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Tales of Rowdy
A Short Warning (and/or Introduction)
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Australia Needs a New Damien Parer
The first Australian film to ever achieve the honour of collecting an Oscar from the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences was ‘Kokoda Front Line’ , which shared with three other winners the 1942 Best Documentary award. A Ken G Hall produced and directed feature length newsreel film, this iconic part of Australian cinema and military history relied upon the footage shot by one of our greatest cameramen, Damien Parer. Much like his static film predecessor Frank Hurley and the later Australian combat cameraman Neil Davis Parer was able to combine a true artist’s eye with personal bravery and a connection with his subject, giving Australians a better than expected insight into what happened to men before, during and after battle. There would be hardly any person who has not observed Anzac Day in Australia who would be unfamiliar with iconic images such as this one from ‘Kokoda Front Line’: Parer was able to do something that the founder of the Australian War Memorial and the man who did more than anyone else to create the legend of the Aussie digger, C.E.W. Bean could never do with his words and his official histories. Damien Parer showed not just the people back home but a world wide audience moving images of Australian men fighting a cruel and rapacious enemy. Yes, it may have been propaganda but the work of Damien Parer gave a world wide audience the opportunity to see how Australia was defending what it believed in, and how our soldiers fought and died battling the Axis forces. Arguably consigned to a certain anonymity whilst operating with the British in the European and North African theatres of war, the men of the AIF (as well as those of the RAN and RAAF) were properly given their own cinematic face in movies such as ‘Kokoda Front Line’, ‘Men of Timor’ and ‘The Battle of Bismarck Sea’.
Sadly Damien Parer was killed filming US Marines during the Pelielu campaign in September 1944, suffering a fate innumerable combat cameramen have both before and after his death. Other Australians contributed to the filming of war after Parer, firstly for the newsreels and then with the advent of TV their footage was made available for the nightly news. The aforementioned Neil Davis was the next cameraman to get up close and personal to the soldier fighting a war, in his case the South Vietnamese and Cambodian troops of the Vietnam War. It was Davis who took the footage of an ARVN police chief executing a VC insurgent during the Tet Offensive, then at the war’s end he filmed an NVA tank crashing through the Saigon Presidential Palace gates.
Davis would die filming a Thai Army coup, leaving the succeeding generations of Australian film makers and TV journalists struggling to match his and Parer’s legacy. Partially (and thankfully) for last quarter of the Twentieth Century Australian soldiers did not fight in any wars. Our cameramen did watch, film and (as in the case of the Balibo Five) sometimes suffer the cruel fate of becoming the victims of other countries’ wars. However no one was able to do what Parer did for the diggers of Kokoda or Salamaua on the big or small screen.
In itself this would not be something to be too concerned about except within media and film making circles. However the environment has changed since September 11th 2001. The commencement of the so-called War on Terror’ has seen Australian troops fighting in two major theatres of that war, Iraq and Kuwait. And so far, aside from Department of Defence footage, some YouTube video and the occasional ABC current affairs report the work of our fighting men and women has been woefully under-reported in film:
This isn’t a reflection on the abilities or desires of the Australian combat cameraman or film/TV maker to get deep into the heart of the 21st century digger’s war experiences. It is however an indictment of the failure of the Australian government, no matter its political persuasion to trust people at home with something more than micromanaged minutes of footage authorised by the Department of Defence. I would not call it censorship, although others almost certainly would. Nor would I say that the vision that has been released is utterly worthless propaganda (as the likes of a John Pilger may say). However the manner in which our vision of the war in Afghanistan has been conveyed since the almost total withdrawal of Australian ground forces in the Iraq theatre must be considered utterly unsatisfactory. There have been two VC’s awarded since January 2009 and our casualties there have risen steadily. Brave men have fought and become casualties in a war that supposedly is on our behalf and yet through governmental deflection (at best) or misdirection (at worst) we have not been given the moving images to properly dignify our troop’s efforts nor their sacrifices. For too long there has been a huge gulf between the occasional DoD news briefing and the almost stock scenes of our political leaders attending the funerals of those who have fallen in combat.
I’m not saying that we need to be shown a myth-making paean to our men and women in the war zone of Afghanistan, and I know that contemporary media cynicism means we won’t be able to accept a new ‘Kokoda Front Line’ set this time in Tarin Kowt. However there are effective and meaningful precedents from other countries and their film and TV journalists, who have brought back from the war on terror significant movies that actually go some way to reflecting a combat reality we don’t get in government coverage of embedded ‘Four Corners’ type reports. My prima facie evidence is the much lauded US film ‘Restrepo’:
‘Restrepo’ gets into the FOB of a company of US troops and doesn’t just go out on patrol with the men then scoots back to Bagram air base for hot meals, cold beers and an editing suite. It’s classic combat documentary cinema, insofar as the men in battle aren’t mythic heroes, they are soldiers who can do things no civilian would ever want to and yet at the same time they are fallible and vulnerable. There are mistakes and casualties, bravura and boredom, however one thing there is not is the BS factor of a micromanaged government sponsored film crew. This is a film that is a great example of how embedding with the troops to film their war actually adds depth and reality to something we civilians are almost utterly divorced from.
It has been utterly remiss of our media, our film and TV producers, our government and even those of us home here in Australia not to ask for more realism, more access to our men and women as they are engaged in a war on our behalf. We can’t all be expected to read Department of Defence media releases, nor can we seek truths that are at best relative and at worst not possible to find. We can however ask why no one has been able to put together for more than the length of a sound bite an independent documentary film or TV production that gets behind the barbed wire, goes out on patrol or nestles in underneath the OHP of a firing pit with the current generation of diggers. Marshall McLuhan said that the Vietnam War was lost in the living rooms of America; that may be true. For Australia the Afghanistan War is invisible not just from our lounge rooms, but also from our streets, our cinemas, our worplace discussions and our political debates. Let’s hope a new Damien Parer or the production team behind such a combat film maker can emerge before too late.
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Maintaining authenticity in kids’ programming
By David Michel
When I first started my career in the entertainment industry back in the early noughties, ‘authenticity’ was nothing more than a buzzword.
Content specifically geared towards kids was primarily in the animated space, which was more fantastical in its execution and more forgiving in nature when it came to political correctness. Live-action offerings for the younger demographic was limited in both numbers and scope, and there was a clear lack of diversity and gender representation for kids, except in shows such as Degrassi, which tackled teen issues head on.
Most of the popular mainstream live-action teen programming such as Beverly Hills 90210, and Clueless, provided great entertainment but only touched on teen issues in a milder way and usually in the glossy setting of a California environment.
Fast forward to present day and the pendulum has swung towards authenticity and truthfulness when it comes to the representation of kids, where representation of race, gender and social issues are becoming more common in entertainment. The advent of social media has allowed kids to have a voice and express their opinions, with the likes of YouTube creating a great platform – without any filtering from producers or TV executives – for commonality with others and highlighting a broad range of issues that otherwise would have been kept under the radar.
As bystanders we have been able to witness this movement and encapsulate authenticity in both characters and storytelling, while implementing a shift towards realism and credibility. The fact that kids became empowered to create content represented their ‘authentic’ selves allowed us as producers to use this as guidelines in our own storytelling.
As producers of the live-action series Find Me in Paris for example, we made a conscious effort to craft characters from diverse backgrounds, social origins and gender oreintations, to ensure that these stories were expressed from an organic point of view, as opposed to feeling forced or fabricated.
Jeff Chase, a character played by actor Castle Rock is an openly gay hip-hop dancer who struggles with the art of ballet. His issues are the same as many of his peers, he is a teen experiencing angst. Authenticity and reliability have always been at the forefront when writing for our characters as it’s important that our target audience be represented in our series.
Although this sentiment is becoming increasingly prevalent in kids’ series, shows such as Sesame Street have been pioneers in championing inclusion and diversity for decades. Whether it’s creating a character with autism or introducing Kami, a five-year-old HIV-positive girl Muppet orphaned by AIDS, there isn’t a topic or character type that the producers haven’t shied away from which is both refreshing and inspirational.
Undoubtedly, we have come along way. Are we in a great place yet? Not entirely. The preschool world is probably best in class for showing authentic and varied characters. Take Doc McStuffins for example, which was the first animated series on Disney Jr. to feature a black female lead.
However, archetype characters are still prevalent in many kids’ shows as of late. The white sporty athlete and the blonde cheerleader are still “go to” characters in some series, as is the racially diverse character with a heavy accent; although this trend seems to be bucking as audiences become savvier and content creators become more aware and socially responsible.
So, although we have made exceptional progress as an industry, we still need to fine-tune the characters we are creating, ensuring that race, gender, and sexual orientation are fairly represented to reflect and connect with our broad and beautifully diverse viewing audience.
David Michel is president of Cottonwood Media and MD of Federation Kids and Family
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Super! deal for Love, Divina
Live-action kids series Love, Divina has been sold to De Agostini’s Super! in Italy. The novella-esque series hails from Televisa, Pol-ka Pro Producciones and the kids division of Federation Entertainment. The 60x45mins series has Patito Feo star Laura Esquivel as a teenager who takes homeless kids under her wing. Massimo Bruno, head of TV channels […]
TBI Kids Survey 2016: what is the most impressive and original kids show out there today?
Asking kids TV executives to name the most impressive show out there (not one of their own) produced a few surprises, and a surprising consensus. Adventure Time got numerous nods, as did another Cartoon network toon, The Amazing World of Gumball. Zodiak’s Michael Carrington, a former Cartoon Network UK and EMEA boss, was one of […]
David Michel: Content extremes and the new radical indies
It is now quite clear that our industry is witness to major changes, which are affecting scripted coproductions in both drama and children’s programming. On the production side, a new tide of concentration of the key media players is sweeping Europe and Asia where massive media groups are about to be formed, Endemol-Shine-Core being the […]
Federation hands France TV exec dual kids role
Premium content distributor Federation Kids & Family has hired Alexandre Henin in a dual role as head of acquisitions for Kids & Family and creative producer for sister prodco Cottonwood Media. Henin will report to David Michel, president at Cottonwood and head of Federation Kids & Family. He has joined Federation from France Télévisions where […]
Euro nets bring in Ollie & Moon
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Facebook Strikes Back At iLike: No-Spam Policy Cancels Concert Alerts
Erick Schonfeld @erickschonfeld / 10 years
Did Facebook finally unfriend iLike? It certainly looks that way. Facebook is restricting iLike from showing people’s music data in their profiles (the songs and artists they like) or alerting them to upcoming concerts through Facebook notifications. The ban on notifications appears to be part of Facebook’s recent moves to fight app spam. It is not clear what music data specifically will be pulled from profiles, but that could cover all the data iLike collects about users—their music preferences and recommendations.
Even though iLike is the top music app on Facebook, with 12 million active monthly users, the two companies have been on the outs ever since iLike was picked up for a song by arch-rival MySpace. The recent deal with Google Music to show iLike/MySpace Music results added insult to injury.
This morning some people with the iLike app installed on Facebook received the following notification:
Due to upcoming Facebook changes, your Music data on Facebook won’t show on your profile and you’ll stop getting concert alerts. Take this step to save your music data
To get around these restrictions, iLike is now asking for users’ emails so they can send them concert alerts (which can be a very lucrative source of affiliate revenues) outside of Facebook. But routing these types of alerts through email is not ideal. People don’t want app spam in their inbox.
The app inside Facebook is currently “taking a short time-out for maintenance.” I have asked iLike, MySpace, and Facebook for clarification on the changes, and will update this post when I hear back from them. A few weeks ago, Facebook’s Ethan Beard hinted: “We are making some changes to the profile. We think it should be a great place for users to accurately represent their identity.” Perhaps this is related.
Update: This notification is indeed in response to changes in Facebook’s developer roadmap, which will eliminate two of iLike’s top features: adding music to a profile and personalized concert alerts. So iLike trying to get users to switch to email notifications (outside of Facebook’s control) and new profile tabs. The policy changes are not targeted at iLike specifically.
A Facebook spokesperson clarifies: “We didn’t do anything specific to iLike as the headline implies, and alerts are not going away, they’re simply shifting away from their current channel to ones we think will be more effective for both users and developers.”
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Spectrum Auction
COAI voices its concern about spectrum crunch in the upcoming auction
By Chethan S November 13th, 2014 AT 2:24 PM
The Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) has written a letter to Nripendra Misra, Principal Secretary (PS to the prime minister Narendra Modi over spectrum crunch and has asked for more spectrum for fair auctions due February 2015 in India.
The industry requires the government’s enabling support for crafting a viable and sustainable industry structure, the letter said.
“For this, a predictable and stable regulatory and policy environment that ensures an investor-friendly climate, protection of existing investments, service continuity, availability of adequate, appropriate and contiguous spectrum would be a prerequisite,” it said.
As per the letter, the government’s digital agenda will require huge investments, and regulatory certainty and protection of existing investments are essential for attracting future investments.
“These investments will not be made, if existing investments (to the extent of thousands of crores) are put at risk and the return on investment is put in jeopardy,” it said.
It further added, if the proposed spectrum auction (to be held in February 2015) is conducted with completely inadequate spectrum, it will put investments of thousands of crores and continuity of services to millions of customers at huge risk.”
Also Read : Will customers end up paying for the spectrum auction in terms of higher tariffs?
The COAI letter said an unprecedented auction design, where the spectrum being put to auction is almost entirely held by existing licensees (with hardly any fallback spectrum in other bands), is a fundamentally flawed mechanism and is most likely to lead to irrational and totally unrealistic pricing or a significant write off of existing investments by incumbents.
“In the auction that is going to start in February, in 1,800 MHz band, 20 circles are going for auction, while in the 900 MHz band 18 circles will be up for sale. The recommendations said spectrum should be put to auction in a block size of 2×200 KHz in both the 900 and 1,800 MHz bands,” according to the letter.
“It is requested that the auction should not be conducted till the adequate spectrum, as recommended by TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India), is made available,” it said.
“We, therefore, suggest that as a first priority, additional spectrum should be made available on an urgent basis in 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2100MHz bands as these bands are the most harmonized spectrum bands internationally,” the letter suggests.
Our Take :
As voiced by COAI and various other telecom players, if the spectrum auction proceeds in its current form, some of the implications it could lead to would be:
1) Increased price of the spectrum which is auctioned thus leading to tariff hikes by the operators in an effort to pass on the price hike burden onto the subscribers
2) Disruption of services in different circles as is the case currently in Delhi where Idea has won spectrum which is currently been held by Airtel and Vodafone
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Vodafone acquires 365.2 MHz of spectrum across 1800/2100/2500 bands for Rs. 20,208 crores
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Spectrum auction ends after 5 days- Idea cellular buys 349.2 MHz spectrum for Rs. 12,798 crore
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by RAC
If there's something strange in your neighborhood... obviously the first thing you should suspect is giant robots from space. Ghosts of Cybertron, Part One is written by Erik Burnham with art by Dan Schoening, colors by Luis Antonio Delgado, and lettering by Tom B. Long.
I was kind of hoping Gozer would ask Megatron if he was a god.
This is a setup issue, and while I wish there was more to it than that, I want to phrase that as a compliment: I want more of this. It establishes the characters involved neatly as well as showing just what makes this an alternate universe for the Transformers - one based on the G1 Sunbow continuity. (You know, the one basically everyone who cares about Transformers will recognize on sight whether they've kept up with it over the years or not. Especially if they're of an age to be similarly fond of Ghostbusters. Very logical choice, and on top of which Sunbow fits the tone of the book better than any other continuity I could name off the top of my head.) The character who will come to be known as Ectotron is introduced, and there's already an avenue - at least one! - for things to go horribly, comically wrong for everyone involved. In short, this issue tells you everything you need to know about the story to come, and it looks like it'll be fun.
If you're not familiar with the Ghostbusters comic team of Erik Burnham and Dan Schoening, this is a great display of their strengths. It's not surprising to me that Burnham gets the Ghostbusters so right after writing them for years, but they're the strongest characters in the comic so far. One of the things that makes Ghostbusters great (and is an underappreciated aspect of Ghostbusters II, in my opinion) is that while the characters can go very broad for the action and comedy there's also a certain depth to them. And not every instance of the characters nails that, but Burnham always has in my experience.
And when this was announced, I was not expecting Schoening to do as well with Transformers as he does! His humans are fun and loose caricatures that are very expressive, and keeping the boxy Sunbow Transformers on-model and not stiff-looking is an entirely different skillset. It's always great to see an artist who can do both. In between those two extremes there's a good ghost design that captures the flavor of the movie ghosts, and contrasts well against the "lighter" design of the Ghostbusters themselves. On top of all of which, we also get Robot Gozer and Terror Dogs. What else could you want?
Luis Antonio Delgado does a neat thing with his coloring here. First off, he's good at doing mechanical sheen (as seen in the Sunbow animation shots that the animators had enough time and money to put some extra effort into and dialed up to 11 for Transformers: Devastation. And only Cybertronian things have that sheen to them. Even Ectotron when in his alternate mode doesn't have it so as to blend in. An excellent choice!
When a crossover is handled solely by artists associated with one of the two properties, you tend to wonder if the other one is going to be done justice. And while it looks like most of this does involve importing Transformers characters into the Ghostbusters setting... the Ghostbusters team is just too good to worry about that. I'm already enjoying this, and now that the setup's out of the way we've got four issues to do just about anything with. Should be a fun ride.
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Ghostbusters – The Video Game looking to get a remaster in time for the next movie
15th May 2019 Off By thatretrovideogamer
So… erm, here’s a thing that I didn’t expect to surface at the same time as myself from the dark depths of gaming history, as it appears that the 2009 Ghostbusters game from developer Terminal Reality’s may be getting the remaster treatment.
Of course, this will be perfect timing if the rumours and evidence from the Taiwan rating board are true, given that the 3rd movie in the original franchise (4th overall) will be in cinemas next year. And given a chance to wander those long corridors in game with my trusty pack zapping ‘n’trapping every class 4 I see might just send my nostalgia into overdrive once more!
If you didn’t get to play the 10 year old game before (my god has it been that long!) then you’re in for a treat, as the whole thing just oozes a love for the two prior films while taking the plot from the 3rd proposed film script that was sent round Hollywood for years after Ghostbusters 2. Hell even most of the original cast came back to perform their roles and it really does show how much love they did have for the characters. Sure there are some events in game which kinda feel like a quick replay around what happened before, but with a neat twist, but each time they keep you eager to complete and progress the story further.
While only the Xbox rating has been seen so far, it’s a no-brainer to predict a PS4 version will be made in parallel to take advantage of the userbase and better visuals both console have, however it would be intriguing to see if a switch version may be on the cards? Lets not forget the original launched on every console available during 2009 (Even Wii, as a cartoonish alternative, although that was produced by Redfly with Zen producing the DS version) so it’s not like the machine couldn’t handle a polished and updated 360 variant now..
Rumours are the project is being handled by Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn and NBA Playgrounds developer Mad Dog Games, but until all official confirmations occur lets just take that with a pinch of salt.
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[REVIEW] The Incredible Shrinking Professor – ZX Spectrum
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I’d happily play that again! It was really good!
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Hamhuis leads Milwaukee to win
February 2, 2005 theahl
Dan Hamhuis scored his second goal of the night with 3:25 left in regulation to lift Milwaukee to a 4-3 win in St. John’s on Tuesday.
Hamhuis, who will represent the Admirals at next week’s 2005 Dodge AHL All-Star Classic, is now tied for the league lead among defensemen with 10 goals on the season.
Milwaukee did not lead in the game until Hamhuis netted the eventual winner, but did erase three separate one-goal deficits.
Darren Haydar had two goals and an assist for the Admirals and Simon Gamache added three assists.
Michel Robinson, in his AHL debut, made 32 saves to earn the win.
Brad Leeb scored twice and Kyle Wellwood had a goal and two assists for the Maple Leafs.
Elsewhere on Tuesday:
Defenseman Joel Kwiatkowski had two goals and an assist to lead San Antonio to a 4-3 win at Cleveland… Drew MacIntyre made 35 saves as Grand Rapids ended a four-game losing streak with a convincing 5-1 win in Manitoba… David LeNeveu stopped 38 shots for Utah, but Edmonton prevailed in a shootout, 2-1.
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This busty blonde beauty started dancing in 1988 in Las Vegas at the Palomino Club where she was actually the DJ and light tech. On a dare, Skye got up to do the amateur contest and won, going from behind the lights to center stage. She went to her first AVN Show in 1991 and met a lot of hot and sexy people who were in the adult movie industry. Skye’s first video was Love & The Dancer Too, after which she went on to do several other adult films. In 1994, Skye met Summer Cummings and in her own words, "OH MY GOSH did we ever hit it off!" Summer and Skye exploded on to the adult scene to do over 30 magazines and 250 adult films. They also feature together as the duo team Breast Wishes, always doing their best to just about break the law and get as wild and kinky as they can When she’s not producing and directing her own films, Skye can be found shopping, rollerblading, ice skating, snorkeling in Hawaii or Mexico, riding Harleys, browsing for S&M toys, going to the gym or out playing ball with her dogs.
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1993, ★★★, Comedy
Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)
13 January 2006 Andrew Wickliffe Leave a comment
Groundhog Day falls under my rewatch category–the films I used to love (or like), but haven’t seen in five or six years. These films are ones that I saw multiple times, back when I used to see things multiple times. I think that practice disappeared when I discovered AMC in 1996 or so.
I was a little worried. I’ve seen Multiplicity, which I never thought was as good, more recently than not and it had me doubting the power of Harold Ramis. I hadn’t checked until now, but Movielens predicts a three and a half for Groundhog Day, which is damn close. Groundhog Day wasn’t just a pleasant surprise, it was a pleasant experience. I could skim over the philosophy of the film, its thesis, but imagine if Frank Capra had made a movie with Humphrey Bogart. It probably would have been close to Groundhog Day (except Bogart would have worked for a newspaper). I’ve never used the term Capraesque and haven’t particularly liked the usage of it I have read, but I think Groundhog Day is definitely Capraesque. I think he would have appreciated its thesis.
The film’s structure kept impressing me and I kept wondering where I was on time–a similar experience to Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Groundhog Day is particularly nice in its intensity, it never shows or tells too much, just enough to inform the viewer and move the story along. The film’s flow is very important and there are a few mistakes–the most glaring is Chris Elliot’s character becoming a buffoon, which the mean Bill Murray always thought he was anyway. I remembered, watching it, that I’d made that observation before.
Groundhog Day Murray is probably Murray at his best, or near it. While he’s developed into a good dramatic actor, there’s an air of desperation that he hasn’t been able to shake since Rushmore. With the possible exception of The Royal Tenenbaums, it’s impossible to ignore it–it’s a sign on his back that says “I Want an Oscar.” Groundhog Day is before any such aspiration and it’s a sad reminder of how nice it was not to have to see it.
Directed by Harold Ramis; screenplay by Danny Rubin and Ramis, based on a story by Rubin; director of photography, John Bailey; edited by Pembroke J. Herring; music by George Fenton; production designer, David Nichols; produced by Trevor Albert and Ramis; released by Columbia Pictures.
Starring Bill Murray (Phil Connors), Andie MacDowell (Rita), Chris Elliott (Larry), Stephen Tobolowsky (Ned Ryerson), Brian Doyle-Murray (Buster Green), Marita Geraghty (Nancy Taylor), Angela Paton (Mrs. Lancaster), Rick Ducommun (Gus), Rick Overton (Ralph), Robin Duke (Doris, the waitress), Carol Bivins (Anchorwoman) and Willie Garson (Kenny).
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SFSU Social Broadcasting Workshop
The Social Broadcasting Workshop: Digital Media / Emerging Technologies, School of Art, San Francisco State University, takes place October 3 & 5, 2-5pm, and will be taught by visiting artist Randall Packer, in collaboration with Paula Levine.
Key Concepts: Internet performance, social broadcasting, collective narrative, aggregation, many-to-many, collaboration, streaming video, social media
The Social Broadcasting Workshop explores the live video broadcast as a social, collaborative exchange, in which Facebook Live broadcasts are aggregated in an interplay of collective improvisation, composition, and narrative. We refer to this collaborative, many-to-many broadcast paradigm as social broadcasting, as opposed to the one-way paradigm of traditional broadcasting. The social broadcasting project in Facebook Live began in the summer of 2017 with the #NeWWWorlDisorder performance involving 12 artists from six countries in Europe and North America: all broadcasting live and simultaneously to an online interactive video wall.
#NeWWWorlDisorder international Facebook Live performance: July 29, 2017
For the SFSU Social Broadcasting Workshop, we divide into six groups: 3 groups of 3 and 3 groups of 4 totalling 21 students. Each group broadcasts video via Facebook Live from their mobile phones to our Facebook group page. Each member of the group is responsible for formulating a theme or narrative concept devised by their group, and then broadcasts synchronously and simultaneously with other members for a duration of 15 minutes.
Group 2 Broadcast:
Students broadcast with their mobile phones. As mobile-broadcasters, we are untethered from the computer and free to roam the surrounding environment. Each group of mobile-broadcasters distributes themselves while moving on a pre-determined path to capture found sounds and images, and perhaps their own voice, according to the requirements of each group’s narrative concept. The live streams of each group of mobile-broadcasters is aggregated on the interactive video wall, where the broadcasts can be controlled independently in the adjustment of sound. Workshop participants view the projected wall in the classroom while each group is performing. Once each performance is over, the videos are posted and saved so they can be archived permanently on the video wall.
The goal of this workshop is to explore what is possible with social broadcasting. Each group devises their own narrative strategy, such as game play, audio-visual “cross-streaming,” in which a motif passes through each video, or an aggregate composition of contrasting imagery and sound, or perhaps abstract realizations using Facebook Live effects. Since this project is conceived as a social event, it is important that participants collaborate on collective approaches, including the type of captured imagery, incorporation of spoken text, camera motion, location, juxtaposition of imagery, montage, etc. We are looking for ideas that might fall outside of these suggestions.
Each group chooses a location or set of locations within or close to the Fine Arts Building, to be captured over a precisely 15 minute duration. The 15 minute broadcasts began in the classroom, then diverge to the various locations, then converge once again back in the classroom. Participants can either go to distributed locations, or be in close proximity to one another in order to capture “cross-streams,” in which two or more artist-broadcasters are interacting with one another.
The SFSU Social Broadcasting Workshop takes place over a two-day period. The first day we discuss a historical and theoretical overview of social broadcasting and cross-border collaboration. We then review and configure the mobile software, learn the basics of mobile broadcasting in Facebook, work in groups to discuss project ideas. In between the two workshops, groups discuss and refine their ideas, and create practice/test broadcasts to the Facebook Group Page. Students can create a Google Doc to collectively document their notes. The second day we review the project ideas, answer questions, and then each group will perform their project for the class. At the end of the workshop we have a critique and discuss ideas for a future cross-border collaborations.
Preparation for Social Broadcasting Workshop
In order to prepare for the SFSU Social Broadcasting Workshop, each participant needs to do the following prior to the first workshop:
Download the Facebook app on your mobile phone, if you haven’t already, or be sure the app is updated to the latest version. Be sure you have a Facebook account!
Charge your phones and bring a charger cable to class.
Join the “SFSU Social Broadcasting Workshop” Facebook Group Page and make it a “Shortcut” in Facebook. This is a public group that we will use for experimentation, testing, and performance.
Read the following: (1) Transmission to the People, a blog post by Randall Packer about the Videofreex, video pioneers from the 1960s who pointed the way to social broadcasting; (2) Welcome to Electronic Café International, an essay by network pioneers Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz.
Day 1, Tuesday, October 3
2:10pm – 3:30pm: Overview of history, theory and concepts of social broadcasting and cross-border, networked collaboration. We will discuss the work of the Videofreex, Hole-in-Space by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz, and examples of cross-border collaboration. See “Notes for History, Theory, and Concepts” below for additional details.
3:30pm – 4:30pm: Hands-on Workshop covering the fundamental of social broadcasting using mobile phones and Facebook Live. See “Technical Instructions for Facebook Live Broadcasting” below for additional details.
4:30pm – 5:00pm: Group discussion of project ideas.
In-between Classes
Groups should be in communication to refine ideas. Each group can communicate by email, or create an optional Google Doc to collectively organize your notes. It is suggested that you run a technical test of your route to test wireless and cellular reception. If the wireless reception is spotty or drops out, use cellular.
Day 2, Thursday, October 5
2:10pm – 4:00pm: Performances, each group performs a 15 minute work while other students observe on the interactive video wall.
Everyone needs to access our Facebook group page.
Instructions for Performers: Explain to the class briefly what you are going to do and provide any viewer interaction instructions. Try to synchronize your start time and note the clock on your phone so you return to the classroom and stop your broadcast at 15 minutes.
Instructions for Viewers: You can watch the live broadcasts on the interactive wall projected in the classroom. If a performance involves viewer interaction, look for the broadcasts on the SFSU Group Page (or refresh the page) and click on a live feed to open up the chat so you can communicate with a specific performer.
Group 1: Jeremy / Mickey / Alex
Group 2: Kyle / Bianca / Jenny
Group 3: Madison / Spencer / Karina
Group 4: Vanessa / June / Daniel / Luca?
Group 5: Matt / Daniella / Hannah / Josh
Group 6: Torrey / Jaymee / Kaori / Armando
4:00pm – 5:00pm: Critique, discussion, review, and exploration of a cross-border collaboration with students in Singapore.
Technical Instructions for Facebook Live Broadcasting
You should have already downloaded the Facebook app, which works for both iOS and Android phones. Be sure the app is the most recent version.
Be sure your mobile phones are fully charged before class.
It is advised that you use cellular data during performance if the wireless network is spotty, or if there is dropout because you need to go in and out of wireless networks.
Swipe up the iOS control center (not sure about Android) and make sure the the Portrait Orientation Lock is NOT ON.
Always broadcast in landscape mode by orienting the phone that way BEFORE broadcasting. Once broadcasting, you can’t change the orientation, unless you want the image to be rotated sideways.
Be sure you have joined the SFSU Social Broadcasting Workshop Facebook Group Page and have pinned it to your shortcuts. Hover over the edit button on the left side of your Facebook page shortcuts, click and find the SFSU group page, and pin it to the top of shortcuts.
When you broadcast, go to the SFSU Social Broadcasting Workshop Facebook Group Page either by selecting from shortcuts or searching by name. Then click on the status update, click on “Live Video,” and be sure the post is set to “Public.” You can add an optional description and then click on “Start Live Video.”
Note the Effects button, which looks like a magic wand. Click and familiarize yourself with all the effects to determine if you want to incorporate them. Some of them are very cheesy so beware, but some of the various “looks” are interesting if you want to add abstraction, glitch, paint, etc.
While broadcasting you can use the chat functionality to communicate with other members of your group, although it will not be possible to see each other’s live feeds.
When you are done broadcasting, click on the “Finish” button and then “Post.” This is very important so that your video is archived on the Facebook Group Page. Should you want to delete the video, you can delete it from the Page like any Facebook post.
Your performance broadcast will be archived on the video wall, which requires special coding and is done by Randall Packer. He will grab the URL of each broadcast when you begin, and input them into a video wall assigned to each group. You will be provided with a URL to this wall during the workshop. It is not possible to test the wall on your own.
Visiting Artist Randall Packer
Since the 1980s, multimedia artist, composer, writer and educator Randall Packer has worked at the intersection of interactive media, live performance, and networked art. He has received critical acclaim for his socially and politically infused critique of media culture, and has performed and exhibited at museums, theaters, and festivals internationally. Packer is a writer and scholar in new media, most notably the co-editor of Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality and the author of his long running blog: Reportage from the Aesthetic Edge. He is an Associate Professor of Networked Art at the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where he founded and directs the Open Source Studio (OSS) project, an educational initiative exploring collaborative online research and teaching in the media arts. Currently he is organizing the Third Space Network (3SN), an Internet broadcast channel for live media arts and creative dialogue.
If you have any questions, feel free to email Randall Packer at rpacker @ zakros.com. Look forward to meeting you all!
Notes for history, theory and concepts
Videofreex
Assigned reading: Transmission to the People, blog post by Randall Packer.
While television has traditionally been a passive medium, programmed media received by the masses, the Videofreex turned the paradigm upside down when they bought the Maple Tree Farm and established Lanesville TV in upstate New York during the 1970s. The Videofreex, as they are still known today, moved their SOHO video production studio in Manhattan and formed a quasi hippie commune (they never liked that connotation) in an old seven room house in Lanesville, a sparse little town in the Catskills with a population of a few hundred people. It was here, in this setting far removed from the urban bustle of the New York City media center that they began their experimental television project to forge the first pirate tv station in America.
Videofreex was one of the pioneer production groups that formed when consumer video was first introduced. Over the nine+ years together (1969 -1978), the Freex produced several thousand videotapes, installations and multimedia events and trained hundreds of videomakers in the brand new video medium. They were part of a fast-growing alternative video network that covered the 1970s counter culture and the Movement (actually many political and social movements). Without regard for the rules of broadcast TV or for independent filmmaking, they strove to find out what was unique for the new, separate medium of video and passionately broke new creative ground.
Hole-in-Space by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz
Assigned reading: Welcome to Electronic Café International
Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz, founders of the Electronic Café in Santa Monica, California, were among the first artists to begin exploring communications art through satellite technologies. Their seminal work, Hole-in-Space from 1980, represented one of the earliest examples of live, networked media art. They setup two large projection screens: one at Lincoln Center in New York City, the other at Century City in Los Angeles, to connect two live audiences. Conceived as a participatory event (much like the early theatrical Happenings), this unannounced project, setup for three consecutive days, enabled two groups of viewers to see the other live and in real-time across the space of the US, which literally collapsed the distance and experience of the real and the virtual, the local and the remote.
Kit Galloway (b. 1948) and Sherrie Rabinowitz (1950-2013) co-founded the Electronic Café International (ECI), a cafe, networking centre, performance and workshop space and art hub in Santa Monica, California. Until Rabinowitz’s death, they created numerous art works which could be categorized as communication aesthetics, telematic art and digital theatre.
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Juicing cannabis leaves miraculously saves lives
THE JEENYUS CORNER
(NaturalNews) At 16, Kristen Peskuski was suffering from joint inflammation and an array of autoimmune conditions which made her organs and other tissues swell, including interstitial cystitis and lupus. She was prescribed over 40 different anti-inflammatory, antibiotic and painkilling medications to combat the symptoms. Still struggling to bring the symptoms under control, Kristen developed steroid toxicity. She was told that the most she could hope for was reduced discomfort, and with luck, she might make it to her 30th birthday. Seeking alternative treatments, she began juicing raw cannabis leaves every day, and within two months, Kristen’s back pain had been eliminated, and she had stopped using any other painkillers.
Meet Amber
At two years old, she was diagnosed with terminal brain tumours. Her mother was told that with treatment, Amber had a 10 percentchance of survival. After surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, the tumours were still spreading. Her parents were advised to take their child home, make her comfortable, and prepare for the inevitable. A month later, her parents reported a startling change. The tumours had decreased in size and number. The family had been juicing cannabis leaves and feeding their baby a few ounces of the juice each day.
Up in smoke
A typical first reaction is to associate marijuana consumption with its psychoactive effects. However, THC only becomes psychoactive when heated, like when traditionally smoked or cooked. When used raw, cannabis isn’t psychoactive. The marijuana’s abilities as a painkiller are generally perceived to be the result of its psychoactivity – so much so that the intensity of a plant’s psychoactive effects is often used as a gauge of its medical potency. Contrary to intuition, this isn’t true! The medical properties of marijuana are actually destroyed when heated or aged, as it becomes psychoactive. Heating converts 600mg of non-psychoactive THC acid into 10mg of psychoactive THC. Here’s where the exchange for medical effects occurs. While the 10mg retain some medicinal effects, there is only a fraction of the THC left. In simplified terms, in the raw plant, THC acid isn’t psychoactive, but acts as a very powerful medicine, up to 400 times more powerful than when smoked.
Healthful communication
Scientific American, in 2004, published an article called “The Brain’s Own Marijuana”, in which they asserted that the brain releases chemicals that are structurally and functionally similar to cannabinoids – the reactive property in marijuana. THC is the cannabinoid that people are most familiar with, but this is only one of 80. In normal synaptic nerve function, the signals are uni-directional, and the receiver forwards the signal, but never notifies the sender that the message has been received. Cannabinoids maintain communication with the original transmitter so that it is aware that the message has been received and is being worked on. For example, if a neuron sends a pain signal, normally it would just keep sending the message until the message becomes false. The cannabinoids turn every cell into a manager with increased oversight.
Marijuana cannabinoids found to help combat autism (dprogram.net)
Major Components of Cannabis (chrontrepreneur.com)
The Data is Very Strong: Marijuana Plant Extract Stops Cancers From Spreading (2012thebigpicture.wordpress.com)
Is marijuana a potential cure for cancer? (ganjavibes.wordpress.com)
Marijuana Gateway to Health: How Cannabis Protects Us from Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease (planetizen1network.wordpress.com)
Tags: Brain tumor, Cannabinoid, Cannabis, Interstitial cystitis, Juicing cannabis leaves, NaturalNews, non-psychoactive THC acid, Psychoactive drug, Tetrahydrocannabinol, THC
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Natural Cancer Cures, Natural Remedies, Nature, World View
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A note from the owner:
The home and farm has changed ownership several times since its establishment in the early 1800’s. The farm has a history of being a substantial, working farm, as the photo and ad below illustrate:
Our family’s roots intertwine with the farm beginning in 1949, when Marlin & Ethelyn Thurston purchased the farm and raised their three children there. For many years, it was a successful dairy farm, supplying milk to Hood. In the 1970s, when agricultural federal policy shifted to support large farms, our farm shut down its dairy operation. Since that time, the farm has maintained a mix of operations, including hay production, produce, maple syrup production and livestock.
To be part of a multi-generational, family owned farm is not a common experience in this century. Many of my family members still live on the farm and are raising their families there, with a true love for this place.
I have spent most of my life on the farm. As a child, the fields, stream and surrounding hills seemed vast. It was a feast for the imagination, and my siblings and I turned rocks, hay and land formations into stories and childhood play that I still carry with me. Paths were run on, hiked up, and sled down. Mud became a medium for our inner artists, water a channel for floats made of sticks. Trees were old, steady friends. The rugged beauty of the area wove itself into my person in a way I did not understand until I was away from it.
While the farm instilled a fierce love of place in our lives, it also has provided a physical setting for a deep love of family. Those fields and paths where we played as children have become the ground where our growing families work together. The chores and responsibilities involved with running a farm require consistent communication, hard work and planning. Our family, which has grown and includes four generations (from our 95 year old grandfather to his youngest 3 year old great-grandchild), continues to make the farm a priority.
Whatever the season, time feels slower at The Farmhouse and determined by the will of natural forces, not a clock. Visitors who are ready for a change in pace, adventure, solitude or to simply break bread with friends or family against a beautiful backdrop, will enjoy their stay at The Farmhouse.
- Cheryl Thurston, Founder & Owner
The Farmhouse, LLC
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One of the Property Brothers Has Turned Down The Bachelor 'Four Times,' Thank God
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drew schott
Some people call Drew Scott the “hot Property Brother.” Other people call Jonathan Scott the “hot Property Brother.” The show’s biggest fans think they’re equally hot! But a special few, myself included, belong to a category of people who find these improbable reality stars and aspiring country singers impossible to tell apart and equally insufferable. Which one’s Drew? Which one’s Jonathan? I wish I knew, if only because it would be easier to point out the one who used to be a magician.
But I digress. Drew, pictured above on either the left or the right, married a woman named Linda Phan earlier this year. Their wedding was covered extensively by People. Jonathan, pictured above opposite whichever one is Drew, became single in April after splitting from a woman named Jacinta Kuznetsov. According to Drew, ABC asked him to be on a recent season of The Bachelor, but he declined.
“Jonathan has been pitched like, I think four times now, been approached to be the Bachelor. He don’t need that... Anyway, I think right now he’s just focusing on what we’re doing, the shows, we’re launching our first kids’ book next month, which is exciting. Eventually he’ll have time and then I’ll pawn him off for a dating show or something.”
According to my friend and former coworker Kate Dries, “They literally ask everyone.” (Author note: they have not asked me.) Infuriated by Drew’s statement, Dries added, “HE’S NOT SPECIAL.”
But let’s not get too upset, Kate! At least he didn’t accept. Can you imagine the hell we would enter if the Property Brothers appears on The Bachelor? Even though only one of them would technically participate, I presume they are a package deal. Jonathan would make out with all the ladies, and Drew would just sit beside them and watch. Perhaps he’d even provide live commentary! The entire thing would be tremendously upsetting, like a network TV version of Dogtooth.
So, thank you Jonathan, whichever one you are, for saying no four times in a row. My brain would not have been able to handle the GIFs and headlines and tweets and clips and text messages about your hunt for love. But I do have a question! Did they ask you four times since breaking things off with Kuznetsov this past spring, or were they being sinister and asking while you two were still dating? If you have a response, email me at bobby@jezebel.com.
A Fan Once Chased the Property Brothers Down the Street, Screaming 'Open Concept Sucks!'
Photos of the Property Brothers Posing
The Property Brothers Released a Country Music Video and Now I Understand Their Fame Even Less
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Facebook in China likely to be connected to the rest of the world but…
by Francis Tan — in Asia
Since its inception, Facebook has been dominating one country after another until it faced a huge roadblock, which is China. It’s a bit unfortunate for the social network that the country has the world’s biggest Internet and mobile population. Yet as appealing as it sounds, doing business there is no cake walk.
AllThingsD reports that despite all the denials, numerous sources claim Facebook is preparing to launch in China, and it might be closer than we think. Perhaps the most important detail uncovered is that it will likely be connected to the greater international Facebook community, rather than the previous speculation of an independent social network.
We could say that it makes more sense that way. Facebook launching in China as an independent social network is just like setting up yet another Facebook clone, but this time it’s Facebook branded. With all the social networks offered in China, it may not be enough to sway the Chinese to make a shift.
Of course this decision does not come without controversy. It means abiding by Chinese laws that require web companies to censor any form of politically sensitive content, which contradicts Facebook’s direction of making the world a freer, more open and connected place.
It turns out that our previous report of Facebook’s claim to block specific content in certain countries is indeed linked to its plans to expand to China. According to sources cited in the report, when Facebook users outside China connect with users inside China, they will need to click through a warning that says “any material visible to Chinese users may also be visible to the Chinese government.”
The sources add:
“Facebook could use a combination of what it calls input filters and display filters, where Chinese users won’t be able to post or view content that’s objectionable to the Chinese government, but the rest of Facebook can run normally.”
Additionally, Facebook’s reported deal with Baidu, despite the denials, may be real after all as sources within and around the company claim the two companies are already in discussions.
Facebook’s proposed plan could have Facebook and Baidu share the cost of setting up servers in China, and share revenue from the local version of the site. The local partner, Baidu, would presumably manage the censoring of the site and ongoing dealings with Chinese authorities.
We have yet to witness a Western Internet company successfully operating in China, but from the looks of it, it seems like Facebook is already getting all the bases covered — it all depends on how effective the social network would be able to implement it.
Launching Facebook in China is one thing but surviving there is another story. Could Facebook’s strategy be the forefront of Western companies invading China?
Read next: Hackers claim to have card data of 2.2 million PlayStation Network users
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The radical possibility of common sense
Clear, persuasive political messages require making people see the obvious.
Matt Hartman Apr—11—2019 09:29AM EST
Good punk music is obvious. That’s the whole point: it strips away all the finery so you can’t help but see the raw heart of it. But when I got on a punk kick for the first time in a few years, much of it seemed lifeless and boring, precisely because it was so obvious. Hearing a rat-tailed dude with bad tattoos scream about the horrors of corporate control and everyday fascism doesn’t feel revolutionary anymore, it feels tired. The message is as true as ever, but who has time to get up in arms about something we’ve all known for all our lives?
Yet some punk felt as vital as ever, even though it was just as obvious. The second verse in the IDLES song “Mother,” when singer Joe Talbot’s voice cracks screaming “my mother works seventeen hours seven days a week,” or live Downtown Boys shows when singer Victoria Ruiz mixes bilingual abolitionist speeches with simple calls to arms like “a wall is just a wall” — somehow, moments like these don’t sound lifeless truisms, they sound like the common-sense analysis of a budding generational movement. The things we’ve known for all our lives turn out to be things we’ve taken for granted, and suddenly something different seems not only possible, but inevitable.
The songs that work, work because they capture a shared experience: common sense requires a commons. Hearing the same tropes over and over again is deadening. When they speak directly to your own life, though, they can be a genuine revelation about the world and your place within it. But there’s a thin line between the common sense and the smug, between the obvious and the preachy.
This dynamic is especially notable with punk because the genre is so often a direct statement of leftist political values, and the turn to common sense is central to today’s insurgent politics. After collectively spending the last 10 years pretending to be dazzled by Ezra Klein’s charts and watching the Democratic Party means-test its way into oblivion, morally righteous simplicity is key to the left’s revival. The solutions to supposedly intractable social problems are clear, to hear the left tell it. Want to solve the ills of capitalism? Just take rich people’s money. Don’t you see?
The problem is many don’t. And liberals have their own simple slogans well in line with the wonks’ fundamental worldview: Love Trumps Hate and the Resistance and We’re Better Than This America and Immigrants Are Welcome Here and We Believe In Science and the Future Is Female. The supposed obviousness is the point. All these slogans are built on top of this country’s foundational myths — about American democracy and the inevitability of justice and of meritocracy. Their appeal depends on the extent to which you find these myths compelling, because common sense is really just the everyday form of ideology.
The things that are obvious to you are the features of the narratives you use to make sense of the world — which for most people are the ruling-class ones they’ve been socialized into believing. For most men in this country, it’s obvious that there are biological differences between men and women that explain why women handle the bulk of childcare. For most of the Democratic Party, it’s just common sense that Trumpism is an abnormality that can be fixed with our tried and true norms. (And for cynical aging punks, it’s obvious like corporate life sucks — which doesn’t mean you don’t embrace it eventually.)
Marxists have long emphasized this function of common sense, leading them to declare war against it. Common sense is “based on surface appearances,” scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor wrote for Socialist Worker in 2011. It is used to “explain away or cover up material reality,” hiding the true world behind useful fictions (useful for capitalists, anyway).
The key is finding the shared experiences of the largest group, and speaking to them in the clearest terms possible.
If socialism is growing today, it’s because that old common sense is too threadbare to make an effective cover up. What was once obvious is now up for debate. To take just one recent example, it’s hard to believe in meritocracy when college-admissions scandals prove that even the traditional forms of gaming the system aren’t good enough for rich people anymore. The stories about hard work paying off stop sounding believable. The reality of class hierarchy is ever more visible.
But this kind of analysis quickly drifts into the arrogant condescension that has long plagued much of the left, limiting its spread to those already predisposed to support it. Taylor quotes Frederick Engels’s notion of “false consciousness” in her dismissal of common sense — something that has too often implied that the Marxists know more about people’s own lives than the people themselves. Add the fact that today’s socialists are emphasizing how simple and obvious their insights are and you have all the elements of a viewpoint that can sound as cold and lifeless as bad punk and self-help books.
And yet the predominant common sense is a bunch of horseshit. There are mostly unacknowledged material conditions constraining our lives. While socialist insights — about corporate control and rising fascism and more — do seem kind of obvious, in many cases this appeal to obviousness is working.
This is the aesthetic side of politics: the struggle to get people to see what you see, even when — especially when — it’s blindingly obvious. And doing so without being a boring, condescending prick about it. After all, the target in 2019 is not just convincing people of the horrors of capitalism. It’s also stopping anti-capitalism from becoming another truism capitalism uses to sell more shit.
If Marxists are right, then artists and politicians and organizers have to make visible what philosopher and critic Stanley Cavell calls “the ordinary.” The problem is that the ordinary consists of “the missable, the unobserved, what we could call the uncounted, taken not as given but for granted.”
The trick is doing that well. But just as there’s no handbook for making good art, there’s nothing to guarantee that an appeal to the obvious will come off. “It is essential to making an aesthetic judgment,” Cavell says, “that at some point we be prepared to say in its support: don't you see, don't you hear, don't you dig?” Doing so necessarily risks falling flat. But that merely emphasizes the imperative of understanding what defines a person’s daily experience, of knowing what to emphasize to bring the ordinary clearly into view. “The best critic will know the best points," Cavell says. So how do we become those critics?
The key is finding the shared experiences of the largest group, and speaking to them in the clearest terms possible. “Time and again,” historian Max Elbaum wrote in Revolution in the Air, his classic history of the New Communist Movement, “tiny bands of militants who articulated demands that spoke to the aspirations of the dispossessed were able to move mountains.” That’s why slogans like the British Labour Party’s “For the Many, Not the Few” have encapsulated the most successful movements of recent years.
Especially after a global economic collapse whose full weight was felt only by the poor, and particularly in a country like England where ornate class rituals (say, former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron being fellated by a dead pig) still govern daily life, basic, unadulterated class war offers a better explanation of why the world looks the way it does than any of the familiar tales about hard work or entrepreneurialism. The Labour Party is giving voice to the long felt but seldom spoken feelings of the country. Condensing that outlook into a simple, clear statement of intent creates the commons that can give life to a new common sense — so long as it’s backed up with actual, meaningful actions and policies to make it believable.
Consider Black Lives Matter, a slogan (and movement) that has indelibly changed the United States. In just three words, it both targets and denies the basic racist logic that has governed this country for its entire history, a logic that is mapped onto people’s everyday lives in segregated neighborhoods and segregated jobs and segregated schools. Spoken alongside images and stories of the familiar, daily oppressions — and resistance — that have been a feature of black life on this continent since the first slave ship landed, Black Lives Matter reorders the way people see the world. Not by offering new information, but changing the way that information is connected, by making what has always been true obvious and urgent in a new way.
This kind of recognition in especially pressing in the era of alternative facts. The context for any music, any art, any speech, any experience at all in 2019 is an the ever-expanding web of content. That’s why every Black Lives Matter supporter in this country has probably had to explain that the slogan doesn’t mean only black lives matter. That’s why newspapers don’t just report; they report on their reporting to prove their trustworthiness. That’s why Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar saying an obvious thing about AIPAC’s influence ends up with Christian Meghan McCain calling Jewish cartoonist Eli Valley anti-semitic.
There is a constant whirlwind about what happened and what really happened and what it all means, so much so that it becomes ever more difficult to get a grip on any of it at all. It’s no wonder the tattered remnants of familiar bromides about Who We Are provide the most comfort for many: screaming from the midst of the mayhem that your take is not just the one true take, but that it’s obviously the one true take is always liable to turn the left into a closed-off subculture.
But the risk must be run, because, maybe ironically, all that noise makes the appeal to common sense particularly necessary, too. Only by rooting down into the ordinary facets of life, showing how left-wing ideas are obvious if only you look, can the left be truly heard. Corbyn and Black Lives Matter and Omar and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders are already proving it works. Measured against the actual reality of the lives of working people, the familiar talking points are revealed as the bankrupt, mealy mouthed fictions they’ve always been.
It’s only in the process of struggling together with others, of building those connections in our daily lives, that the left will know how to make the obvious obvious. Not just because it will help us convince others of our program, but because it will ensure that our common sense doesn’t become its own disconnected fiction — something that has plagued far too many socialist sects. The only way to know what ordinary lives are like is to share in them. Find what you have in common, and it will all make sense.
Matt Hartman is a writer from Durham, North Carolina.
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Spider-Man: Homecoming Review
2017 7 Jul 2017
Several months after the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City while fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.Wikipedia
Spider-Man: Homecoming Reviews
It’s light and breezy and so much fun.
Rohan Naahar
Tom Holland brings an innocence to Peter Parker we’ve never seen before. Robert Downey Jr meanwhile, can play Tony Stark in his sleep.
Sreehari Nair
Homecoming fuses the kinky-swiftness of the original superhero movies with the silly concerns of a 2017's teenager...
Renuka Vyavahare
Spider-Man: Homecoming breathes new life into the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) as well as the friendly neighbourhood superhero that was forever torn between love and responsibility.
Rucha Sharma
DNA India
Marvel fans will have to watch this because clues for next movies in the line-up are there. Casual moviegoers, it's a coming-of-age teen story with a superhero twist. Worth your time and money.
Ahana Bhattacharya
Spider-Man: Homecoming is a nice movie with a good script. It might not impress a diehard Spider-Man fan but makes for an enjoyable watch.
Samrudhi Gosh
If you're looking for your usual superhero origin story, Spider-Man: Homecoming is not the film for you. But if you don't mind a refreshingly funny reboot that wanders into the high school comedy zone, director Jon Watts delivers a film worth your while.
...there's never been a Spider-Man movie quite as good as this one. Tobey Maguire's first film comes close. But then Jon Watts' homecoming serves up a seriously impressive final scene between Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Pepper Potts and Jon Favreau’s Happy (Stark's Man Friday). Its action looks way more authentic and intense than any Spidey movie before. The humour and quick witted dialogue of the film are phenomenal. It’s a great build up movie to Avengers: Infinity War. And then there's the case of Marisa Tomei. Some things in life just make you go ‘bellissima!’
With great power come great possibilities. From the audience's perspective, this feels more like going back to old school. Which is genuinely heartening to know. That is, before the blast-fest begins, I'm sure!
Mihir Fadnavis
There really is no reason you shouldn’t be seeing this film at the earliest. Oh and stay for the end credits scene – I assure you, it’s going to be worth the wait.
Bollywood Life
The question is, Can Marvel ever go wrong? Well the answer is NO, I don’t think so. They know the tips and tricks of how to play to the gallery and successfully churn out an entertaining blockbuster. What’s commendable here is they have done it with a superhero who is already a hit with the fans and have been played twice before in last 15 years. Watch the film for its non-stop entertainment and humour, for Tom Holland and Michael Keaton, for MCU finally getting a good villain after Loki and…well it’s MCU, you are gonna watch it, anyway. This is the Spider-Man we were waiting for all these years.
Sify
With excellent production values, the film is a visual treat that will appeal to all.
Shyama Krishna Kumar
Spider-Man: Homecoming stands to go down in history as the movie that did right by one of the most iconic characters to ever have been created, super-hero fatigue be damned.
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Audience Reviews for Spider-Man: Homecoming
Tejas Nair
Spider-Man: Homecoming is an enjoyable flick to watch with enough humor (sometimes with a wrong timing), good context in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), and some great visuals, save for the commonplace storyline that was last seen in all Spider-Man movies and comics. TN.
Ajay lawyer
dnt have more action scenes ,villan scenes are waste
July 24, 17
Prashast Singh
He's back and with lots of fun & entertainment, action packed!
Movie: Spider-Man Homecoming (UA)
I know you won't believe me, but I seriously don't watch Hollywood films. The only Hollywood films I've seen include STRAW DOGS (2011) and first three films of the SPIDER-MAN series. Spider-Man has been my childhood favourite since long. I always wanted to catch one of films on thrilling night screen. And I got this opportunity a few weeks ago. I never imagined it could see it in 3D. This was my first experience and I seriously loved it! Plus, Tiger Shroff's Hindi dubbing for Spidey too added to the fun.
Synopsis wise, it might look like a simple Spidey flick but don't think that it's an ordinary one. The story and screenplay are both watertight and fully engaging. It doesn't have any such flaws you can dig out easily. Besides, who would like to find flaws when our superhero wants to entertain us?
Entertainment is present fully throughout the film. Those who've loved Spider-Man, should never afford to miss this film. Technically, this film is a masterpiece and there are no noticeable glitches at all. This film intends to entertain as well as deliver a good social message. What's that? Watch it soon to find out.
The action scenes of the film are a major plus and look even better in 3D. The background score of the film is excellent and elevates the viewing experience. The editing is perfect as there are no unnecessary or boring sequences. Each and every scene is a masterpiece. This is seriously the best Spidey film I've seen till date.
Tom Holland as Spider-Man is very impressive and is even better than the previous actors who portrayed Spider-Man. It never actually mattered to me who actually played the character because the character Spider-Man is more important to us than Peter Parker (usually). Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, the Iron Man is excellent. Other actors too are excellent.
The film also has a good dose of humour, largely natural, and keeps us entertained. I was surprised to see how the director has also made the film suit to Indian audiences in an amazing way. The Hindi dubbing excellent. Kids and families can watch this film definitely.
Having said that, SPIDER-MAN HOMECOMING is a must see for any Spider-Man fan and also for those who want visually engaging, endless action-packed entertainment. And for the best experience, watch it in 3D, as it looks even better in that format. Highly recommended!
Rhiki Ranjan Neupane
Decent .
Good : acting performances , visual effects , breezy feel .
Weakness : predictability , average script .
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'Shahs of Sunset' Renewed for Season Five by Bravo
Steve Baron June 15, 2015
BRAVO MEDIA SCORES BEST MONDAY AMONG ALL KEY DEMOS AS FRESHMAN SCRIPTED COMEDY “ODD MOM OUT” DRAWS OVER 1.2 MILLION TOTAL VIEWERS
Network Renews “Shahs of Sunset” For Season Five
NEW YORK – June 15, 2015 – Bravo Media garnered its best Monday in prime in over a year (since February 2014) among all key demos driven by the premiere of the network’s second original scripted series “Odd Mom Out,” along with the “Shahs of Sunset” reunion and season ten premiere of “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” according to Nielsen Live+3 data (6/8/15). The night averaged over 1.6 million total viewers and 964,000 P18-49 in the 8-11PM prime timeslot.
On the heels of the ratings success, the network has ordered a fifth season of “Shahs of Sunset.” Part one of the jaw-dropping reunion delivered 1.6 million total viewers and 926,000 P18-49. Directly following, the season ten opener for “The Real Housewives of Orange County” garnered over 2.6 million total viewers and nearly 1.6 million P18-49. Compared to the season nine premiere (4/14/14), the landmark premiere was up in all key demos, experiencing double-digit growth among both total viewers and P25-54, up 15 percent and 10 percent in each respective demo.
The premiere of scripted comedy series “Odd Mom Out” delivered an impressive debut with over 1.2 million total viewers and 705,000 P18-49. The series stars acclaimed author Jill Kargman playing a version of herself as she navigates the treacherous and elite ecosystem of New York’s Upper East Side, and the uber-wealthy mommy clique inhabiting this fantastically outrageous domain.
Tune in tonight for all new episodes:
In part two of the “Shahs of Sunset” reunion airing at 8pm ET/PT, Reza returns to set after a heated departure and Andy quizzes MJ on her love life and the loss of her beloved dog, Pablo. GG updates everyone on her relationship with Danny and whether she’ll ever settle down, and Bobby joins a tearful Asifa on the couch. When Andy reveals shocking news about Mike’s new wife Jessica, the group erupts in confusion and anger. For a first look at reunion part two: http://www.bravotv.com/shahs-of-sunset/season-4/episode-416/videos?clip=2871956
On “The Real Housewives of Orange County” airing at 9pm ET/PT, Shannon and David are pushed to new limits as they finish up the last day of their couples retreat. Back in the OC, Vicki throws a Fiesta party where a piñata isn’t the only thing that’s bashed. Catch a sneak peek: http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county/season-10/episode-1002/videos?clip=2872077
On “Odd Mom Out” at 10pm ET/PT, Jill starts stressing over interviews with kindergartens for her twins after she realizes she is the only mom who hasn’t heard from any schools yet. Andy tells Jill his mother wants the whole family to attend an interview for a prestigious, invite-only cemetery with a waiting list a mile long. Jill doesn’t make the best first impression and must go to great lengths to secure the family’s final resting place. For a sneak peek of tonight’s episode: http://www.bravotv.com/odd-mom-out/season-1/episode-103/videos?clip=2871535
On “Watch What Happens Live” at 10:30pm ET/PT, Vicki Gunvalson of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” and Jenny McCarthy, host of “Dirty Sexy Funny” on SiriusXM stop by the clubhouse with host Andy Cohen. For more information visit: http://www.bravotv.com/watch-what-happens-live
“Shahs of Sunset” is produced by Ryan Seacrest Productions with Ryan Seacrest, Kris Curry, Eric Gardner and Megan Estrada serving as Executive Producers, along with Brandon Panaligan and Susan Gibson serving as Co-Executive producers.
“The Real Housewives of Orange County” is produced by Evolution Media for Bravo, with Douglas Ross, Greg Stewart, Alex Baskin, Bill Langworthy and Bill Fritz, along with Scott Dunlop, serving as Executive Producers. Andy Cohen also serves as Executive Producer.
“Odd Mom Out” is a production of Left/Right Productions, Piro Vision and Jax Media with Ken Druckerman, Banks Tarver, Jill Kargman, Tim Piper, Daniel Rosenberg, Tony Hernandez, Julie Rottenberg & Elisa Zuritsky (“Smash,” “Sex and the City”) serving as Executive Producers.
“Watch What Happens Live” is produced by Embassy Row for Bravo. Michael Davies, Deirdre Connolly and Andy Cohen serve as Executive Producers.
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One Day She’ll Darken: TNT Orders Drama Series Starring Chris Pine
by Trevor Kimball, July 27, 2017
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TNT has given a straight-to-series order for the One Day She’ll Darken TV show. Chris Pine (Wonder Woman, Star Trek) will star in the six episode series and Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman, Monster) will direct. Production begins this fall. It’s unclear if this is being considered a mini-series or, if a second season is possible.
Heres the press release:
TNT Greenlights Straight-to-Series Drama One Day She’ll Darken
Patty Jenkins to Direct, Chris Pine to Star and Author Sam Sheridan to Write Six-Episode Drama Inspired by the Autobiography of Fauna Hodel
Jenkins, Pine and Sheridan to Executive-Produce with Michael Sugar
Turner’s TNT has greenlit straight to series the new drama One Day She’ll Darken. Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman, Monster) is attached to direct the pilot and potentially additional episodes, and Chris Pine (Wonder Woman, Hell or High Water) is attached to star in all six. Sam Sheridan, author of A Fighter’s Heart and The Disaster Diaries, is set to write the six-episode series, inspired by the autobiography of Fauna Hodel. The series is being produced by Turner’s Studio T, with Jenkins, Michael Sugar (Spotlight, 13 Reasons Why), Sheridan and Pine serving as executive producers and will shoot this fall.
One Day She’ll Darken tells the incredible story of Fauna Hodel who was given away by her teenage birth mother to a black restroom attendant in a Nevada casino in 1949. As Fauna begins to investigate the secrets to her past, she follows a sinister trail that swirls ever closer to an infamous Hollywood gynecologist, Dr. George Hodel, a man involved in the darkest Hollywood debauchery, the spider in the web around the legendary “Black Dahlia” murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles in 1947.
Chris Pine will play Jay Singletary, a former Marine-turned-hack reporter/paparazzo. Jay was disgraced over his story about Hodel years ago, but now he sees a glimmer of redemption. This may be the opportunity Jay’s been hopelessly waiting for, but inside this riddle lies a moral quandary he never expected: a labyrinth into the evil in men’s hearts that will shake the unsteady Jay to his foundations. This project reunites Chris with his Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins, coming off of the record-breaking, box office sensation. Chris will next be seen in Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time and will soon begin production on Outlaw King.
“Patty Jenkins is a phenomenally talented director who has always delivered powerful characters, from the unforgettable true-life serial killer in Monster to the game-changing superhero warrior in Wonder Woman,” said Sarah Aubrey, executive vice president of original programming for TNT. “One Day She’ll Darken is a mind-boggling true mystery with unpredictable twists and turns and edge-of-your-seat chills. Sam Sheridan, an expert storyteller, has delivered scripts that entertain, frighten and tell tales of redemption and a powerful search for identity. Chris Pine has wowed us with so many of his performances, and knowing how multi-dimensional his character is in One Day She’ll Darken, we are so lucky to have an actor as talented as he is to lead this cast.”
TNT is basic cable’s #1 network in primetime with young adults and is home to one of cable’s most popular slates of original series, including Animal Kingdom, Claws, Good Behavior, Will, The Last Ship, Major Crimes, The Librarians and the upcoming The Alienist and more. TNT’s premium non-fiction series include the upcoming Michael Moore Live from the Apocalypse and Who Run the W orld?, from Refinery29 and executive producers Sarah Jessica Parker & Morgan Spurlock. TNT also presents popular shows like Arrow, Supernatural, Bones and Castle; primetime specials, such as the Screen Actors Guild Awards® and the iHeartRadio Music Awards; and championship sports coverage, including the NBA and the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship.
Turner, a Time Warner company, is a global entertainment, sports and news company that creates premium content and delivers exceptional experiences to fans whenever and wherever they consume content. These efforts are fueled by data-driven insights and industry-leading technology. Turner owns and operates some of the most valuable brands in the world, including Adult Swim, Bleacher Report, Boomerang, Cartoon Network, CNN, ELEAGUE, FilmStruck, Great Big Story, HLN, iStreamPlanet, Super Deluxe, TBS, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), TNT, truTV and Turner Sports.
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On the project's side - Interview of the CO-CITY project
Co-City - The collaborative management of urban commons to counteract poverty and socio-spatial polarisation
City :Turin
Topic :Urban poverty
Population :892,000
ERDF :EUR 4,125,891.44
Duration :01/03/2017 - 29/02/2020
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The UIA Secretariat organised a series of interviews with the projects selected under the topic "Urban Poverty". What is the most innovative elements of their project towards the fight against urban poverty? What are the main changes they are expecting? What are the main challenges they are confronted with? Check the answers from the CO-CITY project in Turin.
Interview with Marco Giusta, Deputy Mayor of the city of Turin
Why did your city decide to apply under Urban Innovative Actions?
The City of Turin has a strong tradition in terms of innovative urban policies. This profile was considerably reinforced over the last decades and the experience made by Turin is a source of inspiration for other Italian cities: that contributed to place Turin on the map of cities which are developing innovative public policies, with a particular attention to the involvement of residents and stakeholders.
Turin decided to apply to Urban Innovative Action at the beginning of 2016 aiming at further fostering its profile of powerful testing ground for innovation, especially in a field such as urban commons, where other cities were already implementing important strategies and actions, such as the Pacts of Collaboration. The project was strongly backed and promoted from the beginning by the new city government, a considerable sign of continuity. We decided to reinforce the political support to CO-CITY because we strongly believe, as city government, in its objectives and participatory approach
What do you consider to be the most innovative element of your project towards the fight against urban poverty?
Turin is the first city among more than 100 Italian cities adopting the Regulation on the shared management of Urban Commons, with a clear focus on the creation of concrete opportunities to contrast poverty in suburbs. This means a considerable role of the local authority in encouraging citizens’ participation in different areas of the city, with the aim of fostering the commitment of associations and groups of residents in taking care of unused or underused buildings or green areas in a general framework of sharing responsibility and mutual trust. Through the Regulation, a group of active citizens can agree upon a Pact of Collaboration with the City, defining an activity programme to be carried out on a specific building or area (previously selected by the City), respective powers and responsibilities, budget and timing schedule. Looking at the current debate on urban commons in other EU Member States, the Regulation appears as something unique and unprecedented, with a great potential for innovative urban development if wisely applied, as we are trying to do in Turin.
What do the commons mean for your city?
Commons are an extraordinary opportunity of growth and participation for Turin. In a city which experienced in the last decades a huge process of urban regeneration mostly focused on the city centre, abandoned or underused buildings, often connected to the industrial heritage, can be crucial for regenerating suburbs and areas of the city affected by social problems, such as high unemployment rates and lack of services.
The great energy of the social fabric in Turin, testified by the central role played by the Neighborhood Houses (Case del Quartiere) as hotspots for citizens' participation in different areas of the city, represents a basis to a further involvement of citizens around abandoned buildings or parks which are part of the city identity and a powerful resource for economic, social and environmental sustainability.
What are the main changes that you expect to achieve in your municipality with this project?
Co-City aims at creating a new paradigm of collaboration between residents and local authority through community projects acting as sustainable solutions against social and economic exclusion.
The actions fostered by the project will hopefully restore the trust between citizens and local government, a crucial element in the current political debate in Europe, through concrete and visible actions, able to give a new boost to urban welfare and acting potentially as a model to other Italian and European cities.
Urban commons will be used to host new social enterprises and projects aimed at creating new paths of autonomy and inclusion for citizens in need. A decisive support to this action will be given by the use of projects’ financial resources to make buildings and public spaces available and equipped for pilot projects but also by the support of the University of Turin, which will develop a toolkit combining law research and ICT platform development and innovation (such as First Life). The combination between activities on the ground and academic support will make Co-City a topic of discussion in different environments of the city, with a collaborative effort towards a better quality of life and a reinforced community spirit in Turin.
After six months of implementation, can you tell us where you are with the project and what are the main challenges you expect to be confronted to?
The launch event of Co-City on 31 March raised the attention among NGOs, associations and group of residents, which approached the Neighborhood Houses to receive a support in the implementation of project ideas of reuse of commons to be submitted. The main challenge in this phase is to invite more people and associations to apply for Pacts of Collaboration and to provide a good quality assistance to all of them, in order to co-design projects which may be concretely implemented in the next months. This will contribute to make the project even more visible to the residents, starting a virtuous circle which we hope will be the main heritage of the project in Turin, together with the regeneration of commons and green areas.
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At the heart of Europe, between the Southern Alps and the Mediterranean, prepare to be amazed by the Côte d'Azur, or French Riviera. Embark on a sea excursion to the Lérins Islands, or visit the pebble beach resorts of Mandelieu-la-Napoule in Menton. The Mercantour National Park, together with the 13 other natural parks in the Côte d'Azur "department", make up a vast playground for hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking, canyoning, climbing, and caving. This region also houses 15 ski resorts with over 700km of slopes.
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The itinerary "The Painter's Côte d'Azur" examines how this region was seen by the great artists (Monet, Renoir, Picasso, Chagall, Matisse, Dufy, and so on). From Antibes to the National Picasso Museum "War and Peace", by way of the Maeght Foundation, be won over by the painter’s passion for the Côte d'Azur.
