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2| Sunraysia Daily Saturday, April 29, 2017 EWAN KENNEDY M ITSUBISHI has been at the forefront of pure electric and hybrid vehicles for many years, both in Australia and globally. The Mitsubishi i-MiEV took its place in Australian automotive history as it was the first ever pure electric production car to go on sale in this country. The Japanese giant is now starting to push hard in Australia on the PHEV (Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) front. The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV was launched downunder in 2014 and has just received a series of major revisions. These are far reaching, not only on the hybrid drivetrain, but also to the styling, infotainment, suspension and overall refinement. Mitsubishi has given its PHEV a more upmarket look and feel to aim it beyond the early adopters who have been the biggest customers to date. Indeed, it has looks that are almost futuristic in its class. The body has a new front end and a tail tuck that have chromed and silvered highlights work well. Inside, the changes are more subtle, there’s a redesigned steering wheel, new accents in the trim, modified seats, and premium materials. Multiple changes to the Outlander’s drivetrain (which is an all-wheel-drive system, something that’s less and less common these days) make it noticeably more efficient. Official fuel consumption is down by about 10 per cent, from 1.9 to 1.7 litres per hundred kilometres. This new model features an ‘EV Priority’ mode that lets the driver operate the Outlander purely in EV mode provided there is sufficient charge in the batteries. Excellent news for your neighbours if you do very-early morning starts, or get home late at night. It also stops all exhaust pollution in underground carparks. Pure EV range is listed at a maximum of 54 km, obviously this depends on driving style, road gradients and other variables, but it’s a decent distance for a vehicle in this class. If you live, say, about 40 km from work and can charge at both ends of the trip you could run the Mitsubishi all week without using petrol. Few people live that far from work... The biggest news is that a DC fast-charge system can recharge the battery to 80 per cent capacity in around 25 minutes. That’s around the time you might spend having a coffee or doing some shopping at the typical roadside service area. Australia is still seriously lacking in charging stations, that situation will eventually improve. However, a major part of the problem is the complete lack of interest by Australian governments in assisting those who want to buy clean running vehicles. As a last resort if you’re making long trips Mitsubishi Outlander can run on petrol for 500 to 600 km if you drive sensibly. The latest Outlander is available in LS and Exceed grades. Both have new features such as; smartphone Link Display audio with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto2 integration; DAB+ radio; powered and heated door mirrors; LED headlamps with auto levelling; and a DC fast charging socket. Topline Outlander Exceed also gets adaptive cruise control; forward collision mitigation that can also ‘see’ pedestrians; 360-degree around monitor; automatic high beam; lane departure warning; blind spot monitor; lane change assist; and rear cross traffic alert. Ride quality and comfort have been improved, primarily thanks to changes to the platform that increase structural rigidity. There’s additional sound deadening material and revisions to the suspension to reduce noise. The latter is also aimed at more precise handling. On the road in a complex drive program arranged by Mitsubishi we had everything from peak hour traffic in Adelaide’s CBD, to open country roads, including some dirt sections and winding hills. Fuel consumption ranged from zero in the city and for the next 30 km out of town, to seven to eight litres per hundred kilometres once the battery was discharged. Some added charge was picked up on downhill running, but this was minimal. Comfort is very good, with a near silent cabin on smooth roads and a well controlled ride. Rough surfaces did significantly increase sound levels, but on the whole the Mitsubishi is almost in the luxury sedan class. Though it’s a heavy SUV the Outlander PHEV handles well enough, partly due to the lowish centre of gravity due to underfloor batteries. It’s no sports machine but it will keep you out of trouble unless you’re really stupid. If you are stupid the Mitsubishi will use its electronics to try and save you. Push even harder and the laws of physics will win in the end... As well as the fascinating Outlander Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicle it’s also sold with conventional petrol and turbo-diesel engines. For more information on the Mitsubishi range, contact Hutchinson Motors LMCT 6390 on the corner of Ninth Street and Deakin Avenue, phone 5021 6300 or visit www. davisonmotorgroup.com.au Major revisions for Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Major revisions for Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV has looks that are almost futuristic in its class.
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Team JEGS Pre-race Notes: NHRA Division 3 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Summer Spectacle
Indianapolis, Ind. (July 4-7, 2019)
The JEGS Mail Order team will be represented during this weekend’s Summer Spectacle Division 3 Lucas Oil Drag Racing series event by Mike Coughlin, who will be racing in the Top Dragster class and his niece, Paige Coughlin, who will be racing in Super Comp with her JEGS.com dragster.
The event is the third of seven races in the 2019 North Central Division NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series.
Mike Coughlin kicked off his 2019 season with back-to-back appearances at the Division 2 event and the 50th annual NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla. Mike qualified his supercharged JEGS.com dragster third at both races with a best elapsed time of 6.126.
Mike is a 14-time NHRA national event winner. He has won national event titles in Pro Stock Truck, Super Comp, Top Sportsman, and Top Dragster.
Mike has won three of his 12-career NHRA Divisional wins at Lucas Oil Raceway Indianapolis. He won the Top Dragster title in 2017 and won the Top Sportsman class in 2008 and 2011.
Mike began his career in the Super Gas and Super Comp classes in the 1980s and has extensive experience in the heads-up “super classes”
Mike is a two-time Division 3 champion in the Top Sportsman class (2007-2009).
Paige, who recently celebrated her 19th birthday (June 24), made her debut in the Super Comp class in 2017 and has raced sporadically while continuing her education at Miami University of Ohio. Paige’s crew chief is Justin Beaver
So far this season, Paige has raced in two NHRA events with a round four finish at her most recent appearance in Norwalk, Ohio.
Paige is the daughter of three-time NHRA Pro Mod series champion Troy Coughlin, and the younger sister of two-time Division 3 champion Troy Coughlin Jr.
Before tranitioning to the Super Comp class, Paige got her start in racing behind the wheel of a Jr. Dragster.
The Coughlin’s have won Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series events in ten different classes, Top Fuel, Pro Comp, Top Alcohol Dragster, Super Eliminator, Comp, Super Stock, Super Comp, Super Gas, Top Dragster, and Top Sportsman.
The Coughlin’s have won Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series events at 20 different tracks across North America including races in six of NHRA’s seven geographic divisions. They have not won in Division 6, the Pacific Northwest.
The Coughlin family has also won the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway nine times. In addition to Jeg Jr’s four Pro Stock wins, his brother, Troy, won the Super Gas title in 1991 and Mike collected two wins in the Pro Stock Truck class in 1999 and 2001 and Troy Jr. claimed the Super Comp title in 2010 and Super Gas in 2014. In addition, John Coughlin won the U.S. Nationals as a car owner in 2005 when Brad Plourd drove his JEGS Mail Order dragster to the Super Comp title.
Collectively, the Coughlin family has appeared in 11 final rounds at the Indianapolis Lucas Oil Series event, and has garnered nine wins. All told, the Coughlin family has won 60 Lucas Oil Series divisional races.
Jeg Coughlin Sr., Jeg Coughlin Jr., and John Coughlin have each won four North Central Division season championships while Mike Coughlin and Troy Coughlin Jr. have two each for a total of 16.
Family patriarch Jeg Coughlin Sr. won his first Lucas Oil Series event when he claimed the Super Eliminator title at Windsor Dragway in Windsor, Ontario in 1969.
Team JEGS - By the Numbers (NHRA North Central Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Summer Spectacle)
2 Division 3 championships for Mike Coughlin
9 Divisional wins for the Coughlin’s in Indianapolis
16 Total North Central Division championships for the Coughlin family
20 Different tracks where the Coughlin family has won at least one divisional event
60 Total NHRA Divisional wins for the Coughlin family
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412th Test Wing inducts honorary commanders
by Laura Mowry, Edwards AFB • March 21, 2013
Brig. Gen. Michael T. Brewer, 412th Test Wing commander, welcomed civic leaders from surrounding communities during the Honorary Commanders Program induction ceremony recently held at Club Muroc’s Alliance Ballroom. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Edward Cannon)
EDWARDS AFB – Team Edwards recently welcomed civic leaders from surrounding communities – including Palmdale’s City Manager Dave Childs and Public Safety Director Anne Ambrose – during the Honorary Commanders Program induction ceremony held at Club Muroc’s Alliance Ballroom.
Brig. Gen. Michael T. Brewer and Chief Master Sgt. Brian D. Randolph hosted the event that introduced the honorary commanders to their respective group and squadron commanders.
“The Honorary Commanders Program is one of our key interfaces with the community. We want to join folks up with a commander so you can learn about what it is that we do on base. This provides opportunities for you to come out and join us and see some cool stuff,” said Brewer.
“This is also an opportunity for us to go and see how things are done in the city. It’s an opportunity to learn from the community,” he added.
The primary objective of the Honorary Commanders Program is to provide Edwards commanders with the capability to develop, promote and maintain a continuous working partnership with the surrounding communities. This program is an avenue for community partner leaders to learn about Air Force mission, personnel, programs and operations. Likewise, base commanders and personnel will benefit from continued cooperation with the community and its key leaders.
The induction ceremony introduced the following Edwards leaders with their civilian counterparts:
From the 419th Flight Test Squadron, Lt. Col. Jason Wierzbanowski and his Honorary Commander, Matthew Winheim. Winheim is the assistant headmaster at the Palmdale Aerospace Academy.
From the 412th Mission Support Group, Col. Robert Hoff and his Honorary Commander, Anne Ambrose. Ambrose is the Director of Public Safety and Community Relations for Palmdale.
From the 445th Flight Test Squadron, Lt. Col. Christopher Spinelli and his Honorary Commander, Ron Emard. Emard is the owner of Antelope Valley Harley Davidson.
From the 412th Test Management Group, Chuck Irving and his Honorary Commander, Dave Childs. Childs is the city manager for Palmdale.
From the 412th Medical Group, Col. Stephen Donaldson and his Honorary Commander, Judy Cooperberg. Cooperberg is the executive director for the Antelope Valley Services for Mental Health.
From the 412th Civil Engineering Squadron, James Judkins and his Honorary Commander, Michelle Cantrell. Cantrell is the city engineer for Lancaster.
From the Air Force Research Laboratory, Col. Michael Platt and his Honorary Commander, Dr. David Vierra. Vierra is the Superintendent of the Antelope Valley Union High School District.
From the 412th Maintenance Group, Col. Robby Weaver and his Honorary Commander, Steve Irving. Irving is the manager at General William J. Fox Airport.
From the 412th Operations Group, Col. Chris Azzano and his Honorary Commander, Steve Finnegan. Finnegan is the manager for Government and Legislative Affairs at the Automobile Club of Southern California.
From the 412th Operations Support Squadron, Lt. Col. Ryan Osteroos and his Honorary Commander, Jaque Hickman. Hickman is the Lone Pine Airport fixed base operator and Inyo County civic leader.
From the 411th Flight Test Squadron, Lt. Col. Daron Drown and his Honorary Commander, Rod Van Norman. Van Norman is a retired superintendent for Southern Kern Unified School District.
From the 412th Flight Test Squadron, Lt. Col. Matthew Fritz and his Honorary Commander, Julie Hackbarth-McIntyre. Hackbarth-McIntyre is the mayor of Barstow, Calif.
From the 412th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Maj. Larry Tanksley and his Honorary Commander, Julie Swayze. Swayze is the development associate for Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy and secretary for the Edwards Air Force Base Civilian Military Support Group.
From the 412th Electronic Warfare Group, Col. Kevin Muckerheide and his Honorary Commander, the Honorable Dick Spann. Spann is a U.S. Superior Court judge.
From the 412th Test Wing Fire Protection, Michael Hurles and his Honorary Commander, Capt. Scott Polgar. Polgar is the fire prevention officer for the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
From 412th Test Wing Environmental Management, Randy Beckett and his Honorary Commander, Bret Banks. Banks is the operations manager for the Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District.
From the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, Col. Lawrence Hoffman and his Honorary Commander, Scott Seymour. Seymour is the general manager of the Inyokern Airport.
From the 412th Force Support Squadron, Alexander Kovras and his Honorary Commander, Joudi Alsaady. Alsaady is a restaurant owner.
From the 412th Security Forces Squadron, Lt. Col. Kris Zhea and his Honorary Commander, Capt. Paul Foley. Foley is the commander of Operations and Training for the Arcadia Police Department.
From the 412th Communications Squadron, Lt. Col. Keith Repik and his Honorary Commander, George Nagy. Nagy is the president of Mojave Desert Bank and the Edward Air Force Base Civilian Military Support Group director.
From the 412th Test Engineering Group, Paul Tierney and his Honorary Commander, Jack Connell. Connell is the executive director of the China Lake Alliance.
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Canada, Trademark
Oh Cannabis!
Janice Bereskin (Bereskin & Parr LLP)/ November 6, 2018 November 6, 2018 /1 Comment
On October 17, 2018 Canada legalized recreational cannabis, offering opportunities and challenges for businesses in this emerging field.
Even before legalization, there was a notable increase in Canadian trademark filings covering cannabis products, services and related accessories. Unfortunately, many of these mark may never be legally used in Canada due to restrictions on brand use, display and advertising in the Cannabis Act and Regulations. Non-compliance with these regulations could result in serious punishments and penalties.
The stated focus of restrictions on cannabis brand use is the protection of young persons and public awareness of health risks. These concerns are reflected in both limitations on brand selection for cannabis products and accessories and the imposition of brand limitations on packaging and labels.
In particular, the Cannabis Act prohibits promotions and labels for cannabis, and cannabis accessories and services if:
there are reasonable grounds to believe they would be appealing to young persons (anyone under 18 years old);
they include an endorsement or testimonial or depict a real or fictitious person, character or animal (while not clear, presumably, a “depiction” is visual); or
they associate cannabis or a cannabis brand with a positive or negative emotion about a way of life, “such as” glamour, recreation, excitement, vitality, risk or daring. It remains to be seen how “appealing to young persons” or “evoking a way of life will be interpreted as there appears to be much room for ambiguity.
The Regulations also very strictly control how many and the manner in which branding elements may be displayed on “cannabis products”. Branding elements or images — including trademarks, distinguishing guises and logos — may only be displayed on a “label” applied to cannabis products. They may not appear on the interior or exterior surface of any container or covering that is not otherwise “a label”. Further, only the brand name and one branding element may be displayed, and can only appear once on the principal label.
There are also strict rules on the size and colour of the brand elements and the background of the packaging. For example, fluorescent colours are not allowed, and brand elements must be both smaller than, and in contrasting colours to, the required cannabis symbol and health warnings.
Use of cannabis brands on “things” is also regulated – with the same concerns regarding appeal to youth and evoking emotions, including glamour, excitement or daring. What will this mean in practice? Can a cannabis company or licensee sell t-shirts and caps marked with the cannabis brand, or put a cannabis brand on a skateboard? Probably not — as these items are commonly associated with, and appealing to, young persons and a “way of life”.
Despite the numerous restrictions, there are many reasons to register a trademark for cannabis goods and services in Canada. A registration provides exclusive rights to use the mark across Canada for the registered goods and services, and may become a valuable business asset. Once filed, a claim to rights appears on the searchable Register, possibly deterring encroachment from others, and potentially affecting examination of other applications.
Marks that are otherwise registrable under the Trademarks Act might not comply with Cannabis Act brand restrictions. In anticipation of a huge demand for cannabis products, thousands of trademark applications have been filed for cannabis goods/services, including many that would seem to offend cannabis branding restrictions. However, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has informally announced that it does not intend to examine applications for compliance with the Cannabis Act, with the result that many marks can never be legally used, cannot be enforced, and may also be vulnerable to challenge during an opposition.
Brand restrictions will impact the development of brand reputation, which in turn affects consumer decision-making, as well as the scope of protection for and enforcement of cannabis marks. Particularly in this early stage of legalization, strict branding rules impede the ability of new companies to easily distinguish themselves from their competitors. To help marketers and companies be compliant and effective, the Canadian Marketing Association has released a Guide on Permitted Cannabis Marketing Activities. However, this document is an industry guideline — not a government publication — and there remains uncertainty as to whether conduct might be “offside” the government rules. Many companies are already pressing the Government for more guidance, and leniency, on brand usage. Until then, cannabis companies should exercise caution, and seek legal guidance on brand use and promotion.
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Kevin Murphy says:
It’s a must to comply and register despite the restrictions. Registering a trademark for marijuana goods and services in Canada provides protection to the business owners and consumers. Let’s work with the government for a better cannabis world!
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Home International UN Peacekeepers are Perpetrators of Crimes They are Supposed to Protect
UN Peacekeepers are Perpetrators of Crimes They are Supposed to Protect
UN peacekeepers sometimes become perpetrators of crime to the people they are supposed to protect. UN often is a mute spectator to such heinous crimes carried out by their own men.
Sayan Ghosh
The UN peacekeeping missions with the noble objective of transitioning peace in the war ravaged nations, sometimes become perpetrator of crime to the people they are supposed to protect.
According to research conducted recently by Associated Press (AP), there have been about 2,000 allegations received by United Nations of sexual abuse and exploitation between 2004 and 2016.
Although, UN has a policy of zero tolerance against sexual exploitations, often they are mute spectators to such heinous crimes carried out by their own men. The UN after all depends on the individual nation’s military for their peacekeeping missions and often has limited influence on them.
The peacekeeping forces sometimes find it difficult to upkeep the set of values and emotions, such as, empathy and impartiality, “attributes that may have been discouraged by traditional military training,” said researchers Paul Higate, a lecturer at the school of sociology, politics and international studies at the University of Bristol in the UK.
Another cause of sexual violence by the peacekeeping forces is racism. They may have feelings of superiority towards the natives of the land they are supposed to protect. The sexual exploitation takes place mostly in the Ivory Coast, Liberia, Haiti, Central African Republic, South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo. The sexual exploitation that takes place in these countries surpasses all other UN missions combined.
UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations’ communications officer, Aditya Mehta explains the responsibility of the country providing the troop to screen the soldiers who would be sent to peacekeeping missions.
UN always requests the contributing nations to do screening based on criminal or disciplinary records and records of human rights violations including sexual abuse and exploitation. UN efforts to prevent crimes perpetrated by the peacekeeping troops also include vetting all the people deployed as military personnel or police force. This was started by the UN Secretariat in April 2016 to expand the previous practice of vetting individuals.
One of the solutions proposed has been more incorporation of female troops. Mehta said, “Women are deployed as police, military and civilian[s] and have made a positive impact on peacekeeping environments, both in supporting the role of women in building peace and [in] protecting women’s rights.”
In fact, increasing number of female troops is being incorporated in the peacekeeping mission. Mehta said, around 105,000 female peacekeeping forces have been deployed comprising of 1,200 police and 3,700 military personnel.
However, too many female troops are difficult to obtain. The source nations are often short of large number of female troops.
The solution probably lies in the better behavior, better training and sensitization. At present there are approximately 96,000 peacekeepers in the world. The biggest contributing countries include Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Rwanda, and Ethiopia.
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YouTube Premieres Book Trailer for The Alignment: Ingress
Google’s top-secret Niantic division today released the official book trailer for its upcoming novella The Alignment: Ingress on YouTube. Written by New York Times bestselling author Thomas Greanias, together with adventurer Hank Johnson and archaeologist Conrad Yeats, The Alignment: Ingress appears to be an action-packed thriller set against the jungles and deserts of Africa. …
Publishers Lunch Sneaks First Look at New Series “The Alignment”
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The 480-page novel revolves around a lost biblical text, a world at war and the end of history. It’s the Rosetta Stone to all seven novels of Thomas Greanias, including not only his blockbuster Atlantis trilogy but also last summer’s THE PROMISED WAR and next summer’s capstone DOMINUS DEI.
“THE 34TH DEGREE is really my debut novel, because I wrote the original draft when I was 25, before all of my other novels,” Greanias said. “For example, SS General Ludwig von Berg, the Baron of the Black Order, makes appearances of sorts in both THE ATLANTIS PROPHECY and THE ATLANTIS REVELATION. Here we see in him in the flesh, in all his gory glory, and find him an almost romantic if haunting figure.”
Until now, THE 34TH DEGREE didn’t fit the Atlantis Mapping Project series of books that Greanias had planned. But he said it illuminated his path all along the way and contains outrageous arcania from “way, way too much research”—from secret Swiss banking protocols to Bible code formulas in ancient Greek to real American OSS spy operations of mystical proportions.
“It’s all in there,” Greanias said.
Inspiration first struck Thomas Greanias while reading Leo Tolstoy’s WAR AND PEACE.
“One of Tolstoy’s main characters, the bumbling Pierre, becomes a Freemason and is convinced that the name Napoleon Bonaparte spells out 666, which is the number of the Antichrist,” Greanias said. “So Pierre packs a pistol and sets out to kill Napoleon in war-ravaged St. Petersburg.”
Reading it in the context of today’s proclamations by preachers and prophets that Armageddon is at America’s doorstep, along with some pretty convincing news headlines and natural disasters, Greanias said he couldn’t help but wonder how many times earlier generations believed that it was The End.
“Look at the people trapped in Hitler’s Fortress Europe during World War II who were waiting for the promised Allied invasion,” he said. “My late mother was a little girl in Nazi-occupied Greece, where most of THE 34TH DEGREE takes place. She could never forget the starvation that claimed nearly a half million lives in the winter of 1941, or fleeing her mountain village home as the Luftwaffe dropped bombs. No Rapture for them or the Jews in the concentration camps. Sometimes there is just no escape, where evil reigns but heroes rise.”
Other inspiration came from a cryptic reference in the Bible about the prophetic text at the heart of THE 34TH DEGREE that the Axis and Allies are after.
“It actually existed, and maybe still does,” Greanias said. “In his second letter to the Thessalonians, a church where a large number of believers had quit their jobs in anticipation of Christ’s return, the apostle Paul warns them not to become easily alarmed by any prediction allegedly written by him asserting that the ‘Day of the Lord’ was imminent.”
In THE 34TH DEGREE, that text allegedly contains the codes that spell out the date the world will end along with the original atomic formula for Greek Fire, a legendary weapon from Atlantis that can turn water into fire. The Byzantine Greeks tried to come up with their own, napalm-like Greek Fire to burn Muslim fleets in the Mediterranean. It was but a pale imitation of the kind of force the Bible says will “melt the elements in fervent heat.”
With the world today apparently accelerating in that direction, Greanias hopes readers will find hope and courage from the crucible of history’s earlier tribulations and the role models of those souls who both perished and survived them.
“We tend to think that history outlives us all, which is why nation states throughout history have so often laid claim to our souls,” Greanias said. “The Roman Empire with its Caesars was such a power. So was Nazi Germany under Hitler. Some Silicon Valley companies aren’t much different. But what if people, when all is said and done, outlive corporations, nations and history? Then the nation-state owes its existence to its people, and the people have the right to change it, like Thomas Jefferson wrote. We are seeing this in the Middle East right now. “
More down to earth, said Greanias, today’s unemployed or overworked employees should take courage that they will outlast their “built to last” companies like Lehmann Brothers in finance, or broken brands like Nokia and now BlackBerry in mobile.
“Every now and then we all have to take a bullet for our company or charitable organization, for the Church or the State, for the good of the Cause,” Greanias said. “But the revolutionary idea that sparked the American Revolution is that we the people are the cause. My novels like THE 34TH DEGREE are about heroes and heroines who defy their times and outlast adversity, people who are a lot like my readers.”
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Labor coalition launches 'Union Strong' ad campaign
Hey, New Choice NY, the biggest public sector unions in New York have a few words for you.
Nine words, actually, and the message is unmistakable: we’re Union Strong.
UUP is part of a coalition of New York unions that purchased billboards in Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse to combat a recent ad blitz by New Choice NY, an anti-union group that began targeting unionists just days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the legality of agency fee with its June 27 decision in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31.
The New York State AFL-CIO, NYSUT and PEF are also coalition members. Coalition ads will begin appearing on buses in the Capital Region later this month. The ads will run through January 2019.
“We’re proud to be a part of this union coalition, which is fighting back against the misinformation being disseminated by groups like Bad Choice New York,” said UUP President Fred Kowal. “Groups like these don’t care about union members or their First Amendment rights. They have one goal, and that is to break unions.
“But unions are tenacious,” he continued. “We stand tall with our sisters and brothers and we will defend working families against any attacks on our members or our union sisters and brothers.”
Billboard strong
Digital billboards in Albany, Buffalo and Rochester went on line Nov. 5. Billboards in Syracuse and a second Albany billboard are set to go live Nov. 11.
The first Albany billboard, above, is on I-787 south heading into the City of Albany, just before the Clinton Avenue exit. The Rochester billboard, below, is on I-490 south at Mt. Read Boulevard. The Buffalo billboard, not pictured, is on the Kensington Expressway, just before Route 198.
The billboards carry a simple, direct message: Union Strong. The billboards use seven words to tout the importance of being in a union: Better wages, better benefits, better working conditions. Each billboard carries the logos of the unions.
The union coalition ad campaign is in response to a fall radio and billboard ad campaign by New Choice NY, one of a multitude of anti-labor groups that cropped up popped up days after the Janus decision.
According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, New Choice NY is linked to the Pennsylvania-based Americans for Fair Treatment; one of its board members is the CEO of the Commonwealth Foundation, a right-wing think tank backed by donors tied to the billionaire Koch brothers.
Based in Albany, New Choice NY has targeted UUP members in several newspaper op-eds; UUP responded with an op-ed in the Albany Times-Union. New Choice sent hundreds of emails to UUP members—using their SUNY.edu work addresses—urging them to quit UUP and pocket the 1 percent they pay in dues.
Under Janus, bargaining unit members can take salary increases and benefits collectively bargained by unions for free, without paying fees or union dues. But a large majority of union members haven’t done this; many of them believe it’s wrong to take union-negotiated benefits for free.
In October, UUP reached record-breaking levels of membership; 95 percent of full-time bargaining unit members have joined UUP. Overall, 88 percent of bargaining unit members have joined the union.
In a record-breaking tally, nearly 98 percent of members eligible to vote cast ballots Sept. 5 to ratify UUP’s new six-year contract with the state.
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Macdonald Performances Raise
By Administrator in Broadcasting, Media News · June 15, 2012 · No comments
A series of five concerts in one day by the Scots singer-songwriter, Amy Macdonald, has raised £10,000 for the charity run by broadcasters, STV – it has revealed.
Says STV – which now describes itself as 'Scotland's digital media company' - Macdonald today handed over a cheque for £10,000, to the STV Appeal, to STV chief executive, Rob Woodward.
The money – which will be match-funded by the Scottish Government, meaning, in effect, £20,000 being raised – saw Macdonald play five different venues on Tuesday: The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen; Duke’s Corner, Dundee; The Tolbooth, Stirling; The Caves, Edinburgh; and SWG3, Glasgow.
Says STV: “The STV Appeal 2012 is committed to helping children and young people affected by poverty in Scotland. The STV Appeal was launched in 2011 by The Hunter Foundation and STV, and in its inaugural year raised almost £1.3million. The STV Appeal spends 100 per cent of the money raised on the kids who most need it. Every single penny raised stays in Scotland. And as in 2011, the Scottish Government has once again committed to match-funding the total amount raised.”
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ERCOT requests conservation during today’s peak heat hours
July 30, 2015 heat, weather, weather tips.
From the Electric Reliability Council of Texas:
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), grid operator for most of Texas, is asking electric consumers to limit or reduce electric use where possible during the 3-7 p.m. peak demand hours today.
Electric demand this week has reached three consecutive July records, breaking 67,000 megawatts (MW) for the first time since 2011 on Wednesday, July 29, when demand stayed above 67,000 MW for three consecutive hours, peaking at 67,590 MW during the hour ending at 5 p.m.
“Although we have been able to keep up with these July records this week, we currently project somewhat higher demand during today’s peak hours,” said Dan Woodfin, ERCOT director of System Operations. “Some additional plants have experienced unplanned outages, and we are expecting less wind generation during today’s peak.”
Consumers can help ensure the system is able to continue serving current power needs by taking the following steps to reduce demand on the system during the 3-7 p.m. peak demand hours:
Turn off all unnecessary lights, appliances and electronic equipment.
When at home, close blinds and drapes that get direct sun, set air conditioning thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, and use fans to cool the air.
When away from home, set air conditioning thermostats to 85 degrees and turn all fans off before you leave. Block the sun by closing blinds or drapes on windows that will get direct sun.
Do not use your dishwasher, laundry equipment, hair dryers, coffeemakers, or other home appliances during the peak hours of 3 to 7 p.m.
Avoid opening refrigerators or freezers more than necessary.
Use microwaves for cooking instead of an electric range or oven.
Set your pool pump to run in the early morning or late evening, not during peak demand hours.
“This is a precautionary measure to help ensure we can maintain overall reliability during this high-demand period,” said Woodfin. “Voluntary conservation, especially during the late afternoon and early evening hours, can help us ensure reliability throughout the ERCOT grid.”
###The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) manages the flow of electric power to nearly 24 million Texas customers, representing about 90 percent of the state’s electric load. As the independent system operator for the region, ERCOT schedules power on an electric grid that connects more than 43,000 miles of transmission lines and 550 generation units. ERCOT also performs financial settlement for the competitive wholesale bulk-power market and administers retail switching for more than 7 million premises in competitive choice areas. ERCOT is a membership-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation, governed by a board of directors and subject to oversight by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Texas Legislature.
Hot, dry, repeat: It’s not just you, historical data backs up weather deja vu
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We are totally committed to deliver projects focussed on Quality of delivery & Efficiency during operations
Previous Article Acciona India has aggressive plans to increase our footprint in both wind and PV
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In Conversation with, Mr. Dinesh Jagdale, Director & CEO, Panama Wind Energy
What is current installed capacity of your company and How has been your journey so far?
Panama Renewable Energy Group is one of the leading Independent Power Producers (IPP) in the Indian renewable energy sector. Panama Renewable Energy Group, through its Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV’s), has commissioned 152 MW of Wind Power Projects along with 10 MW of Solar PV Power Project under Open Access Mechanism and has over 300 GW of wind power projects under various phases of development across major windy states of India.
With a Mission to Transform the Way India Produces Power from Renewable Energy Panama Renewable Energy Group commenced its journey in the Renewable Space in 2012. The First 72 MW Wind Power capacity was commissioned in early 2014 followed by Commissioning of further 80 MW Wind Power capacity in Oct 2014 taking the size of the operational fleet to 152 MW’s. The cumulative portfolio has injected over 1 Billion Units of Clean Renewable Energy in to the State Grid.
In 2017, Panama Renewable Energy Group expanded in to Solar Sector and has just commissioned its first 10 MW Solar Photovoltaic Project built for the Offtake under the Open Access Mechanism. This is the first Wind Solar Hybrid Project Commissioned in the State of Maharashtra wherein 80 MW Wind & 10 MW Solar are Evacuating Power at the Same Pooling Substation and use the same Transmission System. An additional 10 MW Solar PV Project is under construction and will go live during the first Quarter of CY 2018.
The group also has marked its footprint on the Roof Top Solar PV Sector focussing largely on the Commercial & Industrial Sector (C & I) and the work has already commenced for a project capacity in excess of 5 MWp.
The journey so far has been quite exciting yet challenging especially on account of regulatory uncertainties along with the challenges you face on ground during construction of these renewable energy projects. We commenced our journey with a small Passionate team to create a land mark in the renewable space by truly adopting to build State of the Art Green Field Projects focussing on Quality of delivery & Efficiencyin operations. During this progress we partnered with Global leading WTG OEMs for our wind projects. With our recent expansion into Solar (PV) Sector, we continue to build our projects using the Same Strategy & utilising the in-house capabilities that are brought by a highly motivated & passionate Team of over 40+ Professionals.
What is your current order book position and what are the projects that you are currently bidding for?
Just to translate your question in to a relevant metric we are working on 124 MW of Wind Power projects which are shovel ready &are ready for commencement of Constructiononce the next phase of Reverse Bidding Regime is initiated.Few projects that have secured PPA are also under Due Diligence for acquisition. Further as already explained above we are also working on Solar PV Projects both Ground Mounted & Roof Top Mounted and expect to expand the Solar Portfolio from the Existing 10 MW to 100 MW within a period of one year fully focussing on C & I segment.
What is the impact of Reverse bidding on the wind energy sector?
Competitive bidding in the wind power segment has replaced the earlier feed-in tariffs where a fixed price was ensured for power producers, may put temporary pressure on wind sector players, but will have positive impact in the long term.
The first wind auction conducted in February led to a fall in tariff to ₹3.46 per unit — down 16.8 per cent from the lowest prevailing feed-in tariff of ₹4.16 among the windy States. Hence, the cost of wind power is close to achieving grid parity. Moreover, with wind power tariff dropping, non-wind generating States may be interested in procuring wind power from “windy” States by laying down transmission lines which will overall increase the demand and off-take for wind projects.
Bidding mechanism in the longer term shall create a more transparent and competitive industryas the tariffs are determined based on developers’ analysis of location, counter-party risks, wind conditions and other project-specific factors as well as company’s abilities to do financial engineering.The pressures on the revenue side are expected to be balanced by the cost benefits accruing from technological improvements, increasing PLF’s, execution efficiencies and enforceable payment security mechanism.
But off course currently due to slow progress in the Bidding process the overall Growth in the Wind Sector in India has dropped considerably leading to huge over supply issues affecting the OEM’s a large way. This also has put pressure on the Employment Growth in the Sector. IPP’s have distanced themselves from the Wind Sector and are closely observing the GOI’s initiatives & unless drastic steps are taken in increasing the overall Electricity Demand the Wind Sector will continue to struggle for its existence.
What are your growth plans for next couple of years?
As explained above we are totally committed to deliver projects focussed on Quality of delivery & Efficiency during operations. We have build a very robust Data Centre “Battlefield” focusing on use of data analytics for improvement in Performance. Our growth plans are built around a robust pipeline of projects that will cater to a diversified off take arrangements that include the Classic SECI/State Bids, Open Access/Group Captive offtake as well as the Solar Roof Top avenues across pan India.
Would you like to add anything else about the wind sector?
Wind Sector is going through a Transformative Stage from a Feed-In-Tariff Regime to a Competitive Reverse Bidding Mechanism. To be competitive and sustain its existence the sector now has to create an optimum value across the entire Supply Chain. While Technology for better CUF’s should not be a constraint the Sector will have to create a robust mechanism for delivery of Wind Power by indulging themselves with the regulators, State Load Operators to increase the penetration of wind energy in to the Grid. Once the SLDC’s are able to manage the variability, both across years and seasonally within a year, Wind will increase its acceptability and the growth forecast of addition of 4000 MW every year over the next five years will be a reality.
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Ketamine Therapy helping Veterans: There are over 40,000 veterans in Kern County, and for many, post-traumatic stress is a constant daily battle. There is an old drug that is being used in a new way to help veterans dealing with the trauma they've experienced during their service
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Lord of the Rings: Middle Earth Defense is a tower defense game which will be released by the end of 2010. In Lord of the Rings: Middle-Earth Defense, you’ll get to command heroes like Aragon, Frodo, and Gandalf as legions of orcs attack you. You can build barriers to guide the enemies strategically, then place…
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Art21: Art in the 21st Century, Season 9
Art21 presents content about contemporary art, featuring the artists of our time. This is our second time working with them on the creative direction and typography for the Peabody Award-winning series ART21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, which airs on PBS. Season 9 is presented in three parts and reveals the stories of twelve innovators in visual art—and, in a series first, a nonprofit art center—including: Creative Growth Art Center, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Olafur Eliasson, David Goldblatt, Katy Grannan, Nicholas Hlobo, Hiwa K, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Zanele Muholi, Susan Philipsz, Robin Rhode, and Stephanie Syjuco.
Working closely with composer Joel Pickard, 100+ hours of footage were edited down into the frenetic opening sequences for each episode plus the series' trailer seen at the top of this page. Supporting typography (people, places, + things) within the episodes expands the typographic system and supplies a no-nonsense narrative structure.
Motion Theory, Edit, Typography: Matt Eller
Client: Art21
Nick Ravich, Series Producer
Ian Forster, Director, Johannesburg
Rafael Salazar, Co-Director, Berlin
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Christine Turner, Director, San Francisco
Ife Adelona, Production Coordinator
Tina Kukielski, Executive Director, Art21
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Researchers, activists and climbers respond to Trump's withdrawal from Climate Accord
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Antarctic Climb Completes Pou Brothers' Seven Wall Quest
Lindsay Griffin
The western side of the Three Pigs or False Cape Renard. The Basque team made the first ascent of the highest of the three summits, christened Zerua Peak via Azken Paradisua (5.11d M6 90 degrees, 600m, Baraiazarra-Pou-Pou, 2007). The climb completed the Pou brothers' Seven Walls - Seven Continents quest. [Photo] Courtesy of www.pouanaiak.com
As a climax to their Seven Walls - Seven Continents project, the Pou brothers have just climbed an important new route on the Antarctic Peninsula. In a twenty-four-hour round trip from their base camp in the Lemaire Channel, Eneko and Iker Pou made the first ascent of the "Three Pigs" via a route they have named Azken Paradisua, a 400-meter rock wall followed by 200 meters of mixed and ice terrain to the summit mushroom.
The Basque climbers crossed the Drake Passage and sailed down the Peninsula on Northanger (the 54-foot vessel featured in "Elsewhere," Issue 19), negotiating the usual iceberg hazard until reaching Cape Renard at the entrance to the Lemaire Channel. This passage, between the mainland and Booth Island, is often referred to as Kodak Gap due to the spectacular scenery, which makes it possibly Antarctica's most photographed water way by the passengers of the now many cruise ships that frequent this area. The Basques established a base camp on the ice just 20 meters above the sea and close to a collection of icy rock towers known as False Cape Renard or the "Three Pigs."
After thorough reconnaissance the two made their first attempt on December 21, but high winds and snow fall forced them down after Eneko had taken a short fall from an icy crack. When this weather cleared, they left for a second try at 7:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve, climbing the 250m of vertical height that separated the western foot of the wall from the sea. This was glaciated terrain with ice steepening to 70 degrees toward the finish. The 400m rock wall was climbed in ten pitches, the first three with maximum difficulties of 5.8/5.9, a fourth pitch crux of 5.11d, then two pitches of 5.10, a pitch of easy 5.11, and then three more starting at 5.10 and gradually diminishing to 5.5/5.6. From this point a steep ice pitch (70 degrees) lead to a rock wall, climbed at 10c. Above, three more pitches with a crux of 90 degrees and 5.8, led to the top. The route was climbed on natural gear and descent made by rappel, in six hours via a different line, from pegs and slings, etc. The wall itself took thirteen hours to climb, the pair finally regaining their camp, exhuasted, at 7:30 p.m. on Christmas Day. The weather on the Peninsula is often very fickle and the Basques preferred to go for a continuous push rather than risk a bivouac on the wall.
The brothers, who are primarily superb rock climbers, found this climb the most adventurous they've done: the conditions were harsh, with low temperatures and constant wind; they were unsure of what they would find on the route, and realized that rescue in this part of the world is an extremely tenuous business. They have named the previously unclimbed tower, Zerua Peak.
Base Camp in the Lemaire Channel with False Cape Renard (aka the Three Pigs) behind. [Photo] Courtesy of www.pouanaiak.com
A little to the north, at the northeastern end of the Lemaire Channel, generally referred to as Cape Renard, stands the impressive double-summited Cape Renard Tower (747m), traditionally referred to by British Antarctic Survey employees as Una's Tits (don't ask!). It is an impressive icy rock tower, in common with the other formations in this region formed of basalt, and was attempted by British parties via the north face before the successful first ascent in February 1997 by Canadians Jia Condon and Rich Prohaska. This pair climbed the East Buttress, a route on which they fixed ropes and overcame difficulties of 5.9 and A2 before reaching the East Summit. The continuation along the short but corniced connecting ridge to the slightly higher West Top looked too dangerous, so they descended, naming their route Una's What? and leaving the first ascent of the highest point to a German team two years later. In 1999 Kurt Albert, Stefan Glowacz, Hans Martin Gotz, Gerhard Heidorn, Holger Heuber and Jurgen Knappe climbed the southwest face directly to the highest summit to create a seventeen-pitch pure rock route at 5.11d/12a.
The Pou brothers conceived the idea of the the Seven Walls - Seven Continents project in 2002, when they decided to travel to each of the world's seven continents and free climb a significant rock wall that was representative of the land they were in. In 2003 they completed the first two stages with free ascents of El Nino on El Cap and Zunbeltz on the Naranjo de Bulnes in northern Spain's Picos de Europa. The following year they journeyed to Madagascar and managed the first free ascent of Bravo les Filles in the Tsaranoro massif. In 2005 it was the turn of Australasia and the famous Totem Pole off Tasmania, Australia [Thank you, readers, for the correction. —Ed.]. That same summer they traveled to Pakistan for their most ambitious project at the time, the first free ascent of Eternal Flame on Trango Tower. Although they completed the ascent of this increasingly popular Karakoram route, they failed to climb every pitch free. Their sixth continent was South America, where on their second attempt they made a free ascent of the Supercanaleta on Fitz Roy.
Sources: Greg Landreth, Keri Pashuk, www.pouanaiak.com
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www.barrabes.com/multimedia/videos.asp?idVideo=96
Rich's last name is Prohaska, not Probaska as given in the article.
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The totem pole is indeed in the Australian state of Tasmania and not in NZ. In regards to the totem pole, I wonder how they consider a 50metre sea stack a "wall"? There are several actual walls, even in tassie of a couple hundred metres that it seems would have been more in keeping with the other spectacular routes on their project.
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"In 2005 it was the turn of Australasia and the famous Totem Pole in New Zealand."
The Totem Pole is off Tasmania rather than NZ.
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Ishaan Tharoor
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The world faces an unprecedented dilemma. Expanding opportunities are emerging side by side with intensifying problems. The proliferation of money, technology, education and global interdependence which have been the main drivers of global development is accompanied by rising levels of financial instability, pollution, unemployment, inequality, arms proliferation and social unrest. Persistent poverty co-exists side by side with unprecedented prosperity. Rising levels of inequality and unemployment are spreading discontent and social unrest at a time when social welfare nets are overstrained by an aging population. Economic growth is depleting the world’s natural resource base at an alarming rate while threatening long term catastrophic changes in climate. The competition for scarce resources is aggravating nationalist competition at a time when international cooperation is essential for coping with common global challenges. Globalization is breaking down the barriers insulating national economies, making states increasingly vulnerable to destabilizing impacts from beyond national borders. Proliferation of nuclear and other weapons poses new threats to national and regional security. Humanity seems driven by mutually exclusive, contradictory goals leading to apparently insoluble problems.
Quest for a New Paradigm
Humanity today faces a pressing need to move beyond a mere description of the crises which has already been well documented. There is presently no consensus as to whether real, effective solutions are possible to address the full spectrum of global challenges and what those solutions should be. Solutions can only be found by looking beyond the prevailing framework of values, ideas, strategies, policies, and institutions on which current solutions are based. An essential condition for addressing these challenges is to present a comprehensive conceptual framework that sets forth the enabling conditions, governing values and principles, strategies and necessary steps.
Background on the Webcast
The World Academy of Art & Science has recently launched an initiative bringing together like-minded organizations and individuals to identify the core elements of an integrated perspective, a comprehensive strategy and detailed policy framework capable of addressing these multiple challenges founded on a more fundamental paradigm change.
This Webinar is a prelude to the international conference on “Opportunities & Challenges for the 21st Century - Need for a New Paradigm” organised in collaboration with the United National Office, Geneva, on June 3, 2013 at the Palais des Nations, Geneva and a workshop at the Library of Alexandria on June 5&6, 2013.
The objective of these events is to identify elements of a comprehensive approach for dealing with the major challenges facing humanity today. Discussions will address the following fundamental questions in an interrelated manner:
Economy & Employment: How can global food security, full employment and abolition of poverty be achieved within a decade?
Energy & Ecology: How can global living standards be raised to middle class levels without depleting or destroying the environment or depriving future generations of the capacity to sustain these achievements?
Human Capital – Education, Health & Welfare: How can global levels of education and public health be raised to OECD level?
Money & Finance: How can the necessary financial resources be generated and mobilized to achieve the goals described in the first three questions?
Security: How can we permanently eliminate war and WMD that threaten to destroy all other development achievements?
Global Governance: How can we design and implement systems of global governance capable of implementing necessary measures to achieve the other five goals for the welfare and well-being of all?
The scope of discussion will encompass
Common root causes of the multiple global crises
Ideas, principles and values on which comprehensive solutions need to be based
Strategies, policies, proposals, legal and institutional mechanisms
Actionable steps
Topics for the Webcast
Role of Crises in Social Evolution: What is the role of crises in the greater scheme of social evolution?
Historical Perspective: What can we learn from historical experience about the most successful ways to deal with major crises?
Understanding Crises: How do perceptions impact on the way people define and deal with crises?
Resolving Crises: How do perceptions determine the range of envisioned, proposed, and enacted solutions?
Social Change: What kind of social re-structuring has taken place in societies during and after a crisis?
Values: What role can values play in successfully addressing crises?
Global Governance: What do current crises tell us about the future of global governance, human rights and responsibilities?
Leadership: What role can individuals and organizations play in resolving global challenges?
Research: What role interdisciplinary research play in the formulation of effective solutions?
In Search of a New Paradigm for Global Development by Garry Jacobs & Ivo Slaus, Cadmus Vol 1, Issue 6, May 2013
Adelaide’s Lament: Exploring Our Inability to Make Reliable Sense of Our Situation by Ruben Nelson, Eruditio Vol 1, Issue 2, March 2013
New Paradigm by Ruben Nelson
Outcome of the Project
The May webcast will be followed by live discussions in Geneva, Alexandria and other locations. One anticipated outcome will be a definitive report examining the interrelationships between peace, security, economy, employment, global governance, rule of law, ecology, social process, technology, organization, education, research, culture and individuality and setting forth the elements of a comprehensive, integrated approach to effectively address the multiple challenges posed by their complex interactions.
Introduction to Global Challenges & Opportunities
Ljudmila Popovich
Civilizational Change
Ruben Nelson
Future Finance
Suleika Reiners
Effective Systemic Tools for Promoting Change
Global Strategy for Higher Education
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The Boarded Window (Ambrose Bierce)
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In 1830, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnati, lay an immense and almost unbroken forest. The whole region was sparsely settled by people of the frontier–restless souls who no sooner had hewn fairly habitable homes out of the wilderness and attained to that degree of prosperity which today we should call indigence, than, impelled by some mysterious impulse of their nature, they abandoned all and pushed farther westward, to encounter new perils and privations in the effort to regain the meager comforts which they had voluntarily renounced. Many of them had already forsaken that region for the remoter settlements, but among those remaining was one who had been of those first arriving. He lived alone in a house of logs surrounded on all sides by the great forest, of whose gloom and silence he seemed a part, for no one had ever known him to smile nor speak a needless word. His simple wants were supplied by the sale or barter of skins of wild animals in the river town, for not a thing did he grow upon the land which, if needful, he might have claimed by right of undisturbed possession. There were evidences of “improvement”–a few acres of ground immediately about the house had once been cleared of its trees, the decayed stumps of which were half concealed by the new growth that had been suffered to repair the ravage wrought by the ax. Apparently the man’s zeal for agriculture had burned with a failing flame, expiring in penitential ashes.
The little log house, with its chimney of sticks, its roof of warping clapboards weighted with traversing poles and its “chinking” of clay, had a single door and, directly opposite, a window. The latter, however, was boarded up–nobody could remember a time when it was not. And none knew why it was so closed; certainly not because of the occupant’s dislike of light and air, for on those rare occasions when a hunter had passed that lonely spot the recluse had commonly been seen sunning himself on his doorstep if heaven had provided sunshine for his need. I fancy there are few persons living today who ever knew the secret of that window, but I am one, as you shall see.
The man’s name was said to be Murlock. He was apparently seventy years old, actually about fifty. Something besides years had had a hand in his aging. His hair and long, full beard were white, his gray, lusterless eyes sunken, his face singularly seamed with wrinkles which appeared to belong to two intersecting systems. In figure he was tall and spare, with a stoop of the shoulders–a burden bearer. I never saw him; these particulars I learned from my grandfather, from whom also I got the man’s story when I was a lad. He had known him when living near by in that early day.
One day Murlock was found in his cabin, dead. It was not a time and place for coroners and newspapers, and I suppose it was agreed that he had died from natural causes or I should have been told, and should remember. I know only that with what was probably a sense of the fitness of things the body was buried near the cabin, alongside the grave of his wife, who had preceded him by so many years that local tradition had retained hardly a hint of her existence. That closes the final chapter of this true story–excepting, indeed, the circumstance that many years afterward, in company with an equally intrepid spirit, I penetrated to the place and ventured near enough to the ruined cabin to throw a stone against it, and ran away to avoid the ghost which every well-informed boy thereabout knew haunted the spot. But there is an earlier chapter–that supplied by my grandfather.
When Murlock built his cabin and began laying sturdily about with his ax to hew out a farm–the rifle, meanwhile, his means of support–he was young, strong and full of hope. In that eastern country whence he came he had married, as was the fashion, a young woman in all ways worthy of his honest devotion, who shared the dangers and privations of his lot with a willing spirit and light heart. There is no known record of her name; of her charms of mind and person tradition is silent and the doubter is at liberty to entertain his doubt; but God forbid that I should share it! Of their affection and happiness there is abundant assurance in every added day of the man’s widowed life; for what but the magnetism of a blessed memory could have chained that venturesome spirit to a lot like that?
One day Murlock returned from gunning in a distant part of the forest to find his wife prostrate with fever, and delirious. There was no physician within miles, no neighbor; nor was she in a condition to be left, to summon help. So he set about the task of nursing her back to health, but at the end of the third day she fell into unconsciousness and so passed away, apparently, with never a gleam of returning reason.
From what we know of a nature like his we may venture to sketch in some of the details of the outline picture drawn by my grandfather. When convinced that she was dead, Murlock had sense enough to remember that the dead must be prepared for burial. In performance of this sacred duty he blundered now and again, did certain things incorrectly, and others which he did correctly were done over and over. His occasional failures to accomplish some simple and ordinary act filled him with astonishment, like that of a drunken man who wonders at the suspension of familiar natural laws. He was surprised, too, that he did not weep–surprised and a little ashamed; surely it is unkind not to weep for the dead. “Tomorrow,” he said aloud, “I shall have to make the coffin and dig the grave; and then I shall miss her, when she is no longer in sight; but now–she is dead, of course, but it is all right–it must be all right, somehow. Things cannot be so bad as they seem.”
He stood over the body in the fading light, adjusting the hair and putting the finishing touches to the simple toilet, doing all mechanically, with soulless care. And still through his consciousness ran an undersense of conviction that all was right–that he should have her again as before, and everything explained. He had had no experience in grief; his capacity had not been enlarged by use. His heart could not contain it all, nor his imagination rightly conceive it. He did not know he was so hard struck; that knowledge would come later, and never go. Grief is an artist of powers as various as the instruments upon which he plays his dirges for the dead, evoking from some the sharpest, shrillest notes, from others the low, grave chords that throb recurrent like the slow beating of a distant drum. Some natures it startles; some it stupefies. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, stinging all the sensibilities to a keener life; to another as the blow of a bludgeon, which in crushing benumbs. We may conceive Murlock to have been that way affected, for and here we are upon surer ground than that of conjecture no sooner had he finished his pious work than, sinking into a chair by the side of the table upon which the body lay, and noting how white the profile showed in the deepening gloom, he laid his arms upon the table’s edge, and dropped his face into them, tearless yet and unutterably weary. At that moment came in through the open window a long, wailing sound like the cry of a lost child in the far deeps of the darkening woods! But the man did not move. Again, and nearer than before, sounded that unearthly cry upon his failing sense. Perhaps it was a wild beast; perhaps it was a dream. For Murlock was asleep.
Some hours later, as it afterward appeared, this unfaithful watcher awoke and lifting his head from his arms intently listened–he knew not why. There in the black darkness by the side of the dead, recalling all without a shock, he strained his eyes to see–he knew not what. His senses were all alert, his breath was suspended, his blood had stilled its tides as if to assist the silence. Who–what had waked him, and where was it?
Suddenly the table shook beneath his arms, and at the same moment he heard, or fancied that he heard, a light, soft step–another–sounds as of bare feet upon the floor!
He was terrified beyond the power to cry out or move. Perforce he waited–waited there in the darkness through seeming centuries of such dread as one may know, yet live to tell. He tried vainly to speak the dead woman’s name, vainly to stretch forth his hand across the table to learn if she were there. His throat was powerless, his arms and hands were like lead. Then occurred something most frightful. Some heavy body seemed hurled against the table with an impetus that pushed it against his breast so sharply as nearly to overthrow him, and at the same instant he heard and felt the fall of something upon the floor with so violent a thump that the whole house was shaken by the impact. A scuffling ensued, and a confusion of sounds impossible to describe. Murlock had risen to his feet. Fear had by excess forfeited control of his faculties. He flung his hands upon the table. Nothing was there!
There is a point at which terror may turn to madness; and madness incites to action. With no definite intent, from no motive but the wayward impulse of a madman, Murlock sprang to the wall, with a little groping seized his loaded rifle, and without aim discharged it. By the flash which lit up the room with a vivid illumination, he saw an enormous panther dragging the dead woman toward the window, its teeth fixed in her throat! Then there were darkness blacker than before, and silence; and when he returned to consciousness the sun was high and the wood vocal with songs of birds.
The body lay near the window, where the beast had left it when frightened away by the flash and report of the rifle. The clothing was deranged, the long hair in disorder, the limbs lay anyhow. From the throat, dreadfully lacerated, had issued a pool of blood not yet entirely coagulated. The ribbon with which he had bound the wrists was broken; the hands were tightly clenched. Between the teeth was a fragment of the animal’s ear.
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LT: September 29, 1864 Theodore Lyman
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Editor’s Note: Theodore Lyman was General George G. Meade’s aide-de-camp from the fall of 1863 through Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. An intelligent and outspoken individual, Lyman’s letters to his wife provide great insight into the happenings at Meade’s headquarters. These letters, taken from the now public domain book Meade’s Headquarters, 1863-1865; Letters of Colonel Theodore Lyman from the Wilderness to Appomattox and written by Lyman to his wife, appear here at the Siege of Petersburg Online exactly 150 years to the day after they are written. Since this site is concerned solely with the Siege of Petersburg, the letters start on June 12, 1864 and end on April 3, 1865. See the bottom of this and every other letter for a list of all the letters which have appeared to date.
The 6.45 P.M. train, which bore me, on Monday, from the ancient town of Beverly, did arrive in very good season in Boston, where I hired a citizen, in the hack line, to convey me with speed and safety to the Worcester depot. With an eye to speculation the driver took in also a lone female, who looked with a certain alarm on me, doubtful as to whether I might not be in the highway-robbery line. She had evidently been on a sea-shore visit, and bore a small pitcher with a bunch of flowers therein. By a superior activity I got a place in the sleeping-car, for it seems to be the policy to have about half room enough for the sleepy passengers, so that those who don’t get places may look with envy on t’others and determine to be earlier next time. Geo. D was along. The canny man had got a good berth, in the middle of the day, and you should have seen his traveller’s fixings: a blanket, a sort of little knapsack, and finally a white handkerchief to tie over his head; “For,” said he, “perhaps the pillows are not very clean.” With martial indifference I took off boots and blouse, got on an upper shelf (not without convulsive kicks), and composed myself to the fitful rest which one gets under such circumstances. There was, as the conductor truthfully observed, “a tremendous grist of children in the car” — of all sizes, indeed, from a little one that publicly partook of its natural nutriment, to youths of some twelve summers. The first object I saw, on wakening in the morning, was an attentive Ma endeavoring to put a hooped skirt under the dress of a small gal, without exhibiting to a curious public the small gal’s legs; which attempt on her part was a lamentable failure. I was glad to get out of the eminently close locomotive dormitory and hop with agility on the horse-car, which landed me, a little before seven A.M., at the Astor House. Here I partook of a dollar and a quarter’s worth of tea and mutton-chop, and stretched my legs by a walk to the Jersey ferry, and there, as our pilgrim fathers would have said, took shipping for the opposite shore. I should not neglect to say that at the Astor I had noticed a tall man, in the three buttons of a Major-General, whom I at once recognized as the original of the many photographs of General Hooker. I was much disappointed in his appearance: red-faced, very, with a lack-lustre eye and an uncertainty of gait and carriage that suggested a used-up man. His mouth also is wanting in character and firmness; though, for all that, he must once have been a very handsome man. He was a passenger for Washington and sat near me. Next me was a worthy minister, with whom I talked; he, I do remember, delivered a prayer at our chapel last winter, at Headquarters. He was like all of that class, patriotic and one-sided, attributing to the Southerners every fiendish passion; in suppprt of which he had accumulated all the horrible accounts of treatment of prisoners, slaves, etc., etc., and had worked himself into a great state. Evening. 10 P.M. I have got to Baltimore and can’t go a step farther; for all day have I been on the Weldon railroad with General Meade, and I must slap to bed, for I am most sleepy, though all right.1
LT: June 12, 1864 Theodore Lyman
LT: July 1, 1864 Theodore Lyman
LT: July 10, 1864 Theodore Lyman
LT: August 1, 1864 Theodore Lyman
LT: August 11, 1864 Theodore Lyman
LT: October 2, 1864 Theodore Lyman
LT: October 10, 1864 Theodore Lyman
LT: November 6, 1864 Theodore Lyman
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LT: December 1, 1864 Theodore Lyman
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LT: March 10, 1865 Theodore Lyman
LT: April 1, 1865 Theodore Lyman
Source/Notes:
Agassiz, George R. Meade’s Headquarters, 1863-1865; Letters of Colonel Theodore Lyman from the Wilderness to Appomattox. Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922, pp. 229–231 ↩
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U.S. Cattle on Feed Update – Apr ’18
Executive Summary U.S. cattle on feed figures provided by USDA were recently updated with values spanning through the end of Mar ’18. Highlights from the updated report include:
U.S. cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market as of Apr 1st finished higher on a YOY basis for the 16th consecutive month, finishing up 7.4% to a 12 year seasonal high.
Mar ’18 placements in feedlots declined on a YOY basis for the first time in the past 17 months, finishing down 9.3%.
Marketings of fed cattle declined on a YOY basis for just the second time in the past 20 months during Mar ’18, finishing down 3.9%.
Additional Report Details According to USDA, cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the U.S. for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.73 million head on Apr 1st, finishing higher on a YOY basis for the 16th consecutive month. The Apr ’18 U.S. cattle on feed supply was up 810,000 head, or 7.4%, from Apr 1st of last year, finishing at a 12 year seasonal high for the month of April. The cattle on feed inventory included 7.54 million steers and steer calves, up 4.1% from 2017 levels, and 4.19 million heifers and heifer calves, up 14.0% from the previous year. Placements in feedlots during Mar ’18 totaled 1.92 million head, down 196,000 head, or 9.3%, from March of last year. The YOY decline in placements was the first experienced throughout the past 17 months however placements remained at the second highest seasonal figure experienced throughout the past 11 years. Placements for those weighing 700-799 pounds declined the most on a YOY basis throughout Mar ’18, finishing down 15.9%, followed by placements weighing 600 pounds or less (-10.0%), placements weighing 800 pounds or more (-6.1%) and placements weighing 600-699 pounds (-3.4%). Total placements in feedlots increased 8.8% YOY throughout the ’16-’17 production season, finishing at a six year high, and remain up an additional 4.5% throughout the first half of the ’17-’18 production season, despite the most recently experienced decline. Mar ’18 cattle placements under 700 pounds declined by 45,000 head, or 7.0%, on a YOY basis, finishing at a record seasonal low for the month of March. The YOY decline in cattle placements under 700 pounds was just the second experienced throughout the past 17 months. Cattle placements under 700 pounds increased 10.2% throughout the ’16-’17 production season and remain up an additional 5.9% throughout the first half of the ’17-’18 production season, despite the most recently experienced decline. Mar ’18 cattle placements 700 pounds or heavier declined by 151,000 head, or 10.3%, on a YOY basis but remained at the second highest seasonal figure on record for the month of March. The YOY decline in cattle placements 700 pounds or heavier was the first experienced throughout the past 17 months. Cattle placements 700 pounds or heavier increased 7.9% YOY throughout the ’16-’17 production season, finishing at a record annual high, and remain up an additional 3.3% throughout the first half of the ’17-’18 production season, despite the most recently experienced decline. Marketings of fed cattle during Mar ’18 totaled 1.84 million head, down 74,000 head, or 3.9%, from March of last year. The YOY decline in marketings of fed cattle was just the second experienced throughout the past 20 months. Marketings of fed cattle increased 6.8% throughout the ’16-’17 production season, finishing at a six year high, and remain up an additional 1.8% throughout the first half of the ’17-’18 production season, despite the most recently experienced decline. Other disappearance totaled 67,000 head during Mar ’18, up 11,000 head, or 19.6%, from the previous year.
U.S. Livestock Cold Storage Update – Apr ’18
U.S. Cattle & Hogs Production Update – Apr ’18
Recent Livestock Research
U.S. Livestock & Meat Trade Update – Sep ’18
Atten Babler Meat FX Indices – Sep ’18
U.S. Cattle on Feed Update – Aug ’18
U.S. Cattle & Hogs Production Update – Aug ’18
U.S. Livestock Cold Storage Update – Aug ’18
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‘Sweet About Me’ follows 18-year-old Bernadette as she struggles with a spectrum of eating disorders, a volatile relationship with a controlling mother and a body image to die for. As she spirals through an addiction treatment centre, Bernadette encounters all manner of characters, battling with their own demons who will test, enrage and push her to her limits. It will take a lot of shouting for her to realise that she has a voice of her own.
Written and performed by award winning theatre maker Jacinta Sheerin, ‘Sweet About Me’ is a hard hitting look at body image and addiction, told in her signature style of wicked humour and master storytelling.
Jacinta was co-creator of the box office smash hit, ‘Waiting for IKEA’ and the award winning, ‘I’m not ADHD, I’m BOLD!’ This is her first solo show. This tour is supported by The Arts Council and Pavilion Theatre.
