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By Seth Sawyers
Sure, I tutored other kids during the free period after lunch. I took maybe not the hardest classes but the second-hardest classes. I started on English papers at midnight, nailed the SAT, was a Chemathon alternate. All of that came easy. That was school. But then there was not-school.
Not-school was my buddy Jesse and me sitting on his back porch one afternoon, staring at the netless basketball hoop that stood crooked at the head of the driveway. A cheap rubber Spalding rested in a patch of ivy, the top of the ball sun-bleached pale orange. I rocked in my chair, thinking of ways we could get a ride to the Constitution Park pool where there would be long, tanned girls in bikinis, girls who you could tell didn’t like getting their hair wet. But no one was around. We had no car and were too old for bikes. So we sat on the back porch, waiting. I was always waiting. It was just that Jesse made the waiting easier, or better. He made the waiting hum, like a power line.
Chelsey Clammer — The TNB Self-Interview
By Chelsey Clammer
So what, exactly, does “BodyHome” mean?
BodyHome means that our bodies are a type of home—that safe space we return to again and again in order to know who we are and who we have been. I’ve moved around a lot in my life and don’t have a “childhood home” to return to, so I look for my home in my body. It’s like if you can feel at home in your body, then you can feel at home wherever you are. Also, in the same way that an actual house can hold all of those memories, the body’s doing that, too. Right now. You’re breathing and it’s moving and when things happen to you—good or bad—your body will remember them and eventually start to talk about the memories through movements and gestures. In my writing, I’m always questioning “Where is the body in this essay?” It’s like our bodies are a great foundation and structure for spiritual and narrative growth—even if we’re just a little weed pushing itself up between a crack in a sidewalk in order to get some necessary sun, we’re keeping at it. Also, fun metaphors/comparisons: skeleton (of body, of house—our structure), insulation (does that word make me look fat?), plumbing (I almost pissed myself!).
Halle Butler: The TNB Self-Interview
There are a lot of conversations in this book. What’s your worst conversational habit?
I don’t like to talk about myself or what I’m doing because I find it embarrassing (or I’m afraid it will be embarrassing), and then I get annoyed when the person I’m talking to is going on and on about themselves, like I wish they were as embarrassed as I am, or like it’s impolite to not be embarrassed. But then I keep asking them questions about themselves, so what are they supposed to do?
The Net Rising Soundless as Night, the Birds’ Cry Soundless
By Alexus Erin
This here Wild West is
no reprieve, bearing all secret, no rule, fewest boundary
before transgression. A lark, his caw, makes good on the temperament:
A song whose words aren’t sung
dirge that swells- expands when we’re not careful,
pent and held in on the balls of our feet. The tightrope ballet. Mourning the living
will make you too tired to dance
It will make you graceless.
Excerpt of Jillian by Halle Butler
“And my boss was like, ‘We have to get this,’” said Carrie. “So we walked up to the guy and my boss was like, ‘I’ll give you fifty dollars for that llama,’ and he did it.”
“Oh my god, that’s hilarious,” said Jessica. “Steve, check out this llama at Carrie’s desk.” Jessica handed the phone to Steve. Everyone was smiling.
“That’s a life-size llama,” said Steve.
Sarah Gerard: The TNB Self-Interview
Sarah, tell me, is there anything more navel-gazing than a self-interview?
I was just wondering the same thing. If there is, I can’t imagine it.
Would you consider your inability to imagine it a personal failure?
One of many.
Excerpt of Binary Star, by Sarah Gerard
We hug the edge of the Earth all the way to L.A. We take turns choosing the music: John, me, John, me. We always end with John.
We play a game where I name a band and he names a band that ends with the last letter of my band. We play until we come around to bands we’ve named already.
We drive in circles whenever we leave the Pacific Coast Highway, not knowing where on Earth we are.
John reads to me from the books he bought in Portland.
All sentient beings have at least one right, he says.
He lights a cigarette and opens the window. Cold salt air rushes my face.
All sentient beings have the right not to be treated as property.
Do you ever feel like property? he says.
Robin Antalek: The TNB Self-Interview
Where have you been? Four years feels like a long time between books. Is that how long it takes you?
There was another manuscript I was working on for two of those four years – and I stopped when I found myself lost. I couldn’t figure out that spark of the story that had intrigued me in the first place. It was buried in multiple edits. Sometimes you have to know when to walk away.
So then you wrote The Grown Ups? New day, new idea?
I wish! I did the moping thing really well. I wasn’t pleasant to be around. I knew I would write again – but I didn’t know about what. The reality of my writing life is that I have trained myself to sit in a chair every morning, same time, to write. I had never experienced this scary lack of motivation, or the fear that I might not like the next idea either. It was like squinting into the sun. I had to face it – but I didn’t really want to.
Take a Penny, Leave a Penny
By Bud Smith
a) A stork flies over the lake, dropping a baby to a woman paddling a canoe. She catches it like a touchdown, but her oars slip into the water, and are lost.
1. Sometimes I feel like riding a steamroller over the graves, over the monuments, over the trophy cases. Compared to the river cutting the mountain in half, we flow only one way, too. Me and you, mountains and rivers all the live long day.
Excerpt of The Grown Ups, by Robin Antalek
Happy Birthday Suzie Epstein (Sam – 1997)
It was the summer all the children in the neighborhood caught a virus.
One by one they were felled for a week that involved buckets next to beds and cool towels to swab foreheads and mouths. Their mothers speculated the origin, placing silent blame on Suzie Epstein’s fifteenth birthday party, where Sarah Epstein, derailed by an argument with her estranged husband that took place in the front driveway of their home during the party, left twenty or so unattended teenagers to open all the cans of soda in the cooler and cut the cake, sharing forks and drinks and saliva with abandon. The bug spread so fast that Suzie Epstein’s party had taken on the mythic proportions of a bacchanalia, the gossip chain now fueled by exhausted women whose nostrils were lined with the sour smell of their children’s vomit.
In the evenings, when stomachs had quieted before the next bout began, women gathered on front stoops. If you looked down the street at dusk you would see an uneven trail of red dots, like a runway lit by a madman. Mothers, solitary and weary smokers, afraid to spread the germs to each others’ homes, called from porch to porch to check on the wellness of the children contained within. How’s Frankie? Ruthie? Bella? Peter? Did Mindy get it too? Has the fever broken yet? Do you need extra buckets? I’ll leave some on your porch.
Single Dads and Terrorists
By Sharon Harrigan
Before the Boston Marathon bombers were identified, my friend Genevieve said a prayer: “Please don’t let them be Muslims.” She is married to a Muslim man from Morocco. When they lived in America shortly after the World Trade Center bombing in 2001, he was routinely pulled aside by security officers because he “looked like a terrorist.” Now they live in Paris, and they hope that the recent shootings at the offices of Charlie Hebdo won’t cause another wave of anti-Muslim hysteria.
I hope so, too. But I know how easy it is to imagine the worst in people, once the idea that they’re dangerous is planted in our heads. It can happen to any of us. It happened to me.
Lynn Sloan: The TNB Self-Interview
Principles of Navigation tells the story of a marriage. Isn’t marriage a kind of ho-hum topic?
While I enjoy reading about a boy stuck on a raft in the middle of the ocean with a tiger as much as the next person, what I like best are novels and stories about people who are recognizable to me. We are all surrounded by marriages. Some of us are even married. Marriage is a fundamental institution. And marriage is a real cauldron. It can protect the individual and it can bury the individual.
Excerpt of The Principles of Navigation, by Lynn Sloan
A walk, that’s what he needed, and maybe he’d try to catch his friend Wolf for lunch. He might tell Wolf about the baby, even though he and Alice had discussed waiting another month, until the end of her first trimester, before they let the news out.
Outside the art department building, the wind bit through his jacket. He gave up on the idea of a walk and headed straight for the student union. Heat hit him as soon as he entered the glass building, and plinking sounds wafted from the game room. A few scattered people sat at small tables in the dining court, no one paying any attention to the overhead TVs. On the far side, floor-to-ceiling windows overlooked the snow-covered soccer field.
An Interview with Porochista Khakpour, Author of The Last Illusion
Brad Listi talks with author Porochista Khakpour, author of the critically acclaimed novel The Last Illusion. Listen to the podcast here.
Excerpt of Wrapped in Plastic: Twin Peaks, by Andy Burns
Television in the new millennium can be a glorious place, where boundaries are pushed regularly, often by Hollywood heavyweights. It’s where directors such as David Fincher and Martin Scorsese come to experiment with long-form storytelling, and where renowned actors like Kevin Spacey, Jessica Lange, Steve Buscemi, Glenn Close, Kyra Sedgwick, and many others are willing to commit their time and talents. Sometimes there’s the allure of a great story that can be told in one season (an enticement that drew bona fide movie stars Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey to HBO’s True Detective). Other times, there’s the appeal of both creativity and freedom (Kevin Bacon only has to shoot 15 episodes a season of Fox’s The Following, allowing him to pursue big screen roles while also enjoying a steady paycheck). With the advent of edgy original programming across networks like AMC, Showtime, FX, Netflix, and HBO, the appeal of working in television has never been higher.
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Thomas Stanier1
M, #582611, b. October 1769, d. 10 April 1856
Last Edited=29 Dec 2017
Thomas Stanier was born in October 1769.1 He was the son of Francis Stanier and Dorothy Pickstock.2 He married Ann Halmarack on 4 April 1805.1 He died on 10 April 1856 at age 86.1
He lived at Moor House, Biddulph, Staffordshire, England.1
Child of Thomas Stanier and Ann Halmarack
Francis Stanier+2 b. 11 Jul 1808, d. 13 Oct 1856
[S37] BP2003 volume 3, page 3718. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
[S37] BP2003. [S37]
Ann Halmarack1
F, #582612, d. circa August 1861
Ann Halmarack married Thomas Stanier, son of Francis Stanier and Dorothy Pickstock, on 4 April 1805.1 She died circa August 1861.1 She was buried in August 1861.1
From 4 April 1805, her married name became Stanier.
Child of Ann Halmarack and Thomas Stanier
Francis Stanier1
M, #582613, b. 11 July 1808, d. 13 October 1856
Francis Stanier was born on 11 July 1808.1 He was the son of Thomas Stanier and Ann Halmarack.2 He married Mary Wilkinson, daughter of Frederick Wilkinson and Susannah Sparrow, on 28 July 1834 at Wolstanton, Staffordshire, England.1,3 He died on 13 October 1856 at age 48.1
He was a practising an attorney.1 He held the office of Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1851.1 He lived at Madeley Manor, Staffordshire, England.1 He lived at Moor House, Biddulph, Staffordshire, England.1 He was , with other issue, including two younger sons (Thomas, of Madeley Manor, Justice of the Peace (J.P.) Staffs, born 1841, 31st Regt, married 1882 Constance (died 3 April 1925), daughter of Forbes Benignus Winslow, MD, on 13 October 1856.1 On 27 February 1906 Randle Baddeley, married Anne (died ), daughter of R A Dallas) and two daughters (Mary Jane, married 2 Aug 1882 George Henry Gordon (died 21 July 1928), of Wincombe Park, Wilts issue.1
Children of Francis Stanier and Mary Wilkinson
Randle Baddeley Stanier1
Mary Jane Stanier1
Alice Stanier2
Francis Stanier+2 b. 30 Jan 1838, d. 7 Oct 1900
Thomas Stanier1 b. 1841, d. 16 May 1904
[S8319] Julie Cottee, "re: Wilkinson Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 17 May 2017. Hereinafter cited as "re: Wilkinson Family."
Frederick Wilkinson1,2
M, #582614
Frederick Wilkinson married Susannah Sparrow, daughter of Thomas Sparrow and Mary (?), on 14 October 1811.2
He lived at Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England.1
Children of Frederick Wilkinson and Susannah Sparrow
Frederick Wilkinson2 b. 26 Mar 1813
Mary Wilkinson+3 b. 10 Apr 1815, d. 14 Oct 1880
Thomas Sparrow Wilkinson2 b. 26 Jan 1819
Mary Wilkinson1
F, #582615, b. 10 April 1815, d. 14 October 1880
Mary Wilkinson was born on 10 April 1815.2 She was the daughter of Frederick Wilkinson and Susannah Sparrow.3,2 She was baptised on 15 June 1815.2 She married Francis Stanier, son of Thomas Stanier and Ann Halmarack, on 28 July 1834 at Wolstanton, Staffordshire, England.1,2 She died on 14 October 1880 at age 65.1
From 28 July 1834, her married name became Stanier.
Children of Mary Wilkinson and Francis Stanier
M, #582616, b. 30 January 1838, d. 7 October 1900
Last Edited=4 Jan 2019
Francis Stanier was born on 30 January 1838.1 He was the son of Francis Stanier and Mary Wilkinson.2 He married Caroline Judith Justice, daughter of General William Justice, on 6 June 1860.1 He died on 7 October 1900 at age 62.1
He was given the name of Francis Stanier at birth.1 On 12 August 1856 his name was legally changed to Francis Philip Broade Stanier by Royal Licence, on inheriting the estate of Philip Barnes Broade.1 He gained the rank of Captain in the 3rd King's Own Staffordshire Militia.1 In 1876 his name was legally changed to Francis Stanier by Royal Licence.1 He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Staffordshire.1 He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Shropshire.1 He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Shropshire.1 He held the office of High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1894.1 He lived at Peplow Hall, Shropshire, England.1 He lived at The Moor House, Shropshire, England.1
Children of Francis Stanier and Caroline Judith Justice
Lucy Caroline Stanier+2 d. 30 Dec 1937
Eleanor Mary Stanier2 d. May 1958
Leila Dorothy Stanier2 d. 26 Feb 1961
Frank Justice Stanier+2 b. 20 Oct 1862, d. 2 Feb 1909
Sir Beville Stanier, 1st Bt.+2 b. 12 Jun 1867, d. 15 Dec 1921
William Sneyd Stanier2 b. 5 May 1871, d. 20 May 1903
General William Justice1
General William Justice lived at Green Park, Bath, Somerset, England.1
Child of General William Justice
Caroline Judith Justice+2 d. 29 Jan 1905
Caroline Judith Justice1
F, #582618, d. 29 January 1905
Caroline Judith Justice was the daughter of General William Justice.2 She married Francis Stanier, son of Francis Stanier and Mary Wilkinson, on 6 June 1860.1 She died on 29 January 1905.1
From 6 June 1860, her married name became Stanier.
Children of Caroline Judith Justice and Francis Stanier
Frank Justice Stanier1
M, #582619, b. 20 October 1862, d. 2 February 1909
Frank Justice Stanier was born on 20 October 1862.1 He was the son of Francis Stanier and Caroline Judith Justice.2 He married Beatrice Hood, daughter of Dr. Wharton P. Hood, on 13 June 1894.1 He died on 2 February 1909 at age 46.1
He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Staffordshire.1
Child of Frank Justice Stanier and Beatrice Hood
Lt.-Col. Frank Adolphus Hood Stanier+2 b. 1895, d. 9 Mar 1949
Beatrice Hood1
F, #582620, d. circa 1947
Beatrice Hood was the daughter of Dr. Wharton P. Hood.1 She married, firstly, Frank Justice Stanier, son of Francis Stanier and Caroline Judith Justice, on 13 June 1894.1 She married, secondly, Arthur Bensley Gardner on 17 June 1911.1 She died circa 1947.1
From 13 June 1894, her married name became Stanier. From 17 June 1911, her married name became Gardner.1
Child of Beatrice Hood and Frank Justice Stanier
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Chester Road Travelers Slowed to 45 mph new speed limit
TransportationUncategorized December 23, 2016 VN Staff
A local man has requested that the speed limit of a zone on Chester Road north of Route 288 be changed from 55 miles...
A local man has requested that the speed limit of a zone on Chester Road north of Route 288 be changed from 55 miles per hour to 45.
“A request to reduce the 55 MPH speed limit was submitted through the Chesterfield Residency office via Chesterfield County,” said Jesse Smith, director of the Chesterfield Department of Transportation (CDOT) department. “Mr. Joe Anderson felt that the speed limit should be reduced due to the presence of a fire station, several ‘blind’ driveways, close railroad crossings on intersecting streets, flooding and poor drainage, school bus stops and construction of houses nearby.”
The current posted speed is 55 MPH established by Statute 46.2-870. To the south of this section a 45 MPH speed zone is in effect established by resolution 808817, dated 2-19-1992.
The results of a VDOT study, according to CDOT, supports reduction of the current 55 MPH speed limit to 45 MPH. This finding is based on the operating speeds of 46 MPH and overall and injury crash rates much higher than the State.
Speed samples in two locations were taken along Chester Road north of Route 288 to Route 1 average were 39.50 – 48.50.
Published traffic volume (2015) indicates 23,000 vehicles per day in the section south of the Route 288 interchange and 5,700 vehicles per day north of Route 288 to Route 1. Traffic volume taken in conjunction with the speed samples shows similar volume with an average of 6,000 vehicles per day.
CDOT recommends reduction to 45 MPH, as well as the replacement of the current railroad crossing signs approaching Route 1622 and Route 611 with warning signs with insignias of crosses and a representation of a railroad track.
A project to install left and right turn lanes at the intersection of Route 1495 (Kingsdale) introduced a short section of curb and gutter within the immediate area of the project. The curb and gutter is being extended on the northbound side to the new subdivision opposite Brinkley Road.
Although Route 145 is a primary road, many roadway design features are not commensurate with the designation, including narrow shoulders and lack of recovery area between the edge of pavement and fixed objects. Fixed objects include trees, utility poles, embankments and low ditches.
Reported crash experience for the current five-year period:
Reported crashes is: 75
Total number injuries is: 46
Reported fatalities is: 0
Crash rate: 372 per 100 million miles
of travel (VMT)
Injury rate: 228 per 100 VMT
Fatality rate is: 0 per 100 VMT
Statewide average crash rate is: 125 per 100 VMT
Statewide average injury rate is: 68 per 100 VMT.
Statewide average fatality rate is: 2.02 per 100 VMT.
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Diane Virginia
Nico entered the graveyard by night. The only illumination was his headlamp. As he opened the gate, the chain broke.
“Ah! It’s my first day on the job, and I have to explain this?”
Nico sat. He rolled the chain between his palms, imagining his boss firing him. What did it matter? It would prove once more that he couldn’t keep a job. Emotionally, he felt as cold as the broken chain he fidgeted with. What was he supposed to do now; guard a graveyard that was broken into?
Nico thought about the choices he’d made in his life. One drink led to an empty bottle; one torrid relationship led him to be possessive; one joint led to him dealing drugs and subsequent imprisonment. The pleasures he’d had in these activities turned into chains. And now, a chain that was supposed to give him the chance at a new beginning had fallen apart.
“God, if You’re there, free me!” Nico loosed a solitary link from the chain. “If only it was this easy,” he said, noting the release he felt as the weighty section clanked on the pavement.
“Aren’t you supposed to be walking?”
“Whaa…!” Nico jumped.
“I said….”
“What’s your business?” Nico straightened his uniform, searching the darkness.
“Call for backup on your walkie-talkie.”
Nico radioed, “Boss-man, come quick!”
“Hear the echo? It’s me, Mike.” A bearded elderly figure came within range of Nico’s headlamp.
“Whatcha doin’ here?”
“I’ve hired men who don’t show up. So, why are you sitting?”
“The chain on the gate is broken, so I’m as good as fired. I was late…”
“I broke that chain as a test. I was waiting for your call.”
Nico sighed.
“Nico, I heard your prayer….”
“I don’t pray….”
“You asked God to free you. What’s your trouble, son?”
Nico found himself pouring out his quandaries to the old man. Somehow, it felt right to unburden his soul. Nico brushed away a tear, “I never cry!”
“But tonight,” Mike said, “you’ve prayed and cried. Let me tell you a story. Jesus met a man who was so burdened he became violent.” Mike took a Bible from his pocket. “Shine your headlamp on this….”
Nico complied.
“It says here, the man ‘had his dwelling among the tombs’ (Mark 5:3a KJV) The townsmen shackled him, but he kept breaking the chains. Much like the chain that fell apart in your hands, the fetters put up no resistance.”
Nico nodded.
“Look here, ‘But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him.’ (Mark 5:6a KJV) You know what else he did? He pushed Jesus away.”
“Just like I have….”
“Exactly. This man was plagued by six thousand enemy spirits, so I’m guessing he’d made more regrettable choices than you have. It’s important to know his fate. What do you think Jesus did to him?”
“Sent him to Hell?”
“Not even close. Jesus freed him.”
“Freed him?” Nico rolled a link between his fingers. “That’s incredible!”
“Jesus sent the enemy spirits into a herd of pigs who ran downhill and drowned in the ocean. Meanwhile, Jesus restored the man, and said, ‘Go home to thy friends and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath compassion on thee.’” (Mark 5:19b KJV)
“I wish Jesus could love a man like me.”
“He already does, Nico. He’s answering your prayer for a new beginning. Let’s pray.”
The men bowed.
Chains is a fictional story.
Copyright © 2019: All rights reserved: VineWords Stories and Devotions Inspired by the Vine: Author Diane Virginia Cunio; Pen Name, Diane Virginia: Chains; www.vinewords.net
Published: February 2019: Christian Broadcasting Network: Senior Editor Beth Patch: Internet Ministries Producer: http:/www1.cbn.com/devotions/chains
Featured in Taste and See Conference Bulletin: Judy Taylor: Lumberton, NC: May 4, 2019
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Sigrún Davíðsdóttir's Icelog
Greece and common political sense
– Forget economics, politics is key to understanding the Eurozone
The cries of the Grexit criers lately have mostly been a repetition of an earlier discourse: in February 2012 Citi’s economists Willem Buiters and Ebrahim Rahbari coined the term “Grexit,” by July 2012 estimating its likelihood to 90%. Cheered on by the media, economists have taken over the debate of the Eurozone which is why much of it has been such a futile exercise: it is not economics, which ties the Eurozone together but the political determination of its leaders to make the euro work. With political will likelihood of any exit is 0. Ergo, Grexit is as unlikely now as it has always been in spite of the EU brinkmanship. One route Greece seems to be exploring is a tried and tested one: the “bisque clause” from 1946.
In December 2009 the European Central Bank, ECB, published a working paper, Withdrawal and expulsion from the EU and EMU; some reflections (recommended read, clear and intelligent), by Phoebus Athanassiou. As Athanassiou pointed out, talk of ‘secession’ from the European Union, EU and European Monetary Union, EMU would earlier “have been next to absurd, considering the EU’s contribution to lasting peace and stability in Europe,” not forgetting successful enlargement. Athanassiou concluded that “negotiated withdrawal from the EU would not be legally impossible… a Member State’s exit from EMU, without a parallel withdrawal from the EU, would be legally inconceivable; and that … a Member State’s expulsion from the EU or EMU, would be legally next to impossible.” – But legal aspects are one thing, economics another and politics yet a separate aspect.
The eurocrisis has hit EU’s economy; economists and the financial media have led the crisis discourse. But the euro is a political construction, built on political will and at the root of the crisis there are politics: there has been a political unwillingness in the EU to be more than fair-weather friends. Fearing loss of sovereignty ministers have been unwilling to yield power to the various EU institutions (Athanassiou has some intriguing observations on sovereignty). – This is in essence what Mario Monti wrote in the summer of 2011 in a timely Financial Times article where he partly blamed the eurocrisis on the EU being too deferential and too polite to its member states.
With the crisis and hesitant action it has been ever more difficult to portray the EU as a success in spite of earlier glory. Much of the political demagogy on the left and right ends of the political spectrum in Europe is nourished by politicians from the established parties who have been far too willing to blame the EU for their own failures.*
Now Greece has voted in a new government who though critical of how the Troika, i.e. EU Commission, European Central Bank, ECB and the International Monetary Fund, IMF, has dealt with Greece makes no mention of Grexit and claims it wants to repay its debt. In a BBC interview minister of finance Yanis Varoufakis stressed that Greece was not going to toy with “loose or fast talk of Grexit” and fragmentation, which would only unleash destructive forces.
“Grexit is not on the cards,” Varoufakis said. At the same time, the government is hell-bent on finding a way to tackle what Varoufakis has called a “humanitarian crisis” in Greece, in addition to scutinising earlier privatisation and renegotiating, perhaps with an eye on the so-called “bisque-clause” from 1946.
Renegotiating, or whatever term will be found, is no mean feat also because all solutions are bound to be relevant for other problem countries. The Irish found a clever way though with their Promissory Notes, did it unilaterally with the ECB governor Mario Draghi commenting dryly that the ECB “took note” of it. – EU has always been brilliant at finding compromises though arguably its comprises have not always been brilliant.
The changing euro sentiment
On August 14 2007 ECB governor Jean-Claude Trichet stated that the bank was paying great attention to developments in the market, i.e. nervousness, increased volatility and ‘significant re-appreciation of risks’ which could be ‘interpreted as a normalisation of the pricing of risk.’ The bank had provided liquidity ‘needed to permit an orderly functioning of the money market… We are now seeing money market conditions that have gone progressively back to normal,” was Trichet’s reassuring conclusion.
Two years and some months later, in December 2009, it was clear that Trichet’s hopeful words were just that: hopeful. Ireland was under crisis clouds after the Irish government had been forced to fulfil its blanket guarantee of the banking sector. The situation in Portugal and Spain looked ominous not to mention Greece. All of this made Athanassiou’s paper a timely one.
Fast forward from Trichet’s 2007 statement to the ECB’s recent statement of a monthly asset purchase amounting to €60bn, at least until September 2016. ECB governor Mario Draghi has repeatedly stressed that the bank alone will not pull the EZ out of stagnation and slow growth. The political appetite for growth stimulus and the structural reforms needed has been negligible and attempts to challenge growth-quenching corruption, where needed, even less. It might even be argued that with the asset purchase, aka “quantitative easing,” into austerity-ruled EU the Union is like a boat rowing in opposite directions.
“The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury”
Jean-Claude Juncker’s €315bn fund is too little too late; a nod in the stimulus-direction rather than a real u-turn. After over six years of austerity the EU seems slow in revising on the 1930s lesson that the state has to step in when the private sector is sluggish. Greece now seems to want a realistic solution. Although only 2% of the EZ GDP it might inject new ideas into the Troika solutions, i.e. forcing reality instead of unsustainable solutions – effectively, earlier measures for Greece did not solve the problem and everyone involved knew it.
Simon Wren-Lewis’ summary of the obvious lessons from the Great Recession is: “Give any student who has just done a year of economics some national accounts data for the US, UK and Eurozone, and ask them why the recovery from the Great Recession has been so slow, and they will almost certainly tell you it is because of fiscal austerity.” Further, Wren-Lewis has recently summed up the necessary lessons from earlier attempts to debt restructuring, with a timely focus on Greece, saying the “Troika should welcome the opportunity to put right earlier mistakes.”
Yet and yet, austerity was the first and still is the strongest reaction to the eurocrisis. The IMF, for its part, has to a certain degree acknowledged its part in the mistaken routes chosen. For Greece there was a certain woeful blindness as to what the measures in 2012 would achieve in terms of growth, inflation, fiscal effort and social cohesion; this should not happen again as Reza Moghadam former head of the IMF European department wrote recently in the Financial Times, admitting to his share of the responsibility since he was part of Troika discussions 2010 to 2014 and pleading for halving Greek debt.
The new Greek government has plenty of research to bolster its case. In a 2013 paper, Òscar Jordà and Alan M. Taylor have shown “that austerity is always a drag on growth, and especially so in depressed economies: a one percent of GDP fiscal consolidation translates into 4 percent lower real GDP after five years when implemented in the slump rather than the boom.” And as John Maynard Keynes wrote in 1937, quoted by Jordà and Taylor: “The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.”
To a certain degree the faith in austerity has been steered by predictable party politics as Simon Wren-Lewis covers here. Not surprisingly Wolfgang Schäuble claims that “austerity is the only cure for the eurozone.” With policies earlier belonging to the political right having to a great degree permeated the left, New Labour being the arch-example, there has been remarkably little left opposition to austerity. The political antagonism within the crisis countries has tended to be between parties in power, enforcing austerity and the opposition, opposing austerity so as to gain from the unpopular austerity measures.
Austerity is the easy route – structural reforms the really difficult one
But the last few years of austerity in Europe have also shown that although austerity is a tough path to follow, structural reforms are even harder. The Troika prescriptions for program-countries have all come with a list of structural reforms, which have been far tougher to fulfill. Though the structural reforms advised have often been sensible domestic politics and interest groups block them. The latest IMF review on Greece, from June 2014, lists the tough reforms still lacking, i.a. tax administration and public sector reforms.
The fact that there has often been little ownership of measures in the program countries has been part of the problem. One reason why Iceland sailed relatively smoothly through its IMF program was Iceland’s strong ownership of the program. Execution will be easier if the Greek government can renegotiate a sustainable plan it believes in contrary to earlier measures, which all involved knew was to a certain extent little but wishful thinking.
Consequently, scrutinising Troika programs it seems that although a tough path to follow austerity has been the easy route compared to structural changes where strong interest groups and politics clash.
Corruption – the dirty porn of EU politics
It is intriguing to note that the worst hit EZ countries are also countries where sentiment of corruption is high, as can be seen in the Eurobarometer. Yet, corruption has not been high on EU political agenda.
Only in 2011 did the EU Commission establish an Anti-Corruption report to monitor and assess efforts of individual EU countries to address corruption. The first report was published in 2014; reports will now be published every two years.
Given the fact that the cost of corruption is assumed to be 5% of GDP on a world scale, and clearly higher in corrupt countries, it has taken the EU scarily long to turn its attention to this problem. Again, that is no doubt partly due to the politeness Mario Monti had in mind – corruption is an embarrassing and dirty word in the EU, truly the dirty porn of EU politics.
Foreign media mostly focused on Syriza’s presumed anti-EU sentiments even though majority of Greeks want to stay in the EU and the euro. But Greeks noticed that Syriza broke with the norm of silence on corruption and campaigned on fighting it. Any step in that direction will be a great political achievement – and an example to follow for other countries. The fact that Syriza campaigned on the issue of corruption is already inspiring other countries, most notably the Spanish Podemos party.
It has caused some concern abroad that Syriza is going to stop or review the on-going privatisation. There is however indication that assets have been sold not on best price but best connection; something the Troika should not be too politie about, not least in a country with the sorry reputation of corruption. Privatisation will not be popular in Greece if people see state assets sold in a corrupt way.
Demagogues and the German problem
In 2009 it was easy for Athanassiou to refer to the success of the EU and the euro. Now the story in many EU countries, even in stoic and earlier so staunchly pro-EU Finland, is the rise and rise of anti-EU demagogical parties. So far, these are fringe parties, very often indirectly nurtured by politicians blaming the EU of their own failings.
But it is equally worrying that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is increasingly irritating other EU leaders with her moralising on other countries. After almost a decade as the leader of EU’s most powerful country, Merkel seems to be falling pray to the inherent law of power: the longer time in power the more myopic a leader is, ever more occupied with his or her legacy. This has not proved positive for her European engagement.
Given her long time in power Merkel has followed the course of the crisis countries from well before the crisis. She has had ample opportunities to speak out or warn her colleagues. Greece had for example been running a budget deficit more or less uninterrupted since the early 1980s enabled by German banks financing much of this deficit.
German banks, though prudent at home (or rather, Germans are prudent borrowers) were large lenders not only in Greece but also in other crisis countries, also in Iceland. German banks have behaved like the kind of teenagers who are faultlessly polite at home but run wild when partying at friend’s place cutting up the furniture and peeing in the corners.
Merkel did not seem worried until the problems in Greece and elsewhere threatened German financial stability. With the Troika involvement the German risk migrated to public sector lenders and the German banks avoided facing their risky behaviour.
It’s not the economy stupid, it’s the politics
Merkel herself is aware of the political dimension of the euro, or rather the lack of its political anchor. Her predecessor Helmut Kohl and his contemporary European leaders constructed a monetary union without a proper political dimension. More could not be achieved at the time; the wishful thinking was that the missing political part would come later. According to a German official Merkel thinks the euro, with the political part missing, is “a machine from hell” that she is still trying to repair. – As things stand now the machine will hardly be repaired any time soon– the one legacy likely to elude Merkel.
All through the eurocrisis the politics have lagged behind. As shown convincingly by Philippe Martin and Thomas Philippon concerted action such as the Outright Monetary Transactions, OMT already in 2008 and not as late as 2012 would have made the world of difference, not least for Greece.
Those running the “machine from hell” were slow in figuring out how to deal with the crisis. Domestic politics in the EZ were pointing in all and sundry direction. Merkel’s way of tackling any problem is to move slowly, very slowly. Her sluggishness has cost the Greeks dearly. But since the destiny of Germany and Greece are tied together in the euro the German sluggishness certainly has come at a cost to the Germans themselves.
Apart from the lack of political union to back up the euro – or at least some mechanism to deal with crisis – the EU made bad uses of what little mechanisms in place. This is what Mario Monti, wiser after his time as a European commissioner, pointed out in 2011, i.a. regarding Greece: “As for politeness, would Greece have been able to run for years public deficits vastly above its officially published figures – until the excess became known in late 2009 – had Eurostat had the power to conduct serious investigations to check the adequacy of nationally produced statistics? Of course not.”
Had the ECB been allowed to react already in 2008 with some form of OMT (yes, wishful thinking but let us assume these measures were conceivable already then though clearly not politically palatable) it would have run into the problem of ELSTAT where gathering statistics has turned into a political thriller still running: as late as January this year an ELSTAT supervising commission, one of whose members is from Eurostat, expressed concern and disappointment that some officials tried to influence ELSTAT’s reassessment of debt and deficit figures Brussels had called for. – Tackling the problem of ELSTAT would strengthen the trustworthiness of the new government.
The price of politeness is also evident in EU’s unwillingness to acknowledge the problem and cost of corruption (as I have pointed out earlier); unwillingness, which in itself a political vice among the EU countries. The EU countries are in it together but shrink from sifting through their neighbours’ dustbins to come up with compromising material.
Greece – with appetite for “bisque”?
Yanis Varoufakis and his team have had ample time to study the best approach but time is limited. Deposits are flowing out of Greek banks and the present Troika program ends on February 28, which jeopardises i.a. the ECB’s Emergency Liquidity Assistance, ELA.
Proselytising on Greek debt makes little sense – the debt is there not only because of Greek appetite for debt but for banks’ willingness to lend. The banks have sold off their Greek debt, IMF and ECB gobbled it up. It is too late to punish the original lenders, now it is only the Greek borrower left. There are many ideas floating around, here is Fistful of Euros’ Alex Harrowell summing up some of these ideas.
The problem with Greece is not just its debt, but the fact that the country is ever more crippled by earlier non-solutions as Syriza has stressed. Yet, the new Greek leaders have emphasised that they want to repay its debts to its lenders, ECB and the IMF as Alexis Tsipras said in a statement January 31. Greece is clearly trying to come up with a route that might suit everyone but is at the same time adamant that it must be allowed to run expansionary policies at home. Hiring Lazard as adviser shows the government pays attention to the markets as well as expecting tough talks.
The Troika loans amount to €226.7bn, ca. 125% of GDP, roughly two-thirds of total public debt of 175% of GDP. As Syriza has pointed out the unfortunate thing here is that the GDP has been shrinking making the debt ever less sustainable. This is i.a. part of the vicious circle that is dragging Greece down.
One way of going about the Greek problem might be to learn from history. The Stiglitz report, Report of the Commission of Experts of the President of the United Nations General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, from 2009 refers to the so-called “bisque-clause” from 1946:
There might also be alternative ways of ensuring flexible payment arrangements that would allow automatic adjustment for borrowers during bad times. For instance, one possibility is for coupon payments to remain fixed and for the amortization schedule to be adjusted instead. Countries would postpone part or all of their debt payments during economic downturns and would then make up by pre-paying during economic upswings. A historical precedent was set by the United Kingdom when it borrowed from the United States in the 1940s. The 1946 Anglo-American Financial Agreement included a “bisque clause” that provided a 2 percent interest payment waiver in any year in which the United Kingdom’s foreign exchange income was not sufficient to meet its pre-war level of imports, adjusted to current prices.
Sources have mentioned to me that the “bisque-clause” has inspired the approach being advocated by the new Greek government.
The “erroribus” of exit
“The world works thus that some help erroribus to circulate and others then try to erase it – and thus, both have something to do,” professor of antiquity at the University of Copenhagen Árni Magnússon (1663-1730) wrote.
Athanassiou’s conclusion was that “negotiated withdrawal from the EU would not be legally impossible even prior to the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, and that unilateral withdrawal would undoubtedly be legally controversial; that, while permissible, a recently enacted exit clause is, prima facie, not in harmony with the rationale of the European unification project and is otherwise problematic, mainly from a legal perspective; that a Member State’s exit from EMU, without a parallel withdrawal from the EU, would be legally inconceivable; and that, while perhaps feasible through indirect means, a Member State’s expulsion from the EU or EMU, would be legally next to impossible. This paper concludes with a reminder that while, institutionally, a Member State’s membership of the euro area would not survive the discontinuation of its membership of the EU, the same need not be true of the former Member State’ s use of the euro.”
For those who have nailed their professional reputation to Grexit it might be hard to swallow that nope, Grexit is apparently not on the agenda – not for the new Greek government, not for the German government and, so far, no other EU government. German politicians may talk bravely about contained contagion from Grexit but dream on, who is willing to test the containment?
In order to understand the eurocrisis and find sustainable solutions forget the economics and focus instead on the politics. After all, the euro is a political construction, based on political will and as long as this will is there among Europe’s leaders there will be no Grexit or any other exit. Neither the ECB nor any EU institution will pull the rug from under Greece – this is not a question of some technical trick to force an end no government in Europe wishes for.
The euro is not just a currency, but the tangible sign of a union in which the earlier success of the internal market and enlargement was to be joined and entwined. For a few years it worked well, further cementing earlier progress. There are those who say it could never have worked and they are among the loudest in the Grexit choir as is, unsurprisingly, part of the UK media.
So far, the EZ countries have solved one problem after the other – yes, (too) often it has been too little too late, not always glorious. However, the political will to solve EZ troubles has been there and still is. Which is why it would be more fruitful to focus on the possible solutions – as the Greek government seems to be trying to do – rather than fable about Grexit.
* Earlier, Þórólfur Matthíasson professor at the University of Iceland and I have argued that the eurocrisis has to a large degree been symptom of underlying problems in the crisis-countries, ignored or not solved in time, to be solved at national level.
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The publicity given to the HSBC tax evasion story underlines how incompetent the UK regulatory system still is, and how politicians have protected bankers from the force of UK tax law and UK criminal and even civil penalties.
In contrast to the efforts of the Icelanders.
What beggars belief is that the chairman of the FCA is John Griffith-Jones, the former chairman of KPMG. KPMG is well-known to Icelanders as they “audited” Kaupthing and Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, but also HBoS, Bradford & Bingley, the Co-Op, and even HSBC.
Now you might think that that might raise a few enquiries from the likes of the FCA, Bank of England, Prosecutors or even the Financial Reporting Council. But you would be wrong.
I have written the heads of all those bodies to ask them what they intend to do.
Tony Shearer
Good point, Tony. KPMG is indeed well-known in Iceland for its bank auditing.
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Kirill Pozdnyakov blog
« on: April 14, 2016, 17:55 »
Welcome to something new on Velorooms – a blog from a pro rider, exclusive to our website! We are happy to present Kirill Pozdnyakov of the Synergy Baku Cycling Project. Kirill will write his blog every few weeks or so, and give us an insight into life and racing on the Continental level. Please feel free to comment and ask questions!
Kirill is a 27-year-old Russian now living in Gent, Belgium. He turned pro in 2013 with Synergy Baku, and very successfully. That year he had five wins: stages in the Tour de Taiwan, An Post Ras, Jelejah Malaysia, and the Tour of China 1, taking the overall title in the latter.
He was so successful that his homeland team Rusvelo called him home, so to speak. His two years there didn’t show any significant results, and he happily returned to Synergy Baku this season.
The Synergy Baku Cycling Project is licensed in Azerbaijan, sponsored by the Synergy Group, one of the largest private investment companies in the country.
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Re: Kirill Pozdnyakov
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2016, 17:57 »
My season finally started in "Istrian Spring Trophy”, a four-day stage race in Croatia. The beginning of the season didn’t go the way I had expected. I came down with the flu and had to take antibiotics for 10 days and had to miss the Porec Trophy. My teammate Matej Mugerli won this race, which made me happy because it was our first win and it came so early in the season.
Because of that we arrived at the Istrian Spring Trophy with high morale and a winning spirit. For me, it was my first chance to meet my new teammates, and it turned out to be a great week to race together.
The first day was a prologue and my legs were not good, probably due to the antibiotics and having been off the bike for five days. Matej put in another good performance and in this kind of race, the GC is decided by seconds, so we all helped him. We didn’t win the race, but he won the last stage and finished third overall. For myself, I felt good during the race, except for the prologue, and I was happy how I was feeling on the bike and the work I could do for my team.
Our next race was "Coppi Bartali", which came as a surprised. I had planned to go to altitude training on Tenerife before the Tour of Croatia the end of this month. I didn’t know what to expect from this race, because after Istrian I had gone home to Belgium and in my mind was already in Tenerife :-). But I was happy to go to the race!
As a team, we decided to try for a stage result, and stages 2 and 4 were hard ones. From the beginning of stage 2, it was very hard because it was constantly up and down, and the temp was very high. At some point the peloton split into groups. After about 50 km, I finally made it into the break group. There were five ranked climbs and once I was in the group, I went for the mountain jersey. I could take the first three and so I could secure the jersey.
The last stage was another hard one and decisive for the GC. I tried to get in the breakaway again, but this time I was marked by the other guys who were close in the mountain ranking. We chased each other for the first 40 km and in the end, the break went away without any of us. I was not feeling bad on the climbs, but on the second to last climb I started to feel the efforts I did at the beginning of the stage. I was dropped from the first group and so lost the jersey.
After the race I was a bit disappointed and at the same time I wasn’t, as the rider to whom I lost the jersey was riding stronger than me. There was not much I could actually do, except to have been lucky enough to be in the first break or maybe I should have better saved the power from the beginning of the stage ... that is racing, and I took my chance, but it didn’t work out this time. Anyway,it’s a good sign for important upcoming races and again, a good race week.
After that race, I was supposed to go to Tenerife, but unfortunately the hotel was already full with the ProTour teams training for the Giro. I chose to go to Calpe, Spain, for a last intensive block of training, before the Tour of Croatia and Tour d'Azerbaidjan. The Tour d’Azerbaidjan would be the most important race for our team so I need to be ready for it, and in my last two weeks of training I have had a lot of intensive hours on my bike.
Right now I feel improvement since my last race and my tests are showing some good numbers of my condition. I hope to turn this into results. Right now I have some days of recovery and then I'm ready to start the Tour of Croatia on April 19.
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Quote from: Synergy Baku on April 14, 2016, 17:57
After that race, I was supposed to go to Tenerife, but unfortunately the hotel was already full with the ProTour teams training for the Giro.
This made me laugh!
Not so funny for you, of course.
Great to have such a rider blog here on the site, looking forward to the next installments.
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Thanks for doing this, In one of the future blogs I was wondering if we could have a training type of blog, who you ride with, why Gent rather than say Spain etc, who sets your training programs what type of stuff you do etc
Good luck in Croatia
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Quote from: just some guy on April 15, 2016, 07:09
Yes, Gent is an interesting choice to me too. If you're racing a lot in France, Belgium and the Netherlands it makes a lot of sense but I haven't seen much of SB over here lately.
However, the Gent area isn't too far from a decent international airport (at least when it isn't affected by strikes and the lunatic fringes); it's also home to several services courses, a significant community of Belgian and expat pro cyclists and a world-class velodrome.
So I think Kirill's choice is simply because he used to ride for RusVelo and they're based in Flanders. As recently as last season, he was riding quite a lot of races here.
I used to enjoy climbing the woody hill on which Ivanov's big white house perches above the town of Diest. The RusVelo team car was often parked outside.
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Re: Kirill Pozdnyakov blog
A very interesting read, thanks for taking the time to share with us
I agree a training blog would be interesting. And something else I really want to know more about is the contract stuff: how does it work when switching teams or extending contracts? Do teams approach the riders, or do agents 'offer' their riders to teams? When do negotiations take place, and to which degree are you as a rider involved in those negotiations? Do you leave most of it to an agent, or are you actively involved in the whole process? And, for the conspiracy theorists, do contract negotiations for next season affect the current season? Would you be more likely to help out a rider if you knew he would be in your team next year?
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Hmmm - I seem to recall that there is some way to upgrade Kirill from "Couch Potato" to something a bit more select. Am I right? After all, if ever "Couch Potato" didn't fit, this would be a good bet, eh?
Welcome to VR, Kirill!
. . .He had the bit between his teeth, and he loiked the taste, mate . . .
Quote from: hiero on April 17, 2016, 01:11
Hmmm - I seem to recall that there is some way to upgrade Kirill from "Couch Potato" to something a bit more select. Am I right?
I'm pretty sure that it goes purely by number of posts.
A hard day for Kirill in Stage 2 of the Tour of Croatia. He crashed twice, the last time 15km before the finish, so he lost time today. He is ok though, just got a few scratches.
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« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2016, 17:48 »
KIRILL AND THE TOUR OF CROATIA
It was a beautiful week of racing in Croatia, we achieved great team results and I enjoyed being part of this success! I remember myself last year when I did the Tour of Croatia and when I compare that to where I am no, I'm really happy. At last my work starts to turn into results and I feel great sensations on my bike again.
I wanted to do well in the general classification. Before the race I knew I had good condition and my power was good enough to do well. The last two years were very disappointing years for me. but when we hit the first hills I realised that I actually had a good opportunity to fight for a high GC position.
Unfortunately, I crashed during stage 2 with some other favourites 20 km from the finish and lost 51 seconds. I did all I could to always be in the front of the peloton to avoid all the dangerous moments. At this moment, though being in the front of the group didn't bring me any luck For general classification my chances went down but my teammate Matija Kvasina was lucky enough to avoid this crash and to have better cards than me.
Stage 4 was the day to decide who should win this race, with the mountain finish.. In the morning I woke up with the ambition to still fight for my goal that i had before the race. I still had this little chance to get in the breakaway and hope this group would stay away until the climb with some advantage on the main group.
Before the first mountain, the break went away and I was there. There were a lot of attacks and just before the mountain finish, a group of 20 guys came to our group. Not everyone was interested in cooperating and the main peloton was also not far away. I decided to stay calm and wait until the last climb and see what will happen. Then when a few guys attacked I stayed calm and waited until the main group came back. When we all came together, it was already 50-60 guys maybe and Trek Factory took control of the race until the finishing climb.
We started the climb very fast and with a good tempo . Directly from the start i realised today could be my day. I could sit comfortably with the first guys. Tinkoff and CCC were making tempo all the way until 15 km to the top and no one could really get away. My teammate Matija had also good feelings and he was in a better position than me in classification. I wanted to try and fight for the stage win, but to gain time back for GC would be hard. But for him it was about taking the jersey this day, so decision was to help him make the best of it and try to win this race with him.
The last 10 km of the climb I rode for him and made the tempo until the last 4km when the climb got steeper and from there it was on him to go for it He did great and came 2nd on this stage and also took the leader’s jersey. I was very happy after this stage, we made great efforts and it worked well .
For our small team to perform like this on this level is a huge result and having the opportunity to take a jersey and fight for the overall win is much bigger than a stage win at this point. The day could not end up better than this !
The day after we had maybe the biggest test for us. On paper maybe we weren't contenders but cycling is not only numbers and calculations A team time trial in the rain for 43km is team work. We were the last team to start and just before the start we heard that almost every team had crashed more than once. Technical roads and a lot of roundabouts brought a lot of teams in trouble.
In cycling its all about team work but there only one winner or one team that can pull this success to the end. Every day we try to help each other but even this does not always work -- in the sprint stages someone can help more than another, for example. Earlier some teammates maybe could help more than me in the last kms when it comes to the sprint, but yesterday I could deliver this work for success on the climb.
But today during the TTT it was Tamo (Ioannis Tamouridis) who made our day successful, his experience was the success for our ride. We rode very carefully in the roundabouts and dosed our power perfectly to finish 4th and keep the race lead.
On the last day we only had to survive local laps with a small cobble hill and make sure that Matija was near the guys who were close to him in GC. All the team did the work perfectly. On the last lap I stayed with Matija to make sure he will not get in troubles, but he did well and no one could be real danger for him. We won Tour of Croatia and enjoyed the moment in Zagreb , for myself i kept 7th place in GC and feel strong.
Next week is a big challenge for our team, the most important race of the year, the Tour d’Azerbaidjan. We are going there with a winning spirit. There is only one winner and a lot can happen. No one can guarantee the victory but from my side I guarantee this fight for the win!
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Kirill's next race, of course, will be the Tour d'Azerbaidjan, starting this coming Wednesday. He will be one of the team's two leaders in the race, along with Matej Mugerli.
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Cool blog!
I like what Baku Pro Cycling is doing to promote their riders, seems much more accessable than other pro teams.
I too would enjoy reading blog posts about training and other behind the scenes insight. Hopefully someday.
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The Tour d’Azerbaidjan is over. We had another good racing week with our team. We came with a strong team and won two stages and the team classification. It was not an easy task to be the home team because some of the other teams were watching us during the race, but we made it without any problem and used our team spirit Since I first went to
Azerbaijan in 2013, the country has changed a lot. Baku is a very beautiful city, with lots of new buildings and the “Formula One" circuit in the centre of the city, just amazing! It was an honour to ride on this road during the last stage of the Tour, you don't race much on roads like this during the year. Not only in Baku but during the whole race when we hit the countryside, everywhere it was just a pleasure to ride.
The crowds were amazing too, people like cycling there and ride their bikes a lot. Every day you could see a lot of people at the start and finish and during the race on the side of the road. Mostly you only see this in Europe because of cycling culture, but once you go out of Europe there is not always so much public interest in a bike race, but Azerbaijan impressed me! I really enjoyed racing there and visiting this beautiful country. If I would have the opportunity to do "Tour d’Azerbaidjan" again i wouldn't hesitate
So the first part of the season is done. If I look and analyse my races , I'm happy with what i have done so far, the condition is there. The Tour of Croatia went good for m , normally it should suit me better and I worked toward this race. When the GC was made I was there and felt goo , this is important for coming races . In Azerbaijan I didn't find a great feeling, different climate zone and allergies made me feel not super good during the race and in general.
One week after Azerbaijan was an easy week for me and now I am starting to work towards the second part of the season, where my head already is. June 7 will be my next race in Slovakia , stage race from 7th until 12th June and after that, another big test at the Tour of Austria. I hope my evaluation will continue and I willnhave a good result in Austria.
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You actually raised something there I was wondering - how difficult is it to be racing in different climates and time zones all the time? Do you get used to it, or is it something that always weighs you down?
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« Reply #15 on: June 09, 2016, 19:14 »
(June 9, 2016) Kirill Pozdnyakov finished second on the Queen Stage of the Tour of Slovakia. After the difficult mountain stage, the Russian riding for the Synergy Baku Cycling Project has moved up to third overall.
Pozdnyakov attacked on the penultimate climb and joined a lead group, with 15 km to go. The group stayed away until the end.
“The team helped me a lot during the stage,” Pozdnyakov said. “Maksym Averin and Samir Jabrayilov made good tempo on the climbs. On the second to last climb I attacked with (eventual winner) Mauro Finetto and we held the gap until the end.”
“The final climb wasn't hard enough to make a difference,” he added. “On the sprint I was sitting in third position, but the guy before me left a gap. I went around him but it was too far up to Finetto.”
With three more stages to go, two of them with climbs, Pozdnyakov is sitting comfortably in third place overall, nine seconds down.
Friday’s stage three is the longest of the race, at 170.1km from Strbske Pleso to Zuberec. There are four ranked climbs, with two coming in the first 40 km.
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Kirill finished in the first group which arrived at the finish one second behind the winner of stage 3 of the Tour of Slovakia. He remains in third place overall with two more stages to go.
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Kirill has finished third overall in the Tour of Slovakia! Congratulations to him and to his teammates who helped put him there!
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June 13, 2016) Kirill Pozdnyakov has finished third overall in the Tour of Slovakia. The Russian riding for the Synergy Baku Cycling Project finished second on the race’s mountainous second stage to move into third place, and held on to it until the end.
“I am very happy with this result, and would like to thank my teammates. The good teamwork is what made this possible,” Pozdnyakov said.
Sunday’s closing stage was a short one, with two climbs, the first coming almost immediately after the start. With 75 km to go, a break group formed which stayed away until the end. Pozdnyakov was safely within the peloton which finished over a minute down.
The team’s next race will be the Tour of Serbia, June 14-19. Matija Kvasina, Matej Mugerli, Josip Rumac, Alex Surutkovych, Elchin Asadov and Ioannis Tamouridis will represent Synergy Baku in the race.
(June 15, 2016) Matija Kvasina finished third on the second stage of the Tour of Serbia to move into second place overall. The Croatian riding for the Synergy Baku Cycling Project was the initiator of a stage-long break group which stayed away until the end.
It was a top day for the team, with three riders in the top ten of the stage. Ioannis Tamouridis came back from a crash to lead the peloton home and finish sixth, with Matej Mugerli eighth. Tamouridis is now 8th overall and Mugerli 12th.
In addition, Kvasina took the mountain jersey and the team retained its hold at the top of the team ranking.
Kvasina was the first to attack on the opening 18km long climb, and four other riders joined him. Their largest gap was three minutes, but they were able to stay away until the finish line.
The short stage, only 108 km, was full of climbs “and lots of headwind. I was not feeling at my best today, and in the end ran out of energy. The race profile we had seen wasn’t correct and did not fit the situation, so I didn’t know there was another 2 km climb only 5km before the finish. One of the others attacked there and soloed in to the finish. I was about at the end of my power but managed to pull out a third place on the stage, and second overall,” Kvasina said.
It was the first race for the 34-year-old since the Tour d’Azerbaidjan last month. “The long break from racing has made my body lazy but every day I feel better. Maybe tomorrow we will try to do some more damage!”
DS Andrej Hauptman also commented that “at the end was a short steep climb which was not in the race book. One of the others attacked and Matija did his best with what was left in his legs. We are pretty happy because for all of them except Alex Surutkovych, this is their first race since Azerbaijan.”
Tamouridis had a heavy crash today after receiving a tire from the neutral service car. The tube was not glued, and on the descent the tire came loose from the rim, and he crashed. The Greek rider was not injured.
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Mugerli wins stage three in Serbia
(June 16, 2016) Matej Mugerli soloed in to win the third stage of the Tour of Serbia and take over the yellow jersey of the race leader. It is the fourth season win for the Synergy Baku rider.
In addition, Matija Kvasina is third in GC and wears the mountain jersey, and the team still leads the teams ranking.
Josip Rumac was in the first break group of the day. Later Mugerli escaped with Clemens Fankhauser of Tirol Team, and the two slowly pulled away. They had only a three minute gap on the chasing group which held all the top sprinters. With less than 40 km to go, the other rider crashed on a descent, leaving Mugerli alone in the lead. He held on for teh remaining thirty-plus kilometers and flew in to the finish line, 2:31 ahead of the field.
Mugerli’s last win this season was stage three of the Tour d’Azerbaidjan. He also won stage 3 of the Istrian Spring Trophy and the Porec Trophy.
“It was not such a long stage, but hard and for me a very intensive race,” Mugerli said. “I did 100km in the breakaway, and the last 30 km alone after my mate from Tirol crashed. From teh beginning, we pushed, there was no real tactic, just going full gas.
“I am happy with this victory and also to be in the yellow jersey on my birthday tomorrow. And of course many thanks to the Synergy Baku team, which controlled the race behind me.”
“This was another amazing day for our team,” said DS Andrej Hauptman. “The first part of the stage was really hard. Matej and Fankhauser attacked before the first climb. Then he won the first intermediate sprint and picked up six seconds.
“Behind them, we controlled the yellow jersey group. With 50 km to go, the gap was three minutes and the others started to chase. It was not easy, but today, Matej was the strongest. We still face three difficult days, but as always this season, congratulations to the whole team.”
Matej Mugerli continues to hold the lead in the Tour of Serbia. The Synergy Baku Cycling Project controlled the whole race so that his overall lead was not endangered and he again won the leader’s jersey on his 35th birthday.
“Everything was under control today. Ioannis Tamouridis, Josip Rumac and Alex Surutkovych did a fantastic job!” Mugerli said. “They chased for 180 km.”
“There were a few attacks on the final climb, but Matija Kvasina and I controlled them. Huge thanks to the guys. Now I have to bring the yellow jersey to the finish on Sunday for them!”
“Today was a hard day. It was 192 km and the guys were in front all day. We still have yellow,” said DS Andrej Hauptman. “I am very proud of this team.”
There are still two stages to go in the race.
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Matej Mugerli has won the overall title in the Tour of Serbia. In addition, Matija Kvasina finished third overall and Synergy Baku Cycling Project takes home the title of best team.
Mugerli finished the sixth and final stage Sunday safely in the peloton, which crossed the finish line only three seconds behind two escapees. He came into the stage with a lead of over two minutes and was never really endangered all day.
He laid the base for his GC win on the third stage, which he won by over two and a half minutes in a solo to the finish. The team led the team rankings for the entire race. Kvasina finished third on the second stage and stayed in the top three overall until the end.
“There were many attacks today but our team had no problem controlling the race. The guys did an amazing job and we also won the team ranking,” Mugerli said. “This was my first race back after a break, and I am very happy to have won the overall title in a stage race.”
“This final stage was more difficult than we expected, but the guys really gave their best,” said DS Andrej Hauptman. “We lost the mountain jersey, but held on to the team classification. Congratulations to all the riders and staff.”
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Kirill has a racing break right now, and is doing altitude training on Tenerife. This was his rest day, so he took the time to answer some of your questions.
"Most of the time I train in the Flemish Ardennes when I'm in Belgium. I have lived in Belgium since I was 17 but since I first signed with Baku in 2013, I spend most of the time in Spain and come to Belgium only to see family and for recovery time between races. Marc Lombaerts makes my training plans, he has been coaching me for 5 years.
When you switch teams at the continental level, you don't really need an agent, you can handle it all by yourself. At some point maybe you are more relaxed if you have contract for the coming year, but it will not affect your current season if you don't have the legs
Racing in different climate zones is more difficult than time zones, sometimes you even don't feel the time difference if the climate is not extremely different than that you came from."
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Synergy Baku Cycling Project riders have brought in six national titles for 2016. Ioannis Tamouridis scored the double, winning both the time trial and road titles in Greece.
As expected,Synergy Baku riders filled the podiums at both Azerbaijan championships. Maksym Averin won the road title, winning by some 12 minutes in a solo breakaway. Synergy Baku riders took the top six places in the race. Samir Jabrayilov won the sprint for second ahead of Elchin Asadov, with Ismail Iliasov only two seconds back in fourth. In the time trial, Asadov ended up atop the podium, beating out Averin and Jabrayilov.
“I am proud to have defended my title in the road race, and it tops off a great first part of the season. Many thanks to my teammates who helped to make this possible,” said Averin. “I am also proud to have won with such a large time gap!”
Matija Kvasina, winner of the Tour of Croatia, took the Croatian time trial championship for the third time, and was third in the road race. Josip Rumac finished second in the Croatian road race, which gave him the U-23 title.
The man of the weekend was Tamouridis. On Friday he won the Greek national time trial, and on Sunday the Greek national road race. It was his eighth time trial title and fifth road title.
“It was a great weekend! My aim was to win both jerseys and I was in a good condition to do it,” Tamouridis said. “I knew the time trial was ‘easier” to win, but the road race is always a very stressful race and they were another eight to ten riders racing against me. In addition to power I also needed a good plan to control all of them and for sure luck. I crashed In the middle of the race but fortunately without consequences. Finally everything got well and I can be satisfied with the results and my condition.”
Averin, Tamouridis and Kvasina are all headed to the Olympic Games in Rio in August.
Team manager David McQuaid was proud of his riders. “This year’s national championships have indeed been rewarding for our squad. This puts our name out there for sure.”
“It is a strong credit to the guys as a group, and while I am happy to see our three Rio-bound riders all on the road race podiums – Maksym and Ioannis winning, and Matija impressing in Croatia – I am also happy to see our young guys performing so well too, pushing the Elites. Ismail narrowly missed the podium in Azerbaijan, and Josip narrowly missed the Elite win in Croatia.”
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Kirill has just finished his altitude training on Tenerife and is back in Belgium -- for the moment. "I love the island," he said. "If I could, i would live here. Nothing to distract me from my focus."
"I did some tests and everything is great. The next races can come!"
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« Reply #26 on: July 05, 2016, 08:32 »
Kirill Pozdnyakov will lead the Synergy Baku Cycling Project in the Tour of Sibiu (UCI 2.1). The Romanian race runs July 6-10.
Pozdnyakov recently finished third overall in the Tour of Slovakia, and was 14th overall in the Tour d’Azerbaidjan. In the Tour of Croatia he was seventh in the final GC, and contributed greatly to teammate Matija Kvasina’s overall win.
He will be supported by Kvasina, who won the Croatian national time trial championship, and Josip Rumac, who won the U23 Croatian road race title. Matej Mugerli, winner of the Tour of Serbia, and Elchin Asadov, Azerbaijan’s time trial champion, will also back the Russian up, as will Samir Jabrayilov.
The Tour opens with a 2.2km prologue in the city of Sibiu. Stage 1, with start and finish in Sibiu, contains four ranked climbs, is followed by a stage with five climbs, and a mountain top finish. The climbing continues with a mountain time trial in the third stage. There is no let up, as the race closes with six climbs on the final stage.
Synergy Baku Cycling Project for the Tour of Sibiu: Elchin Asadov, Samir Jabrayilov, Matija Kvasina, Matej Mugerli, Kirill Pozdnyakov, and Josip Rumac
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Kirill has won the mountain time trial in the Sibiu Tour!
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Kirill Pozdnyakov has won the mountain time trial in the Sibiu Cycling Tour. The Russian took his first win of the year by covering the difficult 6.8 kilometers in 16:20.
The penultimate stage in Romania,which finished at the glacier lake Bâlea Lac at 2040 m, contained 13 hairpin curves and numerous other curves and turns. It had an average gradient of 6.18%.
Pozdnyakov covered the course six seconds faster than second-place Alessio Taliani and 11 seconds faster than Serghei Tvetcov, both of Androni Giacattoli-Sidermec.
“It was great to win today ! A special win on a special mountain,” Pozdnyakov said. “I dedicate this win to the people who make it possible for us to race and who support us in what is not always an easy situation.”
“Kirill was amazing today,” said DS Andrej Hauptman. “For sure he was the strongest. This is a big victory for him and the team.”
“This is an excellent results for the team, and an excellent result for Kirill personally,” said team manager David McQuaid. “To win a mountain time trial takes pedigree. Kirill set the best time today ahead of established Pro Conti riders, and I am happy for him because he is a dedicated rider.”
“Unfortunately due to how yesterday’s stage panned out, the GC is out of the equation now. We came here to win the GC with Kirill and today’s results show that we could have done it.”
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After 23 years, Patrice Thorell is leaving a lasting legacy for Des Moines
Patrice Thorell, right, helping local Artist George C. Scott with his new ‘Marinascope.’
By Scott Schaefer
Patrice Thorell, who retired as the Director of Parks, Recreation and Senior Services in 2018, is leaving a legacy for the City of Des Moines, after serving it for 23 years.
She will be honored in Vancouver WA on April 11 with the well-deserved 2019 Distinguished Service Award from the Washington Recreation & Park Association (WRPA).
A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON THE COMMUNITY
Patrice has had an influence not only on Des Moines Parks & Rec, but also local Arts, the Des Moines Legacy Foundation, school programs, childcare, children’s health & wellness, Senior Services, sports programs, Des Moines Farmer’s Market, the Fireworks Show and countless other projects that benefit the citizens of this community at every age.
“Patrice Thorell exemplifies the trait of a Respected Leader,” Tony Hettler told The Waterland Blog. “She has been recognized for her accomplishments as a Director of Parks and Recreation in Des Moines by local, county, regional and State organizations. She is a dedicated servant leader who has mentored numerous young professionals who have carved out successful careers in the Parks & Rec field.”
Patrice has been called an inspired innovator, is widely respected, and has been a local superstar in the Parks and Rec Profession.
Before settling down in Des Moines, Patrice worked in Kent as the Cultural Arts Superintendent. Before that she was the Arts & Recreation Coordinator for Kirkland Parks and Rec.
Throughout her professional career, she has sought innovative solutions to community challenges, and has demonstrated boundless energy and a true passion for the community.
She was the first Parks, Recreation and Senior Services Director hired by Des Moines in 1994, shortly after the city inherited King County’s aging parks and facilities. Before Patrice, there were very few recreation programs for youth and families in the city.
“During my 23-year career with the City of Des Moines as its Parks, Recreation and Senior Services Director, I have had the great pleasure of working with extraordinary citizens, volunteers, staff, civic groups, private and public organizations, businesses and government to further these community services,” Patrice told The Waterland Blog.
In that role, she was the moving force behind the renovation of Des Moines Beach Park, the development of the Steven J. Underwood Memorial Park, and she also secured financial resources for the purchase of the undeveloped Van Gaskin property.
She is also known for creativity and extraordinary skills in Special Event planning, and one of her signature events was the annual Canterbury Faire, which has been held every summer for over 20 years.
Patrice was also instrumental in the implementation of the Play for All multi generation program/park offered in Des Monies.
“She put her heart and soul into our profession, and shared her passions with those around her!” her friend Sue Padden said.
THINGS TOOK A TURN IN 2018
Recent events in Des Moines haven’t been all good for Patrice (and others), as in 2018 the city opened an investigation into – and severed its relationship with – the Des Moines Legacy Foundation.
“It is absolutely appalling to me that the City Manager and current City Council have chosen to lambast her and give her no recognition for the many, many projects, grants, and programs she and her department created during her tenure,” Sue Padden told The Waterland Blog.
Patrice shared the following statement about this issue with The Waterland Blog in Nov., 2018:
“For the entirety of my career with the City I and other City Directors had the full encouragement and support of prior City Managers and City Councils to become involved with and active in community organizations including Rotary, the Chamber of Commerce, the Legacy Foundation and others. This is reflected in the Investigative Report which acknowledged that in 2002 City Manager Piasecki specifically authorized myself and Sue Padden to serve on the Legacy Foundation Board.