The Greek Villa of Kerylos, the Cimiez Arenas, the Tropaeum Alpium are ample evidence of strong ties linking the Côte d'Azur to Antiquity, whether through legacy or direct imitation. The Villa Ephrussi Rothschild, the Chapelle Notre-Dame des Fontaines or the Notre-Dame Sanctuary of Laghet show just how much Italy has influenced the architecture of the Côte d'Azur, not forgetting the Russian Church and the Chagall Museum in Nice, or the new Jean Cocteau Museum (Severin Wunderman collection) in Menton.
Cannes, Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat, and Nice have long been the favoured pleasure grounds of International Aristocracy, which has left an indelible stamp on these towns. It’s the apotheosis of elegance and luxury from the Promenade des Anglais to La Croisette and from yachts to palaces.
The hinterland is teeming with sites of great renown: Grasse and its perfume shops, St. Paul of Vence, and the Napoleon Route which links Golfe-Juan to Gronable over 300km.
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The colourful market stalls overflow with sunkissed locally-sourced produce alongside gourmet specialities (honey, candied fruits) and craft products (especially fragrances derived from flowers, but also Vallauris pottery, or glass artworks from Biot).
The Mimosa Festival, The Lemon Festival in Menton, the Nice Carnival, all these summer pyrotechnics lend a festive colour to your stay on the Riviera. The Cannes International Film Festival opens the season with a series of prestigious cultural and artistic events, followed by the Nice Jazz Festival andJazz in Juan.
For children, there is Marineland and the Phoenix Floral Park which made ideal desinations for family outings.
The French Riviera enjoys exceptionally sunny weather with a great many treasures on offer: an outstanding cultural heritage, sublime landscapes that served to inspire the greatest artists, munificent and well preserved countryside, tranquil hilltop villages, sun-soaked Mediterranean cuisine, a generous lifestyle, and many important international events.
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Urban Lessons from Naples, Potenza and Matera
August 24, 2017 Timo H. 5 Comments
This summer’s visit to southern Italy for a project meeting was a great opportunity to include a few extra days for absorbing local urban experiences. Italy is one of the most-studied scenes in the world among urbanists. Not to mention architecture lovers.
Like so many after their travels to Italy, I also felt compelled to share my experiences and continue my article series on ideas worth stealing (or not) from other cities around the globe. (See the previous ones on Tokyo & Hong Kong here and Istanbul here).
The cities I now had the chance to visit are a curious trio. Naples is perhaps best known for pizza and the Camorra mafia. Potenza for, well, not really anything. Or possibly for some as a place to bypass on the way to Matera and its UNESCO-protected cave city.
Here are the top 5 takeaways I gathered flaneuring in them.
1. The Via Caracciolo Liberation
Urban waterfronts can tell a lot about the aspirations of a city. In the past, waterfronts were often devoted to industrial and other unpleasant uses. Now cities are working towards making these places more people-friendly.
Naples has also joined the movement with a goal of reconquering their picture-postcard waterfront, along Via Caracciolo, from the congested, many-laned arterial road it had turned into during the 20th century.
The old pavement markings show it wasn’t always calm and quiet at the waterfront.
The action began in 2012. Naples saw their hosting of the America’s Cup World Series as an opportunity to advance their Lungomare Liberato (liberate the waterfront) initiative. Car access was blocked from a 3km-long section of Via Caracciolo to make room for activities related to the event.
This temporary intervention has over the years become more or less permanent, resulting in a real waterfront promenade for strolling along the sea, hosting various events and enjoying other recreational activities. The restaurants at the Castel dell’Ovo end of the Lungomare have also managed to increase their outdoor seating areas considerably after the cars have vanished.
The stretch of the liberated Lungomare that’s sided by buildings is full of restaurants.
The liberation project is in many ways a landmark initiative for immediate quality of life improvement in a congested city. But how things are today offers an extra lesson: adding people-space successfully doesn’t end with blocking access from cars.
It’s now five years on from the original liberation. But the place still looks as if the traffic disappeared yesterday. I was there just on one day, admittedly, but it looks like the Neapolitans’ honeymoon with the newly opened space is over. There’s not much going on at the Lungomare.
Beyond the restaurants, there’s not much happening at the liberated space. Nor did it look like much had happened recently. Interestingly only a couple of the few pedestrians I saw walked in the middle of the road. The same happened with Helsinki’s unsuccessful Vaasankatu pedestrianization experiment, troubled by a lack of everything.
This is a reminder about the importance of coupling public space transformations with investments or policies to support the emergence of new activities at the site. Peace and quiet on an empty road is not enough to keep people returning in the long run. I’m not sure if there are active plans for a phase two with the Lungomare liberation project, but it desperately needs new interventions from someone.
2. Escalator Transit Lines FTW. Or Not.
The city of Potenza has an interesting design: It consists of a rather small historic “uptown” on top of a steep hill and a more modern “low town” that spreads around it. The uptown is the center of public life whereas the lower parts are more like suburbs.
In Potenza, it’s not difficult to add everyday exercise into your routines.
Potenza’s history is thus one of many stairways. Cars have made climbing up and down less of a necessity, but there’s only so many of them you can squeeze into the narrow uptown streets. Buses don’t really fit at all.
So Potenza has come up with an unconventional idea for providing public transportation: installing giant escalators. After the opening of Santa Lucia, a 600-meters long, U-shaped stretch of moving stairs, the city has bragged about operating the world’s second-longest escalator system (1.3km in total). Altogether there are four such escalator “transit lines”, all equipped with ticket sales booths and grandiose entrances like if you were at a subway station.
Like at any big transit line, the Santa Lucia escalator has a park & ride facility at the bottom of its U shape. The small huts at the bottom of the connecting promenade apparently belong to a Christmas market. This photo is from June.
You can’t blame the city’s leadership for being unimaginative. The solution does at first seem exciting. But its performance is another matter.
Riding the escalator system is not for those into speedy travel. And more importantly, using the escalators is obviously not like being seated in a bus. You need to stand, which makes having anything with you an extra burden. What’s more, you never take an unbroken ride up or down, but must walk between many shorter escalators. For example, the Santa Lucia is broken up into 26 separate ramps and there’s a 120-meter platform to cross at the bottom.
Using any of the city’s escalator lines requires some walking between different ramps. Although none as intensely as with Santa Lucia. In the photo you can see one of the main problems with the system: the next ramp down is closed.
On top of this, maintenance has been neglected and you may need to use muscle power to tackle some sections. Even though you paid for a ticket to avoid that. As you might already guess, it doesn’t seem as many people use the escalators as has been envisioned. I saw only a handful of people using the escalators any time I was on them. Which is very little considering the capacity of just Santa Lucia is 9,000 riders per hour.
Potenza’s escalators show that coming up with whimsical public transportation alternatives is rarely a great idea.
3. Complexity and Modernism Don’t Match
Because I was visiting Potenza anyways for my project, I had to include an excursion to nearby Matera in my trip. Matera’s main sight is its amazing ancient cave city, the Sassi, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The dwellings in the Sassi – partially carved into steep rocky hills, partially built like regular stone houses – are stacked along narrow alleys and on top of each other. The result is unreal.
The Sassi di Matera is an experience to remember.
Besides its unique surroundings to explore, the city’s history also offers a classroom example of the damaging effect modernist planning ideas can have on organically grown communities. In a way, the Sassi has been a victim of a slum-clearance process in the mid parts of the 20th century.
Long story short, the so-called slum clearing happened following the city’s gradual expansion much beyond the district with cave dwellings. Over time, many residents with the means began to move to the more recent parts of town that offered running water and other amenities. But the poorest of the poor stayed to inhabit the Sassi and its archaic living conditions. During the rise of high modernism right after WWII, these poor peasants were taken as a national eyesore. The lifestyle of the cave city, untouched by the advancements of society at large, was the antithesis of the modernist project.
A reconstruction of a cave kitchen. The cave dwellings didn’t have electricity, running water, ventilation or natural light. And many shared their cave with domestic animals. Families were large. Much of the daily life in the Sassi happened in public because staying indoors wasn’t very enjoyable until recently.
A team of architects and other experts were called in to save the day. Their solution was to depopulate the Sassi and relocate the community to a carefully and holistically designed out-of-town neighborhood that would offer similar urban surroundings the people of the Sassi were familiar with. (Later development came as regular modernist housing towers).
It didn’t work out. The people of the Sassi couldn’t continue their original livelihoods and the design of the new area(s) didn’t support the social interaction they were used to. The community eventually dissolved and people went on their ways to start over a new life. Some emigrated to America.
The grand plan for improving the lives of the impoverished Sassi community was to build a disconnected new town(s) for them. Ludovico Quaroni led a team of architects and other planners to design the village of La Martella as the first vehicle to do so. It was completed in 1954. Image credit: Doyoucity.
The authorities and architects destroyed the social fabric of the cave city with their depopulation schemes and top-down visions very efficiently. But unlike with other slum-clearing schemes, the fine-grained and small-scaled physical fabric of the cave city was luckily left untouched.
Today the cave district is experiencing a new golden age. Creatives and later the tourist industry have slowly repopulated the area and transformed it into a highly valued place. Now it’s driving the economy of Matera. It’s kind of ironic.
The Sassi may be structure-wise one of a kind, but its story in many ways isn’t. Jane Jacobs in New York and her peer across the world fought against similar plans to tidy up the most complex neighborhoods in our cities.
Today Matera is preparing to be the 2019 European Capital of Culture. The Sassi is slowly being repopulated and already acts as a tourist hub and source of creativity.
The understanding they helped to spread is that we are much better off with dense cities that mix uses, have small blocks, and a diverse mix of buildings – both in terms of age and form. Despite the criticism, the order-embracing, top-down, modernist planning approach has become deeply rooted into our institutions.
Despite its harsh history, the Sassi is living proof of how fine-grained urban forms can last societal changes and adapt to new times. Their biggest threat comes from “improvements” that are not made together with the local community when (re-)developing them.
4. Bless the Mess
The world’s pizza capital Naples gets often commented as a gritty, chaotic and rough city that may feel unwelcoming to visitors. But I’m with those who invented the saying “Rome is the heart of Italy, but Naples is its soul.”
A brief snapshot of that Naples feeling.
It’s true that Naples has an atmosphere rarely experienced in Europe. The streets are bustling with people from all walks of life and traffic is loud and unpredictable. Many buildings are run-down, some of them close to literally falling apart. There’s litter on the streets and graffiti on the walls. Grass and trees grow on roofs. Street furniture is haphazard and neglected.
The pretty and the crumbled often stand side by side in Naples at various scales. The cracks in the city offer endless opportunities for reinvention and micro-planning for incremental change from the bottom up.
The city may not be shiny and neat, but there’s so much more to it. It obtains traces of qualities often sought in today’s development strategies: communality, social inclusion, a wealth of creative activity and a locally rooted economy.
The streets in Naples are lined with local services. There’s a mix of everything old and new: bars, Michelin-praised pizzerias, car repair shops, meat shops, designer shops, and whatnot.
Naples is much about everything very local. Especially in the downtown areas.
Street markets selling everything imaginable flood narrow alleys. Some of the street vending is very informal and run by migrants with nothing but a piece of cloth on the street or a DIY street food cart. People selling cigarettes (singles or packs) out of boxes stand here and there between market stalls. Some shopping streets blur the boundaries between street market and main street with shops expanding their shelves deep into to the street.
It seems there often is no real boundary between the private and the public on the streets of Naples.
You won’t find just apartments along residential streets, but you’ll often feel like you’re trespassing in someone’s front or backyard. Many apartments open directly to the street and people dry their laundry on the streets. Suddenly a bucket may be lowered from the upper floors to pull up something to one of the upper-floor homes. Occasionally there are small street cafes where adults socialize while watching kids play soccer in the middle of the street.
Indeed, with all its “messiness”, Naples has managed to maintain many aspects of the self-organized, organic, urbanism that we’ve so often lost. The city is like a giant placemaking effort: incrementally built, maintained and continuously re-envisioned from the bottom up through the transactions and activities of a variety of local actors.
Almost a century ago, philosopher Walter Benjamin defined Naples as a “porous city”, referring to the great qualities of the city’s messy urbanism that are still present today. There’s always room for change: the physical and organizational structures are constantly at the intersection between the formal/informal, building/action, order/disorder, static/unfixed – leaving things open for renegotiation and improvisation based on the daily transactions between local actors.
Thanks to any number of reasons, administrative control in Naples has long been relatively minimal. Especially compared to Finland where the management of every tiny detail from the top-down is mainstream policy.
Everyday life in Naples underlines how people-driven cities have great potential to evolve into original, and physically, socially, and economically diverse places that possess built-in resilience and, with their open nature, offer a platform for upwards-directed social mobility.
The “porous” nature of Naples leaves pathways for marginalized groups to participate in society, the cornerstone of upwards-directed social mobility. Could this same thought translate to the scale of cities or neighborhoods which are, under the powers of globalization, increasingly suffering from processes of gentrification/inequality?
Therefore, the city offers an intriguing perspective to review the contemporary ambitions in a growing number of cities to empower the grassroots to participate in the development of their neighborhoods.
Places like Naples can give important lessons on where we need more policy to boost local ownership and where we are better off with less. Tolerating more of the unplanned and uncontrolled may be an important future pathway to achieving resilient cities.
5. The Recipe for Great Piazzas
Italian cities are well-known for their vibrant and beautiful piazzas. It’s indeed a fascinating show to see people of all ages come out to socialize at the local square as if they owned the place. And people will happily hang out close to midnight on a weekday.
In Naples, I took Piazza Bellini as my relaxation spot after long days of exploring. It turned out be a wonderful source of inspiration for creating public spaces in other cities. Not because it has jaw-dropping architecture or can host mighty parades. But because it doesn’t and can’t.
One side of Piazza Bellini is for those into proper seating and cocktails.
Piazza Bellini is no larger than roughly a third of a soccer field. No landmark buildings sit by it. The only things to “see” are a small monument in the center and a dug-out stretch of ancient city walls. But it’s amazingly lively.
One side of the square has restaurants and cafes with abundant and atmospheric outdoor seating. It seems to attract a fashionable crowd. The opposite side of the piazza is home to less fancy, kiosk-like, shops that serve fast food and drinks. They also have some tables and chairs available, but takeout seems to be a bigger business. People wander with their drinks and snacks to the middle of the piazza to enjoy them under leafy trees either sitting on the monument’s steps or leaning on small fences.
The middle parts of the piazza are for a very mixed crowd and people use whatever they can to lounge around on.
While the Italians’ long-standing culture of embracing public life is certainly a factor, the liveliness is heavily backed up by a set of design principles that can be applied anywhere.
It’s a good idea to have different types of zones that attract different types of groups.
The square should have activities on its edges.
People will linger when there are different types of spaces and street furniture that make it easy to do so.
Size matters: a small square is always better than a big one. Also, the different zones and spaces within it work best when they are close to one another, even overlapping.
Piazza Bellini is not very large but packed with life. The open space in the upper right corner is what Finnish “piazzas” often end up being like. Image courtesy of Google Maps.
There’s a lot of magic to Italian cities and urban life that you can only experience by going there. One of my dreams is to visit Rome, the mother of all cities, sometime soon to get exposed to its many layers of urbanisms. (Yes, I still haven’t. Fancy a small excursion, anyone?)
At the same time, I must emphasize something I’ve mentioned before but can’t really stress enough. These experiences from Italy may at first seem distant for Finnish cities. But they are not. Many urban problems and solutions are universal.
Cities around the globe are more similar than they are different and we should keep sharing ideas to improve urban life everywhere.
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5 thoughts on “Urban Lessons from Naples, Potenza and Matera”
Costanza Pera / architect says:
Your point of view is very interesting! Please if you need help for organising your trip to Rome ask for suggestions and help.
Timo H. says:
Thanks Costanza! I will keep this in mind.
Helen Kay says:
You will be blown away by Rome!! I lived there for a while in thew 90s. The city centre is everything you’d expect but its also interesting to walk around the edges of the touristy parts and the immediate city centre (best on a Sunday afternoon in winter to avoid the crowds) and get a sense of how the streets are laid out so that you get vistas along all the main roads, and surprising and delightful little fountains and piazzas. Enjoy 😉
Thanksgivings Helen! I hope to make it to Rome sooner than later. Winter may indeed be a good time to go.
Aurora Martinez says:
Hi Timo
I totally agree, the cleanliness and tininess is not a recipe for urban resilience, as urban planner we should yield much more in favor or liveliness and inclusiveness. Thanks for a such inspirational article
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HIS brother was late, the restaurant was crowded, noisy, the kind of fashionable look-at-me-I’ve-arrived place he loathed, and Guy wished he’d made an excuse, stuck to his original plan to have a sandwich at his desk as he worked through the evening.
A rush of cold air as the door opened behind him gave him hope that his ordeal would soon be over, but as he turned he saw that it wasn’t Steve but a young woman rushing to get in out of the rain.
She paused momentarily, framed in the entrance, spotlit by the bright lights of the cocktail bar against the darkness outside.
Time stretched like elastic. The earth stopped turning. Everything slowed down. He felt as if he could count every one of the raindrops sparkling in her corn gold hair.
It was tousled, as if it had been caught by the gusting wind that she seemed to have brought into the restaurant with her, stirring everyone so that they turned to look. Kept on looking. Maybe it was because she was laughing, as if running through the rain was something she did for fun. Because she was a breath of fresh air…
She lifted her arms to comb her fingers through her hair, shake it back into place, and the dress she was wearing rode up to expose half a yard of thigh. When she dropped her hands and the hem descended, the scooped neckline of her dress fell too, offering a glimpse of what the clinging fabric so enticingly suggested.
Nothing about her was flat; everything about her seemed an open invitation to his hands to describe her, to stroke the sinuous lines of her body. She wasn’t beautiful exactly. Her nose lacked classical perfection. Her mouth was too big, but her silver-fox eyes sparkled as if she was lit up from within and the glow that emanated from her eclipsed every other woman in the room.
And, as time caught up with them, his body reacted as if she’d touched his personal blue touch-paper.
Pulse, heart rate, all the physical responses leapt into overdrive, but it was more than a lustful response to the kind of stimuli that probably had half the men in the room in the same condition.
It was like coming face to face with destiny. Coming face to face with the reason for your existence.
As he rose slowly to his feet she saw him, their gazes locked, and for a split second the laughter froze on her lips, and he thought that she felt it too. Then his brother was there, closing the door, cutting off the rush of cold air, breaking the connection between them as he put his arm around the girl’s waist, pulled her close against him.
Something hot, possessive, swept through him and he wanted to grab Steve, pull him away, demand to know what the hell he thought he was doing. Except, of course, it was obvious. He was saying to the world—saying to him—this woman is mine. And, as if the gesture wasn’t enough, he grinned and said, ‘Guy, I’m glad you could make it. I really want you to meet Francesca.’ He looked down at her with the look of a man who’d won the Lottery. ‘She’s moving in with me. She’s having my baby…’ Make that a man who’d won the Lottery twice.
‘Mr Dymoke…’ He started at a touch to his shoulder, opened his eyes to see the stewardess smiling down at him. ‘We’re about to land.’
He dragged his hands over his face in an effort to dispel the lingering wisps of a dream that, even after three years, continued to haunt him.
He straightened his chair, fastened his seat belt, checked the time. He should just make it.
Guy Dymoke was the first person she saw as she stepped from the car. That wasn’t what surprised her. He was the kind of man who would stand out in any crowd. Tall, broad-shouldered, deeply tanned, his thick dark hair lightened by the sun, he made everyone else look as if they were two-dimensional figures in a black and white photograph.
The effect was mesmerising. She saw it in the effect he had on the people around him. Had to steel herself against it, even now.
She wasn’t even surprised that he had taken the time from his busy life to fly in from whatever distant part of the world he currently called home to attend his half-brother’s funeral.
He was a man who took the formalities very seriously. He believed that every t should be properly crossed, every i firmly dotted. He’d made no secret of his disapproval of her and Steven’s decision not to do the ‘decent’ thing and get married. Demonstrated it by his absence from their lives.
As if it was any of his business.
No, what truly astonished her was that he had the nerve to show up at all after three years in which they hadn’t seen or heard from him. She hadn’t cared for herself, but for Steven…
Poor Steven…
Thankfully, she didn’t have to make an effort to hide her feelings as their gazes briefly met over the heads of the gathered mourners. Her face was frozen into a white mask. Nothing showed. There was nothing to show. Just a gaping hollow, an emptiness yawning in front of her. She knew if she allowed herself to think, to feel, she’d never get through this, but as she walked past him, looking neither to left nor right, he said her name, very softly.
‘Francesca…’
Softly. Almost tenderly. As if he cared. And the ache in her throat intensified. The mask threatened to crack…
Anger saved her. Hot, shocking, like a charge of lightning.
How dared he come here today? How dared he make a show of offering her sympathy when he hadn’t bothered to so much as lift a telephone when Steven was alive and it would have actually meant something?
Did he expect her to stop? Listen to his empty condolences? Allow him to take her arm, sit beside her in church as if he gave a damn…?
Just for appearances.
‘Hypocrite,’ she replied as, looking neither to left nor right, she swept past him.
She looked brittle. Insubstantial. Like spun glass. Altered out of all recognition from the vital young woman who’d changed his life in a moment with just one look.
Thin watery sunlight filtered through the October sky to light up her pale hair, emphasise the translucence of her skin, as she stood by the church doorway, shaking hands with those who’d taken the time to come and pay their respects. Inviting them back to the house. Cool, composed, apparently in control. The only moment when she’d seemed real, herself, had been that quick angry flush to her cheeks when he’d spoken her name. The rest was all just a role she was playing, he thought, a performance to get her through the nightmare.
One tap and she’d shatter…
He hung back, waiting until the others had moved off, before he stepped out of the shadows of the porch. She knew he was there, but he’d given her the chance to walk away, ignore him. But she was waiting for him to say his piece. Maybe she hoped he’d explain, but what could he say?
The words for what he was feeling hadn’t yet been invented. The loss, the pain, the regret that the last time he’d seen his brother, Steve had been at his worst. It had been deliberate, of course. A ploy to make him angry. And he’d risen self-righteously to the bait…
Neither of them had come out of it with any glory.
But she’d lost the man she loved. The father of her child. How much worse must it be for her…
He stepped forward. ‘I’m sorry I couldn’t get here sooner, Francesca.’
‘Ten days. Time enough to have got from almost anywhere, I would have thought.’
He wanted to ask her why she’d left it so late. Too late.
‘I wish I could have relieved you of the burden of organising this.’ His voice seemed to belong to someone else. Someone cold, distant…
‘Oh, please. Don’t apologise. Your secretary rang, offering to help— I imagine Steven’s lawyer must have called your office—but a funeral is a family thing. Not something for strangers.’
He wasn’t talking about the funeral, but the months before that, when Steve had been dying and he’d been on the other side of the world, unaware of the tragedy about to overtake them all. By the time the message that his brother was running out of time had reached him, it was too late.
‘It took me days to get to any kind of landing strip when the message came through about Steve.’ He sounded, even to himself, as if he were making excuses. ‘I’ve come straight from the airport.’
Finally she turned to look at him. Acknowledge him.
‘You really needn’t have bothered. We’ve managed perfectly well without you for the last three years. The last six months changed nothing.’
Her voice was cold, too. Every word an ice dagger striking at his heart. But this wasn’t about him. His feelings.
Right now all he cared about was her. He wanted to say that she was all he’d cared about for the last three years. Instead he said, ‘Are you going to be all right?’
‘All right?’ She repeated the words carefully, as if testing them. Trying to divine his meaning. ‘In what way could I possibly be all right ? Steven is dead. Toby’s daddy is dead…’
‘Financially,’ he said, pressing on, even though he knew that he was making things immeasurably worse. Or perhaps not. How could they possibly be worse?
Her silver-grey eyes regarded him with utter disdain. ‘I should have known your only concern would be for the practicalities. Ensuring that I did it by the book. It isn’t feelings that matter with you, is it, Guy? It’s appearances.’
Which answered that question.
Smothering the pain, he pressed on. ‘Practicalities have to be addressed, Francesca.’
Listen to him! He should be putting his arms around her, offering her comfort, taking a little for himself, but since that was denied him he was talking like a lawyer. If he’d been a lawyer there would be some excuse…
‘Please don’t concern yourself about us, Guy. By your standards I’m about as all right as it’s possible to be. The house. Life insurance… That is what you mean, isn’t it?’ With that, she turned and crossed to the waiting limousine. The driver held the door for her, but she didn’t get in, just stood there for a moment, head bowed, as if gathering herself for the ordeal ahead. After a moment or two she straightened, glanced back at him, then with a lift of her shoulders she said, ‘I suppose you’d better come back to the house. For appearances.’
Then she climbed into the car and waited for him to follow her.
He didn’t mistake her invitation for a thaw but he abandoned the car that had been waiting for him at the airport without hesitation.
‘Thank you,’ he said as he joined her.
‘I don’t want your thanks. He was your brother. I haven’t forgotten that, even if you did.’ And she shifted to the farthest end of the seat, putting the maximum distance between them, not that he had any intention of crowding her. Offering comfort that she clearly didn’t want—at least, not from him. But he had to say something.
‘I’m sorry I wasn’t here.’
That earned him another look to freeze his heart. ‘That’s just guilt talking, Guy. If you’d cared about him you wouldn’t have stayed away. Why did you do that?’ For a long moment she challenged him. Then, in the shadowy interior of the limousine, he saw a faint colour smudge her pale cheeks before, with the smallest lift of her shoulders, she let it go. ‘The cancer was virulent. Faster than anyone anticipated. I asked him if he wanted me to call you, but he said there was plenty of time.’
Instinctively he reached to hold her, comfort her as he’d hold anyone in distress, but her eyes flashed a warning. It was like hitting a force field at speed. Shocking. Painful.
He’d intended only to reassure her but realised that anything he did or said would simply fuel her resentment that he was alive, while the man she loved was dead. She clearly thought him capable of feeling nothing but guilt. And that only at a stretch.
‘He was so sure that you’d come,’ she said.
‘I’m not clairvoyant.’
‘No. Just absent.’
He bit back the need to defend himself. She needed to strike out at someone and he was a handy target. If he could do nothing else for her, he could take the blame.
When he didn’t say anything—and he didn’t believe she expected or wanted him to respond—she looked away, staring out of the windows at the passing urban landscape as if anything was better than looking at him. Talking to him. Only a tiny betraying sigh escaped her lips as they turned into the elegant city street with its tall white stuccoed houses, where she and Steve had made their home.
The sound cut deeper than any words—no matter how much they were intended to wound.
The car drew up at the kerb and he climbed out, hesitating between offering his hand and the certainty that she would ignore it. But as she stepped on to the pavement her legs buckled momentarily beneath her and neither of them had much choice in the matter. He caught her elbow beneath his hand. She felt insubstantial, fragile, weightless as, briefly, she allowed him to support her.
‘Why don’t you give this a miss?’ he said. ‘I can handle it.’
Maybe, if he had been someone else, she might have surrendered control, leaned against him, allowed him to take the strain. But she gathered herself, shook off his support and said, ‘Steven managed without you, so can I.’ Then she walked quickly up the steps to her front door to join the subdued gathering.
Francesca paused on the threshold of her drawing room to catch her breath. She had never felt so alone in her life and, unable to help herself, she glanced back to where Guy was shedding his coat. For a moment their eyes met and she glimpsed his pain. But she buried her guilt. She’d meant to hurt him,
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Forget the nation: post-nationalist understanding of nationalism1
Valery A. Tishkov Abstract
There is a great failure and mental morass concerning theory and political practice of nation and nationalism, including not only traditional approaches but late nationalism studies as well. The reason is a long-standing and widely shared quest for adequate de nition of what does not exist, in reality, as a collective body. Nation is a powerful metaphor which two forms of social groupings polity (state) and ethnic entity (the people) are ghting to have as their exclusive property. In its latest manifestation, it is an argument for geopolitical engineering and for questioning the legitimacy of weaker collective actors on the part of the winners. There is no sense in de ning states and ethnic groups by the category of a nation. The latter is a ghost word, escalated to a level of meta-category through historic accident and inertia of intellectual prescription. A suggested hard scenario for breaking the methodological impasse is a zero option, when both major clients for being a nation will be deprived of a luxury called by that label. The process of dismantling the non-operational category should be started with the intellectual courage to forget the nation as an academic de nition and extend this logic into the domain of politics and everyday discourse. Keywords: Nation and nationalism metaphors; state and ethnic coalitions; political constructivism; speech act; post-Soviet transitions; post-Cold War geopolitics.
There is a conceptual impasse characterizing studies of nation and nationalism. The main reason for this is a widely shared belief that it is not the reality (essentialist or constructivist) of the nation, but rather the real problem, since the subject came on to the research agenda, is the weakness of scholars to de ne it. A similar inference is made as follows: Nationalism and, indeed, the nation itself appear in an ever greater diversity of forms and con gurations, changing and constantly reinventing the phenomena that scholars have meticulously tried to t into analytical categories. However, even though no de nition may appear completely satisfactory given the complexity and multidimensionality
Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 23 Number 4 July 2000 pp. 625650 2000 Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd ISSN 0141-9870 print/ISSN 1466-4356 online
Valery A. Tishkov
of national identity, a working de nition is necessary for constructing a theoretical framework (Triandafyllidou 1998, pp. 59495). Thus, we have a situation when the phenomenon being analysed is described not through analytical categories but through a randomly selected working de nition for the purpose of developing further theory. This scholarly rationale travels from one publication to another and from one generation of scholars to another. Until very recently, no one seriously challenged this major mysti cation surrounding notions of nation and nationalism which, from our point of view, are not academic or politically functional categories (Tishkov 1996a, 1997a). The same question was raised recently by the outstanding anthropologist, Clifford Geertz, who said [F]or me the question is: how useful is the idea of nationalism for sorting all this out, rst intellectually and then in policy terms? I have no simple answer to this question and no complicated one either. But doubts arise when ordering concepts such as countries, peoples, societies, cultures, and, of course, states all seem to get sucked into nationalism, as though it were some sort of a strange attraction their particular force and meaning lost or weakened as they become interchangeable with it and with each other: multiple synonyms with oating referents (1997, p. 4). A few other authors elaborated in similar directions mainly on European materials (Verdery 1993; Brubaker 1996; Wicker 1997) making it easier to formulate a major revision of the nation mainly as a problem of a wrong language being chosen for de ning human coalitions and projects. Here, we suggest this revision through analysing how everyday political rhetoric and geopolitical social engineering prescribe and actually dictate the directions and language of research, thus making theory of nationalism even more decrepit and obsolete. Weakness of traditional vision All former and contemporary visions of nationalism are weak because they elicit more questions than answers. The dominant Weberian or historical approach views nationalism as a global phenomenon with its own moment of origin, stages of growth, and similar characteristics regardless of region and country. Within this framework, little difference can be found between the ethnic tree of nations drawn by Anthony Smith (1986), the ethno-historical interpretation of Miroslav Hroch (1985), John Armstrongs nations before nationalism (1982) and the ethnogenesis constructions and nationalities studies of the Rossian2 scholars (Bromley 1983, 1987). For the last ones, ethnoses or ethno-nations often
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go back to a late Paleolithic time, thus providing based on culture group identities with a continuous historical lineage (see, for example, encyclopedic articles in Tishkov 1994; 1998). Methodologically, the historical (Weberian/Marxist) approach tends to see a nation as a powerful social and historical reality, and this archetypal collective body serves the only basis for a normal state, its political economy and culture. Authors of numerous de nitions of the term nation attributed to it objective/subjective characteristics like territory, language, common economy, mentality (shared beliefs), and so on. As a collective body and historical subject, a nation also has its own (national ) consciousness, or in a more elegant way, (national) identity and a collective will and aspirations (basic needs, interests, fears, everyday referendum). As to ethnically mobilized politics and violent ghts, these are seen and interpreted through to the same rhetoric of national sovereignty, liberation, struggle, revolution, war, and so on. For example, according to the German historian of multinational Russia, Andreas Kappeler, national consciousness and national movements are a product of lengthy development, and their legitimacy results from history (1993, p. 9). Thus, a nation is a kind of a terminal community of fate (Geertzs earlier de nition which contradicts his present day vision) or a sum of all generations. All attempts to develop terminological consensus around nation resulted in a grand failure, including methodologically poor project on concepts and terms in the study of ethnicity (see Riggs 1985) under the auspices of the International Social Science Councils Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis [INTERCOCTA]. None of the existing de nitions is a functional one due to endless exclusions, especially when one tries to make a list of (non-)nations and to de ne their membership beyond the fact of sharing citizenship. All kinds of scholastic taxonomies of (non-)nation-states and nation-groups look like naive scholarship with a narrow view of what is supposed to be a global exercise (Nielsson 1985). No more enriching and convincing textbook-styled descriptions of the integrated theory of the politics of nationalism and ethnicity (Kellas 1991) or Oxford readers on nationalism (Hutchinson and Smith 1994). Most often, authors use the terms nation, nationalism , national, multinational, transnational when talking about different phenomena and taking the basic word and its derivatives as just granted. A certain academic conventionality can be observed only on pre-consensus level of nationalism discourses with inter- and intra-state oppositions involved when two broad forms of nationalism can be observed: political/ civic/state nationalism and ethnic/cultural nationalism. There is also a good degree of consensus among scholars that civic nationalism is attributed to a political community that usually has a referent (core) culture(s) linked to a dominant (demographically and politically) ethnic
group(s) or to a multicultural (national) representation complex. As for ethnonationalism, it refers to an ethnic community with a political and an etatist element to it also. In other words, civic nationalism cannot be neutral in a cultural sense: politics and bureaucracy prefer to speak one language, usually a language of eponymous (titular) group or a language of former metropoly. For example, in the Rossian Federation, this is exempli ed by the dominance of the Russian (russkii) language and culture. In its turn, ethnonationalism cannot avoid claiming authority and state and to be a political project as well. For example, practically all Soviet culturally distinct communities were rst trained to be socialist nations with their own statehoods before aspiring to full political sovereignty as soon as the process of liberalization was launched by Gorbachevs perestroyka . Those who do make a distinction between two types of nationalism regard state nationalism as a liberal ideology and a legitimate practice of nation-building, that is, the creation of a nation-state. It exists in many forms from patriotism and isolationism, to chauvinism and expansionist messianism. Ethnonationalism is usually interpreted as a collectivist and authoritarian one. It is de ned as a form of particularism and exclusivity and, furthermore, as a means for a certain group to gain political power and control over resources and to create ethnically homogeneous states alien to pluralistic democracy and civil society (Greenfeld 1992). It is only recently that an apology for and a requali cation of ethnonationalism have been offered within the framework of the traditional Weberian concept. It is presented either as a true liberal nationalism (Tamir 1993; Lind 1994) as opposed to a civic nationalism being a form of nation-destroying rather than of nation-building (see, the earliest view expressed by Connor 1972) or as a phenomenon of national rebirth, national awareness, national awakening, or culture incarnate(see, Balzer 1995; Guibernau 1996; Smith 1997). The essentialist approach remains to serve the level of everyday language perceptions when students of nationalism never question the functional signi cance of basic terms, especially since of late they have become meta-categories, scholarly disciplines and titles of professional journals and associations. The constructivist interpretation of nation and nationalism looks more sensitive and appealing for social scientists but on closer examination it is still no less essentialistic than a primordialist vision. In this approach, a nation is seen as a social construct and an imagined collective, becoming a crude reality as the masses begin to believe in the idea of one community and its major political/cultural references. More often, no factual evidence for these shared beliefs at group level is provided, apart from citations from litist writings contrasted with an illiterate populace, and the group-called-a-nation is nothing more than post-factual, selective reductionism of much more complex diversities. In this case, nation and
nationalism vocabulary serves as a sort of mechanism for the reconceptualization of a political community which had been categorized in other ways before (Geertz 1997, p. 3). This is even more relevant for a cultural community. We have only one reservation: in both cases (political and cultural) reconceptualization procedures are an lite project on behalf of something often arbitrary and selectively called nation. The constructivist vision has been challenged recently by the posties like post-colonialists. There are also authors who elaborated the concept further as the new version of indigenous nationalism. They argue, for example, that Bengali nationalism (and therefore the Bengali nation) existed in India before the state Indian nationalism of Nehru and Gandhi and it is not only a printing industry but war which brings a nation into existence (Chatterjee 1993; Balakrishnan 1996). The works of African scholars include studies of aboriginal nationalism during colonial times. They doubt the legitimacy of post-colonial African nationalism of non-tribal (civic) types and use this to substantiate the current legitimacy of mini-nationalism within multi-ethnic states in the continent. To overcome the Euro-centric character of previous debates and to give a global dimension to discourse on the nation, it is the case that nations in their Asian forms (Tonnesson and Antlov 1996) are invented now for the regions and countries where this political category itself and everyday referendum had never existed at all. The most recent efforts are directed towards combining political and cultural/symbolic (representative) substances of the nation. In re-thinking ethnic and racial studies Martin Bulmer and John Solomos suggest A nation is not only a political entity but something which produces meanings a system of cultural representations. People are not only legal citizens of a nation; they participate in the idea of the nation as represented in national culture. A nation is a symbolic community and it is this which accounts for its power to generate a sense of identity and allegiance (1998, p. 827). The problem with this remark on the representative nature of a nation is the same as with previous formulae: it does not meet a given case. The actual case citations again evoke more doubts than clari cations. The editors of ERS put the following questions: But how is the modern nation imagined? What representation strategies are deployed to construct our commonsense views of national belonging or identity? What are the representations of, say, England, which win the identi cations and de ne the identities of English people? (p. 827). Behind these questions we read a supposition that before asking about
(prior) symbolic representations, one should accept the English people as an accomplished nation. This supposition suggests several questions. In the case of the English people being a nation, how many other nations exist in what should be labelled, according to this logic, multinational Great Britain (or, the United Kingdom)? If a nation is not only a political entity but also a representation, then what are the political and civic (citizenship) parameters of English people? If English people is a fait accompli nation, does it mean that there is no British nation. Furthermore, how can you sort out the British population among the English, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish nations? If both (British and speci c) characteristics exist, how do they coexist: on mutually nonexclusive or on parallel trajectories, and again, how are you to deal with the issue of membership for all these nations? As to the British nation, it is clearly a citizenship and this approach allows one to understand the language used by other authors of the same journal when, for example, they elaborate on the transnationalism phenomenon and use words like national governments and national borders (Portes et al. 1999). But again, what is political, civic and even cultural behind the not only political entity English nation? Identity and representation references are not enough to solve this epistemological dilemma because identities are multiple, situational and uid. I noticed that my friend Dan Smith, Director of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, self-categorizes himself more often as English while locating in the UK, and as British while in Norway. Several years ago I had exactly the same debate in a London restaurant with the late Ernest Gellner who also favoured the notion of English nation but could not answer my immediate question as to what would be his own personal national af liation. Ernest Gellner was a selfcon dent person but even he agreed at that moment that what we were talking about was rather a question of academic heteroglossia over esoteric realities? Thus, in spite of an existing rich library with many ideas, in my view nationalism studies fail to address the main issues: what really are nation and nationalism, and why is there no consensus on what we are discussing ? The big paradox is that the modern intellectual quest is retreating from better understanding and from any integral theory. Late nationalism as a political project and as a ght The liberal West would never have achieved victory over Communism (a metaphor for the USSR and its political/ideological system) in such a dramatic form, had it not had such a powerful ally as the Soviet (or EastEuropean) ethno-cultural understanding of the word nation. It is precisely this doctrine, based on its political practice, that directed Gorbachevs liberalization not only, or not so much, along the path of civic democratization and the improvement of governance, but along the
path of break-up and con ict. This happened because the word liberalization is closely related to the notions of statehood and political selfdetermination. As a result of this relationship, immediate associations arise when the same word is used in its ethnic connotation; for the ethnic Abkhazians, Chechens, Kazakhs, Lets, Russians, Tatars and Ukrainians, they must seek national self-determination and possess their own states as nations. If they do not have their own national state, then they are a kind of semi-nation or incomplete nation. Equally, all ethnic Germans, Hungarians, Russians and others, who constitute separate nations, must reunite or return to their historic homeland. It includes even those who call themselves Germans but who are, in fact, Russians as far as culture and identity are concerned, and their ancestors moved to Rossia at a time when there were no Germans at all. According to the same logic, if Czechs and Slovaks live in one state, the more natural solution would be to create two states. And vice versa, Albanian national communities (notice that this vocabulary borrowed from Marxist-Titoist Yugoslavia is also the language of Western peace-enforcement for Kosovo) in Macedonia and Yugoslavia claim they would be better off as one Great Albania (Shqiperia e Madhe) together with the mother country of Albania. At least, those were allegedly their sentiments before ethnic Albanian activists in Kosovo, together with their external supporters during the war for division, started to rede ne themselves as a Kosovar nation deserving its own state. Different arguments are cited by academics and public activists to support these postulates and political appeals: from naive-mythology to intellectual dishonesty. Again, as to the former USSR area, scholastic rhetoric on ethno-nations as biosocial or ethno-social organisms (Bromley 1983, 1987; Gumilev 1989, 1990) served for several decades as the basis for (post-)Soviet ethnic engineering and for nationalist entrepreneurship as well. These ethnos schemata had been inherited from past intellectual tradition, but they were reanimated on a grand scale in a situation of ideological vacuum when ethnicity became the only easily understandable and accessible form of collective mobilization. Ethnos and nation became rigid synonyms which in a time of painful transformations and of a healing from past traumas carried provocative political projections about the dying out of a nation, nation-destroying, nationkilling as a danger within the framework of multinational states. There is no big difference in what is cited as a case, be it deported Chechens (Lieven 1998) or divided Russians (Kozlov 1996): the arguments and a message are completely similar. In my view, they represent militant and exclusivist but politically unrealized projects for usurping the state (its power and resources) on behalf of ethno-nations. They are projects of self-determination on the part of lites or of armed sects trying to use exiting oppressed ethnic groups to take a separate historic journey. The simplistic vision of the external world motivates another argument
of ethno-nationalists. This simplicity penetrates social science texts as well. Many activists and analysts perceive Germany, Italy, France, Norway, Sweden, Finland and others as countries peopled with eponymous peoples (nations) speaking one language. Participating in current political debates, they may argue that the Spaniards who have achieved self-determination live in Spain, the English in England, the Chinese in China, the Indonesians in Indonesia, the Pakistanis in Pakistan, and so on. For example, many domestic and outside experts on the former communist world believe that after the break-up of the USSR and Yugoslavia, the historic norm of nation-states has been (re)established for most of these states: from the Baltic countries to Croatia, Slovenia and Macedonia. There is only one multinational state left: it is Rossia where not all, but only fourteen nations have attained self-determination. The others did not gain independence following the break-up of the USSR simply because of bad luck or a quirk of fate, but not because they are any less deserving (Carley 1996, p. 15). Behind this rhetoric, there is a hidden political agenda in the assumption that in the post Cold War world a problem has emerged around the non-accomplished process for nation-building or of quasi-sovereign states (Carment and James 1997, p. 205). Therefore, the Rossian Federation remains a mini-empire (Balzer 1994) or improper Russia (Brzezinski 1994) covering a huge territory spanning eight time zones. Rossia is a historical anomaly, a wrong state. The third argument of late nationalism is a wrong reading or manipulation of international legal norms and declarations on minority rights and self-determination. The irony is that the USSR had been a longstanding champion of the ideology of self-determination, especially for exploited and colonial peoples. As to the outside world, this ideology was installed as a means of supporting international national-liberation movements, gaining in superpower rivalries, and exposing imperialism. Experts and propagandists did not bother about the fact that the principle of self-determination and the post-colonial states were a product of anti-ethnic thinking and of political/administrative territoriality. This ambivalence has never been perceived and explained for consumers of this principle among the domestic audience. New understanding did not emerge even after the break-up of the USSR which in reality happened not along ethnic lines but on a basis of existed multi-ethnic Soviet republics. Activists from many ethnic groups considered nations by Soviet de nitions formulated different scenarios of exclusion or division ghting. The most amboyant leaders in Abkhazia, Chechnya, Karabakh, South Ossetia and Transdniestria managed a self-proclaimed independence and organized a military resistance against steps of new states to defend their territorial integrity. Three out of ve cases escalated into major wars with heavy human and material losses without reaching political goals.
Late post-Soviet ethnonationalism emerged as a political and academic metaphor that caused a serious reassessment of world experts on nationalism. Self-determination became revised through many new publications. Most discouraging, these changes in thinking about nationalism occurred as an apparent effect of new political agendas and ambitions, not as a result of acquiring new knowledge. Eric Hobsbawm (1990) referred to nationalism as a political project. Today, one can talk about a project around nationalism, that is, about a grandiose exploitation of this category to impose new semantics and normative prescriptions on the world community. The testing ground for this is a facile label, ruins of empire, which is applied to former Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union area, including Rossia. A number of serious experts agree that the language of the so-called Marxist-Leninist theory of nation and national question (see Connor 1984) and the political practice brought about by this theory have proved to be self-destructive due to unforeseen political consequences (see, for example, Suny 1993; Brubaker 1994). But it did not serve as a lesson for any serious revisions of this decrepit methodology. At least, this was the case in Rossia. The constitutional experts began the rst line of the 1993 Constitution with We, the multinational people of the Rossian Federation . . .. In the Soviet past one did not bother with multinationality and self-determination up to cessation, clichs found in many declarations and academic writings. There were no procedures or chances for their implementation. Only recent transformations have brought to life a new situation where it is possible to seek more responsible meanings and thereby produce adepts of these meanings. It is still not clear what price will be paid for the inertia of the lites mentality. What is clear is that there are many experts and policy-makers within and beyond Rossia who are ready to punish the country for its intellectual impotence. It is hard to deny that Western experts and politicians made use of the self-destructive language of their long-standing opponents in order to create intriguing scenarios to dismantle the USSR and to promote a second round of disintegration at the expense of Rossia. In this respect, the position of Western expertise has quickly been consolidated: there are no ethnic minorities in multinational Rossia; instead there are nonstatus nations or nations without states (Bremmer and Taras 1993). The ideological message is clear: ethnic problems in Rossia are the problems of minorities, their cultural status and needs; national problems in multinational Rossia are the issues concerning nations and their selfdetermination in relation to the non-nation-state or the imperial system. As John Hall writes, In retrospect, it is obvious that the Bolsheviks continued the work of the Tsars, thereby so delaying nation-building that its contemporary incidence is that much sharper and more determined. The peoples of
the former Soviet Union itself were always likely to be attracted to nationalism for the imperial system which dominated them was led by Russians whose depredations were not merely political and economic but quite as much ecological (Hall 1995, p. 25). This explicitly political stance ignores the point that it is precisely the Bolsheviks who constructed, institutionalized and sponsored ethnic nations in the country. It is also because of them that all major nonRussian ethnic groups used to have and possess today a growing level of ethno-territorial autonomy with their own constitutions, state symbols, languages, legitimate governments and strong representation in federal power structures. Tainted with one-side politics, academics do not bother to inquire how it is possible for mythopoetic collective bodies nations not to have their own state while not a single member of the nations the people of Rossia is a stateless person. All have their own state called the Rossian Federation. We, Rossian Germans, are deprived of our own statehood, Vladimir Bauer, President of Rossian Germans Cultural Autonomy Association, declared at a meeting. Does that mean that you personally or anybody you represent do not have a state to belong to? I had to ask Bauer in response, given that he was the Federal Deputy Minister of Nationalities and former Head of Administration Department at the State Duma, and thus a man who had all thinkable and unthinkable rewards as a result of being in the state service for the last ve to six years. To understand and to expose the emptiness and hidden agenda of this scholastic debate on who belongs to the state of Rossia, it is best to descend to a personal level. If ethnic Russians (russkie) dominate the state and bring for the others even ecological depredations and the others represent nations without states, does it mean that three of my Deputy-Directors and half of my Institutes staff do not have their own state and the rest, including myself, do? Does it mean that about half of the members of the Federal (national!) government rule their own state, and the other half, including the recent Prime Minister Primakov, a Jew, do not rule their own state? And how is it that the Tsars did not speak the Russian language and Stalin and Beria spoke it with a heavy Georgian accent? And how had it happened that one-third of the Chernomyrdins government were ministers with an ethnic Ukrainian background? The same would also be true of the previous Kruschev and Brezhnev ruling party clans. Born in the USSR, living in Rossia, and being a member of the Egor Gaidars government, I cannot locate who were and are these Russians who led this country and cause the depredations cited above? The irony of double readings (and, consequently, of double standards) demonstrates, for example, that for Western social scientists peoples like
the Navajo, Odjibwee or Hawaiians with long experience of selfdetermination and rst nations programme, remain in the categories of ethnic groups or minorities. My US colleagues whom I had consulted in my Amerindian research two decades ago assured me that the passports issued by the Odjibwee nation were nothing more than the manipulations of urban professional Indians. Maybe they were right and I was wrong by writing in the Soviet tradition about the American Indian national self-determination movement. It is also possible to agree with nonmilitant academic heteroglossia when my friend, the American anthropologist John Moore, displayed his political sympathies by calling his profound ethnography The Cheyenne Nation (1987) without risking a challenge to the state which could have caused serious damage to this part of the US citizenry. But there is also the heteroglossia of the ghting nation when words can kill more than bullets. For post-Soviet space, it is not just a question of ambivalent language because too much blood has already been spilt over academic de nitions that become uncompromising, political projects. In transforming Rossia, there is another, more acute agenda of de-etatisating ethnicity and the de-ethnicization of the state. Other approaches to ethnonationalism leave no room for governance in the course of peaceful transformation from an ethnos to demos based polity. Nationalism as a politically correct and dangerous utopia To be precise, the terminological drift and politically motivated ambivalence of the discourse on nationalism did not start with the collapse of the USSR. In 196080, the notion of a nation in the ethno-cultural sense began to be introduced into the international academic and political language under the in uence of human rights and minorities movements. A number of prominent scholars and publicists spoke out quite consistently from what they considered a humanistic position against different forms of direct and structural violence, often exercised by the state against the non-dominant groups. This school was represented by the Norwegian scholar, Johan Galtung whose recent book contains an ambitious plan of bringing peace by peaceful means, including the creation of an organization of united ethno-nations (1996). As a persistent proponent of state self-determination for ethno-cultural communities (including his spouses native people, the Hawaiians), he believes that this principle is applicable to the whole world. In spite of its strong humanistic connotations, this is a risky and naive utopia because, strangely enough, it appears to lead more often than not to humanitarian catastrophe. Many Western anthropologists have contributed to this sympathizing ethnography, acting as self-appointed advocates of small groups who are discriminated against. What has not been noticed is that quite often they are playing the role of manipulated romantics or political lobbyists for
local, sophisticated activists and those who pretend to speak on behalf of their people. This allowed anthropologist Fredrik Barth to say about his colleagues the following: They have neglected the closer analysis of process of collective decision making that emerge on the median level [for Barth, this is a level of group mobilization for diverse purposes by diverse means, the eld of entrepreneurship, leadership and rhetoric] and how they produce policies and actions at odds with the popular will and the shared interests of people in the population affected (Barth 1994, p. 24). A similar position has been formulated by Donald Horowitz who criticizes politically correct sympathy for the claims to self-determination of oppressed ethno-nations without considering the likely knock-on effects for others of any resulting secession. Horowitz laments the great failure of imagination in adapting democratic institutions to the predicament of severely divided societies (1997). By the way, this remark reminds me of the visit to Rossias republic of Tatarstan which Donald Horowitz and I made in 1993 at a time of turmoil, when local radical nationalists and their sympathizers propagated non-negotiable secession. President Mintemir Shaimiev assured us of his persistence in negotiating a situation which eventually won more common good for everyone else in comparison with cases of breakaway regions in post-Soviet states. There is much evidence of how the chaotic behaviour of the apologists for exoticized ethnic groups and their grievances has greatly contributed to the serious destabilization of the situation in Chechnya and the Caucasus at large and ruined a fragile inter-group balance in this region of Rossia (Tishkov 1997a). For some experts, these linguistically and politically nationalized communities within Rossia are utterly different nations, which can be seen as representing forces which have confronted each other since the very beginnings of recorded human history (Lieven 1998, p. 4). This has been said about hypothetical Russian versus Chechen opposition by a representative of a national school of social science which treats the opposition between the equally hypothetical Navajo nation versus American nation as an urban intellectuals provocation. No less interesting a case is where East-European lobbyists introduced ethnonational semantics at the level of an international of cial language. It was through Hungarian and Turkish initiatives that the word national has been added to the title of the UN International Labour Organisation [ILO] Declaration On the rights of persons belonging to ethnic, racial, linguistic and religious minorities. Thus, typologically similar situations became quali ed as language minority or ethnic minority in some European countries and national minority in the others. Heteroglossia ceased to be recognized as such and became a clear policy when the
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe [OSCE] established a High Commissioner for National Minorities. As a result, activities of this institution have been channelled towards the countries of the former USSR and its linguistic followers in the national question. The High Commissioner, Max van der Stoel, was never allowed to visit Northern Ireland, Tyrol or Pays Basques because by de nition it is not national, but ethnic, religious and language minorities who live in the UK, Italy and Spain. Yet the metaphor of Basque nation/Nation Corsicainne is no weaker among these groups than among Chechens or Tatars. A radical collapse in understanding nationalism took place most recently. During the last few years, international lawyers and politicians have begun to revise the doctrine of self-determination by retreating from the principle of state integrity and non-recognition of selfproclaimed secession. By reacting to strongly shocking atrocities carried out by a state towards its civic population, they often missed the nature of militant, non-negotiable separatism or irredentism, granting it an undeserved moral stance which is not there. Kosovo and Slovonia are striking examples where one national community (ethnic Albanians in Yugoslavia) has been armed, instructed and defended with airstrikes to punish Milosevicz . In the same mirror situation, another national community (ethnic Serbs in Croatia) have been cleansed for the same punishing purpose. In order to conform to contemporary political correctness, some political philosophers have revised the concept of nationality in favour of its ethno-cultural (Soviet) meaning (Miller 1995). Moreover, the obviously weak but politically correct explanatory models for recent geopolitical transformations have become dominant. These are based on clichs (coined by Carrere dEncausse) about lempire clate (collapsed empire) and the triumph of the nations (1978, 1993) when explaining the breakup of the USSR and ethnic turmoils in the former Socialist camp. A more sensitive analysis, however, suggests that it is precisely the metaphor the triumph of the nations which is the more likely to win out. One of the intellectual fallouts of a new monocentric world can also be traced in the tendency to talk about the challenge to the state (Kottak 1998) and about a new shift in international relations. Here hundreds of minorities at risk, by virtue of historical law, are on their way to abolish failed states and to remake global political geography (Carment and James 1997). Renewed debates on what is a nation-state and who does and who does not deserve this title are really embarrassing. Impressive quantitative methodologies used for these studies are poor but are astonishingly well nanced and highly praised by enthusiasts of geopolitical engineering (Tishkov 1999). It is rather obvious to me that nationalism studies approached intellectual collapse because of the Cold War mental inertia and new civilizational clashes marketing the idea that one big ght should follow
another. However, not everything is in a hopeless morass, at least with a better understanding of European nationalism. For example, Rogers Brubaker argues that the upsurge in nationalism should not lead to reify nations. Nationalism can and should be understood without invoking nations as substantial entities. Instead of focusing on nations as real groups, we should focus on nationhood and nationess, on nation as a practical category, institutionalized form, and contingent event. Nation is a category of practice, not (in the rst instance) a category of analysis. To understand nationalism, we have to understand the practical use of the category nation, the ways it can come to structure perceptions, to inform thought and experience, to organize discourse and political actions (Brubaker 1996, p.7). Nation as a ghost word In the course of historic evolution, people make various coalitions for biological and social existence. The main feature of these human collectives is their tremendous diversity and changing dynamics. Scientists are searching to explain these coalitions through categories as certain consensus verbal models. These models are intended to re ect reality adequately and, at least, to provide a dialogue between scholars, managers and lay public. Being a speech act, categories have a number of important features. First, they are highly conventional and can in no way accommodate the diversity of social realms and of verbal experience. At different times and in different conditions, people tend to select different social con gurations to be de ned and these they call by different names. Secondly, speech acts are not only secondary, re ective phenomena; they have the power of prescribing and mobilizing, and may themselves bring about real things and even destroy them. Finally, de nitions born within academic discourse, political language and legal texts claim to express some higher form of common sense and to be a kind of prerequisite tool for scienti c knowledge. They tend to compete on a horizontal (inter-language, inter-cultural) level when some academic concept and political formulae impose their dominant status upon others. This is especially relevant for the contemporary world when political information and academic dialogues are carried out on a global level. The struggle over de nitions and the imposition of meaning have become part of group competition, including that between worldwide coalitions. Thus, the establishment of meanings through de nitions is an important element in a wider operation of imposing political will and power. Here, the language component and academic expertise act together with economic, military and other resources of competition. As
a rule, it is the richer and the stronger that impose de nitions and lead debates. This is done not through a mandatory decree (although this can occur, for example, through international legal texts and declarations), but by having the means to allocate greater resources for training professional producers of subjective prescriptions (including academic formulae) and for their professional performance. With the emergence of this particular form of globalization, it is the Western intellectual tradition that enjoys a dominant status in the worlds social sciences. Despite some internal differences ( rst of all between European-American and East European-Soviet/Rossian discourses) this tradition has to a large degree a common ground, and many fundamental global concepts come from this milieu and evolve amidst this culture. This cultural tradition, for example, invented and introduced concepts like race, tribe, family which dominated global discourse before being seriously revised or dismantled as a result of fusion with other world cultural traditions (see corresponding accounts in Barnard and Spencer 1996). Usually, it does not happen without hostility towards deviations from long-cherished, commonly approved and well-served postulates. Apparently, a weakness of the concept, or even the loss of its functional meaning, applies to the category nation and to its derivatives nationalism, nationality, nation-state, and so on. Today, these words are really multiple synonyms with oating referents. It is the semantic approach which may assist in nding a way out of the methodological impasse over the understanding and use of this concept in academic research and political language. However, there is one more problem in understanding nationalism which I would de ne as the issue of the ghost word as an analogy to an established phenomenon in linguistics and semantics. This refers to the case where a word emerges because of a misunderstanding as a result of a mistake by a scribe or a misprint in a dictionary (see Baranov and Dobrovolskii 1996, vol. 1, p. 249) . In other words, we should not only be talking about better understanding and re ning some concept, since it is no less interesting to learn how it itself originated through political and intellectual legitimization. How did initially random, unclear and common usage escalate to the level of a meta-category. Comparative historical researches demonstrate how a nation, a term from a student fraternity in a medieval university, became a synonym for the state through important acts of political will. These include such events as the creation of the League of Nations (pan-European level of legitimization) and the United Nations anti-fascist coalition followed by the establishment of the UN. The latter was an act of global legitimization because to join the UN, its members had to share the nation label, even when neither the word nor the concept was present in other languages and societies. Similar historic records can be established for the ethno-nation
phraseology beginning in the late nineteenth century Austro-Marxist writings and Wilsonian rhetoric, supported by the physical power of the winners of World War I. The major speech act result of this period has been to refer in public discourse to ethnic issues in complex societies as the national question formula. Since then, the national question in its non-etatist meaning, began its long journey in politics and academia of Eastern Europe and also among other ideological satellites of the USSR (such as Maoist China, Cuba, Mongolia and Nicaragua). In the Soviet tradition, it is quite easy to trace when and how after the early Bolshevik of nations, nationalities, narodnost , and ethnographic groups the term ethnos was constituted in the early 1920s (Shirokogorov 1923) and revitalized in 19701980 (Dragadze 1980; Shanin 1989; Banks 1996). These studies describe how the multiple use of the term nation gave way to a more rigid de nition as the highest type of ethnic entity with its scholastic taxonomies in a framework of so-called ethnic processes (Bromley 1987; Bromley and Kozlov 1989). There are many cases where everyday jargon or randomly selected words turn into encompassing categories which over a long period acquire their own life as powerful and indisputable concepts. Efforts to understand them can end with experts making the discouraging confession that nationalism anyway is beyond rational reasoning. Because of this, we suggest as a methodological breakthrough that rather than viewing it as an organic phenomenon de ned with textbook formulae, nationalism should be understood as a series of postulates and actions formulated and initiated by activists within a particular social space. Nationalism is a set of simplistic but powerful myths arising from and reaching to political practices. Lengthy debates about when is a nation? (Connor 1994, pp. 21026) are fruitless in many respects if not used in a civic/political sense to imply actual statehood. What then is to be done with the nation? Nation is a word loaded with a vague but alluring political content. Activists use it for speci c purposes to mobilize and establish their own in-group and out-group status. When it is introduced to a larger audience and becomes a part of everyday discourse, a group may be called a nation without any speci c outcome. Nation is a metaphorical category that has acquired emotional and political legitimacy. It cannot be a category of analysis, that is, a scienti c de nition. As a result, it cannot be of service to public discourse because it is poor jargon for what it is supposed to name: state polities and ethnic entities. Because of high capitalization, both these two collective actors (or, more precisely, those who pretend to speak on behalf of either state polities or ethnic entities) are ghting to have the nation label as their exclusive property. Both have different chances to win a valuable trophy and the ght is not over. It would be wrong to keep the old rules and wait for an end game until the next millennium.
Forget the nation Changing a state of mind
In spite of lively debates on failing states and the end of the nation-state, these states as we know them remain the most powerful form of human coalitions with the crucial functions of organizing order and subsistence for contemporary human collectives. No other institutions can exercise these functions. States secure territorial boundaries and establish functioning modern governance. States enjoy a right to exercise legitimate violence towards members of this coalition, and states are responsible to provide internal peace and to prevent violence. Strong States, Strong Hopes is a resum of The Aspen Institutes report on Post Cold War United States foreign policy and the role of US foreign development assistance (Ulman 1997). This report has a sparkling conclusion: If American diplomats were given one wish that might come true, they should wish they were living in a world of strong states. They might, however, nd it too boring (p. 28). This last sentence is a true scholarly discovery: strong-strong is a boring dichotomy for those who nd themselves in a situation when (using Newt Gingrichs words) time has come for us to change America and the rest of the human race. What is important is that by the virtue of their globality and power as well as by international (note the use of this word!) law and language, states have more resources and legitimacy to be called nations. So far, they have the capacity at least to de ne their membership through citizenship and thus to substantiate a collectivity with different levels of homogeneity. Even in dif cult cases of deeply divided societies, Yugoslav Serbs and Albanians form more of a common community through everyday peaceful or warring interactions than all the ethnic Albanians (in Albania, Greece, Macedonia and Yugoslavia) who do not interact except for random trade trips, visits to relatives and smuggling arms and narcotics through Kosovo (Rapper 1998). The problem is that this civic/cultural commonality is not in public debate and research agendas for reasons of politics and of linguistic tradition. In the former Yugoslavias regions, as in the former USSR, all people with kinship links quali ed as national communities. Thus, the crucial dilemma emerged as to who makes a nation: all the people of states that are post-Yugoslav or post-Soviet, or people who are ethnically linked kin divided by state borders or living in far away countries? Or maybe, a nation is for those who can organize a militant ght (or front) to galvanize a certain polity, irrespective of how they label themselves: Kosovars, Transdniestrians, Karabakh Armenians, Northern Irish, or Qubcois? This is a dif cult question, actually without a de nite and commonly agreed answer. Through history, the answer has been given through force, will and fortune but not by logic and established rules. If the ethnos versus state ght for a nation continues, it looks as if the
polities (states) will win the battle and not without a serious foundation. Together with their coat of arms, anthem and the myth of their history, the idea of nation serves as a symbol for the utilitarian purposes of consolidation and loyalty of the population within the states borders. Using Ian Lusticks (1993) expression, the hegemonic idea of a state attained through this concept is of no less importance to the polity than the Constitution, established legal norms and guarded borders. That is why every state undertakes efforts to impose a shared feeling of belonging, and not only by means of securing legal ties and responsibilities between the bureaucracy and the citizen. That is why today there are no states among the UN members that would not use this tool, or not consider their being a nation-state . Thus, the question is not which state may be academically de ned as national, and what state cannot? All attempts to work out such nomenclature are naive and useless. These attempts have never gone further then citing island state cases or giving an approximate percentage. In reality, we can only be referring to the degree of success of a certain state in carrying out the operation of establishing the concept of a common nation among its citizens. Thus, we have to talk about the state of minds, and not about a real ethno-cultural or civic homogeneity. Some states are characterized by immense racial, ethnic and religious diversity or by sharp regional differences and disconnection. However, the belief in a common nation may exist on the lite, and even on the mass level. The examples would be India and Indonesia, Spain and Switzerland, the USA, Brazil and with a rather well articulated concept of a civic nation. Some of these states are racially and ethnically more diverse than Rossia where the record of nation metaphor is different. States tend to differ more in regard to the degree of self-ascribed and properly institutionalized meaning, than to the degree of cultural diversity. As Liah Greenfeld notes: In some societies, we fail to notice this diversity and believe them to be homogenous, whereas in other societies it can manifest itself in the most painful forms. It happens not because there are less distinctive features among its members, but because the very same diversity is perceived differently. But each society attaches cultural signi cance to ethnicity and ethnic diversity, and not every society considers these characteristics as the essence of the basic identity of its members (Greenfeld 1994, p. 9). A lot depends on administration policy and ideological prescriptions. In the 1950s, China conducted one of the censuses using Soviet standards and communist ethnofilia, and it happened that about 400 nationalities were identified. After urgent bureaucratic regrouping, only fifty-six have been officially institutionalized. Their overall
membership is still over 100 million people but no one is questioning China as a nation-state. The USSR turned out to be a unique case in its attitudes towards the word nation. The Soviet authoritarian regime could afford the luxury of using ethno-nations in policy and administration, using them to build state structures. It was more because of the polemic with bourgeois federalism based on territoriality than for any other reason that the principle of internal national statehoods became established in the USSR. The idea of a civic nation was replaced by the ideology of Soviet patriotism and by the formulae of the Soviet people as the new historical community. Therefore, the notion of a nation and the term nationality for ethnic af liation became the property of culturally similar groups among the countrys population. The task of nation-building was delegated to the ethnically designated internal state formations. With the KGB, the Communist Partys apparatus, and with the newspaper Pravda at its disposal, the state easily downgraded the idea of nation to lower level structures than what is considered to be a national. In the USSR, the appealing but potentially self-destructive formula of multinationality emerged and nowadays it is strongly present in Rossia. Rogers Brubaker was right when he wrote: Thus the Soviet Union was neither conceived in theory nor organized in practice as a nation-state. Yet while it did not de ne the state or citizenry as a whole in national terms, it did de ne component parts of the state or citizenry in national terms. Herein lies the distinctiveness of the Soviet nationality regime in its unprecedented displacement of nationhood and nationality, as organizing principle of the social and political order, from the statewide to the sub-state level. No other state has gone so far in sponsoring, codifying, institutionalizing, even (in some case) inventing nationhood and nationality on the sub-state level, while at the same time doing nothing to institutionalize them on the level of the state as a whole (Brubaker 1996, p. 29). The degree of success in using the metaphor of the nation at an allstate level depends not only on the purposeful ideological efforts of the state itself, but on other factors as well, among which economic wellbeing is extremely important. So-called nation-building does not correlate directly with the ethnic complexity or the ethnic homogeneity of the population. Economically successful states with socially successful, liberal governance tend to secure the loyalty of their citizens with greater ease. The latter are more willing to recognize a common nation state, that they consider a homeland, when they recognize it as being better to live in than other countries. The length of process which was needed for their consolidation (nation-formation ) does not in itself account for the homogeneous character of, say, Euro-American states. It can, however,
be explained in part by the strong preference of the community members to maintain the social comfort they have achieved . Prosperity and order, which are important for any individual, enable wealthy countries to live without frantic efforts of civic nation-building, and even without the ensuing results of homogenization. It is commonly believed that these countries underwent nationbuilding in the faraway past, in the times of the Tudors, the French Revolution, Bismarck, or Mazzini. For the lay public and for many experts, the Western European civic nations look like a fait accompli and are regarded as classical nation-states, those enjoying full legitimacy based on single core cultures. However, we know this not to be the case. The cultural and political heterogeneity of accomplished nation-states was not only sustained throughout the twentieth century, but it actually increased. Furthermore, it did not happen because of a kind of mininationalism in Europe, but because of the in ux of immigrant populations. These new populations are often more nationally-thinking than the old settlers. For example, in the UK, it is likely that only a minority would describe themselves as belonging to the British nation, whereas the majority differentiate between the English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh nations, by identifying themselves in ethno-cultural terms. Yet, very few would question the British nation-state and the British nation. Therefore, the question is not only about the building and forming of collective bodies called nations. The question is whether one is willing to challenge this idea and to wage dissident we are different debates. It seems that clients of cultural particularism or irredentism appear more often as soon as there is a deterioration in the standard of living or in security conditions. They may also happen to be the wealthiest section of the countrys population who prove unwilling to share their gains with other members of the polity. Quite often, they are the rst to challenge the project of one nation. Civic nations or nation-states may be regarded as terminal communities only when there are no domestic and outside challenges or when these nations are protected by powerful military alliances. Spain and Turkey are one example. To contest the success of these countries in establishing commonly shared nations or to speak of them as multinational states with non-status nations is virtually impossible, partly because of NATOs umbrella. That kind of questioning was much easier in reference to the former Second and Third Worlds where experts found what they call quasi-society (Jackson 1990; Hall 1995, p. 27) or illegitimate states (Guibernau 1996, p. 59). Actually, we can speak only of the degree of loyalty among citizens of poorly performing states, and this is not suf cient for making a politically signi cant categorization based on a nation metaphor. There are even less grounds to de ne legitimate (mainly European) and illegitimate (African and Asian) states (see this classi cation in Guibernau 1996).
