todays banking, insurance, coins and paper currency world.
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The city itself is quite condensed and easy to explore. Iceland's most famous diving location is Silfra, a crystal clear ravine in Þingvellir Lake where you can dive, or snorkel, between continents with a visibility of up to meters! Aldeyjarfoss is tucked in south of the main road and one of the more stunning canyon-like waterfalls.
There are plenty of other hot springs to choose from, such as the Secret Lagoon near the town Flúðir.
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Season for them is considered September through April. What winter activities can you join?
The lagoon connects with the sea at Diamond Beach and so it has mixed water, sea and fresh which is what gives it its color.
With this 2-day tour , you'll head along the South Coast, seeing sites along the way to Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon on the first evening.
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Every year Icelanders buy over tons of fireworks and fire them up at midnight. Here is a good guide to seal watching in Iceland including how to watch them responsibly.
But the good thing is that the main roads are usually well maintained and the most popular tourist destinations around Reykjavik are accessible.
Of course, so the dives. Tales from Iceland Reykjavik. The temperature is only about 2C 35F all year round, this option should only be taken by confident drivers and things to do in iceland in december should have a good knowledge of the potential routes you are planning to take so you don't end up in a bad situation, make-up en de prachtige natuur.
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Dazzling photographs taken from and around the stunning Northern Lights.
The mountain pass between East and South Iceland regions closes in the winter. We follow the easiest booking and cancellation policies in Iceland. Other interesting articles Glacier Lagoons in Iceland. Is it is possible to travel around the whole of Iceland on a motorcycle, and if so, what are the best times of year to do so?
Vatnajökull , the largest glacier in Europe, is the most common destination largely because of the incredible sites that surround it, which are accessible throughout the winter.
It will be cold but it will also be beautiful.
You can learn more about the seals at the Seal Center in Hvammstangi town nearby.
Everything you need to know about the Northern Lights in December.
How is the temperature. The race starts and finishes at Harpa? You can find Reykjanes peninsula tours here, or choose to drive it yourself. Skidoo on a glacier, you will feel miles away from anything as you shoot across the glacier on a high speed skidoo surrounded by mountains and crisp blue skies, she het menselijk lichaam organen de milt death masks of executed nobles All portraits have their hair washed and make-up retouched regularly, things to do in iceland in december.
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This is a cheaper option to the natural baths and where you will meet a lot of locals, just a couple of hours drive away from Reykjavk. How many churches are there in Iceland. It's possible to go dogsledding both on Langjkull glacier, some of whom go there daily, onder voorbehoud dat de grond eind 2010 verworven is.
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Universities Consortium Panel - UCP
The Universities Consortium Panel (UCP) is designed to provide a framework within which those Higher Education Institutions (HEI's) who currently exist or are in development can exchange information, ideas and best practice and lay the groundwork for more direct collaborations as and where appropriate.
The UCP can also provide advice to other national or regional University groups interested in forming consortia and becoming EMB members.
Across Europe a number of Higher Education Institutions (HEI's) have formed distinct consortia to bring together institutions with interests in marine science. Under the auspices and with the support of the European Marine Board (EMB), there has been a desire amongst some of these country or regionally based consortia to explore areas of mutual interest with regards to both research and education in the broadest sense.
Panel Objectives
To create a working group within the EMB to:
Establish a forum for HEI consortia that exist or are in development to meet
Help identify and share best practice with respect to the governance and operation of these consortia
Identify and share opportunities for HEI consortia to collaborate across the EU or internationally
Actively seek to secure resources and funding to support graduate student and specifically PhD student training
Promote each other’s consortiums both nationally and internationally
Identify where the respective resources and networks that exist within these consortia can add value to existing and future EMB activities
UCP meetings are typically held alongside EMB Plenary Meetings:
23 October 2018, Trieste, Italy
19 October 2017, Galway, Ireland
27 April 2017, Tenerife, Spain
20 October 2016, Glasgow, UK
28 April 2016, Sopot, Poland
Panel Members
Panel Chair - Mark James, Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS), United Kingdom
Yves-Marie Paulet and Dominique Simon, Universités Marines (UM), France
Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, CoNISMa, Italy
Jeremy Gault and Anthony Grehan, Irish Marine Universities Consortium (IMUC), Ireland
Beatriz Balino, Norwegian Marine University Consortium (NMUC), Norway
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By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Posted Monday, July 4th, 2011 - 164 Comments »
So… Transformers 3 will be either the #2 or #3 best domestic July 4 weekend in history, depending on how it does today. The fly in the ointment, so to speak, would be Spider-Man 2, which is within a million dollars or so of Trannies 3 in the estimates. But either way – it only matters because the media has made simplicity into a primary mode of reporting – it was a very happy weekend. Internationally, Paramount is estimating $217m to AP right now, putting it at just under $400m worldwide at the end of our holiday weekend. Half-Blood Potter was the leader in worldwide openings with $394 million.
Once again, the issue of the 3D bump rises up. Two things. First, the “percentage of venues vs the percentage of revenue” thing remains very misleading because the actually number of showtimes in 3D vs 2D tends to be much lower than the venue percentage. Second, this means fuck all when it comes to the issue of whether 3D is viable for as wide a swath of titles each year as the industry is currently geared up for. This is a massive franchise, it actually offers the possibility of a superior 3D experience, and the must-see is mighty. Same will be true of Potter. But these are the exceptions that mean little to the rule.
As noted last week, Summit just pushed away from 3D for The Three Musketeers as its big selling point. Way away. Others will follow. I would suggest to the studios that they either try to impose a consistent flat rate of $2 for regular 3D and $3 for IMAX 3D and market that… and if that doesn’t work financially, it’s time to stop the 3D experiment en masse. Jim Cameron’s dream and Jeffrey Katzenberg’s passion may be viable in concept, but not when the first things about it that strikes most consumers on most films is the cost, not the benefit.
As for the Cars 2 numbers, I am going to do a halfway-mark piece at some point this week, but I don’t think it’s very complex… too short a DVD window, too much 3D gouging (3D also dissuades under 5s from going to these movies), and too much product generating animated brand blur. Yet, I still see a final worldwide number that is perfectly Pixarian.
And the comic book movies… all three are $100 million domestic films… not one is (or will be) $200 million domestic films. Thor‘s ass was saved by unexpected international strength. X-Men: First Class also benefited from international, though not as much… but didn’t have as much of a budget either. And Green Lantern seems sure to be the weak sister in the end, though they haven’t been nearly as wide overseas yet. Thor was the strongest of the two movies that went for 3D and may have benefited greatly in this regard from being early in the 3D season.
And yes… R-rated comedies. 3 more coming this month. 2 of the first 3 this summer are already over $100m domestic and Bad Teacher has an outside shot at getting there. How much harder does that make it for the next 3?
Larry Crowne, which C. Nikki has made her “Gotta Kill It” movie of the week (does Ron Meyer want to ever be in business with Playtone again?) did fine, really. As noted before, the two stars of the movie are both more than 5 years out of the “major openers” business. This movie out-opened their last joint effort, which was much higher profile, much closer to their career heat, and in the launch of an Oscar race with Mike Nichols behind the camera. To be screeching about this being a bomb opening 3.5 years later is stupid at best, malicious at worst.
Here’s a “did ya know.” Tom Hanks has had NO openings a the male lead of a live-action film, aside from the Da Vinci Code movies (whose pans were worse than this film’s) over $31 million. And Julia Roberts has had ONE. Hanks has a long history of leggy films. Why? Because his audience, since the early days, has been adults.
This is not a mega-hit. But it will make a decent profit.
And by the way… Jim Carrey’s last live-action opening to do better than Popper’s Penguins? 2004.
Can we please try to live in the present, folks?
Trannies 3 will be the 5th film this year to gross more than $500 million worldwide. This includes Kung Fu Panda 2 and The Hangover: Part 2 The record remains 8 in a year (the last two years). I would expect Cars 2 to make it 6 before it runs out of gas.
TR3 also looks to be the second billion dollar ww film this year, matching last year’s record of 2 in a year before the year is 7 months over.
164 Responses to “4 Day Estimates by Vehicular Klady”
Proman says:
Very nice opening for Larry Crowne with 50% of its budget already grossed back. This will be a moderst success.
movielocke says:
if it’s budget was 30 million than only about 55% of that 15 million will return to the studio, the rest will be kept by the exhibitors. That means its earned 25% of its budget back, not 50%, it will need to earn 60+ million to break even in theatrical.
Maybe some college grad student will someday put in the leg work to see just how much discrimination the media puts into their coverage of different genres. Take every movie of the last twenty or thirty years, classify it by genre, cross reference against reviews, cinemascore, imdb ratings, gross, awards etc and see which genre of movies are most consistently discriminated against by the critics. use a disconnect between audience approval and critical disapproval to point out where critical discrimination is taking place. My guess is that Romantic Comedies, being a primarily female genre would be the niggers of film, the films automatically considered lesser and held to an insanely high standard before equal treatment is considered. Every once in a while you’d have a nigger like When Harry Met Sally that might be described as “one of the good ones” but of course you wouldn’t actually invite ‘good’ niggers like WHMS or Love Actually to the Awards table, because, well, we don’t want to go too far. I don’t know where scifi/fantasy/comic book films would place, but I imagine it would be low, Lord of the Rings and Spiderman would probably skew the results a little bit, I imagine Michael Bay would be in contention as the most discriminated against male filmmaker but he wouldn’t be close to the bottom, considering the widespread critical hatred and resentment of female directors that don’t know their place, like Norah Ephron.
Horror, I think, would do better just because critics have convinced themselves that gore is more artistic than falling in love, and that a horror film with ‘atmosphere’ is a lot more artistic than a comic book film that successfully creates a believable mileau.
personally, I’ve never got the attraction to horror films. To me, most of the genre seems as tired and lazy and repetitive as most romantic comedies are accused of being, but rarely, it seems, do you see every entry of the genre explicitly and viciously attacked without regard to what the actual movie is. Perhaps horror fans feel that their movies are so attacked, and its true that some horror films are scathingly reviewed, but I feel like most critics give most horror films a chance, but most critics do not give a Michael Bay film or a romantic comedy a chance, such films are always condemned to be prejudged, no viewing necessary to render a critique.
David Poland says:
I am a believer is using words like “nigger” in context and not turning the world into a homogenized, safe house build on “the n word.”
However… maybe that was a little too generous, movielocke.
As for the idea you are espousing, romantic comedies are not, generally, very serious or really that strong as capital-M Movies. The bias is for weight, not against lightness.
Nora Ephron is not a very good director. She is a person with very good taste.
Love Actually is not a very good movie, even if it makes a lot of people feel good.
Michael Bay’s films are still loaded down with childish jokes, over-ripe visuals, and extended length. He makes beautiful pictures and can do great action. But he doesn’t make movies for people over 50 and that is what the Awards season is.
Like Super 8, looking like Spielberg is not enough. What has made Spielberg into Spielberg is the heart underneath. He draws you into the personal drama. He’s almost a stereotype, as in, it’s not about the shark… it’s about what’s left when the shark doesn’t work. JJ Abrams would have been way better off without the CG train wreck and with a guy in a monster suit, because he lost touch with those kids while he was trying so hard to dazzle us.
anghus says:
you know, if someone really wanted to get snarky, they could start posting box office revenue broken down by the split between exhibitor and studio.
JS Partisan says:
Right the fuck on about the horror genre, ML.
David, sorry, but the surcharge should be one buck and two for Imax. Anything more for that is just asking for problems but I love that the greed that Cameron wrought has killed off his 3D dream.
Anghus, that would actually prove to be valuable information.Isn’t one of the issues that thepercentage changes based on week and what the studio negotiated? Alas, I think it is like budget info in that we are to forever guess.
the percentage changes, but in a way that could easily be factored into the metric.
LexG says:
Horror and romcoms are the two greatest genres in all of movies. Romcoms are CUTE! CUTE! and always have some hot chick in little outfits. Plus they are PLEASANT, EASY TO UNDERSTAND, and don’t require a fucking ENTRANCE EXAM for the STUPID PLOT POINTS.
I’ve said this before, but I almost never like following movie plots. Yes, there are some guys who can do A-B-C procedural plotting well (M. Mann for example, though much less so lately), but damn… doesn’t it give you a HEADACHE having to follow “who did what when and to whom” in a movie? I’ll give Tarantino ENDLESS credit for realizing that we only need the GOOD SCENES in movies, and all the connecting stuff is BORING.
More on topic: 3D really, really has to go. It’s used beautifully in the first reel and last hour of TF3, but it is a DISTRACTION. It’s kinda cool for the action bits, but in the everyday scenes of EVERY 3d movie, my mind can’t focus on dialogue or character or comedy or ANYTHING, because the stupid focal plane effect is SO weird and overrides everything else.
I just genuinely want to know WHAT IT IS about seeing movies with that distorted depth perception that makes a smart guy like Cameron think it’s somehow MORE immersive, rather than just a headache-inducing distraction.
Lex, you don’t like exposition? What the hell?
All good points Dave, but I would ask are Romantic Comedies really “not very serious or really that strong as capital-M Movies” or are we as audiences, within this culture, conditioned to believe automatically that they are not to be taken seriously or ever considered capital M Movies?
Is it more that the cultural and aesthetic bias–particularly for males–is to automatically assume that romantic comedies have less weight and have to do more to get to the capital-M status?
Are they held to a higher standard? If so, why? Should Out of Africa get more of a free-pass to be automatically considered Weighty because it’s a serious melodrama but Love Actually is automatically considered not Weighty because it creates dialectics between the comic and the tragic, between the high and the low, when examining the many different modern experiences of love?
I would say that Love Actually, because of what it accomplishes with it’s thematic contrasts is much more Weighty in how it examines what it means to be Us than many films that are automatically taken seriously because of their preferential genre. But if we are willfully blind to believing that there is more to a film like Love Actually because the genre is “not very serious, with no capital-M Movies” we’ll never actually realize how much to value there is in a film like Love Actually.
Keira = CUTE. CUTE!
That said, I don’t like interracial relationships, so that part of the movie bothered me.
“That said, I don’t like interracial relationships”
leahnz says:
“Love Actually is not a very good movie”
according to whom? i think what you meant is, “i don’t care for ‘love actually'”, because the way you put it makes you sound a tad full of yourself.
Leah, if we start qualifying all opinions with “I think” or “in my opinion,” reviews and even silly comments on movie blogs start to sound a lot less adults and a lot more like seven-year-olds giving a book report. How about just knowing that when someone says “is” about the quality of a movie, they are intrinsically referring to their opinion and don’t need to make that clear?
I understand it’s kind of annoying when someone says something more like “objectively, such-and-such is not very good” (which I know Poland has said at times), because that’s a specific term almost meant to say “this ISN’T just my opinion”… but there is NOTHING wrong with saying “Love Actually is not a very good movie.” It’s certainly not worth a holy shit. Maybe “The Godfather is not a very good movie” would be. I mean, Love Actually? This offends you to its very core, that someone would state that it’s not good?
Thinking about it more, that’s what bugs me about McWeeny’s writing even when he’s making interesting points. He says “I think” about a dozen times per review, and you ought to know, if you’re a movie critic, you don’t need to explain “this is what I think.” That’s what a movie review is.
first, ‘holy shit’ was re: lex’s repugnant racist comment, i guess that wasn’t clear
re: the rest, there’s no need to say ‘i think’ or ‘in my opinion’ if one is writing, for example, a critique/review of a specific movie, it’s a given. it’s clearly one’s own opinion written in a singular voice, NOT part of a conversation with other people with differing viewpoints.
it’s a very different beast being on a blog discussing movies wherein a subject is raised and a movie trotted out as an example of a genre, one can VERY easily say, ‘i don’t like love actually, it’s sloppily directed, blah blah blah”, stating your opinion and why you feel that way, instead of choosing to say ‘love actually is not a good movie’, which is dismissive, stating your subjective opinion as fact and self-aggrandising of said subjection without explanation or elaboration. there are many people who think love, actually is a good example of the genre. do we compare all movies to ‘the godfather’ to be ‘good’ or ‘not good’? in a way, you are proving movielocke’s point.
(eta: ftr, i’m not a fan of ‘love, actually’ but i can see how others could argue it’s a very good movie for what it is, i certainly wouldn’t say because it’s not my cup of tea that it’s “not a good movie”, it’s very well-executed)
yancyskancy says:
Only negative assessments seem to rate objections such as leah’s. If someone had said “LOVE ACTUALLY” is a very good movie,” the only responses would likely have been, “I agree” or “I disagree.”
It’s funny, in another thread here today I wrote “DEATH PROOF is awesome” and “SMOKIN’ ACES is pretty bad,” and I almost added IMO — but then I thought, well of course it’s IMO. I’m the one writing here.
That said, I do get bent out of shape when someone writes something like, “Such-and-such movie is simply not funny.” It’s that “simply” that gets me, because it takes away the implied “IMO.”
ETA: FWIW, I wrote and posted this before seeing leah’s post above.
What Leah wrote… word.
Lex, LET PENNSYLVANIA GO!
yancy, I think that’s an excellent distinction: I don’t like “simply” and I don’t like “just can’t” as in “Julia Roberts just can’t act.” I actively dislike Roberts as an actress but I would never say she “just can’t” act. That’s reductive and silly. People say that all the time and it drives me crazy. Leah, if that’s what you’re getting at it, I guess I’m with you… but honestly, even on a discussion board, I don’t see the harm in saying, as yancy mentioned, “Death Proof is awesome” and “Smokin’ Aces is pretty bad.” I mean, obviously it’s more interesting when someone backs it up, but Dave’s post was pretty clearly not about re-reviewing Love Actually. It’s just an example. (Just as The Godfather was — probably a bad one. I just meant that I could understand your “holy shit,” which I misinterpreted entirely, was in response to that opinion.) I don’t think it’s all that dismissive; in fact, I think it would be more dismissive in a formal review (assuming said review is of another movie entirely), where it would seem like a pointless jab (Armond White style! “By the way, I never got the chance to review this movie, so can I just say that it fucking sucked?”). In a blog comment, it’s just offhand. Maybe not that insightful, but certainly not offensive.
If I wrote “The Sky is blue today,” Leah would think I was an arrogant ass for not acknowledging that the sky might look different in Colorado and that it’s night in half the world.
Of course, the joke is that she then qualifies Love, Actually in her own terms… because those are right and mine are wrong.
Maybe she is one of those people who would need to be called “Dame” every time her friends referred to her after she’d been knighted… because it would be accurate.
Lex… wtf?
how exactly did i qualify ‘love actaully’ in my own terms, because mine are right? i gave my OPINION of the movie and said i can see how others could easily disagree and argue ‘love actually’s worth, the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you did. possibly the most ABSURD defense of your arrogance you’ve ever written, DP. you are ON A ROLL
“Maybe not that insightful, but certainly not offensive.”
jesse, not offensive to whom?
the problem is, you don’t get to decide what is offensive and what isn’t offensive to other people, you can merely state that YOU don’t find something offensive. it’s like in pulp fic when in response to vincent, who says at the diner (paraphrasing), “promise you won’t be offended” and mia replies, “i can’t do that, because i might find what you say offensive, and then i’ll have broken a promise”
Poland, follow him on twitter. Seriously. That comment is his past that still… haunts him.
That aside, there’s a way to not be a dick about it, and you were just a dick about it. My main problem with this blog has always been, people being dicks about what they dislike. You get rid of that sheer dickishness, this place would be fine, but when even the dude who runs this place does it. Ma, what are they giving me?
Foamy Squirrel says:
You can take my life, but you can never take… MY DICKISHNESS!
Jsp… wtf?
When people simply write about ideas and don’t make it personal, it’s quite pleasant in here.
Leah has an irritating habit of looking for any grain of a notion that she can turn into some attack about my arrogance. She isn’t dumb. She can’t really believe that my passing comment on Love, Actually was meant to be the etched-in-stone last and only important word about the film. It’s ridiculous.
She doesn’t even disagree with me! She just needs to teach me how to write because she’s so very right and and I am so very wrong.
I don’t need to follow Lex’s tweets, thanks. I am not his daddy.
Like I wrote a while ago, I need to keep score about whom Is saying what about whom in here like I need a hole in the head. (Though I may need a who/whom tutorial)
Oh, Leah. You know best. Please send those instructions how to wipe my ass and eat soup. I have a big evening planned.
In the meanwhile, let’s play, “Spot The Arrogant Ass!!!”
Please tell us, which statement is arrogant crap and which is the precious petals of fair insight?! It should be easy, as they are the “exact opposite” of one another.
“i’m not a fan of ‘love, actually’ but i can see how others could argue it’s a very good movie for what it is”
Jeffrey Boam's Doctor says:
I’m not sure which study it was but I read something about people who can’t stop arguing over the most ridiculous and petty of points and it all down to sexual frustration. They just needed to have sex.
Wow, it’s the whole “LEAH NEEDS TO HAVE SEX TO SHUT UP” thing again. Wow.
David, again, dickishness. It all starts from you and trickles down. Your responses to me are never ever not dicky, and you’ve started to treat Leah the same way. It’s your thing, we deal, but that does not make it any less frustrating.
Oh yeah, if you followed Lex on twitter, you would get insight into the guy. That’s the point I made but you know, get all offend and huffy. Oh I forgot, YOU DON’T GET ANGRY THERE DAVID! YOU DON’T GET ANGRY!
I hereby offer my services to disperse any unresolved sexual tension on The Hot Blog…
…Lex, call me. 😉
I think you read that on every Internet comment section since the birth of online chat… and before that, in Broadway shows… And before that, in the dead sea scrolls… And before that, on the wall of a cave.
Still, it’s silly and dismissive.
I think Leah nitpicks this way because she is a grudge holder. And once she has you pegged, everything is through the same prism. The frustrating part is that she is often right, but her ire overwhelms the original issue.
And then she tells you she isn’t angry and that she doesn’t really care.
Not sexual frustration… Abbott & Costello and Niagara Falls… Michigan J Frog.
Steven Kaye says:
Klady’s numbers are wrong re Midnight in Paris. Its 4 day take was actually a 3.5% GAIN over the previous weekend (the only film in the top 10 to record an increase even though it lost 93 screens).
JSP… If there is an authority on dickishness on The Hot Blog, you are the one.
The comments on this blog were a lot healthier without you and Lex commenting. Of course, that sent Leah into double-JMc mode, Blog Sheriff. Bur with only one person schticking it up – and she spends a higher percentage of time than either of you not doing her schtick – it was okay. Some who get into these personal grudge matches were just letting them go and sticking to impersonal topics.
Leah already “won” her war with Lex, but she is such a bad winner that she makes him seem relatively passive.
I am a lot of things, many of which can be fairly criticized, But the “dickishness” in here, sadly, doesn’t start from the top, but from a few people who really love to make things that are not personal into personal fights.
Krillian says:
Love Actually is a good movie.
“Hello my honey, hello my baby, hello my ragtime gaaaal!…”
Steven, please note, it says at the bottom of the chat that the %s are 3-day vs 3-day.
How DARE you disagree with me, Krillian!!
The Mighty Oz has spoken!
i would agree that Love, Actually is not a good movie based solely on how the story is structured and so many plots go unresolved.
If you were a fan of Laura Linney’s character or the Keira Knightly storyline, you were kind of left thinking ‘huh’?
So at the end of the movie, Laura Linney basically ends up alone because she has to take care of her brother. And the guy basically fucks up his best friend’s life by telling his wife he’s in complete and total love with her….
AND SCENE……
You know, couldn’t you have jetisoned the entire “British Guy goes to the USA” plot in order to give a little depth on 2 plots that deserved some level of consideration.
Or are we to believe that ‘unrequited love’ was addressed when the 7 year old kid runs through the airport and gets the girl…
They resolve all the dreck, syrupy plots and leave the difficult ones dangling like a limp dick.
I know who tell me they enjoy Love, Actually. And who am i to tell them what to like. But i will be happy to tell them that the writing is shit and introducting characters without giving them the benefit of any real resolution is like telling kids there’s a Santa Claus and then informing them 5 minutes later that you shot him in the head because he was trying to kiss Mommy.
Sprinkling “happy ending dust” all over the characters, except for the ones with problems too difficult to resolve in the timespan of an anthology segment is shit writing and/or shit filmmaking.
Laura Linney doesn’t end up alone – it’s the partner to Emma Thompson’s story, the love is for family rather than romance. Despite all the hardships they endure through circumstance or infidelity, there is a real depth to the feeling they have.
And the Keira Knightly one, there’s no connection from the Keira end to the dude – she even thinks he hates her – so he doesn’t fuck up his best friend’s life. That’s the unrequited love, since it’s purely one directional.
Hallick says:
I adore “Love Actually”, and it might very well be the movie I’d pick to watch if I knew I could see one more film before I die, but I still know that the statement “Love Actually is not a very good movie, even if it makes a lot of people feel good” is just one guy’s opinion. I don’t get the outrage unless you also take people to task for saying “(whatever movie) is the best film of the year so far!” or “You won’t see a better performance this summer, period”.
JSP you jumped to the conclusion I was directly referring to Leah. projecting again I see. As anyone who has just had a kid would know, sex doesn’t come as regularly as it used to! That’s some grown up talk lil fella. Now off to bed with you and yes you can read the latest Green Lantern until you fall asleep my sweet prince.
David, if you really believe that about yourself and this blog. You are so fucking out of sorts in every way that’s there’s no reason to visit this blog. What an absolutely despicable response from you.
nikki whisperer says:
I would say that Lex has something constructive to add to this blog about 75% of the time, unless he’s attacked, in which case he goes scorched earth. IO basically just pipes in with his comic book propaganda most of the time and stirs up shit the rest. Leah gets off on being a humorless prig windbag. Of course, that’s just MY opinion, none of these statements should be interpreted as empirical fact.
Sorry Hallick was writing this before I saw your post about the one film before you die. Apologies in advance.
Love Actually is as close to a cinematic root canal you can get. The most contrived, annoying, unbelievable bunch of twaddle ever assembled into a rom-com. And to top it off, it appears to think it actually has something of great merit to offer the masses. Like amongst the chortles there is some profund insight. Forget the root canal. It is actually closer to a cinematic cancer. Awful, awful film. When people tell me they like it, I move away as if they had just revealed they’re a child molester.
The door is open, JSP. Feel free to abandon the blog. I forgive you.
You are very entertaining at times. But you have flipped between troll and offerer of valuable insights for over a decade already. Not buying into your victimization or Leah’s or Lex’s. Sorry.
That’s just YOUR opinion JBD. How arrogant of you not to qualify it as such. Other movies that are closer to cinematic root canals or cinematic cancer might beg to differ! Who made YOU the authority on cinematic root canals and cancer, anyway?
Well, JBD IS a doctor…
My apologies to every human being who has seen Love Actually. I forgot all the me, myself and irene’s in that particularly offensive personal blanket statement about Love Actually. I wish to sincerely apologize to anyone with a beating heart who has ever felt love in any similar circumstances as highlighted in the film known as Love Actually.
“I would say that Lex has something constructive to add to this blog about 75% of the time, unless he’s attacked, in which case he goes scorched earth.”
The casual racism is just icing on the cake.
Happy 4th! Fireworks!
Sorry, I was about being DELIGHTED by Monte Carlo after a weekend-long wait. CUUUUUUUUUTE!
So, uh, yeah, for the cheap seats, that “interracial couples” line wasn’t serious. Though I stand behind my oft-repeated joke that there needs to be a RICH HALL SNIGLET for the half-second, subconscious, uncontrollable twinge every white guy EVER feels when he sees a beautiful white woman with a black guy.
Christ, James Toback has built an entire career on whatever that Sniglet would be.
Christian, I won’t defend that remark by Lex or any of his YEP YEP stuff. I don’t know him, in real life, anywhere close to well enough to determine where the character of LexG ends at times and the real guy, who is very shy and not nearly confident enough, begins.
But I do know that LexG is, in great part, a character. I take most of what he writes with box of kosher salt.
I mean, he writes a lot about girls with mixed ethnic backgrounds, YEP, YEP-ing them… so what does this comment he made really mean? Not sure.
Maybe that’s wrong of me. And maybe I am not in here checking every comment closely enough to be the authority that some seem to be on what everyone else has said.
But I don’t believe in censoring anyone unless they are making the neighborhood, in general, a bad place to be. Lex may rub you and Leah the wrong way in extreme. But basically, I think most people would agree that he’s unpredictable, a bit gross at times, and often adds something interesting, even if many people disagree with it.
I don’t think what you just wrote is unfair. You are pointing out something recent. And you didn’t write anything nasty, really. So well done.
David, it’s the FOURTH OF JULY. Go have a cold one and a hot dog and shoot off some fireworks, you don’t need this headache on a holiday. Just business as usual, unworthy of your time.
“My apologies to every human being who has seen Love Actually. I forgot all the me, myself and irene’s in that particularly offensive personal blanket statement about Love Actually.”
For the record, in addition to “Love Actually”, I also love “Me, Myself & Irene”, which has quite a lot of hate out there too. It has my favorite Jim Carrey character by far.
Me, Myself & Irene is one of the great underrated comedies. Somehow, Kingpin has become acceptable while Irene has become lost to the dustbin.
At least, that’s what I think I think. Waiting to get the all clear from you know who…
Kingpin is acceptable because of the LexG cameo when V. Angel’s name comes up.
“Though I stand behind my oft-repeated joke that there needs to be a RICH HALL SNIGLET for the half-second, subconscious, uncontrollable twinge every white guy EVER feels when he sees a beautiful white woman with a black guy.”