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Bob and Elvis Show
The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show, 12/16/11
Last Show of 2011! Indefinite Detention; Habeas Corpus; The National Defense Authorization Act; The Exorcist III; Debtors' Prison; Exploiting Post-Recession Pain; Robotic Customer Support Operators; The War Against Christmas; Marketing Christianity; The Bob and Chez After Party Begins Next Month; and much more! Brought to you by Bubble Genius!
Morning Awesome
Which Way to Iran?
Ryan Carson
Bob, I just marked/saved your show on my Stitcher app. Hope it wasn’t too expensive for you to do it, but its a super convenient way, for me at least, to always catch the latest podcast.
Outstanding! Stitcher is fantastic. They just grab the RSS and go. It doesn’t cost a penny. Thanks, Ryan!
villemar
Greap ep per usual, and although it probably wouldn’t fit or might be something for the afterparty, I loved the discussion here about the VF piece about cultural inertia. That shite fascinates me, and aside from you and Kurt Andersen and Adam Curtis, there’s no one talking about this big picture stuff. Would love to hear you and Chez get into this topic at some point!
I had that on my list to discuss, but we ran out of time. Definitely an After Party topic, though.
The Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act, and all the congressional authorizations over the years make the NDAA look like last Tuesday when I wasn’t carted off to the honorary Alex Jones FEMA camp for not properly giving a shit about “codifying policy” that actually recedes from the precedent if you actually examine the trajectory. At the rate we were heading, civil liberties being revoked and the way the Bush administration defined domestic terrorists(literally everyone who disagreed with predictably stupid Bush/Cheney policy before and after 9/11), it’s a Chewbacca’s Christmas miracle right wing conservatives can still freely attempt to crash the U.S. economy while the president receives unusual amounts of death threats for not letting it all happen in a world exposed to …N-D-A-A!!!!!
We should be much closer to using Morse code for every little dissenting thought– tapping on the walls of a damp, windowless cell using a mercury-filled tooth we recently pulled out with the retard-strength of ten voices in our heads hidden away somewhere on display in Dick Cheney’s underworld emporium of sadistic gag gifts. To quote the Declaration of Independence for which it stands: “…throw off the government, dude!” because the constitution is antiquated, or something.
I can’t believe you guys were talking about that hallway scene from The Exorcist III. That was a great scene and holds up, I think, even in the pantheon of scary movie scenes. It was just a brief couple seconds. There’s a scene like that in Friday the 13th pt. 2 where Jason darts across the dirt road in front of the cop car. American Horror Story, currently on FX, is the best of all that. I love that show. It has fucked with my psychological comfort and expectations. I’ve never seen television quite like that. Jessica Lang is f-ing brilliant and should win all kinds of awards.
“Exploiting Post-Recession Pain”
Bob: “Fish in a barrel.”
Chez: “Suck on my yacht!”
There you have it. When you hear Romney talking about Magical Bootstraps, remember “fish in a barrel.”
Indeed another awesome show – thanks Bob and Chez!
And thank you for another year of awesomeness in blog form and podcasts.
I look forward to the 2nd show each week and whatever the blueballs announcement will be about the current show. I honestly feel like I am hangin out with two good budz when I get my hour (usually split into two “sessions” hehe) of JD time with the podcast 🙂
I enjoyed your mention of Ray Comfort
There are hours and hours of great entertainment on YouTube, from username Thunderf00t – particularly his videos about, and conversations with, Mr. Comfort
Good show, guys. Lots of food for thought.
“Obama” bothers me a whole lot less than “Obambi” and “Obummer” and all the other idiocies coming out of the Right. And since I and many others referred bluntly to “Bush” for eight years, I can’t fairly complain when someone drops the honorific for Mr. Obama.
On working multiple crappy jobs, I think Chez has it right: “… [P]eople like that have come to believe that that is the optimal solution for America.” The Rs—conservatives in general—seem to believe that having a job is what’s important, that a salary is just gravy and a living salary an undeserved luxury, at least for others.
“The most powerful religion in America and they still have the ability to play the victim card.” The Bible says that the world will hate them for their faith. If they’re not hated, it means their faith isn’t real or strong enough or some such. They go out of their way to find examples of hatred and discrimination, even if they have to invent them. “It’s ridiculous, it’s just fuckin’ ridiculous.” True.
i_a_c
Agree with you on the NDAA. The bill is no good. It codifies indefinite detention. On the other hand, it’s legal per the SCOTUS rulings, and by no means does it mean that American dissidents will be hauled away to FEMA camps like some folks believe, nor does it take away everyone’s rights. I’m not sold on the slippery slope argument.
Shorter version: This is not a good development, but the Firebaggers et al. are completely unhinged as usual.
Great show today gents. Well done!
Just a correction, Bob. The shooting perpetrated by Nidal Hasan was at Fort Hood near Waco, Texas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/us/21hood.html
I totally spaced on that one.
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Britain has 15,000 Vampires May 31, 2014 2:24:59 GMT -5
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Britain has 15,000 vampires – apparently
Luring some of Britain’s 15,000 vampires out of the shadows is no easy task. And Dr. Emyr Williams won’t be inviting them out for a drink. The psychologist is investigating the “underground network” of real-life vampires who gather in secret to suck blood from willing volunteers. He aims to shed light – although it might be best if he doesn’t do so literally – on members of a subculture he claims is “fascinating and all very real.”
He has produced an online questionnaire to learn more about them. “Vampires are a group of people who drink blood, but their well-established laws mean they know who it can and can’t be taken from,” he said. “For example, Sanguine vampires receive blood from willing donors who they can only cut on certain parts of the body, and they are forbidden from taking too much. There are also Psychic and Hybrid vampires, blood donors, role-players and enthusiasts who are part of the community.”
Williams, of Glyndwr University in Wrexham, added: “I don’t want to label them as mad or bad. They’re just people we need to know more about.”
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HP 2647A terminal
The HP 2640A and other HP 264X models were block-mode "smart" and intelligent ASCII standard serial terminals produced by Hewlett-Packard using the Intel 8008 and 8080 microprocessors.
2 Model Number
3 Functionality
The HP 2640A[1] was introduced in 1975, and used an Intel 8008 CPU, and was priced at US$3500. At introduction, it could have up to 8 KB of RAM (two 4 KB semiconductor RAM cards). Also introduced in 1975 was the HP 2644A, which was an HP 2640A with mass storage (two mini-tape cartridges), for US$5000.
The HP catalogs usually refer to the terminal model as simply "2640A", and infrequently as "HP 2640", or "HP 2640A" (both with a blank after the "HP"), or "2640". The incorrect "HP2640" and "HP2640A" are often seen outside of HP.
The functionality defined by the HP 264X series hasn't changed much as the preferred terminal for HP1000 and HP 3000 series computers. They never achieved the fame of the VT100 among programmers, but included sophisticated features not found in the VT100, such as offline forms, multipages, and (in some models) local storage.
The styling looked like vaguely like a toaster oven. It was boxy, with a "widescreen" aspect ratio for the reason that is gave the same character length as a punched card this is still seen in the modern command window . HP had determined that the combination of a standard 4:3 aspect ratio with the 25 line by 80 character display that was the standard of the time required the characters to have a very high profile. HP's response was to specify a CRT with an aspect ratio designed around the desired character shape instead of the other way around. Of course, this also mandated rather high manufacturing costs as standard parts could not be used.
HP took pains to further improve the rendering of displayed characters via half-pixel positioning of individual lines within each character. Although the character cell was only 7 horizontal by 9 vertical dots, half-pixel positioning effectively doubled the horizontal resolution to 14 dots,[2] giving the characters very smooth outlines. (The initial sales literature referred to it as using a 7×9 matrix generated in a 9×15 dot character cell).
All of this resulted in an extremely easy to read display with the dot-matrix nature, and the scan lines, almost invisible.
The keyboard had flat tops, similar to the HP 9800 series desktop computers rather than the curved contours now considered to be ergonomic. It featured three keypad areas: Alphabetic, numeric, and an array of cursor positioning and editing keys somewhat similar to modern PC keyboard layouts. There were also a number of smaller function and feature control keys arrayed in two rows above the normal keypad areas. The keyboard chassis was separate from the main body, connected via a thick cable. The keyboard used a bit-paired layout (similar to that on a teleprinter machine) rather than the typewriter-paired arrangement on DEC's VT100. Although large, users loved the keyboard because "it had a key for everything".
Similar to the HP desktop computers, it had a number of F-keys (F1 through F8) placed close to the screen. Paper templates were available for some application programs to which placed legends for these keys on the keyboard. Later models arranged these across the top row, and provided for screen labels close to their respective keys. Terminal configuration in the 262X series was done entirely through the screen-labeled function keys rather than dedicated keys and through escape sequences sent from the host computer. The on-screen labeling of the eight function keys, pioneered by the HP 300 ("Amigo") computer, was one of the first applications of a hierarchical menu which allows accessing many functions with a small number of keys. This arrangement is now common on TI graphic calculators, and automated teller and gas pump machines, though no longer used in GUI user interfaces.
Internally, the electronics used a motherboard with plug-in daughter cards. The microprocessor, memory, serial interface card, and various optional functions were each on separate cards. This permitted easy field maintenance, upgrades, and reconfiguration. For example, more memory (providing larger scrollback capability) could be easily added, the serial interface could be changed from RS-232 to current loop, etc. The optional tape drives of the 2645 model were interfaced via another plug-in card. The plug-in card capability strongly resembled the later Apple II expansion architecture. In fact Apple I is derived from a plug-in daughter board inside the 2645 terminal sponsored by Hewlett Packard.[citation needed]
The manufacturing area was across from R&D cubicles in the Data Terminals Division in Cupertino. The testing area was dubbed "beepland" because it had racks of 500 terminals, with the end of the test ending in a beep.
The HP 2640 introduced "block mode", similar to the IBM 3270 (although the IBM 3270 did not work for ASCII standard serial communications). The escape sequences Esc-[ and Esc-] defined unprotected areas, but it didn't have to take up a visible space. It acted much like a web page, disconnected from the host until the SEND key was pressed. The fields could screen for alphabetic or numeric characters, a feature beyond Windows Forms today. This would be supported by programs such as DEL/3000 and VIEW/3000 which would map form data into runtime variables and databases. It also supported teletype character mode like a standard ASCII terminal, and did not need specialized communications like IBM.
The hardware was radically different from most "dumb" terminals in that the characters were not stored in a simple data array. To save memory, which could extend over several pages, characters were allocated as linked lists of blocks which were dynamically allocated. Display enhancements were encoded as embedded bytes in the stream. Software enhancements which did not affect the appearance such as dim or underline, but protected and unprotected fields were also coded with embedded bytes. The display hardware was capable of reading this unusual data structure. When the cost of memory came down by the 262X series, this was changed to a "parallel" structure with one bit for each enhancement code, but the logic required to emulate previous behaviors was complex. Inserting a code for underline would "propagate" to the next display enhancement, while deleting such a code would also have to be propagated to the next display byte or a cursor jump sequence was issued to jump several bytes. You could also completely turn off enhancements as well as provide protected only field enhancements. This data structure would inspire the sparse matrix data structure for the Twin spreadsheet.
The HP 2640 also introduced multiple pages of memory, much like the DOS box in Microsoft Windows today, and the page up and page down key which appears on PC keyboards.
Users learned to use the offline key to take the terminal offline, edit a line in the display buffer, and then retransmit it. This gave the effect of command line recall and editing even if the operating system did not support it. For example, when working at an operating system's command prompt, an erroneous command could quickly be corrected and re-sent without having to retype the entire line. This was possible in many terminals of the day, but the HP 2640 was smart enough to only retransmit the line from the first character typed by the user, omitting, for example, the operating system's command prompt. This was later implemented as "line mode". Another method was to paint a formatted screen in character mode with protected fields and place it into local edit mode similar to the above but the user did not know. This meant that the characters entered by the user would not be transmitted to the host until a 'special' key, typically the enter key, but other keys were also deemed special (i.e. immediate interrupt of the host) such as control y and function keys. Only the data within the unprotected areas would be transferred in this way, using a semi block mode mechanism, a sort of half way house between block mode and normal character mode, Formatted fields also meant forms could be stored in memory ( tested for and recalled locally or repainted from the host if not present), just the unprotected data areas need be sent, thereby removing the need to repaint or issue direct cursor placements in order to update the screen (TIM/3000 Air Call Computer Systems). The PCL language was PCL level 3 in an HP645/7, which was later implemented to drive Hewlett Packards' first Laserjet printer.
HP Printer Control Language shares a common non-ANSI escape sequence grammar and common sequences with HP terminals.
In-house developers ported TinyBASIC to the HP 2645A, as well as developing several games in assembler (most notably "Keep On Drivin'", Tennis and Reversi).
Plotters could also be interfaced to using HP/GL 2 with TinyBasic.
HP 2621A and HP 2647A
The HP 264X[3] series included several models beyond the HP 2640A.
The HP2644A[4] introduced 3M mini cartridge tape drives which could be used to upload or download data, as opposed to slow paper tapes of the time. Another later model used floppy disks, and supported drawing forms etch-a-sketch style and would compute intersections. Also notable was the use of paper labeled function keys on the upper left. These would always get lost, so users would scroll lock the top 2 lines of the screen and used these for labels. These were built into the next generation of terminals. The values of these keys could be programmed.
The HP 2648[5] was a graphics terminal which featured hardware zoom, and "autoplot". It utilized separate memory for graphics and text, allowing the user to turn off either type of display at will.
The HP 2647 had a variant of Microsoft BASIC with AGL (HP's standard for plotting) built in, and perhaps the first real business charting for a microcomputer, complete with 3D cross-hatched pie charts.
02647-13301 Graphics: 2647 Multiplot and Slide Software. Multiplot was the model for the PC based Chartman by the Cambridge company that also produced the Twin spreadsheet 1-2-3 clone which introduced HP 2640 style forms to PC applications.
13257B Graphics: 2647 Graphics Presentation Resource Pac
13257D Statistics/Mathematics: 2647 Statistical Analysis Resource Pac
13257C Statistics/Mathematics: 2647 Mathematics Analysis Resources Pac
13257F Business: 2647: Project Management Analysis Resource Pac
13257K General/Utilities: 2647 2647/1351 Basic
The HP262X[6][7] series introduced the "periscope" look, "soft" key labels along with a 4 + 4 key display at the bottom of the screen, a hierarchical setup tree, 12" screen and an optional internal thermal printer. The HP-125 45500A Dual Z80 CP/M used the form factor and terminal emulation of the HP 2621 terminal. The HP-150 had the terminal capabilities of the HP 2623 graphics terminal in a smaller package (9" screen).
The HP2382[8] "munchkin" repackaged the HP 2622 in a 9" screen package. The HP-120 45600A packaged the HP-125 into the HP2382 form factor.
The "Therminal" was an unusual implementation of a screen-less printing terminal which used the thermal print mechanism. It was one of the first projects of the Vancouver division. It even supported tape cartridge local storage, but it was not successful.
The great over-reach was a color graphics terminal that cost more than the HP 2647 monochrome graphics workstation that sold very few units but cost a huge effort to develop.
Eventually, HP ended up selling essentially a low-cost version[9] of the HP 2640. Today, terminal emulators still implement the late 1970s feature set of these terminals on common PCs.
See also List of HP 26xx terminals (introduction, price, discontinuation)
^ Doub, James A. (June 1975). "Cost-Effective CRT Terminal is first of a family" (PDF). Hewlett-Packard Journal. 26 (10): 2–5. ISSN 0018-1153.
^ Roy, Jean-Claude (June 1975). "A High-Resolution Raster Scan Display" (PDF). Hewlett-Packard Journal. 26 (10): 11–15. ISSN 0018-1153.
^ "264X documentation". HP Computer Museum. Retrieved 2007-11-21.
^ Nordman, Robert G.; Richard L. Smith; Louis A. Witkin (May 1976). "New CRT Terminal Has Magnetic Tape Storage for Expanded Capability" (PDF). Hewlett-Packard Journal. 27 (9): 2–8. ISSN 0018-1153.
^ Dickinson, Peter D. (January 1978). "Versatile Low-Cost Graphics Terminal Is Designed for Ease of Use" (PDF). Hewlett-Packard Journal. 29 (5): 2–6. ISSN 0018-1153.
^ Staas, Gary C. (March 1981). "New Display Station Offers Multiple Screen Windows and Dual Data Communications Ports" (PDF). Hewlett-Packard Journal. 32 (3): 3–7. ISSN 0018-1153.
^ "2382A documentation". HP Computer Museum. Retrieved 2007-11-21.
^ Chapuis, Jean-Louis; Michèle Prieur (April 1985). "Low-Cost, Compact, Block-Mode Computer Terminal" (PDF). Hewlett-Packard Journal. 36 (4): 4–7. ISSN 0018-1153.
HP 2640A on the terminals wiki
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CNN AND SPRING NEWS ANNOUNCE AFFILIATION DEAL IN THAILAND
Thursday, Nov 24, 2016
CNN International Commercial today announces an affiliate and consultation agreement between Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific, Inc., the distributor of CNN International in the Asia Pacific region, and Spring News Corporation Co., ltd.
As part of the multi-year agreement, Spring News will broadcast CNN content and programming subtitled in local Thai language. In addition, Spring News will also receive consulting and extensive training from CNN to support their re-launch. This affiliation will enable CNN International to leverage the resources and expertise of Spring News to strengthen its news coverage of Thailand.
Senior Director, Content Sales and Partnerships APAC, CNN International Commercial, David Collet: “We are delighted to be affiliated with a channel such as Spring News which, since its inception, has grown to become a strong multiplatform news provider with vision and values consistent with CNN. This affiliation serves as part of our strategic focus on Asia and enables us to deliver on our goal of growing our affiliate network and supporting local news operations with training and consultancy expertise.”
Chairman of Spring News Corporation Co., Ltd, Mr. Thanachai Theerapattanavong: “While CNN International is the most watched international news channel in the world, Spring News is Thailand’s premium news channel that expands its wings to create the power of multiplatform covering radio, newspapers, magazines, digital media and out of home advertisement. Under the affiliation partnership, from January 1, 2017, Spring News will broadcast CNN selective programs which are deemed most compatible to local audience. Moreover, extensive training and professional consultation from CNN will strengthen Spring News’ leading positions in the television industry. We see that collaborating with CNN will create a new phenomenon in the Thai media industry.”
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Festival Report: Chicago Turkish Festival
The bounty of festivals in Chicago is one of Brandy's favorite things about summer. "The music, the food, the culture... It's too bad Chicagoans can't tough it through the winter and throw these things all year long," as Brandy says. Of course, as she is so well traveled, some of Brandy's favorite festivals in the city are the cultural festivals, which celebrate Chicago's rich and diverse populace. There's the Bastille Day festivities in July, which bring out the best in French food, Greek Fest, which is not, as it might seem, a collegiate initiation, but a celebration of all things Greek, the Southside Polish Festival, and so many more.
Thanks to her old friend, billionaire Barry Black, Brandy recently learned of a festival she'd not yet attended, the Chicago Turkish Festival, which ran from September 4-6 at the historic Pioneer Court, kicking off with an incredible gala dinner benefiting the Les Turner ALS Foundation. "A gala dinner? I better wear my fancy girdle!" Brandy exclaimed when she received the invitation from Barry to attend.
Each year, the festival celebrates a different Turkish city, and this year's featured city was Izmir, the home town of the Chicago Consul General of Turkey, Fatih Yildiz, who Brandy was lucky enough to be able to chat with before the festivities kicked off. "It's one of the oldest ports in the Mediterranean. It was a center for many different civilizations, from the Greeks to the Romans and the Turks. Many Christians go there for a pilgrimage to the Virgin Mary's House, so it is also well known among Catholics," said Mr. Yildiz of his hometown. Speaking about the history of Turks in Chicago, Mr. Yildiz had this to say: "We are not one of those heritages that goes back many many centuries in this city. It's been 50 years or so since the first groups of Turks came here, but Chicago is a very special place for us. Most Turks here are white collar, compared to the West or East coasts of this country, where we have more blue collar. So it's a very vibrant community. We have high expectations of life."
Of course, the real thing Brandy was curious about was what a traditional breakfast might look like in Turkey. "[Turkish breakfasts] aren't very different from what you will see in other parts of the Mediterranean like Lebanon to Israel to Greece, but it is very different from American breakfasts," Mr. Yildiz described, "First and foremost, it's about great ingredients. Really good tomatoes or cucumber, a wide variety of cheeses, olives and olive oil (again a very Mediterranean thing you can find in a Turkish breakfast). We never have eggs in a simple scrambled way, but we have very unique ways of preparring them, like sometimes we combine them with certain meats, like sujuk [a Turkish sausage], which is sort of like an Italian sausage, but not as dry and very fresh. Or sometimes we use pastirma [a spiced and dried beef, not unlike beef jerky] as well, which you can also find in Lebonese cuisine or even Greek. In that region, sometimes there is a competition [when it comes to food] of who can do it best. Like we even do baklava too, and we sometimes fill filo dough with spinach and feta cheese [called borek in Turkey and spanakopita in Greece], which you can again see in other parts of the Mediterranean."
This year marked the festival's 12th anniversary and featured a incredibly lively weekend of Turkish food, performances, and pure celebration. The festival hosted lots of vendors and artisan craft makers, who all showed their wares with pride and panache. There was beautiful jewelry made from carved metals and polished stones, gorgeous mosaic tiles and cookware, handmade miniature wooden windmills, and wrought iron tables and chairs. Of course, there were plenty of food stalls for Brandy to gravitate to, like the world famous Kahramanmaras Turkish ice cream, and of course small, dark cups of strong Turkish coffee. There was even a stall selling Turkish cookbooks to those wishing to broaden the horizons of their kitchen tables.
The dinner was a cornucopia of Turkish delights; among Brandy's favorites were the chicken and beef shwarma kebabs, smoked eggplant musaka, tabuli salad with cracked wheat and veggies, cucumber and yogurt spread with fresh pita, couscous, and for dessert some sticky sweet baklava, a honey coated fried dough ball, and a delicious baked rice pudding. "Turkish food is so colorful!" Brandy said approvingly, while Barry surreptitiously wiped a drop of yogurt sauce from his incredibly expensive tie. Some of the food had been supplied by local Turkish restaurants like Turquoise Cafe (otherwise known as "The Lost Brunch Review" to Brandy) and Cafe Orchid, while Kavaklidere supplied some nice Turkish wines and Efes served up their signature brew in the beer garden.
The entertainment was the true highlight of the evening, starting off with the Ottoman Empire Marching Band, a traditional drum line used to hype up the Turkish army before they went into battle (fittingly, the band did their march as people began to line up for the dinner buffet). After that, a host of extremely talented and mesmerizing dancers took the stage, delighting the crowd with not only their traditional and modern folk dances, but also with their extraordinary costumes, all of which glittered with a rainbow of colors under the stage lights. The crowd favorite was the Whirling Dervish, a single man performing the half dance half meditation practice of the quasi-Islamic Mevlevi Order. "I could do that," Brandy said, watching the man on stage swirling gracefully. "Ah, but could you do it without feeling dizzy? That's the trick," Barry countered. "I've had a bottle of that Turkish wine already and I don't feel dizzy. I'm pretty sure I could handle it," Brandy responded. Following the dancers, a stunning fashion show took place, featuring works by students from the Izmir Olgunlasma Fashion Institute, who had designed wedding dresses themed on various ancient goddesses and even one gorgeous piece inspired by the Turkish flag.
Brandy was so impressed with the dynamic and exciting variety of the Chicago Turkish Festival that she vowed to add it to her on going list of must visits for next year. "And maybe then I can join the Whirling Dervish on stage," she chided Barry, "Or at the very least, I'd like one of those spangly belly dancing costumes!"
The writers of this blog were invited to the gala diner at no cost to facilitate the writing of this post.
Labels: Chicago Turkish Festival, Festivals, Orchid Cafe, Turquois Cafe
Giveaway and 150 Best Breakfast Sandwich Maker Recipes Review!
As much as Brandy enjoys coming up with her own recipes, sometimes she likes to leave things up to the experts. Maybe this is why when she learned about a brand new cookbook called 150 Best Breakfast Sandwich Maker Recipes she knew she'd have to get her hands on it. "When I think of breakfast sandwiches, I think of the typical English muffin, ham, egg, and cheese combination, so I'd love to broaden my horizons a bit," as Brandy put it.
The cookbook was inspired by author Jennifer Williams's daughter going off to college. Wishing to make sure her progeny was getting a good start to every morning away from home (and taking the confining nature of dorm rooms into account), she bought her daughter a breakfast sandwich maker, a wonderful little appliance that can cook ingredients separately in different compartments and then combine them into one piping hot portable meal while taking up very little counter space. Ms. Williams then began to test all sorts of different recipes, combing familiar and unlikely ingredients to make an endless variety of breakfast goodies, from sweets to savories and everything in between.
Brandy loved the ingenuity of the recipes, which made it easy to start thinking up one's own ideas. Though a lot of the recipes suffered from what Brandy calls the "Put An Egg On It Syndrome," that is to say adding an egg onto a dish that doesn't necessarily need it as to make it more breakfasty, the accessible nature of the recipes makes them easily customizable to any taste. Among Brandy favorites were the Bacon Tomato and Swiss Sandwich, the Baby Spinach and Mushroom Omelet, and the Mushroom Quiche on a Turkey Sausage Crust, though the book contained recipes for almost every meal, including dinner entrees, dessert, and even a recipe for ramen burgers. One perfect combination of sweet and savory that Brandy adored was the Florentine Sandwich and the Marmalade, White Chocolate, and Coconut Sandwich, which we have kindly been allowed to reprint for all of you below!
The writers of this blog were provided with a review copy of the cookbook, as well as the prizes for the giveaway in exchange for an honest review.
Florentine Sandwich
Courtesy of 150 Best Breakfast Sandwich Maker Recipes by Jennifer Williams 2014 © www.robertrose.ca Reprinted with publisher permission.
Preheat breakfast sandwich maker
1 tbsp plain yogurt 30 mL
1⁄2 tsp Dijon mustard 2 mL
1 English muffin, split in half 1
1⁄4 cup baby spinach leaves 60 mL
1 large egg 1
Pinch salt (optional) Pinch
Pinch freshly ground black pepper (optional) Pinch
Spread yogurt and mustard on split side of one English muffin half. Place muffin half, spread side up, in bottom ring of sandwich maker. Top with spinach.
Lower the cooking plate and top ring. Lightly spray the plate with cooking spray, then crack the egg into the ring. Pierce top of egg yolk with a toothpick or plastic fork. Season with salt and pepper (if using). Place the other muffin half, split side down, on top of the egg.
Gently close the cover and cook for 4 to 5 minutes or until egg is cooked to your liking. Rotate cooking plate away from sandwich maker and lift rings. Use a plastic or nylon spatula to remove the sandwich. Serve immediately.
Marmalade, White Chocolate, and Coconut Sandwich
2 tbsp orange marmalade 30 mL
1 tbsp white chocolate chips 15 mL
2 tbsp packed shredded coconut 30 mL
Spread marmalade on split sides of English muffin. Place one muffin half, spread side up, in bottom ring of sandwich maker. Sprinkle with white chocolate chips and coconut.
Lower the cooking plate and top ring. Lightly spray the plate with cooking spray, then crack the egg into the ring. Pierce top of egg yolk with a toothpick or plastic fork. Place the other muffin half, spread side down, on top of the egg.
But as if free recipes weren't enough, Brandy is giving away a copy of 150 Best Breakfast Sandwich Maker Recipes and a Hamilton Beach Breakfast Sandwich Maker to one lucky fan! This contest will run from September 24th through October 1st. Please read all the rules below carefully in order to be eligible and the best of luck to you all!
Labels: 150 best Breakfast Sandwichs, cookbook review, Giveaway, Hamilton Beach, Recipes
Fall Dinner Preview at Adamus
The other night while Bunny was off gallivanting with Martha Stewart at Macy's, Brandy was actually just around the corner at the Silversmith Hotel, checking out the brand new fall menu at their signature bar and restaurant, Adamus, along with a group of Chicago Food Bloggers members. "I am very ready for the flavors of fall," Brandy told the door man who kindly let her into the building, "Pumpkin lattes are fine for some, but I crave it all. The spices, the fruits, the earthiness... I want it all the moment the weather turns crisp."
Stepping into Adamus, one was greeted by gorgeous marble floors, sparkling lighting fixtures, and a circular centerpiece of a bar that resembled an upside down chandelier. The color scheme was mainly grays and silvers with pops of green and purple, especially in the more secluded lounge areas, which consisted of large, comfortable looking sofas piled high with throw pillows. A large banquet style table had been set down the center of the main dining area for the bloggers and it glittered under the dim light. "Oh my, everything is so chic," Brandy mumbled under her breath, "I should have worn my good hat pins."
A few glasses of wine were poured out and a lovely bread service was brought to the table. Executive Chef Nelson Erazo came out of the kitchen to introduce himself to the group and tease everyone with what was in store for them, saying that they would be sampling items from the bar menu, the dinner menu, and the dessert menu, also encouraging everyone to browse the craft cocktail menu. "You don't have to tell me twice!" said Brandy, who immediately ordered up a Blackberry Collins. She loved the brightness the blackberry brought to the drink, but also appreciated that it wasn't as sweet as she expected it to be.
The first course was the Creekstone Beef Empanadas, served with a horseradish cream and a roasted pepper remoulade. Brandy thought the empanadas had a perfect amount of crunch without the casing being too thick, while the tender beef filling was very well spiced.
Secondly was a soup and salad course: a White Asparagus Bisque and a Pear and Goat Cheese Salad. Brandy absolutely adored both dishes from the get go. The bisque had a light flavor, but a rich creamy texture, and the addition of morel mushrooms and a piece of jumbo lump crab provided it with a beautifully fresh and earthy flavor. The salad looked surprisingly summery, but one bite brought instant thoughts of multi-colored leaves, warm drinks, and brisk evenings in the pumpkin patch. The pear had been poached with mulling spices, giving it simultaneously the feeling of a savory chai and a sweet apple tart. The delicate greens were lightly dressed in a zingy sherry vinaigrette and some crunchy almonds provided a nice bit of texture, though the star of the salad for Brandy was the chevre mousse, an impossibly soft and airy pocket of goodness underneath the greens, which also had the mulling spices whipped into it. "It's like eating a cloud full of wassail," Brandy sighed, wishing for more of the divine salad before she'd even finished what was in front of her.
Next came a Foraged Mushroom Flatbread, which was topped with more morel mushrooms, truffle cream, wilted spinach, and shaved Parmesan cheese. The crust was very unique; buttery and crispy, yet thin and not overwhelming, this, for once, was a flat bread in the truest sense of the word. Though the mushrooms, cheese, and spinach all played their parts well, what Brandy liked most was the aggressive use of garlic. "There's no such thing as too much garlic," as she put it.
Following that came two main courses, Juniper Pork Tenderloin and Bronzed Walleye Pike. The fish was melt away tender with bright saffron and citrus broth providing warmth and depth. The thin slices of fingerling potatoes were also a nice touch, as were the miniature heirloom tomatoes. The pork was truly masterful in it's moistness, with the pleasantly astringent juniper berries clinging to the outside of each bite. It was served alongside a perfectly roasted garnet yam as well as an apple flan, which had again been doused with the mulling spices. The flan was sweet and slightly tart with the mouth feel of a custard mixed with the fluffiest mashed potato one could imagine. "Truly an brilliant take on a classic flavor profile," said Brandy, the giggling to herself, "Would you listen to me, sounding like one of those fancy television cooking show judges! Another drink please!"
Brandy was brought the house Manhattan, which with it's smooth smokey taste proved to be a great match for the final course: dessert. Two stunning dishes were brought to the table; a S'mores Creme Brulee and a Fromage Blanc Pumpkin Cheese Cake. Chef Erazo admitted that while he wasn't a pastry chef, he was incredibly proud of both of these creations. "You bloody well should be!" Brandy drooled. The creme brulee was another bold combination of flavors, matching a smoky, melty chocolate with a thick eggy custard, graham cracker crust, and toasted marshmallow top. "It's like a campfire in front of a Paris bistro!" Brandy exclaimed, reaching for another helping. The cheesecake had a very unique base that almost tasted like the lady finger portion of a tiramisu, while the cheese portion was silken, contrasting nicely with the crunchy candied pecans on the top. The whole thing was finished with a lightly salted caramel sauce, which Brandy debated asking for a jar of to take home.
As Brandy doesn't often get to go out for dinner (her expertise is in brunch, of course), she sometimes feels out of touch with Chicago's more fashionable foodies, but getting the scoop on this amazingly flavorful and well seasoned menu was truly an honor for her. "After all the warmth and depth of that menu, I'm ready for the fall to arrive fully. I may just go search the parks for a leaf pile to jump into! Ok... that might be the Manhattan talking..."
The writers of this blog were invited to dine by the restaurant at no cost in exchange for an honest review.
Labels: Adamus, Dinner, Silversmith Hotel, The Loop
Location: 10 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603, USA
Postcards from Bunny: Martha Stewart at Macy's
One of the downsides to Bunny's constant traveling is that there isn't always to cook for her and her husband. "Even if there is a kitchen available, there's not always a lot of access to bowls, pans, and utensils in the middle of a dinosaur dig!" she says of her experiences trying to cook while on location at her husbands' archaeology sites. Maybe this is why when Brandy informed her that the legendary Martha Stewart was going to be premiering her new cookbook, One Pot: 120+ Easy Meals from your Skillet, Slow Cooker, Stockpot, and More, at Macy's on State Street, Bunny hopped on the first flight back to Chicago in order to attend.
Bunny has always idolized Martha Stewart, as do many crafty hopefuls, entertaining novices, cooking hobbyists, and home decor mavens all over the world for her classic style and easy-to-follow tips. "There may not be a single person in America who doesn't know who she is, and with good reason!" as Bunny told her neighbor at the demo, "There may be those who pretend to not know her, but those people are only doing so because they want everyone else to believe that the hors d'oeuvres at their last party were their recipes and not hers...Ok, I may have done that once or twice."
Luckily for Bunny, Macy's ran a promotion in which shoppers who bought $75 worth of Martha Stewart kitchen wares were given a free copy of the cookbook before it's official release (which is on Tuesday, September 23rd), so Bunny spent a good deal of time debating whether she wanted to get one of the beautifully colored enamel Dutch Ovens, the extra deep skillet, the non stick frying pans, or the gorgeous roasting pan. "I'm leaning towards the Dutch oven, I think. They may be a tad on the heavy side, but one should never travel without a Dutch Oven. You never know when they'll come in handy for a spontaneous casserole!" Bunny explained.
As Martha herself entered the demo kitchen, a waft of sauteing bacon accompanied her, as if signaling to the crowd that she was there to take care of them. She began by whipping up a wonderfully hearty Corn Chowder with Bacon and Shrimp in one of her stock pots. As she prepared the soup, she told the crowd about some of the different products in her cooking ware line that could be used in conjunction with the book, also letting them know that she was in the process of developing a slow cooker and a pressure cooker to add to the collection.
The second dish was a simple Linguine with Tomato and Basil, where amazingly enough, the veggies were prepared right along side the pasta in one skillet. "I grow basil in my garden, you know," Martha told the crowd, "I had to get up early this morning because there were two tour groups coming into my garden and I wanted to pick up a little before they got there. I didn't want them to think I'm a messy gardener!" She also told the crowd how she drank her own mix of green juice every morning (complete with a good chunk of ginger) before working with her trainer and then heading into her test kitchens, where she works with hundreds of professionals to test and re-test recipes for her magazine and various media outlets. "That's why we always say to follow a recipe precisely the first time you cook something," she said, "We've done all the work for you already, so if you follow it exactly, you can't go wrong."
The last dish was an Arroz con Pollo (or Chicken with Yellow Rice), which she demonstrated in one of the Dutch ovens, garnishing it with some briny green olives. Bunny's favorite part of the demo was the fact that Martha then actually began to eat the dishes she'd prepared, a thing Bunny nor Brandy has ever witnessed at any cooking demo before! "I'm always surprised the chefs don't eat their dishes when they're through!" said Bunny, "If I cooked up something that delicious looking, I'd want to dig into it right away!"
Martha then took a few questions from the crowd, giving them advice on apple pie making ("Use several different kinds of apples."), demonstrating how to cut a bunch of cherry tomatoes in half all at once, and letting everyone know that her favorite cocktail is a Polish or Russian Vodka Martini. After the demo, she graciously stayed to sign cookbooks for the audience, though sadly, Bunny had to run out and catch her flight to meet Benedict at his next dig in Kuala Lumpur. "The Dutch oven might be too heavy to take as a carry on!" Bunny fretted, "Maybe I'll pack my clothing into it and tell them it's just an extra heavy duty carrier bag."
The writers of this blog have been compensated by Everywhere Agency for the information contained in this post, but the opinions stated were not influenced.
Labels: Events, Macy's, Martha Stewart, One Pot
ZED451 or The Bounty of the Harvest
Brandy has survived a lot of things in her life. At one time in her life, avalanches, earthquakes, train derailments, jumping out of planes, off of buildings, and into canyons were all just a rather mundane part of her day. But in recent years, she has found herself winding down some and being more content with a good book and a cup of tea as opposed to unexpected adventure. "I leave the globe trotting to Bunny now," as she says, "She grew up in a convent in Devonshire, so she got a late start in adventuring, but now that she's accompanying Benedict on his archaeology trips, she's getting a good taste of what I already had. I was born into adventure. Quite honestly, I was. My mother went into labor while skiing down the side of a mountain!"
These were the types of stories Brandy was relating to a new friend, one Mr. Bari Bronzo, a muscle bound former personal trainer whom she had met recently at a charity cocktail party. Mr. Bronzo was just beginning to find an interest in "extreme traveling" and someone had suggested he talk to Brandy about her extraordinary skill in lackadaisically surviving life's little surprises. "But how do you keep your self prepared for the worst?" Bari asked Brandy. "Always have a good brunch, of course!" she laughed, "That way you've had a good meal in your stomach that can last through almost anything." Bari seemed to find this advice amusing, so Brandy challenged him. "Alright, Mr. Know It All! You come to brunch with me and I'll show you exactly what I mean! I have the perfect place in mind too. ZED451 is infamous for a very indulgent brunch buffet, so if you can make it through that, then you can make it through almost anything!" "You're on, lady!" Bari responded.
The inside of ZED451 was truly astounding, not just because everything was so polished and pretty, but the actual expanse of the 18,000 space was simply breath taking. On the ground floor there was a chic lounge with a fire place (fire, Brandy was told, was a major theme for ZED), comfy furniture, and a huge projection wall for showing sports on, as well as a beautiful, intimate wine closet that could easily host a small party of viticulturists for some tastings and sippings while they admired the selection all around them, not to mention toying with the interactive wine glass chandelier. Upstairs, there was the gorgeous rooftop, complete with it's own bar, which not only gave patrons a stunning view of River North, but also housed a fascinating sky light into the main dining room, which at night would send a warm glow up and out onto the roof. "Such a pretty spot!" Brandy exclaimed, "I'd be tempted to say that I'd come up here for drinks even in the dead of winter." "Don't think you'd survive if you came up here during a winter like last year," said Bari, who was admiring some of the foliage. "I might if had enough drinks in me," Brandy mumbled. Also upstairs were several gorgeous event spaces, perfect for small private gatherings, or even full wedding services, complete with ceremony and reception. Back downstairs was the main dining area, which was already in the full swing of brunch service when Brandy and Bari took their seats.
First, they both started off with a glass of the Ginger Bourbon Lemonade. The lemonade was actually a staple of the menu at ZED, though the flavors infused into the bourbon differed from season to season. One sip of this refreshing, zingy concoction and Brandy was in love. "Goodness knows I'm not a huge fan of summer, but I'll be damned if tasting this liquid sunshine doesn't make me a little sad to see it go," Brandy sighed, and the somewhat stone faced Bari agreed.
For the first portion of their meal, Brandy and Bari were set loose among the Harvest Tables, which consisted of several segmented curved buffets surrounding a huge circular fire pit, each of which was loaded with plates of salads, cheeses, sliced meats, desserts, and a few hot dishes. Brandy's favorites among the salads were the Sauteed Mushrooms, which were nicely rich and earthy, the Kale and Quinoa Salad, which had a nice nuttiness to it, and the Brussel Sprout Caesar, which was crisp and fresh tasting. Bari loved the charcuterie table, which was beautifully dressed with a multitude of cheeses, sliced meats, pickles, olives, and other accompaniments. "I could live on this spicy stuff," Bari said, brandishing a roll of meat at Brandy, "Protein is the key to a filling meal, after all." The hot dishes on the harvest tables were favorites for both Brandy and Bari: the Vanilla Scented Oatmeal was creamy and hearty, the Duck Fat Home Fries were decedent, and the Panatone French Toast was eggy and full of fun textures.
Then the "sides" started arriving at the table. These consisted of a few hot dishes brought directly from the kitchen. The Tomato Basil Fritata was herbaceous and fluffy, while the Cinnamon Rolls envied Ann Sather's in both size and flavor (Brandy was so overwhelmed by food that she resorted to digging into the doughy center of her cinnamon roll to enjoy the best part of it's raisiny goodness). But the true star was the Maple Cajun Bacon, This, we assure you, was not your average side of bacon; this bacon was thick cut (hand cut, in fact, by the chef every day), coated in a secret Cajun spice blend, then doused in maple syrup, and served to crispy perfection in a cast iron pan. Brandy and Bari stopped mid conversation as they both put that bacon to their lips and did not speak again until the entire pan was empty. "That," Brandy breathed at last, "Was the single best piece of bacon I've ever eaten." she said, "It was smokey, meaty, salty, sweet, spicy... everything was just so perfect!" Bari nodded in agreement. "I might be ruined on bacon forever after that," he said, starring at the empty pan forlornly.
No with a taste for meat on their lips, Brandy and Bari moved onto the next phase of their brunch by taking two black stones from a small silver plate in the middle of the table and placing them in front of their plates. This signaled to the multitude of white coated chefs circling the room to begin bringing over the proteins. Huge chunks of meat of spits were brought to the table and carved before their very eyes: juicy Maple Bourbon Glazed Ham, succulent Buttermilk Herbed Bottom Sirloin, Roasted Turkey breast with Cranberry sauce, and Citrus Dusted Salmon all made their rounds to the table, leaving Brandy and Bari practically gasping for breath between each bite. Two of the more original offerings were the Chicken and Waffles, a small version of the Southern favorite with a piece of barbecued chicken and a cornmeal waffle, and the Crab Cake Benedict, which made for a lovely little two bite delight.
Lastly, Brandy and Bari pried themselves away from the their seats to indulge in some of the desserts on the harvest tables. Along with a beautiful spread of fruits and fresh yogurt, some less health options presented themselves. There was a delightfully fudgy Brownie, a rich and indulgent Strawberry Cheesecake, a surprisingly light Red Velvet Cupcake, and a bright and lovely Lemon Lime Tart. "I don't think I can take much more of this. I mean physically," Bari moaned. "I'm feeling just fine. In fact, I might ask for some more of that bacon," Brandy said, to which Bari responded, "Ok, maybe I can make room."
ZED451 was most certainly one of the most unique brunch experiences Brandy had ever had, and at a very reasonable price of $34 a person, Brandy was sure she'd be having that brunch again. The food was all beautifully presented, and the uniqueness of the table side protein service was simply stunning. "Uh... I don't know if I can make it to the train station!" Bari Bronzo groaned. Brandy, gracefully rising from her seat said simply, "Well you're in luck! ZED has a complimentary shuttle service that will take you anywhere in the downtown area!" "Yes please," Bari whispered before falling into a deep slumber at the table. "I probably should have mentioned to him that the key to surviving a brunch like this is to pace yourself on the bourbon lemonade," said Brandy.
The writers of this blog were invited by the restaurant to dine free of charge in exchange for an honest review.
Labels: Brunch, Chicago, River North, Zed451
Location: 739 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60654, USA
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Writing highlights:
In addition to the blog posts below, here are some longer things I’ve written:
Hunger Games survival analysis: my super-nerdy original blog post (~4,000 words) was picked up and republished by Jezebel. This somehow led to my first global health job… [April 2012]
On Sam Childers, aka the "Machine Gun Preacher": Who is Sam Childers? Also adapted for Foreign Policy: "Machine Gun Menace". [August-September 2011]
The "Tea Test" is a brief thought exercise inspired by the Greg Mortenson scandal. [April 2011]
Uganda is beautiful
Brett Keller October 25, 2014
I've been in Uganda the last few weeks helping with the implementation of a large scale survey: a representative national household survey and survey of drug retailers and healthcare providers, all focused on the availability and usage of essential medicines for childhood illness. The system we've set up is pretty cool, with data collection on Android tablets via ODK meta and real time checks for data quality (by teams, individual interviewers, and individual interviews) and feedback to the survey group, which I hope to write up at a later date. In the meantime, I wanted to share some photos of Uganda, which is really, really beautiful. There's a whole album here, and below are some highlights:
In photography, travel, Uganda
Why did HIV decline in Uganda?
Brett Keller January 3, 2013
That's the title of an October 2012 paper (PDF) by Marcella Alsan and David Cutler, and a longstanding, much-debated question in global health circles . Here's the abstract:
Uganda is widely viewed as a public health success for curtailing its HIV/AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s. To investigate the factors contributing to this decline, we build a model of HIV transmission. Calibration of the model indicates that reduced pre-marital sexual activity among young women was the most important factor in the decline. We next explore what led young women to change their behavior. The period of rapid HIV decline coincided with a dramatic rise in girls' secondary school enrollment. We instrument for this enrollment with distance to school, conditional on a rich set of demographic and locational controls, including distance to market center. We find that girls' enrollment in secondary education significantly increased the likelihood of abstaining from sex. Using a triple-difference estimator, we find that some of the schooling increase among young women was in response to a 1990 affirmative action policy giving women an advantage over men on University applications. Our findings suggest that one-third of the 14 percentage point decline in HIV among young women and approximately one-fifth of the overall HIV decline can be attributed to this gender-targeted education policy.
This paper won't settle the debate over why HIV prevalence declined in Uganda, but I think it's interesting both for its results and the methodology. I particularly like the bit on using distance from schools and from market center in this way, the idea being that they're trying to measure the effect of proximity to schools while controlling for the fact that schools are likely to be closer to the center of town in the first place.
The same paper was previously published as an NBER working paper in 2010, and it looks to me as though the addition of those distance-to-market controls was the main change since then. [Pro nerd tip: to figure out what changed between two PDFs, convert them to Word via pdftoword.com, save the files, and use the 'Compare > two versions of a document' feature in the Review pane in Word.]
Also, a tip of the hat to Chris Blattman, who earlier highlighted Alsan's fascinating paper (PDF) on TseTse flies. I was impressed by the amount of biology in the tsetse fly paper; a level of engagement with non-economic literature that I thought was both welcome and unusual for an economics paper. Then I realized it makes sense given that the author has an MD, an MPH, and a PhD in economics. Now I feel inadequate.
In economics, HIV/AIDS, public health, statistics, Uganda
Another way to help in Somalia
Brett Keller August 8, 2011
One of the best ways to address the severe acute malnutrition seen during famines -- like the one in Somalia now -- is a Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF). They're basically nutritionally fortified peanut butter manufactured to certain quality standards, and they're incredibly effective. Which brings me to MANA, or Mother-Administered Nutritive Aid (and yes, a Biblical reference). They're on a long list of things I've been meaning to write about, but my memory was jogged by their Somalia email blast. I'm a natural skeptic about start-up nonprofits, but over time they've won me over with their idea. The model is relatively simple: for now they're manufacturing RUTFs in the US and selling them to UNICEF and large NGOs that have established distribution networks. I like that aspect -- they're not trying to be all things to all men by distributing it themselves, as they've recognized that role is better done by others.
But the US manufacturing is just a stop-gap. For one, it's helping them learn the ropes on producing high quality RUTFs and supplying these badly needed and under-produced goods to organizations with complicated purchasing requirements. Their end goal is to establish a self-sustaining (ie, profitable) manufacturing plant in Rwanda, and they're making progress on it. A donation now will help them make more RUTFs and help them establish the Rwanda facility until it gets to a point where it no longer requires ongoing help.
One reason I think MANA is the right sort of group to establish such a business in Rwanda is that it's co-founded by Mark Moore, and he's well situated to work on both the problems of small enterprises in east Africa and international politics and supply chains. Like me, Mark is a Harding alum. He's a smart guy who spent ten years in eastern Uganda as a missionary (and started the Kibo Group development org), but he also has a Masters in development studies from Georgetown and served as Mary Landrieu's Africa specialist in the Senate. His work was the sort of evangelical aid I thought of when I read Dave Algo's recent post on how secular aid and development workers should be less hostile to good aid work done by evangelicals. Well, this it: in my opinion it's a smart business model run (an being an aspiring development professional, I'd welcome critical feedback in the comments as well) by people who can provide some necessary help to get things set up, and then step back out of the way. Once the facility is up and running in Rwanda it will mean more of our aid money can actually go into the east African economy as NGOs buy RUTFs from MANA and pay its local workers' wages.
Those who know me well or read this blog know that I have ambivalent feelings about Harding. I went there planning on being a medical missionary, and while I lost my faith I also made many friends, and my experiences there led me to my current interests in global health. So I have good things to say and bad things to say. One of the good things -- that I don't say enough -- is that there are a lot of incredibly sincere, hard-working people who come out of the school and do work that I couldn't find fault with if I tried. This is one of them, and I'm sure they'd appreciate your support.
In aid industry, international development, prose, public health, Somalia, Uganda
From the front lines of public health
Brett Keller June 28, 2011
Rashida is a Peace Corps volunteer in Uganda teaching "teaching life skills/health/whatever at a local secondary school," as well as a blogger. She also happens to be in the same Hopkins global health Masters program as me (but a year or two ahead, so we've never met). Her latest post starts with this:
Since the kids are often shy around the muzungu (and in front of their classmates), I thought it would better to set up an anonymous questions box, where students can ask questions about health, etc. without having to ask them in front of everyone. Well, no one else seemed as excited about this idea as I was, so I thought the box would just be forgotten about, or maybe even stolen by a trouble-making student. Imagine my surprise when I came back to the school two days after setting up the box to find it overstuffed with questions. I was a bit overwhelmed by the volume of questions posed to me, so I told the students to let me take them home and prepare my answers for next week. Well, here are some of the questions that I got:
If you have sex during your menstruation, do you get pregnant?
Is it true that if you kiss someone who has HIV, you’ll also get HIV?
There are some boys who disturb me during my leisure time, but if I see them I feel like vomiting. What can I do, please help me?
Is it true that if young people play sex before menstruation begins you can still get pregnant?
How can I know when playing sex that sperm is coming through the penis?
Is it true that if you delay having sex you become an abnormal person?
Is it bad to practice homosexuality?
People usually tell us to have sex when we are still young in order to become perfect in sex. What is the meaning of perfect in sex?
There are quite a few more in the rest of the post, and they just get more disturbing. Personally I wouldn't know where to start, and I greatly admire those who have the patience, courage, and tact to do this badly needed work. It must be especially difficult to do this sort of work as a foreigner. Alas, I described this post -- and the sample questions -- to a friend who does sex ed in New York City and was told that the questions are remarkably similar to what you get asked here.
In public health, school, Uganda
"A baby was born in my Land Rover today"
....so writes my friend Bobby Garner, a missionary in Uganda. Worth a read.
In LICs, public health, Uganda
Outbreak in Northern Uganda
Brett Keller December 1, 2010
Julian Jamison, writing on Chris Blattman's blog, notes an outbreak of an unknown disease in northern Uganda. There's also a note in Kenya's Daily Nation. Hard to say what it is without more definitive information, but definitely worth watching. In other Ugandan outbreak news, there's an outbreak of "jiggers" (tungiasis) as well.
In epidemiology, LICs, Uganda
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Posted on September 22, 2014 by Ken Steinhoff
Peironnet Family Mausoleum
Whenever I go visit Dad’s grave in the New Lorimier Cemetery, I see the Perionnet family’s mausoleum just as I turn left to leave the graveyard. Missourian librarian Sharon Sanders wrote about the history of the structure in her December 5, 2013, blog. I’ll steal a few snippets from it, but if you want to get the whole story, you should go to her blog.
Harlan P. Peironnet was first resident
Harlan P. Peironnet was a prominent Cape Girardeau businessman when he died in St. Louis in 1912. He was first buried in New Lorimier Cemetery, but his wife and son-in-law spent $3,475 to have this mausoleum built by a St. Louis company. Newspaper accounts said some of the granite pieces weighed as much as 14 tons and had to be moved in special wagons pulled by “giant” horses brought in from St. Louis.
Mr. Peironnet’s remains were disinterred and moved into one of the eight crypts in the building in 1914. His wife, the paper reported, viewed his remains, “which were in nearly as perfect condition as the day he died, a year ago.”
Peironnet’s wife died in 1951
Mrs. Julia Moon Peironnet died in 1951, a few days short of her 96th birthday. She came to Cape when she was two, the daughter of one of the first practicing dentists west of the Mississippi, and was was one of the first students at Cape Girardeau Normal, which later became SEMO University. She taught school in Wayne County and in East Cape Girardeau, where she was ferried back and forth across the river in a skiff.
Lightning hit mausoleum in 1984
A cemetery worker making his rounds on a March morning in 1984 noticed damage to the mausoleum that he thought might have been caused by a bomb. A federal bomb squad that was called in determined that the building had been struck by lightning. The force of the bolt blew off a 2-foot by 2-foot chunk of granite, knocked off one of the double doors and shattered much of the marble slate that made up the eight biers inside.
The damage has since been repaired.
It’s interesting how much of the skyline on the right is dominated by Southeast Hospital. (Click on the photos to make them larger.)
In a good neighborhood
I was fascinated by the “Miller” tile work setting off the graves on the south side of the mausoleum. Had I stepped back a few more steps, I would have seen the stone marking the grave of I. Ben Miller, noted farmer and businessman.
The light-colored stone on the right belongs to Dr. Lila Miller, his daughter. Mr. Miller named his dairy farm on Sprigg Street the Lila Drew Farm in honor of his daughters, Miss Lila Miller and Miss Clara Drew Miller. Both daughters are buried in this section, along with son Edwin Miller and his wife.
CategoriesPhotos around Cape TagsClara Drew Miller, Dr Lila Miller, Edwin Miller, Harlan P Peironnet, I Ben Miller, Julia Moon Peironnet, Lightning, Lila Drew Farm, Mausoleum, Sharon Sanders, Southeast Hospital
7 Replies to “Peironnet Family Mausoleum”
Mr. I. Ben Miller also owned the I Ben Miller Ice Cream factory on Water Street just after the turn of the century (1800 – 1900). I have a picture of it in my Cape Girardeau photo archives.
Gary Ervin says:
Does the Peironnet home off the Big Bend Road near Sylvan Drive still stand? I remember my dad referring to that area as Peironnet Woods, but never knew the story of the family.
I’ll have to check on that. It was still there in 1972 when Sally Wright Brown wrote a story on Oakenwold
Yes! It’s still there and has been restored and looks near origional. A beautiful home it is.
It IS a beautiful home, but not one I’d like to move into soon.
My Sunset Court house sat on the hill now occupied by a portion of the SEMO hospital parking lot, seen in the photo. We could see much of the cemetery from our north-facing picture window.
Gail Peironnet Hinkle says:
My maiden name is Peironnet. The Peironnet family lived in Wheaton, Illinois for many years. James S. Peironnet was the second mayor of Wheaton in the 1800’s. Are we related?
Most of the Peironnet’s were buried in the Wheaton Cemetery.
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Posted on February 6, 2012 by Ken Steinhoff
SEMO Construction in 1967
Southeast Missouri State College – now University – was yanking buildings out of the ground like crazy in 1967. I roamed the campus taking photos of the work that was taking place so we could show it in the February 25, 1967, Achievement Edition.
Kent Library Expansion
This was the beginning of the Kent Library expansion project. Dearmont Hall is on the left.
Soft spot for construction workers
I’ve always had a soft sport for construction workers, particularly crane operators, because of the hours I spent watching Dad operate a dragline. He could drop the bucket exactly where he wanted it, pull in a load of dirt or gravel, swing it over and dump it into truck without spilling a rock or banging the bed of the truck. The men working under him had absolute faith in his ability to hit his target, because a mistake could have killed them.
When I was about 10, Dad was setting a big tank for someone. He had the load locked down and suspended about five feet off the ground while a worker for his client was leveling the dirt below it. He stepped off the crane for a break, then sent me back to get his jug of iced tea. When I climbed up into the cab, the tank owner went berserk. “Kid, get DOWN off there. If you touch something, you could kill that man.!”
I froze until Dad hollered back, “If I thought he was going to touch anything, I wouldn’t have sent him.” Turning to me, he said, quietly, “Fetch me the jug, please.” I realized then how much confidence Dad had in me.
Built in the old Home of the Birds
One Missourian photo caption said, in part, that the 12-story structures on the new North Campus will serve hundreds of students when they are first opened in the summer. A service center has two high-rise dormitories attached to the corners. Under contracts recently awarded, two more buildings, identical to the first, will be built on the remaining two corners of the service center, which will provide students food service and recreation areas.
By building the tall structures in the valley of what past generations called the Home of the Birds, the college was able to keep the height of the buildings at the level of existing buildings. That avoided a top-heavy effect.
2010 Aerial of dorm area
This photo is looking east toward the high-rise dorm area. Academic Hall, not visible, would be at the right.
Houck Stadium, Kent Library
This photo, taken November 6, 2010, shows Houck Stadium at the bottom. The large building at the top center of the picture is Kent Library. Dearmont Hall is on its right.
Click on any photo to make it larger, then click on the left or right side of the image to move through the gallery.
CategoriesSoutheast Missouri State University TagsAerial photos, Construction, Dearmont Hall, Houck Stadium, Kent Library, L.V. Steinhoff, Southeast Missouri State University, Student Housing
21 Replies to “SEMO Construction in 1967”
I find it hard to grasp that Towers was built 45 years ago. I had friends living there that first summer, and the dorms seemed luxurious. Some great memories, and some great people.
Don Wareing says:
I met my wife when she was living in Leming Hall. The time was around 1967. It too, sadly is gone now.
Walter Lamkin says:
Ah, the Home of the Birds, a sepia-toned memory of kindergarten with Miss Gross at the Campus School in 1954. It was a bucolic place, set just below the playground and was a calming influence on a hyperactive little boy even then.
In picture #10, the newly opened Music Building stands out. I was somewhat disappointed that you had no high-angle shot of what was affectionately called Mason’s Basin; the marching band practice field just below and to the east of what had been an elevated walkway (and steam/electrical conduit) to the north side of the campus (Magill Hall of Science) from just west of the new Music Building. That area used to be just a big ravine with a tangle of dense undergrowth.
Is this Frony shot the walkway you were talking about>
Yes, that is it.
Russell Cook says:
All of the construction workers and their employers would be cited by OSHA now for not wearing hard hats! I recognized my cousin Bob Johnson from Jackson as one of the concrete finishers pictured.
There were plenty of things missing that would get you in trouble today: no hard hats, no safety railings, no safety lines and some non-employee with a camera running around.
In those days, I’d just wander onto a site. If anybody asked me what I was doing, I’d say, “Looking for the foreman. Have you seen him?”
If I happened to run into the foreman, then I’d have to do a little song and dance, but most of the time folks liked to have their picture taken. They just asked that you not get killed and warned you that if you did, you’d probably end up in the middle of a concrete slab somewhere.
Pat Smith says:
I sometimes wondered what I might encounter if I had to climb down to retrieve a book droped over the side the that bridge on the way to biology class.
Randy Johnson says:
Towers was indeed in the heart of the “home of the birds”, which incidently also was the site of “Frankenstein’s Castle”–which is what we called an abandoned stone building right in the center of the woods which housed a seismic study lab of the University at some point. This building had no windows, and we never seemed to have a flashlight when we played down there, so the dark interior was mysterious and yes, just a little scary!
Joe Whitright says:
I used to deliver meat to Albert Hall, Leming Hall and one other one back in the early 40’s when they had a navy v-12 program there and we at Krogers fed those future naval officers! What a difference 70 years can make.
Joe Whitright “45”
When I started at SEMO in the fall of ’62, the tuition was $80 a semester. While that slowly increased over my four years, I remember most the $5 addition (senior year I think) targeted for a new Student Union building which I was not around to enjoy. How financial times have changed in our institutions of higher learning!
Judy Finley says:
The man running the crane was my Daddy – Lloyd Swain. He also helped build the St. Louis Arch and New Madrid Power Plant among other things. He was a great operator and an even greater father!!
Great. As a son of a crane operator, I can appreciate his skills. I hope you enjoyed seeing your dad in action.
Mary Christy says:
What a wonderful article! May I post a link to it on our Kent Library 75th Anniverary page?
You are more than welcome to post a link. I sent you an email with some other stories about Kent Library.
Thank you!! I just received the emails. Great stuff in there!
I have to confess I didn’t spend a lot of time in Kent Library, so there aren’t many photos from the inside.
Haha! I saw that in one of the articles. That’s ok. A lot of students don’t. We’re working to make the library more relevant to 21st century students.
I do love the two photos of the inside because it shows how students dressed for classes in the 60s. (I think those were from the 60s).
Iliana Sosa says:
I’m trying to do more research on a construction worker that passed away in 1965 while working at Southwest Missouri State College. His name was James B. Patterson and his wife (who passed away in 1990) was Pearl L. Patterson. I’m trying to find any photographs of him or if he still has any surviving family. Just curious where you were able to find these photos. Here is a link to an article about him: http://www.newspapers.com/clip/539915/james_p_patterson_63_died_in/
Any information or leads would be most appreciated!
I would love to help you, but all of my photography was done in Southeast Missouri. I’m sorry.
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H5N8, other strains strike birds in Europe, Japan, Israel
The UK reported H5N8 avian flu on a pheasant farm housing 10,000 birds.
Greece and Bulgaria latest countries to report avian flu outbreaks
Meanwhile, many countries across Europe and Asia continue to battle outbreaks of several strains.