The core of the academic problem is therefore not to establish the nomenclature of non-nation-states (quasi-societies, mini-empires, and multinational states) and to turn them into nation-states as some kind of encompassing and natural form. Concerning Rossia, according to some experts, it would be making a felicitous environment of Russia to de ne itself as a proper Russia (Brzezinski 1994, p. 79). The fact is that we are dealing with a phenomenon of weak and strong, rich and poor states where citizens, and especially lites, have different degrees of (dis)loyalty and opportunities for their manifestation. In Rossia, there exists a high degree of cultural and civic homogeneity . At the same time there are strong but mutually non-exclusive ethnic group identities which are articulated by con icting lites. The problem of this particular state of Rossia, we are dealing with the moral revolution of double negation when there was a radical rejection of political order and ideology which brought the denial of legitimacy of the state per se, of its history and its living experience. This huge area of the world became a mental terra nullis. Past human normality and everyday muddling through became the caricature of Homo Sovieticus a concept imposed from the outside. As regards this case, contemprary nation-state discourse is impossible to understand outside of the context of global power dispositions. In contrast, no one would try to de ne proper America according to the countrys hegemonic idea through the image conjured up in the words of the much loved song: From California to the New York island, From the redwood forest to the gulfstream waters, This land is made for you and me! [of course, without Alaska and Hawaii! VT.] States tend to use tools of consolidation differently. In some stable countries, like Switzerland or Great Britain, there is no need to stress notions of Swiss nation and British nation. Some are very nationalistic in a civic sense, like the USA where people sing the song America, America even at the Oklahoma bombing memorial ceremony. In other countries, consolidation and rationalization of the entire society are provided by other means that prevent the fragmentation of what seem like quasi-societies to the Western Europeans. In ex-Yugoslavia, it was the one party structure, a strong national leaders charisma (Tito, incidentally, was an ethnic Croat) and the modest pan-Yugoslav ideology which made this nation-state not the worst one even by European standards, especially from the point of minority status. In the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) a socialist nation unitary ideology, superious sport and a repressive apparatus secured the same mission. In China, however, the same ideological complex functions the one party structure and a strong historical myth of an ancient state as the
centre of the Universe. In India, we can nd the ideology and practice of pluralism, tolerance and compromise together with pan-Indianism. In Iceland and Jamaica there is a complex of geographical isolation that also implies integrity. In Puerto Rico it is a complex of association with a powerful neighbour. Theoretically speaking, there is no need for a nation to be a legitimate state. All these debates are political ones. Today, to categorize two members of the UN, the former GDR as a non-nation-state and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) as a nation-state would imply a post-factual rationalization. The GDR and ex-Yugoslavia were no less legitimate compared with other states. The real question is why did the Germans cross the Berlin wall in only one direction? They did so not because of their desire to leave a non-nation and become members of their own nation-state. The explanation should be looked for in the preferred social conditions, including political freedom A reference to any speci c language or political tradition, if East Central Europe is to use the words and hence the concepts state and nation distinctly and separately, does not thereby provide a more prudent and more productive easy escape, as some specialists believe (Rothschild 1994). Zero option for states and ethnoses Contemporary nation and nationalism discourse in Eastern Europe and in post-Soviet states is in a political and doctrinal grande impasse and it is useless to discuss it in any traditional framework. It is really a problem of political mind. Partly, there is the dif culty of refocusing a research paradigm from ontological nationalism to psychological nationalism when both government and the people make a supreme effort to reafrm and further develop the positive cultural and psychological characteristics, and make a similar effort to mitigate, reduce, perhaps eliminate the negative (Diaz-Guerrero 1997, p. 379). The latter perspective looks like wishful thinking but no one should underestimate the role of perceptions and purposeful efforts to impose mental prescriptions. What I want to suggest as the hard scenario of resolving this methodological and worldwide political problem is what I call the zero option. States can abandon the use of the word nation as an academically and legally meaningless self-ascription. My position is that a state is just a state. Labelling it as national or not, is like giving it an adjective of colour (for example, blue state, brown state). It is quite possible to start this major dismantling, beginning with academic language and expertise. This dismantling may happen rapidly as occurred at some moment of history with the concept of renaissance, initially understood and then maintaining its meaning as the second revival of the Ancient World . This procedure, however, can be successful only if there is a simultaneous denial of the word by another competing client the ethnic group. The nation label with respect to ethnic community is even less
functional and even more meaningless. All attempts to sub-divide this type of human coalition, that is, ethnic entities into nations, peoples or tribal groups are, in fact, counterproductive. Thomas Hylland Eriksen viewed the nation as a product of the ideology of nationalism and wrote that it emerges from the moment when a group of in uential people decide that it should be the case (1993, p. 105). Once Evdokia Gayer, a member of Gorbachevs parliament and an indigenous leader, asked me: When, will we, the Nanais [an indigenous group in the Rossian Far East], be able to call ourselves a nation? My answer was: From the moment you asked this question you can believe that there is such a nation. Now, after six years, I can say that nothing developed along this line, simply because there was an absence of other activists from the same group as her to invest in this project. There are no other arguments for a nation but a chosen project and its followers. Another example is a Gagauz case when in December 1995 a new nation emerged as a result of constituted autonomy in Moldova. No changes in cultural or social characteristics took place at the moment of this decision on the part of the Moldovan parliament. Whatever else happened, there was no nation formation. So the only way out of this impasse of meanings is to adopt the position that either all ethnic groups may call themselves nations if the term nation continues to play a role in politics, or else nobody can. At least, it should not go to the sphere of analysis. Thus, behind the academically empty word nation, we are losing something much more important and real in the multifaceted roles that ethnicity and nationalism rhetoric play in individual and group action. We are introducing into our research agenda a phenomenon that is simply not there and passing judgement on political actors and their accomplishments on the basis of false criteria and what I call mytho-poetic de nitions. That is why my nal words are: forget the nation to save states, peoples and cultures, even if future scholars may question these de nitions as well. As for the word itself, it looks as though there are new clients to try it on among whom Californian gays and lesbians introduced this noble self-ascription by calling themselves a Queer nation. Let this people go. Note
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Serendipity Brought Us Fast HR and Gamification
Your score, level, and badges are game mechanics used to communicate progress, challenges, and accomplishments—and they are the secret sauce to engagement.
Lorri Freifeld
By Greg Greunke, VP, Client Services & Operations, ThinkSmart
Just before leaving the Walt Disney museum I caught this quote from Bill Anderson about perhaps the most innovative man who ever lived. “Nothing was too precious for Walt to change, even his own ideas.”
Our lives have been changed forever by the software and machines we use to run our business, but to be truly innovative, try turning the solution around on itself. Two trends that started to gain momentum in 2012 were not software solutions but the methods used by software developers: fast HR and gamification.
The biggest entertainment release of all time was not a movie. It was the video game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. It raked in sales of more than $400 million in the U.S. and UK alone. Today’s video game designers don’t just have the biggest budgets and coolest jobs in the world, they have a sophisticated process for captivating and engaging their audience.
The tools of a game designer are creativity, game design, and game mechanics. All three are critical to create a compelling game experience, but game mechanics are so much better with technology.
As gamers play a game, they are rewarded with instant feedback—earning badges, points, and surprise bonuses (known in the gaming world as Easter Eggs). Leveling up is rewarded with increasingly difficult challenges and increased status among other game players. Competition is communicated through leaderboards.
For years, people have tried to add games to business objectives with limited success. This all changed in 2009 when people started to combine elements of gaming with a digital world. Gamification is the application of game mechanics and game-thinking in a non-game environment to influence desired behavior.
In no way does this mean adding a baseball theme to your sales contest. Instead, think of your business as the game with goals, challenges, and players. Now imagine a football game without a score, Angry Birds without levels, or the Boy Scouts without badges. Your score, level, and badges are game mechanics used to communicate progress, challenges, and accomplishments—and they are the secret sauce to engagement.
The first question asked whenever I give a presentation on gamification is “What mechanics should I use on X?” Unfortunately, there’s no single answer. Gamification is an iterative process. Write a plan to gamify an element of your business, measure, modify, and repeat. You know it’s gamification if:
It provides feedback.
It encourages discovery.
It shows a path to mastery.
It collects data.
It uses game design and game mechanics.
Fast HR
Early programmers used a method of development called the Waterfall Method. This process had five formal stages and all tasks and bugs were worked out before moving to the next stage. This linear method looked good on paper because clients only saw completed work; however, projects usually ran behind schedule and changes in planning or technology could not be incorporated until future versions of the software.
While it used to take years for new technologies and business models to replace old ones, today’s changes take months. Agile software development was born based on iterative and incremental development. The Agile Manifesto (http://www.agilemanifesto.org) includes four simple values:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
Agile methods break tasks into small increments to iterate quickly, emphasize face-to-face communication, and work in small teams. In the four bullet points above, emphasis is given to the bold goal on the left over the right.
Software development isn’t the only place where speed counts in today’s business environment. Employee needs change rapidly and the software designed by Human Resources to manage large populations has increased expectations for faster analysis and direction.
A demand for faster results when managing human capital led to the development of Fast HR. Quite simply, Fast HR borrows the concept of Agile Programming and applies it to Human Resources. It is not a guide on how to manage your HR department but a plan to ensure evolution.
For a thorough review of Fast HR, read the paper, “Fast HR,” by Theresa Welbourned, Ph.D. (http://ceo.usc.edu/working_paper/fast_hr.html). She explores radical ideas in organization, documentation, and communication. But if you’re an innovator like Walt, challenging your own ideas should be par for the course.
Greg Greunke is VP, Client Services & Operations, ThinkSmart. He builds strategic partnerships and develops programs to build engagement and loyalty.For more information, visit www.thinksmartusa.com or contact him at greg.greunke@thinksmartusa.com or 415.729.9246.
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Clippers’ Lou Williams Scores Career-High 50 Points In Win Vs. Warriors, Spoils Kevin Durant’s Night [VIDEO]
OAKLAND, CA - OCTOBER 04: Kevin Durant #35 of the Golden State Warriors claps his hands during their preseason game against the Los Angeles Clippers at ORACLE Arena on October 4, 2016 in Oakland, California.
January 11, 2018, 11:45 amPablo Mena Daily Digest, News, Z-Home Slider0
By Pablo Mena / January 11, 2018
Lou Williams stole the spotlight from Kevin Durant with a brilliant performance in the Los Angeles Clippers’ 125-106 road victory over the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday night, one that included a 30-foot shot in the dying seconds.
Lou Williams highlights, Clippers vs. Warriors
The Clippers guard finished with a career-high 50 points, 27 of which came in the third quarter.
5⃣0⃣!
Lou Williams scores a career-high 50 PTS in the @LAClippers 125-106 win over the @warriors!#ItTakesEverything pic.twitter.com/O28S0cHaDW
— NBA (@NBA) January 11, 2018
Durant received a standing ovation from the crowd at Oracle Arena in the first half after he reached a major milestone: 20,000 points. The 29-year-old All-Star forward — who was the Finals MVP in 2017 — is the second-youngest NBA player to surpass the 20K mark.
Before DeAndre Jordan’s free throw, Warriors give Kevin Durant a standing ovation for the joining the 20K club pic.twitter.com/PltUDahGcQ
— Mark Medina (@MarkG_Medina) January 11, 2018
After the game, Durant commented on Williams’ big night:
“He ordered a 50-piece nuggets on us tonight,” said Durant, who had 40 points on Wednesday. “Somebody scores 50 on you the way he did — you’ve just got to pay homage and move on.”
The Warriors entered halftime up by four, but then Williams went on his explosive run to put the Clippers up for good.
Lou Williams had a big 3rd quarter for the @LAClippers, scoring 27 PTS!#ItTakesEverything pic.twitter.com/GW7Ra94Z4h
Warriors coach Steve Kerr said he believed his team’s generally negative attitude played a major role in the loss.
“Our spirit wasn’t right,” said Kerr. “Our energy wasn’t right. We weren’t connected, and they were,” Kerr said. “The Clippers, they came in here, probably insulted that we were resting Klay, and obviously Steph goes down. … They came in and just kicked our ass.”
“I just didn’t like the way the game unfolded with our lack of energy — actually it was like a negative energy. I haven’t seen that often with this team over the last few years. So tonight was a bad night.”
Draymond Green finished with an astoundingly low seven points on 1-of-9 shooting, no steals, no blocks and a minus-16 for the game.
Here are more stats from Wednesday’s matchup:
Lou Williams filled it up for the @LAClippers, posting a career-high 50 PTS, 7 AST as they beat the @warriors in Oakland!
Tyrone Wallace: 22 PTS, 6 REB, 4 AST
Montrezl Harrell: 14 PTS, 7 REB
Kevin Durant: Season-high 40 PTS pic.twitter.com/AAMKTC0bJE
Shams Charania of Yahoo! Sports reported early Thursday that although the Clippers and Williams have discussed a contract extension, no deal has yet officially been reached.
Sources: Lou Williams and the Clippers have recently engaged in contract extension discussions, but no deal’s formed as sides evaluate positions. Williams went for 50 points against the Warriors in Oakland tonight. He’s eligible for an extension during season.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) January 11, 2018
The (33-9, 1st in Western Conference) next visit Milwaukee on Friday night, while the Clippers (19-21, 9th in West) will visit Sacramento on Thursday night.
OAKLAND, CA – OCTOBER 04: Kevin Durant #35 of the Golden State Warriors claps his hands during their preseason game against the Los Angeles Clippers at ORACLE Arena on October 4, 2016 in Oakland, California.
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Writer and assistant editor for usports.org. NY Giants and Rangers fan. Film and TV enthusiast (especially Harry Potter and The Office) and lover of foreign languages and cultures.
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Thedarkness77
Good video, but whats up with all the contreversy over this topic?
Does anyone know who Smedley Butler was?
aenimau5
The more I listen to you the more awesome you seem, viva escapism
SFR:
I've never understood the Global Warming thing. I mean, it exists guys... that's science. Why do people not believe in it? It's not a belief... it's fucking SCIENCE.
I mean, yeah, a large part of it is because of human existence, but if you're not "believing" in it because you don't want to be responsible for something, chill out. One person alone didn't cause rising ocean levels. We all play a role, and pretending Global Warming isn't there WON'T help fix the problem. Is Global Warming and it's effects often hyperbolized? You better believe it. Is it something to ignore? Nope. It's still there, and if we don't do something about it soon, we're going to lose the most important thing on this planet: penguins.
If we ignore it hard enough, it'll go away.
(Penguins! :D )
Sargon of Akkad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
The guy who got tapped by a very real conspiracy of rich bastards to try and overthrow FDR, right?
Not all conspiracy theories are nuts. Just most of them.
Lieju
The conspiracy theories also appeal to people because it's nice to think you know the truth everyone else is blind to see, and that you're special, and that goverment is afraid of you for knowing this thing they want to bury.
teknoarcanist
Iraq wasn't faked, just a criminally ideologically-driven clusterfuck. High-ranking officials have testified that Bush and Cheney 'pushed for war in Iraq to the point of insubordination', despite the only evidence of ties between 9/11 and the Saddam regime being the hearsay of a few shepherds, and the international intelligence community -- including the CIA itself -- telling them that there was little to no evidence that Hussein possessed WMD's.
The truth isn't Haliburton, war-for-oil, etc...it's that we were being led by a criminally retarded wack-job who epitomized that farthest far-right foreign policy agendas of the time, consisting of the exportation of democracy and war.
And as a result of the old-school-right coming to its farthest head in the Bush administration, now we have neo-cons pushing the envelope to even further extremes of batshit whackery!
The Great JT
I welcome the coming reptilian overlords with glee. Hopefully they'll make better use of this pathetic blue marble we call a world than we have.
I mean we let Jersey Shore get more than one episode. We have NO REASON to be the dominant species of this planet anymore if we're going to let that stick around.
Hubert South
If I were someone who is operation a conspiracy, I would purposefully inject as many zany, impossible, and far-out conspiracy theories into the collective knowledge pool as possible.
If there is a conspiracy, lets say, the Illuminaty, then I damned well like them because they would have the brains to formulate plans that last years, decades, or even centuries, and are thus by default more capable of organizing humainty that any of the other clusterfucking morons who we actually elect.
Oh, and by the way, want a real conspiracy, close to home, dear bob? Look up J Edgar Hoover. Noone stays in power that long with a clean record.
xdom125x
Bob is a Reptile?!?! What A Tweest!!
But seriously I enjoyed this video. It really reminds me of the time that I was obsessed with conspiracy theories. Luckily I realized how ridiculous they were by my second year of high school.
re dir
dear bob and the escapist forums,
I have been searching around on the topic of global warming, trying to decide wither it is real or not. To me the global warming(GW) argument breaks down into 4 parts. 1) the globe is warming, 2)CO2 is increasing 3) C02 increase(2) causes warming(1) and 4) global warming is very bad.
Generally 1 and 2 are covered at a normal to fast pace, but agreed upon by both sides. part 3 is then more often than not hurriedly rushed over, relying on the incorrect assumption that correlation implies causation. Finally part 4 is overloaded, and crammed in throughout the entire video.
I've tried searching around a bit for some solid evidence on part 3, however the only people who I really see covering it in depth, are the people arguing against GW. With arguments like "the heating is taking place in the wrong area of the atmosphere", and "temperature increases before CO2"(both made by the great global warming swindle)
Now let me clarify, I am not against going green, in fact I think all the advancements towards protecting are planet are excellent.However I don't believe that we have a need to rush this,or scare people into doing it. We need to make the green way, the best way.
I also like to think that I maintain an open mind. Its not that I'm trying to shoot down GW because it gets in the way of industry, or because it makes things harder on me. I don't believe in GW because I believe that there is a a lack of conclusive evidence.Now I know there are going to be some people who want to bring forward every thing under the sun about GW.
So let it be known, I know that the globe is warming. I know that CO2 is increasing, I understand that global warming can be ban, but I don't know that CO2 causes the increase in temperature. So if you want to argue with me, and prove me wrong, the only way that I can see to do it is to prove part 3 of the argument, without correlation implies causation, because it doesn't.
Vault Citizen
Bob's evil lizardman voice is surprisingly good.
re dir:
Look, you can believe the laws of physics, or you can believe the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Your choice which.
Urameshi13
I understand being from Massachusetts that you're going to be a left-leaning guy, but the Fox News and Bush bashing is a bit old and trite, don't you think?
spider-dork
And remember that hole in the ozone layer? That too. Is it just easier to say "humans did it" than to actually prove otherwise? However, I have to agree with re dir on the idea that going green is good. Why be wasteful and inefficient just because you can.
Then again "selling carbon credits" is a load of shit and I dare anyone to disagree.
clockout
It warms my heart that some people still believe in "Shit happens".
http://www.skepticalscience.com/
This is a great site because it utilizes peer reviewed articles from people who actually know what they are talking about. If you don't believe in global warming, it's simply because of how complex the issue is. The story most people are told is ridiculously simplified, because not everyone is qualified enough to understand the complexities behind global warming. It's hard to do, but you have to concede that maybe people with Ph.Ds (who spend their lives studying these issues) might understand the issue just a tiny bit better than someone like you or me. I mean, hell, I've taken numerous college classes that help me understand some of the science behind it, and even then a lot of the complexity is completely over my head. Doesn't mean it's wrong, just that we can't fully understand it.
We trust doctors to tell us what is wrong with our bodies even though with our limited knowledge they could be flat-out lying to us. Why? Because they are experts in the field of medicine and we concede that they know more than us. Why are scientists treated differently in the public eye?
Very good. Now, do you know who Huey Long was?
I know how the green house gas effect works. However if it were an increase in greenhouse gases that was causing the increased temperature then the temperature increase would start in the Troposphere. However it doesn't start in the Troposphere, it starts at the surface for the most part.
Now this is quite a long video, and I don't expect you to go digging throught it to find bit of data pertaining to my staitments, so may I suggest you watch from 15:40 to 20:00 at the least, there is a bit more on it, but that covers what I talked about here
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5576670191369613647#
Also, I do concede that I am far from an expert on the areas of global warming, and on most of the sciences. However for me to belive in global warming I need to see evidence of the link between them. Thanks for the website, I'll check it out more after dinner(which is happening now)
Angnor
Great video, loved it.
And I was thrilled to see the artwork from the HeroQuest boxed set used... :)
Made my day.
teknoarcanist:
Don't forget the ongoing accusations of massive organized vote fraud in BOTH of Bush's elections. That's a fun one, too.
Urameshi13:
Fox-bashing NEVER gets old. Not 'til they stop being the Republican Party's answer to Pravda.
Bush Bashing will get old once all the messes he left are cleaned up. I figure we've got a good twenty-to-fifty years left in them.
Father Time
What do you mean we landed on the moon?
Look at this random spot on this photograph NASA took. See that there maybe kinda sorta definitely proves that NASA faked it.
Your episode reminded me of this (the relevant bit starts at 2:35)
Nice episode, loved the touch at the end.
Xander_VJ
Funny video, Bob, as usual.
I never got too into conspiracy theories, or as we call it in Spain since March 11th, 2004 (our personal 9/11), "conspiranoia" ("conspiracy" + "paranoia").
If anything, I think that from time to time they are actually true, but they are full of it most of the time. And I think that's precisely what can make them scary: since most of the time they aren't true, they can go away with it when they actually are.
Personally, I am very emotionally distanced from them, so when I see a conspiracy theory I can't help but to find it very entertaining. We have to admit that well thought conspiracies have the same appeal as the best written crime novels. I think that's part of why some people find them so attractive.
For instance, I think "JFK" is a GREAT movie. But that's because I don't believe Stone's conspiracy any more that I believe the plot of "Gladiator". Yes, it is based in real events, but the plot core itself is just fiction, even if Stone believed it himself. Although I admit that the single bullet theory should rise an eyebrow... Oh, well, I better don't get into that.
In any case, it was fun.
dcrane
The world is s#!t? Hey Bob, here's a recommendation: grab a backpack and hit the road. Yes, there's a lot of disparity in the world, but it's really not that bad a place if you make the effort to absorb it first hand through the people and their cultures, rather than second hand through our media.
Dr Snakeman
MovieBob, I will admit that the things you've said have irritated me in the past. You are a bit of a bleeding-heart liberal, and I'm... not.
But this... this proves that despite all the little things, I agree with you where it counts. Namely, people all suck, and conspiracy theories are bullsh*t.
I like to watch this little gem every time I tink about conspiracy theorists.
It warms my psychotic little heart to imagine Buzz Aldrin punching out every conspiracy theorist. Just going down a row of jackasses, clocking them in the jaw one by one 'til judgement day.
"Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized." - William S. Burroughs
SonicWaffle:
Generic Gamer:
Hahaha, do you know what misaimed sarcasm is called?
Well, just there you said it was called misaimed sarcasm, so I'll go with that :-P
"a big dude in the sky did it" is not the simplest explanation, it requires a massive unexplained phenomenon, a willingness to disregard evidence and a willingness not to observe the world around you.
Not at all. Remember, we're not talking about proving anything here. Remember where I said about avoiding details or problems of proof? Asserting that everything is done by magic (or God, or Superman, or who-fucking-ever) is fundamentally more simple than positing complex solutions for the creation of universe, the rise of sentient life, and so on. It is essentially the simplest answer of all, because it boils down to "just because". It's hard to get any simpler than that, right?
Because that raises tons of unanswered questions. Where did it come from? Where did it get it's power from? etc.
Magic is not simple. Magic is a force that can violate all laws of physics. That's not a simple explanation.
What's more likely: The magician has an elaborate series of trapdoors and mirrors OR the magician has real magical powers he uses to make things cease to exist (which violates the laws of physics).
AWAR
Pfff... I continue to doubt and question everything. GJ willingly pushing forward NWO agendas Bob.
McShizzle
I don't think Cheney is part of any hooded cabal or anything but he sure does have a lot of coporate contacts that made a lot of money off the Iraqi adventure. You'd have to have a pretty good argument to convince me that him and the old boys club weren't pulling the strings in that administration.
mrhateful
Im a huge libertarian and i sometimes have problems watching these liberal internet shows like
Extra credit, current, thatguywiththeglasses, etc and even this show.
Now normally i shrug it off but sometimes they are just too smug about it, thinking their the most intelligent and caring people on the planet.
Example: There were an extra credits recently where he talked about how great he was since he went to an auction that gave the money to charity.
Now Movie bob's claim that man made global warning is not a conspiracy, really annoys me because its such a smug statement, thinking that he knows better then everyone else.
To me alot(not all) of the GW talk sounds more like a religion to me than science, kinda like the new intelligent design.
Here is a couple of examples to show what i mean.
GW is about the sinful nature of human, and how to better your existance by living a purer simple life. Restraint is the keyword <-> Only have sex to produce offstring never for pleasure, restrain is the keyword
GW is about a coming doomsday. <-> Bad people go to hell.
GW is caused purely by humen. <-> Relion raises humanity above animals.
Gw gets people rallied behind a common cause <-> Religion rallys people behind one belief.
GW cant be unproven therefor it is true <-> Religion cant be unproven therefor it is.
Theres probably more but i just cant think of any.
Scrythe
Oh damn, I giggled like a secret-whisperingd 6-year-old girl at the end of this video.
Lizard Bob is now officially my hero.
Maleb
sry but you are dead wrong. IPCC are hacks and their reports have incomplete data, wrong data, falsified data, make hastily conclusions on vague assumptions and whenever someone speaks against them, they have "classified data" that back them up.
Besides IPCC get their support from a lot governments and known spokepersons and a lot of media attention. So everything they say is iniatally blown up, without any evidentbased science backing them up.
if you think 97% of all scientists believe global warming is induced by us people, then you are obviously under the influence of the brainwashing of the IPCC and blabbering incoherently along with the mass. Get your facts straight and contribute in the debate
Nothing is random , a roll of the die isn't random, it's physics in action.
But then end result is the same so moot point. As your "opinions" label implies you are aware.
Anyway I liked this, but I think there's a little more to it than the fact it's comforting to think that 9/11 only occurred because it was allowed. People look for pattens, it's what we do, gamers should know this better than most. So when we have events where the cause is simple and stand-alone even if we accept that our brains will try to find any pattens in it, creating them if we don't accept the absence.
The hunter who attributes a strange sound to a predator lives longer than the fellow who dismisses it as the wind, rational or no.
Warforger
You only halfway touched it, it's not that they want to escape from reality it's that they want to feel enlightened, or at least to them it makes alot of sense. It does of course still evade logic but then they pad it down with "cover up!" "lies!". Personally I think we only invaded Iraq just to get rid of Saddam, it was the perfect time to strike and we took it, if it was for WMD's we would've left after we found out there wasn't but instead we stayed to stabilize a new government which likes us.
Jatal Khyron
OK, admittedly I'm new to the threads here, and I enjoy watching these MovieBob vids, but as a conservative I feel like the lone voice of dissent against a thousand strong chorus. Look, I get that Bob's politics lean so far to the left he tips over. It's his soapbox, he's free to say what he wishes. BUT, don't you think that now more than ever we should at least TRY to listen to opposing points of view?
Whenever I hear people call Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck idiots, blowhards, etc., my first question is 'Do you listen/watch their shows?" and 99 times out of 100 I hear "Hell, no! He's an idiot!" I know not every last thing they say is perfect nor gospel, but much of what they say makes sense, if you are only willing to put aside your own prejudices for a little while.
I'm not a Kool-Aid drinker. I believe in pro-choice abortion. I believe in same-sex marriages. I have an ingrained disdain for religions of all stripes as nothing more than ancient superstitions. However, I listen to Rush, watch Fox News, and get really ticked off when I see the shots that certain pundits and so called 'smart people in the room' take at my beliefs. It seems like the only people in this country that are still OK to denigrate and insult in this hyper-sensitive ultra P.C. era are conservatives. Blacks? Well, that's OK if it's Michael Steele. Barack Obama? No way, then you're a racist. Sarah Palin? That's fine. Hillary Clinton? <GASP> Now that kind of rhetoric is just not right!
I guess I just wanted to get this off my chest. As I said, I enjoy watching these vids. I am open to new ideas and thoughts from those who may think differently from me. However, when I see the obvious bias against what I believe in casually thrown in my face, I immediately get turned off what I'm watching, and stop listening.
Maybe if you want to bring people together, you should stop telling half of us we're always wrong.
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The Vorkosigan Saga Reread: Mirror Dance, Part 1
Posted in Mirror Dance, Vorkosigan, tagged Auson, Bel Thorne, books, Bujold, Elena, Elli Quinn, Escobar, Mark, Miles, Mirror Dance, Naismith, reread, science fiction, Taura, Vorkosigan on November 27, 2012| Leave a Comment »
While surfing the web, you hear a knock on the door.
>OPEN DOOR
You see a Vorkosigan Saga Reread here.
>EXAMINE REREAD
The Vorkosigan Saga Reread is an ongoing series dedicated to exploring the Vorkosigan Saga, a science fiction series written by Lois McMaster Bujold. Its main character, Barrayaran Lord Miles Vorkosigan, has a double life as mercenary Admiral Miles Naismith, a recently-discovered clone-brother, lots of friends and enemies, and a few relatives. It looks like the Vorkosigan Saga Reread is about to start a new book.
>EXAMINE BOOK
Mirror Dance is a Hugo-winning novel which, in the opinion of the Reread’s author, begins the strongest sequence of books in the entire series, as Miles meets up with his clone-brother once again.
>ENTER REREAD
The row of comconsole booths lining the passenger concourse of Escobar’s largest commercial orbital transfer station had mirrored doors, divided into diagonal sections by rainbow-colored lines of lights. Doubtless someone’s idea of decor. The mirror-sections were deliberately set slightly out of alignment, fragmenting their reflections. The short man in the gray and white military uniform scowled at his divided self framed therein.
He examines his reflection, dwarfish and subtle deformed, in a generic mercenary uniform. The booth opens and the woman inside emerges, taken aback by his glower and quickly excusing herself; he manages to mutter something polite in return, before entering the booth and closing the door. He pauses to gather his courage, noting that there’s a damned mirror inside the booth as well. He inventories his remaining personal possessions–300 Betan dollars on a credit chit, three false identities, none of them matching whoever he was now, a comb, and a data cube. Finally he punches in a long-memorized number and puts at least a neutral expression on his face.
The woman who answers identifies herself as Dendarii Comm Officer Hereld, and immediately, and enthusiastically, recognizes “Admiral Naismith”. He asks for a pickup at the station, and when asked says it’s just him, no Elli Quinn, no other personnel or equipment. He pauses to wonder nervously whether he should include something personal for Hereld, then confines himself to adding that he wishes to be taken directly to the Ariel, and to notify Captain Thorne that they will be leaving orbit soon.
“Naismith out.” He cut the comm. She vanished in a haze of sparkles, and he let out a long breath. Admiral Naismith. Miles Naismith. He had to get used to responding to that name again, even in his sleep. Leave the Lord Vorkosigan part completely out of it, for now; it was difficult enough just being the Naismith half of the man. Drill. What is your name? Miles. Miles. Miles.
Lord Vorkosigan pretended to be Admiral Naismith. And so did he. What, after all, was the difference?
He is, of course, really Miles’s clone Mark, but right now he wills his name to be Miles Naismith; leaving the booth, he heads off at a trot to where the shuttle will be picking him up.
The pilot of the shuttle seems as eager to see Naismith as Hereld was, as if he were “about to pull treats from his pockets”. Mark fends off the pilot’s enquiries mildly and feigns tiredness. As he pretends to doze, he thinks about how everyone seems to be so damned energized by Miles’s mere presence–even his enemies, and wonders how the hyperactive idiot did it. Nobody ever reacted to the unalloyed Mark that way… Bel Thorne will be a bit of a test for him, an old friends of Miles’s, as well as one who knows about Mark’s existence, so any mistakes might lead him to the truth about Mark’s identity. It annoys him that Miles is now claiming that Admiral Naismith is a clone of Lord Vorkosigan, just another swipe at Mark’s identity. But he reassures himself that he’ll be fine with Thorne, as long as he avoids Elli Quinn, who’s off with the real Miles anyway. After twenty years of imprisonment by the Komarrans, and two years of one disaster after another, this is his last chance, so he has to make it work.
The shuttle docks at the Ariel, which Mark thinks is a good, fast ship for running away in. They dock, and Mark dismisses the pilot and debarks, to meet Captain Thorne at last. Mark isn’t bothered by Thorne being a hermaphrodite–as a clone, he has sympathy for the genetically different–but he is a little disturbed by Thorne’s “I-love-Naismith” face. He’s completely caught off guard when Bel steps forward and hugs him, and only barely endures it, relieved that Thorne doesn’t try to kiss him, too. Thorne asks what the matter is, and Mark says he’s just tired. He says he’d rather just go straight to the mission briefing–just to Thorne, so he doesn’t have to risk contact with more of the crew than necessary.
He lets Thorne lead him to its private quarters, making careful note of the route, because Naismith is intimately familiar with the Ariel‘s layout. In its cabin, Thorne gets out some tea and offers some to Mark, who asks for “the usual”. Mark sips the tea, finding it pleasant if not quite sweet enough for him, but decides not to risk asking for sugar. Thorne says the mission is obviously going to be a “lovely” one, from “Miles”‘s mood, and Mark confirms it. He tells Thorne that they’re going to be hitting the Bharaputra clone creche on Jackson’s Whole. Thorne, dismayed, asks if they’re going to be killing the clones; Mark says they’ll be rescuing them, to Thorne’s relief and wholehearted endorsement. Thorne says that he’s long hated the House Bharaputra brain-transplant business, to Mark’s surprise and pleasure.
The arrangement was simple, though the surgical procedure upon which it was based was fiendishly complex. A clone was grown from a customer’s somatic cell, gestated in a uterine replicator and then raised to physical maturity in Bharaputra’s crèche, a sort of astonishingly-appointed orphanage. The clones were valuable, after all, their physical conditioning and health of supreme importance. Then, when the time was right, they were cannibalized. In an operation that claimed a total success rate of rather less than one hundred percent, the clone’s progenitor’s brain was transplanted from its aged or damaged body into a duplicate still in the first bloom of youth. The clone’s brain was classified as medical waste.
The procedure illegal everywhere except Jackson’s Whole, which allows them to a keep a monopoly on it. Mark finds himself genuinely touched by Thorne’s anger over the practice, and he finds himself on the verge of tears. Thorne asks if taking the Ariel is a good idea, since Baron Ryoval may recognize it; Mark has no clue what he’s talking about, and says they’ll just avoid House Ryoval. Thorne asks what the real motivation for the mission is, since it knows that their employers must have a hidden purpose. Mark tells Thorne his prepared story, that one of the clones is of particular interest, but he’d prefer that they treat all of the clones alike, so that the Bharaputrans won’t have a clue which one is the real target.
Thorne asks if they have any backup, and Mark tells Thorne not to count on it. Thorne asks if there are any known threats, apart from Bharaputra, Ryoval and Fell, and Mark doesn’t have any more information, but tells it to take over the planning and logistics and Mark himself will look after the final assault on the creche. There will be about fifty or sixty kids, which should fit aboard the Ariel, though it will be a little tight. Speed is of the essence, since every week means another young clone murdered, and Thorne takes this to mean that their target’s surgery is coming due.
Thorne asks about funds, and Mark says the mission is strictly cash on delivery. To authorize withdrawing what money they need from the Fleet funds, Thorne scans Mark’s palm. The scanner rejects it the first time, but while Mark is on the verge of panic, Thorne is apparently used to it malfunctioning, and it works the second time. Thorne says it knows which commando squad “Naismith” will want, and Mark faintly agrees. Thorne tells him his “usual” cabin will be ready for him, and asks when Quinn will be joining them. Mark says she won’t be coming along, and Thorne is extremely interested by this. Mark tells them to send “his” kit over from Triumph and send him up a meal. Thorne is happy to note that “Miles” seems to be eating better, though not sleeping as well; Mark has in fact been having trouble keeping his weight down to fit Miles’s uniforms.
After leaving Thorne’s quarters, Mark has to try a number of room locks before finding the correct one. He has a shower and emerges just in time for his meal, which he notes is calculated for Miles’s tastes, and appetite, to the smallest detail. As he’s finishing that, a Dendarii non-com brings in his gear from the Triumph. The non-com offers to be his batman for the trip, and Mark eventually has to show a little exasperation to get rid of him. Left alone, he opens the crate with anticipation, like what he imagines birthday presents would be like. There are, indeed, many suits of clothes in all styles, including real space battle armour and half-armour for ground combat, and a command headset which he resolves to learn how to use.
He packs it all up again and is just about asleep when Thorne buzzes him to tell him the commando squad is assembled and ready for him to inspect. With a sigh he gets back up and dressed, manages to pick the right shuttle bay, and pauses to observe the commandos before stepping among them. As he’s inspecting them, one more emerges from the shuttle.
He stood paralyzed with panic. Whatinhell was it? He stared at a flashing belt buckle, then tilted his head back, straining his neck. The freaking thing was eight feet tall. The enormous body radiated power that he could feel almost like a wave of heat, and the face—the face was a nightmare. Tawny yellow eyes, like a wolf’s, a distorted, outslung mouth with fangs, dammit, long white canines locked over the edges of the carmine lips. The huge hands had claws, thick, powerful, razor-edged—enamelled with carmine polish. . . . What? His gaze traveled back up to the monster’s face. The eyes were outlined with shadow and gold tint, echoed by a little gold spangle glued decoratively to one high cheekbone. The mahogany-colored hair was drawn back in an elaborate braid. The belt was cinched in tightly, emphasizing a figure of sorts despite the loose-fitting multi-gray flight suit. The thing was female—?
“Sergeant Taura and the Green Squad, reporting as ordered, sir!” The baritone voice reverberated in the bay.
Mark is barely able to speak from shock, but he dismisses them and tells them to get their orders from Thorne. Taura stays behind to thank him for the mission, surprising Mark with her familiar attitude. She is also extremely interested by Elli’s absence, and tells him that she’ll be his bodyguard any time, “lover”… She places her mouth on his in what he belatedly realizes is a kiss, and he has to feign recent illness to explain it. She offers to carry him to sickbay, but he insists he just needs rest. On his way back to the cabin, he wonders what the hell his crazy clone-brother had been up to with that eight-foot monstrosity, and wonders how his briefings could have missed so many little details about Admiral Naismith’s life.
As he lies back down, he feels the ship unclamp from the Escobar orbital station and head off towards Jackson’s Whole. Exhilarated, he realizes he’s done it, stealing an entire Dendarii ship and crew from his brother, and now he’s on the way to claim his own destiny.
But if you claim your destiny, his demon voice whispered at the last, before the night’s oblivion, why can’t you claim your name?
I took as few classes in English literature as I could, so I’m not normally good at catching symbolism and stuff, but by this point I can pick up on the obvious mirror imagery here. The mirror dance itself dates back to Barrayar, and makes a reappearance later in this book, but it doesn’t take long to figure out that’s there’s a lot more to it than that. The whole book is an examination of Miles vs. his clone, comparing and contrasting–not just the author, but each of them comparing himself with the other…Mark more vigorously than Miles, because Miles is getting pretty content with himself these days. (He should know better–Bujold is not the kind of author to just leave you do that, except maybe between books…)
Of course, there are also ample elements from “Labyrinth” in here–Taura, Bel Thorne, House Bharaputra, Jackson’s Whole–showing good reuse as an author should. Mark had said in Brothers In Arms that taking out the illegal cloning and brain-transplant industry was what he’d really like to do with his freedom, and while he seems to have squandered the money that Miles left him with in that book, he does have other resources, though this does seem to be a bit of a last-ditch move.
Actually, in some ways this is just like The Warrior’s Apprentice. Miles bluffed his way to an Admiralcy in that one, pretending to be something he wasn’t, and now his clone-brother has managed to get himself a ship and crew pretty much the same way. I wonder if that would make him feel any better? Probably not, or this wouldn’t have been his last resort. One does presume, by the way, that he knew enough to wait for a time when Miles wasn’t actually with the fleet, or else his gambit would have failed right off the bat. Presumably he had to track down the Dendarii Fleet, and then watch to make sure Miles was elsewhere…I don’t recall any specific references made to that in the book, but it stands to reason. Though Mark doesn’t always think things all the way through…
Quinn and Miles disembark onto the same Escobar orbital station arm in arm, and Miles revels secretly in how he receives so many envious looks for being with her.
Liquid brown eyes informed her face with wit. But it was the perfect, sculptured curves and planes of the face itself that stopped men’s voices in midsentence. An obviously expensive face, the work of a surgeon-artist of extraordinary genius. The casual observer might guess her face had been paid for by the little ugly man whose arm she linked with her own, and judge the woman, too, to be a purchase. The casual observer never guessed the price she’d really paid: her old face, burned away in combat off Tau Verde. Very nearly the first battle loss in Admiral Naismith’s service—ten years ago, now? God. The casual observer was a twit, Miles decided.
As an example, Miles considers the man who’d been hitting on Quinn on the flight from Sergyar, like a blond version of Ivan, who sighs regretfully as he gathers his own luggage. Elli admits to Miles that she mostly strung him along because she thought he might be an agent of some kind.
Miles says it was nice traveling under the pretense of being a married couple, and asks why they can’t actually get married. Elli asks why they’re having this conversation again; she says she’d be perfectly happy married to Miles Naismith, but she doesn’t want to be Lady Vorkosigan, trapped on a planet for the rest of her life, especially not Barrayar. Miles says that his mother likes her, and Elli agrees, but says that Cordelia Naismith would have been in charge of the Betan Astronomical Survey by now if she’d stayed on her homeworld.
She says that Barrayar is sucking the life out of Cordelia, and will do the same for Miles. She’s seen how he damps himself down on Barrayar, and Miles says that he can’t push things too far, since his deformities are already provocative enough to Barrayarans. Elli says that must be why they send him offplanet so much, not to mention having him gather all this experience which they’ll then make him use in their service. Miles says he’s always in their service; Elli says that when they do call him back, she wants to be Admiral, and Miles agrees.
He prepares himself mentally to return to his Naismith persona, and feels Naismith filling him up, displacing dull old due-for-promotion Lieutenant Vorkosigan. They pass through customs, and then Miles sees the mirrored comconsole booths and suggests they check up on their injured soldiers from Red Squad. Elli goes into the booth to make the call, leaving Miles to wait outside. He considers how comfortable he feels in civilian clothes, when he used to hide inside uniforms to feel more secure. He’s even come to terms with his body, and hasn’t been seriously injured since the bone replacements after the hostage rescue mission. He tells himself he’s twenty-eight, he’s probably reached some sort of physical peak, and it will be all downhill from there… Quinn is talking to Hereld, as Miles can barely see from his angle. Quinn tells Hereld she wants to pick up Red Squad, and asks for a status update.
In the crowded concourse a man in Dendarii grays walked past. He saw Miles, and gave him a hesitant, cautious nod, perhaps uncertain if the Admiral’s civilian gear indicated some sort of cover. Miles returned a reassuring wave, and the man smiled and strode on. Miles’s brain kicked up unwanted data. The man’s name was Travis Gray, he was a field tech currently assigned to the Peregrine, a six-year-man so far, expert in communications equipment, he collected classic pre-jump music of Earth origin . . . how many such personnel files did Miles carry in his head, now? Hundreds? Thousands?
And here came more. Hereld turned back, and rattled off, “Ives was released to downside leave, and Boyd has been returned to the Triumph for further therapy. The Beauchene Life Center reports that Durham, Vifian, and Aziz are available for release, but they want to talk to someone in charge, first.”
“Kee and Zelaski . . . they also want to talk about.”
Quinn says they’ll be on their way, and arranges a small personnel shuttle for transport to the surface. Miles remembers the mission where the Red Squad members had been injured, continuing their aid to the rebels on Marilac. One of the combat drop shuttles had been hit, with Red Squad and some Marilacan VIPs on board, and Durham, the pilot, had brought it in for a passable dock with Triumph so that the passengers could be retrieved, and they made it out before the Cetagandans caught them. Seven of the squad had been injured badly enough to require cryofreezing, and the Beauchene Life Centre on Escobar has been trying to resuscitate them; now Miles and Quinn will find out how successful they’ve been. Miles had almost ended up on that shuttle himself.
The hospital smell in the Life Centre, so often associated with pain in Miles’s experience, makes his adrenaline start to flow, and he tries to calm himself down. They meet with Dr. Aragones, who obviously wishes he had better news, but he complains that the patients are often so poorly prepped. Miles said they got a lot of casualties all at once and had to do the best they could; they make arrangements for recertification of Dendarii personnel in the latest techniques. Aragones tells them that Kee and Zelaski couldn’t be revived, and they arrange for disposal of the bodies according to their wishes. Durham and Vifian have cryo-amnesia, the pilot’s more severe because of the removal of his neural implants, which Aragones isn’t sure yet will be replaceable; for those, they make plans to send them back to their families to help with the recovery. Aziz, on the other hand, suffered severe brain damage because of a bad prep, and he is now essentially a tabula rasa. Since he had no next-of-kin listed, Miles tells them to transfer him to a long-term care facility, and he’ll set up a trust fund to pay for it.
Before they leave, Miles insists of seeing Aziz, and telling him about his old self, in hopes that he might remember it later. Afterwards, Elli asks Miles why he does that to himself, and Miles says that Aziz made the ultimate sacrifice, and he has to show some respect for that. He says that Aziz represents what he fears the most, loss of mind and self, because he relies on his mind so much. They escort Durham and Vifian back, and by the time they reach the Triumph both of the amnesic crewmen have shown some flashes of memory. Miles frets about how much they spend on rehabilitation, and how he needs to make sure it doesn’t short-change the rest of the medical budget, though it’s still funded by the Barrayarans. Elli asks if Simon Illyan is still concerned about Dendarii expenditures, but Miles says it’s mostly because Illyan keeps getting accused of sloppy budgeting by having to seemingly squander so much money all the time. Sergeant LaJoe, the pilot, joins them, and they stop talking about Barrayaran matters. LaJoie shares some good news with them–on Escobar, he’d caught a small news story about how the Cetagandans are withdrawing from Marilac.
“The Cetagandans have just announced their withdrawal from Marilac. They’re calling it—what was that, now—’Due to great progress in the cultural alliance, we are turning police matters over to local control.’ ”
Miles’s fists clenched, joyously. “In other words, they’re abandoning their puppet government! Ha!” He hopped from foot to foot, and pounded Quinn on the back. “You hear that, Elli! We’ve won! I mean, they’ve won, the Marilacans.” Our sacrifices are redeemed. . . .
He regained control of his tightening throat before he burst into tears or some like foolishness. “Do me a favor, LaJoie. Pass the word through the Fleet. Tell them I said, ‘You folks do good work.’ Eh?”
LaJoie leaves with pleasure, and Miles exults in what he and the Dendarii had accomplished, stymieing a Cetagandan invasion without breaking Barrayar’s budget. Elli comments that she’d thought that ImpSec wanted Cetaganda bogged down on Marilac for a while yet. Miles says he’d followed the letter of Illyan’s orders, and he says that four years was long enough. Elli wonders how long it’ll be before Miles gets in trouble for interpreting orders his own way.
Elated, he gives Elli a kiss and they go to their separate quarters. Miles wonders at how much this cabin has become home, and how much the fake persona of Admiral Miles Naismith had become real. Since Ky Tung’s retirement, he has really come into his own, with encyclopedic knowledge of the fleet and its personnel, knowing how to use them to best advantage. He takes a shower and emerges to find, in puzzlement, that he can’t find any of his clothes. His uniforms are gone, and most of his civilian clothes, except for a few of the more outlandish. He wonders if it’s a practical joke, but his space armour is missing too. Perforce, he puts back on the civilian clothes he’d worn on the shuttle.
On the way to the briefing he bumps into Sandy Hereld, who is surprised that he’s back already. Miles assumes she’s speaking of the trip downside, since the Barrayar trip took several weeks, but doesn’t have time to pursue the matter. In the briefing room is most of his senior staff–Auson, the Bothari-Jeseks, and the rest of the senior captains, except for Bel Thorne, for some reason. While waiting for Thorne, Miles asks Elena about visiting her mother on Escobar, which apparently went well. Quinn arrives with the briefing materials, but still no Thorne.
Talk died away. His officers were giving him attentive, let’s-get-on-with-it looks. He’d better not stand around much longer with his thumb in his ear. Before bringing the console display to life, he inquired, “Is there some reason Captain Thorne is late?”
They looked at him, and then at each other. There can’t be something wrong with Bel, it would have been reported to me first thing. Still, a small leaden knot materialized in the pit of his stomach. “Where is Bel Thorne?”
By eye, they elected Elena Bothari-Jesek as spokesperson. That was an extremely bad sign. “Miles,” she said hesitantly, “was Bel supposed to be back before you?”
Elena tells him that Bel left with him three days ago. Elli and Miles protest that that’s impossible, but Miles begins to get an inkling. He asks what the Ariel‘s destination had been, and the answer of Jackson’s Whole confirms it, and Elena and Elli begin to catch on as well.
“You see,” Miles explained in a hollow voice to the What-the-hell-are-they-talking-about? portion of the room, “some people have an evil twin. I am not so lucky. What I have is an idiot twin.”
Compare and contrast…Miles, so at ease with his life and his body, barely even noticing the mirrored comconsole doors. Plus, he has those little personnel files for all of the Dendarii, while Mark struggles to figure out whether each one is somebody he has to treat like he knows them or not. They’re potential obstacles, not people. Miles does seem more alive as Naismith than as himself, but he still feels duties to Barrayar as Lord Vorkosigan, whereas Mark resents having to play either of Miles’s roles. Still, the parallelism between these first two chapters, Mark’s arrival and Miles’s, is a great start to the back.
Irony here, or perhaps foreshadowing, as Miles thinks about being at his physical peak…yeah, this is probably as good as it’s going to get, because your physical condition is due for a sharp downturn in the not-too-distant future… I totally understand Miles’s fear of losing his mind…one of the scariest horror stories I ever read was Flowers For Algernon.
It seems a little odd, in some ways, for Quinn to be the one talking to Hereld, in such a way that Hereld never sees Miles with her. If she did, of course, the moment of realization would come a lot sooner, so maybe it’s more like one of those bedroom-farce moments where things are comically timed to lead to the maximum level of misunderstanding. Quinn also uses “I” instead of “we” most of the time, so there’s no need to explain who else might be with her… Similarly, the Dendarii in the concourse might have heard about Mark’s departure with Ariel and wondered what the heck he was doing back already… It is a nice scene when the other shoe drops in the briefing room, so it would have been a shame to waste that.
It is nice to see some rapprochement between Elena and her mother (Elena Visconti), considering her origins, as a child of rape. Miles did manage to convince Visconti to reach out to her daughter back in The Warrior’s Apprentice, and the passage of years seems to have mellowed things out a lot more. One presumes they didn’t spend a lot of time talking about Bothari, Elena’s father and Visconti’s rapist, but Elena has enough of a life post-Bothari by this time.
Finally, we do get more of a look at the victims of cryo-trauma, just like that brief glimpse we saw in Brothers In Arms. A little bit of foreshadowing…
There’s thirty-two chapters in Mirror Dance, but some of them are quite short, as I recall, so I’m not quite sure how long this is going to take, but most of winter, I imagine (adjusting for hemisphere as necessary). Tune in next week for another exciting installment of the Vorkosigan Saga Reread, where I’ll have to think of something besides a fake interactive fiction game for doing the introduction.
The Vorkosigan Saga Reread: Borders of Infinity
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Welcome to a special installment of the Vorkosigan Saga Reread. Last week I finished Brothers In Arms, and normally I take a break between books, but there is one odd little piece of the series that, due to popular demand, I’m going to be including. You see, after Lois McMaster Bujold had published three novellas–“The Mountains of Mourning”, “Labyrinth”, and “The Borders of Infinity”, her publisher ended up collecting them in a single volume, which was called Borders of Infinity (no “The”). As often happens in these cases, she ended up writing a framing story to kind of unify them and link them together. For whatever reason, this story was set chronologically after Brothers In Arms.
Later releases, though, have packaged the novels and novellas of the series into different volumes. “The Mountains of Mourning” ended up in Young Miles, where it belonged chronologically, “Labyrinth” ended up at the end of Miles, Mystery and Mayhem, and “The Borders of Infinity” was placed at the beginning of Miles Errant. The framing story kind of makes little sense without the stories to tie it together, though, so it kind of fell by the wayside. But, for the sake of nostalgia, I’ll be dealing with it in a special installment this week.
It’ll be a little more challenging than the others I’ve done so far, because, of course, not being part of the rerelease, it wasn’t released in ebook form, so I’ll have to deal with a physical book, picking it up and putting it down to type rather than just switching windows, not to mention having to manually type any quotes (so please excuse any inaccuracies); plus, as a framing story, it’s scattered all over the book, which will make it more time-consuming that way. (And it’s not like there’s any helpful table of contents with page numbers or anything, noooo.) So I hope you all appreciate the extra effort here. It’ll be good practice for Memory, anyway…
Borders of Infinity
A medical corpsman announces a visitor to Miles’s hospital room, one who apparently makes him nervous; it turns out to be Simon Illyan, head of Imperial Security. Miles is in bed, his arms completely immobilized; he’s just undergone surgery to replace his arm bones with plastic, apparently because of the extreme damage they suffered on their last mission. He tells Illyan about all the bone fragments they had to pick out of his right arm, and comments that he’s still waiting for the bone marrow transplants to take, so he’ll “be a little anemic” for a while.
“I hope you are not going to make a habit of returning from your mission assignments on a stretcher.”
“Now, now, this is only the second time that’s happened. Besides, eventually I’ll run out of unreplaced bones. By the time I’m thirty I could be entirely plastic.” Glumly, Miles considered this possibility. If more than half of him became spare parts, could he be declared legally dead? Would he ever walk into a prosthetics manufacturing planet and cry, “Mother!” Were the medical sedatives making him just a little spacey…?
Illyan asks Miles about his recent missions, making it clear this is not just a social call. Miles says Illyan has his reports, which Illyan dismisses as “masterpieces of understatement and misdirection”. Miles points out that he can’t put everything in there for just anyone to read; Illyan says that they are highly classified, but he gets Miles’s point. The real problem, though, is the money that Miles has gone through. He assures Miles that his results have been satisfactory, though they will have to talk about his recent adventure on Earth; Miles says there a couple of higher authorities to discuss it with first. Illyan says that the charges are about earlier affairs, like Dagoola…”Charges?”, asks Miles
Illyan says that one of the advantages of Miles being offplanet with the Dendarii is that it makes it more difficult for his father’s enemies to use him in their plots. One group, though, are claiming that Miles’s expenses are ridiculous, and are trying to hit him with charges of systematic peculation, and bring him up on a court-martial. Illyan says it hasn’t quite gotten to that stage yet, but he needs more information from Miles so he can effectively quash the charges without getting blindsided. He mentions having ended up in prison himself once because of one of these plots (in The Warrior’s Apprentice, no doubt). The plotters have managed to convince the highly respectable Count Vorvolk that there’s something to these allegations, and Vorvolk has the Emperor’s confidence, so he can’t be dismissed out of hand, even if he is mistaken. Miles catches the hint that Illyan isn’t 100% confident that Miles is completely innocent, and realizes this is why Illyan is questioning him now, when he’s still dopey from surgery.
Miles asks Illyan why not just use fast-penta; Illyan says he’s already noted Miles’s odd reaction to it. Instead, he’s letting the surgeons “twist Miles’s arms”. He says that he will quash the matter, regardless of the truth, to keep his father’s agenda safe, but he wants to know for sure, and promises none of it will leave this room. Miles asks if he’s offering amnesty; Illyan says he will, if necessary.
Miles couldn’t clench or even feel his fists, but his toes curled. He found himself gulping for air in the pulsing waves of his rage; the room seemed to waver. “You…vile…bastard! You dare call me a thief…” He rocked in the bed, kicking off tangled strangling covers. His medical monitor began to bleep alarms. His arms were useless weights hanging from his shoulders, flopping nervelessly. “As if I would steal from Barrayar. As if I would steal from my own dead…” He swung his feet out, pulled himself upright with a mighty wrench of abdominal muscles. Dizzied, half-blacking-out, he toppled forward precipitously with no hands to catch himself.
Illyan catches him, just as the doctor rushes in, asking him what he’s doing to his patient. The corpsman points out who Illyan is, but the doctor says that any “interrogations” can take place at ImpSec headquarters, not in his hospital. Illyan tries to explain what happened, and Miles whispers to him that he’s not the only one who needs to be careful of appearances. Illyan helps Miles back into the bed, and Miles tells the doctor that it’s all right.
Miles begins to wonder if the trust that Illyan had seemed to place in him, letting him have so many independent missions, wasn’t really just a way to get a “dangerously clumsy Vor puppy” out of his way. The accusations still enrage him, though; as if he wasn’t aware of where the money came from that paid the costs of his decisions. And Illyan must have at least a modicum of doubt or he wouldn’t be here. Tired and dopey, he feels tears begin, and Illyan says that he needs to be ready to depend the expenditures by tomorrow, but he can come back after Miles has had a chance to rest.
Miles turns over and remembers…(and, for some reason, what he remembers is “The Mountains of Mourning”).
Illyan returns some hours later to find a somewhat recovered Miles sitting up in bed. He apologizes for doubting Miles’s word, but says that he hopes Miles appreciates how important it is, as Count Vorkosigan’s son, to not just be honest, but appear honest. Miles says no, not as his father’s son.
Illyan says that apart from the Dagoola affair, Count Vorvolk has also seized on the Jackson’s Whole pickup mission. Even though it was two years earlier, the theory is that Miles’s success with peculation there led him to try for bigger prizes later. Illyan says they don’t have much to go on, but he wants to take away anything they can, and convince Vorvolk that there’s nothing out of the ordinary for him to look at. So he wants Miles to explain his expenditures on the mission, in particular the half-cargo of weapons they abandoned on Fell Station. Miles says that that loss was necessary to keep from losing “a scientist, a ship, and a subordinate”.
Asking Illyan to keep it strictly confidential, he then tells the story…(of “Labyrinth”).
After Miles finishes, Illyan asks after Taura; Miles says she’s made sergeant, and they’re trying various drugs to slow down her metabolism and hopefully prolong her life. Illyan says that it’s time to move on to Dagoola, where the only report he got from Miles was a very short, preliminary one sent from Mahata Solaris. Miles says the mission started out simple enough, but then went very, very wrong.
Illyan tells him to start at the beginning, and so Miles tells the story…(of “The Borders of Infinity”)
When Miles finishes, he’s somewhat shaky, and tells Illyan he thought he’d gotten over it a little more by this point. Illyan says that it must be “combat fatigue”, pointing out that his entire time in the prison camp was really combat time.
“If your Count Vorvolk wants to argue that I should have traded lives for equipment, well…I had maybe five minutes to make a decision, under enemy fire. If I’d had a month to study it, I would have come to the same conclusion. And I’ll stand behind it now, in a court martial or any goddamn arena he wants to fight me in.”
Illyan reassures Miles that he’ll deal with Vorvolk and his “shadow advisors”, and they won’t disturb his recovery any further. Miles apologizes that his carelessness made Simon doubt him, and he’ll try to be more intelligent in future; Simon says that he will too.
Cordelia enters the room then, telling Simon the doctor has asked her to make sure he leaves, because the medical monitors are claiming that Miles needs to rest now. Illyan says they’re finished and leaves. Miles, watching her, suddenly realizes why he was so shaken up by the death of that tall redheaded woman in the Dagoola escape.
She turns to him and says that he looks terrible, and that Elli Quinn tells her he hasn’t been eating properly. He asked if Quinn could visit, but as an offworld soldier she’s excluded from the grounds of ImpMil hospital. “Barrayarans!” she swears, and tells him Quinn is staying at Vorkosigan House. As soon as he’s released, she’ll take both of them to Vorkosigan Surleau, and hopefully Quinn can help him recover. Miles says he does have a lot to tell her about Earth; she kisses him and tells him to rest and heal.
All told, this “story” comes to about thirteen pages in my paperback copy, over half of that in the opening scene, and half of the rest in the ending. So it really doesn’t stand on its own, but I suppose it does have a few bits in it. In the timeline it’s always labelled as “Miles undoes another plot against his father while flat on his back”, which makes it sound like he’s some kind of bedridden detective putting together clues, rather than just providing information to Illyan so that Illyan can defuse the plot.
It does show that Elli Quinn has definitely been on Barrayar, and spent some time there with Miles… She’s not comfortable planetside, so there could have been a few amusing scenes, but mostly I’m sure they get to carry on the affair that they started on Earth, and that they may not have had much time to devote to on their hostage rescue mission. Which, by the way, we get zero details on, apart from the fact that Miles apparently broke his arms, one of them apparently a compound fracture, to the point where they decided to replace them with plastics.
The bone marrow transplant was an interesting consideration; after all, bones, despite their hardness, are something that our bodies grow themselves, and the marrow is important in its own right, so they’d need to find some way to get it to work in a non-living environment. One hopes they get this technology from offworld, because it doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that Barrayar would have naturally acquired or developed on their own. Must have been all part of the process of trying to keep Miles alive and give him a skeleton…though of course they couldn’t make plastic bones that grew, so they had to wait until he’d reached his full growth, at least. Did they do the finger bones, too? It wasn’t clear in this scene, and I’d think that would be much riskier and more complicated, what with all the manual dexterity considerations, muscles and nerves and all.
I’d forgotten the bit about Miles realizing why he felt the loss of Beatrice, the tall redhead, so keenly. Does that make his initial attraction for her a little Oedipal? Well, I recall hearing that we are “naturally” attracted to those who are genetically similar to us as possible without actually being related, but on the other hand that could be complete nonsense, so who knows? Still, even if there hadn’t been that attraction, losing her might have hit just as hard. I agree that Miles is probably suffering from…well, these days we call it “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder”, which always makes me think of George Carlin talking about how it developed from “shell shock” to “battle fatigue” to PTSD as an example of bureaucratic language. (Not that I necessarily agree with him that a short, catchy, but inaccurate term is better than a long, fussy, more encompassing and less evocative one…)
And that’s it, really. The end of the Dagoola sequence, in a way, since so much of that underlay Brothers In Arms (the motivations of the Cetagandans, at least, and the source of their expenses), so we’re free to carry on with the clone-brother arc started in that book as well, into Mirror Dance… Though we’re now getting into my favourite part of the series, I will still be taking a week off, so be back here two weeks from now for me to start on that book…back on my digital copy again, thankfully.
The Vorkosigan Saga Reread: Brothers In Arms, Part 8
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Good day, and welcome back to the Vorkosigan Saga Reread, wherein I try to distill (or is that “dilute”?) the essence of the fine novels and stories in Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga. This week I cover the last two chapters of Brothers In Arms, which wraps up most of its plot threads, though it seems to start up some others…
Miles immediately contacts Nim and tells them about the Cetagandans and their plasma weapons; Nim says he’s already run into them, since they fired at the Dendarii when they tried to enter. He tells Miles that Elli’s wristcomm is down on the lower levels, not moving, and she stll doesn’t respond. Miles wonders if it’s still on her wrist, or if she’s lying stunned or dead somewhere. Miles tells Nim to anonymous inform the police about the presence of the armed men in the tower, maybe paint them as potential saboteurs, and then try to keep them sealed in the tower, pulling back when the police arrive if possible, but if necessary just pretending to be tourists out for a stroll.
As Miles signs off, Mark grabs him and tries to get him to call the Dendarii back and get them to clear out the Cetagandans. Miles says that stunner tag is one thing, but plasma arcs have a longer range. Ivan expresses concern that they’re about to be caught in a pincer between Barrayarans and Cetagandans, but Miles claims to have a “cloak of invisibility”. He leads them back towards the Barrayarans.
“No!” Mark balked. “The Barrayarans might kill you by accident, but they’ll kill me on purpose!”
“The ones back there,” Miles jerked his head over his shoulder, “would kill us both just to make sure. The Dagoola operation left the Cetagandans more peeved with Admiral Naismith than I think you have grasped. Come on.”
Miles, hoping his plan will actually work, finds a pumping station, quiescent now that high tide is receding. To be certain, Miles checks the control panels, and, retrieving his grandfather’s knife from Mark, disables the warning lights. He opens the pump chamber, puts his grappler on the inside of the door as a handler, reassures himself that he’ll be able to reopen it from the inside even if locked from outside, and puts a fisheye scanner on the control panel. Then he urges them all inside the pumping station; Ivan is far from thrilled, and neither is Mark. Miles tells Ivan he does have a chance of making it past Destang’s squad, although he might still get arrested when the police show up, but, sotto voce, he asks Ivan not to leave him along with Mark. The appeal for help persuades Ivan to stay, though he still protests it’s like a trap. Miles says it’ll be like a tactics room with the power out, and besides, Mark will get to share the experience.
The three of them clamber down into the chamber, Ivan closing the door so Miles can turn on his light. Ivan says at least they won’t be heard in there, and Miles says he went past it twice without really noticing it. He sets up his receiver to project the view from the fisheye lens, and says now they just have to wait. He calls Nim back, who tells him that the police have arrived, and they’re withdrawing; no update on Quinn, and, when Miles asks, they haven’t heard from Captain Galeni either.
Miles now wished he’d kept Galeni by him as heartily as he wished he’d kept Quinn. But they hadn’t yet found Ivan then; Miles hardly could have done otherwise. He felt like a man trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle of live pieces, that moved and changed shape at random intervals with tiny malicious giggles.
A Cetagandan scout appears in the display, now wielding a stunner, withdrawing just before a pair of Barrayarans appear from the other end, also getting out their stunners, both sides apparently aware of the police and wanting to de-escalate the situation. Soon three Barrayarans and two Cetagandans are approaching each other in the corridor. Miles wonders if the Cetagandans have Elli captive, if they’ll let her go or decide to cut her throat to keep her quiet, if he should charge out with his few troops and attack them; he restrains himself.
The lead Cetagandan and Barrayaran catch sight of each other and each fires, stunning the other. The second Cetagandan is stunned trying to check on his fallen companion, and the remaining Barrayarans go to inspect their downed opponents, trying to identify them. Just then the amplified, unintelligible voices of the police blare down the corridor; the Barrayarans pick up their stunned comrade and carry him onward. They encounter another pair of Cetagandans, firing behind them, and stun one of them, the other stunning one of the Barrayarans. As they try to shoot the other Cetagandan, a mass of stunner fire from the police takes out everyone but the Barrayaran carrying his unconscious comrade; when the police come into view he puts up his hands and surrenders meekly.
The two converging police squads came within a breath of repeating the mutual annihilation of their fleeing suspects, but managed to get their true identities communicated just in time. Miles was almost disappointed. Still, nothing could go on forever; at some point the corridor would have become impassable due to the piles of bodies, and the havoc trail off according to the typical senescence curve of a biological system choked on its own waste.
Once the police have cleared the place, the Tidal Authority and the bomb squads would go over the whole place with a fine-toothed comb; if Miles and his friends get discovered in the process, it won’t be fatal, as long as nobody panics. Mark asks whose side Miles is on, and Miles says this is all for Mark’s benefit. He and Mark consider each other; Miles understands the fascination with a clone of oneself, but he thinks he would really prefer actually combining his genes with those of a woman who is, preferably, smarter, faster and more attractive and than he is.
He knew what Mark was. Maybe it was more important to realize what he was not. Mark was not a duplicate of Miles himself, despite Galen’s best efforts. Was not even the brother of an only-child’s dreams; Ivan, with whom Miles shared clan, friends, Barrayar, private memories of the ever-receding past, was a hundred times more his brother than Mark could ever be. It was just possible he had under-appreciated Ivan’s merits. Botched beginnings could never be replayed, though they could be—Miles glanced down at his legs, seeing in his mind’s eye the artificial bones within—repaired. Sometimes.
Ivan wonders about Miles’s motivations too; he says one Miles is enough, when they both keep trying to lock him in closets. He recalls how Miles used to bully him and Elena around all the time, which image baffles Mark.
Miles asks Mark if he thinks he’s Evil; Mark says he’s a murderer, isn’t that enough? He admits that the weapon went off while he and Galen were struggling for it, but that he’d wanted it to. Miles asks Mark what he’d do if he were free; he points out that Galen’s body may well have washed out to sea by this point. Mark says that Miles is the free one; Miles blinks in surprise, pointing out that Mark’s only restraint was Galen, and he’s now gone. Miles is held by his sense of obligation to Barrayar and to the Dendarii. Once Mark gets out of Miles’s shadow, he can find out what he truly is. Miles reiterates his offer to smuggle Mark out with the Dendarii and take him to Barrayar to meet his family.
Mark says he doesn’t want to meet them, and when prodded, admits that what he really wants is to bust up the illegal clone business on Jackson’s Whole. Miles thinks this is an interesting idea, and asks Mark how he’d go about it. Mark says he’d blow up the labs and rescue the kids, but Miles says that that wouldn’t achieve much unless Mark could deal with the underlying demand. The best way to stop rich people from wanting to buy clone-bodies, he points out, would be to provide them another way of extending their lifespan. Mark says he could just kill them, but Miles counters that rich people tend to have good bodyguards. Mark really needs power, money and training, all of which he could get on Barrayar…
Mark repeats that he doesn’t want to go to Barrayar. Ivan tells Miles that he’s completely crazy; Miles says it’s time somebody took the clone-merchants on, and while he can’t spare the time and attention to do it himself, he could support Mark’s efforts, as long as he’s willing to stop trying to take his place. Mark says that, if anything, Miles should be trying to take his place, and looks at him suspiciously.
Miles laughed, painfully. What a temptation. Ditch his uniform, walk into a tubeway, and disappear with a credit chit for half a million marks in his pocket. To be a free man . . . His eye fell on Ivan’s grimy Imperial dress greens, symbol of their service. You are what you do—choose again. . . . No. Barrayar’s ugliest child would choose to be her champion still. Not crawl into a hole and be no one at all.