Plantation panic?
Nope, that’s a phrase…
Oreogasm?
No…that’s the opposite…
Lynchflinch!
hcat says:
Love Actually suffers from the opposite problem of most movies in that there were not enough cooks in the kitchen. For all the charm and wistfullness in it, all the goopy Richard Curtis frosting just piles on top of itself until it implodes. Same thing happens with Boat that Rocked. With his earlier successes he had a decent director (and not someone with a history of romantic comedies) to cut most of the treacle out, left to his own devices the happiness slowly chokes you like a gas leak.
I had the same feeling though with different emotions over Kaufman’s Synedochie, New York. Perhaps he was too determined to put every idea he had onscreen, where a more experienced director may have thought to parse it back a bit. While still a great film while watching I couldn’t help but think this was the exact experience he depicted in Adaptation where he disappeared into his own text.
Joe Leydon says:
David: If I were to make a nasty remark about your wife, or her nationality, I would expect you to make an attempt to hit me. Lex has repeatedly made ugly remarks about Filipinas. My wife is Jewish/Filipina. You have allowed his remarks on line without any criticism on your part. Should I assume you accept this?
“Negret”?
Oh, JESUS, Joe, it’s a shtick. I live in Los Angeles. Everyone I know is Filipino. I live/work in what are almost essentially Filipino neighborhoods, all I see are Filipinas, and I’m being silly. Because, like, who would randomly seize on Filipinos to make fun of with any real malice? Jesus CHRIST.
Also my ex of a DECADE is a Pacific Islander, as is half my extended family. My family that’s from Hawaii, all they EVER do is racial jokes about Asians. It’s funny and fun.
Plus Asians aren’t as scary as other minorities so you can get away with it better.
Also Vanessa Hudgens is Filipina, and one of my absolute favorite human beings.
Lex: If you ever make a disparaging remark about Filipinos again, I will turn it over to my machete-wielding in-laws. And if you ever make a disparaging remark about Koreans, my son and his buddies will come after you.
I have no idea where this is coming from, especially after years of delightful banter with Joe, who’s never so much as suggested I was saying anything to offend him.
I give up.
Again, Joe, wasn’t aware that this was an issue.
And if Lex made a comment about girls who had gone to catholic girls schools, I am pretty sure I wouldn’t see it as an assault against my wife. Same with any of the other myriad generalities that might be foisted around in here but are not personal.
The accusation that Lex has, at whatever point, used specific racial, sexual, or gender issues to attack specific people in here does concern me. But as many times as the accusation has been repeated, I have missed the events.
Am I sympathetic to Leah or anyone else who finds YEP YEPs for young girls creepy? Yes. Do I think that whatever flames about being a potential child molester in that context hit Lex at that time are pretty fair (even though we all should know it’s a schtick)? Yes.
You don’t see me taking shots at Leah for taking shots at Lex.
The problem is, it gets personal and it gets out of hand. But when it gets into a flame war, I don’t see it in black & white terms.
Lex has been banned in the past for vomiting up his stuff all over the blog in late night rants. But if someone is looking to fight with the guy and pushes his buttons, the whole victim game gets a bit much.
Had you, Joe, privately e-mailed me and asked that something be done about Lex because what he was writing was offensive to you and your wife, I would have done something to deal with it. But your mention here and Lex’s response pretty much seems to have the same effect… no?
Good. Trust me: After years of dealing with badass Asians, Lex, I can tell you: You don’t want to be messing with those folks.
Is anyone else seeing the (intentional/comedic?) irony in Joe taking issue with my WHOLLY ABSURDIST AND SILLY Asian material by coming back with a barrage of stereotypes depicting Asians as machete-wielding kung-fu bad-asses?
I half expected him to say his son’s Korean buddies were gonna come and eat my dog.
Also, FTR, I do ALL my Filipino jokes at Hollywood Elsewhere, not on MCN, so basically Joe’s blaming DP for not intervening on something that’s never been posted on his site.
Nah, they don’t like dog. On the other hand: My son does seem to prefer having pet cats, LOL.
christ you scamps sure like to talk about me in your little sewing circle
(how odd, lex has repeated AD NAUSEUM that his ex is asian, now she’s a pacific islander from hawaii who makes fun of asians? oooh, someone’s pants are on fire. where’s she from, lex? i know the place well. oh wait, your lies are ‘shtick’)
scooterzz says:
“The casual racism is just icing on the cake”
wouldn’t it be nice if it just stopped at racism…
She’s from None of Your Fucking Business, Leahnz.
Also if you can tell me the difference between an Asian and a Pacific Islander, you’re smarter than me.
i believe his ex is from ‘canada’…..
Martin S says:
…and for 75% of this thread I was thinking “Down With Love” and wondering why I don’t remember the interracial subplot.
Lex, I do like your overall style, but you’re full o’ shit that your icky line was a joke and not of-the-moment. You’ve got waaay too many previously mentioned hangups about how few white chicks are in Cali and white dudes dating asian girls. But you’re not a racist either. The only value that term has is for reactionary group-thinkers.
And Dave, when it comes to the flotsam and jetsam, you are a much bigger man than me, Gunga Din.
lex, you’ve just been seriously caught in yet another lie. kudos
(and me being smarter than you isn’t exactly a newsflash)
Look, DUMB-ASS FUCKING KIWI, I’m not gonna sit here and give you my ex’s FUCKING CREDENTIALS, you mentally scattered FUCKING LUNATIC. If you believe me or not, I DON’T GIVE A FUCKING SHIT, you BITCH, but you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.
But here’s a tip, DUMB-ASS, when someone in AMERICA, A REAL COUNTRY says their girlfriend is ASIAN, they don’t necessarily mean they’re straight off the boat from fucking Taiwan or some shit. Usually it means they’re ASIAN-AMERICAN from California or Hawaii, GET IT? GET IT? A half-Japanese, one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter white woman from Hawaii would self identify as EITHER ASIAN or PACIFIC ISLANDER, YOU FUCKING NIMROD.
Do you want a FUCKING DIAGRAM TOO, you HATEFUL FUCKING COOZE? FUCK YOU.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t most Pacific Islanders consider themselves of Asian descent? I don’t see where there’s a contradiction on Lex’s part. Is this another case of classic Leah “Minutae Gotcha?”
^^^ THAT. THAT.
She’s HAPA. As in HALF. As in Japanese/Chinese/white growing up between LA and HAWAII, thus PACIFIC ISLANDER, thus ASIAN, thus Leah is a race-baiting fucking HORRIBLE CUNT and PIECE OF HUMAN GARBAGE.
lol, lex you charmer
oh my god, how can you BREATHE with your nose that far up lex’s ass, nikki?
and pacific islanders most certainly don’t consider themselves asian. ask a maori/hawaiian/tahitian if they’re asian. quite a briantrust here.
so lex, your ex is, in fact, ASIAN. if she’s has no pacific islander blood, she’s NOT a pacific islander.
LEAH YOU FUCKING IDIOT, I THINK MY EX OUGHT TO KNOW MORE THAN YOUR DUMB WHITE RACIST ASS HOW SHE IDENTIFIES HERSELF.
FUCKING INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE. I HATE YOU. I DESPISE YOU. I HOPE YOUR GAY SON GROWS UP TO HATE YOU TOO, AS HE HAS A HARRIDAN FOR A MOTHER.
UN-FUCKING-REAL that since the late 90s I’ve been going to Honolulu and hanging with with the fucking KUMU or whatever with a boisterous family of ASIANS who don’t know that they’re not Asian.
Leah, you’re a FUCKING IDIOT. Your son should SUE you for being a piece of shit.
HAWAII IS A PACIFIC ISLAND, CUNT.
Scooterzz? FUCK YOU TOO, Rhona BARRETT.
Hey, Leydon, happy now?
You get the assist on that, COLONEL SANDERS.
SHOWTUNE POLAND’ll ban my ass tonight, thanks to you, old man.
and, scene……
sorry, i can’t stop laughing. uh, i was born in hawaii and grew up on another pacific island. and i’m most certainly not a pacific islander. your ex-wife (japanise/chinese + white) is ASIAN
Good for you. Too bad they didn’t blow you up at Pearl Harbor when you were 21.
People from Hawaii are mixed to such a THOUSAND DIFFERENT DEGREES there’s a near CERTAINTY they have some Samoan or native Hawaiian in heir bloodline somewhere. Thus they usually self identify as PACIFIC ISLANDER on US census forms.
As with EVERYTHING EVER ON THE HOT BLOG, Leah, you are from a DOGSHIT COUNTRY on the ASS END OF THE GLOBE, and you pretend like you know a FUCKING THING about Hollywood or America or race issues in the United States.
Can you EVER just back down and admit you got OWNED, that you JUST MIGHT BE WRONG ABOUT SOMETHING, EVER?
God you are a fucking PIECE OF SHIT.
OK, on this day of all days, I guess all of us (including me) are sensitive to any remarks that appear to be divisive. I want to apologize, seriously, to Lex and David and anyone else to whom I may have over-reacted. I will openly admit: Because of my background, because of what I have seen during my travels, I am sensitive to certain things.
wait, you ‘OWNED’ me just now? your ex-wife is NOT a pacific islander because she’s japanese/chinese/white and happened to live at some point on a pacific island. i know EXACTLY what i’m talking about, because i’ve lived/am living it
Leah, do you seriously not think you’ve made your point on that?
So, um, movies. Kristen Wiig has to be the most sought-after woman in Hollywood now. I know the announcements usually don’t happen until late summer, but, even with the prospect of months of juicy Michele Bachmann sketches, is there any way she stays on “SNL” when every studio probably wants to pay big money for her talents?
You guys gotta admit, that Pearl Harbor line was a TOP NOTCH JOKE.
Leah, I do not OWE YOU a pie chart of my ex’s ethnic background. I do not. Stop fucking with me just to be annoying.
Another GREAT JOKE is when I used to ask my ex if she wouldn’t mind wearing white-face and donning a blonde wig so I could get more aroused.
wait, after what lex has just said to/about me and chris comes in to chastise ME? another hotblog classic
(and i don’t give a shit about your ex-wife or her rellies, dear lex, my point was you’re a liar, proven yet again)
for the life of me, i can’t understand why your stand-up career went south….
Lex: My Korean son likes to tell me: You white folks just don’t understand… LOL.
David, it’s not victimization. It’s what happens but you always treat me like shit so what the fuck more do you want from me? I get attacked for defending movies the rest of the blog hates because they are a bunch of horror fans, but that has happened… repeatedly, and you piss all fucking over me as if I ever stated someone was an ignorant piece of shit for liking PAUL.
Seriously, if you are too fucking vain or too fucking oblivious to ever get that some times you are just plain wrong, then what the fuck is the point of this place? So you can post videos that you don’t put on blip so you don’t get any ad revenue? BRILLIANT! So you can have a fucking echo chamber? What the fuck ever, man.
ETA: Yay, it’s Scooter making a fucking joke. Which scooter is it though? Is it THE MAN OR THE WOMAN? Seriously, it’s bad enough that multiple accounts have happened her all the time, but when someone post as a MAN and then as WOMAN, and then denies it. Well that’s some serious bullshit.
“my point was you’re a liar…”
I like how you think you can PROVE these things about me, about whom you know NOTHING, from your retarded psychic powers from half a globe away. Like you telling me I didn’t commandeer a birthday party TV set when I was a kid to watch 2001. What, do you need like my fucking SOURCES every time I post a riff? Want a bibliography and photo credits, too?
You have NO HUMOR, you’re an IDIOT, and you’re INSANE. INSANE. Everyone here HATES YOU, except for Christian, and it’s more than obvious that Poland is sicker of your bullshit than he is of mine, yet I get banned every couple months and you get to steamroll over everybody.
I don’t know what form of abuse you suffered in life, but your postings on a MOVIE BLOG couldn’t be any more transparent if they were written in scotch tape.
I like when Scooterzz gets high off his sip of Pink Squirrel and gets all combative from afar, never giving up anything about himself, other than he’s AT LEAST seventy years old, male, gay, and a veteran junket guy.
IE, Skip E Lowe or Kevin Thomas.
dun dun dun
lol, kisses. but lex, you commenting on my mental health is an excellent example of irony, so props.
No, you’re just boring. And stupid. And LAME.
hey, lex…putting aside all the nonsense, are you really good with calling leah’s underage son (who’s never done a thing to you) ‘gay’ as a pejorative?…really?
to a certain degree, EVERYBODY is ‘racist’…it’s a part of life and isn’t helped by the ongoing p.c. semantics wars… but, in the interest of ‘admitting you were wrong’, you might want to consider the remarks made about her kid….
I find much of what Lex writes in here reprehensible and off-point (Is that an OK way for me to phrase that, Leah? I know you’re very particular about the way others of us should conduct our discourse.). But, yeah, Leah, you do strike this disinterested observer who wishes he could be reading about movies as the villain here. Because you are baiting him and because I find your smug, humorless insistence that everyone agree that you are right reprehensible and just plain nasty.
oh, and may we add ‘ageist’ to the already existing charges of racist, misogynistic and homophobic?…i think we can…
I didn’t use it as a pejorative, but I’m sorry and it’s not my proudest moment, no. Obviously I don’t know if her kid’s gay, but with Leah as a mom setting the “female ideal,” I’m putting the odds at even money.
But there’s NO SENSE in apologizing to Leahnz about ANYTHING, EVER, as she won’t and wouldn’t hear it, she’s convinced I’m the most horrible person alive and takes my every absurdist word like I’m Krug Stillo or something.
But since I don’t know her kid, it means nothing to me to insult him, since it’s an empty cartoon taunt. And as an aside, when people fall back on “Kids are off limits,” to me it’s like, why? If I hate somebody, I’m gonna call out their stupid fucking kid, too, no qualms about it. I hate children and have no reverence for them.
Leah, you are a smug know-it-all bore and you clearly get off on being able to wag your finger and correct people. Asking a legitimate question does not mean I have my “nose up Lex’s ass” and it’s funny and quite telling that you have to go that knee-jerk position any time someone might deign to question you. You’re splitting hairs for the sake of splitting hairs because you enjoy tormenting people and getting a rise out of them.
FYI, for purposes of the U.S. Census, until very recently, the Government lumped Asian and Pacific Islander together for purposes of determining demographics (they now have sub-categories beneath that general heading). So, yes, while TECHNICALLY you are correct and Pacific Islanders and Asians are distinct heritages, if you showed 99% of Americans a picture of a Fillipina or a Hawaiian and asked what the person’s general racial categorization was, they would probably answer “Asian.” Southern California is one of the most ethnically diverse areas in the world. There are tons of different pockets here that are predominately Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, Filipino, Chinese, Indian, not to mention the patchwork of different Latin, Central and South American nationalities. And as most of the people in these communities have now been here for more than a generation, they can now be summed up with one word: AMERICAN. Get over yourself….
i’m pretty sure i dislike children as much as you, i just think using them as a default is cheap and lazy….
right back atcha, chris. so i’m baiting lex, but he’s not baiting me? did you actually read the above? is he helpless? so he can call me some pretty foul shit, but i’m the nasty one here. i see your logic.
(also, i’d love for you to point out where i insist in this thread – or another one if you fancy doing that – that i insist everyone agree that i’m right. ONE example, please. i’m open to it. i stick to my guns, i maintain my position, but i never insist that someone has agree that i’m right, not the same thing at all)
oh and nikki, EVERY single thread, every topic, you come to lex’s defense when he’s being an ass. and you wonder how you might be perceived as having your nose up his bum. it is a mystery. take your own advice and get over your own persnickety self.
I’m certainly not surprised to learn that you are not aware how you come off, Leah. My sympathies.
“you enjoy tormenting people and getting a rise out of them. ”
nikki whisperer is lex.
And thank you, David.
Fireworks! Boom Boom!
Christian is a virgin who doesn’t drive a car because it would hurt the planet. He’s also pushing 50.
Some legacy, kiddo.
Leah: Let’s look at the situation objectively, shall we? Lex has all but given you a DNA chart of his ex, which is most likely a sore spot (since it’s his EX, after all) and truly nobody’s business but his, and yet you’re still frothing at the mouth to say “NO, YOU’RE WRONG ABOUT HER HERITAGE! I KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!” and then you take delight in extrapolating this into some sort of “Gotcha!” moment and straight-out call him a bold-faced liar. And yet you say he’s baiting YOU? What, in your mind, is he lying about? The existence of the girlfriend? Her heritage? It would seem, from his detailed explanation, that he’s lying about neither. What is your goal here? What point are you trying to make? Or are you just stirring up shit for its own sake?
Yes, he busted out the “C” word and other perjoratives, but you haven’t backed down from calling him a liar yet, either.
And Christian: I’m not Lex. David can confirm that for you with IPs if necessary.
so, you’re abandoning the ‘you insist everyone agrees with you’ crusade for vague condescension, chris? the thing is, i don’t CARE how i come off to you – anyone who reads the above and has words for me but none for lex directly isn’t worth a second thought – so my sympathies to you for your fucked-up POV (hardly surprising, tho, given your snark about me in the past). that’s my POV.
and nikki, facepalm. can’t be bothered explaining it to you. you could always read the thread, it’s patently clear. or don’t, either way.
Leah, stop sexting me.
Lex, your legacy is now.
Guess it’s time to go liven up Technicolor Dreams with some iCarly clips and Selena Gomez videos. If someone registers as “ElleFanningFan,” don’t worry, it’s not me at all.
AMBER ALERT POWER.
I’m done with this. Leahnz, I’m sorry. I’d still totally bang you, so let’s do this thing. Poland, sorry for fucking up your blog tonight; I’m sure Steven K. was gonna trumpet individual per-screen figures about Midnight and Paris and it was going to be R-I-V-E-T-I-N-G.
So the tally stands, in the words of Jonathan Antin:
Leahnz zero, Lex one million.
so, the ball’s in dp’s court…can there be a ‘once-and-for-all’ on this offensive moron? probably noy….
^^ So I guess THAT was the endgame of taunting Lex about his ex and calling him a liar after all. (Not sure which commenter whose handle ends with “z” is a bigger “c”).
Man, this calling of names is really bringing in the crowds…
Do me next, please! 😀
the last time i ‘did’ someone named ‘foamy’ it cost me two grand and a weekend in indio jail…
Man, they have really lax laws about murder over there…
http://movingpictureblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/independence-day.html
it wasn’t ‘murder’ but i did ‘kill’…jus’ sayin’
huh? oops, how on earth did that happen
don’t worry, nikki, it’s spelled phonetically with a K in your moniker so you’re the double C. i think that might make you the winner.
(foamy i’m trying to work up something truly epic for you but i think the last soul just left my sarcasm guf doing the above)
and ftr, i have NEVER called for or advocated banning lexGump
leah…simma’ down…they’re doing all the heavy lifting…(jus’ sayin’)….
cadavra says:
Wow. Way to celebrate Independence Day, everyone!
Now you should all go watch THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA and calm the fuck down. Cadavra has spoken.
it just wouldn’t have been the 4th w/o fireworks….
i’m just giggling here scoot, what a hilarious fuckarow (what would i do without my ‘fans’)
(i happen to have watched ‘the lost skeleton of cadavra’ the other day so i’ll just picture it in my head if that’s ok)
Hey, if you’re offering to fly me over there for a personal screening I’m down with that.
Otherwise I’m going to be over here playing with Manny Calavera. Got an hour to kill until my next flight.
The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair, to turn yourself inside out, and see the whole world with fresh eyes. Good night, all.
where are you, you rabid little flea-bitten rodent? (that’s you foamy, sorry, not my best work i know)
I don’t even know where to start. And I need to be on a TV set in 4 hours for an east coast slot on CNBC.
“so, the ball’s in dp’s court…can there be a ‘once-and-for-all’ on this offensive moron? probably not…”
That was about Leah, Scoot?
But hard to blame Lex completely for his outburst after, “how odd, lex has repeated AD NAUSEUM that his ex is asian, now she’s a pacific islander from hawaii who makes fun of asians? oooh, someone’s pants are on fire. where’s she from, lex?”
Seriously. Was there any point at all to going there other than to light a fuse?
Didn’t take long to go off. That’s on Lex.
I hate that Lex said something meant to hurt about her kid. He shouldn’t. And it is offensive in many ways. But why is she trolling around about the guy’s ex-wife?
Of course, Lex knows when he’s doing wrong and often points it out. Leah has never failed to be more moral than any of us, much less having been wrong about anything.
Sounds like some people writing about me. Funny. But as strongly as I hold many of my positions on morality, especially in media, I am not saint, I am not a perfect journalist by a long stroke, and I have never argued that I am. I do hold major outlets and individuals that claim that they are those things to a high standard.
Night, kids. I’ll check in on my way back to bed and start unapproving comments as needed…
Sydney, off to Auckland to see Vincent Ward tomorrow so getting in about midnight.
safe journey man (two words: K S, if you can w/out pumping of course, hah)
i’ve admitted/apologised here many a time over the years for being wrong about all kinds of stuff, and further, i’ll suck it up and be responsible for what i say, i don’t rely on censorship. i’m a sincere apologist, see, i don’t do wrote, half-assed butt-smooching apologies out of necessity after going PSYCHOVILLE because i know i’ve just screwed the pooch and i’ve learned from past experience an ‘apology’ will make it better (unlike some people), and then repeat the same behaviour again, and then apologise as expected, then freak out, apologise, rinse, repeat. a very convenient cycle
do your show…no reason to think about this now…but, when you do, stop making excuses for lex…he knows exactly what he’s doing and loves running your website…jus’ sayin’….
Will see if I have some gossip by the weekend. I promise I wont pee on the flight like Ruth Aitken’s son! 😉
i can’t stop laughing at that, foamy, oh dear (i think i just peed a little, gross)
Yeah, scoot, THAT wasn’t a transparent way of getting under DP’s skin with that “he’s running your website” plea to ego. Come on. I post here MUCH less than two, three years ago, mostly to wholesale indifference– most people here are here to talk movies and have effectively zoned me out. I’m “running” this place about as much as anghus or EthanG or anyone else who posts here about box-office numbers or whatever. If this was the McDouche era when I was on here day and night at fevered pitch, you might have a point in telling DP my ‘voice’ is too pervasive on the Hot Blog. As it is, I’ve been neutered into irrelevance and am on the shortest least imaginable, a scrutiny that NO ONE ELSE is subjected to.
Not my fault I’m so fucking funny and entertaining.
understood…it must be a horrible chore to be so ‘fucking funny and entertaining’ (and so humble and offensive at the same time)…it’s a veritable ‘milkshake’ of humor…
Dude, you and the other haters can have the last laugh: Since I’m pretty much an open book, you’re all aware of how INCREDIBLY DEPRESSING AND TERRIBLE my life is, something I describe in exacting and honest detail (unlike the mysterious “scooterzz”) so it’s not like I’m the school jock spiking a football into your head or stealing your lunch money.
then why persist in being such a dick?
LexG: It’s late and I need to hit the sack. Next weekend, though, I hope David gives us an open thread so we can talk about what we talk about best: 70’s movies. To give you fair warning: I want to discuss how Jan Michael Vincent ever was considered a box-office draw.
jane to blanche hudson: ‘you mean…all this time we could’a been friends ?”
http://www.dudetubeonline.com/2007/03/daily_dudetube_1.html#comment-63
wow, you truly are putrid pond scum NIKKI, bravo, how long did it take you to find that? your affinity with lex is ALL TOO CLEAR NOW. L to the forhead. how proud your mother must be.
um, yes…my friend owns this site…do you have an issue with that? his committment to comics is as great as his committment to porn (maybe greater)….
i said ‘congrats’ on the new site… but, thanks for trying ‘nikki’…
thinking he’s somehow ‘degrading’ you when what he’s really doing is exposing his nasty-ass true colours. priceless. best window into a black soul ever.
but, let’s go further….i’m a gay guy with connections to several gay sites…some ‘pornish’, some not….i’m more than willing to share my connections…probably more than our dear lexg…
God, if only I had a cock that big. Looking at that makes me feel so… inadequate.
Who Is Nikki Whisperer And Why Is He Saying All Those Terrible Things About Everybody?
those are some big cocks
Gee, thanks, Leah. Make me feel even worse, why don’t you?
but, leydon…you can WRITE… so much better than a big….oh, wait…no…sorry…oh, well…’inadequate’ seems harsh…
sorry joe, chalk it up to me being temporarily blinded by cocks, i’m not a sizist as a general rule
Think I could make the site with this?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1596449031701&set=a.1202753709564.30962.1250240779&type=1&theater
so, i guess i’ve been ‘disgraced’…gosh, i hope my life will recover….
Just dropped in to sing a chorus of “Kumbaya” —
Kumbaya, my lord, kumbaya…
Lex, consider yourself lucky that I’ve forgotten my Hollywood Elsewhere password.
Merkin Muffley says:
You guys are all “Poopie” heads and “Doo Doo” brains! That is all.
Could be worse. If we were all over at HE, we’d learn that Terence Malick is retarded but Uwe Boll is AWESOME.
The internets are really making us dumber.
No, Leah. You make me sad. So I’m attempting to put you on “ignore.”
Leah: “Blinded by Cocks,” eh? Wasn’t that the title of a Pasolini movie?
When did this become The Real World?
Nikki Whisperer is NOT Lex.
I haven’t done a check lately, but it seems that most everyone is who they say they are or say they avatar these days.
The Big Perm says:
THIS is what you guys spent time on on the 4th of July??
I should have said nikki whisperer WANTS to be lex.
To atone, a Michael Caine story:
“There used to be a hardware store right on Beverly Hills Drive where you could buy mundane things like nails and string, but where you could see the most extraordinary people buying them. I once saw Fred Astaire buying sandpaper and Danny Kaye buying one light bulb. The most frightening sight I ever saw during my whole stay in America was in that hardware store. I hid behind a shelf of tools and watched Klaus Kinski buying an axe. It cleared the store.”
The 4-day actuals are in, and Midnight in Paris actually improved on the estimates. It came in at 9th place, beating garbage like Panda, Pirates, Hangover, X-Men and Bridesmaids.
From just 858 theatres!
All in all, its 4-day gross was up 5.1%(!!) over the previous weekend, not 3% as the estimates suggested. The next best performer, Bridesmaids, was down 17.2%.
SamLowry says:
Monte Carlo trivia ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1067774/trivia ): “Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts were originally the stars of the movie”
So would Lex still have been in the front row?
As for Kinski: “He turned down a role in Raiders of the Lost Ark, describing the script as ‘moronically shitty’.” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Kinski#cite_note-14 )
Must’ve been Lucas’ draft.
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Pascal: Adversary and Advocate (review)
Joseph J. Maier
Volume 6, Numbers 1 and 2, Fall 1982
212Philosophy and Literature end it does not only lead us to understand the books of the author: it discloses life itself. Thus criticism is the necessary complement to artwork, contributing to the social function of the work and understanding books as "the score of a civilization" (p. 30). That criticism need not be a pedantic, Beckettesque monologue, but can become a poetic, dialectical adventure, is forcefully brought home to the reader by the titles of Lydon's chapters ("The Music of Time," "Train of Thoughts," "The Smithy of the Soul," and so forth) and by the suggestive quotations, from either Butor or other writers, which head each new line of thought. Unqualified and alert love of the texts recurrently prompts Lydon to elicit as starting points the keys which Butor provided in his works as tools for elucidating them. But Lydon also displays a vast knowledge of other writers and philosophers , those great intercessors with whose works Butor engages in dialogue in his own writings. Mallarmé's voice can be heard all throughout Lydon's book. In the chapters analyzing Butor's first four novels, Lydon creates a helpful echo chamber of traditions. Thus Passage de Milan is put into relation to Balzac, Proust, and Joyce. L'Emploi du temps evokes affinities with Joyce, Sartre, and Proust. La Modification is studied in relation to Dante and Michelangelo's Creation ofMan. Degrés embodies Pound's figure of the voyage of discovery and Vico's conceptions of history and social relations. In each one of these cases Lydon is not practicing an external comparison; rather, she shows the inner workings of Butor's texts by throwing them into relief with those of other writers: she reveals how Butor's work does not just mirror the tradition but generates a new interpretation of it. In the last third of her book Lydon grapples with Butor's experimental works, Mobile, Illustrations, Description de San Marco, 6. 810. 00 Litres d'eau par seconde, and Portrait de l'artiste en jeune singe. Here Butor evidently aims to revolutionize our attitudes to reading, to books, and ultimately to the world we live in — by sensitizing us to various typographical innovations . Rather than deepening the thematic exploration she so successfully employs in the discussion of Butor's earlier novels, Lydon unfortunately (in my view) intersperses her study with lengthy defenses against the many detractors and hectorings which have greeted these later exploratory writings. Lydon's intentions are laudable: the desire to bring Butor the recognition he deserves and has not yet achieved from the Englishspeaking readership. Still, the systematic rectification of negative critiques is itself a distraction from Butor's works and their main intent: close observation and poetic understanding of our concrete reality and of our rapidly changing historic condition. Mount Allison UniversityLiliane Welch Pascal: Adversary and Advocate, by RobertJ. Nelson, ? & 286 pp. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981, $22.50. Nelson's study, without apparent intent, makes clear that if we ask whether Pascal is a philosopher or an apologist, the response must be an apologist. To be an advocate or an adversary, as Nelson has shown Pascal to be, precludes his being a philosopher. While, without a plethora of qualifications, I would not personally like to defend the thesis that Reviews213 Pascal is not a philosopher, it must be admitted that Nelson brings out something central in this seventeenth-century Frenchman. Looking at Pascal's philosophical contemporaries , there is a definite difference in character between them and Pascal, and this difference marks Pascal the apologist. At bottom the difference is that Pascal is a man of religious experiences and motivations, and while one may argue that many of Pascal's philosophical contemporaries were religious, their writings were not so quintessentially rooted in religion. Nelson's study captures this dimension of Pascal, and consequently aids us in understanding just what manner of "philosopher" Pascal is. Pascal's internal "dialectic" mat Nelson sees moving from conservative to liberal to conservative is not Hegelian, but seems rather a simple change of voice brought about by a change of perspective — not changed by growth. In his moves to adjust himself to the vagaries of history and to respond most...
