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Archivo para la etiqueta “winery”
En un ejercicio de no movilidad geográfica pero sí lingüística, y dado que este es mi blog y hago lo que quiero, me permito publicar un post en inglés, versión de un artículo que he publicado en Sobremesa en lengua española. El Sherrymaster fue toda una experiencia, y este texto no es más que un ejercicio de escritura, sin pretensiones. Pero como, gracias a la colaboración de Paul Wagner y su esposa, que me echaron una mano con la edición, ha quedado un texto “mu potito” lo coloco aquí.
Last September 5th and 6th, González Byass in Jerez, better known as Tío Pepe, conducted the first professional encounter about sherry wines, Sherrymaster, which brought together sommeliers and wine writers in the city.
For two full days, and with the winemaker from the winery, Antonio Flores, leading the group, this event was dedicated to developing a deeper knowledge of sherry wines, starting with the vineyard and ending with sweet wines. The lessons were based on specific tastings, with the participation, besides Flores and his cellar team, of the Celler de Can Roca sommelier, Josep Roca, and Sarah Jane Evans MW, as guests of honor.
The Sherrymaster started up at a sherry vineyard, La Canariera estate, where Antonio Flores and the vineyard manager, Salvador Guimera, explained the particularities of the albariza soils and the palomino grape, predominant in the region. They also showed those attending how the “aserpia” is done. This is a field labor that consists in digging holes by the vineyard to help retain water and control erosion. They also explained the “soleado,” the spreading out of the palomino and px grapes to expose them to the sun, so they can be used to make sweet wines.
This was followed by a visit to the archive that Gonzalez Byass has been organizing for years, cataloguing pictures, labels and internal winery documents to show to the public that visit the facilities. Among them you can find, for example, a handwritten letter showing when, for the first time, a “very very pale” wine is referred to. Eleven years later, this wine would be known as “Fino Tío Pepe.”
Tasting sessions started with the so-called “Cata en uve” (V-tasting), so named because of the shape formed by the arrangement of the glasses. This demonstrated, at a single glance, how from only one young wine, called “mosto” in Sherryland, different types of sherry are created, using biologic aging, oxidative aging, or a combination of both.
Josep Roca and the impossible sherries
One of the most intense moments at the Sherrymaster was the contribution of Josep Roca, who offered a wine tasting whose name, “Fundational wines, Sherry to the limit,” alluded to some non-commercial sherries (except the Palo Cortado ’82) with ages starting at 30 years old: amontillado Del Duque 1/4, solera Cuatro Palmas 1/6, solera Parte Arroyo 1ª, solera Alfonso 1/6, solera 3 Estrellas, solera Oloroso 5 estrellas, Palo Cortado 1982, solera Tres Cortados, solera Cuatro Cortados and the very old Trafalgar, the oldest wine of the tasting, a really special and overwhelming palomino with 21.95 ABV and more than 178 years old. This was a unique moment for the old winery’s jewels to shine, accompanied by the poetry of Josep Roca. The Girona sommelier is in love with these wines, and they were received with intense emotion by the majority of the people in the room. Most of them were speechless before the intensity, saltiness and power of these wines, impossible sherries one simply had to fall in love with.
Sherry with British eyes
After a visit to the bodega and some tastings of the Tío Pepe and Tío Pepe en Rama soleras, and having learned more about the cellar language used for sherry, the tasting journey had Sarah Jane Evans MW as its main star. She is a sherry expert, and shared the stage with Antonio Flores and José Alberto Casas (manager of the winery’s research and development center, CIDIMA). The three of them commented on the particularities of biologic and oxidative aging, as illustrated with some González Byass wines. As a scoop, attendees could taste the mosto 2013, just vinified (harvest ended just days ago in the major part of the region). They also learned about the selection rules for the soleras used to make Finos Palmas, a limited edition of finos whose yeasts reach the maximum age. The climax of this series is the so-called Cuatro Palmas, a 47-year-old wine that, because of the complete disappearance of the velo de flor, can be considered an amontillado.
The last of the Sherrymaster tastings had sweet wines as the stars of the show, a “sweet goodbye” in which Antonio Flores and Sarah Jane Evans MW showed two of the most-known sweet wines of the house, Néctar and Noé (vinified with pedro ximénez from Chipiona, Cádiz) and where they asked for participation from the attendees to choose between two samples of Dulce Esteve, from the ’85 and ’86 vintages. This wine has the particularity of having the palomino fino, vinified as a sweet wine, as its raw material, so it raised some discussion among the audience, who expressed preferences for one vintage or the other. The debate was followed by a PX Viejísimo (VORS) and a Moscatel Viejísimo (VORS).
The Sherrymaster experience is an encounter well worth repeating to encourage wine professionals to know and love sherry. These wines are appreciated internationally and rightly considered among the best wines of the world for their unique and inimitable character.
Ciegos, one of the streets in Tio Pepe’s winery in Jerez
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Nancy’s Secret Garden
Real Travel Adventures January 15, 2012 0 Comments
The beautiful parrots were bantering back and forth; giant palms obscured light from above; large leaf exotic plants obstructed the path. I felt like a Lilliputian in a land of overlapping green giants, each one poised to grab me should I dare to slow down a bit to gawk. Yet the diversity and unfamiliarity of the plants and trees make it hard not to gape. The only question remained: How did this tropical rainforest end up in Nancy Forrester’s backyard in Key West, Florida?
Billed as Nancy Forrester’s Secret Garden — and indeed located as it is at the end of a hidden, narrow dirt lane, it well deserves its moniker — the story behind its creation is as intriguing as a stroll among its many trails. It all started some 40 years ago, when painter and photographer — and currently self-described eco-artist — Nancy Forrester’s keen eye saw some promise in the then-undesignated city dump. Once she and her family moved in, “we just cleared up the debris and started gardening. It evolved into a rainforest almost by design, as my artist friends and I planted mostly tropical exotic shade plants at random.”
Asserting that “the natural world has always been my teacher and the theme of my art,” she credits her love of nature and a simple basic style of living as inspiration to protect the land from overdevelopment.
As the last remaining undeveloped wooded acre in the town, it now houses 100 different species of palms, ferns and orchids and vast quantities of lush aroids (the aforementioned giant foliage), set amidst 100+-year-old fruit trees. Many are rare and endangered, and have developed into a select gene pool that can keep a species alive. And although I don’t know what an angiopteroius fern is, I was impressed when Nancy claimed she has five different varieties and that hers is the only garden in the country to have them. Not to mention that her endangered cycads date from the time of the dinosaurs. That’s good enough for me.
The plants are not the only endangered species around; so are some of the 22 parrots that call the forest home. Many of them are being lovingly nursed back to health from a variety of parrot ailments. The garden doubles as a non-profit humane society, at one time housing 100 birds, although Nancy has since limited her brood to 22: “We have to make sure we can safely evacuate them all in the event of a hurricane,” she explains.
And these are no ordinary birds; they each boast a definitive personality of their own. Imaginative write-ups list their origin, vocabulary — some of which is quite extensive — their history, favorite treats, likes and dislikes, foibles and frailties. Well, okay – maybe not so much. But beautiful Ara, for example, sings opera, eats pizza, and loves shoes and dancing, and happily spreads her wings upon request. Mr. Peaches, a handsome screaming white cockatoo, is a rescue from New York City where he frequently rode the subway, likes broccoli, dislikes pecans and is especially fond of salsa and chips. Choo Choo, formerly Chatsworth whose favorite meal is breakfast, actually sneezes just for fun, and Rock, a high-energy Hawk-headed parrot, is the star entertainer who flirts with everyone, whistles, sings, does a fabulous wicked witch impersonation, and insists on bathing in his water bowl even on the coldest days of the year. His “Hi Baby, whatcha doin’?” is a frequent refrain.
As Nancy entertains visitors with tales of her garden and animal escapades, her prized blue Brazilian parrot, Baby, often hangs upside down on her perch, swinging and doing calisthenics. Nancy’s devotion to her pets and plants is contagious, and her conviction that we are “morally obligated” to save “Earth’s life forms” heartfelt. “Here, art is experience,” she enthuses. “Come to be inspired. Draw, paint, and write poetry. Sing and dance. Help celebrate 40 years of green living and sustainable behavior.” The fact that it’s in the heart of Key West is an added bonus.
As Amanda Albert of New Orleans crowed: “It makes me so happy to come here. I return every year. It’s so rare to see such wonderful birds — and to think, you saved them all.” But given the expense of maintaining such a special world and the fact that the few visitors who are actually able to find the garden have diminished recently due to the downturn in travel everywhere, pleas for donations are in evidence at almost every turn. But the sense of imposition is offset by their sense of whimsy.
Upon entry, where the admission is $10 per human, one is greeted by a sign proclaiming: “If I am not in the garden to greet you, it is because I am underfunded, short-staffed and working to stave off development.” Further down a small graded nook: “Imagine this area gone and in its place 9.1 residences each with a parking space for 2 cars.” And intermingled among the parrot lairs: warnings not to pay attention to the `screaming’ white parrots: “No eye contact; No smiling; Turn your back and walk away” — but essentially, please leave something behind for their care.
There is much to see in Key West itself, a city where anything goes, where everyone feels comfortable. It’s a city of contradictions. It’s a city that’s part New Orleans, part island getaway. A town where honky tonk sits comfortably with tropical vegetation on the same barstool. Where man-made tourist attractions thrive beside the intrinsic culture, history and lifestyle of the island. These are the things that draw people to Key West.
And Nancy Forrester’s Secret Garden provides a private haven of its own, a chance to reflect upon the history that is still Key West today. Let the serenity transport you to another era when life was a lot simpler, streets a lot safer, and the pace of living a lot slower. And you’ll also want to return, as so many others have, year after year. I just hope it continues to survive long enough for that to be possible. For more information, call 305/294-0015 or visit http://www.nancyforrester.com.
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Remixing the Humanities
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The Greying of the Internet: The Grey Album and the Rise of the Mashup (Part 2 of 2)
This is the second part of this article. Please read Part 1 in the previous blog entry.
4. Downhill Battle and Grey Tuesday
“A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.”
I do not want to suggest that remix practices are a priori liberatory in a political sense. Neither remix culture nor social computing are guarantees that progressive values will be advanced, that the Internet will be the locus of a renewed democracy and engaged citizenry, or that if we keep making remixes we will solve longstanding, intransigent problems associated with copyright law, globalization, or neoliberalism. But I do wish to note that remix and activism have and will continue to cross, and that there have been politically informed activities to protect remixed works valued by certain kinds of media producers and consumers. And without such activism in the early days of the mashup, we would be telling a very different story in this paper.
In this historical-political vein, it is worth noting that things could have turned out very differently for The Grey Album. Right after its release, its very existence was threatened by EMI. According to EMI, DJ Danger Mouse did not have rights to use the Beatles music. It was a classic David vs. Goliath battle. EMI lawyers sent cease and desist orders letters to outlets that were distributing the album. In practice, this meant that EMI wanted all record stores to destroy physical copies of the album, and for all websites that contained the digital files to immediately remove them from their servers. This approach is the most consistently used weapon in the copyright war as fought by corporate media companies. They choose to go after the “nodes and networks” instead of the creators, and usually instead of the end-user. They choose to choke off the source for further piracy and dissemination by making service providers accountable for whether their end-users are obeying existing US copyright law. As EMI embarked upon this approach, The Grey Album was about to become a famous “lost project” in remix circles. EMI’s desire was to criminalize downloads of the Grey Album that would make Danger Mouse’s effort a “digital media pariah” which few website owners, let alone music lovers, would want to risk putting on their servers or placing in their digital music libraries. EMI wanted the stigma of litigious retribution attached to The Grey Album. But the same energy that EMI was willing to expend because one of its most cherished copyrights was at stake (the Beatles music catalog) is the same energy harnessed by music and copyright activists on the web. How DJ and activist culture intertwined is an important part of The Grey Album story.
A historic online protest known as Grey Tuesday was the result. Grey Tuesday was organized by Downhill Battle, a music activism project begun in August 2003. As stated on their website: “Downhill Battle is a non-profit organization working to break the major label monopoly of the record industry and put control back in the hands of musicians and fans…[and to] counter the distortions of the RIAA and the major record labels.”[1] While there are echoes of utopian battle in the group’s description, most of its efforts work to productively inform music buyers about the business nature and legal maneuvers of the music industry. For the protest around The Grey Album, Downhill Battle wanted to stress the need for new laws governing sampling and loops, otherwise remix culture would be severely curtailed if this form of creativity had no ability to fairly use existing bits of music.
Grey Tuesday was a very successful day of protest that resulted in over one million downloads of tracks from The Grey Album. In ways that social computing portend, Downhill Battle successfully organized a massive protest using social networks and the architecture of the web as a key part of its strategy. Therefore, Downhill Battle sent out a call for sites that would be willing to host the files for the Grey Album on Tuesday, February 24, 2004. Hundreds and hundreds of sites participated in the protest[2], and the publicized generated around Grey Tuesday, helped to account for the number of downloads that took place. Grey Tuesday can be understood as a tipping point in what had been up until that moment a fairly small online movement.
A legal assessment of Grey Tuesday done by the Electronic Frontier Foundation demonstrates that EMI might not even had had a case regarding “cease and desist” orders of The Grey Album. nas It is important to note the critical difference here with Napster, Grokster and other cases involving the peer-to-peer sharing of digital music. Ultimately, Grey Tuesday was not about illegal downloads, digital rights management, or CD piracy. The sites were not hosting the copyrighted files of the original Beatles’ white album nor Jay-Z’s black album, but a remix album called The Grey Album.
Even when copyrighted material is involved, the law does make a distinction regarding what constitutes “infringement.” In a court of law, EMI would have had to prove that The Grey Album infringed on the rights of Lennon-McCartney compositions. Legal statues are clear that for a violation to occur, “a substantial portion” of the original work has to be involved. It is unclear whether a court would have taken Danger Mouse’s snippets of Beatles music as “substantial” infringements. But even if a court of law deemed Danger Mouse’s samples were “substantial,” the protesters could still advance another legal claim: that their hosting of the files constituted “fair use.”
As Lawrence Lessig points out in his book Free Culture, fair use is a very nebulous concept, and the lack of clarify around fair use is one of the motivations behind the flexible copyrights of the Creative Commons movement. But within existing legal definitions of fair use, the protesters who participated in Grey Tuesday could claim:
1. It was a non-commercial effort
2. The Grey Album is not a substitute for the original albums
3. The Grey Album is transformative of the White Album
4. Grey Tuesday is a commentary on copyright law
Logo for E.F.F.
These arguments, advanced by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, are fairly persuasive and remind us that remix culture operates somewhere between the “free culture” of the public domain and the permission culture of copyright law. And the fair use argument picks up another ally when you consider that Jay-Z’s Roc-a-Fella record label did not follow in EMI’s footsteps. One key difference is probably Jay-Z’s roots in hip-hop culture; sampling has been a major element of his artistic output, just like other hip-hop artists. For example, the only way to understand Jay-Z releasing an a cappela version of his vocal tracks is in the spirit of encourage remixes, just like DJ Danger Mouse’s. And in ways that benefited Jay-Z, the popularity of the Grey Album lead to his Linkin Park mashup reaching number one on the US singles chart.
Furthermore, the real concern here–the issue that spurred on Downhill Battle–seems over how creativity will be allowed to develop in DIY culture on digital networks. Lawrence Lessig, among others, have persuasively argued that copyright laws have to be reconsidered in the age of social computing. Otherwise, culture itself might be compromised. Lessig’s line of reasoning, for example, argues that the US Constitution always intended to allow for cultural works to build off one another. While artist rights need to be protected, the trend toward microcontent challenges traditional notions of the copyrighted work, and how does copyright law operate in a world of Flickr and YouTube? Ultimately, Creative Commons and public domain archives like the Prelinger Archives are important in this regard, but beyond the scope of this paper to address in any detail.
Finally, now that some time has elapsed since the release of The Grey Album, it is clear to see that there was no harm to the Beatles music sales or their musical legacy. In fact, I think Paul McCartney’s response is instructive here. He has publicly admitted that he has listened to The Grey Album, and it encouraged him to collaborate with DJ Freelance Hellraiser, and the two produced an album called “Twin Freaks,” that mashes up the music of Wings and McCartney’s solo career.[3] And remix music is played before many of his concerts. It was his willingness to open his oeuvre to remix artists that can properly contextualize his Grammy appearance.
The work of Downhill Battle and Grey Tuesday helped open up the debates around copyright activism, and clarified how remix culture and musical samples needed new rules governing their use. While Grey Tuesday has not stopped the music industries pursuit of copyright violators, it did mark a visible turning point in the movement. I would argue that certain remix experiments, such as one pursued by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails who has released many of his songs in Garageband and Acid formats, is a growing part of a movement by commercial artists that recognizes a key difference between peer-to-peer file sharing of complete songs, and the microcontent behind the remix aesthetic.
5. Ramon and Pedro’s The Grey Video
“Warning: The following was done as an experimental project”
–Opening words of The Grey Video
If the preceding argument surmised that The Grey Album is lucky to remain in existence, then The Grey Video is an object that never needed to exist at all. The very existence of The Grey Video intrigues me because it is not just another audio mash-up of Jay-Z’s vocal tracks. The idea of a mash-up of the music of the Beatles and Jay-Z is something that might have been confined to the sonic realm. But Danger Mouse’s tracks jump from the musical register to a high-end video project. How would any video designers be able to translate to a visual medium? What indexical footage would be able to capture a moving image mash-up of the Beatles and Jay-Z? This is part of the growth of remix culture. The video is a creative demonstration of the stimulative effects of DJ Danger Mouse’s remix activity; remixes beget remixers.
The creative design team of Ramon and Pedro made The Grey Video as a “bootleg homage” to Danger Mouse’s Grey Album. Ramon and Pedro are excellent examples of the pro-amateur and how the DJ metaphor is influencing the arts beyond the music world. The Grey Video is a dynamic and technically demanding work of the highest artistry. In what sense then, is it amateur? Here the notion of “experimental” project is provocative. Both DJ Danger Mouse and Ramon and Pedro assert that these are “experimental projects.” But what does that mean? Such statements can act as legal defenses against charges of copyright violations, and I am sure that is one potential motivation. But I would argue that such language highlights the works “amateur status” and singles out the important role that can be played by amateurs outside of the commercial sphere.
The Grey Video is a very sophisticated video. It is not typical of video mashups. It is not just the taking of an audio track from one source and marrying it to the video track of another object, like “This Place Sucks,” which mashes the dialogue of Office Space with the cartoon of SuperFriends. Nor is it a parody, in the spirit of the Brokeback Mountain spoofs that proliferate on the Web, such as the one involving recontextualized scenes from Back to the Future. And this is not the work of unskilled creative workers. Finally, in many ways, it is not just a mash-up of the song “Encore” from The Grey Album. While it seems like the video is going to restrict itself to playfully placing Jay-Z concert footage within the confines of the Beatles’ Hard Day’s Night, a major change occurs about halfway through the video. Beyond simply combining two pre-existing video tracks into a new melding, Ramon and Pedro use motion graphics and green-screen technologies to extend their video remix. They in essence create footage they don’t otherwise have. They use motion graphics to place words behind the Beatles performance–the words are the lyrics to “Encore.” They create a “hip hop” version of the Beatles and this is part of its most dynamic vernacular. We witness as Ringo Starr becomes “the Brooklyn Boy”—this linkage is achieved through word and image relations—and then Ringo starts scratching on the song. We watch as John Lennon breakdances. And surprisingly, we watch as Paul McCartney and George Harrison both leave the stage for two female back-up singers. Intriguingly, for all the visual excitement of The Grey Video, it actually has the wrong reference for the Beatles. Danger Mouse samples from the Beatles later musical period, and A Hard Day’s Night still shows the Fab Four in their early days with their matching suits and their Beatles boots.
It is unclear how Ramon and Pedro could be possibly compensated for The Grey Video. This is a work that had to take a tremendous amount of time and resources. There is no commercial venue where the footage was released, and if the video did by some method make money, the copyright holder of a Hard Day’s Night would probably sue immediately. Why do it then in the first place? First, Ramon and Pedro are highly regarded motion graphics artists who have several notable commercial projects on their resume.[4] Second, Ramon and Pedro definitely are expressing in a visually kinetic sense, an analogue kinship to DJ Danger Mouse. Like Danger Mouse, Ramon and Pedro is a pseudonym. Like Danger Mouse, this visual design duo is a rising star in the mainstream culture industries. And like Danger Mouse, they are probably better known for their work than for their “names.” In fact, if you watch the Grey Video, you will realize that it is an “unsigned” work. There is no obvious name attached as author of this project, but this is not unusual in remix culture. Even searching the Internet, it is not easy to locate the “authors” behind the Grey Video. Once however it is known that it is the work of Ramon and Pedro, the final shot of The Grey Video (R+P) makes much more sense.
The existence of The Grey Video strikes me as a kind of proof for theories of postmodern authorship; Grey Video = remix = QED. DJ Spooky ruminates that his “work asks about how the networks of creativity that we have inherited from the “bricks and mortar” world of the 20th century have imploded, evolved and accelerated the ‘im-material’ networks of the frequencies, fiber optic networks, and mathematically drive world of the 21st century. That’s the real ‘dematerialization’ of the art object’–it becomes patterns meshed, working between the spaces of pre-scripted behavior.”[5] In this regard, DJ Spooky recalls a description of the “postmodern artist” as articulated by Francois Lyotard, who stated that:
“The postmodern artist or writer is in the situation of a philosopher: the text he writes, the work he performs are not in principle governed by already established rules, and they cannot be subjected to a determined judgment by applying known categories. It is these rules and these categories which the text or the work seeks. The artist and the writer work therefore without rules, in order to establish the rules of what will have been done. Hence the work and the text have the quality of an event; they arrive too late for their authors, or–what amounts to the same–their realization begins always too early. The postmodern needs to be understood through the paradox of the post anterior tense.” [6] (Italics in original)
Lyotard’s deployment of the term “post anterior” is decisive here. Coming from Lacanian psychoanalysis, Lacan’s work on the future anterior suggests that “What is realized in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, nor even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.”[7] It is in this sense, that the role of the DJ is instructive. The DJ, that designer of beats and rhythms, is driven by performance, is in “the process of becoming.” The DJ aesthetic does not necessarily know where it is going to end, and it is very event driven.
Ramon and Pedro demonstrate how the DJ can now challenge the film director as authorial force. They reveal the potential stories embedded in the previously sealed archives of our Hollywood memories, display the range of new tools of visual creativity, and open up the “already mixed” to new interpretations. The Grey Video is a template for the rise of the video mashups: a post anterior re-performance of a cinematic icon through a rap dialectic, conditioned by the reverberating logics of digital video recorders, channel surfing, music videos and the viral mentality of YouTube.
6. Today and Yesterday
Through tracing these moments in the tale of The Grey Album, I have suggested that remix is a style of cultural production that can influence the emerging directions of social computing, and that remix activities participate in a “greying” of the Internet itself. But I am not advocating a naïve belief in something like remixism or remixology. And while there might be some wisdom in tapping into the underlying ethos of the remix, there is no inherent virtue that resides inside the act of remixing itself. Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics reminds us of that: “Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”[8] As remixes circulate and amplify around the world there are no guarantees that such acts will be a progressive, trangressive, and generative. Remix, after all, might just stay in the register of “play” and fail to bring about any meaningful social and political change.
However, in closing, I would like to draw attention to a similar historical moment when an artistic movement contributed to meaningful social change. I feel that there are important parallels between the Situationist International (SI) and remix culture.[9] SI and its major innovator, Guy Debord, came out of a critique of the society of the spectacle, and some of its major aesthetic maneuvers, such as detournement, derive and psychogeography, are part of the legacy behind remix culture. And as SI burst into political consciousness in May 1968, one can imagine how remix culture might have similar impacts, if Grey Tuesday is more of the movement’s seedbed rather than its major political flowering. And while this type of stance might be more associated with the ideas of DJ Spooky–an avowedly political DJ–, more than DJ Danger Mouse, the act of DJing has its “virtuous” aspects.
Remix is filled with potential. Remix can resist totalizing narratives and open up texts to new meanings. It can be deeply multicultural. The Grey Album was more than just underground entertainment; it lead to new moments of activism and creative expression. Remix is an activity that can celebrate our diversity, explore our differences, and renew our histories. In these uncertain times, there are more reasons than ever to embrace remix culture and give mix a chance.
[1] http://www.downhillbattle.org/
[2] There is no easy way to confirm how many sites participated, but it was at least in the hundreds.
[3] See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Freaks
[4] See http://www.ramonandpedro.com/
[5] See DJ Spooky Interview with Carlo Simula for his book
MILLESUONI. OMAGGIO A DELEUZE E GUATTARI (Cronopio Edizioni) http://www.djspooky.com/articles/deleuze_and_guattari.php
[6] Bennington, Geoffrey. Lyotard: Writing the Event. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. p. 104
[7] See Time and the Fragmented Subject in Minority Report by Martin Hall in Rhizomes 8, spring 2004. Though it is beyond the scope of this paper, I see Minority Report as a key remix allegory, especially in its innovative gestural interface. In many productive ways, and as I have argued in several of my course lectures, Tom Anderton (Tom Cruise) in Minority Report–though obstensibly a law enforcement officer– is coded as “a DJ” and a remix artist. His remix abilities are the basis of his skill in reading the clues given by the Pre-Cogs. The “Larval Subjects” blog has a great analysis of Hall’s argument if you would like to pursue this line of argumentation further: http://larval-subjects.blogspot.com/2006/11/future-anterior.html
[8] See Plato’s Nichomachean Ethics.
[9] See my previous blog entry on Guy Debord’s Memoires for more on the Situationist International.
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My longest standing friend in this town is married to a wonderful Thai lady and has two precious children so he doesn’t get out much. He gets one day per month to come out and do “bad stuff” with me.
Last week I asked him what he wanted to do. “My wife doesn’t eat beef” he confided. “We can’t even have it in the house”. My mission was clear. We dialed up Uber and headed for Arno’s Butcher Shop and Eatery near Chong Nongsi.
Chef Arnaud Carre, a fifth generation butcher himself, has created the hottest spot in Bangkok for carnivores. Dry aged beef glows inside the well-lit meat case, begging to be eaten as rare as possible.
My friend went weak in the knees. We ordered a 1.6kilo Tomahawk Rib medium rare, chose a reasonably priced Malbec from the wine chiller and headed to our table.
It appears that Arno’s was never intended to be a restaurant. A small dining room was added to the butcher shop, then another and another. It’s has a rustic European vibe that really gets you in the mood to feast. The place was packed with mostly Thai parties, gobbling down Ribeyes and T-bones and even some tasty looking seafood like mussels and lobster.
When the food came to our table, my friend crossed himself and thanked whatever saint it is that looks after oppressed meat-eaters. The meat was flawlessly cooked and served on a sizzling platter with perfect Belgian fries. We ate in blissful silence. We thought about a second bottle of wine but opted to continue to the second leg of our mission.
Big Daddy Benz
Next on my friend’s “things I can’t do at home” list … loud and raucous music. Wouldn’t you guess? … I knew just the place! Apoteka on Sukhumvit Soi 11 looks like an old pharmacy turned into a live music bar because it is. In keeping with our “beefy” theme, we were treated to music from the Thai bluesman known only as “Benz” performing with his band. Benz is a larger than life character (literally) who burst onto the scene on the hit TV Show “The Voice Thailand” in Season 5.
He’s big, he’s flamboyant and he’s talented as hell. Benz can blast through blues classics from Stevie Ray Vaughan and B.B. King, then change gear to jazz and offerup the coolest acoustic rendition of ‘Fly me to the Moon’ you’ve ever heard. Big Daddy Benz jammed through the midnight hour with three sets of electric blues, jazz and good old rock-n-roll.
Afterwards, we staggered into the street with ears ringing and heads swimming when my buddy put his nose to the air and said, “Let’s go this way”. His eyes were wild and I could see he was under the spell of the alluring aroma of sizzling beef once again. “You’re kidding me” I said. “You’re hungry again?” “I have no shame” he chanted.
Apoketa
The marvelous odor was coming from a place that looks like a food truck bolted to a beer bar. The bar is called simply “Brew” and the food was from another local superstar “Daniel Thaiger“. Last year Daniel Thaiger became famous for his spectacular burger creations. As we stood there staring at the simple menu, I got hungry again.
Daniel Thaiger
We ordered and then shuffled inside to see what was “brewing” (pardon the pun … it was late). The little micro-pub was jumping and this kooky 2-man band was playing in a space underneath the stairwell. The band consisted of this good-looking Swedish kid singing, playing guitar and trumpet … all at the same time. His “percussion” section consisted of this skinny Greek guy with an afro beating on anything that would make noise. Somehow the sound really worked and gave this little joint a very infectious groove.
When the burgers arrived a tear came to my eye; they were just that beautiful. Predictable, my Italian friend had the Wagyu beef with bacon and cheese. Mine was lamb with bacon, cheese and a mysterious BBQ sauce that ran between my fingers and down my arm. All I can say is … Daniel Thaiger’s reputation is well-deserved. Best damn burger I’ve had in 10 years.
About 2 AM I stuffed my buddy into a waiting taxi grinning ear-to-ear. “She’ll probably make me sleep on the sofa tonight … I must smell like a butcher shop”. “You do” I said. “The one right next to the brewery”.
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Fri, April 1, 2011: Historic live recording of Steve Reich in 1970.
A live performance of four earlier works by Reich, including Four Organs, My Name Is, Piano Phase and Phase Patterns.
The concert by Steve Reich & Musicians took place November 7, 1970 at the opening of the University Museum, on the University of California, Berkeley campus. This performance marked an important moment in Bay Area new music history with the triumphant return to the East Bay by Reich who studied at Mills with Berio and performed in 1964 in the world premiere of Terry Riley 's "in C" at the San Francisco Tape Music Center.
The resonant acoustics of the concrete interior museum were especially appropriate for Four Organs, with its long additive sustained chords over a maraca pulse. The capacity crowd occupied every conceivable area of the interior space, including walkway ramps suspended over gallery spaces.
An electrifying evening!
(excerpt from Steve Reich at UC Berkeley University Museum (November 7, 1970) )
01 - Four Organs (Steve Reich, 1970) - 15:54
02 - My Name Is (Steve Reich, 1967) - 06:07
03 - Piano Phase (Steve Reich, 1967) - 14:45
04 - Phase Patterns (Steve Reich, 1970) - 17:10
Steve Reich : electric organ (Four Organs, Phase Patterns), piano (Piano Phase)
Art Murphy : electric organ (Four Organs, Phase Patterns), piano (Piano Phase)
Steve Chambers: electric organ (Four Organs, Phase Patterns)
Warner Jepson: electric organ (Four Organs)
Jon Gibson: maracas, electric organ (Four Organs, Phase Patterns)
Release Date: 2011/04/02
Playtime: 54 minutes
Genres: Minimal, Avantgarde, Experimental
Encoding: MP3 (192 kbps)
Sorry, no direct download available of the different music pieces as the original is a radio broadcast with a commentary and I edited out the commentary and extracted the music pieces; and the license holder didn't give me permission to alter it (ND = No Derivative Works). So, this remains a private and personal edit. I keep this information so you can listen or download the radio broadcast yourself from the link below.
Maybe at a later time the licensing situation changes . . . I will make it available of course.
The entire radio broadcast by OtherMinds.org / RadiOM.org from 1971/03/14 :
RadiOM: Steve Reich at UC Berkeley University Museum (November 7, 1970)
License: Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND 1.0)
Four Organs
The rattle of the maracas giving the framework for a slowly walking procession; since the organs to have a hard attack, strong sound, and hard slope and no dynamic, only one loudness - the monotonous nature is given and so the piece doesn't not really provide much dynamic as such. The main development are the short notes becoming longer and overlap while the piece unfolds. It is a meditation on a few notes and their cohesive harmony.
Performers: Steve Reich, Art Murphy, Steve Chambers, Warner Jepson (all playing organs), Jon Gibson (maracas)
Read also at Wikipedia: Four Organs
A participatory piece with the audience; in advance recorded voices are looped and so transcending the ordinary statement "my name is" into an abstract sound patchwork, discovering the rhythmic and melodic aspect of the human voice; and in 1970 using solely tape loops, no synthesizer or sampler. A reflection also about identity - who am I, the name, or the personality expressed in my voice?
Piano Phase
It is said, it is one of the most difficult pieces to perform - multiple pianos playing a loop of notes or sequence and then moving slowly out of sync, creating a phase pattern - e.g. double the speed of rhythm and create complex rhythmic patterns, a core structure of most of Steve Reich's work: The development of simple structure into a complex interwoven structure - for me personal also a theme on How Creation Unfolds or How The One Becomes Many as Plotinus studied and explained once. Hence also my view on Steve Reich being a mystic musician, not just he hears the Cosmic Sound and translates into playeable music (more appearant in his later works, like Music for 18 Musicians), but also retraces the steps how the cosmos got manifested, from the simplicity with the development into complexity, and how little it takes: multiplication and moving out of sync.
Performers: Steve Reich, Art Murphy, Jon Gibson
Phase Patterns
My favorite piece of this live performance; it's truly a shamanic trance inducing music. It reminds me of hindu priests reciting and chanting of sanskrit scriptures: hard, regular and precise rhythm. Jon Gibson spoke in an radio interview of playing percussion on organs, indeed, and with over 17 minutes duration a listening trip. One has to remember it's all played manual, without aid of a sequencer or synthesizer.
Performers: Steve Reich, Art Murphy, Steve Chambers and Jon Gibson (all on organs)
The early works of Steve Reich, which those four pieces represent, show the origin where Reich comes from; his later works became more personal, e.g. jewish identity and holocaust, as well more complex arrangements in sense of music instruments as well increasingly complex rhythmic patterns.
Rene K. Mueller
Archive.org: Steve Reich at UC Berkeley University Museum (November 7, 1970)
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6 get-up-and-go ways to experience Fall’s magnificent foliage
by Mikey Rox
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Experience Mother Nature’s majesty with these make-a-weekend-out-of-it ways to view stunning displays of fall foliage like never before.
1. Cross-country rail trip
When I read about how blogger Derek Low booked himself a cross-country Amtrak trip from San Francisco to New York for $187, I was skeptical. So I reached out to Low — who now helps people like you and me book excursions for a $49 consulting fee (he does all the work for you) — and it’s legit folks.
My trip, which departed October 1 from New York’s Penn Station, cost about $450 with overnight stops in Chicago, Denver, and Salt Lake City. You can still take the 3,400-mile journey for around $200 — where you’ll see the brilliant reds, oranges, and yellows of Autumn, coast to coast, from your cozy coach seat (how many people can say they’ve done that?) — but the lower price is dependent on when you’re traveling and includes no stopovers. I recommend spending the extra cash to get off the train and spend a couple of days in the scheduled cities. Steamworks Baths in Chicago is a great place to unwind after the first 18-hour leg.
2. CityPASS
Aside from being one of the best ways for new and local tourists of an area to enjoy that destination’s main attractions, CityPASS also provides a unique way to encounter exceptional autumn vistas. For instance, you can elevator to Top of the Rock Observation Deck in midtown Manhattan to peer over Central Park — the pinnacle of municipal foliage — as burnt colors cover the green space’s 51 blocks. CityPASS is available in a dozen other cities throughout North America, most of which include opportunities to visit their tallest structures for 360-degree views.
3. LGBTQ camps and wooded resorts
If camping is up your alley, plan a trip to one of the many LGBTQ-focused or gender-exclusive grounds where you can pitch a tent (literally and figuratively) or rent a cabin for a weekend in the great outdoors. Nineteen states across America offer a gay camping experience, information for which is available on GayCampingUSA.com, where you can make friends over fires, participate in traditional camp activities, and take leisurely hikes around the campuses or nearby trails to get up close and personal with fall foliage’s last hurrah.
4. Helicopter and hot-air balloon rides
If you’re a risk taker and adventure lover, consider lifting off to cover grand expanses of changing leaves via helicopter or hot-air balloon. While many areas (especially those in proximity to major cities) offer helicopter rides, hot-air balloon rides are scarcer, but you can find both — and save money — by searching Groupon and other daily-deal sites. You may have to drive a bit to get to the launch locations — hot-air balloons are usually in rural areas, but it’ll be worth the road trip and photo memories that’ll awe all your followers on Instagram.
5. Hiking state and national parks
Head into any of the state and national parks (by car or on foot) that include forestland in a seasonal climate to surround yourself with reach-out-and-touch-it foliage. If you’re crafty, take some of it home with you and DIY a project like leaf napkin rings for your Thanksgiving tablescape, an autumnal welcome sign for your front door, or 28 other fun ideas from Country Living’s “30 Gorgeous Ways to Craft Fall Leaves.” Great for neighborly gifting, too.
6. Road trip
My boyfriend and I are big on road trips, especially in the fall, because we’re both keen on local outdoor festivals, fresh markets and orchards, and anything made from harvest fruits like apple and pumpkin. Recently we spent a weekend discovering South Jersey (because who knew it was so quaint and rural?).
We drove from cute town to even cuter town (you’ll absolutely love Mullica Hill), popping into small shops, beer tastings at craft breweries, eating our weight in donuts from Amish markets, attending a rodeo, and joining festivities, like the Smooch-a-Pooch event we happened upon at the Human Village Brewing Company in Pitman, N.J., to save the lives of three puppies with holes in the hearts. Of course, we smooched all the pooches and enjoyed our drives on county back roads where the trees were just on the cusp of changing. It doesn’t get more romantic than that.
Mikey Rox is an award-winning journalist and LGBT lifestyle expert whose work has been published in more than 100 outlets across the world. He spends his time writing from the beach with his dog Jaxon. Connect with Mikey on Instagram @mikeyrox.
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How Camila Mendes Is Turning Her Past Eating Disorder Into Something ”Positive”
Camila Mendes is “open and upfront” about her past struggles with bulimia.
The Riverdale star gets candid as the cover star of Shape magazine for their Nov. issue, where she discusses her choice to go public with the disorder last year. “It just felt so necessary for me to speak about those things,” Mendes explains to Shape. “I realized that I have this platform, and young women and men who look up to me, and there is a tremendous power to do something positive with it.”
Mendes joins a growing movement of young celebrities who are choosing to embrace their natural shape. She says, “This body-positivity movement we’re having right now is so amazing and it’s helping me so much. I’m seeing all these people I look up to, like Rihanna, open up about their weight fluctuations and loving themselves the way they are. That makes me love myself more too.”
In learning self-love, the actress has learned different methods for staying healthy, like finding time for herself and seeing a nutritionist and therapist.
The nutritionist was actually the one who encouraged Camila to stop dieting and just start eating well. “I was always on some kind of weird diet but I haven’t been on one since. I’m very proud of myself,” she shares.
While her battle with dieting is over, there are some days when she feels a bit insecure. But when she does, she tells herself, “You’re fine. You look good. This is your prime, so enjoy it.”
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Self-bound liquid droplets in free space
March 2018. The LENS team observed the formation of liquid-like droplets in a quantum gas of ultracold atoms in free space. These atomic systems result to be confined on a finite volume even in the absence of any external potential, due to a self-binding mechanism coming from the competition of attractive and repulsive forces in the system. Similarly to the work performed at ICFO, the experimental team at LENS studied quantum droplets in a homonuclear mixture of bosonic atoms, this time removing any external confinement thanks to a novel technique for the levitation of the cloud. In this condition the self-bound clusters that form are spherical in shape, differently also from the dipolar droplets studied in recent experiments [2,3]. The isotropic geometry makes mixture droplets in free space a unique system in the quantum realm. There exists indeed a regime where droplets are predicted to be zero temperature objects, meaning that they cannot live in an excited state, but they are able to dissipate energy by expelling atoms, a phenomenon called self evaporation. In this experiment the LENS group characterizes the properties of spherical droplets as well as the conditions for they formation, finding a very good agreement with the theoretical study that predicted the existence of this quantum phase [4]. This work sets the stage for future studies on spherical quantum droplets, including the predicted phenomenon of self evaporation and the investigation of the droplet excitation spectrum as well as its superfluid properties.
[1] G. Semeghini, G. Ferioli, L. Masi, C. Mazzinghi, L. Wolswijk, F. Minardi, M. Modugno, G. Modugno, M. Inguscio, and M. Fattori, Self-bound quantum droplets in atomic mixtures, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 235301 (2018) .
[2] I. Ferrier-Barbut, H. Kadau, M. Schmitt, M. Wenzel, and T. Pfau, Observation of quantum droplets in a strongly dipolar Bose gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 215301 (2016).
[3] L. Chomaz, S. Baier, D. Petter, M. J. Mark, F. Wächtler, L. Santos, F. Ferlaino, Quantum-fluctuation-driven crossover from a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate to a macrodroplet in a dipolar quantum fluid, Phys. Rev. X 6, 041039 (2016).
[4] D. S. Petrov, Quantum mechanical stabilization of a collapsing Bose-Bose mixture, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 155302 (2015).
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Military Mom Talk Radio hosted by Sandra Beck and Robin Boyd welcome Dr. Suzanne Phillips: Why Couples Disagree About Time, Oct. 8
Suzanne B. Phillips, ABPP, CGP, FAGPA is a licensed Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Diplomat in Group Psychology, Certified Group Therapist and Fellow in the American Group Psychotherapy Association. She is Adjunct Full Professor of Clinical Psychology at the CW Post Campus of Long Island University, N.Y. since 1991 and Postdoctoral Faculty of the Derner Institute of Adelphi University. She on the Board of Directors and is Co-Chair of Outreach for the American Group Psychotherapy Association. She has worked, published and presented nationally and internationally on trauma, couples, uniformed services, bereavement, relationship addiction, etc.
Today we’ll take a look at stress relative to time. When we can’t control time how do we manage energy and stress? Folks are often in deployment cycles waiting (too much time) – while on a day-to-day basis the single parent at home is “out of time.” Research from the corporate world invites people to consider – if you can’t manage time, manage your energy and stress. Time is finite – energy can be expanded and stress can be reduced. How can we expand energy – how can we help children do the same? A related and interesting topic is while everyone knows that couples argue about money, kids and sex, a less visible but stressful topic for couples is “Why Couples Disagree About Time.”
Suzanne is author of three books and over twenty articles. Most recently she co-authored, Healing Together: A Couple’s Guide to Coping with Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress. She has appeared on national TV as well as Radio. She blogs weekly on Psych Central (Healing Together for Couples) and Healthywomen.com. Her blogs have also appeared on Huffington Press and PBS This Emotional Life. In 2012 She was chosen as Psychologist of the Year for the Suffolk County Psychological Association. She has a private practice in Northport, N.Y. where she lives with her husband. She has two grown sons.
This entry was posted on October 8, 2012, in Coping with deployment, Family Matters, Family Therapist, Marriage Counselor, Military Families, Military Spouses, Raising a military family, Recovery, Resources for military families, Support for military families, Veteran support and tagged Air Force Moms, Air Force Talk Radio, Air Force Wives, Armed Services Talk Radio, ArmWives, Army Mom Talk Radio, Army Moms, Army Talk Radio, Boy Scouts, Coast Guard Talk Radio, Facebook, Facebook Military Mom, Fisher House, Girls Scouts, Go Army Homes, Itunes, Itunes Military Mom, Marine Mom Talk Radio, Marine Moms, Marine Talk Radio, Marine Wives, Military Family Radio Show, Military Mom Talk Radio, Military Radio Show, Military Writers Society of America, Navy Mom Talk Radio, Navy Moms, Navy Talk Radio, Navy Wives, Operation Gratitude, PODS, Robin Boyd, Sandra Beck, Shining Service Worldwide, Toginet, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), Twitter, Twitter Military Mom, VA Hospitals, VAMBOA, World of Children, Wounded Warriors More stats. Leave a comment
Military Mom Talk Radio welcomes psychologist Suzanne Phillips and author Bob Doerr
For more information, visit www.couplesaftertrauma.com.
ANOTHER COLORADO KILL is the fourth book in the Jim West mystery/thriller series. In this fast paced story, Jim and friend Edward “Perry” Mason are in route to Colorado Springs to play some golf when they discover a dead body, an apparent murder victim, at a rest stop along the interstate highway. Perry’s stress levels hit the max during the subsequent police interview. He has a heart attack and the golf outing falls apart.
When the police find two more murder victims the next day, both killed with the same weapon that killed the victim whom West had discovered the day before, and the female victim has his name written on a notepad in her purse, their focus on West intensifies.
A Sheriff’s deputy, Lieutenant Michelle Prado befriends West, and the two work together in an effort to find the real murderer. As their relationship develops, West finds himself physically attracted to her, but does she feel the same way?
When the FBI moves in to help out, the pressure to solve the case mounts. West and Lieutenant Prado discover the local murders may be connected to a larger, nationwide FBI investigation into organized crime and political corruption.
For more information, visit www.bobdoerr.com
This entry was posted on August 13, 2012, in Authors of military stories, Coping with deployment, Family Matters, Marriage Counselor, Military Families, Military Spouses, Military Writers, PTSD, Raising a military family, Resources for military families, Support for military families, Veteran support and tagged Air Force Moms, Air Force Talk Radio, Air Force Wives, Armed Services Talk Radio, ArmWives, Army Mom Talk Radio, Army Moms, Army Talk Radio, Boy Scouts, Coast Guard Talk Radio, Facebook, Facebook Military Mom, Fisher House, Girls Scouts, Go Army Homes, Itunes, Itunes Military Mom, Marine Mom Talk Radio, Marine Moms, Marine Talk Radio, Marine Wives, Military Family Radio Show, Military Mom Talk Radio, Military Radio Show, Military Writers Society of America, Navy Mom Talk Radio, Navy Moms, Navy Talk Radio, Navy Wives, Operation Gratitude, PODS, Robin Boyd, Sandra Beck, Shining Service Worldwide, Toginet, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), Twitter, Twitter Military Mom, VA Hospitals, VAMBOA, World of Children, Wounded Warriors. Leave a comment
Military Mom Talk Radio welcomes Dr. Jody Bremer, Linda Jefferson of GoArmyHomes.com, and Debbie Gregory of MilitaryConnection.com
Moving your family from post-to-post comes with the territory of being part of the Army. But it doesn’t have to be stressful or frustrating.
With this in mind, Linda Jefferson founded the national network of GoArmyHomes websites to help smooth a military family’s PCS move. Each site focuses on a particular post and gives you access to Army Family Relocation Specialists* (whether for purchase or rental) who know the area and can help you find the Army Family Friendly™ neighborhoods that best fit your family’s needs.
For more information visit www.goarmyhomes.com
Military Connection is one of the most comprehensive online directories for military, veterans and their family members. The organization’s president, Debbie Gregory, returns to Military Mom Talk Radio to talk about initiatives and resources available to veterans.
MilitaryConnection.com offers something for everyone, with thousands of pages of resources and information. Some of the areas of focus include employment and job resources, education and Post-9/11 GI Bill information, scholarships, benefits, pay charts, news and more.
For more information about Debbie, visit www.militaryconnection.com
Military Mom Talk Radio is co-hosted by Sandra Beck and Robin Boyd with contribution by Doris Rivas-Brekke, hosted by Toginet Radio and powered by Motherhood Incorporated. Military Mom Talk Radio supports and helps bring information to the families, moms and wives of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard and is dedicated to serving our friends and family in the Armed Service. We are proud supporters and members of the Military Writers Society of America as well as proud supporters of Operation Gratitude, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), Shining Service Worldwide, Fisher House and the Girls Scouts of the USA and Boy Scouts of America.
This entry was posted on March 11, 2012, in Family Therapist, Marriage Counselor, Military Families, Military housing, Military Spouses, Raising a military family, Resources for military families, Support for military families, Veteran support and tagged Air Force Mom Talk Radio, Air Force Moms, Air Force Talk Radio, Air Force Wives, Armed Services Talk Radio, Army Mom Talk Radio, Army Moms, Army Talk Radio, Army Wives, Boy Scouts, Coast Guard Talk Radio, Debbie Gregory, Doris Rivas-Brekke, Facebook, Facebook Military Mom, Fisher House, Girls Scouts, Itunes, Itunes Military Mom, Jody Bremer, Linda Jefferson, Marine Mom Talk Radio, Marine Moms, Marine Talk Radio, Marine Wives, Military Family Radio Show, Military Mom Talk Radio, Military Radio Show, Military Writers Society of America, Navy Mom Talk Radio, Navy Moms, Navy Talk Radio, Navy Wives, Operation Gratitude, Robin Boyd, Sandra Beck, Shining Service Worldwide, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), Twitter, Twitter Military Mom. Leave a comment
Military Mom Talk Radio welcomes Jody Bremer, Family Therapist, and Debbie Gregory of Military Connection, October 10th
Jody Bremer is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. She received her Masters of Arts in Clinical Psychology with Emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University, Summa Cum Laude in 2004.
She received her Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University, Magna Cum Laude. Since embarking on her career, Jody has worked with the Irvine School District as a school therapist, concentrating on working with children and families who are suffering from life changes (divorce, death, etc.) and those with Asperger’s Syndrome or other socially challenging needs or skills training.
Jody worked at the Drake Institute, a facility specializing in neurofeedback for the treatment of attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder in children and adults, as well as Asperger’s and autism. She has worked as a case manager/program coordinator and supportive care therapist for families involved in the treatment at this facility.
Jody received a special certification and verification from the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists in Working with Military and Their Families In Private Practice. Servicemen from the Marines, Navy, Army and Air Force are a significant specialty, allowing her to provide personalized care for all of the military members and their families struggling with the specific hardships the military incurs, such as long-term separations, deployments, and PTSD.
Sandra and Robin will also welcome Debbie Gregory of Military Connection, featuring the most comprehensive directory in the country. Military Connection maintains and provides the most up-to-date directory for ex-military, veterans, military spouses and family, and on duty to civilian transitions to use for job search by posting your resume to their online fairs and employment listings. Military Connection is proud to help ex-military search for government jobs, apply for military school, find federal jobs and receive vital information on loans and pay. Visit this amazing resource at www.militaryconnection.com
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Military Mom Talk Radio welcomes Jody Bremer, Family Therapist, and Debbie Gregory of Military Connection, October 10
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Military Mom Talk Radio hosted by Sandra Beck and Robin Boyd presents Jody Bremer and the Insider’s Guide to Dating after Divorce, May 23
Military Mom Talk Radio hosted by Sandra Beck and Robin Boyd presents Jody Bremer and the Insider’s Guide to Dating after Divorce.
Jody can be found at www.jodybremer.com .
She received her certification at this time as a Skills Facilitator and Coach for Active Parenting of Children ages 5-12, and Active Parenting of Teens ages 13-18.
In addition, she has focused for a number of years on working with court-sanctioned substance abusers, ranging from first-time offenders in the PC 1000 group to repeat offenders in the Prop 36 program, offering both individual and group therapy as needed. Jody also worked with domestic violence, offering therapy in crisis capacity to the women and children who sought help at Laura’s House, an immediate and short-term shelter and crisis center for domestic violence victims.
Today, Jody maintains a successful private practice with two offices in Southern California, providing long-term and short-term therapy for individuals, children, couples and families in conflict. She is the author of the book Looking for that Last First Date – an Insiders Guide to Dating after Divorce.
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Military Mom Talk Radio hosted by Sandra Beck and Robin Boyd welcome Sydney Knott of Horses4Heroes, Karen Jeffries of Veterans Moving Forward, and Dr. Rus Jeffrey from General Sarge, October 15
Since 2006, Horses4Heroes, a Las Vegas-based non-profit, has introduced more than 5,000 service men and women to horses and horseback riding, simply because of their sacrifice and service to our country. Horses4Heroes serves all active duty military personnel, veterans, First Responders and their families. Their growing national network of 190 kid-friendly, family friendly equestrian facilities in 43 states plus Canada provide affordable (sometimes free) recreational, instructional and health & wellness programs for all ages, all riding levels and all disciplines. The host facilities provide equestrian programs that emphasize fun and safe activities with horses, mounted and un-mounted for all ages. Participants learn valuable leadership and teamwork skills, make new friends, and develop a lifelong love of horses! Many of the facilities are equine rescues and others offer free programs to all veterans and their families!
Sydney Knott, Founder/President/Executive Director of Horses4Heroes, Inc. is a Santa Barbara-native. She grew up on a steady diet of John Wayne movies, “Gunsmoke,” “Bonanza,” and her favorite books were by Marguerite Henry. Although horses weren’t part of her life, they were her passion since she was a little girl. A public relations professional for the past 30 years, Syd won her industry’s highest honor, The Silver Anvil, for a public relations campaign promoting the Resolution Trust Corporation. In 1999, she fulfilled a lifelong dream to finally own a horse. Her first horse, like her favorite book, was named Misty! It was, however, her father’s diagnosis of terminal lung cancer, that became the catalyst for the creation of Horses4Heroes, a national non-profit dedicated to providing affordable horseback riding programs to the heroes and their families in our communities.
For more information, visit www.horses4heroes.org
Veterans Moving Forward is committed to transforming the lives of physically and mentally challenged veterans, helping them assimilate into society and lead productive and fulfilling lives. Veterans Moving Forward has a unique plan to serve this deserving community – to provide “service” dogs to those who have served our country and who are now in need.
Over 750,000 veterans either currently need or could benefit dramatically from having an assistance/service dog to mitigate his/her disability, and this number will grow. Additionally, strong evidence points to a significant reduction in therapy time, effort and money when dogs are introduced into therapy during recovery and rehabilitation.
Training an assistance/service dog starting today means the dog will be ready for assignment in about two years. Veterans Moving Forward trains dogs to the highest possible level (to serve as either a service, facility, therapy or comfort dog) and then assigns it to a veteran based on the dog’s aptitude and training and on and the veteran’s degree of need at the time of placement or engagement.
Veterans who have partnered successfully with a service dog and recover to greater functionality will be offered an opportunity to work for VMF to serve other veterans in need.
Karen D. Jeffries, president and co-founder of the non-profit Veterans Moving Forward, Inc., is also a management consultant with more than 25 years experience working directly for senior leaders of the federal government and chief executives of commercial corporations in the Washington, DC area. Ms. Jeffries is a retired naval officer and owner of Jeffries Communications Group LLC, a Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned, Small Business (SDVOSB) specializing in marketing, business development and communications
For information on how you can help, visit www.vetsfwd.org
General Sarge “Comforting Military Families One Furry Friend At A Time”
Dr. Rus Jeffrey and his wife Sandra’s son, SPC Benjamin Jeffrey, is currently serving in the U.S. Army stationed at Fort Lewis, WA as part of 11B Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Battalion. He is currently deployed to Afghanistan.
At the age of 10 they gave Benjamin a Christmas Gift Certificate for Build-A-Bear Workshop. For as long as they can remember Ben has always wanted to join the Army. So, it really came as no surprise that he named his bear Sarge and dressed him in an Army uniform. On his 18th birthday in August 2010 Ben joined the Army as an active duty soldier.
Before heading for Basic Training at Fort Benning, GA they gave Sarge a new uniform. Ben instantly recognized that Sarge was promoted to General Sarge. Dr. Rus started taking daily pictures of things General Sarge was doing each day and it has now grown into an organization that “deploys” Build-A-Bear Workshop teddy bears to military children.
General Sarge’s mission has grown beyond the Jeffrey’s living room to a website serving hundreds of military families. Weekly and monthly salutes go out to honor military children, the Gift-A-Bear Campaign including the Fallen Hero Bear and Deployment Bear Mascot programs. Operation B.E.A.R. recruits individuals, businesses and organizations to Bring Encouragement And Recognition as sponsors. Additionally, General Sarge’s Families First Campaign partners with the Fresh Wind Ministries to help offset the traveling expense to a family member so they are able to attend the graduation of their troop from Basic Training.
For information, visit www.generalsarge.com
This entry was posted on October 15, 2012, in Coping with deployment, Military Families, Military Spouses, Raising a military family, Reintegration, Resources for military families, Service animals, Support for military families, Veteran support, Wounded warriors and tagged Air Force Moms, Air Force Talk Radio, Air Force Wives, Armed Services Talk Radio, ArmWives, Army Mom Talk Radio, Army Moms, Army Talk Radio, Boy Scouts, Coast Guard Talk Radio, Facebook, Facebook Military Mom, Fisher House, Girls Scouts, Go Army Homes, Itunes, Itunes Military Mom, Marine Mom Talk Radio, Marine Moms, Marine Talk Radio, Marine Wives, Military Family Radio Show, Military Mom Talk Radio, Military Radio Show, Military Writers Society of America, Navy Mom Talk Radio, Navy Moms, Navy Talk Radio, Navy Wives, Operation Gratitude, PODS, Robin Boyd, Sandra Beck, Shining Service Worldwide, Toginet, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), Twitter, Twitter Military Mom, VA Hospitals, VAMBOA, World of Children, Wounded Warriors More stats. 1 Comment
Military Mom Talk Radio hosted by Sandra Beck and Robin Boyd welcome business coach Bubba Mills, author Janie DeVos, and Joyce Faulkner of Military Writers Society of America
Corcoran Consulting and Coaching is a real estate broker consulting and coaching company focused on growing your business. Corcoran Consulting and Coaching was founded by Bob Corcoran. Bubba Mills, chief operating officer and managing partner, joined Corcoran in February 2011.
“Bubba has been instrumental in the growth of our company since he joined us several years ago to head up our REO coaching division and business development,” says Bob Corcoran, whose clients include 43 of the Top 250 real estate professionals in the country according to the Wall Street Journal and REAL Trends.
Prior to joining Corcoran Consulting & Coaching, Mills was Bubba was the former REO Operations Manager for Financial Asset Services; and has also held the positions as the High Risk Loss Mitigation Manager for Option One Mortgage, Mergers and Acquisitions for WJ Bradley, Wholesale and Retail Origination for First Magnus/Charter Funding and Pool Sales Departments for four major companies.
Corcoran Consulting & CoachingSM is internationally renown for performance coaching and the implementation of sound business systems into the broker or agent’s existing practice.
For more information, visit www.corcorancoaching.com.
Janie DeVos entered How High Can You Fly?, in a national poetry contest, where it received a third place award. She was then invited by River Road Press to have the poem made into a children’s book, and was paired up with illustrator Renee Rejent from Boston, MA. Their combined efforts resulted in the hard-cover picture book, How High Can You Fly?, which is now available in major bookstores, and is also found in libraries and schools throughout the United States and abroad.
In 2003, Janie teamed up with Ms. Nancy Marsh, a South Florida art teacher, to create a second hard-cover children’s picture book; The Path Winds Home. Both books grabbed the attention of a New York publisher, East End Publishing, and in 2006 Janie and East End joined forces to began work on her third and best-selling book to date; Barthello’s Wing. Scholastic Books was interested in including Barthello’s Wing in their American and North American Book Fairs, and asked that it be produced in soft-cover. It was, and to date it has sold over 80,000 copies from its debut in January, 2007.
Janie’s stories teach gentle lessons about love, tolerance and acceptance and appreciation of people’s differences, and recognizing the special gifts that each one of us possesses. They vary in age appropriatness for 3-7 yr. olds. Herby Hoyt and the Tin Can Trees will be coming out next spring; a story about littering and learning to recycle.
Additionally her first adult novel, The Wart Buyer, is coming out in 2013. It is an historical fiction which takes place at the turn of the 20th century in the Blue Ridge Mtns. of North Carolina which is where Janie calls home.
Learn more about Janie at www.janiedevos.com.
For more information about Joyce and her organization, visit www.mwsadispatches.com.
This entry was posted on September 10, 2012, in Authors of military stories, Consulting, Entrepreneurs, Military Families, Military Spouses, Military Writers, Reintegration, Resources for military families, Support for military families and tagged Air Force Moms, Air Force Talk Radio, Air Force Wives, Armed Services Talk Radio, ArmWives, Army Mom Talk Radio, Army Moms, Army Talk Radio, Boy Scouts, Coast Guard Talk Radio, Facebook, Facebook Military Mom, Fisher House, Girls Scouts, Go Army Homes, Itunes, Itunes Military Mom, Marine Mom Talk Radio, Marine Moms, Marine Talk Radio, Marine Wives, Military Family Radio Show, Military Mom Talk Radio, Military Radio Show, Military Writers Society of America, Navy Mom Talk Radio, Navy Moms, Navy Talk Radio, Navy Wives, Operation Gratitude, PODS, Robin Boyd, Sandra Beck, Shining Service Worldwide, Toginet, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), Twitter, Twitter Military Mom, VA Hospitals, VAMBOA, World of Children, Wounded Warriors More stats. Leave a comment
Military Mom Talk Radio welcomes Michael Russer of Live Outrageously, Chris Kerney of Military Vet Jobs, and Author Nancy B. Kennedy
Michael J. Russer continues his series with Military Mom Talk Radio regarding “Change”.
Michael is an author, coach and speaker for the Live Outrageously movement. He strives to help military families and their friends navigate through change, transition and adjusting to a new normal.
With 40 years of corporate, entrepreneurial and life skills experience, he can shed new light onto one of the most common aspects of military life: change.
Chris Kerney of MilitaryVetJobs.com shares their suite of services that help companies nationwide connect with Military Veterans.
MilitaryVetJobs.com acknowledges the value of the technical skill, leadership, and diversity that represent Military Veterans. As a veteran owned organization, we know the unique work experience and qualifications veterans can bring to the workplace. We offer job seekers a community of support and connections to employers seeking qualified, veteran candidates. Our site is free to all members of the military in every branch of the service. Qualified candidates can even sign up using their Facebook logins. We work to connect employers to Military Veterans and their families.
To learn more about our site, please visit www.MilitaryVetJobs.com.
Nancy B. Kennedy worked in newspapers for many years, including a stint as an editor for Dow Jones’s pioneering computer news service in the 1980s. As a financial writer, she worked for many newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times and the online Wall Street Journal, and for the financial services firm Merrill Lynch. As an editor she has worked for such well-respected publishing houses as Princeton University Press and Ecco Press.
Nancy is the author of Miracles and Moments of Grace which brings together fifty heartfelt and inspiring first-person stories from our nation’s military chaplains.
These faith-filled men and women cherish their role as spiritual advisers to our country’s three million active and reserve duty military personnel. Whether fulfilling their military calling in combat situations or in humanitarian missions, deployed or stateside, military chaplains are eyewitnesses to amazing displays of divine intervention, both in small moments of grace and through miracles of breathtaking wonder.
The chaplains’ stories come straight from the headlines: Military chaplains were in Beirut when a truck bomb leveled a military barracks in 1983. They were at the bombing of the Khobar Towers complex in Saudi Arabia in 1996. They were in Mosul, Iraq, when a dining tent filled to capacity with soldiers was bombed in 2004. They were at the Pentagon and the Twin Towers during the 9/11 attacks.
In telling these stories from military chaplains—stories that speak of everything from the loneliness of a Christmas spent far from home to the terror of facing an armed homicidal soldier—this book makes it clear: Military chaplains face some of the darkest moments of the human experience and bring the light of faith with them.
You can read more of Nancy’s work and reach her through e-mail at her website: www.nancybkennedy.com
Military Mom Talk Radio is co-hosted by Sandra Beck and Robin Boyd,hosted by Toginet Radio and powered by Motherhood Incorporated. Military Mom Talk Radio supports and helps bring information to the families, moms and wives of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard and is dedicated to serving our friends and family in the Armed Service. We are proud supporters and members of the Military Writers Society of America as well as proud supporters of Operation Gratitude, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), Shining Service Worldwide, Fisher House and the Girl Scouts of the USA and Boy Scouts of America.
This entry was posted on April 30, 2012, in Emmployment opportunities, Military Chaplains, Military Spouses, Military Writers, Reintegration, Resources for military families, Support for military families, Veteran support and tagged Air Force Mom Talk Radio, Air Force Moms, Air Force Talk Radio, Air Force Wives, Armed Services Talk Radio, Army Mom Talk Radio, Army Moms, Army Talk Radio, Army Wives, Boy Scouts, Chris Kerney, Coast Guard Talk Radio, Facebook, Facebook Military Mom, Fisher House, Girls Scouts, Itunes, Itunes Military Mom, Marine Mom Talk Radio, Marine Moms, Marine Talk Radio, Marine Wives, Michael Russer, Military Family Radio Show, Military Mom Talk Radio, Military Radio Show, Military Writers Society of America, Nancy B. Kennedy, Navy Mom Talk Radio, Navy Moms, Navy Talk Radio, Navy Wives, Operation Gratitude, Robin Boyd, Sandra Beck, Shining Service Worldwide, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), Twitter, Twitter Military Mom. Leave a comment
Military Mom Talk Radio welcomes Linda Franklin of Shining Service Worldwide, Suzy Manning of Sizzzl.com, and Valerie Maine, researcher of post-deployment adjustment issues
Linda Franklin created Shining Service Worldwide™ in November 2010. She says, “it was destiny” The whole idea started to germinate when women serving in Afghanistan emailed her saying that they read Linda’s The Real Cougar Woman blog every day and how powerful they felt when they did. Shining Service Worldwide’s mission is to show appreciation and support to women currently serving in the military, military vets and military spouses. Too often our females in service fall through the cracks and don’t get the attention they deserve, or more importantly, they need.
Linda is visiting Military Mom Talk Radio this week to share new initiatives on the horizon for Shining Service Worldwide, specifically for transitioning women veterans.
Visit Linda at www.shiningserviceworldwide.com.
Suzy Manning has lived into her description at birth from her parents – “tiny, but mighty”. For over 30 years, she has dedicated her life to transforming women’s lives. She believes that life is a journey of personal evolution. Every day we have choice to ask powerful questions to overcome limiting beliefs to create the life we deserve. When a woman pursues her passion, she becomes ageless. Abundance flows into her life as creativity, happiness, relationships, optimal health, and financial freedom!
She has inspired women to feel good in their bodies with her own fitness program. She has facilitated seminars and retreats for women to renew, to re-energize, and to reward themselves for their uniqueness. Her articles on women’s wisdom have appeared in Healing Garden Journal and phenomeNEWS. Wise Women – Circle of Wisdom is her international selling inspirational gift book.
Suzy holds a Masters degree in Agency Counseling from Siena Heights University. Continual immersion in her own self-growth and evolution allows her to connect with others with authenticity and impeccability. Her studies have included shamanism, reiki, massage, enlightened warrior training, train the trainer, millionaire mind intensive, investment and business building, and 4T prosperity. Her motivation comes from her own life’s challenges and realization that all of our stories overlap.
Her personal intent is to empower women to own their magnificence, to ignite their dreams, and to illuminate their beauty, power, wisdom, and leadership in their Sizzzl years of 50+. There is powerful energy at a cellular level in women as we embrace our 60′s, 70′s, and 80′s. It is not a time to be invisible, but a time to be seen and heard. We are the change agents.
Visit Suzy at www.sizzzl.com
Valerie Maine is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Antioch University New England. Valerie received her bachelor’s degree in biopsychology from Oberlin College in 2003 and her master’s of science in clinical psychology from Antioch University New England in 2010. She has worked with veteran and active duty military populations at the United States Coast Guard Academy, the Providence VA hospital, and is currently in training at the William S. Middleton Memorial Hospital (Madison, WI) in the Addictions Disorders Treatment Program, where she works with veterans with a dual diagnosis of PTSD and substance use disorders. Valerie is currently working on her dissertation entitled “The Questionnaire of Post-Combat Couple Adjustment – A Preliminary Validation.” Her research focuses on the experience of couples coping with post-deployment and post-combat adjustment issues.
Valerie is the daughter of a Navy veteran and former United Nations staffer. Because of her father’s work, Valerie grew up in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Italy. Her father traveled often throughout her childhood and her family experienced many of the challenges and joys associated with this kind of lifestyle. These early experiences have shaped Valerie’s interest in post-deployment adjustment issues and are the inspiration behind her current research interests.
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2012 Camp Pendleton, CA Career Expo Information sponsored by Military.com and the NCOA by Doris Rivas-Brekke
I am excited to share with you more important career opportunities from the 2012 Camp Pendleton, Calif. Career Expo Information sponsored by Military.com and the NCOA (Non-commissioned Officers Association)! These companies want to talk to military active duty and veterans about career and educational options.
1. The Lotter Group, www.lottergroup.com, a veteran owned company, focuses on family finance issues. This company loves military people because they follow protocols. Phone 949-253-8500
2. www.uscourts.gov – many jobs available at this site!
3. www.StrategicOperations.com – they actually advertise at their web site for wounded veterans to apply for positions!
Educational Institutions:
1. Pepperdine University- very big name university! These people told me to pass along to our listeners to “not be afraid” to apply here. This university welcomes military people! Ask for Barbara Moore; email: Barbara.moore@pepperdine.edu 310 568-5744. Tell her Military Mom Talk Radio sent you!
2. Southern New Hampshire University- brocheure states the university “ designed to help you advance your military or past service career…has been serving veterans and active duty military members for nearly 80 years…” Reach out to: Gary Pounder, MPA, Major, USAF(Ret.), Director of Military Initiatives; email: g.pounder@snhu.edu
I’ll have more career information in my next article.
– Doris Rivas-Brekke, “News U Can Use” for Military Mom Talk Radio
Military Mom Talk Radio is co-hosted by Sandra Beck and Robin Boyd with contributions by Doris Rivas-Brekke, hosted by Toginet Radio and powered by Motherhood Incorporated. Military Mom Talk Radio supports and helps bring information to the families, moms and wives of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard and is dedicated to serving our friends and family in the Armed Service. We are proud supporters and members of the Military Writers Society of America as well as proud supporters of Operation Gratitude, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), Shining Service Worldwide, Fisher House and the Girl Scouts of the USA and Boy Scouts of America.