Miles spots the police patrols receding, and judges it’s time to leave before the techs come with their scanners. Ivan opens up the door and boosts Miles out; Mark has a moment of panic when he thinks he might be left behind, but Miles lowers the grappling line for him and he subsides. Miles calls Nim and asks for a status update; Nim says they’ve pulled back into the air, and the place is crawling with police, and still no sign of Elli. He gives Miles Elli’s coordinates and Miles says he’ll try to pick her up on their way out.
They sneak past a group of techs at the T intersection, and find a policeman guarding the lift-tube in the nearest tower. Miles reluctantly stuns him, having hoped to make their exit without a trace, and they go up to the level where Quinn’s signal has been coming from. They trace it to a locked utility closet, and Miles, with visions of slow deathtraps left by the Cetagandans, manually overrides the door and pushes it open to find her limp body inside. Checking for a pulse, he finds that she’s only stunned, and almost collapses in relief.
The farce continues, with Miles luring the Barrayarans and Cetagandans into firing at each other, and watching from their hidden location as people stun each other. I like the way that Bujold keeps consistent with her technology–stunners, nerve disrupters, and plasma arcs were introduced right from the beginning, in Shards of Honour. It’s a nice group of weapons–the ones that only knock out your opponent, the ones that damage people but, presumably, nothing else (unless there’s some kind of computer systems made out of neural tissue, perhaps), and then the ones that do physical damage and burn things. There are no easy defenses against any of them, that I recall (though Miles was supposedly selling some kind of personal shield in The Vor Game, wasn’t he, perhaps for nerve disrupters?). The horrific potential of nerve disrupter damage was also brought up very early in Shards of Honour, between Dubauer and Koudelka, but stunners still seem to be nice and safe (except for the hangover, of course). Admittedly she doesn’t waste a lot of time describing how they work–this is space opera, after all–but having their effects well-defined makes it easy for the reader to keep her honest…
I may have mentioned before how helpful the reread is for helping me make sense of confusing scenes. The whole sequence at the tidal station is so complex, with people splitting up and going in different directions, going up and down, etc., that going through it more slowly rewards you with actually being able to keep track of what’s going on. There’s two towers mentioned, for instance, Tower Six and Tower Seven, which I had trouble keeping straight, but apparently Six has the Barrayarans and Seven has the Cetagandans. Similarly, I kept somehow missing Miles actually placing his fisheye camera on the wall and had to go back and check for it when they were using it to watch the combatants.
Miles’s conversation about Mark and his goals, to get rid of cloning, is more foreshadowing of Mirror Dance–or, more likely, plot seeds that were later incorporated into Mirror Dance. Miles’s points are well taken, about the difficulty of eradicating the trade by taking direct action against its participants, rather than just trying to make it obsolete. In some ways, though, that’s like trying to get rid of homelessness by giving them all free accomodation–effective (and even cost-effective according to some studies), but yet seeming somehow ethically wrong anyway. It seems like it should be possible to make it economically unfeasible through repeated sabotage (though that is more dangerous); making it socially unacceptable doesn’t work when cultures are scattered so widely that there’s a lack of cultural consensus on right and wrong.
Miles, Mark and Ivan pause at the exit of the tower with the unconscious Elli, trying to gauge how to get to the shelter of the bushes past the police vehicles scattered around. Miles wishes they had some alcohol (Ivan had neglected to bring his hip flask), because a splash of that would have made them carrying Elli’s limp form seem more acceptable. They make it to the bushes, Ivan complaining that Miles should date lighter women.
Miles looks around, telling Ivan they still haven’t seen the man in face paint that Mark had told them about earlier. Miles quizzes Mark about the precise colours of the paint, and Miles tells him that means a century-captain (Mark having misidentified it). As a full ghem-lord, he won’t want to risk being captured and shamed, so he’ll have hung back, but be more committed to carrying out his mission.
They pass through the woods and find a utilitarian kiosk with a single door, the lights above it knocked out. The door opens and they aim their stunners tensely until Miles recognizes Captain Galeni and calls out to them; Galeni comes over to join them, somewhat surprised to find them all alive. Miles notices that Galeni seems to be in a state of mild exhilaration, his face is slightly bruised, and he’s carrying a Cetagandan plasma arc. They ask about the ghem-lord, and Galeni says he’s run into him already.
Galeni tells them that he’d gone into utility tunnels through the kiosk when he couldn’t find another way into the Barrier, but got turned around and ended up on a nearby pedestrian crossing, where he found Ghem-Lieutenant Tabor from the Cetagandan Embassy standing by a car. He soon realized that Tabor was serving as a perimeter man for a Cetagandan team; Tabor couldn’t figure out what Galeni was doing there, thinking he was drugged or something (which Miles could well believe, given Galeni’s fey state). Tabor received a message and tried to shoot Galeni with a stunner; Galeni was only half-hit but pretended to be out cold. He waited, biding his time and eavesdropping on Tabor until the century-captain showed up; his arrival distracted Tabor and Galeni was able to get the jump on them.
Miles’s brows rose. “How the devil did you manage that?”
Galeni’s hands were flexing as he spoke. “I don’t . . . quite know,” he admitted. “I remember hitting them. . . .” He glanced at Mark. “It was nice to have a clearly defined enemy for a change.”
Upon whom, Miles guessed, Galeni had just unloaded all the accumulated tensions of the last impossible week and this mad night. Miles had witnessed berserkers before. “Are they still alive?”
Miles asks if Tabor’s call is still nearby; Galeni says the police may have found it by now, he heard them in the tunnels, but Miles says they’ll have to chance it. Mark grumbles that he doesn’t have diplomatic immunity. Miles asks him if he’d like to really earn that credit chit; Mark says it doesn’t exist, but Miles counters that that was what Ser Galen thought, and he’d been wrong about other things. Miles asks Galeni if the Cetagandans can be roused, and is pleased when told they should be conscious by now. He tells Mark to be Lord Vorkosigan, and he’ll be Admiral Naismith, since Mark doesn’t have the Betan accent down yet. Galeni agrees that Mark owes them this much cooperation.
They make their way through the tunnels, dodging police, until they reach the Cetagandan groundcar, unadorned with any incriminating embassy markings; Miles notices the blood on the pavement and dents in the side. The two Cetagandans in the backseat are bound and gagged; Tabor is awake, the century-captain is still out cold, and Miles gets the medkit while Ivan loads Elli into the vehicle. The others get in the back with the Cetagandans and Ivan lowers a reflective canopy to hide them from outside viewers. Miles injects the century-captain with synergine to rouse him, and gives Elli one too for good measure. Ivan drives off, and Miles calls NIm to signal him to withdraw and follow them.
“Hello, Tabor,” said Mark, carefully coached, in his best Barrayaran Vor tones—did it really sound that snide?—”How’s your bonsai?”
Tabor recoiled slightly. The century-captain stirred, staring through slitted but focusing eyes. He tried to move, discovered his bonds, and settled back—not relaxed, but not wasting energy on futile struggle.
Galeni reached over him and loosed Tabor’s gag. “Sorry, Tabor. But you can’t have Admiral Naismith. Not here on Earth, anyway. You can pass the word up your chain of command. He’s under our protection until his fleet leaves orbit. Part of the agreed price for his helping the Barrayaran Embassy find the Komarrans who had lately kidnapped some of our personnel. So back off.”
Tabor’s eyes shifted, back and forth, as he spat out his gag, worked his jaw, and swallowed. He croaked, “You’re working together?”
“Unfortunately,” growled Mark.
“A mercenary,” caroled Miles, “gets it where he can.”
The century-captain tells “Naismith” that taking the Dagoola contract was a mistake; Miles agrees amiably, claiming that the Dagoolans stiffed them, too. He can’t afford personal vengeance, though, having been driven to work with his “old friends” the Barrayarans. Tabor is surprised that “Naismith” really seems to be a clone; “Lord Vorkosigan” says they thought he was a Cetagandan clone, but they now know he was made by the Komarrans. Miles says they promised to cover him until he leaves Earth, as long he avoids Barrayar in future, which he has no interest in anyway. Elli awakens and looks around in surprise at her surroundings, but decides to keep quiet until they can brief her more fully.
Ivan asks where he should drop off the Cetagandans, and Galeni says cheerfully that there’s no need for an incident, for him to reveal what the Cetagandans were really doing at the Tidal Barrier; he tells Ivan to take them to a hospital, since Tabor has a broken arm and his comrade has a concussion…unless Tabor prefers treatment at the Cetagandan embassy instead? Tabor chooses the embassy, to keep either of their ambassadors from having to get involved in the messy exchange of charges that would result at the hospital. They drop the two Cetagandans off, tossing the key after them once they’re out of the car, Galeni promising to return the car…after the Barrayarans have examined it thoroughly, of course.
Ivan asks Miles if he thinks the Cetagandans are convinced; Miles says he’s not sure they bought the idea that Barrayar had nothing to do with Dagoola, but they should now be easy to convince that Vorkosigan and Naismith are two different people. Ivan wonders if Destang will approve, and Galeni says that he “doesn’t give a good goddamn” about what Destang thinks; Miles agrees, though he realizes they are all very tired. He asks Mark where he wants to be dropped off; Mark says any tube station, and Galeni doesn’t object. Ivan takes them to the nearest one and Miles and Mark get out and go down the lift tube.
In the station, Miles pulls out the coded card with the hundred thousand Betan dollars on it and gives it to Mark, telling him that he should be able to use that to disappear easily enough. Mark asks what Miles wants of him; Miles says he’s a free man, they won’t be pursuing him over Galen’s death. He admits he’d like more from Mark than that, but he’ll settle for what he can get.
“What is it that you want me to do?” Mark demanded. “What are you setting me up for? Did you really take that Jackson’s Whole garbage seriously? What do you expect me to do?”
“You can take it and retire to the pleasure domes of Mars, for as long as it lasts. Or buy an education, or two or three. Or stuff it down the first waste chute you pass. I’m not your owner. I’m not your mentor. I’m not your parents. I have no expectations. I have no desires.” Rebel against that—if you can figure out how—little brother. . . . Miles held his hands palm-out and stepped back.
Mark swung into the lift tube, never turning his back. “WHY NOT?” he yelled suddenly, baffled and furious.
Miles threw back his head and laughed. “You figure it out!” he called.
Miles returns to the car, and Elli asks if that was a good idea. Miles says Galen twisted Mark so much that Miles couldn’t help any more, so the best he can do is deprive Mark of the object of his obsession and see if he can untwist himself. He calls Nim and dismisses them back to the shuttle, but decides that he and the others have to go back to the embassy and face the music. No point in lying any more, either, he says, and Galeni agrees. “I do not care for doctored reports anyway. Eventually, they become history. Embedded sin.”
Miles apologizes for Galen’s death, and Galeni says he never thought Miles was omnipotent. Miles tells Ivan to drive slowly, and they enjoy a leisurely drive through London’s summer dawn. All too soon they are lined up in Galeni’s office, facing a disgusted-looking Destang.
“Vorkosigan.” Miles’s name hung in the air before them like a visible thing. Destang regarded it without favor, and went on, “When I finished dealing with a certain Investigator Reed of the London Municipal Assizes at 0700 this morning, I was determined that only divine intervention could save you from my wrath. Divine intervention arrived at 0900 in the person of a special courier from Imperial HQ.” Destang held up a data disk marked with the Imperial seal between his thumb and forefinger. “Here are the new and urgent orders for your Dendarii irregulars.”
Destang tells him that a mercenary fleet in a system in that sector has slipped over the edge from blockade into outright piracy. They captured a passenger liner to convert into a troop transport, and had the bright idea to hold the passengers for hostage. While many of the governments whose citizens were captured are involved in negotiations, Barrayar had only a few, including the wife of one Lord Vorvane, Minister for Heavy Industries, and were unable to get a representative onto the team. The Barrayaran fleet is blocked from the shortest route, but the Dendarii are only a couple of weeks away. Their orders are to rescue the Barrayarans and as many other citizens as possible, and convince the pirates that they should reconsider their career choices, as usual without revealing who hired them, method left entirely to Miles’s discretion. Destang hands over the most recent intelligence information they have, as well as, somewhat grudgingly, another eighteen-million-mark credit chit. After that he can report to Commodore Rivik at Orient Station, and, with any luck, he’ll stay out of Destang’s sector until he’s had the chance to retire.
Destang turned his eye on Ivan. “Lieutenant Vorpatril.”
“Sir?” Ivan stood to attention with his best air of eager enthusiasm. Miles prepared to protest Ivan’s complete innocence, ignorance, and victimhood, but it turned out not to be necessary; Destang contemplated Ivan for a moment longer, and sighed, “Never mind.”
Destang then turns to Galeni. Galeni is facing charges of disobeying orders in leaving the embassy, but since Miles is already evading those charges, it doesn’t seem fair to punish Galeni for it. Destang admits that they did end up rescuing Ivan and killing an enemy of Barrayar; anything about Galeni’s motives and thoughts is mere speculation…unless he agrees to fast-penta. Galeni asks if it’s an order, and Miles can tell he’ll resign if pressed. Destang says no, and he’s going to pass the whole mess up to Simon Illyan, who can deal with the political questions; in the meantime, Galeni can resume his post on Earth, at the ambassador’s request.
Miles and Elli return to the Triumph, the Dendarii busily preparing for departure. Miles sends the curious away with instructions to help get things ready. They encounter Tung, dressed in civilian clothing, who says he’s retiring and getting married. A distant relative of his, a widow, has a tourist boat on the Amazon which he’s going to help her with, once Miles finishes buying out his share of the Triumph. Miles is somewhat distressed by this, but Tung assures him that he’ll do fine, he’s earned his rank, and, he says with a wink, the Dendarii don’t have to make a profit.
After Tung leaves, Miles tells Elli they’ll need to send someone to infiltrate the pirate fleet, and he realizes that Elli is the logical choice to send. Overcoming his reservations, he muses that they need someone able to do “criminally psychotic”, just as Private Danio approaches Miles to thank him for bailing him out. He tells her to get Thorne to collect any additional information he can from Earth before they leave, and is relieved that this, at least, will be a straightforward mission.
The pirate mission is one of the great untold Dendarii stories, in that we get a fair number of details about it here, at the end of the book, and then the next we see of it is Miles recovering from it in the Borders of Infinity framing story. For some authors, this would be a cliffhanger, but for Bujold it just means that the Dendarii are returning to business as usual. She does lampshade it a bit, actually, when she has Destang refer to it as “divine intervention”. What would Destang have done with Miles, and Galeni, otherwise? Punishment details? Court martials (or is that “courts martial”)? Even humiliating fast-penta interrogations would be fraught. He’s wise to push Galeni’s case up to Simon Illyan, where I’m sure Aral Vorkosigan will encourage him to give Galeni the benefit of the doubt.
The scene with Mark and Miles and the Cetagandans is cute, and probably muddied the waters for some time. Later, when Mark is accepted as a Vorkosigan and Miles’s brother, one might wonder if they figure out that they were had, especially after Admiral Naismith’s forced retirement… This book was written before Cetaganda, of course, so Bujold may not have realized yet that Miles did have a few allies inside the Cetagandan power structure, who turn up the next time Miles and the Cetagandans cross paths, in Diplomatic Immunity. So perhaps by then they’ve decided to let bygones be bygones, or just given up..
According to the timelines supplied in most of the books (and in The Vorkosigan Companion), Miles is 24 in Brothers In Arms, 25 by the time of the Borders of Infinity framing story, and 28 for Mirror Dance. Those three or four years are another gap filled with Dendarii missions for Miles–as, admittedly, were the four years between The Vor Game (age 20) and Brothers In Arms, but since those include Ethan of Athos, “Labyrinth”, and “The Borders of Infinity”, it feels like we know more about them. I doubt Bujold intends to fill in all of that history, by this point, though it does give her plenty of room to add in any “remember when” backstory scenes or discussions if needed for later plot or character development. Of course, Mark isn’t idle in that period either, but we’ll find out more about that in Mirror Dance. Miles is 30, of course, for Memory, where he learns the truth about Galeni’s comment about doctored reports.
I did it! Brothers In Arms is done, and in plenty of time for me to read Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance…assuming that it doesn’t get delayed like CryoBurn did. By popular request, I will be doing the Borders of Infinity framing story next, but I haven’t decided yet whether I’ll do that next week, and then give myself a week off before Mirror Dance, or if I’ll do the week off right away and then the framing story. Chronologically, there is a longer gap before Mirror Dance (and it does look like it has more chapters than Brothers–thirty-two–but we’ll see how I feel next week. Until then…
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Minneapolis: November 17 to November 21, 2018
Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from November 17 to November 21, 2018.
Heart Bone 2018 Tour
Har Mar Superstar
Har Mar Superstar is a staple in the Minnesota music scene. Even though he moved away for a couple of years, we claimed him as ours. He announced earlier this week that he was moving back …
Sweet Spirit
Austin locals Sweet Spirit (members of A Giant Dog) will be headlining the 7th Street Entry this Sunday in support of their sophomore record St. Mojo (out April 7 via Nine Mile Records). …
HEART BONES
feat. Har Mar Superstar and Sabrina Ellis
+ Closeness / Lazear
Heart Bones is kicking off their tour at the Turf Club in St Paul. This is the new project from local favorite Har Mar Superstar and Sabrina Ellis (of Sweet Spirit). The two met and became friends while touring in 2016, and we got a glimpse of the two on stage together in last year’s Sweet Spirit at the 7th Street Entry, when Har Mar showed up at their show.
With this new tour, billed as Heart Bones, the two will tackle playing and performing the Dirty Dancing soundtrack … which would include classic hits like “Hungry Eyes” and “Be My Baby”.
The husband & wife duo Closeness (Todd and Orenda Fink) to open. If you didn’t know, Todd Fink is the singer/writer for one of my favorite emo-dance band The Faint and Orenda. So if you like the sound of that… show up early to check out their set.
Also, Lazear (Howard Hamilton, Mark Sorvari, Emily Lazear, Tom Mooney) is on the bill. I recognize Howard Hamilton’s name, he’s the guy with the million guitars from Red Pens.
11/21 – Turf Club – St. Paul, MN
11/23 – The Cooperage – Milwaukee, WI
11/24 – Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL
11/25 – El Club – Detroit, MI
11/26 - Skully’s Music Diner – Columbus, OH
11/27 – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA
11/28 – Sonia – Cambridge, MA
11/29 – The Beverly – Kingston, NY
11/30 – Brooklyn Bazaar – Brooklyn, NY
12/4 - Rickshaw Stop – San Francisco, CA
12/5 – Sweetwater Music Hall – Mill Valley, CA
12/6 – Regent Theater – Los Angeles, CA
12/7 – The Merrow – San Diego, CA
12/29 – 3TEN ACL Live – Austin, TX
Boygenius
Cursive: Vitriola
Brett Dennen at Cedar
Tantric 2018 Tour
Matthew Dear at 7th Street
Aminé at First Ave
Goatwhore at Turf Club
Julien Baker’s appearance on stage. Baker started her music career in 2010 in the band The Star Killers (renamed themselves Forrister), when she was 15 years old .…
Phoebe Bridgers to open. Conor Oberst Tour Dates: 09/01 Bellingham, WA @ Wild Buffalo * 09/02 Seattle, WA @ Bumbershoot 09/03 Portland, OR @ Oregon Zoo Amph * + …
“The irony is not lost on us” singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus would say about the eclectically-named three band lineup spotlighting her first headlining area appearance, a near-familial musical …
Cursive does it right, playing a good mix of old classics, along with some selected songs from their new album, I Am Gemini, at the 400 Bar, last night. …
JULIEN BAKER / PHOEBE BRIDGERS
+ Lucy Dacus
Sat 11/17/2018 (6:30pm/$23)
Billed as co-headlining Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers with Lucy Dacus … but in reality this is the new project by the three girls as Boygenius. The supergroup will release their Boygenius EP on Matador Records on November 9th.
We’ve seen most of these strong singer/songwriter before, so this should be a really fun, and important, upcoming show.
11/04/2018 Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN, US
11/06/2018 Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY, US
11/08/2018 Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA, US
11/10/2018 Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada
11/11/2018 Majestic Theatre, Detroit, MI, US
11/12/2018 Thalia Hall, Chicago, IL, US
11/15/2018 Pageant, St Louis, MO, US
11/16/2018 The Sylvee, Madison, WI, US
11/17/2018 First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
11/19/2018 Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO
11/20/2018 The Depot, Salt Lake City, UT
11/23/2018 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC
11/24/2018 The Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA, US
11/25/2018 McMenamin's Crystal, Portland, OR
11/27/2018 Fox Theater, Oakland, CA, US
+ Meat Wave, Campdogzz
Omaha’s Cursive will headline the Turf Club on November 17th. The band’s latest Vitriola is out now on 15 Passenger.
We saw Cursive at the now-defunct 400 Bar in Mar 2012 and said, “I thought Cursive's singer Tim Kasher vocals came through loud and clear. Throughout Cursive's set, songs like "This House Alive", "Big Bang", "A Gentleman Caller", "The Cat and Mouse", etc., all blended together without any pause or breaks.”
Chicago’s Meat Wave and Campdogzz will open.
11/06 - Long Island, NY - Amityville Music Hall
11/08 - Boston, MA - Paradise
11/09 - Hamden, CT - Space Ballroom
11/10 - Buffalo, NY - Tralf Music Hall
11/11 - Pittsburgh, PA - Rex Theater
11/12 - Columbus, OH - Ace of Cups
11/13 - Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
11/14 - Detroit, MI - El Club
11/15 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall
11/16 - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
11/17 - St. Paul, MN - Turf Club
11/18 - Omaha, NE - Waiting Room
BRETT DENNEN
+ Erin Rae
The Cedar Cultural Center
Sun 11/18/2018 (7pm/$22)
Brett Dennen will be playing the Cedar on November 18th. We caught him in June 2016 and said, “Brett Dennen is a man with a lot of charisma. He came out bare feet and was just floating with energy. He had the crowd dancing and singing on cue. You can feel his emotion that he poured into these songs, and it was a lot of fun.”
Erin Rae will join the acclaimed singer-songwriter for this show. Originally Nick Mulvey was scheduled.
11/06/2018 Jefferson Theater Charlottesville, VA
11/09/2018 Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Troy, NY
11/16/2018 Turner Hall Ballroom Milwaukee, WI
11/18/2018 Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
+ Wayland, Paralandra, Talia, July Fighter
Amsterdam Bar and Hall
amsterdambarandhall.com
Louisville’s Tantric (singer Hugo Ferreira, drummer Troy Patrick Farrell, bassist Jaron Gulino, and guitarist Sebastian Labar) is touring in support of their new album Mercury Retrograde (Pavement Entertainment).
11/08/2018 Drunk Horse Pub, Fayetteville, NC
11/10/2018 Empire Concert Club & Bar, Akron, OH
11/15/2018 Glassworks Playhouse, Eau Claire, WI
11/18/2018 Amsterdam Bar and Hall, St. Paul, MN
+ Sasha B. Ware, Dirty Mckenzie
Sun 11/18/2018 (7:30pm/$16)
Catch Matthew Dear at an intimate 7th Street Entry venue this November 18th before meet up with MGMT. Dear’s Bunny is out now on Ghostly International.
11.08 San Francisco, CA Public Works
11.09 Vancouver, BC The Rickshaw Theatre
11.11 Seattle, WA Nectar Lounge
11.15 Chicago, IL Sleeping Village
11.16 Brooklyn, NY National Sawdust
11.18 Minneapolis, MN 7th St Entry
11.27 Bologna, IT Estragon
AMINÉ
+ Buddy, Kayo Genesis
First Ave
Portland-born, Los Angeles-based MC Aminé is headlining First Avenue. Amine was last seen in town on Oct 2017.
11/14/2018 Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, Denver, CO
11/16/2018 Rave/Eagles Club, Milwaukee, WI
11/20/2018 St. Andrew's Hall, Detroit, MI
11/21/2018 House of Blues , Chicago, IL
11/23/2018 Bogart's , Cincinnati, OH
11/25/2018 Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto, ON
11/26/2018 Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY
11/27/2018 Fillmore Silver , Silver Spring, MD
11/28/2018 Theater of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
12/01/2018 Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC
12/04/2018 Republic, New Orleans, LA
12/06/2018 House of Blues , Dallas, TX
12/07/2018 Ballroom, Houston, TX
12/09/2018 House of Blues, Boston, MA
12/11/2018 Observatory North Park, San Diego, CA
12/12/2018 Observatory, Santa Ana, CA, US
12/13/2018 The Novo , Los Angeles, CA
12/16/2018 Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
+ The Casualties, Black Tusk, Great American Ghost, Gozu
The Metal Alliance Tour, featuring Goatwhore, The Casualties, Black Tusk, Great American Ghost, and Gozu.
11/06/2018 Club Red - Mesa, AZ
11/07/2018 The Roxy - West Hollywood, CA
11/08/2018 Brick By Brick - San Diego, CA
11/09/2018 Full Circle Brewing Co. - Fresno, CA
11/10/2018 The Boardwalk - Orangevale, CA
11/11/2018 Cornerstone - Berkeley, CA
11/13/2018 Club Sur Rocks - Seattle, WA
11/14/2018 Dante's - Portland, OR
11/16/2018 Metro Music Hall - Salt Lake City, UT
11/17/2018 Marquis Theater - Denver, CO
11/18/2018 Aftershock - Merriam, KS
11/20/2018 Turf Club - St. Paul, MN
11/21/2018 Reggie's Rock Club - Chicago, IL
11/23/2018 Magic Stick - Detroit, MI
11/24/2018 Overtime Sports Bar - Kingston, ON
11/25/2018 Salle Multi Du Complex Meduse
11/26/2018 Les Foufounes Electriques - Montreal, QC
11/27/2018 ONCE Ballroom - Somerville, MA
11/28/2018 Gramercy Theater - New Yok, NY
11/29/2018 Montage Music Hall - Rochester, NY
11/30/2018 One Centre Square - Easton, PA
12/01/2018 Oddbodys - Dayton, OH
12/02/2018 Cafe 611 - Frederick, MD
12/03/2018 Canal Club - Richmond, VA
12/04/2018 New Brookland Tavern - Columbia, SC
12/05/2018 Growlers - Memphis, TN
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Basilica Block Party 2019
We like the annual Basilica Block Party in Minneapolis, so we always make sure they get the spotlight whenever we do these previews. They always bring in some really good bands ....
The three-hour evening was opened by Los Angeles-based Dawes, who considers Minneapolis one of their strongest markets, in a solid hour-long set of their own. …
Chvrches’ third album Love is Dead reached the Billboard Top Rock and Alternative charts at #1 and #11 overall. ...
I've seen Metric twice (four times if you count Emily Haines solo or Broken Social Scene), so you know I love this little Canadian band. Their Rock the Garden's set was very similar to their …
Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from July 11 to July 13, 2019.
Basilica St. Mary
basilicablockparty.org
The 25th Annual Basilica Block Party is taking place this July 12-13. As usual, the Minneapolis music festival is bringing in some of the national musical acts to the Twin Cities.
Kacey Musgraves and Dawes to be the highlight on Friday, while Jason Mraz and Hanson to take Saturday.
Personally speaking though, we like the medium stage, particularly Semisonic and The Jayhawks (for Friday) and Chvrches and Metric (for Saturday).
The last time we saw Chvrches, we noted, “Martin Doherty summed it up on stage, ‘It’s nice to be back. Time and time again, you keep selling out every time we come here. Thank you for that.’”
Ruston Kelly
Yam Haus
Kiss The Tiger
Annie Mack
McNasty Brass Band SATURDAY
Johnnyswim
Static Panic
The Bad Man
Michael Shynes
This is the Kit 2019 Tour
Iration at First Ave
The Struts at the Palace
Chase Atlantic 2019 Tour
Lakefront Music Fest 2019
On this tour, This Is the Kit (Kate Stables) is joined by bassist Jesse Vernon and drummer Jamie Whitby-Coles. She started off with a solo song ‘Easy on the Thieves’, then as a trio, then back to solo with ‘All Written out in Numbers’. …
Breakout U.K. band The Struts will be stopping by First Avenue this September 17th, in support of their hit Have You Heard EP (Interscope Records), with single "Could Have Been Me". …
+ Nelson Devereaux
Kate Stables (aka This Is The Kit) returns to the Turf Club this July 11th. We last saw her in Oct 2017 and said, “On this tour, This Is the Kit (Kate Stables) is joined by bassist Jesse Vernon and drummer Jamie Whitby-Coles. She started off with a solo song ‘Easy on the Thieves’, then as a trio, then back to solo with ‘All Written out in Numbers’. Stables often tuned between songs, making for awkward unfinished stories and comments. She played acoustic guitar, but it seemed like she’s most comfortable when she’s plucking on her banjo.”
Nelson Devereaux and the Style Band to open.
07/09/2019 Drake Hotel Toronto, ON
07/10/2019 Constellation Chicago, IL
07/11/2019 Turf Club Saint Paul, MN
07/16/2019 Moroccan Lounge Los Angeles, CA
07/18/2019 Mississippi Studios Portland, OR
08/10/2019 Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff,
08/11/2019 Boileroom Guildford
IRATION
+ Pepper, Katastro, Fortunate Youth
Reggae-influenced alternative rock band Iration will be headlining First Avenue as part of their “Live From Paradise!” tour.
Show up early to check out California-based band Pepper, who we previously mentioned played with Less Than Jake in Feb 2017.
July 11 Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom
July 12 Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
July 13 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
July 14 Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
July 17 Utica, NY @ Saranac Brewery
July 18 Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore
July 19 New York, NY @ The Rooftop at Pier 17
July 20 Boston, MA @ Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion
July 21 Baltimore, MD @ Mecu Pavilion
July 25 North Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues
July 26 Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater
July 27 St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amph
July 28 Cocoa, FL @ Cocoa Beach Riverfront Park
July 30 Houston, TX @ House of Blues
August 2 Irvine, CA @ FivePoint Amphitheater
August 3 Del Mar, CA @ Del Mar Summers**
August 7 Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades+
August 8 Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades+
August 9 Fresno, CA @ Woodward Park Rotary+
August 15 Spokane, WA @ The Knitting Factory+
August 16 Missoula, MT @ Big Sky Brewing Amph
August 17 Boise, ID @ Botanical Gardens Outlaw Field
August 18 Jacksonville, OR @ Britt Pavilion
August 21 Redmond, WA @ Marymoor Park Amph
August 23 Stateline, NV@ Montbleu Amphitheater
August 24 Las Vegas, NV @ Mandalay Bay Beach~
August 25 Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl
September 14 Glen Ellen, CA @ Sonoma Harvest Festival**
** indicates non-"Live From Paradise!" tour dates
+ indicates Pepper not on the lineup
~ indicates Fortunate Youth not on the lineup
+ The Glorious Sons
Sat 07/13/2019 (6:30pm/$29.50)
Rock band The Struts is back! The UK group released YOUNG&DANGEROUS last year on Interscope Records.
July 5 Sacramento, CA Ace of Spades
July 8 Portland, OR Roseland Theater*
July 9 Seattle, WA Showbox*
July 10 Missoula, MT The Wilma*
July 13 Saint Paul, MN Palace Theatre*
July 15 Des Moines, IA Water Works Park*
July 16 Indianapolis, IN Old National Centre*
July 17 Nashville, TN Marathon Music Works*
July 19 Detroit, MI The Fillmore*
July 20 Grand Rapids, MI 20 Monroe Live*
July 21 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE*
July 25 Buffalo, NY TBA*
July 26 Utica, NY Saranac Brewery*
July 27 New York, NY Pier 17*
July 28 Mount Pocono, PA Mount Airy Casino
July 30 Boston, MA House of Blues*
August 4 Hampton Beach, NH Hampton Beach Casino
August 6 Dewey Beach, DE Bottle & Cork*
August 7 Washington, DC 930 Club*
September 21 Asbury Park, NJ Sea Hear Now Festival
~Des Rocs supports
*The Glorious Sons support
CHASE ATLANTIC
Emerging alt-pop act Chase Atlantic is currently on a massive tour in support of their sophomore album Phases (BMG/MDDN).
The last time the Australian trio (Mitchel Cave, Clinton Cave, and Christian Anthony) were in town was with Lights in March 2018.
7/05 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
7/06 – Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
7/08 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
7/09 – Lawrence, KS @ The Granada
7/11 – Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
7/13 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
7/15 – Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
7/16 – Indianapolis, IN @ Deluxe
7/18 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
7/19 – Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
7/20 – Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
7/22 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
7/23 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
7/25 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore
LAKEFRONT MUSIC FEST
Lakefront Park
lakefrontmusicfest.com
The 10th annual Lakefront Music Fest is taking place this July 12-13th.
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
Riley Green
Posted by W♥M on Thursday, 04 July 2019 at 08:59 PM in Anderson East, Annie Mack, Basilica Block Party, Brad Paisley, Chase Atlantic, Chris Lane, Chvrches, Dawes, Flora Cash, Fortunate Youth, Hanson, Iration, Jason Mraz, Joan Jett, Johnnyswim, Kacey Musgraves, Katastro, Kiss the Tiger, Lakefront Music Fest, Lissie, Marty Stuart, McNasty Brass Band, Metric, Michael Shynes, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Music Guide, Nelson Devereaux, Pepper, Riley Green, Ruston Kelly, Semisonic, Static Panic, Steve Miller, The Bad Man, The Glorious Sons, The Jayhawks, The Struts, This Is The Kit, Vu, Yam Haus | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Struts at First Ave Poster
+ The Glorious Sons, Spirit Animal
U.K. band The Struts is bringing their fun, rock show to First Avenue once again.
This time, they’re bringing The Glorious Sons and Spirit Animal to the historic venue.
2018 Tour Dates
05/12/2018 Pointfest
05/14/2018 Majestic Theatre Madison, WI
05/15/2018 First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
05/17/2018 The Truman Kansas City, MO
05/18/2018 Ogden Theatre Denver, CO
05/20/2018 Hangout Beach, Music & Arts Fest.
05/22/2018 The Showbox Seattle, WA
05/25/2018 BottleRock Napa Valley
05/29/2018 The Roxy Theatre West Hollywood, CA
06/03/2018 Governors Ball Music Festival
06/09/2018 Download Festival
06/12/2018 Bergenfest
06/15/2018 Nova Rock Festival
07/07/2018 Rock Werchter Festival
Haim 2018 Poster
Joyner Lucas 2018 Poster
Shania Twain 2018 Poster
The numbers are in, and as expected, the Haim sisters (Este, Danielle, and Alana) received the #1 spot in the U.K., and an impressive #6 on the Billboard album charts in the U.S., for their debut album Days Are Gone……
Shania Twain on this upcoming "Rock This Country Tour". Shania's tour will hit Target Center in Minneapolis on July 28, where she will perform her extensive catalog of iconic hits in a brand new production. …
+ Lizzo
Mon 05/14/2018 (7pm/$42.50/Sold Out)
Tue 05/15/2018 (7pm/$42.50/Sold Out)
Having sold out their May 14th appearance at the Palace Theatre in St Paul, the sister act Haim quickly added an additional date (also sold out).
Local Lizzo has been opening on their national tour, she took advantage of her homecoming show by booking a headlining show at the Ice House at 11:30pm. More details at icehousempls.com.
05/14 Palace Theatre Saint Paul, MN*
05/28 Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison, CO**
*Lizzo as support **Lizzo & Maggie Rogers as support
The Cabooze
Atlantic Records artist and creative Joyner Lucas will be at the Cabooze on Monday, May 14th.
05/12/18 Springfield, MO @ The Complex
05/13/18 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
05/14/18 Minneapolis, MN @ Cabooze
05/15/18 Iowa City, IA @ Blue Moose Tap House
05/16/18 Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theatre
05/18/18 Fort Collins, CO @ Aggie Theatre
05/19/18 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
05/20/18 Reno, NV @ Jub Jubs
05/22/18 Vancouver, CA @ Fortune Sound Club
05/23/18 Seattle, WA @ Neumos
05/25/18 San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
05/26/18 Los Angeles, CA @ El Ray Theatre
05/27/18 Phoenix, AZ @ Monarch Theatre
05/29/18 Dallas, TX @ Trees
05/30/18 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Studio
05/31/18 New Orleans, LA @ The Willow
06/1/18 Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
06/2/18 Orlando, FL @ The Beacham Theatre
06/3/18 Atlanta, GA The Loft @ Center Stage
06/5/18 Washington, DC @Union Stage
06/6/18 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
06/7/18 Boston, MA @House of Blues
Tue 05/15/2018 (6:30pm/$29.95)
xcelenergycenter.com
Global superstar Shania Twain will be stopping by the Xcel Energy Center in St Paul in support of her 2017 Now album. This is Twain’s first tour in three years, so don’t miss out.
05/12/18 Saskatoon, SK Sasktel Centre
05/13/18 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
05/15/18 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
05/16/18 Sioux Falls, SD Denny Sanford Premier Center
05/18/18 Omaha, NE CenturyLink Center Omaha
05/19/18 Chicago, IL United Center
06/1/18 Ft. Lauderdale, FL BB&T Center
06/2/18 Tampa, FL Amalie Arena
06/4/18 Duluth, GA Infinite Energy Center
06/6/18 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
06/7/18 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center
06/9/18 Houston, TX Toyota Center
06/10/18 New Orleans, LA Smoothie King Center
06/12/18 North Little Rock, AR Verizon Arena
06/13/18 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
06/15/18 Detroit, MI Little Caesars Arena
06/16/18 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
06/25/18 Ottowa, ON Canadian Tire Centre
06/26/18 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
06/28/18 Québec, QC Videotron Centre
07/1/18 Hamilton, ON FirstOntario Centre
07/3/18 London, ON Budweiser Gardens
07/6/18 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
07/11/18 Boston, MA TD Garden
07/12/18 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
07/14/18 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center
07/15/18 Washington, DC Capital One Center
07/17/18 Pittsburgh, PA PPG Paints Arena
07/18/18 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena
07/20/18 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center
07/21/18 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena
07/24/18 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
07/25/18 Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena
07/27/18 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
07/28/18 Salt Lake City, UT Vivint Smart Home Arena
07/30/18 Phoenix, AZ Talking Stick Resort Arena
08/1/18 Fresno, CA Save Mart Center
08/3/18 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
08/4/18 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena
Posted by W♥M on Saturday, 12 May 2018 at 01:46 PM in Haim, Joyner Lucas, Lizzo, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Music Guide, Shania Twain, Spirit Animal, The Glorious Sons, The Struts, Vu | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Struts w/ Made Violent at First Ave, Minneapolis (04 May 2016)
Vu and John talked about Made Violent and The Struts....
The Struts Setlist
I Just Know / Roll Up
These Times Are Changing
Could Have Been Me
The Ol' Switcheroo
Kiss This
Mary Go Round
Let's Make This Happen Tonight
Put Your Money on Me
Only Just a Call Away
Purple Rain (Prince cover)
Where Did She Go
Made Violent Setlist
Two Tone Hair
Right Kinda Crazy
You Had it Easy
Wave to Ride
Wasted Days
May 10—Pittsburgh, PA—Altar Bar
May 12—Norfolk, VA—Norva
May 13—Atlanta, GA—Shaky Knees
May 15—Jacksonville, FL—Jack Rabbits
May 17—Fort Lauderdale, FL— Culture Room
May 18—Orlando, FL—The Social
May 20—Gulf Shores, AL—Hangout Music Festival
May 21—Maryland Heights, MO—KPNT Pointfest
May 22—Columbus, OH—Rock on the Range
May 28—San Francisco, CA—Opera House
May 28—Napa, CA—BottleRock Napa Valley
June 5—Mendig, Germany—Rock am Ring
June 3—Nurnberg, Germany—Rock im Park
June 9— Sweden Rock Festival
June 10— Pinkpop Festival
June 11—Download Festival
June 12—Nova Rock Festival
June 16—Madrid, Spain—Mad Cool Festival
June 19—Dover, DE—Firefly Music Festival
July 2—Rotselaar, Belgium—Rock Werchter
July 3—Arras, France—Main Square Festival
July 14—Asbury Park, NJ—The Stone Pony*
July 20—Reading, PA—Downtown Alive*
July 21—Clifton Park, NY—Upstate Concert Hall*
July 22—WayHome Music
July 23—Cleveland, OH—R&R HOF*
July 25—Detroit, MI—St. Andrew’s Hall*
July 26—Cincinnati, OH—Bogart’s*
July 29—Chicago, IL—Lollapalooza
July 31—Montreal, Canada—Osheaga
August 1—Portland, ME—Port City Music Hall*
August 2—Boston, MA—Royale Nightclub*
August 6—Washington, DC—9:30 Club*
*supported by Dorothy
Made Violent
Made Violent ended up missing their Minneapolis appearance. It is really a shame, because, as we've previously mentioned, this is an excellent band. ...
In the world of Star Wars fandom, May the 4th has become a playful, informal celebration day as its name is a play on words for the phrase “May the Force Be with You”.
In terms of Minneapolis rock shows, it was a Day of Force as well; that force delivered by the irresistible glam grooves of quickly rising UK band The Struts.
Buffalo, NY trio Made Violent brought a force of their own to the evening, opening with a generous 45min. salvo of loud, low-fi, garage/guitar rock of their own. The three-piece (bassist/singer Joe White, guitarist Rob Romano, and drummer Justin Acee) roared out of the gate with ‘Two Tone Hair’ which also begins their self-titled EP (on StarTime Intl/Columbia) and then charged into ‘Inside Out’, a quick 2 ½-minute track from the March release as well.
White has always brought a bit of bravado to the(self-acclaimed “world famous”) band, playing several new songs (incl. ‘On My Own’ and ‘Shadow’), even teased Prince’s ‘Raspberry Beret’ while tuning, as well as had White doing his best Liverpudlian accent to mimic Paul McCartney, who was playing just across the street at the same time. Ending with ‘Wasted Days’, which also ends the EP, Made Violent made the musical statement, on their terms, that they’re just getting started.
Derbyshire UK foursome The Struts had some promises to fulfill.
When the band had last played the Mainroom in Sept 2015, singer Luke Spiller was under the weather, resulting only in an eight-song/forty-five min. set, with the pledge that they would return and make things right. The resulting 95 min. arena-worthy, hedonistic throwdown was a night-to-day difference, electric in its energy, and put their previous appearance far back in the rearview mirror.
Spiller and the rest of the band (guitarist Adam Slack, bassist Jed Elliott and drummer Gethin Davies) echo the heyday of glam and good time rock with their own sound drawn from a mixture of Queen, Rolling Stones, The Sweet, and Slade, and Spiller obviously had picked up a few more Mick Jagger-esque moves, opening for the Stones in front of 80,000 in Paris and elsewhere.
‘Roll Up’ began the night with lyrics “Everybody wants, so get up, get up, get up to get some action” setting the tone, with Spiller conducting the crowd on cue to shout, clap or move, with a mere wave of his hand.
Breakout hit ‘Could Have Been Me’ was again inserted early into the set, the quartet obviously not believing they live and die on one genre-crossing radio hit, to have to save it until the end.
The band’s stage show has become more polished than last fall as well; pacing was near seamless, accompanying lights were more complex (six banks of stacked, arcing lights in front of the large logo backdrop were constantly in motion and sometimes literally blinding); and Spiller’s numerous costume changes during the set even seem more glittered than previous.
The band’s second US single, “Kiss This” from debut full-length Everybody Wants (on Interscope, released domestically w/extra songs after two years as an import) wasn’t saved until the end either, done not even a third of the way in, to rave applause.
Noting their last appearance at the venue after playing the song, Spiller acknowledged this night would be “a hundred times f##king better”. “I promised you a good show and we’re gonna deliver”, Spiller remarked.
‘Dirty Sexy Money’ had an arresting melody hook right out of the AC/DC playbook, ‘Let’s Make This Happen Tonight’ added extra excitement with Spiller working in “Minneapolis” into every chorus and the crowd shouting “Sympathy for the Devil”-sounding howls on cue back to the band, and ‘Put Your Money on Me’ had everyone participating with an “oh yeah” stanza after every line.
Ending the main set with a dedicated-to-Prince ‘Only Just a Call Away’, the encore began quickly after with guitarist Slack introducing the acoustic ‘Black Swan’ as being one of the band’s oldest songs, joined by Spiller in the last of his costume changes with overflowing black hat.
Tour personnel had taped lyrics to the front monitor just before the encore, so we assumed a cover song was coming next, but didn’t know which, until Spiller/Slack segued into ‘Purple Rain’, done in the same building which immortalized the song over thirty years ago.
A blistering ‘Where Did She Go’ ended the evening, the crowd’s hands and bodies moving side-to-side and singing along on Spiller’s command, before he then instructed the crowd to take a step back to crouch to the floor, before bursting into a jumping, dancing explosion of joy.
Call it a collective force of nature, call it the force of retro-meets-modern rock n’ roll, or just call it The Struts; on this night, promises were redeemed and their album title was correct- Everybody Wants.
The Struts at First Avenue, Minneapolis (04 May 2016)
Posted by W♥M on Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 06:28 PM in First Avenue, John, Made Violent, The Struts | Permalink | Comments (0)
W♥M254: The Struts
W♥M254: The Struts (12 mins)
Vu and John talked about Made Violent and The Struts.
The Struts’ tour dates:
May 6—Kansas City, MO—Middle of the Map
May 8—Concord, NC—Carolina Rebellion
May 9—Johnson City, TN—Capone’s
Song of the Show: The Struts’ “Where Did She Go?”
Archive of this show at archive.org. More information on podomatic.com. Recording of this podcast was made possible by Skype, CallGraph, and Audacity.
W♥M253: Comic May-hem (04 May 2016)
W♥M252: Låpsley (01 May 2016)
W♥M251: Frightened Rabbit (05 January 2016)
W♥M250: Purple Rain - A Timeline of Prince's Final Days (23 April 2016)
Vu, Langen
W♥M249: You Spin Me Round (11 April 2016)
Vu, John, Jamie
W♥M248: So Hapa Together (15 March 2016)
Posted by W♥M on Saturday, 07 May 2016 at 01:44 AM in John, Made Violent, Podcast, The Struts | Permalink | Comments (0)
Minneapolis: May 4 to May 8, 2016
Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from May 4 to May 8, 2016.
Wednesday, 05/04/16, 7:30pm ($16/$18)
We’ve been following acclaimed UK rockers The Struts for a while now, and admitted that they weren’t quite ready to head their show at First Avenue in September 2015, because (at the time) the band only wanted to play a few songs for the US market. This included only seven songs (plus one encore), but they managed to fill out an hour. This is because of extended live version... plus singer Luke Spiller had three costume changes, making for a fun, entertaining show.
This time around, the band finally released their debut Everybody Wants and will be adding additional songs on their set. Recently, the band showcased a cover of The Vaccines’ “I Always Knew” and Drake’s “Hotline Bling”, combined with their single “Kiss This”.
Opening up the show will be our favorite Made Violent. We previously caught the trio (singer/bassist Joseph White, guitarist Rob Romano and drummer Justin Acee) in May 2015 and looked forward to their second appearance in October 2015.... but history would have it that their van broke down. When pressed about why they put up with the struggles of constant grinding and touring, Romano said, “We can’t wait to hop in our sh**y van and drive across the country to play for anyone and everyone. Two things really matter to us – making as much good music as we can, and touring as much as we can. We never want to stop doing this.”
Made Violent also finally released some Eps (Made Violent and Wasted Days) last year via Columbia Records/Startime International.
April 30—Frisco, TX—Toyota Stadium
May 2—Des Moines, IA—Wooly’s
May 3—Milwaukee, WI—The Rave III
May 4—Minneapolis, MN—First Avenue
Having spent many times stopping in Minneapolis at smaller venues, like the 7th Street Entry, Silversun Pickups' Brian Aubert was amazed at the massive crowd for Rock the Garden, that he said, "This is a big deal!" …
"Are you ready? Because you don't sound f****ing ready!," yelled Foals' singer Yannis Philippakis as he worked the crowd. Foals rocked hard at First Avenue in Minneapolis last night to a group of young British rock music fans. …
BETTY WHO with Joywave, Great Good Fine OK at Fine Line Music Cafe Friday 10/17/14, 8pm $15: finelinemusic.com …
SILVERSUN PICKUPS / FOALS
Thursday, 05/05/16, 6:30pm ($27)
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The co-headlining show of Foals and Silversun Pickups will be arriving to the Myth in Maplewood, Minnesota.
Foals recently scored their first #1 Alternative radio single with “Mountain At My Gates”, from their acclaimed fourth album What Went Down... so expect the crowd to go nuts when they play that song live. Find out why Q Magazine gave the band “Best Act in the World” in 2015.
As for Silversun Pickups, they made it on our annual favorite shows of 2015.
Special guest Joywave to open the show.
04/30/16 KDGE 102.1 EdgeFest
05/01/16 Austin, TX Stubb's Bar-B-Q
05/02/16 Houston, TX Revention Music
05/04/16 Kansas City, MO Arvest Bank
05/05/16 Saint Paul, MN Myth
05/08/16 89X Birthday Bash
05/09/16 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
05/10/16 Cincinnati, OH Bogart's
05/13/16 Atlanta, GA Center Stage Theater
05/14/16 Shaky Knees Music
05/16/16 North Myrtle Beach, SC House Of Blues
05/17/16 Greensboro, NC Cone Denim
05/18/16 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
05/28/16 St. Louis, MO Ballpark Village
06/04/16 Live 105 BFD
06/06/16 Seattle, WA The Showbox
06/08/16 Eugene, OR McDonald Theatre
06/17/16 Radio 104.5 Birthday
06/20/16 Chattanooga, TN Track 29
06/21/16 Knoxville, TN The Mill & Mine
06/22/16 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
06/24/16 Raleigh, NC The Ritz
06/25/16 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
06/26/16 DC101 Kerfuffle
07/22/16 Panorama Festival
07/26/16 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground
07/28/16 Quebec City, QC Imperial Bell
07/31/16 Lollapalooza
08/27/16 Timpanogos Music Festival
Wizard World Minneapolis
The second annual Wizard World Minneapolis at the Minneapolis Convention Center just ended on Sunday. Compared to last year, I felt this year more fans were attending the panels... …
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WIZARD WORLD COMIC CON MINNEAPOLIS
at Minneapolis Convention Center
Thursday, 05/05/16, 6pm (FREE)
Friday, 05/06/16, 3pm ($35/$45)
Saturday, 05/07/16, 10am ($45/$55)
Sunday, 05/08/16, 10am ($40/$50)
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It is pretty much all-Wizard World all weekend! W♥M will be bringing you extensive coverage of the three-day event - plus the traditional kick-off free event at the Mall of America on Thursday.
The Wizard World Comic Con’s “Kick Off the Con” event will take place at the Rotunda at 6pm and will feature Lou Ferrigno (The Hulk), Barry Bostwick (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) and James Marsters (Spike, from Buffy).
Wizard has also published their Minneapolis Programming and here are some events we will try to attend:
5:00 – 5:45pm Prince: The Comics Connection—“Batdance” And Beyond: With Dean Haspiel, Guy Gilchrist, Zak Sally & Alex Lubet (Room M100e)
6:00 – 6:45pm The Creative Mind: Top Artists On Drawing Comics With The Red Hook’s Dean Haspiel, The Books Of Magic’s Peter Gross, Animal Man’s Chaz Truog & Deadpool’s Mikey Babinski (Room 100e)
11:30 – 12:15pm Guy Gilchrist’s Professional Creative Workshop (M100i)
12:00 – 12:45pm Protecting Star City And Oliver Queen With David Ramsey (Room 101)
1:00 – 1:45pm Adventures In Middle Earth With Billy Boyd (Room 101)
1:00 – 1:45pm Blood On The Bayou With Kristen Bauer (M100e)
1:30 – 2:15pm Inside The World Of Independent Comics With Billy Dogma’s Dean Haspiel, Mcad’s Barbara Schulz, Sammy The Mouse’s Zak Sally & Origins Unknown’s Victor Dandridge (Room M00i)
2:00 – 2:45pm Spider-Man: Menace Or Super-Menace? Hosted By J. Jonah Jameson (M100e)
2:30 – 3:15pm From Thumbs To Prints: Creating Your Own Comic Book With Koolasheck (M100i)
3:00 – 3:45pm Storytime Is Over: David Giuntoli, Bitsie Tulloch And Sasha Roiz (Room 101)
4:00 – 4:45pm Rise Of The Penguin: Robin Lord Taylor (Room 101)
4:30 – 5:15pm Security Gaps In Hogwarts (M100b)
5:00 – 5:45pm Intro To Cosplay With Wizard World Cosplay Guest Hannah Eva (M100e)
5:30 – 6:15pm Creating “The Crow” With James O’barr (M100i)
6:30 – 7:00pm Inside The Ring With Wwe® Superstar Paige™ (M100b)
7:30 – 9:00pm Wizard World Costume Contest Sponsored By Bandai Namco (Room 101)
SUNDAY, MAY 8TH
12:00 – 12:45pm Their Time Is Now: Falk Hentschel And Franz Drameh (M100e)
12:30 – 1:15pm Secrets Of Comics Writing Revealed! With Superman’s Dan Jurgens, The Red Hook’s Dean Haspiel, Albert The Alien’s Trevor Mueller & Spider-Man’s Danny Fingeroth (Room M100b)
1:00 – 1:45pm Out For A Bite With James Marsters (M100e)
1:30 – 2:15pm Batman V Superman: Threat Or Menace? With Superman’s Dan Jurgens & Spider-Man’s Danny Fingeroth (Room M100b)
3:00 – 3:45pm Wizard World Kid’s Costume Contest (M100b)
You can pay per day, but you’ll save money by purchasing all three dates at $75.
Posted by W♥M on Saturday, 30 April 2016 at 01:32 PM in Foals, Joywave, Made Violent, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Music Guide, Silversun Pickups, The Struts, Vu, Wizard, Wizard World Minneapolis | Permalink | Comments (0)
Minneapolis: December 4 to December 6, 2015
Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from December 4 to December 6, 2015.
Please note that Clyde Iron Works is located in Duluth, Minnesota. I've never been there before, but I would think this is a smaller than the usual venue that superstar rapper Atmosphere and his usual Rhymesayers …
Fashawn, in his brief twenty minutes, brought out both Prof and Brother Ali for separate duets and showcased DJ Fresh who twirled the knobs on a mixer embedded in a giant boombox. …
Brother Ali and Syrian-American rapper/activist Omar Offendum will be appearing at Augsburg college on Saturday, March 9, in Minneapolis. ...
P.O.S.
They only played two songs during the pop up show but for the second song they brought Stef (better known as local rapper and Doomtree member P.O.S.) up to sing about orange juice called "Shake It Well." The song ...
RHYMESAYERS 20
at Target Center
Friday, 12/04/2015, 5pm ($20/$100 VIP)
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The special Rhymesayers 20 Year Anniversary Concert is taking place this December 4th at the Target Center. Traditionally Rhymesayers Entertainment record label has sold out First Avenue for many, many years now. Moving it a larger capacity like the Target Center made a lot of sense to us.
Expect all the staple artists from Atmoshpere and Brother Ali to recent addition Prof to be there on Friday to represent Rhymesayers.
Performances by (in alphabetical order):
Abstract Rude
Battlecats
BK One
Boom Bap Project
deM atlaS
DJ Abilities
Freeway, Grayskul
Grieves
Hail Mary Mallon
I Self Devine
Jake One
K-Salaam
Los Nativos
Micranots
Mr. Dibbs
Musab
Soul Position
The Uncluded
Toki Wright
All arena seats (including the entire general admission floor) are only $20.00 (plus facility, ticketing fees and taxes) to celebrate twenty years of Rhymesayers.
Limited VIP packages available (with all the goodies) for $100.00 (plus facility, ticketing fees and taxes). VIP includes: premium VIP seating, exclusive Rhymesayers 20 Shirt, VIP bag, Rhymesayers 20 Sticker, limited edition VIP laminate with lanyard,exclusive VIP entrance and special VIP only bars.
Beat Connection
Beat Connection opened up the show. We've previously seen the Seattle-based band in 2012, touring in support of their album The Palace Garden, and was rather impressed with their fanbase ...
Seattle's Beat Connection is back on tour in support of their new album Product 3 (out now on ANTI- Records). We first caught the band in 2012 and was blown away at their fanbase. Their last appearance in Minneapolis was with Django Django in August 2015.
Product 3, as described by Stereogum is "cuts a path through electronic pop, rock, hip-hop, and R&B without ever plunging head-on into any one sound."
Special guests Phantoms and Metavari to open.
11/28 - The Drake - Toronto, ON
12/02 - The Blind Pig - Ann Arbor, MI
12/03 - Subterranean - Chicago, IL
12/04 - The Frequency - Madison, WI
12/05 - 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN
12/06 - Vega - Lincoln, NE
12/09 - Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO
12/10 - Kilby Court - Salt Lake City, UT
12/11 - Watercolor - Boise, ID
12/12 - The Bartlett - Spokane, WA
12/17 - Doug Fir Lounge - Portland, OR
12/19 - Fortune - Vancouver, BC
Sunday, 12/06/2015, 5pm ($29.50)
Awolnation (stylized as AWOLNATION) will be stopping by the Myth in Maplewood this Sunday, December 6th, in support of Run (Red Bull). Before the electronic rock band head out with Fall Out Boy, they're set to do a number of Radio Station tour - including this one, as part of 93X Nutcracker Presents show.
Our favorite The Struts will open up the show. You may remember that they previously booked (and sold out) the 7th Street Entry, prompting the promoters to upgrade their venue to First Avenue.
12/01/15 Portland, OR McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
12/03/15 Fairfax, VA EagleBank Arena
12/04/15 102.9 The Buzz's Swanky Sweater
12/05/15 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
12/12/15 KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas
12/15/15 95X Holiday Whobilation
12/16/15 106.5 The End Presents
12/17/15 105.7 Holiday Spectacular
12/18/15 Night 89X Stole Christmas
01/09/16 Honolulu, HI The Republik
02/26/16 Hollywood, FL Hard Rock Live
03/01/16 North Charleston, SC Coliseum
03/02/16 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena
03/05/16 Mashantucket, CT Foxwoods Resort
03/06/16 Syracuse, NY War Memorial Arena
03/08/16 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena
03/09/16 Dayton, OH Wright State University
03/10/16 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center
03/12/16 Chicago, IL United Center
03/13/16 Saint Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
03/14/16 Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena
03/17/16 Birmingham, AL Legacy Arena
03/18/16 Memphis, TN FedExForum
03/19/16 New Orleans, LA Smoothie King Center
03/20/16 San Antonio, TX Freeman Coliseum
03/22/16 Wichita, KS Intrust Bank Arena
03/23/16 Colorado Springs, CO Broadmoor World
03/25/16 Phoenix, AZ Talking Stick Resort Arena
03/26/16 Irvine, CA Irvine Meadows Amph
Posted by W♥M on Saturday, 28 November 2015 at 09:51 PM in Atmosphere, Awolnation, Beat Connection, Brother Ali, Metavari, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Music Guide, P.O.S., Phantoms, Prof, Rhymesayers, The Struts, Vu | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Struts at Troubadour, West Hollywood (14 October 2015)
10/17 Woodlands, TX KTBZ-FM Buzzfest
10/19 Atlanta, GA Earl
10/20 Charlottesville, VA Southern
10/21 Washington, DC Rock & Roll Hotel
10/23 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
10/24 Philadelphia, PA Foundry
10/25 Boston, MA Sinclair
10/26 Buffalo, NY Iron Works
10/28 Nashville, TN High Watt
10/29 St. Louis, MO Blueberry Hill
10/31 New Orleans, LA Voodoo Music
11/01 Dallas, TX Club Dada
11/02 Austin, TX Stubb’s BBQ
11/04 Colorado Springs, CO Black Sheep
11/05 Denver, CO Marquis Theatre
11/08 Vancouver, BC Venue
11/09 Seattle, WA Crocodile
11/10 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
11/11 Reno, NV Knitting Factory
11/13 Scottsdale, AZ Pub Rock
11/14 Las Vegas, NV Hard Rock Live
11/27 Toronto, ON Adelaide Hall
11/28 Montreal, QC Fairmount Theatre
11/29 Wilkes-Barre, PA Chandelier Lobby
12/01 Norfolk, VA Norva
12/02 Richmond, VA National
12/06 Maplewood, MN The Myth
12/07 KPNT 105.7 The Point's Ho Ho Show
12/09 How The Edge Stole Christmas
A band comes along every now and then that has the ability to shock and shake you. There’s just something about them that draws you in and sends you into a transcendental state of blissed-out musical euphoria. Most of the time these said bands are going to be from Britain (hey, you know it’s true). Glam-rock-indie band The Struts, from Derby, England, have been gaining some impressive momentum with their first full-length album Everybody Wants, and now they’re touring the country promoting their US debut EP ‘Have You Heard’. This past Wednesday they took the stage at the Troubadour here in L.A., with native band The Shelters opening. Relevant to the hype of this amazingly dynamic foursome, this particular Struts show sold out hours after tickets went on sale.
The Troubadour is the Mecca for intimate shows and quintessential rock ‘n’ roll vibes. It’s a low-key venue where musicians and industry people go to give a nod and get introduced to outrageous talent- new and old. The Shelters are an upbeat indie rock band from L.A., and their track ‘The Ghost is Gone’ is a nice psychedelic blend of old school rock and droned out 90’s wave. While listening to them from the balcony I glanced behind me and noticed Tom Petty bobbing his head and clapping his hands while the guitarist did a solo. Legends eyeing potential legends, ya dig?
While the stage was being set up for The Struts I ran downstairs to get a good spot on the floor. Looking up I noticed that backstage (which is actually just an upstairs with thin little curtains in plain view of the audience) you could see the band having a little photo shoot and jumping around the room, perhaps getting out any last-minute jitters before the performance. The lights dim and the crowd starts to get amped, and while rainbow-colored lights hit the stage, the theme song from The Neverending Story starts and sends a chill of nostalgia over the room... while also sending a message loud and clear that we’re in for a special and intoxicatingly entertaining treat.
The crowd packs in closer to the stage as the theme song ends and the room goes quiet. Finally Adam Slack (guitar), Jed Elliott (bass), and Gethin Davies (drums) race down the stairs and hop on their instruments. Moments later frontman Luke Spiller rushes the stage donned in an oversized glistening tunic and black shiny pants. These guys have the chemistry of The Beatles with the stage presence of Zeppelin to boot. They go right into ‘Roll Up’, with Luke howling into the mic “Now, whatever I wear, it’s gotta have flare, so you people can stare...Everybody wants, everybody wants, roll up, roll up, roll up for satisfaction.” The whole band is smiling and having the time of their lives, and they leave caution to the smoky haze that fills their set. Their sound may be smart and fundamental enough for massive radio play, but they carry textures of uplifting rock ‘n’ roll tunes that hold true to that raw, uncut kind of feeling. “Los Angeles, can you dance?” Luke inquires to a sea of admiring fans. “Can you sing?” He continues on to conduct a yelling contest from opposite sides of the crowd. The energy is through the roof and Luke is dripping golden glitter. “Glitter in the eyes, I don’t recommend it.”
Next up the band goes into their massive hit ‘Could Have Been Me’. This song is about going after your dreams and never giving up, and it is an instant crowd pleaser. There’s a difference between pretentious egomaniacs who just want attention and the true soul of Rock Gods. Rock Gods have a way of connecting with people, of energizing their audience in a way that turns it into a universal feeling; making it about humanity. The Struts, though a rather young band, seem to have mastered this in that they are immensely generous to their fans. Must be one of the reasons they opened for The Rolling Stones last year in Paris (where their following is HUGE). This band is flawless and seems to have been playing together for much longer than 3 years. Baby-faced Adam is a killer guitar player and shined in his solo on their next song ‘Kiss This’. Again, Luke encouraged the audience to sing along with him, and we gladly complied. “When I say jump, you fucking jump!” This kid is a riot, and I believe he was born to galvanize the music world.
Think David Bowie in The Labyrinth meets Lou Reed meets Freddie Mercury....
After a quick wardrobe change Luke returns wearing a fringed black cape ensemble (this guy’s got incredible style, and is creating his own brand of clothing called Beautifully Strange). Think David Bowie in The Labyrinth meets Lou Reed meets Freddie Mercury. “There’s a thunderstorm outside...and we wanna bring it in here!” He proceeds to get the people on the floor and sing with him “Na Na Na Na ooooo Na Na Na” and the likes of that for about 10 minutes. Talk about up close and personal... it really made me feel like I was back in elementary school at recess with a really rad group of playmates. These guys are making live shows fun again, and if anyone can make the known-to-be-stuffy crowd of Angelinos get on the floor and sing for a while, well, bravo...that’s a grand feet in and of itself.
“When we found out we sold out this legendary venue, our breaths were taken away.” Luke tells the crowd near the end of the show. He’s a mover and a shaker, and the rest of the band seems to recharge his batteries more and more with every song. It was a soaring ball of fire and fun for the entire night, and I truly wanted it to be endless. But alas, all good things must come to an end, but The Struts assured us they would be back soon, and with new material. They ended the night with the catchy rebel tune ‘Put Your Money on Me.’ After the show Adam told me they’d be back in February (Yay). With shows like these, I guess they won’t ever have to look back and say it “Could Have Been Me”. (I’m sorry, I had to.)
jess ♥ weheartmusic.com ♥ twitter.com/weheartmusic
Posted by W♥M on Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 05:45 AM in Jess, Los Angeles, The Shelters, The Struts, Tom Petty, Troubadour, West Hollywood | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wham! Glam! Thank You, Ma'am!
The Darkness first came on the scene with their debut 2003 album, Permission to Land, and quickly gained this reputation for putting on some amazing elaborate live stage shows. There was also a lot of backlashes …
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British glam rockers The Darkness is back! The band formed in 2000 and by 2006 had called it quit. Of course, they couldn't stay away - by 2012, they had reformed (which we mentioned the reunion tour).
Now The Darkness is back again with a fourth studio album Last of Our Kind.
If you missed them the first time or second time around, you simply have to catch them on this 2015 tour. People forget, but there is a reason why the British band won Best Live Act and Best British Band by Kerrang! and Best Group, Best Rock Group, and Best Album from the BRIT Award.
With this current tour, all the original band members have reunited, except for the drummer... who is Rufus Taylor, the son of Queen drummer Roger Taylor.
North American Leg of "Blast of Our Kind" – presented by The Noise:
10/11 San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
10/13 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
10/14 Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
10/16 Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall
10/18 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
10/20 Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
10/21 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall
10/23 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
10/24 Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar
10/25 Silver Spring MD @ The Fillmore
10/27 New York, NY @Irving Plaza
10/28 Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony
10/30 Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
10/31 Huntington, NY @ The Paramount
11/01 Boston, MA @ House Of Blues
thestruts.com
Britain’s rising new glam/rock band The Struts are taking on the US with their current tour promoting their album Everybody Wants. Their hit single “Could Have Been Me” is currently on the top 5 of Billboard’s Alternative charts, and the self-proclaimed ‘glamorous indie’ band has been racking up Best New Artists awards consistently for the past year. Lead singer Luke Spiller is a sight to behold, strutting around onstage like he was born to be there (hence where their manager thought of their band name). They do a killer cover of Lorde’s Royals, which we hope to hear when we cover their show at the Troubadour in Los Angeles this Wednesday, October 14th.
10/14 Los Angeles, CA The Troubadour
10/19 Atlanta, GA The Earl
10/20 Charlottesville, VA The Southern
10/24 Philadelphia, PA The Foundry
10/25 Boston, MA The Sinclair
10/28 Nashville, TN The High Watt
10/29 St. Louis, MO Blueberry Hill-Duck Room
11/09 Seattle, WA The Crocodile
11/14 Las Vegas, NV Hard Rock Live Las Vegas
12/02 Richmond, VA The National
I was surprise to see some musicians and bands that I actually like: Sneaker Pimps and Thievery Corporation. The video only shows me applying the Sneaker Pimps on and the highlight …
iamxmusic.com
Los Angeles-based glam noir band IAMX will be playing in Minneapolis at the Varsity Theater on Monday, October 19th... of course we will cover the show. You should know we are big fans of Sneaker Pimps, which was created by Liam Howe and Chris Corner. When Kelli Dayton left the band, Corner took over as lead vocalists (which, personally, I felt wasn't the same band anymore). Perhaps he felt the same way, because since then, Corner started his own group called IAMX.
IAMX is part rock, part electronic, part burlesque, but all entertaining. They're known for their on-stage theatrics, so we're pretty excited to see what this upcoming show will be like.
IAMX's latest album Metanoia came out October 2nd via Metropolis Records (the same label who signed KMFDM and recently Skinny Puppy).
10/12/15 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
10/13/15 Seattle, WA Neumos
10/16/15 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
10/19/15 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater
10/20/15 Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge
10/22/15 Detroit, MI Shelter
10/23/15 Toronto, ON Lee's Palace
10/24/15 Montreal, QC Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre
10/26/15 Boston, MA Brighton Music Hall
10/27/15 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts
10/28/15 Washington, DC U Street Music Hall
10/30/15 New York, NY Webster Hall
11/05/15 Utrecht, Netherlands Tivoli De Helling
11/09/15 London, United Kingdom Koko
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Posted by W♥M on Sunday, 11 October 2015 at 11:44 PM in IAMX, Sneaker Pimps, The Darkness, The Struts | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Struts & Highly Suspect at First Ave, Minneapolis (17 Sep 2015)
Intro: Klaus Doldinger's "Bastian's Happy Flight"
She Makes Me Feel
outro: Julian Nott's Wallace and Gromit theme
Highly Suspect Setlist
Round & Round
Fire in Bedstuy
Claudeland
Highly Suspect
Fresh off the Catfish and the Bottlemen tour, Brooklyn's Highly Suspect is back in Minneapolis for a little Summer tour. This is their first run after the release of Mister Asylum and they are super …
After completely selling out the smaller 7th Street Entry, The Struts and Highly Suspect show in Minneapolis was quickly upgraded to the much larger-capacity main room.
The evening began with a headliner-sized set from Cape Cod, MA band Highly Suspect, playing locally for the third time in as many months (opening for Catfish and the Bottlemen and a sold out headlining set at the Triple Rock came prior), and who have very obviously built a healthy area fan base.