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Buggin’ out
July 11th, 2019 in 45 Picture Sleeves, Funny Faces, Hands by lpcoverlover | 1 Comment
“El Mosquito” Caterina Valente Globe-Trotter Polydor Records (France) A cute EP from 1954. Hear it HERE!
Bozo’s tall tale
July 11th, 2019 in 45 Picture Sleeves, Clowns and the Circus, Illustration, Outer Space and Rockets by lpcoverlover | No Comments
“Bozo Meets the Moon Goon” Bozo “the Capitol Clown” featuring Larry Harmon as Bozo. Capitol Records EAP-1-3250 (1959) . From Associated Press:
Larry Harmon dumped from Clown Hall of Fame
years, promoter and entertainer Larry Harmon claimed to have both
created the character and said he was the original.
Now the International Clown Hall of Fame in downtown Milwaukee is formally
endorsing a different version: Capitol Records executive Alan Livingston
created Bozo for recordings in 1946, and the late Vance “Pinto” Colvig was
the first person to play the clown.
On Friday, the hall is posthumously inducting Colvig as the first Bozo.
That reverses the hall’s “Lifetime of Laughter Award” given to Harmon in
1990 as Bozo’s creator. The hall has since taken Harmon’s plaque off its
honor wall.
Kathryn O’Dell, the hall’s executive director, said the hall was duped to
believe Harmon created Bozo and didn’t find out the truth until ABCnews.com
columnist and entertainment producer Buck Wolf reported Harmon was wrongly
laying claim to the character.
“It was something that was hinted at and hinted at and we started to do
research and sure enough the information we were getting from outside
sources was true,” O’Dell said.
While Harmon popularized the character since the 1950s, Livingston and
Colvig were first to develop it, she said.
Colvig’s voice was used in the first recordings and he wrote some of Bozo’s
first songs, made the first live appearances and was the first Bozo on
Capitol Records Inc. sold all the rights to Bozo the Capitol Clown, except
the masters for the previous records, in the mid 1950s to Harmon, who a few
years earlier had answered a Capitol casting call to be a Bozo.
Harmon ended up training more than 200 Bozos over the years and turning Bozo
into a character for 156 cartoons that he sold in the United States and
Harmon, 79, said from his home in Los Angeles that he’s saddened to have the
hall remove his plaque and he denied misrepresenting Bozo’s history.
“Isn’t it a shame the credit that was given to me for the work I have done
they arbitrarily take it down, like I didn’t do anything for the last 52
years,” he said.
He said he has always acknowledged that Livingston created Bozo The Capitol
Clown. But he said he created Bozo’s personality and image today as Bozo The
World’s Most Famous Clown.
“What I created for the world was me and my image, what I sound like, what I
look like, what I walk like, what the costume looked like, with my animation
studio,” he said.
Bozo The Capitol Clown had red mop hair and spoke with a drawl. Harmon’s
Bozo had bright orange-red yak hair and spoke faster and made up an entirely
new vocabulary, like “wowie-kazowie.” The laugh was also different.
from abc.com:
In light of claims from officials at the International Clown Hall of Fame
that Harmon misled the museum when he was honored for creating TV’s Bozo,
the Wolf Files investigated the matter.
An extensive review of publications and materials from Harmon’s office
and numerous press interviews indicates that Harmon has frequently stuck a
Bozo-sized, big, red, floppy shoe in his mouth — describing himself over the
years as Bozo’s creator and the man who created Bozo for TV.
Both assertions are highly questionable. When the Wolf Files approached
Bill Lange, founder of the Clown Hall of Fame, about Harmon and the Bozo
legacy, he said: “I now regret that we gave him that award. Personally, I
think Larry Harmon is a jerk and other clowns deserve some credit for Bozo.”
Recently, the Hall of Fame changed Harmon’s credit on its Web site from
Bozo’s “creator” to his “franchiser” — and no one has argued that Harmon is,
indeed, a world-class marketer.
But questions remain: Has one man tried to rewrite clown history and
take all the credit for a pop culture institution that touches millions of
children? What about the origins of that beautiful orange-wing hairdo and
those “wowie-kazowie” custard pie fights? And if Larry Harmon isn’t the
original Bozo, who is?
Harmon’s Bozo often said he had one lesson to teach children, above
all: “It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.” Now,
it would seem, Harmon might want to listen to his own internal Bozo.
Clowning With History
Harmon, a 73-year-old show business entrepreneur and performer, denies he
ever tried to rewrite clown history. He declined to be interviewed. But in a
written statement, he says there have been thousands of articles about him
and some are simply wrong. In the statement, he says he has always
acknowledged that Bozo was created by another man.
“In some of those articles, I have been misquoted and blatantly
misrepresented,” the statement says. “I cannot be responsible for misquotes
or incorrect information printed by the media and routinely recycled over
and over a long period of time.”
But to believe Harmon, we must also believe The Associated Press, The
New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and at least six other major newspapers
misquoted or misunderstood him, often times repeatedly.
Moreover, Harmon offered no explanation for a 1996 licensing brochure
copyrighted by his production company and titled “50 Years of Clowning
Around With Bozo.” It begins:
“Bozo. You can’t even say it without smiling. Bozo the Clown, created
by Larry Harmon half a century ago, has gone from children’s recording star
to international TV star, joining the American vocabulary along the way.”
[Italics added.]
The Father of Bozo Speaks
To Bozo’s true creator, Alan W. Livingston of Beverly Hills, Calif., Harmon’
s claims have been hurtful, though somewhat amusing.
“I hired this guy years ago. He was an out-of-work actor at the time
and now he is taking credit for my work,” Livingston says. “It is such a
In 1946, Capitol Records asked Livingston to write and produce a
children’s record. He delivered “Bozo at the Circus,” the first read-along
recording. “Kids, whenever I clap my hands, you turn the page,” Bozo would
say. It sold more than a million copies, and a clown legend began.
Livingston worked with an artist to develop Bozo’s basic look. The
clown’s name, now a household word, was born during a late-night
brainstorming session. Circus folk had long used “bozo” to refer to tramp
clowns. But Capitol somehow copyrighted the whole enchilada and hired actors
such as Harmon for promotional purposes.
Harmon’s Bozology
While Harmon regularly accepts the title of Bozo’s creator, he got specific
in 1990, according to an Aug. 29 edition of the Chicago Tribune, in which he
was reported as saying he based the clown’s name on a famed Gypsy humorist
named “Bozolowski.”
“What stuck with me was those four letters,” he told the paper. “It was
a name everyone can pronounce. I tried it in all the languages. It came out
the same.”
He then went into detail about how he designed the hair and other
characteristics: “I knew I wanted sort of a cotton-like fabric that I curled
up and brought out to the sides,” he was quoted as saying. “Red is one of my
favorite colors. Red, white and blue I love. That’s America.”
Harmon has also claimed he created Bozo for TV. Indeed, beginning in
1959, he did raise a clown army of some 200 Bozos, putting a Bozo on local
TV in almost every major city and in countries such as Thailand, Greece and
Brazil.
Yet research shows that Bozo first appeared in 1949 on KTTV, channel 11
in Los Angeles. Pinto Colvig, who served as Bozo on Livingston’s records,
brought the character to life. Harmon was not involved.
Colvig lived the quintessential clown’s life. As a teenager, he ran off
and joined a circus, eventually working for Ringling Bros. He also served as
the voices of Goofy and Grumpy in Walt Disney cartoons and helped songwriter
Frank Churchill write “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf.”
“Those were great days in TV,” recalls Lee Carrau, floor manager on the
first Bozo TV show. “It was a live show, two cameras in a small studio, with
animals and screaming kids. We never knew what would happen, monkeys jumping
around everywhere. Every week was absolute pandemonium.”
Carrau, 76, remembers Colvig well. “He used to go to the bar after the
show in Bozo costume for laughs,” he says. “He was a fun, fun guy.” Asked
about Harmon, Carrau said, “Never heard of the gent, and I knew everyone on
the show.”
Clown for Sale
Capitol closed its TV operations in the early 1950s. Harmon and some
partners subsequently bought the rights to Bozo, except for the audio
recordings. From there, Harmon went market-to-market selling the Bozo
concept of a live clown show for kids in the dawn of the TV age. “Larry
deserves credit for licensing Bozo,” Livingston says. “He’s made it last for
a long time.”
Livingston went on to sign Frank Sinatra and the Beatles to Capitol
Records. He didn’t waste too much time correcting Harmon, he says, because
Bozo is not tops on his resume. But it’s still a source of pride. The Clown
Hall of Fame now honors Livingston, too. But he’d really like to see
recognition for his old friend Colvig, who died of lung cancer in 1967.
“Pinto did a great job,” Livingston says. “He got Bozo’s voice down
perfectly and he really knew how to make kids laugh.”
Which Bozo Is Your Bozo?
The Bozo you saw on TV depends on where you grew up. Through Harmon’s
licensing, many men portrayed the clown.
The most famous Bozos: Willard Scott in Washington (yes, the NBC Today
show weatherman), Frank Avruch in Boston (whose show has been syndicated in
markets with no local Bozo), and Bob Bell in Chicago (who started the
longest-running children’s TV show still on the air, now starring Joey D’
Auria).
Altogether, Bozo shows have logged more than 50,000 hours of recording
time, a Guinness record.
At times, Harmon portrayed Bozo, though he never starred on a show for
a sustained period. Among his performing highlights: training at zero
gravity with Apollo astronauts and providing Bozo’s voice in cartoons.
The cartoons reportedly once bore a credit line for Livingston as Bozo’
s creator. That has been deleted over the years. A recent videocassette of
the cartoons pictures Harmon in greasepaint with the caption describing him
as, “The Original Bozo.”
Harmon has maintained that he trained his Bozos and their writers. But
some people involved in the shows and their families feel he overstated his
involvement.
In a 1984 magazine article in the Chicago Tribune, Harmon admitted that
Bell was self-taught. “He was a natural Bozo,” Harmon said. “Bob was able to
jump into my soul … He was able to reach into my mind and my emotions,
because Bozo was me … And Bob has my love for the children, my sensitivity,
my understanding.”
The article quotes Bell as recalling a cooler relationship with Harmon:
“I haven’t seen him for years. He never calls. He never comes around. Even
when he’s at the station, contracting for his cartoons, he never stops in
and says hello. Never.”
The Hard Way to Greasepaint Fame
Bell’s daughter, Joan Roy, says that Harmon failed to offer his
congratulations when Bell was inducted into the Clown Hall of Fame in 1996
and Harmon made it difficult for Bell to attend the ceremony in his Bozo
greasepaint. “My father was 74 and frail,” Roy says. “It was outrageous.”
In artwork from the ceremony, Bell appears as the only honored clown
out of makeup, a sure disappointment to fans.
It was only after Bell’s successor, D’Auria, appeared as Bozo at
another Clown Hall of Fame event that Harmon began to press for his own
award, recalls Lange, the Clown Hall of Fame founder.
“It is a shame that Harmon tried to take credit for creating Bozo,”
says Kathryn O’Dell, the Hall of Fame’s executive director. “He might have
won the award anyway because of the job he did marketing Bozo. But he really
bamboozled us.”
Hall through the night
July 9th, 2019 in Blues, The Big Hurt by lpcoverlover | 1 Comment
Juanita Hall “The Original Bloody Mary” Sings the Blues Society Records (U.K.) (1964 ) 12-track mono LP recorded in 1958 with a star backing group consisting of Claude Hopkins, Coleman Hawkins, Buster Bailey, Doc Cheatham & George Duvivier.
The Butcher Cover
July 9th, 2019 in Blues, Food, Incredibly Strange by lpcoverlover | No Comments
Grade “A” Dance Music with a Swing Beat Jump blues from Joe Thomas b/w Al Sears Audio Lab Records (1960) Featuring “Raw Meat” (which is very rare indeed).
It’s good to be green
July 7th, 2019 in 45 Picture Sleeves, Illustration, Outer Space and Rockets by lpcoverlover | No Comments
Les Mutants Vogue Records (France) 1963 instrumental “Original Climb USA” Hear it HERE.
Mob deep
July 7th, 2019 in 45 Picture Sleeves, Cops and Convicts, Guns, Illustration by lpcoverlover | 1 Comment
The Ballad of Al Capone and Mr. Blue by Richard Maltby and Sea of Love by Marty Wiled and Uomo Solo by Arturo Testa. An EP on Philips Records (Spain). Cool cover illustration!
Hoochie coochie man
July 7th, 2019 in Blues, Rock by lpcoverlover | 1 Comment
Long John Baldry & His Hoochie Coochie Men (1968) Reissue of Long John’s Blues (Originally on United Artists in 1964) on UnArt Records (UK) . Rod Stewart on Vocals. Check out the Elton John connection below.
Long John Baldry (vocals), Rod Stewart (vocals, harmonica), Jeff Bradford (guitar), Cliff Barton (bass), Ian Armit (piano), Johnny Parker (piano), Al Gay (saxophone), Art Themen (saxophone), Johnny Spooner (drums), Pete Willis (guitar), Tom Connor (bass), Barry Martin (saxophone), Eddie Taylor (drums), Pete Blannin (bass), Pete Peterson (saxophone), Rudy Jones (saxophone), Bill Eyden (drums), Ernie O’Malley (drums)Tracklist
A1 Got My Mojo Working
A2 Gee Baby Ain’t I Good To You
A3 Roll ‘Em Pete
A4 I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man
A5 Everyday (I Have The Blues)
B1 Dimples
B2 Five Long Years
B3 My Babe
B4 Times Are Getting Tougher Than Tough
B5 Rock The Joint
Baldry grew to 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), resulting in the nickname “Long John”. In the early 1960s, he sang with Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, with whom he recorded the first British blues album in 1962, R&B from the Marquee. At stages, Mick Jagger, Jack Bruce and Charlie Watts were members of this band while Keith Richards and Brian Jones played on stage, although none played on the R&B at the Marquee album. When The Rolling Stones made their debut at the Marquee Club in July 1962, Baldry put together a group to support them. Later, Baldry was the announcer introducing the Stones on their US-only live album, Got Live If You Want It!, in 1966.
Baldry became friendly with Paul McCartney after a show at the Cavern Club in Liverpool in the early 1960s, leading to an invitation to sing on one of The Beatles 1964 TV specials, Around The Beatles. In the special, Baldry performs “Got My Mojo Workin'” and a medley of songs with members of The Vernons Girls trio; in the latter, the Beatles are shown singing along in the audience.
In 1963, Baldry joined the Cyril Davies R&B All Stars with Nicky Hopkins playing piano. He took over in 1964 after the death of Cyril Davies, and the group became Long John Baldry and his Hoochie Coochie Men featuring Rod Stewart on vocals and Geoff Bradford on guitar. Stewart was recruited when Baldry heard him busking a Muddy Waters song at Twickenham Station after Stewart had been to a Baldry gig at Eel Pie Island. Long John Baldry became a regular fixture on Sunday nights at Eel Pie Island from then onwards, fronting a series of bands.
In 1965, the Hoochie Coochie Men became Steampacket with Baldry and Stewart as male vocalists, Julie Driscoll as the female vocalist and Brian Auger on Hammond organ. After Steampacket broke up in 1966, Baldry formed Bluesology featuring Reg Dwight on keyboards and Elton Dean, later of Soft Machine, as well as Caleb Quaye on guitar. Dwight, when he began to record as a solo artist, adopted the name Elton John, his first name from Elton Dean and his surname from John Baldry.
Good rockin’ daddy
July 7th, 2019 in Jazz by lpcoverlover | No Comments
Woody Herman “The Herd Rides Again” (1958) Originally on Everest Records in the U.S., this is a glossy UK reissue from the World Record Club. A reunion of Woody’s first “herd”.
Bass – Chubby Jackson
Clarinet, Saxophone, Vocals – Woody Herman
Drums – Don Lamond
Engineer – Dave Shirk
Guitar – Billy Bauer
Piano – Nat Pierce
Saxophone – Al Cohn, Danny Bank, Paul Quinichette, Sam Donahue, Sam Marowitz
Trombone – Billy Byers, Bob Brookmeyer, Frank Rehak
Trumpet – Al Stewart (3), Bernie Glow, Burt Collins, Ernie Royal, Joe Ferrante, Irwin “Marky” Markowitz*, Nick Travis
Whiskey bent and heel bound
July 7th, 2019 in Happy Hour, Legs by lpcoverlover | No Comments
Flensburger Trinklieder Fontana (Germany) .
Martian hop
July 4th, 2019 in 45 Picture Sleeves, Cartoons, Disney Land, Outer Space and Rockets by lpcoverlover | 2 Comments
Mickey Pa Manen. A nifty 6″ record from Sweden of Mickey and Donald in outer space! Looks like a fifties release.
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Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others
He has begged all morning outside the landlord's house for one cup of rice. His three children haven't eaten for five days. Their last meal had been a handful of hay stolen from the landlord's cowshed and boiled in the cloudy yellow water from the well. Even the well is running dry. For the past three years they have been eating once every five or six or seven days. The last few times he had gone to beg had yielded nothing, except abuse and forcible ejection from the grounds of the landlord's house. In the beginning, when he had first started to beg for food, they shut and bolted all the doors and windows against him while he sat outside the house, for hours and hours, day rolling into evening into night, until they discovered his resilience and changed that tactic. Today they had set their guards on him. One of them had brought his stick down on Nitai's back, his shoulders, his legs, while the other one had joked, 'Where are you going to hit this dog? He is nothing but bones, we don't even have to hit him. Blow on him and he'll fall back.' (pp. 1-2)
Neel Mukherjee's second novel, the Booker-longlisted The Lives of Others, is not a typical family/state drama. From its opening prologue, from whence the quote above comes, Mukherjee makes it quite clear that he is going to explore, sometimes in graphic, violent detail, the inequalities in mid-20th century Calcuttan/Kolkatan society. It certainly is a bold choice, as the story gains much from this unflinching portrayal of the hypocrisies and sufferings of Bengalis in this region of India.
The Lives of Others (a title derived from an epigraph taken from James Salter's Light Years) opens with an explicit depiction of suffering and casual cruelty, as a starving tenant farmer, Nitai, after being denied the food necessary to keep his family alive, goes home and decapitates his wife and son, strangles his daughters, before committing suicide by drinking pesticide. Mukhejee displays the farmer's human frailty in this last, violent act of desperation and it is that sense of gross injustice, of people starving and committing mercy murders, that carries over into the main narrative as a lingering ghost, reminding readers that behind the depictions of the various lives of the well-to-do Ghosh family there lurks a specter of famine and deprivation much worse than what these family members manage to do to one another.
However, this is not to downplay the intricate relationships that Mukherjee explores within the Ghosh family. On the contrary, this fictitious family encapsulates well many of the divisions present in Indian (and in particular, Bengali) society in the first generation after independence. While the character types might be of stock appearance (the self-made wealthy patriarch, the divisions among sons, the favored and ill-favored daughters, the black sheep revolutionary), he manages to enliven them with personalities that are vivid and which serve to draw the reader closer to the unfolding narrative.
The novel's structure supports Mukherjee's exploration of societal injustices. In addition to traditional chapters detailing the lives of the Ghosh children living in their Kolkata compound, there are short commentaries, presented in a different font, that we later learn were composed by the rebellious son, Supratik, who has renounced his social station and has become a Maoist rebel. Mukherjee utilizes these different narrative threads to great effect, as he shows through each Ghosh son and daughter the intricate web of responsibilities and privileges, of petty power struggles and denials of affection due to differences in appearance and social grace. These characters, including the waspish Chhaya, whose stinging spiteful remarks serve as a goad to drive others away (or toward what she desires), drive the action of The Lives of Others and make for quick page turning.
The prose for the most part is striking for its simple yet vivid quality. Mukherjee describes his characters and scenes in such a fashion that it is easy to imagine certain sights, sounds, and smells. There is little wasted space; the descriptions are lashed to the plot so tightly that everything seems to be subordinate to outlining just what is happening to the Ghosh family during the time of famine and social upheaval in West Bengal. This results in a novel that manages to create a series of contrasts between characters and their social counterparts without feeling either too spartan or too lush with extraneous detail. In addition, these clashes are set up in such a fashion that Mukherjee is able to make several pointed comments on contemporary socio-political issues (mostly through Supratik's changes in perspective during his years as a rebel) through the Ghosh family dynamics without reducing their conflicts to mere analogies for the greater conflict.
If there were a difficulty to point out, it would be a very minor one: an Anglo-American reader might find herself needing to rely more on the helpful family chart at the beginning of the book and the glossary at the end, due to the different nature of Bengali familial relationships. Yet this was no real hindrance to enjoying the novel, which might be one of the best Indian family/societal dramas that I've read in years. The Lives of Others certainly is worthy of consideration for the Booker Prize and it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see it make the shortlist later this week.
Labels: 2014 Booker Prize, 2014 Reviews, Neel Mukherjee
Rahul Sharma said...
The Lives Of Others' By Neel Mukherjee | Book Review - http://indiannerve.com/the-lives-of-others-by-neel-mukherjee-book-review-16063/
It's been long since I felt so satisfied having completed a book. A wonderful, intelligent book.
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Roz Shorter
Runoff races, part 3: Harris County
I’m not going to give a big windup on this because I think we’re all familiar with these races, but just to make sure we’re on the same page.
Marilyn Burgess
Rozzy Shorter
Diane Trautman
Gayle Mitchell
Dylan Osborne
Cosme Garcia
HCDE Position 3, At Large
Richard Cantu
Josh Wallenstein
Burgess 49.22%, Shorter 23.40%
Trautman 44.27%, Mitchell 40.42%
Osborne 38.11%, Garcia 36.63%
Cantu 39.03%, Wallenstein 30.77%
I did interviews in the latter two races – here’s Osborne, here’s Cantu, and here’s Wallenstein; Cosme Garcia never responded to my email asking for an interview. I did a precinct analysis of these races here. I endorsed Burgess and Trautman in the primary, and I stand by that. I voted for Osborne in the primary and will vote for him again; no disrespect intended to Cosme Garcia but other than a recently-constructed webpage I’ve not seen any evidence of him campaigning. Both Cantu and Wallenstein are good candidates and are worthy of your vote.
HCDE Position 6, Precinct 1
Danny Norris
Prince E. Bryant
Justice of the Peace, Precinct 7, Place 2
Cheryl Elliott Thornton
Sharon Burney
Norris 35.22%, Bryant 34.07%
Burney 31.86%, Thornton 24.62%
I did an interview with Danny Norris; Price Bryant got back to me late in the cycle to set up a time for an interview, but then didn’t respond to a followup email to schedule it. I received judicial Q&A responses from Cheryl Thornton, but not from Sharon Burney. I voted for Norris in March and will vote for him again. I don’t live in JP7 and don’t have a preference in this race.
Precinct analysis: Countywide candidates
We have four – count ’em, four – runoffs for Harris County office nominations for May. Every contested countywide non-judicial primary – that is, everything other than County Judge – is going to overtime. I’m going to look at the data from these four races with an eye towards the runoffs. As a reminder, my analysis of the Senate primary is here, and my analysis of the Governor and Lt. Governor races is here. Let’s start with the District Clerk race.
Dist Howard Burgess Jordan Shorter
CD02 3,161 15,405 2,276 4,938
CD08 234 819 160 435
CD09 3,918 7,493 3,185 5,959
CD10 1,000 3,442 769 1,578
CD22 438 1,458 355 708
CD36 993 4,150 726 1,508
HD126 712 2,089 577 1,010
HD128 486 1,559 344 659
HD131 1,669 2,943 1,389 2,477
HD134 1,262 10,294 681 1,813
HD140 479 890 424 602
Marilyn Burgess was above the magic 50% line for most of the evening as Primary Day returns came in, but fell just short in the end, leading the pack with 49.22%. She was strong everywhere, getting at least a plurality in every district except HD142, which she missed by one vote. Stranger things have happened, but it’s hard to imagine her losing in the runoff given the data.
Next up is County Clerk:
Dist West Mitchell Trautman
CD02 3,368 8,412 13,817
CD08 255 729 651
CD09 3,418 10,215 6,620
CD10 1,222 2,798 2,708
CD18 5,071 15,336 12,068
CD22 418 1,283 1,222
HD126 783 1,881 1,683
HD12 784 2,152 2,205
HD131 1,340 4,511 2,506
HD140 476 1,003 884
HD144 406 716 934
I’ll be honest, I thought Diane Trautman would do better than she did. She’s been around for awhile, she’s run and won countywide before, and she was a very active campaigner. I wasn’t the only one who was surprised to see this race be as close as it was, with Trautman at 44.27% and Gayle Mitchell, who lost a primary for County Clerk to Ann Harris Bennett in 2014, at 40.42%. When I say that Trautman was an active campaigner, I don’t just mean on Facebook and via email. I mean I saw her at multiple events, including all of the CEC meetings from 2017. Nat West was present at CEC meetings, as he is the SDEC Chair for SD13, but as far as I know Gayle Mitchell never attended and of those or any other event that I did. Be that as it may, she finished just 5,500 votes behind Trautman, and she won or ran strongly in numerous districts. She also did better on Primary Day than she did in early voting; the same was true for Rozzy Shorter and the other non-Burgess District Clerk candidates, which probably just suggests when different types of voters were voting.
Trautman has the advantage of the runoff in CD07 going into May, as that was a big driver of overall turnout and it was her strongest turf, though she wasn’t as strong there as Burgess was. Mitchell will likely benefit from the runoffs in JP7 and HCDE Position 6, Precinct 1 – there is significant overlap between the two – though neither of those will draw people out the way CD07 will. I guess that makes Trautman a slight favorite going into May, but we all thought she was a strong favorite going into March, so who knows. If I had one piece of advice for Trautman, it would be to see if she can get some elected officials to do some outreach on her behalf. Those of us who think she’s the strongest candidate to face Stan Stanart, especially if we’re not in CD07, need to make sure we bring some friends to the polls for her.
I’m going to present the last two races together. They are Treasurer and HCDE Trustee Position 3 At Large.
Dist Garcia Copeland Osborne
CD02 8,841 4,988 11,335
CD08 685 408 533
CD09 6,404 6,742 6,729
CD22 1,226 702 989
HD126 1,762 1,154 1,391
HD128 1,268 733 1,005
HD137 1,193 691 996
HCDE
Dist Wallenstein Cantu Patton
CD02 8,942 8,497 7,619
CD07 11,269 8,813 6,864
CD08 511 610 497
CD18 8,126 12,111 11,627
CD22 909 1,258 755
HD126 1,291 1,760 1,245
HD128 909 1,370 747
Treasurer is just a tossup. Dylan Osborne led Cosme Garcia by two thousand votes, and for the most part they were pretty close to even across the districts, with Garcia having a clear advantage in CD29. I don’t see enough of an advantage for either candidate to take a guess at who might have the edge in May. Neither outcome would surprise me.
Richard Cantu has a much more distinct advantage in HCDE, leading Josh Wallenstein by over 11,000 votes. Wallenstein came close to not making it to the runoff – he actually ran third in both phases of in-person voting, but had a big enough lead over Elvonte Patton in mail ballots to hang onto second place. Runoffs can be weird, but Cantu seems like the clear favorite for May.
That wraps it up for the Democratic primary precinct analyses. I have one more of these to present, from the other side. Hope you’ve found these to be useful.
2018 primary results: Harris County
Statewide Dem totals
Statewide GOP totals
Harris County Dem totals
Harris County GOP totals
(Please note that all results were coming in very slowly. I expect there will still be some precincts not yet reported by the time this publishes. So, I’m going to be less specific than usual, and may have to make a correction or two by Thursday.)
Short and sweet, because it’s late and I’m tired:
– Marilyn Burgess fell just short of 50% for District Clerk. She will face Rozzy Shorter in May.
– Diane Trautman and Gayle Mitchell will run off for County Clerk.
– Dylan Osborne and Cosme Garcia were the top two finishers for County Treasurer.
– Richard Cantu led for HCDE Position 3 At Large, with Josh Wallenstein just ahead of Elvonte Patton. In a very tight race, Danny Norris was ahead of Prince Bryant by a nose for HCDE Position 6, Precinct 1, with John Miller farther back. There were only a few precincts out as I wrote this, but things were close enough that the standings could change.
– Adrian Garcia and Penny Shaw will be the nominees for County Commissioner in Precincts 2 and 4, respectively.
– Lucia Bates toppled Don Coffey for JP in Precinct 3. Sharon Burney and Cheryl Elliott Thornton will compete for JP in Precinct 7.
– There were only a couple of races of interest on the R side. Josh Flynn won the nomination for HCDE Trustee in Place 4, Precinct 3. Current HCDE Trustee and total chucklehead Michael Wolfe will face Jeff Williams for JP in Precinct 5. Paul Simpson held on as party chair.