This entry was posted on March 7, 2012, in Job Fairs, Military Families, Reintegration, Resources for military families, Support for military families, Veteran support and tagged Air Force Mom Talk Radio, Air Force Moms, Air Force Talk Radio, Air Force Wives, Armed Services Talk Radio, Army Mom Talk Radio, Army Moms, Army Talk Radio, Army Wives, Boy Scouts, Camp Pendleton Career Fair, Coast Guard Talk Radio, Doris Rivas-Brekke, Facebook, Facebook Military Mom, Fisher House, Girls Scouts, Itunes, Itunes Military Mom, Marine Mom Talk Radio, Marine Moms, Marine Talk Radio, Marine Wives, Military Family Radio Show, Military Mom Talk Radio, Military Radio Show, Military Writers Society of America, Navy Mom Talk Radio, Navy Moms, Navy Talk Radio, Navy Wives, Operation Gratitude, Robin Boyd, Sandra Beck, Shining Service Worldwide, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), Twitter, Twitter Military Mom. Leave a comment
Military Mom Talk Radio welcomes Linda Franklin of Shining Service Worldwide, Michael J. Russer of Live Outrageously, and Author Randy Mixter
Michael J. Russer is an author, coach and speaker for the Live Outrageously movement. He is going to help military families and their friends navigate through change, transition and adjusting to a new normal. With 40 years of corporate, entrepreneurial and life skills experience, he can shed new light onto one of the most common aspects of military life: change.
Linda is visiting Military Mom Talk Radio this week to share new initiatives on the horizon for Shining Service Worldwide, specifically for transitioning women veterans. Visit Linda at www.shiningserviceworldwide.com.
Randy Mixter is the author of Letters From Long Binh: Memoirs of a Military Policeman in Vietnam, based on the letters he wrote home to his wife while an MP in Vietnam. The stories found in the book are sometimes humorous, sometimes sad, and sometimes poignant. They tell the tale of a 19-year-old MP in a dangerous place on the other side of the world.
Look for this and Randy’s other books on Amazon, or his website at https://sites.google.com/site/randymixtersbooksite/
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Reiniger, J.L., et al., 2019. Habitual higher order aberrations affect Landolt but not Vernier acuity. JOURNAL OF VISION, 19(5): 11.
Osterloff, J., et al., 2019. Computer vision enables short- and long-term analysis of Lophelia pertusa polyp behaviour and colour from an underwater observatory. Scientific Reports.
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Kluth, T., et al., 2017. Size Matters. Effects of Relative Distance on the Acceptability of Spatial Prepositions. In A. Shestakova, et al., eds. The 10th Annual Embodied and Situated Language Processing. Moscow, Russia: Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, Higher School of Economics, pp. 26.
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N availability, soil microbial biomass and β-glucosidase activity as influenced by the decomposition of nine plant residues during soil fertility improvement in Ghana
Partey, Samuel T., Zougmore, Robert B., Thevathasan, Naresh V., Preziosi, Richard F.
Pedosphere 2017
Acacia auriculiformis, Albizia zygia, Gliricidia sepium, Leucaena leucocephala, Tithonia diversifolia, Zea mays, beta-glucosidase, calcium, half life, lignin, magnesium, microbial biomass, mineralization, nitrogen, nitrogen content, phosphorus, plant residues, polyphenols, potassium, soil, soil fertility, soil microorganisms, Ghana
This study wasconducted to determine how the litter quality and decomposition of nine species (Acacia auriculiformis, Albizia zygia, Azadiractha indica,Baphia nitida, Gliricidia sepium, Leucaena leucocephala, Tithonia diversifolia, Senna spectabilis and Zea mays) influence soil N availability, microbial biomass and β-glucosidase activity during soil fertility improvement. The results on plant residue chemistry showed significant differences among species with N concentration ranging from 12.2 g kg−1 in Z. mays to 39.2 g kg−1 in B. nitida.C/N ratio was greatest in Z. mays (34.4) while lignin and polyphenol concentrations were greatest in A. auriculiformis. The highest decomposition rate (0.251% day−1) occurred in T. diversifolia and least in A. auriculiformis, A. zygia, B. nitida and Z. mays with half-lives of between 28 – 56 days. Similar to the results on decomposition, between 80 to 89% of N, P, K, Ca and Mg were released from T. diversifolia within 7 days compared with more than 70% retention in A. auriculiformis, B. nitida and Z. mays. Moreover, the half-lives of decomposition and nutrient release of G. sepium, L. leucocephala, A. indica and S. spectabiliswere within 14 days. Mineral N, soil microbial biomass and β-glucosidase activities increased in all treatments with T. diversifolia recording the greatest effect. While N mineralization occurred in all species throughout the experiment, an initial N immobilization was recorded in A. zygia, B. nitida, A. auriculiformis and Z. mays treatments for up to 14 days. Further, the results showed the decomposition, nutrient release rates, mineral N, soil microbial biomass and β-glucosidase activities were dependent on litter quality. Phosphorus, lignin, lignin/N ratio and (lignin + polyphenol)/N ratio were most influential based on significant (p = 0.05) results.
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Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals distinct ethylene–independent regulation of ripening in response to low temperature in kiwifruit
Asiche, William O., Mitalo, Oscar W., Kasahara, Yuka, Tosa, Yasuaki, Mworia, Eric G., Owino, Willis O., Ushijima, Koichiro, Nakano, Ryohei, Yano, Kentaro, Kubo, Yasutaka
BMC plant biology 2018 v.18 no.1 pp. 47
1-methylcyclopropene, accelerated ripening, ambient temperature, ethylene, ethylene production, gene expression regulation, genes, kiwifruit, propylene, ripening, storage temperature, titratable acidity, total soluble solids, transcriptomics
BACKGROUND: Kiwifruit are classified as climacteric since exogenous ethylene (or its analogue propylene) induces rapid ripening accompanied by ethylene production under positive feedback regulation. However, most of the ripening–associated changes (Phase 1 ripening) in kiwifruit during storage and on–vine occur largely in the absence of any detectable ethylene. This ripening behavior is often attributed to basal levels of system I ethylene, although it is suggested to be modulated by low temperature. RESULTS: To elucidate the mechanisms regulating Phase 1 ripening in kiwifruit, a comparative transcriptome analysis using fruit continuously exposed to propylene (at 20 °C), and during storage at 5 °C and 20 °C was conducted. Propylene exposure induced kiwifruit softening, reduction of titratable acidity (TA), increase in soluble solids content (SSC) and ethylene production within 5 days. During storage, softening and reduction of TA occurred faster in fruit at 5 °C compared to 20 °C although no endogenous ethylene production was detected. Transcriptome analysis revealed 3761 ripening–related differentially expressed genes (DEGs), of which 2742 were up–regulated by propylene while 1058 were up–regulated by low temperature. Propylene exclusively up–regulated 2112 DEGs including those associated with ethylene biosynthesis and ripening such as AcACS1, AcACO2, AcPL1, AcXET1, Acβ–GAL, AcAAT, AcERF6 and AcNAC7. Similarly, low temperature exclusively up–regulated 467 DEGS including AcACO3, AcPL2, AcPMEi, AcADH, Acβ–AMY2, AcGA2ox2, AcNAC5 and AcbZIP2 among others. A considerable number of DEGs such as AcPG, AcEXP1, AcXET2, Acβ–AMY1, AcGA2ox1, AcNAC6, AcMADS1 and AcbZIP1 were up–regulated by either propylene or low temperature. Frequent 1–MCP treatments failed to inhibit the accelerated ripening and up–regulation of associated DEGs by low temperature indicating that the changes were independent of ethylene. On–vine kiwifruit ripening proceeded in the absence of any detectable endogenous ethylene production, and coincided with increased expression of low temperature–responsive DEGs as well as the decrease in environmental temperature. CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that kiwifruit possess both ethylene−dependent and low temperature–modulated ripening mechanisms that are distinct and independent of each other. The current work provides a foundation for elaborating the control of these two ripening mechanisms in kiwifruit.
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In 1940, John Barry, the Calcutta Journalist, finds Calcutta “admirably served in the matter of ‘lungs’. There is no part which is not provided with a park or open space.” Besides the vast green of the Esplanade around the new Fort William, there have been as many as seven parks in the south of Tank Square, the Eden Gardens being the prettiest of them all. It served as the Promenade of Calcutta as Perrin’s Garden did long back in 1740s.
Garden City Calcutta
Calcutta has gardens of varying descriptions and many luxurious garden houses of upscale European and native families; a few of those turned later into institutional gardens like Horticultural Garden and Zoological Gardens. Two of the oldest gardens, Perrin’s Garden and Surman’s Garden were the most inviting entertainment grounds for the early English genteel in Calcutta.
The Perrin’s Garden at the extreme north of the town, now Bag Bazar, was named after Captain Perrin, owner of several ships. Perrin’s Garden was a pleasure resort, once the height of gentility for the Company’s covenanted servants to take their ladies for an evening stroll or moonlight fête. [Long. It began to be less frequented when the English left Sutanuti. By 1752 it was altogether out of use and sold out for Rs. 25,000.. The other old garden, Surman’s Garden, lay at the extreme south of the town. Surman owned both Belvedere House and its garden which were sold on his behalf by public auction to Captain Tolly. It was afterwards purchased by Hastings for the Governor’s garden-house. [Calcutta Census 1905]
Between Government House and Garden Reach there was a broad open plain, about 150 acres in extent, called the Esplanade or maidan in Hindustani. It was laid out with fine broad macadamized roads, bordered with trees. The space between the roads is plain turf. As seen in Thacker’s Guide of 1906, the Calcutta Gate of Fort William.
Strand Road west of Eden Gardens. Photographer: Samuel Bourne. c1868
leads out in a straight line to the Eden Gardens at the north-west extremity of the Maidan, bounded on the north by Auckland Road and on the west by Strand Road. [Thacker’s 1906] On Strand Road where the Bank of Bengal now stands, the native boatmen careened their craft at Cutcha- goody Ghaut before the English occupation. Later, when Supreme Court stationed in Calcutta, an avenue of trees marked this spot along the river-bank up to the Creek as King’s Bench Walk. A more elegant avenue was planted by the Lottery Committee stretching from Chandpal Ghaut to the New Fort, known as Respondentia Walk. [Blechynden] The Calcutta society took their constitutional, evening after evening, while the more wealthy drove round in palanquins —facetiously called “coach and four ” —or chaises. Others still went up and down the river in budgerows, over exactly the same ground as their successors do in carriages or motors ; for the Hughli at that date flowed along what is now the Strand. [Minney]
Strand Road north of Eden Gardens. Photographer: Samuel Bourne. c1868
The Strand Road was laid on the land resulted from alluvial deposit. The Municipality contributed largely in the reclamation of this valuable land, or chur (চর) by depositing the sweeping of the town upon the alluvium so formed for many years. In 1848, the sweeping, which were reported to cause a nuisance, were covered up and consolidated by the Municipality. The property became valuable and the income formed the Strand Bank Fund, which was utilized by Government not only for improving itself but for draining and painting trees on the Maidan, the Eden Gardens, and works on the Esplanade. The Lottery Committee constructed Strand Road and Strand Bank , in 1820-21,that passed through two Zamindaries, Calc utta and Sootanaty. [Friends of India. 8 Sept.1853]
The Calcutta society took their constitutional, evening after evening, while the more wealthy drove round in palanquins , facetiously called “coach and four “, or chaises. Others still went up and down the river in budgerows, over exactly the same ground as their successors do in carriages or motors; there were no Eden Gardens, which came nearly half a century occupying most of the old walks. [Minney]
There are different unverified stories about acquisition of the land. According to some, it was Babu Rajachandra Das (Marh) who gifted it to Lord Auckland [Wiki]; some suggested Auckland himself purchased a plot for the garden in 1841 [Ency Date]. Whatever might be source of procurement, it is obvious that Auckland tended the garden when it formed part of the Governor’s Estate. [BL Annotation to Band Stand Photo by Malitte]
That the Eden Gardens is named after Emily and Fanny Eden is now a common knowledge, but a few know why it was not after their brother George Eden instead. Something similar happened with the Barrackpore Eden School which was established and grew under personal care of Lord Auckland, often erroneously credited to Emily Eden. Around 1842 the Eden Gardens of Calcutta came into existence with the name Auckland Circus Gardens, or just ‘Auckland Garden’. We are yet to know when it adopted the new name ‘Eden Gardens’ and why the change needed at all. {Ency. Indian Dates} Some believed that the makers of the Gardens being ‘inspired by Garden of Eden in the Bible’, changed its name. What we gather from the words of Curzon and Cotton, that it were Misses Eden, the sisters of Lord Auckland, whose ‘liberality and taste’ contributed most in making the gardens to benefit Calcutta society [Cotton] . Unfortunately, their claims appear somewhat inconsistent with the details Emily recorded in her Letters from India.
Emily and Her Sister
Miss Emily Eden. Portrait Artist: Simon Jacques Rochard. 1834
There is no denying that Edens had a genuine love for gardening. Gardens were their means to secure Englishness in India. At each of their houses in Calcutta, Barrackpore, and Simla, George and Emily made sure they had a garden. But the letters Emily Eden left with us provide little or no indication to establish her involvement in making Eden Gardens. Emily’s ‘new garden’, which comes up frequently in her correspondences, refers to the Park Gardens, or the Ladyship Garden at Barrackpore where she stayed mostly, happily engaged in overseeing her ‘new garden turning out very pretty, observing that her plants doing a great deal in six weeks, enquiring about the Gloriosa–superb growing almost wild there. [August 2. (Finished August 9), 1836] – all these mentions were about their private garden in Barrackpore where she planted seven hundred flowering plants that Dr Wallich of the Botanical Garden gifted. This was the garden the two sisters and their brother George Eden had built for enjoying privately their Englishness in continuity of their Greenwich days. Historically, Emily and Fanny Eden had no more than accidental relations with Eden Gardens and, if any, that should be hardly enough to justify changing of the name of Auckland Circus Park into Eden Gardens, in other words, replacing Lord Auckland with the names of his two sisters in public mind for some external reasons .
We have also difficulty in accepting Eden sisters as liberal-minded as Curzon and Cotton suggest disregarding their highly opinionated conservative mind-set uncovered in great many private letters Emily.
“Eden’s place in English society developed out of a permanent class hierarchy, from birth. Being dropped into the contrasting classes of Anglo-Indian society made Eden psychologically uncomfortable”. In fact, hardly ever Emily minded her language in expressing her aversions, as we see in her letter of 24th March 1824, Emily describes their dinner with Anglo-Indian guests: ”have great dinners of 50 people, ‘fathers and mothers unknown’, to say nothing of themselves”. March 24, 1836. Eden sisters were upset seeing the loss of British identity in those white people of Calcutta. They abhorred ‘the black naked creatures’ – the native Indians. The status and prestige Emily enjoyed as George’s sister made her “royalty” among the inhabitants of Calcutta, yet unlike their brother George they detested Calcutta, and sometimes thought India a barbarous country.
George Eden, Earl of Auckland
George Eden, earl of Auckland was different being liberal and concerned for the welfare of the people many of the stiff neck Britons looked down, as did his two sisters. He was known as ‘Cold-mannered, reticent, shy, good-natured, robust of figure, disliking all pomp and parade, and delighting in regular official work’. He was said to be least fitted to organize wars and gain victories. He took charge as Governor- General of India in 1836. During his tenure, the first Anglo-Afghan war gave a severe blow to British Prestige in India. He was termed as most unsuccessful Governor–General of India and is known for his follies in Afghan wars. Though Auckland was found “least fitted to organize wars”, he “eminently fitted by temperament and long experience to discharge the most exacting duties of quiet times,”[Trotter] The then British authority, as we see, preferred a war-hero to a good statesman in India. Auckland was called back in 1842 as a failure notwithstanding the immense good he had done for India and its people.
Earl of Auckland, George Eden. Portrat Artist: Simon Jacques Rochard. c1843
During his six year administration Auckland amply proved his will and ability to improve the living conditions and opening opportunities for self development. Launching the Fever Committee programs, introducing the basics of municipal governance, abolishing Pilgrimage Tax, empowering religious endowments, improvement of the medical and general education, extending government scholarship to studying Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian, designing Slavery Act of 1843, are some of his lasting contributions to the colonial India, Calcutta in particular. Lord Auckland’s despatches and State papers impressed Fitzgerald, as President of the Board of Control. He perceived, Auckland “was, with the sole exception of Lord John Russell, by far the ablest member of his party; his views most statesmanlike, and his government of India particularly just.’ “If modern Calcutta has ever a thought to give to the citizens who have made her what she is, she will find many a name worthy of honour among those who recognized Moira and Bentinck and Auckland and Dalhousie as king in turn.”[Cotton] The new Viceroy astonished the inhabitants by showing himself on foot at times and places where he would be least expected. ‘He walked,’ says his private secretary, “to the Eden Gardens in the gloom of these January evenings, and, like the Sultan in the Arabian Nights, heard with amusement or with interest remarks about him as he mingled with the crowd. [Thaker’s Guide to Calcutta 1906]
As already said, Auckland loved gardens, and that wherever he lived maintained a garden there. Government House apart, Auckland had owned one of the most magnificent Garden houses, the Belgachia Villa, which later passed to the hands Dwarkanath Tagore. Auckland’s deep sense of living in harmony with nature prevented him to sanction a plot of ground “at the south-east corner of the enclosure of Tank Square ”for the purpose of erecting Imperial Library. He thought that those spaces of the town which are appropriated to light and ventilation ought not to be given up for purposes of building.” [Cotton]
So far what I have said is only to suggest that George Eden had by far the most appropriate candidature for being the ‘Eden’ of the Eden Gardens, previously called Auckland Circus Garden, or simply ‘Auckland Garden’, though it is being said in chorus that the garden was named after ‘Emily and Fanny Eden’.
A Garden of Eden
The garden was the best of its kind in English colonial states. The Eden Gardens along the river’s bank had been a place of “great show of fashionables out for the purpose of enjoying a drive— ‘eating the air’ (howa-khana) as the Indians express it.” [Carey] Entering the Strand Road we turn to the North, and on our right we pass the Eden Gardens. A large space has been turfed and is well patronized by hundreds of citizens who may be seen taking their evening exercise on the green sward. [Cotton] Thirty years ago, the evening walk in the Eden Gardens was sacred to the Calcutta elite, and, if not in uniform, one had to assume a top hat and frock-coat in order to mingle there with the great ones of the land. Then a wave of liberal sentiment break the order, and the pleasure of listening to the military band discoursing sweet music ceased to be a monopoly for Europeans. The hierarchy since then has not patronized the Gardens as in the days of old. [Thaker’s 1906] The Eden Gardens complex sprawls over a lush green land of 50 acres many gardens, lakes, a Pagoda and a Bandstand of special historical importance. The gardens themselves are laid out with winding paths and artificial water, interspersed with a profusion of flowering trees and shrubs. A pleasanter place for a morning or evening stroll cannot be found. The portion devoted to promenading is well illuminated with the electric light [Carey]
The prettily decorated Pagoda and its reflection on the adjacent lake water was a favourite spot of the visitors. This Burmese Pagoda, a specimen of Tazoungs architecture, was built in 1852 in Prome by Ma Kin, wife of the then Governor. It was then removed from Prome after the Burmese War in 1854, and re-erected here in 1856. Within the Pagoda there was an image of Gautama Buddha with its forehead set with precious stones, used by Buddhist Priests for worship. [Thaker’s 1906] The lake alongside the Pagoda, where giant lilies bloom in plenty, is a pleasing sight. For the happy holiday-makers there were two rowing boats, very appropriately named Adam and Eve. These can be hired at the rate of four annas per head per hour. [Barry 1939/40] Round the whole is a broad grassy ride for equestrians, enclosed by shady walks and plantations. [Carey]
Town Band & Operatic Culture
Thanks to the fact that Calcutta was the seat of the Governor-General, brass bands had been of enormous import since the city’s earliest days. The town’s regimental bands, or the Governor-General’s own private band, had initially provided Calcutta with this public music. Curzon reminded us that for the first time the Governor General’s Band was played at his Party in the new Government House to celebrate the King’s Birthday on 4th June, 1803. But it was much later in 1820s a separate Band for the Vice-Roy was formed on assured basis. Since then ‘visitors to Government House have always noticed and as a rule expressed much admiration for, the Viceroy’s Band. Emily Eden, writes on 16 March 1836:
Bengal Levee- a tradition. Lord Cornwallis shown in a crowd of sycophans. Artist: Gillray James. 1782
“To-night there was the concert, at which the natives came, besides all the same society that was at the ball. Fanny said there was nothing very splendid about the rajahs. I heard the music in my bedroom, and it did not sound ill. Our own band is a very good one, and plays every evening when we have company.” [Emily 16Mar1836]
In the late 1850s, after the Rebellion, promenade band concerts became a regular part of White Town life. By August 1861, the concerts had grown in popularity and the more musical residents of Calcutta established a Town Band that entertained the town each night. A large sheltered bandstand was erected in the Eden Gardens. By the winter of 1861-62, the Town Band had become a musical and social institution; evenings would find the bandstand occupied by the Town Band, an ensemble of twenty-five performers supported entirely through voluntary private donations, with crowds of townsfolk coming in carriages, on horseback or on foot to listen. The Band’s best contributions to operatic culture were the regularity of its offerings and its low-cost. [Calcutta Premiere]
The repertoire for each day’s concert was published in the morning edition of several Calcutta newspapers, including The Englishman. Although the individual pieces varied each day, the programmes followed a fairly standard formula: one or two opera overtures, a dance such as quadrille, waltz or march, an arrangement of an operatic set-piece, an arrangement of a British ballad or song, especially of a patriotic nature, and occasionally an arrangement of a parlour song or Hindoostannie (sic) air. We find Sisir Bhaduri, the maestro of Bengali theatre, staged DL Roy’s Sita at the Eden Gardens during Christmas in 1923. [Christiansen] The recitals of the city’s professional musicians and the daily promenade concerts given by the Town Band were invaluable contributors to Calcutta’s operatic culture.
The Statue of Auckland
This noble statue of Lord Auckland was installed in the Eden Gardens, or the Auckland Circus Garden as it was called then. Facing the river, the statue remained prominently visible from strand. The height of the statue itself is about 8 feet 6 inches; and on the whole, including pedestal, 20 feet only. The casting, as well as the model, was sculptured by Henry Weekes, R.A. The monument was complete in 1848. A fee of £.2000 was paid to the sculptor from the fund collected by the people of Calcutta for making the statue of the Earl after his departure from India as a token of their love and gratitude.
Earl of Auckland. Marble Statue. Sculptor: Henry Weekes, R.A. 18481848
The statue of George Eden comes in view when one walks past the Burmese Pagoda and close to the northern gate. The inscription on the pedestal upon which it stands declares that the statue was erected by men, of whom some were the instruments of his government, of whom many knew that government only by its benign effects, all of whom agreed in the affectionate desire to perpetuate the memory of the six years during which be ruled the destinies of British India — for this just reason that, throughout the whole course of those years, he laboured earnestly and unremittingly to make security from rapine and oppression, freedom of internal trade, the medical science of Europe, the justice which is blind to distinctions of race, and the moral and intellectual affluence which it opens, a common and perpetual inheritance to all the nations who inhabit this Empire. 1848.” [Steggles] It was ‘an almost fantastic panegyric’, Curzon commented, and regretted that the name of Auckland was forgotten in Calcutta by then, ‘except the Eden Gardens, which Calcutta owed to the liberality of his sisters, and for its own statue’. [Curzon, v2] Today, none of those two, the Eden Gardens and Auckland’s statue, survives to bear out the loving memory of the Earl in this city. It seems Auckland was covertly stripped of everything he achieved while in India because of some untold sins he committed –failure in Afghan War, or for some good he did for Indian people that proved bad for the British interest. It might also be a streak of his character. As Charles Greville, who knew him well, found in him some very best qualities for a statesman but ‘a certain diffidence in his own judgment, a diffidence which was soon to lead him, his party, and his country, into disaster. [Trotter]
Firstly, Auckland Park lost its definite identity by changing its name into Eden Gardens in an attempt to cut off Auckland from Calcutta people very unkindly, indeed. The new name convenience spreading of the make-belief story, that it was a gift to the townsfolk due to liberality of the Eden sisters, who had been in real life conservative British aristocrats utterly disrespectful to the native Indians and Anglo-Indians on different counts.
View of Eden Gardens and its Burmese Pagoda. Photographer: Hoffman and Johnston. 1865Besides Auckland’s statue, there had been two other monuments located in Eden Gardens. On its north side, the grave of Charlotte, Lady Canning was buried and remained there until moved to Barrackpore Park. On its south side stood the statue of the Naval Commander William Peel until reinstalled at Temple of Fame, Barrackpore. No memorials of Emily and Fanny Edens ever installed to acknowledge their supposed involvement in making of the garden. The statue of Auckland that stood in Calcutta from 1848 was taken away to Auckland City in 1969, after a short stay in Victoria Memorial Hall being a part of its statuary collection. The cost of transportation and its erection on site was arranged and financed by the New Zealand Insurance Co. Ltd. as a gift to its home city. Calcutta bade adieu to the last of Auckland.
A Paradise Lost
The garden that was steadily being developed since early 1840s under the care of Lord Auckland and his successors into an enchanting sphere of natural beauty and peace for the people of Calcutta, encountered a threat in 1864. The Calcutta Cricket Club, after many refusals of their prayer to the successive Governors-General obtained permission to move to the eastern end of the Eden Gardens. The garden authorizes did never mind accommodating such events as of Bengal Lawn Tennis Championship, Kennel Club Dog Shows, Presidency Sports, Rowing Club boating, but not a game that may ruin the delicate natural atmosphere and its exquisite garden architecture with the tumult of the maddening crowd from the stadium. The stadium has since grown into a large walled realm larger than Roman coliseum ruled predominantly by the law of fashion, entertainment and commerce in the name of sports. It was an unholy marriage that ultimately reduced the Eden Garden, once so much loved, next to nothing but its name, which now stands for:
”a cricket ground in Kolkata, India established in 1864. It is the oldest cricket stadium in India. It is the home venue of the Bengal cricket team and the IPL franchise cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders, and is also a venue for Test, ODI and T20I matches of the India national cricket team. The stadium currently has a capacity of 68,000.” [Wikipedia]
This shows how we like to redefine our past and ourselves giving a damn to our roots.
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Calcutta on Hooghly c1750s by unknown artist. From: Journal of a Resident by Maria Graham. 1812
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This article aims to distinguish some of the myths and realities concerning early township of Calcutta grown around the English factory – ‘the Fort William’, as designated afterwards.
Calcutta chronology tells a tale of two cities. The Fort-city of Calcutta was lost in 1756 Battle of Lalbagh. How the New Calcutta resurrects on the ashes of war under the governance of Warren Hastings and his successors with generous support of public contributions has been elaborated in archival records, books and journals, paintings and photographs. In contrast, our knowledge of the fort-city remained next to nothing. Calcutta during the first half of the eighteenth century belongs to the ‘dark age of British India’. Little was apparent about happenings of that time. There was no newspaper to print local news, no Government Gazette for public notifications, no historical maps to indicate growth. There were few fascinating travel accounts to speak of Calcutta and its people, besides some faithfully depicted original paintings representing Calcutta in pre-camera days.
Between the fag end of the 18th century and early 19th century plentiful authentic resources were made available to scholars. Henry Yule researched the Diary of Robert Bruce, enlightening us of the early English settlers until 1707. Henry Barry Hyde’s compilations of the India Office records of the 17th and 18th centuries proved to be an indispensable resource of learning Calcutta’s past. We learnt from James Long the socio-political conditions of Calcutta 1748 onwards. Later, the works of Lord Curzon, and Professor Charles Robert Wilson, bridged up the remaining gap of four decades (1707 to 1748) – the focal point of our current discussion.
Emperor Shah Alam hands a ‘Sanad’ granting Trading Right to Robert Clive. Artist: Benjamin West
The English merchants had a tough time in their first forty years for securing commercial opportunities in India. After 1640s, English industrialism compromised that plain and simple target with militarism. They wasted next two decades, from 1661 to 1685, in war, either with native powers, or with interloping adversaries, besides intra-group rivalry. The phase ended up in a state of flux. The English traders wondered from one trade station to other following wavering Company directives. A nishan was received from Prince Azim-ush-shan for a settlement of the Company’s rights at Sutanuti. Charnock left Hughli for Sutanuti on the 23rd December , and on the basis of nishan, rented the three adjoining towns, on 29 Dec. 1686. The name, ‘Calcutta’ was first mentioned on June 22 1688 in a letter of Charles Eyre and Roger Braddyll from Dacca to Agent Job Charnock. The Court of Directors had sanctioned the construction of a factory, as far back as February 1689, that took few years to implement. Interestingly, over a year before Charnock paid his second visit in November 1687, the English settlers had built a factory in Sutanuti, without waiting for formal approval. We learnt from Hyde –“Heath on the 8th of November embarked Charnock and all his Council and subordinates on board his vessels, and so abandoned the Sutanuti factory buildings [my emphasis] to be pillaged by the natives.” [See Hyde] Therefore it seems historically wrong to accept the old Fort William as the first English factory of Sutanuti / Calcutta.
REMAINS OF OLD FORT WILLIAM. Source: Old Fort William / CR Wilson
The year 1690 started with a new beginning for settlers. Job Charnock made foundation of the Company’s future in India. The English established trade in Bengal with the consent of the native government. Finally, the English left Hughli – their first foothold in Lower Bengal since 1651, and reached Sutanuti on August 25, 1690 in a stormy day. ‘They live in a wild unsettled condition at Chuttanuttee [sic]. As reported on May 1891, there had been neither fortified houses nor Goedowns [sic], but ‘tents, huts and boats’ for the settlers. It was ‘partly through the good-will of the inhabitants’, the English succeeded in settling at Sutanuti against so many odds. The next nine years had been relatively a dull period. Charnock died. Sir John Goldsborough, the Commissary-General and Chief Governor of the Company’s settlements, arrived at Calcutta on August 12, 1693. He was quick to find that Charnock and his Council had never marked out any site for building the factory, which the Court of Directors had sanctioned as far back as February 1689. Instead he was shocked that people building houses wherever they pleased, even on the most suitable locations for a factory. He ordered for enclosing a piece of land with a mud wall where a factory to be set up on receiving the royal parwana for fortification. The long delayed permission to build a fort was virtually conceded by the Nabob, owing to the insurrection of Rajah Subah Sing in 1696. [ See Ray] The plot might not be an empty ‘piece of land’ but having a structure within. More likely it was the same house which Sir John acquired from certain Mr. Walshes for the Company, ‘intended to bring in the Accomptant [sic] and Secretarie [sic] and the books and papers in their charge within the brick house’. We are yet to know who Mr. Walshes was, and how and when he owned this brick house. So far we gather, the only conspicuous masonry building Charnock acquired was the Cutcherry of Jagirdar. C R Wilson in a footnote conveyed his doubt of its verity. He writes, “It is said that the nucleus of the Calcutta factory was the zamindari kachalirl [sic], or office of the Mazumdars, near the great tank, which they gave up to the English.” This story however rests on tradition. There was nothing to support it in Sir John Goldsborough’s letter, or elsewhere in records, so far we know. He added another note saying: “As for the story that the agent of the Mazumdars, a Portuguese named Antony, was whipped out of the enclosure by Job Charnock, this, I should think, was contradicted by the fact that the enclosure was made by Sir John Goldsborough after Job Charnock’s death. If anyone whipped Portuguese Antony out of the place, it was Sir John Goldsborough.” [ See Wilson 1906] As time went by, the number of masonry buildings increased. [See Ray] No wonder, Walshes’ might be one of those constructed later.
Curzon, conversely, made the story simpler for us to follow: “Goldsborough purchased a house for the Company, which was a poor structure of brick and mud, and ordered it to be surrounded by a wall, i.e. to be converted into a fort, as soon as permission could be obtained. Charles Eyre, whom he had appointed agent in place of the incompetent Ellis, moved into this abode, which may therefore I suppose be regarded as the first Government House of Calcutta. Its site is said to have been the strip of land, north of the present Custom House, where the ‘Long Row‘ stood in the later Fort.” [See Curzon] Nabob’s parwana for building fortified factory finally arrived in 1696. Goldsborough died mean time, and his dream house remained ignored while constructing the Fort. Yet, as it appears from Curzon’s description, that was the edifice, which should be called ‘nucleus of the Calcutta factory’ and not the zamindari kachalirl [sic]’ [Footnote.Wilson OldFort] which was spotted at the present location of Lalbazar Police Station, outside the boundary of the Old Court House.
THE OLD FORT LOCALE
View of Fort Calcutta. Details not known. Courtesy: Gettyimaages
In 1696, Nabob’s parwana in hand, Charles Eyre and John Beard, Junior, proceeded to build the fortified factory with great circumspection as the Board wished. Gradually the walls and bastions were raised. The position of the erection was the space between Fairlie Place and Koila Ghat Street in modem Calcutta. The ground was subsequently occupied by the Custom House, the Calcutta Collectorate, the Opium Godowns, and the General Post Office. On its Eastern side was Lal Dighi, then known as the Park or Tank Square. The name of the Park was originally ‘The Green before the Fort’, and afforded the residents of the fort a place for recreation and amusement. [See Carey] On the West the River Hugli, which laved the walls of the Fort, was at least 250 yards further inland than its present channel. [ See puronokolkat.com/old fortwilliam for more]
When the construction completed in 1706, it was called the Factory or the Governor’s House. To Captain Alexander Hamilton, who visited Calcutta three years later, the Governor’s House in the Fort was ‘the best and most regular piece of architecture’. [See Hamilton] We also know from Hamilton that the Governor had ‘a handsome house in the Fort’, and the Company kept up ‘a pretty good garden’ for furnishing the Governor herbage and fruits at table, and some fish ponds to serve his kitchen with good carp, callops and mullet’. Perhaps the tank was one of the fish ponds, and the garden may have formed the Park or Tank Square.
With the construction of the fort at its site, and the reclamation of the tank, the Portuguese and Armenian inhabitants, together with the few Dutch and Danes clustered round the factory, and its adjacent native market place, Burrabazar [sic]. Apart from this small area round the fort and park, none of these deserved the name of town. Yet it was commonly referred to the component mauzas of the settlement and its environs. [See Ray] Surrounding this small town lay 1,470 bighas of land in Dhee Calcutta, or Dihi Calcutta.
On its north was Sutanuti, already containing 134 bighas of inhabited land, with 1,558 bighas under jungle and cultivation. ’To its south stood Govindapur high on the river bank, with only 57 bighas, out of a total area of 1,178 bighas, covered by human habitations, most of the rest being dense jungle. The total amount of inhabited land was about 840 bighas only in the whole of the 5,076 bighas covered by the Sanad of 1698 granted by Azim-ul-Shan.
WHITE-TOWN BLACK-TOWN
Old Court House Street. Thomas Daniell
European Buildings at Calcutta. Etching by François Balthazar Solvyns
A request was sent on March 11 1694-5 for readying half a dozen Chambers of brick and mud be built on the North side of the Compound for the factors and writers who were so far having their lodging in thatched rooms within Company’s Factory compound. The Town Calcutta grew around the fort with residential and institutional quarters, roads, parks and tanks, without any master plan. As late as June 1768 Jemima Kindersley writes that the town “is as awkward a place as can be conceived; and so irregular, that it looks as if all the houses had been thrown up in the air, and fallen down again by accident as they now stand” [See her Travel Letters]. What she said was hilarious but hardly an overstatement. Calcutta grew freely at will of the individual inhabitants – the blacks and the whites, happily ignoring the law against illegal construction. Calcutta, being an unplanned city cannot be said to be grown as a Dual City separating the Anglo-Europeans and the natives by design. Neither of them had a permanent physical jurisdiction excluding each other. “The critical aspect of colonial Calcutta”, as it is said in a study on Calcutta architecture, “did not lie in such divisions, but in the blurring of boundaries between the two.”[Swati Chattopadhyay. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Vol. 59, No. 2. Jun 2000]
Market Place for Nationalities and Races. Frans Balthazar Solvyns c1790s
Gentoo Pagoda and House. Etching with aquatint by Thomas Daniell c1787
The localities in Calcutta might crowded together following natural law of selections – guided by their sense of security, sociability, convenience, and economic considerations. We may find the same reasons worked behind breaking down of the so called white communities into smaller cohesive groups. The Whites of different shades, had their own localities, each shifted from one place to other in the process of urbanization. The English left their Perrin’s Garden neighborhood to build home around Fort, and then gradually moved southward toward newly-built Esplanade, Alipore, and Garden Reach, and northward to Dum-Dum and Barrackpore. Armenians and Portuguese were old inhabitants of fringe area of Lalbagh and also had their respective neighbourhoods in the North and Eastern Calcutta. These floating communities came together to develop township around the Fort at the time of Anglo French War. It is odd to think of this culturally and economically incompatible population forms an inclusive township for the ‘Whites’.
FENCED-CITY
The dual-city model, however, could have been little more meaningfully defined in terms of Christian non-Christian dichotomy, particularly in context of the fenced city that Calcutta was ‘at least for a short time’ where the Christians — English, Armenian, Portuguese, and others — lived within the safety of palisades during the Marhatta scare. The native population was settled in the Great Bazar or Black Town, and at Sutanuti and Govindapur, beyond the Christian boundaries.
Newly Arrived Young Officer Tom Raw. By Charles D’Oyly. 1828
“Fancy lane is the entrance to the bailey that ran round the whole town within the palisades. A short distance up this passage the enceinte turned again westwards parallel to the creek. It crossed the present Wellesley place, and in doing so skirted Chaplain Bellamy’s garden, thence it ran up Larkin’s lane and its continuation, where some Queen among huckstresses so waged her trade that the place took on her name and fame. Thence Barrotto’s lane, once called Cross street, opens on the left; this is the bailey beginning its long northward course and keeping, as it does so, at pretty even distance all along from the pilgrim road to Kalighat. The town was a settlement reserved exclusively for the three Christian nations, that is, for English, Portuguese and Armenians, with their immediate dependents, and was so laid out as to keep well clear of the busy heathen highway.” [Hyde 1899]
PLAN OF CALCUTTA WITH THE PALISADES. Source: Old Fort William / CR Wilson
The natives were left outside palisade ring guarded against Marhatta threat by the Ditch dug out to stop imminent raid. Marhattas, however, never came back. The fencing of palisade around the fort-centric settlement remained in position for about a decade between 1742 when Chaplain Robert Wynch was in office and the Battle of Lalbagh in 1756. This short-lived history of the fenced-township had left a bemused notion of the character of the young Calcutta.
CALCUTTA UNBOUND
As we see, the early township was populated solely by the White Christians. The natives had no place inside. They had no reason either to live in the new town away from their families and friends. The natives lacking skills in masonry and carpentry had no much prospect of regular employment in construction of the fort or the township, other than menial jobs. They however used to come over to the town to do all sorts of domestic helps attending members of white families, and returned home at sundown. Natives were also engaged in respectable professionsl like Munshis, Banians and Traders. Omichand and Setts, who had customary business relations with the Company men, happily lived in the so-called White Town. Omichand had his house along with those of Eyres, Coates, and Knox at the back of the present-day Writers’ Buildings. Rasbihari Sett and Ramkissen Sett had their houses on the west of the burying-ground, back of St John Church. [See Hyde 1901]
Before the Mahratta invasion Calcutta had become a town, ‘not merely in name, but also in appearance’. The fort was an imposing structure, and the church of St. Anne right in front of it was a notable and picturesque building. The Fort, the Church, all went to dust during siege of Calcutta in 1756. The town resurrected with collective effort through public subscriptions. Maharaja Nabo Krishna, a Hindu resident of Black Town, donated land and money for founding St John Church. His heathenness never stood in the way of gracious acceptance of his gift by the Christian community. The gift represents the whole of St. John’s compound east of the church together with the public footway beyond the compound valued at 30,000 rupee.
This illustrates that the divisions created by the palisades had been only a physical conditions that might not have significant social impact. The fencing was installed essentially as a security measures for the politically advantaged Christian communities alone. They remained doubly secured by inner barricades and the moat surrounding the three towns populated by natives. When the Marhatta never returned to plunder Calcutta, the need of fencing the city disappeared for good.
Half-sisters. Painted by Johann Zoffany
Barring these handful of years, the three-century old Colonial Calcutta had never experienced cordoning of areas dividing the Whites and the Blacks. The separate neighbourhoods were evolved following natural social code. Law enforced by overzealous whites rarely worked in colonial Calcutta. The British Raj never entertained the missionary dreams of a Christian Calcutta. Christian enthusiasm faded out with rising new wave of education reform. Calcutta always retains a heterogeneous and secular character. Its environment helped developing a liberal mindset that could have never produced in walled-city surroundings. Walled-cities, keeping the outside world shut off, turn citizens into traditionalist, regimented and cautious – the qualities are conspicuously absent in native Calcuttan.
BLEND OF WHITE & BLACK
The Anglo-Indian lineage set off in 17th century in India and Britain as well. Those days the Company bureaucrats, petty officers, factors and clerks were encouraged to marry native women. It was felt by some writers that no shame was attached to their offspring who had their English, Armenian, Dutch, Portuguese patrilineal parentage. The White-Indians in Britain were, in contrast, matrilineal, born of Lascar seamen and white women. Marriage is a civil contract – a sacrament to those who believe it. In early colonial Calcutta the institution of marriage was respected by the whites and the natives consistent with their customs. [For more see: Margaret Deefholts] That does not imply nonexistence of racial tensions. It was very much there in strong or mild form depending on one’s frame of mind to appreciate alien culture. The white wives were generally more apprehensive than their male counterparts of the dark-skinned half-naked domestic attendants for their heathen faith and bizarre mannerism. Characteristically, the native helpers, unlike the Afro-American maids and servants, were less submissive and more demanding. There must be some genuine cases of wrongdoing by native servants, and even by respectable native citizens to excite racial feelings against them. But this may not be a good reason for banishing all the local natives on the other side of the fence. There were also instances of large scale forgery and misappropriations committed by the White officials. “The English in Bengal were equally notorious for their quarrels, the natural outcome of the prevailing eagerness to make money and the spirit of espionage fostered by their masters” [See Wilson 1895]. Immorality cannot be considered as a valid ground for dividing the city. And the city was not divided. Otherwise how could we explain making of a whole new race through interracial marriage in colonial Calcutta? Unquestionably there had been lots of willing Whites who accepted native maidens as wives notwithstanding the native ethos. The greatest example of white liberal happens to be no other than the first English settler, Job Charnock.
Job Charnock Mausoleum. St John’s Church, Calcutta. Courtesy: Manors of Charnock Richard
JOB CHARNOCK. We understand from Bruce, a large number of the servants of the factory and Charnock himself had contracted interracial matrimonial [Bruce 1810] Carey called Job Charnock ‘an old Anglo-Indian patriarch’. Charnock married an Indian wife, adopted many of the local manners and customs; adopted some of the local superstitions. ‘It was at Patna that Charnock learned to understand the Indian ways of thought and action’. [Wilson 1895] Their marriage was not however recorded in any Church Register. Most likely, Charnock married his Hindu wife Maria following Hindu rites, while all his three daughters, Mary, Catherine, and Elizabeth were married in Christian Churches. [Curzon] Charnock Mausoleum was erected at St. John’s Church graveyard in 1695, three years after his death. The Mausoleum was installed by his son-in-law, Sir Charles Eyre, the President and Governor of Fort William in Bengal, who must have taken his best care to complete the edifice timely and justly. There must have been some reasons, good or bad, for the holdup, and also for the final shape of the things. Without going into detail, we may point out here that in the Mausoleum “Charnock and his wife are said to have been buried, but the inscription on the original tombstone only mentions Job”. [Yule 1887] This might suggest some unspoken reservation at work against interracial marriage; or more likely, it was a social taboo against marriage between unequal classes. It seems Charnock was robbed of his wife’s identity by his own fellows who never dared to interfere with Charnock‘s wishes so long he was alive. Lying in his grave Charnock paid an exorbitant cost for defying social canons.
WILLIAM PALMER joined the East India Company in 1766 and rose to the position of military secretary to Governor General Warren Hastings. Like Charnock, William Palmer was a romantic, but not a social nonconformist. It was probably in 1781, under Muslim law Palmer married Bibi Faiz Baksh, a princess of the Delhi royal house. Later she received the honorific title, Begum from Delhi Badsha. She bore Palmer six children. One of them was John Palmer the ‘prince of Calcutta merchants’.
Major William Palmer with his second wife, Bibi Faiz Bakhsh by Johann Zoffany, 1785
William Palmer happily lived with Bibi Faiz Baksh until his death in 1816. In his will, Palmer admitted that Bibi Sahiba has been his ‘affectionate friend and companion’ for more than thirty-five years. Their marriage was most honourably acknowledged in the native as well as European societies. The secret behind the generous acceptance of the Black and White marriage by both the communities was seemingly the equitable socio-economic status they held.
CLAUDE MARTIN served the British East India Company’s Bengal Army as Major General. He was before in French Army. Martin loved Tipu Sahib as a hero, loved India as his second motherland. He had a colourful personality, and an innovative mind. He was perhaps the first balloonist on Indian sky, and a self-styled surgeon. A map of the neighbourhood of Calcutta, dated 1760 or 1764, credited to Claude Martin. He accumulated huge fortune, and ensured that people were not cheated ‘who have passively succumbed to the yolk of corruption.’ The major portions of his assets were left for founding three institutions, in Lucknow Calcutta, and Lyon, his birthplace. Above all, he was a highly sensitive human being. It is not so easy, however, to assess the private life of this middle-aged childless Frenchman. It might be too subtle and intricate for us to interpret the kind of relationship he had thoughtfully built up with three girls nearly 30 year junior to him. Martin had acquired Boulone and two other native girls. He intended to give them protection and best possible education. The girls learnt to read and write in Persian, studied principle of religion, modesty and decency. When ‘at age of reason’ these girls were prepared to choose any one they pleased for either husband or companion. Not Boulone, but the two other girls preferred to chose native husbands. Boulone a Lakhnavi girl lived with Martin in Lucknow. But their story may be found significant and in context.
General Claude Martin. Details not known. Courtesy: La Martiniere College, Lucknow
Boulone Lise and her adopted son James Martin. Oil by Johann Zoffany
Martin loved Boulone as the most ‘virtuous wife’, yet she was not Martin’s married wife. Martin argued that if from the social point of view, ‘the essence of the marriage tie is its indissolubility during life then these women should amply justify their status as rightful wives’. But they could also merely play a role of virtuosity under social compulsion, instead of acting spontaneously and willfully. Martin also maintained that ‘the curse and misery of the unacknowledged half-cast was the European blood in their veins and the accompanying inexplicable longings’. Such cases were commonly dealt in line with conventional morality. Martin had two alternatives: either to drive the native girls into marriage with native boys whom they despised, or drive them into connections with Europeans whom Martin himself despised.
The only workable solution for Martin was to place the girls in his own house in a position obviously respectable in native eyes. To a native, mistress was only a wife of lower rank. Their consideration rested upon the inferior status a girl held prior to marriage. There is an element of truth in their argumentation which was present indiscernibly in both halves of Calcutta society – Blacks and Whites.
Calcutta has been largely a multi-ethnic city, then and now. The native Calcuttan inherited their liberal ethnic characters from the historicity of free living conditions and of their being in constant interactions with surroundings, which a divided Calcutta could never have delivered.
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Barrackpore House, South view. Photo Samuel Bourne. 1865. Courtesy: BL
রাজভবন লাটবাগান
In sequence of the previously posted essay, ‘Barrackpore, a little Calcutta’, I am tempted to bring about the subject once again to share with you the fascinating details of the making of Barrackpore House and the Park as revealed in ‘The Story Of The Viceroys And Government Houses’ of Marquis Curzon of Kendleston. Curzon started his research during his Viceroyalty (1899-1905), continued with it, and finally readied his work for Cassell to publish in 1925 before he took rest in peace. A condensed and revised version was published in 1935 entitled, Story of Government houses by N V. H. Symons.
Although Curzon had a fond association with Government House at Calcutta as it was modelled after his ancestral manor Kendleston Hall, he took every care to follow faithfully the crazy path of history of the Barrackpore estate since Lord Wellesley started it all by himself.
A Bunglow in the Park. Artist: James, Marianne Jane. 1828. Courtesy: BL
Barrackpore is complementary to Government House in the same way that Viceroy Lodge, Simla, is complementary to Viceroy’s House, New Delhi. The Governor General used to spend the whole of the year in Bengal, apart from tours, Barrackpore being his habitual summer residence. [Symons] As Stravornius had mentioned in 1768, Belvedere might have served as Barrackpore did after Wellesley [Cal. Rev, Dec.1852]. Even after 1864 the Viceroys and the Governors of Bengal used Barrackpore House as a country house for week-ends.
A carriage approaching Barrackpore House. Artist: Daniell, William. c1810. Courtesy: BL
The English lady traveler, Monkland, to my mind, described best what Barrackpore was in early 19th century. [Monkland]. Barrackpore was then having ‘a quiet and retirement like air’ of countryside that combined with its military neatness and propriety making it ‘one of the sweetest places in India. ‘The bungalows in four lines stand each separated from the others, every one surrounded by its own corn-ground, flower-garden, and neat trimmed hedge; while the whole cantonment is at right angles intersected by well kept roads, smooth as bowling-greens, and has the river in front and the parade ground in the rear. Government-house, and its beautiful grounds, are merely separated from the cantonments by a piece of water from the river, over which there is a bridge; and the park, as a drive, is at all times open to the European inhabitants.’ [Symons] Seemingly, nowhere else the Britons raised an exclusive white town as satisfyingly as they did it in Barrackpore. To the natives of the town, লাটবাগান (the Park) remained a prohibited place.
Lord Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of India 1798-1805. Artist: Thomas Lawrence. c1813-30. Courtesy: Carey Univ. Serampore
Lord Wellesley was the first to find Barrackpore a great place for peaceful living; and it was he who desired to build government palace amidst an English park. On 31st December, 1800, Wellesley advised Sir Alured Clark, the Commander-in-Chief, that his official residence was intended to resume for the use of the Governor General, and the day after Wellesley appeared on the scene. He started to occupy the house almost at once. He was content with it for the next three years, though he immediately set about enlarging and improving the Parks. It was not till the beginning of 1804, he bethought of building a new palace at Barrackpore, as the present house was considered unsafe. On the site he erected a large bungalow for a provisional residence, and nearby he laid the foundation of a palace that involved an estimated cost of four lakhs of rupees. In July 1805, when its structure had come up to the ground storey level, Wellesley resigned and returned to England. The relationship between the Court of Directors and Lord Wellesley had never been too cordial. When Wellesley left the country, the Court peremptorily prohibited ‘the outlay of so large a sum on such an object’. There were, in fact, many ‘such’ projects Wellesley initiated that the Court of Directors found unjustifiable. Mysore and other campaigns apart, Wellesley’s enterprises in India were characterized both by wisdom and imagination. They were as a rule too expensive, particularly in a country like India prior to coming under the Crown administration. He was time and again cautioned for his extravagant monetary commitments for setting up Fort William College project, schemes for the encouragement of agriculture and horticulture and the study of the flora and fauna that led to the institution of the Gardens and Menagerie at Barrackpore. Being a conscientious and upright administrator, Wellesley remained untouched by any of such public scandals about his wasteful expenditure on pricey projects as reflected in Sir Charles D’Oyly’s anonymously published book of burlesque poem :
Wellesley first stampt it his. He was the boy
For mating ducks and drakes with public cash,
Planned a great house that time might not destroy:
Built the first floor, prepared bricks, beam and sash
And then retired, and left it in this dismal hash.
[*Tom Raw, the Griffin. 1824]
[*Tom Raw, the Griffin: a burlesque poem; descriptive of the adventures of a cadet in the East India Company’s service, from the period of his quitting England to his obtaining a staff situation]
By the order of the Court of Directors the construction work of Barrackpore House was suspended. The beams, doors, and windows, etc. were sold by auction. The shell of the house stood for some more years until Lord Hastings finally cleared the ground and put up a Green House there.
While constructing his dream palace, Wellesley stayed in a temporary accommodation he had made with three large bedrooms opening on to a wide verandah to the North-West. This bungalow happened to be the nucleus of the future Barrackpore House. The three rooms made up the central block of the new building. Sir George Barlow (1805-1807) erected small rooms at every corner of the southern verandah. Lord Hastings (1813-1823) added side wings, a Portico, and the upper Entrance Hall that was used later as a billiard room. These structural changes, however, ruined the prospect of its being a good summer residence. What needed was “a series of rooms which will catch the South breeze at night” – this condition was fulfilled by the original three-roomed house.
Government House Walk. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel. c1865
It was Hastings who shaped the house into its final form, and took interest in glorifying the building with appropriate decorations. The lovely lotus basin and the marble fountain installed in front of the South entrance, were two such decorative pieces he brought from Agra. By doubling the building area he also ensured a comfortable accommodation for the Governor and their family members and some guests as well. No other structural changes were attempted ever since, except for some minor modifications and additions of certain features. Lord Auckland (1835 – 1842) added the balcony on the Western side; Lord Lytton (1876-1880) replaced the unseemly iron staircase on the South front. Lord Ripon (1886-1884) installed a wooden porch In front. Lord Minto (1905-1910) equipped the building with electric light, laid the floor in the drawing room and redecorated the entire house.
The house has always been used as a place of relaxation and recreation. Within the house there have been balls and entertainments, and also services were being held at the large central drawing room before Barrackpore Church was established in 1847. Here, Bishop Heber preached in 1823. Carey, Marshman and Ward, often visited Barrackpore House as guests of the Governor General.
Barrackpore House was occupied by as many as twenty-four Governors-General of India Until its final abandonment as the residence of the Viceroy in 1912. Despite so much efforts made over a century for its betterment, the Barrackpore House emerged as ‘a shadow of the house there would have been had Wellesley started this project earlier and been able to see it through before he left India’.[Curzon] William Carey, who was a regular visitor to Barrackpore House, considered Barrackpore House had scarcely any claims to excellence, as a specimen of architecture. [Carey]
Stoqueller tipped off his readers of 1844 Guidebook that there was nothing remarkable about the Government House, but a plain one storied edifice with lofty rooms and very ordinary furniture. [Hand-book of India, a Guide / Stocqueller. 1844]
Barrackpore Park – Lake scene. Photographer: Samuel Bourne. Bar… Creator: Bourne, Samuel. 1860
‘Barrackpore Park was created by the taste and public spirit of Lord Wellesley’. [Carey] It was believed that he had a desire ‘to have brought all the public offices up from Calcutta and established them in the vicinity of the park’. From his day-one in Barrackpore, Wellesley started acquiring land for developing the Park. The whole park-area was nearly 350 acres, and the cost of the land acquisition amounted to £9,577. It was originally a flat land covered with swamps and jungle.
Lipoo Tree at Riverside, the natural landscape outside Park. Artist: William Prinsep. 1827
Wellesley converted this landscape into an English Park by engaging convict labour to do the task of draining, clearing and shaping the land into hillocks and dunes, and installing pieces of ornamental water. In the beginning there had been little or no distinction between the Park and the Garden. It was through a gradual process the Park turned out to be a public-access property. The Gardens grown within the Park remained private. There was, however, no borderline between the two, and the public roads ran through the Park and the Garden areas as well.
A detailed plan of Barrackpore Park, reproduced here from Lord Curzon’s book, The story of the viceroys and government houses, helps us to understand the distribution of items described by him and other narrators. The Park looked best at the river-side. Barrackpore House stands nearest to the Nishan Ghaut – the platform for landing ships. Lady Canning (1856-1861) made a raised pathway leading from the house to the upper landing stage, and much later Lord Ronaldshay (1917-1922) made a bridge from there to the landing stage.
Honeymoon Bunglow. Photographer: Not known. c1878. Courtesy: BL
Some other old bungalows are found close by. Bungalows#1 and #2 were designated for the guests while the one at the Eastern side, the Military Secretary’s quarter, was better known as ‘Honeymoon Bungalow’ because of its being available on rent to newly married couples. On the North-West Beach stands the Flagstaff – a broken up mast enshrined in memory of the flagship HMS Kent, smashed in 1757. The bungalow next to it is called ‘Flagstaff Bungalow’.
Lord Wellesley had a good amount of time to devote for developing the Barrackpore Park before he finally resigned, leaving his other project, Barrackpore House, abandoned.
Rhinozeror tank Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick . 1851 Courtesy: BL
He had completed many other constructions inside the Park, including a stable for 36 horses and standing for four carriages together with a coachman’s bungalow; he erected the balustrade bridge over the ‘Moti Jheel’ lake to the North of the House, an aviary for large birds, and also a menagerie in the North-East corner of the Park. The Menagerie existed there till the Zoological Gardens at Calcutta were opened by Edward VII as Prince of Wales in 1876, where most of its collections were transferred. Wellesley had constructed the high way from Calcutta as the first section of the Grand Trunk Road, and planted trees on either side before he handed over its charge to his successor, Lord Cornwallis. Wellesley might have also planted the mahogany trees on both side of the shady road known as ‘Mahogany Avenue’ as the cross-dating of tree-rings suggested.
Bear Garden. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick. 1851. Courtesy: BL
Llama and its young at Barrackpore Park Chiriakhana. Details not known. Courtesy: Alamy
Elephant Stable. Barrackpore Details not known. Courtesy: Alamy
Giraffe at Barrackpore Park. Photographer: Frederick Fiebie. 1851. Courtesy: BL
On the other side of the Avenue, Lord Curzon grew a fine rosary with a large circular lawn surrounded by pergolas. Lord Minto construct¬ed a large stone basin and fountain, 40 feet in diameter and holding 23,000 gallons of water. Though intended for the rosary, the basin and the fountain were placed in front of the Seed House and often used as a bathing pool. There have been many more formal gardens in the Park designed and developed by the successors of Wellesley. Lord Auckland (1835-1842) had started an aviary near the Lily Tank, which is also called ‘Aviary Tank’ in reference to his lost aviary. The ‘Deer Tank’ ,situated in between the House and the ‘Temple of Fame’, was made by Lord Lytton (1922-1927) for the half-a-dozen deer he had brought from Barisal in an attempt to revive the charm of the old time Park. The name ‘Rhinoceros Tank’ brings back the memories of Lord Wellesley’s menagerie. Likewise, the word ‘bustee’ reminds us of his aviary once existed opposite Chiriakhana.
Menagerie at Barrackpore. Artsit: Charles D’Oyly. 1848. Courtesy: BL
Moti Jheel, the long tank, near the ‘Temple of Fame’ stretched up to the Cantonment church, had been a prolific breeding ground for mosquitoes.
Lord Curzon arranged to drain and turf Moti Jheel, and Lord Minto filled it further along with other restoration works he undertook. Minto built the magnificent ‘Temple of Fame’ following Greek style – a tribute to the 24 officers who fell in the conquest of Java and Mauritius in 1810 and 1811.
Lady Canning (1856-1861) made some memorable contributions toward improvement of the Park facilities. She had built a road from the House to the new landing stage, which was converted into a leafy tunnel of bamboos by Lady Ripon in 1880. On the South of the house, she put the pillared balustrade round the semi-circular terrace and planted blue Morning Glory to grow over it and spread out over the giant Banyan tree. The tree was 85 feet high; and with nearly 400 aerial roots it covered an area of 60,000 square feet; It was smaller in circumspect but older than the Shipbur Ba-nyan tree. Lady Canning realized the possibilities of the great tree as an outdoor pavilion. Under the shade the members of the House and their ho-nourable guests liked to spend whole day, enjoying the meals and refreshments served there, and perhaps watching games on the Tennis Court from distance. Beneath the shade of Banyan Tree many a viceregal *tiffin-party had assembled. There was also an excellent Golf Links much resorted to by Calcutta folk.
[ *The British in India referred to ‘tiffin’ as a light lunch and the Sunday tiffin was ‘an occasion for over-indulgence, with mulligatawny soup (always), curry and rice, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding washed down with a bottle of iced beer, and tapioca pudding’. – Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A taste of empire, by Cecilia Leong-Salobir. Routledge, 2011]
One of the most beautiful sites in the Park was the grave of Lady Canning, 500 yards down the river bank from the House. She died in Calcutta and, as her husband wished, buried in Barrackpore Park where she, a proficient painter, used to sit in the quiet. Bishop Cotton consecrated the ground. Her sister, Lady Waterford, designed a monument for her grave – a large mar-ble platform ornamented with inlaid mosaic. The monument, for its proper up-keeping, was required to be shifted in 1873 to Calcutta Cathedral and from there to other places until the relic found its place at the North portico of St John’s Church.
To the North of the House, near Flagstaff there was a tall masonry tower, and some more were found along the road. According to Lord Curzon, those were semaphore stations for the Governor General’s use but abandoned after installation of the Telegraphic system in India. There are, however, some official records suggesting that the towers were built by Colonel Everest in 1830 for his Trigonometric Survey.
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Apart from the things we discussed here, my previous post on Barrackpore dealt with some issues of relevance highlighting the Englishness in the government estate of Barrackpore. “There is said to be nothing else in India or indeed in Asia to compare with the Park and its broad stretches of undulating grassland . . . much though his successors have owed to Wellesley for providing the, magnificent Government House in Calcutta, their debt for the peaceful English charm of Barrackpore is almost greater.” [Curzon]
To the West on the river-side there was a masonry chabutra on which the band used to play English tune flowing over the hillocks and dunes of the Park. To complete, the illusion of English scenery, Lord Wellesley, wished for a constant view of a Church spire. To fulfill that wish, Wellesley spent unhesitatingly a sum of Rs. 10,000 towards the building of the Danish Church at Serampore – a church adhering to non-Anglican creed.
A view of Serampore Artist: Fraser, James Baillie 1826. Courtesy: BL
The chronicle of the Government estate at Barrackpore may serve as a unique case of colonial architectural experience of a century long endeavour by different masters with variant ability and outlook – the Governors General, Viceroys and Bengal Governors, whoever considered the place their temporary home, had attempted to make things changed their ways for improving conditions of living in Barrackpore House.
The Park is almost like a huge collage of English landscape composed collectively by talented men and women, in succession, adding patches of vibrant colours and forms of their choice, and most significantly, adhering to a thorough English style.
Tom Raw, the Griffin; a Burlesque Poem, in Twelve Cantos: Illustrated by Twenty-Five Engravings, Descriptive of the Adventures of a Cadet In / Charles D’Oyly. 1828
The Hand-book of India: A Guide to the stranger and the traveller… / Joachim Hayward Stocqueler. 1845.
“Calcutta in the olden time – its localities” In: Calcutta Review; v. 18. Dec. 1852
The Good Old Days of Honorable John Company …v. 1/ William Carey. 1882
Life in India; or, the English at Calcutta / Anne Catharine Monkland; v.2. 1882.
British Government in India: The story of the viceroys and government houses /
George Nathaniel Curzon of Kedleston (Marques). 1925
Story of government houses/ N. V. H. Symons. 1935
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Governor General’s House & Park at Barrackpore. Water colour by Edward Hawk Locker. 1808. Courtesy: British Library
ব্যারাকপুর – কলকাতার অদূরে ‘ছোট কলকাতা’
Barrackpore, some 16 miles away from Calcutta, turned into a little Calcutta or Chhota Calcutta. This happened because of the mastermind of Marquis Wellesley, who moved to Barrackpore in 1801 and occupied the Commander-in-Chief’s residence – one of the two bungalows bought by the Government with 70 acres of land when the cantonment was founded in 1775. This is where Wellesley lived for about 3 years devoting his mind in enlarging and improving the surrounding park area. He landscaped the gardens in the ‘English Style’, added an aviary, a menagerie and a theatre. The rustic hamlet emerged as a fashionable abode of the Britishers for sojourning.
Marquis Wellesley (1760-1842) by Ozias Humphry, 1783
Barrackpore had a long history that began much before the coming of Job Charnock, who had been in Barrackpore for a while, raised a bungalow, and gathered a little bazaar closed by. Here his beloved wife of native origin had died. The area was previously ruled over by a line of Zamindars based in Nona Chandanpukur, Barrackpore. In ‘Ain-e-Akbari’, Abul Fazal (1596–97) referred to this place as Barbuckpur, and it was Chanak in `Manasa Vijay` written by Bipradas Pipilai (1495). Chanak and the other nearby towns were developed into chief marketing, trading and populous towns along the side of river Hooghly. The local name Achanak seems to be a localized version of Chanak.
Barrackpore, however, went into the British colonial history more significantly because of the two revolts. The first one was the 1824 insurgency led by Sepoy Binda Tiwary, and the second was the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 led by Mangal Pandey. With the exception of these two horrifying experiences of tumult and fury, Barrackpore have always been a calmly country seat for the white’s leisurely pursuits contrary to the demanding living condition of the up-and-coming city of Calcutta.
In pre-Plassey Calcutta, the servants of East India Company used to live in dark and damp lodgings in the Fort, and warehouses where the gates shut upon them at night. After Plassey, the growth of the garrison and the influx of European officers and troops from Madras worsened the lodging condition. New quarters came up along the Avenue, Pilgrim road, and Bow Bazar and, bypassing the native quarters of Dinga, and Colinga, spread over the open ground of Chowringhee and Dharmatallah. [See The Social Condition of the British Community in Bengal: 1757-1800 By Suresh Chandra Ghosh. 1970] No wonder that the Europeans, gradually migrated from Tank Square – ‘the Belgravia of that day’ — and took up their abodes in Chowringhee ‘out of town’. [See ‘Calcutta in the olden time — its localities‘ In Calcutta review. Sept.1852.]. Earlier James Atkinson in a verse, published in 1824, described the condition of Calcutta more pungently as ‘an anxious, forced existence’. [ See City of Palaces, a poem by James Atkinson. 1824]
Barrackpore Bridge, hand-coloured photograph by Frederick Fiebig. 1851. Courtesy British Library
The road from Calcutta to Barrackpore was opened to the public on the 26th July, 1805, perhaps the best road constructed so far. Miss Emma Robert,the English lady traveller, wrote after two decades, that the ‘drives and rides about the city are not very numerous, nor very extensive, excepting towards Barrackpore.’ [See Scenes and characteristics of Hindostan; with sketches of Anglo-Indian society; v.1 by Emma Roberts. 1835]
In 1830 the Barrackpore Bridge, commonly called, ‘Shyambazar Bridge’, was constructed connecting Barrackpore Road to Calcutta at its northern end. The 100 ft long and 30ft wide Bridge was built by the Canal Superintendent, James Prinsep at the cost of Rs 20,529. It was a beautiful bridge, as revealed in the hand-coloured photograph of the bridge and the road with running horses and carriages, taken by Frederick Fiebig in 1851.
J H Stocqueler while journeying through Brarackpur road looked out from his palanquin [ see Hand-book of India, guide to the stranger and the traveler, ..ed. by Joachim Hayward Stocqueler. 1844], to the pleasing view of an extensive avenue of trees skirted by villages, gardens, and rice-fields. Cox’s Bunglow, the site of a building then used as a stables for relays of horses, was on the right-hand side of the road, and there the first change of relay proceeds onward through Barrackpore Cantonment.
Entrance to Barrackpore. Lithograph ( coloured ).Charles D’Oyly. 1848. Courtesy: British Library
Though a large station, Barrackpore presents an air of quiet and retirement like a country village; which joined to its military neatness and propriety, make it one of the sweetest places in India. The bungalows in four lines stand each separated firom the others, every one surrounded by its own corn-ground, flower-garden, and neat trimmed hedge; while the whole cantonment is at right angles intersected by well kept roads, smooth as bowling-greens, and has the river in front and the parade ground in the rear. Government-house, and it’s beautiful grounds, are merely separated from the cantonments by a piece of water from the river, over which there is a bridge; and the park, as a drive, is at all times open to the European inhabitants. [See Life in India: Or, The English at Calcutta; v.2 by Monkland. 1828]
Maria Graham (b1785-d1842) (in later life, Maria, Lady Callcott) An Englsh travel writer. Portrait by Thamas Lawrence. 1819
How Barrackpore was in the first half of 19th century can be figured out more from the true-to-life excellent paintings and photographs than the textual documents handed down to us – mostly official transactions and records, and also letters and diaries of the travellers and residents, which provide human-side view, factual information apart. Unfortunately, not many travel-writers visited Barrackpore. The English lady, Maria Graham(later Lady Callcott) was an exception. In her book, Journal of a Residence in India, she left her lively and credible impressions of everything she saw there. Her account of Barrackpore commenced from Nov 20, 1810.
RIVER-SIDE
It was a delightful day she arrived by boat. The weather was so cool that ‘one really enjoys a river view walk’. Close to Calcutta, it is the busiest scene one can imagine; crowded with ships and boats of every form,—here a fine English East lndiaman, there a grab or a dow from Arabia, or a proa from the eastern islands. On one side the picturesque boats of the natives, with their floating huts; on the other the bolios and pleasure boats of the English, with their sides of green and gold, and silken streamers. Up the river, the scene became more quiet, but not less beautiful.
Barrackpore Ghaut, A hand-coloured photograph by Frederick Fiebig. 1851. Courtesy British Library
The trees grow into the water, and half hide the pagodas and villages with which the banks of the river are covered on both sides. It was late when we arrived here, and some of the pagodas were already illuminated for a festival; fireworks, of which the natives are very fond, were playing on the shore, and here and there the red flame of the funeral fires under the dark trees threw a melancholy glare on the water. From the opposite river bank, The missionaries Serampore had enjoyed the same view of Barrackpore riverside. Carey’s biographer, George Smith reproduced William Carey’s memory of ‘The garden slopes down to the noble river, and commands the beautiful country seat of Barrackpore, which Lord Wellesley had just built’. [See Life of William Carey, by Gerge Smith. 1909]
Many of the Barrackpore goers maintained that it was not the Barrackpore House itself ‘but its accessories were the best features it can boast of’ – an aviary and a menagerie, a garden and a pleasant promenade, where the society of the station assemble, while one of the regimental bands plays upon the green sward, constitute the chief agremens of the place’. [See Hand-book of India, a Guide, ed by Stocqueller. 1844]
When Mrs Graham came to the Park of Barrackpore, the tamarind, acacia, and peepil trees, through whose branches the moon threw her flickering beams on the river, seemed to hang over our heads, and formed a strong contrast to the white buildings of Serampore, which shone on the opposite shore. We landed at the palace begun by the Marquis Wellesley, but discontinued by the frugality of the Indian Company; its unfinished arches shewed by the moon-light like an ancient ruin, and completed the beauty of the scenery. The area of the whole Park is nearly 350 acres and the cost was £9,577. Lord Wellesley started acquiring the land and making the Park. In the North-East corner he established the menagerie that continued to exist till the Zoological Gardens at Calcutta opened in 1876.