The frenetic trio (Ryan Meyer - drums, vocals; Rich Meyer - bass, vocals; Johnny Stevens – guitar, vocals, synthesizer) not only rocked with their 50 min. set, they rawked, playing in support of their first full-length, Mister Asylum (on 300 Entertainment) and fans responded in kind, especially to ‘Bath Salts’, new single ‘Lydia’, and even the unreleased ‘Fire in Bedstuy’.
Singer Stevens was clearly having fun, calling out all the people in the crowd wearing their t-shirts and with ‘Lydia’ peaking at #4 on the Mainstream Rock chart, plan to hear much more from this diverse hard alternative threesome that can channel the muddiness of a Soundgarden one minute and the crunch of vintage Black Sabbath, the next.
Entering on stage to Klaus Doldinger's "Bastian's Happy Flight" from the 1984 film The Neverending Story (which we love... and you can hear 23 cover songs of the theme song here), glam rockers The Struts launched into "Roll Up", singing "Roll up, roll up, roll up for satisfaction/Everybody wants/Every boy needs... To get some action" The lyrics, combined with frontman Luke Spiller's "dancing like a t***", instantly drew heavy comparisons to Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones.
Americans may have only heard of The Struts this year, but the truth is that the band has been around for at least five years now, complete with a debut single ‘I Just Know’ in 2012 and full length album Everybody Wants (Virgin/EMI) in 2014. However, as an introduction to America, they've only officially released one EP, Have You Heard to us and (perhaps smartly) decided to only play those particular songs (all four songs), and throwing in a few more from their debut album. With a total of seven songs (and one encore song), on paper should have only been, at best, a 40-minute set... but somehow the band managed to vamp out their set to nearly an hour. A typical Struts song is stretched from three minutes to about fifteen minutes!
Frontman Luke Spiller, despite undergoing vocal problems, was determined to give us the best show of our lives. Spiller said, "As you can hear, my voice is f**** tonight... Hope you are not disappointed." Shortly after that announcement, he started screaming and singing to ‘Kiss This’. He actually sounded completely fine, and no one would have been the wiser if he hadn't mention anything about his voice.
The rest of the show had Spiller undergoing three costume changes, which is always fun to watch. Spiller had the audience in his hands, often directing the crowd to do sing back competitions or sitting down/ready to pounce... and the audience loved it.
Before their last song, Spiller, once again, apologized for his voice, but promised to be "in top form next time" and then that they promised to play "two hours!"
The breakout U.K. band continues their US tour with some additional dates recently added - see listing below:
The Struts at First Avenue, Minneapolis (17 September 2015)
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Posted by W♥M on Tuesday, 22 September 2015 at 06:25 PM in First Ave, First Avenue, Highly Suspect, John, Minneapolis, The Struts, Vu | Permalink | Comments (0)
Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from September 15 to September 17, 2015.
Tuesday, 09/15/2015, 7:30pm ($15)
We're pretty excited to see brothers band The Cribs back in Minneapolis, the last time we saw them it was in 2012 at 7th Street Entry and 2008 at the Varsity Theater.
This time around, the trio (twins Gary and Ryan Jarman and their younger brother Ross Jarman) will be at the Turf Club in St Paul.
As we already previously mentioned, their latest album is called For All My Sisters and came out earlier this year in North America on Arts & Crafts.
London/Berlin-based, but Norwegian-born musician Farao to open.
09/10/15 Vancouver, BC The Cobalt
09/11/15 Seattle, WA Barboza
09/15/15 Saint Paul, MN Turf Club
09/16/15 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall
09/17/15 Detroit, MI Majestic Cafe
09/18/15 Toronto, ON Adelaide Hall
09/19/15 POP Montréal Int’l Music Festival
09/22/15 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall Of Williamsburg
10/19/15 Newcastle O2 Academy Newcastle
10/20/15 Glasgow Barrowland
10/21/15 Manchester Albert Hall
10/24/15 Sheffield O2 Academy Sheffield
10/25/15 Bristol O2 Academy Bristol
10/26/15 Nottingham Rock City
10/28/15 London Roundhouse
10/29/15 Oxford O2 Academy Oxford
10/30/15 Portsmouth Pyramid Centre
Mutemath
The latest band to do the theme song is Mutemath. Sampling the songs on transformersalbum.com, I can't say that I'm too crazy for any of the songs on the new soundtrack. ...
at 7th St Entry
Wednesday, 09/16/2015, 7:30pm ($20)
Grammy-nominated, alternative rock band Mutemath have sold out 100% of their entire North American tour. Wow, right?
The band will be promoting their new album Vitals and recently debut their single "Monument" on Beats 1 Radio.
Tour officially kicks off September 16th in Minneapolis, Quiet Entertainer to open the show.
09/12/15 - "106.5 Weenie Roast"
09/13/15 - "95X Big Shindig"
09/16/15 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
09/17/15 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
09/18/15 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
09/19/15 – Ann Arbor, MI – Blind Pig
09/21/15 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
09/23/15 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
09/24/15 – Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right
09/26/15 – Boston, MA – Great Scott
09/29/15 – Washington, DC – U Street
10/01/15 – Nashville, TN – Basement East
10/03/15 – Atlanta, GA – Vinyl
10/04/15 – Atlanta, GA - Vinyl
10/06/15 – New Orleans, LA – Gasa Gasa
10/10/15 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada
10/19/15 – Los Angeles, CA – Club Bahia
10/20/15 – Los Angeles, CA – Echo
10/21/15 – San Francisco, CA – Brick & Mortar
10/23/15 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern
10/24/15 – Portland, OR – Star Theater
Thursday, 09/17/2015, 8pm ($10)
Breakout U.K. band The Struts will be stopping by First Avenue this September 17th, in support of their hit Have You Heard EP (Interscope Records), with single "Could Have Been Me".
The single climbed to #7 at Modern Rock and #13 at Active Rock, with over two million plays on Spotify, hitting #1 on their viral chart.
Also by popular demand, The Struts have added more dates and upgraded to bigger venues after announcing their first stateside tour.
The Struts are Luke Spiller (lead vocals), Adam Slack (guitar), Jed Elliott (bass) and Gethin Davies (drums).
New York rockers Highly Suspect to open the show. We previously mentioned that the band was in town as headliner and also as opener for another UK band Catfish and the Bottlemen.
09/06 Asbury Park, NJ Wonder Bar
09/08 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell’s
09/11 Pittsburgh, PA Smiling Moose
09/12 Louisville, KY Mercury Ballroom
09/13 Sterling Heights, MI 98X Chill on the Hill
09/15-09/16 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
09/17 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
09/19 Las Vegas, NV iHeartRadio
10/14 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour
10/24 Philadelphia, PA Ortlieb’s Lounge
10/25 Boston, MA e Sinclair
10/26 Buffalo, NY Ironworks
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Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
The original name: Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
Genre: RPG, Horror, Strategy
Developer: Cultic Games
Publisher: 1C Entertainment
Demo: http://www.stygianthegame.com
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones is presented as a role-playing game, terror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of the American writer H. P. Lovecraft, including both his plot and enemies and scenarios. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones guarantees in its playable proposal elements of tactical combat, as well as a visual style very illustrative in two dimensions where we travel from the doomed city of Arkham to the depths of the Abyss in search of our own salvation in a world of edge death.
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I’ve mixed feelings about this one. The show was great, however there wasn’t as much of the show as I’d hoped. It was an intimate venue and the crowd was a really mixed bag – old, young and everything in between. Manson was due to be on stage at 9pm. Although lots of acts keep people waiting, I always feel like it’s fairly self indulgent to do so. In this case, Manson didn’t come on stage until 9.45pm and only performed for around an hour.
I get that performing is hard, however I’ve paid less for other tickets where acts have performed for much longer. Given that there were many breaks in the performance where Manson changed outfits or moved around, it felt fairly disjointed, which stopped me really getting into the evening.
When Manson was actually performing, he was great – angsty, loud and outcast, exactly as you would expect. Even in a cast, Manson put on a good performance, incorporating his ‘helpers’ into the show, dressed as nurses. His movements in a motorised chair were somewhat comical, but despite this, he still held everyone’s attention. His biggest hits were performed really well, complete with audience sing-alongs. The Beautiful People was saved for the last track of the evening, and was the one track that actually encouraged the whole room to get involved.
Throughout the gig, there was a mixed reaction, some people 100% invested in the music, moshing, bouncing and yelling along. Others looked more lost, seemingly less connected to the music. I fell somewhere the middle, bouncing along but not totally swept away. At times, I felt that my attention was wandering somewhat (particularly in between songs) and the disjointed nature of the show made it feel a little unprofessional, particularly when Manson would gesture for the rest of the band to stop playing mid song so that he could talk to the crowd. Again, it was a little ‘diva-like’ which I felt interfered with my experience of the music. I like to be swept away, feeling every heartbeat of a song, however I don’t think that it truly captured my attention enough to engage fully. As Marilyn Manson is on the billing for another gig next year, I hope that it was a one off and a festival appearance will make me sit up and take more notice next time.
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Body found believed to be missing automotive writer Deputies believe a body found Thursday in a California river is that of a freelance automotive writer who vanished after riding off on a motorcycle weeks ago....
Missing Lewis Chessman found, could fetch $1M at auction A chess piece purchased for a few pounds (dollars) by an antiques dealer in Scotland in 1964 has been identified as one of the 900-year-old Lewis Chessmen, among the greatest artifacts of the Viking era...
Hiker missing in Hawaii for more than two weeks found alive in forest _____ A 35-year-old hiker who was missing for more than two weeks was found alive on Friday in a Hawaiian forest, the woman’s mother confirmed to NBC News affiliate KHNL in Honolulu. Amanda Eller was reported missing in Maui on May 9 after she ...
Autistic boy found safe after reported missing from Midtown hotel Police reunited a 12-year-old autistic boy and his family Sunday morning after he went missing in Midtown on a visit to the city. The boy wandered off from the Merrion Hotel lobby where the family was staying on West 45th Street near 6th Avenue just ...
Body of missing automotive writer found in California river SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities in Northern California say they have found a body believed to be that of a veteran automotive journalist who went missing while test-driving a motorcycle for a story. The Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office said F...
Jet ski rented by N.J. couple who went missing in Barbados in June found near Guadeloupe A jet ski rented June 24 by Magdalena Devil and Oscar Suarez in Barbados was found 250 miles away near the French island of Guadeloupe Saturday. ...
She was missing for almost 5 days. Then her grandson found her alive, face down in a creek A North Carolina man found his grandmother, who'd been missing for almost five days, lying face down in a creek bed behind her apartment. ...
Missing British hiker found dead in New Zealand: police The body of a 49-year-old British hiker who went missing nearly two weeks ago on a mountain range in New Zealand was found on Wednesday, police said....
Missing for days, woman with dementia found alive in woods WHITEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — An 85-year-old woman with dementia was found alive but dehydrated in North Carolina four days after she went missing in South Carolina. News outlets report a caregiver for Jaxie Rogers left the woman in a car Friday while she ...
Remains of missing Long Island woman found in Florida Florida detectives are probing the death of a missing Long Island woman, whose remains were found last week in the Sunshine State, as a homicide. Jenna Jacobsen, 20, of East Islip, NY, was last seen on April 25 after she traveled to Broward County, F...
Missing Phoenix man’s truck found parked near Nogales border TUCSON – A Phoenix man has been missing for nearly three weeks. John Navin, 56, was last heard from on June 20. His family is asking for help from the public in getting him home. His sister, Jeri Navin Smith last spoke to him when he was in No...
Seven Bodies Found On Nanda Devi, May Be Of Missing Mountaineers: Reports A rescue team has recovered seven bodies believed to be of a group of mountaineers who went missing while climbing the Nanda Devi peak late last month, news agency PTI quoted an official as saying......
Remains found in Arkansas may be that of missing Maleah Davis, police say The remains of small child were discovered in a garbage bag along a freeway in Arkansas Friday and police are now saying it could “possibly” be that of missing 4-year-old Maleah Davis....
Officials: Missing Nicholas County Canoer Found Dead NICHOLAS COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18)– The search for a missing Nicholas County canoer is over after his body was found Thursday afternoon. According to officials, 62-year-old James Jolly had been camping near the Licking River since Friday and went mi...
Hiker missing for a week in California mountains found alive LA CRESCENTA, Calif. (AP) — Searchers have found a hiker who has been missing in the mountains north of Los Angeles for a week. Authorities say 73-year-old Eugene Jo was found alive Saturday by one of 11 search-and-rescue crews that have been searchi...
Missing Lewis Chessmen piece found, will be auctioned July 2 LONDON (AP) — A medieval chess piece purchased for 5 pounds ($7.50) by an antiques dealer in Scotland in 1964 has been found to be one of the famous medieval Lewis Chessmen and is expected to bring more than 600,000 pounds ($670,000) when auctioned b...
Blood, other evidence found at home of missing Connecticut mom, report says Investigators have found traces of blood and other evidence leading them to believe the Connecticut mother of five missing for nearly a week was the victim of a violent crime, according to a Thursday report. ...
Missing medical school graduate from Arkansas found safe in Mexico _____ A recent medical school graduate and Arkansas native who went missing in Mexico has been found safe, Mexican officials said late on Friday. Jesse Pacheco, 29, who graduated from Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara’s medical school last weekend ...
Aunt’s boyfriend arrested after missing Dallas 18-month-old found dead DALLAS (KXAS) – Dallas police say they have arrested a 27-year-old man and charged him with felony injury to a child in connection with the death of Cedrick Jackson, an 18-month-old boy reported missing Wednesday morning. Dallas police said Thu...
Missing Missouri teen found dead in back of tractor-trailer The body of a Missouri teen who vanished while headed to do some odd jobs was found in the back of a tractor-trailer, authorities said. Jasmine Mills, 17, had been missing for two days when she was found dead Saturday morning in a Kansas City industr...
Body of missing Utah student Mackenzie Lueck found in canyon The body of slain Utah student Mackenzie Lueck was discovered in a canyon about 85 miles from the Salt Lake City home where a suspect was arrested last week, police said Friday. Remains recovered from Logan Canyon on Wednesday were positively identif...
Bodies of missing woman, child found after father’s arrest for murder The bodies of a missing Oregon woman and her 3-year-old son were discovered in a wooded area over the weekend — weeks after the boy’s father was arrested in connection to their disappearance, according to a new report. After searching for about...
Rescue group: Missing SC pony named ‘Pikachu’ found dead FOUNTAIN INN, S.C. (AP) — A group dedicated to finding missing horses says a South Carolina pony named Pikachu has been found dead. Stolen Horse International got involved after Hidden Pasture Farm owner Kate Nichols said last week th...
Golden Alert Cancelled After Missing Butler County Man Found Safe UPDATE: BUTLER COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18)– A Golden Alert has been issued for a missing Butler County man. Officials say 78-year-old Bobby Jo Chance was last seen Friday at his residence on Silver City Huntsville Road. Chaney was expected to attend...
Missing Texas hiker Joshua McClatchy found safe after 6 days Searchers in Arkansas found a Fort Worth, Texas, man overnight, six days after he went missing while hiking in a wilderness area, local law enforcement officials announced Saturday....
Human remains found in suitcase identified as missing Indianapolis man, police say Human remains that were found in a suitcase in southeast Indianapolis were identified as Larry Terry, 56, who was reported missing in March. ...
Body of missing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck found _____ The body of slain University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck has been found, authorities said Friday. Lueck’s remains were discovered in Logan Canyon in Logan, Utah, on Wednesday, and Salt Lake City police Chief Mike Brown said he persona...
American scientist Suzanne Eaton found dead in Greece after going missing Suzanne Eaton was found dead on the Greek island of Crete where she went missing during a work conference. ...
Remains confirmed to be missing Texas 4-year-old Maleah Davis found in Arkansas Forensic scientists confirmed Monday that the remains found are Maleah Davis, who was reported missing more than three weeks ago. ...
Body of missing journalist David Gordon Johnson found in California river SAN FRANCISCO — Authorities in Northern California say they have found a body believed to be that of a veteran automotive journalist who went missing while test-driving a motorcycle for a story. The Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office said Friday...
California hiker missing for 4 days is found alive, daughter and investigators reveal Sheryl Powell, a California mother and hiker who vanished four days ago during a camping trip, was found alive Monday, her daughter and investigators announced....
Body found at Oregon house identified as missing Disney Mouseketeer Dennis Day What happened to missing Disney Mousketeer Dennis Day? Oregon police are now trying to find out after his body was identified. ...
Colombian Soccer Player Found Dead Days After Family Reported Her Missing Leidy Asprilla, a 22-year-old soccer player who had represented Colombia in youth international tournaments, was found dead off the side of a road yesterday. Her family reported her missing on Sunday after Asprilla left home to pick up a teammate for...
Search crew that found Amanda Eller on new mission to find missing hiker The rescue team that found yoga teacher Amanda Eller 17 days after she disappeared in Hawaii have started a new hunt for yet another missing hiker. Javier Cantellops and Chris Berquist — who discovered Eller, 35, via helicopter on Friday —...
Olympian soccer player found dead in Colombia days after being reported missing An Olympian soccer player, who represented Colombia in the 2016 Rio Games, was found dead Wednesday several days after she had been reported missing, police said....
Body of missing Utah college student Mackenzie Lueck found, police say Salt Lake City police announced Friday that they have recovered the body of missing student Mackenzie Lueck. The body was recovered Wednesday. ...
Cops treating case of missing Connecticut mom as homicide after blood found at home Blood was found in the Connecticut home of a missing mother of five, and police are now treating their investigation into her disappearance as a homicide, reports and sources said Thursday. Investigators found traces of blood when they were searching...
Remains believed to be missing Texas 4-year-old Maleah Davis found in Arkansas Homicide investigators are bringing the remains back to Houston for an autopsy to determine identity and cause of death, police said. ...
Remains found in Florida identified as missing New York woman, police investigating possible homicide Human remains found in Florida last week were identified Sunday as those of native New Yorker Jenna Jacobsen as police say they are treating her death as a homicide....
Missing Hiker Found Alive, "Sunburned And Smiling" 17 Days After Getting Lost In Hawaiian Forest The search for hiker Amanda Eller came to an end on Friday after a helicopter crew found her alive near a waterfall deep in the Hawaiian forest that she began hiking 17 days ago....
Investigators say charred skeletal remains found last week are those of Andreen McDonald, missing since February (WOAI) The husband of a missing San Antonio, Texas woman now faces a charge of murder, arrested Saturday afternoon after authorities confirmed they’d found the remains of his wife, Andreen McDonald. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office arres...
Body of missing University of Utah college student Mackenzie Lueck found, police say Salt Lake City police announced Friday they have found the body of missing student Mackenzie Lueck. The body was recovered Wednesday. ...
Police hunting Oklahoma couple after 1 child found dead, 1 missing and 3 others left in 'critical condition' Police in Missouri and Oklahoma are hunting two parents after they say one of their children was found dead, one was reported missing and three others were located in “critical condition.”...
Human remains found on Kentucky property identified as missing mom Savannah Spurlock, police announce Human remains discovered at a Kentucky home were identified as Savannah Spurlock, putting an end to the monthslong search for the 23-year-old mother, police announced Thursday. ...
Hawaii woman found alive after missing for 2 weeks says time in forest was 'toughest,' but 'I chose life' The woman who survived for over two weeks in a Hawaii forest before being rescued spoke out from her hospital bed on Saturday on her harrowing ordeal with a message for all who helped search for her: thank you for not stopping....
Former Panthers RB, XFL 'He Hate Me' star Rod Smart found after being reported as missing Rod Smart, who rose to fame in the XFL with his "He Hate Me" moniker and later played for the Panthers, had not been seen for more than six days. ...
No happy ending: Missing Hawaiian hiker Noah 'Kekai' Mina found dead Less than a week after the rescue of a hiker lost in a Hawaiian forest for 17 days, the search for another missing Hawaiian hiker ended in tragedy. ...
Update: Missing 92-year-old and his 61-year-old son found safe UPDATE: Authorities said Ismael and David Ruiz were found safe. The father and son were found 34 miles away from home in Green Valley. The pair were stopped while trying to enter a mine, according to a TPD spokesperson. They have been transported bac...
Renault's HQ searched as part of Ghosn probe French investigators opened a probe earlier this year into whether former Chairman Carlos Ghosn improperly used a Renault sponsorship deal to host his 2016 wedding party at the Chateau de Versailles....
It’s #TwentyBiTeen, girl-on-girl culture is peaking and it’s about time Bisexual chic – from Bella Hadid’s virtual kiss to Ariana Grande’s hits – is having a moment and the mainstream is embracing itThis Pride season, rainbow-washing – where large corporations “come out” with rainbow logos and queer-focused ad campaigns ...
Thomas Gilbert Jr. searched for hit men online before killing dad: prosecutors Accused daddy killer Thomas Gilbert Jr., whose lawyers have mounted an insanity defense, searched for contract killers and hit men on the internet in the months before he allegedly shot his millionaire hedge-funder father in the head. Prosecutors unv...
Newspaper finds black drivers stopped, searched more often LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — An analysis of traffic stop data by The Courier Journal has found African Americans in Louisville are disproportionately stopped and are three times more likely to be searched than white drivers. The paper analyzed 130,999 stop...
Searchers Check Garrard Co. Creek Searched In Spurlock Case GARRARD COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — Many people have joined the search for missing Madison County mother Savannah Spurlock. Police have received hundreds and hundreds of tips about the possible whereabouts of Spurlock. On Tuesday, Garrard County aut...
Porsche offices searched by German prosecutors in payments probe Tax investigators and prosecutors searched several premises including Porsche's offices in Weissach and Stuttgart, the offices of a tax adviser in Stuttgart, and offices of finance authorities, the Stuttgart prosecutor's office said....
'Multiple locations' searched by police in Connecticut town where mom, 50, vanished Investigators in Connecticut have been searching multiple locations for the whereabouts of a missing mother of five who lives nearby in a wealthy town, and has been embroiled in a bitter divorce, officials said Wednesday....
UPDATE 2-Nordea's Danish HQ searched in money-laundering inquiry Denmark's state prosecutor searched the local headquarters of Nordea last week in relation to new developments in a money-laundering investigation into the region's biggest bank....
Were the Anunnaki the Architects of the Towers and Tombs of the Giants of Sardinia? Sardinia is one of the most geologically ancient lands in Europe, inhabited during the Upper Paleolithic, home to a Nuragic civilization that left nothing behind by way of writing. ...
Nordea's Danish headquarters searched as part of money laundering investigation The Danish headquarters of Nordea was searched on June 12 by Denmark's state prosecutor in relation to an ongoing money-laundering investigation into the bank, a Nordea spokesman told Reuters....
UPDATE 1-Nordea's Danish headquarters searched as part of money laundering investigation The Danish headquarters of Nordea was searched last week by Denmark's state prosecutor in relation to a money-laundering investigation into the bank, a Nordea spokesman told Reuters....
Tombs in China reveal humans were smoking cannabis 2500 years ago Chemical traces on 2500-year-old wooden braziers are the earliest evidence that people had begun growing mutant marijuana strains that could make them stoned...
Resurrecting the Ancient Israelites From the Valley of Dry Bones The Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones prophecy is one of the most powerful prophecies of the prophet Ezekiel. In this vision, Ezekiel finds himself in a valley full of dry human bones of Israelite origins. He is asked to revive them, bring them hope,...
Research Confirms That 'Black Don't Crack'—and the Secret Is in Our Bones Something strange has been happening lately; every time I’m out with my mother, without fail, someone asks in earnest if we are sisters....
Mars crew could 3D-print skin and bones for injuries A journey to Mars will take several years, and humans won't be able to turn back if an astronaut suffers a burn or a bone fracture. Which is why scientists at the University Hospital of Dresden Technical University have now produced the first bi...
Texas police find second set of human bones near park outside of Houston Police in Texas are combing a park outside of Houston Tuesday after finding human bones at an abandoned property just steps away from where another set of bones had been discovered over the weekend....
Ancient bones should rewrite history but not the present | Kenan Malik Homo sapiens might well have been living in Europe 210,000 years ago, but it’s not relevant to contemporary debates about raceIn 1978, two skulls were discovered in a cave called Apidima in southern Greece. Both, it was thought, were Neanderthal. Now...
Nakagami: Every Sachsenring MotoGP corner felt like bones breaking LCR Honda MotoGP rider Takaaki Nakagami says he felt like his ankle was breaking at every corner during Saturday's German Grand Prix running at the Sachsenring...
Bones of Powerful Medieval Queen Identified at Winchester Cathedral Archaeologists have potentially made a very important discovery after tests on human remains from early medieval mortuary caskets in England. They examined a large number of human bones and believe that they have identified some as belonging to a pow...
Nice Bones You Got There, Shame If a Startup Was to Start Renting Out Pogo Sticks Good news for anyone who’s ever wanted to mix the inherent danger of the trampoline with the thrill of getting nowhere slowly, while simultaneously wondering whether their skeletons should be in more shards. Sweden-based startup Cangoroo is planning ...
Russian Weightlifter's Lower Leg Bones Go Kerblooey During Ill-Fated 250-Kilogram Squat The setting for this horrifying video is the Eurasian Weightlifting Championship, held May 19 in Khabarovsk in southeastern Russia. The central figure is 20-year-old Russian weightlifter Yaroslav Radashkevich, who is attempting to squat 250 kilograms...
Bear 'Bribes' Guard Dog With Bones. Hilarious Story Is Viral On Twitter One Canadian man has claimed that his pet dog is in cahoots with a bear - and the incredible story of interspecies cooperation has impressed thousands across the world....
Ancient Japanese Queen Himiko may have Burned Animal Bones to Tell the Future Archaeologists believe that a burnt boar scapula found in the ruins of Makimuku in Japan in 2015 may tie the ancient shaman Queen Himiko and leaders of the Yamataikoku ruling establishment with the practice of burning animal bones to tell the future....
30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 5: Letta Mbulu 'Mahlalela (Lazy Bones)' Today, we’re going international with our Black Music Month love. As a hip-hop head who also tried his hand at music production, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time crate digging, searching through entire obscure record label catalogs, hoping to...
7 Manganese-Rich Foods For Strong Bones And Stable Blood Sugar Levels Manganese is as important as other minerals like magnesium and iron. Though required in small quantities, it is important to ensure that one is consuming enough of this essential nutrient....
Here’s what the Vatican, US Evangelicals, and Satanists say about AI The religious have been contemplating the existential threat of artificial intelligence for millennia. Long before Alexa listened in on our conversations or deepfakes threatened women’s safety, Judaism’s Golem and Greek mythology’s automatons roamed ...
The Vatican will consider ordaining married men as priests in the Amazon The Vatican will soon consider allowing some married men in the Amazon region of South America to be ordained as priests, in order to help alleviate a shortage of Catholic clergy there....
She disappeared at 15. A cryptic tip-off in the Vatican could hold key to her case Emanuela Orlandi left her home in Vatican City 36 years ago and was never seen again. The case has gripped Italians ever since. Now, her brother hopes to find the answer in a small graveyard, just a few hundred meters from where their mother still li...
Former Vatican treasurer appeals against abuse convictions Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell appeared in an Australian court on Wednesday for an appeal hearing against his convictions for sexually abusing two choir boys in the 1990s....
Vatican calls non-binary gender 'fictitious' The Vatican has come under fire from LGBTQ groups after releasing a guide to sexuality for Catholic schools across the world that describes non-binary gender as "fictitious."...
Underwater Fortress Found: Ancient Fort Linked to Bloody Biblical Battles Found Off Coast of Israel Underwater archaeology is helping to transform our knowledge of the ancient world. In Israel, maritime archaeologists have discovered a 2,200-year-old Hellenistic fortress linked to biblical battles. ...
Emanuela Orlandi mystery: Vatican opens graves Vatican officials are digging up two 19th century graves as part of a decades-long search for Emanuela Orlandi, who went missing as a teenage girl. The move was prompted by an anonymous tip to her family's lawyer....
Pope to meet Putin before Vatican Ukraine meeting VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next month. The meeting comes a day before Catholic leaders from Ukraine meet at the Vatican to discuss the fallout from the schism between the Russian and Ukrainian Ort...
Vatican condemns gender theory as bid to destroy nature The Vatican condemned gender theory on Monday as part of a "confused concept of freedom", saying in a new document that the idea of gender being determined by personal feeling rather than biology was an attempt to "annihilate nature"....
Pope warns against ‘lukewarm’ Christians at Vatican Mass VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has exhorted the faithful to avoid being smug or “lukewarm” Christians. Francis celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday to mark the feast day of the Apostles Peter and Paul, Rome’s ...
Vatican Rejects the Idea that People Can Choose Genders (VATICAN CITY) — The Vatican issued an official document Monday rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders and insisting on the sexual “complementarity” of men and women to make babies. The document, published...
Vatican corrects omission in pope's quote about McCarrick The Vatican communications office on Wednesday corrected the Italian transcript of Pope Francis' comments about disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick....
Vatican says China intimidating Catholics loyal to pope The Vatican asked China's communist government on Friday to stop intimidating Catholic clergy who want to remain unequivocally loyal to the pope and refuse to sign ambiguous official registration forms....
Vatican says states cannot force priests to violate seal of confession The Vatican on Monday strongly reaffirmed Catholic teaching that priests cannot reveal what they learn in confession, in an apparent response to moves in Australia and elsewhere to force them to do so in cases of sexual abuse....
Vatican says laws cannot force priests to break seal of confession The Vatican on Monday reaffirmed Catholic teaching that priests cannot reveal what they learn in confession, in an apparent response to moves in Australia and elsewhere to force them to do so in cases of sexual abuse....
Vatican formally opens debate on married priests for Amazon The Vatican has formally opened debate on letting married men be ordained as priests in remote parts of the Amazon where priests are so few that Catholics can go weeks or months without attending a Mass....
Vatican Calls for Consideration of Married Priests in Remote Amazon The Catholic Church should study the possibility of ordaining married men to serve as priests in remote parts of South America’s Amazon region, where many parishes have struggled to recruit clergy, the Vatican said....
Vatican investigator of child sex abuse meets Polish bishops The Vatican’s sex crimes prosecutor, Archbishop Charles Scicluna, is meeting Poland’s Catholic bishops to share his experience in tracking crimes, after the Polish church admitted knowledge of hundreds of cases of abuse of minors by priests...
| Vatican seeks 'effective solutions' for Frenchman in vegetative state The Vatican has called for "effective solutions" to protect the life of a Frenchman living for years in a vegetative state, hours after a court told doctors to resume his life support....
Amid sex abuse scandals, Vatican upholds confession secrecy VATICAN CITY (AP) — Amid pedophile clergy scandals, the Vatican is declaring “unacceptable” any efforts by politicians or lawmakers to make priests violate their obligation to keep secret what penitents tell them in confession. The Holy S...
Former Vatican treasurer cardinal appeals child sex abuse convictions 77-year-old George Pell was jailed for six years after he was found guilty on five charges of abusing two 13-year-old boys at St Patrick's Cathedral while he was archbishop of Melbourne more than 20 years ago....
Vatican omitted part of pope’s crucial quote about McCarrick VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican communications office released only a partial transcript of Pope Francis’ comments about what he knew of disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, omitting his claim that he didn’t remember if he had been t...
Suspicious financial activity at Vatican reaches six-year low: watchdog Reports of suspicious financial activity in the Vatican reached a six-year low in 2018, an internal watchdog report showed on Tuesday, continuing a trend officials said showed reforms were fully embedded....
Pope says Argentine bishop now facing Vatican abuse trial VATICAN CITY (AP) — An Argentine bishop close to Pope Francis is on trial at the Vatican on accusations he sexually abused seminarians. Francis revealed the development in an interview with Mexico’s Televisa Tuesday. He said he received the res...
Vatican cancels football match with Vienna over anti-abortion protests The Vatican canceled a friendly football match between its new women's team and a club in Vienna, after a number of Austrian players protested against the Catholic Church's stance on abortion....
Spain protests Vatican envoy's criticism of Franco reburial plan Spain formally complained to the Vatican on Thursday after its ambassador criticized the Socialist government's attempts to exhume the remains of dictator Francisco Franco and said it had achieved little but stoke divisions and "resuscitate Franco"....
Pope Francis and Putin meet at Vatican, discuss Syria, Ukraine A day before he is scheduled to meet with Ukranian Catholic leaders, Pope Frances welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday, speaking with him for just under an hour about a variety of issues....
Vatican omitted part of pope’s remarks about sex abuse priest McCarrick VATICAN CITY — The Vatican communications office released only a partial transcript of Pope Francis’ comments about what he knew of disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, omitting his claim that he didn’t remember if he had been told i...
Vatican urges China to stop intimidating Catholics loyal to pope The Vatican has asked China’s communist government to stop intimidating Catholic clergy who want to remain unequivocally loyal to the pope and refuse to sign ambiguous official registration forms....
Vatican opens debate on married priests in remote parts of Amazon VATICAN CITY — The Vatican formally opened debate Monday on letting married men be ordained as priests in remote parts of the Amazon where priests are so few that Catholics can go weeks or months without attending a Mass. The call for study on the pr...
Vatican lifts diplomatic immunity for envoy facing assault claims Move clears way for papal nuncio Luigi Ventura to face criminal chargesThe Vatican has waived diplomatic immunity for its envoy to France, who is under investigation for sexual assault.The move – an indication of the Vatican’s tougher approach to sex...
Vatican defends confessional secret as sexual abuse crisis stings The Vatican on Monday reaffirmed Catholic teaching that priests cannot reveal what they learn in confession, in an apparent response to moves in Australia and elsewhere to force them to do so in cases of sexual abuse....
Vatican Rejects Gender Change, To Alarm Of LGBT Catholics And Their Supporters VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has issued a document rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders. The document issued Monday — during LGBT pride month — is the Vatican’s first on gender theory. In it, the Vati...
Vatican finds only empty graves in search for body of Emanuela Orlandi The Vatican said the two graves opened in the search for Emanuela Orlando who disappeared 36 years ago, did not reveal her body. Her brother was present at the excavations in the Teutonic Cemetery....
Vatican lifts immunity of Paris envoy: French foreign ministry The Vatican has lifted the diplomatic immunity of its envoy in France, the French foreign ministry said on Monday, opening the way for Archbishop Luigi Ventura to be questioned by prosecutors over accusations of sexual molestation....
Vatican waives immunity for France envoy accused of sexual assault The Vatican has waived immunity for its envoy to France, who is under investigation for sexual assault, according to the Bishops' Conference of France....
Latin lovers tune in: Vatican broadcasts news in language of ancient Rome Friends, Romans and Latin lovers - lend the Vatican your ears. Vatican Radio is starting its first regular news bulletin in the language of Caesar and Cicero....
My Catholic, trans child is living proof of how wrong the Vatican is on gender | Anonymous No, my child’s transition has not led to the ‘destabilisation of the family institution’. Instead, we are stronger than everThe recent document from the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education talks of an “educational crisis”, and alleges that ...
Vatican considers allowing married men to become priests in clergy-scarce Amazon region The Vatican is considering allowing married men to become priests to help counter a shortage of them in a part of the world where some estimates say there are only one for every 10,000 Catholics....
Former Oklahoma state senator found dead with gunshot wound is 2nd GOP ex-lawmaker found dead in two days A former Republican state senator in Oklahoma was found dead with a gunshot wound in his home Wednesday, the second former GOP state lawmaker found fatally wounded in as many days....
Major oil producers commit to supporting ‘economically meaningful’ carbon pricing regimes after Vatican climate summit VATICAN CITY (AP) — Major oil producers commit to supporting ‘economically meaningful’ carbon pricing regimes after Vatican climate summit. The post Major oil producers commit to supporting ‘economically meaningful’ carbon pri...
Vatican rejects gender reassignment as an attempt to 'annihilate nature' The Vatican has condemned gender theory, which allows people to choose or change their gender, as being a "confused concept of freedom" in a new official document....
What is a ‘Hot Girl Summer’ and is it really the new ‘BDE’? How do you want to spend your summer? You can either spend it sweat-free and isolated in air-conditioned comfort, or you can head outside and embrace “hot girl summer” — an empowering be- and do-you mantra that’s quickly taking over social media. Unl...
Girl, 10, 6th known child to die after US border detention HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. authorities say a 10-year-old girl from El Salvador died last year after being detained by border authorities in a previously unreported case. The death marks the sixth known case in the last year. The U.S. Department of Health an...
Utah man allegedly hit girl, 11, with car then told her: ‘We all have to die sometime’ A 19-year-old Utah driver struck an 11-year-old girl on an electric scooter Friday, overturned the vehicle, then charged her after the crash and said: “we all have to die sometime,” according to a witness cited in court documents. ...
Elle Fanning On Why She Was, Is And Always Will Be The Ultimate Miu Miu Girl “I remember growing up, I would experiment with my fashion and at school I would be made fun of for it a little bit, just for being different and I still am that girl"...
70-year-old Florida man accused of impregnating girl A perverted 70-year-old Florida man was arrested for allegedly impregnating a 13-year-old girl — who showed up at the hospital saying she thought she was constipated, according to a new report. Renaud Jerome, of Boca Raton, was charged with three cou...
16-year-old girl arrested with gun on subway train A 16-year-old girl was busted with a gun inside a subway train in lower Manhattan, police said Saturday. Witnesses told police about a fight involving a gun inside a southbound A train at Canal Street station near Sixth Avenue and West Broadway aroun...
Aunt detained over beating of girl in Russia A seven-year-old has been flown to Moscow for emergency surgery after authorities in the Caucasus found serious injuries on the girl's body. Officials suspect the child's aunt of beating the girl in her care....
10-year-old girl conquers Yosemite's El Capitan Selah Schneiter may have just became the youngest person in history to climb the park's 3,000-foot-high rock formation -- Yosemite National Park's famous El Capitan....
Girl, 15, beats Venus and declares: I want to be the greatest Coco Gauff, 15, proclaimed she wanted to be the 'greatest' after beating Venus Williams at Wimbledon but three other younger players with big reputations, Naomi Osaka, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev, all lost on day one....
5 Easy Tips to Get a French Girl Apartment Here at Jezebel, we’re always interested in what French girls, as a monolith, are up to—whether they’re sharing cute outfit pictures on Instagram or inspiring us with their perfect bangs. But why stop there? French girls also have great apartments, t...
US Millionaire Put Plane On Autopilot To Have Sex With 15-Year-Old Girl A 53-year-old millionaire trader could get five-year jail term after pleading guilty to engaging in sex acts with a 15-year-old girl, once even putting his private plane in autopilot mode for the......
NFL notebook: Lawson to pay for funeral of slain girl Buffalo Bills defensive end Shaq Lawson will pay for the funeral of an 11-year-old girl who was killed this week when gunshots hit her home in Anderson, S.C....
Police arrest man in hit-and-run death of girl at bus stop Investigators say they've arrested a 19-year-old man who they say drove away after his pickup truck struck and killed an 8-year-old girl at a school bus stop in southwest Florida....
| Gauff the ideal new poster girl, says Serena Serena Williams said it was an honour a poster of her had been on Cori Gauff's wall and that soon pictures of the new 15-year-old sensation would inspire others....
The new 007 is a black woman – don't make her a Bond girl Online joy over Lashana Lynch inheriting James Bond’s codename may be premature. White men won’t give up their hero status so easilyFans have been hoping for a black actor to play James Bond at least since 2012, when Idris Elba was first rumoured as ...
My life in sex: 'I’ve been told that, as a fat girl, I should be grateful for attention' The disappointed daterSince I started dating in 2015, I’ve been flashed, stood up, verbally abused and generally used as a replacement for masturbation. I’ve lost count of how often I’ve been ghosted – both before and after sex. I’ve been told that, ...
Watch: Anna Duggar says baby No. 6 is a girl Anna Duggar, the wife of former "19 Kids & Counting" star Josh Duggar, announced the sex of her unborn child with the help of her kids and a science experiment....
"Help Us Or Let Me Die": Father Of Girl With Rare Disease Appeals To PM For more than a year, Sumer Singh, a labourer from Agra has been tending to his sick teenage daughter. The 16-year-old girl suffers from aplastic anaemia, a rare condition in which the body stops......
Baby girl dies after being left in hot car for over 15 hours Little Joseline Eichelberger was declared dead when authorities responded to her about 4:30 p.m. in a parked car in Calverton Park, according to KMOV....
| Girl, 10, sixth known migrant child to die in US custody US authorities say that a 10-year-old girl from El Salvador died last year after being detained by border authorities in a previously unreported case....
10-year-old girl is youngest to climb El Capitan: 'I did it to have fun' The 10-year-old girl who just became the youngest person to conquer one of the world’s most challenging mountain climbs said Thursday, “I did it to have fun.”...
Man indicted in crash that hurt girl playing in yard DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man has been indicted on charges of driving a car that hit and seriously injured a 9-year-old girl playing in her front yard in suburban Atlanta. The DeKalb County district attorney’s office said in a news release ...
2-year-old girl eaten alive by crocodiles after falling into pit A 2-year-old girl was eaten alive after falling into a pit of crocodiles on her family farm, say police in Cambodia. Rom Roath Neary’s mother is said to have lost sight of her while she was busy caring for her newborn baby. The youngster report...
Mother's joy over new baby girl after suffering 13 miscarriages A mother who suffered 13 miscarriages has told of her joy after giving birth to a "miracle" baby girl following pioneering research by fertility experts....
9-year-old girl set herself on fire while playing with lighter: officials A 9-year-old Florida girl accidentally set herself on fire while playing with a lighter and a bottle of rubbing alcohol, authorities said. The Fort Lauderdale girl had second-degree burns on her arms and legs, and covering roughly 30 percent of her b...
The Latest: $1M bond for man accused of abducting Idaho girl SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — The Latest on the abduction of a 17-year-old girl from Idaho who has been found in Arizona and the suspect arrested (all times local): 4:10 p.m. Bond has been set at $1 million for an 18-year-old man accused of abducting a teen...
11-year-old Missouri girl dies in bulldozer accident LABADIE, Mo. (AP) — An 11-year-old Missouri girl is dead after an accident involving a bulldozer. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Emma Proemsey of Labadie died Saturday. The child was on a utility vehicle that came up behind the bulldozer. The...
11-year-old girl dies in multiple-car accident in the Bronx An 11-year-old girl died last night in a five-car accident on the Major Deegan Expressway, police said. It happened at around 10:30 p.m. when an SUV traveling south hit another vehicle, setting off a chain reaction pile up. A man whose window overloo...
A 10-year-old girl just climbed one of the most challenging peaks in the world Selah Schneiter of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, completed the 3,000-foot (910 meters) climb of the vertical rock formation with the help of her father. ...
The 'Gamer Girl Bath Water' Saga Keeps Getting Stranger Apparently, a lot of weird things can happen when you decide to sell “gamer girl bath water” on the internet. On July 1, Belle Delphine, a UK-based internet personality known for viral stunts and Patreon-supported NSFW content, announced on her Insta...
Dutch girl was not 'legally euthanised' and died at home Noa Pothoven is believed to have refused to eat and there is no evidence of assisted deathA severely ill Dutch girl widely reported by international media as having been “legally euthanised” in a clinic in the Netherlands died at home, apparently aft...
Teen girl fights off kidnapper during attempted abduction _____ A 13-year-old girl was walking home from school when a man followed and tried to grab her. The girl fought off the attacker and her brother chased after the suspect, and police used surveillance video to arrest a 24-year-old man....
New Jersey millionaire gets 7 years behind bars over sex with teen girl A New Jersey millionaire who engaged in sexual acts with a 15-year-old girl for seven months, according to court documents, was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison....
Cop kills self after accusations he sexually abused teen girl A Mississippi police officer who was accused of sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl in his patrol cruiser killed himself after the allegations surfaced, authorities said. A Jackson police spokesman said the officer — who had been placed on admi...
How Ifrah Ahmed, the girl from Mogadishu, took her FGM story to the world As a Somali girl she underwent the horrific practice. Now a new film tells how she risked her life to end itIfrah Ahmed refuses to let the horrific female genital mutilation she suffered at the age of eight define her. “I don’t want to be a victim. I...
Two killed including girl, 12, in Japan stabbing spree Two people, including a 12-year-old girl, were killed and 16 other children hurt in a stabbing spree in Japan on Tuesday -- a rare act of public violence in a country considered one of the safest in the world....
Maleah Davis suspect says 'nothing bad happened' to 4-year-old girl The primary suspect in the death of Maleah Davis said "nothing bad happened" to the 4-year-old Texas toddler, whose remains were discovered in Arkansas last week....
18-year-old girl attacked by men shouting ‘f–king lesbian’ An 18-year-old girl from the UK was beaten to a pulp during an alleged homophobic attack — in broad daylight, according to reports. “F–king lesbian!” her attackers shouted, according to HullLive. “You and your girlfriend...
Kobe Bryant and wife Vanessa welcome baby girl The retired Los Angeles Lakers star announced he and his wife Vanessa were expecting their fourth daughter in January. ...
Anne Frank: the real story of the girl behind the diary Boisterous, popular, self-aware: a new collection of all Frank’s known writing brings her into sharp focus, says the Costa-winning biographerAlbert Gomes de Mesquita is one of the last people alive to have known Anne Frank in person. He appears brief...
Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona take on “Camp Fury” TUCSON – Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona are learning the ins and outs of working in a firehouse. News 4 Tucson Photojournalist Tim Eden got an inside look at “Camp Fury.” Watch below:...
4-year-old girl doesn't think Jasmine needs Aladdin: 'You don't need a boy to see the whole world' Before seeing Disney's new live-action "Aladdin" movie in theaters, a 4-year-old girl revealed her refreshing, modern take on the iconic romance between stars Jasmine and Aladdin....
6-year-old girl launches PB&J food pantry to help classmates This six-year-old has collected more than 1,000 jars of jam and peanut butter — to make sure her classmates never go hungry. Soon-to-be first grader Eva Chapman donated the 1,033 PB&J ingredients to nine schools, including her own Spruce Creek Elemen...
This girl’s love of the Blues wasn’t unusual | Letters As a teenage fanatical supporter of Birmingham City in the 1970s, Toni Clark says that on the terraces her gender wasn’t an issueI remember Julie Welch’s name as I was a football fan from 1969-76 (It was lonely being a female football fanatic. Not an...
No jail time for man who admitted to molesting an 11-year-old girl Joseph Meili, 22, pleaded guilty to third-degree child molestation, but the conviction could go off his record if he successfully completes probation. ...
Uncle charged with murder in disappearance of Utah girl This Saturday, May 25, 2019, booking photo provided by Cache County Sheriff’s Office shows Alex Whipple. The search for a missing 5-year-old girl has stretched into a fourth day in Utah, with police saying Tuesday, May 28 that Whipple, her uncl...
Police convicted after girl, 8, strangled and battered to death Six men, including four police officials, have been found guilty over the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in Indian-controlled Kashmir....
APNewsBreak: Lawyer says uncle led police to girl’s body SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on a Utah man charged with killing his 5-year-old niece (all times local): 2:15 p.m. A lawyer for a Utah man accused of killing his 5-year-old niece says his client has told police where the girl’s body is hidde...
Priyanka On Meghan: “She’s Always Been The Girl Wanting To Move The Needle” In a candid interview Priyanka Chopra discusses the racism her friend, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex is subjected to and the activism underlining their relationship...
Convicted Of Molesting Girl He Met On Dating App, He Won't Face Jail Time Joseph Meili was charged with child kidnapping, statutory rape and statutory sodomy. He would later admit to committing a sex crime. But the 22-year-old man won't face jail time for molesting the......
'I took a deep breath': the 10-year-old girl who conquered Yosemite's El Capitan Selah Schneiter and her father spent five days climbing the Nose only to find when they reached the top that Selah had set a recordAscending El Capitan, a rock formation rising 3,000ft above Yosemite national park, is a daunting task for the most exp...
Family of drowned migrant father and girl 'completely destroyed' This week, a haunting portrait of desperation shook the world. The lifeless bodies of Oscar Ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria clinging onto each other became another stark symbol of an immigration crisis....
A girl put my daughter through hell, but her mother won’t listen | Dear Mariella Pursuing recognition from the mother is unlikely to succeed – but will probably add to your distressThe dilemma From very young, my daughter had a best friend whose mother encouraged the relationship, referring to them as sisters and insisting on the...
Girl recalls poor care in Texas border station In a video obtained by The Associated Press, a young girl who spent 12 days locked in a Texas border station where hundreds of other migrant children have been detained this year describes to her attorney how she was treated. (July 1) &#...
The Latest: Slain girl remembered as kind, nature-loving LOGAN, Utah (AP) — The Latest on a funeral for a 5-year-old girl who police say was killed by her uncle (all times local): 2:45 p.m. A 5-year-old girl who was killed last month has been remembered as a kind, patient child who loved walking barefoot t...
School girl Gauff turfs idol Venus out of Wimbledon Cori Gauff served up the perfect excuse for playing hooky from school on Monday as the 15-year-old American student caused one of the biggest shocks in Wimbledon history by jettisoning her idol Venus Williams in the first round....
Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Welcome a Baby Girl: Find Out Her Unique Name It's a party of six in the Bryant household! Kobe Bryant and Vanessa Laine Bryant made an exciting and special announcement on Friday afternoon about the new addition to their family.......
Doctor finds 100 bubble tea pearls in girl’s abdomen: reports This might burst your affinity for bubble tea. A 14-year-old girl in China who was constipated for nearly a week had an abdominal blockage caused by undigested bubble tea pearls, according to reports. The teen from Zheijiang province in eastern China...
| Huge fire razes more than 150 homes, kills girl in DR Congo A massive fire sparked in a house where a woman fried donuts near cans of petrol, has razed more than 150 homes in the eastern DR Congo, killing a seven-year-old girl, officials and residents said Monday....
MLB not ready to change nets after young girl is stuck by ball SEATTLE — Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said he does not expect teams to make changes to the protective netting around ballparks during the season, although he expects conversations to continue about whether netting should be extend...
Man pleads guilty in fatal shooting of girl in living room A man accused of firing into a Milwaukee home and killing a 13-year-old girl in her living room abruptly pleaded guilty Tuesday as the second day of testimony at his trial began....
Little girl’s terrifying ‘The Nun’-themed birthday party a social media hit One little girl is being praised on social media for conjuring up a spooky theme for her birthday party: “The Nun.” Three-year-old Lucia celebrated her birthday in Monterrey, Mexico, on Monday, and decided on a party inspired by the 2018 horror film ...
Police: Man drugged, assaulted girl, posted naked video MIRAMAR, Fla. (AP) — Police in South Florida say an 18-year-old man drugged and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl he met at a party and posted a naked video of her on Instagram. Miramar police say Jorge Martinez gave the girl Percocet on Monday a...
10-year-old girl becomes youngest to climb El Capitan’s 3,000-foot ‘Nose’ An amazing 10-year-old girl rock climber has become the youngest person to conquer El Capitan’s notorious 3,000-foot “Nose” in Yosemite National Park. Selah Schneiter — who is just 4-foot-2 and weighs 55-pounds — reached...
5-year-old girl allegedly slain by uncle to be laid to rest LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A 5-year-old girl who police say was taken from her home and killed by her uncle is expected to be laid to rest Tuesday afternoon. Family and friends are preparing for Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley’s funeral after she...
Gutsy grandparents fight off burglar who tried to snatch 6-year-old girl A tough-as-nails elderly couple from Indiana fought off an intruder who tried to snatch their 6-year-old granddaughter — leaving the crazed creep with a bloody mug, according to reports Friday. “I wouldn’t want him walking back in my apartment again....
10-Year-Old Girl Becomes Youngest Person On Record To Climb El Capitan When I was 10 years old, my most impressive athletic feat was playing basketball during recess with the bottoms of my zip-off pants bagged around my ankles and not tripping all over them that often. Colorado resident Selah Schneiter has me pretty sou...
Uncle accused in girl’s death charged with sexual assault SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors have filed new sexual assault charges against a Utah man accused in the death of his 5-year-old niece. Authorities say additional evidence from the state crime lab led to the counts of child rape and sodomy filed Wed...
Two-year-old girl is caught after falling from window in Turkey – video A teenager catches a two-year-old girl after she fell from a second-floor window in Istanbul, Turkey. Feuzi Zabaat, 17, who was working nearby, says he was walking down the road when he saw a girl hanging from a window. 'I walked closer to her, and s...
Indian court convicts 6 for raping, killing girl in Kashmir SRINAGAR, India (AP) — An Indian court has convicted six people of raping, killing and destroying evidence involving an 8-year-old girl belonging to a Muslim community of nomadic herders that triggered strong protests in the Indian-controlled Kashmir...
Texas girl Maleah Davis’ death ruled a homicide HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say a medical examiner’s office has concluded that a 4-year-old Houston girl who was missing for several weeks died from “homicidal violence,” but work remains to determine what exactly happened to her and w...
Convicted pedophile charged in 1993 killing of Missouri girl A convicted pedophile who ran an international child pornography ring has been charged with the 1993 abduction, rape and killing of a 9-year-old Missouri girl, after previously undetected DNA found on her clothing implicated him in the crime, authori...
Trump blames Democrats for drowned migrant father and girl Donald Trump has blamed Democrats for the deaths of a migrant father and his young daughter who were pictured face down in a river as they tried to reach the US....
A Foul Ball, an Injured Little Girl and Another Cycle of Anguish Without Answers Despite additional netting at baseball parks, spectators remain vulnerable, and some players and fans are wondering what it will take to spur more change....
Congress Slams UP Government Over Killing Of Dalit Girl In Unnao The Congress on Sunday slammed the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh over the killing of a Dalit girl in Unnao and alleged that law and order has collapsed in the state....
Massachusetts man suspected in death of girl, 13, now faces rape charges The Massachusetts man accused of drugging a 13-year-old girl and dropping her off outside at a hospital where she eventually died is now facing an additional charge of aggravated rape, officials said this week....
Father of dead 8-month-old girl surrenders at Mexico border SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The father of a baby girl who was found dead outside a Los Angeles-area mortuary had fled to Mexico but surrendered to FBI agents Monday. Alexander Echeverria, 22, of South Sacramento was accompanied by his lawyer when he surrend...
Massachusetts officer charged with raping homeless teen girl WOBURN, Mass. — A veteran Massachusetts police officer has been charged with raping a 16-year-old girl who was homeless and addicted to heroin at the time of the alleged attacks. Lowell Officer Kevin Garneau pleaded not guilty Thursday to two counts ...
Nine arrested as German girl's birthday party turns riotous As many as 400 people turned out for the 16-year-old's private celebration near the southwestern city of Mannheim. Police took several hours to restore order after the drunken crowd turned violent....
Madonna ‘Madame X’ review: Re-energized Material Girl gets freaky While Bruce Springsteen gracefully accepts his senior citizenship on his new album, “Western Stars,” Madonna isn’t having any part of acting like an old lady on her “Madame X” LP, which also drops Friday. Sounding more energized and adventurous than ...
Maniac attempted to abduct 3-year-old girl in Queens: cops A suspected maniac tried to abduct a 3-year-old girl off a Queens street on Tuesday and held a knife to a woman’s neck after running into her house while making his getaway, police sources said. The suspect, identified by sources as 29-year-old Leste...
Teen girl dies when jet ski collides with motorboat on Long Island An 18-year-old woman died on Sunday when the jet ski she was riding collided with a motorboat in Long Island waters, police said. The teenager’s watercraft and a 35-foot Fountain Motor Boat crashed around 10:30 a.m. in Middle Bay waters, southe...
Sheriff: Baby girl dies after 5 hours in Florida daycare van JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say an infant has died after being left in a hot van for hours outside a Florida daycare. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office posted on Twitter that the 5-month-old girl was discovered Wednesday afternoon out...
90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way's Tiffany Franco and Ronald Smith Welcome Baby Girl The 90 Day Fiancé family just became even bigger. Tiffany Franco and Ronald Smith confirmed on social media that they are now the proud parents to a baby girl named......
Father of murdered 10-year-girl says she was raped and acid thrown on her The murder of a 10-year-old Pakistani girl has sparked public outrage, with police under fire for inaction and authorities accused of failing to protect children in an increasingly brutal society....
The shy girl from England who became US Soccer's record-breaking head coach A few hours before Sunday's Women's World Cup final, John Ellis will seat himself at his organ and play "You'll Never Walk Alone," Liverpool Football Club's stirring anthem....
| Football scandal girl film wins top Cannes prize A film starring the former under-age escort at the heart of a scandal that shook the French football team won one of the top prizes at the Cannes film festival...
Who is paying $30 for 'gamer girl' Belle Delphine's bath water? Delphine, 19, a social media star with an enormous global following, was mocked for the sale – but it sold out quicklyBelle Delphine, the social media star and so-called “gamer girl”, made headlines this week for selling her used bath water online.De...
Teenage girl and brother held like prisoners by London parents EXCLUSIVE: Children never enrolled in school ++++ They phoned NSPCC for help ++++ They were found pale and malnourished ++++ Failed by social services...
Illegal immigrant gets 20 years for raping 12-year-old Mississippi girl An illegal immigrant who followed a 12-year-old Mississippi girl into a restaurant bathroom, got her number, then raped her hours later, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison, according to a report....
German IS trial: Mother of tortured girl questioned in Munich A woman thought to be the mother of a Yazidi girl left to die of thirst, allegedly by an Islamic State couple, has been questioned in a Munich court. A German national is on trial for the enslaved girl's death....
13-year-old girl dies after she’s dumped at hospital in disturbing mystery A 13-year-old missing Massachusetts girl was dumped at a hospital there — possibly by a much older man — and pronounced dead shortly afterward, according to a disturbing new report. Chloe Ricard, 13, of Amesbury, was dropped off at the emergency room...
Uncle charged with murder in disappearance of 5-year-old Utah girl SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Uncle charged with murder in disappearance of 5-year-old Utah girl. The post Uncle charged with murder in disappearance of 5-year-old Utah girl appeared first on LEX18.com....
Young girl hit by line drive as Cubs’ Almora Jr. breaks down HOUSTON — A young fan at Wednesday night’s game between the Cubs and Astros was struck by a foul ball hit by Albert Almora Jr., shaking up the Chicago center fielder. Almora hit a fourth-inning line drive into the stands down the third base lin...
5-year-old girl seriously injured in alleged drunk driving crash A 57-year-old woman was charged in an alleged drunk driving crash that seriously injured a little girl in Suffolk County, police said Sunday. Sandra Stewart slammed her 2001 Toyota Camry head-on into a 2006 Honda SUV while she turned onto Joshua’s Pa...
Alaska Native girl leads animated kids TV show in US first ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Princess Daazhraii Johnson grew up eating dried salmon and moose-head soup — foods labeled weird by other kids who had no understanding of her culture and traditions. Now the Fairbanks woman and other Alaska Natives are presenting...
The Latest: Uncle denied bail as search for girl continues LOGAN, Utah (AP) — The Latest on the search for a missing 5-year-old girl in Utah (all times local): 1:55 p.m. A Utah man who police say is the only suspect in the disappearance of his 5-year-old niece has been denied bail and will be kept behind bar...
Subway perv rubbed himself on teen girl as she slept: cops A creep rubbed himself on the arm and face of a teen girl while she slept on the subway, police said Monday. The 15-year-old told police the man, believed to be in his early 20s, pressed himself against her multiple times at 3:45 p.m. Sunday as the t...
16 People Charged In Bangladesh After Girl Burned To Death After Assault Sixteen people, including a head teacher of an Islamic seminary, were charged in Bangladesh today with the murder of a 19-year-old girl, who was burnt to death after reporting sexual harassment....
Teen girl allegedly knocked out after turning down stranger’s advances A British teenager claims she was punched unconscious after telling a group of creepy strangers following her in the street, “I’m sorry, I’m not interested.” Gabrielle Walsh, 18, said she was with a male friend in the early ho...
Teen girl bitten by shark while boogie boarding in Florida A 16-year-old girl survived being bitten by a shark while boogie boarding on vacation in Florida, according to new report. Jackie Jozaitis said she was in knee-high water off the coast of Amelia Island when she was attacked early Friday. “I fel...
Levi Johnston's Wife Sunny Gives Birth to Baby Girl Congratulations to Levi Johnston and Sunny Johnston! Bristol Palin's ex and his wife have welcomed a baby girl, Delta Jo Johnston. According to Entertainment Tonight, the couple's......
| Boy or girl? Hong Kong at centre of banned China gender test Shady middle-men are openly advertising on Chinese social media to smuggle blood samples of pregnant women to Hong Kong to skirt the mainland's ban on gender testing, an AFP investigation has found....
10-year-old migrant girl died in US custody last September, report claims A 10-year-old migrant girl from El Salvador died while in custody of the US government after crossing the border, a report said on Wednesday. The young girl entered an Office of Refugee Resettlement facility in San Antonio, Texas, on March 4, 2018 wh...
Cops release new photos of uncle suspected in Utah girl’s disappearance Detectives in Utah are asking for help locating a 5-year-old girl whose uncle was arrested in connection with her disappearance, authorities said. Logan police released photos Tuesday of Alexander Whipple, the main suspect in the disappearance of Eli...
Scottish girl is world's youngest deep brain stimulation patient Two-year-old has had brain surgery to treat spasms, raising hopes for other childrenA two year-old girl from Glasgow has become the youngest person in the world to undergo brain surgery that doctors say could help limit severe disability among childr...
'I can't bring her back': parents of girl killed by California police speak out Family of Hannah Williams, 17, tells the Guardian the high schooler should be remembered for her kindness and passionBenson Williams clutched the bright pink shirt in his hands. It helped him feel close to his daughter as he struggled to process the ...
Buffalo Bills player to pay for funeral of girl, 11, shot dead: 'It could have been my little sister' Buffalo Bills defensive end Shaq Lawson was troubled by the shooting death of a young girl in his home state over the weekend, telling local media Wednesday that he intends to pay for her funeral. ...
The Squirrel Girl team says goodbye on its own terms in this exclusive exit interview The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is one of the greatest, unlikeliest success stories in superhero comics, turning a joke character into the star of a clever, heartfelt, incredibly fun YA series that has become a gateway for readers of all ages. But nothi...
Florida man arrested after throwing firecrackers under girl's bed during a 'prank gone wrong,' deputies say A man in Florida is facing several charges including child cruelty after he allegedly threw lit firecrackers under a sleeping girl’s bed on Saturday, telling deputies it was a “prank gone wrong,” investigators said....
Texas police officer fired over failure to find abducted girl A Texas police officer who failed to find an abducted 8-year-old girl when he visited the hotel room where she was being held has been fired, officials said Wednesday....
Family demands answers in police shooting of 17-year-old California girl Police claim a ‘replica gun’ was found, but Hannah Williams’ family says she was killed for no reason after a minor traffic incidentPolice in southern California are facing questions over the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old girl, who her family says ...
Killer of 16-year-old New York girl in 1980 released on parole despite outrage A New York man convicted of brutally murdering a 16-year-old girl in 1980 was released from prison Monday despite outrage from community members and criticism from the state's former governor....
Bills DE Shaq Lawson to pay for funeral of 11-year-old girl killed in shooting Shaq Lawson, a Buffalo Bills defensive end and former Clemson player, will pay for the funeral of Ja'Naiya Scott, who was killed in a shooting. ...
Falling tree branch kills 3-year-old girl at New Jersey campsite A family camping trip turned deadly in New Jersey when a tree branch fell on tent — and killed a 3-year-old Bronx girl, police said Monday. The freak accident unfolded at Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Campground at Tall Pines in Elmer at 2 p.m Sa...
Fearless Girl Scouts still heading to Dominican Republic despite tourist deaths A group of Girl Scouts is heading down to the Dominican Republic, telling their local TV station that they’ve been waiting “months” to take the trip — and couldn’t care less about the nine tourists who’ve died ther...
Mom of slain New York girl pleads for justice as killer granted parole The mother of a 16-year-old New York girl who was raped and murdered in 1980 is pleading for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to intervene after her daughter’s killer won parole. Lois Bohovesky, whose daughter Paula was stabbed to death as she walked home fro...
Iraqi Refugee Is Convicted in Germany of Raping and Murdering Teenage Girl The man was sentenced to life in prison for killing the 14-year-old in a case that fueled outrage, particularly on the far right, at the handling of asylum seekers....
Girl, 12, with rare disorder creates teddy bears that hide IV bags Going to the hospital can be overwhelming for anyone. Between all of the machines, needles and being in an unfamiliar environment, it can be a scary experience — especially for a child. Ella Casano, a 12-year-old Connecticut girl who regularly receiv...
Funeral held for slain 5-year-old Utah girl ‘Lizzy’ Shelley A funeral was held Tuesday for the 5-year-old girl from Utah who authorities say was kidnapped and murdered by her uncle. Little Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley was laid to rest in a small white coffin covered with rainbow butterflies in a somber ceremony ...
Wisconsin man could face life in prison for kidnapping girl, 13, murdering parents The Wisconsin man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs after murdering her parents and terrifying a rural community will learn on Friday whether he will spend the rest of his life in prison....
Maoist rebels kill 3 Indian government soldiers, young girl NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police say Maoist rebels have killed three paramilitary soldiers patrolling on motorbikes and a young girl who was riding in a passing bus in an ambush in eastern India. Police Director-General D.M. Awasthi says two young girl...
Real Housewives Alum Gretchen Rossi Gives Birth to Baby Girl Gretchen Rossi has given birth to a baby girl! The 40-year-old former Real Housewives of Orange County star welcomed her first child with beau Slade Smiley on Wednesday, People confirms.......
Cold case: Man charged in 1993 killing of 9-year-old Missouri girl Earl Webster Cox has been charged with the killing, kidnapping and rape of nine-year-old Angie Housman more than 25 years after the crimes occurred, St. Louis authorities said....
Girl Who Made Abuse Claim Is Sexually Assaulted by the Detective Sent to Investigate The investigator, Neil David Kimball, pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl he met when she reported a sexual assault to the authorities....
Police release body-cam footage of California girl’s shooting death The shooting death of 17-year-old Hannah Williams has left her family and community in deep shockCalifornia police on Friday released body-camera footage documenting a Fullerton officer fatally shooting 17-year-old Hannah Williams, in a case that has...
This gripping memoir tells the story of a girl — and South Africa — coming of age Along with her personal stories of belonging, love and family, Msimang teaches readers about race and racism, how one’s political ideology shifts, and contemporary South African political history....
Girl, 5, 'hallucinating and screaming' after eating brownie laced with cannabis in cafe A HOME-MADE brownie sold at a popular Perth café caused a five-year-old girl to hallucinate and scream out loud at random intervals, her parents claim....
Katy Perry Lets Her Inner ''California Girl'' Shine While on the Beach in Hawaii Sun-kissed skin, so hot she'll melt your popsicle! Katy Perry had fans doing a double take (for all the right reasons!) when she hit the beach in Hawaii to shoot an upcoming project.......
Nurse Hitchhikes to Help Girl Whose Photo Drew Attention to Hunger in Venezuela Many who saw the picture of Anailin Nava, a 2-year-old girl suffering from malnutrition, wanted to help. One nurse packed some food and hitchhiked to her home....
Indian Court Convicts 6 Hindus in Rape and Murder of Muslim Girl, 8 The men were handed sentences of five years to life imprisonment in the case, which reflected bitter religious divisions in the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir....
Teen girl who lost leg, 2 fingers to shark won’t let attack ruin her life A 17-year-old who lost her leg and two fingers to a shark in North Carolina says the attack isn’t going to keep her down. Paige Winter was swimming with her dad at Fort Macon State Park when she disappeared below the water. Her father, Charlie Winter...
Hundreds march to honor memory of Texas girl Maleah Davis HOUSTON (AP) — Hundreds of people marched to honor the memory of a 4-year-old Houston girl who was missing for several weeks before her remains were found last month in Arkansas. Family members of Maleah Davis as well as area residents walked through...
Two Teenagers Allegedly Rape 8-Year-Old Girl In Madhya Pradesh: Police Two teenagers allegedly raped an eight-year-old girl at a village in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh, the police said today. The incident occurred on Tuesday and the two boys were detained today,......
Subway creep accused of rubbing on teen girl held on $3,500 bail A suspected creep who allegedly rubbed himself on a 15-year-old girl’s face and arm while she slept on a subway train was held on $3,500 bail at his arraignment in Queens criminal court on Thursday. Kenneth Kou, 28, was slapped with sexual abuse, for...
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This section of the Oblates in the West Website showcases an exhibit curated by David J. Goa as part of the Oblate Research Project that he developed in partnership with the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Grandin Province, from 1996, when he was curator of Folk Life at the Provincial Museum of Alberta (now the Royal Alberta Museum).
The exhibit, like the Research Project, explores, in the words of Goa, “the childhood formations; the evangelical vision that led them to the Oblates and a life of service; the shape their lives took in the communities where they lived, including their relationship to the local culture, and what I came to call the civil vision of Catholicism during the mission period.” Artifacts and images in the exhibit are part of the collections of the Oblates, Grandin Province.
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Garmin reimagines flight displays with new touchscreen TXi series
Garmin revolutionised the general aviation market with its G500 and 600 – now, there’s a new updated series to replace them. Trevor Pegrum, Manager, Aviation Sales, EMEA, Garmin, told us more.
Sarah Wray: Editor, FINN
Pegrum calls the new TXi series “a real revolution.” It includes G500 TXi, G600 TXi and G700 TXi flight displays, as well as the engine information system (EIS) TXi.
He says: “We are really taking it to the next generation now. It’s one of the first all-touchscreen flight display products and the G500 TXi and G600 TXi very much replace the G500 and G600.”
Three displays are available, including a large 10.6-inch display, and two versions of 7-inch displays, in portrait and landscape orientations. Real-time engine indications are also displayed.
It’s not like an iPad
When people think about a touchscreen cockpit, they often worry about issues such as grip during turbulence.