H5N8 detected in poultry in Israel, Hungary, India
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The strain has also been detected farther west in Europe in wild birds in Switzerland, as well as in Germany.
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Two more countries find H5N1; 3 others probe bird deaths
(CIDRAP News) The H5N1 avian influenza virus has spread to Niger and Bosnia-Herzegovina, media outlets said today, and testing is under way on birds found dead in Switzerland, Pakistan, and Kenya.
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CDC says new virus spreading beyond travelers
(CIDRAP News) As the official count of US swine influenza cases rose to 64 today, top federal health officials said it's becoming increasingly clear that the virus is spreading beyond people who recently traveled to Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak.
SWINE FLU BREAKING NEWS: Case counts, antiviral purchase, worried patients, Mexico timeline, 300 US schools close, Hong Kong quarantine
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported 331 cases of swine influenza H1N1 in 11 countries as of 6 a.m. GMT today. The case numbers by country are United States, 109 (1 death) (these are yesterday's totals); Mexico, 156 (9 deaths), Canada, 34; Spain, 13; United Kingdom, 8; New Zealand, 3; Germany, 3; Israel, 2; and 1 each in Austria, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. [WHO update 7]
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CDC says 3.4 million doses of H1N1 vaccine to ship in early October
(CIDRAP News) The first wave of H1N1 vaccine will probably consist of 3.4 million doses of MedImmune's nasal-spray product and is likely to reach providers the first week in October, federal health officials said today.
WHO notes H1N1 up in some regions, leveling in others
(CIDRAP News) Pandemic activity is showing early signs of peaking in some parts of North America, but is on the rise in several European countries as well as those in Central and Eastern Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today.
H1N1 FLU BREAKING NEWS: Effect on public health, cases up on campus, high Native death rates, North Korea accepts aid
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RIT was the#16 seed and knocked off the #1 seed. Nice job RIT!
SOUTH BEND, Indiana – If you've crashed the big dance, you better be able to dance with the stars, right?
Guess what? The Rochester Institute of Technology hockey team can cut a sheet of ice.
The Tigers once again played giant killer in the NCAA Tournament, stunning college hockey by upending top-seeded Minnesota State 2-1 Saturday evening in the Midwest Regional semifinals.
"It's an upset, it's 1 against 16, but it's not a big miracle," Tigers coach Wayne Wilson said afterward.
Josh Mitchell's goal with 5:09 to play broke a 1-1 tie, though it took about five minutes of real-life time for the scoreboard at Compton Family Ice Arena to reflect it.
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Great season for the Tigers. Sad to see them lose last night, but they can definitely hold their heads high going into next season.
Completely agreed gt87. A good season all around and nothing to be ashamed about. And the good news is that Matt Garbowsky is getting a chance at pro hockey. He had a couple of AHL offers including from the Sabres to join the Rochester Amerks and he decided he wanted to stay in Rochester so he'll be playing on the Amerks for the rest of this season and next year. Hopefully he makes it into the NHL after next year!
RIT's Matt Garbowsky staying in Rochester
Thanks for the news db. Garbo was great at RIT and it was sad knowing that was his last game as a tiger.
As a Sabres/Amerks fan its great to see he will remain in the area and given a chance at the professional level.
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And given the state of the organization right now, with a little hard work it won't take much for him to get his shot in the NHL.
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Caps Loss Makes 8 Year Old Girl Cry
6 Comments February 26, 2011|clyde|Puck
While all Washington Capitals fans were no doubt disappointed about last night’s 6-0 loss at Verizon Center to the New York Rangers, none may have been as devastated as my eight year old daughter. When my wife dropped me off at the Metro garage to retrieve my car, my daughter begged to ride home in my car. It was clear as day just how profoundly affected she had been.
“Why couldn’t they score just one eensy weensy teeny tiny little goal?” By the time we reached my car, I heard all of these questions, statements and more:
“I know they won’t win every game, but just one goal.”
“Isn’t that Alex Ovechkin’s job? Or Alex Semin’s?”
“Even Nick Backstrom! He didn’t take any face-offs, so he should have been ready to score a goal.”
“I mean, come-on!”
“Know how bad it was? I wanted you and Mommy to turn the radio off in the car.”
“And, Daddy, when was the last time they scored a power play goal at home?”
I. Had. No. Answer.
I reminded her that she had fun. That the CSN camera guy shot her again during warmups and the kids at school will probably soon fawn all over her again asking how she got to be on TV. I reminded her how she got to ride the zamboni on her birthday last year and was also given a puck during warmups at that game. I reminded her how she’s been able to meet most of her favorite players, get their autographs, and Backstrom (her favorite) smiled at her.
While at this point in the season, many of us old enough to have children of our own have probably entered a state of resignation that the good old days that ran from Thanksgiving 2007 through the end of the regular season last spring are gone for now, but still hold hope for the post-season knowing that success there will make the regular season of 10/11 worthwhile.
My daughter knows this at some level. She explained how it’s more important that the Capitals win in the playoffs than any single regular season game. “But the playoffs are hard. If they can’t win now…” her words trailed off. I don’t know if she has really understands what it means, though.
She reminded me of the purity of a child’s experience at a sporting event. When paying attention to the game (instead of playing games on an iPod during a boring stretch), it’s all so immediate and consuming while I sit there in games like last night’s just feeling the hope for the evening drain and just wait for it to be over. It does not seem like it was almost three years ago when I took her to her second hockey game…Game 2 against the Flyers in April 08 and she screamed her throat raw in both “Let’s go Caps!” and “Flyers Suck!” chants.
It was tough to watch her go through this last night, but this is how children form bonds with their teams. I wasn’t much older than her when my dad took me to Game 1 of the 1979 World Series. There are four things I remember about that game:
The rain.
Thinking my dad was going to get in a fight when he was pelted in the face with peanuts thrown by a guy a few rows in front of us who would not put down his umbrella and many people around us were tossing peanuts on him.
The Orioles losing that game.
Three dozen parking tickets on his car’s windshield after the game.
But I remember and those memories are indelible. While I don’t pay a lot of attention to baseball these days, I still keep a small look on the Orioles out of the corner of my eye. Someday, my daughter will remember this, too, and she will be better for it.
In other news, my six year old daughter apparently got herself engaged to a seven year old Rangers fan sitting in the row behind us in the third period. Yeah. It was that kind of night.
Read all the regular stuff about the game at On Frozen Blog, Russian Machine Never Breaks, and Japer’s Rink. Look at my photos below or on flickr. Thanks for stopping by.
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EPL Previews: Can Arsenal Finally Escape Themselves?
Ben Nadeau
After Leicester City’s 5000-1 odds to win the Premiership, capping off what is, in all likelihood, the most fantastic championship in major sports history, the perennial powerhouses have gone hard towards defeating the slew of underdogs currently rising up the table. With the addition of three world class managers, Antonio Conte, Jose Mourinho, and Pep Guardiola, this season could shape up to be even crazier than the last.
While international competition has been outstanding, as usual, we can’t help but miss that massive hole in our heart and pine for the return of the soccer league CoachUp loves the most. In order to prepare the loyal and initiate the newcomers, CoachUp will have you all ready for the August 13th showdown between current title-holders Leicester City and newly-promoted Hull City.
We’re counting down by previewing the league’s top ten clubs from 2015-2016, detailing the players to watch, and their European (or lack thereof) adventures. So, without further ado, here's Arsenal and their forever-fleeting dreams of another title-topping campaigns.
It almost seems like clockwork for Arsenal: put together half a season, key players get injured, then the season is derailed, title challenge lost, but recovered enough in time to remain in the top four. Once that narrative is established, fans become optimistic that this is, finally, the season that manager Arsenal Wenger opens the checkbook for three or four starters, then, around now, with just one new major signee, the rabid fans get inconsolable, call for Wenger's head on a platter, and then calm down once Arsenal put together half a season. . . and repeat forever.
Either way, it's hard to deny Arsenal's success, or lack thereof, since Wenger took over in 1996. Although Wenger led that magical 2004-2005 squad to their Invincibles status -- the first and only golden trophy in English history -- they haven't finished at the top of the summit again since then. Often frustrating, Wenger's out-of-touch transfer policies have helped Arsenal miss out on truly transformational players as of late, including the 2015 summer debacle that saw the North London club only bring in Petr Cech between the sticks.
Despite the recent captures of Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil, two of the world's finest players, he's been unable to upgrade at striker and, yet again, the Gunners are set to start the year with Olivier Giroud as the main contributor in attack. Arsenal haven't finished outside of the top 4 in 20 years, an impressive record equally matched by their 16-straight Round of 16 appearances in Champions League, but fans have clamored for an honest effort at first place since Robin van Persie, Cesc Fabregas, and Samir Nasri -- the trio once thought to drag Arsenal into the future -- all forced moves away from the club between 2011-2012.
THE UPBEAT
But, listen! It's time for some optimism! Despite nagging injuries to Per Mertesacker, an adjustment period for Gabriel, and some unlucky results -- see: Aaron Ramsey's disallowed goal vs. Liverpool, Diego Costa's antics, etc -- Arsenal still, perhaps unbelievably, finished in second place. Not only did they finish above Tottenham for the 21st straight year, but they were the only team in England to take all 6 points from eventual shock-winners Leicester City. The marquee signing of the summer is none other than Granit Xhaka, the steely defensive midfielder from Switzerland. Xhaka brings some much-needed tenacity to an oftentimes-bullied Arsenal side and rarely gives up possession of the ball, so he'll combine well with their current glut of attack-minded midfielders -- Santi Cazorla, Jack Wilshere, Ramsey, and Ozil.
Anchored by Cech in net, outside backs Nacho Monreal and Hector Bellerin have looked better with each passing month, both staking claims as the best at their position league-wide. While they have no mirror comparison for Alexis on the opposite flank, Wenger will have the ability to mix and match with Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, or Alex Iwobi throughout the season. Should Arsenal provide consistency throughout the entirety of a campaign -- something they haven't done in almost a decade -- then they'll be in the hunt come next May.
PREFERRED STARTING XI
Sigh -- this article was pushed over and over again in hopes that Wenger would've signed a center back by now -- alas, that is not true. Following injuries to captain Per Mertesacker and Gabriel, Wenger was forced to play youngsters Rob Holding and Calum Chambers against Liverpool -- a game they promptly lost 4-3, uncoincidentally. Granted, this lineup is still a little fishy with Ramsey on the right wing not only because he'd prefer to play in the middle, but he's also out for a month nursing an injury already.
All in all, the Arsenal lineup is set to be a mish-mash of shapes and unfinished puzzles for much of this season in all likelihood. However, the key to it all is still Ozil -- who is magical enough to make this hodgepodge work. Thankfully, the return of Giroud means that Alexis can move back to his best position on the wing and the Cazorla-Xhaka partnership has the potential to be a game-changer eventually. Laurent Koscielny's presence was sorely missed against Liverpool, but the addition of the French international saved Arsenal in their showdown against Leicester City in Week 2. He, of course, is crucial to Arsenal's success and the club has looked aimless without him on the pitch otherwise.
PLAYER TO WATCH
Olivier Giroud, the maligned striker that has nothing and everything to prove. If you're new to Arsenal, or soccer on the internet in general, you might be led to believe that Giroud is a massive waste of space and the reason why the club hasn't won a major trophy in over a decade. However, Giroud is most certainly not to blame for the drought -- it's the lack of another striker.
The Frenchman has performed graciously since his arrival from Ligue 1 in 2012, but he cannot do it on his own. In fact, Giroud has always welcomed competition at his position and simply wants to see the club succeed, but he'll never be elite like Sergio Aguero or Zlatan Ibrahimovic -- and for that he is faulted far beyond his control. While he has nothing to prove to the rational viewer, Giroud could surprise many by putting Arsenal's attacking load on his shoulders in 2016-2017.
HIGHLIGHT FROM YESTERYEAR
"There's your fairytale!"
In a year of disappointing losses and emphatic victories, there was really no other option than this. Trailing Leicester City in the table by 5 points, a win for Arsenal would close the deficit to just 2, but a loss would drive it up to an unobtainable 8. After a questionable penalty kick decision for Jamie Vardy, the eventual champions were struck down by Danny Simpson's red card in the second half. A beautiful layoff from Giroud set the table for a Walcott equalizer -- but Arsenal still needed the winner, a draw would not be good enough to delay the title race. Enter Danny Welbeck, a late substitute making his first appearance in months due to injury.
Then: absolute magic, pandemonium, and a brand new title race.
GETTING OFF TO A GOOD START
8/14 vs. Liverpool, L, 3-4
8/20 @ Leicester City, D, 1-1
8/27 @ Watford
9/10 vs. Southampton
9/17 @ Hull City
9/24 vs. Chelsea
10/1 @ Burnley
Through two games, the results are mixed for Arsenal. After the failed Holding-Chambers experiment against Liverpool, Wenger responded by bringing back Koscielny early and the product improved massively. Although they need to bring in a new center back before next week's deadline, they have the chance to take all 12 points before October. With Giroud and Ozil both on the precipice of rejoining the fold permanently, there's little doubt that Arsenal will stay in the hunt for Champions League, but they're already 5 points off the leaders after 2 games. Or, in other words, not great.
Injuries have already plagued the club and without reinforcements on their way to London, this could be a potentially disastrous season for Arsenal. While Arsenal cannot compete with the wages offered by Manchester United or Chelsea, they have simply fallen short in that area this summer once again. If everything goes right for Arsenal -- like it almost did last year -- they can, and will, be title contenders.
Unfortunately, it's been proven time and time again that one fragile injury is enough to demolish the club from the inside. Should Ozil, Koscielny, or Giroud get hurt in 2016-2017 for a long period of time, Arsenal may not only see their Champions League streak come to an end, but the end of St. Totteringham's Day as well.
English Premier League Previews 2016-2017:
10th: Chelsea
9th: Stoke City
8th: Liverpool
7th: West Ham
6th: Southampton
5th: Manchester United
4th: Manchester City
3rd: Tottenham
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8 Upgrades Tinder Needs to Make Now
@JeffRosie
Tinder is arguably the most fun game currently available for the iPhone. The "dating" app is fantastic, but still has a long way to go, so I went ahead and specced out some new design features that would really come in handy.
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By Rosie
Tinder, the newest "dating" app to take the world by storm is arguably the most fun game currently available for the iPhone. The app is still in its infancy and has a long way to go, so I went ahead and specced out some new design features that would really come in handy.
1) Highlight Girl/Guy
One of the keys to Tinder's success is verification that you're actually a human. How do they do that? Well, the only way to create an account is by giving the app access to your Facebook account, at which point Tinder imports your four most recent profile pictures. Unfortunately, a lot of people have pictures of them with a bunch of friends, making it especially difficult to figure out which one of these lovelies will be the mother/father of your future/current children. Highlighting solves this dilemma and will allow you to cycle through more potential bang buddies at a quicker pace. Tinder apologizes in advance that, no, it's not that super hot one on the left.
IMAGE: Screenshot of profile picture with a bunch of girls. One of them is highlighted. (Not a super hot blonde one on the left)
2) Rump Jump
Don't like the name? Too bad. This is my fantasy, not yours. As I mentioned, one of the more annoying aspects of the group photo is that, more often than not, you're attracted to one of their friends (i.e., that super hot one on the left). The Rump Jump feature would redirect you to the hottest person's Tinder profile by simply touching them in the photo. If they don't have a Tinder profile because they're stupid and selfish human beings, the app connects to Facebook so you can holla the old fashioned way - by poking or gifting a $5 Starbucks card.
IMAGE: Group photo with pop-up jump option (Super hot blonde girl from before.)
3) Validation
Find it stressful that you never get any matches but don't want to lower your expectations? I don't know the feeling, but my ugly loser friends do and I get pretty close to sympathizing with them after I make them buy me a bunch of drinks and the Mountain O' Nachos at D&B. Logic follows that you should be able to see everyone who has ever liked you. Just show it to us. We're curious. You have the data, just like, show us. I want to know. I have a right to know. And yeah, maybe it defeats the purpose of the app, but I want to know.
IMAGE: List of match page:
Recent divorcée - Hilda
22 year-old with picture of them at age 2 - Kathy
Overly sexual 16 year-old - Jessica
Girl who lives 700 miles away - Ali
Girl who started Dramatic Theater Club in HS - Molly
Transvestite from the Bronx - La China
4) Auto-Pilot
Every morning I wake up covered in a thick, filmy sweat because I know I've just wasted the past 14 hours of sleep NOT Tindering. Yeah, I dream of all the Tinder match-ups I've had in the past, DUH, but that dream quickly dissolves into a nightmare when I realize all the matches I have yet to get. Heck, my future wife is idly waiting for me on the other end and I'm letting that slip away. Instead of waiting for waking hours to start liking girls, this feature would run a program which would auto like every girl I missed while I was sleeping like a stupid idiot. Hundreds, NAY, thousands of people would be cycled through, hopefully offering me a couple matches when I wake up in the morning to Tinder in the shower.
IMAGE: Would it be difficult to do the Tinder logo (the flame) with a progress meter that signifies "Tindering" is happening? (WITH A FUCKING FLAME GROWING LARGER AND LARGER)
5) Catfish Net
There's nothing worse than showing up to your local froyo joint to meet the girl/guy of your dreams only to realize you've been catfished. Word to the wise - if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Unless it's peach mango swirl froyo from this lovely little hole in the wall. Fat-free?! Hahahaha WHAT? HOW?
Any girl/guy who looks like a model and immediately wants to meet up with you probably doesn't exist. I suggest the Tinder Gods slap a catfish over anyone who seems suspiciously beautiful/friendly. It'd save all of us cool dudes/dope chicks a lot of time and public humiliation.
IMAGE: Rollover of beautiful girl with catfish photoshopped in place of her head (Maybe the blonde from earlier?)
6) Photo Op
Like its Hot-or-Not predecessor, success on Tinder is largely based on physical appearance. The picture in your photo gallery can only be curated with images currently living on Facebook, but not everyone in the friggin' world has an awesome line-up of photos like yours truly. We're all not as well-traveled (Daytona Beach, FL), adventurous (Dave & Busters), or charming (Puppy pic) as the competition out there, so I propose a feature where you simply take a photo of yourself in front of a green screen, then Tinder lets you choose a background of a sick mountain, dope music festival or douchey European city.
IMAGE: A dope music festival in a European city with Yosemite in the background.
7) Ex-Communication
Unfortunately, exes continue to exist and function post break-up, and the last thing you want is for them to show up in your Tinder queue. They still look great while YOU (not me) look noticeably worse. That's fact. The Tinder of the future will allow you to block any and all exes who may also be on the prowl for fresh meat. Simply choose to never show up in their feed. Sorry Melissa, Emily, Natalie and Asian Melissa, standing me up at Bennigans was the last time you hurt this tender Tinder soul.
IMAGE: Settings page with a list of banned names
Melissa, Emily, Natalie and Asian Melissa
8) MElissa
You can choose to ALWAYS show up in your exes' feed. Why should your insignificant others be happy? They broke your heart and never returned your beloved Big Dog sweatshirt. Bombard their feed with a never-ending supply of pictures of you two blissfully in love. It will either piss her off beyond belief or make her fall in love with you all over again - either way, it's a win win.
IMAGE: Happy couple together
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The Collected Writings of John Sallis
On Beginning in Plato's Timaeus
By John Sallis
Series The Collected Writings of John Sallis
This excellent work... deserves the serious consideration of all who are interested in contemporary philosophy as well as those who concern themselves with ancient philosophy, especially Plato." —Review of MetaphysicsIn Chorology,... Learn More
Songs of Nature
Written by John Sallis, Illustrated by Cao Jun
This latest philosophical text by John Sallis is inspired by the work of contemporary Chinese painter Cao Jun. It carries out a series of philosophical reflections on nature, art, and music by taking up Cao Jun’s art and thought,... Learn More
Being and Logos
Reading the Platonic Dialogues
[Being and Logos is] a philosophical adventure of rare inspiration. . . . Its power to illuminate the text . . . , its ecumenicity of inspiration, its methodological rigor, its originality, and its philosophical profundity—all... Learn More
The Logos of the Sensible World
Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Philosophy
Written by John Sallis, Edited by Richard Rojcewicz
This volume of the collected writings of John Sallis presents a two-semester lecture course on Maurice Merleau-Ponty given at Duquesne University from 1970 to 1971. Devoted primarily to a close reading of the French philosopher's... Learn More
Elemental Discourses
John Sallis's thought is oriented to two overarching tasks: to bring to light the elemental in nature and to show how the imagination operates at the very center of human experience. He undertakes these tasks by analyzing a broad... Learn More
Published: 22nd November 1999
Being and Logos" is... a philosophical adventure of rare inspiration.... Its power to illuminate the text..., its ecumenicity of inspiration, its methodological rigor, its originality, and its philosophical profundity—all together... Learn More
Published: 22nd June 1996
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Two Huddersfield Cricketers
Martin Chandler | 7:38am BST 03 April 2016
Author: Owen, Robert
Publisher: Write Good Books
Back in 2009 I managed to find out from somewhere that the autobiography of Malcolm Scott had been published. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and happily gave it a four star review. Three years later I learned that Scott’s collaborator, Robert Owen, had written this small book and I had no hesitation in buying a copy. For no particular reason it took me until very recently to pick the book up and read it. I feel a little embarrassed now that I don’t mention Owen at all in my review of A Geordie All-Rounder, as I realise now he must have been largely responsible for marshalling Scott’s thoughts in such masterful fashion.
Owen is from South Shields in the north east of England. Two Huddersfield Cricketers is, as the title suggests a study of the lives of two men who were born some way south of Tyneside, but who nonetheless both spent many years plying their cricketing trade there. Coincidentally Owen ended up making the opposite journey and living in Huddersfield. The two cricketers are Ron Aspinall and Alec Coxon. They had much in common in addition to Huddersfield. Both opened the bowling for Yorkshire after the Second World War and were useful lower order batsmen. Their figures are similar too – both took their wickets at just a tick over 20, and with the bat averaged just under 20.
The similarities continue. Both men left Yorkshire at the end of the 1950 season and both found their way to the area we now call Tyne and Wear where they served with distinction as professionals in the local league. There were differences to go with the similarities. Coxon stayed in his adopted home for the rest of his days, dying at 90 in 2006. After Aspinall’s playing career ended there were 22 years following, in the summer at least, the peripatetic lifestyle of a First Class umpire before he retired back to Huddersfield.
Despite their successes on the field both men had their disappointments in the First Class game. For Aspinall it was the fact that, ultimately, injury cost him his Yorkshire career and the possibility of England caps. He never regained full fitness after a serious Achilles tendon injury. Coxon did play for his country once, against Bradman’s Invincibles at Lord’s in 1948, a match England lost by 409 runs. There was an early wicket for Coxon as he dismissed Sid Barnes for a duck. Shortly afterwards he always believed he should have had Donald Bradman before he had scored. Sadly for him his bellicose appeal for lbw was turned down. The great man was later out for 38, so the rejection of Coxon’s appeal did not change the course of the match, but it probably did change the course of his career. After a defeat of such magnitude it was hardly surprising the selectors dropped a seam bowler. But it is difficult to imagine they would have dropped Coxon if he had dismissed both of Australia’s premier batsmen for nought.
The stories of the Two Huddersfield Cricketers are by their nature intertwined, and that is the way Owen writes his book. In eighty pages he has no difficulty in holding his reader’s attention, as the era and the personalities of his two subjects give him plenty of interesting material. Coxon in particular was a fearsome character, not dissimilar in approach to his successor Fred Trueman. Owen mentions one story I had heard before, but cannot sadly remember where. It surrounds the reason for Coxon leaving the First Class game, which was in part disillusionment at failing to make the Ashes touring party in 1950/51. But there were conduct issues too. Did he take a swing at Denis Compton at a festival match at the end of the 1950 season? Probably not it seems, but chapter and verse on that one unfortunately eluded Owen.
If I had to criticise Owen it would be on account of the brevity of his book. Cricket books have a tendency to be too long. Writers tend to overuse bland match accounts which amount to nothing more than padding. As indicated in Two Huddersfield Cricketers every single page is worth reading, and I find it difficult to believe Owen could not easily have managed another twenty or thirty pages without any lapse in quality. Is he, I wonder, a disciple of Walt Disney, and his exhortation to ‘always leave them wanting more’?
In my review of A Geordie All-Rounder I expressed some disappointment at the proof reading and the quality of the illustrations. In Two Huddersfield Cricketers I saw only one typo, the spelling of the name of the umpire who let Coxon down at Lord’s in ’48 and the photographs, of which there are quite a number are, given the limitations imposed by the type of paper used, very good. All in all it is an excellent read, which I am happy to recommend.
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Tottenham Hotspur have confirmed that they have agreed to sell right-back DeAndre Yedlin to Newcastle United .
The 23-year-old, who had a loan spell at Sunderland last
season, leaves Tottenham having made just one Premier
League appearance for the club.
We've reached agreement with Newcastle for the
transfer of DeAndre Yedlin. We wish him all the
best for the future.
Yedlin, who made 24 interceptions in the Premier League
last season, will act as a direct replacement at Newcastle
for Dutchman Daryl Janmaat, whose move to Watford
was confirmed today.
A United States international who possesses pace in
abundance, Yedlin joined Tottenham from Seattle
Sounders in 2014 but was unable to fully establish
himself at the club.
With Kyle Walker ahead of him, it was always going to be
a challenging task for Yedlin to become Tottenham’s
first-choice right-back, and he will hope to feature
prominently for Newcastle.
Yedlin featured prominently for Sunderland in the
Premier League last season, but he will now be playing
for the Black Cats’ fierce rivals in the Championship.
Newcastle have been heavily active in the transfer
market this summer, with manager Rafael Benitez
having made several signings to bolster the club’s squad
as they seek to return to the Premier League at the first
Yedlin could make his debut for his new club when
Newcastle take on Brighton & Hove Albion this weekend,
although his transfer certainly isn’t likely to be welcomed
by Sunderland fans.
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Fahmy v. Hogge
Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress
Publication of Private Facts
Stephen Graham Hogge, operator of the blog, Hog on Ice, was sued in California by former Miami School of Law classmate Fatima dos Santos Fahmy over statements he made about her on his blog, which he describes as a... read full description
Stephen Graham Hogge aka Steven H Graham; Does 1-3
Stephen Graham Hogge, operator of the blog, Hog on Ice, was sued in California by former Miami School of Law classmate Fatima dos Santos Fahmy over statements he made about her on his blog, which he describes as a humorist's view of "Guns, God, Food, Beer, Tools, Politics, and Whining."
According to Fahmy's complaint, which raises claims for Defamation, Intentional and Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress, and False Light Invasion of Privacy, Hogge and three unknown defendants "published numerous false, defamatory and grossly injurious statements about her" on Hogge's blog, including calling her a deadbeat, maligning her work ethic, and falsely claiming that she was Hogge's former girlfriend.
Both parties represented themselves in the case. In March 2008, Hogge, a resident of Florida, filed a motion to dismiss based on lack of personal jurisdiction and insuffiency of service of process. The court initially denied the motion, but on Hogge's motion for reconsideration dismissed the case on October 14, 2008, finding that it lacked both general and specific jurisdiction over him.
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2:08-cv-01152
2008-02-20-Fahmy Complaint.pdf
2008-05-09-Hogge Second Amended Motion to Dismiss.pdf
2008-07-25-Fahmy Opposition to Motion to Dismiss.pdf
2008-10-14-Order on Defendant's Motion for Reconsideration.pdf
Fahmy.Motion.pdf
Fahmy.Chamber.pdf
Threat Source:
via Eric Goldman's blog
Updated 1/29/09 - VAF
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August 6, 2018, - 8:33 am
In Key Congressional Race, Vote Kerry Bentivolio v. Republican Liberal Pretenders
Tomorrow, August 7th, is Primary Election Day in Michigan, and even though most of you, my readers, do not live in Michigan, I need you to tell everyone you know who does to vote for Republican Congressman Kerry Bentivolio in the 11th Congressional District Republican Primary. The election will be close, and as someone who lost a primary for a Republican seat in the Michigan House of Representatives by JUST ONE VOTE!, I know more than anyone that every single vote counts and can make the difference. Internal polls by all of the leading candidates show that Kerry Bentivolio–my friend, client, and the only true conservative in the race–is neck and neck with the others. Very disheartening is that the other choices in the race are liberal pretenders with troubling histories and behavior, including one who was a close friend of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and another who is tight with Debbie Hezbollah Dingell.
If you vote or know anyone who lives and votes in Auburn Hills, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Canton Township, Clawson, Commerce Township, Farmington, Highland Township, Lake Angelus, Livonia, Lyon Township, Milford Township, Northville/Northville Township, Novi/Novi Township, Plymouth/Plymouth Township, Rochester Hills, South Lyon, Troy, Walled Lake, Waterford, West Bloomfield, White Lake Township, or Wixom, Michigan, please tell them to read the following about their choices in tomorrow’s Republican Primary for the 11th Congressional District:
Lena Epstein: Trust Fund Liberal Lena is not conservative, not even close. • Although she claims to be a Trump supporter, Trust Fund Liberal Lena NEVER donated a dime to the Trump campaign. The daughter of major liberal Democrat donors, she doesn’t actually live in the 11th Congressional District. But she and her family are close friends of the liberal Democrat Levin family, and she’s told people she decided not to run in the district where she lives because Andy Levin is running there to replace his father, uber-leftist Sander Levin, and they support him.
* Lena supports illegal alien amnesty and DACA: Lena, a shrieking harpy, has never done anything in her life. She works at the multi-million dollar business her liberal parents handed to her. She brags that she sits on her family’s foundation, the Epstein Family Foundation, but records of the foundation show that she and her family donated to several liberal
* Lena refused to donate to the Trump campaign for President because he was “too conservative.” Lena brags that she was the Michigan co-chair of the Trump campaign, but in fact, she only jumped on the Trump bandwagon after Donald Trump secured the nomination, and despite having access to zillions of her parents’ money, she never donated even one penny to Donald Trump’s campaign. Instead, she gave money only to liberal establishment Republicans Mitt Romney and David Trott. Her campaign donation records can be accessed here and here. If she’s such a supporter of President Trump, why didn’t she donate anything to his campaign for President? I’ve been in contact with the Trump White House, and there is a reason President Trump didn’t endorse her and is staying out of the race.
• Lena said Her Role Models Are Far-Left Liberal Democrats Debbie “Hezbollah” Dingell & Florine Mark, a major donor to the Democrat Party. Lena wrote on her own personal website (which she has since conveniently scrubbed) that Friend of the Clintons Florine Mark is her lifelong mentor. Mark is a financier and donor to many of the most far-left, destructive, anti-American interest groups and her WW Group was recently cited for discriminating against and firing pregnant women. Lena said: “I also admire Florine Mark. She’s been my mentor since 2008. She’s incredibly brave, incredibly sharp.” Florine Mark make a public point of taking her then-teenaged granddaughter to hang out with Bill Clinton while he was being impeached for lying under oath about sex with 21-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky. Mark and her daughter and son-in-law have donated money to pro-HAMAS summer camp, “Seeds of Peace,” and hosted a fundraiser in their home for HAMAS supporter Hatim Atallah.
Debbie Dingell refuses to denounce Islamic terrorist groups, including Hezbollah (her husband John Dingell said it is not a terrorist group), which murdered more Americans than any other terrorist group, other than Al-Qaeda. Lena said she’s close friends with Debbie Dingell on several appearances with her on FOX 2’s “Let It Rip.”
• Lena Supports Illegal Alien Amnesty & DACA and donates big money to liberal far-left organizations. Lena sits on the board of several organizations, including the ADL, which support illegal alien amnesty and DACA. Lena brags that she gives a lot to charity through the Epstein Family Foundation, which consists of her parents’ money. But the charity donates mucho bucks to liberal organizations like the ADL, which support Islamic extremists and illegal aliens and works with the Southern Poverty Law Center to pimp open borders and amnesty for illegals.
* Lena’s Temple is uber-liberal: Lena brags that she is a member of Temple Beth-El, a very liberal Reformed Jewish Temple. I know well about this joke of a “synagogue” because I once taught Sunday school there and quit in disgust. The Temple supports a host of far-left liberal causes, including gun control, and regularly hosts anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian speakers. If we rightly judged Barack Obama by his membership in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s racist church, Lena’s Temple is fair game.
• Lena Uses Jingoistic Slogans and NEVER GIVES SPECIFICS on what she really stands for because she is a liberal establishment member of the swamp. Lena constantly says Americans need to unite. But that’s liberal psychobabble. We don’t need to “unite” with those who want to take our money, our property, and our rights, in order to create a larger entitlement class for the Democrats.
Andre a/k/a Andrew “Rocky” Raczkowski, Puppet of Muslim Extremists and Buddy of Kwame Kilpatrick: Rocky was close buddies with Kwame Kilpatrick ever since they served in the Michigan Legislature and studied for the Bar together. Kwame passed for Rocky FAILED. He has a law degree, but after taking the Bar Exam, he repeatedly failed and cannot be a lawyer (despite having falsely represented himself as one). Rocky fundraised for Kwame’s run for Mayor.
* Rocky held a rally supporting Barack Obama and openly supports DACA and illegal alien amnesty Rocky spoke at and helped lead a liberal rally in favor of DACA and amnesty. He’s a phony when it comes to enforcing our borders.
* Rocky is a documented liar: An article from his own hometown newspaper documented that his campaign literature falsely said he was a lawyer, falsely claimed that he had a master’s degree from Central Michigan University, and that he was fighting in combat on the battlefields overseas, when, in fact, at the time, he had actually never left stateside. These are just some of the lies he’s told over the years.
• Rocky couldn’t even get his own fellow Republicans to elect him Speaker. They knew he was and is a liar and couldn’t be trusted. He lost several races—for the U.S. Senate, for Congress, for the State Senate. He is a perpetual candidate for office and loser who cannot get elected. WHERE’S THE MONEY? When Rocky ran for the U.S. Senate, something like $200,000 was unaccounted for and went missing. Did it go into Rocky’s pockets??? You cannot trust Rocky, who talks out of all sides of his mouth.
• When he ran for Congress, Rocky filed phony campaign reports in which almost all of his donors were listed as fictional donors, with names like“Frank Frank,” “David David,” and “Jill Jill.” Why was Rocky hiding the names of his donors?
• Rocky took thousands of dollars in campaign donations from Convicted Muslim Medicaid Defrauder Mohammad Qazi.
• Rocky eagerly accepted campaign donations from Hezbollah-linked gas station owner Jim Safieddine, whose relatives sit on the terrorist group’s governing council in Lebanon, and who is a major donor to the anti-American, pro-HAMAS/pro-Hezbollah Arab American PAC based in Dearborn. Hezbollah murdered over 300 American Marines and U.S. Embassy Officials. Rocky also took money from Al-Qaeda money-launderer Grover Norquist, a Muslim convert who openly supports jihadist groups.
• Why is Rocky certified as “Disabled Veteran” for business reasons and favorable deals? Rocky’s former military colleagues informed me that while he got himself nominated for medals, he was mostly a desk jockey in Africa giving out our money, NOT on the battlefield. But Rocky got the Small Business Administration and the U.S. Military to certify him as disabled. What is his disability? If it is a mental disability, how did he get that by giving away our money in Africa and not serving on the battlefield? Is his disability legitimate or fake and phony like everything else with Rocky? Rocky has had many alleged “companies” over the years, but he doesn’t actually seem to have a real business or job. He now claims to have a “logistics” company. Really? Who are the clients and what does it do, exactly?
Full Disclosure: I am currently representing Kerry Bentivolio in a defamation lawsuit against Rocky because, as stated in the complaint we filed, Rocky spit on Kerry’s military service as both a Vietnam and Iraq war vet (who was declared 70% disabled), claiming his military service and 27 medals and awards for his service are “fake.” The Judge ruled that the case will go forward and be heard by a jury. As also stated in the lawsuit and associated affidavits of witnesses, Rocky said enlisted men are not qualified to serve in Congress, a disgusting and outrageous statement, since everyone knows–even this daughter of a commissioned officer (my late dad was a Captain in the U.S. Army during Vietnam)–that enlisted men run and are the backbone of our Armed Services.
Congressman Kerry Bentivolio is the only true conservative choice in tomorrow’s election. He is one of the finest, most patriotic men I know. He served with class, dignity, and heroism not only in the U.S. Congress, but also in the U.S. Army on the battlefields of Vietnam and Iraq. In Congress, he had the second most conservative voting record and will be a reliable ally for President Trump. He was Trump before Trump. He also has a keen understanding for the jihadist forces we are fighting and is reliably pro-Israel. He served in Army intelligence and worked with Israeli Army (IDF) intelligence.
Please urge all of your friends and relatives in this district to vote for Kerry Bentivolio. Every vote counts. Even if they voted already, it is not too late to go back to the clerk’s office (but it must be done today) and vote a new ballot for Kerry Bentivolio, a true patriot and a great American I’m proud to know and represent.
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Debbie should be in the POTUS’ cabinet.
DS_ROCKS! on August 6, 2018 at 7:31 pm
If I lived in Michigan, I would totally displacing my vote for Mr. Bentivolio in today’s Congressional primaries for the GOP end, due to as Ms. Schlussel attributed on the column of his voting records, where he stands, and will be a beneficial aspect to President Trump in the post-Midterm elections.
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Alice Haig on August 13, 2018 at 7:51 am
Womp womp.
Lena Epstein on August 15, 2018 at 4:47 am
Which is how we get RINOs as “Republican” candidates nearly every time. It’s long overdue to have closed primaries in Michigan, but that won’t happen until enough grass roots precinct delegates win majority control of the party, statewide. (For those who haven’t been paying attention, that just happened in the 11th District.)
Denis Curran on August 20, 2018 at 3:33 pm
So…. who won?
There is NO Santa Claus (aka TINSC)
There is NO Santa Claus on August 15, 2018 at 10:04 pm
Lena Epstein on August 15, 2018 at 10:15 pm
Yeahhhhh, Billy Joel was right, we didn’t START the fire.
You can take Salem out of the country, BUT . . .
Alfredo from Puerto Rico on August 17, 2018 at 2:15 am
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mustang on August 20, 2018 at 6:38 am
I’m a loser baby… so why don’tcha kill me.
Kerry Bentivolio on August 21, 2018 at 11:47 pm
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is that you?
Ken B on August 22, 2018 at 9:54 am
I know what I’m about to note has nothing to do with this post and the Bentivolo campaign, but . . . the moment Senator John McCain died over the weekend, the first thing that came to my mind was Debbie’s writings of his support of the Muslim Brotherhood (specifically in Egypt and Syria) during Obama’s presidency – and his (and Mike Rogers’, John Boehner’s and Marco Rubio’s) beating up on then-Congresswoman Michele Bachmann for her asking legitimate questions about Huma Abedin’s Muslim Brotherhood ties, back in 2012. McCain did seem to have a streak of spitefulness that wasn’t just limited to Trump (think his Obamacare vote, last year).
Concerned Patriot on August 27, 2018 at 2:00 pm
They didn’t call him the RINO In Chief fer nuthin’.
Speaking of John McCain. I’ve written elsewhere about being a veteran and having distain for this man. The fact that the I hate President Trump leftists in the media are having glowing tributes about him is highly hypocritical considering how they treated him 10 years ago when he ran for president.
Amen, KenB, a nation loaded with lying, self-serving hypocrites.
Alfredo from Puerto Rico on August 29, 2018 at 10:03 am
Crickets here ….
removed bookmark.
Scott A. Kerby on September 6, 2018 at 4:35 pm
Womp womp…
Where’s Deb..?
Elberto from Guam on September 7, 2018 at 3:31 am
Like, uhhhh, maybe making a living? We all know she’s a one horse show. A little support and patience, maybe? Read the archives. The explosion of articles that preceded this silence proves Debbie’s alive and doing quite well. Let’s not forget The Feast of Trumpets begins sundown Sunday. Unless you’re happy she’s not around? That’s a horse of another color.
Alfredo from Puerto Rico on September 7, 2018 at 6:56 pm
Website dead
Some dude on November 2, 2018 at 11:03 am
Debbie’s still around. She’s scrubbing off all the comments questioning her absence. Maybe she tried to update her ten year old photoshopped photo on her website and it crashed trying to fit her all in.
Debbie Does Donuts on November 2, 2018 at 1:18 pm
FAT!
NoMoreMB on November 3, 2018 at 5:39 am
Hell,Ddd,she’s been cyberpogromed again,more effectively this time.
psmith on November 3, 2018 at 3:47 pm
You’ve been absent for some long time, Debbie. Your blog is approximately moribund.
Are you too busy, or have you given up the fight, or no opinion about anything anymore? Or what?
Pedric on November 5, 2018 at 8:57 pm
She quit because she got epxosed.
Another dude I on November 6, 2018 at 2:50 pm
Maybe she converting to Islam and becoming a nicer person,inshAllah.
Osama el Makhri on November 7, 2018 at 3:30 pm
A woman who converts to Islam hates herself. A man who converts to Islam hates women.
Anyone who converts to Islam has a defective personality. Or is mindless.
There’s no evidence your Allah exists, OeM, so your Insh has no reference.
And the Republican nominee, Lena Epstein–one of the Republicans that Debbie showed was a bad choice–goes on to lose to the Democrat Haley Stevens 52.1% to 44.9%.
If only the Michigan Republicans had listened to Debbie and voted for Kerry Bentivolio back on August 7 …
JeffE on November 7, 2018 at 9:46 pm
Allowing Florida ex felons dooms the USA.
We will only see Democrats winning in Florida.
The Koch brother have something to do with that.
madman on November 9, 2018 at 4:43 pm
Does Debbie enjoy poopcicles?
NoMoreMB on November 14, 2018 at 7:14 am
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gavron on November 18, 2018 at 6:22 am
Debbie dumpling
Please say you’re well
I’m heartbroken waiting for your
penetrating commentaries and
extraordinarily correct interpretations
of what is politically happening
in spite of the
Lying MSM published propaganda and
efforts to establish COMMUNISM in the only
Long term nation the world has ever seen
that attempted to have the people have
individual rights that were no subject to approval.
The rights of the people are greater than the State.
The State is created by the people.
The people cannot be subordinate to the state.
If you think differently,
join the democrat party
Join the COMMUNIST PARTY .
JayPee on November 27, 2018 at 9:40 pm
Debbie went silent after she got bannished from Twitter. Nobody goes on blogs anymore. Anyway if you get banned from social media than you are silenced. It’s like when mtv killed the radio star. Basically when MTV came around it was the new music platform. If you got on MTV you were an instant superstar. Radio play didn’t get you too far. Now social media killed the independent blogger like Debbie Schlussel. People went to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram. So you were or could be someone by having followers. So there was no need to blog. You can click and make a comment in 150 characters. Everything is consolidated. Debbie lost followers, had to go Twitter to get people to follow her blog. It didn’t work out. She got banned for some comment about some Star Wars charcter that passed. She was bannished for life. An electronic death penalty. Now her voice has been silenced by the cartel of Tech Giants. Now hopefully her life is much better and she doesn’t need the manipulation of social media for her affirmation.
Another Dude on November 30, 2018 at 12:04 am
Rumor has it Debbie converted to Islam. Just a rumor.
Her website is now political grafitti.
Some dude on November 27, 2018 at 10:07 pm
That is wonderful news.Allahu Akbar.
Osama el Makhri on December 4, 2018 at 4:57 pm
This site of Debbie’s used to be a source for conservative info but gradually devolved into a hate site. A source for bad movie reviews and ‘rest in hell’ obits. Came here today to see if she bashed Bush Sr.
Debbie, rest in…Detroit.
Rick on December 4, 2018 at 10:25 pm
Nicely put, Rick: Debbie,RID.
David Schlegel on December 5, 2018 at 4:55 pm
Happy Chanukah Debbie!! I miss you!!
Leslie Mickelson on December 4, 2018 at 11:05 pm
In order of probability:
1. Busy w/ lawyer work
2. Mozlems in Dearborn got to her
3. Got a bf
DS_ROCKS! on December 10, 2018 at 2:04 pm
DS Rocks–I think the probabilities should be reversed. She still is heard regularly on the Richard Dixon show, so that puts #2 out. As for lawyering, that in itself wouldn’t deter her. But #3 is, indeed, a strong possibility, and, in fact, would be my choice for the rationale for discontinuing this blog, at least temporarily. There are indications from little things she’s said on the Richard Dixon show that lead me to believe that Debbie’s in a serious relationship with someone. This is not to say that she won’t resume the blog again someday regardless of her new relationship.
Ralph Adamo on December 13, 2018 at 5:01 pm
Get on gab Debbie. We will follow you there.
Some dude on December 15, 2018 at 9:55 am
I think Debbie still at Fat Farm. she need lose weight try find husband but hard when 50 and fat and no good man out there that want crazy fat lady yell all day long about Muslim. so maybe then she can come back after find man can take care her . maybe find old man he die soon leave her money then she go back after he die to eat all day and scream about muslim.
zinc on December 15, 2018 at 9:03 pm
Any update on Hannity v Schlussel? He came over as very determined to give her ass a whupping in court. Maybe the case is taking up her time.
David Schlegel on December 17, 2018 at 2:26 pm
Over four months without a posting without telling why the abrupt blackout. Curious, indeed.
Debbie is angry…with us! She has her reasons, surely, but chooses to keep them to herself.
No expression of disappointment. No scolding. No farewell.
No explanation.
We’ve let her down, I sense; and her hurt runs deeply.
The extraordinary insight she’s treated us with and preternatural courage it’s often taken will be missed; and already have been missed.
Surely, her expectations weren’t for reciprocity in equal measure to what she’s given to us site visitors; but it seems she’s feeling let down, snubbed in some way.
I thank her, with apologies for my part in being unable to hold up my end of it.
G-d bless & G-dspeed, Debbie!
lee of the lower case "l" on December 19, 2018 at 4:20 am
@Lee, I am not blaming myself for Deadbeat Debbie. Yes I am mad and feel betrayed. She took us for granted. She took us for a real ride pulling our hair back and at the same time digging her spurs into our sides. She had a following. Now this page is tumbleweeds and crickets. She didn’t deserve her loyal followers. She can pound sand for all I care. Scwang Wang Wang.
Another dude on December 21, 2018 at 5:55 pm
didn’t;t you write about this before?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/muslim-doctor-fired-from-ohio-clinic-after-claiming-she-will-purposely-give-jewish-patients-wrong-medication/
Muslim Doctor Fired From Ohio Clinic After Claiming She Will Purposely Give Jewish Patients Wrong Medication
Austin on December 31, 2018 at 7:56 pm
Happy New Year Everyone.
Ken B on January 2, 2019 at 7:13 am
Ok I got a pop-up saying this is an unsecured site. This shit is infested. Enter at your own risk.
Some dude on January 2, 2019 at 2:58 pm
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MOSCOW BLOG: Capital flight figures to make your eyes water
By Ben Aris
Looking over Russia’s capital flight data, you could be driven to tears. Since 1994, when the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) started publishing capital flight data, a total of $581bn has left Russia as private sector outflows.
But what really makes the eyes water is that in the last decade and half there were only two years, 2006 and 2007, when there was a net inflow of capital. Those years were the height of Russia’s boom when Russian businessmen finally became optimistic about the future of the country: the $131bn that came home in those two years was only slightly less than the total of all the money that had left in the preceding decade, $156bn.
If the US crash had not started a global panic, if Russia had had a few more years of this level of inflows, then it is likely the changes would have gathered enough momentum to transform the country and bring it up to par with the developed world.
But the US did crash. Russia didn’t have very long in the sun. In 2008 a massive $133bn left — the same amount as all the money that had arrived in the previous golden years — and not only did the optimism evaporate, but one can imagine that those Russian investors foolhardy enough to bring their cash home have been scarred for life. In the following years between 2009 and the second quarter of this year, a total of $539bn has left the country, which includes an eye watering spike that was even bigger than the 2008 crash: $152bn fled in 2014 following Russia’s annexation of the Crimea that year. Capital flight has petered off in the last two years, but some $20bn is still leaving every year.
I’m taking Friday off—permanently
The challenge that President Vladimir Putin faces now is to recreate the atmosphere of optimism that prevailed from 2006-2007 so that his own businessmen want to bring their money home from its offshore havens and invest in Russia. The Kremlin is now trying the stick and carrot approach with Putin’s deoffshorisation laws vs things like a tax amnesty for returning flight capital. He has not convinced anyone yet. Russia doesn’t look stable enough. US sanctions are not going away. And the economy is effectively stagnating. As I have argued elsewhere, Russia is suffering from a crisis of confidence.
Some of the ideas the Kremlin has been throwing around recently – such as presidential advisor Andrei Belousov’s “super tax” suggestion – suggest the Kremlin will simply force the oligarchs to invest. In a meeting with Belousov in August the collected captains of industry agreed to invest $4.5bn, but that is a drop in the bucket compared to the $131bn that came by itself in the boom years. And that was ten years ago; if there was a another boom presumably the amount of returning flight capital could be multiple times higher.
Bloomberg ran a story this week entitled “US Sanctions Driving Russian billionaires Into Putin’s Arms” claiming that Russia’s top businessmen were moving their money back to the motherland. But the piece turned out to be controversial. Tim Ash, senior sovereign strategist at BlueBay Asset Management, said in an email to clients: “The data just does not show this. Look at private sector capital flow data from the CBR. It’s shows the opposite, private sector flight capital increasing, if anything.”
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CBR data shows that private capital outflows from Russia have fallen over the last year from $17.4bn for 1H18 versus $14.4bn in the same period one year earlier. This is according to data captured by the CBR on the balance of payments method of calculation and clearly the CBR does not see all the money flowing in and out of Russia. However, as its clean up of the banking sector continues one of the main goals has been to close down the “money chute” used by businessmen to whisk their earnings offshore undetected by the authorities. According to the central bank the amount of this money laundering has been massively reduced in the last few years.
It is very hard to get a clear picture of what is happening within the details of the capital flows. Certainly Putin’s deoffshorisation campaign has encouraged some oligarchs to bring their money home. In an interview with bne IntelliNews two years ago when the campaign was at its height Dmitri Mints, the CEO of the O1 real estate company, said he had seen hundreds of millions of offshore oligarch money flow into high-end Moscow real estate in the previous year.
But at the same time there are oligarchs that are more scared of a Kremlin appropriation than US sanctions and are sending money out in large amounts.
Russia capital flight (BoP $bn)
Source: CBR
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Biliana Voutchkova / Michael Thieke - Blurred Music (elsewhere 001-3) HD
Digital HD FLAC 24bit/96kHz
Digital HD FLAC files of the triple album 'Blurred Music' features a Berlin-based duo of Bulgarian violinist Biliana Voutchkova and German clarinetist Michael Thieke's three live performances recorded in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York in December 2016. Three separate files for downloading,Including front/back cover JPEG.
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elsewhere 001-3 (Disc 1 only)
Biliana Voutchkova / Michael Thieke - Blurred Music
Chicago (50:18)
recorded live on December 7, 2016 at Carr Chapel, Chicago
Philadelphia (40:09)
recorded live on December 14, 2016 at Aux Performance Space, Philadelphia
New York (1:09:59)
recorded live on December 15, 2016 at Experimental Intermedia, NYC
All compositions by Biliana Voutchkova and Michael Thieke
Biliana Voutchkova - violin, voice
Michael Thieke - clarinet
recorded live by Michael Thieke
mixed and mastered by Taku Unami
artworks by David Sylvian
design by Yuko Zama
liner notes by Michael Thieke and Biliana Voutchkova
produced by David Sylvian and Yuko Zama
executive produced by Jon Abbey
(p) (c) 2018 elsewhere music
The Berlin-based Bulgarian violinist Biliana Voutchkova and German clarinetist Michael Thieke have worked together intensely within both compositional and improvisational duo and group projects in Berlin since 2011.
In their current project “Blurred Music”, the duo works with musical structures that create a blur; improvised parts alternate with fields of pre-structured material in which digital recordings of the duo are duplicated by live performance. Virtually identical fragments of the live performance synchronize simultaneously with the playback, unavoidably giving rise to blur in the temporal dimension, in the rhythmic, timbral, and motivic variations, and in the microtonal interpretation of individual pitches. The live portion of the duplicated material is still improvised, but within a framework purposefully restricted by the pre-recorded material, the intervals between which are indeterminate. To the listener’s perception, what is being composed in real time blurs into what has been structured in advance; the difference can be registered only after an interval, if at all.
The triple CD 'Blurred Music' features three of the duo's live performances, recorded in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York during their USA tour in December 2016. These three live recordings are all differently structured, factoring in the conditions and the atmosphere of each venue as well as the musicians' own perspective and mindset. This series of three concerts, all occurring within a nine day period, showcase the very wide range of this duo, so all three recordings combine to form a saga of their peak. Using their highly trained virtuosic skills and intense concentration, the duo carefully deconstructs the conventional tones of instruments into fine particles in an organic flow, to create a completely new world of music on their own, somewhere between tonality and atonality, and will hopefully be recognized as one of the most mature accomplishments of improvisational/compositional works of this era.
PRODUCER'S NOTE
I first came to know these three live recordings of Blurred Music in January 2018 via David Sylvian, who discovered this duo's music several years ago and asked me and Jon Abbey if we were interested in releasing them as a triple CD from Erstwhile Records. Intrigued by the enthusiastic recommendation by Sylvian (who described this duo’s music as “something transcendent”), I listened to the whole set of three recordings twice in a row, and was completely entranced with the music. It was vibrant and dynamic music, while also containing some uniquely mysterious, contemplative silences throughout. The organic, spontaneous feel and the openness of the music initially made me assume that each piece was a result of an exquisite improvisation, but as I kept listening, I came to realize that all three performances were carefully structured interweaving composition and improvisation using the duo’s unique, extraordinary aesthetics. The balance between the two instruments was so delicately and carefully restrained within the classical compositional context. Each recording seems to have its own universe, but as a whole, all three seemed to form one epic piece or a saga, which moved me deeply every time I finished listening to them together. I understood perfectly why the musicians wanted to release these three live recordings as a triple CD, not just releasing one of them as a single CD.
Biliana Voutchkova's violin skills are remarkable, combining a strong core as a classically trained violinist with her free, adventurous spirit, navigating the music toward subtly balanced compositions, along with Michael Thieke's inventive, delicately nuanced multiphonic mastery of the clarinet. What fascinated me most was the translucent area where the two instruments and their pre-recorded materials (which I could not distinguish until the musicians explained to me, since all the sounds felt like they were happening live in the moment) moved along as one unified entity, sometimes on a razor-thin margin between tonality and atonality, while maintaining the naturalness and openness throughout in a similar way as improvisational music, which kept this music from falling into the rigidity of compositional structures. The way the duo developed the music on this thin line between the structure and the breathable open air was just so brilliant - an approach which made me feel like listening repeatedly. I believe that this trilogy of three live recordings is one of the most successful results of incorporating compositional and improvisational elements into one unified music.
Encountering this Blurred Music was the very reason why I decided to start my own label 'elsewhere', from which I can put out the music which truly moves me with its genuineness and timeless beauty, like this Voutchkova/Thieke's duo music does to me every time I listen to. (Yuko Zama)
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Residente Gears Up for Solo Tour
Published on June 7, 2017 in Music by Sharis Delgadillo
In less than two weeks, Puerto Rican hip-hop artist and activist René “Residente” Pérez Joglar will embark on his world tour for the first time as a solo artist, promoting his new album, Residente — his most ambitious project yet.
Residente’s self-titled solo debut album was released March 31 of this year.
This comes two years after he and former bandmate and step-brother Eduardo “Visitante” Cabra decided to leave Calle 13, the wildly successful musical duo which released five albums and earned the brothers 25 Grammys and 10 years of sold-out shows that put Puerto Rico on the urban-music map.
Residente’s concept for the latest album is based on the findings of his genetic composition. After taking two DNA tests, Residente took off around the world to collaborate with musicians from the areas of his ancestry: Siberia, the Caucasus, China, West Africa and, of course, Puerto Rico.
He integrates traditional tribal sounds from remote mountains, small villages, Chinese opera and European cathedral organs, introducing to his listeners a newfound sense of connectedness and human origin. Not too far removed from his politically charged, sexually explicit and humorously sarcastic lyrics, Residente’s verses bring a more reflective and profound tone to his album, including a revelation about his family ties with Hamilton’s Tony award-winning writer, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Dabbling in the world music genre, Residente may risk speculation from some of his fans or gamble away a future Latin Grammy category nomination. Yet, this album is an outstanding testament for maturing urban artists to allow themselves the freedom to delve and evolve globally and masterfully regardless of skepticism and industry pressures.
Like most burgeoning front men, it’s no surprise the 39-year-old Residente reached a point in his career that demanded he take center stage with a new “all immigrant” band full of talented guitarists, percussionists and vocals backing him. They’ll be kicking off the tour on June 17 with his huge fan base in Mexico City. Then he’s off to Europe, several major U.S. cities, and South America.
This past March, Residente gave a set of sneak-peek performances at the 2017 South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas. Full of energy, alluring power, and unfiltered political statements on the current state of affairs in the United States, along with his advocacy for an independent Puerto Rico, he left thousands of hardcore fans screaming for more.
And they will get more.
This summer Netflix will release the accompanying feature-length musical documentary, Residente. As Residente’s directing debut, the film was beautifully filmed as he went around the world collaborating with musical artists and communing with tribesmen, soldiers and war orphans in remote and exotic places. However, there are moments of ambiguity as he struggles to balance between leading as the protagonist and providing meaningful context to so many countries and musicians.
Nonetheless, the documentary adds profound depth to his album.
His directing ventures do not stop there.
From his album, he also directed the music videos for his hit singles, “Desencuentro” and “Somos Abnorables,” featuring actor John Leguizamo. Residente also recently posted pictures with Hollywood elite actor Benicio Del Toro and Academy Award-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu.
A great chat about music, art, Film and Puerto Rico with my homie Benicio del Toro before dinner. pic.twitter.com/0afBBdUreE
— Residente (@Residente) March 23, 2017
Tremenda charla junto a este amigo y maestro Alejandro González Iñárritu. It was Great to chat with this friend and master 🙏 pic.twitter.com/DVjjkazItV
Can we expect Residente to take on more directing projects in the future? Let’s wait and see.
Meanwhile, with Residente hitting the road promoting his new album, it’s a wonder he was able to find time in his busy schedule to participate in the Puerto Rico’s national strike on May 1 and meet with recently released Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera.
Un honor haber compartido con este gran ser humano. Luego de 35 años en prisión, Oscar López Rivera es libre 🇵🇷🙏🏽🔥 pic.twitter.com/D9Hd6z6koS
— Residente (@Residente) May 17, 2017
Considering the upcoming referendum on the political status of a bankrupt Puerto Rico on June 11, there is no doubt Residente will be fueled up with powerful messages for his upcoming tour — whether you agree with him or not.
Featured image: Residente performs at South by Southwest 2017 in Austin, Texas (Sharis Delgadillo)
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La osadía de Rosselló, otro Ícaro entre tantos, de aspirar a elevaciones que superan por mucho
"El compositor en mí quería sentir miedo otra vez".
"The people of Puerto Rico can not suffer because of the irresponsibility of this so-called leadership."
Sharis Delgadillo
Sharis Delgadillo is a storyteller, activist and multi-platform content producer with experience in broadcast journalism and communications humanizing diverse voices and championing U.S. Latino narratives towards more inclusive portrayals. Sharis has more than 10 years of experience in media including a master's degree in broadcast journalism from USC with unique reporting experience in Israel and South Africa. She recently covered the Democratic National Convention, Sundance Film Festival, and South by South West, and developed communication campaign strategies for legislative reforms.
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Life is great, books make it GRAND!
Seven Days by: Cristina Bruni - Release w/Review
Amazon US | Amazon UK | JMS Books
During a golf tournament in Virginia, American golfer Reggie Weston meets Russell Lee, the British former world champion in the sport. The two men hit it off when Russell takes Reggie under his wing, teaching him the tricks of the game.
As their friendship deepens, Reggie finds himself falling in love with the Englishman, though he knows Russell doesn’t feel the same. He’s painfully aware of the fact that Russell isn’t gay.
But there’s more to Russell than meets the eye. He’s a troubled soul, plagued by monsters in his head telling him who he should be. He’s spent most of his life hiding his sexuality from the world so he won’t disappoint his homophobic mother.
Is seven days enough time for Russell to break through the years of hurt and accept the new direction fate has in store for him and Reggie?
What a wonderfully written book! It’s sweet and the characters are so likable.
Reggie, poor Reggie, he’s so focused on golf and making it big and trying to make money at something he loves that he puts all personal stuff to the side. That is until he’s at the first tournament of his life. All his idols are there. But especially Russell Lee! He has respected Russell forever and has wanted to meet him forever. After a rough meeting, things go better and Reggie already half loves him.
Russell has a girlfriend and being the famous golf winner, he’s in the public eye quite a bit. Basically, his girlfriend is a stand in. What he wants he can’t have. No one in his life would understand. He meets Reggie and the monsters in his head come back to life and start screaming at him that what he is, it’s wrong.
Will these two be able to find their way? How will Russell fight his monsters? It’s not gonna take long for Reggie to fall completely in love with Russell, is he going to get his heart broken?
The writing in this book is great! Especially for anyone that doesn’t like a lot of dirty talk or words. Cristina has a way of explaining what’s going on without having to get really dirty. It kinda feels like a historic romance but it’s totally not but it’s refreshing in that way. Kinda old school I guess. I LOVED it!!!
The story is wonderful, the characters are amazing and the writing is excellent.
The Englishman beat him at pool, winning both matches. Reggie wasn’t upset, though, as every moment of their evening together was delicious. Everything apart from the beers Russell drank one after another, until he got so drunk, Reggie decided it was time to return to the resort.
“Tomorrow you have a tournament to win,” Reggie reminded him, pulling him out of the bar with difficulty. The silvery rays of the smiling moon lit the boardwalk, giving it a magical atmosphere.
“I won’t win any tournament tomorrow,” the Englishman murmured, gritting his teeth as he stopped in the middle of the road.
Reggie pushed him across the same moment a car zoomed by, blaring music.