Menagerie at Barrackpore, Lithograph ( coloured ). Charles D’Oyly. 1848. Courtesy: British Library
“A little nulla, or rivulet supplies several fine tanks in the park, which embellish the scenery, and furnish food for a number of curious aquatic birds kept in the menagerie. The pelican, whose large pouch contains such an abundant supply of food, the produce of her fishing, for her young; the syrus, or sarasa, a species
of stork, whose body is of a delicate grey colour, and whose head, which he carries above five feet from the ground, is of a brilliant scarlet, shading off to the pure white of his long taper neck; and the flamingo, whose bill and wings are of the brightest rose-colour, while the rest of his plumage is white as snow,—are the most beautiful of those who seek their food in the water. Among their fellow-prisoners are the ostrich, whose black and white plumes attract the avarice of the hunter; the cassowary, whose stiff hard feathers appear like black hair; and the Java pigeon, of the size of a young turkey, shaped and coloured like a pigeon, with a fan-like crest, which glitters in the sun like the rainbow. [Graham]
the North-East corner of the Park known as Chiriakhana. The Governor General’s elephants used to be kept at Barrackpore. The place across the Grand Trunk Road to the North North-East of the Park was known for a long while as Hatikhana, although the last of the elephants was sold in Lord Elgin’s time. It was here in the Park that the poet-bishop first mounted an elephant — “the motion of which,” he confesses, “I thought far from disagreeable, though very different from that of a horse.” [See Thacker’s Guide to Calcutta ed. by Walter Kelly Firminger. 1906]
On Nov. 25, she wrote ‘The north winds are now so cold, that I find it necessary to wrap up in a shawl and fur tippet when 1 take my morning’s ride upon one of the governor-general’s elephants, from whose back I yesterday saw the Barrackpore hounds throw off in chase of a jackal’. “The quadrupeds in the menagerie are only two royal tigers, and two bears, one a very large animal, precisely like the bears of Europe; the other was brought here from Chittagong, where it is called the wild dog. His head is shaped like that of a dog, but bare and red about the muzzle; his paws are like those of the common bear, but his coat is short and smooth; he refuses to eat any kind of vegetable food, which the large bear prefers to flesh, and is altogether the most ferocious creature I ever saw. ”
GAITIES
On December 5, 1810, Graham was in great expectation of the festivity in Barrackpore. In three weeks, she mused, all the gay world will be asembled at Barrackpore, on account of the races, which are run close to the park-gate. This year there will be little sport, as the horses are indifferent, but I am told the scene will be very gay, “ with store of ladies, whose bright eyes rain influence”. Barrackpore had a tradition of public merriments to celebrate important events. Three years ago. On the 12th September 1807, Barrackpore celebrated the anniversary of the battle of Delhi. A splendid entertainment was given in ‘the new Theatre at Barrackpore’ at which were present the Right Hon’ble Lord Minto, the Governor General, General St. Leger and Staff, the whole of the officers and ladies at the station, and a numerous party of visitors from Calcutta. [See Life of William Carey, by Gerge Smith. 1909]
Lord Wellesley was not in favour of horse race. He stopped horse racing and all sorts of gambling as soon he arrived India; yet at the end of November 1809, there were three days’ races at a small distance from Calcutta. After a lull the Calcutta Races again commenced under the patronage of Lord Moira. Stocqueler tells us “there at Barrackpore a race-ground existed, but races have not taken place any more. The sports of the place are confined to an occasional steeple-chase, a run with the Calcutta hounds, and a few balls and public dinners.” [See Hand-book of India, a Guide, by Joachim Hayward Stocqueler. 1844]
A Cheeta Hun in Wellesley’s Park. Lithograph ( coloured ). Charles D’Oyly.1802. Courtesy: British Library
In the Park there was also an excellent golf links much resorted to by Calcutta folk. Closer to the house there was a vast banyan tree beneath whose shade many a viceregal tiffin-party had assembled. Mrs Graham had some fascination for Indian custom s and traditions. On the first day she mentioned in her journal whatever she had seen on the river bank – the illuminated Hindu pagoda, festivity, fireworks, and the melancholy glare of the flame of funeral – all important elements of Hindu life in a flash.
The cultural difference between the European and Asiatic societies did not deject her spirit of inquiry and appreciation of the estranged tradition of India. She writes: “The other day, in going through a small bazar near one of the park gates, 1 saw five ruinous temples to Maha Deo, and one in rather a better state to Kali. As 1 had never been in a pagoda dedicated to her by that name, I procured admittance for a rupee. Her figure is of brass, riding on a strange form that passes here for a lion, with a lotus in the place of a saddle. Her countenance is terrific; her four hands are armed with destructive weapons, and before her is a round stone sprinkled with red dust. The sacrificial utensils are mostly of brass; but I observed a ladle, two lamps, and a bell of silver; the handle of the bell was a figure of the goddess herself. The open temple in the square area of the pagoda has been very pleasant, but is now falling into ruin, as are the priests houses and every thing around.”
Hindoo Pagodas below Barrackpore on the Ganges. Geoge Hunt. 1824. Courtesy: British Library
As it shows, Graham was not unfamiliar with the Hindu themes of deities, and also her feelings on seeing the ruinous state of the temple. In a later note, however, she showed her deep concern, silently, about the desperate order of the native society, while recounting the horrid scene of dead bodies uncaringly floating in the river, vividly and dispassionately.
Bodies of the Dead
“The other night, in coming up the river, the first object I saw was a dead body, which had lain long enough in the water to be swollen, and to become buoyant. It floated past our boat, almost white, from being so long in the river, and surrounded by fish; and as we got to the landing-place, I saw two wild dogs tearing another body, from which one of them had just succeeded in separating a thigh-bone, with which he ran growling away. Now, though I am not very anxious as to the manner of disposing of my body, and have very little choice as to whether it is to be eaten by worms or by fishes, I cannot see, without disgust and horror, the dead indecently exposed, and torn and dragged about through streets and villages, by dogs and jackals. Yet such are the daily sights on the banks of the Hoogly. I wish I could say they were the worst; but when a man becomes infirm, or has any dangerous illness, if his relations have the slightest interest in his death, they take him to the banks of the river, set his feet in the water, and, stuffing his ears and mouth with mud, leave him to perish, which he seldom does without a hard struggle; and should the strength of his constitution enable him to survive, he becomes a pariah; he is no longer considered as belonging to his family or children, and can have no interest in his own fortune or goods. About thirty miles from Calcutta, there is a village under the protection of government, entirely peopled by these poor outcasts, the numbers of whom is incredible.
Earlier, Graham expressed her mind loudly and clearly– reacting to the unconditional submission of the Hindoos to the evils of caste system. She felt degraded seeing the half-clothed, half-fed people, covered with loathsome disease, without attempting ever to overstep the boundaries which confine them to it indelibly. “Perhaps there is something of pride in the pity”, she says, “I cannot help feeling for the Lower Hindoos, who seem so resigned to all that I call evils in life”. The story of this hapless lot stands in glaring contrast to the vibrant city life of Barrackpore.
The park-city of Barrackpore was designed and developed by the British and for the British. It was an English garden Lord Wellesley planned and laid there. An English theatre, ballroom, race-ground, golf-link, a Hotel Charnock came in place for their entertainment. There was something in the scenery of this place that reminds Maria Graham of the beauty of the banks of the Thames; ‘the same verdure, the same rich foliage, the same majestic body of water’.
The local inhabitants were, however, never allowed to enter park-area except for work. Graham met few of them while moving around, and had glimpses of their repulsive way of life. Graham never tried to pass a judgement, nor any advice either. She questioned about the root of their malady – ‘how they came into the state, and what could amend it’. The spontaneous reply she received was: “It is the custom — it belongs to their caste to bear this”. At the end of the century, Swamy Vivekanada found the key to her final question what unfortunately remains ignored ever since.
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Cheetah Chasing A Deer, Barrackpore Park, c1802
চিতা শিকার-খেলার দৃশ্য, ব্যারাকপুর লাটবাগান, c১৮০২
Here is a colourful description of a cheetah hunt in Lord Wellesley’s Park at Barrackpore. A cheetah is chasing a deer with huntsmen on horseback and elephant at Barrackpore, located 14 miles from Calcutta and was originally a permanent barracks. When Marquess Wellesley took over the Commander-in-Chief’s residence in 1801, he decided to make improvements to the area. He created a summer residence for future Governor-Generals’ and he landscaped the gardens while adding an aviary, a menagerie and a theatre. As a result, Barrackpore Park became a popular place for leisure pursuits, including organised hunts, as seen in this image.
Watercolour by Sir Charles D’Oyly (1781-1845) painted in c1802
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Summer House of the Governor General, Barrackpore, 1807
লাটবাড়ি, ব্যারাকপুর
The Seat of the Governor General 16 miles from Calcutta from Nature. November 1807′
Description: Watercolour, by Charles Ramus Forrest (d. 1827), of Barrackpore House and Park in Barakpur near Calcutta. Barakpur was originally a permanent barracks, but when Marquis Wellesley took over the Commander-in-Chief’s residence, in 1801, he decided to make improvements to the area. He commenced the building of a summer residence for future Governors-General, which consisted of only the first storey when he was recalled to England. Wellesley also landscaped the gardens in the ‘English Style’ and added an aviary, a menagerie and a theatre. Barrackpore Park later became a popular place for leisure pursuits. The first storey of Wellesley’s proposed grand building was first added to by Sir George Barlow, acting Governor-General from 1805-1807, who converted each corner of the verandah into a small room. This view shows the building after these additions. Later in 1814-15 the building was greatly extended by the Marquis of Hastings who added a new storey.
Artist : Forrest, Charles Ramus
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Residence of Governor General, Barrackpore, 1858
বড়লাটের বাগানবাড়ি, ব্যারাকপুর, ১৮১৩
চলতি নাম : লাটবাগান
This Summer Residence of the Governor-General in Barrackpore was designed by Captain Thomas Anbury, in English Rennaissance style, in the year 1813.
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Bengal Artillery Mess House, Barrackpore, 1850
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The Bengal Artillery was one of the army units of the British East India Company. It served as a part of the Bengal Army which was the military of the Bengal Presidency. The army of Bengal Province was among the three major Presidency Armies of British India.
After the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857, almost all of the units of the Bengal Army were disbanded because of the involvement of the troops in the revolt. All of the sepoy artillery regiments were dissolved and the European battalions were incorporated as a part of the Royal Artillery. The Bengal Artillery was merged with the Royal Artillery in 1862 as the 16th Brigade, 19th Brigade, 24th Brigade and 25th Brigade.
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Short Story About Population Control Gone Horribly Wrong
I'm trying to locate a short story I read 30 years ago about a public relations guy who is hired to help the government develop a program to reduce the population. He comes up with several ideas promoting sterility, suicide, etc. but the program works a little too well & things spiral out of control with mass suicides, death-cults & the like. In the end he's left with the last group of people on earth who are counting on him to mate with the last females to repopulate the earth. I remember the last line of the story was:
"I don't have the heart to tell them I'm sterile".
I also remember that the President of the USA now dresses up like Uncle Sam.
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Hmm. Makes me think of a story (I THINK by Fredric Brown) involving a screw up where an advertiser (Funeral Home, or Coffin sales, or something similar) got too big of a budget (like via a transposed decimal), and was too successful advertising coffins. Ends with an old man come down from the mountains, seeing the results, and looking at his mule, with a comment to the effect of 'Guess we have to try again.. Hope they don't favor your side of the family as much, next time.' Not your story, tho. – K-H-W Jan 24 '13 at 23:30
Read this and immediately thought JG Ballard for some reason. But it's definitely not one of his 2 shorts usually cited in lists of overpopulation fiction (Billenium and Concentration City). – timday Feb 20 '13 at 20:33
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It might be Sales of a Deathman by Robert Bloch
It can be read on archive.org
Excerpts:
What to do with the population problem? Killing people's so messy — unless they'll help!
We've got the posters up — everything from "Join the Marine Corpse" to "Uncle Sam DOESN'T Want You!" And there's a big publicity campaign for the development of Death Valley National Monument.
The president put it right on the line. (Funny thing, he really looks like Uncle Sam now, even without makeup).
“We’re got to repopulate,” he said. “Start all over again from the beginning.” He looked at me.
“You’re our only hope. You and the girl.”
I nodded. So did she.
So tonight they’re setting the two of us up in a living unit of our own. Regular honeymoon suite. From now on, it’s up to me.
The ending line is not the same, though:
Too bad. I just don’t think I’m going to make it. I’ve come to the conclusion Thoreau was right. In times like these, one must seek the peaceful serenity of Walden Pond.
I think I’ll go there tonight. And drown myself.
edited Jul 3 at 1:12
AysheAyshe
That's gotta be it! Although the ending is different from my recollection, the plot line & details of the story match exactly. Takes me waaaay back! Thanks so much! And here is a better link to the story: archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v26n03_1968-02_modified#page/n47/mode/… – Stormn Jul 2 at 17:41
@stormn thank you, I updated the link – Ayshe Jul 3 at 1:28
This sounds a little like "The Marching Morons" by C.M. Kornbluth. However, the solution in TMM was to get everyone to visit another planet (Venus?).
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Sounds like an appropriate title. – Morgan Mar 21 '13 at 0:17
This isn't "The Marching Morons". That story is about (the phrase "That story is about" means SPOILERS) a scammer from the past, not a PR person. – wizzwizz4 Aug 9 '18 at 13:19
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Was Eddard Stark as good a/better swordsman as/than Jaime Lannister? [duplicate]
Was Ned Stark actually a good swordsman? 3 answers
I have a group of friends that all have read the books (not so solid on the show though), and one of them brought up that Ned (Eddard) Stark was one of the best swordsmen in Westeros.
At the time, he couldn't remember what the evidence to back this claim up was, just that he had "read it on the internet somewhere". Though Ned holds a special place in my heart, and I would love to believe that this is true, is there any real evidence in the books/show that support the claim of his swordsmanship?
Note: after him saying this and with it in mind, you can see that in the episode of "Game of Thrones" where the Lannisters apprehend Ned that he holds his own against Jaime for a short time before being stabbed, and during which time Jaime had a look on his face that seemed to acknowledge his opponents skill and enjoy the challenge. This, of course, it not enough to support/debunk the claim, but I thought it an interesting place to start.
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It would probably be Jamie in hand-to-hand but Ned if they were commanding armies. – Daft May 29 '15 at 14:39
Only Howland Reed can reveal truth. Hope he makes it in the upcoming books and tells in details what really happened during Showdown at the Tower of Joy – Nika G. May 29 '15 at 15:30
In real life, things aren't like Dragonball where everyone has a specific powerlevel and that determines who wins. Most fights in real life have a high degree of randomness, on one day one guy will win and on the next the other. – Mark Rogers May 29 '15 at 15:50
@yondaime008: "Any boy whore with a sword could beat three Meryn Trants!" – user46271 May 31 '15 at 17:03
@USFBS Hi, This question was closed as dupe of that question because they have the same answer (See your accepted answer) and that question is broader so it can be used to close all future Ned Vs X type questions. That fact that it is older is irrelevant the way I see it is. Dupes aren't a bad thing, this is not done as an insult to you. This is done purely just to make sure that the Broader question remains valid for the future dupes. – Aegon Mar 30 '18 at 11:32
George R. R. Martin is on the record calling Ned merely a "competent" swordsman and Jaime Lannister one of the best swordsman in the history of Westeros.
Of note are a couple of details which are of relevance to the series, such as Martin's stipulation that Jaime Lannister is one of the greatest swordsmen in the history of the Seven Kingdoms and his indicating yet again that the Ned Stark of the novels isn't really a great warrior, that his talents lie elsewhere.
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Well damn. I come up with a long, in depth answer and it gets swatted down by George RR. Oh well, at least we have a definitive answer now. – USFBS Jun 3 '15 at 12:08
Disclaimer: So, after asking this question, I felt that I should also conduct my own research into the claim of Eddard Stark's swordsmanship. I used various sources, and also built off from some of the ideas in some of the answers. I did not, however, feel that any answer wholly brought together all of the pieces that I will present here.
As noted in the question and the answer by The Honorable Ned Stark, in Season 1 of HBO's "Game of Thrones", we see in episode 5 ("The Wolf and the Lion") the interaction between Ned and Jaime is intended to lead the viewer to get the sense that Ned was able to hold his own, and, as seen in the clip below, Jaime seems to enjoy the challenge.
This is, of course, supported by the script from the first episode of the show in the quote (page 35) that was included in the answer from System Down
He smiles down at Ned. Jaime is taller and broader in the shoulders. They are considered two of the greatest warriors in the Seven Kingdoms, and there can be little doubt that right now each man wonders who would win a fight.
Therefore, you can see that, to some extent, there is evidence from the show that Ned know his way around with a sword fairly well.
Book Evidence
To look a the evidence straight from the book, though, is a different story. In this area, I made two lists: Evidence to support the claim and evidence to hinder the claim.
Taking the Iron Throne: After the sacking of King's Landing, Ned enters the throne room to find Jaime Lannister sitting upon the Iron Throne. When Ned confronted him about it, there was hesitation, a moment where Jaime considered making it a Lannister rule instead of Baratheon. This, of course, never came to pass, and Jaime stepped down, allowing Robert to claim the throne. We can see that, though Jaime was young, brazen and ready to pull his sword on whomever he saw fit to, he did not want to challenge Ned for the throne. An arguement could be made that he never wanted the throne (see Why didn't Jaime Lannister succeed Aerys Targaryen in place of Robert Baratheon?), but with the power plays that we see the Lannisters doing now, it would be safe to say that claiming in the name of the Lannisters was within the realm of possibilities (see Lord Roland Crakehall's words to Jaime).
Robert Baratheon: Robert was one of the strongest men in all of Westeros (until he became king). It is known that Ned and Robert both served as wards of Lord Jon Arryn and spent much of their younger years learning and training together. Having a man like Robert as a sparring buddy would have readily prepared Ned for fights with stronger and more brazen opponents, as well as the ability to have both been trained by a Master-at-Arms. We know that Robert was a fearsome fighter, so for Ned to have held his own he would have had to at least be moderately skilled.
Tower of Joy: This is perhaps the only place that we hear of Ned Stark actually getting into a real, nitty-gritty battle of skill with other top swordsman (Arthur Dayne, Gerold Hightower, and Oswell Whent). Now, as the books state, Ned Stark rode to the tower of Joy to rescue his sister, Lyanna Stark, with six other men (Howland Reed, Martyn Cassel, Theo Wull, Mark Ryswell, Ethan Glover, and Willam Dustin) in his support. It is known that the only two men to survive this conflict were Howland Reed and Ned Stark. Now, this is where things can get a little fuzzy. We never actually get to see what happened during that fight, but we do know a few things about what happened afterwards. We do know that Ned did return Ser Arthur's sword, Dawn, to Starfall, the home of House Dayne. This point is critical. We also know that Ned returned the horse of Lord Dustin to his red stallion to Barrowton. These two actions do not, alone tell us anything. But together, they can make a statement. We do know that Ned was a very honorable man, and that he would feel compelled by his honor to return a token of a man's death if he were to be the one responsible. We can see that in his returning of Lord Dustin's stallion and we can see it in the return of Dawn. That, then, can lead us to believe there is a strong possibility that Ned was the one to kill the legendary Arthur Dayne.
Hindering Evidence
Tower of Joy: This piece made both lists, as though it is likely that Ned killed Arthur Dayne, he also told Bran that he owed his life to Howland Reed. This could mean that Ned wasn't able to handle fighting Dayne on his own or that Reed blocked an attack from someone that would have otherwise been the end of Ned. We do not know for sure, perhaps the next book will shed some light on the matter.
Lack of Swordplay: This is the largest and most glaring hindrance to the claim of Ned having superior swordsmanship. In the books, we never actually have any instances where Ned is in a fight. He doesn't participate in tournies, he does not have a huge reputation for his skill (as with Jaime or Barristan Semly) and he his humble about what he can do.
He can't show us: He has no other opportunities to display his prowess (y'all know why).
So what we have is a few pieces to the puzzle. Bread crumbs left by the writers of the show and George RR Martin towards whether or not this has any sort of merit. George did say that
He [Howland Reed] will appear eventually (source)
Only then will we really know for sure.
(Note: Also was able to get my friend to find the webpage he found the info on originally)
The video is unavailable :( – Gallifreyan Aug 3 '17 at 17:05
TL;DR - Only in the script for the pilot episode.
The only reference to Eddard Stark being an exceptional swordsman comes from the script to the pilot episode of Game of Thrones, which was released prior to airing (probably to drum up excitement). The script described the first meeting (in the series) between Jaime and Ned:
This is never alluded to in the books themselves, nor spoken of in the series. Some fans have retroactively used this to make Ned a swordsman in par with Jaime Lannister, but the books themselves have little to no evidence to back this claim. While Ned was indeed a great military commander who helped take down the Targaryen dynasty, there are no records of his performance in single combat. His disdain for tournies is well known, and there are only two incidents where we see him draw his sword for combat:
The Tower of Joy. Nothing is known about the actual battle, but we do know that Ned had six other men with him and they fought three of the Kingsguard (including the legendary Ser Arthur Dayne). All were killed except for Ned and his friend Howland Reed, whom Ned says saved his life. The lack of detail for this battle means we don't know how well Ned fought.
The Lannister ambush outside of the brothel. While in the series Ned and Jaime sparred for a while, in the books Ned's horse slips and falls on top of him (knocking him out) before he could do anything. So we never even saw him swing Ice in anger.
edited Jun 1 '15 at 17:26
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Clearly your "TL;DR" doesn't refer to A Song of Ice and Fire. ;) – user46249 Jun 1 '15 at 18:48
@CalumGilhooley ASOIAF is NF;CR (not finished, can't read) :D – System Down Jun 1 '15 at 18:50
Ugh, I'm pretty sure that he didn't swing Ice in the TV show. He used a regular long sword, and Ice is a two handed greatsword. Jaime would have beaten him in seconds against such a heavy weapon. – user46271 Jun 1 '15 at 20:47
That's a good bit of information. I wasn't aware that they released the script, least of all it mentioning anyone's skill in battle. I think that that helps to fill in more of the picture for me. – USFBS Jun 2 '15 at 12:43
I don't know if it's considered canon (I've glimpsed through the books, which I haven't really read, and found no mention of this), but in the TV show (1x05, The Wolf and the Lion), Ser Barristan tells Ned that he's not a bad fighter as well and that Ned had cut a dozen good knights.
In the same episode Ned seems to somewhat hold his own against Jaime Lannister as well, until he is speared through the leg. Of course this doesn't mean too much, but a good swordsman, in a one on one combat will usually try to keep the fight short. Considering the fact that their duel wasn't very short, I'd say that Ned held his own.
And you'd know of course ;) – dwjohnston Jun 2 '15 at 22:23
Ned Stark is one of the only two survivors of the fight at the Tower of Joy, where Sir Arthur Dayne (the most renowned swordman of the moment) died.
The fact that he was one of the fighters attacking the tower is not enough to test his skill, as he could have insisted in join the attackers entitled to free his sister, however, surviving the fight, probably one of the most deadliest skirmishes of the war, it is.
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Howland Reed saved Ned from Arthur Dayne. This doesn't mean Ned was a bad swordsman. As surviving the event at Tower of Joy doesn't mean Ned's exceptional swordsman. – Nika G. Jun 1 '15 at 13:24
Experientia magistra stultorum.
Accepting that we're talking about Game of Thrones, and not ASOIAF, it may be hinted in the show that raw skill is only one dimension of a great sword fighter. Surrounding the Ned/Jaime showdown, there are a few dialogue exchanges of which I took note:
Jaime says he looks forward to facing Ned in a tournament, as the competition has become a bit "stale" (S.1 E.1) Ned replies "I don't fight in tournaments because when I fight a man for real, I don't want him to know what I can do."
Ned insinuates he wouldn't stand a chance against Ser Barristan Selmy, widely considered one of the greatest swordsmen in the Realm (S.1 E.5) Selmy replies "You're too modest. I've seen you cut down a dozen great knights."
Earlier, Jaime compliments Selmy on his dispatching of Simon Toyne, leader of the Kingswood Brotherhood, while Jaime was still just a squire (S.1 E.3) Recounting their duel, Selmy only says "Good fighter, Toyne. But he lacked stamina."
When held in the black cells and acknowledging his grim fate to Varys (S.1 E.9) Ned asks "You think my life is some precious thing to me?"
Whereas Jaime was given exceptional training and cultivated among knights such as Selmy and Ser Arthur Dayne, he had yet to experience the rigors of a true conflict, his closest experience coming from an entanglement with the Kingswood Brotherhood while he was still a squire; Selmy and Dayne did most of the real fighting.
Ned, on the other hand, was much more seasoned in combat, having taken the field in both Robert's Rebellion and the Greyjoy Rebellion. Selmy personally saw him "cut down a dozen great knights", and that doesn't include Ser Gerold Hightower at the Tower of Joy (S.6 E.3) as Selmy was not present for that fight; while ultimately bested by Dayne, whom Ned considered the greatest swordsman he'd ever seen, Ned did survive the one-on-one onslaught long enough for help to arrive.
Strictly on personality, you could fairly judge Jaime as cocky, disdainful, and dismissive, whereas Ned is subdued, steadfast, and humble. Jaime acts as though he has something to prove, and Ned does not.
So, finally, breaking down their fight (S.1 E.5).
Ned makes the first strike and the second, anticipating Jaime's forward thrust well enough to get a fist on his shoulder, shoving Jaime in the path of his momentum. If Ned were carrying a dirk, Jaime would be dead.
Jaime overpowers Ned with the following strikes, and when they turn, Ned anticipates a feint and nearly slashes Jaime's face. Jaime is impressed. Ned remains focused.
Ned remains defensive on Jaime's following barrage; when the fighting gets too close, Ned waits for an opening to cut and chop high. Jaime attacks in response, but Ned stands his ground, counterattacking low to back Jaime off until they finally cross swords again.
Jaime attempts to push off, but Ned doesn't budge. A genuinely confounded look washes over Jaime's face, while Ned remains unphased.
Ned is the first to disengage, and he is stabbed in the thigh.
Now, what we see is simply a very evenly matched fight. In terms of context, however, Ned has regularly fought stiffer competition in life-or-death situations and does not concern himself with whether he lives or dies. Jaime has fought safely in the company of the Kingsguard or in competitions and believes himself, rightly or wrongly, to be the best swordsman in the Realm. However, he has yet to truly see his life endangered.
I would argue that Ned may be the less skilled swordsman in the truest sense, but what he lacks in skill he makes up for with experience. He's looked death in the face by fighting more skilled swordsmen and surviving, learning to embrace his limitations by focusing on responsible defensive technique, stamina, and picking his spots. In this fight, Jaime confronts the possibility of his own mortality for the first time. In this moment, Jaime's façade melts, and Ned watches it happen.
Now, does that automatically translate to a Stark victory? No. But if Jaime begins to doubt his skill halfway through a fight, Ned has put the odds in his favor. Experience is the teacher of fools.
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Hello and welcome to SFF! This has the beginnings of a decent answer but could be improved by a few things, most notably adding the sources i.e. episodes where the quotes are from. You also seem to be confusing experienced swordsman with a brilliant one who is cocky at times. If you could edit your answer to address this it would be better. – TheLethalCarrot Mar 29 '18 at 8:16
Hiya! Sources added. But in what way am I 'confusing' an experienced swordsman with a brilliant cocky one? I'm outlining a contrast between skill, by which I mean a mastery of technical ability, with experience, by which I mean a practical use of said ability. The implication is that technical skill alone, even when possessed by a 'brilliant' swordsman, is not necessarily a match for the practicalities gleaned by experience in combat. – Bryan Mar 29 '18 at 8:49
To me, with little experience myself, a 1 on 1 duel is in no way similar to a full scale battle. So yes Ned may have experience in warfare but in a technical duel he does not. In the little experience he did have he was outmatched pretty easily and only saved by the skin of his teeth. – TheLethalCarrot Mar 29 '18 at 9:13
I agree a 1-on-1 duel isn't similar to a full scale battle. By that same stripe, a tourney isn't similar to a 1-on-1 duel. Jaime has no duel experience beyond the Kingswood Brotherhood. Coming into his own during peacetime, most of his swordfighting experience was gleaned through tourneys. True, Ned has fought in wars with few documented duels to his credit, but he has regularly faced death, and thus his martial skill is from practical experience. Jaime's is theoretical, and against "stale" competition. I'm not saying Ned is better. I'm saying he's had to fight for his life. Has Jaime? – Bryan Mar 29 '18 at 9:51
Well your answer comes from show land and not books so in that regard he's had little life threatening experience that we know of. Ned's experience though is from battles and likely against levies and less than competent swordsman whereas he has been trained from birth. I think my gripe with your answer is that you're drawing too much of a conclusion from one small event. It is a good answer though I'm just more nitpicking because I think it could be better :) – TheLethalCarrot Mar 29 '18 at 9:54
No. Ned was certainly a good swordsman and fighter in general. But he was not on Jaime's level (remember, Ser Barristan one of the best Knights ever says that he is en exceptional swordsman that is born maybe once every generation). We also se during their fight that he was toying with him and later punches (if my memory serves) the guard who ends his fun. A starved out Jaime who has had no practice and exerciser for years and is in chains almost defeats Brienne who comments that this was the hardest fight of her life.
Who later kills the Hound or so it is believed for a time
So no, Ned might be the better battle commander but not a better swordsman. Age also doesn't help since he is past his physical prime.
The only way for Ned to win would have been if they made a mistake and either shot a Boromir vs Jaime fight or a Tony Stark in armor v Jaime fight.
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Written by Bono and U2
And so she woke up
Woke up from where she was
Lying still
Said I gotta do something
About where we’re going…
An aching, masterfully melancholy journey to the center of a junkie’s mind, weaving its way through “a day in the life” of heroin addiction. “Running” beautifully captures the junkie’s conflicted tangle of helplessness, euphoria, regret and emptiness. It’s messy but Bono and The Edge pull it together with extraordinary beauty and grace in this slow-moving ballad – bleak and forlorn – that floats through rainy reverie and smack-addled delirium.
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The easy, acoustic-blues sound and compassionate sentiment of “Running” conjures Lou Reed‘s “live free” anthem, “Walk On The Wild Side,” both musically (listen to the opening) and lyrically, in its open-minded attitude toward the way people live their lives, particularly when it comes to sex and drugs.
You can hear fellow Irishman Van Morrison’s influence peeking through as well. The fingerprints are not all that surprising as U2 has performed a handful of Van songs live: “Moondance,” “Gloria,” “Brown-Eyed Girl” and “Into The Mystic.” Bono’s use of scat singing – a kind of “voice instrumental” music (such as, “doo-wop-bippity-bop” or “sha-la-la”) – in “Running” mirrors the technique of Reed in “Walk On The Wild Side” and Morrison in “Brown-Eyed Girl” (among others, like “Tupelo Honey”).
Heroin ran rampant through the towers of Ballymun Flats
Inspired by the crushing heroin epidemic that rocked Dublin’s working-class underbelly in the 1980s, “Running” takes a sympathetic, albeit tragic, look at a young junkie couple that sees heroin as their only refuge – their only escape from a dead-end existence of poverty and despair.
The dark dreamscape takes place in and around the squalid, crime-ridden residential towers of Ballymun Flats (which have since been demolished) on Dublin’s Northside.
Sweet the sin
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Bitter taste in my mouth
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I see seven towers
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But I only see one way out
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As Northsiders, U2’s young members saw widespread hardship – unemployment, crime and rampant drug use – first hand in seedy places like the working-poor enclave of Ballymun, where Bono lived. Witnessing that kind of wholesale suffering, no doubt, left a bad taste in Bono’s mouth, just as heroin literally tastes bitter to the user. (In fact, the more bitter, the purer the product.)
The ugliness and decay of the scene compelled Bono, in his mid-20s, to write “Running,” and the band composed or rather improvised the music. The title refers, in brilliant succinctness, to the constant and utterly useless running and searching, and scoring and shooting that goes into feeding an insatiable addiction like heroin. The junkie never stops running but never gets anywhere (certainly nowhere good).
The success of Joshua Tree propelled the band to superstardom
The Irish government, in the early-’80s, viewed heroin addicts (many of them teenagers) as victims of their own reckless choices – throw-aways – rather than citizen casualties of their grim socio-economic situation. This was clearly a deep personal affront to Bono, who saw the government’s policy position as aloof and draconian – and one that was grossly out of touch with the root causes of the epidemic, not to mention possible solutions.
“Running” speaks with empathy to the overwhelming, soul-sucking bleakness of poverty. There is no escape. There is no relief. And even drugs can offer only fleeting comfort. The desperation and rage bottle up inside, with nowhere to go:
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You’ve got to cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice
The use of the slide acoustic guitar – which lends a bluesy, country feel – and The Edge’s soft-spoken piano create a somber, surreal scene that burns with the need to escape, at all costs:
You know I took the poison
Refers to ingesting heroin
From the poison stream
Refers to intravenous heroin use
Then I floated out of here
Refers to the full-body heroin high as escape
Singing…ha la la la de day
Refers to a soothing lullaby or a religious hallelujah
Ah la la la de day
Ah la la de day
“Running” starts slow and drizzly, and ascends ethereally into a euphoric crescendo – the drums becoming more insistent with each passing beat. But the “high” is short-lived, giving way to the cold emptiness of the “needle chill,” which seems to describe the deeply depressed, post-euphoric state.
She is raging
Refers to the euphoria of heroin
And the storm blows up in her eyes
Refers to the effects of the heroin rush
She will…suffer the needle chill
Refers to the post-euphoric state
She’s running to stand…still
Refers to the constant running that is necessary to feed the addiction
During the long, painfully slow fade – as Bono’s mournful harmonica howls (with echoes of Bruce Springsteen) – you can see that junkie girl, once so beautiful and vibrant, slowly disappear into addiction.
Stolen youth. Stolen dreams and potential. Stolen happiness. And there is an understanding and a wink from Bono and the boys that it all could have been stolen from any of us – but for the grace of God.
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The music for “Running To Stand Still” was improvised – with producer Daniel Lanois on guitar – pretty much on the spot at Windmill Lane Studios during a recording session for (believe it or not) a different song. And out popped a beauty.
“Running To Stand Still” almost always follows “Bullet The Blue Sky” during live performances, just like on the album The Joshua Tree.
Compare Van Morrison’s “Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la…la-la-la-la-tee-da” in “Brown-Eyed Girl” to Bono’s “Ah-la-la-la-de day…ah-la-la-de-day” from “Running To Stand Still.” A brother from a different mother?
Bono strong: On April 1,1987, the eve of The Joshua Tree Tour kickoff in Tempe, Arizona, Bono fell during a run-through of “Bullet The Blue Sky.” The wound on his chin required stitches.
Bono strong (again): On September 20, 1987, the third leg of The Joshua Tree Tour, Bono slipped off the wet stage at D.C.’s RFK Stadium and dislocated his arm. He would complete the performance, but his arm would be in a sling for the next 12 shows. Sling sighting: Check Rattle and Hum (film) during “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and “Freedom For My People.”
Paul McCartney is one of the least likely candidates to win the title “Founder Of Heavy Metal,” but here he nabs the crown.
Charles’ voice is commanding, protesting and lamenting all at once, the greatest Rock/Blues pipes of the last 60 years.
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"Capsule endoscopies and fecal transplants are two very different medical solutions with very high success rates, respectively,” Dr. Tarek Ammar said.
Though unconventional, these techniques can offer lifesaving options to patients.
Capsule endoscopy
In a capsule endoscopy, a small device with a camera, battery and Bluetooth transmitter is placed inside a pill-like casing. Ammar notes that the capsules are about the size of large vitamin supplement and allow doctors to gather images of the digestive system when swallowed by the patient.
They can help diagnose issues in the small intestine if an upper endoscopy and colonoscopy aren’t able to find the problem. “Prior to capsule endoscopies, we weren’t able to take clear images of the entire small intestine in a noninvasive way,” Ammar said.
Step 1: The patient may need to prepare for the procedure by fasting or taking a mild laxative. From there, the process is as simple as going to the doctor’s office and swallowing the capsule.
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Step 3: The procedure is usually complete within eight hours, or whenever the capsule makes it through the digestive tract and passes in the stool. “The only thing the patient must do is check after they go to the bathroom to ensure the capsule has passed,” Ammar said. “Once they see the capsule, they can flush normally and go about their day.”
Are there risks associated with capsule endoscopies?
There is a risk that the capsule can get stuck inside the body if there is an obstruction, such as a tumor. “This is uncommon and in some cases, we're able to retrieve it without using surgical methods, but oftentimes it can require surgery,” Ammar said.
To limit this risk, doctors run tests beforehand to ensure the patient is a good candidate for the procedure. “If there’s any concern the capsule might get stuck, we can give the patient a dissolvable test capsule first to make sure it passes through without issue,” Ammar said.
Fecal transplants are used to treat a recurrent bacterial infection in the colon called Clostridium difficile colitis, or C-diff.
“C-diff is common in hospitals and nursing homes, but you can catch it in the community as well,” Ammar said.” It causes severe pain and bloody diarrhea, sometimes as often as 10-20 times a day.” While the first-line treatment for C-diff is antibiotics, some patients develop cases that cannot be managed by antibiotics alone and require fecal transplant.
The gut is filled with billions of “good” bacteria that keep us healthy. But for people struggling with recurrent C-diff colitis, the antibiotics used to treat the infection can kill the good bacteria and allow the bad bacteria to multiply. When this happens, the bad bacteria can grow and breed quickly because there’s not enough good bacteria to protect the gut.
At this point, the patient requires a fecal transplant, literally transplanting healthy fecal matter into the gut of the patient to repopulate the “good” bacteria.
The fecal matter comes from a designated stool bank, where it’s tested for diseases and infections to ensure its safety. “Once we have the stool sample, we give the patient antibiotics to clear out all the bacteria, usually for about 7-10 days, and then we transplant the fecal sample before the bad bacteria has a chance to grow back,” Ammar said.
There are three ways the stool can be transplanted into the patient: during a colonoscopy, via a tube that is inserted into a patient’s nose into the stomach, or using a series of pills containing the sample.
Are there risks?
Ammar notes that fecal transplants have about a 90 percent success rate, with minimal risks. “Any transplant of bodily fluid carries the risk of infection, but the stool samples are tested for every known pathogen that could lead to infection,” he said.
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Wildflower People, is the 3rd full-length release under Will Hutchinson, put-out one year from his debut album Teal Water (2016) under his side project and moniker Ozark Hutch. The songs are a collection of love stories that pay tribute to the lesson’s learned throughout various relationships, some more fleeting than others, in his life. Inspired by the extreme seasonal changes in Nebraska, the recurring theme of wildflowers play a connective role and provide an intriguing contrast of color throughout the album. From the warm welcome from Ava in the song “West Coast Wanderer” to the cold goodbye of “Gypsy Dream,” the imagery is gracefully weaved into one cohesive album.
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1 US history a political party formed after the Civil War advocating the use of fiat money and opposing the reduction of paper currency
› ˈGreenˌbacker n
› ˈGreenˌbackism n
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in U.S. history, political organization formed in the years 1874–76 to promote currency expansion. The members were principally farmers of the West and the South; stricken by the Panic of 1873, they saw salvation in an inflated currency that would wipe out the farm debts contracted in times of high prices. They were opposed by the conservatives, who managed to get the Resumption Act of 1875 passed. The Greenbackers had in 1874 hoped to capture the Democratic party, but the nomination of Samuel J. Tilden killed that hope, and the Greenback party nominated Peter Cooper as its own candidate for President in 1876. The Greenbackers got only 81,737 votes. In 1878, however, certain labor organizations, embittered by the labor troubles in 1877, united with the advocates of cheap money in the Greenback-Labor party, and the combination party polled over 1 million votes and elected 14 Representatives to Congress that year. The Greenbackers' hopes for 1880 were high, and bidding for wider support they broadened their program by endorsement of woman suffrage, federal regulation of interstate commerce, and a graduated income tax. For the presidency in 1880 the party nominated its most notable figure, Gen. James B. Weaver, but the return of prosperity, the passage of the Bland-Allison Act (1878), and the success of the Resumption Act had allayed the discontent on which the party had grown, and the Greenback-Labor vote declined in 1880 to just a little over 300,000. When the candidate in 1884, Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818–93), did very badly, the party dissolved. Some members joined the Union Labor party in 1888, but more of them went back to the old parties. Later many Greenbackers, among them Weaver and Ignatius Donnelly, became leading figures in the Populist party.
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Chapter 176 - The Gleaning of the wheat on a Sabbath
176,1. After a while however, much nearer the plain, we came to a field of near-ripe grain, spread out before us. The path led through this field and we set upon this one through the field, as it was the shorter one to the village. We therefore traveled through the grain, on a Sabbath of course. The disciples however, having together with Myself had no morning meal, began to pluck some of the riper ears, rubbing the grains into their hands and eating.
176,2. Noticing this, the furious Pharisees step hastily up to Me, speaking with self-important mien: ‘Do you not see the unseemly thing your disciples are committing on a Sabbath?’
176,3. Say I to them: ‘Have you not read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry how he entered into the house of God and ate the showbread, which neither for him nor those who were with him it was seemly to do, but only for the priest? Or have you never read in the law how on the Sabbath, the priests profane the Sabbath and are blameless?
176,4. You have witnessed My works upon the heights and heard My teachings and were repeatedly told who I am. If all this is not enough to you, then I tell you straight to your faces: He who is in Me is greater than the Temple.
176,5. But if you knew what is meant by: “I will have mercy but not sacrifice”, then you would not in your hearts have condemned these innocents. You blind and deaf Pharisees, be told that the Son of Man, who is Myself, is Lord also over the Sabbath.’ These words so frightened the Pharisees that they stepped back at once and stopped denying the gleaning of the wheat to the disciples.
176,6. Kisjonah however, who constantly walked by My side and whose field this was, said to Me: ‘Lord, I shall hasten ahead at once to arrange an ample meal, for I feel sorry for the disciples and their obvious hunger.’
176,7. I said: ‘There you shall indeed do well. But I shall nevertheless first visit a school with My disciples, so that the Pharisees' anger should not wax. For they already cannot stomach Matthew for having proven to them that we hasten on account of the Synagogue. Were we to now by-pass the village-school, that would be the end with them and they would start making trouble. If however we go to a school first, then we have shut their mouths and you can without further ado then present them with your bill, i.e. at the end of the Sabbath.’ With these words Kisjonah and his went straight home, where they found everything in the best order.
176,8. We however turned slightly left towards the school which was situated highest up in the village. Arrived there, we at once entered the rather sparsely attended school.
176,9. With the Pharisees at our heels, secretly fuming at having been laughed off by the disciples out on the field, on account of their blindness, after I had chided their objection to the gleaning of grain.
176,10. On our entering, the Pharisees at once started throwing their weight around, ushering a person to Me whose hand had been withered for a lengthy period and who therefore was capable of hardly any work at all. Here they wanted to know, seeing that I had said that I am Lord also of the Sabbath, whether it is lawful to also heal on a Sabbath. But they only asked to have a witnessed case against Me, for their evil hearts were burning with rage and fury.
176,11. But I spoke to them: ‘Why are you asking Me as if you yourselves were capable of enlivening this one’s long-dead hand? But if I intended healing him, surely I would not ask you for permission to do it?
176,12. Which one among you would be foolish enough not to pull a sheep from a ditch because it fell in on a Sabbath? But how much better is a man than a sheep. For this reason it surely ought to be lawful to do a man good on a Sabbath?’
176,13. The Pharisees were silent, but I called the person over and said to him: ‘Stretch forth your hand.’ And he stretched it out and it became whole as the other that had never been sick.
176,14. This was the last straw for the Pharisees. They left the school to discuss how to kill Me.
176,15. But Matthew, who was a bit of a spy, slipped out, unnoticed by them, soon returning near-breathless and proclaiming aloud what he had heard. Upon this I at once dispatched a disciple to Kisjonah, letting him know that I shall not be able to dine with him for prudence’ sake, as the Pharisees were after My life and with My not wanting to make bigger criminals of them than they already are, I shall make Myself scarce to this area for a while. The disciple was off with arrow-speed, knowing where to catch up with Me later.
176,16. Hardly had he passed it on to Kisjonah, when the latter let everything go, speedily gathering a large number of folk, rushing to the school and arriving just as the Pharisees were entering, well-provided with stones.
176,17. That on this occasion the Pharisees were served up by Kisjonah good and proper hardly needs mentioning, whereupon I then departed with a larger number of folk, healing their sick on the way, because this area at harvest-time, being located on the Galilean Sea, was fever-stricken and there always were many sick, especially the female gender and these, getting news of Me, ran after the crowd and, catching up with Me on the road, asking that I would heal them. And all who followed us were healed.
176,18. After their healing I warned all not to divulge it at home nor to mention the place where I healed them and which direction I left. They promised to strictly keep it and I let them depart with peace.
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1. Annual listing of federally obligated projects [ - 2019]
Oakland, CA : Metropolitan Transportation Commission,
www.mtc.ca.gov
Find it Jonsson Social Sciences Reading Room
HE310 .S36 A56 In-library use
2. Building resilience and planning for extreme water-related events [2019]
Sprague, Teresa, author.
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Book — 1 online resource.
3. Climate adaptation finance and investment in California [2019]
Keenan, Jesse M., 1979- author.
Book — xvi, 155 pages ; 23 cm.
Chapter 2: Climate Adaptation and Asset Management
Chapter 3: Funding and Financing Adaptation
Chapter 4: Assessing Funding and Financing Options
Chapter 5: Social Equity Considerations
Chapter 6: Private Sector
Chapter 7: Climate Services
Chapter 8: Moving Forward.
This book serves as a guide for local governments and private enterprises as they navigate the unchartered waters of investing in climate change adaptation and resilience. This book serves not only as a resource guide for identifying potential funding sources but also as a roadmap for asset management and public finance processes. It highlights practical synergies between funding mechanisms, as well as the conflicts that may arise between varying interests and strategies. While the main focus of this work is on the State of California, this book offers broader insights for how states, local governments and private enterprises can take those critical first steps in investing in society's collective adaptation to climate change.
HC110 .E5 K44 2019 Unknown
4. The Code : Silicon Valley and the remaking of America [2019]
O'Mara, Margaret Pugh, 1970- author.
New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
Start up arrivals
The money men arrivals
Boom and bust
Product launch arrivals
The olympics of capitalism
The personal machine
Homebrewed
Go public arrivals
Built on sand
Change the world arrivals
Information means empowerment
Suits in the valley
Don't be evil arrivals
The internet is you
Software eats the world
Masters of the universe.
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5. Collisions at the crossroads : how place and mobility make race [2019]
Carpio, Genevieve, author.
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Book — xvi, 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction
1 * The Rise of the Anglo Fantasy Past Mobility, Memory, and Racial Hierarchies in Inland Southern California, 1870-1900
2 * On the Move and Fixed in Place Japanese Immigrants in the Multiracial Citrus Belt, 1882-1920
3 * From Mexican Settlers to Mexican Birds of Passage Relational Racial Formation, Citrus Labor, and Immigration Policy, 1914-1930
4 * "Del Fotingo Que Era Mio" Mexican and Dust Bowl Drivers in Metropolitan Los Angeles, 1930-1945
5 * From Citrus Belt to Inland Empire Mobility vs. Retrenchment, 1945-1970 Conclusion The Reemergence of the Anglo Fantasy Past Notes Bibliography Index.
There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West, but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads, maintaining control over place and mobility, labor and race. In Collisions at the Crossroads, Genevieve Carpio argues that mobility, both permission to move freely and prohibitions on movement, helped shape racial formation in the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles and the Inland Empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining policies and forces as different as historical societies, Indian boarding schools, bicycle ordinances, immigration policy, incarceration, traffic checkpoints, and Route 66 heritage, she shows how local authorities constructed a racial hierarchy by allowing some people to move freely while placing limits on the mobility of others. Highlighting the ways people of color have negotiated their place within these systems, Carpio reveals a compelling and perceptive analysis of spatial mobility through physical movement and residence.
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6. Cooking up a revolution : food not bombs, homes not jails, and resistance to gentrification [2019]
Parson, Sean, author.
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Book — ix, 147 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Turning statistics into people: From sick talk to the politics of solidarity
What dumpstered soup tells us about violence, charity, and politics
Parks, permits, and riot police: Understanding the politics of public space occupations and negotiated management policing between the city of San Francisco and Food Not Bombs
The war against the homeless: Frank Jordan, broken windows, and anti-homeless politics in San Francisco
5 The Homeless fight back: The politics of homeless resistance
Bolt cutters and the politics of expropriation: Homes Not Jails, urban squatting, and gentrification
7 Towards an anarchist "Right to the City" Coda: Theses on homelessness, public space, and urban resistance Bibliography
During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless. Over 1,000 arrests and citations where handed out by the police to activists for simply distributing free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city arrest activists helping the homeless? In exploring this question, the book treats the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of homelessness and public space while developing an anarchist alternative to liberal urban politics that is rooted in mutual aid, solidarity, and anti-capitalism. In addition to exploring theoretical and political issues related to gentrification, broken-windows policing, and anti-homeless laws, this book provides activists, students and scholars, examples of how anarchist homeless activists in San Francisco resisted these processes. -- .
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Turning statistics into people : from sick talk to the politics of solidarity
Parks, permits, and riot police : understanding the politics of public space occupations 1988-1991
The war against the homeless : Frank Jordan, broken windows, and anti-homeless in San Francisco
The homeless fight back : the politics of homeless resistance
Bolt cutters and the politics of expropriation : Homes Not Jails, urban squatting, and gentrification
Towards an anarchist "right to the city"
Coda: Theses on homelessness, public space, and urban resistance.
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8. Dispossessed : how predatory bureaucracy foreclosed on the American middle class [2019]
Stout, Noelle M., 1976- author.
Book — x, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Introduction: Once sold, twice taken : a life undone
Dream it, own it : genealogies of speculation and dispossession in the valley
Put out : bank seizure at the poverty line
Robbing Peter to pay Paul : relocating the middle class
Can't work the system : the troubled sympathies of corporate bureaucrats
We shall not be moved : the shifting moral economies of debt refusal.
"In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.S. homeowners lost their homes to foreclosure. Focusing on the hard-hit Sacramento Valley, Noelle Stout uncovers the hellish bureaucracy that organized the largest bank seizure of residential homes in U.S. history. Stout reveals the failure of banks' mortgage assistance programs, backed by over $300 billion of federal funds, to deliver on the promise of relief. Unlike the programs of the Great Depression, in which the government took on the toxic mortgage debt of Americans, these corporate bureaucracies ultimately denied 70 percent of homeowner applicants. In the voices of bank employees and 'dispossessed' homeowners, Stout exposes the tense confrontations between borrowers and banks, reveals how call center representatives felt about denying appeals, and shares the fears of families living on the brink of eviction. Stout exposes the everyday life of rising inequality--for whites who felt their middle-class life unraveling to communities of color who experienced a more precipitous and dire decline. Trapped in a maze of mortgage assistance, borrowers began to view debt refusal as a moral response to lenders. Stout shows how these seemingly mundane bureaucratic dramas came to redefine the meaning of debt and dispossession, opening the door to current contests about the meaning of indebtedness"--Provided by publisher.
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We shall not be moved : the shifting moral economies of debt refusal
You can't go home again.
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10. The dreamt land : chasing water and dust across California [2019]
Arax, Mark, 1956- author.
First edition. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Book — pages cm
"A vivid, searching journey into California's complicated relationship to its water, from the Gold Rush to today -- an epic story of the struggle to overcome the constraints of nature Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers -- a journalist with deep ties to the land, who has watched as the battles over water have intensified even as the state lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land he travels the state to explore the century-old water distribution system that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. This is a heartfelt, beautifully written book about land and the people who work on it, from the gold miners to the ranchers to the small farmers and today's big ag. Since the beginning, Californians have redirected rivers, drilled ever-deeper wells, and pushed the water supplies past their limits. The Dreamt Land brings to life the enterprising figures who have made a fortune off the land, and used that wealth to increase their leverage, as well as the people who have been left behind. It's a story of politics and hubris, but above all it's about the unceasing human ability to make things happen, and to endure in a hostile environment"-- Provided by publisher.
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Book — viii, 562 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Apricot's lesson
Agrarian revolt
Singed
Upon dry land
Staking Eden
Mining soil
Poor Henry
Fruiting the plain
Steal us a river
Moving the rain
Kingdom of wonderful
The candy man
Raisinland
Poisoned pond
960-Acre babies
Holy water.
"A vivid, searching journey into California's complicated relationship to its water, from the Gold Rush to today : an epic story of the struggle to overcome the constraints of nature. Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land, who has watched as the battles over water have intensified even as the state lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land he travels the state to explore the century-old water distribution system that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. This is a heartfelt, beautifully written book about land and the people who work on it, from the gold miners to the ranchers to the small farmers and today's big ag. Since the beginning, Californians have redirected rivers, drilled ever-deeper wells, and pushed the water supplies past their limits. The Dreamt Land brings to life the enterprising figures who have made a fortune off the land, and used that wealth to increase their leverage, as well as the people who have been left behind. It's a story of politics and hubris, but above all it's about the unceasing human ability to make things happen, and to endure in a hostile environment."--Publisher information.
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12. An ethnography of the Goodman building : the longest rent strike [2019]
Caldararo, Niccolo, author.
Book — xvi, 374 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
HN80 .L7 C35 2019 Unavailable On order Request
13. Gay sunrise : writing gay liberation in San Francisco : 1968-1974 [2019]
San Francisco : Ithuriel's Spear, [2019]
Book — xiv, 168 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
HQ76.3 .U52 S2634 2019 Unknown
14. The Glen Park Library : a fairy tale of disruption [2019]
Lee, Pamela M., author.
First edition. - New York ; San Francisco, CA : no place press, 2019.
Foreword / by Michelle Kuo
Prolegomenon: reading disruption
Still life with lifestyle: vision of the valley of the dry bones : Carissa Rodriguez
Teenage algorithm
The dread Pirate Roberts, libertarian metaphor! : Martine Syms
Canyon/Valley/Canyon
The reading room: poetics : Gretchen Bender
Grammar on Silk Road
October 1,
Strong-armed by soft hands : Cécile B. Evans, Josephine Pryde.
"In October 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Ross William Ulbricht was arrested at the Glen Park Public Branch Library in San Francisco, accused of being the "Dread Pirate Roberts" and mastermind of a dark net drug marketplace known as Silk Road. Ulbricht was an ardent libertarian who believed Silk Road--described by the New York Times as "the largest, most sophisticated criminal enterprise the internet has ever seen"--was battling the forces of big government. He was convicted two years later of money laundering, computer hacking, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics and sentenced to life in prison. Art historian Pamela Lee reads this event as a fairy tale of disruption rather than an isolated episode in the history of the dark net, Silicon Valley, and the relationship between public libraries and digital culture. Lee argues that the notion of "disruptive" technology in contemporary culture has radically affected our relationship to knowledge, history, language, aesthetics, reading, and truth. Against the backdrop of her account of Ulbricht and his exploits, Lee provides original readings of five women artists--Gretchen Bender, Cecile B. Evans, Josephine Pryde, Carissa Rodriguez, and Martine Syms--who weigh in, either explicitly or inadvertently, on the nature of contemporary media and technology. Written as a work of experimental art criticism, The Glen Park Library is both a homage to the Bay Area and an excoriation of the ethos of Silicon Valley. As with all fairy tales, the book's ultimate subjects are much greater, however, and Lee casts a critical eye on collisions between privacy and publicity, knowledge and information, and the past and future that are enabled by the technocratic worldview." --Amazon.com.
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15. Housing the City by the Bay : tenant activism, civil rights, and class politics in San Francisco [2019]
Baranski, John, author.
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
Book — xiv, 306 pages ; 26 cm
Contents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThe introduction presents an overview of the book. The introduction focuses on some of the book's main questions about what public housing meant for San Francisco residents and presents the book's major themes, concepts, and arguments. There is also a discussion about how the book contributes to some of the more important historical themes of urban and welfare state history in the twentieth century. The introduction presents an analysis of liberalism as it relates to public housing, the welfare state, and the economic and civil rights of citizens and suggests ways for the reader to start thinking about these larger issues before moving into the narrative of the book.
1Progressive Era Housing Reform chapter abstractThe first chapter describes the city's working-class neighborhoods that are considered for housing reform during the first half of the twentieth century. The chapter also places the city's reform community-its members, knowledge production, and policy visions-within a larger community of housing reformers in the Atlantic World interested in the labor question. Prompted by the social problems generated by industrial capitalism and urbanization, reformers began to rethink how urban housing and planning was done. Breaking from classical liberal economic ideas, transatlantic reformers proposed an expanded role for all levels of government in the economy. As was common in other parts of the world, San Francisco's housing reformers also used a combination of social science research and moral suasion to pass government building codes and zoning laws. They failed in their attempt to create public housing in part because they failed to inspire the city's workers and tenants.
2The San Francisco Housing Authority and the New Deal chapter abstractt examines the influence of the Great Depression and the New Deal on San Francisco's housing and job needs and how federal housing officials drew on popular movements, four decades of social reforms, and a change in liberalism to guide the expansion of government housing policies. The
1937 United States Housing Act, along with expanded state legislation, permitted San Francisco's residents, including nonwhites, to participate in the creation of the San Francisco Housing Authority (SFHA), which in turn allowed them to build government housing and provide jobs. The SFHA was not a democratic agency or free of racism, but its policies were more inclusive than pre-New Deal housing reform efforts and more responsive to the general welfare than private landlords. From the discussions of the SFHA purpose, the city's residents began to think in new ways about housing, civil and economic rights, and liberalism.
3Public Housing, Race, and Conflicting Visions of Democracy and the State chapter abstractThe chapter examines the war years when the SFHA housing program expanded not only its housing stock, but also its social services at its projects. Urban planners, housing reformers, and labor unions across California began promoting a larger role for public housing authorities in local and regional economic development, achieving full employment, and in expanding economic rights for citizens. The
1948 United Nations General Assembly declaration on civil and economic rights and the
1949 United States Housing Act reflected the growing discussions around these ideas, although in the United States, postwar affluence, the real estate lobby, and the red scare dashed support for enlarging federal public housing and the welfare state. Along with these developments, the chapter follows the growing civil rights movement and how it targeted public housing for integration and ending racial discrimination.
4Prosperity, Development, and Institutional Racism in the Cold War chapter abstractThe chapter outlines the city's housing and neighborhoods most affected by wartime demographic changes and by the tenant selection of private landlords and SFHA staff. The chapter focuses on the ways civil rights activism and the Cold War influenced the SFHA program. Civil rights activists forced the SFHA to desegregate its housing, and the civil rights struggles illustrated the ways housing intersected with economic rights and identity formation. The politically chilling Cold War climate also led many housing officials, like many New Deal liberals, to abandon the idea of expanding government programs to ensure employment and housing, and this shift came at a time when private redevelopment projects became a priority at the federal and local level. The quality of some public housing in San Francisco began to deteriorate in the 1950s, contributing to tenant organizing and activism in the following decades.
5Something to Help Themselves chapter abstractThe chapter examines how the shortages of good jobs and housing and racial discrimination provided fertile ground for tenant mobilization. Taking the idea of participatory policymaking to heart, public housing tenants organized tenant unions at the project and city level. SFHA policies continued to demonstrate how the power built on race, class, and gender privileges stymied participatory policymaking as SFHA tenant attempts to participate in SFHA achieved mixed results. Tenants and allied civic organizations fought federal cuts to government housing and urban renewal projects. Tenant activities sometimes spilled over into surrounding communities as renters in private housing joined hands with public housing tenants in a variety of campaigns. Significantly, this part of the book deepens our understanding of the traditional narrative of the 60s by including the social activism of tenants and challenging the stereotype of public housing tenants as part of an urban underclass.
6Out of Step with Washington chapter abstractThe chapter focuses on how tenants tried to expand their rights through the SFHA and other public agencies. Tenant leaders, who were primarily women, drew on the resources of the SFHA and other public institutions to nurture their tenant organizing. The city's tenants organized for more public housing, useful jobs, and social services. For a short time, tenants even demanded control of public housing funds and SFHA policymaking. Although their desire to fully democratize their housing met opposition, tenant efforts resulted in reforms that made policymaking more inclusive. Their growing influence came at a time when the SFHA program, like many social welfare programs, suffered from federal budget cuts. Federal housing policies began to move away from funding government homes to private sector solutions, and this shift hurt the quality and scope of the city's public housing and tenant organizing.
7All Housing Is Public chapter abstractThe chapter highlights tenant responses to federal cuts in social programs, another wave of urban redevelopment, and rising housing costs. To SFHA tenants, government housing continued to offer not just housing but a host of programs aimed at ensuring a degree of economic security. That housing and those programs allowed tenants to maintain a sense of community. But non-SFHA tenants also turned to the government program in their struggle for housing security. In these ways, the SFHA continued its role in the daily lives of the city's residents. The SFHA's declining resources aligned with the rise of the New Right and the power of neoliberalism to cut federal housing funds further. Tenants continued their struggles over housing. Not everything was oriented around struggle. Public housing tenants expressed their creativity and identity through art and community projects, thus reinforcing their identities through culture, place, and struggle.
8Privatizing the Public in the Dot-Com Era chapter abstractThis chapter examines how demand for housing, cuts to the SFHA program, and federal legislation influenced the direction of housing trends in the city. As housing costs soared, landlords skirted tenant rights and evictions rose-- many residents unable to keep or secure housing joined the homeless population or left the city. Some residents resisted and fought for housing rights in an era of gentrification. This housing crisis was not unique to San Francisco. Across the country, tenants were squeezed out of neighborhoods as wages failed to keep up with urban housing costs. Housing legislation continued to shift resources and support to private sector housing solutions rather than public housing. By the twenty-first century, the SFHA was losing its place as the largest affordable housing landlord in the city.
Conclusion chapter abstractThe conclusion highlights the key points and themes of San Francisco's housing history and connects those insights to a national and international affordable housing shortage and income, wealth, and racial inequality. The conclusion also proposes recommendations for thinking about public housing as a program that could be used once again to expand the civil and economic rights of citizens and engage residents in the political process. The history of public housing in San Francisco offers insights into how to approach contemporary housing reforms and social movements.
San Francisco has always had an affordable housing problem. Starting in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and ending with the dot-com boom, Housing the City by the Bay considers the history of one proposed answer to the city's ongoing housing crisis: public housing. John Baranski follows the ebbs and flows of San Francisco's public housing program: the Progressive Era and New Deal reforms that led to the creation of the San Francisco Housing Authority in 1938, conflicts over urban renewal and desegregation, and the federal and local efforts to privatize government housing at the turn of the twenty-first century. This history of public housing sheds light on changing attitudes towards liberalism, the welfare state, and the economic and civil rights attached to citizenship. Baranski details the ways San Francisco residents turned to the public housing program to build class-based political movements in a multi-racial city and introduces us to the individuals-community activists, politicians, reformers, and city employees-who were continually forced to seek new strategies to achieve their aims as the winds of federal legislation shifted. Ultimately, Housing the City by the Bay advances the idea that public housing remains a vital part of the social and political landscape, intimately connected to the struggle for economic rights in urban America.
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Progressive era housing reform
The San Francisco Housing Authority and the New Deal
Public housing, race, and conflicting visions of democracy and the state
Prosperity, development, and institutional racism in the Cold War
Something to help themselves
Out of step with Washington
All housing is public
Privatizing the public in the dot-com era
17. Rights in transit : public transportation and the right to the city in California's East Bay [2019]
Attoh, Kafui Ablode, 1983- author.
Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2019]
Introduction: for rights
Torts, transit, and the "majestic equality" of the law
Transportation justice and the alliance for AC transit
The rights of transit labor
Alternatives in transit
Conclusion: from civil rights to a right to the city.
Is public transportation a right? Should it be? For those reliant on public transit, the answer is invariably "yes" to both. Indeed, when city officials propose slashing service or raising fares, it is these riders who are often the first to appear at that officials' door demanding their "right" to more service. Rights in Transit starts from the presumption that such riders are justified. For those who lack other means of mobility, transit is a lifeline. It offers access to many of the entitlements we take as essential: food, employment, and democratic public life itself. While accepting transit as a right, this book also suggests that there remains a desperate need to think critically, both about what is meant by a right and about the types of rights at issue when public transportation is threatened. Drawing on a detailed case study of the various struggles that have come to define public transportation in California's East Bay, Rights in Transit offers a direct challenge to contemporary scholarship on transportation equity. Rather than focusing on civil rights alone, Rights in Transit argues for engaging the more radical notion of the right to the city.
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18. Secrets of Sand Hill Road : venture capital and how to get it [2019]
Kupor, Scott, author.
[New York, New York] : Portfolio/Penguin, [2019]
Book — xii, 305 pages : illustrations.
"What are venture capitalists saying about your startup behind closed doors? And what can you do to influence that conversation? If Silicon Valley is the greatest wealth-generating machine in the world, Sand Hill Road is its humming engine. That's where you'll find the biggest names in venture capital, including famed VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, where lawyer-turned-entrepreneur-turned-VC Scott Kupor serves as managing partner. Whether you're trying to get a new company off the ground or scale an existing business to the next level, you need to understand how VCs think. In Secrets of Sand Hill Road, Kupor explains exactly how VCs decide where and how much to invest, and how entrepreneurs can get the best possible deal and make the most of their relationships with VCs. Kupor explains, for instance: * Why most VCs typically invest in only one startup in a given business category. * Why the skill you need most when raising venture capital is the ability to tell a compelling story. * How to handle a "down round, " when startups have to raise funds at a lower valuation than in the previous round. * What to do when VCs get too entangled in the day-to-day operations of the business. * Why you need to build relationships with potential acquirers long before you decide to sell. Filled with Kupor's firsthand experiences, insider advice, and practical takeaways, Secrets of Sand Hill Road is the guide every entrepreneur needs to turn their startup into the next unicorn"-- Provided by publisher.
"Venture capitalist Scott Kupor explains what start-up entrepreneurs need to know about venture capital. He answers such questions as who gets a pitch meeting and who doesn't, and which metrics should you stress in a presentation, and which should you ignore. Includes a sample Term Sheet"-- Provided by publisher.
19. Taking back the boulevard : art, activism and gentrification in Los Angeles [2019]
Lin, Jan, author.
New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Book — x, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Introduction: scenes from Northeast Los Angeles
Boulevards, gentrification, and urban culture
The stages of neighborhood transition
From Arroyo culture to NELA arts
Neighborhood activism and slow growth
Gentrification, displacement, and the right to the city
Conclusion: going back to the future.
The promises and conflicts faced by public figures, artists, and leaders of Northeast Los Angeles as they enliven and defend their neighborhoods Los Angeles is well known as a sprawling metropolis with endless freeways that can make the city feel isolating and separate its communities. Yet in the past decade, as Jan Lin argues in Taking Back the Boulevard, there has been a noticeable renewal of public life on several of the city's iconic boulevards, including Atlantic, Crenshaw, Lankershim, Sunset, Western, and Wilshire. These arteries connect neighborhoods across the city, traverse socioeconomic divides and ethnic enclaves, and can be understood as the true locational heart of public life in the metropolis. Focusing especially on the cultural scene of Northeast Los Angeles, Lin shows how these gentrifying communities help satisfy a white middle-class consumer demand for authentic experiences of "living on the edge" and a spirit of cultural rebellion. These neighborhoods have gone through several stages, from streetcar suburbs, to disinvested neighborhoods with the construction of freeways and white flight, to immigrant enclaves, to the home of Chicano/a artists in the 1970s. Those artists were then followed by non-Chicano/a, white artists, who were later threatened with displacement by gentrifiers attracted by the neighborhoods' culture, street life, and green amenities that earlier inhabitants had worked to create. Lin argues that gentrification is not a single transition, but a series of changes that disinvest and re-invest neighborhoods with financial and cultural capital. Drawing on community survey research, interviews with community residents and leaders, and ethnographic observation, this book argues that the revitalization in Northeast LA by arts leaders and neighborhood activists marks a departure in the political culture from the older civic engagement to more socially progressive coalition work involving preservationists, environmentalists, citizen protestors, and arts organizers. Finally, Lin explores how accelerated gentrification and mass displacement of Latino/a and working-class households in the 2010s has sparked new rounds of activism as the community grapples with new class conflicts and racial divides in the struggle to self-determine its future.
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20. Trillion-dollar coach : the leadership playbook from Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell [2019]
Schmidt, Eric, 1955 April 27- author.
First edition. - New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
Book — xvi, 218 pages ; 24 cm
The caddy and the CEO
Your title makes you a manager. Your people make you a leader
Build an envelope of trust
Team first
The yardstick.
"Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle, the team behind How Google Works, return with the story of Bill Campbell, the greatest executive business coach the world has ever seen, responsible for creating more value than just about anybody else on the planet"-- Provided by publisher.