Pegrum says: “You have to be careful not to draw the [comparison with] iPads or other touchscreen products that haven’t been optimised for use in an aeroplane. Garmin has invested a significant amount of R&D to optimise for touchscreen use.”
Features include raised bezels, icon-driven menu systems and optimised software.
The new product family is also focused on helping Garmin reach new markets.
“The G700 TXi is really moving us into the larger aircraft business business jets, maybe commercial applications,” Pegrum explains. “It has the correct design assurance levels. It has the correct software support. It’s very much a family of products with a roadmap towards moving into the bigger systems.”
And helicopters?
Pegrum says: “The G500H continues as a product…I think it’s obvious the way that the market is going for Garmin. We have this brand new family of products now, so watch this space.”
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Top 10 Best Badminton Rackets to Buy Online 2019
The bound, the wind, and electric crack of a well-executed smash. The shuttlecock coming down like lightning at 200 mph. For fanatics, a pro badminton match is as mesmerizing as the roar of a thunderstorm. And now, you want to get in on the fun. Step one: get a good racket.
Rackets vary in size, flexibility, and weight; each adjustment is made to suit a certain play style. On top of that, you can get a racket for cheap at your local WalMart, or real expensive at a specialty shop. So, what racket should your humble amateur play with? Let’s talk.
How to Choose a Badminton Racket – Buying Guide
Let’s start out with what features make a badminton racket a good partner.
Choosing a Racket Based on Weight
You’re going to be swinging that racket for a long time, so watch the weight. Weight is denoted by a U. But be careful, the smaller the number, the lighter the racket. Here’s a rough guide on the numbers. (Caution: they do differ by brand.)
5 U: around 75 g – 80 g
Now, 5 grams or 10 grams may not seem like much, but badminton games can drag on for over an hour. The racket may feel great in your hand at first, but over time, fatigue sets in. Even a few grams can make a world of difference then.
Lighter Rackets for Easier Maneuverability
Lighter rackets (around 4 U) allow for easier maneuverability–great for older or technical players. It’s easier to switch between different strokes with a lighter racket, or deliver accurate serves.
For the same reason, lighter rackets also tend to work better for doubles players. In a doubles game, smashes come at you much faster, and the ability to seamlessly go from backhand to forehand grip is crucial to a good defense. (They also put less strain on the wrist, reducing the risk of injury.)
Heavier Rackets for More Power
On the other hand, heavier (around 3 U) rackets are power. If your clears tend to fall around mid-court–and then you flinch because you know you’ve set yourself up for a counterattack–then a heavier racket may give you a small boost. Smashers also like heavier options. They’re more stable, good for single players who are forced to return shots in more unconventional ways.
Balance Based on Purpose
Another thing to look out for when choosing based on weight: balance. Rackets that have most of their mass near the top (head heavy rackets) contribute to those long clears and beautiful smashes.
Head light rackets are easier to control and suited for the kind of fine work needed at the net. Rackets with a balance point near the middle are–you guessed it–best for players who play both at the net and in the back.
Choosing a Racket Based on the Flexibility of the Shaft
The shaft of most rackets are categorized as “Flexible,” “Medium,” or “Stiff.” Flexible rackets will bend, store energy, and then snap forward–thus releasing energy–during your swing. What this means is: the player has to exert less force. Of course, with all that bending, it’s more difficult to land perfectly accurate shots. But for beginners, who should be focusing more on form than trying to swing your arm quickly, and for long rallies, the flex comes in real handy.
Stiff rackets don’t bend. A player’s strength is channeled directly to the shuttlecock, making it easier to control the power and accuracy of a shot. And when the shuttlecock hits the strings, it’ll bounce off immediately. Then you get faster shots. But because there isn’t much of the extra repulsion a flexible shaft provides, you need to put more force into your swing. Geared towards intermediate to advanced players with explosive shots.
Choosing a Racket Based on Grip Size
Even with the same racket, you sometimes get different grip sizes. You might see something like “4UG5” written on the back of the racket; U referring to weight and G to grip size. Just like with weight, grip size also functions on reverse psychology–the bigger the number, the smaller the grip. For most makers, the standard is G4 or G5.
Of course, if you have tiny hands, opting for a smaller grip would be a good idea. It then follows that bigger hands should go for bigger grips. Smaller grips are also easier to maneuver, making them ideal for those deceptive shots. Bigger grips are better at channeling power into the shot–for pounding opponents with smashes.
Just keep in mind that when you apply grip tape, it’ll change the size, weight, and balance of your racket.
Choosing a Racket Based on String Tension
Strings and rackets sometimes come separately, and, chances are, you’ll also end up restringing your racket multiple times. However, string tension will affect racket performance, so keep this in mind as you test out your new racket.
Simply put, lower tension strings (around 20 lbs) are suited for beginners. Why? It allows the shuttlecock to bounce off the string bed, resulting in effortless power shots. This also makes the “sweet spot” (the best place on the string bed with which to hit the shuttlecock) bigger. Tighter strings (25 lbs and above) improve control and accuracy–similar to a stiff shaft.
Top 10 Best Badminton Rackets to Buy Online
And here we go, onto the introductions. Rackets for every budget, every play style, and every level.
10. Champion Sports Double Steel Frame Badminton Racket
Dirt-cheap and Gets the Job Done
Can I just get a nice, sturdy racket to bat the birdie around with the neighborhood kids? Well, here you are, the Champion Sports Badminton Racket, there for all your recreational or backyard play needs. It’s heavy with a stiff head, which adds speed and power to shots.
Sturdy and built to last, this racket can also be used outdoors. The perfect budget racket for those laughter-filled, impromptu afternoon games.
9. YONEX Muscle Power 8
Lending Power to the Beginners
The Muscle Power 8 is on the heavier side (2U), with medium flex–which means solidity, solidity, solidity. If you’re a beginner but already craving those explosive smashes, then this budget racket will help you take that first step.
However, keep this in mind: it sacrifices speed for power. It’ll be a struggle getting it to dance through the air. Made for attackers, not defenders.
8. YONEX Voltric Z Force II
Speed and Force for Power Pros
This racket isn’t just stiff; it’s extra stiff. It’s also a little heavy in the head, which means you’re going to fast, cracking, beautiful smashes. That being said, it’s compact and takes a lot of finesse to control. You’ll need strength in your wrist to keep the shuttlecock on the court–and because this racket is a bit heavy, carelessness could easily lead to injury.
However, for advanced players, it could add another level of speed to your smash. If you’re an attacker that needs explosive power, definitely give it a swing or two.
7. Victor JetSpeed S9
Light and Lightning Quick
This is a very light racket, on the stiffer side. A real boon for quick, accurate plays pressed close to the net. It’ll shine during doubles matches. But, unless you have real muscle to back up your smashes, your attacks aren’t going to come down like thunder.
All in all, though, this racket is a real joy to play with, swims lightly through the air, good at lightning-quick interceptions. Great for people who have arms of steel.
6. Senston N80
Gentle to the Wrists and Shoulders
What’s in a name? Though you aren’t going to be seeing the N80 at the Olympics anytime soon, it’s a great racket for beginners. It’s very light, graded at 5 U, and fits comfortably in the hand. Kind to the wrists and shoulders too.
Of course, with such a head light racket, the power behind your smash is going to have to come from your core. But if you aren’t looking to put out anyone’s eye with the shuttlecock–or need a cheap first racket for a child–the N80 will swoop in to save the day.
5. YONEX Duora 10
A High-Tech Two Faced Racket
YONEX was really out to impress with this one. The forehand side of the racket features a box frame–giving weight and feel to smashes. The backhand side sports an aero-frame–shaped like a knife, meant to cut through air for backhand drives and fast defense. And, for you skeptics out there, the difference is noticeable during play.
That being said, it takes time to get used to the racket. Unless you’re really skilled, it’ll be difficult to switch between the two sides of the racket freely as well. Like with any shiny new gadget, it won’t magically up your game until you’ve taken the time to get to know it and practiced.
4. Wilson BLX Blade
A Budget Racket That Delivers a Punch
Often overlooked by anyone who isn’t a tennis fan, Wilson has put out a few high-quality, affordable badminton rackets. This one features a flexible shaft and heavy head for smashes that snap like a whip. But it’s not heavy (around 82 grams), allowing beginners to wield it with ease.
It’s also designed to have a large sweet spot. If you’re a casual player who just wants to swing to your heart’s content without calculating each and every shot, the BLX Blade is a sturdy, reliable option.
3. YONEX Nanoray 20
Survive Those Long Training Rallies
The Nanoray 20 shines in the under $100 category. It’s on the lighter side with high shaft flexibility, a reliable force in long rallies. You can lift the shuttlecocks and perform soaring clears without having to push. It flows, slicing through air, and is easy to wield.
Because it’s so light, though, it doesn’t deliver those solid booming smashes. But it’s an ideal first companion for beginners and casual payers who aren’t ready to spend an arm and a leg.
2. YONEX Arcsaber 11
Balanced with High Precision
This racket is stiff, allowing for accurate net work. It’s largely balanced, with just a bit of weight in the head for power. It’s suited for quick work in the mid-court range–giving you the speed and strength needed for drives.
The price tag, of course, is a bit hefty, but the Arcsaber 11 is designed to be a force in any kind of game. If you don’t have a set play style–moving around the court, playing both singles and doubles–then this racket will follow you anywhere.
1. Victor Brave Sword 12
The King of Versatility
The specs of Brave Sword are smack dab in the middle–balance, flex, and weight. It’s light, easy to maneuver, and a reliable defense at the net. There’s also just enough shaft flexibility to make it beginner-friendly–a light push is enough to send the shuttlecock soaring. The swings come clean and fast.
Basically, it’s a trade-off between agility and the sheer force less balanced rackets may give you. An ideal companion for double and technical players.
And there you are, rackets for both big and small budgets, for power and technical players, for clears, drives, drops, smashes, for children and Olympic athletes. Remember, just because Lin Dan uses a racket doesn’t mean that it’s the best racket for you. Every person has his own affinities, strengths and weaknesses, so make sure you choose a racket that answers to you as a player.
Top 10 Best Tennis Rackets to Buy Online 2019
Whether you want to hit like Federer or play casually with friends, choosing a tennis racket is a big decision. Many beginners, however, only know names like Wilson, Head, or Babolat, while frame, head size, weight, strings, grips, and other features remain a mystery. But never fear! We’ve compiled a list of the 10 most popular tennis rackets online for beginners, or those in the market for new equipment. No matter your skill level, we’re here to help you find the perfect racket to improve your game. How to Choose a Tennis Racket – Buying Guide Before introducing our recommendations, we’ll explain some important features of a modern tennis racket point-by-point. We’ll focus on three major aspects here: weight, head size, and frame stiffness. It’s okay if you don’t understand yet; just keep reading. Choose a Weight According to Your Strength One of the most important points to consider when choosing a racket is the weight. Generally, rackets weigh about 300 g, but the range can
Top 10 Best Credit Card Wallets to Buy Online 2019
We’ve left behind our paper-based society and moved into the age of credit cards. And most people’ll have multiple pieces of plastic on them, each with its own promises, exclusive benefits, and offers. But what do you do when they start spilling out of your normal wallet or purse? That’s when you get a credit card wallet. But there’s a lot more to wallets than just the number of pockets. You’ve got materials–stainless steel, leather, and cloth–security, style. So, where does one begin? How to Choose a Credit Card Wallet – Buying Guide Wallets are like little reflections of our personality. The following is a list of things to think about when buying a credit card wallet. How Many Cards Are You Carrying? First thing to consider: how many cards do you absolutely need to carry with you? This includes loyalty cards, stamp cards, and even ID cards. Then, after you’ve figured out this number, add on another 3 or so; that’s how many pockets you’ll need. A lot of us carry around cards that w
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Everyone is always looking for ways to make life easier. Peeled or not, apples are a delicious treat and can be eaten in many ways. But slicing them by hand can be time consuming and just full of hassle. So, it only makes sense that apple slicers are becoming a principal gadget in most American households. An apple slicer is no bulky, intricate, difficult machine. They’re typically small, convenient, and can be stored in your cupboard easily and safely. Whether you’re making just apple slices, apple crostini, or apple sauce, we’re going to help you find the right apple slicer for your purpose. How to Choose an Apple Slicer – Buying Guide Apple slicers are gaining popularity quickly, but with all the options out there, it can be difficult to decipher which one will suit your specific needs. Read on to learn how to find the best and most effective apple slicer for you. Where are You Going to Be Using the Slicer? Size and Weight It’s a trade-off. You want a slicer that’s light and portabl
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Top 10 Portable Karaoke Machines to Buy Online 2019
Karaoke is always a welcome addition to any party. The only problem is that it can sometimes be difficult to get the right tools to where you need them, especially since traditional karaoke machines require a TV or bulky equipment. Luckily, there are quite a few options for portable karaoke machines now that allow you to take the fun anywhere. But picking the right one can make or break your party, so it’s important to get it right. In this guide, we’ll go over the things you should consider when deciding on a portable karaoke machine. At the end, we’ve also got a list of our favorites to help you get started on your search. How to Choose a Portable Karaoke Machine – Buying Guide While you should definitely consider going for the flashiest machine possible, you want to make sure that it also fits your needs and situation. Standalone Mic or Speaker Set Depends on Portability Needs and Party Size There are two main types of portable karaoke machines: all-in-one microphones and separate m
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Bobby pins are pretty flimsy, especially for those with thick hair, but some styles just require them. So we did our research to find ones that actually stay in place. These pins are longer, come in larger packs, and are either for pinning hair down or supporting updos–but not both. Some other factors that are important to keep in mind are your individual hair type and color. Top 10 Best Bobby Pins for Thick Hair Here are some of our favorite products, for use in all kinds of styles and updos. 1. MetaGrip Black Premium Bobby Pins Visit Amazon for more details Price: $9.55 Best for a Reliable, Solid Hold These bobby pins have been hailed by reviewers as basically the holy grail of bobby pins. They’re extremely durable and have a surprisingly strong grip–particularly when you use two together in an X formation. They come in three different shades to match almost all (natural) hair colors, and the paint holds up through a fair amount of abuse. Note that the container it comes in might
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For many of us, using an electric toothbrush has become almost a necessity for feeling clean. But as we become more environmentally conscious, it’s hard to ignore the fact that they’re not very eco-friendly. Luckily, there are increasingly more energy efficient, less plastic intensive options. Electric toothbrushes are still far from being inherently eco-friendly, so it’s important to know what to look for when trying to distinguish what’s better. In this guide, we’ll go over a few things to keep an eye out for when choosing a more eco-friendly electric toothbrush. At the end, we’ve also got a list of our 10 favorites to help you get started on your search. How to Choose an Eco-Friendly Electric Toothbrush – Buying Guide Unfortunately, as of right now, there are no 100% plastic-free or eco-friendly electric toothbrush options quite yet. However, there are some features that make some toothbrushes more eco-friendly than others. Battery Type Determines Energy Use and Environmental Impact
Top 8 Best Japanese Mechanical Pencils that Don’t Break to Buy Online 2019 – Tried and True!
The lead in mechanical pencils is fine, which is both a blessing and a curse. Yes, it makes the pencil easier to control and fine print easier to write, but it also has an annoying habit of snapping. However, Japan, which excels in both engineering and stationery, has flooded the market with mechanical pencils designed not to snap. So which of these mechanical pencils live up to their promises and which are dupes? To answer those questions, we ordered the 8 most popular mechanical pencils (that claim to be unsnappable) from Japan’s e-commerce giants (such as Amazon, Rakuten, and kakaku.com) and tested for the following: How Well Protected the Lead is How the Grip Felt How Balanced the Pencil is How Easy It is to Write This is how we tested and found the most exceptional Japanese mechanical pencils that don’t break. How to Choose a Japanese Mechanical Pencil that Doesn’t Break – Buying Guide We’ll get into how we tested and compared all the mechanical pencils, but before that, we
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eelo Is an Open-Source Android OS That Wants to Enhance Privacy and Take on Google
eelo plans to launch an OS that doesn't rely on Google services, crafting an enhanced user interface and eventually its own hardware and web services. The project is looking for $30,000 in Kickstarter funding.
December 22, 2017 2:50 pm CEST
Android is completely dominated by Google. Almost every phone has its integrations in some way, from App packages to its assistant, search engine, and more. Mandrake Linux creator Gaël Duval has vowed to remove the company’s influence, and at the same time enhance privacy.
eelo is an upcoming open-source mobile OS that wants to give users control of their data. A fork of LineageOS, it plans to integrate an alternate non-profit ecosystem, including email, cloud storage, and more.
“I’m not happy because Google has become too big and is tracking us by catching a lot of information about what we do,” says Duval. “They want to know us as much as possible to sell advertising.”
“Like millions of others, I’ve become a product of Google.”
The Kickstarter Model
Of course, a non-profit doesn’t just appear out of thin air. eelo is looking for $30,000 in funding to get its project running in full.
Currently, Duval has a working prototype, and it looks like a hybrid of Android and iOS. It uses the custom ‘BlissLauncher’, which is in development and hopes to change many interface elements. It will also ditch the Google Play store, creating its own alternative.
However, the dream is much bigger. Duval wants an ecosystem not just across Android, but PC and home assistants. There’s also a plan to release bezel-less eelo smartphones in the future, as well as premium, business-focused products.
It’s a big ask, and eelo acknowledges the risks. Modifying the Android source could product unforeseen technical difficulties, and it’s possible the project will even face legal challenges from Google.
Ultimately, though, Duval believes its worth it, and that a privacy-focused, open source ecosystem is what consumers want.
“We think that eelo can have a global, worldwide impact as a major open source project in the public interest. It will help free users from personal data spying and advertising,” he says.
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Moldova: Eduard Romanyuta drops remix for “I Want Your Love”
byBogdan Honciuc
Just ahead of leaving to Vienna, where he will represent Moldova, Ukrainean-born Eduard Romanyuta released an electro house remix of his song “I Want Your Love”, and we are feeling it!
The remix, which is a gift to Eduard’s fans, was produced in collaboration with Erik Lewander (Sweden), Hayley Aitken (Australia) and Tom Andrews (United Kingdom). The team have previously worked with artists such as Britney Spears, Sarah Connor and RedOne.
The faster paced remix sounds more modern than the actual version that Eduard Romanyuta will sing in Vienna. We kinda wish this was the official mix! We did not particularly warm to Moldova’s song this year, but we could very well back the electro house version.
Eduard Romanyuta – who completed an extensive promo tour, which spanned the entire continent from Tbilisi to London – will open the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna on 19 May.
Speaking of London, we caught up with Eduard there and interviewed him. Although he was a bit hesitant at first, Deban managed to get him to speak about the promo tour and to reveal some details about the show in Vienna, which will be entirely different from the one in Chisinau.
Photo: eduardromanyuta.com
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byPadraig Muldoon
You guys actually like this one better than the original? This feels empty and boring…
They better use this remix for the staging.
This is far from Britney
We’re hoping he might do something new with his hair in Vienna. Perhaps wash it.
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THIS IS SO INSANELY HOT OMG!! <3
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grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia
(Greek: to scratch; to write, to record, to draw, to describe; that which is written or described)
As indicated at the bottom of this page, there is a significantly large number of graphic word-entry groups in this unit. Such an extensive listing is provided to show how important the grapho- element is to the English language.
animatographic
animatography (s) (noun), animatographies (pl)
The creation of short films from a sequence of slides: Animatography is a special form of photographic camera for taking a series of pictures on films.
In the film museum, Mrs. Smart’s class saw an animatography and learned that it was used as a motion-picture projector a long time ago.
anopisthograph
anopisthographic
anopisthography
Having no writing (or printing) on the back; inscribed only on one side.
anorthographic (adjective), more anorthographic, most anorthographic
1. A descriptive term for the loss of the ability to write correctly: Dr. McMahon, the professor, presented examples of anorthographic spelling by combining letters that did not represent the sounds which follow the accepted rules or forms of normal words.
2. A reference to creative or imaginative spelling, in variance with the accepted rules for spelling: The local author was noted for her anorthographic approach to forming words with letter combinations that did not go along with the principles underlying accepted usage.
anorthography (s) (noun), anorthographies (pl)
The absence of the ability to write correctly, resulting from injury to the language center in the cerebral cortex of the brain: After her head injury, Judy suffered from anorthography and was unable to write properly.
anthography
The scientific description of flowers.
anthropogeographer (s) (noun), anthropogeographers (pl)
Someone who specializes in the physical features of the Earth and its atmosphere: The anthropogeographer investigates or does research about human activities as they affect and are affected by the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.
anthropogeographic (adjective), more anthropogeographic, most anthropogeographic
1. A reference to the branch of studies regarding the world's distribution of humans based on physical characteristics, languages, customs, and institutions.
2. That department of earthly studies that specializes in the various aspects of the environment as related to mankind.
anthropogeography (s) (noun), anthropogeographies (pl)
1. A branch of human studies that deals with the world's distribution of divisions of people based on their physical characteristics, languages, customs, and institutions.
2. The study of the distribution of human types by their cultural traits and the ethnic and racial distributions of humankind over earthly areas.
anthropography (s) (noun), anthropographies (pl)
The branch of human science that deals with the physical features of this world's distribution of the races of mankind and their local variations: Anthropography is based on the physical characteristics, language, customs, and the society or organization of human types by cultural traits.
aortography
1. Radiographic imaging of the aorta and its branches, or a portion of the aorta, by injection of contrast medium.
2. Imaging of the aorta by ultrasound or magnetic resonance.
apexcardiography
Noninvasive graphic recording of cardiac pulsations from the region of the apex, usually of the left ventricle, and resembling the ventricular pressure curve.
apexigraph
A device for determining the size and position of the apex of a tooth root.
Related "writing" word units: glypto-; gram-; scrib-, script-.
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Denver Broncos safety Kareem Jackson talks to reporters at a news conference at the NFL football team's headquarters Friday, March 15, 2019, in Englewood, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
MIKE-KLIS
Broncos notes: Kareem Jackson opens at safety leaving void at cornerback
The team waived cornerback Craig Mager, signed veterans CB Trey Johnson, OL Jake Brendel from tryout.
Author: Mike Klis
Updated: 6:19 PM MDT April 18, 2019
ENGLEWOOD – Let’s assume Joe Flacco tore it up in 11-on-11 drills during the Broncos’ voluntary veteran minicamp this week.
This assumption comes from the Broncos’ cornerback situation.
Chris Harris Jr.? A no show as an unofficial contract holdout (it was voluntary, after all). Kareem Jackson? He played safety for three days.
“For the reason that there’s more to learn at safety than there is at corner," said Broncos head coach Vic Fangio. “He’s played much more corner in his career, so I wanted him to get more work in this camp – all of his work – at the safety position, to feel comfortable there."
Bryce Callahan? He was held out of team drills as he continues to recover from left foot surgery. Isaac Yiadom? He’s recovering from offseason shoulder surgery?
Craig Mager? The veteran and former Charger whom the Broncos signed for the final two weeks of last season was a no-show this offseason because of personal reasons, sources told 9News.
After giving him three weeks to resolve his issues, the Broncos decided it was time to move on and cut Mager on Thursday.
The Broncos wound up giving ample practice reps to De’Vante Bausby, who was freshly signed out of the failed Alliance of American Football league, and two corners who were brought in for one-week tryouts: Trey Johnson and Quinten Rollins.
“They got great work," said Broncos head coach Vic Fangio. “It’s a little tougher in this setting here. You’re not allowed to press, and we don’t want the corners to bang up the receivers too much, but they all got great work."
Broncos sign two tryout players
Given how thin they are at cornerback, it’s not surprising the Broncos signed Johnson, who was an undrafted rookie out of Villanova last year with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He suffered a shoulder injury in training camp and spent last season on injured reserve. He was released three months ago.
9News also reports the Broncos signed veteran guard/center Jake Brendel, who got some playing time the previous three seasons with the Miami Dolphins.
Von’s vision
On Wednesday, Broncos pass rusher Von Miller – who is already the team’s all-time sack leader through eight seasons with 98 ½ – said his goal this year is 20, which would put him on a good pace as he seeks to break Bruce Smith’s NFL career mark of 200 sacks.
The 20 sacks is far more realistic than Miller’s statement last year that he thought 30 sacks in a season was realistic. No one’s come close to 30.
However, a 20-sack season has been done 12 times – twice by J.J. Watt, but never by Miller, whose career-best is 18.5 sacks in his second season of 2012.
“If he does all the little things that are necessary to do that, he’s definitely got a great chance to do that," Fangio said. “But the little things are going to make the difference for him. It’s not just on the field, it’s off the field. Preparation, rest, all those things, being attentive to the details and technique. If he does that, yes, the sky is the limit.”
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Sep 15, 2008 Issue
Aortic Stenosis: Diagnosis and Treatment
A more recent article on aortic stenosis is available.
BRIAN H. GRIMARD, MD, and JAN M. LARSON, MD, Mayo Clinic, St. Augustine, Florida
Am Fam Physician. 2008 Sep 15;78(6):717-724.
Patient information: See related handout on aortic stenosis, written by the authors of this article.
Pathophysiology and Natural History
Medical Management During Watchful Waiting
Article Sections
Aortic stenosis is the most important cardiac valve disease in developed countries, affecting 3 percent of persons older than 65 years. Although the survival rate in asymptomatic patients with aortic stenosis is comparable to that in age-and sex-matched control patients, the average overall survival rate in symptomatic persons without aortic valve replacement is two to three years. During the asymptomatic latent period, left ventricular hypertrophy and atrial augmentation of preload compensate for the increase in afterload caused by aortic stenosis. As the disease worsens, these compensatory mechanisms become inadequate, leading to symptoms of heart failure, angina, or syncope. Aortic valve replacement should be recommended in most patients with any of these symptoms accompanied by evidence of significant aortic stenosis on echocardiography. Watchful waiting is recommended for most asymptomatic patients, including those with hemodynamically significant aortic stenosis. Patients should be educated about symptoms and the importance of promptly reporting them to their physicians. Serial Doppler echo-cardiography is recommended annually for severe aortic stenosis, every one or two years for moderate disease, and every three to five years for mild disease. Cardiology referral is recommended for all patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis, those with severe aortic stenosis without apparent symptoms, and those with left ventricular dysfunction. Many patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis have concurrent cardiac conditions, such as hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and coronary artery disease, which should also be carefully managed.
Aortic valve stenosis affects 3 percent of persons older than 65 years and leads to greater morbidity and mortality than other cardiac valve diseases.1 The pathology of aortic stenosis includes processes similar to those in atherosclerosis, including lipid accumulation, inflammation, and calcification.2 The development of significant aortic stenosis tends to occur earlier in those with congenital bicuspid aortic valves.3 Although the survival rate in asymptomatic patients is comparable to that in age-and sex-matched control patients, survival notably worsens after symptoms appear.
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SORT: KEY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PRACTICE
Clinical recommendation
Evidence rating
Echocardiography is recommended in patients with classic symptoms of aortic stenosis accompanied by a systolic murmur and in asymptomatic patients with a grade 3/6 or louder systolic murmur.
Aortic valve replacement is the only effective treatment for patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis.
Watchful waiting is recommended for most patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis, including those with severe disease.
Serial Doppler echocardiography is recommended annually for severe aortic stenosis, every one to two years for moderate disease, and every three to five years for mild disease.
Aspirin prophylaxis should be considered in adults with a 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease of 6 percent or greater, which is common with aortic stenosis.
Intensive lipid-lowering therapy has not been shown to stop the progression of calcific aortic stenosis and is not recommended in the absence of other indications for statin therapy.
A = consistent, good-quality patient-oriented evidence; B = inconsistent or limited-quality patient-oriented evidence; C = consensus, disease-oriented evidence, usual practice, expert opinion, or case series. For information about the SORT evidence rating system, go to https://www.aafp.org/afpsort.xml.
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The natural history of aortic stenosis involves a prolonged latent period, during which progressive worsening of left ventricular (LV) outflow obstruction leads to hypertrophic changes in the left ventricle.4,5 As the aortic valve area becomes less than one half its normal size of 3 to 4 cm2 (about the size of a nickel), a measurable pressure gradient between the left ventricle and ascending aorta may be detected on echocardiography or by direct measurement at cardiac catheterization.6 This change reflects compensatory increases in LV pressures that contribute to the maintenance of adequate systemic pressures. One consequence is LV hypertrophy with subsequent diastolic dysfunction and increased resistance to LV filling.7,8 Thus, a strong left atrial contraction is needed to provide sufficient LV diastolic filling and support adequate stroke volume.9 Increasing overall myocardial contractility and augmenting preload with an increased atrial kick preserve LV systolic function, typically while the patient remains asymptomatic.
As aortic stenosis worsens, with the aortic valve area decreasing to 1 cm2 or less (about the size of the head of a golf tee),10 changes in LV function may no longer be adequate to overcome the outflow obstruction and maintain systolic function, even when complemented by an increase in preload. The resulting impairment in systolic function, alone or combined with diastolic dysfunction, may lead to clinical heart failure. Progressive LV hypertrophy from aortic stenosis also leads to increased myocardial oxygen needs11; concurrently, myocardial hypertrophy may compress the intramural coronary arteries as they carry blood toward the endocardium. These changes along with reduced diastolic filling of the coronary arteries may result in classic angina, even in the absence of coronary artery disease (CAD).12 In addition, as aortic stenosis becomes severe, cardiac output no longer increases with exercise.13 In this setting, a drop in systemic vascular resistance that normally occurs with exertion may lead to hypotension and syncope.14–16
Figure 1 shows echocardiograms of a normal aortic valve, and Figure 2 shows echocardiograms of severe aortic stenosis.
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Transesophageal echocardiograms of a normal aortic valve. (A) Axial view. (B) Horizontal four-chamber view.
Transesophageal echocardiograms of severe aortic stenosis. (A) The axial view shows diffusely thickened leaflets with a restricted opening motion. (B) The horizontal four-chamber view shows the resultant severe left ventricular hypertrophy and left atrial enlargement.
Classic symptoms of aortic stenosis include dyspnea and other symptoms of heart failure, angina, and syncope. The onset of these classic symptoms indicates hemodynamically significant aortic stenosis and is a critical point for making management decisions. It is also important to recognize that presentations may vary. Some patients with severe aortic stenosis, especially older patients, may present more subtly and initially experience a decrease in exertional tolerance without recognizing the classic symptoms. Others may have a more acute presentation, sometimes with symptoms precipitated by concurrent medical conditions. For example, new-onset atrial fibrillation with a resultant decrease in atrial filling may lead to symptoms of heart failure, or initiation of vasodilator medications may cause syncope.
A classic physical finding of aortic stenosis is a harsh, crescendo-decrescendo systolic murmur that is loudest over the second right intercostal space and radiates to the carotid arteries. This may be accompanied by a slow and delayed carotid upstroke, a sustained apical impulse, and an absent or diminished aortic second sound. However, in older persons, the murmur may be less intense and often radiates to the apex instead of to the carotid arteries. Also, with an increased incidence of atherosclerosis and hypertension in older persons, the classic carotid pulse changes may be masked. It is difficult to rule out aortic stenosis with physical examination findings alone. Reliable auscultatory indicators of the absence of aortic stenosis include a grade 1/6 or softer systolic murmur, absence of a radiating systolic murmur heard over the head of the right clavicle, and presence of a split second heart sound.17,18
It is essential that primary care physicians consider aortic stenosis in adults who present with any of the classic symptoms accompanied by a systolic murmur. Older patients with vague complaints, such as fatigue or decreased exercise tolerance, and asymptomatic patients undergoing preoperative medical assessment should receive further evaluation when physical examination reveals a grade 2/6 or louder systolic murmur. American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) practice guidelines recommend echocardiography in asymptomatic patients with a grade 3/6 or louder systolic murmur.19
Doppler echocardiography is the recommended initial test for patients with classic symptoms of aortic stenosis.19 It is helpful for estimating aortic valve area, peak and mean transvalvular gradients, and maximum aortic velocity. These are the primary measures for assessing disease severity, and they have been well validated compared with measurement obtained with cardiac catheterization.20
Echocardiography also provides useful information about LV function, left ventricular filling pressure, and coexisting abnormalities of other valves. Guidelines for relating these hemodynamic measures to severity of aortic stenosis are presented in Table 1.19 Isolated aortic stenosis rarely becomes symptomatic until the aortic valve area is less than 1 cm2, the mean gradient is greater than 40 mm Hg, or the aortic jet velocity is greater than 4 m per second.
Classifications of Aortic Stenosis Severity
Aortic jet velocity (m per second)
Mean gradient (mm Hg)
Aortic valve area (cm2)
1.5 to 2
Information from reference 19.
Aortic valve replacement is the only effective treatment for hemodynamically significant aortic stenosis. The surgery has an average perioperative mortality rate of 4 percent21–23 and a risk of prosthetic valve failure of approximately 1 percent per year.24 Figure 3 is an algorithm for the management of severe aortic stenosis.19
Management of Severe Aortic Stenosis
American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association algorithm for the management of severe aortic stenosis. (CABG = coronary artery bypass graft.)
Adapted from Bonow RO, Carabello BA, Kanu C, et al. ACC/AHA 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines [published correction appears in Circulation. 2007;115(15): e409]. Circulation. 2006;114(5):e108.
SYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS
Mortality dramatically increases after aortic stenosis becomes symptomatic. The average overall survival rate is two to three years in symptomatic patients without surgical treatment. Among older members of this population, one- and three-year mortality rates of 44 and 75 percent, respectively, have been reported.24 Although there are no prospective randomized trials comparing aortic valve replacement with medical management, retrospective observational studies have shown that surgical repair leads to significant improvement in survival, usually accompanied by symptom improvement.25,26 The 10-year survival rate in Medicare-age patients after aortic valve replacement is almost identical to that in age- and sex-matched persons who do not have aortic stenosis.27 Although these observational studies may have limitations, such as selection bias, a greater than fourfold difference in survival between surgically and medically treated patients supports the well-accepted recommendation that aortic valve replacement should be performed promptly in symptomatic patients.19 Additionally, it is unlikely that prospective randomized trials will be completed.
In symptomatic patients with echocardiographic measures consistent with severe aortic stenosis, symptoms must be presumed to be a result of aortic stenosis, even if other potentially causative conditions, such as CAD, are present. However, if echocardiographic findings suggest only moderate aortic stenosis, further diagnostic testing (e.g., coronary angiography, pulmonary function testing, arrhythmia evaluation) may be needed.
ASYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS
Aortic valve replacement is also recommended for asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis accompanied by LV systolic dysfunction (i.e., ejection fraction of less than 50 percent). When severe aortic stenosis is shown to be the primary pathology in this setting, aortic valve replacement is a lifesaving therapy and improves LV function.20,28,29
However, watchful waiting is recommended in most asymptomatic patients with aortic stenosis, including those with severe disease. Survival in patients with aortic stenosis that is managed with watchful waiting is comparable to that in patients without aortic stenosis. Additionally, the surgical risk outweighs the approximately 1 percent annual risk of sudden death in asymptomatic patients with aortic stenosis. Attempts have been made to identify those who are more likely to have poor outcomes without “early” aortic valve replacement. Patients with very severeaortic stenosis (aortic valve area of 0.6 cm2 or less or an aortic jet velocity of 5 m per second or more), a more rapid increase in aortic jet velocity over time (0.3 m per second or more per year), or severe valve calcification have a high risk of developing symptoms and of needing aortic valve replacement within the next one to two years. High-risk patients, including patients who do not live near a medical care facility, may need closer monitoring or consideration of early valve replacement if the predicted operative mortality rate is 1 percent or less (i.e., in patients 70 years or younger without significant comorbidities).28,30,31
It is important to distinguish patients who are truly asymptomatic from those who have a routine activity level that has decreased to below their symptom threshold. This is especially important in older patients who may attribute their symptoms to normal aging or concurrent illness. When the symptom status is unclear, ACC/AHA guidelines recommend that exercise stress testing be performed under the direct observation of an experienced cardiologist.19 Aortic valve replacement should be considered if symptoms occur when the patient is at less than 80 percent of the predicted maximum heart rate or if the patient has an abnormal blood pressure response.32–34 Although exercise stress testing to detect concurrent CAD or to determine exercise tolerance is safe in patients with mild to moderate aortic stenosis, some cardiologists may be reluctant to perform the tests in those with significant aortic stenosis because of the risk of death during the test.
MONITORING AND REFERRAL
Watchful waiting until symptoms are detected is appropriate in most patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis. ACC/AHA guidelines recommend that serial Doppler echocardiography be performed annually for severe aortic stenosis, every one to two years for moderate aortic stenosis, and every three to five years for mild aortic stenosis.19 Because symptoms are the best indicator of hemodynamic significance, a careful patient history should be obtained at regular intervals. Most importantly, patients should be educated about symptoms and the importance of promptly reporting them to their physicians. Cardiology referral is recommended for all patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis, for patients with aortic stenosis accompanied by LV dysfunction, and for asymptomatic patients with very severe or rapidly progressive calcification. Cardiology evaluation should also be considered in patients with subtle or atypical presentations, such as decreased exercise tolerance or an episode of congestive heart failure precipitated by new-onset anemia.
No medical treatments have been proven to delay the progression of aortic valve disease or to improve survival. However, many patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis have concurrent cardiac conditions, including hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and CAD; these conditions should be carefully controlled.19,28
Approximately 40 percent of patients with aortic stenosis also have hypertension.28,35 With concurrent hypertension, LV afterload is elevated as a result of the “double load” that is created by aortic stenosis plus increased vascular resistance. Because it appears that the degree of valvular opening and stroke volume can increase in response to afterload reduction, treatment of hypertension is recommended in patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis.36–38 However, patients with aortic stenosis can be particularly sensitive to the manipulation of preload, contractility, or systemic vasomotor tone.39
Blood pressure–lowering agents should be initiated at low doses and gradually titrated to achieve the desired effect. Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are well tolerated, improve effort tolerance, and reduce dyspnea in symptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis.38 However, routine use of ACE inhibitors in patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis cannot be recommended at this time. Second-generation dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers do not appear to depress LV function, as older calcium channel blockers do, and may be safe to use in patients with aortic stenosis. Diuretics should be used with caution because of the potential for reducing LV diastolic filling, which may reduce cardiac output. Peripheral alpha-blocker use may lead to hypotension or syncope and should be avoided.
Atrial fibrillation occurs in 5 percent of patients with aortic stenosis. Its presence may make echocardiographic assessment of aortic stenosis more challenging. Newonset atrial fibrillation may precipitate heart failure in a previously asymptomatic patient with significant aortic stenosis. Heart rate control is important to allow time for optimal diastolic filling. However, physicians should be aware of the possible hemodynamic effects of some rate-controlling medications in patients with aortic stenosis. In particular, beta blockers and rate-slowing calcium channel blockers may depress LV systolic function.
CORONARY RISK REDUCTION
Concurrent CAD is common in patients with aortic stenosis. ACC/AHA guidelines recommend evaluation and modification of cardiac risk factors in these patients.19 This includes discontinuation of tobacco use, initiation of aspirin prophylaxis in adult patients with a 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease 6 percent or greater, and participation in regular exercise.40 Patients with mild aortic stenosis should not be restricted from physical activity. Asymptomatic patients with moderate to severe aortic stenosis should avoid competitive or vigorous activities that involve high dynamic and static muscular demands, although other forms of exercise are safe.19,41
Although initial observational studies suggested a significantly lower rate of aortic stenosis progression in patients treated with statins,42,43 a more recent randomized prospective study showed no statistical difference in hemodynamic progression of aortic stenosis between patients receiving aggressive atorvastatin (Lipitor) therapy and those receiving placebo.44 Because these studies were relatively small, it is too early to draw firm conclusions about the value of statin therapy for aortic stenosis. Larger prospective studies are expected to conclude in 2009.45
Finally, antimicrobial prophylaxis for bacterial endocarditis is recommended in patients who have undergone aortic valve replacement, but is no longer recommended for patients with aortic stenosis or other acquired valve diseases.46
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BRIAN H. GRIMARD, MD, is an instructor of family medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Fla. He received his medical degree from St. Louis (Mo.) University Medical School and completed the Northridge (Calif.) Family Medicine Residency Program....
JAN M. LARSON, MD, is an assistant professor of family medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville. She received her medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, and completed the Mercy/St. Luke's Hospital Family Practice Residency Program, Davenport, Iowa.
Address correspondence to Brian H. Grimard, MD, Mayo Clinic, 110 Southwood Lake Dr., St. Augustine, FL 32086 (e-mail: grimard.brian@mayo.edu). Reprints are not available from the authors.
Author disclosure: Nothing to disclose.
The authors thank Robert E. Safford, MD, PhD, Dept. of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fla., for his assistance in the preparation of the manuscript.
The echocardiograms in Figures 1 and 2 are courtesy of the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fla.
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Update on Recommendations 10 and 11 From the Independent Technical Review
Labour Force, Australia (Media Release)
JUNE KEY FIGURES
May 15 to Jun 15
Jun 14 to Jun 15
Employed persons ('000)
Unemployed persons ('000)
Unemployment rate (%)
Participation rate (%)
JUNE KEY POINTS
TREND ESTIMATES (MONTHLY CHANGE)
Employment increased to 11,767,200.
Unemployment decreased to 753,800.
Unemployment rate remained steady at 6.0%.
Participation rate remained steady at 64.8%.
Aggregate monthly hours worked increased 2.0 million hours to 1,636.3 million hours.
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES (MONTHLY CHANGE)
Employment increased 7,300 to 11,768,600. Full-time employment increased 24,500 to 8,156,200 and part-time employment decreased 17,200 to 3,612,400.
Unemployment increased 12,800 to 756,100. The number of unemployed persons looking for full-time work increased 27,200 to 541,200 and the number of unemployed persons only looking for part-time work decreased 14,500 to 214,900.
Unemployment rate increased 0.1 pts to 6.0% from a revised May 2015 estimate.
Participation rate increased less than 0.1 pts to 64.8%.
Aggregate monthly hours worked increased 5.1 million hours (0.3%) to 1,636.9 million hours.
ISSUE Release Date
July 2015 6 August 2015
August 2015 10 September 2015
September 2015 15 October 2015
October 2015 12 November 2015
November 2015 10 December 2015
December 2015 14 January 2016
The introduction of new format tables, spreadsheets and data cubes was scheduled for the June release of this and the detailed monthly issue. The introduction has been delayed pending finalisation of testing. The new outputs are now scheduled to be introduced with the July 2015 monthly issues and the August 2015 quarterly issue. Any change to this plan will be announced on Friday 31 July at the latest. Details of the new format outputs are on page 6.
The ABS will delay the release of the September 2015 Labour Force releases due to the two public holidays in the weeks preceding the current release date. The September 2015 issue of Labour Force, Australia will be released on 15 October.
An article presenting an assessment of the volatility in the Labour Force series will be released on 16 July with the June 2015 issue of the detailed monthly Labour Force data (cat. no. 6291.0.55.001).
Annual benchmarking of aggregate monthly hours worked will occur with the July 2015 issue. For details see page 7.
An update on recommendations 10 and 11 from the independent technical review into the Labour Force Survey is available on page 8.
The estimates in this publication are based on a sample survey. Published estimates and movements are subject to sampling variability. Standard errors give a measure of sampling variability. The interval bounded by two standard errors is the 95% confidence interval, which provides a way of looking at the variability inherent in estimates. There is a 95% chance that the true value of the estimate lies within that interval.
MOVEMENTS IN SEASONALLY ADJUSTED SERIES BETWEEN MAY 2015 AND JUNE 2015
Monthly change
Total Unemployment
0.1 pts
-0.3 pts
Participation rate
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nuclear free 30 November 2016
Major parties push a losing uranium sector to India at great risk
With little fuss or fanfare, Australia's two major parties have this week passed an innocuous enough sounding law with very far reaching implications.
With little fuss or fanfare, Australia's two major parties have this week agreed to fly under the radioactive radar and pass an innocuous enough sounding law with some very far reaching implications.
The Indian Civil Nuclear Transfers Act exists to provide "certainty to Australian uranium producers" who want to sell the controversial product to India.
In 2015 a detailed investigation by Parliament's treaties committee found there were serious and unresolved nuclear safety, security and governance issues with the proposed sales plan. It also found a high level of legal uncertainty.
Expert witnesses including Australian National University Professor of International Law Don Rothwell and former senior DFAT officer John Carlson also highlighted that the plan was in conflict with both Australian domestic law and existing international treaty provisions, most notably the South Pacific Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty.
Given the severity of the inconsistencies and the significance of the issues involved, the government-controlled treaties committee took the unusual step of voting against the clear direction of the Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister – and the political run of play – and recommended that the Indian sales deal not be advanced unless these outstanding issues were addressed.
This decision was welcomed by many. But not by Julie Bishop. A terse response to a measured and bipartisan report said the government was "satisfied" that steps had been taken to address each condition, and did not agree that exports to India should be deferred.
The commercial interests of an underperforming industrial sector were given priority above parliamentary process and evidence-based, prudent public policy.
But this favouritism was not enough to paper the deep cracks in this dangerous plan, and now the government has moved to rush through the new laws to close the door on legal challenge and scrutiny.
The declared intent of the new law is to protect uranium mining companies in Australia from domestic legal action that challenges the consistency of the safeguards applied by the International Atomic Energy Agency in India and Australia's international non-proliferation obligations. It will also protect any future bilateral trade in other nuclear-related material or items for civil use.
A recent truncated review of the new law said the bill "provides the certainty required to give effect to the Australia-India Agreement".
So Australian uranium miners, who supplied the product that directly fuelled Fukushima, are now to be legally covered from any challenge over a highly contested plan to sell to India.
This move highlights the extent and the risks of the federal government's preoccupation with ending civil society access to legal recourse. Further, fast-tracking legal favours to provide industry certainty simply highlights how profoundly uncertain this industry is.
Following Fukushima, the global uranium market has crashed, as has the value of uranium stocks.
Following Fukushima, the global uranium market has crashed, as has the value of uranium stocks. Uranium operations are on hold; extended care and maintenance are well behind planning schedules, and prices, profits and employment numbers have gone south.
IBIS World's March 2015 market report said only 987 people are employed in Australia's uranium industry. Few jobs and dollars, considerable damage at home and escalating risk abroad.
The fragile economics of the uranium sector make it understandable that the industry is pushing for every potential market but fail to explain why our federal government is so intent on trying to pick winners with a sector that is clearly losing. Sadly, and unreasonably, the India uranium deal has become seen as a litmus test for bilateral relations.
...promoting Australian uranium as the answer to Indian energy poverty is more convenient than credible
Talk of a massive surge in exports is fanciful, and promoting Australian uranium as the answer to Indian energy poverty is more convenient than credible. Political proponents of the trade are driven less by substance than style – the symbolism of Australia and India on the same page and open for business.
In a telling reference, the recent review of the new law highlighted the importance of the "foreign policy backdrop to Australia's nuclear trade with India".
Sending political signals through trade is not unusual, but to do so by ignoring substantive warning signals is unwise. When those warnings and that trade relate to nuclear materials, it is deeply irresponsible.
Buttressing flawed trade deals with bolt-on legislative exemptions is poor policy and practice. This law may be civil by name, but it is desperately uncivil in nature.
All trades have trade-offs but this one risks far too much.
This article first published on SMH
Dave Sweeney
Nuclear free campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation.
Unfinished business: Kakadu needs a new approach to cleaning up an old mine
Unfinished business: Rehabilitating the Ranger uranium mine
Clandestine approval for controversial uranium mine is evidence Australia needs better environment laws
Overnight export of nuclear waste through Sydney highlights need for proper management regime
The Federal Government has not solved the complex management issues with nuclear waste, merely bought some time.
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MATLAB Machine Learning Recipes
A Problem-Solution Approach
Authors: Paluszek, Michael, Thomas, Stephanie
Utilizes real world examples in MATLAB for major applications of machine learning in big data
Comes with complete working MATLAB source code
Shows how to use MATLAB graphics and visualization tools for machine learning
price for Germany (gross)
Included format: PDF, EPUB
Softcover 26,74 €
Harness the power of MATLAB to resolve a wide range of machine learning challenges. This book provides a series of examples of technologies critical to machine learning. Each example solves a real-world problem. All code in MATLAB Machine Learning Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach is executable. The toolbox that the code uses provides a complete set of functions needed to implement all aspects of machine learning. Authors Michael Paluszek and Stephanie Thomas show how all of these technologies allow the reader to build sophisticated applications to solve problems with pattern recognition, autonomous driving, expert systems, and much more.
How to write code for machine learning, adaptive control and estimation using MATLAB
How these three areas complement each other
How these three areas are needed for robust machine learning applications
How to use MATLAB graphics and visualization tools for machine learning
How to code real world examples in MATLAB for major applications of machine learning in big data
Who is this book for: The primary audiences are engineers, data scientists and students wanting a comprehensive and code cookbook rich in examples on machine learning using MATLAB.
Michael Paluszek is the co-author of MATLAB Recipes published by Apress. He is President of Princeton Satellite Systems, Inc. (PSS) in Plainsboro, New Jersey. Mr. Paluszek founded PSS in 1992 to provide aerospace consulting services. He used MATLAB to develop the control system and simulation for the Indostar-1 geosynschronous communications satellite, resulting in the launch of PSS' first commercial MATLAB toolbox, the Spacecraft Control Toolbox, in 1995. Since then he has developed toolboxes and software packages for aircraft, submarines, robotics, and fusion propulsion, resulting in PSS' current extensive product line. He is currently leading an Army research contract for precision attitude control of small satellites and working with the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory on a compact nuclear fusion reactor for energy generation and propulsion. Prior to founding PSS, Mr. Paluszek was an engineer at GE Astro Space in East Windsor, NJ. At GE he designed the Global Geospace Science Polar despun platform control system and led the design of the GPS IIR attitude control system, the Inmarsat-3 attitude control systems and the Mars Observer delta-V control system, leveraging MATLAB for control design. Mr. Paluszek also worked on the attitude determination system for the DMSP meteorological satellites. Mr. Paluszek flew communication satellites on over twelve satellite launches, including the GSTAR III recovery, the first transfer of a satellite to an operational orbit using electric thrusters. At Draper Laboratory Mr. Paluszek worked on the Space Shuttle, Space Station and submarine navigation. His Space Station work included designing of Control Moment Gyro based control systems for attitude control. Mr. Paluszek received his bachelors in Electrical Engineering, and master's and engineer’s degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is author of numerous papers and has over a dozen U.S. Patents.
Stephanie Thomas is the co-author of MATLAB Recipes, published by Apress. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 and 2001. Ms. Thomas was introduced to PSS' Spacecraft Control Toolbox for MATLAB during a summer internship in 1996 and has been using MATLAB for aerospace analysis ever since. She built a simulation of a lunar transfer vehicle in C++, LunarPilot, during the same internship. In her nearly 20 years of MATLAB experience, she has developed many software tools including the Solar Sail Module for the Spacecraft Control Toolbox; a proximity satellite operations toolbox for the Air Force; collision monitoring Simulink blocks for the Prisma satellite mission; and launch vehicle analysis tools in MATLAB and Java, to name a few. She has developed novel methods for space situation assessment such as a numeric approach to assessing the general rendezvous problem between any two satellites implemented in both MATLAB and C++. Ms. Thomas has contributed to PSS' Attitude and Orbit Control textbook, featuring examples using the Spacecraft Control Toolbox, and written many software User's Guides. She has conducted SCT training for engineers from diverse locales such as Australia, Canada, Brazil, and Thailand and has performed MATLAB consulting for NASA, the Air Force, and the European Space Agency.
An Overview of Machine Learning
Paluszek, Michael (et al.)
Representation of Data for Machine Learning in MATLAB
MATLAB Graphics
Kalman Filters
Data Classification with Decision Trees
Introduction to Neural Nets
Classification of Numbers Using Neural Networks
Pattern Recognition with Deep Learning
Neural Aircraft Control
Multiple Hypothesis Testing
Autonomous Driving with Multiple Hypothesis Testing
Case-Based Expert Systems
Michael Paluszek
Michael Paluszek and Stephanie Thomas
Distribution Rights
Standard Apress distribution
XIX, 347
41 b/w illustrations, 116 illustrations in colour
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Concrete House Ring
What a wonderful journey, this project has now evolved into an awesome DIY Concrete House Ring; a silver and concrete composite unisex ring that invites you to experience the unique and rewarding process of making.
The DIY Concrete House Ring has officially been launched for the world to see via KICKSTARTER, and where I have 30 days to seek funding for the project to hit production. Head over to Kickstarter for some awesome images, videos and everything you need to know about the project.
I cannot do this without your support. Please join me on this incredible journey by backing my project and sharing this with your family, friends, colleagues and everyone you know that enjoys the beautiful adventure of awesome ideas!
The DIY Concrete House Ring
Concrete House Ring is an elegant, audacious piece of jewelry designed by Linda Bennett, founder and author of archi-ninja.com. A hand casted concrete and resin composite is moulded within a sterling silver, satin finish inner and outer piece. The icon of the house enunciates to the memory of home, where families grow and contract, habitual routines are developed, and our notions of safety and placemaking are formed.
It is possible to associate deep and unique metaphorical connotations to the Concrete House Ring, yet it is also the evolution of its own design process, the shifting of scales, intimacy, and a personal narrative that Ms. Bennett shares freely with her audience. The design and construction of the ring reveals in part archi-ninja.com’s ongoing discussion about the architect’s experience, the challenges and the victories bound to the profession.
The following is a conversation between friends, Arianne Gelardin and Linda Bennett.
AG: Can you talk about the notion of ownership with the Concrete House Ring and how that may differ in regards to architecture?
LB: Ownership was an important theme when designing the Concrete House Ring; it allowed me to consider ownership not as a commodity but through personal ownership, a sense of gratification and pride. My experience in the industry to date has been as a contributor to a much larger design process. The ring allowed me to be an author as the decision maker rather than working under someone else’s decision and sequential direction. The process of ownership during the design and making was about liberating my role in creative design.
AG: What associations do you have when you, specifically, wear the ring?
LB: The ring serves as a reminder of my recent relocation from Sydney to Melbourne. Melbourne has provided an exciting professional opportunities that allowed for greater creative expression. Having found happiness and energy in this transition, I can’t help but think about creative projects with every moment. The house represents a pursuit of change, safety through place, and knowing that no matter where I live, I am reminded of home: the home in Sydney that I grew up in (the nostalgic past) and my new home in Melbourne (the future and new opportunities).
AG: Once when discussing architecture, you used the term, “fear of inadequacy.” Can you talk about this in relation to the ring?
LB: Concrete House Ring is about transforming my role as a recent architecture graduate, which was burdened with a fear of inadequacy, into a productive exploration of creativity. The process of making the ring allowed me to experience a unique set of challenges distinct from my everyday role as an architect. Unlike my day-to-day work, the ring project had no implications of practicality, legislation, time, budget or brief. It was a project, quite simply, for the enjoyment of translating concept into object. It was about dealing with only two materials–concrete and silver–instead of hundreds. The form is reduced to a symbol rather than massive building components. It’s meaning is derived from idea rather than demanded by function or constraint. By scaling everything down it takes away the fear of the massiveness of my responsibilities in architecture.
AG: There is perhaps something less daunting about the scale of the ring than, say, the design of a building. It involves a more approachable design process that is immediate and charged with less risk than architecture. But the ring’s form is deceivingly simple. While the form has only a handful of curves and a basic structure, it is more intimately connected to the scale of the body and therefore highly sensitive to the subtlest of variations.
LB: Through its scale and simplicity, the ring takes on a new meaning, beyond the initial symbolism of home. It’s meaning is connected directly not only to the body but to the hand, a part of the body that constantly exchanges and engages with our surroundings. I love the idea that by reducing something in scale, we can heighten our experience and understanding of it. We can perceive intrinsic details that we often miss when we are surrounded by all the massive distractions of space and environment. Simplicity allows something to come into our focus, noticing the imperfections of the concrete, the changes of its colouring under different conditions, the way it moves on the finger, its texture, weight, and how it begins to take on its own narrative through patterns of everyday wear.
AG: Historically, many architects, especially the modernists, took pause from their large-scale work to design furniture, for example, or to paint. In 2012, the Museum Für Angewandte Kunst Köln (Museum for Applied Art) presented an exhibition, From Aalto to Zumthor: Furniture by Architects, after which one critic suggested that while a slow market may have played a role in the decision to periodically switch scales from architecture to furniture and industrial design, more importantly, there was the “desire to control a whole project and to ensure a formal unity throughout. Inside and out.”[1] Do you see potential for other types of “side projects” for today’s emerging architects?
LB: Yes, I think architects have a wonderful ability to be qualitative and quantitative which historically flows into other professions. I don’t think it is derived from control but from seeking to understand. Architects are constantly critical and questioning. Side projects offer another forum to communicate ideas, to reach a different audience, and to create different scales for human interaction. I think expanding into other industries is a perfectively valid way to test new materials, technologies and concepts at a scale that is more accessible and comprehensible, not only to architects but also to the end user. Often this is a way to test personal or professional ideas, which feed back into architecture and hopefully create a richer understanding of our role in society.
AG: I wear this one really chunky ring, especially when I know I’m going to have a stressful day or when I’m heading into an important meeting. I twiddle the ring around my finger and its strangely satisfying. There’s something quite poetic about the image of an architect twiddling a house around their finger. Do you have anything like my somewhat nervous tick, something that I most likely acquired during grad school?
LB: Yes I do! It developed for me when I bought a kinetic ring by Michael Berger about 10 years ago. Through gravity, it has this beautiful shift in weight, which made twisting it around my finger incredibly therapeutic and also strangely enjoyable. What I love is that everyday objects are able to create new habitual routines or behavioral twitches, and in doing so it creates opportunity for new complexities and distractions. As I twist the Concrete House Ring my eyes and other senses are naturally drawn to my hand, allowing a new focus as I retreat into the world of my own making.
AG: Can you describe the fabrication process?
LB: The ring is essentially two parts: hand casted composite concrete between a silver inner and outer enclosure. I developed a system of rods with a jewelry designer to hold the pieces together while forming an encasement for casting the concrete. Internal rods tie the concrete to the silver pieces in a similar manner to the working of post-tensioned concrete in building design. I also played around with the casting component. Concrete, alone, was too brittle and porous to create a durable and long lasting ring. I needed to find a way to strengthen the material. After speaking with a concrete manufacturer, I mixed concrete with an epoxy resin and tested over 40 ratios of resin, concrete and colour pigments to get the current ratio, which is stable, durable, and strong. Throughout the design process I spoke with builders, concrete suppliers, and material manufacturers.
AG: Have you always been interested in jewelry design? How did the idea first come about?
LB: The ring was such an introverted and personal expression that I didn’t look towards other designers nor make reference to any existing jewelry pieces. I don’t wear much jewelry but have always had a soft spot for larger rings that I can play with on my finger, part object and part plaything. I tested different techniques of laser cutting, hand-casting, and 3D printing. I wanted to hand cast the ring because this process is more intimate than others, while also allowing for imperfection and each casting a unique quality. I also played around with glass, plastics, timber, steel, silver and concrete. I have always loved concrete; it feels brutal and raw and provides unique patterns of air bubbles and cement formations with each casting. Concrete also wears beautifully over time, developing small chips and cracks, creating scars telling of its use and misuse.
Would you like to purchase your own Concrete House Ring?
I am currently working through the logistics and details of producing more high quality and unique Concrete House Rings, allowing the original narrative to take on new significance and meaning peculiar to each owner. Please enter your email below so I can notify you when your ring is ready for purchase.
Thank you for reading! If you would like to get in touch about the concrete house ring please email me: linda@archi-ninja.com
[1] “Museum Für Angewandte Kunst Köln: From Aalto to Zumthor Furniture by Architects.”SMOW. N.p., 15 Jan. 2012. Web. 21 June 2013. http://blog.smow.com/2012/01/museum-fur-angewandte-kunst-koln-from-aalto-to-zumthor-furniture-by-architects/.
Photos by Dillon Bailey
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Moooi Takes Manhattan with Two New Products and a Refreshed Showroom
The Dutch design brand celebrates collaborations with Kranen/Gille and Atelier Van Lieshout and a new product launch strategy
Heather Corcoran
Atelier Van Lieshout's Liberty table with Kranen/Gille's Plant chandelier for Moooi.
When Moooi celebrates two new furniture launches during NYCxDesign, the designs won’t be the only things that are new for the Dutch design brand.
“We’ve never done novelties in New York before,” Moooi cofounder Marcel Wanders told AD PRO in the days before the unveiling of Atelier Van Lieshout's Liberty table, Kranen/Gille's Plant chandelier, and the brand’s newly renovated showroom, which opened its doors this weekend. The brand will also take part in WantedDesign Manhattan, which runs from Saturday, May 18, through Tuesday, May 21, where it will display the BFF sofa, a Wanders design nominated in the residential sofa category at the NYCxDesign Awards.
The new designs include Atelier Van Lieshout's Liberty table, a rugged yet elegant American chestnut piece that extends artist Joep Van Lieshout’s New Tribal Labyrinth series while referencing, the designer has said, the Henry David Thoreau axiom, “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.” Wanders goes as far to describe the piece as “an architectural masterpiece . . . so different and cool.”
Kranen/Gille's Plant chandelier, meanwhile, is the latest outgrowth of Plant, a project designers Jos Kranen and Johannes Gille have been working on for years. When it came time to create Plant’s most complicated iteration yet, a chandelier, the designers say they knew Moooi was the best brand to help realize their vision. The result, the designers say is, “an industrial manufactured product, mimicking growth as it happens in nature,” one that take the form of a plant “sprouting from the ceiling and splitting into six golden branches each holding a frosted dome of light.”
The Plant chandelier.
The collaborations represent the wider Moooi “agenda,” Wanders says, of giving designers a space to express themselves. “We are a design brand; we’re not a styling company. A lot of companies make things that sit perfectly together. We produce objects that really are made by a designer,” he says. “We don’t ask designers what they can do for us; we ask them, ‘What do you really want to realize?’”
The secret is finding “people who have their own opinion,” Wanders says. “Designers don’t only think about objects and products; they think about how we as a culture go forward.”
The new designs represent how Moooi is looking toward the future as well, as each of the pieces will each carry The Button, the brand’s digital certificate of authenticity. (“It’s almost like blockchain,” says Moooi CEO Robin Bevins.)
Perhaps even more innovative from an industry-wide perspective is the fact that the pieces will be available worldwide the moment they launch in New York, a move that’s part of the More Moooi Moments initiative, a strategy that’s seen the brand trade annual collection previews for see-now-buy-now global product launches throughout the year.
“There are so many paradoxes in the design industry. In one way, it’s super future-forward, and on the other it’s super traditional,” Bevers says, referencing the conventional approach of introducing new collections once a year. “I’ve always wondered why the big design companies save all their ideas, novelties, and new concepts for Salone del Mobile in April, when they’re going to spend a whole year bringing things to market.”
That’s why Moooi is setting out to try something new. And with the growing influence of design weeks around the world, who knows—maybe the rest of the business will join them.
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Identity Typeface Style evolution Metro train
CSKA ice hockey club logo and corporate identity
• OverviewProcess IProcess II
to create a corporate identity.
CSKA is the symbol of Russian and Soviet ice hockey, the country’s oldest club whose history is closely intertwined with the history of the sport itself, home to a plethora of legendary players and dozens of Olympic champions. A logo and a corporate identity for the club were created at the studio.
Traditional logo
The red and blue star and the letters CSKA arranged in a characteristic step-like pattern resemble of the traditional text on club uniforms of the 1970—1980s. The shape of the star has acquired the classic outline.
The shield-shaped emblem created for CSKA in the 1960s was also updated. The silhouette of the shield is supported by two hockey sticks.
The emblem exists in two variants, red and white
For the first time in the club’s history it now has a mascot, the Horse in the club’s signature colors.
Other elements of the style retain the star geometry which establishes style consistency.
The logo, the emblem and the mascot are actively used on various media from jerseys and the club bus to advertising posters and souvenirs.
All three symbols are used in the design of the uniforms. The main logo with the star is placed on the chest.
Following an old tradition, the club’s emblems can also be found on the numbers on the back. The club’s emblems can also be found on the numbers on the back.
The mascot appears on the uniforms as a traditional hockey shoulder patch.
The mascot appears on the uniforms as a shoulder patch.
Corporate patterns were created for use in the design of documents, navigation and souvenirs.
Red and blue stripe pattern
Hockey stick pattern
Additional English-language logo with the club founding date was created for use on sweatshirts and t-shirts
Rules for the use of the corporate identity elements, colors and typefaces are given in the guide.
Еrken Kagarov
Egor Zhgun
Darya Anikeeva
Mikhail Prosvirnin
Anna Balabas
designer and chief typesetter
Iskander Mukhamadeev
designer and typesetter
Igor Gorelyshev
Anna Potapkina
type designer
Ksenia Erulevich
Jenia Filatova
Svetlana Kost
The studio wishes to thank Elena Nosova and Irina Kabetova for their help with the project
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andy goulding
MERGING BLACK HOLES
I am an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University collaborating with Prof. Jenny Greene. Previously I was a Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. I like to think about the physical mechanism by which all supermassive black holes grow, and understading the interplay between Active Galactic Nuclei and the properties of the galaxies they reside in.
Merging Supermassive Black Holes
Black Holes & Gravitational Waves
VIEW PAPER
Setting the Gravitational Wave Background with a pair of Merging Supermassive Black Holes
The most massive black hole binaries are expected to dominate the as-yet undetected gravitational wave background that are accessible to Pulsar Timing Arrays. We currently lack firm empirical constraints on the amplitude of the gravitational wave background due to the lack of confirmed extremely massive black hole binaries. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, we have discovered a distant quasar with two massive merging black holes at its heart. We expect this black hole pair to merge in around 2.5 billion years, roughly the Universe lookback time at the distance to the galaxy. We predict that quasar binaries similar to this will make up the majority of the graviational wave background signal that should be detected in the next years. But, if this signal is not found then this could indicate that the most massive black holes merge only over extremely long timescales, remaining as close separation binaries for many Hubble times, the so-called ‘final-parsec problem’.
See our press coverage at Princeton University and the Simons Foundation.
X-ray Halos of Galaxies
LX-T in the most massive galaxies
The X-ray halos of the most massive galaxies in the universe
Studies of the physical properties of local elliptical galaxies are beginning to shed new light on galaxy formation. In our latest paper, linked with the MASSIVE collaboration, we have sought to understand the physical link between the luminosity and temperature of the X-ray gas that surrounds massive galaxies with the properties of the galaxy which resides within. We found that despite the vastly differing gravitational scales, the gas temperature and luminosity of the inner-most 10–30 kpc region of a galaxy group or cluster are set entirely by the properties of the central galaxy, and not the wider-scale environment. Furthermore, we found that the vast majority of elliptical galaxies maintain pressure-supported hot gas consistent with the virial temperature when measured on galaxy scales. By harnessing the exquisite spatial resolution and sensitivity of the Chandra X-ray telescope combined with optical integral field spectroscopy, we have now provided a consistent and unbiased picture of the hot gas content of massive early-type galaxies over the largest stellar mass baseline (to date) that simultaneously covers a wide-range in environment and galaxy dynamics.
Black Holes & Dark Matter
Connecting Dark Matter Halos & Supermassive Black Holes
Observational studies of nearby galaxies have demonstrated correlations between the mass of the central supermassive black holes and properties of the host galaxies. Motivated by these correlations, the theoretical paradigm has emerged in which BHs and bulges coevolve. We studied 3130 elliptical galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital and ROSAT All Sky Surveys and demonstrated that the central stellar velocity dispersion exhibits a significantly tighter correlation with the total gravitating mass, traced by the X-ray luminosity of the hot gas, than with the stellar mass. This hints that the central stellar velocity dispersion, and hence the central gravitational potential, may be the fundamental property of elliptical galaxies that is most tightly connected to the larger-scale dark matter halo.
See our press coverage at the Harvard-Smithsonian and on CNET , and the Discovery Channel.
AGN-Galaxy Connections
Evolution of AGN Host Galaxies
The evolution of AGN host galaxies throughout the last 9 billion years
AGN are capable of releasing enormous quantities of energy over their lifetimes, comparable to the binding energy of their hosts. In light of this, many galaxy-evolution simulations now incorporate AGN feedback as a form of self regulation for BH growth and star formation. The links between AGN and host evolution should be reflected in the galaxy characteristics. By harnessing the immense statistical power of the SDSS, Bootes and DEEP2 surveys, we identified AGN at X-ray, infrared and radio wavelengths out to z=1.4. We found that BHs undergoing radiatively-efficient accretion appear to be hosted in a separate and distinct galaxy population than AGN undergoing powerful mechanically dominated accretion. Radiatively efficient AGN appear to be preferentially hosted in modest star-forming galaxies, with little dependence on AGN or galaxy luminosity. AGN exhibiting radio-emitting jets due to mechanically-dominated accretion are almost exclusively observed in massive, passive galaxies. Crucially, we show that these different accretion-mode AGN have remained as separate galaxy populations throughout the last 9 Gyr.