“If you don’t rest a little, you won’t win anything,” he admonished, like a brother. Then he nervously massaged his cheek. He wasn’t accustomed to feeling it covered with hair.
“You can’t wait to shave?” Russell asked.
“No, no. It’s just that…I’m not used to it. But do I look good, at least?” he wanted to know.
The Englishman chuckled. “I already told you I won’t answer until tomorrow.”
A second later Reggie found himself holding car keys. “And these?” he asked, giving them an interrogative look.
“You drive, if you want us both to play tomorrow,” the Englishman said.
“Oh…okay,” Reggie stuttered, as if it was the first time he saw a car key in his life.
Russell fell into the passenger side seat and completely opened the window, putting his elbow out, then resting his head on it. He remained in that position until they reached the resort.
From time to time, the notes of the Nickelback rock song “How You Remind Me” cradling them both, Reggie gave him admiring looks. His long hair, now free, danced in the wind. The way he sat made the veins in his neck tense like cords, and Reggie stared at his strong profile, his long, light eyelashes…
God, what he would do to lay his lips on that face and give it little kisses?
They stopped at a traffic light just before reaching the resort. Reggie kept his eyes fixed on the red light, because they had already strayed too much to Russell’s face.
“What was your parents’ reaction when you told them?”
Reggie turned, surprised. Russell had spoken without moving a muscle, apart from his lips.
“Told them what?” “That you’re gay.”
Oh, that…
“Not much,” Reggie explained with a chuckle. “My father pretended to be upset for less than ten minutes and then he hugged me. Mom told me she was a little sorry because she wouldn’t have any grandchild to take care of, but she could accept it if I didn’t bring home too many buff guys.” It was clear that binge drinking was making Russell ask strange questions…
Sitting back, Russell started, “When Daniel, the friend I told you about, came out…”
They entered the tree-lined resort path and Reggie hung on every word, waiting for Russell to finish his sentence.
“…my mother ordered me not to go out with him anymore. She told me she thanked God I wasn’t like him, or I could never return home.”
Reggie stopped the car in surprise. “Shit, Russell,” popped out of his mouth.
The Englishman gave him an inscrutable look.
“I mean,” Reggie continued, lightning his tone, “I don’t want to seem rude, but it’s just that…well, it seems your mother is a little, well…”
“Harsh?” Russell asked ironically.
“Let’s say that,” he agreed, driving again.
He’d have liked to add a thousand other things and ask more, but he felt scared. Russell had just given up a part of himself, a little window into his past that maybe not everybody knew, and Reggie felt intimidated. He wanted to know more, but at the same time, he feared reopening old wounds that needed to heal.
“I’m sorry,” was all he said. “Me, too.”
They parked behind the cabana and Reggie helped Russell get out of the car.
“I’m fine,” Russell murmured. “No,” Reggie said, “you’re drunk.”
Russell tried walking on his own but stumbled on the sidewalk as soon as he stepped onto it.
“Okay, maybe it’s better if you help me, Weston.” Supporting Russell, Reggie slid an arm around his side.
His body was warm against Reggie’s, and he hugged Russell in a sort of leaning embrace. It was a delicious sensation, and for a moment, Reggie dreamed of what it would feel like to Russell him again and again, maybe on a frigid winter afternoon in front of a fireplace, or on a hot summer night on the beach.
They passed in front of the tiki bar without caring what others might think. From the speakers around the pool blared Eminem’s hit song, “The Monster.”
At the door to Russell’s cabana, he searched his pockets to find his keycard. When he tried to insert it, he missed. He tried again, but he was too drunk. Finally he gave up and handed the keycard to Reggie without looking over. Reggie followed the silent order, like a good little soldier.
The cabana greeted them with silent darkness, lit only by the rays of the setting sun that shown through the open door.
Again, there was no trace of Danielle, not even her perfume lingering in the air.
Russell threw himself on the bed and toed off his shoes. “Do you hear this music, Reggie?” he whispered, rolling onto his back.
Reggie had remained by the door, not sure what to do. Go or stay? His mind suggested he leave, but his heart wanted to stay.
“Yeah, it’s Eminem,” he answered, putting his hands in his pockets.
“Open the window a little, please. I want to hear the words.” Reggie obeyed, closing the door and opening the window.
A light breeze roused him, adding melancholy to melancholy.
At the window, Reggie studied the bar and swimming pool, because looking at Russell, drunk and lying in bed, was unbearable.
Unbearable and wonderful.
Cristina Bruni lives in northern Italy with her husband and their child. She’s already published many M/M novels in Italy with Triskell Rainbow publisher. Since she was a young girl, her biggest wishes were being a mother and an author and now, after fighting for it for years, she finally succeeded in both. She loves travelling abroad, going to the cinema, reading Sherlock Holmes, luxury bags and playing tennis and golf. She’s madly USA-sick and UK-sick.
She made her debut writing fanfictions and, now, her new wish would be writing love Male-to-Male stories for the rest of her life and living on a beach in Hawaii.
Maybe dreams will come true again, sooner or later...
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Transfer Rumours: Cancelo in City Talks, Man Utd Eye Ben Yedder, West Ham Bid for Rondon & More
Manchester better strap themselves in for this one, as both City and United feature heavily in today’s edition of #dagoss.
We’ve coughed up a few of the hottest stories from around the continent to whet your appetites at least until, well, 24 hours later.
Put the kettle on, get comfy and enjoy the day’s transfer rumours, courtesy of none other than yours truly.
Manchester City & Juventus in London for Talks Over Joao Cancelo
Since neither Manchester nor Turin were deemed respectable places to discuss the future of Joao Cancelo, representatives from both sides have instead sought to thrash out a deal in the English capital.
Pep Guardiola has made the right back slot his number one priority this season, and a £44m move is now being discussed the bring the Portuguese to the Etihad. Tutto Mercato Web claim Juventus’ sporting director Fabio Paratici flew to London to meet with City, where a five-year-deal is being spoken about, presumably at a rather fancy restaurant.
A deal appears to be edging ever closer, and could well mean Danilo will finally seal a move away from the club, after having had one foot in Milan for what feels like an age now.
Manchester United Set Sights on Ben Yedder as Romelu Lukaku Nears Exit
Yes, United are in fact not first on the list today! However, don’t fret Red Devils fans, they’ll feature again before the end.
With Lukaku moving closer to the United exit door by the day, one of the few certainties in the club’s transfer plans is that they would need to sign an adequate replacement. Well, they might have found their man, if the Mirror are to be believed, as the club consider a swoop for Sevilla striker Wissam Ben Yedder.
That said, in order for any move to take place (which France Football, via ABCdeSevilla, claim would need to be £36m), Lukaku and his team need to shift themselves into gear and get going, or else its all square at Old Trafford.
Bruno Fernandes’ Agent Flies to England to Meet Premier League Duo
Portuguese publications have (yet again) issued a further development on the future of Sporting CP’s Bruno Fernandes. This time, O Jogo, relayed by Sport Witness, are claiming that the Fernandes’ agent Miguel Pinho is going to fly to England to hold talks with United and Tottenham, with ‘important developments’ to take place.
It’s a story that’s been rumbling on for some time now, with hopefully some clarification on any proposed deal to come to light in the coming days. That said, the publication does state that no bids have been lodged for the midfielder.
As is, the 24-year-old is still due to link up with his teammates on 4 July. I think we’d all be happy if this one just moved on and come to some sort of solution, regardless of what unfolds.
West Brom Reject Hammers’ Cash-Plus-Players Bid for Rondon
Oh Newcastle, poor, poor Newcastle.
The club are at one of their lowest points in recent years, and their top scorer of last season has more chance of re-joining them than Mike Ashley has of shifting 20kg by next week.
Such is the club’s situation that West Ham have sought to capitalise and sign the Salomon Rondon from under their noses. The Mirror speculate that the £10m bid included fringe players Sam Byram and Jordan Hugill but was knocked back by the Baggies – with the midlands outfit holding on for nearer £16.5m.
Manuel Pellegrini is keen to be reunited with the striker, whom he managed at Malaga, and would act as a direct replacement for the departing Andy Carroll. Currently away for the Copa America, Rondon looks like hot property in what is set to be another bonkers summer of Premier League spending.
Manchester City ‘Ahead’ of Napoli in Race for Everton
No, not that Everton. The one who is tearing it up in Brazil for both his club side Gremio and the national squad at the Copa America.
Rumours linking the forward to City had come almost exclusively from Brazil, but now the Italian press have had their say with Radio Mars (via Calcio Napoli 24) claiming that Everton has been offered to Napoli for €35m. It is a move the Serie A side are supposedly weighing up.
However, the report goes on to suggest that the Citizens are still ‘ahead’ of Carlo Ancelotti’s side despite, as aforementioned, the only rumours coming out of his native country. An exciting prospect no doubt, but a Raheem Sterling, Leroy Sane, Bernardo Silva and Riyad Mahrez replacement? Hmm, not too sure.
Torino hold Armando Izzo Talks to Fend Off Arsenal & Everton
Yes, this time it is that Everton.
Gianluca Di Marzio is stating that both Arsenal and the Toffees are ‘ready to present’ a £25m bid for Italian central defender Izzo, prompting the club to hold talks with the players’ agent Urbano Cairo about his future.
The 27-year-old enjoyed a fine debut season for the Turin outfit, scoring four goals in 37 league appearances and earning his first international call-up this year.
But, regardless of Premier League interest, Cairo has made it clear his client is not for sale. Therefore, talks with Torino’s president looks likely to only be based extending his contract. Which, well, puts an end to that before Arsenal and Everton fans go on YouTube for his highlights reel and start waxing lyrical.
Martin Odergaard Weighing Up Loan Options Ahead of New Season
That’s right, he still exists, and he’s still on Real Madrid’s books.
Nevertheless, they still want to ship him off for the coming season with Bayer Leverkusen and Real Sociedad the two interested parties. It seemed as though a move to the Bundesliga was set to happen, but the Spanish side’s proposition has attracted the Norwegian’s attentions, claim the Daily Mail.
Los Blancos would favour a move to Leverkusen, who are in the Champions League, while the 20-year-old is supposedly caught in two minds.
Let’s be fair, though, he ain’t going back to Madrid, so only the truly foolish would turn down Champions League football over Spanish mid-table mediocrity. But hey, it is warmer over there.
Number of Clubs Eyeing Fernando Llorente
Despite now being 34-years-old, that hasn’t stopped a number of clubs across Europe holding an interest in the Spurs striker, who looks increasingly likely to leave north London this summer.
Great news for him, however, is that both Milan clubs, Roma, Galatasaray and Athletic Bilbao are keeping tabs on the Spaniard according to A Bola.
Clearly his contribution during Spurs’ Champions League campaign did the trick, and few Tottenham fans would wish anything but good luck to the forward, despite finding the back of the net only 13 times in 65 outings.
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Stories from Monday, August 17, 2015
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Dugger - Crews responded to another fire that erupted in an unoccupied house that sits on property owned by a local mining operation. Union Fire Protection Territory responded around 1 p.m. Sunday to a fire on SR 159 just north of its intersection with Sullivan County CR 500S near Dugger, on property that Sullivan County 911 Dispatch staff said was owned by Bear Run Mine.....
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Florence Elizabeth Brewer (Obituary ~ 08/17/15)
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Lane switch scheduled for SR 54 construction project in Linton (Local News ~ 08/17/15)
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Rosemary Therese Witt (Obituary ~ 08/17/15)
Rosemary Therese Witt, 95, of Farmersburg, Indiana passed away at 3:27 p.m. Saturday, August 15, 2015 in Brownsburg Healthcare, Brownsburg, Ind. She was born June 28, 1920 in Terre Haute, Ind to George Lewis and Elizabeth (Farrell) Lewis. Rosemary married Edward Witt, Sr. on April 6, 1942 and he passed away on July 10, 1995...
WRV School Board approved Teachers Contract, increases base pay (Local News ~ 08/17/15)
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Worthington's new water tower expected to be online end of November (Local News ~ 08/17/15)
During their regular monthly meeting last week, the Worthington Town Council learned construction on a new water tower to serve town residents is progressing according to schedule. Michelle Carrico of SIDC (Southern Indiana Development Commission) attended the meeting to report on the progress of the water tank project and the possibility of applying for a grant to pay for projects at the park...
Going, going, gone: Final "You'll Like Linton" sign sold at auction (Local News ~ 08/17/15)
LINTON -- The final auction for the former east side "You'll Like Linton" sign wrapped up on Saturday, August 15 and brought in $2,650 for the You'll Like Linton Sign Committee. The sign was sold to Dana Drake of PDQ Rentals in Linton. Janette Evans of the You'll Like Linton Sign Committee said Drake plans on housing the former east side sign at his business on the west side of Linton...
Bloomfield's graduation rate is in top 3 in the state (Local News ~ 08/17/15)
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Local Sports scores, August 17 (High School Sports ~ 08/17/15)
Monday night's area scores Volleyball Linton-Stockton def. Monrovia, 3-0 Barr-Reeve def. Eastern Greene, 3-0 Terre Haute South def. Bloomfield, 3-0 Girls Golf South Knox def. Linton-Stockton 187-208 Boys Tennis Vincennes Lincoln def. Linton-Stockton, 5-0...
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Stories from Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Eastern can’t handle Barr-Reeve serves, falls in three sets (High School Sports ~ 08/15/17)
LITTLE CINCINNATI -- Visiting Barr-Reeve exploited Eastern’s serve receive errors Monday night to whip the Lady Thunderbirds in three sets. Eastern fell 13-25, 5-25, 11-25 as the Lady Vikings jumped out to huge advantages in each set, leading 14-6 in the first set, 13-3 in the second, and 14-4 in the third. Eastern coach Whitney Russell said her players needed to do a better job of returning the ball...
The Linton Police Department responded to 10 incidents for service Tuesday, including one extra patrol, one fingerprinting, one harassment, one interview, one juvenile complaint, one property damage not accident, one suspicious activity, one title check, one traffic stop and one welfare check...
State Treasurer announces INvestABLE plan (Local News ~ 08/15/17)
July 27, 2017- Indiana State Treasurer Kelly Mitchell announced the launch of tis INvestABLE Indiana Savings Plan. The plan was made possible by the passing of the ABLE Act of 2014. IT allows the creation of tax-advantaged savings accounts for individuals with disabilities to save for their future, and pay for disability related expenses without endangering access to vital public benefits. ...
INDOT improves ramps in Bloomfield (Local News ~ 08/15/17)
Cohen Firestone (Obituary ~ 08/15/17)
Cohen Firestone, stillborn, opened his eyes for the first time on Aug. 9, 2017, seeing the face of Jesus. The son of Reid L. and Deidra A. (Drake) Firestone of Sandborn, Cohen was born on Aug. 9, 2017 in Indianapolis. Cohen is survived by his parents, Reid and Deidra Firestone; maternal grandparents, Eric Drake of Farmersburg and Shauna (Mark) Mahurin of Oaktown; paternal grandparents, Rob and Dayna Firestone of Linton; maternal great-grandmother, Sue Drake-Runyan of Farmersburg; paternal great-grandmother, Gloria Hardisty of Linton; maternal aunt, Whitley (Brett) Roessler of Sullivan; paternal uncle, Brandon (Meredith) Firestone of Odon; paternal aunt, Kelsey (Jarrod) Jones of Linton and several cousins.. ...
Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship open (Local News ~ 08/15/17)
The Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship opened this week. The scholarship will be available to high school seniors, graduating in 2018, from any Greene County high school or residing in Greene County. Applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 19. The application will be available online at the Greene County Foundation website, www.greenecountyfoundation.org...
Lady Miners win opener at Monrovia (High School Sports ~ 08/15/17)
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»Come, Stanley, let’s find the story!« On the Ludic and the Narrative Mode of Computer Games in The Stanley Parable
Author: Michelle Herte
[published in: IMAGE 23 (Ausgabe Januar 2016)]
The concept of multimodality, originating from social semiotics, appears to be a very promising one for computer game research, as the relatively new medium employs many different modes on many different levels. This quality of computer games may even be a main reason for the difficulties of digital game studies to properly define their object, prominently exemplified by the notorious dispute between ludologists and narratologists. By now there is the consensus that the terms narrative and ludic do not define computer games as such, but rather describe two of many modes which coexist in most games and are generally of equal importance (cf. NEITZEL/NOHR 2010: 419), just as the modes of human communication are described as coexisting and equal by social semiotics (cf. KRESS 2010).
While the respective forms and functions of the ludic as well as the narrative mode have already been discussed elsewhere (cf. THON 2007), this paper focuses on the self-reflexive potential of their specific combination and conflation as it is applied in The Stanley Parable (Galactic Café, 2013). This game is implicitly built upon the aforementioned consensus and the conflict that preceded it, as it exposes the problematic combination of coherent narration with a player’s freedom of choice. It takes advantage of the different levels of representation and interpretation involved in playing computer games (cf. SCHRÖTER/THON 2014) to put common ludic and narrative game conventions into the guise of the respective other mode, thus undermining player expectations as well as challenging player behavior. I discuss those self-reflexive operations using two prominent examples from the game that present, firstly, a narrative ending sequence in disguise of an (insoluble) ludic challenge in the game’s countdown room, and, secondly, a parody of the often used promise of narratively relevant player choice in the player-avatar’s presumed quest for the game’s story. Both sequences highlight different functions of the narrative and the ludic mode, while making them blur into one another on the edges between the game’s representation and the player’s interpretation.
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Battle lines drawn in media row with English leagues
LONDON,August 4,2011- Negotiations over a new match coverage agreement between English-based media organizations on one side and the Premier League and Football League on the other have broken down – with the start of the new domestic season a mere days away.
Media groups, including newspapers, magazines and websites, have long been irritated by restrictions on coverage which, they considered, not only contravened conventions about press freedom but did not respond to the have of technological change.
The bureaucratic demands on media representatives over match access has long been an increasing source of irritation to continental news organizations.
Several European sports journalists' associations, which enjoy a much greater input into media match access, have been studying whether to bar English media from their domestic-match press tribunes in retaliation.
Confusion has also been evident among some clubs whose media officers have sought – against UEFA regulations – to refuse European match accreditation requests in the grounds that certain journalists and/or photographers do not hold the English leagues' licence. The licence does not apply to UEFA matches.
The latest, long-overrunning round of talks broke down on Wednesday, leaving English football/media relations in free fall ahead of the start of the new Football League season this weekend and the Premier League at the end of next week.
A News Media Coalition spokesman said that the leagues' "unexpected withdrawal" from talks had been followed by a unilateral attempt to impose "highly restrictive limits on the use of news content produced at football grounds."
The NMC statement added: "They run to 16 pages of legal constraints, which among other things include league controls on how and when news can be published online – and how news material can be distributed to fans at home and overseas. In many instances they also require users of content to obtain and pay for permission from the Leagues for their coverage."
It said that a claim from the English league that discussions are ongoing "is inaccurate. The talks are not ongoing, they have broken down. The Leagues have refused to even consider the latest proposals and seek to impose last year's terms by default.
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‘iZombie’ 1.02 Episode Recap and Review: Brother, Can You Spare A Brain
by rennlark
in Featured, TV, TV Reviews
A new iZombie means a new Murder of the Week! This week, our murder victim/afternoon snack is Javier Abano, a prolific local artist who’s known for his colorful nudes and his affairs with his models. He’s found by his wife, Lola, and his best friend/art dealer, Artie (you’d think he would have started going by “Arthur” when he got into the art business, but no). When our heroes arrive on scene, we’re told that Javier was between 6 and 7 pm by having a paintbrush driven into his eye. (Yes, I made the “he had an eye for art” joke. No, I don’t regret it.) Detective Babineaux is rather convinced that Lola was the one responsible. After all, it’s always the wife.
Further supporting Clive’s claim is Liv’s post-snack vision of Javier having an affair and being discovered by someone off-screen. When Babs and Liv go to talk to Lola about it, Javier’s mistress is already there. Lola introduces her as Tasha, her “favorite of Javier’s lovers.” Javier and Lola had an open marriage and she was well aware of his other lovers. This puts a bit of a dent in the spouse theory. Besides, Ravi discovers that the angle of the paintbrush would put Javier’s killer at around 6’2. While Tasha is rather tall, Lola is right at Liv’s height.
Artie, however, is right at 6’2, intensely loyal to Lola, and her alibi for the evening, as they were at dinner together when the murder happened. He points Babs towards the slew of angry ex-boyfriends of Javier’s various models. It sounds like a good lead, especially when another vision shows that the person walking in on Tasha and Javier was Tasha’s ex, Tito. They bring Tito in for an interview, during which Liv is flirting HARD. Tito tells them that Javier dumped Tasha for Becca, Artie’s 18-year-old daughter.
Babs takes Liv and Ravi to Javier’s posthumous art showing/wake in order to see if Liv flashes on anything. An almost violent encounter with Tito in Javier’s private studio leads Liv to a vision of Javier and Becca having an ultrasound. Javier was going to leave Lola in order to start a family with the pregnant Becca. Liv is calling Artie out on it when Ravi realizes something that should probably have been noticed by the crime scene experts from the get-go: Javier’s killer could have been standing on the stoop, which would bring someone about Liv’s height up to 6’2. Babs was right the whole time. The wife DID do it!
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Jenn is a contributing writer for FanBolt.com. Having been raised Geek Orthodox, Jenn has a love of most things sci-fi. Thanks to Georgia Tech, she also has an honest appreciation for the “sci” as well as the “fi”. Her current favorite shows include, but are not limited to: Doctor Who, Being Human, Sleepy Hollow, and various Joss Whedon offerings.
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Barbara McCullough – Shopping Bag, Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space Wed 6 January 2016
Exhibition screening
Wed 6 January 2016
6.30pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema
Book online / 0141 352 4900
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Giles Bailey & Jeremiah Day
Fri 13 November 2015 — Sun 10 January 2016
Photo credit: Roderick Kwaku Young. Pictured: Maren Hassinger (left), Senga Nengudi (centre), David Hammons (right) from Senga Nengudi’s performance Freeway Fets included in “Shopping Bag Spirits…..”
As part of the events programme for Giles Bailey and Jeremiah Day’s exhibition, CCA will be screening Barbara McCullough’s Shopping Bag, Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space.
Chosen by Jeremiah Day, the film explores the practice of nine Los Angeles based artists reflecting on ritual in their life and art.
Jeremiah Day’s practice focuses on moments of memory or resistance, often interweaving stories from his family and friends or local realities with geopolitical tensions and historical incident. His dynamic performance style sees him crawling, running, dancing, falling and singing, relaying his thoughts and opinions and recollecting personal anecdotes. Aiming to develop a further dialogue around performance practice, political moments, improvisation, public space and the history of artists of colour in America, this screening will be accompanied by a short introduction by Assistant Curator Ainslie Roddick.
About the film:
Shopping Bag, Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space
Barbara McCullough, USA 1981, video, 60 min
Featuring: David Hammons, Betye Saar, Houston and Kinshasha Conwill, N’Senga Nengudi, K. Curtis Lyle, Ojenke, Kamaau Da’oud and Kenneth Severin
Artist David Hammons discusses the role of chance and improvisation in his work while working on sculpture on a waste site while N’Senga Nengudi talks about staging her performances in freeway underpasses. Spanning everything from performance to spoken word, environmental sculpture to music, each artist talks about how ritual and cultural traditions inform their work. This experimental essay intercuts interviews, documentation and photographs with the music of Don Cherry, seeking to adjust the criteria and language used to talk about artists of colour.
Barbara McCullough was one of the key figures bridging visual arts and cinema at UCLA, experimenting with film and video to create a unique body of work fusing her interest in performance and ritual with feminist and post-colonial theory. The influential experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke taught video workshops at UCLA and inspired a range of artists such as McCullough and Ben Caldwell to explore new technology. Shopping Bags is a result of these varying influences whose inventive form matches it’s expansive and far reaching inquiry.
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Witcher 3-Part 3 ( Expansion Edition)
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Re: Witcher 3-Part 3 ( Expansion Edition)
by Freeza on Sat Sep 08, 2018 4:56 pm
Hopefully Martin Csokas can get a solid role in this. Would love for him to be Vesemir or one of the other Witcher’s.
by RealGunner on Sat Sep 08, 2018 4:59 pm
Hugh Jackman would have been a great Geralt
RealGunner
by M99 on Sat Sep 08, 2018 5:06 pm
@RealGunner wrote: Don't really care about Ciri that much to be bothered by it.
You're out of luck, the series will revolve around her.
Making her non white would mean either making the Cintran royal family, elves or Emhyr non white. Needlessly complicates things especially since Geralt connects with her because of how they share similar features.
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@RealGunner wrote: Hugh Jackman would have been a great Geralt
Hugh Jackson wouldn’t have been a great anything
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by Great Leader Sprucenuce on Sat Sep 08, 2018 5:12 pm
@rincon wrote: Who cares? Why is it important?
In the books she's basically the main character, to explain all the things she is and why it's complete bullshit would take some time.
I genuinely can't think of another Series or Film which changed the ethnicity of a main character just because.
Imagine if they did this for any of the main characters in GOT? yeah....
@Freeza wrote:
He is twice the actor Cavill is, sit down.
@M99 wrote:
Tbf RG only doesn't care because of how badly CDPR characterised here in Witcher 3. She's a lot better in the books, if he had read them i suspect he would feel differently about her.
by rincon on Sat Sep 08, 2018 5:16 pm
@Myesyats wrote:
Who cares? Like, almost everyone? The Witcher is depicting Slavic culture which has no connection with the black culture. It'd be harder for me to get immersed in the world.
It's almost like a white guy played the lead in Black Panther
What black culture? lol if a black girl gets cast as X character she doesn't bring "black culture" with her to the show. The show creators determine everything about the show they are making, she can be the exact same character and be blond, brunette, red haired, black, or green. We are cool with cat-eyed white haired superhumans, elves and monsters but dark skinned girl breaks immersion.
Henry Cavill isn't slavic though. #NotMyGeralt
Hugh Jackman wouldn’t have been a great anything
20 years older and he’s got the worst filmography for an actor who seems to be regarded that highly. Prisoners is the only role I’ve really liked him in.
Most overrated actor of his generation.
I have no opinion of Cavill but i doubt Jackson would be good tbh, he might have the look in some way but i have a hard time seeing him playing the role character wise.
@Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:
I haven't read the books but I did play Witcher 1 and 2. Wouldn't really have made a difference either way how she and family looked.
Getting angry about this is just silly though. We are talking about fantasy lands with fictional races and species. Its 100% just about how well the character is written and the actor/actress performs. We would all make different images for characters when reading books, and when we read mythical fantasy and such, it matters little and these characters aren't even from earth. If they do a good job, they do a good job. Let them have their creative freedom.
In GOT too. A lot of them share common ancestry, but at long as they keep it consistent, it doesn't matter. Just needs to be well done either way.
Logan, Prisoners, Prestige blows apart any role Cavill played yet Not to mention his Wolverine is one of the best superhero portrayals of all time.
by Thimmy on Sat Sep 08, 2018 5:24 pm
It’s starting to get more common to cast female or ethnic characters for the sake of it. I haven’t watch that many movies or TV shows over the past few years, but I remember there was talks about casting Idris Elba as James Bond, as well as one of the gods in a film about norse mythology. I think it’s good that they’re being more inclusive in the film industry, but this feminist-powered, forced inclusion in established franchises and series is a negative development, in my opinion.
Humphrey in Stardust > Jackman in Prestige. That movie was all Bale as usual.
She wasn't in Witcher 1 and 2 though, which is why Yennefer and Ciri being in 3 was such a big deal for most people who had read the books.
As they are main characters for the series, also as M99 already pointed out it means making Emyr and the entire cintrian family non white and the Geralt factor. The probably won't approach this but then there's the Lara Dorren Elder Blood stuff.
It just needlessly complicates things for the sake of forced diversity. There's a reason why in GoT they didn't do this for main characters, you're going to alienate a fanbase who will watch your program and likely won't get people who weren't going to watch it to replace them either.
@Thimmy wrote:
These are just forced narratives. There was the same uproar when Craig was cast as Bond because he was blonde as opposed to dark haired. Craig killed it, was great. Now no one cares or remembers. That's all that matters. If Elba is the right man for what the director/producers want to do then he is the right man (not saying he is, for me he is too old). Bond has been recast 6 or 7 times and drastically changed, it's not a good example.
I have no issue with Elba being Bond btw, this is completely different to me.
It goes further than just the one character, i'd actually have less issues if they did this for Geralt
@Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote: She wasn't in Witcher 1 and 2 though, which is why Yennefer and Ciri being in 3 was such a big deal for most people who had read the books.
I agree that if things aren't positive, more so if they are negative, then why do it? but the outrage is pointless. Its about the ethnicity of an actress playing someone from fantasy media, who hasn't even been cast yet. What if the writers and this girl blow everyone away?
It's like some discussion Betty has had here about anime movies. I had the same point, just do what works best for what they are trying to do in terms of casting people.
For example, everyone (me included) praised Narcos. That's a real life story talking about people who are still alive. They went ahead and casted someone that speaks the wrong language to play none other than Escobar. It was still great, because the creators did an awesome job and Moura was a great actor.
People need to chill.
When you’ve already cast Cavill. Making Ciri Black or any other race is just idiotic. They’re defined by their relation, where looks is one part. Doesn’t make sense to cast an actress of another race after the fact. If another than Cavill was cast, then maybe it’d fit with Characters.
Bond isn’t defined as a character other than being a misogynistic rapist and hitman. Any race can fit nicely into that.
It’s comparabke to when they made Michael B. Jordan Human Torch. It was a great decision imo. They just completely ruined it because they couldn’t commit to him and Sue being related. They just became friends who got adopted into his family when her parents died.
They could’ve cast a black actress and it would’ve been a better choice. Or even half siblings. They just forgot about how those characters are defined which was where the problems started with that film.
My issues drastically go down if they are consistent with it btw.
I just don't think they will and we are going to have a mixed race Ciri for the sake of diversity and the Emperor will be white.
by BarrileteCosmico on Sat Sep 08, 2018 5:39 pm
@Rincon you can read through this thread, at first my reaction was "so what?" (then again I've only played like 10 hours on W3), but it seems that people do have a legitimate gripe with this change:
https://www.reddit.com/r/witcher/comments/9e0wa6/im_polish_and_heres_why_i_think_that_changing/
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@BarrileteCosmico wrote: @Rincon you can read through this thread, at first my reaction was "so what?" (then again I've only played like 10 hours on W3), but it seems that people do have a legitimate gripe with this change:
I'll give it a read. I'm no expert on the witcher, just played the first 2 and didn't beat either due to unfortunate circumstances.
Just in general I don't see the point in freaking out at such an early stage when the show might still look great once there is actual footage.
I think the show being good or not is not really the point of this tbh, the race of the actress being picked for this doesn't effect the quality of the show really.
Also i feel sorry for who ever the actress is, i fear a lot of idiots will abuse her because that's how *bleep* people are.
Goal legacy I didn’t mention Idris elba being cast as James Bond or a norse god to express that I disagree with those specific choices, those were just examples off the top of my head where a non-white actor was, from what I can tell, cast for a role in order to make a political statement. I really like Idris Elba, but I would have an issue with him being cast as a norse god, if norse mythology was something I felt particularly invested in.
Read most of that. The OP I 100% disagree with. Netflix bought the rights to the content and they are the ones gambling millions on the show. They aren't doing this to appease the country where the author is from, they are doing it to make money and hopefully make something good out of the whole thing.
The comments about consistency and narrative, I think the same thing mole was saying, I agree with. If they are doing this, they have to do it right. Carry it through and do it in a way that makes sense. That's a legit concern to have.
Then again, this is something that they must do with every aspect of the show. Everything needs to be done well and be kept consistent, black girl or no black girl. Most video games and anime movies fail because they don't treat the IP properly. Its hard. Let's hope they do it well.
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Moving on to other things, I can say with confidence Yennefer has been cast. Same source that said Cavill had been officially cast as Geralt a week before it got confirmed and published said British actress Anya Chalotra has been cast as Yennefer a few weeks ago. They also said they are looking for 15-16 year old to play a 10-13 year old Ciri which also got confirmed.
Also this rumor has less basis, take it with a grain of salt but word is Sebastian Stan might have been cast as Dandelion.
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Cheryl Cole - a role model for our times?
Cheryl Cole is reported to be in line for a £3 million payday when she joins the judges of the American version of The X Factor next year. Her successful pop career will receive a further boost when she moves across the Atlantic.
More than anyone the Girls Aloud singer epitomises the celebrity culture that grips Britain. Piers Morgan recently called Cole the most talked about woman in the country; lads’ mags vote her the world’s sexiest.
Cole has come a very long way from the Newcastle housing estate where she grew up. Ambition alone – fuelled by her natural beauty and modest musical talent – would have only taken her so far. What distinguishes Cole from the wannabes is that, either by luck or design, she has kept touch with her roots and her accent. She hasn’t attempted to airbrush out her difficult family background.
Her fans can identify with the Cheryl Cole story, which with its triumphs and setbacks is theirs written large.
She’s had brushes with the law and with death; been cheated on by a now ex-husband soccer star; and each week emotes on Britain’s most watched television show. The ‘people’ know her. They understand why she feels the need to change her hair colour or add a tattoo – they’ve been there themselves.
There is regular heart-searching in the popular press about Cole’s worthiness as a role model for today’s young. I know if my children were still at an impressionable age and the alternative was Kate Middleton, our future Queen – who has never had a proper job and life’s goal was to nab Prince William – I’d choose Cheryl Cole every time.
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Eating out - GC's 10 top tips
1. Always be nice to restaurant staff – seek their advice when you order. Never be rude whatever the provocation. There’s too many ways these usually hard-working, underpaid people can be revenged – losing your coat, spitting in your soup etc.
2. Complain before you’re seated if you don’t like your table’s position. Some restaurants either want to put you in the window to make the place look popular or else try to get rid of their worst tables first. They won’t be surprised if you don’t want to sit opposite the toilets etc. Be prepared to leave if you're unhappy.
3. Make sure you’re given all the establishment’s menus. Some places are reluctant to advertise their cheaper menus which are aimed at regulars.
4. Often the shorter the menu, the more care in the quality and preparation of the food.
5. Think twice before calling for salt/pepper if there’s none on your table – it means the chef believes he/she knows best how to season your food.
6. The house wine should be a good bet.
7. Don’t be afraid to ask for tap water.
8. Check whether service is included on your bill.
9. Take your credit card receipt home with you.
10. If you can, check out the local restaurants the night before to see which are popular.
Labels: advice, food
Other Men's Flowers stays in bloom - an appreciation of Lord Wavell's poetry selection
I’ve come across a gem of a poetry collection selected and annotated by Lord Wavell called Other Men’s Flowers. His choice is old school and eccentric - publication was an afterthought and so reflects the career soldier’s personality.
As befits a man of action, the poems for the most part are red-bloodied. Robert Browning and Rudyard Kipling are strongly represented with G K Chesterton and John Masefield in attendance. Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Milton don’t get a look in lacking, according to Wavell, human warmth and humour. Both of which mattered much to him.
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David Cameron's John Bercow 'dwarf' joke leaves PM looking Dopey.
David Cameron has shown poor judgement in continuing to deride Commons Speaker John Bercow’s modest stature. Cameron believes Bercow – though previously a Tory MP, he only took office with Labour support – is biased in favour of the Opposition.
At a Parliamentary Press Gallery lunch yesterday the Coalition leader repeated a joke said to have been made by health minister Simon Burns.
Following a traffic incident between their two cars, Bercow is said to have said, “I’m not happy” to which Burns replied, “Which one are you?” – a reference to Snow White’s Seven Dwarves.
I’m around the same height as Bercow – let’s say 5ft 6in – and take no exception to the wisecrack. Many would be happy to step into his size 6's. Bercow has carved a successful political career; his taller wife Sally is attractive if gabby; and despite his lack of inches he manages to keep getting in the Prime Minister's face.
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Squeaky bum time for Ed Miliband
“In terms of policy, but not in terms of values, we start with a blank page,” Labour leader Ed Miliband told The Guardian last week. The obvious good sense of this position from a man whose party was slaughtered at the General Election and faces another five years in opposition has gone down like the proverbial lead balloon among those at every point of the political compass.
Press commentators from both the Right and Left see the bread stolen from their mouths – in other words they fear having nothing to sound off about.
Meanwhile the public want to see the Coalition government forced to justify its swingeing cuts. But this exposes Labour’s vulnerability.
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William, Kate and the Blue Meanies - reflections on the Royal Wedding
The announcement today that Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Royal Wedding will be on April 29th next year – and news of a Bank Holiday to mark the nuptials – will put the British monarchy under a close scrutiny not seen since the marriage of Charles and Camilla.
Respect for the Queen is pretty solid throughout the country. But for the most part indifference rules about the rest of the Royals, despite the noises on the fringe made by pro and anti-monarchists.
I date this disillusion from the melodrama that surrounded the life and death of Princess Diana. I might cross the road to see a Royal but I wouldn’t catch a bus.
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Just how useful are restaurant review sites when it comes to finding a good curry?
Just how useful are restaurant review sites? Human nature being what it is you are more likely to contribute to a website if you’ve had a rubbish meal rather than a reasonable one. Whatever the verdict the evaluations can be years old, during which time the restaurant could have improved or deteriorated. Serious criticism may have prompted a change in the practices previously objected to.
You don’t have to be much of a gourmet, for example, to visit a top London curry restaurant – say, Benares, Bombay Brasserie, or The Cinnamon Club – spend a small fortune and have a great meal.
But in these straitened times value for money is an important factor in choosing where to eat. This is where review sites should make their mark always given that there is no substitute for the personal recommendation of family or friends.
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THE NEW TENANT - a short story by GC
A noise woke Teddy Bigelow. 2am and Hattersley Court should have been wrapped in blissful silence. The apartment block was showing its age but its flats could honestly boast “peaceful seclusion yet walking distance of Archway tube” in any rental ad.
No dogs, no loud music, no noisy parties, and definitely no children. As chairman of the residents’ association he had no difficulty in imposing a ban on the latter even though it was not an actual clause in the letting agreement.
Yet he lay in bed listening to a disturbing noise much closer than the distant traffic.
It was penetrating rather than loud. Minutes of silence punctuated by seconds of a whine that was at first mechanical and then human. The source was as mysterious as the sound itself.
The bedrooms of the 20 apartments in the three storey building overlooked a small communal garden. There could be no other explanation than that the cause was close by.
The funniest line in British screen comedy
To qualify as quintessentially the funniest line in British screen comedy it has to be chucklesome, aggressive, rude and a double entendre. The Carry On movies has them in abundance. But to my mind the best ever is found at the 2:45 point in the Doctor In Clover clip that heads this post.
It is delivered by comedian Arthur Haynes who died of a heart attack at the peak of his television popularity in 1966 at just 52.
Largely overlooked now, this British Film Institute ScreenOnLine link gives a flavour of the loss Haynes was to the world of comedy. The misanthropy of his television tramp character had echoes of Tony Hancock but in addition he was a one man warrior in the class war.
The movie, based on the Richard Gordon comic novel, was released in 1966 and is mainly a Leslie Phillips vehicle. But for me the exchange between hospital patient Tarquin Wendover (Arthur Haynes) and top consultant Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice) lifts the film out of the ordinary. Haynes’s screen time – repeating his combative personae - in the film is in the best traditions of comic acting.
At 2:45 Wendover is explaining to Spratt the cause of his back and chest pain is the result of an old war wound suffered while “bending down in the trenches prior to like leading my men over the top.”
Wendover: Suddenly, bang, off goes a grenade and a lump of shrapnel hits me right up the…
Spratt: Rectum?
Wendover: Well, it didn’t do 'em any good.
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Why London's 2012 Olympics logo is the worst in the history of the modern Games
It’s three years since the logo for London’s 2012 Summer Olympics was unveiled by brand specialists Wolff Olins. I thought it was rubbish then – even more so now that it is beginning to appear commercially.
I’m no Mr Outrage. I’m not easily riled by such things. But I am a Londoner and I want our Games to impress the world and we're off to a 'false start'.
It’s much too late to do anything about it but it is clear the design company – and UK Olympic officials who gave the logo the green light – made a fundamental error in treating the Games as a brand that could be infinitely exploited.
The logo most closely resembles a broken swastika in the way that the year is the predominate theme. But 2012 is the least interesting aspect of the Games – it happens every four years. The Olympic rings are a constant. What changes is the location – yet the logo dismisses our capital city as almost an afterthought.
This is how the Wolff Olins website sees it.
“The emblem is 2012, an instantly recognizable symbol and a universal form – one already closely associated with the Games in London. It is unconventionally bold, deliberately spirited and unexpectedly dissonant, echoing London’s qualities of a modern, edgy city. Containing neither sporting images nor pictures of London landmarks, the emblem shows that the Games are more than London, more than sport. It is for everyone, regardless of age, culture and language. It is designed to be populated, to contain infills and images, so it is recognisable enough for everyone to feel and be part of London 2012.”
Complete tosh, of course. The reason why the logo is intended to be so flexible – for example there is no standard colour – is because it allows companies to incorporate it into their sponsorship advertising.
London’s presence is dismissed as an irritating necessity warranting a mere lower case mention.
If the design really cost £400,000 as has been suggested it was money wasted. The 2012 London Olympics logo is the worst ever in the history of the modern Games.
Labels: London, sport
Congratulations but Kate Middleton is no role model for young women
Kate Middleton is no role model for young women in the 21st century. Attractive certainly, and from tonight’s television interview intelligent and charming, and probably decent too but she still hung on eight years while Prince William dithered over tying the knot.
Although well-educated, she never held down a job outside the family orbit all the time she faced being left on the shelf by her indecisive boyfriend.
The speculation is over and Catherine Middleton (as we are being encouraged to call the future Queen) is to marry her prince next year. Now it is too late for her to lead anything approaching a normal life.
Labels: Britain, love
1. Exit Lancaster Gate tube station and enter Kensington Gardens by Marlborough Gate. The Italian Gardens in front of you have one of the finest sets of fountains to be found in London.
2. Close by is the Peter Pan statue. Its appeal is as immortal as the boy himself.
3. On the far side of The Long Water is the first of four temporary (until March 13th 2011) large mirror-like stainless steel installations by prominent artist Anish Kapoor. The other three are close by. The exhibition is titled Turning the World Upside Down.
4. A short detour into Hyde Park takes you to the Diana Princess of Wales memorial fountain.
Labels: art, London, movies
How to avoid joining the Twitter Two
The Twitter community is learning the hard way what print journalists are taught from Day 1 – irony hardly ever works. The clear joke you hear inside your head is easily lost on the page and you run the risk of being taken literally. Especially so in a world where officials are not encouraged to think for themselves when judging whether a threat is real or ironic. More so if your wit is limited to 140 characters.
This has been the fate of two recent tweeters. Both were clearly joking from the off and yet found themselves in hot water.
Paul Chambers threatened to blow up an airport and Gareth Compton called for a Muslim journalist to be stoned to death. The law intervened raising freedom of speech issues.
The response has been partisan with Chambers winning support internationally, while Compton has been hung out to dry. I have sympathy for neither.
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The big question after the Millbank riot
When the young man who dropped a fire extinguisher from the roof of the besieged Tory HQ in London’s Millbank yesterday is caught, he should be charged with attempted murder. It is a miracle that today’s headlines are not leading with the death of one of the police officers or protesters who were just feet away from where the extinguisher landed.
The police are embarrassed they weren’t prepared for either the numbers who marched to show their opposition to higher university tuition fees or the strong possibility that a section, determined on mischief, might attack Millbank Tower.
Demonstrations and marches are likely to be a regular event around the UK next year, as the Coalition’s measures to rein in the deficit erode jobs and shrink the welfare state. The big question is whether yesterday’s riot is the forerunner of more episodes of serious civil unrest.
If I could live my life all over again I still wouldn't be an international playboy
If I could live my life all over again I still wouldn’t be an international playboy. I couldn’t handle the paternity suits, the rich food, the ski injuries, yacht sickness, the constant partying to preserve my celebrity status, the plastic surgery, cocaine-destroyed nostrils and above all the obnoxious company of people just like me.
If nothing else I never had the money. There’s no point in losing sleep over those things beyond your control.
It becomes more problematical where I missed out on the pleasures I could afford. Take sky-diving. I can imagine the thrill practitioners must experience leaping into mid-air, tumbling through space, the rushing wind as the ground races towards you before your parachute opens. But with my fear of heights and death no amount of empathy would ever have persuaded me to take up the sport.
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What today's politicians can learn from Michael Foot
For all his faults – not least that he was a disastrous leader of the Labour Party in opposition – there is good reason to keep Michael Foot’s memory alive regardless of your politics.
I was one of many hundreds at the event Celebrating Michael Foot at the Lyric Theatre in London’s Shaftesbury Avenue last night. The great and the Left turned their thoughts to the grand old Parliamentarian who died in March at the age of 96.
Gordon Brown came in person as did Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley; Tony Blair – away fixing the Middle East – was represented by wife Cherie; while the new Labour leader Ed Miliband was busy changing his new son’s nappies so he sent his deputy Harriet Harman to deliver some platitudes.
Labels: Britain, ideas, politics
What did we do before the internet?
What did we do before the internet? Being computer-less for nearly five days was akin to temporarily joining a monastic order. “You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone,” Joni Mitchell once sung. I never really appreciated just how dependent I’d become on having access to the internet until now.
When my laptop died last week - later to be resurrected courtesy of a new hard drive - I was instantly ostracised by the rest of the world.
Labels: ideas
Note to Grapefruitcrazy readers
The timing of the resumption of service will depend on how quickly I can get my laptop repaired. GC
What men want as much as sex in relationships
Stephen Fry, a previous beacon of wit, charm, and intelligence has got himself into hot water for daring to broach the subject of female sexuality in gay lifestyle magazine Attitude.
He may or may not have said that women are not as hot on sex as men and see it as the price they pay for a relationship with a man.
Television polymath Fry, a gay man, is reported in the magazine as saying "If women liked sex as much as men, there would be straight cruising areas in the way there are gay cruising areas."
A frivolous response is to ask with whom heterosexual young men have been having one night stands when they go out on the pull?
Halloween puts the hex on Guy Fawkes Night
Guy Fawkes Night is one British tradition I am quite happy to see die a little every year. In many places where there is a celebration this Friday (Remember, remember the fifth of November/Gunpowder, treason, and plot), it will be called Bonfire or Fireworks Night. And quite right too. The burning of effigies is made none the more wholesome accompanied by jacket potatoes.
I don’t want to overstate the point. It’s more than 400 years since Catholic Fawkes and his fellow-conspirators failed to blow up King James I in support of their mistreated coreligionists - and has long since lost its historical significance.
Labels: America, Britain, ideas
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Q&A: Nicholas Nixon
© Nicholas Nixon, Clementine and Bebe, Cambridge, 1985
These questions and responses relate to an essay by Gerry Badger called “The Quiet Photograph” in The Pleasures of Good Photographs. Five essays from this book were read as part of the Flak Photo Books Discussion Group. In "The Quiet Photograph" Badger makes an argument for a type of phenomenological photography rooted in the documentary mode that he says is embodied by Nixon and some of the others involved in New Topographics. Nixon agreed to provide brief responses to a few questions based in the chapter. The content of the questions were provided by participant Dawn Roe.
fototazo: Do you feel a need to be more objective or distanced when working with some subjects more than others (his family, for instance, or the terminally ill)? Or to have the pictures appear to be more objective or distanced with some subjects more than others?
Nicholas Nixon: Good question. Yes, some are different. Objective is not the right word. "Kind" or "fair" are more like it. I have to be fair with the Brown sisters for example, because my expressive role has to be smaller so it stays evenly about four people as they go on.
I have to be extra kind to anyone who has less good health or good fortune because I am asking for something large and could not live with myself if when I went away they felt anything less than satisfied, interested even.
f: Do you feel that you take a “style for job” approach so that certain subject matter suggests a particular formal approach?
NN: No.
f: Badger suggests your work exhibits the “quiet photographer approach, and simply show(s) dry facts” with a “studied neutrality” as opposed to other photographers who more aggressively assert the presence of "themselves" in their work – would you agree with such a consideration, in relation with your body of work as a whole?
NN: Not really. I want the pictures to be about something real that can reach across time and sensibility...I have to use my heart and instincts much more than my head. Objective looking perhaps, but not objective...that is boring to me. If you are going to photograph something I think you have to be agressive enough to want to improve on it somehow, not just bring home a record.
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Huddersfield Sign Dutch Defender Terence Kongolo On Loan From Monaco
Monaco defender Terence Kongolo has completed a loan move to Huddersfield.
The 23-year-old Dutchman, who joined the Ligue 1 side from Feyenoord last summer, will spend the rest of the season at the John Smith's Stadium.
Head coach David Wagner told the club's website, www.htafc.com: "Terence is a top player who we've followed from his time at Feyenoord. His big summer move to Monaco put him out of our reach at the time, but we're delighted we can bring him in on loan now."
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February/March 2019 63 undoubtedly higher than before. “In terms of addressing some of these very serious wellness issues or mental health issues, I really believe that the sense of feeling connected to something bigger than yourself is truly important,” Brosnan says. “And I think the arts really provide for that in many, many ways.” As for the work itself, the fluidity of the creative process— whether in finding the way into a role in a play or in building a sculpture—allows pathways to succeed and problem-solve that are decidedly different than those in traditional classes. “Mistakes in other classes result in a bad grade,” Tyler Wesson, a senior at Mitty, says while shuffling through several beautifully drawn artworks he created in class. Other classes tend to “confine your creativity or ability to ask questions,” he says, but mistakes in art often result in his best work. “I learn to work around it and make the piece look better.” IN CLASS, an art teacher discusses the fundamentals of drawing, but the lesson hits home when he brings his students to a museum. A dance teacher leads her charges through a series of steps, but the abstract notion of grace suddenly takes shape during a live ballet. As much as local educators would love to give hands-on art experiences to their students, school budgets and the curriculum constraints don’t often make it possible. With that understanding, SVCreates, a network of leaders looking to advance Silicon Valley’s creative culture, launched ArtsEdConnect in 2012. The program, in partnership with the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, awards mini-grants to teachers in Santa Clara County who want to expose their students to nearby artists and cultural opportunities. Interested teachers receive information about educational programs at local arts organizations and decide how those activities might fit into their classroom curriculum. ArtsEdConnect works with some 50 arts groups that welcome involvement from both public and private schools in the area. During this school year, $150,000 in grants was awarded to county teachers and schools. Grants of up to $1,000 per teacher are available for such activities as taking field trips to performances or museums, bringing an artist or performer into a classroom and supporting a teacher’s special student performance or interesting art project. Smaller grants, up to $250, are available for purchasing artrelated materials for special projects. Grant funding is provided by the County of Santa Clara and the Warmenhoven Family Foundation. Applications are accepted twice a year (in January and September). For more information about ArtsEdConnect visit artsed connect.org. Arts grants engage teachers, students At The Nueva School in San Mateo, art teacher Rachel Dawson looks at art as a means to building empathy. She refers to an art project two years ago that asked students to examine the notion of shelter, leading to a larger conversation about the global refugee crisis that was being heavily covered in the news at the time. “The great thing about art is that it offers a platform for students to engage in difficult conversations that I think could be too challenging to just sit around a table and talk about,” Dawson says. The anecdotal evidence of these various benefits isn’t isolated. In the 2011 report “Reinvesting in Arts Education,” the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities examined various studies over the years that painted a “remarkably consistent picture” of the significant positive outcomes of expanded arts education. Exposure to the creative arts was associated with a multitude of developmental boons: higher math and reading achievement, overall student engagement and motivation, decreases in delinquency and Harker School field trip to Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center COURTESY OF THE HARKER SCHOOL; OPPOSITE FROM TOP: RUTH PHILLIPS TEITELBAUM; COURTESY OF PINEWOOD SCHOOL; PREVIOUS SPREAD: JOANN SCHILB Mistakes in other classes result in a bad grade, Tyler Wesson, a senior at Mitty, says, but mistakes in art often result in his best work.
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Hawaii Supreme Court to Consider Limit of Parental Discipline
By Robert Thomas @ 4:52 PM :: 4388 Views :: Energy, Environment
HAWSCT New Cert Grant: Evaluating Parental Discipline In Civil TRO Cases
by Robert Thomas, Inverse Condemnation, Nov 25, 2011
Although the focus of this blog is land use and related topics, our practice involves more than that -- we also take appeals in other areas of law presenting unsettled or untested questions. Here's the latest example, a case that asks what standards govern the Family Court's evaluation of an application for a civil TRO in light of a parent's fundamental right to discipline his or her children (which includes the right to use reasonable corporal punishment).
In Hamilton v. Lethem, No. 27580 (Haw. Ct. App. June 30, 3011), the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals concluded that the TRO process did not violate a parent's rights, and affirmed the Family Court's issuance of a restraining order. Earlier this week, the Hawaii Supreme Court agreed to review these Questions Presented:
1. When determining whether to issue a TRO, does the parental right to discipline children require the application of clear and articulable guidelines to distinguish truly abusive behavior from actions that are "moderate or reasonable discipline [that] is often part and parcel of the real world of parenting?"
2. When considering whether to issue a TRO, must the Family Court recognize that a non-custodial parent maintains a "residual parental right" to discipline his child during a period of unsupervised visitation, including the right to discipline the child for morals?
This case has been to the Hawaii Supreme Court before. In Hamilton v. Lethem, 193 P.3d 839 (Haw. 2008), the court held that the issues were not mooted by the expiration of the TRO, because the "collateral consequences" of a TRO.
More here from Damon Key colleague Rebecca Copeland. The cert application (in Hawaii's appellate system, petitioners "apply" for cert review, which is either "accepted" or "rejected") we filed is available below.
Application for a Writ of Certiorari, Hamilton v Lethem, No. 27570 (Haw S Ct filed Oct 14, 2011)
HAWSCT Grants Cert in Civil Case Involving Parental Discipline Defense
by Rebecca Copeland, Record on Appeal, Nov 23, 2011
Today, November 23, 2011, the Hawaii Supreme Court granted cert in Lily E. Hamilton v. Christy L. Lethem, S.C. No. 27580, essentially involving the issue of whether the Father (Christy L. Lethem) should have been afforded some form of parental discipline defense in a civil ex parte temporary restraining order proceeding. Disclaimer: this blogger along with her colleague Robert H. Thomas (www.inversecondemnation.com) represent Mr. Lethem on cert.
The ICA affirmed the Family Court of the First Circuit's ex parte temporary restraining order.
On cert, Mr. Lethem argues that the ICA gravely erred because:
(1) the court failed to apply a discernible standard to the line between constitutionally protected parental discipline and abuse and instead presumed Father's act of discipline was abuse, and
(2) the court failed to give effect to Father's statutory "residual parental right" to discipline his child.
The order accepting cert is available here.
The cert application is available here.
No response by Mother was filed.
A motion for judicial notice was also filed here.
Chief Justice Recktenwald recused himself here, and First Circuit Court Judge Virginia L. Crandall was assigned to sit in his place here.
Oral arguments to be announced.
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ERIN WASHBURN (Literary &Patron Services Manager) is a dramaturg and producer with a passion for new plays. She runs InterAct’s Core Playwrights Program, a two-year incubator for a cohort of four local playwrights, and recently coordinated Cross-Pollination, a playwright trade between InterAct, Cleveland Public Theatre (Cleveland, OH), and Kitchen Dog Theater (Dallas, TX) funded by the National New Play Network. In addition to her work with InterAct, Erin was Producing Associate for Orbiter 3, a Philadelphia playwrights collective, and has also worked with Philadelphia Theatre Company, Azuka Theatre, The Renegade Company, Theatre Exile, and Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. Recent projects include The Brownings (Orbiter 3; nominated for 6 2018 Barrymore Awards), Sensitive Guys (InterAct), Hir (Simpatico Theatre), and Marcus/Emma (InterAct; nominated for 3 2017 Barrymore Awards). She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College.
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Some people have made an incredible contribution to hypnosis and hypnotherapy over the years. There is a rich and long history behind hypnotherapy, and I am going to mention just a few of the people who have, for various reasons, made an impact on my interest in hypnosis.
One of the early greats in this field was Scottish surgeon James Braid (1795 – 1860). Braid rescued hypnosis from, under the influence of Franz Mesmer, becoming something that fell somewhere between entertainment and pseudoscience. (We could do with another James Braid today, to dispel some of the popular myths, promoted in the entertainment industry, for example, that hypnosis makes you lose self-control). Along with contemporary physicians e.g. James Elliotson (1791 – 1868), hypnosis becomes part of mainstream medicine. Hypnosis became extremely useful as an analgesic in surgery and had other medical applications. However, with the discovery of the anesthetic chloroform – which required far less skill to administer than hypnosis – the need for hypnosis was undermined and by the 1850s became much less widely used. Elliotson, being born in Southwark and teaching in University College London (UCL) and University College Hospital (UCH), could at the time fairly be described as the best hypnotherapist in London.
Braid and others developed what is seen now as traditional hypnotic techniques, which included strategies like fixing the eyes on a bright object. Such techniques are still used today, but a great innovation in hypnosis came about in the 20th century thanks to the work of American psychiatrist and psychologist, Milton Erickson. He developed a range of more subtle techniques of hypnosis, for example, the use of analogies and indirect suggestion.
These days it is popular to combine hypnosis with cognitive behavioral techniques. Hypnotherapy has become ‘democratised’, and many practitioners of hypnosis today need no medical or academic qualifications. However there are still many people in London who are pushing the frontiers of what we know about hypnosis and the mind, such as Prof John Gruzelier at Goldsmiths University, and Dr. David Oakley at University College London, to name but two.
The history of hypnosis is very interesting and still has many mysteries, but thanks to modern brain imaging techniques we are learning increasingly that hypnosis remains an interesting phenomenon that still has, as it has done for centuries, a myriad of useful applications.
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Lets Solarize Malawi Schools.
It is now a norm that electricity is sparsely available in not just rural Malawi, but the whole Malawi regardless of where you are from. Approximately 93% of Malawians are disconnected from the grid or lack solar-power solutions, while the small connected group is currently going 9 hours without electricity. The rural poor masses suffer the consequences even more. Furthermore, the extensive demand for lighting during the night for studying costing more than 1,500MK ($2USD) per week for light sources such as candles, batteries, paraffin etc. according to SunnyMoney 2013. and this $2 USD cost represents a substantial expense for poor families often living on less than $1USD per day.
In far too many parts of Malawi, night-time academic and economic activities are practically non-existent. Women cannot make productive use of their time to carry out the most basic household tasks. Children who help the women after school hours, cannot study at night without proper light and they complete their homework by candle light, paraffin lamps or a battery powered torch, which is an additional expense for parents. Moreover, without access to electricity, over 3.5 million Africans die every year from harmful pollutants or fires in the home produced by costly and toxic solid fuels.
What If we are determined to bring this entry level solar light to students who deserve it but can not afford it?
I am joining hands with SunnyMoney Malawi in launching an ambitious endeavor that aims to improve the lives of over 60,000 students in Malawi from various Community Day Secondary Schools.
This new initiative through “The Gift of Light” hopes to bring solar lights to be accessed by over 60,000 students by the end of 2019 who will be borrowing the solar light from the library at a very small fee and take ownership of the light at the end of each term.
“The lack of electricity is currently a major problem in Malawi that a significant number of households in rural areas and even urban cities do not have access to electricity. This is a real obstacle to the country's social economic development. Women are losing a lot of money to batteries for them to trade during the night or do house chores, students cant study at night either. I have seen it and experienced it. I am therefore determined to champion this revolution. Why should our aspiring politicians donate a T shirt with their party colours worthy K5,000 which a woman will wear in a month and its finished, in stead of donating a solar light to her which she will use for up to 5 years and help her become more productive? We need to start thinking differently about some of these things”
~Dennis Imaan
This initiative is a partnership between IMAAN through the "Think Differently" initiative, SunnyMoney Malawi through "The Gift of Light Campaign" and Kuwala Creatives, through the "Tiwale Talent ROOM" in conjunction with local schools and corporations to aid in the efforts of the campaign by addressing Malawi's worsening energy issue and empowering the next generation with both academic and life skills by setting up solar light libraries and talent clubs in over 200 schools across the country.
Our target is to facilitate the procurement of 20,000 high quality entry level solar lights for with support from different financiers to use in setting up light libraries in 200 schools selected and an estimated 20,000+ people across 10 districts to gain exposure to solar lights through the School Light Library. There are other added benefits of the Light Library project, for example,
increased community interaction with the school, including increased enrolment.
Creating a space where the students can interact with our creative teams and help the students with career guidance and mentorship programs.
Companies, organisations and individuals, can adopt a library by buying 100 lights (which is a minimum number of lights per library) at K4500 each light at a total of K450,000 from SunnyMoney who will deliver the lights to the school, while Kuwala Creatives will help in setting up the library and also come up with a talent/creatives club that will engage the students in talent promotion. IMAAN will oversea the management of the libraries and will be monitoring the impact among the students and the community.
The library will therefore be named after the donor company or any name that the financier wishes to give it in honor of the donation.
Individuals can also donate K5,000 and have a branded light in the library.
for more on this initiative or if you want to be part of this revolution, give us a call on +265995460568 or email us on
imaandennis88@gmail.com, talent@kuwalacreatives.com
LET'S SOLARIZE MALAWI SCHOOLS.
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Dennis Imaan is a Global Citizen born and currently staying in Malawi. He loves to share his experiences and lessons with others. Travel, Tourism, Innovations, Media and Youth development are close to his heart.
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Movie title: Burn After Reading (2008)
Grade: B- (3 stars)
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Producers: Tim Bevan, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, David Diliberto, Eric Fellner, (Exec.) Robert Graf
Starring: George Clooney “Harry Pfarrer,” Frances McDormand “Linda Litzke,” John Malkovich “Osbourne Cox,” Tilda Swinton “Katie Cox,” Brad Pitt “Chad Feldheimer,” Richard Jenkins “Ted Treffon,” Elizabeth Marvel “Sandy Pfarrer,” David Rasche “CIA Officer,” J.K. Simmons “CIA Superior.”
Genre: Comedy/Romance/Action/Thriller
Summation: A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it for profit.