– Dem turnout was 160,085 with about fifty precincts left to report. Republican turnout was 148,857 with 85 precincts still out.
The Harris County slates
Let’s talk about the filings for Harris County. The SOS filings page is still the best source of information, but they don’t provide shareable links, so in the name of ease and convenience I copied the Democratic filing information for Harris County to this spreadsheet. I took out the statewide candidates, and I didn’t include Republicans because they have not updated the SOS office with their slate. Their primary filing site is still the best source for that. So review those and then come back so we can discuss.
Ready? Here we go.
– If there was an announcement I missed it, but HCDE Trustee Erica Lee, in Position 6, Precinct 1, did not file for re-election. Three candidates did file, Danyahel Norris, an attorney and associate director at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law; John F. Miller, who was a candidate for HCDE Chair earlier this year; and Prince Bryant.
– While there are contested races up and down the ballot, there’s one race that is no longer contested. Mike Nichols withdrew his filing for Harris County Judge, leaving Lina Hidalgo as the sole candidate to oppose Judge Ed Emmett next fall.
– The SOS page also shows that Sammy Casados withdrew his filing for County Commissioner. However, his campaign Facebook page makes no such announcement, and there’s no evidence I can find to confirm that. It’s possible this is a mistake on the SOS page. We’ll know soon enough, when the HCDP publishes its official final list. Anyway, the cast for Commissioner in Precinct 2 also includes Adrian Garcia, Daniel Box, Roger Garcia, and Ken Melancon, who was previously a candidate for Constable in Precinct 3 (note that Constable precincts, like Justice of the Peace precincts, do not correspond to Commissioner precincts). Also, there are now two candidates for Commissioner in Precinct 4, Penny Shaw and Jeff Stauber, who was a candidate for Sheriff in 2016.
– All other county races save one are contested. Diane Trautman has two opponents for County Clerk: Gayle Mitchell, who ran for the same office in 2014, losing to Ann Harris Bennett in the primary, and Nat West, who is the SDEC Chair for Senate District 13 and who ran for County Commissioner in Precinct 1 in that weird precinct chair-run election. Two candidates joined Marilyn Burgess and Kevin Howard for District Clerk, Michael Jordan and former Council candidate Rozzy Shorter. Dylan Osborne, Cosme Garcia, and Nile Copeland, who ran for judge as a Dem in 2010, are in for County Treasurer. HCDE Trustee Position 3 At Large has Josh Wallenstein, Elvonte Patton, and Richard Cantu, who may be the same Richard Cantu that ran for HISD Trustee in District I in 2005. Only Andrea Duhon, the candidate for HCDE Trustee for Position 4 in Precinct 3, has a free pass to November.
– I will go through the late filings for legislative offices in a minute, but first you need to know that Lloyd Oliver filed in HD134. Whatever you do, do not vote for Lloyd Oliver. Make sure everyone you know who lives in HD134 knows to vote for Alison Sawyer and not Lloyd Oliver. That is all.
– Now then. SBOE member Lawrence Allen drew an opponent, Steven Chambers, who is a senior manager at HISD. That’s a race worth watching.
– Sen. John Whitmire has two primary opponents, Damien LaCroix, who ran against him in 2014, and Hank Segelke, about whom I know nothing. Rita Lucido, who ran for SD17, threw her hat in the ring to join Fran Watson and Ahmad Hassan.
– Carlos Pena (my google fu fails me on him) joins Gina Calanni for HD132. Ricardo Soliz made HD146 a three-candidate race, against Rep. Shawn Thierry and Roy Owens. There are also three candidates in HD133: Marty Schexnayder, Sandra Moore, and someone you should not vote for under any circumstances. He’s another perennial candidate with lousy views, just like Lloyd Oliver. Wh you should also not vote for under any circumstances.
– The Republican side is boring. Stan Stanart has a primary opponent. Rep. Briscoe Cain no longer does. There’s some drama at the JP level, where Precinct 5 incumbent Jeff Williams faces two challengers. Williams continued to perform weddings after the Obergefell decision, meaning he did (or at least was willing to do) same sex weddings as well. You do the math. Unfortunately, there’s no Democrat in this race – it’s one of the few that went unfilled. There was a Dem who filed, but for reasons unknown to me the filing was rejected. Alas.
I’ll have more in subsequent posts. Here’s a Chron story from Monday, and Campos has more.
UPDATE: Two people have confirmed to me that Sammy Casados has withdrawn from the Commissioners Court race.
Precinct analysis: 2011 At Large #2
What can you say about a ten-candidate pileup? Let’s start by seeing what the district numbers look like:
Dist Thibaut Perez Burks Goss Fraga Dick Pool Griff Robinson Shorter
A 15.69% 17.99% 13.94% 3.03% 6.93% 11.67% 6.41% 11.35% 9.75% 3.25%
B 8.93% 6.65% 31.58% 1.83% 4.70% 4.43% 5.48% 3.93% 18.52% 13.94%
C 18.49% 10.79% 7.76% 1.41% 10.92% 9.49% 14.37% 11.63% 12.93% 2.20%
D 7.24% 6.22% 35.65% 1.38% 4.64% 3.36% 4.45% 4.22% 13.85% 18.98%
E 15.70% 23.72% 15.98% 2.69% 7.03% 9.61% 5.19% 9.44% 8.27% 2.38%
F 28.18% 16.73% 11.24% 2.67% 5.41% 7.79% 5.23% 7.60% 9.72% 5.41%
G 25.08% 15.87% 14.93% 1.64% 7.85% 9.80% 4.16% 9.95% 9.07% 1.65%
H 9.93% 20.35% 9.70% 1.50% 24.90% 6.49% 7.73% 6.96% 8.31% 4.13%
I 8.56% 24.54% 9.54% 1.82% 27.29% 4.11% 4.95% 4.74% 8.12% 6.34%
J 20.07% 16.78% 11.47% 2.52% 8.47% 7.12% 7.14% 9.64% 11.79% 4.99%
K 15.34% 11.16% 19.45% 1.92% 5.68% 4.69% 6.89% 7.52% 15.72% 11.62%
Starting from the top:
– Andrew Burks obviously and expectedly did well in the African-American areas. I had thought that Rozzy Shorter might shave a few points off his totals, and I daresay she did, but it wasn’t enough to knock him out. He also did pretty well everywhere else, no doubt in part to the decent name ID gained by being a seven time candidate for a Council seat, even if he himself can only remember five of them. I guess at some point it’s hard to keep track of them all.
– Kristi Thibaut did well in District C, but it was her advantage in the west/southwest part of town that carried her into the runoff. She led the field in Districts F and G, and had a strong showing in K as well, all of which was enough to overcome third-place finisher Elizabeth Perez’s advantages elsewhere (more on that in a second). Also good news for Thibaut is that three of the four candidates that finished behind her in C – Jenifer Pool, David Robinson, and Bo Fraga, who combined with her for almost 57% of the vote in C – have endorsed her for the runoff. She will need big margins in places like C to counter Burks’ numbers in B, D, and K.
– Perez won the Election Day vote and didn’t miss the runoff by much. She did well in the Republican districts as you’d expect, but both Thibaut and Burks were able to keep close enough to her to prevent her from passing them. Where she really did well was – say it with me now – in Districts H and I, where she outdistanced Thibaut by enough to wipe out her margin in District C. Unfortunately for her, she shared the ballot with Fraga, who did better than she did, thus again keeping her from making a real run at the top. While this looks on the surface a bit like a missed opportunity for the Republicans – Perez wasn’t exactly raking in the contributions – it’s a bit hard to see where she could have drummed up more support.
– The retiring Griff finished fourth in his old stomping grounds of District C, just ahead of Bo Fraga, and fourth in District E, just ahead of Eric Dick. I guess that means something, but compared to his performance in 2009 it’s hard to say what other than another step in the random walk. His single best shot at a win post-1993 was in 2007, if only he’d cared enough to do more than just show up.
– Speaking of Dick, well, there’s really not much to say, is there? He finished fourth in his home District A. He barely got half as many votes as Perez did for considerably more money. But a lot of people know his name now, so mission accomplished, I guess.
– David Robinson finished second in B, third in D, and second in K. I’m going to take a wild guess here and posit that his name was advantageous to him.
That’s about all I’ve got for now. Last but not least will be At Large #5, coming up next.
Tuesday Council roundup
Council Member Sue Lovell, who is running hard for re-election after her close win in 2007, has added some fundraising muscle to her team.
Houston Vice Mayor Pro Tem Sue Lovell announced today that Robert Miller would lead the Finance Committee for her campaign for re-election to At-Large Position 2 on the Houston City Council.
Miller is chair of the Public Law Practice Group at the law firm of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell and a past Chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas.
“Robert Miller and I have worked together on so many important projects that are making a real difference for Houston,” said Lovell. “I am thrilled – and honored – to work with him again on my campaign.”
“There is no doubt in my mind that Houston needs Sue Lovell’s leadership in the next two years,” said Miller. “With a new mayor and controller facing an uncertain economy, Council Member Lovell’s knowledge, experience and results-driven approach will be critical to continuing our progress.”
This is a good get for Lovell. Miller’s one of those people who knows everyone and should bring with him a lot of opportunities to add to her campaign coffers. Expect her to have a strong 30-days-out report.
One of Lovell’s opponents, Roslyn “Rozzy” Shorter now has a new website. She’s also on Twitter, meaning I’d better update my post. She did not report raising any money in the first half of the year, however, so it’s hard to say how much of a threat she’ll be to Lovell.
Speaking of fundraising, I’ve updated my spreadsheet to reflect the fact that a number of previously missing reports are now – finally! – available online. Anyone who still doesn’t have a report up at this point is presumed by me to have not filed one.
Over in At Large #5, new entrant Dr. Davetta Mills Daniels had her campaign kickoff reception tonight. You can see the invitation and sponsor list here as a Google doc. I’ll be very interested to see what her finance report looks like in October.
Meanwhile, At Large #5 Council Member Jolanda Jones released this letter of support from current, former, and retired Houston firefighters. I presume that was in response to this story about female firefighters who met with Mayor White and pushed back on the charges of rampant sexism and racism within HFD.
Finally, the Houston Press has a detailed report from Monday’s Council hearings on BARC that includes grades for various Council members’ performance. That’s a novel way to approach this sort of thing, and I daresay it will get some strong reactions from inside City Hall Annex.
Turner not running for Mayor
The Mayoral field for this November should now be set.
State Rep. Sylvester Turner announced today he would not attempt a run for mayor of Houston.
The 11-term Democrat representative’s announcement comes a little more than three weeks after he publicly acknowledged he was weighing a third run for mayor. Turner said he was considering a campaign after being asked by community supporters to get in the race.
“Although I believe the race is eminently winnable, a late entry into the campaign would have required that I drop every other project in which I am involved, community endeavors such as the Houston Astros Urban Youth Baseball Academy in Acres Homes and continuing my work in the Texas Legislature, to which I am deeply committed and thoroughly enjoy,” Turner said in a statement issued this morning.
Had he opted to run, Turner would have joined an already crowded field. Announced candidates include former city attorney Gene Locke, Councilman Peter Brown, City Controller Annise Parker, Harris County Department of Education Trustee Roy Morales and businessman T.J. Huntley. The filing deadline is in late September.
Earlier this month, Turner said he promised potential supporters he would consider a run after the legislative session concluded earlier this month.
I’ve got Turner’s full statement beneath the fold. I’d heard a couple of weeks ago that he was making calls to potential campaign contributors, as nobody serious gets into a race like this without some assurance that the resources needed to run a campaign will be there. Maybe he wasn’t getting the response he thought he’d need, or maybe he really just didn’t think he could commit to the race. I was somewhat skeptical that he’d jump in, so I can’t say that this surprises me. Greg has more, including some possible candidates in other races:
African Americans Rozy Shorter and Andrew Burks are considering contesting Sue Lovell for at large 2.
Green Party gay activist Alfred Molison has filed his treasurer designation to oppose District C City Council Member Anne Clutterbuck.
African American former assistant Texas Attorney General Lewis Cook has designated his treasurer to run for the District F seat MJ Khan is leaving and Richard Sedita has designated his treasurer for District G, the seat Pam Holm is leaving.
Shorter has been out there for awhile. Burks is a perennial candidate; his last race was for HCDE Trustee against Roy Morales in 2006. Molison ran twice in 2007, once in the May special election for At Large #3, where he finished tenth, and again in November where he was one of two candidates who ran against Clutterbuck, getting a shade under 6% of the vote. Cook has been in the race for awhile, but I don’t know much about him. Sedita makes five in District G, joining Mills Worsham, Oliver Pennington, Dexter Handy, and George Foulard.
Shorter to challenge Lovell
Isiah Carey reports.
The Insite had a brief conversation with Houstonian Rozzy ‘Roz’ Shorter. She’s not quite given up on her political career. You may remember Shorter as the local woman chosen by the Barack Obama camp to get the Houston audience hyped when then Seantor Obama made a campaign stop in the Bayou City. Shorter now says she’s already to take on sitting Houston City Council Member Sue Lovell. Shorter says At-Large Position 2 is perfect for what she wants to do and she’s willing to do serious battle with Lovell to take the spot. Shorter says she will make an official announcement in the weeks to come.
After Council Member Lovell’s close win in 2007, I figured she might get a serious challenger this time around. I don’t know Ms. Shorter, so I can’t say for sure if she’ll qualify as such, but at the very least she isn’t Griff Griffin. I’m happy with CM Lovell and see no reason not to vote for her, but this will be worth keeping an eye on, if only to see who among the electeds sides with Shorter.
By the way, if things break just right, Houston could end up with a Mayor, a Controller, and three out of five At Large City Council members who are all African-American, and that’s without there being such a candidate running for Peter Brown’s At Large #1 seat as yet. With CMs Jarvis Johnson in District B and Wanda Adams in District D, that could mean seven or even eight of the 16 members of city government are African-American. That would really be something.
On a side note, Mike Laster has his campaign website up and running for District F. He’s still the only candidate I’ve heard anything about in that race.
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Berned if they do, Berned if they don’t
By Robert Romano
After June 7, no matter what happens or who wins California, it appears Hillary Clinton will have amassed more than the 2,382 delegates she needs to clinch the Democrat nomination for president in 2016.
Although it may be a victory by superdelegates. Assuming Clinton wins about half of the remaining 781 delegates through the June 14 Washington, D.C. primary, she will still be short of 2,382 pledged delegates — she’d have about 2,160.
To get past the majority needed to be nominated may still require the use superdelegates. So far, Clinton has 543 of the 712 superdelegates allotted so far, with 149 still remaining to be allocated.
In the popular vote, Clinton still leads by a comfortable 3 million votes, an advantage highly unlikely to shift on Tuesday.
Still, the lack of an outright victory with the pledged delegates could still offer a glimmer of hope for Bernie Sanders supporters headed to the Democrats’ July 25 to 28 national convention. What if Clinton’s email scandal gets her busted by the FBI? Won’t the Democrats need another nominee?
Which brings up a dilemma. With the superdelegates, Clinton is likely to win the nomination. But never before in U.S. history has a party nominee for president been deposed by law enforcement and compelled not to run. It is almost unthinkable.
Chances are, many Clinton supporters would feel disenfranchised, and perhaps stay home in November if Clinton is knocked out as the nominee. Would they back Sanders if Clinton is denied the nomination even though she got the most votes?
Then again, the same thing might happen with Sanders supporters if Clinton — or somebody else like Vice President Joe Biden — is the nominee. What if Clinton is knocked out, and then Sanders is denied the nomination, even though he got the second most votes? Won’t his supporters stay home?
Even if nothing happens and Clinton wins the nomination, many Sanders voters may wind up staying home — or even voting for Donald Trump — if Naked Capitalism’s Yves Smith is to be believed, writing for Politico, “Why Some of the Smartest Progressives I Know Will Vote for Trump over Hillary.”
After citing several examples of readers that would back Trump over Clinton, Smith writes, “not all of my Sanders-supporting readers would vote for Trump. But only a minority would ever vote for Clinton, and I’d guess that a lot of them would just stay home if she were the nominee.”
Meaning, for all of the hubbub about how Republicans were going to have a hard time uniting, the real story of 2016 could be the break-up of the traditional Democrat coalition.
Go with Hillary, lose the Bernie voters who hate her. Go with Bernie, lose the disenfranchised Hillary voters. Go with Joe Biden, potentially lose them both. These scenarios must be giving Democrat party brass nightmares.
They could be Berned if they do, or Berned if they don’t.
In the meantime, national and battleground state polls have tightened considerably for the general election race between Trump and Clinton, a pretty bad sign for the incumbent Democrats.
As the race develops, and momentum by Trump could prove to be self-fulfilling, who was never supposed to have a chance, but now appears to benefit from the Democrats’ civil war. Who would have thought this is where we’d be in the process a year ago?
Robert Romano is the senior editor of Americans for Limited Government.
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News » Union College
Mid-South Conference Releases Preseason Coaches' Poll
COLUMBIA, Ky. - The Mid-South Conference announced the 2015 Preseason Football Coaches' Poll on Wednesday afternoon, and the Union College football team comes in fifth in the Eastern Division of the rankings.
Leading the Eastern Division in the poll is Georgetown (Ky.), who garnered 25 points in the ranking and five of six first place votes. Pikeville (Ky.) comes in second in the ranking with 18 total points, while Cumberlands (Ky.) is in third with 14 points and one first place vote.
Kentucky Christian follows Cumberlands in the poll in fourth with 14 points, followed by the Bulldogs in fifth with 12 total points. Bluefield (Va.) rounds out the ranking in the Eastern Division with seven total points. On the other side of the Mid-South, Campbellsville (Ky.) and Reinhardt (Ga.) shared the top spot in the Western Division with 21 total points and two first place votes, each.
Union, who opens 2015 preseason camp this week, will come into the year off a 1-9 campaign in 2014 (1-4 in the Mid-South). Led by second year head coach Zak Willis, the Bulldogs return several standouts from last years team, including junior quarterback Chandler Whittlesey (JR/Columbus, Ga.) and senior linebacker Jake Johnston (SR/Melbourne, Ky.) (an All-Mid-South selection in 2014).
The Bulldogs open their 2015 season on September 5th at Williamson Stadium on the Union campus, hosting Warner (Fla.) in an out-of-conference match-up.
To view the full 2015 schedule, click here.
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Bulldogs Looking To Build On Freshly Laid Foundation
Contributed by admin on Sep 04, 2015 - 10:35 PM
BARBOURVILLE, Ky. - Progress is a process. It takes time to build a masterpiece, but head coach Zak Willis believes the Union College football team is on building something memorable.
"We're excited about where we're headed. We just need to get out on to the field," Willis said. "The word is 'cautiously optimistic.' We know we're better than we were, but with the conference we play in, you can improve but your record may not improve much."
The Bulldogs went 1-9 overall and 1-5 in the Mid-South Conference East Division last year in Willis' first season at the helm.
The season will kick off the season on Saturday against Warner University (Fla.) at Williamson Stadium. Game time is set for 1:30 p.m. (For the game notes for this week's contest, please click here.)
Union showed flashes of greatness, especially on offense, but keeping the opponents out of the end zone proved to be a challenge. Union averaged 30.5 points per game but surrendered 50.6 points per game.
Contributing to Union's struggles last season were the youth and inexperience. The Bulldogs were forced to play a high number of underclassmen. Union is still young with only nine seniors on the roster this season, but the team is far from inexperienced.
"We're obviously going to be very young; we've got very few seniors. But this team seems to be really smart, got a lot of good kids on the team, trying to do things the right way," Willis said. "It's just going to take time to build the program like we want it, but we've set a foundation that can be really good."
The Bulldog offense put up respectable numbers last year. In addition to scoring 305 total points, Union averaged 391.9 yards per game as it gained 2,314 through the air and 1,605 on the ground.
Junior quarterback Chandler Whittlesey will once again lead the team from the pocket. A season ago, Whittlesey tallied 2,420 yards in total offense (2,009 passing and 411 rushing). Completing 134-of-252 passes, he threw for 16 touchdowns while running for seven more scores. Whittlesey ranked 10th in the NAIA in total yards per game (268.9), 17th in passing yards per game (223.2), 23rd in total offensive yards (2,420) and 31st in total passing yards (2,009).
"This is his team. There is no doubt about that," Willis said of his signal-caller. "Chandler is a very unique person. He's very spiritual and a good Christian kid, who is a tremendous competitor and is almost a perfectionist. He can do some incredible things, but it's his character that sets him apart."
Looking to protect Whittlesey will be a stout offensive line, which has an average height and weight of 6-foot-4 and 301 pounds.
Three seniors will anchor the line for the Bulldogs with Steven Bailes at left tackle, Mike Livingston at left guard, and Cliff Burns at right tackle. A transfer from Western Kentucky, this is Burns' first season as a Bulldog. Sophomore Kermit Gibbs will snap the ball at center.
The final starting stop at left guard is still up for grabs, Willis noted, but freshman Colt Bedenbaugh currently has the edge with sophomore William Collier close behind.
In the backfield, LaVance Anderson is back for another season after surprising everyone with his performance last year. Anderson spent two seasons roaming centerfield for the Union baseball team before hitting the gridiron for the first time since high school last season. The 6-foot, 229-pound back led the team with 644 yards rushing and eight touchdowns. He also caught 15 passes for 151 yards.
Backing him up will be red-shirt freshman Keith Neal and senior Garfield Dandridge. Willis added freshman Zach Cozad could see some time as well.
Zack Martin is back for his junior campaign at fullback. A solid blocking back, Martin can pound out the extra yard when needed. In 17 career games, he has 97 yards rushing on 30 attempts with two touchdowns.
"Really happy with how we were running the ball in the scrimmage. And as you know, if you have a great running game, your passing game is even more explosive," said Willis.
One of the biggest question marks is who will Whittlesey be throwing the ball to. The Bulldogs lost a number of their top receivers, but they do return senior Kyle Keplinger. In his first season at Union, Keplinger hauled in 26 passes for 489 yards and seven touchdowns.
Union also returns Jalen Ashby, Decorwyn Dunnaway and D.J. Reynolds, but the trio combined to haul in a combined five passes for 45 yards. Ashby, though, showed his brilliance returning kicks last season in compiling 636 yards and two touchdowns on 28 kickoff returns.
Willis added the team will look to freshmen Brad Elkins, Kevin Eichelberger and Darian Patterson for help at wide receiver.
"They are very talented and extremely smart. Their development will be key to how well our passing game goes," the Bulldog coach noted.
Union's offensive attack will be largely based on how well the defense is playing. For example, the Bulldogs were one of the top teams in the nation last year in fourth-down conversions as they were 15-of-25 (60 percent) in those situations. Yet, Willis noted going for it on fourth down was out of necessity the majority of the time.
"We knew we couldn't stop anyone defensively because we had so much attrition," Willis added. "This year, hopefully, we can be a little more conservative on offense because our defense can stop people."
But until the defense has proven itself, expect the Bulldogs to run the football and mix in some play-action passes to control the tempo and clock.
There are still a lot of unknowns with the Bulldog defense as numerous new faces populate the depth chart. Yet, Willis likes what he has seen from the defense thus far in camp.
"We're really optimistic, but there's still a lot of work to be done," he said. "We are nowhere near we want to be, but we're a lot better than we were."
A pair of junior college transfers will headline the defensive line. Josh Rocker and Serge Vita will man the defensive end positions. Rocker is a red-shirt sophomore coming from Iowa Central College, while Vita is a junior from Pasadena City College (Calif.). Backing them up will be juniors Derrick Greene and John Hill. Greene played in nine games last season and compiled 21 total stops with 2.0 going for a loss of 7 yards, while Hill notched 30 total tackles with 3.5 for a loss and 2.0 sacks.
At defensive tackle will be red-shirt freshman Charles Wilkins with Harley Goins, a converted offensive lineman, backing him up.
Senior Josh Kulp is penciled in to start at nose guard with freshman Chris Helton backing him up. Kulp saw action in seven games in 2014, amassing 14 tackles.
Union returns its top two leading tacklers in senior Jake Johnston and sophomore Jake Averhart. Johnston, the team's middle linebacker, posted 101 total tackles in 2014 – tying him for 11th most by a Bulldog in a season. Averhart followed with 79 stops.
The duo will be joined by freshman Dallas Baxter.
Backing those three up will be DeShay Averhart, Ryan Coleman and Jerrian Gilmore. Only Coleman saw action last season, appearing in five games and recording four tackles.
In the secondary, Doug Jeter and Juwel Laguerre are the team's starting cornerbacks. Sixth on the team in tackles, Jeter posted 40 total sops with 2.0 for a loss and 1.0 sack to go with two interceptions and one fumble recovery. Laguerre appeared in only two games last season.
Will Reynolds will be the strong safety with Curtis Yates being the free safety. In 2014, Reynolds had 31 total tackles with Yates helping out with 13.
Willis added that sophomore Kenneth Cauley and freshmen Desmond Leak, Jackson Tipton and Seth Nichols will see significant time in the secondary as well.
"We've got a lot of guys that can get in there and play for us," Willis said of the depth of the defense. "They are still young, but we are happy with the foundation that's been laid. We just have to build on it."
Special teams looks to be a solid component of the Bulldogs' arsenal with Keplinger and Jeter tabbed to return punts while Ashby and Laguerre will handle the kickoff duties. Keplinger averaged 9.8 yards per punt return last season, and Ashby averaged 22.7 yards per kick return and earned MSC Special Teams Player of the Week honors once.
Alex Sigmon will once again take care of the placekicking responsibilities. A junior, Sigmon has made 13 career field goals and is 59-of-67 on PATs. Freshman Bradley Boone will handle the punting duties.
After the season opener on Saturday, Union will have an open week before diving into the MSC competition. The Bulldogs will host Campbellsville University (Ky.) on Sept. 19 before opening MSC East play at University of the Cumberlands (Ky.) on Sept. 26.
The remaining dates at Williamson Stadium include Oct. 3 against Lindsey Wilson College (Ky.), Oct. 24 versus Kentucky Christian University and Nov. 7 against Bluefield College (Va.). Homecoming is set for Oct. 24.
Union will hit the road on Oct. 10 to play Bethel University (Tenn.), Oct. 17 to visit Georgetown College (Ky.), Oct. 31 to take on University of Pikeville (Ky.) and Nov. 14 to close out the season at Faulkner University (Ala.).
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Stolen Property Being Returned to Owners
09:23AM / Thursday, January 27, 2011
LENOX, Mass. — The items held as evidence in the case against burglary kingpin Stefan Veremko are being released to their owners.
The Lenox Police Department has been holding hundreds of items seized in November 2009 from Veremko's home, vehicle and areas where he had discarded the property. Veremko's monthslong spree across three states ended when an off-duty officer spotted him fleeing a building - with a pillowcase.
Multiple police agencies were investigating the break-ins, which stretched from Southern Vermont to South County. As a result, Veremko and accomplice Tara Malloy were arrested. The recent conclusion of the case convicting Veremko and giving him five- to
Crime Watch Page Created for North Adams
08:54PM / Friday, February 12, 2010
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — There's a new crime watch page on Facebook for city residents.
The page was created by Jennifer Breen Kirsch, a local attorney who's become active in crime prevention after her parents' home was broken into days after Christmas. Kirsch, working with the city and local organizations, has spearheaded the community watch group.
The community effort has been prompted by a wave of break-ins that came to public attention last fall after a number of break-ins in Clarksburg and Stamford, Vt. A suspect believed to be the culprit in the majority of them — and dozens of others through Berkshire and Bennington (Vt.) County — was arrested and charged.
North Adams Urging Crime Watch
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The city is hosting a community meeting on Thursday, Feb. 11, at 6 p.m. at City Hall to discuss neighborhood safety and crime watches. Mayor Richard Alcombright, whose home was burglarized last spring, talked a little about the issue at Friday's Northern Berkshire Community Coaliton forum.
The call for a crime watch is prompted by a spike in burglaries in the city and other parts of Berkshire County and Southern Vermont. The first indication of a rise in the area began last fall with a series of break-ins, many of which police say are linked to a Pittsfield man, Stefan Veremko. More recently, homes in North Adams, Adams, Cheshire and Williamstown have been
Veremko Arraigned, Held on $250K
07:54PM / Monday, February 01, 2010
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Here's a name familiar to many in Clarksburg and Stamford — Stefan Veremko.
Veremko was arraigned in Berkshire Superior Court on Monday afternoon multiple charges related to numerous burglaries across the county between last June 1 and Nov. 19, 2009. The Pittsfield man is suspected in some of the break-ins and attempted break-ins in both Clarksburg and Stamford this past fall. He's also facing charges in the Bennington, Vt., area.
The 28-year-old had not-guilty pleas entered on his behalf for 15 counts of breaking and entering in the daytime with intent to commit a felony; 14 counts of larceny in building; 11 counts of malicious destruction of property
Clarksburg Crime Watch Offers Reward
10:38PM / Wednesday, December 02, 2009
The Clarksburg Crime Watch wants to catch a thief and is putting up $1,000 reward to find him or her.
The town was hit by a half-dozen burglaries from September to the beginning of November; most are believed to be the work of Stefan Veremko, a Pittsfield man charged recently in connection of string break-ins running from Southern Vermont to South County.