Compton-thick AGN
Mid-IR Host-Galaxy Extinction
Mid-IR Host-Galaxy Extinction in Compton-thick AGN
In nearby optical and radio-selected AGN, a weak correlation between gas column density and silicate (Si) absorption strength has been observed from Spitzer spectroscopy suggesting that selection of sources with strong Si-absorption is a good method to find the most heavily obscured AGN, i.e., Compton-thick sources. To first-order, these results would appear to agree with those predicted by simple uniform torus models. However, there is growing evidence that not all of the dust extinction can be attributed to an obscuring central torus. Indeed, we found that those Compton-thick AGN that exhibit strong Si-absorption features in the mid-infrared are hosted in highly inclined and/or merging galaxies, providing strong evidence that significant dust attenuation occurs within the AGN host-galaxy. This host-galaxy extinction is capable of hiding optical emission-line signatures in ~25-50% of nearby AGN
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Collaborations, Friends & Colleagues
MASSIVE:
Exploring the largest galaxies in the Universe
HyperSuprimeCam Survey
Galaxy evolution across 1400 deg2
Multi-λ Surveys
Black holes throughout cosmic time
STACKFAST
Breaking through the noise floor in X-rays
Jenny Greene
Dave Alexander
Bill & Christine Forman
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Ryan Hickox
Department of Astrophysical Sciences
Office 117, Peyton Hall
Princeton University, NJ
Email: goulding [at] astro[dot]princeton.edu
Copyright A. Goulding
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Advantech Launches POC Series of Medical-Grade Point-of-Care Terminals for High-Resolution Imaging
Taipei, Taiwan, July 20, 2017 – Advantech, a leading provider of a wide range of certified medical computing systems, is pleased to announce its POC series of medical-grade point-of-care terminals comprising two models differentiated according to display size – POC-W213/WP213 (21.5”), and POC-W243/WP243 (23.8”).
Powered by the latest 6th Gen Intel® Core™ i processor that delivers up to a 30% increase in graphics performance, POC series terminals are high-performance medical-grade devices with the capability to support multiple displays for complex imaging-related healthcare applications, such as surgical modeling, radiology, and endoscopy. The lightweight and slim system design enables POC terminals to be flexibly mounted in diverse locations to serve as operating room (OR) dashboards, equipment control panels, and intensive care unit (ICU) information displays, providing critical data to medical staff to assist with life-saving decision making. To support the high-resolution imaging requirements of critical care applications, POC terminal displays are equipped with in-plane switching (IPS) technology to provide superior color presentation, increased responsiveness, and, most importantly, a wider viewing angle without image distortion. The inclusion of optional DICOM presets creates a display compensation curve that makes it easier for the human eye to perceive different brightness levels, resulting in images that appear sharper and more detailed.
Designed to meet strict safety and reliability regulations, POC terminals are compliant with UL60601-1, IEC 60601-1/60601-2, and EN 60601-1 certifications and feature medical-grade equipotential bonding and isolated COM/LAN ports to reduce the risk of current leakages and electric shock. Furthermore, all terminal units are 1P54 rated for protection against water and dust ingress and easy cleaning (with W213/WP213 also equipped with an IP65-rated front panel) to ensure that the highest levels of hygiene and infection control are maintained. In addition to the default system I/O, built-in expansion ports (1 PCIe x4 and 2 mini PCIe) allow POC terminals to be integrated with diverse peripherals, such as a 5 megapixel camera, smart card reader, and RFID/ Wi-Fi/Bluetooth modules, to expand the system functionalities according to specific application requirements. Moreover, the terminals are installed with Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT) to enable remote management and reduce maintenance costs.
Considering their premium imaging capabilities, excellent computing performance, convenient operation, and flexible expansion, Advantech’s POC series terminals provide the ideal medical computing platforms for diverse imaging-related healthcare applications. Furthermore, the POC-WP models (POC-WP213/WP243) are equipped with an internal power supply unit to reduce cables and facilitate mounting installation for greater usability in critical care environments.
POC-W213/WP213 with 21.5” True-Flat 16:9 Widescreen Multi-Touch Display Featuring a 21.5” true-flat 16:9 widescreen multi-touch display and ultra-slim (65 mm) lightweight (6.9 kg) design, POC-W213 offers superior imaging in a compact form factor to ensure easy installation in diverse environments. The IP54-rated terminal is also equipped with an IP65-rated front panel for enhanced protection from water and dust and easy cleaning, making it ideal for a wide range of critical care applications.
21.5” true-flat 16:9 widescreen multi-touch display with IPS technology
Ultra-slim (65 mm) lightweight (6.9 kg) design
IP54-rated enclosure with IP65-rated front panel
Up to 32 GB of 1866/2133MHz DDR4 SODIMM
2 x Gigabit Ethernet, 2 x RS-232/422/485, 2 x USB 3.0, and 2 x USB 2.0
1 x HDMI and 1 x DisplayPort
Optional lithium-ion battery pack and Bluetooth, RFID, WLAN, and IEEE 1394 modules
POC-WP213 model equipped with an internal power supply unit
POC-W243/WP243 with 23.8” Full HD True-Flat 16:9 Widescreen Multi-Touch Display
The POC-W243 point-of-care terminal features a 24” true-flat 16:9 widescreen touch display that supports 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution and 250 cd/m2 luminance to provide sharper, brighter, more precise imaging. The touchscreen display also features a surface hardness of 7H and supports 10-point multi-touch control as well as gloved operation for truly convenient user-friendly operation.
23.8” Full HD true-flat 16:9 widescreen multi-touch display with IPS technology
Touchscreen supports 10-point multi-touch control and gloved operation
1 x HDMI and 1 x VGA
Optional lithium-ion battery pack, 5MP auto-focus camera, and Bluetooth, RFID, and WLAN modules
Advantech’s POC series of medical-grade point-of-care terminals are available for order now. For more information regarding the POC series or other Advantech digital healthcare solutions, please contact your local sales representative or visit our website at www.advantech.com.
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Advantech wins 2019 MedTech Breakthrough Award: Best Hospital Implementation
Irvine, California (July 4, 2019) -- Advantech is thrilled to announce it has been selected as the winner of the Best Hospital Technology Implementation award in the 2019 MedTech Breakthrough Awards program for their work at The Erasmus University Hospital in Rotterdam.
POC-S199
POC-S199, the 19" Slim Medical PC, features IP54 enclosure which provides protection from water and dust, easy cleaning, and added safety for patients and clinicians. POC-S199 is delivered with Advantech’s exclusive POC_Link remote management software, adding easy remote management capabilities to the specialized high-performance system. POC-S199 is designed for a wide array of applications from operating rooms and intensive care units, to nursing stations and other locations throughout a medical center.
POC-W213
POC-W213 runs on an Intel® Core™ i7 6th generation processo and chipset capable of displaying crystal clear images on its 21.5” wide-screen display. The system is highly integrated and provides a rich selection of high speed I/O connectors, user-friendly function keys, and customizable features. POC-W213, housed in a slim 6.5 cm casing, weighs only 6.9 kg. This high performance fanless terminal is designed for image intense medical applications in operating arenas, at bedside, nursing stations, or other point-of-care locations within the hospital or clinic.
POC-W243 is a 24" medical-grade computer with the latest computing capabilities and wide-viewing angles in the slim profile. The system is fanless for quiet operation and energy efficiency. It delivers high-performance with an Intel® Core™ i7/i5 6th generation or Celeron®3955 Quad-Core processor. With IPS (in-place switching) display, customers can experience stunning images from any angle. Even with a 24" display, the entire unit weighs less than 8 kg and has a narrow profile depth of only 7 cm. POC-W243 has an IP54-rated enclosure providing control against bacteria. The point-of-care terminal has rich connectivity profile which supports four USB 3.0, and one VGA and HDMI. It's also equipped with two mini PCIe and one PCIe x4 slots for extention cards. This unit is suited to ideal for radiology and endoscope applications.
POC-WP213
The POC-WP21 SERIES is a multimedia Intel® Core™ i7 or i5 processor series designed for mobile computing as a Medical Computer. It is a PC-based system with 21.5" wide screen TFT LCD display, single VGA port, HDMI out, dual on-board 10/ 100/1000 PCI-E Ethernet controllers, and one LAN port. It supports the Intel AMT9.5 function, has dual COM ports, quad USB 2.0 ports and a 24-bit stereo audio control- ler. With an optional 2.5" SATA drive, the POC-WP21 SERIES is a user-friendly computer. For system integrators, this highly integrated multimedia system lets you easily build a Point-of-Care Terminal into your applications. The POC-WP21 SERIES makes it an ideal and safe point-of-care solution for patients and hospital practitioners. The POC-WP21 SERIES is specially designed to resist spills and water damage, and ensures dust resistance with its protected LCD and sealed ports. The POC-WP21 SERIES is a reliable solution to your application's processing requirements.
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March 19, 2019 | The Daily Briefing
Walmart offers its workers free surgery (with a catch). Now it wants others to do the same.
9:00 AM - March 19, 2019
About six years ago, Walmart launched its Centers of Excellence (COE) program, aiming not only to control mounting health care costs but to improve health outcomes and help sick employees return to work sooner.
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Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Lisa Woods, who leads design and strategy of U.S. benefits at Walmart; Jonathan Slotkin, director of spine surgery at Geisinger Health; and Ruth Coleman, a health executive and nurse, write that Walmart's effort has been a major success—and could prove to be a model for smaller employers.
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About Walmart's Centers of Excellence program
Walmart's COE program has its roots in a now-famous speech that Walmart founder Sam Walton delivered nearly 30 years ago, the authors write.
"These people are skinnin' us alive," Walton said, referring to health care providers. "Not just here in Bentonville but everywhere else, too. … They're charging us five and six times what they ought to charge us. … So we need to work on a program where we've got hospitals and doctors … saving our customers money and our employees money. We haven't even started to do that. And if we don't get it done this year, I'm gonna get real upset. I mean real upset."
In the decades since then, Walmart has experimented with a variety of ways to rein in health care costs—perhaps most ambitiously with its COE program, which launched in 2013.
Under the program, Walmart covers the full cost of travel and treatment for employees seeking certain cancer evaluations, organ transplants, and common surgeries such as heart, hip, knee replacement, and spinal procedures.
The catch? Employees must agree to seek care at a designated hospital. Walmart, which self-insures its employees, then reimburses the hospitals via bundled payment agreements negotiated directly with the providers.
Why the COE program is a win-win
Overall, the COE program has been a major success, according to Woods, Slotkin, and Coleman. To demonstrate how the program works, they shared the story of "Bill," a Walmart employee whose name was changed for privacy reasons.
Bill had been suffering from mild neck pain for some time and eventually developed a tremor in his hands. A local surgeon recommended that Bill receive spinal surgery, so Walmart paid for Bill and his wife to fly to Geisinger Medical Center to get a second opinion. There, the doctors noticed a shuffle in his step and diagnosed him with Parkinson's disease—which could not be treated surgically.
Bill was able to avoid an unnecessary painful and expensive surgery, while Walmart saved about $30,000 that it would have paid for the surgery. Further, after Bill began treatment for his Parkinson's disease, his symptoms improved, and he was able to return to work with renewed energy. For both Walmart and Bill, the situation was a win-win.
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Woods and colleagues write that these situations are common in the COE program. So far, more than 5,000 Walmart employees have participated in the program, and more than 95% said they were "satisfied" or "very satisfied" with the care and overall experience. One employee in particular said it was "the best medical experience of my life. This is the most important benefit of working at Walmart."
Woods and colleagues cite data that show nearly half of the Walmart employees who had spinal surgery or a medical evaluation without surgery between 2015 and 2018 did so at a COE site. Of those who did have a spinal surgery, the patients who did so at a COE site spent 14% less time in the hospital and faced a 95% lower risk of readmission than those treated elsewhere.
As for the cost to Walmart, surgery at a COE site costs about 8% more than elsewhere, but the benefits have outweighed that cost, Woods and colleagues write, as employees are able to return to work sooner and are less likely to be readmitted to the hospital.
And the benefits aren't limited to spinal surgery. Among Walmart employees who had joint replacement surgery between 2015 and 2018, the patients who had the surgery at a COE site spent 32% less time in the hospital and were 70% less likely to be readmitted than those who had the surgery elsewhere. Further, the cost per case of joint replacement surgery was about 15% less at COE sites than at non-COE sites.
What does Walmart's experience mean for other companies?
Woods, Slotkin, and Coleman write that Walmart is one of several "innovative companies, including Lowe's, McKesson, GE, and Boeing, [that] are disrupting how employers pay for care by taking insurers out of the equation and contracting directly with leading health systems."
According to a Willis Towers Watson survey, 22% of employers said they "either planned to contract directly [with providers] or would consider doing so by 2019," the authors write, up from about 6% of employers that had such relationships in 2017.
While Walmart has relied on bundled payments and, in other instances, an ACO-like model, Woods, Slotkin, and Coleman write, "[t]hese relationships can take many forms." They may, for instance, use so-called person-year arrangements that set a payment amount per enrollee over a defined period.
Woods, Slotkin, and Coleman write that, by sharing Walmart's lessons and successes, they hope to make similar programs available to smaller employers—which may band together into purchaser coalitions to increase their market power.
In an interview with CNBC, Woods said, "This has been a journey we've been on for several years," adding, "We're committed to sharing what we learn" (Woods et. al., Harvard Business Review, March 2019; Farr, CNBC, 3/14).
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Phosacid alliances develop in the Maghreb
The launch of its latest joint venture to produce phosphoric acid further strengthens Morocco's pivotal role as the leading demand market for brimstone and as a key supplier of intermediates to the world's phosphate fertilizer industry. Chris Cunningham reviews OCP's latest expansion projects.
Other countries may eventually surpass Morocco to claim the title of world’s leading individual destination for sulphur exports. But the North African centre of phosphoric acid production is set to maintain a lead role in the development of Africa as the biggest growth market for brimstone exporters in the early years of the century.
Work in progress and planned expansion by Moroccan parastatal Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP) at its Jorf Lasfar and Safi production sites is expected to add around 750,000 tonnes of sulphur demand to a (4Q 1999) level of 2.5 million t/y. With an estimated 300,000 t/y of extra sulphur consumption due on stream in Senegal and further likely demand in South Africa, the continent’s potential is emerging rapidly.
For its part, OCP has completed a year of expansion, despite ripples of uncertainty that have tipped the global balance of fortunes in the phosphates business. Although Morocco, together with neighbouring Tunisia, is the world’s biggest resource of phosphate rock, and OCP is the leading producer of phosphoric acid, industry in the Maghreb has not been content with its established role as a supplier of raw materials and intermediates.
Sterlite improves its acid quality
Sterlite Copper, Tuticorin, India has been producing premium quality acid from its copper smelting operation since April 1999. The new grade has purity levels equivalent to sulphur-based acid. New technology has been installed to reduce the NOx levels in the acid, thereby producing an acid quality which meets the requirements of the sulphonation industry. Satish Kumar, Senior Process Engineer, at Sterlite Copper's sulphuric acid plant, discusses the the journey which led to a breakthrough in improving Sterlite's acid quality.
Sterlite Industries India Limited, a multifunctional and multi-locational group, focuses its attention mainly on the strategic business areas of telecommunications and non-ferrous metals. Sterlite’s copper smelter which has a production capacity of 100,000 t/a copper is one of India’s largest and most modern copper smelters. Sterlite Industries’ main products are continuous cast rods, telecom cables, optic fibre cables and aluminium sheet. The smelter has some inherent advantages such as lower operating costs and low capital investments. In addition to its core business – the production and refining of copper from primary concentrates – Sterlite also produces and markets major byproducts from copper production. The production plant is located in the immediate vicinity of the city’s harbour, about 10 km from the city. Because of its close proximity to the city, the implementation of pollution control measures were given priority from an early stage.
The salient features of Sterlite Copper are:
100,000 t/a copper smelter
350,000 t/a sulphuric acid plant
100,000 t/a phosphoric acid plant
460 t/d oxygen plant
A zero discharge effluent treatment plant.
Sulphur forming
Sulphur's survey of recent and upcoming installations of sulphur forming equipment.
Sulphur forming is about as far downstream as you can get in the oil and gas processing industries. Hence our snapshot of new and imminent installations of forming equipment is a valuable indicator of regional ambition in the primary energy industry.
Of more direct interest, it is a record of new stocks of sulphur-for-trade on their way – or soon to be on their way – to the dockside.
Improving sulphur plant performance
New and improved process technologies, catalysts and advanced process control all play an important role in the optimisation of sulphur plants for better plant performance and enhanced sulphur recovery efficiencies. Lisa Connock reports.
The “ideal” sulphur recovery efficiency capabilities for the modified Claus process are approximately 99% for three-stage plants and 97.5% for two-stage plants. Unavoidable losses will slightly reduce actual recovery efficiencies but true recovery efficiency capabilities are still significantly higher than those traditionally expected throughout the industry.
Based on the analysis of numerous detailed sulphur plant tests, Sulphur Experts has deduced that the potential causes of recovery efficiency losses can be divided into seven categories:
Poor reaction stoichiometry
Catalyst deactivation
Operating the first converter too cold
Operating the second and third converters too hot
Bypassing gases around the conversion stages
High final condenser temperature
Liquid sulphur entrainment
Left unchecked, any one of these categories is capable of causing a significant reduction in sulphur plant efficiency.
This summary can be used as a simple checklist by sulphur plant operators and engineers to determine the potential efficiency losses in their own facilities, and conversely the potential for optimisation of recovery efficiency.
Tampa's solid option
Phosphate fertilizer producers' plans to build a solid sulphur remelt facility in Tampa signal major changes to the Gulf Coast's brimstone market. Chris Cunningham sifts through the detail of a new venture and some of the issues arising.
It may be a little early for an obituary, but the future health of North America’s last Frasch mine has become the subject of particularly intense speculation. News in mid-December that two dominant names in the American phosphates industry – IMC Global and Cargill – had announced their intention to form a sulphur-remelting joint venture has turned the industry’s thoughts towards the medium-term future of Freeport-McMoRan’s Main Pass 299 mine, offshore Louisiana.
Relatively expensive production of sulphur from Main Pass is the established vector for the high prices paid by Florida’s phosphate producers on a market dominated by the mine’s owner.
The issue raised by the proposed sulphur remelting site is the likely downward pressure it will bring to bear on the market. The economics of production at Main Pass are widely believed to be on the margins of feasibility. It may not take too much pressure for the mine to follow its recently-closed onshore cousin, Freeport’s Culberson mine, into oblivion.
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If You Leave Me
When the communist-backed army from the north invades her home, sixteen-year-old Haemi Lee, along with her widowed mother and ailing brother, is forced to flee to a refugee camp along the coast. For a few hours each night, she escapes her family's makeshift home and tragic circumstances with her childhood friend, Kyunghwan.
Focused on finishing school, Kyunghwan doesn't realize his older and wealthier cousin, Jisoo, has his sights set on the beautiful and spirited Haemi--and is determined to marry her before joining the fight. But as Haemi becomes a wife, then a mother, her decision to forsake the boy she always loved for the security of her family sets off a dramatic saga that will have profound effects for generations to come.
Richly told and deeply moving, If You Leave Me is a stunning portrait of war and refugee life, a passionate and timeless romance, and a heartrending exploration of one woman's longing for autonomy in a rapidly changing world.
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Author(s): Crystal Hana Kim
"An immersive, heartbreaking story about war, passion, and the road not taken." -- People
"Heartrending . . . a stunning feat of lyricism." -- USA Today
"One of the most beautiful and moving love stories you'll read this year." -- Nylon Magazine
An emotionally riveting debut novel about war, family, and forbidden love--the unforgettable saga of two ill-fated lovers in Korea and the heartbreaking choices they're forced to make in the years surrounding the civil war that still haunts us today.
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Dimensions : 1.33 Inches X 5.5 Inches X 8.25 Inches
Author : Crystal Hana Kim
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Turning Water into Wine
1Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. 3When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine left.” 4Jesus replied, “Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come.” 5His mother told the servants, “Whatever he tells you, do it.”
6Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7Jesus told the servants, “Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top. 8Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the head steward,” and they did. 9When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom 10and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!” 11Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
12After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days. 13Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables. 15So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!” 17His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”
18So then the Jewish leaders responded, “What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?” 19Jesus replied, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.” 20Then the Jewish leaders said to him, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?” 21But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body. 22So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.
Jesus at the Passover Feast
23Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing. 24But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people. 25He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.
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by David Schloss Published July 31, 2009 June 9, 2017
First Impressions of Di2 – It’s Electric (Boogie Woogie)
I’m a huge fan of SRAM. That’s likely seeming like an odd way to start a review of Shimano’s electronic D2 shift system, but I think it’s a rather important contextual point. In the last fifteen years of riding bikes I’d always had Shimano guts doing the heavy work, be it mountain bike groups (like the first XTR, which I still have) or on the road (where I’ve ridden everything from Tiagra to Dura-Ace) I started as a hard-core Shimano rider.
When SRAM’s Force group came along I was smitten. While Shimano parts had always been top-notch, there was something about SRAM’s Force that really spoke to me. The Double-Tap shifting system fits my riding style and there was a crispness to the shifting that I felt was agiler than the then-standard 7800 series Dura Ace.
By the time that 7900 came along I was already riding with SRAM Red on my bike, and participating in an unprecedented campaign to lighten my ride thanks to the lower gram count of the grouppo. I was (except when testing bikes) perfectly content to ride SRAM into the sunset.
As a lifelong gearhead, however, I was instantly drawn toward Shimano’s Di2 announcements like a moth to a flame. After seeing the disappointing performance of Mavic’s wireless blunderings in the electronic shifting space, I was hoping Shimano could pull this off.
In order to perform a long-term test of the new group, we’ve picked up the group and installed it onto a bike that I’ve already become familiar with, a Calfee Bamboo. After just 30 miles of hill climbing with the new group, we’ve got some definitive impressions of the group and its performance.
Before the complete Di2 overhaul, the Bamboo (I call it “Woody T. Bamboo”, although that’s a misnomer as bamboo is a reed, not a tree) was decked out with the SRAM Force group that came off of my more racing-centric Calfee Dragonfly when the carbon bike went full-Red. As a result, the Bamboo had been spec’d with Force shifters and front and rear derailleurs, a Red crank and bottom bracket and Zero Gravity brakes.
Yesterday my local shop, Piermont Bicycle Connection expertly converted Woody from the iron age into the electronic age with a complete overhaul. With the mix of Force and Red cranks/bb the bike weighed in (with pedals) at 16.6 pounds. Not the most svelte, but hey, it’s made from grass. After the install, the bike dropped weight and now hovers at around 16.33.
In the last few decades, I’ve put tens-of-thousands of miles onto Shimano, SRAM and (to a much lesser extent as I never got used to the paddles) Campy, and the last thirty miles of riding on Di2 have instantly become some of my favorite.
When I made the switch from Shimano to Force, I did so because I was impressed with the thoughtless simplicity of the system–a lever for shifting and a lever for braking. While Shimano’s dual-control lever was a stroke (ahem) of genius when it came out, I felt that the single-directional nature of Force served me better in high-speed situations. This is a feeling that many Campy users have expressed over the years.
That’s not to knock Shimano, it’s just a personal preference.
When Red came out I found that SRAM had, in just over a season, addressed the shifting speed and accuracy needs of Force riders and that the system marked a pinnacle in shifting. Shimano’s Dura Ace 7900 clearly caught up to the shifting prowess of Red, but at that point, I was too heavily invested.
Di2 is such a radical departure because it amplifies the technical precision of today’s shifting system by coupling it to a much more accurate tool, the stepper motor. By being able to exactly and precisely move the derailleur cage without the need of any external shift cable is going to make a vast difference in the experiences of the long-term user. I’m looking forward to countless miles without changing shift cables or watching my performance drop as gunk builds up in the housing.
This, I think has been overlooked in many of the reviews, with most people talking about the immediate performance of the group and not the long-term prognosis for perfect shifting.
The group is also revolutionary when it comes to front shifting–no matter how smooth a system is, being able to shift the front cage under load is something that can’t be overlooked, and the front performance is enough to warrant the Di2 upgrade. So too is the interaction between the front and the rear derailleur, which allows the two to move in tandem and eliminate chain rub when cross chaining.
Many have also commented that the shifting feels “telepathic,” but I think that’s a bit overblown. To be sure, it’s necessary to think about the shift, even more so since you can’t do a batch of shifts with a single throw as you can with mechanical systems. What I’ve felt instead is the effortlessness of the shifts. A simple flick of the finger (akin to moving through images on an iPhone) is enough to drop or raise a gear even under heavy load.
We’ll be evaluating the long-term durability of the components, riding them in a variety of East Coast fall and winter conditions.
Even in the first few miles, I have a few areas where I’d like to see additional tweaks. The most obvious would be to have a press-and-hold action on a shifter move the rear derailleur through the cassette as long as the button is being depressed. This seems like a simple electronic tweak that would eliminate the criticism that multiple presses are required for multiple shifts.
I’d also like to see some sort of user-based control of the shift buttons. There’s no real reason why one has to stick with the assigned “front is easier rear is harder” setup, and in fact, I find that I have to retrain my mind when switching from SRAM to Di2 as to which button does what. It’s led to a few awkward fumble-at-stoplight moments so far.
Additionally, I’d be thrilled to have a user-interface to look at shifting and performance information, letting me see how many shifts I get on a charge, what kind of shifts I perform and when, etc.
From an ergonomic point of view, I’d love to see a way to tweak the reach of the buttons and levers in the same way that the SRAM levers can be pulled back to the drops.
I’d be very surprised if we didn’t see an electronic system from SRAM at some point (replace the cable in the cam with a sensor and you could still use the DoubleTap shifting motion to shift the bike) and I’d be more surprised if we didn’t see 11-speed options in future electronic setups but not in the mechanical models. (What better way to ensure precise 11-speed chain drops than with a motor?)
In any case, over the next few months, we’ll be coming back to Di2 to see if the system continues to feel as revolutionary in long-term use as it does at first blush and to see if it holds up to the season-long performance of SRAM Red.
Also, see our previous coverage of di2.
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Cardone, Solomon & Associates Appoints Suchomel CTO
By SCN Staff (AV Network) 2016-02-24T11:56:00Z Business
Cardone, Solomon & Associates has appointed Greg Suchomel as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) effective January 4, 2016.
“Greg's vast experience in the world of Unified Communications educating End Users, Integrators and Consultants have earned him the accolades, trust, and respect of some of the most influential decision makers in our industry,” said John Cardone CS&A co-founding partner and principal. “His knowledge of Networked AV Systems is a great asset to the future of our company.”
Prior to joining the CS&A team, Suchomel was a field applications engineer with Symetrix, where he represented Symetrix products in North America including the Northeastern regions represented by CS&A.
Suchomel delivered technical certification training to Symetrix partners, and supported the Symetrix partner eco-system with both remote and on-site design, programming, and setup services.
Prior to Symetrix, Suchomel was a senior technical applications engineer at Polycom, a senior project engineer at Video Corporation of America, and a field applications engineer with ClearOne.
Suchomel has over 30 years of experience in the audiovisual industry. He brings a broad background in the technical aspects of the A/V Industry and specifically with conferencing technologies including TCP/IP networks, Acoustic Echo Cancellation and various UCC platforms to the CS&A team.
He was awarded CTS-D certification in 2000.
In his spare time, Suchomel is a certified high performance driving instructor with the National Auto Sport Association.
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Jodi Arias witness answers juror questions
After days questioning by defense and prosecuting attorneys, a psychologist testifying on behalf of Jodi Arias fielded questions from the jury Tuesday, expanding on what she deemed a "toxic" relationship between Arias and her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander.
Jodi Arias witness answers juror questions After days questioning by defense and prosecuting attorneys, a psychologist testifying on behalf of Jodi Arias fielded questions from the jury Tuesday, expanding on what she deemed a "toxic" relationship between Arias and her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/1CDnxN4
Megan Cassidy, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 7:11 p.m. MT Dec. 2, 2014 | Updated 9:47 a.m. MT Dec. 3, 2014
Jodi Arias looks straight ahead in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, during the sentencing retrial of Arias.(Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic)
The forum offered a window into the considerations of the panel, who will decide whether Arias will be sentenced to death or to life in prison for killing Alexander in 2008. One juror would be inexplicably dismissed before all the questions were fully answered.
Psychologist L.C. Miccio-Fonseca previously testified that Alexander had "closeted" Arias during much of their oversexed, on-again, off-again relationship, and that he used Arias solely for sexual gratification. Arias, she said, suffered in silence.
State prosecutor Juan Martinez used his cross-examination time to discredit Miccio-Fonseca from any available angle, at various points challenging her memory, objectivity and ethics. Martinez aimed to demonstrate that Arias was a willing participant in the relationship, at times introducing sexual proclivities of her own.
The jury seemed interested in the motives behind a rant Alexander unleashed on Arias via instant-messaging, in which Alexander called Arias a "solid form of evil." A juror also asked whether the dynamics between Alexander and Arias were similar to those in Alexander's previous relationships.
Miccio-Fonseca said she was unsure what triggered Alexander's harangue against Arias, or what "untruths" he was referring to in the exchange.
The psychologist said Alexander's previous relationships were not as "sexually charged" as was his with Arias.
Photos: Jodi Arias sentencing retrial
Jodi Arias (left) and her attornery, Jennifer Willmott, during sentencing, April 13, 2015, in Judge Sherry Stephens Maricopa County Superior Courtroom in Phoenix. Judge Stephens sentenced Arias to natural life in prison for the 2008 killing of her boyfriend, Travis Alexander. Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias was convicted in May 2013 of murdering her boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in his Mesa home. But two juries could not agree on whether she should get the death penalty. In April 2015, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens sentenced the killer to life in prison. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias makes her statement during sentencing, April 13, 2015, in Judge Sherry Stephens Maricopa County Superior Courtroom in Phoenix. Judge Stephens sentenced Arias to natural life in prison for the 2008 killing of her boyfriend, Travis Alexander. Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias during sentencing, April 13, 2015, in Judge Sherry Stephens Maricopa County Superior Courtroom in Phoenix. Judge Stephens sentenced Arias to natural life in prison for the 2008 killing of her boyfriend, Travis Alexander. Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic
Travis Alexander's sister, Tanisha Sorenson, leaves court after the judge declared a mistrial in the Jodi Arias sentencing trial in Phoenix on March 5, 2015. Michael Schennum/The Republic
Travis Alexander's sister, Tanisha Sorenson, leaves court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias hangs her head as the jury leaves the courtroom. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Travis Alexander's sister, Tanisha Sorenson, leaves court after the judge declared a mistrial on March 5, 2015. Michael Schennum/The Republic
Travis Alexander's sister, Tanisha Sorenson, leaves court. Michael Schennum/The Republic
Travis Alexander's sister, Tanisha Sorenson, leaves court, surrounded by media. Michael Schennum/The Republic
Travis Alexander's sister, Tanisha Sorenson (center), leaves court. Michael Schennum/The Republic
Jodi Arias reacts as she hears there is another hung jury on March 5, 2015, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias in court on March 5, 2015, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Tanisha Sorenson, sister of Travis Alexander, sobs in the courtroom on March 5, 2015, in Maricopa County Superior Court. in Phoenix. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Tanisha Sorenson, sister of Travis Alexander, sobs as she hears the judge announce a hung jury in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial on March 5, 2015. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias listens during the sentencing phase retrial on March 5, 2015, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks toward the jury entering the courtroom during the sentencing phase retrial, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks at her attorneys during the sentencing phase retrial, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez leaves a bench conference during the sentencing phase retrial, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi leaves a bench conference during the sentencing phase retrial, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks toward the gallery during the sentencing phase retrial, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens gives additional instructions to the jury during the sentencing phase retrial, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias (right) and her defense attorneys, Kirk Nurmi (left) and Jennifer Willmott, look toward the jury receiving instructions during the sentencing phase retrial, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks at the jury as Judge Sherry Stephens reads the jury instructions in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, after the conclusion of defense closing arguments in the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez leaves a bench conference after an objection in the defense closing arguments in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, in the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi gives closing arguments in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Arias was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens reads the jury instructions in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Wednesday, February 25, 2015, after the conclusion of defense closing arguments in the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Arias was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. The case is now in the hands of the jury. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias listens to closing arguments by defense attorney Kirk Nurmi during sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks at gallery in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Wednesday, February 25, 2015, during defense closing arguments in the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Arias was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez questions Dr. Janeen DeMarte (right) during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 4, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi reads a document during the sentencing phase of the Arias retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 4, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Dr. Janeen DeMarte testifies during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court, Phoenix on Feb. 4, 2015, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias enters the courtroom after a morning break during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 4, 2015, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias (right) looks on during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 4, 2015. At left is her defense attorneys, Kirk Nurmi and Jennifer Willmott. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 4, 2015, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Dr. Janeen DeMarte testifies during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court, Phoenix on Feb. 4, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez takes notes during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 4, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez questions Dr. DeMarte during Jodi Arias' sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 4, 2015. Looking on is Judge Sherry Stephens. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks toward her family during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 23, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorneys Kirk Nurmi (left) and Jennifer Willmott during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 23, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorney Jennifer Willmott during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 23, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens talks to the jury during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 23, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias answers a question from Judge Sherry Stephens during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 23, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez (center) and defense attorneys Kirk Nurmi (right) and Jennifer Willmott leave the bench after a conference with Judge Sherry Stephens (left) during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 23, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias stands as the jury leaves the courtroom during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 23, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias puts on her glasses in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias adjusts her glasses in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, during her sentencing retrial. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias is in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, during the her sentencing retrial. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens asks the jury if they have spoken to any member of the press as she presides over the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner testifies about credentials of Dr. Janeen DeMarte in the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias while being questioned by defense attorney Jennifer Willmott, Wednesday Feb. 18, 2015 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner testifies about credentials of Dr. Janeen DeMarte in the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias while being questioned by defense attorney Jennifer Willmott, Wednesday Feb. 18, 2015 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez leaves the bench after a conference in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks back at the gallery in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, during the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias defense attorney Jennifer Willmott hands testing document to Dr. Robert Geffner in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Wednesday, Feb. 18,2015. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias defense attorney Jennifer Willmott questions Dr. Robert Geffner in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Wednesday, Feb.18,2015. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez leaves a bench conference in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court, Phoenix on Feb. 18, 2015. Arias was convicted of killing Travis Alexander, but the jury could not decide between life in prison and the death penalty. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorneys Kirk Nurmi (left), Jennifer Willmott (center) and Jodi Arias listen during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 11, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Perry Smith, a Mesa Police Department forensics expert, testifies during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court, Phoenix on Feb. 11, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorney Jennifer Willmott questions Perry Smith, a Mesa Police Department forensics expert, during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 11, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias during her sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 11, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez leaves the bench after a conference with Judge Sherry Stephens (left) during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 11, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias leaves the courtroom during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 11, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias enters the courtroom duringher sentencing retrialat MaricopaCounty Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 5, 2015. Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic
Dr. Janeen DeMarte testifies during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court, Phoenix on Feb. 5, 2015. Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi questions Dr. DeMarte during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 5, 2015. Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias (right) and her defense attorney, Jennifer Willmott during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 5, 2015. Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens (left) listens to defense attorney Kirk Nurmi (right) question Dr. Janeen DeMarte during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 5, 2015. Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez (center) and defense attorney Kirk Nurmi (right) leave the bench after a conference with Judge Sherry Stephens (left) during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 5, 2015. Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 5, 2015. Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorneys Kirk Nurmi (left) and Jennifer Willmott (center) and Jodi Arias listen duringher sentencing retrial at Maricopa CountySuperior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 3, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom during her sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 3, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias (right) and her defense attorney, Jennifer Willmott stand as the jury enters the courtroom during her sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 3, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez questions Dr. Janeen DeMarte during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 3, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi (right) question Bishop Vernon Parker during the Jodi Arias sentencing phase retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 2, 2015. Looking on from the bench is Judge Sherry Stephens. Mark Henle/The Republic
Bishop Vernon Parker testifies during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court, Phoenix on Feb.2, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 2, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi (left) question Bishop Vernon Parker during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 2, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorney Jennifer Willmott (left) and Jodi Arias listen during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 2, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens (left) listens to defense attorney Kirk Nurmi (right) question Bishop Vernon Parker during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 2, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez (front) and defense attorney Kirk Nurmi during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 2, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorneys Kirk Nurmi (left) and Jennifer Willmott talk during the Arias sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Feb. 2, 2015, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Vernon Parker, Travis Alexander's bishop, testifies during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court, Phoenix on Feb. 2, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense Jennifer Willmott (left) questions Deanna Reid during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 28, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorney Jennifer Willmott questions Deanna Reid during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 28, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias gets a drink while her defense attorney, Kirk Nurmi (left) reaches for papers during her sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 28, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi listens during her sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 28, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez (front) listens while defense Jennifer Willmott questions Deanna Reid during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 28, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorneys Kirk Nurmi (left) and Jennifer Willmott (center) and Jodi Arias listen during her sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 28, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez with an audio CD during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 28, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom during her sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 28, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias during her sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 26, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez questions Dr. Robert Geffner during the sentencing retrial of Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 26, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorney Jennifer Willmott (left) talks with prosecutor Juan Martinez during the Arizona sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 26, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez (left) questions Dr. Robert Geffner during the Arias sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 26, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner testifies during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court, Phoenix on Jan. 26, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens (left) listens as prosecutor Juan Martinez (right) questions Dr. Robert Geffner during the Arias sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 26, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorneys Kirk Nurmi (left) and Jennifer Willmott (center) and Jodi Arias listen during Arias' sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 26, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorneys Jennifer Willmott (center) and Kirk Nurmi (left) and Jodi Arias listen during Arias' sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 26, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 22, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner testifies during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 22, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez (left) questions Dr. Robert Geffner during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 22, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens listens during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 22, 2015. Psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner was testifying on the stand. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias (right) and her defense attorneys Kirk Nurmi (lcenter) and Jennifer Willmott (left) listen during Arias' sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 22, 2015. Psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner was testifying on the stand. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorneys Kirk Nurmi (center) and Jennifer Willmott (left) and Jodi Arias listen during Arias'sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 22, 2015. Psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner was testifying on the stand. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias during her sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015. Michael Schennum / The Republic
Jodi Arias' defense attorney, Jennifer Willmott, during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015. Michael Schennum / The Republic
Jodi Arias during her sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015. Michael Schennum/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez leaves the bench after a conference in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner testifies about text messages between Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander while being questioned by defense attorney Jennifer Willmott during the sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens presides over the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias defense attorney Kirk Nurmi wipes his eyes while listening to objections from prosecutor Juan Martinez in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner listens to objections from prosecutor Juan Martinez during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias defense attorney Jennifer Willmott cracks a rare smile during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Jan.20, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez, left, and Jodi Arias defense attorneys Jennifer Willmott and Kirk Nurmi leave a 74 minute bench conference during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias waits for a 74-minute bench conference to end during the sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks toward the jury in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015, during her sentencing retrial. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias appears in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, January 12, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez questions Esteban Flores of the Mesa Police Department in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, during the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias defense attorney Jennifer Willmott, left, questions Esteban Flores of the Mesa Police Department in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias appears in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias' defense attorneys Jennifer Willmott, left, and Kirk Nurmi, appear in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez appears in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Jennifer Willmott questions Esteban Flores of the Mesa Police Department in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Jan.12, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks up in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks at the jury in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks at jury in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens presides in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias defense attorneys Kirk Nurmi, left, and Jennifer Willmott, along with Jodi Arias, right, listen to prosecutor Juan Martinez cross examine Esteban Flores of the Mesa Police Department in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks around after prosecutor Juan Martinez argued that the dealth penalty should remain a possible punishment after defense attorney Kirk Nurmi argued that the death penalty should be eliminated as a potential punishment for Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi argues that the death penalty should be eliminated as a potential punishment for Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks at her attorney Jennifer Willmott as Juan Martinez argues that the death penalty should remain a possible punishment after defense attorney Kirk Nurmi argued that the death penalty should be eliminated as a potential punishment for Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez argues that the dealth penalty should remain a possible punishment after defense attorney Kirk Nurmi argued that the death penalty should be eliminated as a potential punishment for Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015, during the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Arias was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens listens as defense attorney Kirk Nurmi argues the death penalty should be eliminated as a potential punishment for Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias listens to prosecutor Juan Martinez argue the dealth penalty should remain a possible punishment after defense attorney Kirk Nurmi argued the death penalty should be eliminated as a potential punishment for Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias during her sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Jan. 5, 2015. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks toward the jury in court during her sentencing retrial, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Jennifer Willmott questions psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias listens to witness Dr. Robert Geffner in court during the her sentencing retrial, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner testifies about journal entries made by Jodi Arias while being questioned by defense attorney Jennifer Willmott during the sentencing retrial, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens listens to defense witness Dr. Robert Geffner during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias takes a drink in court during the her sentencing retrial, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi, left, and Jodi Arias listen to defense witness Dr. Robert Geffner during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez leaves a bench conference during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens speaks to defense attorney Jennifer Willmott in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014, during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens listens to defense attorney Jennifer Willmott during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Jennifer Willmott questions psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner, a witness for the defense duringJodi Arias' sentencing trialat Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez (front left) looks on as Defense Attorneys Jennifer Willmott and Kirk Nurmi confer in front of Judge Sherry Stephens following a side bar duringJodi Arias' sentencing trialat MaricopaCounty Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Mesa Police Department Case Agent Esteban Flores (left) confers with Robert Shutts, a Maricopa County deputy attorney during the sentencing phase of Jodi Arias' trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Defense attorney Jennifer Willmott hands a document to psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner, a witness for the defense during the sentencing phase of Jodi Arias' trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner points to a screen while testifying for the defense during the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias (right) and her defense team Kirk Nurmi and Jennifer Willmott stand for the jury during the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks back at the gallery during the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks on during the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner, a witness for the defense looks on as a photograph of Jodi Arias and a former boyfriend, Bobby Juarez, who Geffner testified was abusive to Arias, during the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks on as the jury enters the courtroom during the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias yawns during the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner speaks to the jury about psychological testing done on Jodi Arias while she was in custody. Geffner is being questioned by defense attorney Jennifer Willmott, right, during the sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez, right, speaks to Judge Sherry Stephens as psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner waits to continue his testimony about psychological testing done on Jodi Arias while she was in custody. Geffner is being questioned by defense attorney Jennifer Willmott during the sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez, left, speaks to Judge Sherry Stephens as defense attorney Kirk Nurmi, right, looks on during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez leaves a bench conference with Judge Sherry Stephens as psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner waits to continue his testimony about psychological testing done on Jodi Arias while she was in custody. Geffner is being questioned by defense attorney Jennifer Willmott during the sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi looks at prosecutor Juan Martinez during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi, left, and Jodi Arias look at the jury during the sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Jennifer Willmott questions psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias stands in court during the her sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi stands in court during the her sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner speaks to the jury about psychological testing done on Jodi Arias while she was in custody. Geffner is being questioned by defense attorney Jennifer Willmott during the sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Psychologist Dr. Robert Geffner testifies about psychological testing done on Jodi Arias while she was in custody. Geffner is being questioned by defense attorney Jennifer Willmott during the sentencing retrial, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens listens to prosecutor Juan Martinez during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014 in Maricopa County Superior Court. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Jennifer Willmott, left, questions Dr. Robert Geffner about psychological tests given to Jodi Arias. The testimony is part of the sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix , Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Dr. Robert Geffner testifies about psychological tests given to Jodi Arias . The testimony is part of the sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix , Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi , left, and Jodi Arias, listen to testimony from Dr. Robert Geffner in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks at jury in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias listens to testimony from Dr. Robert Geffner in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks around in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Jennifer Willmott, right, questions Dr. Robert Geffner about psychological tests given to Jodi Arias. The testimony is part of the sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix , Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez leaves the bench after a conference in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens looks at psychological test results on a screen in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014, during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Mesa Police Department Case Agent Esteban Flores (right) whispers in the ear of Robert Shutts, a Maricopa County deputy attorney, during an evidentiary hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle ofJodi Arias' sentencing trialat MaricopaCounty Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Gilbert McReynolds, a criminal investigator with the Maricopa County Office of the Legal Defender Investigations Unit, testifies during an evidentiary hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle ofJodi Arias' sentencing trialat MaricopaCounty Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Defense attorney Jennifer Willmott looks at her notel pad during an evidentiary hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle ofJodi Arias' sentencing trialat Maricopa CountySuperior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks on during an evidentiary hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle ofJodi Arias' sentencing trialat MaricopaCounty Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks on during an evidentiary hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle ofJodi Arias' sentencing trialat Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez cross examines fomer Jodi Arias attorney Maria Shaffer (not pictured) during an evidentiary hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle of Jodi Arias' sentencing trialat Maricopa CountySuperior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi points to the prosecution during during an evidentiary hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle ofJodi Arias' sentencing trialat Maricopa CountySuperior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Former Jodi Arias attorney Maria Shaffer is cross-examined by the prosecution during an evidentiary hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle of Jodi Arias' sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens talks to (from left) Prosecutor Juan Martinez and defense attorneys Jennifer Willmott and Kirk Nurmi, during an evidentiary hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle of Jodi Arias' sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez looks at a hard drive that was brought into evidence during a hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle of the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez cuts open an envelope containing a hard drive that was brought into evidence as Bryan Neumeister, (left) a computer expert witness for the defense, during a hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle of Arias' sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez (left) hands a hard drive that was brought into evidence, to Bryan Neumeister, a computer expert witness for the defense, during a hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle of Jodi Arias' sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, December 4, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Bryan Neumeister, a computer expert witness for the defense, is cross examined during a hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle of Arias' sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks on during a hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle of Arias' sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks on next to her attorney, Jennifer Willmott, during a hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle of the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks on with her attorneys during a hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle of Arias' sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez cross examines Bryan Neumeister, (not pictured) a computer expert witness for the defense, during a hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle of Jodi Arias' sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez (right) hands a hard drive that was brought into evidence, to Bryan Neumeister, a computer expert witness for the defense, during a hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle of Arias' sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez cross examines Bryan Neumeister, (not pictured) a computer expert witness for the defense, during a hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle of the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Bryan Neumeister, a computer expert witness for the defense, is cross examined by Prosecutor Juan Martinez during a hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle of the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens fans herself with a stack of papers during a hearing regarding allegations of child porn on Travis Alexander's computer in the middle of the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca testifies about instant chats and emails between Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014 during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks straight ahead in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi questions Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca about instant chats and emails between Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens speaks to jury in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez leaves the bench after a discussion about instant chats between Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014 during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
So, the "secret witness" in the Jodi Arias sentencing trial was: Jodi Arias? For nearly a month, the news media, led by The Arizona Republic and 12 News, have been fighting in the appeals court system to overturn an unusual decision. The judge cleared the courtroom so an unidentified witness could testify anonymously in Arias' penalty phase trial. Photo by: Tom Tingle/The Republic
Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca answers a question while being cross-examined by Prosecutor Juan Martinez in the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Jodi Arias wathces testimony during her sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday November 25, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Evidence projected on a screen of a chat between Jodi Arias and her boyfriend, Travis Alexander, during her sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday November 25, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez cross-examins Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca (left) while judge Sherry Stephens watches in the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday November 25, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Jodi Arias watches a screen as testimony is re-played during her sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday November 25, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks back during her sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Testimony is re-played on a screen in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez cross-examins Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca in the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi re-directs Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez cross examins Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca in the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Defense attorneys Kirk Nurmi listens to prosecutor Juan Martinez cross examine during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday Nov. 25, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens watches Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca during cross examination by defense attorney Juan Martinez during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Tuesday Nov. 25, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca explains her answer to the jury while she is cross-examined by prosecutor Juan Martinez during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca is handed Jodi Arias' journal by prosecutor Juan Martinez during cross examination in the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez cross-examines Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca (not pictured) during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca answers to the jury about child porn allegations while she is cross-examined by prosecutor Juan Martinez during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca holds Jodi Arias' journal during cross examination by prosecutor Juan Martinez in the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks back towards the camera during her sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens looks at witness Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca as she is cross-examined by prosecutor Juan Martinez during the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Michael Chow/The Republic
Forensic computer expert Bryan Neumeister testifies about finding porn on the computer of Travis Alexander in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Friday, Nov. 21, 2014 during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attornies Kirk Nurmi, left, and Jennifer Willmott, listen to prosecutor Juan Martinez cross examine defense witness, computer expert Bryan Neumeister, as defendant Jodi Arias, right, sits in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Friday, Nov. 21, 2014 during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez hammers home a point during cross examination of defense witness and computer expert Bryan Neumeister in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. Neumeister says that porn was found on the computer hard drive owned by Travis Alexander. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens looks at prosecutor Juan Martinez as he cross examines computer expert Bryan Neumeister about porn found on computer hard drive of Travis Alexander's computer. The Jodi Arias sentencing retrial continued Friday in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Nov. 21, 2014. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca testifies about instant chats between Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks at her attorney, Jennifer Willmott, left, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks around in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias defense attorney Kirk Nurmi asks a question of Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca as she testifies in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens looks at defense attorney Kirk Nurmi as he questions Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca about instant chats between Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenixin the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens speaks to defense attorney Kirk Nurmi in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Nov. 17, 2014. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias defense attorney Kirk Nurmi, left, asks a question of Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca as she testifies in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Nov.17, 2014 during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca looks at the jury as she testifies in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Nov. 17, 2014 during the sentencing retrial of Arias. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias (right) talks to Jennifer Willmott, one of her attorneys, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Monday during the sentencing retrial. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez, defense attorneys Jennifer Willmott and Kirk Nurmi, break from a sidebar with Judge Sherry Stephens during Arias' sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Defense attorney Jennifer Willmott (left) and Jodi Arias listen to testimony as an image of Arias and Travis Alexander appears on a monitor in front of them during the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez looks at jury during a sidebar with Judge Sherry Stephens (background) during Jodi Arias' sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens looks on following a sidebar as Prosecutor Juan Martinez walks back to his desk during Arias' sentencing phase at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias (right) talks to Jennifer Willmott, one of her attorneys, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Monday during Arias' sentencing retrial. David Wallace/The Republic
Witness for the defense, Dr. Miccio Fonseca, a clinical psychologist, reads an email from Travis Alexander, during Arias' sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias and her attorney, Jennifer Willmott at the start of court on Thursday, during Arias' sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Nov. 13, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens keeps a watchful eye as defense attorney Kirk Nurmi examines Dr. Miccio Fonseca, (not pictured) a clinical psychologist, a witness for the defense during the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi talks to fellow defense attorney Jennifer Willmott (center) and Jodi Arias as Nurmi examines Dr. Miccio Fonseca, (not pictured) a clinical psychologist, a witness for the defense during the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Dr. Miccio Fonseca, a clinical psychologist, a witness for the defense, looks at a document handed to her by defense attorney, Kirk Nurmi, during the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
The Jodi Arias sentencing trial reconvened Wednesday in Maricopa County Superior Court. But with Monday's allegations of prosecutorial misconduct and an ongoing battle over the media's access to the trial, no one was certain how much will be held out of the public's view in the coming days. Photo by: David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias in court Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014, as Dr. Miccio Fonseca, a clinical psychologist and witness for the defense, testifies during the sentencing of the Arias trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. David Wallace/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens listens as defense attorney Kirk Nurmi (not pictured) discusses motions during the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias as Dr. Miccio Fonseca, a clinical psychologist, a witness for the defense testifies during the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias watches as Dr. Miccio Fonseca, a clinical psychologist, a witness for the defense testifies during the sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Dr. Miccio Fonseca, a clinical psychologist, a witness for the defense talks to the jury during the sentencing of the Jodi Arias trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi (hands, at left) examines witness, Dr. Miccio Fonseca, (not pictured) a clinical psychologist, about the Mormon baptism photo of Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander (seen on monitor) during the the Arias sentencing trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi listens as Prosecutor Juan Martinez counters motions made by the defense during the sentencing of the Jodi Arias trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks on as her attorney Kirk Nurmi (not pictured) discusses motions during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks at her attorney, Jennifer Willmott, as her other attorney Kirk Nurmi (not pictured) discusses motions during the sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks at jury entering courtroom Monday during her sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Nov. 3, 2014. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias (right) stands next to her attorney Jennifer Willmott (left) as the jury enters the courtroom during her sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Nov. 3, 2014. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks at jury entering courtroom Monday during the sentencing phase of her retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Nov. 3, 2014. The lawyers come back Tuesday at 1:30. The jury is off until 10:30 Wednesday. Mark Henle/The Republic
Media attorney David Bodney (left) argues before Judge Maurice Portley (center) and Judge Patricia A. Orozco, Nov. 3, 2014, during the Jodi Arias hearing in the Arizona Court of Appeals. Mark Henle/The Republic
Media attorneys David Bodney (right) and Chris Moeser listen, Nov. 3, 2014, during the Jodi Arias hearing in the Arizona Court of Appeals. Mark Henle/The Republic
Judge Maurice Portley (center) asks defense attorney Kirk Nurmi (left) a question, Nov. 3, 2014, during the Jodi Arias hearing in the Arizona Court of Appeals. Looking on is Judge Patricia A. Orozco. Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense attorneys Kirk Nurmi (left) argues before Judge Maurice Portley (center) and Judge Patricia A. Orozco, November 3, 2014, during the Jodi Arias hearing in the Arizona Court of Appeals. Mark Henle/The Republic
A three-judge panel of the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled in favor ofThe Arizona Republic,12 News, and other media outlets to keep a Maricopa County Superior Court judge from closing the court during testimony in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial, at least for now. The panel granted a stay to the media, which means that Judge Sherry Stephens cannot exclude the public and the media from testimony until the Court of Appeals rules on a special action filed by the media. A special action is an expedited appeal. Photo by: Mark Henle/The Republic
Defense Attorney Kirk Nurmi watches as attorney Chris Moeser representing media outlets argues Judge Sherry Stephens ruling that the courtroom must be cleared of everyone except for the victims and defendants' families for the next witnesses testimony during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, October 30, 2014. Stephens said the next witness was crucial to the sentencing trial and they wouldn't take the stand if it were public. Arias was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens rules that the courtroom must be cleared of everyone except for the victims and defendants' families for the next witnesses testimony during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Thursday, October 30, 2014. Stephens said the next witness was crucial to the sentencing trial and they wouldn't take the stand if it were public. Arias was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias attorneys Kirk Nurmi and Jennifer Willmott converse on Thursday, Oct. 30. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias peers out while consulting with her defense team on Thursday, Oct. 30. David Wallace/The Republic
A photograph of Travis Alexander appears on a monitor before Jodi Arias attorney Kirk Nurmi on Thursday, Oct. 30. David Wallace/The Republic
Travis Alexander's brother, Steven, shows anger while reading a statement to the jury during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial on Thursday, Oct. 30. David Wallace/The Republic
Agonizing emotion at the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial as Travis Alexander's sister Tanisha talks about how her brother's murder ruined her life. David Wallace/The Republic
Travis Alexander's sister Tanisha Sorenson reads a statement to the jury during the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial on Thursday, Oct. 30. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks on at the start of her sentencing retrial on Thursday, Oct. 30. David Wallace/The Republic
Mesa Police Department Case Agent Esteban Flores steps down as a witness during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Defense Attorney Kirk Nurmi (left) re-cross examines Mesa Police Department Case Agent Esteban Flores during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez during re-direct of Mesa Police Department Case Agent Esteban Flores (left) during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens talks to Prosecutor Juan Martinez (just right of Judge) and defense attorneys Jennifer Willmott and Kirk Nurmi as witness Mesa Police Department Case Agent Esteban Flores (left) looks on during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
A family member of Travis Alexander wears a blue bracelet that reads "Justice 4 Travis Alexander" as he listens during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez (left) hands a document to Mesa Police Department Case Agent Esteban Flores during re-direct during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez during re-direct of Mesa Police Department Case Agent Esteban Flores during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias' mother, Sandra Arias, looks on during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias writes in a notebook during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Mesa Police Department Case Agent Esteban Flores testifies during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias (center right) stands next to her attorney Jennifer Willmott (left) as the jury enters the courtroom after the lunch recess during the sentencing phase of her retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez listens to an audio recording of Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander having phone sex during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens talks to Prosecutor Juan Martinez (left) and defense attorneys Jennifer Willmott and Kirk Nurmi during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Mesa Police Department Case Agent Esteban Flores listens to a sexually explicit audio recording between Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander as it is played during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
A sexually explicit audio recording between Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander is played during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias (right) stands next to her attorney Jennifer Willmott just before the jury enters the courtroom after a brief recess during the sentencing phase of her retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias (right) sits next to her attorney Jennifer Willmott during the sentencing phase of her retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Defense Attorney Kirk Nurmi during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez looks on during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias talks to her attorney Jennifer Willmott during the sentencing phase of her retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks on during the sentencing phase of her at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. David Wallace/The Republic
A police interrogation video of Jodi Arias is shown in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014 during the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias looks down in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014 during the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez leaves a bench conference in Maricopa County Superior Court as Judge Sherry Stephens presides in Phoenix, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. This is the second week in the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jennifer Willmott, defense attorney for Jodi Arias, speaks with fellow attorney Kirk Nurmi in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, during the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez, left, questions Mesa Police Department case agent Esteban Flores about the diary of Jodi Arias Monday in the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez holds up the diary of Jodi Arias Monday in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias, right, speaks to her defense attorney, Jennifer Willmott, left, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, during the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens looks at prosecutor Juan Martinez in court in Phoenix, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, as the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias retrial continues. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorneys Kirk Nurmi, left, and Jennifer Willmott , sit at the defense table with Jodi Arias, right, as they listen to prosecutor Juan Martinez question Mesa Police Department case agent Esteban Flores in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, during the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias watches the jury enter the courtroom in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, during the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias, right, stands next to her defense attorney, Jennifer Willmott, left, watching the jury enter the courtroom in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, during the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi pauses while asking questions of Mesa Police Department witness Esteban Flores in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Former Yreka police officer Kevin Friedman testifies in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, during the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias, right, speaks to her defense attorney, Jennifer Willmott, left, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, during the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias, right, looks at her defense attorney, Jennifer Willmott, left, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, during the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez speaks to Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens in Phoenix, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, during a bench conference in the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias, right, looks toward the gallery as her defense attorney, Jennifer Willmott, sits left, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, during the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez, left, and defense attorneys Jennifer Willmott and Kirk Nurmi, right, speak to Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens in Phoenix, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, during a bench conference in the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Mesa Police Department case agent Esteban Flores testifies Thursday in the sentencing phase retrial of Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias, right, look at her defense attorney, Jennifer Willmott, left, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, during the sentencing phase retrial of Arias. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens is presiding over the case. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez looks at a photo of the contents of a suitcase found in the trunk of a car in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in the Maricopa County Superior Court room of Judge Sherry Stephens in Phoenix, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
An x-ray of Travis Alexander's skull is used in the Maricopa County Superior Court room of Judge Sherry Stephens in Phoenix, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, as the penalty phase retrial continues. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens ,left, listens to prosecutor Juan Martinez, second from left, and defense attorneys Jennifer Willmott and Kirk Nurmi during the second day of the sentencing phase retrial in the Maricopa County Superior Courtin Phoenix, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias listens in the Maricopa County Superior Court room of Judge Sherry Stephens in Phoenix, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, as the penalty phase retrial continues. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Maricopa County forensic pathologist Kevin Horn testifies about autopsy photos of Travis Alexander in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias speaks to defense attorney Jennifer Willmott in the Maricopa County Superior Court room of Judge Sherry Stephens in Phoenix, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, as the penalty phase retrial continues. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez returns from the bench in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in the Maricopa County Superior Court room of Judge Sherry Stephens in Phoenix, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias speaks to defense attorney Jennifer Willmott in the Maricopa County Superior Court room of Judge Sherry Stephens in Phoenix, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, as the penalty phase retrial continues. Arias was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens presides in Phoenix, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, as the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias retrial continues. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
First witness Michael Melendez of the Mesa Police Department holds the camera discovered in the washing machine at the home of Travis Alexander that contained photos of Travis Alexander and Jodi Arias . His testimony came on the first day of the Jodi Arias sentencing phase retrial in the Maricopa County Superior Court room of Judge Sherry Stephens in Phoenix, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Prosecutor Juan Martinez makes his opening statement in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in the Maricopa County Superior Court room of Judge Sherry Stephens in Phoenix, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi makes his opening statement in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial in the Maricopa County Superior Court room of Judge Sherry Stephens in Phoenix, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of former boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury hung on the penalty phase, life in prison or the death sentence. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias sits in the Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Oct. 21, 2014. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens reads instructions to the jury on Oct. 21, 2014. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias sits in the Maricopa County Superior Court room of Judge Sherry Stephens in Phoenix on Oct. 21, 2014, as the opening statements in her penalty phase retrial begins. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias (right) speaks to her defense attorney Jennifer Wilmott during a hearing Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his Mesa home in June 2008. The jury in the first trial was unable to come to a unanimous verdict as to whether or not Arias should be sentenced to life in prison or the death penalty. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Judge Sherry Stephens listens to arguments from defense attorney Kirk Nurmi during a hearing Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, for Jodi Arias in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Attorney David Bodney argued on behalf of local television stations to allow videotaped proceedings one half hour after the conclusion of each day's trial in the penalty-phase retrial. Photo by: Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias, right, speaks to her defense attorneys during a hearing Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his Mesa home in June 2008. The jury in the first trial was unable to come to a unanimous verdict as to whether or not Arias should be sentenced to life in prison or the death penalty. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Jodi Arias defense attorney Kirk Nurmi sits down after arguing during a hearing Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix over allowing stations to air videotaped proceedings of the penalty -phase retrial. Tom Tingle/The Republic
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Black carbon in Delhi air is 5 times more than in US, Europe: Study
By Team Azhimukham on July 14, 2018
London (IANS): If you live in Delhi and commute to work by car, you are up to five times more likely to be exposed to the deadly black carbon than those living in Europe or North America, say researchers.
Increased exposure to black carbon can lead to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and even birth defects.
Various researches have shown that the rapid growth in the number of on-road vehicles in Asia has increased human exposure to particulate matter (PM), a hazardous component of air pollution.
“There is compelling evidence that people travelling in urban areas in Asian cities are being exposed to a significantly higher level of air pollution,” said lead author Prashant Kumar, professor at UK’s University of Surrey.
The study, published by the Atmospheric Environment journal, analysed exposure to and concentration of particulate matter components, including fine particles (PM2.5), black carbon produced by carbon-rich fuels such as gasoline and diesel, and ultrafine particles (UFP) small enough to travel deep into lungs.
The researchers analysed how Asians, including Indians, are more exposed to the particulate matter components than those living in Europe and the US. The activities included walking, driving, cycling, motorbike riding and bus rides.
The findings showed that on-road vehicles in Beijing increased from 1.5 million in 2000 to more than five million in 2014. The number in Delhi is expected to increase from 4.7 million in 2010 to 25.6 million by 2030.
As a result, car drivers in Asia are exposed to up to nine times more pollution than Europeans and Americans, while black carbon levels were seven times higher for Asian pedestrians than Americans.
Pedestrians walking along busy roadsides in Asian cities are exposed to up to 1.6 times higher fine particle levels than people in European and American cities, the study noted.
According to a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) data, 14 Indian cities are among the 15 most polluted cities in the world, with New Delhi coming at the sixth spot. About 88 per cent of premature deaths in low and middle-income countries in Asia can be attributed to air pollution, WHO said.
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Home Boxing News Canelo Alvarez Floyd Mayweather trashes Canelo’s $365 million deal with DAZN
Floyd Mayweather trashes Canelo’s $365 million deal with DAZN
Earlier this week, it was announced that Mexican boxing star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez had signed a history-making $365 million deal with the sports streaming service DAZN. This deal, which spans 10 fights and 5 years, is one of the most lucrative in sports history, no matter how you swing it. Apparently, however, it’s still not enough to impress Mr. Moneybags himself, Floyd Mayweather.
Floyd Mayweather shared his thoughts on Canelo’s new deal in an Instagram post on Thursday afternoon.
#TBT It didn’t matter if Canelo ate his PED steak or not this night, this was by far the easiest fight of my career! Connor McQuitter was a way better fighter than Canelo's cheating ass and I beat the brakes off him too! It takes me 36 mins or less to make $300 million plus. It literally takes me 1 night and 1 fight to make what you might make in 5 years and 11 fights! So really, who's still winning? You do the math!
A post shared by Floyd Mayweather (@floydmayweather) on Oct 18, 2018 at 11:25am PDT
“It didn’t matter if Canelo ate his PED steak or not this night, this was by far the easiest fight of my career,” Mayweather said, reminiscing on his 2013 win over Canelo, which is the only loss on the Mexican star’s record. “Connor McQuitter was a way better fighter than Canelo’s cheating ass and I beat the brakes off him too! It takes me 36 mins or less to make $300 million plus. It literally takes me 1 night and 1 fight to make what you might make in 5 years and 11 fights! So really, who’s still winning? You do the math!”
While Floyd Mayweather isn’t impressed with Canelo’s new deal with DAZN, Canelo himself seems quite excited about it.
“This is only from my hard work,” Canelo told ESPN of this record-breaking contract. The most important thing to me was being able to give the fans the opportunity to see me fight without having to pay the $70 or $80 for my fights on pay-per-view. That was the most important thing, more important than what I am making.”
What do you think of Floyd Mayweather’s comments to Canelo Alvarez?
This article first appeared on BJPENN.COM on 10/19/2018.
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Death of an Angel
by Sherrie Gore
I grabbed the plate with one hand, the dishtowel in the other. Resentfully, I ran the damp towel over the slippery, white plate, half-conscious of the late new blaring in the next room.
"The manager of a Mr. Quick convenient store was fatally wounded in an attempted armed robbery around 8:00 tonight." Like in the movies, the plate slid from my hand, floating toward the floor. The crash reverberating in my ears, I watched the pieces bounce up only to clatter into smaller and smaller pieces as they hit the floor. With robot-like movements I got my purse, feeling for the cold metal of my car keys. My mind was racing. 'Mike's the only manager that works at night. Did he say fatal? Maybe it was a Seven-Eleven, not a Mr. Quik. Maybe it was the cook, not the manager.'
The car complained with groans and sputters from being awakened and put into gear before it had time to warm up. Thank God after years, driving becomes a mechanical response.
Mike and I had co-managed a store when I worked for Mr. Quik. All the fighting over differences of opinion had served to strengthen the blond between us. He always referred to me as his "better half," but he was by far the better of the two. He was a good man. He went out of his way for his fellow man. Like the time J.C. was six dollars short of the amount of his purchase. Mike told him just to bring it by when he had the extra money, and Mike put the six dollars in the register from his own pocket. J.C. never had "extra" money and Mike knew that.
I could see the lights from the store now. There was Mike's orange and white GTO. And I could see Reese, the supervisor, and all these people standing around like a bad spirit had cast a spell on them, filling their limbs with sand so they could barely move.
Stumbling from the car, I shoved my way through the crowd, calling Mike's name, praying that I would hear that funny "Bay St. Louis" accent saying "Hey Sher, what's up." But the voice never came. The shocked response on the faces of the people I pasted while calling his name knotted my stomach like a vice squeezing my insides dry. "No, it couldn't have been Mike," I though, "why would God be so cruel as to take away my best friend?"
Went I reached Jerry, I saw his lips form the words, "It was Mike." I never actually heard the words. What I did hear was the gravel, making grating sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard as my feet slid out from under me. I saw the ground getting closer. A horrible scream pierced the hushed voices; everyone looked at me. Was that my voice which sounded like a banshee in the night, out of control and mourning?
I saw Mother kneel beside me, or was I dreaming, she was fuzzy and hazy. She knew Mike and I were close friends. I heard voices in the distance; she was speaking with someone. Someone took my
arm and with cold fingers pushed up my sleeve. I felt a small prick, but no pain, as I became aware that the man who held my arm so tenderly was a paramedic.
It seemed like an eternity later my senses dulled even more. I could feel nothing but my eyelids struggling against the weight. Everything was growing gray, like the dusk moving in on me; then black. I felt peacefully silly. How long since I had slept. It felt like days. I was slipping down, down into the darkness. Was I dying too? I hoped so. Maybe I would see Mike there.
I wrote this in January 1979 as an assignment for an ENG 101 class in college.. It took me almost three years before I could put it on paper. Michael Alexander Romanoff was shot and killed in an attempted-armed robbery on May 29, 1976. He was only 22 years young. Several months later, Charles Sylvester Bell was arrested for the murder of Danny Montgomery, the owner of another convenient store. Bell was convicted and sentenced to death in Montgomery's death, and was sentenced to life in prison for Mike's murder. As far as I know, Bell still resides on death row in Parchman Penitentiary in Mississippi. Two of my children bear Mike's name in his memory - my son, Jeremy Michael, and my daughter Alexandria Kristine.
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Nintendo profit tops estimates on strong online game sales
Wed, Aug 01, 2018 - 5:50 AM
NINTENDO Co posted quarterly profit that topped estimates, as higher software sales online made up for weaker shipments of the Switch console.
Operating profit was 30.5 billion yen (S$372 million) in the June quarter, compared with analysts' average projection for 25.6 billion yen. Revenue was 168 billion yen, short of the average projection for 186.9 billion. The company maintained its full-year forecasts for profit, hardware and software sales.
The strong results are the latest twist for Nintendo, which has gone from one of Japan's hottest stocks to a target for short-sellers - wiping out all its gains in the past year. But with Switch software and hardware shipments holding up, it gives new president Shuntaro Furukawa the chance to focus on the launch of its highly anticipated online game service in September.
"The market is pricing an earnings decline from here on, but the only way that happens is if the Switch starts to decline sharply and it never sees growth again," said Atul Goyal, an analyst at Jefferies Group.
SEE ALSO: Nintendo announces smaller, cheaper new Switch console
Nintendo sold 18 million Switch titles, up from 8.1 million last year, as more people downloaded games from the company's more profitable online store. Switch owners on average each bought 0.9 titles during the quarter, down from 1.7 titles last year. It sold 1.9 million Switch hardware units in the June quarter, slightly less than the two million seen in the same period a year earlier.
Nintendo sold 1.4 million Labo units during the quarter, meaning just 7 per cent of Switch owners bought the new cardboard products.