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SG24/60 Dutch philosopher Bas Haring
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Time and again, Dutch philosopher Bas Haring surprises his audience with inspiring thoughts and fascinating questions. By observing the world, he looks for interesting trends and mechanisms and turns complicated issues into understandable ones. In a clear, stimulating and sometimes provocative way he brings science and philosophy together to give meaning to people’s lives.
In his lecture at SG24/60 he will talk about how your new ideas, theories and inventions get inspired by something completely different.
If you want to get inspired, gain new insights or want to revive a stalled idea, it is advisable to occasionally go beyond the boundaries of your own world. Talk to someone with a totally different scientific background, read Shakespeare or go to a museum. Old news, right? However, Bas Haring takes it one step further.
In this philosophical exploration he pushes the boundaries of the unconventional out-of-the-box-thinking. He explains why you should challenge yourself to enter a totally unknown and incomparable world and do practical things which may seem senseless at first sight. Try it and start with something completely different. Mathematicians, go knitting! Businesspeople, go make conceptual art! And designers go rewrite an opera by Puccini!
Bas Haring is a philosopher, scientist, writer, media personality and frequently asked speaker. In 1992 Bas Haring obtained his doctorate from Utrecht University in Cognitive Artificial Intelligence (CKI), after which he obtained his PhD in 1997 for his research on cognitive artificial intelligence. Since 2006 he is professor by special appointment of Public understanding of science and founder of the master program Media Technology for creative science. As an author he published eight popular science & philosophy books. Bas Haring writes columns for leading national quality newspapers and weekly’s in The Netherlands like Intermediair and de Volkskrant. He also regularly performs in television programs as a presenter, opinion maker and expert in the field of science and society.
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Review: Mortido (Belvoir St Theatre)
Venue: Belvoir St Theatre (Surry Hills NSW), Nov 7 – Dec 23, 2015
Playwright: Angela Betzien
Director: Leticia Cáceres
Cast: Toby Challenor, Tom Conroy, Colin Friels, Louisa Mignone, Renato Musolino, David Valencia
Image by Brett Boardman
At the centre of Angela Betzien’s Mortido, is a wretched life. Jimmy is a soft and kind soul, misguided by family and exploited by every person he trusts. Emerging into adulthood from a background of poverty and addiction, the only barometer he possesses for a better life is a need for acceptance, along with our definitive measure of success, money. Without the support of anyone who has Jimmy’s own interests at heart, and with no education to speak of, his fate is sealed, and doomed. The story is a dark one about the underbelly of Sydney, and how our affluence is built upon the perpetuation of an underclass, kept aspirational and concurrently ignorant.
Betzien’s script is highly ambitious and vast in scope. It encompasses themes of family, money and addiction, set against historical contexts, to explore attitudes and machinations of our current sociopolitical environment. The play looks at our problems with narcotics and poverty from micro and macro perspectives, refusing to diminish their complex enormity for convenient storytelling. What results is a piece of writing that is detailed and intricate, but also challenging, for audiences and theatre makers alike.
Director Leticia Cáceres does well at providing the production with tension and intrigue, but the plot’s clarity suffers from that tautness of pace. In its second half especially, too much is revealed too quickly, and our minds struggle to process every poignancy. Each revelation is an important one that contributes, not only to our appreciation of each character’s circumstances, but also to our understanding of the real world. Many of the story’s elements will resonate deeply if given the chance, but the show seems to rush quickly past and we are left wondering if we had learned everything that is worth knowing.
Nevertheless, Mortido is gripping, and very exciting, with each scene holding surprises, frequently overwhelming with its keen portrayal of brutality, both physical and psychological. Composer The Sweats and Sound Designer Nate Edmondson do exceptional work with their manipulations of atmosphere. The production relies heavily on its sounds to control our responses, and the precision at which it guides our emotions through every sequence and transition is remarkable. A disappointing contrast does occasionally occur however, when it takes a back seat, leaving the actors to their own devices, and we begin to feel the emptiness of space.
There is plenty of impressive acting to be found, including the very young but very compelling Toby Challenor, whose immovable focus on each task in every appearance, belies his tender age. Colin Friels plays several disparate characters, displaying a good level of versatility and enthusiasm, but is probably most effective as Detective Grubbe and El Carnicero. The star’s presence is undeniable and the intensity he brings to the stage has an effortless drama that is absolutely captivating. The central character Jimmy is performed by Tom Conroy with a faultless vulnerability. For all of Jimmy’s regrettable mistakes, we are always on his side, hurting for his every adversity and hoping that a twist of fate appears. Conroy excels in the role, successfully depicting Jimmy’s personal difficulties as well as the social connotations of a problematic life. We understand the responsibilities that are due young people like Jimmy, and realise how we have failed those who share his disadvantage. Also noteworthy is David Valencia as the enigmatic Spanish-speaking El Gallito, memorable for his simultaneous delivery of danger and ethereality, and an aggressive sex appeal that electrifies the stage.
The title of the work refers to our human tendencies toward self-destruction. It is a discussion about weakness, and along with that, we encounter ideas surrounding ethics, responsibility and social harmony. Mortido is a cautionary tale about the seduction of death, and the perils involved when allowing lives to be less than honourable. It confronts the inequity that exists in our wealthy cities, and our complicity in maintaining that damaging status quo. We can always identify good from bad, but we do not always make the right decisions.
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2015, belvoir, drama, play, review, state theatre company of south australia, sydney, theatre
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Zojoji temple in Tokyo
Last Saturday, we went to the Zojoji temple in Tokyo to watch the Noh theater.
This is the Main Gate “Sangedatsumon”. It is majestic and magnificent and remains the only architectural reminder of the early days of the Edo Period, 17-18-19th century, when the original Zojoji was constructed on a prodigious scale.
Zojoji was founded in 1393 as an orthodox and fundamental seminary for Jodo shu in the Kanto (east Japan) region. In 1590 the shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa relocated it to Tokyo to establish his government and Zojoji became the family temple of the Tokugawa family. It continued to be the center to govern the religious studies and activities of Jodo shu, as it is still today. In those days, its precincts covered an area of 826,000 square meters with the big cathedral temple and 48 smaller ones, about 150 grammar schools, and 3000 priests and novices resided here. Zojoji was profoundly affected by the anti-Buddhist movement and World War II in the 20st century, but the cathedral and some temples and buildings have been rebuilt.
The cathedral temple.
The Amida Buddha statue inside the Zojoji.
One of the small shrines to pray for children.
All the statues wear knitted hats and bibs with colorful fans.
The open air theater from the back. In the back of the picture is the big front gate.
A view from the other side shows the big cathedral temple.
Tokyo Tower at night with the Cathedral.
The Noh Theater
The Noh theater played on the grounds in the open air of the Zojoji temple in Tokyo.
The early origins of Noh theater were mostly folk-type forms of rustic entertainment.
In 1375, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the powerful dynastic shogun and ruler of all Japan, experienced an early form of Noh performed by Kanami Kiyotsugu and his twelve year old son Zeami Motokiyo. It is due to Yoshimitsu’s patronage and interest in early Noh that this dramatic form was able to develop into the highly refined, serene theater.
Zeami, a dramatist, is the prime figure in Noh, having written 100 of the 204 plays, many of which are still regularly performed to this day. He also wrote a very famous treatise in 1423 on the skills and methods necessary for a Noh actor, and that document is still valid study for young actors. What Zeami, inspired by his father, managed to create, was a theater of the Muromachi period (1336-1573), written in the upper-class language of the fourteenth century, but which looked back to the supposed Golden Age of the Heian Period (794-1185), by basing plays on people, events and even poetry of that era creating texts of astonishing richness and opacity. Noh exists today in a form almost unchanged since Zeami’s day.
One of the blessings before and for the Noh plays.
The blessings were half an hour long.
Three priests accompanied the blessings on their instruments: very interesting sounds.
One of the most striking aspects of the Noh is that the shite, the main actor, may wear a mask, as may his companions, or tsure. This occurs when the main character is an old man, a youth, a woman, or a supernatural character. Tsure accompany the shite in certain plays, and if they represent one of these groups, they will also be masked, but the shite will not wear a mask if his character is an adult male.
Masks are carved from wood, often cedar, which is then painted, and include some of the most moving works of sculptural art in Japan, The masks are carved in a subtle way, so that with small changes of inclination they appear to show different emotions.
This is the mask from Yo-Kihi “Yang Kuei-fei”.
The emperor is mourning her dead and a magician brings proof of her being on a magic island by a bejeweled hair ornament and then the magician/Yo-Kihi dances for the emperor.
The bejeweled hair ornament.
The magician/Yo-Kihi dances.
The other ubiquitous prop is the fan, which in a symbolic theater such as Noh, can represent all manner of other objects, such as bottles, swords, pipes, letters walking sticks and so on.
The costumes are adaptations of those of the 15th century. Some, particularly those of characters representing the nobility, are sumptuous, with gold and silver thread
The play will be performed on a stage open on three sides, and a pine tree behind. A sort of walkway, called the hashigakari leads onto the stage right position from an entrance doorway at right angles to the backboard. Along the hashigakari are three small pine trees, and these define areas where the actor may pause to deliver lines, before arriving on the main roofed stage, which is about six metres square.
One of the small pine trees.
Ranged along in front of the back is a group of musicians whose instruments include a flute, a shoulder drum, a hip drum and sometimes a stick drum. The musicians are responsible for the otherworldly, strange music which accompanies dance and recitation alike. At the right angles to the back, there is the chorus of eight to twelve chanters arranged in two rows and it is their job to take over the narration of the story, or the lines of the main character if he is engaged in a dance. These elements all contribute to a cohesive whole which creates a richly textured background against which the play is enacted, and since no scenery, few props and only a small cast appears, the imagination of the audience is left to roam freely.
In general, Japanese Noh plays are not very dramatic, although they are beautiful, since the text is full of poetical allusions and the dances, though slow, are extremely elegant. It is this very beauty which makes Noh a living art form still, over six hundred years after it developed.
This represents a magical lion in the last play, who dances among peony flowers before a stone bridge, which leads to a paradise.
Unfortunately, I was not allowed to take pictures during the performance. Those are photos from a brochure.
Sewer Cover 2
Because I walk every where,I found another fire fighter cover in a sidewalk near the Zojoji temple in Tokyo.
Scrolls, Kakejiki, in our house
Today, I hang a new found scroll on the wall in our living room. I call it the “Mystical Morning” summer scroll: a beautiful Sumie brush painting on paper.
This is a close-up. And by clicking on it, you can enlarge it.
Kakejiki means “a hanging”: a painting or calligraphic work mounted on paper or textile, for hanging in the alcove “toko” of a tearoom. This style developed as a device for the paintings of esoteric Buddhism during the Heian period. The spread of Zen culture and the development of “chanoyu” (teaceremony), where it is the centerpiece of the event, further enhanced the culture of hanging scrolls.
This scroll we have hanging, when you come up the stairs to the living room: delicately painted “Coy” or “Koi” fish on silk.
According to Japanese legend if a Koi (or carp) succeeded in climbing the falls at a point called Dragon Gate on the Yellow River it would be transformed into a dragon. Based on that legend, it became a symbol of worldly aspiration and advancement, the ability to attain high goals and courage.
Also, in the Buddhist Religion, the Koi Fish is symbolic for courage. Humans ‘swim’ through the ‘ocean of suffering’ without fear, just like a fish swims through water.
Owning Koi has been a pleasure to pond keepers and water gardeners for hundreds of years. Known as “Living Jewels” by the Japanese, these colorful carp are highly sought after. Hardy enough to live through all but the worst winters, they are the favorite choice of pond dweller in many different climates.
In general, Koi are associated with good fortune, luck and happiness.
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Mitsukoshi Exhibition in Tokyo
Last week, from May 15 – May 20, the Tokyo Nippon Tougei Club had their major show in the Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi store.
This was their 40st anniversary charity event for all kind of good causes in and outside Japan to help needy people.
Two pieces of mine were accepted and sold right away the first day!
A “Horsehair” Vase and
a “Feather, Horsehair” Vase.
(Click on the picture for enlargement).
Nine “Ningen Kokuho”, Living National Treasures, like Shimaoka Tatsuo were asked to participate: a beautiful Sake set with his rope impressed design.
And special Japanese Award winner, Imaizumi Imaemon.
A beautiful decorated porcelain vase.
Some other work:
Some plates with a gold leaf flower design.
A beautiful little Chalice.
Elephants in Thailand
Elephants in Thailand hold a revered place in society, because of their symbolic importance to monarchs, religion, and the nation as a whole.
A ceramic sculptured elephant.
Thai tradition abounds with examples of the elephant playing an important role in the workings of the Kingdom. Most significant of all, perhaps, is the white elephant, prized because it is a rare animal judged fit only for royal duties.
A ceramic glazed elephant.
According to ancient royal Thai traditions, a white elephant is a noble beast of special importance, exemplifying a king’s honor and glory. Known in Thai as Chang Samkhan, a white elephant is a gift fit for a king and to acquire one during his reign, will bring about prosperity and happiness throughout the kingdom.
A terra cotta clay elephant.
Elephants are of immense importance in Thailand. They are smart land mammals and hard-working beasts, providing transportation for mankind. At times of war, elephants played an indispensable role in the war machine of Thailand and other Asian countries.
A wooden carved elephant.
Commanders fighting duels on elephant back, documented throughout Thai history, required strategic planning and great skills to lead armies to win wars. Elephants in battle played a sterling part in maintaining the sovereignty of Thailand in past war periods.
A stone carved elephant.
The elephant appears in many Thai proverbs and sayings and is an emblem on regalia of national importance such as prior national flags of Thailand, royal emblems, and royal decorations. Undoubtedly, the elephant holds pride of place as the national symbol of the Kingdom of Thailand.
A wooden elephant.
Pottery in musea in Thailand
I saw some beautiful pottery in some museums and in temples.
Especially, the Suan Pakkad Palace Museum and the Jim Thompson house in Bangkok had some wonderful pieces. But also, often you were not allowed of course to take pictures. So, I got some pictures from catalogues.
This is Banchiang Prehistoric pottery. It is iron oxide painted. They also had beautiful cord marked pots.
This is a prehistoric artifact from China probably from the Sung period.
A beautiful Chinese porcelain tea set with all Kanji signs. H.M.King Rama IV+V were very impressed by their ceramic ware that they even named gardens, canals, gates and roads after ancient Chinese ceramics.
A pentachromatic, 5 color, porcelain bowl, called Bencharong. It was made in China but decorated with Thai designs.
A Bencharong porcelain box I saw in a hotel.
Some other beautiful plate and little box.
I think it is also made in China.
On our way back to Japan, we made a stopover in Thailand.
It is unbelievable what a human can make!
Here is just a tiny small example of what we saw. It is all so beautiful and so intricately made.
The colored pieces are almost all ceramic used as tiles and little pieces of ceramics for flowers. They use crystals and mirrors/glass in their mosaics and when the sun shines on it, it blinds your eyes. Very tricky!
This is the Grand Royal Palace in Bangkok.
Click on the picture for enlargement. Garuda birds are sitting on the top and corners of the roof.
Those are pagodas completely covered with ceramics tiles and ceramic little pieces to make a mozaic.
This is the roof top of the Marble temple “Wat Benchamabophit”: nice ceramic roof tiles.
On the top and corners of the roof you see the Garuda bird. In the Buddhist mythology, the Garudas are enormous predatory birds with intelligence and social organization. They combine the characteristics of animals and divine beings.
Roof decoration with little Buddhas.
The reclining Buddha in the “Wat Po” temple. He is 30 meters long and all the walls in this temple are completely painted with all stories and scenes from their mythology. It is amazing!
Like this painting. But this one is in the Grand Royal Palace and is being renovated with gold paint and is on the surrounding wall off the palace and may be is a mile long. And all with those paintings 2 meters high.
This is a small Buddha in one of the temples I visited with a beautiful ceramic porcelain vase next to it with Lotus flowers.
Another beautiful porcelain vase.
In one of the temples a beautiful pot with waterlilies in it and a big dragon on it.
Red Ware
Finally, back to writing a new blog.
I’m back in Japan, but this red work I prepared in the US in April for the “Hot” 3D show coming up in the Gallery House in Palo Alto, CA ( http://www.galleryhouse2.com ) from May 29 – June 23, 2007.
The glaze is not an easy glaze and can give lots of craters. Of course, this happened to me 2 days before I would leave for Holland. Luckily, I know the solution by spraying on a white glaze I have and when I opened the kiln, I got some nice results.
So, I was in time for the show!
A S-line red vase.
A little chalice.
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Left Socialist Blog
Posts Tagged ‘Donald Trump’
Brexit and Trump are “two sides of the same coin” which no protest can ignore.
Protest Against Trump’s Vision of a Brexit Britain.
Trump waded into the U.K.’s fraught politics on the first day of a state visit, urging his hosts to proceed with Brexit and dangling the promise of a U.S. trade deal he said would swiftly follow. https://t.co/s8VwKrcZtv via @bpolitics
— Andrew Coates (@Pabloite) June 4, 2019
Viewers of Channel Four last night know that apart from the free entry of US business chancers into the NHS Trump is also demanding that this should be in the supermarkets.
US wants NHS and chlorinated chicken included in UK trade deal https://t.co/sV09PSw790 via @vsmacdonald
The Truth About Chlorinated Chicken review – an instant appetite-ruiner
Just in time for Trump’s UK visit, Channel 4’s Dispatches looked at the food standard implications of a post-Brexit trade deal with the US. It wasn’t a pretty sight
Chlorine washing may prevent the detection of contaminants through ordinary testing, because it partially masks the problem. Quilton had no trouble finding a Texas restaurant owner who will swear there is nothing wrong with American chicken – “Not a thing. Superior quality and flavour”. But the numbers speak for themselves: US rates of campylobacter infection are 10 times higher than in the UK. The US records hundreds of salmonella deaths a year; the UK has in recent years recorded none.
Central to the programme was footage shot inside a giant processing plant by an undercover employee. Looking at it, a former EU meat inspector was able to identify several flagrant violations of good hygiene practice and even the plant’s own policies, but there was more sickening stuff on display: a supervisor is overheard talking about “a trend of adulterated product”, by which she means glass in the chicken, and also making reference to a recent “amputation”. To me, the word amputation brings to mind an operation performed by a professional for the good of a patient, and not, as in this instance, some poultry worker losing three fingers in a machine.
One study found 95 such “amputations” over a single year in American poultry processing, making it one of the most dangerous occupations in the US. Debbie Berkowitz, a former chief of staff at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), who now campaigns for employment rights, maintains that the industry is also exploitative: employees, her office found, were routinely denied basic rights, including toilet breaks. “Workers did not want to have to soil themselves,” she said. “So they wore diapers (nappies) on the line.
Who we are: Stop Trump Coalition.
We will make it clear to the British government that it’s not OK to normalise Trump’s agenda and the hate and fear it has sparked.
Trumpism directly threatens steps towards tackling:
Peace and disarmament
Fighting discrimination, particularly against already marginalised groups like migrants and Muslims
And – this is not mentioned – Brexit!
It was not mentioned, at least I did not hear it, in the interviews with the Stop Trump demo on the telly this morning.
Yet this is the core of Trump’s agenda, as his support for Farage and Boris Johnson and present touting of “trade deals” makes clear.
One can only imagine the squirming that’s going on amongst the Brexit left who cannot bring themselves to admit that there is a link, a tight bond, between the carnival of reaction that is the Brexit Party and the Tory No Deal Right and Trump’s agenda.
Will they see that the demand for a Sovereign nation battling it out with Trade Deals with Trump, and – who knows since he’s iffy about it, the WTO, would be a burden for a left government.
Will they continue to indulge that section of the left, as yet only a section, that by its talk of the “real” people who back Brexit, and loathing of “rootless cosmopolitans” has become the the fellow travellers of National Populism?
Like this chap, who’s something of hero o the red-brown front?
Another Europe certainly does not think so.
Brexit and Trump are two sides of the same coin – the same brand of toxic right wing nationalism. We need to stop both.
Help us take this message to tomorrow's protests: sign up to volunteer! There will be plenty to do and we need every pair of hands. 👇https://t.co/SlgCLtEyku
— Another Europe (@Another_Europe) June 3, 2019
Listening to Trump, we can see what Britain's post-Brexit future would look like.
Forget taking back control, forget sovereignty and definitely forget £350 million a week for the NHS.
Resist. Resist. Resist. #StopTrumpism #StopBrexit @zoesqwilliamshttps://t.co/xBj6ppEm21
Even the Liberals are getting in on the act.
Visit of #Trump becoming nightmare for UK. He is no friend of Britain and enemy of our values and interests. #ClimateEmergency destroying #WTO trade system and warmongering with China and Iran End of #SpecialRelationship.
— Vince Cable (@vincecable) June 2, 2019
Trump’s response so far.
….Fake News will be working hard to find them. Great love all around. Also, big Trade Deal is possible once U.K. gets rid of the shackles. Already starting to talk!
Hey @realDonaldTrump, we read the story about the sailors on a US warship being ordered to hide from you because you’re triggered by the name on their hats. So we turned Madame Tussaud's into a giant USS John McCain baseball cap. Welcome to London! pic.twitter.com/KuynOwupFm
— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) June 3, 2019
Written by Andrew Coates
Posted in Anti-Fascism, British Govern, Capitalism, Conservatives, Europe, European Elections, European Left, Fascism, Human Rights, Imperialism, Labour Party, Left, Populism, Racism
Tagged with Brexit, Donald Trump, Fascism, National Populism, NIgel Farage, Populism
National Populism: Trump to Boost Farage as Brexit Party Support Surges.
What do want? “Smash the System”!
Westminster voting intention:
BREX: 26% (+1)
LAB: 22% (-4)
CON: 17% (-5)
LDEM: 16% (+4)
GRN: 11% (+7)
CHUK: 1% (-1)
UKIP: 1% (-1)
via @OpiniumResearch, 28 – 30 May
Chgs. w/ 20 May
First ever poll to put Brex ahead.
— Britain Elects (@britainelects) June 1, 2019
These figures predict the beginning of a political earthquake.
One might say that such a tectonic shift in support cannot happen.
There are good grounds for scepticism.
Fast backwards to France a couple of years ago.
Since the French elections of 2017 the victory of President Macron and its aftermath have seen the traditional parties of left and right nearly wiped off the map.
The first round of the Presidential contest saw the former ruling Parti Socialiste get 6,36% for its candidate, Benoît Hamon. For the traditional right,
François Fillon scored a respectable 20,01%. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for the “movement” or “point de ralliement” la France insoumise, got 19,58%. The context went into the second round with a duel between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, which ended in Macron’s victory at 66,1% over the far-right Le Len getting 33,9%.
In the legislative elections held afterwards Macron’s party and allies won 348 seats. The left (Socialists, Communists and La France insoumise) was reduced to 44 deputies.
This is the result of this year’s European elections which saw, in France, the left further reduced (only the Socialists, PS, and La France insoumise LFI won seats) the ‘neither right nor left’ Greens (EELV) win MEPs, and the traditional right (Les Républicains, LR) also lose heavily. The results were again dominated by Macron’s party and Le Pen’s rally (RN).
Some features stand out.
The first is the marginalisation of a splintered left.
If people have been “freed” from the slavery of their traditional allegiances, in Christophe Guilluy’s words, “Le grand marronnage des classes populaires” ( Le Crépuscule de la France d’en haut , 2018) their new home is not in any renewed democratic politics.
Far from creative grass roots politics, or a new kind of left, we had the success of Macron’s ‘start up’ Business party.
This is its internal structure, “La République En Marche! considers every person who submits identification information (date of birth, email, full address and telephone, number) and adheres to the party’s charter to be an adherent.” The English Wikipedia entry neglects to go further into how LRM operates, “les décisions viennent d’en haut, il y a une commission d’investiture sans que les militants ne votent…”, Decisions come from above, there is a commission of investiture (selection of candidates) without activists voting. (see Structure )
It is a “movement”, like Mélenchon’s La France insoumise, run top down by a coterie of professionals in communication and in liaison with the Parliamentary group around the Leader (with all the authority in this case of the President) with no internal democratic decision making, only online “consultations”.
The Third is that if the “gilets Jaunes”, whose main rallying call has been for Macron to Resign, have not created an alternative out of their “assemblies”, or one that is invisible to anybody but their more gushing admirers, from the UK’s National Populists of left and right, and some romantic leftists.
I the European elections it was the Rassemblement national (RN), ex Front national (FN) who came first. This party has a tiny, 38 000 official membership. It has a structure, said originally to be inspired by the French Communist Party, of a an executive bureau, a political bureau and a central committee, now know (since 2018) as the ‘national council.”
Is that the kind of political melt-down we are facing in the UK.
Richard Seymour, in no less an organ than the New York Times observes.
Nigel Farage Is the Most Dangerous Man in Britain
.Long underestimated, Mr. Farage has done more than any politician in a generation to yank British politics to the hard, nationalist right. He is one of the most effective and dangerous demagogues Britain has ever seen.
Seymour notes the most relevant aspect of the Brexit Party’s model, which has been widely commented on:
Farage has spotted an opportunity: a new political model, inspired by the Five Star Movement in Italy. A “digital platform” that harnesses the free labor of its “users,” allowing them “participation” through content-sharing and online polls, rather than rights. Parliamentary democracy is slow at the best of times, and these are not the best of times. Such platforms, however, introduce volatility to the system. Dropping UKIP, a traditional membership party, he launched something like a venture capitalist start-up, with crowdfunders rather than members, and a chief executive rather than a leader.
Unlike older party models, it doesn’t invest in lasting infrastructure. It is nimble-footed, expert at gaming social media — the stock market of attention. It won the battle for clicks, and made a killing in this election. Such online frenzies are akin to destabilizing flows of hot money, forcing legacy parties to adapt or die. But when Parliament is so weak, its legitimacy so tenuous, they can look like democratic upsurge.
If the poll today there is more than a “online frenzy” happening.
The M5S, Movimento 5 Stelle may or may not be a “model” for some. I doubt if Macron or Mélenchon’ would see it that way and Podemos, while partially inspired, has at least some democratic framework.
Most significantly M5S, with an unstable record of support (32,7% of the vote in 2017 Parliamentary elections, 17,1% in this year’s European elections, in coalition with the far-right Lega, has, with its deputy PM Luigi Di Maio paved the way for the hold on power of his fellow deputy PM, the National Populist Matteo Salvini.
Yet the issue of Democracy apparently remains at the centre of the Brexit Party’s claim to Speak for the People, for National Sovereignty, and for a Hard Brexit.
Usefully highlighting the core of the operation Seymour does see off this self-serving claim by Claire Fox:
She heralds this ” “start of a new politics”
In Spiked the former RCP activists continues: Claire Fox on what’s next for the Brexit Party and her journey from Marxist to MEP.
when I was in the RCP many moons ago – and the past really is a different country – I was always a democrat, a supporter of liberty, agency and sovereignty, so I don’t think I’ve travelled that far.
I somehow felt that if I could do anything to rescue the democratic potential of the 2016 vote, then I would. So in that sense, it has been a journey. But the journey was not so much from revolutionary communism to standing next to Farage, but from commenting on events to taking on that responsibility.
Her Boss continued in this vein.
The Brexit Surge
Engaging the ignored masses, tapping their democratic insights, genuinely drawing their convictions and concerns and beliefs into the heart of the political sphere – this is now the key task of everyone who is committed to the idea of Brexit, democracy and radical political change in this country.
But…..if you’re not democratic inside your ‘party’, if you leave things to the Farage coterie, how can you be democratic in the country?
Seymour concludes,
The quintessential City trader and apostle of cutthroat competition, he is exploiting our democratic crisis to remake politics in his own image.
Shift forward to today’s headlines.
Is the Brexit Party also fascist?
For the moment we take this into account:
Both right and left should fear the justified rage of Remainers | Nick Cohen https://t.co/abC7KtWmrY
Posted in Anti-Fascism, Capitalism, Conservative Party, Europe, European Elections, European Left, Fascism, French Left, French Politics, Labour Movement, Labour Party, Left, Nationalism, Populism
Tagged with Brexit, Brexit Party, Donald Trump, French Left, French Politics, National Populism, NIgel Farage, Populism
Mr Brexit Comes to London to decide on future UK PM, backs Farage, and has already insulted Meghan Markle.
Mr Brexit Comes to London.
Trump is coming to visit Britain to Back Brexit.
He has already insulted one of the most liked people in Britain.
Trump calls Duchess of Sussex ‘nasty’
Guardian.
During the state visit, the president, his wife Melania, and his four adult children are expected to meet Prince Harry as well as Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, and his wife, Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge. Meghan is expected to stay home with Archie.
Trump referred to the American-born Duchess of Sussex as “nasty” over comments she made in 2016 threatening to move to Canada if Trump won the presidency.
“I didn’t know that she was nasty,” he said when informed of her criticism. The former Meghan Markle married Prince Harry in 2018 and gave birth to their first child, Archie, in May.
BBC News – Trump administration wants UK to leave EU, says adviser John Bolton https://t.co/GPOkaWxYa6
He has decided on who will be the next P.M.
World exclusive: Trump backs Boris to be Britain’s next PM with highly controversial intervention into Tory contest. "I know the different players. But I think Boris would do a very good job. He would be excellent”.https://t.co/Qt0zjwwePJ
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) May 31, 2019
In 2016 he said this.
Now there is this:
Trump's Administration is trying to achieve No Deal Brexithttps://t.co/i6VLTciN5A via @businessinsider
— Socialist Action (@SocialistAct) June 1, 2019
It may seem odd that some of pro-Brexit left are hostile to this radical critic of members of the Royal Family, who backs the “Fuck Business” Boris, and who is doing all he can to make Brexit happen.
But internationalists are clear: Piss off Trump!
Brexit = Trump. On Tuesday, we will be protesting against both, saying no to dodgy trade deals, no to building walls, no to hate and division.
📣Join us at the demo: https://t.co/yz8noJioNi
📣And if you're free on Monday, help us make placards! https://t.co/GXTrl9t2KI pic.twitter.com/0T4tRbfD7d
— Another Europe (@Another_Europe) May 31, 2019
🎥 Today we gave some interviews to the international media about Tuesday's #StopTrump demo.
Tomorrow & Monday we will be stapling hundreds of placards.
👉 Can you help us? https://t.co/GXTrl9KE9i pic.twitter.com/6J7PxBpb1V
Posted in Anti-Fascism, Conservative Party, Europe, European Left, Fascism, Imperialism, International, Internet Freedom, Labour Party, Left, Nationalism, Populism, Racism
Tagged with Brexit, Donald Trump, Europe, Labour Party, NIgel Farage, Populism
Trump Hails Macron Climb-down on Fuel Tax, Alt-right claim French shout, “We Want Trump”.
Paris: We Want Trump – Claims US alt-Right.
France, on their way to becoming a 3rd world country chants. WE WANT TRUMP🤣 pic.twitter.com/koLOqLEEMb
— jack white (@HorseRacingCOO) December 3, 2018
I am glad that my friend @EmmanuelMacron and the protestors in Paris have agreed with the conclusion I reached two years ago. The Paris Agreement is fatally flawed because it raises the price of energy for responsible countries while whitewashing some of the worst polluters….
US President Donald Trump has criticised his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in the wake of the recent large-scale anti-government protests over high taxes.
Trump posted several messages about the demonstrations on his Twitter account, claiming the protests were a direct result of the Paris climate agreement of which France is a signatory, but the United States is not.
“I am glad that my friend @EmmanuelMacron and the protestors in Paris have agreed with the conclusion I reached two years ago. The Paris Agreement is fatally flawed because it raises the price of energy for responsible countries while whitewashing some of the worst polluters in the world,” Trump wrote in the tweets.
The US president also retweeted conservative pundit Charlie Kirk, who falsely claimed France is a socialist country, the riots in the country did not receive any media attention and that protesters shouted: “we want Trump”.
There are riots in socialist France because of radical leftist fuel taxes
Media barely mentioning this
America is booming, Europe is burning
They want to cover up the middle class rebellion against cultural Marxism
“We want Trump” being chanted through the streets of Paris
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) December 4, 2018
Trump’s assertions are obviously the work of fantaisistes adrift in the world of politics.
For the moment we note that however Trump’s views cast a shadow on those who claim that Macron’s climb-down is a victory for those opposed to Macron’s “neo-liberalism”. It certainly seems that the US President is also against “neo-liberal globalism.”
This did not go unnoticed in France:
Gilets jaunes : Trump y va de son petit tweet moqueur envers Macron et contre l’accord de Paris
For an explanation of why Trump’s claims are a load of old cobblers see:
Tacle de Trump à Macron: «Les “gilets jaunes” ne sont pas contre la transition écologique, mais contre son coût social»
Posted in Anti-Fascism, Capitalism, Europe, European Left, French Left, French Politics
Tagged with Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, Europe, French Politics, Gilets Jaunes
Patriotism and Nationalism, from Orwell to Trump Mocking France’s War Dead.
Nice One Trumpy!
Comrade George Orwell wrote,
“Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is liable to be challenged, but one must draw a distinction between them, since two different and even opposing ideas are involved. By ‘patriotism’ I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality.”
NOTES ON NATIONALISM Polemic, GB – London, 1945
People have debated these lines and the article for many years.
But Trump has just clarified the meaning of these sentences.
Trump Mocks France for World War Losses
First thing in the U.S. morning, the U.S. president took another — even more pointed — crack at the French leader. After a fractious visit to Paris over the weekend, Trump returned to the theme of a European army to defend the continent’s interests and took renewed offence. In a particularly sharp jab, Trump implied that the French needed the U.S. to rescue them from the Germans in both world wars.
Emmanuel Macron suggests building its own army to protect Europe against the U.S., China and Russia. But it was Germany in World Wars One & Two – How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!
The tweet comes after Trump spent a weekend in Paris with other world leaders commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of World War 1. In an earlier tweet, the American president had called Macron’s suggestion “very insulting.” Trump’s latest broad-side was ill-timed, falling on the third anniversary of Paris terror attacks that killed more than 130 people and left hundreds more injured.
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“Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism,” Macron said in an address to world leaders gathered for Armistice commemorations, with Trump sitting nearby.
His office later tweeted this part of the speech, which went on to say ‘by putting our own interests first, with no regard for others, we erase the very thing that a nation holds dearest, and the thing that keeps it alive: its moral values.”
It was seen as a direct rebuke of Trump’s ‘America First’ policies. Indeed, Macron has used social media to mock the U.S. leader in the past. When Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord, Macron launched an initiative to recruit U.S. scientists with the tag line “Make Our Planet Great Again” — a play on Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan.”
The President persists and signs:
On Trade, France makes excellent wine, but so does the U.S. The problem is that France makes it very hard for the U.S. to sell its wines into France, and charges big Tariffs, whereas the U.S. makes it easy for French wines, and charges very small Tariffs. Not fair, must change!
French Army response to Trump’s fear of a dose of drizzle:
#MondayMotivation Il y a de la pluie, mais c'est pas grave 😅 On reste motivé 👊 pic.twitter.com/29hOJ9ITF0
— Armée de Terre (@armeedeterre) November 12, 2018
Trump is still at it:
The problem is that Emmanuel suffers from a very low Approval Rating in France, 26%, and an unemployment rate of almost 10%. He was just trying to get onto another subject. By the way, there is no country more Nationalist than France, very proud people-and rightfully so!……..
……MAKE FRANCE GREAT AGAIN!
By the way, when the helicopter couldn’t fly to the first cemetery in France because of almost zero visibility, I suggested driving. Secret Service said NO, too far from airport & big Paris shutdown. Speech next day at American Cemetery in pouring rain! Little reported-Fake News!
For the moment this is the official French response, no comment:
L’Elysée se refuse pour l’heure à tout commentaire après cette série de tweets, indique l’AFP.
However much one may normally disagree with Marcon, we are in in solidarity with the French President against this draft-dodging flatulent flaccid fraud US President.
Here is Plantu rendering a loving homage to the other side of America:
LA DISPARITION DU CRÉATEUR DE SPIDERMAN et HULK. le dessin du Monde de ce mardi 13 novembre. pic.twitter.com/Okghyex9oB
— PLANTU (@plantu) November 13, 2018
Posted in Anti-Fascism, Capitalism, Colonialism, European Left, French Politics, Nationalism, Populism
Tagged with Donald Trump, France, French Politics, Nationalism, Populism, USA
Trump Leaves Brexiteers, from Hard Right to “People’s Brexit’ in Disarray.
“Those who are not prepared to fight to the finish to break free from the iron cage called the European Union are doomed to capitulate.”
Stathis Kouvelakis Borderland. New Left Review. 110. March-April. 2018.
The EU wants to break our national will — Brexit victory would be like winning the Falklands War.
Sir Bernard Jenkin. MP for Harwich. The Current Bun. 14th of July.
For the King’s College academic and Greek supporter of La France insoumise (LFI), who claims, as is the custom of such academics, to speak for the “European left”, beyond the reaches of social democracy, the Brexit vote was welcomed by many on that radical fringe.
The British left, Kouvelakis said after the UK Referendum result, in the American journal Jacobin, should adapt to the result. Prime amongst our change of strategy should be a ” positive, conquering attitude at the level of the national formation”, that is to the British nation. The task of the left in these Isles is to see (he cites Étienne Balibar, as one does) into the reasons for the Brexit vote, notably recognising that racism is “a displaced form of class struggle” and act henceforth to remedy this.
With this consoling thought in mind – no doubt reassuring for the victims of racialist attacks who can come to terms with their injuries by reading Balibar’s debates with Judith Butler in this latest work, Des Universels. Essais et conférences, Éditions Galilée, 2016 – he advocates a new approach.
This requires hegemonizing the very concept of “the people” that constitute the living substance of the nation to transform it into an inclusive, multiracial, multicultural, welcoming, and sovereign body politic.” (An Open Letter to the British Left. 2016)
The Nation as a political object for the left is suspect for many reasons, one of which appears in Flaubert’s Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues: “Nation. Réunir ici tous les peuples.” Nation: Unite here all the Peoples.
But is would perhaps be more appropriate to cite an old saw of Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau adopted by some strategists of La France insoumise which Kouvelakis so supports, that ‘federating the people’ requires constructing an “us” against a “them“.
It is no doubt the moment to point out that this ‘Other’ , the ‘them’ – a capitalised word that sends many of ‘us’ reaching for our updated version of Flaubert’s work – has been doing a lot of work recently.
LFI prefers some nebulous alliance of the “popular classes” against a shifting spectrum of the “elite”.
Trump has his own Schmittian Enemy:
President Trump Calls the European Union a ‘Foe’ of the U.S.
Pro-Trump demonstrators in London on Saturday remain fixated, a little more explicitly than the ‘left behind’ but still salt-of-the earth ‘real’ voters Kouvelakis and his mates are so worried about, on immigration.
This was followed by this instruction from the US:
Bannon Calls for Brexit Supporters to Take Up Arms and Fight to Take Back the U.K.
Steve Bannon, Trump’s former adviser, told Nigel Farage on LBC radio Sunday: “You’re going to have to fight to take your country back, every day. Whether it’s Italy, France, England, or the United States. If we quit, they’re going to be in control.”
Theo Usherwood, LBC’s political editor, said: “That sounds like a call to arms.” To which Bannon replied, “Absolutely. This is war.”
Others have different targets.
Sir Bernard Jenkin is not alone in wishing a decisive battle with the EU.
Other calls from Brexitering Tories against soft Brexit ‘traitors’ (Remainers in all but name) has an echo in the desperate rantings of the ‘People’s Brexit’ cheerleaders.
John Rees of Counterfire writes,
UK big business and their EU allies are increasingly looking to the Labour Party to deliver them from the chronic, systemic incompetence of the Tory party. And most Labour MPs would love to help.
Stuffed shirt lawyer Kier Starmer is signalling like a sailor lost at sea that he’d love to deliver a soft Brexit and is constantly trailing his openness to a second referendum. Chuka Umunna and his allies would love to deliver the double whammy of defeating Corbyn and defeating Brexit.
On Sunday the Morning Star screamed,
The labour movement’s “red lines” should be clear. To support investment, trade and jobs, we need a Labour government with the freedom outside the EU to implement its left and progressive policies.
The problem is that nobody, absolutely nobody, takes the call for this “freedom” from the EU “iron cage” seriously anymore.
As for the ‘People’s Brexit’ – what mass moblisation have they to show for their campaign to “take back control”?
Step forward Trump – who has been the object of some protests…..and support:
Here is his latest….(BBC)
Donald Trump told Theresa May she should sue the EU rather than negotiate over Brexit, she has told the BBC.
The US president said on Friday at a joint news conference he had given Mrs May a suggestion – but she had found it too “brutal”.
Asked by the BBC’s Andrew Marr what he had said, she replied: “He told me I should sue the EU – not go into negotiations.”
The US president has simply pointed out the obvious: the UK cannot maintain free trade with the European Union and at the same time strike new trade deals with other countries, such as the US. If the UK commits to follow EU rules and regulations in goods and agricultural products, as it said last week that it wants to do, then it will not be able to sign a new and different trade deal with the US .
As Trump put, in his interview with the Sun: “If they do a deal like that, we would be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the UK, so it will probably kill the deal.” He half backed away from this yesterday – saying a trade agreement could still be on and backing away from the “ kill the deal” comment. But he was right the first time – if the UK does stay tied to EU rules, there won’t be any point.
Irish Times. Cliff Taylor.
There is also this (BBC):
Justine Greening calls for second Brexit referendum.
Justine Greening has called for a second referendum, labelling the prime minister’s Brexit deal a “fudge”.
Writing in the Times, the former education secretary described Theresa May’s proposals as “the worst of both worlds”.
The final decision should be given back to the people and out of “deadlocked politicians” hands, Ms Greening said.
She states there are three options: the PM’s deal, staying in the EU or a clean break from Europe with no deal.
Ms Greening, who resigned after the cabinet reshuffle in January, said the referendum should offer a first and second preference vote so that a consensus can be reached.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Ms Greening said the government’s proposals were a “genuine clever attempt at a compromise that could work” but “suits no-one”.
The MP for Putney said: “The reality is Parliament is now stalemated. Whatever the proposal on the table, there will be MPs who vote it down. But Britain needs to find a route forward.”
But then no doubt trade deals, new referendums, and all the rest probably mean little to readers of Balibar and “constructors of the People” Independent of the EU.
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Tagged with Brexit, Donald Trump, Europe, European Left, Jacobin
Pro Trump Thugs Demonstrate in London as US Lobbies for Tommy Robinson.
Trump, “I think they like me a lot in the UK” – pro-Trump London Demo.
'Free Tommy Robinson' supporters and pro-Donald Trump marchers come together in Whitehall for a joint rally in support of the visit of the US President and calling for the release of jailed Robinson https://t.co/ajVJOhrzgr pic.twitter.com/FVueZt9oj4
— ITV News (@itvnews) July 14, 2018
Today London played host to a raft of far and radical right leaders from around the world as pro-Trump and free Tommy Robinson demonstrations merge in Whitehall.
Hope Not Hate.
The day kicked off with a ‘Welcome Trump to London Demonstration’ near the US embassy in Vauxhall. Despite being organised by the oddball Make Britain Great Again group, led by the equally bizarre Luke Nash-Jones, the event attracted a number of UKIP speakers including Elizabeth Jones from UKIP NEC and UKIP London chairman Freddy Vachha.
The most high profile speaker was the Australian anti-Muslim activist Debbie Robinson from the anti-Muslim party, the Australian Liberty Alliance. Robinson, who was accompanied by Avi Yemini, is also President of the key Australian ‘counter-jihad’ organisation, the Q Society of Australia.
Martin Costello of Make Britain Great Again addressed the crowd screaming “round up all illegal immigrants and get them out of here” and “we shall never surrender” into the microphone.
FREE TOMMY ROBINSON DEMONSTRATION
The main event happened in central London and kicked off just after 3pm in the wake of the shocking revelation that Sam Brownback, the US ambassador for international religious freedom, lobbied the UK on behalf of Tommy Robinson (AKA Stephen Yaxley-Lennon).
As the stage and screen were erected just in front of the Monument to the Women of World War II on Whitehall, notable figures from across the international far right and the right-wing alternative media began to gather. Members of Lennon’s team such as George Llewelyn-John and co-founder of the English Defence League (EDL) Kevin Carroll helped set things up alongside Siegfried Daebritz from the German anti-Muslim street movement PEGIDA. Also milling around the stage area was American “alt-light” figure Jack Posobiec.
"So, it's okay to have free speech for Tommy, but if you oppose Tommy you get attacked with a glass and chair?" Watch @RMTunion deputy general secretary Steve Hedley recount being attacked by people who attended the pro-Tommy Robinson demo this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/hhmEvdiso9
— HOPE not hate (@hopenothate) July 14, 2018
The Guardian Reports,
A union leader has said he was the victim of an “unprovoked” attack by a mob after he addressed a counter-protest to a rally in support of Donald Trump and the jailed far-right leader Tommy Robinson.
Steve Hedley, senior assistant general secretary of the RMT, was among a number of officials assaulted by Robinson supporters, according to the union.
Witnesses said a mob ambushed a group at the Westminster Arms pub in central London on Saturday afternoon in a targeted attack.
In a video on social media, Hedley said: “We got attacked by a load of thugs, completely unprovoked.
“We defended ourselves obviously and there were a lot of casualties on both sides. But it was a completely unprovoked attack – we were just sitting there having a drink.
“If you oppose Tommy you get attacked by a glass and a chair – we have to stop this.”
He described the attackers as being from the far-right English Defence League, which Robinson used to lead.
One witness, who asked not to be named, said: “They [the attackers] knew what they were doing.”
“On Saturday the anti-racism group Hope Not Hate tweeted the US president: ‘Hey @realDonaldTrump — your ambassador has been lobbying for Tommy Robinson, a criminal lowlife and convicted fraudster, who assaulted a woman police officer.’” https://t.co/lAbGAx5SrT
AMERICAN THINK TANK FUNDING TOMMY DEMOS
Hope Not Hate,
it has emerged that Lennon has also been receiving significant financial assistance from across the Atlantic, receiving money for legal help from the Philadelphia-based organisation the Middle East Forum (MEF), led by Daniel Pipes.
Worryingly, MEF also claims to have held an “organizing and funding” role in both today’s protest and the previous protest in June, which was marred by violence and vandalism and saw nazis and other antisemites among the crowd.
MEF’s blog claims that they “provided all the funding and helped organized the first “Free Tommy Robinson” event held June 9 in London.” The event in question attracted around 10,000 people and saw police officers being chased and attacked near Trafalgar Square. Sections of Lennon’s supporters also hurled metal barriers, bottles and street signs, injuring five people and resulting in the arrest of nine.
Despite this, the MEF also decided to once again contribute to the funding and organizing of today’s Free Tommy demonstration in London, writing that it was arranging for US Congressman Gosar to speak at the rally. Gosar has previously courted controversy when, in an interview with VICE News, he suggested that the August 2017 alt-right Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, which led to the murder of counter-protester Heather Heyer, may have been organised by an “Obama sympathiser” and raised the possibility that it may have been funded by Hungarian philanthropist George Soros. Gosar also accused Soros of having “turned in his own people to the Nazis”.
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Tagged with Anti-Fascism, Donald Trump, Fascism, Populism, Tommy Robinson, USA
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THERE IS A BIG FEAR OF HOLLYWOOD TAKING OVER BOLLYWOOD: SRK
Suhaag June 7, 2017
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Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan says Hollywood has the potential to take over Bollywood if the industry people don’t work on skills like screenplay writing, marketing, and use of technology.
Shah Rukh also added that there is a “fear of Hollywood taking over Bollywood” in India.
“If we don’t hone up few areas especially script writing, screenplay, marketing, professionalism and technology, we will be taken over by Hollywood,” Shah Rukh said here.
The Indian actor, who has been in the industry for over 25 years, added: “The language is becoming less and less of a barrier…There are more digital platforms and easy accessibility to content from all around the world. Hollywood has done, and we need to learn from them and adapt.”
He talked about the dynamics of Bollywood as compared to Hollywood during a session with American actor Brad Pitt, who made a surprise visit to India to promote his Netflix film “War Machine”.
Looking at Hollywood for cues for film making, as the actor asserts, doesn’t mean doing away with singing and dancing.
The “Dilwale” star said: “We have wonderful stories to tell but we are not telling. We sometimes get happy being a fad about singing and dancing. We need to understand the language that Hollywood or western cinema speak, and not change what we are presenting…Singing and dancing has to stay.”
Starting his career from small screen with series “Fauji” in the late 1980s, Shah Rukh entered Bollywood with “Deewana” in 1992, and there was no looking back. The 51-year-old is successful an entrepreneur too. He owns a film production company Red Chillies Entertainment banner with his wife Gauri.
As a producer, Shah Rukh says he wants to push forward films which “producers don’t want to produce”.
Red Chillies Entertainment has a long term deal with Netflix, under which films — old and new — starring the Bollywood superstar will be exclusively available to the platform’s members globally.
The actor feels the Netflix has opened doors for filmmakers to tell their vision with no pressure of theatrical release, and will boost democratisation of film making.
Talking about his journey in the industry, Shah Rukh said it is very important to stay grounded to reality to stay relevant.
“Keep it basic. You keep on doing things which (you wanted to do when you) started off with the urge to stay relevant, being normal, to reinvent yourself. The simple things which made you want to be an actor.”
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We are hardwired to connect with others, it’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering. Brené Brown Daring Greatly
Sunday Assembly Atlanta
Sunday Assembly is a secular congregation that celebrates life. Our motto is to live better, help often and wonder more. Our mission is to help everyone reach their full potential.
Sunday Assembly Atlanta is a secular congregation that celebrates life. Our motto is to live better, help often and wonder more. Our mission is to help everyone reach their full potential.
Sunday Assembly Atlanta is part of a global movement of good. We’re a post-theistic experiment gone wild. Find out how we celebrate life! Read the charter.
Organizing all that SAA does is a lot of work. Check out the amazing volunteers that make it all happen. They’re pretty cool. Meet the team.
How long is an assembly? Can I bring kids? Is this a church? Why is it on Sunday? How did this get started? Our FAQ has all these and more! Get answers.
Find out more about the Assembly, events and all of our small groups. From philosophy discussion groups, support groups, to hikes and volunteer events, we have you covered! Everything we offer.
There are many ways to help out here at Sunday Assembly. You can help us out with the SA Heroes program, help each other with the Community Action Team, and help others with our Help Often events. Help out now!
The community group is where we connect to each other online. Talk about that last wonder club, join a support group, or just share the cool thing you experienced or found. Ask to join.
Occasionally we share news about Sunday Assembly Atlanta. Check it out!
From Facebook to MailChimp, we’re all over the web. 😉 We try to be where you are online. Contact us and get social media links.
Sign up for our monthly newsletter to stay current with all that we do! Check out the archive.
Why Support SAA?
Helping Often
The most important thing we do is create spaces for people to build and develop community. This requires accessible and comfortable places for us to meet. We pay rent for the assembly, potluck and some of the small groups. With your support we can afford to continue to meet in person and find even better spaces to meet.
We have children’s programming, the Assembly itself, social events, self-help groups, discussion groups and more. By supporting SAA you allow us to enrich these experiences, develop new programs and keep all of our activities free to the public.
Beyond just building our own secular community, we work to help the greater community. We jump in with other great non-profits and are developing our own charity programs aimed at doing the most good we can here in Atlanta.
Below is a short list of upcoming events. Our monthly assemblies, which are our biggest gatherings, always take place on the third Sunday of the month. Find the full list at Meetup.com!
July 17, 20197:00 pm - 8:30 pm
https://www.meetup.com/Sunday-Assembly/events/262997356/
Wednesday, July 17 at 7:00 PM
The purpose of this group is to support each other in developing (and continuing!) our own mindfulness meditation practices and, in a more general sen...
SAA Presents: July Picnic and Sing-a-Long!
First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta (470 Candler Park Dr NE, Atlanta, GA 30307) https://www.meetup.com/Sunday-Assembly/events/262177502/
Sunday, July 21 at 5:30 PM
Note: We will be eating at First Existentialist and then heading over to thepark for more fun. Here are the updated details: Come join us in July for...
Join The Band!
Anna’s House (2888 Concord Drive, Decatur, GA) https://www.meetup.com/Sunday-Assembly/events/262616691/
Monday, July 22 at 6:30 PM
Comejoin in the fun as we create music to perform at our monthly assemblies! Our cover band includes singers, guitar, bass, drums, piano, and sometim...
NW Atlanta (OTP) Mindfulness Meditation
Bill’s Apartment (1322 Clarinbridge Pkwy, Kennesaw, GA, USA 30144) https://www.meetup.com/Sunday-Assembly/events/262801344/
The purpose of this meditation group is to support each other in developing (and continuing!) our own mindfulness meditation practices and, in a more ...
Secular Support Group
Tuesday, July 23 at 7:30 PM
Sometimes, when we go to social events, we don't really get to talk aboutwhat sorts of challenges and struggles we're going through. Here's a space f...
Mixed Group Documentary Night: The Altruism Revolution
July 26, 20196:45 pm - 10:00 pm
Unitarian Universalist Northwest Congregation (1025 Mt.Vernon Hwy NW, Sandy Springs, GA 30327) https://www.meetup.com/Sunday-Assembly/events/263114271/
Friday, July 26 at 6:45 PM
Thisevent is hosted in collaboration with multiple meetup groups, specifically the Ethical Humanists of Atlanta Group and the Late 20s & Early 30sAT...
Wonder Club
Whatis Wonder Club? The Sunday Assembly motto is to Live Better, Help Often and Wonder More. At each Wonder Club we discuss a single topic in philoso...
Roswell (North Metro Atlanta) Mindfulness Meditation
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Theme for 2019: Help Often
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In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving
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For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring story
First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie―the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has become one of the most talked-about true stories of our time. But until now, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy have never told this astonishing tale in their own way and with their own words.
For Leigh Anne and Sean, it all begins with family. Leigh Anne, the daughter of a tough-as-nails U.S. Marshal, decided early on that her mission was to raise children who would become “cheerful givers.” Sean, who grew up poor, believed that one day he could provide a home that would be “a place of miracles.” Together, they raised two remarkable children―Collins and Sean Jr.―who shared their deep Christian faith and their commitment to making a difference. And then one day Leigh Anne met a homeless African-American boy named Michael and decided that her family could be his. She and her husband taught Michael what this book teaches all of us: Everyone has a blind side, but a loving heart always sees a path toward true charity.
Michael Oher’s improbable transformation could never have happened if Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy had not opened their hearts to him. In this compelling, funny, and profoundly inspiring book, In a Heartbeat, the Tuohys take us on an extraordinary journey of faith and love―and teach us unforgettable lessons about the power of giving.
Questo articolo: In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Turn Around: Reach Out, Give Back, and Get Moving
Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sean Tuohy, Sally Jenkins
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MediaMap's Expert PR Newsletter
MediaMap’s ExpertPR newsletter consistently publishes a range of useful PR-related articles written by practitioners.
This month’s content includes Getting Clients to Write, Press Conferences, Measuring PR and Tips on High-Tech PR Success in 2004 amongst others.
Grumpy Old PR People…
RLM PR produces an entertaining monthly newsletter with their opinions on the PR business. I regularly cover it here and often I disagree with some of their opinions, but I enjoy their writing all the same. This month’s issue has a story by Erin Mitchell, RLM’s Director of Business Development, on the Melrose Place generation. In effect it bemoans many of the attitudes of our younger colleagues. It’s an amusing piece.
The article reminded me of an off-beat documentary on the BBC called “Grumpy Old Men” where a collection of high profile British men in their forties and fifies moan about how the world is changing for the worse. It was fantastic series, very funny and illustrated how although we are living longer, healthier and happier lives, we’re getting grumpier at an earlier age.
I know this of course because I’m 33 and I know I’m getting grumpy already!
The changing face of Public Relations
Michael Wolf, who works in the PR team for Microsoft’s XBox has a very interesting post on PR.
Michael is a former poacher turned gamekeeper and he shares his views on the PR business from someone, who like many practitioners, used to be at the business end of your PR activities.
“I know that I have a lot to learn, even after doing this for the last two and a half years. But I do have one leg up � I�m not constrained by the methods and tactics of an older generation of PR veterans.”
The mysterious world of movie marketing..
If like me, the whole world of film/entertainment marketing is a complete mystery, here’s an interesting resource.
The Movie Marketing Blog covers the whole gamut of issues around movie marketing, it’s an interesting read.
If you’re interested in more on entertainment PR you should also check out this fascinating Vanity Fair feature from 2002 on Hollywood PR.
Trackable RSS Feeds
RSS Feeds are certainly growing in popularity. One of the problems with RSS feeds that it’s hard to differentiate between individuals who may have subscribed to your RSS feed and existing subscribers who are refreshing your feed in their RSS reader.
In effect, both the subscriber and the refresher are all accounted as “hits” or “page views” on your RSS feed.
To give an example, if my RSS feed link got 20,000 hits yesterday, that could be 20,000 people accessing the feed once, 1 person accessing the feed 20,000 times or more likely something in between. It’s not very accurate.
At the highest level of course you can track the absolute number and make assumptions based on the growth or decline of hits on your RSS feed link, but it’s not very accurate, making it unique in an online world where you can track content and visits far more accurately than in the “real world”.
So when I read that IMN Inc (formerly iMakeNews) have announced (PDF only) a trackable RSS feed service I was intrigued. A way of tracking RSS success. Fantastic.
However, when I went to their site, and from the story in ClickZ it seems that all they do is publish your content to an RSS feed and count the hits.
“We’ve encoded all the links — usually with an RSS feed you get a subject of an article and a link. Every link provided is a unique trackable link. When you open up the feed we know it. Every time you refresh the feed we count it. And when you click to read a particular article we register that,” Goodwin said.
That’s not exactly pushing the technological envelope on RSS measurement then…. unless I am misunderstanding it.
It was all much better in my day…
We should all learn from the lessons of the past. That’s been written so many times it is practically a cliche.
I am always interested in discovering about how Public Relations was practised in the past. I’m sure there’s a lot of knowledge that could be applied today and probably a lot that’s irrelevant.
Bringing together the best traditional PR practices with the latest communications tools and technologies is the responsibility of every PR practitioner. Whether it’s communicating online via e-mail or using blogs, many new developments can help the PR process become more effective.
Two PR-related stories prompted this ramble.
First of all, Aaron D. Cushman a retired Chicago PR man who started his career in the 1940’s has published a book that’s part handbook and part biography. From the article in Chicago Sun Times is appears Mr. Cushman was first and foremost a publicist.
He bemoans the lack of creativity in PR:
“Many of the young people entering the business today can write, Cushman said, “but there are very few idea people.”
Though he was probably heartened to see Janet’s performance at the superbowl. Ah yes the age old publicity stunt.
And Mr. Cushman isn’t impressed by practitioners today:
Planned or not, a lot of the fun seems to have gone out of the public relations business in the years since Cushman’s exit. Now it’s a more buttoned-down, altogether duller affair filled with rote press releases, and many young practitioners who don’t seem to share Cushman’s zest for the business. Or his professional savvy.
Unfortunately, I don’t get much opportunity to have wildlife attend product launches….
But he does offer some sound advice such as.. “knowing columnists’ styles and deadlines, leveling with editorial contacts, and being scrupulously fair.”
All good right and true in my humble opinion.
Then I discovered a fantastic story in the Tallahassee Democrat on how new technology is influencing PR practices in the legislative process.
“If you’re not using the latest technology and every tool available,” says (Karen) Moore (of Moore Consulting), “then you are short-changing your client.”
Instant communication means lawmakers can be in constant touch with constituents, and lobbyists can see the latest tracking polls.
But for all of the technological advances, there is one constant that remains unchanged and critical to the success of any public-relations campaign, says Gail Stansberry-Ziffer of Ziffer Marketing & Communications.
“I think the human touch is much more important,” says Stansberry-Ziffer, who counts Anheuser-Busch among her firm’s clients. “It’s important to maintain that personal contact with people.”
I think that sums it up nicely.
Our challenge, ladies and gentlemen, is to take the very best traditional practices of our profession and marry them with new technology that can help us to reach our audience(s) faster and more efficiently.
There is still room for the PR stunts, creativity, structured analysis, strong writing skills and the art of oration. But today we also have a whole new toolkit to deliver that information. Now that’s good news.
A short primer on PR…
The Albuquerque Tribune has published a short concise overview on the benefits of PR.
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Convention Types
Anime conventions center around Japanese pop culture, particularly anime & manga. Conventions include anime showings, discussions often run by fans about their favorite series, interaction with voice actors, artists, and directors, along with a collection of other geek influences.
There are two types of comic book conventions. Large entertainment expos, like Wizard World and Comic Con San Diego, focus on special guests, autograph signings, giveaways, vendor rooms, and big industry announcements. Smaller trade show conventions focus more on the buying, selling, and trading of comics, sometimes including rare and hard to find comics. Both types of conventions may include a fair bit of costuming, depending on size.
Sci-Fi Conventions
Like comic book conventions, science fiction conventions come in a couple of varieties. The first, and most common, is the smaller literature focused event that centers around authors of sci-fi and fantasy novels. The second is more of a media event that centers around exclusive actors and autograph sessions, and is considerably more expensive to attend. A third focuses on costuming and costume contests, though costumes can be a big part of the convention for the other types as well.
Furry Conventions
Furry conventions bring together people interested in anthropomorphism and furry fandom. Fans meet and participate in panels focusing on anthropomorphic art, crafts, music, and literature.
Gaming Conventions
Gaming conventions come in two forms: those focused on board and tabletop games and those focused on videogames. Some are giant expos with 100s of gaming companies attending, while others are smaller tournament events.
Literature Conventions
Literature conventions are often sci-fi conventions that focus more on writers, novels, and literature than costuming or other things (even if they have quite a bit of those too). They usually have authors as guests.
Horror Conventions
Horror conventions are usually for fans of the horror genre and may include film festivals, makeup expos, etc.
Technology Conventions
Technology conventions are made for developers and technologists.
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Cuba Observer
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This set of short videos strives to capture every day life in Cuba as it was in 2007, when Fidel Castro was still at power. You will find all episodes as well as more resources at: www.AniaKociolek.com
A year ago we were touring Cuba. It was a different and at times a bit unusual experience. If anybody is wondering, the girl at 03:00 was ok, no harm whatsoever. https://kaparecords.bandcamp.com/album/fvck
Filmmaker and IPS Fellow Saul Landau offers his unique and on-the-ground perspective of Cuba, discussing his first of many trips in May 1960, U.S.-Cuba relations after the Cuban Revolution, and Cuba today. A long-time observer and analyst on Cuba, Landau's latest film is on the case of the Cuban 5, titled "Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up?" It is available on DVD from Cinema Libre Studio.
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Israel Srebrenik and Saul Berenthal met in kindergarten in 1949 at a school in the tight-knit Jewish community of Havana. In May, they will lead a cultural exchange trip from Raleigh to a very different Cuba. Video by Richard Stradling, straddling@newsobserver.com
Taken from "The Wisdom of Elders" on Brownswood Recordings. shabaka hutchings - tenor sax mthunzi mvubu - alto sax mandla mlangeni - trumpet siyabonga mthembu - vocals nduduzo makhathini - rhodes, piano ariel zomonsky - bass gontse makhene - percussion tumi mogorosi - drums
I did not spend much time in Old Havana where tourists frequent. I was interested in the daily life of ordinary Cubans. I visited mostly central Havana, which is residential and has a vibrant street life. Since most Cubans have small living space, many activities take place out on the street. I met and talked to many Cubans and was invited into their homes. It was a wonderful experience for me to gain insight of what daily life is like in Havana. Music: Hatsa Siempre Commandante by by Havana based band "Son de Oro" With permission from band leader Hanoi Oropesa. Caption: Decay and degradation is everywhere in Havana. The living conditions for many is appalling. Many residential structures are not safe. Apartment complexes like this one are typically extremely over crowded. One of the residents in this apartment complex. Food is rationed including produce. A line waiting for produce to be unloaded. There are two currencies in Cuba, CUC and CUP. These are CUP-only stores for ordinary Cubans. Buses are super crowded, and taxis are not better. Cuba is a fix-it society out of necessity. A cigarette lighter repairman at work. Hardship is part of daily life in Cuba. Cubans are resilient people. What they do not lack is joy. Cubans enjoy high social capital. It is obvious even to a casual observer. Wifi is accessible, but only in designated areas. Clinics are ubiquitous in neighborhoods. This young barber is a talented hair artist. He posts his haircut designs in Facebook. A restoration training school. To restore Havana, the students will have lifetime job security. Neighborhoods are filled with lively activities in early evenings. Cubans have endured and survived. It is evident to everyone that change is in the air.
To be clear, Cuba is no longer the cold war proxy, challenging socio-political stability, but rather the country has emerged as a growing threat as a location for foreign direct investment and development inputs from the outside world. The unveiling of a mega-port in Mariel -- that famous hub for the export of Cubans to the United States -- should serve notice to Jamaica, The Bahamas and the Dominican Republic that in their midst is a trans-shipment hub that may one day soon directly compete with them for one of the few industries in which they have an advantage, which is the movement of goods to and from the US. For Jamaica, Cuba's Mariel may make it that much more difficult to find the financing and shipping partners necessary for that country to position itself as a major hub, though Panama Canal delays may be helpful in buying time to address environmental issues and funding needs for the locations currently under consideration. More critically, however, is the interest by entities such as the European Union (EU) and others in determining ways to work with Cuba. The fact that the EU now seeks to deepen relations with Cuba on trade and investment should be worrying to Caribbean governments and organisations. This, especially considering the increasingly fractious relationship that exists between many countries and the EU. A relationship that brings new capital and technical assistance to Cuba should not be ignored, as Cuba's efforts at free market reform offer the EU and others an opportunity to position their companies for future market openings while the wider Caribbean region continues to stagnate and lose ground as a place to do business. As it relates to the improving of EU relations with Cuba, the lifting of sanctions in 2008, visits by various EU government officials, and a push to recalibrate the relationship with the country all highlight an EU interest in expanding its role as Cuba's biggest foreign investor. A large market in need of infrastructure and private sector investment, Cuba remains largely untapped and it is opportunities for investment rather than trade that drives the EU agenda. Much like with the rest of the Caribbean, Cuba exports little to the EU. For the Caribbean, there is the perception that the region is weak in executing initiatives and, further, that it is a space seen as increasingly leaning towards mendicancy. Efforts by some countries to sue for reparations do little to position the region as friendly to an EU which, in its own evolution, now includes countries with no shared history with the region, and who are increasingly likely to view the Caribbean as hostile. Sadly, all of the above can only serve to allow EU policymakers to see Cuba as an easier partner to deal with -- even with its human rights issues -- than, in particular, the English-speaking Caribbean countries that make up Caricom. (Taken from The Jamaica Observer column written by Anton Edmunds, the head of The Edmunds Group, a business and government advisory service firm that focuses on emerging markets. Anton is also a senior associate at the Centre for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) )
Fire This Time organizers interview with international elections observer: Mr Ellsworth John, ambassador of Saint Vincent and Grenadine to Cuba
Click here to receive the latest news: http://smarturl.it/RomeReports Visit or website to learn more: http://www.romereports.com/ The relationship between Cuba and the Holy See has been complicated to say the least. Communism took over the island in 1959. It wasn't long before religions were targeted. --------------------- ROME REPORTS, www.romereports.com, is an independent international TV News Agency based in Rome covering the activity of the Pope, the life of the Vatican and current social, cultural and religious debates. Reporting on the Catholic Church requires proximity to the source, in-depth knowledge of the Institution, and a high standard of creativity and technical excellence. As few broadcasters have a permanent correspondent in Rome, ROME REPORTS is geared to inform the public and meet the needs of television broadcasting companies around the world through daily news packages, weekly newsprograms and documentaries. --------------------- Follow us... Our WEB http://www.romereports.com/ FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/RomeReportsENG TWITTER https://twitter.com/romereports PINTEREST http://www.pinterest.com/romereports/ INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/romereports
Documentary film about life in Cuba. No comments yet what is good and what is bad. The viewer is put in the role of the observer. Everyone can create their own opinions. Dokumentarni film o življenju na Kubi. Brez komentarjev kaj je dobro in kaj slabo. Gledalec je postavljen v vlogo opazovalca. Vsak si lahko ustvari lastno mnenje.
Terrorists and Demolition Trucks are both unique units available to Cuba and Libya respectively. Both of them share another common attribute which is their suicidal role. Terrorists (Cuba) - 200 As mentioned above Terrorists are available only to the soviet faction Cuba. Terrorists are quite cheap and can cause massive damage making them a very good budget unit. Since Terrorists are a kamikaze soldier they need extra caution and micro to take full advantage of them. One mistake can sometimes be enough to cause an explosion and kill all nearby Terrorists before reaching the desirable destination. In this case, you must be very careful to avoid something like that in your own base. They are very fragile units and will be targeted instantly. Demolition Truck (Libya) - 1500 The Demolition Truck is only available to Libya and is quite similar to the Terrorists. The main difference is that Terrorists are suicidal infantry while the Demolition Trucks are suicidal vehicles. A single Demolition Truck is much more expensive but can cause much more damage. Crazy Ivan (Soviets) - 600 Crazy Ivan is available to all the Soviets factions and his role is quite unique. At first it seems like it's a useless unit but once you find out the different tactics you can use with him he can be a surprising weapon against your opponent. All those units above have many interesting stuff to combine & experiment with. Few of those are included in the video/. ------------------------------------------- • Red Alert 2: Yuris Revenge playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJfHgfIp75A&list=PLreIvI8DnPI49Hs9hzIowXo2yQ4PDIsRx • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/youtubeTG/ • Forum for help and discussions: https://forums.cncnet.org/forum/56-red-alert-2/
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Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: República de Cuba ), is a country comprising the islands of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud and several archipelagos in the Caribbean Sea. The capital and largest city Havana is 365 km (227 mi) from Miami, Florida. Geographically, Cuba is considered part of North America. Culturally, it is considered part of Latin America.