“All of my service to the City and the Legacy Foundation reflect an honest and open attempt to do the best for our community and were done with the full knowledge and authorization of prior City Mangers and City Councils. The report does not indicate or suggest that either myself or Sue Padden received any personal gain or benefit and in fact, we both spent countless hours of our personal time to make the Legacy Foundation successful.
“I am proud of my service to the community and I am proud that my actions have helped to generate substantially funding for children, senior services and the arts that the City could not have provided on its own. The current administration has the authority to change that tradition and disallow this practice as it sees fit. However, it can not change past practices after the fact by vilifying those that had administration approval to serve the community prior to recent changes to administrative policy.”
What is Patrice most proud of after 23 years?
“I am most proud of how the citizens have engaged with the City’s programs and of their passion to serve Des Moines on its Parks, Recreation, and Senior Services Master Plan Citizens Advisory Committees, Human Services Advisory Committee, Senior Services Advisory Committee, Arts Commission, Landmarks Commission and Lodging Tax Advisory Committee,” she said. “The Department’s programs are led by hundreds of Youth Sports Coaches, Senior Services volunteers, Friends of Des Moines Creek, Friends of Sonju Garden, Park Adopt-A-Spot and Earth Day groups that have made a tremendous impact through their contribution of more than 13,000 hours of their time that equals 6 full time staff positions annually.”
SO MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Some of the other many accomplishments of her legacy to the community include:
In 1999, Legacy’s first fundraising activity at Anthony’s Homeport was the beginning of the Foundation’s 20-year relationship with Anthony’s as the sponsor of the annual Bayside Brunch fundraiser.
In 2000, a plant sale of reclaimed plants from Port of Settle Buy-out property was held to create a Parks Fund to replace deteriorating City landscaping, drinking fountains, picnic tables, and memorial benches located along Marine View Drive S. and in downtown City Parks. Memorial Benches, the brain child of Earline Byers and the Des Moines Chamber of Commerce, had been purchased in the 1980’s and needed to be replaced. New benches, made of recycled plastic, were installed throughout the community due to the generosity of citizens and community groups
In 2001, the Senior Center, then located in the Beach Park Founders Lodge and Dining Hall, was closed due to damage caused by creek flooding and the Nisqually earthquake. The Foundation received Council authorization through ordinance 01-173 to launch a citizen voted bond initiative to purchase property to build a new senior facility. Unfortunately, the bond didn’t pass, however, the City received a CDBG loan and along with community fundraising, the current Senior Activity Center was purchased and renovated.
In 2001-2017, Legacy provided funds o the City for the free Summer Concerts held at Beach Park and Wooton Park.
In 2001-2014, Legacy served as the community fundraising conduit for Fireworks Over Des Moines with the ongoing support of the Rotary Club, Powell Homes, Destination Des Moines and the City.
In 2003, Legacy and its donors funded the Des Moines Senior Activity Center wood floors, the commercial kitchen and appliances and building’s furnishings. The exterior patio, water feature, patio furnishings and Mary’s Garden were added in 2006 along with the construction of building storage.
The first phase of Steven J. Underwood Memorial Park was opened. Legacy led the community initiative to build the large paver plaza that connects the ballfields, Underwood Memorial and restrooms in partnership with Starbucks’ Park Program, the Des Moines Police Guild and the Rotary Club.
In 2005, Legacy promoted the re-establishment of the Arts Commission, the creation of Destination Des Moines and a Farmers Market. Parks, Recreation and Senior Services Department initiated citizen steering committees to help with the framing, goals and policies for these new entities.
In 2006, Farming in the Environment partnered with the City to launch the Des Moines Waterfront Farmers Market at the South Marina Park parking lot.
In 2007, the Arts Commission was approved by City Council. Legacy Foundation Board Member Clark Snure was appointed to the Arts Commission. Also, in 2007, Legacy Board Member Leslie Newman was elected as the President of Destination Des Moines.
In 2008, Legacy Board Member Wayne Corey helped to establish “Elder Watch”, volunteers that worked in collaboration with multiple human service agencies to help vulnerable seniors maintain a safe and secure lifestyle.
In 2009, Legacy funds provided a financial guarantee to support the Farmers Market overhead during a one-year transition period to ensure its continued operation. Legacy also funded the Des Moines 50th Birthday Community Concerts, and a computer lab at Wesley Gardens.
In 2010, Legacy funds commissioned the “Honoring Aging” mural that is located on S. 219th Street; purchased a 14 Passenger Bus to transport seniors and youth to City programs; and established a fund to support the Daisy Sonju Community Garden, to install raised beds, benches, and Georgie’s Greenhouse led by Legacy Board Member and volunteer steward Kim Richmond.
The Legacy Foundation also served as the conduit for the first Poverty Bay Arts Festival created by the Arts Commission, Highline College Student’s Union and Destination Des Moines to promote the arts and create economic development activities in the downtown businesses.
Between 2010-today, Legacy has funded free summer-long youth programs and community events at Midway Park in collaboration with the Des Moines Food Bank and other community organizations. Legacy was honored to be the beneficiary of $79,000 from the Phyllis Moore Estate.
In 2011, Legacy supported the City’s Levy Lid Lift for City Streets and Beach Park Historic Buildings repairs.
In 2013, Legacy funded the Art on Poverty Bay outdoor sculpture gallery, raising funds for concrete plinths for the temporary sculptures. In 2014, Legacy purchased “A Gentle Nudge” donated by the Snure Family and “Yakutat” bronze seal pup sculpture located along the Marina promenade.
In 2014, Legacy contributed a $16,000 match with a grant from Puget Sound Energy Foundation to fund the Des Moines Senior Activity Center Electronic Reader board.
In 2015, Legacy purchased the “Tree of Life” sculpture located at the Des Moines Senior Activity Center, and in collaboration with the City, implemented the Waterland Adventure/’tothebeach” project funded by a Seattle Southside Tourism grant.
In 2016, Legacy asked the City Council to partner to renovate, replace and build new play areas citywide. The “No Kids Left Inside” initiative has raised over $150,000 for play areas of which $75,000 is under contract with the City of Des Moines to provide matching funds to support a King County grant for a Play for All ADA inclusive play area at Steven J Underwood Park and a grant to replace the Field House Park play area.
Legacy provided funds to stabilize the Meals on Wheels and Senior Shuttle programs when agency budget cuts threatened their services to vulnerable Des Moines and Normandy Park senior adults.
$33,000 funds were contributed to Legacy by the Adriana Senior Apartments to support Des Moines community senior services.
In 2017, Legacy and 4culture funded a heritage project to replace the Carmen Scott Beach Park Heritage Trail Signage project. This project is underway.
$31,000 in funds were contributed by the Waterfront Crossing Development to support Legacy’s community services. Funds were earmarked for the No Kids Left Inside Play Area initiative, if needed.
In 2017-2018, Legacy received a Port of Seattle ACE grant and commissioned artist George C. Scott to create the “Marinascope” sculpture located at South Marina Park, honoring Legacy Board members Carmen Scott and Nancy Stephan. The City installed the sculpture at the site in December.
In 2018, Legacy Foundation paid the $5,000 start-up costs to establish the “Parkrun” free 5K events run by a volunteer group on Des Moines Creek Trail every Saturday at 9 a.m.
Legacy also funded the outdoor movie screen and projection equipment for the City’s free Movies in the Park family recreation activity.
Legacy funds have supported ongoing youth and senior scholarships for low income participants, Seniors Making Art and Dance for Parkinsons, Defibulators for PRSS buildings, Medical lending equipment, Emergency preparedness equipment, fresh fruits and vegetables for Meals on Wheel recipients.
This year, Legacy funded a grant to Grace in Action for wheelchair ramps and access for seniors, and has provided ongoing support for Medical Teams International Dental Van for free dental treatments for low income seniors. Legacy also responded to the Des Moines Area Food Bank’s request for an undercounter refrigerator to replace its failing unit. Legacy will also fund recreation scholarships for Des Moines low income youth.
Legacy provides the conduit, as feasible, for worthy outside agencies that support of community recreation opportunities for youth such as the Three Tree Point Yacht Club’s Sailing Scholarships, Mt. Rainier Pool Scholarships and Reach Out Des Moines programs at Midway Park.
The Des Moines Beach Park Event Center facility rentals, youth sports programs- soccer, softball, basketball, and Camp Khaos and Club Khaos before and after school programs. “In my opinion, we have the highest quality and best managed youth programs and rental facilities in South King County,” she said.
Senior Services has developed and maintained many long time partnerships with agencies such as Catholic Community Services for its nutrition (lunch program) SeaMar (Latino programs) and Sound Generations (Hyde Shuttle and Meals on Wheels). These programs are leaders in the industry.
Posted by Scott Schaefer on Friday, April 5, 2019 at 2:26 pm
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4 Responses to “After 23 years, Patrice Thorell is leaving a lasting legacy for Des Moines”
Brian Snure says:
A well deserved recognition for an amazing person who has done more for the community of Des Moines the last 23 years than most people will do in a lifetime and who, I have no doubt, contribute much more before she is done! Thank you Patrice!
Fred Andrews says:
Thank you for the great article and congratulations to Patrice for her Distinguished Service Award. I can’t think of anyone who deserves it more. As a former member of the Des Moines Arts Commission and organizer of the Spanish Castle Project I had the pleasure and honor of working with Patrice, Sharon Best, and Legacy Foundation for the last three years. Their support has been critical to the success of the arts in Des Moines and to the quality of life in our community. Three cheers for the inspirational, generous, and talented Patrice Thorell.
Fred Andrews
Kristie Brame says:
Congratulations, Patrice!
You and the Legacy Foundation have done so many good things for Des Moines.
We are proud of you!
In my previous comment I meant Janet Best of Des Moines Parks and Recreation, not Sharon. Janet and Patrice have had so much to do with the success of the Art on Poverty Bay Project and getting great public art into Des Moines.
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Our World, Our Culture
hearing aids not accepted in the Deaf community 20 years ago?!?!?
Thread starter deafdyke
deafdyke
And this is why I advocate for deaf kids. A "new to the community" parent of a deaf kid, was told by someone who is on the extreme side of things, that the Deaf community was rabidly anti hearing aids TWENTY years ago?!?!? I know
there was still some rabidly anti HA sentiment as recently as the '70's. I'm not talking about random indivduals who may have had bad experiences with HA, but the group mindset as a whole. But twenty years ago, heck even 30 years ago HAs were accepted. They were used at Schools for the Deaf, and even people who Sign, used them. Why are some extreme schools of thought making up extreme claims like hearing aids weren't accepted in the Deaf community?
AlleyCat
There will always be people like that. But also, the parent may have misunderstood something. At any rate, why would anyone listen to something that may or may not have existed TWENTY years ago. There is no need to discuss outdated ideals and fuel a fire here.
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DeafDucky
Today and 20 years ago are miles different...
And.. yes there were quite a few D/deaf at Gallaudet 30-35 years ago who were no fans of hearing aids at all. Many refused to wear them; had one friend who grew up oral...came to Gallaudet and pretty much refused to wear her aids again; they eventually went back to hearing aids as time went on and after leaving Gally. Doesn't surprise me that there'd be continuing opposition 15-20 years ago.
There's always going to be a small group who will be anti_____. Currently it's the CI but that seems to be slowly changing now.
And... why would anyone listen to some extreme schools of thought making up extreme claims like hearing aids weren't accepted in the Deaf community?
DeafDucky said:
Yeah but I meant as a hivemind mentality. i know there were SOME people who were anti HA, but overall the HA has been pretty much accepted in the Deaf community. 30-35 years ago I could see that. Maybe even as long as 40 years ago, b/c that was the edge of when HAs were introduced...
30 years ago HA's would squeal and squeal. In the middle of class. It may not sound like much now, but boy, did they know we had them then.
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LOL!!! Oh yes I remember that!!!!
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Nouvelle Vague by Elena Albertoni
by Indra Kupferschmid posted August 28, 2015
The typeface Mistral could be considered the default choice for evoking French 1950s lettering. Nouvelle Vague offers a less obvious but still direct reference to the style. The name already gives unmistakable hints at its source of inspiration. Energetic, loose, occasionally edgy, and with quite a soupçon of retro, it is a font du jour with the temperament of mid 20th century advertising.
Although, of course, issued in OpenType format, Nouvelle Vague comes in just one weight with comparably few fancy features. Instead of including the countless ligatures or contextual alternates that fonts today use to emulate hand-lettering, for example MVB Sacre Bleu, Elena Albertoni focused on simple, impactful letters that look lively and natural even when OT features are switched off or can’t be applied (still the case in some applications and browsers, but also when you encounter a lazy user, like — believe it or not — me). Alternatives are provided for letters that frequently recur like ‘i’, ‘l’, ‘n’, ‘r’ but strangely not ‘a’ or ‘e’. Also, a small set of ligatures are included, mostly combinations with ‘f’ and ‘b’ although I don’t see the urgent need for those. The ‘AE’, ‘OE’, ‘&’, and ‘ß’ are particularly nice.
The uppercase characters have a different rhythm and are more expressive. Here, too, a few alternates are provided, e.g. smaller versions of vowels to accommodate accents. The caps in general are quite large. My guess is that they look best as initial letters of single words or in languages which don’t use uppercase letters as frequently as German. But the main field of application for Nouvelle Vague isn’t long continuous text anyway. I see it in all kinds of jobbing work, posters, headlines in print or on the web, packaging or display, and — like where it all started — as a piece of lettering for a French hotel.
Specimen image made for Typographica where this review appeared previously
posted in Type & Lettering
Indra Kupferschmid
Easily distracted but usually preoccupied with topics such as the history of sans-serifs, font rendering, or the classification of typefaces, Indra Kupferschmid is a German typographer, professor at HBKsaar, and a traveling activist for the good cause of good type.
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Palm Introduces the Provocative Pre at CES
By 3coast on January 22, 2009
Just when you thought Palm was out of the smartphone battle, it comes back firing with a touchscreen salvo, which appears to have its crosshairs directly on Apple’s iPhone.
It’s the Palm Pre…
The talk of CES 2009, the Pre is poised to bring Palm back towards the front of the pack. It sports a new operating system, dubbed WebOS. Like the iPhone and Android, the Pre is easy to develop for because most of the apps can be written in Java, HTML or CSS. From the demos I’ve seen, the screen redraws are extremely smooth.
In the screenshots below, you get an idea of WebOS. Check out the home screen; the phone screen; and call screen with reminders, a missed call, a text message and a song playing.
Palm offers immediate alerts without having to close a screen. The above image displays what Palm calls “cards.” You can move through applications quickly with cards. For instance, flipping from calendar to maps to photos to emails is easy as turning a card.
An interesting concept about the browser is that it displays the actual Web page and not just a screen capture like the iPhone. Mobile Safari has to reload the page when selected, whereas the Palm browser brings up the actual page already loaded.
One of the coolest new features of the Pre is an accessory. Palm is offering touchstone as an optional accessory. Touchstone is an inductive charger/cradle that allows you to charge the phone by placing it on the “puck.”
Another great feature from the why hasn’t someone done this before department is something Palm calls Synergy, which is essentially a contact aggregator. It pools your contacts from all your accounts and social networking sites like Gmail, Outlook, Facebook, Twitter, AIM, etc. and combines them into database or “stacks.” It also does its best to reduce duplicates in these stacks, keeping your contacts organized.
Palm’s Pre is set for release in mid-2009, with exclusive sales through Sprint. For all you ever wanted to know about the Pre, check out Palm’s “Pre view” press release.
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Cress Seeds (Habbu Rashaad: Hurf) Belief in the Qadar (Divine Decree)
Performing Hajj on behalf of someone else
· In Fiqh Issues
Fat-h Dhul-Jalaali wal-Ikraam bi Sharh Bulugh al-Maraam by Shaikh Ibn ‘Uthaimeen (Rahimahullaah)
Bulugh al-Maraam by Darus-Salaam
Ibn ‘Abbaas (Radia-Allaahu ‘anhuma) narrated that the Prophet (Salla-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) heard a man saying: “Labbaika on behalf of Shubrumah.” He (Salla-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) asked: “Who is Shubrumah?” He replied: “A brother of mine,” or “A relative of mine.” He (Salla-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) asked: “Have you performed Hajj on your own behalf?” He replied: “No.” Whereupon, he (Salla-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “Perform Hajj on your own behalf, then perform it on behalf of Shubrumah.” [Reported by Abu Dawoud, Ibn Maajah and authenticated by al-Albaani]
1- It is permissible to pronounce the Talbiyah aloud (raising the voice with Talbiyah), because the Prophet (Salla-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) heard the man saying the Talbiyah. Pronouncing the Talbiyah aloud is Sunnah.
2- If the person is performing Hajj on behalf of someone else, he should declare his name saying: “Labbaika on behalf of so-and-so,” because if he did not mention the other person’s name, the Talbiyah will be for his own self.
If the person is performing Hajj on behalf of someone, he will say: “Labbaika Hajjan on behalf of so-and-so,” and if he is performing ‘Umrah on behalf of someone, he will say: “Labbaika ‘Umrah on behalf of so-and-so.”
3-Should he mention the name of the person if it is a woman?
Shaikh Ibn ‘Uthaimeen (Rahimahullaah) said: “Yes, but if you feel shy to mention the woman’s name, it is permissible for you to say: ‘Labbaika on behalf of the one who has appointed me as a deputy on her behalf to perform Hajj.’” The same ruling applies in the case you forget the name of the one who appointed you to perform Hajj on his behalf.
4- It is incumbent on the student of knowledge to ask in those situations where the enquiry is substantial (worthy) because the Prophet (Salla-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) asked the man, “Who is Shubrumah?”
If you see someone doing something that needs to be asked about, then it is better to ask, and this is not considered asking people what is not of your concern. This is because the scholar or student of knowledge cares for the state of the people in order to teach them what Allaah (Ta’ala) taught him.
5- It is not permissible for a person to perform Hajj on someone else’s behalf if he has not performed his own obligatory Hajj while having the ability to perform it. The evidence for that is his (Salla-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) statement: “Perform Hajj on your own behalf, then perform it on behalf of Shubrumah.”
What if a person is poor and not eligible to perform Hajj and someone gave him money to perform Hajj on his behalf, is it permissible for this poor person to perform Hajj on behalf of this person?
Shaikh Ibn ‘Uthaimeen (Rahimahullaah) said: “Yes, it is permissible, because it is not obligatory upon this poor person to perform Hajj (for himself). This is because Allaah (Ta’ala) says in Surat Aal-‘Imran (3:97):
” ولله على الناس حج البيت من استطاع إليه سبيلا“
“…And Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah) to the House (Ka’bah) is a duty that mankind owes to Allaah, those who can afford the expenses (for one’s conveyance, provision and residence)…”
And since this man is not able to perform it because he has no money, it is permissible for him to perform Hajj on behalf of someone else.”
However, this is a matter of dispute among the scholars. Some of them said that he is not permitted to perform Hajj on someone else’s behalf, irrespective of the fact whether or not he is strong enough (monetarily
or physically) to perform his own pilgrimage. The majority of the Imams are of the same opinion. [Subul-us-Salaam by As-Sana’ani]
6- Hajj is characterized by the permissibility of changing the Niyyah during it, unlike the other acts of worship.
This man first had the intention to perform Hajj on behalf of Shubrumah, then he changed his Niyyah and formulated it for himself during the act of worship. This is particular to Hajj alone and none of the other acts of worship.
Similarly, the one who intends to perform Hajj is allowed to turn it into ‘Umrah and become Mutamatti (which means that the pilgrim enters the state of Ihraam at the point of the Miqaat with the intention of performing ‘Umrah. Then he performs Tawaf and Sa’y, after which he should exit his Ihraam. With the commencement of the Hajj days, he must enter the state of Ihraam again and perform Hajj) and this is acceptable.
Or he enters the state of Ihraam with the intention of performing ‘Umrah first and then the time becomes too constricted, so he turns it into Qiraan, i.e. he enters the state of Ihraam with the intention of performing ‘Umrah and Hajj together.
However, Hajj differs from other acts of worship in that if the person changes his mind and wants to come out of it, he will not be able to, while during the other acts of worship one can cancel the Niyyah and come out of it.
Mutamatti (which means that the pilgrim enters the state of Ihraam at the point of the Miqaat with the intention of performing ‘Umrah. Then he performs Tawaf and Sa’y, after which he should exit his Ihraam. With the commencement of the Hajj days, he must enter the state of Ihraam again and perform Hajj). If a person commits something unlawful in the other acts of worship, it will cause the nullification of that act of worship, such as eating or drinking or talking in the Salaat; while during Hajj the forbidden things do not nullify it, except having sexual relations before the first Tahallul, which nullifies the Hajj. Yet one should continue the current Hajj and make it up in the following year. This is contrary to the other acts of worship.
7- The Hadeeth indicates that whoever intended to perform Hajj on behalf of someone, and then he came to know that he should perform Hajj on behalf of his own self first, it becomes obligatory upon him to perform the Hajj on behalf of himself and then for the person whom he initially intended to perform the Hajj for later, because the Prophet (Salla-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) told the man to perform Hajj on behalf of himself first and then on behalf of Shubrumah.
8- It is permissible to perform Hajj on behalf of another person without taking his permission because the Prophet (Salla-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) did not ask the man, “Did you take his permission?”
Based on this ruling comes the issue of giving or presenting acts of nearness to the dead.
Shaikh Ibn ‘Uthaimeen (Rahimahullaah) said: “It is better not to make an offering (communion) for the sake of the dead [i.e. do an act of worship and give its reward to the dead], rather one should make them for his own self and make the invocation for the dead because this is what the Prophet (Salla-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) guided us to in his statement: “When a man dies, his deeds come to an end, except for three things: a continuing charity, knowledge from which people derive benefit, and pious offspring who pray for him.” [Muslim]
The Prophet (Salla-Allaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) did not guide his Ummah (nation) to perform deeds for the sake of the dead person, although the context of the Hadeeth is about deeds. So make the righteous deeds for your own self and invoke Allaah for others.”
If a person happens to be a very old man who is quite incapacitated or is suffering from such a debilitating illness from which he has no hope of recovery, then it is permissible for him, in this case, to send someone else on his behalf by giving him money.
Thus he could be free from his own Hajj obligation. Similarly, a woman who has no Mahram or is incapable (physically) to perform Hajj and is able monetarily to send someone on her behalf to perform Hajj, then it becomes binding on her to appoint someone to perform Hajj on her behalf as long as she has money, and if she died, then it becomes an obligation on her next of kin to perform the same on her behalf.
Other scholars are of the opinion that since she did not have a Mahram and she died, it is not obligatory to perform Hajj on her behalf because Hajj was not obligatory upon her in her lifetime. They justified this ruling by saying that the legal incapacity is like the tangible incapacity. This is like the man who is sensibly (tangibly) incapable, in which case it is not binding on him, and Allaah knows best.
Noble Goals of Hajj (Part 2)
Reflections over Surat Al-Hajj and some benefits from the Surah
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Vettel Cruises to Seemingly Effortless Indian Grand Prix Win
Photo source: Pirelli Photo Service
With the 2012 Formula 1 tour nearing completion with only four race dates remaining on the calender, the Indian Grand Prix on the 5.14 kilometer Buddh International Circuit was 60 laps that Sebastian Vettel needed to build up his narrow six-point lead in the driver points standing over the Ferrari of Fernando Alonso.
For Alonso, entering the 2012 Indian Grand Prix weekend would not be the ideal circumstance for regaining the Formula 1 drivers championship points lead. Heading into the event, the Red Bull Racing driver Sebastian Vettel had the momentum of not only three straight race wins but as the 2011 Indian Grand Prix victor. Winning the pole, race and clocking the fastest lap in the 2011 Formula 1 event on the Buddh International Circuit last season, Vettel had already repeated in the 2012 weekend with the top spot on the 24-car grid. Launching impressively in his Red Bull-Renault, Sebastian Vettel was accompanied closely by teammate Mark Webber when the starting lights turned off commencing the 60-lap Indian Grand Prix. While the Red Bull Racing cars surged to early domination, Fernando Alonso was intent to get around the 3rd and 4th place McLaren-Mercedes vehicles. Taking several laps, Alonso's Ferrari would eventually found its way around Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton.
A race with a minimal of retirements, Sergio Perez, Michael Schumacher and Petro de la Rosa were the only competitors who did not make it to the checkered flag. Losing any chance of a successful effort early in the Indian Grand Prix, “that was a pretty unsatisfactory race today. It was effectively over just after the start; I lost so much time getting back to the pits with the puncture that any hope of scoring points was gone." said Schumacher who was part of an overall bad race for Mercedes GP. Finishing 11th, Michael Schumacher's teammate Nico Rosberg missed out scoring points in the Indian Grand Prix to the Williams-Renault driven by Bruno Senna.
Leading, Sebastian Vettel steadily cruised in his Red Bull-Renault. However, his teammate's Red Bull Racing car would fall under the attack of Fernando Alonso's Ferrari. Complicated by a lack of extra speed due a failed KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System unit on his race car, Webber was prey to Alonso's red car through the DRS speed zone. Taking second place, Alonso would be unable to catch title rival Sebastian Vettel who took a second Indian Grand Prix by a 9.4-second advantage.
A near flawless race for Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull Racing with only a single tire stop serving as a break in the unopposed Sunday drive, Vettel padded his overall drivers point lead to a 13-marker advantage over Fernando Alonso who finished second in India. The Indian Grand Prix victory by the Red Bull Racing team delivered engine supplier Renault its 150th victory in the Formula 1 series.
Behind second place Fernando Alonso, Mark Webber held on to the final podium position by just 0.7 of a second over McLaren's Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton's teammate Jenson Button followed distantly to a fifth place finish ahead of Ferrari's Felipe Massa. Kimi Raikkonen's seventh place finish in his Lotus-Renault race car is allowing the Finnish driver to hold third place in the Formula 1 drivers' standing. Raikkonen is the only competitor currently in the top-7 drivers of the 2012 standings without a race win this season. Nico Hulkenberg driving for Force India, Lotus F1 Team driver Romain Grosjean and Bruno Senna for Williams F1 rounded out the top-10 of the Indian Grand Prix.
The next stop for the quickly depleting 2012 edition of the Formula 1 schedule is a visit to the Yas Marina Circuit for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on November 4th.
Indian Grand Prix
5 3 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes
22 7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP
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Thread: 19 Park Place
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The permits, construction fencing, and renders I've seen do not support the purchase of the building next door. It will surely be redeveloped in the future, though.
DOB indeed shows that the New Building Application for 19 Park Place, approved in 2008 and inactive since, now indicates that a Permit was Issued for Partial Job on 11.16.2011.
The PW-2 on file shows that the GC is Calabrese Associates.
Neither of the approved Structural & Plumbing applications tied in with the NB Permit have been updated since 2009.
Leyva is still designing the 21-story building. The owner of 19 Park Place continues to be Nancy Luk / ABN Realty out of Valley Stream.
The 5-story building next door at 17 Park Place has a different owner: Aztec Associates / Albert Laboz / United American Land, owner of a number of properties in Tribeca & Soho. The 17 Park Place building was recently renovated top to bottom. Recent listings show apartments there were renting between $5,100 / month to $7,800 / month.
No way that 19 & 17 are part of a package for something new here.
But the tenants in 17 might appreciate a little relief from the sun once the Silverstein / Stern tower rises across the street:
Thanks for the info., Lofter. That little building would be decent if it was cleaned up a little.
A more recent shot of 17 PP from Google Maps with the building next door down and the lot cleared: http://g.co/maps/s28wv
It looks like they might have cleaned the bricks. But the same cruddy windows & mullions remain.
And the interiors are rather rudimentary.
17 Park Place used to be home to a photographer of postcards:
Irving Underhill 1903-1960
17 Park Place, New York, NY
A photographer of New York City. He became a leading contibutor of images for many different postcard publishers.
His name and copyright usually appears on these cards.
Looks like that's the soon-to-come-down 516 Fifth Avenue ^ at the upper right (with the arched windows)
Re: 516 Fifth
That's so sad...after surviving through all this time and still looking so good only to get snuffed out for some faceless glass box.
For a short time in the early 60's it seems that 17 Park Place was home to the collective Center for New Art (later becoming "Park Place, the Gallery of Art Research, Inc." at 542 West Broadway and the basis for the Paula Cooper Gallery in SoHo):
The group of artists there included such notables as Forrest Myers, creator of The Wall at Broadway & Houston ...
Also Mark Di Suvero (whose big red metal sculpture has received recent additional notoriety down at Zuccotti Park):
Park Place gallery group, 1966:
(L-R) Edwin Ruda, Dean Fleming, Peter Forakis, Tamara Melcher, Leo Valledor, Robert Grosvenor,
Forrest Myers, Anthony Magar, David Novros, (Not pictured Mark di Suvero).
December 17th, 2011, 12:26 AM #39
Originally Posted by antinimby
I agree. That sucks.
Stroika
Is there any attempt to landmark 516 Fifth underway?
If not, is there anyone here with enough knowledge of the LPC's processes to start up an application?
It would seem ludicrous for the LPC to landmark 510 Fifth across the street (a 2-story modernist glass troll of a building) while allowing this historic old beauty to fall to the Joe Sitt wrecking ball.
You can plead to Thor Equities here.
To propose an individual property or a district for landmarking, go here.
Fifth Ave. needs to be a landmarked district. Even the name has become synonymous world-wide with high fashion, upper class shopping.
The buildings from that era needs to be protected from a gradual changeover to another glassy avenue no different than many other in the world.
^^ Agree. Do we want Fifth Avenue's predominant architectural style going forward to be more like The Plaza ... or Trump Tower?
Interestingly though...on Fifth Ave, where would the landmark district borders be placed?
I'd say from 59th St down to 42nd.
Initially, I would agree -- "Midtown Fifth" is the most heavily trafficked and important stretch of Fifth.
However, ultimately, the city would be smart to have at least some protection of the entire avenue, including north of 59th (which is already protected via 3 historic districts up to 98th Street) and south of 42nd down to Washington Sq. Park.
Going south from 42nd St. through K-Town, Flatiron and down through Union Square, Fifth Avenue is pretty uniformly impressive and grand. Without a doubt, though, it does need some TLC from 42nd through Madison Sq. Park.
Interestingly, there are five "Fifth Avenue Historic Sites" in the US, none of which is in Manhattan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_A...toric_District
Shows you how vulnerable many parts of the city still is.
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He also promises never to leave Bella's side ever again. Initially heartbroken, Bella finds a form of comfort in reckless living, as well as an even-closer friendship with Jacob Black. Believing that he and his family put Bella's life in danger, Edward ends their relationship, and the Cullens leave Forks. With Jacob busy coming to terms with his new shape-shifting powers, Bella again finds herself alone, and she returns to seeking thrill-inducing activities.
Distraught, Edward travels to Italy and asks the Volturi powerful coven who act as vampiric overlords to kill him, since he is incapable of ending his own life, but they refuse. This reminds her of when Edward rescued her from a previous assault, and she sees his image. During the incident, Edward pushes Bella to protect her, but she instead gets a big cut on her arm.
Video Wrong video Broken video Others. Bundesverband Musikindustrie. On her eighteenth birthday, Bella Swan wakes up from a dream, in which she sees herself as an old woman. From there, the initial fur layout went to painters who were responsible for its color and groom. Soon after, the Cullens return to Forks.
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Edit Storyline After Bella recovers from the vampire attack that almost claimed her life, she looks to celebrate her birthday with Edward and his family. Biggest Turn Off In a Movie? After the earth-shattering revelations of Insurgent, Tris must escape with Four beyond the wall that encircles Chicago, to finally discover the shocking truth of the world around them. After Bella recovers from the vampire attack that almost claimed her life, she looks to celebrate her birthday with Edward and his family. He has the ability to manipulate emotions.
The idea was to give everyone a deeper feeling of the creature that they were creating. In the novel, these pages were filled with the names of the passing months, and in the movie, would be represented as a visual effects shot with a camera circling around Kristen Stewart. Bella eventually discovers that he, and others of his tribe, are shapeshifters who phase into wolves, and that they are an age-old enemy of vampires, particularly the Cullen family. Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece.
Edward leaves Bella after an attack that nearly claimed her life, and in her depression she falls into yet another paranormal relationship - this time with werewolf Jacob Black. Jennifer Weist Johannes Walter. When recreating the house, the production team referenced the first film on high-definition Blu-ray Disc. He then plans to force their hand by exposing himself as a vampire to humans. Don't expect me to be home for dinner!
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HomeLatest from BrusselsA long way to go for a new CAP
A long way to go for a new CAP
9 November, 2011 ARC Latest from Brussels, Main stories
Paolo DE CASTRO, Jerzy BUZEK, Marek SAWICKI. IPTC Copyright © European Union 2011 PE-EP
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On November 7th 2011, for the first time ever, the three European institutions met for an informal early exchange on CAP reform proposals. But was it an historic moment as celebrated by Paolo de Castro, chair of the EU Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development?
At the very least, it was an interesting public debate between Commissioner Cioloş, Members of the European Parliament and a number of farm ministers and state secretaries of the EU Member States – rather than the usual negotiation session held behind closed doors. Representatives from all countries and institutions exchanged views on the recently published legislative proposals of the Commission on the CAP after 2013.
This has indeed never happed before. But as the Parliament now has co-decision rights on farm policies, the Commission and Council of Ministers have to listen more carefully to the directly elected MEPs. And there seems to be taste for more. Following this meeting, there will be a hearing with European stakeholder organisations on November 23rd and a workshop with selected experts on December 7th, hosted by the Polish Council Presidency and Commissioner Cioloş. These events however will not necessarily welcome a broader public to participate.
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The most remarkable aspect of the four hour debate was that, at this early stage of legislative work, virtually nobody dared to check the contribution of the legislative package against the often demanded “renewal, innovation or paradigm shift of European agriculture” and rural areas, and how far apart the worlds of ministers and deputies really are when they start discussing the details of the reform proposals. The key issue that everybody referred to was how much money would be available for CAP in general and to whom it should go – those who should get more competitive on markets or those who deliver public goods to society and stay in business.
Commissioner Cioloş tried to defend himself against the wave of criticism he has received from all sides since his proposals were published, inviting his critics to read the details more carefully before dismissing the reform as a whole. In particular, he highlighted his commitment to bring farmers’ interests and the expectations of society as a whole together in a path towards sound management of resources in farming and innovation in rural economies.
For more information on MEP and Member State reactions at the debate, find a further blog piece here
Watch a recording of the event here
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By Samantha Turnbull
More alleged thylacine spottings have been reported to our wildlife expert Gary Opit
Officially they no longer exist, but that hasn't stopped wildlife watchers spotting thylacines in northern New South Wales.
Also known as tasmanian tigers, the last known thylacine is believed to have died in a Hobart zoo in 1936.
Since then, there have been hundreds of unconfirmed sightings of the animals across Australia, including a handful around Nimbin in recent weeks.
ABC North Coast wildlife expert Gary Opit says the recent spotters insisted the mysterious animals were not dogs, cats or foxes.
"It's not a dog or a cat, but it's about the size of a dog," he says.
"It's described as having a banded tail, a greyish animal with stripes across the tail and stripes along the flank."
Gary hopes the rise in popularity of smartphones will mean that eventually someone can capture the creature on camera.
"It's usually always the same thing, people driving their car and an animal they've never seen before crosses in front of them," he says.
"People are always adamant it's not a dog.
"No one has ever been able to get a photo of one, so we don't know what it is or if it really exists, but the fact that people keep reporting them is interesting."
Gary has written about the sightings reported to him here.
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The ABC Commercial feature documentary, STOP AT NOTHING: THE LANCE ARMSTRONG STORY, has been sold to BBC UK and will be broadcast on 6 July in the BBC Four Storyville documentary strand.
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The film recently screened in the official selection of the 2014 Sheffield Doc/Fest and London’s East End Film Festival. It had a theatrical screening in London on 22 June and another one is scheduled for 3 July, with Picturehouse Cinemas in the UK.
Co-produced with Passion Pictures, the producers of Academy Award winning films, One Day in September and Searching for Sugar Man, the documentary is an intimate but explosive portrait of Lance Armstrong, a man who enriched himself by cheating his fans, his sport and the truth. The film reveals new details about the scandal – with insights from the former friends whose lives and careers he destroyed.
STOP AT NOTHING: THE LANCE ARMSTRONG STORY is an ABC Commercial/Passion Pictures production from BAFTA Award winning director Alex Holmes (Dunkirk, House of Saddam); Producers are Quentin McDermott (The World According to Lance) and Jessica Ludgrove (Fire in Babylon); Executive Producers include John Battsek (One Day in September, Searching for Sugar Man) and Phil Craig (The Flight that Fought Back, Targeting Bin Laden).
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At full adult size total body length from head to rump is 170 mm to 330 mm. Males are generally twice as large as females, with males weighing from 67 to 116 grams and females from 25 to 80 grams. The tail length is about 35% of the total body length, ranging from 42mm to 120mm. Ermine have the typical weasel form: long body, short legs, long neck supporting a triangular head, slightly protruding round ears, bright black eyes, and long whiskers. Their short, moderately fine fur is white in the winter and the tip of the tail is black. In the summer, the fur on the back is chocolate brown while the fur on the belly extending to the upper lip is yellowish white.
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Ermine prefer woodlands near rivers, marshes, shrubby fencerows, and open areas adjacent to forests or shrub borders. Although ermine live primarily on the ground, they climb trees and swim well.
Tree roots, hollow logs, stone walls, and rodent burrows are used as dens. Dens are usually around 300 mm below ground. Ermine line their nests with dry plant material, and fur and feathers from prey. Side cavities of burrows are used for storing food and as bathrooms.
Both male and female ermine have many different mates.
polygynandrous (promiscuous)
Ermine mate in late spring to early summer. Females produce only 1 litter per year. Young are born in April or May after an average pregnancy of 280 days, which includes an 8 to 9 month period in which the young do not develop. Longer days beginning in March trigger the young to begin developing. Litter size ranges from 3 to 18 offspring and averages 4 to 9. Young are blind and helpless. They are covered with fine white hair, and a prominent dark mane of dense fur develops around the neck by the third week (function unknown). The young grow quickly and are able to hunt with their mother by their eighth week. Although females do not reach adult size until a least 6 weeks after birth, they are able to mate when they are 60 to 70 days old, often before they are weaned. Males do not breed or grow to adult size until their second summer.
Females in nature may survive for at least 2 breeding seasons, while males generally do not survive this long. The number of offspring that each ermine has in its lifetime depends on the amount of food that is available.
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Ermine generally breed once yearly.
Ermine mate in late spring to early summer.
Only females care for their offspring, nursing and protecting them until they become independent. The young are born blind and helpless.
no parental involvement
The average life span of an ermine is 1 to 2 years; the maximum is 7 years. (Ruff and Wilson, 1999)
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The ermine's slender, agile body allows it to move swiftly both above ground and through underground burrows. Females hunt in tunnels more than males, which may explain the higher number of males that are trapped. Ermine can also run easily across snow. This ideal predator hunts in a zigzag pattern, moving by a series of leaps of up to 50 cm each. Ermine investigate every hole and crevice, often stopping to survey their surroundings by raising their heads and standing upright on their hindlegs. They may travel up to 15 km in one night.
Adult males dominate females and young. Females tend to remain in their birth place throughout their lives. Males spread out and claim large territories that usually contain or overlap females' territories.
Male and female ermine only associate with one another during the breeding season.
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Ermine territories change size with prey abundance. The maximum home range size is about 20 hectares (0.2 square kilometers). When there is a lot of food, individuals don't need to travel as far to hunt and can live in smaller areas of about 10 hectares (0.1 square kilometers). Home ranges of males are usually twice the size of female home ranges. These solitary mammals keep others out by patrolling their territory boundaries and marking them with scent.
Ermine have keen senses of smell, vision, hearing, and touch that help them to locate prey. Most members of the weasel family are fairly quiet animals, but some vocalizations may be used for communication. Ermine probably use odor to let other ermine know they are ready to mate.
Ermine are carnivores that hunt mostly at night. They are predators on small, warm-blooded vertebrates, preferably mammals of rabbit size and smaller. When mammalian prey is scarce, ermine eat birds, eggs, frogs, fish, and insects. In severe climates, ermine often hunt under snow and survive entirely on small rodents and lemmings. Ermine must eat daily to meet their high energy demands. They store leftover meals as a way of dealing with these demands.
When an ermine senses a prey animal, it approaches as closely as possible. With incredible speed it grasps the back of the victim's head and neck with sharp teeth, and wraps its body and feet around the victim. The victim dies from repeated bites to the base of the skull. Ermine have keen senses that help them locate prey. Hares and rodents are mainly followed by scent, insects by sound, and fish by sight.
Ermine are fierce and aggressive, although small, animals. Potential predators are larger carnivores including red fox, gray fox, martens, fishers, badgers, raptors, and occasionally domestic cats.
gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
fishers (Martes pennanti)
American badgers (Taxidea taxus)
raptors (Accipitridae)
Ermine are important predators on small mammal communities in the ecosystems in which they live.
Many ermine die from a parasitic worm that infects the nose. Eventually the worm causes holes to form in the skull and puts pressure on the brain, causing death. Shrews are believed to carry this parasite.
nematode worms
Ermine, and other Mustela species can take domestic fowl when they can gain access to them.
Humans trap thousands of ermine each season, but the demand for pelts has recently decreased. The white winter fur has long been used in trimming coats and making stoles. Ermine are excellent at catching mice, which makes them valuable to humans.
Ermine are not considered threatened or endangered, although hunting pressure in some areas may impact populations severely. (Ruff and Wilson, 1999)
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Welcome to BoostedK20!
Site News/ROTM
ROTM August 2012 Winner: Si Speed 317
Thread: ROTM August 2012 Winner: Si Speed 317
BoostedK20
BoostedK20.com Founder
Si Speed 317's BoostedK20 Si
This is Dan's 2007 Honda Civic Si Coupe, better known as "The BoostedK20 Si." This Si was built to be more than meets the eye. The initial plan for this car was to keep it a reliable, fun daily driver that can be driven hard at any time. And that's exactly what this Si stands for today. ~500whp on pump gas, perfect drivability, 30+mpg cruising, consistent normal maintenance, seats five, and is great on insurance.
We asked Dan how he was first introduced to cars. This was his response: "I'll never forget what got me into cars and modding. My parents bought me a red Power Wheels Jeep for Christmas when I was two years old. I would drive it multiple times a day, every day. I've always been fascinated with motors, speed, and power since I was a little kid. My father has always been deeply involved into cars, trucks, motorcycles - you name it. So, it was natural for me to be into it. The majority of toys I had and played with as a child were cars, trucks, and motorcycles. Almost every game I've ever owned for every console I've had has been about cars and racing. I used to ride a go-ped around town with my group of friends whenever it wasn't raining. I always kept my go-ped in the garage and detailed her weekly. My friends and I would always race each other. And when we split up to go home, we would secretly look up different ways we can go faster, order parts, and re-race days later without saying what exactly we changed. My father and I got a bigger carb, new jets, velocity stack to compliment my larger intake, huge power muffler - the mods kept going. As I got older, I would dream about what my first car would be - Corvette, RSX, NSX, Mustang GT/Cobra, and so on. I ended up with a Civic Si for logical reasoning: great reliability, great fuel efficiency, great looks, cheap on insurance, great sound system, very peppy, and it only comes in a 6 speed."
Dan's addiction to the car scene is strictly modding. He loves modding things - computers, cars, bicycles, anything. He loves speed, power, and functionality, he explained. As time went on, the more mods he would do. The first thing he changed on this car was the shift knob, which led to a new shift boot, which led to upgraded shifter cable bushings, which led to a short throw shifter - you see where this is going. He says that he loves the feeling of a new mod - the fun, pride, and pain of installing it yourself, the satisfaction of the finished product, and the never-ending enjoyment of your new upgrade. And with todays technology, there are new upgrades being introduced all the time!
The main inspiration for this build is purely enjoyment. He enjoys and appreciates the fact that he has some uncommon and super rare details of his car that you easily miss. For example, the one-off custom made top mount turbo manifold by SRT, the jet-black Mercedes paint, or the wrinkle black HKS SSQV blow-off valve with purple powdercoated nuts and bolts to match the wrinkle black/purple accent theme of his engine bay - this car has been modded to his standards and his standards alone. Whether you love it or hate it - it doesn't matter to him at all. He set this car up to handle anything that can be thrown at it, and be daily driven. Dan says "The satisfaction I have gotten over the years makes me appreciate my Si so much more than words could ever express. There is never a dull moment. If I'm ever having a bad day, hearing my turbo spool immediately puts a smile on my face. And when I boost - even if only for a second - I'm thrown in my seat and everything loose in my car flies back. And that's just in a straight line. The car is insane in the curves. I have practically every suspension component in my car upgraded - coilovers with track-inspired spring rates, sway bars, H brace, strut bars - the works. And I've put the car to the test many times - track days, canyon runs, etc. What really makes me smile is that I've done almost everything myself or with the help of close friends. And I'm glad I couldn't do certain things myself, such as tuning, bodywork/detailing, and powdercoating. That gave me the chance to meet people who have a love for cars like I do, and treated my car as they would their own. Top notch quality, amazing customer service/appreciation, and friends I will have for a lifetime."
Future plans for the BoostedK20 Si include a built transmission, built motor, and Hondata's Traction Control when it's released. "I would like to take this opportunity to send a HUGE thank you to everyone that has helped me get to this point: My family, Brian Zura, Carlo Gampero, Vitaliy Mikitchenko, Adam Winters, Mike Spencer, Michael Baumann, Jay Mallison, E-Tunez, Big "A" Detailing, Ronnie Corado, Silokin Automotive, BoostedK20.com, and everyone else that's been a part of the process. It's been a long journey, and it's not over yet. But this is definitely a check-point worth mentioning. From the custom one-off parts to the Mercedes paint - and everything in between- this package is one I'm definitely proud of."
Dan also wanted us to include this in his ROTM feature: "Paint preparation is the one thing that can make an amazing car into a miraculous car, and I have to send out another big thank you again to Big "A" Detailing for the phenomenal job he did." Link to the detail thread will be posted right here shortly, so check back soon!
Spoolin_VTEC
Congratulations!! This car really is an amazing ride. Fully functional while maintaining killer looks. Definitely a neck breaker, and I absolutely LOVE the write up. Great interviewer to whoever did it. Many kudos to you!
Formerly "Adm_rsx"
Congrats on winning ROTM. One clean ass car. Keep up the great work Dan!
Tire slayer
Breaking everything since 2011
froggyfredd
columbia south carolina
congrats....very clean
Raizo777
Learning, Working, and Boosting! Apprentice
Congrats, Bro! One Sick SI right there!
Boostaholic
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Oberlander Places 6th at Northeast Regionals
WORCESTER, Mass. -- Sophomore Henry Oberlander (Mansfield, Mass.) placed sixth in the 184-pound weight class at the NCAA Division III Wrestling Northeast Regional Championships hosted by WPI on Sunday.
Oberlander went 3-3 at the two-day regional tournament. On Sunday, he opened the day with a 10-5 decision over Justin Montgomery of Plymouth State University to advance to the consolation semifinals. He then lost by technical fall (17-0) to Connor Humphries of Roger Williams University and dropped a 9-3 decision to Sebastian Dziadkiewicz of Williams College in the fifth place match.
Oberlander wrapped up the 2017-2018 campaign with an overall record of 23-11 (.676).
The Bears finished in 15th place in the team standings with 12.5 points.
Sun, 02/24 | Wrestling NCAA Division III Northeast Regional Tournament (Hosted by Johnson & Wales University) 16th Place (22.5 Pts.) (10:00 AM) RC | R
Sat, 02/23 | Wrestling NCAA Division III Northeast Regional Tournament (Hosted by Johnson & Wales University) 15th Place After Day One (10:00 AM) RC | R
Sun, 02/17 | Wrestling NEWA Futures Tournament (Hosted by Trinity College) No Team Scoring (11:00 AM) RC | R
Fri, 02/08 | Wrestling Trinity College Won, 24-21 (6:30 PM) RC | R
Fri, 02/08 | Wrestling Rhode Island College Won, 22-19 (8:00 PM) RC | R
Sat, 02/02 | Wrestling U.S. Coast Guard Academy Lost, 0-52 (11:00 AM) RC | R
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Cate Ashwood, Romance Author
Cate's Books
Guest Post: Panther Queen by Amir Lane
When cattle rancher Lenna Alvarez rescues a black jaguar, she discovers there’s more to the animal that meets the eye. Bonding with a centuries-old Aztec Warrior wasn’t part of her plans. Then again, neither was simultaneously facing off against an American businessman and poachers encroaching on her family lands.
With her newfound powers, Lenna is sure the poachers don’t stand a chance. Only, Lenna isn’t the only one bringing strange animal powers to the game. The poachers have them too, led by businessman Ansen Peters. Lenna is in over her head, and not even the jaguar can save her.
Ansen Peters doesn’t want the ranch. He wants the jaguar. And he’s willing to kill her for it.
Guest Post: Soulbound by Archer Kay Leah
In a relationship that violates rules and expectations, Mayr and Tash have found their perfect match in each other. Despite their fears and difficult pasts, they hope for a shared future with security and a family. When Mayr's secret first love, Arieve, proposes they create that family with her, it seems dreams could become reality.
But life is complicated, and so is the delicate balance between duty and love. While Mayr protects the Dahe family at all costs, Tash is determined to succeed as a priest. Both positions require sacrifice, forcing their relationship into painful choices. To make matters worse, criminals lurk in the shadows, seeking revenge on them and those they guard.
The life they want risks losing everything—including Arieve and each other. Even if they can have it all, keeping it may take more than they can give.
Guest Post: no way out by Eric Alan Westfall
It’s April of 1816 in Another England.
And Jeremy—a whore from the Dock—is living in a guest bedroom at the London home of the (in)famous Iron Marquess, with over fifteen days missing from his life.
For someone who remembers everything from his third birthday on, it’s unnerving not to know. Fine, fourteen days for the coma and the infection delirium. But those first thirty-six hours. Do they explain how he got hurt, how he got to Ireton House, and why his lordship’s mountain-sized valet is taking care of him? Or why his ironness looks at him with nothing iron at all in his eyes?
Jeremy and the Iron Marquess both have dark secrets. Forced engagements, an inheritance, a scheme to clap Jeremy in Bedlam, the revelation of the missing hours, a problem with plumage, some numbered accounts, and a long sea voyage, all seem to mean there’s no way out of the snares surrounding them. Or is the old saying true: where there’s a waltz, there’s a way?
All royalties will go to a local LGBT organization.
Guest Post: Of Princes False and True
A tennis match? Starting a war between the Duchy of Avann and the Kingdom of the Westlands?
Only in a fairy tale.
When Prince Henry hurts a young ball boy who told him Danilo’s ball was inside the line, Danilo’s response is automatic. Punch the prince’s face, pick him up left-handed, and break the royal jaw. Unfortunately, there’s another “automatic” at work: a death sentence for whoever strikes royalty.
King Hiram can’t—won’t—change the rule of law to rule of royal whim. But he grants the Heir of Avann fifteen days to find words that will allow Danilo to live.
In those fifteen days: Magick. The gods, goddesses and gender-fluid deities on Deity Lane. Kilvar, the assassin. A purse which opens in a bank vault. A mysterious old man. The Lady of All. The Magickal Hand writing, rewriting. A fairy tale within a fairy tale. A huge horse called Brute. And at the end...perhaps the right words and a most unexpected love. Plus a deity-supplied dinner with just the right amount of garlic.
Amazon eBook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G667SX8/
Kobo eBook: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/of-princes-false-and-true
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Guest Post: The Fox, The Dog, and The King by Matt Doyle
New Hopeland City may have been built to be the centerpiece of the technological age, but some remnants of the old world still linger. The tools of the trade have changed, but the corruption remains the same, even in the criminal underworld …
When PI Cassie Tam and her girlfriend Lori try to make up for their recent busy schedules with a night out at the theatre to watch the Tech Shift performer Kitsune, the last thing they expected was for Cassie to get a job offer. But some people are never off the clock, and by the end of the evening, Cassie has been drawn into a mundane but highly paid missing pet case. Unfortunately, in New Hopeland City, even something as simple as little lost dog can lead you down some dark paths.
Until now, Cassie wasn’t aware that there even was a rabbit hole, let alone how far down it goes.
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Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40719106-the-fox-the-dog-and-the-king
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Guest Post: The River City Chronicles by J. Scott Coatsworth
A group of strangers meets at Ragazzi, an Italian restaurant, for a cooking lesson that will change them all. They quickly become intertwined in each other's lives, and a bit of magic touches each of them.
Meet Dave, the consultant who lost his partner; Matteo and Diego, the couple who run the restaurant; recently-widowed Carmelina; Marcos, a web designer getting too old for hook-ups; Ben, a trans author writing the Great American Novel; teenager Marissa, kicked out for being bi; and Sam and Brad, a May-September couple who would never have gotten together without a little magic of their own.
Everyone in the River City has a secret, and sooner or later secrets always come out.
Amazon: Coming Soon
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-river-city-chronicles-j-scott-coatsworth/1128593446?ean=9781732307506
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29246443-the-river-city-chronicles
Guest Post: Ardulum Series by J.S. Fields
The Ardulum series blends space opera and hard science into a story about two women persistently bound to their past, and a sentient planet determined to shape their future.
Guest Post: Unforgivable by Elle Keaton
No one ever said it would be easy.
Running away from his messy divorce did not bring Ira Fragale the peace he sought. If he is going to get his life together he needs to pull up his big boy pants and take care of business. He’s been hiding out licking his wounds in Skagit for two years now, keeping his head down (except for the trail of twinks he’s left behind). Something’s going to give.
Cameron McCulloch needs to knock Ira off the pedestal he's placed him on. Because he's older doesn't mean Ira has any clearer idea about life and the universe than Cam. Cam needs to focus on his own needs and forget about Ira, but he can’t. Bartending at the Loft is easy and he likes the community he’s fallen into since his family rejected him, but if he wants more out of life he’s going to have to go out and get it himself.
Ira didn’t choose Skagit at random, he came to the small city because events twenty years ago set him on his path on today. The mystery of his father’s murder may never be solved but Ira would like to lay his spirit to rest.
None of this explains the upswing of possible hate crime in Skagit. The small town has its share of trouble but someone, or someones, are on the prowl, harassing the LGBTQ community, and Cameron is in their crosshairs.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CS2BZTC
http://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/unforgivable-20
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unforgivable-elle-keaton/1128583468
Guest Post: Whirlwind by J.V. Speyer
Rock star Jo Avery didn’t have a choice about coming out, but ever since her ex outed her as bi she’s been a proud advocate for LGBTQ+ issues. Most of her family wants nothing to do with her, but her brother has always supported her. When he gets married, he wants her in the wedding party, and she has to accept.
The only problem? Her new sister in law is the daughter of conservative pundit and anti-LGBT warrior Sarah Tremblay. Sarah has another daughter, too, the beautiful and charming Valeria.
Valeria has been in the closet since she was fourteen. She’s always envied Jo’s strength and freedom, if not her path to living her authentic life. She soon finds herself falling for the fierce, pretty rocker, but coming out could cost her everything. How many risks can she take for someone she’ll only know for two weeks?
Can Jo and Valeria turn attraction into love, or will their whirlwind romance blow out before it gets off the ground?
https://www.jms-books.com/romance-c-34_162/whirlwind-p-2366.html
Guest Post: Lander by J. Scott Coatsworth
J. Scott Coatsworth has a new MM Sci Fi book out:
Sometimes the world needs saving twice.
In the sequel to the Rainbow-Award-winning Skythane, Xander and Jameson thought they’d fulfilled their destiny when they brought the worlds of Oberon and Titania back together, but their short-lived moment of triumph is over.
Reunification has thrown the world into chaos. A great storm ravaged Xander's kingdom of Gaelan, leaving the winged skythane people struggling to survive. Their old enemy, Obercorp, is biding its time, waiting to strike. And to the north, a dangerous new adversary gathers strength, while an unexpected ally awaits them.
In the midst of it all, Xander’s ex Alix returns, and Xander and Jameson discover that their love for each other may have been drug-induced.
Are they truly destined for each other, or is what they feel concocted? And can they face an even greater challenge when their world needs them most?
The Oberon Cycle: Book Two
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New Street.
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File 1: Map & New Street Shop File 2: New Street early 1960s showing old school & start of building new bungalows being built, photo taken from Church Tower. Files 3. 4 & 5 General Photos.
New street leading to Church Lane and Ames Court - Named after the Rev Ames and famiy and Back Lane.
New Street From Memory Lane Early 1900’s by Stanley Oakes.
New Street - early 1900's: On the right coming from the Aylsham Road was Marshall Howard's builders yard, he employed about 30 men of different trades. On the left were Mr and Mrs Sally Hill, who were cattle drovers, they would walk driving cattle to Norwich and bring back those that were sold at the sale, arriving at Horsford giving the animals a rest, arriving at Cawston in the early hours of Sunday morning.
A little further. on was Mr. Isaac Dent's general stores. Opposite this was Mr. Billy Wrights barber shop, two pence to cut a boy's hair, three pence for an adult. A little further down was a bakery, managed by Mr Pull and his wife. Next door was the village sweep Mr Brett.
On the other side was the Lamb Public House. Milk was brought into the village by Mr Tom Barrett (farmer) of Swanington, by house and cart, with a large churn, and a two gallon carrying can, with two metal measures hanging inside. I used to do part of the village before school and Saturday evenings. I would serve Goose pie, the last call would be the sergeants mess, which was the last house on the left. After I had served them they would make me sit down to a plate of two large slices of roast beef, or mutton, they saved all the jam jars for me, for which I got a half pence each.
New Street From the Parish magazine 1995 by Dennis W. Easton.
New Street was a busy street in the past. The Lamb was a good pub in its early days Hutton kept it also a butchers shop in the yard. Mr Chaffey said to Billy one dinner time bring Johnny Walker to school this afternoon. Billy said who is Johnny Walker. Mr Chaffey said ask your mother. Of course it was a bottle of whisky!
On the other side of the street was Brett the chimney sweep, later taken over by his son-in-law Joe Hudson who did it for many years. One play time at school. as we played mostly on the road. the sweep went past with his horse and cart and the name on the side was Joe Hudson. Practical Chimney Sweep, Mr Chaffey stood outside. I think I was about eleven. I said to him. Sir what does practical mean. He told me lets see if anyone else knows.
Next door to them was a baker's shop. this was run by Frank Pull. later by Fred Gooch. Lots of us still in the village went to school with his son Fred. also a girl who they brought up Alice Payne. Dent took it on when they left; this was the start of Dent's Bakery which is now part of Marsham's Garage. Dent had a shop and yard, it was a shop where you could buy anything. iron mongery. garden tools, etc. Vans travelled all over the district for miles around. He employed a lot of labour. Boys just left school started with him. He also farmed at Perry's Lane Cawston and Belaugh near Wroxham.
At the top of the street was M.D. Howard Builder and undertaker he employed a lot of men at one time. He had a yard, a portable steam engine and saw bench where they used to saw full size oak trees into coffin boards. In my day I have seen Eddie Cox only a young man then with two of Mr W Payne's horses on a big gill. bringing the trees into the wood yard. Later years M. D. Howard and Son, this place was sold to I & M Tubby Builders. There has been many changers there in the last few years, good luck to them. 1 have known that place since 1923 when I first started school, that school is no longer there.
On the other side of the street was The White Horse, this has never been a pub in my time. I have heard my father say when they had Fairs at Cawston, Horse Sales were held in New Street and they used to trot the horse down the street for the buyers. This was the first Car Repair Shop and that which is now a butchers was a Cycle Shop owned by Cecil Kybird.
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NBA & NCAAM Scores, NBA Quick Dribbles Feat. Serge Ibaka & NFL Quick Hits Feat. Shawne Merriman Retiring: 3/6 - 1st Edt'n - Vol. 328
Clean this house, from the inside out…restore me, take away my impurity. Lord I need you to clean this house, from the inside out…restore me and take away my impurity! Good morning and welcome to your Spiritual Sports Segment on Rhema Gospel Radio…better than when you heard it, the last time you heard it! I’m C.E.E.J.A.Y…..It’s Game Time!
Russell Westbrook soared
for 37 points in the win
over the Lakers
The National Basketball Association had only three games on the hard-court last night as the Boston Celtics got the best of the slumping Philadelphia 76ers 109-101 as Avery Bradley led all scorers with 22 points, the Denver Nuggets defeated the Sacramento Kings 120-113 with 24 points from Ty Lawson and the OKC Thunder handled my LA Lakers 122-105 with Russell Westbrook erupting for 37 points and 10 boards.
Dehsuan Thomas led Wisconsin
in the UPSET win over Indiana
Men’s College Basketball had six ranked games in action last night and 2nd ranked Indiana suffered yet another UPSET loss, this time against 14th ranked Ohio State 67-58 as Deshaun Thomas led all scorers with 18 points, 3rd ranked Duke literally spanked Virginia Tech with 20 points from Seth Curry, 9th ranked Kansas State outlasted TCU 79-68 as Angel Rodriguez notched a dynamic double-double of 21 points and 10 rebounds, while 15th ranked Marquette got past Rutgers 60-54 as Vander Blue blasted the Scarlet Knights for 22 points, 24th ranked Norte Dame annihilated, abolished and annulled, Alliteration, I Love It, St. Johns 66-40 with 21 points from Jerian Grant as the game was marred by a fight between the teams and 25th ranked Memphis barely got past UTEP 56-54 with 15 points off the bench from Chris Crawford.
For your NBA Quick Dribbles, New York Knicks coach Mike Woodson acknowledged that he made a mistake in deciding to leave Carmelo Anthony in Monday's game before he injured his right knee, since Anthony had asked to be removed from the game due to knee discomfort, Oklahoma City forward Serge Ibaka has been fined $25,000 by the NBA for striking Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers in the groin area during Sunday's game, Jermaine O'Neal has told his Phoenix Suns teammates that he will miss the next three games to be with his daughter who is having open-heart surgery today, after Minnesota Timberwolves J.J. Barea's confrontation with Ray Allen got him ejected from Minnesota's game against Miami on Monday night NBA downgraded a flagrant 2 on Barea to a flagrant 1 on Tuesday, meaning Barea will not face a fine or suspension for his foul on Allen, and finally, the NBA is going overseas for eight preseason games in October, with stops in Europe, Asia and South America.
For your NFL Quick Hits, Northern Iowa receiver Terrell Sinkfield reportedly ran the 40-yard dash in 4.19 seconds at a pro day held Monday at the University of Minnesota, linebacker Shawne Merriman is calling it "Lights Out" on his career as the three-time Pro Bowl selection and 2005 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year said on his website Tuesday night that he intends to file retirement papers and stated "I retire today not because I don't feel I can go out there and still play the game at a very high level….I am retiring because I want to retire on my own terms and leave while I know I can still physically play the game”, Ray Farmer was hired as the Cleveland Browns' new assistant general manager Tuesday and Mike Lombardi's title being switched from vice president of player personnel to GM, and finally, the Minnesota Vikings created another opening at their thinnest position on Tuesday by releasing veteran Michael Jenkins, clearing $3.25 million of space under the salary cap.
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Women’s College Basketball didn’t have any ranked games last night however comma they had three games on the slate as Cornell wore down Dartmouth 53-45, Kansas defeated TCU 74-67 and West Virginia was hammered by Texas 58-45.
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The National Hockey League was jammed packed with eleven games on the frozen hard-court as the Chicago Blackhawks continue to dominate while winning their franchise best 10th consecutive victory and extend their points streak to 29 games as they tamed the Minnesota Wild 5-3, the Winnipeg Jets were pummeled 4-1 by the Florida Panthers, the Colorado Avalanche lost to the Detroit Red Wings 2-1, the Columbus Blue Jackets got past the Edmonton Oilers in a shoot-out 4-3, the Philadelphia Flyers were defeated by the New York Rangers 4-2, overtime was needed as the Washington Capitals knock off the Boston Bruins 4-3, the Buffalo Sabres came up weeee bit short 4-3 against the Carolina Hurricanes, while the Tampa Bay Lighting pitchforked the New Jersey Jersey 5-2, the Montreal Canadiens were demolished, dominated and destroyed, Alliteration, I Love It, by the New York Islanders 6-3, the San Jose Sharks won in a shoot-out over the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 and the St. Louis Blues were pounded by the defending champions LA Kings 6-4.
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Love Island’s Ellie Brown leads the glamour at the inaugural Pride Of Manchester Awards
Love Island’s Ellie Brown turns up the heat in a perilously low-cut gown with a sizzling thigh-high slit as she leads the glamour at the inaugural Pride Of Manchester Awards
By Rianne Addo For Mailonline
Published: 19:12 BST, 8 May 2019 | Updated: 19:20 BST, 8 May 2019
She rose to prominence as a contestant on last year’s edition of Love Island, where she was paired up with former flame Charlie Brake.
And Ellie Brown showed her ex what he’s missing as she attended the inaugural Pride Of Manchester Awards in Partnership with TSB, held at the The Principal Hotel on Wednesday evening.
The TV personality, 21, ensured all eyes were on her as she slipped into a deeply plunging white gown, complete with a sizzling thigh-high slit which highlighted her lean legs.
Accentuating her killer physique, the reality star’s form-fitting ensemble was embellished with paisley-shaped embroidery and a turtleneck feature.
The blonde bombshell upped the style ante as she boosted her figure in a pair of perspex slip-on heels, and accessorised with a flashy selection of diamond jewellery.
With her tresses styled into loose waves, the former business development manager complemented her beauty with fluttery false lashes and dewy foundation.
According to the organisation’s official website, the Pride Of Manchester Awards celebrate the achievements of truly remarkable people who make our world a better place.
Nominated by the public, the winners are from all walks of life, of all ages, and from all over the country.
Ellie rose to fame on last year’s edition of Love Island, where she was paired up with millionaire catering heir Charlie, 24.
Although Ellie and Charlie moved in together after the show wrapped, they split in September – two months on from the show’s final.
Since parting ways, Ellie has been linked to former TOWIE star Joey Essex, 28, while Charlie has briefly dated Ferne McCann, 28, and Amber Turner, 25.