In a word: Disjointed
In high school, I had a 94 average in biology class. I was a GT student in English. But in most subjects, I never tried, and if I did, I tried for a while and did well, but soon gave up. Since that time, I’ve come across students who were amazingly smart and academically inclined, but who, like me, never finished the job or maximized their potential. Getting around to doing a task is a problem for some, but often, getting around to finishing the task is an even bigger one. It’s one thing to start out strong and another thing to finish strong.
Well, a strong finish is what Burn After Reading doesn’t offer. It starts out strong and gets funnier and funnier, right up until the last thirty minutes of the film, at which time, it proverbially tips the king over as in a forfeited game of Chess and gives up. It just gives up, quits, ending on a totally unaccomplished note. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it on the big screen.
There is a certain frustration that comes in assuming a movie will go somewhere and accomplish something, only to find that it doesn’t. Here’s a heads up: the ending of Burn After Reading is weird, disjointed, and it goes nowhere, so don’t expect it to. A resolution to a movie and a plot with such kicking characters was more than called for.
The hilarity really begins shortly after the characters are introduced. From the start, they are unique and likable and well defined. For certain, this is one of the funnier movies I have seen. The only thing that puts a damper on it is the hilarity-one-moment-suspense-the-next style of filming.
The best acting came (expectedly) in the forms of Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) and Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), but the on-edge and neurotic performance of Malkovich as Osbourne Cox is one-of-a-kind, making the movie rip-roaringly funny. The script could have done nothing without him, nor without Frances McDormand as the confidence-lacking, middle-aged, horny, self-esteem case with an attitude, Linda Litzke. There was some brilliant writing here, the kind that involved multifaceted human emotions.
Everyone in Burn After Reading is in a different place in life and they face different decisions. Adultery, divorce, self-image issues and plastic surgery considerations, paranoia, and even cyber-trolling play their parts in the plot that makes this movie so sharp. The deep-seated message of the movie gives it an even greater appeal when it addresses the two-faced nature of the human animal and our propensity to take sides to get what we want.
Much like the movie 300, which could have done far better had it remained true-to-life instead of getting into D&D-level fantasy, this one loses its way by stepping out of the bounds of comedy and into the action and thriller categories. You just don’t try to make someone getting graphically shot in the head funny, nor should having such a scene be expected to do anything but subtract from the plot. The same goes for having a gym manager get axed to death.
Too bad the abrupt and broken ending did things in. Going the happier route of bringing things to a nifty resolution could have pulled the movie over into being “A” material, but the direction the film takes doesn’t allow it to unleash all of its potential comedic genius. And that is a shame. My eyes widen when I wonder how successful this movie would have been had it remained true to the comedy genre.
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Five arrested on child pornography charges in SF, including pastor from Lutheran church
photos of arrested child pornography suspects courtesy SFPD.
Photo of child pornography suspects courtesy SFPD.
By KTVU Staff, Andre Torrez
Posted Nov 20 2018 10:38PM PST
Updated Nov 20 2018 11:07PM PST
SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - San Francisco police announced a child pornography bust Tuesday that netted five arrests, including a pastor from Christ Lutheran Church in San Francisco.
All five men are suspected of possessing and distributing child pornography and have been booked into the San Francisco County Jail.
One of the suspects is a senior pastor, Reverend Stephen Sabin.
Elihu Hernandez, Trevor Schlesinger, Pastor Steven Sabin, IT specialist Donald Wright & Nicholas Fong busted by @SFPD in child-porn operation pic.twitter.com/79Zp91Tla1
— Henry K. Lee (@henrykleeKTVU) November 20, 2018
SFPD said their internet crimes unit led them to Nicholas Fong, a 24-year-old San Francisco resident, accused of hosting child pornography on a blog.
Fong's residence, located on the 500 block of Lombard Street was searched. Investigators said a cell phone belonging to the suspect had hundreds of images and video depicting minors being sexually abused. SFPD said Fong was also using cloud storage software for his material.
Donald Wright, 58, of San Francisco had a search warrant carried out his residence at the 1000 block of Sutter Street. Police said he used a P2P file sharing network to upload child pornography. Wright is an IT specialist.
Elihu Hernandez, 43, of San Francisco had a search warrant carried out at his residence on the 200 block of Eddy Street. Police said he was storing child pornography on several apps on his cell phone.
Trevor Schlesinger, 37, of San Francisco was found to have pornographic images and videos on his laptop depicting juvenile minors being sexually abused. Police conducted a search warrant at his residence on the 200 block of Mallorca Way.
59-year-old Steven Sabin, a San Francisco resident and Lutheran pastor was distributing child pornography through social media online, according to police. The pornographic images and video were found on Sabin's cell phone after police conducted a search warrant at Sabin's 1300 Market Street residence. Police said he was also storing child porn on a cloud storage application.
This investigative unit operation began and was completed this fall.
By KTVU Staff
Firefighters have extinguished a grass fire alongside Highway 680 in Pacheco that spread to a nearby storage unit facility on Tuesday.
Fire is now extinguished and in extensive mop up. Some 450 of this 500-plus unit storage facility were saved from fire today with no injuries Fire risks are especially high along our areas streets and highways. Please use extreme caution in ALL outdoor activities. #pachecoic pic.twitter.com/0FteLWZZ2y
The two-alarm fire was first reported by Contra Costa Fire Protection District around 2:30 p.m. and broke out near the Highway 4, Interstate 680 intersection.
By Aja Seldon, KTVU
Stanford University on Tuesday said it launched an investigation into the discovery of a noose hanging from a small tree on campus over the weekend.
According to the university, the noose was reportedly found near a residence hall where summer students were staying.
In a statement, Stanford said the incident is being investigated as a "suspicious circumstance, but if additional evidence comes to light, it may be re-classified as a hate crime."
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Mujer | Jessica Minhas
October 15, 2012 in Lifestyle, Mujer
Jessica Minhas. Manhattan, NY. Strong.
Resolved.
Genuine.
She's the kind of person who asks you how you are doing because she really really wants to know how you are doing. She wants a glimpse into your world whether you just met five minutes ago, or have been friends for years.
Jessica believes in the power of story. She believes that her story and your story matter deeply, and if told has power --as lofty as this sounds--to change the world.
A few years ago our paths crossed through a mutual friend. We worked on a project together, but I was in LA and she was in NYC so never actually got to meet her in person. However, the little I knew of this woman made me want to get to know her more.
Jessica is a NYC based actor, model, humanitarian, public speaker, and helps run the anti-human trafficking organization The Blind Project. If you have never heard of who they are and what they are doing, please learn more about their story HERE. I feel so honored that an amazing woman like Jessica would spend the day with me in Manhattan sharing her story and letting me take her picture.
Jessica your life has big things coming, and I am so privileged to see it unfold!
Q: Who is Jessica Minhas, and what do you do?
A: I am a humanitarian and activist. My passion is fighting against injustice, and giving a voice to the voiceless. I do this by inspiring and informing my audiences, whether on-camera or as a public speaker or producer.
Q: As an activist how do you stay inspired to do what you do?
A: From my work in missions and with the Blind Project, I have seen first hand many of the young faces behind humanitarian injustices. I think it’s important to keep a connection with the real people who are being impacted by issues like abuse, trafficking and sexual exploitation. I’ve also seen how lives can be transformed by social enterprise—especially when awareness groups partner with those providing services on the ground. Seeing lives changed; hope that was once lost now found, ignites me and pushes me onward.
Q: Was there a catalyst in your life that made you want to pursue your dreams of activism?
A: I grew up in an alcoholic and abusive household with just my grandfather. He did his best with me but had no additional family help in raising me. When I was 15, he had a paralyzing stroke and suddenly our care giving roles completely reversed, and I took care of him until his death when I was just barely 18. Without any family to speak of, I set out to visit India and try and find them. Instead I found out about child sex-trafficking and came back changed, and committed to making a difference in the lives affected by such an atrocity.
Q: Who are 5 people in your life that influence you most?
A: Jesus; Mary Ann O’Rielly who is my best friend, Jill’s, mother and really stepped into my life when I needed a mom around; my college journalism professor, Bruce Dunn who has become like a father; Jennifer Haron, my best friend from middle school and truly like a sister to me and Somaly Mam, a sex-trafficking survivor and freedom fighter in Southeast Asia.
Q: When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A: When I was little I wanted to help people. I thought I wanted to be a doctor; then I thought I’d be an actor; then I thought, why not play a doctor on TV, and wa-la! A few times over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to do that, and it always makes me laugh. I also wanted to inspire young people and I’m so thankful my career affords me that privilege.
Q: What is your guilty pleasure? (Food, Bieber, cheese fries, etc.)
A: Cookie dough, puppies and 90’s R&B music (now this is a girl after my own heart!)
Q: Right now, who are the bands/artists that you're listening to?
A: It varies, but Christy Nockels, Anthony Hamilton, Starfield, Phil Wickham, Drake, Dave Barnes, Hillsong, and a little bit of Keith Urban.
Q: Why do you do human trafficking/humanitarian work?
A: I've really followed my passions and I know at the end of the day that fighting to replace injustice with hope is worth the fight. There’s so much goodness and joy in life, I want others to experience full lives, myself included.
Q: Lastly, do you have a life mission statement? If so, what is it?
A: Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice to those being crushed. – Proverbs 31:8
**And thank you thank you thank you to Miss Rachel Burney of Remba Productions for doing an amazing job on Jessica's Hair and make-up. You are a gem, and I am so thankful for you!
Tags: Jessica Minhas, Kat Harris Photography, Manhattan Lifestyle Photographer, Mujer, NYC Lifestyle Photographer, The Blind Project
Hi! I'm Kat. A few things you should know about me: I love Beyonce, yoga, singing on the subway...and love. I love love.
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VIRTUAL PUNTING COACH - TOMMY BARNHARDT
Height: 6'2''
Born: 6/11/63
NFL Experience: 14 years
College: North Carolina
Status: Retired
Pro Career
Has played for five teams in 14-year career (NO, Chi, Wash, Car, TB). This is his second time in Washington. Punted in four games in 1988. Drafted by Tampa bay in ninth round of 1986 (223 overall). Signed by Washington as free agent May 15, 2000
Read Tommy's Recipe for Success >>>
Year Punting
YEAR TEAM G PUNTS YDS AVG LNG BK TB TB% IN20 IN20% RET YDS AVG NET
1987 CHI 2 6 236 39.3 50 0 0 0.0 2 33.3 3 36 12.0 33.3
1987 NO 3 11 483 43.9 52 0 1 9.1 4 36.4 6 64 10.7 36.3
1988 WAS 4 15 628 41.9 55 0 2 13.3 1 6.7 9 74 8.2 34.3
1989 NO 11 55 2179 39.6 56 0 4 7.3 17 30.9 28 174 6.2 35.0
1991 NO 16 86 3743 43.5 61 1 10 11.6 20 23.3 50 470 9.4 35.3
1994 NO 16 67 2920 43.6 57 0 9 13.4 14 20.9 40 495 12.4 33.5
1995 CAR 16 95 3906 41.1 54 0 11 11.6 27 28.4 39 342 8.8 35.2
1996 TB 16 70 3015 43.1 62 1 4 5.7 24 34.3 38 248 6.5 37.8
1997 TB 5 29 1304 45.0 61 0 3 10.3 12 41.4 14 110 7.9 39.1
1998 TB 15 81 3340 41.2 55 0 9 11.1 19 23.5 38 302 7.9 35.3
2000 WAS 15 79 3160 40.0 53 0 5 6.3 23 29.1 33 342 10.4 34.4
Total 186 890 37469 42.1 65 3 85 9.6 242 27.2 451 3808 8.4 37.8
1999: Played in all 16 games for NO kicked 82 punts for a total of 3,262 gross yards had career-high 11 punts for 409 yards including one in-the-20 at Balt (12/19) one special teams tackle vs. Car (1/2/00) recovered his own fumble and rushed for four yards at SF (9/19).
1998: Served as punter and holder for Buccaneers. Season-high 10 punts for 38.6 avg., four in-the-20 and one TB at Det (9/28).
1997: Suffered shoulder injury in week 6 as he was tied for NFC lead in punts inside the 20. Ranked second in the conference with 39.1 net avg. Kicked eight punts for 395 yards for the third best gross average of his career at Ariz (9/28). Completed a 25-yard pass to Tony Bouie in fake punt attempt. The following week Barnhardt was placed on injured reserve due to a broken collarbone suffered during a TD saving tackle.
1996: Had best season of Tampa Bay history in 1996 as he broke or tied three major Buccaneer records. He kicked in all 16 games for a gross average or 43.1 yards, seventh in NFC, surpassing Reggie Roby's team record of 42.8. Established a new team record for net punting average, beating Dan Stryzinski's 1992 mark of 36.2 with his 37.7 yards which placed him third in the NFC and sixth overall. Tied a Buccaneer record of most punts in-the-20 with 24. He also helped the team finish the season third in the league with opponents' punt return average of 6.5. Season best performance at SD with 53.3-yard average on two punts (11/7).
1995: Played in all 16 games for Carolina and averaged 41.1 yards with a 35.2 yard net on a career-high 95 punts (second in NFL). Ranked 10th in NFC in gross average and was second in the NFC, fourth in the NFL with a career-best 27 licks inside the 20. Season opener saw Barnhardt's season-high 10 punts including five in-the-20.
1994: For the Saints punted in all 16 games and 43.6 yard average on 67 punts placed him fourth in the NFC and sixth in the league. He also had 14 kicks in-th-20, a 33.5 yard net average with a season-high of seven runs. Barnhardt also made a 21 yard run on a fake punt attempt against SF (9/25). Named the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week with a 47.0 mark on five punts in the season finale vs. Den (12/24).
1993: Kicked in all 16 games and finished with 43.6 yard average on 77 punts. He had the NFL best punts inside the 20 with 26 and just six touchbacks. Placed fourth in the NFC and ninth in the league in gross average and fifth in the NFC and sixth in the NFL in net with a 37.5 yard mark.
1992: From all 16 games played for NO Barnhardt totaled a career-best 44.0 yard gross average and a 37.7-yard net average. This represented a Saints record and placed him second in the NFC and fifth in the NFL.
1991: Punted in all 16 regular season games and placed third in the NFC and seventh in the NFL with 43.5 yard average on 86 kicks. He posted a net average of 35.2 yards rated sixth in the NFC, and his season-long kick was 61 yards and averaged 44.4 yards against KC (9/8). Best game of season showed a 48 yard average on five kicks with a 57 yard long at Min (9/22). And postseason performance included an average of 54 yards on three punts vs. Atl (12/28).
1990: First full season in the NFL. He punted 70 times for the Saints for an average of 42.7 gross yards and 36.2 net. He was rated fourth in the NFC and sixth in the NFL in gross while he ranked third in the NFC and sixth in the NFL in net.
1989: Kicked 11 games for NO and averaged 39.6 yards on 55 punts with a 35.0 yard net average.1988: Punted in four games for Wash before suffering quad injury and placed on injured reserve (10/11).
1987: Signed with Chicago after end of strike. Finished with 17 punts for 42.3-yard gross average and a 35.2 yard net average. Barnhardt also punted four times for 36.3-yard avg in playoff loss to Wash (1/10).
1986: Saw pre-season action for TB but was waived at end of training camp.
COLLEGE/PERSONAL: Barnhardt played three seasons at North Carolina after transferring from East Carolina. His overall average was 41.6 yards on 156 career punts. He earned all-America first-team honors as a junior and senior. Personal long punt was 59 yards against Virginia. Earned a bachelor's degree in business. Attended South Rowan Senior High School in China grove, NC where he lettered in football and baseball. Barnhardt has donated much of his time to the Make-a-Wish Foundation and various children's hospitals near his home. Today he lives in Matthews, NC and is single.
You've got nothing to do all week, then on Sunday it ends up being pure chaos for 30 seconds. If you don't look forward to it, then you shouldn't be in the league.
-- Morten Andersen
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Tag Archives: Aesthetics
Medium Festival: Amanda Dahlgren
Featuring photographers seen at the Medium Photography Festival in San Diego….
It was a pleasure to meet Amanda Dahlgren at the Medium Festival and discover that she is a photographic educator, designer, technician, and craftsman, but above all, she is a photographic artist who has always been fascinated with aesthetics and artistic expression. She brought two projects to the Medium Festival, both looking at how the the housing boom and recent recession have affected areas in Southern California . I was struck by her series, Pre-Abandonded, exploring the idea of aesthetics and almost-built homes that will never see completion.
In addition to teaching and creating her fine art projects, Amanda consults for the VASA Project, an online media center focused on photography, digital video, criticism, visual studies, and new media. She received an MFA in fine art photography from the Academy of Art University in 2011.
Pre-Abandoned:
Photography has a rich tradition of capturing the abandoned home, often showing the physical marks of the deterioration of the inhabitants’ lives. In this series I am exploring the beginning of this lifecycle by capturing new residential construction in master-planned communities. Where others see the hope and possibilities of a new home, I see “pre-abandoned spaces:” the American dream promised by the model homes unfulfilled by financial missteps, broken relationships, or simply the realities of the hardships of life.
This entry was posted in Contemporary Photography, L E N S C R A T C H and tagged Abandonded, Academy Of Art, Academy Of Art University, Aesthetics, American Dream, Art Projects, Artistic Expression, Broken Relationships, Consults, Contemporary Photography, Craftsman, Fine Art Photography, Hardships, Master Planned Communities, Mfa, New Residential Construction, Photographer, Photographers, Photographic Artist, Photographic Educator, Photographs, Photography Festival, Photography., Rich Tradition, Vasa on October 4, 2012 by Aline - lenscratch.blogspot.com/.
The Ultra-Holy City: Photographs by Oded Balilty
The Kiryat Yovel section of Jerusalem is a seemingly serene urban glade, but in recent years, tension has grown in the area as more and more ultra-Orthodox families have bought up homes and apartments in what has historically been a majority secular neighborhood.
This shift in Kiryat Yovel is indicative of a greater trend in Jerusalem. As Oded Balilty’s photographs depict—here, and in the new issue of TIME—a more and more common visual element in Jerusalem is jet black fabric.
Jerusalem is rapidly becoming a city of ultra-Orthodox, the intensely observant Jews whose entire lives are devoted to studying Torah, and living by the rules it dictates, as interpreted by the rabbi who leads their specific sect, and issues the dress code. They are the fastest growing population in Israel today and in 20 years, demographers say, the ultra-Orthodox will account for 1 in 5 Israelis.
Oded Balilty—AP for TIME
The international cover of the August 13, 2012 issue of TIME.
Historically, the movement known in Hebrew as haredi—or trembling, as in God-fearing—flowed from the summary rejection of the Enlightenment by charismatic clerics in Eastern Europe. Their edicts on attire, hair style and separation of the sexes lend a preserved-in-amber quality to ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, which in broad terms simply reject modernity—the movement so many prominent Jews (think: Spinoza) did so much to usher in. Housing shortages have pushed the ultra-Orthodox into neighborhoods across the city, but the places they have lived longest, near Jerusalem’s downtown core, tend to be run down. In large part, that’s because ultra-Orthodox tend to be poor, with an average of seven children and a father who studies at a yeshiva all day, rather than working for wages. But it’s not only a matter of money.
Pre-occupied with the Next World, “they practice anti-aestheticism; they don’t consider aesthetics important,” says Menachem Friedman, a Bar Ilan University professor who devoted his career to studying ultra-Orthodox and marvels at their growing power.
“I remember in my childhood, symbols of religion, like sidelocks, was something you had to be ashamed of,” says Friedman, 76 this year. “Most of the rabbis shaved. You had to be modern. You had to adjust yourself to the world. Not any more.”
Karl Vick is TIME’s Jerusalem bureau chief.
Oded Balilty is a Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer for the Associated Press based in Tel Aviv. LightBox featured his work earlier this year in The Art of Storytelling, The Stone Throwers of Palestine and The Ultimate Prize Fighters: Practicing Peace through Boxing in Israel.
This entry was posted in Contemporary Photography, Uncategorized and tagged Aesthetics, Bar Ilan, City Photographs, Clerics, Contemporary Photography, Dress Code, Eastern Europe, Edicts, Glade, Hair Style, Hasidic Judaism, Holy City, Housing Shortages, Israel, Israelis, Jerusalem, Menachem, Modernity, Oded Balilty, Out There, Photographer, Photographers, Photographs, Photography., Religion, Sect, Sexes, Summary Rejection, Visual Element, Yeshiva on August 2, 2012 by Karl Vick.
Dr. Eran Gilat
Israeli photographer and Doctor, Eran Gilat, has combined his work as a scientist (Neurobiology and Imaging) with his love of photography in his series of still lifes, Life Science.
Eran has exhibited in Israel and the US, garnering a solo exhibition last year in the New York Photography Festival. Eran brings the study of life sciences into a aesthetic world, creating environments and scenarios that make the viewer re-examine the unfamiliar and sometimes, the unappealing. But there is also beauty in reality of life, and these still lifes capture the quiet essence of existence. As a side note, the source of all specimens are meat markets or natural history facilities.
LIFE SCIENCE:
This is an attempt of mine to present a personal document of my individual experience in Medical Science research. The project is inspired by long lasting scientific confrontation with various biological specimens, while engage in Physiological and Medical studies and my devotion to imaging. It is my personal expression and thoughts on the incredible complexity of the organism and its highly accomplished organs and aesthetics in general.
In Life Science, I wish to offer an artistic expression that brings together observation on scientific research with an emphasis on preparation hierarchy and aesthetics. Many life scientists experience during their career a hierarchical preparatory process, confronting simple systems as well as more complicated ones to simplify extrapolation to human being applications.
This entry was posted in Contemporary Photography, L E N S C R A T C H, Uncategorized and tagged Aesthetics, Artistic Expression, Biological Specimens, Confrontation, Contemporary Photography, Extrapolation, Gilat, History Facilities, Life Science, Life Scientists, Meat Markets, Medical Science Research, Medical Studies, Neurobiology, New York Photography, Organism, Personal Document, Personal Expression, Photographer, Photographers, Photographs, Photography Festival, Photography., Solo Exhibition, Still Lifes on May 24, 2012 by Aline - lenscratch.blogspot.com/.
A New Way to Photograph War: Condition ONE Launches Today
UPDATE, November 11, 2011: Condition ONE is now available for download in the iTunes app store. Early last month I had the opportunity to test drive the app, which includes three short videos by veteran conflict photographer Patrick Chauvel. The user experience is unique – more akin to a video game than a television news story. But despite the lack of a strong narrative, you feel fully submerged in each video, guided by Chavel’s voice-over. I preferred swiping my finger to move around the scene as opposed to manipulating the iPad itself (using the app in public isn’t very subtle – crowds gather quickly behind you). The free app is available only for the iPad but Condition ONE founder and CEO Danfung Dennis said the company is developing a version for the Android and other platforms. – PW
Danfung Dennis has been documenting war for years, first with still photographs, then in motion, culminating with the award-winning documentary Hell and Back Again. Still, he found himself unsatisfied, feeling that coverage of war was becoming “mundane, almost ordinary,” he says. “Society was numb to the images of conflict.”
An idea was born: Condition ONE, an app to provide a new form of storytelling. Dennis says it combines “the power of the still image, the narrative of films and the emotional engagement of tactile experiences to create a new language that is so immersive, it will shake viewers out of their numbness to traditional media and provide them a powerful emotional experience. Instead of opening a window to glimpse another world, we are attempting to bring the viewer into that world as an active participant.”
Condition ONE, under development for the Apple iPad and other tablets, uses a custom camera system developed by Dennis that “fuses the ethics, method and aesthetics of photojournalism with the tradition of cinematic filmmaking with virtual reality,” he says. “The entire human field of view is captured on these camera systems, and the stories are edited specifically for the tablet application to create a truly immersive experience.”
He continues, “Once viewers enter a video experience, they can move the tablet in any direction and see the corresponding field of view. The traditional two-dimensional, rectangular frame is shattered as viewers step inside the frame and experience the stories as the protagonists.”
Patrick Chauvel / Condition ONE
An example of how Condition One would appear on the iPad.
One photographer is already working with the specialized camera system: longtime conflict photographer Patrick Chauvel. Currently in Libya, Chauvel writes that when Dennis described the idea for Condition ONE, he was immediately tempted to try it. “Before, when I was shooting, my camera only showed what was in front of me, the action. It was frustrating because often what happens just at your right is part of the story. Now it is like having five cameras. One more at your right, your left, up and down,” Chauvel writes. “It’s not easy to use; you have to watch not to get your shoes in the frame or your shadow or your face … But the result is worth it. You bring your story with more images all around and more information, so you are a better witness. Now people can feel the story.”
This entry was posted in Contemporary Photography, Uncategorized and tagged Aesthetics, Afghanistan, App, Apple, Apple Ipad, Camera System, Condition ONE, Contemporary Photography, Crowds, Danfung Dennis, Emotional Engagement, Emotional Experience, Filmmaking, Fuses, Ipad, Itunes, Libya, New Language, November 11, Numbness, Patrick Chauvel, Photographer, Photographers, Photographs, Photography., Photojournalism, Still Image, Storytelling, Television News, Toolbox, User Experience, Video Game, Virtual Reality, War Photography on November 11, 2011 by Patrick Witty.
“Aesthetics have no place in photographing famine” – A David Campbell and Jon Levy Webinar
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Photographer #308: Jake Verzosa
Jake Verzosa, 1979, Republic of the Philippines, is a succesful commercial and editorial photographer based in Manila. Amongst his clients are McDonalds and Nike. Due to these commisions he has been able to travel around Southeast Asia and work on his personal, documentary photography. Recently he has photographed elderly women in the Cordillera mountain range of the Philippines. They are the last women that have the traditional tattoos that hold values of women’s strength and fortitude. Due to the influence of western interpretations of aesthetics the perception of beauty has changed amongst the younger generation. Earlier, during his travels, he was already photographing various indigenous peoples throughout Southeast Asia, resulting in the project Communal Identity. The following images come from the series The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga, Manila’s Railside and Communal Identity.
Website: www.matanglawin.ph
This entry was posted in 500, 500photographers, Contemporary Photography and tagged 1979, Aesthetics, Commercial Photographer, Commisions, Communal Identity, Contemporary Photography, Documentary Photography, Editorial Photographer, Elderly Women, Fortitude, Images, Indigenous Peoples, Jake, Jake Verzosa, Mcdonalds, Nike, Perception Of Beauty, Philippines, Photographer, Photographers, Photographs, Photography., Railside, Republic Of The Philippines, Southeast Asia, Traditional Tattoos, Travels, Verzosa, Younger Generation on June 8, 2011 by Four Eyes Photography Productions.
Sherif Elhage was born in St Petersbourg, raised in Beirut by his Russian-Estonian mother and Lebanese father, he now lives in Paris. He was formally trained in communications, but has explored photography from fine art to fashion and advertising.
Sherif prides himself by creating work that is captured in camera. Many of his images are graphically based, with the composition of the color and original framing as integral elements to his vision. “The photographs exposed on his site expound no literary or transcendental significance, the aesthetics of the photography limits itself to what you see.” I am featuring work from three series, Black, White, and From the Ground Up. Each address color and shape as subject matter.
The process is not difficult but it took me years to build this body of work, sometimes it does not work correctly, you need to have a loot of light and overexpose the photos with the camera settings, sometimes it’s with the aperture process and sometimes it’s about time so it happened to me to use a tripod during the daytime, it’s the same with black photos but in an inverse way, I never use the normal settings of the camera. White surfaces naturally are always more exposed than the other colours.
Images from Black
I use a digital camera so it’s faster to see immediately the result, but it’s not always good…what you see on the small lcd screen is very different from what you get on your computer screen or on a print, so sometimes i have to go back to do the same photo with better settings and conditions.
Images from The Ground Up
Images from White
This entry was posted in Contemporary Photography and tagged Aesthetics, Aperture, Beirut, Black Photos, Black White, Camera Settings, Composition, Computer Screen, Contemporary Photography, Digital Camera, Fashion Advertising, Fine Art, Framing, Integral Elements, Lcd Screen, Lebanese Father, Loot, Photographer, Photographers, Photographs, Photography., Sherif, St Petersbourg, Subject Matter, Tripod on April 8, 2011 by Aline - lenscratch.blogspot.com/.
The sublime – the agreeable horror in visual arts
The sublime an old aesthetic concept that has survived
The sublime is a term used an aesthetic category with a long history since ancient Greek times.
The sublime is a term used in the theory of aesthetics. The concept of the sublime is strongly related to visual impressions and later to visual arts with a long history since ancient Greek times.
Many of us, if not everybody, has experiences with the sublime either by seeing real landscapes or viewing sublime vistas in the media especially in film.
The fantasy and science fiction film genre has created impressive examples in films like "The Lord of the Rings" or in "Space Odyssey 2001". Endless, infinite space or landscapes in these films intimidate the human, but at the same time evoke curiosity and fascination. These are the typical qualities of the sublime.
At the end of the 17th century when the Grand Tour became popular travelers experienced the sublime when crossing the mountains of the Alps on their Grand Tour to Italy. Ductless Air Conditioning . At that time crossing the Alps was an adventure. The raw powers of nature displayed by the steep rock landscape of the Alps left a deep impression on early travelers.
Among others it was Joseph Addison, who defined the impression the landscape of the alp evoked on him as a "kind of agreeable horror" to the mind. His ideas about greatness, uncommonness and beauty as the three major qualities in imagination were the starting point for later philosophical examinations of the sublime.
In the mid of the 18th century Edmund Burke published his famous essay on the subject, which became a central theoretic document on the sublime as aesthetic category. Burke’s merit was to separate the sublime from the beautiful with clear arguments.
"In short, the Beautiful, according to Burke, is what is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the Sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy us. The preference for the Sublime over the Beautiful was to mark the transition from the Neoclassical to the Romantic era." (Quoted from WIKIPEDIA on the sublime.)
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A Philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime… Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke`s essay first published in 1756 is the central text that has established the theory of the sublime as aesthetic category separated from the beautiful.
Longinus (literature) – On the sublime Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of the Sublime and Beauitful: And Other Pre-Revolutionary Writings (Penguin Classics)
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The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference (English, English and English Edition)
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The sublime in contemporary landscape photography
The concept of the sublime is very strong represented in contemporary landscape photography. In a way there has not much happened other than an exaggeration since those early photographs by Edward Steichen or the unmatched works of Ansel Adams. Photographers like Andreas Gursky or Edward Burtynsky had to adopt to the spoiled mind of the post modern audience. It takes more than the snow covered top of El Capitan to put the modern viewer in awe.
Andreas Gursky – Wikipedia
Introduction to Andreas Gursky and his works
Turkey cinemascopeThe official website of Nuri Bilge Ceylan photography
The works of Nuri Bilge Ceylan show sublime vistas of Turkish cities and landscapes. Interesting to see how he connects humans with the sublime surrounding
Edward Burtynsky [ Photographic Works ]
Edward Burtynsky represents the modern sublime par excellence…his work is very thought provoking as it deals with environmental affairs and the consequences for mankind
Landscapes by Ed Burtynsky The sublime in contemporary art
Todd Hido. Andreas Gursky. Rap Songs . Atlanta ice maker repair . Jeff Wall.
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To determine when will iPhone 7 be launched, we need to put light on different facts and figures. The date of its release is also important. It is launched at different dates in different countries, but here we will be talking about the international launch date of it.
Firstly, we will consider release date of iPhone 7. So, far it is expected that Apple will be following its traditional time of releasing which is somewhere between September. The sales of iPhone 6s further confirm it that Apple is in no mood of releasing iPhone 7 anytime earlier than the traditional one. From the release date of iPhone 6s, 6, 5s and 5, two things are for sure for iPhone 7. First is that it is likely to be released around 10th of September, and secondly that it will be released on Tuesday. The two Tuesday around 10th of September are on 6th and 13th of it next year. So, these two dates are, till now, expected to be the release date of iPhone 7.
Looking at the history of the launch date of iPhone 7, it is seen that it took around ten days after its release date. iPhone 5 was launched nine days after its release, 5s after ten days, 6 after eleven days and 6s after thirteen days. This increasing sequence shows that iPhone 7 will be launched after more than thirteen days of its release date, expected after fifteen days. Now, looking at the release date, if iPhone 7 is released on 6th of September then it is expected to be launched on 21st of September, or if it is released on 13th of September then 28th of September is expected to be its launch date.
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CXC and CAPE students may be inconvenienced by Barbados election
Kerri Gooding Created : 26 April 2018 Caribbean News
Seven examinations by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) are scheduled for May 24, 2018, which coincides with the recently announced date for General Elections in Barbados.
Moments ago, it was announced that the General Elections for Barbados will be hosted on said May 24 as well.
Across the island, the secondary schools and primary schools are used as polling stations. The secondary schools are also Examination Centres for CXC.
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Students in Barbados who are entered for CXC Geography, Agricultural Science and Industrial Technology 2: Electrical and Electronic will be affected when Barbadians go to the polls.
In terms of the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) timetable, students are set to write papers for Pure Mathematics Unit 2, Economics Unit 1, Digital Media Unit 2, and Agricultural Science Unit 2.
The Representative at CXC could not say to Loop News definitively if students in Barbados are entered for the CAPE Digital Media, the CXC Industrial Technology 2: Electrical and Electronic nor the CXC and CAPE Agriculture Science exams, however, he asserted that students taking the other three courses will surely be impacted.
CXC is looking into the numbers to see how many students will be impacted by this clash.
In the past students have been hosted at the Barbados Community College (BCC) and the Garfield Sobers Gymnasium when alternative arrangements had to be made for students, especially private candidates.
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Review of "The Vault" from the Guédelon Project
The Guédelon project is possibly one of the most abitious architectural projects within living memory. Within our everyday lives we are constantly reminded of our ability to create impressive buildings in a variety of styles, but Guéldon is different. Set within a forest in a disused quarry in central France, for the last 15 years a dedicated team has worked steadily to construct a Thirteenth Century castle entirely using the techniques and expertise of this period. This highly ambitious undertaking is all the more impressive considering that many of the construction methods now emplyed on the site have not been used for for hundreds of years, indeed many have been revived by those working on the project and for this alone they deserve our admiration.
With over 300,000 visitors each year the building site at Guéldon is well patronised by those interested in this growing castle, however last year the project also released a 33 minute DVD - La Voute (The Vault). Modestly priced, this is a DVD I have no hesitation in recommending to castle lovers everywhere. The main focus of the presentation is an observers point of view, watching the team assemble a cross vault within the castle, from the wooden framing through to the final structure. The feature doesn't set out to provide a step by step guide of how to create a cross vault structure and it shouldn't be judged as such, instead it allows the viewer to watch as the stones are moved into place with wooden rollers and mortared into place, hold their breath as the wooden supports are removed and marvel at the skill and ingenuity of the craftsmen who have managed to accomplish such a magnificent feat. What is even more impressive, is that this is the third such vault that has been accomplished on the site, and with another scheduled for 2013 construction season which is just underway, it seems that it won't be their last.
The feature is presented entirely in French with optional English or German subtitles, but don't let this put you off, within moments the viewer is drawn into this strange pseudo 13th century world. The film is beautifully shot and presented and in addition to its main focus on the construction of the vault, it also provides the viewer with a real impression of the project as a whole. This construction is very much a team effort and the cameraderie and friendship of the team is immediately visible.
With this project now over half way through its project 25 year duration, we can only hope that more DVDs will be forthcoming from the team at Guéldon. It would be interesting to see more indepth tutorials and examinations of the differing construction methods developed at Guéldon, I would like to hope that this will not be the last medieval construction of its type attempted by this team.
I spend my days reconstructing castles using the latest technology to better understand and explain these medieval structures. The team at Guéldon have worked for many years reviving ancient skills to construct a truly unique edifice. We should wish them every success as they begin their construction this month after a long Winter's rest.
March 22, 2013 by Joseph Fox
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ECB Signals Hawkish Tone on European Interest Rates as Inflation Soar
Interest-Rates / Euro-Zone Jun 09, 2008 - 04:08 PM GMT
By: Victoria_Marklew
As expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) left its refi rate at 4.0% again last Thursday. What was not expected was the hawkish tone of the subsequent statement and the press briefing from President Trichet. He noted that the Governing Council had a "deep discussion" (trans: "fierce debate"?) and remains "in a state of heightened alertness." Some members apparently wanted a rate hike this month but the consensus was to hold. The President then noted that the Council may decide to make "a small hike" at the July 3 meeting in order to anchor inflation expectations.
The statement emphasized that risks to prices remain clearly on the upside and have increased further. And, Trichet reiterated that the bank's mandate is to ensure medium-term price stability, which means firmly anchoring inflation expectations. The euro promptly firmed anew.
Thursday's policy meeting took place against the backdrop of the ECB's ten year anniversary. Back on June 1, 1998, annual inflation in the eleven countries joining the Euro-zone was running at just 1.4%, a barrel of Brent crude cost $15.60, and 3-month Euribor stood at 3.575%. While the 2000-2001 period brought a spike in inflation and market rates, the rest of the decade was fairly predictable policy-wise as price increases moved pretty much hand-in-hand with growth.
Thursday's ECB faces a much more challenging world. Inflation is rising, the interbank market is still struggling, and the macroeconomic impacts of the US slowdown and global financial turmoil are now coming home to roost. Inflation in the 15-member 'zone climbed to 3.6% in May, Brent crude stands at $128pb, and 3-month Euribor hit 4.864%, the highest so far this year. On the plus side, ECB policy-making has clarity, coherence, and credibility, all of which were sorely lacking a decade ago.
The ECB and its President apparently have decided that their best course is to stick firmly to the bank's mandate of maintaining price stability. Trichet himself set the tone at a speech this past weekend, when he warned that bad management of the oil crisis back in the 1970s (large wage rises and low interest rates) seriously hurt the economy. He concluded by warning that the errors of the past must not be repeated.
As noted, Euro-zone headline inflation jumped to 3.6% in May. The pace of M3 money supply growth (something the Council is known to watch closely), which appeared to be on a downward trend in recent months, nudged back up to 10.6% in April from 10.1% in March. As Trichet pointed out, while this probably overstates the underlying pace of monetary expansion thanks to financial market upheavals, the underlying rate of money and credit growth remains strong.
Add in better-than-expected GDP growth in Q1 - up 0.8% on the quarter and 2.2% on the year - and the case for a July rate hike looks clear. Except, of course, that forward-looking data point to much slower growth for the 'zone as a whole in Q2, while the outlook for some countries is downright gloomy.
Retail sales across the 15 'zone countries fell 0.6% m-o-m and 2.9% y-o-y in April (-0.9% and -2.3%, respectively, in March) as increasingly-expensive oil and food hit consumers' purchasing power. The European Commission's economic sentiment survey for May showed consumer confidence hit its lowest level since September 2005 although overall sentiment did at least stabilize and inflation expectations continue to hover around the same level as last summer.
Euro-zone services PMI slipped closer to contraction in May, coming in at 50.6 from 52.0 in April, and took a particularly sharp hit in France, while Italy saw services PMI contract for the third straight month and Spain for the fifth. Industrial new orders for the Euro-zone were much weaker than expected in March, shrinking 1.0% on the month and 2.5% on the year. And came the news that manufacturing orders in powerhouse Germany slipped 1.8% on the month in April as capital goods orders from other Euro-zone states dropped 9.0% - a reflection perhaps of rapid cooling in the likes of Spain and Ireland.
So, what are the odds of a July rate hike? The ECB's mandate is to keep inflation "below but close to 2%" in the medium term. That qualifier allows some wriggle-room - the Council can say that current conditions are temporary and prices will come back toward target in the "medium-term" and can define that however it sees fit. For now, our hunch is that the Council will continue to talk tough but the consensus to stand pat will prevail. As always, though, watch the data.
By Victoria Marklew
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Economic Research Department - Daily Global Commentary
Victoria Marklew is Vice President and International Economist at The Northern Trust Company, Chicago. She joined the Bank in 1991, and works in the Economic Research Department, where she assesses country lending and investment risk, focusing in particular on Asia. Ms. Marklew has a B.A. degree from the University of London, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in Political Economy from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Cash, Crisis, and Corporate Governance: The Role of National Financial Systems in Industrial Restructuring (University of Michigan Press, 1995).
The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of The Northern Trust Company. The Northern Trust Company does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of information contained herein, such information is subject to change and is not intended to influence your investment decisions.
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Choosing the Path to Progression
Fawwaz Baktee
From a machine operator in the 80s to a production planner today in a male-dominated industry, Wang Mui Sin proves that nothing can stop you in the way of progress except yourself. (Photo: NTUC This Week)
Having been in the electrical equipment industry for more than 36 years, United Workers of Electronics & Electrical Industries Executive Council Member and Yokogawa Branch Chairman Wang Mui Sin, 55, believes strongly in lifelong learning in order to keep up with advancements in technology.
“The only way we can move forward is to constantly upgrade ourselves. It may not be only through courses, but on-the-job training as well,” she said.
(Photo courtesy of Ms Wong)
Ms Wang first started out as a machine operator in 1980 with Yokogawa. After four years there, she jumped at the opportunity to switch departments.
“My upgrading journey has mostly been through on-the-job training. This was ever since I started as a machine operator. I was doing moulding then. It was a very hands-on job and many have said that it’s more suited for men. When there was an opening in the store department, I made the switch because I wanted to try something new,” said Ms Wang.
Despite having no previous experience, she managed to do well in her new role and was selected to help set up a new store at Yokogawa’s Batam plant in 1997. While in Batam, she also took it upon herself to pick up simple Bahasa Indonesia to help her communicate better with the Indonesian workers.
It was when she moved to the IT Systems department years later that Ms Wang became more determined to upgrade herself in order to keep up.
“Technology changes really quickly in my industry, and Yokogawa constantly upgrades its systems every few years. It was very manual decades ago, but now we have the help of automation and computer systems. Technology is helpful, but only if we are open to learning how it can make our jobs easier,” she said.
Today, she has taken on the role of a production planner, where she helps to keep manufacturing schedules in check.
“Now that I am a planner in production control, I deal a lot with computers and data. Even though it is not easy, I try my best. Even if I fail, I try and try again. Previously, there were times when I found things challenging. Everything was quite confusing for me at first but I took it slowly and day by day, with the help of my colleagues and seniors, I got better,” she said.
As she came from a Chinese school, Ms Wang is more comfortable speaking and learning in Mandarin than English. However, that has not stopped her from learning new things.
Taking this hurdle within her stride, she keeps a notebook that contains the things she has learnt, which she translates from English to Mandarin for easy reference.
Concern for Workers’ Future
As a union leader, Ms Wang hopes that more of the workers in her branch continue to upgrade themselves, given the disruption her industry is currently facing. As advice for members in her branch, she said that they should believe in themselves and they should not be afraid to learn new things.
“When there is an opportunity to move to other departments to learn and gain more experience, go for it. I do hope more members upgrade themselves as well. The company does give a lot of opportunities to upgrade so, seize the opportunity,” she said.
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FARMERS, AGRO-ALLIED BODIES EXPECT ‘NEXT LEVEL’ INTERVENTIONS IN AGRIC SECTOR
By Nigerian Farming Online Magazine March 15, 2019 145 No comment
At the presidential and National Assembly levels, the ballot battle is won and lost. The hurly-burly was gone, but the expectations about the ‘next level’ promise are high and huge, especially in creating enabling environments for food and agro-allied businesses and industries.
In his foreword to the Green Alternative, which sets out strategies to be used in the Agricultural promotion policy of the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, said two major problems were to be tackled by the administration.
The two major challenges, the minister said, are “Nigeria still imports a significant amount of food. Nigeria is also not earning significant foreign exchange from agriculture, meaning we are losing at both ends.”The policy explains that the private sector operators will lead the food business revolution, while the government will facilitate and provide supporting infrastructure, systems, control processes and oversight.
The success of the policy is hinged on the effective participation of farmers, state governments, investors, financial institutions, communities and processors. Others are research institutions, Nigeria Custom Service and donor agencies. In fairness to the government, efforts such as attempts to close some land borders against smuggling; the off-taking of farm products through the Anchor Borrower’s programme; the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) move on 10 per cent interest rate for agribusiness loans; and lately the creation of a micro-finance bank for agro-industrial businesses, have been made.
Lingering challenges
Despite the efforts, it appears little has been achieved. Smuggling of rice, poultry products and other food products the borders remains a difficulty. Cost of chicken production at home is too high, according to the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), making home-grown chickens uncompetitive and smuggling attractive.
Cost of farm mechanisation, a means of commercial farm productivity, is exorbitant as a result of grossly inadequate supply of tractor and farm support services. The escalating farmer-herder crisis has left many farm-active communities desolate in the North central and North-east zones, breeding food crises for the displaced individuals and their dependents. Rice production, according to the government, has increased and reduced the quantity of imports, but the price of local rice is still very high, paving way for smuggling and dubious re-bagging of foreign as local rice.
Post-harvest challenges and management still pose threats to farmers’ investments and food sufficiency goal, while government commitment the sector appears inadequate considering the budgetary allocations to the sector at the federal and state levels. Irrigation facilities and dry season farm operations are still very limited, compounded by inadequate and erratic rainfall patterns that pose serious food crisis possibilities in predominantly rain-fed agricultural systems.
What farmers, agribusiness groups expect
President of the Palm Producers Association of Nigeria, Mr Henry Olatujoye, said “We expect the president to consolidate on what he did in the first term. “farmers are happy that since the policies like anchor borrowers’ scheme, restriction on foreign exchange and removal of waivers have been operational, prices of commodities have remained stable in the face of domestic challenges such as smuggling, high interest rate and attitude of consumers. “People now patronize made-in-Nigeria commodities than ever before. It is my strong desire that Nigerians will support him to lay a solid foundation for our tomorrow.”
President of the Catfish and Allied Fish Farmers Association of Nigeria (CAFFAN), Mr Rotimi Oloye, while expressing expectations of fish farmers, said “agriculture is a business, and it deserves all attention required to bring returns on investments. “He added that “If as claimed, the effort of the government has yielded the much result in rice production, let us make use of the template in rice production for other farm products and livestock.
“All those bottlenecks through conflicts of interests by government agencies should be removed.”Oloye added that conducive environment should be created for food production to bloom and efforts should be made to make every settlement/village get involved in food production. He tasked the National Orientation Agency (NOA) to educate more Nigerians, especially youths and graduates, on the need to get involved in food production, and consumption of home grown foods.
“The government and its agencies should also patronise our home-grown foods. It should also help in cushioning cost of production of food,” he added, while calling for development of rural roads and essential infrastructure for transportation of food from the farm gates. David Omowumi Ayodele, an agribusiness consultant and tractor service provider, said, “It is expected that the new administration would focus more on stress-free agricultural finance.”
He suggested that conscious efforts should be made towards agro-processing subsector to create sustainable market for agricultural products, increase production and maintain sustainable interplays among all the value chain actors. Also, he suggested that the government should deepen market and buy agricultural products at sustainable guaranteed prices to immune farmers against price fluctuations and prevent discouragement on the side of farmers and financiers.
Another agribusiness consultant, Mr Anthonio John-Bede, said, “We expect recapitalization of the Bank of Agriculture (BOA) and African Development Bank (AfDB) should invest in the bank; an increase in credit facilities to agricultural sector and all research institutions and agricultural universities should be empowered. “Other expectations, as John-Bede said, are increase in extension services by the government for farmers; state governments’ more investments in agriculture and allocation of free farmland to young agribusiness individuals.
He added that each state should be mandated to dedicate at least 100,000 hectares to agriculture; and that agriculture should be a major compulsory subject in the Nigerian primary and secondary schools. Each school and post-secondary institution should have at least a 10-hectare farmland for demonstration farming practices, he suggested.
The National President of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Mr Ibrahim Kabir, expressed optimism of prosperity in the second term of the administration based on the anticipatory actualisation and consolidation of the deliverables of the Green Alternative Policy, otherwise known as Agriculture Promotion Policy (APP), being promoted by the government. He said, “The President will have the chance to take the policy to the next level and the farmers are, therefore, poised to take advantage of the enabling environment to expand agribusiness generally.”
Mr John Olateru, a former chairman of the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) in Oyo State and current chairman of the Commodities Association of Nigeria, said farmers in the state are expectant of real expansion of the Anchor Borrowers’ programme to the South, for the beneficiaries were mainly from the zones in the North since the inception of the scheme.
Agricultural business financing, he added, is the soul of food production. With financial resources, Olateru explained, farmers could employ revolutionary and game-changing technologies that would multiply agricultural productivity, drastically reduce cost of production and make farming profitable and sustainable while developing the value chains for real economic diversification. Dr. Akin Olonihuwa, a former provost of the Kabba College of Agriculture, said farmers are expecting more support for production activities.
For rice and other food crops, Olonihuwa said support is needed in land preparation in some local government areas, where there is no single tractor available for hire either privately or government owned). Tractors, therefore, he said, should be made available to cooperatives or bigger farmers who can make them available for hire.
The lecturer said the government should also control the quality of agrochemicals and blends of fertilizer in the market to reduce adulteration, and he emphasized the establishment of more processing plants for agricultural products like rice, cassava and fruits.
Better, more efficient and impactful funding support; enlightenment and advocacy by the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) on their services (for more patronage of the services by farmers will mitigate losses due to unpredictable weather and natural disasters); supply of improved and affordable seeds and seedlings to farmers; stepping up of extension services and finding permanent and sustainable solutions to farmers-herdsmen clashes are other expectations he disclosed.
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Falode tips Falcons, hails Falconets rebound
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Just appointed Nigeria’s National Women’s League Chairperson, Aisha Falode, has said she has no doubt about the ability of the Nigerian national women side, tagged the Super Falcons to win the African Women Championship for an unprecedented eight time in Cameroon.
She also tips Nigeria’s U20 Women side, the Falconets to cause more upsets at the ongoing FIFA world tourney in Papua New Guinea where the team after losing its first game 6-1 to Japan bounced back with a 3-1 win over Canada on Wednesday.
Falode, a member of the CAF and FIFA Media Committees is currently in Cameroon for the AWC championship and declared that it’s only Nigeria that can beat Nigeria at the championship. She said the Nigerian women side with Florence Omagbemi as Head Coach has a leader on the bench with the players ready to defend the integrity of the best national women side ever in Africa.
Hear her: “We have a team managed by one of the best women footballers Africa has ever produced and we must thank the NFF for her appointment, the players also know what is at stake and they are determined to make a statement in the new era of women football, I believe they can do it and even more as we await better outing at the global level for the Falcons”.
On the U20 side rebound in Papua New Guinea, Falode said Nigerians should support the Peter Dedevbo managed team to reach the knock out stage and possibly pick the trophy following the comeback win against Canada after an embarrassing defeat to Japan. “The team can still make it but they need the support of all Nigerians in the task and sure who says we cannot win the World Cup itself, like we say in football impossibility does not exist.”
Falode while also thanking the Amaju Pinnick led NFF over her appointment assured that she will not disappoint the federation because of the carefully selected team that have been chosen to work with her. “We thank the NFF for finding us worthy to serve and the assurance here is that there is work to be done but we will not let those who have picked us for these positions down however we need the support of not only women football lovers but all and sundry for success.
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Getting started with Yi, the haskell editor (2008)
What’s Yi?
Yi is an emacs-like editor written in haskell.
It is, as they say, made of awesome.
I first heard of Yi in early 2007 when Ben Moseley mentioned it at the pub during MGS 2007. It took me nearly a year to get around to looking at it. But now that I have, I think it’s really cool. It’s a text editor, with a GUI and lots of state - which is exactly the kind of app that most people think haskell is bad for. But actually, that all works out very nicely thankyouverymuch. And because yi is a text editor, and text editors just aren’t that complicated, it makes for a great educational application.
It’s not ready for mainstream use though. It needs a fairly bleeding edge configuration, and lots of functionality is missing. But if you’re looking to hack on a meaty haskell app, it’s a great start.
I’ve written a sequence of tutorial examples covering installation and basic extension programming to get you up to speed with Yi. Enjoy!
Building and installing yi
Hello World for yi
comment-region for yi
diary example for yi
shell-command example for yi
More random programming stuff and metal-melting fun on my home page and blog.
Help, I don’t know haskell!
Haskell is the new scala, which is the new erlang, which is the new ruby. It’s what all the cool kids are using. The fact that it’s a beautiful and elegant language is irrelevant. Succum to peer pressure!
I first learned Haskell back in 2001 from the excellent book The Haskell School of Expression by Paul Hudak. Unlike many other book, it’s full of useful examples involving graphics and animations. Highly recommended.
The book doesn’t spend very much time explaining monads, which are heavily used in Yi. But over the last few years there have been a billion monad tutorials written on the web.
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Michael Dowse
b. in Calgary, Alberta
Michael Dowse is pictured above during the making of the Alliance Films release, Fubar II. Dowse grew up in Calgary and played offensive tackle for the Dinos football team while getting a communications degree at the University of Calgary. Eventually he started making films while doing odd jobs at local TV networks like Shaw Cable and A-Channel. He began his career as a director with music videos for such bands as The New Pornographers and Chixdiggit. His first feature, Fubar, premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and quickly became an underground hit. A writer and editor, he was nominated for a Genie Award for his editing work on Fubar. It`s All Gone Pete Tong, his second feature, won the City Award for Best Canadian Feature at the 2004 Toronto Film Festival.
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The F Word (2014)
Credits as a Screenwriter:
The Grand Seduction (2013)
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Dream, Purpose & Values
THE NWU
Where to find the NWU
Building C1
Mafikeng Campus
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Vaal Triangle Campus
Building C1 (Potchefstroom)
Route map to the Building C1 (Potchefstroom)
N12 FROM JOHANNESBURG:
Follow the N12 to Potchefstroom. At the fifth robot after entering Potchefstroom, turn right into Govan Mbeki Drive (Mooirivier Drive). The Mooi Rivier Mall will be on your right-hand side. Follow the road past the Riverwalk shopping centre, McDonald's and Kentucky, all on your left. Turn left into Chief Albert Luthuli Drive (Von Wielligh Street). Continue to the four-way stop (the first one after the robot at the Shell Garage) and turn right into Hoffman Street. Follow the road past two more four-way stops. At the third four-way stop, turn left towards the security entrance of Building C1. The physical address is 53 Borcherd Street.
N12 FROM KLERKSDORP:
At the third robot, turn left into Beyers Naudé Avenue (Kruger Street), directly after crossing the bridge. Carry on straight. At the fourth stop sign, Beyers Naudé Avenue becomes Hoffman Street. Continue along this street. Turn left at the third four-way stop towards the security entrance of Building C1.
R53 FROM VENTERSDORP:
After passing the artillery school mess hall on your left, turn left at the robot into Meyer Street. Follow the road past the Medi-Clinic hospital on your right. Continue through two four-way stop streets and across a bridge. Directly after the bridge, turn right into Hoffman Street. Turn left at the next four-way stop towards the security entrance of Building C1.
Degrees, Minutes, Seconds
26º41´36´´S , 27º05´35´´E
Degrees, Decimal Minutes
26º41.610´S , 27º05.584´E
Decimal Degrees
26.693492ºS , 27.093062ºE
Route map to the Mafikeng Campus
R53 FROM POTCHEFSTROOM
Follow the R53 from Potchefstroom to Ventersdorp. Follow the N14 from Ventersdorp to Coligny. Follow the R503 from Coligny to Lichtenburg. Follow the R503 from Lichtenburg to Mafikeng. Follow the N18 to the North-West University, Mafikeng Campus.
N14 FROM KRUGERSDORP
From Johannesburg proceed to Krugersdorp. In Krugersdorp, take the N14 to Ventersdorp. Proceed with the N14 to Coligny. Follow the R503 from Coligny to Lichtenburg. Follow the R503 from Lichtenburg to Mafikeng. Entering Mafikeng on Nelson Mandela Drive, keep going straight for about seven kilometres. After passing a Sasol Garage, you will see the Mmabatho Palms Hotel on your right. Turn left at the robot in front of the hotel into Albert Luthuli Street. Drive on for about 2,5 kilometres. Cross over the railway line and then look out for a set of robots going straight (not curving left). Look out for a water tower on your left. At the next set of robots, turn right into entrance of the Mafikeng Campus.
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Route map to the Potchefstroom Campus
N12 FROM JOHANNESBURG
Follow the N12 to Potchefstroom. At the fifth robot after entering Potchefstroom, turn right into Govan Mbeki Drive (old Mooirivier Drive). The Mooi Rivier Mall will be on your right hand side. Follow the road past the Riverwalk shopping centre, McDonald's and Kentucky, all on your left. Turn left into Chief Albert Luthuli Drive (Von Wielligh Street). Continue to the four-way stop (the first one after the robot at the Shell Garage) and turn right into Hoffman Street. The street ends at the main and security entrance to the Potchefstroom Campus.
N12 FROM KLERKSDORP
At the third robot, turn left into Beyers Naudé Avenue (Kruger Street), directly after crossing the bridge. Carry on straight. At the fourth stop sign, Beyers Naudé Avenue becomes Hoffman Street. Continue along this street - it ends at the security entrance to the Potchefstroom Campus.
R53 FROM VENTERSDORP
After passing the artillery school mess hall on your left, turn left at the robot into Meyer Street. Follow the road past the Medi-Clinic hospital on your right. Continue through two four-way stop streets and across a bridge. Directly after the bridge, turn left into Hoffman Street. The street ends at the security entrance to the Potchefstroom Campus.
Route map to the Vaal Triangle Campus in Vanderbijlpark
R59 FROM JOHANNESBURG
Follow the R59 past Alberton to Vereeniging, go through Vereeniging and take the R42 to Vanderbijlpark. At the traffic light at the Pick ‘n Pay turn left, go over the fourway stop and continue straight over the next fourway stop. At the three-way stop (River Spray on your left), turn right, go over the traffic light into Hendrik van Eck Boulevard, the campus is on the left.
N1 (CEMENT HIGHWAY) FROM JOHANNESBURG
Follow the highway through the tollgate. Go past the fourway stop, past two traffic lights, drive in the direction of Sasolburg and then take the slipway on the left side, turn left and follow the road signs to the campus.
Follow the N12 (Joe Slovo Road) straight towards Potchefstroom (N12 - Nelson Mandela Drive). Turn right onto the R53 (Parys Avenue) and continue straight on the R53, the road turns slightly left at the R42. Continue and turn right onto the R57 (Golden Highway). Turn left into Ravel Street and continue straight into Beethoven Street, straight into Frikkie Meyer Street, then into the slipway, straight into Hendrick van Eck Boulevard. Continue until you reach the NWU Vaal on the right.
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Campaigning to save Newbury's main football ground from council redevelopment and improve playing facilities for the community.
Please make the effort to vote in the local elections on Thursday 2nd May!
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News updates April 2019
West Berks Council applies for planning permission to erect perimeter fencing and floodlights at Newbury Football Ground arounds its proposed multi-use games area (MUGA)! WHY?! We have a perfectly good application to build an artificial football pitch and facilities to cater for organised league and cup football. And WBC's work will cost three times the £88,000 already mentioned by them. Given that there will be no developments in the London Road Estate for a long time, they could have left the ground as it was and the community would have retained its much needed facility.
The surprising MUGA planning application by the Council is here:
https://publicaccess.westberks.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=PPDK17RD04Z00
We need to secure at least 10 objections to it to force it to committee. This is further destruction of the existing facility, there is a lack lack of evidence to support its need, it's counter to the need for formal football facilities, a waste of public money, contrary to WBC's own policies.
It will cost more than the predicted £88k (maybe up to £300K) and we demand the council declare how much it has budgeted for the facility and how much it has budgeted for the replacement of the football ground.
The Council has failed to be transparent about its intentions, has misrepresented the nature of the new facility, has spent and committed yet more public funds without evidence and unnecessarily (added to which the is no way this could be classed as a priority when other services have been deprived of funding), failed to carry out consultation, breached its own planning policy (specific protection of the football ground – ADPP2 & CS18). It's also counter-intuitive to its long term regeneration goal as the new facility will be destroyed by future redevelopment!
See the news blog for how to object either online:
https://publicaccess.westberks.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=makeComment&keyVal=PPDK17RD04Z00
or by email to:
planapps.westberks.gov.uk quoting reference 19/00814/FUL
News updates February-March 2019
While West Berks Council denies any wrongdoing over the London Road estate fiasco, many questions on strategy and costs remain. As we get closer to the local elections on 2 May, the council goes on the charm offensive for votes with positively spun news on LRIE plans, the re-opening of Faraday Road for multi-sports and public consultations which have been scarce to-date!
Whatever your political colours, please do take time to understand the local issues which are important to you and vote for the party promising solutions (and then hold them to it!)
See the news blog for news articles, councillors' LRIE letters and more background information.
NCFG continues to question the council's attitude to football at its public meetings.
The third stage of our complaint is still being investigated thoroughly by the Local Government Ombudsman.
Newbury FC will move to Henwick (a football pitch, not a ground) with little hope of playing at Northcroft at a proper ground (if WBC deem it viable) for some years.
NCFG continues to support all local football clubs, growing its membership, and we eagerly await the Playing Pitch Strategy which is overdue publication.
News update 16/11/18
London Road development halted!
Please see the news blog and here for the press release
We had around a hundred attendees at our two successful public consultations at Document House on Thursday 13th September (thank you!). If you have any further questions about NCFG or our football ground improvement planning application, please contact us.
Our thanks to Michelle & Lee at Document House :)
PowerPoint presentation here
Design & Access Statement here
Q & A sheet here
3G ground layout here
Please email press@ncfg.uk for Lee McDougall, chair@ncfg.uk for Paul Morgan or general enquiries to info@ncfg.uk
And thank you to those few councillors who could make it to the briefing... if you wish to tell West Berks Council what you think, please contact their CEO nick.carter@westberks.gov.uk
Our petition for you to support our planning application for an all-weather pitch at Faraday Road, rather than the council's plan for flats, is now live, so please share it widely!
Please show your support by clicking https://chhhhn.ge/2N8eYEW
Please read an up-to-date summary of our position
Here is our mission statement
A FEW WORDS ABOUT US
NCFG was formed in late 2015 by members of local footballing organisations in reaction to the council's proposals to demolish the town's main football ground as part of a larger land redevelopment.