Prior to Spanish colonization in the late 15th century, Cuba was inhabited by Amerindian tribes. It remained a colony of Spain until the Spanish–American War of 1898, which led to nominal independence as a de facto U.S. protectorate in 1902. As a fragile republic, Cuba attempted to strengthen its democratic system, but mounting political radicalization and social strife culminated in the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1952. Further unrest and instability led to Batista's ousting in January 1959 by the July 26 movement, which afterwards established a government under the leadership of Fidel Castro. Since 1965, the country has been governed by the Communist Party of Cuba.
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Cuba (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkuβɐ]) is a town and municipality in the District of Beja in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 4,878, in an area of 172.09 km².
It is historically known in Portugal as being the birthplace of Christopher Columbus. (In: Mascarenhas Barreto "Colombo Português: Provas Documentais"), and a statue honouring him can be seen on the city centre.
The current mayor (since 2013) is João Português. The municipal holiday is Monday after Easter.
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 4 civil parishes (freguesias):
Faro do Alentejo
Vila Alva
Vila Ruiva
Town Hall official website
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Cuba is a Caribbean island country.
Cuba may also refer to:
The Cuba, Palermo, a palace in the Sicilian city of Palermo
Cuba (Wellington), a street and a quarter in the Central Business District of Wellington, New Zealand
Cuba, Portugal, a municipality and town in the district of Beja
La Cuba, a municipality in the province of Teruel, autonomous community of Aragon
Avon (county), a defunct county in the west of England, where CUBA is an acronym for the "County that Used to Be Avon"
Cuba, Alabama
Cuba, California:
Cuba, Lassen County, California
Cuba, Merced County, California
Cuba, former name of Iceland, California
Cuba, Illinois
Cuba, Indiana
Cuba, Kansas
Cuba, Kentucky
Cuba, Minnesota
Cuba, New Mexico
Cuba (town), New York
Cuba (village), New York, in the town of Cuba
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Crazy Ivan is a cold war term used in the US to describe two different concepts. The most common usage was the name given to a maneuver used by Soviet submarines to clear their baffles to see if they were being followed. The second use was a catch-all term for the possibility of a rogue Soviet leader committing to military action, typically in reference to a limited launch of ICBMs against the US. The term Red October was sometimes used to describe the second concept, a reference to the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October in which a rogue Soviet submarine commander appears to threaten to launch a nuclear strike on the US. Coincidentally, the novel uses the first version of the term as a plot point.
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Radio Stations - Havana
Radio Progreso Latin Hits,World Tropical,Discussion Cuba
Radio Habana 1 (Español) Varied Cuba
Radio Rebelde World Caribbean,Latin Hits,Discussion Cuba
Radio Musical Nacional Classical Cuba
Radio Habana 2 (Idiomas) Varied Cuba
Radio Reloj Varied Cuba
Radio Enciclopedia Jazz,Classical,Discussion Cuba
Radio Taino News Talk,World Caribbean,Latin Hits Cuba
Habana Radio Folk Cuba
Observer - Processing Coffee. Cuba
The Canyon Observer - FVCK Cvba Tour 2016
Saul Landau on Cuba: February 27, 2013
Cyclists pedalling to make bikes cool again in Cuba
Jewish Cuban-Americans hope to foster understanding
Shabaka and the Ancestors - The Observer
Daily Life In Havana, Cuba: A Visitor's Observations
Is CUBA a Growing Threat to the Caribbean
International Elections Observer in Venezuela from Saint Vincent and Grenadine
Cuba and the Holy See: A look at the highs and lows of their diplomatic relations
CUBA LIBRE 50 YEARS
Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge - Comparing Terrorists, Crazy Ivan & Demolition Trucks
C.U.B.A.
Area 52 released: 2012
Master Maqui
Juan Loco
Epilogue released: 2007
Sounds Like a Story released: 2006
In Between Things
Things Are Gonna Change
For the Sake of the Cause
We Never Cared
Read Between the Lines
Thirty Days
Beneath the Lights
Sounds Like a Story
Helps to Know Someone Who Knows
Time to Kill
Good Start to a Bad End
Notice Me
Marley's Song
Leap of Faith released: 1999
Devil's Rock
King of Kelty
Starshiney
Peak Flow
Winter Hill
Urban Light
Foxy's Den
Fiery Cross
I did not spend much time in Old Havana where tourists frequent. I was interested in the daily life of ordinary Cubans. I visited mostly central Havana, which is residential and has a vibrant street life. Since most Cubans have small living space, many activities take place out on the street. I met and talked to many Cubans and was invited into their homes. It was a wonderful experience for me to gain insight of what daily life is like in Havana. Music: Hatsa Siempre Commandante by by Havana based band "Son de Oro" With permission from band leader Hanoi Oropesa. Caption: Decay and degradation is everywhere in Havana. The living conditions for many is appalling. Many residential structures are not safe. Apartment complexes like this one are typically extremely over crowded. One of ...
To be clear, Cuba is no longer the cold war proxy, challenging socio-political stability, but rather the country has emerged as a growing threat as a location for foreign direct investment and development inputs from the outside world. The unveiling of a mega-port in Mariel -- that famous hub for the export of Cubans to the United States -- should serve notice to Jamaica, The Bahamas and the Dominican Republic that in their midst is a trans-shipment hub that may one day soon directly compete with them for one of the few industries in which they have an advantage, which is the movement of goods to and from the US. For Jamaica, Cuba's Mariel may make it that much more difficult to find the financing and shipping partners necessary for that country to position itself as a major hub, though P...
Click here to receive the latest news: http://smarturl.it/RomeReports Visit or website to learn more: http://www.romereports.com/ The relationship between Cuba and the Holy See has been complicated to say the least. Communism took over the island in 1959. It wasn't long before religions were targeted. --------------------- ROME REPORTS, www.romereports.com, is an independent international TV News Agency based in Rome covering the activity of the Pope, the life of the Vatican and current social, cultural and religious debates. Reporting on the Catholic Church requires proximity to the source, in-depth knowledge of the Institution, and a high standard of creativity and technical excellence. As few broadcasters have a permanent correspondent in Rome, ROME REPORTS is geared to inform the ...
Terrorists and Demolition Trucks are both unique units available to Cuba and Libya respectively. Both of them share another common attribute which is their suicidal role. Terrorists (Cuba) - 200 As mentioned above Terrorists are available only to the soviet faction Cuba. Terrorists are quite cheap and can cause massive damage making them a very good budget unit. Since Terrorists are a kamikaze soldier they need extra caution and micro to take full advantage of them. One mistake can sometimes be enough to cause an explosion and kill all nearby Terrorists before reaching the desirable destination. In this case, you must be very careful to avoid something like that in your own base. They are very fragile units and will be targeted instantly. Demolition Truck (Libya) - 1500 The Demolition ...
This set of short videos strives to capture every day life in Cuba as it was in 2007, when Fidel Castro was still at power. You will find all episodes as wel...
https://wn.com/Observer_Processing_Coffee._Cuba
A year ago we were touring Cuba. It was a different and at times a bit unusual experience. If anybody is wondering, the girl at 03:00 was ok, no harm whatsoev...
https://wn.com/The_Canyon_Observer_Fvck_Cvba_Tour_2016
Filmmaker and IPS Fellow Saul Landau offers his unique and on-the-ground perspective of Cuba, discussing his first of many trips in May 1960, U.S.-Cuba relation...
https://wn.com/Saul_Landau_On_Cuba_February_27,_2013
Subscribe to the Observers channel on YouTube: http://f24.my/2lke The Observers program brings you the best amateur images from around the world, all verified ...
https://wn.com/Cyclists_Pedalling_To_Make_Bikes_Cool_Again_In_Cuba
Israel Srebrenik and Saul Berenthal met in kindergarten in 1949 at a school in the tight-knit Jewish community of Havana. In May, they will lead a cultural exch...
https://wn.com/Jewish_Cuban_Americans_Hope_To_Foster_Understanding
Taken from "The Wisdom of Elders" on Brownswood Recordings. shabaka hutchings - tenor sax mthunzi mvubu - alto sax mandla mlangeni - trumpet siyabonga mthembu...
https://wn.com/Shabaka_And_The_Ancestors_The_Observer
I did not spend much time in Old Havana where tourists frequent. I was interested in the daily life of ordinary Cubans. I visited mostly central Havana, which i...
https://wn.com/Daily_Life_In_Havana,_Cuba_A_Visitor's_Observations
To be clear, Cuba is no longer the cold war proxy, challenging socio-political stability, but rather the country has emerged as a growing threat as a location f...
https://wn.com/Is_Cuba_A_Growing_Threat_To_The_Caribbean
https://wn.com/International_Elections_Observer_In_Venezuela_From_Saint_Vincent_And_Grenadine
Click here to receive the latest news: http://smarturl.it/RomeReports Visit or website to learn more: http://www.romereports.com/ The relationship between Cuba...
https://wn.com/Cuba_And_The_Holy_See_A_Look_At_The_Highs_And_Lows_Of_Their_Diplomatic_Relations
Documentary film about life in Cuba. No comments yet what is good and what is bad. The viewer is put in the role of the observer. Everyone can create their own ...
https://wn.com/Cuba_Libre_50_Years
Terrorists and Demolition Trucks are both unique units available to Cuba and Libya respectively. Both of them share another common attribute which is their suic...
https://wn.com/Red_Alert_2_Yuri's_Revenge_Comparing_Terrorists,_Crazy_Ivan_Demolition_Trucks
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This set of short videos strives to capture every day life in Cuba as it was in 2007, when...
A year ago we were touring Cuba. It was a different and at times a bit unusual experience....
Filmmaker and IPS Fellow Saul Landau offers his unique and on-the-ground perspective of Cu...
Subscribe to the Observers channel on YouTube: http://f24.my/2lke The Observers program b...
Israel Srebrenik and Saul Berenthal met in kindergarten in 1949 at a school in the tight-k...
Taken from "The Wisdom of Elders" on Brownswood Recordings. shabaka hutchings - tenor sa...
I did not spend much time in Old Havana where tourists frequent. I was interested in the d...
To be clear, Cuba is no longer the cold war proxy, challenging socio-political stability, ...
Fire This Time organizers interview with international elections observer: Mr Ellsworth Jo...
Click here to receive the latest news: http://smarturl.it/RomeReports Visit or website to ...
Documentary film about life in Cuba. No comments yet what is good and what is bad. The vie...
Terrorists and Demolition Trucks are both unique units available to Cuba and Libya respect...
Observer - Processing Coffee. Cuba...
The Canyon Observer - FVCK Cvba Tour 2016...
Saul Landau on Cuba: February 27, 2013...
Cyclists pedalling to make bikes cool again in Cub...
Jewish Cuban-Americans hope to foster understandin...
Shabaka and the Ancestors - The Observer...
Daily Life In Havana, Cuba: A Visitor's Observatio...
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Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 boys basketball season
With Moon and Mars leading the way, it’s safe to say the 2018-19 WPIAL boys basketball season was out of this world. It helps that the two Class 5A rivals combined for one of the most memorable finishes in WPIAL championship history. Andrew Recchia made a game-winning 3-pointer with 2.6...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 girls basketball season
Peters Township and Chartiers Valley championed the cause for perfection. Thirty up and 30 down. The Indians and Colts put together two of the most impressive runs by a WPIAL girls basketball team — in Class 6A and 5A, respectively — on the way to district and PIAA championships, making...
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018-19 WPIBL bowling season
Competitors from the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Bowling League made an impact at all levels during the 2018-19 season. Small is big at states Plum’s Shannon Small led the WPIBL with a fourth-place finish (202.5 average/six games) out of 24 in the girls singles qualifier at the Pennsylvania High School State...
Week Zero football showcase at Wolvarena expands to 2nd venue
The Western Pennsylvania vs. Everyone Football Showcase is officially too big for one stadium. The multi-game Week Zero event was held entirely at Woodland Hills’ Wolvarena last season, but this year will grow to include two games at North Allegheny’s Newman Stadium. All combined, there are eight games on Aug....
Trib HSSN rewind: A look back at the 2018 football season
Fifteen years had passed since Darrelle Revis last played WPIAL football, but his name came up often last December in Hershey. Penn Hills senior Daequan Hardy had a four-touchdown, three-interception effort in the PIAA Class 5A football championship that drew comparisons to the former Aliquippa great. A day later, Revis’...
Class 2A Trib HSSN Sports Cup title defense bolstered by 3 WPIAL titles
A year after winning the closest Trib HSSN Sports Cup chase in the 15-year history of the event, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart took a slightly different path to victory the second time around. Last year, OLSH charged to the Class 2A Sports Cup title without winning a single...
Team Pa. snaps losing skid in Penn-Ohio Classic
For the first time in three years, Team Pennsylvania came away victorious in the annual Penn-Ohio All-Star Football Classic as it defeated Team Ohio, 21-0, Wednesday night at Geneva College’s Reeves Field in Beaver Falls. Although Pennsylvania was loaded with players who had success on the ground all season, such...
Pa. squad aims to snap losing skid at 40th annual Penn-Ohio All-Star Football Classic
Football players from Pennsylvania and Ohio will square off at Geneva College’s Reeves Field in Beaver Falls on Wednesday for the 40th annual Penn-Ohio All-Star Football Classic. The two teams will kick off around 7 p.m., and the Pennsylvania squad will be looking for its first win in three years....
George Guido: Class of ’14 was special group of WPIAL athletes
Let’s give a big shout out to the WPIAL Class of 2014. Why would we want to salute a graduating class that’s been gone for five years? That’s because, for the first time history, an athlete from a WPIAL school has been selected in the first round of the NFL,...
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Amy Helm sought what she calls a “circular sound” for her new album. It’s a well-rounded one, one marked by streaks of Americana, country, blues, and gospel, and the kinds of four-part harmonies that can burst open a melody and close the loop of an octave. And sentimentally, it’s a sound that represents the feeling of community.
This Too Shall Light, released September 21, 2018 on Yep Roc Records, comprises 10 songs produced by Grammy-winning producer and songwriter Joe Henry. Helm left her home and comfort zone of Woodstock, NY, choosing to record in Los Angeles within the confines of just a four-day window. The musicians were directed not to overthink the songs, and Helm herself barely performed any of the selections while leading up to the recording. As a result, the sessions forced fast musical trust among the collaborators and yielded the vibrant instrumental improvisations heard throughout This Too Shall Light.
Although a profound songwriter herself, Helm and Henry jointly arranged a diverse collection of songs for the record, which range from Rod Stewart’s “Mandolin Wind” to Allen Toussaint’s “Freedom for the Stallion” and even the Milk Carton Kids’ “Michigan.” The title track in particular, written by Hiss Golden Messenger’s MC Taylor and Josh Kaufman (Josh Ritter, Bob Weir, Craig Finn), is a brilliant summation of the record’s sound and spirit. Seemingly a play on the old adage that “This too shall pass,” Helm’s voice veers from commanding to supplicating within a single soulful verse, as she manipulates that message so that light leads throughout even the darkest of times.
A lifelong musician and music-lover, Helm’s parents —The Band’s legendary drummer and singer Levon Helm and singer/songwriter Libby Titus — guided her training and influences. She later became a founding member of the alt-country collective Ollabelle and served as a backing musician in her father’s Midnight Ramble Band. And on This Too Shall Light, Helm says that two songs in particular pay homage to Levon — “The Stones I Throw,” a song he released in 1965 with Levon and the Hawks, and the closing traditional number, an a cappella version of the hymnal “Gloryland,” which was passed from father to daughter.
While This Too Shall Light is only Helm’s second album under her own name, it serves as a comprehensive portrait covering her life’s journeys and recoveries; They’re the stories that, no matter where they take her, seem to end and begin in the same place like a circle.
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'Thankfully we left!' EU negotiator reveals Brussels plots to force euro on ALL states
ANDREW Neil took an Italian MEP to task after he revealed that the EU plans to make every member of the bloc adopt the euro in the next eight years - and raise taxes across the union.
By OLI SMITH PUBLISHED: 012:19, Mon, Jul 3, 2017
Andrew Neil said the British people decided to get out just in time after an EU official told him that the bloc would start to raise taxes on member states.
Speaking to Sunday Politics, Roberto Gualtieri told Neil that the major EU powers will ensure that every member state joins the euro by 2025.
The draconian proposals come after EU officials admitted that Britain's departure will leave a financial blackhole in the bloc's budget of at least £10billion a year.
Mr Gualtieri, who is a part of the European Parliament's Brexit negotiation team, sought to play down the bloc's money worries but admitted the costs on each country will grow.
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Proposals to solve the absence of Britain's net contributions are an EU-wide VAT supplement or taking an axe to the common agricultural policy which amounts to 40% of the budget.
The MEP, who is a part of the Socialist & Democrat Party, said: "There are two different problems.
"First, we have to define the financial settlement from Britain, we are not looking for fines but for commitment to be paid.
"And then there is a problem for the future, for the EU to redefine how to distribute its resources."
He continued: "Yes, well every EU member state should be a member of the euro by 2025. It would be good for us to enlarge the eurozone.
"Of course, this depends on each country's political will, but we will try. The euro has been a successful currency which has protected citizens."
This prompted Neil to fire back at the MEP: "What? Where is the success? Italy's industrial output is down and your economy hasn't grown since entering the currency."
Done in 5 MINUTES EU Army proposal allowing more military action rushed through
THE European Union has pushed through more powers for the bloc’s own army in just five minutes with the launch of a historic multi-billion defence plan.
By KATIE MANSFIELD PUBLISHED: 09:02, Fri, Jun 23, 2017
The EU paved the way for its own army as Macron and Merkel pushed for a common European defence
EU leaders agreed a weapons fund, shared financing for battlegroups and agreed on a coalition of the willing to conduct more missions abroad.
A senior diplomat said the proposals were so popular at the European Council meeting that the plan was agreed after just “five minutes” of discussion.
The move will also allow EU nations to push for joint military action without the agreement of all members.
France, Germany, Italy and Spain pushed for the plans with French President Emmanuel Macron, who threw his weight behind a common European defence during his election campaign, branding the steps “historic”.
NO WONDER 75% of people in the UK are now Eurosceptics! YES we are continuing to see the EU take steps towards becoming a SUPERSTATE with a dominant FEDERAL GOVERNMENT described in the Bible as a Beast System due to its amalgamation of different countries and peoples into one State with one Voice. They will also have their own ARMY and COMMAND CENTRE. The UK has blocked all attempts to establish this, but this is already changing as BREXIT takes effect. So keep watching this development as the EU will eventually have it's own Army. This move once again is in perfect alignment with Bible Prophecy which has foretold 2500 years ago. Along with this development we expect to see Russia become more involved in Europe with links to a combined army. Again it's interesting that they see the development of a EU Army as an important next step.
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The Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency (RDA) and all other California Redevelopment Agencies were dissolved effective February 1, 2012. The City of Tustin has elected to become the Successor Agency to the RDA, responsible for paying off the former RDA’s existing debts, disposing of the former RDA’s properties and assets to help pay off debts, returning revenues to the local government entities that receive property taxes, and winding up the affairs of the former RDA.
The actions of the Successor Agency to the Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency were monitored and approved by a 7 member local Oversight Board. In addition to approving the Successor Agency's administrative budget, the Oversight Board adopted the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule (ROPS) that identifies the financial obligations of the former redevelopment agency that the Successor Agency may pay over the next six months and subsequent six-month periods. All county Oversight Boards were consolidated into one Countywide Oversight Board effective July 1, 2018.
Agency Reports
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Monday through Thursday
Parking Ticket Payment
When are building permits required?
Do I need a permit to have a garage sale?
Where can I dispose of hazardous waste?
What are the regulations on trash cans?
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Animal Care Chronicles Wrap-Up
tags: Animal Care, Animal welfare, Blackfish, Cynthia Payne, Jim Horton, Krissy Dodge, SeaWorld
The final installment of my conversations with former Animal Care workers Jim Horton, Cynthia Payne, and Krissy Dodge is now up on The Dodo. (Previous conversations are here and here).
In this round, Jim and Cynthia talk about what it was like to try and dive the dolphin feeding pools to keep them clear of objects that either fell in or were thrown in by guests. And Jim explains the impossible situation he faced with an irate male dolphin called Ralph:
The young calves would maybe grab your flippers and drag you back. That was kind of fun, though the number one rule was never to react. You didn’t want to reinforce it so we would never react to any behavior. We’d just ignore the animals totally. But Ralph would really mess with you. He’d get in your face and be jaw popping really hard. He’d be 6 inches from your face slamming his mouth shut with 200 pounds of force. It would sound like firecrackers going off underwater. You could tell [he was coming]. He’d start vocalizing really loud, and you’d go ‘Oh lord, Ralph is getting worked up.’ He’d get right in your face and scream and vocalize, really, really loud. Or he’d grab you by the head and pull you around. He’d lay on top of you.
Krissy concludes with the traumatic death of a sea lion named Eric, which prompted her to quit SeaWorld. It is a story she has never before told publicly:
We went to give him fluids and Eric began to go into convulsions. His head was shaking involuntarily. All of a sudden he arched his back into what they call the ‘death arch’ and he laid down and stopped breathing. He had no pulse. We thought he had died. Several people left to get ready for the necropsy. I stayed with him. He then started breathing again and I felt a pulse in his neck. The decision was made to euthanize him. But Eric’s body was not taking the poison. Even though it was injected into his heart, he didn’t die. Eric was taken to necropsy anyway. He was hoisted onto the truck, taken to the necropsy room and laid on the floor. He was still breathing. I figured we’d just wait for him to die, but I was wrong. What happened next I will never forget.
Since this is the last in the series I want to emphasize that it took courage for Jim, Cynthia, and Krissy to tell their stories, especially because they knew that doing so would provoke criticism and personal attacks from all sides of the spectrum. And, already, I have seen many unthinking and knee-jerk comments on social media that add nothing to the debate our our thinking about animal care, marine mammal captivity and marine parks.
We all expected that. But the reason to put these stories on the record is to add to the growing wealth of information and experience that comes from people who have worked in the industry. So anyone who really wants to learn and think about marine mammal captivity, and what it is like for both animals and those who work and care for them, can now read what Jim, Cynthia and Krissy had to say. And hopefully that will help deepen, inform, and expand the post-Blackfish debate about marine mammal captivity.
So I greatly appreciate the spirit Jim, Cynthia and Krissy have shown in sharing their experiences. And I hope you do too, no matter how you react to the information.
from → Diary Of A Killer Whale, Dolphins
← More Animal Care Chronicles: Into The Dolphin Feeding Pools
NPR Takes A Look At SeaWorld’s Post-Blackfish Troubles →
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Posted on April 13, 2018 by Dr. Sabri Bebawi, PhD
Gangster Don Corleone Trump Still Does What He Does Best: Threats, intimidation, and possible infliction of harm- A Gangster at His Best
Trump hits back at ex-FBI chief’s book, calls Comey an ‘untruthful slime ball’
Former FBI director James Comey says in a new book that President Donald Trump reminded him of a mafia boss who demanded absolute loyalty and lied about everything. Trump hit back on Friday, calling Comey a “liar” and a “slime ball” on Twitter.
According to excerpts leaked by US media on Thursday, Comey, whom Trump fired in May 2017, says the US president lives in “a cocoon of alternative reality” into which he tried to pull others around him, according to The Washington Post. The official release of Comey’s “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership” is slated for next Tuesday.
“James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did — until he was, in fact, fired,” Trump wrote in a Twitter tirade on Friday morning.
“He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH.”
In the book, Comey said the president was also obsessed with the alleged existence of a video in which Russian prostitutes said to be hired by Trump urinated on the bed in a Moscow hotel room.
The allegations left Trump fuming.
“He is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI,” Trump added in a second tweet.
“His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst ‘botch jobs’ of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!”
Meetings with Trump gave Comey “flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the Mob,” he writes.
“The silent circle of assent. The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth.”
But Comey goes even further, saying that Trump, congenitally, has no sense of what is right and wrong.
“This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values,” he writes, according to The New York Times.
“His leadership is transactional, ego-driven and about personal loyalty.”
Retrieved: https://johnib.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/trump-hits-back-at-ex-fbi-chiefs-book-calls-comey-an-untruthful-slime-ball/
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Liverpool Transfer News: Jurgen Klopp makes an offer to Barcelona for former star Philippe Coutinho
Liverpool Transfer News: Jurgen Klopp makes an offer to Barcelona for former star Philippe Coutinho one and a half year after he left Anfield for the Spanish Giants.
Barcelona have been very dominant in the Spanish Domestic circuit in the recent years. They have however failed to convert the same success on the European front faltering each time in the closing stages. This has prompted the Catalan club to look for high-profile signings to bolster their chances. One such signing this season has put the future of another’s in jeopardy.
Also read: Barcelona amass a Debt of Nearly 888 Million Euros!
Barcelona have sealed the transfer of France international Antoine Griezmann from Atletico Madrid a few days back. The club are reportedly looking to hand the striker the no.7 shirt. A number currently worn by Brazilian Philippe Coutinho. This has led to speculations that the former Liverpool star currently has no place in the Barcelona set up and is most likely to be sold. With Barcelona still reportedly in the hunt for Neymar from PSG, Coutinho looks increasingly surplus to requirements.
Liverpool are working on bringing back Philippe Coutinho to Anfield. The Reds have tabled a two year loan deal with an option to buy set at £88M. The midfielder has given his approval on the move, although the offer doesn’t attract Barcelona who prefer to sell. [@CalcioMercatoIT] pic.twitter.com/PGTQvESrpt
— LFC Transfer Room (@LFCTransferRoom) July 14, 2019
CalcioMercato.it have now reported that Philippe Coutinho’s former club Liverpool are looking to bring the Brazilian back to Merseyside. Liverpool have reportedly submitted a bid which will see Coutinho back in Liverpool on a two-year loan with an option to buy for £88 million. Coutinho has given his seal of approval to the move. However, Barcelona are reportedly uninterested in the bid and prefer an outright purchase instead.
To stay or not to stay
In contrasting news, Philippe Coutinho’s agent Kia Joorabchian told Telegraph Sport earlier that Barcelona’s president Josep Maria Bartomeu had told him that Coutinho’s future remained at the club and they were not considering selling him.
Philippe Coutinho joined Liverpool in January 2013. He flourished at the Merseyside scoring 54 times in 201 games in his six seasons at the Anfield. His performances earned him the nickname “The Magician” from Liverpool fans and teammates. However, the manner in which the Brazilian forced through a move to Barcelona in 2018 lost him a lot of supporters.
It will be interesting to see if the fans welcome him with open arms; i.e if he does come back or will they continue to hold their grudge. More interesting still will be if he heads to PSG in a player plus cash deal to bring in the man he was bought to replace: Neymar.
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CSK vs KSS Dream11 Team Prediction : Krylya Sovetov Samara Vs CSKA Moscow RPL Best Dream 11 Team
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American Architectural Psychology
by Robert Wells a year ago in politics
Structural racism is built into our roads and cities.
Architectural and urban designs are often reflections of the cultures that built them. In the US, a legacy of racism runs through our highways and cities.
Urban Renewal and Social Inequality
Starting in the mid-1900s, American developers embraced a philosophy of urban renewal that persists to this day. The idea was to give dilapidated inner cities a facelift to attract wealthier residents and build a great interstate system that would connect them all. The Housing Act of 1949 and the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 gave construction companies millions of dollars to build highways that dissected poor, primarily Black neighborhoods while the government enforced strict eminent domain and condemnation laws to force residents to move out of their homes. Of course, this type of urban renewal doesn't eliminate poverty; it just moves it elsewhere.
After displacing poor residents, city governments and architects began intentionally limiting public transportation to keep them on the outskirts. Architect Robert Moses admits to designing Long Island overpasses to be too low for buses to drive under, which effectively kept low-income residents away from the beaches.
“Legislation can always be changed," Moses notes in his autobiography, "but it’s very hard to tear down a bridge once it’s up."
Architectural Psychology
Urban planning doesn't only have economic repercussions; it also has an emotional impact on residents. Psychiatrist Paul Keedwell published a book called Headspace: The Psychology of City Living, which discusses the toll that poor design can take on city-sweller's mental health. His field of study is called "architectural psychology."
“Much design and planning is guided by a kind of empathic intuition rather than any scientific evidence,” Keedwell explains. “The esteemed architect might be more concerned to make an artistic statement than to design a space that people actually enjoy using.” Keedwell identifies separation from nature as a major driver of stress, but there are other architectural choices that have psychological effects on people.
Monumental Problems
The controversy surrounding Confederate statues in the US has gotten more Americans talking about the purposes of monuments in societies. Indeed, many of those statues were erected by White supremacists to deter Black people from moving into predominantly White neighborhoods. New Orleans-based designer Bryan C. Lee Jr. is one of many activist architects who are advocating for new monuments to replace the Confederate Generals. He has started a project called Paper Monuments, which aims to spread posters depicting people and events that have shaped the city’s 300-year history.
"The Paper Monuments project is still rooted in the fact that these symbols of oppression need to be countered by symbols of those people who’ve fought against that oppression,” Lee said in an interview with Fast Company. “When we make decisions that do embody hatred, whether we mean to or not, it allows for society to grow along those frameworks. Our job should be to acknowledge them and counteract them and produce things that elevate the welfare of the constituents that we serve.”
The Future of American Architecture
American Institute of Architects CEO Robert Ivy says that we need more research into the psychological and physiological effects that architecture has on communities.
"Unfortunately, architects still can’t point to the quantified benefits of more healthy designs," Ivy told attendees at a recent conference.
Nonetheless, he remains optimistic since the U.S. General Services Administration has announced that it's investing resources into this area. Hopefully, such research will encourage future architects and urban planners to embrace more evidence-based designs.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/09/activist-architects-designing--2014928103659390595.html
https://www.fastcodesign.com/3068901/building-just-monuments-bryan-c-lee-jr-profile
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/why-poorly-designed-cities-are-bad-for-your-mental-health-1.3203204
https://www.fastcodesign.com/3061873/how-urban-design-perpetuates-racial-inequality-and-what-we-can-do-about-it
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Warner Bros. Studio Tour London
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Warner Bros. Studio Tour London: GRINGOTTS WIZARDING BANK - OPENING 6TH APRIL
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For the first time ever at Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter, you are invited to enter the set of Gringotts Wizarding Bank as we unveil our biggest expansion to date.
The goblin-run bank, which features in J.K. Rowling’s books and the film series, has been recreated as part of an expansion of the Warner Bros Studio Tour attraction near Watford.
Key moments at the bank include Harry’s first trip to Diagon Alley, where Gringotts is located, in Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone. Visitors to the Warner Bros Studio in Leavesden, Hertfordshire, will be able to walk through the grand marbled foyer of the wizarding bank. Lined with towering pillars, the hall is decorated with chandeliers and will feature goblins working away at their desks filled with inkwells, quills, ledgers and piles of galleons, sickles and knuts — the currency of Rowling’s world. In the main hall, visitors can learn about the costumes, prosthetics, dentures and masks used to bring goblin characters to life. Guests will then go to the depths of the Lestrange vault and see the witch’s many treasures.
From Harry Potter first discovering Diagon Alley to the famous trio escaping on a Ukrainian Ironbelly dragon in their quest for a Horcrux, Gringotts Wizarding Bank played an important role in the Harry Potter film series. On 6th April, we will unveil a permanent addition allowing visitors to walk through the wizarding bank of Gringotts, the Lestrange vault, a gallery of goblins and so much more.
Lined by towering marble pillars, the grand banking hall will be decorated with three magnificent crystal chandeliers and finished with real brass leaf. Inkwells, quills, ledgers and piles of Galleons, Sickles and Knuts will complete the goblin tellers’ desks as seen on screen. The Prop-making Department, led by Pierre Bohanna, created over 210,000 coins for the final two films alone.
Gringotts Wizarding Bank is famously run by goblins. Walking through the imposing marble columns, visitors will discover the costumes and prosthetics belonging to Bogrod, Griphook and many other goblin bankers. Each prosthetic mask took weeks to create, with every hair individually inserted and veins painstakingly painted by hand. It took four hours to transform actor Warwick Davis into Griphook in the films which included him wearing black contact lenses and dentures with extremely sharp teeth to complete the goblin look.
Once through the banking hall of Gringotts, visitors will enter the depths of the Lestrange Vault used to store the treasures of Bellatrix Lestrange including the Sword of Gryffindor and Helga Hufflepuff’s Cup, one of Voldemort’s many Horcruxes. During filming 38,000 pieces of rubberised treasure were created for the Lestrange vault including 7,014 Hufflepuff Cups. Here, visitors can try out a unique photo opportunity allowing them to step inside the Lestrange vault and surround themselves with treasure.
Officially opening on Saturday 6th April, the 16,500sqft Gringotts Wizarding Bank expansion will be the Studio Tour’s biggest addition to date and has been designed and built by many of the original crew members who worked on the hugely successful magical film series including Oscar® and BAFTA winning Production Designer Stuart Craig, Construction Manager Paul Hayes and Head Propmaker Pierre Bohanna.
Tickets must be pre-booked and all extra features are included in the ticket price.
Have you booked your ticket yet? We have, if you're going on the 6th April do let us know, we'll hopefully setup a mini fan meet!
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Groupon: Warner Bros. Studio Tour + Guidebook, Hot Meal, Beer or Wine, and Butterbeer deal with promo code - Now: £39.96, Was: £49.95 - Save 20%
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Groupon: Warner Bros. Studio Tour + Guidebook, Hot Meal, Beer or Wine, and Butterbeer deal with promo code
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London, 23 and 30 November and 7 December - Private After Hours Tour - 20% OFF (Groupon)
£49.95 for entry to Warner Bros. Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter™ When: 23 November | 30 November | 7 December Where: Warner Bros. Studio Tour London, Studio Tour Drive, Leavesden, WD25 7LR Tour times: 3.30 p.m. | 4 p.m. | 4.30 p.m. | 5 p.m. | 5.30 p.m. | 6 p.m. | 6.30 p.m. | 7 p.m. | 7.30 p.m. Closing time: 11.59 p.m. Ticket includes: entry ticket to the Studio tour | one hot meal per guest | a glass of wine, beer, soft drink or hot drink per guest | a Butterbeer™ per guest Warner Bros. Studio Tour London
Once doors have closed to the public on selected days in November and December, Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter will welcome Groupon members for an exclusive event. Available for entry from 3.30 p.m., guests will be granted after-hours access to the Studio Tour which showcases authentic sets, props and costumes from the Harry Potter film series.
Guests can walk the flagstones of the iconic Hogwarts Great Hall before viewing many of the famous sets – including the Ministry of Magic, Dumbledore’s office, and the Gryffindor common room. They’ll also get an exclusive look at the newest expansion, The Forbidden Forest.
The Forbidden Forest may be strictly off-limits to Hogwarts students, but Groupon guests are invited to follow the footsteps of Harry, Ron and Hermione deep into the forest, which is home to an abundance of creatures. Guests will be welcomed through the Hogwarts Gates by the beloved half-giant Hagrid deep into the forest which is filled with 19 trees each with a diameter of over 12 feet.
Visitors will walk beneath the giant entwined roots and encounter a full-size model of Buckbeak, and have the opportunity to bow to the majestic creature. As Groupon guests venture deeper into the depths of the forest, they will come face-to-face with Aragog, the Acromantula. Emerging from his dark lair, the enormous spider will appear before guest along with spiderlings from his family.
While exploring the attraction, guests will also be able to enjoy experiences that have been specifically added for Groupon members like enjoying a special demonstration courtesy of John Richardson, Special Effects Supervisor from the Harry Potter film series. They’ll get the chance to learn wand moves and can ‘fly’ a broomstick like a member of the cast in the Studio Tour’s green screen experience
During a short break in one of the attraction’s cafes, guests will be able to enjoy a selected hot meal; a glass of wine, beer, hot or soft drink and a Butterbeer™ taster. They’ll also get the chance to meet the Death Eaters as they patrol the Hogwarts Gates.
On-site parking is available, as is a return shuttle bus from Watford Junction station if required.
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What's the best Harry Potter Video Game?
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Note : I wasn't sure where to put this topic because this is my first topic ( sorry if it's in the wrong place! )
Question : Do you think, what's the best Harry Potter video game and why?
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China v Australia (Game 1): Preview and Broadcast Details
By Ann Odong Nov 21 2017 8:32PM
By Ann Odong
Nov 21 2017 8:32PM
MELBOURNE, Australia — For the second time in as many years, the Matildas are heading for a two game series in Victoria. This time the opponent is world no. 13 and former Asian powerhouse China PR.
Between 10,000 and 12,000 fans are anticipated for the first match and the architecturally splendid AAMI Park. While it would be the biggest crowd for a Matildas stand alone game in Melbourne, it would fall short of the September marks set in Sydney and Newcastle.
For Australia, they are looking to extend their eight game unbeaten streak in 2017. It is a streak that - although it is an "off" year for women's football - has included several big name scalps.
It's an opportunity for the Australians to continue to build momentum as a team heading into three big years.
Kyah Simon returns from injury (Photo: Ann Odong)
Most of the selections have been plucked from the W-League. One advantage of this is that, unlike the recent friendlies against Brazil in September, only German based Elise Kellond-Knight and Japanese based Caitlin Foord will be battling the scourge of jet lag.
A substantial portion of Alen Stajcic's squad has played a majority of the 2017 matches but this final squad has several notable inclusions.
After sustaining an injury mid way through the 2016/17 W-League, it was a "horror" run (her description) for Michelle Heyman to return to full fitness. Heyman is back playing for Canberra United and more importantly scoring goals for United.
Also back from injury is forward Kyah Simon. With no major tournaments on the horizon this year, the 26 year old took the opportunity to address her troublesome shoulders - which had a nasty habit of popping out mid-match - and underwent reconstructive surgery on both. Again Simon has had a successful return, back in the W-League and scoring goals for new side Melbourne City.
Another of the bad injury run returnees is Simon's City teammate Larissa Crummer. Crummer also suffered ligament damage towards the end of 2017 and, after pushing to return for Season 9, suffered another setback which ruled her out for City's back-to-back championship. After rehab in the United States with Seattle Reign, Crummer too has returned to scoring with goals for Seattle Reign towards the end of their NWSL and for City with three goals in the last two games. All three bolster Australia's already considerable attacking talents.
Stajcic will have a full squad to call upon in the first match, although Lydia Williams may be unavailable after returning from the US wedding of former Houston Dash teammate Morgan Brian. If that is case, Mackenzie Arnold would be most likely to take the gloves.
Arnold played the last time Australia met China so it would not an unfamiliar task for the Roar custodian. However, it would be interesting to see if the new face to the Matildas squad, Adelaide United goalkeeper Eliza Campbell, pushes for a start.
A former Young Matildas starting goalkeeper, Campbell has been rewarded for her strong start to the season. Although she has been called up to Matildas camps over the past 2-3 years, this is the shotstoppers first senior squad call up.
Last time they met
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id8fuoe9_bk
The last time these two sides met was at the Algarve Cup. Despite a good start to the match, China hit Australia against the run of play to take a first half lead through Wang Shanshan.
After the break Australia hit back through Emily Gielnik - who was impressive in that tournament - before the Matildas earned a deserved victory through a late header from Ellie Carpenter. It was the teenager's first goal for the Matildas and one that helped Australia take top spot in an Algarve Cup group that included Sweden and recently crowned European Champions, the Netherlands.
Australia’s Player to Watch: Tameka Butt
Tameka Butt at the 2017 Tournament of Nations (Photo: Jenny Chuang)
Obviously one of the players to watch is Matildas forward Sam Kerr who in 2017 has netted a pretty impressive 33 goals for Perth Glory, Sky Blue FC and the Matildas.
However, another player who has had a big year has been attacking midfielder Tameka Butt. After a slow start to the year, the 26 year old has produced a stellar year. After sitting out the Algarve Cup, Butt headed to Norway wit Klepp IL where the attacking midfielder produced a stellar season including 14 goals.
For her efforts Butt was nominated for the Toppserien Midfielder of the Year and the Toppserien Player of the Year. Another big moment in 2017 was THAT goal - the goal that broke the United States' 27 match stranglehold on Australia.
China's Player to Watch: Wang Shanshan
Wang Shanshan celebrating after scoring against Australia at the 2017 Algarve Cup (Photo: Ann Odong)
China have a host of up and coming players who could see them return to the upper echelon including their superstar Wang Shuang.
However it has been forward Wang Shanshan who has driven China's results in 2017. The 27 year old has scored 7 times for China in 2017 including against Australia at the Algarve Cup.
Wang is good aerially but where is causes damage is through her smart movement in and around central defenders, often finding space between the pairings and making the most of it with her extremely clinical finishing.
Katrina Gorry should be in the thick of the action (Photo: Ann Odong)
For China, this will be their first match under their newly appointed Icelandic head coach Sigurour Eyjolfsson. Eyjolfsson takes over from Frenchman Bruno Bini and becomes China's eight coach in 10 years.
Alongside Eyjolfsson on the Steel Roses bench will be a legend of the women's game - and joint FIFA Women's Player of the Century - Sun Wen. While the United States got all the plaudits in 1999 for winning the World Cup, it was Wen who lit up the tournament earning the Golden Ball and Golden Boot as she led China to the silver medal.
For all of Bini's faults, the Frenchman brought some of the french style to China's game. The Steel Roses play an attractive, fluid style of football with the ability to transition quickly into attack. In many ways, they have similar attributes to the Matildas.
The key battle will be the midfield between the two key playmakers Katrina Gorry (Australia) and Wang Shuang (China). Both players are the metronomes for their sides and with their ability to slice defences with a pass or put teammate on their way, this should be an enjoyable battle to watch.
Although quick themselves, China are equally susceptible to pace. In their last meeting, Australia used their speed down the flanks - through Carpenter and Gema Simon - to unnerve the compact Chinese defence. Time and again a well executed reverse ball opened up the Chinese defence and Australia definitely has that pace available to them with any number of combinations of Kerr, De Vanna, Catley, Carpenter, Foord or Raso out wide.
Another opportunity for Australia will on set pieces. 2017 has not been a good year for China's set piece defending with a host of goals conceded from their hesitance in clearing the danger.
As for China, they pose a threat many threats, particularly on the counter attack. With their excellent technical ability, the Steel Roses have the nous to play out of pressure with a minimum number of passes and explode out of defence.
"China are a very organised team, a very skilful team," said Alen Stajcic.
"Their technical skill are as good as any Asian team. I would put them up there with Japan almost in terms of their technical capabilities so I expect that kind of game from them."
It is that exact move that caught out Australia at the Algarve Cup, And with Wang Shanshan, Wang Shuang and Xiao Yuyi, they have the players to finish the chances they do create.
"We know what to expect but that doesn't make them any easier to play against."
"We know that their two strikers are phenomenal players so they will provide tough competition for us but I am pretty confident that if we play our game, play the way we have been playing the past five or six months that we will be able to get on top."
Tickets are still available to the clash and can be purchased via https://matildas.footballaustralia.com.au/tickets
Broadcast details
Fox Sports continues their commitment to women's football with the match live on Fox Sports 501.
They are joined by SBS who will air the AAMI Park clash on SBS Viceland with the match streaming on The World Game app.
Unfortunately for international viewers, it is all geo blocked but of course, you can also follow all the pre match, match and post match action via The Women's Game twitter.
Australia v China PR
AAMI Park, Melbourne
Kick-Off: 7:30pm (AEDT)
Last 4 fixtures
11 March 2017: Australia 2 - 1 China (Algarve Cup)
3 March 2016: Australia 1 - 1 China (Olympic Qualifiers)
25 October 2015: China 1 - 1 Australia (Friendly)
27 November 2013: Australia 2 - 1 China (Friendly)
AUSTRALIA SQUAD
GOALKEEPERS: Lydia Williams (Melbourne City / Seattle Reign), Mackenzie Arnold (Brisbane Roar), Eliza Campbell (Adelaide United)
DEFENDERS: Steph Catley (Melbourne City / Orlando Pride), Ellie Carpenter (Canberra United), Clare Polkinghorne (Brisbane Roar), Alanna Kennedy (Melbourne City / Orlando Pride), Laura Alleway (Melbourne Victory)
MIDFIELDERS: Katrina Gorry (Brisbane Roar/ Vegalta Sendai), Elise Kellond-Knight (Turbine Potsdam), Emily van Egmond (Newcastle Jets), Chloe Logarzo (Sydney FC), Tameka Butt (Brisbane Roar), Kyah Simon (Melbourne City)
FORWARDS: Lisa De Vanna (Sydney FC), Caitlin Foord (Vegalta Sendai), Sam Kerr (Perth Glory / Sky Blue FC), Hayley Raso (Brisbane Roar / Portland Thorns), Larissa Crummer (Melbourne City/Seattle Reign), Amy Harrison (Sydney FC), Michelle Heyman (Canberra United)
CHINA SQUAD
GOALKEEPERS: Zhao Lina (Shanghai), Bi Xiaolin (Dalian), Lu Feifei (Jiangsu), Li Xueyan (Changchun).
DEFENDERS: Gao Chen (Dalian), Li Dongna (Dalian), Li Danyang (Dalian), Wu Haiyan (Shandong), Ma Jun (Jiangsu), Xue Jiao (Dalian), Liu Shanshan (Hebei).
MIDFIELDERS: Ren Guixin (Changchun), Yang Lina (Shanghai), Yao Lingwei (Jiangsu), Zhu Beiyan (Shanghai), Wang Shuang (Dalian), Xu Yanlu (Jiangsu), Zhang Rui (Changchun), Han Peng (Tianjin), Li Ying (Shandong), Lou Jiahui (Henan), Xiao Yuyi (Shanghai)
FORWARDS: Jin Kun (Jiangsu), Tang Jiali (Shanghai), Song Duan (Dalian), Wang Shanshan (Tianjin)
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Odesza July 17, 2019, 6:00 pm Frost Ampitheatre
Joe Russo's Almost Dead August 17, 2019, 6:30 pm Frost Ampitheatre
Lionel Richie August 24, 2019, 6:30 pm Frost Ampitheatre
Stanford Cardinal vs. Northwestern Wildcats August 31, 2019, 1:00 pm Stanford Stadium
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The National September 1, 2019, 6:30 pm Frost Ampitheatre
Stanford Cardinal vs. Texas Longhorns {WOMEN} September 8, 2019, 12:00 pm Maples Pavilion
Stanford Cardinal vs. Oregon Ducks September 21, 2019, 3:30 am Stanford Stadium
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Stanford Cardinal vs. Washington Huskies October 5, 2019, 3:30 am Stanford Stadium
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Willie Nelson & Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real October 12, 2019, 6:30 pm Frost Ampitheatre
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Stanford Cardinal vs. Arizona Wildcats October 26, 2019, 3:30 am Stanford Stadium
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Stanford Cardinal vs. California Golden Bears November 23, 2019, 3:30 am Stanford Stadium
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Stanford Cardinal vs. Notre Dame Fighting Irish November 30, 2019, 3:30 am Stanford Stadium
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New Book Release - AGING: WARNING - Navigating Life's Medical, Mental & Financial Minefields, by Sharon Sebastian
AGING: WARNING - Navigating Life's Medical, Mental & Financial Minefields, by Sharon Sebastian, faults a failed Government and Care Industry in this highly Explosive Exposé.
Sarasota, FL, USA (October 29, 2015) -- Guerilla journalist, Sharon Sebastian, writes a timely and prescient book with shocking insights about aging in America.
"Make no mistake; aging in America is warfare. Families suffer, lives are lost prematurely, and incomes are under siege." - Sharon Sebastian, Author
Sharon Sebastian's "AGING: WARNING - Navigating Life's Medical, Mental & Financial Minefields" is a take-no-prisoners exposé about the malfeasance of government and the multi-billion dollar elder care industry. Families, seniors, and veterans must not attempt to maneuver the minefields of medical or elder care without being armed with this book. Sebastian warns, "Families need to know what they don't know."
Embedded for years within the elder care system from hospitals to nursing homes, Sebastian uncovers a system that is deeply flawed and a liability to the future of the American family. A multi-year investigation reveals that seniors and their families are both targets and casualties of a profit-driven care industry and culpable State and Federal governments.
Input from top experts from various fields is coupled with insider knowledge on how families may remain safe, sane, and solvent. Patients and families demanded that "the truth must be told." First-hand investigations give vital insight to the rapidly increasing numbers of families who "need to know."
Sharon Sebastian witnessed it, researched it, and now shares it as she openly warns about the perils of aging in her fight for the rights and protections of all Americans. Charting a path for change, Sebastian sets a course for redirection at a time critical to America's future.
Sharon Sebastian, author of "Aging: WARNING - Navigating Life's Medical, Mental & Financial Minefields" is a columnist, commentator and contributor in print and on nationwide broadcasts on topics ranging from healthcare, culture, religion, and politics to domestic and global policy. Website: http://www.AgingWarning.com
Keywords: Aging, Elder Care Books, Elderly Abuse, Nursing Home Abuse, Veteran Abuse, FDA Recalls, Caregiver Information, Alzheimer's, Partially Hydrogenated Oils, Food Additives and Unhealthiness
The ebook version of AGING: WARNING - Navigating Life's MEDICAL, MENTAL & FINANCIAL MINEFIELDS, ISBN 9781506900124, published by First Edition Design Publishing, is available on-line wherever ebooks are sold. The 308 page print book version, ISBN 9781506900117 is published by First Edition Design Publishing and distributed worldwide to online booksellers.
Sharon Sebastian
media@firsteditiondesign.com
TPConnects' First Airline Customer Now Live with IATA NDC with the Latest Publication of the NDC Standard
The aggregator and booking tool with NDC standard will change the way air travel is retailed by giving travel agents the capability to access features and options typically available only through airline websites.
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (October 29, 2015) -- TPConnects, a technology solution provider to the global trade today confirmed that its Travel Aggregator platform based on IATA NDC's XML-based data transmission standard is now live for its first airline customer in United Arab Emirates.
The announcement of the first airline delivering live transaction with IATA NDC standard in Africa and Middle East region was made by IATA's Director General and CEO, Tony Tyler, during the IATA Middle East and Africa Aviation day in Abu Dhabi, UAE on 27th October.
By adapting the NDC Standard and using TPConnects platform, the airline will be able to differentiate its products and services, distribute the entirety of the product portfolio, including ancillaries and promotional fares, present the airline's products in an attractive manner using rich format like photos and videos, expand the amount of information available on each product: attributes, facilities, policies, passenger reviews etc. and offer value-added products and services when applicable in addition to other non-air product offerings like hotels, cars, activities, event and concert tickets and insurance.
Kristine Fernandez, Director Business Development at TPConnects said; 'We are glad that our first airline customer went live with IATA NDC. With the airline industry under extreme financial pressure, stiff competition, consumers grow increasingly tech-savvy and mobile, TPConnects booking and distribution tool with NDC standard assist airlines to adopt a merchandising strategy that not only takes the need of travelers into account, but also achieves the main goal of airline to increase its profits and shift from a service provider to a retailer.
With TPConnects aggregator platform, travel agents are now able to search, compare and sell all the products and services of the airline including ancillaries and non-air products such as hotels, car, activities and insurance. With volume business, airlines are now able to negotiate better rates from the non-air product suppliers which will eventually benefit the end customers. Alternatively, the switch model enables the travel agents to plug their own credentials and contracted rates from suppliers.
TPConnects is using IATA NDC standard to connect to many airlines, and GDS's to receive up-to-the-minute flight availability, pricing and offers, both bundled and unbundled.
TPConnects merchandising solution let airlines create and distribute tailored customer offerings.
About TPConnects
Established in 2012, TPConnects is the next generation travel booking solution: an innovative cloud based travel booking and distribution tool for travel agencies, airlines, online travel agencies and tour operators with a merchandising engine. TPConnects is a values-based company driven by the mission "Shaping the future of travel distribution." Our proposition is simple: we want to help airlines to retail travel products, deliver rich content, bundle offers and provide consumers with the ability to create their own offers-choosing services like hotels, activities and enable travel agents to search, compare and sell travel products..
TPConnects along with other aggregators who follow the New Distribution Capability (NDC) standards, will change the way air travel is retailed by giving travel agents and travel management companies (TMCs) the capability to access features and options typically available only on airline websites. TPConnects is the only aggregator that works for both airlines and travel agencies.
TPConnects delivers efficiencies to both leisure and business travel consultants. Travel Consultants will be able to search, compare, and select products based on customer preference. If the customers wish to reveal their identity, the agent only needs to log in to TPConnects' personalization page. For a travel management company, this cuts the time it takes to complete the booking process by up to almost 50%. The integration also distributes efficiencies throughout agency mid- and back-office processes with additional benefits in terms of customer information, tracking and reporting. TPConnects platform is Cloud Based (SAAS), Secure, Service Focused, Scalable, Fast, flexible, Shared and Usage based.
TPConnects is largely focused on delivering an aggregator system connecting buyers with sellers and a merchandising engine to airlines in the developing world, facilitating the sale of anything (flights, hotels, ancillaries, event tickets, cars, activities etc.) through any channel (B2B, B2C, B2B2C, B2B2B) using any form of payment (Cash, Credit Card, BSP, Prepaid).
With its development center in Calicut, India and Bucharest, Romania along with the representation office in Dubai, UAE TPConnects' goal is to shape the future of travel distribution with the new IATA NDC Schema.
Suzanne Lawrence
Head of PR & Marketing
management@tpconnects.com
http://www.tpconnects.com
New Book Release - Anything for Amelia, by Andrew C. Branham
Anything for Amelia, by Andrew C. Branham, tells a horrific adoption story of fraud and abuse.
Jackson, MI, USA (October 29, 2015) -- Andrew C. Branham's Anything for Amelia is a true story of the challenges endured by two gay men who had the desire to adopt a child. Consistently ranked in the top 100 on Amazon. All FIVE Star Reviews!
When Andrew and DJ decided to adopt and bring a child into their lives, little did they know what they were about to endure; yet never did the thought cross their minds to give up. The horrific, pitilessly, and beyond comprehensible hoops one women would make them jump through demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that little Amelia was going to be much better off in the loving home that Drew and DJ could provide her. Just when you think, how can two people survive such a nightmare and the journey is just about over when little Amelia is born and will be safely in the arms of her loving dads, Sandi decides to pull one more shenanigan that could change their lives forever.
More than 10 million adults have been adopted or fostered in their childhood. Along with spiraling increases in adoptions comes a growing need to disclose the significant flaws in adoption laws that open the doors to fraud, manipulation, and abuse of the system. AMELIA is the first book to explore this dark side of the adoption process through the true story of one couple's journey through hell. Called "the most difficult adoption in U.S. history" by adoption experts, the book appeals to nearly all families (traditional and non-traditional) interested in adoption, foster parenting, or surrogacy. An amazing book filled with tips, advice, and eye-opening first-hand accounts, this is one feel-good story that serves an important purpose and fills a critical gap in adoption literature. - D. J. Herda
Common throughout the reviews - "A must read!, Intriguing, I was sad and needed to stop for many tissues, Shocking Story, Eye opening, Awesome, Loved, Great, Heart-breaking, Touching, Beautiful, ..." This book is the type of book you will not put down until you're done, and even at that point you will want to re-read it.
Keywords - Gay, Dads, Adoption, Horrific, Nightmare, Child, DFS, Adopt, Advice, How To, Relationship, LGBT
The ebook version of Anything for Amelia ISBN 9781506900278, published by First Edition Design Publishing, is available on-line wherever ebooks are sold. The 234 page print book version, ISBN 9781506900261 is published by First Edition Design Publishing and distributed worldwide to online booksellers.
Andrew C. Branham
drew.branham@yahoo.com
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Global Lender Equities First Holdings Returns Shares of ANGLE plc and Concludes Transaction in the United Kingdom
The Return of ANGLE plc Shares Marks Successful Completion of Transaction Executed in October 2014.
Indianapolis, IN, USA -- Equities First Holdings LLC (EFH, http://www.equitiesfirst.com), a global lender and a leader in alternative shareholder financing solutions, announced today that the company has fully concluded a transaction with Andrew Newland, CEO of ANGLE plc, by returning 1.35 million shares of ANGLE plc (AIM: AGL.LN; OTCQX: ANPCY) stock to him, which was used as collateral in a financial transaction.
This two-year financing facility, originated on October 27, 2014, was one of the EFH's first transactions executed in the United Kingdom after the acquisition of Meridian Equity Partners Limited. EFH acquired Meridian in the summer of 2014 and rebranded the acquired operation as Equities First (London) Limited.
Equities First (London) Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority of the United Kingdom, register number 605564.
"The return of collateral to clients is business-as-usual for Equities First Holdings," said Al Christy, Jr., Founder and CEO of EFH. "As a company, EFH and its subsidiaries have completed more than 700 transactions, and we have a perfect track record of returning our clients' collateral upon maturity and repayment."
The market disclosure made by ANGLE plc related to this transaction can be found here.
About Equities First Holdings
Since 2002, Equities First Holdings, LLC (EFH) has provided clients with alternative financing solutions, supplying capital against publicly traded stock to enable clients to meet their personal and professional goals. EFH provides capital against shares traded on public exchanges around the world. The company has completed more than 700 transactions and delivered more than $1.4 billion USD in funding to date.
EFH is a global company with offices in nine countries, including wholly owned subsidiaries Equities First (London) Limited, Equities First Holdings Hong Kong Limited, Equities First Holdings Singapore Limited, and Equities First Holdings (Australia) Pty Ltd. For more information, visit http://www.equitiesfirst.com.
This release is intended for informational use only, and does not constitute an offer, stated or implied, of any type. Equities First Holdings, LLC and all of its subsidiaries work exclusively with individuals classified as sophisticated investors or Professional clients. The Equities First Holdings platform is not intended for retail investors.
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Fulham Demonstrates Latest LED Drivers at Hong Kong Light Fair
Latest Fulham LED driver products are ideal for OEMs and Wholesalers looking for customizable and emergency lighting solutions.
Hong Kong, China -- Fulham Co., Inc., a leading supplier of lighting components and electronics for commercial and specialty applications, will demonstrate its newest LED lighting products for OEMs, distributors, and lighting professionals at this week's Hong Kong International Lighting Fair. Included among the Fulham products on display will be the LumoSeries LED drivers, the HotSpot Plus LED and emergency lighting drivers, and the customizable Quik Custom linear LED drivers. Fulham will be exhibiting in booth 1C-C02.
"Asia is a growing market for next-generation lighting systems," said Stephen K. Ho, Vice President of Sales for Hong Kong/APAC for Fulham. "The Hong Kong Light Fair gives us an opportunity to expand our regional market penetration by showing OEMs, wholesalers, and distributors what makes Fulham's LED products more versatile and cost-effective."
Developed at the new Fulham European Design Centre in the Netherlands, the LumoSeries are the company's newest LED drivers designed to be adaptable for various lighting applications. The drivers have low inrush current so more drivers and luminaires can operate on a single circuit, reducing the cost of wiring and installation. The LumoSeries drivers also have adjustable output currents, and their compact design makes them ideal for use in any manufacturer's luminaries. The LumoSeries drivers are offered in both constant current and constant voltage models, including dimmable and DALI versions.
Fulham's HotSpot Plus is an all-in-one unit that combines a 0-10V dimmable LED driver with a built-in emergency lighting system, complete with replaceable backup battery, eliminating the need for a separate emergency lighting system. The HotSpot Plus operates as a 40W constant current LED driver with output programmable from 250-1400mA. For emergency lighting, the built-in battery provides emergency lighting for up to 180 minutes at 5W or 90 minutes at 10W. The HotSpot Plus is available in a compact configuration, a linear design with end leads, or with bottom side leads for downlight installations.
Also on display will be Fulham's Quik Custom LED drivers, which are ideal for OEMs looking for drivers that match specific power requirements without having to manually adjust dials or set resistors to tune output. These high-efficiency drivers are available in three versions: a 40W customizable 1400mA driver with output voltage from 10-45VDC; a 60W customizable 700-1600mA driver with output voltage from 10-43VDC; and an 88W customizable 500-2100mA driver with output voltage from 21-44VDC. All the Quik Custom drivers are high efficiency with 0-10V dimming and a sleek linear package. All three units also are rated IP64, CE, RoHS, and Ulus Listed ClassP, Class2.
For more information, visit http://www.fulham.com.
Fulham Co., Inc. is a leading global provider of intelligent, socially-conscious sustainable commercial lighting components and electronics for use in commercial general lighting, parking structure, signage, horticultural, UV and other applications. The company develops and manufactures a variety of award-winning LED and emergency products, as well as legacy products across multiple lighting platforms. Fulham sells its lighting solutions worldwide through original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and electrical equipment distribution channels. Headquartered in Hawthorne, Calif., the company has sales and/or manufacturing facilities in the Netherlands, China, India and the UAE. For more information, visit http://www.fulham.com.
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Interview Test
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When I worked for SIAC, the IT subsidiary of NYSE/AMEX, we used to keep an MVT Abend Dump around to use when interviewing prospective programmers and Systems Programmers.
We’d hand the dump to prospects and wait for their reaction. The guys who said, “The program bombed”, without looking deeper were immediately crossed off our list. We finally interviewed a guy who spent 10 minutes examining the code and scratching his head before admitting, “I can’t figure it out. It’s impossible. That failure couldn’t have been caused by that instruction”.
He was right. The Abend Condition Code indicated a particular type of failure at a particular memory address. The problem was that the instruction at that address could not possibly have caused that particular type of error. Looking at the dump would not reveal the cause of the failure. It took my boss and me (each with 20+ years of in-depth experience in the OS) two weeks to figure out what had gone wrong.
Turned out we had encountered an I/O error on SYS1.SVCLIB, which contains transient modules, non-resident parts of the OS. Among other actions, when an error occurs, a message is sent to the operator. The code to send that message resides partly in SYS1.SVCLIB. The address in question was the SVC Transient Area, part of memory dedicated to modules fetched for SYS1.SVCLIB. The content at the time of the dump was leftover code from some previous Transient Load and did not reflect the instruction that had really triggered the Abend. To figure it out, we had to set the Wait Bit in the Program Check PSW and come to a hard stop when the condition occurred. We then took a Stand Alone Dump and figured out the problem.
The OS dump had served its purpose – separating the sheep from the goats. 😀
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State Department Propaganda on US/Russia Relations
Intense Corporate Lobbying Against Medicare for All
Published by Stephen Lendman at July 1, 2019
Longstanding US policy calls for marginalizing, weakening, isolating, and containing Russia, wanting pro-Western puppet rule replacing its sovereign independence.
It’s been this way since its 1917 revolution, creating a new Soviet state. Months before WW I ended in 1918, US and UK forces invaded Russia, intervening against Bolshevism, staying until early spring 1920.
So-called “preventive war” failed to defeat the Bolshevik revolution. The infamous 1917 Espionage Act and 1918 anti-anarchist Sedition Act were enacted after its establishment — targeting “alien radicals” for deportation.
For over a century, the US has been hostile toward Russia, except for interregnum periods, notably an alliance of convenience against Nazi Germany to defeat its scourge in WW II.
The FBI’s infamous COINTELPRO (counterintelligence) program targeted political dissidents, alleged communists, anti-war, and other activists for peace, equity and justice.
US/Russia relations today are more dismal than at any previous time since the height of Cold War anti-Soviet hysteria — risking confrontation between the world’s dominant nuclear powers.
Bipartisan hardliners in Washington consider Russia and China the main US adversaries. No partnership exists between America and these countries. Claims otherwise by Russian officials ignore reality.
In a rare moment of candor about the US, Sergey Lavrov earlier admitted it aims “to turn Russia into a country under its control,” adding:
“Such attempts are doomed to failure. Isolating Russia, making it sacrifice its principles, and solving their problems at our expense are not going to work.”
It’s foolhardy for Russia to believe dismal relations with the US “will fade away,” as Sergey Lavrov also said.
On geopolitical issues, Trump is captive to dark forces controlling his relations with other countries, all sovereign independent ones not controlled by the US targeted for regime change — notably Russia and China.
They’re the only nations standing in the way of Washington’s aim for unchallenged global dominance — why the ominous threat of nuclear war hangs like a sword of Damocles over humanity.
According to the State Department in late June, US/Russia diplomatic relations have existed since the early 19th century, “interrupted following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution,” but not severed.
The State Department ignored Woodrow Wilson’s deployment of US marines to Russia, waging war on the country.
In his book titled “America’s Secret War Against Bolshevism: US Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920,” David Fogelsong said Wilson was “(p)ublicly committed to supporting democratic aspirations and self-determination of all people (sic)” (provided it’s) “in harmony with (so-called) American ideals and moral values (sic)” — an agenda similar to US aims today.
Wilson falsely claimed sending marines to Russia was what its people wanted because “the Russian people have no government,” he claimed.
He lied saying his action “did not constitute intervention. He was merely restoring order,” said Fogelson.
Like most of his predecessors and successors, Wilson was a tool of powerful monied interests.
After Congress passed the notorious Federal Reserve Act on December 23, 1913, in the middle of the night with many of its members back home on Christmas break, Wilson signed it into law, giving Wall Street control over the nation’s money, defrauding the public, later admitting “I have unwittingly ruined my country.”
For a former law professor, there was nothing “unwitting” about it, nor signing into law the 1913 Revenue Act weeks earlier — establishing a federal income tax to have Americans pay bankers interest on the nation’s money.
For the first time in November 1933, Franklin Roosevelt formally recognized Soviet Russia. So was the Russian Federation following the USSR’s dissolution in December 1991.
The State Department turned truth on its head, claiming the US “has long sought a full and constructive relationship with Russia.”
Polar opposite is true, especially today. Irreconcilable differences define bilateral relations.
Ignoring the Obama regime’s 2014 coup in Ukraine, replacing democratic governance with US-controlled, Nazi-infested, fascist tyranny, the State Department lied, claiming Russia “violat(ed) Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
The US did all the violating by toppling its legitimate government, not Russia.
No “Russian aggression in Georgia (2008) and Ukraine” occurred. Nor has Moscow “undermine(d) norms within the existing international system beyond traditional military campaigns to encompass a suite of ‘hybrid’ tools that are used to gain influence (sic),” adding:
“Russia’s campaign aims to undermine core institutions of the West, such as NATO and the EU, and to weaken faith in the democratic and free-market system (sic).”
“The United States has sought to deter further Russian aggression (sic) through the projection of strength and unity with UW allies, and by building resilience and reducing vulnerability among allies facing Russian pressure and coercion (sic).”
All of the above accusations against Russia are bald-faced Big Lies — applying to how the US, NATO, Israel, and their imperial partners operate, not Moscow, the leading world peace and stability champion among major world powers.
US sanctions and other hostile actions against Russia and other nations are flagrantly illegal.
Defeating communism was a key US goal before Soviet Russia’s dissolution. Containing Moscow remains official bipartisan policy.
Cold War 2.0 rages, Putin considered US public enemy number one. He’s wrongfully vilified more intensively than Soviet era leaders — by the vast majority of officials in Washington, along with supportive establishment media.
The geopolitical agendas of both countries are polar opposite. Russia’s support for peace and respect for the national sovereignty of all nations are at odds with US imperial policies.
It’s why global war remains an ominous possibility. Humanity’s fate hangs in the balance if dark forces in Washington go this far.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 | Last updated about 1 hour ago
Uckfield’s hidden history unveiled
Uckfield’s history may not immediately be evident but the town was granted a market charter in the 1200s and large elements of the medieval community, while hidden, are still contained in the High Street.
So says Mick Harter, president of the Uckfield and District Preservation Society who in this feature takes to task Uckfield News independent columnist Observer who expressed the opinion on Saturday that Uckfield ‘being a relatively modern town, doesn’t have a huge amount of history’.
A picture of the old Post Office, the building Carvills now occupies. More of interest is Olives, unfortunately since a fire in 2012 only a shadow remains of what was a pre-1400 complex.
Mick writes:
“Oh dear, Observer, you really have gone out on a limb in expressing an opinion that Uckfield ‘being relatively modern town, doesn’t have a huge amount of history’
“Now I’m not sure how you are defining ‘modern’ or ‘not a huge amount of history’ so that may be the problem. Certainly Uckfield isn’t mentioned in the Doomsday Book although it was granted a market charter in the 1200s so perhaps it is modern?
Image of the old Holy Cross Church, Uckfield.
“And Pilgrims did come through here on their pilgrimages to Canterbury, progressing up Pudding Cake Lane (according to legend) past the Holy Cross church that was indeed modernised in the 1840s but whose church registers go back to 1538.
The old Uckfield parish workhouse in Belmont Lane. The building on the right in the picture has gone but the main medieval property still remains as a private house.
“The fact that Uckfield was important enough to have a church when the population of the whole of England and Wales in the 1530s was around three million, is quite a statement.
Fullers Bakehouse, a medieval property and, until recently an opticians. It is next to Church House in Church Street.
“Although not immediately evident, buildings along both Church Street and the top end of the High Street still do contain large elements of that medieval community albeit hidden by later modernisations.
Upper High Street, Uckfield. All the properties on the left (East are medieval with Georgian or later facades to make them look ‘modern’. The small shop properties directly opposite are much later however those from what is not the Dawson Hart office all have substantial medieval content. (The Dawson Hart building is the site of the original Maiden Head and the name only moved to its present site when a new building was constructedin front of the Old Red Lyonne pub to support the coaching business arrising from the turnpike roads of the 1700s. The old pub is still there as a store room at the back of the existing building, in the car park.
“Yes, it is true that the population of the town probably remained fairly constant all the way up to the 1800s. As the 1811 census shows, the population was by then 916.
“The coming of the Railway in 1858 marked the great change for the town with shops spilling down the High Street, engulfing the few large properties that stood in their way whilst residential units sprang up to line London Road and New Town with grand properties that are still there today.
View of London Road showing the elegant houses as they were first built.