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Suspect ‘big into drugs’ arrested in 1985 slaying of Hollywood director Barry Crane, police say – Fox News
A man was arrested Thursday in the 33-year-old Hollywood cold case murder of director Barry Crane, according to police.Crane, who worked on shows like “The Incredible Hulk,” “Hawaii Five-0,” “Dallas” and “The Six Million Dollar Man,” was found dead in the garage of his Studio City, Calif., home in July 1985. He had been bludgeoned with…
A man modified into as soon as arrested Thursday within the 33-one year-outmoded Hollywood wintry case abolish of director Barry Crane, in accordance with police.
Crane, who labored on shows adore “The Amazing Hulk,” “Hawaii 5-0,” “Dallas” and “The Six Million Greenback Man,” modified into as soon as found ineffective within the garage of his Studio Metropolis, Calif., home in July 1985. He had been bludgeoned with a ceramic statue and strangled with a cell phone wire. He modified into as soon as naked and wrapped in bedsheets. His automobile modified into as soon as also stolen.
COLD CASE KILLING OF WOMAN, 80, CRACKED AFTER 30 YEARS BY DNA TEST, ‘PERSEVERANCE’ BY DETECTIVES
Authorities acknowledged they were sooner or later ready to envision a fingerprint found on Crane’s automobile to a man named Edwin Hiatt remaining one year. FBI investigators then susceptible cigarette butts and a espresso cup from the auto automobile parking put apart of an auto restore shop where Hiatt labored in North Carolina to envision the DNA to cigarette butts found in Crane’s stolen automobile, which modified into as soon as recovered rapidly after Crane’s abolish.
Detectives then flew to North Carolina to focus on to Hiatt. “For the length of the interview, Hiatt admitted to killing Barry Crane,” a Los Angeles Police Division statement acknowledged.
Barry Crane labored on many shows adore “The Amazing Hulk,” “Hawaii 5-0” and “Dallas.”
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In an interview, Hiatt told local put apart of abode Charlotte’s WSOC-TV that he had no memory of Crane or the alleged incident, but that “one thing” could get took place because of he modified into as soon as “astronomical into capsules.”
Co-workers at Hiatt’s auto shop acknowledged he isn’t a violent man.
“He wouldn’t wound a flea,” co-worker Dee Hall told the News Herald of Morganton. “Here is one thing that supposedly took place 30 years ago. The man’s modified. Christ has come in and he is turn out to be a novel creature. If God’s forgiven you, it is seemingly you’ll presumably well be forgiven. That is it.”
Investigators did not divulge one thing about an alleged motive.
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The Antlers at Criminal Records in Toronto
Frank YangEverything I have to say about The Antlers’ record Hospice has already been said, so I’ll focus squarely on their live performance which I was able to witness yesterday evening despite opting to see Joe Pernice at the Dakota rather than their show at the Horseshoe, thanks to their booking an in-store at Criminal Records before either got underway.
While they could easily have gotten away with doing something simple, short and stripped-down, the fairly packed store was instead treated to something akin to a full and proper set, fully plugged-in and running 40 minutes plus. And it’s just as well, because that extra volume and amplification was crucial to the impact of the set (not to mention allowing keyboardist Darby Cicci to be heard at all). Where the recorded versions of the songs were built on foundation of tension and delicacy, the live renderings were much grandiose in scale – bigger and bolder without compromising the fragile atmospherics so integral to the songs. Rather than evoking images of hospitals, they felt like cathedrals, and perhaps most importantly, felt more uplifting than despairing. The lyrical content of the songs didn’t come across so pointedly, instead taking a back seat to the rawer, more visceral impact of the sound.
So while sorry to have missed their show proper, I’m thankful to have caught close to a proper show and still got to see Joe Pernice, all before the cold which has been stalking me the last couple weeks finally took me victim. Achoo.
Photos: The Antlers @ Criminal Records – September 24, 2009
MP3: The Antlers – “Two”
MP3: The Antlers – “Two” (remastered)
MP3: The Antlers – “Bear”
MP3: The Antlers – “The Universe Is Going To Catch You”
MP3: The Antlers – “On the Roof”
MP3: The Antlers – “Stairs To The Attic”
MP3: The Antlers – “Cold War”
MP3: The Antlers – “Keys”
Video: The Antlers – “Two”
MySpace: The Antlers
And if you opted to see The Antlers last night rather than Pernice, know that Joe will be making an appearance at Word On The Street this Sunday at Queen’s Park. Not performing, but being interviewed at 4PM – though there’s nothing to say he won’t spontaneously break out into song. Details in his cover feature from this week’s eye.
SFAppeal, The Dallas Observer and The Arizona Daily Star talk to The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.
School Of Seven Bells’ Alpinisms, a highlight of 2008, will be getting a re-release with a second disc of remixes and alternate takes on October 13 – almost just in time for their Fall tour which brings them to Lee’s Palace in Toronto on October 15. Pitchfork has one of the tracks from the bonus disc available to download. The Diamondback and Austinist have interviews with the band.
MP3: School Of Seven Bells – “Iamundernodisguise” (alternate version)
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Spin questions. Monsters Of Folk answer. On November 2, they perform at Massey Hall.
Austinst talks to John Vanderslice, who’s made a demo MP3 from Romanian Names available to download in support of an upcoming 7″ single for “Too Much Time” due out October 6.
MP3: John Vanderslice – “Too Much Time” (demo)
Good news – Ted Leo & The Pharmacists will have a new record out in the early part of next year. Better news – it’s coming out on Matador.
To anyone thinking about attending the October 24 White Rabbits show – note that it has been moved from the Drake to the Horseshoe, and rather than an early show it’s now a regular/late show. Adjust your plans accordingly. You have a month to do so.
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There’s a new MP3 available from The Wooden Sky’s new album If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone – they’re at Lee’s Palace on November 13. The Sudbury Star talks to frontman Gavin Gardiner.
MP3: The Wooden Sky – “Bit Part”
Spinner gets to know Dog Day and suggests you do the same. They’re at the Horseshoe on November 5.
Young Galaxy have set a date at the Horseshoe for November 13, tickets $10.
MP3: Young Galaxy – “Long Live The Fallen World”
Mew have released a new video from No More Stories.
Video: Mew – “Repeaterbeater”
Filter chats in two parts with Mum, who’ve also made Magnet a mix tape. They’re at the Phoenix on October 27.
MP3: Mum – “Illuminated”
By : Frank Yang at 8:34 am
Category: Concert Reviews
Tags: Antlers, Decemberists, Dog Day, Joe Pernice, John Vanderslice, Mew, Monsters Of Folk, Mum, Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Reverie Sound Revue, School Of Seven Bells, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, White Rabbits, Wooden Sky, Young Galaxy
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I forgot the in-store performance was yesterday. I was really looking forward to seeing the Antlers live.
The Antlers at the ‘Shoe last night hit the epic heights I remembered from their previous appearance. The turnout was both large and enthusiastic and the band seemed delighted and inspired. Good to hear you got a proper taste of them at the instore. (Sorry to hear about the ailment.
For her part, Holly Miranda was impressive and managed at points to cut through (if not dominate) the pre-headliner bar chatter. All in all a good night.
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Torchlight Review for Mac OS X
Published September 10, 2012 by ThePoison33 in Reviews
Torchlight for Mac OS X
Developer: Runic Games | Reviewed by ThePoison33 September 10, 2012
First released: October 27, 2009 | Steam release: May 12, 2010 | Gog.com release: April 23, 2013
Dungeons, endless supplies of loot, legions of foes waiting to slay or be slain, with gameplay similar to Diablo and a quirky story filled with mystery. Interested? Welcome to Torchlight.
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Runic Games’ first product, Torchlight was originally released in October 2009 as a download only title from Steam, followed up in January of 2010 with a full retail release. Whilst this was the first game developed by Runic Games it is in no way built by inexperienced developers, formed in 2008 by Travis Baldree the creator of Fate; co-founders of Blizzard North and the minds behind Diablo, Max and Erich Schaefer; Peter Hu and the Flagship Studios’ Seattle team responsible for Mythos. Runic Games is a company filled with successful and God-like entities in the gaming world.
Torchlight is an action-RPG set in a quirky fantasy world where a mysterious ore known as Ember imbues people and items with mystical powers. Torchlight is the name of the mining town settled above a rich vein of Ember. As all good adventurers do, your character travels to Torchlight in order to harness the power of Ember and the enchanted items that can be created with it. However, you soon realise that there is a dark and dangerous history behind Ember that led to the downfall of past civilisations. Luckily for your hero, it is his job to stop the corruption and save the world.
The character classes follow the typical RPG format, the Destroyer acts as your warrior, the Alchemist is the mage and the Vanquisher fills the role of the archer/rogue. Each character has a unique skill tree, you can spec your character however you please and still succeed. As in Fate, your character has a faithful companion, this can either be a cat or a dog which you choose upon character creation. Don’t worry if you choose the wrong pet, you can change it in game using special fish that can either be bought or fished.
You start out in the peculiar town of Torchlight, this acts as your hub city and you return here to sell your loot, accept and hand-in your quests. By far the most interesting and clever feature in the town is the shared loot chest. Located in the north of the town is a magical chest and any item placed inside this chest can be taken out by any of your other characters, perhaps you find a bow that is perfect for your Vanquisher but useless for your Destroyer. Place it in the chest and the next time you go delving into the mines under Torchlight with your Vanquisher, remember to take your new bow.
If you’ve played a dungeon-raider like Torchlight before you’ll know that the worst part about the game is having to leave the dungeon when your inventory is full. Well Torchlight offers two distinct ways to make this as painless as possible. You can either utilise the abundant Town Portal Scrolls, this will open a portal to Torchlight allowing you to return right back to where you were in the dungeon. Alternatively you can send your pet to sell items for you. Just load up its inventory and hit the green merchant button and after roughly one minute your pet returns along with the gold from your sold items.
Playing Torchlight is shockingly similar to Diablo. Torchlight revolves around two very important features. The first of these is killing, you are almost constantly fighting enemies and in order to aid you in this the developers supply you with a vast array of weapons to find and enchant in order to make you more efficient and deadly in your task. Each of the three character classes leans towards a specific set of weapons, you do not always have to abide by these but your hero will be much stronger if you do. There are three classes of weapons, magical, ranged and melee. In the ranged class you have firearms, bows and crossbows. Magical features wands and staves and the melee weapons are anything you can use to slice, skewer and crush your enemies to death; swords, maces, axes and polearms. Combat for the melee weapons is extremely simple, you click on an enemy and your character attacks, you use your right-mouse button or your numerical keys to initiate skills or drink potions.
However, the ranged class requires a level of finesse. Playing as a ranged character, simply clicking on an enemy will cause your hero to run up to his face and shoot him at point-blank range, a simple, barbaric display of power perhaps but ineffective and dangerous if you fail to kill your enemy in the first shot to attack from range you need to hold the shift button whilst you attack, doing this causes your hero to remain stationary and shoot from a safe distance. Sadly as I had never played Diablo before this remained a secret to me and was only explained during a loading screen where tips and hints are displayed along the bottom of the screen.
You can, at any time, have two equipped sets of weapons, these can be switched between by hitting the ‘W’ key. This feature allows for some tactical gameplay, having two distinct weapon sets for different situations and enemies can result in utter devastation of your enemies and in turn, a whole bunch of new fun loot to play with.
Your quests in Torchlight are all gathered from the town. Most can be completed from the main dungeon but sometimes you will receive scrolls or missions that open portals to other dungeons, this keeps the gameplay fresh with the introduction of new scenery and potentially new enemies. The quests in general require you to collect an item or kill an enemy, most quests can be completed by thoroughly clearing out a dungeon level to make sure you haven’t missed hidden areas.
Torchlight is one of the best action-RPGs to-date but when you think about the team members behind Torchlight it comes as no surprise. With a wide variety of skills and weapons to utilise in near-apocalyptic levels of devastation against enemies you’ll have to try extremely hard to not enjoy Torchlight and if you’re more interested in the loot than the combat don’t worry, Runic Games thought about you too and you will be rummaging through colossal piles of weapons and armour in no time.
Performance & Quality
Torchlight runs like a dream on OS X, I had no framerate issues and even during the most populated battles the game kept up and allowed me to slay successfully. Audio quality was equally as good as the visual performance.
We’ve tested Torchlight on both OS 10.6.8 and Windows 7, if anything the OS X version runs better as I had framerate issues whilst playing on Windows 7.
If you have a lower spec machine or if you’re just encountering performance issues, consider activating ‘netbook mode’ in the settings. This will lower your texture resolution, disable or limit some graphical effects and change your camera height (to lower the amount of on-screen entities).
Torchlight was designed with the idea of allowing extensive modification by users. Runic Games released their game editing tool as a free download under the name of ‘TorchED’ sadly, these tools are only available for Windows.
You can currently find mods at the Runic Games Fansite, and they should be installed to the following location:
~/Library/Application Support/runic games/torchlight/mods/
If the mod includes any .adm files, it is recommended to delete them before running the game as these will be created by the game based on other files.
The developers have mentioned that one of their favourite mods to play is the Leviathan Mod. After playing Torchlight for a long time you may get bored by killing the same monsters over again and visiting. This mods adds Starch The Monster Hunter, a new quest giver who sends you on monster kill quests and supplies you with a few new enemies to slaughter or be slaughtered by. Funnily enough it also seems like Starch is trying to kill you as he sends you to fight and incredibly tough battle against the Leviathan. This mod adds over 10 hours of gameplay to Torchlight and deserves recognition.
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Letter To Kevin Yoder: How To Save Our Nation
Below is a letter mailed to Representative Kevin Yoder on Christmas Day, 2011. Christmas has traditionally been a time of rejoicing and looking forward to a new year in which to build stronger futures for ourselves and our children. But those times are long gone. Our nation faces assured disaster if changes are not made immediately. After hearing Mr. Yoder speak on numerous occasions over the past 2 years and reading his most recent newsletters, it's clear that he has no ideas of his own as to how to save our nation from political and financial disaster and prefers to "work with both sides" to resolve the issues (have you heard anything from Harry Reid or Barack Obama lately that would lead you to believe that a Republican could possibly work with them and get any kind of cooperation from them?). I fear Mr. Yoder is just another political suit steering clear of controversy and conflict so he can get re-elected in 2012.
In 2010 we had an election that promised to be a revolution as conservatives and TEA Party members pushed for real, meaningful change in the way politics is played and the way money is spent in America. You ran against several true conservatives candidates and, no surprise here: you, the real politician with organization and money behind you, won. So here's an appraisal of some of your recent words and what they really mean, or don't mean, as the case may be.
In your November 20 newsletter was an article from the New York Times (dated 11-20-11) announcing the $15 trillion national budget. In your December 11 newsletter was an Investors.com article (posted 8-15-11) describing the immense regulatory growth in government under Obama.
Do these articles, which spell out our national doom, mean anything to you? Why were they posted in your newsletter? Nowhere can there be found an idea from you as to how to overcome these disasters and save our nation from destruction. You were voted into office to make decisions and develop ideas to save the nation, not to play ball-as-usual with the boys and girls in D.C., but you instead seek direction and cooperation from your peers.
Let me suggest an idea that attacks the debt and halts the regulatory blanket that is smothering our nation: repeal the enabling legislation for the EPA, and the Departments of Energy, Commerce, Interior and the NLRB. Abolish these dictatorial agencies (especially the EPA which is issuing regulations that will begin shutting down electric generating plants in the next few months as part of their unconstitutional Cap and Trade agenda) and you will liberate businesses to expand, plus the benefit of un-employing hundreds of liberals who are causing our nation such distress in Washington.
From your November 27 newsletter: "I remain committed to working with members of both parties to find solutions to tackle the looming debt crisis facing our nation."
These are pretty words but what do they mean? We're beyond the point of playing nice with the other politicians in Washington, especially with the liberals who will not debate and who refuse to vote as tradition would dictate, and who only shove unwanted legislation down our throats. It's time to kick some liberal butt and make real changes, but you put forward no ideas for affecting the "solutions" you say you want. Anyone who has watched Obama and his Democrat pals deal with the Republicans in the House knows there is no way to play nice with them. They and their ideas must be defeated completely, no compromises are possible any longer.
Your November 20, newsletter said:"Our crushing national debt could require catastrophic cuts...". Greece has shown us where we're headed if we don't stop borrowing and spending andif we don't return to the constitution for guidance, NOW!! There's no time to just reduce the rate of growth, we must stop the spending immediately. Getting rid of the Departments of Education, Energy, Commerce, Interior, the EPA, reducing the IRS to a fraction of its present size and moving to the FAIR tax would be a great step forward, followed quickly by repealing Obamacare and the Financial Reform Act. Doing these things would save in excess of a trillion dollars each and every year, not the pretend one trillion dollars over 10 years that the politicians insist on referring to in their phony proposals (which would never happen in the Washington we have today anyway) and businesses would surge as a result, creating many tax-paying jobs which would increase revenue to the government, and would allow paying down the debt without the need to raise taxes on anyone, even the evil rich who pay more than their share at present anyway.
Your November 20 newsletter also quoted you as saying: "Congress has the power not only to create law, but to change it and even repeal it". Now you're talking, but you didn't talk to the point, and you didn't mention any suggested legislation you would wish to change or repeal. I would suggest that the enabling legislation for the EPA be repealed immediately, with the enabling legislation for the various Departments mentioned above to follow soon on it heels. All of these executive departments are crushing overhead on government and must be gotten rid of, unless you can make the case that education is better for our children since the Department of Education was formed, or unless you can convince me that energy is more plentiful and less costly than when the Department of Energy was formed, or unless the National Labor Relations Board's blocking of Boeing building a new plant in South Carolina is what the creators of the NLRB intended for them to do.
Let's get busy and save this nation, because we are nearly out of time and the old-boy, insider network of doing the business of government is killing the United States.
Are You Better Off today....? Part 2
Under Barack Obama the EPA has established emissions standards for power plants that will soon cause power plants in the United States to begin shutting down because upgrades will be too expensive or impossible for older plants. The United States of America is about to reduce its electric foot-print and cause less power to be generated at a time when our energy needs are growing and our dependence on energy is greater than ever.
Why do we allow the EPA to continue to exist when this rogue agency is causing such a crushing hardship to befall this great nation? This idiotic regulatory agency's decision will make our homes darker at night, colder in the winter and hotter in the summer, and could disrupt the pumping of water to our homes, along with causing additional business failures and increased joblessness. This is outrageous idiocy from a liberal administration that has already killed millions of jobs as a result of unconstitutional regulations, torn up parts of our major cities via the Occupy Wall Street rent-a-mob encouraged by Obama, refuse to create a constitutionally required annual budget and are now about to leave us literally in the dark and cold and without electric power to our homes and businesses. We are being controlled and manipulated by total fools, and they will cause even more harm if the presidency and the Senate remain in Democrat hands next year.
Where does Kevin Yoder stand on the issue of the EPA causing the reduction of electric energy? He should be leading us to fight this obscenity and all we get is silence. If you will recall the last few years and the rolling brown-outs and black-outs that California experienced and how we felt superior to them in their lack of foresight to what a lack of power plants would cause, you will realize that now we are all Californians and are heading for bad times as long as the EPA is allowed to exist and dictate to a supposedly free nation. The EPA must be abolished and the fool Obama removed from office.
America: What Has It Become, What Is It Becoming?
Obama says Americans are lazy and won't take on big, imaginative projects anymore, then kills the big Keystone XL project.
Obama says he won't sleep until job creation is back to the pre-Omama employment levels, then kills the job-creating Keystone XL project.
Obama says we must become energy independent and stop depending on energy from nations who hate us, then kills the Keystone XL project which gets energy from our friendly neighbor, Canada.
In the current year-end political wrangling, Republicans are being criticized for voting to extend tax breaks for a year, by Democrats and liberals in the media who want to extend those same tax breaks for two months (if two months of tax breaks are good, isn't a year of tax breaks six times better?). And besides, when did liberals decide tax breaks of any kind are good? They always argue for tax increases so we can grow their precious big-government even larger, and they believe tax breaks will bankrupt the nation. Why do they get to win the argument both ways?
Part of the same year-end tax reduction extension from both Republicans and Democrats is a provision for the Keystone XL project which Obama said he would veto, even though he also recently claimed that America is lazy and needs large projects to make us great again , decrease our energy dependence and create more jobs.
Are the liberals running this great nation crazy or are they just fools?
The Democrats have not created a Constitutionally required annual budget for over two years and are constantly fighting the calendar and the clock to pass last minute continuing resolutions in order to avoid the shut-down of government, and then they blame Republicans for the necessity to push legislation at the final moment by calling them obstructionists and claiming that Republicans want the shut-down of government that Democrat actions and policies have brought about.
What is this nation becoming? Under Democrat rule it's not pretty.
Are You Better Off Today....?
The age-old political question has always been: "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" At times in our past the answer depended on one's perspective, but with this presidential election the answer is clear: "No! We are much worse off than when Obama took office."
Whether the subject is liberty, educational quality for our children, the cost and availability of the fuel we need to live comfortably, our economic security and prosperity, the transparency of government, the honesty and sincerity of our president, jobs and a favorable environment for business, constitutional behavior on the part of congress and the administration, or anti-American rabble tearing up our major cities at the urging of Barack Obama, every single aspect of our lives is worse under the current administration, and if this fool man gets four more years to complete his destruction of this great nation, we'll all probably wish we had been born in another country.
We can't afford to sit out this critical election, and we can't allow a third party candidate for president to divide the vote and assure an Obama win. We must insist that a true conservative be the Republican candidate, and we must all turn out to vote for that candidate. It's go-time in America, and the re-election of Obama assures our destruction as a nation.
Obama Is Wrong Again: Capitalism, Work, Thrift and Freedom Lead To Prosperity
Recently our president visited Osawatomie, Kansas, where he made a speech stating that capitalism doesn't work, while completely ignoring the miracle of prosperity that the United States has permitted its citizens to create, prosperity unlike anything the world has ever seen before. Sorry Obama, old stick, but you're wrong again.
Freedom and liberty are the absence of dependence on anyone, especially dependence on government. Conversely, what the likes of Obama offer are total dependence on big government, and examples of the outcome of this dependency policy can be found in North Korea, Cuba, Somalia and other nations where citizens live in misery.
At present half the population of Mexico disagree with Obama and his belief that capitalism doesn't work, and have demonstrated their disagreement by crossing our southern border, legally and illegally, to work in the United States for the prosperity they can't get at home in Mexico, where corrupt government allows little room for prosperity.
Most of the immigrants in America, whether from Mexico, Europe or the Orient, don't remain poor for very long after coming to the U.S. They become firmly middle class or better because they work, save and benefit from the unique offering of capitalism in this great nation. At the opposite end of the economic scale are those to whom Obama wants to give money, and they remain poor and dependent on government for the meager handouts they receive.
Let's be honest about Obama's intentions: He has no interest in helping the poor and lifting them out of poverty. He only wants the raw power created by a dependent class who will slavishly vote for him and his liberal pals so long as the keep the goodies flowing, and is well on his way to getting the power he seeks with his current, mostly unconstitutional policies. This fool man must be voted out of office next November or we'll all be living like North Koreans.
Liberals Destroy Christmas, Fun and Liberty
The very concept of "fun" is unknown to much of the population of the world. There is no "fun" to be had in Somalia, Sudan, Cuba, Afghanistan or North Korea, among numerous others. These nations have little of the basics that we take for granted, such as fresh water for bathing, drinking or cooking. They have limited amounts and varieties of nutritious food,and the citizens of these nations live in grinding poverty. The governments in each country are the sole and direct cause of the suffering and misery that the people residing there must endure. The ideas of "fun" that we have been familiar with in America (going for a drive in a convertible, having a nice meal at a favorite restaurant, flying off for a vacation in the mountains or at the beach) are literally unknown in a large portion of the world, and it's all due to government over-taxing, over-regulating, denying basic human liberties and the persecution of political or religious opponents and minorities.
It's frightening enough to know that these conditions are keeping vast numbers of people from enjoying the precious lives they have been blessed with, but we're seeing these creeping powers of government beginning to take hold right here at home:
First liberals made us reduce our driving speeds to 55 MPH because Jimmy Carter tried to control the price of gas. Then they began taking smoking rights away from those citizens who wished to enjoy this legal habit (even to the point of denying them the right to smoke in their own homes, in some jurisdictions). then they regulated the amount of water our toilets could use for a flush. Then they regulated salt, fat and sugar in our food. Then they regulated the carbon our cars and power generating plants could produce. Then they regulated the amount of gasoline our cars could use on a MPG basis. Now they are regulating in which states of the union legal and much needed manufacturing plants (the NLRB forbids Boeing from setting up a plant in South Carolina). Via intrusive regulations companies are not allowed to build new and much-needed electric generating plants. Oil companies are not allowed to establish new domestic sources of oil and gas supplies, while at the same time Obama ballyhoos about our dependence on foreign sources of oil and gas and how this must end, along with the contradicting statements he's recently made about Americans being lazy and not investing in large projects, while at the same time blocking the Keystone project which would provide critical sources of energy from a friendly neighbor, Canada. Farmers are being watched to assure they don't create too much dust when they plow their fields. Currently Christmas is being discouraged and scorned by the liberal smart-set as offending the sensibilities of those who are not Christians (while most Jews are grateful for the personal and religious freedoms they enjoy in this vastly Christian nation). Catholic private schools are told they must remove the crucifixes from the walls of their classrooms because they offend the Muslims who attend school there. We're being told by our government that we must buy healthcare, and soon it will only be available from the government. Liberals in government (for example: Obama) vilify and try to punish the wealthy by heaping new and additional taxes on them simply because of their financial success.
Everywhere we look government is in the way of our pursuing our own private lives, our professions, our religion and even our "fun", and there is no end in sight with radical liberals controlling government agencies. Soon we'll be told we can't drive our automobiles more than 25 miles a week, and a stiff increase in the gasoline tax will assure our compliance (after all the government needs the additional revenue, don't you know?).
America is being destroyed from within by Obama and his liberal czars, and we're likely to see destruction come from the outside soon if liberals succeed in gutting the military budget and leaving our borders undefended.
Only Fools Trust Government Over Corporations
Businesses must compete with other businesses, which makes them deliver a safer, better product or service, and they must make a profit in order to continue to exist, and this effort makes them more efficient and careful with their customers' money, which is voluntarily given by the customer in exchange for the desired product.
Government, on the other hand, has no competition and has no need to make a profit, so they are inefficient and sloppy, unlike private corporations which must please and attract their customers in order to make a profit. Government is all overhead all the time: it costs the citizens of the nation money to support it, money edicted from them via taxes under pain of imprisonment if the taxes are not paid.
Only fools such as those who are participating in the "Occupy" movement would demand money and jobs from government, whose income derives from taxes, which makes it possible to redistribute the money the OWS fools demand, then block the coastal ports and the roads of major cities, keeping workers from their jobs and keeping products from reaching markets, which halts the very revenue the protesters are trying to obtain from government.
The OWS crowd blame corporations for the financial problems that Obama and other leftists have caused, when it's the government that failed to exercise oversight of Fannie, Freddie and the financial instruments being created all the time by the finance industry. And why did government fail in its oversight responsibilities? Because government employees (Senators and Congressmen) are in the pockets of the very finance industries they are supposed to oversee and control. One can't say that industry is above blame for its excesses, but government is ultimately culpable because it writes the laws and has the legal power to halt bad practices. And because legislators need the campaign contributions industry doles out, congressional overseers will not do their jobs, and have created the financial mess we're in today, which was caused by the fraud of sub-prime loans that government literally forced on mortgage companies, leading directly to our current economic troubles.
It's government, not industry, that has borrowed and printed us into national poverty.
It's government, not industry, that denies drilling for the oil and gas that literally keep us alive and fed.
It's government, not industry, that has blocked projects we badly need in order to expand the economy and create jobs.
It's government that issues regulations that cause industry to fail to grow, or cause it to actually shrink as a result of the government's intrusive regulations.
It's government that fines farmers (who provide our food, if anyone has forgotten) for raising dust when they plow, but won't prosecute admitted acts of voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party, and won't control our borders from illegal entry.
It's government, not industry which has grown enormously since Obama became president, and which will not control the spending of the tax money that it forces us to pay on penalty of imprisonment, while industry is having trouble making ends meet and keeping productive employees at work.
It's government that is destroying the best healthcare system in the world via Obamacare and its draconian and massive regulations.
And in particular it's the executive branch agencies of government that are unilaterally making laws in direct contradiction to the expressed wishes of congress, which created the agencies and assigned them their responsibilities in the first place, and are bringing our economy to a halt (the most egregious example of executive agency abuse is the EPA's insistence on pushing cap and trade regulations piece by piece, although congress specifically rejected these practices).
To save this great nation we must reduce the size, cost and intrusiveness of government by eliminating the EPA, the Departments of Energy, Education and Commerce and elect a new president and Senators who understand the value and importance of private industry. I was, after all, private industry that created the most robust economy and the largest and most comfortable and wealthy middle class the world has ever seen, and it has been government, under Barack Obama, that is well on its way to destroying that middle class forever.
Leftist Vermin "Occupy" Obama's Hooverville America
The filth that is the modern American left (and by filth I mean actual filth and dirt, to include rape, shootings, defecating in public, drugs, arrests and lice) are now officially "occupying" the Obama-created and encouraged Hoovervilles throughout America. With this recent "Occupy America" event, we can easily see what lies in store for our children and grandchildren if the American left, led by these fools and their allies in government and unions, get their way and finally redistribute our hard-earned wealth. It will end the possibility of prosperity and the potential of living comfortably for not only Americans, but the entire world, as over-spending governments (including our own) go down to debt and the inability to sustain their borrowing and lavish, unnecessary, unconstitutional spending.
For the last 80 years or so America has been drifting toward the leftist's objectives, and the last 3 years have seen this effort go into overdrive with massive E.P.A. regulations and a score of Obama's executive orders that have destroyed jobs, undermined retirement funds, caused vast numbers of people to lose their homes to foreclosure and caused small businesses to fail.
Some may call the Occupy Hooverville crowd an exercise in free speech, but their criminal actions are not "speech", their anti-hard work and anti-thrift demands are neither realistic nor sustainable, and their objectives will not lead to any form of freedom, except the left's continued insistence to freely take our property and personal liberties away. These idiots must be firmly opposed by the police and must be defeated in November 2012 with the removal of Obama and his leftist pals in congress.
Obama Laments, Then Forbids "Big Projects" For America
Recently Obama lamented that Americans are lazy and will no longer engage in big, imaginative projects like the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge (these two projects would be stopped dead in their tracks by the E.P.A. and other environmental groups if they were proposed today), yet for political reasons our Barry is blocking a big project (the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada) that would deliver much-needed oil that we are currently getting from unfriendly foreign sources, to the United States. We desperately need new and dependable sources of fuel not only for national defense but also to assure that we can get our food to local markets and get ourselves to work. Our socialist Barry proposes worthless bills to congress that he calls jobs bills, and blocks real job-creating projects like Keystone XL simply to gain favor from his diminishing base as he runs for re-election next November.
Our president's ignorant proposals for fake jobs and his blocking of real jobs is psychotic, the man is demented for the suffering he is causing America. If this 747-hugging, golf-playing fool would stay in Washington and work for a change and try to get past his more radical tendencies we might get back on the road to prosperity once again. But don't bet on it with this truly lazy, pleasure-loving dedicated progressive-liberal man in office.
Are Democrats Trying To Recruit Herman Cain?
Given all of the publicity and dubious charges the liberals are registering against Herman Cain about sexual harassment, we must consider that they are not being critical of the leading Republican candidate for president, but instead it's possible that they are just feeling him out (no pun intended) to see if he is sufficiently Clinton-filthy to become a Democrat and run on their ticket. After all, they've only found two women who have very tame accusations against Cain, while Clinton had numerous women with serious charges, one of which was a claim that Clinton raped and beat her, so the liberal press needs to dig much deeper to bring Cain down to the level of Bill Clinton, but they really need a good candidate to run instead of the loser currently occupying the Oval Office, so I'll bet they keep trying.
But I don't think Herman Cain would make a good Democrat candidate. I can't see him advising to "put some ice on that" or sympathizing that he "feels your pain", and I doubt that he is sufficiently fashion-conscious to recognize a good blue dress when he sees one, as our old dog Clinton did.
Fahrenheit 451 And The Destruction Of America
Considering the story line of the Ray Bradbury book "Fahrenheit 451" can give some insight into what's happening in this great nation under the current anti-American administration as well as provide some parallels with our current lives.
The book describes a society whose firemen set fires instead of extinguishing them, and a society which crushes free, independent thinking on the part of its citizens. Here are some parallels:
Consider our current Department of Education: are children learning more now than when the Department was formed? No! Students are learning less and are being indoctrinated more to socialist/communist thinking.
Does the Department of Energy provide fuel at a lower cost and in a more plentiful quantity than before this group was formed? No! We have much more expensive fuel and the quantity we are allowed to produce domestically has been greatly reduced, negatively impacting national security and our balance of trade with unfriendly nations.
And let's not forget the EPA which is issuing regulations in direct contradiction to the expressed wishes of Congress, and is issuing these regulations at a pace that is killing our nation's ability to create and maintain jobs and make products we need to live and provide comfortable lives for our families.
So why do we permit these executive departments to survive and undermine our prosperity and our freedom? Why hasn't congress refused funds to these anti-American groups? Each department mentioned should have their enabling legislation repealed and be disbanded immediately, saving us trillions of dollars each and every year and getting rid of liberal staffers and trouble makers at the same time.
Given the unbelievable deluge of executive orders and injurious regulations coming from the Obama Administration (and the fairy tale news reports we've been hearing lately) it's easy to imagine the formation of a Department of Religion in which Muslims can have the Crucifix removed from Catholic classrooms because it offends them, and where Catholic hospitals can be forced to perform abortions because liberals want them. After all, we already have Obamacare which was shoved down our throats with a promise to reduce medical costs and provide better medical assistance, but has in fact been shown to greatly increase medical costs and will reduce medical care for the entire nation.
For the last 70-plus years liberals in government have been intruding into our lives at an ever-increasing rate, but under Obama the pedal has been pushed to the metal and the intrusions have increased in quantity and with greater speed than ever imaginable in the past, propelling us to a totalitarian state, and our Barry still has a year left to push us nearer the brink. Can we survive? Only if we defeat Obama and retake the Senate in 2012, and we'd better begin by getting the House or Representatives to push their pedal to the metal and actively oppose the terror Obama is imposing on Americans, and remove the funding that is allowing this to happen.
Government Jobs Plans Are All B.S.
It's foolish for our Republican politicians to try to compete with Obama concerning the lie of job creation via government edict. Legislative bills and the creation of jobs via government fiat will not work (I thought our side was trying to defeat Obama, not join him). Only private businesses that make products or offer services in a competing environment, seeking a profit, can create jobs. Any employment the government can create is just overhead and a burden that the private sector has to pay for via higher taxes. Obama and any ideas he's ever had are losers and are leading our society and our economy to total destruction, so Republican politicians must have the backbone to call his blather the lies they are.
Big government and its unconstitutional rules and regulations are the problem our nation is facing at the moment, and only by eliminating the problem will the United States prosper once more. Getting rid of big, intrusive government means abolishing the EPA and halting its destructive regulations; abolishing the Department of Education and letting local school districts again be the controllers of curriculum and start educating students instead of the political indoctrination kids are currently getting at "government schools" with leftist, anti-American propaganda; abolish the Department of Energy and let companies drill for and refine oil once more so we can assure our own domestic supply of fuel and stop wasting billions of dollars buying from abroad. Then we need to adopt a FAIR tax (similar to Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax proposal) and get rid of the destructive and wasteful IRS and all of its rules and threats to our freedom and financial decision-making.
By eliminating wasteful and over-controlling governmental departments we would get rid of the leftist meddlers who are regulating us to death, and we would save trillions of dollars in absolute terms by not having to pay government salaries and the insane regulations that are being forced on us from above. And getting rid of big government and it's burdensome costs would halt the spiraling expense of government completely, not just slow the increasing growth of government, which is the game we are now playing with liberals who only pretend to want to reduce expenditures. And finally, by reducing government and ridding ourselves of its regulations and control, businesses will flourish and joblessness will be reduced.
Get government out of the way and let the American people breathe free again, and they will prosper once more.
Obama's Continued And Extended Threat To America
Now that the Iranian assassination plot has been exposed the Obama administration has promised to "hold Iran accountable" for the war-like action which intended to kill a Saudi Arabian diplomat on U.S. soil. However, because the Obama Department of Justice itself has in effect committed an act of war against Mexico with its Fast and Furious fiasco in which many Mexicans and one American have been killed, our child president has his hands tied as to what method of retaliation he can launch. If too heavy a response is performed then Mexico can accuse Obama, Eric Holder and America in general of committing war-like acts against that nation. This is the type of predicament a nation gets into when it has a self-centered, coddled, community organizer as Commander-in-Chief, making decisions way above his ability to understand what he's doing. When Obama was using racist and class envy charges while leading demonstrations in Chicago he could always get the power structure to buckle to his socialist demands, and the ramifications of his actions were slight. But with international relations involved with his current job, and with lives at stake, the stakes are much higher, and we are seeing the result of this fool's neighborhood-level decisions producing deadly and disastrous results at the international level.
Barack Obama presents a real and present danger not only to America's national security, but also to our prosperity and liberty. It's no coincidence that we are having all of these crises plague our nation under Obama's presidency, because he is intentionally trying to destroy our economy and limit our liberties via the creation of one bit of chaos after another, spending trillions of dollars of borrowed money we can't pay back, and raising taxes on the earners and the producers so he can shower more money and benefits on the non-producers and the takers, thereby creating even more joblessness and more chaos.
Each and every proposal coming from this White House must be soundly rejected (as the Democrats in the Senate just rejected his so-called "jobs" bill) and this fool man must be replaced in November 2012 with a Republican who can put America back on a stable, productive course once more. The futures of our children depend on defeating Obama in the next election.
Political Candidacy Is About Judgement, Not Experience
If experience is what we need in a presidential candidate, then no one but top military officers would be fit for the job of our top executive, given their experience at decision-making and dealing with complex military matters. The current occupant of the oval office proves the point, that even after being president for nearly 3 years, he still has not gained the experience to do the job (but of course he's a raving liberal radical with an agenda to bring America down to size, so he's really not trying to learn, just destroy).
Pundits have it wrong when they question the experience of certain candidates. It's not experience a candidate needs in order to run for president or any other public office, it's their judgement that matters, and stating that Michelle Bachman or Herman Cain don't have the experience to be president misses the point. Their judgement when making decisions and establishing policy is the important thing. All politicians have staffs and advisers to keep them informed and give them direction, but it's what they do with that advice that is critical, and if they have radical intentions, as does Barack Obama, then all of the experience and acvice in the world will not cause them to make good decisions.
After all, did not our founders intend for the common laborer and farmer to be leaders of the country? And did William F. Buckley not make the wise statement that he'd rather be governed by the first 100 people listed in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard University? I don't want another highly educated and well-spoken elite liberal leading our nation, I want a plain-spoken average Joe who makes good decisions and knows why the decisions are the best ones for the nation.
Obama's Actions Are A Declaration Of War On America
If any foreign nation interfered with America's prosperity, wealth, liberties and national defense the way Obama has, we would declare war on them. In March on 2010 I posted an opinion paper with the title "The EPA Declares War On America" which detailed how EPA decisions were hurting America and Americans, but since that time not only has the EPA doubled-down and made things much worse, but the National Labor Relations Board, the Federal Reserve, the Departments of Energy and the Interior and Obama himself have issued orders and regulations (the EPA: draconian restrictions on coal-fired power plants; NLRB: Boeing isn't permitted to manufacture in South Carolina; Energy and Interior: halt all off-shore drilling for oil; EPA: make dairy farmers treat spilled milk like Exxon is required to treat an oil spill; EPA: punish farmers for stirring up dust as they plant and harvest; Obama personally: putting in place a health-care plan that has halted hiring throughout the nation and caused vast joblessness;repeatedly proposing the raising of taxes on the wealthy and successful so as to support the lazy and unambitious;proposing new spending bills that will require the printing and/or borrowing of enormous amounts of money that we don't have and can't repay and putting our children and grandchildren at risk of being enslaved to foreign powers in order to make payments on the debt) that are choking our nation to death with unconstitutional, big-government impositions on a free people.
These "declarations of war" on our nation and on our children's futures must be addressed now and halted by congress by opposing the regulations and executive orders, and then in November of 2012 the American people must vote to boot the fool Obama out of office, just like we did the idiot Carter.
And on top of the actions listed above adversely impacting the health and welfare of Americans, the Obama administration's ATF effectively declared direct war on Mexico through its "fast and furious" scheme of providing weapons to Mexican criminals, who in turn killed many Mexican military and police agents with those same weapons. How can such a blatant action not cause urgent and long-lasting trouble between sovereign nations?
We are on the precipice and if we don't halt our criminal administration, Obama will cause irreparable damage to our prosperity and freedom.
Posted by Dave King at 11:46 AM
The Racist Emanuel Cleaver
According to a recent news release in the Miami Herald, if a white president had the horrible record on joblessness that Barack Obama has, the Congressional Black Caucus "would be marching on the White House" per a quote attributed to Congressman Emanuel Cleaver. But since it's a semi-black man in the White House at present, no such demonstration of frustration with presidential failure is permitted. Is this an admission that the Congressional Black Caucus, and their chairman, Emanuel Cleaver, are a pack of racists?
How can anyone support and vote for blatant racists in present-day America? This is a disgrace and an affront to all decent persons, and Emanuel Cleaver must be defeated along with Barack Obama in the 2012 election.
Down-Sizing Government; Social Security Is An Easy Place To Start
If we want a less abusive government we must make it smaller, and Social Security is a good place to begin reducing government, and at the same time we can give an honest break to our younger workers.
Government Reduction:
First and foremost there is no Social Security Trust Fund. When FICA money is sent to Washington an IOU is issued to the Social Security Fund and the money goes directly to the Treasury where it is spent. The reason there is such furor whenever changes to Social Security are proposed is not out of concern for the future of workers when they retire, it's because letting people keep more of their own money and direct their income to their own retirement accounts deprives the government of billions of dollars it currently spends or gives to its pals and political supporters (can you say "Solyndra"?). Letting workers establish their own self-directed retirement accounts with the payroll deduction currently going to Social Security deprives government of money and makes it smaller. That's the ideal. And if we allow young workers to self-direct their retirement we further reduce government because future retirees will not be dependent on Social Security, thereby assuring a smaller, less expensive and less invasive government.
Fairness to Young workers:
We all know that our government is both broke and broken and that there will be no Social Security money left to payout to retirees in 10 or 20 years, so why perpetrate the fraud any longer by forcing workers to pay into an account that will give them nothing when they retire, when we could allow all workers under the age of 45 to direct money to their own self-directed retirement fund and opt-out of Social Security? Of course, they can stay with Social Security if they want to, but they are making a known risky move by doing so, whereas a self-directed account will always be there for them and can't be denied by a bankrupt government.
You can tell you're proposing something good when Democrats rise as a unit to oppose it, and that's exactly what happens whenever a change to Social Security is suggested, which proves it's a good idea. If we don't stop allowing government to waste billions of our FICA money and if we don't give relief to young workers and allow them to begin providing for their own retirement, the future of this nation will be more bleak than it already is under the Obama-meister.
The Increasing Threat Of Obama
One may think that when Obama recently told the EPA to withdraw its new ozone regulations that he did so because he was concerned that the new, draconian regulation would cause more job losses and result in more expensive, less dependable electric service to Americans.
But not so fast!
Our Barry only told the EPA to remove the new regulation "...at this time". In other words, he realized the negative press and opinion the new dire regulations were causing and he asked that they be withdrawn for a few months so he could get re-elected. As soon as a second term is assured, the ozone regulation will be pushed into law and kill thousands more jobs, which has been the concentration of Obama for the last two years.
Barack Obama is a true leftist radical, and the real world of markets and results has no meaning to him. He wants green projects and industries to win, and no matter how many failures his side encounters (like the bankruptcy of Solyndra, which wasted a half-billion tax dollars on a project no one seeking a profit would invest in) he will never stop pushing his idiotic, job-killing projects and regulations in an attempt to make America "greener", even if green means broke and jobless. We must make every effort to assure that this fool man does not get re-elected, or our nation is lost along with the futures of our children and grandchildren.
Is Abolishing The Department Of Education A Radical Position? Read On...
In the last congressional campaign (Kansas, 3rd District) I was one of the candidates for the position Kevin Yoder now occupies. One of the several specific proposals I spoke for at every opportunity was the abolition of the Department of Education. Even the other candidates thought this was a radical proposal, but is getting rid of a liberal, big-government group that has measurably undermined education in America and returning to locally-run and controlled school boards, as the founders of our nation intended, a radical position? I think not. (Are grades higher in our schools since the establishment of the Department of Education? Is education better? Are our children learning more and on a par with the education given by other nations? Are teachers and their unions solid patriots or are they operating under the umbrella of a subversive Department of Education?)
Some other "radical" positions I proposed during the 2010 debates was getting the United States out of the U.N. (did our founders or the Constitution speak of handing over control of our internal policies and laws to an outside mob?), Abolish the Departments of Energy and Interior (are gasoline or oil less expensive or more plentiful than they were before these departments were formed?), Defund Obama's czars (are unelected and congressionally unapproved radicals in the executive branch approved by the Constitution?), Abolish the EPA (this out-of-control pack is issuing streams of regulations that will shut down power plants across the nation and cause untold hardship and job loss if they are not stopped by congress). Get rid of the Department of Labor (the NLRB recently told Boeing and AT&T that they cannot build plants and combine workforces at a time when we desperately need the jobs).
Abolishing these big-government groups would not only help restore constitutional rule and get rid of the radicals whose policies are destroying our nation, but would also save trillions of dollars every year by eliminating the overhead these groups present and would also eliminate the regulations they issue that undermine liberty, freedom and prosperity.
In fact the only radicals we have are the leftists/progressives who have established the various departments that are hurting the country, costing too much money and making the nation both poor and jobless. It's the true radicals who have torn up and ignored the constitution, and it's people with my opinions who want to restore the constitution and a rule of law, revert to a smaller government and allow people to be free and prosper.
So, who's the radical?
Obama-Now Beyond The Tipping Point
Our Barry now can have no pretense of trying to create jobs and restore prosperity to Americans. His NLRB kills jobs for Boeing and AT&T, his union pals are undermining growth by forcing unionization onto private businesses and their employees, who don't want control and subservience imposed on them. His EPA issues draconian regulations, one after another, that kill our energy resources and the jobs that depend on energy (and all jobs depend on energy in one form or another, or the jobs go away).
His Energy and Interior Departments halt drilling and fracking and the importation of energy sources from Canada (thereby leaving us more dependent on energy from countries that hate us, such as Saudi Arabia). His Green energy initiatives, which have soaked up billions of dollars of our tax money, are failing right and left because they have no basis in the real market where our economy and our jobs and prosperity exist. And don't forget Obamacare which has managers fearful of hiring because of the uncertainty of the costs of Barry's government-imposed, fraudulent healthcare plan.
This destruction of our lives is not stupidity, although the people who would do such an evil thing are truly stupid people, it's rather the intentional destruction of prosperity and liberty in one of the last places in the world where these precious things thrive: America. It's the intentional concentration of power and control under a far-left power structure that will leave the United States in much worse shape economically and socially than anyone can conceive, and when the United States is defeated and destroyed, Europe and the rest of the world that are now pleasant places to visit, will quickly follow, because American power and influence are all that has kept the rest of the old-world possible and alive.
Our immoral president goes off to Martha's Vineyard to play golf and gambol on the beach, promising that he will address job creation in a week or two, when he could begin the creation of prosperity immediately by calling off the EPA, the NLRB and the Justice Department and leave the true job creators alone, because the truth is that no government and no process or program can create jobs. Only a free people can create jobs as they follow their passions and talents and generate prosperity, and only government can destroy prosperity and freedom, which is exactly the path our dear Barry is following.
Americans must push congress to force a halt to the administration's job-killing policies via phone calls, letters and emails, because the tipping point for our nation is here, now! There is no possibility of compromise with someone who seeks to destroy our nation as Obama does. He, his Justice Department, his Interior Department and the EPA must be defeated, completely, and our reluctant representatives in Washington must know our sentiments on this issue.
Stupid Liberals Should Give Up Trying To Make Sense
As thousands of Obama's new regulations flow through the government pipeline, liberals try to offset the destruction these new rules will do to our economy and our liberty by giving us what they believe is the positive side of the new regulations. For example, new EPA Mercury and other regulations will soon begin taking coal-fired power plants offline because many plants will be too expensive to upgrade. As the plants are removed from service there will be rolling brown-outs and even black-outs in some areas, people will be unable to lead pleasant lives, tens of thousands of people will be made miserable and will even die as their air conditioning and heating units fail due to lack of power. Water pipes will freeze, food will spoil, electric bills will "sky-rocket" exactly as Obama promised during the last presidential campaign, businesses will fail due to increased electricity cost or plain lack of power, and thousands of additional jobs will be lost as we become a third-world nation.
But the EPA reassures us that all of this misery will be more than offset by the thousands of lives saved by eliminating the very small amount of Mercury coming from our existing power plants. And this idiot logic comes to us from the same Obama administration that is forcing us, under penalty of law, to throw away our incandescent light bulbs and use only the new curly-light bulbs which bring high concentrations of Mercury into our homes, under law. Are these people complete fools or what? Liberals should leave common sense alone because it's a foreign language to them.
George Bush should be relieved that Hurricane Irene is making her appearance along our eastern seaboard because the destruction she's causing will give him a break from being blamed for all the economic and social destruction being caused by our Barry. Along with the Japanese earthquake, the evil tea partiers, tooth decay and other maladies, Irene will take some of the heat off Bush brcause Obama blames everyone but himself for the destruction we see all around us. But never will liberals address the facts that their own actions, legislation and regulations are destroying the United States from the top to the bottom and from the inside out; after all, they are completely in charge and have been for over two years.
That's OK Obama, The Unemployed Can Wait For You To Complete Your Fancy Vacation
While our immoral, child-president takes a lavish vacation on Martha's Vineyard millions of Americans continue to experience not only hard times, but often life-ending hardships and suffering caused in large part by the fool who lives in the White House.
We can all recall the obvious lies of Obama when he repeatedly said he would not rest until joblessness was reduced (while shutting down all off-shore drilling), that his administration was concentrating like a laser on job creation (while allowing the NLRB to halt Boeing jet aircraft manufacturing in Charleston) and that the creation of jobs was the first thing he thought of in the morning and the last thing he thinks of at night (while allowing the EPA is issue new, draconian regulations that will shut down many power plants and cause vast joblessness for years to come, and will also cause power shortages and brownouts that will produce great suffering and a reduction of our living standards). And when you add to this Obama-created mess the fact that Holder's justice department is at it again coercing lenders to make home loans to people who can't afford them, the very same idiotic policy that caused the bursting of the housing bubble and the resulting financial crash that is causing such pain and suffering for our nation today, one must wonder if the subversive Obama administration is evil or just plain dumb. Likely both.
But now our Barry, who has never produced an idea or a proposal, whether about the economy, about spending reductions or about increasing jobs, says that he will solve all our problems later, after he's had his delightful vacation and played a few more rounds of golf. So I can envision his staff in DC slaving away to come up with some elusive, intelligent proposal that will magically reverse our downward spiral overnight, and still be political enough for Barry to go along with (like, maybe it's all the fault of George Bush, Japan's earthquake, Europe's financial troubles, the hot summer weather and the congressional Republicans because they refuse to raise taxes on the jet aircraft that the wealthy travel in), when the solution to our problems could easily be solved by drilling here and now, allowing non-union manufacturing to proceed without government obstruction and road blocks, halting all new EPA regulations, repealing Obamacare and the Financial Reform Act, firing the Departments of Education, Energy, Interior and Commerce, defunding Obama's czars and lowering taxes immediately.
But our Barry doesn't want solutions, he wants to be able to point a finger at his opponents while at the same time making his liberal base happy. I'm anxious to see what Obama's staff produces in September, but it's a certainty that it won't solve a thing, and will instead further divide this great nation and make circumstances worse.
Liberals Punish Those Not Guilty And Call It Sharing
Not only do liberals want to treat criminals as some poor unfortunates who society have abused and therefore give them light sentences for their crimes, but they now want to punish those persons who not only didn't commit any crime at all, but are the very people who fight such crimes in the first place.
The crime I'm referring to is the bankruptcy of our nation with excessive spending and borrowing, and the people the libs want to punish are the wealthy and the entrepreneurs who not only didn't get us into this mess, but are the only ones who can get us out of it via their money and their ability to create jobs. And, of course, the remedy the liberals seek (taxing the rich) allows the real criminals who have weakened our nation, government in general and the liberals in particular, to go on committing more criminal spending and borrowing and further undermining the greatest nation on earth.
The only way to rectify the dire financial situation we're in is to allow the wealthy to keep their money and not be tempted to remove it to a safe haven in another country, and to continue to invest and create jobs in the U.S. And we must begin immediately to punish the ones who have over-spent and over-borrowed: we must begin de-growing government by reducing each and every position in government by 25 percent; every cabinet position, Obama's czars, every department, the IRS, the EPA, the president's salary, all legislators' salaries, the White House and legislative staffs, etc. In short: every person and every expenditure in government.
So far under Obama government employment has increased dramatically, and the additional employees have only caused more angst for the nation, so now, given their failure, they must be punished. This is the "balance" Obama requested. Private businesses have suffered in the last 2 years by going out of business or reducing operations, so now it's government's turn to sacrifice. Getting rid of administrative agencies would allow business to expand and hire more people as the regulations that kill business were decreased or no longer enforced. And there would be fewer liberals in Washington to do what liberals do best: control other peoples' lives and spend other peoples' money.
But thanks to Boehner and Yoder and the recent debt ceiling bill, not only has Obama been given another trillion dollars to waste on the unions and his re-election, but the Democrats now promise to tax the wealthy, the very people we desperately need to get us out of this liberal-created mess.
A Question for Boehner and Yoder
How does increasing the debt ceiling stop the spending of borrowed money? after all, the very title of "Debt Ceiling" proves that the debt spending will increase (and we know for certain that the idiot in the oval office will spend all of it and ask for more during the next ceiling crisis). And allowing a future "select committee" to decide what cuts to make, at a later date, will only result in another future assault on conservatives for being mean and trying to starve grandma.
So here's what we need to do, and we need it now:
No increase to the debt ceiling, and instead of allowing liberals to claim that conservatives want to cut social security and Medicare, we insist on a twenty-five percent reduction in the size of each of the following: Obama's cabinet and his czars' staffs, the Department of Education, the Department of Interior, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, the IRS and the EPA. Those cuts will be real cuts, and they must be made by the next federal pay period, and they will total billions of dollars, which is not much, but would be actual savings, and would begin to halt our super-tanker of a government. Then when no one notices any reduction of government services as a result of these cost savings, further cutting the size of these agencies at a later date will be made easier.
Of course there will be criticism and finger pointing from the press, but we can point our fingers right back at them, although we will be pointing with our middle finger, and it will be pointing at the sky. We must not go wobbly at this critical time. We must insist on real cuts and savings now, and a halt to spending and indebtedness, or our children will be in increased peril.
We Are Witnessing America's Reichstag Fire
Today (Friday, July 22) Obama made an impassioned speech in which he pointedly blamed the Republicans for not negotiating honestly on the debt ceiling controversy, and bluntly accused John Boehner of bad faith dealing in the matter, and then like the monarch he thinks he is, Obama demanded that the Republicans report to him tomorrow (Saturday) at 11A.M. and present their proposal for solving the debt ceiling issue.
The lie that our immoral president is presenting is that the Republicans have presented no real plan and have been changing their position and making agreement impossible for Obama, when in fact our lying president if so far out in left field that his government has not presented a constitutionally required budget for 2 years, and has presented not one specific proposal himself in the critical matter of the debt ceiling. And one can appreciate Obama's position in the debates: how can the architect of the current doomsday scenario that is our nation's present state of financial crisis, and who a few weeks ago proposed spending trillions more new dollars on a variety of leftist rat holes, present a spending-cutting proposal that contradicts all he's done to this point and would undermine his political allies who have come to depend on government largess and regulations to make them wealthy and powerful? I fear that when Obama uses the term "shovel ready" he refers to the old Vladimir Lenin term referring to useful capitalist idiots selling the rope with which they are to be hung, but in this case the shovels will be used to bury the United States.
The current situation in which we see Obama, who directly caused the spending/debt crisis we are living, going public and blaming his political opponents of culpability for our ills, reminds us of Hitler's Reichstag fire and the resulting show trial of those accused of setting the fire, when it was the Nazis themselves who committed the act. I just pray for the sake of this nation, that the comparison with 1930s Germany ends there.
What Does "Freedom" Mean?
Does freedom as we know it in the western world mean to be free from economic turn-downs, failing business deals, a stock market crash, terrorist attacks, defective automobiles, food gone bad, temporary periods of unemployment or shirts whose buttons fall off?
Freedom means to be "free" from the wiles and controls of government, which controls have been stacking up like logs since the Obama takeover of our government two years ago. And there's no end in sight to the regulations and controls being issued by the Obama administration that restrict our ability to run our own lives.
Freedom is exactly what the Obama administration is taking from us with his takeover of healthcare and General Motors, his cronyism with big business and general government control of every aspect of our lives via the EPA regulations on CO2 emissions, especially those of coal fired power plants. But the ultimate government intrusion into our lives is the tragic debt Obama has run up which threatens the future of our children and grandchildren as well as ourselves in the immediate future. And now our imperial leader has made an enraged speech to the nation stating that Republicans have not dealt honestly with him on the debt ceiling talks being held in Washington, while it's Obama who has run a government that has spent more money than anyone thought possible and achieved a level of debt we may never be able to pay off, and has not generated a constitutionally required national budget for the last 2 years because that would require admitting the tragic level of spending he is committed to. Obama is also the president who a few weeks ago proposed trillions of dollars in new spending, but is now scolding House Republicans, who have passed the Cut, Cap and Balance legislation, for not being serious about spending cuts and a responsible government. How can such a lying, deceitful individual be trusted to deal honestly and seriously with the Republicans on such a critical issue as faces this nation in the immediate future?
Freedom is truly being stripped from the lives of Americans and we are witnessing the act in real time. We must stop our immoral president from accumulating more power and additional control over our lives or we are doomed as a free and prosperous nation.
Making Government "Share And Sacrifice" With The Rest Of Us
Corporations have laid off millions of employees since Obama took office, so now it's time for a governmental policy of "shared sacrifice" with the corporate world, just what Obama said he wants.
Private corporations have always had to pay for their business failures and business downturns by laying off employees, which they have done most recently because of the Democrat-caused housing bubble and crash and the resulting financial failures that have racked our entire economy. But not only has government employment increased vastly during this same period that private companies have been laying off, but the wages of government employees have increased greatly during the same period. Now it's time for a redress and correction.
Government is unknowingly admitting its culpability in our present financial calamity with the debt ceiling negotiations going on in Washington, so I have a way to punish bureaucrats responsible for over-spending and over-promising government benefits for the last 50 years: Congress immediately decreases all funds for Obama's czars' salaries by 50% permanently; all funds for salaries and expenses for the heads of the Departments of Energy, Interior, Education and Commerce will be decreased 50% immediately, permanently; Obama's and Biden's salaries and the salaries and expenses for their staffs will be cut immediately by 50%, permanently; the head and staff of the EPA will have her salary and benefits cut by 50%, immediately and permanently. It's an insult that WE, the people who pay the government's salaries, should have to suffer. And while the pontificating fools listed above tell us WE will have to pay more taxes and live with less income, THEY draw full salaries and benefits and have vast staffs to do all their heavy lifting. And we know that it was these fools' decisions, regulations, lack of oversight and legislation that caused the mess we're in today. They are the cause of our suffering. It's outrageous that they live large at our expense while abusing us and lying to us!
So far the only fix for our financial crisis that the idiots advising Obama can come up, with in an attempt to pay for the enormous over-spending Obama has done, is to raise taxes on those who own private aircraft (which will only lead to more unemployment as the thousands of people who service private aircraft are laid off), but they won't suggest any government decreases to their fat salaries or benefits in order to "share the pain" with the rest of us. And speaking of private jets, why doesn't Obama promise to ground his personal 747 to demonstrate his willingness to deprive himself of his undeserved pleasures. Yeah, that's going to happen. Government never does with less.
Personally I'd rather completely abolish the Departments of Education, Energy, Interior, Commerce, all the czars and the entire EPA and send these people packing, thereby saving a trillion dollars each and every year and ridding ourselves of the liberals who are destroying our economy with their subversive policies and punitive regulations, but I fear our politicians are not up to that task at present.
"Professional Politicians" Are The Problem, Not The Solution
As the debt ceiling talks between Republicans and Democrats have heated up, Obama has become increasingly defensive and agitated and has made statements that reveal more about that immoral, radical man than his teleprompter wants us to see.
As regular visitors of Political Chips have seen via video clips, Obama stated that we dummy citizens should butt out of the very cerebral, deep-thought matters concerning the debt ceiling and wild spending and let the "professional politicians" handle the negotiations so we citizen-rubes can go back to our mundane, shallow lives. The problem is that it's exactly the career politicians who have intentionally created this disaster, and they cannot and must not be trusted to resolve matters in a way that will preserve our security, our liberty and our prosperity.
Our brave liar-in-chief betrayed the teleprompter further by exposing the long-held lie of the Social Security "Trust Fund" when he stated that he couldn't promise that Social Security checks would be sent out if the government shut down due to budget-talk failures. The big-government crowd has consistently held that the Social Security Trust Fund is full of cash and will last decades into the future. But the truth is that all of the money that flows weekly into the trust fund is immediately shuttled to the government's general revenue fund and all that's left in the trust fund for Social Security recipients are IOUs, which only make the government's unfunded obligations a heavier burden. Liberals have spoken sternly about the Social Security lock box being a sacred national treasure and a solemn trust for present and future retirees, but we know that "professional politicians" are the basest of liars and that there is no money in any trust fund, Social Security or otherwise, and these funds have only served to provide politicians with billions of dollars of additional money to spend on their pet projects in order to buy favor and votes at the public expense, and is now being exposed by the chief liar as being a broken piggy bank: if there are billions of dollars in the Social Security Trust Fund, why can't Social Security recipients be paid from these supposedly secure funds regardless of whether or not budget talks fail? It's because we're broke and have NO MONEY, and it's because of "professional politicians" like Obama.
But revenues to the government are still enormous, so when Obama says that Social Security checks may not go out if the government shuts down, it's only because he wants to scare Social Security recipients and make the Republicans buckle to his socialist demands, because as the head of the executive branch of government, Obama has complete control over how government expenditures are allocated, and if he would prefer to deny Social Security checks in favor of giving Brazil billions of dollars to build their oil fields or give billions of dollars to Ireland or Greece to bail out their crashing economies, then he's completely to blame, not Republicans.
One talking-head recently made the statement that to remain solvent government will at least make the interest payments to holders of U.S. bonds, but this assumes we can trust Obama to have the best interests of the United States at heart (which he absolutely does not have), and we must look at how Obama handled the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies, and recall the illegal way he took control of those companies with the complete denial of bond-holder's contractual rights to be paid first, just so he could quickly nationalize these prize cows and enrich his union pals, and we get the feeling that Obama probably would not pay today's government obligations, thereby not only causing a greater national catastrophe than we currently have, but an international disaster as the U.S. fails to pay its most basic obligations, and that will be the last straw in Obama's intentional and willful destruction of this great nation. The national division, fear, doubt and unemployment Obama has personally caused will bring our financial collapse, much to the joy of the forces of evil in the world that hate us and our pleasant lives.
So Republicans are in a hard spot and must display courage and not concern themselves with who will get the blame for a government shut-down. The spending and borrowing must end, and if Obama causes even more destruction as a result of failed negotiations, then Republicans must identify the culprit without fear and DO THE RIGHT THING by standing uo to Obama's threats to attach blame to Republicans and insist that he make serious reductions in spending and not raise taxes..
It's the Obama Economy, Stupid
For all those patriotic Americans who are paying attention to the deliberate destruction of this great nation, the title of this post says all we need to know about what's wrong with our country and what we need to to do get back on a constitutional, limited-government course once again and assure a prosperous and free future for our children.
What Good Are Debt Ceiling And Spending Cut Talks?
What do the Republicans have to gain by talking to Obama and the congressional liberals about our draconian debt and the out-of-control spending the government is doing? Obama intentionally, and with forethought, brought the nation to this disastrous point, and does anyone think he'll really try to resolve the issues to the benefit of the nation? Not bloody likely!
He believes he benefits himself and his re-election chances with the precarious position the nation is in, and his radical views make him convinced that all of the deficit spending is what should be done, again for his own personal gain. So why try to negotiate with the immoral fool of a man we call our president? Republicans must stand up for the nation and "just say no" to the liberal demands of a raised ceiling, modest spending reductions and increase taxes, and let them try to spend additional money without the agreement of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. The Republicans have the liberals and their tendency to deficit spend and borrow up to their eyeballs right where they want them, and they must not flinch now.
Liberals' Mindless Prejudices Are Destroying Us
Given the liberal/Democrat/progressive failure to understand and heed the warning that "those who fail to learn from the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them", the United States is facing a dire future. Some examples:
Liberals insist on keeping taxes high, thereby chasing companies to foreign countries where taxes are lower, and at the same time transferring wealth from the United States to those foreign governments and increasing their employment levels while our workers face joblessness. And add to the mix the NLRB's decision to not allow non-union workers to build Boeing aircraft in South Carolina and we see liberal idiocy run amuck, and the intentional destruction of our economy from the highest branches of government.
Obama and his ilk insist on imposing ever-increasing numbers of regulations, and ever-more stringent ones, thereby making everything more expensive, harder to get, and causing the shut-down of businesses that we need to keep our economy running.
Liberals like to control other people's lives and are not offended at all if their counterparts at the United Nations tell the world at large how to behave and how to tax and burden their populations. Agenda 21 is currently being pushed by the UN as a way of placing more government control on everyone, especially the United States.
Liberals hate guns and will do anything to get rid of them, thereby making our streets more dangerous as only criminals increasingly have guns. Obama wanted to back up his lying claim that 90% of the guns in Mexico used by criminals and drug runners came from the United States, so his administration pushed a program of selling weapons to known criminals so as to make his false claim more accurate, thereby becoming responsible for the killing of one of our federal agents.