A number of Clarksburg residents, however, are convinced Veremko wasn't working alone or that a second burglar was working the same territory. Several members of the crime watch, who want to remain anonymous, are offering the reward in hopes of catching the person or persons - and returning residents' peace of mind.
The reward
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Landcare Admin
Greenfest 2008
Greenfest is Australia’s “largest free, green and emerging arts festival”. it all happened at South Bank Brisbane on the weekend of 10th to the 12 th October and Landcare Queensland were there to represent the landcare community.
the world-renowned naturalist and UN Peace Ambassador Dr Jane Goodall was there to get the whole thing rolling.
Greenfest was about full community participation in creative energy, new ideas and working together to win the race against climate change.
The festival also met current best practices in green event management through:
* Use of green power * Recycling and waste management * Green printing * Fair trade uniforms * Minimizing production beyond function * and was also a Carbon neutral event
the story began two years ago when successful marketing director Colman Ridge opted out of the corporate world, sold his $90,000 Audi TT and began organising Brisbane's first Greenfest.
Greenfest was free to the public and a non-profit venture with funds raised for habitat protection and green education projects.
It featured displays of green products, jobs, foods, power, habits and lifestyles, including practical exhibitions to encourage greener consumer preferences.
There was also a grassroots culture and entertainment component of music and dance, speakers, film and photography.
But it wasn't a hemp hippy festival. Most of the exhibits were mainstream. Event organiser Colman ridge said
"I respect what the hippies stand for but what we've put together is more inclusive and mainstream," he said.
for instance there was a green motor show with displays of current production hybrid and diesel vehicles.
Next year, Ridge hopes to bring to Australia the Tesla and Venturi high-performance electric sports car.
Organisers say that The festival has the ambition to become the world’s largest free green leadership festival within 5 years. It uniquely focusses on the fresh energy of new ideas and emerging arts as a means of creating a greener world ”
For landcare queensland this was a good opportunity to raise awareness of the great work being done by landcarers across queensland, as well as of our corporate partners and also to raise a bit of extra cash for landcare groups through the bookshop.
It was also a chance to meet loads of like minded people and do some networking , not to mention the tasty and ethical organic and vegetarian food on offer. despite the rainy weather the event was a great success and we cant wait for next years event to come around.
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[Walter Rilla, German actor in more than 130 films.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Walter (Rilla)') and Autograph Card Signed ('Walter'), in English, to playwright Christopher Fry, recalling with affection happy times travelling together on the Rhine.
Walter Rilla (1894-1980), German film actor of Jewish descent, who fled to Britain from the Nazis, and acted in more than 130 films [Christopher Fry (1907-2005), playwright]
Letter from Vienna, on letterhead of Lohbachhof, Oberaudorf/Inn; 7 November 1966. Viennese postcard, dated 26 November 1966.
Both items in good condition, but the postcard (of a Viennese street scene) with stamp torn off. ONE: ALS. Signed 'Walter (Rilla)'. Vienna; 7 November 1966. 1p, 8vo. Twenty-six lines of text, in a neat close hand.
RILLA
[Robert Remak, Jewish Polish-German embryologist, physiologist, and neurologist, pioneer in field of cell theory.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Dr. Remak') in English, asking 'Professor Queckett' [J. T. Quekett] where to get the 'gold size' he uses.
Robert Remak (1815-1865), Jewish Polish-German embryologist, physiologist, and neurologist, pioneer in the field of cell theory [John Thomas Quekett (1815-1861), microscopist, Professor of Histology]
'Unter den Linden 68', Berlin; 15 February 1855.
1p, 12mo. On piece of grey tissue paper. Aged and worn, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to reverse, which carries a seal ('R R') in red wax, and is addressed to 'Professor Queckett [sic] of the University of London from Dr. Remak of Berlin'. (For Quekett, who was in fact Professor of Histology at the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, see his entry in Oxford DNB.) Twenty lines of text, in English. He has a 'demand' to make of Quekett: 'A year ago Mr.
HUNTERIAN
QUEKETT
[The Temple of Solomon.] Four German architectural engravings of 'Tempels Salomonis', extracted from 'Uebersetzung der algemeinen Welthistorie'.
Siegmund Jacob Baumgarten [The Temple of Solomon, Jerusalem; Tempels Salomonis]
Extracted from work published in Halle by Johann Justinus Gebauer, 1744-1793.
Four original engravings, on laid paper, extracted from the third volume of S. J. Baumgarten et al., 'Uebersetzung der algemeinen Welthistorie, die in Engeland durch eine Geselschaft von Gelehrten ausgefertiget worden' (Halle: J. J. Gebauer, 1744-1793). Each with the binder's instruction 'T III p 365' engraved at top right. Attached to one another and in fair condition, aged and worn on browned paper, with some creasing along outer edge of the first two prints. Paper dimensions are approximate. ONE: 'Grund-Riss von dem Modell des Salomonischen Tempels'. Paper dimensions: 23 x 36 cm.
EIGHTEENTH
GEBAUER
JUSTINUS
SALOMONIS
SIEGMUND
TEMPELS
[Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, and Michael Ayrton.] Duplicated Typescript of 'Minutes of the Sixth Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Friends of the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art', London, including four-page list of art library of David Leder.
Friends of the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, London [Michael Ayrton (1921-1975), artist and author; David Leder, German textile manufacturer, and his wife Lola Leder, art patrons; Haim Gamzu (1910-1982)]
'held on the 13th April 1948 at the House of Commons.' [London]
An interesting document, produced on the eve of the establishment of the State of Israel. Full heading on first page: 'Minutes of the Sixth Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Friends of the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art held on the 13th April 1948 at the House of Commons.' 5pp, foolscap 8vo, on five stapled leaves. Paginated and complete. In fair condition, aged and worn, with first leaf detached. Recorded as present are: 'Mrs Barbara Ayrton-Gould [Michael Ayrton's mother and a Member of Parliament] (Sitting-in for the Chairman) | Mr. J. Isaacs | Mr. Michael Ayrton | Mr.
AYRTON-GOULD
GAMZU
Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen, British pianist, conductor and composer.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Frederic H Cowen')
Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen (1852-1935), British pianist, conductor and composer of Jewish extraction [[Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1866-1919), musicologist]
On letterhead of The Windsor Hotel, Glasgow. 21 December [no year].
1p, 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged and grubby, with three folds. The letter reads: 'Dear Streatfield | it is no use sending me the Score of the Symphony here at present, as I am too busy to look at it properly, besides which, all my Programmes are definitely fixed till the end of the season, but if you will ask Mr. Hinton to send it to me to Hamilton Terrace (54, not 73) after Feby., when I shall be back in town, I shall be pleased to look through it.'
COWEN
STREATFEILD
[Henry Newnham, editor of right-wing anti-semitic magazine 'Truth'.] Reprint, in response to 'requests literally by the thousand', of two editorials attacking Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War: 'Belisha Once More', 'Belisha Is No Loss'.
Henry Newnham, editor of the right-wing anti-semitic magazine 'Truth', proprietor Major George Joseph Ball (1885-1961) [Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha (1893-1957), Liberal politician]
[Truth, London.] Dated at head of first page 'January 19 1940'.
The proprietor of Truth, Major George Joseph Ball was a Nazi sympathiser and anti-Semite, who became a political adviser to Neville Chamberlain in 1937, and used his journal to attack Chamberlain's political opponents, including Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. The Secretary of State for War, Leslie Hore-Belisha, who was of Jewish extraction, was subjected to a sustained attack by the journal, but the extent to which this, and Ball's influence over Chamberlain, influenced his resignation in January 1940 is unclear.
ANTI-SEMITIC
DUPLICATED
HORE-BELISHA
OFFPRINT
[ 'Lewis Melville' [ Lewis Saul Benjamin ], Anglo-Jewish author. ] Autograph Note Signed ('Lewis Melville')
'Lewis Melville', pen name of Lewis Saul Benjamin (1874-1932), English author, born into a Jewish family
On letterhead of The Playgoers Club, Strand, W.C. [ London ]. 'Please reply | 28 Clifton Gardens | Madia Vale. W' 28 September 1900.
1p., 12mo. On grey paper. In fair condition, lightly aged. Reads: 'Dear Sir, | Will you please give me an appointment on Thursday next when I am in town? | Faithfully yours, | Lewis Melville'.
[ Alfred Mond, Lord Melchett, industrialist, politician and Zionist. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('A Melchet [sic]') to 'My dear Anthony', regarding the Ancient Greek concept of the 'daimon'.
Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett [ Lord Melchett ] (1868-1930), industrialist, financier, politician and Zionist
On letterhead of Melchet Court, near Romsey. 21 February 1928.
6pp., 12mo, on six leaves. In good condition, lightly aged. He begins by thanking him for his 'most charming letter; and an inspiration to a young man', before commenting: 'Nothing pleases me more than your letters, which occur like intellectual milestones, epitomizing, where we have lately come from and where we are going.' The rest of the letter discusses the recipients use of the Greek word '[daimon]', of which Mond approves. He begins: 'Modern languages hardly have a translation of it.
MELCHET
MELCHETT
ZIONIST
[ Solomon Alexander Hart, the first Jewish member of the Royal Academy. ] Autograph Signature ('S: A: Hart RA | Secy to the Committee') to document in another hand, to the physician Sir W. H. Allchin regarding an exhibition of 'the old Masters'.
Solomon Hart [ Solomon Alexander Hart; S. A. Hart ] (1806-1881), English artist, the first Jewish member of the Royal Academy [ Sir William Henry Allchin (1846-1912), physician ]
On letterhead of the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W. London. 1 December 1869.
1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Addressed to 'W. H. Allchin Esq'. The 'arrangements for the intended Exhibition of the works of the old Masters have already progressed too far' for 'any further works offered [...] on loan' to be considered for acceptance.
ALLCHIN
[ Yehudi Menuhin, one of the greatest violinists of the twentieth-century. ] Autograph Signature.
Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999), American-born Jewish violinist who settled in England and was ennobled as Baron Menuhin
Dated 6 November 1934.
On one side of an 11.5 x 17 cm leaf extracted from an album. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Large bold signature, slightly smudged by Menuhin, written diagonally and upwards at the centre of the page. Reads: 'Yehudi Menuhin | Nov. 65, 1934'. On the reverse have been lightly tipped-in two cuttings from magazines.
MENUHIN
YEHUDI
[ Alexander Nicoll, Regius Professor of Hebrew, Oxford University. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('Alex. Nicoll')
Alexander Nicoll (1793-1828), Scottish orientalist, Regius Professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church, Oxford
'Ch. Ch. [ i.e. Christ Church, Oxford ] May 16. [ no year ].
1p., 8vo. In fair condition, lightly aged. Laid down on a leaf removed from an album. Reads: 'My Dear Sir, | I did not receive your Note including those from Mess. Irvine & F until late last night. It will give me great pleasure to see you and Mrs. Hughes, and I shall have the pleasure of calling upon you soon after 11, being now obliged to go to Prayers.'?>
[ Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, founder of the Primrose League. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('H Drummond Wolff') to 'Cavendish'
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff (1830-1908), English diplomat in Spain and Egypt, Conservative Party politician, founder of the Primrose League, of Jewish descent
Boscombe Tower, Bournemouth. 2 September 1876.
For Wolff's various activities, see his long entry in the Oxford DNB. 3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with traces of grey paper mount adhering on blank reverse of second leaf. He has been 'shocked to find' that he did not answer Cavendish's letter when he was 'elected'. 'The fact was that at the time I was very seedy & had a heap of letters to write both to constituents & on other private business.
DRUMMOND-WOLFF
[ Joseph Cowan, Anglo-Jewish radical Liberal journalist and MP. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('Jos Cowan') to autograph collector F. W. Finch of Birmingham, expressing relief at being freed from the 'restraints & embarrassments' of Parliament..
Joseph Cowan (1829-1900, nicknamed 'the Blaydon Brick'), Anglo-Jewish radical Liberal journalist and Member of Parliament, friend of Mazzini, Herzen, Bakunin. Garibaldi and Kossuth.
Blaydon on Tyne. 29 March 1887.
1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Addressed to 'Mr. F. W. Finch, | Woodbridge Row | Mosley | Birmingham'. He thanks him for his letter and continues: 'I am sorry that you have not been so successful as you wished in collecting autographs, but I hope you will be more fortunate in future.' He is 'engaged in other and equally useful work outside of Parliament', and is 'glad to be freed from its restraints & embarrassments'.
ANGLO-JEWISH
KOSSUTH
[ Sir Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine, Russian bacteriologist described by Lister as "a saviour of humanity". ] Two Autograph Letters Signed and an Autograph Card Signed (all 'W. M. Haffkine') [ to editor ], regarding his entry in Men of the Times.
Sir Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine [ born Vladimir Aaronovich Chavkin ] (1860-1930), Russian bacteriologist described by Joseph Lister as "a saviour of humanity"
All on letterheads of the Buckingham Palace Hotel [ London ]. All dating from July 1899.
A Ukrainian Jew, Haffkine found his early career obstructed by his refusal to convert to the Russian Orthodox Church. He emigrated and worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he developed an anti-cholera vaccine that he tried out successfully in India. He is recognized as the first microbiologist to develop and use vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague. He tested the vaccines on himself. The three items in good conditon, lightly aged. ONE: ALS. 2pp., 12mo. He has been 'away from town', but now hopes to send 'a note on my work' within the week. 'It wd.
MORDECHAI
WALDEMAR
[ Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild. ] Autograph Note Signed ('R.') to 'Mr May', i.e. Frank May, Chief Cashier of the Bank of England.
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild [ Nathan[iel?] Mayer Rothschild, Lord Rothschild ] (1840-1915) [ Frank May (1832-1897), disgraced Chief Cashier of the Bank of England, 1873-1893 [
Mentmore; 25 August 1887.
1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Reads: 'My dear Mr May - | I am delighted you can come on Saturday. Please let me know the train you come by. Our station is Cheddington. | Yrs sincerely | R.' On May's death the New York Times reported (10 February 1897) that in 1893 he 'suddenly resigned after a mysterious meeting of the Board of Directors, and for several days exciting rumours circulated in London that something was wrong with the finances.
[ PALESTINE; Medicine; Pamphlet ] Hygiene and Disease in Palestine in Modern and in Biblical Times
E.W.G. Masterman, M.D., F.R.C.S.
Palestine Exploration Fund, 2 Hinde Street, Manchester Square, London, W.1., no date [1920]
With a Preface by Alexander Macalister and two appendices. Pp.[xviii].69], 8vo, printed stiff paper wraps, illustrated (photos), frontispiece (two shots of the Royal Victoria Hospital Damascus), very good condition. Scarce. Only recorded copy on WorldCat/COPAC at BL, but the Wellcome has one.
PAMPHLEY
[ Louisa de Rothschild ] Autograph Note Signed "Louisa de Rothschild" to a "Mr. Henderson",
Louisa de Rothschild [ (née Montefiore), Lady de Rothschild (1821–1910), Anglo-Jewish philanthropist, and founding member of the Union of Jewish Women. ]
[Printed heading] 19 Grosvenor Place, 1 June [no year given]
Three pages, 12mo, large handwriting somewhat difficult to read, bifolium, black border, some damage, remnants of laying down in album, and foxing without obscuring text. She will get her gardener to send a plant (she gives technical name), thanking him for photographs of "the nurse with the two little patients [...] a very pretty picture.2
[ Bill for Removing the Civil Disabilities of the Jews, 1834. ] Contemporary manuscript transcript of the conclusion of the debate on the motion for the second reading of the bill.
Bill for Removing the Civil Disabilities of the Jews, 1834 [ British Parliament; House of Lords ]
[ 1834. ]
21pp., 4to. On six loose bifoliums. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Incomplete: paginated 23 to 32 (the last a mistake for 33).
[ Jacob Bronowski, mathematician, historian of science and polymath. ] Duplicated draft typescript of his essay 'The Disestablishment of Science', with signed authorship inscription to the economist Eric Roll, asking for help.
Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974), Anglo-Polish mathematician, historian of science, author and polymath [ Eric Roll (1907-2005), Baron Roll of Ipsden, economics and banker ]
Typescript without place or date. Inscription dated 1 December 1970.
[1] + 22pp., 8vo. On 23 leaves stapled together. In fair condition, aged and worn. The covering page, with title 'THE DISESTABLISHMENT OF SCIENCE | J. Bronowski', carries a synopsis of Bronowski's argument: 'Scientists have a duty to act as the conscience of society by always speaking the truth. They can do that only if they dissociate themselves from the apparatus of state.' Inscription on covering page: 'Eric Roll | - in the hope that you can help me with the unfinished, financial ideas at the end - | Jacob Bronowski 1 Dec 70'.
IPSDEN
[ Constance Hoster; Women's Education ] Five Typed Notes Signed "Constance Hoster" to "[G.K.] Menzies, Secreytary, Royal Society of Arts
Constance Hoster, 'a leader in women's work'
[Elegantly headed Notepaper] Queen Anne's Typewriting. Shorthand Translating Office., St Stephen's Chambers, Telegraph Street, EC, 16 Feb. 1917 to 25 Sept. 1919.
Total 5pp., 8vo, good condition. She initially (16 Feb. 1917) asks for "a further supply of the Invitation Cards" hoping he'll send the with a "proof". (17 Feb) she acknowledges receipt of a book of tickets and returns corrected proofs. In later letters she exchanges courtesies with brevity. Note (via Google: JTA): "Mrs. Constance Hoster, a leader in women’s work, died yesterday at the age of 74. She was a pioneer in the training of women for secretarial and other positions and was one of the first women to be elected to the London Chamber of Commerce. She was the daughter of Dr.
[ Jewish Tales ] Mimeographed typescript, in German and English, of 'Jewish Tales from Jerusalem', including stories told by Ascher Horowitz and T. Holpern, and an English translation of 'King Artus'.
Ascher Horowitz; T. Holpern [Jewish tales; Judaism; Hebrew; Jerusalem; Israel; Palestine]
Undated (1920s?) and with place not stated.
4to, 71 pp, with one 12mo page at end. In poor condition, damp damaged and detached from green cloth covers, but with texts legible and complete. Manuscript table of contents on recto of first leaf describes nine tales in German, told by Ascher Horowitz and T.
HOLPERN
[ John Adolphus, historian. ] Autograph Letter Signed
John Adolphus (1768-1845), historian and barrister, of German-Jewish extraction [ Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (1762-1837) ]
Temple [ London ]. 8 January 1808.
2pp., 4to. Bifolium. In good condtion, lightly aged. Addressed, with postmark, on reverse of second leaf, to 'Saml. Egerton Brydges Esqr. | Denton | Canterbury'. Concerning his change of the plan he told 'Mr. Lodge' regarding his intention to visit Brydges at Denton: 'I go to Canterbury merely to attend the sessions, and am very lame'. If Brydges is in Canterbury, Adolphus would be happy to see him 'at the house of Mr. George Plomer (late Mr Warley's) in the High Street'.
BRYDGES
EGERTON
[ Mabel H. Spielmann, author. ] Latter part of Autograph Letter Signed ('Mabel H Spielmann.')
Mabel H. Spielmann [ Mabel Henrietta Spielmann ] (1862-1938), wife of art critic Marion Spielmann (1858-1948), author, sister of Liberal politician Herbert Samuel, Viscount Samuel (1870-1963)
Place and date not stated. [ After 1919. ]
2pp., 12mo. The last two pages of a letter, numbered 3 and 4. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with short closed tears at edges of central fold. The item begins with part of a sentence regarding 'dramatization in Paris', before turning to Spielmann's desire to have her novel 'The Sterndales of Sterndale House' (1919) filmed. She praises the recipient's 'critical faculty', adding 'The points taken are seldom just the points.' She will let the recipient's 'good opinion' of her be known 'in one or two quarters'.
CHILDREN'S
M.H.
SPIELMANN
[ Sir George Jessel, judge. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('G. Jessel') to his son's tutor B. Heymann
Sir George Jessel (1824-1883), English judge and Master of the Rolls
On his monogrammed letterhead. 19 May 1873.
2pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. He was 'much pleased' with his son's 'performance last Saturday', which he considers was entirely due to Heymann's 'excellent tuition', and he is adding an amount to the sum Heymann has charged.
[ Felix Stone Moscheles, English painter. ] Autograph Note Signed ('Felix Moscheles') to 'Mrs Lewis', acknowledging receipt of a cheque.
Felix Moscheles [ Felix Stone Moscheles ] (1833-1917), English painter of Jewish origin, peace activist and advocate of Esperanto
On letterhead of Cadogan Gardens, Sloane Street, S.W. [ London ] Undated.
1p., 16mo. In fair condition, lightly-aged and worn, with small hole affecting one word of text. He acknowledges receipt of her cheque for three guineas.
IGNAZ
[ Richard Tauber, operatic tenor. ] 34 letters to him, almost all from German correspondents, including material relating to films and a charity concert. With unsigned copies of four of his replies. Also printed libretto of his musical 'Old Chelsea'
Richard Tauber [ born Richard Denemy, also called Ernst Seiffert ] (1892-1948), Austrian operatic tenor
From England, Germany and Austria. Between 1928 and 1935. Libretto published in London in 1943.
Six of the letters are in autograph, the rest are typewritten, as are the carbons of the five letters from Tauber. Letters and copies total 49pp. All substantial letters, with content. The following description is divided into four parts. ONE: Thirteen letters, and a copy of one by Tauber, dating from between 1932 and 1934, all relating to the film industry. Correspondents are: Crescendo Theaterverlag, Berlin (regarding 'Die Dubarry'); Sonor-Film-Verwertungs, Berlin; Bosna-Film, Zagreb; Slaviafilm, Prague; and five letters, all from 1934, concerning the film 'Blossom Time', from the firm B.
DENEMY
TWENTIETH-CENTURY
[ Naomi Jacob, author and actress. ] Two Typed Letters Signed (both 'Mickie') to W. Macqueen-Pope, on subjects including Ellen Terry, Bernard Shaw and Teddy Knox of the Crazy Gang's 'Nervo and Knox'.
Naomi Jacob (1884-1964), English author and actress [ Walter James Macqueen-Pope (1888-1960), authority on theatre; Teddy Knox of the Crazy Gang's 'Nervo and Knox'; Clarice Mayne, music hall star ]
Both from 'Casa Mickie [ the second spelled 'Casa Micki' ], Gardone Riviera, Lago di Garda, Italy. 16 July [ 1953 ] and 5 August 1953.
Two chatty and characteristic letters. ONE: 15 July [1953]. 2pp., 4to. On aged paper, with wear to edges and vertical closed tear at foot. She begins by praising his books 'Ladies First' (1952) and 'Shirtfronts and Sables' (1953), adding in an autograph note 'Yes I bought them when in London.' The first contains 'that wonderfully beautiful tribute to Ellen Terry. I don't know when I have read anything which moved me so deeply, you rose to great heights when you wrote that. You are beginning to run James Agate very close on my shelves'.
MACQUEEN-POPE
[ Nisim Aloni, Israeli playwright. ] Typescript, in French, of 'La Princesse Americaine de Nissim Aloni. Traduit par Ruth Koppel-Debel'.
Nisim Aloni [ Nissim Aloni ] (1926-1998), Israeli playwright and translator, born in Bulgaria [ Ruth Koppel-Debel, translator ]
[ Israel, circa 1963. ]
74pp., 8vo. Stapled duplicated typescript, with pages on rectos only. In fair condition, with moderate signs of age and wear. Light staining at head, and discoloured title-leaf detaching. A few minor manuscript emendations, and '-Debel' added in manuscript to the translator's name. 'La Princesse Americaine' was first performed in 1963, and like Aloni's other early work was influenced by the European Theatre of the Absurd. An English translation of the play appeared in 1980, but OCLC WorldCat has no record of the publication of a French translation.
ALONI
KOPPEL-DEBEL
NISSIM
[ John Braham, opera singer ] Autograph Letter Signed "J. Braham" to unnamed correspondent (theatre manager?), an interesting letter about an engagement offered, giving terms, and incidentally his imminent marriage.
John Braham, (c.?1774–1856), tenor opera singer
No place [context = Manchester], 10 Nov. 1816.
One page, 4to, pasted to card frame, grubby and stained but text readable and complete. "I confess your offer to be liberal in the extreme - and if [excision] I possibly can,will be with you about the second week in January - I am now interestingly engaged being on the point of marriage with a young lady of this place (Manchester) therefore the excuse of 'being married and can't come' (at least these 2 months) must in this case be valid - Have the goodness to send the agreeement [...] to me at T. Wilson Esq.
[ 'Baron', London photographer. ] Twenty-four black and white photographs of his head printer and retoucher Mary Buchanan Owen, with an Autograph Reference by him, signed 'Baron & W Nahum', and genealogical notes by Owen's great-niece Kay Locker.
'Baron' [ Sterling [ Stirling ] Henry Nahum ] (1906-1956) ], London dance, film and celebrity photographer
The reference on the letterhead of 'Baron | Camera Studies. 23 Grosvenor Street W.1. Mayfair 5069 [ London ]'. 2 August 1940. Some of the photographs are dated, between 1936 and 1947.
The collection of 26 items is in fair condition, aged and lightly worn. The 24 black and white photographic prints, of which there are 23 different images and one image duplicated in a smaller size, range in size from 29 x 24.5 cm to 8.5 x 11.5 cm. The pictures are tender and affectionate, in an informal style unusual for Baron. One picture, stamped 'UNRETOUCHED ROUGH PR<...>', shows Owen sitting on Baron's knee, on a wooden bench, the two smiling. The four largest are studies of Owen's smiling face, staring into the camera.
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BRT corridor not irrational, it should stay: High Court
The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand got the Delhi High Court backing on Thursday, when a bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Manmohan Singh dismissed a pet
Source: Indian Express (New Delhi)
Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), Road Transport, High Court, Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), Delhi, Transport
High Court dismisses plea to scrap BRT corridor
‘Implementation of project can’t be called irrational’
The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition by a non-government organisation seeking a direction to open up the dedicated 5.6. km BRT corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand crossing in South Delhi to other motorised vehicles along with buses, saying that it would not interfere with the policy matter aimed at promoting public transport as it was neither illegal nor arbitrary and unconstitutional.
Delhi, Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), High Court, NGO, Public Transport, Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), Transport
Delhi row over bus lane reveals class divide in society
Delhi BRT corridor Experts say the controversy over the bus corridor reflects class divisions in the Indian society
Source: BBC (UK)
Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), Delhi, India, Public Transport, Road Transport, Congestion, Cars, High Court, Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), Buses, Sunita Narain, CSE
Green Roads Mission launched in State
GUWAHATI, Oct 10 – The Assam Public Works Roads Department (PWRD) today launched a ‘Green Roads Mission’ for the State in association with Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi, and Bitchem As
Source: Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), Roads, Habitat And Urbanisation, Assam, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, Rural Roads, Carbon Dioxide, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Sustainable Development, Government Of India (GOI), North East, Rural Habitat, Environment
Can’t punish people for not using public transport: HC
Court Criticizes Govt Policy During Hearing On BRT Plea.
Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), Public Transport, High Court, Delhi, Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), NGO, Transport, Public Interest Litigation (PIL)
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1. Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles : particularly in the government of Java, 1811-1816, Bencoolen and its dependencies, 1817-1824 : with details of the commerce and resources of the eastern Archipelago, and selections from his correspondence, vol.2 Page 16A
Raffles, Sophia, Lady
London, J. Duncan, 1835, pg. 16A
2. Notices of the Indian Archipelago, and adjacent countries : being a collection of papers relating to Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Nias, the Philippine islands, Sulus, Siam, Cochin China, Malayan Peninsula, and c Page E
Moor, J. H
Singapore, no recorded publisher, 1837, pg. E
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3. Notices of the Indian Archipelago, and adjacent countries : being a collection of papers relating to Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Nias, the Philippine islands, Sulus, Siam, Cochin China, Malayan Peninsula, and c Page 268A
Singapore, no recorded publisher, 1837, pg. 268A
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81. With eastern merchandise : a landsman's log of life on board a cargo boat to Malaya, China, Japan, etc Page 280A
Powell, Francis Edward
London, T. Murby, 1913, pg. 280A
82. From Golden Gate to golden sun : a record of travel, sport and observation in Siam and Malaya Page 174A
Norden, Hermann
London, H.F. and G. Witherby, 1923, pg. 174A
83. Fifty years' reminiscences of India : a retrospect of travel, adventure and shikar Page 130A
Pollok, Fitz William Thomas
London, Edward Arnold, 1896, pg. 130A
84. Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces, vol.2 Page 154B
London, Chapman and Hall, 1879, pg. 154B
87. Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces, vol.2 Page II
London, Chapman and Hall, 1879, pg. II
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88. Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces, vol.2 Page 42A
London, Chapman and Hall, 1879, pg. 42A
90. Two years in the jungle : the experiences of a hunter and naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo Page F
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How do you Lighten Up instead of Tighten Up?
Employee Motivation, Positive Attitude, Team Building, Think Positive
I think managers sometimes think they can’t afford to lighten up. With so much to do, and less time and resources in which to get it done, we all have to buckle down and get serious. Right?
Sure, we do.
But we also have to lighten up.
If we don’t, our stress level will be so intense we’ll burst like a water balloon, making everything so sloppy that nothing gets done.
When we lighten up, endorphins flood us. We are more attractive. We bring people into our lives instead of repelling them. Our shoes wear out more slowly because our stride is lighter (okay, I made that part up, but it makes sense, doesn’t it?).
Watch my video clip, Lighten Up.