The group feels strongly that senior and youth football should retain its community home near the town centre and that the council has got its vision wrong.
Hundreds of children and teenagers play football in Newbury each week. This goes to the heart of improving health and wellbeing, as per West Berkshire Council’s (WBC) and the Government’s strategy. Closing the ground is fundamentally counter-productive.
Newbury Football Ground is crucial to retaining interest from young to teenage and beyond (aspiration to play at a higher, older age level and succession of players progressing) and it is Newbury’s premier ground.
Despite the best efforts of the volunteer group that has maintained the ground, it has suffered from chronic under-investment (including no public funding) which NCFG is aiming to address.
The FA concludes that West Berks needs at least four 3G/4G pitches.
The main objectives of WBC in redeveloping the London Road Industrial Estate (LRIE, where the Faraday Road ground is) are regeneration and increased income from the land.
NCFG’s plan to develop Newbury Football Ground (NFG) into an exciting, multi-sport community facility for the community with artificial pitch(es) is financially sustainable and has the potential to dramatically improve the council’s income. It will therefore satisfy the above objectives and is in keeping with current strategies for regeneration/income enhancement from LRIE and improving wellbeing/health in West Berkshire (particularly for the young).
NCFG’s plan is compatible with the council’s objectives so we believe that the council should welcome it. In fact, NCFG is not proposing anything that opposes/damages the council’s strategy and objectives.
WBC’s draft Housing Site Allocations policy (see section 2.10 – 2.14 London Road Industrial Estate - Area of Regeneration) identifies that the area is not required for housing, so their proposal to redevelop the ground for flats is unsupported by evidence and planning policy.
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Sex Before Athletic Events - Facts and Myths
An area that is associated with myth and misinformation is the topic of sex before athletic events. Plato wrote in 444B.C. that Olympic competitors before races should avoid sexual intimacy. In 77 AD, Pliny the Elder wrote to the contrary that: "Athletes when sluggish are revitalized by lovemaking." Thousands of years later the controversy continues. Muhammad Ali was opposed to sexual intimacy and would abstain for weeks before a title bout. However, "Broadway" Joe Namath, the Hall of Fame quarterback from the New York Jets was a proponent of sex, lots of it, before a football game. Both of these athletes were at the top of their games; so what is the truth and what is the advice for our readers who are weekend warriors?
Athletes and their coaches have long perpetuated the theory that sex before competition zaps energy. Scientists who have investigated this topic (what a great area to conduct research!) report that there is no physiological evidence to suggest that sex before competition is bad. In fact, some studies suggest that pre-sports sex may actually aid male athletes by raising their testosterone levels, for example.
It is unclear, however, what psychological effects sex may have on an athlete's performance. Some scientists suggest that abstinence could help some athletes concentrate better.
There are some opponents who opine that sex before a competition could make you tired and weak and tired the next day. When this aspect has been studied by hand grip strength tests reported sex had "no detrimental influence on the maximal workload achieved or on the athletes' mental concentration."
An article from a reputable medical journal disproved the long-standing myth that athletes should practice abstinence before important competitions. They disproved the theory that abstinence may result in sexual frustration, which leads to increased aggression. The abstinence tradition is particularly strong in power sports, such as boxing and football, in which aggression is considered a valuable trait.
After several weeks without sex, testosterone, the male hormone associated with sex and male aggression, dramatically drops to close to prepubesence levels or way below normal. I doubt that this is beneficial for a boxer or a football player.
Scientists dismiss the idea that sex the night before competition has a tiring effect on the athlete or that it could weaken the athlete's muscles.
Lovemaking, after all, is not a very demanding exercise. In general sexual intercourse between married partners expends only 25 to 50 calories, about the energy it takes to walk up two flights of stairs or far less than one-half piece of cake. So there is little evidence that sex before the event will rob the athlete of energy and calories.
Sexual activity could actually help combat muscle pain or other sports injuries in women. Studies have found that sexual stimulation in women produces a powerful pain-blocking effect via the release of endorphins, which are potent, natural pain relievers produced by the body.
Also it is has been discovered that vaginal stimulation has a strong effect on muscle tension in the legs, increasing it in some women and decreasing it in others.
Much less is known about the psychological effects of sex on athletic performance. Some experts say coaches may be favoring the abstinence theory simply because they want to make sure young athletes get enough sleep before a big game. Psychologists have shown there is an optimal level of alertness and anxiety that is necessary to produce the best possible performance. Too much anxiety or too much aggression may result in poor performance.
If athletes are too anxious and restless the night before an event, then sex may be a relaxing distraction.
If an athlete is relaxed and is focused on the game or competition, they may have little interest in sex the night before a big competition and a good night's sleep is all they need. Sports psychologists suggest that consistency is the most important and that an athlete should never try something before an important competition that they have not already tried in lesser competitions or practice.
Other athletes who are very anxious or nervous may benefit by having sexual intercourse the evening before the game.
So what is my advice? Like most anything else, it is going to come down to the individual. Some athletes may have no problem giving up the sex prior to a race or athletic event. The best way to figure this out is to do your own experiment. Only you know how these things are going to affect you. Science can tell you what will chemically happen in your body, but how you respond is up to you.
Bottom Line: The jury remains out. I would recommend going the advice of Casey Stengel, the legendary coach of the New York Yankees who said "It isn't sex that wrecks these guys, it's staying up all night looking for it."
Dr. Neil Baum is a physician in New Orleans at Touro Infirmary and can be reached at (504) 891-8454 or via his website www.neilbaum.com
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Early Childhood Memories
in Bryn Athyn
and Life on the Farm
France Vinet White
Bryn Athyn, PA, 1987
Early Childhood Memories in Bryn Athyn
Early Memories Life on the Farm
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This is written in the summer months of 1987. I was born in Bryn Athyn, October 10, 1903. Being limited physically, and more or less house-bound now, it occurred to me it would be a pleasant occupation to write down childhood memories. These for one reason or another have stayed with me for the joy, the interest, the fright, the sadness or shame they gave me. In doing this, I wished also to reflect in some ways, the climate of those days. Barbe, my daughter, had originally urged me to do this feeling it would be of interest to the grandchildren and those coming later. So with this in mind, will commence with the arrival of my parents, Monsieur and Madame Camille Vinet from France in 1897.
My father came as a professor of French and Sciences to teach in the Bryn Athyn Academy (to be) in Pennsylvania. He had become an enthusiastic and a devoted follower of Emanuel Swedenborg. This is the reason he had been approached by Mr. John Pitcairn and other members in this new Christian Church. Education in this developing Bryn Athyn Academy would be grounded on this Faith, the inspired teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg. My father and these men became acquainted at a meeting of intellectuals in France or England—I can't remember which.
The large area in time to be called Bryn Athyn was a peaceful and rural, hilly, country side. Here and there was an old stone farm house. There were woods, many of the trees were old and giant in size, and there was a winding and picturesque creek, the Pennypack, running close by. The Church and the school had its beginnings in Philadelphia not a great distance away.
In the meantime John Pitcairn built Cairnwood a French cheateau on a hilltop, surrounded by lovely old trees. This, was beyond the hill where the Cathedral would be erected years later. His sister-in-law, Cara Glenn was established in Glenhurst, a charming house and surroundings below on the Second St. Pike. Here she raised seven daughters and one son. She was widowed before the birth of her last daughter. Her husband had been an architect. Besides other constructions, he designed Glenn Hall (the future girls dormitory) and it was named in his honor. The family became a strong pillar of the church and remained our friends throughout the years. As I write this, three of the daughters are still living. All in their nineties!
Houses were springing up, big ones, three stories high. Big families were expected and they came. These houses had other occupants as well as the immediate family—grandmothers, aunts and other acquaintances who had nowhere else to go. For the elderly nursing homes didn't exist.
The Robinson household included a grandmother, also the Heath house next to us. There were two aunts living with the Actons, and at Glenn Hurst two ladies called Aunties, but I don't think they were related. We had Tante Naomie, an old Salvation Army friend of my mothers. She came quite often to stay with us. At the Odhners, it was Aunt Lollie, and I remember her so well—thin and gaunt in appearance. Through the years I played often with the Odhner children, as Renee and I were classmates. Aunt Lollie took over many of the household tasks and policed the children somewhat—they had their allotted little jobs to do. This, she was doing one day when I was there. Several of us were on our way to some destination. Vincent was younger than Renee and I (and thought himself quite a man!!)—"Don't listen to the old devil," he snorted and marched out of the house! We followed him and as we walked down the path, Aunt Lo[ll]ie was leaning far out the window—"You're going to hell, Vincent. You're going to hell!" Well, Vincent grew up and was a fine young man. He mellowed and probably revised his opinion of Aunt Lollie with affection and understanding. She was certainly heaven-sent in that big, busy household.
Now, back to building construction. Benade Hall was built and the elementary school, De Charms Hall. The little chapel was in Benade Hall. The community's Sunday Service took place there, also morning worship before school hours. This continued well into high school days. The three Vinet girls—Rachel, France and Lucienne were flower girls in two weddings in this little chapel. One was the wedding of Nora Potts, daughter of John Potts (Potts Concordance) to Gilbert Smith who became a minister. He was also a well-known and talented painter in the vicinity. The second marriage was in the same family, Warren Potts, the eldest son to Valerie Vanderstein, a beautiful and vivacious French girl. Their daughter later on became a teacher in the Academy Schools (Babs—Florence Schoenberger.)
I have a few little memories of school days in De Charms Hall. (I must add here, this structure much later burnt down, but was rebuilt.) Richard De Charms (father of the future Bishop George) was our religion teacher. I remember so well our class sitting around a black rectangular table listening as he told us stories of The Word. He had curly, white hair that fell over his ears. He suffered almost constantly with a cough.
Then there was the cozy Dutch kitchen in the basement. After we moved to the farm we were away for the day and carried our lunches with us. These we ate there (peanut butter sandwiches) with Miss Carrie Hob[a]rt a teacher. She always ate a banana for dessert and pealed it so carefully!
I recall Vida Doering (Schnarr) and her patience in teaching me cross-stitch in needle work class. I was slow in catching on. However, in time the little sampler was made. In those days all girls made samplers displaying the various embroideries they had mastered.
Once two classes were combined in one room for some reason. Centa Centaval was the teacher in charge. She wore a red haired wig, we dramatically discovered this day. Gilbert Smith was indulging in some prank and went too far! Miss Centa went into a rage, gesticulating every which way, and the wig flew off! The class was in an uproar—poor Miss Centa, how embarrassing this must have been for her; in those days a wig was a very private affair.
Wertha Pendleton (Cole) I remember with affection and admiration. Once she paid me a little compliment which stayed with me. Many times throughout my life her remark seemed to guide me.
Well, I sidetracked a little. The main part of our little village, old Bryn Athyn, as we later called it, was like a large island surrounded by a country road. The little maple trees planted on both sides of the road are now fully grown and many have survived. They provided a most welcome shade in the hot summer days and an unbelievable golden glory in the fall. They had been planted as a gift from Mrs. John Pitcairn. I will draw a diagram on the following page of Bryn Athyn in those early days, naming the occupants of the houses on the island and beyond the road (as I recall them).
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Today what had been fields and meadows everywhere are taken over with new homes for the most part. Some of the old and historic land marks have been torn down, but Bryn Athyn remains a beautiful and unusual place. The Cathedral today rises majestically on a high hill over-looking it all. The old Inn is no longer there. It has been replaced by a home built by Lachlan Pitcairn (grandson of John Pitcairn) originally for his in-laws, the Walter H[o]rigans. He also enlarged and reconstructed the Ed Bostock house which replaced the very, old Stroh structure deep in the woods. This became his home. The extended area surrounding it is most picturesque and includes an old Spring House.
The Vinet house is still there. Since the Vinet family moved to the farm in 1912, it has changed hands many times. It had been built for my parents by John Pitcairn. The old Inn Annex was torn down, which was sad for many, but it had its day. In the school beginnings it was used for teaching classes and useful in many ways. It was a residence for some. The community nurse (Phoebe Bostock) had her office there. There had been a wind mill at the side of the Inn which was removed awhile back. It was there when I was a child and it provided water for a certain area (at times). It was also a hazardous temptation for children to climb. I understand Marjorie Wells, future wife of the well-known Don Rose Sr., was stranded one day at the very top. This area was replaced by the home built by Bishop Louis King for his large family. The centuries old Button Wood trees are still there (some of them) in the back ground. One tree had a very long swing attached to a high branch we spent happy hours swinging there. There was also an old Spring House nearby which we visited for cooling off! Our play ground for baseball, the field near the Acton's home became occupied by the very interesting castle-like structure and house for Miss Rita Buell, the principal of the girls school in the 1920s. She taught English to our class. She and I became friends and remained so, until the end of her days. Later this building was remodeled and became the home of Bishop Willard and Mrs. Pendleton.
The old Wells home had long disappeared and was replaced by a mansion built by Robert Asplundh. The old Acton house just recently was demolished. It was an old land mark and it is sad to know it is no longer there. There are memories attached to that house. Many times, after we moved to the farm, my father's horse and carriage would be parked there. He and Dr. Acton worked together translating some of Swedenborg's writings from Latin to English. I recall also enjoying good homemade bread and jam in the kitchen after strenuous games of baseball in the field nearby.
Sometimes Dr. Acton invited all the children in the neighborhood to his home. He would tell us stories. We were really packed in the small living room, but we loved it. No television and radios in those days!
Sometimes we older youngsters would play with little Totsie Acton in his front yard. He was about two- or three-years-old, the last child in the Acton family. We loved playing with him. Dear sweet Mrs. Acton came out of the house one day and gathered all of us around her. "You know" she says "Totsie is growing up to be a big boy now and it would be better if we all called him by his name which is Wynne." We just looked at her and nodded. From then on we called him Wynne. Wynne grew up to be a fine minister, the second in that family.
Walking back and forth to school I often passed Dr. Acton. His manner of walking seemed to fascinate me. He walked very briskly, shoulders bent forward as if to increase his speed without running. He always looked so tense and deep in thought. His right arm would swing vigorously back and forth, his hand clenched tightly.
On the diagram a mushroom field is marked. Picking mushrooms and puff balls in this field early mornings was one of our childhood delights. We children did this often, after the spring days had arrived. We could well distinguish the mushrooms from toadstools which were poisonous. Our papa had carefully instructed us. It was a gamble who would be first to reach the field. The grandmother to the Heath family next door was a mushroom picker also. But grandmother had a vegetable garden besides and needed manure for this. Preston, Mr. Pitcairn's driver would drive the Pitcairn horse and carriage from Cairnwood down to the Bryn Athyn Post Office everyday. This involved going around the island circle. The horse provided the manure. When needed Grandmother followed with dust pan and brush!
I may have been about three-years-old for my first memory. It was just a flash retained and I mention it because I was so happy and content. I was sitting on the floor in an upstairs bedroom near a bay window. The sun was shining warm on me and in my arms I was cuddling a small and very affectionate baby kitten!
Another very early memory was hearing my mother give a cry. She was sitting sewing in the hallway up stairs near the balustrade of the stairway. My father was running up the stairs, a newspaper in his hand, declaring Vera Pitcairn had died. Vera was John Pitcairn's young and only daughter. She had been on a trip and was stricken with pneumonia the paper declared. Vera wasn't pictured in my mind, but a flash of Vera's open carriage and horse was—racing down the Pike! It had been pointed out to me one day. The carriage and the horse's bridle and harness were resplendent with gold fringes. These danced wildly as the horse dashed by. The beauty of it remained so vivid to me.
Will digress a bit again. Since I mentioned the Pike it must be described as it had been—narrower for one thing and very, very dusty. There were pot holes! An old Toll Gate stood at the intersection where Paper Mill Road comes in on the side where the cathedral was built. It was a little brown elongated building which burnt down in time. When any conveyance came by, the Toll man would be there in his little box to collect the drivers fee, generally a few cents. The traffic was very occasional, no cars of course, a big heavily loaded hay wagon now and then, farm machinery, a farmer taking his produce to the Farmer's Market in Philadelphia, a bicyclist, a buggy, a wagon, a carriage, and delivery carts.
We Vinets must have been rather peculiar children. We seemed to be upset over demonstrations of affection, or displays of emotions. Rachel and I were invited to stay over night at Aunt Ryd[i]e's and Aunt Sophie's down the way, when one of the younger ones was born. Aunt Ryd[i]e was related to John Pitcairn and they lived in a big house on the island. They were extremely loving and kind and tucked us in a large bed in a beautiful room. The door was left open. We could see them in the next room praying out loud by their bedside for the longest periods, each taking a turn pleading to the Lord to forgive their trespasses! My stomach began to churn and it was all too much. My head seemed to turn around and around all night and I was so frightened, I couldn't sleep. After having tucked us in bed the ladies had mentioned that some one would bathe us in the morning. Rachel got up early and locked us in. "They're not giving us our baths!" she said. Our baths were a private affair and we were accustomed to our dear father taking us one-by-one, piggy back to the bath tub for our ablutions. It was a school girl who lived there who was in charge of the baths. She was frantic because she was locked out next morning. Rachel wouldn't open the door until it was understood that we wouldn't be bathed!
Pierre was the first born and had ideas. Edith Potts (John Pott's daughter) was our baby sitter one night. We were all washed and ready for bed. Pierre suddenly says, "Let's all run outside and hide"! He was our big brother so we quickly followed him and hid in different places. It took awhile but finally we were all routed out from behind trees and bushes. Poor Deditte, this is what we called her. I can still see her, wild-eyed and breathless as we were settled in our beds finally. All this took some fortitude and was indeed a labor of love. I've been told in these days there was no remuneration for babysitting. The young were taught to be useful and helpful. It occurs to me now however, that a change of scene could be welcomed. Almost everyone in these times was confined to their home and neighborhood. Emotions could run pretty tight in these big-packed households, I discovered later on. I witnessed one incident with delight and some apprehension. A grown sister chasing another all over the house with a dripping floor mop!
I recall Pierre and Jean teasing me mercilessly. They were old enough and tall enough to wash the dishes. I could wipe them. Rachel was upstairs helping with the smaller children. I had swallowed an orange seed and Pierre assured me a tree would grow out of my mouth, and the branches would squeeze out of my ears and nose. I was terrified and for days would look in the mirror for evidence of this growth. Both boys knew I had fear of fire also, and boasted one day they would set fire to the house. The match box was nearby and occasionally they would almost demonstrate how it could be done. Actually one day there was a fire right beside our house in, the meadow where papa kept his bees. I never heard how it started but was there when it did. I remember Mortimer Robinson, a young neighbor boy running down the road with a bucket of water. It was filled with potatoes but he threw it all over the flames. As for me I made a dash for the house and locked the front and back doors so the fire couldn't reach me. No one could get in the house for water! I was hiding under my bed! The fire was controlled, but I never learned how. Certainly not by means of a fire engine because they didn't exist in our small area, no telephone to contact if there had.
Later on I became tougher, with two older brothers it couldn't be otherwise. I climbed the biggest trees with the boys and was considered a Tom Boy. I could hit the ball and make home-runs. The boys would pick me for their teams in baseball.
A little girl, a delicate sweet, little person Dorothy Brey, moved into Bryn Athyn for a short period. After awhile she wouldn't play with me and I asked her why. She hesitated and finally shyly told me her mother wouldn't allow it because I was too rough! I was completely crushed.
But anyway deep down I wanted to be a boy. Returning from school one day I stopped at the Charlie Smith house. I rang the door bell and Sterling Smith came to the door. I asked him if I could borrow a pair of his pants. He said "I'll ask mother." He did and the answer was "We don't lend pants outside the family."
Well to continue with my brothers—Jean had ideas also. They were really precocious and inventive. Mama had left some money on the kitchen table to pay the butcher for the order he was bringing. The money disappeared and remained a mystery for sometime. Finally Jean admitted he had planted it outside so a money tree would grow. He had other ideas also! Papa's bicycle was taken apart to my fathers horror. He had reason to be horrified because the bicycle meant a quick transportation back and forth for his teaching profession. "Don't worry papa" Jean said, "I will put it together again!" and he did. The same thing happened to a beloved music box of my mother's. Once she arrived just in time!! Jean had asked Rachel (third in family) if he could open her head to see what was inside!—Head of beautiful French doll was found cracked open next day.
Jean was always inventive. As he became older he helped Harold Pitcairn build his first plane which was constructed in the big garage across the Pike from Cairnwood. As an adult he worked for the Bell Telephone and many of his inventions were put to use.
I must digress again. Having mentioned the butcher coming to the door, I must add all food supplies came this way. The huckster brought fruit and vegetables and then came the baker with bread (5 cents a loaf) and cakes. Milk was delivered at the door early mornings. The ice man came weekly, carrying a huge piece of ice (with prongs) and deposited it in the upper section of the ice box at the back door. Young Mr. Clayton from the food store in Huntingdon Valley nearby would arrive on his bicycle and with pencil and pad take the grocery orders. This would be delivered later in the day. This all took care of supplying food for the home.
There was a hurt in my childhood that stayed with me for a long time. Maybe I should not mention it, but decided to do so. I was in Kindergarten (age 5) and it was my birthday. I invited Renee Odhner and a boy whom I can't recall to come to my party. I was playing in the sand box when they arrived. Renee hands me a box of marshmellows and the boy a candy bar. Renee says "Where's the party?" I said, "There's no party." Mama from the window says, "Send the children home!"
My mother was European and didn't understand the social life in America (I figured this out much later on). The European is more withdrawn and moves only in the family circle or with only the closest friends. Here the social life is frequent and informal and generally includes everyone. We children were invited to parties and I wanted my turn. My mother never realized how crushed this made me feel. She was really a very kind and thoughtful person.
Sometimes our papa (and this is very clear in my mind because it was so delightful) would come in as we were settling down in our beds for the night. He made shadows on the walls of birds and animals with his hands. Also using a ball of string and quickly wrapping it around his fingers and wrists and turning this way and that constructed objects familiar to us. All this to induce sleep which it did.
When oranges were in season (at Christmas time) he captivated us by throwing a number in the air and somehow always caught them each in turn. He seemed so understanding of children and I sensed it I believe. One night I was frightened or unhappy about something and couldn't sleep. I crept up a flight of stairs to the third floor where my father had his study, also a dark room where he developed pictures. He picked me up gently and placed me in a rocking chair without a word. It was such a comfort. As I was falling asleep he carried me back to bed.
There was a little red box that gave me much joy. We were attending a Christmas Service in the auditorium of De Charms Hall. We sang Christmas songs. At the close the children were told to line up and move up front. Each one was presented with a little red box and I received mine. I found out soon it contained a tangerine, cookies, hard candies and popcorn. It was all mine! Even when the contents disappeared I treasured that little box for a long time.
Thanksgiving dinner at John Pitcairn's chateau stands out as a very colorful event in our young lives. I was quite small then, but I recall a long dining room, everything seemed gold and white and sparkling. There were three wine glasses at place setting! We children were told to be quiet and we were. The noise came afterwards and the following description remains vivid! When dinner was over, it was suggested we all go up in the attic and play. The attic was a huge open space filled with oriental rugs. The children were Raymond, Theo and Harold Pitcairn and my two brothers (Pierre and Jean) who were younger. The boys decided it would be fun to take the girls for rides on the rugs. Very likely it was my brother's idea! So there we were—Rachel and I, not sure about Lucienne (fifth member of the family) being twirled around, around and around and the dust was flying. All very noisy—the little girls were screaming! It was wonderful fun.
There was an elevator at the side of the attic. It went up and down and suddenly there were Mr. Pitcairn and my parents standing in a row and looking rather severe. Very likely we were reprimanded, but the novelty of the rug entertainment stayed with me.
There is an episode in my young days that still fills me with shame. I was certainly old enough to know better and my two boy companions likewise. I believe I was in the 7th grade. It was a cold day and for some reason classes were dismissed early. We wandered around idly and found ourselves going to Leshus Woods near by. This was the time for tree houses for young men in the upper grades.
In those days there were no cars and some of the older students built these houses high up in the trees as a retreat. I believe Harold Pitcairn was the owner of one of them; there were three. We followed the path leading there. The first tree house had a hanging ladder which we climbed. All very cozy, two cots with mattresses and pillows, electric wires, books and etc. (At my suggestion it was all tossed over board!)
Well it seemed the damage was soon discovered. Some one had seen us going in the direction of Leshus Woods. Otho Heilman was principal of the Elementary School then and I was called to his office next day (by myself). I had been told the boys had gone previously. I don't know what he said to me exactly, but he made me feel what a terrible thing we had done. I recall, so clearly, walking home with my head bent and feeling so ashamed. This experience gave me much to think about and stayed very much with me. Through my adult years I felt an understanding for the juveniles who commit such acts. Maybe they are bored for the most part and need interesting things to do.
How did the Bryn Athyn children entertain themselves? They climbed trees for one thing and improvised many little games of their own. There was "Pussy wants a Corner," jump rope, "Tisket-a-Tasket" and "I'm the King of the Castle." Baseball was popular which we played in the Acton Field, across the way. "Sheepy Lay" was a great game for a large group of children. The first group would get a good head start, carrying bags of torn papers to make a trail (some would be false trails). The second group, after a period of waiting would try and pick up the trail. It wasn't that easy because the wind would blow the papers. We wandered long distances over farm land (which was everywhere then) and well out of Bryn Athyn boundaries. In those days it was safe to stray that far and our parents didn't seem to be concerned.
There was swimming on hot summer days at the Pennypack. Older folk enjoyed canoeing, which was a pleasant pastime in that enchanting area. At that time the creek was wider in many places. The canoes were locked and chained in a small bay, not far from a large picnic area on the right side of the railroad tracks.
Winter brought the dramatic cold weather sports. There were great hills for sledding, probably the most thrilling and dangerous was at Sleepy Hollow (The Orchards). A tiny Church group had their homes there, the [C.] T. Odhners, the Schwindts and the Adam Doerings are some I remember. This little area was situated near Paper Mill Road, which passed the Cathedral to be, and well beyond Cairnwood. The Kessels lived at the bottom of Paper Mill Road on a hilltop. Emilie Kessell was a classmate who had arrived in Bryn Athyn in the latter part of the grade schools. She married Carl Asplundh another classmate. We remained friends through the years and she still lives. Physically she is way ahead of me and remains occupied in many useful and charitable ways.
Well, anyway, back to the sports. The Cathedral hill was also exciting for sledding. Gilbert Smith once dared me to go down standing up on a sled. Well I wasn't up long and suffered a beautiful fall, but no broken bones, just cuts and bruises. The Cathedral hill was also a playground of a sort in summer days. It was covered with honeysuckle and we children made tunnels and hideaways in it.
On really cold days when the ice was frozen thick, The Pennypack made a magnificent rink, a long sheet of ice as far as the Paper Mill Covered Bridge. There was a little path through the field below the Asplundh house, a quick way to get there. I remember as a small child hugging the big bonfire that had been built and watching the skaters flash by. Brothers, Pierre and Jean, were stumbling about, and my father looking very well pleased to be using his interesting skates acquired in Holland.
I don't know about other families, but we had promenades with mama up and down the street on occasions. It was rather a formal affair I recollect. We were neatly dressed and stayed together. My mother was really dressed up and wore hat that caught the eye. She was a Parisian and very likely this is the way it was done in Paris.
There were long walks also with my father. The idea in these I believe was to give mama a rest from the children. We roamed the woods and my father being a connoiseur of mushrooms would remove large colorful ones from decaying trees on the ground. Later these would sizzle in the frying pan! Walking to Willow Grove was a long tiresome walk (to me anyway), but common place with Bryn Athyn residents. There was the beginning of an amusement park there and concerts and bands were performing. George De Charms' crippled mother was a lover of good music. As children we were a bit in awe of him, a very young man wheeling his mother in a wheel chair back forth all that distance to a concert there! Throughout his long life and as Bishop of the Church, he was loved and admired. As I write, he still lives and is in the latter part of his 98th year.
Have now reached the end of the earliest memories in Bryn Athyn. Shall add one more little anecdote because it is amusing. I wondered if it ever reached the ears of my parents. I may have been in the fourth or fifth grades when we were learning about the Indians and their way of life. We read the Indian legends and memorized poetry. It was all so beautiful and dream-like!
By the shores of Gittshe Goomy
By the deep sea waters
Stood the wigwam of Nacoma
Daughter of the moon Nacoma
Dark behind it rose the forest
Rose the black and gloomy pine trees
Rose the firs with cones upon them, and etc.
Probably written incorrectly and certainly misspelled, but it rang in my ears like music.
I wanted so much to be an Indian!
Well there was a small assembly of the elementary school and I don't recall its purpose. But a teacher stood up at the end and asked if anyone would like to say something. I raised my hand and she beckoned me up front. Well I was quite carried away! Gesticulating I declared I was an Indian and so was my family—Indians. We all lived near the Pennypack like Indians and I tried to explain what we did. The children listened to me seriously (some of them) but the teachers were trying to hide their laughter.
Early Memories Life on the Farm top
We moved to the farm in Woodmont I believe in the year 1912. I was nine-years-old. This property was about a mile and a quarter from Bryn Athyn and I don't know exactly what my father had in mind when he bought it. He had been raised on a farm in Southern France which had been in the family a very long time (I would like to mention in earlier years, before portions of it had been sold, it contained a very old castle and a Roman Arena. This always intrigued me and I hoped to go there some day but the dream never materialized.)
Well, anyway he had a comfortable house and beautiful surroundings in Bryn Athyn. The school was nearby which was convenient for him as a teacher and for us walking to school. He enjoyed photography, one of his hobbies, an Apiary and grape arbor in the long back yard there. First he said "We must move to the country where there is real fresh air for the children, and fresh vegetables." Once he mentioned I might be consumptive and the rugged farm life would be what I needed.
Then the little inheritance came! Well, it wasn't too long before we discovered our dear papa had all kinds of interests, and as the years went by not enough time to handle it all!! Looking back on it however, I feel privileged. I think we all did, for this interesting way of living, the exposure to its hardship and inconveniences, also its moments of beauty and spiritual revelations.
The farm was an oblong length of land, 27 acres or so. Byberry Road stretched on one side and a big wood outlined the full length of the other. Old and very tough grape vines reached the tops of the trees there for the boys to climb and swing on! In the spring we discovered the woods showered with May Apple, Blood roots, Jack-in-the Pulpit, the anenomes and hepaticas. The latter grew in bouquets nestled in the rocks. The blossoms of the May Apple produced a very edible fruit in the fall. The Indians used the red juice of the blood root for coloring. It is sad to think these lovely wild flowers have mostly disappeared from the Pennsylvania woods.
There was a handsome barn on the property which seemed to be quite new. It was built on a sharp incline of land (constructed I heard later on) with pegs, no nails. We discovered also the barn was given the highest location in the event of flooding. This way the live stock on the ground floor wouldn't suffer. The barn in time became a fascinating play area for the Vinet children and others. There were two mounds, one of hay, one of straw. We made tunnels thru all this and houses. We would jump from the highest windows and beams into the straw mound. How we escaped injury I don't know. There was a platform between the two mounds and we practiced stunts and plays there. A little-wedding was performed in the barn one day, in a cleared area between the straw and hay mounds. There seemed to be quite a few children on hand. Lucienne was the little bride and appeared beribboned and somewhat laced up. Willard Smith, a classmate, was the groom I was the Minister and had found something black to wear. It is all hazy in my mind, but one thing I remember well. As the Minister I didn't know what to say and just shuffled my feet and stuttered. Later on in the higher grades my enterprising sister Rachel planned a class party there. Rachel planned a class party there.
Well, anyway to continue with the farm description. There were two corncribs on one side of the barn and below was the carriage house with a huge maple tree towering over it. (This became my house much later on.) The farm house was alongside the road, as most seemed to be. I imagine the reason was practical. It was built in the very late 1700s of field stone. I believe on our arrival the farm land was mostly hay and pasture. There was a very old apple orchard near the house mostly ciders and 20-ounce pippins. Bessie the cow, when she came, was pastured there. She loved the overripe fallen apples on the ground and after awhile would wobble about unsteadily. "She is drunk!" we shouted gleefully and delighted in watching her.
The move to the farm is dim in my memory. My son, Romney with whom I now live, surprised me in stating that my two brothers (his Uncles) told him years back, they and his grandfather 'papa' spent two years recontructing the farm house before we could move in. New floor boards were needed in every room and the roof was re-shingled. A bathroom was installed upstairs and a sink in the kitchen and washtubs in the back kitchen. A coal furnace and coal bin was added to the cellar below. It was at this time an underground tunnel was discovered in the cellar which went under the house foundation towards the right of the carriage house; very likely an escape route in the time of the Indians. It was dangerous and my father filled it with ashes. In the roof renovation (my son further informs me) a small pistol was found hidden under the rafters of the roof. Where is that little pistol now!? For sure it could tell some interesting stories.
Living in the farm house was quite primitive nonetheless. We were a family of nine, squeezed into three bedrooms. There were three fireplaces, one in the master bedroom another in the living room, and a huge one in the dining room. This kept our father very busy also two grumbling brothers. They were the wood choppers. The furnace didn't supply sufficient heat because of lack of insulation and the windows didn't close well. At night, blankets were not enough and we kept piling on the coats or any available warm materials.
In time a round Franklin stove was installed in the dining room. We loved that little stove, it gave such warmth and in the mornings we raced down the stairs to dress near it. There was always a big pot of slow-cooking oatmeal placed on it in the evenings before, and ready for breakfast.
Winter was truly a difficult time for all of us. The weather in memory was always severe. The snow stayed deep on the ground and the drifts seemed enormous. The roads were never cleared of snow and we scrambled and struggled thru it all going and returning from school. I always felt so tired! We acquired two horses and a cow and no matter how violent a storm the animals must be fed and watered. Pierre and Jean helped papa with this. Once during a hurricane Jean was completely buried in a snow drift and was found with difficulty. My father carried a lantern but the wind had blown out the flame. Thereafter he tied a rope from a big maple that cornered the house and stretched it to the barn about fifty yards up the incline.
Feeding a large family in winter was a problem, food ran short. I recall barrels of apples and Uneeda crackers and other staples in the back kitchen, but these would run low. One day my father asked me to go with him to the store for supplies in Huntingdon Valley about two miles away. It was January and it was frightfully cold. The wind was sharp against our faces, also a fine sleet, particularly on our return. We had taken the longest sled and boxed it with a heavy wooden crate. It was a big load and awkward as we struggled back over the bumps and furrows of snow. The sleet was hitting our faces and closing our eyes. I was so cold and tired I wanted to give up and lie down in the snow. Papa kept saying "Don't give up girl, we're almost there, just keep your feet moving!" He kept coaxing me along and finally we reached home. I was about ten or eleven then. Long afterwards I thought of this experience and realized it had taught me something—a comprehension of the power of the applied will, demonstrated by my father!
Winter must have been particularly hard on my mother who was city bred. The water pump would sometimes break down, pipes would freeze and we were without water aside from what was pulled up by bucket from the well nearby. Fortunately there were two 'out houses.' But spring did come and how enchanting it was! Violets appeared in the open areas on the hilltops, and the sweet wild strawberry. Blackberry bushes pushed their way up, in time producing black fruit which made a delicious jam and many, many pies. Poke a wild green appeared everywhere, a favorite of old timers but a green to be avoided by the novice. I cooked it many times in later years and it was delicious, a cross between asparagus and spinach. True it was poisonous at the flowering stage, but one picked it when young and tender.
The old apple orchard was now in full bloom and many varieties of birds arrived with their happy medley of song. Indians were still in evidence, one saw them walking about. Once, when a bit older I was transplanting a little white oak tree which caught my eye for its beauty and shape. An Indian was walking through the property and he stopped and watched me plant the tree. Then he looked hard at me and said "You will die of kidney failure!" I wondered if he was a (Medicine Man).
In plowing the fields my father found many arrowheads and a tomahawk. He gave these to the Bryn Athyn Museum.
Spring brought the cries of the ragman —R-A-A-GS—R-A-A-GS—R-A-AGS down the road. It began dimly a long distance away. In time we learned to be ready for him and the rags were bagged, waiting in the tool house. The scissor grinder would arrive also carrying a little machine. Knives would be sharpened. A salesman with a big suitcase would appear which pleased my mother immensely. It was filled with many little necessities, pins, needles, threads and buttons and etc., kitchen towels and materials.
Then came the tramps, so many of them asking for food. Mama never turned them away and they shared whatever we were having, sitting comfortably on the porch or in the shade of a tree. Some asked for lodging in the barn but this was refused. Our father was afraid of fire.
However, the day came when the barn did have a lodger. It was Mr. DeVita a Spaniard. He was writing a book and wished to spend the summer there. A little room was cleared for him in the barn upper section and he was comfortably established. We children would carry him little plates of food. His book completed he left, but he had become our friend and occasionally would come and visit and bring us gifts.
The arrival of spring and summer pleased everyone. It was easier just to live and do the chores, such as collecting eggs which as the years went by could be found just anywhere, in the tall grasses, under the corncribs and in the barn. Bessie the cow also must be milked early in the morning and we each took a turn at this. How good this warm milk tasted! We drank lots of it and maybe this is why none of us suffered from broken bones. (I wish to mention here when once learned, the milking of a cow is not forgotten!) Several years ago I had the opportunity to do so on a Southern Plantation in South Carolina. The milk spurted in the bucket and the cow didn't kick).
To continue—the roads were now clear of snow and drifts and papa or Pierre drove us to school and back now. Pierre was the big brother in charge of us sometimes. We would go to the Pennypack for swimming. On occasion he drove us to Hatboro to the movies. It was a big event. We each hugged our five cents. The movies were black and white, shaky and moved very fast. We thought they were wonderful. There were quiet pleasures also. Lucienne and I would wander on the farm, find a cozy place and then lie on the grass and read. One day we were in a cleared area back of the barn and both fell asleep side-by-side. Something woke me, and right by my side was a huge black snake in a coil. Lucienne was already a blur of color almost home. I wasn't long to follow. The snake must have crawled over us to position itself as it did.
There was a huge and very old cherry tree at the edge of the apple orchard hanging over the road. The cherries were the Ox Heart, large sweet and so pretty. Have never seen them again after that old tree toppled over in a storm. We loved climbing it with our little pails, it had sprawling big branches. John, the horse (called Napoleon by students) was in the field near by one day when we were up the tree. Cars were seldom seen on the road, but one of these rather noisy contraptions clattered by at that time. Napolean went completely berserk. He leapt around and around the field with fright, tail high in the air and snorting wildly.
The farm changed its face many times over the years. In the beginning with plowing and planting papa transferred the acres to wheat, corn and oats and retained the hay of course. The horses and cow must be fed and bedded.
I must mention in harvesting time when the yield was ripe, we faced a big problem. The crows arrived and the skies would be dark with their arrival. In great masses they descended in the fields. But the farmers had a means of defense! This we witnessed one night, as the crows hundreds of them, roosted in the wood adjoining our property. Farmers came from everywhere with their guns. They circled the wood. At midnight when the crows were settled the guns went off and continued a long while. Jean and Pierre witnessed this.
One morning I was in the kitchen with my mother. Papa was bringing some machinery down from the barn to harrow the ground near the house. We heard him scream. He appeared to have slipped from his seat and was enmeshed in the machinery. Mama was no farm girl, but she took charge like one, reining the horse to a stop and rescuing him from the machinery. She moved so fast I wasn't aware she had left the house. Her presence of mind saved him serious injury, though he suffered cuts and bruises.
In time the farm became largely a fruit orchard. There was a good-sized vine yard also. A fenced-in chicken coop was built and an Apiary came into existence where once there had been a small burial ground. Against the barn we had discovered (behind a huge embankment of poison ivy) many old marble slabs, names already engraved on them. The Apiary became a big undertaking in itself and much good honey was sold for $0.90 a quart and given as gifts. My father felt the bees could teach us much by their industry, always working for the hive! They were selfless. When their working days were over, they flew far away from the hive to die. Am glad our dear papa in later years, didn't disappear when he became blind, crippled and old. We knew he suffered (without ever complaining) but always he tried to help us in little ways. We loved having him with us.
I haven't mentioned the vegetable garden planted every year after our arrival there. We all took part in the care of this and we grew just about everything. Potatoes and carrots lasted the full year because there was a dark room in the barn to keep them. We became involved in canning and preserving in time. So thru all this farming activity we witnessed the miracles of seeds bursting from the brown earth in forms of food. Blossoms on trees were transformed into fruits. Baby chicks wiggled out wet from chicken eggs and calves appeared miraculously beside their mother on the ground floor.
I must mention the arrival of the baby chicks. It was cold weather and they came in open crates. The chicken house was ready for them, but the temperatures weren't favorable. So they were deposited in the warm rooms of the house, hundreds of them, peeping and dying. Many survived, but the majority did not. The weather did warm up shortly. In the meantime the family had to be stoical, albeit closed in with green house temperatures—but not fragrant with flowers!
We all had our little pets over the years, cats, birds and rabbits. Some would die and we had services for them and colorful funerals. The graves we covered with wild flowers from the fields. We didn't forget our little pets quickly and kept the mounds covered with fresh flowers.
Old friends who enjoyed walking came to see us. The Rev. [C.] T. Odhner was an old friend of my fathers. In previous years in Bryn Athyn he and his children sometimes would join us in our family walks. So he and some of his children came to visit on the farm. I remember him eating some peaches my father picked for him from a nearby tree. He said "'Luscious, just 'luscious," smacking his lips. John Potts, another friend came up to discuss spiritual matters. I see him clearly walking down the hill heading for our place. He was all in black and looked like a prophet with his long white wavy beard. He was tall and erect and walked slowly with a cane, giving the impression of severity. I was in awe of him, in fact, a bit frightened. Back in the earlier days in Bryn Athyn, I was in the care of one of his daughters at Stancot, his home. He was working in the living room on The Concordance. I walked in the door way and he shooed me away. There were little piles of papers on the floor everywhere. Quite naturally he didn't want me disturbing these important papers stacked up correctly in the right places. Mama had friends who were very loyal. Two I remember were Helene Iungerich and Jane Potts. Miss Jane was always bringing some good little things to eat and would vanish and join my mother upstairs in her bedroom. There they shared the goodies. I would look up the stairs wistfully and hopefully (but the bedroom door was always closed).
The daughter of a local doctor dropped in one day. She was a young girl, but heavy set and I thought of her as an old person, when we lived in Bryn Athyn. She came to see Rachel mainly it was very evident. Lucienne and I were shy and rather introverted; she probably thought us dull. Rachel was very pretty and extraverted and loved everyone. We didn't, at least I didn't. The girl was drawn to Rachel and sent her Valentines and birthday cards (to her only and I thought it very unfair!) Well, anyway, this day she arrived and brought Rachel a large decorated chocolate Easter egg! Rachel carried that egg wherever she went that day—it wasn't out of her sight! However, we shared the same bedroom and at night she placed it under her pillow. The hours of the night slowly passed by and that delicious chocolate egg was much in my thoughts. It was all too much! I tiptoed to Rachel's bed and there it was under her pillow. I calmly took it to my bedside and ate half of it! I fell asleep with contentment. I was awakened next morning by a terrible shriek! The next moment we were rolling on the floor, pulling each others hair and clawing. We fought like savages!! If I had witnessed this as an adult I would have thought (What horrible children?)—and we were (at least I was). Then an indignant mother appeared on the scene!
There were other kinds of excitement on the farm. We were accustomed to bands of gypsies passing by. They were very colorful groups attired in flambouyant garments. The understanding was they should be avoided, their reputation wasn't good. One day a long caravan of them was coming down Byberry Road, the driver of the horses was a very large and husky woman. I was watching from an open window at the back of the house. Papa was working down the field near the road in a rhubarb patch. The caravan came to a stop there. The big woman strided over to him and said something. Then suddenly she had him on the ground and snatched his wallet. Papa shouted and kept on shouting. He extricated himself from her grip and grabbed back his wallet. He had her fooled. She had miscalculated his remarkable strength because of his small stature. She returned to the caravan and drove off quickly.
Papa seemed very much in control in difficult situations. There was the time he took us to Hatboro with the horse and wagon about three miles away. He had shopping to do. While there it rained very heavily a flash flood in fact. We faced a strong current of water returning home, but it was down hill most of the way. It was at Trenton cut off where we were in trouble. This was the road bottom and a deep lake of water had spread everywhere and it rippled with a strong current. This was flowing to the right to a deep depression in a wooded area. The water came up quickly near the floor of the wagon and the horse had difficulty keeping his footing. Papa remained calm and we were fascinated watching him as he tried to hold up the horse and guide him and the wagon with its heavy load straight in line with the road. If we swerved to the right it could well have been a tragedy. The rise in the road was a few yards ahead finally. We reached that point and the horse recovered his footing. Our father exhibited super human strength. In retrospect as I write this I believe his fortitude came from an inner source.
Incidentally a black man lived in a little shack in this wooded area. Later his body was discovered there.
Lucienne and I had our own little adventure which could well have had a disastrous ending also. We were older now and often took long walks on these charming, but lonely country roads. One day we were walking along Byberry Road and a big black limousine with a windowless rear stopped by us. Two strangers, foreign looking men accosted us by name, France and Lucienne. They asked us if we would like to have a ride with them. We refused as we had been taught to do and they went on their way. What puzzled us was the way they pronounced our names (the French way) and how they knew us when we didn't know them!? Another time they passed us again on Byberry Road and approached us. Once again we refused and they went off. We kept walking beyond the Woodmont Station tracks and turned left at Mason Mill Road, near the Trenton cut off. Mr. Mason had a mill and a farm on the right side of the road. A long lane led to his establishment, all of which including the lane, was hidden from sight by a huge corn field of mature corn stalks. We had just reached this lane when the two men who had recently accosted us, jumped from behind the corn stalks! There was also a woman (all in white) with them. Apparently she had remained hidden in the back of the car. Well, we ran—we really ran! There were heavy steps running behind us! But it seems we had guardian angels—a horse and buggy with a man and wife had miraculously at that very moment turned in at the Mason Mill Road from Byberry. The footsteps behind suddenly turned and ran the other way! The occupants of the buggy rescued us and scolded us vehemently for walking on these lonely roads. They turned the buggy around and took us home.
These were the days of white slavery (we found out later on) to all appearances we had been calculated victims.
The colorful day of the Ox Roast came along. Our neighbors across the way, the Zimmermans were a very large and industrious German family. They were giving the Ox Roast. All neighbors were invited, including us and the whole country side. Mama thought the girls shouldn't go—it might not be—'tres gentil.' We didn't want to anyway, we were shy and preferred being onlookers. Well the day arrived and buggies, wagons and carriages came from everywhere, back and forth for three days! The air was filled with merry-making and lots of noise. We were also aware of mouth-watering odors of marvelous things cooking. Pierre and Jean were there and returned at night satiated. They regaled us with vivid descriptions of juicy roasted ox, corn on the cob, pickles of all kinds, and home made bread, pies and ice cream (all they wanted).There were kegs and kegs of beer! We wondered where all these people slept. Probably in their wagons or on blankets in the fields. Some were found asleep in the road ditches near our house. They smelled very strong of beer and it was decided they were intoxicated. We were warned to stay near the house! But we certainly peeped around. This was our one and only experience with an Ox Roast.
The Christmas Seasons brought a glow of happiness and expectation. There were the Christmas Services and the singing of Christmas hymns in the little Chapel in Benade Hall. Every one seemed so busy with the thoughts of giving; most of the gifts were handmade. Every December Pierre and Jean would find and dig up a little evergreen on the farm and it would be there in the parlor in the same corner with candlelight. We were nine so the pile was high under the tree. Our papa would make the Bryn Athyn rounds with horse and carriage delivering his and my mothers gift of honey to practically everyone. Exciting things appeared at the door and this continued Christmas after Christmas. There would be a huge turkey from the Raymond Pitcairns, a gorgeous basket of fruit, nuts, figs, dates and candies from Mrs. Glenn and big red poinsettias from Harold and Theo Pitcairn. Also a large platter of delectable homemade sausage from our good neighbors the Kings. On Christmas Eve if the wind was blowing the right way one could hear caroling of groups at a distance away. When the Academy grew in size and there was transportation, carolers came to the farm and sang to my parents. Once they managed to arrive after a heavy snow storm and it was exciting. Cars were stuck in snowbanks and there was much pushing and merriment.
The years were passing by with gradual changes. The horses disappeared also Bettsy the cow. Milk was now delivered at the door, the fruit trees were bearing profusely and the bees were making honey. Business was brisk. Papa acquired a new Ford car and it was his pride and joy (also a worry for us all because he drove so fast!) Brother Pierre was 18-years-old and was drafted for the First World War. Saying goodbye to his mother on the stairway at home was a scene that remained with me. He was her first born and may be mama thought he might not return. But he did, uninjured and a hero. He wore a medal for bravery, saving a number of men from drowning (under heavy fire). This was in Italy where he was stationed.
I was 13-years-old now and entering high school at the Academy. I seemed to be taken up with tennis more than anything else. I was doing well with this, but while playing I twisted my knee in some way which ended tennis for good. The knee remained weakened, my leg would suddenly go out straight and couldn't bend. In time it did so but it caught me in many embarrassing situations. Once I had gone to Fox Chase for a dentist appointment. As I returned home on the train, the knee snapped and I hopped on one leg to a seat. Fortunately our former music teacher, Hubert Synnestvedt was sitting in front of me. His stop was Bryn Athyn two stations before Woodmont. I asked him if he would call my father (the telephone had recently been installed in our home) and explain my predicament and to meet me at the station (the Ford had not yet arrived). The conductor helped me off the train and there was my father coming down the hill with the wheelbarrow! It seemed the horse had taken sick. My father wheeled me up that steep Woodmont hill and all the way home. I was grateful no traffic passed at that time (today the cars move along almost bumper to bumper.) Eventually the knee had to be operated on. This helped but gave me trouble all my life, but not in the same debilitating way.
It was about this time when I paid a visit (with an acquaintance I don't recall) to Bishop W.F. Pendleton. The reason for the visit isn't clear in my mind and may have been prompted by my mother. His home was a lovely southern mansion built (on the island) in a large wooded area. The house is still there occupied by descendants. We were received in an upstairs living room and served refreshments, by one of his daughters. The Bishop was sitting in a large comfortable high-backed chair, looking pale and not too well. He was a veteran of the Civil War and he told us a skirmish had been fought on the upper part of our farm! Some embarrassing incident must have occurred while there (which has slipped my mind) and he made this remark to us "a lady never repeats something unpleasant that occurs in a home while visiting there." He was such a gallant southern gentleman.
Papa was busy with his bees in more ways than one. The Apiary had grown large and demanded much care. The extraction of the honey and the bottling was done in the back kitchen. Also the melting of the wax which was sold in blocks. Desperate phone calls came for help on the matter of swarms. The swarms would settle in very inconvenient places—would he please come to the rescue!? One call came from Southampton. A swarm had settled on the corner of a three-story farm house. The residents were frantic and afraid to go outside. However, a long ladder had been placed ready to be climbed. Papa seemed to enjoy these interruptions and had no fear of swarming bees. He prepared his hive in the Apiary to receive the new colony, donned his broad brimmed hat and veil and rode off in his new black car. When he reached his destination he saw frightened faces peering out of closed windows nearby.
What happened next was unbelievable. As he was climbing the ladder the Queen Bee landed on the veil, the part that shielded his face. Immediately the entire swarm settled over his head and covered his face. Some brave person ran out of a house and opened the drivers car door for him. He slowly entered the car trying to balance himself as he moved behind the wheel. Very carefully he was on his way, one hand gently moving the bees from his face, as he drove slowly with the other. The town residents were gaping from their windows! Cars, of course, passed by as he drove along. Some swerved violently at this apparition, it simply couldn't be true! One car swerved completely and landed in a ditch. But he reached home safely and drove the car up to the prepared hive. He knelt in front of it and shook his head and the new colony entered its home. Thru all this not a single sting. The bees must have appreciated what he did for them.
I would like to finish the final chapter of childhood memories with a little story that is very heart warming.
Many years had passed by and I was living in the carriage house which had been altered and rebuilt. My husband was fighting the Japanese out West somewhere in the Pacific. I had my two children with me, Barbe whom I believe was about thirteen and Romney seven or eight. They were at school when this story begins. I was outside doing some little task when an old Collie dog comes loping along the lawn. He seemed very feeble and walked with difficulty and was caked with mud. He was so forlorn my heart went out to him. A neighbor, Edward Allen was passing thru just then to see my father. The dog still had a remnant of a collar hanging on his neck. Edward looked at it and said, "There's a number here, it's a Philadelphia police number," and off he went. I knew the dog must be hungry, probably starving he was so thin. I immediately scraped together what I could find. He was ravenous and seemed famished for water besides.
When the children returned home from school they found me mothering this old dog and their hearts went out to him also. They wanted to bathe him and remove all that mud. There were tubs in the cellar and they got busy on that and did a wonderful job. The dog seemed grateful. Night time came and we couldn't leave him alone in the cellar! The children arranged an old blanket upstairs so he could be near us. He kept looking around anxiously and listening intently and sniffing. We all felt he had been a very special dog for someone and much of a pet. I remembered the police number on the collar and decided to work on that. This I did all the next day. It seemed impossible to reach that particular number. I was connected and disconnected and advised to call here and there. Finally, success, "Yes, a woman had lost her collie." The voice was loud and relieved "and very much hoping the police had been notified it had been found!?" The lady and her husband had been out shopping and on their return home, found their house burnt down. Their hope was the dog had escaped thru a broken window. The woman called me a few hours later. There was a catch to her voice and she wasn't at all hopeful. The dog had no distinguishing markings to identify him. He had been missing for three weeks and she couldn't imagine him still alive and traveling all that distance from the city to rural country. But she took my address and directions to get to my place. Next day they found their way without difficulty. The Collie had now been with us for three days. He was lying on his rug upstairs when he heard their car coming in the drive. He went completely mad! He dashed violently from one side of the house to the other and the furnishings rattled. Then the couple were at the door way looking up the long stair way with disbelief. In one leap the dog enveloped them! It was a tumultuous moment. The couple's relief and joy brought my tears almost. The man was blind and the dog was a 'seeing eye dog.' He had been their companion for ten years and they considered him their most valuable possession. The man opened his wallet and would have given us all. We shook our heads—no. We could only feel gratitude to have shared in this wonderful reunion.
It was Thanksgiving day and we were on our way to the children's Thanksgiving Service in the Bryn Athyn Cathedral. We felt very much in the spirit for going.
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“Importantly we use Siberian larch in our manufacturing process which crucially forms the back bone of our products,” says Owen Dare. “It is the most naturally durable timber on the planet.” Due to the extreme location of these forests growth is very slow and the timber produced has exceptionally tight growth rings. “It is the closeness of these rings that results in an especially dense material which is naturally durable and able to withstand the most testing climatic conditions.”
Of note is that the Siberian larch used by Mumford & Wood has a density of more than 600kg/m³ and needs no further treatment to resist fungal or insect decay. By comparison the European redwood used by many manufacturers has a lower density of 510kg/m³ which is classified as non-durable and must be treated with a preservative to achieve longevity in a process that has environmental implications. All the timber used by Mumford & Wood is 100% FSC certificated and sustainably sourced.
“If a hardwood option is required then we use a Grandis timber from South America,” advises Dare. “Grandis has a density of more than 600kg/m³, much the same as Siberian larch, which makes it a good choice over other hardwoods from Africa. These have become difficult to source as they are now listed and have become endangered.”
The timber is then engineered which is a technically advanced approach to the use of wood in modern day applications. In this process layers of wood are laid with the grain in opposing directions to allow the timber to move whist being countered by the grain of neighbouring sections creating an exceptionally strong, robust and stable material that makes ‘warp, twist and stick’ much less likely. Independent research identifies doors and windows manufactured by the company have an expected life of 65 years or more.
“Working closely with Mumford & Wood it is our common aim to introduce an extended range of period entrance doors that will match in longevity to that of period originals,” comments Brooking, “many of which have lasted 300 years and longer. Architectural integrity is of great importance in replicating beautiful entrance doors some of which are enhanced with decorative glass and leaded lights.”
Single glazed Heritage™ entrance doors feature traditional hand-faced external putty and 4mm float glass. There is also the option to specify Crown or Victorian glass to achieve the authentic and much loved imperfections of period glass.
“While we cannot compare the U-values of a single glazed product with that of the slim double glazed Classic™ range, or even our award winning Conservation™ products,” says Dare, “the installation of a new Heritage™ entrance door will enhance the authenticity of the property and, of course, timber will always improve thermal performance and security. If we incorporate slim double glazing this process will reduce the cost and consumption of energy to heat your home, will help towards lower CO₂ emissions and a more sustainable carbon footprint – which is essential for our planet.”
Glazed entrance doors in the Classic™ range feature an alternative slim panel glazing system that effectively reduces sight lines. The aesthetics are more in keeping with period style and are ideal for replacement in heritage projects and conservation areas where planning restrictions may permit the use of double glazing. These made-to-order slim glazed products are available with a choice of profiles and feature individual 12-14mm slim profile units with true bars and a traditional external putty faced finish. Again a choice of glass to achieve the appearance of hand-blown glass is also available and for added security laminated panes can be used.
In period-style new builds and extensions, a double glazed entrance door from the Conservation™ range will achieve the highest levels of thermal and acoustic performance with security that is Secured by Design accredited, to meet PAS 24 accreditation, with multi-point locking systems.
Glazed side panels and fanlight grilles complete the period aesthetic while adding elegance, height and authenticity to your chosen entrance door design and at the same time will improve natural light ingress into the building.
Decorative fanlight grilles can be designed and manufactured in countless designs while Egg-and-Dart, Gothic, Sunray, Diamond and Fish Tail remain the most popular in the Mumford & Wood collections. “Early examples were made from several materials including wood, wrought iron and bronze lead, cast iron, zinc and timber embellished with Jeso. Fanlights were a major feature of 18th and 19th century buildings and a correct understanding of their construction and detailing is vital,” says Brooking. “They quickly became widespread as a decorative feature and could be found in grand town houses down to the more humble country cottage.”
Ironmongery is available from a wide selection of tactile designs and smart finishes to suite with windows and other doors in each range. “Our sash windows are finished with a discreetly positioned signature logo on sash catches and inside casement frames as a guarantee of the finest quality and craftsmanship.”
All products are delivered to site with three coats of high quality water-based, micro-porous paint or stain. The dual colour option is proving popular, especially the combination of RAL 9003 signal white externally with a beautiful heritage shade internally. “We also offer an annual Complete Care service which means we take responsibility for the maintenance of your products, and our new paint range can be colour-matched to the original order – all designed to allow you to get on with the important things in life.” Customers are welcome to visit our state-of-the art manufacturing facility in Essex, or to meet by appointment at The Building Centre, London WC1.
For more detailed advice on period entrance doors call Owen Dare or make reference to The Brooking National Collection: www.thebrookingcollection.org
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Dark Souls II release date announced
by GameSpot's News | September 19, 2013 at 1:00 am
Dark Souls II to be released in March next year in Europe and the Americas; collector's edition details revealed.
Open-world role-playing game Dark Souls II will launch on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on March 11 next year in North America, publisher Namco Bandai confirmed. The announcement was made during Namco Bandai's pre-Tokyo Game Show conference today.
A collector's edition was also revealed and will include a soundtrack, artbook, 12 inch figurine, and a cloth map. A release date for PC was not confirmed.
Dark Souls II is the sequel to the critically acclaimed Dark Souls. PlayStation 3 owners in North America, Europe, and Australasia can sign up for the beta, which begins on October 12.
More news from the show can be found at our Tokyo Game Show 2013 hub.
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Despite Your Lies, Nigerians Still Prefer Buhari- Shittu To PDP
The Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu, has told the leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that despite their lies against President Muhammadu Buhari, many Nigerians still prefer his style of governance. Barrister Shittu, said this in Ibadan while speaking with newsmen during the 50th birthday ceremony of a PDP chieftain in Oyo State,…”
The Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu, has told the leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that despite their lies against President Muhammadu Buhari, many Nigerians still prefer his style of governance.
Barrister Shittu, said this in Ibadan while speaking with newsmen during the 50th birthday ceremony of a PDP chieftain in Oyo State, Engr. Oluseyi Abiodun Makinde.
The minister, who said the people of the country were neither fools nor ingrates, would appraise the president when he presented his score-card.
He said those who drove Nigeria into a mess through corruption and mismanagement during the 16 years of PDP’s misrule were the ones now accusing President Buhari of non-performance.
Shittu, however, told the PDP leaders that Nigerians appreciated the achievements of the President in the areas of the fight against corruption and insurgency and uplifting agriculture, infrastructure, education, and employment.
The minister said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) would come out to showcase the achievements of the president for Nigerians to compare with those of the PDP that ruled it for 16 years at the appropriate time.
He said, “Nigerians voted for President Buhari because he was the only presidential candidate that could be trusted. The president is running a government devoid of greed and corruption. Although the work ahead is enormous, I am happy that a lot of positive changes have occurred in the areas of agriculture, education, infrastructure, and employment.”
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Bio/About
Rob Draper, ACS – Director of Photography
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Following numerous requests I have added three examples of my thought process in developing visual styles. They can all be accessed on this page by clicking on the appropriate tab. I have attached numerous video clips to illustrate my points. I am currently in the process of writing and building a page with the development of The Spitfire Grill, which has been the most requested.
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Examples of Development of Visual Style
Halloween 5 - Laundry Chute
Adventures of Roman
The Crater
Fill-Lite's
Shooting The Three Stooges on Super 16mm Film.
We shot the film in Sydney, Australia in 2000…only a few months before the Olympic Games. Needless to say shooting on location for all the exteriors was a challenge, with all the advertising for the Games plastered on billboards, walls, shop windows, buses and taxi's, requiring some creative angles and staging, particularly given there was little to no traffic control.
The film covers the life of the Three Stooges from their early days in Vaudeville in the 1920’s, through the creation of 22 years of shorts for Columbia Pictures to their “rebirth” on stage in Boston in 1959.