“So Yes, Observer, much of our visible built history is from the last 150 years but it certainly isn’t to be dismissed as it does present a picture of the past with tangible supporting ephemera of the people who lived and worked in the town.
Hooke Hall, a listed building.
“And it’s great that others are now starting to value our past. The Uckfield and District Preservation Society has been doing just that since 1968 when saving old things certainly wasn’t fashionable.”Without the thousands of volunteer hours their various members have given in the past we wouldn’t have Bridge Cottage, a building for 1436; a Conservation area from Hooke Hall to Grange Road, Nutley Windmill or the numerous publications recording the history of the town and local area.
Old Red Tiles is sited around a medieval building with a (southern) Georgian addition.
“Even now we have presented a paper to Uckfield Town Council’s Environment and Leisure Committee meeting on November 9, proposing a plan for the relocation of the Cardale memorial back into the High Street. A piece of Uckfield history brought back into the heart of the community!
Uckfield Railway Station in its prime.
“One of the great benefits of the Bridge Cottage restoration Project is that there will be, what we call a Heritage Hub; a place where all the papers, ephemera and stuff we have accumulated on local people, events and places will be available, under controlled conditions for the community to find out more about itself.
An artist’s impression of how a restored and opened up first floor space will look in Bridge Cottage.
“One of our early aims is to mount an exhibition about the hundreds of Uckfield men who went off to World War 1, to pull together all the information we already have about these individuals and their families.
“Not just a roll call of names but a window onto their world during those brutal days of the early 20th century. Hopefully Private Corden will feature in that event along with his compatriots.”
Tiles go on to Bridge Cottage yesterday as restoration work continues.
• Thanks to Mick Harker for sending us this information and the pictures from the past.
• More about Uckfield’s history on UckfieldNews.com
Uckfield … a modern town
A look at Uckfield’s railway history
• There’s also an assessment of Uckfield’s history in a report produced as part of The Sussex Extensive Urban Survey undertaken between 2004 and 2009 by an independent consultant.
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Remembrance during two minutes’ silence at Eugene Seghers Memorial, Uckfield
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Friday, July 12, 2019Residents warned about new scams
Trading Standards officers are stepping up the fight against fraudsters after uncovering new scams across East Sussex.
Monday, June 17, 2019Awards evening will Celebrate Youth in Uckfield
Young volunteers are being celebrated at an awards evening in Uckfield next month and there is still time to nominate the winners.
Friday, June 14, 2019Three job vacancies at Uckfield College
Uckfield College is recruiting with three jobs available. They are PE Assistant, Attendance Officer, and Administrative Assistant.
Monday, June 3, 2019Uckfield hospital celebrates 25th anniversary
Uckfield Community Hospital celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and a special garden has been planted to mark the milestone.
Friday, April 19, 2019The Works signage goes up on former Shoe Zone premises
Signage is now in place confirming that The Works which sells gifts, arts, crafts, books, and stationery, is moving into the former Shoe Zone premises in Uckfield High Street.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019Shoe Zone closes its Uckfield store
Shoe Zone has closed its Uckfield store and a new company is currently re-fitting the premises.
Friday, April 5, 2019Easter bonnets on parade at Manor Primary School
Children let their imaginations run wild when creating Easter bonnets for a parade at Manor Primary School, in Uckfield, yesterday.
Thursday, April 4, 2019Uckfield College students receive Prince William Award
Uckfield College students were among the first in East Sussex to receive the Prince William Award yesterday.
Thursday, March 28, 2019Show flat opens at Grants Hill Court
A show flat is now open at Grants Hill Court, a new retirement development built by Wealden Council in Uckfield.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019Plans for new homes in Snatts Road, Uckfield
Plans for two semi-detached and two detached homes in a phased development on land near Charlwood Manor in Snatts Road, Uckfield, have been submitted to Wealden Council.
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Information published on 15 May 2018 in the UIC electronic newsletter "UIC eNews" Nr 599.
CRITIS 2018 Submissions Extended Deadline: 22 May 2018
Following the successful organisation of CRITIS 2016 at UIC HQ, and the support given to CRITIS 2017 (Lucca, Italy), UIC ensures continuity with the previous editions by supporting the scientific programme of CRITIS 2018.
This year, the International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security, will be held in Kaunas, Lithuania from 24 – 26 September 2018.
The paper submission deadline for the International Conference on Critical (Information) Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2018) has been postponed to 22 May. Please note that the new date is strict and there will be no further extensions.
Papers can be submitted via EasyChair; (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=critis2018) for poster contributions, submission can be limited to an extended abstract. All accepted contributions will be included in full length in the pre-proceedings that will appear at the time of the conference; accepted papers are planned to be published in the LNCS Springer-Verlag series.
Special attention will be devoted to young talents. To this purpose, a prize (YCA: Young CRITIS Award) will be awarded to the best contribution presented by a young author.
As in previous years, keynotes and invited speakers within a special session “Energy infrastructure operators and stakeholders: key challenges and solution directions” will complement the programme.
For further information on CRITIS 2018, please visit the website www.lei.lt/critis2018, look for #CRITIS2018 on social media.
At UIC, please contact Grigore Havarneanu: havarneanu@uic.org
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09:20 Volution Daily Update: Volution Group Plc is listed in the Construction & Materials sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker FAN. The last closing price for Volution was 173p.
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06:38 mlayton: Is anyone able to clarify the total debt/borrowings for FAN from their 31 jan 2017 interim results? The net debt is listed as £40.6 million but the total liabilities is £111.2 million in the balance sheet further down in report. So minus cash and cash equivalents of £13.7 million puts net debt at £97.5 million? Am I right here? https://uk.advfn.com/stock-market/london/volution-FAN/share-news/Volution-Group-plc-Interim-Results-for-6-months-en/74129699
13:54 protean: It's already been trading as PVT Moorsie2 since the end of last week: http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=nmona&article=47884091 t1ps gave a positive update at the weekend and said they "reckon the share price is set to at least double from here".
20:03 hh9: The Smiths are gone - Praise be the lord Now perhaps the business can be run properly instead of their personal expense account. This will save the business over £1m a year on its own, let alone all the grief caused and the poor regard for them and thus the business in the City. I knew they'd get rid of it for a £1 in the end. No chance of getting ANY deferred, not with Smith acounting. Either way good ridance Now watch the business grow and the share price grow Perhaps there is a god!!
18:38 protean: Nigel Wray buying such a significant stake is definitely worth paying attention to. His shrewd decisions over time have got him into the rich list and obviously he thinks there is significant upside in the FAN share price.
12:25 edcrane: Yesterday's Daily Mail market report contained the following which will hopefully helpthe share price again on Monday morning Speculation that entrepreneur Nigel Wray took a wad of stock in a £2m placing at 20p a share helped media company First Artist Corporation advance 2.75p to 28.75p.
17:35 tsmith2: First Artist: Initiation of coverage. Buy at 26.75p with a target price of 65p Key Data EPIC FAN Share Price 26.75p Spread 26p - 27.5p Total no of Shares 49.86 million NMS 3,000 Market Cap £13.3 million 12 Month Range 7p - 30.5p Market AIM Website www.firstartist.com Sector Media Contact Jeremy Barbera, Executive Chairman, +1-212-520-4140 First Artist Group, the media, events and entertainment management group has today completed the latest step in its financial, organisational and strategic transformation. A £2 million fund raise at 20p and the recent sale of its loss making Events business reduces the company's debt balance, net of deferred consideration, towards its previously announced target of £14.5 million, and more significantly in terms of the profit and loss account leaves the company one step away from obtaining a far better rate of interest from its bankers. The company is in advanced negotiations to raise a further £2 million from theatres industry contacts in the near future. We expect this second round funding to be completed at a higher price than the first and within weeks. On completion of this additional capital raising, we estimate that the cost of the most expensive portion of First Artist's debt will reduce from 10% over base to 3% over base. These steps will save First Artist significant sum on its annual interest charges while the disposal enhances core profitability still further. Balance sheet enhancement This is the second much needed cash injection the company has received during the last 3 months. On the 8th December 2010 it emerged that the identity of a previously announced potential purchaser for First Artist, was Pivot Entertainment, a New York based entertainment marketing company. Whilst no offer transpired, Pivot did invest £1.1 million at a share price of 11p. Simultaneously First Artist entered into an agreement with Pivot to provide the Company with an unsecured loan facility of £1.4m The Loan is for a maximum term of 5 years. The Loan attracts interest at 8 per cent per annum. Enhanced management team Pivot's principals have significant experience working in the performing and visual artists industry. The partnership with Pivot has enabled First Artist to recruit some heavyweight names from the Media industry to the Board. On 16th December 2010 it was announced that David Stoller and Jeremy Barbera had been appointed as Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer respectively. The Stoller family has had a significant involvement in the arts as investors, performers, organizers and promoters for over 30 years. Mr. Stoller has been Chairman and CEO of Transload America Inc. since 2003. David Stoller has considerable experience in project finance and private equity. In 1993, Mr. Stoller, through the Charterhouse Environmental Capital Group, launched American Disposal Services, an integrated waste management company that ultimately acquired and consolidated, with $34 million in equity capital, more than 80 waste management companies. American Disposal had a successful IPO in July 1996 and was sold in 1998 to Allied Waste at a price exceeding $1.1 billion. Mr. Barbera has been Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive of MSGI and its predecessor businesses since he founded MSGI Direct as an Entertainment Marketing company in 1987. Mr. Barbera pioneered the practice of database marketing for the live entertainment industry in the 1980's, achieving nearly one hundred percent market share in New York. Under his leadership, MSGI, through their Pegasus Internet subsidiary, originated the business of web-based ticketing in 1995 and became the dominant services provider in every major entertainment market in America. Their principal areas of concentration also included: financial services, fundraising and publishing. New focus on core business activities and cost reduction First Artist's poor financial record over recent years can be attributed to underperforming legacy operations and its debt burden as well as a bloated central overhead. The new Board members plan to implement an immediate and significant cost reduction programme. The disposal of the Events business Finishing Touch (to ExEvents a firm owned by RSH the ultimate owner of GE&CR) for £100,001 plus an earnout of 50% of the profits attributable to existing FT customers over the next three years, removes from the group a unit that contributed a loss of £200,000 in the year to November 30th 2010. We believe that synergies with ExEvents will allow for the earnout arrangement to be profitable for both parties. We expect the last legacy business (a football player representation agency) to be sold imminently. Core Businesses The core business that remain are within First Artists's Media division which generated sales of £35 million in the 6 months ending May 2010. Dewynters is a leading UK based arts and entertainment agency. The company provides marketing and promotion services to the arts sector, focussing largely on theatrical productions. Dewynters has defined entertainment and theatre industry marketing in the UK and the US with iconic advertising and merchandising campaigns for productions ranging from Cats, The Phantom of the Opera and The Sound of Music to Les Miserables and The Royal Opera House. The agency's client list extends into the leisure and tourism sectors, with an offer that includes design, merchandise and digital marketing as well as full-service advertising. Newman Displays, a subsidiary of Dewynters is the UK's leading front of house and fascia display company. As well as producing the displays for all major theatre productions including Spamalot and Mamma Mia!, Newman also works with all the leading West-End cinemas. Spotco based in New York is another entertainment advertising agency. In June 2010, SpotCo's clients took home 19 of the 26 Tony Awards, including the four "BEST SHOW" categories. Forecasts and valuation We believe that the invigorated management team will be able to drive revenues forward by at least 10% during 2011 to £80.3 million. This coupled with the cut in overheads would translate into a 6 fold increase in EBITDA to £3.2 million. With a reduced interest charge this should result in a £3.8 million swing into pre-tax profit from continuing operations of £1.7 million. First Artist has strong brands within this niche market and as of today a much less onerous debt burden. The new Board additions have a wealth of experience with which to drive the business forward. In 2012, the first full year of operations following this restructuring, we believe that EBITDA of £4.7 million is an achievable target. The company has much to prove to investors and we are valuing the shares just shy of a 10x 2012 EV/EBITDA ratio on a restructured annualised basis, generating a target price of 65p. However if, as we expect, the new management team shows clear delivery on our forecasts we believe that a higher multiple would be warranted. We initiate our coverage at 26.75p with a stance of Buy.
09:17 argy2: Moorsie2 Following may explain much of that. Note the last sentence. T1ps fund latest update bodes well for the share price: Our investment approach at times requires a lot of patience but in the cases of Avanti, Medusa, Domino's and a good chunk of our Fund this patience pays off sooner rather than later. But in the case of AIM listed First Artist Corporation the patience instilled in the eventual realisation of value has taken longer to begin to pay off. We remain confident with our investment analysis from Day 1 and regardless of whether re-ratings are rapid or take time we are confident in the end result. First Artist illustrates this perfectly. The company announced on 10 August 2010 that it was in talks which a third party which may or may not lead to an offer being made for the company. We valued the underlying business of the company so were not totally surprised that this had occurred, especially in regards to the Theatre business. Four months later and it was announced on 8 December 2010 that Pivot Entertainment, a New York based entertainment and market ing business, backed by the wealthy Stoller family, had initiated the first stage of a long term investment program via an investment of $4 million. The investment was composed of an issue of equity and a long term loan agreement, and is aimed at developing the core business whilst reducing the level of debt that the company is exposed to. Together, Pivot Entertainment and the Stoller family will hold 29.86% of the company, we now hold well over 5%. We have bought aggressively since the news and are in regular dialogue with the new managers - we have been for a while. We are confident in the Stoller's business acumen in the entertainment industry and with David Stoller taking over as Executive Chairman on 13 December 2010 this materially highlights that they will be having a real hands on approach in the direction of First Artist from here onwards. This is something that has made us feel confident in the continued future potential of the business. With the shares currently trading at 16p First Artist is capitalised at £6.3 million, implying an Enterprise Value of circa £22.8 million. We reckon that the entertainment business, when run well, can generate £5 million plus EBITDA. The current valuation is undemanding and implies that the Events and Sports business are thrown in for nothing. We have been buying aggressively here recently as see some very solid untapped potential beginning to emerge and we think 60p is about the right share price.
22:06 argy2: T1ps fund latest update bodes well for the share price: Our investment approach at times requires a lot of patience but in the cases of Avanti, Medusa, Domino's and a good chunk of our Fund this patience pays off sooner rather than later. But in the case of AIM listed First Artist Corporation the patience instilled in the eventual realisation of value has taken longer to begin to pay off. We remain confident with our investment analysis from Day 1 and regardless of whether re-ratings are rapid or take time we are confident in the end result. First Artist illustrates this perfectly. The company announced on 10 August 2010 that it was in talks which a third party which may or may not lead to an offer being made for the company. We valued the underlying business of the company so were not totally surprised that this had occurred, especially in regards to the Theatre business. Four months later and it was announced on 8 December 2010 that Pivot Entertainment, a New York based entertainment and market ing business, backed by the wealthy Stoller family, had initiated the first stage of a long term investment program via an investment of $4 million. The investment was composed of an issue of equity and a long term loan agreement, and is aimed at developing the core business whilst reducing the level of debt that the company is exposed to. Together, Pivot Entertainment and the Stoller family will hold 29.86% of the company, we now hold well over 5%. We have bought aggressively since the news and are in regular dialogue with the new managers - we have been for a while. We are confident in the Stoller's business acumen in the entertainment industry and with David Stoller taking over as Executive Chairman on 13 December 2010 this materially highlights that they will be having a real hands on approach in the direction of First Artist from here onwards. This is something that has made us feel confident in the continued future potential of the business. With the shares currently trading at 16p First Artist is capitalised at £6.3 million, implying an Enterprise Value of circa £22.8 million. We reckon that the entertainment business, when run well, can generate £5 million plus EBITDA. The current valuation is undemanding and implies that the Events and Sports business are thrown in for nothing. We have been buying aggressively here recently as see some very solid untapped potential beginning to emerge and we think 60p is about the right share price.
19:01 markt: a tara7 tip in Jan 2010 at 15p ....and in Dec share price at around 5p before the latest sudden jump....new investor at 11p... not exactly a good investment.... cap. value around 4-5M. ==== is tara7 method to find a small cap. between 0 and 5M....buy some shares...and then ramp it hard and long !
16:46 tsmith2: ARGY2 Note TALKS WITH rather than in talk with with a Statement re: Share Price Movement The Directors of First Artist note the recent share price movement and the Company's Board confirms that it is in talks which may or may not lead to an offer being made for the Company. The Board emphasizes that discussions are at an early stage and that there can be no assurance that an offer will be forthcoming.
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FDA adding hearing loss risk for impotence drugs
Two boxes with the new anti-impotence drug Cialis (tadafil) are pictured in a Munich pharmacy February 4, 2003. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Thursday said warnings about the risk of sudden hearing loss linked to popular drugs for impotence, including Viagra, Cialis and Levitra, would be added to the drugs’ labels.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was prompted to look into a possible connection after a published report of a man taking Viagra, made by Pfizer Inc, who suffered from sudden hearing loss, a rare condition.
Eli Lilly sells Cialis and GlaxoSmithKline Plc sells Levitra.
A further review of the FDA’s side effect data found 29 cases of sudden hearing loss with a relationship to the three drugs. In two thirds of the cases, the hearing loss was ongoing, the agency said.
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June 25, 2019 / 3:25 PM / 22 days ago
UPDATE 1-Trump threatens attacks on Iran in retaliation for strikes
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WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to attack Iran in retaliation for any strikes by Tehran “on anything American,” after Iran said new U.S. sanctions precluded any diplomacy and called the White House actions “mentally retarded.”
“Iran’s very ignorant and insulting statement, put out today, only shows that they do not understand reality. Any attack by Iran on anything American will be met with great and overwhelming force. In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration,” Trump said in a Twitter post.
The United States imposed sanctions on senior Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Monday. U.S. sanctions on Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif are expected later this week.
Tensions between the two long-time foes have escalated over the last month, when Washington blamed Tehran for attacks on two oil tankers and Iran downed a U.S. surveillance drone. Tehran has denied responsibility for the tanker attacks and has said the U.S. drone was flying in Iranian airspace.
Trump said he called off a strike on Iran last week in retaliation for the drone incident, after he decided at the last minute it would kill too many people. (Reporting by Makini Brice and Tim Ahmann; Editing by Alistair Bell)
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Joburg's Premier Vinyl Fair kicks off in 2018 at 44 Stanley
By Press Release / News / Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:26
Joburg`s premier monthly Vinyl Fair returns to The Beer Yard at 44 Stanley Avenue in trendy Auckland Park on Sunday 4th February 2018. The Fair, which takes place on the first Sunday of every month, brings together 12 of Joburg`s top record dealers offering the best in new and pre-owned rock, soul, pop, jazz, folk, blues and world records including many rare and collectable discs plus a range of top quality audio accessories. Join the vinyl revolution on Sunday 4th February at The Beer Yard at 44 Stanley, Auckland Park from 10 am for a day of music, beer, food, and more music. For those of you who aren’t vinyl junkies (yet), there will be a craft Gin and Tonic Bar as well as a delicious array of food and craft beer from Stanley Beer Yard.
Doors open at 10 am until 3 pm.
Free 2 hour secure parking is available across the road, look for the sign.
Everywhere you look there is a vinyl revolution; you can see records and turntables in recent films, in cutting-edge commercial ads and in funky lifestyle and fashion magazines; the majority of the current pop superstars as well as leading indie music artists, release their music on both vinyl and digital platforms. Far from it being the domain of an older audience demographic, more and more young people, born after the reported demise of vinyl in the mid-`90s, are gravitating to listening to and buying music on vinyl. According to Forbes Magazine, whilst CD sales continue to dip year after year, vinyl continues to be the music industry’s surprise success story. 2017 marked the twelfth consecutive year that vinyl sales have grown considerably, and the medium`s forward surge doesn’t look like slowing down in 2018 or anytime soon. Underscoring this fact is Sony Music`s recent announcement that they are building a new, state-of-the-art vinyl record pressing plant in Japan to cater for an insatiable demand for the sexy and nostalgic round black disc! Last year the South African music industry saw sales of new 180 gram pressings hit the R5 million mark. Add to that the massive sales in pre-owned records by multiple dealers and it`s clear that the vinyl record explosion is no passing fad.
Attending Dealers
Compact Discovery Revinylized (Wayne Hampton) | Croak Audio Exploration (Guillaume Lemaire) | Greg Wareham (Black Wax)
Groovy Records (Martin Green & Pieter Rossouw) | Record Mad (Michael Gundelfinger) | Red Dot Records (Bernd Ader)
Sound Experience (Andy Smith) | Troggyldite Records (Reg Markham) | Clover Records (T.J Du Plessis)
Vinyl Junkie (Benjy Mudie) | Woodstock Records (Vince)
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David Bowie – Can You Hear Me (Gouster Version) // Song Review
Posted on October 30, 2016 by Unearthing Music - Fabian Desmicht
I always had a soft spot for ‘Young Americans’, Bowie’s 1975 blue-eyed soul album. An early version of that album – called ‘The Gouster’ – is now included in box set ‘Who Can I Be Now? [1974-1976]’. While most of the tracks already appeared elsewhere, I had never heard the slightly rougher take on Can You Hear Me before. So there I sat, during my early train ride to work. With eyes all watery from the sensitive phrasing of the very first line: “Once we were lovers.”
Overall, the delicacies of Bowie’s vocal performance seem to be invented on the spot. Especially when compared to the delivery he later greenlighted for ‘Young Americans’. There’s a bit of hiss in the background. And even on Bowie’s voice, hoarse from cocaine addiction. Moreover, the a capella ending, strings and timpani of the final version are missing, … And yet, it all adds to the emotional radiance of the song.
“Life has surface noise”
The triumph of this rendition is that it’s NOT crystal-clear. There is some surface noise. Which makes me think of that great quote by the legendary John Peel: “Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don’t have any surface noise. I said, ‘Listen, mate, life has surface noise.'”
From Carlos to Cass
On a side note, Carlos Alomar’s classy guitar fill right after the line “closer than others, I was your…” was already in place. Now, I don’t know whether that melodic trick was a trope he found in the records that influenced him. But the fact is that it lives on. The other day, I discovered a similar figure in the chorus of Opposite House, a mellotron-heavy song on the excellent ‘Mangy Love’ (2016) by Cass McCombs. Check it out!
How Can You Hear Me was born
Further reading: this wonderful account on the genesis of Can You Hear Me, originally titled Take It In Right.
And just before you go, enjoy the ‘Young Americans’ version of Can You Hear Me:
Snarky Puppy – Jambone // Song review
Song: Jambone
Album: ‘We Like It Here’ (2014)
Why: Jambone is graced with one the most exciting guitar solos in recent years.
It all begins with an infectious afrobeat rhythm, paired with bright horns. But what’s most amazing, brilliant in fact, is Mark Lettieri’s guitar solo. It starts at 2:22 with quick successions of slightly dampened notes. As the drums gain momentum, so does Lettieri’s Strat. He launches a series of highly melodious, edgy phrases. Every single one a direct hit.
At 3:26, after exploring some rocky territory, comes the real apotheosis: an exciting composition-within-the-composition which you wish would last forever. The band at its tightest transports Lettieri through 4 bar runs filled with jawdropping licks. Look out for that massive whammy bar divebomb!
It’s a magical few minutes, topped off by a seamless salute to Jimi Hendrix, quoting directly from his Third Stone from the Sun*.
Earlier this year, Lettieri released his third solo album ‘Spark and Echo’. Watch his spectacular take on Tears for Fears’ Everybody Wants to Rule the World:
*Thanks Mark, for clarifying that on Twitter!
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In Case You Missed It: 3 Must-Read UN Stories
Blog Girls and Women In Case You Missed It: 3 Must-Read UN Stories
By Jenni Lee on October 10, 2014
As the week winds down, in case you missed them, we are sharing three important stories from the United Nations this week:
1. UN Calls for Greater Global Response to Ebola
As the UN continues to ramp up its response to the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa through its “UN Mission for Emergency Ebola Response,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the global community to do more. At a special meeting on Ebola at the World Bank, the Secretary-General said: “The West Africans are scared. They need our urgent help. The world fears Ebola too…The best antidote to fear is an effective and urgent response.”
He outlined five priorities: stopping the outbreak; treating infected people; providing essential services; preserving stability; and preventing outbreaks in non-affected countries. To support the UN’s response to Ebola visit unfoundation.org/ebolafund.
2. UN Works to Stop Violence Against Girls
As part of International Day of the Girl on October 11, UNICEF, UN Women, and other UN agencies and partners are calling for an end to violence against girls. International Day of the Girl is a day dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of investing in and empowering girls.
To mark the day, the UN Foundation’s Girl Up campaign has launched #GIRLHERO, a photo-sharing campaign to highlight the rights and power of girls.
3. Most Transparent Aid Organization: UN Development Programme
The 2014 Aid Transparency Index named the UN Development Programme as the most transparent aid organization. The rankings are put together by the group Publish What You Fund, a group that advocates for “more and better information about aid.” According to the index, “UNDP should be congratulated for making significant improvements to the quality of its publication.”
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Evil Dead just won’t die
Evil Dead: The Musical didn’t get a glowing review from this critic but nevertheless is still going strong and has added another week to their already extended run, now ending November 21, 2009.
Evil Dead: The Musical, presented by Ground Zero Theatre, Hit & Myth Productions and Keystone now plays until November 21, 2009 at the Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville St. Tickets are available online or by phone at 604-280-4444.
Posted in Evil Dead: The Musical, Ground Zero, Theatre News, Vancouver
Tagged Evil Dead, Evil Dead: The Musical, Ground Zero Theatre, Hit & Myth Productions, Keystone, Vogue Theatre
Evil Dead: The Musical; Ground Zero (Review)
The Evil Dead fans came out in droves for the opening night of Evil Dead: The Musical on Thursday night. The current of excitement was tangible outside the Vogue as they lined up in the damp Vancouver air. Inside, the atmosphere was far more akin to a rock concert than to that of a typical night out at the theatre.
Musical-theatre patrons can be a devoted and passionate lot, but they generally don’t show up to see Les Misérables or A Chorus Line in stage makeup or costumes. The Evil Dead crowd was a definite exception to that rule.
The Cast of Evil Dead: The Musical playing The Vogue Theatre. Photo- Sean Dennie, Photoganda.
The musical version comes with a built-in fan base thanks to director Sam Raimi’s cult horror Evil Dead film trilogy. Movie fans were amply represented in the opening night’s audience as evidenced by their enthusiastic appreciation of inside jokes referencing Raimi and his films.
For those unfamiliar with the movies, Evil Dead follows five college students spending their spring break at an old abandoned cabin in the woods. An ancient evil is released and blood, gore and mayhem ensue.
Producers, publicists and the press in other cities have repeatedly compared Evil Dead: The Musical to that other camp classic, The Rocky Horror Show. Sadly, Evil Dead doesn’t quite live up to the billing.
Sure, there are some passing similarities to Rocky Horror, but there really should be no comparison. The songs and lyrics plumb the depths of awfulness. Not in the way of being so bad that they’re actually good. These are just bad, in the truly worst sense of the word. And it’s a shame. The slasher and horror genre are ripe for musical parody, but the book and the music here just aren’t up to snuff.
The sound quality was noticeably spotty and I struggled to catch many lines as mics dropped in and out with little regard to who was actually supposed to be speaking or singing. Conversely, lead actor Tyler Rive was over-amplified throughout the show.
With that said, based on the audience’s reaction, the quality (or lack thereof) of the music, lyrics, or plot was inconsequential. They roared and cheered with delight each time that a familiar line from the film was recited, or a body was dismembered, or when a demonically-animated corpse made sexually suggestive pelvic thrusts. I have to assume that only part of that enthusiasm was due to alcohol or other intoxicants.
Much of the excitement revolved around the gratuitous use of blood and gore. Patrons pay a premium to sit in the first five rows of the theatre, which are termed the “Splatter Zone.” At intermission ushers handed out plastic ponchos to protect against the second act onslaught of stage blood which rained from all directions onto the audience members in the “Splatter Zone.”
High art it definitely ain’t. Evil Dead may not be everyone’s particular cup of blood, but for the sheer spectacle and concert-style atmosphere it’s worth checking out. Excitement about the theatre is always a good thing in my book, even if the material doesn’t deserve it.
Evil Dead: The Musical, presented by Ground Zero Theatre, Hit & Myth Productions and Keystone plays an extended run until November 14, 2009 at the Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville St. Tickets are available online or by phone at 604-280-4444.
Posted in Evil Dead: The Musical, Ground Zero, Musical Theatre, Reviews, Touring Shows, Vancouver
Tagged Evil Dead, Evil Dead: The Musical, Ground Zero Theatre, Hit & Myth Productions, Keystone, Sam Raimi, Splatter Zone, The Rocky Horror Show, Tyler Rive, Vogue Theatre
The Evil Dead Dilemma
Vancouver will soon be host to not one, but two versions of Evil Dead at the end of October. One company was granted the professional rights, the other the amateur rights.
I’ve been scouring the web, trying to see if there is a term for when there are two productions of the same show playing in the same city. So far, I’ve got nothing. Perhaps somebody out there can help me out?
In a relatively smaller market like Vancouver, it must be a challenge enough to compete for ticket-buying audiences when two versions of the same play or musical are staged in the same year or season. That being said, it seems to happen with a fair bit of regularity. Thoroughly Modern Millie played at TUTS this summer and will play again this fall at Gateway. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is being done by Footlight this November, then again by Royal City Musical Theatre in the spring and then for a third time by TUTS next summer. Maybe they all know something that I don’t.
The dual Evil Dead productions are in a particularly precarious position, as one is opening just a little bit more than a week before the other and there is considerable overlap between their production dates.
I’ve heard buzz around both productions and murmurs over which show will be better or which one should local audiences support. For my part, I’m exercising some journalistic impartiality, giving equal coverage to both shows on this site. I’m also urging local musical aficionados to see both productions, if they can.
There are likely to be upsides and downsides to both (as with every show) and this site will provide reviews of both productions after their respective opening nights.
Ground Zero Theatre, Hit & Myth Productions and Keystone present the Vancouver premiere of Evil Dead: The Musical at the Vogue Theatre from October 20-31, 2009. Tickets are available online now.
Down Stage Right Productions also presents Evil Dead: The Musical at the Norman Rothstein Theatre from October 29-November 7, 2009. Tickets are available online now.
Posted in Down Stage Right, Evil Dead: The Musical, Ground Zero, Musical Theatre, Upcoming Shows, Vancouver
Tagged Down Stage Right Productions, Evil Dead, Evil Dead: The Musical, Footlight, Ground Zero Theatre, Hit & Myth Productions, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Keystone, Norman Rothstein Theatre, RCMT, Royal City Musical Theatre, Thoroughly Modern Millie, TUTS, Vancouver Musicals, Vogue Theatre
Evil Dead: The Musical (Upcoming Show[s])
Evil Dead: The Musical makes its Vancouver premiere– wait a second. I’m having a major case of déjà-vu. I feel like I’ve already written this before. Oh, that’s right, I did write this . . . last week!
Just to be clear, there is now a second and entirely different production of Evil Dead: The Musical playing in Vancouver this Halloween. Is anyone else feeling a bit awkward?
Let’s try it from the top. Ground Zero Theatre, Hit & Myth Productions and Keystone present the Vancouver premiere of Evil Dead: The Musical at the Vogue Theatre from October 20-31, 2009.
Evil Dead: The Musical has drawn multiple comparisons to The Rocky Horror Show for its funny take on the low-budget Evil Dead horror trilogy. I, for one, am looking forward to seeing both productions and both casts. After multiple listens of the cast recording over the past week, I’m definitely getting into the Halloween spirit.
Evil Dead: The Musical features Kevin Corey, Lynley Hall, Bruce Horak, Daniel Mallet, Cailin Stadnyk, Jamie Tognazzini, Tyler Rive, and Guilly Urra. Many local theatre-goers will remember Ovation Award winner Stadnyk from roles in past Arts Club and TUTS’ productions.
Directed by Kevin McKendrick, choreography by Glenda Stirling, and musical direction by Brent Rock, Evil Dead: The Musical plays October 20- 31, 2009 at the Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville St. Tickets are available online now.
Posted in Evil Dead: The Musical, Ground Zero, Musical Theatre, Touring Shows, Upcoming Shows, Vancouver
Tagged Brent Rock, Bruce Horak, Cailin Stadnyk, Daniel Mallet, Evil Dead, Evil Dead: The Musical, Glenda Stirling, Ground Zero Theatre, Guilly Urra, Halloween, Hit & Myth Productions, Jamie Tognazzini, Kevin Corey, Kevin McKendrick, Keystone, Lynley Hall, The Rocky Horror Show, Tyler Rive, Vogue Theatre
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May 4, 2018 3:33PM PT
HBO Chief Richard Plepler Talks Growth Targets and Peak TV Competition at Variety Summit
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HBO chief Richard Plepler has set his sights on a big target: 50%.
Speaking at Variety‘s Ent and Tech conference in New York, Plepler said Friday his goal is to drive HBO into as many as half of U.S. pay TV households. The company at present reaches about one-third of those 100 million-plus homes.
“We think there’s a lot of growth left. We’re going to attack it,” Plepler told Variety co-editor-in-chief Andrew Wallenstein during his keynote conversation at the Mandarin Oriental hotel.
Plepler’s ambition is bolstered by the fact that HBO saw strong subscriber and revenue growth last year. Moreover, some 35% of the total growth in HBO’s 46-year history has come during the past five years. On HBO’s top performing distribution partners, the service is already near the 50% penetration mark. The advent of the standalone HBO Now streaming services and the entry of virtual MVPDs a la Hulu and YouTube have also been factors in HBO’s spurt.
When questioned about whether the onslaught from Netflix, Amazon, and other competitors with deep pockets would present speedbumps for HBO’s growth, Plepler responded that the pay TV marketplace is not a zero-sum game.
“Our job is to play our game to our fullest capacity,” Plepler said. “Our job is to make the right bets (on shows). This is not binary. It doesn’t mean there isn’t going to be a good show on Netflix or good show on Amazon. None of them has interfered with our growth. The proof is in the pudding. Despite the intensity of this competition, we grew more last year than at any time in our history.”
How does HBO compete with rivals like Netflix, Amazon, and Showtime? CEO Richard Plepler weighs in | #VarietyEntTech https://t.co/p7sI8g8IRa pic.twitter.com/EpDCmA7TTG
— Variety (@Variety) May 4, 2018
The chase for great projects and top talent is fierce, Plepler conceded, but HBO has no shortage of A-listers waiting in its lobby on any given day.
“The line at our door in May 2018 is even bigger than the line” back in 2007, Plepler said. “We have more programming coming next year than in any time in our history.”
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Plepler declined to comment on the status of the legal battle that has enveloped HBO parent company Time Warner as it tries to complete its merger with telco giant AT&T. The $85.4 billion deal sparked an anti-trust lawsuit from the Justice Department. The seven-week trial concluded this week in Washington, D.C. and a ruling is expected on June 12.
Plepler reiterated that the compelling aspect of the AT&T-Time Warner union from his perspective was the potential to reach AT&T’s 120 million customer base and glean insights into consumer behavior as it relates to watching TV via mobile platforms and AT&T’s DirecTV.
“The more information we have, the better we can serve the consumer,” Plepler said.
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Home / News / KRAFTY KUTS & DYNAMITE MC RELEASE STUDIO ALBUM ‘ALL 4 CORNERS’
KRAFTY KUTS & DYNAMITE MC RELEASE STUDIO ALBUM ‘ALL 4 CORNERS’
RJ Frometa May 22, 2017 News Leave a comment 167 Views
Breakbeat pioneer and Against The Grain label head, Krafty Kuts, has teamed up with master of ceremonies Dynamite MC on his third studio album ‘All 4 Corners’. Released via Central Station Records, the album can be streamed and downloaded below now:
STREAM/DOWNLOAD: ‘ALL 4 CORNERS’ – KRAFTY KUTS & DYNAMITE MC
Since his last LP, ‘Let’s Ride’, back in 2012, Krafty Kuts has been honing his craft with a plethora of single releases, as well as his legendary ‘Golden Era’ mixes, which have received over a million downloads since launching in 2014. Krafty now brings his sound headfirst into 2017 with this fifteen-track album, ‘All 4 Corners’.
Never one to settle on any specific genre, Krafty has incorporated elements of bass, grime, future-funk, hip-hop and everything in between. Infusing the fresh lyricism of Melbourne-based rapper Ivan Ooze, with his timeless beats on ‘Can I Get A’, Krafty shows his ability to put his own spin on any genre he touches. Effortlessly moving from breakbeat bliss in ‘Rev It Up’, to a trap infused number with ‘Firework’, and from the upbeat groove of ‘Voices’ to a bass-heavy cut with Pav (Foreign Beggars) on ‘Boom Bangin’, Krafty Kuts’ production versatility knows no bounds.
Two other album highlights come in the form of ‘It Ain’t My Fault’ – which features hip hop royalty and Jurassic 5 member, Chali 2na – and ‘Canvass’, which has legendary master of ceremonies, Rodney P, on rap duties. Another illustration of Krafty’s ability to pull in the best rappers in the game is ‘War Is Over’, which dropped at the end of last year to great fanfare. With Example, Harry Shotta, and Dynamite laying down the bars, this is undoubtedly one of the standout tracks of the album.
Boasting a resume that’s second to none, with two award-winning solo albums, countless EPs and remixes on a myriad of labels from OWSLA to Southern Fried, Krafty Kuts has established himself as one of Britain’s most coveted producers and turntablists, over his 15 year career. Having recently capped off a tour of Australia, New Zealand and Europe with Dynamite MC, and with fans in every corner of the world, Krafty is no stranger to playing far flung festivals and events. The title of this album is a nod to the Brighton-born legend’s incredible global reach.
1. Big Blau
2. Who Is The DJ
3. It Ain’t My Fault feat Chali 2Na
4. Boom Bangin feat Pavan
5. Rev It Up feat Riya
6. Voice Of Ghetto feat Wicked City
7. Canvas feat Rodney P
8. The War Is Over feat Example, Harry Shotta, Erb N Dub
9. Fireworks feat Miss Trouble
10. Rollercoaster
11. The Master
12. Al Pachino
13. Honey Bee feat Damien Soul
14. The Greatest Lines
15. Can I Get feat Ivan Ooze
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The Dictator's Playbook
Kim Il Sung
Passport Episode 1 | 54m 12s
Witness Kim Il Sung's transformation from guerrilla fighter to brutal dictator of North Korea. How did he build the most controlled society on earth and launch a dictatorship that has lasted for three generations?
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See how Idi Amin used military force to seize power and build a dictatorship in Uganda.
Learn how Francisco Franco won the Spanish Civil War and became the dictator of Spain.
Manuel Noriega
Watch Manuel Noriega rise to power in Panama, and witness his sudden downfall.
Meet the man who created fascism, an ideology that plunged most of Europe into darkness.
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Kim Il Sung created a North Korean dictatorship that has lasted for three generations.
Ep 1: Kim Il Sung | Prologue
Watch Kim Il Sung’s transformation from guerrilla fighter to dictator of North Korea.
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Listen carefully, think first, respect everyone — nonviolence for toddlers
Ken Butigan April 26, 2012
Colman McCarthy, the former Washington Post columnist who established a second career teaching nonviolence in high schools and colleges, once published this pithy gem: “I had a student at the University of Maryland who wrote a 13-word paper that has stayed with me: ‘Question: Why are we violent but not illiterate? Answer: Because we are taught to read.’”
There was a time when only the 1 percent learned to read, but in the 19th century a movement for universal literacy took hold. Though this global effort is still a work in progress (even today illiteracy is enforced culturally, religiously, politically and economically in many contexts) it has dramatically changed the world. This transformation has not been easy or magical. Like every movement, this far-reaching campaign challenged the injustice and debilitating inertia of the existing order. It resisted the systems that benefited from the literacy monopoly and slowly established the right to read as the default.
As McCarthy’s student infers, we are as much in need of nonviolence education today as we were of literacy training a century ago. To extend this analogy a bit further, systematic nonviolence literacy — teaching the principles and practices of nonviolent power — offers options beyond passivity, on the one hand, or more violence, on the other.
Most of those who have participated in the nonviolence trainings I’ve been part of over the years have been in their late teens and on up. “Training” in this context is a slight misnomer. By the time we hit our teen years we’ve already been trained deeply in the ways of violence. From then on, our violence training is often reinforced by virtually daily refresher courses, which tend to undermine our potential for nonviolent alternatives and to feed a belief that nonviolent change is impossible. Nonviolence education is thus less a form of “training” than of “re-training”: deconstructing and reframing deeply ingrained patterns, attitudes and behaviors.
Is it possible, though, to start this kind of peace education early enough to provide children with a durable foundation not in violence but in nonviolence? That is, for nonviolence to begin as the default?
This is a thorny issue for many reasons, including the tenacious nature/nurture debate, which has sparked a recent cottage industry of research on topics like empathy and forgiveness. For my purposes here, I will sidestep wading into this thicket, just as I will give no more than a passing glance to the growing proliferation of K-12 peace studies curricula and programming. Instead my attention here is drawn to what one could call “toddler” nonviolence training. Even before kindergarten — in fact, even before pre-school — there seems to be a quiet peace-building movement afoot.
How do I know? I’d like to say that I’ve done copious, systematic research in which I compiled an extensive database of cases and curricula and then devised clever instruments for evaluating them. This, though, isn’t the case. Instead, my expertise in this arena rests entirely on the fact that virtually every weekday morning I take my two-year-old daughter, Leah, to toddler classes.
Chicago, our hometown, is studded with hundreds of parks with hundred-year-old field houses that, no matter the weather, are crowded every morning with innumerable toddlers and their parents. While the sessions are called classes, “the pedagogy” steers toward creativity, self-expression, adventure and fun. There’s structure (free play, music, art project, snack), but just enough to allow great helpings of spontaneity. There’s alone-time — what seems a kind of freeing and freewheeling self-possession — and group activity.
All of this, you might say, is what one expects of two year-olds. But what has struck me, being immersed in this space over and over again for the last year-and-a-half, is the lack of chaos and conflict. Most of the children, it seems, have not been schooled in the mechanics of group conflict yet. When conflict happens (someone takes another child’s toy or one child pushes another) there’s a kind of awkwardness to the vignette, as if the script of conflict is unpracticed, tentative, uncertain.
Most of the time, though, conflict isn’t what transpires. Instead the environment is hyperactivity personified, but a hyperactivity that has an unexpected lack of anxious tension and pre-loaded expectations of conflict or violence.
If my reading of this is right, the toddler nonviolence formation program I detect here is built largely by the children themselves, with just enough guidance and cues from the teacher (Ms. Margaret, Ms. Laura, Mr. Tim or Ms. Valentina, as the case may be) to give them space to make this super-charged serenity a reality.
After being there a few months, I began to notice the posters on the walls. The one that got me thinking was named “Getting Along” with a colorful spray of sayings:
Use polite words
Respect everyone
Take turns
Do your best
From Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac to Steven Covey’s Seven Habits of Effective People (not to mention the ethical prescriptions of many of the world’s religions before and since), we have been presented with lists of suggested action for right living. This poster sports a stellar set that, I have no doubt, would have left Gandhi beaming.
At another field house there was another set of guidelines:
Follow directions
Clean up after yourself
Say please and thank you
Listen quietly to others
While there was some overlap with the first list, this set seemed a bit more focused on maintaining order (directions and cleanliness), while still highlighting interpersonal peace (sharing, listening, cordial speech, and, like the first poster, taking turns).
What moved me most, though, was the Take Ten poster, which was hung near one emblazoned with the words, “Violence Free Zone”:
Take Ten!
Talk it out!
Walk it out!
Wait it out!
…Deep Breaths (before you say something that hurts)
…Steps Back (before getting involved in a fight)
…Seconds (before using something as a weapon)
Violence has had its turn… and it isn’t working. Take Ten… it’s time!
Take Ten is an action plan for non-violence! (created by Anne Parry)
What? The field houses of Chicago are promoting an action plan for nonviolence that critiques violence — because it doesn’t work — and then gets specific about tactics? Breathe deep (center oneself), step back (create spaciousness and see the bigger picture), and count to ten (not simply to lower your blood pressure but to give you time to think before reaching for that trusty weapon). After encountering this latest specimen, I began to ask, “Who is the intended audience?” After all, even the most precocious kids here aren’t reading yet. So maybe it’s for some of the older kids who use the building at other times of the day? Maybe it’s for the parents, or even some of the employees?
In the end, I came to this: These tactics and prescriptions amount to a vision woven into this space. They comprise an intention, a blessing, a wager. To those who can read, they are meant literally. To those who cannot, they are a promise that the rest of us can deliver, so that the peaceableness that is still percolating in these two-year-olds can be nourished and deepened. Each of these spaces is a house of peace where toddlers practice peace in their inmost being, while those who have passed this stage can perhaps reconnect with this spirit and build on it in a world of violence and injustice.
So what can this say to the rest of us? Some years ago Robert Fulghum published a bestseller entitled All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, which also offers some of the wisdom I have encountered in Chicago’s field houses. What my small-sample, anecdotally-based study suggests is that this learning starts at least two years earlier.
The question is what we do with this when we enter what we claim is the real world. These are the potential building blocks for a culture where everyone matters. We are thus called to build movements that put these guidelines into practice and even try to recreate the atmosphere I have discovered in the Chicago field houses: creative, expressive, adventurous, and — dare I say it? — fun.
Nonviolence literacy may start at two years old, but it will flourish only if we read the world in a new and transformative way.
Ken Butigan is director of Pace e Bene, a nonprofit organization fostering nonviolent change through education, community and action. He also teaches peace studies at DePaul University and Loyola University in Chicago.
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Craig Simpson says:
If we taught nonviolence to younger and younger children in a caring way, there would be a major impact on society. I have been a preschool and infant/toddler teacher for over 35 years. Before that I was full time activist for War Resisters League and nonviolence organizer. When in India for War Resisters International Triennial, I met a young Gandhian activist who asked me why US activist spend so much time getting arrested and so little time developing nonviolent alternatives. Experiments in nonviolent education for preschool age children are few and far between. Gandhi and his followers set up preschools at their Ashrams and had children intergrated into the life of the community and their campaigns. Thanks for introducing this topic!
David Mitchell says:
Love it! Fred Donaldson (www.originalplay.com) has spent 37 years teaching play around the world, as a way of bringing nonviolence. Fred sees the teaching as going in both directions, though – he says he learned to play from playing with young children and wild animals. Nonviolence is innate; it’s just that we teach violence so early, and all have some unlearning to do. The learning Fred describes is bodily as well as conceptual, and Fred says he’s been “rewired” so his love reflex is faster than his fight-or-flight reflex.
james warren says:
Nearly 30 years ago my former wife and I enrolled our daughter into a co-op preschool where the teacher showed us how to actually mediate post-toddler conflicts with five year olds. The techniques were like white light: with a skillful set of questions and listening skills, the teacher was able to help two preschoolers figure out their own nonviolent conflict resolution and then go on their merry way. Those techniques stayed with me and I am now the exceedingly proud father of a 30-year-old daughter who turned out to be a great human being, raised with honesty, respect, caring and fairness. I also used the interpersonal communication techniques I picked up at the preschool. Everything I ever learned I learned in co-op preschool with my daughter.
Now that I am aware of negotiation, collaborative problem-solving, nonviolent communication, peer counseling and mediation skills taught by and to our youngest generation, I have both a hope and a purpose my old self could only dream of.
A tip of my hat to grassroots nonviolence!
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<p><a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_4971.jpg"></a>Colman McCarthy, the former Washington Post columnist who established a second career teaching nonviolence in high schools and colleges, once published this pithy gem: “I had a student at the University of Maryland who wrote a 13-word paper that has stayed with me: ‘Question: Why are we violent but not illiterate? Answer: Because we are taught to read.’”</p> <p>There was a time when only the 1 percent learned to read, but in the 19th century a movement for universal literacy took hold. Though this global effort is still a work in progress (even today illiteracy is enforced culturally, religiously, politically and economically in many contexts) it has dramatically changed the world. This transformation has not been easy or magical. Like every movement, this far-reaching campaign challenged the injustice and debilitating inertia of the existing order. It resisted the systems that benefited from the literacy monopoly and slowly established the right to read as the default.</p> <p><span id="more-16786"></span>As McCarthy’s student infers, we are as much in need of nonviolence education today as we were of literacy training a century ago. To extend this analogy a bit further, systematic nonviolence literacy — teaching the principles and practices of nonviolent power — offers options beyond passivity, on the one hand, or more violence, on the other.</p> <p>Most of those who have participated in the nonviolence trainings I’ve been part of over the years have been in their late teens and on up. “Training” in this context is a slight misnomer. By the time we hit our teen years we’ve already been trained deeply in the ways of violence. From then on, our violence training is often reinforced by virtually daily refresher courses, which tend to undermine our potential for nonviolent alternatives and to feed a belief that nonviolent change is impossible. Nonviolence education is thus less a form of “training” than of “re-training”: deconstructing and reframing deeply ingrained patterns, attitudes and behaviors.</p> <p>Is it possible, though, to start this kind of peace education early enough to provide children with a durable foundation not in violence but in nonviolence? That is, for nonviolence to begin as the default?</p> <p>This is a thorny issue for many reasons, including the tenacious nature/nurture debate, which has sparked a recent cottage industry of research on topics like <a href="http://empathiccivilization.com/">empathy</a> and <a href="http://www.thepowerofforgiveness.com/about/peopleinthefilm/enright.html">forgiveness</a>. For my purposes here, I will sidestep wading into this thicket, just as I will give no more than a passing glance to the growing proliferation of K-12 peace studies curricula and programming. Instead my attention here is drawn to what one could call “toddler” nonviolence training. Even before kindergarten — in fact, even before pre-school — there seems to be a quiet peace-building movement afoot.</p> <p>How do I know? I’d like to say that I’ve done copious, systematic research in which I compiled an extensive database of cases and curricula and then devised clever instruments for evaluating them. This, though, isn’t the case. Instead, my expertise in this arena rests entirely on the fact that virtually every weekday morning I take my two-year-old daughter, Leah, to toddler classes.</p> <p>Chicago, our hometown, is studded with hundreds of parks with hundred-year-old field houses that, no matter the weather, are crowded every morning with innumerable toddlers and their parents. While the sessions are called classes, “the pedagogy” steers toward creativity, self-expression, adventure and fun. There’s structure (free play, music, art project, snack), but just enough to allow great helpings of spontaneity. There’s alone-time — what seems a kind of freeing and freewheeling self-possession — and group activity.</p> <p>All of this, you might say, is what one expects of two year-olds. But what has struck me, being immersed in this space over and over again for the last year-and-a-half, is the lack of chaos and conflict. Most of the children, it seems, have not been schooled in the mechanics of group conflict yet. When conflict happens (someone takes another child’s toy or one child pushes another) there’s a kind of awkwardness to the vignette, as if the script of conflict is unpracticed, tentative, uncertain.</p> <p>Most of the time, though, conflict isn’t what transpires. Instead the environment is hyperactivity personified, but a hyperactivity that has an unexpected lack of anxious tension and pre-loaded expectations of conflict or violence.</p> <p>If my reading of this is right, the toddler nonviolence formation program I detect here is built largely by the children themselves, with just enough guidance and cues from the teacher (Ms. Margaret, Ms. Laura, Mr. Tim or Ms. Valentina, as the case may be) to give them space to make this super-charged serenity a reality.</p> <p><a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_3910.jpg"></a>After being there a few months, I began to notice the posters on the walls. The one that got me thinking was named “Getting Along” with a colorful spray of sayings:</p> <p>From Benjamin Franklin’s <em>Poor Richard’s Almanac</em> to Steven Covey’s <em>Seven Habits of Effective People</em> (not to mention the ethical prescriptions of many of the world’s religions before and since), we have been presented with lists of suggested action for right living. This poster sports a stellar set that, I have no doubt, would have left Gandhi beaming.</p> <p>At another field house there was another set of guidelines:</p> <p>While there was some overlap with the first list, this set seemed a bit more focused on maintaining order (directions and cleanliness), while still highlighting interpersonal peace (sharing, listening, cordial speech, and, like the first poster, taking turns).</p> <p><a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_5039-Version-3.jpg"></a>What moved me most, though, was the <a href="http://rclc.nd.edu/programs/take-ten/">Take Ten</a> poster, which was hung near one emblazoned with the words, “Violence Free Zone”:</p> <p>What? The field houses of Chicago are promoting an action plan for nonviolence that critiques violence — because it doesn’t work — and then gets specific about tactics? Breathe deep (center oneself), step back (create spaciousness and see the bigger picture), and count to ten (not simply to lower your blood pressure but to give you time to think before reaching for that trusty weapon). After encountering this latest specimen, I began to ask, “Who is the intended audience?” After all, even the most precocious kids here aren’t reading yet. So maybe it’s for some of the older kids who use the building at other times of the day? Maybe it’s for the parents, or even some of the employees?</p> <p>In the end, I came to this: These tactics and prescriptions amount to a vision woven into this space. They comprise an intention, a blessing, a wager. To those who can read, they are meant literally. To those who cannot, they are a promise that the rest of us can deliver, so that the peaceableness that is still percolating in these two-year-olds can be nourished and deepened. Each of these spaces is a house of peace where toddlers practice peace in their inmost being, while those who have passed this stage can perhaps reconnect with this spirit and build on it in a world of violence and injustice.</p> <p>So what can this say to the rest of us? Some years ago Robert Fulghum published a bestseller entitled <a href="http://robertfulghum.com/index.php/fulghumweb/booksentry/all_i_really_need_to_know_i_learned_in_kindergarten_15th_anniversary_ed/"><em>All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten</em></a><em>,</em> which also offers some of the wisdom I have encountered in Chicago’s field houses. What my small-sample, anecdotally-based study suggests is that this learning starts at least two years earlier.</p> <p>The question is what we do with this when we enter what we claim is the real world. These are the potential building blocks for a culture where everyone matters. We are thus called to build movements that put these guidelines into practice and even try to recreate the atmosphere I have discovered in the Chicago field houses: creative, expressive, adventurous, and — dare I say it? — fun.</p> <p>Nonviolence literacy may start at two years old, but it will flourish only if we read the world in a new and transformative way.</p>
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Kingdom Hearts III Review
Published by Albert Corsten on February 28, 2019 February 28, 2019
Release Date: January 29th
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Developer/Publisher: Square Enix
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To say it has been a long time coming is an understatement when it comes to the release of Kingdom Hearts III. After more than a decade of waiting, gamers can finally partake in another adventure with Sora and company on a home console. While Square Enix used this leap in time to revamp many features, it still clings on to the familiar gameplay from previous titles. What emerges is a game that ultimately combines the best and worst things about Kingdom Hearts.
The story follows the classic formula in which Sora, accompanied by Goofy and Donald, travel to various Disney worlds to thwart the plans of the nefarious Organization XXIII. However, this time around, the worlds depart from the main storyline of the actual Disney movie it is sourced from. It is a refreshing take on the design from the previous titles and does a better job at keeping the overall plot tied together. In addition to this, some areas have been vastly expanded allowing players to explore their environment freely. This creates minor pacing issues as the more linear worlds tend to be slightly faster to complete. Overall, the improvements in level design help remove the feeling of linearity; a symptom that previous titles often ran into.
What helps bring these Disney creations alive is the game’s wonderful presentation. Aided by the upgrade to the Unreal 4 engine, Kingdom Hearts III’s environments glisten with beautiful lighting and intricate details. From small footprints on snowy mountain tops of Arendelle to the bright neon signs in the busy streets of San Fransokyo, Square Enix has put great attention to detail to transport you to these fantasy lands. For this review, I played the game on a PS4 Pro, and the game ran at a refreshingly consistent 60FPS even with the high amounts of detail and particle effects. Accompanying each world is also an assortment of songs that compliment the overall theme perfectly. Finally, while there were one or two original Disney songs, it would have been nice of Disney to license a few more of their songs for the game.
Along with the new engine also comes a revamped movement and combat system that genuinely results in the most satisfying combat ever in the series. Combos effortlessly string together, spells now home in on enemies, and the new shortcut menu makes encounters easier for both veterans and newcomers alike. This is important as Sora has a massive arsenal of attacks to choose from to unleash against the forces of darkness. By combining the combat system from every previous title, as well as adding in a few more, players can easily choose the right fighting style that they find most enjoyable. Although options aren’t necessarily a bad thing to have, it sometimes is a little too much of a choice overload for the player. In my playthrough, flowmotion and link commands were often afterthoughts as I was often too busy using other actions in my engagements.
Even though every skirmish is a blast to play through, some elements end up feeling quirky. The biggest contender for this is the newly added “attraction” attack where Sora literally conjures up a Disney theme park ride – such as the spinning teacup ride - to assail his foes with. At first, they are a fun spectacle to watch, but eventually their low damage output and slow build up time only serve to break up the more enjoyable quick flow of combat. The other odd feeling that emerges is that fighting usually devolves into spamming abilities rather than actual skillful play. It’s an interesting dilemma in that more difficult to pull off moves like blocking and countering are rewarded with less damage than flashy one-button-press attacks like team attacks, keyblade finishers, and spells.
The snag with this design choice is that as Sora unlocks stronger abilities, the fights themselves become increasingly trivial. This echoes a common theme within Kingdom Hearts III in that the game is too easy, even on the game’s hardest difficulty; a setting that was normally quite brutal on previous Kingdom Hearts games. The most blatantly obvious case of difficulty decline is the inclusion of a cheap consumable shop item called a “Kupo coin” that gives Sora a free revive after dying. Square Enix’s decision to make the game’s difficulty more painless isn’t necessarily awful by any sense, but players seeking a challenge will find themselves disappointed and potentially bored.
In between the action, the game litters copious amounts of cutscenes to progress the plot. For those new to the series, this can be quite a jarring experience as an entire 30-35 hour playthrough includes around 10 hours of cutscenes in total. The high point is the drastically improved visual quality. Disney characters are stunning mirror images of their silver screen counterparts. The voice acting, on the other hand, leaves a lot to be desired. It feels that many of the lines were recorded without any context given to the voice actors resulting in a mess of disjointed and unemotional dialogue. Stacked on top of this is the ever so cheesy writing that the series employs, and you have a recipe for a large amount of the game being irritating to sit through. As for the story itself, I won’t delve too much into specifics to avoid spoilers, but it unfortunately follows the series’ trend of opening many plot threads and not closing any of them until the last few hours of the game.
Kingdom Hearts III is the game that fans have been craving for all these years but at the same time is a daunting endeavor for rookies to dive head first into. While veterans of the series are used to Kingdom Hearts’ confusing plots lines and odd idiosyncrasies, the great moment-to-moment gameplay and awkward storytelling has a large potential to create a lopsided experience for first-timers. At its core, it’s a truly enjoyable game with adventures to be had, but is unfortunately bogged down at times by its own story.
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Albert has been gaming ever since he was a young lad. He mainly focuses on game reviews and co-hosting on the podcast, but you might find him occasionally drifting into non-review territory. When not gaming, you’ll find him dreaming about a new Advance Wars game.
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From game of Thrones to gaming: how Northern ireland have become a creative hub
Northern eire display, the government-subsidized agency for the movie, television, and digital content material industries in Northern eire, is possibly fine recognized for game of Thrones. The phenomenally a hit HBO series has been filmed within the of a form the start, utilising NIS’s large Studios. Richard Williams has been CEO of NIS for properly over a decade, and has guided the organisation to be the success, influential pressure it’s miles these days.
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“It was considerably specific [when I joined],” he says. “It was a mile, an awful lot smaller company that had its roots in being a small, voluntary cultural organisation. On the point that I arrived, the argument had been put to local government that maybe there can be financial price in assisting the screen industries – although they wouldn’t have called it the display screen industries then, they would have called it movie and television. however, we had simply been given our first allocation of investment to offer it a pass
The ambition whilst Williams commenced became to shift a number of the tv production made in London over to Northern ireland. however, it turned into whilst the business enterprise seemed past the United Kingdom that matters definitely commenced to take place. “We stopped disturbing so much about what we didn’t get from London and started out thinking about how we could compete within the many global display screen industries,” he says.
Enter HBO and game of Thrones. The deal for the show became brokered underneath Williams’ management, and saw the government make investments £1.6 million at the pilot. “While we had been chasing the pilot, we knew they won’t choose it up however HBO had a robust song document of selecting up most people of its pilots,” Williams explains. “We had been going to present it the lot. The bravery wasn’t honestly on our element – it was in reality at the authorities’s component in backing us.”
Northern ireland display, the authorities-backed company for the movie, tv, and digital content industries in Northern eire, is perhaps fine recognised for sport of Thrones. The phenomenally a hit HBO series has been filmed in the u . s . a . From the start, utilising NIS’s titanic Studios. Richard Williams has been CEO of NIS for properly over a decade, and has guided the employer to be the hit, influential force it is today.
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“It was noticeably exclusive [when I joined],” he says. “It became a mile, a great deal smaller organization that had its roots in being a small, voluntary cultural agency. At the point that I arrived, the argument have been put to neighborhood authorities that perhaps there may be economic cost in helping the screen industries – although they wouldn’t have referred to as it the display screen industries then, they would have known as it film and television. however, we had simply been given our first allocation of funding to present it a move.”
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The ambition whilst Williams started became to shift some tv manufacturing made in London over to Northern eire. But it was when the agency appeared beyond the UK that matters truely started out to happen. “We stopped demanding so much about what we didn’t get from London and started out thinking about how we could compete inside the many worldwide display industries,” he says.
Enter HBO and recreation of Thrones. The deal for the display changed into brokered below Williams’ management, and noticed the authorities invest £1.6 million at the pilot. “Whilst we have been chasing the pilot, we knew they might not select it up but HBO had a robust track file of selecting up the majority of its pilots,” Williams explains. “We have been going to give it everything. The bravery wasn’t virtually on our part – it became sincerely on the government’s part in backing us.”
game of Thrones, backstage © HBO
game of Thrones, behind the curtain © HBO
It became a high-priced punt, but one which has considering that paid off in spades for Northern ireland: remaining season on my own saw the show spend £30 million on goods and offerings inside the vicinity. It has also provoked a weird cottage industry of specialist competencies in Northern eire, which include armoury and the breeding of ‘weird animals’. “The extent of element is quite awesome,” says Williams, “and manifestly there are local people concerned in all of that. The pinnacle armourer used to be a pharmacist, I think.”
however, whilst game of Thrones has opened doorways for NIS, the organization’s attain is going a ways past that one display. Williams’ imaginative and prescient is to be “second only to London within the uk and eire” and he’s achieving this by means of making an investment in a wide-range of creative work, from movies, to tv – the fall and Line of duty are each shot in Northern eire – to animation and, maximum these days, gaming. “If you’re honestly interested by growing opportunities then you need to apprehend the unique markets: you need to understand how the documentary marketplace works, you need to apprehend how television codecs paintings…. So that you can take your talent to the proper region, introduce them to the right people.
“Creative human beings regularly – know not they all – do understand that they want to get available and communicate to human beings and collaborate,” he keeps, “however they have a propensity to go into partnership with the primary man or woman they meet, so we do a variety of trying to manual that and tell people about in which the markets are.”
Williams and NIS deliberately take a palms-off method in encouraging creativity from those they aid. “I assume the factor that we do clearly nicely is we live targeted on seeking to make something manifest, which generally just method giving a number of assist to someone else,” says Williams. “A lot of organisations like ours might try to be greater controlling – with very good pastimes, and occasionally precise results – but we don’t in reality try this…. We sit as a buffer between public region investment and the innovative quarter, and that’s quite tough. We address an awful lot of forms, and we try to bypass on as little of that as we will.”
Of root, now not each challenge works out as deliberate. “The alternative thing you want to do, in the commercial enterprise of creativity, is accepted that pretty plenty of things are shit,” he says, “and just kind of flow on. What depresses me is when you think things are going to be first rate…. I attempt not to assume something’s going to be brilliant, as it’s heartbreaking while it’s not. We try to back an affordable variety of factors and we strive and wear failures gently.”
Northern eire display has additionally invested appreciably in education in the vicinity, introducing the subject shifting picture Arts at GCSE and A stage, which inspires college students into virtual film making. The agency may also be beginning a new studio complex inside the autumn referred to as Belfast Harbour Studios, that allows you to extensively increase its filmmaking skills.
As a local corporation, Williams admits that they have got benefitted from expertise who’ve settled within the usa for private motives, bringing knowledge and abilties they will have gained elsewhere into the vicinity. “Frequently the case in Northern ireland is you select up any individual which you kind of haven’t any proper to get, however due to the fact for whatever motive they have selected to come lower back to Northern eire,” he explains. “So that they’re looking at you go ‘god, I didn’t assume I’d be able to get this type of process within the gaming zone because I’m going again to Northern ireland’. But they’ve already made that preference. I have this sort of people proper through my enterprise, with a lot extra experience than we pay for, pretty frankly.”
Williams admits that the NIS’s success has made it simpler to get investment now, even though points out that they hold elevating their aims, renewing the undertaking each time. “We simply keep upping the ante,” he says. “On every occasion we’ve long gone with an approach that’s effectively two times as large as the one before. And whenever we’ve secured that, but that incorporates it extra responsibility.
“Now every person thinks that we can do something,” he maintains. “So the expectancy is thru the roof and we’re nevertheless delivering. While at the start, the expectancy turned into zero, however the undertaking was to persuade humans to can help you try.”
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Assorted shit Sunday!
On Cuba, Pope Palapatine just hates the competition
Reuters photo
A Cuban woman on Friday sits under a banner in Havana announcing the impending visit of Pope Palpatine. If the Cuban government were as evil as Palpatine claims it is, it probably wouldn’t let him set foot on the island in the first fucking place. Palpatine proclaims that Marxism is dead, yet it’s backasswards Catholicism that is dying in the more developed nations of Europe and the United States, and Latin America remains the last bastion of the dying Catholic empire.
“Today it is evident that Marxist ideology in the way it was conceived no longer corresponds to reality,” Pope Palpatine decreed of the government of the nation of Cuba on Friday, in advance of his scheduled visit there tomorrow.
I love the apparently unintended irony of that statement: “Marxist ideology in the way it was conceived no longer corresponds to reality.”
Um, what about Catholicism?
Here in the U.S., we have far-right-wing Catholic nutjob Prick Santorum telling us that as president — as Pope Palpatine’s puppet in the White House — he would support banning contraception, abortion, same-sex marriage and “obscene” pornography (which would be pretty much all pornography).
The U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 (in Roe vs. Wade) ruled that abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy is always legal, and the same year essentially ruled (in Miller vs. California) that the porn that we see today that widely is considered to be legal is protected free speech (and not “obscenity”).
The far-right-wing Pope Palpatine, however, views the mildly progressive reforms of the Catholic church of the 1960s as having gone too far, and believes that the church should revert to the “good old days” before the 1960s.
But Marxism is outdated?
In order to remain relevant any ideology needs to change and grow with the times — which the patriarchal, misogynist, homophobic, anti-science Catholic church refuses to do, which is why its membership is hemorrhaging in the U.S. and Europe — but with rampant global capitalism destroying the planet at record pace, Marxism is even more relevant today than it was when Karl Marx was still kicking around, when the greedy, selfish capitalists’ ability to destroy the entire fucking planet wasn’t nearly what it is now.
Pope Palpatine’s real problem with the government of Cuba, of course, is that he fucking hates the competition for the minds, hearts and souls of the masses.
It long has seemed to me that the people of Cuba have been far better off under Fidel Castro than they ever would be under the tyranny of capitalism, which sees the masses only as a means of making a tiny few obscenely richer in such noble names as “democracy” and “freedom,” or under the theocratic tyranny of the Catholic church, which, like a virus, only wishes to subvert the time, energy and money of the masses from their own benefit to propping up the decaying carcass of the Catholic church, an all-male hierarchy that should have met its extinction long ago.
Prick Santorum still stuck on his Etch-A-Sketch bullshit
Prick Santorum lamely still waves an Etch-A-Sketch Friday in Shreveport, Louisiana, a state where such retarded tactics apparently work.
The anti-Mittens “Etch-A-Sketch” thing wasn’t worth exploiting in the first place, since its exploitation was based upon wildly twisting its source’s rather obvious intended meaning, but Prick Santorum, having nothing else to offer, continues to use the lame tactic that ultimately only is hurting his own fucking party.
On CBS’ “Face the Nation” today, Prick declared, “Even though a lot of folks are saying this race is over, the people in Louisiana said, ‘No, it’s not.’ They still want to see someone who they can trust, someone who’s not running an Etch-A-Sketch campaign, but one who has their principals written on their heart, not on an erasable tablet.”
Really, how much mileage does Prick believe that he’s going to get out of this retarded diatribe?
Of course Prick won Louisiana yesterday and previously won some other Southern states (including Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee): The Southerners are all a bunch of mouth-breathing inbreds to whom Prick’s preaching about the supposedly Jesus-Christ-based hatred and oppression of self-respecting women, gay men and lesbians, non-Christians, non-whites and many others appeals. Truly: The Prick Santorum voters’ mantra must be: “We love him! He hates everyone we hate!”
Actually, the Repugnican Tea Party presidential race is over. According to The Associated Press, Mittens Romney thus far has more than twice as many delegates as does Prick Santorum, 568 delegates to 273. Newt Gingrich has a paltry 135 and Ron Paul an even paltrier 50, and even if you gave those 185 delegates to Prick, he still would trail Mittens by more than 100 delegates.
The next big state on the Repugnican Tea Party presidential primary season calendar is Wisconsin, which votes on April 3. Even if Prick should eke out a win in Wisconsin (he did win neighboring Minnesota and Iowa, but Mittens won neighboring Michigan and Illinois), Mittens should clean up in April, with several Mittens-friendly states on the calendar, including New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware, and if Mittens actually wins Prick’s home state of Pennsylvania on April 24 — and remember that Prick lost his 2006 U.S. Senate re-election bid in Pennsylvania by 18 percentage points — then we probably will see Prick actually toss his Etch-A-Sketch prop into the garbage for good.