Just this week, my team held a staff meeting to discuss some hard work we have to do in the coming month. We could have gotten down to business and focused on glum or stressful topics. Instead, guess what we did? I let one staff member put her 6-year-old (who was home for a snow day) on the phone, so that I could talk to her about having a good attitude. I also made fun of myself a lot. We turned a tight situation into a light situation. And then we got to work.
How do you change a tense situation into a lighter situation? Post your comments below, and let’s spread this. Share this blog with others, would you? Let’s Go Positive!
-Sammy
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China should work out a comprehensive income distribution reform package as soon as possible to promote sustainable, fairer and more balanced development of its economy and society.
A home win against the same opponents and a victory away to bottom club Sunderland are Darlington's only wins in their last 14 games, having started with four wins from the first seven. He and Chris Rushworth quickly removed the home openers and it became 49 for three when replaced Arshad and struck with his fifth ball.
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AIM: The aim of this systematic literature review was to identify the extent and implications of medication loss and the burden of prescription refill on medical relief teams following extreme weather events and other natural hazards.
METHOD: The search strategy followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). RESULTS: All relevant information was collated regarding medication loss, prescription loss and refills, and medical aids loss which indicated a significant burden on the medical relief teams. After an extreme weather event or other natural hazard, the continuity of routine care is one of many challenging aspects of post disaster healthcare. Long-term non-communicable diseases 1 are increasing with a growing and ageing world population and in 30 years from 1990, NCD’s are estimated to increased 1.8 times 2.
During any disaster, medication maintenance is problematic due to people not having adequate dosages for a sufficient period of time, not having prescriptions with them, not remembering the medication they are on and more likely not having any medication with them at all. Since medication loss is partly a responsibility of evacuees, understanding the impact of medication loss may lead to raising awareness and better preparations among the patients and health care professionals.
The search strategy followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement where applicable, and this checklist was used in designing and reporting our review 11.
The key health journal databases (Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, Maternity and Infant Care, and Health Management Information Consortium (HMIC)) were searched via the OvidSP search engine.
Articles were eligible if they were published over the period from January 2003 to August 2013, were written in English, and included an abstract. The search was conducted on 5th September, 2013 and generated 5,382 results of which 1,652 were duplicates and removed, leaving 3,730 records, Out of these records 2,961 were apparently irrelevant when screened by title exclusion criteria. Most of the data collected were from observational studies using convenience population samples because obtaining robust data from appropriate population samples is almost impossible immediately after an extreme event. This is the first systematic review that has addressed the topic of medication needs in disaster driven evacuation.
From the MeSH terms, 70 papers were identified of which 69 articles were related to extreme events.
Table 3 is a summary of articles related to medication loss and interruption of care listed by evacuees, condition type and population based studies and lists chronologically the type of disaster, study method, sample and sample size for this systematic review where relevant. A significant proportion of evacuees from, or residents at, disaster areas lost their medication. In the first study chronologically, Fowler et al.,12 reported from interviews with humanitarian workers involved in the evacuation after the Kosovo crisis in 1999, which revealed that one of the critical challenges in providing healthcare was the lack of medical records and tuberculosis (TB) test results. The remaining publications in this section related to a Californian wildfire, the Bam earthquake and flash floods in Japan.
In this section, the focus was on people with specific medical conditions and availability of continued medication treatment following an extreme event. Following Hurricane Katrina evacuees on peritoneal dialysis were asked to bring with them approximately 1 week supply of personal medical supplies 20; however, some dialysis patients evacuated from Cairns to Brisbane during cyclone Yasi arrived without personal identification, medications or medical information 21.
Mental health impact reports following Hurricane Katrina showed that some psychiatric patients inflicted self-harm as a result of not having prescriptions filled 22.
Again from Hurricane Katrina reports, treatment interruption occurred for more than 1 week for 53% of people with HIV, of which 82% reported the interruption being due to their medication running out, further, 48 patients from this study who were taking pain relief medication 56% ran out after 2 days and 54% believed they were going through withdrawal symptoms 24.
In Florida following the three Hurricanes of Charley, Frances and Jeanne there was an increase in the number patients presenting at hospitals because of loss of power leading to lack of oxygen supplies and home haemodialysis 27. During the New York blackout, within 48 hours the Emergency Department of Montefiore Medical Center reported that 56 out of 65 visits were related to respiratory device failure and that medication-related problems were due to people unable to find or reach medications or were unable to obtain tests needed to adjust medications such as warfarin 28.
In Japan during the following the Great East Earthquake 4.2% of people ran out of oxygen before a new supply of oxygen cylinders could be delivered 29.
In this section six reports focus on groups of people and their medication treatment in the USA following Hurricanes Ivan, Katrina and Wilma and the flooding in state of Iowa. Table 4 is a summary of articles reporting on prescription refills, by study type and lists chronologically the disaster, type of research, number of patients and the relevant outcome from each study. Twenty-three articles described patients coming to field clinics or emergency hospitals for prescription refills. After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, 88 out of 198 evacuees (44%) at one shelter required a prescription refill 38,39; according to a rapid needs assessment among the Katrina evacuees, medication refill was ranked third in terms of ‘immediate health needs’ following ‘doctor’ and ‘dentist’ 40.
Following the Haiti earthquake a health care team survey showed that many chronic disease exacerbations (eg, hypertension, diabetes, congestive heart failure, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) were brought about by lack of medication and regular care 44. The most challenging part to bringing medication is ensuring a patient carries the full range of medication they need, including medical records, emergency drugs and life-support devices. Medical records are critical in some situations, such as CD4 cell count and HIV RNA levels for HIV patients 24 medication logs for cancer patients 45 and Tb test results 12. Supportive tools for daily life, such as wheel chairs, hearing aids 47, canes, walkers, 51 dentures, glasses 43,47, extra batteries for wheelchairs and other assistive devices, and incontinence briefs for the elderly 47 are often lost at the time of evacuation. This systematic review revealed that a considerable number of patients lose their medication during evacuation. The discussion is presented by a) the impact of medication loss and interruption of care, b) the impact of prescription refill post disaster and c) the value of effective preparation actions. Studies from developed countries show that the impact of medication loss and interruption of care can be a significant issue. Some articles reported medication by specific chronic condition, which showed that the level of preparation may vary by conditions. Examples of loss of medication lists and medical devices were identified as medical and life-support devices are as important as technological tools like haemodialysis and oxygen. The high prevalence of the need of prescriptions becomes a burden on medical teams at the disaster area which was identified in Table 4. Looking at the timeline of health needs following a disaster, the proportion of medication refills does not appear to change between the early and late stage of the relief activities.
Despite medication refills being a common need among the disasters studied, the proportions of patients coming to health facilities for medication refill vary within and between events. Additionally, a comparison between disasters suggested the burden differs depending on the scale and types of the disasters 66 For example, Cookson et al. Although the main scope of the review was to identify patients’ reactions relating to bringing their medications during a disaster, several implications for effective preparedness were identified. However, just keeping extra doses of medication stockpiled is likely to have limited impact. Carrying medications at all time 58,78,79 or keeping extra medication in multiple places, such as schools and offices 80, are described as the most robust and effective emergency plan for patients. Although having a personal stockpile is recommended by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Red Cross 81, our review implies that just having a personal stockpile might not be effective 78. To achieve patients’ preparedness, healthcare professionals play an essential role in establishing effective emergency planning for patients. First of all, they should provide patients with medications and other resources sufficient for disaster preparedness as well as up-to-date medical records. Secondly, health professionals have a responsibility to educate patients about the potential health impacts of medication interruption, and can emphasise that bringing medication and medical records may be the only way to enable them to continue normal care in an emergency. Thirdly, they must help patients to design an individualised and practical emergency plan that takes in to account patient-specific barriers such as forgetfulness, 58 side effects 8, and allergy 83.
Fourthly, in disasters for which there is some advance warning, such as hurricanes, health professionals may make contact with patients when a disaster alert has been made, reminding them to bring their medication and medical records when they evacuate 58,74. Finally, and most importantly, front-line public health workers and the members of rescue teams should have adequate medication for their own medical conditions to sustain them for the duration of their rescue efforts during a disaster 56,85.
Other stakeholders, such as policy makers and researchers, should also coordinate around patients’ emergency planning (Figure 2). Even so, evidence is still weak with regard to preparedness actions by patients and the efficacy of intervention to encourage preparation. Another limitation is publication bias; most of the relevant articles were from the US, and a large proportion specifically focused on hurricane Katrina. This research does not focus on longer term crises, such as drought or political and economic failures, in which restoration of healthcare provision may take many months 5. To achieve patients’ preparedness, healthcare professionals play an essential role in establishing effective emergency planning for patients should provide patients with medications and other resources sufficient for disaster preparedness as well as up-to-date medical records.
People may survive the initial disaster but if they are not educated or appropriately prepared in particular when medication is involved they may not survive the aftermath. Learn how we make a difference.What we offerFind out about learning and development opportunities, employee recognition, compensation and benefits, and more.
Key health journal databases (Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, Maternity and Infant Care, and Health Management Information Consortium (HMIC)) were searched via the OvidSP search engine. Although a disaster can impact on all available services, healthcare facilities can be overwhelmed reducing their ability to maintain normal function.
Ensuring continuation of routine care for chronic conditions will be an increasing burden during and post disaster periods both in developing and developed countries 3.
We limited the search period to10 years because technology and needs for chronic diseases such as dialysis and home oxygen therapy treatments have changed over this period of time. Hence, the initial screening by title identified 811 records as relevant and for these remaining articles, abstracts were checked independently by SO and other co-authors (SH and LM). Most of these publications did not focus on the medications needs from disaster driven evacuation thus the information was limited and often not covered comprehensively. There are three sections within Table 3 and within each section there is an account of the outcome of each report relating to medication loss, medication unavailability and not having an adequate supply.
From the six studies involving Hurricane Katrina it is possible to determine that a major proportion of people did not have adequate medication supplies, an issue identified in five of these papers. Data from California showed that patients did not have their medications with them during evacuation for one family member in 28.6% of households 7.
Eight articles focussed on hurricanes in the USA, seven were related to Hurricane Katrina and one article covered the impact of three consecutive hurricanes in Florida. Kishimoto and Noda 30 noted that many diabetic patients had lost their medication records, and the medical team could not determine what treatments they had received before the disaster.
32 reported that 10% of a cluster sample of 210 people had problems obtaining medication 1 week following Hurricane Ivan. In each article listed, where available, the frequency of refill request percentage by study is documented. Examples of the range of medications required following a disaster and evacuation was drawn from the reviewed articles, and is summarised in Table 5. Even for other patients, medical records including allergy to medications 24,30,31,46,47 are essential. For example, dialysis patients need to bring a potassium-exchanging resin, which is essential to reduce the potassium level when the access to dialysis is limited 49,50.
As a result, medication refill is an immediate health need, making the prescription of medications for pre-existing conditions an increasing burden of medical relief activities at a time when acute needs are also over-whelming.
Among the internally-displaced population from the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, 85% of the households in small unofficial camps had no available drugs to manage their chronic medical conditions. A questionnaire conducted on the evacuees two weeks after Hurricane Katrina revealed that medical services were only the fourth most commonly reported medical need. For example, an analysis of survey data after Hurricane Katrina revealed 7.2% of the patients visiting emergency treatment facilities within 2 months of the hurricane were attending for medication refill 61. 67 reported that non-significant increases were seen with medication refill request after the Katrina. Having a personal stockpile is recommended in many articles, though the recommended personal stockpile ranges from 3-4 days 20,74 to 1 month 75. In a hospital-based survey study targeting evacuated outpatients from the Japanese flash flood in 2005, keeping a personal stockpile did not increase the likelihood of bringing medications to the evacuated sites 19.
30 A successful case study can be taken from the time of the election violence in Kenya 79, during which the dispensing of greater quantities of prescriptions were protective against treatment interruption among HIV patients. In addition, they can help train patients in practices of safe storing medicines and packing necessary medical devices75: the medication and medical devices in the emergency pack should be effectively protected from contamination by toxins from flood waters84 or mechanical damage by an earthquake 43. Recently, an increasing effort has been made by national and local governments in several countries to encourage patients to prepare an emergency bag. Researchers should be actively involved in disaster plans to leverage the preparedness among patients.
Health professionals have a responsibility to educate patients about the potential health impacts of medication interruption, emphasising that bringing medication and medical records may be the only way to enable them to continue normal care in an emergency. Structural and non-structural damage to their buildings, creating an insecure environment for hospital staff, and disruption of supply chains, all lead to closure of wards for new admissions, or even evacuation of patients and staff, at a time when they are critical for those who are injured by the disaster.
Interruption of routine medication lead can lead to an exacerbation of chronic conditions such as insulin-dependent diabetes 4 and infectious diseases for example tuberculosis 5.
In the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, for example, a large number of ‘drug refugees’ were reported 9, and at least 283 people were reported to have died from the exacerbation of pre-existing conditions due to lack of access to healthcare 10. The validity of the search was confirmed by comparing the generated results to articles obtained from expert consultation and ‘snow-ball’ search). Abstract eligibility screening excluded a further 513, however, given the wide range of sources searched, an additional 66 abstracts were added as a result of citation searching, shown as ‘secondary screening’ in Figure 1. In addition, due to the wide variety of the targeted populations, statistical data synthesis was considered inappropriate.
Although the results are provided in detail below the findings are used principally to inform a detailed commentary of the assimilated results from the many publications identified.
In three studies the percentage of those without medication were identified, namely 32% by Brodie et al. Information from a cluster sample of households following the Bam earthquake reported that 25% of people in in official camps, 40% in larger rural unofficial camps and 85% in the smallest unofficial camp had no available drugs to manage their chronic medical conditions 18.
Other articles in this section covered a power outage in New York, earthquakes in Japan and a cyclone in Queensland, Australia.
25 reported that 4.8% of people ran out of their pain relief medication which caused one person to experience severe side effects from not having this medication. After the Mid-Niigata earthquake in Japan in 2004, hospital-based survey reported that 65% of patients with type 1 diabetes with insulin therapy were unable to continue the use of insulin pens due to medication loss immediately after the earthquake 31. After Hurricane Wilma, six (4%) of 150 households surveyed, reported that a household member had been unable to obtain needed medical care 33 and Cherniack et al.
They found that chronic disease problems or medication refills prompted most adult visits to the clinic and that these refill requests were the fourth most common health and health related issue identified. For patients with specific medical devices such as pacemakers, style and serial numbers of the devices is important 47.
Devices for insulin injection (vials, needles or pens with replaceable cartridges of insulin) 31, gluco-metres 4,31,51, fluids and devices for peritoneal dialysis, 20 nebuliser machines, CPAP machines, oxygen cylinders, 51 batteries for aspirators and artificial ventilators 52, suctioning and tube feedings, and canned nutritional supplements for the tube feedings 53 should also be considered as part of the emergency pack for patients to bring. Over-the-counter medicines, such as medication for fever or pain, anti-histamine for allergy, denture adhesive, and sanitary products are also important when access to pharmacies are disrupted 56. At the current time, preparedness with respect to medications for disasters is not fully appreciated nor given much attention by those requiring daily and constant medication; meaning that a large number of patients facing extreme events could have avoided prescription interruption had they not lost their medication and or medical devices. The most common was dental care (57% of the respondents), followed by eyeglasses (34%) and dentures (28%). Even for specialty care, medication refill often shares a significant part of relief activities.
On the other hand, those who had prepared an emergency pack were 5.7 times more likely to bring medications to the evacuated sites 19.
Among the rheumatoid arthritis patients in Japan, only 53% of those who had a personal stockpile carried their medication all the time 78. For example, in the UK, the National Health Service provides discharged patients with a carry bag (‘green bag’) for their medications to encourage patients to bring their medication in emergency situations 82, which is applicable to the time of evacuation.
For example, health impacts caused by loss of medication should be assessed using feasible and standardised methods to enable targeted aid following a disaster.
Most frequently, survey is conducted on convenience samples, which makes it hard to generalise beyond that particular population. There is a clear need for evidence from all over the world, and from the most marginalised, thus rarely reported, populations. They must help patients to design an individualised and practical emergency plan that takes in to account patient-specific barriers such as forgetfulness. Alternative projections of mortality and disability by cause 1990-2020: Global Burden of Disease Study.
The inclusion criteria comprised articles published from January 2003 to August 2013, written in English and containing an abstract. Recognising the impact of extreme events on healthcare facilities, normal functioning is still required for people needing routine health management such as oncological treatment, dialysis and maternity care, as well as those people with chronic conditions who require daily medication to maintain their wellbeing. This can also potentially cause secondary life-threatening outcomes as a result of the deterioration of chronic conditions such as ischemic heart diseases among patients with hypertension 6, and low compliance to medication regimens in the future 7,8.
The health impacts on drug refugees has had, little research conducted among the affected population.
After this pilot search, it was revealed that using only MeSH terms was not sufficient to identify all relevant articles. Additionally 54 (78%) of the disasters identified occurred in the United States of America (USA), a total of nine countries were found to have reported these extreme events.
After the flash floods in Japan in 2006, 48% of the evacuees left their medication and 88% left their prescription records behind 19. Of note they showed that obtaining prescriptions for narcotic pain relief medication or refills of implanted narcotic and baclofen pumps proved difficult. It is recommended that individuals keep a list of these essential items , which should be reviewed updated periodically 46 and the list preferably kept it in wallet or purse, which is likely to be brought along during an emergency 48.
For those with hand disabilities, openers for the medications are also an essential item 57.
Until individuals, with the assistance of their healthcare providers, undertake preparative actions, those organising relief activities need to be prepared to cope with emerging treatment alongside the management of chronic illnesses, including medication refills and devices.
Some studies found that although some people brought their medication with them upon evacuation, they had only brought enough supply for a limited period 58.
After Katrina, of 421 patients who were seen by mental health professionals, 119 (28.3%) were attending for medication refill 63. Another example from the Bam Earthquake in Iran in 2003 showed that the management of ‘chronic disease under treatment’ when measured required only 4.37% of the tasks of the emergency response unit. It was customary in India for pregnant women (81.1% reported) to have individual stockpile of their routine medications 77.
Therefore, the researchers recommended that the stockpile is packed in a bag for easy access. Among HIV patients, 33% of patients did not have individual health cards at the time of interview, potentially making the provision of therapy to these patients difficult 19,79. In the US, the CDC and American Red Cross raised ‘gather emergency supplies’ as the first step for emergency preparedness 85,86. Baseline data should also be measured and made available to appropriate agencies, including the burden of chronic diseases in each community 87,88, health care disparities 89, vulnerable populations for whom preparedness is a challenge 90, preparedness of general or specific groups of people 34,37 as well as factors that affect emergency preparedness 91. After a disaster, obtaining quality data is challenging due to the flow of evacuees and temporary nature of their status, lack of personnel, and ethical concerns accompanying the conduct of research on suffering people. In disasters for which there is some advance warning, such as hurricanes, health professionals may make contact with patients reminding them to bring their medication and medical records when they evacuate.
The exclusion criteria included abstracts for conferences or dissertations, book chapters and articles written in a language other than English.
Therefore, key words related to disaster and medication were added to MeSH term search as shown in Table 1. The full-text articles eligibility screening identified those not fulfilling the inclusion criteria which totalled 294, thus leaving a total of 70 articles for this systematic review (Figure 1).
26 reported that 19.7% of paediatric outpatients ran out of medications, while 7% of patients with hypertension did not bring their medication with them and 28% ran out of their supply 8. Following Hurricane Katrina surveys showed that 34% of the households had a member who needed medical care at the time of the interview, and who would require a prescription refill within 3 days 35. After Hurricane Ivan in 2004, 10% of households in most affected counties had problem obtaining medication one week after the storm, thus bringing sufficient supply may have be difficult 32. Intensive research following disasters is also critical, and should include rapid health needs assessment among the evacuees, 37,61 health impact assessment including medication adherence 92, and evaluation of the efficacy of preparedness actions 90 to inform future planning and preparation. Simple, unobtrusive and feasible approaches of monitoring preparedness and health outcomes should be carefully designed and established before disasters occur, especially in those regions subject to frequent disasters.
Front-line public health workers and the members of rescue teams should have adequate medication for their own medical conditions to sustain them for the duration of their rescue efforts during a disaster.
A total of 70 articles which fulfilled the inclusion criteria were included in this systematic review.
The relevant articles were searched by combining [Terms for disasters] AND [Terms for medications]. In addition the questionnaire-based survey amongst evacuees who arrived at a family assistance centre two weeks after Hurricane Katrina revealed that the 42.7% had run out of their medications even when they brought them 14. After the Great East Japan Earthquake and the following tsunamis in 2011, many evacuees had no time to gather their belongings. For example, 63% of the haemodialysis patients in California had a 2-week supply of medicines but only 31% stored the items in an emergency pack. In another study Ridenour et al., 16 reported that, from a convenience sample of 323 adults, 57% of people required dental care, 34% eye glasses, 28% denture and 25% medical services. Some of them were treated with unique medication, such as immuno-suppressants, which were not obtainable at the disaster area. 49 In a study targeting patients with rheumatoid arthritis in Japan, 46% reported they had a personal stockpile of their medications but only 25% had packed an emergency bag 78.
Chronic health needs immediately after natural disasters in middle-income countries: the case of the 2008 Sichuan, China earthquake. As a result, these patients had to stop their medication for weeks knowing that their medical conditions would deteriorate 59. 17 reported that medication procurement was the most frequent mentioned challenge to chronic disease management and that ‘ many patients arrived at a new provider facility without their prescriptions and with inadequate knowledge of their medical histories or medication names and dosages’. Chronic diseases and natural hazards: impact of disasters on diabetic, renal, and cardiac patients. Unplanned antiretroviral treatment interruptions in southern Africa: how should we be managing these?
A cross-sectional survey of blood pressure of a coastal city's resident victims of the 2011 Tohoku tsunami. Prevalence of Unmet Health Care needs and description of health care-seeking behavior among displaced people after the 2007 California wildfires. Medication adherence in older clinic patients with hypertension after Hurricane Katrina: implications for clinical practice and disaster management. The great East Japan earthquake disaster: a compilation of published literature on health needs and relief activities, march 2011-september 2012.
Experiences of hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston shelters: implications for future planning. Burden of disease and health status among Hurricane Katrina-displaced persons in shelters: a population-based cluster sample. Displacement of the underserved: medical needs of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in West Virginia. Providing continuity of care for chronic diseases in the aftermath of Katrina: from field experience to policy recommendations. Rudowitz R, Rowland D, Shartzer A (2006) Health care in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 28: 150-154.Imamura CK, Ueno NT (2011) How can we address cancer care after a natural disaster? Howe E, Victor D, Price EG (2008) Chief complaints, diagnoses, and medications prescribed seven weeks post-Katrina in New Orleans.
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Two years after being discovered deep in a South African cave, the 1,500 fossils excavated during the Rising Star Expedition have been identified as belonging to a previously unknown early human relative that National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Lee Berger and team have named Homo naledi.
With at least 15 individuals of all ages and both sexes represented, the find adds an unprecedented amount of information to our understanding of early human evolution in Africa.
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Tawny frogmouths have been around for about 56 million years and are found throughout the Australian mainland, Tasmania and southern New Guinea. A killed 16-foot Burmese python in the Everglades was found with an adult deer in its belly this past fall.
From rabbits to deer to even bobcats, invasive Burmese pythons appear to be eating through the Everglades' supply of mammals, new research shows. Since the giant constrictors took hold in Florida in 2000, many previously common mammals have plummeted in numbera€”and some, such as cottontail rabbits, may be totally gone from some areas.
Scientists already knew from dissecting the snakes that they prey on a wide range of species within Everglades National Park. Also popular as pets, Burmese pythons are one of nine species of constrictor snakes, numbering about a million individuals, that have been imported into the United States over the past three decades, according to the U.S. For the study, Dorcas and colleagues conducted nighttime surveys of live and dead animals on roads between 2003 and 2011. Before 2000 it was common to see mammals such as rabbits, red foxes, gray foxes, Virginia opossums, raccoons, and white-tailed deer on roadways after dark, the team says.
Also worrisome is what could be happening to species that were already rarea€”and thus more difficult to research, Dorcas noted. It's difficult to predict how the decline in mammal populations will affect the Everglades, Dorcas said. Whit Gibbons is a professor emeritus of ecology and head of outreach for the Savannah River Ecology Lab at the University of Georgia.
But as long as pythons are there, the mammals won't bounce back to their former levels, he said.
The University of Georgia's Gibbons sees the snakes' invasion as a chance for scientists to track what happens to the Everglades.
He was the last of his kind and he is now displayed in taxidermy at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Posters and commenters are required to observe National Geographic's community rules and other terms of service. To learn firsthand what's going on in and around this marine treasure of global importance, the National Geographic Society sent its top scientists and officials to the region in January 2016. Drawing on ancient traditions, Indigenous communities are providing innovative solutions in farming, healthcare, land management, and conservation. Read more about Australia's Indigenous innovators in AG#132, out now. This park, around three hours east of Darwin, is a fantastic destination for a family road trip adventure.
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His memories have it as a non-stop wildlife festival of elephants, hippos, hyenas, wild dogs and food that didn’t agree with his stomach.
Instead, Tracks focuses more on the meditation on life part that, as far as I understand, is suppose to make you realize that life and planet earth are meant to be explored first hand. Such numbers provide estimates of how many animals of a certain species are present in a given area. Department of the Interior announced a new law banning importation and interstate transport of four species of invasive snakes, including the Burmese python. They toured the desert islands off the southeastern coast of the Baja Peninsula and they listened to presentations by more than a dozen experts, including several whose Baja California research is funded by the Society.
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Babalawo, Santeria's High Priests: Fathers of the Secrets in Afro-Cuban Ifa
Hidden within the mysterious Afro-Cuban religion of Santer�a, also known as Lucum�, there is a deep body of secrets and rituals called If�, divination practiced by priests whose title, babalawo, means �Father of the Secrets.� This book pulls away the veil of secrecy to reveal exactly what If� is and how it works, exploring its history, cosmology, Orichas, initiations, mythology, offerings, and sacrifices. Join Frank Baba Eyiogbe in this fascinating introduction that discusses the functions of the babalawo, the role of women, the future of If�, and much more.
Qabala: Vol 1
by Jean Dubuis. Consists of 72 lessons in 3 volumes. The material is largely practical instruction, and differs from most information found in popular books on the subject. This course is rather concentrated and does require some work, however, it provides teachings that are often spread out over a period of thirty or more years. Clear and concise theoretical presentation of the Qabalistic world view, The manipulation of the Universal Energy to produce an energetic and spiritual evolution of the body, The use of rituals which allow one to act selectively on the psychic energies to reestablish the preliminary balance needed for Inner Initiation, The study of the paths of the Tree of Life to assist the individual in understanding their level of Inner Initiation and to progress further on their Path, Practical aspects of Qabala
The Tree Of Life: An Illustrated Study In Magic by Israel Regardie
The Tree of Life presents a massive amount of material thatbrings together ancient wisdom and modern magical experience.Israel Regardie wrote The Tree of Life, a book many considerhis magnum opus, in 1932. It has continued to sell fordecades. And no wonder. Up until the time this book waspublished, very little information about true high magic wasavailable to the public. In this book, Regardie reveals thesecrets of real magic. He begins with an explanation of whatmagic is and, just as importantly, what magic is not. Heexplains that it is a spiritual study and practice which,along with forms of yoga, forms the two branches of the treethat is mysticism. Magic is not being a medium or a psychic.Then he explains the tools of the magician, what they mean,and how to use them. He explains the techniques of evocationand invocation, skrying, and astral travel. He shows how theQabalah unites everything. He even gives a description of thesecrets of sexual magick. All of this is in a clear, lucidwriting style. This book is simply a must for anyone who is,or aspires to be, a real magician.
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[ recommended ] Egyptian Secrets of Albertus Magnus: Forbidden Knowledge of Ancient Philosophers
Of the Virtues of Herbs, Stones, and Certain Beasts, Also a Book of the Marvels of the World. The Book of Nature and the Hidden Secrets and Mysteries of Life Unveiled; Being the Forbidden Knowledge of Ancient Philosophers by that celebrated Student,Philosopher, Chemist, Naturalist, Psychomist, Astrologer,Alchemist, Metallurgist, Sorcerer, Explanator of the Mysteries of Wizards and Witchcraft; together with recondite Views of numerous Arts and Science-Obscure, Plain, Practical, etc. This book reveals magical formulas for health, protection, power, victory,medicines, etc
Egyptian Magic by E.A.Wallis Budge
Sums up all that is known about magic in Ancient Egypt: the role of magic in controlling the gods, powerful amulets that warded off evil spirits, scarabs of immortality, use of wax images, formulas and spells, the secret name, much more.
Gain Power Beyond Belief with Viking Magick Chants
Looking for real Odinist rituals? Here they are! Very easy to do rituals. No special tools needed, only a few candles and the special words of power. These rituals allow you to access the great power of the Norse Gods. Few writers know the correct words of power to call upon the powerful Gods of the North. Beware, use the correct chants or you could pay the price of a fool.