Liberals want the rich to pay a level of taxation beyond what the current tax code calls for, so they demonize the wealthy, the very people we need to keep spending their money and keep creating jobs for our citizens. The latest scheme is an attempt to make the rich pay higher taxes for their expensive toys, like jet aircraft, having not learned from their previous mistake when the legislature imposed higher taxes on yachts, causing the loss of not only the yacht-building industry, but also all of the related jobs the yachting industry created, and finally ended up repealing the higher yacht tax when they saw the destruction they were causing. Are liberals incapable of thinking clearly?
Liberals are unable to learn from their mistakes, and they're running our nation into a deep, dark hole as they repeat the same mistakes history warns us to avoid.
What's Wrong With Obama's Crony Capitalism?
Liberals like to pretend that they want to keep close tabs on the evil capitalists in order to control their tendency to concentrate power and abuse their customers and the public at large. This is a valid concern that books like "The Jungle" adequately describe, but without also reading "Obamanomics" and "Reckless Endangerment" you only get half of the story.
Capitalists have built-in restraints on their power: they must attract customers to their products and services, and they must compete with others selling the same product. It's important for government to control to some extent the baser tendencies of large corporations, but when the government and business work together you have a perfect storm of corruption and abuse, and since there is no competition for the power of government, when government becomes an ally of business you have collusion, not control and oversight.
Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, is Obama's adviser on economic matters. Does anyone think that Immelt will give Obama any advise that doesn't profit G.E? And does anyone believe that Obama, with his zero experience with corporations, except to shake money from them as a community organizer, will make any decision contrary to that given by Immelt? The insurance and big pharma companies are on board with ObamaCare so they can profit from it. even power companies are in favor of Cap and Trade legislation and actively push the lie of global warming because of the extra costs these schemes place on competing businesses, and the additional regulations they generate will eliminate their competition and allow them to profit unimpeded. But this concentration of power is exactly what government is supposed to control, not facilitate.
So when government gets involved things get worse, not better, as we've seen in the last 2 years of Obama. And this worsening situation is made all the worse yet when the press will not honestly report what is happening due to its loyalty to the liberal Obama. But as we've seen with the housing crash (in which government legislated in favor of the mortgage giants and against the borrowing public), the CO2/Cap and Trade liaison (in which industry wants to eliminate and regulate out of existence its competition), and the green/alternative power movement (in which government wastes billions of tax dollars on favored companies for power schemes that are more costly than existing sources of power and won't be technically viable for decades, at the same time that the current price of gasoline increases and the availability of oil dwindles and threatens our liberties, our prosperity and our security), government involvement makes the situation worse because government has total power, and when this absolute power is combined with international companies, the outcome can be disastrous.
American Liberals Blame The Rich and Successful
The Nazis blamed the troubles in Germany in the 1930s on the Jews (many of whom were rich). American liberals blame our financial troubles on the rich (many of whom are Jewish).
In a nation that believes that "all men are created equal", if liberals are able to soak the rich with extra taxes just because the wealthy are able to buy luxury items like personal jets, what will they be able to do to the middle class Americans who don't have tax protections created by fancy lawyers and influential friends in high places?
Obama and his liberal pals seem ridiculously hung up on the rich and are depending on class envy to persuade their base, and those who wish they were rich without being willing to work for it, that wealthy should pay extra taxes based solely on income (note that liberals usually concentrate on income and not total wealth holdings because they would lose the Kennedy, Rockefeller and other wealthy families' support in an effort based solely on total wealth). But placing additional taxes on jet aircraft would amount to nothing of substance when considering the financial hole Obama and his spending has gotten us into, and the amount of money paid for any tax is money that cannot be spent on other things, so if this idiotic proposal becomes law, it would allow the government to go on spending, on the reasoning that this extra money solved the trillion dollar hole we're in, but the general economy would suffer in proportion to the new revenue being diverted to the government.
But the biggest mistake Obama is making is insisting that the rich be denied money they've earned and that this money should be given to the government: in the opinion of liberals the government must never be denied money that it can waste buying votes and lowering the nation deeper into the spending hole, at the expense of private pockets.
And also be aware of the slippery definition of who the "rich" are. During the Clinton administration it was announced that those making $50,000 a year were rich because in 20 years they will make $1,000,000. If this proposal to place extra taxes on the wealthy goes through we are all in line to have our wealth confiscated. Most of us have 401K or other savings and retirement accounts that the government could easily declare to be of a wealthy value, and they could therefore take from it as they please. We are treading on dangerous ground with this, which is one of many dubious actions and proposals from the immoral Obama administration.
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Ethiopia: Hijab for Aanolee, Please!
By Melaku Girma, Atlanta
The ‘Trojan Horse’ is from a Greek mythology where the Greeks in their last resort to break into the well-guarded city of Troy, came up with an idea of a horse like statue. As the deceitful statue, hid with soldiers, was entering the city, there were Troy residents who suspected trickery insisting that the gift be burned before it brings a curse. But, their suspicion fell on deaf ears and rather they were considered as paranoid. The Trojan horse was then placed on prime real estate inside the city of Troy until the hidden soldiers, lurch out of the statue and open the gates of Troy for the Greek army waiting outside to enter the city and carry out all forms of atrocities known to men of the time. The paranoid of Troy, a priest said “I fear the Greeks even those bearing gifts” and here I am crying “I fear this Monument – Aanolee and the concept behind it.”
The basic information about the monument was posted on Awrambatimes with the heading, Aanolee Memorial Monument colorfully inaugurated in Arssi on April 8, 2014. It adds that it was a tribute to the Arssi Oromos who were victims of the Emperor Menelik’s imperial expansion in the nineteenth century and that the inauguration was attended by high level federal and regional officials in Hetosa, Arssi, 150 kms southeast of Addis Ababa. Per H.E Muktar Kedir, it was constructed at a cost of twenty million birr to commemorate those Oromo heroes and heroines who were cruelly massacred for strongly resisting the then oppressive regime. The monument shows a severed hand stretched upward holding a women’s Breast. At the inauguration Mohammed Jilo, Head of Oromia Culture and Tourism Bureau elaborated on the need to make the monument a tourist attraction center.
I, for one, would not dare to take a position in history without testing arguments behind issues of the time because my principle is to question every representation of historical events for validity. Equally important, our attempt to understand the prognosis of history before us and the nature of the event that took place in the past, should be dealt with neutrality and freedom from bias based on ethnic or other hidden considerations. Every historical event need to be tested for reasonableness, depth and frequency before arriving at a conclusion about a particular phenomenon, as proper representation of an event or personality. To me, Oromo refers to the thousands of people I personally know and respect as Fathers, Mothers, Brothers, Sisters, Friends, Grandfathers, Grandmothers, Children, Heroes, Religious Leaders, Musicians, Sportsmen, Politicians, Soldiers, Scientists and more. An ethnic name is so sacred and I wish I was not forced to be speaking in terms of this very special collective noun, since an error committed would be multiplied by millions. I will, therefore, try to be cautious in sharing my point of view without causing any harm to communities so that we see the colossal conceptual mistake in the monument, and may be, correct the situation for our common good.
The purpose of this article is not to make a determination as to whether or not the breast mutilation in fact occurred. My idea, however, may help as additional criteria in determining the validity and the magnitude of the accusation that there was a breast mutilation. I strongly believe that our perception of how and who committed the atrocity has significant implication to our future as a nation. There are fellow Ethiopians who strongly state that their ancestors were victims of the breast mutilation act, and given the fact that the area around the horn, including Somalia is known for various similar cultures involving body mutilations as fulfillment of cultural duties, it may be irrational to refute the allegation completely. What I can say here at this moment is, express my sympathy for the women alleged to be victims of breast mutilation and demand that our historians and anthropologists study the issue further, including any atrocity that may have been committed by Arssi Oromos also, so that we have a balanced picture of what happened with in the religious, social and political framework of the time, again with honesty and impartially.
Most Africans agree with me that European writers have a tendency to exaggerate if an issue is one that supports their racist theory that Blacks or Africans are inferior or barbaric in nature. Equally, the narrations by recent Eritrean writers remain questionable without genuine answers to the following questions. Why are they so keen on issues that antagonize Oromos from the rest of Ethiopia? Do the Christian highlanders of Eritrea have a culture of body mutilation in Hamasene, Serai, or Akale Guzai? If their response is not in the affirmative then my second question would be, if there is no such culture among Eritrean highlanders, then why would it exist in Tigrai, in Gonder, in Gojam, in Wollo, in Wollega, or in Showa? Most Christians revere Saint Mary, a women, and somehow these cultures place special significance to women in general because of this Mary – Women connection. Hence, I don’t see this society going that far, practicing breast mutilation as an acceptable method of punishment of women. I am not indulging in a denial and what I am only saying is, in order to assess the true extent of what happened, we need to examine the cultures and personalities accused of the atrocity. I am not fantasizing the idea that there are no criminals among the Christians. The challenge here is the appropriateness of this caricature that Emperor Menelik, an Orthodox Christian, had body mutilation as a sanctioned form of punishment to Oromo mothers, and that this is a proper depiction of the Emperor who had an Oromo first cousin, and who among other things gave us Adwa and a railway in the nineteenth century.
Let me give you another issue that could be a wonderful dish for similar characterization. Nowadays, it is common to listen to news broadcasts about the Ogaden Liberation Front accusing the Ethiopian forces of rape and other atrocities. But, how much of such accusations are true? Doesn’t that somehow hurt our deeper feelings as Ethiopians since rape is culturally a taboo? Will it be far from the truth we, Ethiopians, regardless of our ethnic background or political beliefs agree that more than 99.99 % of Ethiopian soldiers would abhor and denounce rape of any form? Are we really insane to believe that the soldiers used rape as a sanctioned form of punishment or it is a better description of the army today? Just because there has been such incidents, per the accusations, can somebody make a foolish generalization that the late Prime Minister Meles or Prime Minister Haile Mariam was/is rapist?
US statistics shows that there is about a quarter of a million rapes each year in the US and that it occurs every two minutes. Assuming there is no repeated assault by a transgressor, the rapists make about .08 % of the population. From this we can deduce that there is a chance for less than .08 % of Ethiopian army to comprise rapists. No army can escape this statistic be it American or Eritrean. There are rapists in Ethiopia and Hanna Lalongo is in our recent memory. My point? Body mutilation is a similar atrocity of a different score and, if it happened, the reason will only be either because some members of Menelik’s forces or administration were from a culture that practiced body mutilation as a form of punishment or there were some who were psychologically sadistic. Studies on sadistic behavior talk about sadist percentages in a population based on cruelty to animals, and I believe, if the percentage of sadists is expressed with cruelty to human and especially with women, it will even be smaller.
What was the intention of Emperor Menelik’s expansion? Do we see him as an Emperor who had a desire to build a bigger empire that could resist European colonialism or an evil whose objective was to annihilate a particular ethnic group(s) the way Hitler targeted and mass murdered the Jews? Considering the composition of Menelik’s army and its leadership, I doubt, if the Aanolee war could even be seen as a war between Oromos and Non Oromos because Menelik’s army comprised a significant percentage of Oromos of all ranks. My ancestors in the south must have lived through the era of Menelik’s expansion and maybe they were unhappy about it. But, as a result of Menelik’s action, we are not only a country but the only Independent African nation that defied European Colonialism. What was the antitheses or the inaction of Menelik to people in the southern Ethiopia? Wouldn’t an inaction of Menelik mean the annexation of the southern Ethiopia with the British Empire as part of Kenya or Somalia? Do I wish that I were a Kenyan or Somalian, in the first place? What were the atrocities of colonialism that the Kenyans went through including the Oromos in Kenya? Is there anyone who has the gut to argue the fact that with the current interpretation of ethnicity, Emperor Haile Selassie and President Mengistu were nothing but Oromos who ruled Ethiopia for a continuous sixty one years? Every thesis has an antithesis! As a believer in Pan Africanism, I say, Menelik’s expansion was a necessary evil to defeat colonialism at Adwa, the way chemotherapy is for Cancer. Please note, I am not referring to breast mutilation!
If Anole is to be remembered, it will be wise to tell the story of the warriors who challenged Menelik’s army. Who were the generals that lead the resistance against Menelik? What were their institutions that helped them fight for years? What was their ideology, religious identity or ethnic identity? How and where did they get the armament that helped them endure that long? How high was the determination and bravery of the Arssi fighters? How many did they kill and how much damage they endured? The correct perspective is to recognize the heroes that fought Menelik even if they lost the war. To me, that is the bigger picture that needs to be capitalized, which adds pride in us, be it as Oromos or Ethiopians. The warriors and their horses should be the centers of the monument than a view of a sadistic act that misleads generations depicting Arssi Oromos as hopeless victims who were even unable to protect women; so convenient politically to demonize Emperor Menelik and may be, instigate vengeance. The correct way that builds Ethiopia as a nation is talking about success anecdotes for the present generation to follow, not a story that only transpires hostility and revenge among citizens. It will be a service to generations if the monument was about the role of Oromo women in defending what they consider at the time to be theirs, be it religious or ethnic identity. What was the role of women in providing at least material and morale support? How did they express bravery? It’s better to be talking about the contribution of Arssi women or a heroic act than hinging on a controversial sadistic scene. I suggest that we look at the grace of “Mother Russia Statue” built commemorating the over a million lost at Siege of Leningrad, during World War II. Also see how Europeans portray their mothers on “Statue of Liberty” as a comparison with our active intent and choice to denigrate our ancestors on either side of that conflict.
I see a lack of knowledge or information about Mastofact or Mazophila behaviors, and a public display of a women’s body, of what westerners would call an ‘R’ rated “soft porn” is an indication of our degeneration as society. Is it culturally acceptable to portray our grandmother’s naked body on a cenotaph and talk about tourism? What kind of tourism will that be? Oromo mothers I know are very decent and give special attention to morality, and the private part of women is not subject of a public scenery. The same applies to Oromo fathers. Considering the fact that the majority of Arssi inhabitants are believers, it seems strange, if the monument is in fact an idea agreed on by the people. With my very limited knowledge of the religions in the area, I am aware that there is a practice of “Hijab”. I believe Islam and Christianity have so much in common. You will see the concept of hijab even with in the Orthodox Church as women cover most parts when attending Sunday mass. Although the two religions practice hijab differently, there is common understanding about what modesty represents. So isn’t the content of the monument somehow obscene? Why was this basic value of the majority in Arssi compromised? I would like to understand how that community interprets modesty and how its value interacts in shaping peoples reaction or judgement of a statue made of one of the most private parts of a women, especially that of our ancestors. Wouldn’t this modesty be a hypocrisy of both Moslems and Christians ,if we expect women to cover their head while offending everyone culturally and religiously by allowing this offensive statue stand right there for everyone to see, I wonder if the area is off limits to children? I really want to hear from Muslim and Christian leaders in Arssi and beyond about the place of the statue given our belief, culture and decency. And what is going to be the reaction of the future generations to such a highly offensive image? Does that help or impede the peaceful coexistence of Ethiopians? What were the driving forces of the recent tragic killings in Arbagugu, Bedeno, Cheleko, Garamuleta, etc.? What fueled that level of hatred, beheading even a one year old supposedly Amhara child, 1991 Arsi? Were there any lessons learned from the recent actions of Nelson Mandela? How constructive is it to go back over a hundred years only to bring what could only be a reflection of the very worst in us? How does that make us better than those who lived a century before us?
Every Ethiopian should have nothing but sympathy for the alleged Aanolee victims in Ethiopia because confirmed or unconfirmed, women breast mutilation is sadistic. At the same time we should be cognizant that there are groups that use ethnic conflicts to their ultimate but hidden agenda. The Aanolee war is one of the many wars Emperor Menelik fought in the process of forging the present day Ethiopia. We need to reconsider the good intention of the Emperor and his multi ethnic army along with the diverse cultures represented there. It is illogical to believe that, body mutilation was a punishment to Arssi Oromo sanctioned by Emperor Menelik whose circle comprised Negus Teklehaimanot, Ras Gobena, Ras Mekonnen, Ras Mengesha Yohannes, Ras Alula, Fitawrari Habtegiorgis, Dejazmatch Balcha etc. These were not only our ancestors, but the cornerstones of Pan Africanism sprout from Ethiopianism of that century. The breast mutilation act should be seen as an isolated cruelty of either a person of culture that practices body mutilation or a Sadist, definitely not a legacy of Emperor Menelik. I believe it is ok to commemorate the warriors who resisted Menelik’s expansion, and there are a number of ways to do that; statues of confederate soldiers are still observed in the US. The theme of Aanolee’s story should be the strength, courage and heroism of the people who fought against Menelik’s expansion and that would be an addition to Ethiopian heritage. I don’t believe the Aanolee monument is in par with the culture and beliefs of the Arssi Oromo in particular and Ethiopians in general. The monument will only let a sadistic act linger in our minds, and I don’t see a point in letting this perverted act continue poisoning our relationships, here in the twenty first century. The monument is obscene, immodest and immoral that only infuriates the present and future generations. I don’t see any reason other than ensuing or perpetrating bitterness, risking our very peace and continuance as a country, and may be serving as a cause for our own demise, like the Trojan horse. This could be annoying to those who are already captivated by a rage for vengeance on a century old controversial incident, but I urge that this serve as my humble appeal to my fellow Ethiopians for correction.
The monument is indecent self-deprecation, and I say, Hijab Please!
Labels: Ethiopia, Opinion, Oromia, TPLF
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Pella was founded by the London Missionary Society in 1814. It provided a sanctuary for Khoisan driven out of Namibia. The village of Pella was named after the one that gave refuge to Christians in Macedonia in biblical times. After Pella was abandoned in 1872 because of drought, the Roman Catholic Church reopened the mission in 1878.
The Old Cathedral, surrounded by date palms, has a curiously Arabian atmosphere. Using an encyclopaedia as their building manual, it took two missionaries seven years to complete.
Set on a sandy plain backed by high, sun-baked hills denuded of vegetation but vividly coloured by minerals in the soil, a spring reaches the surface, giving life to the figs, grapes and pomegranates grown at Pella. Around this source of life is a walled garden. Pella's dates are sold in wooden boxes to mail-order customers all over South Africa.
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Verbe Farm Accommodation & Caravan Park - Kamieskroon, Caravan and Camping, Guest Farms, Self Catering
If Kamieskroon accommodation had a soundtrack, the track would be a gentle and country. It is typical of this Northern Cape self-catering farm house to stay true to its homely and frugal tradition. The campsites too are a throwback to those typical country styled movies where everything, including the food and the air is clear and natural. 53 Km from Springbok when you take the N7 brings you to this ...
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Okiep Country Hotel - Okiep, Bed and Breakfast, Hotels and Resorts, Self Catering
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Bedrock Lodge - Port Nolloth, Bed and Breakfast, Self Catering
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Feel at home at this Springbok accommodation where you will receive a warm, friendly welcoming. Annie's Cottage is full of charm and a "˜bit of magic', and around the town and area there is so much to see and experience. People are full of praise for the detail and thought that went into creating each room, it is a place where people love to come again, or bring friends along to ...
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This accommodation in Springbok is a log cabin perched on stilts in the heart of the Namaqualand region. Biesjesfontein B&B is surrounded by Namaqualand shrubbery and mountains and is 6 km outside of town providing a peaceful atmosphere. Biesjesfontein is close to the N7 and makes the perfect base from which to explore the region. The perfect time to stay in springbok at Biesjesfontein B&B is during ...
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Kamieskroon Tourism - Kamieskroon, Tourism Information
Kamieskroon is set among the granite rock formations of the Kamiesberg range. The town's origins lie in the 1860s, 7km north of its present position. It took the name Bowesville (later Bowesdorp), after the district surgeon, Dr Henry Bowe. As there was little room to expand in the narrow kloof the town occupied, the church council decided, in 1924, to rebuild it at Kamieskroon. Kamies ...
Namabeep Tourism - Nababeep, Tourism Information
Nababeep means "the water behind the little hill" or "the place where the giraffe drinks water" to the Nama people, after the spring at which the town was established. This is the headquarters of the Okiep Copper Company and the largest of Namaqualand's copper mining towns. A Mining Museum charting the copper boom era - in the form of relics and photographs - is a must for the visitor. An old ...
Okiep Tourism - Okiep, Tourism Information
Okiep is the oldest mining town in South Africa where copper was first discovered and mined in 1855. It used to be the centre of South African copper mining. The large copper resources had been discovered in 1855 already and Okiep experienced an immediate boom. A railway line from Okiep to Port Nolloth was built in 1866 for shipping of the copper. Because there was not enough water for the steam ...
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Springbok Tourism - Springbok, Tourism Information
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Garies Tourism - Garies, Tourism Information
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Hondeklip Bay Tourism - Hondeklip Bay, Tourism Information
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Komaggas Tourism - Komaggas, Tourism Information
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Pella Tourism - Pella, Tourism Information
Pella was founded by the London Missionary Society in 1814. It provided a sanctuary for Khoisan driven out of Namibia. The village of Pella was named after the one that gave refuge to Christians in Macedonia in biblical times. After Pella was abandoned in 1872 because of drought, the Roman Catholic Church reopened the mission in 1878. The Old Cathedral, surrounded by date palms, has a curiously ...
Steinkopf Tourism - Steinkopf, Tourism Information
Steinkopf lies only 50 km from Springbok and the two are often seen as one. The Rhenish Mission Society founded a mission station here in 1819 to preach the gospel to the Nama people. It is still chiefly inhabited by Nama people, many of whom stay in the simple yet practical rounded Nama reed huts. Most of the breadwinners work at the mines of Namakwa. Guided tours of the region are on offer. ...
Mure Steinkopf Ausa - Steinkopf, Cultural
Mure Steinkopf Ausa is next to the Immanuel Succulent Nursery, where tourist can get information about Steinkopf and other services such as accommodation etc. Tourists can buy handmade products from local crafters at the Mure Steinkopf Ausa. Tourist frequently visit Steinkopf, because Steinkopf is the gateway to Namibie and the Richtersveld and also to learn about the history of our ...
Rietfontein Tourism - Riefontein, Tourism Information
Rietfontein, a working fruit farm, lies on the southern foothills of the rugged Touwsberg Mountains. With an abundance of small game and a wealth of birdlife and flora, it's the perfect getaway for nature lovers and hikers. ...
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Richtersveld Route - Richtersveld, Adventure
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Alexander Bay Tourism - Alexander Bay, Tourism Information
Alexander Bay was put on the map in 1927, when Dr. Hans Merensky the "wizard" geologist of South-Africa, discovered diamonds together with oyster shells on an ancient marine terrace nearby. The discovery changed the course of history in this isolated frontier town, as fortune hunters flocked to the region. The alluvial diamond diggings were soon declared a state mine, a concern which still exists ...
Aggeneys Tourism - Aggeneys, Tourism Information
Aggeneys is a small community, with most of the town's facilities within walking distance; this includes shopping facilites, a post office, a clinic, a pharmacy, butchery, recreational facilities, schools, a police station, etc. Climate wise, the area is semi-desert, with arid conditions in general, but boasting some of the most beautiful and scare fauna and flora in the world. ...
AmAm 4x4 Trails - Aggeneys, 4X4 Driving
Man meets nature in the Bushman land, north of Springbok and things to do in Aggeneys include adventurous cruises on 4x4 machines while watching nature play in full HD. With AmAm 4x4 trails you can explore the unusual and mysterious nature of the dessert while also creating a holiday retreat that is new and unpredictably fun. The area is well known for its tranquil spaces and stunning views of the ...
Leliefontein Tourism - Leliefontein, Tourism Information
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Vera's Kookskerm Namakwa Traditional Food - Leliefontein, Where to eat
Vera's Kookskerm offers visitors to take their time to explore the delightful little village of Leliefontein. They invite guests to join their campfire and listen to some wonderful stories about the Namaqualand region. They have five nama huts and a kookskerm. This wonderful thing to do in Leliefontein is a great experience for all. The culture camp is the ideal place to learn about their ...
Van Wyksvlei Tourism - Van Wyksvlei, Tourism Information
Van Wyksvlei was established in 1880 and named after a local farmer, Van Wyksvlei lies close to the first, state-funded dam, built in 1882 and still in use. San Rock Engravings can be viewed at Springbokoog. The beautiful Van Wyksvlei Dam and local salt pans is also one of the many wonders of Van Wyksvlei. ...
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GPS Co-Ordinates: 19° 9' 3.8" E / 29° 1' 47.9" S
Directions to Pella Tourism in Pella, Namaqualand
Departing: Upington Airport
Address: N10, Upington 8801, South Africa
Distance: 0.8 km / Duration: 3 hours 26 mins
1. Head southwest 0.8 km
2. Turn left toward N10 0.9 km
3. Continue straight onto N10
4. Continue onto Le Roux St/N14
Continue to follow N14
5. Turn right onto Main Rd/N14
6. Turn right onto Pella Rd 12.0 km
7. Turn left onto Duine St 0.5 km
8. Turn left onto Swartkoppies St 52 m
9. Take the 1st right onto Protea St
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Upington Airport is a small airport and was opened in 1968 as Pierre van Ryneveld Airport, it has a capacity to have 40 000 travellers but only has around 24 315 passengers departing and around 3 425 passengers arriving.
Upington Airport also has the longest runway in Africa, the runway was built to accommodate a Boeing 747 so that it didn't have to stop along the way to Europe.
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Curbside Classic: 1978 Pontiac Bonneville Brougham – No, Pontiac Didn’t Just Make Firebirds In The ’70s
Tom Klockau
(first posted 3/8/2012) If you were looking to buy a 1977-1979 full-size Pontiac today, you would have a long road ahead. Looking online and in Hemmings, you could be forgiven for thinking that all Pontiac built in the late 1970s were Firebirds and Trans Ams. Believe it or not, Pontiac really did offer a full lineup of vehicles, including their bread-and-butter offerings, the Catalina and Bonneville.
It’s no secret that the 1977-96 GM B-body is a favorite of many of us here at Curbside Classic. My personal favorite is the Bonneville, as my dad had one when I was born. In late 1978 or early 1979, his office bought three brand new 1979 Pontiacs from Horst-Zimmerman Pontiac-Cadillac for the investigators to use: blue and brown Bonneville sedans and a silver Catalina sedan. Dad got the brown one. It replaced the silver-blue 1977 Monte Carlo he had been using. He did occasionally drive the silver Catalina (no vinyl roof, red interior) and the blue Bonneville (I have no memory of that one), but the beige over brown Bonneville was his.
It was either Sierra Copper or Heritage Brown, but I’m pretty sure it was brown. It had a beige vinyl roof and beige cloth interior, with the standard full wheel covers. My first car memory was riding in the back seat of the Bonneville while going through the car wash at a Shell station with my dad. This was back when car washes actually had brushes, so it was a while ago. The photo above, although a Canadian-market Parisienne, is very close to what our car looked like.
It has been told many times before, but GM downsized their vehicles at exactly the right time. The 1971-76 B-bodies were the largest full-size cars GM had built, and it was time to trim the fat. Really, there was nowhere to go but down, size-wise. The 1977 Pontiacs followed the format of their corporate siblings in utilizing the ‘sheer look’, as had been first introduced on the first-generation Cadillac Seville. The new Bonnevilles (and Catalinas) were built on a modified version of the 1973-77 GM A-body chassis, but were much more space efficient. In fact, the 1977 Bonnevilles had more front headroom and rear legroom than the gigantic 1976 versions.
The standard engine for Bonnevilles was the 140 hp 4.9L 301 CID V8, with Turbo Hydramatic transmission. Optional engines included a 170 hp, 4 BBL 350 and 180 hp, 4 BBL 400. The Pontiac 350 was replaced with the Chevy 350 in 1978, and the 400 was discontinued in 1979. The lineup consisted of Catalina, Bonneville and Bonneville Brougham coupes and sedans, plus Grand Safari and Catalina Safari station wagons.
Bonneville and Catalina coupes could get an optional Landau vinyl roof. The Brougham added niceties like extra window sill trim, electric clock, power windows and an extra-plush interior trimmed in velour. All Bonnevilles had bright rocker moldings, a unique grille and taillights, and standard rear fender skirts to distinguish themselves from the more basic Catalinas.
1978 Bonnevilles received the usual front and rear styling changes. What had been the 1977 Brougham interior was now the standard Bonneville interior. Broughams had new loose-pillow seating in velour for extra decadence.
The Brougham interior would not have looked out of place in an Oldsmobile or Buick and actually reminds me a lot of the 1978 Park Avenue’s interior. Those who thought the acres of pillowed velour were a bit gauche could opt for the standard Bonneville and get a much more understated interior.
The most distinctive seating option was the Valencia interior. Available in red or tan, it consisted of special striped velour seating and door panel trim. It was an option on the Brougham only for 1977, but in ’78 could be had on any Bonneville.
One of the Bonneville’s best features was the instrument panel. A black trim section wrapped around from side to side and concealed the heating and air conditioning vents. Full gauges were also available as an option.
For whatever reason, the B-body 1977-79 Pontiacs were not big sellers. Perhaps it had to do with the Impala and Caprice offering a similar package for less money. At any rate, when comparing Caprice vs. Bonneville for 1977, there was no contest, with the Caprice’s 284,813 units eclipsing Bonneville production of 114,880. 1978 was slightly better with 125,297 Bonnevilles, but once again, the Caprice ruled the roost, with 263,909 built (figures cited exclude station wagons).
Although I prefer the Bonneville, the combination of rear fender skirts and the rounded rear deck may have made the Pontiac look less attractive than the Caprice to new car shoppers. The Caprice does have a somewhat trimmer, leaner look when compared to the Pontiac.
For whatever reason, the Pontiacs were the least-popular B-bodies, and Pontiac actually eliminated all their full-size cars after 1981. For 1982, the A-body Grand LeMans was given a new front end and renamed Bonneville Model G, replacing the true full-size Bonneville. The Catalina was axed. This proved to be a bad idea in the long run, as after the 1980-82 recession, car sales started picking up again, and Pontiac found itself without an entry in a market that was suddenly showing renewed interest in full-size cars.
There actually was a 1982 full-size Pontiac. GM of Canada did not feel it was a good idea to completely abandon the full size market, so they offered a Caprice-based Parisienne for 1982. The really rare variant was the coupe, built that year only.
Pontiac wound up importing Parisienne sedans and wagons to the US market starting in 1983. Sedans continued to be available through 1986, adding the 1980-81 Bonneville rear sheetmetal in 1985. The Safari wagon would last until 1989, then disappear.
I found this 1978 Brougham back in January and took some pictures for the Cohort. I remembered seeing it years earlier and was pleased to see it still parked on the same street, nearly ten years later. With the memories of Dad’s ’79, I had to stop and check it out.
It is well equipped, being a Brougham, and also has Rally II wheels and sport mirrors. The color is Chesterfield Brown, with velour interior in Camel Tan. It is also somewhat rare in that it does not have a vinyl roof. It has current tags, so it is still transportation for someone, though I’ve never seen it being driven.
As with just about every other Midwestern Bonneville still on the road, the rear fender skirts are gone.GM must have used the flimsiest hardware to attach them, as nearly every one I’ve seen since 1995 or so have them missing.
Here is a retouched photo of what the car would have looked like when new. Although I prefer the fender skirts, this car does look kind of nice without them, especially with the Rally IIs. I’d add some bright wheel trim around the rear wheel wells, though.
As for our 1979 Bonneville, it was traded in on a maroon 1981 or ’82 Volvo 242DL coupe. Mom had a ’77 245DL wagon, and I think Dad wanted something a little sportier. It turned out to be his last two-door car for almost twenty years. My brother came along in 1983, and Dad got a silver ’84 244GL shortly thereafter. When I asked him about the Bonneville while preparing this article, he really couldn’t remember much about it – we usually took the wagon on vacations, and when he was home he was usually puttering around with the Porsche 356 he had owned since 1973. I guess it must have been a good car, as I’m sure he would have remembered it if it had a lot of problems. The 1977-79 Pontiacs were pretty good cars, even if they weren’t the most popular B-body.
dastanley
My Grandfather drove a blue ’73 Lemans with vinyl top that he bought new. When I got my learner’s permit in ’81, that’s the first car that I drove legally from the DMV to home. I remember the accelerator had such a short travel that it gave the illusion of more power than it really had. I’d step on the gas just a “little bit” (more like half throttle) and the car would put you back in your seat. It was pre-catalytic converter but had an EGR valve that never seemed to work right. When the valve stuck open, the car wouldn’t idle or run at low throttle. When it stuck closed, it would run hotter and ping like crazy with part throttle. The 350 4 bbl needed a valve job in 1975 when only 2 years old. Yes, it drank gas. Pretty much sums up cars in the 70s.
jpcavanaugh
My mom had a 74 LeMans with the 350 2bbl. It was a dog. Our problem was that the automatic choke was never right. Until the car fully warmed up, it would hesitate or stall every time you tried to step on the gas. I tried fiddling with the timing on the choke and could never get it right – it was always over-rich or under. Ours drank gas too. But other than the choke, the bad gas mileage, and my running it into a fire hydrant, it was pretty trouble-free. Except for the door pull straps. And except for the maroon GM lacquer paint that would get chalky. And except for the time one of the back brakes got hung up, hot and cracked a drum. OK, I guess it wasn’t that trouble-free.
Until I was really aware of Japanese reliability, I always thought that “that’s just how it is”. I was born in ’66, so I was just becoming aware of cars and engines and how they worked during the mid 70s. Funny how our expectations of reliability have changed since then.
Redmondjp
+1 on that! Same with me (born in ’65, started working on American cars in the early 1980s) – it was just normal to be replacing plugs, wires, hoses, shocks, brakes, tires, mufflers, tailpipes, etc. every few years. Which is why there was at least one gas station with a full garage at every major intersection in our small town (anybody remember buying a full set of new tires from the corner gas station?).
I was a big Japanese car basher when I was younger. Owning my first foreign car, a 1981 Mazda GLC, which at 190K miles still had every original engine accessory on it, opened my eyes. I couldn’t believe that an alternator could go that long w/o being rebuilt. All of the ones we had on our American cars growing up crapped out every 30-50K miles like clockwork.
Joe Yoman
That’s really odd because none of my alternators or starters ever went bad on my B or G body cars, even with over 100K miles. And the Japanese cars most certainly did have items that needed replacement every several years such as timing belts, head gaskets, belts and hoses, spark plugs, exhaust systems, distributors etc. 100k plugs, wires, anti-freeze and transmission fluid didn’t come about until the 90’s which GM was big on starting around 1995. Also stainless steal exhaust was starting to become popular then too which added years of life to any of my cars.
Posted May 19, 2013 at 7:27 AM
My parents drove Pontiacs for many years, as did I. Like Joe, here, I didn’t find these cars to be as unreliable as you seem to suggest. My folks had at least one Pontiac of this general era that I know had over 200k miles on it when they sold it, and was still running nicely. It had nothing more than typical “stuff” to fix, along the way… and it ran a long time further for the next owner. My own ’78 Bonneville Brougham was bought by my best friend, who drove it to… get this… over 300k miles, before basically giving it away, due mainly to its poor body condition, then… but it was still running. Yes, he’d done a bunch of smaller stuff to it along the way, but nothing unexpected. They were good cars.
My 78′ Pontiac Bonneville Brougham ..the best car I’ve ever had ..I love these cars so much this is my second one first I had a 79 bonne brougham
Looks like a nice one, too. I’d love to find another one in decent condition, myself… and I’d keep it “all original”, as much as I could. (I’d love to have the ’78 I owned back then…. an obnoxious wife (and “ex-wife” pretty soon thereafter) pushed me into selling it, which I later regretted doing.
Do you have the original wheels/tires and rear wheel fender skirts for it? A unit that decent looking would really be fine with the original wheels and everything!
Junqueboi
Posted January 22, 2014 at 10:30 AM
+1 Whitewall tires with even the standard wheelcovers would look so good on this car. The optional Custom-Finned wheelcovers, Rally II wheels, Snowflake wheels, and even the red-center wire wheelcovers were available — too bad.
Mine had the original Pontiac “mag-style” wheels, plus its skirts and all, and of course I kept it that way. It was only 2 yrs. old when I got it, and I kid you not – the ’78 four-door, particularly, was somehow one of the best looking Bonnies’ of that time. Mine was the dark maroon, with matching vinyl top and dark blood-red “pillow top” seats and interior. I probably rcv’d. as many compliments on that car as any one I’ve ever had, literally (and that’s been a bunch). And it was a “babe-magnet” in its time, too (when I was still single, of course). Truly, it was a sophisticated, authoritative and “manly” looking car, all at once. My sister and brother-in-law had the light blue version with vinyl top, same wheels, etc., (also a ’78), and it was nice… but it didn’t really “look like the same car” in some ways. The deep, dark one almost looked like a different profile.
Let me add, too, that I’d owned GTO’s, etc., before that Bonnie, but that Bonnie was STILL almost the “cooler” looking car, in some ways. “Maybe it was just me”, as they say… lol… none of the photos, here, despite all the good intentions of the author and others, do the ’78 justice. It simply strikes you differently if you can actually see one as I’ve described here, but “in person”. Sounds odd, but it’s true.
These Pontiacs were my second favorite of this series of B body, after the Olds 88. Your interior picture shows the most memorable feature of these interiors. For some reason, GM decided to print woodgrain on a piece of aluminum trim on the steering wheel. Everybody knows you steer these cars with your finger on the wheel spokes, so the wood printing wore off to leave you with half wood and half aluminum on the steering wheel.
I cannot speak to the fender skirt mounting hardware on these, but had firsthand knowledge of skirts on my Mom’s 74 Luxury LeMans. The skirts were fiberglass and the mounting system was actually quite solid. Maybe the top of the inner fender rusted so that the upper skirt mount had nothing to hold onto?
You are right about these being rare. I periodically see late 70s B bodies of all kinds, except for these.
That ’73 LeMans had fender skirts that would accumulate crud and sand underneath, so every once in a while, I’d reach under, try to find the handle in all of the dried on muck and take it off to clean it.
Zackman
Seeing these GMs again makes me recall just how populated America’s roads were with them and how few you see today, at least in my neck of the woods.
I would have owned one of these back in the day if we weren’t into small cars for a number of years – oh, say until the late 90’s.
the tall guy
I worked for Koons Pontiac-GMC in the late ’70’s/early ’80’s and somewhat frequently drove my bosse’s 79 Bonneville Brougham 2 door. It was silver blue with a padded top and had the spider web look wheels. It was very deluxe inside and I fit in it very well. I am 6’5″ tall w/ a 38″ inseam.
IMHO, these and the ’78 A-bodies were the last new real Pontiacs before fully reverting to the function which almost resulted in their demise before Knudsen/DeLorean came along…
…fancy Chevy.
To me, the difference between the ’77-’81 American line and the ’83-up Parisiennes is night and day. GM Canada was no longer as clever as in the 60’s, adapting a Pontiac body to the Chevy underpinnings…instead they went the Beaumont/Acadian/Astre route, slapped a split grille on a Caprice and called it good. Not that the ’80s Parisiennes weren’t good cars…just that they weren’t – and couldn’t be expected to – equal to the ’77-’81s for what was expected of a Pontiac.
I’d probably point to the mid-90’s Bonnevilles and last iteration of Grand Prix as the marque’s last stand.
I am glad to say that I sold Pontiacs in the 90’s during the 2nd sort-of heyday for the division, we had the very attractive supercharged Grand Prix coupe and sedan, the Bonneville SSEi, the agressive Firebird and Trans Am, with WS6-Ram Air option, the Grand Am’s were selling really well even the Sunfire was kind of cool when it had a GT package, there were some good times.
wstarvingteacher
Had a 77 Impala wagon. Always had a tough time seeing any difference between it and it’s corporate cousins. They all had gas eating tendencies.
That was probably the best work vehicle that I ever owned.. Sometimes you don’t miss what you have till it’s gone but I don’t miss the gas bill.
GrangeRover
“The standard engine for Bonnevilles was the 140 hp 4.9L 301 CID V8, with Turbo Hydramatic transmission. Optional engines included a 170 hp Chevrolet 350 CID V8 and Pontiac’s own 180 hp, 4 BBL 400.”
Just for trivia’s sake, Pontiac still offered their own 350 for ’77. It was replaced by the Chevy 350 for 1978. At some point (not sure if it began in ’78 or not until ’79), the Buick and Olds 350s were also optional. The 400 was dropped after ’78.
Billy Rockfish
California – 231 Buick V6 – Chevy 350 4bbl – Olds 403 4bbl. That was about it ca. ’77-’79 in full size Ponchos, although most I ran across in the day (Troncatty Pontiac in Corte Madera and Ballestra in Redwood City) usually had the Olds 403.
No version of the 301 was avail for Cali? Did they have the Chevy 305 instead or was there nothing between the 231 and 350?
In the Impala, Caprice and mid-sizers (and Camaro/Firebird) in Calif. in the late 70’s did offer the 305 2-bbl. Oddly, not in B-O-P full sizers. 305 2-bbl and the Chevy LM-1 350 4-bbl filled in for the Pontiac 301 as it (and the 400) after ’76, weren’t “clean” enough for the Golden State. In my driving youth, I paid attention to all those brochure additions that used to be printed up for California customers. Engine sizes, transmission choices were restricted. I think this began to change in the mid-80’s when more modern fuel delivery and emission systems began to show up.
Michael Douthitt
When the full size B-body Pontiacs were downsized in 1977, the standard engine in the Catalina was the Buick 3.8 liter V6. The Bonneville had the Pontiac 301 standard (optional in Catalinas) with the 350 and 400 available. Cars with high-altitude and California emissions used the Oldsmobile 350 and 403 V8s. After the Pontiac 350 was discontinued, the Catalina/Bonneville used the Buick 350. The 400/403 was discontinued in 1979 followed by the 301 (not available in California) and Olds 350 after 1980. 1981s used the Olds 307.
Sorry, but in the looks department, the B-body Pontiac was a dog compared to the Chevrolet. Completely overdone, over-trimmed, and way too much chetchke (that’s the Polish/Slovak spelling, by the way – at least as I learned it). At least Pontiac was keeping it’s traditional place in the lineup: An overtrimmed Chevrolet for more money.
Back when dad had the Chevrolet dealership, the one ethnic group he couldn’t sell Chevy’s to were the Polish-Americans. In our town (Johnstown, PA; which was an absolutely ethnic Easter European enclave) they completely preferred Pontiacs. And all you had to do was walk one block from our church (St. Mary’s Byzantine Catholic) to the Polish church (St. Casmir’s Roman Catholic) and walk into the sacristy, you’d understand why. While St. Mary’s was the usual Orthodox style gilt wonder, St. Casmir’s almost made it look Ikea-plain by comparison. I guess it was something in the ethnic traditions.
MadHungarian
It’s amazing how fairly small changes in sheet metal created quite different looks on the same body — especially on the coupes, which all had different rooflines. I agree that the Pontiacs seem pudgier.
I’ve known of the Catholics♥Chevies & Protestants♥Fords stereotypes (not just via Garrison Keillor), but Poles♥Pontiacs is new to me. They must not have gotten the message about Chevies. BTW, I do regret laughing at the idiotic Polish jokes popular while I was in school.
I heard many Jews hated Fords, which has an explanation: Henry was antisemitic; he sponsored the notorious 1920 book “The International Jew,” which found its way to Hitler’s library.
Chicagoland
Yes, I do get annoyed when a ‘kid’ assumes “Pontiac was the muscle car division” as if that is all they sold, since 1926.
googootz
Let’s see, Pontiac wasn’t a muscle/sporty car – then it was (GTO, GP, Firebird) – then it pretended to be (80’s we build excitement, Fiero, Grand Am) – then it tried to be (GP again & Trans Am) – then it went all Aztek on us – small wonder that it was euthanized.
Re “Muscle Car Division,” that may be evidence of how well DeLorean’s marketing strategy worked. Maybe •too• well.
cfclark
An elderly couple down the street from me had one of these, and kept it for several years–I always thought it seemed dowdy and out of place with the rest of Pontiac’s efforts to come across as a performance division/brand. The full-size Pontiac of this era is a mere shadow of the full-size Pontiac of the ’60s. (And that, among other reasons, is why there is no Pontiac anymore.)
educatordan
Love to see a drag race between a 400 equipped B-body Pontiac and a 403 equipped B-body Oldsmobile of the same era.
Olds all the way!
ajla
In your dreams Rocketman…
Nothing a good Chevy engine wouldn’t fix…
Canucknucklehead
I have driven both extensively and both feel pretty much the same. The Pontiac block revs a little more than the Olds but the Olds has better punch off the line. Also, the Olds is smoother and quieter than the Pontiac 400.
In fact the best engine that these cars got was the Oldsmobile 350. It revs much better than the 403 and you would never know the difference while driving the cars, except the 350 used less fuel.
We had a 1977 Catalina with the Olds 350 in our taxi fleet. No a/c and cranker windows so it was light. The drivers used to line up to get it. With the hd suspension the car was a true Q-Ship. Really, other than my 1990 9C1 it was the best B-body I have ever driven.
To add, while I am a fan of these Ponchos, I can see how an average big car buyer of the time would get either a cheaper Caprice, or an Olds/Buick for about same price. My parents and others of same generation put O/B on a pedestal, but not Pontiacs.
The sporty late 70s F bodies sold well, though, but as soon as gas went up…
The 80’s Parissiane and Bonneville G were mimicking Oldsmobiles, and clashed with Firebird/Fiero/6000 ‘sporty’ cars. Brand confusion hurt Ponitac in long run.
chrisgreencar
My folks had a 1978 Caprice and 1983 Olds 88, so I grew up with these B-bodies. I agree that the 1977-79 Pontiac didn’t get the best looks of the family, but they’re still fun — and now rare. I especially like that striped Valencia interior, which was offered on Grand Safari wagons, by the way! My parents’ best friends (50ish then) had a 1979-ish Bonneville Brougham for a couple of years, then traded for an Olds 98 Regency in the early 80s, to be followed by one of the last rear-drive Sedan De Villes (with cloth) — the classic GM move-up customer. But, in the common pattern we’ve talked about before on here, the ’80s Cad was their last GM car, to be replaced by loaded Toyota Previas and Siennas. Funny, huh?
pfsm
That particular sedan needs the hinge bushings replaced on the driver’s door. Drive it with the door sagging like that for too long and you ruin the latch assembly too. When I was looking for a Firebird I saw a couple of them in which the door sagged so badly you could see daylight at the bottom from the inside of the car. Typical 1970’s GM – my 1975 Monza needed that done by the time I had 50k miles on it.
If you followed the manufacturer’s recommended maintenance schedule (lube all moving items on the body every year or so, can’t remember exactly) this did not happen.
We had a 1977 Chevy Impala in our family until about ten years ago, and the door hinges were tight as new when we finally got rid of it.
Spray-lithium grease is a wonderful thing. As a kid, I actually read the factory maintenance manual for our cars, and tried to follow it. Too bad that most of the dealers didn’t.
You can still find quite a few late 70s-mid 80s G bodies floating around in my area.
I wasn’t a fan of the Pontiac “B” cars just like many others. Oddly, I like the Grand LeMans/Grand Prix “G” cars more than the Chevy, Buick, and Olds versions.
It’s a tie for third place on my B body podium.
1. 1977-81 Olds Delta Holiday Coupe (A 77 Delta Royale Pace Car would an outstanding find!)
2. 1977-81 Impala Sport Coupe. (Would have had first but the Olds still had a “Big Block”
3. 1977-85 Buick Electra/Pontiac Bonnie/Catalina
I’m being nitpicky, I know, but the ’85 Electra was FWD, and there was no Catalina or full size Bonne 82-85,
Delta 88 Pace car was way cool, like a big 442.
That shows how interesting I found the Buford and Poncho versions.. 😀
The Delta 88 Holiday/Pace Car, LeSabre Sport Coupe and late Bonnevilles were a curious attempt to revive the way dead sporty-ish big car market, they all had swaybars and suspension upgrades with available bucket seat and console options, though there weren’t many takers and most of those options were gone by 1980-81. I have not seen a turbocharged LeSabre sport coupe in years, it has to be the oddest of the late 70’s sport B-bodies. The Pace Car 77 Delta 88’s are interesting to, too bad the buckets were not available in 77, the 403 isn’t really a big block though, its a punched out Olds 350.
That’s why I had Big Block in quotes. Some people are nitpicky and consider 400+ cubes a BB(unless you’re a Mopar or Chevy fan..) So many parts interchange between 260-455 Olds mills that there really isn’t a Big and Small block.
Not true exactly – being said a 403 is a punched out 350; 403 is a destroked 455. Smogger big block – still offered mondo torque from 185 net horses – and “California Clean”. The Olds block is actually the same basic block design from the 1949 303 through to the end in 1990’s 307.
The 403 is a “small block” It shares the same 9.33″ deck height as the 260-350 blocks. The 400, 425 and 455 had a 10.250 deck height.
Used to think that too, like the Cadillac 425 and 500, but its not.
Barry Irving
I was looking for the price of a 78 Pontiac Catania from that year new if you could tell me I would appreciate it .
Though I’m not as big a fan of this generation of B-bodies as many here (my idea of a Big American Car is a 71-76 B-body), I always liked the Pontiac versions a bit more than their corporate cousins. In fact, it’s the look of this exact CC car that I prefer: no fender skirts and rally wheels. Classy, a little sporty, and without the frippery of vinyl roof and faux-spoke wheels. (Like I said, if that’s what I’m looking for, I’ll go with a 1976 Fleetwood! Though I guess that’s technically a D-body….)
Dave C.
I can recall in 1976, dealers in Western PA advertised Pontiacs at rock bottom prices. Lemans sport coupes were advertised at less than $ 4,000. Some as low as $ 3,400. Sixes with manual trans, no doubt. The Grand Prix, nicely equiped, was listed around $ 5,000.
I knew 2 guys who bought Lemans’s that year. One young guy I worked with, a coupe, and the other, an older guy, bought a sedan. Both cars had significant rust in less than a year. The old guy kept his for a least 15 years, but patched the car with pop rivets and bondo. He kept the car alive.
I never knew anyone who bought the Gran Prix, so I don’t know how they aged. They were nice looking cars, the whole model line up.
Another fellow I worked with bought a used Bonneville (around a 75) in 1978. Several months later, he tried to trade back for an older model, due to financial difficulty. The same dealership offered him $ 200 for the car! And as the guy told me, the salesman acted like he was doing him a personal favor.
A similar thing happened to me. When trying to make a deal, the difference between buying a car no trade or trade, was that trading in my 68 Fury, I would pay $ 200 more than buying without the trade. When I asked the salesman why I was paying more to trade the car in, he replied that my Fury had no value.
I bought a car from another dealer and sold my Fury (in good condition) to a private buyer.
Sales of the full size Pontiacs didnt drop all of a sudden when these came out in 1977, they had been on a decline since the start of the 70’s pretty much, as they had been for many standard full size cars at the time, there move towards mid-sizers in the 70’s represented a big shift in the buying publics tastes, Pontiacs own Grand Prix was doing really well througout the 70’s while the full size cars sunk, and of course there was the Cutlass Supreme mania over at Oldsmobile. I do admire Pontiac for being the only division that still offered a full guage cluster on all their full size cars through the 70’s.
bufguy
I thought the Chevy’s were by far the best looking on the outside…Very clean, elegant. Especially in two tone paint that accentuated the character line just below the belt line.
Interior I loved the Buicks. Those round gauges with the brushed stainless steel bezels, one of which was a huge quartz clock above the glove box…very elegant.
My dad bought a 1978 Buick Estate wagon. Bright red vinyl “notch back” seats with folding center armrest and chrome trim on the outer edges of the seats very cool.
An interesting thing was that the Buick wagons were actually Chevy bodies with a Buick front clip…fenders, hood, grille bumper. They had to braze a piece of metal at the top of the front doors under the mirrors so the chevy sheet metal would line up with the Buick fenders.
The car had an Olds 403 6.6 liter 4bbl that produced a whopping 185 hp…the same as 2.4 liter Honda CRV…but it did crank out a whopping 320 lb-ft of torque at fast idle!
PJ McCombs
My favourite was the Pontiac “Parisienne.” Only slightly less suited to Paris traffic than an ICBM carrier…
Tampabaymarkey
I bought an 80 2door brogham in the 90’s. Drove her for a few years and never had any problems until the day I sold her. Drove thru a gas station and stopped on a man hole cover and she slid in. Did you know that there was a bucket seat/console option in 80? Found it pictured in my
GM reference book, but never saw it in person. Now THAT would be sweet.
Alfasaab99
CC ALERT! CC ALERT! Murilee Martin at TTAC has found a 1981 model of this car in a junkyard! Look under the “Junkyard Find” section find at TTAC! BUY IT NOW! BUY IT NOW! BUY IT NOW! RESTORE IT! RESTORE IT!
JLC1978
That is my 1978 bonneville that is pictured and it is for sale if u are interested in it Tom i also have the fender skirts.
I was wondering, how long have you had the car? I remember seeing it at least ten years ago, so it must have been a while. These are very nice cars. If you read some of the other posts here on CC, there are a lot of GM B-body fans.
Hope you enjoyed the article.
What’s under the hood? How much? Inquiring minds want to know.
Did you ever sell your ’78? I never saw any further posts from you, even though you had a couple of questions asked in response to your post.
79′ bonneville brougham only 73,000 original miles 5.7 L 350 under the hood
Wow, nice car and a great color combination! I’d love to see more of it.
I owned a 1978 Bonneville Brougham 4dr. in that dark burgundy/red paint (don’t know what they actually called that color) with matching vinyl top, the Pontiac “mag” style wheels, with the deep red “loose” cushion interior… I think it was the best looking Bonneville made, of that era. Everything was intact, including the fender skirts. I really wished, later, that I hadn’t sold it. My best friend wanted the car, and my wife of that time (now “ex”, and has been since 1985 or ’86) also pressured me to sell it, and for some reason (I did own several vehicles, then) I agreed to sell it to him. That was around 1981 or ’82… It remains one of my “favorite” cars, and I was a “Pontiac man”, as were my folks, too, all the way back through the mid-’60’s. I had owned several Catalinas and even a ’70 GTO (last of the good ones, in my opinion), years prior to the Bonneville. I’d love to find a ’78 Bonney Brougham that wasn’t ragged out, and put it on the road! BY THE WAY… my buddy drove that Bonney to something near 300k miles before letting it go, basically because the body components were, by then, in rather rough shape after that many miles. (He was’t much of a “car” guy, and never really kept up the exterior that well…) But the thing still ran, half decently, when he practically “gave” it away, somewhere in the earliest ’90’s.
I’ve recently gotten my hands on a 78 Brougham with green everything. Has the 301 with the velour. I was lucky enough to find it with rear skirts intact, 60k original miles, everything still working and not a spec of rust! Great car, I drive it everyday!
Sounds like you got a really good one. There was a very sharp light green one for sale on adhuntr.com a while back–pic below is from the posting.
I had the chance many moons ago to purchase a maroon 1980 Bonneville coupe that was shockingly equipped with buckets seats, floor shifter, gauge package, Olds 350, rear sway bar, limited slip, snow flake alloys wheels and every power option imaginable. This was a small time car dealer that acquired the car from an auction with a bad GM 200 metric transmission and had it replaced with a THM 350. I test drove that car and instantly fell in love and have had a thing for B-bodies ever since. The price was a mere 3500 bucks but mom and dad were afraid of a 20 year old me behind the wheel of a big 350 engine. That Olds 350 would light up the optional P215/75R15 tires like nothing and boy dud that car handle! Alas what I ended up with was a 1981 Cutlass LS sedan with Buick’s mightly 231 110HP V6 with base suspension and poverty caps! That car made me realize early on how important it was to option these cars right. Suspension and engine upgrades were a must and the wheels could make or brake the overall look. I have looked and looked but have never found a 1980 coupe like this one. Also strange is that the Pontiac brochure lists the 301 4BBL as the top engine for 49 state cars and that only California had the 350 so apparently this must have been one of those rare instances when one made it to Upstate, NY.
Rob, Joe…
It’s difficult, judging by some of the other comments on this subject, for folks to really realize just how handsome a 1978 (“+ or -” a year or so either way) Bonneville Brougham really was. I wasn’t kidding when I told someone, recently, that I’d love to find a ’78 just like the one I had – same color and everything – to restore, or at least make to look and operate in a street-worthy fashion if not too deteriorated. That dark maroon w/matching vinyl top, blood-red throw cushion interior and Pontiac GTO-style (which I’d owned one of, also, years before…) OE “mags” was very sophisticated, in a “manly”-looking way. In fact, I liked the OE mags more than the wire wheel-style covers that you’d see on many of them. The wire wheels were handsome in a very “dressy”, formal way, perhaps, but the mags made the car look subtly different, in a cool, “faster” sorta’ way, even though it was a full-sized sedan. I was still single when I first got that car, and I recall compliments from many of the ladies I dated then. Of course, the odds of finding one even in the apparently fairly decent shape the ones you fellows each found at various times, are decreasing exponentially, now… and no doubt the restoration, or semi-restoration expense would be substantial. I don’t know how many parts are available for these, but I’d suspect that they’re more rare than many even older, but more currently popular, vehicles’ parts would be.
If I happen to find a “stray” photo of my ’78 Bonneville Brougham, I’ll post it.
The big 1977-79 Pontiacs are my favorite. It’s got to be a Bonneville with skirts; the Catalinas just don’t look as cool to me. A Grand Safari with Rally IIs would be nice too!
“Definitely” on the fender skirts… they’re, in part, what sets the B.B’s apart. The Catalinas of this era/grouping did not, as you say, look nearly as cool, and were much more staid and generic looking… though I owned a ’69 Catalina two-door, many years earlier, that WAS a cool looking one (different body grouping, of course, than the Bonney’s we’re talking about, here). The ’69 also had the then-current version of the OE mags and 2 doors, which, for that era, made it “cool”. Love to have it back, too. (If I had all the cars “back” that I’ve wished for, I’d have to own a tobacco warehouse to keep ’em all in, as my late Dad told me some years ago when we were reminiscing about the different cars we’d had… He, by the way, bought me my first car in ’69 or ’70 – a 1941 Chevy Coupe, one owner, that an elderly neighbor/owner wanted me to have for the nearly – even then – giveaway price of, I believe, $150. THAT’s the car I wish I had today, to also keep in that warehouse…lol…)
I did a post a few months ago on a ’77 Brougham for sale on craigslist with the Valencia interior. Check it out: http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/craigslist-classic-christmas-money-burning-a-hole-in-your-pocket-how-about-a-77-bonneville-with-valencia-interior/
It might still be for sale–I regularly check out craigslist and adhuntr for pics of 1977-79 Bonnevilles. They’re so scarce!
Also, to my eye, GM made their biggest “mistake” when they downsized their entire Pontiac line some years later… I never owned another one after the ’78, which I kept until ’83, I think it was. Many of the later Pontiacs were almost silly looking, oddly styled rigs with some of the smaller ones adopting strange plastic body panels, etc., that came off looking cheap, by comparison. (I’ll probably offend somebody, here, by having said this. I understand that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, no doubt, even when talking Pontiacs. BUT…..)
Dee Huntley
I bought my first pontiac new at the age of 20, a 67 tempest custom, 326 with 2 speed auto, burgundy with a white top, and put keystone mags on it. It would do 100+ in first gear. What a great car and great memories. I worked 7 days a week from 6 in the morning till 10 at night and still put 23000 miles on it in 10 months. I traded it for a 68 firebird 350, 4 speed that topped at 110 and can remember being disappointed. My folks were pontiac people through the 1950’s and I grew up loving the way they handled. I have a 78 bonneville setting in my pasture that I was thinking about scrapping, but this spring started thinking of rebuilding. In another pasture is a 55 station wagon, 4 door—-I’ve been thinking I should have taken better care of them.
Dee, you mention having a ’78 Bonneville… you’ll see that I have posted various comments about the one I had, all through this whole page. I was/am a real admirer of that body style. My sister and her husband had a ’78 Bonne. Brougham (mine was also a Brougham, dark burgundy w/matching vinyl top and blood-red interior), and it was a good car for them for many years. The last time I saw it, it was still sitting beside one of their barns on their old farm, maybe 7 or 8 years ago. Theirs was a light blue w/matching vinyl top, but it almost didn’t even look like the same car as the dark burgundy one I had. The high gloss dark color of mine made that much difference in the overall appearance… really handsome. I don’t think anyone else, anywhere, is interested in these things! “Funny” how we can get tied to something that has become iconic for us… probably as much to do with the era and other memories, as with the car itself, best guess. But they were the last of the really handsome, solid looking Bonneville’s. As I said in a recent post, above, the later era of Pontiacs became smaller, and many of them were cheap and tacky looking, by comparison. I lost interest in the Pontiac line after this ’78 era.
thunderwagon 1987
I was lookin’ over your article. I read most all of the posts, I have the opportunity to trade my ’91 Cadillac sedan deville for a ’77 Catalina sedan. Body wise, the Catalina needs paint. But my caddy isn’t exactly “showroom”. I was born in ’87, but I love big bodied vehicles! When I was growing up on the farm, my mom bought my dad a ’73 Riviera with the 455 Buick wildcat under the hood. I later traded a ’77 Dodge aspen sedan (I kept my ’76 aspen coupe, that’s right: I owned 2 aspens when I was just 19!) For the old riv and drove it proudly! Even when gas was $3.75 a gallon! But I was looking to see if there was anyone with any advice on the matter.both mine and their cars need a little tlc, but neither have rust, or major dents
My parents purchased a used ’86 Parisienne back in 1997, which as has been mentioned, resurrected the rear sheetmetal of the ’77 to ’81 Bonnevilles, combined with the roofline of the Caprice and a front clip unique to the ’83 and up Parisienne. While it sounds like a Frankenstein, it actually worked surprisingly well. The more triangular C-pillar on these Bonnevilles was more attractive, granted, but I prefer the cleaner Parisienne front clip.
At any rate, it was definitely an anachronism in the “Pontiac Excitement” lineup of the mid 80’s, where its fender skirts and coach lamps coexisted with plastic side cladding and monochrome paint schemes on some of the other models. But that was a solid car that gave us several years of (mostly) trouble-free service, at least until it was stolen in 2002. The insurance check for a clean, straight, ~115K mile Parisienne on which everything worked and the engine ran like a top? A measly $850. That car would have easily sold twice that, and then some. An unfortunate end for a fine piece of ’80’s semi-luxury.
I just got in a accident some guy rear ended me and im mad cause u know the insurance company is going to total it out and not give me what its worth. The car has been in my family for years
That’s too bad, looks like it was in nice shape. It could probably be fixed, though it might take a frame machine to straighten it out. If they total it out, buy the car back from them and use the money to fix it–though you’ll have a salvage title at that point, it’s often the best possible option.
Frank Brown
Posted September 3, 2014 at 11:06 PM
I need two driver side doors 4 my 78 bonneville any suggestions where I can get them
Ah… memories of my first car. Loved my 78 Bonne… and so did the ladies!
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I’d love to find another 2 door one some day. I drove it until the frame completely rotted out on it.
I was a District Service Manager for Pontiac Division from 1978 to 1984 and had a number of these as company cars. We could order what ever we wanted back then and would drive the cars about 3000 miles and turn them in to be sold and move to the next one. I always used to order them with the handling package. They came with stiffened up suspension, huge sway bars front rear, cast wheels, performance tires, positraction rear. I had a white coupe, tan leather no vinyl top, cast silver wheels with the handling package. It had the 301 V8. I have always owned either German, Swedish or Japanese cars but that Bonneville was a great car. Wish I had it now. I recently picked up a 1978 Buick Electra with 32k miles. I also have a Mercedes S class. While the Mercedes is a wonderful car that handles, stops and goes in ways that these 35 year old GM cars could not even dream about. These old GM cars had a certain honest simple quality that I appreciate more today than ever before.
The first car I bought myself was a 1978 Bonneville Brougham Landau Coupe, white with a blue Landau top and a light blue interior. The outside was surface rusty, but the body was solid. But the thing that sold it for me was the 4 factory Snowflake 15X7 inch wheels, with Arrowheads on the centercap!! The car was fully loaded, I was shocked to find out it had its’ original 400 4 barrel, 400 trans setup. It also had a limited slip or posi (come on, this was 1991!) rear end, full dual exhaust with 2 convertors, and front and rear anti-sway bars. Further investigation by a friend at the now gone Wilde Pontiac revealed 2+ fender tags, and option codes for the heavy duty police/taxi, adding heavy springs, heavy duty shocks and anti-sway bars, bigger capacity fuel tank and the high performance 400 4V. This car hauled A**!! I mean tire torturing launches, I wish I knew how many ’78 Bonne’s were optioned out, this was set up like a wealthy man’s Trans Am. I had no idea how fast, because the speedo didn’t work, but the cruise did! But it quit running, and I found out it needed a new flex plate, had a weak spark the timing was off and the starter quit. It had many old car problems, and after getting some parking tickets, she had to go. My Bonneville was the wrong car at the wrong time. I had another friend, who I am not sure I should mention his name as he has been published in High Performance Pontiac and other places, but he owned an engine shop in Waukesha, WI and he BUILT Pontiac engines. He was able to verify many of the things about the car. I remember something about a Q or a Z in the V.I.N. I have only seen ONE other car like mine since, and that one wasn’t optioned like mine but had the 400 and the dual exhaust. Thank you, I enjoyed reading your stories. I do not have a photo, but I will include one I just found on the internet. I give them all credit and ownership of the picture. Best Wishes!!
I want to add that I drove a Pontiac LeMans Grand Safari wagon, fully loaded with a diesel. This was the smaller wagon, like the Cutlass and Malibu. The guy that owned it was a diesel mechanic, and BY FAR that was the scariest, fastest meanest sounding car I have ever driven. I have owned Mopar, a big block powered Cordoba was one, and built small blocks in 3 ’80 Cutlasses and my ’79 Cutlass had a .030 over 355 Chevy Comp Cams Edelbrock etc. But that wagon would get squirrelly when you really got on it, and I even once put it sideways in the street! and you chewed up a lot of real estate in a hurry!!!
88Lincoln
Hands down I think the Pontiac was better looking inside and out vs. the Caprice…
I find the late 70s downsized Pontiacs more attractive than the early to mid 70s.