By that time, though, Prick will only have further damaged Mittens, whose lack of charisma, whose alleged opportunistically changing political positions — accurately and fairly or inaccurately and unfairly — are criticized by the members of his own party as well as by the members of the opposing party, and whose exalted status as a multi-millionaire in a nation whose commoners still struggle economically — as well as his membership in the Mormon cult — never made him a strong candidate against Barack Obama anyway.
Still, Mittens is the best that the Repugnican Tea Party traitors have got, which apparently even they increasingly are recognizing, as evidenced by the fact that Mittens these days is polling in the low 40s in the Gallup daily tracking poll, while Prick can’t even break 30 percent.
And most national polls show a much tighter race between Obama and Mittens than they do between Obama and Prick. Even a Faux “News” poll taken earlier this month puts Obama at only four percentage points ahead of Mittens, 46 percent to 42 percent, and a whopping 12 percentage points ahead of Prick. (A Bloomberg poll taken around the same time has Obama and Mittens tied, at 47 percent each, and Obama six percentage points ahead of Prick.)
The good news in all of this is that the “Christo”fascists, with whom the Richie Riches of the old guard Repugnican Party struck an unholy alliance because the 1 percent can’t win elections on their own, these days apparently are more of a drain than a help to the GOP, at least presidentially.
Wild West bullshit needs to be made illegal in all 50 states
I haven’t weighed in yet on the apparent race-based murder of Trayvon Martin —
Associated Press image
— the 17-year-old who apparently was gunned down in Florida late last month by a vigilante named George Zimmerman who claims that he shot the black teen in self-defense, even though the teen reportedly was “armed” with only a bag of Skittles and some iced tea.
I will get this out of the way, though: As a blue-eyed white guy, I’m happy that George Zimmerman looks like this:
Reuters image
— and not, say, something like this:
— or this:
(That’s a photo of the Archie-Bunker-like Andrew Breitbart that was taken before he went to hell early this month and a photo of “Joe the Plumber” and some other yahoo with a dead bear that I found on the Internet. [I’m sure that it was a fair fight with the bear, you know, mano a mano, because those right-wing white guys are so fucking tough!])
Seriously, though, when I read the name “George Zimmerman,” I’d thought that yet another stupid whitey had gunned down someone for the crime of breathing while being brown or black, and I was, admittedly, at least a little relieved to discover that Zimmerman is half-white and half-Latino.
However, that fact is of no consolation to Trayvon Martin’s family, I’m confident, and what can you say about such a senseless slaughter that very apparently was race-based to at least some degree (and probably a large degree)?
The news today on the Trayvon Martin case is that Zimmerman and his family and friends are fearful for his safety, and so he is hiding at an undisclosed location.
Jesus fuck — is this another right-wing attempt to make the victimizer into the actual victim here?
The Trayvon Martin case screams for us to examine (at least these) four social phenomena (in no certain order): The one in which the victimizers claim to be the actual victims; the one in which many right-wing Latinos, perhaps especially in backasswards Florida, think that the ticket to being accepted by whites is to join whites in their oppression of blacks; the one in which armed-and-dangerous fucktards think that it’s OK for them to play cops and robbers with real guns and real bullets; and the phenomenon, the cancer, of the gated community, which is sick and fucking twisted and probably not what Jesus Christ had in mind, that the rich, who can only become rich through exploiting others, should barricade themselves in ritzy neighborhoods while everyone else slowly dies from poverty.
Most of the focus on the Trayvon Martin case seems to be around the race of the slaughtered and the slaughterer, and while of course the evil of racism still is alive and well in 2012 (the incredibly racist “Don’t Re-Nig” anti-Barack-Obama-re-election bumper sticker is one of many examples that I could give), it seems to me that not enough attention is being focused upon the fact that Zimmerman slaughtered Martin while Zimmerman was volunteering on a neighborhood watch — The Associated Press notes that “Martin was shot dead after Zimmerman, 28, a white Hispanic neighborhood watch captain, believed the young man walking through the gated community looked suspicious.”
Since when did neighborhood watches involve vigilantes gunning people down in the streets?
The American empire indeed is crumbling all around us, but is this what we have come to — the return of the wild West?
States (like Florida and more than a dozen others) that have so-called “stand-your-ground” laws, which allow people to cap other people in the streets willy-nilly — and which make you wonder if certain paranoid, fearful, gun-loving individuals want to find “reasons” to cap other people in the streets willy-nilly — need to repeal these laws voluntarily or the federal government needs to step in and nullify them, as these woefully misguided laws blatantly violate the United States Constitution.
You have the constitutional right to defend your home from actual grave threats (that is, threats that might actually put you in your grave…), and you have the constitutional right to own a gun, but I have the constitutional right to be able to walk down the street without fear of you blowing me away because you, for some fucking reason, deem me to be a “threat.”
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Well | Easing Brain Fatigue With a Walk in the Park
Easing Brain Fatigue With a Walk in the Park
March 27, 2013 12:01 am March 27, 2013 12:01 am
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Scientists have known for some time that the human brain’s ability to stay calm and focused is limited and can be overwhelmed by the constant noise and hectic, jangling demands of city living, sometimes resulting in a condition informally known as brain fatigue.
With brain fatigue, you are easily distracted, forgetful and mentally flighty — or, in other words, me.
But an innovative new study from Scotland suggests that you can ease brain fatigue simply by strolling through a leafy park.
The idea that visiting green spaces like parks or tree-filled plazas lessens stress and improves concentration is not new. Researchers have long theorized that green spaces are calming, requiring less of our so-called directed mental attention than busy, urban streets do. Instead, natural settings invoke “soft fascination,” a beguiling term for quiet contemplation, during which directed attention is barely called upon and the brain can reset those overstretched resources and reduce mental fatigue.
But this theory, while agreeable, has been difficult to put to the test. Previous studies have found that people who live near trees and parks have lower levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, in their saliva than those who live primarily amid concrete, and that children with attention deficits tend to concentrate and perform better on cognitive tests after walking through parks or arboretums. More directly, scientists have brought volunteers into a lab, attached electrodes to their heads and shown them photographs of natural or urban scenes, and found that the brain wave readouts show that the volunteers are more calm and meditative when they view the natural scenes.
But it had not been possible to study the brains of people while they were actually outside, moving through the city and the parks. Or it wasn’t, until the recent development of a lightweight, portable version of the electroencephalogram, a technology that studies brain wave patterns.
For the new study, published this month in The British Journal of Sports Medicine, researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh attached these new, portable EEGs to the scalps of 12 healthy young adults. The electrodes, hidden unobtrusively beneath an ordinary looking fabric cap, sent brain wave readings wirelessly to a laptop carried in a backpack by each volunteer.
The researchers, who had been studying the cognitive impacts of green spaces for some time, then sent each volunteer out on a short walk of about a mile and half that wound through three different sections of Edinburgh.
The first half mile or so took walkers through an older, historic shopping district, with fine, old buildings and plenty of pedestrians on the sidewalk, but only light vehicle traffic.
The walkers then moved onto a path that led through a park-like setting for another half mile.
Finally, they ended their walk strolling through a busy, commercial district, with heavy automobile traffic and concrete buildings.
The walkers had been told to move at their own speed, not to rush or dawdle. Most finished the walk in about 25 minutes.
Throughout that time, the portable EEGs on their heads continued to feed information about brain wave patterns to the laptops they carried.
Afterward, the researchers compared the read-outs, looking for wave patterns that they felt were related to measures of frustration, directed attention (which they called “engagement”), mental arousal and meditativeness or calm.
What they found confirmed the idea that green spaces lessen brain fatigue.
When the volunteers made their way through the urbanized, busy areas, particularly the heavily trafficked commercial district at the end of their walk, their brain wave patterns consistently showed that they were more aroused and frustrated than when they walked through the parkland, where brain-wave readings became more meditative.
While traveling through the park, the walkers were mentally quieter.
Which is not to say that they weren’t paying attention, said Jenny Roe, a lecturer at Heriot-Watt’s School of the Built Environment, who oversaw the study. “Natural environments still engage” the brain, she said, but the attention demanded “is effortless. It’s called involuntary attention in psychology. It holds our attention while at the same time allowing scope for reflection,” and providing a palliative to the nonstop attentional demands of typical, city streets.
Of course, her study was small, more of a pilot study of the nifty new, portable EEG technology than a definitive examination of the cognitive effects of seeing green.
But even so, she said, the findings were consistent and strong and, from the viewpoint of those of us over-engaged in attention-hogging urban lives, valuable. The study suggests that, right about now, you should consider “taking a break from work,” Dr. Roe said, and “going for a walk in a green space or just sitting, or even viewing green spaces from your office window.” This is not unproductive lollygagging, Dr. Roe helpfully assured us. “It is likely to have a restorative effect and help with attention fatigue and stress recovery.”
A version of this article appears in print on 04/02/2013, on page D5 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Brain Fatigue Goes Green.
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Entertainment and Media Industry Must Leverage Trust Assets to Grow: Report
Staff Writers / June 19, 2018
Home > Insights > Entertainment and Media Industry Must Leverage Trust Assets to Grow: Report
Australian entertainment and media companies must assess trust and create, capture and monetise their trust assets in order to find growth in the next five years, according to a PwC Australia report.
PwC’s 17th annual Australian Entertainment & Media Outlook analyses trends and consumer and advertising spend across 12 segments and shows spending is expected to rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3 per cent over the next five years, but with sharp differences between industry segments and sectors.
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The subscription television market is the fastest growing segment in spending, forecast to rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.1 per cent, trailed by the internet advertising market at 7.7 per cent.
Megan Brownlow, PwC Australia’s Entertainment & Media Industry Leader said the trust deficit continues to grow between companies and consumers and to succeed companies must measure and capitalise on their trust assets.
Numerous breaches of trust by corporates in Australia and globally over the last year have soured relationships with consumers. Companies that get the consumer trust piece right will take it to the bank and boost investor and regulator confidence.
“We’ve identified four trust drivers: advocacy – are you acting in my best interests?; consistency – have you proved credible before?; transparency – do I really understand what you’re doing?; and success – do you have what it takes to help me achieve my goals? Organisational strength on these drivers can be understood by how your target market would answer these questions,” Brownlow said.
“Consistency is a particularly powerful trust driver for traditional media because they have a longer organisational legacy. Restaurateur and Masterchef judge Gary Mehigan’s podcast program, A Plate to Call Home, shows how traditional media can capitalise on this by using a core skill to connect with audiences in new ways,” Brownlow said.
While this framework seems simple, drivers carry different weights at different times and for different groups, meaning trade-0ffs will need to be made.PwC’s Australian Outlook also shows growth is broad-based but unevenly distributed across the industry, with the fastest revenue growth in digitally driven segments.
Growth areas
The internet advertising market is forecast to reach $12,681 million or 65 per cent of the total advertising market in 2022 and will overtake the internet access market ($11,507m) for the largest segment in the entertainment and media industry.
Fast growth in video advertising, at a CAGR of 23.8 per cent, will see the segment account for 25 per cent of the total internet advertising market by 2022.
A substantial increase in digital revenue is underpinning total out-of-home market growth at 15.9 per cent compared to -5.7 per cent for physical.
Strong growth in digital music is also propelling the total music market, which is expected to rise at a CAGR of 5 per cent and attract 6.4 per cent ($1,792m) of consumer spend by 2022. Digital music is expected to grow at a CAGR of 10.2 per cent.
By contrast, PwC Australia has forecast the newspaper, free-to-air television, magazine and filmed entertainment spending markets will reduce in size from 2018 to 2022.
Podcasting and interactive gaming continue to outperform other consumer-funded entertainment sectors such as music and filmed entertainment.
“Podcasting is fast becoming a consumer favourite, propelling growth in the radio sector. It’s forecast to more than double revenue over the next five years, growing at an impressive CAGR of 85.9 per cent,” said Brownlow.
“The podcast monthly listeners forecast is expected to more than double to 8.9 million in 2022. The advent of voice-activated smart speakers, especially in the home, will also boost music-listening opportunities for Australian artists and labels.”
The interactive games market also shows signs of strong growth into 2022, with an expected CAGR of 5.1 per cent, driven by digital sell-through revenue with a CAGR of 14.6 per cent. The sector is forecast to attract 11.8 per cent of the total Australian consumer spend in 2022.
“Growth in attention to eSports and recognition of its audiences’ high disposable incomes is attracting the interests of marketers. The total eSports market is forecast to be $21 million in 2022, up from $8 million in 2017,” Brownlow said.
“The next wave of supporting infrastructure, including greater cloud usage and fifth generation wireless systems otherwise known as 5G, will enable hardware and software improvements to drive future growth in the interactive games market.”
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BEAGINS: an environmental baseline for energy development in the North and Irish Sea
When: Tuesday 29 November 2017, 14:30-16:30
Where: Room D507, Elicium – 5th floor
To ensure that environmental concerns and impacts are appropriately considered at an early stage in the development of an offshore energy and grid system in the North and Irish Sea, the European Commission commissioned an environmental baseline study based on a regional concept. The outcomes of this study, which was published in July 2017, will be presented by the consultants Ecofys and RPS. The study is highly relevant for both public and private entities. It contains a wealth of information, including a comprehensive Impact Dictionary, a Data Catalogue and an Environmental Baseline.
The study is available here. In addition to presenting the results of the study, the discussion will also focus on how to use the report and database for upcoming projects, and how the environmental goals can be aligned to the envisaged large scale roll-out of offshore wind.
Featured speakers will include: Michiel Mueller and Edwin Haesen of Ecofys, RPS
The development of an offshore renewable energy system, including grid infrastructure, in the Irish and North Seas represents a significant opportunity towards meeting the European Union’s energy goals. To ensure that environmental concerns and impacts are appropriately considered at an early stage in the development of such an offshore energy and grid system, the European Commission has appointed a multi-disciplinary team to prepare an environmental baseline study based on a regional concept.
This Baseline Environmental Study has been named BEAGINS which stands for Baseline Environmental Assessment for the Grid in the Irish and North Seas. The six target Member States for this study include: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The initial output of the study included the preparation of a Regional Concept Report with the objective of developing a detailed plan of the combined energy and grid infrastructure in the Irish and North Seas.
Three capacity scenarios have been developed with associated radial and grid infrastructure options. A Baseline Environmental Report was then prepared comprising a comprehensive Impact Dictionary, a Data Catalogue and an Environmental Baseline. The environmental baseline examines the relevant significant issues of the current state of the environment in relation to biodiversity, flora and fauna; population and human health; soils, geology and sediment; water; air quality and climatic factors; materials assets; cultural heritage; and landscape and seascape. Stakeholder consultation with the Member States was undertaken throughout the development of the study and key issues identified where considered in the development of the Baseline Environmental Report.
Six Recommendations were identified from the baseline study to set building blocks toward creating a backdrop where coordination is facilitated across Member States. They include suggestions relating to development of an appropriate planning framework; coordinated infrastructure roll-out; development of an appropriate management framework; data management and storage; development of best practice guidance; and monitoring and data requirements.
The recommendations reflect progress towards an integrated meshed grid scenario, in line with the impact assessment findings.
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Schubert - Ave Maria sheet music
Classical Schubert Ave Maria Soprano Voice version
Soprano Voice Classical Soprano Voice Classical Soprano Voice Free Sheet Music Schubert - Ave Maria
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About 'Ave Maria'
Artist: Schubert, Franz ( biography) ( sheet music)
Born: January 31, 1797 , Himmelpfortgrund, Austria
Died: November 19, 1828 , Vienna
The Artist: Franz Peter Schubert (January 31, 1797 - November 19, 1828), was an Austrian composer. He wrote some six hundred romantic songs as well as many operas, symphonies, sonatas and many other works.
Composed: 1825
Franz Schubert wrote the music for an excerpt from the poem "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832).It has become one of Schubert's most popular works and it is often sung and weddings and funerals.
Score Key: C major (Sounding Pitch) ( View more C major Music for Soprano Voice )
Tempo Marking: Andante
Time Signature: 4/4 ( View more 4/4 Music)
Range: G5-G6
Difficulty: Easy Level: Recommended for Beginners with some playing experience
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Chi il bel sogno di Doretta from Rondine by Giacomo Puccini
Alma Del Core by Antonio Caldara
Il mio bel foco (My joyful ardour) Recitative and aria by Benedetto Marcello
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Ruhe Sanft from Zaide by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
O, My Beloved Father (O mio babbino caro ) from Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini
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Impromptus and Moments Musicaux "By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Edited by Walter Niemann. For solo piano. Classical Period. SMP Level 10 (Advanced). Collection. Standard notation, fingerings and thematic index (does not include words to the songs). 91 pages. Published by Edition Peters"
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Impromptus and Moments musicaux "(Urtext edition). By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Edited by Walter Gieseking. For solo piano. Piano (Harpsichord), 2-hands. Henle Music Folios. Pages: V and 95. Classical Period. SMP Level 10 (Advanced). Collection (paper bound). Standard notation, finger
The Complete Ave Maria "(Voice, Piano and Organ). By Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), and Charles Francois Gounod (1818-1893). For high voice solo, medium voice solo, low voice solo, piano (accompaniment and solo) and organ (accompaniment and solo)
Ave Maria "(Medium High Voice in B-Flat). By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). For high voice solo and piano accompaniment. Vocal Solo. Classical Period. Difficulty: medium. Single piece. Vocal melody, piano accompaniment and lyrics (includes English, German, Latin). 7 p
Fantasy F minor op. 103 D 940 "(1 Piano, 4 Hands). By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Edited by Willi Kahl. For Piano Duet (1 Piano, 4-hands). Piano, 4-hands, Piano Duets. Henle Music Folios. Urtext edition without fingering-paper bound. Classical Period. SMP Level 10 (Advanced). Single p
"Piano Sonatas, Volume I" "(Piano Solo). By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Edited by Paul Mies. For solo piano. Piano (Harpsichord), 2-hands. Henle Music Folios. Urtext edition-paper bound. Classical Period. SMP Level 10 (Advanced). Collection. Introductory text and performance notes
200 Songs in three volumes "(Volume 1: 100 Songs). By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). For high voice solo and piano accompaniment (high voice). Contains all the cycles plus 42 Selected Songs. Romantic Period. Difficulty: medium. Collection. Vocal melody, lyrics and piano accompaniment.
"Ave Maria Op. 52, No. 6" "(Medium Voice in A-Flat). By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). For medium voice and piano. Vocal Solo. Classical Period. Difficulty: medium. Single piece. Vocal melody, piano accompaniment and lyrics (English, German, Latin). 7 pages. G. Schirmer #ST27506. Pub
Standchen - Serenade - Piano Solo (Piano Solo). By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Edited by S Heller. Arranged by Stephen Heller. For solo piano. Piano Solo. Classical Period. SMP Level 7 (Late Intermediate). Single piece. 6 pages. G. Schirmer #ST9417. Published by G. Schirmer
Mendelssohn & Schubert String Quartets (Score & Parts). By Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1809-1847) and Franz Schubert (1797-1828). CD Sheet Music. CD-ROM. Published by CD Sheet Music
50 Selected Songs - Low Voice "(Low Voice). By Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), and Richard Strauss (1864-1949). Edited by Florence Easton. For low voice and piano. Vocal Collection. Classical Period. Difficulty: medium.
"Piano sonatas, Volume II" "(Piano Solo). By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Edited by Paul Mies. For solo piano. Piano (Harpsichord), 2-hands. Henle Music Folios. Urtext edition-paper bound. Classical Period. SMP Level 10 (Advanced). Collection. Introductory text and performance notes
Mass in G "(SATB). By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Edited by Robert Shaw and Alice Parker. For SATB choir, soprano voice solo, tenor voice solo, bass voice solo and piano accompaniment (SATB). Choral Large Works. Classical Period. Difficulty: difficult. Vocal score.
The Ave Maria Collection "By Franz Schubert; J.S. Bach, Charles Gounod. Edited by Edwin Mclean. For Voice with Piano. The Ave Maria Collection. Sacred. Book. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc"
"The Shepherd On The Rock, D 965" "By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Edited by Walther Durr. For soprano voice, Bb clarinet and piano. This edition: Urtext edition. Classical Period. Difficulty: medium. Set of performance parts (includes separate pull out clarinet part). Introductory text. D
"Schubert -- Impromptus, Op. 90" By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Edited by Murray Baylor. For Piano. Masterworks; Piano Collection. Alfred Masterwork Edition. Classical; Masterwork; Romantic. Early Advanced. Book. 40 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing
"Fantasias, Impromptus, Moments" (Piano Solo). By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Edited by Giuseppe Buonamici. Piano Collection. SMP Level 10 (Advanced). 152 pages. G. Schirmer #LB75. Published by G. Schirmer
Sonata per Arpeggione (Viola/Piano) "(Viola and Piano). By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Edited by Paul Doktor. For viola solo and piano accompaniment. String Solo. Classical Period. Difficulty: difficult. Viola solo single. Standard notation, piano accompaniment, bowings, fingerings and intr
"Sonata in A minor 'Arpeggione', D. 821" By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Edited by Leonard Rose. For cello and piano. Published by International Music Company
Schubert: Complete Works For Piano (Version 2.0) (CD Sheet Music). By Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Piano. CD Sheet Music (Version 2.0). CD-ROM. CD Sheet Music #30400011. Published by CD Sheet Music
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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome
Post-acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS) is the second stage of withdrawal from psychoactive substances, which may occur after the initial acute stage. Because PAWS can bring ongoing symptoms that are difficult to manage, it can interfere with recovery and increase the risk of relapse. This is why it’s important to receive treatment for symptoms of PAWS.
What to Expect From Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome
How Long Does PAWS Last?
Reducing the Risk of Relapse
When the body is dependent on a psychoactive substance, it has adapted to functioning with the drug or alcohol in its system. At this point, withdrawal symptoms can develop when the substance is suddenly taken away. At first, the person goes through an acute withdrawal phase. After that, it’s possible to experience post-acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS).
PAWS does not always occur, and certain factors play a role in its onset and severity. While the acute withdrawal phase tends to be over relatively quickly, PAWS is an extended withdrawal period. Professional treatment can help manage symptoms of PAWS, which is important to continuing with recovery and avoiding relapse.
PAWS could occur after stopping use of any psychoactive substance that has created changes to the brain and had lasting effects on emotions, behaviors, and cognitive functioning. The brain and body adapt to the continuous substance use, and it can take time for the body to function without the substance.
Some of the substances that have been associated with PAWS include:
Benzodiazepines (benzos), such as Valium or Xanax
Barbiturates, such as Seconal or Amytal
Opiates, such as heroin or OxyContin
PAWS has a significant effect on emotions and moods. Post-acute withdrawal symptoms include:
Severe drug cravings
Reduced feelings of pleasure (anhedonia)
Cognitive impairment, including short-term memory problems and difficulty with concentration, decision making, and problem-solving
Suicidal ideation and suicide
Ongoing fatigue
Additional symptoms have been associated with PAWS, and the symptoms can vary based on the substance.
PAWS is an ongoing problem. Many of its alternate names refer to its lasting effects, including extended withdrawal, long-term withdrawal, and protracted withdrawal. While acute withdrawal symptoms tend to last from a few days to a few weeks, PAWS symptoms can last for weeks or months. In some cases, certain symptoms last for a year or longer.
PAWS may not occur at all, but when it does the length of time it lasts can vary. It will depend on factors that affect PAWS, which relate to the substance use. These factors include:
Duration of use
During this withdrawal phase, symptoms may go away and then return. They can also change in severity.
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Professionals should assess whether there is an underlying problem, such as depression, that is separate from PAWS and requires its own treatment. Treatment for PAWS can include therapy, especially to help with the emotional and mood symptoms, as well as medication to manage symptoms. Holistic treatment may be recommended, such as learning coping strategies and being physically active. Peer support groups may also help.
After getting past the initial acute withdrawal symptoms through the support of a detox program, a residential treatment program can help with PAWS symptoms. This type of program provides comprehensive treatment that addresses the myriad of ways dependence and addiction have affected your body and your life. Inpatient treatment can help you work on creating lasting change to stick with recovery. If PAWS symptoms continue to linger, it may help to follow inpatient treatment with an outpatient program for continued support.
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Sweden is still the most trade friendly nation in the world
Growth may have slowed from double-digit to single figures but Swedavia’s airports are still performing well, according to director of cargo, Ylva Arvidsson.
Across Swedavia’s main airports, growth was 2% with Stockholm Arlanda up 4.3% in 2018. This year has got off to a slow start though March numbers were promising.
Arvidsson says growth in 2019 is likely to be very small or equal to 2018. Traditional Swedish exports including automotive, machine parts and pharmaceuticals remain strong, and the main imports continue to be apparel and perishables.
There is some cross-border traffic, with Arvidsson saying: “The majority of our freight has Sweden as origin or destination, but there are also significant flows of Norwegian Salmon going via Stockholm and Gothenburg.”
Swedavia is hoping to use Sweden’s location to its advantage. Arvidsson says: “Scandinavia is of course on the outskirts of Europe, but some routings actually pass straight over us: most lanes Europe-Japan for example pass over Southern Sweden.”
It is looking both to the east for more connections to Asia and west where more capacity should be added. Over the longer-term, facilities will be upgraded.
Arvidsson says: “At our Stockholm Arlanda Airport we are looking at relocating the total cargo area, this process will take many years to complete. Our focus is to build a sustainable airport for the future with the aim to become the leading airport in the Nordics.”
The industry must come together to maintain Sweden’s strong position, Arvidsson says: “We just took the initiative to further cooperation within the air cargo industry by founding Air Cargo Sweden, a network where all stakeholders from the industry: airports, airlines, handlers and forwarders come together to tackle the main issues and to enhance the ‘Ease of doing Business’ within the air cargo world in Sweden.”
As the biggest market, financial centre and hub for business in the Nordic region, Arvidsson says Sweden outperforms the rest of Europe in areas such as the economy and competitiveness.
She says: “The country is a global leader of innovation with a highly skilled labour force, smooth business procedures and a stable economy. Sweden ranks at the top as the most trade-friendly and logistically efficient nation in the world, moving goods and connecting manufacturers and consumers with international markets.”
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Aviation expert criticises lack of action against pilot who fell asleep while flying
By Laura Beavis
Photo: CASA audited Vortex Air's fatigue management, but did not find any serious issues. (Supplied: Vortex Air)
Related Story: Snoozing pilot who overflew island destination had been awake for 24 hours
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An airline expert has criticised Australia's safety authorities for not taking action against a pilot who fell asleep while flying to King Island off Tasmania's north-west coast in November 2018.
The ATSB found the Vortex Air pilot had not slept in the 24 hours before the flight
Vortex Air said the pilot made his own decision to fly back to Moorabbin without rest
Aviation expert said the case set a poor example to the rest of the industry
According to a report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), when the pilot woke up, his Piper PA-31-350 — registered as VH-TWU — was 78 kilometres north-west of King Island.
The ATSB found the Vortex Air pilot had not slept in the 24 hours before the flight, had reached a level of fatigue that affected his performance, and after landing at King Island continued to Moorabbin, in Melbourne, without getting more rest.
The ATSB did not make any recommendations to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and while CASA audited Vortex Air's fatigue management, it did not find any serious issues.
Neil Hansford, the chair of airline consultancy Strategic Aviation Solutions, said in his opinion the lack of recommendations or other action was disappointing.
"If nothing else, the pilot should have either had his licence suspended for a period [or] the carrier should have had their licence suspended for a period," he said.
"The way this report is written, not managing fatigue rules is now being seen as an acceptable practice with no punitive damages."
Mr Hansford said the incident, which the ATSB categorised as serious, could have resulted in a fatality.
"Although [the pilot] had had a fatigue incident, and overslept and had to go back, he still proceeded to not take any rest and proceeded on to Moorabbin, right into Melbourne's congested suburbs," he said.
"I just find this totally almost macabre."
Mr Hansford said fatigue management was a basic safety requirement for pilots and aircraft operators.
"It sets a very poor example to the rest of the industry, because in the case of a Tasmanian overflight, [the ATSB] chose to do nothing about it," he said.
"There was no fines, no suspensions, so what does that tell a pilot starting off in their career as to what's going to happen about the regulator?"
Photo: An ATSB map showing the route of a pilot who fell asleep and overshot his destination in 2018. (ATSB)
Fatigue can affect pilots in similar way to alcohol
The Australian Society of Aerospace Medicine president, Kate Manderson, said fatigue could have a severe impact on a pilot's mental and physical functioning.
She said fatigue could impair a pilot's ability to make decisions, retain information and perform mental calculations, affect their physical coordination and reaction times, and even their ability assess how much tiredness was affecting them.
"We know that when people have been continuously awake for 17 hours, it's a similar level of impairment to a blood alcohol concentration of 0.05, so that gives you a bit of a feel for the level of impairment in brain function, as well as fine and gross motor control," she said.
Dr Manderson said proper fatigue management required aircraft operators and airlines to support pilots to speak up when they felt too tired to fly safely.
Photo: View from cockpit of Vortex Air aircraft. (Instagram: Vortex Air)
"We can have systems and cultures but the person has got to be able to make that decision and say, 'I have been awake for too long, my quality of sleep wasn't great, perhaps I've got too much going on in my world right now and I'm not fit [to fly]'," she said.
Civil Aviation laws on flight time limitations state that:
"A flight crew member shall not fly, and an operator shall not require that person to fly if either the flight crew member is suffering from, or, considering the circumstances of the particular flight to be undertaken, is likely to suffer from, fatigue or illness which may affect judgement or performance to the extent that safety may be impaired."
If a pilot or aircraft operator is found to violate these rules, CASA can suspend or cancel their certificates, licences, or approvals.
In a statement, CASA said the incident highlighted the need for both pilots and air operators to take responsibility for managing fatigue.
Unless a matter goes to court, CASA does not release information about conditions on individual pilots' licences.
While the ATSB investigates transport safety incidents, it does not have the power to apportion blame or liability.
Vortex Air said the pilot had not had any scheduled flights in the five days before the incident and made his own decision to fly back to Moorabbin without additional rest.
It said it had counselled the pilot while he was on King Island and when he returned to Moorabbin.
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Last week we spoke briefly to Marie-Louie O'Callaghan about the alarming situation in the Solomon Islands.
Australia's Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, is obviously worried about what's going on there too, so worried he made time to go there before taking his Christmas break.
Only days before Downer arrived, there was an escalation in violence. The same renegade police who got $7 million in cash after taking several members of parliament hostage, fired on the home of Prime Minister Allan Kemekaza.
Marie-Louise, the South Pacific correspondent for The Australian newspaper, is with from her home in Honiara.
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Multinational enterprise: Corporate 'effective tax rate' now in revenue authorities' sights
As if the OECD BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) project is not causing enough angst for corporates, revenue authorities, particularly in the UK and Australia, are now zeroing in on what is termed a company's "Effective Tax Rate" (ETR) to make a comparative analysis of what tax a company is paying relative to other companies.
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Of course, the opportunity is taken to push the message that such methodology creates a greater level of transparency "to build community confidence in the tax system".
On 30 July 2015, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) announced it has developed what it calls an Effective Tax Borne (ETB) methodology and has started a pilot with businesses to test and determine its viability. The methodology seeks to provide a standardised approach to identifying an economic group's worldwide profit from Australian linked business activities, and the Australian and offshore tax paid on that profit. The ability for the ATO to make "like-for-like" comparisons of taxpayers' ETB is seen as an outcome.
The ATO said further consultation is likely to follow the initial stages of the pilot to capture the findings and determine how ETB fits within ATO and government directions.
Similarly in the UK, as part of its recent announcement to require large businesses to publish their tax strategy and drive greater transparency and ‘cultural changes, the UK HM Revenue & Customs stated that, when a company articulates its tax strategy, it may cover whether the UK Group has a target ETR, what that is, and what measures the business is taking to maintain or reach this target ETR.
This concept of ETR or ETB, or effective tax rate, has been around for a long time. Before hearings in April this year of the Australian Senate Economic References Committee enquiry into Corporate Tax Avoidance, testifying corporations quoted ETRs to demonstrate the high level of Australian tax paid. However, there was no consistency in the basis of calculating these ETRs and the ATO was critical of some of the methodologies adopted.
The ATO indicated to the Senate Enquiry it had developed a formula for calculating an ETR (or "effective tax borne") which if applied to the testifying corporations, would permit a comparison on a "like-for-like" basis. It provided the formula to the Enquiry. The ATO said the formula is intended to identify an economic group's total worldwide profit from Australian linked business activities, and the Australian and offshore tax paid on that profit. It said this will provide an indication of total tax borne as well as the proportion of those profits actually taxed in Australia.
The core objective of the formula is to quantify revenue, income or profits which are related to Australian-linked business operations; to quantify taxes paid on that Australian-linked revenue, income or profits; and from those two figures, determine the Australian or global ETR.
The denominator in the formula is the total economic group profit from business activities which are linked to Australia. There is a variant which excludes some abnormal items from the profit calculation. The ATO says the starting point is the consolidated accounting profit of the Australian group (which may include offshore subsidiaries). To develop the estimate of the total economic group profit from business activities linked to Australia, the ATO says it is necessary to make a range of adjustments to that profit (especially for inbound multinationals, where the Australian accounts will only be a subset of the economic group's activity).
The ATO states there are 2 alternative numerators under the combined metric:
• the Australian tax (including non-resident withholding taxes) paid on those business activities by the economic group;
• the global tax paid on those business activities by the economic group.
The ATO has said the metric deliberately includes profits of the economic group which may not be taxable in Australia under Australia's source, residency and anti-profit shifting rules or the OECD / Double Tax Agreement principles intended to avoid double taxation. The metric also seeks to reflect all of the channel profit derived from business activities involving Australia and the Australian and global tax paid on that channel profit.
The ETB methodology now developed and being piloted, is the result of the ATO's work to date. Although this is still a "work-in-progress", there is no doubt that many within the tax and accounting profession at home, and abroad, would be keenly interested to observe the development of the ETR methodology by the UK and Australia.
Terry Hayes
Last Updated: 26 August 2015 Published: 12 August 2015
Terry Hayes is a Senior Tax Writer with Thomson Reuters where he leads the Tax Newsroom for Checkpoint, the company’s online tax research, information and workflow solution. He is also Technical Editor for the Thomson Reuters Australian Financial Planning Handbook. Terry’s experience stems from 12 years at the Tax Office and several years in the “Big 4? environment in Sydney. He is also a Registered Tax Agent.
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We could all be worse off because of price comparison websites
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Study suggests we could be paying more, whether we use a price comparison website or not.
The existence of price comparison websites may be bad for consumers, research by the University of Warwick’s Department of Economics has found.
Analyst David Ronayne argues that they may push prices up not down, and that increasing the number of competing comparison sites may exacerbate the problem.
“The common belief is that these sites benefit consumers by increasing competition between service providers. But these websites are not charities; they charge fees to firms, which in turn have to be passed on to consumers through increased prices,” he said.
The working paper suggests that before service providers had an online presence, the benefit a comparison service could bring was more obvious. But now, the study’s author argues, firms have their own websites where you can find their prices in a few clicks.
“In 2015, the scope for a profit-maximising comparison service to benefit consumers is now fundamentally more questionable,” said Ronayne.
“Of course, given that these sites exist, we as consumers are of course better off by using them to navigate to the cheapest deal on the market. What I am asking in my research is under what conditions it is true that consumers would actually prefer them not to exist at all.”
Ronayne’s research involved creating a mathematical model which allowed him to compare a market before and after the introduction of a comparison website (PCW) and then again with multiple sites.
The analysis highlighted two crucial factors; firstly how many comparison sites there are and secondly how many of them consumers are checking.
“Even if there are many competing websites, if consumers only check one of the sites each, it is no better than if there were monopoly.”
He explained: “I found that only in the unlikely case where people who use these sites check every single one of them, is it guaranteed that they will benefit from the existence of the industry.”
“In the more likely scenario where people who use the sites do not check all of them, this is no longer guaranteed, essentially because the sites then enjoy some market power allowing them to charge higher fees. This is compounded with a higher number of comparison sites. Paradoxically, such competition does not promise to drive retail prices down as you may expect but actually can push them up.”
“It all begs the question – who actually benefits from price comparison websites apart from the websites themselves? And the answer, I am afraid, just is not clear.”
As a result of the work, Ronayne recommends regulatory bodies may wish to consider limiting the fees charged to firms by price comparison websites. He also suggests a cap on the number of price comparison websites that are allowed to operate in the market.
He concluded: “These sites have received a lot of attention from regulators already and although more analysis needs to be done, the results of my initial research suggest more serious and involved regulatory action may be necessary in order to ensure consumers really do benefit from this industry.”
David Ronayne’s working paper ‘Price Comparison Websites’ can be downloaded here.
He can be contacted on email at d.ronayne@warwick.ac.uk or via Lee Page, Communications Manager, Press and Policy Office, The University of Warwick. Tel: +44 (0)2476 574 255, Mob: +44 (0)7920 531 221. Email: l.page@warwick.ac.uk.
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Listen: Governor Rick Snyder Delivers 7th State of the State Address
Snyder took just under an hour to deliver his remarks to the Michigan legislature.
Governor Rick Snyder delivered his 7th State of the State address in Lansing Tuesday night.
He spent much of his address reviewing successes of the past year, including recent announcements by automakers of new investments and jobs in Michigan.
Snyder touted the auto industry’s role in the state saying, “75% of the R&D for the U.S. auto industry is in Michigan.”
He also said the state has seen five years of population growth in a row.
But, the governor spent only four minutes discussing what some consider the defining event of his time in office – the Flint water crisis. Snyder said, “We’re making progress, but our work is not done yet.”
Snyder spend the last portion of his speech looking forward, saying Michigan calling improved infrastructure. The governor called for a second thousand-foot lock at the Soo Locks, saying “ our entire economy in this country is at risk because we have with having only one lock.”
Snyder also said the state needs to create more educational opportunities and better career counseling.
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Trump Budget Proposes Eliminating Funding for Great Lakes
Bipartisan group of Michigan members of Congress call Trump plan to kill funds for the Great Lakes a “non-starter.”
Jake Neher/WDET
Republican and Democratic members of Michigan’s Congressional delegation are criticizing the Trump Administration’s proposal to eliminate funding for restoration of the Great Lakes.
President Trump calls his proposed 2018 federal budget “A New Foundation for American Greatness.”
But a bipartisan group of Michigan legislators are calling it harsh and “dead on arrival.”
Michigan’s Congressional delegation is particularly concerned about the request to zero-out funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative — a $300 million program that lawmakers prevented from being cut earlier this year.
U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) says in a statement that many of the proposed cuts are “non-starters.”
Upton notes that the budget proposal is only a request and it is Congress that will have the final say.
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) says the state must stand together to protect the Great Lakes.
The Trump Administration says state and regional organizations can effectively restore and maintain the lakes without federal funding.
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Heavy snowfall will not stop us hosting great Games, says Innsbruck 2012 chief
By Emily Goddard
By Tom Degun in Innsbruck
January 11 - Innsbruck 2012 chief executive Peter Bayer (pictured) has claimed that the Austrian city is ready to host a spectacular Winter Youth Olympic Games despite heavy snow hitting the region in the past week and causing major disruptions to preparations for event.
Many areas across Austria, including Innsbruck, were plunged into chaos over the last few days when heavy snowfall hit the country, forcing many major roads and railways to close.
The travel disruption affected many of the teams heading to the Winter Youth Olympics, such as France who were forced to pass through Germany to get to the event after Brenner Pass, one of the principal mountain passes of the Alps, was closed due to the weather.
The severe weather conditions also saw several flights into Innsbruck diverted to nearby cities such as Munich, while the Youth Olympic Torch Relay was halted earlier this week as organisers waited for snow to clear on parts of the route.
But Bayer said that following hard work from Innsbruck 2012 and the Austrian military to help clear the snow, preparations here are now firmly back on track.
"Things are going to plan and I'm really happy I can say that now because the massive snowfall over the past week has created real problems for us," Bayer told insidethegames.
"But our people at the Organising Committee and the Austrian military have been fantastic in clearing the snow.
"They have been working day and night to get the venues ready and they have done a great job.
"Now it is just about putting the final touches on the event like getting things in the Athletes' Village right so that the competitors feel at home in Innsbruck.
"I'm very confident that things will be great here."
Despite the snow having temporarily stopped, there is more forecast for the Opening Ceremony at the Bergisel Stadium on Friday (January 13) and while Bayer feels it could help create a better atmosphere of the competition, he admits he is hoping for divine intervention to ensure that there is not heavy snowfall.
"I'm praying every morning that the weather will be okay and that the sun will be out to show off Innsbruck in all its glory," he said.
"We are forecast a little bit more snowfall now for Friday but I think that makes it a bit more romantic for the Opening Ceremony when it takes place on Friday evening.
"So I'm really looking forward to a couple of great weeks here."
Nearly all of the 1,100 athletes, aged between 14 and 18, have now arrived at the Athlete's Village ahead of the competition which runs from January 13 until 22.
Hosts Austria boast the largest delegation with a total of 81 athletes and 53 team officials now settled into the Village.
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With reference to what you have learnt about City Road, outline some of the differences across time and space on a street that you know.
Social sciences present many different aspects of the evolution of society. The most conclusive way to demonstrate this is the differences shown across time and space on our very own High Streets. Most High Streets in the UK and other countries show consistent similarities and development.
Lewis High Street located 6.5 miles from the City Centre in Manchester (Google maps) is an ideal street to represent these differences. The local people in the area refer to the Street as their Main Street so further references to the Street will be known as the Main Street.
Lewis Main Street shows itself to be flexible to all aspects of its community. There are clothing shops, bars, supermarkets, and a local butcher, off sales, shoe shops, takeaways, restuarants and dancehalls, many hairdressers, the Church, library and its very own Museum.
The Street offers controlled traffic regulations, pedestrian crossings, and car parks with disabled parking bays. Every Tuesday you will find the farmers market in the centre of the streets precinct.
At the beginning of the Street you will find very busy junctions where cars and pedestrians alike fight for their right to access the Main Street.
The Main Street has not always been the way it shows itself today. The family Cumming encouraged the growth of . They build their castle the Motte and Bailey and soon after the Cumming Church known today as St Ninians.
The year 1211 a small settlement was established and was given the status of Burgh. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopaedia, enwikipedia.org/wiki/).
The Main Street became a vital stage port for west/east journeys from Manchester to other areas of the city. The Street was a narrow muddy track which hosted basic posts for the stages. Pedestrians and horses alike had no specific areas and it was a perilous free for all. Cowgate North of the Main Street became known for its weekly markets. The Main St offered no public houses and was considered a ???dry town??? St Marys Church was erected in 1644 showing a strong religious society.
It was multifunctional and used as the town hall, council chambers, court house, school and jail. Today it is known as the Auld Kirk Museum and is considered one of the oldest buildings on the area. (www.museumsgallaries.org.uk/member/museum).
Though out history, the Street has grown. In 1926 gas lighting was introduced, (welcometomanchester.co.uk) sewage lines were built in 1883(places.gov) and through to the present where electricity is now the main source of lighting in the Main Street. The population from a small settlement has grown to 19,700 recorded in 2007.
The differences of space and time from the year 1211 to 2012 shows how the Main St was initially used as a port for stage coaches and only a few trading areas would be found. It was a muddy track that was not pedestrian friendly with any adequate lighting or sewage control. It was a strong Christian society where no alcohol was drunk.
Today the Main Street has electric lighting and sewage pipes. It is pedestrian friendly with traffic lights and Policepersons controlling the flow of traffic in an orderly way. It hosts Bars Dance halls which offer alcohol in abundance and the Main St in the weekends is a social hub of activity a far cry from the early days where weekends would be quiet and Sundays spent in Churches with no alcohol consumed.
Many Streets in the UK show very similar beginnings. City Road in Cardiff (Open UniversityDD131 Making social Lives DVD) has
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Emily Lauer
The NYC Feminist Zinefest was a joy to attend. This year was the 6th annual and my first time attending, though as usual with such events I am not really sure how to explain the fact that I hadn’t been going every year. What was I thinking? Had I been asleep? We may never know. But
The NYC Feminist Zinefest was a joy to attend. This year was the 6th annual and my first time attending, though as usual with such events I am not really sure how to explain the fact that I hadn’t been going every year. What was I thinking? Had I been asleep? We may never know. But it was awesome, and now in future years I’ll know and go.
The fest took place in two linked rooms and a hallway on the 4th floor of a building in Barnard, and the whole set up made me nostalgic for the MoCCA Fest of the early 2000s, when it was full of hand-produced minis and people excitedly talking about their work and their craft.
NYC Feminist Zinefest, 2018
In the hallway leading to the rooms of exhibitors, tables of organizers and volunteers with button machines offered info zines about the event, optional nametags, and pronoun declaration buttons. Since the Zinefest is free, this was a laid back entryway rather than a bottleneck. The two rooms of exhibitors were both bustling when I got there, with one much smaller than the other, but no division that I could discern based on content. Both rooms had a lot of windows, a lot of light, and a lot of people.
This was a space that worked intentionally on being accessible and welcoming to a wide range of creators and readers. I think the handmade aesthetic of many of the goods and the free entry, allied with the pay-what-you-want mindset and clearly stated policies of inclusiveness made it a joyful space full of people who felt both welcomed and welcoming. In all the conversations I participated in, people were open and interested as well as interesting.
Starting in the smaller of the two rooms, I was excited to get “Voted off the Island,” a zine about living in New York City and elsewhere by Jordan Alam, who I learned is not only a writer, educator, and editor, but also a doula. Alam’s work is evocative and personal, feeling very appropriate for the medium of hand-stapled half-page sized minis.
Jordan Alam at the NYC Feminist ZInefest, 2018
Also in that room, I had the experience of making a hat at a craft table with Rica Takashima when a woman came up and began talking to her excitedly in Japanese. They had a happy discussion, the woman bought Takashima’s graphic novel, and then Takashima explained to me that the other woman had been excited to meet her, because she was a Gender Studies professor in Japan, and Takashima’s work has been foundational in the lesbian manga scene.
Rica Takashima at the NYC Feminist Zinefest, 2018
Moving on to the big room, it was easy to feel overwhelmed by the size of the crowd, and while the event was billed as all ages (and I did see people with kids and babies there), I was glad that I had not brought my toddler and felt lucky that I did not have any mobility issues due to the press of the crowd. There were some individual tables I didn’t see, because the crowds around them hadn’t let up on any of my laps around the room. I bet their stuff was great, but I was pretty satisfied with what I did get a chance to see.
Highlights included the table for the Red Sweater Zine Collective, which gathers materials of creators who can’t all necessarily attend fests, and from whom I purchased a tiny matchbox mini about the alt-right.
Since I’m a college English professor who studies Harry Potter, I was also especially excited to purchase “All Was Well: An Analysis of Therapeutic Techniques for PTSD in Harry Potter,” a zine that Sawyer Lovett created from his BA thesis.
Sawyer Lovett at the NYC Feminist Zinefest, 2018
Finally, I rounded off my visit getting to meet two tablers, Jayla Patton and Anne Schwan, who were here at the zinefest for the first time as well. From Pittsburgh, they are both active in the art and comics world there and gave me some kind advice about cool stuff to do when I visit Pittsburgh for the first time next month.
Jayla Patton and Anne Schwan at the NYC Feminist Zinefest, 2018
Overall, this last conversation felt like an endorsement of the idea that an event such as this builds a community. Anyone can make a zine, and anyone can participate in a zine scene.
On my way out, a cheerful volunteer handed me a button, saying, “Do you want this? It’s my favorite one.” The button has a picture of open scissors and the words, “Don’t be mean—Make a zine.” I think that is good advice.
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Interview With Writer & Photographer Tom Carter
In art, essays, journalism, nonfiction, photography, travel, writing on December 20, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Tom Carter. Photo courtesy of the author.
An introduction to travel writer and photographer Tom Carter, whose recent book CHINA: Portrait of a People is being hailed as the most comprehensive book of photography on modern China published by a single author. The book is organized by region with thoughtful descriptions for photos that offer a candid and moving glimpse of life in China. As Carter says in the introduction, “Where I have been, you will be; what I have seen, you will see.” Carter, who is originally from San Francisco, California, is now at work on a few books, including another photo book, INDIA: Portrait of a People.
Quick Facts on Tom Carter
Comfort food: Back home: anything Mexican. In China: suan cai yu (sour spicy fish soup).
Top reads: Aztec by Gary Jennings; anything by Pearl S Buck; anything by John Steinbeck; classic literature, in general.
Current reads: Struggling to get through Tai-Pan by James Clavell (not nearly the page-turner that Shogun was).
What are you working on at the moment?
I’m working on several different book projects concurrently: a photography book about India; an illustrated book about China; a nonfiction anthology about China; and a novel about China.
Where did the idea begin for CHINA: Portrait of a People?
I arrived in China in 2004 as an English teacher and saved my salary so that I could go backpacking across the 33 provinces. I took pictures just for fun along the way, and after another two straight years and 35,000 miles on the road, I had amassed a vast cache of photos. I found an independent publisher in Hong Kong who saw the potential in my work, which eventually became CHINA: Portrait of a People.
What do you hope people will take away from your work?
The photos that appear in my book were a mere afterthought while traveling the land and meeting people along the way. But after sifting through the thousands of images I had taken, what I found is that I had captured almost every aspect of life and humanity of modern Chinese society. In that regard, it offers readers a rare glimpse into “real” China that is not often portrayed accurately by the media.
“A rare glimpse into ‘real’ China.”
Do you have a philosophy for, or an approach to, how and why you write?
Writing is actually a painfully slow process for me. I love it, and I hate it. Inspiration either strikes me or it doesn’t; I’m not the type of writer who can just sit down and write. I agonize over every sentence, and sometimes take an entire day to craft one paragraph; and it’s impossible for me to move forward until that paragraph is perfect. This is especially true for my fiction writing; my nonfiction travel writing is a little easier.
What do you find most challenging about travel writing?
Coming up with something original that hasn’t been written about ad nauseam already. Finding that unique perspective about a location that will say something new and different. More often than not, this comes about from the unique experiences I have while traveling, which are usually not a little exciting and dangerous. Readers like to hear about this stuff more than just the usual “facts and history” of a place.
As a photographer, how do images inform your writing?
It depends on the situation I get myself into, such as the adventures I have and the people I meet. I don’t like to stage photos or go somewhere with an agenda; I just let life happen naturally, and then the photos and writing follow naturally.
“I just let life happen naturally,
and then the photos
and writing follow naturally.”
What do you concentrate on when composing a shot? What are you looking for when you look through the camera lens?
I am simply trying to capture the moment. I prefer not to compose or frame shots according to some preconceived idea or conventions. Lots of my pictures are crooked or out of focus or grainy–just like life. So, I suppose you could say my work is a combination of street photography, travel photography and photojournalism.
Where and when do you prefer to write?
I write only when inspiration strikes. If it’s not coming to me, I don’t bother. I never write just to write. I am a very reluctant writer.
Where would you most want to live and write?
Somewhere where the internet doesn’t exist. I love exploring the net, but I find it to also be the biggest time-waster in the world, which usually kills my writing spirit. As far as geography, I’ve written in isolated villages and big noisy cities. I’m not particular about location.
Do you listen to anything while you write?
Oh, heck yes. I must, must, must have music in the background. Usually classical in the morning, jazz mid-day, and then electronica or trip-hop at night. As long as it doesn’t have words, I can write with it on. Or I should say, as long as it doesn’t have English words. I often play Chinese or Japanese pop music in the background, too, because I can’t understand any of it.
How have your goals as a writer changed over time?
I used to write just because I was inspired to be creative. Nowadays my goals are more professional: asking myself which publisher would be interested in this project.
Is there a quote about writing that motivates or inspires you?
None that I can think of. For inspiration I need only flip through any John Steinbeck novel.
What advice would you give to aspiring writers?
“Follow your heart, not trends,
when it comes to telling a story.”
Follow your heart, not trends, when it comes to telling a story. Nobody likes a copycat.
Is there something that you wish people would ask about your work more often?
I’d be flattered if people took the time to analyze the nuances and details of my photography. My book CHINA: Portrait of a People is rich with symbolism and pop culture references, and maybe someday someone will do a critical analysis of it.
When you’re not writing or taking pictures, what do you like to do?
Walk the streets, drink in the life and culture around me. China is perfect for that. So is India.
About Tom Carter
Travel photographer Tom Carter was born and raised in San Francisco, California and graduated with a degree in Political Science from the American University in Washington, DC. Following a political career with a number of high-profile state and national campaigns, Tom decided to “peek over the fence” and subsequently spent 18 months backpacking down the length of Mexico, Cuba, and Central America. Tom later spent one year in Japan, one year in India, and four years in the People’s Republic of China, traveling extensively throughout the country’s 33 provinces and autonomous regions. The result was his first book, CHINA: Portrait of a People.
Buy CHINA: Portrait of a People, preferably at your local independent bookstore.
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This Week in Ice: Dec. 10-16, 2017
December 16, 2017 December 19, 2017 / wordybirdsci / Leave a comment
Antarctic krill under sea ice Copyright © Marlo Garnsworthy
This week in ice begins with krill—or more specifically krill poop.
Krill are tiny shrimp-like creatures that live in schools called swarms, which can be thick (10,000 to 30,00 individuals per square meter) and vast (one swarm was 170 square miles to a depth of 660 feet). Found in oceans worldwide, krill are—in terms of biomass (the mass of living organisms)—one of the most significant species on our planet.
Krill feed in the upper reaches of the water column, eating phytoplankton (tiny plants) especially diatoms, and zooplankton (tiny animals such as copepods and amphipods). Zooplankton also feed on phytoplankton. Like other plants, phytoplankton take up carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. So, when krill eat phtyoplankton or zooplankton, they’re consuming this carbon.
A constant stream of organic matter such as fecal material and parts of dead organisms, as well as inorganic material such as dust, is constantly sinking through the water column. This material is called marine snow, and it can take weeks to reach the ocean floor, where it accumulates as a thick oozy mud (which we studied on our SNOWBIRDS Transect research cruise). When krill defecate, their fecal material sinks as marine snow through the water column, and any carbon in it is sequestered.
A study by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey found that the behavior of Antarctic krill could assist the sequestration of carbon dioxide. Scientists found that krill move up and down within their swarms. This behavior is called satiation sinking—and in simple terms, it means that once you’ve eaten your fill at the buffet, you move away from the buffet table, allowing others to feed. If you’re a krill, you sink to the lower reaches of the swarm, giving your carbon-rich poop a greater chance of making it to the sea floor.
British Antarctic Survey ecologist and lead author Professor Geraint Tarling says:
“This new finding could equate to krill sequestering 23 million tonnes of carbon to the deep sea each year, equivalent to annual UK residential greenhouse gas emissions.”
Something to keep in mind when regulating the fishing of krill. Krill are also a vital food source for fish, whales, penguins, and other marine species.
The big polar news this week was the release of NOAA’s Arctic Report Card.
“Arctic shows no sign of returning to reliably frozen region of recent past decades. Despite relatively cool summer temperatures, observations in 2017 continue to indicate that the Arctic environmental system has reached a ‘new normal’, characterized by long-term losses in the extent and thickness of the sea ice cover, the extent and duration of the winter snow cover and the mass of ice in the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic glaciers, and warming sea surface and permafrost temperatures.”
Highlights (Credit: NOAA Arctic Report; links embedded by me)
The average surface air temperature for the year ending September 2017 is the 2nd warmest since 1900; however, cooler spring and summer temperatures contributed to a rebound in snow cover in the Eurasian Arctic, slower summer sea ice loss, and below-average melt extent for the Greenland ice sheet.
The sea ice cover continues to be relatively young and thin with older, thicker ice comprising only 21% of the ice cover in 2017 compared to 45% in 1985.
In August 2017, sea surface temperatures in the Barents and Chukchi seas were up to 4° C warmer than average, contributing to a delay in the autumn freeze-up in these regions.
Pronounced increases in ocean primary productivity, at the base of the marine food web, were observed in the Barents and Eurasian Arctic seas from 2003 to 2017.
Arctic tundra is experiencing increased greenness and record permafrost warming.
Pervasive changes in the environment are influencing resource management protocols, including those established for fisheries and wildfires.
The unprecedented rate and global reach of Arctic change disproportionally affect the people of northern communities, further pressing the need to prepare for and adapt to the new Arctic.
Most troubling is that melting of sea ice is unprecedented in at least 1,500 years.
Temperatures in the Arctic have been abnormally high, so high that computers disqualified temperature data, assuming it was an error.
#Arctic temperatures have been well above average this December (to-date) and essentially the last several months… Remarkable persistence this fall (once again)!
[Additional graphics: https://t.co/kO5ufUWrKq] pic.twitter.com/4Y6CgiyEjO
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) December 14, 2017
Arctic sea ice extent and concentration remain well below the mean. Sea ice cover in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas is at a record low extent. The National Snow and Ice Data Center says:
“November 2017 will be remembered not for total Arctic ice extent, which was the third lowest recorded over the period of satellite observations, but for the record low extent in the Chukchi Sea. This is a key area for Arctic Ocean access, and is an indicator of oceanographic influences on sea ice extent.”
Credit: NSIDC
Credit NSIDC
Antarctic sea ice remains below the mean. After the third-lowest November average monthly extent in the satellite record, sea ice extent is near-average in all regions except the Weddell Sea, where it’s at a record low. Sea ice around the Weddell polynya (aka Maud Rise polynya, depicted by the shape toward the top) has melted, leaving open ocean.
Glaciers & Ice Shelves
Part of the East Antarctica ice sheet Credit: Michael Hambrey/Glaciers Online
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet may not be as stable as previously thought says this study. In the past, it has undergone dramatic retreats, and scientists now feel that, as the planet warms, it may provide a significant contribution to sea level rise.
Another study showed that even small losses of ice at the edges of ice sheets can accelerate the movement of glaciers grounded on rocks. Lead-author Ronja Reese (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) says:
“Destabilizing the floating ice in some areas sends a signal as far as 900 kilometers across the largest ice shelf in Antarctica… It does so with an amazing speed, similar to the speed with which shocks from an earthquake travel.”
On Thursday, the US Coast Guard International Ice Patrol said around 1,008 icebergs drifted into shipping lanes in the North Atlantic, up from 687 in 2016. This is the fourth consecutive “extreme” ice season. Retreat of the Greenland ice sheet/calving of icebergs, plus increased storminess that broke up sea ice, setting icebergs free to drift, is responsible, according to Ice Patrol Commander Kristen Serumgard.
We have a great new graphic showing the drift of massive iceberg A-68, which calved from the Larsen C ice shelf (Antarctica) back in July.
Credit: Dave Mosher
Scientists are on their way to study the effects on lifeforms that dwelled in darkness under the ice sheet now they’ve been exposed to the light by this dramatic calving event.
Starving Polar Bears, Giant Penguins, & the GOT Ice Wall
Back to that viral “starving polar bear” video that everyone may have gotten wrong. As I discussed last week, some experts, such as polar bear biologist Andrew Derocher and Arctic wildlife biologist Jeff Higdon, believe that bear may have not been starving and may in fact have been injured or diseased. Nunavut bear monitor Leo Ikakhik agrees the bear was likely sick or injured.
(In following Derocher and Higdon and this polar bear story, I’ve discovered that polar bear Twitter is not an entirely pleasant place for polar bear scientists—it’s somewhat of a hangout for a certain breed of climate change deniers, who frequently cite dubious sources.)
While that polar bear may have died due to other causes, the fact remains that polar bears—alongside other sea ice-dependent species—will face increasing challenges as sea ice continues to decline.
This study by Deorcher et al states:
“Anthropogenic global warming is occurring more rapidly in the Arctic than elsewhere, and has already caused significant negative effects on sea ice-dependent species such as polar bears. Although observed effects have thus far been gradual, the large amount of annual variation in the climate system may cause habitat changes in individual years that exceed the long-term trend. Such years may be below critical thresholds necessary for feeding and result in unprecedented reductions in survival, reproduction, and abundance in some populations.”
Why the media keeps getting Arctic news wrong.
Credit: Gerald Mayr—AP
On a New Zealand beach, scientists have found fossil evidence of a 5’8″ penguin that lived 60 million years ago.
And that ice wall in Game of Thrones? Impossible without magic, says glaciologist Martin Truffer (University of Alaska Fairbanks).
As always, I am not a scientist, just a writer/illustrator and science communicator passionately in love with sea ice. I welcome input and corrections by polar scientists as I learn more about this remarkable and vital part of our planet and bring this knowledge to a wider audience.
This Week in Ice: Dec. 3 to 9, 2017
December 9, 2017 December 11, 2017 / wordybirdsci / 3 Comments
Image courtesy of the Weather Channel
This week in ice, we began with fire.
You will have seen images and footage of the horrific wildfires in California. Very dry conditions and strong, sustained Santa Ana winds have fueled multiple raging fires, swallowing homes and livelihoods, at massive cost to the economy, and they are still mostly out of control as I write this.
Santa Ana winds are katabatic winds—very strong, downward winds, just as are experienced in Antarctica. In California, they originate from cool, high-pressure air masses inland and are very dry.
So, what’s that got to do with sea ice?
A new study by Ivana Cvijanovic and colleagues from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, showed that loss of Arctic sea ice could drive a decrease in rainfall in California. Depletion of sea ice in the Arctic can create changes in the convention pattern in the atmosphere over the northern Pacific Ocean, causing a anticyclyonic pattern (a clockwise circulation of winds [in the northern hemisphere]), in turn causing dry conditions in California.
“While more research should be done,” said Cvijanovic, “we should be aware that an increasing number of studies, including this one, suggest that the loss of Arctic sea ice cover is not only a problem for remote Arctic communities, but could affect millions of people worldwide. Arctic sea ice loss could affect us, right here in California.”
Extent of Arctic sea ice in September 2016 compared to the 1981-2010 average minimum extent (gold line). Image courtesy of NASA
An extreme dip in the jet stream is bringing very dry conditions to the west and frigid temperatures to the east. Diminishing sea ice, caused by climate change, may cause this pattern to occur more often. For a full discussion, read this article from Inside Climate News.
Sea ice helps regulate our global climate as we have known it. And one of its most important features is high albedo.
Albedo is a measure of brightness/reflectance. Light objects have higher albedo than dark ones, meaning they reflect more light rather than absorbing it. It’s why we wear light-colored clothes in summer to keep us cool. It’s why I’m wearing huge glasses in my profile pic, surrounded by sea ice. On a sunny day, and even on a cloudy day, it’s bright.
Ice and snow have high albedo, & our frozen polar regions reflect most of the sunlight they receive.
In the picture below, which I took from the ice tower of the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer in the Ross Sea, you can clearly see the difference in albedo between the undisturbed sea ice either side of the channel, and the lower albedo of the churned up ice:
Breaking ice in the Ross Sea, Antarctica Copyright © Marlo Garnsworthy
Because they reflect so much solar radiation, our polar regions help keep our planet cool and regulate our global climate.
Open water has low albedo and absorbs more energy from the sun. As sea ice melts, creating more open water, more sunlight or solar radiation is absorbed. As more solar radiation is absorbed, more ice melts, and so on… Albedo is lowered, and things start hotting up—literally. We need our vital sea ice to help keep our planet cool.
Kevin Pluck has created a new animation, and this one is a masterpiece. It shows the correlations between the rise in carbon dioxide concentration in our atmosphere, the rise in global temperature and sea level, and fluctuations (and decrease in) sea ice cover over time.
Current Sea Ice Conditions:
Spring as seen in the #Arctic #SeaIce extent November and Dec 2017. left is sea ice concentration, right the anomaly compared with a mean from 1989-93. pic.twitter.com/4nKrCqPwzc
— Mark Brandon (@icey_mark) December 8, 2017
Ice in the Chuchki Sea between Alaska and Russia is at a record low extent for this time of year. Overall, Arctic sea ice is at its third lowest recorded extent for November.
Spring as seen in the #Antarctic #SeaIce November and Dec 2017. left is sea ice concentration, right the anomaly compared with a mean from 1989-93. pic.twitter.com/7IRRBacHim
Sea ice in the Antarctic in November was at its third lowest average monthly extent.
I am devoting this week’s ice post exclusively to sea ice, so no Glacier or Iceberg sections this week.
And while I’ve decided not to post it here, you may have seen the gut-wrenching video of a starving polar bear making its rounds on social media this week.
I’ve since read this interesting thread about that polar bear, which you can read in its entirety if you click through. In short, the bear may have had some other disease contributing to its demise.
That bear's in rough shape, no doubt about that. There have been photos and videos of emaciated PB going back 10 years, at least. And some PB have been starving for as long as PB have existed. I suspect that one has other issues, which I'll get into below.
— Jeff W. Higdon (@jeffwhigdon) December 9, 2017
I mention this because science communication needs to be accurate. This sums it up:
If the stories that we tell seek ONLY to elicit sympathy (or funds), and are not supported by data, and science, how can we continue to ask for trust? And how can we expect to get it? 2/2
— Aidan Gowland (@AidanGowland) December 10, 2017
So, I am seeking other opinions from polar bear scientists about that video.
Andrew Derocher is biological sciences professor at the University of Alberta and has studied polar bears for 34 years.
Svalbard sea ice at record low for this date. Last week, the ice was low but nowhere near this – suggests thin ice. Less habitat for ringed seals: main prey of #polarbears. Consequences are understood. No ice, no ringed seals, thus no ice bears. https://t.co/yQI0wWsSe7
— Andrew Derocher (@AEDerocher) December 4, 2017
Sea ice in Hudson Bay spot on average (1971-2000). Bodes well for the #polarbears there for this year. Long-term trend, however, isn't good for the bears here (or across the Arctic). pic.twitter.com/M08BTTGy3I
There’s no doubt that polar bears (and other species) are suffering due to loss of Arctic sea ice.
These are some of the real-world consequences of the loss of our vital ice, in a world warming due to a rise in greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere by human activity.
This week’s post is dedicated to my friend Vanessa and her family who lost their home in the Ventura fire, fleeing with only the pajamas they wore on Tuesday. Please visit our GoFundMe campaign to learn more.
This Week in Ice: Nov. 26-Dec.2
December 3, 2017 December 4, 2017 / wordybirdsci / Leave a comment
HAPPY ANTARCTICA DAY (for Friday, Dec. 1)!
On December 1st, 1959, the nations of the world came together to sign the Antarctic Treaty, which says that “in the interest of all mankind that Antarctica shall continue forever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene or object of international discord.” To me, Antarctica is ever a sign of hope—that humanity can work together for good.
Juvenile emperor penguin, Ross Sea Copyright © Marlo Garnsworthy
But this year’s Antarctica Day was especially momentous. Yesterday, the world’s largest marine reserve came into effect. The Ross Sea Marine Protected Area covers 598,000 square miles and was created by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources—the 24-nation body overseeing Antarctic waters. Cause for celebration indeed!
Endurance swimmer, marine lawyer, and ocean advocate Lewis Pugh engaged in multiple bone-chilling swims in Antarctic waters to gain global support for the protection of the Ross Sea.
Credit: Kelvin Trautman
“Over the past 30 years I’ve seen the devastating impacts of over-fishing and climate change on our oceans,” said Lewis. “If we allow the Ross Sea to go the same way, its unique riches may be lost forever. My hope is that these symbolic swims will bring the beauty and wonder of Antarctica into the hearts and homes of people around the world so they will urge their governments to protect this unique ecosystem, which is truly a polar Garden of Eden.”
Thank you for your tireless and extraordinary efforts, Lewis Pugh!
This week, I also met with filmmakers Stephen Smith and Diana Kushner to talk about their Enduring Ice project. With a very small team, they undertook an incredible adventure in the Arctic this past summer to draw attention to the importance of Arctic sea ice for balancing our climate.
Credit: Stephen Smith
Starting only 500 miles from the North Pole, in three kayaks, they paddled and portaged south between the Canadian and Greenland coasts to make their upcoming documentary. I will be sharing my full interview with Diana and Steve soon.
I salute and am inspired by Pugh, Smith, Kushner, and their support teams—remarkable people working tirelessly for our vital polar regions.
Meanwhile in the Arctic, a new international agreement closed the Central Arctic Ocean—1.1 million square miles—to fishing for 16 years so that adequate research may be carried out to determine if commercial fishing would be sustainable.
After 16 years, the pact will increase in 5-year increments, unless science-based limits on fishing and management are adopted or a country objects.
So, it’s been a great week for conservation of our polar regions!
Kevin Pluck has produced another excellent animation showing the decline in global sea ice extent (since first satellite records to present).
Global Sea Ice Area Spiral November 2017 #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange pic.twitter.com/BgWWjvCM5u
— Kevin Pluck (@kevpluck) November 30, 2017
The freeze up in the Arctic is proceeding slowly:
Daily animation of the record slow #seaice freeze-up in the Bering and Chukchi Seas.
More information available from @NOAAClimate at https://t.co/9xl5Dw4JkF pic.twitter.com/cmQ7ScctQT
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) November 30, 2017
And sea ice extent is low:
Sea ice in the #Arctic currently ~1.25 million km2 below the 1981-2010 median. This is Nov extent, and the anomaly this Nov compared with the 1989-93 mean on the same day. pic.twitter.com/lBVaFDb0Jm
— Mark Brandon (@icey_mark) November 30, 2017
NSIDC
A look at the loss of thicker (usually older) #Arctic sea ice in Octobers from 1979-2016 (PIOMAS, ice < 1.5 meters masked black) pic.twitter.com/BtHCwVUdKk
This week also saw abnormally warm weather in parts of the Arctic.