Revenue from smartphone games was 9.1 billion yen in the quarter, unchanged from a year earlier. The company has yet to provide details or a release date for its mobile racing game Mario Kart Tour, which was announced in February. BLOOMBERG
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'Undecided' About What?
By Peter Funt
Now that the political conventions have finished cementing allegiance among party faithful, the focus shifts to the most misguided group in presidential politics: "undecideds."
Each quadrennial we are reminded that these voters, along with their partners in delusion, "independents," will determine the outcome. While that is statistically correct, it is intellectually absurd.
Until the day comes when the nation has more than two viable political organizations, elections must, regrettably, remain about choosing parties, not candidates ---- particularly on the presidential level.
If one party controls Congress and the other the White House, as we have today, government becomes almost entirely dysfunctional. A Supreme Court nominee can't even get a hearing because of intra-party warfare. If, on the other hand, a party controls both branches, actual progress becomes possible, as happened with the landmark Affordable Care Act.
Speaking of the Supreme Court, the task of filling its vacancies alone is enough to make presidential voting along party lines essential and the notion of "picking the best person for the job" pure fantasy. Yet, a staggering 40-plus percent of voters tell pollsters they are independent.
In fact, according to research at Michigan State University as reported in The Nation magazine, those who identify as independents today are more stable in their support for one or the other party than were "strong partisans" back in the 1970s. Moreover, Dan Hopkins, a professor of government at the University of Pennsylvania, notes that "independents who lean toward the Democrats are less likely to back GOP candidates than are weak Democrats."
The meaningful work in choosing among candidates takes place during the primaries. Democrats were given a real choice between a daring progressive and a more cautious centrist. Undecided Democrats could have had an understandably difficult time choosing between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
Republicans had even more soul searching to do, faced with the arch conservative views of Ted Cruz, the center-leaning values of John Kasich, and the trust-me based bravado of Donald Trump.
But that's all been decided. Now we have one Republican and one Democrat vying for the right to place their party's imprint on the Court, the tax code, the military and the nation's social structure. Party politics are so clear and powerful that Paul Ryan backs Trump, Liz Warren backs Clinton and the actress Sarah Silverman points out that to do anything else is "ridiculous."
One of the more interesting convention speeches was delivered to Democrats by Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and a billionaire businessman. Bloomberg's experience in government came at the city level, where party politics are less important and where voters are, indeed, wise to select the best individual for the job ---- such as New York'sJohn Lindsay, who was elected as a Republican, re-elected on the Liberal Party ticket, and then became a Democrat.
Bloomberg did a masterful job of attacking Trump but preceded it with a statement that was bizarrely naive. "When I enter the voting booth each time," he said, "I look at the candidate, not the party label. I have supported elected officials from both sides of the aisle."
I doubt even Michael Bloomberg believes it. I think he plays that card to enhance his role as a power broker between both parties.
Yet, 2016 is unique in modern presidential politics because there is, for the first time, a legitimate basis for Republicans to rebel. Has the GOP gone so far off the rails in nominating an unqualified candidate that common sense might prevail above party politics?
What's a sincere Republican voter to do? Stay home? Cast a vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson, who has no chance of winning? Or pick Hillary Clinton and, in doing so, commit the nation to at least four years of a liberal agenda?
If nothing else, Donald Trump has given undecideds something to be truly undecided about.
Peter Funt can be reached at www.CandidCamera.com
Peter Funt is a writer and speaker. His book, "Cautiously Optimistic," is available at Amazon.com and CandidCamera.com. © 2016 Peter Funt. Columns distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons, Inc., newspaper syndicate.
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Urban Flood Resilience - Property Flood Resilience Database (Innovate - UK Funded)
The urban flood resilience project through dataset integration (UFR) has further developed the Property Flood Resilience Database (PFR-d) that has been created by BRE, AXA and Lexis Nexis. The PFR-d allows insurers to identify where property owners have taken measures to assess and manage their flood risk. The UFR project integrates further publicly available flood data, including local authority flood information, water/flood infrastructure asset datasets and satellite datasets that show previous flooding. The extended PFR-d also contains a PFR-score linked to a surveyor app to quantify the risk reduction from property flood resilience measures taken. The client base for the extended PFR-d will be insurers, but also urban local authorities. The PFR-d will have added functionality and will allow bespoke integration of datasets for cities and groups of local authorities. The project has involved the creation of training courses and a certification scheme for PFR-surveyors, who will use the PFR-app to upload resilience data to the PFR-d.
Flood Resilient Repair Demonstration
The BRE Centre for Resilience created a demonstration home as part of the BRE Innovation Park at Watford which has been adapted to be resistant and resilient to flooding. It is designed to keep water out, but if it does get it in it is designed to manage water removal, dry out quickly and be suitable to move back into in a very short time after a flood incident. Further information is available from: https://www.bre.co.uk/floodhouse
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The Building Research Establishment (BRE), was commissioned to conduct this research project on behalf of the Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) of the Committee on Climate Change. The aim of this research is to help to better understand the costs, benefits, drivers and barriers (real and perceived) that designers and builders associate with making buildings fit for the future climate. The research paid particular attention to the management of the risks of, and resilience to, flooding (river and coastal) and overheating as these are both risks that must be managed today and are likely to be exacerbated due to climate change in the future. The final report can be accessed here.
2014 – BRE, Garvin, S. - White paper: A future flood resilient built environment
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This year’s Haskell Invitational is shaping up to be a thriller: Maximum Security (who was famously DQ’d from winning this year’s Kentucky Derby) will likely face Preakness Stakes runner-up Everfast, King for a Day (who recently beat Maximum Security in the Pegasus Stakes), Affirmed Stakes winner Mucho Gusto, and others. The Haskell going to be a nail-biter from start to finish.
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Game Winner Rises into Top 10, While Stablemate McKinzie Maintains Lead in Latest Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings
Gary and Mary West’s 2018 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Game Winner rose to No. 8 in the latest Breeders’ Cup Classic Rankings following his commanding five-length victory in Saturday’s Los Alamitos Derby (G3).
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Suburban Winner Preservationist Zooms to No. 3 in Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings; McKinzie Stays on Top
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Belgium Deploying Troops To Guard Against Terrorism At Civilian Sites
On January 17, Belgium announced it would be deploying soldiers to guard “vulnerable sites in its two largest cities” following the terror attacks in Paris, the terror threat faced by Belgium itself, and the heightened terror alert across Europe.
Defense ministry spokesman Tony Langone said this marks the first time “since the mid-1980s… that the government is using its military to help guard civilian sites in its cities.”
According to Fox News, the troops will be deployed to guard “strategic and vulnerable places.” These include foreign embassies “and institutions of the Jewish community.” Deployment for these purposes will center on Antwerp and Brussels.
However, Prime Minister Charles Michel said some troops could be deployed to other places–“including the eastern city of Verviers, where police killed two men and arrested several others in an antiterrorism raid on [January 14].” Those killed and arrested were reportedly “on the verge” of carrying out attacks against the police.
BBC reports that police seized “guns, munitions and explosives, as well as police uniforms and a large amount of money” during the January 14 raid. Prosecutors charged five people with “participating in the activities of a terrorist group” on January 15.
Over “20 [individuals] have been arrested in Belgium, France, and Germany” since the Paris attacks.
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In this episode of Africa in Transition, John Campbell speaks with Richard Moncrieff and EJ Hogendoorn of the International Crisis Group. The podcast addresses some of the many political and security…
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Michael Fullilove and Robin Niblett join CFR's James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon in examining how America's allies view the Trump presidency.
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Turmoil in Venezuela, With Shannon K. O’Neil
Shannon K. O'Neil, vice president, deputy director of studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America Studies at CFR, discusses the recent uprisings in Venezuela with James …
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The White House deals with the aftermath of the meeting between Presidents Donald J. Trump and Vladimir Putin, two trade summits kick off in Latin America, and Xi Jinping travels to Africa on his way…
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Shannon K. O'Neil, vice president, deputy director of studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America Studies at CFR, discusses the situation in Venezuela, and what the futu…
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Chalfont ear wax removal
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BIHIMA Round Table Event Focused on Connection Between Hearing Loss and Dementia
Published on April 1, 2019 by The hearing review
A cross-sector summit was held last month, bringing together experts to discuss the connection between hearing loss as a risk factor in developing dementia, as well as highlighting the preventative role of hearing technology. The round table event was convened by the British and Irish Hearing Instrument Manufacturers Association (BIHIMA) on February 28, 2019 at the Royal College of General Practitioners in London, BIHIMA announced.
A series of podcasts of the event’s discussion has been created in order to spread greater understanding, available for download here.
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The event united audiologists, research scientists, and representatives from the media and charity sectors, to share knowledge and develop strategies to get the crucial message out into the public arena, so the proven link between the two conditions is taken seriously by individuals and policymakers.
There is growing evidence of the connection between the two conditions, including a Lancet study which showed that midlife hearing loss may account for up to 9.1% of preventable dementia cases worldwide and is a modifiable risk factor in developing the condition1. Dr Sergi Costafreda Gonzalez, co-author of the study, attended the Round Table.
There is less research, however, into the mitigating benefits of hearing aids. A University of Manchester study2 showed the rate of age-related cognitive decline is 75% less following the adoption of hearing devices. Co-author of this study, Dr Asri Maharani, shared details of these findings on the day. Further studies are now underway but this remains an undeveloped area, and so last month’s forum called publicly for further trials.
The panel also called on policymakers to make this area a funding priority. As new data emerges which proves the impact of hearing aids in preventing dementia, this will provide greater economic argument for making hearing technology more available to those at risk of cognitive decline.
“The better we understand cognitive decline and why hearing aid use helps, the better we can design intervention,” said Dr Helene Amieva, author of the 25-year study, “Death, Depression, Disability, and Dementia Associated with Self-reported Hearing Problems.”3
The panel also strongly recommended a cross-sector approach, whereby hearing loss is understood as part of a wider discussion which links with both neuroscience and social issues around isolation and wellbeing in the aging population.
“Dementia is a condition which affects 47 million people globally and is fast becoming a social care crisis. There is no time to waste in understanding the role of hearing technology which could stem the tide of the disease, and in educating people about looking after both their hearing and cognitive health,” said the BIHIMA Chairman, Paul Surridge.
BIHIMA PANEL ATTENDEES:
Paul Surridge, BIHIMA Chairman
Helene Amieva, PhD, author of: “Death, Depression, Disability, and Dementia Associated with Self-reported Hearing Problems: A 25-Year Study,” Inserm, University of Bordeaux
Dr Sergi Costafreda Gonzalez, co-author of the study: “Dementia prevention, intervention and care,” The Lancet, University College London
Tony Gunnell, audiologist (BIHIMA representative)
Peter Kunzmann, head of research and policy, Action on Hearing Loss
Brian Lamb, associate of The Ear Foundation and chair of the Hearing Loss and Deafness Alliance and the Action Group on Adult Cochlear Implantation
Dr Asri Maharani, co-author of the study: ‘Longitudinal Relationship Between Hearing Aid Use and Cognitive Function in Older Americans’, University of Manchester
Source: BIHIMA, The Lancet, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, The Journals of Gerontology
Livingston G, Sommerlad A, Orgeta V, et al. Dementia prevention, intervention, and care. The Lancet. 2017;390(10113):P2673-2734.
Maharani A, Dawes P, Nazroo J, Tampubolon G, Pendleton N. Longitudinal relationship between hearing aid use and cognitive function in older Americans. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2018;66(6):1130-1136.
Amieva H, Ouvrard C, Meillon C, Rullier L, Dartigues J-F. Death, depression, disability, and dementia associated with self-reported hearing problems: A 25-year study. The Journals of Gerontology. 2018;73(10):1383-1389.
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Stop Lyndhurst High School From Eliminating Sign Language
Save American Sign Language at Lyndhurst High School started this petition to Lyndhurst New Jersey Board of Education
Due to the resignation of the High School's American Sign Language (ASL) teacher, Lyndhurst (NJ) High School (LHS) has decided to remove the offering of ASL and instead replace it with Italian.
We believe that this action is completely unfair to the students, and we ask that the LHS Board of Education reinstate ASL as a foreign language option for the upcoming 2016-2017 school year.
It is undeniable that a large majority of the ASL students this past year not only enjoyed the course, but believed that it's education and social value makes it a hugely worthwhile offering. There are many stories of students that had no interest in traditional foreign languages (like Spanish or Italian) but completely immersed themselves in ASL. For these many students, this change is a heartbreaking and disappointing action.
Practically speaking, this also causes a substantial dilemma for the college-bound students in LHS. Most colleges now require a minimum of 2 consecutive years of a foreign language for admission. This means that students that completed ASL this past year now have to take 2 more years of a different foreign language to meet this college requirement. And it means that the one completed year of ASL is practically useless on their High School transcript. In all fairness to these students, as a bare minimum LHS should offer ASL 2 this upcoming year so that these students can continue to build their knowledge of this very important language, and at the same time complete a college requirement in a subject that they enjoy and believe in.
We are asking that Lyndhurst Board of Education reinstate ASL for the 2016-2017 school year to allow these students to complete their college requirement and the become proficient at this very important language skill.
Lyndhurst New Jersey Board of Education: Stop Lyndhurst High School From Eliminating Sign Language
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Vote Leave campaign referred to police for breaking electoral law
Report by the Electoral Commission says the official Brexit campaign exceeded its legal spending limit by almost £500,000.
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Revealed: Trump’s election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians
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An Editorial Review of “Deadly Addiction” by Kristine Cayne
Author(s): Kristine Cayne
Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Steamy Six Alarm, Suspense, Thriller/Suspense
Publisher: Kristine Cayne (2012)
Deadly Addiction captures the devastating effects of poverty and substance abuse on a First Nations community while portraying the love affair of one tribal member determined to help his people.
Tribal cop Rémi Whitedeer, last seen as a supporting character in Deadly Obsession (Book 1), takes center stage in this romantic suspense tale set on the fictional Blackriver First Nation Reserve near Montréal.
Since the tribal police force’s disbandment for corruption, Rémi has been supporting himself as a counselor and first responder, but he sees little reward, particularly in the constant battle against drug and alcohol abuse. An even bigger threat to the Iroquois community is the conflict between the tribe’s traditionalists—the militant Guardians and the moderate Defenders—which quickly blows up when the provincial police department hires Sergeant Alyssa Morgan to head a task force to determine the best method of policing the reserve.
Her appealing blond looks belying a soul hardened by her last undercover assignment, Alyssa attracts both suspicion and lust from various male tribal members. But no one more so than Rémi, whose inability to keep his distance from the beautiful outsider earns him derision from detractors already scornful of his mixed racial heritage. When the two are partnered on the task force, their mutual attraction mirrors a shared hatred for drug dealers.
However, before the inevitable showdown between the factions comes to pass, Rémi and Alyssa each must come to terms with life changing choices.
As Rémi and Alyssa delve deeper into the vortex of drugs and corruption—and into their inflamed passions, rendered hot and sexy—the reader immerses deeper into life on the rez and the conflict between maintaining tradition and surviving in the modern world.
As brutally violent as it is flirtatious, this novel offers readers a realistic glimpse of contemporary life on a First Nations reserve. The story is populated by wonderfully realized characters.
Deadly Addiction was awarded first place in the Romantic Suspense category in Chanticleer Book Reviews’ 2012 INDIE Awards. It is the second installment in Cayne’s steamy and suspenseful Deadly Vices series.
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Students question Catholic school's emphasis on Christmas
Kyle Perisic Contributor at Daily Caller @KylePerisic on Dec 07, 2017 at 4:35 PM EDT
Some students are complaining that Loyola University Chicago puts a greater emphasis on Christmas than on other religious holidays, such as Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
Whereas 60 percent of the 2016 freshman class identifies as Roman Catholic, with the other 40% split among all other religious affiliations, the student paper asserts that just 5% of all students are Muslim.
Students at a major Catholic university are upset at the school’s emphasis on Christmas, saying they wish other religious holidays would receive equal attention on campus.
At Loyola University Chicago, Muslim students told The Loyola Phoenix that they wish Muslim holidays would receive the same attention as Christian holidays, despite Muslims accounting for less than five percent of the student population.
"Making Loyola’s Eid as festive as possible would be great so that [Muslim students] can feel connected with their heritage and with their religion."
[RELATED: Universities strive for 'Christmas'-free campuses]
In fact, Catholics comprise 60 percent of the 2016 freshman class, though the school does not specify the number of students who are Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, or other Christian denominations, merely noting that 40 percent have a religious affiliation other than Catholic.
According to the Phoenix, there are approximately 800 Muslim students at the university, which accounts for less than five percent of the university’s 16,673 students.
[RELATED: No ‘religious icons’ during Christmas, colleges tell students]
Sajid Ahmed, prayer coordinator for the Muslim Student Association (MSA), told the Phoenix that Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday celebrating the end of Ramadan, is “a bit dampened” at Loyola.
“At home it’d be a big family thing, dress up and go to the mosque. We’d spend the day together and celebrate…compared to that, college Eid has been less,” Ahmed said.
Noting that “the atmosphere [in Muslim based countries] is a lot different than [in the United States]” because Muslim countries celebrate Eid the way Americans celebrate Christmas, Ahmed expressed longing for the university to make Eid festivities more prominent “so that [Muslim students] can feel connected with their heritage and with their religion.”
[RELATED: Students sign petition to ban Christmas]
However, Bryan Goodwin, associate director of the student complex, noted that Loyola already takes steps to make its festivities more inclusive, such as displaying banners that say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas,” and expressed willingness to recognize any religious holiday upon request.
“We feel that we do a good job at the student center of allowing other faiths to [join the holiday season],” Goodwin told the Phoenix. “We pride ourselves on wanting to make sure we’re aware. We always lend ourselves the conversation.”
Campus Reform reached out to the university additional information on the topic, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
Follow the author of this article on Twitter: @KylePerisic
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Kyle Perisic is a Contributor to the Daily Caller. Prior to this role, he was a Leadership Institute intern, reporting on liberal bias and abuse for Campus Reform. He graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
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Students call free speech 'violent' while disrupting lecture
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Canon’s EOS-1D X Mark II equivalent mirrorless is coming sooner than originally thought [CR1]
EOS Bodies
5DSR
3kramd5 said:
All adapters will affect the mounting of a lens on one body relative to how it would mount to another.
Most combinations will be acceptable for photography. Those which are not are outliers. That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if the current eos r cameras have AFMA but that it’s not user accessible. View attachment 185243
The x-axis is in standard deviations from the mean. I'll take a bet that the Canon standard deviations are much less than the Chinese knock-offs and most will be within spec. But some of those knock offs that are not even outliers will cause problems. There was post that 20µ difference could be noticeable but I am not going to hunt through the posts for it.
3kramd5
AlanF said:
I’d bet it’s measureable. Noticeable becomes a qualitative assessment.
sdz
Architect1776 said:
I just hope Canon doesn't rush out a half baked idea that was put out just to say they have one. I would rather see a later truly pro camera that puts the competition back to the stone age as the EOS system did 30+ years ago. It has taken this long for the competition to catch up to the EOS and now an incremental lame introduction just is not going to impress. It must be hyper fast, full frame 8K at 120p with no crop or line skipping as Nikon and Sony do to make the FF claim. In other words skip the lame 4K, that train has left the station, move on to a blow them away 8K that is not dumbed down and the still frame rate is second to none by a good margin. No rolling shutter issues either. Minimum stills at 50 MP for this camera and DR at 25 stops. Canon has all these capabilities now they just refuse to incorporate them into their regular camera lines {emphasis added}.
Canon may not have the technology needed to accomplish these goals. If they do not have it, then they are not refusing to provide it. They cannot provide it.
At this point Canon cannot just equal the competition. It must excel and beat the competition demonstrably. Otherwise they are just playing catch-up and the next sonikon will just leave it in the dust playing perpetual catch-up.
Canon-centric sites often label the competition as Sonikon. Sony-centric sites often label it as Canikon. What do nikon-centric sites call it? Canny? Sonon? Sonosonic? Either way it’s dumb. Stop.
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I did not in that post claim anything about the adapter mount, so I don't know why you brought it up.
A tilt induced by an adapter will affect the phase detect AF, and would require AFMA even for mirrorless (contrast-based AF is relatively less affected).
Pick one.
I just pointed out that AFMA can be required to correct for tilt etc of the lens relative to the on-sensor AF.
No, you did not say "can be required". You said "would require". Such a claim needs the numbers to defend.
If you want me to say something about an adapter, I will do. It's not a question about being "essentially the same stuff", it's the standard problem of propagation of error when combining more than one component: if there is an error of tilt angle of the lens flange of e1 and that of the adapter front surface of e2 and of the rear surface e3, then the errors will sum as e(total) = sqrt(e1^2 + e2^2 + e3^2). On average, the overall tilt angle increases as more components are added, and in some rarer cases there will be compensation.
And what is the threshold value for e(total) where AFMA starts to be required for DPAF, and to which tilt angle value does it correspond?
Inabilitiy to keep the whole flat chart in focus by a tilted lens has nothing to do with autofocus and cannot be fixed with AFMA.
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Why, does it hurt your feelings?
Woody said:
Sony's A9 was released in 2017 and it set a very very very high bar.
I am curious how Canon's 1RX is going to measure up.
It will be interesting. They cannot measure up but must substantially exceed as Sony has rhe MII version ready to go so canon is obliged to exceed that as well.
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EOS 5Ds R II
Perhaps he is anti Dr. Seuss and doesn't like made up nonsense words.
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I have looked at the industrial products. But these sensors need not provide a platform for a consumer/professional camera. A camera would have ergonomic requirements that industrial imagers would not have. Cooling would also be easier to control on an industrial camera than it would on DSLR/ML cameras.
Canon, sadly, lags behind Sony in sensor development. Canon News has this evaluation of the situation:
The author also felt that Canon was “holding back” that they should have simply put better technology into their cameras. While it would be wonderful if Canon had the best technology in the business, the current state is that they are behind. Their sensor readout speeds are slower, and their processors are struggling with the increased workload that mirrorless demands. My belief is that we will see Canon move forward, possibly quickly, however, it will be most likely based upon when they have faster DIGIC processors available to work with. Not to mention new sensor designs such as stacked sensors.
amorse
I don't know, I think Canon is going to release something they think is competitive for the expected potential buyers and may not concern themselves on whether or not it meets/exceeds some/all of the a9II's specifications.
Different users have different needs, and for many users the specs race which is so frequently touted on forums and blogs is largely irrelevant. The bottom line is the mirrorless 1Dx equivalent camera probably doesn't need to beat the a9ii in specs, it just needs to convince current 1Dxii users that it will get the job done with the same reliability that the 1Dxii had. Make no mistake, that's not a small feat. Just because one body has better performance on paper doesn't mean people will transition in droves or else we'd already have seen people give up on the 1Dxii a long time ago. As with all things though, time will tell!
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Sony’s specs have exceeded Canon’s for years...over which time Sony failed to capture ILC market share from Canon. But hey, maybe the next time Newton lets an apple go, it will float up.
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Kit. said:
I am interested in the general theory about on-sensor AFMA and its limitations, and how it will affect my photography. Here are some good articles of how PDAF actually works and on-sensor limitations: http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/understanding.autofocus/ and https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/101335/does-on-sensor-phase-detection-autofocus-need-adjustment-for-accuracy
PD uses phases from opposite sides of the lens, and these may be affected by aberrations of the lens and differences in path length because of mechanical errors. On-sensor PDAF requires contrast detection or its equivalent for final accuracy: PD instructs the direction of movement focus of the lens, CD or (Canon's DP equivalent) then nails the focus. In the absence of CD, on-sensor PD is more accurate than DSLR PD, but the errors are reduced and may not necessarily be eliminated.
Read this to see how AFMA can still be necessary if you are not convinced: https://eduardolibby.com/2018/12/22/nikons-z7-requires-af-fine-tuning/ ("The claims that on-sensor phase-detection autofocus sensors in Nikon’s Z7 does away with autofocus fine-tuning are wrong. I had to use AF Fine Tuning to get my lenses to focus properly.")
No, why would it?
It just makes everyone look like idiots.
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M3 Singlestroke
Maybe I'm being naive, but I believe what really matters for a body in the EOS 1 category, is less to "beat" Sony in specs, but in reliability and professionality (handling, menu, colors,sealing).
High fps. and AF are of course not to be neglected, and I'm quite confident, Canon will once again succeed! (Or, is there any more reliable camera than the EOS 1?, certainly not from ...)
jonebize
ozturert said:
If I buy a tough body like 1DX, I want it to work under every condition. An adapter is a liability. You won't understand this if you don't push your kit to its limits.
You're talking for shooting sports? I'd be curious to hear what it's like to push it to the limits.
I’m going to stop referring to the ILC market, and instead use the term, CaNikoSonOlySonic.
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Hallvardk
I've shot professionally with 1DX2 for the last 3 years, making a living shooting action sports in the Arctic; both photo and video. I also own Canon cinema gear and quite some lenses.
Adapters: Hate 'em, but will use them if absolutely needed. I'd pay another $1-2 if it would mean that I got rid of it. If something breaks on a shoot you need a replacement, which is expensive and not always easy to find. I'm hesitant to carry 3-4-5 adapters to fit all lenses.
For a 1DX3, mirrorless or not, it would first of all be as good as the mark 2, but then add something that would make it financially reasonable to buy it for. 10 bit 422 internal, 8K external, log, double battery life, 40 MP. Something in that range. I don't care about 5 more MP or 2 fps more, and I don't think any other pro does either. The camera needs to bring in jobs or take over for other existing gear to make sense.
Canon are workhorses. Yes, reliability is the main point with the 1D line to me and many of my colleagues, and I don't really care what Sony is doing until they fix sealing, battery stuff and the good ol' ergonomics.
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Jasonmc89 said:
(Not that I’ll ever, ever, in a millions years, be able to afford it)
But in the past Sony did not have much if any glass that was competitive with Canon, that is changing. The G Masters are really nice lenses. I still do not see most Canon users jumping ship. But the ones that do are enjoying the benefits that Sony already brought to market. That is more fun than coming to CR daily hoping the next release will be the one they have been waiting for. They must have the technology, but I see the problem with Canon is too many lines have power over one another. Every camera seems to be limited in some way. Most are awesome, but missing something that is available in another line. Unless they revamp the entire way to do their business, we will see more of the same. Luckily the lenses don't work that way.
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Celebrating Sabbatical Scheme success
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Sabbatical Scheme Manager, Lowri Davies
Cardiff University’s School of Welsh welcomed Sabbatical Scheme for Welsh Language Training participants to the annual awards presentation on Thursday 13 October 2016.
Held at the University’s Aberdare Hall, Ian Gwyn Hughes, Head of Public Affairs at the Football Association of Wales, acted as the evening’s host.
More than 50 practitioners were in attendance and the evening was an opportunity to celebrate their success and present the 2015-16 with their certificates of achievement.
The Sabbatical Scheme for Welsh Language Training offers language courses for primary and secondary school teachers, classroom assistants and lecturers in the English and Welsh sectors. The aim of the courses, which are funded by Welsh Government, is to increase the supply of practitioners who can teach through the medium of Welsh or bilingually. The courses also provide an opportunity for continual specialist professional development in the field of education.
Lowri Davies, the Sabbatical Scheme’s Manager in Cardiff, said: “The awards evening is always such a wonderful occasion, an opportunity to acknowledge the achievements of the practitioners and giving them the chance to come together and socialise through the medium of Welsh. I always feel a tremendous sense of pride to hear the practitioners speaking Welsh with such confidence.”
The Sabbatical Scheme courses are available at several language levels in locations across Wales. Cardiff University’s School of Welsh is responsible for providing courses in Mid-South Wales and South East Wales. Courses are offered at beginner, entry and upper levels with classes. The courses are free and the Welsh Government covers supply costs for releasing teachers, assistants and lecturers so that they can develop their language skills.
For more information about the Sabbatical Scheme, please contact Cadi Thomas.
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Hakubo Anime Film's New Trailer Streamed
posted on 2019-06-17 03:24 EDT by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Yutaka Yamamoto 's new film opens in Japan on June 21
The official YouTube channel for director Yutaka Yamamoto 's original anime project Hakubo (Twilight) began streaming the film's trailer on Monday.
The film open in Japan on June 21.
The anime was previously slated for 2018 before being delayed to 2019. The anime was most recently slated to open at Porepore Cinemas Iwaki Onahama in Fukushima prefecture on May 24, then screen elsewhere in Fukushima before getting the larger countrywide release. The anime will now just open countrywide in Japan on on June 21. The official website stated the new schedule was so the staff could produce a higher-quality product.
Yamamoto (also known as Yamakan) himself is credited with the original work, script, direction, and sound direction. Sunao Chikaoka ( Wake Up, Girls! ) is designing the characters and is also the chief animation director. Merrill Macnaut is the art director, Fuyuto Muraguchi is handling the color design, and Yō Yamada ( Black Bullet ) is in charge of sound production. Sōhei Kano ( Fractale ) is composing the music. Twilight Studio is in charge of animation. Azuma Hitomi is performing the film's theme song "Tooku" (Far).
The cast includes Hiyori Sakurada , Seishirō Katō , Hiro Shimono , Ayane Sakura , Kana Hanazawa , Kaori Fukuhara , Sumi Shimamoto , and Sora Amamiya .
Yamamoto is planning the anime as the last of his self-described "Tōhoku trilogy" set in Japan's Tōhoku region in the northeast. Hakubo in particular follows youths living in "the now and present" in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. (The previous two Tōhoku projects, blossom and Wake Up, Girls! , were set in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture and Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, respectively.)
Yamamoto has vowed to leave the anime industry after finishing the film.
Source: Hakubo film's YouTube channel
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Man Utd injury news: Jose Mourinho in line to get boost for Chelsea clash
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Ron Carne
It doesn’t get much more difficult for Man Utd after the international break than an immediate encounter with in-form Chelsea.
The Red Devils take on the Blues on October 20 hoping to build on their win over Newcastle United last weekend, while Maurizio Sarri’s side sit joint top of the Premier League table after a fine start to the campaign.
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Still unbeaten, Chelsea have won six of their first eight games to set the pace alongside Man City and Liverpool, although it remains to be seen how they fare in their first major test in the league against Mourinho’s side at Stamford Bridge.
In contrast, it’s been a difficult start for the Portuguese tactician as his side continue to languish in eighth place in the standings, but he could be handed a boost on the injury front with the Evening Standard reporting that Jesse Lingard could be back after suffering a groin issue last month.
Having sat out since, coupled with the time over the international break, it is suggested that it could be enough for him to recover and feature with a string of crucial fixtures coming up for Man Utd, not least the double header against Juventus in the Champions League.
With that in mind, Mourinho will be desperate to have as close to a fully-fit squad at his disposal to compete on various fronts and so having Lingard back will give them a boost in the final third.
The 25-year-old hasn’t quite got going so far this season, registering just one assist in six games. However, as he showed last year with 13 goals and seven assists in 48 outings, when he has a run of games and is fully fit, he can be a decisive figure in United’s attack.
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Minnesota Lynx vs. Chicago Sky: How to watch the WNBA on CBS Sports Network
The Lynx and Sky will meet for the second time this season
by Jack Maloney
@jackmaloneycbs
Jul 10, 2019 at 4:42 pm ET • 2 min read
Back in May, the Minnesota Lynx and Chicago Sky met in what was the season opener for both teams. The Lynx cruised to a comfortable 18-point win on that night, and will look to do the same on Wednesday night in Chicago.
Minnesota enters the game at 8-6 on the season, which has them in fourth place, but just a game and a half out of first. Like just about every team in the WNBA, the Lynx have been up and down at times this season, but are currently on a two-game winning streak and have won four of their last five outings.
As for the Sky, they've just only returned to winning ways, thanks to a victory over the Dallas Wings on the weekend. That win snapped a four-game losing streak and brought the Sky back to .500 at 7-7. That mark has them in fifth place, just behind the Lynx, who they'll meet on Wednesday.
How to watch Minnesota Lynx at Chicago Sky
Date: Wednesday, July 10
Time: 9 p.m. ET
Location: Wintrust Arena -- Chicago, Illinois
TV: CBS Sports Network (Channel Finder)
Streaming: Online here with authentication, or through the CBS Sports app
Live stats: GameTracker
Lynx: Minnesota has been one of the biggest surprises of an interesting WNBA season. For so long, their success revolved around their so-called "Core Four" of Maya Moore, Lindsay Whalen, Seimone Augustus and Rebekkah Brunson. None of those four have played this season, and yet they're still right at the top of the standings with an 8-6 record. Odyssey Sims has put together an All-Star campaign in her first season with the club, and Sylvia Fowles has continued to be her dominant self down low. Around those two, Cheryl Reeve has put together a deep roster and built one of the best defenses in the league. That allows them to compete every single night even if their inconsistent offense is struggling.
Sky: This is the Sky's 14th season in the WNBA, and to this point they've never made the playoffs without Elena Delle Donne on the roster. That could change this season under first-year head coach James Wade. Chicago has been inconsistent at times -- it seems every team in the WNBA is struggling with that problem -- and already have four-game winning and losing streaks. But through it all they remain at .500, and though they sit in eighth place, they're just two games back of first in the crowded standings. The biggest thing to watch for the Sky moving forward is if they can get their offense going. That was supposed to be a strength of this team, but thus far they've struggled on that end.
Game prediction, pick
These two teams are fairly evenly matched, but the Sky have been one of the best home teams in the league this season, racking up a 5-2 record. That's thanks in large part to their defense, which has been much better at Wintrust Arena. The Lynx, meanwhile, have been inconsistent on the offensive end all season long. I'll take the Sky to defend home court.
Pick: Sky 79, Lynx 72
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Target to pay a $7.4 Million Fine for Illegally Depositing E-Waste inside Trash
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Target has been illegally depositing hazardous e-waste and other sensitive waste and medical materials in the trash for four years.
The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has confirmed that target was slapped with a $7.4 million fine by California for breaking the state’s laws on e-waste recycling and depositing 2,038 pieces of hazardous waste into the trash from 2012 to 2016.
California’s 2003 Electronic Waste Recycling Act, created different regulations and infrastructures for recycling e-waste within the state, it also mandates businesses to dispose all their hazardous e-wastes, comprising of LCD TVs and laptops, computers and other florescent cathode ray tube powered devices, including miscellaneous electronic devices like circuit boards and batteries. However, the office of the district attorney has released a press statement to the effect that those were not the only items illegally deposited in the trash by Target.
The press release states “The waste included items such as electronics, batteries, aerosol cans, compact fluorescent light bulbs, and medical waste including syringes, over-the-counter and prescribed pharmaceuticals, as well as confidential medical information from its customers.”
Last year, Target racked in close to $72 billion in revenues, so there’s no way the company is going bankrupt from paying a $7.4 million fine. Note however that, this is the second time Target is been fined for depositing e-waste in the trash. Target paid a $ 22.5 million fine in 2011 and also agreed to ensure that their employees are trained in disposal and management of hazardous waste.
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What you need to know before Tuesday’s runoff elections
Sean Keenan - November 30, 2018
Georgia's runoff election is on Tuesday, December 4. Up for the taking is Georgia's secretary of state position—between Republican candidate Brad Raffensperger and Democratic candidate John Barrow—and Georgia's third district seat public service commissioner position—between Republican candidate Chuck Eaton and Democratic candidate Lindy Miller.
How election night 2018 unfolded in Atlanta and Athens
Sean Keenan, Mary Margaret Stewart, Thomas Wheatley and Jewel Wicker - November 7, 2018
Dispatches from the election night parties—Stacey Abrams at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Brian Kemp at the Classic Center in Athens, and Ted Metz at Mellow Mushroom Buckhead—plus a look inside Manuel's Tavern, where election night is the political bar's "Super Bowl."
[Updated] Who won? Runoff? What’s going on with the Georgia governor’s race.
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Neither Brian Kemp nor Stacey Abrams have officially won the Georgia gubernatorial election, so what happens now? Are we going into a runoff? What are the campaigns saying? Here's a breakdown of the situation.
Vote! Everything you need to know on Election Day 2018 in Atlanta
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Where do I go to vote? Where do I find results? How do I get to the polls? Where are the candidate parties? This Georgia election is an important one—don't miss out.
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Inside the Middle Georgia Regional Airport hangar in Macon on Sunday, Donald Trump endorsed Brian Kemp and encouraged Republican supporters to vote. Outside in the overflow lot, there was a bit of excitement from counterprotesters and poor PA system.
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Do you have a plan yet for how you're getting to the polls on Tuesday, November 6? Multiple companies and services are offering discounted or even free transportation to the polls on Election Day—here are the options we found.
Former President Obama’s message to Georgia was simple: “Vote!”
During a rally for Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on Friday, former President Barack Obama played all of his fans' favorite hits. When someone in the crowd shouted "Obama, I love you," he replied, "I love you back." He said, "Don't boo, vote," his oft-repeated phrase from 2016, multiple times during his hour-long speech at Morehouse College.
Commentary: Why Oprah’s appearances with Stacey Abrams resonated so loudly—especially with Georgia women
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Publications as geographically and ideologically diverse as the Guardian, Fox News, Variety, the Hill, and others ran stories or segments about Oprah Winfrey’s campaign appearances with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Yet regardless of the depth of coverage, the two events held in auditoriums in the Atlanta suburbs likely impacted the local crowds in a much deeper way than what could be conveyed to national viewers.
The complicated business of running for governor when you’re the state’s elections chief
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Georgia’s Amendment 1 might finally be something voters can agree on
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Protecting Georgia’s natural resources might be the one thing voters can agree on Election Day. If approved, the Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Amendment (Amendment 1) would provide a dedicated source of funding to conserve Georgia’s lands, protect the state’s waters, and support local and state parks—all without raising taxes.
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"I suppose you could put in the liner notes: 'Please do not mistake Bono for God.'" — Edge
U2 Tour: October - 2nd Leg (North America)
U2 performed 24 times during the 2nd Leg (North America) portion of the October tour. Those performances included unique songs and an overall total of 274 songs.
All concert dates, venues and setlists on atu2.com are confirmed and verified by using the most accurate sources available including firsthand attendance, audio and video recordings, and extensive archival research.
Special thanks go to Pimm Jal de la Parra, Caroline van Oosten de Boer and Matt McGee for the inspiration to take it further.
Snippets Performed
October - 2nd Leg (North America)
Nov 13, 1981 Albany, New York at J.B. Scott's
Nov 14, 1981 Boston, Massachusetts at Orpheum Theatre
Nov 15, 1981 New Haven, Connecticut at Toad's Place
Nov 17, 1981 Providence, Rhode Island at Center Stage Concert Hall & Lounge
Nov 18, 1981 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Ripley's Music Hall
Nov 20, 1981 New York, New York at Ritz
Nov 24, 1981 Passaic, New Jersey at Hitsville North
Nov 25, 1981 Asbury Park, New Jersey at Hitsville South Nightclub
Nov 28, 1981 Los Angeles, California at Hollywood Palladium
Nov 29, 1981 San Francisco, California at Warfield Theater
Dec 01, 1981 Atlanta, Georgia at Agora Ballroom
Dec 02, 1981 Nashville, Tennessee at Underwood Auditorium
Dec 04, 1981 Detroit, Michigan at Royal Oak Music Theater
Dec 05, 1981 Grand Rapids, Michigan at Fountain Street Church
Dec 06, 1981 Chicago, Illinois at Park West
Dec 07, 1981 East Lansing, Michigan at Dooley's
Dec 08, 1981 Cleveland, Ohio at Agora
Dec 10, 1981 Buffalo, New York at Uncle Sam's
Dec 11, 1981 Washington, DC, District of Columbia at Ontario Theater
Dec 12, 1981 Hartford, Connecticut at Stage West
Dec 13, 1981 Lido Beach, New York at Malibu Nightclub
Song Count
11 O'Clock Tick Tock 16
A Day Without Me 3
An Cat Dubh 16
Another Time Another Place 16
Gloria 15
I Fall Down 16
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Amid the festive spending chaos of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the FCA steps in with protection for vulnerable consumers
by Bethan Rees
Men in the US are likely to spend more money than women in this festive period, according to Lauren Thomas for CNBC.
In a recent survey by investment management company JLL of 1,000 US consumers, around 30% of men said they plan to spend more than US$750 during November and December, compared to 25% of women. Women are planning to be more cautious, with 44% of respondents saying they have a “moderate budget” of between US$250 and US$750 for gifts. Only 36% of men in comparison said they had the same budget.
Thomas refers to a separate survey by PwC, which finds that men are expected to spend US$164 more this festive season, and women are expected to spend US$42 less.
Why is this? Thomas quotes Greg Maloney, CEO of JLL Retail: “Before, there was nothing to shop for, and when I started in this business it was the woman who shopped for the man. Men have a lot more choices than they did ten years ago.”
Men are spending more on themselves than they used to, writes Thomas. Jimmy Skinner, a marketing manager in North Carolina, spoke to CNBC. “The strength of the economy does mean that I am seeing some incredible products on the market, and it can be quite tempting. I have a habit of seeing doorbuster deals and making impulse purchases for myself.”
Black Friday and Cyber Monday sees attractive offers on electronics. Marshal Cohen, chief industry advisory of the NPD Group, told CNBC that many of the heavily discounted items are “going to be self-gifted and are male-centric”.
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Advice to avoid Black FridayRetailers offer shoppers extreme discounts on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Black Friday started in the US and came to the UK in 2010 in response to Amazon’s “unleashing of post-Thanksgiving discounts on the British public”, writes Andrea Felsted for Bloomberg. This has been “a disaster for British retailers”, she writes.
She includes graphs in the article, which show that UK high street and shopping centre footfall is down 4.5% and 4.7% respectively from 2017, and Black Friday online sales are set to decline from 5% in 2017 to 4% in 2018.
Felsted warns that European countries, which adopted Black Friday over the past couple of years, should “tread carefully”. She says: “There’s some justification for price deals in electronics. Sellers of big-ticket items typically do lots of business in Europe’s traditional post-Christmas sales. Black Friday simply spreads those sales between two events.
“But for sectors such as clothing, there’s little reason to participate. All stores do is mark down products that would probably have sold anyway at much higher prices. This conditions consumers to just wait for deals, and it’s very difficult for retailers to return to a full price afterwards – especially in the interim between Black Friday and the New Year sales. All of this hurts margins during what should be the most lucrative time of the year.”
Felsted highlights a danger that “British chains will panic because of weak sales recently" and advises that both the UK and continental Europe “hold their nerve and refuse to get sucked into the madness”.
Rent-to-own capWhile the festive period and Black Friday are times associated with spending money, the FCA has proposed a price cap on rent-to-own (RTO) firms, which is expected to save consumers up to £22.7m per year.
RTO purchases often cost the consumer more than the cost of the product. The FCA proposes that the credit charges not be more than the cost of the product, and that RTO firms benchmark their product costs against three other retailers.
Andrew Bailey, FCA CEO, said: “[These] measures are designed to bring down very high prices in the rent-to-own sector, which is used by some of the most financially vulnerable in our society. A cap will prevent firms charging over the odds for essential everyday items like cookers or washing machines. We believe a cap is the only intervention that will effectively tackle the highest prices.”
Just one-third of RTO customers are in work and the majority are on low incomes (between £12,000 and £18,000 per year), and are also likely to have missed a bill payment over the past six months, says the regulator.
The price cap, if agreed, will be introduced from 1 April 2019. The consultation will be open until 17 January 2019.
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The FCA’s announcement of a cap for RTO firms comes at interesting time – when people are expected to spend more money than usual. Could it be that next year, when the festive period comes round again, people will have more money to spend as a result of this cap?
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SUBMITTED PHOTO The monument to Gold Star Boys at the Welsh Bethel Baptist Church, Wilkes-Barre.
Memorial Day observances will be held in communities throughout Luzerne County this weekend, with parades, aerial fly overs, and solemn ceremonies at honor rolls and cemeteries throughout the region.
The observances pay tribute to the men and women who died in all America’s wars, and those who are veterans and current members of the U.S. military.
On Monday, parades will be held on the West Side, in Ashley for the 137th consecutive year, and in the Back Mountain. A special service is being held today at a church in Wilkes-Barre where seven Gold Star Boys will be remembered for their service and ultimate sacrifice to the country.
Here’s a look at some of the planned observances.
West Side Memorial Day Parade
The annual West Side Memorial Day Parade steps off at 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 27, at Market Street and Wyoming Avenue, Kingston. Parade route follows Wyoming Avenue to the Forty Fort Cemetery, where a program will be held.
Grand marshal for this year’s parade is Matthew F. Ford. He was born in Luzerne, moved to Courtdale in 1946, attended Luzerne High School in 1954, and joined the Air Force in August 1956. He served in Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, Laos and Thailand in the following units: Pacific Air Command, Military Airlift Command, Air Defense Command, Strategic Air Command, 606 Air Commando Squadron and Tactical Air Command. He served his country in the Air Force from 1956-1976, and in August 1976, he retired at the rank of technical sergeant. He is a member of the Kingston American Legion.
The parade lineup begins at 10 a.m. Parade steps off at 10:30.
Section A — Market and Maple Streets: Kingston/Forty Fort Police, Marine Corps Color Guard, Grand Marshal Matt Ford, Retired Air Force, Vietnam veteran; WVW Cheerleaders, WVW Marching Band, Don Williams, Fife and Drum, VA Hospital Veterans Bus (wheelchairs VFW Post 283); Black Diamond American Legion Post 395 commander; Anthracite VFW Post 283 commander; Black Diamond American Legion Post 395 veterans’ float, Black Diamond American Legion Post 395 Auxiliary, Black Diamond Squadron 395 Sons of The American Legion, Black Diamond American Legion Post 395 American Legion Riders, Kingston VFW Post 283 Ladies Auxiliary, DAV Chapter 102, Korean War Veterans, Daughters of the American Revolution, Lug Nutz Car Club, NEPR Car Club, Taxpayer Advocacy Panel.
Section B — Public officials, North Sprague Avenue: Congressman Matt Cartwright, Luzerne County Sheriff’s Department, Kingston Firemen’s Marching Unit, State Rep. Aaron Kaufer, Kingston mayor, Kingston Council, Forty Fort mayor, Forty Fort Council, Swoyersville mayor, Edwardsville mayor, Plymouth mayor, Luzerne County Council, Kingston Shade Tree Commission.
Section C — United Penn Plaza: Irem Shriners, Art N Vino, Wyoming County Weapons (Military Style Jeep), Blue Chip Farms, Salvation Army Canteen Truck, Boy Scouts of America Troop 154, Boy Scouts of America Cub Scout Pack 154.
Section D — Civic organizations, Market Street and Sprague Avenue: Girl Scouts of America, Troops 32208 and 30228; Girl Scouts, “The Frontier Girls”; Kingston/Forty Fort Baseball, Kingston Huskies, Ed-Lark Hurricanes.
Section E — Emergency personnel and vehicles, Main and Market Streets: Wyoming Valley Red Cross responders, Tom Betz and Son antique fire truck, Kingston/Forty Fort Fire Departments, Edwardsville Fire Department, all other vehicles/equipment/participants in order in which they arrive
Program at Forty Fort Cemetery
Entrance, fife and drum;
Wreath presentation, Legion and VFW commanders;
Remarks, Bernie Shinko;
National anthem, Wyoming Valley West Band;
Grand marshal, Matthew F. Ford;
Master of ceremonies, Bernie Shinko;
Invocation, Gary Isaac;
Gettysburg Address, Don Williams;
Special guest, Congressman Matt Cartwright;
Guest speaker, Tony Brooks, local historian;
Raising of The Colors: Michael A. Ayers, Kingston American Legion Post 395 commander; Terry Ackor, Anthracite VFW Post 283 commander;
Pledge of allegiance, led by Bernie Shinko;
21 gun salute, VFW Firing Squad;
Taps, WVW bugler;
Closing remarks and benediction, Bernie Shinko.
Ashley Memorial Day Parade
The 137th annual Memorial Day Parade will step off at 9 a.m. Monday, May 27, in Ashley.
Parade marshal is Rick Oravic. Guest speaker is Col. Paul Oreck, who fought in Iraq as the Multi-National Forces Iraq Deputy Chief of Staff for Iraqi Logistics Plans. He is a 31-year veteran who served throughout the world. He is the recipient of the Bronze Star, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Selective Service Meritorious Bronze Medal, Airborne Wings and many other awards.
A parade fly over will be at 9:20 a.m. Vocal selections will be by Apolonia Passetti.
Unit 1 — Cook Street: Ashley Police Department, Ashley American Legion Post 673, American Legion Post 781, association president Thomas McGovern, Wilkes-Barre Twp. Police Department, Ashley Mayor Don Sipple, Catholic War Veterans Post 274, marching and vehicles; Korean War Veterans, Ancient Order of Hibernians, Wyoming Valley Pipe and Drum Band, Ashley firemen and command SUV (at Family Dollar); Ashley Ambulance, 340th MP Batalion.
Unit 2 — Fall Street: Sugar Notch Police Department, Mayor Bill Davis, Veterans of Vietnam War Post 56 Color Guard, 109th Field Artillery Battery A, Irem Temple String Band and Motor Corp, guest of honor, Colonel Paul Oreck, Congressman Matt Cartright, state Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, Wilkes-Barre Twp. Mayor Karl Kuren, area clergy, the Rev. Rebecca Tanner, the Rev. Carol Coleman; St. Leo’s Knights of Columbus, Emerald Isle Irish Dancers, Huber Breaker Preservation Society, Coalville Lodge 474 F&AM.
Unit 3 — Coalville Street: Wilkes-Barre Twp. Fire Department, U.S. Coast Guard, Korean War Veterans of Wyoming Valley, Ashley Lions Club, area Girl Scouts 32811, 32817, 32524, 30307; Daisy Troop 2280, Warrior Run; Hanover Area Boy Scouts, Mountain Top Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts Troop Pack 106, Hanover Area Fusion Band, Hanover Area Cheerleaders, Hanover Area Student Council, cannon, classic cars, America’s Choice.
Unit 4 — Rutz Street: Kerry Dancers, Irish Dance performance troupe; Hanover Area Boys/Girls Little League (at Earth Conservancy); Hanover Mini Hawks Wrestling/Football (at Earth Conservancy); Knights of Columbus 12814, Sugar Notch; soccer teams, Warrior Run; The Antique Classic Boat Society Inc., Lindsey Equipment, Halliday Trucking, Commonwealth Equipment, Hanover Twp. Fire Department, Sugar Notch Fire Department, Trans Med ambulances, American Legion Riders and all motorcycles, Preston Fire Department.
The parade route and lineup was announced by the American Legion Memorial Day Association, 121 N. Main St., Ashley. President is Thomas E. McGovern; treasurer, Michael Collins; secretary, Bill Werner, and parade marshal, Rick Oravic.
Parade aids are Charles Coleman, James Fitzmourice, Sheldon Hannis, Joseph Kordeck, Stacy McGovern, Paul Miller, Tom Paul, Bill Uren and Wes Saltz.
Dallas Borough Mayor Timothy J. Carroll and Police Chief James Drury advise motorists of upcoming temporary roadway closures associated with the 81st annual Memorial Day Parade and services to start at 9 a.m. Monday, May 27, in the Back Mountain.
Memorial Highway/ state Route 415 will be completely closed to traffic from Center Hill Road to the Dallas roundabout.
Portions of Main Street, Lake Street, Church Street, and East Center Hill Road will be at least partially closed to traffic during the parade and ceremony.
Wilkes-Barre area
The Welsh Bethel Baptist Church, 290 Parrish St., Wilkes-Barre, will honor its seven Gold Star Boys who died in service to their county at a service at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 26. Public is welcome.
Honorees are: World War I — Pvt. William Robbins, 16, U.S. Army, killed in action, Germany: World War II — Cpl. Kenneth Hobbs, 20, U.S. Army, graduate of Meyers High School, employed by the Wilkes-Barre Publishing Co., killed in action, 1945, Whelan, Germany; Pfc. Robert Hummel, 21, U.S. Army, graduate of GAR High School, employed by Holmes Metallic, he and Hobbs were cousins, killed in action, 1945, Germany; Pfc. Charles Grosspietsch, 20, U.S. Army, graduate of Meyers High School, killed in action, 1944, Luzon, Philippines; Pvt. William Parry Jr., 24, U.S. Army, graduate of Meyers High School, employed by Stegmaier Brewery, killed in action, 1944, Normandy, France; Pvt. William L. Richards, 32, U.S. Army, graduate of Coughlin High School, employed by J.T. Evans Plumbing Co., killed in action, 1944, Anzio, Italy; SSG Thomas D. Williams, 24, U.S. Army Air Corps, graduate of Hanover High School, attended junior college, killed in action, 1944, Russelsheim, Germany.
A gold cross with the names of the Gold Star Boys was placed on the communion table Dec. 1, 1946. A monument honoring the seven Gold Star Boys who gave their lives for their country was dedicated in front of the church on Sunday, May 30, 2010.
The church is presently seeking a photograph of Pfc. Charles Grosspietsch. Contact Jack Morgan at 570-824-9568.
The Hudson Veterans of Foreign Wars, LANI Memorial Post 6325, will hold its annual Memorial Day services on Monday, May 27, at the post home, 35-37 Cleveland St., Hudson. Services begin at 11 a.m. Post officers and members are welcome.
A memorial service at the Honor Roll in Shanty Town will be held at 11:30 a.m.
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Citycon sells two land plots in Vuosaari, Helsinki
CITYCON OYJ Investor News 2 May 2019 at 17:15 hrs
Citycon has signed preliminary agreements, based on which Citycon and Paulig Oy sell two land plots in Vuosaari, Helsinki. Both transactions will take place after the zoning has been approved. The total value of the agreements to Citycon amounts to EUR 9.4 million. The buyers, Skanska Talonrakennus Oy and Bonava Suomi Oy, plan a significant residential project in the area, which is located in the immediate vicinity of Citycon’s Columbus shopping centre.
“These divestments reflect Citycon’s strategy to focus on urban, grocery-anchored shopping centres in densely populated areas with a connection to transportation hubs in the Nordics. We will use the proceeds from the divestment in development and extension projects as well as to strengthen the balance sheet. A total of around 900 new apartments with around 1,400 new residents are planned in the plots around the Columbus shopping centre, which will provide natural footfall to Columbus and make it a true urban community centre.”, says F. Scott Ball, CEO at Citycon.
Espoo, 2 May 2019
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Citycon is a leading owner, manager and developer of urban, grocery-anchored shopping centres in the Nordic region, managing assets that total almost EUR 4.5 billion. Citycon is No. 1 shopping centre owner in Finland and among the market leaders in Norway, Sweden and Estonia. Citycon has also established a foothold in Denmark.
Citycon has investment-grade credit ratings from Moody's (Baa3) and Standard & Poor's (BBB-). Citycon Oyj’s share is listed in Nasdaq Helsinki.
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Compete in iconic race events with Clipper Ventures Australia
Australia Clipper Events Hamilton Island Race Week Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race Whitsundays
The Clipper Race’s Australian base invites you to join us to compete against sailing’s biggest names in two iconic races Down Under this year.
The Sydney-based Clipper 68 yachts will be racing at Hamilton Island Race Week in August and in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race in December.
Hamilton Island Race Week – 16-22 August in the Whitsundays, Queensland, is one of Australia’s favourite yachting events with an exciting on-water and off-water carnival.
The package includes one day’s training, six days racing, and (non-compulsory) delivery to/from Hamilton Island. Breakfast and lunch is included each day and you can stay on the yacht for the duration of the event. The cost of the package is AUD$4500 including GST (approx. £2300 incl VAT).
The 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will form part of the 2015-16 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race route for the second time. You can enter the famous Boxing Day event by racing on a Clipper 68 alongside the 2015-16 fleet.
The package includes six days training in Sydney, a two day shore-based course, and the race itself. For those wishing to stay on for the return journey back to Sydney, this is included in the package. Total cost of the package is AUD$7,800 including GST (approx. £4,000 including VAT)
For Clipper Race Alumni the total cost of the package is AUD$7,500 including GST (approx. £3,800 including VAT).
The races are open to anyone to enter.
To find out more, contact Clipper Ventures Australia MD Kirsty Whyte kwhyte@clipper-ventures.com
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Here's where fintech is heading next
Published Mon, Jun 6 2016 3:05 PM EDT Updated Wed, Jun 8 2016 2:50 PM EDT
Bob Pisani@BobPisani
Tuesday I'll be co-moderating the Singularity University Exponential Finance Conference in New York. The event provides another opportunity to assess how disruptive technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, and blockchain technology are influencing the financial world.
Just look at one area — big data analytics — and you can see the impact. Like all institutions, banks are awash in new data on their customers. They have information on loyalty cards, social networks, purchase data, browsing habits — an ocean of information. Using big data analytics, they can sift through this information more quickly, which has changed the way risk is priced.
That supports faster and more accurate decisions and has supported the rise of peer-to-peer lenders like Lending Club and Prosper.
Big data is changing even the way old industrial companies operate. Marco Annunziata, chief economist at General Electric, will speak on how GE is taking industrial machines from jet engines to medical equipment and turning them into intelligent interconnected devices.
Once again, I will be interviewing Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, and the co-founder and chancellor of Singularity University.
Given Ray's central role in the development of artificial intelligence and machine intelligence, and his key predictions on the development of that technology, I'm sure he will have a lot to say about the hoopla surrounding artificial intelligence and the somewhat apocalyptic comments about a machine takeover from Elon Musk and others.
One thing is for sure: The interaction between finance and technology, or "fintech," remains a hot topic. In a March 2016 report, Citigroup noted that investment in private fintech had grown from $1.8 billion in 2010 to $19 billion in 2015.
Brian Moynihan
LendingClub Corp
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LHW’s exclusive deal for Leaders Club members
Constance Halaveli, Alifu Alifu Atoll, Maldives
Leading Hotels of the World has introduced an offer exclusively for the Asia Pacific members of its customer loyalty programme, the Leaders Club.
The offer entitles guests a three-night stay for the price of two, late check out (up to 4pm) and existing Leaders Club benefits including complimentary breakfast for two and free internet usage.
The offer is valid for stays at the following hotels till 14 December 2013:
Shanti Maurice – A Nira Resort, Chemin Grenier, Mauritius (from EUR 290)
Constance Le Prince Mauritius, Poste de Flacq, Mauritius (from EUR450)
Constance Lemuria, Praslin, Seychelles (from EUR550)
Taj Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (from ZAR1,950)
Emirates Wolgan Valley Resort & Spa, NSW, Australia (from AUD1,300)
Hayman, Hayman Island, Australia (from AUD590)
Fuchun Resort, Hangzhou, China (from CNY1,876)
Fairmont Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China (from CNY2,400)
The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai, India (from Rs13,000)
Imperial Hotel, Osaka, Japan (from JPY24,000)
Palace Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (from JPY 46,000)
The Majestic Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malysia (from MYR550)
The Datai Langkawi, Langkawi, Malaysia (from MYR2,138)
Capella Singapore, Sentosa Island, Singapore (from SGD749)
The Okura Prestige, Bangkok, Thailand (from THB8,700)
Rayavadee, Krabi, Thailand (from THB19,400)
The Nam Hai, Hoi An, Vietnam (from US$550)
Constance Halaveli, Alifu Alifu Atoll, Maldives (from US$1,100)
The Residence Maldives, Gaafu Atoll, Maldives (from US$693)
Taj Exotica Resort & Spa, South Malé Atoll, Maldives (from US$1,000)
Regina Hotel Baglioni Rome, Rome, Italy (from EUR650)
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100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012
Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012 is the culmination of a monumental, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of new restorations by the International Olympic Committee. The documentaries collected here cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of “Faster, Higher, Stronger”: Jesse Owens shattering world records on the track in 1936 Berlin, Jean-Claude Killy dominating the Grenoble slopes in 1968, Joan Benoit breaking away to win the Games’ first women’s marathon in Los Angeles in 1984. In addition to the impressive ten-feature contribution of Bud Greenspan, this stirring collective chronicle of triumph and defeat includes such documentary landmarks as Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia and Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad, along with captivating lesser-known works by major directors like Claude Lelouch, Carlos Saura, and Miloš Forman. It also offers a fascinating glimpse of the development of film itself, and of the technological progress that has brought viewers ever closer to the action. Traversing continents and decades, reflecting the social, cultural, and political changes that have shaped our recent history, this remarkable movie marathon showcases a hundred years of human endeavor.
SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR’S SET FEATURES:
53 newly restored films from 41 editions of the Olympic Games, presented together for the first time
Landmark 4K restorations of Olympia, Tokyo Olympiad, and Visions of Eight, among other titles
New scores for the silent films, composed by Maud Nelissen, Donald Sosin, and Frido ter Beek
A lavishly illustrated, 216-page hardcover book, featuring notes on the films by cinema historian Peter Cowie, along with a letter from Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, a short history of the project by restoration producer Adrian Wood, and hundreds of photographs from a century of Olympic Games
Films included:
The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 (dir. Adrian Wood • 2016 • 170 minutes)
The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924 (dir. Jean de Rovera • 1924 • 37 minutes)
The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece (dir. Jean de Rovera • 1924 • 8 minutes)
The Olympic Games in Paris 1924 (dir. Jean de Rovera • 1924 • 174 minutes)
The White Stadium (dirs. Arnold Fanck, Othmar Gurtner • 1928 • 124 minutes)
The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam (dir. unknown • 1928 • 251 minutes)
The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 (dir. Wilhelm Prager; supervisor Jules Perel • 1928 • 192 minutes)
Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936
Youth of the World (dir. Carl Junghans • 1936 • 38 minutes)
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (dir. Leni Riefenstahl • 1938 • 127 minutes)
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (dir. Leni Riefenstahl • 1938 • 103 minutes)
Fight Without Hate (dir. André Michel • 1948 • 91 minutes)
XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport (dir. Castleton Knight • 1948 • 138 minutes)
The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952 (dir. Tancred Ibsen • 1952 • 103 minutes)
Where the World Meets (dir. Hannu Leminen • 1952 • 101 minutes)
Gold and Glory (dir. Hannu Leminen • 1953 • 97 minutes)
Memories of the Olympic Summer of 1952 (dir. unknown • 1954 • 50 minutes)
Cortina d’Ampezzo 1956
White Vertigo (dir. Giorgio Ferroni • 1956 • 96 minutes)
Melbourne/Stockholm 1956
Olympic Games, 1956 (dir. Peter Whitchurch • 1956 • 60 minutes)
The Melbourne Rendez-vous (dir. René Lucot • 1957 • 106 minutes)
Alain Mimoun (dir. Louis Gueguen • 1959 • 24 minutes)
The Horse in Focus (dir. unknown • 1956 • 16 minutes)
People, Hopes, Medals (dir. Heribert Meisel • 1960 • 93 minutes)
The Grand Olympics (dir. Romolo Marcellini • 1961 • 147 minutes)
IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964 (dir. Theo Hörmann • 1964 • 90 minutes)
Tokyo Olympiad (dir. Kon Ichikawa • 1965 • 170 minutes)
Sensation of the Century (prod. Taguchi Suketaro, supervisor Nobumasa Kawamoto • 1966 • 156 minutes)
13 Days in France (dirs. Claude Lelouch, François Reichenbach • 1968 • 112 minutes)
Snows of Grenoble (dirs. Jacques Ertaud, Jean-Jacques Languepin • 1968 • 97 minutes)
Mexico City 1968
The Olympics in Mexico (dir. Alberto Isaac • 1969 • 160 minutes)
Sapporo Winter Olympics (dir. Masahiro Shinoda • 1972 • 167 minutes)
Visions of Eight (dirs. Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling • 1973 • 110 minutes)
White Rock (dir. Tony Maylam • 1977 • 77 minutes)
Games of the XXI Olympiad (dirs. Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux • 1977 • 118 minutes)
Olympic Spirit (dirs. Drummond Challis, Tony Maylam • 1980 • 27 minutes)
O Sport, You Are Peace! (dir. Yuri Ozerov • 1981 • 149 minutes)
A Turning Point (dir. Kim Takal • 1984 • 82 minutes)
16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 1986 • 284 minutes)
Calgary ’88: 16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 1989 • 202 minutes)
Seoul 1988 (dir. Lee Kwang-soo • 1989 • 139 minutes)
Hand in Hand (dir. Im Kwon-taek • 1989 • 119 minutes)
Beyond All Barriers (dir. Lee Ji-won • 1989 • 92 minutes)
One Light, One World (dirs. Joe Jay Jalbert, R. Douglas Copsey • 1992 • 104 minutes)
Marathon (dir. Carlos Saura • 1993 • 130 minutes)
Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 1994 • 209 minutes)
Atlanta’s Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 1997 • 206 minutes)
Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 1998 • 119 minutes)
Olympic Glory (dir. Kieth Merrill • 1999 • 42 minutes)
Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 2001 • 117 minutes)
Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan’s Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 2003 • 119 minutes)
Bud Greenspan’s Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 2005 • 96 minutes)
Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory (dir. Bud Greenspan • 2007 • 88 minutes)
The Everlasting Flame (dir. Gu Jun • 2010 • 101 minutes)
Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory (prods. Bud Greenspan, Nancy Beffa • 2010 • 116 minutes)
First (dir. Caroline Rowland • 2012 • 109 minutes)
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Trailer for 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012
The History of the Olympic Games in Nine Videos
With the XXIII Olympic Winter Games kicking off tomorrow, we’re sharing a series of supercuts highlighting breathtaking moments from our colossal box set 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012.
Inside Criterion / Sneak Peeks — Feb 8, 2018
On the Slopes: A Conversation with Joe Jay Jalbert
A key collaborator on Michael Ritchie’s Downhill Racer and the creator of two Olympic films, Joe Jay Jalbert chats with us about the art of capturing skiing on-screen.
By Hillary Weston
On Film / Interviews — Feb 6, 2018
100 Years of Olympic Films Is Here!
Our biggest box set ever has arrived! Explore a century of iconic moments in modern sports with our monumental collection of fifty-three Olympic films, now available on Blu-ray and DVD.
A Sneak Peek at 100 Years of Olympic Films
In anticipation of the December release of our biggest box set ever, we’ve made a trailer to give you a taste of what’s inside.
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Announcing 100 Years of Olympic Films
We are thrilled to announce the December 5 release of 100 Years of Olympic Films, a landmark box set that documents the history of the Olympic Games through the lenses of an international array of filmmakers.
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An official Oregon Country Fair truck sports the classic peach logo on the back. The 50th annual Oregon Country Fair will take place from July 12-14, 2019 in Veneta, Ore. (Marissa Willke/Emerald)
Giant dragons adorn the buildings in Dragon’s Meadow, which greets guests as they arrive at the fair. The 50th annual Oregon Country Fair will take place from July 12-14, 2019 in Veneta, Ore. (Marissa Willke/Emerald)
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A mosaic tile art piece is being built to commemorate the four fair workers who were killed in a plane crash near the fairgrounds in 2012. The 50th annual Oregon Country Fair will take place from July 12-14, 2019 in Veneta, Ore. (Marissa Willke/Emerald)
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Oregon Country Fair’s 50th celebration promises immersive arts experience
Hunter Reed
The parking lot began to fill first thing Monday morning, five days before the Oregon Country Fair’s 50th Anniversary begins. Yet, there wasn’t a single one of the 45,000 expected attendees on the property.
Instead, hundreds of volunteers hustled throughout it.
Artists put their final touches on carefully crafted installations, volunteers repaired and constructed stands for vendors while lifetime OCF community members ensured the infrastructure will run smoothly — and all did it with a smile. The OCF volunteers are a family who cannot wait for their annual reunion to begin.
Now, there’s only one day left before the festivities start.
“We have some special things for the 50th anniversary,” said Norma Sax, who has been involved with the fair for the past 42 years. “We wanted to bring back things that were a part of the beginning of OCF.”
Oregon Country Fair began in 1969 and has continued its weekend of celebration for 50 years. The fair will be held July 12-14 in Veneta, Oregon, just 30 minutes outside of Eugene, where a host of arts, music, performances and celebrations await attendees.
Construction for the 50th-anniversary installations began in early March. Volunteers have built stages across from “The Ritz,” a communal entertainment, shower and sauna area that will hold craft demo performances throughout the weekend.
“People see art that they love and want to know how it’s made,” said Ardas Calhoun, a volunteer artist working on the 50th year installation.
Festival-goers will be able to watch the process of how some of their favorite work at OCF is made. Artists creating live was a part of some of the first festivals, so it was integral for OCF staff to bring it back for the 50th. The stages will feature artists working on pottery, woodwork, metalsmithing and many other mediums. The main attraction will be various artists, with the contribution of attendees, working on a mobile that will forever hang on festival grounds.
“We wanted people, especially kids, to have an attachment to OCF. So every time they come back, they can see the mobile and say that they were there when it was created,” said Calhoun.
Across from the live art stage is a vibrant mosaic tile piece commemorative of four friends who had a tragic-untimely death in a plane crash. They were beloved members of the community.
“They were a group of friends who had been a part of OCF for years and we wanted to create a remembrance for them,” said Robin Marks-Fife, one of the artistic contributors to the mosaic tile.
Above the tile piece will be four time capsules, each one representing a milestone of OCF (10, 25, 50 and 100 years). The capsules represent how far the festival has come and how far it is expected to go. The capsules will be a keepsake of the community, saved for future OCF communities to look back on.
OCF immerses its guests with experiences. Energy Park, which began in 1981, is an area ran completely on solar power dedicated to alternative energies and organic agriculture. Fair-goers can visit the Community Village to meet non-profits and learn about arts, health or alternative education. The fair will be rife with food and artisan crafts for purchase from more than 350 vendors.
Music will also be abundant. Phil Lesh, The Grateful Dead’s bass guitarist, will perform on the fair’s main stage — one of many performances that will happen at 19 stages peppered throughout the OCF grounds. This year at OCF there will be something to explore around every corner.
The 50th anniversary of Oregon County Fair is sure to be a weekend of immersion into Eugene culture that has been celebrated through the festival for 50 years.
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