These cars were fantastically popular here in what was Pontiacland, um, Canada. All through the 60’s Canada’s shortened Pontiacs were by far the most popular brand in Canada. Big Pontiacs always sold well in Canada, and the B-Body Pariesenne was very popular. All the Canadian cars had Chevrolet motors, and that was fine as the Canadian spec SBC in the 1977-79 cars ran really nicely. These cars sold very well, and their popularity was why the Cheviac was introduced for Canada only, which was later exported to the USA.
My parent’s neighbour had one of the last Cheviacs. He was close to 70 then, and it was his last car. My father’s generation didn’t buy these cars anymore, and I wouldn’t buy a new one, either. That said, I loved the interior of these cars, a real cut above the Caprice.
Frank Bray
Yes, I agree about the interior, it was quite ritzy and definitely a step above the Caprice. And yes these were very popular here in southern Ontario when I was 14 & 15 in the late ’70s. I also think Pontiac Parisienne has a much nicer ring to it than Pontiac Bonneville!
Greg Olotka
When I see a Bonneville the first thing that pops into my mind is “I am in high-speed pursuit!”
Nice to see this one come around again. I always liked the dashboards on these.
I prefer the original 1977 design to ’78 though. I think the tail and headlights looked better and I lust after that green sedan and the Safari counterpart pictured in the article.
My kindergarten teacher in the 80s drove a black Bonneville, I believe it was the B body and not the mini me G version that came out later.
While I said that the downsized cars lost some things from their predecessors, they still had great, though different, style. American as apple pie and I’d proudly take any of them to the drive in.
In 1977 my now ex-brother-in-law was working at a local Chevy dealer, and Dad was in the market for a new wagon. His 1971 Grand Safari was getting tired with well over 100k miles on it and he was ready to replace it with a new 1977. In fact, he visited the Pontiac dealer and was ready to order another Grand Safari. He wanted the 403 engine which wasn’t available in the Chevy, and his past disgust with a 1969 Kingswood Estate that was a true lemon soured him to the thought of another Chevy. I guess out of guilt he went to the local Chevy dealer and looked at the Caprice, to satisfy his son-in-law. Well he ended up ordering a new Caprice Estate wagon. Engine/tranny wise that car was a bull. Never gave him one problem. As far as the rest of the car? Hubcaps flew off it, trim pieces fell off, and it had body rot all along the back windows after 3 years. He didn’t hate that car, but he regretted not buying the Pontiac like he truly wanted.
pbr tall
I always liked the Bonneville coupes, no vinyl top and equipped with the snowflake alloy wheels. Those wheels made these look elegant and tough at the same time.
dealeraward
1977-1981 Bonneville Broughams are amongst the smoothest, quietest and gentle riding cars EVER built. Attention to detail inside and out, beautiful style, VERY COMFORTABLE seats , absolute silence at speeds well over the speed limit, reasonable gas mileage etc. Just took my 1981 for a relaxing 100 mile Sunday drive today ?
Note that for 1979 you could also order a code “W” 301 4 BBL in addition to the 2BBL “Y” version on Bonneville/Catalina coupes and sedans and I have driven several so equipped. The 79’s also seemed to come with the Buick 350 for 49 state cars and wagons could still be had with the 400/403 depending on where you lived. Despite being only 10 hp stronger compared to the 2BBL the 301 4BBL cars felt punchier with greater highway passing power and overall feel quicker than the 307 1981 Bonnys I have driven which is interesting considering the 81 had the 4 speed transmission with peppier 2.73 rear gears compared to the 301 3 speeds 2.41 gears.
Mark Reimer
I’d dearly love to have a photograph of the expression on my college age face when I popped the hood on my dorm housemother’s ’79 Pontiac Catalina (?), to jump off her dead battery, only to find a …CHEVROLET … V8 engine staring at me!!!!
A Chevy engine in a PONTIAC??? WHAT was the world coming to????? After my shout of su-prize (and a few none-too-muffled cuss words) several of my “car guys” dorm buddies came over to express THEIR shock and disappointment.
fahrvergnugen
To what extent did fleet sales (police, taxi) have to increase the spread between Caprice and Bonneville in the numbers provided?
Those Caprice sales figures wouldn’t have included police/taxi spec cars as the Impala was still the entry-level/fleet model.
toro455
Wow lots of comments on this.
79 Bonneville is my fav, and one of my fav cars.
I recently was attempting to determine whether these 77-79 Pontiacs shared door skins with the 77-79 Chevys. After a lot of looking at photos, I could not determine conclusively one way or the other. Any opinions?
CC Effect!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pontiac-Other-Brougham-Sedan-4-Door-/321749741680?forcerrptr=true&hash=item4ae9c77070&item=321749741680
calibrick
Love these old Bonnevilles without their rear skirts. Hard to pick a favorite one of these the Bonnie, Caprice and Electra are all so sweet.
Bob Martel
I had a 1979 Bonneville Brougham 4 door in two tone Burgundy/red for awhile when i was in college. It was my grandfather’s last car. After he passed and neither my uncle nor my father wanted the Pontiac I took it. What a nice ride. What a collection of options – ‘specially for someone that had been driving salvaged Chevettes. Plush pillow interior, cruise, full gauges with vacuum “economy” gauge, AIR CONDITIONING, and fender skirts. I still love fender skirts. Having a car with fender skirts told me all was right with the world. (Boyhood memory of dad washing cars on Sundays with the fender skirts laid out on the lawn to be separately washed and dried.)
I drove it for a summer and into the fall fixing a few issues it had along the way from sitting so much toward the end of my grandfather’s life. Then my newlywed sister’s leased car was stolen and the insurance wouldn’t cover the full amount owed on the car (remember those bad, old days?) So I gave her the Bonneville as they needed it more than I did. She burned-up the engine in it, so we swapped in a junkyard engine. Few months after the swap she ran the car into an off duty policeman on his way to the station. *sigh* too much front end damage to even think about repair.
Really loved that car. We’d had a ’77 Caprice Classic that was optioned to the hilt at the time, but the Bonneville just seemed a cut above the Chevy.
mark hobbs.
Ebay Motors UK list a 77 Caprice Classic 5.0 ltr with only 10000m. Looking at the non wear on the seats and pedals that genuine. yours for £10000. I would .. a new B body. Convert to LPG. Se me out….
Pawpaw bought a 79 Bonneville Brougham 4DR new. He said the color was called “Laredo Brown”. Basically a beige vinyl top over a light brown. I loved that car. It was so quiet and powerful. The ride could best be described as ‘floating on a cloud”. Nothing like the radial tuned suspension. We’d take it to go golfing in the early mornings at Hermann Park in Houston. I was devastated to learn after the fact that he’d traded the car in. By the time I called the dealership, the car was gone, probably to an auto auction. Who knows where it ended up but someone out there probably still has my car. I want it back so badly!
Here’s a photo of what the car looked like. This isn’t the car, but other than a couple of minor trim items, it’s a spitting image.
Damon Bishop
I’ve owned my 1981 pontiac brougham sence 2006 & there’s still less than 100.000miles on, everything original & restored but paint & seats… still has am-fm radio… For the rite price everything go’s
Joey Ellsworth
I have a 1977 Pontiac Bonneville Brougham with actual miles. Love it.
42,000 actual miles
Very nice! I remember those when they were new and the Pontiacs were very good looking. Somehow the Buicks had odd front ends in that era and platform.
Starchief
We must do whatever possible to revive pontiac. The CEO of GM is Mary Barra . Let her know Pontiac has many, many fans and should be revived in 2019 in commemoration of the brands cancellation announcement. GM must be bombarded with Pontiac fanatics. Whos with me? Let the battle begin
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New cyberbullying app 'After School' rates teens' sexuality, posts nudes
Photo courtesy Post Register.com
Fitting that on Valentine's Day, an Idaho newspaper Post Register reporting on a Times-News story revealed a new app teens are downloading to their phones called 'After School.'
As we always say: same tactics: different technology. After School is an anonymous Rating Site, which allows users to make lewd sexual comparisons about their classmates with zero consequences. According to the story, the "...widespread use of the After School app has left a vicious mark of bullying in its wake — along with a lot of sex talk that includes the names of students and educators."
Posts on After School message boards tied to other south-central Idaho schools have included nude photos of students, derogatory comments about appearance, name calling and comments about students’ body parts."
If you are a parent, you should already be having a conversation about what apps are unacceptable to download with your teen, especially if you own their phone. Click here on expert advice on how to have The Conversation as well as smart tools to prevent cyberbullying on your teen's phone.
Schools and parents need to know if they try to download the app, they will find it requires student verification in the form of a student identification card or driver’s license. The app logs in the student through his or her Facebook account, which makes deleting it more difficult.
If you need to know how a Rating Site occurs (one of our six most common cyberbullying tactics, buy our Parent's Guide To A Rating Site on Kindle or purchase a softcover copy of Cyberslammed, our award-winning cyberbullying book.
How to delete Snapchat from digital devices and have ‘the Conversation’
In Maine news this week after a 14-year-old Rockport boy threatened a 13-year-old girl through social media, there’s been a predictable amount of virulent conversations on social media concerning the teens, their parents, the school, and technology in general.
First, let’s start with the correct definition of what happened. A 14-year-old male allegedly threatened a 13-year-old girl with rape if she did not send nude photographs of herself. He also allegedly alluded that he was watching her, which is typically a hush tactic; i.e., "you tell on me and I'll make it worse for you."
This is more than just a threat on social media. It’s technically a form of what’s known as sexting extortion, or ‘sextortion.’
“Sexting” refers to taking nude photos of oneself and sharing the photo via cellphone. And why do teens do that? Because today, it is considered a form of relationship currency. Click here to read more of the legal dangers of underage consensual sexting.
But this was not consensual. This was extortion, and you’d better believe the police will get involved when something like this happens.
I’m not going to get into the whys with this column — I don’t know the parents or the kids, so I’m not qualified to speak on why it happened.
But, I am going to talk about how this was — and still is — preventable.
Since 2002, through Governor King’s 1:1 laptop initiative, every middle school and high school student in Maine was granted access to first a laptop, and later an iPad, to help them advance their 21st-Century skills.
But the gift came with virtually little to zero training on ethical digital behaviors and cyberbullying. I know, because throughout the 2000s, I was doing public presentations on cyberbullying for schools.
In 2012, when our cyberbullying book came out, a law passed in Maine mandating every single middle and high school enact a cyberbullying policy with training for the kids and for the staff.
I went around to schools and conferences on top of my full time job, for more than a year and gave free presentations to schools about sexting and other forms of cyberbullying. It opened the eyes of administrators and staff from dozens of Maine schools; but in 2013, still doing these presentations, I can honestly say, maybe three to four of the schools I visited got serious about the policy.
No school I knew of had, at that point, implemented any serious cyberbullying training or curriculum. (Not just some half-day assembly that students would forget in a few weeks.)
This, is of course, a field observation. Things might have changed now. I know MLTI offers Common Sense Media’s free Digital Literacy and Citizenship curriculum to schools, but it’s such light lunch. It does not get into the roots of serious cyberbullying (with all of its various moving parts).
I know teachers and administrators have earnestly tried to get a handle on this, but they’re not getting supported at the top.
So, it’s up to the parents. That’s what I’ve concluded after three years of working to try and turn Maine’s cyberbullying problem around. There has been woefully little done to even address it, much less turn it around. Three years after this law passed, Maine still ranks dead last in New England for controlling cyberbullying according to the latest study. Massachusetts ranks first nationally.
So, what can you do? First, it doesn’t matter what the app was used in this sexting extortion. (For the record, it was Snapchat).
If you kill the app off your kid’s phone, another toxic one will spring up in six months. Guaranteed. What you have to do is have ‘The Conversation’ when it comes to your kids’ use of digital devices.
The Conversation is a three-pronged approach, based on the strategies of self-defense:
Discuss what you consider acceptable and unacceptable uses of your child’s digital device. Here's how one Massachusetts mom got her son to sign an 18-point agreement on the condition of receiving his new iPhone. Use her strategy. Likely you already own the devices and that's your leverage.
Get familiar with the most frequent apps and social media platforms your teen is drawn to. Don't know what these tactics are? Stay on top of it with our Hot Topics blog on the most common types of cyberbullying.
Next, have a talk about conflict. Conflict is the root of most cyberbullying situations and it is inevitable your child will be involved in conflict at some point with a friend, a boyfriend/girlfriend, a teacher or even a stranger. Whether your child is the target, the instigator or caught in the cross-fire, "pre-playing" the potential outcomes to the conflict is key.
Lastly, here’s my professional opinion on the app Snapchat used in this particular situation.
Snapchat is a free app for iPhones, iPads and Android phones, allowing you to send a photo that will supposedly disappear in 10 seconds.
It was originally designed so the recipient couldn’t save the photo, but there have been workarounds for years to thwart that without Snapchat notifying the sender.
For minors, (and even impressionable young adults above 18) it is a sure fire way to get in legal trouble with even just one mistake. It guarantees many years of emotional pain and self-loathing when that “mistake,” a nude selfie, gets into the hands of a malicious person who shares or publicizes it.
If you have had The Conversation and you trust your teen 100 percent that he or she will never make that mistake, it’s your call to let him or her keep Snapchat and/or other apps like it on their digital devices. But if you even have a single doubt, get rid of it off your minor’s phone, iPad or digital device.
That’s my blunt advice.
Ignore the cries, “But everybody has it. I’ll be unpopular.”
Refer them to the 18-point agreement.
Here’s how to delete the app off each device:
Go to https://support.snapchat.com/delete-account in any web browser.
Enter your Snapchat username and password.(See 18-point agreement once again for this password)
Check the box confirming you aren't a robot.
Click on Submit.
Re-enter your password on the next page.
Click on Delete My Account.
Kay Stephens is a writer for Penobscot Bay Pilot, as well as an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction. Her book, Cyberslammed, was used by the Maine Department of Education, in part, to draw up a sample cyberbullying policy for schools in Maine. More help for parents and schools, including the latest threats, cyberbullying apps and tactics can be found at cyberslammed.com
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High school revenge sexting rings: why girls need to STOP taking nude selfies
Jennifer Lawrence recently "quit the Internet" largely over the nude sexting photos she sent her boyfriend in private, which ended up hacked and stolen from the Cloud.
Girls under 18 do this every day, despite a decade of evidence to show them there is NO safeguard and NO guarantee that a nude sexting photo will ever stay private.
Yet, it is astounding how many people argue that there is nothing wrong with sexting, that it is a natural way to express oneself in a relationship.
Sure. Until it ends up in the wrong hands.
Two cases this month show how much revenge sexting is being used as a blackmailing tool, and in another case, as literal currency to be bought and sold.
This month a group of Chicago boys from a Catholic high school are all under investigation for cyberbullying a female student through the tactic of revenge sexting. Because they are all underaged, the boys are referred for one count each of distribution of child pornography.
And in New Hampshire, another pack of football buddies are under investigation for reportedly selling naked pictures of female students at school. While the school is trying to downplay this as some sort of "social media incident" (as if it was technology gone haywire) it's pretty clear from the article that 13 members of the freshman and sophomore football teams had gotten ahold of sexting photos from girls in their school and were making a profit off of someone else's humiliation.
This isn't just "boys will be boys." Can't say this enough. Do your sons know that saving, sending and selling under-aged sexting photos can land them in court, in jail and even on sex offender registry lists? Do they understand the ethical ramifications of completely ruining someone's online reputation? Jennifer Lawrence's sexting photos will eternally be available on the Internet. She knows this will be part of her legacy forever.
Do your daughters understand that they are also putting themselves in legal danger by sending sexualized "selfies" to a significant other? And that in this digital age of use and misuse, they inevitably will be shared to others, or posted online?
"No, he would never do that to me."
Well guess what? His football buddy, who stole his phone while he was in the bathroom, and forwarded it to himself-- just did.
Find out what to do step by step in a sexting or revenge sexting situation (when to alert the police-or not!) in our comprehensive book Cyberslammed.
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Stay away from The Snappening: Child porn in Snapchat leaks
Photo courtesy Twitter account @SnappeningLeaks
In this Digital Age, you're naive if you never thought this could happen.
There is no privacy on the Internet, despite what teens may think. Last month, a trend started with iCloud leaked nude photos of celebrities called "The Fappening" (a combination of the M. Night Shyamalan film titled ‘The Happening’ with the word fapping – Internet slang for masturbation.) And just this week, the same 4Chan hackers are thought to be behind the release of nearly 200,000 images and videos from the photo messaging app Snapchat, a messaging service that claims that the photos sent on it “disappear” 10 seconds after the person receiving the picture opens it.
We have warned parents and educators about Snapchat for several years now. Snapchat provides a false sense of protection for teens that their photos will disappear, but almost immediately after the app's release, teens found a workaround to save the disappearing photos through several hacks, including another app, called SnapSave, which can save all the pictures and videos sent from Snapchat to the phone’s camera roll.
Last Friday, according to the news source RT.com, it was this third-party app, SnapSave and its servers that were hacked and pornographic content was definitely among the leaked material, some of it underaged.
Not great news for teens who thought they had a foolproof workaround to engage in Sexting.
The hackers also claimed that the images had been indexed by username, which you can see in the photo above.
Already, in Internet forums, many people are scrambling to try and find out who these usernames belong to and to view the nude photos.
HOWEVER, depending on national law and age of consent, anyone who downloads underage nude content in The Snappening could be charged for violating child pornography laws.
So here are the essential talking points for your kids over this issue:
1. Do NOT Sext. Ever. Ever. Ever. It will come back to haunt you. Tell them to read Jennifer Lawrence's thoughts on this violation, after having her Sexting photos hacked. Sexting photos will always be currency to the public. And this hacked and leaked photo trend is not going away.
2. If your teen suspects he or she might have Sexting photos hacked from the The Snappening, do not try to access any photos and download them. As crazy as it sounds, the laws prohibit downloading underaged nude photos...even if your teen was the one who took the photo!
3. On that common sense note, if you have a discussion with your teen over this issue, be upfront and hard line about it. Tell him or her not to even go looking for underage nude photos out of curiosity. EVER. The FBI is currently investigating the fall out from The Snappening and can even detect computers that are accessing child porn in real time.
Even looking at or possessing these photos or videos on your computer or cell phone is a very serious crime that can carry a minimum of five years in prison in the case of a Federal Child Pornography case.
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The Allure And Danger of Posting Selfies Online
The Allure and Danger of Posting Selfies Online is the second video in our webinar series to help give you a better understanding of Internet Safety and Cyberbullying. Kay Stephens, co-author of Cyberslammed, tells us some things to consider before posting a selfie, ways that they are being used to cyberbully and how you can help protect your teen.
Click here to watch the 5 min webinar.
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Exposing 'Hos' on Instagram, the latest Rating Site trend
Over the last six months, experts have noticed a shift in the way teens are communicating. Tired of of the transparency and parental monitoring of Facebook, many are searching for more anonymous alternatives and are gravitating toward social networking sites like Whisper and Instagram. New month, different app, that's the way it goes. Parents and teachers can't keep up. (Not surprisingly, by the time they do, that's the cue for the teens to move on.) Instagram, a photo sharing app that can be registered under an anonymous screenname, is like an underground speakeasy. Adults aren't hip to all the hidden back rooms yet, making it a perfect app to be used as a cyberbullying tool.
Even though Instagram's Community Guidelines prohibit nudity and graphic sexual poses, within two minutes, I was able to find dozens and dozens of pages depicting drug use, slut-shaming women, and graphic, explicit nudity. (Some of these photos I don't doubt are underage, which would categorize it as child pornography).
Yes, this is where a lot of teens have found their new outlet. And to be fair, many teens simply use Instagram the way it was intended, to share photos with friends and be social. I'm not sure why Instagram allows the other photos to stay online given their Guidelines, but just earlier this month, a Napa California police department investigated an Instagram page after receiving multiple reports that it contained “inappropriate” images of females.
The images were posted on a page called “napahoezexxposed." Translation: Napa Hoez Exxposed-- an Instagram page dedicated to labeling certain girls and women as whores. This is a combined Sexting and Rating Site tactic where someone uploaded photos of females (allegedly without their consent) in various stages of undress (thus Sexting) with the motive to slut-shame these girls by allowing commenters to rate them (thus a Rating Site). I've seen multiple versions of the so-called "Exposing Hos" tactic on Facebook and Twitter, but, apparently Instagram is the new technological vehicle for the same type of behavior.
Time Magazine's recent article "What Boys Want" by Rosalind Wiseman recently featured a fascinating article on why today's teens engage in Sexting, even when they know of the steep risks. The takeway I got from this article is that with this digital generation so used to the casual release of Kim Kardashian-type of sex tapes, snapping a nude pic or photographing a sexually explicit pose isn't as a big deal to this generation as it should be. Certain teens (particularly those with low-self esteem) tend to have a careless regard for their own image and reputation and just don't think about the consequences to such actions. When sending a nude photo to a someone is the only way you'll get his/her attention or keep his/her attraction, there are bigger issues here than the actual photo. The same goes for teens who request the photos as status symbols and insurance (in case of being rejected.)
Regardless, you can now see how the stage has been set for using these photos as cyberbullying currency. With teenage girls, we must keep the conversation going about alternatives to Sexting, not from a prudish standpoint, but from a reputation-destroying-forever-online standpoint. No girl wants a private "for your eyes only" photo to go virally, embarrassingly public. But, as statistics show, it inevitably will. And today, when a lapse in judgment results in being branded a whore on the Internet for all to comment on and judge, this is the time to talk to that teen in your life about that secret photo on his/her phone they hope you'll never find out about.
The Controversy Over "Slut Shaming" As A Cyberbullying Tactic
A while back, this photo on a Facebook site called "Girls Did You Know" stirred up one of the latest cyberbullying memes called "slut shaming "in which woman or a girl is shamed online and/or attacked for being sexual, having one or more sexual partners, acknowledging sexual feelings, and/or acting on sexual feelings" according to Finally Feminism 101.
First, let's get our definitions straight. This photo above, which triggered a Good Morning America segment on the topic of bullying is not cyberbullying any particular target, It is a parody. The girl in the photo is clearly the author of the sentiment--she is not being targeted herself.
Slut-shaming, a topic we cover in Cyberslammed, however, is very real and while the above photo is not a proper example, all it takes is a provocative self-portrait or a Sexting image/video to get loose on the Internet before a nasty Digital Pile On happens.
Sixteen-year-old reporter Temitayo Fagbenle whose column "Online 'Shaming' A New Level Of Cyberbullying For Girls" on NPR said, "A recent Facebook posting I saw had a picture of a half-naked girl, lying on bed. The boy who posted it tagged the picture so that everyone could see it and go to the girl's page. Within less than an hour, the photo had about 443 likes and 261 comments. Comments like "your life is officially shot LMAO," and "I think she gonna cut her veins when she see this."
People post these pictures and videos and make "smut lists" for their neighborhood or school.
The boy who put up the picture posted a status update saying he received 2,000 friend requests because of the photo; and things like this are a regular occurrence at my school."
And it's not just boys who engage in slut-shaming cyberbullying. As Fagbenle stated, "Talking to a group of girls at my school about this online slut shaming, some of them say they often feel the need to shame other girls for their improper behavior. 'They do it to themselves,' one girl says. 'Half the time we can't even blame the guys.' "
Regardless of who is doing the slut-shaming as a cyberbullying tactic, keep this in mind. Many times girls are photographed and videotaped without their knowledge and against their will (as in the case of Reddit's Creepshots, i.e. upskirt photos taken of high school girls without their knowledge).
They clearly don't deserve the harassment. Girls who willingly engage in sexting or videotaping their own sexual experiences are horrified to learn this information has been shared (inevitably) when the couple breaks up. But do they deserve to have a sexting photo or video go viral for the peverse entertainment of others? Absolutely not.
What about the girls who post photos of themselves, clothed, but provocatively posed?
In this digital age age of abuse and misuse, it's vain, narcissistic and just plain stupid for girls to ever post sexualized "selfies", i.e. self-taken photos showing, but that is their choice. (Did I also mention it's incredibly niaive to assume overly sexualized images won't be manipulated and spread around in some way? Of course it will--it's Internet currency.) But girls who are navigating their own sexuality never deserve to be defamed, libeled and ridiculed on such slut-shaming sites as These Hoes Getting Exposed.
This Valentine's Day, 36% of Americans will send Sexts-bad idea?
If you're under 18, then yeah, it's a very bad idea. Worse, if you're over 18 and dating someone younger than 18.
Parents of teenagers who are in relationships with cellphones are you listening?
Any nude or semi-nude photos that are transmitted electronically (even just sent via cell phone) are considered in many states to be child pornography trafficking, even if the juvenile is sending a photo of himself or herself. The laws vary from state to state, but here in our home state of Maine, for example, the law is extremely harsh.
According to Mobile Media Guard "Under Maine law anyone - regardless of age - who creates, distributes or possesses an image of a minor engaged in a sexually explicit act may be prosecuted under the State’s child pornography laws and if convicted, may serve up to 10 years in jail and be required to register as a sex offender."
Most kids and adults I've spoken to at statewide presentations over the last few months know the term "sexting," but had no idea the stiff penalties associated with it. Furthermore, most adults and kids didn't realize that if they encountered a sext on a cell phone or via the Internet, they, themselves could possibly be arrested for forwarding that photo electronically in any way--even to the authorities!
The fact that 36% of Americans (I'm assuming they polled adults) are admitting to engaging in what is called "consensual sexting" is frankly not a surprise. Teens engage in this form of relationship currency all the time. They're calling them "Selfies" self-shot provocative photos, an absolutely beautifully narcissistic way to capture one's youth. Thanks Rihanna!
When it stops being "consensual" and begins being cyberbullying is the moment the relationship turns sour or ends. This is the kind of "what would you do" talk you should be having with your teenagers who own cell phones. For example:
Parent: "What happens when Joe or Mary decides to spread your image around to all 500 of his/her Facebook friends?"
Teen: "He/she would never do that!" i
When 1 in 5 sext recipients report they have passed the images along to someone else and more than half (55%) of those who have reported sending them to someone else say they shared them with more than one person--try saying that again with a straight face.
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Amanda Todd's Mother On 'Sexting' And The Dark Side Of The Web
photo: Mark Van Manen, PNG , Vancouver Sun
I'm sure every pair of eyes were on Amanda Todd's mother when she got up before a group of Metro Vancouver mothers in her first public appearance since her daughter's death.
"If my daughter didn't believe everyone at the end of that Internet was innocent she would be alive today," she said in a November 5 Vancouver Sun story
As always, the point of this blog is to examine the tactics used in individual cyberbullying cases and to dissect them as a way to provide parents and educators with teachable moments for the kids in their lives.
According to an article in Digital Journal, when Amanda was 12 years old, she flashed her breasts to a boy she'd met online through a webcam she was using with friends.
"Police knocked on her door early on Christmas Eve of that year to tell her the picture had been posted online. This began her slide into depression that included anxiety, substance abuse, and cutting herself."
Not knowing the family personally, I can only speculate, but it sounds as if the girls were role playing a flirty version of "Girls Gone Wild" like it was a joke, a lark.This type of Sexting happens all the time; it's what author Nancy Willard Executive Director of the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use characterizes as a way to negotiate relationship issues, not actual cyberbullying Sexting. At 12, Todd probably wouldn't have thought what kind of terrible consequences could derive from flashing a stranger.
But the cyberbullying instantly started with a nasty Digital Pile On as well as morphed offline into physical bullying where Todd was actually beaten up by a group of teens.
In the Vancouver Sun article, Carol Todd told the group: "Amanda eventually came to realize the mistakes that she made from that one night when she was 12 years old," Todd told the crowd, referring to an incident in which Amanda flashed someone on the Internet. "She never thought it would come to haunt her for the rest of her life. It was a mistake - it became a life sentence and in the end, it contributed to her death."
Webcams or smartphones--the technology doesn't matter-when it comes to Sexting, there are multiple reasons to do it and the underlying conversation every mother needs to be having with her daughter before the new phone is handed over is: Can I trust you to protect yourself with this device? Pre-play with them the various scenarios.
Tell her what happened to Amanda, to thousands of girls across the country whose innocent mistakes have come back to haunt them. The Sexting conversation is essential in every household these days, more than any other topic we cover in our book. The technology will always be available. It's up to us to prevent the behavior.
Sexting: "I thought it was going to make him love me."
photo: 9news.com
A young woman in Denver learned what so many girls are learning the hard way. In her case, it's the classic scenario of what cyberbullying expert Nancy Willard calls "Experimental Sexting," which is completely different from "Cyberbullying Sexting." This is when teenagers are negotiating the terms of their relationship and both parties are willing to share Sexting photos.
This young woman, who was a teenager at the time, took nude photos of herself to cement the relationship with her then-boyfriend. As she said, "I thought it was going to make him love me." Then, when inevitably, the relationship ended and turned bitter, the ex-boyfriend showed the pics to everyone.
"I never thought they would get out," the unidentified woman said of the Sexting photos she sent to her boyfriend at the time. "I never thought anyone would see them."
The fall out was deeply painful. "I tried cutting myself. I tried [strangling] myself," she said. "I thought that was the easiest and best way for me to get away from everything. I never went to sporting events. I missed my junior and senior prom because I didn't want to be around everybody."
See more of the story here.
When is Sexting Experimental And When Is It Malicious?
photo: Flickr Creative Commons
Digital Show and Tell?
In April, 2010, one Bethesda, Md middle school student allegedly rented out his iPod Touch to classmates, which contained female classmates in various stages of undress. Read the full story here. The girls apparently posed willingly and most of the images were close-ups of body parts with not many faces showing. But the police determined the girls hadn't been coerced. They were all playing a game--and naturally, they never imagined would get found out. This was the classic: "You show me yours and I'll show you mine" game with 21st Century tools.
Here you have a prime example of what is often considered "experimental" Sexting as opposed to a more malicious form, known as "Cyberbullying Sexting." Parents and Educators need to know the difference and not paint every single circumstance with the same brush. That's why it is important to do a Scene Survey with your teen immediately after discovering a Sexting incident.
Get all of the facts before going to the police. And determine what your state laws are around 'Sexting' right away before making a decision.
A parent involved in this case, wrote more of an in-depth explanation to Ann Collier, Editor of Net Family News (who discussed this case in her blog) The following is his words to Collier.
"I am one of the parents involved in this issue," wrote this father of a then-16-year-old. When school administrative staff ["head principal, two assistants, director of curriculum and the possibility of more," he later told me] started their investigation the morning of Sept. 24, 2009, they knew then that they were dealing with students and nude pictures, but they continued this [investigation] all day long before contacting parents and police, even passing these phones around to other staff.... My son was interrogated by the head principal along with the director of curriculum. They called my son a sex offender, told him he would go to prison, and that he would be placed on Megan's [sex offender] list. Then he was contained in the nurse's office for over two hours. Other students were treated basically the same....
"My son along with [seven] other students [three girls and four boys] admitted they had a picture or pictures on their phones, etc. They told school staff who was in the pictures, etc., [but] the staff still went through [the phones].... The principal told us he didn't want to talk to the girl about this issue, saying 'he felt uncomfortable,' though he didn't mind viewing her pictures and others' as well." [By the sound of it, the police called in at the end of the school day were the best part of this experience, reportedly respectful and clear about the students' rights and what was and wasn't lawful about the school's investigation – for example, a state trooper told the dad that he would need signed parental consent or a warrant signed by a judge to go through students' cell phones. The law differs from state to state, but that's something parents should ask if they're ever in this position: Do school officials have the legal right to search their children's phones without a warrant on school premises?"
Conceding that his son and his friends were not without blame-- "These kids did this willingly, they are friends. Don't get me wrong, I don't condone this, it was stupid, but they were basically keeping this private amongst themselves, meaning no harm.... " the father's point was, the punishment was incompatible with the so-called crime.
The outcome: The students went through public humiliation, arrest (fingerprinting, mug shots, etc.), expulsion hearings before the school board, prosecution as adults, probation, fines, classes, and the possibility of felony convictions remaining on their records.
As Anne Collier's elaborates in her blog post "Of school policy on sexting", cases like this need to boil down to common sense reasoning.
"School policy and penalties should not only be sure to handle cases differently, based on what category the behavior falls into; they should also handle students differently, based on what investigations reveal about their motives. For example, if two students were involved in “experimental” sexting that led to an honest (or stupid but non-malicious) mistake on the part of one of them (such as forwarding a photo to a friend who turns around and distributes it widely), the mistake should be penalized differently from the malicious action of the 3rd party."
Teen's Facebook Sex Scam: A Cyberbullying Twofer
photo: CBS News
File this one under Imposter Profile and Sexting
We're going back nearly two years for this one, but it illustrates how manipulative a person can be one one side of the computer screen and how naive and unaware the target can be on the other side.
Click for CBS video of the story.
Teen Facebook Sex Scam
An 18-year-old Wisconsin teen set up three Imposter Websites, posing as girls in his high school, then sent explicit emails to lure more than 31 boys at his high school to engage in Sexting. The perpetrator provided phony nude pics of the girls and the boys, naturally, sent nude photos of themselves to the Imposter. More than 300 nude photos of his male victims were found on his computer. He then blackmailed a few of them to engage in sex with him, rather than have the photos see the light of day.
The 18-year-old teen was charged with 12 felonies.
Use these stories on this blog as a way to broaden your knowledge of cyberbullying tactics and share them with your kids to heighten their defense. Anyone can be tricked by an Imposter Profile, which is why it is so important to keep your social networking circle small and verified. In Sexting, much of the perpetration statistically is aimed at young women, but in this case, more than 31 boys were duped by what Nancy Willard, MS, JD, Director of the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use, differentiates as “Cyberbullying Sexting.” This is when the perpetrator uses Trickery to get ahold of precious photographic "currency" and and Blackmail to get the target to do something in order to avoid dissemination of the image.
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The Woman with Half a Body - Rose Siggins
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Amazing , Paranormal , Weird Stuff 10 comments
Born with a rare genetic disorder known as Sacral Agenesis, Rose had severely deformed legs with feet pointing in opposite directions. There was no feeling in the legs and, as a child, she was in danger of harming herself. When she was two years old her mother, after consulting with the doctors at the hospital, decided that the best course of action was to have the legs amputated. This insightful decision by her mother allowed Rose to lead a fairly normal childhood.
Rose grew up, with her mentally handicapped brother, in Pueblo, Colorado. Rose believes her parents made the right choice as she cannot imagine being confined to a wheelchair. She describes her physical condition in her own way "If you take a Barbie doll and remove it's legs, the region you are left with is what I have. I have all the female working organs, the only reason I sit shorter or more compact, as people say, is because I'm missing four sections of my spinal column".
Rose's great passion in life is cars. All things automotive, cars, trucks and V-8 engines have been a big part of her life since she started playing with her father's toolbox at the age of 3. When she was sixteen, her parents bought her a car. A used car which Rose and her father adapted with hand controls so that Rose was able to drive herself around. She is rebuilding a 1968 Mustang which she plans to race.
For years, the administrators at the local school forced Rose to wear artificial legs, they wanted her to look like everybody else. When she was in eighth grade she rebelled and refused to wear her prosthetic limbs, turning up for school on her skateboard. She wanted to be normal, and her normal is Rose who walks on her hands and has no legs. After meeting with her parents who were being very supportive, and realising that Rose was very stubborn, the school relented and allowed her to return, without her prosthetics.
In 1997 Rose met Dave Siggins who worked in an auto-parts store, they flirted over the phone and their relationship quickly blossomed, but it was going to put Rose's life in danger. When they decided to get married, Dave joked with her that she didn't have to worry about getting cold feet. Rose and Dave were married in 1999, it was her dream come true. It was a traditional white wedding and Dave, still joking, pointed out that the cake was bigger than she was. Rose and Dave lead a normal sex life, the only comment Dave has made are that the legs don't get in the way.
Two years into their relationship, Rose discovered that she was pregnant. Rose's pregnancy was extraordinary and ground-breaking, no-one with Sacral Agenesis had ever given birth. The only doctor who didn't advise Rose to have an abortion was Dr. Wilson who says "This couple have committed themselves to a pregnancy and she is, basically, laying her life on the line because nobody knows what this means, no-one has lived this experience before. With the first counselling with Rose and David I was very specific and told them that they have to know that if they move forward with this that she could die." The main concerns were with her lungs being compressed, as the baby was likely to grow up the way because of her short stature. The other concern was how she would tolerate a caesarean delivery, because the baby was lying transversely she would have to be opened across the top, a true 19th century caesarean delivery. Rose told her mum that if there were any complications and there was a choice between her life and the baby's, she should choose the baby.
Having given birth to a miracle baby, Rose was about to experience a terrible tragedy. Luke had just celebrated his second birthday when Rose's mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She held the family together, provided an emotional pillar, and organised the vital day-to-day running of the house. Her death had a disastrous effect on everyone around her. Rose's father had already had the onset of Alzheimer's and dementia so he, like her brother, didn't understand what was happening. It became apparent that Rose was next in line to run the family and do everything her mother had done. As well as looking after her son and husband, Rose now cares for her dad and brother. Rose's dad, James, has smoked all his life and now has to rely on a constant supply of oxygen. He is also suffering from schizophrenia and the onset of Alzheimer's.
Rose has great moral strength and a remarkable attitude she says "A lot of people with disabilities feel that life owes them something, and I was raised in a way that no, no-one owes you a dime. The world doesn't owe you anything, this is what you have and you use your resources and you get through life. My personal opinion is, get up and go for it, just do it."
Rose's story as a woman who has overcome bewildering obstacles and succeeded despite seemingly impossible odds is a real life example of the American dream. However, away from the limelight and behind a determined self-assurance there's another side to Rose. With the usual day-to-day problems and the added stress of Jimmy's erratic behaviour Rose is feeling the strain.
She takes refuge in the garage where she can oversee the installation of a new V-8 engine in her Mustang. At last after weeks of hard work Rose feels the Mustang is ready to hit the race track, which will be another life-long ambition achieved.
Incredibly, despite the risks involved, Rose has had a second baby.
Source: mymultiplesclerosis
JustAGurrl said...
Great story! What an awesome lady!
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Really really great story..
she is one extraordinary woman.
A sako!
A very brave lady..
what an inspiration , i moan about all sorts of crap that really is not important you have made a differance .
candywife said...
I wish Rose would blog and write a book...her family life is so inspirational!
What a beautiful little family...
You are amazing. God is working through you in every way. Thanks for being you. Carol.
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Fulham Home 15th August 2017
Burton 9th September 2017
Sunderland 19th August 2017
Chris who??????
I’d given Gaz and his daughter Ella a lift into Leeds for us to catch the Fullerton Park coach today. It was nice to see that that the timeline outside Billy’s Bar had been updated with our 1974 League Champions win although our European Cup Winners Cup Final in Salonika in 1973 is still missing. I tweeted the club after the Preston game to say these needed adding to the timeline. We left Billy’s Bar at 12.30 pm and headed for our pub stop in Green Hammerton at the club there. The Welsh contingent were already there when we arrived and I went to talk to Brian Bevan and a couple of others. Brian had brought my book Follow Me and Leeds United last time we were there on the way to Newcastle and it was nice to hear that he enjoyed reading the book, so a big thank you to him for the feedback. We had a nice chilled out time there and I enjoyed my pie and peas which reminded me of the old Supporters Club building on Fullerton Park where we always used to go in during my early days of following Leeds. Pie and peas were always served in the social side if I remember correctly.
We had a group photo prior to leaving the club at 3.15 pm and it seemed no time at all that we arrived in Sunderland around 5.00 pm in readiness for the 5.30 kick off and live Sky game. As we got off the coach it was a bit windy but we were soon climbing the stairs to the top of the stand where luckily it was sheltered. As the front two rows of the stand were not to be used by our fans I was able to put my banner up with lots of others. I love it when they can all be displayed showing where lots of our fans come from. I didn’t feel safe stood up at the front of the stand though so was glad to go and find my seat a little further back in the top part. Although it was a good view I felt it is too high up and you are far away from the play. Looking at the Sunderland fans turnout which looked pretty poor, I reckoned they could have given Leeds fans the whole stand and I’m sure we would have sold them all, especially when the allocation was sold out in minutes once again.
The team today was Wiedwald, Ayling, Cooper, Jansson, Anita, Alioski, Saiz, O’Kane, Hernandez, Phillips and Ekuban. Subs were Roofe for Hernandez (25 went off injured), Dallas for Ekuban (62 went off injured) and Klich for Saiz (81). Wiedwald was booked and Leeds won 2-0 with goals by Saiz (21) and Dallas (76). Attendance at the Stadium of Light was 31,237 with approx.3,000 Leeds fans although I would never have guessed there were that many fans at the game overall due to all the spaces on the terraces below!
It didn’t take long for us to see that the team were up for it today. There was some brilliant footwork going on especially from Saiz and Alioski and lots of quick passing amongst the team. Phillips was getting stuck in too and this was replicated by other members of the team. The fans were in good voice too which was good to hear who sang for the whole game. The Sunderland fans in comparison were as quiet as church mice. Today’s game saw us up against Simon Grayson who was now the manager of the opposition but with the Leeds fans chanting his name, hopefully it meant that being Leeds tugged at his heart strings! Leeds were attacking towards the Leeds fans in the first half and time and time again Alioski, with some pace, was bearing down the wing in acres of space. Each team member was fighting for the ball and backing the other players up and this looked so good. Leeds launched another attack and Alioski passed the ball the Saiz to hit the ball past their goalie to put us into the lead. Great celebrations from the Leeds fans and the noise from us became even louder! Just after we scored Hernandez went off injured and Roofe came on. It took me a while to realise who had replaced him though. The first half belonged to Leeds and we were all over Sunderland and although they had a couple of chances they never looked like scoring. It was good to go into the break in the lead.
I went downstairs and on the steps some young lads stopped me asking for a photo. They love reading my blogs and that makes me feel really happy that I am doing something right. Obviously I obliged with the photos as many others asked for photos too. I had a chat with Gary Edwards at half time before heading back into the stand. The second half started where the first half left off and Alioski was getting some great runs down the right hand side. What is good to see is the pace we have now got, the players playing as a team and long may it continue. Things became more difficult when Grayson made a double substitution and it wasn’t so easy to run rings around Sunderland. After settling back into the game we had another attack when Ekuban and Roofe won the ball. Somehow at the end of this Ekuban ended up in the back of the goal injured. Eventually he got half way across the pitch before going down and after treatment was more or less carried off the pitch. That was such a shame as he looked in a lot of pain and he was just getting on top of his game I thought. Vieira who was warming up at the side of the pitch had renditions of his song sung to him. Ohhh Ronaldo Vieira, ohhh he’s only a teenager, ohhh he never gives the ball away 1, 2, 3, 4. It was nice to see him show his appreciation to the fans above him. Dallas came on to replace Ekuban and after another great attack by Leeds Saiz crossed the ball for Dallas to head the ball into the net to send the Leeds fans into raptures once more. As the Sunderland fans streamed to the exits the Leeds fans chanted “is there a fire drill” at them. The gallows humour from our fans once again took over when we sang “Leeds, Leeds are falling apart again”. As they attacked us at that time I had an anxious moment thinking they would get a goal back. They repeated a move from the first half where they put the ball across the box but none of their players could connect with it thankfully.
I am chuffed to bits for the team today as they played some great football with precision passes, were able to fight for the ball plus scoring two great goals to give us the three points. A win that put us into fifth place and as I’ve said many times, aspiring for that automatic promotion place. The attitude and commitment shone out today and there was a great togetherness from both the fans and the team especially at the end of the game. I still think no other fans can touch us for our loyalty through all the ups and downs we’ve had and now, fingers crossed, our future is looking bright. The atmosphere was brilliant today too and I love being part of this. I’d gone down to get my banner at the end of the game so was stood at the front when the team came to clap us. A very happy buzzing Leeds support came out of the stadium as we headed to the coaches. All of a sudden we were hit by a gale force wind and I had to hold on to my beret. It must be the design of the ground that had created a wind tunnel there because it came out of the blue!
As we dropped our Green Hammerton fans off we heard that there was someone locked in the toilet on the coach. Eventually after getting a screwdriver from the club the driver was able to release him. As he had been in there for at least 10 minutes he was quite shaken up. I’m glad it wasn’t me who’d got locked in! As we got to Leeds I got off the coach and ran to my car. As I was putting my bags in the car I suddenly realised that I hadn’t travelled alone this morning and waited for Gaz and Ella. They’d thought they were going to have to get a taxi instead and I said no way they’d have had to ring me. Unfortunately my memory is shot half of the time as I’m doing that many things at once and multitasking that I forget these things very easily. I just need reminding and honestly I don’t mind lol!
Tuesday sees the Newport EFL game at Elland Road and then the away game at Nottingham Forest, both games which unfortunately I won’t be at but hope to get the stream for Tuesday and find a pub to watch the latter. On the way to Sunderland today I’d said that we would be winning our away games and drawing at home in the league which has obviously happened so far. Once we’ve learnt how to overcome teams that come to frustrate us at home, I reckon we will be a force to be reckoned with. Here’s hoping! See you all at the Burton game. LUFC – Marching on Together!
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Okinawa, July 21, 2000
We warmly welcome the Summit Meeting between the ROK and the DPRK held in Pyongyang on 13-15 June 2000 and underline the historic importance of this meeting. We fully support the positive developments set in train by the meeting, and encourage the South-North dialogue to continue and advance further. We sincerely hope that such a process, including the faithful implementation of the South-North Joint Declaration, will usher in a new era in inter-Korean relations and reduce the tensions in the Korean Peninsula.
We strongly support all efforts by the ROK and the DPRK to reduce tension and establish lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula that contribute to stability in Northeast Asia. We reiterate also our strong support for the ROK's engagement policy which is contributing to positive developments. We welcome the constructive attitude shown by the DPRK, and take note of the reconfirmation of its moratorium on missile-launch as a positive step. We call on the DPRK to continue such efforts. In this context, we look forward to a constructive response to international concerns over security, non-proliferation, humanitarian and human rights issues.
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European Electric Metals Inc. (“EVX”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Chris Donaldson to its board of directors
Mr. Donaldson has over 20 years experience in corporate development and marketing with a successful track record of raising funds and building out new investment channels for both public and private companies. Chris is currently the Director, Corporate Development for Western Copper and Gold where he is responsible for the investor relations program and management of strategic partnership activities. Chris is also the Director, Corporate Development and Community for Casino Mining Corp. in the Yukon where he is responsible for corporate, governmental and community relations.
Mr. John Booth, Chairman of EVX, states, “We are pleased that Mr. Donaldson has agreed to join our team and look forward to leveraging his marketing savvy, community involvement and investor network.”
Chris holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from the University of Western Ontario, has completed the Canadian Securities Course as well as the Investor Relations program at Ivey Business School.
Chris is a founding director and acting President of SIREM (Society of Investor Relations Executives in Mining), has been active with the board of the Yukon Chamber of Commerce, the Yukon Chamber of Mines Communications Committee and served for many years as a Director of the Pacific Salmon Foundation.
The Company has granted 240,000 incentive stock options to a director of the Company, exercisable at $0.30 cents per share for a period of five years from the date of grant. The stock option grant is subject to the company's stock option plan and regulatory acceptance.
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Green Rewind By Marty Schupak Oct. 1, 2015
This Sunday’s game is a huge fourth game of the season for a number of reasons.
Obviously 3-1 sounds a lot better than 2-2. Plus teams love to go into the bye week after a win. The Dolphins will be tough. This is the second week in a row the Jets will face a desperate team. There are a number of key players for the Jets in this game. First and foremost to me are center Nick Mangold and right guard Brian Winters who will be playing for Willie Colon. These two players have got to step up especially with Ndamukong Suh on the other side of the line. The success of the offensive line might depend on the play of both.
With Jeff Cumberland out this week, tight end Kellen Davis becomes a key player. This eight-year veteran has 50 career catches. The Jet offense is not tight end friendly but with the receivers the Jets have, Davis should be targeted a few times. And I hope he blocks!
Buster Skrine has got to play better! He was awful against the Eagles. Hopefully Skrine ‘s play will be more consistent as the year moves on. He has got to put together more than one good game in a row. And just when I erased Kyle Wilson’s name from my rolodex.
We all know that if Chris Ivory and Eric Decker play, we need productivity from both. Delvin Smith should be interesting to watch this week after having two full weeks of practice following his injury.
The Jets cannot let Ryan Tannehill get comfortable in the pocket. And the defense must get their hands up as Tannehill loves to get rid of the ball early. I expect if the Jets defense is playing well that we’ll see a fair amount of tipped balls.
I don’t think Ryan Fitzpatrick is as bad as people are making him out to be. Let’s face it, against the Eagles there were at least four dropped passes and two of the three int’s were not his fault. I’ve said he is not the most accurate on long passes but remember with Brandon Marshall on the team, this potentially makes for one of those “throw ‘em up” combinations like we saw with Eli Manning and Plaxico Burress a few years ago.
Jeremy Kerley is off the MIA list.
Make no mistake, Dolphin Executive VP of operations Mike Tannenbaum wants to beat the Jets in the worse way.
I can’t explain it but for some reason I want to see more of Marcus Williams and less of Antonio Cromartie.
Just in case you were wondering, Vladimir Ducasse is listed as the starting right guard for the Chicago Bears. And we think the Jets have problems.
For all the Fitzpatrick bashers who want Geno in there, please refer to last October’s Buffalo game. Here are Geno’s stats:
C/ATT YDS AVG TD INT QBR
Geno Smith 2/8 5 0.6 0 3 0.0
Chan Gaily has got to put some kind of “no huddle” or speed up offense into the system. I hate it when the Jets are behind and there is no “sense of urgency” when they have the ball.
Calvin Pryor still looks good three games into the season.
It’s way early but some of my draftnik spies tell me Vadal Alexander, G/OT, LSU, and Nick Martin, C, Notre Dame (Zack’s bro’) are two good OL the Jets should keep an eye on.
Your comments are welcome below.
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About Church of the Nazarene
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UFC on FOX sees four Intimidation alumni with big opportunities in front of them
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UFC on FOX 16 goes down Saturday night in Chicago, and four alumni of the Intimidation brand are all in action on the MMA world’s biggest stage. Jessamyn Duke, Daron Cruickshank, Ben Saunders and Jessica Eye each have big fights, each in their own way. In likely the most high-profile fight of each fighter’s career, Saturday night could determine the fate of each fighter as they move forward in the UFC rankings. For Eye, a title shot against Ronda Rousey may be next, for others their jobs may be on the line.
Kicking off the night’s card for the Intimidation Clothing alumni is Jessamyn Duke, fighting in the night’s 2nd fight. Duke (3-2) faces off with Elizabeth Phillips (4-3) as she fights for her job after losing 2 straight following a win in her UFC debut. Intimidation sponsored Duke in her first three professional MMA fights, all under the Invicta FC banner, and released the Jessamyn Duke signature tees during her time on the popular TUF 18 program.
Daron Cruickshank, a member of the UFC’s roster since the beginning for 2012, will step into the Octagon for the 12th time on Saturday night as he looks to improve his 6-4-1 UFC record. Now 16-6-1 overall, Cruickshank faces James Krause (21-7, 2-3 UFC) as he looks for his first win after a No Contest and loss in his past two fights. Intimidation sponsored Cruickshank in multiple fights in 2010 and 2011 which spurred him onto The Ultimate Fighter’s 15th season.
For Ben Saunders, a second chance with the UFC has proven quite successful thus far. After an impressive 4-3 record in the UFC from 2007 to 2010, Saunders was cut and later signed with Belator MMA. Intimidation sponsored Saunders in Bellator’s Welterweight Tournament in 2011 as he continued to face many of the top 170lb fighters in the world. Now back in the UFC after a 7-3 stint with Belator MMA, Saunders looks for a 3rd straight win inside the Octagon.
Finally, the biggest fight of Jessica “Evil” Eye’s career serves as the night’s main event at UFC on FOX 16. At 1-1-1 her UFC record does not scream title shot, but in a thin division looking for rivals to take on Champion Ronda Rousey, Eye’s match-up with Miesha Tate could be everything she needs to vault her into the national MMA limelight. After a 10-1 run at 125lbs where she climbed to #1 in the world in her weight class, Eye made the move to 135lbs in 2013 and signed on with the UFC to compete against the most high-profile women in the sport. While Intimidation supported her in 9 consecutive pro fights over a span of four years from 2010-2013, the company created the Jessica Eye signature tee in both men’s and women’s styles which the company sold at many of her fights in and around Cleveland.
While none of these great athletes will be donning Intimidation Clothing on Saturday night, each played an important role in helping build the Intimidation brand over the years. We wish each fighter the best of luck as they look to advance on the highest profile stage in Mixed Martial Arts.
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Roxanne Modafferi Monthly: How to succeed in the world of MMA
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So you want to be an MMA fighter, and you just won your debut fight. Congratulations. You’re an MMA fighter. But now, how can you continue to be successful? The following is my opinion about the three most important things to ensure your success.
1) Get good. You need to win fights in order to climb the ladder in rankings. The more you win, the more you will be a prospect and sought after to face more difficult and high-profile fighters. You will find yourself in bigger and bigger promotions, and get paid more money. Therefore, you need to develop all aspects of your game – striking, submission grappling, take-downs and wrestling, etc.
2) Show something special in fighting. You hear the name “Crocop” and you may think “High kicks.” You hear “Royce Gracie” and you think “Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.” Rousimar Palhares got 10 of his 16 wins by heel hooks or ankle locks. Ronda Rousey = armbars. These fighters are very good at one move or one aspect of their game. We look forward to watching them fight, and see how their opponents can handle that. Will Roy Nelson KO his next opponent with his right hand? Will Ronda arm-bar her next opponent? It’s very marketable and piques the interest of fans.
Being well-rounded is great, but being known for some special strength adds something extra. I believe every fighter should be well rounded, but we all have tendencies to favor certain things. We all have a favorite move. Why not allow yourself to spend a little more time on it, and sharpen it like a weapon? Especially in this day and age when the number of pro fighters are increasing, this will help you stand out. The point is, you want fans to remember you.
3) Show something special personally. Fighters compete for one night. The rest of the time, they are busy training and trying to keep fans interested in them personally. The more a fan is interested in and can relate to a fighter somehow, the more they will want to see them fight. A fighter shouldn’t be afraid to show something of themselves to the public.
I am “The Happy Warrior” who is all over social media, always answers every fan mail, hosts an mIRC chat room, sells merchandise like T-shirts, books, fans, pictures, etc. Shayna Baszler is known for loving heavy metal, guns, pro wrestling, and has a following she lovingly named, “The Queen’s Army.” Now she’s a member of “The Four Horsewomen,” taken after a pro wrestling team, consisting of Ronda Rousey, Jessamyn Duke, and Marina Shafir. Felice Herrig likes to post sexy pictures of herself in various costumes and attire. Miesha Tate does as well, and is known for loving cupcakes and baking. The Diaz brothers have their tough-guy images and weed.
It is said that amateur sports is all about skill. Professional sports is about money and entertainment– butts in seats, eyes on TV. A professional fighter has to be conscious of this. You have your job inside and outside the ring/cage. If a fighter is getting paid, the cash is coming out of somebody’s wallet, namely, the fans.
I’ve done some research around social media sites to prove my point. I’ve noticed some high-level fighters who are champions of various organizations who have under 2,000 followers on Twitter. Really? I encourage fighters to get on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, blogs, forums (although you have to have thick skin for criticism), and don’t be afraid to talk about what you like to do. Nobody is ‘boring.’ Everybody has other things they like besides fighting. Promote yourself. UFC fighter Mike Pyle is passionate about fly fishing, and after he won his last fight, he said he couldn’t wait to take a break and go on a fishing trip. He even had a fishing TV program follow him and video him doing it.
It doesn’t even matter if everybody likes you or doesn’t like you – what matters is that they remember you. As Ronda Rousey said, “Hate me or love me, but please debate me.”
What do you think? Send me your opinions: basilisk875 (at) yahoo.com
By Roxanne Modafferi
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Intimidation alums Jessica Eye & Sara McMann face potential life-changing fights at UFC 170
January 13, 2014 by david
Intimidation Clothing‘s continued support of women’s MMA has been consistent throughout the brand’s history, and now with the recent growth and its inclusion in the UFC, Intimidation alums are being given the chance of a lifetime to compete on the world’s biggest stage. Two female Intimidation alums will be in action at UFC 170, which could be one of the biggest nights in women’s MMA history: Sara McMann will face Ronda Rousey for the UFC women’s bantamweight championship, and Jessica Eye faces Alexis Davis for a potential shot at the title somewhere down the line.
McMann (7-0) has sponsored by Intimidation during her unbeaten MMA career at a 2012 victory over Hitomi Akano at ProElite 3. The 2004 Olympic silver medalist wrestler also won the Invicta FC bantamweight championship. She made her UFC debut with a win over Sheila Gaff at UFC 159 last April.
Eye (11-1) has been one of the cornerstone fighters of the Intimidation brand, being sponsored throughout much of the early part of her pro career. The popular Ohio-based fighter has her own signature shirt from Intimidation in both men’s and women’s styles, and IntimiationClothing.com is also the home of her “Eye Believe” line. She competed mostly for the Intimidation-sponsored NAAFS organization prior to making her UFC debut, although she was also 3-0 under the Bellator MMA banner. Eye is set to take on Canadian Alexis Davis in the night’s featured preliminary bout.
Intimidation has long been a supporter of women’s MMA, sponsoring such fighters as Jessamyn Duke, former world title challenger Jan Finney, rising top-ranked amateur star Jessica Zomcik, and many more. Intimidation also recently released an exclusive “I Love #WMMA” tee last year to show even more support for Women’s MMA.
Intimidation Clothing is a fast-growing brand of lifestyle clothing & MMA training gear with a growing national presence and over 50 authorized dealers across the USA. Known as the biggest supporter of local MMA, the Intimidation brand is also regularly featured on multiple sporting events on SpikeTV, AXS TV, SportsTime Ohio, MTV2, FUEL TV, The Comcast Network, Comcast SportsNet and EpixHD as well as MMA highlight shows on Spike TV, AXS TV and more. In addition to over 110 styles of high-quality, bold t-shirts and sweatshirts for men, women and children and is also known for their premium-quality EliteFighter MMA board shorts. Anyone interested in becoming a dealer can apply to sell the Intimidation brand as a dealer and they can be found for sale online at IntimidationClothing.com. Fans can also follow the marketing wing of the Intimidation brand, Intimidation Interactive Media, @IntimidationIM, like Intimidation Clothing on Facebook or follow @IntimidationMMA on Twitter.
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Tuff-N-Uff Champion Jessica Zomcik to sign autographs at the Intimidation booth at NAAFS: Night of Champions 2013
December 4, 2013 by admin
Just days after winning the 2013 Tuff-N-Uff Women’s 145lb belt, newly-crowned champ Jessica “The Zombie” Zomcik will celebrate her win by signing autographs for fans at the Intimidation Clothing booth at NAAFS: Night of Champions 2013 this weekend in Akron, Ohio. A product of Evolve MMA in Medina, Ohio, Zomcik was ranked the #1 amateur female fighter at 145lbs in the world earlier this year prior to her 2-0 run for Tuff-N-Uff where she proved her ranking to be well-deserved. The win saw Zomcik join an impressive list of former Tuff-N-Uff women’s champions which includes UFC Champion Ronda Rousey and TUF 18 star and UFC bantamweight Jessamyn Duke. With a pro career on the horizon, Zomcik (9-3 amateur) is rumored to have already been contacted by multiple high profile organizations.
Originally from Erie, Pennsylvania, Zomcik made a name for herself in grappling and inside the cage as a member of Team DNA as she began her amateur career with a 5-3 record. However she took nearly two years off and moved to Ohio where she now trains with Evolve MMA and is undefeated since the move scoring four dominating wins inside the cage.
A 8-time NAAFS veteran, Zomcik posted back-to-back wins under the NAAFS banner in later 2012 and early 2013 and was featured in a piece on Fox 8 in Cleveland, Ohio earlier this year. The NAAFS, one of the most well-respected regional MMA promotions in the Midwest, has proven to be one of the most progressive MMA promotions in the world in terms of embracing and promoting women’s MMA.
An accomplished grappler, Zomcik is a regular at grappling tournaments across the region having competed in over 30 tournaments in the past few years while winning 24 of those events and placing 1st in both the NAGA and Grapplers Quest national tournaments. An athlete her entire life, Zomcik played football in high school and first girl in Pennsylvania’s District 10 to score in a high school football game. She later played on the Erie team in the women’s football league.
Intimidation Clothing is a fast-growing brand of lifestyle apparel & MMA training gear with a growing national presence and over 50 authorized dealers across the USA. Known as the biggest supporter of local MMA, the Intimidation brand is also regularly featured on multiple sporting events on SpikeTV, AXS TV, SportsTime Ohio, MTV2, FUEL TV, The Comcast Network, Comcast SportsNet and EpixHD as well as MMA highlight shows on Spike TV, AXS TV and more. In addition to over 110 styles of high-quality, bold t-shirts and sweatshirts for men, women and children and is also known for their premium-quality EliteFighter MMA board shorts. Anyone interested in becoming a dealer can apply to sell the Intimidation brand as a dealer and they can be found for sale online at IntimidationClothing.com. Fans can also follow the marketing wing of the Intimidation brand, Intimidation Interactive Media, @IntimidationIM, like Intimidation Clothing on Facebook or follow @IntimidationMMA on Twitter.
Weekend MMA Recap: Jessica Zomcik wins Tuff-N-Uff gold while Intimidation brand continues nationwide growth
Team Intimidation’s Jessica Zomcik to compete for Tuff-N-Uff featherweight title in Las Vegas, Nevada
Intimidation partners with Evolve MMA to release custom co-branded fight team tees
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Intimidation Clothing moved through the holiday weekend and into the first weekend of December with one of the most successful weekends in recent memory, including two fighters winning high profile fights and a successful event in the Steel City.
At Pinnacle FC’s “Pittsburgh Challenge Series 5” just outside of the Steel City, Intimidation Clothing served as an event sponsor and was on hand selling its popular brand of t-shirts, hats, hoodies, fight shorts, and more. With a continued focus on the Pittsburgh market, Intimidation also had Team Intimidation unbeaten pro fighter Mark “The Pride of Bloomfield” Cherico signing autographs at its official booth.
At the Pinnacle FC event, Intimidation also sponsored the winning of the evening’s main event, as TUF 16 veteran Julian “Night Train” Lane (6-3-1) took home a unanimous decision victory over Joey Holt (3-1). Lane now has some momentum with his sixth career victory and a 2-1-1 record in his last four outings.
At the Tuff-N-Uff event in Las Vegas on Friday, Team Intimidation’s Jessica Zomcik (9-3) closed out her amateur career by winning the organization’s 145-pound title with a second round TKO victory over Shannon Reed (2-2). The wins sees Zomcik joins an impressive list of former Tuff-N-Uff women’s champions including Rondy Rousey and Jessamyn Duke. Zomcik is now planning to make her professional debut sometime in 2014 and has already been contacted by multiple high profile organizations as she is currently ranked as the #1 amateur female featherweight in the world.
Intimidation Clothing continues the grind as the biggest supporter of Local MMA this weekend with events sponsored in Buffalo, New York as well as both Akron and Fredericktown, Ohio, in the USA and a MMA event in Essex, England. Meanwhile, on December 13th Intimidation will sponsor MMA events in Erie, Pennsylvania and the live televised XFC 27 event in Muskegon, Michigan.
Intimidation to sponsor TUF 16 vet Julian “Night Train” Lane in main event at Pinnacle FC on November 27th
Unbeaten top prospect Mark Cherico to sign autographs at the Intimidation booth at Pinnacle FC’s Pittsburgh Challenge Series 5 in Canonsburg, PA
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November 5, 2013 by david
One of Team Intimidation’s top featured amateur fighters is set to compete for a title, as Jessica Zomcik will travel to Las Vegas on November 29th to compete for the Tuff-N-Uff featherweight title. Zomcik (8-3) is set to take on Shannon Reed (2-1) in the finals of a 145-pound tournament for the organization’s title.
Zomcik posted back-to-back wins under the NAAFS banner in Northeast Ohio near her training home at Evolve MMA in Medina and was recently featured in a piece on Fox 8 in Cleveland, Ohio. Then, she submitted Bryanna Fissori with an arm bar in the second round of her Tuff-N-Uff debut in September.
Originally from Erie, Pennsylvania, Zomcik made a name for herself in grappling and inside the cage as a member of Team DNA as she began her amateur career with a 5-3 record. However she took nearly two years off and moved to Ohio where she now trains with Evolve MMA and has since scored three dominating wins inside the cage. Recently she was ranked #1 in the amateur female MMA rankings in the 145lb division by Non Stop WMMA. During her nearly 5 years competing inside the cage, Zomcik has fought 8 times for the highly-respect NAAFS, one of the most progressive MMA promotions in the world in terms of embracing and promoting women’s MMA. She has fought many of the best female fighters in her weight class including two bouts with undefeated, Top 10 ranked pro and Intimidation sponsored Tamikka Brents (2-0 pro, 8-0-1 amateur). To put things into perspective, Zomcik’s last five opponents have a combined amateur record of 28-7.
Known as one of the top regional promotions in the country, Tuff-N-Uff has produced elite fighters, including current UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey, former UFC title challenger Jon Fitch, Roger Huerta, Shonie Carter, and more. The Tuff-N-Uff organization boasts Rousey and TUF 18 star Jessamyn Duke as former amateur champions. The November 29 event takes place at Orleans Hotel and Casino and will stream live via UStream.com.
Intimidation Clothing is a fast-growing brand of lifestyle apparel & MMA training gear with a growing national presence and over 50 authorized dealers across the USA. The Intimidation brand is regularly featured on multiple sporting events on FOX, SpikeTV, AXS TV, SportsTime Ohio, MTV2, FUEL TV, The Comcast Network, Comcast SportsNet and EpixHD as well as MMA highlight shows on Spike TV, AXS TV and more. In addition to over 110 styles of high-quality, bold t-shirts and sweatshirts for men, women and children the brand is well known for their popular Vintage Series, Local MMA t-shirts, I Love #WMMA and Intimidate Cancer lines of merchandise. Anyone interested can become a dealer by applying to sell the Intimidation brand which is also available for sale online at IntimidationClothing.com. Fans can also follow the marketing wing of the Intimidation brand, Intimidation Interactive Media, @IntimidationIM, like Intimidation Clothing on Facebook or follow @IntimidationMMA on Twitter.