About 15°C warmer than average 2004-2013 over #Greenland and the #Canadian #Archipelago. pic.twitter.com/JsGxwXSOap
— Polar Portal (@PolarPortal) November 30, 2017
Due to fierce storms and warm Pacific waters, Arctic sea ice off Alaska has hit record lows and Alaska’s coast is vanishing as sea ice disappears.
Antarctic sea ice is also lower than normal:
sea ice in #Antarctica currently ~1.2 million km2 below the 1981-2010 median. This is Nov extent, and the anomaly this Nov compared with the 1989-93 mean on the same day. pic.twitter.com/Dck3tyAydP
The Weddell polynya (an area of open water within the sea ice) is still in existence.
This is the #WeddellPolynya in #Antarctica. From end July 2017 to 29 Nov 2017. On the left the sea ice extent, on the right the anomaly compared with the 1989-93 mean on the same day. pic.twitter.com/4KBxF1SKCa
Melting sea ice could mess up deep sea chemistry.
And why, in a warming world, does Antarctic sea appear to be increasing in places?
NASA’s Operation IceBridge continues to provide spectacular images from Antarctica. One of my favorites this week over the Ross Ice Shelf:
From yesterday's #IceBridge flight over Antarctica: Wave clouds over the Ross Ice Shelf pic.twitter.com/CHa8TJDyq0
— NASA ICE (@NASA_ICE) November 30, 2017
The largest glacier in East Antarctica, the Totten glacier, is melting:
The iceberg formerly known as B-44, which calved from Pine Island Glacier—Antarctica’s fastest melting glacier—back in September and then quickly broke up, has further disintegrated.
Image contains modified Copernicus Sentinel-1 data from ESA.
Scientists are concerned because they’re seeing a change in the calving pattern and in the glacier’s advance and retreat. An ice shelf is a platform of floating ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet floats to the coastline and onto the sea’s surface. Dr. Robert Larter, a marine geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey says,
“If the ice shelf continues to thin and the ice front continues to retreat, its buttressing effect on PIG will diminish, which is likely to lead to further dynamic thinning and retreat of the glacier. PIG already makes the largest contribution to sea-level rise of any single Antarctic glacier and the fact that its bed increases in depth upstream for more than 200 km means there is the possibility of runway retreat that would result in an even bigger contribution to sea level.”
A very large iceberg also broke off Chile’s Grey Glacier.
A study led by the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and co-authored by an international team of researchers analyzed 90 blogs that cover climate change. 50% were science-based and 50% were climate change denier blogs, and these two groups had very different opinions on polar bears and Arctic sea ice extent.
First author Jeff Harvey from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology said,
“We found a major gap between the facts from scientific literature and the science-based blogs on one hand, versus the opinions ventilated in climate-change denying blogs on the other.”
They found that about 80% of the denier blogs relied on a single denier blog as their source. This source blog was written by a single author who had not conducted any original research or published articles in peer-reviewed literature. They found a lack of evidence and expertise, as well as personal attacks against researchers, are common among such climate change denial blogs. Jeff Harvey said,
“This is a very dangerous gap, as these blogs are read by millions.”
This week, to celebrate Antarctica Day and the Ross Sea Marine Protection Act, I ran a competition. I asked people to tell me why Antarctica is important. I got some excellent responses, which I will post in the next few days. Thank you to everyone who participated! You will all be receiving a large postcard print of my Gentoo penguin piece at the top of this post.
As always, I am not a scientist, but a writer/illustrator and science communicator passionately in love with sea ice. I welcome input and corrections by polar scientists as I learn more about this remarkable and vital part of our planet and bring this knowledge to a wider audience.
In the Belly of the Southern Ocean
November 28, 2017 / wordybirdsci / 3 Comments
Copyright © Marlo Garsnworthy
“Below 40 degrees south there is no law; below 50 degrees south there is no God.”
—An old sailors’ saying
Driven by strong westerly winds and unhindered by land to slow its flow, the frigid Southern Ocean races around the coldest, windiest, driest, and most remote landmass on Earth—the vast polar continent of Antarctica.
Via Google Earth
Between the latitudes of 40 and 50 degrees south is the realm of the “Roaring Forties. ” These powerful winds, first named by sailors who used them for fast passage around the globe, have long been known for their ferocious storms and treacherous seas.
Credit: Luke Zeller
South of 50 and 60 degrees respectively are the “Furious Fifties” and “Screaming Sixties,” where these conditions are even stronger.
Copyright © Marlo Garnsworthy
Here, a ship’s crew must not only battle waves that can be as high as multi-story buildings but watch vigilantly for icebergs and find safe routes through thick, ever-shifting sea ice that freezes and recedes with the seasons.
Here, even a well-quipped icebreaker—a ship especially designed to navigate ice-covered waters—can be incapacitated far from land or help. And it is here between 67 degrees and 54 degrees south—in the belly of the Screaming Sixties and Furious Fifties—that I spent six weeks aboard an icebreaker and research vessel.
My journey aboard the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, with researchers from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, the Marine Science Institute of UCSB, and the University of Otago, who studied aspects of diatom production, is the subject of the book I’m currently writing. This journey was funded by the National Science Foundation’s United States Antarctic Program. Special thanks to Dr. Rebecca Robinson for this extraordinary opportunity.
This Week in Ice: Nov. 19-25, 2017
November 25, 2017 November 26, 2017 / wordybirdsci / Leave a comment
This Week in Ice—Ice-pocalypse Edition!
At least, that’s I was going to call this week’s post. More about that in a moment.
But first, let’s dive under the ice…
This is the work of the Science Under the Ice team, taking pictures such as this:
Credit: Science Under the Ice
This Finnish research team has discovered that the ecosystem under the ice has changed rapidly, with far more species and greater numbers of individuals. Species that were once rare are now common and thriving under thinner ice that allows more light to pass through it, increasing the area’s productivity (growth of phytoplankton, the base of the marine food chain). The last couple of years, the ice has also broken out earlier than usual, and it’s likely these changes are effects of climate change.
Which brings us to the ice-pocalypse.
This week, Grist published a powerful article titled Ice Apocalypse by Eric Holthaus about the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers. Climate scientist Tamsin Edwards wrote this response, urging caution about predictions of the amount and speed of sea level rise. But there is no disagreement that sea level rise will happen—only how much and how soon.
I seem to be reading a lot of articles like this one about this report. It seems a hope-for-the-best-but-prepare-for-the-worst approach is needed when tackling the effects climate change and making policy. We also need to mitigate the effects of burning fossil fuels and releasing so much carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases) into our atmosphere.
Of course, phytoplankton—microscopic plants in our oceans—absorb carbon dioxide (just like other plants). But they are affected by ocean acidification… which is caused by burning of fossil fuels…
#Ocean #acidification in #Antarctic waters reduces removal of atmospheric #CO2 by marine microbes and their availability as food for higher organisms https://t.co/BdLqc2B8hl pic.twitter.com/iYO5cNZgLn
— Antarctic Division (@AusAntarctic) November 20, 2017
NASA’s Operation Icebridge continues to yield mind-blowing shots of Antarctica. Here sea ice is “finger rafting“—which occurs when thin, flexible ice floes collide, blocks sliding above and below each other in the pattern you see here:
Finger rafting of sea ice, Weddell Sea, Antarctica Credit: John Sonntag, Operation Icebridge
Current sea ice concentrations and extents in both the Arctic and Antarctic are well below median levels.
#Arctic sea ice extent approaching record minimum. Currently ~1.35 million km2 below 1981-2010 median extent. pic.twitter.com/sKjxYkXYTi
As temperatures warm and coastal sea ice melts, communities in places such as Western Alaska, which were previously protected from wave action at this time of year, are at greater risk of erosion and inundation.
The #Antarctic sea ice extent is currently ~1.2 million km2 below 1981-2010 median. Blog… https://t.co/pEjRfnzl3G pic.twitter.com/kYEjM2E8VU
The extent of #Antarctic sea ice ice this November is well below the 1981-2010 mean! https://t.co/sQwCGpyO1L https://t.co/E3bHn2x8gd … @icey_mark pic.twitter.com/SzmpwUBLdj
— Thomas Ronge (@RemoteLongitude) November 20, 2017
Mark Brandon gives an update on the Weddell polynya, which is still going strong. Watch it shift and flow at 12 o-clock in this animation:
The #WeddellPolynya #Antarctica on 23 Nov 2017. Blog post by @icey_mark https://t.co/WOiTMKC36z pic.twitter.com/BL0IKY8nm2
Glaciers and Ice Shelves
British researchers have mapped the sea bed beneath West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier, which, like the Thwaites Glacier, is accelerating. The terrain below the glacier affects how the glacier flows. Imagery shows a rocky region with mountains and deep scour marks. This data will help scientists predict how the glacier might behave in the future.
Credit: British Antarctic Survey
Scientists are measuring the heat emanating from a mantle plume beneath Antarctica and how this might effect the slipperiness of the base of the ice sheet, thereby affecting its reaction to climate change. (It wasn’t a leap to think that news about the volcano beneath Antarctica might be misinterpreted… But no, it doesn’t refute climate science.
The West Antarctic ice sheet underwent a rapid collapse during a previous warming event. Scientists are eager to know more about it to better their understanding of what might happen if/when it collapses again. Could octopus DNA teach us something?
Other scientists still are looking at how the “wobble” in Earth’s orbit may have affected ice sheets.
Back in July, a massive iceberg calved from the Larsen C ice shelf (picture below). What happens to the ice shelf left in the aftermath?
Among NASA’s Operation Icebridge photos this year, this view of massive iceberg A-68A, which calved from the Larsen C ice shelf in July, is one of my favorites.
Iceberg A-68A Credit: John Sonntag, Operation Icebridge
While I’m not intending Permafrost to be a regular feature of This Week in Ice, it is one of our planet’s ice features. As you may have heard, it is melting, too.
As the world warms, the fraction of the Earth where local temperatures make permafrost possible is shrinking. pic.twitter.com/dH3IfR2Vzv
— Robert Rohde (@rarohde) November 23, 2017
To finish off this not-named-the-ice-pocalypse edition, some delightful news. A small group of young Australians made history by becoming the first children to ever go to Antarctica. Lucky kids!
A group of Australian #school #students have made history becoming the first children to fly to and set foot on #Antarctica as part of the Australian #Antarctic Program. The students won a competition to name the nation’s new Antarctic icebreaker RSV Nuyina (noy-yee-nah). pic.twitter.com/FqxqQ9kJLU
And in case you missed it, this week, I shared why I am in love with sea ice.
Why Sea Ice?
November 19, 2017 November 19, 2017 / wordybirdsci / 7 Comments
Melting sea ice from above Copyright © Marlo Garnsworthy
I am in love with sea ice.
My first view of the ice came from a Hercules aircraft bound for McMurdo Station, Antarctica, in January this year, the first step in my voyage as Science Communicator for the SNOWBIRDS Transect research cruise aboard the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer.
But in preparing for my journey, I had been reading about sea ice for some time. Anxious about going to sea, I devoured as much information about the ship and the journey as I could to prepare myself. I soon came across this video by Cassandra Brooks.
I was hooked. While most of our voyage would be upon the wild Southern Ocean, well beyond the ice, I longed to experience sea ice as fully as I could.
Eager to know more about breaking ice, I came across this description of ice navigation (scroll right down) by Captain David “Duke” Snider. I don’t know how many times I listened to it and imagined crushing ice in the middle of the night, far from home and family, in such a remote and dangerous part of the world. Despite my trepidation, I couldn’t wait to go.
And I couldn’t get sea ice off my mind. The more I learned about this remarkable environment, the more I was enchanted.
You might imagine that the frozen seas are a barren and lifeless place, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Juvenile emperor penguin Copyright © Marlo Garnsworthy
Breaking ice in the Ross Sea, I saw Adélie and emperor penguins, Weddell and crabeater seals, skuas (a gull-like seabird), snow petrels, Antarctic petrels, orcas on the hunt, and more. But I knew so much more lay beneath the surface.
Sea ice is a vital habitat for the growth of phytoplankton, tiny plants (mainly algae and bacteria). Beneath the ice, zooplankton (tiny animals) drift, providing nutrition for krill and the larger animals that feed on them, such as fish, penguins, seals, and whales. During the eternal days of a polar summer, when the sun never sets, phytoplankton bloom in this nutrient- and light-rich environment, reproducing exponentially until the water can appear green and soupy.
The base of the marine food chain, phytoplankton not only feed our oceans but provide about the half the oxygen we breathe. They also act as a carbon sink, taking up massive amounts of carbon dioxide—a major greenhouse gas—from our atmosphere.
Crabeater seals resting on the sea ice, Ross Sea Copyright © Marlo Garnsworthy
Sea ice provides a safe resting place close to food for birds like penguins, mammals such as seals, and in the Arctic, walruses and polar bears. Some species also give birth on the sea ice.
The physics of sea ice are fascinating, too. Ice grows, shifts, flows with ocean currents, cracks, and melts, ever changing. In fact, sea ice has a direct impact on ocean currents because, as salty sea water freezes, brine is pushed out of the ice and trickles down through brine channels into the sea water below. The resulting extra-salty sea water is heavy and sinks, causing currents that drive ocean circulation worldwide.
Weddell seals rest beside a lead (open crack) in the ice. Copyright © Marlo Garnsworthy
Sea ice has high albedo, meaning it has a bright surface, reflecting around 80% of the sunlight that strikes it. Sea ice is vital in helping keep our planet cool enough for habitation and regulating our climate.
Penguin watching requires sunglasses due to the high albedo of sea ice. Copyright © Marlo Garnsworthy
I will be exploring in more depth the physics, ecology, and importance of sea ice in posts to come.
Yes, I am passionately in love with sea ice, and it’s my greatest dream to return to the ice, accompanying scientists aboard an ice cruise. I hope readers will come to love it, too, and help me fight for it. Our vital sea ice is melting, and without it, our world will be a very different place.
Adélie penguins and skuas at dawn, Ross Sea Copyright © Marlo Garnsworthy
This Week in Ice: Nov. 12–18
November 18, 2017 November 18, 2017 / wordybirdsci / 1 Comment
This week, NASA’s Operation Icebridge offered us more spectacular views of Antarctica. Operation Icebridge uses research aircraft to capture images of Earth’s polar ice “to better understand connections between polar regions and the global climate system. IceBridge studies annual changes in thickness of sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets.”
This is one of my favorites:
From yesterday's #IceBridge flight: Edge of the Ronne Ice Shelf at the end of the sea ice line. pic.twitter.com/UfJaPruCvu
— NASA ICE (@NASA_ICE) November 5, 2017
Sea ice extent and concentration in both the Arctic and Antarctic remain well below average. You can read a full summary of October’s Arctic and Antarctic sea ice conditions here.
Arctic sea ice grows rapidly at this time of year. October’s Arctic sea ice concentration was the fifth lowest on record for that month (satellite data from 1979 to present).
Current conditions:
Unlike Antarctic sea ice, which is usually only one to two years old due to seasonal melting, Arctic sea ice can last for multiple years. This animation shows how older Arctic sea ice is now thinning and melting.
As days lengthen and temperatures increase in Antarctica, with the approach of the Austral summer, sea ice melts. October was tied with 2002 for the latest maximum sea ice extent and the second lowest Antarctic maximum extent (satellite data, 1979 to present).
This one by Zach Labe shows more data:
#Antarctic sea ice extent falling well below average once again – although larger than last year at this time
Data: https://t.co/DjgGtXmKzR pic.twitter.com/8pBmhTOfjz
Wind has a large role in sea ice formation, comparable to or even more important than temperature and rain says researcher Massimo Frezzotti. This research explores the processes that have affected sea ice variability, as well as the abundance of seals and penguins in the Ross Sea, over the last ten thousand years.
Antarctic krill under ice Copyright © Marlo Garnsworthy
Krill are small shrimp-like crustaceans and a vital link in marine food chains. Antarctic krill, depicted in my painting, feed sea birds, penguins, seals, and whales.
A study in the Weddell Sea has shown that sea ice is a critical habitat for krill larvae during winter, and they find refuge from predators under the ice. But while it may be safer, it is not a food-rich environment. Krill do graze under the ice during the day, then at night drift down and away to more favorable feeding zones.
This graphic shows how land ice has decreased in Antarctica and Greenland from 2002 until the present.
Dramatic cryospheric transformations in a changing climate. Latest #EGUCryoBlog: https://t.co/7F5tOtkLtS Animation: @ZLabe #climatechange #cop23 #greenland #antarctica pic.twitter.com/QawSsikFiM
— EGU Cryosphere (@EGU_CR) November 15, 2017
One of the numerous reasons we should care about ice loss is that melting ice sheets not only raise sea levels but will have an effect on tides the world over. New research shows that, as ice sheets melt, sea levels don’t rise evenly across the world, and it matters which glaciers melt. In some places tide ranges will be increased, and in others reduced, thereby impacting coastal communities. These changes could also have an effect on larger scale ocean currents. Ocean currents affect our global climate, among other things. (Sea ice also has an effect on ocean currents, a subject I’ll be exploring in weeks to come.)
NASA has provided a new tool to show how sea level rise may affect 293 coastal cities around the world.
The Pine Island Glacier, which flows into West Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea, makes the biggest contribution to sea level rise. This is the same glacier that carved a massive iceberg, four times the size of Manhattan back in September (and a mere month later, it broke into pieces too small to track). Here, warmer waters interact with floating ice, weakening the ice shelf from below.
Watch an Alaskan glacier retreat over time:
Following-up on @TimBartholomaus's post on Columbia Glacier… retreat up to 2012 by @iamdonovan via @NSIDC. >25 km retreat since 1980s & still going! pic.twitter.com/Ukd813ZR1n
— Ellyn Enderlin (@glacier_doc) November 14, 2017
Thanks to Operation Icebridge, we have our first closeup views of massive iceberg A-68A, previously only seen via satellite imagery.
From yesterday's #IceBridge flight: The western edge of iceberg A68, which calved in July; new edge of Larsen C Ice Shelf in the distance pic.twitter.com/DsCoSLWDbU
Credit: NASA/Nathan Kurtz
Scientist Stef Lhermitte notes further cracks in the Larsen C ice shelf, from which A-68 (the initial even larger iceberg) calved back in July.
The remaining rifts in #LarsenC after iceberg #A68 broke off can be seen clearly in #Landsat8 of 10 Nov. How long before they produce new icebergs? pic.twitter.com/w3xhA80bUb
— Stef Lhermitte (@StefLhermitte) November 16, 2017
In the absence of any other significant iceberg news, I offer this picture of a wind-and-sea-tossed iceberg I took during a gale in Antarctica’s Ross Sea. Note the blue ice to its left. Blue ice looks that way because, over thousands of years, it has become very compressed, pushing out the air bubbles that give ice and snow its white appearance. Blue icebergs consist of very old ice, which has calved from glaciers and ice shelves into the sea.
And to finish, I hope you’ll enjoy this excellent series of short videos, showing how satellites have been monitoring life on Earth for over 20 years.
Our Living Planet: The View of Life from Space
This Week in Ice: Nov. 5-Nov. 11
Active volcano Mt. Erebus and the frozen Ross Sea near McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Copyright © Marlo Garnsworthy
This Week in Ice—Volcanoes!
The most sensational polar news this week was this study by NASA scientists, who say a mantle plume almost as hot as the Yellowstone supervolcano is beneath Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica. A mantle plume is a domed upwelling of magma beneath the earth’s surface. It’s what creates Yellowstone’s geothermal features—such as geysers like the iconic Old Faithful, steam vents, mud pots, and hot springs. The mantle plume beneath Marie Byrd Land is causing some melting of the ice from below, creating lakes and rivers beneath the ice.
This mantle plume isn’t new. In fact, it formed 50 to 110 million years ago. And it isn’t an increasing threat, according to NASA. But it may help explain why the ice sheet collapsed so rapidly during warming of the climate at the end of the last ice age, around 11,000 years ago. Now we are in a new era of rapid warming, ice sheets are increasingly thinned and weakened, the forces of human and geothermal activity working in concert against vulnerable ice shelves, it appears.
Prepare to be mesmerized by another stunning sea ice visual by Kevin Pluck (who was featured on Vox this week—check it out).
Global Sea Ice Area Barrel October 2017 #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange pic.twitter.com/Vmgb5ozSxr
— Kevin Pluck (@kevpluck) October 31, 2017
Earlier in the week, Kevin warned me that this month’s data was looking troubling, with a sudden sharp decline in global sea ice concentration:
Let’s zoom in a little. That red line at the bottom represents this year.
Kevin also created this look at the changes in carbon dioxide—a major greenhouse gas—over time.
CO₂ concentration and temperature #COP23 pic.twitter.com/7smCdJxynj
— Kevin Pluck (@kevpluck) November 7, 2017
It’s no wonder our planet’s ice is melting, is it?
If you’re interested in comparing sea ice extent on certain dates, there’s this handy tool.
Check out the @NSIDC sea ice comparison tool. Pick two dates to compare sea ice extent. #Arctic #Antarctichttps://t.co/P09dyrvCTJ pic.twitter.com/IMFxMbgVfh
— NSIDC News (@NSIDC) November 3, 2017
Ice Shelves & Glaciers
Last week, I talked about the fact that Antarctica’s Totten glacier is melting from below. The same thing is happening to Greenland ice sheets.
I can’t stop watching these fascinating GIFS of Antarctic ice provided by CNRS Research scientist Simon Gascoin.
Thwaites Glacier ice shelf:
Thwaites glacier ice shelf from 214 Sentinel-1 HH images (Feb 2015 to Sep 2017) @ESA_EO @CopernicusEU
Update of https://t.co/KB9n0hBZI1 pic.twitter.com/97HqecAnnF
— Simon Gascoin (@sgascoin) October 24, 2017
Larsen C ice shelf:
Update to #LarsenC : the Movie 🎥#Sentinel1 @CopernicusEU pic.twitter.com/04alyViUla
— Simon Gascoin (@sgascoin) November 10, 2017
Pine Island Glacier:
#Sentinel2 is back in Antarctica! Latest view of Pine Island ice shelf on Oct 13.@CopernicusEU @ESA_EO @AntarcticPIG pic.twitter.com/3f5RjTw2Cq
— Simon Gascoin (@sgascoin) November 7, 2017
A sneak peek at part of an illustration from Volcano Dreams
Alas, this week’s This Week in Ice is much abbreviated due to an impending book deadline. And it’s all about a supervolcano!
Volcano Dreams—a story of the Yellowstone supervolcano and the area’s fauna, by award-winning author Janet Fox and illustrated by me—is set for release on September 25th, 2018, from Web of Life Children’s Books! Huzzah!
I’m looking forward to soon sharing my process for creating the images for this book, which included a week-long visit to Yellowstone in early June for research.
And I look forward to being back very soon!
This Week in Ice: Oct. 29–Nov. 4, 2017
November 5, 2017 November 5, 2017 / wordybirdsci / 1 Comment
Photo taken by me, Southern Ocean, February, 2017
This Week in Ice began with news that, due to the “Halloween crack,” there would be no winter over at the British Antarctic Survey’s Halley VI Research Station. The station has already been moved fourteen miles across the Brunt Ice Shelf, but the fracture, which formed on Halloween last year, has been steadily growing. Spooky, indeed.
Sea Ice:
Kevin Pluck has produced yet another great visual showing the variability and overall decline of sea ice cover (since it has been observed by satellites).
Global, Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Area Spiral October 2017 #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange pic.twitter.com/xqnIf59CrY
Let’s hope the continuous data record of polar sea ice isn’t interrupted. Ageing satellites are putting this record at risk.
The extent and concentration of sea ice in the Arctic. Note the orange line representing the median ice from 1981-2010. (NSIDC)
The National Snow and Ice Data Center is reporting “the second-lowest and second-latest seasonal maximum” (per the satellite record) for Arctic sea ice (in October). This GIF nicely demonstrates this long-term decline.
Year-to-year variability w/ long-term (satellite era) decline in October #Arctic sea ice thickness/volume. More info https://t.co/MJsb1hjtBx pic.twitter.com/dZ5o7hFeRe
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) November 4, 2017
Image credit: Kristin Laidre
NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) project is enlisting narwhals to help determine the relationship between warming water, melting ice, and Greenland’s coastal fjords. Sensors attached to the “unicorns of the sea” capture temperature, salinity, and depth data.
More news about Greenland in the Ice Shelves & Glaciers section below.
Ice extent and concentration. (NSIDC)
The Weddell polynya, a massive area of open water within the ice of the Weddell Sea, is still going strong. (It’s the dark blue patch in the ice toward the top of the image above.)
The NSIDC says that sea ice in Antarctica experienced a Bactrian—or double humped, just like the camel—maximum extent on October 11th and 12th. The first was on September 15.
Spot the blue camel hump:
This is the latest maximum on record (tied with 2002). It’s also the second lowest Antarctic maximum extent (per satellite records).
New mapping data shows that far more of Greenland’s glaciers are at risk for accelerated melting than previously thought.
Image credit: UCI
Ice shelves—floating ice surrounding land—act as a “safety band”, holding back ice flowing to the sea in glaciers. But Antarctic ice shelves are thinning and collapsing, and the Antarctic ice safety band is at risk.
Intensifying winds are hastening the melting of the Totten Glacier in West Antarctica by driving warmer water under the glacier, causing melting from below.
Credit: UT Austin/University of Texas Institute for Geophysics
A collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would have dire consequences for sea level rise.
West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) isn't friendly to 🇺🇸 for 🌊 rise. Focused ice mass loss from Pine Island, Thwaites glaciers reduces gravitational attraction, sloshes more ocean to N. America. #karma #HMHF #NCA4https://t.co/CQgyT6kkJL pic.twitter.com/AI3sjNlGS7
— Peter Neff (@peter_neff) November 3, 2017
In previous This Week in Ice posts, I’ve written about the B-44 iceberg, which calved in September but—a mere month later—broke into pieces too small to track.
Here it is on September 28th:
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.
And on October 23rd…
Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica recently had a large iceberg break off that just weeks later, then broke apart: https://t.co/qEbgsRP4xu pic.twitter.com/JoTkEncbK8
— NASA (@NASA) November 1, 2017
Marine Geologist Thomas Ronge gives a great account of the brief life and times of B-44.
And here are some incredible views of the Larsen C iceshelf and colossal iceberg A-68, which carved from it in July.
From yesterday's #IceBridge flight: Looking out from the sea ice to iceberg A68, which calved from Antarctica's Larson C ice shelf in July pic.twitter.com/0oq9dzUbz1
From yesterday's #IceBridge flight: The northern edge of massive iceberg A68, which calved off Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf in July. pic.twitter.com/qxcuuFS7tY
— NASA ICE (@NASA_ICE) October 30, 2017
Spectacular!
And a 400-meter iceberg has drifted into Tasmanian waters, off the coast of Macquarie Island, the first iceberg to be seen off the island in almost a decade.
Image credit: Tom Luttrell/Australian Antarctic Division
And then there’s this, which I thought was cool.
I made a quick loop of the last several days after seeing your post thanks 🙂 pic.twitter.com/89fL7BxTyZ
— YouStorm (@YouStormorg) October 31, 2017
Of course, the biggest news this week was the release of the Climate Science Special Report’s Fourth National Climate Assessment. Guess what? It’s us.
The World Meteorological Organization released its 2016 Greenhouse Gas report. This excellent short video explains the carbon cycle.
WMO releases Greenhouse Gas report at 1000 GMT on concentrations of CO2 and other heat-trapping gases in atmosphere in 2016 #COP23 pic.twitter.com/JN6NzG0Hkb
— WMO | OMM (@WMO) October 30, 2017
Carbon dioxide levels grew at a record pace last year.
Image: World Meteorological Organization
Glaciologist and climate scientist Peter Neff shares that 800,000 years of ice core data shows an off-the-charts increase in greenhouse gases.
Sharing from my expertise about #NCA4 topics.
I've worked with polar ice cores for 10 years. Ice cores give us 800,000 years of greenhouse gas history. Now we're off the charts. pic.twitter.com/pLCv8uW2LE
I’m on a deadline to complete the illustrations for a book about the Yellowstone supervolcano, so This Week in Ice is not as deep a dive as usual. But I did come across this interesting climate-related news. Previous eruptions of the Yellowstone supervolcano triggered volcanic winters.
I look forward to being back with more ice news in two weeks’ time.
This Week in Ice–Oct. 22-28
October 28, 2017 October 28, 2017 / wordybirdsci / 1 Comment
Antarctic Krill Under Ice Copyright © Marlo Garnsworthy 2017
Earlier this week, I thought this might be a quieter week in ice news. In fact, it has been anything but. Some of this news is very cool, and some may make you uncomfortable. Hopefully, it will inspire you to fight for our planet’s vital ice, for our oceans, and for our global climate.
Sea ice in the Arctic may be declining faster than previously thought. This GIF posted by Zack Labe will shock you:
The National Snow and Ice Data Center is reporting lower than average ice extent for this time of year.
The Norway Ice Service, too, is consistently reporting lower than average ice extent.
Scientists who drilled through sea ice were surprised to find an adult jellyfish (Chrysaora melanaster) drifting by. Scientists had previously assumed that only polyps (which release tiny baby jellyfish in the spring) survived the winter. Check it out! Amazing!
The sea ice at McMurdo Station has broken out earlier than usual.
Mark Brandon notes that a new polynya (an area of open water within the sea ice) has formed by the Rydberg Peninsula. Check out his cool GIF demonstrating this. He says this is fairly normal for this time of year and that it is a latent-heat polynya. A latent heat polynya is a coastal polynya, and it’s formed as winds push sea ice away from land. He tells me a much larger polynya has formed by the Dotson Ice Shelf, just as it did last year.
Brandon also suggests that the massive Weddell polynya, which has made the news the world over, will only be visible for about two more weeks, after which the sea ice will have retreated. This is a sensible-heat (or open-ocean) polynya, formed by the upwelling of warm water toward the surface, and after the ice has retreated, the processes that formed it will still be operating. (The Weddell polynya is the yellow patch within the dark red ice cover in the image above.)
Simon Gascoin produced this great GIF that shows the drifing of the Weddell polynya and surrounding sea ice.
The Weddell polynya could help us understand changing circulation currents in the Southern Ocean caused by Climate Change.
Land ice is formed by layers upon layers of snow, which become compacted over time. A new study discussed in this Scientific American article suggests that a combination of greater katabatic winds (downward and often very strong winds) and warmer air over Antarctica could reduce the amount of snow falling.
Like giant rivers of ice, glaciers flow toward the sea. The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers are accelerating rapidly. The speed of the Pine Island ice shelf (the floating ice where the glacier meets the sea) increased by 75% (between 1973 and 2010) due to warmer waters in front of it and increased calving of icebergs. (More on those in a moment.)
See GIFs of these glaciers by Simon Gascoin (which I’ve been unable to embed here, alas).
https://giphy.com/embed/l1J9MN7XA4Js04nJu
And then there was this, which had the ice scientists on Twitter abuzz this week.
Check out my new paper in @nature – Scars from icebergs record #Antarctic ice retreat at the end of the last ice age https://t.co/Pm1RGcG9G7 pic.twitter.com/VQCQowbbXp
— Matt Wise (@DrMattWise) October 25, 2017
Earlier in the week, we got this great image of huge iceberg B-44, which calved from the Pine Island Glacier back in September.
#Landsat8 shows the disintegrated iceberg #B44 near Pine Island Glacier in fascinating detail pic.twitter.com/h0v5iApnGP
— Stef Lhermitte (@StefLhermitte) October 26, 2017
Just when I thought there’d be no other significant news about icebergs this week, the US National Ice Center NOAA reported that this same iceberg has broken up into pieces too small to be tracked.
WOW! This blows my mind. When B-44 calved a few short weeks ago, it was three times the size of Manhattan. Is it normal for such a massive iceberg to beak up so quickly? I asked Stef Lhermitte.
It's unusual for PIG with, in the past (satellite era), larger icebergs for longer periods https://t.co/gyIPzH3BWk
Note: PIG = Pine Island glacier
A-86A on the other hand is still largely intact.
And I was excited to come across this list of tabular icebergs. Icebergs are either tabular or non-tabular. Tabular icebergs have steep sides and a flat top and can be very large—or downright enormous. They’re formed by ice breaking off an ice shelf. The largest tabular iceberg on record is B-15 (which calved in 2000). It was a whopping 11,000 sq. kilometers (4,200 sq. miles) or almost as big as Connecticut.
What happens to a huge iceberg like B-15 over time? NASA’s Earth Observatory shared that with us this week, plus this fab image of four huge icebergs near the Weddell Sea.
Effects on Marine Life
Warmer and more acidic waters are evicting their inhabitants.
More acidic oceans will affect all marine life.
As sea ice melts, walruses are forced to spend more time on land. This effect of Climate Change has had terrible consequences in Siberia with the death of hundreds of walruses, which were driven off a cliff by polar bears.
And in a devastating blow, there will be no new marine sanctuary in the Antarctic. Tragic.
An Australian research team has determined that coal use will have to be “pretty much” eliminated by 2050 to have any chance of stopping sea level rise.
New York could see bad flooding more often.
And while this is not ice news, I felt it important to bring attention to a local story with far-reaching implications. This week in Rhode Island, three EPA scientists, who were slated to speak at a conference about (among other things) the effects of Climate Change on Narragansett Bay and its watershed and this report, were prohibited from speaking by the EPA. This news made The New York Times and The Washington Post among others. The Executive Director of Save the Bay made this statement. Happily, this story even caught Stephen Colbert’s attention, bringing this travesty to a much wider audience:
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Projects April 25, 2014 June 13, 2014
Taking Off at Runway Incubator
The “Igloo,” where workers at the incubator tend to “camp out.” Image by Eszter + David, courtesy of FME.
Runway is an invitation-only, startup incubator that occupies 30,000 square feet of the Twitter building in San Francisco. It stands out to us for the way that it looks and, we’re told, feels much more like a community than a workspace. According to Eric Ibsen, Chief Design Officer at FME, his team looked to an “airport runway model of generous proportions” to inspire the center circulation zone. “Like an airport, there are opportunities for casual meetings which are both private and completely out in the open, by virtue of the extra elbow room,” he said.
We shot a few questions Ibsen’s way to learn more:
What is it about the space that you think makes it more communal than just any old incubator?
Unlike most co-working/accelerator/incubator spaces, there’s more physical room at Runway. In contrast to the high-density model of many concepts, the concept here is that some kinds of development benefit from a greater degree of contrast between heads-down work areas and places designed for alternate working/learning/social modes. [The contrast] between spaces makes each more successful. The center aisle gets a lot of use and the sheer expanse of space is very freeing. As a result, it seems to us that the community develops and thrives based on people choosing to convene, collaborate, and socialize, not simply running into each other based on density and proximity.
What’s your favorite part of the finished project?
Most folks seem to talk about the “Igloo” as their favorite part of the project. The space is expansive enough to accommodate this room within a room and the shape of it is particularly inviting. We understand that it’s difficult to get people out of there once they get inside. Lots of “camping out.” We also have a “Snake” at the opposite end of the space made of the same material, a Seeyond product.
Image by Eszter + David, courtesy of FME.
What did FME do new and differently in this project compared to similar projects?
We held the center circulation zone as open space, patterning the dimension on an airport runway model of generous proportions. The natural bay spacing defines this zone but it took real effort to avoid the temptation to simply fill a portion of this space with more workstations. In doing this, the high-density bays to either side benefit from both the physical and psychological room afforded by this powerful unifying element. Like an airport, there are opportunities for casual meetings which are both private and completely out in the open, by virtue of the extra elbow room.
High-density desking contrasts with the wide-open center aisle. Image by Eszter + David, courtesy of FME.
What do you think is particularly forward-thinking about this project and what do you think it says about the future of tech design, and more generally, workplace design?
Compared to other technology work we’ve done, the luxury of the center zone adds a measure of relief that’s not possible in a typical high-density environment. There’s a level of civility that contrasts with the constant bustle of a space with no extra room. We think that there will be a move back towards some traditional design strategies as we learn how a fully open environment impacts productivity, retention, and recruitment.
Did you use a particular material or product in a really cool way in the project?
Our favorite materials in this project are the slatted wood ceilings and the sculptural meeting areas (by Seeyond). The existing building is concrete and we exposed that throughout the project in floors, walls and ceilings. Both the ceiling and meeting enclosure elements lighten the design, one with the natural appeal of wood, the other through use of a new, unexpected material.
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God's Big World
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Pink slip speech
Count the cost before mentioning Christ in a work environment where policy forbids it
Post Date: February 21, 2014 - Issue Date: March 08, 2014
(Krieg Barrie)
I stink nowadays at knowing what you are allowed and not allowed to say in public. So does Barbara Davis. On Aug. 31, 2011, her employer terminated her as administrative support assistant at Penn State University for not knowing that she couldn’t mention God in the office.
The 50-year-old single mother, whom I met two years into her ordeal, was devastated after being let go for “insubordination” and failing to meet HR-78 “standards of professional conduct.” During Thanksgiving season of 2009 the affable and simple-hearted Davis had thanked God in a departmental email and was promptly directed to remove the religious words (which she did) along with the following innocuous Longfellow quote: “Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.”
In May 2011, a colleague had approached Barbara’s desk, produced a dollar bill, and expressed his dislike of the phrase “In God We Trust,” which he turned into a discussion of gay marriage. Barbara was disagreeing when the supervisor walked in and placed her on termination notice, saying, “We just came out from a diversity event and look at what you’re doing!”
Barbara, like the present writer, does not have a sufficiently subtle mind to understand why quotes about God are bad but quotes about Gandhi are good. The latter crisscross unobstructed over Penn State’s campus. I drove out west for the principals’ side of the story but was told no one could speak to me because it was an “internal personnel” matter.
Bruce Barry understands. The author of Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace writes: “…the outcomes of cases involving workplace expression often turn on interpretations of vague and shifting standards, balancing tests designed to weigh competing interests that are inherently subjective, and the ever-changing happenstance of a court’s ideological composition at a given time.” “Vague,” “shifting,” “subjective,” “ever-changing.” No wonder Barbara and I are perplexed.
Silly Barbara, she thought Penn State’s Policy AD 29 Statement on Intolerance was implemented to protect people like her: “The Pennsylvania State University is committed to preventing and eliminating acts of intolerance by faculty, staff, and students, and encourages anyone in the University community to report concerns and complaints about acts of intolerance to the Affirmative Action Office.”
A former professor at Penn State who did agree to talk said I will never find out for sure why Ms. Davis was fired. “Why?” I asked. “They’ll make up some other reason; they’ll hide behind the ‘at will employment,’” the nationwide labor law that, with some modifications and exceptions, permits employers to fire for any cause or no cause. As John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute says, “Someone says anything that an employer or government official doesn’t like, and they’re gone.”
But doesn’t the First Amendment guarantee free speech? you ask. Answer: Not Barbara Davis’ conversations around her cubicle. The Constitution only protects Barbara’s right to expression from government interference, not from the restrictions a private boss may place. (Aside to reader: But don’t universities receive federal aid, making them quasi-governmental?)
Moral dilemma: If an employer may lawfully put restrictions on the speech of his underlings, should Barbara have abided by her supervisor’s wishes and refrained from mentioning God? What shall we answer? It is good to obey our “masters,” even harsh ones (1 Peter 2:18-20). On the other hand, Peter replied to the authorities who ordered him to desist from talking about God: “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:19-20).
One looks for justice on earth, but “the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he” (Habakkuk 1:13). This is what happened to Barbara Davis. After tossing and turning over the question of whether it is right to mention Christ in a work environment where policy forbids it, I have come to the conclusion that it is—as long as you have counted and accepted the likely consequences. For increasingly in the land of the free and the home of the brave, “all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Timothy 3:12).
Sequel: Barbara Davis now works in a pizza parlor and cleans houses.
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Ms. Seu seems to have drunk the Left's KoolAide, much as many evangelical Christians have bought into the Left's attempts to define separation of church and state as meaning a Christian only has the right to worship. The right of free speech is as near absolute a right as the Constitution gives. Your employer does not have the right to restrict your speech; does not have the right to say you cannot mention God's name. As long as you are adequately doing your job, you have the right to speak. Outrage, not craven submission should be the response. Know your rights.
InTheWorldNotOfIT
Here is the rule of thumb, in the work place you are paid to do a job. If a person wanted to know your personal thought then the conversation needs to be outside the office. Meet them for coffee and you can share the gospel a lot better than in a side conversation at the desk. At my job I have to be very careful of what I say because it can be construed as me creating a hostile work environment. However if they are insistent on knowing what I believe I will share very quietly or outside the office. You must give the devil his due. Paul was persecuted by the government for doing his job. He was being paid and supported by other believers to spread the gospel. The best way to spread the gospel at work is to be the best employee you can and to be transparent. There have been jobs I've worked in where the owner was a militant atheist and was frothing at the mouth when he found out I was a Christian. He found out through gossip but not through me proselytizing. At that job I would come in early and pray in the server room for everyone in that office. Eventually more Christians started to work in that office. We can be wise as a snake but as gentle as a dove. I find more people straight out ask me what I believe through this approach then any other. I now work with buddist and muslims who activily engage me in conversations about what I believe at work. Once they start the conversation and ask the questions and as long as I respectfully answer I cannot be accused of anything, especially if my work is done accurately and in a timely manor. My first obligation is to my employer as pointed out in 1 Peter 2:18-20, God will provide the opportunities for me to share the gospel and He's never failed at that.
World Observer
We might sum up our life purpose with, "Sing to the Lord, praise His name; proclaim His salvation day after day. Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous deeds among all people." (Psalm 96:2-3)Ms. Davis seems to be right with the program. We can be encouraged that the consequential cost of her faithfulness, in this temporary world, has been noted by the same ultimate eternal judge who inspired the Psalms.
I agree with the problems and issues presented here, but I cringed when I read the "aside to reader". It is this argument that is used against "us" to say that school voucher programs should not allow parents to use them at Christian schools. That same argument could be used to say that Christian universities either can't receive federal aid or must give up teaching from a decidedly Christian worldview (which is also changing with or without pressure from the government, but of course that is another topic often mentioned by WORLD). When it comes to federal funding, we can't have it both ways depending on when it bolsters our argument, even if it is a favorite tactic of our opposition.
wdane
BTW I wonder how many in a moment of surprise or anger use the word "God" automatically. Some call is swearing, but it is clearly breaking of their workplace law. Of course in an Alice in Wonderland world of "tolerance" that would not be interpreted literally. "Tolerance" has become a camouflage word to disguise intolerance of a particular viewpoint over a currently in favor viewpoint. Restricting free speech is movement on a slippery slope to dictatorship. It stops honest open discussion of differing viewpoints which is central to the process of self government of, by and for the people. Hope this practice in Universities across the land does not spread in the thinking of those being trained (I didn't say "educated") and infect our society at large (as it appears to be doing).
Janice G
There is no glamour in daily wearing a PC muzzle to work. Praise God that we still have some reasonable employers.
May the Lord bless Ms. Davis and give her contentment in the certain fellowship of His Spirit and His love. Yes, we must be ready to count the cost, and it does seem to be increasing in the American workplace. There is also Jesus' admonition to be innocent as doves and shrewd as snakes. It is a grey area that can test our willingness to compromise or hold fast to our faith. If we don't give up more than is right, I think we can be discerning and careful in being a witness in less direct ways and still honor the Lord and preserve the opportunity for future service that our employment may give us. On the other hand, we can trust the prompting of the Spirit to give us ideas and words that may put us in the same position of opposition to the world. Thank you for a encouraging and challenging article, Ms. Peterson.
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AeroMexico operates its last Boeing 767 revenue flight
AeroMexico (Mexico City) has retired its last Boeing 767. The carrier operated its last revenue flight with Boeing 767-3Y0 ER XA-MAT (msn 24947) as flight AM 29 on September 26, from Buenos Aires to Mexico City. Flight AM 29 arrived at 0720 (7:20 am) at MEX on the morning of September 27.
The last 767 was replaced by a newer Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.
AM first added the Boeing 767 in 1991.
Below Copyright Photo: Roy Lock/AirlinersGallery.com. Boeing 767-3Q8 ER XA-APB (msn 27618) painted in the original 1988 livery is seen at New York (JFK).
Top Copyright Photo: Ken Petersen/AirlinersGallery.com. Sister ship Boeing 767-352 ER XA-UTC (msn 26261) in the 2006 livery arrives in New York (JFK).
AeroMexico:
Airline Aircraft Type “Endangered Species List”:
This entry was posted in AeroMexico and tagged 26261, 27618, 767, 767-300, 767-352, 767-3Q8, AeroMexico, Boeing, Boeing 767, Boeing 767-300, JFK, New York, XA-APB, XA-UTC on October 5, 2015 by Bruce Drum.
Air Canada to transfer more winter routes to rouge
Air Canada (Montreal) is planning to transfer additional routes to its leisure subsidiary Air Canada rouge (Toronto-Pearson) (YYZ) for the upcoming winter season. According to Airline Route, the carrier will transfer or start the following routes:
Toronto – Sarasota/Bradenton (A319) (October 24)
Toronto – Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood (A319 and 767-300) (October 25)
Toronto – Panama City (767-300) (October 25)
Montreal – Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood (A319 and 767-300) (December 16)
Vancouver – Kona, Hawaii (767-300) (December 19)
Montreal – Tampa (A319) (January 15, 2016)
Montreal – West Palm Beach (A319) (January 15)
Montreal – Nassau (A319) (January 17)
Toronto – Barbados (767-300) (January 7)
Copyright Photo: TMK Photography/AirlinersGallery.com. Not operating under the rouge brand, Air Canada’s Boeing 767-3Q8 ER C-FJZK (msn 29386) waits for the next assignment at the YYZ base.
Air Canada slide show:
Air Canada rouge aircraft slide show:
This entry was posted in Air Canada, Air Canada rouge and tagged 29386, 767, 767-300, 767-3Q8, Air Canada, Air Canada rouge, Boeing, Boeing 767, Boeing 767-300, C-FJZK, Montreal, Pearson, Toronto, YYZ on July 27, 2015 by Bruce Drum.
El Al to start nonstop Boston flights on June 28
El Al Israel Airlines (Tel Aviv) will introduce nonstop Tel Aviv – Boston service on June 28. The route will be operated three days a week with Boeing 767-300 ER aircraft.
Copyright Photo: Paul Denton/AirlinersGallery.com. Boeing 767-3Q8 ER 4X-EAK (msn 27600) departs from Geneva.
El Al aircraft slide show:
This entry was posted in El Al Israel Airlines and tagged 27600, 4X-EAK, 767, 767-300, 767-3Q8, Boeing, Boeing 767, Boeing 767-300, Boston, El Al, El Al Israel Airlines, Geneva, GVA, Tel Aviv on January 8, 2015 by Bruce Drum.
Ethiopian Airlines to add Madrid on September 2
Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa) will add Madrid to its route map on September 2 via Rome. The route extension will be flown with Boeing 767-300 ER aircraft.
Copyright Photo: Paul Denton/AirlinersGallery.com. Boeing 767-3Q8 ER ET-ANU (msn 27993) prepares at land in Dubai.
Ethiopian Airlines:
This entry was posted in Ethiopian Airlines and tagged 27993, 767, 767-300, 767-3Q8, addis ababa, Boeing, Boeing 767, Boeing 767-300, Dubai, DXB, ET-ANU, Ethiopian Airlines, Madrid, Rome on June 10, 2014 by Bruce Drum.
Transaero to start scheduled Moscow-Taipei service on July 2
Transaero Airlines (Moscow) will start scheduled nonstop flights between Moscow and Taipei on July 2, 2014.
The UN 505/506 weekly flight will be operated from Vnukovo International Airport, Moscow, onboard Boeing 767-300 aircraft according to the following schedule (all times local):
Departure from Moscow depart on Wednesdays at 15.00, arrival in Taipei is at 06.50 the next day. Departure from Taipei depart on Thursdays at 09.40, arrival in Moscow is at 17.30.
Transaero Airlines flew its maiden charter flight from Moscow to Taipei in 2002.
Transaero is the only carrier to fly nonstop flights on the Moscow-Taipei route.
Transaero Airlines launched its flights in 1991. Transaero is the Russia’s second largest carrier. In 2013 the airline carried 12.5 million passengers. It ranks among the top 30 airlines in the world in terms of passenger turnover.
Currently, Transaero operates the fleet of 99 aircraft including 20 Boeing 747, 14 Boeing 777, 16 Boeing 767, 44 Boeing 737, three Тu-214, two Тu-204-100С. The airline is the largest operator of widebody aircraft fleet in Russia, the CIS and Eastern Europe. Transaero is the launch customer in Russia of the most modern aircraft such as Аirbus А380, Boeing 747-8I and Аirbus А320 neo.
The network of the airline includes more than 200 routes in Russia, Europe, Asia, Americas and Africa.
Copyright Photo: Richard Vandervord/AirlinersGallery.com. A dramatic takeoff view of Transaero’s Boeing 767-3Q8 ER EI-DBF (msn 24745) at Phuket, Thailand.
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This entry was posted in Transaero Airlines and tagged 24745, 767, 767-300, 767-3Q8, Boeing, Boeing 767, Boeing 767-300, EI-DBF, HKT, Moscow, Phuket, Transaero Airlines on June 5, 2014 by Bruce Drum.
Aeroflot Group to take control of Rossiya Airlines on March 30
Aeroflot Group (Aeroflot Russian Airlines) (Moscow) will assume full commercial control of Rossiya Airlines (St. Petersburg) on March 30, 2014. According to the group, this step “continues the process of the successful integration of the subsidiaries that Aeroflot acquired from State Corporation Rostec in 2011.”
From March 30, 2014 all flights operated by Rossiya Airlines will be designated by Aeroflot’s IATA code (SU), and the code of Rossiya Airlines (FV) will cease to be used.
The assumption of commercial control marks a key step toward the full integration of Rossiya into Aeroflot Group, and is expected to generate additional revenues through the sale of flights operated by Aeroflot subsidiaries through the Group’s more than 200 interline e-ticket agreements, further strengthening Aeroflot’s financial position.
Rossiya was established in 1992 and was previously owned by the Russian government as a state airline. It is unclear at this time if Rossiya will remain a separate airline under the Aeroflot Group or it will be integrated at some point into Aeroflot Russian Airlines.
Copyright Photo: Ton Jochems/AirlinersGallery.com. Rossiya’s Boeing 767-3Q8 EI-DZH (msn 29390) arrives at the popular resort of Antalya, Turkey.
Rossiya Airlines:
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This entry was posted in Aeroflot Group, Aeroflot Russian Airlines, Rossiya Russian Airlines and tagged 29390, 767, 767-300, 767-3Q8, Aeroflot Group, Aeroflot Russian Airlines, Antalya, AYT, Boeing, Boeing 767, Boeing 767-300, EI-DZH, Rossiya Airlines, Rossiya Russian Airlines on January 15, 2014 by Bruce Drum.
Belair Airlines to retire its Boeing 767-300 in January
Belair Airlines (airberlin.com) Boeing 767-3Q8 ER HB-ISE (msn 27600) ZRH, originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Belair Airlines (airberlin.com) (Zurich) is planning to return its Boeing 767-3Q8 ER HB-ISE (msn 27600) to the lessor in January when the lease expires. No long-range replacement has been announced.
Copyright Photo: Paul Denton.
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This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 27600, 767, 767-300, 767-3Q8, Airberlin, Airliners, Airlines, Belair Airlines, Boeing, HB-ISE, Paul Denton, ZRH, Zurich on October 29, 2009 by Bruce Drum.
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City: Houston
Escape game Spy Alley
Company: Escape Now
Success rate: 20 %
13243 Jones Road, Houston, TX 77070 (
Located in Cy-Fair Plaza Shopping Center across the street from Mazke Park, next to Del Pueblo.
Public Ticketing
Up to eight players
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I love how friendly the workers are, and really explain to you how the rooms work. It's pretty challenging but it was so worth it! Can't wait to go back again.
Spy Alley
There is a mole in the Paris field office of the CIA. The CIA has flown you and your team to Paris to figure out who the mole is. To protect the information one of the agents found about the mole, he installed a lockdown in the office. When you enter the field office the door locks behind you. You have 60 minutes to find out who the mole is and escape before the French police arrive to arrest you.
There are two identical rooms at the location. The second one is set in Rome and MI6 needs your help to find out who the mole is. This enables larger groups to split into two teams, play the same game and race to escape!
Reviews of escape game "Spy Alley"
We went to Escape Now and did the "Spy Alley" room. It was a ton of fun. The only downside is we were teamed with another group of four that took over. Despite this, it was still enjoyable and we'd do it again.
Didn't know what to expect, but I must say I am impressed! We tried the Spy room and I was pleasantly surprised by the intricacy of the clues, locks, puzzles etc. We were so close and we all had a blast! I am definitely coming back to try another room. Awesome rooms and staff!
Awesome time! Very challenging, but a blast for all ages and personalities! We escaped from our second room and can't wait for the new rooms! If you are looking for a unique night out, Escape Now!
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THOMAS HINE - SOME NOTION OR NOVELTY
This is the warm voiced Colorado native Thomas Hine's third album to come to my attention and will probably be commonly filed under 'Americana.' His songs certainly contain elements of both folk and country albeit with a unique melancholy that many aspire to but few manage to create as beautifully as Thomas has on this often restrained but powerful recording.
This is an album that I would definitely say is a 'grower' in fact almost defining that word as it slowly but surely draws the listener into an often pensive world, but a world that also includes an occasional comforting warmth in it's mellow sounds but lyrically dramatic intensity. The songs are in the main slow and wistful but in most cases the depth of the lyrics are a rude awakening from the almost intense melodicism. In some ways I'm reminded of an early stripped down Beach Boys and perhaps the High Llamas but with a much greater depth of lyricism and a sometimes folksy country edge.
The beautiful warm melodies and gentle tempo's belie the power of some of the songs on this addictive album that despite the mellow feel has surprises in every song, often just in terms of the arrangements or slight change in the instrumentation but always ensuring there is plenty of variety in the slow moodiness. Often an album such as this can just seem repetitive in terms of the slow tempo but that is not a problem here, with those changes bringing a diversity in the depth of colouration.
The lyrical content contrasts beautifully with the gorgeous mellow soundscapes created by the melodies. There is a powerful poeticism wrapped up in those lyrics that often tell of an almost overwhelming sadness and a loneliness that enables the exploration of human emotions, often trying to work out why people make each other suffer. There is a plentiful use of metaphor but, unusually, that is not the complete basis for the lyrics. The metaphor is used more as a clue or a key to the lyrics of particular songs and they are not too difficult to interpret, rightly or wrongly! The accuracy of the interpretations doesn't really matter a whole lot, simply because the clues are there and will take you in the direction you need to go which may well follow that which Thomas intended but just as likely, loosely so. These reflections on life are by someone who sees perhaps many of the human faults and frailties but doesn't even claim to have the answers. More a question of accepting regrets and imperfections as simply part of the human condition and setting them in an unusual ambient atmosphere.
Whilst individual songs can be listened to in isolation this is very much an album for listening to from start to finish, creating a beautifully flowing collection that, if not exactly an emotional roller coaster, is at least one where the emotions are often encouraged to gently rise and fall perhaps echoing what most of us would like our lives to be rather than the dramatic intensity that is contained in the lyrics and probably more accurately describes the lives of most of us.
Just like Juan Ortiz starts with a vocal harmony duet, with piano and dobro working beautifully together on a quite stunning, reflective ballad. There is a piano, percussion and guitar accompanying the flowing vocals and harmonies on Monsters, another excellent song, with an occasional chiming melodic guitar adding a little more colour on a song that is approaching mid tempo and can't really be placed in any known genre, although there is a vague folksiness in its makeup. La Belle Riviere is a real beauty of a song with its chiming melodic guitar accompanying a lovely accordion sound and a tremendous warm vocal performance from Thomas on a song that builds beautifully with mandolin and vocal harmonies lifting the tale to an almost 'high lonesome' rural feel. There is a restrained percussion, strummed guitars and piano with an occasional dobro accompany excellent lead and harmony vocals on The return (alternate) almost giving the composition a duet status. It is a gentle song but it does have its strengths in terms of melody and the excellent arrangement. The mandolin and dobro add some nice shades to The turn that time had taken, a mellow reflective ballad that rises and falls with the changes in instrumentation, with piano, guitar and bass, occasional flute and mandolin supporting the harmony vocals combining to give the song a quite epic feel.
To be honest my first impression as I listened to this album for the first time was that it is beautifully melodic and mellow, not always traits that attract me to a recording. Had I not played it again I would in all probability have looked back on it as 'pleasant,' if indeed I had looked back at all. In actual fact this is a tremendous album that has much to say both lyrically and musically. With repeated listening sessions it continues to repay with huge interest and I suspect will do so for a very long time to come. Buy the album, stick with it and you will get your rewards too!
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Wine-making secrets: Behind the scenes at City Winery
By NINA RUGGIERO Updated October 5, 2014 4:20 PM
Behind every bottle of wine is a long and complicated process. But at City Winery in SoHo, guests can opt to try it for themselves. We decided to dive in and get our hands dirty, and the rewards were fruitful, to say the least. Here's what we learned.
Choose your grapes
Photo Credit: Nina Ruggiero
These are Syrah grapes, sent to SoHo from Mendocino County in northern California. They are described as peppery, meaty and tannic.
Send them up, up and away!
Once they arrive at City Winery, the bunches of grapes are sent up a conveyer belt, and dumped into the destemmer.
Drop them into the destemmer
The destemmer removes the majority of the stems and leaves from the grapes. Stems are high in water and potassium, and, if left in, they take away from the wine's acidity and color. Leaves left behind would create a distracting aroma.
Sort out any extra MOG
MOG is a winemaker's term for "material other than grapes." After going through the destemmer, the grapes are hand-sorted, and any left-behind jacks (that's a winemaker's term for bunches of stems), leaves, and sometimes the occasional lizards and insects, are removed, along with any imperfect grapes.
What about the green ones?
The majority of the grapes in this wine are Syrah, but some Viognier grapes are added as well. This is a nod to tradition; the two varieties grow side by side in the Rhone wine region of France. The blending of complimenting flavors (Viognier has more of a peachy taste) also adds an extra layer to the finished product.
This is a Syrah wine. In the U.S., a wine must consist of at least 75 percent of one grape in order to take on its name.
It's time for fermentation
To kick off fermentation, yeast is added to the grapes and thoroughly mixed throughout the batch. In about one to three days, fermentation will begin. Our grapes will go through a cold fermentation, which takes longer than one done at a higher temperature.
What is fermentation?
Fermentation is the step in the process that converts sugar to alcohol. Yeast will break down the sugars in the fruit, producing carbon dioxide and alcohol, and pushing the skins to the top. Winemakers call the layer that rises to the top the cap.
Punch down the cap
The cap must be broken up and mixed in with the liquid several times every day so it doesn't dry out. This is called maceration, and it can a difficult and dangerous job, due to the strength of the cap and the massive amounts of carbon dioxide involved.
Keep it comin'
Once it's ready, more wine of the same variety will be added to the top of the tank. The dispensers are at the bottom, so the oldest wine can be poured first, of course.
Let it age
While some wines at City Winery are aged in steel tanks, others are aged in oak barrels in the cellar. Oak barrels add an extra dimension of flavor, and when treated correctly, they can last for 30 years. The amount of flavor and aroma they are adding to the wine, however, decreases with time.
You can visit City Winer to drink, dine, take in a show or make your own wine. Should you choose to make your own, you'll be involved in every step of the process, from selecting the grapes to designing the label for the finished bottle. Learn more at citywinery.com.
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Hyundai A-League 2017/18 Round 24 Preview – #ADLvNEW
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Marco Kurz says Adelaide United must show great concentration to overcome a tough Newcastle Jets outfit and was also confident his side’s fortunes will change in attack at Coopers Stadium.
The Reds will be desperate for the three points against Newcastle on Friday night, something they have not been able to secure in their past four matches this year.
Last round Adelaide played out a 1-1 home draw against Melbourne City, while the Jets won 1-0 in Wellington against the Phoenix.
Kurz anticipated Newcastle to persist with their all-out attacking style and was impressed with the Reds’ attentiveness during training in the build up to such an important game.
“Newcastle’s a strong team, they’ve played a fantastic season,” Kurz said in the pre-match press conference.
“They only play offensive, that’s the style from Ernie (Merrick) and from the team but we’re looking forward because I think in the last away game against them we played well.
“But we didn’t have the game luck with the decisions and now we feel confident.
“I thought the players this week were very focused and there were intense training sessions this week because every player is fighting for a position in the game.
“And that’s good because the quality is higher in the training.”
Despite Newcastle missing three first-team regulars in Dimitri Petratos, Roy O’Donovan and Nigel Boogaard for the clash, Kurz warned the Jets remain a very imposing outfit.
The ex-Schalke 04 defender added his team must play to their potential if they want to taste success tomorrow night.
“We expect a strong team, players like (Patricio) Rodriguez and (Ronald) Vargas are back and the squad is very strong from them,” Kurz admitted.
“They beat Sydney two weeks ago with ten men and they play for the first place.
“We are focused and the concentration must be very high for the ninety minutes if we want to have a chance of getting three points.”
The Reds have struggled to find the back-of-the-net with consistency this campaign and Kurz believed it was simply attributed to the final ball lacking polish.
However, he said he would be more concerned if his side were not creating good opportunities.
“I think it’s the quality in the last pass or the quality in the final shot,” he said.
“Sometimes it’s the experience, the calmness on the ball but for me it’s better to know that we have the chances.
“I think for a coach it’s not so good if you score no goals and have no chances.
“We have a couple of good chances in every game and we always work hard to make it better and try to score more goals.”
Adelaide United host Newcastle Jets in Round 24 of the Hyundai A-League 2017/18 season on Friday, 23 March at Coopers Stadium. Kick-off is at 7.20pm ACDT. Junior (6-14 years old) tickets are just $10 online or at the gate.
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5 broadcasting-related stocks to buy - Advice for Investors | Advice for Investors
5 broadcasting-related stocks to buy
The Investment Reporter •2/14/18 •
Here are five broadcasting-related stocks that offer capital gains potential over the next few years. We rate these five stocks as ‘buys’ but we’ve downgraded a blue chip television broadcasting stock to ‘hold’ because there are concerns the company is paying out too much of its cash in dividends rather than reinvesting it in the business.
Since our last update on broadcasting-related stocks in August, 2017, the 10 stocks we follow in our regular ‘Back Page’ feature have declined 2.0 per cent. The S&P/TSX Composite Index, meanwhile, has risen 7.1 per cent.
We expect broadcasting stocks will continue to face headwinds in the near term due to weak advertising markets. Then too, the industry faces uncertainty in the form of TV channel unbundling.
For these reasons, as well as concerns about its dividend, we’ve moved Corus (TSX—CJR.B) to a ‘hold’.
That leaves five of our broadcasting-related stocks on ‘buy’. Despite difficult industry conditions, we like our ‘buys’ for their attractive valuations.
Cogeco (TSX—CGO) expects to earn higher revenue and adjusted EBITDA in 2018, thanks to strategic investments in its communications segment. Both Cogeco and Cogeco Communications (TSX—CCA), therefore, are on ‘buy’, as is Evertz Technologies (TSX—ET), Newfoundland Capital (TSX—NCC.A) and TVA Group (TVA.B).
Corus may entertain you, but . . .
Corus Entertainment has undergone considerable transformation in recent years. In February 2016, this blue chip stock discontinued its Pay TV business, negatively impacting fiscal revenues. Two months later, Corus acquired all of Shaw Media Inc. from Shaw Communications Inc. for $2.7 billion, more than doubling its size.
This past October, Corus reached an agreement to sell its French-language specialty channels Historia and Séries+ to Bell Media for $200 million (pending CRTC and Competition Bureau approval), just four years after Bell sold its 50-per-cent stake in those channels to Corus as part of its Astral Media acquisition. Finally, Corus has announced a multi-year licensing agreement with Walt Disney Studios for broadcast rights to its Star Wars franchise.
Corus is a Canadian media leader comprised of 39 radio and 55 TV stations.
But recent financial performance has been disappointing. For the first quarter ended Nov. 30, 2017, Corus reported earnings per share of $0.38 (adjusted), compared with $0.41 in the same period of 2016. Street estimates had called for the company to earn $0.43 in the latest period.
Corus made gains in local radio advertising and its Nelvana content business. Plus, the company enjoyed better-than-expected subscriber revenues. But all this was offset by weak television advertising market conditions.
Consequently, consolidated revenues declined two per cent to $457.4 million. And consolidated segment profit was down seven per cent to $177.9 million.
The market reacted negatively to these results, knocking about 15 per cent off Corus’ share price. There are concerns the company is paying out too much of its cash in dividends rather than reinvesting it in the business. And judging by the stock’s high dividend yield of 12.2 per cent, investors seem to be saying that a dividend cut may be in store. We, therefore, now rate Corus a hold.
This is an edited version of an article that was originally published for subscribers in the January 19, 2018, issue of The Investment Reporter. You can profit from the award-winning advice subscribers receive regularly in The Investment Reporter.
The Investment Reporter, MPL Communications Inc.
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Rio 2016: How To Watch
Olympic Archery Rio 2016: How To Watch Olympic Archery
May 24, 2016 | Allison Jasper | News
Archery was the most-watched sport of the 2012 London Games, and the Olympics’ fandom is gearing up for another record-breaking year. Train your brain for Rio 2016 viewing with an inside look at the sport that captivated millions four years ago.
In Olympic archery, the target and shooting line (where archers stand to shoot) are 70 meters (about 76 yards) apart. The target measures 122 centimeters (about 48 inches) in diameter and includes 10 concentric rings, with each ring increasing in point value from 1 to 10. The innermost circle – the bull’s-eye – is worth the most points and measures about 12.2 centimeters across. That’s roughly the size of a CD or grapefruit. So three-quarters of a football field stands between you and a grapefruit-sized target. No problem, right? Ehhh, not so fast.
From the shooting line, Olympic-style targets like this appear as small as a thumbtack held at arm’s length. Photo Credit: World Archery
Olympic.org notes that from 70 meters, the entire target appears as small as a thumbtack held at arm’s length. A thumbtack! In other words, it’s small and pretty danged hard to see. Especially when you’re relying on the unaided eye (no magnification!) to see the target. This means you need sharp eyesight and precise shooting techniques to earn maximum points.
Earlier this year, Gillette World Sport interviewed U.S. archer and Olympic hopeful Zach Garrett, who highlighted the precision required on the archery range. Garrett offered an inside look at his medal-winning technique, and awesome technical gear available at the Olympic Training Center.
Garrett ranks second among the top eight male contenders for Team USA, following close behind Olympic silver medalist Brady Ellison. The key to his success? Sixteen years of dedication.
“If you do the technique the right way, the arrows will group close together,” Garrett told Gillette World Sport. “But if you mess up, then the arrow’s gonna go off. Very small differences in your technique make huge differences at 70 meters.”
The smallest change in grip, stance or release at the shooting line causes major differences at the target. “A couple thousandths of an inch, a millimeter, is going to move you well over 3 inches at the target face,” Garrett said. “That can be the difference between a lot of things.” Perhaps even the difference between a silver medal and gold medal.
The Telegraph notes that in the individual archery competition, a perfect score – achieved by arrowing only bull’s-eyes – is 720. That’s never been done, but the U.S. archers are trucking full-speed ahead. In this case, “full speed” is 150 mph.
Each time Garrett draws his bow, he loads energy into its limbs. When he releases the bowstring, the bow generates kinetic energy, which propels the arrow at 150 mph. But before he unleashes that kinetic energy, Garrett must channel his mental and physical energy.
The tiniest movement at the shooting line can cause over a 3-inch difference at the target face, so it’s important for Zach Garrett (seen here) to have a consistent stance, grip and release. Photo Credit: World Archery
“It takes a lot of mental energy to do something so repetitious 300 times a day, and then to go to a tournament and be able to do the same thing time and time again under a tournament pressure,” Garrett said.
Let’s break this down: If Garrett draws a 50-pound bow with each shot, and shoots 300 arrows a day, that equals 7.5 tons of draw weight – about the heft of an African elephant.
Precise muscle movements and body alignment make that possible. ESPN notes that athletes like Garrett and Ellison shoot by capitalizing on their bone structure, aligning their joints and arm bones to minimize muscle fatigue and maintain steady position.
Precise technique and a steady position at the line deliver precise shots and tight groups at the target. And that’s precisely what Garrett must do to take gold at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Follow Garrett and Team USA’s archery progress leading up to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games by visiting USA Archery.
Ready to flaunt your own precise shots and tight groups? Visit an archery store near you, or check out 360’s how-to section for tips on improving your technique.
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Mkhitaryan could miss EL final
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Last Updated: 17/05/19 11:46am
Henrikh Mkhitaryan could be forced to miss the Europa League final
Arsenal are in talks with Henrikh Mkhitaryan about whether he should be left out of the Europa League final trip to Azerbaijan over security fears, Sky Sports News understands.
Mkhitaryan's native Armenia have no diplomatic relations with Azerbaijan, who host the final against Chelsea in their capital city of Baku, due to conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The Gunners are also talking to UEFA, who have offered to help secure a visa for the midfielder to ensure he can travel in and out of the country.
Mkhitaryan has scored six goals for Arsenal this season
But Arsenal and the player are considering whether it would be safer for him not to travel to Azerbaijan at all as they finalise their security arrangements for May 29.
As 12,000 supporters from both English clubs prepare to descend on Baku, the Foreign Office has issued advice warning travellers they should take "sensible precautions".
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Arsenal have been furious that just 6,000 tickets have been allocated to each club's supporters for a 69,870-seater Olympic Stadium, showing concern over the logistical problems of fans travelling that far east and describing the situation as "unacceptable".
A club statement earlier this week said. "We have 45,000 season ticket holders and for so many fans to miss out due to UEFA selecting a final venue with such limited transport provision is quite simply not right."
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