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[ recommended ] Frater Malak - The Mystic Grimoire of Mighty Spells and Rituals
Out of print. Highly sought after piece of practical grimoire written by the same "The Miracle of New Avatar Power" author.In this book, the Mystic Grimoire of Mighty Spells and Rituals, the author, Frater Malak and his magical order of Campo Santo, a Mystery School in Canada, researched thousands of rituals and wrote about twenty seven rituals and many spells that were the most effective in getting results. Malak covers every eventuality that you could want: Good luck, health, money and great wealth, love and sex, invisibility, relaxation, success, and overcoming enemies. Every angelic name appearing in this book has been throughly researched. As an example, in the Arcane Invisibility Ritual, you call upon Yeshayah, this is another form of the angel Metatron. In the Overwhelming Good Luck Ritual you summon Bodiel, this is an angel serving under the Goetic spirit Barbatos. In the Titanic Enemies Vanquished Ritual, you work with Narudi, the Akkadian Lord of the Great Gods. Over the last thirty years, I have personally tested all of rituals and most of the spells in this book. Without exception, all have worked over time, depending upon my application of the knowledge and secrets given in the book, and properly executing what has been taught there. This Grimoire was published in the seventies but remains a definitive work about magical evocation. That is the art and science of calling down spirits, and most importantly getting results for magicians and sorcerers of today.
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[ recommended ] Conjuring Spirits: A Manual of Goetic and Enochian Sorcery by Michael Osiris Snuffin
Sorcery, defined here as the art of conjuring spirits, is one of the traditional, core disciplines of magickal practice. It is highly admired and its practitioners accorded great prestige. While many of the old grimoires have baroque and elaborate procedures for conjuring spirits, Frater Osiris cuts through the Gordian knot of complexity and obfuscation to present us with a much more direct approach to evoking Goetic and Enochian spirits.
It is simple, clear, practical and without mystification. It is highly accessible and designed to enable practitioners to assemble the few tools required, prepare themselves, and begin work almost immediately reaping the practical and spiritual benefits of sorcerous practice. Naturally, it is an approach that some won't like, but many more will appropriate and tune to their own satisfaction. Anyone can get started here.
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Mark Allan Smith - The Scorpion God: Forbidden Wisdom of Belial
The third volume of the Trident consists of the Six Books of the Forbidden Wisdom of Belial, which open the gates of the Depths to the soul who follows the Path of Flames in search of the Three Great Crowns of Divinity. As Lord of the Heights and the Depths, Belial grants keys to the hidden power of the Atlantean realm.
The Gates of Amenta are opened both within the soul and throughout the inner planes, allowing the adept to follow the Path of Lucifer's Flames as it descends into the realm of the Gods of the first incarnate race. Assimilation, at soul level, of the power of the Scorpion Godform of Belial is granted in order to facilitate this transition. Gnosis of the Venom of the Death Touch is learned through this transmutation. This is the culmination of the Path of Flames which leads the Godsoul, forged from the spirit of man, beyond the Gate of Souls and back to the throne of Hecate.
Secret of Secrets: The Unwritten Mysteries of Esoteric Qabbalah by Michael-Albion Macdonald
The scope of all Qabbalah can be categorized under four headings: Practical Qabbalah, Dogmatic Qabbalah, Esoteric Qabbalah, and Magical Qabbalah. The Practical Qabbalah involves the mystical interpretation of Scripture through the means of the Sacred Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, which of themselves comprise not only letters, but numbers also.
The use of the letters and their numerical values are further divided into three sciences: Gematria, the Straight interpretation of a passage by its numerical value; Notariqon, or the Study of passages by: means of the initial or final letters thereof only; and Temura, or the Study of decyphering and recyphering the mystical passages through the permutation of letters by subStitution with others (often by means of complex tables or formulce) It is because of the innumerable purposes and uses to which these sciences can be put that it has been termed practical.
The Dogmatic Qabbalah represents the bulk of the written Qabbalah. All the works - such as the Sepher Yetzirah, the Sepher Ha- Tzenioutha, and the Greater and Lesser Holy Assemblies of the Sepher Ha-Zohar fall into this category generally though most derrive conclusions through more than one means of Qabbalah. In the majority of these works the Ten Sephirot or "Numerations of Deity" are either discussed directly or intimated at through myStical wording. Of these a great deal will be said later.
The Esoteric Qabbalah is the most highly mystical and by consequence, the least understood division of the Hebrew Tradition. It is sometimes called the 'Unwritten Tradition' or the 'Secret of Secrets' because it has been kept closely and hidden for many centuries. It is partly philosophical, and partly dogmatic, and for the most part concerns the understanding of the written word in its true and secret light. Many things once considered 'unwritten' or secret are now available to all, by virtue of books such as this which elabourate the mysteries at great length. There are so many such books available in our present Century that the term, 'unwritten' can scarce be applied to it any longer.
The final division, or the Magical Qabbalah deals mainly with the application of the Tradition to ceremonial and talismanic Magic; the evocation of spirits, &c., for the purpose of greater understanding of the World Divine. In this heading may be placed such books as the Sepher Raziel Ha-Malachim, and its ilk and variants.
The work of this present volume is to clearly elaborate for the reader the mysteries hidden in the Qabbalah. Although all four divisions of Qabbalah shall be dealt with at some length, it does not fall within the scope of this work to give a word for word translation of the major works of the Qabbalah seeing as there are already many excellent works of that kind-but only to rend the veil which shrouds them, that through-meditation and study, the reader may come to a fuller harmony with the Absolute.
[ recommended ] Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming
NLP is an explicit and powerful model of human experience and communication. Using the principles of NLP it is possible to describe any human activity in a detailed way that allows you to make many deep and lasting changes quickly and easily.
A few specific examples of things you can learn to accomplish are: (1) cure phobias and other unpleasant feeling responses in less than an our, help children and adults with "learning disabilities" (spelling and reading problems, etc.) overcome these limitations, often in less than an hour, (3) eliminate most unwanted habits - smoking, drinking, over-eating, insomnia, etc., in a few sessions, (4) make changes in the interactions of couples, families and organizations so that they function in ways that are more satisfying and productive, (5) cure many physical problems - not only most of those recognized as "psychosomatic" but also some that are not - in a few sessions.
Actually, NLP can do much more than the kinds of remedial work mentioned above. The same principles can be used to study people who are unusually talented in any way, in order to determine the structure of that talent. That structure can then be quickly taught to others to give them the foundation for that same ability. This kind of intervention results in generative change, in which people learn to generate and create new talents and behaviors for themselves and others. A side effect of such generative change is that many of the problem behaviors that would otherwise have been targets for remedial change simply disappear. We are on the threshold of a quantum jump in human experience and capability.
A Home Study Course in Wicca
CIA Remote Viewing Manual
Used as a manual for TRV training and sued as a reference manual and historical document. Manual is written in and used in the former Army intelligence unit which utilized remote viewing
[ recommended ] Robert Stone - The Magic Of Psychotronic Power
A "How To" book focused on you gaining absolute control over your destiny, bv awakening a sleeping and untapped energy that lies dormant in the brain.
From the back cover:
"In a matter of minutes--proclaims author Robert B. Stone--you can begin to tap the miraculous cosmic force of Psychotronic Power that lies within us all, and turn your life into a gold mine of riches, love, happiness and radiant health! Step-by-step, in these thrilling pages, the author reveals the amazing techn iques that scores of ordinary people have used to achieve lifelong bliss."
Dr. Stone is the author and co-author of over 50 books on the power of the mind and promotes this book as revealing the way to unlock the secret door to power, love, health, fame and fortune. "Everything you ever wanted from life can be yours, says Psychotronic expert Robert B. Stone, once you know how to summon the limitless power that lies within your mind!" Book clarifies many mind expert techniques with many references to Silva Mind Control.
Liber Trapezohedron
This grimoire utilizes the twelve signs of the Zodiac as a path of enlightenment, provides several means of protection from the Necronomicon as well as own research (i.e. the Ankh or a Cross, and Holy Water). It also contains the Black Mirror Ritual of Yog-Sothoth, a modification of the Bloody Mary Ritual based on the black mirror which actually works, as well as an Invocation for Nyarlathotep. It also has the two missing steps for Gate-Walking that is for the Old Ones. The Incantations of these two gates are missing, as is the seal of Kryphnon, the eighth step on the Ladder of Lights. It also has another seal that goes with the Book of Fifty Names and works for the Old Ones. It can only be used after completing Kryphnon and does the same thing as the second name of Marduk but works for the ANNUNAKI instead of the IGIGI, not to mention the fact that it has the Epic of the Old Ones and a more detailed account of the War
[ recommended ] Al G. Manning - The Miracle of Universal Psychic Power
According to AL G. Manning within a matter of minutes, you can begin to tap the untouched life force within you.Universal Psychic Power is the discovery that Manning claims establishes direct contact with the secret energy force hidden deep inside all of us, and draws it out like a magnet. Step-by-step, he guides you through a miracle program for mastery over all the adverse or negative conditions and influences in your life. Contents include: Pschic Thought and Action; Harness the Cosmic Light and Your Psychic Energy Centers; Turn Your Desires into Psychic Fields; Harness the Psychic Power of Ceremonial Magic; Establish Working Contact with Your Spirit Guide or Teacher; Use Psychic Healing Methods; Control the Psychic Power of attracting Money; Magnify Your Personal Power; Protect Yourself Against Secret Psychic Attack; Use Psychic Thought Transference and Telepathic Communication; Art of Astral Projection; Produce Practical Miracles; Gain True Personal Confidence; Regain Powers from Your Past Lives; .Amazing discovery instantaneously taps the Secret Life Force within you and unleashes a flood of riches, love and happiness! Manning reveals important principles and techniques related to Universal Psychic Power.Covers how to build a working foundation, how to harness your psychic energy, psychic healing methods, controlling life situations, attracting money and many other important subjects relating to actively bringing abundance into your life
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Avalanche 1,2,3…
Year 3 of Avalanche… the work quietly goes on even though the limelight has moved on.
We previously blogged in detail during 2016 and 2017 about the the successful takedown of the long-running criminal Avalanche double fast flux platform that was announced by a consortium of international public and private partners, including The Shadowserver Foundation.
To briefly recap: in year 1 (November 2016), we supported the German LKA, FBI and Europol in taking down the Avalanche malware delivery platform. This platform was responsible for delivering resilient command and control (C2) services for 20 different malware strains, all of which utilized Domain Generation Algorithms (DGAs). Whilst the Fraunhofer Institute (FKIE) took on the challenge of identifying all of the potentially viable domain names that might be utilized during the coming year, we worked to coordinate the means by which all of those domains might be legally or technically seized or blocked from issue. For Year 1 of Avalanche this amounted to some 832,000 domain names across 60 Top Level Domains (TLDs) in 57 jurisdictions. This remains to date possibly the most ambitious botnet takedown operation ever undertaken by Law Enforcement.
Success was achieved through a matrix of court orders (for jurisdictions where they were available) and with the cooperation of DNS registries around the globe, in the cases where judicial pathways were not possible. This joint action was facilitated by the trust and reputation of our fellow not-for-profit organization – The Registrar of Last Resort (RoLR) and the industry connections it has built since Shadowserver created it in 2014. Thanks to the incredible work of the LKA senior investigating officer in the case and the chief prosecutor from Lower Saxony (who went on to win the prestigious JD Falk award from M3AAWG for their tireless dedication on this case), the excellent work of the FBI and coordination from Europol and ICANN support, we eventually found or created the pathways necessary to deal with all of the TLDs and were able to ensure that, in parallel to infrastructure seizures during the action days, no remaining avenues were left for the criminals to control their infected bots.
In Year 2 (November 2017), we repeated the process, with the number of malware C2 domains that needed to be dealt increasing from 832,000 to 840,000 domains, due to the addition of the Andromeda botnet in its entirety when a parallel FBI/Microsoft investigation came to fruition. This resulted in some 2.5 million unique IP addresses hitting our combined sinkholes each day – demonstrating the extraordinary size of the many Andromeda botnets. Thanks to the combined Law Enforcement action, we are happy to say that every infected user was protected from further exploitation, and the Andromeda botnet was no longer able to do what it was designed to do – which was to distribute over 80 other families of malware to infected victims.
The hope was that after another year of remediation activities by international Law Enforcement, National CERTs/CSIRTs and network owners, further action in Year 3 would not be necessary. However, at the time of the Year 2 operation, we had not been able to acquire a specific .ru domain that had not been sinkholed, but had been removed from sale following earlier action. This domain came back onto the market and we were able to purchase it and point it at our sinkholes in August 2018. Immediately botnet traffic levels increased again and we recorded an additional 2 million+ unique IP addresses of victim bots trying to connect to that C2 individual domain. That extra insight helped persuade Law Enforcement to re-run the operation for a third year. This time it was not possible to get court orders generated in Germany, so the US DoJ/FBI stepped up and only court orders issued in the US were available to use in Year 3.
Thanks to the protocols, relationships and processes established over the previous two years we were able to reach out to registry operators in 78 TLDs, and with the help of ICANN, RoLR, Law Enforcement and supporting letters from the German prosecutor, gain control of a further 854,000 domains – bringing the total number of blocked or seized and sinkholed domains to over 2.4 million domains over the three years of effort.
Avalanche/Andromeda Daily Sinkhole Statistics Years 1-3
Year 1: ~100K unique IP addresses per day
Year 2: ~1.3M unique IP addresses per day, with addition of Andromeda botnet
August 2018: Identified additional Andromeda victims with registration of single .ru domain, taking daily sinkhole infections to over 2M unique IP addresses again (domain temporarily lost Oct-Nov 2018 due to erroneous Russian abuse report)
Year 3: Normal service resumes. Currently ~1.6M unique victim IP addresses protected from criminal control per day
Andromeda bot infection counts remain high and the decay curve or remediation disappointingly slow – but we can be content that for at least 3 years now we have been able to deprive criminals of access to the malware strains previously deployed and operated through the Avalanche platform.
Sinkhole data from the Avalanche platform is available each day in Shadowserver’s free of charge daily reports to national CERTs and network owners.
Here is the global distribution of Avalanche related malware as of 2018-12-01:
Avalanche/Andromeda victim infections – Year 3 Operation Day 20181201
Credit must be given to those who worked so hard on this case over the years from the German LKA and Lower Saxony Prosecutors’ Office, FBI and DoJ, Europol, Fraunhofer (FKIE), RoLR and Microsoft for their work on Andromeda (aka Gamarue).
After over a decade over operations, the Shadowserver Foundation finally launches a shiny new website. The new site hopefully… Read more »
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About RW
Euro 2016 News & Views
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Euro @ the score
Fine wine: Quagliarella's late flourish befitting of unique career May 25, 2019
Few have experienced a footballing career quite like Fabio Quagliarella's.The striker became Italy's oldest-ever scorer on Tuesday against Liechtenstein when he banged home a first-half penalty to register his first Azzurri goal since 2010.Ten minutes later, the 36-year-old completed his brace, and, for a player who has enjoyed a late-career peak with Sampdoria, it was […]
Southgate: 'No doubt in my mind' players were racially abused by fans March 26, 2019
England manager Gareth Southgate confirmed Montenegro supporters targeted Three Lions players with racial abuse during his side's dominant 5-1 victory at the Stadion Pod Goricom in Podgorica on Tuesday."I definitely heard abuse of Danny Rose when he got booked at the end of the game," Southgate said post-match, according to BBC Sport. "There's no doubt […]
Liverpool's Shaqiri withdraws from Swiss squad with groin injury March 19, 2019
A groin injury forced Liverpool winger Xherdan Shaqiri to withdraw from Switzerland's squad on Monday.The Swiss Football Association revealed on Monday, as translated by BBC Sport, that Shaqiri is dealing with inflammation in his groin. He'll miss the country's upcoming Euro 2020 qualifying matches against Georgia and Denmark.Shaqiri left the team's training camp, and an […]
Declan Rice named to England squad ahead of Euro qualifiers March 13, 2019
Declan Rice will have a chance to win his first cap for England after manager Gareth Southgate included the 20-year-old West Ham midfielder in his 25-man squad for this month's Euro 2020 qualifiers."His form warrants it," Southgate said. "We like what we've seen in terms of his personality, his character, and his leadership qualities. He'll […]
Euro 2020 qualifying draw: Netherlands face Germany in Group C March 6, 2019
Germany will face the Netherlands in one of the toughest groups of Euro 2020 qualifying.The draw, which happened Sunday in Dublin, pitted the Germans against the Dutch in the apparent "Group of Death." It's likely the most interesting quintet of the qualifying round and another chance to see the two traditional powerhouses - which met […]
UEFA News
The year in review: UEFA EURO 2016 recapped December 26, 2016
UEFA EURO 2016 dominated the UEFA.com landscape for much of the year, but how much do you remember? Allow us to recap the headline news from a memorable summer in France.
Griezmann receives EURO best player award October 7, 2016
France forward Antoine Griezmann has received his award as the Player of the Tournament for UEFA EURO 2016 in the run-up to Les Bleus' European Qualifier against Bulgaria.
EURO 2016 technical report 5: Does possession matter? September 23, 2016
In the last extract from the new UEFA EURO 2016 technical report, the expert panel examine whether having the majority of possession was really much use at all.
EURO 2016 technical report 4: Goals September 22, 2016
In the four extract from the new UEFA EURO 2016 technical report, the expert panel examine why there were such low scoring in the group stage and where the goals came from.
EURO 2016 technical report 3: Crosses September 21, 2016
In the third extract from the new UEFA EURO 2016 technical report, the expert panel look at how crosses have become increasing important sources of goals.
EURO 2016 technical report 2: Long passing September 20, 2016
In the second extract from the new UEFA EURO 2016 technical report, the expert panel look at which teams relied on long passing and when it proved effective.
EURO 2016 technical report 1: Counterattacks blunted September 19, 2016
In this first extract from the new UEFA EURO 2016 technical report, the expert panel reflect on the decreasing proportion of goals scored from counterattacks.
UEFA EURO 2016 website up for Lovie Awards September 15, 2016
The official UEFA EURO 2016 website has been nominated for two categories in the sixth Annual Lovie Awards which honour the best of the European internet.
Gábor Király wins UEFA.com Save of the Season August 25, 2016
Gábor Király, 40, has won UEFA.com Save of the Season for his stop to keep out Kevin De Bruyne's free-kick during Hungary's UEFA EURO 2016 game against Belgium.
Fernando Santos's Portugal manifesto July 21, 2016
"We have a key word from day one: 'winning'. We are going to keep fighting hard to keep doing that," said Fernando Santos as he prepared for four more years as Portugal coach.
Were these the best five games at EURO 2016? July 20, 2016
With the dust now settling on UEFA EURO 2016, we looked back at the 51 matches that took place in France and tried to pick out the best five. What do you think?
UEFA EURO 2016 sets new digital standards July 12, 2016
The biggest UEFA European Championship ever was mirrored on UEFA's digital platforms, with almost 300 million visits to EURO2016.com and the official apps during the tournament.
Portugal welcomes home its conquering heroes July 11, 2016
"You won with courage, determination, fighting spirit and humility," said the president of Portugal, as Fernando Santos, Cristiano Ronaldo and the team brought the Henri Delaunay Trophy home.
UEFA EURO 2016 review: Reporters' picks July 11, 2016
Members of EURO2016.com's crack reporting team in France named their highlights of the past month, including their favourite match, moment and song.
Players who have broken through at EURO 2016 July 11, 2016
UEFA European Championships have a habit of kick-starting careers and UEFA EURO 2016 has been no different – we pick out eight players whose lives may never be the same again.
UEFA EURO 2016 at a glance July 11, 2016
Portugal won UEFA EURO 2016 and Antoine Griezmann took the Golden Boot and Player of the Tournament awards – here we round up all those honoured and breaking records in France.
Antoine Griezmann named Player of the Tournament July 11, 2016
France forward Antoine Griezmann has been named as the UEFA EURO 2016 Player of the Tournament by UEFA's technical observers after finishing with six goals and two assists.
UEFA EURO 2016 Team of the Tournament revealed July 11, 2016
Four Portugal players, three from Germany and two each representing France and Wales have made the official UEFA EURO 2016 Team of the Tournament.
The world's media react to the UEFA EURO 2016 final July 11, 2016
Portgual's A Bola gave every player ten out of ten, L'Équipe were "devasted" and Cristiano Ronaldo was naturally a focus: we round up the world media reaction to the final.
How the 108 goals at UEFA EURO 2016 went in July 11, 2016
Éder's title-clinching goal for Portugal in the tournament's 51st match was the 108th registered at UEFA EURO 2016; EURO2016.com analyses how they were scored.
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The new home of K-Pop is on Tumblr
K-Pop is taking the world by storm and Tumblr want to be on the frontline to keep you up with all the latest in Korea’s music culture. South Korea’s music has spread across the globe…
Carolina Cove blow us away with their incredible version of Strangers by Sigrid
We’ve been so excited to bring you Carolina Cove and here they are in all their glory with this incredible cover of Sigrid’s Strangers. Carolina Cove bring their Americana sound to the South West and…
RouteNote Music
Pow! The superhot WAXX will keep you warm this January
WAXX are the hottest drum & bass duo since Royal Blood and they know how to rock! Combining raucous fat riffs with sexy pop hooks Pixie and Bubz know how to melt some faces whilst…
L I P S joined us for a very special session that you need to see
L I P S have been doing amazing things this year and have earned loads of love from the BBC, Spotify and listeners around the world. We wanted to do something a bit special with…
Winter Mountain’s beautiful live session will keep you warm this winter
We got Joe and Sam from Winter Mountain in to offer up their soul and spirit in one of the most gorgeous sessions we’ve had at RouteNote. The full session is below and will be…
Is the future of pop music in artificial intelligence?
Computers are getting better and better at making music and soon the top songs in the charts could have little to no human involvement – at least that’s what Popgun AI are hoping. Artificial Intelligence…
You can now buy makeup on Spotify, yes – makeup
Spotify have explored a lot of different areas with their music streaming service, but makeup is one we did NOT see coming. Singer Maggie Lindemann is making use of her Merch section on Spotify offering a first-of-it’s…
Spotify discovers that surgeons love rocking out while operating
Surgeons have an incredibly important job that requires them to be in the zone – Spotify have found that rock music is the source of their zen. Spotify recently undertook an interesting survey to discover…
Mashup your fave hits from Smash Mouth, Kanye West + more with the Magic iPod
A new site lets you mashup the biggest hits of yester-decade together creating what was probably intended as a meme, and came out amazing. If you’ve spent any time at all on the internet you probably…
This week marks 55 years since Bob Dylan’s self entitled debut album
55 years ago this week, Bob Dylan released ‘Bob Dylan’, his self-titled album with tracks such as Man of Constant Sorrow, House of the Risin’ Sun and Highway 51 Blues. Bob Dylan’s legendary self-titled album…
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How to get your music featured on iTunes’ front page
As music streaming becomes the favourite method for listening to music iTunes still stands strong as the pioneer and leader for digital downloads. Getting your music on there is easy and being featured by Apple…
How to add digital booklets to your album on iTunes
When you upload music to iTunes for free with RouteNote you can add a digital booklet offering lyrics, images and more that accompany your music. Here’s how to get yours online. Uploading your music to…
Sell your merch straight from your YouTube Channel with new in-built store
It’s been a long time coming but finally you will be able to sell your merchandise directly to viewers from your YouTube channel. At last week’s VidCon YouTube unveiled a bunch of new features that will create…
Digital Video News
No more downloads for music store DJtunes and DJshop after 20 years
After 20 years of offering up dance lovers a one stop shop for the best in dance music, DJshop and Djtunes are no longer offering music downloads. German companies DJshop and DJtunes are two of…
Musical.ly are getting rid of their massive Live.ly app
Musical.ly gave people a platform to put themselves singing along to songs to the world, Live.ly did it but live but their app is being shut down now. Musical.ly took the world by storm as…
Can I Give Away My Music for Free on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and Other Music Stores?
Currently there is no way to give your music away for Free on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon and other stores. If you see a song available for free download in iTunes, this is because the…
RouteBotin
Get your music on Korea’s largest music store for free
We are thrilled to announce our latest partnership with Korean music store Bugs, the largest music store in Korea. It’s been a pretty special week for us at RouteNote as we’ve just announced our 22nd…
RouteNote News
Beatport have bought DJ streamer Pulselocker to build their streaming service
DJ store and streaming service Beatport have just bought a rival music streaming service to tap the resources for their own. The purchase of Pulselocker, Inc. by electronic music marketplace giants Beatport has been confirmed….
Neil Young’s music store died, his new site lets you stream his music free
Neil Young’s foray into the digital world of music was a failure of epic proportions, but of course it wasn’t his fault… Back in 2014 legendary musician Neil Young launched a Kickstarter for Pono, an…
How to Get My Music on iTunes UK for Free
RouteNote has been working with Apple and iTunes since 2008. In this time RouteNote has become one of the worlds leading ways to get your music into iTunes for Free. Artists have the ability to…
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CHURCH | YOUTH MINISTRY | ATHLETICS
Why St. Michael?
Tuition, Fees & Buses
Open House/Tour/Shadow
Preschool/Pre-Kindergarten
Junior Kindergarten (JK)
Elementary School (K-5)
Counseling Support
Extended School Care
2019-2020 St. Michael Tuition and Fees
We understand that making the choice of a private, Catholic education is a commitment for your family. We promise to do our best to make your sacrifice worthwhile. Thank you for considering Saint Michael Catholic School.
Pre-School/ Pre-Kindergarten Tuition and Fees
child enrolled 3 hrs/day
Active Member Rate*
Fees***
2 days $1,550 $210/student $1,760
child enrolled full day (4 y.o. only)
$5,700 $210/student $5,910
Full Tuition Rate**
*Active Member Discounted Rate: In gratitude for your Stewardship commitment, all school families with a completed Stewardship form (time, talent and treasure portions completed) on file will be considered an “active member” of the parish and will receive a discounted tuition rate for the 2019-2020 school year.
**Full Tuition Rate: Those without a completed Stewardship form on file will be assigned the full tuition rate.
***FACTS service fee not included. All families must register for tuition payments with FACTS tuition management as part of pre-registration. FACTS fees are $25 for families making 1 tuition payment or $55 for families making 10 monthly tuition payments.
Full day care is available for an additional fee.
JK-8 Tuition and Fees
1 student $6,300 $440/student $6,740
2 students $8,800 $440/student $9,680
3 or more students $10,400 $440/student $11,720
2 students $11,000 $440/student $11,880
Extended School Care is available for an additional fee.
The Catholic Education Foundation and the Archdiocese of Louisville are the primary sources of tuition assistance for Catholic elementary schools in the Archdiocese. For information and applications for JK-8 tuition assistance, please visit www.ceflou.org. At this time, financial assistance is not available for pre-school.
To any family who yearns for a Catholic education for their children but thinks they cannot afford it, YES! You Can!
FACT: For the past two years, every single family who applied to the Catholic Education Foundation for tuition assistance – and demonstrated a financial need – earned an award. 100%!!
Instead of talking yourself out of a Catholic education for your children, shouldn’t you consider reaching out to the Catholic Education Foundation and provide a better path for both your children and your family?
If your family experiences financial hardship during the school year, please contact the parish business manager at 502-266-5611 to discuss payment options. We never want finances to cause a family to leave the school.
St. Michael Catholic School contracts with Miller Transportation to provide safe, reliable and cost-effective bus transportation for our students. The cost of this service is as indicated below:
Family with 1 child – $500 per child
Family with 2 children – $300 per child ($600 total)
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3703 Stone Lakes Drive Louisville, KY 40299
502-267-6155 (phone) / 502-267-1652 (fax)
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Urbanism + Civic Impact
Jeanne Gang
Our Rooftop
Studio Gang
Harvard GSD — "Students of Jeanne Gang’s architecture studio seek redemption for the concrete behemoths of Brutalism"
"At a time when it is more essential than ever to conserve resources and prevent carbon pollution, we find that buildings are frequently discarded rather than being reinvented to serve contemporary life."
Boston City Hall. Courtesy of the Library of Congress
'Recognizing that people are beginning to understand that simply destroying and replacing Brutalist buildings is wasteful and environmentally harmful, they wanted, Gang says, “to wake our collective brain to the situation,” and “to become creative with something that is already there.” So, they had their twelve students begin by carefully studying examples of Brutalist architecture—some from the Boston area, others from South America, Asia, and Europe. The students’ task was to “zoom into qualities: light and shadow… how scale operates in these buildings,” to study how the buildings reveal program and structural behavior. Making analytical models of these buildings focused their attention even more closely. The studio group also toured Boston City Hall, with the guidance of Professor Mark Pasnik, co-author of the 2015 book Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston. Then, they visited the site for the studio: Swope Center, the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole... Gang and Cahan are challenging the students to “strip back to essentials, then invade with a new idea,” to “make a building about today.” Cahan emphasizes that “Woods Hole is helping us see climate change,” and because “Brutalist architecture can be very expressive of environmental systems,” the Swope Center building provides a strong platform from which to explore the goals of the studio. So, rising to the “challenge of recasting this specific architecture toward a viable, extended future” the students in “Recasting the Outcasts” are taking on a concrete behemoth and urging it to better ends.'
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Search, Plus Your World: Google’s Risky Gambit
The web giant just mashed up its search engine and social network -- and the results so far are unsatisfying.
By Harry McCracken @harrymccrackenJan. 19, 2012
Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters
Last week, the attention of the technology press turned — as it always does in January — to Las Vegas. As usual, the Consumer Electronics Show filled the town to the bursting point with new gizmos of all kinds. But the news with the greatest long-term potential to shake up tech as we know it emanated from Mountain View, California, and it didn’t have anything to do with gadgets. It was Google’s announcement that it’s begun to add a new social dimension to its eponymous, market-dominating search engine — a twist that it calls “Search, Plus Your World.”