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Intimidation Clothing’s Jessamyn Duke signature shirt named one of best in women’s MMA
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Intimidation Clothing’s signature shirt for Jessamyn Duke has been named the fifth-best signature shirt in women’s MMA, according to Examiner.com. The shirt is listed with signature shirts from some of the top WMMA stars, including Carla Esparza, Michelle Ould, Bec Hyatt, Ronda Rousey, Miesha Tate, and Liz Carmouche.
Duke is currently competing for Team Rousey on The Ultimate Fighter 18, where she made it to the quarterfinals of the first season to ever feature female fighters. The Jessamyn “The Gun” Duke men’s shirt features two guns on the front symbolizing her nickname with “DUKE” across the top of the back with her signature below. The Jessamyn Duke women’s shirt is a white shirt with purple printing featuring a gun with Jessamyn’s picture visible in the outline of the gun. Intimidation’s iconic shield logo appears on a sleeve on both the men’s and women’s styles. The release of the Jessamyn Duke signature shirts made Duke just the second female fighter to have her own signature tees from Intimidation Clothing joining UFC bantamweight Jessica “Evil” Eye. Intimidation reserves signature shirts exclusively for championship level professional fighters.
The writeup on the shirt from Examiner.com:
Jessamyn “The Gun” Duke has a signature t-shirt available at IntimidationClothing.com.
Fight fans should get them now while they are still available, before Duke becomes a household name.
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Intimidation Clothing to release new “I Love #WMMA” tees showing continued support for Women’s MMA
October 9, 2013 by david
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Intimidation Clothing is pleased to announce the official release of its “I Love #WMMA” tees, available in both men’s and women’s styles. As a longtime supporter of women’s MMA, Intimidation is pleased to be a part of the recent boom in popularity for the “softer” side of mixed martial arts competition.
Intimidation has long been a supporter of WMMA, including sponsoring multiple top fighters like current UFC stars Jessica “Evil” Eye & Sara McMann, current star on The Ultimate Fighter 18 Jessamyn “The Gun” Duke (pictured, right, with UFC Champion Ronda Rousey), former world title challenger Jan Finney, and many more. In addition, Intimidation has sponsored many of the top promotions who have historically supported women’s MMA the strongest including the NAAFS, HookNShoot, Absolute Action MMA and more. Intimidation Clothing was also a title sponsor for Ohio’s first all-female MMA event, NAAFS: Eve of Destruction, which was held in September 2010.
Available in a 100% cotton white men’s tee and a ultra soft cotton/poly blend women’s tee in heather gray, the new shirts will be ready to ship by late October and are currently available for pre-order at IntimidationClothing.com using the links below.
Men’s white I Love Women’s MMA tee
Women’s heather gray I Love Women’s MMA tee
Intimidation Clothing is a fast-growing brand of lifestyle apparel & MMA training gear with a growing national presence and over 50 authorized dealers across the USA. The Intimidation brand is regularly featured on multiple sporting events on SpikeTV, AXS TV, SportsTime Ohio, MTV2, FUEL TV, The Comcast Network, Comcast SportsNet and EpixHD as well as MMA highlight shows on Spike TV, AXS TV and more. In addition to over 110 styles of high-quality, bold t-shirts and sweatshirts for men, women and children the brand is well known for their popular Vintage Series, Local MMA t-shirts and Intimidate Cancer lines of merchandise. Anyone interested can become a dealer by applying to sell the Intimidation brand which is also available for sale online at IntimidationClothing.com. Fans can also follow the marketing wing of the Intimidation brand, Intimidation Interactive Media, @IntimidationIM, like Intimidation Clothing on Facebook or follow @IntimidationMMA on Twitter.
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Intimidation sponsored Jessamyn “The Gun” Duke stands out on TUF 18
September 11, 2013 by david
Team Intimidation sponsored fighter Jessamyn “The Gun” Duke (2-0) is becoming a standout star during her time on “The Ultimate Fighter 18,” which is currently airing Wednesdays on Fox Sports 1. After becoming the first-ever female to officially make her way onto a cast of TUF, Duke was picked to be on UFC women’s champion Ronda Rousey’s team of four female and four male bantamweight fighters.
Duke is expected to compete in her quarterfinal match-up in the coming weeks, where she will look to earn a chance to move onto the semifinals and be one step closer to her chance at competing in the UFC.
Intimidation also recently released a signature shirt for Duke, becoming just the second woman in company history to have her own signature shirt. The shirt is available in unique men’s and women’s styles.
Duke earned her way into ‘the house’ with a first round submission via triangle choke over Laura Holdsworth on last week’s debut episode, and you can view the fight embedded below.
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Intimidation to release Jessamyn “The Gun” Duke men’s & women’s signature shirts, pre-orders underway
August 30, 2013 by david
Filed under Featured Products, Fighter Sponsorships, News, Sponsorships
Intimidation Clothing is pleased to announce the release of the official Jessamyn “The Gun” Duke signature shirts, which are now available for pre-order. Available in two different styles, one for men and another for the ladies, the signature shirts come on the heels of the announcement that Duke will compete on the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter 18. With the addition of the two signature shirt styles Jessamyn Duke joins an exclusive list of top-tier fighters with signature tees from Intimidation which includes UFC Hall-of-Famer Ken Shamrock, Bellator Middlweweight Brian Rogers, UFC vets Jason Dent, Forrest Petz and more.
The Jessamyn “The Gun” Duke men’s shirt features two guns on the front symbolizing her nickname with “DUKE” across the top of the back with her signature below. The Jessamyn Duke women’s shirt will be a white shirt with purple printing featuring a gun with Jessamyn’s picture visible in the outline of the gun. Intimidation’s iconic shield logo will be on a sleeve on both the men’s and women’s styles.
In addition to ordering their Jessamyn Duke shirts online from IntimidationClothing.com, fans can also support of Duke by attending a viewing party for the premiere of TUF 18, which the popular Intimidation-sponsored BluegrassMMA news site recently wrote about:
Last night on ProWMMA Now! Jessamyn Duke returned to the program ahead of next week’s The Ultimate Fighter Season 18 premiere to chat with Gina and Emily. Now that the season is over and it is time for the world to see what happened behind closed doors with camera’s rolling, “The Gun” will celebrating the premiere at Buffalo Wild Wings in Richmond.
Jessamyn will be taking pictures with fans, signing autographs and giving away some items. There will be shirts from Intimidation Clothing, a sponsor of Duke. There will be tickets to Bluegrass Brawl 9 and Hardrock MMA up for grabs as well as shirts from our friends at Bangtown Fightwear. The show, which airs on FOX Sports 1, will start at 10.
We will be there hanging out with all the folks and delivering interviews with Jessamyn and her teammates as the world gets introduced to Duke on national TV. Buffalo Wild Wings is located at 2139 Lantern Ridge Dr Ste 100 Richmond, KY so be sure to come out and support your local fighter!
Duke (2-0), a Kentucky native, has the honor of being on the first season of the UFC’s prospect-driven series to include female fighters. Along with including female fighters, UFC women’s champion Ronda Rousey and No. 1 contender Miesha Tate will serve as coaches prior to squaring off for Rousey’s title at the conclusion of the season.
The 27-year-old Duke has been heavily rumored to be part of the cast since the show was announced. She attended tryouts in Las Vegas in the Spring, following her first career loss (which was overturned to a no contest when it was deemed that an illegal knee was used) at Invicta FC 5 on April 5th. Her first two wins as a pro came via stoppage, and she posted a 5-2 amateur record from 2010-2012.
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WHO launches global alert to new cases of resistant malaria
The growing resistance to artemisinin may compromise efforts to control and eliminate the disease
Foto: UN Photo/Tobin Jones
Child receives treatment for malaria. WHO stresses that are needed $ 450 million over three years to combat the disease.
The World Health Organization (WHO) launches global alert against new cases of malaria resistant to artemisinin. The drug is the major component of treatment for malaria and was responsible for recent successes in reducing global cases.
The drug resistance, according to the WHO, may jeopardize the progress in the control and elimination of malaria. The first resistant cases were observed on the border between Cambodia and Thailand in 2008. Now, were also found in Myanmar and Vietnam.
According to the agency, "The resistance to artemisinin arise elsewhere, the" global health consequences can be severe. "
The WHO stresses that are needed $ 450 million over the next three years to combat malaria. The disease is endemic in 10 countries in the Western Pacific, including Cambodia, China, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea and Vietnam.
Meeting in the Philippine capital Manila, the Regional Committee of WHO is urging governments to capitalize on the political commitment to respond to combat malaria. The meeting highlights the unequal access to health systems, particularly the most vulnerable and the need to consolidate actions beyond the health sector, including trade, labor, immigration and agriculture.
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Home Uncategorized Aruba announced as official partner of Team Ducati for 2019 MotoGP World...
Aruba announced as official partner of Team Ducati for 2019 MotoGP World Championship
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London, 30 April 2019 – Aruba.it (www.aruba.it), part of Aruba S.p.A, a leader in data centre, cloud and web hosting services is joining up with the Mission Winnow Ducati team as Official Partner in the 2019 MotoGP World Championship that heads to Jerez de la Frontera in Spain on May 5th for the fourth round of the season, the Spanish Grand Prix.
The Aruba.it logo, which is on the racing leathers of factory riders Andrea Dovizioso and Danilo Petrucci, will be visible in all 19 rounds of the MotoGP championship. The partnership reflects the values that inspire Aruba in the development of its IT portfolio – innovation, speed, security and reliability – sharing with Ducati Corse a strong commitment to technical research that is reflected in the extremely high quality of its products and in its all-Italian passion.
It also confirms the increasing depth of relationship between Aruba and Ducati. Along with the MotoGP partnership, there is also another partnership in the Superbike World Championship with the Aruba.it Racing – Ducati team, a partnership that is now in its fifth successive season. This year, the Aruba.it racing team is spearheaded by Chaz Davies, who joined the team at the beginning of the partnership, and Álvaro Bautista, who recently set a new record at the race weekend at Aragon with 11 wins out of 11. The Aragón Round was an extraordinary weekend for the Aruba.it team and for Ducati itself, which celebrated its 350th victory in the Superbike World Championship.
“We are very excited that our partnership with Aruba.it this year has been extended to the MotoGP championship. Our two companies share the same values of technology and innovation, and the presence of the Aruba.it logo on the leathers of Andrea Dovizioso and Danilo Petrucci helps to seal, in an important way, the strong and consolidated ties between us that have lasted for five years with mutual satisfaction,” said Luigi Dall’Igna, Ducati Corse General Manager.
According to Stefano Cecconi, CEO of Aruba and Team Principal of the Aruba.it Racing – Ducati team, “This perfect alchemy would not have been possible without a common vision, which stems from the continuous search for the best performance and the maximum attention to security. The visibility that comes with a partnership with Ducati in MotoGP provides opportunities to penetrate new markets, and make the ‘Made in Italy’ brand stronger in the technology landscape.”
About Aruba S.p.A.
Aruba S.p.A. was founded in 1994. The Italian Group Aruba S.p.A. has established leadership status in a number of countries for its hosting, certified email and domain name registration services. The company has also acquired over 15 years’ experience in data centre construction and management, dedicated server solutions, outsourcing and cloud computing.
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Bronze Vessels and Oracle Bones in Ancient China
Bronze Vessels and Oracle Bones
Most people during the Shang dynasty lived in small farming villages. The farmers grew grain, kept chickens and pigs, and raised silkworms for silk cloth. Craftworkers made bronze tools, weapons, and beautiful vessels used for rituals. A ritual is a set way of conducting a ceremony.
The Shang people used bronze ritual vessels in ceremonies to honor their ancestors who had died. Ancestors are relatives further back than grandparents. Because of the importance of the rituals, the Shang devoted much skill, energy, and time to making bronze ritual vessels. Sometimes the maker of a bronze vessel would carve an inscription into it that told who made it and which ancestor it honored. Such inscriptions are among the earliest examples of Chinese writing.
The ancient Chinese worshipped their ancestors and several gods. Ancestors were worshipped because they were thought to be very wise and able to guide the lives of the living. Most of the gods Shang people worshipped were nature gods. The Shang prayed to the gods of wind, rain, and fire, as well as to the gods of directions—north, south, east, and west. The chief god of the Shang was called Shang Di, which means "God-on-High." This god's name suggests that the people believed he lived in the sky and oversaw everything they did.
The ancient Shang thought that their ancestors could communicate with the
gods. Ancestors were asked to encourage the powerful gods of nature to be kind to humankind. The Shang feared that angry gods might bring disasters, diseases, or enemy attacks.
Shang kings would often ask their ancestors for advice on a wide variety of subjects. To learn the answers to his questions, the king needed the help of a diviner. A diviner was a person who, it was believed, could communicate with the spirits of the dead.
The diviner would lay out animal bones or turtle shells. Then, the diviner would touch the bones or shells with hot metal sticks. The heat caused cracks to form on the bones and shells. The diviner then gave the bones and shells to the king. The Shang king "read" the cracks to find out the answers to his questions.
Lady Hao (About 1250 B.C.)
Much of the information we have about the Shang people comes from their tombs. Unfortunately, most Shang tombs were robbed before they were discovered by archaeologists. The only royal Shang tomb not robbed before its discovery is Lady Hao’s tomb. It contained over 460 bronze objects and several sculptures in jade and ivory.
Little is known about Lady Hao. Some researchers believe she is mentioned in oracle bone inscriptions of the time as a wife of the king Wu Ding. According to these inscriptions, Lady Hao handled certain rituals and managed an estate outside the capital. She also led military campaigns once with more than 13,000 soldiers.
The Legend of Silk
Silk has long been used in China to weave beautiful clothing, fine ribbons, and colorful decorations. A legend tells that the Chinese discovered silk in 2700 B.C., when Xilingshi (SEE»LING»SHIR), a ruler's wife, noticed worms eating a prized mulberry tree. She took a cocoon spun by a worm, dropped it into hot water and watched the thread unwind. Xilingshi then used the thread to weave a beautiful piece of cloth. No one knows whether this story is true or false, but silk has been produced throughout the Huang He Valley since the time of the Shang and probably earlier.
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Horizons Annual Plan consultation opens
25 February 2019, 2:24 p.m.
Consultation for Horizons Regional Council’s proposed 2019-29 Annual Plan opens today, with the public invited to have their say before 25 March.
The proposed Annual Plan sets out how Council intends to manage the region’s land, air and water resources over the next year. This includes planned work programmes and activities and what rate contributions will be required to help cover the proposed cost.
Horizons chair Bruce Gordon says last year Council embarked on a very comprehensive Long-term Plan for 2018-28, which detailed a 4.72 per cent average rate increase for Year 2 (2019-20).
“While we are proposing to maintain the planned rate increase, we have had some unexpected costs arise - including a $300,000 increase in insurance expenses which we will cover through a few changes to our programmes of work for this upcoming year.”
Mr Gordon says it’s important to note that rates will differ district by district due to factors such as property valuations and targeted rates for programmes such as river management schemes and passenger transport.
“We appreciate that any rate increase isn’t ideal and that is why we have compiled a consultation document to help highlight what some of the key items are for 2019-20. Predominately planned work for Year 2 is business as usual with minimal increase in costs, however we are proposing to make some rating changes to the Haunui, Foxton and Makirikiri river management schemes.”
Mr Gordon says in addition to the consultation document sent to all households in the region, those affected by these proposed rating changes have been sent direct mail with further information.
“We are also holding a drop in session for Foxton ratepayers on Monday 11 March at 1.30pm. This was originally planned to take place in Levin and has since been changed to Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom in Foxton.”
Submissions to Horizons 2019-20 Annual Plan close on 25 March 2019. The consultation document and further supporting documentation is available online and from Horizons’ service centres. Submission forms are also available online and will be delivered to letterboxes throughout the region this week.
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Hackers Cripple Small Businesses
Hackers are expanding their sites beyond big companies to include any business that stores data in electronic form. For small businesses, the impact could be crippling. Geoffrey Fowler reports for the Wall Street Journal:
Unbeknownst to owner Joe Angelastri, cyber thieves planted a software program on the cash registers at his two Chicago-area magazine shops that sent customer credit-card numbers to Russia. MasterCard Inc. demanded an investigation, at Mr. Angelastri's expense, and the whole ordeal left him out about $22,000.
Clayton Hauck for The Wall Street JournalJoe Angelastri, owner of City Newsstand in the Chicago area, is out $22,000 because cyber hackers attacked his stores' payment system.
His experience highlights a growing threat to small businesses. Hackers are expanding their sights beyond multinationals to include any business that stores data in electronic form. Small companies, which are making the leap to computerized systems and digital records, have now become hackers' main target.
"Who would want to break into us?" asked Mr. Angelastri, who says the breach cut his annual profit in half. "We're not running a bank."
With limited budgets and few or no technical experts on staff, small businesses generally have weak security. Cyber criminals have taken notice. In 2010, the U.S. Secret Service and Verizon Communications Inc.'s forensic analysis unit, which investigates attacks, responded to a combined 761 data breaches, up from 141 in 2009. Of those, 482, or 63%, were at companies with 100 employees or fewer. Visa Inc. estimates about 95% of the credit-card data breaches it discovers are on its smallest business customers.
Hacking at small businesses "is a prolific problem," says Dean Kinsman, a special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's cyber division, which has more than 400 active investigations into these crimes. "It's going to get much worse before it gets better."
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• Private keys are used for decryption and will not be provided to anyone outside of First Data. First Data will own the public private key pairs for this service.
How do merchants handle returns with First Data TransArmorTM?
– Processing returns with First Data TransArmorTM will follow the same procedures that a merchant uses today to process a return. In most instances, the card will simply be swiped through or key entered into the POS device. The data will be immediately encrypted until it is sent to First Data for processing. When it is sent to First Data, it will be decrypted and tokenized. The token will be delivered to the merchant and the financial transaction will be processed through the First Data system.
Will there be any changes to the PAN/cardholder detail in ClientLine?
– At this time there are no changes to the PAN visibility in ClientLine, the users default to seeing the cardholder number masked in all placed EXCEPT the lowest level of detail where the full 16-digit PAN is available.
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Food Vendors: Hero’s Hotdogs and Taco My “Fren” have fantastic food to offer you each night. It will be hard to choose between 1/4 lb. Beef Hotdogs, Pulled Pork, Smashburgers, Tacos, Quesadillas and more! Both vendors give back to support Arts in the Park.
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Wednesday Evenings, June 5 – August 7, at 7pm – The La Porte City Band performs 10 Wednesday concerts
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HomeMovieGaane Ki Aane : Zubeen Garg’s life on celluloid
Gaane Ki Aane : Zubeen Garg’s life on celluloid
Pranjal Borah October 26, 2014
Music sensation Zubeen Garg's life is all set to be captured on reel. The biopic is called Gaane Ki Aane and is directed by Bollywood Director Rajesh Jashpal. The story of film revolves around the real life of Zubeen Garg and it has many similarities with him. Director Rajesh Yashpal earlier directs many popular Hindi serials like ‘Kusum’, ‘Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’, ‘Saat Vachan Saat Phere’, etc.
Gaane Ki Aane is produced by Mumbai–based established Assamese sound recordist–designer Gautam Chakravorty, cultural activist Sunil Gogoi and Rajesh Yashpal, under the banner of Raga Films, Mumbai. The Story and script are written by director Jashpal himself and Ibson Lal Barua has done the Assamese adaptation of it. Apart from Zubeen who is playing main role, the other casts of the film are Parineeta Borthakur, Nipon Goswami, Hiranya Deka, Rimpi Das, Rina Bora, Himagni Gogoi etc.
The music of Gaane Ki Aane is composed by Zubeen Garg himself. Popular singers like Zublee, Parineeta, Mahalaxmi, Anindita Paul have rendered their voice to the soulful tunes of Zubeen. Cinematography is by Pradip Daimari and publicity design by Dreamz features. As per information received recently, shooting completed successfully and editing cum dubbing is going on in Mumbai. The film is expected to release on this winter.
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Laser Time – The Perfect Score
September 30, 2014 September 30, 2014 C.Ant
Game reviews are stupid, except when they’re not. The Laser Time gang takes a look back at their highest review scores to see how they stack up today…
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53 thoughts on “Laser Time – The Perfect Score”
Flori000 says:
“Absolutely perfect 0.1/10” – IGN
ultimatepunchrod says:
I wonder if they’ll bring up Mikel’s 10/10 for AC 1.
I’d be surprised if they didn’t. haha
IAmARobotWhoTurnsIntoATruckAndIFindNoLevityInThis says:
This should be pretty interesting.
Technology marches on.
I actually really like Sleepy Hollow….
Jzilla989 says:
Me too lol.
The artist formely known as Keeper XIII says:
Ah ah, Zune!
BladedFalcon says:
Oooooh! This sounds like an awesome topic! Can’t wait to listen! 😀
Brett: “We had a rocky first 2 years when we had that reputation at GR of being just listicles and babes articles and all that kind of stuff.”
This comment made me really sad… Because while the “babes articles” certainly no longer applies, the “listicle” part is actually more true now for the site than never before, which 70% of the content written there anymore seems to be lists of one kind or another.
And this is not to say that I no longer enjoy the site anymore, still very much do and visit. But Brett reminding me of the days of the “Super Reviews” and those very free form editorials has made me feel very nostalgic, and realize that GR really was at it best when it tried those stuff, and it’s just sad to realize that it can no longer afford to be that anymore 🙁
And guys… Uh, IGN has given a LOT of 100 scores in their lifetime, and even though nowadays they changed their scoring system to the 10 scale, it’s obvious that a lot of theses games came out back when they used the 100 scale:
http://www.ign.com/games/reviews?score=10
C.Ant says:
Well, at least all those 10s all seem pretty justifi-WHAT THE HELL IS TORNADO MANIA?!
Haha, yeah XD
And don’t forget also timeless classics like Magical Tetris Challenge, or Chekered Flag and Shanghai for the super popular and ever important Atari Lynx!
Obviouslyadouche says:
Holy fuck me I forgot about super reviews, god do I miss them. Even though it was kind of silly I loved the is it better then part.
10,000 Broomsticks says:
Love the episode! I got two quick ESPN style hot takes:
1. Chris, stop apologizing for giving us great content. We know you put a lot of effort into the shows, don’t dwell on stuff so much, you and the whole LaserTime crew are awesome!
2. I love the amount of knowledge he brings to the table, but Hank “The Mothergrabbin’ Tank” Gilbert needs to relax a little. He doesn’t have to comment on things he feels are too sensitive, but that shouldn’t hold other people back if they want to address something for themselves. I should also say I love Cape Crisis and Henry the best when he shows his passion openly.
TheOneGuyInNebraskaWhoStillListensToThis says:
As someone who recently replayed uncharted 2, I have to strongly disagree with Chris, Uncharted is still super fun
I have barely gotten to the first break of this episode, I feel ready to call it one of my favorite episodes in this entire network, or at the very least of this year. That conversation you guys had was so honest and down to earth, that it really made me stop and think, and evaluate my own ways of reacting to this medium.
I know it’s easy to just reply with silly shit and joke about stuff. But this time, seriously guys, thank you for being who you are, and to just express your opinions like this, and for all the work you’ve put into this medium that I love. I know at one point or another I might have said abrasive or confrontational shit to you, but never from a place of hate, and I’m sorry if I’ve ever made any of you feel bad, and certainly hope I’m not the cause of any of you feeling more defensive or sensitive int his current climate. Despite me acting like an idiot sometimes, I really appreciate and love this network. Never stop being the way you are.
FlailingKermit says:
I have to echo every single one of these sentiments. I’m currently a Jawrnalism Major and I really took everything that you guys have said about the subject to heart. I’ve been following you guys back since the days of T-Dar and you guys have always been a genuine voice of reason in the world of vidjagame jawrnalism. I loved this episode and it’s another example of how in this period of negative press and vitriol towards and from the games industry, Lasertime is one of the sole places on the Internet that’s about love, acceptance, and constructive reasoning, but still jokes about farts and cartoons.
Moan4stallone says:
Cant wait to listen to it once I’m done reviewing WEE studios reboot of the Leprechaun franchise. I remember as a kid I would write fake reviews for my games(80s) and remember thinking Aero the Acrobat for my super nes was the halo 2 of its time. Thanks for reminding me of that found childhood memory Chris.
bobob101 says:
If I can try and add something constructive, I want to give my opinion on the whole review debate. I think that the reason many people will rage about review scores is that they don’t like the idea of a negative review dissuading people to buy a game, and that the games lack of success may be attributed to a low review. For instance, I love the Borderlands series a lot. I get to a state of near arousal when I find a rare gun with high stats. So yes, when someone like Tyler says he doesn’t like that formula, or that it isn’t fun I do feel a prick inside. I understand it is silly, but I still feel that way.
Or branching out from that, I am a huge anime fan. I know that the hosts of this podcast are not anime fans. I understand that you enjoy poking fun at the tropes of the medium (anime is not a genre) and there is a lot of shitty anime. But I still feel irritated when Chris makes fun of Weeaboos or Diane says she hates all anime universally. It comes down to that I love this stuff, and I don’t want your words to keep others from loving it. And I value the weight of your words because you are published as a Journaologyist. I think that stating a person’s peace calmly is the best, but I had to spend 3 minutes thinking this post out. Someone who wants to say how they feel after thinking for 20 seconds will often resort to RAGE!!!
PS: You really aren’t going to mention FF XIII? I know none of you guys reviewed it, but with this topic you really should have mentioned it.
Next to Halo fans, you anime folks are the quickest to get butt hurt! Lest we forget which LT host got everyone to watch Attack on Titan?!
I make fun of things I love all the time. Just because we rib something you like doesn’t mean we don’t like you!
Well, at least Chris admitted he was being a cunt.
Also, Henry being surprisingly based in this one
I admitted nothing of the sort. And if you listen closely, I specifically call you a cunt throughout the entirety of the episode. Seriously, play it backwards!
I might have misinterpreted what you said during the break as realizing you’ve been complaining about this shit way too much.
DarthEnderX says:
Fun episode. For all the hot topics they brought up, the only thing that managed to piss me off was Chris once again trying to convince people that stories don’t matter in video games.
You have to remember that Chris and them grew up during a time where games were never about stories, therefore he is more inclined to gravitate towards pure gameplay. This generation of gamers have grown up expecting games to have film-worthy stories, which is the basis behind where we judge games. And Chris isn’t necessarily saying that stories DON’T matter, he’s saying that it doesn’t matter if a game doesn’t have an amazing story, as long as the gameplay makes the game worth playing. There are other more important factors into reviewing and judging games. This is the point that Henry was trying to convey when he argued that Super Mario Galaxy 2 was a 10/10.
What Kermit said. Story is not all that important to a game, because that’s not really what a game is. For example, try and imagine an ending so crazy, out-of-nowhere amazing that it would make a 20 hour slog of repetitive play and garbage mechanics worthwhile. That doesn’t really exist, and you certainly wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. Not sincerely. However, the opposite is completely true. Solid gameplay can easily compensate for a bad/lack of story. That happens all the time.
Story is incredibly important to me, so believe me when I say that most of what we see of that in games would translate into the worst movie/comic/anime you’ve ever seen/read/fapped to.
The worst Chuck Norris movie + an ADV 90s VHS English dub = Game Story.
Compelling plots, convincing characters, and believable worlds are narrative devices games are making great strides in all the time, but pacing issues and atrocious actors prevent 95% percent of the medium from achieving anything close to great storytelling. And that’s okay, there are better mediums for that.
MIS0JI says:
First of all, I want to thank you guys sincerely for actually expressing well-thought-out and nuanced opinions instead of the usual silly shit. It really gives context to the borderline rhetoric you’ve been talking recently.
The only issue I really take with the entire discussion before the break was when Chris said he didn’t understand why people talking about gamergate care more about the discussion than looking like a sexist. I just wanted to point out that I seriously doubt he’d levy such a criticism against Muslims with ISIS or feminists with #killallmen in that same regard. I think that unwillingness to recognize the gradient of people behind the same issue doesn’t constitute a good reason to dismiss the entire thing.
I don’t care for that analogy one bit. And not just because it barely makes sense! No, mostly because your example groups at least have legitimate issues, whereas it’s a lot harder to sympathize with even the most polite mob demanding a senate hearing every time Halo gets an 8. <---lol btw
Lol, indeed. I can say I’m with you in that regard, that’s stupid shit. That’s also not really my impression of what it’s all about. But I’m not going to sit here and tell you it’s entirly not about that. A lot of people are just a bunch of shit heads, especiqally the people engaging in harassment. I’ll even give it to you that the Zoey Quinn debacle which sparked this whole thing is very questionable, all anyone can say for sure is that nobody knows what really happened.
My humble interpretation of the current state of the majority of the voice of gamergate is outcry against widespread (I’m not going to say coordinated, but I am suspicious) smear campaigns against the identity of gamer, outrage over the leaked messages from the GameJournoPros email group (and these are people describing themselves as journalists, I’m not one of the people who wants to force the name of journalism on enthusiast press), and among a smaller but still significant group of people involved in the discussion is the ridiculous “sides” bullshit like Henry mentioned.
Lord English says:
Lovely episode but I think Chris forgot about Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit which he raved nonstop on TalkRadar and very unabashedly gave it a 10? Unless I missed it somehow, this is what I get for listening to podcasts at 7am.
DAMN! Right you is, totally for got about that! So that’s THREE 10s I’ve given in my lifetime. Factoring in the corruption, it’s a wonder I’m not rich!
Another reason people bitch so much about scores is they are online and not face to face. The internet has given a voice to everyone now. I blame that.
Stabby Joe says:
Great episode, it’s interesting reflecting on past games, getting into the mindset of the time they were released.
While the topic has been brought up a lot recently, Destiny seems like a game that I would hope does well long term because it’s a game I could be more interested in if I can see more of an indication of it evolving IE knee-jerk reaction reviews not being relevant to me for now.
That being said, since Hyrule Warriors also came up, it would be fair to say I could be lumped in with some of what Chris was saying, but I never want to be “that guy” in the comments section. I was only taken aback by the line about it somehow being “offensive”, everything else said was not an issue, you’re were perfectly valid in your disappointment. Basically it was about delivery at that moment in time, heck your stream of the game was great even if you did not enjoy it. Seriously, no hard feelings if any were brought up.
Daruniah says:
Just wanna say that we lost Jenn Frank and Mattie Brice to that gamergate bullshit. Think on that!
We should be overjoyed that we still have Leigh Alexander you awful fucks!
I would be a horrible game reviewer. I find online multiplayer FPS gameplay to be boring and repetitive at best. Because I don’t like online multiplayer FPS games, Titanfall would probably get a 2 or 3 if I had to review it. It would be hard for me to objectively review anything.
Smars says:
this is an interesting argument.
honestly, I’m surprised people even still care about scores or ratings on games anymore, I can’t remember the last time I paid attention to a review score.
I also really like and prefer video coverage to text based coverage.
I actually like hearing someone talking about things I like or am interested in versus reading a dissertation on some pop culture element.
This is the internet, not a newspaper, everyone who has something to say should take 100% advantage of the ability to be visually compelling, engaging and entertaining.
its part of why twitch is so damn popular.
I also work at a computer all day and don’t have time to peel away and pour through a text wall, but I can totally listen to the audio while sneaking peeks at the video while I work. It helps pass the time.
the slight irony being that someone might have to slog through this long text reply when I could really sum it all up in a three minute video.
I actually enjoy listening to you guys more than reading what you’re thinking.
I’ve been spoiled since the tdar, what can I say.
SleepawayChamp says:
I liked the conversation of games journalism vs. news journalism. I finally quit a series of crap newspaper jobs last year. The stories could never become what they deserved because of constant deadlines, everyone you had to deal with professionally hated you and tried fucking with your ability to write and hardly anyone in your community cared or even read your finished articles. Your reward at the end of the day was a tiny-ass paycheck that barely paid your bills and the ability to *maybe* keep your job in an industry that was constantly laying off workers.
So, yeah, if any writers out there are given the choice between writing hard news or writing about fans being angry about The Legend of Zelda, choose the latter every single time.
I’m 20 minutes in the podcast but…
You don’t gaming websites just use a PROS/CONS list at end of the review instead of a score? Hell, put a little box over your usual “This game can be summed up as…” text that every review has at the end if you really want finality in your review.
It solves the score problem. It gives reviewers and readers a list of things right and wrong with the games and the summary at the end gives the readers… Well, a quick summary of the game.
I mean, c’mon Chris, isn’t that how you would review Destiny? Why doesn’t the gaming press use this type of format? Is there a big sector of websites afraid of losing revenue or afraid of looking like they’re all copying whatever website uses this system currently?
As long as the collective gaming press decides to keep themselves in the comfy world of score-giving, you’ll always get shit like that.
Then again, nothing really guarantees that even that won’t upset people, even if it answers every complaint about reviews.
Now that I’ve actually thought about this, yeah I guess people will just equate pros/cons = no score nonetheless. Anything more complicated than counting to 10 and people will stop looking at reviews.
DamesandBroads says:
The only thing I disagree with is that people are making symbols out of games like Uncharted, even Chris said everyone will have more fun with EDF, but what people forget is that in 2009 what Uncharted 2 did hadn’t been done by anyone before.
I totally agree. That’s why EDF got that score. You’re absolutely right about Uncharted 2. It was absolutely like nothing we’d seen before. But then we did. Every day, in almost every game, for half a decade. We kept seeing it done again and again until I forgot what made Uncharted special in the first place. Was the gameplay any good or was it just the presentation? And I swear, I honestly hate that I feel that way because it doesn’t seem fair to something so genuinely groundbreaking.
Kusabi says:
Gotta be honest, as someone who doesn’t take any sides in this retarded debate, while you gentleman haven’t encountered corruption of any kind in the industry, that doesn’t mean it factually doesn’t exist.
See: Jeff Gerstmann and Gamespot, Geoff Keighley and his infamous Doritos and Mountain Dew Halo 4 video and finally Lauren Wainright and her “affiliations” with and collusion with Square-Enix for positive Tomb Raider coverage (which by the way was confirmed straight from Square-Enix- use your Googles). You might notice I left out Zoe Quinn… that’s because after reading what she’s said and how she’s acted on Twitter, I don’t think HER situation was corruption- just an unfortunate series of events exasperated by idiot journalists that chose censorship over direct conversation, again use Google to find an email exchange on that.
I am not saying these minor instances of corruption are a direct causality of industry-wide corruption AND I am not saying that the way BOTH SIDES have handled this entire situation has been intelligently handled- just that EVERYBODY from BOTH SIDES should not have resorted to name calling and slander and censorship.
Other than that, I liked the episode and as for Henry’s fear of Doxing, most of those situations if not all of them were carried out with a Google search. Also we have some very smart people here- I have a feeling whoever doxed you would face the same wraith 😉
I always love when you guys look back at old reviews, so this should be a grand old time.
Sensationo says:
I loved this podcast, needed more Wrestling talk though… 7/10.
first, the whores! says:
Whew! you guys had me worried there for a bit
Handy says:
Really weird to see self-professed devil’s advocate Antista dig his heels in so far on gamergate.
Because this shit’s gotten too ugly. The internet’s cartoonish love of needless witch hunts is nearing an irreversible point where I feel like many otherwise kind people are doing and saying things any rational person would spend the rest of their lives apologizing for. Be careful about being the kind of asshole you can’t walk away from, folks.
archnite says:
I loved this episode so much, which is strange because I always hated the “Defending our credibility” segments on TalkRadar. How could a website dedicated to farts and R-Ape jokes ever be bought off? Too bad Mikel wasn’t on this episode what has he been doing?
Blackout1881 says:
Man, dudes are ganging up on Chris lately aren’t they? Anyway I liked the discussion in the first segment and I totally agree with you Chris especially about Destiny. Also as much as I love games and consider them a pretty big part of my life, these cynical people spouting non-sense about corruption and treating the games industry like it’s a damn political system make me embarrassed to be into this shit sometimes. In my mind it all comes down to acting like an adult. Adults don’t(or at least shouldn’t) whine about every single little thing they don’t like and act like they deserve to have everything they want.
I’ve always felt that the difference between a rational person and an irrational one when it comes to this kind of stuff is the ability to partake in something and say “it’s not for me”. That’s what a rational person does when they have the ability to recognize that everything doesn’t revolve around them. The irrational people like to act like every time they hate something then that automatically means it is objectively bad and anyone that likes said thing is suspect. Which pretty much describes all of Neogaf. I don’t know how many times I have seen the whole “this site gave this game I don’t like a 10 so clearly they are corrupt and shouldn’t be taken seriously”, like I said, it’s fucking embarrassing.
For the record I always loved what you guys said on one of the old GR’s forever ago about reviews. It was something along the lines of “you aren’t there to tell them why you like/don’t like it, you’re there to tell them why they might/might not like it”. It’s a shame more people aren’t mature enough to get that.
MrPuggsly says:
I bought Destiny hoping for a good story. Why? Bungie mislead people into believing it had a deep story like Halo.
Bungie also mislead us about the amount of content the game had. They said it was a game we would spend many hours on trying to do everything. Little did we know it was going to be about 8 hours of content done many times.
I don’t regret buying Destiny. But its a disappointing product, especially due to the hype by Bungie.
I suppose that depends on your definition of doing everything. I never assumed they meant do all new things for hours, I assumed that they were referring to post game progression stuff which is totally accurate. I knew from the get go that it was a Diablo style game which means playing the same content over and over to get loot, just like every other loot game. Hell it’s even got 4 large areas just like Diablo’s standard 4 Acts. The difference here is that Destiny plays insanely well as a proper shooter.
I have personally already logged in about 50 hours into the game. I NEVER fucking play a shooter that much. This damn game is already up to 6 OT’s on Neogaf. To compare, Dota 2 is at 7 I believe. Looking back at the actual things Bungie said, I don’t see anything misleading. They talked about wanting to create spaces for people to return to over and over and they even pretty much flat out said that narrative wise they wanted to leave a lot more mystery than anything else. I don’t personally believe that it was a good choice, I won’t actually call the story bad so much as say it doesn’t really fucking have one but it seems to have been their intention.
I think it’s clear that the game that they set out to make isn’t there yet, but I also think that they always planned on elaborating on the product post launch to get it there. I went in with certain expectations as well based off of Halo and the game disappointed me at first but after a while I started to feel like what they delivered was better than what I was actually expecting and has the potential to be something incredible in the future.
Can’t really blame people for being disappointed though. The message of what Destiny was was never very clear but I don’t think it’s fair to blame the game for being something that it never really intended to be.
FearlessRaven says:
This might be one of the best episodes you guys have ever put out, purely for the passion aspect. It also sums up why the critic industry is absolute shit these days, but at the same time proposes some pretty fine ideas on how to fix it. When episodes like this come out, where there’s clearly a lot of passion behind them, it really puts Laser Time in a position of standing out and up.
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US Video Game Industry Generated a Record $36 Billion in Revenue in 2017
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Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and The NPD Group report that:
In 2017 the US video game industry generated a record $36 billion in revenue
In 2016 The US video game industry generated $30.4 billion in revenue
2017 revenue increased by 5.6 billion up (18 percent) over 2016
2017 US video game Hardware (including peripherals) was $6.9 billion
2017 US video game Software (including in-game purchases and subscriptions) was $29.1 billion
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Unity Technologies and GDC Present the Unity 3D Game Art Challenge
Winners to receive passes to GDC 2018 and see their work showcased during the conference at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center in March
Unity Technologies (https://unity3d.com/), creator of the world’s most popular creation engine that reaches nearly three billion devices worldwide, and the Game Developers Conference (GDC) have partnered to curate and host an environmental 3D art contest for artists using Unity, with the winners to be displayed at a co-organized showcase during the Game Developers Conference, taking place March 19 through March 23, 2018 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. Free contest entry is now open at https://3dgameartchallenge.com/.
Organizers of the Unity 3D Game Art Challenge are looking for the most beautiful and skillfully-created 3D game environments created in Unity. The most spectacular worlds will win their creators All Access Passes to GDC 2018, and will have their games displayed all week at a special lounge, with entry open to all GDC pass holders.
The judges of the Unity 3D Game Art Challenge include notables from the world of video game art and design and key Unity staff. The entry deadline is December 31, 2017, and the 12 winners will be notified in late January 2018.
More information about the guidelines and rules for entering the contest are available at https://3dgameartchallenge.com/. For more information about GDC 2018, including the GDC Conference, Summits, Expo, and VRDC@GDC, and attendee pass options, please visit http://www.gdconf.com/ and follow @Official_GDC on Twitter.
The Global Serious Games Market is Projected to Reach $9.17 Billion by 2023 According to Allied Market Research
According to a new report from Allied Market Research: Serious games market by User Type, Application, and Industry Vertical: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2017-2023 :
The global serious games market was $2,731 million in 2016
The global serious games market is projected to reach $9,167 million by 2023
This represents a CAGR of 19.2% from 2017 to 2023
The consumers segment is anticipated to grow at the highest rate during the forecast period.
Asia-Pacific generated $953 million in the serious games market in 2016
China is the largest consumer of learning games and tools
The consumer business segment accounted for $1,461 million in 2016, and is projected to grow at the CAGR of 18.5% during the forecast period
Marketing and Business 101 on Steam
Here’s a talk from last November from Tom Giardino from Valve during Steam Dev Days. It’s an excellent 101 primer on the platform and something I recommend independent developers watch as they start considering self-publishing and what is involved:
Steam has 67 Million MAU and 33 Million DAU
At Unite Europe on July 10, 2017, Alden Krol gave an update on the Steam platform including features, data and plans.
Steam has:
67 Million Monthly Active Players (MAU)
33 Million Daily Active Players (DAU)
1.5 million new accounts per month (making a purchase)
Regional Breakdown
Latin America 3%
Russian Territories 5%
Oceania (Australia, New Zealand) 4%
Western Europe 29%
Asia 17%
Other (Middle East, Africa, Rest of World) 8%
The Russian Gaming Industry Generated $1.4 Billion USD in 2016
Zorka.mobi and Adjust released a report on the Russian mobile market for games. You can get the report here.
The total revenue of the Russian gaming industry was $1.4 billion USD in 2016 (Source: NewZoo)
Russian mobile game revenue was $699.3 million USD in 2016.
It’s expected to grow at a CAGR of 12.5% per year
Russia has 152,528,000 Gamers
80% of Russian Gamers are Male
The Russian mobile market average ARPU is $4.90 USD
Android users are retained longer, but monetize less than iOS
iOS TOP-10 – 25,000 daily installs (need 80,000 installs in 3-5 days to chart)
Android TOP-10 – 40,000 daily installs (need 150,000 installs in 3-5 days to chart)
App Review Times – Updated Regularly (Mobile Game Development Tips)
The average app review time for a mobile game is currently 2 days for the iOS App Store according to: www.appreviewtimes.com
This is a great site to check and see how approvals are going across a cross-section of app developers, so the waiting game is a little more transparent.
Global Video Game Software Market to Reach $98 billion by 2020 with a CAGR of over 5% (DFC Intelligence)
DFC Intelligence predicts 2016 game software sales to reach $79 billion. This is 8% higher than 2015.
Video Game Software Sales will be $98 billion in 2020
The market is seeing a CAGR of more than 5 percent
The PC Game Market in Asia, North America and Europe will grow to $40 billion by 2020
The PC Game Market in Asia, North America and Europe was $30 billion in 2015
Self-Publishing and Steam – Six Things You Need to Know
I’ve worked with a number of game developers over the years to launch their games, hundreds of them at this point. Over the years, digital platforms like Steam have become increasingly important and have become the main way to reach the majority of the audience for PC games (in the Western World). There are a number of things that you need to think about in order to have the best pos
sible launch on the platform though:
Steam Greenlight – This can be a long process. Depending on the quality of the art and gameplay you can show, the reputation of the team, and the reaction from the Steam community, your game could be approved in a week, a couple months, a year, or maybe never. There is no set time frame to be approved and many developers find they need to keep updating their Greenlight campaign to get to the level where it can be approved for sale in the store.
Early Access – Being able to expose the community to your game early is essential to building up supporters and getting valuable feedback about the fun and features of your game. It also lets you test out balancing issues, network and online functionality, matchmaking, and hardware compatibility. There are many perceptions of what Early Access is, so you need to be prepared for some negative reviews since people show up expecting a completed game. This is unfortunately part of the way it works today, but perhaps Valve will remove the ability to review games in Early Access. Personally, I would like to see some sort of a questionnaire/test where people have to state that they know what Early Access is and that they understand the purpose is to find and weed out bugs. But that’s not how it works today.
Community is Key – You need to listen to your community, engage them in conversation, and give them the opportunity to interact with you via developer streams, chat sessions, forum conversations, etc. If they know you are listening, responding and bringing their feedback into the game development process, you will eventually have evangelists that will support you when trolls appear. And yes, trolls will absolutely appear. For some reason, there are people that feel the need to start fires, stir the pot and go down in flames. It’s something you have to deal with, so be prepared, but be polite and factual in your responses.
Marketing/Promotion – We all want to come out of the gate with a lot of sales and buzz around the game, but promoting your game too much entering early access has the ability to bring in a number of people that might be too many. If you are launching an online game, you want to be able to test out ever increasing groups of people. It might be better to have a couple hundred people in before you get to the 1,000 or 10,000 person level. There’s also the expectations that a game is complete when the media reaches a wider audience. Again, Early Access isn’t well understood or defined, so bringing in a wider audience means there will be more people disappointed that the game isn’t complete. That leads to negative reviews and the game might suffer.It’s best to make the biggest media push as you progress through Early Access, and feel good about going broader. That said, you should let your launch actually be your launch and personally reach out to the hundreds and thousand of media, blogger, and streamer contacts you have developed (Or you can get in contact with someone who has these already)!
Streamers/YouTubers and Key Requests – Once you announce your game, or once it is listed in the Steam Store as coming soon, you will receive requests for free keys. These will come from traditional media, bloggers with URLs that are not top level domains, YouTubers, Twitch Streamers, and others. I like to manage most of the keys through a google sheet so I can track them and pull keys while on the go if we need to. Oh, a quick note regarding Steam Reviewers (Along with the Steam Reviewer offers to post positive reviews) do not send these people keys!My preference for managing and tracking all of the Steam keys for Streamers and YouTubers is a platform called Keymailer (www.keymailer.co). This tool is invaluable for teams looking to self-publish their games, since it vets the requesting streamers/YouTubers and verifies they are who they say they are. It also shows their level of influence, and coverage is posted as they talk about and stream your game. You can tie this back into your social media outreach and post up supporting videos, opinions, and re-tweet their content to your (hopefully growing) audience.
You Need to be Listed to Get on the Front Page of Twitch and YouTube – Finding out this little piece of info is literally a needle in a haystack. I originally found part of the info from a Reddit forum post and the other part came from my friend James Beaven, another industry veteran, who is a fantastic persona and resource, as well as the driving force behind Keymailer. You need to add your game to two key databases.Twitch.tv – Giantbomb (http://www.giantbomb.com/games/) – make a new account, and then type up a description. NOTE: You can’t just copy and paste your description and features from you press release here. It has to be original writing, just for the GiantBomb Game Wiki page.YouTube – You need to mark-up your game landing page with the proper annotations from Schema.org and then give YouTube the right to use the info. This is the page that explains it (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6150676?hl=en).
That’s it for now. I’ll post more soon, and if you want to get in touch, drop me a line at: sean<at>ide-agency.com.
VR to hit $70 billion by 2020 According to TrendForce
TrendForce predicts that Virtual Reality (VR) hardware and software will be a $70 billion market in 2020
VR hardware will account for $20 billion in 2020
VR software will account for $50 billion in 2020
TrendForce predicts the VR market in 2016 will be $6.7 billion
IEShepra Opinion: With the recent announcement of the Oculus Rift at $599, it seems like Facebook may be giving Sony an unintended lead in VR (See Microsoft giving the lead to PS4 because of their always-on technology) by not realizing this type of hardware would greatly benefit from a razor blade model. The software is where the real money is and the distribution platform for that software could results in Billions of dollars of annual revenue.
Look at Steam and their $3.5 Billion in retail sales for 2015 and remember their 30% revenue share – that’s $1.05 Billion to Steam for having 15% of the PC game distribution market.
My own assumptions are that at $299, Oculus would dominate the market and increase the adoption speed by an order of magnitude. The revenue potential is in the Billions if they have aspirations of becoming the Steam of VR.
Now, considering that 15% (equivalent to Steam’s percentage of the PC game market) is a reasonable target for Oculus within 5 years, Facebook has a potential distribution platform worth $7.5 Billion in revenue in 2020..
My assessment is that Facebook has bought into something pretty huge. Disclaimer: I do not own FB stock.
A lower price point accelerates the model, but FB should be fine either way, as long as they own the distribution channel.
About IESherpa
Interactive Entertainment Sherpa (IESherpa) is a blog dedicated to presenting market data, analysis and opinion on the current state, and future, of the video games industry. The secondary goal is to educate people interested in the games business about the industry, and share knowledge garnered from more than 22 years in the games business. It is run by industry veteran Sean Kauppinen, CEO of International Digital Entertainment Agency.
Information for this blog is pulled from press releases, articles, and other media sources, and then distilled and consolidated into the fast facts needed by industry executives. Sean can be contacted here.
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POLICE ARREST SOCIALITE PUTTING CHAIN ON GIRLS IN LAGOS
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…As LASG Warns Against Anti-Social Behaviour
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a socialite, Mike Eze-Nwalie Nwogu popularly known as ‘Pretty Mike’ for dehumanizing young girls by turning them into human puppies with chains round their necks.
Nwogu, a 30-year-old club owner in Ikeja area of the State, was arrested on Wednesday by the police on the orders of the Lagos State Government after news emerged on social media of the development.
The suspect, in pictures which had since gone viral on the internet, was seen putting leash on young girls and leading them to a wedding in Lagos.
The development caused outrage from many quarters with people calling on government to act fast to put a rein on such type of bizarre anti-social behavior.
Nwogu was said to be cooperating with investigation and had given useful statement to the police and was released after given an undertaking to desist from putting any woman or man on a leash to dehumanize them.
According to the undertaking, Nwogu admitted knowing his action was against the law, but pledged not to further indulge in such behaviour.
The undertaking read in part: “I, Mike Eze Nwalie, A.K.A Pretty Mike of 21A Magodo GRA, Luma Street, do hereby undertake to stop whatever act of putting girls on a leash or any other degrading treatment to ladies and guys.
“I am aware that such act offends the law of the State of Lagos and if I repeat it again, there will be legal act towards me.
“I undertake to issue a letter of apology to the public effective from tomorrow on all my social media platforms.”
Speaking on the matter, the State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem said the State Government will not tolerate any anti-social behavior that attempt to dehumanize any citizen in the State.
Kazeem restated the government’s determination to prosecute any individual or group of persons who violate any law of the State under any guise.
“The Lagos State Government is committed to the protection of the rights of all citizens including children, women and all the vulnerable persons in the State,” Kazeem said.
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Judicial Review - A Step by Step Guide to the Scottish Process
Laura McDonagh
The use of judicial review in Scotland has continued to grow over recent years and not only for immigration matters. The process has become more widely used in the fields of prison law, social security law, housing law and environmental law. It has become popular not only to challenge specific decisions of public authorities but also to review the implementation of EU directives and primary legislation.
The words judicial review can be daunting not only for those instructed to initiate proceedings but also for those that are on the receiving end.
The process can be complex and the guidance from the Court can change quickly. This introductory level course is aimed at making the process clearer, drawing attention to common pitfalls and providing examples of judicially reviewable decisions.
The Scope of Judicial Review
What decisions can and cannot be judicially reviewed
What is meant by a remedy of last resort and how a public authority's complaints procedure fits into the process
Areas where judicial reviews may arise and how to assess the merits of a challenge with reference to examples of recent judicial reviews in a range of areas
The Grounds for Judicial Review
On what basis can reviews be sought?
How to identify areas for challenge in order to present or defend a challenge effectively
Procedures and Time Limits
The Court of Session, exclusive jurisdiction and the precise process to be followed with stringent time limits and procedures
The procedural aspects
The permission process, rights of appeal and expenses
Review of Recent Key Cases
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Home / Events / Iconic Expo – Automechanika 2018
Iconic Expo – Automechanika 2018
Automechanika 2018 – Celebrating its 25th Anniversary of aftermarket innovation with remarkable record breaking achievements.
From a quickly thought up “Plan B” solution to the world’s largest business to business event,
Automechanika Frankfurt, the biennial global automotive aftermarket trade fair, celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2018.
In 1971, the Frankfurt Motor Show was cancelled due to a global economic crisis. After a suggestion from a leading German business magazine editor to run an expo in its place for automotive workshop tools and equipment, within the short timeframe of seven months, Automechanika was born. A total of 415 exhibitors from 67 countries took part in that inaugural event, along with 71,000 trade visitors. Fast forward 47 years and this flagship biennial automotive aftermarket expo hosted more than 5,000 exhibitors and 136,000 trade visitors hailing from 181 countries, continuing this event’s remarkable record breaking achievements.
“This Flagship Biennial Automotive Aftermarket Expo Hosted More Than 5,000 Exhibitors And 136,000 Trade Visitors Hailing From 181 Countries.”
The incredible success story that is Automechanika also reflects the constant growth and innovation of the global automotive aftermarket, which now finds a total of 16 Automechanika Trade Fairs in successful operation across 15 countries, headed by the biennial Frankfurt show, which is by far the most impressive global showcase of our industry.
A total of 12 multi-level exhibition halls covering more than 366,000 square metres along with 66,000 square metres of outdoor space welcomed this year’s event held from September 11 to 15 – and it didn’t disappoint.
New repair technologies were showcased to wide trade visitor acclaim along with a record 120 products and services entered for the Automechanika Innovation Awards, clearly displaying the growth of the automotive aftermarket through the constant innovation of high tech repair, service and tooling technologies.
The OE Products and Services category Award went to Spain’s VALEO Services for their R-744 Air-Conditioning System that operates without any chemical refrigerant, the first in the world that uses a natural refrigerant.
One third of the Automechanika Innovation Award entries came from Germany and two thirds from abroad.
The Parts and Components category award was won by Italy’s FIAMM for their AGM PowerCube batteries for trucks. Germany’s Osram took out the Elecronics and Systems award for their Golf VII LED Headlamp, while Spain’s Enganches y Remoques won the Accessories and Customising segment for their IntegraLED trailer socket.
The Repair and Maintenance award went to Germany’s Meyle, for their HD Slotted Bush Kit and specially developed tool for replacing defective BMW rear axle control arm bushes. Germany’s AVL DiTEST won the Repair and Diagnostics category for their Acoustic Camera designed to exactly locate the source and intensity of engine or drive train noise.
Germany’s PE Data took out the Dealer and Workshop management award with their QR.VIN sticker concept. These stickers remove the hassle of parts ordering by being activated instantly at a workshop to automatically order exact replacement parts by scanning the sticker QR code. Also from Germany, Bosch won the Alternate Drive Systems and Digital Solutions Award for their Bosch Common Augmented Reality Platform that offers videos, images and explanations for technical training.
The Classic Cars Products and Services category winner was AVL DiTEST for ther Multisense 1000 Oscilloscope Sensor which has several uses including being an ignition stroboscope, dynamic luxmeter, optical light-reflex sensor, dynamic microphone, stethoscope, magnetic-field detector and an LED torch.
The final Automechanika Innovation Award was in the Truck Products and Services category and this was presented to Knorr-Bremse Systeme fur Nutzfarzeuge of Germany for their Electronic Air Control system that integrates clutch compressor control and electronic parking brake control in a modular serviceable unit.
Along with innovation, every global company in the automotive aftermarket industry was represented at Automechanika 2018, including a contingent from Australia both within the country’s own pavilion and on independent stands.
As with every Automechanika event staged in Frankfurt and around the world, the five packed days included countless Automechanika Academy seminars, training sessions, press conferences, product launches and business networking events.
This year’s 25th event at Frankfurt saw the debut of REIFEN at Automechanika. REIFEN is the leading international tyre industry trade fair which saw the huge new Hall 12 filled with everything that the world has to offer in wheels and tyres from mining vehicle wheels and tyres to state of the art performance specification wheels and tyres. The addition of REIFEN to Automechanika ensured that no stone was left unturned in the automotive aftermarket industry and it was well received by many thousands of visitors this year.
A departure from the norm at Automechanika 2018 was the renaissance of high end aftermarket sound systems. The German Sound Quality finals also took place at this global event to discover the best aftermarket vehicle sound system in the country. This proved without any doubt that just as motorists like to personalise the looks and performance of their cars, there is also growing demand for the development of aftermarket car audio and video systems even in this age of fully integrated audio and video systems being standard in modern cars. From discreetly integrated aftermarket high end sound systems to the supercharged bass systems, the European Mobile Media Association displayed some of the most impressive automotive audio visual systems the world has ever seen.
The Automechanika Trade Fair focus on industry growth and providing complete one stop destinations to learn and advance global automotive aftermarket business, makes visiting these events both important and highly worthwhile for those who seek to grow their automotive aftermarket industry businesses.
The next Automechanika Frankfurt Trade Fair takes place from September 8 to 12, 2020.
To find out more about this and other international Automechanika trade fairs located around the world, visit www.automechanika.com
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Home / Innovative Products / No Limitation With J-B Weld
No Limitation With J-B Weld
In the automotive service world there are several brands that are recognised immediately for quality and J-B Weld most certainly fits that bill.
The original twin pack epoxy was invented by a mechanic in the USA over 40 years ago. He was looking for a product that could be used where traditional welding was not an option.
In the USA, J-B Weld is recognised as high quality and has the slogan “World’s Strongest Bond”. Over the last few years the range of JB Weld products has grown to include Silicone, Super Weld, Putty Sticks, Thread Lockers and Specialty kits.
The product range of J-B Weld is now available in Australia and available from Repco, Burson Auto Parts, Auto 1 and most independent resellers.
For more than 40 years, J-B Weld products have earned a loyal and enthusiastic following from avid DIY’ers and repair professionals alike, offering a range of simple and affordable solutions that help just about anyone to take on small and large repairs throughout the workshop or home.
“Today, that same quality has been applied to over two dozen products, each customised to bond to a specific surface including steel, aluminium, SMC fiberglass, wood, plastic, glass, ceramic, carpet and more.”
By mixing equal parts resin and hardener, customers activate the epoxy adhesive, which will bond to just about any surface. Whether it’s J-B Weld’s traditional twin tube epoxies, putty sticks or syringe applicators, each product is specifically designed to provide the strongest bond in its class.
Products like ClearWeld and KwikWeld, dry in as little as five minutes and provide quick fixes to problems ranging from broken ceramics to metals and glass.
ClearWeld, with a syringe applicator and no-mess cap, dries clear.
J-B Weld added to their product range a selection of Silicone in both 85gram and cartridge. This is 100 per cent silicone and available in RTV (Acetoxy) and Ultimate (Oxime).
No workshop should be without SteelStik or WaterWeld in the toolbox. These two-part epoxy putty sticks can prove invaluable
in quick repairs – Waterweld offering the additional benefit of curing underwater.
For heavy duty repairs, original J-B Weld cold weld formula can withstand temperatures of over 280°C and like its companion, epoxy adhesive products can be machined, sanded, tapped, drilled or painted, providing limitless solutions for innovative repairs.
In the garage, kitchen, workshop or garden, J-B Weld consumers have used the products to fix common household leaks, cracks and breaks on items like washers and dryers, dishwashers, refrigerators, ovens, pipes, cabinets, floor tiles, counter tops, sinks, bathtubs, toilets, furniture, golf clubs, musical instruments, lawn mowers, water hoses and more.
The packaging has also been updated to comply to all Australian regulation packaging requirements and shows a strong presence on store displays to capture the trade and retail purchase.
“Being the first Australian company to distribute the entire range of J-B Weld products in Australia, we hope to offer our customers even more solutions for saving money. Whether you’re repairing a leaky sink or looking for an economical way to get a few more years out of that older model lawn mower, we believe J-B Weld products will be well-received by Australian DIY audiences.”
Ask for it by name – JB Weld “World’s Strongest Bond”
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For more information, visit http://www.jbweld.com.au
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Ciro ISIDORO: Curriculum Vitae
July 1983: first class degree with honor (Laurea “summa cum Laude”) Doctor in Biological Sciences at the University of Turin.
July 1984: National License as Doctor Biologist, University of Turin (Italy).
July 1999: first class degree with honor (Laurea “summa cum Laude”) Doctor in Medicine and Surgery at the “A. Avogadro” University of Novara.
March 2000: National License as Medical Doctor, Università del Piemonte Orientale (Italy)
Appointments and academic positions
1983-1986: Research Assistant, post-Doctoral fellow at Department of Medicine and Experimental Oncology, University of Turin (I).
1987-1988: visiting Postdoc fellow at Institute fuer Physiologische Chemie und Pathobiochemie, by Prof. A. Hasilik, University of Muenster (Germany).
1989-1990: Wissenschaftler hilfskraft (Research assistant fellow) at Institute fuer Physiologische Chemie und Pathobiochemie; PhD student fellow (Wissenschaftlerhilfskraft) of the “Rerum Medicinalis” PhD program at Westfaelisch Wilhelms-Universitaet of Muenster (Germany).
1990-1993: Research Associate at Department of Medicine and Experimental Oncology, University of Turin (I).
1990-1992: Lecturer in Pathology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Turin (I).
1993-1999 Assistant Professor (permanent position), Lecturer of Immunology and Pathology at University of Turin (Second Faculty of Sciences, Alessandria; Second Faculty of Medicine, Novara), Italy.
2000- to date: Associate Professor of Pathology, Lecturer of Immunology, Cell Pathology, Experimental Oncology and Environmental Medicine, School of Medicine, “A. Avogadro” University.
1997 to date: Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Pathology at Dept. of Health Sciences, Novara, “A. Avogadro” University.
Temporary-visiting academic positions
1993-1994: Visiting Scientist at INSERM Laboratoire de Biologie et Pathologie Moléculaires des Glycoprotéines, School of Medicine, X. Bichat Hospital, University of Paris.
1996: Visiting Professor at Wayne State University, School of Medicine of Detroit, Department of Pharmacology (director: Prof. Bonnie F. Sloane).
2000/2002: Visiting Professor at Institute fuer Physiologische Chemie, Klinikum der Philipps-Universitaet Marburg (D).
2002/2008: Visiting Professor at Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, University of Bristol (UK).
2005 to 2009: overseas advisor of PhD students at Mahidol University, Bangkok (Thailand).
2012: Visiting Professor at Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta Medical School.
2012 to date: overseas advisor of PhD students at Chulalongkorn University and at Mahidol University (Bangkok, Thailand).
2013-2014: Visiting Professor of Molecular Pathology at Mahidol University, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital (Bangkok, Thailand)
2014: Visiting Professor of Experimental Oncology (Brain Pool Program) at Cancer Research Institute of Seoul National University (South Korea)
Bibliometric indexes (from ISI Web of Knowledge)
Total publication: 103 (85 full papers on pubmed-medline)
Total Impact Factor: 435
Total citations: 1697
Hirsch Index: 23
27 full papers and chapters published in Books
184 poster/oral communication at National and International Congresses.
International Patent: "Simultaneous mixed site-specific mutagenesis method". Inventors: Carlo Follo, Ciro Isidoro
Deposited at International Bureau of WIPO on 19th November 2007. International application No. PCT/IB2007/003629
Reviewer of indexed journals
Regular reviewer of the following journals (among > 25): Autophagy, J of Cell Science, J of Neurochemistry, Cell Death & Differentiation, Cell Death & Disease, J of Biological Chemistry, Cancer Research.
Reviewer of National/International Grant Agencies
Member of the Organizing Committee of the following International Conferences
Physiology and Pathology of Vesicular Traffic (Alessandria, Italy, 1995)
APSN 2012 Symposium on “Autophagy and Proteasome cross-talk in Neuropathophysiology”, at the 11th Biennal Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Society for Neurochemistry and 55th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Neurochemistry in Kobe, Japan, Sep 29-Oct 2, 2012
ESMI, European Society for Molecular Imaging, Torino, Italy, May 26-28, 2013
SMITH (Society for Molecular Imaging of Thailand) Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 28-30, 2013
SCC 2014 International Conference – 1st Annual Meeting of Ovarian Consortium, Feb 9-11, 2014, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City (USA)
SNU-CRI, Annual International Meeting of the Seoul National University – Cancer Research Institute, April 16-18, 2014, Mopko, South Korea
Scientificsocieties membership
Società Italiana di Patologia
Associazione di Biologia Cellulare e del Differenziamento (ABCD /FISV)
International Proteolysis Society
Sphingolipid Club
Società Italiana di Cancerologia
European Association of Cancer Research
Eurpean Neurochemistry Society
The Asian Pacific Society for Neurochemistry
European Society of Molecular Imaging
Society for Molecular Imaging of Thailand
Editorial board (Associate Editor of)
World Journal of Biological Chemistry
American Journal of Cancer Science
American Journal of Cancer Biology
American Journal of Cancer Review
American Journal of Cancer Genetics, Genomics and Proteomics
American Journal of Clinical Cancer Research
American Journal of Cancer Therapy and Pharmacology
Recent Patent in Cancer Biomarkers
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Japan is one of the most popular travel destinations in the world. It is a land of contrasts, where the traditional blends with the modern to create a truly unique culture that has beguiled countless travellers from all over the world. With a dizzying array of attractions, from the stately splendour of its ancient palaces and te… read more
Japan is one of the most popular travel destinations in the world. It is a land of contrasts, where the traditional blends with the modern to create a truly unique culture that has beguiled countless travellers from all over the world. With a dizzying array of attractions, from the stately splendour of its ancient palaces and temples and the austere beauty of its Zen rock gardens to the frenetic energy of its many modern cities, Japan has plenty of marvels that will fascinate even the world-weariest traveller. Where else can you best indulge in the Japan’s delightful cuisine but in its birthplace? In fact, savouring its celebrated culinary treasures is one of the best reasons to come to Japan. Dining in Japan is truly a memorable experience, with the well-known Japanese precision and presentation savvy combined with the freshest ingredients. Along with the warm and welcoming Japanese spirit, travellers will soon find themselves charmed with this unique and enchanting country. Enquire now about how we can help you plan your Japan trip. show less
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Win A Lifetime Original Romance Prize Pack!