For budget reasons we shot on 16mm so rather than see that as a disadvantage I used the format as the basis of the visual style making use of the grain structure, higher contrast and color rendition. The increased depth of field would have posed a problem but I decided, as is pretty much normal for me, to shoot wide open for interiors and exteriors. This was only for the flashbacks and “current day” elements. The black and white shorts needed to be shot with very wide DOF.
Having to shoot 1959 as current day, the 20’s through ’59 as period flashbacks and also recreate, with absolute accuracy, several of their black and white shorts, was the real challenge.
I decided to shoot the bulk of the film in Super 16 with a 1.85:1 aspect ratio. This largely because the shorts, to be strictly accurate, had to be shot in a 1.33:1 ratio. Choosing the widescreen ratio for everything other than the shorts gave the shorts more “separation”.
The shorts also needed to be black and white.
I chose three filmstocks.
“current day” interiors and exteriors Eastman Kodak EXR 7248 100T
“flashbacks” interiors and exteriors Eastman Kodak EXR 7298 500T
“shorts” Eastman Kodak EXR 7245 50D
This choice gave me a variety of grain size and contrast so simply by changing the stocks I had higher contrast between all three elements. I added further to this by exposing all flashbacks at T2.8, all current day at T8 and all shorts at T16.
To develop the visual style for the show I decided on a shifting color palette through all the flashback and current day material using coral filters and slowly phasing them out as time progressed to shooting completely clean for the current day. Being on 16mm added grain, although shooting on the Kodak T grain stocks it was nowhere near as apparent as it would have been several years earlier. I used the grain as an element of the visual style.
The idea was current day would feel slightly colder, more neutral and have higher contrast whilst the flashbacks would start very warm and, by progressively decreasing the strength of the filtration, slowly bring the color to match the current day.
I used a combination of coral filters, black pro mists and the varicon for all the material other than the shorts and shot close to wide open on generally longer lenses where possible so depth of field was shallow. As we progressed through the years I slowly increased the lighting contrast, reduced the intensity of both the corals and pro mists and brought the look back to match “current day” 1959 with no filtration and higher contrast lighting.
The shorts required a great deal of research and some testing. We could not shoot black and white due to studio policy so had to go with color stock.
In the period the lighting on all the shorts was hard light, the sets were generally one wall sets (sometimes two) and most were shot on a single lens. Filmstocks were slow and lenses were not very fast so I figured choosing the 50ASA/ISO stock in combination with a T16 stop and hard light would bring me close to the original.
Director Jim Frawley had decided on the shorts we would shoot so working with Production Designer Larry Eastwood we decided to paint all sets in shades of grey, dress the actors in shades of grey through black and shoot on slow, 50D, daylight stock using HMI’s so there was no filtration and no need for tungsten daylight color balancing in the grade.
The other reason for the 50D is it behaved almost like a reversal so I had much higher contrast built in before putting up lights. This was further necessary as the original shorts were lit relatively flat and shot at a T8 stop.
Note: some of the shorts were presented in 4:3 and others in 1.85:1 The reasoning was to differentiate between screening room viewings and live action filming of the scenes.
Shooting the shorts and flashbacks on different stocks, at widely different apertures, led to another challenge as the Director wanted on camera transitions of the boys going from behind the scenes onto the B&W set and coming off set. This required very different lighting between the on set material and the behind the scenes material, as well as filtration.
To accommodate the transitions we carefully set up each transition so it was an individual shot on the 50D stock. I could light the behind the scenes area for a T2 and the shorts set to a 16 and we blocked the shot so I could execute a large iris pull which would be hidden in part of the set, the actors movement of by passing through a shadow. Of course in the grade each of those shots had to be graded to B&W. In the final edit only a few of the on camera transitions were included.
One of the biggest problems in the shoot was staging the scene with Curly and the clam chowder. It looks a very simple scene but the challenge was to shoot the scene on the equivalent of a 35mm lens (as it was in the original 35mm photography) whilst holding the top of the counter and framing over Curley’s head. The problem was to go wide enough to hold the shot we needed to go to an 18mm lens and pull further back…which made the shot very wide and we saw off set.
To come in close, as the camera was in the original, and shoot on the 35mm equivalent, we had to raise the counter to get the bowl in shot but the counter had to be so high it was ridiculous. After watching the original and trying multiple lenses and camera positions, one of the grips saw what was happening. Basically the camera would be set up in essentially one position and the set wall would be adjusted to accommodate the shot. Easy in most cases because the sets were only a single wall most of the time. So we popped on the 16mm lens, moved the set wall in until it matched the original shot and voila, problem solved.
We also made quite a lot of use of steadicam throughout on the “current” and flashback material....to help counterpoint the static nature of the shorts. Steadicam was used however, to drive the story, not as a gimmick, so the moving camera was always structured in to the storytelling rather than being an excuse to move the camera. Steadicam shots were used as single shots, not intercut with “coverage”.
This covers the basics of the development of the visual style for the film. If you have any questions you can contact me by email or through Facebook.
Interview: Filming Halloween 5′s Laundry Chute Sequence With DP Rob Draper, ACS
By Christian Sellers
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers has long since divided fans of the series, with some feeling that the movie failed to live up to the comeback of The Return of Michael Myers and others appreciating the European feel that Swiss filmmaker Dominique Othenin-Girard brought to the picture. Arguably the movie’s stand-out moment is the sequence in which the young heroine (played by eleven-year old Danielle Harris) is trapped inside a laundry chute, as Michael repeatedly stabs his knife through the side. The scene would be the result of hard work and extensive preparation between Othenin-Girard and his director of photography, Robert Draper ACS, who would later shoot the cult horror flicks Tales from the Darkside: The Movie and Dr. Giggles. Robert Draper talks Retro Slashers through the shooting of Halloween 5‘s laundry chute sequence.
QUESTION: How was the scene described in the script and what were your initial thoughts on how you would approach filming?
“I should start by saying that laundry chute sequence is one of my favorite scenes I’ve ever shot in my thirty years as a cinematographer. It was a challenge, both from a physical shooting point of view, from a lighting point of view and from a conceptual point of view. I remember reading the screenplay the first time and wondering, “How the hell are we going to shoot that?” It was a great challenge and resulted in a fantastic collaborative effort between myself, Dominique and Brent Swift, the production designer.
For Dominique and I, the single most important aspect of shooting this scene was to get the audience inside that chute with danielle. We figured if the audience could feel claustrophobic and dusty and the sense of panic then we would be 90% of the way home in achieving the intent of the scene. This of course required that we use wide lenses in close and in the chute that would not necessarily help with the claustrophobic feel… so we spent a lot of time working on how to get the audience into the chute to suffer along with Danielle.
The challenge with laundry chute was an obvious one, of course. We had an 18-inch square chute that went from the first floor into the basement of the building. Not only was it long chute with a very confined space but it was night with all the lights off in the house. So the compelling question was how do I light this and make it look believable when in reality it should be pitch black? So the twofold physical challenge was how do we actually lens the sequence and also, from the lighting viewpoint, how do I make it look believable? Of course one other factor… how do we get the camera into a laundry chute, or at least scale it to look believable? The genius behind that particular challenge was really the production designer, Brent Swift.
QUESTION: How organized was Dominique Othenin-Girard as a director and did he know exactly what he wanted and how it could be achieved with regards to this scene?
“Dominique was extremely well prepped for this entire film and he knew, shot-by-shot, how this film was going to go together right from the very start. This made shooting the entire film a real pleasure because Dominique had a very clear picture of what he wanted to see up on the screen and he had a very clear idea of what lenses he would like to use for each of the scenes.
On one hand, that made shooting a pleasure on the other hand it made shooting very difficult because Dominique wanted to use a lot of wide-angle lenses, very, very low, so quite often we would have the camera positioned in the corner of a room, on the floor, on an 18mm lens, which made lighting extremely difficult. In a dark film, you don’t want light coming from the direction of the camera as it destroys all the mood. Having the camera low and wide, seeing the whole room, made it impossible to light from behind the actors; essentially I had nowhere to hide the lights, so everything had to come from either outside (through windows, other rooms, etc.) or from behind the camera in such a way as to make it appear the light was coming from behind or to the side of the actors. It became quite a challenge to get the lighting to look believable and moody and atmospheric and get the drama cross. But it was one of those challenges that constantly pushes you to be inventive.
However, having said that, the look of the film was largely determined by the use of those wide-angle lenses and it was a fantastic choice and I think it gave Halloween 5 a slightly different look to all the other Halloweens, but it was certainly a challenge for me from a lighting perspective. But yeah, answering that question, Dominique was extremely well prepped on that film he he knew exactly how he was going to tell the story from start to finish, from day one.”
QUESTION: What is your usual method when reading a script and bringing it out from the page and onto the screen? Do you have a specific routine on how you break down each sequence?
“To be really honest I don’t really have a routine that I go through. I read the script and generally images will start to pop into my head and, after several readings, and a lot of notes and scribbles all over the script, I start to slowly put together an overall, broad brush version of how I see the film. I’ll read the script many many times. It is important for the DP (as well as the actors and director) to have the full story completely told well before shooting.
Given that no movie is shot in sequence, you need to have every scene clearly structured so when everything is assembled it makes sense from a lighting, movement and lensing perspective. I will have a lot of discussions with the director to get a clear picture of how he/she wants the story told and the same with the production designer. Armed with my thoughts and the director’s wishes, I will then start piecing the film together scene-by-scene, focusing on lighting continuity, lens choice, camera movement, color… all the elements.
I also like to have a chat to the editor before we start shooting to get an idea of how they see the film going together and quite often they will have some requests that will help them piece the film together better in the cutting room. Overall, it’s a step-by-step process, but by the time shooting commences I can very clearly visualize the entire movie, scene-by-scene, in my mind… even to the extent of “pre-visualizing” it much the same way a downhill skier previsualizes the course before going onto the course.”
QUESTION: How detailed were the storyboards that you designed prior to filming and how long did these take to create?
“As I mentioned earlier, the real genius behind the physical staging of this scene was Brent Swift, the production designer. Dominique had a very clear idea of how he wanted to visualize the story and he and I talked through all the challenges we were facing. We had a storyboard artist draw a set of boards for the scene outlining all the shots and lens choices for each shot. Brent then took the storyboards, went off and designed all the set pieces needed to achieve the shots outlined in the boards. What he came up with was absolutely brilliant. I cannot remember how many panels were in the sequence but there were a lot. In the end there was somewhere in the range of thirty-five to forty different set pieces that made up the laundry chute sequence.
It took Brent quite a while to conceptualize everything and this was going on whilst we were already shooting. The day we shot the scene we arrived to set with all the individual set pieces laid out around the studio floor and each piece had a number. Then we had a large board with all the storyboard panels laid out in shooting order and each panel had a number corresponding to the matching set piece for that shot. Basically, what we had was a very detailed shopping list of all the elements needed to tell the story. We essentially just moved across the panels and as each one was shot we put a big red cross through them all until we were done. Of course, the editor had been involved on this one as well so we had editorial input to be sure all these elements would fit together seamlessly.”
QUESTION: There were several different versions of the chute that were built in order to complete this scene, including sections that were removable so the camera could film through and another where the camera was moved along on a skateboard. Can you talk us through each one and how they came together to make a whole sequence?
“Well there were too many set pieces to talk through all of them, but basically the way this worked was we had pieces of chute that were vertical with the sides cut out. We had pieces lying on their side, allowing us to “dolly” the camera inside the chute. We did that on a skateboard with a pole attached so we could roll it along in front of Danielle; use it to push in or as a moving POV. We had pieces with small windows cut in it so we could put Danielle inside a narrow chute and get her reactions. We had a single walled set piece which duplicated the wall with the chute door so that could be shot on the stage. There were places where we could remove panels, there was everything you can imagine, as I said the thirty-five to forty set pieces.
One of the shots that really sells the laundry chute sequence is the shot in the basement when Danielle falls down the chute and hits the bottom. I love that shot.
We did it in the house with a set piece and dropped a bag of sand down the chute, filming is at normal speed and over-cranked. The slo-mo shot gave the impact and, of course, we loaded in plenty of fuller’s earth to give a nice backlit dust effect, which all added to the impact. To me, this one shot really sold the fact that Danielle was in the chute and made it all the more powerful when Michael started hacking away at the chute.”
QUESTION: Did Danielle Harris perform during the entire scene or was there a stunt double for the more difficult moments?
“To be honest I cannot recall but I am pretty sure Danielle did everything in the laundry chute sequence, largely because it was all on set and very controlled. We did have a stunt double for Danielle on the movie but I don’t recall the double did any of the shots in the laundry chute sequence.I remember when we shot the scene in the laundry room in the basement, running Danielle ragged as we had to do quite a few takes to piece that together”
QUESTION: Don Shanks was using a real knife to cut through the side of the chute; was Danielle ever inside at the time or were these shots filmed separately?
“No, Danielle was never inside the chute when Don was actually doing the stabbing shots and, in fact, we did do shots where you can see Danielle’s legs inside the chute when Don was stabbing, but they were with prosthetic legs. We obviously couldn’t have a real actress in there with a real knife going through it.”
Placing Horizon Lines in The Adventures of Roman - An Outback Musical
The Adventures of Roman Pilgrim was one of, if not the, first Hi Def films for theatrical release shot in Australia. The film, conceived, written, produced and directed by talented Aussie Filmmaker Anny Slater, shot on the Panavised SONY 950 camera in Tibooburra, far western NSW. It is a fantasy which, in brief, tells the story of a young boy searching the Aboriginal songlines for his “voice”.
"Roman" featured an original score by renowned Jazz Musician/Trumpet Player James Morrison with Christopher Horsey ("Bootmen") as "Roman" starring and choreographer, The Topp Twins as "the Fates" , David Ngoombujarra ("Down & Under") as "Albert", Michael Veitch ("Fast Forward") as the "Guardian of the Threshold, Taryn Laleen as "Spirit Guide", John Morrison as "The Butcher" www.swingcity.com.au
As a side note, shooting at the intersection of Sth Australia, NSW, Qld and Northern Territory and working on a limited budget, we needed to shoot as much as possible available light with only reflectors, bounces and careful attention to sun position. All the dreamtime dance sequences were shot totally available daylight with each angle timed to the position of the sun.
After discussions with Anny we decided to shoot flat 2.35:1 aspect ratio on spherical lenses to make the most of the outback locations and the wide theatrical screen. The aspect ratio also worked well for the staging of many of the scenes which required vast wide shots as well as substantial separation between the actors.
Shooting 2.35:1 meant much attention would have to be paid to the horizon line, particularly as one of my pet peeves is horizon lines jumping up and down the screen in the edited scene. I wanted to overcome those jumps and, at the same time use the horizon as part of the storytelling.
I had shot a film many years earlier, In Broad Daylight starring Brian Dennehy and Marcia Gay Harden, about a guy who terrorized Skidmore Missouri, eventually to be gunned down by the townfolk (true story). My goal was to use the horizon to tell a subliminal part of the story.
In the early part of the film I wanted Brian to be towering over the landscape I shot from lower angles and in particular, on exteriors, kept the horizon running cutting Brian between chest and knees. As the film progressed I moved the horizon line higher until he was eventually trapped by the landscape.
In “Roman” my goal was the same. Use the horizon to help drive the story subliminally and that meant ensuring the horizon did not draw attention to itself by “jumping” up and down in the frame across edits.
I shot many tests on an SLR for "Roman" and decided to have a chat to my pal, one of America’s top artists, Eric Hopkins. Eric paints Maine landscapes and he tends to see his world from 10,000’. This obviously means he puts a lot of thought into placement of the horizon in his paintings. We had discussed horizons many times before but now the discussion could turn to implications for the moving image.
Who is Eric Hopkins? Watch the following short video I shot with Eric on his approach to horizons for another project several years back. He was in the process of taking his art 360 degrees by combining with glass.
I hopped an early morning ferry for the 60+ minute ride out to Eric’s studio on North Haven Island.
We talked at length about where the horizon should be, with my primary concern the “jumps”. I had an idea that the horizon could be played at angles through the frame which also meant the actors would be angled as well.
Eric grabbed some cardboard, cut out a 2.35:1 frame, drew a this line across a table and we started playing. We were both surprised to discover that the more off horizontal the horizon became, the more interesting the picture. However, that was great for static shots or one angle but how about intercutting?
I shot loads of stills, transferred them into Final Cut and edited shots into sequences and surprisingly, intercutting also worked better with large departures of the horizon from strictly horizontal. (Watch one of the tests below).
Next was to test the theory with people in the shot. I photographed family members in different compositions…WS, MS and CU and then cropped and dropped them into the frames with the horizon line. It worked, for intercut still frames so my theory was it should work when the actors and the camera were moving.
In fact it did, and it worked brilliantly (if I do say so myself). Strangely, when watching the film the angle of the horizon and the actors was not noticeable to audiences, unless they were told about it up front. If it was mentioned after a screening they could not recall.
Further, the actors, even though to camera at crazy angles, always appeared normal but with a tension and dynamic in each shot that would not have been apparent shot conventionally. Steadicam work was a challenge but Steadicam Operator Andrew "AJ" Johnson was all over the wacky angles and pulled off some stunning compound shots tracking the dancers and maintaining the horizon placement.
Sadly, you do not get the full impact of the technique on a small computer or tv screen. I really works best on a big screen. However, you will see in the following short assembly it does definitely add a different dynamic to the story.
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I have had many questions regarding lighting for some of the dramatized battle re-enactment scenes in "The Crater”.
The lighting plan was simple, there were essentially no lights.
The concept called for very minimal lighting as Director, David Bradbury, wanted absolute realism and the nights of the battle, as described by the Vets who were there, "were pitch black, no moon, nothing, just black". Helping keep to this plan was the fact this was being done on a vey tight budget so there was no financial room for condors with 12K's, balloons, Musco, generators, etc. to light the huge battle field for the all night time battle scenes.
The lighting plan involved playing the battle in "layers", lighting, at very low intensity, the background and then allowing flares, explosions and muzzle flash to light the middle ground and foreground with no additional supplemental foreground lighting.
Essentially everything played in silhouette unless "soldiers" were captured on camera during an explosion or muzzle flash.
Each sequence was staged by laying down smoke from explosive pots in the deep background. This was lit by the explosions themselves and by a single 5K backlighting the smoke at extremely low level. Next the explosions moved progressively towards camera laying more smoke and the middle ground and foreground was the charging troops and lots of muzzle flash. Essentially everything played in silhouette unless "soldiers" were captured on camera during an explosion or muzzle flash. The added benefit of this was no-one (particularly the camera operators) had any idea where anyone was except when there was light.....again, exactly as experienced by those who were there, and this, adding to the realism.
Ultimately the effect was to create as much disorientation and chaos as possible so nothing was evenly lit and only fleeting glimpses of the action were visible. Exactly as it was described by the Vets.
The day ext of the Aussie soldiers after the bombing was shot about 30 minutes after sunset with only ambient light. The scene in the command center using only 100W Tungsten bulbs dimmed to about 50% to get the warmth.
One lighting unit I was able to use was the searchlight mounted on the Centurion tank. These were used in an on/off fashion during the battle when the North Vietnamese soldiers were attacking. The actual light (part of the Centurion Tank) was a 1 million candlepower Xenon that was mounted just above the gun and provided some serious illumination on the battlefield. Of course during battle this light never remained on and was only used in occasional very brief bursts to locate the attacking soldiers causing momentary blindness and making them easy targets for the 50 caliber machine guns.
"The Crater" was screened in Australia on April 25th as part of the Anzac Day, Gallipoli Centenary Celebrations.
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I used the Fill-Lite's for the first time on the feature "Irrefutable Proof", which shot in Syracuse NY, essentially lighting the entire movie with them. This Indie film was shot on a very tight budget with huge locations and required an innovative approach to the lighting to keep costs down and maintain a very strong visual style. Fill-Lite make an exceptional unit and this was my first chance to put them through their paces.
Having demo'd the units earlier in the year at a seminar I gave for Band Pro, I knew their potential but did not appreciate the usefulness and versatility of these small units until I had them on set.
"The Lady Pleaser" The quality of the light is astounding, dubbed by my crew "the lady pleaser", great wrap and essentially the quality of a soft light thru 216 (without the 216). The fall off is relatively short which meant less cutting and shaping in tight locations and being a square emitter they could easily be panned or tilted to control spill and intensity in different parts of the set.
I used them as singles, doubles and quads, to light masters and close-ups, green screen car scenes, men and women. For women, when punched thru diffusion, the light almost becomes a liquid. I also used them skirted as coup lights for large areas where they provided the perfect amount of base shooting on the Alexa at 800ISO, as fill on overcast day exteriors and in ultra low temps (-9 degrees and color temp and output did not change). In every situation these incredible units excelled. I will not be shooting again without them.
Their small compact size and amazing light quality make them ideal for shooting in very tight locations
Their small compact size and amazing light quality make them ideal for shooting in very tight locations as, at a little less than 1" thick, they take up such a small amount of space. They are also supplied with brackets allowing them to be directly attached to set walls giving them an even smaller footprint. Compared to Kino Flo's or Chimera's, well there simply is no comparison, these little units outperform in every area.
No Heat-No Generator-Less Cost
Of course one of the big advantages of LED lighting in general is that they do not produce heat. Therefor almost all the electrical energy passing into the LED produces light so they are much more efficient. This allowed using the lower wattage lights off normal household circuits, so I was able to structure the lighting for the film around a lighting package that did not force us to carry a generator, other than a 6500W as a backup source or for remote locations. Any night exteriors were shot dusk for night. Actors also loved the "no heat" aspect of the Fill-Lite's . Check them out at www.fill-lite.com
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Jo Ann Callis HONEY Reviewed in the LA Times
Added on August 2, 2014 by ROSEGALLERY.
By LEAH OLLMAN
Jo Ann Callis dates her introduction to photography to the early '70s, when she was a graduate student at UCLA. By 1977, the year she earned her MFA, she had made all of the work on view now at Rose Gallery: inquisitive, provocative images as compelling as anything she has shot (or painted) throughout her distinguished, 40-year career.
The pictures, both black-and-white and color, were mostly made indoors, in spare settings more emblematically than comfortingly domestic. Nearly all of them involve a single female figure partially concealed, costumed or bound.
In one photograph, legs wrapped in white gauze stand in a tub shallowly filled with inky liquid. In another, a man's black belt encircles a standing nude woman's waist and attaches to a nail in the wall, away from which she tilts, uncomfortably. A strip of duct tape stretches across the shoulder blades of a woman lying face-down. Another woman, standing sculpture-like on a small pedestal before a satin backdrop, is tightly wrapped in fine, criss-crossing twine that etches her flesh.
The influence of three male photographers who fetishized the (mostly) female body earlier in the 20th century -- Hans Bellmer, Pierre Molinier and Paul Outerbridge -- courses through this work, which is inflected as well by the irreverently probing attention women artists of the '70s were paying to the sexualized body, the inner self and the constructs of domesticity.
Callis' staged tableaux are consistently compelling for the way they braid all these forces together, but ultimately because, visually, they are curious and complex, strange and charged.
To read this review on the original site, please click here.
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InTRESant
Label: Dödsdans
Now, here is a real treat for the dedicated synth music collectors. One can only imagine how much effort and patience it has taken the Dödsdans boys to dig these diamonds up. But dug they have and then immortalized the music on black vinyl for generations to come. Tres, a Landskrona (Sweden) quartet, only managed to release 2 tracks officially on their own (the sought after cult single “Smile on My Face”) before the project was disbanded. As can be heard on “InTRESsant”, they did record a lot of material in the same vein.
The LP contains 12 demo tracks, all recorded between 1983 and 1986, and it should be said that the sound quality is not always the best. The overall feel of the tracks and how they are structured, however, just burst of 80:s synth creativity. It just goes to show how much great music never saw daylight back then, due to the saturation of the genre. Songs like “My Computer”, “Fia” or “Operator” could have been classics had they been backed by proper management and released to a synth thirsty public.
Fans of modern slick, well produced electropop might want to steer clear of “InTRESsant”, but it will surely attract the minimal fans as well as old school synthpop connoisseurs.
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In his spare time, Zack teaches children how to imitate James Hampton and still has aspirations to be the next Clayton Rohner. I think he's got a shot.
In addition to that, he's also co-poobah (with Joe Ziemba) of the truly wonderful BLEEDING SKULL Video label (which you should really look into):
http://www.bleedingskullvideo.com/
Zack has been contributing lists to this series for eons now and I highly recommend that you watch every single film on each of these lists. This weekend:
http://www.rupertpupkinspeaks.com/2014/01/favorite-film-discoveries-of-2013-zack.html
http://rupertpupkinspeaks.blogspot.com/2013/02/favorite-film-discoveries-pf-2012-zack.html
http://rupertpupkinspeaks.blogspot.com/2012/01/zack-carlsons-favorite-older-films-seen.html
http://rupertpupkinspeaks.blogspot.com/2011/01/zack-carlsons-top-ten-films-seen-in.html
Zack Carlson's Top 78 movies of 2014
2014 A.D. was the year that Hollywood's most unanimously praised film starred a computer-generated talking raccoon. Let's all observe a moment of silence.
The following ten movies hail from a better era, and were each a massive discovery for me over the past twelve months. Some were masterpieces, others disasterpieces, but all are unique enough to endure forever:
10) BLOOD CIRCUS (1985)
Dir. Santo Rigatuso
My longtime platonic life partner Lars Nilsen already had this one on his 2014 list on this very site, so I'll keep things brief: Blood Circus is a lethal assault on the human species; an unconquerable negative-IQ test that annihilates the viewer from the opening second. Aliens eat Russian bodybuilders while wrestling promoters transform into werewolves. Children stare fearfully at the probing camera while the same hollow shriek blares over the soundtrack hundreds of times (no exaggeration). It's a massive accomplishment in artless, lawless, impossibly redundant filmmaking hysteria, and it all grew from a scam perpetrated by Maryland's master swindler/oddball Santo "Gold" Rigatuso. Santo was an infomercial star and fake gold slinger who must have shoveled a mountain of 14-karat bullshit to get this megalomaniacal passion project off the ground. Never released in theaters or on video, Blood Circus is an experience that will permanently alter you at a molecular level. ONLY FOR THE BRAVE.
9) D.T. - DAWG TERRITORY (1988)
Dir. Chuck Schodowski
Sports are garbage. But that doesn't keep me from enjoying the fine on-screen skills of talented actors like Brian Bosworth in Stone Cold or the comedically gifted O.J. Simpson in the Naked Gun trilogy. When will his star stop rising? Anyway, all this time, I somehow neglected to notice the true heroes of the off-Hollywood gridiron: The Cleveland Browns. Yes, that's right... the entire team. Apparently, the Browns — who I'd admittedly never heard of until I got this video — were so popular with the late 1980s youth of Ohio that their manager convinced them to star in a series of narrative adventures that would be sold on VHS at their home games. Of the three I've been able to track down so far, the greatest by far is D.T.
Browns player Bob Golic befriends an alien named D.T. The tiny doglike creature loves levitating and eating Hershey's Kisses. It's all fun and games until he's targeted by The Alien Queen, and the Cleveland Browns must mount a pulse-pounding laser battle to rescue both D.T. and the earth itself. It's an incredible display of impassioned non-acting, and D.T. — played by Cleveland's midget furniture mogul Lil' John — is genuinely squeezable. More importantly, the movie is a seemingly awful doomed idea that's so free of irony that it instead ends up a genuine triumph at every level.
8) JUNGLE TRAP (1990)
Dir. James Bryan
After directing seventeen feature films over two decades, drive-in auteur James Bryan (Don't Go In the Woods) grabbed a camcorder, eight friends, and shot a supernatural South American horror movie... in his back yard in Van Nuys. Working with his perennial collaborator Renee "Lady Street Fighter" Harmon, Bryan's final contribution to cinema (so far) is his most resolutely unique, as a murderous voodoo cultist dooms a college class by sending them to a jungle hotel run by shapeshifting cannibalistic ghost savages. While the plot sounds like the babblings of a freshly tazed hobo, the execution is as ideal as it is surreal. Unfortunately, the home video market had fallen victim to its own excesses, and Bryan was unable to find a distributor interested in handling his latest masterwork. Heartbroken, he shelvedJungle Trap without ever editing it or adding a musical score. When Joe Ziemba and I watched it early last year, we realized it demanded to be seen by all adventurous viewers, so we're detonating a Kickstarter campaign to get it properly scored and edited. Fingers crossed.
7) CACTUS FLOWER (1969)
Dir. Gene Saks
I was lucky enough to see this in 35mm as part of an all-day Walter Matthau movie marathon thanks to iron-hearted movie warrior Neil Wilson. In it, The Great Grump plays a freewheeling dentist dating a hippie half his age (Goldie Hawn in her first proper film role). His secretary (Ingrid Bergman) respects his orthadontin' skills but is revolted by his paisley-chasing ways, and the three of them spiral into a comedy of errors spiced with go-go dancing and suicide attempts. The performances are all spot-on, propelled by the type of rock-solid comedic screenwriting that vanished with the advent of whatever it is that has reduced our species into illiterate walking turds.
6) HEAT (1986)
Dir. Dick Richards
Big big thanks to the mighty Phil Blankenship for sharing this major Burt Reynolds achievement. Frankly, I'd avoided Heat because I figured there was no way on earth that it could compete with the thunderous rage of Malone. But dagblammit, the '80s action iteration of King Burt done dood it again. Here, he's a sad sack skip-tracer/bounty hunter always aiming for the one big payoff to escape his gambling addiction and the icy grip of Las Vegas. He inevitably ends up over his head with the wrong crew of jabronis, leading to multiple segments of man-on-Burt violence and — eventually — the reverse. The film also features the single greatest lightbulb-kicking moment ever captured on camera. That's a promise.
5) NIGHT FEEDER (1987)
Dir. Jim Whiteaker
A relentlessly bleak and massively enjoyable shot-on-video darkwave horror blast from the leather-clad armpits of the Bay Area. This gore-scarred creature-fueled whodunnit culminates in one of the most rewarding slasher reveals in camcorder history, but the journey is every bit as powerful. Especially when the singer of coal-hearted gothpunk combo The Nuns stares directly into the camera and croons: "You SLIT your WRISTS... you fuckin' BITCH..."Night Feeder was completed at the tail end of San Francisco's robust new wave era but was only ever released on PAL-format VHS in Poland. It's a misanthropic, slightly nasal battle cry and one of the best homemade horror films you'll ever see, hands down.
4) FINAL SCORE (1986)
Dir. Arizal
The legendary Robert Mitchum was an iconic combination of enigma, charisma and alcoholic miasma. Each character he played was instilled with immeasurable depth. In fact, he gave so much of his unique talent to his roles that he left none in his own DNA. But that didn't stop his son Chris from pursuing a screen career. Despite his apparent struggle with Asperger's syndrome, young Mitchum managed to carve out a niche in overseas exploitation films, beginning in Europe and reaching a manic apex in the lawless action output of the South Seas. Allying with the mysterious director known only as "Arizal," Mitchum turned out Lethal Hunter and Final Score, the latter of which is absolutely the most hateful, explosive, irresponsible revenge film on the planet. To avenge the brutal murder of his wife and son, Mitchum basically spends 70 minutes wiping out half the population of Indonesia. His arsenal includes guns, knives, fire, cars, elbows, boats, a train and a super-powered rocket-launching motorcycle. Final Score was a massive hit in its home country, but the planned second installment never materialized. Probably because they'd already dismembered and/or blown up every stuntman within 800 miles to make this one.
3) THE EMERALD FOREST (1985)
Dir. John Boorman
(Loosely) based on a (kind of) true story, Boorman's melodramatic epic follows rainforest land developer Bill Markham (Powers Boothe), whose 8-year-old son is kidnapped by tribal natives at the forest's edge. For the next decade, Markham devotes himself to scouring the continent's darkest jungles to reclaim his boy. Meanwhile, the blonde, blue-eyed child has assimilated into the tribe, and been taught to fear — and, if necessary, kill — the "demons destroying the great forest." Rather than wallow in family matters, The Emerald Forest slides into darker territory, including cannibalism, prostitution and full-scale jungle genocide. Boothe is impossibly skilled in his performance, gradually exchanging his character's career-dad demeanor for desperate savagery.
2) 80 BLOCKS FROM TIFFANY'S (1979)
Dir. Gary Weis
As if The Emerald Forest and our daily lives weren't enough, here's more evidence that white people screw up everything. This impossibly well-crafted documentary covers the pre-gentrified South Bronx of the late '70s, ostensibly focusing on street gangs while slyly providing a broad portrait of New York living in the final hours before the '80s. Celebration, violence, lifelong friendships, premature death and everything else are explored with sympathy rather than detached cultural curiosity. A movie by humans about humans for humans. Having just returned from New York less than 24 hours before I typed this, I'm sad to report that there are very few actual humans left in the area. There was a real clean Chipotle, though.
1) THE ASTROLOGER (1975)
Dir. Craig Denney
A mindlessly/fearlessly narcissistic thrillride that plays like writer/director Denney had six minutes to live. The Astrologer is a chaotic affront to traditional storytelling, dragging its felonious protagonist -- Denney himself, naturally -- to all corners of the globe on a budget of 80 bucks as we follow his inexplicable rise and inevitable fall. This was Denney's only film, and he exhibits all the on-screen charisma of a wet Cheeto, but he was so assured of the feature's success that he personally bankrolled multiple 35mm prints to meet the predicted demand. The prints weren't around long enough to gather dust, as the heartbroken director destroyed all but one of them immediately after the box office receipts and reviews rolled in. And in that rage-fueled instant, his face illuminated red by the leaping flames of the dumpster, he likely uttered the following lines from his own failed masterpiece: "GOD IS DEAD. SHIT ON LIFE."
Labels: favorite film discoveries of 2014, film discoveries, Zack Carlson
George White said...
How does Mitchum have Asperger's?
I have it too.
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My Favorite Discoveries of 2014 (Rupert's List) - Part Two
Here are some more of the gems that I managed to come across in 2014. My list of interesting "new to me" watches last year was rather extensive, so I should have at least one more installment after this:
Here's Part One of my list by the way:
http://www.rupertpupkinspeaks.com/2015/01/my-favorite-film-discoveries-of-2014.html
HAVING A WILD WEEKEND (1965; John Boorman)
The Dave Clark 5 have quite the swinging pad in HAVING A WILD WEEKEND. It even had a trampoline, which is used several times to fun effect. Overall, the film isn't quite as energetic and frenetic as A HARD DAYS NIGHT, but it still moves along at a good clip, has some interestingly edited bits and features some undeniably catchy tunes by the band themselves. It is certainly more poignant than HARD DAYS though. The "plot" is odd but memorable in that it centers around the boys (of the band) who are working a short stint as stuntmen in commercials for this "Meat Counsel" whose goal is to brand and continue a series of print and TV ads to sell more meat to the public. One of the boys has taken a fancy to the girl that the Meat Counsel has chosen as the face of their campaign. She has become disenchanted with her role and is swept off on an adventure with the dude from the band. This adventure takes the couple a ways from London and into some interesting scenarios whilst the Meat Counsel minions give chase. One of the best sequences in the movie is a wonderful costume party. Costume parties are one of my favorite conventions of movies and television. The soires are so well designed and it's always fun to spot what famous characters that people are dressed up to look like. In this case, costumes for Groucho and Harpo Marx, Charlie Chaplin and Frankenstein play key roles.
THE WALKING STICK (1970, Eric Till)
An affecting 70s romantic drama wherein an introverted, straight-laced woman (Samantha Eggar) finds herself swept off her feet by a bohemian artist-type (David Hemmings). This features that convention I love which is when the gentlemen continues to pursue the lady despite a lack of interest in the beginning. His pursuit is done in a charming and not creepy stalker-ly way and it's quite endearing. The plot also has some turns which are not the conventional fare for this type of movie.
FUNNY BONES (1995; Peter Chelsom)
Something of a mix of Woody Allen and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. An interesting companion piece to THE IMPOSTORS. Suffers slightly from being a touch too long, but overall a fascinating film. Cast includes Jerry Lewis, Oliver Platt, Lee Evans, Leslie Caron, Richard Griffiths and Oliver Reed.
POSSESSED (1947; Curtis Bernhardt)
Compelling noir which finds Joan Crawford a woman obsessed with an engineer (Van Heflin) she met whilst in the employ of a rich man. Suffice it to say that he does not quite feel the same way about her. Features a great noir opening involving amnesia. Warner Archive put this out on a nice looking Blu-ray late last year.
DAWN AT SOCORRO (1954; George Sherman)
Another neat western recommend from Laura G. (of Laura's Misc Musings) who has put me onto plenty of great stuff from the genre. This one is the story of one Brett Wade (Rory Calhoun) a seasoned gambler and gunslinger who has a nose for trouble even when he's trying to find a place to benefit his health (tuberculosis). Well written and tense.
PANHANDLE (1948; Lesley Selander)
Still another from Laura G. and the best Rod Cameron movie I've seen. A solid little B western with some good dialogue - written, produced and starring a young Blake Edwards (who also makes a fun heavy).
WELCOME HOME, SOLDIER BOYS (1971; Richard Compton)
I think I first heard Josh Olson mention this one during a Trailers From Hell commentary or something. It's sort of freewheelin' 70s drama about some Vietnam veteran solider buddies on a little bender through the south. From the director of MACON COUNTY LINE and you can see some of the connective tissue between the two. Joe Don Baker leads the cast and he's supported by Paul Koslo, Billy Green Bush and Geoffrey Lewis.
ROADBLOCK (1951; Harold Daniels)
Ostensibly a reworking of a DOUBLE INDEMNITY type story, ROADBLOCK stars film noir stalwart Charles McGraw (THE NARROW MARGIN) and features a screenplay co-written by Steve Fisher (who wrote one of my GIVEAWAY - one of my favorite books - among many other things). I've always thought that McGraw's gruff voice and features make him a perfect noir figure. Here he plays a crafty insurance investigator (see also: Fred MacMurray) who meets an even craftier femme fatale (see also: Barbara Stanwyck) in an airport as she pretends to be his wife to get cheaper airfare. McGraw sees her (Joan Dixon) as a "chiseler" right off the bat and he's kinda right on the mark. She very focused on having the very finest things in life asks McGraw "Can happiness buy money?". That kind of says all you need to know about her. And Joan Dixon is quite the cutie too so you just know she's gonna be trouble. She cuts quite a nice frame in a sweater for sure. Definitely the kinda girl you can see yourself contemplating robbing a bank for. This is a solid little noir film though, with a great cameo by the L.A. River.
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957; Billy Wilder)
Billy Wilder was a filmmaker who had a tremendous impact on me when I was younger and starting to get into cinema in a much more serious and academic way. Wilder and Howard Hawks were and are two of my favorites to this very day. I studied film in college and it was right around the time that I dedicated myself to that path that I started to discover Wilder's remarkable body of work. I saw DOUBLE INDEMNITY and the APARTMENT and I was immediately obsessed and have never stopped loving his movies. That being said, for some reason I had never gotten to see WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION.
The courtroom drama is a genre that's all but disappeared from contemporary cinema. Even an academy award powerhouse like A FEW GOOD MEN is all but forgotten today, especially as far as it having an influence on contemporary movies. Though it may sound like an inherently unexciting (an perhaps uncinematic) atmosphere to some folks, the really great courtroom dramas can be remarkably compelling and engaging. One of the great things about directors like Billy Wilder (and Hawks for that matter) is this remarkably ability to work so well inside of a variety of different genres. Just when you think you have him pegged as a comedy kinda guy, along comes a searing cynical yet powerful portrait like ACE IN THE HOLE or a tense war film like FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO. Wilder is just a master director so it is no real surprise to see him move so deftly between these different types of movies.
WOMAN IN HIDING (1950; Michael Gordon)
Wonderful film noir with Ida Lupino. She plays a gal with a husband she suspects arranged the death of her father to inherit his business and that he wants her out of the picture too. Some real nail biting suspense in this one. Very impressive.
ACT OF VIOLENCE (1948; Fred Zinneman)
For all you need to know with regards to this film, please check out Josh Olson's Trailer's From Hell (that's what finally sold me on watching it):
SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK (1921; Max Linder)
Discovering the films of Max Linder in 2014 (via a nice collection on DVD from Kino), was quite a delight I must say. He is one of those silent masters along the lines of Keaton and Chaplin, but who is surprisingly unknown. SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK was Easily the standout gem from that set. The film has a pretty amazing mirror gag that feels like maybe it influenced the classic sequence the Marx Brothers made famous in DUCK SOUP. It also had lots of great chases and sequences involving Linder disguising himself and hiding from various authority figures. All very clever and quite well done. An unheralded classic.
NO NAME ON THE BULLET (1959; Jack Arnold)
An excellent, tension-filled slow-burn of a western from the director of CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON. Audie Murphy starred in my favorite discovery of 2014 (RIDE CLEAR OF DIABLO) and this is another solid Murphy flick. Joe Dante is one of the film's biggest cheerleaders which is why I made it a priority.
ALIAS NICK BEAL (1949; John Farrow)
Another Dante recommend and a neat deal-with-the-devil/film noir combo from director John Farrow. Solid stuff from Ray Milland. Needs a decent DVD release.
IF YOU COULD ONLY COOK (1935; William A. Seiter)
Herbert Marshall and Jean Arthur star in this screwball comedy for fans of MY MAN GODFREY and SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS. Feels like a Preston Sturges runoff movie.
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Ned Merrill said...
WALKING STICK was a real nice Warner Archive discovery for me as well, Rupe, and I wrote about it last year. I LOVE that Stanley Myers "Cavatina" theme...made popular later in DEER HUNTER. WELCOME HOME, SOLDIER BOYS remains an under-the-radar VERY EARLY depiction of Vietnam vets and never gets recognized as such. Paul Koslo again! ACT OF VIOLENCE is superb. Need to revisit that one. Heflin and Ryan are at the top of their respective games.
Hey man, pretty sure it was your mention of WALKING STICK (coupled with the fact that it was on Warner Archive Instant) that finally got me to watch it - so much appreciated!
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Home Sports DC3 Baseball Goes 3-1 Against New Mexico Military Institute
DC3 Baseball Goes 3-1 Against New Mexico Military Institute
Posted By: Editoron: February 17, 2015 In: SportsNo Comments
credit – Dodge City Community College
ROSWELL, New Mexico: Dodge City baseball continued their winning ways last weekend in Roswell, New Mexico as they took New Mexico Military Institute 3-1 after four games played.
Game one ended with a 4-1 decision to the Conqs. DC3 crossed all four runs across the plate in the first three innings, and allowed NMMI their lone run of the game in the bottom of the eighth.
Freshman Colbey Madewell led the Conqs with a 3-4 performance and two runs at the plate. Sophomore Jordan Doan led Dodge with two RBIs with one hit on the day. Freshmen Jason Nichols, Frankie Valle and Tim Wakefield all garnered one hit apiece throughout the game.
Sophomore right-hander Luke Crabb (1-0) held down the rubber for Dodge City. In six innings of work, he fanned eight while allowing only three hits. Sophomore Cameron Brockhoff then put in two innings on the bump for the Conqs, allowing three hits and one earned run. Closing out the right-handed pitching staff of the day was freshman Cory Royer who collected his first save of the season after fanning one and allowing no runs to close out the game.
The Conqs opened up day two in the four-game series with a 5-3 loss to New Mexico. The Conqs went up with one run in the first and third before NMMI tied things up 2-2 in the bottom of the third inning.
In the top of the fourth, DC3 added another to gain the edge, but were stopped short by the home team after they crossed three runs in the bottom of the frame. New Mexico kept Dodge City scoreless in the following three innings to earn the win.
Doan and freshman Johnny Balsamo each had two hits in the game while Madewell and Nichols and sophomores Leno Ramirez and Merle Trueblood each collected one hit apiece. Ramirez, Nichols and Wakefield all picked up solo RBIs in the game as well.
Sophomore Andrew Riddell (1-1) is marked with the loss after giving up four hits and five earned runs while fanning five in just under four-innings pitched. Freshman Matthew Perea also got some time on the bump, sitting down one while allowing three hits in 2.1 innings played.
It was back to winning ways in game three for the Conqs with a 7-6 victory in eight innings. The score went back and forth throughout the game with the Conqs owning a 5-3 advantage heading into the seventh inning. New Mexico tabbed two in the bottom of the inning to tie things up and send the game into extra innings.
In the top of the eighth, DC3 added two runs to the scorecard and allowed the home team only one run in the bottom of the frame to take the 7-6 victory on the day.
Madewell went 3-5 with two RBIs and two runs. Ramirez and Nichols each collected two RBIs apiece while sophomore Hayden Simmons went 2-4 with two runs in the game. Balsamo, Ramirez, Doan and freshman Max Laney each collected one hit in the game as well.
Anthony Bowmaker earned the start and pitched the first five innings, allowing four hits and two runs while fanning three. Sophomore right-hander came in next for DC3, allowing one hit and one run throughout his inning. Garnering the win for the Conqs was sophomore Austin Hammer (1-0) who, in two innings of work, fanned three and allowed three runs to score.
Closing out the weekend, DC3 finished with a commanding 8-1 victory over New Mexico. After the score tied 1-1 in the first inning, DC3 unleashed their bats and scored two in the second, three in the seventh and one in both the fifth and ninth for the seven-run victory.
Balsamo led the team with a 3-5 performance at the plate. He snagged two RBIs while crossing the plate three times on the day. Sophomore Jorden Fields went 2-4 with one RBI, while Leno Ramirez and Frankie Valle each collcted two RBIs on one hit in the game. Madewell and Doan each also collected one hit on the day.
Sophomore Russell Mithlo (2-0) picked up the win in the game after fanning 10 and allowing four hits and one earned run throughout six innings for the Conqs. Freshman Layne Downing earned his first save of the season after sitting down two and allowing no hits throughout the final three innings of the game.
So far on the season, Madewell leads the team with a .526 at the plate after going 10-19 in the last six games. He has tabbed one triple, two doubles and three RBIs while owning a .545 on-base percentage.
Leno Ramirez leads the team with an impressive 15 RBIs after owning eight hits, including two doubles, one triple and one homerun. Johnny Balsamo is good for a .462 average thus far while Doan has collected a .400 at the plate for the Conqs.
DC3 is currently in Portales, New Mexico today, taking on Eastern New Mexico University JV. Start times were listed at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. for the day.
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Gigaba refused to weigh in on free higher education reports
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10 November 2017, 7:21 AM | Sherwin Bryce-Pease | @SABCNewsOnline
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Gigaba did not want to pre-empt the President’s announcement as it relates to the finding of the Heher Commission which investigated the possibility of providing free higher education in South Africa.
Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba has deferred to the Presidency as he refused to weigh in on reports that President Jacob Zuma could announce free higher education for all in the country.
Gigaba is leading a high-powered government delegation on a multi country investor roadshow that begins in New York and includes stops in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore.
The SABC spoke to the Minister about this and some investor concerns around policy uncertainty and speculation that the African National Congresses’ (ANC) Policy Conference in December might be postponed.
“We have been consulted on the proposals which the presidency is going to make and I think it would be appropriate for us not to make any announcement on behalf on the President, we need to sit and wait until the President has made the announcement and then we can issue a comment thereafter but for now we are awaiting the Presidency, we don’t know when the announcement will be made.”
When asked if the question of political uncertainty comes up in his conversations with investors and the short answer was yes.
“An intriguing question for me which has been raised by investors is whether the ANC conference is going to take place or not, given some of the challenges that have been experienced in some of the regional and provincial conferences across the country. We have assured them that the conference is going to take place, it is a conference of branches and the audit of branches has been concluded, we therefore are confident that the conference is going to go ahead and they need to take (a) leaf from the signals that have been sent in terms of policy by the national policy conference in July and so to extent that we can, we are very confident that the conference will take place, a new leadership will be elected and the policy signals have been sent by the policy conference.”
On the SARS Judicial Commission of Inquiry and whether it’s required, given a number of damning allegations already in the public domain, Gigaba says they are still working out the terms of reference.
“We are focusing on issues of the capacity of SARS and tax administration issues, if those issues arise they will obviously be dealt with by the commission but the terms of reference of the commission are going to be drafted in a way that would ensure that we are able to improve the capacity of SARS to continue conducting its work and the public perception so that we address concerns about tax administration. We improve tax morality and ensure that the revenue services’ integrity remains intact so that taxpayers can continue to adhere to their tax obligations.”
With questions about fiscal consolidation, stabilizing the country’s debt to GDP ratio and desperately needed structural reforms that are required to boost weak economic growth.
“We have said to them SA has deep capital markets, we are the most diversified economy on the African continent, we remain a gateway to Africa. We have the largest and most developed and very competitive infrastructure and we also have a very good legal and judicial system. Our Reserve Bank is independent and so we’ve presented a very good story which includes the fact that we are seeing green shoots in various sectors of the economy.”
Over 20 JSE listed company executives are accompanying the government on their five cities, four country roadshow in a strong show of unity for the first time since Gigaba’s tenure at Treasury began in March.
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NDS R4 Roms Nintendo DS R4 flash memory cards use the same roms that you have seen being used in NDS emulators. Same with SuperCard, M3, AceKard and CycloDS Buy a blank cart for .nds roms
R4DS rom cards are small adapters the size of a DS cartridge that can hold a microSD or (micro SDHC) card and on this flash memory card you can store NDS roms & DSi rom games for playing on NDS, DS Lite and DSi and DSiXL consoles. Buy R4 DS Cards
Game Downloads for R4 DS Cards - Nintendo DS Roms / NDS ROM files.
Where I can find / download NDS ROMs?
ROM are very easy to find online. Just look for "Nintendo DS ROMs" on Google and you will find a lot.
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- specializes in NDSi and DSi XL games that use camera and extra CPU speed of the iDS.
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How can I play NDS Roms on my Nintendo DS / DSi -- many people are looking to find.
What are Nintendo DS ROMs, here is the technical definition from - Nintendo DS ROM image, or simply NDS ROMs are computer files with a copy of all the data in a Read-Only Memory chips or a Nintendo Cartridge. The name roms is most often used to describe a video game cartridge backup, but sometimes it can be used for firmware of a smart phone (as in Android ROM and iPhome ROM) or computer's motherboard firmware or an arcade game backup copy (MAME ROM).
The term ROM is commonly known in the context of emulation, where the old games or firmware ROM files are copied to today's computers and the software can be used as an emulator, the newest on the equipment. In short, a ROM, a copy of the game that can be downloaded online.
So How do NDS ROMs work?
Download - unzip and then just copy the ROM to a microSD card, insert the microSD card into your R4 DS flash cart or Supercard DSTWO, or AceKard 2i, boot up your Nintendo DS and the games from the microSD card will show up in the game menu.
What are Top Nintendo DS ROM?
There are some great games that are * on the Nintendo DS Both of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and soul tracks * Big Brain Academy: Test your brain Bros! Advance Wars Castlevania Games * * * * Mario Kart DS New Super Mario
Can I play DS ROMs on 3DS with R4DS?
This has not been tested, but it the the first thing we will try as soon as we get our hands on one of the Nintendo 3DS consoles. It is highly likely that with some minor changes to the boot loader or maybe even without any changes we will be able to bypass N3DS copy protection in DS mode and play NDS roms. All new AP measures that Nintendo has talked about will be for the new N3DS Games and can not be introduced for the older Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS cartridges / and Flash Cards to keep the backward compatibility with the already existing game catalog.
Nintendo 3DS Roms and R4 3DS Flash Cards
Will there be Nintendo 3DS Roms?
Yes, sure there will like we have rom backups for all other systems.
Will there be R4 3DS Flash Cards?
Yes - but the unknown here is how soon. See game developers already have Nintendo made game copy devices for testing 3DS Games when they are being developed, but it is not clear how soon N3DS will be hacked and which team will release the first working R4 3DS Flash Card. My bets are SuperCard 3DS followed by AceKard 3D and Cyclo3DS and after that the clones will appear with names being variations of R4 3DS.
For Nintendo DS, DSL and DSi . R4 3DS backup tools for N3DS.
The Super R4i is another one of R4i clones that is made by the same team as (and practically identical to) the Gold R4i.
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Watch “Death Letter” From The White Stripes’ “Northern Lights”
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The White Stripes’ concert film Under Great White Northern Lights is currently blowing out speakers in cinemas all over this country and Canada, and Rolling Stone has another taste of the pandemonium that’s in store for lucky filmgoers with a screenings in their ‘hoods. Watch Jack White absolutely thrash his guitar during a cover of Son House’s “Death Letter,” just one of nearly 30 tracks that will feature in the White Stripes’ doc about their odd 2007 tour of Canada, a trek that featured impromptu performances on fishing boats, public buses and elementary school classrooms.
Relive the tour with our White Stripes’ Canadian Adventure photo gallery.
In addition to the theatrical dates below, the White Stripes are also inviting their fans to host their own screenings on March 16th, which the band has dubbed “White Stripes Day.” People who apply to host a screening will receive a kit featuring a DVD of UGWNL, popcorn and, of course, peppermint swirl candy. So far, screenings range from 400-seat theaters to private living room settings. If you want to host your own White Stripes party or watch the film’s trailer, head over to the official site (applications are due by March 10th). Otherwise, see Under Great White North Lights on the big screen at one of the fine movie houses below.
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Some Light Science Reading. The Constellations: Lyra
As first appeared in the July 2012 edition of the Syracuse Astronomical Society newsletter The Astronomical Chronicle.
Image generated with Starry Night Pro 6.
“The muse is upon me… bring me a small lyre!” – Caesar (via Dom DeLuise)
I have come to the conclusion that the constellation Lyra is my favorite, as it has all of the qualities one looks for in a celestial marker for a student of astronomy history, an amateur astronomer, and a part-time musician (well, drummer). Within its defined borders reside a famed double-double star system, a planetary nebula, a small globular cluster, at least one reasonable galaxy, one of the brightest stars in our night sky, a near-perfect parallelogram (if these were brighter stars, they would rival the Belt of Orion in geometric significance to terrestrial observers), one corner of the largest asterism in the night sky (the so-named Summer Triangle), and a host of other stars and dimmer objects (including even a few comets right now). This great variety of objects all lie in a small piece of property just off the band of the Milky Way and, during the summer, they are all ideally suited to near-zenith or at-zenith observing.
For our overture, we begin with the history of this mythic instrument. Lyra has most oft been associated with the famed musician of olde Orpheus, where Orpheus’ lyre was disposed of in a river not long after Orpheus himself was disposed of by maenads despite Orpheus giving the performance of his life (or for his life as the case may have been, as his playing reportedly kept rocks and sticks at distance, requiring the maenads to forego accouterments and pluck Orpheus apart with their own hands). Zeus, with his ever-present eye for collector’s items, ordered the lyre placed in the heavens along with the eagle that recovered it (and some old drawings of the constellation still include a bird of some kind in the rendering).
The show continues with the frame of the lyre itself, rendered in the opening image as a parallelogram topped by a “T.” When I see the constellation, I don’t see the “T” as much as I see an additional triangle composed of Vega, a Lyr (a double-star that connects the triangle to the parallelogram), and 1a/2a Lyr (far left of the image above, connected by the red line). Now then, 1a/2a Lyr is a sight to behold in a telescope, as it is not one star, but instead a pair of binaries, meaning four stars total that resolve nicely under reasonable magnification (it is reported that, under ideal conditions, the two pairs themselves can be split naked eye). This famed “double-double” star is shown below in an image from the Harrison Telescopes website.
Vega is the fifth brightest star in the Night Sky (making it the sixth brightest star in our sky) and is the second star to appear during the summer months after Arcturus. During June and July, Vega first appears high in the North-Eastern Sky and is obvious to anyone waiting at Darling Hill for their eyes to adjust after sunset. This makes Vega an easy marker for anyone learning the Summer constellations, which then makes Lyra an easy constellation to get under one’s belt at the same time. The parallelogram (where one might imagine the plucked strings of the lyre to be) is oriented nearly North-South and runs along the neck of Cygnus the Swan, a Constellation embedded well into the river of stars that make up the Milky Way.
With the constellation of Lyra identified from its two prominent geometric themes, the search for the subtle tones in this constellation can continue. After M13 in Hercules and the famous M31, the object I learned to identify from the relative positions of stars was M57, the Ring Nebula. M57 sits like a tuning knob at the base of Lyra, almost centrally located between the binary star Sheliak and Sulafat. While far from the brightest object in the night sky, the Ring jumps out immediately even under low-power binoculars as something clearly not a pinpoint of light. New scope owners looking to find anything(!) in their scope are well-advised to consider M57 as a target for low-magnification observing, as the appearance of Sheliak and Sulafat in an eyepiece help to set bright boundary conditions between which to scan for the nebulous ring. On ideally clear and steady nights, the central star of the Ring is visible, although this can be a heroic undertaking for even seasoned pros. A comparison of what Hubble sees and what you’ll likely see is provided on the previous page.
Containing the Ring Nebula would be enough for any constellation to be noteworthy to an amateur astronomer, but Lyra is famous as being a host to yet another Messier object in the form of M56, captured above-right by Stu Forster in July of 2010. This small globular cluster has been tagged at 13.7 billion years of age and can be found most easily by drawing a straight line between Sulafat and Alberio (the head of Cygnus the swan) and scanning the midpoint with larger-aperture binoculars or a small telescope.
For those listening most intently to the orchestrations of this constellation, the irregular galaxy NGC 6745 is just visible in medium-sized telescopes (shown above from Hubble). NGC 6745 is decidedly less J. S. Bach and decidedly more John Cage, as 6745 is actually three galaxies in the process of a violent dance. Like a famous Big Band moving through a town of jazz combos, the largest galaxy is pulling stars from the two smaller galaxies, populating itself at the expense of the disrupted musicians.
There are even themes implied but not heard that enhance the complexities of Lyra. To date, over 13 exoplanets have been discovered in Lyra, at least three of which are attributed to the position of the Kepler Mission observing envelop just beyond Cygnus (see the image above, which shows Kepler frames just to the edge of Lyra).
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Some Light Science Reading. The Constellations: Camelopardalis
As first appeared in the June 2012 edition of the Syracuse Astronomical Society newsletter The Astronomical Chronicle.
We continue our presentation of CNY circumpolar constellations with a relative newcomer to the great list of 88 constellations (in Western Culture, anyway). Camelopardalis the Giraffe is lucky to be identified as a constellation at all, as neither the Greeks nor the Romans saw this part of the sky as interesting enough to, dare I say, stick their necks out and define the stars here as anything of importance. Its Western history dates to approximately 1612, when the famed Dutch astronomer and cartographer Petrus Plancius (who also provided us with Monoceros, another recent constellation in the Northern Hemisphere) grouped the stars with the name Camelopardalis which, loosely translated, breaks down into “camel” and “leopard,” the combinations of “long neck” and “spots” being a reasonable first approximation to the features of an animal most of Europe had likely never seen at the time. The Chinese and Indian astronomers, on the other hand, were far more meticulous in their use and definition of stars in the Night Sky and the brighter stars in Camelopardalis are all defined in one asterism or another. The positions are obviously the same, but the history and mythology of the stars in Camelopardalis are markedly different.
Referring back to the main image in my first article on circumpolar constellations (Ursa Minor, Jan/Feb/Mar 2012, above), that vast majority of Camelopardalis lies above the Northern Horizon, with its head region tightly packed between the boundaries of Draco and Ursa Minor. I’ve seen several stick figure representations of Camelopardalis that attempt to depict only the legs (from the brightest stars in the constellation), only the legs and torso (by cutting Camelopardalis off at the knees and connecting these two starts to make a body), only the legs and half the neck (using bright stars again), the legs and full neck (getting a head in there as well), and the full-on head-neck-torso-short-leg variation that looks most like a giraffe but, likely, deviates most from classical definitions. The correct line drawing for you is, of course, the one that helps you identify the constellation easiest.
During the June mid-evenings, Camelopardalis is oriented with its feet standing firmly on the Northern Horizon (perhaps with its legs obscured behind tall trees that serve as celestial underbrush during our observing sessions). With no star brighter than 4th magnitude and most in the 4th to 5th range, one does have to work a bit harder than usual to mark out the legs and torso of Camelopardalis from Darling Hill, as the electromagnetic diaspora emanating from Syracuse consumes an ever-increasing expanse of the Northern Sky (a solution, then, is to simply observe from somewhere comfortably North of Syracuse!). As you check for the neck, consider the head of Camelopardalis reaching for the bowl of the Big Dipper. The brightest star near where the head would be, the appropriately named “HIP47193,” will sit just to the left of Polaris for your early-night June observing.
Neither the Greeks, nor the Romans, nor most any Western Culture, nor Charles Messier or his assistant Pierre Méchain found anything of importance to amateur astronomers among the stars we know as Camelopardalis. It took until the 18th century for William Herschel to identify an object worthy of cataloguing in the forms of the sort-of elliptical/sort-of spiral galaxy NGC 2403 (shown above, from Hubble). We now know that this region of the sky contains many interesting, but faint, observables, some of which lie within the Milky Way (such as the planetary nebula NGC 1501 and the open cluster NGC 1502) and many which lie far, far beyond, all likely visible only because they lie away from the galactic plane of the Milky Way (and, therefore, are identifiable because they are in a relatively barren stellar savannah that doesn’t obscure our view). Among these are NGC 2655, IC 342 (shown below in infrared from NASA WISE), and NGC 1569 (all exceptionally tough targets due to Syracuse light pollution).
Some Light Science Reading. The Constellations: Orion
As first appeared in the April 2012 edition of the Syracuse Astronomical Society newsletter The Astronomical Chronicle (PDF).
Much can be said about the old hunter Orion. To Central New York observers, it had (until very recently) been the case that Orion made his way across the Night Sky during the coldest and least hospitable (to most nighttime observers) months of the year. Conditions would keep observers in hiding from him (some of the best CNY observers I know would risk surgical strikes on the Orion Nebula with their fastest to set-up and tear-down equipment). The abbreviated winter of 2011/2012 and reasonably early start of the SAS observing season have provided us with excellent opportunities in the past few months to make Orion The Hunter now the hunted. The mid-April observing session will be the last “official” opportunity to observe Orion before he disappears behind the Western horizon until the most nocturnal of us can next see him in our Eastern sky before sunrise in late August. I then take this opportunity to discuss Orion, one many CNY/SAS members may know the best by sight but may know the least by observing attention.