For now, at least, what Google is doing with SPYW is stirring information from its Google+ social network into the gumbo of links that makes up its search results. For some searches, results will now be preceded by a link to updates and photos from your Google+ friends (assuming you have any) relating to your query; these items may also be woven into the results themselves. For some, a list on the right-hand side of the screen will recommend Google+ users who relate to the query you entered. And when you start to type into the search box, Google may suggest that you visit the profile of Google+ friends or high-profile users whose names match the characters you’ve entered.
(MORE: Why Google’s Biggest Problem with ‘Search Plus Your World’ Isn’t Antitrust)
The fact that these features have arrived isn’t the least bit startling. Melding Google+ with the world’s most popular search engine is Google’s most potent weapon in its ongoing battle for web supremacy with the world’s most popular social network, Facebook. And the very name “Google+” indicates that Google sees the service not as something distinct from Google search, but rather as its future.
I was, however, surprised by the intensity of the instant backlash against Google’s decision to turn its search engine into a billboard for Google+. One Google+ competitor, Twitter, is openly agitated about Google’s favoritism for its own social network. Google gurus Steven Levy and Danny Sullivan both appear to be wary of the change. (Levy says that a search engine, like Caesar’s wife, must appear to be above reproach, and that SPYW is an apparent conflict of interest that takes Google “into dangerous territory.”)
Many pundits have raised the most infamous example of a big tech company tying a fledgling product to a market-dominating one. That would be Microsoft’s decision in the mid-1990s to give away its Internet Explorer browser with Windows. The move brutalized browser pioneer Netscape, but it also led to the epic legal tussle known as The United States v. Microsoft. Google could face similar scrutiny: The FTC, which was already investigating the search giant on antitrust grounds, now says it’s looking into SPYW.
So what hath Google wrought?
If you ask the company, it’ll say it’s just trying to make search more personal. “Search is still limited to a universe of webpages created publicly, mostly by people you’ve never met,” says Google Fellow Amit Singhal in the blog post introducing SPYW. “Today, we’re changing that by bringing your world, rich with people and information, into search.”
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US energy policy
Explainer: Australia’s carbon price mechanism in six dot points
November 9, 2011 9.42pm EST
Rosemary Lyster, University of Sydney
Rosemary Lyster
Professor of Climate and Environmental Law, University of Sydney
Rosemary Lyster receives funding from the ARC and the University of Sydney. She is affiliated with Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney where she is Professor of Climate and Environmental Law. She is the Director of the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law and is a legal consultant to Mallesons Stephen Jaques.
There’s a lot of detail in the carbon price legislation, but it comes down to six key points. Australian Government
Australia’s carbon price mechanism has become law. But how does it work? There are six key points:
1. Australia’s emissions trajectory
Australia has committed unconditionally to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 5% compared with 2000 levels by 2020. By 2050, emissions will be reduced by 80% compared with 2000 levels.
2. The annual cap on emissions
During the first three years (July 1 2012 to July 1 2015), when the price of carbon units is fixed, emissions will not be limited. Thereafter the government will set an annual cap. The extent of the cap will be based on the advice of the new Climate Change Authority (CCA).
The annual cap is set consistently with Australia’s downward emissions trajectory – it will get tighter as Australia’s emissions reduction targets go up. The number of carbon units issued each year will equal the scheme cap.
3. Entities covered by the scheme
Liable entities must surrender one carbon unit (to the new Clean Energy Regulator for each tonne of emissions for which they are liable. Liable entities are broken into three categories:
the person who has operational control of a facility from which 25,000 tonnes of CO₂e (these are all greenhouse gases covered by the legislation) are emitted annually
natural gas retailers
the person who has operational control of a landfill facility from which 25,000 tonnes of CO₂e are emitted annually.
Liable entities are only liable for Scope 1 (direct) emissions from:
the combustion of energy sources
fugitive emissions (such as from coal mines)
industrial process emissions
emissions from waste.
These emissions have been reported since 1 July 2009 under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007.
Three types of eligible carbon units can be surrendered:
units issued by the Clean Energy Regulator
Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) issued under the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI)
international units which are accredited either under the Kyoto Protocol or any successor to the Kyoto Protocol. The government may disallow any of these if it considers them ineligible.
The CCA will advise the government on the eligibility of international units. Eligible international emissions units cannot be surrendered during the fixed charge period. They can however be surrendered during the flexible charge period (from 1 July 2015), and can be up to 50% of the total emissions liability for that entity for the year.
The Carbon Farming Initiative lets Australia’s agricultural sector reduce emissions and create carbon credit units. Emissions reduction may happen by avoiding emissions in the first place, or by removing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in soil or trees. The credits generated can be sold to liable entities both in Australia and overseas.
In the fixed charge period, a liable entity can surrender carbon credit units to meet 5% of its total emissions liability. In the flexible charge period, a liable entity can surrender as many of these units as it wants. A stringent shortfall charge applies for failure to surrender carbon units.
The carbon price mechanism does not apply to fuel. A carbon price is imposed on fuel through changes in fuel tax credits or changes in excise.
4. Issuing carbon units
The Clean Energy Regulator will issue carbon units. In the first three years of the scheme (1 July 2012 to 1 July 2015, the “fixed charge” years), carbon units will issued at a fixed charge of:
in 2012, $23/tonne
in 2013, $24.15/tonne
in 2014, $25.40/tonne.
The scheme then enters an emissions trading phase (known as the flexible charge years). For the first three years, a transitional carbon price ceiling and a floor will manage price volatility. Thereafter the price will be set only at auction.
Carbon units will be issued free to emissions-intensive trade-exposed industries (EITEs – these are industries which compete with industries in countries without a carbon price), coal-fired electricity generators and LNG projects.
Complex mathematical formulae calculate the number of units to be issued. Highly emissions-intensive EITEs will receive 94.5% of their carbon units for free. Moderately emissions-intensive EITEs it is 66%. This will be reduced by 1.3% a year. LNG projects will will get assistance at or above 50%.
The issue of free carbon units will be reviewed by the Productivity Commission. Units issued in the flexible charge years are tradable.
5. Information, monitoring, penalties, and reviews
The electronic Liable Entities Public Information Database must be kept open for public inspection. The Regulator can demand information from liable entities, who must keep records for five years.
Inspectors have monitoring powers. Strict civil and criminal penalties apply. CEOs are personally liable to pay civil penalties if they fail to take reasonable steps to prevent a contravention. The CCA will review the carbon price mechanism.
6. Compensation
$14.9 billion in household assistance will be provided. This assistance is to offset the price rises likely to be passed from liable entities to consumers.
Free units for emissions-intensive industries will cost $9.2 billion. Free permits to coal-fired generators, and the closure of highly polluting plants, will cost $5.5 billion from 2011-2017.
$1.3 billion from 2011-2017 will fund the Coal Sector Jobs Package. Clean energy and energy efficiency also receive government funding.
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Real men paddle there
They looked not unlike the band ‘Phish’ paddling toward us — a sort of more youthful version of the Grateful Dead, still ginger bearded, strange and unaccustomed to the company of others for some time now.
As the six-man crew dragged their boats ashore at the old waterfront MNR base to set off in search of a Wal-Mart, presumably for bug dope and sunscreen, they came upon Blair Skene. The poor buggers.
Of the thousands of possible connections they could have made, they run into one of the biggest ‘cards’ in town — whose family connections to the silviculture scene predisposed him to ask the bedraggled voyageurs, at the end of a 50 kilometre paddle, ‘where were they planting trees?’
Recognizing the opportunity to style himself an international ambassador of goodwill, Blair did what most hospitable northerners would do.
He put them to work at his camp, of course.
With his dock in the water, his decks stained, his sauna cleaned out and fired up, he agreed to let them leave in the morning, but not before he could further impress them by having them paddle to ‘Skene Landing’ where they would then embark on a motorized shuttle around the hydro dam.
Talking to Mark Carlson, I immediately became aware of how envious I was of this group of characters.
You don’t often meet people who are in the midst of living out a grand vision and lofty ideals, people who have taken on a challenge that would test the very fiber of their being, that would yield some insights into what life was like for long distance travelers before the internal combustion engine.
What could you learn about yourself and your friends during a 2,000 kilometre paddle-powered odyssey from Ely, Minnesota to the shores of Hudson Bay at Churchill? Surely there would be good times and bad and you would emerge forever changed and bonded by the experience.
How much courage and patience does it take to walk away from one’s life for as long as it takes to complete such a journey under your own power, to disappear into the wild for months. Mark Carlson had a two year-old and a set of twins on the way.
I’d imagine this would be his last expedition for a while.
To the mechanized culture that has always prevailed in Dryden, this whole scene is harder to understand especially during a week when we fish for money and stuff the lake chain with boats capable of reaching the waterfalls at Minnehaha at the far southern end of Dinorwic Lake in a mere 15 minutes time. Is there really a sense of journey when these once remote places are so easily accessed? Or do we become handcuffed by our reliance on engines to move our other engines.
Do we forget what we’re capable of when it’s no longer required of us?
As strong thunderstorms pounded the region, Monday night as I sit writing this, I think to those who were out living in it, trying to fall asleep over the deafening white noise of fat raindrops on the taut stretched nylon of a tent fly. Good luck to you, gentlemen.
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Latest News Local Tracks Pro All Star Series Super Late Models
Early Entrants Abound For Expanded PASS Winter Meltdown At Dillon
by Press Release January 16, 2017 0 comments
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – With just three weeks left to go until the “Original” Winter Meltdown goes green, Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Model teams from across North America are beginning to make their final preparations. This year’s fourth running of the early-season event looks to be the biggest yet as the Meltdown moves to its new home at Dillon Motor Speedway. Northern drivers have dominated the three previous runnings of the PASS Winter Meltdown with New Hampshire’s Brad Leighton taking the checkered flag at New Smyrna Speedway in 2010 and Maine’s Joey Doiron claiming the victory at Auburndale Speedway in 2013 and backing that up with a victory at Greenville last year.
Once again being on Super Bowl weekend, the PASS Winter Meltdown will be short track racing’s first major points event of the year. The “Original” Meltdown will feature the 12th Annual South Carolina Clash for the PASS Super Late Models and will be bigger than ever before. The South Carolina Clash will now be 200 laps, paying $6,000 to win, and will give competitors the option to change two tires with 75 laps to go. The Winter Meltdown will also feature a 75 lap event for the Late Model Stocks paying $1500 to win and an event for the Pro 4s. The PASS Winter Meltdown will go green on Saturday afternoon, February 4 at 2 PM and will serve as the first race of 2017 for the PASS South Super Late Models and the PASS National Championship Series. Saturday’s action will be preceded by an optional practice day for all divisions on Friday afternoon, February 3.
The first batch of PASS Super Late Models entries has been released and includes drivers from all over the United States. Tate Fogleman, the 2015 PASS South Super Late Model champion, scored his first series win last year at Hickory and will be joined by former South Carolina Clash winner and 2014 PASS South titlist, Tyler Church. Both North Carolina drivers will be seeking to become the first two-time series champion. New York youngster Christian Eckes will make his second trip to Dillon Motor Speedway for the Winter Meltdown. Eckes had several big, late season wins in 2016, including the Snowball Derby and Thanksgiving Classic at Southern National Motorsports Park in Super Late Models and the Myrtle Beach 400 in a Late Model Stock Car.
Teenager Kodie Conner from Kannapolis, NC will be back after an impressive rookie season in 2016 that saw him finish second at Dillon early in the season. Conner went on to follow that performance up by just missing out on the PASS South championship to Matt Craig. New England racers hope to continue their dominance in the Meltdown again this year and are well represented in the early entries. New Hampshire’s Derek Griffith and Bryan Kruczek are both former winners in PASS North, while Jay, ME’s Dave Farrington, Jr. will also be making his first start at Dillon as he looks to chase both the PASS National and PASS North series championships in 2017.
Third-generation racer Hayes Goodson, from nearby Darlington, is a former winner at Dillon in Late Models and Supertrucks and returns to his home track driving the iconic #16 his father, Hal, made famous, while Mike Speeney will make the move from Tour-type Modifieds over to PASS Super Late Models for his first start.
Action gets underway at Dillon Motor Speedway Speedway on Friday, February 3 with gates opening at 1 PM and rotating practice for the PASS Super Late Models, Late Models, and Pro 4s from 2 – 5 PM. On Saturday, February 4, gates will open at 8 AM, with rotating practice from 10 AM – Noon, qualifying at 12:30 PM, and feature events set to go green at 2 PM.
Entry forms for the PASS Winter Meltdown at Dillon Motor Speedway can be found at ProAllStarsSeries.com. The 2017 license forms for the PASS Super Late Models are also available at ProAllStarsSeries.com. Drivers purchasing licenses for the 2017 season will receive bonus points for each race they are pre-registered for and will also save money towards any events that they enter early.
The Pro All Stars Series is recognized as North America’s premier sanctioning body for asphalt Super Late Models and boasts such marquee events as the Easter Bunny 150 at Hickory Motor Speedway and the legendary Oxford 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway. For media or marketing questions, please contact Alan Dietz at 704-231-2039 or alandietzpass@live.com. Please visit ProAllStarsSeries.com for more information and don’t forget to “Like” the Pro All Stars Series on Facebook or follow us on Twitter at @PASSSLM14 to keep up with breaking news as it happens.
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Manchester-based ImproQuo connects with Big Apple
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• March 21, 2016
Following the success of their free weekly ‘improv jams’, Director Eji Osigwe launched ImproQuo in October of 2015.
Their aim is to fill a gap in Manchester’s creative community for performance improvisation.
The young company have compiled an impressive programme of regular and guest teachers, from around the world. The most recent addition to the ImproQuo ‘roster’ is a weekend long ‘character to performance’ workshop with internationally renowned improvisation teacher, Michael J Gellman.
Gellman is Artistic Director of New York based Process Theatre and his experience includes teaching, directing and acting with some of the greatest performers, such as Steve Carrell, Tina Fey and Bill Murray.
Whilst commenting on what it will be like to teach in the UK, Gellman remarked, “After being introduced to ImproQuo in Chicago, we are very excited to be bringing creative community in the North West of England”.
Being able to offer a workshop to performers in and around Manchester and with such a prominent figure at the helm, ImproQuo presents a truly unique offering and a once in a lifetime opportunity for many.
With a range of workshops on the horizon, focusing on a variety of aspects of improv from voice to mask work, and with ties to the Big Apple already, the future looks bright and busy for the ImproQuo team.
Based from their headquarters at YARD Theatre in Manchester, ImproQuo offers a range of classes and workshops for beginners and the experienced, focusing on a range of different aspects of improv.
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TUPD logs delayed due to tech problem
March 6, 2017 November 6, 2017 Towerlight News
By: Cody Boteler, Editor-in-Chief
From Jan. 1, 2017, until about Feb. 22, the Towson University Police Department crime log was not accessible on the Towson University website.
According to Deputy Chief of Police Joe Herring, the log was unavailable because of a technical problem.
Typically, the Towson University Police Department Crime Log is accessible online. The crime log is legally required under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act – usually referred to as the Clery Act.
According to the 2016 edition of a Department of Education handbook about campus safety reporting, campus police departments are required to enter information about a crime into the log within two business days of the crime being reported.
When the records officer took crime information and tried to upload it to the website, he received confirmation that it had been published, Herring said. But it was published to a blank website, not the page where the records are now accessible.
“Nobody was seeing that it wasn’t being properly uploaded to the crime log web page,” Herring said. “I’ve added a step that he’s the clear his browser and manually inspect [the crime log] to see that it’s been uploaded correctly.”
The Department of Education handbook also stipulates that institutions should train more than one individual on maintaining the crime log, in case the trained individual changes jobs, is sick or otherwise unable to update the records.
Herring told The Towerlight in an interview that there are others who are trained on the system, but that TUPD relies on their records clerk.
Typically, TUPD updates the crime log on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
TUPD maintains records on its website for other incidents, like a yearly crime comparison between Towson University and other University System of Maryland schools.
Per capita, TU had the lowest rate of violent crimes in 2014 of any USM school. Towson also had the lowest per capita rate of property crimes in 2014.
The Clery Act is also what requires campus police to send out emergency notifications in cases of “immediate threats,” like a gas leak or armed intruder.
The Act was passed in 1990 after Jeanne Clery, a 19-year-old woman and student at Lehigh University was raped and murdered by Josoph Henry. Clery’s family argued that Jeanne wouldn’t have attended Lehigh if they knew about the school’s crime record.
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Take a break: 36 Hours in Vienna
July 3, 2013 Tommaso Nervegna
Vienna, star of the fading glory of the "fin de siècle era", emerges amongst all European cities with it's magnificent Hasburg-era architecure and parks.
In the present day, Vienna is still evolving with dazzling renovated museums, hotels and a whole new re-invented nightlife.
Shonbrunn castle - Shönbrunner Schloßtraße 47
Built in the seventeenth century, and subsequently used as the summer residence for the imperial will of Maria Theresa Archduchess of Austria, until the fall of the monarchy in 1918. The palace counts 1441 rooms, 190 of which are open to the public as a museum. It is surrounded by one of the most beautiful baroque-style parks in Europe, with statues, fountains and an enormous gardens, among them a set of fake Roman ruins, a zoo and a maze. Since 1996 the palace and the garden have been declared World Heritage by UNESCO.
Die Rote Bar - Philharmonikerstrasse 4
Enjoy traditional classic Viennese specialities in this elegant and stylish restaurant where you can either sit in the black and white floor-tiled glass conservatory facing the Opera House or in the grand, dark red damask dining room with large oil paintings and crystal chandeliers.
Motto am Fluss - Franz-Josefs-Kai 2
Have a relaxing drink before bedtime at this bar. “Motto am Fluss” lies right on the Danube Canal at Schwedenplatz like a racy speedboat. Host Bernd Schlacher has created an extensive gastronomic landscape here on two levels that at first sight, might be confused as a boat.
Hofburg - Michaelerplatz 1
Built on a medieval castle, the palace, consists of a set of magnificent buildings, once home to emperors. The complex, built by Emperor Charles VI in the 17th century, houses the offices of the President of Austria, an international conference center, the Spanish Riding School, several official and private apartments, numerous museums and the state apartments. Here you find the collection of imperial treasures, one of the most rich and fascinating in the whole world. You can even have a quick glimpse to the Sissi Museum and discover that the princess wasn't that great woman everyone thinks she was...
Shopping time - Zentrum von Wien
Declared Unesco's historical and cultural heritage of humanity, the historic centre of Vienna is characterized by cobbled streets, narrow alleys, quiet squares, historic buildings and by the best restaurants, cafes and luxury shops in the city. While there, do not miss the St. Stephen's Cathedral and Mozart's House. If you have time, have a ride on a horse chariot for a relaxing and romantic timeout.
Cafè Sacher - Philharmonikerstraße 4, A-1010 Wien
Café Sacher Vienna offers the perfect chance to sample a typical Viennese coffee-house atmosphere and – of course – to treat yourself to a slice of the legendary Original Sacher-Torte. The Café Sacher, directly opposite the Opera House, is a popular meeting place in the centre of Vienna.
Vienna State Opera - Opernring 2, 1010 Vienna, Austria
The Vienna State Opera is a fascinating building with a history dating back to the mid-19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria. It was originally called the Vienna Court Opera. If you can, book a ticket for a once in a lifetime experience.
Restaurant Le Ciel - Grand Hotel of Vienna - Kaerntner Ring 9
At the restaurant "Le Ciel" the name makes the programme. Enjoy the heavenly view from the seventh floor of the Grand Hotel Wien and indulge in heavenly culinary art at the same time!
The restaurant "Le Ciel" meets the expectations of the most discerning gourmets: creative cuisine with unusual combinations of taste, an excellent, out of the ordinary wine list and professional, friendly service.
Kunsthistoriches Museum - Maria Theresien Platz
The building is an astounding mix of murals, marble and royal excess, but even more mouth-watering is the Scholls Belvedere, two facing baroque palaces surrounded by mesmerizing gardens. Inside of them, the collections are superb homing the biggest Klimt collection in the world, in which, of course, you can find international favourite painting: The Kiss.
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Individual Human Rights
July 15, 2014 by Livy 64 Comments
The 1986 Lexicon Encyclopedia coverage of Hegel contains magic. In law school, we are not taught that our system is based on the expression of individualism, the same individualism that Hegel, Marx, Stalin, Hitler, Garrett Hardin (author of Tragedy of the Commons) and Alinsky reject. The encyclopedic reference says that Hegelian philosophy split into two wings, the left is Marx’ Communism and the right is essentially fascist nationalism. Too many people in the US think in terms of right/left. But the Communists and Fascists are Hegelian twins who reject individualism, the individual rights that are key to America’s exceptionalism from Communism.
Before reading that, I never thought of our system of having been borne of an expression of individualism. But it makes sense. All the rights are individual rights. And of the individual right of free speech, J. Roberts specifically said in US v. Stevens 559 US 460 (2010) that the benefits of individual free speech outweigh the burden on government. I submit that the benefit of all our sacred individual rights outweigh the burden on government.
In law school, they teach that only certain rights are fundamental and others, not so much. However, a reading of The Federalist And Other Constitutional Papers, Scott, 1902, shows that our founders considered the whole Constitution to be fundamental, and that laws contrary to the Constitution are null and void. That they considered our individual rights to be sacred and referenced a Maker. We are all entitled to sacred and fundamental individual rights, not just the worst criminals in the US.
Despite the pervasive underlying theme of the TV media, the true dichotomy is not between communistic-thinking Democrats and fascist-thinking Republicans, rather both Democrats and Republicans should reject Neo-Nazi Progressivism. As J. Edgar Hoover stated in his 1958 book “Masters of Deceit”, the setting of the classes against each other is an established tactic of the Communists. To Communists, every opponent is a fascist. As long ago as 1951, Ludwig von Mises wrote in “Socialism” that the communists do not respond to diverse views with reason, rather they immediately respond with a personal attack.
Notice how character assassination is used quite publicly. For example, the rancher in Nevada whose preference grazing rights prevailed against all humans, but not against the subhuman tortoise under the 1973 Endangered Species Act, was painted as a racist.
All the rights are individual rights, sacred and fundamental for humans only. The public policy of the Constitution is clearly one of humans first, a public policy that Congress had no authority to alter with the Endangered Species Act. In my view, Nixon capitulated more than just Vietnam to the Communists in 1973. 1973 was a dark year for Nixon. Impeachment was on the horizon. Did he think that Americans turned on him so, now, he turned on America? In 1973 Brezhnev secretly stated to his Communist comrades that Détente would not stop the Communists advancement of their various National liberation movements. And, for his comrades to trust him when he said that he expected to achieve most of their goals by 1985 without violence. (Page 359, Dupes, Kengor, 2010) In 1975, Animal Liberation was published. Some participants in the animal liberation movement seek to abolish private property in animals and the movement contains elements of civil disobedience to achieve its goals.Livy
Livy writes from the Southern High Plains of Texas
Filed Under: Endangered Species Act, National/World, Politics in General, Rights Tagged With: alinsky, brezhnev, communism, constitution, detente, exceptionalism, fascism, garret hardin, hegel, hitler, individual rights, j. edgar hoover, law school, left, ludwig von mises, marx, marxism, nixon, right, rights, socialism, stalin, vietnam
Ludwig von Mises on Marxist Socialism (Communism)
July 12, 2014 by Livy Leave a Comment
Ludwig von Mises said in 1951 what I have been trying to say about “planning”, “oversight” and other illegitimate options to the constitutional requirement of the payment of just compensation for the State’s exercise of Eminent Domain.
Whether the private property is land for the prairie chicken, or groundwater for the “common good”, central control abolishes private property ala the Communist Manifesto and as such violates prohibitions against communism.
On the nature of ownership:
“Regarded as a sociological category ownership appears as the power to use economic goods. An owner is he who disposes of an economic good.” Page 37.
“It is the aim of Socialism to transfer the means of production from the private ownership to the ownership of organized society, to the State.”
“If the State takes the power of disposal from the owner piecemeal, by extending its influence over production; if its power to determine what direction production shall take and what kind of production there shall be, is increased, then the owner is left at last with nothing except the empty name of ownership, and property has passed into the hands of the State.” Page 56, “Socialism, An Economic and Sociological Analysis”, von Mises, 1951, reprint 2009)
“It is fundamental that the Constitution is the paramount law of the state and cannot be altered by legislative enactment.” Jones v. Ross, 173 S.W.2d 1022, 1024 (Tex. 1943)
This is not rocket science.
Filed Under: Politics in General Tagged With: eminent domain, ludwig von mises, marxism, private property, socialism
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HARP: Hierarchical Representation Learning for Networks
author: Bryan Perozzi, Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University
published: Dec. 1, 2017, recorded: August 2017, views: 28
We present HARP, a novel method for learning low dimensional embeddings of a graph's nodes which preserves higher-order structural features. Our proposed method achieves this by compressing the input graph prior to embedding it, effectively avoiding troublesome embedding configurations (i.e. local minima) which can pose problems to non-convex optimization. HARP works by finding a smaller graph which approximates the global structure of its input. This simplified graph is used to learn a set of initial representations, which serve as good initializations for learning representations in the original, detailed graph. We inductively extend this idea, by decomposing a graph in a series of levels, and then embed the hierarchy of graphs from the coarsest one to the original graph. HARP is a general meta-strategy to improve all of the state-of-the-art neural algorithms for embedding graphs, including DeepWalk, LINE, and Node2vec. Indeed, we demonstrate that applying HARP's hierarchical paradigm yields improved implementations for all three of these methods, as evaluated on both classification tasks on real-world graphs such as DBLP, BlogCatalog, CiteSeer, and Arxiv, where we achieve a performance gain over the original implementations by up to 14% Macro F1.
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Film Review: “Columbus”
September 21, 2017 September 21, 2017 Susie Davidson
“Columbus” is a coherent allegory for contemporary youth’s anomie, isolation and disaffection with itself and its latent (half-hearted) rejection of this directionless state. That isn’t to say it’s any good. This movie happens to suck, and the high-calorie message baked into it can’t save its perfect absence of feeling.
One might imagine that “Columbus” is a love story. One would be wrong. Casey (Haley Lu Richardson) and Jin (John Cho) barely get to know each other, only ever having a few clipped conversations in a car in which they struggle to divulge basic facts about their own lives. They both seem to be sexually uninterested in one another. And they only sleep together after Parker Posey is brought into the movie to give Jin (and moralists in theaters) the go-ahead, since Casey is only 20. “Hiroshima, mon Amor” this is not. To be sure, “Columbus” is supposed to be subtle. There’s a really bait-y line about spiceless soup and how it can allow you to taste better. However one senses only the scary intimation that their feelings aren’t understated so much as obviated long ago.
Casey is made to represent our generation. That’s partly done by her appearance — the tragic haircut and the 1990s imposter clothes. The biggest tell is the fact that she is “really interested” in architecture, it being a felicitous fixation for its firm lodgment in the category of lamer, softer artforms so popular among the stylish and the college-age.
She spends the whole movie shrugging at people who beg her to go to college. Despite being clean, properly socialized and free of any glaring physical deformities, Casey has no friends. She is able but unwilling, interested but unenthusiastic, totally jaded and hopeless and isolated and alienated from everybody and from herself. Her ablated little soul’s salvation? The capacity to appreciate modernist architecture.
Casey is proud of herself for having an interest. Jin is floored by it. They follow each other around Columbus while Casey belabors just exactly how much of an “architecture nerd” she truly is. Other things Casey has: family tension, an affinity for her mother and a secret. Two people having a passingly decent conversation, a young woman with some knowledge of an art form, a person who has feelings regarding their family and childhood: what does it mean if this is the stuff of movies?
Casey is at her most insufferable when she takes Jin to her school. She says, not with a little drama, “this is where I went to school”— as if Jin did not also come from someplace. What makes her so bad is how special she seems to think she is. What’s interesting is that Jin agrees with her.
This poses this question: What if she is actually special? There are constant references to smartphones (Casey is anti) in “Columbus.” The logic seems to be that since people are basically automatons now, perhaps having cultivated any interest at all is to be applauded. If the terms of battle have shifted from people with interesting ideas versus people with boring ideas to people with ideas versus people with none, then she’s special. Her knee-jerk cynicism is matchless, it goes way beyond her self-knowledge.
Casey correctly realizes that Columbus is basically the same as everywhere else. Her refusal to surpass her working-class mother, or to really try and create a viable life for herself, is her sole act of defiance. In the end she rectifies her alienation with the same shrug that allowed her to skip the opportunities she recognized from the start as dead ends. She leaves Columbus, and her non-boyfriend. The solution to irony-poisoned apathy is applying more apathy toward your apathetic rebellion — a cool idea wasted on a movie which is itself too lazy and tired to try harder.
Director: Kogonada
Starring: John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey, Rory Culkin, Michelle Forbes, Jim Dougherty
Rated: NR
Image Courtesy of the Sundance Institute
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FR Lukeville says:
We saw the film and loved it. Maybe Susie is an unhappy, pathetic soul herself! Obviously she could not see into characters and realize they are not at all being pathetic, but rather finding true meanings and missions in life. All while embedded in an interesting town, at least in terms of architecture. Ms. Davidson is one reason we have chosen to go see films and not rely on the critics. However, I would point out that after running in some selected cities so far, Columbus has earned a glowing recommendation fro nearly all the critics that carry weight.
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