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CONFESSIONS OF AN AMERICAN BRIDE
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HOW I MARRIED MY HIGH SCHOOL CRUSH
Seventeen-year-old Sara (Katee Sackhoff, 24, Battlestar Galactica) has been madly in love with popular classmate Brian (Sage Brocklebank, Psych, Smallville) ever since pre-school and dreams of marrying him. Problem is, he doesn’t know she exists. When a solar eclipse inexplicably sends them from high school in 1990 to their actual wedding day in 2007, Sara (now in her mid-30s) discovers that, somehow, her wish came true. With their “grown-up” careers in full swing – Sara is running for Lieutenant Governor, and Brian is a wealthy investment banker – the couple realizes they are not at all prepared for what adulthood has in store. They still feel like the 17-year-olds they see when they look in the mirror, yet everyone else in their lives sees them as 35…and expects them to act their age. Is it possible that Sara and Brian are really fated to be together? Or should they follow a less certain path in their new lives, and risk falling for other people? (AAAE223190 , 88 mins.)
I DO (BUT I DON’T)
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I ME WED
Isabel Darden (Erica Durance, Smallville, Stargate: SG-1) is an attractive, successful 30-year-old woman tired of her mother and friends’ insistence that marriage is essential to a woman’s happiness. With pressure to find Mr. Right mounting, and a deep-seated desire to prove the women in her life wrong, Isabel plans a wedding ceremony in which she’ll marry the one person who knows her better than anyone else…herself. When the news outlets pick up her story, Isabel becomes an overnight media sensation, and with the enthusiastic support of her friend Bill, she quickly begins planning her nuptials. Will Isabel’s wedding finally convince her embarrassed mother Lillian, and disappointed best friend Amy, that she truly is better off on her own? It’s a question Isabel will have to contend with herself, after a chance meeting with the handsome and intelligent Colin (Paul Popowich) challenges her convictions. How will Isabel tell the man she’s falling in love with that she’s already engaged – and to herself? The unexpected romance with Colin and a leak from the media sends her wedding plans, and her new relationship, into a tailspin. Will Isabel try to regain Colin’s trust, or continue on with her wedding? (AAAE223170, 88 mins.)
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Just Walking The Dogs
Rufus Thomas wrote a song ,‘Walking the Dog’, in 1963 and the next year The Rolling Stones sang their own version. That was in the days when The Stones were a pucka R&B band. It was a hit. I loved it. It had something of the languid pace of their later interpretation of ‘Little Red Rooster’, although a little more athletic. It was soulful, honest, simple, and captured the essence of an age when dance crazes were the thing. Walking The Dog enabled Mick Jagger to strut a bit, to develop his stage persona. Interesting how songs about animals are scattered across the panoply of pop music - not always to be taken as literal figures, though.
Richards and Jagger had not started their song-writing partnership at that time, and chose instead to interpret past standards. I always felt this was made as an honour to the singers and songwriters who had come before them; a homage, in a way. A salute to the those who ploughed the furrow into which The Stones would drop the seeds of their own success.
Dog-walking, not R&B, is the subject of this musing. I walked our two dogs this morning, 15th December 2013, in the Bob Gordon Reserve located in the Perth suburb of Bull Creek, Western Australia. It was still dark when we arrived, the two dogs in the back of the Honda CRV. They know the place well, as we visit it each day at approximately the same time. This morning, Rex, a one-year-old Blue Heeler/Alsatian cross, lept over the car’s back guard, so eager was he to get started. The more sedate, Hallie, a grande-dame Staffie/Mastif cross of 10 years, with a lovely brindle coat, followed him after I had opened the car’s rear gate.
Orion and his belt welcomed us from the north-west. Venus, the brightest light in the sky, untwinkling, sat to Orion’s right. The Southern Cross hung in the opposite quadrant. They don’t change, thank goodness, and thereby reassure us that while ultimately all must turn to dust, at least it will be a good while coming. You have to bear in mind, of course, that everything is history - as are the lights of the night sky.
The Bob Gordon Reserve is a well-managed open space within the local authority of Melville, that reckons it is a ‘City’. It is mainly grassed which is mown frequently during the summer, and less so in the cooler, wet months. Ancient, sentinel paper barks and a variety of eucalypts are scattered about. Most years Melville council will plant young versions of existing varieties to extend the tree cover. These saplings are generally set out in some orderly pattern, so the Reserve grows to look like a municipal park, which it is.
Within its centre, a rather small area of bush has been preserved, untended, unmanaged, where nature has been permitted to thrive, or at least to strive as it will. Of course, grasses predominate but native wild-flowers have secured a foothold, and a couple of months ago they bloomed in the shy way that Australian flora seem to do: perhaps, wisely, to avoid the heat of the sun.
Some beautiful, delicate flowers with white petals positioned above one another on the stalk, like miniature gladioli, stuck their heads out of the surrounding vegetation, and for a couple of weeks were a welcome each morning, till they suddenly wilted and drooped. Some yellow flowers, tall like poppies, spread amongst the grasses and waved languidly in the timid breeze of early spring. Confident daisies flowered above sturdy stalks and green base-leaves, brightly yellow. They are deeper-rooted and remain still.
This morning we arrived before 4.00am, but the imminent dawn was already lifting the night sky upwards from the tops of nearby trees and houses. The southern summer solstice is a week away, when the night will be at its shortest. A week after Christmas Day the dark hours for sleeping will inch their way back.
As I completed my circuit around the bush area, and came to face directly eastwards I was presented with the perfect early morning vista. There are some very old trees in the Reserve. You can tell from the diameter of their trunks, from the solid, twisted branches that hang and stretch outwards, that these fellas have been around for a good while. I look through those branches at the cloudless, lightening sky. Every one of them, every twig, every sprouting piece of foliage is set in infinite detail against the whiteness of an early dawn.
But wait. Those dogs are at it again. They are 9 years apart, yet behave together like close siblings. Rex is a relentless teaser. He will find a stick or a tennis ball that some dog-walker has left on the ground, and he will hold it between his teeth and push it towards Hallie to tempt her to take it. She never succeeds because this youngster is too quick. Moreover, he has an intelligence that belies his youth. He manoeuvers, he turns away from Hallie’s probing jaw and elludes all her advances. He pesters her to try again, coming back to her, placing a paw on her head to cajole her. Perhaps he will thrust the stick or ball towards her, actually pushing it against her jowls, as if to say, ‘Here it is, why don’t you take it?’.
Eventually, Hallie will succomb to frustration and will start barking in some half-hearted entreaty to Rex for comfort. That is my signal to walk away from the neighbouring bungalows and houses that straddle the Reserve. It’s not yet 4.30am, and I won’t be flavour of the month if the locals are roused from their beds on account of my noisy dogs.
So we travel down alongside the BMX cycle park that occupies a portion of the Reserve, straddling the main road through Bull Creek, away from the houses and back gardens. Rex is a true Blue Heeler, and carries the bulk of an Alsatian. The pure breed was reared in Queensland during the early colonial days to herd cattle. They are clever, loyal (thus ‘Heelers’) and will run and run all day.
Owning a Blue Heeler is no easy job. Intelligence results in the undoing of all sorts of restraints or obstacles put in Rex’s way to keep him orderly, and his energy means he needs constant attention. Pity any person who owns a Blue Heeler without at least 10 acres of land for it to run across. I confess we don’t own so large a spread (a mere 800 sq metre suburban lot), but I now have the time to keep the two dogs occupied so long as weather permits.
There’s one thing I have failed to mention about our morning walk. That is the birdlife. The birds of Western Australia are a fairly sociable brood, and once one of them has woken and announces its presence, the others are not far behind. But on arrival, we have preceded their dawn chorus. This morning, only a pair of jabbering Kookaburras disturb the night air from a half-kilometre away. They are often seen in pairs and their territory is wide, so you only rarely hear more than a single pair. They often call throughout the night hours, and especially shortly before dawn. During the day they tend to be silent but often settle on telegraph lines or poles to survey their domain.
The Magpies occupy the swollen, arthritic branches of the old paper-barks, often hidden by the tangled, primitive foliage. During the night it is not uncommon to hear the warble of an insomniac Magpie. Its lilting call, the most complex of any bird, gently rides the night air reminding all listeners of its presence, the length of occupation of its territory, perhaps its name and its intention to remain for many a year. At dawn the Magpies will take to the ground to feed on seeds and grubs amongst the grass. When approached, they stand with head erect, defying my trespass, until their will falters and they fly up into a tree’s safety, squawking defiance.
Even before them, a pair or trio of wild Ducks may circle the reserve, flying at tree-height and appearing to be in a great hurry. They sometimes come back for a second pass, as if they haven’t decided where to land. Occasionally, a mating pair will drop down within the Reserve to feed on the watered grass.
Before long, a brightly coloured Lesser Holland Honey-Eater will chirp up. Then will come the shrill carping of a Wattle Bird that pierces the early morning air. During the nesting season one of the parent birds will fly sorties against any living creature in the Reserve that approaches where their eggs sit. Neither humans nor other birds, no matter their size, are spared - especially dogs, whom the Wattle Birds regard as prime targets, swooping to within centimetres of the animal’s head. Hallie, now accustomed by age to these attacks, trots on unhurried and unstirred. Rex, ever the young adventurer, will give chase across the Reserve as he is lured away from the Wattle Bird’s nest.
Then appear the pairs of tiny green-necked parrots, that are not native to WA and are often vilified for occupying the nesting holes of indigenous varieties. As a newcomer, I love them - such brilliant plumage of red, black, yellow and green. I still haven’t got used to seeing parrots flying free in the wild - they should be in a cage. They fly at a hectic pace, squawking as they go, usually in pairs, one closely at the tail of the other. Then the gallas appear. Not so much in a flock as in a lazy mob, like sleepy kangaroos of the air. They are delightful birds, gregarious, noisy, and such relaxed flyers, if somewhat lopsided at times.
I went sailing on the Swan River later in the day, and saw a sea eagle and a bi-plane passing across the sky together. Lovely sight. That’s why I live in Perth - for it all.
Nick Fielden Copywriter www.nickfielden.com.au
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Night of the Juggler (1980) Robert Butler & Sidney J. Furie
Labels : 80's , Action , Robert Butler , Sidney J. Furie , Thriller , USA , 3 com
Night of the Juggler (1980)
aka Fort Bronx
Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Country: Australia | Director: Robert Butler & Sidney J. Furie
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 | Length: 101mn
Vhsrip H264 Mkv - 720x540 - 29.970fps - 913mb
A tough cop goes on a citywide rampage when his daughter is mistakenly kidnapped by a psycho. The psycho had originally targeted someone else's daughter, but is just as prepared to kill anybody unless his colossal ransom demands are met.
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3 Response to "Night of the Juggler (1980) Robert Butler & Sidney J. Furie"
Ed Froman says:
thanks a lot!!!!
this film is the most underrated action film ever!
R.I.P. Cliff Gorman
here's another great film with Cliff Gorman:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069889/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_43
hard to find, maybe you get lucky :)
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New Zealand Disarms Police as Terror Threat Level Lowered
New Zealand police on Wednesday ended the routine arming of frontline officers as the terrorism threat level was lowered a month after the Christchurch mosques massacre.
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The level is still higher than it was before the March 15 attacks, when the threat was deemed to be "low".
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said "there is no current specific threat", but the security agencies believed the medium level "accurately reflects our current status".
Frontline New Zealand police have historically not carried firearms and many people were shocked to see them heavily armed after 50 Muslims were gunned down while at Friday prayers.
Police commissioner Mike Bush said with the easing of the security threat level, the police had reassessed their position on arming frontline staff and the carrying of weapons would now be decided on a case-by-case basis.
The decision was made after "significant consultation" with mosques and Islamic Centres in relation to ongoing security, although Bush said he would not release details.
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The police also released a timeline of the mosque attacks, showing it took 18 minutes from the time of the first emergency call to the apprehension of the alleged shooter.
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Source: Agence France Presse
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March 8 Approves of Comprehensive Policy Statement: All Lebanese Want Justice and the Truth
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He said during the parliament session to discuss the government policy statement: “All the Lebanese want justice and the truth.”
“The cabinet has presented a comprehensive statement,” he added.
Change and Reform bloc MP Nehmatallah Abi Nasr meanwhile noted that the new government encompasses a number of factions and several challenges are awaiting it to rectify the mistakes that have marred the Lebanese system since the Taef Accord.
“The current cabinet pledged in its policy statement to implement development in all regions and this is what the governments that followed the Taef, especially the Saniora and Hariri cabinets, failed to do,” he noted.
“The change and reform that we have dreamt of will not be achieved under those who exploited power because the people will not forget those who squandered public funds and relinquished the dignity of its sons,” he said.
He concluded by granting Miqati’s government confidence.
For his part, Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Bilal Farhat stated that the government was formed after long debates, succeeding in overcoming international pressures that sought to impede its establishment.
“Despite the obstacles, the cabinet was formed through a complete Lebanese effort,” he stressed.
Syrian Social Nationalist Party MP Marwan Fares demanded that the government withdraw the Lebanese judges from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and halt its funding.
He added that all signs indicate that the tribunal is politicized, stressing that uncovering the truth in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is important to all Lebanese.
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In Syria, Russia Chasing Chechens Once Again
by Naharnet Newsdesk 07 October 2015, 08:54
While Russian President Vladimir Putin's air campaign in Syria may have other aims, one result seems to be that it is hitting Islamists from Russia's Caucasus, say analysts.
High on the list of places Russia appears to have targeted are positions held by the Al-Nusra Front -- an al-Qaida associate with a high concentration of fighters from Chechnya, Dagestan and Muslim ex-Soviet nations in Central Asia.
Russia's entry last week into the Syrian conflict is the country's first major military engagement outside the former Soviet Union since the collapse of Communism.
At the weekend, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said the mission aimed at protecting Russia itself.
"It's better to do it abroad rather than fight terrorism inside the country," he said.
The presence of Islamists from the Caucasus is not the decisive factor for unleashing Russia's military might, said Syria specialist Thomas Pierret from the University of Edinburgh.
Even so, the presence of Chechens on the ground effectively makes it "the third round of Russian-Chechen conflict," Pierret said.
Moscow fought two bloody wars against Chechen separatists between 1994-96 and in the early 2000s, bringing the breakaway Russian region under the capital's control.
But it failed to stem the spread of an Islamist insurgency into the surrounding regions, particularly Dagestan and Ingushetia.
- Syria's Caucasus fighters -
Fighters originating from the Caucasus are believed to have first appeared in Syria in summer 2012, notably at the battle of Aleppo.
The men have a reputation for being good warriors and are dubbed "Chechens" by locals even if they come from elsewhere in the Caucasus, a region where Muslims overwhelmingly adhere to the Sunni branch of Islam.
Now there are "at least 2,000 fighters" from Chechnya, Dagestan and other Caucasus regions who operate in Jund al-Sham al-Shishan, alongside al-Qaida affiliate Al-Nusra front, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdel Raman told AFP.
"They are concentrated in Idlib, Aleppo, and Latakia provinces," he said.
These are the northwestern regions of Syria where Russia's campaign has been concentrated since being launched on September 30.
Other groups with a strong presence of Caucasus fighters include Ajnad Kavkaz (Soldiers of the Caucasus) in Idlib and Latakia, and the Jaish al-Muhajireen in Aleppo, which also includes Uzbeks and Tajiks and is split into al-Qaida and IS-loyal factions.
The chief target named in Russian communiques is the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or Daesh -- but western countries doubt this, and also say moderate groups have also been hit.
"The Russians consider it better to concentrate on the Al-Nusra Front where the Chechens and the Caucasians are, since they think the (US-led) coalition is already dealing with IS," said Romain Caillet, a French expert on jihadists.
Strong links between the Caucasus and the Middle East stretch back over a century.
Sizeable minorities in Syria are descendants of Caucasus tribes driven out to the Ottoman Empire by tsarist troops following the end of the Caucasus war in 1864, including Circassians, Kumyks and others.
Their plight in Syria is already a factor in rousing anger in the Caucasus, said Grigory Shvedov, editor-in-chief of the Kavkaz-Uzel.ru website which specialises in the Caucasus region.
For militants "it would be advantageous to use news about civilians killed in the bombings" to stir up unrest inside Russia and open a "second front," he said.
- Risk of attacks? -
Islamists in the Caucasus have in recent years pledged allegiance en masse to the Islamic State, and the feared group has created a protectorate in the region, though a drop in suicide bombings since 2013 inside Russia indicates that many have left for Syria or Iraq.
A report by Novaya Gazeta opposition newspaper from Dagestan said in July that Russia's security services have turned a blind eye to departing Islamists, even helping them out with travel documents for Turkey, thereby weakening the homegrown insurgency.
Though there has been no official response from the jihadists to the bombing campaign yet, the risk of attacks in Russia is still there, said Aleksei Malashenko, an analyst with the Carnegie Moscow Center.
"Attacks in Russia are possible, in any case, one should be prepared for them," he said.
"They have to respond somehow... the risk is higher than usual."
A video circulated via Russian Islamist websites at the weekend purported to show Chechen fighters calling on Caucasus natives to come back home to wage holy war on Russian soil.
"We have successfully reached home and began searching for everything needed for jihad," a masked man says in the clip.
"We ask other brothers to also come home."
SourceAgence France Presse
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OBEY C
As we drift through these final days of winter, our festival takes form. An autonomous bloom of aesthetic indulgence and irreverence. It’s growing. The details are locking-up. We’ll be able to announce the entire lineup before the end of the month. There may be a pre-festival event as well. So hold tight. To ease your wait, today we’ve decided to offer up just a taste. A couple sweet jazzers.
We’re thrilled to announce Chicago’s Joshua Abrams’ Natural Information Society. Fire jazz, modal music, zoned spiritualism. Jams for psychic transport. All things. Magnetoception, the band’s latest full length, is easily one of the most exciting jazz albums of the decade. It made best of the year lists on Pitchfork, The Wire, Magnet Magazine and more. Abrams and co. remind us that jazz can indeed be of another dimension.
From a world-renowned trio to a duo of local leaders — OBEY Convention is grateful to nab xxvii for their inaugural festival performance. Consisting of man-about-town sax and keys lightening rod Nick Dourado and recent Juno nominee Andrew MacKelvie, xxvii, like Abrams, swim the cosmic seas of spirit jazz. For us, they’re one of the most exciting projects in Halifax right now.
Also be sure to spend time with the artists we listed last month — Mykki Blanco, Zs, Nadja, Marie Davidson, and New Fries. We’ll announce the full lineup, over 20 more acts, by the end of March. And we’ll tell you about EverySeeker Symposium and Art In Fest in April.
EARLY BIRD PASSES are clearing out but remain available.
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Spring in Nova Scotia awakens with the ninth installment of Atlantic Canada’s premier festival of free ideas in music and art, the OBEY Convention. Taking place in the city’s parks, churches, libraries, concert halls and night clubs, this year’s festival promises to be our boldest.
Over the course of four days, we will host ten main events alongside multiple free-to-attend happenings. There will be concerts, artist talks, a bell walk, installations, workshops, a multi-city collaboration with Weird Canada’s Drone Day and so much more. Getting everyone involved is important to us. So besides offering a portion of our programme to the public at no cost, for the first time ever, we will be making ALL unlicensed events free to folks under 19. That’s just one new initiative of many.
As always, the festival will host an eclectic mix of local, national, and international artists. To pique your interest, here are just five to consider: underground rap and performance artist Mykki Blanco; New York’s renowned avant-jazz futurists, Zs; Montreal’s bright light in dark minimal wave, Marie Davidson; Berlin’s transcendental metal droners, Nadja; and New Fries, the angular noise-punk heroes of Toronto’s weirdside scene.
Over two dozen more artists will be announced in March. We’ll also bring you info on The Khyber Centre for the Arts standalone visual art festival, Art In Fest. And we’ll tell you about EverySeeker Symposium, a brand new performative Iecture series that explores the intersection of sound and other disciplines such as craft, science, psychotherapy, storytelling, dance, and video. There’s much to look forward to at the end of May in Halifax.
A limited quantity of reasonably priced Early Bird Festival Passes are available now through Ticket Halifax.
OBEY Convention IX takes places May 26th to 29th at various venues throughout Halifax. Interested in performing? If so, email us at info@obeyconvention.com. We are looking for unique artists and concepts. Thanks for your interest and have a fine holidays.
First of all, we would like to send a warm thank you to 2015’s artists, partners, volunteers, billets, and audience members. OBEY Convention VIII was a special installment. The energy and sense of community running throughout the weekend was like nothing we’ve ever experienced. Our team wrapped up the festivities feeling more inspired and motivated than ever.
So here we are. What started as a few DIY shows strung together by friends has turned into a nationally recognized festival. This journey is exciting but also comes with many challenges. Now more than ever, we need to harness the festival’s growth and build OBEY Convention into a sustainable organization, one which will be a champion of contemporary music and art in Halifax for years to come.
To this end, we feel it’s important to build a strong membership. On one hand, we need to find new streams of revenue in order to keep up with the increasing demands of running an active non-profit. But we also want to implant ourselves more directly into the fabric of Halifax. We want to build a foundation of community support and have direct access to the people invested in our success.
If you would like to see OBEY Convention exist well into the future, please consider becoming a member. The packages are priced reasonably and offer many incentives, including discounts and full festival passes. If you have any questions, shoot us an email.
Together we can make Nova Scotia a thriving centre for the arts. Thanks so much for your support.
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Welcome to OBEY Convention VIII. In the coming days Halifax will play host to musicians from across Canada, the USA, and beyond. There will be displays of virtuosity, both blissful and punishing explorations in electronics, late night punk damage, and waves of ambient drone. We also have a slew of DJs, tightly curated interlude music, video installations, floral adornments, and even a festival beer by Garrison. We truly believe there is something for each and every one of you this year.
Besides our main concerts, we also offer a number of free events, including a noisy affair outside Memorial North Library on Friday and a blissful afternoon of poetry and harmonium on Sunday at Common Roots Urban Farm. There will be workshops, discussions, pop-up shows, spoken word performances, and, of course, the Khyber’s standalone visual art festival, Art In Fest.
Passes are now SOLD OUT. Single tickets are still available for select shows.
Since things get a little chaotic during the weekend, we thought it would be best to go over a few logistical details here. If you have any questions during the festival, just say howdy to one of us or shoot off an email. Okay, we’ll see you soon.
Passes Pick-up and Usage
Pass bracelets can be picked up at The Khyber Centre for the Arts starting Thursday at 11am or at the door of any festival event. Please bring ID. Paid passes guarantee admission to all events. That being said, please be patient with our volunteers and try to arrive early, if possible. Some of the venues are quite small, so dealing with capacity will require finesse from or door personnel. Let’s all work together! Comp passes—artists, volunteers, etc—are capacity based. There are a lot of these passes! We usually do quite well at getting most of you inside, but again, show up early at the smaller venues. Passes are non-transferable.
Khyber Lounge (5521 Cornwallis St.)
Our friends at the Khyber will be opening their doors to festival goers and weary souls alike. Need a place to replenish your spirit and have a snack? The artist-run centre will be hosting an all-ages crash pad and snack club, a 19+ cash-only dive bar, as well as a gnarly installation from local artist Emily Pelstring, Standard Play. They will also be selling OBEY Convention Music and Arts Society memberships throughout the weekend. May 21-23, 11am-6pm (bar 1pm-6pm)
Lost & Found (2383 Agricola St.)
Our friends at Lost & Found are the exclusive brick-and-mortar retailer for our tickets and passes. They are also rife with festival guides for both OBEY Convention and Art In Fest. And it’s just a rad store, so drop by. Tickets and passes are also available online and at the door of select events.
Visiting Halifax?
Nice to meet you. If you are looking for a nourishing meal, check our Field Guide or Edna. Shopping for records? Hit up Obsolete or Taz. Need a place to crash? The Westin is nice. For a bed on the cheap, check out Alter Egos. Comics and collectables can be found at Strange Adventures. Java Blend, Two If by Sea, and The Trident have the best coffee in town. And for no cost activities, stroll through the Public Gardens or Point Pleasant Park, visit our new Central Library (our festival kicks off there with Peter Brotzmann and Jerry Granelli on Thursday), or head out to Lawrencetown Beach. Have the best time and thanks for visiting.
O•VIII from Seth Smith on Vimeo.
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we regret to inform you that Omar Souleyman will be unable to perform at this year’s OBEY Convention. All tickets purchased online will be fully refunded early next week. Those of you who purchased festival passes at full value (after early bird pricing) will receive a partial refund at some point in the next few days.
The show will go on, but we’re moving to 10pm at Menz and Mollyz Bar (2182 Gottingen St). The revised lineup will consist of Absolutely Free, Petra Glynt (just added), Love Thy Will Be Done, and DJ Fadzwa.
Despite this unfortunate circumstance, we remain steadfast and looking forward.
Team OBEY Convention
The season is upon us. OBEY Convention VIII gets underway is less than 3 weeks. Artists will soon be traveling to Halifax from all over for our annual celebration of contemporary music and art. If you haven’t perused our lineup yet, do it now. Our 2015 installment covers a wide array of sonic bemusement. We offer you world-class jazz, Syrian wedding music, industrial techno, new age classical, chamber drone, various flavors of avant-guitar music, dreamy electronics and so much more.
For those not yet prepared for the weekend, know that passes and single tickets are now available for purchase from our friends at Lost & Found (2383 Agricola St., Halifax). Of course, online purchase is still available as well. TICKETS | PASSES
Please keep in mind that we have a limited number of full weekend passes still available. We’ve already sold more than last year’s total, so there’s a possibility we’ll have to take these off sale at some point. So act fast. If you have purchased a pass, thank you so much. You will be able to pick up your bracelet on opening day at either Lost & Found or the door of any event. Just bring along your ID.
Okay, follow us on Facebook and Twitter for updates as they happen. We have a number of exciting developments in the works, including a “promotional” video by Seth Smith (see screenshot above), concert installations by James Gauvreau, live streaming of select events by CKDU, Khyber Festival Lounge details, a full Art In Fest lineup, and more. See you soon.
Despite the frigid winds and the lingering blankets of snow, our hearts are in a spring fever. Today we offer a guide to help you dream along with us. Take a look at the full schedule for our 2015 installment.
Firstly, we want to make mention of two late additions to the roster. Hailing from Montreal, ex-Haligonians Romy and Sari Lightman bring us nuanced art-pop as Tasseomancy. They’ll be summoning a set of fresh tracks from their new record, Palm Wine Revisited (due May 5th on Healing Power Records), at our Sunday afternoon show with local of-the-moment gurus Gift from God. And for the late night fare, we add rural Nova Scotia’s gnarliest techno fiend, Parliament, to a bill with Crousetown’s kaleidoscopic wunder-junkers, JOYFULTALK.
We’re psyched to be taking over some of our favourite venues again: the venerable Fort Massey Church, the mighty Bus Stop Theatre, the delectable Menz Bar and the esteemed Maritime Conservatory. And to have the support and hospitality of the Halifax Public Libraries again is a great honour. We’ll be running workshops, artist talks and pop-up shows throughout the festival at both the North Memorial Branch and the brand new Halifax Central Library.
For the first day of the festival, we’re dipping into new territory by presenting an early-evening artist talk at the Halifax Central Library with free-jazz legend Peter Brotzmann and drum-heller Jerry Granelli. Then, we offer an evening engagement at the Halifax Music Co-op with Brooklyn’s Bing & Ruth and genius improv duo Not The Wind Not The Flag. Following that, we’ve got a glorious party planned at the Marquee Club with Syrian legend Omar Souleyman, prog-poppers Absolutely Free, neo-souls Love Thy Will Be Done (aka THOMAS) and one of Halifax’s finest dance floor firestarters, DJ Fadzwa. Also joining the heat force throughout the weekend are NSCAD’s reigning champ DJ Doris, dark matter master DJ A.J. Pearson, and from Montreal, Psychic Handshake’s DJ Malville and Homeshake’s very own DJ Baby Blue.
There’s a late night sludgefest with Buck Gooter and Gashrat, a brunch with Moss Lime, Bonnie Doon and Vulva Culture, an evening mass with Noveller, You’ll Never Get To Heaven and Hey Mother Death, and a Sunday meditation with Lubomyr Melnyk and Dreamspoitation, among other mind-bending bills.
We have individual tickets on sale for all our main events, and there are still a few passes but they’re moving fast.
The vague woods have broken, the ocean is a mix. Keep your mind’s eye sharp. See the colour of spring.
May is near. So how about the other big chunk of our lineup? The OBEY Convention, Atlantic Canada’s festival of contemporary music and art, is ecstatic to announce Syrian wedding singer turned international techno sensation, Omar Souleyman. He comes to us from a string of festival headlining spots around the globe and collaborations with the likes of Bjork and Four Tet for a dance party unlike anything Halifax has ever experienced. Also in keeping with this year’s emphasis on progressive electronic stylings, we looked in our backyard to discover Rebecca Baxter, sound machine builder and sonic adventurer. Baxter is currently working with The Flaming Lips to score a screening of the unparalleled experimental masterpiece Eraserhead for a private David Lynch party, and her noise boxes are now in the hands of everyone from Miley Cyrus to Moby.
A few weeks back we announced one of the most important figures in experimental jazz—German saxophone legend Peter Brotzmann. So to round out the serious business of OBEY Convention VIII, we are now pleased to bring you Winnipeg’s new age pianist Lubomyr Melnyk. His transformative compositions and lightning-speed performances have made him one of the most intriguing figures of contemporary classical music, but it took his recent signing with UK label Erased Tapes to finally bring worldwide recognition for a lifetime dedicated to the metaphysical realms of piano. Also coming to us from the classical sphere: New York chamber-drone ensemble Bing & Ruth, whose 2014 LP Tomorrow Was The Golden Age garnered mass acclaim everywhere from Pitchfork to The New York Times. The album was even famously listed by Thom Yorke as his second favorite of 2014.
Burnt-mind punkers, psych-poppers, and other guitar cult brainwormers—what would OBEY Convention be without them? How about Buck Gooter all the way from Virginia? A screwed-up industrial, performance art, blooze punk duo that a friend of the festival warned us about a few years back. Their live show is frightening and notorious. They join us off a stint of dates through the USA with Lightning Bolt. We bring you Toronto’s golden boy Thomas Gill and his new band Love Thy Will Be Done for a dance floor mix-‘n-mingle of the highest order. And again, one of the best things we have going comes from right here at home—we offer you krautpop Halirawk purveyors, Moon.
There’s so much more to tell you about—Montreal’s Moss Lime, Ottawa’s Bonnie Doon, N213’s Group Vision from Vancouver, JFM, Ali Zhang, Hey Mother Death, JOYFULTALK, Not The Wind Not The Flag, Gift from God, Life Chain, Vulva Culture, more, more, more. And don’t forget the artists we’ve already announced—Peter Brotzmann, Noveller, Last Lizard, Homeshake, Absolutely Free, Container, Ramzi, You’ll Never Get To Heaven, and Gashrat.
We may announce another artist or two in the coming weeks. We have a list of local DJs in store for you as well. We’ll get you all that, and then on April 10th we will reveal our full schedule, including main events, workshops by Weird Canada, a community noisemaking initiative, and free pop-up concerts. And finally, before April is through, we’ll come to you with our standalone art programme for Art In Fest 2015.
Winter has ended. We felt warmth from the sun for the first time this week.
It will be good to see you soon.
Passes are available now.
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Tales from The White Liar Tavern - The Black Claw
Published: Friday, 17 February 2012 07:00
"The Black Claw"
On a particularly cold and dark evening, as the noise of low hanging branches scratched at the windows of the tavern, a group of younger Dwarves were having some fun at the expense of a ‘Long Beard’ – an ancient looking Dwarf who carried upon his back a huge double headed axe.
“Young Beards, they just don’t ‘ave the respect for their seniors.” was the curt statement from the elder as he ordered a tankard of brew and sat quietly in the corner.
“What about a story?” was the taunt from one particularly loud and brave young Dwarf.
“A story, I’ll tell ye a story. A tale so rotten it will taint your ale.” replied the old Dwarf. He sipped his ale and began.
"Ye will know that for many years the Star Wraith himself, Aleksander, walked amongst the living flesh of Valon and searched out sources of Wilde Magick and in particular lost or special items for his own ends. One such magical item was a ‘Living Branch of Yew’, which is said to have allowed Aleksander to command the very trees of the forest and even make them march on his enemies.
Later when the Dark Czar was corrupted by the Evil Forces and teachings of the Necromancers, the branch is said to have shrivelled and petrified.
During the Wars with Mordred and the Annulment and decline of Wilde Magick that followed such artefacts, especially those which still held some power, were rare indeed. So rare were they that a number of foolish individuals sought them out on quests across Valon.
“The Living Branch of Yew, once lifelike and filled with natures sap, had withered into the shape of a gnarled and blackened hand upon which nails as sharp as thorns could be found and the twisted wood forming black knuckles, all knotted and raised. Legend renamed it the Black Claw.
“Eventually with the wars in Urop allowing the minions of Aleksander access to places previously held fast by noble folk, the Claw was found by an ambitious Vampire Lord. The Vampire, fearful of his position as a minor lord of the Moskovan court, kept the find hidden from the Dark Czar and always kept the Black Claw close about his person. Despite his weak-will he continued to experiment with the staff in an attempt to discover all of its arcane secrets.
As the months passed the Vampire became more and more obsessed by his experiments and, expedited by rumours that Aleksander had happened upon information of the whereabouts of the branch, a strange and horrific change overcame him. His right hand began to resemble the twisted staff itself and he was forced to wear a velvet glove for the rest of his short existence. A few months later the Czar’s advisor, Razputrovich, was reported to have ‘acquired’ the magical staff and had experimented with it, with similar results. It is said that Razputrovich still wears a glove on his left hand. There is no doubt in my mind that this is due to the strange transmogrification properties of the staff."
Almost as if planned a nearby tree creaked and it's boughs thudded against the White Liar's roof.
"The elderly Dwarf smiled grimly and continued his tale. “Later in the Mordredian Wars the Black Claw was once again lost, however, rumours soon began to emerge that the staff was once again active and, at an emergency gathering of the Dwarven clans, a regiment of hand picked Dwarven Pioneers was raised with the sole aim of finding and destroying the Claw. During this time many reports of the magical artefact filtered back to the Dwarven Councils – but precious few of the reports could be verified and none of them spoke of the weapon’s destruction. Now, years later, the once proud and numerous Dwarven Pioneer Regiment has dwindled to all but a handful of weary survivors. Some of them still search, even now, for the Claw hoping to destroy it.
Some of my Dwarven brethren have had some success though. It is that success that has led to those few Pioneers that remain becoming the target of whatever,” he sipped his ale and met the eyes of every listener, “or whoever, controls the Black Claw.”
The younger Dwarves erupted into a barrage of derogatory comments all targeted at the elderly Dwarven Axeman.
“Do you take us for birthlings, youngsters still clinging to their mother’s skirts? What sort of tale is this?”
At this the old Dwarf shook his head, laughed, took one last swig of his ale and rose to leave.
“Good Morrow to you all”, he said as he left the tavern, pulling his single thick leather glove, which he had not removed, tighter around his left hand.
As he left the inn, the room fell quiet. All that could be heard was the continued scratching of old near dead branches on the windows of the inn.
With a slow dawning realisation the mocking faces of the young Dwarves turned to expressions of cold fear. There are no trees, no branches, anywhere close to The White Liar, what had been causing the noise…
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John Pace
(c. 1523-c1590)
John Pace, the Jester
from the Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 15, pg 22, edited by Sidney Lee
Pace, John (1523?-1590?), professional fool, born about 1523, was probably son of John Pace a brother of Richard Pace [q. v.] (cf. Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, vol. iv. pt. iii. pp. 1472-3). The elder John Pace was appointed custumer of Lynn, Norfolk, in 1522 (13 Hen. VIII), and was afterwards settled in London (ib. p. 2344, vol. iii. pt. ii. p. 889). Educated at Eton, John the younger was elected a scholar of King's College, Cambridge, in 1539. He apparently left the university without a degree, although he was popularly credited with being a master of arts. That he was soon attached in the capacity of jester to the court of Henry VIII is often stated, but the statement rests on no contemporary authority, and it is possible that those who credit Pace with the distinction confuse him with another professional fool, Robert Saxton, ordinarily called Patch, who, after attending Cardinal Wolsey with great fidelity until his death, entered the royal service (CAVENDISH, Life of Wolsey). There seems, however, little doubt that Pace became jester in the household of the Duke of Norfolk before Henry VIII's death, and that, in Elizabeth's reign, he was transferred to the court. That a man of education like Pace should have voluntarily assumed ' the fool's coat' often excited hostile comment. To such criticism Pace's friend, John Heywood [q.v.] the epigrammatist, once answered that it was better for the common weal for wise men to 'go in fools' coats' than for fools to 'go in wise men's gowns' (CAMDEN, Remaines, ed. 1857, p. 314). Two examples of Pace's wit are extant, but neither reaches a high level of excellence. Cardinal Allen relates in his 'Apology' (p. 68) that when the English government interdicted the circulation of catholic books in England,' madde J. Pace, meeting one day with M. Juel [i.e. John Jewel, bishop of Salisbury], saluted his lordship courtly, and said, " Now, my Lord, you may be at rest with these felowes, for you are quit by proclamation." ' Bacon relates in his 'Apopthegms' ( Works, ed. Spedding, Ellis, and Heath, vii. 125) that 'Pace the bitter fool was not suffered to come at the Queen because of his bitter humour. Yet at one time some persuaded the Queen that he should come to her; undertaking for him that he should keep compass. So he was brought to her, and the Queen said: "Come on, Pace; now we shall hear of our faults." Saith Pace: "I do not use to talk of that that all the town talks of." ' Pace was dead before 1592.
Nash, in the 'Address to the Printer' of his 'Pierce Pennilesse' (1592), complains that the printer's haste in sending the book through the press had prevented him from apprnding 'certayne epistles' which he had written 'to the Ghost of Pace, the Duke of Norfolk's jester.' These 'Epistles' are not known elsewhere.
[Harwood's Alumni Eton. p. 157; Cooper's Athens Cantabr.i. 430; Gent.Mag. 1820,ii.410; Doran's Court Fools.] S. L.
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Graebel Relocation Implementation Group Executive, Myrla Lance, Names Key Players to Global Group
Tonya Porath CRP, CERC, Matt Ockels CRP, and Brian Hettinger named to Implementation team
Aurora, COLO USA (PRWEB) April 09, 2015
Today, Graebel Relocation senior vice president operational excellence Myrla Lance has named Tonya Porath CRP, CERC, Matt Ockels CRP, and Brian Hettinger to the Implementation team. Led by Lance, each implementation manager will be accountable for the successful transition and implementation of new client relocation and mobility programs that are administered by Graebel, an industry-leading global management firm.
Poised for accelerated global growth, these latest appointments reflect the organization’s approach to its highly personalized service and communication model that begins with the alignment of processes and the expectations of every client, its work groups; and, conveyance of information with client-dedicated intra-Graebel global teams and the company’s global supplier network.
According to Lance, “Tonya, Matt and Brian were selected for their proven ability to assess unique situations and for their deep understanding about a client’s cross-functional and often stand-alone departments or global divisions with differing policies and relocation programs which call for collaboration and expert consultations. More than their total combined 41 years’ industry experience, each is eager to provide guidance and offer support for each client no matter the program’s complexity or the amount of in-person travel that may be required for each implementation to be successful.”
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Founded in 1950, Graebel Companies is a privately-held global organization that offers the full suite of employee and commercial office relocation, mobility management, workplace and consultative services for the Global 100, Fortune 500 and emerging companies. On-the-ground services are managed in 165 countries on six continents. The world headquarters is located in Aurora, Colorado USA with in-region centers throughout the Americas, APAC and EMEA regions. Known for its industry-first innovations, Graebel holds numerous quality and security credentials, and has earned accolades from clients and from within its industry for its best-in-practice quality and market intelligence research and corporate social responsibility initiatives across the globe. To learn more visit: http://www.graebel.com
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About PPHS
PPHS Pty Ltd have been operating in Naracoorte since 1988 as private livestock agents. We pride ourselves in the professional service that we offer to our extensive client base in marketing their livestock and property.
Over the years, expansion has taken place. We currently have resident agents in Penola and Kingston. With the healthy Naracoorte Livestock Exchange having full support of South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales buyers, together with extensive on-hooks, on property and export livestock sales, the company offers many years of expertise in marketing.
PPHS Pty Ltd are members of Rural Marketing Agents (RMA) which has over 90 member private agencies offering a further networking tool and source of marketing contacts and Australian Livestock & Property Agents Association Ltd (ALPA) which is a national organisation providing continuing representation and information to members on industry issues.
In October 2005, our company made a further expansion into Real Estate Sales Consulting and Property Management. Due to our geographical location being very close to the South Australian / Victorian border we have real estate sales people who are licensed to operate in both states.
Our operating region
Based at Naracoorte our operating region extends from Penola and Casterton in the south, Kingston on the coast, Goroke, Edenhope and Nhill in the East and Bordertown, Padthaway and Western Flat in the North.
Within these borders lies a vast array of different types of country and speciality enterprises that run on them. Good rainfall allows cropping, small seeds, lucerne seed, hay production, cattle, prime lamb production, merinos, viticulture and horticulture to flourish within this region.
A major plus for all of these areas is the underground water supply that makes irrigation a big part of a reliable area.
Our region encompasses the wine regions of Padthaway, Wrattonbully, Coonawarra and Mt Benson, all of which produce quality red and white wines.
The World Heritage listed Naracoorte Caves also attracts large numbers of visitors.
Robin Steen
Having worked in the livestock industry for four decades, he has gained invaluable knowledge in all aspects of livestock agency work and its associated tasks. Robin undertakes the majority of administration duties within The Company whilst also maintaining close contacts with his vast clientele.
From 1980 Michael has worked as a stock agent. He has resided in Penola since 1985 where PPHS now has their own office and thriving real estate business. Michael currently holds real estate sales person licenses for both South Australia and Victoria.
If you have any property or livestock queries drop us a line.
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Our aesthetic: Primal Modern exists at the intersection of ancient Eastern art and philosophy on one hand and minimalist modern art, architecture and design on the other, blurring the line between art and function.
Capturing transitions: We synthesize the rich, complex, organic forms of natural woods with the crisp, clean minimalist modern features of steel, glass and leather to create evocative, one-of-a-kind, exclusive pieces of art with a function.
Importance of sustainability: Our thoughtful and patient process ensures quality slabs that are environmentally sensitive and properly prepared for indoor use.
“My work exists at the intersection of ancient Eastern art and philosophy, and minimalist modern architecture and design — blurring the line between art and function.”
Wabi-Sabi meets minimalist modern design.
My designs are inspired by ancient art and philosophy of Wabi-Sabi which has been associated with Zen Buddhism for over 1,000 years, with its philosophical roots in Taoism nearly 1,500 years earlier. Wabi-Sabi looks to nature and natural phenomenon for its inspiration and sees beauty in the inconspicuous aspects of nature… beauty in things impermanent and incomplete.
Wabi-Sabi philosophy is a recognition that all things/forms are impermanent and in a constant transition from existence to nonexistence. The Wabi-Sabi essence resides in the organic, warm, primal qualities of the highly figured natural wood that form over it's lifetime. Where traditional woodworkers consider cracks, knots and unusual grain patterning to be imperfections, I celebrate these unique characteristics. For me the wild variations are an essential presence of the tree, a window into its life experiences.
I freeze this transition between existence and nonexistence to capture that moment of the tree's life cycle and then synthesize the rich, complex, organic forms of natural woods with the crisp, clean minimalist modern features of metal, glass and leather to create evocative, one-of-a-kind, exclusive works of art with a function.
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Red News guide to Seville for United fans heading over
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Seville:
When you arrive: taxis from the airport cost between 20 and 30 euros. There is a bus route from the airport which takes you into town for 4 euros. The centre of town sits just to the east of the river; Seville’s football stadium is east of town. Taxis, buses and an underground system are all available.
There are small bars pretty much everywhere you go in Seville, all offering similar menus. Tortillas (Spanish omelettes), patatas bravas, montaditos (little sandwiches) and fried seafood are offered pretty much everywhere (Sevillian food involves a lot of frying). For something local, there is an Andalucian cold soup dish called Salmorejo which is widely sold and can be delicious. The most common beer on tap in Seville is Cruzcampo. In most places, ordering a beer will get you only this. Some bars offer more of a range; to find more recognisable drinks, you’ll have to go to an English bar.
There are a few british pubs in Seville. The best by a distance is The Pheonix. Sitting just across the river near Los Remedios, The Pheonix has several screens which show football matches. You can get international beers not-too-expensively and the pub food and general atmosphere is good. The crowd is also fairly international. O’Neill’s is another English pub, located slightly nearer the centre. The drinks here are expensive, however, and the screens worse for watching football. The crowd is almost entirely English, however. The Clan is a Scottish pub, a little further from the river.
There’s a large open street called Alameda with a long run of bars and a couple of clubs that get busy in the evenings. A restaurant on the stretch called Alameda 5 does tasty, relatively inexpensive food – they do a delicious caramelised pork steak in curry sauce, but most of the menu is also high quality. They also get a lot of English diners there, so the staff and menus are both accommodating to non-Spanish-speaking clientele. Alameda 5 also have a large outside screen which is wheeled out for football matches, but typically shows Spanish fixtures.
There is a jazz bar called Naima Jazz Café which has good live music until midnight every night. Drinks are expensive but they do offer pints – most places don’t.
There’s a chain of fast food restaurants called 100 Montaditos which offers 100 different hot sandwich options and you can get large beers called ‘jarras’ (a bit less than a pint) for €1.50. Their hot dogs are particularly good value. There are three different 100 Montaditos around the city centre. The Good Burger also does high-quality fast food, and all burgers are two-for-one on Thursdays.
A bar called La Gitana Loca (“The Crazy Gypsy”) does incredibly cheap drinks – if you want to sit outside, a bar on Alameda called Amanacer also does cheap drinks. There is a run of bars in a part of town called Alfalfa which get quite busy in the evenings.
In terms of culture: there are a couple of art museums that are free to enter. There is a park with a fantastic building and courtyard called the Plaza de España which is beautiful and well worth seeing if the weather is good. The Real Alcazar – an old palace – is also amazing to look around, if you’re after some sight-seeing. The cathedral is similarly impressive, inside and out, and located right near the centre of the city. There is a bull ring which you can see but there aren’t any fights until April.
There’ll be a heightened police presence around the city around match day – obviously – remember to be a bit careful because the local police have been known to get quite violent.
he lives over there at the moment by the way.
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How To Pick The Proper Social Media Service
Last month my social business published an article about picking the right social networking network for the nonprofit organization. The answer from organizations was excellent, and it made me understand that I need to include it into a bit for all those who are kind enough to accompany my website.
Social Networking is the Fantastic Equalizer
I don’t believe anybody argues anymore that social networking is a tendency of a trend. It’s here to stay, and we’re fortunate to live in a universe in which we could connect with people around the world fast, easily and in real time via social media.
Social networking has knocked down walls and boundaries also have enabled companies, nonprofits, and nearly anybody to connect in ways that are unprecedented in history.
The following would be the biggest social media platforms:
Snapchat – 300,000 users.
Definitely, Facebook is your biggest social networking platform on earth. Nothing else comes near it. Facebook has a great deal of fans and detractors, but for whatever it’s worth, should you’re trying to receive your message out of your company, Facebook should most likely be the first place you see.
Facebook Experts
Tweets look in Google search results
Facebook Messenger messages can only be transmitted from a single account rather than a Facebook Page
Twitter has had any challenges to its own business model, and its own stagnated for a moment, but it’s still a force to be reckoned with, and folks still use it for real time communication. If a thing is newsworthy anyplace on Earth, rest assured that folks are tweeting relating to it.
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Algorithm change no more articles tweets as they happen, however what Twitter considers you need to see
Instagram is a wonderful platform for video and photo sharing. It’s about artwork on Instagram and associations can communicate their narrative easily with this platform via high quality pictures. A picture is really worth a million words and thousands and thousands of instagram followers are around Instagram daily searching for photographic inspiration.
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Planning: Questions On Notice – Building Amendment (Private Bushfire Shelter Construction)
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MS DUNN — To ask the Special Minister of State (for the Minister for Planning): In relation to the Building Amendment (Private Bushfire Shelter Construction) Interim Regulations 2009 how many applications for permits under the Regulations have been —
(a) received;
(b) granted.
I am informed that, as at the date the question was raised:
It is not possible to report on the number of building permit applications received, as these are submitted to individual building surveyors who are not obliged to report such information to the Victorian Building Authority.
Information regarding building permit transactions under the as the Building Act 1993 and Building Regulations 2006 must be kept by each relevant building surveyor, who is required to report to the Victorian Building Authority on matters such as payment of levies and the issuing of permits.
Regulation 322 requires that, within seven days after the end of each month, building surveyors must provide the Victorian Building Authority with details of building permits issued during that month.
Based on information from the Victorian Building Authority database of building levy returns, 112 building permits have been granted in relation to private bushfire shelters. These permits were granted during the period between September 2010 and 12 May 2015.
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Drown in Their Own Blood
A version of this article appeared in The Express Tribune on September 2, 2010
Following a traumatic event, it takes time to move from reaction to reflection. The gruesome lynching in Sialkot of brothers Hafiz Mughees, 17, and Muneed Sajjad, 15, has rightly led to an outpouring of condemnation. But it has also led to reactive and de-contextualized demonizations of the entire Pakistani nation. Perhaps this captures in some way the public mood of anger and, one hopes, shame. A befitting epitaph for the dead children – and remember that they were only children – must also include reflection on the social contradictions within which the homicides took place.
We must painfully acknowledge that these killings, even accounting for the youth of the victims, are not unique in and of themselves. Such incidents of ultra-violence have become commonplace in much of the country. Rather, the capture of the incident on video has made the entire nation a silent spectator to brutal murder, in a sense analogous to the grotesque voyeurs that thronged the killers. Reaction to it, therefore, has been visceral, far surpassing anything inspired by a myriad of similar stories frequently reported in the black-and-white press.
What allows such incidents to proliferate is the dangerously precarious position Pakistan occupies between tradition and modernity. The trappings of modernity – from the nation state to attendant economic dislocation and social fragmentation – have penetrated Pakistani society enough to cause a breakdown in the structures of traditional social authority. Previously, hierarchical mechanism of social control, such as elders, biraderi networks and tribal ties, were able to exert a form of order, albeit a highly conservative one. This is decreasingly the case, and the power of traditional community leaders is ebbing.
Unlike many others developing countries, but by no means uniquely among modernizing post-colonial societies, the Pakistani state has been thoroughly incapable of filling this social vacuum with well functioning institutions. In this it has failed in its most basic function; to provide for the security and welfare of its citizens. This is a double tragedy in a country with an overstuffed security budget. Pakistan spends so much time obsessing, and obsessively spending on, an externally oriented military security apparatus that it scarcely has the capacity to maintain law and order. Law enforcement in much of Pakistan borders on the non-existent. Moreover, the judicial system, particularly at the lower levels where the majority of citizens are likely to encounter it, is unraveling at the seams. These are the real threats to Pakistan; parasites consuming it from within, not predators stalking it on the outside.
The receding authority and legitimacy of both traditional social structures and the state were on display in Sialkot. Members of the community and functionaries of the state – the police officers who idly stood by – were equally impotent in stemming the orgy of violence. A steady brutalization of Pakistan’s social psyche has occurred in this context. The state and traditional power-brokers have been fully complicit in this process by making a virtue out of violence, and by contributing to intolerance and ethnic and sectarian fissures that spew an unceasing stream of hatred.
Thus Pakistan’s predicament is not that it is too traditional or not modern enough (or vice versa), but rather that it is lost in a twilight of inertia where it is not sufficiently either. This condition was vividly captured by Germaine Tillion on the eve of the violent decolonization of Algeria, who may well have written that Pakistanis too are “living on the frontiers of two worlds – in the middle of the ford – haunted by the past, fevered with dreams of the future. But it is with their hands empty and their bellies hollow that they are waiting between their phantoms and their fevers.”
The middle of the ford holds only a brutal confusion cannibalizing Pakistani society. It is where these two children in Sialkot and too many others like them have drowned in their own blood.
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Short- and long-term follow-up of living kidney donors
Imen Abdellaoui1, A Azzabi1, W Sahtout1, F Sabri1, W Hmida2, A Achour1
1 Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Department, Sahloul University Hospital of Sousse, Tunisia
2 Urology Department, Sahloul University Hospital of Sousse, Tunisia
Date of Submission 13-Feb-2018
Date of Acceptance 18-Mar-2018
Date of Web Publication 23-Apr-2019
Living-donor kidney transplantation is a well-established treatment of end-stage renal disease in Tunisia. Over the years, concerns have increased about the harmlessness of kidney donation. This longitudinal single center study was carried out to evaluate the safety of nephrectomy as well as further medical and surgical outcomes among donors. We collected and analyzed clinical, biological, biochemical and kidney size data at the time of nephrectomy and at M1, M3, M6, Y1, Y2, and Y4 after donation measured by ultrasound. All donor nephrectomies performed in the nephrology and transplantation unit of Sahloul Hospital of Sousse since October 2006 were included. Criteria of exclusion were lost to follow-up or lack of complete data. Of the 106 donors (66 females and 40 males), 92 donors were included in the follow-up analysis after following exclusion criteria. The mean age at the time of nephrectomy was 42.8 ± 10 years with the sex ratio 0.6. and 27% of our donors were mothers. Twenty-two percent of the donors were obese and 4% were hypertensive. The median initial glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was 105 mL/min/1.73 m2. The surgical approach was costal lumbotomy in 96% of cases and laparoscopy for four cases. The kidneys were removed from the left side in 93% of cases. Postoperative mortality was zero and early postoperative morbidity was low. The median duration of hospital stay was nine days. During follow-up, 14% attended all recommended visits. The median follow-up duration was 26 months. After two years post donation, the prevalence of HTN was 28% and obesity was 26%. The prevalence of GFR decline (50–59 mL/min) was 14% using formula by modification of diet in renal disease. None of our donors reached stage 4 or 5 CKD. Twelve had proteinuria and one donor had diabetes, a comparable prevalence of morbidities to the general population.
Abdellaoui I, Azzabi A, Sahtout W, Sabri F, Hmida W, Achour A. Short- and long-term follow-up of living kidney donors. Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl 2019;30:401-20
Abdellaoui I, Azzabi A, Sahtout W, Sabri F, Hmida W, Achour A. Short- and long-term follow-up of living kidney donors. Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl [serial online] 2019 [cited 2019 Jul 17];30:401-20. Available from: http://www.sjkdt.org/text.asp?2019/30/2/401/256848
Living kidney donor (LKD) transplantation is a well-established treatment of choice for the ever-increasing number of patients with endstage renal disease (ESRD), offering longer survival and a better quality of life at a lower cost than dialysis.[1],[2]
Since LKD transplantation is performed when the donor and the recipient are in optimum medical conditions, compared to cadaveric donors, recipients of living donor kidney grafts enjoy greater long-term graft survival and a better quality of life than do recipients of cadaveric kidney grafts.[3] In addition, it reduces the number of patients on the wait list for a cadaveric kidney. This is particularly important because the gap between the number of cadaveric donors and the number of patients on the waiting list is increasing.[4] An increase in the number of living donors (including living-unrelated donors) may ameliorate this trend.[5]
A randomized controlled American study (3698 donors) has shown no significant difference in mortality and in chronic kidney disease (CKD) occurrence in donors compared to general population over 30-year follow-up.[6] However, a Chinese meta-analysis published in 2016 (including 62 study and 19 country) concluded to a prevalence of CKD of 1.1% and mortality (all causes included) of 3.8%. Moreover, renal-related mortality occurred only after 10 years of follow-up.[7] These contradictions in donors’ outcomes led to many interrogations about the future of donors. Therefore, the harmlessness of kidney donation seems to be questioned. This is more relevant in an Arab Muslim developing country like Tunisia, where lack of cadaveric donors is continuously leading to an increase in living donor numbers.
The aim of this study is to evaluate the the safety of nephrectomy as well as medical and surgical outcomes among LKDs, both short and long terms.
This is a longitudinal monocentric study, involving a cohort of 106 LKDs in which nephrectomies were performed between November 2007 and April 2015. All the donors were chosen following the Amsterdam consensus recommendations,[8] and the nephrectomies were performed respecting the Istanbul consensus.[9]
In April 2016, the data of followed up donors were collected. To ascertain long-term outcomes, we attempted to contact nonobservant donors and ask about their current physical status. Criteria of exclusions were lost to follow-up donors or lack of complete data at the time of donation or in follow-up. The 92 donors that attended their follow-up visits after donation as per the European Renal Best Practice group recommendations by the European Renal Disease Association were included.[10] Because of the irregularity of visits, we defined visits as follows: M1 = from hospital discharge to the 3rd month, M3 = from the 3rd month to 6th month, M6 = from the 6th month to the 1st year, Y1 = from the 1st year to 2nd year, Y2 = from the 2nd year to the 4th year, and Y4 = 4 years and more. At the time of evaluation, we looked for the presence or history of renal events (i.e., elevation of serum creatinine level or proteinuria). We also detected by periodical checkup the presence or history of other physical or biological affections such as the presence of hypertension (HTN), diabetes mellitus (DM), sugar intolerance, hyperlipidemia, or hyperuricemia [Table 1].
Table 1: Data collection
HTN was defined as systolic blood pressure (SBP) of ≥140 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure (DBP) ≥90 mm Hg on more than one occasion.[11] Proteinuria was defined as protein excretion ≥300 mg over 24 h. Diabetes was diagnosed according to the WHO criteria, and obesity was defined as a body mass index (BMI) of >30 kg/m2 and overweight as a BMI of 25–30 kg/m2.[12] Metabolic syndrome was defined as the American Diabetes Association definition.[13] The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was estimated using three methods: Modification of diet in renal disease (MDRD), Cock-croft and Gault formula (C&G), and formula (U*V/P). The kidney size was measured by its length in centimeters using ultrasound standard examination.
Data were statistically analyzed by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software version 20.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA). Categorical variables were presented as percentages, continuous variables as mean if data are normally distributed (±ET) and median if not (quartiles Q1, Q4). We used paired t-test sample in comparing mean values between visits. We used Pearson Chi-squared test to analyze associations between normally distributed independent variables. We studied the prevalence of HTN, obesity, DM, proteinuria, GFR decrease, prediabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hyperuricemia. For all analyses, P <0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance.
Data at the time of donation
In this study, of the106 nephrectomies performed for donation (66 female and 40 male), 92 were assessed at M1, M3, M6, Y1, Y2, and Y4 after donation and met the criteria of inclusion. Sixty-seven donors (72%) attended the third follow-up visit – M6. Forty-nine donors (54%) attended the 5th follow-up visit Y2 (2st–4th year after donation). The median follow-up was 4.8 years (range 3.5–8.5 years). The mean age was 42.8 ± 10.6 years (range 21–68 years); 56.6% of the donors were between 40 and 60 years and 4.8% were ≥60 years at the time of donation. Donors were 27% mothers, 9% fathers, 15% spouses, and 33% siblings (17% brothers and 16% sisters) [Table 2].
Table 2: The main characteristics before donation. Part 1 (Demographic parameters), Part 2 (Clinico-biological parameters).
The educational level of donors was as follows: 12% had no formal education, 43% had primary education, 32% had secondary education, and 13% had university education. Their marital status was as follows: 79% were married, 16% were single, widowed in four cases, and divorced in one case. The occupational classification was as follows: 42% had a fulltime job, 39% were homemakers, 15% had part-time job, students in two cases, retired in one case, and unemployed in one case. The social conditions were as follows: 71% had health insurance and 21% had free healthcare [Table 2].
One donor had a history of HTN, three donors were diagnosed having HTN at donation time, four had dyslipidemia (3.7%), eight had history of allergy (7.5%), seven had history of cystitis, four had anemia, and one case had hypothyroidism. A total of 30 cases (28%) had a family history of HTN, 27 cases (25%) had a family history of diabetes, seven cases (6.6%) had a family history of cardiovascular diseases, and nine cases (8.4%) had a family history of kidney diseases [Table 2].
The median SBP was 120 mm Hg, and the mean DBP was 70 mm Hg.
The mean BMI was 26.4 ± 4 (range, 16.6–26.2): 25.8 ± 3.5 among men and 26.9 ± 4.4 among women. The BMI was higher in donors aged more than 40 years of age (25.8 ± 3.5 among those aged <40 and 26.9 ± 4.4 among those aged more than 40 years) (P = 0.005). There was no significant difference between men and women in BMI. The distribution of BMI was as follows: 39 donors (37%) had a normal BMI, 45 donors (41%) had overweight, 20% had obesity OMS Stage 1, and in 2 cases, the BMI was more than 35 kg/m2 [Table 2].
The mean serum creatinine level at the time of donation was 65 ± 14 μmol/L: 78 ± 11 μmol/L for men and 57 ± 10 for women. The median GFR estimation with MDRD formula was 105 mL/min/1.73 m2 (105 mL/min/1.73 m2 for men and 110 mL/min/1.73 m2 for women). The median GFR estimation with Cockcroft and Gault formula was 117 mL/min: 124 mL/ min for men and 121 mL/min for women. There is no significant difference in gender of the estimated GFR no matter the estimation method. The majority of donors (more than 95%) had estimated GFR with MDRD greater than 80 mL/min/1.73 m2 and all of them had an estimated GFR greater than 65 mL/min/ 1.73 m2. The mean GFR (MDRD) was not significantly different whether donor was aged more than 40 years or <40 years (P = 0.06–0.09), or was a man or woman (P = 0.2), or had HTN or not (0.0.07), or was obese or not (P = 0.2). Of the 92 donors studied, no one had proteinuria and 6 donors had a microalbuminuria between 30–150 mg/24 h. [Table 2].
The median Fasing blood sugar (FBS) rate was 5.1 mmol/L (4.7; 5.7). The mean total cholesterol (TC) was 4.36 ± 0.8 mmol/L, mean low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-Cho) was 2.84 ± 0.7 mmol/L, and the mean triglycerides (TG) was 0.79 ± 0.5 mmol/L. Mean uric acid blood rate was 273 ± 65 μmol/L, and the median creatine phosphokinase (CPK) was 86 (64; 125) mmol/L. Nine donors had metabolic syndrome.
The mean of the right kidney sizes was 10.6 ± 0.75 cm, and the mean of the left kidney sizes was 10.72 ± 0.84 cm. The mean size in men was 10.77–10.87 cm and in women was 10.52–10.62 cm in the right and left, respectively. There were no significant differences between sides and gender. The comparison in both left and right side of kidney sizes showed a difference between donors aged <30 years and donors aged 30–40 years (P = 0.05) and between donors aged <30 and donors aged more than 40 years (P = 0.04). In 86% of cases, donors have one artery and 16% had two arteries in the right kidney. In 79% of cases, donors had one artery, 20% had two arteries, and two donors had three arteries in the left kidney [Table 2].
Data in perioperative period
In 93% of cases, nephrectomy was performed on the left kidney. Right side nephrectomy occurred in five donors because of the arteries number (2 arteries in 3 cases and 3 arteries in 2 cases) and because of left renal lithiasis in one case. The operation procedure was subcostal lobotomy in 102 donors (96%) and laparoscopic nephrectomy in four donors. Complications during the operation were encountered in few cases: one case of cardiovascular collapses due to hemorrhagic incident, three cases of ventilation trouble, and seven cases of pleural wound without pneumothorax. No cases of anaphylactic reaction, bronchospasm, or death were noted.
The median length of hospital stay after nephrectomy was nine days. Only one donor was reoperated 15 days after nephrectomy due to lymphedema. This length of stay was significantly different in obese donors (P = 0.05) (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) and in those aged more than 40 years (P = 0.04). There was no significant difference in surgical method used.
In the postoperative period, some clinical events were encountered in 44% of donors and included the following: bronchopulmonary tract infection in 23% of cases, cystitis in 21% of cases, surgical site infection in 10 cases, myo-cardial infarction in one case, pulmonary embolism in one case, and transitory HTN in six cases. Some biological events were noted such as transitory acute kidney failure in five cases and rhabdomyolysis in 38% of cases. The mean values of serum creatinine (P = 0.0009), eGFR (MDRD, C&G) (P = 0.0009, P = 0.0002), and hemoglobin (P = 0.0004) before and after nephrectomy were significant, but was not significant for GFR estimated with U*V/P (P = 0.61), creatinine kinase (P = 0.89), and lactate dehydrogenase (P = 0.9). None of the study patients died.
Data after donation
The median follow-up was 4.8 years (ranges 3.5–8.5 years). Only 14% of the donors attended regularly their follow-up visits as recommended. The median of visit numbers was 4 (2; 5): 13 donors (14%) attended only once. However, six donors had more than six visits. The number of donors being lost to the follow-up increased every visit: 18% at M1 to 41% at Y1 and 52% at Y2. The number of donors attending the visits and their percentages (donors attending the visit/donors supposed to attend the visit) were, respectively, as follows: M1 (75; 82%), M3 (71; 78%), M6 (67; 74%), Y1 (57; 63%), Y2 (49; 59%), and Y4 (27; 48%).
Short- and long-term follow-up outcomes The mean BMI was stable during follow-up: a slight elevation was noted after M3 but the mean value remained between 25 and 30 kg/m2.
The mean BMI at Y2 was 28 kg/m2 [Figure 1]. The comparison of BMI mean values between before donation and the different follow-up visits after donation had shown a significant slight elevation only in A1 (27.2 vs. 28.09 kg/m2; P = 0.02). However, it had shown no significant increase in BMI in M1 (P = 0.37), M3 (P = 0.35), M6 (P = 0.15), Y2 (27.5 vs. 28.09 kg/m2; P = 0.08), and Y4 (27.23 vs. 27.7 kg/m2; P = 0.28) [Table 3].
Figure 1: Evolution of BMI, SBP and DBP mean values during the follow-up.
BMI: Body mass index, SBP: Systolic blood pressure, DBP: Diastolic blood pressure.
Table 3: The mean value comparisons of clinical parameters (before vs. after donation).
The prevalence of obesity was 22% before donation and 26% at Y2 (2 years after donation). The prevalence of obesity was higher among women before and after donation [Table 4].
Table 4: The prevalence of the main cardiovascular diseases and metabolic disturbance in LKD 2 years after donation (Y2).