One of the topics covered in the 2011 SAS lecturing series was how we observe. Not the discussion of optics or the physics of planetary motion along the ecliptic, but the visual and mental mechanisms we use to translate the photonic triggers in our retina into mental pictures of celestial objects. Orion was the astronomical example I used to describe Pareidolia, how we impose a kind of order on things we see despite that order not being present in the actual collection. When you look at a cloud, you may see a face, an animal, or something your mind triggers as being something it clearly is not. I often placed the infamous “Face On Mars” next to the Constellation Orion to show clearly how we see what we think we see despite all reasonable evidence to the contrary (or the two can be mangled together, as shown below). The clouds may look like an animal, the “Face On Mars” looks unmistakably like a shadowed face, and Orion, as it happens, has looked like a human figure to virtually all peoples for as long as we have record of Constellations, the same way Scorpius has appeared as a scorpion to every civilization for which this little monster was part of the local biosphere.
Pareidolia is not just for cognitive neuroscience! One of the keys to learning the sky I discussed last year was to let your mind wander while staring at the sky and see if certain things jump out at you. The constellations are, for the most part, made up of the most reasonably bright star groupings, but if you see any type of geometry that makes some part of the sky easy to identify, run with it. This same philosophy may be responsible for the rise of the asterism, or “non-Constellation star grouping,” as the distillation of mythological complexity into more practical tools for everyday living. For instance, I suspect everyone reading this can find the asterism known as the Big Dipper, but how many know all of the stars of its proper Constellation Ursa Major? Our southern tree line and Cortland obscure some of the grandeur of Sagittarius, which means we at the hill identify the location of its core (and several galactic highlights) by the easy-to-see “teapot.” The body of Orion is a similar case of reduction-to-apparent, as the four stars marking his corners (clockwise from upper left)…
Betelgeuse (pronounced “Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse!” – marking his right shoulder; a red supergiant of very orange-ish color even without binoculars)
Bellatrix – the left shoulder (so you now know the Constellation is facing us as originally defined) – a blue giant known also known as the “Amazon Star”
Rigel – the left foot; a blue supergiant and the star system within which the aliens that make the Rigel Quick Finder reside
Saiph – the right foot; a star dim in the visible but markedly brighter in the ultraviolet. Saiph and Rigel are about the same distance away (Saiph 50 light years closer at 724 light years, a point to consider as you observe them both)
… and the three stars marking his belt (from left)…
Alnitak – A triple-star system 800 light years away with a blue supergiant as its anchor star
Alnilam – the farthest star of the belt at 1359 light years, this young blue supergiant burns as brightly as the other two, making the belt appear equally bright “al across”
Mintaka – 900 light years away, this is an eclipsing binary star system, meaning one star passes between us and the main star in its orbit (about every 5.7 days)
… are obvious to all, while the head and club stars require a longer look to identify.
Sticking to Naked Eye observing for a moment, Orion is not only famous for its historical significance and apparent brightness. Orion is ideally oriented to serve as an order of alignment for several nearby Constellations and is surrounded by enough bright stars and significant Constellations that curiosity alone should have you familiar with this part of the sky in very short order. As an April focus, it is of benefit that all of the Constellations we’ll focus on either hit the horizon at the same time as Orion or they rest above him.
I’ve color-coded the significant stars marking notable Constellations in the image below. If you’re standing outside on any clear night, the marked stars should all be quite obvious (we’re talking a hands’ width or two at arm’s length). From right and working our way counterclockwise…
(RED) Following the belt stars to the right will lead you to the orange-ish star Aldebaran, marking the eye of Taurus the Bull. This is a dense part of the sky, as Aldebaran marks both the head of the Bull and also marks the brightest star in the Hyades star cluster (a gravitationally-bound open cluster 150 light years away composed of over 100 stars). Just to the right of this cluster is the “Tiny Dipper” known as the Pleiades (Messier 45), another dense star cluster worth observing at all magnifications. Both of these clusters are simultaneously easier and harder to find at present, as Venus (“1”) is resting just above them, providing an easy way to find both clusters but plenty of reflected light to dull the brilliance of the two open clusters.
(ORANGE) Auriga, featuring Capella (the third brightest star in the Night Sky), is an oddly-shaped hexagon featuring a small triangle at one corner. Auriga, like Ursa Minor in last month’s discussion, is made easy to find by the fact that the five marked stars are in an otherwise nondescript part of the sky (relatively dim generally, but brighter than anything in the vicinity). Venus will dull Hassaleh (Auriga’s closest star to Venus and the two open clusters below it) but Elnath and Capella will be easy finds.
(YELLOW) Castor and Pollux, the twins of Gemini, are literally standing on Orion’s club. Making an arrow from Mintaka (the right-most star of the belt) and Betelgeuse will lead you to Alhena (Pollux’s left foot), after which a slow curve in a horseshoe shape will give you the remaining stars.
(GREEN) Canis Minor is two stars (which is boring), but is significant for containing Procyon, the 7th brightest star in the Night Sky (which means it will be an EASY find). But don’t confuse it with Sirius, which is the big shimmering star in…
(BLUE) Canis Major is the larger of Orion’s two dogs and contains Sirius (“The Dog Star”), a star so bright (magnitude −1.46) and so close (8.6 light years) that it appears not as a star but as a shimmering light. Some would say an airplane, others would say a hovering UFO. Part of my duties as president involve intermittently explaining that it is not the latter.
And, with respect, Monoceros is an old Constellation but not a particularly brilliant one. Having Canis Minor and Canis Major identified will make your identification of Monoceros quite straightforward.
We now turn to the other “stellar” objects in Orion, composed of three Messiers and one famous IC. M78 is a diffuse nebula almost one belt width above and perpendicular to Alnitak. You will know it when you see it. M43 and M42 (marked as “4” in the image below), on the other hand, are so bright and close that you can see their nebulosity in dark skies without aid of any optics.
M42 – The Orion Nebula is, in the right dark conditions, a Naked Eye sight in itself. For those of us between cities, even low-power binoculars bring out the wispy edges and cloudy core of this nebula. For higher-power observers, the resolving of Trapezium at M42’s core serves as one of your best tests of astronomy binoculars (I consider the identification of four stars as THE proper test of a pair of 25×100’s. Ideal conditions and a larger aperture will get you six stars total). You could spend all night just exploring the edges and depths of this nebula. You can take a look back at the Astro Bob article in the April 2012 edition of the Astronomical Chronicle (From My Driveway To Orion, Nature Works Wonders) for a more detailed discussion of this part of Orion.
M43 – de Mairan’s Nebula is, truth be told, a lucky designation. M43 is, in fact, part of the M42 nebula that is itself a small part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex (not THAT’S a label). M43 owes its differentiation to a dark lane of dust that breaks M43 and M42, just as the lane of dust in our own Milky Way we know as the “Great Rift” splits what would otherwise be one continuous band of distant stars the same way a large rock in a stream causes the water to split in two and recombine on the other side.
Finally (and the one you’ll work for), IC 434, the Horsehead Nebula, lies just to the lower-left of Alnitak (1). The Horsehead is itself a dark nebula, a region absorbing light to make it pronounced by its difference from the lighter regions around it. To put the whole area into perspective, The Horsehead is itself STILL within the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. The sheath of Orion’s Sword and nearly the entire belt is contained in this Complex, like dust being rattled off with each blow from Orion’s club.
I close by taking a look at the perilously ignored club attempting to tear into Taurus. At present, asteroids surround Orion’s Club like pieces of debris flying off after a hard impact. All are in the vicinity of 12th magnitude (so require a decent-sized mirror), and all are also moving at a sufficiently fast clip that their paths can be seen to change over several observing sessions (if, by miracle, enough clear days in a row can be had to make these measurements). I have highlighted the five prominent ones in the image below.
Is it an oddity to have Orion so full of asteroids? Certainly not! Orion is placed near the ecliptic, the apparent path of the planets in their motion around the Sun. Orion’s club just barely grazes the ecliptic at the Gemini/Taurus border, two of the 12 Constellations of the Zodiac, the collection of Constellations that themselves mark the ecliptic. As nearly all of the objects in the Solar System lie near or within the disc of the Solar System, you expect to find all manner of smaller objects in the vicinity of the Zodiacal Constellations. In effect, Orion’s club is kicking up different dust all year long as the asteroids orbit the Sun. You only have a few more weeks to watch the action happen before Orion’s return in the very early early morning of the very late summer.
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Imagine the Sounds Exhibition 2016 @ Film House
SYN FESTIVAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE GREEK FILM FESTIVAL
As part of this year’s Edinburgh Greek Festival, Syn Festival Edinburgh presents the group exhibition “Imagine the Sounds” at the Filmhouse Gallery, Edinburgh from 27 November 2016 until early January 2016.
The exhibition takes as its starting point the relationship between moving image and sound. Since the breakthrough of its introduction after the era of silent cinema, the sound has been an essential element of cinematic works since the earliest stages of the inception of film. Drawing inspiration from this year’s films the exhibition examines sound and ultimately music, as a powerful, universal modality of communication. The exhibition also seeks to the explore the role of the auditory not only as a complementary, but also oftentimes crucial narrative device, and more importantly an agent of cultural, social and political meaning-making and engagement.
Artists: AmanDa Armao, Giorgis Charalambidis, Chrysa Karagianni, Eva Koliadi, Eleni Laparidou Photography, Stergios Magriotis, Ursula Mestre, Vasilis Mitrakas & Silvia Peluso.
Betwixt and Between. Greek and Spanish migrants in Scotland since the 1960s
How have people who have moved from Spain and Greece to Scotland since the 1960s experienced their migration? This interactive, admission-free evening event aims to offer a welcoming environment for participating migrants to discuss emotions and experiences linked with their stay in Scotland. The event, organised by the Institute for Transnational and Spatial History of the University of St Andrews in partnership with the Edinburgh Greek Festival and Syn Festival Edinburgh includes an open discussion centred around migrants’ narrations, poetry and short films by Ursula Mestre and Pam van de Brug. We would also like to thank Maria Fanourgiaki (Institute of Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh), Hispanic Arts Scotland and the Settled in Glasgow Oral History Archive for their advice and support.
You may access the event’s webpage here: http://transnationalhistory.net/between/
Short films to be screened at the event: “Home is” by Pam van de Brug. A multi-screen video showing people who have moved to Edinburgh from overseas, in conversation with each other, exploring the complexity of the notion of home, and also of identity. Their discussions highlight that leaving your home to begin a new life in another country is a unique journey for anyone who undertakes it.
Moreover, “Insânia” by Ursula Mestre, a Portuguese visual artist born in 1987 and based in Edinburgh. For more about her work, please visit the following webpage: https://www.behance.net/ursulamestre
Greek Shadow Theatre Event
Greek Shadow Theatre continues a two hundred year old tradition. With Ottoman references combined with locally developed characters, at its peak, it was established as the most popular form of entertainment with an audience of millions. The social role and the influence it has on modern Greek art, have given Greek shadow Theatre a unique place among theatre traditions. Karagiozis, the protagonist, is an authentic folk hero and the depiction of the folk spirit which continues to cure with laughter audiences of all social classes and ages.
PRIOR TO THE PLAY THERE WILL BE A 15 MINUTE TALK (IN ENGLISH). PUPPETEER ATHOS DANELLIS WILL DISCUSS THE ORIGINS, SOCIAL ROLE AND FUTURE OF GREEK SHADOW THEATRE.
Important Note: The performance will be in the GREEK language but a summary of the plot and a description of play’s characters will be included in the introduction talk (which will be in English).
Play: Alexander the Great and the Cursed Snake
Plot: This, once, great and rich country suffers from a heavy curse that has been cast into despair the lord and the people. A terrible beast, a giant dragon has closed the cave from where the great river begins. The country risks being destroyed, crops wither, the people and animals suffering from thirst. The Lord announces that the person that will rid the place of the cursed snake will marry his beautiful daughter and will inherit his property and his office. Karagiozis and Hadziavatis starring on stage and display all typical types of Greek Shadow Theatre.
Live Music: Boozoolia the band
After the end of the play, Boozoolia the band will be on stage for another hour of Rebetiko Music.
TICKETS: Adults £6, Students & Children £4, Children (< 5 y/o) Free Entrance.
(Tickets will be available at the venue before the beginning of the show.)
All revenues of the event will be donated to Edinburgh Greek School.
Crossing Borders Exhibition 2015 @ Film House
For the second consecutive year Edinburgh Greek Film Festival (Edinburgh Greek Festival) is collaborating with Syn Festival Edinburgh through hosting the visual arts exhibition, titled Crossing Borders. The exhibition explores the idea of borders in human life, as well as what has caused people to cross them from the dawn of human history. The exhibition will take place at the Filmhouse Gallery, from 1 until 22 December 2015. The opening reception will be held on Tuesday, December 1 at 6.15 p.m..
The exhibition attempts to provide food for thought and provokes constructive discussion by presenting a contemporary perspective on immigration, cultural diversity and interaction; on demarcation, boundaries, barriers and frontiers as well as the human need to overcome them and take the step forward into the unknown, the forbidden, the unimaginable, or ‘simply’ the future.
The twelve participating artists present themes and imagery arising in an environment in continuous flux, renegotiation and often unrest, in order to engage and sensitise the audience to the timeless -but still ever poignant in our day and age- issue of movement and migration.
Artists: Amanda Armao, Spiros Borbas, Oana Calin, Sandra Franco, Dafni Kalokairinou, Chrysa Karagianni, Eleni Laparidou, Despina Nissiriou, Paraskevi Papagianni, Chris Patelis, Manel Quiros & Kristian Zara.
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COMMENT SHARE SHARE EMAIL Nabard agricultural institutions September 26, 2018 COMMENTS Published on Karnataka SHARE To broaden the market for weavers, rural artisans and craftsmen, SHGs, rural entrepreneurs, and farmers’ producer organisations, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) Karnataka Regional Office has invited wholesalers and online marketing vendors to its Grameena Habba.The Habba will be held from September 28 to October 7 at Premachandra Hall in Jayanagar, here.Through this Nabard is connecting producers with the market by providing marketing opportunity to the rural artisans which is an important link to ensure sustainability. “To achieve this, we have invited them for our Grameena Habba provide a platform for business-to-business interactions to enable rural artisans to improve their marketing network and upscale the business,” said a Nabard official.“This platform also helps rural artisans get feedback about consumer taste and preference, modify their product designs and creations according to market trends and needs and understand the nitty gritty of marketing. The urban population also gets a chance to encourage artisans/producers directly,” he added.For the habba, Nabard has lined up an array of products from across Karnataka including the famous Mulaklmuru saris, Kausti embroidery saris, Channapatna toys, banana fibre products, organic millets and pulses, and spices and dry-fruits.Nabard supports rural artisans via its special fund ‘Gramya Vikas Nidhi’ that promotes rural innovation, sustainable rural livelihood options, promotion of clusters, off-farm producers, and so on. read more
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Regional power grab attempt causes rare discord in Ethiopia coalition
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A failed regional coup in Ethiopia has exposed rare divisions in the alliance that has dominated the country for three decades, with two of the four ethnic parties that form the ruling coalition trading insults in a public feud.While there have been disagreements among the parties in the past, analysts described the acrimonious exchange this week between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Amhara Democratic Party (ADP) as among the most serious yet.The two groups have shared power with two other ethnic parties since 1991 in a coalition, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), that tolerated little dissent until Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took power last year and launched political reforms.The new tension between them arose after a rogue militia tried to seize power last month in the northern Amhara region, ruled by the ADP. The authorities blamed the June 22 attempted regional coup on Asamnew Tsige, a rogue ADP member, killed in fighting on the outskirts of the regional capital Bahir Dar. Related News World 23 Jun 2019 Ethiopia’s army chief, three others killed in failed regional coup In recent days, the TPLF has accused the ADP of having stood by while Asamnew trained and armed a militia in the lead-up to the uprising, and of having failed to denounce him since.”The TPLF would have difficulty working with its so-called sister party, which hasn’t even dared to stare the killer in the eye,” Getachew Reda, executive member of TPLF and former national communication minister, told Reuters on Thursday.The ADP responded by accusing the TPLF of being “responsible for the current political crisis in the country. The TPLF has no moral or practical ground to consider itself as the only guardian of Ethiopia,” it said in a statement late on Thursday. It gave no further details.FLYING IN THE FACE OF REALITYThe TPLF was angered earlier this week when the ADP chairman, Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen, said an unidentified third group was behind the June uprising. The TPLF viewed the remarks as an attempt by the ADP to avert blame.”How would I feel comfortable sitting next to Demeke while his remarks are flying in the face of reality?” TPLF’s Getachew told Reuters by telephone.The violence on June 22 was the strongest challenge yet to the rule of Abiy, who in just over a year in power has rolled out a series of reforms allowing greater freedoms in what had long been one of Africa’s most repressive states.The reforms have made it possible for long-held grievances against the government’s decades of harsh rule to resurface, and have emboldened local power-brokers seeking to build support by securing more power and territory for their ethnic groups. Resulting waves of unrest have forced the government to postpone a long-delayed national census and thrown doubt over whether an election next year will be held on time.Each of the ruling coalition’s four ethnically-based parties faces increasing competition from newer, more strident parties in their own home provinces, and are having to become more assertive themselves to avoid being outflanked, analysts say. “It will be difficult for the ruling coalition to maintain its current status ahead of the upcoming election,” said Mulugeta Aregawi, a lecturer at the Addis Ababa University School of Law.William Davison, an analyst from Brussels-based International Crisis Group, said that if the tension among the parties were to break up the ruling coalition, it “would leave a major power vacuum”. But he added that it still appeared unlikely for now, “since all actors have too much to lose.” (Reporting by Dawit Endeshaw; Additional reporting by Hereward Holland in Nairobi; Writing by George Obulutsa; Editing by Peter Graff) {{category}} {{time}} {{title}} Related News World 04 Jul 2019 Ethiopia faces more conflict with ethnic group’s push for region World 29 Jun 2019 Ethiopia airs voice of alleged coup leader killed in crackdown read more
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Duo in fish bombing death remanded another six days
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KOTA KINABALU: The remand period for the two men arrested in connection with the death of a dive instructor and two Chinese tourists at Pulau Kalapuan, Semporna, has been extended.When contacted on Friday (July 12), Sabah police commissioner Datuk Omar Mammah confirmed that the 24-year-old boatman and 23-year-old guide would be remanded for another six days to assist with investigations into the case.Comm Omar had earlier said the case, which has been classified as murder, would be investigated from all angles.On July 5, local dive instructor Ab Zainal Abdu, 30, and China nationals Zhao Zhong and Xu Yingjie, both 26, were killed while taking diving lessons at a site off Pulau Kalapuan in Semporna waters. Post-mortem examinations of their remains on Wednesday (July 10) confirmed that the three were killed by a bomb blast.Comm Omar said they suffered massive internal injuries and there were minor superficial injuries on their bodies as well. Tags / Keywords: Nation 07 Jul 2019 MMEA vows to work with Esscom to combat fish bombing in Semporna Related News Related News Nation 09 Jul 2019 Fish bombing case: Police not ruling out murder fish bombing , suspects , remand , extended , Sabah , Omar Mammah Nation 08 Jul 2019 Families of two Chinese tourists believed killed by fish bombs arrive in Sabah {{category}} {{time}} {{title}} read more
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Johor cops easing up on roadblocks in Pasir Gudang
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Tags / Keywords: JOHOR BARU: Police will gradually reduce the number of roadblock set up in Pasir Gudang as conditions in the area return to normal.Johor police chief Comm Datuk Mohd Khalil Kader Mohd said that the Disaster Management Committee had performed their job well and worked together with the police to monitor the situation in Pasir Gudang.”We play the role of monitoring and preventing any attempts by irresponsible industries or individuals to transfer materials that can harm public safety.”In the meantime, other agencies such as the Fire and Rescue Department and Department of Environment can focus on conducting inspections on industries in the area,” he said. AdChoices广告He said this when met by reporters after attending the High Profile Policing programme at Jalan Wong Ah Fook, here on Saturday (July 13).Also present were Johor Mentri Besar Datuk Dr Sahruddin Jamal, state financial officer Datuk Rahim Nin and Johor Baru Mayor Datuk Amran A. Rahman. Related News Pasir Gudang , Police , Roadblock {{category}} {{time}} {{title}} read more
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Story of Simon Oran Going hungry to bring water to Jharkhand villages
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Story of Simon Oran: Going hungry to bring water to Jharkhand villagesSimon Oran managed to build canals and constructed three dams by drilling through mountains in Bero region of Jharkhand.advertisement Next Satyajeet Kumar New DelhiJuly 13, 2019UPDATED: July 13, 2019 08:36 IST Photo for representationIt is rare in life that we get to see people who are larger than life, making sacrifices for the greater good.One such person who has come into the limelight is Padma Shri awardee Simon Oran. His story is somewhat similar to Dasrath Manjhi of Bihar.Dasrath Manjhi is the man on whose life the film Manjhi: The Mountain Man starring Nawasuddin Siddiqui was based.While the nation lauded Manjhi’s efforts to carve a road out of a mountain and came to be known as the “mountain man”, most people are unaware of Simon Oran.Simon Oran managed to build canals and constructed three dams by drilling through mountains in Bero region of Jharkhand. His efforts earned him the name “waterman”.However, though his actions have benefitted the larger community, he himself is weighed down by poverty.For his contribution to environmental protection, water conservation and rain water harvesting, Simon Oran was felicitated with the Padma Shri by the then President Pranab Mukherjee.However, his days in glory were short-lived.The man, who dared to brave mountains, is proud of his medal and certificate but has been living a life of hardships.Simon Oran has always stood up for social causes but the other side of his life has a different story.Oran lives in a thatched house, the roof of which leaks during the monsoon. However, he does not have a BPL card.He is also under debt. He had taken a loan to dig a pond.Despite his financial troubles, Oran holds his head high with pride and does not ask for help from the government or any other agency.He says that villagers have been making efforts since 1961 to preserve water and not let it flow away.The entire area where he lives is dependent on agriculture which requires a huge amount of water. Oran was able to mobilise the people of many villages to contribute in the water-saving campaign.The collective efforts eventually paid off and a canal was built by carving mountains which led to the construction of three dams to fight the water woes. Now, the situation is under control and all one sees are the lush green fields.The people still conserve the forest by taking turns to guard it. Simon Oran’s wife stays with him but she looks tired, having battled poverty all along. Her face talks about the miseries of the life they lead in financial scarcity.Simon Oran is the parha raja which means the chief of 51 villages, according to the tribal institutional provision which is also recognised by the state government. Oran commands a great respect and easily motivates people towards his cause. Irony is such that while he is known for his efforts in social causes, Oran himself struggles on the personal front.Also read: Headless bodies of 2 children found in Jharkhand village, mentally unstable man heldALSO WATCH| Blast from the past: When dosa king P Rajagopal was convicted of murderFor the latest World Cup news, live scores and fixtures for World Cup 2019, log on to indiatoday.in/sports. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter for World Cup news, scores and updates.Get real-time alerts and all the news on your phone with the all-new India Today app. Download from Post your comment Do You Like This Story? Awesome! Now share the story Too bad. Tell us what you didn’t like in the comments Posted byIram Ara Ibrahim read more
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] was significantly diminished when their eyes were open and there was a picture in front of them compared to either their eyes being shut or their eyes being open while they faced a grey screen" This experiment along with others provides evidence that cluttered and disorganized environments are more distracting than organized ones Spaces filled with visual distractions force our brains to work harder to filter out superfluous information When facing a pending deadline that you desperately need to focus on clearing your desk and workspace to make it like the grey screen can increase your focus Try clearing your virtual desktop of clutter as well Limit yourself to one monitor one browser tab or window and one computer program or app at a time (I’ve written more about how to clear your computer of focus-draining distraction here) Removing distraction is important to maintain our focus as we age but we also need to boost our capability to concentrate on one task at a time How to Boost Focus Gazzaley and Rosen say some activities may boost cognition and attention by stimulating the brains ability to strengthen and reorganize existing neural connections a process called neuroplasticity Activities that may boost cognition include physical exercise meditation and spending time in nature Recent research also finds that some cognitive exercises may also help Although there are many brain training programs some of which have over-promised and under-delivered some scientists believe a new crop of clinically validated programs may soon come online Gazzaley and Rosen write in The Distracted Mind: "Cognitive exercises are an attempt to improve brain function by harnessing our brains inherent plasticity rather than by explicitly teaching a strategy or a skill Most training programs attempt to accomplish this goal not just through repetitive task engagement but also through adaptivity" For Gazzaley and Rosen adaptivity is key Just as athletes must adjust their exercise routines as they grow stronger; cognitive exercise programs must also adjust to how well or how poorly the participant is doing in the task Personalized adjustments make the training more successful New research shows the promising effects of cognitive exercise programs in older adults and healthy populations Gazzaley and Rosen caution that while the research is encouraging more clinical trials are needed to prove medical benefits However many in the industry are hopeful doctors will one day prescribe game-like cognitive exercises as part of a healthy brain training regimen In the meantime certain currently available video game titles may actually be good for brain health and improve cognition From The Distracted Mind: "They are designed with a primary goal of engendering high levels of immersion engagement and enjoyment for the players [.
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GIFT CITY ? describing such police orderlies as “mere decoration " she said surveillance and reconnassance support Dohman said conflict resolution is reached 50% faster But can you lose your empathy For this year’s poll" its chairman Samuel B Jyrwa told PTI Paul even initiated the hashtag #HillaryLosers on his Facebook page and Twitter feedDavid Bowie and Alan Rickman passed away in January didn’t support Clinton in the primary Tenn where he responded to a new ruling by a federal judge in Hawaii placing a nationwide restraining order on his revised travel ban Trump criticized the ruling as “an unprecedented judicial overreach” “You don’t think this was done by a judge for political reasons do you No” he said to applause “This ruling makes us look weak which by the way we no longer are Believe me” Read Trump’s full remarks from the rally where he also spoke about the Republican health care plan: TRUMP: Thank you very much everybody Thank you (APPLAUSE) So we’re just going to let the other folks come in fill it up This is some crowd You have to see what’s outside You wouldn’t even believe it (APPLAUSE) Unbelievable (APPLAUSE) So I’m thrilled to be here in Nashville Tennessee the home… (APPLAUSE) … of country music southern hospitality and the great President Andrew Jackson (APPLAUSE) I just came from a tour of Andrew Jackson’s home to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth (APPLAUSE) Jackson’s life was devoted to one — a very crucial principle He understood that real leadership means putting America first (APPLAUSE) Before becoming president Andrew Jackson served your state in the House of Representatives and in the United States Senate And he also served as commander of the Tennessee Militia (APPLAUSE) Tough cookies Tough cookies So let’s begin tonight by thanking all of the incredible men and women of the United States military and all of our wonderful veterans The veterans (APPLAUSE) AUDIENCE: USA USA USA TRUMP: Crazy Amazing There’s no place I’d rather be than with all of you here tonight with the wonderful hardworking citizens of our country (APPLAUSE) I would much rather spend time with you than any of the pundits consultants or special interests certainly or reporters from Washington DC (APPLAUSE) It’s patriotic Americans like you who make this country run and run well You pay your taxes follow our laws support your communities raise your children love your country and send your bravest to fight in our wars (APPLAUSE) All you want is a government that shows you the same loyalty in return (APPLAUSE) It’s time that Washington heard your voice and believe me on November 8th they heard your voice (APPLAUSE) The forgotten men and women of our country will never be forgotten again Believe me (APPLAUSE) I want to thank so many of your state leaders; State Party Chairman Scott Golden Congressman Scott DesJarlais… (APPLAUSE) … Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn… (APPLAUSE) … Congresswoman Diane Black… (APPLAUSE) … Congressman Jimmy Duncan right from the beginning… (APPLAUSE) … Governor Bill Haslam… (APPLAUSE) … a great friend of mine Senator Bob Corker… (APPLAUSE) … an incredible guy respected by all Senator Lamar Alexander… (APPLAUSE) … and so many more Thank you all for being here We’re going to be working closely together — thank you; to deliver for you the citizens of Tennessee like you’ve never been delivered for before Thank you Thank you (APPLAUSE) Thank you (APPLAUSE) We are going to reduce your taxes (APPLAUSE) Big league Big Big And I want to start that process so quickly Got to get the health care got done We got to start the tax reductions (APPLAUSE) We are going to enforce our trade rules and bring back our jobs which are scattered all over the world They’re coming back to our country (APPLAUSE) We’re going to support the amazing absolutely amazing men and women of law enforcement (APPLAUSE) Protect your freedoms and defend the Second Amendment (APPLAUSE) And we are going to restore respect for our country and for its great and very beautiful flag (APPLAUSE) It’s been a little over 50 days since my inauguration and we’ve been putting our America First agenda very much into action You see what’s happened (ph) We’re keeping our promises In fact they have signs he’s kept his promise They’re all over the place I have We have done far more I think maybe more than anybody’s done in this office in 50 days That I can tell you (APPLAUSE) And we have just gotten started Wait till you see what’s coming folks (APPLAUSE) We’ve appointed a Supreme Court Justice to replace the late great Antonin Scalia His name is Judge Neil Gorsuch (APPLAUSE) He will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States We are proposing a budget that will shrink the bloated federal bureaucracy — and I mean bloated; while protecting our national security You see what we’re doing with our military; bigger better stronger than ever before You see what’s happening (APPLAUSE) And you’re already seeing the results Our budget calls for one of the single largest increases in defense spending history in this country (APPLAUSE) We believe especially the people in Tennessee — I know you people so well… (APPLAUSE) … in peace through strength It’s what we’re going to have (APPLAUSE) And we are taking steps to make sure that our allies pay their fair share They have to pay (APPLAUSE) We’ve begun a dramatic effort to eliminate job-killing federal regulations like nobody has ever seen before Slash slash We’re going to protect the environment We’re going to protect people’s safeties but let me tell you the regulation business has become a terrible business and we’re going to bring it down to where it should be (APPLAUSE) (BOOING) (APPLAUSE) OK let’s go One person and they’ll be the story tomorrow Did you hear there was a protester (APPLAUSE) We’re going to put our miners back to work We’re going to put our auto industry back to work (APPLAUSE) Already because of this new business climate we are creating jobs that are starting to pour back into our country like we haven’t seen in many many decades (APPLAUSE) In the first two job reports since I took the oath of office we’ve already added nearly half a million new jobs And believe me it’s just beginning (APPLAUSE) I’ve already authorized the construction of the long-stalled and delayed Keystone and Dakota access pipeline (APPLAUSE) A lot of jobs (APPLAUSE) I’ve also directed that new pipelines must be constructed with American steel (APPLAUSE) They want to build them here they use our steel We believe in two simple rules Buy American and hire American (APPLAUSE) On trade I’ve kept my promise to the American people and withdrawn from the Trans-Pacific Partnership disaster (APPLAUSE) Tennessee has lost one-third of its manufacturing jobs since the institution of NAFTA one of the worst trade deals ever in history (BOOING) Our nation has lost over 60000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization; 60000 Think of that More than that We’re not going to let it happen anymore From now on we are going to defend the American worker and our great American companies (APPLAUSE) And if America does what it says and if your president does what I’ve been telling you there is nobody anywhere in the world that can even come close to us folks Not even close (APPLAUSE) If a company wants to leave America fire their works and then ship their new products back into our country there will be consequences (APPLAUSE) That’s what we have borders for And by the way aren’t our borders getting extremely strong (APPLAUSE) Very strong (APPLAUSE) Don’t even think about it We will build the wall Don’t even think about it (APPLAUSE) In fact as you’ve probably read we went out to bid We had hundreds of bidders Everybody wants to build our wall (APPLAUSE) Usually that means we’re going to get a good price We’re going to get a good price; believe me We’re going to build a wall Some of the fake news said I don’t think Donald Trump wants to build the wall Can you imagine if I said we’re not going to build a wall Fake news (BOOING) Fake fake news (BOOING) Fake news folks A lot of fake (BOOING) No the wall is way ahead of schedule in terms of where we are It’s under design and you’re going to see some very good things happening But the border by itself right now is doing very well It’s becoming very strong (APPLAUSE) General Kelly has done a great job General Kelly (APPLAUSE) My administration is also following through on our promise to secure protect and defend that border within our United States Our southern border will be protected always It will have the wall Drugs will stop pouring in and poisoning our youth (APPLAUSE) And that will happen very very soon You’re already seeing what’s going on The drugs are pouring in to our country folks They are poisoning our youth and plenty of others and we’re going to stop it We’re not going to be playing games Not going to be playing games (APPLAUSE) Following my executive action — and don’t forget we’ve only been here for like what 50 days We’ve already experienced an unprecedented 40 percent reduction in illegal immigration on our southern border 61 percent — 61 percent since inauguration day Sixty-one percent; think about it (APPLAUSE) And now people are saying we’re not going to go there anymore ’cause we can’t get in so it’s going to get better and better We got to stop those drugs though We got to stop those drugs During the campaign as I traveled all across this country I met with many American families whose loved ones were viciously and violently killed by illegal immigrants because our government refused to enforce our already existing laws These American victims were ignored by the media They were ignored by Washington But they were not ignored by me and they’re not ignored by you and they never will be ignored certainly any longer Not going to happen (APPLAUSE) As we speak we are finding the drug dealers the robbers thieves gang members killers and criminals preying on our citizens One by one — you’re reading about it right (APPLAUSE) They’re being thrown out of our country they’re being thrown into prisons and we will not let them back in (APPLAUSE) We’re also working night and day to keep our nation safe from terrorism (APPLAUSE) We have seen the devastation from 9/11 to Boston to San Bernardino; hundreds upon hundreds of people from outside our country have been convicted of terrorism-related offenses In the United States courts right now we have investigations going on all over Hundreds of refugees are under federal investigation for terrorism and related reasons We have entire regions of the world destabilized by terrorism and ISIS For this reason I issued an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration from places where it cannot safely occur (APPLAUSE) AUDIENCE: USA USA USA TRUMP: But let me give you the bad news We don’t like bad news right I don’t want to hear an alternative to good But let me give you the bad the sad news Moments ago I learned that a district judge in Hawaii… (BOOING) … part of the much overturned 9th Circuit Court… (BOOING) … and I have to be nice Otherwise I’ll get criticized for… (APPLAUSE) … for speaking poorly about our courts I’ll be — I’ll be criticized by these people among the most dishonest people in the world (APPLAUSE) I will be criticized… (BOOING) (APPLAUSE) I’ll be criticized by them for speaking harshly about our courts I would never want to do that A judge has just blocked our executive order on travel and refugees coming into our country from certain countries (BOOING) The order he blocked was a watered down version of the first order that was also blocked by another judge and should have never been blocked to start with (APPLAUSE) This new order was tailored to the dictates of the 9th Circuit in my opinion flawed ruling (APPLAUSE) This is the opinion of many an unprecedented judicial overreach (APPLAUSE) The law and the Constitution give the President the power to suspend immigration when he deems — or she — or she — fortunately it will not be Hillary-she (APPLAUSE) When he or she deems it to be in the national interest of our country AUDIENCE: Lock her up Lock her up Lock her up TRUMP: So we have a lot of lawyers here We also have a lot of smart people here Let me read to you directly from the federal statute 212(f) of the immigration and you know what I’m talking about right Can I read this to you Listen to this Now we’re all smart people we’re all good students were all everything Some are bad students but even if you’re a bad student this is a real easy one let me tell you Ready So here’s the statute when they don’t even want to quote when they overrule it And it was put here for the security of our country And this goes beyond me because there’ll be other presidents and we need this And sometimes we need it very badly for security — security of our country It says — now listen to easy — how easy this is Whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or any class of aliens would be detrimental to the interests of the United States he may by proclamation and for such period as he — see it wasn’t politically correct ’cause they should have said he or she You know today they’d say that (LAUGHTER) That’s (inaudible) (LAUGHTER) Actually that’s the only mistake they made — as he shall deem necessary suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate In other words if he thinks there’s danger out there he or she whoever is president can say I’m sorry folks not now please We got enough problems (APPLAUSE) We’re talking about the safety of our nation the safety and security of our people (APPLAUSE) Now I know you people aren’t skeptical people ’cause nobody would be that way in Tennessee Nope nobody Not Tennessee You don’t think this was done by a judge for political reasons do you No (APPLAUSE) This ruling makes us look weak which by the way we no longer are Believe me (APPLAUSE) Just look at our borders (APPLAUSE) We’re going to fight this terrible ruling We’re going to take our case as far as it needs to go including all the way up to the Supreme Court (APPLAUSE) We’re going to win We’re going to keep our citizens safe And regardless we’re going to keep our citizens safe Believe me (APPLAUSE) Even liberal democratic lawyer Alan Dershowitz — good lawyer; just said that we would win this case before the Supreme Court of the United States (APPLAUSE) Remember this I wasn’t thrilled but the lawyers all said oh let’s tailor it This is a watered down version of the first one This is a watered down version And let me tell you something I think we ought to go back to the first one and go all the way which is what I wanted to do in the first place (APPLAUSE) The danger is clear The law is clear The need for my executive order is clear I was elected to change our broken and dangerous system and thinking in government that has weakened and endangered our country and left our people defenseless (APPLAUSE) And I will not stop fighting for the safety of you and your families Believe me Not today not ever We’re going to win it We’re going to win it (APPLAUSE) We’re going to apply common sense We’re going to apply intelligence And we’re never quitting and we’re never going away and we’re never ever giving up The best way to keep foreign terrorists or as some people would say in certain instances radical Islamic terrorists from attacking our country is to stop them from entering our country in the first place (APPLAUSE) We’ll take it but these are the problems we have People are screaming break up the 9th Circuit and I’ll tell you what That 9th Circuit — you have to see Take a look at how many times they have been overturned with their terrible decisions Take a look And this is what we have to live with Finally I want to get to taxes I want to cut the hell out of taxes but… (APPLAUSE) … but… (APPLAUSE) … before I can do that — I would have loved to have put it first I’ll be honest There is one more very important thing that we have to do and we are going to repeal and replace horrible disastrous Obamacare (APPLAUSE) If we leave Obamacare in place millions and millions of people will be forced off their plans and your senators just told me that in your state you’re down to practically no insurers You’re going to have nobody You’re going to have nobody And this is true all over The insurers are fleeing The insurers are fleeing It’s a catastrophic situation And there’s nothing to compare anything to because Obamacare won’t be around for a year or two It’s — it’s gone So it’s not like oh gee they this — Obamacare is gone (APPLAUSE) Premiums will continue to soar double digits and even triple digits in many cases It will drain our budget and destroy our jobs Remember all of the broken promises You can keep your doctor You can keep your plan Remember the wise guy (BOOING) Remember the wise guy that essentially said the American people — the so-called architect; the American people are stupid because they approved it We’re going to show them Those in Congress who made these promises have no credibility whatsoever on health care And remember this; remember this If we took — because there’s such divisiveness And I’m not just talking now with me There was Obama there was with Bush the level of hatred and divisiveness with the politicians I remember years ago I’d go to Washington I was always very politically active And Republicans and Democrats they’d fight during the day and they’d go to dinner at night Today there’s a level that nobody’s seen before Just remember this If we submitted the Democrats’ plan drawn everything perfect for the Democrats we wouldn’t get one vote from the Democrats That’s the way it is That’s how much divisiveness and other things there are so it’s a problem But we’re going to get it by So I’ve met with so many victims of Obamacare the people who’ve been so horribly hurt by this horrible legislation At the very core of Obamacare was a fatal flaw The government forcing people to buy a government-approved product (BOOING) There are very few people Very few people (BOOING) And by the way watch what happens Now you just booed Obamacare They will say Trump got booed when he mentioned… (LAUGHTER) They’re bad people folks They’re bad people (BOOING) (APPLAUSE) Tonight I’ll go home I’ll turn on I’ll say listen I’ll turn on that television My wife will say darling it’s too bad you got booed I said I didn’t be booed This was (inaudible) I said no no They were booing Obamacare Watch a couple of them will actually do it almost guaranteed But when we call them out it makes it harder for them to do it so we’ll see (APPLAUSE) It’s the fake fake media We want Americans to be able to purchase the health insurance plans they want not the plans forced on them by our government (APPLAUSE) The House has put forward a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare based on the principles I outlined in my joint address but let me tell you We’re going to arbitrate We’re going to all get together We’re going to get something done Remember this If we didn’t do it the way we’re doing it we need 60 votes so we’d have to get the Democrats involved They won’t vote No matter what we do they’re not going to vote So we’re doing it a different way a complex way it’s fine The end result is when you’re at phase one phase two phase three; it’s going to be great It’s going to be great (APPLAUSE) And then we get on to tax reductions which I like (APPLAUSE) The House legislation does so much for you It gives the states Medicaid flexibility and some of the states will take over their health care Governor Rick Scott in Florida said just send me the money They run a great plan We have states that are doing great It gives great flexibility Thank you folks Thank you (APPLAUSE) Thank you (APPLAUSE) It repeals hundreds of billions of dollars in Obamacare taxes It provides tax credits to people to purchase the care that is rightfully theirs The bill that I will ultimately sign and that will be a bill where everybody’s going to get into the room and we’re going to get it done We’ll get rid of Obamacare and make health care better for you and for your family (APPLAUSE) And once this is done and a step further we are going to try and put it in phase three I’m going to work on bringing down the cost of medicine by having a fair and competitive bidding process (APPLAUSE) We welcome this health care debate and its negotiation and we’re going to carry it out and have been carrying it out in the full light of day unlike the way Obamacare was passed (APPLAUSE) Remember folks if we don’t do anything Obamacare is gone It’s not like oh gee it’s going to be wonderful in three years It’s gone It’s gone It’s gone Not working It’s gone (APPLAUSE) What we cannot do is to be intimidated by the dishonest attacks from Democratic leaders in Congress who broke the system in the first place and who don’t believe you should be able to make your own health care decisions (APPLAUSE) I am very confident that if we empower the American people we’ll accomplish incredible things for our country not just on health care but all across our government We will unlock new frontiers in science and in medicine We will give our children the right to attend the school of their choice one where they will be taught to love this country and its values (APPLAUSE) We will create millions and millions of new jobs by lowering taxes on our businesses and very importantly for our workers We’re going to lower taxes (APPLAUSE) Big (ph) (APPLAUSE) And we will fight for the right of every American child to grow up in a safe neighborhood attend a great school and to graduate with access to a high-paying job that they love doing (APPLAUSE) No matter background (ph) no matter our income no matter our geography we all share the same home We all salute the same flag And we all are made by the same God (APPLAUSE) AUDIENCE: USA USA USA TRUMP: It’s time to embrace our glorious American destiny Anything we can dream for our country we can achieve for our country All we have to do is tap into that American pride that is swelling our hearts and stirring our souls and we found that out very recently in our last election A lot of pride (APPLAUSE) We are all Americans and the future truly belongs to us The future belongs to all of you This is your moment This is your time This is the hour when history is made All we have to do is put our own citizens first and together we will make America strong again (APPLAUSE) We will make America wealthy again (APPLAUSE) We will make America proud again (APPLAUSE) We will make America safe again (APPLAUSE) And we will make America great again (APPLAUSE) Thank you God bless you Thank you (APPLAUSE) God bless you everybody Write to Katie Reilly at KatieReilly@timecomPresident Obamas 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Gophers hockey completes turnaround to split series with St. Lawrence
By Megan Ryan
November 17, 2018 — 11:02pm
Freshman winger Nathan Burke battled a month-long bout with mono that set him well far behind his teammates in terms of fitness to start the season. But in just his third game this season, he left the ice the hero.
Burke scored his first and second goal for the Gophers on Saturday in a revenge 3-0 victory against St. Lawrence to split the series at 3M Arena at Mariucci in front of an announced 8,098 fans. The Gophers lost 4-3 in overtime on Friday.
The Arizona native redirected junior defenseman Tyler Nanne’s pass in the first period and then pulled off a spin-o-rama in the second for the win. Senior goaltender Eric Schierhorn called it SportsCenter-worthy. Fellow freshman Sammy Walker then added a third on a breakaway with just a couple minutes to play.
“It’s exciting. We’ve been working hard in practice, and after last night, it was definitely cool to bounce back and help my team out,” Burke said. “I have great linemates, Walker and [Blake] McLaughlin. They did all the work, I just happened to go to the right places. So it definitely felt amazing. I don’t know. I’m kind of speechless about it.”
Schierhorn also earned the shutout, stopping all 12 of St. Lawrence’s shots. The Gophers, meanwhile, shot off 31.
“I mean, our guys were dialed in,” Schierhorn said. “I’ll take a shutout whenever I can get it. Not knocking St. Lawrence: that was probably the easiest shutout that I’ve had in college hockey. But that’s a credit to my team.”
Coach Bob Motzko was disappointed in Friday’s step back, but seemed optimistic Saturday was a firm turnaround.
“I hope that this is another staple another stamp of a direction turn in our compete level,” Motzko said. “We had to make some changes. We made some changes in our lineup. We made some changes in our lines. But they made the change in how they were going to play.”
Mittelstadt returns to Minnesota as a pro
And now for last year’s No. 21 (Burke wears it now) on the Gophers and former Eden Prairie star Casey Mittelstadt. He was in town with the Buffalo Sabres for the first time and beat the Wild earlier Saturday in St. Paul. But the forward shared some thoughts ahead of that game.
He said his parents rented out a bar for 85 family members and friends while another 30 of just Mittelstadt’s friends were coming to the game. Unfortunately, that didn’t include any of his Gophers besties.
“They’re not going to be here, which is tough, but it’s good, though. I talk to all of them quite a bit. I talk to them pretty much every day, I guess, my best buddies on that team. So I keep in touch with them a lot,” Mittelstadt said. “When I get home during the summer, I’ll see all of them. They all live at school. So I’ll see them all quite a bit. So it’ll be fun to catch up with them for sure.”
Mittelstadt said his Buffalo teammate Kyle Okposo has been a big help in his adjustment to the pros, as Okposo also left the Gophers program early and has embraced the role of being Mittelstadt’s mentor. There’s a few other Minnesotans and former Gophers Mittelstadt also idolizes, which he revealed when reflecting on the upcoming high school hockey state tournament.
“For a young hockey player like me growing up, it was pretty much everything. I think that’s what we always dreamed of,” he said. “Those high school players became celebrities, I think. They were pretty much even with an NHL player. Guys for me were, like, Kyle Rau and Nick Leddy. They played at Eden Prairie, and I put them even up with Sidney Crosby and Patrick Kane, guys like that.”
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Christoph SchlingensiefGerman Pavilion
54th Venice Biennale, 2011
Contributions by Helke Bayrle, Klaus Biesenbach, John Bock, Frank Castorf, Thomas Demand, Chris Dercon, Diedrich Diederichsen, Susanne Gaensheimer, Boris Groys, Carl Hegemann, Irm Hermann, Johannes Hoff, Andy Hope 1930, Elfriede Jelinek, Schorsch Kamerun, Alexander Kluge, Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Aino Laberenz, Torsten Lemmer, Matthias Lilienthal, Jonathan Meese, Michaela Melián/Thomas Meinecke, Klaus Mertes, Eva Meyer-Hermann, Werner Nekes, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Peter Raue, Charlotte Roche, Stephanie Rosenthal, Karlheinz Schmid, Elisabeth Schweeger, Georg Seeßlen, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Sandra Umathum, Antje Vollmer
By way of actions, films, installations, operas, theater pieces, television broadcasting, and teaching, Christoph Schliegensief produced work that boldly addressed contemporary culture and politics, particularly within Germany. Schlingensief’s death in the summer of 2010, which occurred as he was planning the German Pavilion for the 54th Venice Biennale, shifted the course of the 2011 program. Instead of presenting elements of Schlingensief’s project, Festspielhaus Afrika, which initiated the first “opera village,” curator Susanne Gaensheimer has developed a program and accompanying catalogue that pays tribute to one of Germany’s most radical, experimental, and progressive voices.
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What initially started as a mere change of the ruler from a Polish-Lithuanian king to a Russian czar eventually led to a major russification drive.
Administratively Lithuania was divided into the area directly acquired by Russia in 1795 and the area acquired from Prussia after the Napoleonic wars (in 1815). The latter was part of the nominally autonomous Kingdom of Poland and lived under the Napoleonic Code whereas the earlier was directly ruled by the Russian Empire.
Napoleon's Grande Armee crosses Nemunas to start the doomed invasion of Russia (Kaunas, 1812). The 500000-strong army both advanced and retreated through Lithuania, leaving 80000 dead troops and hopes for Grand Duchy restoration unfulfilled.
In 1831 and 1863 the local nobility led revolts against the Russian rule attempting to restore the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Both were crushed despite some initial successes and their leaders were dispossessed. Some of the Lithuanian countryside and cities were then settled by Russians.
In the year 1832, the Vilnius University was closed. By the year 1865, printed Lithuanian language was banned. A policy of “Restoration of the Russian beginnings” was initiated as the Russian propaganda claimed that before Polonization the Lithuanian lands were, in fact, Russian.
The Roman Catholic Church was persecuted, with some church buildings torn down and some others handed over to the Russian Orthodox church. New Russian Orthodox churches sprung in the New Towns of the largest cities. The Uniates, regarded as schismatic Orthodoxes, were disbanded altogether. Mikhail Muravyov, nicknamed “The hangman”, was made the governor-general of ethnically Lithuanian governorates.
Russification era construction and destruction in Vilnius. Left image: Baroque St. Joseph church undergoing demolition (1877). Right image: a pompous unveiling of M. Muravyov statue in 1898.
The persecutions failed to defeat Lithuanians. Knygnešiai (literally “bookcarriers”) smuggled the banned Lithuanian books from the Lithuania Minor (a historical fact declared to be completely unique by UNESCO). Illegal Lithuanian-language schools were set up in villages. Catholic priest Motiejus Valančius led the Abstinence Movement aimed at resisting the Russian policy of weakening the masses through making them addicted to alcohol.
It was during the late 19th century when the popular idea of liberation among ethnic Lithuanians switched from restoration of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to an establishment of a smaller independent state on the Lithuanian ethnic lands, leaving the rest of the former Grand Duchy to the Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Polish ethnic states. These events (altogether known as the Lithuanian National Revival) tamed the long-term assimilation-induced decline of the Lithuanian-inhabited area and their share therein.
Economically Russia was backward compared to the Western Europe and while there was some infrastructure development, such as the Saint Petersburg-Warsaw railroad of 1861 that went through Vilnius, this was far from the Western standards. Moreover, the official class division of the society was rigorously supported by the state and only in the year 1861 the farmers ceased to be regarded as a property of the local nobles.
Rietavas Palace of Oginskiai family, built in mid-19th century. Lithuania's first telephone line (1882) and power station (1892) were established in this Samogitian manor. Those were the final decades before cultural/technological hubs moved from manors to the cities. Painting by Napoleon Orda.
Unlike Latvia (where Riga was among the 5 largest cities of the Russian Empire) Lithuania was expected by the Russians to remain an agricultural hinterland. The industrialization and urbanization that defined 19th century elsewhere in Europe, therefore, remained limited but the towns and cities were still growing much faster than ever before.
Lithuanians seeking industrial jobs migrated elsewhere: some to the major cities of the Russian Empire such as Riga or Saint Petersburg, others to the USA. In 1900 there were more Lithuanian speakers in Riga and Chicago than in any city in Lithuania (where the few cities that existed were dominated by Polish speakers and Jews).
In Lithuania Minor, the cities were largely German while some Lithuanian towns and villages gradually Germanized over the century. In spite of this Lithuania Minor, technologically advanced and devoid of discriminatory Russian policies, remained a fortress of Lithuanian National Revival.
'Nauja Lietuviška Ceitunga' and 'Nauja Aušra' Lithuanian newspapers, both published in 1890s Tilžė, Lithuania Minor. 'Nauja Aušra' was to be illegally distributed inside Russian-occupied Lithuania by knygnešiai (so it used Polonized orthography) while 'Nauja Lietuviška Ceitunga' was aimed at Lithuania Minor market (therefore it preferred fraktur typeset and more German loanwords).
The Russian Empire started to crumble in 1904 when it lost the war to Japan and had to give in to some demands of its minorities. Lithuanian language was permitted once again and the Lithuanian countryside sprung up with new Roman Catholic church spires.
In 1915 the Germans captured Lithuania-proper during the First World War. In 1917 Russia surrendered to Germany (after the war hardships led to a revolution in Russia) and renounced any claims to the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, while the subsequent German losses in the Western Front led to a possibility to declare independence of Lithuania on February 16th, 1918.
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alexis Lapenas Gestes Bradow
January 10th, 2015 - 22:09
thank you I am grateful to learn of the life of my grandparents
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leboeufsage
March 23rd, 2015 - 20:27
Russia did not surrender to Germany in 1917. Russia’s revolutionaries were not in favour of Russia’s involvement in WW1. On 3rd March 1918 Russia signed a peace treaty with Germany, Austro-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, to end Russia’s involvement in the war. This treaty is known as The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. There was no Russian surrender as claimed in the above.
Augustinas Žemaitis
What you probably meant by saying “Russia did not surrender” was that “Russia did not surrender unconditionally” (like Germany or Japan did after World War 2).
However, unconditional surrender is just one type of surrender and a pretty rare one. There were no unconditional surrenders in World War 1.
“Exit from war” through a treaty ceding many lands and gaining nothing comparable in return (as happened with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk) is also a surrender, though not an unconditional one.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was not any different in substance than the treaties Germany, Ottoman Empire, Austria or Hungary signed at the end of World War 1, each of them also alienating vast areas (mostly inhabitted by non-titular ethnicities).
In fact, the total European lands Germany lost under Treaty of Versailles were even smaller than what Russia lost with Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
September 13th, 2015 - 04:06
My great great grandfather came to New York from Lithuania in 1899.
Susan milusauckas stark
March 22nd, 2016 - 01:18
Hi , thank you for the information on Lithuania , my grandfather was born in Kaunas , Lithuania and my grandmother was born Vera kulbok in Vilnius , Lithuania . My grandfather list on the us census that he was born in Russia and my grandmother in the republic of Lithuania . I don’t understand and they left Lithuania in 1910 for the USA .
Dana Peshka
October 31st, 2017 - 01:32
My grandfather arrived here in the US in April of 1910!
Pauline Deress
May 17th, 2016 - 18:37
My grandfather was born in Laizeva Lithuania June 1875. I would like to find family records for him — his parents, siblings, school records, marriage records and any genealogical information. How can I accomplish this?
We (the True Lithuania website) provide heritage search services in Lithuanian achives. We can contact you by e-mail you have provided when writing this comment with more details (you may also contact us at tour.baltic@gmail.com ).
Robert Griskauskas
October 4th, 2016 - 16:50
I enjoyed your article. Are you related to Algis Zemaitis? He is a relative of mine and I was wondering if perhaps we are also related.
I don’t know Algis Žemaitis as related to me, however if you’d say where he is originated from and it will be the same villages / part of Lithuania then there may be relation. However, Žemaitis is a somewhat popular surname, meaning “Samogitian”.
Chuck Crannell
March 10th, 2017 - 01:19
I happend across this website trying to determine information about my great-grandfather who left Lithuania between 1903-06. I recently received his military records from a relative which suggests he was discharged to the Reserves (to 1917) in Butrimonys in Troki. I don’t know if it is typical to be discharged to the region from which you grew up?
I would love to get an accurate translation of the contents and a cyrillic rendering of his name (which is hand-written in the document). Any suggestions as to where? It is interesting how Franc Mixajlov Vasilevskij (what somebody deciphered back in the 30’s) became Frank Waselefsky
I am finding the information on this site quite fascinating, as it provides context for my great-grandparents’ immigration.
April 15th, 2017 - 22:30
I came across your name in 23 and me. We have common ancestor and I am wondering if it is Frank Waselefsky
December 19th, 2017 - 03:39
Just seeing this today. Not sure which kit you matched (could be up to four, but not me). Please contact me at 23andMe and mention this sight.
Hi; sorry, I did not see your previous message on time. If you are still interested in a translation, we do offer translation services.
Stephanie (Weber) Salas
I’m trying to find any information about the families on my grandparents names for Zebellis and Yanueshes. How do I get started ? I need help I know very little about my grandparents in Lithuania. I have my grandmothers letters received from her family before ww11. The letters are in Lithuania.
It is the best to start at your own location collecting as much information as possible (names, approximate dates, locations in Lithuania, etc.). The more you collect, the easier it will be on the “Lithuanian side”. Not every name or date is truly needed for a successful search and some missing details may be filled. In the letters, there may be locations in Lithuania written and such, so they are useful to read.
After you collect all the possible information, in Lithuania, an archive search is needed whereby the details you collected would be used to learn more about the family and even more generations.
We may offer translation services of the letters. We may also offer archive search services.
What do you mean by website?
Where do I go for Census reports ?
Lithuanian census reports are not publically available online. In Lithuania, archives are the main location to seek for the personal data of ancestors.
March 9th, 2018 - 05:30
it’s right Russia has very interested country
James Hadeka
April 4th, 2018 - 18:35
My grandfather arrived in the USA in 1907 and he said he was from Wilna. His name was Adolph Chadiko. My grandmother arrived in 1909 and stated she was Russian and was from Zwirbic. Her maiden name was Marya Pakelins. I have not been able to fin a city named Zwirbic. She always said she was from Vilnius and I don’t know if there might be a section of Vilnius named Zwirbic?
The above information is registered at Ellis Island, New York, USA.
The closest name of Vilnius area to Zwirbic would be Žvėrynas. More info: http://www.truelithuania.com/zverynas-borough-in-vilnius-176 .
It should be noted, however, that, under the Russian Imperial rule, Vilnius was not just a city, but also the capital of the Vilnius governorate. Sometimes “from Vilnius” would have meant “From Vilnius governorate”, and this governorate covered the whole modern-day Eastern Lithuania as well as Western Belarus. Some emigrants who were of rural origins wanted to create urban roots for themselves this way, others simply used a name of the city somebody at least heard in America (capital of their governorate) rather than a name of some unknown village.
There are numerous villages known as Žvirbliai and the like. Back in those days, there was no standard spelling, and people of different ethnicities would use different spellings for the same cities and locations (e.g. Vilnius / Wilno / Vilna / Wilna / Vilne).
Victoria L. Bicunas
February 18th, 2019 - 05:20
I wonder if your grandfather and my grandfather were on the same ship that landed at Ellis Island. My grandfather arrived in Nov. or Dec. of 1907.
Eva p Waters
I am seeking information on Petras and Eva Daugird from Lithuania. They had two sons William and Alex who were came to the U.S. around 1903 with their uncle Joseph Daugird (Dougert). William and Alex were hidden by monks before they left. It is said that there were hidden because of fear of the young boys being forced into the Russian Army. The parents of William and Alex were murdered and their land taken.
We at True Lithuania provide heritage search services and search for the information in the Lithuanian archives (especially if you know more information, e.g. approximate locations and dates of birth). http://www.truelithuania.com/about-us-contacts
Alán Vargas Santellano Vargas De LA O’
June 8th, 2018 - 22:16
Add to the fact that De La O means of the vino. And in the German languages it is: ‘Von A’ Also to add most names were taken away and hidden. Its why my grandma used her first name and that single first name Jetrudis. Hrethudies’ Since I remember her clearly she was definitely Russian or . Von A must clearly be Hethra-Este house, Hretha is the anglo-saxon form to say Hungary-Austria or Haustria and the Este house is Modera but they lost it and later Karl Ludwig must have added the Modena family too. Funny thing too though he really was an Anglophile Archduke of Lithuania since he used the “De LA O’” also and not just her first name. Angliophile means liking the Anglo-saxonian language and studying it. De could easily be Deutschland. LA for Lithuanian Archduke and O for The Bloodline or Össtria. So many meanings for the letter O. My Grolier Encyclopendia just referred to him as an Angliophile Archduke without the actual name and it is why i call him that. It does name his palace though. Before 1924 of course.
Alan R Rochkus
July 10th, 2018 - 18:05
Thank you very much for this site. I know from 23 in me and family history that I am mostly Lithuaniuan and very proud. I just started researching family history (Kamarauskas and Rochkes) I found that my great grandfather, George Rochkes, immigrated to the US in 1898. I almost had a heat attack when it said from Russia (my family was never fond of Russians). Thank goodness your history research cleared that up for me! As best I can find the Kamarauskas family came from Kaunas and the Rochkes family came from Vilnus. Again, Thank you!
I am glad the website helps you!
William F. Janssen
November 4th, 2018 - 21:27
I have ancestors named Blum who emigrated from Marijampole in the 1890s. According to family lore, they once owned a horse farm where they raised white horses for army generals. I am aware of the state stud farm that was in Trakehnen (now Yasnaya Polyana in Kaliningrad, not far from Marijampole). Are you aware of any other horse farms in that area in that timeframe that could match the family description? Thanks for your help.
I am not aware of any. However, it does not mean there weren’t any. Horses farms, like any businesses today (i.e. hotels, restaurants, shops, etc.) may have been both famous and not, big and small, and most of such undertakings fade into oblivion and only some remains well-known as with Trakehnen horse farm.
For those not famous, the best place to start a research may be the Lithuanian archives. We may offer archive search services if needed.
Diane E. Mayer
December 6th, 2018 - 14:11
Hello, I found your site while researching. My G-Grandfather brought his family over to America in April of 1903. Family story is he was a General (but for who?) and lived in Taurage/Tauraggon Prussia. So I believe he may have been a Prussian General!?. His children were all born in the 1880’s. Many other related families came to America in the 1890’s, but it is said he stayed behind to fight for the mother country (?). Apparently the Kossacks(?) were raiding/killing/raping, and my G-grandmother said “enough..we leave now”. They left behind a business (tavern/restaurant/rooms) took one trunk and 5 children and crossed the ocean. According the the manifest, he had a large sum of money (compared to the other travelers) Also I was told the Russians were trying to make him become part of their army? and also his sons. How could I find more info regarding him/our family?
February 23rd, 2019 - 20:48
Hello thank you for being here for us.I’m look for any info on my family I know my grandfather was born in Dauginava kaimas Lithuania around may 21 1894 then came to Boston.I would like to know of any family. His name is Simon Jakubauska. Thank you
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