SBP and SBP: An increase in the mean SBP was noted immediately after nephrectomy; then, it remained stable all along the follow-up (inferior to 140 mm Hg). The mean value of DBP was seen increasing all along the follow-up but remaining below 90 mm Hg [Figure 1]. The comparison of mean values of BP before and the different visits had shown a significant increase in DBP in follow-up visits M1 (P = 0.001), M2 (P = 0.001), M6 (P = 0.017), Y2 (71.5 vs. 77 mm Hg; P = 0.007), and Y4 (69 vs. 75 mm Hg; P = 0.03). However, it had shown no significant increase in SPB in all follow-up visits: M1 (P = 0.27), M2 (P = 0.74), M6 (P = 0.96), Y1 (P = 0.95), Y2 (118 vs. 119.5 mm Hg; P = 0.84), and in Y4 (114.7 vs. 120.2 mm Hg; P = 0.08) [Table 3].
HTN: The prevalence of HTN in male donors two years after donation was 8%, and it was 20% in female donors. The prevalence of HTN in this study was 28% and was inferior to the prevalence of HTN in general population. The mean period between donation and HTN occurrence was 16 months [Table 4]. No case of gestational HTN or eclampsia was noted in female donors after donation.
The mean creatinine blood rate (CBR) increased immediately after nephrectomy from 64 μmol/L to 105 μmol/L and decreased progressively during follow-up to reach 84.7 μmol/L at the 5th visit A2. The mean clearance (MDRD) decreased from 108 to 71 mL/min/1.73 m2 but remained superior to 70 and increased progressively to 81 mL/min/1.73 m2 four years after nephrectomy [Figure 2].
Figure 2: Evolution of CBR and clearance mean values during the follow-up.
CBR: Creatinine blood rate, MDRD: Modification of the Diet in Renal Disease.
The immediate elevation in serum creatinine levels as well as the immediate lowering in GFR estimation with both formulas in postoperative period were statistically significant (respectively creatinine level (P = 0.0009), MDRD (P = 0.0009) and C&G (P = 0.0002). The mean CBR at the visit A2 was 84.7 μmol/L, and the mean GFR estimation at the visit A2 were 79.2 mL/min/1.73 m2 (MDRD), 96.3 mL/min (C&G), and 131 mL/min (U*V/P). The comparison of the mean values between before donation and the different follow-up visits after donation had shown a significant elevation in CBR at all the visits M1 (P = 0.0001), M3 (P = 0.0001), M6 (P = 0.0001), Y1 (P = 0.0001), Y2 (P = 0.0001), and Y4 (P = 0.001) and a significant decrease in GFR estimations at M1, M3, M6, Y1, Y2, and Y4 with MDRD, respectively (P = 0.0001; P = 0.0001; P = 0.0001; P = 0.007; P = 0.0001; P = 0.0001), with C&G (P = 0.0001; P = 0.0001; P = 0.0001; P = 0.008; P = 0.0001; P = 0.0001), and with U*V/P (P = 0.0001; P = 0.0001; P = 0.0001; P = 0.001; P = 0.0017; P = 0.017) [Table 5].
Table 5: The comparison of mean values of biological parameters: renal function (creatinine blood rate, glomerular filtration rate estimations with (MDRD, U*V/P, C&G), proteinuria, and microalbuminuria.
The prevalence of GFR decrease (50–59 mL/min) was varying between 4 and 14% at A2 (2 years after donation). This prevalence depends on calculation method [Figure 3]. No donor reached a decline in GFR less than CKD Stage 3 or 4 and no donor required dialysis for ESRD eight years after donation (as the longest period of follow-up reached in the study population). The mean proteinuria of 24H (Pu24H) increased immediately after nephrectomy and reached 0.73 g/L then decreased progressively during follow-up to 0.09 g/L at the 6th visit Y4. The mean microalbuminuria (MALB) increased progressively since the first visit M1 from 0.13 mg/L to 45 mg/L at M3 then 63 mg/L at Y2 and 16 mg/L at Y4 [Figure 4]. The comparison of the mean values of Pu24H and MALB between before donation evaluation and the different follow-up visits after donation had shown no significant elevation at all the visits except for in MALB at M1 (0.08 vs. 0.12; P = 0.037) [Table 5].
Figure 3: The prevalence of GFR decrease (50–59 mL/min) 2 years after donation.
GFR: Glomerular filtration rate, MDRD: Modification of diet in renal disease, C&G: Cockcroft and Gault.
Figure 4: Evolution of proteinuria (Pu24H) and microalbuminuria mean values during the follow-up.
The prevalence of proteinuria (PU24H ≥0.3 g/L) was 24% and the prevalence of MALB (≥30 mg/ 24H) was 24% at Y2 post-donation. The prevalence of proteinuria was equivalent in both gender (12.2%), and the mean period between donation and its occurrence was 11 months. The prevalence of MALB was greater in women (6% vs. 18.3% in men), and the mean period between donation and its occurrence was 12 months [Table 4].
The mean fasting blood sugar (FBS) rate remained stable all along the follow-up between 5.2 g/L and 5.3 g/L. The mean TC rates increased immediately after nephrectomy from 4.3 mmol/L to 4.8 mmol/L but still lower than pathological rates and reached 4.7 mmol/L at Y4. The mean TG rates remained stable between 0.9 mmol/L and 1.1 mmol/L. The highest TG rate was 1.4 at M1 after nephrectomy. The evolution of mean high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-Cho) and LDL-cholesterol was steady with no important variation between before and four years after donation Y4, respectively (HDL-Cho from 1.19 mmol/L to 1.3 mmol/L and LDL-Cho from 2.9 mmol/L to 2.9 mmol/L) [Figure 5].
Figure 5: Evolution of metabolic profile (mean values of FBS, TC, HDL-Cho, LDL-Cho, and TG rates) during the follow-up.
FBS: Fasting blood sugar, TC: Total cholesterol, TG: Triglycerides, HDL-Cho: High-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-Cho: Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
The mean UA rate was increasing progressively from 273 μmol/L (before donation) to attain the highest value at Y1 (316 μmol/L) then decreased to 306 μmol/L at Y4 (still <320 μmol/L).
The comparison of the mean values of metabolic rates between before donation and the different follow-up visits after donation had shown no significant elevation in mean FBS, mean HDL-Cho, and mean CPK rates at all the visits. A significant increase was found in the comparison of mean TC, mean TG, and mean UA rates, respectively, at M1 (0,002; P = 0.0001; P = 0.0001), M3 (P = 0.007; P = 0.025; P = 0.0001), M6 (P = 0.047; P = 0.0001; P = 0.0001), Y1 (P = 0.013; P = 0.003; P = 0.0001), Y2 (P = 0.043; P = 0.045; P = 0.0001), and Y4 (P = 0.017; P = 0.02; P = 0.0001). This difference was significant in both short and long terms. The comparison of mean LDL-Cho rates was significant only in short term at M1 (P = 0.09) and M3 (P = 0.014). However, the increase in mean LDL-Cho rates was nonsignificant at M6 (P = 0.3), Y1 (P = 0.11), Y2 (P = 0.16), and Y4 (P = 0.3) [Table 6].
Table 6: The comparison of mean values of biological parameters: metabolic profile (before vs. after donation).
Diabetes mellitus occurred in one donor 72 months after donation. The donor was a woman aged more than 40 years and had obesity and HTN before nephrectomy. The prediabetes appeared in 40% two years after donation of donors with a mean period of occurrence 22 months. It was more frequent in women (26.5 vs 14.2%). The hyperuricemia happened in 4% equally in both sexes two years after donation with a mean period of occurrence – 14 months. The prevalence of hyperlipidemia in donors at Y2 (2 years of donation) was 61% and was greater in women (38.7% vs 22.4%), and the mean occurrence period was 12 months. The stroke occurred in one donor 22 months after donation. No case of myocardial infarction and no case of death were documented in the donors during a maximum follow-up of eight years [Table 4].
A progressive increase in the remaining kidney mean size was noted since M3 from 10.93 cm at baseline to 11.5 cm then reached 12.2 cm at Y1 and remained same all along the follow-up (12.3 cm at Y4). The ultrasound morphological notes among the 106 donors were found in <5% of cases: in the short-term follow-up, a residual collection in nephrectomy loge in three cases and infiltrated nephrectomy loge in one case. In the long-term follow-up, renal lithiasis occurred in one case and a simple cyst in the inferior pole in two cases. An asymptomatic benign prostatic hypertrophy without posturination residue was noted in two male donors after more than four years of follow-up. The comparison of the remaining kidney mean size measures between baseline and the different follow-up visits after donation had shown a significant elevation in three visits out of six: at M3 (P = 0.03), Y1 (P = 0.0001), and Y4 (P = 0.002). The increase was statistically insignificant at Y2.
Before donation, the microscopic hematuria was noted in four donors (3.7%); an aseptic leukocyturia was found in four cases and lower urinary tract infection with Escherichia More Details coli germs was treated in two female donors. The cause of hematuria was investigated and the nutcracker syndrome (NCS) (left renal vein compression syndrome) was found in the CT angiogram. Two years after donation (at the visit Y2), 29 donors (61%) had performed a cyto-bacteriological examination of urine and was normal in 25 cases (86%). A urinary tract infection was diagnosed in ten cases all along the follow-up, and the mean period between infection and nephrectomy was one month. The infection was not severe, and no pyelonephritis was noted. At Y2, only one donor had confirmed hematuria. He was a 43-year-old man; he had a normal cyto-bacteriological examination of urine before donation, a normal ultrasound examination of bladder, prostate, and kidney had a GFR of 85 mL/min/1.73 m2 In this case it was the right kidney that was taken. Two years after nephrectomy, he had a GFR of 58 mL/ min/1.73 m2 and no lithiasis in the remaining kidney in the ultrasound examination. The follow-up of the four female donors that had NCS at the donation time had shown that three of them had no hematuria all along the follow-up and their GFR remained higher than 73 mL/ min/1.73 m2 at Y2 and one of them had a GFR = 57 mL/min/1.73 m2 with obesity, HTN, and hyperlipidemia occurring after donation but no hematuria with a normal ultrasound examination of the remaining kidney.
The donor’s age is an important parameter in the grafts outcomes.[14] The mean age of kidney donors in this study was similar to many other studies.[15] However, it was younger than many donors’ cohorts such as Gossmann et al,[16] Demir et al,[17] and de Yazawa et al.[18] It was higher than the mean age in Goecke et al.‘s study.[19] In this study, the percentage of donors (28%) aged more than 50 years was similar to many studies.[15] During the two past decades, this percentage is increasing (doubling) all over the world. An older donor was associated to worse outcomes of recipients’ grafts.[20] A medium-aged donor is preferable and is associated with a better graft survival in many studies but there are no definite recommendations by the North American and European transplantation associations.[21]
The sex ratio in this donor’s population was 0.6 with a proportion of 62%. The feminine predominance was noted in another Tunisian study[22] as well as many studies all over the world.[15],[16],[19],[23] In a large French study, the female predominance was found (sex ratio = 0.7) whatever the donor/recipient relationship was.[24] The female predominance was stable during the two last decades in the American studies.[25] However, male predominance was found in a Turkish study published by Demir et al.[17] In this study, like in other Tunisian and worldwide series, the most frequently noted donor/recipient relationships were as the following in decreasing order: mother/child, brothers and sisters, and spouses.[19],[22],[26] A higher percentage of spouses (38.2%) was reported by Wiedebusch et al.[27] The proportion of smokers in the largest North American donor series published was similar to ours (25%–35%), but the proportion of alcohol use was higher among the North American donors (more than 20%).[22],[28] The proportion of donors diagnosed with HTN before donation in this study was 3.6%. It was lower than in North African studies (11%–15%) and worldwide. It reached 17% for the North American series and 18% in the French studies.[22],[24],[29] Reese et al[30] and Briançon et al[31] attributed this variability to the differences in transplant center habits depending on the geographic location, donors’ availability, predominant age of the population, and transplantation activity frequency. The KDIGO 2014 guidelines recommended that DM is a contraindication for kidney donation, except under exceptional circumstances (1D).[21] No diabetic donors were reported in the Tunisian series as well as in this study,[18] although the proportion of non-insulin-dependent diabetics were 7%–11% in the American series and was 4.4% in France.[29],[32],[33]
In North American studies as well as in our study, the mean BMI was varied between 26 and 28 Kg/m2.[30] Similarly, the proportion of donors being obese Stage 1 of OMS classification in this study was similar to the proportion found in the American donors’ register (21%–22%).[30] In other Tunisian studies, this proportion was found to be increasing through the years. Comparing our donors’ outcomes with those of another Tunisian study that was conducted between 1986 and 2009, their proportion was 15%.[22] The prevalence of obesity among donors of another Tunisian study increased after nephrectomy (from 21% to 34%).[22] However, the stability of BMI after donation noted in this study was similar to some Japanese studies.[18],[34] The prevalence of obesity moving from 22% to 24% in two years after donation was superior to Ferreira-Filho et al’s finding[35] but remained inferior to El-Agroudy et al’s study.[23] Accordingly, kidney donation seems not to be exposing to obesity. Interestingly, the prevalence of obesity was less frequent in donors, two years after donation, than in the general Tunisian population, respectively, both in men (5% vs. 6.4%) and women (16.9% vs. 22.7%).[36] Some authors have concluded that preoperative obesity was a risk factor for GFR decrease and proteinuria after donation.[37] This fact has not been approved in the short term by Reese et al.[38] However, Rook et al have noted that the remaining kidney’s function was preserved in donors independently of the initial BMI.[39]
Before donation, the proportion of donors having HTN was 4%. Moreover, Segev et al have found a higher proportion of HTN among donors before nephrectomy (7%).[40] The proportion of donors having a SBP between 120 and 139 mm Hg was 51%. It was lower compared to an American cohort (40%). During donors’ follow-up, many studies did not find an increase in SBP and DBP after donation.[18],[41],[42] However, other studies have shown an increase in SBP and in DBP.[6],[43] Surprisingly, Yazawa et al had found a decrease in DBP after donation.[18] In this study, the prevalence of HTN went from 4% to 28% two years after donation. Furthermore, only one of five studies (249 donors with a follow-up duration varying between 2 and 28 years) found an increase of HTN prevalence after donation.[44],[45],[46] In the cohort of Tunisian donors, the prevalence of HTN two years after nephrectomy in both male (14.7%) and female donors (23.3%) was significantly lower than in the general population (35.9% and 46.2%, respectively).[36] Garg et al have found that gestational HTN and preeclampsia were noted among female donors in 8% to 11% in their Canadian study.[47] In our study, two female donors did have a history of preeclampsia but no case was reported after donation.
The follow-up of creatinine blood levels in this study had shown an increase by 20%, four years after donation compared to baseline. At A4, the GFR was at 72% of the baseline GFR (MDRD). In a retrospective Egyptian study that included 339 living donors, the GFR estimated 10 years post-donation was 73% of the baseline value.[23] The author considered that the renal function of donors was preserved.[23] The decrease in GFR of donors noted in this study (regardless of the estimation method) was found by other studies[48] In the short term, as in this study, some authors agreed that the GFR declines three to six months after nephrectomy and then improves beyond one year.[42],[48] In the contrary, others have found an earlier improvement in the function of the remaining kidney after three months of sampling.[49] Similarly, Goldfarb et al found that the serum creatinine elevation 25 years after donation was significant and still in the normal ranges.[43] Therefore, Ramcharan and Matas did not find significant difference in GFR 37 years after donation.[50] Surprisingly, Borchhardt et al noted a GFR improvement in the long term (137% of GFR expected regarding the age). This improvement was attributed to the compensatory hypertrophy and hyperfiltration in the remaining kidney.[51] During the follow-up, the mean Pu24H increased slightly in the short term then decreased in the long term. Although in the literature, there is no confirmed association between nephrectomy for donation and glomerular protein selectivity, Borchhardt et al recalled that theory in kidney donors.[51] In the studies of Ramesh Prasad et al and Samhan et al, no changes in 24-h urinary protein excretion were noted, respectively, in three and six months postdonation.[41],[42] In a review that included 48 studies and more than 5000 living donors, the mean 24-h urinary protein excretion was 0.154 g/L seven years after nephrectomy.[48] It is a higher value than this study with similar follow-up duration. In this same review of the literature, controlled studies concluded that urinary protein excretion was superior in donors compared to a matched control group of the general population.[48] In our study, the prevalence of proteinuria was 24%, two years after donation. Gossmann et al[16] concluded to a higher rate (65%). However, it was 12% according to Garg et al.[48] In our study, the MALB was noted in 24% of donors two years after nephrectomy. The prevalence of MALB in kidney donors was zero in the cohort of Gracida et al[52] and was varying between 10% and 20% in other studies such as studies by Gossmann et al and Yazawa et al[16],[18] and was 36% in the cohorts of Goldfarb et al.[37],[43]
The metabolic profile of the donors was not changed remarkably. It has long been argued that loss of renal mass may lead to glucose intolerance.[41] This has been confirmed experimentally by Sui et al.[53] Unlike our study, it has been shown by other authors that the modification in sugar blood rates was detected six months after nephrectomy.[54] In our study, DM occurred in one donor six years after donation, a lower prevalence than other studies.[18],[23],[50],[55] Furthermore, it was less than the prevalence of DM in the general Tunisian population both in male (13.6%) and female (15%).[36] According to El-Agroudy et al, the occurrence of DM was not correlated with age at the time of donation, nor with the number of years after nephrectomy.[23] The same study showed that DM was more frequent among donors who became obese after nephrectomy.[23] In this study, the prevalence of glucose intolerance increased from 30% at the time of donation to 40% two years after. However, this rate is still similar to its prevalence in the general Tunisian population.[36] The presence of glucose intolerance increases the risk of developing diabetes by 5%-10% per year in the general population.[53] However, other factors were imputed such as ethnicity, lipid profile, BMI, and family history of DM. But, it was described that disturbances in FBS rate and postprandial sugar blood rate are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular complications. These consequences seem to be more pronounced after nephrectomy.[48] Demographic changes in the US donor population including the increasing of older donors and the high-risk ethnic background proportions (more African American, Native American, and Hispanic) have influenced the prevalence of glucose intolerance, DM, and HTN among donors compared to the last two decades.[56] Nevertheless, the same study has shown that nephrectomy does not expose the donor to an increased risk.[56] Okamoto et al described in a study published in 2009 that donors with glucose intolerance and non-degenerative DM have the same risk of developing CKD as the general Japanese population.[57]
In our study, we noted an increase in mean TC and TG rates in both short and long term after donation. Concerning HDL-Cho, there was a decrease throughout the follow-up. But, in a prospective cohort study, Prasad et al[41] did not note any metabolic changes in donors six months after nephrectomy except the elevation of mean TG rates. Moreover, in the randomized controlled trial of Demir et al,[17] they concluded to a greater increase in TC and TG in donors compared to a matched control group in the general population during the same follow-up period. As in our study, they noted a decrease in HDL-Cho which is known as a protective factor against cardiovascular risk.[17] Sixty-two percent of our donors (22% of men and 38.7% of women) had hyperlipidemia two years after donation. This prevalence, despite being high, was comparable to the Japanese studies like the prevalence 48% noted by Yazawa et al[18] but it exceeded the prevalence of dyslipidemia in an Egyptian study.[23] By examining the changing in lifestyle of donors and its relationship with their weight and lipid status, Demir et al concluded that hyperlipidemia was significantly associated with weight gain and reduced physical activity.[17] In our study, the variation of uricemia after nephrectomy was a progressive and constant elevation. This increase was significant in both short and long term. Indeed, Kasiske et al described in their series that kidney donation was followed by an elevation of mean uric acid blood rates that could last up to three years after nephrectomy.[54] This elevation appeared inconsequential and was considered the expected result of nephrectomy.[54] According to Rossi et al,[58] mean hyperuricemia would increase significantly starting from the 1st and 2nd year postdonation, without reaching a pathological level. Like in our study, these same outcomes have been described by Undurraga et al.[59] and Hida et al.[60] The prevalence of hyperuricemia in our donors was low (4%) and similar to several studies.[58],[60]
In this study, the increase in the mean size of the remaining kidney was gradual and significant in both short and long term. It was independent of donor’s sex, age, and BMI at the time of donation. The compensatory renal hypertrophy has been reported by Chang et al.[61] They found that hypertrophy was similar in both sexes and inversely correlated to initial BMI. Furthermore, it was significantly greater in donors younger than 40 years.[61] During follow-up, two donors (2.1%) developed lithiasis, one donor had a single simple cyst (Bosniak type1) on the remaining kidney, and two donors had benign prostatic hypertrophy without bladder residua. The occurrence of renal lithiasis in LKDs was reported in the literature with comparable low rates.[22],[23],[43]
In our study, perioperative mortality was zero. Many author findings concluded to a low rate of perioperative mortality related to the donation between 0 and 0.03%.[62],[63] Segev et al in their study of 80347 living donors from the American national registry found that the postoperative mortality was around 3.1 per 10,000. This mortality rate has not changed over the last 15 years (from 1994 to 2009) despite changes in donor selection criteria and surgical nephrectomy techniques. This perioperative mortality was higher in male, Afro-American, and hypertensive donors.[40] During the follow-up, no deaths were recorded in our study. For long-term mortality, the same study compared mortality among donors with an age- and comorbidities-matched control group (a sample of the general population randomly chosen from participants in the American NHANES national study). The study found a similar risk of death among donors and the general population, regardless of age, gender, and ethnicity for a median follow-up of 6.3 years.[40] Another American-controlled study in 2010 did not show a higher risk of mortality after nephrectomy for donation, compared to the general population.[64] In a Chinese meta-analysis that included 62 studies in 19 countries, the postdonation morbidities were analyzed in 114,783 donors. These studies covered periods of six months, five years, 10 years, and more than 10 years. The prevalence of ESRD was 1.1% and all-cause mortality was 3.8%. The kidney-related mortality occurred 10 years of follow-up after nephrectomy.[7]
The main surgical complications encountered in the literature are pneumothorax, pleural effusion, and wound abscess.[62],[65],[66],[67] The postoperative complications rate was low but varied in different studies. This rate was estimated <10%, with 2% major complications and 8% minor complications according to Johnson et al, in a study of 871 donors operated by lobotomy.[62] The postoperative complications were more frequent, occurring in 14% of cases according to Wiesel et al[44] and in 25% in other studies.[4],[63],[68] Pneumothorax and pleural effusion complications were described by Okamoto et al in a Japanese mono-centric study enrollling 601 donors and occurred in <1% of cases, like in our study.[57] Other surgical complications were not found in our study but described in other studies including deep retroperitoneal suppuration after nephrectomy,[66] paralytic ileus,[62] and acute retention of urine.[6] Like in our study, bronchopulmonary and lower urinary tract infections were commonly reported during hospitalization.[62],[66],[67] Like in our study, deep venous thrombosis, myocardial infarction, and pulmonary embolism were rarely reported in various studies.[62],[65],[66] Other scarce medical complications have been reported in the literature such as unexplained fever, drug anaphylactic reaction, and pseudo-membranous colitis.[62],[65] Like in our study, Duque et al[69] found that 5.8% of donors reported significant discomfort due to the lumbar incision scar. In a French national report, 23% of donors complained of uncomfortable pain related to the nephrectomy during the first postoperative months.[30] According to Young et al,[52] the risk of postoperative complications related to nephrectomy for donation was not higher in elderly donors. However, Dols et al found a higher rate in elderly and obese donors.[70] In a cohort of 871 donors, the risk factors of surgical complications found by Johnson et al[62] were gender (male) and obesity (weight ≥100 kg).
The outcomes of eight years in living kidney donation care providing showed the complications related to the procedure of nephrectomy were rare. Our results are strong arguments for harmlessness of renal donation but emphasize the importance of a careful and science-based selection process. Post donation follow-up, seemingly insufficient in our study, is the only guarantor of short- and long-term safety for donors and therefore helps to encourage the act of donating in other potential donors. This follow-up has to be prolonged beyond 10 years. Further studies on risk factors of the reported complications and factors influencing donor adherence to follow-up would be of interest. The establishment of a Tunisian national registry of LKDs has become a necessity. In addition, the emerging interest of transplant teams around the world for other particularly genetic factors is urging us to update the donor selection process. The use of a calculated score, that predicts CKD with projection in 25 years after nephrectomy in donating candidates (GFR <60 mL/min/1.73 m2), is a valuable way to optimize the safety of this noble act.
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Stephanie Hazel
" I had the pleasure of working with Stephanie Hazel on my film. We auditioned her for this production and were impressed by her approach and potential for the film. She is an actress with a hardworking attitude who takes direction extremely well, acts with beautiful naturalism and has much creative input in the process and characters she creates. She is a talented actress and was a pleasure on set."
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Dir. Richard Anthony Dunford - 'Kerzam Incorp'
" Stephanie is an amazing actress who has almost made her ability to captivate a brand. She achieves this by effortlessly empowering herself on screen as a first-class performer; her professionalism and commitment is flawless as she masters the character you give her and then smashes the lens with a performance that practically grabs your face and forces you to watch! I cannot wait to work with her again.”
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" Stephanie was very easy to work with and took direction really well. She integrated well with the rest of the cast and we definitely would like to work with her again in the future."
Dir. Dominic white & Pro. Co. Lexi Walling - 'Play Nicely'
"Stephanie has been a fantastic asset to my team over the Christmas period. She has incredible drive and is always professional. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with her and wish her well for future endeavours."
Dir. Faye Aston - Flashback Theatre
'Pacifists and Protestors: A Dangerous Woman' - Hettie Wheeldon - by The Gloucester Theatre Company performed at The Cotswold Playhouse, Redgrave Theatre, Parabola Theatre
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Winnie and Hettie, an effective double act, as critics and consolers to their mother, as the miscarriage of justice unfolded. · Simon Bishop
Short Film - 'Groupie'
"The evening got off to an interesting start with a very enjoyable short from director Richard Anthony Dunford, starring Stephanie Hazel as an obsessed groupie of a fictional pop star. What starts out as comedy soon takes an unexpected turn and ends up being a lot more than I originally anticipated. I won’t spoil it here for you but things get dark pretty damn quick. . ./ the brave decision to shoot in one take and the engaging lead performance make this well worth checking out."
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The Secret Garden at 'The Space'
★★★★ EVERTHING THEATRE ★★★★ WHATS PEEN SEEN
Stephanie loved her run as 'Martha' in this iconic story, a great experience all round!
''Praise also to Liam Callahan, Nathan Thompson, Stephanie Hazel and Julia Munrow, whose performances are all equally as captivating, particularly Munrow as the formidable Miss Medlock and Hazel as the affable maid Martha.'' **** Whats Peen Seen
''One of the perks of the play was its use of puppets. Skilfully manipulated by Stephanie Hazel, the likes of robins and garden birds were a fun addition to the handmade blooms and to the overall dynamism of this play. '' **** Everything Theatre
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Marc Cain establishes additional label: Marc Cain Beauty
Premiere at Marc Cain: The successful fashion company is launching its first own fragrance line, thereby adding a new, sensual dimension to its existing labels.
Three different fragrances are being launched, all reflecting the Marc Cain DNA in their own unique way. This new Marc Cain Beauty label is aimed at the premium customer who already has a high affinity to Marc Cain. The aim is to open up new segments with the products and therefore attract new customers. “With this exclusive range of fragrances, we are now looking to extend our large portfolio on the one hand and also appeal to our target groups on the other. Just like with our fashion collections, the focus is on the development of high-quality products that surprise and inspire,” says Helmut Schlotterer, founder, owner and Chairman of the Management Board.
The exquisite compositions were created by perfumers Corinne Cachen, Maarten Schoute and Michel Almairac. “Mysteriously” is inspired by confident, headstrong women who know what they want. “It is a homage to women surrounded by an aura of mystery and who, driven by passion, can achieve anything they set out to,” explains Michael Förster, Chief Creative Officer of the fragrance manufacturer Lyrique Parfums from Switzerland, also underlining the company philosophy of Marc Cain GmbH.
The unmistakable scents are as unique as the premium fashions by Marc Cain and are presented in sleek, minimalistic bottles. This experimenting with unusual contrasts builds up an air of suspense and also defines Marc Cain’s fashion collections.
Marc Cain Mysteriously No.1
Fragrance note: Fruity-oriental
Fragrance intensity: Freshly intense
The eau de parfum stands out with its intense, fresh and oriental composition. It opens with top notes of Sicilian bergamot, a refreshing citrus component. The fruity finish is perfected with sweet mandarin, apple and a hint of marigold. Its flowery heart note, a combination of sensual jasmine and delicate rose, is rounded off by spicy cinnamon and liquorice accents. Finally, the base note unites refined precious ingredients: benzoin, incense, tonka bean, vanilla and musk. The result is an atmospheric elixir with a unique allure and a modern twist.
Fragrance note: Floral-oriental
Fragrance intensity: Powdery intense
The second signature fragrance by Marc Cain is based on a composition of tonka bean, powdery vanilla and luxurious musk. The fresh and spicy top note with bergamot, clove and cinnamon opens up the fragrance in a magical way. In the heart note, floral accords are provided by a mix of jasmine, rose, heliotropin and lily of the valley. Warm sandalwood gives this feminine bouquet an incredible elegance and takes the wearer on an extraordinarily mysterious and seductive journey through the wonders of the Orient.
Fragrance note: Woody-spicy
Fragrance intensity: Voluminously intense
The third fragrance reveals itself as uniquely expressive with unusual depth thanks to its striking signature – the duo of seductive sandalwood and cedarwood. The top note stands out with tangy fresh grapefruit nuances, as well as incense, and the rare tree resin, elemi. In the base note, the combination of musk, tonka bean and vanilla bourbon results in a velvety finish that loses itself in deep sensuality.
The eau de parfums are available in either 40 ml or 80 ml glass bottles. The sophisticated, pastel-hued bottles come in a high-quality box. Adorning the front of the packaging is the typical Marc Cain signet, the leopard head. The print on the inside is a modern, colour- coordinated leopard print that perfectly matches the colour of each bottle.
Each fragrance is complemented by a matching skincare series, consisting of a shower gel (200 ml), a body lotion (200 ml) and a roll-on deodorant (75 ml).
The products will be presented for the first time in July at the Panorama tradeshow in Berlin. From October, they will be available to purchase at Marc Cain stores and retail spaces, from high-end specialist beauty retailers as well as online in the regions of Europe, Asia and North America.
This story was originally published at http://www.killerfashionbuzz.com/marc-cain-establishes-additional-label-marc-cain-beauty/.
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Posts tagged Femme Fatale
Britney’s naughty video
Contributor, June 23, 2011
Britney unveiled the video for I Wanna Go late last night and it finds the 29-year-old pop icon in a distinctly naughty mood. Directed by …
Britney’s video teaser
Britney Spears is gearing up to release I Wanna Go as the third single from Femme Fatale and recently dropped a 30-second preview of the …
Britney to cover Madonna?
Britney Spears is rumoured to be performing a Madonna classic on her forthcoming Femme Fatale world tour. The idea was initially dismissed by fans but …
Britney phones it in again
Contributor, May 26, 2011
After two lethargic performances at the 2011 Billboard Awards sparked debate among her own fans as to whether she should stop performing, footage of Britney …
Bieber’s girl gets Britney’s help
Selena Gomez has announced the Australian release date of her star-studded third album, which includes songs written by Pixie Lott, Katy Perry and Britney Spears. …
Britney’s apathy shows
Contributor, May 4, 2011
A weary looking Britney Spears has mumbled her way through a tightly choreographed Q&A session recently posted on YouTube. The interview is uncredited – which …
Preview Britney’s latest video
Contributor, April 5, 2011
Britney has released a thirty second preview of her latest video Til The World Ends. The Ke$ha-penned single has been hanging around the Australian top …
Britney’s first Australian #1
Britney Spears celebrates her first number one album in Australia this week as Femme Fatale debuts in pole position. It’s hard to believe that mega-selling …
See Brit’s GMA performance
Contributor, March 30, 2011
Britney Spears delivered her first television performance of the Femme Fatale era yesterday with a three song, pre-recorded set on Good Morning America. She mimed …
Britney performs kind of live in Las Vegas
Britney Spears came out of hiding on the weekend to perform a brief showcase in Las Vegas for an upcoming MTV special. The notoriously unstable …
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Rhamnaceae
Frangula purshiana Cooper
Frangula purshiana subsp. anonifolia (Greene) J.O. Sawyer & S.W. Edwards
Frangula purshiana subsp. anonifolia (Greene) J.O. Sawyer & S.W. Edwards is an accepted name
This name is the accepted name of an infraspecific taxon* of the species Frangula purshiana Cooper in the genus Frangula (family Rhamnaceae).
* The Plant List does not attempt to include all infraspecific taxa
The record derives from Tropicos (data supplied on 2012-04-18 ) which reports it as an accepted name (record 50314110) with original publication details: Madroño 54(2): 173 2007 .
Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: http://ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60446778-2.
Rhamnus purshiana var. anonifolia (Greene) Jeps. Synonym TRO 2012-04-18
The species Frangula purshiana Cooper has a further 5 synonyms.
This name was in version 1 of The Plant List, record tro-50314110, and has not been changed.
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Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival of times gone by, from their archive
Following on from my recent, and probably thankfully, short-lived accidental obsession with straw goats, I'm looking forward to seeing pictures of the annual Straw Bear Festival next weekend in the "ancient Fenland town" (Wikipedia's words) of Whittlesea in Cambridgeshire. I promise, I'll stop before we get to straw crafts.
In fine folk festival style, the Bear (a man dressed up in straw) dances through the town, with its keeper and musicians in tow, the straw gathered by farmers ("That'll do for the Bear" as the harvesters used to say, apparently). The celebration, which also includes Mummers plays marks Plough Tuesday (the first Monday after Twelfth Night), and tying up with the European tradition of animated agricultural creations, the Bear is now joined by one from Germany where, as it turns out, they're also fond of their straw bears (around Shrove Tuesday).
Unsurprisingly perhaps, the Straw Bear Festival is a tradition that died out sometime at the beginning of the early 20th century, only to be revived at the tailend of the 1970s, a decade marked by, among other things, a resurgence of interest in paganism, folklore and all things ancient, earthy and frequently, unintentionally, uncanny.
In the interim, Fairport Convention/Steeleye Span/Albion Band founder member Ashley Hutchings provided inspiration by including the Bear's song (accompanied by a spoken word detailing of the custom) on his 1976 Rattlebone And Ploughjack release, a time-honoured weirdy-beardy 70s album of English Morris and Molly dancing tunes and spoken word history, and a contender for Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on BBC 6 Music if ever there was one.
More recently, Leicestershire indie band Young Knives used a fantastic image of the Straw Bear for the cover of their Mercury-nominated Voices Of Animals And Men album, which raises the curious thought that fans of the band might've been inspired to add the Straw Bear to their festival circuit. More likely, they'd buy the fine T-shirt, so spreading the word, or at least confusing and bemusing those who saw it. Buy the 30th anniversary Straw Bear Festival badge and you too can complete the link between arcane oddities-lover and modern indie-folk fan. It's not Wicker Man, but it is very perfectly strange.
Labels: country customs, England, folklore, Straw Bear Festival, Whittlesea
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Huge crowds march in Hong Kong, piling pressure on leaderSun, 16 Jun, 2019 | Posted By: The Times Of Earth (TOE)
Tens of thousands of protesters carry posters and banners march through the streets as they continue to protest an extradition bill, Sunday, June 16, 2019, in Hong Kong. AP
Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents, mostly clad in black despite the sweltering weather, jammed the city's streets Sunday in a vehement show of opposition to proposed legislation that has stoked fears of expanding control from Beijing in this former British colony.
The marchers are demanding that Hong Kong's leader first scrap an extradition bill that would allow some suspects to be sent for trial in mainland China and then resign. The conflict, which slipped into unusually violent clashes with police last week, is one of the toughest tests of the territory's special status since China took control in a 1997 handover.
The demonstrators carried banners demanding that Chief Executive Carrie Lam step down and repeatedly broke into chants. Walking slowly and shouting "withdraw" and "resign," the crowd filled a wide thoroughfare and side streets paralleling the waterfront of Victoria Harbor as tourists and shoppers who drive much of the Asian financial hub's economy looked on.
Lam's announcement Saturday that she was suspending the legislation failed to mollify critics of the measure who see it as one of many steps chipping away at Hong Kong's freedoms and legal autonomy. Opponents worry the law could be used to send criminal suspects to China to potentially face vague political charges, possible torture and unfair trials.
"Our demands are simple. Carrie Lam must leave office, the extradition law must be withdrawn and the police must apologize for using extreme violence against their own people," bank worker John Chow said as he marched with a group of his friends. "And we will continue."
Sunday's march looked likely to match in scale one a week earlier that brought as many as 1 million people out to express their concern over Hong Kong's relations with mainland China. Protesters focused their anger on Lam, even while acknowledging that she had little choice but to carry through dictates issued by Beijing, where President Xi Jinping has enforced increasingly authoritarian rule.
Many here believe Hong Kong's legal autonomy has been significantly diminished despite Beijing's insistence that it is still honoring its promise, dubbed "one country, two systems," that the territory can retain its own social, legal and political system for 50 years after the handover.
The rally drew marchers both young and old, some pushing strollers or carrying slumbering infants. Few wore face masks or seemed to be trying to hide their identities, in contrast with demonstrations Wednesday, when participants expressed worries over possible retribution from the authorities.
Protesters also are unhappy with the way police handled that situation, with officers using tear gas, rubber bullets and other forceful measures when demonstrators broke through barricades outside the city government's headquarters.
The police presence Sunday was considerably more relaxed, with officers deployed mainly to direct traffic as the protesters wound their way through Hong Kong's commercial center from a sprawling downtown park to government headquarters.
Farther down the parade route, mourners lined up to lay flowers and pay respects at a makeshift memorial for a man who fell to his death Saturday after hanging a protest banner that read in part, "Make Love, No Shoot" and "No Extradition to China."
The man slipped from the grasp of rescuers after clinging for a time to scaffolding outside a shopping mall. He missed a large cushion set up to capture him, and was declared dead at a nearby hospital.
Many protesters wore ribbons on their shirts and carried placards showing protesters who had been beaten bloody on Wednesday.
"I'm really sad. I'm grieving," one visitor, Peron Kwong, said after tying a white ribbon to a street rail. "As a person born and raised in Hong Kong, I'm heartbroken when I see Hong Kong become like this."
Pro-democracy activists were calling for a general strike on Monday despite Lam's decision to suspend work on the legislation. Some labor unions, teachers associations and other groups were planning boycotts of work and classes, demanding the Lam administration retire the proposed amendments and not bring them up again for passage at a later stage.
"We encourage all the public to carry on the campaign," said Bonnie Leung, a leader of the pro-democracy group Civil Human Rights Front. "If any new violence takes place, it will be the responsibility of the police."
The Communist Party-ruled mainland took control in 1997 with a promise not to interfere with the city's civil liberties and courts. Many in Hong Kong fear the extradition bill would undermine freedoms enjoyed here but not elsewhere in China.
"China just wants to turn Hong Kong into another Chinese city," said Alex To, 54, who runs a small business. "Carrie Lam is just a figurehead. Everything depends on the attitudes of the leaders in Beijing."
After Lam announced she was suspending the legislation to avoid more violence and allow additional debate, Chinese government officials issued multiple statements backing that decision. Lam, however, made clear she was not withdrawing it.
She has sidestepped questions over whether she should quit and also defended how the police dealt with last week's clashes with demonstrators.
Lam maintains that the extradition legislation is needed if Hong Kong to uphold justice, meet its international obligations and not become a magnet for fugitives. The proposed bill would expand the scope of criminal suspect transfers to include Taiwan, Macau and mainland China.
So far, China has been excluded from Hong Kong's extradition agreements because of concerns over its judicial independence and human rights record.
Prosecutions of activists, detentions without trial of five Hong Kong book publishers and the illegal seizure in Hong Kong by mainland agents of at least one mainland businessman are among moves in recent years that have unnerved many in the city of 7 million.
Many protesters showed deep sympathy for Taiwan, which continues efforts by China to bring it under its control using the same formula as that applied to Hong Kong.
"Today Hong Kong, tomorrow Taiwan," read one sign.
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Our Journey Together - Part I
October 01, 2015 / The Harbor Church/ Ryan Mercier
As written by Audrey Mercier.
Seasons can change. Circumstances may shift. And life has a tendency to be flexible. For the past 8 months, our congregation has had the privilege of growing in number and in faith at 1000 S. Morrison - previously an old Schwegmann’s grocery store. When we were given the keys and permission to rent the building by Ed Hoover, we walked into an opportunity, a change.
For those that weren’t apart of the physical restoration, let me enlighten you by saying it had been vacant for almost 14 years before we got there. It was smelly, dirty, and I’m pretty sure the roaches weren’t very happy to see us, because they knew we were going to make it shiny and new. After quite a few work days and late nights by many hands, we restored and gave it new life. We received so much favor in the supplies and workers, and Mr. Ed was more than understanding and approving of the renovations we made.
Those keys Ed Hoover gave us weren’t permanently ours though. Yet the restoration wasn’t in vain either. Ed Hoover continued to show the building to those interested in leasing it, and we had service as normal up until August 24. It was then that we received a call that the building had been leased to a retailer that would occupy the building in hopes of being open by the end of November.
I remember sitting in the office that day when Pastor Marvin told the office staff the news. I’ll be honest: I wasn’t excited, but I also wasn’t afraid. As a detail-oriented person, my mind was instantly processing the finite things that would have to occur and be taken care of. A day later, after I had some more time to think about it, I was much more confident in how this transition would take place. As the change was communicated to the rest of the lead team, there was this overwhelming peace that followed their reaction. There might have been a small amount of shock in knowing that the tight timeframe of moving out in two weeks was daunting. However, some key people really stepped up to the plate, and it was noticeable that God’s grace was not only holding us together during this change, but was also binding us together even more so.
At the end of those two weeks, we found the building empty of all our belongings and equipment, the walls torn down, the stage emptied and deconstructed. There was a bittersweet moment that occurred. My husband, Ryan, had been in the building for all of the renovation and had a revelation there as he observed his surroundings. He saw that all these ‘things’ are temporal and they can fall away, but the cross, it stood.
That symbolism was an encouragement to know that success of our first Sunday back at 2100 Anita Blvd wouldn’t be contingent on a building, but as always, it would be driven by the presence of God that is with us, building or no building. Ever since we stepped into the doors at 1000 S. Morrison, Pastor Marvin reminded the congregation over and over again that this was a temporary place. No need to find a chair and call it your own. Every bit of equipment we acquired and all the renovations we made were just resources and tools. God’s favorite resource to use is people, though. Nothing can replace living, breathing, willing people that want nothing more than to bring glory to God and spread His love to others.
We appreciate and thank Ed Hoover for providing us with this amazing opportunity to rent the building - for so little cost at that. As the future occupant continues to restore the building, we are excited to see them succeed as they create jobs for others and revenue for the city of Hammond. With our eyes set on the eternal, not just the external things in life, it is with great honor we take the next step in our journey together as we see where God takes us.
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Our Journey Together - Part II
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Texts for “This Is A Composition Which Concerns Itself With Timescale”
These are the texts used in the February 5 performance of “This Is A Composition Which Concerns Itself With Timescale.”
Details of the performance structure will be posted in the next couple of weeks as I get materials uploaded.
LUCA, an acronym for the last universal common ancestor, probably dates to around 3.8 billion years ago. At that time, LUCA was bobbing around on ocean waves with neither worries nor neighbors. Our human ancestors differentiated from other living beings about one billion years ago. About four hundred million years ago, the earliest froglike beings developed joints on their pectoral and pelvic fins and slithered out of the sea onto land.
About 1.8 million years ago, our African ancestors moved North into the Caucasus and slowly spread out across what is now Europe and Asia. Roughly forty thousand years ago, people crossed what we call the Bering Sea into the great landmass of the Northern hemisphere. Almost one thousand years ago, Europeans built small boats and sailed across unknown oceans toward an unknown land.
Mary Pipher — The Green Boat pp 188-189
The destiny of our species is shaped by the imperatives of survival on six distinct time scales. To survive means to compete successfully on all six time scales. But the unit of survival is different at each of the six time scales. On a time scale of years, the unit is the individual. On a time scale of decades, the unit is the family. On a time scale of centuries, the unit is the tribe or nation. On a time scale of millennia, the unit is the culture. On a time scale of tens of millennia, the unit is the species. On a time scale of eons, the unit is the whole web of life on our planet. Every human being is the product of adaptation to the demands of all six time scales. That is why conflicting loyalties are deep in our nature. In order to survive, we have needed to be loyal to ourselves, to our families, to our tribes, to our cultures, to our species, to our planet. If our psychological impulses are complicated, it is because they were shaped by complicated and conflicting demands.
The earliest known trade routes in regular use crisscrossed eastern Europe about 30,000 years ago, distributing prefashioned blanks of flint from mines in Poland and Czechoslovakia over a wide area. It was in eastern Europe, too, that the oldest ceramic objects yet discovered were made, [including] models of animals and…a ceramic “Venus” — a stylized figurine of a woman…this European site, shared by more than a hundred people, affords the eariest evidence of a quantum jump in the sizes of human groups and the advent of the first communities larger than family bands.
Nigel Calder — Timescale, p. 159
A huge colony of the sea grass Posidonia oceanica in the Mediterranean Sea could be up to one hundred thousand years old.
An attosecond is 1 times 10- to-the-minus-eighteenth — one quintillionth — of a second.
It is the time it takes for light to travel the length of two hydrogen atoms.
An attosecond is to a second what a second is to about 32 billion years.
In hillside caves of southwestern Germany, archaeologists have uncovered the beginnings of music and art by early modern humans. .. New evidence shows that these oldest known musical instruments in the world, flutes made of bird bone and mammoth ivory, are even older than first thought.
Animal bones found with the flutes were 42 to 43,000 years old, [dating them to] around the time the first anatomically modern humans spread into Central Europe… along the Danube River valley.
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If we imagine ourselves living in New England in the 1700s, and we then imagine ourselves looking from that vantage point into the future, does the rural landscape as we now know it seem unattractive because it no longer looks like it did when Queen Anne ruled the colonies? Would a longer step back to the 1500s make us protest the Spanish introduction of culture-changing horses to this continent? And would a step even farther back in time make us mourn the arrival of the first Stone Age humans who would slaughter the American mammoths and mastodons and thus leave our landscapes unnaturally silent — but much safer to walk in?
Curt Stager — Deep Future
Two-hundred and fifty million year-old bacteria, Bacillus permians, were revived from stasis after being found in sodium chloride crystals in a cavern in New Mexico.
Having survived for 250 million years, it is the oldest living thing ever recorded.
A visit to a Pleistocene cave in southern France reveals the past in subtle ways. Paintings on the cave walls and ceiling show a pack of wild horses galloping along a ledge, while vivid antlered reindeer leap toward the viewer from nearby walls. Bison scratched into stone show fine-line features of nostrils, eyes, and hair. Big- bellied horses lope toward us on short legs.
Some prehistoric master saw the essence of these animals embedded in the chance curves of the cave, [and] called them forth to the eye, using negative space in ways we do not witness again until the work of the sixteenth century.
These signals across tens of millennia carry a heady sense of graceful intelligence. We know well enough what animals lived then, but only in such paintings can we delve into the cerebral wealth of our ancestors…These paintings… are the best sort of deep time messages, conveying wordless mastery and penetrating sensitivity across myriad millennia and staggeringly different cultures.
Gregory Benford — Deep Time, p. 202
The galactic year, also known as a cosmic year, is the duration of time required for the Solar System to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Estimates of the length of one orbit range from 225 to 250 million terrestrial years.
Biologists track the extinction of whole genera, and in the random progressions of evolution feel the pace of change that looks beyond the level of mere species such as ours. Darwinism invokes cumulative changes that can act quickly on insects, while mammals take millions of decades to alter. Our own evolution has tuned our sense of probabilities to work within a narrow lifetime, blinding us to the slow sway of long biological time.
Gregory Benford — “Deep Time”
One day in the life of Brahma is called a Kalpa, and lasts 4.32 billion years. Every Kalpa, Brahma creates 14 Manus, who in turn manifest and regulate this world.
Each Manu perishes at the end of his life, and Brahma creates the next. The cycle continues until all fourteen Manus, and the Universe, perish at the end of Bramha’s day. Then Brahma sleeps for a period of 4.32 billion years. The next ‘morning’, Brahma creates fourteen Manus in sequence, just as he has done on the previous ‘day’.
This cycle continues for 100 ‘divine years’ at the end of which Brahma perishes and is regenerated. Brahma’s entire life equals 311 trillion, 40 billion years.
Once Brahma dies there is an equal period of unmanifestation for 311 trillion, 40 billion years, until the next Brahma is created.
Jiahu was a Neolithic settlement in the central plain of ancient China, near the Yellow River. Settled around 7000 BC, the site was flooded and abandoned around 5700 BC.
Among the discoveries at Jiahu were playable flutes made from the wing bones of the Red- Crowned crane, tuned to the pentatonic scale.
Consider…a coniferous forest. The hierarchy in scale of pine needle, tree crown, patch, stand, whole forest, and biome is also a time hierarchy. The needle changes within a year, the tree crown over several years, the patch over many decades, the stand over a couple of centuries, the forest over a thousand years, and the biome over ten thousand years. The range of what the needle may do is constrained by the tree crown, which is constrained by the patch and stand, which are controlled by the forest, which is controlled by the biome.
Stewart Brand — Clock Of The Long Now, p. 34
We are ever restless, we hominids. It is difficult to see what would finally still our ambitions — neither the stars, nor our individual deaths, would ultimately form a lasting barrier. The impulse to push further, to live longer, to hourney farther — and to leave messages for those who follow us, when we inevitably falter and fall — these will perhaps be our most enduring features.
Still we know that all our gestures at immortality — as individuals or even as a lordly species — shall at best persist for centuries or, with luck, a few millennia. But ultimately they shall fail.
Intelligence may even last to see the guttering out of the last smoldering red suns, many tens of billions of years hence. It may find a way to duddle closer to the dwindling sources of warmth in a iuniverse that now seems to be ever-expanding, and cooling as it goes. Whether intelligence can persist against this final challenge, fighting the ebb tide of creeping entropy, we do not know.
But humans will have vanished long before such a distant waning. That is our tragedy. Knowing this, still we try, in our long twilight struggles against the fall of night. That is our peculiar glory.
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The Benue River Valley is the source of some of the most abstract, dramatic, and inventive sculpture in sub-Saharan Africa. A vast region, the Valley extends from the heart of present-day Nigeria eastward to its border with Cameroon, and is home to a large number of ethnic and linguistic groups, all of whom have produced sculptures that are remarkable for their variety.
This book brings together figurative wood sculptures and ceramic vessels, masks, and elaborate bronze and iron regalia drawn from public and private collections in Europe and the United States, selected to exemplify important typologies within the region, along with many historical photographs. The 18 contributors demonstrate that the stylistic tendencies were constantly evolving due to cultural exchanges, mutual influences, and other points of contact in an area that like the Benue River itself was historically in a state of flux. These objects speak to us not only through their superb formal qualities but also through the circumstances of their being rooted in a turbulent past, situated between war and colonization.
Marla C. Berns is director of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Richard Fardon is professor of West African anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Sidney Littlefield Kasfir is professor of African art history at Emory University. Other contributors include Joerg Adelberger, Gassia Armenian, Jean Borgatti, John Boston, Mette Bovin, Barbara Frank, Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Helene Joubert, Nancy Neaher Maas, John Picton, Susan Picton, Arnold Rubin, Constanze Weise, and John C. Willis.
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Dear Parents & Supporters of Wayland-Weston Pop Warner,
As some of you may or may not know, the Wayland Park & Recreation Department has made a decision that Pop Warner will NOT be allowed to play this year on the WHS varsity stadium field. Park & Rec have allowed us to use the JV field (which has no stand seating) and Weston (Thank You) has agreed to let us play on their JV field for one of the games.
As some of you may remember, Pop Warner was solely blamed for field usage and poor conditions following an October 23, 2005 which unfortunately caused another sports game to be postponed. Although we weren't the only organization to use the field that weekend, we paid a $1000 fine to repair the damages. Park & Rec did have the procedures in place to cancel a game but the penalty for playing was eviction from the field for the remainder of that season only. Again, we weren't responsible for all of the damage from the field that weekend.
Also, Wayland HS Football played LS on the Friday before. If you can remember, it was the wettest October in history. Although last years Pop Warner organization paid the penalty to fix the field, this years Pop Warner organization is being penalized again.
Some of you reading this for the first time are probably quite surprised. We feel that the Park & Rec Department dictated this ruling unfairly to Pop Warner without public knowledge or proper notification.
Wayland-Weston Pop Warner has been a good steward of varsity stadium over the last 9 years. Unfortunately, this action by the Park & Recreation department penalizes our children and families that put in 80+hours of practice every year and would just like to be able to watch our children participate (football & cheerleading) in a safe & comfortable environment as the varsity stadium offers.
This is our chance to voice our opinion. We need your help:
1) Sign online petition showing your support for the kids who participate. http://www.PetitionOnline.com/WWPW/petition.html
2) Emails letters of support to me shawn@wwpopwarner.com as well as Park & Rec nmcshea@wayland.ma.us Please be sure to CC may email address on all Park & Rec correspondence.
3) Letters to the Town Crier. Need to get these in by Monday before noon. wayland@cnc.com
4) Please plan on attending Park & Rec meeting on Monday, Sept 11th @ 8pm which we'd like as many supporters there as possible. I'll send out talking points before the meeting. ? Please let me know if you can attend the meeting as I want to get as many folks as we can.
Please forward to friends and other supporters of our youth sports.
Shawn P. Fennelly
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Hi Nancy (McShea) and Martha (Jamieson),
I understand that Pop Warner has initiated a campaign to get back onto the stadium field. Just last night I was working out at the track and got a sense of the level of contentiousness this topic is becoming when I had the opportunity for an "interesting" exchange with a Pop Warner Dad who was talking with his son about how unfair it was they could not play on the field.
Speaking on behalf of Wayland Youth Soccer, I wanted to indicate our full support for the position that the Park and Recreation Commission has taken on this issue. As you know, we go to great lengths to protect the fields we play on and have an established record of closing our fields on Saturdays as necessary, regardless of the implications for our coaches who are left with the challenge of rescheduling. We too would love for our kids to get a chance to play on the stadium field. However, we fully support the approach that the stadium field is first and foremost a field for the high school teams. Right now it appears that essentially only varsity teams play on it. Before any youth group gains regular access to that field I would argue that other high school teams (JV and freshmen) should be given priority access.
I find it interesting to hear that Weston has apparently provided the Wayland/Weston Pop Warner group with access to their practice football field in the wake of this "situation". I see no reason why that is not the appropriate solution here in Wayland as well.
What we have here is another argument for the installation of a turf field, not the return of Pop Warner onto the stadium field.
Gray Holmes
President, Wayland Youth Soccer
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The latest controversy between AOL and Michael Arrington is a fascinating story. Strong personalities with strong points of view, editorial ethics, management missteps, and big company culture versus small company passion make this a particularly juicy drama.
Arrington has made an ultimatum to AOL: Give us “editorial independence” or sell us the site back. By “editorial independence” Arrington means that Tech Crunch can continue writing about companies that he invests in via his Crunch Fund. All of a sudden AOL has realized that this might possibly pose a conflict of interest.
Give me a break. When they bought Tech Crunch AOL was buying a page view engine, not quality journalism. Internal AOL memos show that the acquisition of Tech Crunch was all about content automation, not the content itself. Naming Arriana Huffington, the ultimate brandividual, as head of content demonstrates that AOL management thinks search rankings and posts per hour metrics suffice as editorial management. AOL itself was going to put money into Crunch Fund. And anyone who spends time in the Silicon Valley knows Michael Arrington’s story; a clever journalist with an out-sized flare for the dramatic and an extraordinary talent for self promotion.
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I suspect AOL is concerned about the appearance of a conflict of interest and that that conflict will harm the long term viability and reputation of techcrunch. But thank you, Tony, for defining some terms here. “Independence” implies independence FROM something. Arrington claims that means independence from interference from AOL meddling in it’s business and editorial policies. I imagine AOL claims it is independence from a journalistic conflict of interest.
It sounds like Arrington wants to publish his content without accountability, and if I were AOL and the owner of Techcrunch, I would have a problem with that. If it comes down to looking at the issue from this angle and the two parties taking sides around these positions, Arrington will and should lose.
However, I think this is all kind of a red herring. What’s wrong with disclosing alleged conflicts of interest? If Arrington has an investment in a company being covered on Techcrunch, that can be stated in small letters at the bottom of any given article and readers can judge for themselves about the objectivity of the author and publisher.
Having his hands in both jars, on the surface, may appear to be conflict. But it can also be a competitive advantage. On the journalistic side, you have access to insider and exclusive news no one else can get. On the investor side, you have access to a well respected, highly popular news outlet. that’s what Arrington should be arguing.
Many argue that is a conflict of interest. But if you’re able to manage both of these ventures with integrity, you will gain a reputation for being objective and be able to take advantage of the competitive advantage with little downside. The question is, does Arrington have or is he capable of achieving that reputation?
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The Walking Dead Goes to Hogwarts: Slytherin
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Are 你 guys ready for the third part of my Walking Dead Hogwarts Sorting? 下一个 house is Slytherin!
Before we get into this house, I want to remind people that just because you're in Slytherin doesn't mean you're a bad guy 或者 an evil person. I don't want anyone bitching in the 评论 about the fact that I put some of the "good guys" here. If I put them here, it's because I think it's where they belong, no matter which side of the battles they're on. Also, this far into the apocalypse, there are no "good guys" anymore, so it doesn't even matter.
Slytherin, house of the Ambitious
Of course Rick is a Slytherin. He has every quality needed for this house. Rick is probably one of the most resourceful people of this 显示 and the perfect example of that was when he was trapped 由 Joe's arms and still manage to win the fight 由 biting the guy's jugular off. WITH HIS FREAKING TEETH! That scene is still one of the best scenes of the series. When he's in trouble, he always finds a way to get out of it, even when he has literally nothing to help him, he still gets out.
He is very ambitious and never gives up. Even when beaten 由 Negan, he laid low for a while, but didn't actually gave up. When he wants to win a fight, he will do whatever it takes to win it. When he was threatened 由 the Governor, he went back to his hometown to take all the 枪 that were left. When he wanted to build an army to fight Negan, he searched for 枪 and weapons, and went to all the other communities to convince them to fight. Even when they 说 no, he still didn't give up. He even bombed some nice ladies to get their guns. He will do ANYTHING it takes to get what he wants.
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Carl takes after his father, he will do whatever it takes to get what he wants, even if it means killing people. He's very cunning, and can fool people, even the older ones, like when he tricked 耶稣 into jumping out of the truck first. He can fool pretty much everyone, he's always able to do what he wants to do without people noticing. The first character that really saw through him was Negan. All of the others either don't see how Carl really is, 或者 they refuse to. I know some people see Carl's actions as stupid and reckless, which they sort of are in a way, but even if it's dangerous, it's always planned in his mind. He's not impulsive 或者 thoughtless, he just has his own way of thinking.
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I think he's probably the best example of what a Slytherin is. Slytherin don't follow the world's rules, but that doesn't mean they don't follow rules. Slytherins have their own set of rules, and you'll never see them break those rules, even the most ominous and dangerous people. Negan does exactly that, and everyone under his command has to follow the same rules as him, and those who don't will pay the price.
Negan is also extremely resourceful. Even if he can't find what he wants 或者 need, he'll find a way to just take it from someone. Why scavenge and grow stuff, when 你 can get other people to do it for you?
He's also cunning, always able to find people's weakness to use them to his advantage. He's a good manipulator and he's also charming, which he uses every chance he gets.
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MORGAN:
摩根 is like a Slytherin who tries to be a Hufflepuff, but deep inside, he can't change who he is. He thinks his way is the best and wants everyone to do it HIS way, he even go as far as to play in people's head to get them to be like him and think like him. He did it to Carol, tried to do it with Richard and other people. He manipulates people. But despite his "zen" exteriors, he has a darkness inside him that resurfaced recently. He can't escape who he is.
He's very resourceful, the biggest proof is that he was able to survive this long all alone, with only a damn stick to defend himself.
Lennie James as 摩根 Jones
Shane only thought about himself. Even when 你 see him talk to other people, when he seems caring, he's still always bringing things back to himself. Always. He was narcissistic, and he was ready to do whatever it took to have what he wanted, even kill his best friend.
He always did things his way, and he wanted people to follow him and do things his way. Everyone was in the beginning and Shane was not happy when people started to follow Rick instead. He didn't want to follow Rick's way, and went behind his back trying to do things his way. When dealing with the walkers inside the barn, he didn't listen to everyone's opinion, he went with what he thought was right. When dealing with Randall, he didn't follow what people had voted on, he did what he wanted to do.
He was also able to manipulate people into thinking Randall had attacked him and left, even if logically that would never happen, because Randall was tied up and could never take down Shane. But the group still believed him, because he was a good liar and he had gained their trust.
Jon Bernthal as Shane Walsh
SASHA:
Sasha was very resourceful, we saw that a lot when she was fighting walkers, always being able to get out of it, even with barely anything. She was also quite ambitious. She was ready to take down Negan all 由 herself, but at first she was not ready to die for the cause. She wanted to do this clean, kill him and go 首页 and then live again. It's only at the last resort that she realized someone had to die to be able to kill him and she decided it was gonna be her. She was so set on killing him that she went as far as killing herself in hopes that her walker self would take him out.
We saw that she was also a bit of a manipulator, when she convinced Negan, who's not easy to convince, that she wanted to 加入 his clan and that she didn't trust Rick, which we all know is a lie. She also did it to Eugene when she requested a weapon to kill herself, 或者 kill Negan. That part is still confusing, to know exactly what she wanted in that moment, but it's because she's a good manipulator that it's difficult, even for the viewers, to really see through her.
Sonequa Martin-Green as Sasha Williams
SPENCER:
Spencer was ambitious. He wanted to take his mother's place as the leader when she died, and he was angry when Rick took charge instead. Spencer wanted the community to work his way, not Rick's way. He thought his way was better, but instead of trying to get the community back 由 himself and confront Rick 或者 kill him, he did the cowardly thing and waited until Rick was gone to go behind his back to Negan. That didn't really end well for him. That was a very Slytherin thing to do. He was sneaky, always thinking of himself first, hiding and stealing 食物 and supplies for himself. He was resourceful in a way, 由 doing that. He knew where to get stuff, but 由 stealing it from his own people instead of helping to get 更多 supplies.
Austin Nichols as Spencer Monroe
Lori was a very good manipulator. When she saw that Shane had begun to lose his mind, she talked Rick into killing him, which he did, and then she hated him for it. She was never very easy to follow, but she probably had her own logic, like most Slytherins do. She always did what she wanted and what she thought was right, even if it was something stupid that endangered the others 或者 herself. Lori wasn't there for very long and she didn't do much, so I don't have a lot else to say about her character.
Sarah Wayne Callies as Lori Grimes
PHILIP:
Philip was very cunning. He was probably one of the best manipulator of the series. He fooled a lot of people into thinking he was a good guy and the best guy they could have as a leader, when in reality, he only thought of himself and would do anything to get his way. Killing innocent people, killing his own people, everyone that got in his way was in danger.
He was so good, that he even convinced Mitch to follow him, even after he had killed his brother in cold blood. He convinced an entire community that Martinez died 由 accident. He was one of the worst snakes of the series. He even destroyed the prison to prove the point that if he couldn't have it, no one else could. Philip wanted things to go his way and when it didn't, he would snap and destroy everything in his way.
We can see his resourceful side when he fell in the walker pit with no weapon and a little girl to protect. He was able to kill every walker in the pit with his bare hands.
David Morrissey as Philip Blake
JADIS:
Jadis is resourceful, she uses threats to get what she wants. She takes, she doesn't bother. When she wants something, she'll wait until someone gets it and steals it from them, instead of going to get it herself. She'll take the best deal possible, meaning 你 can't trust her, because she'll backstab 你 the 秒 a better offer comes along. She has no loyalty. She simply doesn't care about people outside of her group. She thinks she's above everyone else. They are only sheeps to her, pawns in her game of chess, and she's the queen.
Pollyanna McIntosh as Jadis
LIZZIE:
Lizzie didn't understand walkers and thought they were her friends. She thought she was right and everyone else was wrong, they were the ones who didn't understand. She went as far as to kill her own sister to prove a point. She was very dangerous, if 你 were to get in her way of doing what she wanted. She might've been just a child, but she was resourceful and ambitious, wanting to 显示 Carol and Tyreese that she was right about the walkers, thinking they just needed to see it her way.
Brighton Sharbino as Lizzie Samuels
What do 你 think about my sorting?
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Who else should be in the this house?
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NoLoser-cret, Laveenai and 3 others like this
Canada24 Lori is the worst character ever But Philip was so complex.. He has split personality.. He TRIES to do goos.. But his evil personality overpowers hs good personality
SherlockStark Just curious, where would you sort Owen?
Bibi69 Slytherin lol. He had his own set of rules and thought of no one else than him and his group. Doing horrible things if it meant good things for his own. His way was the best and that's it. He seemed resourceful enough as well and he was determined to save Denise because she could have healed him, but would have probably discarded her as soon as she wasn't useful to him anymore. The little redeeming he did at the last moment before dying, I consider just bad writing, because it didn't make sense with anything we knew from him.
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9x14 ~ Scars ~ Michonne and Daryl
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9x14 ~ Scars ~ Michonne
9x12 ~ Guardians ~ Lydia, Alpha, Henry and Beta
Season 9A Review
I almost forgot to write this. I kept telling myself I needed to write it before February 10th, and that's in two weeks. So I kicked my butt and sat down to finally write my review.
Let's remember that the last season ended up Negan being defeated, though not killed. Dwight was cast away. Daryl and Maggie were plotting a revenge.
Season 9A Promo, A New Beginning
A NEW BEGINNING:
I'm still mad about the whole "Casting Dwight away because Daryl Fucking Dixon 说 so". Even 更多 now that I read the rumor about him maybe being transferred to Fear *sigh*. It really feels like a demotion for Amelio,...
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Daryl and Carol
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Michonne ✘
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9x14 ~ Scars ~ Mitchell, Linus, Winnie, P.J. and Gina
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Sneak Peek: The Walking Dead: Episode 914: Scars
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